The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus,
the Christ of the Piscean Age
transcribed by Levi H. Dowling
(Chapters 72 – 90)
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SECTION XV
SAMECH
The First Annual Epoch of the
CHAPTER 72
Jesus in
The priests resent, and he defends himself from the standpoint of a loyal
Jew. He speaks to the people.
THE Jewish paschal feast time came and Jesus left his mother in
2) And he abode with one a Sadducee, whose name was Jude.
3) And when he reached the temple courts the multitudes were there to see the
prophet who the people thought had come to break the yoke of
4) And when the people saw him come they said,
All hail! behold the king!
5) But Jesus answered not; he saw the money changers in the house of
God, and he was grieved.
6) The courts had been converted into marts of trade, and men were selling
lambs and doves for offerings in sacrifice.
7) And Jesus called the priests and said,
Behold, for paltry gain you have sold out the
temple of the Lord.
8) This house ordained for prayer is now a den of thieves. Can good and evil
dwell together in the courts of God? I tell you, no.
9) And then he made a scourge of cords and drove the merchants out; he
overturned their boards, and threw their money on the floor.
10) He opened up the cages of the captive birds, and cut the cords that bound
the lambs, and set them free.
11) The priests and scribes rushed out, and would have done him harm, but they
were driven back; the common people stood in his defense.
12) And then the rulers said,
Who is this Jesus you call king?
13) The people said,
He is the Christ of whom our prophets wrote; he is
the king who will deliver
14) The rulers said to Jesus,
Man, if you be king, or Christ, then show us signs.
Who gave you right to drive these merchants out?
15) And Jesus said,
There is no loyal Jew who would not give his life
to save this temple from disgrace; in this I acted simply as a loyal Jew, and
you yourselves will bear me witness to this truth.
16) The signs of my messiahship will follow me in words and deeds.
17) And you may tear the temple down (and you will tear it down) and in three
days it will be built again more glorious than before.
18) Now Jesus meant that they might take his life; tear down his body,
temple of the Holy Breath, and he would rise again.
19) The Jews knew not the meaning of his words; they laughed his claims to
scorn. They said,
20) A multitude of men were forty and six years in
building up this house, and this young stranger claims that he will build it up
in three score hours; his words are idle, and his claims are naught.
21) And then they took the scourge with which he drove the merchants
out, and would have driven him away; but Philo, who had come from Egypt to
attend the feast, stood forth and said,
22) You men of Israel, hear! This man is more than man;
take heed to what you do. I have, myself, heard Jesus speak, and all the winds
were still.
23) And I have seen him touch the sick, and they were healed. He stands a sage
above the sages of the world;
24) And you will see his star arise, and it will grow until it is the
full-orbed Sun of Righteousness.
25) Do not be hasty, men; just wait and you will have the proofs of his
messiahship.
26) And then the priests laid down the scourge, and Jesus said,
27) Prepare, O Israel, prepare to meet your king!
But you can never see the king while you press sin as such a precious idol to
your hearts.
28) The king is God; the pure in heart alone can see the face of God and live.
29) And then the priests cried out,
This fellow claims to be the God. Is not this sacrilege!
away with him!
30) But Jesus said,
No man has ever heard me say, I am a king. Our
Father-God is king. With every loyal Jew I worship God.
31) I am the candle of the Lord aflame to light the way; and while you have the
light walk in the light.
CHAPTER 73
Jesus again visits the temple, and is
favorably received by the people.
Tells the parable of a king and his sons.
Defines messiahship.
2) And when he came the people said,
All hail! behold the king!
3) And Jesus spoke a parable; he said,
A king had vast domains; his people all were kin,
and lived in peace.
4) Now, after many years the king said to his people, Take these lands and all
I have; enhance their values; rule yourselves, and live in peace.
5) And then the people formed their states; selected governors and petty kings.
6) But pride, ambition, selfish greed, and base ingratitude grew fast, and
kings began to war.
7) They wrote in all their statute books that might is right; and then the
strong destroyed the weak, and chaos reigned through all the vast domain.
8) A long time passed, and then the king looked out on his domain. He saw his
people in their cruel wars; he saw them sick and sore distressed; he saw the
strong enslave the weak,
9) And then he said, What shall I do? Shall I send forth a scourge? shall I
destroy my people all?
