THE GOSPEL

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COMPLETION

Perception revealer of the witnessed truth

 1. The Conception of Maryam the Righteous, Mother of the Kingdoms of
Light, to Yeshua e Meshyha, Son of EhYeh

In the genealogy of Yeshua e Meshyha, Aum the first Man is followed by

Abraham the Prophet, followed by Dawid King of Yisrael, followed by Shlomo the
Wise, followed by Yosef, the husband of Maryam, Mother of Yeshua e Meshyha.
Now the birth of Yeshua e Meshyha was such:
Maryam, daughter of Yhoaqim and Hannah, at fourteen years, was betrothed
to Yosef the carpenter.
One night, before they could be together, Maryam was woken from her sleep
by a light at her window. This was the fourteenth day of the second month of Adar,
which was on the sixth day of the week. It was the year three-thousand-seven-
hundred-fifty-six after the Creation according to the Jews.
She was found with child then, and she asked "How can that be, as I have
never before been with a man?"
She was told then the mysteries of the fate of the child she carried in her
womb, and was told "This child is not of the man, but from the God it is brought
onto you."
Yosef, when he found of his betrothed's womb to be filled, and knowing that
he had not been together with her, thought her defiled.
Not wanting to make a public example of her, he decided to let her away
quietly.
But when this thought formed in his mind, a being formed as well before his
eyes, and it was an angel from EhYeh that was sent to him and change his decision,
saying,
"Yosef, do not fear to take with you Maryam your wife, for the child conceived
in her is by the Holy Spirit of God, and she is the Mother of the Kingdoms of Light.
She will bear a son, and you are to name him Amanuel, Yeshua, for he will
liberate his people from their confinements."
And hearing this, Yosef awoke from his vision and went on to take Maryam as
his wife, but had no relations to her until she bore the son as the angel had foretold,
and he named him Yeshua.

2. The Conception by Elisheva the Barren of Yohanan Son of Priest Zecharyah

In the days of King Hordos of Yauda, there was a priest named Zecharyah,
who belonged to the priestly order of Aviyahu. His wife was a descendant of Aharon,
and her name was Elisheva.
Both of them were righteous before God, living blamelessly according to all
the commandments and regulations of the Lord.
But they had no children, for Elisheva was barren, and both were getting on
in years.
Once when he was serving as priest before God and his section was on duty,
he was chosen by lot, according to the custom of the priesthood, to enter the
sanctuary of the Lord and offer incense.
Now at the time of the incense offering, the whole assembly of the people
was praying outside.

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 Then there appeared to him an angel of the Lord, standing at the right side of
the altar of incense.
When Zecharyah saw him, he was terrified, and fear overwhelmed him.
But the angel said to him, "Do not be afraid, Zecharyah, for your prayer has
been heard. Your wife Elisheva will bear you a son, and you will name him
Yohanan.
You will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth,
for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He must never drink wine or
strong drink; even before his birth he will be filled with the Holy Spirit.
He will turn many of the people of Yisrael to the Lord their God.
With power from God that also Eliyah possessed, he will go before him, to
turn the hearts of parents to their children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the
righteous, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord."
Zecharyah said to the angel, "How will I know that this is so? For I am an old
man, and my wife is getting on in years."
The angel replied, "I am Gabriel. I stand in the presence of God, and I have
been sent to speak to you and to bring you this good news.
But now, because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their
time, you will become mute, unable to speak, until the day these things occur, for
your words of unbelief great harm can bring."
Meanwhile the people were waiting for Zecharyah, and wondered at his delay
in the sanctuary.
When he did come out, he could not speak to them, and they realized that he
had seen a vision in the sanctuary. He kept motioning to them and remained unable
to speak.
When his time of service was ended, he went to his home.
After those days his wife Elisheva conceived, and for five months she
remained in seclusion.
And at the time when Maryam her kin found that by the hand of God Elisheva
was too with child, she visited her.
And at the sight of Maryam, the child in the womb of Elisheva leaped, and she
said, "Blessed are you amongst women!
For whom you carry in your womb is the Meshyha from God sent, and it must
be that your life will be eternal in the Kingdom of Heaven!
For my child leaped in my womb when I neared you, and he is to make the
way for the Meshyha to walk on."
And four months later, when the day begins to descend and the night begins
to ascend, the child of Elisheva was born, on the twentieth day of the month Sivan,
which was on the second day of the week. It was the year three-thousand-seven-
hundred-fifty-seven after the Creation according to the Jews.
And eight days after his birth, when the boy was to be circumcised, he was
named Yohanan, for Elisheva and Priest Zecharyah his parents wished it to be so,
and as the angel Gabriel had foretold.

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 3. Of the Coming of Yeshua e Meshyha into Being

And Maryam and Yosef were caught unprepared, alone in the wilderness,
when the pains of birth started in Maryam's womb.
And they knew that they were to find shelter, for storm clouds were
approaching, and they needed food and water and a warm place.
And they walked for miles until they found a region in which there were
shepherds living in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night.
And the shepherds took them in and sat them in a sheltered den, to be
covered from the harsh weather, and they brought them water and cloths to put
over their cold bodies.
And Maryam gave birth to the baby.
Yeshua was hence born in the town of Bethlehem of Yauda, in the time of
Hordos the king, on the twenty-fourth day of the month Kislev, which was on the
third day of the week.

Then an angel of God stood before them, and the glory of God shone around
them, and they were terrified.
But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid; for see - I am bringing you
good news of great joy for all the people:
to you is born this day in the city of Dawid a Saviour, who is the Meshyha, the
Son of God.
This will be a sign for you: you will find a child wrapped in bands of cloth and
lying in a den."
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host,
praising God and saying,
"Glory to Eh in the highest Heaven, and in the Kingdom Beyond and on the
Realm of Earth blessed be Yeh, blessed be the Mother Who gave birth to the Son of
God!"
When the angels had disappeared from human sight, the shepherds said to
one another, "Let us go now to Bethlehem and see this thing that has taken place,
which the Lord has made known to us."
So they went with haste and found Maryam and Yosef, and the child lying in
the den.
When they saw this, they made known what had been told them about this
child;
and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds told them.
But Maryam treasured all these words and pondered them in her heart.
The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard
and seen, as it had been told them.

There was also a prophet, Hannah the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of
Asher. She was of a great age, having lived with her husband seven years after her
marriage,
then as a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the Temple but
worshiped there with fasting and prayer night and day.
At that moment she came, and began to praise God and to speak about the
child to all who were looking for the redemption of Yerushalayim.

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 Soon afterward, magi that studied the stars came from the East to
Yerushalayim and asked
"Where is the new born to be the King of the Jews? For we have seen his star
come up in the East sky, and we come hence to worship him."
When King Hordos heard of this, he became frightened, and so did all else in
Yerushalayim.
He called onto the chief priests and the teachers of the Law and asked them,
"Where is the Meshyha to be born?"
And they answered all the same, "In the town of Bethlehem of Yauda.
For this is what the prophet has written:
'Bethlehem in the land of Yauda, you are by no means the least of the leading
cities of Yauda; for from you shall come a leader who will guide my people of
Yisrael'."
And so Hordos called the visitors from the East to a secret meeting and found
out from them the precise hour the star had come up.
Then he sent them to Bethlehem with these instructions:
"Go and make a careful search for the child; and when you find him, let me
know, so that I too may go and worship him."
And so they left, and on their way they saw the same star they had seen in
the East, and they greatly rejoiced at its sight, for it was to serve as guidance. They
followed its light until it remained above their heads, and that is where they found
the place that the Meshyha had been born.
They went into the house, and when they saw the child with his Mother
Maryam, they knelt down and worshiped him. They brought out their gifts of sage,
frankincense, and myrrh, and presented them to him.
Then they returned to their country by another road, since a messenger of
EhYeh had warned them in a dream not to return the same way to Hordos.
After they had left, an angel of EhYeh appeared in a dream to Yosef and said,
"Hordos will be looking for the child in order to kill him. So get up, take the child and
his mother and escape to Mizrayim, which is Egypt, and stay there until I say that
you can leave."
Yosef got up, took the child and his mother, and left during the night for
Egypt,
where they stayed until King Hordos died. This was done to make come true
what EhYeh had said through the prophet, ‘I called my Son out of Egypt.’
When Hordos made of knowing that the visitors from the East had tricked
him, he was furious. He gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its
neighbourhood who were two years old and younger - this was done in accordance
with what he had learned from the visitors about the time when the star had
appeared.
In this way what the prophet Yirmiyahu had said came true:
'A sound is heard in Ramah, the sound of bitter weeping. Rachel is crying for
her children; she refuses to be comforted, for they are dead.'
After Hordos died, an angel from EhYeh appeared in a dream to Yosef in
Egypt
and said, "Get up, take the child and his mother, and return to the land of
Yisrael, for those who made try to kill the child are now dead."

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 So Yosef got up, took the child and his mother, and returned to Yisrael.
But when Yosef caught words of Archelaos succeeding his father Hordos as
king of Yauda, he was afraid to go there. He was given further instructions in a
dream, so he went to the province of Gahlylyi
and made his home in a town named Nazrath. And so what the prophets had
said came true: 'He shall be called a Nazarene.'

4. Of the Childhood of Yeshua, from Infancy until He Was Seventeen Years of

Age

Yeshua was a quiet and happy child, crying rarely as an infant and often
smiling when looking at the walls of his room, letting Maryam his Mother and Yosef
to wonder why.
It was the year three-thousand-seven-hundred-sixty-one after the Creation
according to the Jews.
When he was four years of age, often spending his time in the presence of
Yosef the carpenter, he learnt the way of making shapes out of clay. And when he
was playing, he made birds of clay and breathed upon them, and, lo, for they raised
from the ground and flew about his head, and those who saw it were left in awe.

It was the year three-thousand-seven-hundred-sixty-three after the Creation

according to the Jews.
By the time he was six years of age and was given to a local Jewish school,
all his six cousins by Maryam's sister Maryam were born. And they were to
him like brothers and sisters. And their names were Ya'aqov, Yosef, Simon, Y'hudah,
Shlomi and Hannah-Maryam.
And he would sit amongst them and tell them stories of which they had never
heard, nor had they ever been taught in synagogues until then.
And one day Yeshua said to Ya'aqov his brother, "Look out in the bushes
today when you go."
And Ya'aqov did not understand, yet indeed that day he went on a path with
bushes on the way home, for it had rained and the one he normally took was filled
with mud.
And at once from behind him was heard a snake, and he had no time to run,
for from a bush the animal sprung and bit his leg.
He was found by Maryam his mother, and she wailed, for she thought his life
was done for.
And Yeshua was brought to their house, and he laid a hand on Ya'aqov's leg,
and it was healed at once.
And Maryam Yeshua's Mother, and Maryam her sister, and Ya'aqov her son
stood in awe, and rejoiced.

It was the year three-thousand-seven-hundred-sixty-seven after the Creation

according to the Jews.
And it was at ten years of age when Maryam, the sister of Maryam Mother of
Yeshua, died silently in her sleep.

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 And, since she had already been a widow when giving birth to the last of the
six children, Yosef and Maryam Mother of Yeshua took care of them from then on.
And, being the eldest of the now seven children, Yeshua was the one to bring
water from the river.
And one day, his jug broke on the way and all the water made to pour onto
the ground,
yet Yeshua caught it in the cloth of his robes, and brought it this way to his
home.

Yeshua grew and became strong, filled with wisdom; and the aura of EhYeh
was upon him.
Now every year Maryam his Mother and Yosef went to Yerushalayim for the
festival of the Pesach.
And when he was twelve years of age, they went up as usual for the festival.
It was the year three-thousand-seven-hundred-sixty-nine after the Creation
according to the Jews.
When the festival was ended and they started to return, the boy Yeshua
stayed behind in Yerushalayim, but Maryam his Mother and Yosef did not know
it. Assuming that he was in the group of travellers, they went a day's journey. Then
they started to look for him amongst their relatives and friends.
When they did not find him, they returned to Yerushalayim to search for him.
After three days they found him in the Temple, sitting amongst the teachers,
listening to them and asking them questions.
And all who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers.
When Maryam his Mother and Yosef saw him they were astonished; and his
Mother said to him, "Child, why have you treated us like this? Look, your father and
I have been searching for you in great anxiety."
He said to them, "Why were you searching for me? Did you not know that I
must be in the House of my Parent?"
But they did not understand what he said to them.
Then he went down with them and came to Nazrath, and was obedient to
them. His mother treasured all these things in her heart. And Yeshua increased in
wisdom and in years and in divine and human favour, and until he was seventeen
years of age he learnt the craft of Yosef who took care of him, he too becoming a
carpenter in his house.

5. Yeshua in Parsa: From Seventeen to Nineteen Years of Age

A little while after he turned seventeen, Yeshua went and told his Mother and
Yosef that he were to go away for some time in order to gain knowledge.
Not knowing what he was about, they were reluctant. Even so, he insisted
and said to them that he would eventually return. They agreed.

And so he went by himself and joined a group of merchants travelling on

horses and camels from land to land.

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 And the first land he settled in was Parsa. It was the year three-thousand-
seven-hundred-seventy-three after the Creation according to the Jews, and he were
to stay there one year and a half.
And upon his arrival, he was taken under the roof of a family with seven sons
and a widow.

The eldest brother, who was amongst the merchants Yeshua had travelled
with, took him to the market one day, so that he may meet the people, for indeed
he recognized the Divine in Yeshua his companion.
And as they were walking amongst the finely woven fabrics of many colours
hung about the market, Yeshua felt the presence of an entity next to him.
Turning, he recognized an angel, the one who under the highest supervision
was, watching him. Running after the angel, he could no longer see him.
His companion asked him, "Why did you run amongst these fabrics? Whom
did you see?"
And then Yeshua said, "I was running after a vision, and it was when I started
chasing it that it slipped away from me.
In order to remain with something, one might consider stepping away from it.
For what I have remained with is merely a thought, and the knowledge that I
am known beyond this Realm and into the higher planes of existence, and that I
myself know those who keep watch over me."
And so his companion was confused, and said, "If it is you, a boy, speaking
these things, then speak them to our priests! For much will they rejoice when they
hear you!"
And he took Yeshua to the priests following the teachings of Zartosht, and
there he learnt of the culture of the people of Parsa.

And then one night many months later, he had a vision, and upon waking he
knew that he was to share it with the priests.
After greeting them that dawn he sat amongst them, and said to them, "Hear,
I had a vision last night, and with the vision I will speak to you words of wisdom."
And they sat around him and let him speak.
"I have seen an old man with one eye sat upon a throne overlooking the
world.
And from that throne he pointed at me and beyond me, saying, 'Lo, this is my
Son. In the world that is his blanket will he find his mortal end, and from the bosom
of the earth shall he rise once more.
Lo, that I have given away my own eye to see that which may not be seen.
And what I see you cannot see, yet hear it, and believe it'."
And the priests asked him, "What do you think this means?"
He answered them, "The lamb must bare its throat before the killer so it
might become food for the people.
Yet the lamb then dust becomes, and in death the dust also food is for the
flowers to blossom from.
And so is my destiny, for I am the lamb and for the world shall I live, and die,
and live again.

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 And still, the one-eyed man also pointed beyond me, and that is to say that
each man and woman on this earth shall follow in my steps, and they will as well
lose the eyes of their bodies so that they may open the eyes of their spirits."
And the priests marvelled at his insight. They asked him, "And man can
receive life after death by performing the Good?"
Yeshua said to them, "As I have learnt from you, so are you now to learn
from me: the Good is the only existence. All that is not Good is a deviation from
Good.
As you have been taught, so must you teach. As you have been given, so
must you give.
And if you have been taught nothing and nothing has been given to you, then
be you the first to search and to take, and from what you sought and took, give
away to those who have nothing.
The wisdom comes to you when you lose, and from the loss much gain is
had.
Worry not about the chaos of the world, for from this chaos all life comes,
and without it nothing would be.
I am soon to leave you and be on my way. I thank you for being my teachers
for this time."
And they bowed to him in turn and each taught to others as they had
understood his words.

6. Yeshua in Kashmir: From Nineteen to Twenty-Three Years of Age

It was the year three-thousand-seven-hundred-seventy-five after the Creation

according to the Jews when Yeshua had left Parsa and continued his journey to
Kashmir, in the land of Sindhu.
Once more he travelled with the merchants that came from Parsa to Kashmir,
and there he went to the Pujari in order to learn the Brahman ways.
And he was welcomed by one of the old Pujari that knew the secrets of life,
and when he entered the Temple he was asked,
"Tell us, what is truth?"
And Yeshua said, "Truth is that which is forever the same; it is only the
falsehood that changes."
And the Pujari asked him, "And what is justice?"
Yeshua said, "Justice is not of this world, but from Beyond it comes in ways
that earthly minds know not.
So justice is not brought by evening of the odds or by punishment, but by
itself it is set according to one's thoughts and deeds against oneself or another."
Listening to him wording the truth in such a way, the Pujari then asked him,
"And what is wisdom? Can you tell me that?"
Yeshua said, "Wisdom comes from the knowledge of ancestral planes, but
also from understanding does it come, for knowing without comprehension is empty
and without use.
Yet, it is when we say that we know not that we become wise, rather than
speak the unknown without the understanding of the heart."
And he was from that moment taught the Brahmana.

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 Some months passed and Yeshua had learnt various dialects that people
around him spoke. He learnt from those that from him learnt, and in turn he to them
learning gave, as he was as much a teacher as he was a student.
One day, the Pujari who had taken him under his care and guidance told him,
"Today begins the festival of Dipavali, which is the festival of lights."
Yeshua said to him, "This is the festival of lights, of the prevailing of
knowledge over ignorance and love over fear. Your people celebrate it in the name
of Lakshmi, but I tell you that I celebrate it in the name of Light in the Self, for the
halos that the Holy Ones wear are by the Light given, and in them alone dwells the
victory of love.

And not a long time passed that the time of celebration ended, and poor
families wept for their losses after the monsoon of that season.
And Yeshua came and gave to them food and mithai and clothes, and prayed
for them according to his custom, but apart from the Pujari at the Temple so that
they might not take offense.
And as he was walking in the village, children gathered around him and
recognized him for that who from the Creator came, calling him Krishna and saying,
"It is he! It is he!", and greatly did they rejoice and they grabbed at his robes to
make him follow them to their house.
And he did so and upon arrival he saw that they lived poorly. And when the
mother of the children saw him, she started weeping and saying to him, "We are
ruined! We will die!" For so it was that their crops and shelter had been destroyed
by the storms and they were ill with fear and starvation.
And seeing that the family had taken him into their ruined home and gave
him food from the little that they had, he sat with them at the table and ate.
And then, when he saw that one of the children was laughing and forgetting
about his current troubles, he said to them sat at the table,
"When you are in pain, search for pleasure as your ointment.
Pleasure is the greatest relief from pain.
Say not that you have no joy to take from life as you have little; but take then
the little that you have and make joy from it.
See not your loss, but seek the gain and your wealth, for how rich you are
that you have each other, and that you have your life still!
In weakness of the body, seek strength of the spirit. Yet to strengthen the
spirit one must first know its void, and deepen in it so they no longer dwell in the
world, but inside themselves they shall dwell in solace and in peace.
Only when you have mastered your self, your mind, and your body can you
ascend yourself into yourself, and then can the understanding of the world begin.
Say only what you wish for, and not that which you do not wish for.
And then what you wish for shall manifest into dhvani, that which brings the
potential into expression, and that further into concretion.
Stay silent, for in silence shall you hear the sound of the world, and that is
the music of God, who upon you bestows a great power to transform that wood
which you have been given into a house, with a table, a chair and a bed to sleep in.

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 And Whom I call God and EhYeh, as you hear me speak, is not apart from
those whom you call Brahma the Svayambhu, Shiva and Vishnu who in body
incarnated amongst you for guidance through the river of life.
And then it is not important that you pray to God That Who I pray to or to the
god that you believe in, for God has many names and not one of them is fitted to
describe That Which God Is, for God Is All and Nothing Is.
Therefore pray with as much faith as you have until now, and your prayers
will be heard and answered by that who you call upon, as long as you believe in a
God of Absolute Light."
And he gave them food from what he carried with him, and he gave mithai to
the children; and to the mother, who had a cough, he gave a ripped piece of his
tunic, which he dipped into wet soil and herbs, and he said to her, "Put this on your
chest during the night, and do so as well when your children are ill, and you shall all
remain in good health."
And then he departed from them, and shortly after that he said to the Pujari
at the Temple that he would be gone to travel further in the direction of Tod-Bod.
He had spent four years in the region of Kashmir.

7. Yeshua in Tod-Bod: From Twenty-Three to Twenty-Five Years of Age

It was the year three-thousand-seven-hundred-seventy-nine after the

Creation according to the Jews when Yeshua left Kashmir and began his journey
toward the northern region of Tod-Bod. He travelled alone and went to meet with
the monks in Tod-Bod, some of whom had already known of his arrival.
And in Tod-Bod an old lama came before him to welcome him into a cave that
was made into a recluse Buddhist Temple.
And there they knew him, for they had seen into his heart and recognized the
essence of that whom they followed into their daily practices.
And there he meditated throughout the day and into the night, and the day
and the night one became, and his dreams were visions and his vision dream
became, so that his dreams were revelations of that which was to come before him
and which he was to follow in order to fulfil the purpose of his birth, life, death and
life once more.
And there he slept not, for all his consciousness was awake, and he ate
nothing but dry seeds, until he could eat but one seed a day and feel fulfilled.
And one day he disrupted the silence of the cave, and he said to the monks,
"Brethren, the ground for your foundation is solid, and great wealth have you shared
with me by allowing me shelter in this home.
You have asked me who I am. Yet I say to you that I am not Buddha, as
some of you believe, but he the Advocate from Beyond is, and five times on the
earth has walked, as a brother to you he showed himself, and thus he guided you
and revealed to you the path on which to walk so that you may reach the peak of
your existence."
And a monk asked him then, "Issa, tell us, who then is Buddha? And how do
you know of him and who he is?"

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 Yeshua said, "Buddha is then the messenger of the Creator, and he the Light
manifested is to enlighten the minds and spirits of those who listen and watch with
intent.
With one seed a day you give your bodies that which is only necessary, and
your minds you give space to broaden into the depths of possible knowledge, for
there is no perfection unless there is completion, and no completion is there without
absolute enlightenment of consciousness.
For one needs not be filled to saturation, but eat as little as not to think of
food for body, but of food for the soul.
Take this seed: when you eat the seed, you eat the potential of life, and with
it you consume and acquire your own potential and the insight into your future. For
from this seed a tree may grow, and this is the tree of your life, and great can its
branches spread, as long as the seed is not crowded by other seeds.
As with the food you eat, so is with the thoughts you produce. For if you hear
many contrasting ideas, choose but one and follow that one to build the path before
you.
For if you choose all the ideas, none of them may grow, and as the seeds
they crowd one another.
This then is Buddha, the guide sent from Beyond to you so that the Idea from
Beyond may be spoken through his words, and then so that his words may be heard
by you and followed."
And they listened, for he spoke with the wisdom of that who more experience
had than the one gained from this life, and they asked him, "Issa, may you be a
prophet, do you know of the past and the future?"
He said to them, "What the future holds is but in the hands of another.
The past is then the truth, and the truth I shall share with you so that you
may know."
And he told them of pieces of the past that mankind had twisted, and then he
said, "I have spend little time of my childhood in the land of Mizrayim, which is
Egypt, and learnt the language of its people.
Thereafter I studied the texts of those hidden in Mizrayim, and they tell of
man that he comes from the lands below them, and I say to you that it is true, and
that indeed man has come upon the earth four times, and each time he has
forgotten that he had come before, and each time he left the earth and returned to
it and said he is god, and taught the next man the ways of mankind.
And so the ways of man have prevailed for aeons, and I say to you that the
gods of the ancient are not unlike men, for they are indeed men and have come
upon the earth with knowledge and greatness, and proclaimed themselves as gods
or have been called such falsely.
Yet great is man in front of man, for indeed man can become more than he
is, and thus we pray and meditate, so that we may become as they not by our
minds, but by our hearts.
This then is the past of mankind, but also the future of mankind is, for man
repeats his ways as he knows no others.
I teach you the new ways, as Buddha has taught you, and as well you teach
them to those who seek to learn, for they may in turn become teachers."
And he stood then in silence, until one year was spent teaching and learning,
and then he departed from them so that he may return to his family in Nazrath.

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 And then he spent nine months on his way back home, and when he arrived
he had been gone for eight years. He was now twenty five years of age, and in the
following years Yeshua resumed his trade as a carpenter in Yosef's workshop.

8. Yohanan the Baptist Prepares the Way

In the fifteenth year of the reign of Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilatus
was governor of Yauda, and Hordos was ruler of Gahlylyi, and his brother Philip ruler
of the region of Yatur and Argob, and Lysanias ruler of Abila,
during the high priesthood of Khanan and Qaypha, the word of God came to
Yohanan son of Zecharyah in the wilderness.
It was the year three-thousand-seven-hundred-eighty-six after the Creation
according to the Jews.
And in those days Yohanan the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of
Yauda
and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.”
This was he who was spoken of through the prophet Yesha'yahu: ‘A voice of
one calling in the wilderness, Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for
him.’
Yohanan’s clothes were made of camel’s hair, and he had a leather belt
around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.
People went out to him from Yerushalayim and all Yauda and the whole
region of the Yarden.
Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Yarden River.
Perisayya and Seduqim came to him and said, “The people here come great
lengths to be baptized by you – who are you then that you can do such things?
Are you Eliyah who is to come?”
“No", he said, “I am not Eliyah, even if the same power was given to me as it
was given to him.”
“Are you Chanoch then, who was returned from where God has taken him?”
“I am not he", Yohanan said.
But when he saw more of the Perisayya and Seduqim coming to where he
was baptizing to also be baptized by him, he said to them,
“You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
Produce fruit in keeping with repentance.
And do not think you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’
I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.
The axe is already at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not
produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.
I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me comes one who is more
powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you
with the Holy Spirit and fire.
His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor,
gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

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 9. Yeshua Is Baptized by Yohanan in the Yarden

Then Yeshua came from Gahlylyi to the Yarden to be baptized by Yohanan.

But Yohanan tried to deter him, saying, “It is I who needs baptism from you,
and do you come to me?”
Yeshua replied, “Let it be so now; it is such for us to do this to fulfil all
righteousness.” Then Yohanan consented.
As soon as Yeshua was baptized, he went up out of the water;
At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of EhYeh
descending in the form of a dove and alighting on him.
And a voice from beyond said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am
to do Mine bidding.”
And that was the first Mystery that was revealed to him, and which he was to
show to those who would follow him, so that they may receive the Holy Spirit, and
join the spirit from the matter.

10. Yeshua Goes into the Wilderness to be Tempted

Following his baptism, Yeshua went into the wilderness of the desert to be
tempted, and fasted for forty days and forty nights.
On the fortieth day, he was hungried and thirstied.
The role of the tempter was assumed by the form of the Serpent,
who took a cup from the Temple and poured into it the venom from the
Serpent's mouth.
The cup was then taken to Yeshua, and the Serpent said to him,
"Lo, Yeshua Son of God, drink from this cup of poison, and, if you art in spirit,
your thirst shall be quenched."
And Yeshua, seeing the poison and revealing the Serpent, answered,
"Nay, for my thirst shall only be doused by my Parent beyond", and he threw
the cup with its venom into the sand.
And the Serpent, sensing Yeshua's hunger, went on, and said,
"Then if you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread, and you
will know that it is from you that they have come, and your hunger shall be
quenched."
And still Yeshua answered,
"It is written,
'Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every Word that comes out of
EhYeh's mouth'".
Then the Serpent persisted, and formed a high form under Yeshua's feet, and
at the lowest point of the ground lay cutting stones and starving scorpions.
The Serpent said to Yeshua,
"If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, and you shall have the
power of salvation. For it is written:
'He will command his angels concerning you and they will lift you up in their
hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone'."
And yet still Yeshua said,
"It is also written, 'Do not put the Lord your God to the test'."

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 It was then that the strength returned to Yeshua tenfold,
and the Serpent, the tempter's role being completed, raised to meet Yeshua,
bowed to him in assessment, and said,
"It is indeed true that you are the Son of God,
and you shall be the one to do God's bidding,
and meet your mortal end to open the gates beyond for mankind to enter,
and return to complete your mission of their liberation",
and the Serpent's form evanesced into the sand of the desert,
and Yeshua returned to the city to begin his mission.
There he went on the other side of the Yarden from where he met with
Yohanan the Baptist,
and as well baptized all who came to him with Holy Water.

11. Of Purification; Yohanan the Baptist Talks of Yeshua e Meshyha

Yohanan also was baptizing at Ainun in Nahal Tirtsa because water was
abundant there; and people kept coming and were being baptized.
Now a discussion about purification arose between Yohanan's disciples and a
Jew.
They came to Yohanan and said to him, "Rabbi, the one who was with you
across the Yarden, to whom you testified, here he is baptizing, and all are going to
him."
Yohanan answered, "No one can receive anything except what has been
given from Beyond.
You yourselves are my witnesses that I said, 'I am not the Meshyha, but I
have been sent ahead of him.'
He who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom, who
stands and hears him, rejoices greatly at the bridegroom’s voice. For this reason my
joy had been fulfilled.
"He must increase, but I must decrease.
"The one who comes from Heaven is above all; the one who is on the earth
belongs to the earth and speaks about earthly things. The one who comes from the
Source is above all.
"He testifies to what he has seen and heard, yet no one accepts his
testimony.
Whoever has accepted his testimony has certified this, that God is true.
He whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for he gives the Spirit
without measure.
He is the Word - but who will listen?"
And soon after that Yohanan was taken from there by Hordos the ruler of
Yauda and imprisoned.

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 12. Yeshua Chooses His First Six Sent

Now when Yeshua heard that Yohanan had been arrested, he withdrew to
Gahlylyi.
He left Nazrath and made his home in Kfar Nahum by the sea, in the territory
of Zebulun and Naftali,
so that what had been spoken through the prophet Yesha'yahu might be
fulfilled:
'Land of Zebulun, land of Naftali, on the road by the sea, across the Yarden,
Gahlylyi of the Gentiles -
the people who sat in darkness have seen a great light, and for those who sat
in the region and shadow of death light has dawned.'
From that time Yeshua began to proclaim, "Change your hearts and your
lives, for the Kingdom of Heaven has come near."
And Yeshua spent his days on the shores, carving the stones with imagines of
the future,
and the nights by looking upon the stars and constellations, and when he saw
what message they were proclaiming, he knew the time came that his mission
needed to take pace.

One day toward the end of the cold season, that is on the eighteenth day of
the month Adar and the second day of the week, as he walked the shores of the Sea
of Gahlylyi, he saw two brothers, Simon, who is called Kepha, and Andraus his older
brother, casting a net into the saltwater – for they were fishermen.
And when he saw them, Yeshua came up to them and asked,
"What is it that you would ask of your Lord if your were to recognize him
before you?"
And seeing that this man before them was speaking with seriousness and
seemed not a lunatic, Kepha stepped forward and answered him,
"I would ask him: Why does he put our people with no neglecting to the test
since our settlement on this land?"
And Yeshua saw in him his consistent sincerity and his unaffected dignity.
Andraus said instead,
"I would ask him for happiness only, for who am I to question the motives of
our Lord?"
And Yeshua saw in him his tenderness, forbearance and forgiveness.
And he said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you fishermen of people.”
And even if they knew not in consciousness what he was about, they left
immediately their nets, their families - for Kepha had a wife and three children - and
their earthly possessions and went on to follow him.

As he went from there, he saw two other brothers: Ya'aqov son of Zvad'yah,
and Yochanan his younger brother, in a boat fishing with their father Zvad'yah.
And when he saw the brothers bless the fish they caught and pray to God
their Lord for peace upon the creatures, he saw the sympathy, love and affection
undeterred in their hearts.
And he called onto the two brothers, and even if they knew not in
consciousness what he was about, they left immediately their boat, their father, their

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families - for Ya'aqov had a wife and three children - and their earthly possessions,
and went on to follow him.

The following day, which is to be the nineteenth day of Adar and the third day
of the week, he came upon Philipos of Bethtsaida, whom he met amongst the
fishersfolk, and Nathanael son of Bar-Tolmi, who made business in the town.
And when he saw Philipos buy bread and fruit from the merchants and give it
away to the children in the streets, he recognized the generosity in his heart.
And when he saw Nathanael son of Bar-Tolmi discuss with a priest of the
town, Yeshua stopped and asked him,
"Answer me this: what is it you think the just punishment that God should
throw upon the unrighteous?"
And Nathanael thought and said,
"I know not what God thinks, yet any punishment from him must come, and
not from men that act in His name."
And Yeshua saw that Nathanael's sight was broad, his thinking free and his
judgement pure.
And he called onto them Philipos of Bethtsaida and Nathanael son of Bar-
Tolmi, and even if they knew not in consciousness what he was about, they left
immediately their occupation, their families - for Philipos had a wife - and their
earthly possessions, and went on to follow him.

