BTL - Volume 8 - Teaching 227

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Teaching 227:

1. O beloved people: again I hear your prayer, asking Me to comfort you because you are going through hard trials that make you shed tears.

2. I see prematurely bent bodies, prematurely greying temples, aged faces of children and youth. I see no joy in the hearts, nor peace in the souls of men.

3. Even you, who are the chosen people, do not enjoy perfect happiness, because you know more than others that you live in a world of struggles, atonement and trials, that peace reigns in other, higher worlds than this one, and that in order to ascend, one must acquire merits.

4. In the midst of their struggles, I have granted this humanity small rest periods to gain new strength and to rest for a moment on their way.

5. In vain does man seek prosperity, peace, dominion, and earthly glory. At all times he has only experienced stumbling, disappointment, pain.

6. Ah, if only he would humbly accept his destiny and understand his nature as a spirit soul endowed with strength and power His life struggle would be different and his gain real, his striving would be generous and his victories true.

7. But do not believe, on the basis of what I tell you, that this humanity, of which you are a part, is in an abyss. I bring it step by step to the light, to salvation, because all are destined to dwell at my right hand, and I am its guide.

8. This humanity is a land hungry and thirsty for knowledge and spiritualization. verily I tell you, sin will not prevail, instead, good will reign and peace will be established on earth

9. The soul of men has been purified in pain, in trials, and is now ready to hear, see, and understand Me.

10. Many of you seem to find my teaching impossible to follow because you have materialized and fallen into error. But those of you who are humble, who have allowed pain to wear them down, and who have bowed their necks before Me, and who possess nothing but their desire to rise up to Me, have found the observance of my word possible and have with joy seen the first fruits of their seed.

11. Ye come from different ways. But I make no distinction among you by classes, titles, or races. You are all united as disciples and form a single community. I discover great souls among you, hidden under a poor and inconspicuous cover, and if they are not recognized, it is because they are humble and have no schooling. But they love me, testify and understand me. I will form my new apostle body out of all those who have believed in my word in this time, and I will prove to this mankind that my teaching is for all times, that my teaching is eternal.

12. Not by all was I recognized in the "Second Age". When I appeared in the bosom of the Jewish people, who were already expecting me because they saw the portents given by the prophets fulfilled, my presence caused confusion to many who did not understand the prophets' interpretation and expected to see their Messiah as a mighty prince who would strike down his enemies, humiliate the kings, the oppressors, and grant possessions and earthly goods to those who were expecting him.

13.  When that people saw Jesus poor and without leggings, his body covered only with a simple garment; born in a stable and later working as a simple craftsman, they could not believe that he was the one sent by the Father, the Promised One. The master would have to perform visible miracles and works so that they would believe him and understand his divine message.

14. Verily I say to you, I did not come down only to give sight to the blind, nor to cleanse the lepers, nor to restore to life those who had died. My work was that of a God full of wisdom and eternity, who came in desire to raise the sleeping soul of men to true spiritual life.

15. Those miracles were only proof that what I accomplished others could not do, and in this way to shake up and call those souls that had sunk into a deep sleep.

16. Which ones recognized me in those days? The sinners whom I forgave; those hungry and thirsty for justice, those longing for truth, spiritualization and eternity.

17. Who did not know me? The powerful, the theologians, the Pharisees, and for many who did not believe, my word was cause for confusion.

18. Many said, "What this man preaches cannot possibly come to pass. But you know that twelve men directly followed Me and learned from Me, and to them I said, "Keep my teachings, act and teach. I will soon pass away, but I will not be far away, you will have Me in your hearts, and I will continue to bear witness to Me. What I have done to you, do to your fellow men.

19. That people prepared by the prophets were not able to understand Me. But my seed was now sown and was carried by those twelve disciples to the nations and provinces. While the Chosen People rejected them, persecuted and condemned them in their courts, the people in the Gentile nations accepted my seed, and it bore fruit.

20. Pagan Rome received my disciples and with them the seed of my teaching. That nation, made fruitful by pain and weary of pleasure, joyfully received my teaching and became spiritually strong. Out of it new apostles arose, who brought my teaching to other peoples.

21. That nation which could not follow me, which thought it impossible to follow my teaching ─ where is it now? I tell you that, divided into many parts, they are again on earth: some made powerful by earthly power, moving the destinies of this world; others with Me as witnesses of my new rallies; and the rest, incarnated once more, in expectation of Me.

