1. When Jesus saw the multitudes, He went on a mountain. And when He had sat down, the twelve came to Him. He looked up at His disciples, saying:
2. “Blessed in the spirit are the poor, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. Blessed are those who grieve, for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they will possess the
earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
3. Blessed are the merciful, for they will attain mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will behold 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 of God.
4. Blessed are you, when men will hate you and exclude you
from their company and speak all sorts of evil against you and
outlaw your names, for the sake of the Son of Man. Rejoice in
that day and leap with joy, for behold, your reward is great in
heaven. For their forefathers did the same to the prophets. Chap. 25:1-4)

Christ explains, corrects and deepens the word:
The Sermon on the Mount is the Inner Path to the heart of God, which leads to
perfection.
The blessed will behold the Christ and, in all meekness and humility, will possess
the earth with Me, the Christ. May it go well for the one who beholds the glory of
the Father-Mother-God in everything. He has become the living example for
many.
I guide My own to the recognition of the truth.
The one who is of the truth hears My voice, because he is the truth and thus
hears and perceives the truth as well.
The blessed are fearless and joyful; for they perceive and hear what those do not
see and hear who still hide behind their human ego, holding on to it with utmost
effort in order not to be recognized.
However, the blessed look into the prison of the human ego and recognize the
most hidden thoughts of their fellow men. With the power of their light-filled
consciousness, they radiate into it and call out to their fellow men:
“Blessed in the spirit are the poor, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.”
The words “the poor” do not mean material poverty. It is not this which brings
bliss in the spirit, but the devotion to God, out of which the person fulfils what is
the will of God. This is inner wealth.
The words “the poor” mean all those who do not strive for personal possessions
and do not hoard goods. Their thinking and striving aim at the community life in
which they manage the goods that God has given to everyone in a lawful way.
They do not aspire to worldly things. They serve the common good and extend
their arms to God and consciously walk the path to the Inner Life. Their goal is
the Kingdom of God in their inner being, which they want to proclaim and bring
to all people who are of good will. Their inner wealth is the life in God, for God
and for their neighbour. They live the commandment “pray and work”.
They strive towards the Spirit of God and receive from God what they need for
their earthly life and even more. These are the blessed in the Spirit of God.
“Blessed are those who grieve, for they shall be comforted.”
The grief of man does not come from God, but it is either the grieving one who
himself has caused it – or his soul has taken over a part of the debt of a brotheror
sister-soul in the realm of the souls, in order to pay off that debt in an earthly
existence, so that the brother-or sister-soul can enter higher spheres of Inner
Life.
God’s mercy will be granted to the one who bears his grief without accusing his
neighbour and recognizes his faults and weaknesses in the grief, repents of
them, asks for forgiveness and forgives. For God, the Eternal, wants to comfort
His children and to take away from them what is not good or beneficial for their
soul. For when the grief leaves the soul, that is, when the causes which became
effective in the soul are settled, man comes closer to God.
“Bear your grief’ means: Do not complain about it; do not accuse God or your
neighbour. In your grief, find your sinful behaviour which led to this grief.
Repent, forgive and ask for forgiveness, and no longer do what you have
recognized as sin. Then the debt in the soul can be erased by God and you will
receive increased strength, love and wisdom from Him.
If you meet a grieving and sorely afflicted person and he asks you for help, then
support him and help him as far as it is possible for you and as far as it is good
for his soul. And when you see that your neighbour thankfully accepts the help
and builds himself up with it, then give him even more, if it is possible for you.
However, you who give help, do it selflessly. If you do it only as an outer
obligation, you will receive no spiritual reward — and you will render no service
to the soul of the person who is suffering and is sorely afflicted, but only to his
body, to the vehicle of the soul.
“Blessed are the meek, for they will possess the earth.”
Meekness, humility, love and kindness go hand in hand. The one who has
become selfless love is also meek, humble and kind. He is filled with wisdom and
strength.
People in My Spirit, the selflessly loving ones, will possess the earth. Oh see, the
path to the heart of God is the path into the heart of selfless love. The peace of
God flows out of selfless love.
The people who walk towards the heart of God and the people who already live in
God work for the New Era, by teaching all willing people the path to God. In this
way, they take possession of the earth in My Spirit more and more.
“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be
satisfied.”
The one who hungers and thirsts for the righteousness of God is a seeker of
truth, who longs for the life in and with God. He shall be satisfied.
My brother, My sister, you, who long for righteousness, for the life in and with
God, be of good courage and raise yourself out of the sinful human ego. Rejoice,
for the time has come in which the Kingdom of God comes closer to those people
who endeavour to keep the commandments of life.
Behold, I, your Redeemer, Am the truth within you. I Am thus the path, the truth
and the life in you.
The truth is the law of love and life. In the Ten Commandments, which are
excerpts from the all-encompassing law of God, you find the guiding principles
for the path to the truth. Observe the Ten Commandments and you will draw
more and more onto the path of the Sermon on the Mount, in which the path to
the truth is fundamentally explained.
The path to the truth is the path to the heart of God, to the eternal life, which is
selfless love. The Sermon on the Mount is the path into the Kingdom of God, into
the laws for the Kingdom of Peace of Jesus Christ. When you go deeper into them
and fulfil them, you will attain divine wisdom.
Recognize: No one should hunger or thirst for righteousness. Take the first step
towards the kingdom of love by first being righteous to yourself. Practise a
positive way of living and thinking and you will very gradually become a
righteous person. Then you will bring the righteousness of God into this world;
and you will also represent this because you fulfil the will of God, the Lord, out of
His love and wisdom.
Recognize: The time is near when what was prophesied takes place. The lion will
lie beside the lamb, because the people have gained victory over themselves —
through Me, their Redeemer. They will form a great family in God and will live in
unity with all animals and with all of nature.
Be glad, for the Kingdom of God has come close — and, with the Kingdom of
God, I, too, your Redeemer and bringer of peace, the ruler of the Kingdom of
Peace, of the World Kingdom of Jesus Christ.
“Blessed are the merciful, for they will attain mercy.”
The mercy of God corresponds to the gentleness and goodness of God and is, for
all souls, the gate to the perfection of life. The people who have unfolded in their
souls all seven basic powers of life — the law, from order to mercy – through Me,
the Christ, who live in the Father-Mother-God, will enter again, as spirit beings,
through the gate of mercy into the selfless love, into the Kingdom of God, into
the heavens, and will live in peace. The seventh basic power, the mercy —called,
in the Spirit of God, goodness and gentleness —is the gate to the eternal Being.
All people who practise being merciful will also attain mercy and will stand by
those who are on the path to mercy.
Recognize: The path to the heart of God is the path of the individual in
community with those of like mind. For God is unity, and unity in God is
community in and with God and with one’s neighbour.
The one who has taken the first steps on the path to perfection will fulfil the
commandment of unity: One for all, Christ — and all for One, Christ.
The Sermon on the Mount is, as revealed, the path of evolution toward the Inner
Life. All those who are further ahead on this path of unfoldment towards the
heart of God help, in turn, those who are at the beginning of the path. In and
over all, shines the Christ, who I Am.
“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will behold God.”
The pure heart is the pure soul which has risen once again to be an absolute
spirit being through Me, the Christ in the Father-Mother-God.
The pure souls, which have become beings of the heavens again are then the
image of the eternal Father once more and behold the Eternal face to face again.
They see, live and hear at the same time the law of the eternal Father, because
they have again become spirit of His Spirit — the eternal law itself.
As long as people and souls still have to listen for the Spirit of God in themselves,
they are not yet spirit of His Spirit, not yet the law of love and of life itself.
However, the one who has again become the law of love and life beholds the
eternal Father face to face and is in constant conscious communication with Him.
He also perceives the law of God, the life from God, as a whole, because he
himself is the life and love and moves in them. The one who moves in the
Absolute Law of God has also opened it up completely – from order all the way to
mercy. All the seven basic powers of infinity serve him, because he is in absolute
unity and harmony with all Being.
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.”
The meaning of these words is that those who keep the peace are blessed. They
will also bring true peace to this earth, because they have become peaceful
within themselves. They are consciously the children of God.
“Blessed are those who suffer persecution for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is
the Kingdom of God.”
Recognize: The one who followed Me was not respected by the worldlings,
because I, too, as Jesus, was held in disdain by them. At all times, people who
stepped into the true following of the Nazarene had to endure and suffer a great
deal.

