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Rider of the Clouds / Flying Rider Baal's main epithet is "Rider of the Clouds" (in Ugaritic texts, he rides clouds as a storm god, bringing rain and thunder).

In folklore, such aerial riders often carry storm-god echoes, especially in regions with Christian overlays where pagan storm deities were demonized.

Goat/Buck Symbolism Goats connect to Baal indirectly through Near Eastern traditions (e.g., storm gods linked to bulls or goats as fertility symbols; later demonized in biblical and European views).

This creates a bridge: Baal (demonized as a false god in the Bible) shares traits with later satanic figures, and the Bokkenrijders' goat-riding pact mirrors that demonic association.

Brotherhood and Family Structure Baal has divine family ties (father El sky god, sister Anat warrior/consort).

The Bokkenrijders operated as organized gangs with a leader (sometimes called the "Black Captain"), bound by oaths to the Devil—echoing a "confederacy" of rebels against divine order, similar to how Baal challenges other gods.

Transition: The younger gods, led by Marduk, fought and defeated Tiamat and Apsu, who represented chaos.

That one unified God-Self cracked into several group consciousnesses, who begin to become the architects of the reality that they are about to create.

You go out and gift of yourselves freely so that all you create in this universe can understand its essence as my identity." These extensions of Prime Creator, which we will call creator gods, went out and began to experiment with Prime Creator's energy as it existed within themselves.

Some of the creator gods were master geneticists.

Rama, aided by his brother Lakshmana, the monkey god Hanuman, and a vast vanara (monkey) army led by Sugriva, built a bridge to Lanka and besieged Ravana's fortress.

In Greek mythology, the Gigantomachy was the epic war where the Olympian gods, led by Zeus, battled the Giants—monstrous offspring of Gaia—to maintain cosmic order.

The Giants, born to overthrow the gods, hurled rocks and trees in a chaotic assault.

In Norse mythology, ongoing conflicts pitted the Aesir gods (Odin, Thor) against the Jotunn (giants) of Jotunheim, representing chaos and nature's wild forces.

These skirmishes foreshadow Ragnarok, the prophesied final war where Jotunn allies join Loki against the gods, leading to mutual destruction and world renewal.

Certain creator gods who had the right to do whatever they wanted—because Earth is a free-will zone—came in and took over.

These creator gods raided Earth approximately 300,000 years ago–the time period, historically speaking, that you would call the beginning of human civilization.

"These four great spirits of the Triune God stood close together on the cusp, and in the presence of the sacred Three-the God of Might, the God of Wisdom, and the God of Love--the sceptre of Domain, of Might, of Wisdom and of Love was there transferred.

"I heard the charges of the Triune God; but these I may not now reveal.

According to the teachings of all ancient masters this Son is Love; so the Christ is Love, and Love is God, since God is Love.

Another remarkable manuscript found in Levi's Akashic portfolio gives the clearest possible ideal of the Christ, or Love of God.

Before creation was the Christ walked with the Father God and Mother God in Akasha.

"The Christ is son, the only son begotten by Almighty God, the God of Force and God omniscient, God of thought; and Christ is God, the God of Love.

"Hid in the holiest place in all infinities is locked the scroll that bears the record of the purposes of God, the Triune God, and there we read:

"Into the soil of every plane these seeds, which were the Thoughts of God, were cast-the seeds of protoplast, of earth, of plant, of beast, of man, of angel and of cherubim, and they who sowed the seeds, through Christ, ordained that they should grow, and should return at last, by effort of unnumbered years, to the great granary of thought, and each be a perfection of its kind.

They tell us that this man of Galilee was the very eternal God clothed in flesh of man that men might see his glory.

"We recognise the facts that Jesus was man and that Christ was God, so that in very truth Jesus the Christ was the God-man of the ages."

"'Men call me Christ, and God has recognised the name; but Christ is not a man.

Jesus was man; Christ was Divine Love-the Love of God, and after thirty years of strenuous life the man had made his body fit to be the temple of the holy breath and Love took full possession, and John well said when he declared:

"Give heed, O son of man, for men must know the Christ, the Love of God; for Love is sovereign balm for all the wounds of men, the remedy for every ill.

will know the lessons that these Record Books of God are keeping now for men of this new age.

"Twelve times in every revolution of the sun this christed Love of God is made full manifest in flesh upon the planes of earth, and you may read in Akasha the wondrous lessons that these Christs have taught to men; but you shall publish not to men the lessons of the Christs of ancient times.

"They show the spiral journey of the soul until the man of earth and God are one for evermore."

"This age will comprehend but little of the works of Purity and Love; but not a word is lost, for in the Book of God's Remembrance a registry" is made of every thought and word and deed;

"And when the world is ready to receive, lo, God will send a messenger to open up the book and copy from its sacred pages all the messages of Purity and Love.

"And man again will be at one with God."--Aquarian Gospel 7:25-28.

One may enter fully into the spirit of the God of Force and not he imbued with the spirit of Intelligence; or one may be Wholly absorbed with the spirit of Divine Love and be far removed from both Intelligence and Force.

It is only from Universal Mind, which is Supreme Intelligence, called by Oriental scholars the Akashic Records, and by Hebrew masters, the Book of God's Remembrance, that knowledge of any kind can be obtained.Consciousness; we note three phases of it

1 Consciousness of the omnipotence of God and man.

People are frequently found who are completely filled with the Love of God, are far advanced in the science of Christ consciousness, who are absolutely ignorant; have not the slightest conception of the laws of natural things or of spiritual things; are not in rapport with the great Teacher which is the Holy Spirit.

[paragraph continues]Universal Mind, we find one on Man in which his descent into physical matter and his final ascent into an eternal oneness with God is so graphically described that it certainly merits a place in this Introduction, and we give it in full:

"The thought of God cannot be circumscribed.

"But man himself is not the body, nor the soul; he is a spirit and is part of God.

"Man is a thought of God; all thoughts of God are infinite; they are not measured up by time, for things that are concerned With time begin and end.

"The thoughts of God are from the everlasting of the past unto the never ending days to come--And so is man, the Spirit-man.

"But man, like every other thought of God, was but a seed, a seed that held within itself the potencies of God, just as the seed of any plant of earth holds deep within itself the attributes of every part of that especial plant.

"So spirit-man, as seed of God, held deep within himself the attributes of every part of God.

"The human seed that came forth from the heart of God was full ordained to be the lord of plane of soul, and of the plane of things made manifest.

"So God, the husbandman of every thing that is, threw forth this human seed into the soil of soul; it grew apace, and man became a living soul; and he became the lord of all the kingdom of the soul.

might be the strength of God made manifest.

"Yea, he must suffer trials and temptations manifold; but let him know that cherubim and seraphim that rule the stations of the sun, and spirits of the mighty God who rule the solar stars are his protectors and his guides, and they will lead to victory.

"Thus hope will ever be his beacon light; there is no failure for the human soul, for God is leading on and victory is sure.

"Man cannot die; the spirit man in one with God, and while God lives man cannot die.

"And man will then attain unto the blessedness of perfectness and be at one with God."

1. Augustus Cæsar reigned and Herod Antipas was ruler of Jerusalem.2. Three provinces comprised the land of Palistine: Judea, and Samaria, and Galilee.3. Joachim was a master of the Jewish law, a man of wealth; he lived in Nazareth of Galilee; and Anna, of the tribe of Judah, was his wife.4. To them was born a child, a goodly female child, and they were glad; and Mary was the name they gave the child.5. Joachim made a feast in honour of the child; but he invited not the rich, the honoured and the great; he called the poor the halt and the lame, the blind, and to each one he gave a gift of raiment, food or other needful thing.6. He said, The Lord has given me this wealth; I am his steward by his grace, and if I give not to his children when in need, then he will make this wealth a curse.7. Now, when the child was three years old her parents took her to Jerusalem, and in the temple she received the blessings of the priests.8. The high priest was a prophet and a seer, and when he saw the child he said,9. Behold, this child will be the mother of an honoured prophet and a master of the law; she shall abide within this holy temple of the Lord.10. And Mary did abide within the temple of the Lord; and Hillel, chief of the Sanhedrim, taught her all the precepts of Jews, and she delighted in the law of God.11. When Mary reached the age of womanhood she was betrothed to Joseph, son of Jacob, and a carpenter of Nazareth.12. And Joseph was an upright man, and a devoted Essenes.

1. Near Hebron in the hills of Judah, Zacharias and Elizabeth abode.2. They were devote and just, and every day they read the Law, the Prophets and the Psalms which told of one to come, strong to redeem; and they were waiting for the king.3. Now, Zacharias was a priest, and in his turn he led the temple service in Jerusalem.4. It came to pass as Zacharias stood before the Lord and burned the incense in the Holy Place, that Gabriel came and stood before his face.5. And Zacharias was afraid; he thought that some great evil was about to come upon the Jews.6. But Gabriel said, O man of God, fear not; I bring to you and all the world, a message of good will, and peace on earth.7. Behold, the Prince of Peace, the king you seek, will quickly come.8. Your wife will bear to you a son, a holy son, of whom the prophet wrote,9. Behold, I send Elijah unto you again before the coming of the Lord; and he will level down the hills and fill the valleys up, and pave the way for him who shall redeem.10. From the beginning of the age your son has borne the name of John, the mercy of the Lord; his name is John.11. He will be honoured in the sight of God, and he will drink no wine, and from his birth he will be filled with Holy Breath.12. And Gabriel stood before Elizabeth as she was in the silence of her home, and told her all the words that he had said to Zacharias in Jerusalem.13. When he had done the service of his course, the priest went home, and with Elizabeth rejoiced.14. Five months passed by and Gabriel came to Mary in her home in Nazareth and said,15. Hail Mary, hail!

Once blessed in the name of God; twice blessed in the name of Holy Breath; thrice blessed in the name of Christ; for you are worthy, and will bear a son who shall be called Immanuel.16. His name is Jesus, for he saves his people from their sins.17. When Joseph's daily task was done he came, and Mary told him all the words that Gabriel spoke to her, and they rejoiced; for they believed that he, the man of God, had spoken words of truth.18. And Mary went with haste to tell Elizabeth about the promises of Gabriel; together they rejoiced.19. And in the home of Zacharias and Elizabeth did Mary tarry ninety days; then she returned to Nazareth.20. To Zacharias and Elizabeth a son was born, and Zacharias said,21. Most blessed be the name of God, for he has opened up the fount of blessings for his people, Israel.22. His promises are verified; for he has brought to pass the words which holy prophets spoke in olden times.23. And Zacharias looked upon infant John, and said,24. You shall be called the prophet of the Holy One; and you will go before his face, and will prepare his way.25. And you will give a knowledge of salvation unto Israel; and you will preach the gospel of repentance and the blotting out of sins.26. Behold, for soon the Day Star from on high will visit us, to light the way for those who sit within the darkness of the shadow-land, and guide our ways to the feet of peace.

At midnight in a cave in Bethehem was born the prophet and the king that you have long been waiting for.12. And then the shepherds all were glad; they felt that all the hills were filled with messengers of light, who said,13. All glory be to God on high; peace, peace on earth, good will to men.14. And then the shepherds came with haste to Bethlehem and to the cave, that they might see and honour him whom men had called Immanuel.15. Now, when the morning came, a shepherdess whose home was near, prepared a room for Mary, Joseph and the child; and here they tarried many days.16. And Joseph sent a messenger in haste to Zacharias and Elizabeth to say, The child is born in Bethlehem.17. And Zacharias and Elizabeth took John and came to Bethlehem with words of cheer.18. And Mary and Elizabeth recounted all the wonderous things that had transpired.

The people joined with them in praising God.19. According to the custom of the Jews, the child was circumcised; and when they asked, What will you call the child?

the mother said, His name is Jesus, as the man of God declared.

1. Now, Mary took her son, when he was forty days of age, up to the temple in Jerusalem, and he was consecrated by the priest.2. And then she offered purifying sacrifices for herself, according to the custom of the Jews; a lamb and two young turtle doves.3. A pious Jew named Simeon was in the temple serving God.4. From early youth he had been looking for Immanuel to come, and he had prayed to God that he might not depart until his eyes had seen Messiah in the flesh.5. And when he saw the infant Jesus he rejoiced and said, I now am ready to depart in peace, for I have seen the king.6. And then he took the infant in his arms and said, Behold, this child will bring a sword upon my people, Israel, and all the world; but he will break the sword and then the nations will learn war no more.7. The master's cross I see upon the forehead of this child, and he will conquer by this sign.8. And in the temple was a widow, four and eighty years of age, and she departed not, but night and day she worshipped God.9. And when she saw the infant Jesus she exclaimed, Behold Immanuel!

Behold the signet cross of the Messiah on his brow!10. And then the woman knelt to worship him, as God with us, Immanuel; but one, a master, clothed in white, appeared and said,11. Good woman, stay; take heed to what you do; you may not worship man; this is idolatry.12. This child is man, the son of man, and worthy of all praise.

You shall adore and worship God; him only shall you serve.13. The woman rose and bowed her head in thankfulness and worshipped God.14. And Mary took the infant Jesus and returned to Bethlehem.

1. Now, when the magian priests did not return to tell him of the child that had been born a king, King Herod was enraged.2. And then his courtiers told him of another child in Bethlehem, one born to go before and to prepare the people to receive the king.3. This angered more and more the king; he called his guards and bid them go to Bethlehem and slay the infant John, as well as Jesus who was born to be a king.4. He said, Let no mistake be made, and that you may be sure to slay these claimants to my throne, slay all the male children in the town not yet two years of age.5. The guards went forth and did as Herod bade them do.6. Elizabeth knew not that Herod sought to slay her son, and she and John were yet in Bethlehem; but when she knew, she took the infant John and hastened to the hills.7. The murderous guards were near; they pressed upon her hard; but then she knew the secret caves in all the hills, and into one she ran and hid herself and John until the guards were gone.8. Their cruel task was done; the guards returned and told the story to the king.9. They said, We know that we have slain the infant king; but John his harbinger, we could not find.10. The king was angry with his guards because they failed to slay the infant John; He sent them to the tower in chains.11. And other guards were sent to Zacharias, father of the harbinger, while he was serving in the Holy Place, to say, The King demands that you shall tell where is your son.12. But Zacharias did not know, and he replied, I am a minister of God, a servant in the Holy Place; how could I know where they have taken him?13. And when the guards returned and told the King what Zacharias said, he was enraged and said,14. My guards, go back and tell that wily priest that he is in my hands; that if he does not tell the truth, does not reveal the hiding place of John, his son, then he shall die.15. The guards went back and told the priest just what the king had said.16. And Zacharias said, I can but give my life for truth; and if the king does shed my blood the Lord will save my soul.17. The guards again returned and told the king what Zacharias said.18. Now, Zacharias stood before the alter in the Holy Place engaged in prayer.19. A guard approached and with a dagger thrust him through; he fell and died before the curtain of the sanctuary of the Lord.20. And when the hour of salutation came, for Zacharias daily blessed the priests, he did not come.21. And after waiting long the priests went to the Holy Place and found the body of the dead.22. And there was grief, deep grief, in all the land.23. Now Herod sat upon his throne; he did not seem to move; his courtiers came; the king was dead.

This is the preparation age of soul, the kingdom of Immanuel, of God in man;14. And these, your sons, will be the first to tell the news, and preach the gospel of good will to men, and peace on earth.15. A mighty work is theirs; for carnal men want not the light, they love the dark, and when the light shines in the dark they comprehend it not.16. We call these sons, Revealers of the Light; but they must have the light before they can reveal the light.17. And you must teach your sons, and set their souls on fire with love and holy zeal, and make them conscious of their missions to the sons of men.18. Teach them that God and man are one; but that through carnal thoughts and words and deeds, man tore himself away from God; debased himself.19. Teach that the Holy Breath would make them one again, restoring harmony and peace;20. That naught can make them one but Love; that God so loved the world that he has clothed his son in flesh that man may comprehend.21. The only Saviour of the world is love, and Jesus, son of Mary, comes to manifest that love to men.22. Now, love cannot manifest until its way has been prepared, and naught can rend the rocks and bring down lofty hills and fill the valleys up, and thus prepare the way, but purity.23. But purity in life men do not comprehend; and so, it, too, come in flesh.24. And you, Elizabeth, are blest because your son is purity made flesh, and he shall pave the way for love.25. This age will comprehend but little of the works of Purity and Love; but not a word is lost, for in the Book of God's Remembrance a registry is made of every thought, and word, and deed;26. And when the world is ready to receive, lo, God will sent a messenger to open up the book and copy from its sacred pages all the messages of Purity and Love.27. Then every man of earth will read the words of life in language of his native land, and men will see the light, walk in the light and be the light.28. And man again will be at one with God.

1. Again Elihu met his pupils in the sacred grove and said,2. No man lives unto himself; for every living thing is bound by cords to every other living thing.3. Blest are the pure in heart; for they will love and not demand love in return.4. They will not do to other men what they would not have other men do unto them.5. There are two selfs; the higher and the lower self.6. The higher self is human spirit clothed with soul, made in the form of God.7. The lower self, the carnal self, the body of desires, is a reflection of the higher self, distorted by the murky ethers of the flesh.8. The lower self is an illusion, and will pass away; the higher self is God in man, and will not pass away.9. The higher self is the embodiment of truth reversed, and so is falsehood manifest.10. The higher self is justice, mercy, love and right; the lower self is what the higher self is not.11. The lower self breeds hatred, slander, lewdness, murders, theft, and everything that harms; the higher self is mother of the virtues and the harmonies of life.12. The lower self is rich in promises, but poor in blessedness and peace; it offers pleasure, joy and satisfying gains; but gives unrest and misery and death.13. It gives men apples that are lovely to the eye and pleasant to the smell; their cores are full of bitterness and gall.14. If you would ask me what to study I would say, yourselves; and when you will have studied them, and then would ask me what to study next, I would reply, yourselves.15. He who knows well his lower self, knows the illusions of the world, knows of the things that pass away; and he who knows his higher self, know God; knows well the things that cannot pass away.16. Thrice blessed is the man who has made purity and love his very own; he has been ransomed from the perils of the lower self and is himself his higher self.17. Men seek salvation from an evil that they deem a living monster of the nether world; and they have gods that are but demons in disguise; all powerful, yet full of jealousy and hate and lust;18. Whose favours must be bought with costly sacrifice of fruits, and of the lives of birds, and animals, and human kind.19. And yet these gods possess no ears to hear, no eyes to see, no heart to sympathise, no power to save.20. This evil is myth; these gods are made of air, clothed with shadows of a thought.21. The only devil from which men must be redeemed is self, the lower self.

The triune God.

The God Tao.

The sun, the moon have lessons of their own for men; but each one teaches at the appointed time.4. The lessons of the sun fall down on human hearts like withered leaves upon a stream, if given in the season of the moon and all the stars.5. To-day one walks in gloom, downhearted and oppressed; tomorrow that same one is filled with joy.6. To-day the heavens seem full of blessedness and hope; tomorrow hope has fled, and every plan and purpose comes to naught.7. To-day one wants to curse the very ground on which he treads; tomorrow he is full of love and praise.8. To-day one hates and scorns and envies and is jealous of the child he loves; tomorrow he has risen above his carnal self, and breathes forth gladness and good-will.9. A thousand times men wonder why these heights and depths, these light hearts and these sad, are found in every life.10. They do not know that there are teachers everywhere, each busy with a God- appointed task, and driving home to human hearts the truth.11. But this is true, and every one receives the lessons that he needs.12. And Mary said, To-day I am in exultation great; my thoughts and all my life seem lifted up; why am I thus inspired?13. Salome replied, This is a day of exultation; day of worship and of praise; a day when, in a measure, we may comprehend our Father-God.14. Then let us study God, the One, the Three, the Seven.15. Before the worlds were formed all things were One; just Spirit, Universal Breath.16. And Spirit breathed, and that which was not manifest became the Fire and Thought of Heaven, the Father-God, the Mother-God.17. And when the Fire and Thought of heaven in union breathed, their son, their only son, was born.

This son is Love whom men have called the Christ.18. Men call the Thought of heaven the Holy Breath.19. And when the Triune God breathed forth, lo, seven Spirits stood before the throne.

1. Elihu taught; he said, In ancient times a people in the East were worshippers of God, the One, whom they called Brahm.2. Their laws were just; they lived in peace; they saw the light within; they walked in wisdom's ways.3. But priests with carnal aims arose, who changed the laws to suit the carnal mind; bound heavy burdens on the poor, and scorned the rules of right; and so the Brahms became corrupt.4. But in the darkness of the age a few great masters stood unmoved; they loved the name of Brahm; they were great beacon lights before the world.5. And they preserved inviolate the wisdom of their holy Brahm, and you may read this wisdom in their sacred books.6. And in Chaldea, Brahm was known.

Men saw him as the One, the causeless Cause of all that is, and he was sacred unto them, as Tao to the dwellers of the farther East.17. The people lived in peace, and justice ruled.18. But, as in other lands, in Persia priests arose imbued with self and self desires, who outraged Force, Intelligence and Love;19. Religion grew corrupt, and birds and beasts and creeping things were set apart as gods.20. In course of time a lofty soul, whom men called Zarathustra, came in flesh.21. He saw the causeless Spirit, high and lifted up; he saw the weakness of all man appointed gods.22. He spoke and all of Persia heard; and when he said, One God, one people and one shrine, the altars of the idols fell, and Persia was redeemed.23. But men must see their Gods with human eyes, and Zarathustra said,24. The greatest of the Spirits standing near the throne is the Ahura Mazda, who manifests in brightness of the sun.25. And all the people saw Ahura Mazda in the sun, and they fell down and worshipped him in temples of the sun.26. And Persia is the magian land where live the priests who saw the star arise to mark the place where Mary's son was born, and were the first to greet him as the Prince of Peace.27. The precepts and the laws of Zarathustra are preserved in the Avesta which you can read and make your own.28. But you must know that words are naught till they are made alive; until the lessons they contain become a part of head and heart.29. Now truth is one; but no one knows the truth until he is the truth.

It is recorded in an ancient book.30. Truth is the leavening power of God; it can transmute the all of life into itself; and when the all of life is truth, then man is truth.

1. Again Elihu taught; he said, The Indian priests became corrupt; Brahm was forgotten in the streets; the rights of men were trampled in the dust.2. And the a mighty master came, a Buddha of enlightenment, who turned away from wealth and all the honours of the world, and found the Silence in the quiet groves and caves; and he was blest.3. He preached a gospel of the higher life, and taught man how to honour man.4. He had no doctrine of the gods to teach; he just knew man, and so his creed was justice, love and righteousness.5. I quote for you a few of many of the helpful words which Buddha spoke:6. Hate is a cruel word.

It manifests the power of God who speaks to us through sun and moon and stars;3. Through mountain, hill and vale; through flower, and plant and tree.4. God sings for us through bird, and harpsichord, and human voice; he speaks to us through wind and rain and thunder roll; why should we not bow down and worship at his feet?5. God speaks to hearts apart; and hearts apart must speak to him; and this is prayer.6. It is not prayer to shout at God, to stand, or sit, or kneel and tell him all about the sins of men.7. It is not prayer to tell the Holy One how great he is, how good he is, how strong and how compassionate.8. God is not man to be bought up by praise of man.9. Prayer is the ardent wish that every way of life be light; that every act be crowned with good; that every living thing be prospered by our ministry.10. A noble deed, a helpful word is prayer; a fervent, an effectual prayer.11. The fount of prayer is in the heart; by thought, not words, the heart is carried up to God, where it is blest, Then let us pray.12. They prayed, but not a word was said; but in that holy Silence every heart was blest.13. And then Elihu spoke.

He said to Mary and Elizabeth, Our words are said; you need not tarry longer here; the call has come; the way is clear, you may return unto your native land.14. A mighty work is given you to do; you shall direct the minds that will direct the world.15. Your sons are set apart to lead men up to righteous thoughts, and words, and deeds;16. To make men know the sinfulness of sin; to lead them from the adoration of the lower self, and all illusive things, and make them conscious of the self that lives with Christ in God.17. In preparation for their work your sons must walk in many thorny paths.18. Fierce trials and temptations they will meet, like other men; their loads will not be light, and they will weary be, and faint.19. And they will know the pangs of hunger and of thirst; and without cause they will be mocked, imprisoned, scourged.20. To many countries they will go, and at the feet of many masters they will sit, for they must learn like other men.21. But we have said enough.

Matheno told him all about the service of the Jews; the meaning of their rites.12. John could not understand how sin could be forgiven by killing animals and birds and burning them before the Lord.13. Matheno said, The God of heaven and earth does not require sacrifice.

They come to God through ceremonies and forms.18. And so when you would make men know that sins are washed away by purity in life, a rite symbolic may be introduced.19. In water wash the bodies of the people who would turn away from sin and strive for purity in life.20. This rite of cleansing is a preparation rite and they who thus are cleansed comprise the Church of Purity.21. And you shall say, You men of Israel, hear; Reform and wash; become the sons of purity, and you shall be forgiven.22. This rite of cleansing and this church are but symbolic of the cleansing of the soul by purity in life, and of the kingdom of the soul, which does not come from outward show, but is the church within.23. Now, you may never point the way and tell the multitudes to do what you have never done; but you must go before and show the way.24. You are to teach that men must wash; so you must lead the way, your body must be washed, symbolic of the cleansing of the soul.25. John said, Why need I wait?

I took the wand and touched the sand, and every grain of sand became a living thing; the beach was all a mass of beauty and of song.8. I touched the waters at my feet, and they were changed to trees, and flowers, and singing birds, and every thing was praising God.9. And some one spoke, I did not see the one who spoke, I heard the voice, which said, There is no death.10. Grandmother Anna loved the child; she laid her hand on Jesus' head and said, I saw you stand beside the sea; I saw you touch the sand and waves; I saw them turn to living things and then I knew the meaning of the dream.11. The sea of life rolls high; the storms are great.

I see a golden cord that runs through all the Ten Commands that binds them fast and makes them one.4. This cord is love, and it belongs to every word of all the Ten Commands.5. If one is full of love he can do nothing else than worship God; for God is love.6. If one is full of love, he cannot kill; he cannot falsely testify; he cannot covet; can do naught but honour God and man.7. If one is full of love he does not need commands of any kind.8. And Rabbi Barachia said, Your words are seasoned with the salt of wisdom that is from above.

It seems to me that truth was never shut; that it was always opened up, for truth is one and it is everywhere.10. And if we open up the windows of our minds the truth will enter in and make herself at home; for truth can find her way through any crevice, any window, any open door.11. The rabbi said, What hand is strong enough to open up the windows and the doors of mind so truth can enter in?12. And Jesus said, It seems to me that love, the golden cord that binds the Ten Commands in one, is strong enough to open any human door so that the truth can enter in and cause the heart to understand.13. Now, in the evening Jesus and his mother sat alone, and Jesus said,14. The rabbi seems to think that God is partial in his treatment of the sons of men; that Jews are favoured and are blest above all other men.15. I do not see how God can have his favourites and be just.16. Are not Samaritans and Greeks and Romans just as much the children of the Holy One as are the Jews?17. I think the Jews have built a wall about themselves, and they see nothing on the other side of it.18. They do not know that flowers are blooming over there; that sowing times and reaping times belong to anybody but the Jews.19. It surely would be well if we could break down these barriers down so that the Jews might see that God has other children that are just as greatly blest.20. I want to go from Jewry land and meet my kin in other countries of my Fatherland.

The child was ten years old.2. And Jesus watched the butchers kill the lambs and birds and burn them on the altar in the name of God.3. His tender heart was shocked at this display of cruelty; he asked the serving priest, What is the purpose of this slaughter of the beasts and birds?

God has commanded us to do these things, and said that in these sacrifices all our sins are blotted out.5. And Jesus said, Will you be kind enough to tell when God proclaimed that sins are blotted out by sacrifice of any kind?6. Did not David say that God requires a sacrifice for sin?

Do you know more about the laws of God than all the priests of Israel?

I thought the temple was the house of God where love and kindness dwell.10. Do you not hear the bleating of those lambs, the pleading of those doves that men are killing over there?

Do you not smell that awful stench that comes from burning flesh?11. Can man be kind and just, and still be filled with cruelty?12. A God that takes delight in sacrifice, in blood and burning flesh, is not my Father-God.13. I want to find a God of love, and you, my master, you are wise, and surely you can tell me where to find the God of love.14. But Hillel could not give an answer to the child.

He called the child to him; he laid his hand upon his head and wept.15. He said, There is a God of love, and you shall come with me; and hand in hand we will go forth and find the God of love.16. And Jesus said, Why need we go?

I thought that God was everywhere.

Can we not purify our hearts and drive out cruelty, and every wicked thought, and make within, a temple where the God of love can dwell?17. The master of the great Sanhedrim felt as though he was himself the child, and that before him stood Rabboni, master of the higher law.18. He said within himself, This child is surely prophet sent from God.19. Then Hillel sought the parents of the child, and asked that Jesus might abide with them, and learn the precepts of the law, and all the lessons of the temple priests.20. His parents gave consent, and Jesus did abide within the holy temple in Jerusalem, and Hillel taught him every day.21. And every day the master learned from Jesus many lessons of the higher life.22. The child remained with Hillel in the temple for a year, and then returned unto his home in Nazareth; and there he wrought with Joseph as a carpenter.

shall that which has been made say of its maker, He is naught, I made myself?14. Or shall the pot speak out and say to him, who made the pot, You have no skill; you do not know?15. But this will not for ever be; the time will come when Lebanon will be a fruitful field, and fruitful fields will be transformed to groves.16. And on that day the deaf will hear the words of God; the blind will read the Book of God's Remembrance.17. And suffering ones will be relieved, and they will have abundant joy; and every one that needs will be supplied; and it will come to pass that all the foolish will be wise.18. The people will return and sanctify the Holy One, and in their heart of hearts, lo, they will reverence him.19. When Jesus had thus read he put aside the book and said, You masters of the law, will you make plain for us the prophet's words?20. Now, Hillel sat among the masters of the law, and he stood forth and said, Perhaps our young rabboni who has read the word will be interpreter.21. And Jesus said, The Ariel of the prophet is our own Jerusalem.22. By selfishness and cruelty this people has become a stench unto the Elohim.23. The prophet saw these days from far, and of these times he wrote.24. Our doctors, lawyers, priests and scribes oppress the poor, while they themselves in luxury live.25. The sacrifices and the offerings of Israel are but abomination unto God.

They only sacrifice that God requires is self.26. Because of this injustice and this cruelty of man to man, the Holy One has spoken of this commonwealth:27. Lo, I will overturn, yes, I will overturn, it shall be overturned, and it shall be no more until he comes whose right it is and I will give it unto him.28. In all the world there is one law of right, and he who breaks that law will suffer grief; for God is just.29. And Israel has gone far astray; has not regarded justice, nor the rights of man, and God demands that Israel shall reform, and turn again to ways of holiness.30. And if our people will not hear the voice of God, lo, nations from afar will come and sack Jerusalem, and tear our temple down, and take our people captive into foreign lands.31. But this will not for ever be; though they be scattered far and wide, and wander here and there among the nations of the earth, like sheep that have no shepherd guide.32. The time will come when God will bring again the captive hosts; for Israel shall return and dwell in peace.33. And after many years our temple our temple shall be built again, and one whom God will honour, one in whom the pure in heart delights will come and glorify the house of God, and reign in righteousness.34. When Jesus had thus said, he stepped aside, and all the people were amazed and said, This surely is the Christ.

1. A royal prince of India, Ravanna of Orissa in the south, was at the Jewish feast.2. Ravanna was a man of wealth; and he was just, and with a band of Brahmic priests sought wisdom in the West.3. When Jesus stood among the Jewish priests and read and spoke, Ravanna heard and was amazed.4. And when he asked who Jesus was, from whence he came and what he was, chief Hillel said,5. We call this child the Day Star from on high, for he has come to bring to men a light, the light of life; to lighten up the way of men and to redeem his people, Israel.6. And Hillel told Ravanna all about the child; about the prophecies concerning him; about the wonders of the night when he was born; about the visit of the magian priests;7. About the way in which he was protected from the wrath of evil men; about his flight to Egypt-land, and how he then was serving with his father as a carpenter in Nazareth.8. Ravanna was entranced, and asked to know the way to Nazareth, that he might go and honour such a one as son of God.9. And with his gorgeous train he journeyed on the way and came to Nazareth of Galilee.10. He found the object of his search engaged in building dwellings for the sons of men.11. And when he first saw Jesus he was climbing up a twelve step ladder, and he carried in his hands a compass, square and axe.12. Ravanna said, All hail, most favoured son of heaven!13. And at the inn Ravanna made a feast for all the people of the town; and Jesus and his parents were honoured guests.14. For certain days Ravanna was a guest in Joseph's home on Marmion Way; he sought to learn the secret of the wisdom of the son; but it was all to great for him.15. And then he asked that he might be the patron of the child; might take him to the East where he could learn the wisdom of the Brahms.16. And Jesus longed to go that he might learn; and after many days his parents gave consent.17. Then, with proud heart, Ravanna with his train, began the journey towards the rising sun; and after many days they crossed the Sind, and reached the province of Orissa, and the palace of the prince.18. The Brahmic priests were glad to welcome home the prince; with favour they received the Jewish boy.19. And Jesus was accepted as a pupil in the temple Jagannath; and here learned the Vedas and the Manic laws.20. The Brahmic masters wondered at the clear conceptions of the child, and often were amazed when he explained to them the meaning of the laws.

Force changes not, but power changes as the ethers change.16. Force is the will of God and is omnipotent, and power is that will in manifest, directed by the Breath.17. There is power in the winds, a power in the waves, a power in the lightning's stroke, a power in the human arm, a power in the eye.18. The ethers cause there powers to be, and thought of Elohim, of angel, man, or other thinking thing, directs the force; when it has done its work the power is no more.19. Again Lamaas asked, Of understanding what have you to say?20. And Jesus said, It is the rock on which man builds himself; it is the gnosis of the aught and of the naught, of falsehood and of truth.21. It is the knowledge of the lower self; the sensing of the powers of man himself.22. Again Lamaas asked, Of wisdom what have you to say?23. And Jesus said, It is the consciousness that man is aught; that God and man are one;24. That naught is naught; that power is but illusion; that heaven and earth and hell are not above, around, below, but in; which in the light of aught becomes the naught, and God is all.25. Lamaas asked, Pray, what is faith?26. And Jesus said, Faith is the surety of the omnipotence of God and man; the certainty that man will reach the deific life.27. Salvation is a ladder reaching from the heart of man to heart of God.28. It has three steps; Belief is first, and this is what man thinks, perhaps, is truth.29. And faith is next, and this is what man knows is truth.30. Fruition is the last, and this is man himself, the truth.31. Belief is lost in faith; and in fruition is lost; and man is saved when he has reached deific life; when he and God are one.

1. Now, Jesus with his friend Lamaas went through all the regions of Orissa, and the valley of the Ganges, seeking wisdom from the sudras and the visyas and the masters.2. Benares of the Ganges was a city rich in culture and in learning; here the two rabbonis tarried many days.3. And Jesus sought to learn the Hindu art of healing, and became the pupil of Udraka, greatest of the Hindu healers.4. Udraka taught the uses of the waters, plants and earths; of heat and cold; sunshine and shade; of light and dark.5. He said, The laws of nature are the laws of health, and he who lives according to these laws is never sick.6. Transgression of these laws is sin, and he who sins is sick.7. He who obeys the laws, maintains an equilibrium in all his parts, and thus insures true harmony; and harmony is health, while discord is disease.8. That which produces harmony in all the parts of man is medicine, insuring health.9. The body is a harpsichord, and when its strings are too relaxed, or are too tense, the instrument is out of tune, the man is sick.10. Now, everything in nature has been made to meet the wants of man; so everything is found in medical arcanes.11. And when the harpsichord of man is out of tune the vast expanse of nature may be searched for remedy; there is a cure for every ailment of the flesh.12. Of course the will of man is remedy supreme; and by the vigorous exercise of will, man way make tense a chord that is relaxed, or may relax one that is too tense, and thus may heal himself.13. When man has reached the place where he has faith in God, in nature and himself, he knows the Word of power; his word is balm for every wound, is cure for all the ills of life.14. The healer is the man who can inspire faith.

