The Gospel of Peace - Book One

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THE STORY OF THE ESSENE GOSPEL OF PEACE

Translated by Edmond Bordeaux Szekely

In Four Volumes

It was in 1928 that Edmond Bordeaux Szekely first published his

translation of Book One of The Essene Gospel of Peace, an ancient

manuscript he had found in the Secret Archives of the Vatican as the

result of limitless patience, faultless scholarship, and unerring

intuition. This story is told in his book, The Discovery of the

Essene Gospel of Peace, published in 1975. The English version of

Book One appeared in 1937, and ever since, the little volume has

traveled over the world, appearing in many different languages,

gaining every year more and more readers, until now, still with no

commercial advertisement, over a million copies have been sold in the

United States alone. It was not until almost fifty years after the

first French translation that Book Two and Book Three appeared (The

Unknown Books of the Essenes and Lost Scrolls of the Essene

Brotherhood), achieving rapidly the popularity of Book One.

In 1981, Book Four, The Teachings of the Elect, was published

posthumously according to Dr. Szekely's wishes, representing yet

another fragment of the complete manuscript which exists in Aramaic

in the Secret Archives of the Vatican and in old Slavonic in the

Royal Library of the Habsburgs (now the property of the Austrian

government). The poetic style of the translator brings to vivid

reality the exquisitely beautiful words of Jesus and the Elders of

the Essene Brotherhood. Some of the chapters: The Essene Communions.

The Sevenfold Peace. The Holy Streams of Life, Light, and Sound. The

Gift of the Humble Grass.

 

 

The ESSENE GOSPEL OF PEACE

Book One

The Original Hebrew and Aramaic Texts

Translated and edited by

EDMOND BORDEAUX SZEKELY

MCMLXXXI

INTERNATIONAL BIOGENIC SOCIETY

Book Design by Golondrina Graohics

Copyright @ 1981, by the International Biogenic Society

Printed In the United States of America-

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And then many sick and maimed came to Jesus, asking him. " if you know

all things, tell us, why do we suffer with these grievous plagues?

Why are we not whole like other men? Master, heal us, that we too may

be made strong, and need abide no longer in our misery. We know that

you have it in your power to heal all manner of disease. Free us from

Satan and from all his great afflictions. Master, have compassion on

us. "

And Jesus answered- " Happy are you that you hunger for the truth, for

I will satisfy you with the bread of wisdom. Happy are you, that you

knock, for I will open to you the door of life. Happy are you, that

you would cast off the power of Satan, for I will lead you into the

kingdom of our Mother's angels, where the power of Satan cannot

enter. "

And they asked him in amazement: " Who is our Mother and which her

angels? And where is her kingdom? "

" Your Mother is in you, and you in her. She bore you she gives you

life. it was she who gave to you your body, and to her shall you one

day give it back again. Happy are you when you come to know her and

her kingdom; if you receive your Mother's angels and if you do her

laws. I tell you truly, he who does these things shall never see

disease. For the power of our Mother is above all. And it destroys

Satan and his kingdom, and has rule over all your bodies and all

living things.

" The blood which runs in us is born of the blood of our Earthly

Mother. Her blood falls from the clouds; leaps from the womb of the

earth; babbles in the brooks of the mountains; flows wide in the

rivers of the plains; sleeps in the lakes; rages mightily in

tempestuous seas.

" The air which we breathe is born of the breath of our Earthly

Mother. Her breath is azure in the heights of t heavens; soughs in

the tops of the mountains; whispers the leaves of the forest; billows

over the cornfields; slumbers in the deep valleys, burns hot in the

desert.

" The hardness of our bones is born of the bones of our Earthly

Mother, of the rocks and of the stones. They stand naked to the

heavens on the tops of mountains; are as giants that lie sleeping on

the sides of the mountains, as idols set in the desert, and are

hidden in the deepness of the earth.

" The tenderness of our flesh is born of the flesh of our Earthly

Mother; whose flesh waxes yellow and red in the fruits of the trees,

and nurtures us in the furrows of the fields.

" Our bowels are born of the bowels of our Earthly Mother, and are hid

from our eyes, like the invisible depths of the earth.

" The light of our eyes, the hearing of our ears, both are born of the

colors and the sounds of our Earthly Mother; which enclose us about,

as the waves of the sea a fish, as the eddying air a bird.

" I tell you in very truth, Man is the Son of the Earthly Mother, and

from her did the Son of Man receive his whole body, even as the body

of the newborn babe is born of the womb of his mother. I tell you

truly, you are one with the Earthly Mother; she is in you, and you in

her. Of her were you born, in her do you live, and to her shall you

return again. Keep, therefore, her laws, for none can live long,

neither be happy, but he who honors his Earthly Mother and does her

laws. For your breath is her breath; your blood her blood; your bone

her bone; your flesh her flesh; your bowels her bowels; your eyes and

your ears are her eyes and her ears.

" I tell you truly, should you fail to keep but one only of all these

laws, should you harm but one only of all your body's members, you

shall be utterly lost in your grievous sickness, and there shall be

weeping and gnashing of teeth. I tell you, unless you follow the laws

of your Mother, you can in no wise escape death. And he who clings to

the laws of his Mother, to him shall his Mother cling also. She shall

heal all his plagues, and he shall never become sick. She gives him

long life, and protects him from all afflictions; from fire, from

water, from the bite of venomous serpents. For your Mother bore you,

keeps life within you. She has given you her body, and none but she

heals you. Happy is he who loves his Mother and lies quietly in her

bosom. For your Mother loves you, even when you turn away from her.

And how much more shall she love you, if you turn to her again? I

tell you truly, very great is her love, greater than the greatest of

mountains, deeper than the deepest seas. And those who love their

Mother, she never deserts them. As the hen protects her chickens, as

the lioness her cubs, as the mother her newborn babe, so does the

Earthly Mother protect the Son of Man from all danger and from all

evils.

" For I tell you truly, evils and dangers innumerable lie in wait for

the Sons of Men. Beelzebub, the prince of all devils, the source of

every evil, lies in wait in the body of all the Sons of Men. He is

death, the lord of every plague, and taking upon him a pleasing

raiment, he tempts and entices the Sons of Men. Riches does he

promise, and power, and splendid palaces, and garments of gold and

silver, and a multitude of servants, all these; he promises renown

and glory, fornication and lustfulness, gluttony and wine-bibbing,

riotous living, and slothfulness and idle days. And he entices every

one by that to which their heart is most inclined. And in the day

that the Sons of Men have already become the slaves of all these

vanities and abominations, then in payment thereof he snatches from

the Sons of Men all those things which the Earthly Mother gave them

so abundantly. He takes from them their breath, their blood, their

bone, their flesh, their bowels, their eyes and their ears. And the

breath of the Son of Man becomes short and stifled, full of pain and

evil-smelling, like the breath of unclean beasts. And his blood

becomes thick and evil-smelling, like the water of the swamps; it

clots and blackens, like the night of death. And his bone becomes

hard and knotted; it melts away within and breaks asunder, as a stone

falling down upon a rock. And his flesh waxes fat and watery; it rots

and putrefies, with scabs and boils that are an abomination.

And his bowels become full with abominable filthiness, with oozing

streams of decay; and multitudes of abominable worms have their

habitation there. And his eyes grow dim, till dark night enshrouds

them, and his ears become stopped, like the silence of the grave. And

last of all shall the erring Son of Man lose life. For he kept not

the laws of his Mother, and added sin to sin. Therefore, are taken

from him all the gifts of the Earthly Mother: breath, blood, bone,

flesh, bowels, eyes and ears, and after all else, life, with which

the Earthly Mother crowned his body.

" But if the erring Son of Man be sorry for his sins and undo them,

and return again to his Earthly Mother; and if he do his Earthly

Mother's laws and free himself from Satan's clutches, resisting his

temptations, then does the Earthly Mother receive again her erring

Son with love and sends him her angels that they may serve him. I

tell you truly, when the Son of Man resists the Satan that dwells in

him and does not his will, in the same hour are found the Mother's

angels there, that they may serve him with all their power and free

utterly the Son of Man from the power of Satan.