22. You represent that people who followed Me, consisting of the sick, sinners, those hungry for justice.

23. Today I have come not only to repeat my teaching of the Second Age, but to give you another lesson, to let you take a step forward. The seed that I sowed in you, I nurture to reap the fruit afterward.

24. Fill yourselves with spiritualization and continue to receive my benefits so that you may bring the fruit of my teachings to mankind. Feel my presence. I come to you as a ray of light that becomes bread, comfort and caress when it enters your heart.

25. I do not appear as a judge to expose your transgressions before the eyes of your brothers and sisters. My word of love is there to correct and smooth the hearts.

26. There is no one on earth who teaches my teaching with the truthfulness with which I have revealed it. But there are indeed those who have concealed it. That is why I have come down to this world in this form of rallies, so that mankind may see the shining star anew, so that the shipwrecked may discover the lifeboat.

27. I have given an inheritance to the pariahs, I have healed the sick and then made them healers so that they would show my power to the world. For in the face of such deeds, even the scientist will have to awaken and become aware of the times in which he lives.

28. I teach you to control your body and make it an obedient co-worker in your spiritual mission. But I also teach your soul to get rid of its body shell when it notices that it is tired, to spread its wings and, freed from its chains, to work full of love in the "spiritual valley" and, on its return, to bring a message of hope and encouragement to the heart.

29. Therefore I tell you that you will be the light of the world because you are apostles of spiritualism. But take advantage of my abiding among you, for 1950 is drawing near. I will stop speaking to you in this form and I see you not yet prepared.

30. My law and my word of this Third Age with its revelations, its prophecies and gifts of grace form the ark of the New Covenant, in which the souls of men will merge and unite. But before that it will have to be rejected and fought against.

31. You will be those who defend the New Tabernacle, the new soldiers of my cause, who will not succumb in battle because my presence and my word have made you strong.

32. You shall not hide yourselves in the days of trials, for it would not be just for you ─ although I have come to give you wisdom and authority ─ to hide your gifts from those who lack your mercy

33. Behold the Master once more surrounded by his disciples. I reveal Myself in wisdom and your souls shall tremble because having gone through the trials I have subjected them to, they feel the desire to be sated with light and to be strengthened. It is a ray of my light that reaches the brain of those through whom I manifest myself ─ it is an inspiration through which I send you my message. In this way I reveal to you the Spiritual Life, thus I enlighten again the way that Jesus marked out in His teaching.

34. As you gradually hear my word, it becomes lighter in your nature and the thirst for justice diminishes. Then your conscience will lighten the way for you and you will be sufficiently prepared to offer me deeds that are in accordance with my law.

35. When you approach Me, you seek not only the salvation of the soul, but also that of the body, and when the Father sees your efforts, He grants benefits to one or another, as is His will.

36. The soul is that part of your being whose life has no limits. It has existed before your earthly body. I speak to your soul because it belongs to another world. Yet I also speak to the body and caress it. For when peace and quiet reigns in his heart, man will be able to receive me better.

37. If you concern yourselves too much with the bodily needs, you distract your soul and remove it from its duties.

38. There are still some who, when they hear me, ask themselves, "Is it true that the Master makes himself known through man? That God, though He is omnipotent, Creator, communicates Himself through a brain not worthy to transmit His glory in a humble gathering place?"? I say to you: Do not look at the rich decorations or the poorness of these meeting places to get an idea of your God. Is it necessary, then, that you always desire the false splendor of the rites to believe in my presence? Do not forget the example of humility and material poverty that Jesus showed you, from the place where the Messiah was born to the place where He died. There the greatness of your Master ─ is in the lowliness. The Kingdom of God is based on the truly eternal, not on the splendor of power. Understand my true greatness, humility and mercy so that you will no longer be surprised that I manifest myself through a mind that you consider unworthy ─ in a place of assembly that has no material meaning. Do not judge the importance of this work by the small number of those who surround me today either, because what I have revealed to you will gain validity in its time and astonish the world.