The tongue may speak to human ears, but souls are reached by souls that speak to souls.15. He is the forceful man whose soul is large, and who can enter into souls, inspiring hope in those who have no hope, and faith in those who have no faith in God, in nature, nor in man.16. There is no universal balm for those who tread the common walks of life.17. A thousand things produce inharmony and make men sick; a thousand things may tune the harpsichord, and make men well.18. That which is medicine for one is poison for another one; so one is healed by what would kill another one.19. An herb may heal the one; a drink of water may restore another one; a mountain breeze may bring to life one seeming past all help;20. A coal of fire, or bit of earth, may cure another one; and one may wash in certain streams, or pools, and be made whole.21. The virtue from the hand or breath may heal a thousand more; but love is queen.

Thought, reinforced by love, is God's great sovereign balm.22. But many of the broken chords in life, and discords that so vex the soul, are caused by evil spirits of the air that men see not; that lead men on through ignorance to break the laws of nature and of God.23. These powers act like demons, and they speak; they rend the man; they drive him to despair.24. But he who is a healer, true, is master of the soul, and can, by force of will, control these evil ones.25. Some spirits of the air are master spirits and are strong, too strong for human power alone; but man has helpers in the higher realms that may be importuned, and they will help to drive the demons out.26. Of what this great physician said, this is the sum.

1. Four years the Jewish boy abode in temple Jagannath.2. One day he sat among the priests and said to them, Pray, tell me all about your views of castes; why do you say that all men are not equal in the sight of God?3. A master of their laws stood forth and said, The Holy One whom we call Brahm, made men to suit himself, and men should not complain.4. In the beginning days of human life Brahm spoke, and four men stood before his face.5. Now, from the mouth of Parabrahm the first man came; and he was white, was like the Brahm himself; a brahman he was called.6. And he was high and lifted up; above all want he stood; he had no need of toil.7. And he was called the priest of Brahm, the holy one to act for Brahm in all affairs of earth.8. The second man was red, and from the hand of Parabrahm he came; and he was called shatriya.9. And he was made to be the king, the ruler and the warrior, whose highest ordained duty was protection of the priest.10. And from the inner parts of Parabrahm the third man came; and he was called a visya.11. He was a yellow man, and his it was to till the soil, and keep the flocks and herds.12. And from the feet of Parabrahm the fourth man came; and he was black; and he was called the sudras, one of low estate.13. The sudras is the servant of the race of men; he has no rights that others need respect; he may not hear the Vedas read, and it means death to him to look into the face of priest, or king, and naught but death can free him from his state of servitude.14. And Jesus said, Then Parabrahm is not a God of justice and of right; for with his own strong hand he has exulted one and brought another low.15. And Jesus said no more to them, but looking up to heaven he said,16. My Father-God, who was, and is, and evermore shall be; who holds within thy hands the scales of justice and of right;17. Who in the boundlessness of love has made all men to equal be.

The white, the black, the yellow, and the red can look up in thy face and say, Our Father-God.18. Thou Father of the human race, I praise thy name.19. And all the priests were angered by the words which Jesus spoke; they rushed upon him, seized him, and would have done him harm.20. But then Lamaas raised his hand and said, You priests of Brahm, beware!

you know not what you do; wait till you know the God this youth adores.21. I have beheld this boy at prayer when light above the light of the sun surrounded him.

his God may be more powerful than Brahm.22. If Jesus speaks the truth, if he is right, you cannot force him to desist; if he is wrong and you are right, his words come to naught, for right is might, and in the end it will prevail.23. And then the priests refrained from doing Jesus harm; but one spoke out and said,24. Within this holy place has not this reckless youth done violence to Parabrahm?

The law is plain; it says, He who reviles the name of Brahm shall die.25. Lamaas pled for Jesus' life; and then the preists just seized a scourge of cords and drove him from the place.26. And Jesus went his way and found shelter with the black and yellow men, the servants and the tiller of the soil.27. To them he first made known the gospel of equality; he told them of the Brotherhood of Man, the Fatherhood of God.28. The common people heard him with delight, and learned to pray, Our Father-God who art in heaven.

1. When Jesus saw the sudras and the farmers in such multitudes draw near to hear his words, he spoke a parable to them; he said:2. A nobleman possessed a great estate; he had four sons, and he would have them all grow strong by standing forth and making use of all the talents they possessed.3. And so he gave to each a share of his great wealth, and bade them go their way.4. The eldest son was full of self; he was ambitious, shrewd and quick of thought.5. He said within himself, I am the oldest son, and these, my brothers, must be servants at my feet.6. And then he called his brothers forth; and one he made a puppet king; gave him a sword and charged him to defend the whole estate.7. To one he gave the use of lands and flowing wells, and flocks and herds, and bade him till the soil, and tend the flocks and herds and bring to him the choicest of his gains.8. And to the other one he said, You are the youngest son; the broad estate has been assigned; you have no part nor lot in anything that is.9. And he took a chain and bound his brother to a naked rock upon a desert plain, and said to him,10. You have been born a slave; you have no rights, and you must be contented with your lot, for there is no release for you until you die and go from hence.11. Now, after certain years the day of reckoning came; the nobleman called up his sons to render their accounts.12. And when he knew that one, his eldest son, had seized the whole estate and made his brothers slaves,13. He seized him, tore his priestly robes away and put him in a prison cell, where he was forced to stay until he had atoned for all the wrongs that he had done.14. And then, as though they were but toys, he threw in air the throne and armour of the puppet king; he broke his sword, and put him in a prison cell.15. And then he called his farmer son and asked him why he had not rescued from his galling chains his brother on the desert plains.16. And when the son made answer not, the father took unto himself the flocks and herds, the fields and flowing wells,17. And sent his farmer son to live out on the desert sands, until he had atoned for all the wrongs that he had done.18. And then the father went and found his youngest son in cruel chains; with his own hands he broke the chains and bade his son to go in peace.19. Now, when the sons had all paid up their debts they came again and stood before the bar of right.20. They all had learned their lessons, learned them well; and then the father once again divided the estate.21. He gave to each a share, and bade them recognise the law of equity and right, and live in peace.22. And one, a sudras, spoke and said, May we who are but slaves, who are cut down like beasts to satisfy the whims of priests--may we have hope that one will come to break our chains and set us free?23. And Jesus said, The Holy One has said, that all his children shall be free; and every soul is child of God.24. The sudras shall be free as priest; the farmer shall walk hand in hand with king; for all the world will own the brotherhood of man.25. O men, arise!

be conscious of your powers, for he who wills need not remain a slave.26. Just live as you would have your brother live; unfold each day as does the flower; for earth is yours, and heaven is yours, and God will bring you to your own.27. And all the people cried, Show us the way that like the flower we may unfold and come unto our own.

The car of Jagannath Jesus reveals to the people the emptiness of Brahmic rites, and how to see God in man.

At Katak, by the river side, he taught, and thousands of the people followed him.2. One day a car of Jagannath was hauled along by scores of frenzied men, and Jesus said,3. Behold, a form without a spirit passes by; a body with no soul; a temple with no altar fires.4. This car of Krishna is an empty thing, for Krishna is not there.5. This car is but an idol of a people drunk on wine of carnal things.6. God lives not in the noise of tongues; there is no way to him from any idol shrine.7. God's meeting place with man is in the heart, and in a still small voice he speaks; and he who hears is still.8. And all the people said, Teach us to know the Holy One who speaks within the heart, God of the still small voice.9. And Jesus said, The Holy Breath cannot be seen with mortal eyes; nor can men see the Spirits of the Holy;10. But in their image man was made, and he who looks into the face of man, looks at the image of the God who speaks within.11. And when man honours man he honours God, and what man does for man, he does for God.12. And you must bear in mind that when man harms in thought, or word or deed another man, he does a wrong to God.13. If you would serve the God who speaks within the heart, just serve your near of kin, and those that are no kin, the stranger at your gates, the foe who seeks to do you harm;14. Assist the poor, and help the weak; do harm to none, and covet not what is not yours;15. Then, with your tongue the Holy One will speak; and he will smile behind your tears, will light your countenance with joy, and fill your hearts with peace.16. And then the people asked.

Where shall we offer sacrifice?17. And Jesus said, Our Father-God asks not for needless waste of plant, of grain, of dove, of lamb.18. That which you burn on any shrine you throw away.

No blessings can attend the one who takes the food from hungry mouths to be destroyed by fire.19. When you would offer sacrifice unto our God, just take your gift of grain, or meat and lay it on the table of the poor.20. From it an incense will arise to heaven, which will return to you with blessedness.21. Tear down your idols; they can hear you not; turn all your sacrificial altars into fuel for the flames.22. Make human hearts your altars, and burn your sacrifices with the fire of love.23. And all the people were entranced, and would have worshiped Jesus as a God; but Jesus said,24. I am your brother man just come to show to way to God; you shall not worship man; praise God, the Holy One.

And Jesus sat with them and taught; but they who followed him were much aggrieved because he sat with thieves and courtesans.5. And they upbraided him; they said, Rabboni, master of the wise, this day will be an evil day for you.6. The news will spread that you consort with courtesans and thieves, and men will shun you as they shun an asp.7. And Jesus answered them and said, A master never screens himself for sake of reputation or of fame.8. These are but worthless baubles of the day; they rise and sink, like empty bottles on a stream; they are illusions and will pass away;9. They are the indices to what the thoughtless think; they are the noise that people make; and shallow men judge merit by noise.10. God and all master men judge men by what they are and not by what they seem to be; not by their reputation and their fame.11. These courtesans and theives are children of my Father-God; their soul are just as precious in his sight as yours, or of the Brahmic priests.12. And they are working out the same life sums that you, who pride yourselves on your respectability and moral worth, are working out.13. And some of them have solved much harder sums than you have solved, you men who look at them with scorn.14. Yes, they are sinners, and confess their guilt, while you are guilty, but are shrewd enough to have polished coat to cover up your guilt.15. Suppose you men who scorn these courtesans, these drunkards and these thieves, who know that you are pure in heart and life, that you are better far than they, stand forth that men may know just who you are.16. The sin lies in the wish, in the desire, not in the act.17. You covet other people's wealth; you look at charming forms, and deep within your hearts you lust for them.18. Deceit you practice every day, and wish for gold, for honour and for fame, just for your selfish selves.19. The man who covets is a thief, and she who lusts is courtesan.

The vile in heart who want to cover up their guilt with holy smoke of piety are ever loathing drunkard, thief and courtesan.23. This loathing and this scorn is mockery, for if the tinselled coat of reputation could be torn away, the loud professor would be found to revel in his lust, deceit and many forms of secret sin.24. The man who spends his time in pulling other people's weeds can have no time to pull his own, and all the choicest flowers of life will soon be choked and die, and nothing will remain but darnel, thistles, burs.25. And Jesus spoke a parable: he said, Behold, a farmer had great fields of ripened grain, and when he looked he saw that blades of many stalks of wheat were bent and broken down.26. And when he sent his reapers forth he said, We will not save the stalks of wheat that have the broken blades.27. Go forth and cut and burn the stalks with broken blades.28. And after many days he went to measure up his grain, but not a kernel could be find. 29. And then he called the harvesters and said to them, Where is my grain?30. They answered him and said, We did according to your word; we gathered up and burned the stalks with broken blades, and not a stalk was left to carry to the barn.31. And Jesus said, If God saves only those who have no broken blades, who have been perfect in his sight, who will be saved?32. And the accusers hung their heads in shame; and Jesus went his way.

Jesus speaks on the unity of God and the brotherhood of life.

1. Benares is the sacred city of the Brahms, and in Benares Jesus taught; Udraka was his host.2. Udraka made a feast in honour of his guest, and many high born Hindu priests and scribes were there.3. And Jesus said to them, With much delight I speak to you concerning life--the brotherhood of life.4. The universal God is one, yet he is more than one; all things are God; all things are one.5. By the sweet breaths of God all life is bound in one; so if you touch a fibre of a living thing you send a thrill from the centre to the outer bounds of life.6. And when you crush beneath your foot the meanest worm, you shake the throne of God, and cause the sword of right to tremble in its sheath.7. The bird sings out its song for men, and men vibrate in unison to help it sing.8. The ant constructs her home, the bee its sheltering comb, the spider weaves her web, and flowers breath to them a spirit in their sweet perfumes that gives them strength to toil.9. Now, men and birds and beasts and creeping things are deities, made flesh; and how dare men kill anything?10. 'Tis cruelty that makes the world awry.

When men have learned that when they harm a living thing they harm themselves, they surely will not kill, nor cause a thing that God has made to suffer pain.11. A lawyer said, I pray you, Jesus, tell who is this God you speak about; where are his priests, his temples and his shrines?12. And Jesus said, The God I speak about is everywhere; he cannot be compassed with walls, nor hedged about with bounds of any kind.13. All people worship God, the One; but all the people see him not alike.14. This universal God is wisdom, will and love.15. All men see not the Triune God.

One sees him as the God of might; another as the God of thought; another as the God of love.16. A man's ideal is his God, and so, as man unfolds.

Man's God to-day, to-morrow is not God.17. The nations of the earth see God from different points of view, and so he does not seem the same to every one.18. Man names the part of God he sees, and this to him is all of God; and every nation sees a part of God, and every nation has a name for God.19. You Brahmans call him Parabrahm; in Egypt he is Thoth; and Zeus is his name in Greece; Jehovah is his Hebrew name; but everywhere he is the causeless Cause, the rootless Root from which all things have grown.20. When men become afraid of God, and take him for a foe, they dress up other men in fancy garbs and call them priests.21. And charge them to restrain the wrath of God by prayers; and when they fail to win his favour by their prayers, to buy him off with sacrifice of animal, or bird.22. When man sees God as one with him, as Father-God, he needs no middle man, no priest to intercede;23. He goes straight up to him and says, My Father-God!

and then he lays his hand in God's own hand, and all is well.24. And this is God.

You are, each one, a priest, just for yourself; and sacrifice of blood God does not want.25. Just give your life in sacrificial service to all of life, and God is pleased.26. When Jesus had thus said he stood aside; the people were amazed, but strove among themselves.27. Some said, He is inspired by Holy Brahm; and others said, He is insane; and others said, He is obsessed; he speaks as devils speak.28. But Jesus tarried not.

My Father-God does not regard the laws of man.13. Your presents I return; you cannot buy the knowledge of the Lord with gold, or precious gifts.14. These words of Jesus angered more and more the priests, and they began to plot and plan how they might drive him from the land.15. Ajainin did not join with them in plot and plan; he left the temple in the night, and sought the home where Jesus dwelt.16. And Jesus said, There is no night where shines the sun; I have no secret messages to give; in light all secrets are revealed.17. Ajainin said, I came from far-away Lahore, that I might learn about this ancient wisdom, and this kingdom of the Holy One of which you speak.18. Where is the kingdom?

He is the Christ of God; is universal love.21. The gate of this dominion is not high, and he who enters it must fall down on his knees.

Of what he wrote this is the sum:5. My mother, noblest of the womankind; A man just from my native land has brought me word that father is no more in flesh, and that you grieve, and are disconsolate.6. My mother, all is well; is well for father and is well for you.7. His work in this earth-round is done, and it is nobly done.8. In all the walks of life men cannot charge him with deceit, dishonesty, nor wrong intent.9. Here in this round he finished many heavy tasks, and he has gone from hence prepared to solve the problems of the round of soul.10. Our Father-God is with him there, as he was with him here; and there his angel guards his footsteps lest he goes astray.11. Why should you weep?

If man was not, the time will come when he will not exist.20. From God's own Record Book we read: The Triune God breathed forth, and seven Spirits stood before his face.

(The Hebrews call these seven Spirits, Elohim.)21. And these are they who, in their boundless power, created everything that is, or was.22. These Spirits of the Triune God moved on the face of boundless space and seven ethers were, and every ether had its form of life.23. These forms of life were but the thoughts of God, clothed in the substance of their ether planes.24. (Men call these ether planes the planes of protoplast, of earth, of plant, of beast, of man, of angel and of cherubim.)25. These planes with all their teeming thoughts of God, are never seen by eyes of man in flesh; they are composed of substance far too fine for fleshy eyes to see, and still they constitute the soul of things;26. And with the eyes of soul all creatures see these ether planes, and all forms of life.27. Because all forms of life on every plane are thoughts of God, all creatures think, and every creature is possessed of will, and, in its measure, has the power to choose,28. And in their native planes all creatures are supplied with nourishment from the ethers of their planes.29. And so it was with every living thing until the will became a sluggish will, and then the ethers of the protoplast, the earth, the plant, the beast, the man, began to vibrate very slow.30. The ethers all became more dense, and all the creatures of these planes were clothed with coarser garbs, the garbs of flesh, which men can see; and thus this coarser manifest, which men call physical, appeared.31. And this is what is called the fall of man; but man fell not alone for protoplast, and earth, and plant and beast were all included in the fall.32. The angels and the cherubim fell not; their wills were ever strong, and so they held the ethers of their planes in harmony with God.33. Now, when the ethers reached the rate of atmosphere, and all the creatures of these planes must get their food from atmosphere, the conflict came; and that which the finite man ahs called, survival of the best, became the law,34. The stronger ate the bodies of the weaker manifests; and here is where the carnal law of evolution had its rise.35. And now man, in his utter shamelessness, strikes down and eats the beasts, the beast consumes the plant, the plant thrives on the earth, the earth absorbs the protoplast.36. In yonder kingdom of the soul this carnal evolution is not known, and the great work of master minds is to restore the heritage of man, to bring him back to his estate that he has lost, when he again will live upon the ethers of his native plane.37. The thoughts of God change not; the manifests of life on every plane unfold into perfection of their kind; and as the thoughts of God can never die, there is no death to any being of the seven ethers of the seven Spirits of the Triune God.38. And so an earth is never plant; a beast, or bird, or creeping thing is never man, and man is not, and cannot be, a beast, or bird, or creeping thing.39. The time will come when all these seven manifests will be absorbed, and man, and beast, and plant, and earth and protoplast will be redeemed.40. Barata was amazed; the wisdom of the Jewish sage was a revelation unto him.41. Now, Vidyapati, wisest of the Indian sages, chief of temple Kapavistu, heard Barata speak to Jesus of the origin of man, and heard the answer of the Hebrew prophet, and he said,42. You priests of Kapavistu, hear me speak: We stand to-day upon a crest of time.

He brings to us a knowledge of the secrets things of God; and all the world will hear his words, will heed his words, and glorify his name.44. You priests of temple Kapavistu, stay!

be still and listen when he speaks; he is the Living Oracle of God.45. And all the priests gave thanks, and praised the Buddha of enlightenment.

Do you not know that such a heaven is for you?7. The man replied, Of heaven we have heard; but then it is so far away, and we must live so many lives before we can reach that place!8. And Jesus said, My brother, man, your thoughts are wrong; your heaven is not far away; and it is not a place of metes and bounds, is not a country to be reached; it is a state of mind.9. God never made a heaven for man; he never made a hell; we are creators and we make our own.10. Now, cease to seek for heaven in the sky; just open up the windows of the hearts, and, like a flood of light, a heaven will come and bring a boundless joy; then toil will be no cruel task.11. The people were amazed, and gathered close to hear this strange young master speak,12. Imploring him to tell them more about the Father-God; about the heaven that men can make on earth; about the boundless joy.13. And Jesus spoke a parable; he said, A certain man possessed a field; the soil was hard and poor.14. By constant toil he scarcely could provide enough of food to keep his family from want.15. One day a miner who could see beneath the soil, in passing on his way, saw this poor man and his unfruitful field.16. He called the weary toiler and he said, My brother, know you not that just below the surface of your barren field rich treasures lie concealed?17. You plough and sow and reap in scanty way, and day by day you tread upon a mine of gold and precious stones.18. This wealth lies not upon the surface of the ground; but if you will dig away the rocky soil, and delve down deep into the earth, you need no longer till the soil for naught.19. The man believed.

1. It was a gala day in sacred Kapavista; a throng of Buddhist worshippers had met to celebrate a Jubilee.2. And priests and masters from all parts of India were there; they taught; but they embellished little truth with many words.3. And Jesus went into an ancient plaza and taught; he spoke of Father-Mother-God; he told about the brotherhood of life.4. The priests and all the people were astounded at his words and said, Is this not Buddha come again in flesh?

The coming age is not the perfect age, and men will call for object lessons and symbolic rites.7. And in the great religion you shall introduce to men, some simple rites of washings and remembrances will be required; but cruel sacrifice of animals, and birds the gods require not.8. And Jesus said, Our God must loathe the tinselled show of priests and priestly things.9. When men array themselves in showy garbs to indicate that they are servants of the gods, and strut about like gaudy birds to be admired by men, because of piety or any other thing, the Holy One must surely turn away in sheer disgust.10. All people are alike the servants of our Father-God, are kings and priests.11. Will not the coming age demand complete destruction of the priestly caste, as well as every other caste, and inequality among the sons of men?12. And Vidyapati said, The coming age is not the age of spirit life and men will pride themselves in wearing priestly robes, and chanting pious chants to advertise themselves as saints.13. The simple rites that you will introduce will be extolled by those who follow you, until the sacred service of the age will far outshine in gorgeousness the priestly service of the Brahmic age.14. This is a problem men must solve.15. The perfect age will come when every man will be a priest and men will not array themselves in special garb to advertise their piety.

The doctors had declared, There is no hope; the child must die.14. The woman heard that Jesus was a teacher sent from God, and she believed that he had power to heal her son.15. And so she clasped the dying infant in her arms and ran with haste and asked to see the man of God.16. When Jesus saw her faith he lifted up his eyes to heaven and said,17. My Father-God, let power divine o'ershadow me, and let the Holy Breath fill full this child that it may live.18. And in the presence of the multitude he laid his hand upon the child and said,19. Good woman you are blest; your faith has saved your son.

And then the child was well.20. The people were astonished and they said, This surely is the Holy One made flesh, for man alone cannot a fever thus and save a child from death.21. Then many of the people brought their sick, and Jesus spoke the Word, and they were healed.22. Among the Ladaks Jesus tarried many days; he taught them how to heal; how sins are blotted out, and how to make on earth a heaven of joy.23. The people loved him for his words and works, and when he must depart they grieved as children grieve when mother goes away.24. And on the morning when he started on his way the multitudes were there to press his hand.25. To them he spoke a parable; he said, A certain king so loved the people of his land that he sent forth his only son with precious gifts for all.26. The son went everywhere and scattered forth the gifts with lavish hand.27. But there were priests who ministered at shrines of foreign gods, who were not pleased because the king did not through them bestow the gifts.28. And so they sought to cause the people all to hate the son.

They caught the son and beat him, spit upon him, drove him from their midst.30. The son resented not their insults and their cruelties; but thus he prayed, My Father-God, forgive these creatures of thy hand; they are but slaves; they know not what they do.31. And while they yet were beating him he gave them food, and blest them with a boundless love.32. In certain cities was the son received with joy, and he would gladly have remained to bless the homes; but he could tarry not, for he must carry gifts to every one in all the king's domain.33. And Jesus said, My Father-God is king of all mankind, and he has sent me forth with all the bounties of his matchless love and boundless wealth.34. To all the people of all lands, lo, I must bear these gifts--this water and this bread of life.35. I go my way, but we will meet again; for in my Fatherland is room for all; I will prepare a place for you.36. And Jesus raised his hand in silent benediction; then he went his way.

But he regarded not their angry threats; he taught, and healed the sick.6. In time he reached Persepolis, the city where the kings of Persia were entombed; the city of the learned magi, Hor, and Lun, and Mer, the three wise men.7. Who, four-and-twenty years before, had seen the star of promise rise above Jerusalem, and who had journeyed to the West to find the new-born king;8. And were the first to honour Jesus as the master of the age, and gave him gifts of gold, gum-thus and myrrh.9. These magi knew, by ways that masters always know, when Jesus neared Persepolis; and then they girt themselves, and went to meet him on the way.10. And when they met, a light much brighter than the light of day, surrounded them, and men who saw the four stand in the way declared they were transfigured; seeming more like gods than men.11. Now, Hor and Lun were aged men, and Jesus placed them on his beast to ride into Persepolis; whilst he and Mer led on the way.12. And when they reached the magi's home they all rejoiced.

And Jesus told the thrilling story of his life, and Hor and Lun and Mer spoke not; they only looked to heaven, and in their hearts praised God.13. Three wise men from the North were Persepolis; and they were Kaspar, Zara and Melzone; and Kaspar was the wisest master of the Magian land.

1. A feast in honour of the magian God was being held, and many men were gathered in Persepolis.2. And on the great day of the feast the ruling magian master said, Within these sacred walls is liberty; whoever wills to speak may speak.3. And Jesus standing in the midst of all the people, said, My brothers, sisters, children of our Father-God:4. Most blest are you among the sons of men today, because you have such just conceptions of the Holy One and man.5. Your purity in worship and in life is pleasing unto God; and to your master, Zarathustra, praise is due.6. Well say you all, There is one God from whose great being there came forth the seven Spirits that created heaven and earth; and manifest unto the sons of men are these great Spirits in the sun, and moon, and stars.7. But in your sacred books we read that two among these seven are of superior strength; that one of these created all the good; the other one created all that evil is.8. I pray you, honoured masters, tell me how that evil can be born of that which is all good?9. A magus rose and said, If you will answer me, your problem will be solved.10. We all do recognize the fact that evil is.

Whatever is, must have a cause, If God, the One, made not this evil, then, where is the God who did?11. And Jesus said, Whatever God, the One, has made is good, and like the great first Cause, the seven Spirits all are good, and everthing that comes from their creative hands is good.12. Now, all created things have colours, tones and forms their own; but certain tones, though good and pure themselves, when mixed, produce inharmonies, discordant tones.13. And certain things, though good and pure, when mixed, produce discordant things, yea, poisonous things, that men call evil things.14. So evil is the inharmonious blending of the colours, tones, or forms of good.15. Now, man is not all-wise, and yet has will his own.

He has the power, and he uses it, to mix God's good things in a multitude of ways, and every day he makes discordant sounds, and evil things.16. And every tone and form, be it of good, or ill, becomes a living thing, a demon, sprite, or spirit of a good or vicious kind.17. Man makes his evil thus; and then becomes afraid of him and flees; his devil is emboldened, follows him away and casts him into torturing fires.18. The devil and the burning fires are both the works of man, and none can put the fires out and dissipate the evil one, but man who made them both.19. Then Jesus stood aside, and not a magus answered him.20. And he departed from the throng and went into a secret place to pray.

A light not comprehended shown about, as though some mighty spirit overshadowed him.2. A magus noted this and asked him privately to tell from whence his wisdom came, and what the meaning of the light.3. And Jesus said, There is a Silence where the soul may meet its God, and there the fount of wisdom is, and all who enter are immersed in light, and filled with wisdom, love and power.4. The magus said, Tell me about this Silence and this light, that I may go and there abide.5. And Jesus said, The Silence is not circumscribed; is not a place closed in with wall, or rocky steeps, nor guarded by the sword of man.6. Men carry with them all the time the secret place where they might meet their God.7. It matters not where men abide, on mountain top, in deepest vale, in marts of trade, or in the quiet home; they may at once, at any time, fling wide the door, and find the Silence, find the house of God; it is within the soul.8. One may not be so much disturbed by noise of business, and the words and thoughts of men if he goes all alone into the valley or the mountain pass.9. And when life's heavy load is pressing hard, it is far better to go out and seek a quiet place to pray and meditate.10. The Silence is the kingdom of the soul which is not seen by human eyes.11. When in the Silence, phantom forms mat flit before the mind; but they are all subservient to the will; the master soul may speak and they are gone.12. If you would find this Silence of the soul you must yourself prepare the way.

are candles all in place, just waiting to be lighted by the flaming torch of love.18. And when you see the candles all aflame, just look, and you will see, with eyes of soul, the waters of the fount of wisdom rushing on; and you may drink, and there abide.19. And then the curtains part, and you are in the Holiest of All, where rests the Arc of God, whose covering is the Mercy Seat.20. Fear not to lift the sacred board; the Tables of the Law are in the Ark concealed.21. Take them and read them well; for they contain all precepts and commands that men will ever need.22. And in the Ark, the magic wand of prophecy lies waiting for your hand; it is the key to all the hidden meanings of the present, future, past.23. And then, behold, the manna there, the hidden bread of life; and he who eats shall never die.24. The cherubim have guarded well for every soul this treasure box, and whosoever will enter in and find his own.25. Now Kaspar heard the Hebrew master speak and he exclaimed, Behold, the wisdom of the gods has come to men!26. And Jesus went his way, and in the sacred groves of Cyrus, where the multitudes were met, he taught and healed the sick.

These waters that will fail are honoured as the special blessing of your God.6. From whence do healing virtues come?

Why is your God so partial with his gifts?

Why does he bless this spring to-day, and then to-morrow take his blessings all away?7. A deity of power could fill these waters full of healing virtue every day.8. Hear me, you sick, disconsolate: The virtue of this fount is not a special gift of God.9. Faith is the healing power of every drop of all the waters of this spring.10. He who believes with all his heart that he will be made whole by washing in this fount will be made whole when he has washed; and he may wash at any time.11. Let every one who has this faith in God and in himself plunge in these waters now and wash.12. And many of the people plunged into the crystal fount; and they were healed.13. And then there was a rush, for all the people were inspired with faith, and each one strove to be among the first to wash, lest all the virtue be absorbed.14. And Jesus saw a little child, weak, faint and helpless, sitting all alone beyond the surging crowd; and there was none to help her to the fount.15. And Jesus said, My little one, why do you sit and wait?

Breathe in this balm of life in faith and be made whole.21. The child breathed in the balm of life in faith, and she was well.22. The people marvelled much at what they heard and saw; they said, This man must surely be the god of health made flesh.23. And Jesus said, The fount of life is not a little pool; it is as wide as are the spaces of the heavens.24. The waters of the fount are love; the potency is faith, and he who plunges deep into the living springs, in living faith, may wash away his guilt and be made whole, and freed from sin.

Two thousand years and more ago, our Father Abraham lived here in Ur, and then he worshipped God the One, and taught the people in these sacred groves.6. And he was greatly blessed; becoming father of the mighty hosts of Israel.7. Although so many years have passed since Abraham and Sarah walked these ways, a remnant of their kindred still abide in Ur.8. And in there hearts the God of Abraham is still adored, and faith and justice are the rocks on which they build.9. Behold this land!

Behold, for you are greatly blest to- day, because a prophet of the living God has come to you.15. Take heed to what this master says, for he gives forth the words that God has given him.16. And Jesus and the sage went through the towns and cities of Chaldea and of the lands between the Tigris and the Euphrates;17. And Jesus healed a multitude of people who were sick.

1. The ruined Babylon was near, and Jesus and the sage went through her gates and walked among her fallen palaces.2. They trod the streets where Israel once was held in base captivity.3. They saw where Judah's sons and daughters hung their harps upon the willows, and refused to sing.4. They saw where Daniel and the Hebrew children stood as living witnesses of faith.5. And Jesus lifted up his hand and said, Behold the grandeur of the works of man!6. The king of Babylon destroyed the temple of the Lord in old Jerusalem; he burned the holy city, bound in chains my people and my kin, and brought them here as slaves.7. But retribution comes; for whatsoever men shall do to other men the righteous Judge will do to them.8. The sun of Babylon has gone down; the songs of pleasure will be heard no more within her walls.9. And every kind of creeping thing and unclean bird will, in these ruins, find their homes.10. And in the temple Belus, Jesus and Ashbina stood in silent thought.11. Then Jesus spoke and said, Behold this monument of folly and of shame.12. Man tried to shake the very throne of God, and he assayed to build a tower to reach to heaven, when, lo, his very speech was snatched away, because in lofty words he boasted of his power.13. And on these heights the heathen Baal stood--the god wrought out by hands of man.14. Upon yon altar, birds, and beasts, and men, yea children have been burned in awful sacrifice to Baal.15. But now the gory priests are dead; the very rocks have shuddered and have fallen down; the place is desolate.16. Now, in the plains of Shinar Jesus tarried yet for seven days, and, with Ashbina, meditated long upon the needs of men, and how the sages could best serve the coming age.17. Then Jesus went his way, and after many days he crossed the Jordan to his native land.

No other land has been the homeland of such mighty men of thought as grace your scrolls of fame.13. A host of sturdy giants of philosophy, of poetry, of science, and of art, were born upon the soil of Greece, and rocked to manhood in your cradle of pure thought.14. I come not here to speak of science, of philosophy, or art; of these you are the world's best masters now.15. But all your high accomplishments are but stepping stones to worlds beyond the realm of sense; are but illusive shadows flitting on the walls of time.16. But I would tell you of a life beyond, within; a real life that cannot pass away.17. In science and philosophy there is no power strong enough to fit a soul to recognise itself, or to commune with God.18. I would not stay the flow of your great streams of thought; but I would turn them to the channels of the soul.19. Unaided by the Spirit-breath, the work of intellection tends to solve the problems of the things we see, and nothing more.20. The senses were ordained to bring into the mind mere pictures of the things that pass away; they do not deal with real things; they do not comprehend eternal law.21. But man has something in his soul, a something that will tear the veil apart that he may see the world of real things.22. We call this something, spirit consciousness; it sleeps in every soul, and cannot be awakened till the Holy Breath becomes a welcome guest.23. This Holy Breath knocks at the door of every soul, but cannot enter in until the will of man throws wide the door.24. There is no power in intellect to turn the key; philosophy and science both have toiled to get a glimpse behind the veil; but they have failed.25. The secret spring that throws ajar the door of soul is touched by nothing else than purity in life, by prayer and holy thought.26. Return, O mystic stream of Grecian thought, and mingle your clear waters with the flood of Spirit-life; and then the spirit consciousness will sleep no more, and man will know, and God will bless.27. When Jesus had thus said he stepped aside.

He abides with Apollo, and is recognised as the living Oracle of God.

And Jesus did accompany him.4. The masters went in haste; and when they came to Delphi, great excitement reigned.5. And when Apollo stood before the Oracle it spoke and said:6. Apollo, sage of Greece, the bell strikes twelve; the midnight of the ages now has come.7. Within the womb of nature ages are conceived; they gestate and are born in glory with the rising sun, and when the agic sun goes down the age disintegrates and dies.8. The Delphic age has been an age of glory and renown; the gods have spoken to the sons of men through oracles of wood, and gold, and precious stone.9. The Delphic sun has set; the Oracle will go into decline; the time is near when men will hear its voice no more.10. The gods will speak to man by man.

They came from near and far to hear the Living Oracle speak forth the wisdom of the gods.14. And Jesus and the Grecian sage returned, and in Apollo's home the Living Oracle spoke forth for forty days.15. One day Apollo said to Jesus as they sat alone, This sacred Delphic Oracle has spoken many a helpful word for Greece.16. Pray tell me what it is that speaks.

Is it an angel, man, or living god?17. And Jesus said, It is not angel, man, nor god that speaks.

Jesus rebukes their idolatry and tells how God helps.

1. It was a holy day and Jesus walked upon the Athens beach.2. A storm was on and ships were being tossed about like toys upon the bosom of the sea.3. The sailors and the fishermen were going down to watery graves; the shores were strewn with bodies of the dead.4. And Jesus halted not, but with a mighty power he rescued many a helpless one, oft bringing back to life the seeming dead.5. Now, on these shores were altars sacred to the gods supposed to rule the seas.6. And men and women, heedless of the cries of drowning men were crowding all about these altars calling on their gods for help.7. At length the storm was done, and all the sea was calm, and men could think again; and Jesus said,8. You worshippers of wooden gods, how has the fury of this storm been lessened by your frantic prayers?9. Where is the strength of these poor, weather-beaten gods with painted swords and crowns?10. A god that could abide in such a little house could hardly hold a frantic fly, and who could hope that he could hold at bay the Lords of winds and waves?11. The mighty powers of worlds unseen do not give forth their help till men have done their best; they only help when men can do no more.12. And you have agonised and prayed around these shrines, and let men sink to death who might have been, by your assistance, saved.13. The God that saves dwells in your souls, and manifests by making use of your own feet, and legs, and arms, and hands.14. Strength never comes through idleness; nor through a waiting for another one to bear your loads, or do the work that you are called to do.15. But when you do your best to bear your loads, and do your work, you offer unto God a sacrifice well-pleasing in his sight.16. And then the Holy One breathes deep upon your glowing sacrificial coals, and makes them blaze aloft to fill your souls with light, and strength and helpfulness.17. The most efficient prayer that men can offer to a god of any kind is helpfulness to those in need of help; for what you do for other men the Holy One will do for you.18. And thus God helps.19. His work in Greece was done, and Jesus must go on his way to Egypt in the South.