13. The Wedding in Qaneh of Gahlylyi; Yeshua Turns Water into Wine

After three days there was a wedding in Qaneh of Gahlylyi, and Maryam
Mother of Yeshua was there.
Yeshua and his six Sent had also been invited to the wedding.
There he showed them the Mystery of the Holy Matrimony,
yet it was revealed only to them, for they were to perform it when the time
came.
When the wine gave out, the Maryam Mother of Yeshua said to him, "They
have no wine."
And Yeshua said to her, "Woman, what concern is that to you and to me? My
hour has not yet come."
His Mother said to the servants, "Do whatever he tells you."
Now standing there were six stone water jars for the Jewish rites of
purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons.
Yeshua said to them, "Fill the jars with water." And they filled them up to the
brim.
He said to them, "Now draw some out, and take it to the chief steward." So
they took it.
When the steward tasted the water, he saw that it had become wine, and did
not know where it came from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew.
The steward called the bridegroom and said to him,
"Everyone serves the good wine first, and then the inferior wine after the
guests have become drunk. But you have kept the good wine until now."
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14. Yeshua Teaches the Crowds of the Clean Ways of the Heart and of Life

Yeshua went throughout Gahlylyi, preaching in their synagogues and

proclaiming the good news of the Kingdom, curing every sickness and disease
amongst the people.
It was the year three-thousand-seven-hundred-eighty-seven after the
Creation according to the Jews.
And his name was known and spreading throughout all of Aram, and they
brought to him all the sick, the possessed, the epileptics, the paralytics, all the cast-
out unfortunates, be it by birth or by fate, and he made no complaint in curing
them, and they were cured.
And large crowds followed him from Gahlylyi, from the Dekapolis, from
Yerushalayim, from Yauda, and from beyond the Yarden.

When Yeshua saw the crowds, he went up the mountain; and after he sat
down, his first six Sent came to him.
Then he began to speak, and taught them, saying:
"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom Beyond.
Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be
filled.
Blessed are the merciful, for they will receive mercy.
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called Children of God.
Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the
Kingdom Beyond.
Blessed are you when people revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds
of evil against you falsely on my account.
Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for in the same way
they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
"You are the salt of the earth; but if salt has lost its taste, how can its
saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything, but is thrown out and
trampled under foot.
"You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill cannot be hid.
No one after lighting a lamp puts it under the bushel basket, but on the
lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house.
In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your
good works and give glory to your Parent Beyond.

"Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets; I have
come not to abolish but to fulfil.
For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not one letter, not one
stroke of a letter, will pass from the law until all is accomplished.

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 Therefore, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments, and
teaches others to do the same, will least find their way toward the kingdom of
heaven; but whoever does them and teaches them will for sure receive guidance
into the kingdom of heaven, and they shall also be guides to those whom they have
taught.
For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and
Pharisees, you will never enter the Kingdom Beyond.

"You have heard that it was said to those of ancient times, 'You shall not
murder'; and 'whoever murders shall be liable to judgment.'
But I say to you that if you are angry with a brother or sister, you will be
liable to judgment; and if you insult a brother or sister, you will be liable to the
council; and if you say, 'You fool', you will be liable to the lowest world of your own
making.
So when you are offering your gift at the altar, if you remember that your
brother or sister has something against you,
leave your gift there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your
brother or sister, and then come and offer your gift.
Come to terms quickly with your accuser while you are on the way to court
with him, or your accuser may hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the
guard, and you will be thrown into prison.
Truly I tell you, you will never get out until you have paid the last due.

"You have heard that it was said, 'You shall not commit adultery.'
But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her body
alone has already committed adultery with her in his depth.
If your right eye permits you to harm, tear it out and throw it away;
And if your right hand permits you to harm, cut it off and throw it away; it is
better for you to lose one of your members than for your whole body to be gone
into perdition.

"It was also said, 'Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of
divorce.'
But I say to you that anyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of
unchastity, causes her to commit adultery, and the same the other way around; for
whoever enters the sacred house of matrimony shall respect its grounds, and
whoever spits on the doorstep shall be left outside;
and if death separates two consorts, then the widowed may marry again, for
the place the departed soul has gone to has no sense of marriage, and no injustice
would be done against the deceased.

"Again, you have heard that it was said to those of ancient times, 'You shall
not swear falsely, but carry out the vows you have made to the Lord.'
But I say to you, Do not swear at all, either by heaven, for it is the throne of
God,
or by the earth, for it is the world lived by the Children of God, or by
Yerushalayim, for it is the city of the great King.

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 And do not swear by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or
black.
Let your word be 'Yes, Yes' or 'No, No'; anything more than this comes from
the pretence of allpower, and it is the pretence most plausible to get your souls into
perdition.

"You have also heard that it was said, 'You shall not make a graven image of
yourself'.
And to that I tell you, you shall not make yourself as God, for no man, and no
angel, and no dragon can be as their Parent is.
For if man makes creations of his own, he will falsely think the life it has
comes from him and not God, and he will not let his creature have free-will, and that
shall only bring the doom of mankind.

"And you have heard that it was said, 'You shall not have other gods before
me',
but truly I tell you, the gods worshipped by other peoples, from lands not yet
discovered, bring harm in a lesser manner than the gods that you worship before
your Parent Beyond.
And those are the products of greed: the greed for flesh, the greed for
material wealth, the greed for food and drinking, but the greatest of all is the greed
for illusions.
And all you may lay with the one you love, and you may eat the food you
need, and you may make yourself comfortable through your hard work, but if these
dreams become your jailors instead of your liberators, then perish them at once, for
these are the gods that will indebt you.

"You have heard that it was said, 'An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.'
But I say to you, Do not resist an evildoer. But if anyone strikes you on the
right cheek, turn the other also;
and if anyone wants to sue you and take your coat, give your cloak as well;
and if anyone forces you to go one mile, go also the second mile.
Give to everyone who begs from you, and do not refuse anyone who wants to
borrow from you.
Prepare yourself for times worse than these times, and for people who do
more evil than these people, and such you shall thrive eternally, and God will say 'At
last, they have learnt to be'.
Have you seen how, when the fire strikes the bushes or the the crops, after it
dooms all wildlife to perish, it makes way for newer, more rigorous shoots to
blossom?
Such are you, like the shoots of the field, for each time a fire burns you down,
you are meant to rise greater and stronger than before.
Avoid not the hardships of life, for then you shall not collect the harvest that
follows.

"You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbour and hate
your enemy.'
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 so that you may be children of your Parent Beyond, and lead others into their
Parent's Kingdom as well; for God makes the sun rise on the evil and on the good,
and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous.
For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even
the tax collectors do the same?
And if you greet only your brothers and sisters, what more are you doing than
others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?
Aspire to be ethereal, then, just as your Parent Beyond is ethereal.”

15. Yeshua Teaches the Crowd the Way of Praying and of the Spirit

"Beware of practicing your piety before others in order to be seen by them;

for then you have no reward from your Parent Beyond, and no reward is sowed into
your heart.
"So whenever you give alms, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the
hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be praised by
others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward.
But when you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right hand
is doing,
so that your alms may be done in private; and your Parent who sees in
private will reward you.

"And whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand
and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, so that they may be seen by
others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward.
But whenever you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to
your Parent who is in private; and your Parent who sees in private will reward you.

"When you are praying, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do; for
they think that they will be heard because of their many words.
Do not be like them, for your Parent knows what you need before you ask.

"Pray then in this way:

'Maytrey,
hallow Thou Thy World of Boundlessness;
safety mine, haveth, damnation mine.
Warmth, Love, Want, Faith I have,
all in will of Boundlessness.
Lightbrought be peace,
spake The Unswerving,
Eternally Blessed.
Enouchyamae forged,
guard, knowing mine
guidances of deviation remove.
Glory to the Eternal,
The Hidden of the Kingdoms of Light!'"

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 And, seeing that the crowd stood silent and knew not the words that Yeshua
had spoken, Nathanael son of Bar-Tolmi, who stood to the right behind him,
understood the message of Yeshua, and spoke it for the crowds to hear:
"And so we shall pray:
‘Our Parent in Heaven,
hallowed be Thy name.
Thy Kingdom come.
Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts, as we ourselves forgive all indebted to us.
And do not bring us to the time of trial, but guide us away from evil.
For the Kingdom and the power and the glory are Thine forever. Amen'."
And Yeshua prayed this way, for he allowed it to be such, and the crowd
prayed along with them, for they had been taught it was the right thing to do.

And Yeshua then went on to teach them,

"For if you forgive others their trespasses, then you shall unleash the
boundaries they have made for themselves, according to their beliefs.
And if you forgive your own trespasses, your Parent Beyond will also forgive
you;
but if you do not forgive others, and you do not forgive yourself, your bodies
shall be gone into perdition.

"And whenever you fast, do not look dismal, like the hypocrites, for they
disfigure their faces so as to show others that they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they
have received their reward.
But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face,
so that your fasting may be seen not by others but by your Parent who is in
private; and your Parent who sees in private will reward you.

"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust
consume and where thieves break in and steal;
but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust
consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal.
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

"The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body
will be full of light;
but if your eye is unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then
the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

"No one can serve two masters; for a slave will either hate the one and love
the other, or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God
and wealth.

"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what
you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food,
and the body more than clothing?

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 Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns,
and yet your Parent Beyond feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?
And can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life?
And why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how
they grow; they neither toil nor spin,
yet I tell you, even Shlomo in all his glory was not clothed like one of these.
But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow
is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you - you of little faith? For it
is not clothing that is needed to cover the body, but faith to cover the fear.
Therefore do not worry, saying, 'What will we eat?' or 'What will we drink?' or
'What will we wear?'
But strive first for the kingdom of God and righteousness, and all these things
will be given to you as well.

"So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of its own.
Today's trouble is enough for today."

16. Yeshua Finishes His Teaching to the Crowd on the Mountain

"Do not judge, so that you may not be judged.

For with the judgment you make you will be judged, and the measure you
give will be the measure you get.
Why do you see the speck in your neighbour’s eye, but do not notice the log
in your own eye?
Or how can you say to your neighbour, 'Let me take the speck out of your
eye,' while the log is in your own eye?
You blindmen, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see
clearly to take the speck out of your neighbour’s eye.
Otherwise, even the eyeless man has greater sight than you, unfortunates,
for you cannot recognize the spot of darkness in your house, but neither can you see
the flash of light that warms all outside.

"Do not give what is holy to dogs; and do not throw your pearls before swine,
or they will trample them under foot and turn and maul you.

"Ask, and it will be given you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door
will be opened for you.
For everyone who asks receives, and everyone who searches finds, and for
everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.
Is there anyone amongst you who, if your child asks for bread, will give a
stone?
Or if the child asks for a fish, will give a snake?
If you then, who are evildoers, know how to give good gifts to your children,
how much more will your Parent Beyond give good things to those who ask!

"In everything do to others as you would have them do to you; for this is the
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 "Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the road is easy that
leads to destruction, and there are many who take it.
For the gate is narrow and the road is hard that leads to life, and there are
few who find it.

"Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly
are ravenous beasts.
You will know them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thorns, or figs
from thistles?
In the same way, every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears
bad fruit.
A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit.
Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
Thus you will know them by their fruits.

"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven,
but only the ones who do the will of their Parent Beyond, and who are true to
themselves in everything they do.
On that day many will say to me, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your
name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many deeds of power in your
name?'
Then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; for what you did was in my
name, but it was done for your benefit and at the expense of your brothers and
sisters; your heart is heavy, and unless it is emptied of its burdens, you shall never
join me where I am.'

"Everyone then who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like
a wise man who built his house on rock.
The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house,
but it did not fall, because it had been founded on rock.
And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not act on them will
be like a foolish man who built his house on sand.
The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that
house, and it fell - and great was its fall!

"Beware also of the truth in fear, for fear consumes, and fear transforms, and
fear creates,
and the creations of true fear are far greater than the creations of false love,
for therein lie your beliefs;
believe in love then, and have no fear, for love is not to fall, but to be lifted."

Now when Yeshua had finished saying these things, the crowds were
astounded at his teaching,
for he taught them as one having authority, and not as their scribes.

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 17. Yeshua Cures the Sick, Performs Exorcism on the Possessed, and Explains
His Teachings to His Six Sent

When Yeshua came down from the mountain, the word spread through the
crowds that had listened to him and to the people from the neighbouring areas, and
they all followed him and had great hope in them that he was the one who could
make them whole.
And there was a leper who came to him and knelt before him, saying, "Lord,
if you choose, you can make me clean."
Yeshua stretched out his hand and touched the leper's head, saying, "I do
choose. Be made clean!"
And at once the man's leprosy was cleansed.
Then Yeshua said to him, "See that you say nothing to anyone; but go, show
yourself to the priests, and offer the gift that Moshe commanded, as a testimony to
them."

When they reached Kfar Nahum, the collectors of the Temple tax came to
Kepha and said, "Does your teacher not pay the Temple tax?"
He said, "Yes, he does." And when he came home, Yeshua spoke of it first,
asking, "What do you think, Kepha? From whom do kings of the earth take toll or
tribute? From their children or from others?"
When Kepha said, "From others," Yeshua said to him, "Then the children are
free.
However, so that we do not give offense to them, go to the sea and cast a
hook; take the first fish that comes up; and when you open its mouth, you will find a
coin; take that and give it to them for you and me."
And when he entered Kfar Nahum, a centurion was seen coming to him, and
Yeshua's six Sent spoke amongst themselves, "He is a Roman", "We have to go",
"We need no trouble".
But the centurion instead came to Yeshua, appealing to him, and saying,
"Lord, my servant is lying at home paralyzed, in terrible distress."
And Yeshua said to him, "I will come then and cure him."
But the centurion answered, "No, Lord, I am not worthy to have you come
under my roof; but I know that if only you speak a word, my servant will be healed.
For I also am a man under authority, with soldiers under me; and I say to one
'Go' and he goes, and to another 'Come' and he comes, and to my slave 'Do this'
and my slave does it."
When Yeshua heard him, he stood amazed and said to those following him,
"Truly I tell you, in no one in Yisrael have I found such faith.
I tell you, many will come from East and West and shall pass the gates out of
this world in peace and enter the realms of Heaven,
while the heirs of the land of Yisrael will throw stones at the believers, and
their mortal life shall make way to a life of darkness, and they will weep with
unknowing of where, or who, or when they are."
And to the centurion Yeshua said, "Go; let it be done for you according to
your faith. For it is your faith that has cured your servant." And the servant was
cured within the hour, for when the centurion went home, his servant was already
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 They went to stay at Kepha's house, and when Yeshua entered the
household, he saw that Kepha's mother-in-law was taken with fever;
he so touched the back of her hand with two fingers, and at once the fever
left her and she raised from the bed, starting to serve the seven of them.

At supper that day, Yeshua and his first six Sent sat around the table.
Yeshua then said to them, "I see the questions lying on your tongues, but you
dare not speak them. Ask, and I shall answer."
The first to voice his question was Kepha: "Rabbi, on the mountain you said
that man may marry a woman who has lost her husband. How is it that she can
marry once more, and bear more children? How is it that such a thing is not
adultery?"
And Yeshua said to him, "This, I shall explain: Take this glass. The glass is
you, and the Holy Matrimony. If you pour water into it - that is the relation with your
wife - and pour on top of it wine - that is the relation with your mistress -, then you
have spoiled both the wine and the water.
But if you drink the water until it is finished - that is until, by the course of
life, your wife dies -, then you can pour the wine into the empty glass and drink it.
Neither the water, nor the wine will be spoiled, and you will have not committed
adultery.
The same goes the other way around."
And Kepha heard then his words,
and yet Nathanael asked another question, "Then, if the man or the woman is
to marry more than one time because of their consort's death, when they too pass
away will they have many consorts in Heaven?"
And Yeshua smiled at him and said, "No, for marriage is between the spirits
of this realm, and when they pass from this body into the Kingdom Beyond, then
there will be no marriage, and there will be no bearing of children from a woman's
womb, and there will be no adultery that can be done."
And Nathanael heard then his words,
yet Yochanan further asked, "The Doom of Mankind - that is The End of
Times - when will it come and how will it manifest?"
And Yeshua said, "The Doom of Mankind is but the dream of those who can
only have nightmares.
What you wish to find the answer to is the resurrection of the dead, and their
passing from a state of nothingness and confusion to a state of absolution and
completion."
"Then", Yochanan said, "when will the resurrection of the dead take place,
and when will the new world come?"
Yeshua said then to all of them at the table: "That resurrection which you are
awaiting has already come, but you do not recognize it."
And they all went quiet in thought, and neither of them heard the meaning in
his words, but they dared ask no more.

That evening they brought to him many who were possessed by raging
spirits, and he cast out the spirits with a word and cured those who were sick.
That was to fulfil what had been spoken by the prophet Yesha'yahu:

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 'He took our infirmities and bore our diseases.'
Now when Yeshua saw great crowds gathering around him in order to take
from him more than he had to offer, he said to them to move to the other side.
A scribe then approached and said to him,
"Rabbi, I will follow you wherever you go."
And Yeshua said to him, "Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests,
yet your brother has nowhere to lay his head."
And the scribe went away.
They were to go by boat, and one of his six Sent said to him, "Rabbi, first let
me go and bury my father."
But Yeshua said to him, "Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead."
And when he got into the boat, his six Sent followed him.
A great windstorm soon arose on the sea, so great that the boat was being
swamped by the waves; yet Yeshua was asleep.
And his Sent went and woke him up, saying, "Rabbi, save us! We are
perishing!"
And Yeshua saw their fear, and said, "Why are you so afraid, you of little
faith?"
Still, he got up and stood on his feet on the boat, unmoved by the force of
the waves, and raised his hands and rebuked the winds and the sea, and then
followed a dead calm.
And they were amazed, saying, "What sort of man is this one, that even the
winds and the sea obey him?"
And when they arrived on the other side, to the country of Gergesa, two
bodies of men possessed came out of the tombs, and they met them on their way.
They were so raging that no one could take hold of them and make it pass away.
They were a man and a woman, with bodies embalmed and eyes red from
their mania.
They spoke then, with poor coordination of the limbs, and shouted, "What
have you to do with us, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us?"
And Yeshua said to them, "Do you not know that it is forbidden to inhabit a
body which is not yours?"
And they feared then for their spirit, and said, "Our sole wish is to see this
world, that Man has made, and live in it."
Yeshua heard their plea, and saw a large herd of swine that was feeding at
some distance from them.
The spirits begged him, "If you cast us out, sent us into the herd of swine, for
then we will be able to see this world and do no harm."
And he said to them, "Go!" And they came out and entered the swine;
and suddenly, the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea and
perished in the water,
for the trespass was too great, and the spirits knew not how to live on earth.
And the dead bodies of the man and the woman lay lifeless on the ground,
for they had already been dead when possessed, and Yeshua and his Sent gathered
them up and put them back into their tombs.
Then, Yochanan asked of Yeshua, "Why did you permit the demons to enter
the swine? Are they not unworthy of your understanding?"
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 angel spirits departed from their Parent Beyond, in search for the way back
home."
And Yochanan left him alone, but his thoughts were the same as the
swineherds',
who ran off, and on going into the town, and they told the whole story about
what happened to the demoniacs.
Then the whole town came out to meet Yeshua; and when they saw him,
they begged him to leave their neighbourhood, for they were afraid.

18. Yeshua Chooses His Next Six Sent

Then Yeshua returned to Kfar Nahum to take a boat away from the
neighbourhood.
And it was the twenty-first of Tamuz and the fourth day of the week, and he
saw coming to him a man whose face he recognized amongst those who listened to
his teachings on the mountain.
The man's name was Mattiyah, also called Levi, and he was the customs
collector of Kfar Nahum.
On his way to greet Yeshua, he was stolen from by a poor woman and her
hungering child.
And Yeshua saw it and followed his actions. Mattiyah went after the woman
and the child, and instead of gaining back his lost fortune, he gave them the water
he was carrying, saying "Here, for the child must be also thirsty", then left them
alone.
And Yeshua saw in him his astonishing forgiveness,
and when Mattiyah came to him to ask to follow him, Yeshua welcomed him.
And without being asked, Mattiyah left his family - for he had a wife and four
children - and his earthly possessions and went on to follow him.

When Yeshua and his Sent went to take a boat away from Kfar Nahum,
Yeshua saw that on the shores of the sea were many stalls with food and various
goods brought from other shores.
And at one of the stalls, which had the most buyers, stood the merchant
named Simon.
And even though he spoke lively of the prices of the products he brought, he
was calm as the breeze;
and even when one man broke one of his vases in fury at its high price, he
remained the same calm, and the anger touched him not, and he gave the man
another vase for no money.
And Yeshua saw that Simon knew how to work with the people, and that rage
was a foreigner in the home of his heart, so he called onto him to join him.
And Simon knew Yeshua from his teaching on the mountain, and at once left
his merchandise and his earthly possessions and went on to follow him.

They all then went by boat and travelled to other shores, and they set foot on
land the following day, which was the twenty-second day of Tamuz and the fifth day
of the week.

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 Yeshua made to look for a man who knew how to make tents that were not
to be easily destroyed by winds.
And when he went further into town, he saw Tauma, who was a fisherman of
Taricheai, but also a carpenter and a stone mason of Gadara.
And Yeshua asked him, "Tell me, to make a strong house, would you start
with the wood or the stones?"
And Tauma answered, "I would start with a forethought - for if we have no
intention before we build something, it shall collapse before it was raised.
And then I would say to make the foundation, and only after that to work
with wood and stones."
And such Yeshua saw in Tauma the symmetry of his thinking, his equilibrium
in life, and asked him to join him, and to say to them all how they should put the
tents together, so that they shall not fall apart during the night.
And Tauma left his work, his family - for he had a wife and four children - and
his earthly possessions and went on to follow him at once.

That same day Yeshua saw in a boat two men, who were Ya'aqov son of
Alfaios and departed brother of Mattiyah also called Levi, and Y'hudah brother of
Ya'aqov.
When they saw Yeshua approaching, they pulled out their nets and the fish
that they had caught, and threw them at the feet of Yeshua, saying,
"Rabbi, we heard of your teachings, and we are not worthy of you coming to
us."
And seeing their absolute humility, Yeshua told them to sit up, and called
unto them to join him.
And at once they left their nets, their families - for Ya'aqov had a wife and
three children, and Y'hudah had a wife and two children - and their earthly
possessions, and went on to follow him.

Toward the end of the day, that is nearing the setting of the sun, Yeshua sat
amongst children who were playing with the hems of his robes and laying flower
petals in his path to step on.
And he smiled at them and they formed a circle around him.
And he took a petal from the ground and said, "What is this petal to you?"
And the children said it was beauty, others said it was perfume, others said it
was a gift from nature to them, and from them to him.
And a man was watching and listening to this happening from a distance. His
name was Yohudah, a scribe from Kiriyot, and he knew Yeshua from what the village
people said of him.
He went up to Yeshua then and said, "To me the petal comes from the
flower, which is the Flower of Life, and that Petal which comes from the Flower of
Life is the salvation of mankind."
And he went to leave, but Yeshua, hearing this, saw in Yohudah his broad
and cultivated mind, and his way with words that he used to make himself
appreciated.
And such Yeshua called onto him to join him, and Yohudah immediately left
his earthly possessions and went on to follow him.

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 19. Yeshua Forgives Sins and Heals

And after getting into a boat Yeshua crossed the sea and came to his own
town.
And just then some people were carrying a paralyzed man lying on a bed.
They were trying to bring him in and lay him before Yeshua;
but finding no way to bring him in because of the crowd, they went up on the
roof and let him down with his bed through the tiles into the middle of the crowd in
front of Yeshua.
When Yeshua saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, "Take heart, son; your
sins are forgiven."
Then some of the scribes said to themselves, "This man is blaspheming."
But Yeshua, perceiving their thoughts, said, "Why do you think evil in your
hearts?
For which is easier, to say, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Stand up and
walk'?
But so that you may know that the Son of God has authority on earth to
forgive sins", he then said to the paralytic, "Stand up, take your bed and go to your
home."
And he stood up and went to his home.
When the crowds saw it, they were filled with awe, and they glorified God,
who had given such authority to human beings.

And as he sat at dinner in the house, many tax collectors and sinners came
and were sitting with him and his Sent.
When the Perisayya saw this, they said to his Sent, "Why does your Rabbi eat
with tax collectors and sinners?"
But when he heard this, he said, "Those who are well have no need of a
physician, but those who are sick.
Go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice.' For I have come
to call not the righteous but sinners."
Then the disciples of Yohanan came to him, saying, "Why do we and the
Perisayya fast often, but your disciples do not fast?"
And Yeshua said to them, "The wedding guests cannot mourn as long as the
bridegroom is with them, can they? The days will come when the bridegroom is
taken away from them, and then they will fast.
No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old cloak, for the patch pulls
away from the cloak, and a worse tear is made.
Neither is new wine put into old wineskins; otherwise, the skins burst, and the
wine is spilled, and the skins are destroyed; but new wine is put into fresh
wineskins, and so both are preserved."

While he was saying these things to them, suddenly a leader of the

synagogue came in and knelt before him, saying, "My daughter, who is only twelve
years of age, has just died; but come and lay your hand on her, and she will live."
And Yeshua got up and followed him, with his disciples.
Then suddenly a woman who had been suffering from haemorrhages for
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 for she said to herself, "If I only touch his cloak, I will be made well."
Immediately aware that power had gone forth from him, Yeshua turned about
in the crowd and said, "Who touched my clothes?"
And Yohudah said to him, "You see the crowd pressing in on you; how can
you say, 'Who touched me?'"
He looked all around to see who had done it.
But the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came in fear and
trembling, fell down before him, and told him the whole truth.
Yeshua turned, and seeing her he said, "Take heart, daughter; your faith has
made you well." And instantly the woman was made well.
When Yeshua came to the leader's house and saw the flute players and the
crowd making a commotion,
he said, "Go away; for the girl is not dead but sleeping." And they laughed at
him.
But when the crowd had been put outside, he went in and took her by the
hand, and the girl got up.
And the report of this spread throughout that district.

As Yeshua went on from there, two blind men followed him, crying loudly,
"Have mercy on us, Son of Dawid!"
When he entered the house, the blind men came to him; and Yeshua said to
them, "Do you believe that I am able to do this?" They said to him, "Yes, Lord."
Then he touched their eyes and said, "According to your faith let it be done to
you."
And their eyes were opened. Then Yeshua sternly ordered them, "See that no
one knows of this."
But they went away and spread the news about him throughout that district.

After they had gone away, a possessed man who was mute was brought to
him.
And when the spirit had been cast out, the one who had been mute spoke;
and the crowds were amazed and said, "Never has anything like this been seen in
Yisrael."
But the Perisayya said, "By the ruler of the demons he casts out the
demons."

Then Yeshua went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their
synagogues, and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom, and curing every
disease and every sickness.
When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were
harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.
Then he said to his Sent, "The harvest is plentiful, but the labourers are few;
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 20. Yeshua Instructs His Twelve Sent

Yeshua then summoned his twelve Sent and gathered them around him, and
he sat amongst them in a garden under a sycamore tree.
The twelve Sent were such:
Simon, called Kepha, who was thirty years of age, and whose appearance
was that of a man wide in shoulders and tall in height, with dark hair and beard in
disarray, and with the look of one who was hard, unmoved, and full of
determination;
Andraus, brother of Kepha, who was thirty-three years of age, and whose
appearance was that of a man with a longer beard and shorter light hair, tall and
slithe, whose age showed in the solemnity and wisdom of his face, thus having the
traits of one often put in charge;
Ya'aqov son of Zvad’yah, who was thirty years of age, and whose appearance
was that of a simple man, brown beard and hair covering a bony face, and whose
eyes showed mercy;
Yochanan son of Zvad'yah and brother of Ya'aqov, who was twenty-four years
of age, and whose beard had not yet started to grow on the youthful face, whose
look showed devotion at all times;
Philipos of Bethtsaida, who was twenty-seven years of age, and whose
appearance was that of a man with red-brown hair and the signs of a short beard,
having the look of one who wished to give and not receive, such having the traits
needed for that who was to provide the food;
Nathanael son of Bar-Tolmi, who was twenty-five years of age, but whose
appearance was that of a mature man, with dark brown hair and beard, intelligent
and observant, thus being the one taking care of the needs of the families that the
Sent had left behind in order to follow Yeshua;
Mattyiah also called Levi, who was thirty-one years of age, and whose
appearance was that of a man with black hair and beard on an angular face, and
with light eyes, being the one that managed the payments that the group needed to
give;
Tauma, who was twenty-nine years of age, was also called Didymus, which is
'twin', as his appearance was like that of Yeshua, with long dark brown hair and
beard, thin lips and thin curved nose, and light eyes that held more understanding
than most, and he was the one who set the coordinates for them to follow from one
place to the other;
Ya'aqov and Y'hudah sons of Alfaios, who were twenty-six years old, and who
resembled each other in appearance, having brown hair and beard, and managing
the multitudes when they became rabbles;
Simon, who was twenty-eight years old and had a position amongst
Qan’anaya, the Zealotes, and whose appearance was that of a large and imposing
man of an extreme calmness, who managed recreation within the group;
Yohudah from Kiriyot, who was thirty years of age, and whose appearance
was that of a man with black curly hair and short beard, and with a look that
showed his intelligence and interest in all things, being the keeper of money for the
group.
These were the twelve Sent of Yeshua, who then started to instruct them in
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 For they now had the power of healing the soul and the body.

And Yeshua said, "You now can also heal the sick, and mend the broken, and
wake those asleep,
and see beyond where the Beyond is, and look inside yourselves and find It
there,
for the Gates have been opened for the lot of you, and you only need enter,
and welcome others to join you as well."
And they asked him, "Rabbi, what else are we to do with what you have given
us?"
"What you now have from the Parent comes,
and you are to walk the path God lightens for you to see, and reach for those
who welcome your presence.
"Go nowhere amongst the Gentiles, and enter no town of the Shomerim,
but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Yisrael.
As you go, proclaim the good news, 'The Kingdom of Heaven has come
near.'
Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out spirits that inhabit
bodies that are not theirs.
You received without payment; give without payment.
Take no gold, or silver, or copper in your belts, no bag for your journey, or
two tunics, or sandals, or a staff; for labourers deserve their food.
Whatever town or village you enter, find out who in it is welcoming, and stay
there until you leave.
As you enter the house, greet it.
If the house is welcoming, let your peace come upon it; but if it is not
welcoming, let your peace return to you.
For good by force is no good.

"See, I am sending you out like sheep into the midst of wolves; so be wise as
serpents and innocent as doves.
Beware of them, for they will hand you over to councils and flog you in their
synagogues;
and you will be dragged before governors and kings because of me, as a
testimony to them and the Gentiles.
When they hand you over, do not worry about how you are to speak or what
you are to say; for what you are to say will be given to you at that time;
for it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Parent speaking through
you.
Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child, and children will
rise against parents and have them put to death;
and you will be hated by all because of my name. But the one who endures to
the end will be saved.
When they persecute you in one town, flee to the next; for truly I tell you,
you will not have gone through all the towns of Yisrael before the Son of God
comes.

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 it is enough for the disciple to be like the teacher, and the slave like the
master. If they have called the master of the house that which from God has fled,
how much more will they malign those who enter their household!
"So have no fear of them; for nothing is covered up that will not be
uncovered, and nothing secret that will not become known.
What I say to you in the dark, tell in the light; and what you hear whispered,
proclaim from the housetops.
Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather beware of
that who can destroy both soul and body, for that is the man who shuts his ears and
his eyes and opens his mouth.
"Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the
ground apart from your Parent.
And even the hairs of your head are all counted.
So do not be afraid; you are of more value than many sparrows.

"Those who find their life will lose it, and those who lose their life will find it.
"Whoever welcomes you welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes
the one who sent me.
Whoever welcomes a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a
prophet's reward; and whoever welcomes a righteous person in the name of a
righteous person will receive the reward of the righteous;
and whoever gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones in the
name of a disciple - truly I tell you, none of these will lose their reward."

