BTL - Volume 7 - Teaching 187
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Book of True Life - Volume 7
Teaching 187
1. Come and eat the bread of eternal life at the table of the Master. The angels have prepared the banquet, and your Father receives you all. Eat and drink, but know how to appreciate the heavenly taste of this food, and do not behave like some who sit at my table, eat, drink, and then go away without having realized with whom they have been.
2. The bread that I am offering you today is the same bread that I brought you in the second time. Seek the meaning in both, and you will discover that it is the same ─ that of my divine love.
3. I come to redeem you as I did in the Second Time, and to all those who want to follow Me I say: "Take up your cross and follow my trail". They well know that the cross consists of humility, love, mercy, renunciation and sacrifice. The one who takes it already knows the path he must follow. I have deceived no one by telling them that my way is strewn with roses. For I want my soldiers to follow me out of love and faith.
4. I know that after I have shown the truth of my teaching to my children, those who follow me will be faithful and sincere in all acts of their lives. There will be no paid servants among my faithful, but only ardent disciples and selfless followers.
5. If anyone should misinterpret this work, and exploit it for unfair purposes, he will call himself a "traitor," and his conscience will be his own judge.
6. You have already had a painful and sad example with one of my disciples of the Second Age, that you may avoid it and try to imitate it for no reason. For it is not right that a man, having belonged to the number of my faithful children, should have to go away to hide his transgression that has defiled him ─ as Judas did when he went away from the Lord's Supper, because he understood that he was not worthy to dwell even a moment longer among those who would soon give their lives to bear witness to the truth revealed by the Divine Master.
Those who followed me then did so out of love for my cause. Today I want you who come here in desire for my teaching to follow me as well ─ but not driven by human interests or by the misunderstood fear of my justice. I want that love for your neighbor alone inspires you to do so; for in them you love and glorify your Father and Creator.
7. If I wanted that fear would convince you, I would only have to wish it, and already the forces of nature would be unleashed and show you in this way that I am the only powerful one But I want that in each of you the merits accumulate, which are attained through humility, faith and love.
8. Now is a new time, and that is why you are now receiving new teachings. For the events of former times, as mankind expects them, will not be repeated in this age. This would be as if time stood still and mankind would repeat the same lesson.
9. Soldiers of Jesus ─ that's what I call you, because I entrust you with my cause: Fathom my teaching, that you may be sure of this truth. Then, when you have gained confidence, you must not fall asleep again, and the theologians must not embarrass you with their questions, although what I have explained to you today holds no mystery. The secret treasury has opened before your Spirit so that you may know your Father better and better. What sense would it have if I came to you with secrets? Could you call these secrets revelations?
10. I promised you the Spirit of Truth who would come to you to explain to you my former teachings; and now i can tell you that in this word i have brought all that is destined for this time
11. Understand how to be my disciples by listening carefully to my teachings, reflecting on them thoroughly, and later applying them.
12. My children: while you recognize Me by my words, I recognize you by your deeds.
13. Together you will learn my lesson better. The Teaching is extensive, full of light, because it is the love of the Father Himself that is radiated in the word. Therefore you must use all your will to prove yourselves good disciples.
14. Your world is a desert, I am the oasis. You are thirsty wanderers who have called for Me and have shown Me all their thirst for justice and love. I have sent you My word as pure and crystal clear water. At times it has been like manna, but always it has been the food that strengthens your soul on its long and difficult desert crossing.
15. When the time comes, you will become an oasis that will give shade, water and refreshment to the suffering wayfarer. With you, those who suffer will heal their hearts, for I am currently transforming you into healing balm.
16. Now is the time of light, you are all clothed with it. This Light will make man understand that in him exists an atom of divinity, which is the soul, whose intelligence, guided by conscience, will lead him to peace.
17. These gifts are to free him from the painful reparations and enable him to ascend to the realms of perfect wisdom.
18. In the course of time I have seen many of my children who have spurned the pleasures that this world offers and have followed the path of my law to leave a trail of spiritual examples and inspiration to mankind These creatures, these people who, like you, inhabited the earth and came only to bring their message of love and consolation, today live in the spiritual world and enjoy true peace.