Apollo, with the highest masters of the land and many people from the varied walks of life, stood on the shore to see the Hebrew sage depart; and Jesus said,20. The son of man has been in many lands; has stood in temples of a multitude of foreign gods; has preached the gospel of good will and peace on earth to many people, tribes and tongues;21. Has been received with favour in a multitude of homes; but Greece is, of them all, the royal host.22. The breadth of Grecian thought; the depth of her philosophy; the height of her unselfish aspirations have well fitted her to be the champion of the cause of human liberty and right.23. The fates of war have subjugated Greece, because she trusted in the strength of flesh, and bone and intellect, forgetful of the spirit-life that binds a nation to its source of power.24. But Greece will not for ever sit within the darkness of the shadow land as vassal of a foreign king.25. Lift up your heads, you men of Greece; the time will come when Greece will breathe the ethers of the Holy Breath, and be a mainspring of the spirit power of earth.26. But God must be your shield, your buckler, and your tower of strength.27. And then he said, Farewell.

Elihu and Salome praise God.

When last the son of Mary saw these sacred groves he was a babe;3. And now a man grown strong by buffeting of every kind; a teacher who had stirred the multitudes in many lands.4. And Jesus told the aged teachers all about his life; about his journeyings in foreign lands; about the meetings with the masters and about his kind receptions by the multitudes.5. Elihu and Salome heard his story with delight; they lifted up their eyes to heaven and said,6. Our Father-God, let now thy servants go in peace, for we have seen the glory of the Lord;7. And we have talked with him, the messenger of love, and of the covenant of peace on earth, good will to men.8. Through him shall all the nations of the earth be blest; through him, Immanuel.9. And Jesus stayed in Zoan many days; and then went forth unto the city of the sun, that men call Heliopolis, and sought admission to the temple of the sacred brotherhood.10. The council of the brotherhood convened, and Jesus stood before the hierophant; he answered all the questions that were asked with clearness and with power.11. The hierophant exclaimed, Rabboni of the rabbinate, why come you here?

Your wisdom is the wisdom of the gods; why seek for wisdom in the halls of men?12. And Jesus said, In every way of earth-life I would walk; in every hall of learning I would sit; the heights that any man has gained, these I would gain;13. What any man has suffered I would meet, that I may know the griefs, the disappointments and the sore temptations of my brother man; that I may know just how to succour those in need.14. I pray you, brothers, let me go into your dismal crypts; and I would pass the hardest of your tests.15. The master said, Take then the vow of secret brotherhood.

What I have said, that I have said; I will be true to them, to God, and to myself.20. And then the tempter left, and Jesus was again alone; but in a little time a white- robed priest appeared and said,21. Well done!

These priests are criminals just hid away.8. They boast in sacrificial rites; they offer to their gods, and burn them while alive poor birds, and beasts; yea, children, women, men.9. And now they keep you here, and, at a certain time, may offer you in sacrifice.10. We pray you, brother, break your chains; come, go with us; accept of freedom while you may.11. And Jesus said, Your little tapers show the light you bring.

Ambition covered up his face and fled away, and Jesus said,16. The wealth, the honour, and the fame of earth are but the baubles of an hour.17. When this short span of earthly life has all been measured out, man's bursting baubles will be buried with his bones,18. Yea, what a man does for his selfish self will make no markings on the credit side of life.19. The good that men for other men shall do becomes a ladder strong on which the soul may climb to wealth, and power and fame of God's own kind, that cannot pass away.20. Give me the poverty of men, the consciousness of duty done in love, the approbation of my God, and I will be content.21. And then he lifted up his eyes to heaven and said,22. My Father-God, I thank thee for this hour.

'Tis but the breath of God vibrating in the rhythm of rapid thought.12. And then he said, Let there be light; and with a mighty will he stirred the ethers up, and their vibrations reached the plane of light; and there was light.13. The darkness of that den of night became the brightness of a newborn day.14. And then he looked to see the beasts, and birds, and creeping things; lo, they were not.15. And Jesus said, Of what are souls afraid?

He said,27. For days and months and years I've sought to learn this highest truth that man can learn on earth, and here a child, fresh brought to earth, has told it all in one short breath.28. No wonder David said, O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!29. Out of the mouths of babes and suckings hast thou ordained strength.30. And then he laid his hand upon the maiden's head, and said, I'm sure the blessings of my Father-God will rest upon you, child, for evermore.

You are a neophyte no more; but now a master mind.8. Now, man can do no more; but God himself will speak, and will confirm your title and degree.9. Go on your way, for you must preach the gospel of good will to men and peace on earth; must open up the prison doors and set the captives free.10. And while the hierophant yet spoke the temple bells rang out; a pure white dove descended from above and sat on Jesus' head.11. And then a voice that shook the very temple said, THIS IS THE CHRIST; and every living creature said, AMEN.12. The great doors of the temple swung ajar; the Logos journeyed on his way a conqueror.

No longer do they care for gods hewn out of wood, or made of clay.

They seek a Gob not made with hands.12. They see the beams of coming day, and yet they comprehend them not.13. The time is ripe, and we must fashion well these garments for the race.14. And let us make for men new garbs of justice, mercy, righteousness and love, that they may hide their nakedness when shines the light of coming day.15. And Vidyapati said, Our priests have all gone mad; they saw a demon in the wilds and at him cast their lamps and they are broken up, and not a gleam of light has any priest for men.16. The night is dark; the heart of India calls for light.17. The priesthood cannot be reformed; it is already dead; its greatest needs are graves and funeral chants.18. The new age calls for liberty; the kind that makes each man a priest, enables him to go alone, and lay his offerings on the shrine of God.19. And Kaspar said, In Persia people walk in fear; they do the good for fear to do the wrong.20. The devil is the greatest power in our land, and though a myth, he dandles on his knee both youth and age.21. Our land is dark, and evil prospers in the dark.22. Fear rides on every passing breeze, and lurks in every form of life.23. The fear of evil is a myth, is an illusion and a snare; but it will live until some mighty power shall come to raise the ethers to the plane of light.24. When this shall come to pass the magian land will glory in the light.

1. Ashbina said, Assyria is the land of doubt; the chariot of my people, that in which they mostly ride, is labelled Doubt.2. Once Faith walked forth in Babylon; and she was bright and fair; but she clothed in such white robes that men became afraid of her.3. And every wheel began to turn, and Doubt made war on her, and drove her from the land; and she came back no more.4. In form men worship God, the One; in heart they are not sure that God exists.5. Faith worships at the shrine of one not seen; but Doubt must see her God.6. The greatest need of all Assyria is faith--a faith that seasons every thing that is, with certainty.7. And then Apollo said, The greatest needs of Greece are true concepts of God.8. Theogony in Greece is rudderless, for every thought may be a god, and worshipped as a god.9. The plane of thought is broad, and full of sharp antagonists; and so the circle of the gods is filled with enmity, with wars and base intrigues.10. Greece needs a master mind to stand above the gods; to raise the thoughts of men away from many gods to God the One.11. We know that light is coming o'er the hills.

God speed the light.12. Matheno said, Behold this land of mystery!

There are no mysteries in God.15. Behold the rising sun!

All Egypt craves the light.17. And Philo said, The need of Hebrew thought and life is liberty.18. The Hebrew prophets, seers, and givers of the law, were men of power, men of holy thought, and they bequeathed to us a system of philosophy that is ideal; one strong enough and good enough to lead our people to the goal of perfectness.19. But carnal minds repudiated holiness; a priesthood filled with selfishness arose, and purity in heart became a myth; the people were enslaved.20. The priesthood is the curse of Israel; but when he comes, who is to come, he will proclaim emancipation for the slaves; my people will be free.21. Behold, for God has made incarnate wisdom, love and light, which he has called Immanuel.22. To him is given the keys to open up the dawn; and here, as man, he walks with us.23. And then the council chamber door was opened and the Logos stood among the sages of the world.24. Again the sages sat in silence seven days.

1. Now, when the sages were refreshed they opened up the Book of Life and read.2. They read the story of the life of man; of all his struggles, losses, gains; and in the light of past events and needs, they saw what would be best for him in coming years.3. They knew the kind of laws and precepts suited best to his estate; they saw the highest God-ideal that the race could comprehend.4. Upon the seven postulates these sages were to formulate, the great philosophy of life and worship of the coming age must rest.5. Now Meng-ste was the oldest sage; he took the chair of chief, and said,6. Man is not far enough advanced to live by faith; he cannot comprehend the things his eyes see not.7. He yet is child, and during all the coming age he must be taught by pictures, symbols, rites and forms.8. His God must be a human God; he cannot see a God by faith.9. And then he cannot rule himself; the king must rule; the man must serve.10. The age that follows this will be the age of man, the age of faith.11. In that blest age the human race will see without the aid of carnal eyes; will hear the soundless sound; will know the Spirit-God.12. The age we enter is the Preparation age, and all the schools and governments and worship rites must be designed in simple way that men may comprehend.13. And man cannot originate; he builds by patterns that he sees; so in this council we must carve out pattern for the coming age.14. And we must formulate the gnosis of the Empire of the soul, which rests on seven postulates.15. Each sage in turn shall form a postulate; and these shall be the basis of the creeds of men until the perfect age shall come.16. Then Meng-ste wrote the first:17. All things are thought; all life is thought activity.

Lo, God is Thought, and Thought is God.18. Then Vidyapati wrote the second postulate:19. Eternal Thought is one; in essence it is two--Intelligence and Force; and when they breathe a child is born; this child is Love.20. And thus the Triune God stands forth, whom men call Father-Mother-Child.21. This Triune God is one; but like the one of light, in essence he is seven.22. And when the Triune God breathes forth, lo, seven Spirits stand before his face; these are creative attributes.23. Men call them lesser gods, and in their image they made man.24. And Kaspar wrote the third:25. Man was a thought of God, formed in the image of the Septonate, clothed in the substances of soul.26. And his desires were strong; he sought to manifest on every plane of life, and for himself he made a body of the ethers of the earthly forms, and so descended to the plane of earth.27. In this descent he lost his birthright; lost his harmony with God, and made discordant all the notes of life.28. Inharmony and evil are the same; so evil is the handiwork of man.29. Ashbina wrote the fourth:30. Seeds do not germinate in light; they do not grow until they find the soil, and hide themselves away from light.31. Man was evolved a seed of everlasting life; but in the ethers of the Triune God the light was far too great for seeds to grow;32. And so man sought the soil of carnal life, and in the darksomeness of earth he found a place where he could germinate and grow.33. The seed has taken root and grown full well.34. The tree of human life is rising from the soil of earthy things, and, under natural law, is reaching up to perfect form.35. There are no supernatural acts of God to lift a man from carnal life to spirit blessedness; he grows as grows the plant, and in due time is perfected.36. The quality of soul that makes it possible for man to rise to spirit life is purity.

Men only gain the heights by helping others gain the heights.6. The steed that leads the way to spirit life is Love; is pure unselfish Love.7. Matheno wrote the sixth:8. The universal Love of which Apollo speaks is child of Wisdom and of Will divine, and God has sent if forth to earth in flesh that man may know.9. The universal Love of which the sages speak, is Christ.10. The greatest mystery of all times lies in the way that Christ lives in the heart.11. Christ cannot live in clammy dens of carnal things.

The seven battles must be fought, the seven victories won before the carnal things, like fear, and self, emotions and desire, are put away.12. When this is done the Christ will take possession of the soul; the work is done, and man and God are one.13. And Philo wrote the seventh:14. A perfect man!

To bring before the Triune God a being such as this was nature made.15. This consummation is the highest revelation of the mystery of life.16. When all the essences of carnal things have been transmuted into soul, and all the essences of soul have been returned to Holy Breath, and man is made a perfect God, the drama of Creation will conclude.

And this is all.17. And all the sages said, Amen.18. Then Meng-ste said, The Holy One has sent to us a man illumined by the efforts of unnumbered years, to lead the thoughts of men.19. This man, approved by all the master minds of heaven and earth, this man from Galilee, this Jesus, chief of all the sages of the world, we gladly recognise.20. In recognition of this wisdom that he brings to men, we crown him with the Lotus wreath.21. We send him forth with all the blessing of the seven sages of the world.22. Then all the sages laid their hands on Jesus' head, and said with one accord, Praise God!23. For wisdom, honour, glory, power, riches, blessing, strength, are yours, O Christ, for evermore.24. And every living creature said, Amen.25. And then the sages sat in silence seven days.

These are the seven hills on which the holy city shall be built.3. These are the seven sure foundation stones on which the Universal Church shall stand.4. In taking up the work assigned for me to do I am full conscious of the perils of the way; the cup will be a bitter one to drink and human nature well might shrink.5. But I have lost my will in that of Holy Breath, and so I go my way to speak and act by Holy Breath.6. The words I speak are not my own; they are the words of him whose will I do.7. Man is not far enough advanced in sacred thought to comprehend the Universal Church, and so the work that God has given me to do is not the building of that Church.8. I am a model maker, sent to make a pattern of the Church that is to be--a pattern that the age may comprehend.9. My task as model builder lies within my native land, and there, upon the postulate that Love is son of God, that I am come to manifest that Love, the Model Church will stand.10. And from the men of low estate I will select twelve men, who represent the twelve immortal thoughts; and these will be the Model Church.11. The house of Judah, my own kindred in the flesh, will comprehend but little of my mission to the world.12. And they will spurn me, scorn my work, accuse me falsely, bind me, take me to the judgement seat of carnal men who will convict and slay me on the cross.13. But men can never slay the truth; though banished it will come again in greater power; for truth will subjugate the world.14. The Model Church will live.

Though carnal man will prostitute its sacred laws, symbolic rites and forms, for selfish ends, and make it but an outward show, the few will find through it the kingdom of the soul.15. And when the better age shall come the Universal Church will stand upon the seven postulates, and will be built according to the pattern given.16. The time has come; I go my way unto Jerusalem, and by the power of living faith, and by the strength that you have given.17. And in the name of God, our Father-God, the kingdom of the soul shall be established on the seven hills.18. And all the peoples, tribes and tongues of earth shall enter in.19. The Prince of Peace will take his seat upon the throne of power; the Triune God will then be All in All.20. And all the sages said, Amen.21. And Jesus went his way, and after many days, he reached Jerusalem; and then he sought his home in Galilee.

You have defrauded friend and foe alike.23. You worship God with voice and lip; your hearts are far away, and set on gold.24. Your priests have bound upon the people burdens far to great to bear; they live in ease upon the hard earned wages of the poor.25. Your lawyers, doctors, scribes are useless cumberers of the ground; they are but tumours on the body of the state;26. They toil not neither do they spin, yet they consume the profits of your marts of trade.27. Your rulers are adulterers, extortioners and thieves, regarding not the rights of any man;28. And robbers ply their calling in the sacred halls; the holy temple you have sold to thieves; their dens are in the sacred places set apart for prayer.29. Hear!

Reform; turn from your evil ways or God will turn from you and heathen from afar will come, and what is left of all your honour and your fame will pass in one short hour.30. Prepare, Jerusalem, prepare to meet your king.31. He said no more; he left the court and no one saw him go.32. The priests, the doctors and the scribes were all in rage.

I tell you, no.13. The heirs of Abraham are just as wicked in the sight of God when they do wrong as any heathen man.14. Behold the axe!

Behold the man of God!

Behold, Elijah has returned!3. Behold the messenger whom God has sent to open up the way!

The kingdom is at hand.4. When John saw Jesus standing with the throng he said, Behold the king who cometh in the name of God!5. And Jesus said to John, I would be washed in water as a symbol of the cleansing of the soul.6. And John replied, you do not need to wash, for you are pure in thought, and word, and deed.

And if you need to wash I am not worthy to perform the rite.7. And Jesus said, I come to be a pattern for the sons of men, and what I bid them do, that I must do; and all men must be washed, symbolic of the cleansing of the soul.8. This washing we establish as a rite--baptism rite we call it now, and so it shall be called.9. Your work, prophetic harbinger, is to prepare the way, and to reveal the hidden things.10. The multitudes are ready for the words of life, and I come to be made known by you to all the world, as prophet of the Triune God, and as the chosen one to manifest the Christ to men.11. Then John led Jesus down into the river at the ford and he baptised him in the sacred name of him who sent him forth to manifest the Christ to men.12. And as they came out of the stream, the Holy Breath, in form of dove, came down and sat on Jesus' head.13. A voice from heaven said, This is the well-beloved son of God, the Christ, the love of God made manifest.14. John heard the voice, and understood the message of the voice.15. Now Jesus went his way, and John preached to the multitude.16. As many as confessed their sins, and turned from evil ways to ways of right, the harbinger baptised, symbolic of the blotting of sins by righteousness.

1. The harbinger had paved the way; the Logos had been introduced to men as love made manifest, and he must now begin his Christine ministry.2. And he went forth into the wilderness to be alone with God that he might look into his inner heart, and note its strength and worthiness.3. And with himself he talked; he said, My lower self is strong; by many ties I am bound down to carnal life.4. Have I the strength to overcome and give my life a willing sacrifice for men?5. When I shall stand before the face of men, and they demand a proof of my messiahship, what will I say?6. And then the tempter came and said, If you be son of God, command these stones to turn to bread.7. And Jesus said, Who is it that demands a test?

It is no sign that one is son of God because he does a miracle; the devils can do mighty things.8. Did not the black magicians do great things before the Pharaohs?9. My words and deeds in all the walks of life shall be the proof of my messiahship.10. And then the tempter said, If you will go into Jerusalem, and from the temple pinnacle cast down yourself to earth, the people will believe that you are the Messiah sent from God.11. This you can surely do; for did not David say, He gives his angels charge concerning you, and with their will they uphold lest you should fall?12. And Jesus said, I may not tempt the Lord, my God.13. And then the tempter said, Look forth upon the world; behold its honours and its fame!

But men are slow to comprehend this doctrine of the Christ.21. And Peter said, I cannot speak for any other man, but for myself I speak: I will leave all and follow where you lead.22. And then the others spoke and said, You have the words of truth; you came from God, and if we follow in your footsteps we cannot miss the way.23. Then Jesus and the six disciples sat a long, long time in silent thought.

a catch of crabs, and lobsters, sharks and creeping things, with now and then a fish of better kind.13. Behold the thousands come to hear the Wild Man of the hills; they come in crowds that he may wash them in the crystal flood, and with their lips they do confess their sins.14. But when the morrow comes we find them in their haunts of vice again, reviling John, and cursing God, and heaping insults on the king.15. But blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see the king.16. And blessed are the strong in heart, for they shall not be cast about by every wind that blows;17. But while the fickle and the thoughtless have gone back to Egypt land for leeks and carnal herbs to satisfy their appetites, the pure in heart have found the king.18. But even those whose faith is weak, and who are naught but carnal manifests, will some day come again, and enter in with joy to see the king.19. O men of Israel, take heed to what this prophet has to say!

1. The news soon spread abroad that Jesus, king of Israel, had come to Bethany, and all the people of the town came forth to greet the king.2. And Jesus, standing in the midst of them, exclaimed, Behold, indeed, the king has come, but Jesus is not king.3. The kingdom truly is at hand; but men can see it not with carnal eyes; they cannot see the king upon the throne.4. This is the kingdom of the soul; its throne is not an earthly throne; its king is not a man.5. When human kings found kingdoms here, they conquer other kings by force of arms; one kingdom rises on the ruins of another one.6. But when our Father-God sets up the kingdom of the soul, he pours his blessings forth, like rain, upon the thrones of earthly kings who rule in righteousness.7. It is not rule that God would overthrow; his sword is raised against injustice, wantonness and crime.8. Now, while the kings of Rome do justice, and love mercy and walk humbly with their God, the benediction of the Triune God will rest upon them all.9. They need not fear a messenger whom God sends forth to earth.10. I am not sent to sit upon a throne to rule as Cæsar rules; and you may tell the ruler of the Jews that I am not a claimant for his throne.11. Men call me Christ, and God has recognised the name; but Christ is not a man.

Behold, for he will come, says God, the Lord of hosts.26. And then he closed the book; he said no more; he left the temple halls, and with his six disciples, went his way to Nazareth,27. And they abode with Mary, Jesus' mother, and her sister, Miriam.

I come the Christ of God; I answer unto God alone.8. Who gave you right to ask for proof of my messiahship?

My proof lies in my words and works, and so if you will follow me you will not lack for proof.9. And then the ruler went his way; he asked himself, What manner of a man is this to disregard the ruler of the synagogue?10. The people of the town came out in throngs to see the Christ, and hear him speak; but Jesus said,11. A prophet has no honour in his native town, among his kin.12. I will not speak in Nazareth until the words I speak, and works I do in other towns have won the faith of men.13. Until men know that God has christed me to manifest eternal love.14. Good will to you, my kin; I bless you with a boundless love, and I bespeak for you abundant joy and happiness.15. He said no more, and all the people marvelled much because he would not speak in Nazareth.

1. In Cana, Galilee, there was a marriage feast, and Mary and her sister Miriam, and Jesus and his six disciples were among the guests.2. The ruler of the feast had heard that Jesus was a master sent from God, and he requested him to speak.3. And Jesus said, There is no tie more sacred than the marriage tie.4. The chain that binds two souls in love is made in heaven, and man can never sever it in twain.5. The lower passions of the twain may cause a union of the twain, a union as when oil and water meet.6. And then a priest may forge a chain, and bind the twain.

The human senses sense what seems to be, and that which seems to be and that which is, may be diverse in every way.14. The carnal man beholds the outer man, which is the temple of the king, and worships at his shrine.15. The man of God is pure in heart; he sees the king; he sees with eyes of soul:16. And when he rises to the plane of Christine consciousness, he knows that he himself is king, is love, is Christ, and so is son of God.17. You men of Galilee, prepare to meet your king.18. And Jesus taught the people many lessons as he walked with them beside the sea.

behold the king!5. But Jesus answered not; he saw the money changers in the house of God, and he was grieved.6. The courts had been converted into marts of trade, and men were selling lambs and doves for offerings in sacrifice.7. And Jesus called the priests and said, Behold, for paltry gain you have sold out the temple of the Lord.8. This house ordained for prayer is now a den of thieves.

Can good and evil dwell together in the courts of God?

But you can never see the king while you press sin as such a precious idol to your hearts.28. The king is God; the pure in heart alone can see the face of God and live.29. And then the priests cried out, This fellow claims to be the God.

Our Father-God is king.

With every loyal Jew I worship God.31. I am the candle of the Lord aflame to light the way; and while you have the light walk in the light.

shall I destroy my people all?10. And then his heart was stirred with pity and he said, I will not send a scourge; I will send forth my only son, heir to the throne, to teach the people love, and peace, and righteousness.11. He sent his son; the people scorned him and maltreated him, and nailed him to a cross.12. He was entombed; but death was far too weak to hold the prince, and he arose.13. He took a form man could not kill; and then he went again to teach the people love, and peace and righteousness.14. And thus God deals with men.15. A lawyer came and asked, What does messiah mean?

and who has right to make messiah of a man?16. And Jesus said, Messiah is one sent from God to seek and save the lost.

Messiah and the Christ are one.18. Because a man claims to be Christ is not a sign that he is Christ.19. A man may cause the streams to flow from flinty rocks; may bring storms at will; may stay tempestuous winds; may heal the sick and raise the dead, and not be sent from God.20. All nature is subservient to the will of man, and evil man, as well as good, have all the powers of mind, and may control the elements.21. The head gives not the proof of true messiahship, for man by means of intellect, can never know of God, nor bring himself to walk in light.22. Messiah lives not in the head, but in the heart, the seat of mercy and of love.23. Messiah never works for selfish gains; he stands above the carnal self; his words and deeds are for the universal good.24. Messiah never tries to be a king, to wear a crown and sit upon an earthly throne.25. The king is earthy, of the earth; Messiah is the man from heaven.26. And then the lawyer asked, Why do you pose as king?27. And Jesus said, No man has ever heard me say that I am king.

I could not sit in Cæsar's place and be the Christ.28. Give unto Cæsar what belongs to him; give unto God the treasures of your heart.

you know you would be glad to have my help upon the Sabbath day, or any other day.14. These people all have fallen into pits, and they are calling loud for me to help them out, and man and God would curse me should I pass along and heed them not.15. And then the Pharisees returned to say their prayers, and curse the man of God because he heeded not their words.16. Now, in the evening Jesus stood beside a pool; a playful child had fallen in, and it was drowned, and friends were bearing it away.17. But Jesus called the carriers to stop; and then he stretched himself upon the lifeless form, and breathed into its mouth the breath of life.18. And then he called aloud unto the soul that had gone out, and it returned; the child revived and lived.19. And Jesus saw a wounded dog; it could not move; it lay beside the way and groaned with pain.

He took it in his arms and bore it to the home where he abode.20. He poured the healing oil into the wounds; he cared for it as though it were a child till it was strong and well.21. And Jesus saw a little boy who had no home, and he was hungry; when he called for bread the people turned away.22. And Jesus took the child and gave him bread; he wrapped him in his own warm coat, and found for him a home.23. To those who followed him the master said, If man would gain again his lost estate he must respect the brotherhood of life.24. Whoever is not kind to every form of life--to man, to beast, to bird, and creeping thing--cannot expect the blessings of the Holy One; for as we give, so God will give to us.

I know you are a teacher come from God, for man alone could never teach as you have taught; could never do the works that you have done.8. And Jesus said, Except a man be born again he cannot see the king; he cannot comprehend the words I speak.9. And Nicodemus said, How can a man be born again?

Can he go back into the womb and come again to life?10. And Jesus said, The birth of which I speak is not the birth of flesh.11. Except a man be born of water and the Holy Breath, he cannot come into the kingdom of the Holy One.12. That which is born of flesh is child of man; that which is born of Holy Breath is child of God.13. The winds blow where they please; men hear their voices, and may note results; but they know not from whence they come, nor where they go; and so is every one that is born of Holy Breath.14. The ruler said, I do not understand; pray tell me plainly what you mean.15. And Jesus said, The kingdom of the Holy One is in the soul; men cannot see it with their carnal eyes; with all their reasoning powers they comprehend it not.16. It is a life deep hid in God; its recognition is the work of inner consciousness.17. The kingdoms of the world are kingdoms of the sight; the kingdom of the Holy One is that of faith; its king is love.18. Men cannot see the love of God unmanifest, and so our Father-God has clothed this love with flesh--flesh of a son of man.19. And that the world may see and know this love made manifest, the son of man must needs be lifted up.20. As Moses in the wilderness raised up the serpent for the healing of the flesh, the son of man must be raised up.21. That all men bitten by the serpent of the dust, the serpent of the dust, the serpent of this carnal life, may live.22. He who believes in him shall have eternal life.23. For God so loved the world that he sent forth his only son to be raised up that men may see the love of God.24. God did not send his son to judge the world; he sent him forth to save the world; to bring men to the light.25. But men love not the light, for light reveals their wickedness; men love the dark.26. Now, every one who loves the truth comes to the light; he does not fear to have his works made manifest.27. The light had come, and Nicodemus went his way; he knew the meaning of the birth of Holy Breath; he felt the presence of the Spirit in his soul.28. And Jesus tarried in Jerusalem for many days and taught and healed the sick.29. The common people gladly listened to his words, and many left their all of carnal things and followed him.

He had no sword; no armour of defence; no weapons of offence;15. And yet he conquered men, and nations trembled at his feet.16. The hosts of Egypt quailed before this sturdy king of right; the kings of Egypt placed their crowns upon his head,17. And gave into his hands the sceptre of all Egypt land, and not a drop of blood was shed, and not a captive placed in chains;18. But everywhere the conqueror threw wide the prison doors and set the captives free.19. And, once again, the Prince of Peace has come, and from these blessed hills he goes again to fight.20. And he is clothed in white; his sword is truth, his shield is faith; his helmet is innocence; his breath is love; his watchword peace.21. But this is not a carnal war; it is not man at war with man; but it is right against the wrong.22. And love is captain, love is warrior, love is armour, love is all, and love shall win.23. And then again the hills of Bethlehem were clothed with light, again the messenger exclaimed,24. Peace, peace on earth, good will to men.25. And Jesus taught the people; healed the sick; revealed the mysteries of the kingdom of the Holy One.26. And many said, He is the Christ; the king who was to come has come; Praise God.

Her home was down in Jericho; her husband was the keeper of an inn; his name was Asher-ben.5. Now, Asher was a Pharisee of strictest mien and thought, and he regarded Jesus with disdain.6. And when his wife confessed her faith in Christ, he drove her from his home.7. But Ruth resisted not; she said, If Jesus is the Christ he knows the way, and I am sure He is the Christ.8. My husband may become enraged and slay my human form; he cannot kill the soul, and in the many mansions of my Fatherland I have a dwelling-place.9. And Ruth told Jesus all; and then she said, What shall I do?10. And Jesus said, Your husband is not willingly at fault; he is devout; he prays to God, our Father-God.11. His zeal for his religion is intense; in this he is sincere; but it has driven him insane, and he believes it right to keep his home unsullied by the heresy of Christ.12. He feels assured that he has done the will of God in driving you away.13. Intolerance is ignorance matured.14. The light will come to him some day, and then he will repay for all your heartaches, griefs and tears.15. And Ruth, you must not think that you are free from blame.16. If you had walked in wisdom's ways, and been content to hold your peace, this grief would not have come to you.17. It takes a long, long time for light to break into the shell of prejudice, and patience is the lesson you have need to learn.18. The constant dropping of the water wears away the hardest stone.19. The sweet and holy incense of a godly life will melt intolerance much quicker than the hottest flame, or hardest blow.20. Just wait a little time, and then go home with sympathy and love.

and in a moment pain was gone; the fever ceased; the maid was well.4. And then the people brought their sick, and they were healed.5. But Jesus did not tarry long in Jericho; he went down to the Jordan ford where John was wont to teach.6. The multitudes were there and Jesus said to them, Behold, the time has come; the kingdom is at hand.7. None but the true in heart can come into the kingdom of the Holy One; but every son and daughter of the human race is called upon to turn from evil and become the pure in heart.8. The resolution to attain and enter through the Christine gate into the kingdom of the Holy One will constitute discipleship, and every one must make a pledge of his discipleship.9. John washed your bodies in the stream, symbolic of the cleansing of the soul, in preparation for the coming of the king, the opening of the Christine gate into the kingdom of the Holy One.10. John did a mighty work; but now the Christine gate is opened up, and washing is established as the pledge of your discipleship.11. Until this age shall close this pledge shall be a rite, and shall be called, Baptism rite; and it shall be a sign to men, and seal to God of men's discipleship.12. You men of every nation, hear!

He is not foe of mine.5. The bridegroom hath the bride; his friends are near, and when they hear his voice they all rejoice.6. The kingdom of the Holy One is bride, and Christ the groom; and I, the harbinger, am full of joy because they proper so abundantly.7. I have performed the work that I was sent to do; the work of Jesus just begins.8. Then turning to the multitudes he said, Christ is the king of righteousness; Christ is the love of God; yea, he is God; one of the holy persons of the Triune God.9. Christ lives in every heart of purity.10. Now, Jesus who is preaching at the Jordan ford, has been subjected to the hardest tests of human life, and he has conquered all the appetites and passions of the carnal man,11. And by the highest court of heaven, has been declared a man of such superior purity and holiness that he can demonstrate the presence of the Christ on earth.12. Lo, love divine, which is the Christ, abides in him, and he is pattern for the race.13. And every man can see in him what every man will be when he has conquered all the passions of the selfish self.14. In water I have washed the bodies of the people who have turned from sin, symbolic of the cleansing of the soul;15. But Jesus bathes for ever in the living waters of the Holy Breath.16. And Jesus comes to bring the saviour of the world to men; Love is the saviour of the world.17. And all who put their trust in Christ, and follow Jesus as a pattern and a guide, have everlasting life.18. But they who do not trust the Christ, and will not purify their hearts so that the Christ can dwell within, can never enter life.

1. Lamaas, priest of Brahm, who was a friend of Jesus when he was in the temple of Jagannath, had heard of Jesus and his mighty works in many lands; and he had left his home and come to Palestine in search of him.2. And as he journeyed towards Jerusalem he heard of John, the harbinger, who was esteemed a prophet of the living God.3. Lamaas found the harbinger at Salim Springs; for many days he was a silent listener to the pungent truths he taught.4. And he was present when the Pharisee told John of Jesus and his mighty works5. He heard the answer of the harbinger; heard him bless the name of Jesus; whom he called the Christ.6. And then he spoke to John; he said, Pray tell me more about this Jesus whom you call the Christ.7. And John replied, this Jesus is the love of God made manifest.8. Lo, men are living on the lower planes--the planes of greed and selfishness; for self they fight; they conquer with the sword.9. In every land the strong enslave and kill the weak.

He preaches boldly in the courts of kings, and everywhere, that victories won by force of arms are crimes;12. That every worthy end may be attained by gentleness and love just as the Prince of Peace, Melchisedec, the priest of God, won gallant victories in war without the shedding of a drop of blood.13. You ask where are the temples of the Christ?

He ministers at shrines not made with hands; his temples are the hearts of holy men who are prepared to see the king.14. The groves of nature are his synagogues; his forum is the world.15. He has no priests dressed up in puppet style to be admired by men; for every son of man is priest of Love.16. When man has purified his heart by faith, he needs no middle man to intercede.17. He is on friendly terms with God; is not afraid of him, and he is able, and is bold enough, to lay his body on the altar of the Lord.18. Thus every man is priest, and is himself a living sacrifice.19. You need not seek the Christ, for when your heart is purified the Christ will come, and will abide with you for evermore.20. And then Lamaas journeyed on; he came to Jesus as he taught beside the ford.21. And Jesus said, Behold the Star of India!22. Lamaas said, Behold the Sun of Righteousness!

They traffic not; then why ask me the favour of a drink?6. And Jesus said, Samaritans and Jews are all the children of one God, our Father-God, and they are kin.7. It is but prejudice born of the carnal mind that breeds this enmity and hate.8. While I was born a Jew I recognise the brotherhood of life.

Samaritans are just as dear to me as Jew or Greek.9. And then had you but known the blessings that our Father-God has sent to men by me, you would have asked me for a drink.10. And I would gladly have given you a cup of water from the Fount of Life, and you would never thirst again.11. The woman said, This well is deep, and you have naught with which to draw; how could you get the water that you speak about?12. And Jesus said, The water that I speak about comes not from Jacob's well; it flows from springs that never fail.13. Lo, every one who drinks from Jacob's well will thirst again; but they who drink the water that I give will never thirst again;14. For they themselves become a well, and from their inner parts the sparkling waters bubble up into eternal life.15. The woman said, Sir, I would drink from that rich well of life.

One place is just as sacred as another place.26. The hour has come when men must worship God within the temple of the heart; for God is not within Jerusalem, nor in your holy mount in any way that he is not in every heart.27. Our God is Spirit; they who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.28. The woman said, We know that when Messiah comes that he will lead us in the ways of truth.29. And Jesus said, Behold the Christ has come; Messiah speaks to you.

Lift up your eyes and look; the fields are golden with the ripened grain.8. Lo, many sowers have gone forth to sow the seeds of life; the seed has grown; the plants have strengthened in the summer sun; the grain has ripened, and the master calls for men to reap.9. And you shall go out in the fields and reap what other men have sown; but when the reckoning day shall come the sowers and the reapers all together will rejoice.10. And Philip said to Jesus, Stay now your work a time and sit beneath this olive tree and eat a portion of this food; you must be faint for you have eaten naught since early day.11. But Jesus said, I am not faint, for I have food to eat you know not of.12. Then the disciples said among themselves, Who could have brought him aught to eat?13. They did not know that he had power to turn the very ethers into bread.14. And Jesus said, The master of the harvest never sends his reapers forth and feeds them not.15. My Father who has sent me forth into the harvest field of human life will never suffer me to want; and when he calls for you to serve, lo, he will give you food, will clothe and shelter you.16. Then turning to the people of Samaria, he said, Think not it strange that I, a Jew, should speak to you, for I am one with you.17. The universal Christ who was and is, and evermore shall be, is manifest in me; but Christ belongs to every man.18. God scatters forth his blessings with a lavish hand, and he is not more kind to one than to another one of all the creatures of his hand.19. I just came up from Judah's hills, and God's same sun was shining and his flowers were blooming, and in the night his stars were just as bright as they are here.20. God cannot cast a child away; the Jew, the Greek and the Samaritan are equal in his sight.21. And why should men and women fret and quarrel, like children in their plays?22. The lines that separate the sons of men are made of straw, and just a single breath of love would blow them all away.23. The people were amazed at what the stranger said, and many said, The Christ that was to come has surely come.24. And Jesus went with them into the town, and tarried certain days.

