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1. AND after seven
days again, his disciples were within the Upper Room; then came Jesus, the
doors being shut, and stood in their midst and said, Peace be unto you, and
he was known unto them in the holy Memorial.
2. And he said unto them. Love ye one another and all the creatures of God.
Yet I say unto you, not all are men, who are in the form of man. Are they men
or women in the image of God whose ways are ways of violence, of oppression
and wrong, who choose a lie rather than the truth?
3. Nay, verily, till they are born again, and receive the Spirit of Love and
Wisdom within their hearts. Then only are they sons and daughters of Israel,
and being of Israel they are children of God, And for this cause came I into
the world, and for this I have suffered at the hands of sinners.
4. These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that
all things must be fulfilled which were written in the law of Moses and in
the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.
5. And Jesus said, I stood in the midst of the world, and in the flesh was
I seen and heard, and I found all men glutted with their own pleasures, and
drunk with their own follies, and none found I hungry or athirst for the wisdom
which is of God. My soul grieveth over the sons and daughters of men because
they are blind in their heart, and in their soul are they deaf and hear not
my voice.
6. Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures.
And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behooved the Christ to
suffer, and to rise from the dead after the third day. And that repentance
and remission of sins should be preached in my name among all nations, beginning
at Jerusalem. And ye are witnesses of these things.
7. And, behold, I send the promice of my Parent upon you, even of my Father
One with my Mother, Whom ye have not seen on the earth. For I say unto you
of a truth, as the whole world have been ruined by the sin and vanity of woman,
so by the simplicity and truth of woman shall it be saved, even by you shall
it be saved.
8. Rejoice therefore and be ye glad, for ye are more blessed than all who are
on earth, for it is ye, my twelve thousand who shall save the whole world.
9. Again I say unto you when the great tyrant and all the seven tyrants began
to fight in vain against the Light, they knew not with Whom or What they fought.
10. For they saw nothing beyond a dazzling Light, and when they fought they
expended their strength one against another, and so it is.
11. For this cause I took a fourth part of their strength, so that they might
not have such power, and prevail in their evil deeds.
12. For by involution and evolution shall the salvation of all the world be
accomplished: by the Descent of Spirit into matter, and the Ascent of matter
into Spirit, through the ages.
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