19. I do not demand of you that you dedicate all your time to Me, for I have given you duties and responsibilities on earth. But you must understand that the human body, which you so love, is but the mantle or shell of the soul. It is the flesh in which all suffering awakens.
20. You have allowed this flesh to be filled with the imperfections and temptations that your minds create when you do not wake and pray.
21. I know that as long as you are in this world, your hearts and your minds will bow to it. But fight against everything that is harmful, senseless, and immoral. I do not advise you to shut yourselves up in monasteries and to spurn the world and the dealings with your neighbor, for this would misunderstand your love and your service for my divinity. Do not aspire to be puritans, forgetting that it is incumbent upon you to fulfill the laws of nature as well.
22. Fulfill the laws to which the Creator has subjected you. Some concern the soul, others the body, and I only order that you reject the harmful, the arrogance and the hypocrisy.
23. O beloved disciples, who listen to the Master's teaching, see how my word awakens the faculties which were slumbering in you.
24. You may rightly say that these are already the last moments of my presence among you in this form. These are precious moments; for when you remember them after my parting, you can say, "What grace the Lord has granted us!
25. So, beloved disciples, beware of temptation. Do not concern yourselves with things that do not concern you.
Make sure that spiritualization can be reflected in you. I know that your struggle is hot, that doing good is sometimes hard and bitter. Therefore, I teach you first to love and forgive your loved ones and then to send you among mankind.
26. Do not become weary, for the work for the soul will never end. That which at present seems to you to be a reparation or a punishment, your soul, when it rises, will receive as a reward, for it will never tire of loving and sowing the good.
27. Blessed is the prepared heart, because it is like the fragrant rose, which gives off its fragrance. Blessed is the human thought that was able to rise to Me, because it sees the spiritual beauties. The one who knows how to lift his soul will do great works, and his mind will grasp and create a better world.
28. I have prepared you to set out to build a world where good reigns. For the people of this time have contributed with their sins in one way or another to the destruction of the noblest and highest that can exist in the heart of man ─ of spiritual love.
29. Strive not so much for your comfort. Give up that desire to secure your future. Be no longer dissatisfied. What do you desire or expect from this world? You have already had honors, pleasures, praises. Some have had everything, others much. Yet I meet you all without good works.
30. Ask yourselves whether you have been righteous to yourselves. You possess intelligence, have reason and freedom of will. At present you hear my word, cannot call yourselves ignorant. You have learned to seek Me in infinity where there are no forms, for as God I do not have them.
31. I am in yourselves. Why should men always seek Me in that blue which they call "heaven"? This too I can tell you: I am beyond this heaven. Seek me with humility and esteem, and I will allow you to penetrate deeply into my wisdom. But what man has penetrated in his thinking to where the power of God is? ─ No one. For no one knows the way or the ladder to reach me, because man has not listened to the voice of conscience.
32. Man does not yet know his world, the earth, whose nature still holds many surprises in store for him. And there are still many worlds like the one that surrounds you. But if the creation, which is only a part of my work, is not known ─ why are there those who claim to recognize me by means of their science?
33. I speak to the soul, which one day will walk the true path that leads to me and will see my divine glory.
34. Be humble men full of understanding. Be men of peace.
35. You ask Me to pour out My grace on you because you know that My word is the only nourishment for your soul. For the life that you are going through lets you fall down occasionally. You have a bitter taste in your mouths; therefore I come close to you to give you sweetness and tenderness in my word and to soothe your thirst with my love that fills everything. But there are infinitely hungrier people than you. That is why I leave you as trustees of my revelations, so that you let these men share in my gifts of grace.
36. You must become masters; but you must imprint my final lessons in your hearts, one by one. You are not yet prepared. If at this moment the Master would call the most advanced one to take his place and speak in his name, he would not feel able to do so, and his fear would not leave him, nor would his lips open.
37. But will you soon have to speak in this way ─ after 1950, when I have withdrawn my word. Then you must overcome all your fear and make use of my power to enter fully into the fulfillment of your task. It will no longer be quite the same rapture that you have known so far, by means of which I have spoken to you in this time. It will suffice if you, full of faith, rise to me and hear the voice of your Spirit, then the inspiration will be in your mind.
