Essene Gospel of Peace - Book 1

fruits of the trees, and nurtures us in the furrows of the Essene Gospel of Peace – Book 1fields.The Original Hebrew and Aramaic Texts"Our bowels are born of the bowels of our Earthly Mother, Translated and edited byand are hid from our eyes, like the invisible depths of the EDMOND BORDEAUX SZEKELYearth.MCMLXXXIINTERNATIONAL BIOGENIC SOCIETY Book Design by Golondrina Graohics"The light of our eyes, the hearing of our ears, both are Copyright @ 1981, by the Internation,l Blogenic Society born of the colors and the sounds of our Earthly Mother; Printed In the United States of America­Al  Rights Reservedwhich enclose us about, as the waves of the sea a fish, as the eddying air a bird.And then many sick and maimed came to Jesus, asking him. "if you know al things, tel us, why do we suffer with "I tel you in very truth, Man is the Son of the Earthly these grievous plagues? Why are we not whole like other Mother, and from her did the Son of Man receive his men? Master, heal us, that we too may be made strong, whole body, even as the body of the newborn babe is and need abide no longer in our misery. We know that born of the womb of his mother. I tel you truly, you are you have it in your power to heal al manner of disease. one with the Earthly Mother; she is in you, and you in her. Free us from Satan and from al his great afflictions. Of her were you born, in her do you live, and to her shal Master, have compassion on us."you return again. Keep, therefore, her laws, for none can live long, neither be happy, but he who honors his Earthly And Jesus answered- "Happy are you that you hunger for Mother and does her laws. For your breath is her breath; the truth, for I wil satisfy you with the bread of wisdom. your blood her blood; your bone her bone; your flesh her Happy are you, that you knock, for I wil open to you the flesh; your bowels her bowels; your eyes and your ears door of life. Happy are you, that you would cast off the are her eyes and her ears.power of Satan, for I wil lead you into the kincdom of our Mother's angels, where the power of Satan cannot enter.""I tel you truly, should you fail to keep but one only of al these laws, should you harm but one only of al your And they asked him in amazement: "Who is our Mother body's members, you shal be utterly lost in your grievous and which her angels? And where is her kingdom?" sickness, and there shal be weeping and gnashing of teeth. I tel you, unless you fol ow the laws of your "Your Mother is in you, and you in her. She bore you she Mother, you can in no wise escape death. And he who gives you life. it was she who gave to you your body, and clings to the laws of his Mother, to him shal his Mother to her shal you one day give it back again. Happy are cling also. She shal heal al his plagues, and he shal you when you come to know her and her kingdom; if you never become sick. She gives him long life, and protects receive your Mother's angels and if you do her laws. I tel him from al afflictions; from fire, from water, from the bite you truly, he who does these things shal never see of venomous serpents. For your Mother bore you, keeps disease. For the power of our Mother is above al . And it life within you. She has given you her body, and none but destroys Satan and his kingdom, and has rule over al she heals you. Happy is he who loves his Mother and lies your bodies and al living things.quietly in her bosom. For your Mother loves you, even when you turn away from her. And how much more shal she love you, if you turn to her again? I tel you truly, very "The blood which runs in us is born of the blood of our great is her love, greater than the greatest of mountains, Earthly Mother. Her blood fal s from the clouds; leaps deeper than the deepest seas. And those who love their from the womb of the earth; babbles in the brooks of the Mother, she never deserts them. As the hen protects her mountains; flows wide in the rivers of the plains; sleeps in chickens, as the lioness her cubs, as the mother her the lakes; rages mightily in tempestuous seas.newborn babe, so does the Earthly Mother protect the Son of Man from al danger and from al evils."The air which we breathe is born of the breath of our Earthly Mother. Her breath is azure in the heights of t "For I tel you truly, evils and dangers innumerable lie in heavens; soughs in the tops of the mountains; whispers wait for the Sons of Men. Beelzebub, the prince of al the leaves of the forest; bil ows over the cornfields; devils, the source of every evil, lies in wait in the body of slumbers in the deep val eys, burns hot in the desert.al the Sons of Men. He is death, the lord of every plague, and taking upon him a pleasing raiment, he tempts and "The hardness of our bones is born of the bones of our entices the Sons of Men. Riches does he promise, and Earthly Mother, of the rocks and of the stones. They power, and splendid palaces, and garments of gold and stand naked to the heavens on the tops of mountains; are silver, and a multitude of servants, al these; he promises as giants that lie sleeping on the sides of the mountains, renown and glory, fornication and lustfulness, gluttony as idols set in the desert, and are hidden in the deepness and wine-bibbing, riotous living, and slothfulness and idle of the earth.days. And he entices every one by that to which their heart is most inclined. And in the day that the Sons of "The tenderness of our flesh is born of the flesh of our Men have already become the slaves of al these vanities Earthly Mother; whose flesh waxes yel ow and red in the and abominations, then in payment thereof he snatches from the Sons of Men al those things which the Earthly And Jesus answered: "Seek not the law in your Mother gave them so abundantly. He takes from them scriptures, for the law is life, whereas the scripture is their breath, their blood, their bone, their flesh, their dead. I tel you truly, Moses received not his laws from bowels, their eyes and their ears. And the breath of the God in writing, but through the living word. The law is Son of Man becomes short and stifled, ful of pain and living word of living God to living prophets for living men. evil-smel ing, like the breath of unclean beasts. And his In everything that is life is the law written. You find it in blood becomes thick and evil-smel ing, like the water of the grass, in the tree, in the river, in the mountain, in the the swamps; it clots and blackens, like the night of death. birds of heaven, in the fishes of the sea; but seek it And his bone becomes hard and knotted; it melts away chiefly in yourselves. For I tel you truly, al living things within and breaks asunder, as a stone fal ing down upon are nearer to God than the scripture which is without life. a rock. And his flesh waxes fat and watery; it rots and God so made life and al living things that they might by putrefies, with scabs and boils that are an abomination.the everlasting word teach the laws of the true God to man. God wrote not the laws in the pages of books, but in And his bowels become ful with abominable filthiness, your heart and in your spirit. They are in your breath, your with oozing streams of decay; and multitudes of blood, your bone; in your flesh, your bowels, your eyes, abominable worms have their habitation there. And his your ears, and in every little part of your body. They are eyes grow dim, til dark night enshrouds them, and his present in the air, in the water, in