The Calls of Woe
5. Woe unto you who are rich ! For you have received your
consolation in this life. Woe unto you who are sated, for you
will hunger. Woe unto you who laugh now, for you will mourn
and weep. Woe unto you when all men speak well of you, for
so did their forefathers with the false prophets. (Chap. 25:5)

Christ explains, corrects and deepens the word:
“Woe unto you who are rich, for you have received your consolation in this life.”
People who look upon their wealth as their property are poor in spirit. Many who
are rich in earthly goods were given in the cradle the spiritual task for their
earthly life, to be an example to those rich people who tie themselves to their
wealth with hardened, relentless hearts and whose sole thinking and striving
consist in increasing this wealth for themselves. A person who is rich in earthly
goods and has recognized that his wealth is a gift – which he has received from
God only to bring it into the great whole for the well-being of everyone and to
administer it in the right way for all is the one who actualizes the law of equality,
freedom, unity and brotherhood. He contributes as a selfless giver so that the
poor do not live in privation and the rich in luxury.
In this way, a balance will gradually be established, an upper middle class for all
those who are willing to selflessly fulfil the law “pray and work”. Thus, very
gradually the true humanity of a community arises, whose members do not
collect personal earthly riches, but rather consider everything to be common
property given to them by God.
If a rich person considers money and property as his own and is esteemed in the
world because of his wealth, then — as the effect of his causes — he will live in
poor countries in the next earthly lives and there he will beg for the bread that
he, as a rich man, once denied the poor. This can happen as long as such incarnations
are still possible.
The soul of such a rich person will also find no rest in the spheres of purification.
The souls that are poor in light who had to endure suffering and hunger in the
earthly garment because of him will recognize him once more as the one who
denied them what could have helped them out of the entanglement of the human
ego. Many will accuse him and then his soul itself will feel how they suffered and
hungered. In this way, a soul which was rich and esteemed as a human being in
the earthly garment may suffer great need; this need is much greater than if it
had had to beg for bread in the earthly garment.
Recognize: According to the laws of the Eternal, everyone who selflessly keeps
the commandment “pray and work” is due the same; for God gives everyone
what he needs and beyond that. However, as long as this commandment is not
yet observed by all people, there will be the socalled rich on earth. It is their task
to divide their accumulated wealth and to live just as those who selflessly fulfil
the commandment “pray and work”. If they think of the welfare of all and not of
their own, the inner wealth will gradually turn without and no person will hunger
or live in want.
Woe to you, you rich ones, you who call your money and property your own and
make your neighbour work so that your wealth may increase! I say to you: You
will not behold the throne of God, but continue to live where the feet of God are
— on earth, again and again in earthly garments, as long as this is still possible.
Even if you sponsor social service establishments, but you yourselves are so
much wealthier than those who are supported thereby, then you are nevertheless
servile to the satan of the senses, who wants the differences between rich and
poor.
Out of these differences, power and subservience, envy and hatred emerge.
These give rise to fighting and wars. Those who cling to their wealth, even
though they now and then think of the social good, thus serve the Satan of the
senses and act against the law of life: against equality, freedom, unity and
brotherliness.
The one who considers money and property as his own and hoards them for
himself, instead of letting these material energies flow, is a thief according to the
law of life, for he denies his neighbours a part of their spiritual heritage. For
everything is energy. The one who ties it up through “me” and “mine” acts
against the law, which is flowing energy.
“Woe unto you who are sated, for you will hunger.”
The wealthy, sated man who fills only “his” barns is empty at heart. He knows
only the mine and thine. His senses and thoughts revolve around “my” property,
“my” possessions, “my” bread, “my” food. “All this belongs to me” — this is his
world. Such a person will one day hunger and live in want until he realizes that
everything is the Being; everything belongs to God and to all people who strive
to do the works of God: to love selflessly and to fulfil the law of life for the earth,
“pray and work”.
People who speak only of mine and thine are people poor in light who already in
this incarnation prepare a further journey on earth or a long pilgrimage for their
soul in the realm of the souls and, in both cases, in the garment of a beggar.
The soul that is blinded by material things unconsciously craves for light, because
it is lacking in light. It compulsively tries to compensate for this with outer
things, such as earthly wealth, greed, gluttony, alcoholism or other cravings and
pleasures. It is insatiable.
“Woe unto you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.”
The one who laughs and mocks his neighbour will one day be very sad and will
cry over himself – be— cause he failed to acknowledge those whom he made fun
of and mocked. He will have to recognize that, in the end, he has laughed at,
scorned and ridiculed himself. For the one who judges and condemns his neighbour,
who laughs at him, scorns and ridicules him, judges, condemns, laughs at,
scorns and ridicules Me, the Christ.
Recognize that the one who sins against the least of My brothers sins against the
law of life and will have to suffer under this. At the same time, he has bound
himself to the one he held in disdain. Therefore, be on your guard and practise
self-control. It is not what enters through your mouth that soils your soul, rather
it is what goes out from your mouth that burdens the soul and person.
“Woe unto you when all men speak well of you, for so did their forefathers with
the false prophets.”
If you flatter your fellow man, so that he praises you and holds you in esteem,
then you are like the counterfeiters who, for the sake of their own advantage,
pay with false money.
It was and is similar with the false prophets, too. They were and are esteemed by
the people because they flattered the people and because those of high standing
among the people were in league with them, thereby expecting personal profit
and gain.
Recognize, you people in the Kingdom of Peace, that in the sinful world many
righteous prophets and enlightened men and women, as well, were slandered
and persecuted by the rich and the powerful of this world, by church leaders and
their adherents, and many of them were tortured and killed. At all times, the satanic
used as tools those who wanted to keep and increase their worldly wealth
for themselves, those who strove for power and also those who were servile to
the rich and powerful.
You should know this, so that you can understand why the old sinful world
perished in such a gruesome way.
In addition, false prophets were also those who did indeed preach the gospel of
love, but they themselves did not live accordingly. And there were also all those
who called themselves “Christians” and behaved in an unchristian way in their
life. They were often famous because of their eloquence and were honoured and
praised because of their wealth and prestige.
Oh see, nevertheless and in the course of time, all true prophets and enlightened
ones contributed to the fact that the crystal of Inner Life, with its many facets of
eternal truth, sparkled and shone more and more. In this way, the Kingdom of
God on earth was very gradually built up.
It is up to you, dear brothers and sisters in the Kingdom of Peace, to cherish,
guard and preserve this now perfect, sparkling and shining crystal, the Inner Life,
like a precious flower. It is the law of love and wisdom of God, His order, His will,
His wisdom, His earnestness, His goodness, His infinite love radiation, and His
gentleness.