38. You will instruct the multitudes of men to support you with their thoughts, their devotion and armament. Then you will see to it that your word is truly a bringer of divine inspiration.
39. See how the form (of the rallies) will change and everything will become easier for better understanding by men. For man wants to have clarity; he will no longer tire his mind with deciphering lessons which he thinks are unintelligible. Therefore in the last times of my rallies I make my word more easily comprehensible so that you do not make mistakes.
40. Also in the Second Age the Master made his teaching clearer in the last periods (of his teaching), for these last lessons were to make all previous teachings comprehensible.
41. To you I say: I want all your actions to be a spark of truth. For the teaching I have given you is like crystal clear water. Do not show men anything of my work in a misleading way, for everything has a plausible explanation and a reason for existence. In everything you pass on, there must be no fear of the world. In this way all those who have deceived their fellow men with unfair rallies will recognize their error, and only those will remain in my service who are ready, with good intention and good armament, to bring my truth, my love, and my peace to men. Verily I say to you, the weeds that grow in the hearts will be removed from the fertile fields. Only then will mankind recognize the true work of the Holy Spirit.
42. You will find all my disciples scattered throughout the world. For everyone who is spiritual in his way of life and worships me is a spiritualist.
43. The unification of religions will come when the Spirit of men will rise above materialism, traditions, prejudices and fanaticism. Then men will have united spiritually in one single worship service: that of goodness out of love for God and neighbor. When this happens, humanity will enter a period of perfection. Therefore I demand of you that you show my work through good and sincere actions.
You must not be troubled that you will no longer witness the realization of all this. But in any case, you will have the satisfaction of having contributed with your seed to the establishment of the Kingdom of Peace ─ a seed that will bear fruit in the hearts of future generations.
44. Prepare yourselves, sowers in my field, for the fields are ready to receive the seed of my teaching.
45. The day is not far off when you will see multitudes of men seeking you crossing the seas in longing for what the Master has given you for them.
This continent will receive them with brotherhood and peace. The races will mingle, it will be the union of men, because their mores and their ideas will intertwine; and this will bring about a real and lasting peace. A new world will be born. The one that you are currently living through serves as a preparation for this.
The struggle must be long to gain time; for the ideas that prevail today cannot be erased in an instant. It requires a certain amount of time between these two worlds: That which you are living through, which must disappear, and that of tomorrow, which will replace it.
46. You are still in the hardest time of the battle. Therefore I have come to lead you so that you may see that world of tomorrow. I give you the necessary powers to carry out your resolution, and I bless mankind.
47. Be blessed; for you seek to increase your knowledge to discover the highest, and you desire to see clearly when you enter the spiritual path But you will not be able to fully recognize my teaching until you are ready for the bandage covering your eyes to fall.
48. Man is himself responsible for his spiritual retardation. For though he is endowed with Reason and Spirit, he makes no effort to rise to the level of life which is his due. He lets himself go and enjoys the pleasures of the flesh, kills his soul, becomes ill and drags himself along as a "paralyzed man" without the slightest desire to be healed of his suffering.
49. Very little have my teachings and sacrificial death brought about. For at the end of the centuries I see full of sorrow that the blind (still) lead the blind, and the lame want to cause the paralyzed to walk. I see that the majority of men are frail, only weak creatures, and this because you do not want to live as I have taught you. You allow the passions to dominate you and to sprout in your hearts and harm you.
50. You are endowed with great qualities and yet you do not make good use of them. I have determined the intelligence and the will to serve the Spirit, so that you may be masters of your actions, of your life, and good lawgivers, that you may be victorious and win the battle in that struggle which you fight between the Spirit and the flesh. When you achieve this, you will be good prophets who will lead the crowds of people ─ the people of good will. Then you will not fear the battle because you have defeated yourselves. You will feel strong and you will look at each other with respect and love ─ even the subordinate beings, those little brothers of yours, who will then become your friends.
