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i need both and a miracle .....

what was his mission? set captives free? lots more in the scriptures about what he was to do one hell of a chess game buddy God wins and the game continues for real now to beat your adversary which is not only other people and what they do but ourselves as well God wins we just want to see it! taste it...that love... ps+odd doing ok...

3 days and 3 nights in the heart of the earth http://bible.cc/matthew/12-40.htm i wonder what he was doing there?

pagan....hmmmmm interesting is it pagan to believe that God Almighty is powerful enough to defeat death? to believe that the old testament people were raised from the dead because of of what God's Son did? o well... let's rather believe that the dead are in some mystery place that noone knows a damn thing about and God is going to send his Son Down from His thrown and in one big swoop grab every "believer" and leave the rest of those He created to fend for thenselves against "the devil" which noone knows a damn thing about either. yes put all your nickels on that pony-the one that offers no answers, has not gotten anyone closer to God at all-but rather has furthered them away from knowing Him God is real His Son is Real He has defeated death For REAL is that pagan? who is powerful enough to take the worst of us on and win? then shall be brought to to pass the saying about the sting of death. lol...i was just thinking about - you can't take it with you when you go-you know that old saying refering to money usually. well you can't take your bible with you when you go either and say see it was supposed to be like this! lol.... aaawww man why can't we see how powerful God is....what His Son did for all... why can't we see the love...

yeah.... also the internal battle that has to be dealt with, i tell ya sometimes things aren't as ideal as i would like. "prosper and be in good health even as thy soul prospereth" my soul is going through some struggles... getting that straight ain't easy... but a lot of the other promises help though

We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who have died, so that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have died. For this we declare to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will by no means precede those who have died. For the Lord himself, with a cry of command, with the archangel’s call and with the sound of God’s trumpet, will descend from heaven, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up in the clouds together with them to meet the Lord in the air; and so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore encourage one another with these words. Has this happened already? Are we experiencing it now? Seems quite encouraging.

in considering your question, many things could be taken into consideration. jcop is one of them but comes from the standpoint that the dead are dead and not alive. are the dead alive now? this flows with the question at hand as well as other questions when did Jesus actually rise from the dead? what was accomplished by what Jesus did? do all people benefit from what he did or just some? from a non-twi/vpw viewpoint, many things become questions what did this man Jesus see that he would allow this to be accomplished in him-it has to be bigger then what can be apprehended in a few simple answers yes, Mike, God must be the one to reveal it, but it doesn't happen overnight there are many writings that God can reveal his meaning to the person seeking. there is no middle man that is needed except the Lord Jesus Christ-not vpw or anyone else. learn what was written and learn what is being written. God opens the eyes and ears not people. other writings to consider http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/ http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/scrolls/ more questions- why was Jesus' body removed by God and when did He do it there is a physical body and there is a spiritual body-was one raised before the other? which is first-which is last when did Jesus actually get raised from the dead? it says in many places in the new testament that we are raised from the dead now. how much difference is there between these. did Jesus not see at the mount of transfiguration? was he already actually raised from the dead? and when did his mortality begin to transform into immortality-when does ours? the full completion and fulfillment of the promise of life eternal is real and can be seen. but one must be looking and as i said it takes time...sometimes in the twinkling of an eye the truth floods and rushes through your soul/spirit so fast it's hard to keep up and almost unbelievable, but the word of life will be recognized. our carnal look into what was and is written holds us back from really seeing what is waiting to be revealed in due time. stay with love it is God himself as a parent how long would you wait to see your children alive after going through death? what dies what is made alive? 3 days and 3 nights in the heart of the earth-another question...

nope, the God of this World is God there's only one God remember? I'll pass on the lemonade, thanks though.

Hi Oldiesman, tell us, what was that impact? did we get to know God? did you? what exactly did happen?

Thanks for your input Danny. As always it's welcome. But my heart is not to put anyone on trial as you probably know. But to really take a closer look at what God has done for us, and to see it more clearly. Love

What are some of the promises that are not believed, or not believed to be fulfilled. What are some of the promises that are confusing? What are some of the promises that we have seen happen? Is there any help out there? Just for the sake of discussion and learning from each other.

I had to disassemble that which was put into me by other people. And go by common sense and that which was very clear to me. And it seems that doing so and finding really who and what i care about has brought me further then where I thought it would. To this day i do not look much into the scriptures. I've had enough of reading it. Time for seeing it. It's burned into my brain enough to know what was written. It takes more in my opinion to see it living. Not to discourage the reading and learning of the scriptures-which includes more then the kjv, but to see it work in my mind. To really get a taste of what it's talking about.

I can relate Stayed Too Long... I don't want to sound condescending or anything like that. That darn book stayed closed for me too. The only bible I used was the one on my comp when I was posting something. Regardless, I do not believe God thinks any less of us because of our reaction to what we were subjected to. And to how we deal with it. I don't want to sound preachy so that's about all I can say...

yeah...without mercy there would be no justice and vengence. just someone really mad... i recall a mercy seat somewhere in the bible

Who can stand against the power of his might? A ripping apart, a mending, a real and powerful Spirit that will kill and make alive. possession you may say, say what you will, at His will, it will be done, over with, fall into it, let it have it's perfect work. it falls into a frame of unseen justice and revenge that has not been considered... overpowerering yet within the framework of our recognition of what can be attained and seen. well beyond that which we can handle on our own.. a very small thing in light of the overwhelming evidence of the real power given by God so much so that it escapes the deepest imagination of the heart, a glimpse, a shadow of the living Christ fully seen as this present melts away, in the here and now, escaping the pollutions of this world and really see what is and will be and already has been done

then how could we ever communicate?

