The Great Gospel of John
Volume 4
Jesus' Precepts and Deeds through His Three Years of Teaching
Jesus near Caesarea Philippi (cont.)
- Chapter 34 -
The law of "Must" and "Should"
I say: "My dear friend! I like your views quite a lot, and the holy Father in heaven always is quite happy, if His children discuss things with Him in a wise manner; but there are certain things, which must be like that, and this and that has to take place, as it takes place, to reach a certain goal, without, the goal would be impossible to achieve.
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Hence, God has given a twofold law. The one is pure mechanically and is called 'Must'! From this law all forms and their structure are evolving, according to which the usefulness of the form is derived; at this mechanically law forever no hair is allowed to change. The other law, however, is called 'Should'. And only this law is relevant to the teaching of life!
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According to the law of life you can eradicate, destroy or even annihilate all the smallest stiches of the whole, it does not matter too much and is just the same; for what should become free, must be free from its earliest development! Even if it completely misdevelops itself in the free inner being, it cannot lift the must-law above it; the germ lies always in the form, which starts to sprout again according to the right order, which takes from the free life-sphere that which has gone astray and pulls it into the right order again.
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As such you can see nations stuck in all kind of corruptions regarding the soul; but their form remains, and if you see them, you must acknowledge that these are humans. Indeed, their souls are distorted by all sorts of lies, falseness and malice; however, at the right time I let more warmth penetrate the germ of life, and it starts to grow, consumes the old disorder of the soul, just as the grassroots consume the already decayed drop of water, and a complete healthy, life-strong and in all parts pure blade of grass with blossom and seed arises.
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Because for this reason you should never judge a spoilt nation too harshly! Since as long as the form remains, also the pure germ in man remains, but if this remains, even a devil can become an angel!
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Normally misconstrued teachers, lust for power and avarice of a few powerful people and a temporary possession by evil spirits, which creep up on the flesh and the nerve-spirit of people, are the reason for corruption of people and their souls. But a complete corruption even of the most inner life-germ, is unthinkable.
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Look at Mathael and his four companions; how badly were they corrupted by evil spirits! I released the five from it and woken the life germ in them, and see, what perfect people they have become!
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Of course there exist differences between people! Some souls are from above. They are stronger, and the evil spirits of this earth can only do little or no harm at all to them. Therefore such souls can withstand a stronger flesh life test, without suffering any significant damage. If with those people the spirit, that is the primeval life germ, is awaken and penetrates with its eternal life roots the soul through and through, then the little corruption of such a soul is immediately healed, and the whole person is perfected, - as you can see from Mathael, Philopold and many others.
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The souls of some people are even previous angles of heaven. Now, with them nothing can be corrupted so easily! Johannes the Baptist and several prophets, like Moses, Elias, Jesajas and others, can serve as examples, and currently there are more on this earth, who came from the heavens, to go with Me through the narrowest path of the flesh. Such people are able to go through quite a strong flesh life test and endure it with the biggest sacrifice."