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What Jesus Said

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 baptized in Holy Breath.
5) And then they prayed; a light 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 send 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? would you destroy us by the Word before our time? we would have naught to do with you; let us alone.
18 ) But Jesus said to them,
By the omnific Word I speak; Come out; torment this man no more; go to your place.
19) And then the unclean spirits threw the man upon the floor, and, with a fiendish cry, they went away.
20) And Jesus lifted up the man and said to him,
If you will keep your mind fully occupied with good, the evil spirits cannot find a place to stay;
21) They only come to empty heads and hearts. Go on your way and sin no more.
22) The people were astonished at the words that Jesus spoke, the work he did. They asked among themselves,
23) Who is this man? From whence comes all this power that even unclean spirits fear, and flee away?
24) The Christine master left the synagogue; with Peter, Andrew, James and John, he went to Peter's house where one, a near of kin, was sick.
25) And Peter's wife came in; it was her mother who was sick.
26) And Jesus touched the woman as she lay upon her couch; he spoke the Word; the fever ceased and she arose and ministered to them.
27) The neighbors heard what had occurred, and then brought their sick, and those obsessed, and Jesus laid his hands on them, and they were healed.
 
"They only come to empty hearts and minds". LOL. I woudn't say empty as much as filled with negativity.

But this Jesus seems so simple, loving, and humble. You can't not like him. Very different from the high and mighty, holier than thou impression that he tends to make.

That would be because it's taken out of context, and re-written to boot.
 
THE Christine master disappeared; no one saw him go, and Peter, James and John set forth to search for him; they found him at his trysting-place out on the Hammoth hills.
2) And Peter said,
The city of Capernaum is wild; the people crowd the streets and every public place is filled.
3) The men, the women and the children everywhere are asking for the man who heals by will.
4) Your home and our homes are filled with people who are sick; they call for Jesus who is called the Christ. What will we say to them?
5) And Jesus said,
A score of other cities call, and we must take the bread of life to them. Go call the other men and let us go.
6) And Jesus and the twelve went to Bethsaida where Philip and Nathaniel dwelt; and there they taught.
7) The multitudes believed on Christ, confessed their sins and were baptized, and came into the kingdom of the Holy One.
8 ) The Christine master and the twelve went everywhere through all the towns of Galilee, and taught, baptizing all who came in faith, and who confessed their sins.
9) They opened up blinded eyes, unstopped deaf ears, drove forth the evil ones from those obsessed, and healed disease of every kind.
10) And they were in Tiberius by the sea, and as they taught a leper came a-near and said,
Lord, I believe, and if you will but speak the Word I will be clean.
11) And Jesus said to him,
I will; be clean.
And soon the leprosy was gone; the man was clean.
12) And Jesus charged the man, say naught to anyone, but go and show yourself unto the priests and offer for your cleansing what the law demands.
13) The man was wild with joy; but then he went not to the priests, but in the marts of trade, and everywhere he told what had been done.
14) And then the sick in throngs pressed hard upon the healer and the twelve, imploring to be healed.
15) And they were so importunate that little could be done, and so the Christines left the crowded thoroughfares, and went to desert places where they taught the multitudes that followed them.
16) Now, after many days the Christines came back to Capernaum. When it was noised around that Jesus was at home, the people came; they filled the house till there was no more room, not even at the door.
17) And there were present scribes and Pharisees and doctors of the law from every part of Galilee, and from Jerusalem, and Jesus opened up for them the way of life.
18 ) Four men brought one, a palsied man upon a cot, and when they could not pass the door they took the sick man to the roof, and opened up a way, then let him down before the healer's face.
19) When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the palsied man,
My son, be of good cheer; your sins are all forgiven.
20) And when the scribes and Pharisees heard what he said, they said,
Why does this man speak thus? 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? What matters it if I should say, Your sins are blotted out; or say, Arise, take up your bed and walk?
23) But just to prove that men may here forgive the sins of men, I say,
(and then he spoke unto the palsied man)
24) Arise, take up your bed, and go your way.
25) And in the presence of them all the man arose, took up his bed, and went his way.
26) The people could not comprehend the things they heard and saw. They said among themselves,
This is a day we never can forget; we have seen wondrous things today.
27) And when the multitudes had gone the twelve remained, and Jesus said to them,
28 ) The Jewish festival draws near; next week we will go to Jerusalem, that we may meet our brethren from afar, and open up to them the way that they may see the king.
29) The Christines sought the quiet of their homes, where they remained in prayer for certain days.
 
