BTL - Volume 7 - Teaching 181
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Book of True Life - Volume 7
Teaching 181
1. You crowds of listeners, come to the light, close the eyes of the body for a few moments and see with the Spirit the splendor of my presence coming to you It is the divine light of love and wisdom, which I want to give you as garment. It is the light that dispels the darkness of ignorance, fanaticism and wickedness.
2. I give you my teaching on this day which you have dedicated to physical rest and care of the soul. It is the seventh day when you rest from the toil of the week, when you reap the fruit of your labor and gather strength to continue your journey.
3. Take this day as a symbol of the seventh stage of your development on ─ that in which the last seal will open, in which you will rest after the long journey of your life.
4. Many think that my light comes down only in those places where my word is manifested; but the truth is that my spiritual presence is with all. This is why I have called the light I am sending you the Universal Ray. For at the same moment it shines through the voice bearers, all creatures feel it in different ways. Yes, people, since I am omnipotent and omnipresent, I manifest myself in various forms, all of which are spiritual. ─ If you saw me as a human being in the Second Time, it was because I sought to reach your heart. But now you "see" me coming spiritually because it is your soul that I want to enlighten.
5. "Savior" you have called me, and "Savior" you will continue to call me because I lead you away from the bad ways.
6. Do not curse the trials that afflict you and the whole human race Do not say that they are punishment, wrath or vengeance of God, for then you are blaspheming. I tell you that it is precisely these trials that bring mankind ever closer to the port of salvation.
7. Call them righteousness, atonement or lessons, then it will be true and right. Wrath and vengeance are human passions that are inherent in those beings who are still far from peace of mind, harmony, and perfection. It is not right that you should give the vulgar name of "punishment" or the unworthy name of "revenge" to my love for you, which determines all my works.
8. Consider that you have voluntarily set yourselves on thorny paths or into dark abysses, and that you have not listened to my loving call nor listened to the voice of your conscience, which is why it became necessary for pain to come to your aid, to wake you up, to stop you, to bring you to your senses and to make you return to the true path.
9. It has been necessary to allow pain to be present in darkness and peace to dwell in light, so that you may freely choose the spiritual state you desire
10. When I see that you allow yourselves to be defeated by pain and that instead of drawing from it the teachings that every trial contains, you are content to weep, curse or simply wait for death as the end of your sufferings, then I approach you to lovingly address your heart, to give it comfort and hope and strengthen it so that it may overcome itself, its weakness and lack of faith and triumph over trials; for in this triumph lies peace, light, and spiritual happiness, which is true happiness.
11. For this I have come, people, to remove the endless night that covered you and to give you a new day full of splendour My word will perform the miracle of melting the ice of your heart so that it may begin to feel the spiritual and beat for all good. My word will open the bars of the prison in which your soul found itself imprisoned. But your cause is to do the other miracle: to achieve peace and ascension through the merits of your works.
12. How distant then will be the paths where you have hurt your feet, leaving a trail of blood and tears, and where you have drunk the cup of suffering to its end!
13. My divine desire is to save you and to lead you into a world of light, beauty and love, where you vibrate joyfully because of the exaltation of the soul, the generosity of feelings, the ideal of perfection But do you not recognize my Father love in this divine desire? Undoubtedly, he who does not understand it in this way must be blind.
14. Some claim to grasp me with their intellect, in the opinion that they can grasp me in this way. Others, who are still more immature and materialistic, want to see me in human form, in order to believe in me, without thinking that there is a higher sense in their being, through which they can understand me, feel my presence, and see me. But this sense can manifest itself only through faith and spiritualization.
15. How much joy is given to my Spirit by those disciples who truly strive for exaltation; for these ─ although they are insignificant and foolish in the eyes of the world ─ understand to feel my presence in their heart, to interpret or understand my inspirations, and agree with what my will grants them.
16. Be like them so that you all may feel Me and enjoy My benefits, for I am for all. Behold: after I have paved the way with my teaching, I turn my gaze to you, you small number of hearts, who are among the younger ones called to follow my path in this time.
