The Great Gospel of John
Volume 3
Jesus' Precepts and Deeds through His Three Years of Teaching
Jesus near Caesarea Philippi
- Chapter 228 -
The future of Jesus' teachings.
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(Mathael:) "Yes, for us the extraordinary deeds are already a very powerful proof, because we now possess enough awakened understanding to differentiate all that is wrong from what is true at first sight!
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For the conjuring tricks of the magicians have been known to us for a long time, and nothing brings much new to light; but these deeds here demand more than simply a magician from Egypt or from Persia, these demand God's limitless creative power and a never-ending depth of wisdom, they demand the original and basic priority of the divine spirit, whose willpower keeps all the spirits and all the worlds in check like a good horseman reigns in his team of horses who he more or less pulls and forces his otherwise unruly animals to act according to his will.
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So the fullest primary divinity is visible, while it can never be visible with the magicians, because it never is and never was there. But we can also accept that our forefathers must have performed many miracles through the divine power in them; for without the true miracles the false ones would never have appeared.
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But now we have once again seen quite perfectly true miracles before our very eyes; but I do not want to be a bad prophet, saying that in several centuries there will be more false miracles in the name of the Lord than true ones!
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It is true that it is all in the hands of the Lord; but the following can be fully accepted as certain. First, that the Lord will not always remain physically visible on this Earth among the people and will not stand at the service of the people as at the founding of a new religion with bodily advice and physical deeds; and secondly, He will also give the people more free will than previously before this ever most memorable epoch, which makes even this Earth never pass away and must one day set it in the central point of the heavens.
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For a world which He has once set foot on with His own feet must remain for eternal times at least in a transfigured form. But if the people remain in possession of their free will and if they are born into this world always so unknowingly and almost without any intelligence so that their later realizations depend alone on the original external lessons, then we cannot think anything other than that the darkening will come again and the domineering people greedy for a good life will make a ten times greater paganism out of this new purely divine religion which will concede nothing to the one of India!
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We will not experience it in our bodies, but as inhabitants of an illuminated spiritual world that it as yet unknown to us we will experience it all the more surely! It will still be swarming with deception, lies, haughtiness, egoism, selfishness, fear, searing, lip-service, hypocrisy, persecution, judgment, revenge and cruelties of all shape and size!
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The Lord Himself said that everything must be allowed for the sake of free choice and true education of every individual, without which no one can become a true child of God and can also never enter the eternal magnificence of the Father!
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But if the Lord Himself gives us such a prognosis, what should we think other than that it will be exactly as I have now just said?! The best protective means against it is and still remains a clear language with mathematical certainty. For mathematical proof cannot be eroded by the passing of time, it is the same for Indians as it is for the Persians and Arabs, Greeks, Romans and Jews!"