Gideon OuseleyThe Last
Anointing by Mary Magdalene
Neglect Not The Present Time
1. NOW, on the
evening of the Sabbath before the Passover, as Jesus was in Bethany he went
to the house of Simon the leper, and there they made him a supper, and Martha
served while Lazarus was one of them that sat at table with him.
2. And there came Mary called Magdalene, having an alabaster box of ointment
of spikenard, very precious and costly, and she opened the box and poured the
ointment on the head of Jesus, and anointed his feet, and wiped them with the
hair of her head
3. Then said one among his disciples, Judas Iscariot, who was to betray him,
Why is this waste of ointment which might have been sold for three hundred
pence and given to the poor? And this he said not that he cared for the poor
but because he was filled with jealousy and greed, and had the bag, and bare
what was put therein. And they murmured against her.
4. And Jesus said, Let her alone, why trouble ye her? for she hath done all
she could; yea, she hath wrought a good work on me. For ye have the poor always
with you, but me ye have not always. She hath anointed my body for the day
of my burial.
5. And verily, I say unto you, wheresoever this Gospel shall be preached in
the whole world there shall also be told this that she hath done for a memorial
of her.
6. Then entered Satan into the heart of Judas Iscariot and he went his way
and communed with the chief priests and captains how he might betray him. And
they were glad and covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver, the price
of a slave, and he promised them, and after that sought opportunity to betray
him.
7. And at that time Jesus said to his disciples Preach ye unto all the world,
saying, Strive to receive the mysteries of Light, and enter into the Kingdom
of Light, for now is the accepted time and now is the day of Salvation.
8. Put ye not off from day to day, and from cycle to cycle and eon to eon,
in the belief, that when ye return to this world ye will succeed in gaining
the mysteries, and entering into the Kingdom of Light.
9. For ye know not when the number of perfected souls shall be filled up, and
then will be shut the gates of the Kingdom of Light, and from hence none will
be able to come in thereby, nor will any go forth.
10. Strive ye that ye may enter while the calls is made, until the number of
perfected souls shall be sealed and complete, and the door is shut.
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