And hearing this, the Sent said to Yeshua, "Rabbi, and what are we to say of
the place we came from if they ask?"
And Yeshua answered, “If they say to you: ‘Where do you come from?’, then
say to them: ‘We have come from the light, the place where the light has come into
being by itself, has established itself and has appeared in their image.’
If they say to you: ‘Is it you?’, then say: ‘We are the children, and we are the
elect of the Parent Beyond.’
If they ask you: ‘What is the sign of your Parent amongst you?’, then say to
them: ‘It is movement and repose’.”
And hearing this, the Sent said, "And what are we to say about you, and who
you are and where they can find you?"
And Yeshua answered, "Tell them what I tell you now: I am the light that is
over all. I am the All. The All came forth out of me. And to me the All has come.
Split a piece of wood - I am there.
Lift the stone, and you will find me there.”
And the Sent heard his words and said, at last, "And you? What will you do at
the time that we do all this?"
And Yeshua said, "That time has not yet come, and when it comes you will
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 21. Yeshua Speaks of Yohanan the Baptist

Now when Yeshua finished instructing his twelve Sent, he went on from there
to teach and proclaim his message in their places of birth.
It was the year three-thousand-seven-hundred-eighty-seven after the
Creation according to the Jews.
When Yohanan the Baptist heard in prison what the Meshyha was doing, he
sent word by his disciples and said to him, "Are you the one who is to come, or are
we to wait for another?"
Yeshua answered them, "Go and tell Yohanan what you hear and see: the
blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the
dead are raised, and the poor have good news brought upon them. And blessed is
anyone who takes no offense at me."
As they went away, Yeshua began to speak to the crowds about Yohanan:
"What did you go out into the wilderness to look at? A reed shaken by the wind?
What then did you go out to see? Someone dressed in soft robes? Look, those who
wear soft robes are in royal palaces.
What then did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a
prophet.
This is the one about whom it is written, 'See, I am sending my messenger
ahead of you, who will prepare your way before you.'
Truly I tell you, amongst those born of women no one has arisen greater than
Yohanan the Baptist; yet the least in the Kingdom Beyond is greater than he.
From the days of Yohanan the Baptist until now the Kingdoms of All have
suffered violence, and the violent wish to take by force.
For all the prophets and the law prophesied until Yohanan came;
and if you are willing to accept it, he has the power of Eliyah whom you await
to come.
He was a burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a
while in his light.
Let anyone with ears listen!

"But to what will I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the
marketplaces and calling to one another,
'We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we wailed, and you did
not mourn.'
For Yohanan came neither eating nor drinking, and they say 'He has a demon
inside of him';
and the Son of God came eating and drinking, and they say 'Look, a glutton
and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' Yet wisdom is vindicated by
her deeds."
Then he began to reproach the cities in which most of his deeds of power had
been done, for they did not repent.
"Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethtsaida! For if the deeds of power
done in you had been done in Shor or Sidon, they would have changed their ways
long ago according to what they heard and what they saw.
But I tell you, your eyes are full of sand, and your ears are full of clay, and
your hearts are veiled in stone walls, for you see and hear and feel me not.

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 And when that day which you fear shall come, that is the day your spirit
passes from your body, then will you repent, but the time will be short, and your
struggles futile.
For even Shor and Sidon will find more peace than you then.
And you, Kfar Nahum, will you be exalted to heaven? No, for you know not
how to ascend. Hence you will lose your way and not recognize the path before you,
for it will look as the one behind.
For if the deeds of power done in you had been done in Sadam or 'Amarah,
they would have changed their ways long ago according to what they heard and
what they saw.
And when that day which you fear shall come, even Sadam and 'Amarah will
find more peace than you.”

And at that time Yeshua said, "I thank you, Parent Beyond and on earth, for
Thou have hidden these things from the wise and the intelligent and have revealed
them to infants;
yes, Parent, for such was Thy gracious will.
All things have been handed over to me by my Parent; and no one knows the
Son except the Parent, and no one knows the Parent except the Son and anyone to
whom the Son chooses to reveal.

"Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, for I will
give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and humble in
heart, and you will find rest from your torments.
For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."

22. Of Rebirth; Yeshua Discusses with the Perisa Nikodemos at Night

Now there was a Perisa named Nikodemos, a leader of the Jews.

He came to Yeshua by night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a
teacher who has come from God; for no one can do these signs that you do apart
from the presence of God."
Yeshua answered him, "Very truly, I tell you, no one can see the entirety of
the Kingdom of God without being born from Beyond."
Nikodemos said to him, "How can anyone be born after having grown old?
Can one enter a second time into the mother's womb and be born?"
Yeshua answered, "Very truly, I tell you, no one can enter the Kingdom
Above without being born of water and Spirit.
What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Do not be astonished that I said to you, 'You must be born from above.'
"If one does not stand in the darkness, he will not be able to see the light.
If one does not understand how fire came into existence, he will burn in it,
because he does not know the root of it.
If one does not first understand water, he knows nothing. For what use is
there for him to be baptized in it?

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 If one does not understand how blowing wind came into existence, he will
blow away with it.
If one does not understand how the body, which he bears, came into
existence, he will be again and again be trapped in it.
And how will someone who does not know the Son know the Parent?
And to someone who will not know the root of all things, they remain hidden.
Whoever will not understand how he came will not understand how he will go."
Nikodemos said to him, "How can these things be?"
Yeshua answered him, "Are you a teacher of Yisrael, and yet you do not
understand these things?
"Very truly, I tell you, we speak of what we know and testify to what we have
seen; yet you do not receive our testimony.
If I have told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how can you
believe if I tell you about heavenly things?
No one has ascended into the Kingdom Above except those who descended
from Above, and those are the Children of God.
No one has ascended from Beyond except the one who descended from
Beyond, the Son of God.
And just as Moshe lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of
God be lifted up,
that whoever believes in him may rest in Eternity.
"For God so loved the world that God gave it the Son, so that everyone who
believes in him may not be trapped but may have eternal life.
"Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but
in order that the world might be saved through him.
Those who do what is false remain in what is false and they do not ascend
into the Kingdom of Heaven.
But those who do what is true come to the light, so that it may be clearly
seen that their deeds have been done in God."
After this Yeshua and his Sent went into the countryside of Yauda, and he
spent some time there with them and baptized.

23. Yeshua Travels through Shamerayin, where He Raises More Believers

Now Yeshua learnt that the Perisayya had heard, 'Yeshua is baptizing more
people than Yohanan',
even if it was not only Yeshua but also his Sent that were baptizing.
He left Yauda and started back to Gahlylyi.
But he had to go through Shamerayin.
So he came to a city in Shamerayin called Shechem, near the plot of ground
that Ya'akov had given to his son.
Ya'aqov's well was there, and Yeshua, tired out by his journey, was sitting by
the well. It was about noon.
A Shomer woman came to draw water, and Yeshua said to her, "Give me a
drink",
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 The Shomer woman said to him, "How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me,
a woman of Shamerayin?"
Yeshua answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is
saying to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have
given you living water."
The woman said to him, "Man, you have no bucket, and the well is deep.
Where do you get that living water?
Are you greater than our ancestor Ya'aqov, who gave us the well, and with
his sons and his flocks drank from it?"
Yeshua said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again,
but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty.
The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to
eternal life."
The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I may never be
thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water."
Yeshua said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come back."
The woman answered him, "I have no husband."
Yeshua said to her, "You are right in saying, 'I have no husband';
for you have had five husbands, and the one you have now is not your
husband."
The woman said to him, "Lord, I see that you are a prophet.
Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you say that the place where
people must worship is in Yerushalayim."
Yeshua said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when you will
worship the Parent neither on this mountain nor in Yauda.
You worship what you do not know;
There are many around the well, but there is nothing in the well.
But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will
worship the Parent in spirit and truth, for the Parent seeks such as these to worship
him.
God is spirit and truth, and those who worship him are to worship in spirit and
truth."
The woman said to him, "I know that the Meshyha is coming. When he
comes, he will proclaim all things to us."
Yeshua said to her, "I am he, the one who is speaking to you."
Just then his Sent came. They were astonished that he was speaking with a
woman, but no one said, 'What do you want?' or, 'Why are you speaking with her?'
Then the woman left her water jar and went back to the city. She said to the
people,
"Come and see a man who told me everything I have ever done! He cannot
be the Meshyha, can he?"
They left the city and were on their way to him.
Meanwhile the Sent were urging him, "Rabbi, eat something."
But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you do not know about."
So the Sent said to one another, "Surely no one has brought him something
to eat?"
Yeshua said to them, "My food is to do the will of God from Whom I came to
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 Do you not say, 'Four months more, then comes the harvest'? But I tell you,
look around you, and see how the fields are ripe for harvesting.
The reaper is already receiving wages and is gathering fruit for eternal life, so
that sower and reaper may rejoice together.
For here the saying holds true, 'One sows and another reaps.'
I sent you to reap that for which you did not labour. Others have laboured,
and you have entered into their labour."
Many Shomerim from that city believed in him because of the woman's
testimony, 'He told me everything I have ever done.'
So when the Shomerim came to him, they asked him to stay with them; and
he stayed there two days.
And many more believed because of his word.
They said to the woman, "It is no longer because of what you said that we
believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is truly the Saviour
of the world."
When the two days were over, he went from that place to Gahlylyi.

Then he came again to Qaneh in Gahlylyi where he had changed the water
into wine. Now there was a royal official whose son lay ill in Kfar Nahum.
When he heard that Yeshua had come from Yauda to Gahlylyi, he went and
begged him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.
Then Yeshua said to him, "Unless you see signs and wonders you will not
believe."
The official said to him, "Lord, come down before my little boy dies."
Yeshua said to him, "Go; your son will live." The man believed the word that
Yeshua spoke to him and started on his way.
As he was going down, his slaves met him and told him that his child was
alive.
So he asked them the hour when he began to recover, and they said to him,
"Yesterday at one in the afternoon the fever left him."
The father realized that this was the hour when Yeshua had said to him, 'Your
son will live.' So he himself believed, along with his whole household.

24. Yeshua Disturbs the Law Taught in Synagogues

It was the year three-thousand-seven-hundred-eighty-eight after the Creation

according to the Jews.
At that time Yeshua went through the grainfields on the Sabbath; his Sent
were hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat.
When the Perisayya saw it, they said to him, "Look, your disciples are doing
what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath."
He said to them, "Have you not read what Dawid did when he and his
companions were hungry?
He entered the house of God and ate the bread of the Presence, which was
not lawful for him or his companions to eat, but only for the priests.
Or have you not read in the law that on the Sabbath the priests in the Temple
break the Sabbath and yet are guiltless?

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 I tell you, something greater than the Temple is here.
But if you had known what this means, 'I desire mercy and not sacrifice,' you
would not have condemned the guiltless.
For the Son of God is lord of the Sabbath."

He left that place and entered their synagogue;

a man was there with a withered hand, and they asked him, "Is it lawful to
cure on the Sabbath?" so that they might accuse him.
He said to them, "Suppose one of you has only one sheep and it falls into a
pit on the Sabbath; will you not lay hold of it and lift it out?
How much more valuable is a human being than a sheep! So it is lawful to do
good on the Sabbath."
Then he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and it
was restored, as sound as the other.
But the Perisayya went out and conspired against him, how to destroy him.
When Yeshua became aware of this, he departed. Many crowds followed him,
and he cured all of them,
and he ordered them not to make him known.
This was to fulfil what had been spoken through the prophet Yesha'yahu:
'Here is My piece, whom I have sent, My beloved, with whom My soul is well
pleased. I will put My Spirit upon him, and he will proclaim justice to the Gentiles.
He will not wrangle or cry aloud, nor will anyone hear his voice in the streets.
He will not break a bruised reed or quench a smouldering wick until he brings
justice to victory.
And in his name the Gentiles will hope.’

Then they brought to him a possessed who was blind and mute; and he cured
him, so that the one who had been mute could speak and see.
And the one who was mute and could now speak said, "Thank you, Lord, for
you have given me my life."
All the crowds were amazed and said, "Can this be the Son of Dawid?"
But when the Parisayya heard it, they said, "It is only by Ba'al Zebub, the
ruler of the demons, that this fellow casts out the demons."
He knew what they were thinking and said to them, "Every kingdom divided
against itself is laid waste, and no city or house divided against itself will stand.
If Satana casts out Satana, he is divided against himself; how then will his
kingdom stand?
If I cast out daemons by whom you call Ba'al Zebub, by whom do your own
exorcists cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.
But if it is by the Spirit of God that I cast out daemons, then the kingdom of
God has come to you.
Or how can one enter a strong man's house and plunder his property, without
first tying up the strong man? Then indeed the house can be plundered.
Whoever does not follow me loses his way, and whoever does not gather with
me scatters.
Therefore I tell you, people will be forgiven for every sin and blasphemy, but
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 Whoever speaks a word against the Son of God will be forgiven, but whoever
speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to
come.
Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree bad, and its
fruit bad; for the tree is known by its fruit.
How can you say you give good fruit to the people, when you have poisoned
the roots of the tree?
For the poisoned fruit shall kill the spirit,
and that is what comes our of your mouths!
For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
I tell you, on the day of judgment you will have to give an account for every
careless word you utter;
for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will have
condemned yourselves."

Then some of the scribes and Perisayya said to him, "Rabbi, we wish to see a
sign from you."
But he answered them, "An evil and adulterous generation asks for a sign,
but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Yona.
For just as Yona was three days and three nights in the belly of the sea
monster, so for three days and three nights the Son of God will be in the realms
below.
The people of Ninawa will rise up at the Passage with this generation and
witness it, because they repented at the proclamation of Yona, and see, something
greater than Yona is here!
And the daemons from below had come here to listen to the wisdom of
Shlomo, and see, something greater than Shlomo is here!
"When the daemon has gone out of a person, it wanders through waterless
regions looking for a resting place, but it finds none.
Then it says, 'I will return to my house from which I came.' When it comes, it
finds it empty, swept, and put in order.
Then it goes and brings along seven other spirits, and makes its home again
in the realms below, that which are the furthest away from the Light of their Parent
Beyond, and they live there; so will it be also with this living generation."

While he was still speaking to the crowds, his Mother and his brothers were
standing outside, wanting to speak to him.
Someone told him, "Look, your mother and your brothers are standing
outside, wanting to speak to you."
But to the one who had told him this, Yeshua replied, "Who is my mother,
and who are my brothers?"
And pointing to his Sent, he said, "Here are my brothers!
For whoever does the will of my Parent Beyond is my brother and sister, and
my Parent is my Mother and my Father."

One of the Perisayya asked Yeshua to eat with him in order gain more
knowledge of this man who called himself the Son of God;
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 And a woman in the city, who was a prostitute, having learnt that he was
eating in the Perisa's house, brought an alabaster jar of ointment.
She stood behind him at his feet, weeping, and began to bathe his feet with
her tears and to dry them with her hair. Then she continued kissing his feet and
anointing them with the ointment.
Now when the Parisa who had invited him, whose name was Shelomoh, saw
this, he said to himself, 'If this man were a prophet, he would have known who and
what kind of woman this is who is touching him - that she is a sinner.'
Yeshua spoke up and said to him, "Shelomoh, I have something to say to
you."
"Rabbi," he replied, "speak."
"A certain creditor had two debtors; one owed five hundred denarii, and the
other fifty.
When they could not pay, he cancelled the debts for both of them. Now which
of them will love him more?"
Shelomoh answered, "I suppose the one for whom he cancelled the greater
debt." And Yeshua said to him, "You have judged rightly."
Then turning toward the woman, he said to Shelomoh, "Do you see this
woman? I entered your house; you gave me no water for my feet, but she has
bathed my feet with her tears and dried them with her hair.
You gave me no kiss, but from the time I came in she has not stopped kissing
my feet.
You did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with
ointment.
Therefore, I tell you, her sins, which were many, have been forgiven; hence
she has shown great love. But the one to whom little is forgiven, loves little."
Then he said to her, "Your sins are forgiven."
But those who were at the table with him began to say amongst themselves,
"Who is this who even forgives sins?"
And he said to the woman, "Your faith has saved you; go in peace."
Shelomoh said: “So who are you, man? You have gotten a place on my couch
as a stranger and you have eaten from my table.”
Yeshua said to him: “I am he who comes from The One Who is the same. I
was given some of that which is my Parent’s.”
And Shelomoh the Perisa saw that he could not see in the soul of this man,
and he could not hear his thoughts and his intentions and had no notion of harm
being done by his hand, so he let him be in peace.

That day when they were with Yeshua in their camp, his twelve Sent began
asking him questions.
And they said to him, "Rabbi, we know that we did today what is said not to
do on a Sabbath, and yet we knew it was the right thing to do, and our hearts were
not left heavy with the burden of misconduct.
And still, we wish to know: When shall we fast?"
And he answered them, "You shall fast before you feast.
"If there is a celebration awaiting you, fast before you rejoice,
for how greater is the joy when it comes to you after still patience!
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 grieve and let grief pass, for then joy can take its place.
"If there are hardships awaiting you, fast,
and then your heart will be strengthened, and your body with it, and your
heart will take its force from your body, and your body will take its strength from
your heart."

And they further said to him, "We know that there are foods which we are not
allowed to eat, even at feasts.
What do you say of this? What is it that we may eat?"
And Yeshua said, "What you may eat is this: You may eat the seeds and
grains of the earth, the fruit of the land, the honey of the bees, and the milk of your
cattle, and the eggs of the birds you raise.
You may eat all the birds of the sky, and all the fish of the sea and of the
rivers and lakes, and all the insects of the air and scourges which crawl in the desert
sand;
and those beasts that walk the earth, they live to serve you - yet you are not
to eat those that you put to labour, for they have already served their purpose;
and do not prey on the predators, for that is not the way of nature;
and when you kill for food, take their lives with kindness, for they are
innocents on this earth.
They from the Mother come, and She inhabits them, and that which you take
is returned to Her, and you are to use it wisely in turn.
Do not take the lives of beasts for competition or recognition - that is equal to
a murder."

They asked of him then, "In the Temple and in the synagogues - who can
proclaim the Word of God to the people?"
And Yeshua said, "Any who believes in God and has faith in God and in those
who from God are sent can enter the temples and synagogues.
Any who wish to pray can pray, and any who wish to preach can preach, and
any who wish to bury their dead can say the words.
But to perform the anointment with myrrh, and the holy unction, and the holy
matrimony between man and woman, and to baptize in the name of the Holy Spirit,
and to give others Holy Power, and hear confessions and forgive sins and cleanse
the soul through the Spirit of I-The-Three - one needs to know the Holy Mysteries.
And these mysteries I will show you, and I will teach you the words and the
acts, and you may go and perform them, and teach them to who wishes to find
them out, and has been awakened by their journey and blessed with the Gift from
God."

His Sent at last asked him, “Is circumcision beneficial, or not?”

And Yeshua said to them, “If it were beneficial, their father would beget them
circumcised from their mother.
But the true circumcision in the spirit has prevailed over everything.
Cleanse the spirit before you cleanse the body.”

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 25. Yeshua Uses Parables to Teach the People

That same day Yeshua went out of the house and sat beside the sea.
Such great crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat there,
while the whole crowd stood on the beach.
And he told them many things in parables, saying: "Listen! A sower went out
to sow.
And as he sowed, some seeds fell on the path, and the birds came and ate
them up.
Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and
they sprang up quickly, since they had no depth of soil.
But when the sun rose, they were scorched; and since they had no root, they
withered away.
Other seeds fell amongst thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them.
Other seeds fell on sand, and they grew up into thistles.
Other seeds fell on good soil and brought forth grain, some a hundredfold,
some sixty, some thirty.
Let anyone with ears listen!"
Then the Sent came and asked him, "Why do you speak to them in
parables?"
He answered, "To you it has been given to know the secrets of the Kingdom
Beyond, but to them it has not been given.
For to those who have, more will be given, and they will have an abundance;
but from those who have nothing, even what they have will be taken away.
The reason I speak to them in parables is that 'seeing they do not perceive,
and hearing they do not listen, nor do they understand.'
With them indeed is fulfilled the prophecy of Yesha'yahu that says: 'You will
indeed listen, but never understand, and you will indeed look, but never perceive.
For this people's heart has grown dull, and their ears are hard of hearing, and
they have shut their eyes; so that they might not look with their eyes, and listen
with their ears, and understand with their heart and turn - and I would heal them.'
But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear.
Truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you
see, but did not see it, and to hear what you hear, but did not hear it.
"Hear then the parable of the sower.
When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it,
what has been given is taken away, so that even the beasts in the sky and in the
wilderness have more understanding of the Word than those unfortunates; this is
what was sown on the path.
As for what was sown on rocky ground, this is the one who hears the Word
and immediately receives it with joy;
yet such a person has no root, but endures only for a while, and when trouble
or persecution arises on account of the word, that person immediately falls away.
As for what was sown amongst thorns, this is the one who hears the Word,
but the cares of the world and the lure of wealth choke the meaning, and it yields
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 And as for what was sown on sand, the Word is received by those of a
changing heart and feeble mind, and they hear the Word and make of it what they
can.
But as for what was sown on good soil, this is the one who hears the word
and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and yields, in one case a hundredfold, in
another sixty, and in another thirty."

And they asked, "What is the Kingdom like?"

He told them then another parable: "Let me tell you this: The Kingdom of
Heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed in with twelve measures of flour
until all of it was leavened.
And from it she made then twelve loaves of dough, which she put in the
hearth, which from Light of Fire Warmth brings that makes the loaves into food for
her children.
And the most tasteful bread became the third bread, yet it was not so
nourishing, and then the fourth, and the fifth;
the sixth bread was burnt,
and the rest - the seventh, the eighth, the ninth, the tenth, the eleventh, the
twelfth - had no taste, yet they brought the most nourishment.
And there were two loaves, the first and the second, which refused to be
touched by the warmth of the hearth, and they remained raw and shapeless,
and whoever eats from them becomes sick."
Yeshua told the crowds all these things in parables; without a parable he told
them nothing.
This was to fulfil what had been spoken through the prophet: 'I will open my
mouth to speak in parables; I will proclaim what has been hidden from the
foundation of the world.'
Then he left the crowds and went into the house.

The Sent came after him inside the house and circled him at the wooden
table. They said to him, "Is that what the Kingdom of our Lord is like?"
And Yeshua said, "Hear this and listen, for the Kingdom is much more than
loaves of bread."

He told them another parable: “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a mustard

seed, which a man took and planted in his field.
Though it is the smallest of all seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of
garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds come and perch in its
branches.”

He then proceeded to tell them through another parable: "The Kingdom of

God is like a tree.”
“Its roots are the image of its branches, but they can never bear leaves, or
fruit, or flowers, and they produce no seeds. They are deeply rooted into the
ground, and they are blind to the rest of the tree.
We now are on the ground, which is the third realm.
The trunk of the tree supports its branches, which carry the leaves, the fruit,
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ground which the roots are sheathed in;
the fruit carry the knowledge of the tree, and whoever bites into them shall
gain the knowledge, but they are to decide what to make of it;
and from the tree seeds come, that are similar to those of the fruit, and yet
they never become fruit, but rather flowers that prefer the ground to lay their feet
upon;
and if the flowers look up, they can only see the base of the tree's crown,
which begins at the end of the seventh realm, from which the seeds of the flowers
came from;
and if a fruit falls from the realms above, that is the eighth realm which they
came from, they also shall produce flowers, but they shall see beyond the branches,
for they are spread throughout the crown;
and the tree is like a Mother, for from Her came all the Children: the leaves,
the fruit and the seeds that became flowers;
but neither of the Children can see all of Her at once, unless they stand above
the tree and look;
yet the tree is everything, and above it there is nothing, where the thirteenth
realm is, but for the Sun Whose Light gives Life to the tree, and the Sun alone can
see Her Whole, yet no one can look at the Sun, for the Light is blinding.
Hence, such is the Kingdom of God.
Aspire then to ascend the tree while in this living on the ground, for when you
leave your bodies easier the fall is than the climb."

He went ahead and said, “Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as
its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near. Even
so, when you see these things happening, you know that it is near, right at the door.
Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things
have happened. Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass
away.
But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels above or
below, nor the Son, but only the Parent Beyond. Be on guard! Be alert! You do not
know when that time will come."
And the Sent stood in awe at his words. He asked of them "Have you
understood all this?" And some of them said "Yes!" And some only nodded their
heads.
When Yeshua had finished these parables, he left that place.

He came to his hometown and began to teach the people in their synagogue,
so that they were astounded and said, "Where did this man get this wisdom and
these deeds of power?
Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Maryam? And are not
his brothers Ya'aqov and Yosef and Simon and Y'hudah?
And are not all his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all this?"
And they took offense at him. But Yeshua said to them, "Prophets are not
without honour except in their own country and in their own house."
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 26. Yohanan the Baptist Beheaded; Yeshua Feeds Five Loaves and Two Fish
to Five Thousand Men; Yeshua Walks on Water

At that time Hordos the ruler heard reports about Yeshua;

and he said to his servants, "This is Yohanan the Baptist; he has been raised
from the dead, and for this reason these powers are at work in him."
For Hordos had arrested Yohanan, bound him, and put him in prison on
account of Hordosia, his brother Philipos' wife,
for Yohanan had been telling him, "It is not lawful for you to have her."
Though Hordos wanted to put him to death, he feared the crowd, as they
regarded him as a prophet.
But when Hordos' birthday came, the daughter of Hordosia danced before the
company, and she pleased Hordos
so much that he promised on oath to grant her whatever she might ask.
Prompted by her mother, she said, "Give me the head of Yohanan the Baptist
here on a platter."
The king was grieved, yet out of regard for his oaths and for the guests, he
commanded it to be given;
he sent and had Yohanan beheaded in the prison, away from the public eye.
The head was brought on a platter and given to the girl, who brought it to
her mother.
This happened on the first day of the month Tishrei.
His disciples came and took the body and buried it; then they went and told
Yeshua.

Now when Yeshua heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat to a deserted
place by himself. He ate no food and drank no water that day, for his grief was
great.
But when the crowds heard it, they followed him on foot from the towns.
When he went ashore, he saw a great crowd in the town of Tabgha, the
deserted land; and he had compassion for them and cured their sick, for they had no
food and needed to go long distances to find it.
When it was evening, Nathanael son of Bar-Tolmi came to him and said, "This
is a deserted place, and the hour is now late; send the crowds away so that they
may go into the villages and buy food for themselves."
Yeshua said to them, "They need not go away; you give them something to
eat."
And Yohudah said to him, "Are we to go and buy two hundred denarii worth
of bread, and give it to them to eat?"
Yeshua asked then, “How many loaves of bread do we have?”
Then Andraus replied, "We have nothing here but five loaves and two fish."
And he said, "Bring them here to me."
Then he ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves
and the two fish, he looked up to what is above, and blessed and broke the loaves,
and gave them to the Sent, and the Sent gave them to the crowds.
And all ate and were filled; and they took up what was left over of the broken
pieces, twelve baskets full.

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 And those who ate were about five thousand men, and as many women and
children.

Immediately he made the Sent get into the boat and go on ahead to the
other side, while he dismissed the crowds.
And after he had dismissed the crowds, he went up the mountain by himself
to pray. When evening came, he was there alone,
but by this time the boat, battered by the waves, was far from the land, for
the wind was against them.
And they feared the wind, and now Yeshua was not in the boat to tell the
wind and the sea to stay still.
And the morning came, and in the early hour they saw what they thought to
be a vision coming to them on the sea, bright as a lightning from the clouds.
Yet Yeshua it was, walking on the water as the water was the same as the
sky, and the wind shook him not, and he was covered in mist from the top of his
head to the soles of his feet that touched the sea.
And when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were terrified,
saying, "It is a ghost!" And they cried out in fear.
But immediately Yeshua spoke to them and said, "Take heart, it is I; do not
be afraid."
Kepha answered him, "Rabbi, if it is you, command me to come to you on the
water."
Yeshua said, "Come." So Kepha got out of the boat, started walking on the
water, and came toward Yeshua.
But when he noticed the strong wind, he became frightened, and beginning
to sink, he cried out, "Rabbi, save me!"
Yeshua immediately reached out his hand and caught him, saying to him,
"You of little faith, why did you doubt?"
When they got into the boat, the wind ceased.
And those in the boat worshiped him, saying, "Truly you are the Son of God."
When they had crossed over, they came to land at Kinneret.
After the people of that place recognized him, they sent word throughout the
region and brought all who were sick to him,
and begged him that they might touch even the fringe of his cloak; and all
who touched it were healed, for their faith made it so.

27. Some of the Sent Do Not Understand Yeshua's Words

Some time after Yeshua's walking on the sea, he was found praying on a
mountain by Kepha and Yochanan, who followed him there in secret.
And as he was praying, his face changed, and it was covered in mist made of
light, and in front of him appeared two men.
Kepha identified them as Moshe and Eliyah,
and Yochanan thought they were Eliyah and Chanoch, who returned from the
heavens where God had taken them.
And both Kepha and Yochanan saw the men appearing in glory and speaking
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 Now Kepha and Yochanan were weighed down with sleep, but since they had
stayed awake, they saw his glory and the two men who stood with him.
And they left just as they came, dissipating into the air, and leaving Yeshua to
pray alone.
Kepha then approached Yeshua, thus revealing himself, and said, "Master, it
is good for us to be here; let us make three dwellings, one for you, one for Moshe,
and one for the prophet Eliyah" - not knowing what he said.
And Yeshua turned to Yochanan and said, "What do you think?"
And Yochanan said, "I think we should make dwellings for you, and for Eliyah,
and for Chanoch, for they were taken from us by God and you were given to us by
God."
And a cloud darkened the sky then, and it took the speech away from Kepha
and Yochanan who had said those things.
And through the cloud, and with Yeshua's voice, it was heard, "Whom you
saw you did not recognize.
When you see your likeness you are full of joy.
But when you see your likenesses that came into existence before you - they
neither die nor become manifest - how much will you bear?”
And when Yeshua finished saying this in the wisdom of the Parent Beyond, he
raised from his position and walked passed Kepha and Yochanan, who could not
comprehend what they had seen or what they had been told.
And they kept silent in those days and told no one of the things they had
witnessed.

On the next day, when they had come down from the mountain, a great
crowd met Yeshua.
Just then a man from the crowd shouted, "Rabbi, I beg you to look at my
son; he is my only child.
Suddenly a spirit seizes him, and all at once he shrieks. It convulses him until
he foams at the mouth; it mails him and will scarcely leave him.
I begged your disciples to cast it out, but they could not."
Yeshua answered, "You unknowing generation, how much longer must I be
with you and bear with you? Bring your son here."
While he was coming, he started convulsing, and he fell to the ground in
convulsions. Yet Yeshua touched his forehead and he stilled, having been healed.
And Yeshua said, "Not all the evil of the world is done by daemons, and not
all the spirits that enter you wish you harm.
But open your eyes, for your son was not possessed, but ill, and is now well
and standing.
Do not fear the daemons, for you will beckon them, even when they are not
there."
And all were astounded at what they found, and could not believe the words
that Yeshua spoke.
And he said to his Sent, "Let these words sink into your ears: many atrocities
will be done in the name of the daemons,
but how much more will be committed in the name of God!
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 But they did not understand this saying; its meaning was concealed from
them, so that they could not perceive it. And they were afraid to ask him for
answers to their questions.

An argument soon rose amongst his Sent concerning which of them was the
greatest.
But Yeshua, aware of their inner thoughts, took a little child and put him by
his side,
and said to them, "Whoever welcomes this child in my name welcomes me,
and whoever welcomes me welcomes the One Who sent me; for the least amongst
you is the greatest."
Yochanan answered, "Rabbi, we saw someone casting out demons in your
name, and we tried to stop him, as he does not follow with us."
But Yeshua said to him, "Do not stop him; for whoever tries to do as you do
is not against you, but for you."

28. Yeshua Chastises the Perisayya, and Feeds Seven Loaves to Four
Thousand Men

Then Perisayya and scribes came to Yeshua from Yerushalayim and said,
"Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash
their hands before they eat."
He answered them, "And why do you break the commandment of God for the
sake of your tradition?
For God said, 'Honour your father and your mother,' and, 'Whoever speaks
evil of father or mother must surely die.'
But you say that whoever tells father or mother, 'Whatever support you might
have had from me is given to God,' then that person need not honour their father.
So, for the sake of your tradition, you make void the word of God.
You unfortunates! Yesha'yahu prophesied rightly about you when he said:
'This people honour me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me;
in vain do they worship me, teaching human precepts as doctrines'."
Then he called the crowd to him and said to them, "Listen and understand:
it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but it is what comes
out of the mouth that defiles."
Then the Sent approached and said to him, "Do you know that the Perisayya
took offense when they heard what you said?"
He answered, "Every plant that my Parent Beyond has not planted will be
uprooted.
Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind. And if one blind person
guides another, both will fall into a pit."
But Kepha said to him, "Explain this parable to us."
Then he said, "Are you also still so dull?
Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth enters the stomach, and
goes out into the sewer?
But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this is what
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 For out of the heart come evil intentions, murder, adultery, fornication, theft,
false witness, slander.
These are what defile a person, but to eat with unwashed hands does not
defile."

Yeshua left that place and went away to the district of Shor and Sidon.
Just then a woman of Kena'an from that region came out and started
shouting, "Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of Dawid; my daughter is tormented by a
demon."
But he did not answer her at all. And his Sent came and urged him, saying,
"Send her away, for she keeps shouting after us."
He answered, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Yisrael."
But she came and knelt before him, saying, "Lord, help me."
He answered, "Your daughter is not possessed."
She concluded, "Then she is ill!"
He said to her, "It is not fair to take the children's food and throw it to the
dogs."
She said, "Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their
masters' table."
Then Yeshua answered her, "Woman, great is your faith! Let it be done for
you as you wish." And her daughter was healed instantly.