17. This Word of Light which I am giving you is the spiritual bread with which I feed you in the Third Age. All my children in their faith convictions long for this
Food ─ the one in its external form, and the others in its sense content. I receive all with love and grant all my grace.
18. I said to my apostles during the Lord's Supper, "Take the bread, it is my body. Take the wine, which is my blood, and after my departure you shall remember this teaching.
19. Now I say to you: Take my word, which is eternal life, and keep its meaning. Remember the same after 1950, when it is no longer heard, and feed on it. Just as my disciples knew how to put their lives in order through my teaching and spread it in humility, so you too shall be, that you may bring this bread of the soul to all the hungry. For it is written that my word will not pass away and will be heard in all mankind.
20. I have said unto you, Hear my word, and ye shall find in its essence the bread of God's bounty. I have said to you, "Demand the love of the Father, for what is necessary for your life on earth will be given you on top of it.
21. Concerning this seed you will have to answer to me, because I have entrusted it to you at all times. Who can say of himself that he has fulfilled his task, and that he is free from every blemish?
22. To practise charity is the highest task of your destiny. Spread it in works, in words, and even in thoughts; for a thought sent out with love brings comfort to your fellow men.
23. I want you to learn to forgive. I invite you to take my cross of love upon you and follow me. I hear and receive him who says to me inwardly, "Lord, I will follow your steps.
24. But at the same time I ask you: Who will it be who betrays me in this third time? Inquire, and you will answer me when the time has come.
25. Whoever does not obey My law, whoever denies Me, whoever profanes or defiles My work in any way, it will be he who abandons Me to the mob, who cries out through his works, "Crucify him! For his actions will cause men to ask themselves, "Are these the disciples of the Master?
Are these the ones who heard his word?"
26. Love men, do not make your benefactions known; that will be enough to be the apostles of the Third Age.
27. Today I am before the world, present with men, and I tell them What do you accuse Me of? I have spoken the truth, have advised the good, have fulfilled my promise to return. I do not deny what I told you in the Second, because I am an example of truthfulness. I continue to bear the heavy cross, and it is man who hurts my body.
28. Remember that the Son of God came close to men at that time and they did not understand him. But today you can finally understand me.
29. I am still crucified, for I am cut into pieces in the form of each of you. Tell Me: Can I not feel your own pain? Then why do you not feel Me?
30. I am sacrificed again. Who will crucify Me at this time? Who will cry out to Me, "Get on with it!
31. My gaze is penetrating and at the same time loving. When a tear springs from it, it does not fall to the ground, but penetrates your souls. I will always be with you. The world still needs me.
32. The time will come when brotherhood will be felt among you as you enter the sanctuary of my thoughts.
33. Wherever I come from and wherever I go, you cannot go at present. But the day will come when you will come into my presence and recognize me because of this word. You will then see the overcomer of death, who through his sacrifice gave you eternal life. Because I am the resurrection and the life, am the consolation, which seeks out every troubled soul to give it peace.
34. This light that I am shining down on you at present is to be peace and morality in the generations to come
35. Verily I tell you again, I suffer in all who suffer The hunger and thirst of men for love is also the hunger and thirst of my Spirit. In them I suffer, and in them I am pierced. But my love tells you: Disciples, be steadfast, for hypocrites, Pharisees and Gentiles will approach you and ask you whether you have acknowledged me and whether you love me. In these questions you will be afraid, and if you are weak, you will say like that apostle, "I never knew that Galilean.
36. Remember that your reward is not in this world. If you should be hurt for my sake, do not despair. Forgive and love, be my disciples.
37. Do not make the sign of the cross outwardly, for I am hanging on the cross within you yourselves.
38. I will make myself perceptible in the conscience of all those who commit my divine passion with pagan and worldly celebrations, and will cause them to feel contrition and their heart to throb and weep. I will accept their repentance, for it will never be too late to open their eyes to the truth.