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 favored 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? According to your faith it shall be done. 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? the man replied,
I do not know. 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? From whence came he? Had he a father? 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 virtues 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 spirits 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 the passions of the lower self; and they can conquer if they will.
41) So man is God on earth, and he who honors God must honor 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 realize 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? No, for your prophet, Moses, has done that; and if you hear not Moses' words you will not hearken unto me, for Moses wrote of me.
 
A true master class. I do believe he is telling the truth. But, as he would say, "Men cannot handle the truth".

But the idea of conquering the lower self to acquire "Siddhis" is a very Eastern concept and you can understand his teachings more if you've studied Eastern enlightenment philosophy. I think that is almost a requirement to make real sense of the Bible.

Many like to make them out as being two completely separate things, but if you look into it in more depth you can see that they're not. You just have to be willing to see it and break down the traditional barriers between belief systems that just get in the way of the truth. It's more right to say that they complement each other.
 
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NOW, Lazarus was at the feast and Jesus and the twelve went with him to his home in Bethany.
2) And Lazarus and his sisters made a feast for Jesus and the twelve; and Ruth and Asher came from Jericho; for Asher was no longer hostile to the Christ.
3) And while the guests sat at the board behold a cry,
The village is a-fire!
and all rushed out into the streets, and, lo, the homes of many neighbors were in flames.
4) And in an upper room an infant lay asleep, and none could pass the flames to save. The mother, wild with grief, was calling on the men to save her child.
5) Then, with a voice that made the spirits of the fire pale and tremble, Jesus said,
Peace, peace, be still!
6) And then he walked through smoke and flame, climbed up the falling stair, and in a moment came again, and in his arms he brought the child. 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 lie 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. When these are caught and turned aside, the will of man will know no bounds; then man has but to speak and it is done.
13) And then the guests returned and sat about the board. A little child came in and stood by Jesus' side.
14) She laid her hand on Jesus' arm and said,
Please, Master Jesus, hear! my father is a drunken man; my mother toils from morn till night and when she brings her wages home my father snatches them away and squanders every cent for drink, and mother and us little ones are hungry all the night.
15) Please, Master Jesus, come with me and touch my father's heart. 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 neighbors 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. Just lead the way in helpfulness; I'm sure the men of Bethany will furnish you the means and help.
22) The spark of hope that so long had been smoldering in the man was fanned into a flame. He threw his ragged coat aside; he was himself again.
23) And then he called for help; not for himself, but for the homeless ones; and everybody helped. The ruined homes were built again.
24) And then he saw his own poor den; his heart was stirred into its depths.
25) The pride of manhood filled his soul; he said,
This wretched den shall be a home.
He worked as he had never wrought before, and everybody helped.
26) And in a little while the den became a home indeed; the flowers of love bloomed everywhere.
27) The mother and the little ones were filled with joy; the father never drank again.
28 ) A man was saved, and no one ever said a word about neglect or drunkenness, nor urged him to reform.
 
NEXT morning ere the sun had risen Jesus and the twelve went to a mountain near the sea to pray; and Jesus taught the twelve disciples how to pray. 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. They seek the praise of men and their reward is sure.
5) But when you pray, go to the closet of your soul; close all the doors, and in the holy silence, pray.
6) You need not speak a multitude of words, nor yet repeat the words again and then again, as heathen do. 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 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.
 
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 who 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 crust; 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 crust 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 multiform.
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; his 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 hour comes when he will be the weak, the victim of a libertine of greater power.
29) Woe unto you when all the world shall speak in praise of you. 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 honor 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 his 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.
 
He's starting to get firerce. But at least I can understand what he meant now. Those what seem like impossibly high principles were based upon a very high realised consciousness state and there was real reasons for them.