After Yeshua had left that place, he passed along the Sea of Gahlylyi, and he
went up the mountain, where he sat down.
Great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the maimed, the
blind, the mute, and many others. They put them at his feet, and he cured them,
so that the crowd was amazed when they saw the mute speaking, the
maimed whole, the lame walking, and the blind seeing. And they praised the God of
Yisrael.
Then Yeshua called his Sent to him and said, "I have compassion for the
crowd, because they have been with me now for three days and have nothing to
eat; and I do not want to send them away hungry, for they might faint on the way."
The Sent said to him, "Where are we to get enough bread in the desert to
feed so great a crowd?"
Yeshua asked them, "How many loaves have you?" They said, "Seven, and a
few small fish."
Then ordering the crowd to sit down on the ground,
he took the seven loaves and the fish; and after giving thanks he broke them
and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds.
And all of them ate and were filled; and they took up the broken pieces left
over, seven baskets full.
Those who had eaten were four thousand men, besides women and children.
After sending away the crowds, he got into the boat and went to the region
of Magdala.

Now the Sent had forgotten to bring any bread; and they had only one loaf
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 And he cautioned them, saying, "Watch out - beware of the yeast of the
Perisayya and the yeast of Hordos."
They said to one another, "It is because we have no bread."
And becoming aware of it, Yeshua said to them, "Why are you talking about
having no bread? Do you still not perceive or understand? Are your hearts
hardened?
Do you have eyes, and fail to see? Do you have ears, and fail to hear? And do
you not remember?
When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of
broken pieces did you collect?" They said to him, "Twelve."
"And the seven for the four thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces
did you collect?" And they said to him, "Seven."
Then he said to them, "Do you not yet understand?"
Then they went to cast their nets into the sea, and they waited for hours and
still there was no catch.
And Kepha and the sons of Alfaios said to Yeshua, “Rabbi, there are no fish
for us to catch in these waters. What are we to eat?”
And Yeshua raised his voice at them and said, “Have you not listened to what
I said?
Come then, you of little faith, leave your nets in the water and they will be
filled.”
And they left the nets in the water, and fish started to gather in them, until
there were so many fish caught in the nets that they started to break.
And they said amongst themselves, “Let us not again doubt this man, for he
can make possible of the impossible.”

29. Yeshua Tells Parables of Faith, Desperation, Patience and Greed in

Magdala

It was the year three-thousand-seven-hundred-eighty-nine after the Creation

according to the Jews.
The Perisayya again met him in Magdala, and one of them said, "Rabbi, if you
are the Son of God and we are to go into heaven, give us a sign!"
But Yeshua answered "You are asking for a sign?"
He also said to the crowds, "When you see a cloud rising in the west, you
immediately say, 'It is going to rain'; and so it happens.
And when you see the south wind blowing, you say, 'There will be scorching
heat'; and it happens.
You unfortunates! You know how to interpret the appearance of earth and
sky, but why do you not know how to interpret the present time?
For you think you see the truth and Lo, it is manifest;
Yet some truths are according to your eyes, and your eyes are according to
your beliefs;
So be in peace with one another, and have faith,
for if you have even a grain of faith, you can tell the mountain 'Move away'
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 "And why is there only heaven on your minds?
Is it for reward that you praise God and pray and fast and show it to the
world so that it might see it too? And is that why, when all eyes turn away from you,
you do the opposite of what you preach?
For I tell you, any who are desperate to enter heaven will not be able to open
its gates.
"Listen, we are like workers on a field which our Lord watches when we are
unaware",
and he told them a parable, "Who then is the faithful and prudent manager
whom his master will put in charge of his slaves, to give them their allowance of
food at the proper time?
Blessed is that slave whom his master will find at good work when he arrives.
Truly I tell you, he will put that one in charge of all his possessions.
But if that slave says to himself, 'My master is delayed in coming,' and if he
begins to beat the other slaves, men and women, and to eat and drink and get
drunk,
the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and
at an hour that he does not know, and will no longer shelter him under his roof. And
what shall the slave do then?

"And why is there no patience in your souls? As only patience can lead you to
the Kingdom you so wish to be welcomed in.
"Hear this", and he told them a parable, "There was once a man, an
unfortunate, who worked as a fisherman by the river.
One day, God appeared to him and said, 'You man, wait by the side of this
river, for I put a great gift at the spring, and when it shall flow to where you stand
and reach you, you will be rich in spirit, in mind and in body!'
And the man was hopeful and joyous at the news, and waited for the gift by
the side of the river.
And the time passed, and one week passed, and one month passed, and
several months passed and he saw no gift.
He could not help asking, 'When will this gift arrive?'
And no answer was given to him, and he waited some more.
And the cold came over the river, and it froze and stilled.
And the man thought, 'If the river will not flow, how will it bring my gift?' And
he decided to walk up toward the spring of the river, in order to find the gift that
was frozen in the water.
And he walked miles and miles and he could not reach it, so he started
running.
And as he was running, the cold of the river dissipated, and it started flowing
again. And the gift, which was few feet away from the man, passed him in a hurry,
for he had not waited in the valley as he was told.
And he saw the gift pass and go with the water of the river into the sea, and
it was then out of reach for him.
And he then thought, 'I have waited for the Gift of God and could not wait
any longer.
And I went toward it and it passed me, and such I lost the Gift of God.'

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 "We do not know when the Gift of God shall come, but without patience you
shall never receive it.

"And when a good thing happens which you did not expect - why do you
compel it to happen again?
For you suffocate the good with your greed for it,
and your greed lays with what you can eat and drink and make yourself more
than comfortable with.
"Hear this", and he told them another parable, "The land of a rich man
produced abundantly.
And he thought to himself, 'What should I do, for I have no place to store my
crops?'
Then he said, 'I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build larger ones,
and there I will store all my grain and my goods.
And I will say to my soul: Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years;
relax, eat, drink, be merry.'
But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of
you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?'
So it is with those who store up treasures for themselves but are not rich in
heaven."

30. Maryam of Magdala; Her Repentance and Following of Yeshua

Now in Magdala lived a woman who, although she had a husband, was not
satisfied with her marriage.
She was twenty years of age, and had been married for seven years, yet
without bearing any children.
And she was of good fortune,
and had the possessions with which to make her house comfortable and her
body healthy,
yet fortune was not what she sought.
And, seeing when her husband was not home, she received in their house
other men, without asking for money, and had relations with them.
And the men talked amongst themselves and spread the word of her
misconduct, until it reached the ears of her husband.
"What should I do about it?" He said, "She is my wife and she has never said
one bad word to me.
Her good fortune is what kept us together these many years.
How could I reprimand her?"
And he let her continue what she was doing.
For as many years as she was married, she received in her house seven men,
and such the people of the region thought her to be possessed by seven
demons, one for each year that she committed adultery toward her husband.
She was with her husband in the house when word spread on the streets of
Magdala that Yeshua of Nazrath came in their village.
And so she went out of the house, and saw this man which they called 'Son of
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 And when she saw him, a great power went over her, and the rest of the
world in her heart vanished,
and she went to Yeshua and his Sent to greet him, and said, "Lord, let me
take your coat and welcome you into my home."
And Kepha said to Yeshua, "Rabbi, they say of this woman that she is
possessed by seven demons!"
Yet Yeshua turned to him and said, "Fret not, for she is pure of heart",
and he took her offered hand and followed her into her house.
When they entered it, her husband fell to his knees in front of Yeshua,
and said, "Lord, forgive my woman and her sins, for she meant no harm!"
Yeshua turned to Maryam and saw her eyes in tears.
He said to her, "Woman, why do you weep?
For, look, your man loves you so, that he holds nothing against you."
"Lord, indeed my sins are many,
for I have committed adultery in the house of matrimony,
and even when my husband knew of it I did not stop."
Yeshua looked at her face of remorse, and said, "And what do you want
now?"
She threw herself at his feet, and said, "Forgive me! Forgive me and let me
follow you!"
And he touched her head, and said, "Take heart, child, you are forgiven.
You may follow, if it is in your heart to do so."
And she was filled with joy, and she kissed his feet in gratitude.
But the Sent - Kepha, and Ya'akov and Y'hudah sons of Alfaios - talked
amongst themselves, and they said, "This adulteress is taken with the passion for
flesh - how can Rabbi accept for her to follow?"
But Yeshua answered not their concerns, for they were unjust.

31. The Thoughts of the Sent – The Rejection and Acceptance of Maryam of
Magdala

Yeshua and his twelve Sent spent the night on the floor of the house of
Maryam of Magdala.
In the morning, they took their few belongings and set to leave.
And Maryam at once let go of her family, her husband, and her passions for
the flesh, for they have all been replaced by a passion for the spirit, and she went
on to follow them.
And not a day passed that at night around the fire that kept them warm, the
Sent started to discuss Maryam joining them.
And Mattiyah came to Yeshua to voice his concerns, saying, "Rabbi, are you
certain that this woman will no longer sin?"
And Yeshua saw only worry in his heart, and said, "Do not fret, for she is pure
of heart;
that which you call sin was her dependence on the flesh, and it no longer
exists in her soul."
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 Yet Ya'aqov and Y'hudah sons of Alfaios stood on their feet when Maryam
was not around to hear and said, "This woman is blasphemous - that she with her
presence would defile the presence of the Rabbi; she, who has done things which
would rather put her against the wall, how can she claim to be one of us?"
And, seeing that Yeshua was not around to speak, Yochanan said in her
defense, "And who are you to say these against her? Who are you to know better
what lies in her heart than Rabbi himself?
Give her the benefit of the doubt, as we all have been given when we
followed, for none of us was without sin."
And Yohudah would keep her away from these words that they spoke, for he
too was solitary amongst them.

Later, Kepha approached Yeshua by the fire.

And, looking at Maryam of Magdala, Kepha said to Yeshua, "Rabbi, I wanted
to ask you: why do you keep company such women?"
And Yeshua said, "What women do you say that she is part of?"
Kepha told him then what he thought, "I believe her to be unable to
comprehend your message or change her ways - she was a prostitute for pleasure,
as wealth she had already - and wholly unfit to follow with us in your presence!"
And Yeshua saw that Maryam heard Kepha, and said, "You ignorant! Do you
not know the power that your words hold?
Do you not know of the power that holds in every letter and number?
There is power in every grain of sand, in every drop of water and inhale of
air, yet still you know not how to use it, or how to perceive it."
And that he said to Kepha, but meant to each of them who thought those
things but did not voice them,
for thought alone could hold the power he was speaking of.
And from then they let her be, and she was seen in the presence of Yeshua
and Yochanan and Nathanael and Mattiyah and Yohudah, who were the ones to
wholly accept her.

32. Yeshua Travels to Spread the Word in Many Villages

They came again to Bethtsaida. Some people brought a blind man to Yeshua
and begged him to touch him.
He took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the village; and when
he had put saliva on his eyes and laid his hands on him, he asked him, "Can you see
anything?"
And the man looked up and said, "I can see people, but they look like trees,
walking."
Then Yeshua laid his hands on his eyes again, and said, "Be opened"; and he
looked intently and his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly.

They came to Yareah. As Yeshua and his Sent and a large crowd were leaving
Yareah, Bar-Timaios, a blind beggar, was sitting by the roadside.
When he heard that it was Yeshua of Nazrath, he began to shout out and say,
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 Many sternly ordered him to be quiet, but he cried out even more loudly,
"Son of Dawid, have mercy on me!"
Yeshua stood still and said, "Call him here." And they called the blind man,
saying to him, "Take heart; get up, he is calling you."
So throwing off his cloak, he sprang up and came to Yeshua.
Then Yeshua said to him, "What do you want me to do for you?" The blind
man said to him, "Rabbi, let me see again."
Yeshua said to him, "Go; your faith has made you well." Immediately he
regained his sight and followed him on the way.

Just then a lawyer stood up to test Yeshua.

"Rabbi", he said, "what must I do to inherit eternal life?"
Yeshua said to him, "What is written in the law? What do you read there?"
He answered, "You shall not serve other gods before Me; you shall not make
carved image of yourself; you shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain;
remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy; honour your father and your mother;
you shall not murder; you shall not commit adultery; you shall not steal; you shall
not bear false witness; you shall not covet."
Yeshua said, "And what is it that I have said to you in my preaching?"
The lawyer answered, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart,
and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your
neighbour as yourself."
And he said to him, "You have given the right answer; do this, and you will
live."
But wanting to justify himself, he asked Yeshua, "And who is my neighbour?"
Yeshua replied, "A man was going down from Yerushalayim to Yareah, and
fell into the hands of robbers, who stripped him, beat him, and went away, leaving
him half dead.
Now by chance a priest was going down that road; and when he saw him, he
passed by on the other side.
So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on
the other side.
But a Shomer while traveling came near him; and when he saw him, he was
moved with pity.
He went to him and bandaged his wounds, having poured oil and wine on
them. Then he put him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of
him.
The next day he took out two denarii, gave them to the innkeeper, and said,
'Take care of him; and when I come back, I will repay you whatever more you
spend.'
"Which of these three, do you think, was a neighbour to the man who fell into
the hands of the robbers?"
He said, "The one who showed him mercy." Yeshua said to him, "Go and do
likewise."

A man ran then to catch up with them and said to Yeshua, “Tell my brothers
that they have to divide my father’s possessions with me.”
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 He turned to his Sent and said to them: “I am not a divider, am I?”
And, troubled by the priorities of this man, Yeshua turned to him again and
asked, "If they were not to share these possessions, what would you do?"
The man said, "I suppose I would sue them."
"You would sue your own brothers?" Yeshua asked him.
"Yes", he said with no hesitation.
Yeshua then asked him, "Man, have your brothers ever wronged you? Have
they done something to you that you would no longer consider them your brothers?"
The man said, "No. They are my brothers."
Yeshua said, "If they are your brothers, are they not your friends, and you to
them?
And do you not give a friend what a friend requires, and not take from him
what was not given to you?
"Here, listen", and he also turned to speak to his Sent, "Suppose one of you
has a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say to him, 'Friend, lend me three
loaves of bread;
for a friend of mine has arrived, and I have nothing to set before him.'
And he answers from within, ‘Do not bother me; the door has already been
locked, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot get up and give you anything.'
I tell you, even though he will not get up and give him anything because he is
his friend, at least because of his persistence he will get up and give him whatever
he needs."
And the man who came to him said, "And then what am I to do? For I have
nothing without my father's possessions."
Yeshua said to him, "Go, and reconcile with your brothers.
For a brother with a brother stays, and a friend with a friend, then they will
not let each other perish in times of tribulation."

Now as they went on their way, he entered a certain village named Bethanya,
where a woman named Marta welcomed him into her home.
She had a sister named Maryam, who sat at Yeshua's feet and listened to
what he was saying.
But Marta was distracted by her many tasks; so she came to him and asked,
"Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to do all the work by myself? Tell
her then to help me."
But Yeshua answered her, "Marta, Marta, you are worried and distracted by
many things;
there is need of only one thing. Maryam has chosen the better part, which will
not be taken away from her."

33. Of Daemons, Illnessses and Diseases; Yeshua Casts a Spirit Out of an Ill
Man and Talks of the Ascension of His Mother to Where He Will Go

The following morning at dawn, Yeshua awoke and stood in the doorstep of
Maryam and Marta's house;
his Sent were not yet awake, nor was anyone else in the house, as it was so
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 As he stood there, he saw in the distance a figure that was running from one
house to the other, knocking on their doors and drinking from the water buckets left
outside.
Yeshua saw that this was a man, and he stood up to observe him.
The man sensed that he was being watched, and turned toward Yeshua.
And his eyes were like blood, and his hair and long beard were like nests of
birds, and he was unwashed and unclothed, standing over six feet tall.
He started to run toward Yeshua, and to make noises that were unnatural,
and not that of a human.
And seeing that he would not stop when he told him to, and that he would
not calm down when he heard him, Yeshua screamed for his Sent to wake.
And even though the man was raging and coming to him, he could not touch
Yeshua, for he was not allowed.
And some of the Sent woke, and these were Yochanan, Mattyiah, Philipos,
Tauma and Yohudah.
Yeshua said, "Restrain him", and they restrained the man without question.
When he was bound to the nearest tree, Tauma asked him, "Rabbi, what is
with this man? Is he ill, has he a demon?"
Yeshua answered, "He is possessed and he is ill."
Then they said, "He wanted to hurt you - how is it that this demon tried to
hurt you, when no other did?"
But Yeshua did not answer them, and instead asked the spirit that was in the
man, "What is your name? Who are you that you think you can disobey the laws
given to you by EhYeh?"
The man with the demon showed his yellow teeth, and said, "I am Asbe!
Do not keep me bound, and do not turn me away, for I too want this flesh
that you all have!"
Yeshua said, "If you are Asbe, it is you who turned away.
Your chosen place is below this place, and you are not to crave what you
once refuted."
And the Sent said to Yeshua, "He is evil! Let him be punished and serve
eternal damnation!"
But Yeshua said to the man who was possessed by the spirit Asbe, "I have
not come to damn you.
Get out!"
And with a shriek the man was liberated from the spirit that tormented him.
And the man's name was Chanoch after that said to have been taken away by
God.
And Yeshua knew this and said to him, "Rise, Chayyim, and unbind yourself;
you are set free",
and he named him then Chayyim, which is Life.
And the man Chayyim rose and unbound himself, and it was brought to him a
piece of cloth to cover himself with.
"Lord", he said when he saw Yeshua, "I have been tormented by the spirit for
ten years; I am now thirty-one years of age.
You have given me my life back!"
Yeshua said, "Go. You are healed, and your mind is now not troubled." And
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 Then Yeshua went to go inside and pray, but Yohudah stopped him and
asked, "Rabbi, I need to know - what is it about daemons? Please, answer me this
question." And the other four Sent present also wished to know.
Yeshua stood on the ground and said, "Very well. The daemons which you
speak of are angels of God, who decided not to be with God, but with themselves."

And Yochanan said, "And why do they possess men and women alike - and
even children, who you said are without sin?"
Yeshua answered, "They take the bodies of others, because no bodies were
yet given to them.
But I tell you, there will soon come a time when they shall take the bodies
which have not been given, yet surrendered to them, and no man on earth shall
know their wickedness and instead claim it as godliness."

And Mattiyah said, "You told us this man was ill - was it his illness or this
demon which made him enraged?"
Yeshua said, "His illness was that of a feeble spirit; and those whose spirits
are not strong call upon other spirits to join them in their bodies;
What he saw was not what it was, what he heard was not outside of him, but
inside of him;
and the daemon Asbe, who once was Asbeel, told him things that were not of
truth, and showed him things that were not there, and he believed them."

Now Yeshua stood up and told them to follow him.

And they found themselves in a different place than moments before, and
they knew not how they arrived or whether it was a vision.
And the place was such, that they were on a footpath. Behind them was a
forested hill, in front of them were few trees, and then the sea.
And Yeshua went down and showed them a prepared tomb, which was
empty.
He wrote on the ground near the tombstone all the things which he had said,
then showed them the place and told them, "At the end of Her life on earth,
take my Mother to this place.
This tomb is for Her, yet let it never to be filled.
Here She will rest, before ascending to join me where I will go, and yet She
will also remain."
Yohudah asked, "Rabbi, where will you go?" But Yeshua answered not.
Yochanan asked, "Why tell us to do this, and not do it yourself when the time
comes?" But Yeshua answered not.
Instead he said, "Here, the time is short.
Let us but return to the house of the sisters."
And when they returned, the other Sent were also awake, along with the two
sisters Maryam and Marta.
And the Sent who were not with Yeshua that morning asked, "Brothers, what
did he show you?"
They answered, "What he showed us we could not explain to you - and if we
were to try, it would not be allowed."
And that day they all went on their way from there.

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 34. Yeshua Faces Unbelievers; The Adulteress They Want to Be Stoned

After this Yeshua went about in Gahlylyi. He did not wish to go about in
Yauda because the Perisayya there were looking for an opportunity to kill him.
Now the Jewish festival of Sukkot was near.
And not even his brothers and sisters had faith in Yeshua that he was indeed
the Son of God;
the only ones who believed in him and followed him were Ya'aqov and
Y'hudah and his sister Shlomi,
and they became his disciples but were not the ones Sent by God to him and
by him into the world to spread the Word,
yet their intentions and their hearts were pure.
So his brothers Yosef and Simon, who did not believe, said to him, "Leave
here and go to Yauda so that your disciples also may see the works you are doing;
for no one who wants to be widely known acts in secret. If you do these
things, show yourself to the world."
Yeshua said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always
here.
The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I expose its lies and
reveal the truth.
Go to the festival yourselves. I am not going to this festival, for my time has
not yet fully come."
After saying this, he remained in Gahlylyi.
But after his brothers had gone to the festival, then he also went, yet he
transfigured his face to the human eye so that no one would immediately know him
there.
The Perisayya were looking for him at the festival and saying, "Where is he?"
And there was considerable complaining about him amongst the crowds.
While some were saying, "He is a good man," others were saying, "No, he is
deceiving the crowd."
Yet no one would speak openly about him for fear of the Perisayya.
About the middle of the festival Yeshua dropped his disguise and went up into
the Temple and began to teach.
The people were astonished at it, saying, "How does this man have such
learning, when he has never been taught?"
Then Yeshua answered them, "My teaching not from I alone comes, but also
from my Parent Beyond Who gave it to me.
Those who speak on their own seek their own glory; but the one who seeks
the glory of That Who sent him is true, and there is nothing false in him.
"You say of me that I break the laws that you are accustomed with.
Did not Moshe give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why are you
looking for an opportunity to kill me?"
The Perisayya heard the crowd muttering such things about him, and the
chief priests and Perisayya sent Temple police to arrest him.
Yeshua then said, "I will be with you a little while longer, and then I am going
to That from Whom I came.
You will search for me, but you will not find me; and where I am, you cannot
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 The Jews said to one another, "Where does this man intend to go that we will
not find him? Does he intend to go to the Dispersion amongst the Greeks and teach
the Greeks?
What does he mean by saying, 'You will search for me and you will not find
me' and 'Where I am, you cannot come'?"
On the last day of the festival, the great day, while Yeshua was standing
there, he cried out, "Let anyone who is thirsty come to me,
and let the one who believes in me drink. As the scripture has said, 'Out of
the believer's heart shall flow rivers of living water'."
When they heard these words, some in the crowd said, "This is really the
prophet."
Others said, "This is the Meshyha." But some asked, "Surely the Meshyha
does not come from Gahlylyi, does he?
Has not the scripture said that the Meshyha is descended from Dawid and
comes from Bethlehem, the village where Dawid lived?"
So there was a division in the crowd because of him.
Some of them wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him.
Then the Temple police went back to the chief priests and Perisayya, who
asked them, "Why did you not arrest him?"
The police answered, "Never has anyone spoken like this!"
Then the Perisayya replied, "Surely you have not been deceived too, have
you?
Has anyone of the authorities or of the Perisayya believed in him?
But this crowd, which does not know the law - they are accursed."
Nikodemos, who had gone to Yeshua before and sought to learn from him,
and who was one of them, asked,
"Our law does not judge people without first giving them a hearing to find out
what they are doing, does it?"
They replied, "Surely you are not also from Gahlylyi, are you? Search and you
will see that no prophet is to arise from Gahlylyi."

Yeshua then went to the Mount of Olives.

Early in the morning he came again to the Temple. All the people came to
him and he sat down and began to teach them.
The scribes and the Perisayya brought a woman who had been caught in
adultery; and making her stand before all of them,
they said to him, "Rabbi, this woman was caught in the very act of
committing adultery in the house of her father.
Now in the law Moshe commanded us to stone such women. Now what do
you say?"
They said this to test him, so that they might have some charge to bring
against him.
Yeshua bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground, and those were
the Ten Commandments, as they had been given by God before Moshe broke the
Tablets.
When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them,
"He amongst you who is without sin, let him cast the first stone."
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 When they heard it, they left the stones on the ground and went away, one
by one, beginning with the elders; and Yeshua was left alone with the woman
standing before him.
Yeshua straightened up and said to her, "Woman, where are your accusers?
Is no one here to condemn you?"
She said, "No one, Lord."
And Yeshua said, "Then neither do I condemn you. Go, and sin no more."
And she wept and thanked him, then took off.

The Sent also followed Yeshua there, and they were gathered around them as
he was saying to a crowd that, having recognized his face, approached him,
"I am the Light of the world!
Follow me and you will see the path that leads to the past, and the future,
and the present.
"I am the Flame of the world!
Follow me and your hearts shall be warmed and blessed.
"I am the Living Water!
Drink from me and you will never be thirsty again.
"I am the Truth!
Follow me and the gates will be opened for you to enter.
"I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,
for through me All begin, and in me All end,
such I am the Son of God and the brother of you!
"Believe, and it will be done
- Love, and do not do anything but love, and you shall have Eternal Life in the
Kingdom of Heaven."
Then the Perisayya said to him, "You are testifying on your own behalf; your
testimony is not valid."
Yeshua said to them, "You judge by human standards; I judge no one.
In your law it is written that the testimony of two witnesses is valid.
I testify on my own behalf, and the Parent Beyond from Whom I came
testifies on my behalf."
Then they said to him, "Your parent? Where is your parent?" Yeshua
answered, "You know neither me nor my Parent. If you knew me, you would know
my Parent also."
He spoke these words while he was teaching in the treasury of the Temple,
but no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.
Again he said to them, "I am going away, and you will search for me, but you
will die in your debts. Where I am going, you cannot come."
Then the Jews said, "Is he going to kill himself? Is that what he means by
saying, 'Where I am going, you cannot come'?"
He looked at them and said, "Why am I still speaking to you?
Why am I still reaching for you?
Your do not hold your hands out to receive my reach, for they are up to cover
your ears."
Then some of them said to him, "What do you speak of? You have a demon
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 These are words we do not understand, and they are the words of a
blasphemer."
He answered, "I have told you, I have no daemon in me.
But I say to you, Moshe alone could reach you, for he used harsh laws and
harsh words - and these are the only words you will accept and understand.
Do not think that I will accuse you before the Parent; your accuser is Moshe,
on whom you have set your hope.
If you believed Moshe, you would believe me, for he wrote about me.
But if you do not believe what he wrote, how will you believe what I say?"
The Jews cried and said, "What do you say of Moshe, who saved our people
from slavery?
How can you rebuke his name?"
He told them, "It is not his name that I rebuke.
But truly I tell you, that Abraham your father watches over you and sees you
have come very far from where he has led you."
They said, "Man, what do you know of Abraham our father?"
Yeshua said, "Listen, I say to you truly, your ancestor Abraham rejoiced that
he would see my day; he saw it and was glad."
Then the Jews said to him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and have you
seen Abraham?"
Yeshua said to them, "Very truly, I tell you, before Abraham was, I am."
So they picked up stones to throw at him, but Yeshua hid himself and went
out of the Temple.

35. The Sent Have a Common Dream at Night

One evening after the sunset, while they set their camp with tents outside a
village, the Sent and Maryam of Magdala sat at one place waiting for Yeshua to sit
amongst them.
And when he did join them, he saw the expression on their faces, and said,
"What is it that troubles you?"
And Kepha, who would always voice his thoughts, answered, "Rabbi, I had a
dream last night."
Yeshua inquired, "And what was in your dream that makes you frown so?"
Hesitating, Kepha started to describe his dream, "We were outside the
Temple of God in Yerushalayim - I and the other eleven;
I saw there men and women alike;
And I saw that when a man touched a woman, she would hurt him and run
and scream;
And I saw women embracing other women, and that I knew not was possible;
And I saw men that fornicated with men and women alike in dark corners,
away from the world - yet we were there to see it;
And I saw men with men, some that would fornicate like beasts, some that
were together not unlike husband and wife - and it was unnatural to my eyes;
And I saw men who walked by these people who were together, and they
were unaffected,
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and that seemed unnatural to my eyes;
And at last, we saw few women and men, and they had no clothes on, and
they walked with no shame and stood in front of us, yet even with nothing to cover
their faces I could not recognize them.
And they were the only ones that entered the Temple."
And the other Sent acknowledged this dream,
and all said they shared it, and that they had seen what Kepha had seen in
his sleep,
and that they could not understand.
They urged Yeshua to explain what they had seen to them.
He asked first, "In your dream, was I there?"
They said, "No, Rabbi, we have not seen you."
He then said, "Just as you have not seen me, those people you saw have not
seen me.
For that who sees me knows there are no dark corners in which they can hide
themselves from me."

The Sent asked him, "And what of those from whom women ran?"
Yeshua said, "You yourselves see woman separate from man.
And there will come a time when women will wish to be the same as men,
and yet more will they separate themselves."

The Sent asked, "And what of those fornicating with each other?"
Yeshua said, "What is it to you what those men and women do?
Truly I tell you, they hide for they are ashamed;
and that who is ashamed is guilty;
and that who is guilty will not enter the Kingdom Above."
They said, "Rabbi, were they guilty of fornication?"
He said, "Guilt is a fabrication of man;
and he alone finds reason to sustain his guilt."

And they said, "And what of those men who were with men?"
And he said, "Tell me, when you saw these men, what did you do?"
They said, "We threw stones at them, so that they would stop."
Yeshua said, "You unfortunates! You would cast stones at your brothers,
when you have no business with them?
What is it to you, what they do?
For they may be troubled and in need to find other troubled souls to ease
their pain,
but their troubles are theirs alone."
And they said, "So it is not forbidden for man to lay with man?"
He answered, "Man cannot lay with man as man does with woman;
they only do what they can.
Yet what is it to you? For these men who lay with men are as those men who
lay with women of the streets, for they seek not the union with a soul, but with a
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 They say, "And what of men and their wives? Why could we not see people in
marriage?"
Yeshua said, "For the holy matrimony is not for all the same.
And some men enter its house and make it a home for their wives;
But some men enter the house and walk out of it, and leave the woman alone
to take care of it;
and some men say they enter the house, but they stay away from it, and they
visit other houses and rarely return to theirs;
and some men enter the house and set it on fire;
and some women do as those men.
Woe onto those men and women,
who enter the house of marriage and do not bring harmony into it!
For this house will crumble onto them and will crush their bones,
and it would have been better for them if they had never entered the house
at all!"
At this the Sent said, "If such is the case of a man with his wife, it is better
not to marry."
But he said to them, "Not everyone can accept this teaching, but only those
to whom it is given.
For there are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs
who have been made eunuchs by others, and there are eunuchs who have made
themselves eunuchs for the sake of the Kingdom of Heaven, for they felt it was their
only obstacle.
Let anyone accept this who can."

And the Sent said, "And what of those women and men who were naked?"
Then Maryam of Magdala said, "Rabbi, I also had this dream that they had.
But I was not of those who watched from the outside and threw stones. I was of
those who wore no clothes and yet had no shame." And she said these things with
confusion.
And Yohudah, who until then remained silent, said, "Indeed, Rabbi - I have
seen her."
And Yeshua turned to Maryam and asked, "Tell me - when you entered the
Temple, did you see me?"
"Yes", she answered.
He then turned to all of them and said, "Listen! When you undress without
being ashamed and take your clothes and put them under your feet like little
children and trample on them,
then you will see the Son of EhYeh, and you will not be afraid.
"Did you understand?" And they said, "Yes."

The following day they entered the village and Yeshua saw infants being
suckled.
He said to his Sent, "These little ones being suckled are like those who enter
the Kingdom Above."
They said to him, "Then will we enter the kingdom as little ones?"
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outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below -
that is, to make the male and the female into a single one, so that the male
will not be male and the female will not be female -
and when you make eyes instead of an eye, and a hand instead of a hand,
and a foot instead of a foot, an image instead of an image, then you will enter the
Kingdom Above."
And these infants were brought to him one by one in order that he might
bless them with the touch of his hand and pray.
Ya'aqov and Y'hudah sons of Alfaios spoke sternly to those who brought
them, as they saw them as healthy children in no need to be cured by Yeshua,
but he said, "Let the children come to me, and do not stop them, for it is to
such as these that the Kingdom Above belongs, and you might learn from their ways
and become like them."
And he laid his hands on them and went on his way.

That day Yohudah came to Yeshua in private to speak to him.

Yeshua said, "What is it that troubles you?"
Yohudah answered, "It is of the dream I shared with the rest of the disciples."
Yeshua asked, "And why have you come to me if you fear to tell me?"
Yohudah answered, "It is my father Simon. I saw him in those who were
hidden in dark corners."
And Yeshua felt for him and said, "Yohudah, I see your anger and your
sadness - do not fret, for he has passed from this body on earth, and where he is
now he will be another millennia to come, and he will suffer from the weight of the
guilt he carries."
And he touched Yohudah's forehead and at once his resentment and his
worries vanished, and he thanked Yeshua for reassuring him.