" For no man can serve two masters. For either he serves Beelzebub and

his devils or else he serves our Earthly Mother and her angels.

Either he serves death or he serves life. I ten you truly, happy are

those that do the laws of life and wander not upon the paths of

death. For in them the forces of life wax strong and they escape the

plagues of death. "

And all those round about him listened to his words with amazement,

for his word was with power, and he taught quite otherwise than the

priests and scribes.

And though the sun was now set, they departed not to their homes.

They sat round about Jesus and asked him: " Master, which are these

laws of life? Rest with us awhile longer and teach us. We would

listen to your teaching that we may be healed and become righteous. "

And Jesus himself sat down in their midst and said: " I tell you

truly, none can be happy, except he do the Law. "

And the others answered: " We all do the laws of Moses, our lawgiver,

even as they are written in the holy scriptures. "

And Jesus answered: " Seek not the law in your scriptures, for the law

is life, whereas the scripture is dead. I tell you truly, Moses

received not his laws from God in writing, but through the living

word. The law is living word of living God to living prophets for

living men. In everything that is life is the law written. You find

it in the grass, in the tree, in the river, in the mountain, in the

birds of heaven, in the fishes of the sea; but seek it chiefly in

yourselves. For I tell you truly, all living things are nearer to God

than the scripture which is without life. God so made life and all

living things that they might by the everlasting word teach the laws

of the true God to man. God wrote not the laws in the pages of books,

but in your heart and in your spirit. They are in your breath, your

blood, your bone; in your flesh, your bowels, your eyes, your ears,

and in every little part of your body. They are present in the air,

in the water, in the earth, in the plants, in th e sunbeams, in the

depths and in the heights. They all speak to you that you may

understand the tongue and the will of the living God. But you shut

your eyes that you may not see, and you shut your ears that you may

not hear. I tell you truly, that the scripture is the work of man,

but life and all its hosts are the work of our God. Wherefore do you

not listen to the words of God which are written in His works? And

wherefore do you study the dead scriptures which are the work of the

hands of men? "

" How may we read the laws of God elsewhere than in the scriptures?

Where are they written? Read them to us from there where you see

them, for we know nothing else but the scriptures which we have

inherited from our forefathers. Tell us the laws of which you speak,

that hearing them we may be healed and justified. "

Jesus said: " You do not understand the words of life, because you are

in death. Darkness darkens your eyes and your ears are stopped with

deafness. For I tell you, it profits you not at all that you pore

over dead scriptures if by your deeds you deny him who has given you

the scriptures.

I tell you truly, God and his laws are not in that which you do. They

are not in gluttony and in wine-bibbing, neither in riotous living,

nor in lustfulness, nor in seeking after riches, nor yet in hatred of

your enemies. For all these things are far from the true God and from

his angels. But all these things come from the kingdom of darkness

and the lord of all evils. And all these things do you carry in

yourselves; and so the word and the power of God enter not into you,

because all manner of evil and all manner of abominations have their

dwelling in your body and your spirit. If you will that the living

God's word and his power may enter you, defile not your body and your

spirit; for the body is the temple of the spirit, and the spirit is

the temple of God. Purify, therefore, the temple, that the Lord of

the temple may dwell therein and occupy a place that is worthy of him.

" And from all temptations of your body and your spirit, coming from

Satan, withdraw beneath the shadow of God's heaven.

" Renew yourselves and fast. For I tell you truly, that Satan and his

plagues may only be cast out by -fasting and by prayer. Go by

yourself and fast alone, and show your fasting to no man. The living

God shall see it and great shall be your reward. And fast till

Beelzebub and all his evils depart from you, and all the angels of

our Earthly Mother come and serve you. For I tell you truly, except

you fast, you shall never be freed from the power of Satan and from

all diseases that come from Satan. Fast and pray fervently, seeking

the power of the living God for your healing. While you fast, eschew

the Sons of Men and seek our Earthly Mother's angels, for he that

seeks shall find.

" Seek the fresh air of the forest and of the fields, and there in the

midst of them shall you find the angel of air. Put off your shoes and

your clothing and suffer the angel of air to embrace all your body.

Then breathe long and deeply, that the angel of air may be brought

within you. I tell you truly, the angel of air shall cast out of your

body all uncleannesses which defiled it without and within. And thus

shall all evil-smelling and unclean things rise out of you, as the

smoke of fire curls upwards and is lost in the sea of the air. For I

tell you truly, holy is the angel of air, who cleanses all that is

unclean and makes all evil-smelling things of a sweet odor. No man

may come before the face of God, whom the angel of air lets not pass.

Truly, all must be born again by air and by truth, for your body

breathes the air of the Earthly Mother, and your spirit breathes the

truth of the Heavenly Father.

" After the angel of air, seek the angel of water. Put off your shoes

and your clothing and suffer the angel of water to embrace all your

body. Cast yourselves wholly into his enfolding arms, and as often as

you move the air with your breath, move with your body the water

also. I tell you truly, the angel of water shall cast out of your

body all uncleannesses which defiled it without and within. And all

unclean and evil-smelling things shall flow out of you, even as the

uncleannesses of garments washed in water flow away and are lost in

the stream of the river. I tell you truly, holy is the angel of water

who cleanses all that is unclean and makes all evil-smelling things

of a sweet odor. No man may come before the face of God whom the

angel of water lets not pass. in very truth, all must be born again

of water and of truth, for your body bathes in the river of earthly

life, and your spirit bathes in the river of life everlasting. For

you receive your blood from our Earthly Mother and the truth from our

Heavenly Father.

" Think not that it is sufficient that the angel of water embrace you

outwards only. I tell you truly, the uncleanness within is greater by

much than the uncleanness without. And he who cleanses himself

without, but within remains unclean, is like to tombs that outwards

are painted fair, but are within full of all manner of horrible

uncleannesses and abominations. So I tell you truly, suffer the angel

of water to baptize you also within, that you may become free from

all your past sins, and that within likewise you may become as pure

as the river's foam sporting in the sunlight.

" Seek, therefore, a large trailing gourd, having a stalk the length

of a man; take out its inwards and fill it with water from the river

which the sun has warmed. Hang it upon the branch of a tree, and

kneel upon the ground before the angel of water, and suffer the end

of the stalk of the trailing gourd to enter your hinder parts, that

the water may flow through all your bowels. Afterwards rest kneeling

on the ground before the angel of water and pray to the living God

that he will forgive you all your past sins, and pray the angel of

water that he will free your body from every uncleanness and disease.

Then let the water run out from your body, that it may carry away

from within it all the unclean and evil-smelling things of Satan. And

you shall see with your eyes and smell with your nose all the

abominations, and uncleannesses which defiled the temple of your

body; even all the sins which abode in your body, tormenting you with

all manner of pains. I tell you truly, baptism with water frees you

from all of these. Renew your baptizing with water on every day of

your fast, till the day when you see that the water which flows out

of you is as pure as the river's foam. Then betake your body to the

coursing river, and there in the arms of the angel of water render

thanks to the living God that he has freed you from your sins. And

this holy baptizing by the angel of water is: Rebirth unto the new

life. For your eyes shall henceforth see, and your ears shall hear.

Sin no more, therefore, after your baptism, that the angels of air

and of water may eternally abide in you and serve you evermore.

" And if afterward there remain within you aught of your past sins and

uncleannesses, seek the angel of sunlight. Put off your shoes and

your clothing and suffer the angel of sunlight to embrace all your

body. Then breathe long and deeply, that the angel of sunlight may be

brought within you. And the angel of sunlight shall cast out of your

body all evil-smelling and unclean things which defiled it without

and within. And all unclean and evil-smelling things shall rise from

you, even as the darkness of night fades before the brightness of the

rising sun. For I tell you truly, holy is the angel of sunlight who

cleans out all uncleannesses and makes all evil-smelling things of a

sweet odor. None may come before the face of God, whom the angel of

sunlight lets not pass. Truly, all must be born again of sun and of

truth, for your body basks in the sunlight of the Earthly Mother, and

your spirit basks in the sunlight of the truth of the Heavenly Father.

" The angels of air and of water and of sunlight are brethren. They

were given to the Son of Man that they might serve him, and that he

might go always from one to the other.