You Are the Salt of the Earth
6. You are the salt of the earth, for every sacrifice must be
salted with salt, but if the salt has lost its taste, with what
shall one salt ? Henceforth, it is good for nothing, but to be
poured out and trodden underfoot. (Chap. 25:6)

Christ explains, corrects and deepens the word:
The righteous are the salt of the earth.
They will repeatedly point out the deplorable state of affairs of this world and will
touch the sore point of sin. For much damage has been and is taking place in this
still sinful world – and many people became victims for the sake of the gospel.
The righteous who were victims shall be rehabilitated by righteous men and
women, for everything shall become manifest through the salt of the earth. Now,
in this time of radical change from the old sinful world to the New Era, the Era of
Light, the righteous will bring injustice to light and will cause it to become
manifest, so that those who have done wrong may recognize themselves and
atone for it.
However, you righteous ones, who are the salt of the earth, beware that the salt
does not lose its taste, that you therefore remain in righteousness and do not let
yourselves be led astray. For who shall bring righteousness into this world, and
who shall point out the deplorable state of affairs and sins which people have
created? Surely, only those who know My name and are recorded in the book of
the lamb.
The one who is no longer the salt of the earth falls among those who have taken
and are taking My name in vain for their own purposes and have persecuted,
slandered and killed the righteous.
When the salt of the earth loses its taste and man disregards his neighbour, he
will succumb to his own causes; figuratively speaking, he will trample himself
underfoot. His unexpiated causes will then bring about illness, infirmity and grief.
The soul that is poor in light will live in want and will feel on its own soul body
what it has caused to its neighbour.

You Are the Light of the World
7. You are the light of the world. The city that is built on a hill
cannot be concealed. Neither does one light a candle and put
it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it gives light to all
who are in the house. Let your light so shine before the
people, that they may see your good works and praise your
Father who is in heaven. (Chap. 25:7)

Christ explains, corrects and deepens the word:
I Am the light of the world.
In the mighty turn of time, more and more hearts were kindled by My light. The
people recognized the eternal truth in My words. More and more people walked
the Inner Path and accepted the gift of life, the teachings and lessons from the
eternal truth, in order to come nearer to God, the eternal Being.
Many men and women became My faithful ones, because they fulfilled the will of
God. They became brothers and sisters in My Spirit and became the pioneers for
the New Era, who laid the foundation of the Kingdom of God on earth and began
to build upon it.

Follow Me
8. You should not think that I Am come to destroy the law or
the prophets; I Am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For
verily, I say to you: Till heaven and earth pass away, not the
smallest letter nor one dot will pass away from the law or the
prophets until all that is fulfilled. But behold, One greater than
Moses is here, and He will give you the higher law, even the
perfect law, and you shall obey this law. (Chap. 25:8)

