The Great Gospel of John
Volume 4
Jesus' Precepts and Deeds through His Three Years of Teaching
Jesus near Caesarea Philippi (cont.)
- Chapter 47 -
The preparatory requirements for the somnambulant treatment.
Says Cyrenius in a serious but nevertheless human soft voice: "You are not allowed to depart, however, you have not to stay awaiting punishment, but only for your own welfare! We Romans had never any pleasure to punish any sinners, but only regarding their true and complete betterment. If this can be achieved without the sharp punishing stick, we would prefer this always a lot more! We only take the punishing stick in hand, if all other means fail. Thus nobody is called to the strictest responsibility for sinning against the salutary law once; this only happens then, if he repeatedly commits the same sin, either from too great carelessness or out of a all destroying wilfulness. Whoever repeatedly commits a sin by wilfulness, must also be punished wilfully!
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Now, according to your old Spartan principles you only have sinned out of need and for the first time are standing in front of a judge! Based on this fact alone, you will not be damned and judged; but you must discard your evil and silly principles! Your ill soul will be cured, and you must recognize the blessing of the wise laws and only then start to act accordingly, and only then you will depart from here as a completely freed man, and you will have a great joy, because you will become a truly pure and free man.
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But for such healing to be effective, a pure and physical and spiritual strong person from our society will lay his healing hands on your head and your chest; and only such extremely tender treatment will awaken and enliven the slumbering concepts inside yourself, whereby you will recognise the welfare of the well-organized and sharply sanctioned laws of Rome and you will be even glad about it! - Do you agree with this?"
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Says Zorel, somewhat more cheerful as before: "High lord and eminent ruler! I already agree with everything not called beating, decapitation or even crucifixion! However, that such treatment will make me better and provides me with more reasonable principles, I cannot vouch for; since an old tree cannot that easily be bent again. But I do not want to completely daub the possibility! Where is the man who will lay his strong hands on me?"
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Cyrenius ask Me on the side if the time has come.
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Says I: "Just a little more patience; give the soul a little more time to digest! This person is now full of excited thoughts and would be difficult to bring him into the raptures sleep; it is also not allowed to point Zinka out to him as the one who is chosen for it, until the right time has come! I will give you a sign."
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After these My words and after such My orders everyone was quite for a while, and our Zinka waits with a fearing joy for My sign to treat Zorel. But he was busy with all kinds of thoughts regarding what they in all seriousness are planning to do with him, either good or bad. He examines all our faces and says by himself: 'No, from these people I do not detect any cunningness; one can trust them! They can only do good, however, never something bad!'
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Now, this preparation out of himself was necessary before the treatment, since without it, the laying on of hands by Zinka would be a fruitless effort. Because at these treatments the patient must place himself in a sort of faithful and trustful state, otherwise it would not be possible, even with all humanly possible and over flooding soul-substantial-strength, to bring him into the salutary raptures sleep.
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Ah, it is something completely different with perfected people who out of the spirit and in the spirit are reborn! They only require, just as I am, their excited will, - and the act of healing is accomplished! However, with people who are not yet fully reborn, the treatment of an ill person must be accompanied by an awakening and regeneration of the to be treated person beforehand, otherwise - as said - the whole treatment would be a wasted effort and work.
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Now our Zorel is ripe and soon I will give Zinka a sign, to lay his hands on Zorel.