the earth, in the plants, ears become stopped, like the silence of the grave. And in th e sunbeams, in the depths and in the heights. They last of al shal the erring Son of Man lose life. For he kept al speak to you that you may understand the tongue and not the laws of his Mother, and added sin to sin. the wil of the living God. But you shut your eyes that you Therefore, are taken from him al the gifts of the Earthly may not see, and you shut your ears that you may not Mother: breath, blood, bone, flesh, bowels, eyes and hear. I tel you truly, that the scripture is the work of man, ears, and after al else, life, with which the Earthly Mother but life and al its hosts are the work of our God. crowned his body.Wherefore do you not listen to the words of God which are written in His works? And wherefore do you study the "But if the erring Son of Man be sorry for his sins and dead scriptures which are the work of the hands of men?"undo them, and return again to his Earthly Mother; and if he do his Earthly Mother's laws and free himself from "How may we read the laws of God elsewhere than in the Satan's clutches, resisting his temptations, then does the scriptures? Where are they written? Read them to us Earthly Mother receive again her erring Son with love and from there where you see them, for we know nothing else sends him her angels that they may serve him. I tel you but the scriptures which we have inherited from our truly, when the Son of Man resists the Satan that dwel s forefathers. Tel us the laws of which you speak, that in him and does not his wil , in the same hour are found hearing them we may be healed and justified."the Mother's angels there, that they may serve him with al their power and free utterly the Son of Man from the Jesus said: "You do not understand the words of life, power of Satan.because you are in death. Darkness darkens your eyes and your ears are stopped with deafness. For I tel you, it "For no man can serve two masters. For either he serves profits you not at al that you pore over dead scriptures if Beelzebub and his devils or else he serves our Earthly by your deeds you deny him who has given you the Mother and her angels. Either he serves death or he scriptures. serves life. I ten you truly, happy are those that do the laws of life and wander not upon the paths of death. For I tel you truly, God and his laws are not in that which you in them the forces of life wax strong and they escape the do. They are not in gluttony and in wine-bibbing, neither plagues of death."in riotous living, nor in lustfulness, nor in seeking after riches, nor yet in hatred of your enemies. For al these And al those round about him listened to his words with things are far from the true God and from his angels. But amazement, for his word was with power, and he taught al these things come from the kingdom of darkness and quite otherwise than the priests and scribes.the lord of al evils. And al these things do you carry in yourselves; and so the word and the power of God enter And though the sun was now set, they departed not to not into you, because al manner of evil and al manner of their homes. They sat round about Jesus and asked him: abominations have their dwel ing in your body and your "Master, which are these laws of life? Rest with us awhile spirit. If you wil that the living God's word and his power longer and teach us. We would listen to your teaching may enter you, defile not your body and your spirit; for the that we may be healed and become righteous."body is the temple of the spirit, and the spirit is the temple of God. Purify, therefore, the temple, that the Lord of the temple may dwel therein and occupy a place that is And Jesus himself sat down in their midst and said: "I tel worthy of him.you truly, none can be happy, except he do the Law." "And from al temptations of your body and your spirit, And the others answered: "We al do the laws of Moses, coming from Satan, withdraw beneath the shadow of our lawgiver, even as they are written in the holy God's heaven.scriptures.""Renew yourselves and fast. For I tel you truly, that "Seek, therefore, a large trailing gourd, having a stalk the Satan and his plagues may only be cast out by -fasting length of a man; take out its inwards and fil it with water and by prayer. Go by yourself and fast alone, and show from the river which the sun has warmed. Hang it upon your fasting to no man. The living God shal see it and the branch of a tree, and kneel upon the ground before great shal be your reward. And fast til Beelzebub and al the angel of water, and suffer the end of the stalk of the his evils depart from you, and al the angels of our Earthly trailing gourd to enter your hinder parts, that the water Mother come and serve you. For I tel you truly, except may flow through al your bowels. Afterwards rest you fast, you shal never be freed from the power of kneeling on the ground before the angel of water and Satan and from al diseases that come from Satan. Fast pray to the living God that he wil forgive you al your past and pray fervently, seeking the power of the living God for sins, and pray the angel of water that he wil free your your healing. While you fast, eschew the Sons of Men body from every uncleanness and disease. Then let the and seek our Earthly Mother's angels, for he that seeks water run out from your body, that it may carry away from shal find.within it al the unclean and evil-smel ing things of Satan. And you shal see with your eyes and smel with your "Seek the fresh air of the forest and of the fields, and nose al the abominations, and uncleannesses which there in the midst of them shal you find the angel of air. defiled the temple of your body; even al the sins which Put off your shoes and your clothing and suffer the angel abode in your body, tormenting you with al manner of of air to embrace al your body. Then breathe long and pains. I tel you truly, baptism with water frees you from deeply, that the angel of air may be brought within you. I al of these. Renew your baptizing with water on every tel you truly, the angel of air shal cast out of your body day of your fast, til the day when you see that the water al uncleannesses which defiled it without and within. And which flows out of you is as pure as the river's foam. thus shal al evil-smel ing and unclean things rise out of Then betake your body to the coursing river, and there in you, as the smoke of fire curls upwards and is lost in the the arms of the angel of water render thanks to the living sea of the air. For I tel you truly, holy is the angel of air, God that he has freed you from your sins. And this holy who cleanses al that is unclean and makes al evil-baptizing by the angel of water is: Rebirth unto the new smel ing things of a sweet odor. No man may come life. For your eyes shal henceforth see, and your ears before the face of God, whom the angel of air lets not shal hear. Sin no more, therefore, after your baptism, pass. Truly, al must be born again by air and by truth, for that the angels of air and of water may eternal y abide in your body breathes the air of the Earthly Mother, and you and serve you evermore.your spirit breathes the truth of the Heavenly Father. "And if afterward there remain within you aught of your "After the angel of air, seek the angel of water. Put off past sins and uncleannesses, seek the angel of sunlight. your shoes and your clothing and suffer the angel of Put off your shoes and your clothing