10) And then his heart was stirred with pity and he said, I will not send a
scourge; I will send forth my only son, heir to the throne, to teach the people
love, and peace, and righteousness.
11) He sent his son; the people scorned him and maltreated him, and nailed him
to a cross.
12) He was entombed; but death was far too weak to hold the prince, and he
arose.
13) He took a form man could not kill; and then he went again to teach the
people love, and peace and righteousness.
14) And thus God deals with men.
15) A lawyer came and asked,
What does messiah mean? and who has right to make
messiah of a man?
16) And Jesus said,
Messiah is one sent from God to seek and save the
lost. Messiahs are not made by men.
17) In first of every age Messiah comes to light the way; to heal up broken
hearts; to set the prisoners free. Messiah and the Christ are one.
18) Because a man claims to be Christ is not a sign that he is Christ.
19) A man may cause the streams to flow from flinty rocks; may bring storms at
will; may stay tempestuous winds; may heal the sick and raise the dead, and not
be sent from God.
20) All nature is subservient to the will of man, and evil men, as well as
good, have all the powers of mind, and may control the elements.
21) The head gives not the proof of true messiahship, for man by means of
intellect, can never know of God, nor bring himself to walk in light.
22) Messiah lives not in the head, but in the heart, the seat of mercy and of
love.
23) Messiah never works for selfish gains; he stands above the carnal self; his
words and deeds are for the universal good.
24) Messiah never tries to be a king, to wear a crown and sit upon an earthly
throne.
25) The king is earthy, of the earth; Messiah is the man from heaven.
26) And then the lawyer asked,
Why do you pose as king?
27) And Jesus said,
No man has ever heard me say that I am king. I
could not sit in Caesar's place and be the Christ.
28) Give unto Caesar what belongs to him; give unto God the treasures of your
heart.
CHAPTER 74
Jesus heals on the Sabbath, and is
censured by the Pharisees. Restores a
drowned child.
Rescues a wounded dog. Cares for a
homeless child. Speaks on the law of
kindness.
IT was the Sabbath day, and Jesus stood among the surging masses of the
people in the temple courts and sacred halls.
2) The blind, the deaf, the dumb, and those obsessed were there, and Jesus
spoke the Word, and they were healed.
3) On some he laid his hands, and they were healed; to others he just spoke the
Word, and they were full restored to health; but others had to go and wash in
certain pools; and others he anointed with a holy oil.
4) A doctor asked him why he healed in divers ways, and he replied,
5) Disease is discord in the human form, and
discords are produced in many ways.
6) The body is a harpsichord; sometimes the strings are too relaxed, and then
inharmony results.
7) Sometimes we find the strings too tense, and then another form of discord is
induced.
8) Disease is many-formed, and there are many ways to cure, to tune anew the
mystic harpsichord.
9) Now when the Pharisees were told that Jesus healed the people on the
Sabbath day they were enraged, and they commanded him to quit the place.
10) But Jesus said,
Was man designed to fit the Sabbath, or was the
Sabbath day designed to fit the man?
11) If you had fallen in a pit and, lo, the Sabbath day had come, and I should
pass your way, would you cry out.
12) Let me alone; it is a sin to help me on the Sabbath day; I'll swelter in
this filth until another day?
13) You Pharisees, you hypocrites! you know you would be glad to have my help
upon the Sabbath day, or any other day.
14) These people all have fallen into pits, and they are calling loud for me to
help them out, and man and God would curse me should I pass along and heed them
not.
15) And then the Pharisees returned to say their prayers, and curse the
man of God because he heeded not their words.
16) Now, in the evening Jesus stood beside a pool; a playful child had fallen
in, and it was drowned, and friends were bearing it away.
17) But Jesus called the carriers to stop; and then he stretched himself upon
the lifeless form, and breathed into its mouth the breath of life.
18) And then he called aloud unto the soul that had gone out, and it returned;
the child revived and lived.
19) And Jesus saw a wounded dog; it could not move; it lay beside the way and
groaned with pain. He took it in his arms and bore it to the home where he
abode.
20) He poured the healing oil into the wounds; he cared for it as though it
were a child till it was strong and well.