" Holy, likewise, is their embrace. They are indivisible children of

the Earthly Mother, so do not you put asunder those whom earth and

heaven have made one. Let these three brother angels enfold you every

day and let them abide with you through all your fasting.

" For I tell you truly, the power of devils, all sins and

uncleannesses shall depart in haste from that body which is embraced

by these three angels. As thieves flee from a deserted house at the

coming of the lord of the house, one by the door, one by the window,

and the third by the roof, each where he is found, and whither he is

able, even so shall flee from your bodies all devils of evil, all

past sins, and all uncleannesses and diseases which defiled the

temple of your bodies. When the Earthly Mother's angels enter into

your bodies, in such wise that the lords of the temple repossess it

again, then shall all evil smells depart in haste by your breath and

by your skin, corrupt waters by your mouth and by your skin, by your

hinder and your privy parts. And all these things you shall see with

your eyes and smell with your nose and touch with your hands. And

when all sins and uncleannesses are gone from your body, your blood

shall become as pure as our Earthly Mother's blood and as the river's

foam sporting in the sunlight. And your breath shall become as pure

as the breath of odorous flowers; your flesh as pure as the flesh of

fruits reddening upon the leaves of trees; the light of your eye as

clear and bright as the brightness of the sun shining upon the blue

sky. And now shall all the angels of the Earthly Mother serve you.

And your breath, your blood, your flesh shall be one with the breath,

the blood and the flesh of the Earthly Mother, that your spirit also

may become one with the spirit of your Heavenly Father. For truly, no

one can reach the Heavenly Father unless through the Earthly Mother.

Even as no newborn babe can understand the teaching of his father

till his mother has suckled him, bathed him, nursed him, put him to

sleep and nurtured him. While the child is yet small, his place is

with his mother and he must obey his mother. When the child is grown

up, his father takes him to work at his side in the field, and the

child comes back to his mother o nly when the hour of dinner and

supper is come. And now his father teaches him, that he may become

skilled in the works of his father. And when the father sees that his

son understands his teaching and does his work well, he gives him all

his possessions, that they may belong to his beloved son, and that

his son may continue his father's work. I tell you truly, happy is

that son who accepts the counsel of his mother and walks therein. And

a hundred times more happy is that son who accepts and walks also in

the counsel of his father, for it was said to you: 'Honor thy father

and thy mother that thy days may be long upon this earth.' But I say

to you, Sons of Man: Honor your Earthly Mother and keep all her laws,

that your days may be long on this earth, and honor your Heavenly

Father that Eternal Life may be yours in the heavens. For the

Heavenly Father is a hundred times greater than all fathers by seed

and by blood, and greater is the Earthly Mother than all mothers by

the body. And d earer is the Son of Man in the eyes of his Heavenly

Father and of his Earthly Mother than are children in the eyes of

their fathers by seed and by blood and of their mothers by the body.

And more wise are the words and laws of your Heavenly Father and of

your Earthly Mother than the words and the will of all fathers by

seed and by blood, and of all mothers by the body. And of more worth

also is the inheritance of your Heavenly Father and of your Earthly

Mother, the everlasting kingdom of earthly and heavenly life, than

all the inheritances of your fathers by seed and by blood, and of

your mothers by the body.

" And your true brothers are all those who do the will of your

Heavenly Father and of your Earthly Mother, and not your brothers by

blood. I tell you truly, that your true brothers in the will of the

Heavenly Father and of the Earthly Mother will love you a thousand

times more than your brothers by blood. For since the days of Cain

and Abel, when brothers by blood transgressed the will of God, there

is no true brotherhood by blood. And brothers do unto brothers as do

strangers. Therefore, I say to you, love your true brothers in the

will of God a thousand times more than your brothers by blood.

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FOR YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER IS LOVE.

FOR YOUR EARTHLY MOTHER IS LOVE.

FOR THE SON OF MAN IS LOVE.

" It is by love, that the Heavenly Father and the Earthly Mother and

the Son of Man become one. For the spirit of the Son of Man was

created from the spirit of the Heaven Father, and his body from the

body of the Earthly Mother. Become, therefore, perfect as the spirit

of your Heavenly Father and the body of your Earthly Mother are

perfect. And so love your Heavenly Father, as he loves your spirit.

And so love your Earthly Mother, as she loves your body. And so love

your true brothers, as your Heavenly Father and your Earthly Mother

love them. And then your Heavenly Father shall give you his holy

spirit, and your Earthly Mother shall give you her holy body. And

then shall the Sons of Men like true brothers give love one to

another, the love which they received from their Heavenly Father and

from their Earthly Mother; and they shall all become comforters one

of another. And then shall disappear from the earth all evil and all

sorrow, and there shall be love and joy upon earth. And then shall

the earth be like the heavens, and the kingdom of God shall come. And

then shall come the Son of Man in all his glory, to inherit the

kingdom of God. And then shall the Sons of Men divide their divine

inheritance, the kingdom of God. For the Sons of Men live in the

Heavenly Father and in the Earthly Mother, and the Heavenly Father

and the Earthly Mother live in them. And then with the kingdom of God

shall come the end of the times. For the Heavenly Father's love gives

to all life everlasting in the kingdom of God. For love is eternal.

Love is stronger than death.

" Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not

love, I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal. Though I

tell what is to come, and know all secrets, and all wisdom; and

though I have faith strong as the storm which lifts mountains from

their seat, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all

my goods to feed the poor, and give all my fire that I have received

from my Father, but have not love, I am in no wise profited. Love is

patient, love is kind. Love is not envious, works not evil, knows not

pride; is not rude, neither selfish; is slow to anger, imagines no

mischief; rejoices not in injustice, but delights in justice. Love

defends all, love believes all, love hopes all, love bears all; never

exhausts itself; but as for tongues they shall cease, and, as for

knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we have truth in part, and error

in part, but when the fullness of perfection is come, that which is

in part shall be blotted out. When a man was a child he spoke as a

child, understood as a child, thought as a child; but when he became

a man he put away childish things. For now we see through a glass and

through dark sayings. Now we know in part, but when we are come

before the face of God, we shall not know in part, but even as we are

taught by him. And now remain these three: faith and hope and love;

but the greatest of these is love.

" And now I speak to you in the living tongue of the living God,

through the holy spirit of our Heavenly Father. There is none yet

among you that can understand all this of which I speak. He who

expounds to you the scriptures speaks to you in a dead tongue of dead

men, through his diseased and mortal body. Him, therefore, can all

men understand, for all men are diseased and all are in death. No one

sees the light of life. Blind man leads blind on the dark paths of

sins, diseases and sufferings; and at the last all fall into the pit

of death.

" I am sent to you by the Father, that I may make the light of life to

shine before you. The light lightens itself and the darkness, but the

darkness knows only itself, and knows not the light. I have still

many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them yet. For your

eyes are used to the darkness, and the full light of the Heavenly

Father would make you blind. Therefore, you cannot yet understand

that which I speak to you concerning the Heavenly Father who sent me

to you. Follow, therefore, first, only the laws of your Earthly

Mother, of which I have told you. And when her angels shall have

cleansed and renewed your bodies and strengthened your eyes, you will

be able to bear the light of our Heavenly Father. When you can gaze

on the brightness of the noonday sun with unflinching eyes, you can

then look upon the blinding light of your Heavenly Father, which is a

thousand times brighter than the brightness of a thousand suns. But

how should you look upon the blinding light of you r Heavenly Father,

when you cannot even bear the shining of the blazing sun? Believe me,

the sun is as the flame of a candle beside the sun of truth of the

Heavenly Father. Have but faith, therefore, and hope, and love. I

tell you truly, you shall not want your reward. If you believe in my

words, you believe in him who sent me, who is the lord of all, and

with whom all things are possible. For what is impossible with men,

all these things are possible with God. If you believe in the angels

of the Earthly Mother and do her laws, your faith shall sustain you

and you shall never see disease. Have hope also in the love of your

Heavenly Father, for he who trusts in him shall never be deceived,

nor shall he ever see death.