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hmmm, i vote for justice and revenge now and forever and i believe it is happening good thing i don't have to deal it out

i let it set for a while.... it's when the fingers start typing things come to me poetry jam-is that both spontaeneous and planned?

yeah..... don't mean to come across so direct shoot, i don't see much anyway... hot or cold is the preferred temp in between does something else have to look in the mirror longer peace

a game huh.... a very living and deadly one cuz when that sword is drawn it will do some work and just maybe that glory that is promised will be revealed in us...now, in part, enough to know exactly what you got your hand into... turn away now or turn and look Roy is doing his best to put into words what is in his heart and what he believes to be the truth pick it apart or try to see what he knows... a shell game? Ha depth height width and length hidden in plain sight the only shell i know of is hard hearts blindness of the eyes done by God opening the eyes done by God what are our choices? Love Give Encourage Seek Seeing true falseness eliminating options making definitive moves narrowing that succer down

i'm a bit taken back by the things that are considered to be unattainable now stupid traditions of men and what they think... i of course am in the stupid group lacking in vision in many ways if we think that it can't happen it probably won't-yet things that seem impossible are possible with God fear of sin, fear of self, fear of God fear of opening that egg.... what lies inside...light, darkness angels and demons...same thing... who can leave themselves long enough to search it out without fear... live or die-don't care anymore if it's there it will sustain and strengthen destroy and build up true grit...courage....love love of God? or a distinct dislike of remaining lost without one single answer... a recognition of what we have actually known seen and heard and what we have not... the valley of the shadow of death... either he will be there with you or not what do you believe? not quite sure if there is life on the next hill? could be time to find out...

Amen Ham guy... a bit deeper than what we were lured into thinking it was all about...

i think it's a different arena of thought-"whatsoever"- in prayer-what is that? secular satisfaction or possibly a little more then what's on the surface.. what are the mountains?