21) And Jesus saw a little boy who had no home, and he was hungry; when he called
for bread the people turned away.
22) And Jesus took the child and gave him bread; he wrapped him in his own warm
coat, and found for him a home.
23) To those who followed him the master said,
If man would gain again his lost estate he must
respect the brotherhood of life.
24) Whoever is not kind to every form of life - to man, to beast, to bird, and
creeping thing - cannot expect the blessings of the Holy One; for as we give,
so God will give to us.
CHAPTER 75
Nicodemus visits Jesus in the night. Jesus reveals to him the meaning of
the new birth and the kingdom of heaven.
NICODEMUS was a ruler of the Jews, and He was earnest, learned and
devout.
2) He saw the master's signet in the face of Jesus as he talked, but was not
brave enough to publicly confess his faith in him;
3) So in the night he went to talk with Jesus at the home of Jude.
4) When Jesus saw him come he said,
Full blessed are the pure in heart;
5) Twice blessed are the fearless, pure in heart;
6) Thrice blessed are the fearless, pure in heart who dare to make confession
of their faith before the highest courts.
7) And Nicodemus said,
Hail, master, hail! I know you are a teacher come from
God, for man alone could never teach as you have taught; could never do the
works that you have done.
8) And Jesus said,
Except a man be born again he cannot see the king;
he cannot comprehend the words I speak.
9) And Nicodemus said,
How can a man be born again? Can he go back into the
womb and come again to life?
10) And Jesus said,
The birth of which I speak is not the birth of
flesh.
11) Except a man be born of water and the Holy Breath, he cannot come into the
kingdom of the Holy One.
12) That which is born of flesh is child of man; that which is born of Holy
Breath is child of God.
13) The winds blow where they please; men hear their voices, and may note
results; but they know not from whence they come, nor where they go; and so is
every one that is born of Holy Breath.
14) The ruler said,
I do not understand; pray tell me plainly what you
mean.
15) And Jesus said,
The kingdom of the Holy One is in the soul; men
cannot see it with their carnal eyes; with all their reasoning powers they
comprehend it not.
16) It is a life deep hid in God; its recognition is the work of inner
consciousness.
17) The kingdoms of the world are kingdoms of the sight; the kingdom of the
Holy One is that of faith; its king is love.
18) Men cannot see the love of God unmanifest, and so our Father-God has
clothed this love with flesh – flesh of a son of man.
19) And that the world may see and know this love made manifest, the son of man
must needs be lifted up.
20) As Moses in the wilderness raised up the serpent for the healing of the
flesh, the son of man must be raised up.
21) That all men bitten by the serpent of the dust, the serpent of this carnal
life, may live.
22) He who believes in him shall have eternal life.
23) For God so loved the world that he sent forth his only son to be raised up
that men may see the love of God.
24) God did not send his son to judge the world; he sent him forth to save the
world; to bring men to the light.
25) But men love not the light, for light reveals their wickedness; men love
the dark.
26) Now, every one who loves the truth comes to the light; he does not fear to
have his works made manifest.
27) The light had come, and Nicodemus went his way; he knew the meaning of the
birth of Holy Breath; he felt the presence of the Spirit in his soul.
28) And Jesus tarried in
29) The common people gladly listened to his words, and many left their all of
carnal things and followed him.
CHAPTER 76
Jesus in
An unusual light appears. The shepherds
recognize Jesus as the Christ.
THE Logos went to
2) He found the shepherd's home where he was cradled when a babe; here he
abode.
3) He went up to the hills where more than thirty years before the shepherds
watched their flocks and heard the messenger of peace exclaim:
4) At midnight in a cave in Bethlehem the Prince of
Peace is born.
5) And shepherds still were there, and sheep still fed upon the
hills.
6) And in the valley near great flocks of snow-white doves were flying to and
fro.
7) And when the shepherds knew that Jesus, whom the people called the king, had
come, they came from near and far to speak to him.
8) And Jesus said to them,
Behold the life of innocence and peace!
9) White is the symbol of the virtuous and pure! the lamb of innocence; the
dove of peace;
10) And it was meet that love should come in human form amid such scenes as
these.
11) Our father Abraham walked through these vales, and on these very hills he
watched his flocks and herds.