Christ explains, corrects and deepens the word:
As Jesus of Nazareth, I taught parts from the perfect law, from the Absolute Law,
to the men and women who followed Me and to all those who listened to Me. I
also explained to them that the Absolute Law of love radiates into the law of
sowing and reaping; for the Spirit is omnipresent and is also active in the law of
sowing and reaping, the law of the fall.
Through Me, as Jesus of Nazareth, the incarnated Christ, and through all the true
prophets of God that followed, the Eternal taught and admonished His children in
the imperfect spheres that the law of the fall, the law of sowing and reaping, is
constantly active. The one who does not stop and think it over and does not turn
back in time will have to bear his causes as effects. The Eternal was and is
making every effort, even today [1989], to lead His human children and all souls
to His heart, to the law of eternal love, before the harvest — the effects of the
causes created by them —falls upon them. The Eternal led and leads them to
self-recognition through Me, Christ. He gave and gives them the strength to clear
up what they recognized and recognize as sin and fault.
In Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ, who I Am, came to this earth, into this world, to
teach, as the Son of Man, the eternal law to people and to live it as an example,
so that they would recognize the path to the eternal Father and fulfil His law —
and so that they may enter again into the eternal homes that He keeps ready for
all His children.
The people who followed My example during My lifetime on earth and who
actualized the eternal laws, were My true followers.
In the generations that followed, there existed a Christianity and a seeming
Christianity: the true followers who freely followed Me, the Christ, by keeping the
laws of the Sermon on the Mount – and the seeming Christians who just talked
about Me, the Christ, but acted against the laws. In addition, there was the socalled
coerced following of Christ: This resulted from the forced Christianization
of the masses carried out by the churches.
Recognize: There is no coercion in the eternal law. God, the Eternal, has given all
His children free will. The one who freely decides has, through his free decision,
the strength for what characterizes true Christianity: equality, freedom, unity,
brotherliness and justice. All coercion originates from the law of sowing and
reaping, also called the law of the fall. It is given to man to freely choose his
spiritual path. I, Christ, offered and offer the path to the heart of God, but I pres
sure no man to walk it. The one who pressures his neighbour lives himself under
the pressure of the law of the fall and personifies the fall thought.
Several so-called Christian denominations force their faithful into baptism with
water. Even the little children whose free will is not yet developed and who
therefore cannot yet decide for themselves are forced, through baptism by water,
into the membership of a church and thereby induced to participate in its other
rituals.
This is an intrusion into the individual’s free will and, so to speak, a forced
Christianization. These are the things which take their course within the law of
the fall.
People who do not freely accept and receive Me, Christ, in themselves out of the
deepest inner conviction, often have great difficulties in correctly understanding
and accepting the Ten Commandments, the excerpts from the eternal law. This is
because these have been pushed into the background through many
externalizations, dogmatic ceremonies, rites, customs and cults. Within the
denominations, these externalizations became the most important point; yet,
they have nothing in common with inner Christianity, the Inner Religion, but
originated, in part, directly from the times of polytheism and idolatry, and
thereby from the region of the fall planes.
Only when people freely break away from the dogmas and rigid ceremonies that
have been forced upon them, from rites and cults, as well as from their own
conceptions of God, can they gradually be guided into their inner being, into their
true being. There, in their inner being, they then discover themselves as true beings
in God and as inhabitants of the Kingdom of God, which is within every
person. This Inner Life is the true religion, the Inner Religion.
Recognize: The eternal, all-embracing, universal law, the law of the heavens, is
irrevocable. It is the law of all pure Being. The law of sowing and reaping came
into being through the fall and can be dissolved only through the actualization of
the eternal laws. However, it cannot be evaded. The law of sowing and reaping
remains active in each soul, until the sins are recognized, cleared up, atoned for
and given over to Me, the Christ of God. Then the fall law is no longer in the soul.
The soul is then freed from its impurity for the most part. It becomes again the
pure being in God, that lives the Absolute Law, as it strives again towards the
absolute, all-ruling law of love and of life.
The law of sowing and reaping is valid until all that is unlawful is cleared off and
transformed into positive energy and every being lives again in God, out of whom
it came forth. To the same degree in which all beings from God have once more
been received into the heart of God, into the Absolute Law, so will all purification
planes — all part-material and material planes, including the earth — transform
into cosmic energy and again vibrate in the Absolute Law. The fall law is then
repealed, and the love of God is conscious and all-reigning in all Being, in every
being.
Not one “dot” will be removed from the eternal law which the true prophets
brought before and after Me, and which I, as Jesus of Nazareth, lived as an
example.
When it says “not the smallest letter”, then it means a single aspect of the
eternal truth, not the letter and the word of human beings as such. Human words
are often only symbols that hide what is deep within. Only when the person is
able to feel into the language of symbols does he recognize the truth and the
meaning of life, which lies deeply hidden in the human words.
“The higher law” is the step into the perfect law. This will be taught to the mostly
pure beings, which have come from earth and the soul realms, in the preparation
planes, which are situated before the gate of heaven. The higher law is the last
level of instruction before the gate of heaven. It shows the mostly pure beings
how the lawful radiation is reactivated in the spirit body, so that it can be applied
in infinity.
As Jesus of Nazareth, I taught parts of the perfect law, the Absolute Law. The
whole truth still had to remain concealed from the people in those days, because
they were still too dependent on their belief in gods and were oriented towards
the various trends of belief of that time. For that reason, I spoke in the following
sense: When the time has come, I, the Spirit of truth, will lead you into all truth.
On the hill of Golgotha – this means, the place of the skulls — I was crucified by
the Romans, because the Jewish people had not accepted and received Me as the
Messiah. Although I preached, taught, healed and gave many signs of My deity,
up and down the valley of the Jordan, the stubborn Jewish people remained
servile to the ministers of the temple, thus becoming accomplices in the death of
Jesus of Nazareth.
With words in the sense of “It is finished”, the spark of redemption entered all
burdened and fallen souls. Thus, I became and I Am the Redeemer of all men
and souls.
As the Christ of God, I acted and continue to act. In all generations up to the
present time [1989], I gave and give My revelations through true instruments of
God, through people whose souls are for the most part purified.
In this mighty turn of time, in which the Era of Light comes closer and closer to
man, I teach the eternal law in all its facets, and more and more people walk the
path within, to the love of God.
Now the time which I announced as Jesus of Nazareth has come: “Today you are
not yet able to bear it, that is, to grasp it; yet when the Spirit of truth comes, He
will guide you into all truth.” Now, in spirit, I Am among My own, the faithful
pilgrims to the eternal Being, to the consciousness of My Father; and I teach
them the absolute, eternal law, so that also those who will live in the Kingdom of
Peace may fulfil it and thereby live in Me and I through them.
My words are life, the eternal law. They will be preserved in the pilgrims to the
eternal life and in many written records as well — as it is with this book — for the
Kingdom of Peace of Jesus Christ.
Recognize: Only the eternal law of love makes people free — not the law of
sowing and reaping. This brings them only suffering, illness, misery and infirmity.