i hope you don't mind Roy, but i thought this was worthy of it's own topic here... "The Essene Gospel of Peace of Jesus Christ" ---------------------------------------------- The Essene Gospel of Peace of Jesus Christ 1. And then many sick and maimed came to Jesus, asking him: "if you know all things, tell us, why do we suffer with these grievous plagues? Why are we not whole like other men? Master, heal us, that we too may be made strong, and need abide no longer in our misery. 2. We know that you have it in your power to heal all manner of disease. Free us from Satan and from all his great afflictions. Master, have compassion on us." 3.And Jesus answered- "Happy are you that you hunger for the truth, for I will satisfy you with the bread of wisdom. Happy are you that you knock, for I will open to you the door of life. Happy are you, that you would cast off the power of Satan, for I will lead you into the kingdom of our Mother's angels, where the powr of Satan cannot enter." 4. And they asked him in amazement: "Who is our Mother and which her angels? And where is her kingdom?" "Your Mother is in you, and you in her. She bore you she gives you life. It was she who gave to you your body, and to her shall you one day give it back again. 5. Happy are you when you come to know her and her kingdom; if you receive your Mother's angels and if you do her laws. I tell you truly, he who does these things shall never see disease. For the power of our Mother is above all. And it destroys Satan and his kingdom, and has rule over all your bodies and all living things. 6. "The blood which runs in us is born of the blood of our Earthly Mother. Her blood falls from the clouds; leaps from the womb of the earth; babbles in the brooks of the mountains; flows wide in the rivers of the plains; sleeps in the lakes; rages mightily in tempestuous seas. 7."The air which we breathe is born of the breath of our Earthly Mother. Her breath is azure in the heights of the heavens; soughs in the tops of the mountains; whispers the leaves of the forest; billows over the cornfields; slumbers in the deep valleys, burns hot in the desert. 8."The hardness of our bones is born of the bones of our Earthly Mother, of the rocks and of the stones. They stand naked to the heavens on the tops of mountains; are as giants that lie sleeping on the sides of the mountains, as idols set in the desert, and are hidden in the deepness of the earth. 9."The tenderness of our flesh is born of the flesh of our Earthly Mother; whose flesh waxes yellow and red in the fruits of the trees, and nurtures us in the furrows of the fields. 10."Our bowels are born of the bowels of our Earthly Mother, and are hid from our eyes, like the invisible depths of the earth. 11."The light of our eyes, the hearing of our ears, both are born of the colors and the sounds of our Earthly Mother; which enclose us about, as the waves of the sea a fish, as the eddying air a bird. 12."I tell you in very truth, Man is the Son of the Earthly Mother, and from her did the Son of Man receive his whole body, even as the body of the newborn babe is born of the womb of his mother. I tell you truly, you are one with the Earthly Mother; she is in you, and you in her. 13.Of her were you born, in her do you live, and to her shall you return again. Keep, therefore, her laws, for none can live long, neither be happy, but he who honors his Earthly Mother and does her laws. For your breath is her breath; your blood her blood; your bone her bone; your flesh her flesh; your bowels her bowels; your eyes and your ears are her eyes and her ears. 14.I tell you truly, should you fail to keep but one only of all these laws, should you harm but one only of all your body's members, you shall be utterly lost in your grievous sickness, and there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. I tell you, unless you follow the laws of your Mother, you can in no wise escape death. 15.And he who clings to the laws of his Mother, to him shall his Mother cling also. She shall heal all his plagues, and he shall never become sick. She gives him long life, and protects him from all afflictions; from fire, from water, from the bite of venomous serpents. For your Mother bore you, keeps life within you. 16.She has given you her body, and none but she heals you. Happy is he who loves his Mother and lies quietly in her bosom. For your Mother loves you, even when you turn away from her. 17.And how much more shall she love you, if you turn to her again? I tell you truly, very great is her love, greater than the greatest of mountains, deeper than the deepest seas. 18.And those who love their Mother, she never deserts them. As the hen protects her chickens, as the lioness her cubs, as the mother her newborn babe, so does the Earthly Mother protect the Son of Man from all danger and from all evils. 19."For I tell you truly, evils and dangers innumerable lie in wait for the Sons of Men. Beelzebub, the prince of all devils, the source of every evil, lies in wait in the body of all the Sons of Men. He is death, the lord of every plague, and taking upon him a pleasing raiment, he tempts and entices the Sons of Men. 20.Riches does he promise, and power, and splendid palaces, and garments of gold and silver, and a multitude of servants, all these; he promises renown and glory, fornication and lustfulness, gluttony and wine-bibbing, riotous living, and slothfulness and idle days. 21.And he entices every one by that to which their heart is most inclined. And in the day that the Sons of Men have already become the slaves of all these vanities and abominations, then in payment thereof he snatches from the Sons of Men all those things which the Earthly Mother gave them so abundantly. 22.He takes from them their breath, their blood, their bone, their flesh, their bowels, their eyes and their ears. And the breath of the Son of Man becomes short and stifled, full of pain and evil-smelling, like the breath of unclean beasts. 23.And his blood becomes thick and evil-smelling, like the water of the swamps; it clots and blackens, like the night of death. And his bone becomes hard and knotted; it melts away within and breaks asunder, as a stone falling down upon a rock. And his flesh waxes fat and watery; it rots and putrefies, with scabs and boils that are an abomination. 24.And his bowels become full with abominable filthiness, with oozing streams of decay; and multitudes of abominable worms have their habitation there. And his eyes grow dim, till dark night enshrouds them, and his ears become stopped, like the silence of the grave. And last of all shall the erring Son of Man lose life. 25.For he kept not the laws of his Mother, and added sin to sin. Therefore, are taken from him all the gifts of the Earthly Mother: breath, blood, bone, flesh, bowels, eyes and ears, and after all else, life, with which the Earthly Mother crowned his body. 26."But if the erring Son of Man be sorry for his sins and undo them, and return again to his Earthly Mother; and if he do his Earthly Mother's laws and free himself from Satan's clutches, resisting his temptations, then does the Earthly Mother receive again her erring Son with love and sends him her angels that they may serve him. 27.I tell you truly, when the Son of Man resists the Satan that dwells in him and does not his will, in the same hour are found the Mother's angels there, that they may serve him with all their power and free utterly the Son of Man from the power of Satan. 28. "For no man can serve two masters. For either he serves Beelzebub and his devils or else he serves our Earthly Mother and her angels. Either he serves death or he serves life. I ten you truly, happy are those that do the laws of life and wander not upon the paths of death. 29. For in them the forces of life wax strong and they escape the plagues of death." 30.And all those round about him listened to his words with amazement, for his word was with power, and he taught quite otherwise than the priests and scribes. 