" Love one another, for God is love, and so shall his angels know that

you walk in his paths. And then shall all the angels come before your

face and serve you. And Satan with all sins, diseases and

uncleannesses shall depart from your body. Go, eschew your sins;

repent yourselves; baptize yourselves; that you may be born again and

sin no more. "

Then Jesus rose. But all else remained sitting, for every man felt

the power of his words. And then the full moon appeared between the

breaking clouds and folded Jesus in its brightness. And sparks flew

upward from his hair, and he stood among them in the moonlight, as

though he hovered in the air. And no man moved, neither was the voice

of any heard. And no one knew how long a time had passed, for time

stood still.

Then Jesus stretched out his hands to them and said: " Peace be with

you. " And so he departed, as a breath of wind sways the green of

trees.

And for a long while yet the company sat still and then they woke in

the silence, one man after another, like as from a long dream. But

none would go, as if the words of him who had left them ever sounded

in their ears. And they sat as though they listened to some wondrous

music.

But at last one, as it were a little fearfully, said: " How good it is

to be here. " Another: " Would that this night were everlasting. " And

others: " Would that he might be with us always. " " Of a truth he is

God's messenger, for he planted hope within our hearts. " And no man

wished to go home, saying: " I go not home where all is dark and

joyless. Why should we go home where no one loves us? "

And they spoke on this wise, for they were almost all poor, lame,

blind, maimed, beggars, homeless, despised in their wretchedness, who

were only borne for pity's sake in the houses where they found a few

day's refuge. Even certain, who had both home and family, said: " We

also will stay with you. " For every man felt that the words of him

who was gone bound the little company with threads invisible. And all

felt that they were born again. They saw before them a shining world,

even when the moon was hidden in the clouds. And in the hearts of all

blossomed wondrous flowers of wondrous beauty, the flowers of joy.

And when the bright sunbeams appeared over the earth's rim, they all

felt that it was the sun of the coming kingdom of God. And with

joyful countenances they went forth to meet God's angels.

And many unclean and sick followed Jesus' words and sought the banks

of the murmuring streams. They put off their shoes and their

clothing, they fasted, and they gave up their bodies to the angels of

air, of water, and of sunshine. And the Earthly Mother's angels

embraced them, possessing their bodies both inwards and outwards. And

all of them saw all evils, sins and uncleannesses depart in haste

from them.

And the breath of some became as stinking as that which is loosed

from the bowels, and some had an issue of spittle, and evil-smelling

and unclean vomit rose from their inward parts. All these

uncleannesses flowed by their mouths. In some, by the nose, in others

by the eyes and ears. And many did have a noisome and abominable

sweat come from all their body, over all their skin. And on many

limbs great hot boils broke forth, from which carne out uncleannesses

with an evil smell, and urine flowed abundantly from their body; and

in many their urine was all but dried up and became thick as the

honey of bees; that of others was almost red or black, and as hard

almost as the sand of rivers. And many belched stinking gases from

their bowels, like the breath of devils. And their stench became so

great that none could bear it.

And when they baptized themselves, the angel of water entered their

bodies, and from them flowed out all the abominations and

uncleannesses of their past sins, and like a falling mountain stream

gushed from their bodies a multitude of hard and soft abominations.

And the ground where their waters flowed was polluted, and so great

became the stench that none could remain there. And the devils left

their bowels in the shape of multitudinous worms which writhed in

impotent rage after the angel of water had cast them out of the

bowels of the Sons of Men. And then descended upon them the power of

the angel of sunshine, and they perished there in their desperate

writhings, trod underfoot by the angel of sunshine. And all were

trembling with terror when they looked upon all these abominations of

Satan, from which the angels had saved them. And they rendered thanks

to God who had sent his angels for their deliverance.

And there were some whom great pains tormented, which would not

depart from them; and knowing not what they should do, they resolved

to send one of them to Jesus, for they greatly wished he should be

with them.

And when two were gone to seek him, they saw Jesus himself

approaching by the bank of the river. And their hearts were filled

with hope and joy when they heard his greeting, " Peace be with you. "

And many were the questions that they desired to ask him, but in

their astonishment they could not begin, for nothing came into their

minds. Then said Jesus to them: " I come because you need me. " And one

cried out: " Master, we do indeed, come and free us from our pains. "

And Jesus spoke to them in parables: " You are like the prodigal son,

who for many years did eat and drink, and passed his days in

riotousness and lechery with his friends. And every week without his

father's knowledge he incurred new debts, and squandered all in a few

days. And the moneylenders always lent to him, because his father

possessed great riches and always paid patiently the debts of his

son. And in vain did he with fair words admonish his son, for he

never listened to the admonitions of his father, who besought him in

vain that he would give up his debaucheries which had no end, and

that he would go to his fields to watch over the labor of his

servants. And the son always promised him everything if he would pay

his old debts, but the next day he began again. And for more than

seven years the son continued in his riotous living. But, at last,

his father lost patience and no more paid to the moneylenders the

debts of his son. " if I continue always to pay, " he said, " there will

be no end to the sins of my son. " Then the moneylenders, who were

deceived, in their wrath took the son into slavery that he might by

his daily toil pay back to them the money which he had borrowed. And

then ceased the eating and drinking and the daily excesses. From

morning until night by the sweat of his face he watered the fields,

and all of his limbs ached with the unaccustomed labor. And he lived

upon dry bread, and had naught but his tears with which he could

water it. And three days after he suffered so much from the heat and

from weariness that he said to his master: 'I can work no more, for

all my limbs do ache. How long would you torment me?' 'Till the day

when by the labor of your hands you pay me all your debts, and when

seven years are passed, you will be free.' And the desperate son

answered weeping: 'But I cannot bear so much as seven days. Have pity

on me, for all my limbs do burn and ache.' And the wicked creditor

cried out: 'Press on with the work; if you could for seven years

spend your days and your nights in riotousness, now must you work for

seven years. I will not forgive you till you pay back all your debts

to the uttermost drachma.' And the son, with his limbs racked with

pain, went back despairing to the fields to continue his work.

Already he could hardly stand upon his feet because of his weariness

and of his pains, when the seventh day was come-the Sabbath day, in

which no man works in the field. Then the son gathered the remnant of

his strength and staggered to the house of his father. And he cast

himself down at his father's feet and said: 'Father, believe me for

the last time and forgive me all my offenses against your swear to

you that I will never again live riotously and that I will be your

obedient son in all things. Free me from the hands of my oppressor.

Father, look upon me and upon my sick limbs, and harden not your

heart.' Then tears came into his father's eyes, and he took his son

in his arms, and said: 'Let us rejoice, for today a great joy is

given me, because I have found again my beloved son, who was lost.'

And he clothed him with his choicest raiment and all the day long

they made merry. And on the morning of the morrow he gave his son a

bag of silver that he might pay to his creditors all that he owed

them. And when his son came back, he said to him: 'My son, do you see

that it is easy, through riotous living, to incur debts for seven

years, but their payment is difficult by the heavy labor of seven

years.' 'Father, it is indeed hard to pay them, even for seven days.'

And his father admonished him, saying: 'For this once alone has it

been permitted you to pay your debts in seven days instead of seven

years, the rest is forgiven you. But take heed that in the time to

come you do not incur more debts. For I tell you truly, that none

else but your father forgives you your debts, because you are his

son. For with all else you would have had to labor hard for seven

years, as it is commanded in our laws.'

My father, I will henceforth be your loving and obedient son, and I

will not any more incur debts, for I know that their payment is hard.'