Live According to Your Recognition
10. Verily, those who believe and obey will save their souls,
and those who do not obey will lose them. For I say to you: If
your righteousness is not greater than that of the scribes and
pharisees, you will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven. (Chap.
25:10)

Christ explains, corrects and deepens the word:
The statement, “… those who believe and obey will save their souls, and those
who do not obey will lose them” means that the one who believes and follows the
laws of God will deliver his soul from the wheel of reincarnation, which will
continue to draw him into the flesh until he has atoned for all that repeatedly
drew him into incarnation.
Recognize: The mere belief in the law of life is not enough. Only the belief in the
life and the actualization of the laws of life lead man and soul out of the wheel of
reincarnation.
The one who does not keep the laws of God betrays God and sells his soul to the
darkness. Thereby, he covers the light of his soul, his true life. This person then
lives in sin and his soul lives in the slumber of this world. The law of incarnation,
the wheel of reincarnation which draws the soul into incarnation, will still be in
effect for some time, so that the incarnated soul may recognize that it is not of
this world, but is in the earthly garment in order to discard what is human —and
to uncover what is divine: its true eternal life.
Not all who know the written characters interpret them according to the letter
only — but according to the meaning. For this reason, it should mean: If your
righteousness is not greater than that of the many scribes —who pretend to be
righteous and teach My law, but do not keep it themselves – you will not enter
the Kingdom of Heaven.
Therefore, do not tie yourselves to the opinions and views of people. Actualize
what you have recognized from the law of life; then you will recognize the further
steps to the higher spiritual principles.
Recognize: The justice of God is the love and wisdom of God. The one who does
not bring them to unfoldment in himself does not radiate them; he neither
perceives the depth of eternal Being nor fathoms his true life. His earthly life is in
a state of vegetation. He vegetates past the true life. He is spiritually dead in this
life as well as in the beyond. Neither in this earthly existence nor in the life
beyond does he have the right orientation, because he did not live according to
the laws of life. He is not wise, but only passes on his stored knowledge. Thus, he
becomes an adherent of sin and finally, a sinner. He acts against the eternal law
and in this way falls deeper and deeper into the law of sowing and reaping.

Reconcile with Your Neighbour
11. Therefore, when you offer your gift on the altar and
remember that your brother has something against you, leave
your gift before the altar, go there first and reconcile with
your brother, and then come and offer your gift. (Chap 25:11)

Christ explains, corrects and deepens the word:
When you devote your life to Me, the Christ, and want to give your faults and
sins over to Me and you recognize that you have not yet reconciled with your
neighbour, then leave your sin lying before the inner altar for the moment. Go to
your neighbour and reconcile with him – and, if you no longer want to do the
same or similar thing which led to the sin, then lay your sin upon the altar. The
altar is in the innermost part of your temple of flesh and bone. The Spirit of love
and life will then transform the sin into strength and life. You will attain liberation
from that which you freely, willingly and without pressure give over to Me and
thus no longer do the same or similar thing. Your soul will then increasingly
receive the light from Me.
Take heed of the following spiritual principle:
When you have sinned against your neighbour exclusively in thoughts, through
unloving, envious, revengeful, jealous or hate-filled thoughts, then do not go to
him in order to talk to him about it. Know that your neighbour does not know
your world of thoughts. If you let it become manifest in words, he will think
about it. Come solely to Me, the Christ, who I Am in your inner being, and repent
of your thoughts and send at the same time positive, selfless thoughts to the soul
of your neighbour, thoughts of asking for forgiveness and thoughts of inner unity.
Then I will undo what was caused in thoughts. And if you no longer think the
same or similar thing, then it is already forgiven you.
Recognize: When you speak to your neighbour of your human thoughts, you
might possibly stir up in him some human aspect that is just in the process of
transformation. It could then break out once more in your neighbour. He then
begins to think and speak negatively again and burdens himself anew.
The law says that through your wrong behaviour not only the one who is
stimulated to reflect again burdens himself, but you, too, burden yourself when
you express your thoughts and, through this, activate in your neighbour the
humanness that was in the process of transformation.
However, if unlawful things leave your mouth in that you accuse and insult your
neighbour and speak ill of him – even if he hears it from a second or third party
-then go to him and ask him for forgiveness. If he has forgiven you, so has the
eternal heavenly Father in Me, the Christ, also forgiven you. But if he has not
forgiven you, then your heavenly Father in Me, the Christ, will not be able to
forgive you either. However, the love of the Father-Mother-God will touch the still
rigid heart more and more, so that the person can think things over sooner and
forgive you, so that God in Me, the Christ, can also forgive you; then all that was
once unlawful is annulled and transformed.
Beware of your own tongue! For the unlawful things which leave your mouth can
do much greater harm to your neighbour and to yourself than your thoughts
which you have recognized and given over to Me, the Christ in you, in time -
before they have taken effect.
Recognize a further spiritual principle: You cannot see nor hear thoughts – and
yet they are there. They vibrate in the atmosphere and can influence the one
who thinks the same or like things. If you give them over to Me in time, they are
cancelled – unless the soul of your neighbour has already registered them in
itself. Then you will be guided in such a way that you will be able to do good to
that person of whom you thought negatively. And if you do good selflessly,
without expressing your earlier thoughts, then what you unlawfully thought about
your neighbour and which he already absorbed into his soul will be erased in his
soul. And what your soul radiated out is erased in you, as well.

Forgive – and Ask for Forgiveness
12. Reach agreement with your adversary quickly, while you
are still on your way with him, lest one day your adversary
hand you over to the judge, and the judge hand you over to
the guard, and you will not come out until you have paid the
last penny. (Chap. 25:12)