51. Do not believe that the prophets of antiquity, whom you call "great men" and who achieved liberation, were strong and exalted only because they were destined to do so. They were so because they fought and built the true temple of peace and love. But those who strive hardest to attain the truth are also in danger of falling prey to error. But by their spiritual upliftment they have distinguished good from evil and rejected every enemy, whereby they achieved that the light that was in them triumphs.
52. This principle of life that is in you ─ this light comes from my Divine Spirit, and every man possesses it without understanding what it is worth That is why he despised this treasure, and, although it is endowed with great qualities to be immortal, he robs himself of it, kills himself voluntarily, and loses his power. I allow him to feel and know the consequences of his error, so that afterwards, through his effort and experience, he may regain his dignity and seek the fulfillment and joys of the Spirit, leaving the fleeting joys behind forever.
53. What is necessary to live always according to my laws? To make use of your power and energy as my true disciples work to defeat the dark forces that have taken over the world.
54. I want you to understand my truth and that you understand that I have no mysteries or secrets for you ─ that if you prepare yourselves in this time, you will come to practice true worship for my divinity.
You say that you obey the law and believe in Me; but your works say the opposite. Today you first learn my will and my instructions; but the day will come when you will be prepared. Then I will let you share in my glory, will make a covenant with you, and there will be peace in this world.
55. At that time you will acknowledge Me as the only Lord and will love you without any favour like brothers and sisters. But if you want to be my true disciples today, it will not be necessary for you to leave the earth to feel strong and pure. Already in this world that you inhabit, you will see my promises come true, for everything will come true.
56. The table is set. Sit down, take your places, let Me guide and serve you. Take with Me from the bread of truth, let yourselves be enlightened by the light of love and sing praises for your God.
57. Hear what beautiful harmony resounds Let your hymn of love resound in heaven, and let the voices of the angels unite with yours.
58. Surrender your sufferings to Me, give Me your sorrows, and be no longer accustomed to them.
59. As you are with Me at this moment, so shall mankind come to Me according to My will; I await them. Be sincere wherever you go so that my teaching may not be attacked, but may be recognized by all for the sake of the fruits it offers.
60. My divine word resounds in your Spirit even more strongly than in your hearing. I give you my teaching so that you may be masters tomorrow. But it is necessary that you know the basic principle of my teaching to be able to speak of it, and this basic principle is love. Besides, I tell you that it is not enough to know this basic principle only ─ one must possess it, feel it. How can you speak of charity if you have not felt it for your fellow men?
61. If I frequently repeat the word "love" in my teachings, it is because I am entitled to do so; for I truly love you.
62. I have told you, disciples, that tomorrow you will be masters. This will happen when you love your neighbor.
See how my word gradually smoothes you out like a fine chisel ─, touching at one time your perception, at another time the strings of your heart, or over your Spirit, so that its light may illuminate you.
63. So I speak to your human part of being to make it obedient and devoted to your Spirit, which in truth is to direct the steps of man on earth. It is he who possesses the power and the light for this.
64. Today I see man stopped on the spiritual path. He has taken the paths of science, power, and passions. Do you think that ─, if he had not stopped in his spiritual development, which means approaching love, goodness, and truth, ─ he would also have set fire to the pyre of war?
65. The time of spiritualization has come, and if men were to resist seeing my light, they would fall prey to error, for even nature will produce manifestations which they could not then understand.
66. Do not follow me out of fear of my justice, nor out of a sense of duty. What merit would your work have if you did not do it voluntarily? ─ You know that you must come to Me through your own merits. You have already known the world and its joys, and these only made you weak and shadowed your soul. But do not err in the opinion that I also deny you the good and righteous deeds to which you are bound on earth, and which you constantly need.
67. I love you all and do not divide you into races. But as long as man does not understand himself as a spirit soul, but only as a human being, he will consider himself to be higher than his fellow men, and discord and war will exist.
68. The universal language of my word, whose essence is love, will be heard by all men, and it will be it that unites them among themselves and with their Father.
69. Awaken, O people, for your struggle will begin after the year 1950, in which my word will end through these voices. But you and your children and later their children shall make my teaching indelible in the heart of mankind.
My peace be with you!