and suffer the angel water to embrace al your body. Cast yourselves whol y of sunlight to embrace al your body. Then breathe long into his enfolding arms, and as often as you move the air and deeply, that the angel of sunlight may be brought with your breath, move with your body the water also. I within you. And the angel of sunlight shal cast out of your tel you truly, the angel of water shal cast out of your body al evil-smel ing and unclean things which defiled it body al uncleannesses which defiled it without and without and within. And al unclean and evil-smel ing within. And al unclean and evil-smel ing things shal flow things shal rise from you, even as the darkness of night out of you, even as the uncleannesses of garments fades before the brightness of the rising sun. For I tel you washed in water flow away and are lost in the stream of truly, holy is the angel of sunlight who cleans out al the river. I tel you truly, holy is the angel of water who uncleannesses and makes al evil-smel ing things of a cleanses al that is unclean and makes al evil-smel ing sweet odor. None may come before the face of God, things of a sweet odor. No man may come before the whom the angel of sunlight lets not pass. Truly, al must face of God whom the angel of water lets not pass. in be born again of sun and of truth, for your body basks in very truth, al must be born again of water and of truth, for the sunlight of the Earthly Mother, and your spirit basks in your body bathes in the river of earthly life, and your spirit the sunlight of the truth of the Heavenly Father.bathes in the river of life everlasting. For you receive your blood from our Earthly Mother and the truth from our "The angels of air and of water and of sunlight are Heavenly Father.brethren. They were given to the Son of Man that they might serve him, and that he might go always from one to "Think not that it is sufficient that the angel of water the other.embrace you outwards only. I tel you truly, the uncleanness within is greater by much than the "Holy, likewise, is their embrace. They are indivisible uncleanness without. And he who cleanses himself children of the Earthly Mother, so do not you put asunder without, but within remains unclean, is like to tombs that those whom earth and heaven have made one. Let these outwards are painted fair, but are within ful of al manner three brother angels enfold you every day and let them of horrible uncleannesses and abominations. So I tel you abide with you through al your fasting.truly, suffer the angel of water to baptize you also within, that you may become free from al your past sins, and "For I tel you truly, the power of devils, al sins and that within likewise you may become as pure as the uncleannesses shal depart in haste from that body which river's foam sporting in the sunlight.is embraced by these three angels. As thieves flee from a deserted house at the coming of the lord of the house, "And your true brothers are al those who do the wil of one by the door, one by the window, and the third by the your Heavenly Father and of your Earthly Mother, and not roof, each where he is found, and whither he is able, your brothers by blood. I tel you truly, that your true even so shal flee from your bodies al devils of evil, al brothers in the wil of the Heavenly Father and of the past sins, and al uncleannesses and diseases which Earthly Mother wil love you a thousand times more than defiled the temple of your bodies. When the Earthly your brothers by blood. For since the days of Cain and Mother's angels enter into your bodies, in such wise that Abel, when brothers by blood transgressed the wil of the lords of the temple repossess it again, then shal al God, there is no true brotherhood by blood. And brothers evil smel s depart in haste by your breath and by your do unto brothers as do strangers. Therefore, I say to you, skin, corrupt waters by your mouth and by your skin, by love your true brothers in the wil of God a thousand times your hinder and your privy parts. And al these things you more than your brothers by blood. shal see with your eyes and smel with your nose and touch with your hands. And when al sins and FOR YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER IS LOVE.uncleannesses are gone from your body, your blood shal FOR YOUR EARTHLY MOTHER IS LOVE.become as pure as our Earthly Mother's blood and as the FOR THE SON OF MAN IS LOVE.river's foam sporting in the sunlight. And your breath shal become as pure as the breath of odorous flowers; your "It is by love, that the Heavenly Father and the Earthly flesh as pure as the flesh of fruits reddening upon the Mother and the Son of Man become one. For the spirit of leaves of trees; the light of your eye as clear and bright the Son of Man was created from the spirit of the Heaven as the brightness of the sun shining upon the blue sky. Father, and his body from the body of the Earthly Mother. And now shal al the angels of the Earthly Mother serve Become, therefore, perfect as the spirit of your Heavenly you. And your breath, your blood, your flesh shal be one Father and the body of your Earthly Mother are perfect. with the breath, the blood and the flesh of the Earthly And so love your Heavenly Father, as he loves your spirit. Mother, that your spirit also may become one with the And so love your Earthly Mother, as she loves your body. spirit of your Heavenly Father. For truly, no one can reach And so love your true brothers, as your Heavenly Father the Heavenly Father unless through the Earthly Mother. and your Earthly Mother love them. And then your Even as no newborn babe can understand the teaching Heavenly Father shal give you his holy spirit, and your of his father til his mother has suckled him, bathed him, Earthly Mother shal give you her holy body. And then nursed him, put him to sleep and nurtured him. While the shal the Sons of Men like true brothers give love one to child is yet smal , his place is with his mother and he must another, the love which they received from their Heavenly obey his mother. When the child is grown up, his father Father and from their Earthly Mother; and they shal al takes him to work at his side in the field, and the child become comforters one of another. And then shal comes back to his mother o nly when the hour of dinner disappear from the earth al evil and al sorrow, and there and supper is come. And now his father teaches him, that shal be love and joy upon earth. And th en shal the earth he may become skil ed in the works of his father. And be like the heavens, and the kingdom of God shal come. when the father sees that his son understands his And then shal come the Son of Man in al his glory, to teaching and does his work wel , he gives him al his inherit the kingdom of God. And then shal the Sons of possessions, that they may belong to his beloved son, Men divide their divine inheritance, the kingdom of God. and that his son may continue his father's work. I tel you For the Sons of Men live in the Heavenly Father and in truly, happy is that son who accepts the counsel of his the Earthly Mother, and the Heavenly Father and the mother and walks therein. And a hundred times more Earthly Mother live in them. And then with the kingdom of happy is that son who accepts and walks also in the God shal come the end of the times. For the Heavenly counsel of his father, for it was said to you: 'Honor thy Father's love gives to al life everlasting in the kingdom of father