31.And though the sun was now set, they departed not to their homes. They sat round about Jesus and asked him: "Master, which are these laws of life? 32. Rest with us awhile longer and teach us. We would listen to your teaching that we may be healed and become righteous." 33.And Jesus himself sat down in their midst and said: "I tell you truly, none can be happy, except he do the Law." And the others answered: "We all do the laws of Moses, our lawgiver, even as they are written in the holy scriptures." 34.And Jesus answered: "Seek not the law in your scriptures, for the law is life, whereas the scripture is dead. 35. I tell you truly, Moses received not his laws from God in writing, but through the living word. The law is living word of living God to living prophets for living men. 36. In everything that is life is the law written. You find it in the grass, in the tree, in the river, in the mountain, in the birds of heaven, in the fishes of the sea; but seek it chiefly in yourselves. 37. For I tell you truly, all living things are nearer to God than the scripture, which is without life. God so made life and all living things that they might by the everlasting word teach the laws of the true God to man. 38. God wrote not the laws in the pages of books, but in your heart and in your spirit. They are in your breath, your blood, your bone; in your flesh, your bowels, your eyes, your ears, and in every little part of your body. 39.They are present in the air, in the water, in the earth, in the plants, in the sunbeams, in the depths and in the heights. They all speak to you that you may understand the tongue and the will of the living God. 40.But you shut your eyes that you may not see, and you shut your ears that you may not hear. I tell you truly, that the scripture is the work of man, but life and all its hosts are the work of our God. 41.Wherefore do you not listen to the words of God, which are written in His works? And wherefore do you study the dead scriptures which are the work of the hands of men?" 42."How may we read the laws of God elsewhere than in the scriptures? Where are they written? Read them to us from there where you see them, for we know nothing else but the scriptures which we have inherited from our forefathers. 43.Tell us the laws of which you speak, that hearing them we may be healed and justified." 44.Jesus said: "You do not understand the words of life, because you are in death. Darkness darkens your eyes and your ears are stopped with deafness. 45.For I tell you, it profits you not at all that you pore over dead scriptures if by your deeds you deny him who has given you the scriptures. 46.I tell you truly, God and his laws are not in that which you do. They are not in gluttony and in wine-bibbing, neither in riotous living, nor in lustfulness, nor in seeking after riches, nor yet in hatred of your enemies. 47.For all these things are far from the true God and from his angels. But all these things come from the kingdom of darkness and the lord of all evils. 48.And all these things do you carry in yourselves; and so the word and the power of God enter not into you, because all manner of evil and all manner of abominations have their dwelling in your body and your spirit. 49. If you will that the living God's word and his power may enter you, defile not your body and your spirit; for the body is the temple of the spirit, and the spirit is the temple of God. 50.Purify, therefore, the temple, that the Lord of the temple may dwell therein and occupy a place that is worthy of him. 51."And from all temptations of your body and your spirit, coming from Satan, withdraw beneath the shadow of God's heaven. 52."Renew yourselves and fast. For I tell you truly, that Satan and his plagues may only be cast out by -fasting and by prayer. 53.Go by yourself and fast alone, and show your fasting to no man. The living God shall see it and great shall be your reward. And fast till Beelzebub and all his evils depart from you, and all the angels of our Earthly Mother come and serve you. 54.For I tell you truly, except you fast, you shall never be freed from the power of Satan and from all diseases that come from Satan. 55.Fast and pray fervently, seeking the power of the living God for your healing. While you fast, eschew the Sons of Men and seek our Earthly Mother's angels, for he that seeks shall find. 56."Seek the fresh air of the forest and of the fields, and there in the midst of them shall you find the angel of air. Put off your shoes and your clothing and suffer the angel of air to embrace all your body. 57.Then breathe long and deeply, that the angel of air may be brought within you. I tell you truly, the angel of air shall cast out of your body all uncleannesses which defiled it without and within. 58.And thus shall all evil-smelling and unclean things rise out of you, as the smoke of fire curls upwards and is lost in the sea of the air. 59.For I tell you truly, holy is the angel of air, who cleanses all that is unclean and makes all evil-smelling things of a sweet odor. 60. No man may come before the face of God, whom the angel of air lets not pass. Truly, all must be born again by air and by truth, for your body breathes the air of the Earthly Mother, and your spirit breathes the truth of the Heavenly Father. 61."After the angel of air, seek the angel of water. Put off your shoes and your clothing and suffer the angel of water to embrace all your body. 62.Cast yourselves wholly into his enfolding arms, and as often as you move the air with your breath, move with your body the water also. I tell you truly, the angel of water shall cast out of your body all uncleannesses which defiled it without and within. 63.And all unclean and evil-smelling things shall flow out of you, even as the uncleannesses of garments washed in water flow away and are lost in the stream of the river. 64.I tell you truly, holy is the angel of water who cleanses all that is unclean and makes all evil-smelling things of a sweet odor. 65.No man may come before the face of God whom the angel of water lets not pass. In very truth, all must be born again of water and of truth, for your body bathes in the river of earthly life, and your spirit bathes in the river of life everlasting. 66.For you receive your blood from our Earthly Mother and the truth from our Heavenly Father. 67."Think not that it is sufficient that the angel of water embrace you outwards only. I tell you truly, the uncleanness within is greater by much than the uncleanness without. 68.And he who cleanses himself without, but within remains unclean, is like to tombs that outwards are painted fair, but are within full of all manner of horrible uncleannesses and abominations. 69.So I tell you truly, suffer the angel of water to baptize you also within, that you may become free from all your past sins, and that within likewise you may become as pure as the river's foam sporting in the sunlight. 70."Seek, therefore, a large trailing gourd, having a stalk the length of a man; take out its inwards and fill it with water from the river which the sun has warmed. 71.Hang it upon the branch of a tree, and kneel upon the ground before the angel of water, and suffer the end of the stalk of the trailing gourd to enter your hinder parts, that the water may flow through all your bowels. 72.Afterwards rest kneeling on the ground before the angel of water and pray to the living God that he will forgive you all your past sins, and pray the angel of water that he will free your body from every uncleanness and disease. 73.Then let the water run out from your body, that it may carry away from within it all the unclean and evil-smelling things of Satan. 74.And you shall see with your eyes and smell with your nose all the abominations, and uncleannesses which defiled the temple of your body; even all the sins which abode in your body, tormenting you with all manner of pains. 