" And he went to his father's field and watched every day over the

work of his father's laborers. And he never made his laborers work

hard, for he remembered his own heavy labor. And the years passed,

and his father's possession increased ever more and more beneath his

hand, for the blessing of his father was upon his labor. And slowly

he gave back tenfold to his father all that he had squandered in the

seven years. And when his father saw that his son used well his

servants and all his possessions, he said to him: 'My son, I see that

my possessions are in good hands. I give you all my cattle, my house,

my lands and my treasures. Let all this be your heritage, continue

increasing it that I may have delight in you.' And when the son had

received his inheritance from his father, he forgave their debts to

all his debtors who could not pay him, for he did not forget that his

debt also had been forgiven when he could not pay it. And God blessed

him with long life, with many children and with much riches, because

he was kind to all his servants and to all his cattle. "

Then Jesus turned to the sick folk and said: " I speak to you in

parables that you may better understand God's word. The seven years

of eating and drinking and of riotous living are the sins of the

past. The wicked creditor is Satan. The debts are diseases. The heavy

labor is pains. The prodigal son, he is yourselves. The payment of

the debts is the casting from you of devils and diseases, and the

healing of your body. The bag of silver received from the father is

the liberating power of the angels. The father is God. The father's

possessions are earth and heaven. The servants of the father are the

angels. The father's field is the world, which is changed into the

kingdom of the heavens, if the Sons of Man work thereon together with

the angels of the Heavenly Father. For I tell you, it is better that

the son should obey his father and keep watch over his father's

servants in the field, than that he should become the debtor of the

wicked creditor and toil and sweat in serfdom to repay all his debts.

it is better, likewise, if the Sons of Man also obey the laws of

their Heavenly Father, and work together with his angels upon his

kingdom, than that they should become the debtors of Satan, the lord

of death, of all sins and all diseases, and that they should suffer

with pains and sweat till they have repaid all their sins. I tell you

truly, great and many are your sins. Many years have you yielded to

the enticings of Satan. You have been gluttonous, wine-bibbers and

gone a-whoring, and your past debts have multiplied. And now you must

repay them, and payment is difficult and hard. Be not, therefore,

already impatient after the third day, like the prodigal son, but

wait patiently for the seventh day which is sanctified by God, and

then go with humble and obedient heart before the face of your

Heavenly Father, that he may forgive you your sins and all your past

debts. I tell you truly, your Heavenly Father loves you without end,

for he also allows you to pay in seven days the debts of seven years.

Those that owe the sins and diseases of seven years, but pay honestly

and persevere till the seventh day, to them shall our Heavenly Father

forgive the debts of all these seven years.

" If we sin for seven times seven years? " asked a sick man who

suffered horribly. " Even in that case the Heavenly Father forgives

you all your debts in seven times seven days.

" Happy are those that persevere to the end, for the devils of Satan

write all your evil deeds in a book, in the book of your body and

your spirit. I tell you truly, there is not one sinful deed, but it

is written, even from the beginning of the world, before our Heavenly

Father. For you may escape the laws made by kings, but the laws of

your God, these may none of the Sons of Man escape. And when you come

before the face of God, the devils of Satan bear witness against you

with your deed, and God sees your sins written in the book of your

body and of your spirit and is sad in his heart. But if you repent of

your sins, and by fasting and prayer you seek the angels of God, then

each day that you continue to fast and to pray, God's angels blot out

one year of your evil deeds from the book of your body and your

spirit. And when the last page is also blotted out and cleansed from

all your sins, you stand before the face of God, and God rejoices in

his heart and forgets all your sins. He frees you from the clutches

of Satan and from suffering; he takes you within his house and

commands that all his servants, all his angels serve you. Long life

does he give you, and you shall never see disease. And if,

thenceforward, instead of sinning, you pass your days in doing good

deeds, then the angels of God shall write all your good deeds in the

book of your body and of your spirit. I tell you truly, no good deed

remains unwritten before God, not from the beginning of the world.

For from your kings and your governors you may wait in vain for your

reward, but never do your good deeds want their reward from God.

" And when you come before the face of God, his angels bear witness

for you with your good deeds. And God sees your good deeds written in

your bodies and in your spirits, and rejoices in his heart. He

blesses your body and your spirit and all your deeds, and gives you

for a heritage his earthly and heavenly kingdom, that in it you may

have life everlasting. Happy is he who can enter into the kingdom of

God, for he shall never see death. "

And a great silence fell at his words. And those that were

discouraged took new strength from his words and continued to fast

and to pray. And he who had spoken the first, said to him: " I will

persevere to the seventh day. " And the second, likewise, said to

him: " I also will persevere to the seven times seventh day. "

Jesus answered them: " Happy are those that persevere to the end, for

they shall inherit the earth. "

And there were many sick among them tormented with grievous pains,

and they hardly crawled to Jesus' feet. For they could no longer walk

upon their feet. They said: " Master, we are grievously tormented with

pain; tell us what we shall do. " And they showed Jesus their feet in

which the bones were twisted and knotted and said: " Neither the angel

of air, nor of water, nor of sunshine has assuaged our pains,

notwithstanding that we baptized ourselves, and do fast and pray, and

follow your words in all things. "

" I tell you truly, your bones will be healed. Be not discouraged, but

seek for cure nigh the healer of bones, the angel of earth. For

thence were your bones taken, and thither will they return. "

And he pointed with his hand to where the running of the water and

the sun's heat had softened to clayey mud the earth by the edge of

the water. " Sink your feet in the mire, that the embrace of the angel

of earth may draw out from your bones all uncleanness and all

disease. And you will see Satan and your pains fly from the embrace

of the angel of earth. And the knots of your bones will vanish away,

and they will be straightened, and all your pains will disappear. "

And the sick followed his words, for they knew that they would be

healed.

And there were also other sick who suffered much from their pains,

howbeit, they persisted in their fasting. And their force was spent,

and great heat tormented them. And when they would have risen from

their bed to go to Jesus, their heads began to turn, as if it were a

gusty wind which shook them, and as oft as they tried to stand upon

their feet they fell back to the ground.

Then Jesus went to them and said: " You suffer, for Satan and his

diseases torment your bodies. But fear not, for their power over you

will quickly end. For Satan is like a choleric neighbor who entered

his neighbor's house while he was absent, intending to take his goods

away to his own house. But some told the other that his enemy was

ravaging within his house, and he came back to his house, running.

And when the wicked neighbor, having gathered together all that

pleased him, saw from afar the master of the house returning in

haste, then he was very wroth that he could not take all away, and

set to breaking and spoiling all that was there, to destroy all. So

that even if the things might not be his, the other might have

nothing. But immediately the lord of the house came in, and before

the wicked neighbor fulfilled his purpose, he took him and cast him

out of the house. I tell you truly, even so did Satan enter your

bodies which are the habitation of God. And he took in his power all

that he wished to steal: your breath, your blood, your bone, your

flesh, your bowels, your eyes, and your ears. But by your fasting and

your prayer, you have called back the lord of your body and his

angels. And now Satan sees that the true lord of your body returns,

and that it is the end of his power. Wherefore, in his wrath he

gathers his strength once again, that he may destroy your bodies

before the coming of the lord. It is for this that Satan torments you

so grievously, for he feels that the end is come. But let not your

hearts tremble, for soon will the angels of God appear, to occupy

again their abodes and rededicate them as temples of God. And they

will seize Satan and cast him from your bodies with all his diseases

and all his uncleanesses. And happy will you be, for you will receive

the reward of your steadfastness, and you will never see disease. "

And there was among the sick, one that was more tormented by Satan

than all the others. And his body was as parched as a skeleton, and

his skin yellow as a falling leaf. He was so weak already that he

could not, even upon his hands, crawl to Jesus, and cried only to him

from afar: " Master, have pity on me, for never has man suffered, not

from the beginning of the world, as I do suffer. I know that you are

indeed sent by God, and I know that if you will, you can straightway

cast out Satan from my body. Do not the angels of God obey God's

messenger? Come, Master, and cast out Satan from me now, for he rages

angrily within me and grievous is his torment. "

And Jesus answered him: " Satan torments you thus greatly because you

have already fasted many days, and you do not pay to him his tribute.

You do not feed him with all the abominations with which you hitherto

defiled the temple of your spirit. You torment Satan with hunger, and

so in his anger he torments you also. Fear not, for I tell you, Satan

will be destroyed before your body is destroyed; for while you fast

and pray, the angels of God protect your body, that Satan's power may

not destroy you. And the anger of Satan is impotent against the

angels of God. "

Then they all came to Jesus and with loud cries besought him

saying: " Master, have compassion on him, for he suffers more than we

all, and if you do not at once cast Satan out of him, we fear he will

not live until tomorrow. "

And Jesus answered them: " Great is your faith. Be it according to

your faith, and you shall see soon, face to face, the frightful

countenance of Satan, and the power of the Son of Man. For I will

cast out from you the powerful Satan by the strength of the innocent

lamb of God, the weakest creature of the Lord. For the holy spirit of

God makes more powerful the weakest than the strongest. "

And Jesus milked an ewe which was feeding among the grass. And he put

the milk upon the sand made hot by the sun, saying: " Lo, the power of

the angel of water has entered this milk. And now the power of the

angel of sunshine will enter it also. "

And the milk became hot by the strength of the sun.