Christ explains, corrects and deepens the word:
“Reach agreement with your adversary quickly, while you are still on your way
with him” means: Do not let the sin that you have committed against your
neighbour linger. Clear it up as quickly as possible, for he is still with you on your
path through life in the earthly existence. If his soul has left the earth, you may
have to wait until you can meet him again and can ask him for forgiveness.
Recognize: The judge is the law of sowing and reaping. If it becomes effective,
the person will not come out from under it until he has paid the “last penny” —
that is, until all that he has caused and not repented of in time is atoned for.
For this reason, use the chance to ask your neighbour for forgiveness and to
forgive him as long as you are still on your path over the earth with him and the
sin has not yet engraved itself into the soul and become a cause. The one who
does not forgive nor asks for forgiveness has to bear the effect until he has “paid
the last penny”.
Therefore, become one with your neighbour as quickly as possible. If the causes
— for example, quarrel, resentment or envy – have already taken root in your
soul, and if the same has also taken place in your neighbour whom you are
against, then it is possible that your neighbour will not forgive you so quickly -not
even when you have recognized your sin and repented. For the guilt complex
may have hardened in his soul through the same or a similar way of thinking that
you triggered in him. Due to the sinful behaviour, which you nurtured over a long
period of time, he also nursed a grudge against you in his soul — and, like you,
too, has thus created an extensive negative energy field, a guilt complex that
now has to be worked on by both of you. The reconciliation can still happen in
this earthly existence or later in the realms of the souls or in further incarnations.
Recognize: Before a blow of fate strikes a person, he is admonished by the Spirit
of life, which is also the life of the soul, and also by his guardian spirit or by
people. The admonishments from the Spirit are the finest sensations which flow
out of the soul or which the guardian spirit lets flow into the person’s world of
sensations or thoughts. They admonish the person to change his way of thinking
or to clear up what he has caused. The eternal Spirit of life and the guardian
spirit may also stimulate people to go to the one who is on the verge of being
struck by a blow of fate. They will then approach the person concerned and will
enter into a conversation which will spontaneously relate to the matter in
question. From this conversation, the cause of the looming fate may be
recognized and cleared up.
Thus, you recognize that the eternal light gives admonishments and indications in
manifold ways – both to your neighbours with whom you have created causes, as
well as to you, yourselves.
Through impulses by way of the day’s events, too, the person is admonished in
time, before what was caused by him breaks in over him as fate.
The one who takes such hints seriously and clears up the sin which he has
recognized by repenting, forgiving, asking for forgiveness and making amends,
need not bear what was caused by him. If the sin is great, then it is possible that
he has to bear a part of it, but not the whole of it which wanted to break out of
the soul. However, the one who overlooks and fails to heed all the
admonishments, because he numbs himself with human things, will have to bear
his self-created causes until “the last penny is paid”.

Love Your Enemies
13. You have heard that it has been said: You shall love your
neighbour and hate your enemy. But I say to you who listen:
Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you. (Chap.
25:13)

Christ explains, corrects and deepens the word:
The commandment of life reads, “Love your enemies, do good to those who hate
you.”
Every person should see his neighbour, his brother and his sister, in each one of
his fellow men. You should recognize your neighbour, even in your seeming
enemy, and strive to love him selflessly.
When you become upset because of the hostility which may have many faces -
the seeming enemy may even be a good mirror for your self-recognition; for
when something in your neighbour upsets you, the same or something similar
exists in you, yourselves.
However, if you can forgive your neighbour who has blamed and accused you
without being unduly agitated, no correspondence is in you; that is, you do not
have the same or similar thing in you and thus, no resonance in your soul. It is
possible that, in a former life, you already cleared up and atoned for what you
were accused of — or even that you never built it up in your soul. Then, it was
only in the soul of the one who thought and spoke against you and accused you.
Therefore, if no emotion reverberates in you, if no echo comes from your soul,
then you were a mirror for him. Whether he looks into this mirror for his human
ego or not – leave that to God and to him, His child.
Recognize: Even the mere sight of you stirs his conscience, which reflects to him
that, for example, he once thought and spoke negatively about you. Now he has
the chance to clear it up. If he does that, by repenting and henceforth no longer
thinking or doing the same or similar thing, then it is removed, that is, transformed,
in his soul. Only then will he see you with the eyes of the Inner Light.
A sign that the negative has been transformed into the positive in one’s soul is
benevolence and understanding towards one’s neighbour.

Bless Those Who Curse You
14. Bless those who curse you and pray for those who abuse
you out of wickedness, so that you may be children of your
Father who is in heaven and who lets the sun rise on the evil
and the good and sends rain on the just and the unjust. (Chap.
25:14)

Christ explains, corrects and deepens the word:
The one who keeps these commandments is just towards his fellow man and,
through his life in God, will guide many people to the life in God. God does not
punish and chastise His children. This is already said by the words, ‘… who lets
the sun rise on the evil and the good and sends rain on the just and the unjust.”
God is the giver of life, because He Himself is the life. From the eternal law of
life, God gave human beings the free will to decide freely for or against Him.
The one who is for Him keeps the eternal laws of love and of life and will also
receive the gifts of love and of life from the eternal law. The one who feels,
thinks and acts against the eternal law receives what he has sown, that is, what
he felt, thought, spoke and did.
Therefore, everyone receives what he himself has sown. The one who sows good
seed, that is, fulfils the laws of God, will also reap good fruits. The one who sows
human seeds, which he brings into the acre of his soul as human sensations,
thoughts, words and deeds, will also harvest the corresponding fruits.
From this, you recognize that God does not interfere in the will of man. He is the
giver, helper, admonisher, leader and protector of those who endeavour to do His
will, because they turn to Him. The one who turns away from Him, by creating
his own human law, will also be controlled by his own human “ego-law”.
Thus, God does not interfere in the law of sowing and reaping. In manifold ways,
God offers His help to His children; and those who sincerely pray to Him from
their heart and fulfil what I, Christ in God, My Father, have commanded them -
to love one another selflessly – are in God, and God acts through them.

Accept Your Neighbours in Your Heart
15. For if you love those who love you, what reward will you
have ? For sinners also love those who love them. And if you
do good to those who do good to you, what reward will you
have ? For even sinners do the same, too. And if you greet
only your brethren, what more are you doing than the others ?
Do not even the tax collectors do so ? (Chap. 25:15)

Christ explains, corrects and deepens the word:
Therefore, accept and receive your neighbour in your heart, even if he does not
love you, even when he does not stand by you and ignores you, by refusing to
greet you. Do love him! Do stand by him selflessly and do greet him — even if it
is only in thought, when he does not wish to be greeted with words. Even a
greeting from the heart, which is given in thought, enters the soul and brings
good fruit at the right time.
Make sure that you act like the sun that gives —whether the person wants to see
it or not, whether he wishes for rain or storm, whether he desires the cold or the warmth.
Give selfless love, as the sun gives to the earth, and respect all people, all Being.
Then you will receive your reward in heaven.
Do not flatter people. Do not discriminate, like people who associate only with
those who think and act the same way and condemn those who think and act
otherwise.