39. Cleanse yourselves from sin and love one another, that you may take down the body of Jesus from the cross, and your heart may be His shroud.
40. Know the fulfillment of my promise: the "temple" was destroyed, and I rebuilt it in three days. The spiritual sanctuary in which the Lord dwells is now erected.
41. I met a pious woman, and when I saw her weeping, I asked her, "Why are you weeping? And she answered, as in those days, "I am weeping because the Master has disappeared. I have gone in search of his body; but he is not there." Then I told her: "Look up and recognize that the Master is with you."
42. "Go and tell your brothers and sisters that they are gathering because the Master will surprise them, and that I will show eternal life to him who is able to feel me because of his faith.
43. Beloved disciples, you see Me at present with the gaze of your faith, because I have taken shape in the essence of this Word, in the inspiration of man. But I also discover that Thomas who put his fingers into my wounds in order to be able to believe. Today you cannot touch my body because I am untouchable. It is no longer the time in which you can touch me.
44. I have come to you in the Spirit, and the time will come when you embrace my teaching with heart and with spirit. I, the overcomer of matter, temptation and death, have penetrated into the caves of darkness and have brought light into the souls of those who had inhabited this world and passed over into the other life. Bound in chains of remorse and self-accusation, I have made them see the light of my glory and have set them free. For although I dwell in the light, I also descend into the abysses, where the souls are purified, because I am the resurrection for all.
45. Be faithful witnesses of these rallies. Feel them and remember them with devotion so that you may plant their seed in fertile soil.
46. Verily I say to you, this generation will not pass away without my teaching being made known
47. You will be misjudged and rebuked; but I say to you Fear not mockery, not even the death of the body. No one will be able to kill you, for I am with you.
After this discussion the world will know the spiritual joy of dialogue with the Father. Peace will come to the nations because in their change of heart they will follow my teaching. Be faithful disciples, remember that I have given you enough time and opportunity to know the world. What can you expect from it?
48. If you are weak in material things, you are strong in Spirit. You have understood the meaning of human life, and now you are trying to understand the meaning of spiritual life. Who among you has not felt within him the gifts I have given him? Have faith in me so that you may penetrate into the invisible and strengthen yourselves; for still you must fight with yourselves.
49. I have raised you to new life, because you were dead. I have opened my glory to you, have adorned your soul with the light of my word. Keep this grace and feel that true life comes to you.
50. Forgive and love now those who may have offended you, and think that the offence was not against you but against Me, who am in each of My children. If I forgive all ─ why can you not forgive? Because of selfishness and vanity of the flesh! But where does your flesh go? To where it merges with the elements from which it was formed, while the soul will survive to answer for all its deeds committed through its bodily shell, while the infinite light of the Creator awaits it to merge with the child in an embrace of love.
51. Then who would not want to be worthy of that reward at that moment?
52. Disciples, I want you to feel in this time the joy that those who saw Me ascending into heaven experienced My manifestation before the disciples was to fulfill the promise I made to them the day before the sacrificial death.
I taught them then about the life of the soul and what physical death means. They did not understand, and so I had to announce to them that I would come back as a spirit being to confirm to them everything I had told them. When I then ─ was already as spirit being ─ among the disciples, and one of them put his fingers into my fresh wounds, I told them: "I will always be with you and will come as light of the Holy Spirit.
When they intended to lean their heads against the Master's breast, the figure of Jesus disappeared because the proof I had given them of my truth was sufficient. I promised to return to the people "on the cloud," and these disciples have also witnessed the fulfillment of my word from their spiritual home, and you have seen that promise come true in your world. This is the resurrection, which I have revealed to you in this time.
53. I leave you my peace. Keep my teaching and let it guide you so that you do not get lost in dark shadows. After 1950 you will enter the sanctuary of my divine inspiration to set out to teach this Good News as your brothers, my apostles, did in the Second Age. You will see my pure teaching, free from rites, traditions and vanities, blossoming. For I have no desire for material churches, but for the heart of my children to transform it into a real sanctuary where the love of Jehovah dwells.