36. Yeshua Gives Sight to a Man Born Blind

As Yehua walked along, he saw a man blind from birth.

And Philipos asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he
was born blind?"
Yeshua answered, "Neither this man nor his parents sinned;
the sins of the parents do not affect that who has not yet committed any sins,
rather it is their confinements that confine him also.
Yet, this is not the case - he was born blind so that God's works might be
revealed through him.
We must work the works of That from Whom I came while it is day; night is
coming when no one can see."
Andraus asked him then, "Rabbi, what do you mean? This man was blind
from birth!"
Yeshua answered, "As long as I am in the world, I am the Light of the
world."
When he said this, he spat on the ground and made mud with the saliva and
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 saying to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Shelach."
Then he went and washed, and when he wiped his eyes he started to see the
light reflected in the water, and came back able to see.
The neighbours and those who had seen him before as a beggar began to
ask, "Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?"
Some were saying, "It is he." Others were saying, "No, but it is someone like
him." He kept saying, "I am the man."
But they kept asking him, "Then how were your eyes opened?"
He answered, "The man called Yeshua made mud, spread it on my eyes, and
said to me, 'Go to Shelach and wash.' Then I went and washed and received my
sight."
They said to him, "Where is he?" He said, "I do not know, for when he saw
me I could not see him."
They brought to the Perisayya the man who had formerly been blind.
Now it was a Sabbath day when Yeshua made the mud and opened his eyes.
Then the Perisayya also began to ask the man how he had received his sight.
He said to them, "He put mud on my eyes. Then I washed, and now I see."
Some of the Perisayya said, "This man is not from God, for he does not
observe the Sabbath."
But others said, "How can a man who is a sinner perform such signs?"
And they were divided.
So they said again to the blind man, "What do you say about him? It was
your eyes he opened."
He said, "He is with no doubt a prophet."
The Perisayya did not believe that he had been blind and had received his
sight until they called the parents of the man who had received his sight
and asked them, "Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then
does he now see?"
His parents answered, "We know that this is our son, and that he was born
blind;
but we do not know how it is that now he sees, nor do we know who opened
his eyes. Ask him; he is of age. He will speak for himself."
His parents said this because they were afraid of the Perisayya; for they had
already agreed that anyone who confessed Yeshua to be the Meshyha would be put
out of the synagogue.
It was also his parents who threw him out to live on the streets, as he was
born blind, and they believed this to be a sign of their past sins.
Therefore his parents said, "He is of age; ask him."
So for the second time they called the man who had been blind, and they said
to him, "Give glory to God! We know that this man is a sinner."
He answered, "I do not know whether he is a sinner or not.
One thing I do know, that before I was blind, and now I can see."
They said to him, "What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?"
He answered them, "I have told you already, and you would not listen. Why
do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become his disciples?"
Then they reviled him, saying, "You are his disciple, but we are disciples of
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where he comes from."
The man answered, "Here is an astonishing thing! You know mot where he
comes from, and yet he opened my eyes.
We know that God does not listen to sinners, but he does listen to one who
worships him and obeys his will.
Never since the world began has it been heard that anyone opened the eyes
of a person born blind.
If this man were not from God, he could do nothing."
They answered him, "You were born entirely in sins, and are you trying to
teach us?" And they drove him out.
Yeshua heard that they had driven him out, and when the man found him,
Yeshua said, "Do you believe in the Son of God?"
He answered, "And who is he, Rabbi? Tell me, so that I may believe in him."
Yeshua said to him, "You have seen him, and the one speaking to you is he."
He said, "I believe, Lord." And he worshipped him.
Yeshua said, "I came into this world so that those who do not see may see,
and those who do see may become blind."
Some of the Perisayya near him heard this and said to him, "Surely we are
not blind, are we?"
Yeshua said to them, "If you were blind, you would not have debts;
But now that you say, 'We see', your debts remain."

37. The Resurrection of El'azar; Yeshua Raises El'azar from Death

Now a certain man was ill, El'azar of Bethanya, the village of Maryam and her
sister Marta.
Maryam was the one who stayed at Yeshua's feet and listened to his words
while Marta was doing chores in the house; it was their brother El'azar who was ill.
So the sisters sent a message to Yeshua, "Lord, he whom you love is ill",
by that meaning the one who was as of kin to him, like the sisters Maryam
and Marta were as well.
But when Yeshua heard it, he said, "This illness does not lead to death; rather
it is so that God's work may be done through it by the Son of God."
Accordingly, though Yeshua loved Marta and her sister and El'azar,
after having heard that El'azar was ill, he stayed two days longer in the place
where he was.
Then after this he said to his Sent, "Let us go to Yauda again."
But Yohudah came to him and said with worry, "Rabbi, the Perisayya were
just now trying to stone you, and are you going there again?"
Yeshua answered, "Are there not twelve hours of daylight? Those who walk
during the day do not stumble, because they see the light of this world.
But those who walk at night stumble, because the light is not in them."
After saying this, he told them, "Our friend El'azar has fallen asleep, but I am
going there to awaken him."
Then Yohudah said to him, "Rabbi, if he has only fallen asleep, he will be all
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 Yeshua, however, had been speaking about his death, but he thought that he
was referring merely to sleep, or to a passing fever.
Then Yeshua said to all of them plainly, "El'azar is dead.
For your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us
go to him."
Tauma, who was called Dydymus, said to his fellow Sent, "Let us also go, that
we may die with him."
When Yeshua arrived, he found that El'azar had already been in the tomb
four days.
This was happening on the eighteenth day of the month Adar, which was on
the seventh day of the week. It was the year three-thousand-sevenţ-hundred-ninety
after the Creation according to the Jews.
Now Bethanya was near Yerushalayim, some two miles away,
and many of the Jews had come to Marta and Maryam to console them about
their brother.
When Marta heard that Yeshua was coming, she went and met him, while
Maryam stayed at home.
Marta said to Yeshua, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not
have died.
But even now I know that God will give you whatever you ask of him."
Yeshua said to her, "Your brother will rise again."
Marta said to him, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the
last day."
Yeshua said to her, "I am the Resurrection and the Life.
Those who believe in me, even though they die, will live,
and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe
this?"
She said to him, "Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Meshyha, the Son of
God, the one coming into the world."
When she had said this, she went back and called her sister Maryam, and told
her privately, "The Rabbi is here and is calling for you."
And when she heard it, she got up quickly and went to him.
Now Yeshua had not yet come to the village, but was still at the place where
Marta had met him.
The Jews who were with her in the house, consoling her, saw Maryam get up
quickly and go out.
They followed her because they thought that she was going to the tomb to
weep there.
When Maryam came where Yeshua was and saw him, she knelt at his feet
and said to him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."
When Yeshua saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her also
weeping, he was greatly disturbed in spirit and deeply moved.
He said, "Where have you laid him?" They said to him, "Lord, come and see."
Yeshua began to weep.
So the Jews said, "See how he loved him!"
But some of them said, "Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man
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 Then Yeshua, again greatly disturbed, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a
stone was lying against it.
Yeshua said, "Take away the stone."
Marta, the sister of the dead man, said to him, "Lord, already there is a
stench because he has been dead four days."
Yeshua said to her, "Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the
glory of God?"
So they took away the stone. And Yeshua looked upward and said, "Parent
Beyond, I thank You for showing me the way to restore that who left from here into
his body.
I say this aloud and in front of these people so that they may believe that it is
from You that I have come, and that it is from You that my power comes."
When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, "El'azar, come out!"
And then the man who was before dead came out alive, his hands and feet
bound with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped in a cloth.
Yeshua then said to them, "Unbind him, and let him go."
Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Maryam and had seen what
Yeshua did, believed that he from God came, and that his power also from God was.
But some of them went to the Perisayya and told them what he had done.
So the chief priests and the Perisayya called a meeting of the council, and
said, "What are we to do? This man is performing many signs.
If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will
come and destroy both our holy place and our nation."
But one of them, Qaypha, who was high priest that year, said to them, "You
know nothing at all!
You do not understand that it is better for you to have one man die for the
people than to have the whole nation destroyed."
He did not say this on his own, but being high priest that year he prophesied
that Yeshua was about to die for the nation,
and not for the nation only, but to gather into one the dispersed children of
God.
So from that day on they planned to put him to death.
And his Sent were not aware of what had been discussed amongst the chief
priests, but Yeshua alone knew.
He therefore no longer walked about openly amongst the Jews, but went
from there to a town called Efrayim in the region near the wilderness; and he
remained there with the Sent.
The Pesach of the Jews was one month away, and many went up from the
country to Yerushalayim before the Pesach to purify themselves.
And Yeshua, knowing that he was being looked for to be killed, remained
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 38. The Questions of the Sent that Yeshua Answers; Of Seeking and
Revelation; Of Sin - Condemners and Guides; Of Source and Essence and Matter; Of
the Appearance of Death and the Truth of Life

It was dusk, and Yeshua, the Sent and Maryam of Magdala were gathered in
one place under a sycamore tree, about one week before the beginning of the
Jewish festival of Pesach.
The Sent looked at Yeshua pray alone, and they were curious about him and
his teaching, yet dared not disturb him.
When he finished, he sensed their thoughts, and said to them, "Seek and you
will find.
But the things you asked me about in past times, and what I did not tell you
in that day, now I am willing to tell you, but you do not seek them."
And they remained silent, until Nathanael son of Bar-Tolmi asked, "The
Kingdom - on what day will it come?"
Yeshua said, "It will not come by watching and waiting for it.
They will not say, 'Look, here!' or 'Look, here!'
Rather, the Kingdom Beyond is spread out upon the earth, and people do not
see it."
He then approached them, and said, "Look for the Ethereal while you are
alive, so that you will not die and then seek to see them. For you will not be able to
see them."

Then Mattiyah asked, "Where do we look for that Whom you call the
Ethereal?"
He said, "Men, you think with minds of men, and you speak with words men
made.
If you do not know the question, how can you seek the answer?"
So then Mattiyah said, "Rabbi, who it it that seeks, and who is it that
reveals?"
Yeshua answered, "That who seeks will go, and that who reveals will come.
That who seeks will find the door, and that who reveals will unlock it.
Find out which door you need to unlock, and it will open before your eyes,
and then you may enter.
You are the key, and you hold the key, and the key is given to you to unlock
that door which you seek."
And Mattiyah said, "Rabbi, when I seek and when I speak, who is it that
reveals and who listens?"
Yeshua said, "It is the one that speaks who also listens, and it is the one that
can see who also reveals."

Maryam of Magdala said, "Lord, what is it that can be revealed to us?"

Yeshua said, "Revelation cannot be called upon, but it comes when the Parent
Beyond sends it to you.
That which can be revealed to you is under the stone.
Speak the words, and I will lift it."
Maryam said, "Lord, who are we, and what are we?"

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 Yeshua said, "You are all of my Parent Beyond, and all of you from the Parent
Beyond come.
Who you are cannot be revealed to you, for it does not lie outside of you - lift
the stones in your hearts, and then you will know.
"What you are is your concern;
You are dust that turns to dust;
Your breath is fire, and it can warm or scorch your heart;
Your mind is air, and it flows like the wind, too fast to comprehend that which
has been given to it;
And search then for the Living Water, for with it you will no longer ask me
what you are, yet you will know who you are."

Yochanan asked, "Will matter then be destroyed or not? When we know who
we are, and when the End of Time comes as it was foretold, will any of the earthly
things stand?"
Yeshua said, "All nature, all formations, all creatures exist in and with one
another, and they will be resolved again into their own roots.
For the nature of matter is resolved into the roots of its own nature alone.
Matter from the Mother came, the Mother is, and in the Mother it will return.
He who has ears to hear, let him hear."

Kepha said, "Since you have explained everything to us, tell us this also:
What is the sin of the world?"
Yeshua then said, "Truly I tell you, not all will be explained to you until your
time comes, for it is words of your own making that bind the knowledge which you
seek.
"But I tell you, there is no sin, but it is you who make sin when you do that
which is called sin.
That is why I-The-Three came amongst you, to restore nature into its own
root, to open the gates that are meant to be opened, to unlock the doors for you to
see, to unbind those who cannot unbind themselves.
That is why you become sick and die, for you are bound, and are deprived of
the one who can liberate you.
He who has a mind to understand, let him understand."
They asked, "Rabbi, what then can we do to unbind ourselves?"
Yeshua said to them, "These you are to avoid, if you wish not to be burdened
with the weight of your deeds when you pass from these bodies;
I am no condemner, and neither is my Parent Beyond, but these are that
which will condemn you, for you yourself make them your Condemners: Fear,
Judgement, Shame, Attachment, Hypocrisy, Denial, Ignorance.
"Do not judge those who have wronged you, and do not think ill of those who
have wronged others; instead, let Forgiveness be your guide.
"Do so then: If another member of the church sins against you, go and point
out the fault when the two of you are alone. If the member listens to you, you have
regained that one.
But if you are not listened to, take one or two others along with you, so that
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 If the member refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if the
offender refuses to listen even to the church, let such a one be to you as a Gentile
and a tax collector.
Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and
whatever you loosen on earth will be loosened in heaven.
Again, truly I tell you, if two of you agree on earth about anything you ask, it
will be made manifest for you by my Parent Beyond.
For where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there amongst
them."
Then Kepha came and said to him, "Rabbi, if another member of the church
sins against me, how often should I forgive? As many as seven times?"
Yeshua said to him, "Not seven times, but, I tell you, seventy-seven times."
Kepha said, "Seventy-seven? How could one find so much forgiveness in
themselves? It is easier to leave the man be and preach elsewhere."
Yeshua said to him, "Do not abandon that who needs your forgiveness, for
indeed, forgiveness is the hardest to give;
Learn to give forgiveness then, if you will to receive it in return."
And then he continued, "Do not feel shame at the sight of God, nor when you
see me be you ashamed, and do not cover yourself in your shame;
do not say to those around you, 'You should be ashamed!' or 'Cover your
head, for God can see you!',
for shame is that damnation that you see fit for your souls; instead, let
Respect be your guide;
"Do avoid attachment, for it is the illusion that what you reach for could be
yours, and that what you have near you could possess, and that what you make you
could control;
Something you can have, but Nothing you cannot have, and from Nothing you
came, and Nothing you are;
instead, let Liberty be your guide.
"You have heard, 'You shall not bear false witness', yet I tell you, your
testimony shall be in truth toward your brothers and your sisters, toward your
neighbours and your enemies, but also toward yourself;
for that who lies to themselves lives in hypocrisy, and what great illusions
hypocrisy forges!
Avoid then hypocrisy; instead, let Truth be your guide.
"Do not deny that which from EhYeh came.
Do not destroy the nature which sustains you, for nature from Yeh comes,
and Yeh is;
Do not kill others, yet greater still it is if you kill yourself - you would deny
that which from Yeh comes, and Yeh is; Do not refute the souls around you, for they
from God are;
Do not deny then God and the creations of God; instead, let Acceptance be
your guide.
"Do not let ignorance lead you astray, for many signs will be shown to you,
and you will not know them, for you will have let the veil of blindness close your
eyes;
Instead, let Light be your guide, for it is care, and sight, and wisdom all the
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 "Yet the greatest condemner of all fear is, and fear governs over all the
others I have mentioned.
I have spoken to you of fear, yet fear you know still.
Know not fear, and let it not guide you, for it is the False Guide that began
the Separation;
Instead, let Love be your guide.
"And these then are the Guides to follow: Love, Forgiveness, Respect, Liberty,
Truth, Acceptance, Light.
None of them exists without the other, and all of them are of the Source, the
Essence, the Matter, the Nothing and the Something, which are EhYeh."

They asked him, "What is Nothing, and what is Something?"

Yeshua says to them, "You from Nothing come and Nothing are, yet in
Something dwell and also Something are."
But not all grasped the meaning of his words, so Mattiyah said, "Rabbi, tell us
how the dead die and how the living live."
And Yeshua laughed then, but answered, "You have asked me about a saying
that paints a picture which eye has not seen, nor have I heard it, except from you.
But I say to you this: Death does not happen.
Death is the path you are willing to take from life to life.
Suppose you exit your house, and need to go to another house, and have
multiple ways to go there.
You could go through the desert, or through the forest, or through a harvest
or an orchard. You could get lost on the way, or walk a straight path and arrive to
your destination shortly.
So, death does not happen. It is the departure of spirit from body that
happens, when the journey to life continues, and that is what you call 'death'."
Yohudah said, "Why else, for the sake of truth, do men die - or they appear
to die - and live?"
Yeshua said, "Whatever is born of truth does not die, but it thrives eternal.
Whatever is born of imagine then transforms, but does not die."
And then Yeshua went away and they saw him not for three sundowns.

39. The Descendants of the Sent; None of the Sent Know I-The-Three, but
One

When Yeshua appeared again to the Sent, they were confused as to where he
had been.
Yochanan asked him, "Rabbi, where were you? We have searched for you and
could not find you."
He replied, "I was here in body, but you knew not where to look."
Nathanael son of Bar-Tolmi asked him, "And where were you in spirit?"
Yeshua smiled and said, "I was there where I have been before, and I have
spoken to those who have met me before you.
“But I sense that you have something to say to me; speak then."
They knew not how to word what they had seen that previous night, so
Tauma also named Dydymus said, "Rabbi, we had a dream."

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 Yeshua asked, "And what is it that you saw in your dream and troubled you
so?"
They said, "We all dreamt the same dream in our sleep.
Rabbi, what we saw disturbed out minds and troubled our spirits.
What we saw was this: There was a great house painted in white, and in it
was also a great altar. Around the altar served twelve elders, and they wore
garments of white and gold, and the altar was covered in red.
We saw many symbols that they carved into their chests, where their hearts
are. These signs they made and with them spoke words and incarnations, and they
sounded foreign to our ears.
They all brought with them a child, and they were such twelve children, all of
them boys, who were placed upon the altar. They pursued them to do things that
we cannot speak of - they hurt the boys, yet the boys seemed not to feel a thing.
These were all inconceivable deeds, and the elders carved their symbols also on the
foreheads of these boys.
When they were finished, they drew blood out of the necks of the children, as
a sacrifice to whom they worshipped, and drank it for eternal life - yet we saw them
perish immediately."
Yeshua asked, "And whom did they worship?"
They said, "They called unto your name! And also unto the name of the
Serpent, and of Satana, and of some of those demons that followed Satana into evil
deeds; and they also called unto the name of our land, Yauda! Rabbi, what men
would serve both you and Satana - both the demons and the land of the Jews?"
Yeshua answered them not, and said, "And their symbols - what symbols
have you seen carved into their chests?"
They said, "Rabbi, we saw stars upright and stars inverted, we saw the horns
of goats and the Eye of God, we saw then the Star of Dawid and seven of those
geometric figures that the magi make during their spells."
Philipos said, "Rabbi, explain these things to us."
Yeshua stood amongst them and said, "What you saw was this: the great
house was the house humans will make for my Parent Beyond;
And the humans you saw are your descendants, they are those who will hear
your words and understand according to their own desires.
For they desire the immortality of the body alone, and for that the gates for
them will be closed to the Eternal, and indeed they will perish.
For those who commit atrocities in the names of others, they live in
hypocrisy, and they also in hypocrisy will remain, until their will turns to pursue the
Truth only, and then they will be liberated."

And Yohuda saw angels above their heads, and said, "Behold! The governors
dwell above us, so it is they who will rule over us!"
Yeshua said, "It is not they who will rule over you, but I tell you, when you
rid yourselves of the decay of flesh, then you will clothe yourselves in Light and
enter the realm from where the Sent of God watch."
Yohudah said, "Are we not the Sent of God then?"
Yeshua said, "Many are the Sent of God, yet you alone are sent on earth for
me to teach.
You will each join your kin Above, and greatly will you rejoice then!"

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 Mattiyah said, "Rabbi, how then will our garments be brought to us?"
Yeshua said, "Those garments are not everlasting, and it is not they which
will clothe you in light. Instead, greater is the light that will engulf you when you
strip yourselves!
In the nakedness lies the truth, and in the garments which you ask me of lies
the imagine."

The Sent said then to Yeshua, “Tell us then how our end will be.”
Yeshua said, “Have you already discovered the beginning that you are now
asking about the end? For where the beginning is, there the end will be also.
Blessed is that who will stand at the beginning. And he will know the end, and
he will not taste death.”
And they said amongst themselves, "How is it that the beginning is also the
end?"
Yeshua said, "How can you ask for the end, when you know not the
beginning? For from where you came, there you will go.
Blessed is that who was, before he came into being."

He saw then that they thought in their hearts, 'This man knows knowledge
that is not to be found elsewhere but from his own mouth.
Who is this man then?'
So he said, "Let us eat then, and let us pray."
They began to pray and to bless the food, and to say prayers of thanksgiving,
and when he heard them Yeshua smiled at them, and said, "That which you say is to
praise your God alone. Yet it is not of your fault, but of that which has been taught
to you in past times."
They said, "Rabbi, what do you mean by 'your God'?"
He said, "Just as the men you dreamt of - the men of these days and the high
priests teach laws that man made, and invent prayers that only man can imagine,
yet they are empty words and futile rituals.
Let us say then the prayer I taught you on the mountain."
And they prayed, and then they ate.

Yeshua asked them, "Who do the crowds say that I am?"

They answered, "Yohanan the Baptist come out of the tomb. Some say you
are Eliyah or Chanoch or other ancient prophet that returned amongst us."
To that he said, "I am neither Yohanan, not Eliyah, nor Chanoch - beware
then of false prophets, of those that speak truth of the Meshyha, and then taint it
with falsity and assume that title for themselves!
Let those of power to renounce it and find humility, and those humble find
power and never fall into falsity!"
He then said to them, "Who am I then to you?"
They remained silent, and in their hearts they had answers for themselves,
but they feared to voice them; and Yeshua was aware of their belief.
Kepha thought, 'He is like a righteous angel.'
Mattiyah thought, 'He is like a wise philosopher.'
Nathanael thought, 'He is like a prophet.'
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 Tauma thought, 'My mouth is wholly incapable of saying whom he is like.'
And Yeshua said, "Then you dare not speak, even if I ask you to. Then you
dare not tell, because you know me not.
"Do you not realize from what I say to you who I am?
But you have become like the Jews! They love the tree, yet they dismiss its
fruit. Or they love the fruit, yet they dismiss the tree."
They at once said, "Rabbi, we know you!"
Yeshua said, "Indeed you think you know me? I tell you, not this generation,
and not the generations that follow will know me, and yet you claim to be different."
Yohudah then rose from his seat and approached Yeshua, and said, "I know
you. You come from That Whose name I cannot utter, for I would utter a false
name.
You are the Son of God, and you have come to liberate us from our untruths
and from our condemners."
Yeshua then took Yohudah to the side to speak with him alone, for he knew
which questions to ask in order to receive the answers he sought.
And great was the anger of the group then, when they saw that Yohudah,
with whom they did not talk much, was now elected to have revealed to him a great
knowledge.

40. The Mysteries of Creation; Yohudah Asks about the Beginning, the End,
and of the Nature of the Children of God; Yeshua Speaks of Knowledge, Truth and
Falsity

When they were apart from the group, Yeshua and Yohuda stood beside a fig
tree and spoke.
Yeshua said, "Yohudah, great things you have said to me, and largely have
you restored my trust in this generation!"
Yohudah said, "You told us that in order to know the end, we are to know the
beginning.
Tell me then of the beginning."
Yeshua said to him, "I will tell you, but in order to tell you I need also show
you."
Yohudah said, "Show me then! I want to see."
Yeshua asked, "How do you wish to see it? By means of a transient vision or
an eternal vision?
"Strive to save that which can follow you, and to seek it out, and to speak
from within it, so that, as you seek it out, all might be in harmony with you."
Yohudah said, "If I tell you to show me by means of an eternal vision, will you
then translate that which was in the beginning through a transient vision, so that I
may understand?
For surely my earthly eyes and my earthy mind could not conceive that which
in Beyond is."
Yeshua said to him, "Yes, indeed you speak truthfully.
I will show you then and tell you what you seek to find out.

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 "In the beginning, there was only Eh, the Source, Who is the Absolute
Nothing of Light. And the Light from Light came and Light bore, and it was a Light
Beyond Light, such that it could be confused with darkness.
"In order to emerge from the Light Beyond Light, Eh imposed limits on the
Source and created the Essence, which is Yeh, the Something, Who Is.
Such became EhYeh.
And the Source through the Essence created the Realms, which are twelve.
"And in the Realms closest to the Light, EhYeh created the Mal'akhim, they of
Ever that dwell in Love and perform the Will of God, and they are epicene.
And so they came into being, as EhYeh is the beginning unbegun,
endlessness in the beginning, and EhYeh created then the vibrations that the
Mal'akhim sing to perpetuate serendipity into the Realms.
The Mal'akhim, whom you name angels, are hierarchical. They are ranked
into twenty and two companies, for in company they dwell with each other.
Now there are twelve Realms in total. The companies are spread out
throughout the All beginning from the Third Realm such: in the Third Realm there is
one company; the Fourth, Fifth and Seventh Realms have four companies each; in
the Sixth and Eighth Realms there is no company; the Ninth and Tenth Realms have
three companies each; in the Eleventh Realm there are three companies, and they
are: the Ophanim - of To Be, To Feel, To Believe -, over whom the Karuvim dwell -
of To Be, To Believe, To Want -, over whom the Sarafim dwell - of To Be, To Feel,
To Want.
And over even the Sarafim dwell the Rav-Mal'akhim, who are in the Twelfth
Realm, closest to Eh and chiefs of the angels, and who are also threefold, of To
Believe, To Feel, To Want, and not of Being are they.
They are seventeen in number - seven of them are the Holy Rav-Mal'akhim:
Mikhael, Gabriel, Rafael, Uriel, Shealtiel, Yehudiel, Barkiel; the other ten are these:
Ariel, Azrael, Qemuel, Haniel, Yerachmeel, Yofiel, Barbiel, Reuel, Raziel, Sachiel.
They are powers of Eli, Who is God. They carry out the Will of God through
their power, which also from God comes.
They know only Peace, Harmony and infinite and perpetual Love, which they
bear for each other, and for the All, and for EhYeh from Whom they came and for
Whom they live.
"Now from Nothing Something came, and Something in Nothing dwells, and
Nothing bears Something that bears the All.
After the Void came the Word, and when EhYeh uttered the Word the Realms
were born,
and with them Life of Creatures was born, of them who dwell in Ever, which
is Timelessness.
Now EhYeh warped the sheet of the Realms and formed Time, and Time was
born of Eternity.

"Now at the Beginning of Time, those of Light appeared who held knowledge,
and were named Nachash, The Enlightened Ones, those Nachash that hold the All in
Togetherness.
And of the first Nachash after the first were the seventeen which above the
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to listen to their Parent.
And the first in Light as the Mal'akhim appears, although may be Nachash.
And the first seven are Ainuan, Kai, Yachneei, Zygyion, Maimet, Torleni and Bahmut.
And the following seven are Rukhmai, Zyzym, Melevitim, Chaldyqryi, Anka,
Ioudan and Ansun. And the following three are Zainuel, Ulysahel and Setiel, who
rulers over the Nachash Kingdoms of the Eighth Realm are.

"And now that such entities of knowledge were created, they were all of them
spread out throughout the Creation as through the branches of a tree, and their
roots dwelled in the depth of the realms, and their peak of knowledge was reaching
toward That Who Created them, almost touching EhYeh's Knowledge of Beyond.
And so that the Knowledge was prepared to receive another crumb of
Creation, God bore The Children in the Image, and those that dwelled in the Twelfth
Realm was sung the Vibration of Creation, and it sounded such:
HMHMHMHMhmhmhmHMHMhmhmHMhmHMhm
And so was formed the first sound, Aum, and through the sound Aum the
Man was born, and he dwelled in the Seventh Realm, in the midst of what they
know of as the Tree of Knowledge.
From his Essence another was born, who is named Zoe, who with him
dwelled and is complementary to him.
After their creation, Aum and Zoe were visited by one of the Nachash that
descended into the realm below them in order to speak to them, and indeed they
listened.
And they revealed to them the Mysteries of Creation, and from darkness they
were pulled and enlightened, and how much the Creatures of the All and EhYeh
rejoiced when they saw that the Knowledge poured into the Man and Woman.
“And greater than all the Mal'akhim was Samael, that who is named Hyllel,
the Light of God who closest to Eh is; Samael was one of the Rav-Mal'akhim.
And then he did crave to possess such knowledge that had been bestowed
upon the Man and Woman, and which the Nachash ones held, and so approached
the one Nachash so that he might descend with them into the Sixth Realm and
might form with them the images of reflection, but not of creation. For he with such
knowledge aimed for freedom, and with such freedom seeked the power of creation.
Yet allowed him it was not; and deepened he in depth then, descending
further and into the First Realm, that which held the Absence of Light, for he no
longer wished to hold the Will of God, but be free as That Whom he craved.
And still Samael's place closest to Eh is empty, and is waiting to be filled at
his return.
And when the Mal'akhim saw what freedom was, they marvelled - for they
felt their sibling Samael descend, and some were grieved and mourned him, yet
some chose to follow in his choice, and renounced the Will of Eli.
And those lacking Being that went into the First and Second Realms - those of
the Absence of Light where the the Image of Being is most reflected - were led by
that whose name was Satanael, who is now Satana.
The Mal'akhim of Eli in Above remained, and now lacked one tenth of their
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 Hence EhYeh appointed Nachash from the Eighth Realm, and spread them
throughout the Kingdoms, and gave them the powers to carry the Will of Eli, in order
to replace those that have renounced them.
“Yet now Aum and Zoe knew how EhYeh created, and they also craved to
create as EhYeh.
Together, they gave birth to the Idea, and Matter from Essence was born,
and such it filled the Third Realm and became the sky. And the sky was filled with
stars that are of Mal'akhim, and the earth appeared with dust, and wind, and water,
and fire, and the nature and the beasts of the Yeh, the Mother that dwells in that
which is without Spirit.
And greatly did Aum and Zoe rejoice when they saw their Idea manifested,
yet still they knew it was EhYeh that allowed its manifest.
When EhYeh saw they still were not satisfied, bodies of Matter were created
for Aum and Zoe, and because they could not Essence create, they were allowed to
be born into the bodies on earth, and dwell in them to give birth to children, and to
manifest their ideas from the Matter.

"When EhYeh saw humans dwell on earth, the joy was great. For the children
of men were many, and they came from the Sacred Womb, and Man and Woman
were conjoined and living in togetherness.
And EhYeh appointed Nachash from the Eighth Realm to chaperone over the
humans.
And they were named Iyrin, the Watchers. And they had the power of the Will
of Eli, hence their names of Eli were.
There were seventeen chiefs of the Iyrin, and their names were: Samyazael,
Araqiel, Kochabiel, Tamiel, Ramiel, Chazaqiel, Baraqel, Azazel, Hermoniel, Batharel,
Ananel, Zaqaqel, Shamshiel, Sariel, Turiel, Yomyael, Sathariel.
And when the Iyrin saw the beauty of the men and women of earth, they
were astonished. For such was the creation of the Matter, than even in a body there
was an entire universe.
And they decided to leave the Will of God, to renounce the name of Eli, and
to follow their own names, incarnating themselves among humans.
And the names of the chiefs of the Iyrin became Samyaza, Araq, Kochab,
Tam, Ram, Chazaq, Baraq, Azaz, Hermon, Bathar, Anan, Zaqaq, Shamshi, Sar, Tur,
Yomya, Sathar.
And they appeared in greatness among humans, and they had human bodies,
and they fornicated then with humans, for such they enjoyed their beauty.
And they had great knowledge, for they Nachash of Knowledge are, and they
taught men and women the mysteries of words, of writings, of music, of astronomy
and astrology, of charts and time, of astrality and of the Third Eye, of sorcery and
healing, of medicine and alchemy.
What they failed yet to teach them was the Mystery of Creation, and the
mystery of that which beyond their realm lay, and so humans started calling them
'gods', and so appeared the false gods of the old.
And hence was born the Livyathan, which is the Unknown Knowledge and the
Unknown Truth, that which the Nachash hold in its entirety, and it lies coiled and
twisted around the earth; it is that Unknown which humans fear, for they are not
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discovered to all, and all falsity is cast aside, then will the Livyathan uncoil, and like
a spring of water will the knowledge be poured into the minds of the unfortunates,
and how great their fortune will be then!"