12) And here it was that one, the Prince of Peace, the king of
13) And here it was that Abraham gave to this king of
14) This Prince of Peace went forth in battle everywhere. He had no sword; no
armor of defense; no weapons of offence;
15) And yet he conquered men, and nations trembled at his feet.
16) The hosts of Egypt quailed before this sturdy king of right; the kings of
Egypt placed their crowns upon his head,
17) And gave into his hands the scepter of all Egypt land, and not a drop of
blood was shed, and not a captive placed in chains;
18) But everywhere the conqueror threw wide the prison doors and set the
captives free.
19) And, once again, the Prince of Peace has come, and from these blessed hills
he goes again to fight.
20) And he is clothed in white; his sword is truth, his shield is faith; his
helmet is innocence; his breath is love; his watchword peace.
21) But this is not a carnal war; it is not man at war with man; but it is
right against the wrong.
22) And love is captain, love is warrior, love is armor, love is all, and love
shall win.
23) And then again the hills of
24) Peace, peace on earth, good will to men.
25) And Jesus taught the people; healed the sick; revealed the mysteries
of the kingdom of the Holy One.
26) And many said,
He is the Christ; the king who was to come has come;
Praise God.
CHAPTER 77
Jesus in
WITH three disciples Jesus went to
2) And then he went to
3) The evening came; the multitudes were gone, and Jesus, Lazarus, and his
sisters, Martha, Ruth and Mary, were alone.
4) And Ruth was sore distressed. Her home was down in
5) Now, Asher was a Pharisee of strictest mien and thought, and he regarded
Jesus with disdain.
6) And when his wife confessed her faith in Christ, he drove her from his home.
7) But Ruth resisted not; she said,
If Jesus is the Christ he knows the way, and I am sure
He is the Christ.
8) My husband may become enraged and slay my human form; he cannot kill the
soul, and in the many mansions of my Fatherland I have a dwelling-place.
9) And Ruth told Jesus all; and then she said,
What shall I do?
10) And Jesus said,
Your husband is not willingly at fault; he is
devout; he prays to God, our Father-God.
11) His zeal for his religion is intense; in this he is sincere; but it has
driven him insane, and he believes it right to keep his home unsullied by the
heresy of Christ.
12) He feels assured that he has done the will of God in driving you away.
13) Intolerance is ignorance matured.
14) The light will come to him some day, and then he will repay for all your
heartaches, griefs and tears.
15) And Ruth, you must not think that you are free from blame.
16) If you had walked in wisdom's ways, and been content to hold your peace,
this grief would not have come to you.
17) It takes a long, long time for light to break into the shell of prejudice,
and patience is the lesson you have need to learn.
18) The constant dropping of the water wears away the hardest stone.
19) The sweet and holy incense of a godly life will melt intolerance much
quicker than the hottest flame, or hardest blow.
20) Just wait a little time, and then go home with sympathy and love. Talk not
of Christ, nor of the kingdom of the Holy One.
21) Just live a godly life; refrain from harshness in your speech, and you will
lead your husband to the light.
22) And it was so.
CHAPTER 78
Jesus in
Establishes baptism as a pledge of discipleship. Baptizes six disciples, who in turn baptize
many people.
2) A servant at the inn was sick, nigh unto death; the healers could not cure.
3)And Jesus came and touched the dying girl, and said,
Malone, arise!
and in a moment pain was gone; the fever ceased; the maid was well.
4) And then the people brought their sick, and they were healed.
5) But Jesus did not tarry long in
6) The multitudes were there and Jesus said to them,
Behold, the time has come; the kingdom is at hand.
7) None but the pure in heart can come into the kingdom of the Holy One; but
every son and daughter of the human race is called upon to turn from evil and
become the pure in heart.
8) The resolution to attain and enter through the Christine gate into the
kingdom of the Holy One will constitute discipleship, and every one must make a
pledge of his discipleship.
9) John washed your bodies in the stream, symbolic of the cleansing of the
soul, in preparation for the coming of the king, the opening of the Christine
gate into the kingdom of the Holy One.
10) John did a mighty work; but now the Christine gate is opened up, and
washing is established as the pledge of your discipleship.
11) Until this age shall close this pledge shall be a rite, and shall be
called, Baptism rite; and it shall be a sign to men, and seal to God of men's
discipleship.