54. What do you bring before me on this day? Why do you weep, though I have given you my peace and made you feel my love and tenderness? ─ You remain silent in answer to my question. ─ I have filled you with grace, but you feel that you did not know how to use it. That is why there is pain in your hearts. But what is it that keeps you from fulfilling your mission?
The world you inhabit is a touchstone, and the more you purify yourself, the freer you will feel. Your past debts will then no longer weigh on your soul, and you will be able to develop spiritually upwards.
Fear not poverty. If the world robs you of your goods, if it demands your possessions, give them up, and you will have lost nothing. Fear him who wants to rob you of peace ─ fear him who tries to erase your faith. For these goods are not only your treasure, but it also belongs to those entrusted to you. It is the means by which I will give you salvation, together with that of those people whom I have entrusted to your care.
55. The intercession of Mary, the loving and selfless Mother, comes to Me, and the shepherd Elijah puts the people before Me. Unceasingly the divine tenderness, the shepherd and your guardian angels pray for you. But I, the Father know and feel your pain, and my mercy is with you. Be healed, people, and save mankind. I have shown you the way, and if you want peace, be men of good will, banish selfishness and give of what is in your heart.
Today you do not love one another in Spirit, but the time will come when you will see in every fellow man an embodiment of Me, an image of my divinity, and this love will banish pain.
56. Understand that you all belong to Me. The price for your salvation is the example marked with my blood, my sacrificial death out of love, and it is necessary that you recognize that I come for the sake of your soul to bring it to the gates of the "Promised Land.
My word will not leave you before the appointed time, and afterwards, when you have prepared yourselves, the Good News will be known through you and through my messengers in different nations. My Word will be explored and eventually studied and understood. Around the year 2000, the spiritual capacities of mankind will begin to manifest, bearing witness to my Word.
57. Prepare yourselves, and in a short time you will recognize your spiritual gifts. You all possess an inheritance from the moment of your creation. Therefore, all of you can become active and be my "workers.
58. The fields are prepared and await the seed and care. Do not be tardy, begin to fulfill your mission. The time is favorable, and your prayer and activity in the law will fill your souls with peace.
59. Only a few moments have passed since you, concentrated on your Spirit, remembered the hour in which you saw the Son of God crucified.
60. I have come to tell you that the short time that has passed since then has been of use to mankind. I have come to bear witness of My love and I will be very close to you to make Myself known to every spirit, every heart and every flesh, for it is the age of light, the time of the Holy Spirit.
61. Take my teachings as a standard and put them into practice But do not think that this means sacrifice for you. If it did, it would indicate that your soul has not prepared itself and therefore does not experience any happiness.
62. If you want to follow Jesus, you must suffer. But at the bottom of that pain will be the happiness to suffer for the sake of your neighbor. Now your sacrifice will not be of blood because times have changed and humanity has evolved; it will be of love.
63. Your soul is laboriously dragging a chain behind it, which was created through the lives which I gave you as an opportunity for your perfection and which you did not use Every existence forms a link in the chain. But if you align your life according to my teachings, if you keep the law, you will no longer come to this world to suffer.
64. If you let time pass without studying my word, I, who am the time, will surprise you. Study so that you may take the place in my work that is due to you.
65. I want the incomprehension and the different opinions about my divinity to come to an end. Understand that you have all come forth from one God.
66. I continue to show you the only way that leads to my womb. It is wide, it is rough, there is a trail of blood on it. But at the end of the journey of life you will find flowers of delicious fragrance and fruits of good taste.
67. Some of you mourn for the time when you had happiness and peace. I say to you: Do not sigh. I have brought you happiness and peace anew, and these gifts of grace last forever.