75.I tell you truly, baptism with water frees you from all of these. Renew your baptizing with water on every day of your fast, till the day when you see that the water which flows out of you is as pure as the river's foam. 76.Then betake your body to the coursing river, and there in the arms of the angel of water render thanks to the living God that he has freed you from your sins. 77.And this holy baptizing by the angel of water is: Rebirth unto the new life. For your eyes shall henceforth see, and your ears shall hear. 78.Sin no more, therefore, after your baptism, that the angels of air and of water may eternally abide in you and serve you evermore. 79."And if afterward there remain within you aught of your past sins and uncleannesses, seek the angel of sunlight. Put off your shoes and your clothing and suffer the angel of sunlight to embrace all your body. 80.Then breathe long and deeply, that the angel of sunlight may be brought within you. 81.And the angel of sunlight shall cast out of your body all evil-smelling and unclean things which defiled it without and within. 82.And all unclean and evil-smelling things shall rise from you, even as the darkness of night fades before the brightness of the rising sun. 83.For I tell you truly, holy is the angel of sunlight who cleans out all uncleannesses and makes all evil-smelling things of a sweet odor. 84.None may come before the face of God, whom the angel of sunlight lets not pass. Truly, all must be born again of sun and of truth, for your body basks in the sunlight of the Earthly Mother, and your spirit basks in the sunlight of the truth of the Heavenly Father. 85."The angels of air and of water and of sunlight are brethren. They were given to the Son of Man that they might serve him, and that he might go always from one to the other. 86."Holy, likewise, is their embrace. They are indivisible children of the Earthly Mother, so do not you put asunder those whom earth and heaven have made one. 87.Let these three brother angels enfold you every day and let them abide with you through all your fasting. 88."For I tell you truly, the power of devils, all sins and uncleannesses shall depart in haste from that body which is embraced by these three angels. 89.As thieves flee from a deserted house at the coming of the lord of the house, one by the door, one by the window, and the third by the roof, each where he is found, and whither he is able, even so shall flee from your bodies all devils of evil, all past sins, and all uncleannesses and diseases which defiled the temple of your bodies. 90.When the Earthly Mother's angels enter into your bodies, in such wise that the lords of the temple repossess it again, then shall all evil smells depart in haste by your breath and by your skin, corrupt waters by your mouth and by your skin, by your hinder and your privy parts. 91.And all these things you shall see with your eyes and smell with your nose and touch with your hands. 92.And when all sins and uncleannesses are gone from your body, your blood shall become as pure as our Earthly Mother's blood and as the river's foam sporting in the sunlight. 93.And your breath shall become as pure as the breath of odorous flowers; your flesh as pure as the flesh of fruits reddening upon the leaves of trees; the light of your eye as clear and bright as the brightness of the sun shining upon the blue sky. 94.And now shall all the angels of the Earthly Mother serve you. And your breath, your blood, your flesh shall be one with the breath, the blood and the flesh of the Earthly Mother, that your spirit also may become one with the spirit of your Heavenly Father. 95.For truly, no one can reach the Heavenly Father unless through the Earthly Mother. Even as no newborn babe can understand the teaching of his father till his mother has suckled him, bathed him, nursed him, put him to sleep and nurtured him. 96.While the child is yet small, his place is with his mother and he must obey his mother. When the child is grown up, his father takes him to work at his side in the field, and the child comes back to his mother only when the hour of dinner and supper is come. 97.And now his father teaches him, that he may become skilled in the works of his father. And when the father sees that his son understands his teaching and does his work well, he gives him all his possessions, that they may belong to his beloved son, and that his son may continue his father's work. 98.I tell you truly, happy is that son who accepts the counsel of his mother and walks therein. And a hundred times more happy is that son who accepts and walks also in the counsel of his father, for it was said to you: 'Honor thy father and thy mother that thy days may be long upon this earth.' 99.But I say to you, Sons of Man: Honor your Earthly Mother and keep all her laws, that your days may be long on this earth, and honor your Heavenly Father that Eternal Life may be yours in the heavens. 100.For the Heavenly Father is a hundred times greater than all fathers by seed and by blood, and greater is the Earthly Mother than all mothers by the body. 101.And dearer is the Son of Man in the eyes of his Heavenly Father and of his Earthly Mother than are children in the eyes of their fathers by seed and by blood and of their mothers by the body. 102. And more wise are the words and laws of your Heavenly Father and of your Earthly Mother than the words and the will of all fathers by seed and by blood, and of all mothers by the body. 103. And of more worth also is the inheritance of your Heavenly Father and of your Earthly Mother, the everlasting kingdom of earthly and heavenly life, than all the inheritances of your fathers by seed and by blood, and of your mothers by the body. 104."And your true brothers are all those who do the will of your Heavenly Father and of your Earthly Mother, and not your brothers by blood. 105.I tell you truly, that your true brothers in the will of the Heavenly Father and of the Earthly Mother will love you a thousand times more than your brothers by blood. 106.For since the days of Cain and Abel, when brothers by blood transgressed the will of God, there is no true brotherhood by blood. 107.And brothers do unto brothers as do strangers. Therefore, I say to you, love your true brothers in the will of God a thousand times more than your brothers by blood. 108.FOR YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER IS LOVE. FOR YOUR EARTHLY MOTHER IS LOVE. FOR THE SON OF MAN IS LOVE. 109."It is by love, that the Heavenly Father and the Earthly Mother and the Son of Man become one. 110. For the spirit of the Son of Man was created from the spirit of the Heaven Father, and his body from the body of the Earthly Mother. 111.Become, therefore, perfect as the spirit of your Heavenly Father and the body of your Earthly Mother are perfect. 112.And so love your Heavenly Father, as he loves your spirit. And so love your Earthly Mother, as she loves your body. 113.And so love your true brothers, as your Heavenly Father and your Earthly Mother love them. And then your Heavenly Father shall give you his holy spirit, and your Earthly Mother shall give you her holy body. 114.And then shall the Sons of Men like true brothers give love one to another, the love which they received from their Heavenly Father and from their Earthly Mother; and they shall all become comforters one of another. 115.And then shall disappear from the earth all evil and all sorrow, and there shall be love and joy upon earth. And then shall the earth be like the heavens, and the kingdom of God shall come. 116.And then shall come the Son of Man in all his glory, to inherit the kingdom of God. And then shall the Sons of Men divide their divine inheritance, the kingdom of God. 117.For the Sons of Men live in the Heavenly Father and in the Earthly Mother, and the Heavenly Father and the Earthly Mother live in them. 118.And then with the kingdom of God shall come the end of the times. For the Heavenly Father's love gives to all life everlasting in the kingdom of God. 119.For love is eternal. Love is stronger than death. "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal. 120.Though I tell what is to come, and know all secrets, and all wisdom; and though I have faith strong as the storm which lifts mountains from their seat, but have not love, I am nothing. 