39. Verily I say to you, it will be your life and your deeds that shall testify that you are my disciples.

40. Love Me in all things created by Me and reject the idea that God could be limited in any way. Mankind has in different ways created an image of Me to feel that I am with them. Why do you not seek Me in my works? I have allowed you all to contemplate the wonders that surround you so that you may recognize in them my creative power ─ from the barely perceptible creatures to the majestic royal star. But I do not tell you that I am nature, nor that it is God. Nor do I tell you that the sun is my Divine Spirit, for they are all hardly atoms in the work of the Creator.

41. If you would limit your mind to those beliefs, you would imitate your ancestors ─ those who worshiped me in the sun. But you must not judge your ancestors badly, because man of that time was hardly able to recognize the creative power of God in that natural power. For in it he found warmth, light and life. Remember that they were not very far from the truth.

42. When I make myself known through human rallies, I do not tell you that this man is your God. But I must limit myself, only so that you may receive Me and hear the essence of My Word, which is the same in all vocal carriers, even if the form of expression changes. A single mind is not enough to make known to all what I have to reveal to you.

43. In this simple way I have given you My teaching so that you may find the way that leads your soul to the peace and perfection it longs for For this I advise you to give up vanities and bad inclinations. I teach you to love your fellow men with true brotherhood and in awareness of your duties to them and to do good to them.

44. I have taught you that your body decomposes and only your soul survives It will rise after this life to where its merits lead it. From there it will continue to fight to rise more and more and to come closer to perfection, which means to come closer to God.

45. To achieve this, I am teaching you now how you should pray and seek me And I want you to instruct your fellow men just as I am teaching you, with true love of neighbor.

46. Just as I have not condemned your imperfections,

I want you to condemn those of your fellow men just as little.

47. Show them only what I have taught you. He who is prepared will understand you.

48. Sow, even if you do not reap the harvest here.

49. Fathom my word, my children. For in these last three years, in which you will still hear me, you are to go from disciples to disciples.

50. You come on the perfect path that leads you to your redeemer. And once more Israel comes, as in the past times, before mankind. You have knowledge of spiritual life and are responsible for the law.

51. The rest and sloth are over: You have risen to fulfill your mission and have closed your heart to the temptations of the world.

52. You are in a new reincarnation, that is, in a new body shell, so that your soul may complete its destiny on earth and come to Me purified, to receive what I have in store for it in the hereafter

53. You are the new disciples and are like those twelve disciples of the Second Age who sometimes departed from the Master to prove the gifts and teachings received and who returned sadly afterwards because they had not performed miracles for lack of faith or charity.

54. At that time I taught them the parable of the mustard seed and told them that faith can move mountains. They saw Me raise the dead to life, free the possessed from confused spirits, heal the incurable and save sinners. But after the Master had passed away, they awakened to the true faith in their gifts, to carry on with perfection the teaching they had learned and to teach it to their fellow men with love.

55. You too are now awaiting my farewell, so that you may then set out to spread the good news.

56. Fathom my word, learn from me, that you may soon be good apostles, bearing witness to the HolySpirit with their works of love.

57. I am on the top of the mountain. From there I speak to you and imprint my words in your hearts ─ in the expectation that you will know how to make right use of your freedom of will so that you reject the vanities of the world and consciously do my will which is perfect.

58. Do not try to understand my word only with intelligence, ignoring the voice of your Spirit, in which the wisdom of the secret treasury is revealed

59. I have called sinners to make them men of virtue. My task as Master is to teach unceasingly until the souls are perfected. Many of your fellow men make themselves ready to follow you, to take you as an example, because they know that you are my disciples. Are you already prepared to receive me? Have you already learned from Me? I tell you that only the fulfillment of your spiritual and earthly duties will give you the right to call you disciples of me.

60. When you work for the renewal of mankind, you will finally see the beginning of a "new day" and feel my peace.

61. My word teaches you, but it does not compel you. I have given you freedom of will so that you may feel yourselves masters of your actions and fulfill the law with conviction, that your merits may be genuine.

62. Once more the earth is colored blood-red; the war has darkened the souls of men. The atmosphere is filled with grief, suffering and fear. But in the midst of this chaos I appeared and made myself visible to some and audible to others. My cup is full of the pain that the world experiences. This is what you offer Me in this time, and I accept it.

63. My teaching brings light into every soul. I lay peace, unity, upon you. Do not ignore my voice, which is that of a Father who loves you.

