The Great Gospel of John
Volume 4
Jesus' Precepts and Deeds through His Three Years of Teaching
Jesus near Caesarea Philippi (cont.)
- Chapter 74 -
The nature of God and His incarnation.
Says Zorel: "He says: 'Zorel can do everything, if he, as the real Zorel, wants to!', and he wants it now, and therefore he surely will be helped! If I could at least stay a few weeks with you, clearly the matter would go easier and faster!"
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Says Johannes: "If you only have taken a perfectly serious will to become a better person, you will stay among men, who are just as powerful as we are in the most immediate vicinity of the great and living light out of God!"
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Says Zorel: "What and who is actually your God, which you Jews call the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob?"
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Says Johannes: "This question you will clearly find answered in yourself, once you have become united in your light, just as we have found it; if we wanted to explain this more clearly to you, you would not understand us for your whole life. But this you should know in advance, what idea a true person should have about God, and therefore listen!
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The only true and united God is in Himself an everlasting, purest spirit out of Himself, equipped with the highest degree of self-consciences, with the deepest and brightest truth and with a firm will, to whom is nothing impossible.
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God is the word in Himself, and the word itself is God. This everlasting word has now taken up the flesh, came in this world to those who belong to Him, and they do not recognize the light, which thereby has come into the world. For this reason this light will be taken away from the children and given to the heathens (superstitious believers) as responsibility. Since the heathens are now searching for the truth, however, the children of the light are fleeing it, like the great criminals the courts. Therefore it will be taken from the children and given to the heathens, as is it the case right now and is taking place.
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Because the primordial children of the light are living in Jerusalem, outlawing the truth from God and cling more and more to the night, to the lie and its loose works. But the heathens travelling the world and are searching for the truth, and once they have found it, they are very joyful and praise the Giver of the light beyond measure truly in their hearts and with deeds.
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Here, look around you, and you see quite a crowd of people! The biggest number are heathens, who have searched for the light out of the heavens. They have found it and are glad about it; but Jerusalem, the city of the Lord, are only sending out captors and henchmen, who should crush the light! But those who were send, are cleverer than those who were sending them; they came out of their great darkness to the light, were very glad about it and stayed in it. They indeed have captured the light, but not for the dungeon of Jerusalem, but for themselves, for their hearts, and are now our brothers in the light of God, and are glad about it and Him, from whom the great light emanates.
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You came here as a heathen, though not to find a light for your life's night, but for gold and silver. But who comes out of the dungeon to the light of the sun, will not easily be able to avoid, that he becomes illuminate. And so it happens to you. Even if you did not search for th the light, you will nevertheless become illuminated, since you came to the sun, this does not mean the light of nature which just now touches the setting horizon, but the light of the spiritual sun, which illuminates the whole of infinity with all wisdom, so that all beings who are able of thoughts, can think and will out of that light, as on this earth and countless other worlds, with which infinite space has been filled out by God.
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Therefore, let this light shine through you, which you now start to notice a little, so that it shines through your intestines, and by the smallest spark of this light you already will become happier than be able to take possession of all the treasures of the world. Search now your self for the true kingdom of truth, and everything else will be given to you for free, and you will not have a shortages of anything!"