121.And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and give all my fire that I have received from my Father, but have not love, I am in no wise profited. 122.Love is patient, love is kind. Love is not envious, works not evil, knows not pride; is not rude, neither selfish; is slow to anger, imagines no mischief; rejoices not in injustice, but delights in justice. 123.Love defends all, love believes all, love hopes all, love bears all; never exhausts itself; but as for tongues they shall cease, and, as for knowledge, it shall vanish away. 124.For we have truth in part, and error in part, but when the fullness of perfection is come, that which is in part shall be blotted out. 125.When a man was a child he spoke as a child, understood as a child, thought as a child; but when he became a man he put away childish things. 126.For now we see through a glass and through dark sayings. Now we know in part, but when we are come before the face of God, we shall not know in part, but even as we are taught by him. 127.And now remain these three: faith and hope and love; but the greatest of these is love. 128."And now I speak to you in the living tongue of the living God, through the holy spirit of our Heavenly Father. 129.There is none yet among you that can understand all this of which I speak. He who expounds to you the scriptures speaks to you in a dead tongue of dead men, through his diseased and mortal body. 130.Him, therefore, can all men understand, for all men are diseased and all are in death. No one sees the light of life. 131.Blind man leads blind on the dark paths of sins, diseases and sufferings; and at the last all fall into the pit of death. 132."I am sent to you by the Father, that I may make the light of life to shine before you. The light lightens itself and the darkness, but the darkness knows only itself, and knows not the light. 133.I have still many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them yet. For your eyes are used to the darkness, and the full light of the Heavenly Father would make you blind. 134.Therefore, you cannot yet understand that which I speak to you concerning the Heavenly Father who sent me to you. 135.Follow, therefore, first, only the laws of your Earthly Mother, of which I have told you. 136.And when her angels shall have cleansed and renewed your bodies and strengthened your eyes, you will be able to bear the light of our Heavenly Father. 137.When you can gaze on the brightness of the noonday sun with unflinching eyes, you can then look upon the blinding light of your Heavenly Father, which is a thousand times brighter than the brightness of a thousand suns. 138.But how should you look upon the blinding light of your Heavenly Father, when you cannot even bear the shining of the blazing sun? 139.Believe me, the sun is as the flame of a candle beside the sun of truth of the Heavenly Father. 140.Have but faith, therefore, and hope, and love. I tell you truly, you shall not want your reward. 141.If you believe in my words, you believe in him who sent me, who is the lord of all, and with whom all things are possible. 142.For what is impossible with men, all these things are possible with God. If you believe in the angels of the Earthly Mother and do her laws, your faith shall sustain you and you shall never see disease. 143.Have hope also in the love of your Heavenly Father, for he who trusts in him shall never be deceived, nor shall he ever see death. 144."Love one another, for God is love, and so shall his angels know that you walk in his paths. And then shall all the angels come before your face and serve you. 145.And Satan with all sins, diseases and uncleannesses shall depart from your body. Go, eschew your sins; repent yourselves; baptize yourselves; that you may be born again and sin no more." 146.Then Jesus rose. But all else remained sitting, for every man felt the power of his words. And then the full moon appeared between the breaking clouds and folded Jesus in its brightness. 147.And sparks flew upward from his hair, and he stood among them in the moonlight, as though he hovered in the air. 148.And no man moved, neither was the voice of any heard. And no one knew how long a time had passed, for time stood still. 149.Then Jesus stretched out his hands to them and said: "Peace be with you." And so he departed, as a breath of wind sways the green of trees. 150.And for a long while yet the company sat still and then they woke in the silence, one man after another, like as from a long dream. 151.But none would go, as if the words of him who had left them ever sounded in their ears. And they sat as though they listened to some wondrous music. 152.But at last one, as it were a little fearfully, said: "How good it is to be here." Another: "Would that this night were everlasting." 153.And others: "Would that he might be with us always." "Of a truth he is God's messenger, for he planted hope within our hearts." 154.And no man wished to go home, saying: "I go not home where all is dark and joyless. Why should we go home where no one loves us?" 155.And they spoke on this wise, for they were almost all poor, lame, blind, maimed, beggars, homeless, despised in their wretchedness, who were only borne for pity's sake in the houses where they found a few day's refuge. 156.Even certain, who had both home and family, said: "We also will stay with you." For every man felt that the words of him who was gone bound the little company with threads invisible. 157.And all felt that they were born again. They saw before them a shining world, even when the moon was hidden in the clouds. 158.And in the hearts of all blossomed wondrous flowers of wondrous beauty, the flowers of joy.159.And when the bright sunbeams appeared over the earth's rim, they all felt that it was the sun of the coming kingdom of God. 160.And with joyful countenances they went forth to meet God's angels. 161.And many unclean and sick followed Jesus' words and sought the banks of the murmuring streams. They put off their shoes and their clothing, they fasted, and they gave up their bodies to the angels of air, of water, and of sunshine. 162.And the Earthly Mother's angels embraced them, possessing their bodies both inwards and outwards. And all of them saw all evils, sins and uncleannesses depart in haste from them. 163.And the breath of some became as stinking as that which is loosed from the bowels, and some had an issue of spittle, and evil-smelling and unclean vomit rose from their inward parts. 164.All these uncleannesses flowed by their mouths. In some, by the nose, in others by the eyes and ears. 165.And many did have a noisome and abominable sweat come from all their body, over all their skin. 166.And on many limbs great hot boils broke forth, from which came out uncleannesses with an evil smell, and urine flowed abundantly from their body; and in many their urine was all but dried up and became thick as the honey of bees; that of others was almost red or black, and as hard almost as the sand of rivers. 167.And many belched stinking gases from their bowels, like the breath of devils. And their stench became so great that none could bear it. 168.And when they baptized themselves, the angel of water entered their bodies, and from them flowed out all the abominations and uncleannesses of their past sins, and like a falling mountain stream gushed from their bodies a multitude of hard and soft abominations. 169.And the ground where their waters flowed was polluted, and so great became the stench that none could remain there. 170.And the devils left their bowels in the shape of multitudinous worms which writhed in impotent rage after the angel of water had cast them out of the bowels of the Sons of Men. 171.And then descended upon them the power of the angel of sunshine, and they perished there in their desperate writhings, trod underfoot by the angel of sunshine. 172.And all were trembling with terror when they looked upon all these abominations of Satan, from which the angels had saved them. 173.And they rendered thanks to God who had sent his angels for their deliverance. 