64. Keep my word, for the year 1950 is already approaching, and it is my will that in that time my teachings be printed so that they may be food for your soul. Then you shall prepare yourselves to give these writings to men for reading, and you will remember those moments of happiness which you experienced when you listened to the Master.

65. Fighter of the Third Age, you who spread my word: Be tireless. You hurry to prepare yourselves the closer the time comes when I leave you without my word. Little by little you have saturated yourselves with the power that my teaching contains.

66. Not all who heard Me in the Second Time believed in Me. It has been necessary to return to the world to give you new proofs. In this day and age not all who heard Me have believed Me either. The body, like a dense veil, prevents the soul from receiving the Divine Light. But this veil disappears when my teachings are fathomed to give way to the impulses of the soul to free itself from materialism and to approach its Creator.

If some who listen to me have not felt this elevation in their being, I tell you that the time will come when they will see that light. Others who listen to me in faith have not attained the knowledge of the spiritual revelations because they have lacked the necessary preparation to understand the teaching.

67. If many men in the world have stopped in their development, it is because they are caught up in error in the idolatry of their faith convictions. They cannot comprehend high ideas because they let their spiritual comprehension wither away.

In my work you have felt that the higher is approaching you to surround you with an atmosphere of peace. In this peace even your body has participated, since it too is a creature of the Lord, created in perfection. Perfection is both spiritual and material. Thus you yourselves can recognize the divine omnipotence in the atom and in the cell. And if you study the Spirit, you will discover in it its simple nature as the atom of a higher life. Then you will realize that there is nothing that is separate from the divine.

68. Everything in my creation is movement, harmony and order leading to perfection. For man to awaken and the voice of his Spirit to guide him to reality, he must not look at creation only in its outward appearance and not perceive the essence of it. Man without faith in spiritual life will fall into materialism, because he will regard that of this world as the only life. But if he finally becomes weary of his pleasures or despairs in his sufferings ─ what will happen to him then? Some people will lose their spiritual balance, others will misuse their lives.

69. Not all men are on the same level of understanding. While some discover miracles at every turn, others regard everything as imperfect. While some dream of peace as the summit of spiritualization and the morality of the world, others proclaim that it is wars that drive the development of humanity.

70. To this I say to you: The wars are not necessary for the development of the world. If men use them for their ambitious and selfish purposes, it is because of the materialization in which those who favor them find themselves. Among these, some believe only in existence in this world, since they do not know or deny the spiritual life; but among men they are considered scholars. It is therefore necessary that all should know this revelation.

71. As long as those who, in their religious fanaticism, expect only the punishment of hell in the hereafter, hold to this opinion, they will create their own hell, because the confusion of the soul is similar to that of the human mind, though much stronger. Now you ask, "Master, is there salvation for those? I say to you, salvation exists for all, but peace and light will not reach those souls until the darkness of delusion dissolves. Have you ever felt pity for a man whose confused mind makes him see things that do not exist? How much greater would your pain be if you were to see in the Hereafter those delusional beings who see their imaginary hell!

72. What man who has knowledge of what is physical death and true atonement could fall into confusion at the hour of death?

73. My teaching of perfect love and wisdom is not only a matter of this time or of the Second Time. At all times I have spoken to you of these teachings. But the wrong interpretation of the revelations has led man into fanaticism and confusion.

74. When once the pain of materialism itself becomes unbearable to the confused soul, that pain will awaken it to light. Then that soul will lament its error profoundly.

75. Teach these teachings among your fellow men, that there may grow in men a longing to strive for a world of perfection, where souls, by their perfection, may attain the bosom of the Father.

76. I am the light that unites you all in Me. To give you this Word, I avail myself of one of you who has no more merits than all of you. See in it my love and my mercy.

77. The year 1950 is drawing near and at the end of it I will take leave of you. It will be painful, and you will miss my word. But it will remain in writing, and there all will find the teaching of the master. Then you will say, "How loving was his teaching!

For that time I will prepare organs of understanding and lips that speak to you by inspiration. Others will read out my teachings, and then again you will feel the power which you received when I made myself known. In this way I will be among you, in your soul and mind, in the midst of harmony and brotherhood.

78. I have given you all more light for your life. If you encounter thorns at every turn, it is because the way of man is a thorny one. Pray, and your faith will sustain you in the desire for eternal life.

My peace be with you! 

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