" And now the angels of water and of sun will join with the angel of

air. "

And lo, the vapour of the hot milk began to rise slowly into the air.

.. " Come and breathe in by your mouth the strength of the angels of

water, of sunshine, and of air, that it may come into your body and

cast out the Satan from you. "

And the sick man whom Satan tormented did breathe within himself,

deeply, the rising whitish vapour.

" Straightway will Satan leave your body, since for three days he

starves and finds no food within you. He will come out of you to

satisfy his hunger by the hot steaming milk, for this food finds

favour in his sight. He will smell its smell, and will not be able to

resist the hunger which has tormented him three days already. But the

Son of Man will destroy his body, that he may torment none else

again. "

Then the sick man's body was seized with an ague, and he retched as

though he would vomit, but he could not. And he gasped for air, for

his breath was spent. And he fainted on the lap of Jesus.

" Now does Satan leave his body. See him. " And Jesus pointed to the

sick man's opened mouth.

And then they all saw with astonishment and terror that Satan was

coming out from his mouth in the shape of an abominable worm,

straight towards the steaming milk. Then Jesus took two sharp stones

in his hands and crushed the head of Satan, and drew out from the

sick man all the body of the monster which was almost as long as the

man. When the abominable worm came out of the sick man's throat, he

recovered at once his breath, and then all his pains ceased. And the

others looked with terror at the abominable body of Satan.

" See, what an abominable beast you carried and nourished in your body

for long years. I have cast it out of you and killed it that it may

never again torment you. Give thanks to God that his angels have made

you free, and sin no more, lest Satan return to you again. Let your

body be henceforth a temple dedicated to your God. "

And they were all amazed at his words and at his power. And they

said: " Master, you are indeed God's messenger, and do know all

secrets. "

" And you, " answered Jesus, " be true Sons of God, that you also may

partake in his power and in the knowledge of all secrets. For wisdom

and power can come only from the love of God. Love, therefore, your

Heavenly Father and your Earthly Mother with all your heart, and with

all your spirit. And serve them, that their angels may serve you

also. Let all your deeds be sacrificed to God. And feed not Satan,

for the wages of sin is death. But with God lies the reward of the

good, his love, which is knowledge and power of eternal life. "

And they all knelt down to give thanks to God for his love.

And Jesus departed, saying: " I will come again to all who persist in

prayer and fasting till the seventh day. Peace be with you. "

And the sick man from whom Jesus had cast out the Satan, stood up,

for the strength of life had come back to him. He breathed out

deeply, and his eyes became clear, for every pain had left him. And

he cast himself down upon the ground where Jesus had stood, and he

kissed the print of his feet and he wept.

And it was by the bed of a stream, many sick fasted and prayed with

God's angels for seven days and seven nights. And great was their

reward, because they followed Jesus' words. And with the passing of

the seventh day, all their pains left them. And when the sun rose

over the earth's rim they saw Jesus coming towards them from the

mountain, with the brightness of the rising sun about his head.

" Peace be with you. "

And they said no word at all, but only cast themselves down before

him, and touched the hem of his garment in token of their healing.

" Give thanks not to me, but to your Earthly Mother, who sent you her

healing angels. Go, and sin no more, that you may never again see

disease. And let the healing angels become your guardians. "

But they answered him: " Whither should we go, Master, for with you

are the words of eternal life? Tell us, what are the sins which we

must shun, that we may nevermore see disease? "

Jesus answered: " Be it so according to your faith, " and he sat down

among them, saying:

" It was said to them of old time, 'Honor thy Heavenly Father and thy

Earthly Mother, and do their commandments, that thy days may be long

upon the earth.' And next afterward was given this commandment, 'Thou

shalt not kill,' for life is given to all by God, and that which God

has given, let not man take away. For-I tell you truly, from one

Mother proceeds all that lives upon the earth. Therefore, he who

kills, kills his brother. And from him will the Earthly Mother turn

away, and will pluck from him her quickening breasts. And he will be

shunned by her angels, and Satan will have his dwelling in his body.

And the flesh of slain beasts in his body will become his own tomb.

For I tell you truly, he who kills, kills himself, and whoso eats the

flesh of slain beasts, eats of the body of death. For in his blood

every drop of their blood turns to poison; in his breath their breath

to stink; in his flesh their flesh to boils; in his bones their bones

to chalk; in his bowels their bowels t o decay; in his eyes their

eyes to scales; in his ears their ears to waxy issue. And their death

will become his death. For only in the service of your Heavenly

Father are your debts of seven years forgiven in seven clays. But

Satan forgives you nothing and you must pay him for all. 'Eye for

eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot; burning for

burning, wound for wound; life for life, death for death.' For the

wages of sin is death. Kill not, neither eat the flesh of your

innocent prey, lest you become the slaves of Satan. For that is the

path of sufferings, and it leads unto death. But do the will of God,

that his angels may serve you on the way of life. Obey, therefore,

the words of God: 'Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed,

which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which

is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to

everything that creepeth upon th e earth, wherein there is breath of

life, I give every green herb for meat. Also the milk of every thing

that moveth and liveth upon earth shall be meat for you; even as the

green herb have I given unto them, so I give their milk unto you. But

flesh, and the blood which quickens it, shall ye not eat. And,

surely, your spurting blood will I require, your blood wherein is

your soul; I will require all slain beasts, and the souls of all

slain men. For I the Lord thy God am a God strong and jealous,

visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third

and fourth generation of them that hate me; and showing mercy unto

thousands -of them that love me, and keep my commandments. Love the

Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all

thy strength: this is the first and greatest commandment.' And the

second is like unto it: 'Love thy neighbor as thyself' There is none

other commandment greater than these. "

And after these words they all remained silent, save one, who called

out: " What am I to do, Master, if I see a wild beast rend my brother

in the forest? Shall I let my brother perish, or kill the wild beast?

Shall not I thus transgress the law? "

And Jesus answered: " It was said to them of old time: " All beasts

that move upon the earth, all the fish of the sea, and all the fowl

of the air are given into thy power. " I tell you truly, of all

creatures living upon the earth, God created only man after his

image. Wherefore beasts are for man, and not man for beasts. You do

not, therefore, transgress the law if you kill the wild beast to save

your brother's life. For I tell you truly, man is more than the

beast. But he who kills the beast without a cause, though the beast

attack him not, through lust for slaughter, or for its flesh, or for

its hide, or yet for its tusks, evil is the deed which he does, for

he is turned into a wild beast himself. Wherefore is his end also as

the end of the wild beasts. "

Then another said: " Moses, the greatest in Israel, suffered our

forefathers to eat the flesh of clean beasts, and forbade only the

flesh of unclean beasts. Why, therefore, do you forbid us the flesh

of all beasts? Which law comes from God? That of Moses, or your law? "

And Jesus answered: " God gave, by Moses, ten commandments to your

forefathers. 'These commandments are hard,' said your forefathers,

and they could not keep them. When Moses saw this, he had compassion

on his people, and would not that they perish. And then he gave them

ten times ten commandments. For he whose feet are strong as the

mountain of Zion, needs no crutches; but he whose limbs do shake,

gets further having crutches, than without them. And Moses said to

the Lord: 'My heart is filled with sorrow, for my people will be

lost. For they are without knowledge, and are not able to understand

thy commandments. They are as little children who cannot yet

understand their father's words. Suffer, Lord, that I give them other

laws, that they may not perish. if they may not be with thee, Lord,

let them not be against thee; that they may sustain themselves, and

when the time has come, and they are ripe for thy words, reveal to

hem thy laws.' For that did Moses break the two tablets of stone

whereon were written the ten commandments, and he gave them ten times

ten in their stead. And of these ten times ten the Scribes and

Pharisees have made a hundred times ten commandments. And they have

laid unbearable burdens on your shoulders, that they themselves do

not carry. For the more nigh are the commandments to God, the less do

we need; and the farther they are from God, then the more do we need.