174.And there were some whom great pains tormented, which would not depart from them; and knowing not what they should do, they resolved to send one of them to Jesus, for they greatly wished he should be with them. 175.And when two were gone to seek him, they saw Jesus himself approaching by the bank of the river. 176.And their hearts were filled with hope and joy when they heard his greeting, "Peace be with you." 177.And many were the questions that they desired to ask him, but in their astonishment they could not begin, for nothing came into their minds. 178.Then said Jesus to them: "I come because you need me." And one cried out: "Master, we do indeed, come and free us from our pains." 179.And Jesus spoke to them in parables: "You are like the prodigal son, who for many years did eat and drink, and passed his days in riotousness and lechery with his friends. 180.And every week without his father's knowledge he incurred new debts, and squandered all in a few days. 181.And the moneylenders always lent to him, because his father possessed great riches and always paid patiently the debts of his son. 182.And in vain did he with fair words admonish his son, for he never listened to the admonitions of his father, who besought him in vain that he would give up his debaucheries which had no end, and that he would go to his fields to watch over the labor of his servants. 183.And the son always promised him everything if he would pay his old debts, but the next day he began again. 184.And for more than seven years the son continued in his riotous living. 185.But, at last, his father lost patience and no more paid to the moneylenders the debts of his son. "if I continue always to pay," he said, "there will be no end to the sins of my son." 186.Then the moneylenders, who were deceived, in their wrath took the son into slavery that he might by his daily toil pay back to them the money which he had borrowed. 187.And then ceased the eating and drinking and the daily excesses. From morning until night by the sweat of his face he watered the fields, and all of his limbs ached with the unaccustomed labor. 188.And he lived upon dry bread, and had naught but his tears with which he could water it. 189.And three days after he suffered so much from the heat and from weariness that he said to his master: 'I can work no more, for all my limbs do ache. 190.How long would you torment me?' 'Till the day when by the labor of your hands you pay me all your debts, and when seven years are passed, you will be free.' 191.And the desperate son answered weeping: 'But I cannot bear so much as seven days. Have pity on me, for all my limbs do burn and ache.' 192.And the wicked creditor cried out: 'Press on with the work; if you could for seven years spend your days and your nights in riotousness, now must you work for seven years. 193.I will not forgive you till you pay back all your debts to the uttermost drachma.' And the son, with his limbs racked with pain, went back despairing to the fields to continue his work. 194.Already he could hardly stand upon his feet because of his weariness and of his pains, when the seventh day was come-the Sabbath day, in which no man works in the field. 195.Then the son gathered the remnant of his strength and staggered to the house of his father. 196.And he cast himself down at his father's feet and said: 'Father, believe me for the last time and forgive me all my offenses against your swear to you that I will never again live riotously and that I will be your obedient son in all things. 197.Free me from the hands of my oppressor. Father, look upon me and upon my sick limbs, and harden not your heart.' 198.Then tears came into his father's eyes, and he took his son in his arms, and said: 'Let us rejoice, for today a great joy is given me, because I have found again my beloved son, who was lost.' 199.And he clothed him with his choicest raiment and all the day long they made merry. And on the morning of the morrow he gave his son a bag of silver that he might pay to his creditors all that he owed them. 200.And when his son came back, he said to him: 'My son, do you see that it is easy, through riotous living, to incur debts for seven years, but their payment is difficult by the heavy labor of seven years.' 201 'Father, it is indeed hard to pay them, even for seven days.' And his father admonished him, saying: 'For this once alone has it been permitted you to pay your debts in seven days instead of seven years, the rest is forgiven you. 202.But take heed that in the time to come you do not incur more debts. For I tell you truly, that none else but your father forgives you your debts, because you are his son. 203.For with all else you would have had to labor hard for seven years, as it is commanded in our laws.' 204.My father, I will henceforth be your loving and obedient son, and I will not any more incur debts, for I know that their payment is hard.' 205."And he went to his father's field and watched every day over the work of his father's laborers. And he never made his laborers work hard, for he remembered his own heavy labor. 206.And the years passed, and his father's possession increased ever more and more beneath his hand, for the blessing of his father was upon his labor. 207.And slowly he gave back tenfold to his father all that he had squandered in the seven years. 208.And when his father saw that his son used well his servants and all his possessions, he said to him: 'My son, I see that my possessions are in good hands. 209.I give you all my cattle, my house, my lands and my treasures. Let all this be your heritage, continue increasing it that I may have delight in you.' 210.And when the son had received his inheritance from his father, he forgave their debts to all his debtors who could not pay him, for he did not forget that his debt also had been forgiven when he could not pay it. 211.And God blessed him with long life, with many children and with much riches, because he was kind to all his servants and to all his cattle." 212.Then Jesus turned to the sick folk and said: "I speak to you in parables that you may better understand God's word. 213.The seven years of eating and drinking and of riotous living are the sins of the past. The wicked creditor is Satan. 214.The debts are diseases. The heavy labor is pains. The prodigal son, he is yourselves. The payment of the debts is the casting from you of devils and diseases, and the healing of your body. 215.The bag of silver received from the father is the liberating power of the angels. The father is God. 216.The father's possessions are earth and heaven. The servants of the father are the angels. 217.The father's field is the world, which is changed into the kingdom of the heavens, if the Sons of Man work thereon together with the angels of the Heavenly Father. 218.For I tell you, it is better that the son should obey his father and keep watch over his father's servants in the field, than that he should become the debtor of the wicked creditor and toil and sweat in serfdom to repay all his debts. it is better, likewise, if the Sons of Man also obey the laws of their Heavenly Father, and work together with his angels upon his kingdom, than that they should become the debtors of Satan, the lord of death, of all sins and all diseases, and that they should suffer with pains and sweat till they have repaid all their sins. 219.I tell you truly, great and many are your sins. Many years have you yielded to the enticings of Satan. 220.You have been gluttonous, wine-bibbers and gone a-whoring, and your past debts have multiplied. 221.And now you must repay them, and payment is difficult and hard. 222.Be not, therefore, already impatient after the third day, like the prodigal son, but wait patiently for the seventh day which is sanctified by God, and then go with humble and obedient heart before the face of your Heavenly Father, that he may forgive you your sins and all your past debts. 223.I tell you truly, your Heavenly Father loves you without end, for he also allows you to pay in seven days the debts of seven years. 