and thy mother that thy days may be long upon this God. For love is eternal. Love is stronger than death.earth.' But I say to you, Sons of Man: Honor your Earthly Mother and keep al her laws, that your days may be long on this earth, and honor your Heavenly Father that "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, Eternal Life may be yours in the heavens. For the but have not love, I am become as sounding brass or a Heavenly Father is a hundred times greater than al tinkling cymbal. Though I tel what is to come, and know fathers by seed and by blood, and greater is the Earthly al secrets, and al wisdom; and though I have faith strong Mother than al mothers by the body. And d earer is the as the storm which lifts mountains from their seat, but Son of Man in the eyes of his Heavenly Father and of his have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow al my Earthly Mother than are children in the eyes of their goods to feed the poor, and give al my fire that I have fathers by seed and by blood and of their mothers by the received from my Father, but have not love, I am in no body. And more wise are the words and laws of your wise profited. Love is patient, love is kind. Love is not Heavenly Father and of your Earthly Mother than the envious, works not evil, knows not pride; is not rude, words and the wil of al fathers by seed and by blood, neither selfish; is slow to anger, imagines no mischief; and of al mothers by the body. And of more worth also is rejoices not in injustice, but delights in justice. Love the inheritance of your Heavenly Father and of your defends al , love believes al , love hopes al , love bears Earthly Mother, the everlasting kingdom of earthly and al ; never exhausts itself; but as for tongues they shal heavenly life, than al the inheritances of your fathers by cease, and, as for knowledge, it shal vanish away. For seed and by blood, and of your mothers by the body. we have truth in part, and error in part, but when the ful ness of perfection is come, that which is in part shal be blotted out. When a man was a child he spoke as a appeared between the breaking clouds and folded Jesus child, understood as a child, thought as a child; but when in its brightness. And sparks flew upward from his hair, he became a man he put away childish things. For now and he stood among them in the moonlight, as though he we see through a glass and through dark sayings. Now hovered in the air. And no man moved, neither was the we know in part, but when we are come before the face voice of any heard. And no one knew how long a time of God, we shal not know in part, but even as we are had passed, for time stood stil .taught by him. And now remain these three: faith and hope and love; but the greatest of these is love.Then Jesus stretched out his hands to them and said: "Peace be with you." And so he departed, as a breath of "And now I speak to you in the living tongue of the living wind sways the green of trees. God, through the holy spirit of our Heavenly Father. There is none yet among you that can understand al this And for a long while yet the company sat stil and then of which I speak. He who expounds to you the scriptures they woke in the silence, one man after another, like as speaks to you in a dead tongue of dead men, through his from a long dream. But none would go, as if the words of diseased and mortal body. Him, therefore, can al men him who had left them ever sounded in their ears. And understand, for al men are diseased and al are in death. they sat as though they listened to some wondrous No one sees the light of life. Blind man leads blind on the music.dark paths of sins, diseases and sufferings; and at the last al fal into the pit of death.But at last one, as it were a little fearful y, said: "How good it is to be here." Another: "Would that this night "I am sent to you by the Father, that I may make the light were everlasting." And others: "Would that he might be of life to shine before you. The light lightens itself and the with us always." "Of a truth he is God's messenger, for he darkness, but the darkness knows only itself, and knows planted hope within our hearts." And no man wished to not the light. I have stil many things to say to you, but go home, saying: "I go not home where al is dark and you cannot bear them yet. For your eyes are used to the joyless. Why should we go home where no one loves darkness, and the ful light of the Heavenly Father would us?"make you blind. Therefore, you cannot yet understand that which I speak to you concerning the Heavenly Father And they spoke on this wise, for they were almost al who sent me to you. Fol ow, therefore, first, only the laws poor, lame, blind, maimed, beggars, homeless, despised of your Earthly Mother, of which I have told you. And in their wretchedness, who were only borne for pity's when her angels shal have cleansed and renewed your sake in the houses where they found a few day's refuge. bodies and strengthened your eyes, you wil be able to Even certain, who had both home and family, said: "We bear the light of our Heavenly Father. When you can also wil stay with you." For every man felt that the words gaze on the brightness of the noonday sun with of him who was gone bound the little company with unflinching eyes, you can then look upon the blinding threads invisible. And al felt that they were born again. light of your Heavenly Father, which is a thousand times They saw before them a shining world, even when the brighter than the brightness of a thousand suns. But how moon was hidden in the clouds. And in the hearts of al should you look upon the blinding light of you r Heavenly blossomed wondrous flowers of wondrous beauty, the Father, when you cannot even bear the shining of the flowers of joy.blazing sun? Believe me, the sun is as the flame of a candle beside the sun of truth of the Heavenly Father. Have but faith, therefore, and hope, and love. I tel you And when the bright sunbeams appeared over the earth's truly, you shal not want your reward. If you believe in my rim, they al felt that it was the sun of the coming kingdom words, you believe in him who sent me, who is the lord of of God. And with joyful countenances they went forth to al , and with whom al things are possible. For what is meet God's angels. impossible with men, al these things are possible with God. If you believe in the angels of the Earthly Mother And many unclean and sick fol owed Jesus' words and and do her laws, your faith shal sustain you and you sought the banks of the murmuring streams. They put off shal never see disease. Have hope also in the love of their shoes and their clothing, they fasted, and they gave your Heavenly Father, for he who trusts in him shal never up their bodies to the angels of air, of water, and of be deceived, nor shal he ever see death.sunshine. And the Earthly Mother's angels embraced them, possessing their bodies both inwards and "Love one another, for God is love, and so shal his outwards. And al of them saw al evils, sins and angels know that you walk in his paths. And then shal al uncleannesses depart in haste from them. the angels come before your face and serve you. And Satan with al sins, diseases and uncleannesses shal And the breath of some became as stinking as that which depart from your body. Go, eschew your sins; repent is loosed from the bowels, and some had an issue of yourselves; baptize yourselves; that you may be born spittle, and evil-smel ing