Wherefore are the laws of the Pharisees and Scribes innumerable; the

laws of the Son of Man seven; of the angels three; and of God one.

" Therefore, I teach you only those laws which you can understand,

that you may become men, and follow the seven laws of the Son of Man.

Then will the unknown angels of the Heavenly Father also reveal their

laws to you, that God's holy spirit may descend upon you, and lead

you to his law. "

And all were astonished at his wisdom, and asked him: " Continue,

Master, and teach us all the laws which we can receive. "

And Jesus continued: " God commanded your forefathers: 'Thou shalt not

kill.' But their heart was hardened and they killed. Then Moses

desired that at least they should not kill men, and he suffered them

to kill beasts. And then the heart of your forefathers was hardened

yet more, and they killed men and beasts likewise. But I do say to

you: Kill neither men, nor beasts, nor yet the food which goes into

your mouth. For if you eat living food, the same will quicken you,

but if you kill your food, the dead food will kill you also. For life

comes only from life, and from death comes always death. For

everything which kills your foods, kills your bodies also. And

everything which kills your bodies kills your souls also. And your

bodies become what your foods are, even as your spirits, likewise,

become what your thoughts are. Therefore, eat not anything which

fire, or frost, or water has destroyed. For burned, frozen and rotted

foods will burn, freeze and rot your body also. Be not like the

foolish husbandman who sowed in his ground cooked, and frozen, and

rotten seeds. And the autumn came, and his fields bore nothing. And

great was his distress. But be like that husbandman who sowed in his

field living seed, and whose field bore living ears of wheat, paying

a hundredfold for the seeds which he planted. For I tell you truly,

live only by the fire of life, and prepare not your foods with the

fire of death, which kills your foods, your bodies and your souls

also. "

" Master, where is the fire of life? " asked some of them.

" In you, in your blood, and in your bodies. "

" And the fire of death? " asked others.

" It is the fire which blazes outside your body, which is hotter than

your blood. With that fire of death you cook your foods in your homes

and in your fields. I tell you truly, it is the same fire which

destroys your foods and your bodies, even as the fire of malice,

which ravages your thoughts, ravages your spirits. For your body is

that which you eat, and your spirit is that which you think. Eat

nothing, therefore, which a stronger fire than the fire of life has

killed. Wherefore, prepare and eat all fruits of trees, and all

grasses of the fields, and all milk of beasts good for eating. For

all these are fed and ripened by the fire of life; all are the gift

of the angels of our Earthly Mother. But eat nothing to which only

the fire of death gives savour, for such is of Satan. "

" How should we cook our daily bread without fire, Master? " asked some

with great astonishment.

" Let the angels of God prepare your bread. Moisten your wheat, that

the angel of water may enter it. Then set it in the air, that the

angel of air also may embrace it. And leave it from morning to

evening beneath the sun, that the angel of sunshine may descend upon

it. And the blessing of the three angels will soon make the germ of

life to sprout in your wheat. Then crush your grain, and make thin

wafers, as did your forefathers when they departed out of Egypt, the

house of bondage. Put them back again beneath the sun from its

appearing, and when it is risen to its highest in the heavens, turn

them over on the other side that they be embraced there also by the

angel of sunshine, and leave them there until the sun be set. For the

angels of water, of air, and of sunshine fed and ripened the wheat in

the field, and they, likewise, must prepare also your bread. And the

same sun which, with the fire of life, made the wheat to grow and

ripen, must cook your bread with the same fire. For the fire of the

sun gives life to the wheat, to the bread, and to the body. But the

fire of death kills the wheat, the bread, and the body. And the

living angels of the living God serve only living men. For God is the

God of the living, and not the God of the dead.

" So eat always from the table of God: the fruits of the trees, the

grain and grasses of the field, the milk of beasts, and the honey of

bees. For everything beyond these is of Satan, and leads by the way

of sins and of diseases unto death. But the foods which you eat from

the abundant table of God give strength and youth to your body, and

you will never see diseases For the table of God fed Methuselah of

old, and I tell you truly, if you live even as he lived, then will

the God of the living give you also long life upon the earth as was

his.

" For I tell you truly, the God of the living is richer than all the

rich of the earth, and his abundant table is richer than the richest

table of feasting of all the rich upon the earth. Eat, therefore, all

your life at the table of our Earthly Mother, and you will never see

want. And when you eat at her table, eat all things even as they are

found on the table of the Earthly Mother. Cook not, neither mix all

things one with another, lest your bowels become as steaming bogs.

For I tell you truly, this is abominable in the eyes of the Lord.

" And be not like the greedy servant, who always ate up, at the table

of his lord, the portions of others. And he devoured everything

himself, and mixed all together in his gluttony. And seeing that, his

lord was wroth with him, and drove him from the table. And when all

had ended their meal, he mixed together all that remained upon the

table, and called the greedy servant to him, and said: 'Take and eat

all this with the swine, for your place is with them, and not at my

table.'

" Take heed, therefore, and defile not with all kinds of abominations

the temple of your bodies. Be content with two or three sorts of

food, which you will find always upon the table of our Earthly

Mother. And desire not to devour all things which you see around you.

For I tell you truly, if you mix together all sorts of food in your

body, then the peace of your body will cease, and endless war will

rage in you. And it will be blotted out even as homes and kingdoms

divided against themselves work their own destruction. For your God

is the God of peace, and does never help division. Arouse not,

therefore, against you the wrath of God, lest he drive you from his

table, and lest you be compelled to go to the table of Satan, where

the fire of sins, diseases, and death will corrupt your body.

" And when you eat, never eat unto fulness. Flee the temptations of

Satan, and listen to the voice of God's angels. For Satan and his

power tempt you always to eat more and more. But live by the spirit,

and resist the desires of the body. And your fasting is always

pleasing in the eyes of the angels of God. So give heed to how much

you have eaten when your body is sated, and always eat less by a

third.

" Let the weight of your daily food be not less than a mina, but mark

that it go not beyond two. Then will the angels of God serve you

always, and you will never fall into the bondage of Satan and of his

diseases. Trouble not the work of the angels in your body by eating

often. For I tell you truly, he who eats more than twice in the clay

does in him the work of Satan. And the angels of God leave his body,

and soon Satan will take possession of it. Eat only when the sun is

highest in the heavens, and again when it is set. And you will never

see disease, for such finds favour in the eyes of the Lord. And if

you will that the angels of God rejoice in your body, and that Satan

shun you afar, then sit but once in the day at the table of God. And

then your days will be long upon the earth, for this is pleasing in

the eyes of the Lord. Eat always when the table of God is served

before you, and eat always of that which you find upon the table of

God. For I tell you truly, God knows well what your body needs, and

when it needs.

" From the coming of the month of Ijar, eat barley; from the month of

Sivan, eat wheat, the most perfect among all seed-bearing herbs. And

let your daily bread be made of wheat, that the Lord may take care of

your bodies. From Tammuz, eat the sour grape, that your body may

diminish and Satan may depart from it. in the month of Elul, gather

the grape that the juice may serve you as drink. In the month of

Marchesvan, gather the sweet grape, dried and sweetened by the angel

of sun, that your bodies may increase, for the angels of the Lord

dwell in them. You should eat figs rich in juice in the months of Ab

and Shebat, and what remain, let the angel of sun keep them for you;

eat them with the meat of almonds in all the months when the trees

bear no fruits. And the herbs which come after rain, these eat in the

month of Thebet, that your blood may be cleansed of all your sins.

And in the same month begin to eat also the milk of your beasts,

because for this did the Lord give the herbs of the fields to all the

beasts which render milk, that they might with their milk feed man.

For I tell you truly, happy are they that eat only at the table of

God, and eschew all the abominations of Satan. Eat not unclean foods

brought from far countries, but eat always that which your trees

bear. For your God knows well what is needful for you, and where and

when. And he gives to all peoples of all kingdoms for food that which

is best for each. Eat not as the heathen do, who stuff themselves in

haste, defiling their bodies with all manner of abominations.