The man looked up in thankfulness and said, Praise God.10. And many of the people brought their sick, and Jesus spoke the Word, and they were healed.11. The ruler of the synagogue, and all the priest were much disturbed when told that Jesus from Jerusalem was preaching in the town.12. They thought that he had come to proselyte and stir up strife among Samaritans.13. And so they sent an officer to bring him to the synagogue that he might give a reason for his presence in the town.14. But Jesus said to him who came, Go back and tell the priests and ruler of the synagogue that I am not engaged in crime.15. I come to bind up broken hearts, to heal the sick, and cast the evil spirits out of those obsessed.16. Tell them, their prophets spoke of me; that I come to break no law, but to fulfil the highest law.17. The man returned and told the priests and ruler of the synagogue what Jesus said.18. The ruler was amazed, and with the priests went to the market place where Jesus was.19. And when he saw them, Jesus said, Behold the honoured men of all Samaria!

1. The Christines turned their faces toward the land of Galilee; but when they reached the city of Samaria, the multitudes pressed hard about them, begging them to tarry in their city for a while.2. And then they went up to the synagogue, and Jesus opened up the book of Moses, and he read:3. In thee and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blest.4. And then he closed the book and said, These words were spoken by the Lord of hosts unto our father Abraham, and Israel has been blessedness to all the world.5. We are his seed; but not a tithe of the great work that we were called to do has yet been done.6. The Lord of hosts has set apart the Israelites to teach the unity of God and man; but one can never teach that which he does not demonstrate in life.7. Our God is Spirit, and in him all wisdom, love and strength abide.8. In every man these sacred attributes are budding forth, and in due time they will unfold; the demonstration will completed be, and man will comprehend the fact of unity.9. And you, ruler of the synagogue, and you, these priests, are honoured servants of the Lord of hosts.10. All men are looking unto you for guidance in the ways of life; example is another name for priest; so what you would that people be, that you must be.11. A simple godly life may win ten thousand souls to purity and right.12. And all the people said, Amen.13. Then Jesus left the synagogue, and at the hour of evening prayer he went up to the sacred grove, and all the people turned their faces toward their holy mount and prayed.14. And Jesus prayed.15. And as he sat in silent mood a voice of soul spoke to his soul imploring help.16. And Jesus saw a woman on a couch in sore distress; for she was sick nigh unto death.17. She could not speak, but she had heard that Jesus was a man of God, and in her heart she called on him for help.18. And Jesus helped; he did not speak; but like a flash of light, a mighty virtue from his soul filled full the body of the dying one, and she arose, and joined her kindred while they prayed.19. Her kindred were astonished and they said to her, How were you healed?

And she replied,20. I do not know; I simply asked the man of God in thought for healing power, and in a moment I was well.21. The people said, The gods have surely come to earth; for man has not the power to heal by thought.22. But Jesus said, The greatest power in heaven and earth is thought.23. God made the universe by thought; he paints the lily and the rose with thought.24. Why think it strange that I should send a healing thought and change the ethers of disease and death to those of health and life?25. Lo, you shall see far greater things than this, for by the power of holy thought, my body will be changed from carnal flesh to spirit form; and so will yours.26. When Jesus had thus said he disappeared, and no one saw him go.27. His own disciples did not comprehend the change; they knew not where their master went, and they went on their way.28. But as they walked and talked about the strange event, lo, Jesus came and walked with them to Nazareth of Galilee.

Jesus tells why God permitted the imprisonment of John.

1. Herod Antipas, the tetrarch of Paraca and of Galilee was dissipated, selfish and tyrannical.2. He drove his wife away from home that he might take as wife Herodias, the wife of one, a near of kin, a woman, like himself, immoral and unjust.3. The city of Tiberius, upon the shores of Galilee, was Herod's home.4. Now John, the harbinger, had left the Salim Springs to teach the people by the sea of Galilee; and he rebuked the wicked ruler and his stolen wife for all their sins.5. Herodias was enraged because the preacher dared accuse her and her husband of their crimes;6. And she prevailed on Herod to arrest the harbinger and cast him in a dungeon in the castle of Machaerus that stood beside the Bitter Sea.7. And Herod did as she required; then she lived in peace in all her sins, for none were bold enough to censure her again.8. The followers of John were warned to speak not of the trial and imprisonment of John.9. By order of the court, they were restrained from teaching in the public halls.10. They could not talk about this better life that Herod called the Heresy of John.11. When it was known that John had been imprisoned by the tetrarch court, the friends of Jesus thought it best that he should not remain in Galilee.12. But Jesus said, I have no need of fear; my time has not yet come; no man can stay me till my work is done.13. And when they asked why God permitted Herod to imprison John, he said,14. Behold yon stalk of grain to perfectness, it is of no more worth; it falls, becoming part of earth again from which it came.15. John is a stalk of golden wheat; he brought unto maturity the richest grain of all the earth; his work is done.16. If he had said another word it might have marred the symmetry of what is now a noble life.17. And when my work is done the rulers will do unto me what they have done to John, and more.18. All these events are part of God's own plan.

Do here among your kindred all the mighty works that you have done in other towns.10. And Jesus said, No prophet is received with honour by the people of his native land; and prophets are not sent to every one.11. Elijah was a man of God; he had the power and he closed the gates of heaven, and it did not rain for forty months; and when he spoke the Word, the rain come on, the earth brought forth again.12. And there were many widows in the land; but this Elijah went to none but Zarephath, and she was blessed.13. And when Elisha lived, lo, many lepers were in Israel, but none were cleansed save one--the Syrian who had faith.14. You have no faith; you seek for signs to satisfy your curious whims; but you shall see not till you open up your eyes of faith.15. And then the people were enraged; they rushed upon him, bound him down with cords, and took him to a precipice not far away, intent to cast him down to death;16. But when they thought they held him fast, he disappeared; unseen he passed among the angry men, and went his way.17. The people were confounded and they said, What manner of a man is this?18. And when they came again to Nazareth, they found him teaching in the synagogue.19. They troubled him no more for they were sore afraid.

1. Now, on the day before the Sabbath day, the twelve disciples who had received the call were met with one accord in Jesus' home.2. And Jesus said to them, This is the day to consecrate yourselves unto the work of God; so let us pray.3. Turn from the outer to the inner self; close all the doors of carnal self and wait.4. The Holy Breath will fill this place, and you will be baptised in Holy Breath.5. And then they prayed; alight more brilliant than the noonday sun filled all the room, and tongues of flame from every head rose high in air.6. The atmosphere of Galilee was set astir; a sound like distant thunder rolled above Capernaum, and men heard songs, as though ten thousand angels joined in full accord.7. And then the twelve disciples heard a voice, a still, small voice, and just one word was said, a word they dared not speak; it was the Sacred name of God.8. And Jesus said to them, By this omnific Word you may control the elements, and all the powers of air.9. And when within your souls you speak this Word, you have the keys of life and death; of things that are; of things that were; of things that are to be.10. Behold you are the twelve great branches of the Christine vine; the twelve foundation stones; the twelve apostles of the Christ.11. As lambs I sent you forth among wild beasts; but the omnific Word will be your buckler and your shield.12. And then again the air was filled with song, and every living creature seemed to say, Praise God!

Amen!13. The next day was the Sabbath day; and Jesus went with his disciples to the synagogue, and there he taught.14. The people said, He teaches not as do the scribes and Pharisees; but as a man who knows, and has authority to speak.15. As Jesus spoke, a man obsessed came in; the evil spirits that obsessed the man were of the baser sort; they often threw their victim to the ground, or in the fire.16. And when the spirits saw the Christine master in the synagogue they knew him, and they said,17. You son of God, why are you here?

who can forgive the sins of men but God?21. And Jesus caught their thought; he knew they questioned thus among themselves; he said to them,22. Why reason thus among yourselves?

Affirms that all men are the sons of God.

1. The feast time came and Jesus and the twelve went to Jerusalem.2. Upon the day before the Sabbath day they reached Mount Olives and they tarried at an inn before Mount Olives on the north.3. And in the early morning of the Sabbath day they went in through the sheep gate to Jerusalem.4. The healing fountain of Bethesda, near the gate, was thronged about with people who were sick;5. For they believed that at a certain time an angel came and poured a healing virtue in the pool, and those who entered first and bathed, would be made whole.6. And Jesus and the twelve were standing near the pool.7. And Jesus saw a man near by who had been stricken eight and thirty years; without a hand to help he could not move.8. And Jesus said to him, My brother, man, would you be healed?9. The man replied, I earnestly desire to be healed; but I am helpless and when the angel comes and pours the healing virtues in the pool,10. Another who can walk, steps in the fountain first and I am left unhealed.11. And Jesus said, Who sends an angel here to potentise this pool for just a favoured few?12. I know it is not God, for he deals just the same with every one.13. One has no better chance in heaven's healing fountain than another one.14. The fount of health is in your soul; it has a door locked fast; the key is faith;15. And every one can have this key and may unlock the door and plunge into the healing fount and be made whole.16. And then the man looked up in hopeful mood and said, Give me this key of faith.17. And Jesus said, Do you believe what I have said?

Arise, take up your bed and walk.18. The man at once arose and walked away; he only said, Praise God.19. And when the people asked, Who made you whole?

A stranger at the pool just spoke a word and I was well.20. The many did not see when Jesus healed the man, and with the twelve he went his way up to the temple courts.21. And in the temple Jesus saw the man and said to him, Behold you are made whole; from henceforth guard your life aright;22. Go on your way and sin no more, or something worse may fall on you.23. And now the man knew who it was who made him whole.24. He told the story to the priests and they were much enraged; they said, The law forbids a man to heal upon the Sabbath day.25. But Jesus said, My Father works on sabbath days and may not I?26. He sends his rain, his sunshine and his dew; he makes his grass to grow, his flowers to bloom; he speeds the harvests just the same on Sabbath days as on the other days.27. If it is lawful for the grass to grow and flowers to bloom on Sabbath days it surely is not wrong to succour stricken men.28. And then the priests were angered more and more because he claimed to be a son of God.29. A leading priest, Abihu, said, This fellow is a menace to our nation and our laws; he makes himself to be a son of God; it is not meet that he should live.30. But Jesus said, Abihu, Sir, you are a learned man; you surely know the law of life.

Pray tell who were the sons of God we read about in Genesis, who took to wife the daughters of the sons of men?31. Our father Adam; who was he?

or did he fall from heaven as a star?32. We read that Moses said, He came from God.

If Adam came from God pray, was he offspring, was he son?33. We are the children of this son of God; then tell me, learned priest, Who are we if not sons of God?34. The priest had urgent business and he went his way.35. And Jesus said, All men are sons of God and if they live a holy life they always are at home with God.36. They see and understand the works of God, and in his sacred name they can perform these works.37. The lightnings and the storms are messengers of God as well as the sunshine, rain and dew.38. The virtue of the heavens are in God's hands, and every loyal son may use these virtues and these powers.39. Man is the delegate of God to do his will on earth, and man can heal the sick, control the spirit of the air, and raise the dead.40. Because I have the power to do these things is nothing strange.

All men may gain the power to do these things; but they must conquer all passions of the lower self; and they can conquer if they will.41. So man is God on earth, and he who honours God must honour man; for God and man are one, as father and the child are one.42.

Behold, I say, The hour has come; the dead will hear the voice of man, and live, because the son of man is son of God.43. You men of Israel, hear!

you live in death; you are locked up within the tomb.44. (There is no deeper death than ignorance and unbelief.)45. But all will some day hear the voice of God made plain by voice of man, and live.

You all will know that you are sons of God, and by the sacred Word, may do the works of God.46. When you have come to life, that is, have come to realise that you are sons of God, you who have lived the life of right, will open up your eyes on fields of life.47. But you who love the ways of sin will, in this resurrection, stand before a judgment bar, and be condemned to pay the debts you owe to men and to yourselves.48. For whatsoever you have done amiss must be performed again, and yet again, until you reach the stature of the perfect man.49. But in due time the lowest and the highest will arise to walk in light.50. Shall I accuse you unto God?

and not a trace of fire was on himself, his raiment, or the child.7. Then Jesus raised his hand, rebuked the spirits of the fire, commanding them to cease their awful work, and be at rest.8. And then, as though the waters of the sea were all at once poured on the flames, the fire ceased to burn.9. And when the fury of the fire was spent the multitudes were wild to see the man who could control the fire, and Jesus said,10. Man was not made for fire, but fire was made for man.11. When man comes to himself and comprehends the fact that he is son of God, and knows that in himself lies all the powers of God, he is a master mind and all the elements will hear his voice and gladly do his will.12. Two sturdy asses bind the will of man; their names are Fear and Unbelief.

He is so good and kind when he is just himself; I know it is the wine that makes another man of him.16. And Jesus went out with the child; he found the wretched home; he spoke in kindness to the mother and the little ones, and then upon a bed of straw he found the drunken man.17. He took him by the hand and raised him up and said, My brother, man, made in the image of our Father-God, will you arise and come with me?18. Your neighbours are in sore distress; they have lost all they had in this fierce fire, and men must build their homes again and you and I must lead the way.19. And then the man arose; the two went arm in arm to view the wrecks.20. They heard the mothers and the children crying in the streets; they saw their wretchedness.21. And Jesus said, My friend, here is work for you to do.

1. Another Sabbath day had come and Jesus and the twelve walked through a field of ripened wheat.2. And they were hungry and they took the heads of wheat and in their hands threshed out the grain and ate.3. Among the men who followed them were Pharisees of strictest sect, and when they saw the twelve thresh out the wheat and eat, they said to Jesus,4. Sir, why do the twelve do that which is not lawful on the Sabbath day?5. And Jesus said, Have you not heard what David did when he and those who followed him had need of food?6. How he went to the house of God and from the table in the Holy Place took of the presence bread and ate, and gave to those who followed him?7. I tell you, men, the needs of man are higher than the law of rites.8. And in our sacred books we read how priests profane the Sabbath day in many ways while they are serving in the Holy Place, and still are free from guilt.9. The Sabbath day was made for man; man was not made to fit the Sabbath day.10. The man is son of God and under the eternal law of right, which is the highest law, he may annul the statute laws.11. The law of sacrifice is but the law of man, and in our law we read that God desires mercy first; and mercy stands above all statute laws.12. The son of man is Lord of every law.

Did not a prophet sum the duties of the man when in the book he wrote: In mercy follow justice and walk humbly with your God?13. Then Jesus and the twelve returned to Galilee, and on the day before the Sabbath day they reached the home of Jesus in Capernaum.14. And on the Sabbath day they went up to the synagogue.

Will he attempt to heal upon the Sabbath day?17. And Jesus knew their thoughts and he called to the man who had the withered hand and said, Arise, stand forth before these men.18. And Jesus said, You scribes and Pharisees, speak out and answer me: Is it a crime to save a life upon the Sabbath day?19. If you had sheep and one of them fell in a pit upon the Sabbath day would you do wrong to take it out?20. Or would it please your God to let it suffer in the mire until another day?21. But his accusers held their peace.22. And then he said to them, Are sheep of greater value than a man?23. The law of God is written on the rock of Right; and Justice wrote the law, and Mercy was the pen.24. And then he said, Man, raise your hand and stretch it forth.

He said,2. Prayer is the deep communion of the soul with God;3. So when you pray do not deceive yourselves as do the hypocrites who love to stand upon the streets and in the synagogues and pour out many words to please the ears of men.4. And they adorn themselves with pious airs that they may have the praise of men.

Just say,7. Our Father-God who art in heaven; holy is thy name.

Thy kingdom come; thy will be done on earth as it is done in heaven.8. Give us this day our needed bread;9. Help us forget the debts that other people owe to us, that all our debts may be discharged.10. And shield us from the tempter's snares that are too great for us to bear;11. And when they come give us the strength to overcome.12. If you would be discharged from all the debts you owe to God and man, the debts you have incurred by wilfully transgressing law,13. You must pass by the debts of every man; for as you deal with other men your God will deal with you.14. And when you fast you may not advertise the deed.15. When fast the hypocrites they paint their faces, look demure, assume a pious pose, that they may seem to men to fast.16. A fast is deed of soul, and like a prayer, it is a function of the silence of the soul.17. God never passes by unnoticed any prayer, or fast.

He walks within the silence, and his benedictions rest on every effort of the soul.18. Deception is hypocrisy, and you shall not assume to be what you are not.19. You may not clothe yourselves in special garb to advertise your piety, nor yet assume the tone of voice that men conceive to be a holy voice.20. And when you give to aid the needy ones, blow not a trumpet in the street, nor a synagogue to advertise your gift.21. He who does alms for praise of men has his reward from men; but God regardeth not.22. In giving alms do not let the right hand know the secret of the left.

1. And Jesus and the twelve went to the mountain top, and Jesus said,2. Twelve pillars of the church, apostles of the Christ; light-bearers of the sun of life and ministers of God to men:3. In just a little while you must go forth alone, and preach the gospel of the king, first to the Jews and then to all the world.4. And you shall go, not with a scourge of cords to drive; you cannot drive men to the king;5. But you shall go in love and helpfulness and lead the way to right and light.6. Go forth and say, The kingdom is at hand.7. Worthy are the strong in spirit; theirs the kingdom is.8. Worthy are the meek; they shall possess the land.9. Worthy they who hunger and thirst for right; they shall be satisfied.10. Worthy are the merciful; and mercy shall be shown to them.11. Worthy they who gain the mastery of self; they have the key of power.12. Worthy are the pure in heart; and they shall see the king.13. Worthy they who are maligned and wronged because they do the right; their persecutors they shall bless.14. Worthy is the trustful child of faith; he shall sit in the throne of power.15. Be not discouraged when the world shall persecute and call you curst; but rather be exceeding glad.16. The prophets and the seers, and all the good of earth, have been maligned.17. If you are worthy of the crown of life you will be slandered, vilified and curst on earth.18. Rejoice when evil men shall drive you from their ways and cause your name to be a hiss and by-word in the street.19. I say, rejoice; but deal in mercy with the doers of the wrong; they are but children at their play; they know not what they do.20. Rejoice not over fallen foes.

As you help men rise from the depth of sin, so God will help you on to greater heights.21. Woe to the rich is gold and lands; they have temptations multiforms.22. Woe unto men who walk at will in pleasure's paths; their ways are full of snares and dangerous pits.23. Woe to the proud; they stand upon a precipice; destruction waits for them.24. Woe to the man of greed; for what he has is not his own; and lo, another comes; wealth is gone.25. Woe to the hypocrite; his form is fair to look upon; his heart is filled with carcasses and dead men's bones.26. Woe to the cruel and relentless man; he is himself the victim of his deeds.27. The evil he would do to other men rebounds; the scourger is the scourged.28. Woe to the libertine who preys upon the virtues of the weak.

The world speaks not in praise of men who live within the Holy Breath; It speaks in praise of prophets false, and of illusions base.30. You men who walk in Holy Breath are salt, the salt of earth; but if you lose your virtue you are salt in name alone, worth nothing more than dust.31. And you are light; are called to light the world.32. A city on a hill cannot be hid; its lights are seen afar; and while you stand upon the hills of life men see your light and imitate your works and honour God.33. Men do not light a lamp and hide it in a cask; they put it on a stand that it may light the house.34. You are the lamps of God; must not stand in the shade of earth illusions, but in the open, high upon the stand.35. I am not come to nullify the law, nor to destroy; but to fulfil.36. The Law, the Prophets and the Psalms were written in the wisdom of the Holy breath and cannot fail.37. The heavens and earth that are will change and pass away; the word of God is sure; it cannot pass until it shall accomplish that where unto it hath been sent.38. Whoever disregards the law of God and teaches men to do the same, becomes a debtor unto God and cannot see his face until he has returned and paid his debt by sacrifice of life.39. But he who hearkens unto God and keeps his law and does his will on earth, shall rule with Christ.40. The scribes and Pharisees regard the letter of the law; they cannot comprehend the spirit of the law;41. And if your righteousness does not exceed the righteousness of scribe and Pharisee you cannot come into the kingdom of the soul.42. It is not what man does that gives him right to enter through the gates; his pass word is his character and desire is his character.43. The letter of the law deals with the acts of man; the spirit of the law takes note of his desires.

1. God gave the Ten Commandments unto men; upon the mountain Moses saw the words of God; he wrote them down on solid rock; they cannot be destroyed.2. These Ten Commandments show the justice side of God; but now the love of God made manifest brings mercy on the wings of Holy Breath.3. Upon the unity of God the law was built.

In all the world there is one force; Jehovah is Almighty God.4. Jehovah wrote upon the heavens and Moses read,5. I am Almighty God and you shall have no God but me.6. There is one force, but many phases of that force; these phases men call powers.7. All powers are of God; and they are manifests of God; they are Spirits of the God.8. If men could seem to find another force and worship at its shrine, they would but court illusion, vain,9. A shadow of the One, Jehovah, God, and they who worship shadows are but shadows on the wall; for men are what court.10. And God would have all men to be the substance, and in mercy he commanded, You shall seek no God but me.11. And finite men can never comprehend infinite things.

Man cannot make an image of the Infinite in force.12. And when men make a God of stone or wood or clay they make an image of a shade; and they who worship at the shrine of shades are shades.13. So God in mercy said, You shall not carve out images of wood, or clay, or stone.14. Such idols are ideals, abased ideals, and men can gain no higher plane than their ideals.15. The God is Spirit men must worship if they would attain a consciousness of God.16. But man can never make a picture or an image of the Holy Breath.17. The name of God man may not speak with carnal lips; with Holy Breath alone can man pronounce the name.18. In vanity men think they know the name of God; they speak it lightly and irreverently, and thus they are accursed.19. If men did know the sacred name and spoke it with unholy lips, they would not live to speak it once again.20. But God in mercy has not yet unveiled his name to those who cannot speak with Holy Breath.21. But they who speak the substitute in idle way are guilty in the sight of God, who said,22. You shall not take the name of God in vain.23. The number of the Holy Breath is seven, and God holds in his hands the sevens of time.24. In forming worlds he rested on the seventh day, and every seventh day is set apart as Sabbath day for men.

God said,25. The seventh is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God; remember it and keep it wholly set apart for works of holiness; that is, for works not for the selfish self, but for the universal self.26. Men may do work for self upon the six days of the week; but on the Sabbath of the Lord they must do naught for self.27. This day is consecrated unto God; but man serves God by serving man.

1. God is not force alone; for wisdom is his counterpart.2. When cherubim instructed man in wisdom's ways they said that wisdom is the Mother of the race, as force is Father of the race.3. The man who honours the almighty and omniscient God is blessed, and in the tables of the law we read,4. Pay homage to your Father and Mother of the race, that your days may be prolonged upon the land that they have given you.5. The letter of the law commands; you shall not kill; and he who kills must stand before the judgement seat.6. A person may desire to kill, yet if he does not kill he is not judged by law.7. The spirit of the law avers that he who shall desire to kill, or seeks revenge, is angry with a man without sufficient cause, must answer to the judge;8. And he who calls his brother soulless vagabond shall answer to the council of the just;9. And he who calls his brother a degenerate, a dog, fans into life the burning fires of hell within himself.10. Now, in the higher law we read that if your brother is aggrieved by something you have done, before you offer unto God your gifts, go forth and find your brother and be reconciled to him.11. It is not well to let the sun go down upon your wrath.12. If he will not be reconciled when you have laid aside all selfish pleas, have waived all selfish rights, you will be guiltless in the sight of God; then go and offer unto God your gifts.13. If you owe aught to any man and cannot pay; or if a man shall claim a greater sum than is his due it is not well that you dispute his claims.14. Resistance is the sire of anger; there is no mercy and no reason in a wrathful man.15. I tell you it is better far to suffer loss than go to law, or call upon the courts of men to judge of right and wrong.16. The law of carnal man would say, Eye for eye and tooth for tooth; resist encroachment on your rights.17. But this is not the law of God.

The Holy Breath would say, Resist not him who would deprive you of your goods.18. He who would take your coat by force is still a brother man and you should gain his heart, which by resistance cannot be done;19. Give him your coat and offer him still more and more; in time the man will rise above the brute; you will have saved him from himself.20. Refuse not him who calls for help and give to him who asks to borrow aught.21. And if a man shall strike you in a fitful, or an angry way, it is not well to smite him in return.22. Men call him coward who will not fight and thus defend his rights; but he is much the greater man who is assailed, is smitten and does not smite;23. Who is maligned and answers not, than he who smites the smiter and reviles the one who slanders him.24. It has been said in olden times that man shall love his friend and hate his foe; but, lo, I say,25. Be merciful unto your foes; bless those who slander you; do good to those who do you harm and pray for those who trample on your rights.26. Remember, you are children of the God who makes his sun to rise alike upon the evil and the good, who sends his rain upon the unjust and the just.27. If you do unto other men as they do unto you, you are but slaves, but followers in the way to death.28. But you, as children of the light, must lead the way.29. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.30. When you do good to those who have done good to you, you do no more than other men; the publicans do that.31. If you salute your friends and not your foes, you are like other men; the publicans ahve set the pace.32. Be perfect as your Father-God in heaven is.

1. The law forbids adultery; but in the eyes of law adultery is an overt act, the satisfaction of the sensuous self outside the marriage bonds.2. Now, marriage in the sight of law is but a promise made by man and woman, by the sanction of a priest, to live for aye in harmony and love.3. No priest nor officer has power from God to bind two souls in wedded love.4. What is the marriage tie?

Is it comprised in what a priest or officer may say?5. Is it the scroll on which the officer or priest has written the permission for the two to live in marriage bonds?6. Is it the promise of the two that they will love each other until death?7. Is love a passion that is subject to the will of man?8. Can man pick up his love, as he would pick up precious gems, and lay it down, or give it out to any one?9. Can love be bought and sold like sheep?10. Love is the power of God that binds two souls and makes them one; there is no power on earth that can dissolve the bond.11. The bodies may be forced apart by man or death for just a little time; but they will meet again.12. Now, in this bond of God we find the marriage tie; all other unions are but bonds of straw, and they who live in them commit adultery.13. The same as they who satisfy their lust without the sanction of an officer or priest.14. But more than this; the man or woman who indulges lustful thoughts commits adultery.15. Whom God has joined together man cannot part; whom man has joined together live in sin.16. Upon a table of the law, the great lawgiver wrote, Thou shalt not steal.17. Before the eyes of law a man to steal must take a thing that can be seen with eyes of flesh, without the knowledge or consent of him to whom the thing belongs.18. But, lo, I say that he who in his heart desires to possess that which is not his own, and would deprive the owner of the thing without his knowledge or consent, is in the sight of God, a thief.19. The things that men see not with eyes of flesh are of more worth than are the things that man can see.20. A man's good name is worth a thousand mines of gold, and he who says a word or does a deed that injures or defames that name has taken what is not his own, and is a thief.21. Upon a table of the law we also read: Thou shalt not covet anything.22. To covet is an all-consuming wish to have what is not right for one to have.23. And such a wish, within the spirit of the law, is theft.

1. The law has said: Thou shalt not lie; but in the eyes of law a man to lie must tell in words what is not true.2. Now, in the light of spirit law, deceit in any form is nothing but a lie.3. A man may lie by look or act; yea, even by his silence may deceive, and thus be guilty in the eyes of Holy Breath.4. It has been said in olden times: Thou shalt not swear by thine own life.5. But, lo, I say, Swear not at all; not by the head, the heart, the eye, nor hand; not by the sun, the moon, nor stars;6. Not by the name of God, nor by the name of any spirit, good or bad.7. You shall not swear by anything; for in an oath there is no gain.8. A man whose word must be propped up by oath of any kind is not trustworthy in the sight of God or man.9. By oath you cannot make a leaf to fall, nor turn the colour of a hair.10. The man of worth just speaks and men know that he speaks the truth.11. The man who pours out many words to make think he speaks the truth, is simply making smoke to hide a lie.12. And there are many men with seeming double hearts; men who would serve two masters at a time--two masters quite adverse.13. Men feign to worship God upon the Sabbath day and then pay court to Beelzebul on every other day.14. No man can serve two masters at a time no more than he can ride two asses at a time that go in different ways.15. The man who feigns to worship God and Beelzebul is foe of God, a pious devil and a curse of men.16. And men cannot lay treasures up in heaven and earth at once.17. Then, lo, I say, Lift up your eyes and see the safety vaults of heaven, and there deposit every gem.18. Where moth and rust cannot corrupt; where thieves cannot break in and steal.19. There are no safety vaults on earth; no place secure from moth, and rust and thieves.20. The treasures of the earth are but illusive things that pass away.21. Be not deceived; your treasures are the anchor of the soul, and where your treasures are your heart will be.22. Fix not your heart upon the things of earth; be anxious not about the things to eat, or drink or wear.23. God cares for those who trust in him and serve the race.24. Behold the birds!

They praise God in their songs; the earth is made more glorious by their ministry of joy; God keeps them in the hollow of his hand,25. And not a sparrow falls to earth without his care; and every one that falls shall rise again.26. Behold the flowers of earth!

they trust in God and grow; they make the earth resplendent with their beauty and perfume.27. Look at the lilies of the field, the messengers of holy love.

No son of man, not even Solomon in all his excellence, was ever clothed like one of these.28. And yet they simply trust in God; they feed from out his hand; they lay their heads to rest upon his breast.29. If God so clothes and feeds the flowers and birds that do his will, will he not feed and clothe his children when they trust in him?30. Seek first the kingdom of the soul, the righteousness of God, the good of men, and feed, and clothe.

The carnal man has killed the holy men of old, the prophets and the seers.15. And he will buffet you; will charge you falsely, scourge you and imprison you, and think he does the will of God to slay you in the streets.16. But you may not prejudge nor censure him who does you wrong.17. Each one has problems to be solved, and he must solve them for himself.18. The man who scourges you may have a load of sin to bear; but how about your own?19. A little sin in one who walks in Holy Breath is greater in the sight of God than monster sins in him who never knew the way.20. How can you see the splinter in your brother's eye while you have chunks within your own?21. First take the chunks from out your eye and then you may behold the splinter in your brother's eye and help him take it out,22. And while your eyes are full of foreign things you cannot see the way, for you are blind,23. And when the blind lead forth the blind, both lose the way and fall into the slough.24. If you would lead the way to God you must be clear in sight, as well as pure in heart.

1. The fruitage of the tree of life is all too fine to feed the carnal mind.2. If you would throw a diamond to a hungry dog, lo, he would turn away, or else attack you in a rage.3. The incense that is sweet to God is quite offensive unto Beelzebul; the bread of heaven is but chaff to men who cannot comprehend the spirit life.4. The master must be wise and feed the soul with what it can digest.5. If you have not the food for every man, just ask and you shall have; seek earnestly and you shall find.6. Just speak the Word and knock; the door will fly ajar.7. No one has ever asked in faith and did not have; none ever sought in vain; no one who ever knocked aright has failed to find an open door.8. When men shall ask you for the bread of heaven, turn not away, nor give to them the fruit of carnal trees.9. If one, a son, would ask you for a loaf, would you give him a stone?

If he would ask you for a fish, would you give him a serpent of the dust?10. What you would have your God give unto you, give unto men.

The praying men are not all in the kingdom of the soul.20. The man who lives the holy life, who does the will of God, abides within the kingdom of the soul.21. The good man from the treasures of his heart sends blessedness and peace to all the world.22. The evil man sends thoughts that blight and wither hope and joy and fill the world with wretchedness and woe.23. Men think and act and speak out of the abundance of the heart.24. And when the judgement hour shall come a host of men will enter pleadings for themselves and think to buy the favour of the judge with words.25. And they will say, Lo, we have wrought a multitude of works in the Omnific name,26. Have we not prophesied?

You rendered service unto God in words when in your heart you worshipped Beelzebul.28. The evil one may use the powers of life, and do a multitude of mighty works.

1. The twelve apostles went with Jesus to his home, and there abode for certain days.2. And Jesus told them many things about the inner life that may not now be written in a book.3. Now, in Capernaum, there lived a man of wealth, a Roman captain of a hundred men, who loved the Jews and who had built for them a synagogue.4. A servant of this man was paralysed, and he was sick nigh unto death.5. The captain knew of Jesus and had heard that by the Sacred Word he healed the sick, and he had faith in him.6. He sent a message by the elders of the Jews to Jesus, and he pled for help.7. and Jesus recognised the captain's faith and went at once to heal the sick; the captain met him on the way and said to him,8. Lo, Lord, it is not well that you should come unto my house; I am not worthy of the presence of a man of God.9. I am a man of war, my life is spent with those who ofttimes take the lives of fellow men.

1. The home of Jesus was a school where in the early morning hours the twelve apostles and the foreign priests were taught the secret things of God.2. And there were present priests from China, India, and from Babylon; from Persia, Egypt and from Greece,3. Who came to sit at Jesus' feet to learn the wisdom that he brought to men, that they might teach their people how to live the holy life.4. And Jesus taught them how to teach; he told them of the trials of the way, and how to make these trials serve the race.5. He taught them how to live the holy life that they might conquer death;6. He taught them what the end of mortal life will be, when man has reached the consciousness that he and God are one.7. The after midday hours were given to the multitudes who came to learn the way of life and to be healed; and many did believe and were baptised.8. Now, in his prison by the Bitter Sea the harbinger had heard of all the mighty works that Jesus did.9. His prison life was hard, and he was sore distressed, and he began to doubt.10. And to himself he said, I wonder if this Jesus is the Christ of whom the prophets wrote!11. Was I mistaken in my work?

Was I, indeed, one sent from God to pave the way for him who shall redeem our people, Israel?12. And then he sent some of his friends, who came to see him in his prison cell, up to Capernaum that they might learn about this man, and bring him word.13. The men found Jesus in his home, and said, Behold the harbinger sent us to ask, Are you the Christ?

Yea, and more; a messenger whom God had sent to pave the way for what you see and hear this day.22. Among the men of earth a greater man has never lived than John.23. Behold I say, This man whom Herod bound in chains and cast into a prison cell is God's Elijah come again to earth.24. Elijah, who did not pass the gate of death, whose body of this flesh was changed, and he awoke in Paradise.25. When John came forth and preached the gospel of repentance for the cleansing of the soul, the common folks believed and were baptised.26. The lawyers and the Pharisees accepted not the teachings of this man; were not baptised.27. Behold, neglected opportunities will never come again.28. Behold, the people are unstable as the waters of the sea; they seek to be excused from righteousness.29. John came and ate no bread, and drank no wine.

He lived the simplest life apart from men, and people said, He is obsessed.30. Another comes who eats and drinks and lives in homes like other men, and people say, He is a glutton, an inebriate, a friend of publicans and those who sin.31. Woe unto you, you cities of the vale of Galilee, where all the mighty works of God are done!

Behold, you are exalted now, but you shall be abased;36. For if the mighty works that have been done in you had but been done within the cities of the plain--of Sodom and Zeboim--they would have heard and turned to God; would not have been destroyed.37. They perished in their ignorance; they had no light; but you have heard; you have the evidence.38. The light of life has shown above your hills and all the shores of Galilee have been ablaze with light;39. The glory of the Lord has shown in every street and synagogue and home; but you have spurned the light.40. And, lo, I say, The judgment day will come and God will deal in greater mercy with the cities of the plains than he will deal with you.10. And surely he who comes to save would be dishonoured if he came beneath my roof.11. If you will speak the Word I know my servant will be well.12. And Jesus turned and said to those who followed him,13. Behold the captain's faith; I have not seen such faith, no, not in Israel.14. Behold, the feast is spread for you; but while you doubt and wait, the alien comes in faith and takes the bread of life.15. Then turning to the man he said, Go on your way; according to your faith so shall it be; your servant lives.16. It came to pass that at the time that Jesus spoke the Word the palsied man arose, and he was well.17. And then the Christines went abroad to teach.

And Jesus said to her, Weep not, I am the life; your son shall live.20. And Jesus raised his hand; the bearers of the dead stood still.21. And Jesus touched the bier and said, Young man, return.22. The soul returned; the body of the dead was filled with life; the man sat up and spoke.23. The people were astonished at the scene, and every one exclaimed, Praise God.24. A Jewish priest stood forth and said, Behold a mighty prophet has appeared; and all the people said, Amen.25. The Christines journeyed on; they taught, and healed the sick in many towns of Galilee, and then they came again unto Capernaum.