and unclean vomit rose from again and sin no more."their inward parts. Al these uncleannesses flowed by their mouths. In some, by the nose, in others by the eyes Then Jesus rose. But al else remained sitting, for every and ears. And many did have a noisome and abominable man felt the power of his words. And then the ful moon sweat come from al their body, over al their skin. And on many limbs great hot boils broke forth, from which carne son into slavery that he might by his daily toil pay back to out uncleannesses with an evil smel , and urine flowed them the money which he had borrowed. And then abundantly from their body; and in many their urine was ceased the eating and drinking and the daily excesses. al but dried up and became thick as the honey of bees; From morning until night by the sweat of his face he that of others was almost red or black, and as hard watered the fields, and al of his limbs ached with the almost as the sand of rivers. And many belched stinking unaccustomed labor. And he lived upon dry bread, and gases from their bowels, like the breath of devils. And had naught but his tears with which he could water it. And their stench became so great that none could bear it.three days after he suffered so much from the heat and from weariness that he said to his master: 'I can work no And when they baptized themselves, the angel of water more, for al my limbs do ache. How long would you entered their bodies, and from them flowed out al the torment me?' 'Til the day when by the labor of your abominations and uncleannesses of their past sins, and hands you pay me al your debts, and when seven years like a fal ing mountain stream gushed from their bodies a are passed, you wil be free.' And the desperate son multitude of hard and soft abominations. And the ground answered weeping: 'But I cannot bear so much as seven where their waters flowed was pol uted, and so great days. Have pity on me, for al my limbs do burn and became the stench that none could remain there. And the ache.' And the wicked creditor cried out: 'Press on with devils left their bowels in the shape of multitudinous the work; if you could for seven years spend your days worms which writhed in impotent rage after the angel of and your nights in riotousness, now must you work for water had cast them out of the bowels of the Sons of seven years. I wil not forgive you til you pay back al Men. And then descended upon them the power of the your debts to the uttermost drachma.' And the son, with angel of sunshine, and they perished there in their his limbs racked with pain, went back despairing to the desperate writhings, trod underfoot by the angel of fields to continue his work. Already he could hardly stand sunshine. And al were trembling with terror when they upon his feet because of his weariness and of his pains, looked upon al these abominations of Satan, from which when the seventh day was come-the Sabbath day, in the angels had saved them. And they rendered thanks to which no man works in the field. Then the son gathered God who had sent his angels for their deliverance.the remnant of his strength and staggered to the house of his father. And he cast himself down at his father's feet And there were some whom great pains tormented, and said: 'Father, believe me for the last time and forgive which would not depart from them; and knowing not what me al my offenses against your swear to you that I wil they should do, they resolved to send one of them to never again live riotously and that I wil be your obedient Jesus, for they greatly wished he should be with them.son in al things. Free me from the hands of my oppressor. Father, look upon me and upon my sick limbs, and harden not your heart.' Then tears came into his And when two were gone to seek him, they saw Jesus father's eyes, and he took his son in his arms, and said: himself approaching by the bank of the river. And their 'Let us rejoic e, for today a great joy is given me, because hearts were fil ed with hope and joy when they heard his I have found again my beloved son, who was lost.' And greeting, "Peace be with you." And many were the he clothed him with his choicest raiment and al the day questions that they desired to ask him, but in their long they made merry. And on the morning of the morrow astonishment they could not begin, for nothing came into he gave his son a bag of silver that he might pay to his their minds. Then said Jesus to them: "I come because creditors al that he owed them. And when his son came you need me." And one cried out: "Master, we do indeed, back, he said to him: 'My son, do you see that it is easy, come and free us from our pains."through riotous living, to incur debts for seven years, but their payment is difficult by the heavy labor of seven And Jesus spoke to them in parables: "You are like the years.' 'Father, it is indeed hard to pay them, even for prodigal son, who for many years did eat and drink, and seven days.' And his father admonished him, saying: 'For passed his days in riotousness and lechery with his this once alone has it been permitted you to pay your friends. And every week without his father's knowledge debts in seven days instead of seven years, the rest is he incurred new debts, and squandered al in a few days. forgiven you. But take heed that in the time to come you And the moneylenders always lent to him, because his do not incur more debts. For I tel you truly, that none else father possessed great riches and always paid patiently but your father forgives you your debts, because you are the debts of his son. And in vain did he with fair words his son. For with al else you would have had to labor admonish his son, for he never listened to the hard for seven years, as it is commanded in our laws.'admonitions of his father, who besought him in vain that he would give up his debaucheries which had no end, My father, I wil henceforth be your loving and obedient and that he would go to his fields to watch over the labor son, and I wil not any more incur debts, for I know that of his servants. And the son always promised him their payment is hard.'everything if he would pay his old debts, but the next day he began again. And for more than seven years the son continued in his riotous living. But, at last, his father lost "And he went to his father's field and watched every day patience and no more paid to the moneylenders the over the work of his father's laborers. And he never made debts of his son. "if I continue always to pay," he said, his laborers work hard, for he remembered his own heavy "there wil be no end to the sins of my son." Then the labor. And the years passed, and his father's possession moneylenders, who were deceived, in their wrath took the increased ever more and more beneath his hand, for the blessing of his father was upon his labor. And slowly he "Happy are those that persevere to the end, for the devils gave back tenfold to his father al that he had squandered of Satan write al your evil deeds in a book, in the book of in the seven years. And when his father saw that his son your body and your spirit. I tel you truly, there is not one used wel his servants and al his possessions, he said to sinful deed, but it is written, even from the beginning of him: 'My son, I see that my possessions are in good the world, before our Heavenly Father. For you may hands. I give you al my cattle, my house, my lands and escape the laws made by kings, but the laws of your God, my