68. When I tell you: "Ask and it will be given to you", you are asking Me for earthly things. But truly ─ for how little you ask me! Ask me above all for all that which is for the good of your soul. Collect no treasures on earth, for there are thieves here! Gather treasures in the Father's kingdom, for there your wealth will be safe, and it will serve the happiness and peace of your soul.
69. The treasures of the earth are the riches, the power, and the titles of false greatness. The treasures of the Spirit are the good works.
70. I do not misjudge the knowledge and science that men have attained. On the contrary, I enlighten their ability to know, so that their works have a noble and high purpose. For then they will certainly attain true greatness.
71. In the Second Time I showed the world what man is able to do by means of faith. I awakened him who was dead, to the blind I gave sight, to the leper I made pure, to the lame I let go.
72. I bless the science of man, which has healed and saved from death him who stood at the edge of the grave.
73. Now I have come to show you once more my wisdom, which is above all science, and I tell you The world will know the Comforter of the Third Age. But while you know that I am with men again, they still await me, although my departure is already near.
74. In my word of the "Second Time" I let you know that I will come to you anew, that my spiritual hosts will come down with me. But mankind has not correctly understood and interpreted the meaning of my word.
Hence every religious community awaits Me in their midst, hence they expect to see Me with their mortal eyes; but those who now expect Me in this way are the same who once denied that Jesus was the Messiah and took him for a dreamer.
75. As long as you have faith, you will see your way enlightened.
76. I have come at this time to build my temple. I will rebuild the temple of your heart, which you have destroyed, in "three days".
77. All of you keep your armour, and so you show yourselves to Me. Whenever you have opened your heart to receive my word, you have felt peace. Which one of you who sought Me with love has had no dialogue with Me? But if you have attained this mercy ─, why don't you teach it to your fellow men? If you find life in the activity of love, love unselfishly. If the fulfillment of duties fills you with health, work tirelessly.
78. I will find you worthy of me. I want to see peace in your homes and see each of you cultivate and promote goodness, so that you may live with me and become one with your brothers and sisters.
(Parable)
79. Once upon a time there was a humble master who taught his students. Among them were hearts filled with faith and impatient to set out to fulfill their mission. Shortly after they had received teachings from the Master, they asked him: "You who are wise and teach the pure love and the liberation of the soul ─ tell us: When will we be able to go out to teach what we have learned in the name of our Father?
But the Master replied: "O disciples, you want to pass on my teaching already? Have you already sated yourselves on it? If you do not fear the dangers, disbelief ...doesn't it? Are you strong enough yet?"
But one student insists: "You have given us an antidote, we feel strong and want to put your teaching into practice."
That Master, full of tenderness and goodness, blesses his disciples, gives them authority, and divorces them. And so the disciple sets out, works hearts, gives them of that great teaching.
Many seek him, and when they hear his word, they convert to his teaching and follow him. But after he has prepared those new disciples, the "laborer" says to the multitude that follows him: "You must show yourselves before Him who taught me to receive the last teaching. For that Master is about to depart, and desires to leave you full of his wisdom. Will you follow Me?"
80. They went in great crowds to that Master and saw with surprise that it was the Master of Masters, the infinite God, the Creator of all created things. Then they knelt down, felt deep remorse, and their soul united with him, and peace flowed through the hearts of the disciples.
(End of the parable)
81. Today I say to you, my disciples, the moment will come when you will see me in all my glory. At that time the earth and its inhabitants will be purified, and the virtue and beauty of the soul will be restored. Pain will disappear, and all will be bliss, will be an endless "day", without end for you. Will you not see these wonders? Do you not want your children to dialogue with my Spirit and create a world of peace free from sin?
82. I have given you the gifts of the Spirit to put my teaching into practice. Persevere in goodness. If your determination is great, you will conquer the seemingly insurmountable, and the world that did not believe in my coming in this time will love me and will be saved.
83. People, you will rejoice when you see that my rallies become more spiritual every day. Come to Me out of love, not fear.
84. Be strong, for trials are coming to you and you must overcome them with confidence
My peace be with you.