1. And Jesus looked upon the multitudes who pressed about for selfish gain.2. The men of learning and of wealth, of reputation and of power, were there; but they knew not the Christ.3. Their eyes were blinded by the tinselled glitter of their selfish selves; they could not see the king.4. And though they walked within the light, they groped about in dark--a darkness like the night of death.5. And Jesus cast his eyes to heaven and said,6. I thank thee, Holy One of heaven and earth, that while the light is hidden from the wise and great, it is revealed to babes.7. Then turning to the multitudes he said, I come to you not in the name of man, nor in a strength my own;8. The wisdom and the virtue that I bring to you are from above; they are the wisdom and the virtue of the God whom we adore.9. The words I speak are not my words; I give to you what I receive.10. Come unto me all you who labour and pull heavy loads and I will give you aid.11. Put on the yoke of Christ with me; it does not chafe; it is an easy yoke.12. Together we will pull the load of life with ease; and so rejoice.13. A Pharisee, whose name was Simon, made a feast, and Jesus was the honoured guest.14. And as they sat about the board, a courtesan who had been cured of her desire to sin by what she had received and seen in Jesus' ministry, came uninvited to the feast.15. She brought an alabaster box of costly balm and as the guests reclined she came to Jesus in her joy, because she been freed from sin.16. Her tears fell fast, she kissed his feet, and dried them with her hair, and she anointed them with balm.17. And Simon thought, he did not speak aloud, This man is not a prophet or he would know the kind of woman that approaches him, and would drive her away.18. But Jesus knew his thoughts, and said to him, My host, I have a word to say to you.19. And Simon said, Say on.20. And Jesus said, Sin is a monster of iniquity; it may be small; it may be large; it may be something left undone.21. Behold, one person leads a life of sin and is at last redeemed; another, in a careless mood, forgets to do the things he ought to do but he reforms and is forgiven.

1. Now, many women who possessed much wealth, and abode in other towns of Galilee, implored that Jesus and the twelve, together with the masters from the foreign lands, would thither go and preach and heal.2. Among these anxious ones were Mary Magdalene, who was obsessed by seven homeless spirits of the air, which had been driven out by the Omnific Word which Jesus spoke;3. Susanna, who owned vast estates at Cæsarea-Philippi;4. Johanna, wife of Chuza, one of Herod's court;5. And Rachel from the coast of Tyre;6. And other from beyond the Jordan and the sea of Galilee.7. And they provided ample means and three times seven men went forth.8. They preached the gospel of the Christ and they baptised the multitudes who made confession of their faith; they healed the sick and raised the dead.9. And Jesus wrought and taught from early morn until the day had gone, and then into the night, he did not stop to eat.10. His friends became alarmed lest he should fail from loss of strength, and they laid hold of him and would, by force, have taken him away to a place of rest.11. But he rebuked them not; he said, Have you not read that God will give his angels charge concerning me?12. That they would hold me fast and suffer not that I should come to want?13. I tell you, men, while I am giving out my strength unto these anxious, waiting throngs I find myself at rest within the arms of God,14. Whose blessed messengers bring down to me the bread of life.15. There is a tide just once in human life.16. These people now are willing to receive the truth; their opportunity is now; our opportunity is now,17. And if we do not teach them while we may, the tide will ebb;18. They may not care again to hear the truth; then tell me, Who will bear the guilt?19. And so he taught and healed.20. Among the multitudes were men of every shade of thought.

They were divided in their views concerning everything that Jesus said.21. Some saw in him a God, and would have worshipped him; and others saw in him a devil of the nether world and would have cast him in a pit.22. And some were trying hard to lead a double life; like little lions of the ground that take upon themselves the colour of the thing they rest upon.23. These people without anchorage of any sort, are friends or foes as seemed to serve them best.24. And Jesus said, No man can serve two masters at a time.

An honest evil man is more esteemed by guardians of the soul than a dishonest pious man.30. If you would curse the son of man, just curse him out aloud.31. A curse is poison to the inner man, and if you hold and swallow down a curse it never will digest; lo, it will poison every atom of your soul.32. And if you sin against a son of man, you may be pardoned and your guilt be cleansed by acts of kindness and of love;33. But if you sin against the Holy Breath by disregarding her when she would open up the doors of life for you;34. By closing up the windows of the soul when she would pour the light of love into your hearts, and cleanse them with the fires of God;35. Your guilt shall not be blotted out in this, nor in the life to come.36. An opportunity has gone to come no more, and you must wait until the ages roll again.37. Then will the Holy Breath again breathe on your fires of life, and fan them to a living flame.38. Then she will open up the doors again, and you may let her in to sup with you for evermore, or you may slight her once again, and then again.39. You men of Israel, your opportunity is now.40. Your tree of life is an illusive tree; it has a generous crop of leaves; its boughs hang low with fruit.41. Behold, your words are leaves; your deeds the fruit.42. Behold, for men have plucked the apples of your tree of life, and found them full of bitterness; and worms have eaten to the core.43. Behold that fig tree by the way so full of leaves and worthless fruit!44. Then Jesus spoke a word that nature spirits know, and lo, the fig tree stood a mass of withered leaves.45. And then he spoke again, Behold, for God will speak the Word, and you will stand a withered fig tree in the setting sun.46. You men of Galilee, send forth and call the pruner in before it is too late, and let him prune away your worthless branches and illusive leaves, and let the sunshine in.47. The sun is life, and it can change your worthlessness to worth.48. Your tree of life is good; but you have nurtured it so long with dews of self, and mists of carnal things that you have shut the sunshine out.49. I tell you, men, that you must give account to God for every idle word you speak and every evil deed you do.

1. Magdala is beside the sea, and here the teachers taught.2. A man obsessed, and who was blind and dumb was brought, and Jesus spoke the Word, and lo, the evil spirits went away; the man spoke out, his eyes were opened and he saw.3. This was the greatest work that men had seen the master do, and they were all amazed.4. The Pharisees were there, and they were full of jealous rage; they sought a cause whereby they might condemn.5. They said, Yes, it is true that Jesus does a multitude of mighty works; but men should know that he is leagued with Beelzebul.6. He is a sorcerer, a black magician of the Simon Cerus type; he works as Jannes and as Jambres did in Moses' day.7. For Satan, prince of evil spirits, is his stay by night and day and in the name of Satan he casts the demons out, and in his name he heals the sick and raises up the dead.8. But Jesus knew their thoughts; he said to them, You men are masters, and you know the law; whatever is arrayed against itself must fall; a house divided cannot stand;9. A kingdom warring with itself is brought to naught.10. If Satan casts the devil out, how can his kingdom stand?11. If I, by Beelzebul, cast devils out, by whom do you cast devils out?12. But if I, in the holy name of God, cast devils out, and make the lame to walk, the deaf to hear, the blind to see, the dumb to speak, has not God's kingdom come to you?13. The Pharisees were dumb; they answered not.14. As Jesus spoke a messenger approached and said to him, Your mother and your brothers wish to speak with you.15. And Jesus said, Who is my mother?

and my brothers, who are they?16. And then he spoke a word aside unto the foreign masters and the twelve; he said,17. Behold, men recognise their mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers here in flesh; but when the veil is rent and men walk in the realms of soul,18. The tender lines of love that bind the groups of fleshly kin in families will fade away.19. Not that the love for anyone will be the less; but men will see in all the motherhood, the fatherhood, the sisterhood, the brotherhood of man.20. The family groups of earth will all be lost in universal love and fellowship divine.21. Then to the multitudes he said, Whoever lives the life and does the will of God is child of God and is my mother, father, sister, friend.22. And then he went aside to speak to mother and his other kindred in the flesh.23. But he saw more than these.

a love beyond the love of any fleshly kin;24. Who was the sorest tempter in the temple Heliopolis beside the Nile, who sung for him the sacred songs, was there.25. The recognition was of kindred souls, and Jesus said,26. Behold, for God has brought to us a power men cannot comprehend, a power of purity and love;27. To make more light the burdens of the hour, to be a balm for wounded souls;28. To win the multitude to better ways by sacred song and holy life.29. Behold, for Miriam who stood beside the sea and sung the song of victory when Moses led the way, will sing again.30. And all the choirs of heaven will join and sing the glad refrain:31. Peace, peace on earth; good will to men!32. And Miriam stood before the waiting throngs and sung again the songs of victory, and all the people said, Amen.

If you are truly Christ who was to come, then you can surely do what black magicians cannot do.3. Lo, they can talk, and hold the multitudes with words of power; and they can heal the sick and drive the demons out of those obsessed;4. They can control the storms; and fire and earth and air will hear and answer when they speak.5. Now, if you will ascend and from that tower fly across the sea, we will believe that you are sent from God.6. And Jesus said, No black magician ever lived a holy life; you have a demonstration of the Christ-life every day.7. But lo, you evil and adulterous scribes and Pharisees, you cannot see a spirit sign, because your spirit eyes are full of carnal self.8. You seek a sign to please your curiosity.

show us a sign and then we will believe.9. I was not sent to earth to buy up faith as men buy fish and fruit and rubbish in the streets.10. Men seem to think it quite a favour done to me when they confess their faith in me and in the holy Christ.11. What does it matter unto me as man if you believe or disbelieve?12. Faith is not something you can buy with coin; it is not something you can sell for gold.13. Once Mart, a beggar, followed me and cried, Give me a silver piece; then I will believe in you.14. And you are like this beggar man; you offer to exchange your faith for signs.15. But I will give to all the world one sign as surety that the Christ abides with me.16. You all have read the parable of Jonah and the fish, wherein it is recorded that the prophet spent three days and nights within the stomach of the mighty fish, and then came forth.17. The son of man will spend three days and nights within the heart of earth and then come forth again, and men will see and know.18. Behold, the light may be so bright that men cannot see anything.19. The Spirit light has shown so brightly over Galilee that you who hear me now are blind.20. You may have read the words of prophet Azrael; he said, The light shall shine out brightly in the darkness of the night, and men shall comprehend it not.21. That time has come; the light shines forth; you see it not.22. The Queen of Sheba sat in darkest night and still she yearned for light.23. She came to hear the words of wisdom from the lips of Solomon, and she believed;24. And she became a living torch, and when she reached her home, lo, all Arabia was filled with light.25. A greater far than Solomon is here; the Christ is here; the Day Star had risen, and you reject the light.26. And you remember Nineveh, the wicked city of Assyria, which God had marked to be destroyed by shock and flame unless the people turned and walked in ways of right.27. And Jonah raised his voice and said, In forty days shall Nineveh be razed, and her wealth shall be destroyed.28. The people heard and they believed; and they reformed and turned to ways of right, and lo, their city was not razed; was not destroyed.29. You men of Galilee, I tell you that Arabia and Nineveh will testify against you in the judgment day.30. Behold, for every one to whom I speak has in him all the fires of God; but they are lying dead.31. The will is bridled by the flesh desires, and it brings not the ethers of the fires to vibrate into light.32. Look, therefore, to your soul and note, Is not the light within you dark as night?33. There is no breath but Holy Breath that e'er can fan your fires of life into a living flame and make them light.34. And Holy Breath can raise the ethers of the fires to light in none but hearts of purity and love.35. Hear, then, you men of Galilee, Make pure the heart, admit the Holy Breath, and then your bodies will be full of light.36. And like a city on a hill, your light will shine afar, and thus your light may light the way for other men.

The selfish soul is fed today; the food does not assimilate; the soul grows not, and then it must be fed again, and then again.6. Behold, a selfish man obsessed by just one spirit of the air; by the Omnific Word the spirit is cast out;7. It wanders through dry places, seeking rest and finding none.8. And then it comes again; the selfish man has failed to close and lock the door;9. The unclean spirit finds the house all swept and cleaned; it enters in and takes with it full seven other spirits more unclean than is itself; and there they dwell.10. The last state of the man is more than sevenfold more wretched than the first.11. And so it is with you who snatch the blessings that belong to other men.12. While Jesus spoke a certain woman who stood near exclaimed, Most blessed is the mother of this man of God!13. And Jesus said, Yes, blest is she; but doubly blest are they who hear, receive and live the word of God.14. A Pharisee of wealth prepared a feast, and Jesus and the twelve, together with the masters from afar, were guests.15. And Jesus did not wash his hands according to the strictest Pharisaic rules, before he ate; when this the Pharisee observed he marvelled much.16. And Jesus said, My host, why do you marvel that I did not wash my hands?17. The Pharisees wash well their hands and feet; they cleanse the body every day when, lo, within is every form of filth.18. Their hearts are full of wickedness, extortions and deceit.19. Did not the God who made the outside of the body make the inside, too?20. And then he said, Woe unto you, you Pharisees!

for you tithe mint and rue, and every herb, and pass by judgment and the love of God.21. Woe unto you, you Pharisees!

you build the tombs of prophets and of seers; they whom your fathers killed; and you are parties to the crimes.26. And now behold, for God has sent again to you his holy men-apostles, prophets, seers; and you are persecuting them.27. The time is near when you will plead against them in the courts; will spurn them into prison cells, and kill them with a fiend's delight.28. I tell you, men, the blood of all the holy men of God that has been shed from righteous Abel down to that of Zacharias, father of holy John,29. Who was struck down beside the altar in the Holy Place--30. The blood of all these holy men has made more red the hands of this ungodly generation.31. Woe unto you, you masters of the law!

Jesus warns them against the leaven of the Pharisees and reveals the fact that all thoughts and deeds are recorded in God's Book of Remembrance.

Man's responsibility and God's care.

1. Now, when the feast was finished Jesus with the foreign masters and the twelve, with Mary, Miriam and a band of loyal women who believed in Christ, went to a place apart to pray.2. And when their silence ended Jesus said, Be on your guard; the leaven of the Pharisees is being thrown in every measure of the meal of life.3. It is a poison that will taint whatever it may touch; and it will blight the soul as sure as fumes of the Diabolos; it is hypocrisy.4. The Pharisees seem fair in speech, but they are diabolical in heart.5. And then they seem to think that thought is something they can lock within themselves.6. They do not seem to know that every thought and wish is photographed and then preserved within the Book of Life to be revealed at any time the masters will.7. That which is thought, or wished, or done in darkest night shall be proclaimed in brightest day;8. That which is whispered in the ear within the secret place shall be made known upon the streets.9. And in the judgment day when all the books are opened up, these men, and every other man, shall be a-judged, not by what they've said or done,10. But by the ways in which they used the thoughts of God, and how the ethers of eternal love were made to serve;11. For men may make these ethers serve the carnal self, or serve the holy self within.12. Behold, these men may kill the body of this flesh; but what of that?

Your Father lives, and you shall live.21. God has a care for every living thing.

He numbers stars, and suns, and moons;22. He numbers angels, men and every thing below; the birds, the flowers, the trees;23. The very petals of the rose he knows by name, and every one is numbered in his Book of Life;24. And every hair upon your head, and every drop of blood within your veins, he knows by number and by rhythm.25. He hears the birdling's call, the cricket's chirp, the glow worm's song; and not a sparrow falls to earth without his knowledge and consent.26. A sparrow seems a thing of little worth; yea, five of them are worth two farthings in the market place, and yet God cares for every one of them.27. Will he not care much more for you who bear his image in your soul?28. Fear not to make confession of the Christ before the sons of men, and God will own you as his sons and daughters in the presence of the host of heaven.29. If you deny the Christ before the sons of men, then God will not receive you as his own before the hosts of heaven.30. And more I say, Fear not when men shall bring you up before the rulers of the land to answer for your faith.31. Behold, the Holy Breath shall teach you in your hour of need what you should say, and what is best leave unsaid.32. And then the Christines went again to teach the multitudes.

Join in the song, the new, new song.3. The Lord of hosts has stooped to hear the cries of men, and lo, the citadel of Beelzebul is shaking as a leaf before the wind.4. The sword of Gideon is again unsheathed.5. The Lord, with his own hand has pulled far back the curtains of the night; the sun of truth is flooding heaven and earth;6. The demons of the dark, of ignorance and death, are fleeing fast; are disappearing as the dew beneath the morning sun.7. God is our strength and song; is our salvation and our hope, and we will build anew a house for him;8. Will cleanse our hearts, and purify their chambers, every one.

We are the temple of the Holy Breath.9. We need no more a tent within the wilderness; no more a temple built with hands.10. We do not seek the Holy Land, nor yet Jerusalem.11. We are the tent of God; we are his temple built without the sound of edged tools.12. We are the Holy Land; we are the New Jerusalem; Allelujah, praise the Lord!13. And when the song was done the multitudes exclaimed, Praise God.14. And Jesus said, Behold the way!15. The sons of men have groped for ages in the darkness of Egyptian night.16. The Pharaohs of sense have bound them with their chains.17. But God has whispered through the mists of time and told them of a land of liberty and love.18. And he has sent his Logos forth to light the way.19. The Red Sea rolls between the promised land and Egypt's sands.20. The Red Sea is the carnal mind.21. Behold, the Logos reaches out his hand; the sea divides; the carnal mind is reft in twain; the sons of men walk through dry shod.22. The Pharaohs of sense would stay them in their flight; the waters of the sea return; the Pharaohs of sense are lost and men are free.23. For just a little while men tread the wilderness of Sin; the Logos leads the way;24. And when at last men stand upon the Jordan's brink, these waters stay, and men step forth into their own.

1. And Jesus taught the multitudes; and while he spoke a man stood forth and said,2. Rabboni, hear my plea: My father died and left a large estate; my brother seized it all, and now refuses me my share.3. I pray that you will bid him do the right, and give what is mine.4. And Jesus said, I am not come to be a judge in such affairs; I am no henchman of the court.5. God sent me not to force a man to do the right.6. In every man there is a sense of right; but many men regard it not.7. The fumes that rise from selfishness have formed a crust about their sense of right that veils their inner light, so that they cannot comprehend nor recognise the rights of other men.8. This veil you cannot tear away by force of arms, and there is naught that can dissolve this crust but knowledge and love of God.9. While men are in the mire, the skies seem far away; when men are on the mountain top, the skies are near, and they can almost touch the stars.10. Then Jesus turned and to the twelve he said, Behold the many in the mire of carnal life!11. The leaven of truth will change the miry clay to solid rock, and men can walk and find the path that leads up to the mountain top.12. You cannot haste; but you can scatter forth this leaven with a generous hand.13. When men have learned the truth that bears upon its face the law of right, then they will haste to every man his dues.14. Then to the people Jesus said, Take heed, and covet not.

No man can corner up the gifts of God.16. The things of nature are the things of God, and what is God's belongs to every man alike.17. The wealth of soul lies in the purity of life, and in the wisdom that descends from heaven.18. Behold, a rich man's ground brought forth abundantly; his barns were far too small to hold his grain, and to himself he said,19. What shall I do?

I must not give my grain away; I must not let it go to waste; and then he said,20. This will I do; I will tear down these little barns and built up larger ones; there I will store away my grain and I will say,21. My soul take now your ease; you have enough for many years; eat, drink and fill yourself and be content.22. But God looked down and saw the man; he saw his selfish heart and said,23. You foolish man, this night your soul will quit its house of flesh; then who will have your garnered wealth?24. You men of Galilee, lay not up treasures in the vaults of earth; accumulated wealth will blight your soul.25. God does not give men wealth to hoard away in secret vaults.

Men are but stewards of God's wealth, and they must use it for the common good.26. To every steward who is true to self, to other men, to every thing that is, the Lord will say, Well done.

1. And Jesus left the multitudes and went with his disciples up to Mary's home; and as they sat about the board to dine he said,2. My little flock, fear not; it is your Father's will that you shall rule the kingdom of the soul.3. A ruler in the house of God is servant of the Lord of Hosts, and man cannot serve God except by serving men.4. A servant in the house of God cannot be servant in the house of wealth; nor in the synagogue of sense.5. If you are tied to lands, or bonds, or wealth of earth, your hearts are knit to things of earth; for where your treasures are there are your hearts.6. Dispose of all your wealth, distribute it among the poor, and put your trust in God, and you nor yours will ever come to want.7. This is a test of faith, and God will not accept the service of faithless one.8. The time is ripe; your Master comes upon the clouds; the eastern sky is glowing with his presence now.9. Put on reception robes; gird up your loins; trim up your lamps and fill them well with oil, and be prepared to meet your Lord; when you are ready, he will come.10. Thrice blessed are the servants who are ready to receive their Lord.11. Behold, for he will gird himself, and will prepare a sumptuous feast for every one, and he himself will serve.12. It matters not when he shall come; it may be at the second watch; it may be at the third; but blessed are the servants who are ready to receive.13. You cannot leave your door ajar and go to sleep, and wait in blissful ignorance of the fleeting time;14. For thieves will surely come and take away your goods and bind and carry you away to robbers' dens.15. And if you are not carried forth, the Master when he comes will not regard a sleeping guard as friend, but as a foe.16. Beloved, these are times when every man must be awake and at his post, for none can tell the hour nor the day when man shall be revealed.17. And Peter said, Lord is this parable for us, or for the multitudes?18. And Jesus, Why need you ask?

God is not a man that he should show respect for one and cast another off.19. Whoever will may come and gird himself, and trim his lamp, and find a turret in the tower of life where he may watch, and be prepared to meet the Lord.20. But you, as children of the light, have come, and you have learned the language of the court, and may stand forth and lead the way.21. But you may wait, and think that you are ready to receive the Lord, and still he does not come.22. And you may grow impatient and begin to long for carnal ways again, and may begin to exercise your rule;23. To beat, and otherwise maltreat the servants of the house, and fill yourselves with wine and meat.24. And what will say the Lord when he shall come?25. Behold, for he will cast the faithless servant from his house; and many years will come and go before he can be cleansed, and be thought worthy to receive his Lord.26. The servant who has come into the light, who knows the Master's will and does it not; the trusted guard who goes to sleep within the turret of the tower of life,27. Shall feel the lash of justice many times, while he who does not know his Master's will and does it not, will not receive the graver punishment.28. The man who comes and stands before the open door of opportunity and does not enter in, but goes his way,29. Will come again and find the door made fast, and when he calls, the door will open not,30. The guard will say, you had the pass-word once, but you threw it away and now the Master knows you not; depart.31. And verily I say to you, To whom much has been given, much is required; to whom a little has been given, a little only is required.

God sent me here to stir unto its depths the waters of the sea of life.10. Peace follows strife; I come to slay this peace of death.

We may not bring again to live these men, but we can succour those who looked to them for daily bread.6. You stewards of the wealth of God, an opportunity has come; unlock your vaults; bring forth your hoarded gold; bestow it with a lavish hand.7. This wealth was laid aside for just times as these; when it was needed not, lo, it was yours to guard;8. But now it is not yours, for it belongs to those who are in want, and if you give it not you simply bring upon your heads the wrath of God.9. It is not charity to give to those who need; it is but honesty; it is but giving men their own.10. Then Jesus turned to Judas, one of the twelve, who was the treasurer of the band, and said,11. Bring forth our treasure box; the money is not ours now; turn every farthing to the help of those in such distress.12. Now, Judas did not wish to give the money all to those in want, and so he talked with Peter, James and John.13. He said, Lo, I will save a certain part and give the rest; that surely is enough for us, for we are strangers to the ones in want; we do not even know their names.14. But Peter said, Why, Judas, man, how do you dare to think to trifle with the strength of right?15. The Lord has spoken true; this wealth does not belong to us in face of this distress, and to refuse to give it is to steal.16. You need not fear; we will not come to want.17. Then Judas opened up the treasure box and gave the money all.18. And there was gold and silver, food, and raiment in abundance for the needs of the bereaved.19. A lawyer said, Rabboni, if God rules the worlds and all that in them is, did he not bring about this storm?

and was it done to punish them for crimes?21. And we remember well when once a band of earnest Jews from Galilee were in Jerusalem, and at a feast and were, for fancied crimes against the Roman law,22. Cut down within the very temple court by Pontius Pilate; and their blood became their sacrifice.23. Did God bring on this slaughter all because these men were doubly vile?24. And then we bring to mind that once a tower called Siloam, graced the defences of Jerusalem, and, seemingly, without a cause it tottered and it fell to earth and eighteen men were killed.25. Were these men vile?

and were they slain as punishment for some great crime?26. And Jesus said, We cannot look upon a single span of life and judge of anything.27. There is a law that men must recognise: Result depends on cause.28. Men are not motes to float about within the air of one short life, and then be lost in nothingness.29. They are undying parts of the eternal whole that come and go, lo, many times into the air of earth and of the great beyond, just to unfold the God-like self.30. A cause may be a part of one brief life; results may not be noted till another life.31. The cause of your results cannot be found within my life, nor can the cause of my results be found in yours.32. I cannot reap except I sow and I must reap whate'er I sow,33. The law of all eternities is known to master minds:34. Whatever men do unto other men the judge and executioner will do to them.35. We do not note the execution of this law among the sons of men.36. We note the weak dishonoured, trampled on and slain by those men call the strong.37. We note that men with woodlike heads are seated in the chairs of state;38. Are kings and judges, senators and priests, while men with giant intellects are scavengers about the streets.39. We note that women with a moiety of common sense, and not a whit of any other kind, are painted up and dressed as queens,40. Becoming ladies of the courts of puppet kings, because they have the form of something beautiful; while God's own daughters are their slaves, or serve as common labourers in the field.41. The sense of justice cries aloud: This is a travesty on right.42. So when men see no further than one little span of life it is no wonder that they say, There is no God, or if there is a God he is a tyrant and should die.43. If you would judge aright of human life, you must arise and stand upon the crest of time and note the thoughts and deeds of men as they have come up through the ages past;44. For we must know that man is not a creature made of clay to turn again to clay and disappear.45. He is a part of the eternal whole.

There never was a time when he was not; a time will never come when he will not exist.46. And now we look; the men who now are slaves were tyrants once; the men who now are tyrants have been slaves.47. The men who suffer now once stood aloft and shouted with a fiend's delight while others suffered at their hands.48. And men are sick, and halt, and lame, and blind because they once transgressed the laws of perfect life, and every law of God must be fulfilled.49. Man may escape the punishment that seems but due for his mis-doings in this life; but every deed and word and thought has its own metes and bounds,50. Is cause, and has its own results, and if a wrong be done, the doer of the wrong must make it right.51. And when the wrongs have all been righted then will man arise and be at one with God.

The one about the wheat and tares, especially?2. And Jesus said, God's kingdom is a duality; it has an outer and an inner form.3. As seen by man it is composed of men, of those who make confession of the name of Christ.4. For various reasons various people crowd this outer kingdom of our God.5. The inner kingdom is the kingdom of the soul, the kingdom of the pure in heart.6. The outer kingdom I may well explain in parables.

Behold, for I have seen you cast a great net out into the sea,7. And when you hauled it in, lo, it was full of every kind of fish, some good, some bad, some great, some small; and I have seen you save the good and throw the bad away.8. This outer kingdom is the net, and every kind of man is caught; but in the sorting day the bad will all be cast away, the good reserved.9. Hear, then, the meaning of the parable of the wheat and tares:10. The sower is the son of man; the field, the world; the good seed are the children of the light; the tares, the children of the dark; the enemy, the carnal self; the harvest day, the closing of the age; the reapers are the messengers of God.11. The reckoning day will come to every man; then will the tares be gathered up, and cast into the fire and be burned.12. Then will the good shine forth as suns in the kingdom of the soul.13. And Philip said, Must men and women suffer in the flames because they have not found the way of life?14. And Jesus said, The fire purifies.

The evil things of men are all consumed in fire; the gold survives.17. The inner kingdom of the soul I may explain in parables:18. The son of man goes forth and scatters seeds of truth; God waters well the soil; the seeds show life and grow; first comes the blade, and then the stalk, and then the ear, and then the full wheat in the ear.19. The harvest comes and, lo, the reapers bear the ripened sheaves into the garner of the Lord.20. Again, this kingdom of the soul is like a little seed that men may plant in fertile soil.21. (A thousand of these seeds would scarcely be a shekel's weight.)22. The tiny seed begins to grow; it pushes through the earth, and after years of growth it is a mighty tree and birds rest in its leafy bowers and men find refuge 'neath its sheltering boughs from sun and storm.23. Again, the truth, the spirit of the kingdom of the soul, is like a ball of leaven that a woman hid in measures, three, of flour and in a little time the whole was leavened.24. Again, the kingdom of the soul is like a treasure hidden in a field which one has found, and straightway goes his way and sells all that he has and buys the field.25. When Jesus had thus said he went alone into a mountain pass near by to pray.

They said,24. If he can free the country of the plague, and drive the unclean spirits out, he is a man of such transendent power that he can devastate our land at will.25. And then they came and prayed that he would not remain in Gadara.26. And Jesus did not tarry longer there, and with the other masters and the twelve, he went aboard the boats to go away.27. The man who had been rescued from the unclean legion stood upon the shore and said, Lord let me go with you.28. But Jesus said, It is not well; go forth unto your home and tell the news that men may know what man can do when he is tuned with God.29. And then the man went forth through all Decapolis and told the news.30. The Christines sailed away, re-crossed the sea and came again into Capernaum.

This man who claims to be man of God, consorts with publicans and courtesans and with the common herd of men.

Is sainthood reached by starving, self imposed?15. A glutton is a sinner in the sight of God, and he is not a saint who makes himself a weakling and unfitted for the heavy tasks of life by scorning to make use of God's own means of strength.16. Lo, John is dead, and his devoted followers are fasting in their grief.17. Their love for him impels them on to show respect, for they have thought, and have been taught that it is sin to lightly treat the memory of the dead.18. To them it is a sin, and it is well that they should fast.19. When men defy their consciences and listen not to what they say, the heart is grieved and they become unfitted for the work of life; and thus they sin.20. The conscience may be taught.

They need it all to serve the race.27. The time will come when God will let you have your way, and you will do to me what Herod did to John;28. And in the awfulness of that sad hour these men will fast.29. They who have ears to hear may hear; they who have hearts to feel may understand.

it is as old as God himself, and yet it is as new as morning sun; it only can contain the truth of God.12. And as he spoke a ruler of the synagogue, Jairus by name, came in and bowed at Jesus' feet and said,13. My master, hear my prayer!

The maiden's soul returned and she arose and asked for food.33. And all the people of the city were amazed, and many would have worshipped Jesus as a God.34. But, like a phantom of the night, he disappeared and went his way.

He took the book of Psalms and read:7. Blest is the man who puts his trust in God, respecting not the proud nor such as turn aside to lies.8. O lord, my God, the works that thou hast done for us are wonderful; and many are thy thoughts for us; we cannot count them all,9. Thou dost not call for sacrifice, nor offerings of blood; burnt offerings and offerings for sin thou dost not want;10. And lo, I come to do thy will, O God, thy law is in my heart,11. And I have preached the word of righteousness and peace unto the thronging multitudes; I have declared the counsel of my God in full.12. I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and grace.13. I have not kept thy loving-kindness and thy truth away from men; I have declared them to the multitudes.14. O Lord, make wide my lips that I may tell thy praise; I do not bring the sacrifice of blood, nor yet burnt offerings for sin.15. The sacrifices I would bring to thee, O God, are purity in life, a contrite heart, a spirit full of faith and love, and these thou wilt receive.16. And when he had thus read, he gave the book back to the keeper of the books, and then he said,17. Upon these ends of earth these messages of God have come.18. Our people have exalted sacrificial rites and have neglected mercy, justice and the rights of men.19. You Pharisees, you priests, you scribes, your God surfeited with blood; God does not heed your prayers; you stand before your burning victims; but you stand in vain.20. Turn you unto the testimonies of the law; reform and turn to God, and you shall live.21. Let not your altars be accursed again with smoke of innocence.22. Bring unto God as sacrifice a broken and a contrite heart.23. Lift from your fellow men the burdens that you have imposed.24. And if you hearken not, and if you turn not from your evil ways, lo, God will smite this nation with a curse.25. And when he had thus said he stood aside, and all the people were astonished, and they said,26. Where did this man get all his knowledge and his power?

Have mercy, Lord, and open up our eyes that we may see.33. And Jesus said, Do you believe that I can open up your eyes and make you see?34. They said, Yea, Lord, we know that if you speak the Word then we can see.35. And Jesus touched their eyes and spoke the Word; he said, According to your faith so will it be.36. And they were blest; they opened up their eyes and saw.37. And Jesus said, Tell not this thing to any one.38. But they went forth and told the news through all the land.39. As Jesus walked along the way a man who was obsessed, and who was dumb, was brought to him.40. And Jesus spoke the Word; the unclean spirit came out of the man; his tongue was loosed; he spoke; he said, Praise God.41. The people were amazed; They said, This is a mighty deed; we never saw that done before.42. The Pharisees were also much amazed; but they cried out and said,43. You men of Israel, take heed; this Jesus is a tool of Beelzebul; he heals the sick and casts the spirits out in Satan's name.44. But Jesus answered not; he went his way.45. And with the foreign masters and the twelve he went up to the town where he once turned the water into wine, and tarried certain days.

1. The Christines prayed in silence seven days; then Jesus called the twelve aside and said,2. Behold, the multitudes have thronged about us everywhere; the people are bewildered; they wander here and there like sheep without a fold.3. They need a shepherd's care; they want a loving hand to lead them to the light.4. The grain is ripe; the harvest is abundant, but the harvesters are few.5. The time is also ripe, and you must go alone through all the villages and towns of Galilee and teach and heal.6. And then he breathed upon the twelve and said, Receive the Holy Breath.7. And then he gave them each the Word of power, and said, By this Omnific Word you shall cast spirits out, shall heal the sick and bring the dead to life again.8. And you shall go not in the way of the Assyrians, nor Greek; you shall not go into Samaria; go only to your brethren of the scattered tribes.9. And as you go proclaim, The kingdom of Christ has come.10. You have abundantly received, and freely you shall give.11. But you must go in faith; provide yourselves no crutch to lean upon.12. Give all your gold and silver to the poor; take not two coats, nor extra shoes; just take your wands.13. You are God's husbandmen and he will never suffer you to want.14. In every place you go search out the men of faith; with them abide until you go from hence.15. You go for me; you act for me.

They who receive and welcome you, receive and welcome me;16. And they who shut their doors against your face, refuse to welcome me.17. If you are not received in kindness in a town, bear not away an evil thought; do not resist.18. An evil thought of any kind will do you harm; will dissipate your power.19. When you are not received with favour, go your way, for there are multitudes of men who want the light.20. Behold, I send you forth as sheep among a pack of wolves; and you must be as wise as serpents and as harmless as the doves.21. In all your language be discreet, for Pharisees and scribes will seek a cause for your arrest in what you say.22. And they will surely find a way by charges false to bring you into court.23. And judges will declare that you are guilty of some crime, and sentence you to scourgings and to prison cells.24. But when you come to stand before the judge, be not afraid; be not disturbed about the way to act, the words to speak.25. The Holy Breath will guide you in that hour, and give the words that you shall speak.26. Of this be full assured; It is not you who speaks; it is the Holy Breath that gives the words and moves the lips.27. The gospel that you preach will not bring peace, but it will stir the multitudes to wrath.28. The carnal man abhors the truth, and he would give his life to crush the tender plant before the harvest time.29. And this will bring confusion in the homes that were the homes of stagnant peace.30. And brother will give brother up to death; the father will stand by and see men execute his child; and in the courts the child will testify against the sire, and gladly see its mother put to death.31. And men will hate you just because you speak the name of Christ.32. Thrice blessed is the man who shall be faithful in this coming day of wrath!33. Go now; when you are persecuted in a place, go seek another place.34. And when you meet a foe too great for you, behold, the son of man is at your door, and he can speak, and all the hosts of heaven will stand in your defence.35. But do not hold your present life in great esteem.36. The time will come when men will take my life; you need not hope to be immune, for they will slay you in the name of God.37. Men call me Beelzebul and they will call you imps.38. Be not afraid of what men say and do; they have no power over soul; they may abuse and may destroy the body of the flesh; but that is all.39. They do not know the God who holds the issues of the soul within his hands, who can destroy the soul.40. The Christ is king to-day, and men must recognise his power.41. He who loves not the Christ, which is the love of God, before all else, can never gain the prize of spirit consciousness.42. And they who love their parents or their children more than they love the Christ can never wear the name of Christ.43. And he who loves his life more than he loves the Christ cannot please God.44. And he who clings to life shall lose his life, while he who gives his life for Christ will save his life.45. When Jesus had thus said he sent the twelve away by twos, and bade them meet him in Capernaum.46. And they went out through all the towns of Galilee and taught and healed in spirit and in power.