" For the power of God's angels enters into you with the living food

which the Lord gives you from his royal table. And when you eat, have

above you the angel of air, and below you the angel of water. Breathe

long and deeply at all your meals, that the angel of air may bless

your repasts. And chew well your food with your teeth, that it become

water, and that the angel of water turn it into blood in your body.

And eat slowly, as it were a prayer you make to the Lord. For I tell

you truly, the power of God enters into you, if you eat after this

manner at his table. But Satan turns into a steaming bog the body of

him upon whom the angels of air and water do not descend at his

repasts. And .the Lord suffers him no longer at his table. For the

table of the Lord is an altar, and he who eats at the table of God is

in a temple. For I tell you truly, the body of the Son of Man is

turned into a temple, and his inwards into an altar, if he does the

commandments of God. Wherefore, put naught upon the altar of the Lord

when your spirit is vexed, neither think upon any one with anger in

the temple of God. And enter only into the Lord's sanctuary when you

feel in yourselves the call of his angels, for all that you eat in

sorrow, or in anger, or without desire, becomes a poison in your

body. For the breath of Satan defiles aR these. Place with joy your

offerings upon the altar of your body, and let all evil thoughts

depart from you when you receive into your body the power of God from

his table. And never sit at the table of God before he call you by

the angel of appetite.

" Rejoice, therefore, always with God's angels at their royal table,

for this is pleasing to the heart of the Lord. And your life will be

long upon the earth, for the most precious of God's servants will

serve you all your days: the angel of joy.

" And forget not that every seventh day is holy and consecrated to

God. On six days feed your body with the gifts of the Earthly Mother,

but on the seventh day sanctify your body for your Heavenly Father.

On the seventh day eat not any earthly food, but live only on the

words of God, and be all the day with the angels of the Lord in the

kingdom of the Heavenly Father. And on the seventh day let the angels

of God build the kingdom of the heavens in your body, as you labor

for six days in the kingdom of the Earthly Mother. And let not food

trouble the work of the angels in your body throughout the seventh

day. And God will give you long life upon earth, that you may have

life everlasting in the kingdom of the heavens. For I tell you truly,

if you see not diseases any more upon earth, you will live for ever

in the kingdom of the heavens.

" And God will send you each morning the angel of sunshine to wake you

from your sleep. Therefore, obey your Heavenly Father's summons, and

lie not idle in your beds, for the angels of air and water await you

already without. And labor all day long with the angels of the

Earthly Mother that you may come to know them and their works ever

more and more well. But when the sun is set, and your Heavenly Father

sends you his most precious angel, sleep, then take your rest, and be

all the night with the angel of sleep. And then will your Heavenly

Father send you his unknown angels, that they may be with you the

livelong night. And the Heavenly Father's unknown angels will teach

you many things concerning the kingdom of God, even as the angels

that you know of the Earthly Mother, instruct you in the things of

her kingdom. For I tell you truly, you will be every night the guests

of the kingdom of your Heavenly Father, if you do his commandments.

And when you wake up upon the morrow, you will feel in you the power

of the unknown angels. And your Heavenly Father will send them to you

every night, that they may build your spirit, even as every day the

Earthly Mother sends you her angels, that they may build your body.

For I tell you truly, if in the daytime your Earthly Mother folds you

in her arms, and in the night the Heavenly Father breathes his kiss

upon you, then will the Sons of Men become the Sons of God.

" Resist day and night the temptations of Satan. Wake not by night,

neither sleep by day, lest the angels of God depart from you.

" And take no delight in any drink, nor in any smoke from Satan,

waking you by night and making you to sleep by day. For I tell you

truly, all the drinks and smokes of Satan are abominations in the

eyes of your God.

" Commit not whoredom, by night or by day, for the whoremonger is like

a tree whose sap runs out from its trunk. And that tree will be dried

up before its time, nor will it ever bear fruit. Therefore, go not a-

whoring, lest Satan dry up your body, and the Lord make your seed

unfruitful.

" Shun all that is too hot and too cold. For it is the will of your

Earthly Mother that neither heat nor cold should harm your body. And

let not your bodies become either hotter or colder than as God's

angels warm or cool them. And if you do the commandments of the

Earthly Mother, then as oft as your body becomes too hot, will she

send the angel of coolness to cool you, and as oft as your body

becomes too cold, will she send you the angel of heat to warm you

again.

" Follow the example of all the angels of the Heavenly Father and of

the Earthly Mother, who work day and night, without ceasing, upon the

kingdoms of the heavens and of the earth. Therefore, receive also

into yourselves the strongest of God's angels, the angel of deeds,

and work all together upon the kingdom of God. Follow the example of

the running water, the wind as it blows, the rising and setting of

the sun, the growing plants and trees, the beasts as they run and

gambol, the wane and waxing of the moon, the stars as they come and

go again; all these do move, and do perform their labors. For all

which has life does move, and only that which is dead is still. And

God is the God of the living, and Satan that of the dead. Serve,

therefore, the living God, that the eternal movement of life may

sustain you, and that you may escape the eternal stillness of death.

Work, therefore, without ceasing, to build the kingdom of God, lest

you be cast into the kingdom of Satan. For eternal joy abounds in the

living kingdom of God, but still sorrow darkens the kingdom of death

of Satan. Be, therefore, true Sons of your Earthly Mother and of your

Heavenly Father, that you fall not as slaves of Satan. And your

Earthly Mother and Heavenly Father will send you their angels to

teach, to love, and to serve you. And their angels will write the

commandments of God in your head, in your heart, and in your hands,

that you may know, feel, and do God's commandments.

" And pray every day to your Heavenly Father and Earthly mother, that

your soul become as perfect as your Heavenly Father's holy spirit is

perfect, and that your body become as perfect as the body of your

Earthly Mother is perfect. For if you understand, feel, and do the

commandments, then all for which you pray to your Heavenly Father and

your Earthly Mother will be given you. For the wisdom, the love, and

the power of God are above all.

" After this manner, therefore, pray to your Heavenly Father: Our

Father which art 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 forgive our debtors. And

lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is

the kingdom, the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

" And after this manner pray to your Earthly Mother: Our Mother which

art upon earth, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, and thy will

be done in us, as it is in thee. As thou sendest every day thy

angels, send them to us also. Forgive us our sins, as we atone all

our sins against thee. And lead us not into sickness, but deliver us

from all evil, for thine is the earth, the body, and the health. Amen.

And they all prayed together with Jesus to the Heavenly Father and to

the Earthly Mother.

And afterwards Jesus spoke thus to them: " Even as your bodies have

been reborn through the Earthly Mother's angels, may your spirit,

likewise, be reborn through the angels of the Heavenly Father.

Become, therefore, true Sons of your Father and of your Mother, and

true Brothers of the Sons of Men. Till now you were at war with your

Father, with your Mother, and with your Brothers. And you have served

Satan. From today live at peace with your Heavenly Father, and with

your Earthly Mother, and with your Brothers, the Sons of Men. And

fight only against Satan, lest he rob you of your peace. I give the

peace of your Earthly Mother to your body, and the peace of your

Heavenly Father to your spirit. And let the peace of both reign among

the Sons of Men.

" Come to me, all that are weary and that suffer in strife and

affliction! For my peace will strengthen you and comfort you. For my

peace is exceeding full of joy. Wherefore do I always greet you after

this manner: 'Peace be with you!' Do you always, therefore, so greet

one another, that upon your body may descend the peace of your

Earthly Mother, and upon your spirit the peace of your Heavenly

Father. And then you will find peace also among yourselves, for the

kingdom of God is within you. And now return to your Brothers with

whom hitherto you were at war, and give your peace to them also. For

happy are they that strive for peace, for they will find the peace of

God. Go, and sin no more. And give to every one your peace, even as I

have given my peace unto you. For my peace is of God. Peace be with

you. "

And he left them.

And his peace descended upon them; and in their heart the angel of

love, in their head the wisdom of law, and in their hands the power

of rebirth, they went forth among the Sons of Men, to bring the light

of peace to those that warred in darkness.

And they parted, wishing one to another:

" PEACE BE WITH YOU. "