Do Not Tie Yourselves to People or Things
16. And if you desire something as much as your life, but it
leads you away from the truth, let go of it, for it is better to
enter life possessing the truth than to lose life and be cast
into outer darkness. (Chap. 25:16)

Christ explains, corrects and deepens the word:
What the person craves for himself personally concerns his person, his base ego.
All this is binding. A binding means to be tied to people and things. The one who
ties himself to people and things, that is, who is bound to something, reduces the
flow of cosmic energies.
If you tie a person to yourself only for your advantage, then, with your self-will,
you pursue interests which lead you away from the life in Me, the Christ. You
thereby forsake the impersonal selfless life, you entangle yourself in wanting to
possess, to be and to have, and become impoverished in the spiritual life in your
inner being. If you do not desist in time from wanting to possess, to be and to
have, you will lose everything one day.
If you do not recognize yourself in the effects — for example, through the loss of
all your worldly goods or in illness or in misery and in suffering – and then do not
repent and make amends, you will wander in the darkness as soul and as man,
because you were concerned solely about yourself, about your own personal wellbeing.
Therefore, recognize yourself every day anew and actualize the laws of God daily,
and stop wanting something for your personal ego. Remain truthful – and thus,
faithful to the law of God. Then you will enter into the life which is your true
being — and you will be rich in yourself, because you have opened up heaven
within you.
The truth which is impersonal cannot flow into the one who is not a vessel of the
truth. Such a person is concerned only about himself and accumulates things
only for himself. This behaviour leads to his turning away from God’s eternally
flowing power and to “a life in a stagnant pool”: Only the negative flows into the
pool and little flows out. This means that he will feel in his own body what he has
gathered in his stagnant pool.
On the other hand, the eternal truth streams into and through the person who is
a vessel of the truth. He receives from God and gives from God and thus becomes
the spring of life for many. The cosmic life force, the source of all Being,
streams through all forms of Being and through those human beings and souls
who have turned towards God, that is, have become the vessel of God.
Recognize: The eternally flowing power streams only through the person and the
soul who do not accumulate things for selfish purposes, but give selflessly. The
stream of God flows unceasingly only through the ones who give selflessly. If
God can flow unhindered through the person, then this person lives in the truth,
in God, in the life which lasts eternally. Only such people give from Me, the life,
because they are in Me, the life and the truth.

Become perfect As Your Father in Heaven
17. And if you desire something which causes another pain
and sorrow, tear it out of your heart. Only in this way will you
attain peace. For it is better to endure sorrow than to inflict it
on those who are weaker than you.
18. Be therefore perfect, as your Father in heaven is perfect.
(Chap. 25:17-18)

Christ explains, corrects and deepens the word:
Everything that goes out from you which is not divine – like unlawful thoughts,
words and deeds – can cause pain and sorrow not only for your neighbour, but
also for you, yourself. For what the person sows, he will reap.
The harvest corresponds to the seed. It will always be harvested by the one who
has sown – not by his neighbour. Your neighbour has not sown your seed, and
neither will he reap your harvest.
However, your seeds can have wings — like the seeds of different types of
flowers, which, after blooming, are carried away by the wind and take root where
they are able to hold fast. So it is also with your thoughts, words and deeds
which can fall like winged seeds on the acre of your neighbour’s soul and can
sprout if they find the same or similar conditions there.
The same or something similar to what is in you is present in him, if he becomes
upset and angry by the words and deeds with which you caused him sorrow and,
stimulated by your winged seeds, he thinks, speaks and does the same or similar
thing. However, you have triggered it and can be called to account in the law of
sowing and reaping. You are commanded to love your neighbour selflessly and to
serve and help him – and not to cause him pain and sorrow by your behaviour.
If your neighbour then burdens himself because of your unlawful behaviour,
because you intruded into the acre of his soul and brought causes into vibration,
which he later has to bear and from which he has to suffer greatly, then you are
bound to him. And if he, too, reacts unlawfully to your behaviour, he is, in turn,
bound to you. In this or another form of existence, you will have to clear this up
together.
Recognize: A small insignificant winged seed of human ego can create a great
cause, which already bears its effect in itself.
Therefore recognize that every cause must be removed.
A further example: If you send out your negative thoughts, words and deeds like
winged seeds and your neighbour hears what you say about him but takes no
notice of it, because he has no correspondence to it in the acre of his soul, then
only you will burden yourself; and you are bound to him – not he to you. Your
neighbour can enter into heaven because he has not accepted and received your
negative seeds, for he has not thought or spoken the same or similar as you.
However, if by your wrong behaviour you have set causes into motion in your
neighbour that would not have had to come into effect in him, because he would
have been able to clear them up later without pain and sorrow, then you are the
one who bears the greater guilt and has to bear the part which you have caused
to your neighbour.
If, therefore, you have to endure pain and sorrow, do not blame your neighbour
for your condition. You yourself are the originator and not your neighbour. Your
pain and your sorrow are the seeds in your soul which have sprouted — and also
show themselves in or on your body as harvest.
Only I, Christ, your Redeemer, can free you from this – and only when you repent
and no longer do the same or something similar. Then the burden is taken away
from your soul and things will be better for you.
Recognize: The one who recognizes his pain and his sorrow as his own seed and
accepts his suffering shows true inner greatness. This is a sign of spiritual
growth; spiritual growth gradually leads to perfection.
The pure being is perfect; it is the image of the Father-Mother-God. It lives in
God, and God lives through the pure being.
Blessed are those who are pure in heart; for they will behold God — because they
have again become images of the heavenly Father. Meekness and humility
stream from a pure, devout heart.