1. The Christine master spent a time in prayer and then he called the foreign masters, and he said to them,2. Behold, I sent the twelve apostles unto Israel, but you are sent to all the world.3. Our God is one, is Spirit, and is truth, and every man is dear to him.4. He is the God of every child of India, and the farther east; of Persia, and the farther north; of Greece and Rome and of the farther west; of Egypt and the farther south, and of the mighty lands across the seas, and of the islands of the seas.5. If God would send the bread of life to one and not to all who have arisen to the consciousness of life and can receive the bread of life, then he would be unjust and that would shake the very throne of heaven.6. So he has called you from the seven centres of the world, and he has breathed the breath of wisdom and of power into your souls, and now he sends you forth as bearers of the light of life, apostles of the human race.7. Go on your way, and as you go proclaim the gospel of the Christ.8. And then he breathed upon the masters and he said, Receive the Holy Breath; and then he gave to each the Word of power.9. And each went on his way, and every land was blest.10. Then Jesus went alone across the hills of Galilee and after certain days he reached the coast of Tyre, and in the home of Rachel he abode.11. He did not advertise his coming for he did not come to teach; he would commune with God where he could see the waters of the Mighty Sea.12. But Rachel told the news and multitudes of people thronged her home to see the Lord.13. A Grecian woman of Phenecia came; her daughter was obsessed.

He did not come to Tyre to heal; he came to talk with God beside the sea.16. And Jesus said, Lo, I was sent not to the Greek, nor to Syro-phenicians; I come just to my people, Israel.17. And then the woman fell down at his feet and said, Lord, Jesus, I implore that you will save my child.18. And Jesus said, You know the common proverb well: It is not meet that one should give the children's bread to dogs.19. And then the woman said, Yea, Jesus, this I know, but dogs may eat the crumbs that fall down from their master's board.20. And Jesus said, Such faith I have not seen, no, not among the Jews; she is not serf, nor dog.21. And then he said to her, According to your faith so let it be.22. The woman went her way and when she came unto her child, lo, she was healed.23. And Jesus tarried many days in Tyre; and then he went his way and dwelt a time in Sidon by the sea.24. And then he journeyed on.

In Lebanon hills and vales, and in its groves he walked in silent thought.25. His earthly mission fast was drawing to a close; he sought for strength, and what he sought he found.26. Mount Hermon stood beyond, and Jesus fain would kneel beside that mountain famed in Hebrew song.27. And then he stood upon Mount Hermon's lofty peaks, and lifting up his eyes to heaven he talked with God.28. And masters of the olden times revealed themselves and long they talked about the kingdom of the Christ;29. about the mighty works that had been done; about the coming conquest of the cross; about the victory over death.30. Then Jesus journeyed on; he went to Cæsarea-Philippi, and in Susanna's home he tarried certain days.31. And then he went through all Decapolis to give encouragement to those who knew him as the Christ, and to prepare them for the day of Calvary.32. And then he went to Gadara, and many friends were there, to welcome him.33. And Chuzas steward of the house of Herod Antipas, was there, and Jesus went aboard the royal ship with him and crossed the sea, and came unto Capernaum.34. And when the people knew that Jesus was at home they came to welcome him.35. In just a little while the twelve apostles came and told the master all about their journey over Galilee.36. They said that by the sacred Word they had done many mighty works; and Jesus said to them, Well done.

you came not for the bread of life;6. You came to gratify your selfish selves; you all were fed the other day across the sea, and you are after more of loaves and fish.7. The food you ate was nourishment for flesh that soon must pass away.8. You men of Galilee, seek not for food that perishes, but seek for food that feeds the soul; and, lo, I bring you food from heaven.9. You ate the flesh of fish, and you were satisfied, and now I bring the flesh of Christ for you to eat that you may live for evermore.10. Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; and then they ate the flesh of quail, and drank the waters of a flowing spring that Moses brought out from the rock; but all of them are dead.11. The manna and the quail were symbols of the flesh of Christ; the waters of the rock were symbols of the blood.12. But, lo, the Christ has come; he is the bread of life that God has given to the world.13. Whoever eats the flesh of Christ and drinks his blood shall never die; and he will hunger nevermore; and he will thirst no more.14. And they who eat this bread of heaven, and drink these waters from the spring of life cannot be lost; these feed the soul, and purify the life.15. Behold, for God has said, When man has purified himself I will exalt him to the throne of power.16. Then Jesus and the twelve went to Capernaum; and Jesus went into the synagogue and taught.17. And when the Jews, who heard him in Gennesaret, were come they said,18. This fellow is beside himself.

We heard him say, I am the bread of life that comes from heaven; and we all know that he is but a man, the son of man, who came from Nazareth; we know his mother, and his other kin.19. And Jesus knew their thoughts; he said to them, Why murmur you, and reason thus among yourselves?20. The Christ is everlasting life; he came from heaven; he has the keys of heaven, and no man enters into heaven except he fills himself with Christ.21. I came in flesh to do the will of God, and, lo, this flesh and blood are filled with Christ; and so I am the living bread that comes from heaven;22. And when you eat this flesh and drink this blood you will have everlasting life; and if you will, you may become the bread of life.23. And many of the people were enraged; they said, How can this man give us his flesh to eat, his blood to drink?24. And his disciples were aggrieved because he said these things, and many turned away and followed him no more.25. They said, This is a fearful thing for him to say, If you eat not my flesh and drink my blood, you cannot enter into life.26. They could not comprehend the parable he spoke.27. And Jesus said, You stumble and you fall before the truth; What will you do when you shall see this flesh and blood transmuted into higher form?28. What will you say when you shall see the son of man ascending on the clouds of heaven?29. What will you say when you shall see the son of man sit on the throne of God?30. The flesh is naught; the spirit is the quickening power.

The words I speak are spirit; they are life.31. When Jesus saw the many who had been so loud in their professions of their faith in him, turn back and go away, he said unto the twelve.32. Will you desert me in this hour and go away?33. But Peter said, Lord, we have no place else to go; you have the words of everlasting life; we know that you are sent to us from God.

In vain they worship me; their doctrines are the dogmas and the creeds of men.5. You men who pose as men of God, and still reject the laws of God and teach the laws of men,6. Stand forth and tell when God gave unto the ceremonial laws that you observe; and tell these people how the spirit life is sullied if one washes not before he eats.7. His critics answered not, and then he said,8. Hear me, you men of Israel!

The spirit does not feed upon the carcasses of animal, or plant.12. God feeds the soul direct from heaven; the bread of life comes from above.13. The air we breathe is charged with Holy Breath, and he will may take this Holy Breath.14. The soul discriminates, and he who wants the life of Christ may breathe it in.

All selfish acts and sensual deeds spring from the heart.27. To eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man.28. And Peter said, Lord, What you said to-day has grievously offended scribe and Pharisee.29. And Jesus said, These scribes and Pharisees are not the scions of the tree of life; they are not plants of God; they are the plants of men, and every foreign plant shall be plucked up.30. Let all these men alone; they are blind guides; they lead a multitude of people who are blind.31. The leaders and the led together walk; together they will fall into the yawning pits.

1. Now, Jesus took the twelve and with them crossed the sea at night and came unto the borders of Decapolis,2. That he might find a secret place where, all alone, he could reveal to them the things to come.3. They went into a mountain pass and spent three days in prayer.4. Then Jesus said, Behold, the time is near when I will walk with you in flesh no more.5. Lo, I have taught that he who counts his life of so much worth that he would give it not in willing sacrifice to save his brother man, is worthy not to enter into life.6. Lo, I am come as pattern for the sons of men, and I have not refrained from helpfulness.7. When I had passed the seven tests in Heliopolis, I consecrated life and all I had, to save the world.8. In the Judean wilderness I fought the strongest foes of men, and there I reaffirmed my consecration to the service of my fellow man.9. In troubles and in trials I have wavered not; when false accusers came, I answered not.10. God gave the saving Word to me, and I have often spoken it and healed the sick, drove unclean spirits out, and raised the dead.11. And I have shown you how to speak the Word; and I have given you the Word;12. In just a little while we turn our faces toward Jerusalem, and one of you who hear me now will then betray me into wicked hands.13. The scribes and Pharisees will bring false charges up and hale me into court, and, by consent of Rome, I will be crucified.14. Then Peter said, My Lord, it shall not be.

The Roman soldiers will tread on twelve dead men before they reach our Lord.15. But Jesus said, A saviour of the world cannot resist.16. I came to save the world and I have taken up your names before the highest courts of heaven, and you have been confirmed as saviours of the world.17. And not a name, excepting that of him who shall betray, will ever be disgraced.18. I go my way, and though my flesh shall pass, my soul will stand beside you all the way to guide and bless.19. And wicked men will seize you in the streets, and as you kneel in prayer; will charge you with some legal crime, and think they serve their God by putting you to death.20. But falter not; the load will heavy be, but with the consciousness of duty done, the peace of God will lift the load, dispel the pain and light the way.21. And we will meet where carnal executioners come not; there we will serve the cruel men, who in their ignorance had tortured us to death.22. Can we prevent this outrage and this slaughter of our lives?

And it is best that even God should veil his face and seem to hear us not.26. As I am pattern unto you, so you are patterns for the human race.

My body will be laid within a tomb in which no flesh has lain, symbolic of the purity of life in death.28. And in the tomb I will remain three days in sweet communion with the Christ, and with my Father-God and Mother-God.29. And then, symbolic of the ascent of the soul to higher life, my flesh within the tomb will disappear;30. Will be transmuted into higher form, and, in the presence of you all, I will ascend to God.31. Then Jesus and the twelve went to a village by the sea.

Who do they think I am?23. And Matthew said, Some say that you are David come again; some say that you are Enoch, Solomon, or Seth.24. And Andrew said, I heard a ruler of the synagogue exclaim, This man is Jeremiah, for he speaks like Jeremiah wrote.25. Nathaniel said, The foreign masters who were with us for a time, declared that Jesus is Gautama come again.26. James said, I think that most the Jews believe you are the reappearance of Elijah on the earth.27. And John spoke out and said, When we were in Jerusalem I heard a seer exclaim, This Jesus is none other than Melchizedek, the king of peace, who lived about two thousand years ago, and said that he would come again.28. And Thomas said, The Tetrarch Herod thinks that you are John arisen from the dead;29. But then his conscience troubles him; the spirit of the murdered John looms up before him in his dreams, and haunts him as a spectre of the night.30. And Jesus asked, Who do you think I am?31. And Peter said, You are the Christ, the love of God made manifest to men.32. And Jesus said, Thrice blessed are you, Simon, Jonas' son.

You have declared a truth that God has given you.33. You are a rock, and you shall be a pillar in the temple of the Lord of hosts.34. And your confession is the cornerstone of faith, a rock of strength, and on this rock the Church of Christ is built.35. Against it all the powers of hades and of death cannot prevail.36. Behold, I give to you the keys to open up the doors of safety for the sons of men.37. The Holy Breath will come upon you and the ten, and in Jerusalem you shall stand before the nations of the earth, and there proclaim the covenant of God with men.38. And you shall speak the words of Holy Breath, and whatsoever God requires of men as earnest of their faith in Christ, you shall make known.39. Then turning to the twelve he said, What you have heard this day tell not to any man.40. Then Jesus and the twelve went up and were Susanna's guests for many days.

What would you take in payment for your soul?7. If you would find the spirit life, the life of man in God, then you must walk a narrow way and enter through a narrow gate.8. The way is Christ, the gate is Christ, and you must come up by the way of Christ.

No man comes unto God but by the Christ.9. The kingdom of the Christ will come; yea, some of you who hear me now will not pass through the gates of death until you see the kingdom come in power.10. For seven days the master and the twelve remained in Cæsarea-Philippi.11. Then Jesus, taking Peter, James and John, went forth unto a mountain top to pray.12. And as he prayed a brilliant light appeared; his form became as radiant as a precious stone;13. His face shone like the sun; his garments seemed as white as snow; the son of man became the son of God.14. He was transfigured that the men of earth might see the possibilities of man.15. When first the glory came the three disciples were asleep; a master touched their eyes and said, Awake and see the glory of the Lord.16. And they awoke, and saw the glory of the Lord; and more, they saw the glory of the heavenly world, for they beheld two men from thence stand forth beside the Lord.17. And Peter asked the master who awakened them, Who are these men who stand beside the Lord?18. The master said, These men are Moses and Elijah, who are come that you may know that heaven and earth are one; that masters there and masters here are one.19. The veil that separates the worlds is but an ether veil.

For those who purify their hearts by faith the veil is rolled aside, and they can see and know that death is an illusive thing.20. And Peter said, Praise God!

They talked about the coming trial of the Lord;23. About his death, his rest within the tomb; about the wonders of the resurrection morn; the transmutation of his flesh, and his ascension on the clouds of light;24. And all symbolic of the path that every man must tread; symbolic of the way the sons of men become the sons of God.25. The three disciples were amazed, and suddenly the ethers were surcharged with song, and forms as light as air moved all about the mountain top.26. And then from out the glory of the upper world they heard a voice that said,27. This is the son of man, my chosen one to manifest the Christ to men.

Jesus heal it and rebukes his disciples for their lack of trust in God.

1. When Jesus, Peter, James and John were come unto the city's gates a multitude of people thronged the way.2. The nine apostles who went not with Jesus to the mount, had tried to heal an epileptic child who was obsessed waited for the coming of the Lord.3. When Jesus came the father of the child knelt down before him and implored his help.4. He said, My master, I beseech that you will look in pity on my son, my only child; he is an epileptic child and suffers grievously.5. Sometimes he falls into the fire and is burned; again he falls into the water and is like to drown; and many times a day he falls, he grinds his teeth, the foam pours from his mouth.6. I took my child to your disciples, and they failed to give relief.7. And as he spoke a servant brought the child before the Lord (the child spoke not, for he was dumb), and instantly he fell upon the ground, he foamed, he writhed in agony.8. And Jesus said, How long has he been troubled thus?9. The father said, From infancy; and we have sought in many lands for help, but found it not; but I believe that you can speak the Word and heal my son.10. And Jesus said, Faith is the power of God.

All things are possible for him who in his heart believes.11. The father cried, in tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.12. And Jesus spoke the Word of power; the epileptic child lay in a swoon; he did not breathe, and all the people said, The child is dead.13. But Jesus took him by the hand and said: Arise; and he arose and spoke.14. The people were amazed, and many said, This surely is a man of God, for no such power was ever given to man.15. Then Jesus and the twelve went to the house, and after they had taken food and been refreshed, the nine disciples said,16. Lord, why could we not heal this child?

We spoke the Word; but even that was powerless.17. And Jesus said, Your great success in all your former work has made you careless, and you forgot to recognise the power of God.18. Without the spirit of the Word, the Word is like an idle tale; and you forgot to pray.19. There is no faith without the prayer of faith.

The spirit of the carnal self was moving in their hearts, and they were questioning among themselves who was the greatest in the sight of God and man.9. And Jesus said, You men, for shame!

And then he called to him a little child; he took it in his arms and said.10. The greatest is the little child, and if you would be great at all you must become as is this child in innocence, in truth, in purity in life.11. Great men scorn not the little things of earth; he who regards and honours such a child, regards and honours me, and he who scorns a child, scorns me.12. If you would enter through the kingdom gate you must be humble as this little child.13. Hear me, you men, This child, as every other child, has one to plead its cause before the throne of God.14. You scorn it at your peril, men, for lo, I say, its counterpart beholds the face of God at every moment, every day.15. And hear me once again, He who shall cause a little one to stumble and to fall is marked, accursed; and it were better far if he had drowned himself.16. Behold, offences everywhere!

Men find occasions for to sin and fall, and they grow strong by rising when they fall;17. But woe to him who causes other men to stumble and to fall.18. Be on your guard, you men of God, lest you constrain another man to fall; beware lest you fall into sinful ways yourselves.19. Now, if your hands cause you to sin, you better cut them off; for it is better far to have no hands and not be guilty in the sight of God and men, than to be perfect in your form and lose your soul.20. And if your feet should cause offence, you better cut them off; for it is better far to enter into life without your feet than fall beneath the curse.21. And if your eyes, or ears, cause you to sin, you better lose them all than lose your soul.22. Your thoughts and words and deeds will all be tried by fire.23. Remember that you are the salt of earth; but if you lose the virtues of the salt, you are but refuse in the sight of God.24. Retain the virtues of the salt of life and be at peace among yourselves.25. The world is full of men who have not in themselves the salt of life, and they are lost.

but we forbade him, for he did not walk with us.34. And Jesus said, You sons of men, do you imagine that you own the powers of God?35. And do you think that all the world must wait for you to do the works of God?36. God is not man that he should have a special care for any man, and give him special gifts.37. Forbid not any man to do the works of God.38. There is no man who can pronounce the sacred Word, and in the name of Christ restore the sick, and cast the unclean spirits out, who is not child of God.39. The man of whom you speak is one with us.

Whoever gathers in the grain of heaven is one with us.40. Whoever gives a cup of water in the name of Christ is one with us; so God shall judge.

12 In tears the man stood forth and said, I have a wife and little ones and they are perishing for bread, and I have told my story oft, and begged for bread; but none would hear.13. This morning when I left our cheerless hut in search of work my children cried for bread, and I resolved to feed them or to die.14. I took the bread, and I appeal to God, Was it a crime?15. This woman snatched the loaf away and threw it to the dogs, and called the officers and I am here.16. Good people, do with me whate'er you will, but save my wife and little ones from death.17. Then Jesus said, Who is the culprit in this case?18. I charge this woman as a felon in the sight of God.19. I charge this judge as criminal before the bar of human rights.20. I charge these servants and these officers as parties to the crime.21. I charge the people of Capernaum with cruelty and theft, because they heeded not the cries of poverty and want, and have withheld from helpless ones that which is theirs by every law of right;22. And I appeal unto these people here, and ask, Are not my charges based on righteousness and truth?23. And every man said, Yes.24. The accused woman blushed for shame; the judge shrank back in fear; the officers threw off the shackles from the man and ran away.25. Then Jesus said, Give this man what he needs and let him go and feed his wife and little ones.26. The people gave abundantly; the man went on his way.27. And Jesus said, There is no standard law to judge of crime.

1. The harvest feast drew near; the twelve went to Jerusalem, but Jesus did not go with them; he tarried in Capernaum.2. Among the multitudes that followed him were many who went not up to the feast; they were not Jews.3. And Jesus called three-score-and -ten of these disciples unto him and said, The kingdom of the Christ is not for Jews alone; it is for every man.4. Lo, I have chosen twelve to preach the gospel, first unto the Jews; and they are Jews.5. Twelve is the number of the Jew and seven the number of the all, including every man.6. God is the ten, the holy Jod.7. When God and man are multiplied we have three-score-and-ten, the number of the brotherhood of man.8. And now I send you forth by twos and twos; not to the Jews alone, but unto every nation under heaven; to Greek and to Assyrian; to the Samaritan; to those beyond the seas; to every man.9. You need not go afar, for men of every land are here and in Samaria.10. Arise and go your way; but go in faith; and take no gold nor silver in your purse; no extra coat or shoes.11. Go in the sacred name; trust God and you will never come to want.12. And let this be your salutation everywhere, Peace be to all; good will to all.13. And if the son of peace be in the house, the door will open wide and you will enter in; and then the holy peace will rest upon that house.14. The seventy in twos went forth; they went into Samaria, and as they went they said, Peace be to all; good will to all!15. Repent and turn from sin, and set your house in order, for a son of man who bears the image of the Christ, will come, and you may see his face.16. They entered every village of Samaria; they preached in Tyre and in Sidon by the sea.

he speaks as speaks a sage.26. And Jesus said, I did not learn the wisdom of the Holy One within the schools of men; my teaching is not mine; I speak the words of him who sent me here to do his will.27. If any man would know whereof I speak, lo, he must do the will of God.

No man can know except he enters into life and does the will of God.28. Now, Moses gave the law; but none of you have kept the law; how can you judge the worthiness of any man?29. Once in these courts I healed a man upon a Sabbath day, and in a rage you sought to take my life; and now because I tell the truth you seek again to take my life.30. A scribe spoke out and said, You foolish man, you are obsessed; who wants to take your life?31. The common people said, Is this not Jesus whom the rulers long have sought to kill?

and now he comes and teaches in the temple courts.32. If he is guilty of such monstrous crimes, why do they not take him away in chains?33. And Jesus said, You all know me, and know from whence I came; but you know not the God who sent me here, whose words I speak.34. The multitudes again stood forth in his defence; they said, if this is not the Christ whom God has promised to reveal to men, will he do greater works when he shall come than does this man?35. The Pharisees and ruling priests were angered and they sent their officers to take him e'er he went away.

1. Now, on the last day of the feast when multitudes were in the courtways, Jesus said,2. Whoever is athirst may come to me and drink.3. He who believes in me and in the Christ whom God had sent, may drink the cup of life, and from his inner parts shall streams of living waters flow.4. The Holy Breath will over-shadow him, and he will breathe the Breath, and speak the words, and live the life.5. The people were divided in their views concerning him.

Some said, This man is prophet of the living God.6. And others said, He is Messiah whom our prophets said would come.7. And others said, He cannot be the Christ, for he came down from Galilee; the Christ must come from Bethlehem where David lived.8. Again the priests and Pharisees sent officers to bring him into court to answer for his life; but when the officers returned and brought him not,9. The rulers were enraged and said, Why did you not arrest this man and hale him into court?10. The officers replied, We never heard a man speak like this man speaks.11. In rage the Pharisees stood forth and said, Have you gone mad?

abides in bondage unto sin?23. If you sin not then you are free; but if you sin in thought, or word, or deed, then you are slaves, and naught but truth can set you free; if you are free through Christ, then you are free indeed.24. You are the seed of Abraham, and yet you seek to kill me just because I speak the truth of Abraham.25. You are the children of the flesh of Abraham; but, lo, I say, There is a spiritual Abraham whom you know not.26. In spirit you are children of your father, and your father is Diabolus; you hang upon his words and do his will.27. He was a murderer from the first; he cannot tell the truth, and when he tells a lie he speaks his own; he is himself a lie, and he is father of himself.28. If you were children of my Father-God, then you could hear the words of God; I speak the words of God, but you can bear them not.29. A Pharisee stood forth and said, This fellow is not one of us he is a curst Samaritan and is obsessed.30. But Jesus heeded not the words of Pharisee or scribe; he knew that all the people knew he was a Jew.31. And then he said, Whoever keeps my words shall never die.32. A lawyer said, And now we know he is obsessed.

1. And Jesus stood again within the temple courts and taught.2. A master of the law was sent to question him that he might find a cause to censure and accuse him of a crime.3. He said, Lord, tell me what to do that I may have eternal life?4. And Jesus said, You know the law; what does it say?5. The lawyer answered, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, with all your mind, and you shall love your neighbour as yourself.6. And Jesus said, Lo, you have answered well; this do and you shall live.7. The lawyer said, My neighbour, who is he?8. And Jesus said, A man was going from Jerusalem to Jericho, and lo, he met with robbers on the way, who beat him, robbed him of his goods, and left him bleeding by the way.9. A Pharisee was going down that way; he saw the wounded man; but then he had no time to lose; he passed by on the other side.10. A Levite came and saw the man; but he was loath to soil his sacerdotal robes, and he passed by.11. A lawyer on his way to Jericho observed the dying man, and then he said, If I could make a shekel I might help the man; but he has nothing left to give, I have no time for charity; and he passed on.12. And then a stranger from Samaria came that way; he saw the wounded man; his heart was touched with pity, and he stopped, dismounted from his horse,13. Revived the man, and placed him on his horse and took him to an inn and charged the keeper of the inn to nurse him back to strength.14. He gave the keeper all the money that he had and said, Your charges may be more than this, but care for this unfortunate, and when I come again I will pay all; and then he went his way.15. Now, master of the law, which of these four was neighbour unto him who fell among the thieves?16. The lawyer said, The man who showed him mercy; he who cared for him.17. And Jesus said, Go on your way and likewise do, and you shall live.18. Now, Jesus, Peter, James and John went out to Bethany where Lazarus lived.19. And Mary sat at Jesus' feet and heard him speak the words of life while Martha served.20. And Martha called, but Mary would not leave the Lord to help her serve.21. And Martha said to Jesus, Do you not care that Mary makes me bear the burdens of the serving all the day?

And Lazarus said, Teach me to pray.2. And Jesus said, The prayer I taught the twelve to pray while we were up in Galilee is one acceptable to God; and when you pray just say,3. Our Father-God who art in heaven; holy is thy name; thy kingdom come; they will be done on earth as it is done in heaven;4. Give us this day our needed bread;5. Help us forget the debts that other people owe to us, that all our debts may be discharged;6. And shield us from the tempter's snares that are too great for us to bear;7. And when they come give us the strength to overcome.8. And Jesus said, The answer to your prayer may not appear in fulness in a little time.9. Be not discouraged; pray again and then again, for God will hear.10. And then he spoke a parable; he said, A housewife was alone at night and, lo, some guests arrived, and they were hungry, having had no food for all the day.11. The housewife had no bread, and so at midnight she went forth and called a friend and said, Loan me three loaves of bread, for guests have come, and I have naught for them to eat.12. The friend replied, Why do you trouble me at midnight hour?

who opened up your eyes?27. He said, A man whom men call Jesus, made a salve of clay and put it on my eyes, and bade me say a word and wash in Siloam seven times; I did as he commanded me, and now I see.28. A certain scribe was passing, and he saw the man and heard him say that Jesus, by the Word, had opened up his eyes.29. He therefore took the man up to the synagogue, and told the story to the priests, who asked the man about the miracle.30. The man replied, I never saw the light until to-day, for I was blind from birth.31. This morning as I sat beside Siloam, a man I never knew put on my eyes a salve that people say he made of clay; he bade me say a word and bathe my eyes in water seven times; I did as he commanded and I saw.32. A lawyer asked the man, Who was it opened up your eyes?33. The man replied, Some people say, His name is Jesus and that he came from Galilee; but others say, He is the son of God.34. A Pharisee came up and said, This is the Sabbath day; a man who does a work like this, regarding not the Sabbath day, is not from God.35. Some of the priests were much amazed and said, A wicked man could never do a miracle like this; he must possess the power of God.

And so they strove among themselves.36. They asked the man, What do you think about this man from Galilee?37. He said, He is a prophet sent from God.38. Now, many of the Jews did not believe the man was blind from birth; they said, There is no power to open up the eyes of one born blind.39. And then they brought the parents of the man before the Pharisees that they might testify.40. They said, This is our son who was born blind; we do not know how he received his sight; he is of age and he can tell; ask him.41. They were afraid to say what they believed, that Jesus is the Christ who came to manifest the power of God, lest they offend the priests and be cast from the synagogue.42. Again the rulers said, This Jesus is a wicked man.

We follow Moses, but this man, we know him not, and know not whence he is.45. The man replied, It is a marvel that you know not whence he is, and yet he opened up my eyes.46. You know that nothing but the power of God can do such things.47. God hears not sinners pray, and you must know that he is not a wicked man who can employ the power of God.48. The Pharisees replied, You wretch!

1. When Jesus heard what had been done and how the priests had cast the man whom he had healed, out of the synagogue he found the man and said to him,2. Do you believe in God and in the son of God?3. The man replied, I do believe in God; but who is he, the son of God, of whom you speak?4. And Jesus said, The son of God is he who speaks to you.5. The man inquired then, Why do you say, The son of God?

Is there but one?6. And Jesus said, All men are sons of God by birth; God is the Father of the race; but all are not the sons of God by faith.7. He who attains the victory over self is son of God by faith, and he who speaks to you has overcome, and he is called son of God, because he is the pattern for the sons of men.8. He who believes and does the will of God is son of God by faith.9. The man in joy exclaimed, Lord, I believe in God, and in the son of God.10. And Jesus said, I came to open prison doors, to make the blind to see; but, lo, the Pharisees are blind from birth.11. And when I put the salve of truth upon their eyes, and bid them go and wash, and speak the sacred Word they will not go; they love the dark.12. A multitude of people pressed about the Lord, and he stood forth and said,13. You men of Israel, I say to you, The fold of God is large; its walls are strong, it has a gateway in the east, and he who does not enter by the gate into the fold, but climbs into the fold some other way, is thief and comes to rob.14. The shepherd of the sheep stands by the gate; he gives the secret sign; he knocks; the watchman opens up the gate.15. And then the shepherd calls his sheep by name; they hear his voice and follow him; they enter through the gate into the fold.16. The sheep know not a stranger's voice; they will not follow him; they flee away.17. The people did not understand the parable that Jesus spoke; and then he said,18. Christ is the gateway of the fold; I am the shepherd of the sheep, and he who follows me through Christ shall come into the fold where living waters flow, and where rich pastures are.19. False prophets come and go; they claim to be the shepherds of the sheep; they claim to know the way; but they know not the word of power; the watchman opens not the gate; the sheep heed not their call.20. The shepherd of the sheep will give his life to save the sheep.21. A hireling flees to save his life when wolves infest the fold; and then the tender lambs are snatched away, the sheep are scattered everywhere.22. I am the shepherd of the sheep; I know the sheep of God; they know my voice, as God knows me and I know him.23. The Father loves me with a deathless love, because I lay my life down for the sheep.24. I lay my life down when I will, but I may take it up again; for every son of God by faith has power to lay his mortal flesh aside and take it up again.

These words I have received from God.25. Again the people strove among themselves; they were divided in their views concerning Christ.

You are protected in the way of right, and naught can harm.10. And as you went I heard a master say, Well done.11. But you may not rejoice because you have the power to heal the sick and make the devils tremble by the Word; for such rejoicing is from carnal self.12. You may rejoice because the nations of the earth have ears to hear the Word, and eyes to see the glory of the Lord, and hearts to feel the inner breathing of the Holy Breath.13. And you may well be glad because your names are written in the Book of Life.14. Then Jesus looked to heaven and said, I thank thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast revealed thyself to babes, and taught them how to light the path and lead the wise to thee.15. What thou hast given to me, lo, I have given to them, and through the sacred Word I have bestowed on them the understanding heart,16. That they might know and honour thee through Christ, who was, and is, and evermore shall be.17. And then he said aside, unto the seventy and twelve, Most blessed are your eyes because you see the things you see;18. And blessed they are your ears because they hear the things they hear;19. And blessed are your hearts because you understand.20. In ages that are gone the wise of earth, the prophets, seers and kings, desired to hear and see and know what you have heard and seen and known; but they had not attained and could not hear, and see and know.21. And Jesus said again, Lo, I have gone before you many moons, and I have given to you the bread of heaven and the cup of life;22. Have been your buckler and your stay; but now that you have learned the way, and have the strength to stand alone, behold, I lay my body down and go to him who is the All.23. In forty days then we will turn our faces towards Jerusalem where I will find the altar of the Lord and give my life in willing sacrifice for men.24. Let us arise and go through all the coasts of Galilee, and give a salutation of good cheer to all the sons of God by faith.25. And they arose and went; they entered every town and village on the coast, and everywhere they said, The benedictions of the Christ abide with you for evermore.26. Now, in a certain town they went up to the synagogue upon the Sabbath day, and Jesus taught.27. And as he spoke, two men brought on a cot a woman bent near double with disease; she had not risen from her bed for eighteen years without a helping hand.28. And Jesus laid his hand upon the woman, and he said, Arise, be free from your infirmity.29. And as he spoke the Word the woman found that she was straight and strong, and she arose and walked and said, Praise God.30. The ruler of the synagogue was filled with wrath because the healer healed upon the Sabbath day.31. He did not censure Jesus face to face, but turning to the multitudes he said,32. You men of Galilee, why do you break the laws of God?

There are six days in every week when you may bring the afflicted to be healed.33. This is the day that God has blessed, the Sabbath day in which men may not work.34. And Jesus said, You inconsistent scribes and Pharisees!

Here is a man, one of your own, and he is sore distressed.19. Shall I, in God's own strength, say out the healing Word and heal this man?20. The lawyers and the Pharisees were dumb; they answered not.21. Then Jesus spoke the healing Word and healed the man and he, rejoicing, went his way.22. Then Jesus said again unto the lawyers and the Pharisees, Which one of you who has a horse or cow, if it would fall into a pit upon the Sabbath day would fall would not call in his friends to help to draw it out?23. And not a man could answer, Here am I.24. As Jesus looked upon the guests who had been bidden to the feast and saw them crowding in to get the highest seats, he said to them,25. You selfish men, why do you strive to take the highest seats when you are but invited guests?

You do not show our host the courtesies of life.26. When men are bidden to a marriage feast they should sit in the lower seats until the host shall place them where he wills.27. You may, unbidden, take the highest seat; but then a man more honourable may come and when the host shall bid you rise and take a lower seat that he may honour his more worthy guest, you cannot help but blush for very shame in your humility.28. But if you take the lowest seat and then are honoured by your host and asked to take a higher seat, you are esteemed an honoured guest.29. In this event we note a principle in life, That he who would exalt himself shall be abased, and he who humbles low himself shall be exalted in the sight of men.30. Then Jesus spoke to all the guests; he said, When any one of you would make a feast it should not be for friends, or kindred, or the rich;31. For they consider such a courtesy loaned out, and they feel called upon to make a greater feast for you, just in the payment of a debt.32. But when you make a feast invite the poor, the lame, the blind; in this a blessing waits for you, for well you know that you will get naught in return; but in the consciousness of helping those who need, you will be recompensed.33. And then he spoke a parable; he said, A wealthy man prepared a feast; he sent his servants forth to bit his chosen ones to come; but they desired not to go, and they formed such excuses as they thought would satisfy the would-be host.34. One said, I have just bought a piece of land, and I must go and prove my title to the land; I pray to be excused.35. Another said I must go down and prove my ownership in sheep that I have bought; I pray to be excused.36. Another said, I have been married but a little time and so I cannot go; I beg to be excused.37. Now, when the servants came and told the man who had prepared the feast that those he had invited would not come,38. The man was grieved in heart; and then he sent his servants forth into the streets and alleys of the town to bring up to the feast the poor, the lame, the blind.39. The servants went abroad and found the poor, the lame, the blind, and brought them in; but there was room for more.40. The host then sent his men of arms to bring by force the people to his feast; and then the house was full.41. And God has made a feast for men.

1. Now, Jesus and the twelve went to another town, and as they entered it they said, Peace be to all; good will to all.2. A multitude of people followed and the master said to them, Behold, for you are followers for selfish gain.3. If you would follow me in love, and be disciples of the Holy Breath, and gain at last the crown of life, you must leave all there is of carnal life behind.4. Be not deceived; stay, men, and count the cost.5. If one would build a tower, or a home, he first sits down and counts the cost to be assured that he has gold enough to finish it.6. For well he knows that if he makes a failure of his enterprise he may lose all his wealth, and be the butt of ridicule.7. And if a king desires to take the kingdom of another king, he calls his trusted men and they consider well their strength; he will not measure arms with one of matchless power.8. Count well the cost before you start to follow me; it means the giving up of life, and all you have.9. If you love father, mother, wife, or child, more than love the Christ, you cannot follow me.10. If you follow wealth or honour more than you love the Christ, you cannot follow me.11. The paths of carnal life do not run up the mountain side towards the top; they run around the mount of life, and if you go straight to the upper gate of consciousness you cross the paths of carnal life; tread in them not.12. And this is how men bear the cross; no man can bear another's cross.13. Take up your cross and follow me through Christ into the path of true discipleship; this is the path that leads to life.14. This way of life is called the pearl of greatest price, and he who finds it must put all he has beneath his feet.15. Behold, a man found in a certain field the croppings of a wondrous mine of gold, and he went forth and sold his home and all he had and bought the field; then he rejoiced in wealth.16. Now, there were present, scribes and Pharisees of wealth who loved their money, and their bonds and lands, and they laughed loud to scorn what Jesus said.17. Then Jesus spoke to them and said, You are the men who justify yourselves in sight of men; God knows your wickedness of heart;18. And you must know, O men, that whatsoever is revered and is exalted by the carnal mind, is an abomination in the sight of God.19. And Jesus went his way, and as he went a young man ran and knelt down at his feet and said, Good master, tell me what to do that I may have eternal life.20. And Jesus said, Why do you call me good?

No one is truly good but God himself.21. And God has said, If you would enter into life, keep the Commandments of the law.22. The young man asked, To which commands did he refer?23. And Jesus said, You shall not kill; you shall not steal; you shall not do adulterous things; you shall not falsely testify;24. and you shall love your God with all your heart, and you shall love your neighbour as yourself.25. The man replied, These things I have observed from youth; what lack I yet?26. And Jesus said, One thing you lack; your heart is fixed on things of earth; you are not free.27. Go forth and sell all that you have, and give your money to the poor, and come follow me, and you shall have eternal life.28. The man was grieved at what the master said; for he was rich; he hid his face and went in sorrow on his way.29. And Jesus looked upon the sorrowing man and said, It is so hard for men with hoarded wealth to enter through the door into the kingdom of the soul.30. And his disciples were amazed at what he said.31. He answered them and said, I tell you, men, that they who trust in riches cannot trust in God and cannot come into the kingdom of the soul:32. Yea, it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye than for a man with hoarded wealth to find the way of life.