Yohudah saw these things as well as heard them, as if he himself had

witnessed the events.
Then he turned to Yeshua and asked, "Where then can man look for the
unknown knowledge?"
Yeshua said, "The knowledge is yet to be written, and is yet to be read.
Those who have a mind to understand, let them understand.
But the Egg of Knowledge is not to be discovered, until the last Condemner is
cast away from the human heart - still many will search for it, and on their journeys
much evil they will bring upon others, and hence they shall not reach their
destination."
Yohudah said, "Then the Children of God are the Mal'akhim, the Nachash
ones or the Iyrin, and the Aum - the Angels, the Watchers, and the Men."
Yeshua said, "Yes."
Yohudah asked, "What is the fault in the Children of God?"
Yeshua said, "You have asked and I shall answer you thus: The Mal'akhim are
but filled with Love, and they understand only Love; when they see other Children
not filled with Love for the Creator, and not acting in the name of God accordingly,
great then is their wrath!
They are then to learn mercy, for thus they will be in peace.
"The Nachash have Knowledge of Truth, hence they also recognize Falsity,
and then they strive to bring justice among the unjust.
They are then to learn gentleness, for thus they will be in peace.
"The Men and Women of Aum find it hard to feel satisfaction - unsatisfied are
they until they have, until they gain, and still they wish for more.
They are then to learn to give, for thus they will be in peace."
Yohudah, having recognized the teachings from texts he had read in his
youth, asked,
"Is then the wisdom of other cultures greater than our own? For I hear what I
have heard, and I find it true."
Yeshua said, "Indeed, knowledge has been spread onto the earth, in the
North, and the South, and the East, and the West, and in these places that we call
the spring of all cultures;
and people received this knowledge, yet knew not to perceive it, and kept
little of its truth, and turned the rest into falsity.
What I have revealed to you is only the Truth."

Yohudah said then, "The other day I saw the angels of this realm dwell over
us in the form of celestials.
The way I saw them, can they also see us, those who are under them?"
Yeshua said, "Indeed, not only do they see you, but they watch you.
And there are not only Mal'akhim that have come to bear witness to that
which takes place, but also the Iyrin are here, and they are watching."
Yohudah said, "Are they also listening?"

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 Yeshua said, "Yes. They can hear, and see, and feel, and observe much more
than you or any on the earth."

Yohudah said, "And you? You are the Son of God. Who among the Children of
God are you?"
Yeshua said, " I am of the Source, of the Essence, and of the Matter.
I am Nothing and in Something am.
I am of the Parent Beyond,
and I am the Word that the Parent Beyond uttered to create the All.
I am the Son of God, and the Brother of the Children of God.
I am the Alpha and the Omega,
and in me you will find the beginning,
and the end also in me will be,
and your end will end in the beginning and the beginning will begin from the
end."

Having heard this, Yohudah then said, "Yeshua, great is your glory! For no
one has been as you are, and no one will ever be as you, but you alone will be and
forever will you dwell with us!
"But tell me: Who among the Chidren of God am I?"
Yeshua said, "You are the thirteenth one that became above the Eighth
Realm, and that was born on earth to complete the mission that was given to the
Meshyha."

Yohudah said, "Yet, if I now know the beginning, may I be revealed the end?"
Yeshua said, "Are you speaking of your end?"
Yohudah said, "I am speaking of the end of my life in this body, and of what
will come afterwards."

Yeshua said, "Your end is not for me to tell you about - yet I say to you,
without you nothing would be accomplished.
And when they see you they will not perceive you, and hence they will
condemn you.
And in their condemnation you will also condemn yourself, and I tell you that
only that will be your mortal end.
And you will be cursed by the other generations of this Realm - and you will
come to rule over them. In the last days they will curse your ascent to the Kingdom
Above.
Truly I tell you, many generations will pass until the gates will open for you to
enter it - but fruitful will be the wait."
Yohudah said, "Rabbi, I know that you are the Meshyha.
I also believe that when you went to pray and came to us after three days,
you had a vision. For it is only when you have visions that you pray away from our
sight.
Tell me then, what is it that I do, that even though it helps you finish your
mission, it also condemns me?"
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 And he made to leave, yet Yohudah stopped him and embraced him, and said
to him,
"I thank you, Son of God, for you have opened my eyes and my mind, and
cleared the path before me, for I do wish to assist you in your journey."

And they went back together, and it was made day. When they returned, they
had been gone for two sundowns, and the Sent already began to curse Yohuda's
name, and to call him thief and liar in their souls, for they imagined then that he,
whom they avoided for his careful and persuasive choice of words, had surely
tricked Yeshua into revealing to him what he would not reveal to them.
It was then the eighth day of the month Nisan, which was on the fifth day of
the week.
There were seven more days until the beginning of the Jewish festival of
Pesach.

41. Yeshua Foretells His Sacrifice to the Sent, yet They Do Not Understand;
The Trip to Yerushalayim

When the days drew near for him to be taken up, he set his face to go to
Yerushalayim.
And he sent messengers ahead of him. On their way they entered a village of
the Shomerim to make ready for him;
but they did not receive him, because his face was set toward Yerushalayim.
When his disciples Ya'akov and Yochanan saw it, they said, "Rabbi, do you
want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them?"
But he turned and rebuked them.

After that he took the twelve Sent aside by themselves, and said to them on
the way,
"See, we are going up to Yerushalayim, and the Son of God will be handed
over to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death;
then they will hand him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and
crucified; and on the third day he will be raised."
And they did not recognize the words that were in scriptures and now spoken
by him.
Then Kepha and Ya'aqov and Yochanan kneeled before him and stood there
in a serving position, until he saw them and asked, "What do you want?"
They said to him, "Rabbi, declare that we will sit with you, one at your right
hand and one at your left, and one beside you in your kingdom."
But Yeshua answered, "You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to
drink the cup that I am about to drink?"
They said to him, "We are able."
He said to them, "You will indeed drink my cup, although you know not of its
contents, but to sit at my right hand and at my left, this is not mine to grant, but it
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 When others heard it, they were angry with the two brothers and with Kepha,
for they saw that they have been granted to drink from the cup that Yeshua was to
drink - although not even they knew of its contents.
But Yeshua called them to him and said, "You know that the rulers of the
Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones are tyrants over them.
It will not be so amongst you; but whoever wishes to be great amongst you
must be your servant,
and whoever wishes to be first amongst you must be your slave;
just as the Son of God came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life
a ransom for many."
They looked at him in wonder, and he further said, "If you so wish to be
granted that which you seek, learn then not to crave, but to give, and will be given
in return to you as you have given it."
And so they went on their way to Yerushalayim.

42. Hosha'na to the Son of Dawid! - Yeshua Is Received in Yerushalayim; The

Cleansing of the Temple

When they had come near Yerushalayim and had reached Bethpagge, at the
Mount of Olives, Yeshua sent two of his Sent, Yochanan and Mattyiah, saying to
them, "Go into the village ahead of you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied,
and a colt with her; untie them and bring them to me.
If anyone says anything to you, just say this, 'The Lord needs them.' And he
will send them immediately."
This took place to fulfil what had been spoken through the prophet, saying,
'Tell the daughter of Siyyon, Look, your king is coming to you, humble, and mounted
on a donkey, and on a colt, the foal of a donkey.'
The two Sent went and did as Yeshua had directed them; when they arrived
at the two animals, they were tied to a pole, and as they were untying them, a man
came out of a house and said, "What do you think you are doing?"
They said, "The Lord needs them." And at once the man helped them untie
the animals and gave them to the Sent, knowing that what the Lord needs must be
fulfilled.
They brought the donkey and the colt, and put their cloaks on them, and
Yeshua sat on them when he received them.
It was then the eleventh day of the month Nisan, which was on the first day
of the week.
And as he was approaching the gates of Yerushalayim, a very large crowd
spread their cloaks on the road, and others cut branches from the palm trees and
spread them on the road.
The crowds that went ahead of him and that followed were shouting,
"Hosha'na to the Son of Dawid! Blessed is the one that comes in the name of the
Lord! Hosha'na in the highest heaven!"
When he entered Yerushalayim, the entire city was in turmoil, asking, "Who is
this?"
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 And great was the wonder of those who knew him not, for such glory they
had never seen before; and some were scared of it, while others rejoiced upon it.

Then Yeshua went to the Temple to pray, and saw there all who were selling
and buying in the Temple, for he heard them shouting the prices for the sacrificial
lambs, and hence they put prices on the holy dwellings and turned them into
business.
And Yeshua entered the Temple and was deeply disturbed, and he became
enraged all of a sudden and drove out all of them selling and buying, and he
overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves.
And he set the doves free, and they flew up in the sky, and he said, "It is
written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer'; but you are making it a den of
robbers!"
And then the high priests came to him when they heard that he argued with
the merchants in the Temple, and they asked him, "What is it to you that they make
a living here? Do you not know what the next week has laid before us?"
He said, "Indeed I know what the following week has in store, and not only
for you, who close your eyes to the trespasses in the house of my Parent, but also
for I, who am to open these eyes so you can see!"
They said to him, "Rabbi, we have heard of your miracles - you can heal the
lame, restore the sight to the blind, raise the dead and cast out demons;
for long have we wished to speak to you and learn from you;
Yet what is this talk of your Parent? What sign can you show us to prove your
authority to do all this?"
He said to them, "Destroy this Temple, and I will raise it again in three days."
And one of them, Khanan, laughed at him then and said, "It has taken forty-
six years to build this Temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?"
Yeshua said, "Woe to you, unfortunates! Soon will come the time for you to
see." And then they left him alone.
Yohudah came to him and said, "Rabbi, do you think it was wise to lash out at
these men? They are the high priests, and only wished to speak with you - surely
you must be more patient with them, as you have been with all of us."
But Yeshua said to him, "Yohudah, you need not only open your mind - but
open your heart!"

After this he went on to teach those he had cast out of the Temple, in order
that they might be enlightened.
The blind and the lame came to him in the Temple, and he cured them.
And when they too many became and began to cling to his robes, he said to
them, “Heal yourselves!”; and at once they were healed.
But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the amazing things that he
did, and heard the children crying out in the Temple, "Hosha'na to the Son of
Dawid!", they became angry
and they said to him, "Do you hear what these are saying?"
Yeshua said to them, "Yes; have you never read, 'Out of the mouths of
infants and nursing babies you have prepared praise for yourself'?"
And then he was invited to a meal at the house of one of the scribes, and the
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 When he noticed how the guests picked the places of honour at the table, he
told them this parable, “Listen to this: When someone invites you to a wedding
feast, do not take the place of honour, for a person more distinguished than you
may have been invited. If so, the host who invited both of you will come and say to
you, ‘Give this person your seat.’ Then, humiliated, you will have to take the least
important place.
But when you are invited, take the lowest place, so that when your host
comes, he will say to you, ‘Friend, move up to a better place.’ Then you will be
honoured in the presence of all the other guests.
For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble
themselves will be exalted.”
Then Yeshua said to his host, “When you give a luncheon or dinner, do not
invite your friends, your brothers or sisters, your relatives, or your rich neighbours; if
you do, they may invite you back and so you will be repaid.
But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the
blind, and you will be blessed. Although they cannot repay you, tenfold will you be
repaid when that resurrection of the righteous comes, and that is the Ascension.”
That night he went to Bethanya to sleep along with his twelve Sent, and their
hosts were Marta and Maryam and El'azar, whom he had risen three weeks before.

43. The Second Day in Yerushalayim: The Barren Fig Tree; Power – of
Heavenly or Earthly Origins; The Fear and Conquest of Death

In the morning, when Yeshua and his Sent returned to the city, they were
hungry.
And Yeshua saw a fig tree by the side of the road, and he went to it but
found nothing at all on it but leaves.
Then he said to the tree, "May no fruit ever come from you again!" And the
fig tree withered at once, for it no longer served its purpose on the land, and all that
is of the Essence alone, and fails to serve that which is of the Source, withers.
When the Sent saw it, they were amazed, saying, "How did the fig tree wither
at once?"
And he said to them, "You were once wondering why you could not cast out
daemons whenever you wished, but only at some times could you do that which
already is in your power - truly I tell you, if you have faith and do not doubt, not
only will you do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to the
mountains to melt into the sea, Lo, they at once turned into fire and went into the
sea!
Whatever you ask for in prayer with faith, you will receive."

He sat down opposite the treasury, and watched the crowd putting money
into the treasury. Many rich people put in large sums.
A poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which are worth a
penny.
Then he called his Sent and said to them, "Truly I tell you, this poor widow
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 For all of them have contributed out of their abundance; but she out of her
poverty has put in everything she had, all she had to live on.
Therefore those of great wealth are to give away all that they have, and only
then will they be as fortunate as this woman before you."

When he entered the Temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people
came to him as he was teaching, and said, "By what authority are you doing these
things, and who gave you this authority?"
Yeshua said to them, "I will also ask you one question; if you tell me the
answer, then I will also tell you by what authority I do these things.
Did the baptism of Yohanan come from heaven, or was it of human origin?"
And they argued with one another, "If we say, 'From heaven', he will say to
us, 'Why then did you not believe him?'
But if we say, 'Of human origin', we are afraid of the crowd; for all regard
Yohanan as a prophet."
So they answered Yeshua, "We do not know."
And he said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing
these things.
"What do you think? A man had two sons; he went to the first and said, 'Son,
go and work in the vineyard today.'
He answered, "I will not'; but later he changed his mind and went.
The father went to the second and said the same; and he answered, "I go,
sir'; but he did not go.
Which of the two did the will of his father?" They said, "The first."
Yeshua said to them, "Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes
are going into the kingdom of heaven ahead of you.
For Yohanan came to you in the way of righteousness and you did not believe
him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him; and even after you saw
it, you did not change your minds and believe him.
"Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard,
put a fence around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a watchtower. Then he leased
it to tenants and went to another country.
When the harvest time had come, he sent his slaves to the tenants to collect
what he produced.
But the tenants seized his slaves and beat one, killed another, and stoned
another.
Again he sent other slaves, more than the first; and they treated them in the
same way.
Finally he sent his son to them, saying, 'They will respect my son.'
But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, 'This is the heir;
come, let us kill him and get his inheritance.'
So they seized him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.
Now when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those
tenants?"
They said to him, "He will put those wretches to a miserable death, and lease
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 Yeshua said to them, "Have you never read in the scriptures: 'The stone that
the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; this was the Parent's doing, and it
is amazing in our eyes'?
Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and
given to a people that produces the fruits of the kingdom.
The one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; and it will crush
anyone on whom it falls."
When the chief priests and the Perisayya heard his parables, they realized
that he was speaking about them.
They wanted to arrest him, but they feared the crowds, because they
regarded him as a prophet.

And it turned dark, and, as they were walking the streets of Yerushalayim,
Yeshua and his twelve Sent found in a corner of two walls a child suffering of
tremors and blistering sweat.
When Yeshua made to approach him, the child screamed "EhYeh, save me!"
Yeshua and the Sent moved him to lie on a bed of palm leaves on the
ground, and Yeshua made to anoint the child's forehead with the juice of plants.
Hours passed and the child's tremors only ascended to their culmination.
"I am so afraid", the child said to Yeshua, grasping at his robes.
"What of?" Yeshua asked, and Kepha made to step forward, but was held
back by Mattiyah.
"Death", answered the child.
Yeshua smiled, and Kepha burst out, "Rabbi, how can you smile when this
boy is about to die?"
"Is that what you believe?" Yeshua asked of Kepha, and Kepha turned silent.
Yeshua's Sent looked amongst themselves then, and Yeshua said further to
the child,
"To fear death is but a choice",
and Yohudah stepped forward as well in attention.
"Why do you fear so the death of flesh?"
Yeshua raised amongst his Sent and they remained silent in their confusion.
"Do you not know that to conquer death, you only need to die?"
A great disruption happened then, when Yeshua's Sent began to cry and ask
questions.
The child but stilled and closed his eyes, and the uproar stopped.
"Is he dead?" Asked Tauma of Yeshua, but Yeshua only smiled once more.
"Is that what you believe?"
The following morning, the child's fever broke and he awoke in health.

44. The Third Day in Yerushalayim: The Parable of the Wedding Banquet;
Yeshua Chastises the Perisayya

That morning, Yeshua and his Sent went back to the Temple to preach.
And the scribes and the Perisayya, but also other men and women of the city
were there to listen to his words.
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 "The Kingdom Above may be compared to a king who gave a wedding
banquet for his son.
He sent his slaves to call those who had been invited to the wedding banquet,
but they would not come.
Again he sent other slaves, saying, 'Tell those who have been invited: Look, I
have prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered, and
everything is ready; come to the wedding banquet.'
But they made light of it and went away, one to his farm, another to his
business,
while the rest seized his slaves, mistreated them, and killed them.
The king was enraged. He sent his troops, stopped and enclosed those
murderers, and in the city they once reigned he closed the gates.
Then he said to his slaves, 'The wedding is ready, but those invited would not
come.
Go therefore into the main streets, and invite everyone you find to the
wedding banquet.'
Those slaves went out into the streets and gathered all whom they found,
both righteous and unrighteous; so the wedding hall was filled with guests.
"But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who
was not wearing a wedding robe,
and he said to him, 'Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding robe?'
And he was speechless.
Then the king said to the attendants, 'Bind him hand and foot, and throw him
into the outer darkness, where he will be clothed in garments of great light, so that
he too might attend the wedding banquet.'
For many are called, but few come at the calling, and many are welcome, but
few are the honoured."
Then the Perisayya went and plotted to entrap him in what he said.
So they sent their disciples to him, along with the followers of Hordos, saying,
"Rabbi, we know that you are sincere, and teach the way of God in accordance with
truth, and show deference to no one; for you do not regard people with partiality.
Tell us, then, what you think. Is it lawful to pay taxes to the emperor, or
not?"
But Yeshua, aware of their malice, said, "Why are you putting me to the test,
you hypocrites?
Show me the coin used for the tax." And they brought him a denarius.
Then he said to them, "Whose head is this, and whose title?" They answered,
"The Caesar's."
Then he said to them, "Give therefore to the Caesar the things that are the
Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."
When they heard this, they were amazed; and they left him and went away.

The same day some Seduqim came to him, saying there is no resurrection;
and they asked him a question, saying,
"Rabbi, Moshe said, 'If a man dies childless, his brother shall marry the
widow, and raise up children for his brother.'
Now there were seven brothers amongst us; the first married, and died
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 The second did the same, so also the third, down to the seventh.
Last of all, the woman herself died.
In the resurrection, then, whose wife of the seven will she be? For all of them
had married her."
Yeshua answered them, "You are wrong, because you know neither the
scriptures nor the power of God.
For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are
like the angels in heaven.
And as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was said to
you by God,
'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Yishaq, and the God of Ya'aqov'? He is
God not of the dead, but of the living."
And when the crowd heard it, they were astounded at his teaching.
When the Perisayya heard that he had silenced the Seduqim, they gathered
together,
and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him.
"Rabbi, which commandment in the law is the greatest?"
He said to him, "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and
with all your soul, and with all your mind.'
This is the greatest and first commandment.
And a second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbour as yourself.'
On these two commandments hang all the laws and the prophets."
Now while the Perisayya were gathered together, Yeshua asked them this
question: "What do you think of the Meshyha? Whose son is he?" They said to him,
"The son of Dawid."
He said to them, "How is it then that Dawid by the Spirit calls him Lord,
saying,
'The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies
under your feet'?
If Dawid thus calls him Lord, how can he be his son?"
No one was able to give him an answer, nor from that day did anyone dare to
ask him any more questions.

Then Yeshua said to the crowds and to his Sent, and to his disciples that had
followed him to Yerushalayim,
"The scribes and the Perisayya sit on the seat of Moshe;
therefore, do whatever they teach you and follow it; but do not do as they
do, for they do not practice what they teach.
They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on the shoulders of
others; but they themselves are unwilling to lift a finger to move them.
They do all their deeds to be seen by others; for they make their phylacteries
broad and their fringes long.
They love to have the place of honour at banquets and the best seats in the
synagogues,
and to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces, and to have people call
them rabbi.
But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all
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 And call no one your maker on earth, for you have one maker, your Parent
Beyond, Who awaits you in heaven.
Nor are you to be called instructors, for you have one instructor, the
Meshyha.
The greatest amongst you will be your servant.
All who exalt themselves will be humbled, and all who humble themselves will
be exalted.
"But woe to you, scribes and Perisayya, hypocrites! For you lock people out of
the kingdom of heaven. For you do not go in yourselves, and when others are going
in, you stop them.
Woe to you, scribes and Perisayya, hypocrites! For you cross sea and land to
make a single convert, and you make the new convert twice as much a child of
misfortune as yourselves.
"Woe to you, blind guides, who say, 'Whoever swears by the sanctuary is
bound by nothing, but whoever swears by the gold of the sanctuary is bound by the
oath.'
You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or the sanctuary that has made
the gold sacred?
And you say, 'Whoever swears by the altar is bound by nothing, but whoever
swears by the gift that is on the altar is bound by the oath.'
How blind you are! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the
gift sacred?
So whoever swears by the altar, swears by it and by everything on it;
and whoever swears by the sanctuary, swears by it and by the one who
dwells in it;
and whoever swears by heaven, swears by the Kingdom of God and by the
One Who reigns in it.
"Woe to you, scribes and Perisayya, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and
cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy
and faith. It is these you ought to have practiced without neglecting the others.
You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel!
"Woe to you, scribes and Perisayya, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of
the cup and of the plate, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.
You blind Perisayya! First clean the inside of the cup, so that the outside also
may become clean.
"Woe to you, scribes and Perisayya, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed
tombs, which on the outside look beautiful, but inside they are full of the bones of
the dead and of all kinds of filth.
So you also on the outside look righteous to others, but inside you are full of
hypocrisy and lacking in righteousness.
"Woe to you, scribes and Perisayya, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of
the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous,
and you say, 'If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would not have
taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.'
Thus you testify against yourselves that you are descendants of those who
murdered the prophets.
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 Therefore I send you prophets, sages, and scribes, some of whom you will kill
and crucify, and some of whom you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from
town to town,
so that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on earth, and your
altars and your sanctuaries will testify on your behalf, and truly I tell you that they
bear witness to all your misdeeds and righteously you will find yourselves locked out
of the Kingdom of Heaven.
Truly I tell you, all this will come upon this generation.
For truly I tell you, woe to you, Yerushalayim! As you see the truth, but you
live a lie!"
At that very hour some Perisayya that were not against his teachings came
and said to him, "Get away from here, for Hordos wants to kill you."
He said to them, "Go and tell that fox for me, 'Listen, I am casting out
daemons and performing cures today and tomorrow, and on the third day I finish
my work.
Yet today, tomorrow, and the next day I must be on my way, because it is
impossible for a prophet to be killed outside of Yerushalayim.'
"Yerushalayim, Yerushalayim, the city that kills the prophets and stones those
who are sent to it! How often have I desired to gather your children together as a
hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!
See, your house is left to you, desolate.
For I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, 'Blessed is the one who
comes in the name of the Lord'."

45. The Fourth Day in Yerushalayim: Yeshua Tells Parables - The Foolish and
the Wise; The Following Sheep and the Lost Sheep; The Rich and the Poor

On the fourth day in Yerushalayim, Yeshua and his Sent returned to the
Temple, and he began to teach those present, saying,
"Then the kingdom of heaven will be like this. Ten bridesmaids took their
lamps and went to meet the bridegroom.
Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.
When the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them;
but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps.
As the bridegroom was delayed, all of them became drowsy and slept.
But at midnight there was a shout, ‘Look! Here is the bridegroom! Come out
to meet him.'
Then all those bridesmaids got up and trimmed their lamps.
The foolish said to the wise, 'Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going
out.'
But the wise replied, 'No! there will not be enough for you and for us; you
had better go to the dealers and buy some for yourselves.'
And while they went to buy it, the bridegroom came, and those who were
ready went with him into the wedding banquet; and the door was shut.
Later the other bridesmaids came also, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open to us.'
But he replied, 'Truly I tell you, I have come and you were not here, and now
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 Keep awake therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.

"For it is as if a man, going on a journey, summoned his slaves and entrusted

his property to them;
to one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according
to his ability. Then he went away.
The one who had received the five talents went off at once and traded with
them, and made five more talents.
In the same way, the one who had the two talents made two more talents.
But the one who had received the one talent went off and dug a hole in the
ground and hid his master's fortune.
After a long time the master of those slaves came and settled accounts with
them.
Then the one who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five
more talents, saying, 'Master, you handed over to me five talents; see, I have made
five more talents.'
His master said to him, 'Well done, good and trustworthy slave; you have
been trustworthy in a few things, I will put you in charge of many things; enter into
the joy of your master.'
And the one with the two talents also came forward, saying, 'Master, you
handed over to me two talents; see, I have made two more talents.'
His master said to him, 'Well done, good and trustworthy slave; you have
been trustworthy in a few things, I will put you in charge of many things; enter into
the joy of your master.'
Then the one who had received the one talent also came forward, saying,
'Master, I knew that you were a harsh man, reaping where you did not sow, and
gathering where you did not scatter seed;
so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here you have
what is yours.'
But his master replied, 'You unknowing and unfortunate! You knew, did you,
that I reap where I did not sow, and gather where I did not scatter?
How then did you know these things, if where I am you are not, and where
you are I seldom come?
Then from the little you had you gave nothing, and kept for yourself and hid
it and feared that it will be taken away.
So take the talent from him, and give it to the one with the ten talents.
For to all those who have, more will be given, and they will have an
abundance; but from those who have nothing, even what they have will be taken
away.'
"For all that which you keep for yourself on earth will be taken from you in
heaven, and great will be the loss when the talents will serve you not as keys to the
gates of above;
and all that which you give away on earth will be returned to you in the
kingdom above, and great will be your fortune then, and you will dwell in the
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 "When the Son of God returns to Man in all his glory, he will sit high before all
mankind and, as a shepherd gathers his sheep, he will gather the flock and, one by
one, they will come to him.
And some of them will be sheep that follow him, and some will be sheep that
went astray and lost themselves from the flock and the shepherd.
Then the Son of God will say to those that have followed him, 'Come, you
that are blessed by my Parent, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the
foundation of the world;
for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me
something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me,
I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me, I
was in prison and you visited me.'
Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when was it that we saw you
hungry and gave you food, or thirsty and gave you something to drink?
And when was it that we saw you a stranger and welcomed you, or naked
and gave you clothing?
And when was it that we saw you sick or in prison and visited you?'
And the Son of God will answer them, 'Truly I tell you, just as you did it to
one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me.'
Then he will say to those lost and astray, 'You that are aloft, you cannot find
the path toward me if you are unwilling to open your eyes! Such you will forever be
lost and shall not be found, and not even the angels and the prophets will see you,
because you deny their presence;
for I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me
nothing to drink,
I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not give
me clothing, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.'
Then they also will answer, 'Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry or
thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not take care of you?'
Then he will answer them, 'Truly I tell you, just as you did not do it to one of
the least of these, you did not do it to me.'
And these will go away into the long-lasting Absence, and the righteous will
find their path into the Eternal Light."

Then Yeshua told them another parable, "There was a man who had two
sons.
The younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me the share of the
property that will belong to me.' So he divided his property between them.
A few days later the younger son gathered all he had and travelled to a
distant country, and there he squandered his property in dissolute living.
When he had spent everything, a severe famine took place throughout that
country, and he began to be in need.
So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, who
sent him to his fields to feed the pigs.
He would gladly have filled himself with the pods that the pigs were eating;
and no one gave him anything.
But when he came to himself he said, 'How many of my father's hired hands
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 I will get up and go to my father, and I will say to him, Father, I have sinned
against heaven and before you;
I am no longer worthy to be called your son; treat me like one of your hired
hands.'
So he set off and went to his father. But while he was still far off, his father
saw him and was filled with compassion; he ran and put his arms around him and
kissed him.
Then the son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and before
you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son.'
But the father said to his slaves, 'Quickly, bring out a robe - the best one -
and put it on him; put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet.
And get the fatted calf and kill it, and let us eat and celebrate;
for this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found!'
And they began to celebrate.
"Now his elder son was in the field; and when he came and approached the
house, he heard music and dancing.
He called one of the slaves and asked what was going on.
He replied, 'Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fatted calf,
because he has got him back safe and sound.'
Then he became angry and refused to go in. His father came out and began
to plead with him.
But he answered his father, 'Listen! For all these years I have been working
like a slave for you, and I have never disobeyed your command; yet you have never
given me even a young goat so that I might celebrate with my friends.
But when this son of yours came back, who has devoured your property with
prostitutes, you killed the fatted calf for him!'
Then the father said to him, 'Son, you are always with me, and all that is
mine is yours.
But we had to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead
and has come to life; he was lost and has been found'.
"And see, all sheep that are lost can find their path once again, and all sheep
are then redeemed, for the love of our Parent Beyond is great, and no punishment
comes from above, but from within."

Then Yeshua said to the Sent, "There was a rich man who had a manager,
and charges were brought to him that this man was squandering his property.
So he summoned him and said to him, 'What is this that I hear about you?
Give me an accounting of your management, because you cannot be my manager
any longer.'
Then the manager said to himself, 'What will I do, now that my master is
taking the position away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am
ashamed to beg.
I have decided what to do so that, when I am dismissed as manager, people
may welcome me into their homes.'
So, summoning his master's debtors one by one, he asked the first, 'How
much do you owe my master?'
He answered, 'A hundred jugs of olive oil.' He said to him, ‘Take your bill, sit
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 Then he asked another, 'And how much do you owe?' He replied, 'A hundred
containers of wheat.' He said to him, 'Take your bill and make it eighty.'
And his master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted
shrewdly; for the children of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own
generation than are the children of light.
And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of dishonest wealth so
that when it is gone, they may welcome you into the eternal homes.
"Whoever is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much; and whoever is
dishonest in a very little is dishonest also in much.
If then you have not been faithful with the dishonest wealth, who will entrust
to you the true riches?
And if you have not been faithful with what belongs to another, who will give
you what is your own?
No slave can serve two masters; for a slave will either hate the one and love
the other, or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God
and wealth."
The Perisayya, who were lovers of money, heard all this, and they ridiculed
him.
So he said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of
others; but God knows your hearts; for what is prized by human beings is an
abomination in the sight of God.
"The law and the prophets were in effect until Yohanan came; since then the
good news of the kingdom of God is proclaimed, and everyone tries to enter it by
force.
Force your way into the Kingdom Above, and it will shut its gates to you, and
you will be left Below."

Then he said, "There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine
linen and who feasted sumptuously every day.
And at his gate lay a poor man named El'azar, covered with sores,
who longed to satisfy his hunger with what fell from the rich man's table;
even the dogs would come and lick his sores.
The poor man died and was carried away by the angels to be with Abraham.
The rich man also died and was buried.
Below, where he was damned in self-torment, he could not see the poor man
to whom he had never given even the crumbs on his table.
Confused at this, he called out, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and
send El'azar to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am in
agony in this place.'
But Abraham said, 'Child, remember that during your lifetime you received
your good things, and El'azar in like manner evil things; but now he is comforted
here, and you are in agony.
Besides all this, between you and us a great chasm has been fixed, so that
those who might want to pass from here to you cannot do so, and no one can cross
from there to us.'
He said, 'Then, father, I beg you to send him to my father's house -
for I have five brothers - that he may warn them, so that they will not also
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 Abraham replied, 'They have Moshe and the prophets; they should listen to
them.'
He said, 'No, father Abraham; but if someone goes to them from the dead,
they will repent.'
He said to him, 'If they do not listen to Moshe and the prophets, neither will
they be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.'
"And see, listen to the mouth that speaks when the speaker is alive amongst
you.
Do you have more trust in the mouth of the dead than in the mouth of the
living?
Truly I tell you, the one who is alive today soon will be dead, and when he
returns to you in flesh and blood you will call him an abomination.
"Where the shepherd is, the wolves will prey;
where the corpse is, there the vultures will gather."
And the Perisayya knew not what to say of this, because if they spoke against
him, they would be considered wolves, and yet if they spoke in favour of him, they
would be considered sheep.
They then said nothing, but amongst themselves they began to talk of how
they could put a stop to his preaching.
In that day Khanan the high priest saw that he remained alone with Yohudah
of Kiriyot, because he knew him and could speak with him about his master.

46. The Fifth Day in Yerushalayim: The First Day of Pesach; The Last Supper;
Yohudah of Kiriyot Hands Yeshua Over; Kepha Renounces Yeshua e Meshyha

After sundown began the following day, which was the fifth day of the week.
It was the fifteenth day of the month Nisan, and the first day of the Jewish festival
of Pesach.
It was then that the high priest Khanan sought to speak in private with
Yohudah.
He approached him and said, "Your master is very wise. Even when his words
are harsh, the truth in them is soothing."
Yohudah said, "Believe you me, if you saw the things I have seen, and if you
felt the things I have felt, you would at once believe these words of his."
Khanan said, "But I believe him! I believe he is as great as the people say he
is. Yet, he shows himself not to us." For when he was not preaching, Yeshua would
hide himself from unbelieving eyes.
Knowing that all Yeshua did was just, Yohudah said, "If you cannot see him,
there must be a reason."
But the Perisa said, "I only wish to speak to him! To hear his wisdom, to
prove his greatness in front of all the priests who are too blind to see him for who he
is."
Yohudah answered, "If I were to convince him to come to you, will you then
convince the other Perisayya to let him preach in peace? For not many are as open-
minded as you are."
Khanan said, "No, if you speak to him of this he will forever hide from our
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 Why not bring us to him, instead of him to us?"
Yohudah thought then that this was an opportunity for him to help his friend
Yeshua, whom he loved. He so wished to serve the Son of God, that his heart only
felt hope at the chance presented to him.
Yohudah said, "Alright, I will bring you to him. But leave me one more day
with him."