treasures. Let al this be your heritage, continue these may none of the Sons of Man escape. And when increasing it that I may have delight in you.' And when the you come before the face of God, the devils of Satan son had received his inheritance from his father, he bear witness against you with your deed, and God sees forgave their debts to al his debtors who could not pay your sins written in the book of your body and of your him, for he did not forget that his debt also had been spirit and is sad in his heart. But if you repent of your forgiven when he could not pay it. And God blessed him sins, and by fasting and prayer you seek the angels of with long life, with many children and with much riches, God, then each day that you continue to fast and to pray, because he was kind to al his servants and to al his God's angels blot out one year of your evil deeds from cattle."the book of your body and your spirit. And when the last page is also blotted out and cleansed from al your sins, Then Jesus turned to the sick folk and said: "I speak to you stand before the face of God, and God rejoices in his you in parables that you may better understand God's heart and forgets al your sins. He frees you from the word. The seven years of eating and drinking and of clutches of Satan and from suffering; he takes you within riotous living are the sins of the past. The wicked creditor his house and commands that al his servants, al his is Satan. The debts are diseases. The heavy labor is angels serve you. Long life does he give you, and you pains. The prodigal son, he is yourselves. The payment shal never see disease. And if, thenceforward, instead of of the debts is the casting from you of devils and sinning, you pass your days in doing good deeds, then diseases, and the healing of your body. The bag of silver the angels of God shal write al your good deeds in the received from the father is the liberating power of the book of your body and of your spirit. I tel you truly, no angels. The father is God. The father's possessions are good deed remains unwritten before God, not from the earth and heaven. The servants of the father are the beginning of the world. For from your kings and your angels. The father's field is the world, which is changed governors you may wait in vain for your reward, but never into the kingdom of the heavens, if the Sons of Man work do your good deeds want their reward from God.thereon together with the angels of the Heavenly Father. For I tel you, it is better that the son should obey his "And when you come before the face of God, his angels father and keep watch over his father's servants in the bear witness for you with your good deeds. And God field, than that he should become the debtor of the sees your good deeds written in your bodies and in your wicked creditor and toil and sweat in serfdom to repa y al spirits, and rejoices in his heart. He blesses your body his debts. it is better, likewise, if the Sons of Man also and your spirit and al your deeds, and gives you for a obey the laws of their Heavenly Father, and work heritage his earthly and heavenly kingdom, that in it you together with his angels upon his kingdom, than that they may have life everlasting. Happy is he who can enter into should become the debtors of Satan, the lord of death, of the kingdom of God, for he shal never see death."al sins and al diseases, and that they should suffer with pains and sweat til they have repaid al their sins. I tel And a great silence fel at his words. And those that were you truly, great and many are your sins. Many years have discouraged took new strength from his words and you yielded to the enticings of Satan. You have been continued to fast and to pray. And he who had spoken the gluttonous, wine-bibbers and gone a-whoring, and your first, said to him: "I wil persevere to the seventh day." past debts have multiplied. And now you must repay And the second, likewise, said to him: "I also wil them, and payment is difficult and hard. Be not, therefore, persevere to the seven times seventh day."already impatient after the third day, like the prodigal son, but wait patiently for the seventh day which is sanctified Jesus answered them: "Happy are those that persevere by God, and then go with humble and obedient heart to the end, for they shal inherit the earth."before the face of your Heavenly Father, that he may forgive you your sins and al your past debts. I tel you truly, your Heavenly Father loves you without end, for he And there were many sick among them tormented with also al ows you to pay in seven days the debts of seven grievous pains, and they hardly crawled to Jesus' feet. years. Those that owe the sins and diseases of seven For they could no longer walk upon their feet. They said: years, but pay honestly and persevere til the seventh "Master, we are grievously tormented with pain; tel us day, to them shal our Heavenly Father forgive the debts what we shal do." And they showed Jesus their feet in of al these seven years. 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 "If we sin for seven times seven years?" asked a sick baptized ourselves, and do fast and pray, and fol ow your man who suffered horribly. "Even in that case the words in al things."Heavenly Father forgives you al your debts in seven times seven days."I tel you truly, your bones wil be healed. Be not discouraged, but seek for cure nigh the healer of bones, the angel of earth. For thence were your bones taken, leaf. He was so weak already that he could not, even and thither wil they return."upon his hands, crawl to Jesus, and cried only to him from afar: "Master, have pity on me, for never has man And he pointed with his hand to where the running of the suffered, not from the beginning of the world, as I do water and the sun's heat had softened to clayey mud the suffer. I know that you are indeed sent by God, and I earth by the edge of the water. "Sink your feet in the mire, know that if you wil , you can straightway cast out Satan that the embrace of the angel of earth may draw out from from my body. Do not the angels of God obey God's your bones al uncleanness and al disease. And you wil messenger? Come, Master, and cast out Satan from me see Satan and your pains fly from the embrace of the now, for he rages angrily within me and grievous is his angel of earth. And the knots of your bones wil vanish torment."away, and they wil be straightened, and al your pains wil disappear."And Jesus answered him: "Satan torments you thus greatly because you have already fasted many days, and And the sick fol owed his words, for they knew that they you do not pay to him his tribute. You do not feed him would be healed. with al the abominations with which you hitherto defiled the temple of your spirit. You torment Satan with hunger, And there were also other sick who suffered much from and so in his anger he torments you also. Fear not, for I their pains, howbeit, they persisted in their fasting. And tel you, Satan wil be destroyed before your body is their force was spent, and great heat tormented them. destroyed; for while you fast and pray, the angels of God And when they would have risen from their bed to go to protect your body, that Satan's power may not destroy Jesus, their heads began to turn, as if it were a gusty you. And the anger of Satan is impotent against the wind which shook them, and as oft as they tried to stand angels of God."upon their feet they fel back to the ground. Then they