Who can be saved?33. And Jesus said, The rich may give his gold away; the high may kiss the dust, and God will save.34. Then Jesus spoke this parable to them:35. A rich man lived in splendid state; he wore the finest garments men could make; his boards were loaded with the costliest viands of the land.36. A beggar, blind and lame, whose name was Lazarus, was wont to sit beside the waste gate of this home that he might share with dogs the refuse from the rich man's board.37. It came to pass that Lazarus died, and angels carried him away unto the bosom of our father Abraham.38. The rich man also died, and he was buried in a costly tomb; but in the purifying fires he opened up his eyes dissatisfied.39. He looked and saw the beggar resting peacefully in the bosom of his father Abraham, and in the bitterness of his soul he cried,40. My father Abraham, look down in mercy on your son; I am tormented in these flames.41. Send Lazarus, I beseech, that he may give me just a sup of water to cool my parched tongue.42. But Abraham replied, My son, in mortal life, you had the best things of the earth and Lazarus had the worst, and you would not give him a cup of water there, but drove him from your door.43. The law must be fulfilled, and Lazarus now is comforted, and you are paying what you owe.44. Besides, there is a great gulf fixed between your zone and us, and if I would I could not send Lazarus to you, and you cannot come up to us till you have paid your debts.45. Again the man in anguish said, O father Abraham, I pray, send Lazarus back to earth, and to my father's house, that he may tell my brothers who are yet in life, for I have five of them, about the horrors of this place, lest they come down to me and not to you.46. And Abraham replied, They have the words of Moses and the seers, let them hear them.47. The man replied, They will not hearken to the written word; bit if a amn would go up from the grave they might believe.48. But Abraham replied, If they hear not the words of Moses and the seers they would not be persuaded even though one from the dead stood in their midst.49. And Peter said, Lord, we have left our all to follow you; and what is our reward?50. And Jesus said, Most verily I say to you, that you who have left all to follow me shall come into a newness of a life hid deep with Christ in God.51. And you shall sit with me upon the throne of power, and judge with me the tribes of Israel.52. And he who conquers carnal self, and follows me through Christ shall have a hundred fold of that which is the wealth of life on earth, and in the world to come, eternal life.

1. The Lord was standing by the sea; the multitudes were there and one stood forth and said,2. Does God bestow rewards as men bestow rewards, for what is done?3. And Jesus said, Men never know what other men have done, this life is such a seeming life.4. One man may seem to do a mighty work, and be adjudged by men as worthy of a great reward.5. Another man may seem to be a failure in the harvest fields of life, and be dishonoured in the face of men.6. Men do not know the hearts of men; God only knows the hearts of men, and when the day is done he may reward with life the man who fell beneath the burdens of the day, and turn away the man who was the idol of the hearts of men.7. And then he spoke a parable; he said, The kingdom of the soul is like a man who had a vast estate,8. And in the morning time he went down to the market place to search for men to gather in his grain.9. He found three men, and he agreed to give to each a penny for his service for the day, and sent them to his field.10. Again he went down to the market place the third hour of the day and found five men in waiting, and he said, Go down into my field and serve, and I will pay you what is right; and they went down and served.11. He went again; it was the sixth hour of the day, and seven men were waiting at the stand; he sent them to the field to serve.12. And at the eleventh hour he went again; twelve men stood there in seeming idleness; he said to them, Why stand you here in idleness all day?13. They said, Because we have no work to do; no man has hired us.14. And then he sent them to his field to serve.15. Now, when the evening came the man said to his steward, Call the labourers from the field, and pay them for his services.

Take that which is your own and go your way, for I will give unto the twelve what I will give unto the three, the five, the seven.20. They did their best and you could do no more than do your best.21. The hire of man is based upon the intent of the heart.22. As Jesus taught, a Pharisee came up and said, Lord, is it lawful for a man to put away his wife?23. And Jesus said, You ought to know; what says the law?24. The Pharisee replied, The law provides that man may be divorced, may put away his wife.25. And Jesus said, The hardness of the hearts of men induced the giver of the law to make provisions such as these; but from the first it was not so.26. God made a woman for a man, and they were one; and afterwards he said, A man shall leave his father and his mother and shall cleave unto his wife; they are no more divided; they are one, one flesh.27. What God has joined no man can part.28. Now, when they went up to the house, a man made free to ask again about this matter of divorce.29. And Jesus said again what to the Pharisee he said; and then he gave the higher law of marriage life:30. Whoever puts away his wife, except she be a courtesan, and then shall take another wife commits adultery.31. The woman who shall leave a man, unless he be a libertine and an adulterer, and then becomes the wife of any other man, commits adultery.32. And Thomas asked, What is adultery?33. And Jesus said, The man who harbours lustful thoughts, who covets any woman not his wife, is an adulterer.34. The wife who harbours lustful thoughts, and covets any man who is not wed to her, is not her husband, is a courtesan.35. Men cannot make a law to bind two hearts.36. When two are bound in love they have no thought of lust.

The woman cannot leave the man; the man has no desire to send his wife away.37. When men and women harbour lustful thoughts, and covet any other flesh, they are not one, not joined by God.38. And Philip said, Lord, are there few that God has joined in holy marriage bonds?39. And Jesus said, God knows the pure in heart; the lustful men and women are but creatures of the lustful self; they cannot be at one; nor can they be at one with God.40. Nathaniel said, Is it not well that all men should refrain from taking on themselves the marriage vow?41. And Jesus said, Men are not pure because they are unmarried men.

The man who lusts is an adulterer if he has wife or not.42. And then he said to all, Some things men know by being told, while other things they know not till the gate of consciousness shall open up for them.43. I speak a mystery that now you cannot understand; but you shall some day understand.44. A eunuch is a man who does not lust; some men are eunuchs born, some are eunuchs by the power of men, and some are eunuchs by the Holy Breath, who makes them free in God through Christ.45. He who is able to receive the truth I speak, let him receive.

1. A company of Pharisees came up to speak with Jesus and they said, Rabboni, we have heard you say, The kingdom is at hand.2. We read in Daniel that the God of heaven will form a kingdom, and we ask, Is this the kingdom of the God you speak about?

If so, when will it come?3. And Jesus said, The prophets all have told about this kingdom of the God, and it is just at hand; but men can never see it come.4. It never can be seen with carnal eyes; it is within.5. Lo, I have said, and now I say again, None but the pure in heart can see the king, and all the pure in heart are subjects of the king.6. Reform, and turn away form sin; prepare you, O prepare!

Two men will be in bed; one will be called, the other left; two women will be working side by side; one will be snatched away, the other left.21. And his disciples said, Explain to us this parable; or is it not a parable?22. And Jesus said, The wise will understand, for where the bread of heaven is, there you will find the pure in heart; and where the carcass lies will gather all the birds of prey.23. But lo, I say, before these days will come, the son of man will be betrayed by one of you into the hands of wicked men, and he will give his life for you and all the world.24. Yea, more; the Holy Breath will come in power and fill you with the wisdom of the just.25. And you will tell the wondrous story in Judea and in Samaria and in the farther lands of earth.26. And then to teach that men should pray and never faint, he told this parable:27. There was a judge who feared not God, nor yet regarded man.28. There was a widow who oft implored the judge to right her wrongs and to avenge her foes.29. At first the judge would hear her not, but after many days he said,30. I fear not God, and I regard not man, yet, lest this widow wear me out by pleading every day I will avenge her on her foes.31. When the disciples asked the meaning of this parable, the Lord replied, The wise can understand; the foolish have no need to know.32. And then to teach a lesson unto certain of his followers who trusted in themselves and thought that they were holier than other men, he told this parable:33. Two men went to the synagogue to pray; one was a Pharisee, the other was a publican.34. The Pharisee stood forth and prayed thus with himself, O God, I thank thee that I am not like other men, who are extortioners, unjust, adulterers;35. Not even like this publican.

I fast two times a week, and I give tithes of all I get.36. The publican came not a-near; he would not lift his eyes to heaven, but smote his breast and said,37. O lord, be merciful to me; I am a sinner in thy sight; I am undone.38. And now, you men, I say to you, The publican knew how to pray, and he was justified.39. The Pharisee knew how to talk, but still he went away condemned.40. Lo, every one who lauds himself shall be abased, and he who does not praise himself shall be exalted in the sight of God.

The way into the highest courts of God is open for the sons of men!13. Rejoice, O men of earth, rejoice, and be exceeding glad!14. Bring forth the harp and touch its highest strings; bring forth the lute, and sound its sweetest notes!15. For men who were made low, are high exalted now, and they who walked in darkness and in the vale of death, are risen up and God and man are one for evermore,16. Allelujah!

Amen.17. And Jesus lifted up his eyes to heaven and said,18. My Father-God, let now the benediction of thy love, thy mercy and thy truth rest on these men.19. The lamp is taken from their midst, and if the inner light be not aflame, lo, they must tread the ways of darkness and of death.20. And then he said to all, Farewell21. Then Jesus and his mother, and the twelve, and Miriam and Mary, mother of the two disciples, James and John,22. And many other loyal souls who loved the Christ, went to Jerusalem, that they might celebrate the Jewish feast.23. And as they journeyed on their way they came to Enon Springs, near unto Salim where the harbinger once taught.24. And as they rested by the fountain, Mary, wife of Zebedee, and mother of the two disciples, James and John, came to the master and she said,25. My Lord, I know the kingdom is about to come, and I would ask this boon: Command that these my sons shall sit with you upon the throne, the one upon the right, the other on the left.26. And Jesus said to her, You know not what you ask.27. And then he turned to James and John and said, Are you prepared and are you strong enough to drink the cup that I will drink?28. They said, Yes, master, we are strong enough to follow where you go.29. Then Jesus said, You shall indeed drink of my cup; but I am not the judge of who will sit upon my right or my left.30. The men who live the life and keep the faith will sit upon the throne of power.31. Now, when the apostles heard the pleadings of the mother for her sons, and knew that James and John were seeking special favours from the Lord, they were indignant and they said,32. We surely thought that James and John had risen above the selfish self.

The highest seat in heaven is at the feet of him who is the lowest man of earth.38. I had a glory with our Father-God before the worlds were made, and still I come to serve the race of men; to be the minister of men; to give my life for men.39. And then the Christines journeyed on and came unto Jerusalem.

If you are the Messiah that the prophets said would come, will you not tell us now?4. And Jesus said, Lo, I have told you many times, but you believed me not.5. No man can do the work that I have done and bring to men the truth as I have brought the truth who did not come from God.6. What I have done and said are witnesses for me.7. God calls, and they whose ears have attuned to hear the heavenly voice have heard the call and have believed in me; because God testifies for me.8. You cannot hear the voice of God, because your ears are closed.

You cannot comprehend the works of God, because your hearts are full of self.9. And you are busybodies, mischief-makers, hypocrites.

You take these men whom God has given me into your haunts and try to poison them with sophistries and lies, and think that you will snatch them from the fold of God.10. I tell you, men, these men are tried and you can snatch not one of them away.11. My Father who has given them to me is greater than you all, and he and I are one.12. And then the Jews took stones to throw at him and cried, Now we have heard enough; away with him; let him be stoned.13. But Joseph, member of the great Sanhedrim of the Jews, was in the porch and he came forth and said,14. You men of Israel, do nothing rash; throw down those stones; your reason is a better guide than passion in such times as these.15. You do not know your accusations to be true, and if this man should prove himself to be the Christ, and you should take his life, the wrath of God would rest upon you evermore.16. And Jesus said to them, Lo, I have healed your sick, have caused your blind to see, your deaf to hear, your lame to walk, and cast out unclean spirits from your friends;17. For which of these great works would you desire to take my life?18. The Jews replied, We would not stone you for your works of grace, but for your vile, blasphemous words.

You are but man and still you say that you are God.19. And Jesus said, A prophet of your own said to the sons of men, Lo, you are gods!20. Now, hark, you men, if he could say that to the men who simply heard the word of God, why should you think that I blaspheme the name of God because I say, I am a son of God?21. If you believe not what I say you must have faith in what I do, and you should see the Father in these works, and know that I dwell in the Father-God, and that the Father dwells in me.22. and then again the Jews took stones and would have stoned him in the temple court; but he withdrew himself from sight and left the porch and court and went his way:23. And with the twelve he went to Jericho, and after certain days they crossed the Jordan and in Bethabara abode for many days.

your friend in Bethany is sick, nigh unto death: his sisters urge that you arise and come in haste.3. Then turning to the twelve the master said, Lo, Lazarus has gone to sleep, and I must go and waken him.4. And his disciples said, What need to go of he has gone to sleep; he will awaken by and by?5. Then Jesus said, It is the sleep of death; for Lazarus is dead.6. But Jesus did not haste to go; he stayed two days in Araba; and then he said, The hour has come and we must go to Bethany.7. But his disciples urged him not to go; they said, The Jews are waiting your return that they may take your life.8. And Jesus said, Men cannot take my life till I have handed unto them my life.9. And when the time shall come I will myself lay down my life; that time is near, and God knows best; I must arise and go.10. And Thomas said, Then we will also go; yes, we will offer up our lives and die with him.

Do you believe what I have said?19. And Martha said, Lord, I believe that you are come to manifest the Christ of God.20. The Jesus said, Go back and call aside your sister, and my mother and the prophetess and say that I have come; and I will stay here by the gate till they have come to me.21. And Ruth and Martha did as Jesus bade them do, and in a little while the Marys and the prophetess had met the Lord.22. And Mary said, Why did you tarry thus?

Did I not say that you should see the glory of the Lord?31. And then they rolled the stone away; the flesh had not decayed; and Jesus lifted up his eyes to heaven and said,32. My Father-God, thou who hast ever heard my prayers, I thank thee now, and that these multitudes may know that thou hast sent me forth, that I am thine and thou art mine, make strong the Word of power.33. And then he spoke the Word, and in a voice that souls can comprehend, he said, O Lazarus, awake!34. And Lazarus arose and came out of the tomb.

he goes to lodge with Zaccheu, the sinner and the publican.8. But Jesus did not care for what they said; he went his way with Zaccheus, who was a man of faith, and as they talked together Zaccheus said,9. Lord, I have ever tried to do the right; I give unto the poor half of my goods, and if by any means I wrong a man, I right the wrong by paying him four fold.10. And Jesus said to him, Your life and faith are known to God, and lo, the benedictions of the Lord of hosts abide with you and all your house.11. Then Jesus spoke a parable to all; he said, A vassal of an emperor was made a king, and he went to the foreign land to claim his rights and take the kingdom to himself.12. Before he went he called ten trusted servants and to each he gave a pound and said,13. Go forth and use these pounds as you have opportunity, that you may gain for me more wealth, And then he went his way.14. And after many days he came again, and called the ten, demanding a report.15. The first one came and said, Lord, I have gained nine pounds; you gave me one and here are ten.16. The king replied, Well done, you faithful man; because you have been faithful in a little thing I judge that you will be a faithful servant in a greater thing;17. Behold, I make you ruler over nine important cities of my realm.18. The second came and said, Lord, I have gained for you four pounds; you gave me one, and here are five.19. The king replied, And you have proven up your faithfulness.

have mercy on poor blind Bartiaeus!7. And Jesus stopped and said, Bring him to me.8. And then the people brought the blind man to the Lord, and as they brought him up they said, Be cheerful, now, Bartimaeus, the Lord is calling you.9. And then he threw his cloak aside, and ran to Jesus as he waited by the way.10. And Jesus said, What will you have, Bartimaeus?11. The blind man said, Rabboni, open up mine eyes that I may see.12. And Jesus said, Bartimaeus, look up; receive your sight; your faith has made you whole.13. And he at once received his sight, and from the fulness of his heart he said, Praise God.14. And all the people said, Praise God.15. Then Jesus and the twelve went on to Bethany.

have mercy on poor blind Bartiaeus!7. And Jesus stopped and said, Bring him to me.8. And then the people brought the blind man to the Lord, and as they brought him up they said, Be cheerful, now, Bartimaeus, the Lord is calling you.9. And then he threw his cloak aside, and ran to Jesus as he waited by the way.10. And Jesus said, What will you have, Bartimaeus?11. The blind man said, Rabboni, open up mine eyes that I may see.12. And Jesus said, Bartimaeus, look up; receive your sight; your faith has made you whole.13. And he at once received his sight, and from the fulness of his heart he said, Praise God.14. And all the people said, Praise God.15. Then Jesus and the twelve went on to Bethany.

When God shall call them up to give account, lo, he will breathe upon them, and their leaves, their empty words, will wither and decay.5. God will not let the fruitless trees of life encumber ground, and he will pluck them up and cast them all away.6. Now, you can demonstrate the power of God.

Have faith in God, and you can bid the mountains to depart, and they will crumble at your feet;7. And you may talk to wind and wave, and they will hear, and will obey what you command.8. God hears the prayer of faith and when you ask in faith you shall receive.9. You may not ask amiss; God will not hear the prayer of any man who comes to him with blood of other men upon his hands.10. And he who harbours envious thoughts, and does not love his fellow men, may pray for ever unto God, and he will hear him not.11. God can do nothing more for men than they would do for other men.12. And Jesus walked again within the temple courts.13. The priests and scribes were much emboldened by the council of Caiaphas and the other men in power, and so they came to Jesus and they said,14. Who gave you the authority to do as you have done?

Why did you drive the merchants from the temple yesterday?15. And Jesus answered them and said, If you will answer what I ask, then I will answer you; Was John, the harbinger, a man of God, or was he a seditious man?16. The scribes and Pharisees were loath to answer him; they reasoned thus among themselves:17. If we shall say, John was a prophet sent from God, then he will say,18. John testified for me, that I am son of God, why do you not believe his words?19. If we should say, John was a bold, seditious man, the people will be angered, for they think he was a prophet of the living God.20. And so they answered Jesus and they said, We do not know; we cannot tell.21. Then Jesus said, If you will tell me not, then I will tell you not who gave me power to drive the robbers from the house of God.22. And then he spoke a parable to them; he said, A man once made a feast inviting all the rich and honoured people of the land.23. But when they came, they found the door into the banquet hall was low, and they could enter not except they bowed their heads and fell down on their knees.24. These people would not bow their heads and fall down on their knees, and so they went away; they went not to the feast.25. And then the man sent forth his messengers to bid the common folks, and those of low estate, to come and feast with him.26. These people gladly came; they bowed their heads and fell down on their knees, and came into the banquet hall and it was full, and every one rejoiced.27. And then the master said, Behold, you priests and scribes, and Pharisees the Lord of heaven and earth has spread a sumptuous feast, and you were bidden first of all;28. But you have found the door into the banquet hall so low that you must bow your heads and fall down on your knees to enter in, and you have scorned the king who made the feast, refused to bow your heads and fall down on your knees, and you have gone your way;29. But now God calls again; the common folks and those of low estate have come in multitudes, have entered in unto the feast and all rejoice.30. I tell you, men, that publicans and courtesans go through the gates into the kingdom of the God of heaven, and you are left without.31. John came to you in righteousness; he brought the truth, but you believed him not.32. But publicans and courtesans believed, and were baptised and now have entered in unto the feast.33. I tell you now, as I have told you many times, The many have been called, but chosen are the few.

My only son is here, and I will send him to the husbandmen,9. They surely will respect my son and send me what is mine.10. He sent his son; the husbandmen took counsel with themselves; they said, This is the only heir to all this wealth, and if we take his life the vast inheritance is ours.11. They took his life and cast him out beyond the vineyard hedge.12. The days will come; the owner will return to reckon with the husbandmen, and he will seize them every one, and cast them into scorching fires where they shall stay until they pay the debts they owe.13. And he will place his vineyard in the care of honest men.14. Then turning to the priests and scribes he said, Did not your prophets say,15. The stone the builders cast away became the capstone of the arch?16. You men who pose as men of God, as husbandmen, lo, you have stoned and killed the messengers of God, his prophets and his seers, and now you seek to slay his son.17. I tell you men, the kingdom shall be snatched away from you, and shall be given unto people who are not a people now, and to a nation that is not a nation now.18. And men whose speech you cannot understand, will stand between the living and the dead, and show the way to life.19. The chief priests and the Pharisees were deeply moved with anger when they heard this parable and would have seized the Lord and done him harm, but they were sore afraid; they feared the multitude.20. And Jesus spoke another parable; he said, The kingdom is a-like a ceratin king who made a feast in honour of the marriage of his son.21. He sent his servants forth to call the people who had been invited to the feast.22. The servants called; but then the people would not come.23. And then the king sent other messengers abroad to say, Behold, my tables now are spread; my oxen and my fatlings are prepared.24. The choicest viands and the richest wines are on my boards; come to the marriage feast.25. The people laughed and treated with disdain his call, and went their way, one to his farm, another to his merchandise;26. And others seized the servants of the king; abused them shamefully; and some of them they killed.27. And then the king sent forth his soldiery who slew the murderers and burned their towns.28. And then the king sent other servants forth; to them he said, Go to the corners of the streets, the partings of the ways, and to the marts of trade and say,29. Whoever will may come up to the marriage feast.30. The servants went their way and called; and lo, the banquet hall was filled with guests.31. But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw a man who had not on a wedding robe; he called to him and said,32. Friend, why are you here without a wedding robe?

1. As Jesus spoke, the Pharisees came up to question him; they thought to criminate him by what he said,2. A strict Herodian spoke and said, My Lord, you are a man of truth; you show the way to God, and you do not regard the personality of men;3. Tell us, what do you think; should we, who are the seed of Abraham, pay tribute unto Cæsar?

Show me the tribute money that you speak about.5. The man brought forth a piece of coin on which an image was engraved.6. And Jesus said, Whose image and whose name is on this coin?7. The man replied, 'Tis Cæsar's image and his name.8. And Jesus said, Give unto Cæsar that which is Cæsar's own; but give to God the things of God.9. And they who heard him said, He answers well.10. And then a Sadducee, who thinks there is no resurrection of the dead, came up and said, Rabboni, Moses wrote that if a married man shall die, and have no child, his widow shall become his brother's wife.11. Now, there were seven brothers and the eldest had a wife; he died and had no child; a brother took his widow for his wife, and then he died;12. And every brother had this woman for his wife; in course of time the woman died;13. Now which will have this woman for a wife in the resurrection day?14. And Jesus said, Here in this plane of life men marry just to gratify their selfish selfs, or to perpetuate the race; but in the world to come, and in the resurrection day, men do not take upon themselves the marriage vows.15. But, like the angels and the other sons of God, they form not unions for the pleasure of the self, nor to perpetuate the race.16. Death does not mean the end of life.

The seed may seem to die, but from its grave the tree arises into life.18. So man may seem to die, but he lives on, and from the grave he springs up into life.19. If you could comprehend the word that Moses spoke about the burning bush that burned and still was not consumed, then you would know that death cannot destroy the life.20. And Moses said that God is God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel.21. God is not God of dead men's bones, but the living man.22. I tell you, men, man goes down to the grave, but he will rise again and manifest the life;23. For every life is hid with Christ in God, and man shall live while God shall live.24. The Pharisees and scribes who heard the Lord, exclaimed, He speaks the truth; and they were glad to have the Sadducees discomfited.25. And then an honest scribe came forth and said to Jesus, Lord, you speak as one whom God has sent, and may I ask,26. Which is the greatest and the first of the Commandments of the Law?27. And Jesus said, The first is Hear O Israel, the Lord our God is one; and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your mind, with all your soul, with all your strength;28. And you shall love your neighbour as yourself.29. These are the greatest of the ten, and on them hang the Law, the Prophets and the Psalms.30. The scribe replied, My soul gives witness that you speak the truth, for love fulfils the law, and far transcends burnt offerings and sacrifice.31. And Jesus said to him, Lo, you have solved a mystery; you are within the kingdom and the kingdom is in you.32. To his disciples Jesus spoke, and all the people heard; he said, Beware you of the scribes and Pharisees who pride themselves in wearing long and richly decorated robes,33. And Love to be saluted in the market place, and seek the highest seats at feasts, and take the hard-earned wages of the poor to satisfy their carnal selves, and pray in public, long and loud.34. These are the wolves who clothe themselves to look like sheep.35. And then he said to all, The scribes and Pharisees are placed by law in Moses' seat, and by the law they interpret law;36. So what they bid you do, that do; but do not imitate their deeds.37. They say the things that Moses taught; they do the things of Beelzebul.38. They talk of mercy, yet they bind on human shoulders burdens grievous to bear.39. They talk of helpfulness, and yet they put not forth the slightest helpful efforts for their brother man.40. They make a show of doing things, and yet they do not anything but show their gaudy robes, and broad phylacteries, and smile when people call them honoured masters of the law.41. They strut about and show their pride when people call them father, so and so.42. Hear, now, you men, Call no man father here.

The God of heaven and earth, and he alone, is Father of the race of men.43. Christ is the hierarch, the high, exalted master of the sons of men.44. If you would be exalted, sit down at the master's feet and serve.

you build and then adorn the tombs of holy men of old and say,12. If we had lived when these men lived, we would have guarded them, would not have acted as our fathers did, when they maltreated them and put them to the sword.13. But you are sons of them who slew the holy men, and you are not a whit more just than they.14. Go forth and fill the measure of your father who were steeped in crime.15. You are offsprings of the vipers, and how can you be but serpents of the dust?16. God now has sent again to you his prophets and his seers, his wise men and his holy men, and you will scourge them in your synagogues, and stone them in the streets, and nail them to the cross.17. Woe unto you!

for on your heads will come the blood of all the holy men who have been slain upon the earth.18. From righteous Abel down to Zacharias, son of Barachias, who was slain within the Holy Place before the altar of the Lord.19. Behold, I say that these things all shall come upon this nation and the people of Jerusalem.20. And Jesus looked about and said, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou cruel city of Jerusalem, that slays the prophets in the streets and kills the holy men whom God has sent to you!21. Lo, I would oft have gathered you as children to the fold of God; but you would not.22. You have rejected God, and now your house is desolate, and you shall see me not again till you can say,23. Thrice blessed is the son of man who comes as son of God.24. Then Jesus went and sat beside the treasury and watched the people as they paid their tithes.25. The rich men came and gave of their abundance; and then he saw a poor but loyal widow come and put a farthing in the treasure box.26. And then he said to his disciples who were standing by, Behold, for this poor widow who has put a farthing in the treasury has done more than they all;27. For she has given all she had; the rich have given just a little share of what they have.28. A company of Grecian Jews were at the feast, and they met Philip, who could talk with them, and said, Sir, we would see the Lord, this Jesus, who is called the Christ.29. And Philip led the way, and brought them to the Christ.30. And Jesus said, The hour has come; the son of man is ready to be glorified, and it cannot be otherwise.31. Except a grain of wheat fall into earth and die it can be nothing but a grain of wheat; but if it die it lives again, and from its grave a hundred grains of wheat arise.32. My soul is troubled now; What shall I say?

And then he cast his eyes to heaven and said,33. My Father-God, I would not ask to be relieved of all the burdens I must bear; I only ask for grace and strength to bear the burdens whatsoe'er they be,34. This is the hour for which I came to earth.

Others said, An angel spoke to him.39. But Jesus said, This voice was not for me; it was for you, that you might know that I am come from God.40. Now is the judgment of the world at hand; the prince of darkness shall be manifest and go unto his own.41. The son of man will now be lifted up from earth, and he will draw all men unto himself.42. The people said, The law declares that Christ abides for evermore.

Who is the son of man?43. And Jesus said to them, The light is shining now; walk in the light while you still have the light.44. The darkness comes; but he who walks in darkness cannot find the way.45. Again I say, Walk in the light while you still have the light, that men may know that you are sons of light.46. And Jesus stood out in the temple porch, and made his last appeal unto the multitudes; he said,47. He who believes in me, believes in God who sent me forth to do his will, and he who sees me now beholds my Father-God.48. Behold, I came a light unto the world; he who believes in me shall walk in light, the light of life.49. You men who hear me now, If you believe me not, I judge you not.50. I am not come to judge the world, but I am come to save the world.51. God is only judge of men; but what I speak will stand against you in the day when God will judge the world;52. For from myself I do not speak; I speak the words that God has given me to speak.53. And then he said, Jerusalem, with all your glory and your crimes, Farewell.

Before they come, lo, you shall be maltreated by the scribes and Pharisees, the high priests and the doctors of the law.8. Without a cause you will be haled into courts; you will be stoned; you will be beaten in the synagogues; will stand condemned before the rulers of this world, and governors and kings will sentence you to death.9. But you will falter not, and you will testify for truth and righteousness.10. And in these hours be anxious not about your speech; you need not think of what to say;11. For, lo, the Holy Breath will overshadow you and give you words to say.12. But then the carnage will go on, and men will think that they are pleasing God by killing you, and nations far and near will hate you for the sake of Christ.13. And men will stir up evil thought among your kin, and they will hate you and will give you up to die.14. And brothers will be false to brothers; fathers will stand forth and testify against their own, and children will drive parents to the funeral pile.15. When you shall hear the Roman eagle screaming in the air, and see his legions streaming o'er the plain, then know the desolation of Jerusalem is near.16. Then let the wise wait not, but flee.

Let him who is upon his house wait not to enter in the house to gather up his wealth, but let him flee.17. And he who labours in the field must not return, but leave his all to save his life.18. And woe to mothers with their little children in that day; none shall escape the sword.19. The tribulation of these days cannot be told in words, for such has never been since God created man upon the earth.20. The conqueror will carry many of the sons of Abraham away as captives into foreign lands, and they who know not Israel's God will tread the highways of Jerusalem until the anti-Jewish times have been fulfilled.21. But when the people have been punished for their crimes, the tribulation days will end; but lo, the time will come when all the world will rise, like gladiators in a ring, and fight just for the sake of shedding blood.22. And men will reason not; they will not see, nor care to see a cause for carnage, desolation, thefts; for they will war with friend or foe.23. The very air will seem surcharged with smoke of death; and pestilence will follow close upon the sword.24. And signs that men have never seen will appear in heaven and earth; in sun, and moon, and stars.25. The seas will roar, and sounds will come from heaven that men can never comprehend, and these will bring distress of nations with perplexity.26. Hearts of the strongest men will faint in fear, in expectation of the coming of more frightful things upon the earth.27. But while the conflicts rage on land and sea, the Prince of Peace will stand above the clouds of heaven and say again:28. Peace, peace on earth; good will to men; and every man will throw away his sword, and nations will learn war no more.29. And then the man who bears the pitcher will walk forth across an arc of heaven; the sign and signet of the son of man will stand forth in the eastern sky.30. The wise will then lift up their heads and know that the redemption of the earth is near.31. Before these days shall come, behold, false Christs and poor deluded prophets will arise in many lands.32. And they will show forth signs, and do a multitude of mighty works; and they will lead astray the many who are not wise; and many of the wise will be deceived.33. And now I tell you once again, When men shall say, The Christ is in the wilderness, go you not forth.34. And if they say, The Christ is in the secret place, believe it not; for when he comes the world will know that he has come.35. For as the morning light comes from the east and shines unto the west; so shall be the coming of the age and son of man.36. The wicked of the earth will weep when they shall see the son of man come down upon the clouds of heaven, in power.37. Take heed you, O take heed, for you know not the hour nor the day when comes the son of man.38. Let not your hearts be overcharged with sensuous things, nor with the cares of life, lest that day come and find you unprepared.39. Keep watch at every season of the year; and pray that you may meet the Lord with joy and not with grief.40. Before those days shall come our Father-God will send his messengers abroad, yea, to the corners of the earth, and they will say.41. Prepare you, O prepare; the Prince of Peace shall come, and now is coming on the clouds of heaven.42. When Jesus had thus said, he went with his disciples back to Bethany.

1. The morning of the Wednesday of the week was come, and Jesus with the twelve went out to Olivet to pray; and they were lost in prayer for seven hours.2. Then Jesus called the twelve close to his side and said, This day the curtain parts and we will step beyond the veil into the secret courts of God.3. And Jesus opened up to them the meaning of the hidden way, and of the Holy Breath, and of the light that cannot fail.4. He told them all about the Book of Life, the Rolls of Graphael, the Book of God's Remembrance where all the thoughts and words of men are written down.5. He did not speak aloud to them; he told the secrets of the masters in an undertone, and when he spoke the name of God there was a silence in the courts of heaven for half an hour, for angels spoke with bated breath.6. And Jesus said, These things may not be spoken out aloud; they never may be written down; they are the messages of Silenceland; they are the Breathings of the inner heart of God.7. And then the master taught the twelve the lessons they should teach to other men.

and in disgrace the virgins went their way.32. Again I say to you, and you shall say to them who follow you,33. Be ready every moment of the day and night, because when you expect him not, the Lord will come.34. Behold, when he will come with all his messengers of light, the Book of Life, and that of Records, shall be opened up--the books in which the thought and words and deeds are written down.35. And every one can read the records he has written for himself, and he will know his doom before the judge shall speak, and this will be the sifting time.36. According to their records men will find their own.37. The judge is Righteousness, the king of all the earth, and he will separate the multitudes as shepherds separate the sheep and goats.38. The sheep will find their places on the right, the goats upon the left, and every man will know his place.39. And then the judge will say, to those upon the right, You blessed of the Father-God, come unto your inheritance, which was prepared for you from times of old.40. You have been servants of the race; and I was hungry and you gave me bread; was thirsty and you gave me drink; was naked and you gave me clothes;41. Was sick, you ministered to me; and was in prison and you came to me with words of cheer; I was a stranger and in your homes I found a home.42. Then will the righteous say, When did we see you hungry, thirsty, sick, imprisoned or a stranger at our gates and ministered to you?43. And then the judge will say, You served the sons of men, and whatsoever you have done for these, that you have done for me.44. The judge will say to those upon the left, Depart from me; you have not served the sons of men.45. I was hungry and you gave me naught to eat; was thirsty and you gave me naught to drink; I was a stranger and you drove me from your door; I was imprisoned and was sick, you did not minister to me.46. Then these will say, When did we thus neglect to care for you?

When did we see you hungry, thirsty, sick, a stranger or in prison and did not minister to you?47. And then the judge will say, Your life is full of self; you served the self and not your fellow man, and when you slighted one of these, you slighted and neglected me.48. Then will the righteous have the kingdom and the power, and they who are unrighteous shall go forth to pay their debts, to suffer all that men have suffered at their hands.49. They who have ears to hear and hearts to understand will comprehend these parables.50. When he had finished all these parables he said, You know that in two days the great passover feast will come, and lo, the son of man will be betrayed into the hands of wicked men.51. And he will give his life upon the cross, and men will know that he, the son of man, is son of God.52. Then Jesus and the twelve returned to Bethany.

1. On Thursday morning Jesus called to him the twelve disciples, and he said to them, This is God's remembrance day, and we will eat the pascal supper all alone.2. And then he said to Peter, James and John, Go now into Jerusalem and there prepare the pasch.3. And the disciples said, Where would you have us go to find the place where we may have the feast prepared?4. And Jesus said, Go by the fountain gate and you will see a man who has a pitcher in his hand.

Speak unto him and say: This is the first day of unleavened bread;5. The Lord would have you set apart your banquet hall where he may eat his last passover with the twelve,6. Fear not to speak; the man whom you will see is Nicodemus, ruler of the Jews, and yet a man of God.7. And the disciples went and found the man as Jesus said, and Nicodemus hastened to his home; the banquet hall, an upper room, was set apart, the supper was prepared.8. Now, in the afternoon the Lord and his disciples went up to Jerusalem and found the feast in readiness.9. And when the hour had come to eat the feast, the twelve began to strive among themselves, each anxious to secure the honoured seats.10. And Jesus said, My friends, would you contend for self just as the shadows of this night of gloom comes on?11. There is no honoured seat at heaven's feast except for him who humbly takes the lowest seat.12. And then the Lord arose and took a basin full of water and a towel, and bowing down, he washed the feet of all the twelve and dried them with the towel.13. He breathed upon them and he said, And may these feet walk in the ways of righteousness for evermore.14. He came to Peter and was about to wash his feet, and Peter said, would you wash my feet?15. And Jesus said, You do not comprehend the meaning of the thing I do, but you will comprehend.16. And Peter said, My master, no, you shall not stoop to wash my feet.17. And Jesus said, My friend, if I wash not your feet you have no part with me.18. And Peter said, Then, O my Lord, wash both my feet, my hands, my head.19. And Jesus said to him, He who has taken first his bath is clean, and has no need to wash, except his feet.20. The feet are truly symbols of the understanding of the man, and he who would be clean must, in the living stream of life, wash well his understanding every day.21. Then Jesus sat with his disciples at the table of the feast and said, Behold the lesson of the hour:22. You call me master; such I am.