It's as if he says we can either regard these laws and make it easier for ourselves, or disregard them and make it harder for ourselves. The choice is ours, but he wanted to show us the easier way.

I think people will do anything to rationalise away that these things could be true, though, because it makes life in this world harder to live.
 
There is absolutely no historical evidence that Jesus ever existed...the first writings of him came 70 years after his supposed death....he more than likely never existed.
 
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 the Spirits of our 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 they 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, and in 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.
 
Ninae said:
...the idea of conquering the lower self to acquire "Siddhis" is a very Eastern concept and you can understand his teachings more if you've studied Eastern enlightenment philosophy. I think that is almost a requirement to make real sense of the Bible.

Many like to make them out as being two completely separate things, but if you look into it in more depth you can see that they're not. You just have to be willing to see it and break down the traditional barriers between belief systems that just get in the way of the truth. It's more right to say that they complement each other.
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This is truth.
 
It's just two different ways of expressing the same thing. Buddha taught about karma and said "Being kind to all living things is the only religion". The Hindu faith also have their version of the same thing. If you look at these things in real depth you can see that in essence they're quite similar.

People just seem to find the Eastern take on it easier to take. I think this is, for one thing, that the Eastern religions haven't been imposed upon them like Jesus/Christianity has been, and at a time when they weren't ready for it and the ego just revolted. They haven't had moral rules and limitations imposed on them through it (although they also teach these, but you can choose to look away from it). So Eastern belief systems can be more something you come to out of your own will and also seem more exotic.

The other thing I think is that Jesus stated these things more explicitly. He doesn't just say all you do will return to you and leave you to make your own thoughts about it. He really brings it to life and brings out the judgement side of God, which is the one thing most people can't really deal with, or even want to think about. It's just that if there is such a thing as divine law and consequences to you for breaking it, it would be in your best interest to be made aware of it, instead of imagining or hoping there is no such thing.
 
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 (human) race, as force is Father of the race.
3) The man who honors the almighty and omniscient God is blessed, and in the tables of the law we read,
4) Pay homage to your Father and your 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 judgment 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 have set the pace.
32) Be perfect as your Father-God in heaven is.
 
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 color 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 men 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 Beelzebub 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 Beelzebub 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 murmer not; God will protect, and feed, and clothe.
 
THERE is a rule that carnal man has made, and which he rigidly observes:
2) Do unto other men as they do unto you. As others judge, they judge; as others give, they give.
3) Now, while you walk with men as men, judge not, and you shall not be judged.
4) For as you judge you shall be judged, and as you give it shall be given to you. If you condemn, you are condemned.
5) When you show mercy, men are merciful to you, and if you love in such a way that carnal man can comprehend your love, you will be well beloved.
6) And so the wise man of this world does unto other men as he would have them do to him.
7) The carnal man does good to other men for selfish gain, for he expects to have his blessings multiplied and then returned; he does not stop to note the end.
8 ) Man is himself the field; his deeds are seeds, and what he does to others grows apace; the harvest time is sure.
9) Behold the yield! If he has sown the wind, he reaps the wind; if he has sown the noxious seeds of scandal, theft and hate; of sensuality and crime,
10) The harvest is assured and he must reap what he has sown; yea, more; the seeds produce an hundred fold.
11) The fruit of righteousness and peace and love and joy can never spring from noxious seeds; the fruit is like the seed.
12) And when you sow, sow seeds of right, because it is the right, and not in the way of trade, expecting rich rewards.
13) The carnal man abhors the spirit law, because it takes away his liberty to live in sin; beneath its light he cannot satisfy his passions and desires.
14) He is at enmity with him who walks in Holy Breath. 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.
 
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"The carnal man abhors the spirit law, because it takes away his liberty to live in sin; beneath its light he cannot satisfy his passions and desires."


An interesting quote. Some might say people choose to believe in God because they find it comforting, but someone can also choose not to believe in God because they find that comforting. Or at least in the idea of divine judgement and consequences for your actions.

Life is hard enough as it is, and you don't need to deal with all that to make it even harder. I've felt like that myself, but looking back I don't know if it was the wisest thing.
 
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