al came to Jesus and with loud cries besought Then Jesus went to them and said: "You suffer, for Satan him saying: "Master, have compassion on him, for he and his diseases torment your bodies. But fear not, for suffers more than we al , and if you do not at once cast their power over you wil quickly end. For Satan is like a Satan out of him, we fear he wil not live until tomorrow."choleric neighbor who entered his neighbor's house while he was absent, intending to take his goods away to his And Jesus answered them: "Great is your faith. Be it own house. But some told the other that his enemy was according to your faith, and you shal see soon, face to ravaging within his house, and he came back to his face, the frightful countenance of Satan, and the power of house, running. And when the wicked neighbor, having the Son of Man. For I wil cast out from you the powerful gathered together al that pleased him, saw from afar the Satan by the strength of the innocent lamb of God, the master of the house returning in haste, then he was very weakest creature of the Lord. For the holy spirit of God wroth that he could not take al away, and set to breaking makes more powerful the weakest than the strongest."and spoiling al that was there, to destroy al . So that even if the things might not be his, the other might have And Jesus milked an ewe which was feeding among the nothing. But immediately the lord of the house came in, grass. And he put the milk upon the sand made hot by and before the wicked neighbor fulfil ed his purpose, he the sun, saying: "Lo, the power of the angel of water has took him and cast him out of the house. I tel you truly, entered this milk. And now the power of the angel of even so did Satan enter your bodies which are the sunshine wil enter it also."habitation of God. And he took in his power al that he wished to steal: your breath, your blood, your bone, your And the milk became hot by the strength of the sun.flesh, your bowels, your eyes, and your ears. But by your fasting and your prayer, you have cal ed back the lord of "And now the angels of water and of sun wil join with the your body and his angels. And now Satan sees that the angel of air."true lord of your body returns, and that it is the end of his power. Wherefore, in his wrath he gathers his strength once again, that he may destroy your bodies before the And lo, the vapor of the hot milk began to rise slowly into coming of the lord. It is for this that Satan torments you so the air.grievously, for he feels that the end is come. But let not your hearts tremble, for soon wil the angels of God ."Come and breathe in by your mouth the strength of the appear, to occupy again their abodes and rededicate angels of water, of sunshine, and of air, that it may come them as temples of God. And they wil seize Satan and into your body and cast out the Satan from you." cast himn from your bodies with al his diseases and al his uncleannesses. And happy wil you be, for you wil And the sick man whom Satan tormented did breathe receive the reward of your steadfastness, and you wil within himself, deeply, the rising whitish vapor.never see disease.""Straightway wil Satan leave your body, since for three And there was among the sick, one that was more days he starves and finds no food within you. He wil tormented by Satan than al the others. And his body was come out of you to satisfy his hunger by the hot steaming as parched as a skeleton, and his skin yel ow as a fal ing milk, for this food finds favor in his sight. He wil smel its smel , and wil not be able to resist the hunger which has nights. And great was their reward, because they tormented him three days already. But the Son of Man fol owed Jesus' words. And with the passing of the wil destroy his body, that he may torment none else seventh day, al their pains left them. And when the sun again."rose over the earth's rim they saw Jesus coming towards them from the mountain, with the brightness of the rising Then the sick man's body was seized with an ague, and sun about his head.he retched as though he would vomit, but he could not. And he gasped for air, for his breath was spent. And he "Peace be with you."fainted on the lap of Jesus.And they said no word at al , but only cast themselves "Now does Satan leave his body. See him." And Jesus down before him, and touched the hem of his garment in pointed to the sick man's opened mouth.token of their healing.And then they al saw with astonishment and terror that "Give thanks not to me, but to your Earthly Mother, who Satan was coming out from his mouth in the shape of an sent you her healing angels. Go, and sin no more, that abominable worm, straight towards the steaming milk. you may never again see disease. And let the healing Then Jesus took two sharp stones in his hands and angels become your guardians."crushed the head of Satan, and drew out from the sick man al the body of the monster which was almost as But they answered him: "Whither should we go, Master, long as the man. When the abominable worm came out for with you are the words of eternal life? Tel us, what of the sick man's throat, he recovered at once his breath, are the sins which we must shun, that we may nevermore and then al his pains ceased. And the others looked with see disease?"terror at the abominable body of Satan.Jesus answered: "Be it so according to your faith," and he "See, what an abominable beast you carried and sat down among them, saying:nourished in your body for long years. I have cast it out of you and kil ed it that it may never again torment you. Give "It was said to them of old time, 'Honor thy Heavenly thanks to God that his angels have made you free, and Father and thy Earthly Mother, and do their sin no more, lest Satan return to you again. Let your body commandments, that thy days may be long upon the be henceforth a temple dedicated to your God."earth.' And next afterward was given this commandment, 'Thou shalt not kil ,' for life is given to al by God, and that And they were al amazed at his words and at his power. which God has given, let not man take away. For-I tel And they said: "Master, you are indeed God's messenger, you truly, from one Mother proceeds al that lives upon and do know al secrets." the earth. Therefore, he who kil s, kil s his brother. And from him wil the Earthly Mother turn away, and wil pluck "And you," answered Jesus, "be true Sons of God, that from him her quickening breasts. And he wil be shunned you also may partake in his power and in the knowledge by her angels, and Satan wil have his dwel ing in his of al secrets. For wisdom and power can come only from body. And the flesh of slain beasts in his body wil the love of God. Love, therefore, your Heavenly Father become his own tomb. For I tel you truly, he who kil s, and your Earthly Mother with al your heart, and with al kil s himself, and whoso eats the flesh of slain beasts, your spirit. And serve them, that their angels may serve eats of the body of death. For in his blood every drop of you also. Let al your deeds be sacrificed to God. And their blood turns to poison; in his breath their breath to feed not Satan, for the wages of sin is death. But with stink; in his flesh their flesh to boils; in his bones their God lies the reward of the good, his love, which is bones to chalk; in his bowels their bowels t o decay; in knowledge and power of eternal life."his eyes their eyes to scales; in his ears their ears to waxy issue. And their death wil become his death. For And they al knelt down to give thanks to God for his love.only in the service of your Heavenly Father are your debts of seven years forgiven in seven clays. But Satan And Jesus departed, saying: "I wil come again to al who forgives you nothing and you must pay him for al . 