224.Those that owe the sins and diseases of seven years, but pay honestly and persevere till the seventh day, to them shall our Heavenly Father forgive the debts of all these seven years. 225."If we sin for seven times seven years?" asked a sick man who suffered horribly. "Even in that case the Heavenly Father forgives you all your debts in seven times seven days. 226."Happy are those that persevere to the end, for the devils of Satan write all your evil deeds in a book, in the book of your body and your spirit. 227.I tell you truly, there is not one sinful deed, but it is written, even from the beginning of the world, before our Heavenly Father. 228.For you may escape the laws made by kings, but the laws of your God, these may none of the Sons of Man escape. 229.And when you come before the face of God, the devils of Satan bear witness against you with your deed, and God sees your sins written in the book of your body and of your spirit and is sad in his heart. 230.But if you repent of your sins, and by fasting and prayer you seek the angels of God, then each day that you continue to fast and to pray, God's angels blot out one year of your evil deeds from the book of your body and your spirit. 231.And when the last page is also blotted out and cleansed from all your sins, you stand before the face of God, and God rejoices in his heart and forgets all your sins. 232.He frees you from the clutches of Satan and from suffering; he takes you within his house and commands that all his servants, all his angels serve you. 233.Long life does he give you, and you shall never see disease. 234.And if, thenceforward, instead of sinning, you pass your days in doing good deeds, then the angels of God shall write all your good deeds in the book of your body and of your spirit. 235.I tell you truly, no good deed remains unwritten before God, not from the beginning of the world. 236.For from your kings and your governors you may wait in vain for your reward, but never do your good deeds want their reward from God. 237."And when you come before the face of God, his angels bear witness for you with your good deeds. 238.And God sees your good deeds written in your bodies and in your spirits, and rejoices in his heart. 239.He blesses your body and your spirit and all your deeds, and gives you for a heritage his earthly and heavenly kingdom, that in it you may have life everlasting. 240.Happy is he who can enter into the kingdom of God, for he shall never see death." 241.And a great silence fell at his words. And those that were discouraged took new strength from his words and continued to fast and to pray. 242.And he who had spoken the first, said to him: "I will persevere to the seventh day." And the second, likewise, said to him: "I also will persevere to the seven times seventh day." 243.Jesus answered them: "Happy are those that persevere to the end, for they shall inherit the earth." 244.And there were many sick among them tormented with grievous pains, and they hardly crawled to Jesus' feet. 245.For they could no longer walk upon their feet. They said: "Master, we are grievously tormented with pain; tell us what we shall do." 246.And they showed Jesus their feet in which the bones were twisted and knotted and said: "Neither the angel of air, nor of water, nor of sunshine has assuaged our pains, notwithstanding that we baptized ourselves, and do fast and pray, and follow your words in all things." 247."I tell you truly, your bones will be healed. Be not discouraged, but seek for cure nigh the healer of bones, the angel of earth. 248. For thence were your bones taken, and thither will they return." 249.And he pointed with his hand to where the running of the water and the sun's heat had softened to clayey mud the earth by the edge of the water. 250."Sink your feet in the mire, that the embrace of the angel of earth may draw out from your bones all uncleanness and all disease. 251.And you will see Satan and your pains fly from the embrace of the angel of earth. And the knots of your bones will vanish away, and they will be straightened, and all your pains will disappear." 252.And the sick followed his words, for they knew that they would be healed. 253.And there were also other sick who suffered much from their pains, howbeit, they persisted in their fasting. 254.And their force was spent, and great heat tormented them. 255.And when they would have risen from their bed to go to Jesus, their heads began to turn, as if it were a gusty wind which shook them, and as oft as they tried to stand upon their feet they fell back to the ground. 256.Then Jesus went to them and said: "You suffer, for Satan and his diseases torment your bodies. But fear not, for their power over you will quickly end. 257.For Satan is like a choleric neighbor who entered his neighbor's house while he was absent, intending to take his goods away to his own house. 258.But some told the other that his enemy was ravaging within his house, and he came back to his house, running. 259.And when the wicked neighbor, having gathered together all that pleased him, saw from afar the master of the house returning in haste, then he was very wroth that he could not take all away, and set to breaking and spoiling all that was there, to destroy all. 260.So that even if the things might not be his, the other might have nothing. But immediately the lord of the house came in, and before the wicked neighbor fulfilled his purpose, he took him and cast him out of the house. 261.I tell you truly, even so did Satan enter your bodies which are the habitation of God. And he took in his power all that he wished to steal: your breath, your blood, your bone, your flesh, your bowels, your eyes, and your ears. 262.But by your fasting and your prayer, you have called back the lord of your body and his angels. And now Satan sees that the true lord of your body returns, and that it is the end of his power. 263.Wherefore, in his wrath he gathers his strength once again, that he may destroy your bodies before the coming of the lord. it is for this that Satan torments you so grievously, for he feels that the end is come. 264.But let not your hearts tremble, for soon will the angels of God appear, to occupy again their abodes and rededicate them as temples of God. 265.And they will seize Satan and cast him from your bodies with all his diseases and all his uncleannesses. 266.And happy will you be, for you will receive the reward of your steadfastness, and you will never see disease." 267.And there was among the sick, one that was more tormented by Satan than all the others. 268.And his body was as parched as a skeleton, and his skin yellow as a falling leaf. 269.He was so weak already that he could not, even upon his hands, crawl to Jesus, and cried only to him from afar: "Master, have pity on me, for never has man suffered, not from the beginning of the world, as I do suffer. 270.I know that you are indeed sent by God, and I know that if you will, you can straightway cast out Satan from my body. 271.Do not the angels of God obey God's messenger? Come, Master, and cast out Satan from me now, for he rages angrily within me and grievous is his torment." 272.And Jesus answered him: "Satan torments you thus greatly because you have already fasted many days, and you do not pay to him his tribute. 273.You do not feed him with all the abominations with which you hitherto defiled the temple of your spirit. 274.You torment Satan with hunger, and so in his anger he torments you also. Fear not, for I tell you, Satan will be destroyed before your body is destroyed; for while you fast and pray, the angels of God protect your body, that Satan's power may not destroy you. 275.And the anger of Satan is impotent against the angels of God." 276.Then they all came to Jesus and with loud cries besought him saying: "Master, have compassion on him, for he suffers more than we all, and if you do not at once cast Satan out of him, we fear he will not live until tomorrow." 277.And Jesus answered them: "Great is your faith. Be it according to your faith, and you shall see soon, face to face, the frightful countenance of Satan, and the power of the So