That night Yohudah could not sleep, for he was hiding his intentions from
Yeshua, even when they were good.
He stood by himself near the tents outside of Yerushalayim, and then all the
Sent considered him vile and evil, ill-intended and a thief, therefore he kept to
himself.
Yeshua joined him then, and said, "Today is the day that we rise or we fall.
What do you think?"
"I think you need not die, as you say you will. It is in your power to change
your destiny", said Yohudah.
Yeshua spoke then, "Listen: it is not for me to say what my destiny holds for
me. Still, I know I am not to fight it, for it shall come nonetheless.
Yohudah, great clouds dwell before your eyes, for you look but cannot see."
Yohudah knew not of what Yeshua was speaking.

That day Yeshua, his Sent, and Maryam of Magdala went into Yerushalayim
and healed the cripples and the lame and the feverish, and only when the sun began
to cast shadows did they seek refuge in the house of a leper they had cured.
And in that house, Maryam of Magdala came to him with an alabaster jar of
very costly ointment, and she poured it on his head as he sat at the table.
But when the Sent saw it, they were confused and angered. And Kepha said,
"Why this waste?
For this ointment could have been sold for a little over three hundred denarii,
and the money given to the poor."
But Yeshua, aware of this, said then, "Why do you trouble the woman? She
has performed a good service for me.
For you always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me.
By pouring this ointment on my body she has prepared me for burial.
Truly I tell you, wherever this good news is proclaimed in the whole world,
what she has done will be told in remembrance of her."

Hearing this, Yohudah was frightened, for he could not imagine the burial that
his friend was speaking of.
And, as they were sat at the table, Yeshua said to him alone, “What you are
to do, do quickly”,
and the other Sent at the table knew not what he had said to him, but
thought he was referring to Yohudah, being the treasurer and the keeper of the bag,
that he needed to move quickly and give money to the poor and buy what was
needed for the supper that evening.
So Yohudah went in secret to the priests, not yet understanding that Yeshua
was already aware of his intentions, and he said, "When do you want me to bring
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 And the priests spoke amongst themselves, saying, "When it is dark shall we
go and get this man, for if the people see him be taken away in daylight and during
the festival, then great riots will gather."
And to Yohudah they said, "Bring us to him tonight after sundown."

On that day, which was the first day of the Unleavened Bread, the Sent came
to Yeshua, saying, "Where do you want us to make the preparations for you to eat
the Pesach?"
"Listen," he said to them, "when you have entered the city, a man carrying a
jar of water will meet you; follow him into the house he enters
and say to the owner of the house, 'The hour is near; the Rabbi asks you,
Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Pesach with my disciples?'
He will show you a large room upstairs, already furnished. Make preparations
for us there."
So they did as Yeshua had directed them, and they prepared the Pesach
meal.
When it was evening, he took his place with the twelve Sent, and they were
seated such:
Yeshua sat in the middle. To his right was Yochanan and to his Left was
Yohudah.
Next to Yochanan was Mattiyah; next to him was Nathanael son of Bar-Tolmi;
next to him was Ya'akov son of Alfaios and next to him Y'hudah his brother; next to
him was Simon; next to him was Ya'akov son of Zvad'yah; next to him was Philipos
of Bethtsaida; next to him was Andraus and next to him was Kepha his brother; next
to him was Tauma, who was next to Yohudah of Kiriyot.

Before they ate, Yeshua, knowing that the Parent had given all things into his
hands, and that he had come from God and was going to God,
got up from the table, took off his outer robe, and tied a towel around
himself.
Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the Sent's feet and to
wipe them with the towel that was tied around him.
He came to Kepha, who said to him, "Lord, are you going to wash my feet?"
Yeshua answered, "You do not know now what I am doing, but later you will
understand."
Kepha said to him, "You will never wash my feet."
Yeshua answered, "Unless I wash you, you have no share with me."
Kepha said to him, "Rabbi, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!"
Yeshua said to him, "One who has bathed does not need to wash, except for
the feet, but is entirely clean. And you are clean, though not all of you."
As he knew who was to hand him over, he said, "Not all of you are clean. Yet
I have washed your feet in order to cleanse you, and so that you may know when
you stand before the Gates that you may enter - do not stop yourselves from
accepting me washing your feet. As you do, you will accept my forgiveness."
After he had washed their feet, had put on his robe, and had returned to the
table, he said to them, "Do you know what I have done to you?
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 So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to
wash one another's feet.
For I have set you an example, that you also should do as I have done to
you.
Very truly, I tell you, servants are not greater than their master, nor are
messengers greater than the one who sent them.
If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.
I am not speaking of all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But it is to fulfil
the scripture, 'The one who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me.'
I tell you this now, before it occurs, so that when it does occur, you may
believe that I am he.
Very truly, I tell you, whoever receives one whom I send receives me; and
whoever receives me receives the One Who sent me."

While they were eating, Yeshua took a loaf of bread, and after blessing it he
broke it, gave it to the Sent, and said, "Take, eat; this is my body."
Then he took a cup of a wine so dark it looked black. After giving thanks he
gave it to them, saying, "Drink from it, all of you; for this is my blood of the
covenant, which is poured out for many for the liberation of spirits and forgiveness
of debts.
I tell you, I will never again drink of this fruit of the vine until the day I drink
it new with you in the Kingdom Above of my Parent."
And he rose amongst them, saying, "Many Mysteries have I showed you in
the past, yet this is the last and final Mystery revealed to you. As I now to for you,
also thus shall you do for others who repent.
"I am the bread of life.
Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.
This is the bread that comes down from Heaven, so that one may eat of it
and not die.
I am the living bread that came down from Beyond. Whoever eats of this
bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my
flesh."
The Sent then disputed amongst themselves, saying, "How can this man give
us his flesh to eat?"
So Yeshua said to them, "Very truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the
Son of God and drink his blood, you have no life in you.
Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will raise
them up on the last day;
for my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink.
Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me, and I in them.
Just as the Parent Beyond sent me, and I live because of the Parent, so
whoever eats me will live because of me.
This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like that which your
ancestors ate, and they died. But the one who eats this bread will live forever."
When many of his Sent heard it, they said, "This teaching is difficult; who can
accept it?"
But Yeshua, being aware that his Sent were complaining about it, said to
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 Then what if you were to see the Son of God ascending to where he was
before?
It is the spirit that gives life; the flesh is useless. The words that I have
spoken to you are spirit and life.
But amongst you there are some who do not believe."

When they had sung the hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.
Yeshua said, "Now the Son of God has been glorified, and God has been
glorified in him.
If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself and will
glorify him at once.
Little children, I am with you only a little longer. You will look for me; and as I
said to the Jews so now I say to you, 'Where I am going, you cannot come.'
I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have
loved you, you also should love one another.
By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one
another."
Kepha said to him, “Rabbi, what do you mean by, ‘Where I am going, you
cannot come'? I will follow you wherever you go!”
Then Yeshua said to them, "You will all become deserters because of me this
night; for it is written, 'I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be
scattered.'
But after I am raised up, I will go ahead of you to Gahlylyi."
Kepha said to him, "Though all become deserters because of you, I will never
desert you."
Yeshua said to him, "Truly I tell you, this very night, before the cock crows,
you will deny me three times."
Kepha said to him, "Even though I must die with you, I will not deny you."
And so said all the disciples.
And Yeshua said, "Truly I tell you, all of you will desert me but one. And that
who will not desert me will hand me over."
And they became agitated and all of them said, "Surely, not I?" Yet Yohudah
kept silent.
Yeshua then said, "The one who will bring his hand forward at the same time
as I and touch the water of the bowl, that is the one who will hand me over." And
then Yohudah brought forth his hand and the same time as Yeshua.
The Sent were raging when they saw this, yet Yeshua said to Yohudah, "Go;
do what you must do; they are waiting for you to bring them to me." So Yohudah
fled at once.
When he arrived at the high priests, he said to them, "Come now with me so
I can bring you to him.
But know this: he already knew of my handing him over to you, and yet he is
still waiting for my return."
They gave no thought to his words; instead they said, "Here, a reward for
your forethought", and handed him a bag with thirty pieces of silver inside.
He said, "Yet what is it I did that deserves payment? I did this not for money,
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 They laughed amongst themselves, but to him they said, "Worry not, it is
good money that can be used for the poor.
Now take us to him." So he took the money and took them.

In the meantime, Yeshua went with the Sent to a place called Gat-Shemanim;
and he said to them, "Sit here while I go over there and pray."
He took with him Kepha and the two sons of Zvad'yah, and began to be
grieved and agitated.
Then he said to them, "I am deeply grieved, even to death; remain here, and
stay awake with me."
And going a little farther, he threw himself on the ground and prayed, "My
Parent, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me; yet let not what I want happen,
but what You want."
Then he came to the Sent and found them sleeping; and he said to Kepha,
"So, could you not stay awake with me one hour?
Stay awake and pray that you may not come into the time of trial; the spirit
indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."
Again he went away for the second time and prayed, "My Parent, if this
poison cannot pass unless I drink it, Your will be done.
Yet show me what it is that I will accomplish by dying in Your name, for like a
lamb for slaughter I am brought now before You - reassure me that your lost flock
will be found, so that I might have strength during my trial."
And then, as he sat in front of a rivulet in the garden, he saw a great vision,
and like thousands of colours it erupted before his eyes, and he saw both salvation
and destruction, yet his heart was strengthened.
Again then he came and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy.
So leaving them again, he went away and prayed for the third time, "My
Parent, let me drink then from the cup, for the hour has come."
Then he came to the Sent and said to them, "Are you still sleeping and taking
your rest? See, the hour is at hand, and the Son of God is handed over to the pack
of wolves.
Get up, let us be going. See, my undoer is at hand."

At that hour Yohudah came with the high priests. They said to him, "How will
we know which one is he?"
He said, "The one whom I kiss, that is the man."
And he went to Yeshua and embraced him in greeting, kissing him.
And Yeshua knew his intentions and said, "Yohudah, is it with a kiss that you
hand over the Son of God? Alas, you only did what was needed."
And many men came forth to separate them, and took Yeshua by the arms
and feet to haul him away.

Suddenly, Kepha awoke and put his hand on his sword, drew it, and struck
the slave of the high priest, cutting off his ear.
Then Yeshua said to him, "Put your sword back into its place; for all who take
the sword will perish by the sword.
Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Parent, and at God's will at once
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 But how then would the scriptures be fulfilled, which say it must happen in
this way?"
And he put his hand on the slaves wound where his ear was cut off, and at
once a new ear appeared.
At that hour Yeshua said to the crowds, "Have you come out with swords and
clubs to arrest me as though I were a bandit? Day after day I sat in the Temple
teaching, and you did not arrest me.
But all this has taken place, so that the scriptures of the prophets may be
fulfilled."
Then all the Sent deserted him and fled.
Those who had arrested Yeshua took him to Qaipha the high priest, in whose
house the scribes and the elders had gathered.
But Kepha was following him at a distance, as far as the courtyard of the high
priest; and going inside, he sat with the guards in order to see how this would end.
Now the chief priests and the whole council were looking for false testimony
against Yeshua so that they might put him to death, but they found none, though
many false witnesses came forward.
At last two came forward and said, "This fellow said, 'I am able to destroy the
Temple of God and to build it in three days'."
The high priest stood up and said, "Have you no answer? What is it that they
testify against you?"
But Yeshua was silent. Then the high priest said to him, "I put you under oath
before the living God, tell us if you are the Meshyha, the Son of God."
Yet Yeshua was silent, for many times had he said those words, and they had
called on deaf ears - if he were to speak them now, they would still be unheard.
They asked him, “Tell us, are you the Meshyha?”
He said, “If I tell you, you will not believe; if I question you, you will not
answer.”
And the high priest was angered, so he laughed and asked, "Tell me, are you
the King of the Jews?"
Yeshua said to him, "You have said so. But I tell you, From now on you will
see the Son of God and you will not recognize him, for he will sit at the side of God,
Whom you also do not know."
Then the high priest tore his clothes and said, "He has blasphemed! Why do
we still need witnesses? You have now heard his blasphemy.
What is your verdict?" They answered, "He deserves death."
Then they spat in his face and struck him; and some slapped him, saying,
"Prophesy to us, you Meshyha! Who is it that struck you?"

Now Kepha was sitting outside in the courtyard. A servant-girl came to him
and said, "You also were with Yeshua of Gahlylyi."
But he denied it before all of them, saying, "I do not know what you are
talking about."
When he went out to the porch, another servant-girl saw him, and she said to
the bystanders, "This man was with Yeshua of Nazrath."
Again he denied it with an oath, "I do not know the man."
After a little while the bystanders came up and said to Kepha, "Certainly you
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that moment the cock crowed.
Then Kepha remembered what Yeshua had said: ‘Before the cock crows, you
will deny me three times.’ And he went out and wept bitterly.

Yohudah also came to Khanan, who was posted outside the trial chamber,
and said to him, "Let me through, for my friend thinks I have betrayed him and I
need to be by his side.
Is this where the meeting takes place?"
And Khanan laughed at him and said, "There is no meeting, fool! It is a trial,
and your master is to be convicted tonight!"
In despair, Yohudah threw the money on the ground, saying, "I have been
spattered with innocent blood! How could I betray him? Take this money back and
leave him be!"
Khanan said, “What is it to us? See to it yourself.”
But nothing could be done. He ran to the windows to watch the trial, and
wept and cried out his sorrow when he saw Yeshua convicted to death.
Yet later the priests took the money from the ground and said, “This is blood
money, therefore we cannot place it in the treasury.”
After conferring together, they used it to buy the potter's field as a place to
bury foreigners, which is called Akeldama, the Field of Blood.
That was to fulfil what has been spoken through the prophet Yirmyahu: ‘And
they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of the one on whom a price had been
set, on whom some of the people of Yisrael had set a price, and they gave them to
the potter’s field, as the Lord commanded me.’

47. Trial by Pilatus; Yeshua Tortured; Yohudah Commits Suicide by Hanging;

The Death of Yeshua

It was the sixteenth day of the month Nisan and the sixth day of the week.
When morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people
conferred together against Yeshua in order to bring about his death.
They bound him, led him away, and handed him over to Pilatus the governor.
Yohudah and Yochanan his Sent, Maryam of Magdala, Maryam his Mother,
Shlomi and Hannah-Maryam his sisters were also attending the trial.
They themselves did not enter the headquarters, so as to avoid ritual
defilement and to be able to eat the Pesach.
So Pilatus went out to them and said, "What accusation do you bring against
this man?"
They answered, "If this man were not a criminal, we would not have handed
him over to You."
Pilatus said to them, "Take him yourselves and judge him according to your
law." The Jews replied, "We are not permitted to put anyone to death." Pilatus told
them, “Has God forbidden you to slay, and allowed me?”
Then Pilatus asked, "Then tell me, what is it that you say he did?"
They began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man perverting our nation,
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Meshyha, a king. Moreover he does pollute the Sabbath and he would destroy the
law of our fathers."
And Pilatus said to them, “What things does he, that he destroys the laws of
your fathers?”
They said to him, “We have a law that prevents us from healing any man on
the Sabbath; yet he did heal by his evil deeds the paralytic, the dumb and the
possessed, on the day of the Sabbath!”
Pilatus said, “By what evil deeds?”
They said to him, “He is a sorcerer and by Ba’al Zebub the king of the
demons does he cast out demons, and they all are subjects unto him.”
Pilatus said, “This is not to cast out demons by an unclean spirit, but by the
god Aesculapius.”
And they said to him, “We beseech Your Majesty that he appear before Your
judgement seat and be heard.”
The governor said to them, “And how could I, a governor, examine him, a
king?” They said to him, “We say not that he is king, but he is that who says so.”
Now Pilatus called upon a messenger and let him know that Yeshua was to be
brought to him. And when the messenger came with Yeshua, he first lay a kerchief
before Yeshua’s feet to walk upon it, and when asked about his deed the messenger
said, “I have done so as I have heard them call out to him when he arrived to
Yerushalayim: ‘Save now, you that are the highest; blessed is he that comes in the
name of the Lord’.” And the Jews cried out and said that the words had been in
Hebrew, ‘Hosha'na membrane barouchamma adonai’, and Pilatus recognized the
cries from the days before and knew that they were true.
And when Yeshua entered, the ensigns were holding the standards, and the
busts of the standards bowed before Yeshua, for they recognized his authority upon
the earth.
And Pilatus saw it and questioned the ensigns, thinking they had made them
bow. And they said, “We are Greeks that serve the temple, wherefore would we bow
to him?”
And Pilatus made stronger men hold the standards so that they may be held
straight, but then again the standards bowed to Yeshua, and to that the new
ensigns bowed as well, for they too recognized his authority. And when Pilatus saw
it he was afraid.
And before he could question Yeshua, Pilatus’ wife came to him and warned
him, saying, “Have you nothing to do with this just man, for I have suffered many a
night on his account”, and, knowing that she feared the God of the Jews, he too was
afraid.
Now Yeshua stood before the governor; and the governor asked him, "Are
you the King of the Jews?"
Yeshua answered, "Do you ask this on your own, or did others tell you about
me?"
Pilatus replied, "I am not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests
have handed you over to me. What have you done?"
Yeshua answered, "My kingdom is not from this world. If my kingdom were
from this world, my followers would be fighting to keep me from being handed over
to the Jews. But as it is, my kingdom is not from here."

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 Pilatus asked him, "So you are a king?" Yeshua answered, "You say that I am.
For this I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth.
Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice."
Pilatus asked him, "What is truth?" Yeshua said, “Truth is of Heaven.”
Pilatus asked him, “Is there no truth upon earth?” Yeshua said, “You see how
those that speak the truth are judged by those who by untruths have authority upon
the earth."
Because the high priests were accusing Yeshua of being a child of fornication
and a bastard, as they have heard of Maryam remaining with child before she was
with Yosef. And a great dispute arose amongst them, and certain of them such as
Nikodemos came forth and testified on his behalf and on behalf of Maryam and
Yosef, that they had been betrothed when she gave birth to Yeshua.
And these sorts of accusations went on, and then came forth some of those
whom Yeshua had healed those few days that he had been in Yerushalayim. And
they testified on his behalf and confirmed that he had healed their lifelong ailments,
and that he did heal the paralytics and the lame and the deaf and blind, and that he
did rid them of demons. And when women came forth to testify on his behalf, they
were stopped at the entrance, and the Jews told them, “We have a law that says no
woman can give testimony.”
And then Nikodemos came forth and with him were some other priests that
were not in agreement with the accusations. And he said to the governor, “Pious
lord, let me speak a few words. Wherefore condemn this man? He has done many
and wonderful signs, which no man has done, neither will do. Let him be alone and
contrive not any evil against him; for if the signs he does are of God, they will stand,
but if they are of men, they will come to perish.”
And the Jews accused him, saying, “You did become his disciple then, for you
speak on his behalf." Nikodemos said, “Did the governor also become his disciple,
that he speaks on his behalf?”
But when Yeshua was accused by the chief priests and elders, he did not
answer, and yet to many of the questions asked by Pilatus he answered. That was
for he knew the thoughts of men, and he knew that Pilatus was a just man.
Then Pilatus said to him, "Do you not hear how many accusations they make
against you?"
But he gave him no answer, not even to a single charge, so that the governor
was greatly amazed.
Then Pilatus said to the chief priests and the crowds, "I find no basis for an
accusation against this man.”
But they were insistent and said, "He stirs up the people by teaching
throughout all Yauda, from Gahlylyi where he began even to this place."
When Pilatus heard this, he asked whether the man was of Gahlylyi.
And when he learnt that he was under Hordos' jurisdiction, he sent him off to
Hordos, who was himself in Yerushalayim at that time.
When Hordos saw Yeshua, he was very glad, for he had been wanting to see
him for a long time, because he had heard about him and was hoping to see him
perform some sign.
He questioned him at some length, but Yeshua gave him no answer.
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 Even Hordos with his soldiers treated him with contempt and mocked him;
then he put an elegant robe on him, and sent him back to Pilatus.
That same day Hordos and Pilatus became friends with each other; before
this they had been enemies.
Pilatus then called together the chief priests, the leaders, and the people,
and said to them, "You brought me this man as one who was perverting the
people; and here I have examined him in your presence and have not found this
man guilty of any of your charges against him.
Neither has Hordos, for he sent him back to us. Indeed, he has done nothing
to deserve death."
But they kept accusing Yeshua of blasphemy and treachery against the people
of Yisrael and against God.

Now at the festival the governor was accustomed to release a prisoner for the
crowd, anyone whom they wanted.
At that time they had a notorious prisoner, a murderer, called Yeshua Bar-
Abba, who was one of the Zealots.
So after they had gathered, Pilatus said to them, "Whom do you want me to
release for you, Yeshua Bar-Abba or Yeshua who is called the Meshyha?"
For he realized that it was out of jealousy that they had handed him over.
While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent word to him, "Have
nothing to do with that innocent man, for today I have suffered a great deal because
of a dream about him."
Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds to ask for Bar-
Abba and to have Yeshua killed.
The governor again said to them, "Which of the two do you want me to
release for you?" And they said, "Bar-Abba."
Pilatus said to them, "Then what should I do with Yeshua who is called the
Meshyha?" All of them said, "Let him be crucified!" And many were enraged that
Pilatus himself would name the man Meshyha.
Then he asked, "Why, what evil has he done?" But they shouted all the more,
"Let him be crucified!"
So when Pilatus saw that he could do nothing, but rather that a riot was
beginning, he took some water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, "I
am innocent of this man's blood; see to it yourselves."
Then the people as a whole answered, "His blood be on us and on our
children!" For they knew not what they were swearing to.
So he released Bar-Abba for them; and then he had Yeshua flogged forty
times but one, and each time it was harder for the governor to watch the injustice
brought upon Yeshua by his own people.
Pilatus said to them, "Here is the man!"
When the chief priests and the police saw him, they shouted, "Crucify him!
Crucify him!"
Pilatus said to them, "Take him yourselves and crucify him; I find no case
against him."
The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and according to that law he ought
to die because he has claimed to be the Son of God."
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But Yeshua gave him no answer.
Pilatus therefore said to him, "Do you refuse to speak to me? Do you not
know that I have power to release you, and power to crucify you?"
Yeshua answered him, "You would have no power over me unless it had been
given you from above; therefore the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a
greater sin."
From then on Pilatus tried to release him, but the Jews cried out, "If you
release this man, you are no friend of the emperor. Everyone who claims to be a
king sets himself against the emperor."
When Pilatus heard these words, he brought Yeshua outside and sat on the
judge's bench at a place called The Stone Pavement, or Gabbatha.
He said to the Jews, "Here is your King!"
They cried out, "Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!" Pilatus asked
them, "Shall I crucify your King?" The chief priests answered, "We have no king but
the emperor."
Amazed at the hypocrisy of those who condemned him, Pilatus handed him
over to be crucified, yet he also said to them, “According to what I have heard, your
God brought you out of Egypt out of hard bondage, and led you safe through the
sea as by dry land, and in the wildeness he nourished you with manna and gave you
quails, and gave you water to drink out of a rock, and gave unto you a law. And
after all this you made him angry, and still supplication was made for you and you
did not die. And now you wish to put to death that who from your God great power
has, and accuse me that I hate the emperor.”
Then the soldiers of the governor took Yeshua into the governor’s
headquarters, and they gathered the whole cohort around him.
They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him,
and after twisting some thorns into a crown, they put it on his head. They put
a reed in his right hand and knelt before him and mocked him, saying, "Hail, King of
the Jews!"
They spat on him, and took the reed and struck him on the head.
After mocking him, they stripped him of the robe and put his own clothes on
him. Then they led him away to crucify him.

When he saw him tortured and barely able to stand, Yohudah wept for him
and wanted to help him and wipe his face, yet the crowd kept him from doing so,
and several men and women upon seeing him recognized him, and started to
stone him and say, "Betrayer! Thief! What right do you have to stand and watch him
suffer?" For they had heard word of his handing Yeshua over to the chief priests.

As they went out, they came upon a man from Kurene named Simon; they
compelled this man to carry his cross when they saw that he could no longer carry it
himself.
And on the way his sister Shlomi came to him, and wiped his face with a
cloth, cleaning it of sweat and blood. And then she was shunned away, for none of
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 Instead he said to them, even on his way to death, "Women, do not weep
and do not beat your chests! For what is to take place I have known of for some
time. And this is the way it should be, so that all is fulfilled.
Take your time, and worry not over the bodies of others; instead, worry
about your bodies. Take good care of them, for there will come a time when children
will no longer be born, for how can anything be born of a barren womb?
Be then the wombs of the world, be fruitful in all your natures, and thus my
sacrifice will not have been in vain! Peace be upon you, and not grief."
He said all this without opening his mouth, for his body was too weakened;
instead he said it with the voice of his mind, and that voice could not be silences by
the tortures he had been subjected to.

And when they came to a place called Gulguta, Place of a Skull, at about mid-
morning, which was nine in the morning,
they offered him sour wine to drink, mixed with gall; but when he tasted it,
he would not drink it.
And when they crucified him, they put a nail in each of his hands on each side
of the cross, and they put a large nail into both of his feet.
Then Yeshua said, "Parent, forgive them; for they do not know what they are
doing."
And when they did so, they divided his clothes amongst themselves by
casting lots;
then they sat down there and kept watch over him.
This was to fulfil what the scripture says, 'They divided my clothes amongst
themselves, and for my clothing they cast lots.'
Over his head they put the charge against him, which read, 'This is Yeshua,
the King of the Jews.'
Then the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilatus, "Do not write, 'The King of
the Jews,' but, 'This man said, I am King of the Jews'."
Pilatus answered, "What I have written I have written."

Then two bandits were crucified with him, one on his right and one on his
left.
One of the criminals who were hanged there kept deriding him and saying,
"Are you not the Meshyha? Save yourself and us!"
But the other rebuked him, saying, "Do you not fear God, since you are under
the same sentence of condemnation?
And we indeed have been condemned justly, for we are getting what we
deserve for our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong."
Then he said, "Yeshua, remember me when you come into your kingdom."
He replied, "Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise."

Those who passed by derided him, shaking their heads

and saying, "You who would destroy the Temple and build it in three days,
save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross."
In the same way the chief priests also, along with the scribes and elders,
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 "He saved others; he cannot save himself. He is the King of Yisrael; let him
come down from the cross now, and we will believe in him.
He trusts in God; let God deliver him now, if he wants to; for he said, 'I am
the Son of God'."

From noon on, darkness came over the whole land until mid-afternoon.
And at about three in the afternoon Yeshua cried with a loud voice, "Eli, Eli,
lema sabachthani?" that is, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" For he
was in great and unimaginable pain.
When some of the bystanders heard it, they said, "This man is calling for
Eliyah."
At once one of them ran and got a sponge, filled it with sour wine, put it on a
stick, and gave it to him to drink.
But the others said, "Wait, let us see whether Eliyah will come to save him."
Then Yeshua cried again with a loud voice and said, "Parent, into your hands
I commend my spirit!"

And seeing him give away his last breath, Yohudah could not bear it. He
blamed himself for all the suffering Yeshua had gone through, even from his good
intentions.
He ran away from the sight of death, and on the way the other Sent, who
were not bystanders at the crucifixion and yet chose not to stay with their Lord,
mocked him and shouted at him, "Liar! Thief!", "Betrayer! You have murdered him!
How can you live with what you have done?"
And he fell to the ground at their words, and great was his pain then.
He ran again into a deserted place and found a redbud tree. At once he
procured a rope and climbed the tree, putting the rope around his neck,
and hang himself to death, for indeed he could not live with what he had
done.

Still, Yeshua had not given away his last breath. When he saw that the only
ones left before him were Maryam his Mother and Yochanan his Sent, he said to
them, "Mother, here is your son. Son, here is your mother", this was asking
Yochanan to take care of his Mother.
After this, when Yeshua knew that all was now finished, he said, "I am
thirsty."
One of the soldiers took a branch of hyssop and put the sponge full of the
sour wine on it, and held it to Yeshua's mouth.
This time he received it, and then he said, "It is finished." And with that he
gave his last breath.
At that moment the curtain of the Temple was torn in two, from top to
bottom. The earth shook, and the rocks were split, and the darkness of the sky
became blinding.
Now when the centurion and those with him, who were keeping watch over
Yeshua, saw the earthquake and what took place, they were terrified and said,
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 Since it was the midst of the festival of Pesach, the Jews did not want the
bodies left on the cross during the Sabbath, especially because that Sabbath was a
day of great solemnity. So they asked Pilatus to have the legs of the crucified men
broken and the bodies removed.
Then the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first and of the other who
had been crucified with him.
But when they came to Yeshua and saw that he was already dead, they did
not break his legs.
Instead, one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once blood
and water came out.
These things occurred so that the scripture might be fulfilled, 'None of his
bones shall be broken.'
Many women were also there, looking on from a distance; they had followed
Yeshua from Gahlylyi and had provided for him.
Amongst them were Maryam of Magdala, Maryam Mother of Yeshua, and
Hannah-Maryam his sister.
When it was evening, there came a rich man from Ramathaim Sophim,
named Yosef, who was also a disciple and follower of Yeshua.
He went to Pilatus and asked for the body of Yeshua; then Pilatus ordered it
to be given to him.
So Yosef took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth that had spices,
myrrh and aloes in it brought by the Perisa Nikodemos, who had spoken with and for
Yeshua before.
And Yeshua's body was laid in his own new tomb, which he had hewn in the
rock. He then rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb and went away.
The three women named Maryam were there, sitting opposite the tomb, as
witnesses to his being indeed buried.
And after that the Jews came to Yosef when he entered the Synagogue
saying that he be a follower of Yeshua and that he might steal his body in three
days’ time in order to show that he was resurrected. And they shut him up inside a
house with no windows and no light, to make sure that he would not steal the body
from the tomb.
And he said unto them, “These are the words of Golyath the boastful which
reproached the living God and the holy Dawid. For God said by the prophet:
‘Vengeance is Mine, and I will recompense, said the Lord’. And now, Lo, one that
was uncircumcised, but circumcised in heart, took water and washed his hands
before the sun, saying: ‘I am innocent of the blood of this person; see you to it.’ And
to that you answered: ‘His blood be upon us and upon our children.’ And now I fear
lest the wrath of the Lord come upon you and upon your children, as you have said.”
And when they heard him they were overtaken with fear, and they talked
amongst themselves to put him to death. But when they returned and opened the
door he was gone, and they wondered, for the door had been locked and only
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 48. The Day of the Dead: Yeshua Descends and Frees the Spirits Trapped
Below; The Opening of the Gates

It was the Sabbath, after the day of Preparation, the seventeenth day of the
month of Nisan, which was on the seventh day of the week. The chief priests and
the Perisayya gathered before Pilatus
and said, "Sir, we remember what that impostor said while he was still alive,
'After three days I will rise again.'
Therefore command the tomb to be made secure until the third day;
otherwise his disciples may go and steal him away, and tell the people, 'He has been
raised from the dead,' and the last deception would be worse than the first."
Pilatus said to them, "You have a guard of soldiers; go, make it as secure as
you can."
So they went with the guard and made the tomb secure by sealing the stone.