Walk the Path Within
1. Take heed that you do not give your alms before people, in
order to be seen by them. Otherwise you have no reward from
your Father in heaven. When you give alms, you should not
sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the
synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be praised by
the people. Verily, I say to you, they already have their
reward.
2. But when you give alms, do not let your left hand know
what your right hand is doing, so that your alms remain
secret; and the One who sees into the secret will publicly
acknowledge it. (Chap. 26:1-2)

Christ explains, corrects and deepens the word:
The Sermon on the Mount that is lived is the Inner Path to the heart of God.
What a person does not do selflessly, he does for himself. Selflessness is the love
for God. Self-interest is human love. The one who does good for his neighbour
only when the latter thanks him for it and praises his good deeds has not done it
for his neighbour, but for himself. The gratitude and the praise are then his
reward. He is thus already rewarded and will receive no further reward from God.
Only selflessness will be rewarded by God. Selflessness grows and matures only
in the person who has taken the first steps towards the kingdom of the inner
being, that is, who has actualized.
The first steps towards this are the examination and control of thoughts: Replace
egocentric, negative, brooding or passionate thoughts with positive, helpful, joyful,
noble thoughts and with thoughts about the good in a person and in all that
you encounter. Then you will gradually bring your senses under control. You will
then also want nothing more from your neighbour and will expect nothing more
from him. In the further course of the Inner Path, you will speak only what is
positive and essential. Thereby, you gain control over your human ego because
you have learned to rest in yourself. Then your soul becomes more and more
light-filled and you find in everything that comes towards you the good that you
are then able to address and express in the right way. If you have learned this,
then you will also address negative matters lawfully. In this way, uprightness and
honesty awaken in you and you remain faithful to God in all things.
This spiritual evolutionary process towards selflessness is the Inner Path to the
heart of God. Everything that you do out of selflessness brings you manifold
fruits.
Therefore, if your sensations are without expectations and your thoughts are
noble and good, then the power of God is in your words and in your deeds. This
power is My energy of life. It goes into the soul of your neighbour and causes
your neighbour to also become selfless. For, sooner or later, what goes out of
your light-filled soul enters your neighbour’s soul and his nature, too, depending
on when he opens himself for it.
The one who gives selflessly does not care whether his neighbour knows what he
has given. The selfless person gives. He knows that God, the eternal Father, sees
into the heart of all His children and that the Eternal, whose Spirit dwells in every
human being, rewards the selfless one when the time for this has come. This
alone is important.
Recognize: All good works, that is, selfless ones, become manifest in good time,
so that those who should see them may recognize them, in order that they, too,
become selfless, in that they, too, accept and strive for the life in Me, and do
what I have commanded them: to love one another selflessly, as I, the Christ,
love them.

Learn True Prayer
3. And when you pray, you should not be like the hypocrites
who like to pray in the synagogues and on the corners of the
streets, so that they may be seen by the people. Verily, I say
to you, they already have their reward.
4. But when you pray, go into your chamber and when you
have shut the door, pray to your heavenly Father who is
hidden away; and the hidden One, who sees into that which is
hidden, will publicly acknowledge it. (Chap. 26:3-4)

Christ explains, corrects and deepens the word:
When you pray, withdraw into a quiet chamber and immerse deeply into your
inner being; for the Spirit of the Father, whose temple you are, dwells in you.
If you pray just to be seen or so that your neighbour may think you are pious
and devout, then I say to you that this is not devoutness, but false piety; it is
hypocrisy. Such externalized prayers are without power. The one who prays just
from his lips or in order to be seen sins against the Holy Spirit, for he misuses
holy words for his own self-interest.
Recognize: If you address God in prayer and do not fulfil in your life what you
have prayed for, that is, if your prayers are only to display your ego and do not
come from the depths of your soul and are not inspired by the love for God, then
you sin against the Holy Spirit. And this is the greatest sin.
When your prayers do not flow selflessly from your heart, it would be better not
to pray and to first become aware of your thoughts and human wishes and to
gradually give them over to Me — so that the selfless love which is in you will
grow and you will be able to pray from the heart. Then your prayers will be
inspired more and more and imbued with the love for God and for your
neighbour.
“… and the hidden One, who sees into what is hidden, will publicly acknowledge
it” means that your thoughts of light and your power-filled prayers, which are
inspired by the love for God, will one day bear fruit in this world. You will be
allowed to recognize your seed of love and many will also recognize you as a
source of love.

Find the Truth Within You
5. And when you pray together, do not use empty repetitions,
as the heathens do; for they think that they will be heard
when they make many words. Therefore, you should not do
the same as they; for your Father in heaven knows what you
need before you ask … (Chap. 26:5)

Christ explains, corrects and deepens the word:
Only the person who has actualized a little of the law of truth uses many words
and empty, uninspired repetitions in prayer and in daily life.
The one who speaks much about the law of truth and of life, thus using many
words for it, cannot fill them with power and life, because he himself is not filled
with the law of God. Such words are egocentric and, for that reason, without
love, even though they are chosen as if they were carried by love. Uninspired
speech does not reach the innermost of your neighbour’s soul, and therefore
finds no echo in the person, in and through whom the love of God rules. The person
who speaks without inspiration about the law of truth and of life, which he
himself does not actualize, merely stimulates a person, who hears this and likewise
is still directed to outer things, to engage in arguing.
Recognize: The one who argues about spiritual laws does not know the laws of
God. Everyone who wants to argue is convinced that he knows better than his
neighbour and wants to confirm this to himself. The one who argues only gives
evidence of himself, namely, that he knows nothing and is uncertain. This is why
he argues.
However, the one who has found the truth does not argue about the truth, not
even about what belief is. The word “belief’ also implies lack of knowledge: In the
end, the person believes what he does riot know or cannot prove. The one who
believes in the truth has not yet found the eternal truth. Nor does he move in the
stream of the eternal truth yet. Therefore, belief is still blindness.
However, the one who has found the eternal truth no longer has to believe in the
truth — he knows the truth, because he moves in the stream of truth. This is the
true wise man, who has raised the treasure of truth in himself. The true wise
ones rest in themselves. This is inner confidence and stability. They do not argue
about belief, because they have found their way from belief to wisdom, which is
the truth.
Therefore, the one who only believes in God without knowing the depth of the
eternal truth, the eternal law, uses many words about his belief.
Even in prayer, he will behave in a similar way: He uses many words, for he does
not inspire his words with selfless love. He is of the opinion that with many words
he is able to convince God or even persuade Him. He thinks he has to make
himself understood before God, for he assumes that God could understand his
prayers in a different way than what he meant. Heathens think and pray in a
similar way.
Recognize: The deeper the person immerses himself into the divine wisdom, the
fewer words he also uses in prayer. His prayers are short yet powerful, because
the word radiates the power that is lived