'Eye persist in prayer and fasting tAl the seventh day. Peace for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot; be with you."burning for burning, wound for wound; life for life, death for death.' For the wages of sin is death. Kil not, neither eat the flesh of your innocent prey, lest you become the And the sick man from whom Jesus had cast out the slaves of Satan. For that is the path of sufferings, and it Satan, stood up, for the strength of life had come back to leads unto death. But do the wil of God, that his angels him. He breathed out deeply, and his eyes became clear, may serve you on the way of life. Obey, therefore, the for every pain had left him. And he cast himself down words of God: 'Behold, I have given you every herb upon the ground where Jesus had stood, and he kissed bearing seed, which is upon the face of al the earth, and the print of his feet and he wept. every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shal be for meat. And to every beast of the And it was by the bed of a stream, many sick fasted and earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to everything that prayed with God's angels for seven days and seven creepeth upon th e earth, wherein there is breath of life, I laws.' For that did Moses break the two tablets of s tone give every green herb for meat. Also the milk of every whereon were written the ten commandments, and he thing that moveth and liveth upon earth shal be meat for gave them ten times ten in their stead. And of these ten you; even as the green herb have I given unto them, so I times ten the Scribes and Pharisees have made a give their milk unto you. But flesh, and the blood which hundred times ten commandments. And they have laid quickens it, shal ye not eat. And, surely, your spurting unbearable burdens on your shoulders, that they blood wil I require, your blood wherein is your soul; I wil themselves do not carry. For the more nigh are the require al slain beasts, and the souls of al slain men. For commandments to God, the less do we need; and the I the Lord thy God am a God strong and jealous, visiting farther they are from God, then the more do we need. the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third Wherefore are the laws of the Pharisees and Scribes and fourth generation of them that hate me; and showing innumerable; the laws of the Son of Man seven; of the mercy unto thousands -of them that love me, and keep angels three; and of God one.my commandments. Love the Lord thy God with al thy heart, and with al thy soul, and with al thy strength: this "Therefore, I teach you only those laws which you can is the first and greatest commandment.' And the second understand, that you may become men, and fol ow the is like unto it: 'Love thy neighbor as thyself' There is none seven laws of the Son of Man. Then wil the unknown other commandment greater than these."angels of the Heavenly Father also reveal their laws to you, that God's holy spirit may descend upon you, and And after these words they al remained silent, save one, lead you to his law."who cal ed out: "What am I to do, Master, if I see a wild beast rend my brother in the forest? Shal I let my brother And al were astonished at his wisdom, and asked him: perish, or kil the wild beast? Shal not I thus transgress "Continue, Master, and teach us al the laws which we the law?"can receive."And Jesus answered: "It was said to them of old time: "Al And Jesus continued: "God commanded your forefathers: beasts that move upon the earth, al the fish of the sea, 'Thou shalt not kil .' But their heart was hardened and and al the fowl of the air are given into thy power." I tel they kil ed. Then Moses desired that at least they should you truly, of al creatures living upon the earth, God not kil men, and he suffered them to kil beasts. And then created only man after his image. Wherefore beasts are the heart of your forefathers was hardened yet more, and for man, and not man for beasts. You do not, therefore, they kil ed men and beasts likewise. But I do say to you: transgress the law if you kil the wild beast to save your Kil neither men, nor beasts, nor yet the food which goes brother's life. For I tel you truly, man is more than the into your mouth. For if you eat living food, the same wil beast. But he who kil s the beast without a cause, though quicken you, but if you kil your food, the dead food wil the beast attack him not, through lust for slaughter, or for kil you also. For life comes only from life, and from death its flesh, or for its hide, or yet for its tusks, evil is the deed comes always death. For everything which kil s your which he does, for he is turned into a wild beast himself. foods, kil s your bodies also. And everything which kil s Wherefore is his end also as the end of the wild beasts."your bodies kil s your souls also. And your bodies become what your foods are, even as your spirits, Then another said: "Moses, the greatest in Israel, likewise, become what your thoughts are. Therefore, eat suffered our forefathers to eat the flesh of clean beasts, not anything which fire, or frost, or water has destroyed. and forbade only the flesh of unclean beasts. Why, For burned, frozen and rotted foods wil burn, freeze and therefore, do you forbid us the flesh of al beasts? Which rot your body also. Be not like the foolish husbandman law comes from God? That of Moses, or your law?"who sowed in his ground cooked, and frozen, and rotten seeds. And the autumn came, and his fields bore nothing. And Jesus answered: "God gave, by Moses, ten And great was his distress. But be like that husbandman commandments to your forefathers. 'These who sowed in his field living seed, and whose field bore commandments are hard,' said your forefathers, and they living ears of wheat, paying a hundredfold for the seeds could not keep them. When Moses saw this, he had which he planted. For I tel you truly, live only by the fire compassion on his people, and would not that they of life, and prepare not your foods with the fire of death, perish. And then he gave them ten times ten which kil s your foods, your bodies and your souls also."commandments. For he whose feet are strong as the mountain of Zion, needs no crutches; but he whose limbs "Master, where is the fire of life?" asked some of them.do shake, gets further having crutches, than without them. And Moses said to the Lord: 'My heart is fil ed with "In you, in your blood, and in your bodies."sorrow, for my people wil be lost. For they are without knowledge, and are not able to understand thy "And the fire of death?" asked others.commandments. They are as little children who cannot yet understand their father's words. Suffer, Lord, that I give them other laws, that they may not perish. if they "It is the fire which blazes outside your body, which is may not be with thee, Lord, let them not be against thee; hotter than your blood. With that fire of death you cook that they may sustain themselves, and when the time has your foods in your homes and in your fields. I tel you come, and they are ripe for thy words, reveal to hem thy truly, it is the same fire which destroys your foods and Document Outline