If, then, your Lord and master kneel and wash your feet, should you not wash each other's feet and thus show forth your willingness to serve?23. You know these things, and if you do them, blessed thrice are you.24. And then he said, This is an hour when I can truly praise the name of God, for I have greatly wished to eat with you this feast before I pass the veil;25. For I will eat it not again until anew I eat it with you in the kingdom of our Father-God.26. And then they sung the Hebrew song of praise that Jews were wont to sing before the feast.27. And then they ate the pasch and as they ate, the master said, Behold, for one of you will turn away this night and will betray me into wicked hands.28. And the disciples were amazed at what he said; they looked into each other's face in wonderment; they all exclaimed, Lord, is it I?29. And Peter said to John, who sat beside the Lord, To whom does he refer?30. And John put forth his hand and touched the master's hand and said, Which one of us is so depraved as to betray his Lord?31. And Judas said, Lord, is it I?32. And Jesus said, He is the one who now has put his hand with mine into the dish.

1. Now, after Judas had gone forth to meet the emissaries of the priests and to betray his Lord,2. The master said, The hour has come, the son of man will now be glorified.3. My little children, I am with you yet a little while; soon you will seek me and will find me not, for where I go you cannot come.4. I give to you a new command: As I love you and give my life for you, so shall you love the world, and give your life to save the world.5. Love one another as you love yourselves, and then the world will know that you are sons of God, disciples of the son of man whom God has glorified.6. And Peter said, Lord, where you go there I will go, for I would lay my life down for my Lord.7. And Jesus said, Boast not of bravery, my friend; you are not strong enough to-night to follow me.8. Now, Peter, hear!

Behold, for Satan cometh up to sift you as a pan of wheat, but I have prayed that in your faith you shall not fail; that after trial you may stand a tower of strength.14. And the disciples all exclaimed, There is no power on earth that can estrange, or cause us to deny our Lord.15. And Jesus said, Let not your hearts be sad; you all believe in God; believe in me.16. Behold, for there are many mansions in my Fatherland.

But now you do not know the way unto my Fatherland.18. And Thomas said, We do not know where you intend to go; how could we know the way?19. And Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, the life; I manifest the Christ of God.

No man can reach my Fatherland except he comes with me through Christ.20. If you had known and comprehended me, then you would know my Father-God.21. And Philip said, Show us the Father and we will be satisfied.22. And Jesus said, Have I been with you all these years and still you know me not?23. He who has seen the son has seen the Father has revealed himself.24. Lo, I have told you many times that what I speak and what I do are not the words and works of man;25. They are the words of God, who lives in me and I in him.26. Hear me, you faithful men: He who believes in me and in my Father-God shall say and do what I have said and done.27. Yea, more, he shall do greater works than I have ever done, because I go to him whose works we do, and then I can reach forth my hand in helpfulness.28. And in my name, through Christ, you may petition God and he will grant you your request.29. Do you believe what I have said?

Yes, you believe, and if you love the Christ and follow me then you will keep my words.30. I am the vine; you are the branches of the vine; my Father is the husbandmen.31. The branches that are worthless, bearing naught but leaves, the husbandmen will cut away and cast into the fire to be burned.32. And he will prune the branches that bear fruit that they may yield abundantly.33. The branch cannot bear fruit if separated from the vine; and you cannot bear fruit when separate from me.34. Abide in me, and do the works that God, through me, has taught you how to do, and you will bear much fruit, and God will honour you as he has honoured me.35. And now I go my way, but I will pray my Father-God and he will send another Comforter to you, who will abide with you.36. Behold, this Comforter of God, the Holy Breath, is one with God, but she is one the world cannot receive because it sees her not; it knows her not.37. But you know her, and will know her, because she will abide within your soul.38. I will not leave you desolate, but in the Christ, which is the love of God made manifest to men, I will be with you all the way.

If I go not the Comforter will not come to you.5. These things I speak while with you in the flesh, but when the Holy Breath shall come in power, lo, she will teach you more and more, and bring to your remembrance all the words that I have said to you.6. There are a multitude of things yet to be said; things that this age cannot receive, because it cannot comprehend.7. But, lo, I say, Before the great day of the Lord shall come, the Holy Breath will make all mysteries known--8. The mysteries of the soul, of life, of death, of immortality; the oneness of a man with every other man and with his God.9. Then will the world be led to truth, and man will be the truth.10. When she has come, the Comforter, she will convince the world of sin, and of the truth of what I speak, and of the judgement of the just; and then the prince of carnal life will be cast out.11. And when the Comforter shall come I need not intercede for you; for you will stand approved, and God will know you then as he knows me.12. The hour has come when you will weep; the wicked will rejoice, because I go away; but I will come again, and all your sorrows shall be turned to joy;13. Yea, verily, you will rejoice as one who welcomes back a brother from the dead.14. And the disciples said, Our Lord, speak not in proverbs any more; speak plainly unto us; we know that you are wise and know all things.15. What is the meaning of your words, I go away, but I will come again?16. And Jesus said, The hour is come when you will all be scattered forth, and every man will be afraid;17. Will flee to save his life and leave me alone; yet I will not be all alone; my Father-God is with me all the way.18. And wicked men will take me to the judgment seat of wicked men and in the presence of the multitudes I will give up my life, a pattern for the sons of men.19. But I will rise again and come to you.20. These things I speak that you may be established in the faith when they shall come to pass.21. And you shall bear the buffetings of men, and follow in the thorny path I tread.22. Be not dismayed; be of good cheer, Lo, I have overcome the world, and you shall overcome the world.23. Then Jesus lifted up his eyes to heaven and said, My Father-God, the hour has come;24. The son of man must now be lifted from the earth, and may he falter not, that all the world may know the power of sacrifice;25. For as I give my life for men, lo, men must give their lives for other men.26. I came to do thy will, O God, and in the sacred name, the Christ is glorified, that men may see the Christ as life, as light, as truth.27. And through the Christ become themselves the life, the light, the love, the truth.28. I praise thy name because of these whom thou hast given me, for they have honoured thee and they will honour thee;29. And none of them are lost, and none are gone away, except the blinded son of carnal life, who hath gone forth to sell his Lord.30. O God, forgive this man because he knows not what he does.31. And now, O God, I come to thee, and am no more in mortal life; keep thou these men to whom I have made known thy wisdom and thy love.32. As they believe in me, and in the words I speak, may all the worlds believe in them and in the words they speak.33. As thou hast sent me forth into the world, so I have sent them forth.

I pray that thou wouldst honour them as thou hast honoured me.34. I do not pray that thou wouldst take them from the world, but that they may be guarded from the evil of the world, and not be subject to temptations that are too great for them to bear.35. They once were of the world, but now are of the world no more, as I am of the world no more.36. Thy word is truth, O God, and by thy word let them be sanctified.37. I do not pray for these alone, O God; I also pray for all who will believe on me, and will accept the Christ because of what they do and say, that they may all be one.38. As I am one with thee, and thou art one with me, may they be one with us,39. That all the world may know that thou hast sent me forth to do thy will, and that thou lovest them as thou hast ever loved me.40. When Jesus had thus said, they sung the Jewish song of praise, and then arose and went their way.

He said,31. The Spirit of eternity is One unmanifest; and this is God the Father, God the Mother, God the Son in One.32. In life of manifests the One became the Three, and God the Father is the God of might; and God the Mother is omniscient God, and God the Son is love.33. And God the Father is the power of heaven and earth; and God the Mother is the Holy Breath, the thought of heaven and earth; and God the Son, the only son, is Christ, and Christ is love.34. I came as man to manifest this love to men,35. As man I have been subject unto all the trials and temptations of the human race; but I have overcome the flesh, with all its passions and its appetites.36. What I have done all men can do.37. And I am now about to demonstrate the power of man to conquer death; for every man is God made flesh.38. I will lay down my life, and I will take it up again, that you may know the mysteries of life, of death, and of the resurrection of the dead.39. I lay me down in flesh, but I will rise in spirit form with power to manifest myself so mortal eyes can see.40. So in a trinity of days I will show forth the all of life, the all of death, the meaning of the resurrection of the dead.41. And what I do all men can do.42. And you, my three, who constitute the inner circle of the Church of Christ, will show to men the attributes of all the Gods.43. And Peter shall make known the Power of God; and James shall show Thought of God; and John shall demonstrate the Love of God.44. Be not afraid of men, for you have been sent forth to do the mighty works of God the Father, God the Mother, God the Son.45. And all the powers of carnal life cannot destroy your life until your work is done.46. I leave you now, and I will go out in the darkness all alone and talk with God.47. By sorrow I am overwhelmed I leave you here to watch with me.48. Then Jesus went three hundred cubits toward the east, and fell upon his face and prayed; he said,49. My God!

my God!

My human flesh shrinks back; my soul is firm; so not my will, but thine, O God, be done.50. In agony he prayed; the strain upon the human form was great; his veins were burst asunder, and his brow was bathed in blood.51. And then he went back to the three, and found them all asleep; he said,52. O Simon, Simon, do you sleep!

Be vigilant, and watch and pray that your temptations be not too great for you to bear.53. I know the spirit is alert and willing; but the flesh is weak.54. And then he went again and prayed, O Father, God!

O God, I yield to thee; thy will be done.58. And then again he went back to the three, and still they slept.

Whoever wields the sword shall perish by the sword.26. I do not need protection by the sons of men, for I could call this moment and a legion, yea, twelve legions of the messengers of God, would come and stand in my defence; but then it is not well.27. And then he said to Malchus, Man, I would not have you harmed.

I'm sure I did, and you are one of those who followed him.12. Then Peter rose and stamped upon the floor, and swore by every sacred thing, that he knew not the criminal.13. Now, John was standing near and when he heard the words and knew that Peter had denied his Lord, he looked at him in sheer astonishment.14. Just then a cock crew loud beneath the court, and Peter called to mind the words the Lord had said,15. Before the cock shall crow to-morrow morn you will deny me thrice.16. And Peter's conscience smote him heavily, and he went out into the night and wept.17. Caiaphas sat in state; before him stood the man from Galilee.18. Caiaphas said, You people of Jerusalem, who is the man that you accuse?19. They answered: In the name of every loyal Jew we do accuse this man from Galilee, this Jesus, who assumes to be our king, as enemy of God and man.20. Caiaphas said to Jesus, Man, you are permitted now to speak and tell about your doctrines and your claims.21. And Jesus said, You priest of carnal man, why do you ask about my words and works?22. Lo, I have taught the multitudes in every public place; I have restored your sick to health; have caused your deaf to hear, your lame to walk, and I have brought your dead to life again.23. My works have not been done in secret place but in your public halls and thoroughfares.24. Go ask the people, who have not been bought with gold or glittering promises, to tell about my words and works.25. When Jesus had thus said a Jewish guard came up and smote him in the face and said, How dare you speak thus unto him, the high priest of the Jews?26. And Jesus said, If I have spoken falsely bear witness unto what I say; If I have told the truth why did you smite me thus?27. And then Caiaphas said, What'er you, do in a legal way, for we must answer to a higher court for everything we do or say.28. Let the accusers of this man present their charges in a legal form.29. And then Caiaphas' scribe stood forth and said, I have the accusations here in legal form; the charges made and signed by scribes and priests and Pharisees.30. Caiaphas said, Be still, you men, and hear the charges read.

The scribe took up a roll and read:31. To the Sanhedrim of the Jews and to Caiaphas the high priest, most honoured men:32. The highest duty man can render is to his nation and his own is to protect them from their foes.33. The people of Jerusalem are conscious that a mighty foe is in their very midst.34. A man named Jesus has come forth and claims to be heir to David's throne.35. As an imposter he is foe, and in the name of every loyal Jew we here submit these charges which we are competent to prove;36. At first, he blasphemes God; he says he is son of God; that he and God are one;37. And he profanes our holy days by healing, and doing other work upon the Sabbath days;38. And he proclaims himself the king, successor of our David and our Solomon;39. And he declares that he will tear our temple down and build it up again in form more glorious in three days;40. And he declares that he will drive the people from Jerusalem, as he drove out the merchants from the temple court; and bring to occupy our sacred hills a tribe of men that know not God;41. And he aver that every doctor, scribe and Pharisee and Sadducee, shall go in exile, and shall never more return;42. And to these charges we do set our hands and seals.

are you the son of God?47. And Jesus said, So you have said; and then he said no more.

1. When Jesus would not speak, Caiaphas stood before the Jewish mob and said,2. Bind fast the prisoner, for he must go before the great Sanhedrim of the Jews to answer for his life.3. We cannot execute a criminal until our findings have been verified by this, the highest council of the Jews.4. As soon as it was day the highest council of the people met; the Lord and his accusers stood before the bar.5. Caiaphas was the chief; he rose and said, Let the accusers of this man from Galilee bring forth their charges and their evidence.6. Caiaphas' scribe stood forth and read the charges and the names of those who had accused the man from Galilee.7. And all the witnesses were made to stand and testify before the council of the Jews.8. And then the lawyers weighed the evidence, and Nicodemus stood among the men who plead.9. He raised his hands and said, Let justice now be done, though every scribe and Pharisee and priest and Sadducee, as well as Jesus, the accused, be judged a liar.10. If we can prove this Jesus to be foe and traitor to our laws and land, let him be judged a criminal and suffer for his crimes.11. If it be proved that these who testify are perjurers in the sight of God and man, then let the man from Galilee go free.12. And then he brought the testimonies of the witnesses before the judges of the law; no two of them agreed; In heat of passion, or for gain, the men had testified.13. The council would have gladly judged that Jesus was a criminal and sentence him to death; but in the face of all the evidence they were afraid.14. And then Caiaphas said, You man from Galilee, Before the living God, I now command that you shall answer me, Are you the Christ, the son of God?15. And Jesus said, If I would answer, Yes, you would not hear, nor yet believe,16. If I would answer, No, I would be like your witnesses, and stand a liar in the sight of man and God.

The charges have been verified by perjured men; what need I say?17. Yes, I am king; but carnal men cannot behold the king, nor see the kingdom of the God; it is within.18. If I had been king as carnal man is king, my servants would have stood in my defence, and I would not have willingly surrendered to the minions of the Jewish law.19. I have no testimony from the sons of men.

God is my witness, and my words and deeds bear witness to the truth;20. And every man who comprehends the truth will hearken to my words, and in his soul give witness unto me.21. And Pilate said, What is the truth?22. And Jesus said, Truth is the God who knows.

Touch not this man from Galilee; he is a holy man.45. If you should scourge this man you scourge the son of God.

They have a faith that they have borrowed from the idol worshippers of other lands, that at the end of every year,2. They may heap all their sins upon the head of some man set apart to bear their sins.3. The man becomes a scapegoat for the multitudes; and they believe that when they drive him forth into the wilds, or into foreign lands, they are released from sin.4. So every spring before the feast they chose a prisoner from the prisons of the land, and by a form their own, they fain would make him bear their sins away.5. Among the Jewish prisoners in Jerusalem were three who were the leaders of a vile, seditious band, who had engages in thefts and murders and rapine, and had been sentenced to be crucified.6. Barabbas bar Jezia was among the men who were to die; but he was rich and he had bought of priests the boon to be scapegoat for the people at the coming feast, and he was anxiously in waiting for his hour to come.7. Now, Pilate thought to turn this superstition to account to save the Lord, and so he went again before the Jews and said,8. You men of Israel, according to my custom I will release to you to-day a prisoner who shall bear you sins away.9. This man you drive into the wilds or into foreign lands, and you have asked me to release Barabbas, who has been proven guilty of the murder of a score of men.10. Now, hear me men, Let Jesus be released and let Barabbas pay his debt upon the cross; then you can send this Jesus to the wilds and hear no more of him.11. At what the ruler said the people were enraged, and they began to plot to tear the Roman palace down and drive in exile Pilate, and his household and his guards.12. When Pilate was assured that civil war would follow if he heeded not the wishes of the mob, he took a bowl of water and in the presence of the multitude he washed hid hands and said,13. This man whom you accuse is son of the most holy Gods, and I proclaim my innocence.14. If you would shed his blood, his blood is on your hands and not on mine.15. And then the Jews exclaimed, And let his blood be on our hands and on our children's hands.16. And Pilate trembled like a leaf, in fear.

As soon as they had passed the city's gate, they rushed upon him, smote him with their hands, they spit upon him, stoned and he fell upon the ground.22. And one, a man of God, stood forth and said, Isaiah said, He shall be bruised for our transgressions and by his stripes we shall be healed.23. As Jesus lay all bruised and mangled on the ground a Pharisee called out, Stay, stay you men!

1. Now, Judas who betrayed his Lord, was with the mob; but all the time he thought that Jesus would assert his power and demonstrate the strength of God that he possessed, and strike to earth the fiendish multitudes and free himself;2. But when he saw his master on the ground and bleeding from a score of wounds, he said,3. O God, what have I done?

I have betrayed the son of God; the curse of God will rest upon my soul.4. And then he turned and ran with haste until he reached the temple door; he found the priests, who gave to him the thirty silver pieces to betray the Lord, and said,5. Take back your bribe; it is the cost price of my soul; I have betrayed the son of God.6. The priests replied, That matters not to us.7. Then Judas threw the silver on the floor, and, bowed with grief, he went away, and on a ledge beyond the city's walls he hanged himself and died.8. In time the fastenings gave way, his body fell into the Hinnon vale and after many days they found it there a shapeless mass.9. The rulers could not put the price of blood into the treasury, and so they took the thirty silver pieces with which they bought a potter's field,10. Where they might bury those who had no rights to lie within their sacred grounds.11. And there they put the body of the man who sold his Lord.

The Roman soldiers had already bound the two state prisoners to the cross.5. (They were not nailed, but simply bound.)6. Four soldiers of the Roman guard that Herod brought from Galilee were called to execute the orders of the court.7. These were the men who had been set apart to torture Jesus and secure from him confession of his guilt.8. These were the men who scourged him, put a crown of thorns upon his head, a broken reed into his hands, and wrapped him in a royal robe, and bowed in mockery, before him as a king.9. These soldiers took the Lord and stripped him, laid him on the cross and would have bound him there with cords; but this would not suffice.10. The cruel Jews were near with hammer and with nails; they cried, Not cords, but nails; drive fast the nails and hold him to the cross.11. And then the soldiers took the nails and drove them through his feet and hands.12. They offered him a sedative to drink, a draught of vinegar and myrrh; but he refused to drink the draught.13. The soldiers had prepared a place in which to plant Barabbas' cross between the other criminals; and here they raised the cross of Jesus, who was called the Christ;14. And then the soldiers and the mob sat down to watch him die.15. And Jesus said, My Father-God, forgive these men; they know not what they do.16. Now, Pilate had prepared a tablet to be placed upon the cross on which was written in the tongues of Hebrew, Latin and Greek these words of truth: JESUS THE CHRIST, KING OF THE JEWS.17. And this was placed upon the cross.

The priests were angered when they read these words upon the tablet of the cross.18. And then they prayed that Pilate would not say, He is the Christ, king of the Jews; but say, He claims to be the Christ, king of the Jews.19. But Pilate said, What I have written, I have written; let it stand.20. The Jewish multitudes who saw the Lord upon the cross were wild with joy; they said, All hail, fake king!21. You who would tear the temple down and in three days would build it up again, why don't you save yourself?22. If you are Christ, the son of God, come from the cross; then all men will believe.23. The priests and scribes and Pharisees looked on the scene and scoffed; they said, He rescued others from the grave; why doesn't he save himself?24. The Jewish soldiers and the Roman guards who came from Galilee were loud in mocking and deriding him.25. One of the other men upon the cross joined in the mockery; he said, If you are Christ, you have the power; just speak the Word, and save yourself and me.26. The other man upon the cross rebuked the man; he said, You wretch!

have you no fear of God?27. This man is innocent of any crime while you and I are guilty and are paying up the debts we owe.28. And then he said to Jesus, Lord, I know thy kingdom comes, the kingdom that the world can never comprehend;29. And when thou comest on the clouds of heaven, remember me.30. And Jesus said, Behold, for I will meet you in the realm of souls this day.31. Now, standing near unto the cross were many women from Judea and from Galilee.

A Roman soldier dipped a sponge in vinegar and myrrh, and placed it to his lips.7. Now, at the ninth hour of the day the earth began to quake, and in the darkness of that sunless day, a flood of golden light appeared above the cross;8. And from the light a voice was heard which said, Lo, it is done.9. And Jesus said, My Father-God, into thy hands I give my soul.10. A Roman soldier in compassion said, This agony is all too great; relief shall come.

And with a spear he pierced his heart and it was done; the son of man was dead.11. And then the earth was shocked again; the city of Jerusalem rocked to and fro; the hills were rent and tombs were opened up;12. And people thought they saw the dead arise and walk the streets.13. The temple quivered and the veil between the sanctuary and the Holy Place was rent in twain, and consternation reigned through all the place.14. The Roman guard who watched the body on the cross exclaimed, This surely was the son of God who died.15. And then the people hurried down from Calvary.

The priests, the Pharisees and scribes were filled with fear.16. They sought the cover of their synagogues and homes and said, Behold, the wrath of God!17. The great day of the Jewish pasch was near, and Jews could not by law permit a criminal to hang upon the cross upon the Sabbath day.18. And so they prayed that Pilate would remove the bodies of the men that had been crucified.19. And Pilate sent his guards to Calvary to note if all the men were dead.20. And when the guards were gone, two aged Jews came to the palace door to see the governor, and they were members of the highest council of the Jews;21. Yet they believed that Jesus was a prophet sent from God.22. The one was Rabbi Joseph, the Arimathean counsellor, and he was just and loved the law of God.23. And Nicodemus was the other one who came.24. These men fell down at Pilate's feet and prayed that they might take the body of the Nazarene and lay it in a tomb.25. And Pilate gave consent.26. Now, Joseph had prepared a costly mixture to embalm the body of the Lord, about a hundred pounds of aloes and of myrrh, and this they took and hastened out to Calvary.27. And when the guards returned they said, The Nazarene is dead; the malefactors are alive.28. And Pilate told the guards to go and smite the living men so they would die, and then to give their bodies to the flames; but give the body of the Nazarene to rabbis who would call for it.29. The soldiers did as Pilate said.30. The rabbis came and took away the body of the Lord and when they had prepared it with the spices they had bought,31. They laid it in the new-made tomb that had been made for Joseph in a solid rock.32. And then they rolled a stone up to the sepulchre.33. The priests were fearful lest the friends of Jesus would go forth at night and take away the body of the Nazarene, and then report that he had risen from the dead, as he had said;34. And they requested that the governor would send his soldiers to the tomb to guard the body of the dead.35. But Pilate said, I will not send a Roman guard; but you have Jewish soldiers and may send a hundred men with a centurion to guard the tomb.36. And then they sent a hundred soldiers out to guard the tomb.

And then they told about the wonders of the night.45. Caiaphas called a council of the Jews; he said, the news must not go forth that Jesus has arisen from the dead;46. For if it does all men will say, He is the son of God, and all our testimonies will be proven false.47. And then they called the hundred soldiers in and said to them,48. You know not where the body of the Nazarene is resting now, so if you will go forth and say that his disciples came and stole the body while you slept,49. Each one of you shall have a silver piece, and we will make it right with Pilate for breaking of the Roman seal.50. The soldiers did as they were paid to do.

He loved the people as he loved himself.10. He was, in truth, a master sent from God, for he had matchless power.

In one short breath he told the story of his mission to the sons of men, and then he disappeared.32. The magi said, Some time ago we read this promise, now fulfilled, upon the dial plate of heaven.33. And then we saw this man who has just demonstrated unto us the power of man to rise from carnal flesh and blood to flesh of God, a babe in Bethlehem.34. and after many years he came and sat with us in these same groves;35. He told the story of his human life, of trials, sore temptations, buffetings and woes.36. He pressed along the thorny way of life he had risen and over thrown the strongest foes of God and man; and he is now the only master of the human race whose flesh has been transmuted into flesh divine.37. He is the God-man of to-day; but every one of earth overcome and be like him, a son of God.

was any one a witness of the theft?7. The Jews replied, We had a hundred soldiers at the place, and every one of them declares that his disciples stole the body from the tomb.8. The stranger asked, Will any one of all your hundred men stand forth and say, I saw the body stolen from the tomb?9. The Jews replied, We do not know; these men are men of truth; we cannot doubt their word.10. The stranger said, You priests and scribes and Pharisees hear me: I was a witness of the facts, was in the garden of Siloam, and stood among your hundred men.11. And this I know that not a man among your hundred men will say, I saw the body stolen from the tomb.12. And I will testify before the God of heaven and earth, The body was not stolen from the tomb; the man from Galilee is risen from the dead.13. And then the priests and scribes and Pharisees rushed up to seize the man and cast him out.14. But instantly the fisherman became a radiant form of light, and priests and scribes and Pharisees fell back in deadly fear; they saw the man from Galilee.15. And Jesus looked upon the frightened men and said, This is the body that you stoned beyond the city's gates and crucified on Calvary.16. Behold my hands, my feet, my side and see the wounds the soldiers made.17. If you believe that I am phantom made of air, come forth and handle me; ghosts do not carry flesh and bones.18. I came to earth to demonstrate the resurrection of the dead, the transmutation of the flesh of carnal man to flesh of man divine.19. Then Jesus raised his hands and said, Peace be to every one of you; goodwill to all mankind.

They said, A great disaster is to come; our gods are mad; they have destroyed our Oracle.4. But when the flames had spent themselves, a man stood on the orac pedestal and said,5. God speaks to man, not by an oracle of wood and gold, but by the voice of man.6. The gods have spoken to the Greeks, and kindred tongues, through images made by man, but God, the One, now speaks to man through Christ the only son, who was, and is and evermore will be.7. This Oracle shall fail; the Living Oracle of God, the One, will never fail.8. Apollo knew the man who spoke; he knew it was the Nazarene who once had taught the wise men in the Acropolis and had rebuked the idol worshippers upon the Athen's beach;9. And in a moment Jesus stood before Apollo and the Silent Brotherhood, and said,10. Behold, for I have risen from the dead with gifts for men.

I bring to you the title of your vast estate.11. All power in heaven and earth is mine; to you I give all power in heaven and earth.12. Go forth and teach the nations of the earth the gospel of the resurrection of the dead and of eternal life through Christ, the love of God made manifest to men.13. And then he clasped Apollo's hand and said, My human flesh was changed to higher form by love divine and I can manifest in flesh, or in the higher planes of life, at will.14. What I can do all men can do.

They that are dead shall live, and many that shall live will never die.23. By mouth of gods and demi-gods God spoke unto your fathers long ago; but now he speaks to you through perfect man.24. He sent his son, the Christ, in human flesh, to save the world, and as I lifted from the watery grave and saved these servants of Tiberius,25. So Christ will lift the sons and daughters of the human race, yea, every one of them, from darkness and from graves of carnal things, to light and everlasting life.26. I am the manifest of love raised from the dead; Behold my hands, my feet, my side which carnal men have pierced.27. Claudas and Juliet whom I have saved from death, are my ambassadors to Rome.28. And they will point the way and preach the gospel of the Holy Breath and of the resurrection of the dead.29. And that was all he said, but Rome and all of Italy heard.30. The priests of Heliopolis were in their temple met to celebrate the resurrection of their brother Nazarite; they knew that he had risen from the dead.31. The Nazarite appeared and stood upon a sacred pedestal on which no man had ever stood.32. This was an honour that had been reserved for him who first would demonstrate the resurrection of the dead.33. And Jesus was the first of all the human race to demonstrate the resurrection of the dead.34. When Jesus stood upon the sacred pedestal the masters stood and said, All hail!

The essence of the body cannot be quickened by the Holy Breath until the fixed is solved; the body must disintegrate, and this is death.39. And then upon these pliant substances God breathes, just as he breathed upon the chaos of the deep when worlds were formed,40. And life springs forth from death; the carnal form is changed to form divine.41. The will of man makes possible the action of the Holy Breath.

When will of man and will of God are one, the resurrection is a fact.42. In this we have the chemistry of mortal life, the ministry of death, the mystery of deific life.43. My human life was wholly given to bring my will to tune with the deific will; when this was done my earth-tasks all were done.44. And you, my brother, know full well the foes I had to meet; you know about my victories in Gethsemane; my trials in the courts of men; my death upon the cross.45. You know that all my life was one great drama for the sons of men; a pattern for the sons of men.

I lived to show the possibilities of man.46. What I have done all men can do, and what I am all men shall be.47. The masters looked; the form upon the sacred pedestal had gone, but every temple priest, and every living creature said, Praise God.

The other men brought in the net, and it contained a hundred fifty and three fish and yet it did not break.9. And Jesus said, My children, let us break our fast together here.10. They found some living coals upon the beach and Peter brought and dressed the fish; they had some bread.11. And when the meal had been prepared they broke their fast, and Jesus ate of both the fish and bread.12. Now, after breakfast all the men were sitting on the beach, and Jesus said to Peter, Do you love the Lord your God with all your heart, and do you love your neighbour as you love yourself?13. And Peter said, Yea, Lord, I love the Lord my God with all my heart; I love my neighbour as I love myself.14. And Jesus said, Then feed my sheep.15. And then he said to James, Do you love her, the Holy Breath, with all your heart, and do you love your neighbour as you love yourself?16. And James replied, Yea, Lord, I love the Holy Breath with all my heart; I love my neighbour as I love myself.17. Then Jesus said, Protect my sheep.18. And then he said to John, Do you love Christ, the love divine made manifest, with all your heart, and do you love your neighbour as you love yourself?19. And John replied, Yea, Lord, I love the Christ with all my heart; I love my neighbour as I love myself.20. And Jesus said, Then feed my lambs.21. Then Jesus rose and said to Peter, Follow me.

And then he talked with them a long, long time.4. And the disciples asked, Will you restore the kingdom unto Israel now?5. And Jesus said, Be not concerned about the governments of men; the masters will direct.6. Do that which has been given you to do, and wait and murmur not.7. All power in heaven and earth is given unto me, and now I bid you go to all the world and preach the gospel of the Christ, the unity of God and man, the resurrection of the dead, and of eternal life.8. And as you go and preach, baptise the people in the name of Christ.9. They who believe and are baptised shall rise up in the newness of the life of Christ, and they who disbelieve shall rise not in the newness of the life of Christ.10. And you shall give to men the power I give to you.11. They who believe and are baptised shall heal the sick; shall cause the blind to see, the deaf to hear, the lame to walk;12. Shall cast the unclean spirits out of those obsessed; shall tread on deadly serpents and be not harmed; shall pass through flames and not be burned; and if they drink a poisonous draught it shall not kill.13. You know the sacred Word, which is the word of power.14. The secret things that I have told to you that may not now be told to all the world, you shall make known to faithful men who shall in turn reveal them unto other faithful men.15. Until the time shall come when all the world may hear and comprehend the words of truth and power.16. And now I will ascend to God, as you and all the world will rise to God.17. Behold, upon the day of Pentecost you all shall be endowed with power from on high.18. But here you shall remain till then in holy thought and prayer.19. Then Jesus went to Olivet, and his disciples followed him, and in a place not far removed from Bethany, he met the Marys and Salome;20. Met Martha, Ruth and Miriam; met Lazarus and a host of others who had come from Galilee.21. And Jesus stood apart and raised his hands and said,22. The benedictions of the Holy Ones, of the Almighty God, and of the Holy Breath, of Christ the love of God made manifest.23. Will rest upon you all the way till you shall rise and sit with me upon the throne of power.24. And then they saw him rise upon the wings of light; a wreath encircled him about; and then they saw his form no more.25. But as they gazed up into heaven two men, in robes of white, appeared and said,26. You men of Galilee, why gaze you thus so anxiously upon the ascending Lord?

1. The fact that Jesus had arisen from the dead was not denied by many of the rulers of the Jews.2. And Pilate gave an order that the followers of the Nazarene be not molested in their worship any place in his domain.3. The day of Pentecost was near at hand and every one was looking for a manifest of Spirit power.4. Now, in Jerusalem the eleven had met to choose a man to fill the place of Judas who betrayed his Lord.5. And Peter said, the Lord called to this ministry twelve men as twelve foundation stones on which the Christine temple should be built.6. This Judas who betrayed his Lord, has gone to his own place beyond the veil.7. Of him the prophet wrote: His habitation shall be desolate; no man shall dwell therein; his office let another take.8. From those who have accompanied us from Gigal, where the harbinger baptised, until this day, shall one be chosen to complete the number twelve, to fill the place from which our brother by transgression fell.9. And then the eleven spent a long, long time in prayer, and when they cast their lots, Matthias, from the valley of the Nile, was chosen for the place.10. Matthias was an Israelite indeed; but he was learned in all the wisdom of Egyptian schools, and he had taught the mysteries of Mizraim in Jericho.11. He was among the first to greet the harbinger; among the first to recognise the Nazarene as Christ, the son of God;12. He had been with the Christine band in all their journeys in the land of Galilee, Judea and Samaria.13. A messenger was sent who found Matthias, and he came and joined the eleven, and for a time the twelve were lost in silent prayer.14. The Christines who had come from Galilee and places in Judea, about six score, were there, and Peter told them of Matthias, and how, by lot, he had been chosen an apostle of the Lord.15. The Christines all were glad and praised the name of God; and Miriam sung a song of praise.16. These are the names of the apostles of the Lord; Peter, john and James; Philip, Andrew and Nathaniel;17. Thomas, James the son of Alpheus and Simon Zelotes; Matthew, Jude, the son of Alpheus and Matthias.

The Holy Breath spoke with his tongue and said,13. And it shall come to pass in latter days, that I will breathe upon the sons of men, and fill them with the blessedness of holiness.14. Your sons and daughters will stand forth and prophesy; your young men will be seers; your old men will dream dreams.15. And I will show wonders in the heavens above, and marvellous signs in earth.16. Sounds will proceed from heaven and voices will be heard that men will fail to comprehend.17. The sun will fail to shine, the moon will wade in blood before the coming of the great day of the Lord.18. And it will come to pass that they who call upon the name of God in faith shall be redeemed.19. This is the day of Christine power; the day that he, the man from Galilee, is glorified.20. He came as a babe in Bethlehem and from his day of birth the kings of earth went forth intent to take his life.21. God held him in the hollow of his hand.22. Men called him Jesus, and they called him well, for he was sent to seek and save the lost.23. And Jesus grew to manhood and was subject unto all trials and temptations of the sons of men, that he might know the loads that men must bear, and know the way to succour them.24. In distant lands he lived and by the sacred Word he healed the sick, threw prison doors ajar, and set the prisoners free, and everywhere he was proclaimed, Immanuel.25. But wicked men despised him and rejected him, and by bribed men they proved him guilty of a score of crimes;26. And in the presence of a multitude of men who hear me now, they nailed him to a cross;27. They sealed him with the seal of death; but death was all too weak to hold him in the tomb and when immortal master said, Adon mashich cumi, he burst the bands of death, and rose again to life.28. He showed himself alive, not only to the rulers in Jerusalem, but to the many in the distant parts of earth;29. And then, before the wondering eyes of many who now hear me speak, attended by a retinue of courtiers of the angel world, he ascended to the throne of God.30. And being now exalted high, and having breathed to full the Holy Breath, he breathes again on us, and thus sheds forth what you now see and hear.31. You men of Israel, Know that God has made this man from Galilee would you abused and crucified, both Lord and Christ.32. And then the people said, What shall we do?33. And Peter said, This Christine Lord has sent us forth to open up the gates of dawn.

Through Christ all men may enter into light and life.34. The Christine Church stands on the postulates that Jesus is the love of God made manifest; that love is saviour of the sons of men.35. This Christine Church is but the kingdom of the Holy One within the soul, made manifest.36. This day the Christine Church is opened up, and whosoever will may enter in, and, by the boundless grace of Christ, be saved.37. Again the people said, How may we enter in that we may share the boundless grace of Christ?38. And Peter said, Reform and be baptised, and turn away from sin and lead the life deep hid with Christ in God, and you shall enter in and be redeemed.39. Three thousand people turned away from sin and were baptised and sought to lead the life deep hid with Christ in God.40. And in one day the Christine Church became a mighty power; and Christ became a mighty word that thrilled the multitudes in many lands.