Now on that day that Yeshua lay dead in his tomb, his body remained in
white sheets and in the darkness. Yet his spirit awakened in consciousness at once
and, knowing that he is to depart for that day, went out of the body and descended
into the lower realms.
And as he went, he saw Wandering Spirits of the Children of God, who from
the Will of God departed.
Those were the ones that so craved to inherit the power of the Light of God,
that they had searched and lost themselves into the prison of the Reflection of Light.
And that not the Light, but the Absence of Light was,
and they, angels and serpents and men alike, in falsehood of oneness and
slavery resided, knowing not their true nature, but the forgery of Confusion.
Amongst them also were Aum and Zoe the first of Men, and many of the
Watchers that had in shame hidden themselves from the sight of God, and the
spirits that in guilt had drowned themselves into the pit of Below.
They had no speech and of one thought were, and many wandered with no
aim, still searching for the Unseen Light.
Now Yeshua saw those who wished to be seen, which were the serpents and
the men and some of the Wandering Angels, as many as they had died a mortal
death from the beginning of the earth until that very day.
And seeing them in loss, he stood the one true Light of the lower realms, and
showed himself to them.
Seeing his Light, they marvelled and went to him. He brought words then
from his mouth, which they could hear with the perception of their spirit, and said,
"As the prophet had promised you, the Meshyha has come now to liberate
you from your confinements of choice.
I am he, the Meshyha, the Son of God who from the Parent Beyond comes,
and in the Light of Eh I show myself so that you may recognize me.
I am in all of you, and all in I are, for I am the first of the All of the Children
of God, yet the last of the Children of God am.
Above the veil of the Realms Below is the nakedness of the Children, and they
not in union are, but in communion dwell.
Lo, I open for you the Gates, so that you may see that what you have chosen
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 As you have clothed yourselves in shame, fear, and hate, unclothe yourselves
then! And let yourselves be engulfed in Love, and Light, and Truth, for these are the
true natures of your spirits.
To those that I can see, I say you are unleashed! Follow me and you shall
find True Light!
And to those who hide themselves, I say you have turned your faces away,
and the Sun shall not touch them as long as you choose the shadows."
And all the spirits of the dead followed him from the Unlife into the Life, and
in the first Realm Above were they laid by the Hand of Yeshua, to continue their
path from there on.
And he was the first to breach the passage between the Realms Below to the
Realms Above, and so opened the Gates for the Salvation of the Children to come.
When his mission was finished, he called once more unto those hiding in the
shadows of the Absence, and only when they did not come at his call did he leave
them and returned into his body.

49. The Day of the Resurrection of Yeshua e Meshyha

A great light ruptured from the sealed tomb, and Yeshua's body was engulfed
in it.
There his soul, and spirit, and mind came into one and returned into his body,
and he unwrapped the linen that was over him.
The light inside the dark tomb was as the sun, even if it was still night. Then
the angels in the sky, and the angels and serpents present on earth in those times
so greatly rejoiced, for it was such a marvel that he had been dead, and now was
alive, and not at the will and holiness of another, but from his own willing and holy
hands had he risen himself.
So he came out of the tomb, pushed away the large stone, and walked away
so that it might be found empty.

It was the eighteenth day of the month Nisan, the day after the Sabbath, at
the dawn of the first day of the week, while it was still dark, and the three women
named Maryam came to the tomb, taking the spices that they had prepared.
They found the stone rolled away from the tomb,
but when they went in, they did not find the body.
While they were perplexed about this, suddenly there was an earthquake; two
men in dazzling clothes stood beside them, and they came and rolled the tomb stone
and sat on it.
For fear of them the guards shook and became like men asleep, but they did
hear all which was occurring, and marvelled in wonderment; they later said they had
been asleep, so that they would not need confess to witnessing angels come from
the God of the Jews.
The women were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, but the men
said to them, "Do not be afraid; We know that you are looking for Yeshua who has
been crucified.
Why then do you look for the living amongst the dead? He is not here, but
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 Remember how he told you, while he was still in Gahlylyi,
that the Son of God must be handed over to sinners, and be crucified, and on
the third day rise again."
Then they remembered his words, and recognized the men as angels come to
deliver a message: "Go and tell the others that Yeshua of Nazrath will come before
them in Gahlylyi, so that they might believe."
And returning from the tomb, they told all this to the eleven and to all the
rest.
But these words seemed to them an idle tale, and they did not believe them.
So Maryam of Magdala, who indeed did not know the men who had appeared
to them and did not believe their words, went to Kepha and Yochanan, and said to
them, "They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they
have laid him."
Then Kepha and the other disciple set out and went toward the tomb.
The two were running together, but Yochanan outran Kepha and reached the
tomb first.
He bent down to look in and saw the linen wrappings lying there, but he did
not go in.
Then Kepha came, following him, and went into the tomb. He saw the linen
wrappings lying there,
and the cloth that had been on Yeshua's head, not lying with the linen
wrappings but rolled up in a place by itself.
Then Yochanan, who had reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw
and believed;
for as yet they did not understand the scripture, that he must rise from the
dead.
Then the Sent returned to their homes.
But Maryam stood weeping outside the tomb. As she wept, she bent over to
look into the tomb;
she turned around and saw Yeshua standing there, but she did not know that
it was Yeshua.
Yeshua said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking
for?" Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, "Sir, if you have carried
him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away."
Yeshua said to her, "Maryam!" She turned and said to him, "Rabbi!"
And then she did believe, and so was that she went to the Sent and told
them, yet they still would not take her words as true, for many of them could not
see how their Lord would show himself first to her, and not them.

And as those things were taking place, the guards who had seemed asleep at
the sight of the angels went into the city and told the chief priests everything that
had happened.
After the priests had assembled with the elders, they devised a plan to give a
large sum of money to the soldiers, telling them, "You must say, 'His disciples came
by night and stole him away while we were asleep.'
If this comes to the governor’s ears, we will satisfy him and keep you out of
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 So they took the money and did as they were directed, and the story was told
amongst the Jews for many a year.

50. Yeshua Shows Himself to His Sent and His Family

Now on that same day two of the disciples and followers of Yeshua were
going to a village called Emmaom, about seven miles from Yerushalayim,
and talking with each other about all these things that had happened.
While they were talking and discussing, Yeshua himself came near and went
with them,
but their eyes were kept from recognizing him.
And he said to them, "What are you discussing with each other while you
walk along?" They stood still, looking sad.
Then one of them, whose name was Kleopas, answered him, "Are you the
only stranger in Yerushalayim who does not know the things that have taken place
there in these days?"
He asked them, "What things?" They replied, "The things about Yeshua of
Nazrath, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the
people,
and how our chief priests and leaders handed him over to be condemned to
death and crucified him.
But we had hoped that he was the one to redeem Yisrael. Yes, and besides all
this, it is now the third day since these things took place.
Moreover, some women of our group astounded us. They were at the tomb
early this morning,
and when they did not find his body there, they came back and told us that
they had indeed seen a vision of angels who said that he was alive.
Some of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just as the
women had said; but they did not see him."
Then he said to them, "Oh, how foolish you are, and how slow of heart to
believe all that the prophets have declared!
Was it not necessary that the Meshyha should suffer these things and then
enter into his glory?"
Then beginning with Moshe and all the prophets, he interpreted to them the
things about himself in all the scriptures.
As they came near the village to which they were going, he walked ahead as
if he were going on.
But they urged him strongly, saying, "Stay with us, because it is almost
evening and the day is now nearly over." So he went in to stay with them.
When he was at the table with them, he took bread, blessed and broke it, and
gave it to them.
Then their eyes were opened, and they recognized him; and he vanished
from their sight.
They said to each other, "Were not our hearts burning within us while he was
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 Less than two hours later, Yeshua showed himself to his Sent in the house
that they were gathered.
And even though they had the door locked for fear of the high priests, he still
could enter it.
They were startled and terrified, and thought that they were seeing a ghost.
He said to them, "Why are you frightened, and why do doubts arise in your
hearts?
Look at my hands and my feet; see that it is I myself. Touch me and see; for
a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have."
And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet.
While in their joy they were disbelieving and still wondering, he said to them,
"Have you anything here to eat?"
They gave him a piece of broiled fish,
and he took it and ate in their presence.
Then he said to them, "These are my words that I spoke to you while I was
still with you - that everything written about me in the law of Moshe, the prophets,
and the psalms is to be fulfilled."
Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures,
and he said to them, "Thus it is written, that the Meshyha is to suffer and to
rise from the dead on the third day,
and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name
to all nations, beginning from Yerushalayim.
You are witnesses of these things.
And see, I am sending upon you what my Parent promised; so stay here in
the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.
"Peace be with you. As the Parent has sent me, so I send you."
When he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, "Receive the
Holy Spirit.
If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of
any, they are retained."
And on that evening he disappeared from their sight.

But Tauma was not with them when Yeshua came.

So the other Sent told him, "We have seen the Lord."
But he said to them, "Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands, and put
my finger in the mark of the nails and my hand in his side, I will not believe."
A day later his Sent were again in the house, and Tauma was with them.
Although the doors were shut, Yeshua came and stood amongst them and said,
"Peace be with you."
Then he said to Tauma, "Put your finger here and see my hands. Reach out
your hand and put it in my side. Do not doubt but believe."
Tauma answered him, "My Lord and my God!"
Yeshua said to him, "Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed
are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe."

On that day he went with his Sent and with Maryam of Magdala to the house
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 And they marvelled at his appearance then, and at how he had been dead,
and now was alive.
In their house the brothers who did not believe in him now were astonished.
And the brothers who did believe in him were thankful. And Shlomi and Hannah-
Maryam his sisters fell on their knees before him and shouted, "Blessed be the Lord
for being by your side and carrying you back to life from the dead!"
And he put his hands on their heads, and he said, "Fear not the day that
these earthly things will perish.
For it is not death that must be avoided, but unlife which is against life.
Even in death can you live, if your faith is according to my teachings, and
your heart is according to the truth. For the earth will long pass before all of the
Children of God perceive the meaning of their life, and yet you have it before your
eyes, and still some of you cannot perceive.
But I bless you now, and I open your minds and your hearts to that which is
the truth, and I leave to you the choice of life or unlife to make."
And he did open their hearts and their minds, yet only two of them received
what was revealed to them, Y'hudah his brother and Shlomi his sister.
And then their clothes were changed on them, and Y'hudah was given a dark
red cloak, where Shlomi was dressed in a purple cloak, and these were to be the
colours that signified their loyalty and their belief in him.
And his Sent's clothes were changed as well. For Kepha, maroon robes; for
Andraus his brother, blue robes; for Ya'aqov and Yochanan sons of Zvad'yah, pale
red and dark red robes; for Philipos of Bethtsaida, pale yellow robes; for Nathanael
son of Bar-Tolmi, grey robes; for Mattiyah said Levi, dark green robes; for Tauma
said Didymus, white robes; for Ya'aqov and Y'hudah sons of Alfaios, yellow robes;
for Simon, black robes; and for Maryam of Magdala, dark red and green robes.
And after he gave to them these robes, which were as titles, Yeshua asked
Yochanan to show him his house, where his Mother Maryam was staying.

51. Meirothea – The Essence of God, The Mother of Matter; Yeshua Speaks to
His Mother Maryam

And Yeshua came into the house of Yochanan, where Maryam his Mother
was, and he saw her there.
And when he came to her, she started weeping, saying, "My Child is alive, My
Child is alive, praise God Whose Will is great!"
And Yeshua sat down with and, taking her hands in his, he said to her,
"Mother, your name shall be known amongst the people of this world for many a
generation, for it is Your Sacred Womb that gave birth to the one who came to be
the Salvation of the World.
Your name had been known even before I was born, for your name is not
only this name, and the peoples of the ancient past had knowledge of Your Sacred
Womb, and they did know that from it came the world itself.
In this life you are called Maryam daughter of Hannah and Yhoaqim, wife of
Yosef the carpenter and Mother of Yeshua e Meshyha; in this life, you are blessed
with the eternal sun and caressed with the everlasting reflection of the moon, for
you in the moon dwell and through it you move the matters of the earth.

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 I offer to you now the knowledge of yourself, as you have then offered the
people of ancient times knowledge of themselves.
For you are to pursue the path of guidance for the people of the future
generations.
And you shall tell them of the heaven and the earth and that which is their
suffering. And they will lie at your feet and weep, for they will not know the words
you speak.
And you shall tell them of my teachings, for they are teachings of the eternal
truth. And my words will be spoken again from your blessed mouth, and they will be
heard by the blessed ears that are to pass them on in the future generations.
And your name of truth is Mother of the Kingdoms of Light, and you were the
rupture that from the Source came, and which became the Essence.
And I call you Meirothea, the Essence of God, for from this Essence you have
given the form of the souls and of al the creatures,
and from this form you made the Matter for the Children of God to dwell in.
And you are the Matter and the Mother of the Earth, who will live eternal in
her matter and in Essence, so that she may be both the guide and the path to I-
The-Three and the Mysteries of EhYeh.
You are Yeh, and in Being you shall dwell ethereally, for death is not to touch
you.
You will be risen when the time comes, and come to those who in prayer ask
for you and in faith listen to you.
You shall reveal to them the truths and the symbols.
You will cry at the sight of their fear, yet tell them to fear not.
In fear they will cover their eyes, and they will not see your Light. Yet this
Light is the Light of EhYeh, as with you Eh always is.
Cry not now, for the time is not yet come, but rejoice in your life, and await
the call of an angel that the Parent Beyond will send to you - then it is that you will
know of your impending departure.
Be in peace then, Mother of the All Kingdoms of Light. As you will be taken
care of, so do you take care of the world."

52. The Crystal Period: Yeshua Teaches His Disciples for Forty Days after His
Resurrection

"I am the true vine, and my Parent is the vinegrower.

EhYeh removes every branch in me that bears no fruit. Every branch that
bears fruit EhYeh prunes to make it bear more fruit.
You have already been cleansed by the word that I have spoken to you.
Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself
unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me.
Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from me
you can do nothing.
Whoever does not abide in me withers; such branches struggle away from the
light of the sun, yet how can they live without the Light?

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 If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept
my Parent's commandments and abide in the Love of True Light.
"This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends.
I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know
what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known
to you everything that I have heard from my Parent.
You did not choose me but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear
fruit, fruit that will last, so that when you are thirsty you will have to drink: ask for a
drop of my Parent, and you will be given a cup!
I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another.

"If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me before it hated you.
If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. Because
you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world - therefore
the world hates you.

“If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no trespass; but
now they have no excuse for their trespasses.
It was to fulfil the word that is written in their law, 'They hated me without a
cause.'

"Beware that no one leads you astray.

For many will come in my name, saying, 'I am the Meshyha!' and they will
lead many astray.
And you will hear of wars and rumours of wars; see that you are not alarmed;
for this must take place, but the end is not yet.
For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there
will be famines and earthquakes in various places:
all this is but the beginning of the birth pangs.
"Then they will hand you over to be tortured and will put you to death, and
you will be hated by all nations because of my name.
Then many will fall away, and they will betray one another and hate one
another.
And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray.
And because of the increase of lawlessness, the love of many will grow cold.
But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
And this good news of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the world,
as a testimony to all the nations; and then that which you consider the end will
come.
"So when you see the desolating sacrilege standing in the holy place, as was
spoken of by the prophet Daniel,
then those in Yauda must flee to the mountains;
the one on the housetop must not go down to take what is in the house;
the one in the field must not turn back to get a coat.
Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing infants in those
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 Pray that your flight may not be in winter or on a Sabbath.
For at that time there will be great suffering, such as has not been from the
beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be.
And if those days had not been cut short, no one would be saved; but to
those who listen those days will be cut short.
Then if anyone says to you, 'Look! Here is the Meshyha!' or 'There he is!' - do
not believe it.
For many a false meshyha and many false prophets will appear and produce
great signs and omens, to lead astray, if possible, even the one who listen.
Take note, I have told you beforehand.
So, if they say to you, 'Look! He is in the wilderness,' do not go out. If they
say, 'Look! He is in the inner rooms,' do not believe it.
For as the lightning comes from the east and flashes as far as the west, so
will be the coming of the Son of God.
And I say to you again: Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will gather.
"Immediately after the suffering of those days the sun will be darkened, and
the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of
heaven will be shaken. The light will falter and no man will see with his eyes, but
with the eyes of another, and all will live in darkness.
Then the sign of the Son of God will appear in the sky, and then all the tribes
of the earth will mourn, and they will see 'the Son of Man coming on the clouds of
heaven' with power and great glory.
And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and with a burning
light he will open the eyes of those who wish to see, and they will follow him and his
Light into the Kingdom Above.
"Truly I tell you, this generation will not pass away until all these things have
taken place.
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
"But about that day and hour no one knows, neither the angels of heaven,
nor the Son, but only the Parent.
For as the days of Noach were, so will be the coming of the Son of God.
For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying
and giving in marriage, until the day Noach entered the ark,
and they knew nothing until the flood came and swept them all away, so too
will be the coming of the Son of God.
For you know nothing, and have known nothing, and nothing will be revealed
to you until that time of the coming of the Son of God, and then great will be the joy
of those who do not fall asleep when heaven returns on earth and begins its
ascension.
Keep awake therefore, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.
But understand this: if the owner of the house had known in what part of the
night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his
house be broken into.
If the man in the sea had known that dry land was right before him, he would
have stayed awake until he reached it, and would not have let his exhaustion drown
him.
Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of God is coming at an
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 "In my Parent's house there are many dwelling places. If it were not so,
would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to
myself, so that where I am, there you may be also.
And you know the way to the place where I am going."
Tauma said to him, "Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we
know the way?"
Yeshua said to him, "I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life. No one
comes to the Parent except through me. "
Philipos said to him, "Lord, show us the Parent, and we will be satisfied."
Yeshua said to him, "Have I been with you all this time, Philipos, and you still
do not know me? Whoever has seen me has seen the Parent. How can you say,
'Show us the Parent'?
Do you not believe that I am in the Parent and the Parent is in me? The
words that I say to you I do not speak on my own; but the Parent Who dwells in me
does the works and speaks the truths.
Believe me that I am in the Parent and the Parent is in me; but if you do not,
then believe me because of the works themselves.
Very truly, I tell you, the one who believes in me will also do the works that I
do and, in fact, will do greater works than these, because I am going to the Parent.
I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Parent may be glorified in
the Son.
If in my name you ask me for anything, I will do it.
"In a matter of days, an entity of imperceptible light will be shown to you and
will be with you, come from the Parent.
This is the Spirit of Truth, Whom the world cannot receive, because it neither
sees Him nor knows Him. You know Him, because He abides with you, and He will
be in you.
"I will not leave you orphaned; I am coming to you.
On that day you will know that I am in my Parent, and you in me, and I in
you.
"I have said these things to you while I am still with you.
But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, Whom the Parent will send in my name, will
teach you everything, and remind you of all that I have said to you.
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the
world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not let them be afraid.
"Rise, let us be on our way." And they went to the garden of Gat-Shemanim.

And when they sat themselves on the grass around Yeshua e Meshyha, they
asked themselves of the Holy Spirit, for it seemed to them a great revelation.
Having perceived their thoughts and wonders, Yeshua said to them, "Truly I
tell you, not ten days will pass after you no longer see me, that you will see Another,
and be filled with Him and His power.
And I will send to you the Advocate, Who is the Holy Spirit, through you to
spread the Word of Ethereal Truth to the people of this generation.

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 Yet only you shall receive Him, for your spirits have been cleansed, and the
way for the Holy Spirit has been cleared so that He might enter your minds and
direct your thoughts onward to the Light.
Be prepared then, and welcome the Advocate into your hearts. Fear not His
power, for it is True Power. Fear not His act, for it is True Act.
He will come to testify on my behalf as a Knower of the Ethereal Truth, and
His mission shall begin on the fiftieth day after the day of my Resurrection.
Then will your tongues be fire, your minds wind, your spirits will be filled with
Living Water, and your bodies will be the Earth itself!
This is the Advocate Who shall come in these times, and you shall be His
instruments to accomplish the Holy Mission.

“Yet another Advocate I will send forward, one who is not the Holy Spirit, who
in two millennia will come into the world and testify on my behalf.
Not to you will the message be shown, for you yourselves have lived it, yet
for those unknowing people it is meant, who tread the path with closed eyes and
live only by guessing.
To those people of the new generation will the Advocate speak the Word of
Witnessed Truth, as an instrument of the Will of I-The-Three.

“May you be receptacles to the pollen of the Flower of Life - for its honey is
sweet, and in this nectar lie the answers to all the unmasked questions.
I will give to you the Nectar of Immortality, yet you still will not be ready to
receive it; for many a time you will taste it and expect to live on earth for eternity -
not on earth, I tell you, but outside of earth true life is!
For all that lies below the earth is the unlife, that which is not death and not
Light either - and above the earth is the life, and where you now dwell are able to
glimpse only a ray of it.

“For when in those times you ought to be masters, still will you need a
teacher to proclaim to you that which comes from the Oracle of God.
You drink milk, and not meat.
And milk ought to be the one given to the child so that he may grow, milk
without which completion is not fulfilled - yet after the child drinks milk, the child
grows; and when he grows, he eats meat.
I fed you with milk, and not with meat, for not yet were you able to bear it.
In fact, now you are still not able.
- This teaching I will proclaim to disciples to follow, as for many ages will
mankind search for the nectar on earth, when it from the heaven comes.
“Resume yourselves to drinking milk and eating honey, and prepare your
spirits, as the time will come for you to eat meat and drink nectar - and unless you
do so, you will starve."

Then he sat at the spring of the water that coursed in the garden of Gat-
Shemanim, and spoke to them.
"You have asked me of Good and Evil. Yet I tell you, there is no Evil!

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 There is only the potential to do good to do against the good. If you fulfil
your supreme potential, you will no longer care for the lower acts and emotions of
this world - for when you climb a ladder and arrive at the top, do you care for the
first stairs?

“Truly I tell you, There is only Light and Absence of Light.

There is only Word and Imagine.
There is only Truth and Falsity.
There is only Love and Fear.
There is only Known and Unknown.
There is only Life and the Illusion of Death.
There is only Revelation and Mystery.
Strive to have your Faith placed in Light, and Word, and Love, and Truth, and
Knowledge, and Life,
and all the Unknown Mysteries that are yet to be revealed to you,
for all these alone will set you Free,
and only then shall you begin your Ascension,
to ascend to that from where you descended."

And Yochanan asked him, "Lord, how then can we rebuke the darkness
covering our eyes, and see the Light of God?"
Yeshua said, "Truly I say to you, there is no darkness - for it is those who
departed from the Light that entered the Absence, and they live not in darkness, but
in Unlight - that which is the Reflection of Light, but not the Source of Light.
Therefore, look not into the water to see the reflection of the sun - instead
wait with your eyes closed, and the sun will appear to you in the darkness.
Who then can endure enough waiting in darkness for the Light to beam upon
them during the Unknown Time?"

Yochanan asked, "Yet, if we close our eyes, will we not be away from the
world? How can we spread the word with our eyes closed?"
Yeshua answered, "Close your eyes and you will see - close your eyes and
you will be brothers to each other, and great will be the closeness of the heart.
Open your eyes, and the world will corrupt your senses - conform to the
world, and you will lose yourself.
Instead, seek solace in your own minds, and then begin to know yourselves -
know yourselves, only then will you know the world."

Mattiyah said to him, "How then do we begin to know ourselves?"

Yeshua said, "Know yourselves by following the path I speak to you of: Climb
the first two levels and then you will be at the level of the body of the world.
Now, climb one level and you will see the mind and memory of the world.
Climb another level and you will see the message of the intermediaries.
Climb another level and you will see the mirror of truth and lies.
Do not stop at the meanings of that level, yet climb another level and you will
see the beginning of heaven.
Yet beware the fall, for in the two levels below this one you will see the
Absence, and greatly will you search for the Presence, and you will not find it."

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 Mattiyah said then, "And what shall we do after we know ourselves?"
Yeshua said, "It is after you know yourselves that you can know the world.
For your selves are in the selves of the world, and they are the Essence of
God, with which you are to connect and live in blissful togetherness.
As you are the Children of the Tree of the World, so is the Essence of the
Tree inside you. And from that Essence springs the Source of the Essence, which is
the seeds of within you - plant them, and make flowers and fruit out of them. Eat
from the fruit of your labour, and live eternally from its nourishment.
And after you know the world, seek that which came from the fruit of the tree
- those to whom you are brothers in knowledge and understanding.
For they have made tools through which light goes, not reflected yet directed
in truth - these tools are the ones that will give you enlightenment."

Tauma said, "And what tools are these? How will we know how to look for
them?"
Yeshua answered, "Not by looking, buy by seeking will they appear to you,
and in their perfection will you see images from around you, for you know not the
earth; and you will see images from below you, for you know not of hell; and you
will see images from above, for you know not the heavens; and as well will you see
images from beyond, for you know not Eh, Who is the Source of God and the All.
There, it will be shown to you from thirteen rays of crystal, and in them
dwells the absolute truth - for what is a crystal if not a passage, and in this tunnel
the walls are covered with darkness so dark that it will enlighten your mind, and the
light from beyond it so bright that it will liven up you heart."

Kepha said, "Lord, yet when will this truth be shown to us? For we know our
time is short, and our mission is longer still."
Yeshua said to them, "Do not concern yourselves with when. For the when is
unknown to you and greatly will you wait for an answer, and you will not receive it,
for your faith will have diminished.
Have faith in the Word of the Infinite, that indeed the truth will come to you
not when you ask for it, but when you seek it, in your hearts as well as in the heart
of the world.
You are not ready, and still you will not be ready then, and neither will be the
world when it shall receive that which from it came, as the world cannot recognize
itself, yet it only knows its lies.
Truly I tell you, concerns are the walls of your hearts, and through these
walls no truth shall pass.
And many forgeries will appear in those times, that not truth yet forgery
reflect, and they shall be the greed of the world, and the lie of eternal flesh. Those
men and women of the unknown time, in their search will they lose themselves, and
no one knows when they will find each other on the path to Above, for they Below
will reside in confusion and false knowledge."

And then he shared a great vision with them, for at once a sphere of crystal
became in his two hands, and in it they saw absorbed the light of the past, the
present and the future.

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 Yeshua spoke to them, "See the past, so that you may not be fooled by the
recounting of those who lead and win wars.
See the present, for it is how it is, and it is always present if you know how to
live - for the when of life is now, and each moment is now for your thoughts and
feeling and will. Neither the future, nor the past can decide your will of now.
Yet see the future, and it is revealed to you that which God knows: that
EhYeh prepares for you the crossroad, and you alone choose which way to go.
Here, you can walk the path of endless bliss and invisible truth. Your
persecutors shall disappear, your lives will be simple and your families happy.
And here, you can walk the path of endless persecution and all-visible truth.
You will be tortured in the name of it, and yet you will share it. Your families will not
be happy, but the families you have shared the truth with will bear children, and
these children will be happy.
Here, the multitude of paths before you, as these are the Hands of God.
Which one do you choose?"
And they made then a choice in their hearts, which was to tread that path in
which Yeshua e Meshyha and the Holy Spirit and the Parent in them, with them, and
by them were, guiding them to guide others, even with the risk of earthly torture -
for they knew that in heaven there shall be no torture, but the true eternal bliss.
Yeshua smiled at them and said, "So be it as you have spoken in your hearts.
The destiny now lies in your hands." And the vision dissipated, and they were
comforted by what it had revealed to them.

And Yeshua said to them, "Until you are prepared to seek the stone of truth,
seek the clarity of water; and pray before it and cleanse yourself with it, as it will
guide you to good health of the body, and the mind, and the spirit."

Nathanael son of Bar-Tolmi asked, "Lord, how do we pray to the water?"

Yeshua said, "Not to the water, but before the water you shall pray - and say
good and gentle things to the water, and pray to God for its great power to flow into
you and nourish your heart; may that from your heart flowers grow, so they might
enhance the Garden of the Parent, as it is with this garden in which I speak to you."

They asked him, "Lord, what garden is that, which belongs to the Parent?"
Yeshua said to them, "The Garden of the Parent is made of the flowers which
grew from the seeds the Parent had planted.
The seeds came out of the branches of the tree - some are naked seeds;
some are seeds of fruit; some are seeds of the leaves;
yet in the Garden they all are flowers, and they bloom as their thoughts
bloom, and their perfume is spread like their love is spread, and their nectar is
nourishing just as their deeds are nourishing for themselves and for the entire
Garden."
They asked, "How do we plant the seeds?"
Yeshua said to them, "You plant the seeds just as the Parent planted your
seed. You yourselves are parents to your petals, and your perfume, and your nectar.
For are you not my students and I your teacher? And are you not teachers to
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and one learns as well as teaches, in the case that his teachings hold the truth of his
lessons.

"And you may eat the Egg of Knowledge that came out of the Sacred Womb
of the Nothing, as This is the Source of All Truth: and the egg yolk is the bare truth;
and the egg white is the Word of truth. And the eggshell is the wall of the world that
prevents you from discovering the truth.
Break then the shell and take into yourselves that which already resides in
you, yet you still know it not.
For the Egg of Knowledge is your mother, and as much as her knowledge in
you is, so is she inside the truth that you discover.
"And just as much are you the Egg of Life, as also from the Sacred Womb
have you come, and into yourselves you retain all the truth, and light, and love that
from EhYeh come: and the eggshell is your body of Matter; and the egg white is the
form of your soul, which of the Essence is; and the egg yolk is the Source of your
spirit, as the Parent has given you a piece of Eh in order to bear you.
Find the strength within yourselves to break the eggshell from within, to
transform your souls and heighten your spirits, for do not birds and snakes also
break the confinement of their shell when they are born? And I have told you, be
wise as serpents and innocent as doves.
Be born then, into renewal and resurrection, just as the saints have been
resurrected, and I have resurrected myself.
I am the Truth, and the Light, and the Love - I am the yolk of the Egg of
Light, and my form is the white of the egg which drink for you is, and my body is the
shell of the egg which food for you is, yet you cannot see me for my true nature,
and truly I tell you, many years will pass before you know me when I come.
Here I am!"

The Sent and Maryam of Magdala said to him, "Lord, show us now who you
are, reveal yourself bare before us, so we may know you when you come!"
He said to them, "Truly I tell you, I have always shown myself to you. Yet
knowing me comes from knowing that which through me you will come to find.
I will therefore share with you what has not been shared with you before, as
the one with whom it was shared had the mind to bear it, yet not the heart.
You cannot bear it, yet share it further with those who also wish to know me:
"I am I-The-Three.
I am of the Source, of the Essence, and of the Matter.
I am Nothing and in Something am.
I am of the Parent Beyond, and I am the Word that the Parent Beyond
uttered to create the All.
I am the Son of God, and the Brother of the Children of God.
I am the Alpha and the Omega, and in me you will find the beginning, and
the end also in me will be, and your end will end in the beginning and the beginning
will begin from the end."

They marvelled at his words then, and he said to them in voice filled with
warmth, and love, and light, and guidance:
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 When the Spirit of Truth comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He
will not speak on His own, but will speak whatever He hears, and He will declare to
you the things that are to come.
All that the Parent has is mine. For this reason I said that the Parent will take
what is mine and declare it to you.

"A little while, and you will no longer see me, and again a little while, and you
will see me.
For did you not lose me and now you have found me again? The same way
soon you will no longer see me, yet you will not lose me. Forget not then that I will
be where you will be, even when your eyes deceive you.
Very truly, I tell you, you will weep and mourn, but the world will rejoice; you
will have pain, but your pain will turn into joy.
When a woman is in labour, she has pain, because her hour has come. But
when her child is born, she no longer remembers the anguish because of the joy of
having brought a human being into the world.
So you have pain now; but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice,
and no one will take your joy from you.
I have said this to you, so that in me you may have peace. In the world you
face persecution. But take courage; I have conquered the world!

"Where you will go, there will I be.

Where you will call, there will I come.
Where you will pray, there will I listen.
Where you will ask, there will I answer.
Where you will seek, there will I appear.
For the time and hour when I will be present with you will remain unknown,
as the wheel turns at its pace and it brings our fortune when we least expect it.

Some will look and yet not see me;

and some will see and yet not recognize me;
and some will recognize and yet rebuke me.
But to those that, upon seeing me, at once they will know me, I say this, for
this is the foundation for all faith:
"Behind you is the Truth
- Ahead of you is the Chance;
Beyond you is the Nothing
- Around you is the Something;
Above you is the Light
- Below you is the Lie
And inside you it is I."

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 53. The Ascension of Yeshua e Meshyha, Son of God, Brother of God's
Children

And Yeshua did then rise from amongst his Sent and his disciples, and those
that knew him saw that his face was shining and his body started to conjoin with the
light coming from the sun above.
And he said to them, "This is the time for which you have waited. This is the
time for my Ascension, just as your Ascension shall come following mine.
See that you lead your lives on earth as Children of Light, Children of the
Parent Beyond, and as Brothers and Sisters of mine.
For if your life so with love and light and truth is filled, so will your afterlife
be, and in that shall you dwell in eternity.
Sacrifice yourselves not in my name, but in the name of your brothers and
sisters, so that it no longer will be a sacrifice, but an act of love for one another.
Love, and you shall ascend.
Peace be upon you, in the name of the Parent Beyond and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen."
He then raised his hands in a gesture to bless them, and the light in the sky
perished at once, for it was in fact evening.
And he went up on a rock, and they all gathered around him to see.
In a strike of energy from above, the rock was hit, and a light went into
Yeshua and covered him in shades of blue and red, like crystals. And they were
made of light, and from that light a white light emerged, which was Yeshua e
Meshyha, and he went as a bolt into the sky and with him the light vanished, and
thus did Yeshua e Meshyha ascend into the Above, as body, soul and spirit, as
Matter and Essence and Source, to promise that each of those who follow his
teachings may as well ascend.

And the Sent and the disciples stood amazed at what they had witnessed.
And truly they did divide and go into the countries neighbouring and beyond,
in order to spread the Word of Yeshua e Meshyha, who from the Parent Beyond
came as the Son to share his infinite Love, Light and Truth with the people of the
earth.

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