12) You men of every nation, hear! Come unto me; the Christine gate is opened
up; turn from your sins and be baptized, and you shall enter through the gate
and see the king.
13) The six disciples who had followed Jesus stood a-near, and Jesus led
them forth and in the Jordan he baptized them in the name of Christ; and then
he said to them,
14) My friends, you are the first to enter through
the Christine gate into the kingdom of the Holy One.
15) As I baptized you in the name of Christ, so you shall, in that sacred name,
baptize all men and women who will confess their faith in Christ, and shall
renounce their sins.
16) And, lo, the multitudes came down, renounced their sins, confessed their
faith in Christ, and were baptized.
CHAPTER 79
John, the harbinger, at
John explains to the multitude the mission of Jesus.
2) A Jewish lawyer went to John and said,
Has not this man from
3) They say that he is at the
4) And John replied,
This Jesus is indeed the Christ whose way I came to
pave. He is not foe of mine.
5) The bridegroom hath the bride; his friends are near, and when they hear his
voice they all rejoice.
6) The kingdom of the Holy One is bride, and Christ the groom; and I, the
harbinger, am full of joy because they prosper so abundantly.
7) I have performed the work that I was sent to do; the work of Jesus just
begins.
8) Then turning to the multitudes he said, Christ is the king of righteousness;
Christ is the love of God; yea, he is God; one of the holy persons of the
Triune God.
9) Christ lives in every heart of purity.
10) Now, Jesus who is preaching at the Jordan ford, has been subjected to the
hardest tests of human life, and he has conquered all the appetites and
passions of the carnal man,
11) And by the highest court of heaven, has been declared a man of such
superior purity and holiness that he can demonstrate the presence of the Christ
on earth.
12) Lo, love divine, which is the Christ, abides in him, and he is pattern for
the race.
13) And every man can see in him what every man will be when he has conquered
all the passions of the selfish self.
14) In water I have washed the bodies of the people who have turned from sin,
symbolic of the cleansing of the soul;
15) But Jesus bathes for ever in the living waters of the Holy Breath.
16) And Jesus comes to bring the savior of the world to men; Love is the savior
of the world.
17) And all who put their trust in Christ, and follow Jesus as a pattern and a
guide, have everlasting life.
18) But they who do not trust the Christ, and will not purify their hearts so
that the Christ can dwell within, can never enter life (until they
change their hearts, and walk in the path of Christ).
CHAPTER 80
Lamaas comes from
John tells him of the divine mission of Jesus.
Lamaas finds Jesus at the
The masters recognize each other.
LAMAAS, priest of Brahm, who was a friend of Jesus when he was in the
2) And as he journeyed towards
3) Lamaas found the harbinger at Salem Springs; for many days he was a silent
listener to the pungent truths he taught.
4) And he was present when the Pharisee told John of Jesus and his mighty
works.
5) He heard the answer of the harbinger; heard him bless the name of Jesus;
whom he called the Christ.
6) And then he spoke to John; he said,
Pray tell me more about this Jesus whom you call the
Christ.
7) And John replied,
this Jesus is the love of God made manifest.
8) Lo, men are living on the lower planes – the planes of greed and
selfishness; for self they fight; they conquer with the sword.
9) In every land the strong enslave and kill the weak. All kingdoms rise by
force of arms; for force is king.
10) This Jesus comes to overthrow this iron rule of force, and seat Love on the
throne of power.
11) And Jesus fears no man. He preaches boldly in the courts of kings, and
everywhere, that victories won by force of arms are crimes;
12) That every worthy end may be attained by gentleness and love just as the
Prince of Peace, Melchisedec, the priest of God, won gallant victories in war
without the shedding of a drop of blood.
13) You ask where are the temples of the Christ? He ministers at shrines not
made with hands; his temples are the hearts of holy men who are prepared to see
the king.
14) The groves of nature are his synagogues; his forum is the world.
15) He has no priests dressed up in puppet style to be admired by men; for
every son of man is priest of Love.
16) When man has purified his heart by faith, he needs no middle man to
intercede.
17) He is on friendly terms with God; is not afraid of him, and he is able, and
is bold enough, to lay his body on the altar of the Lord.
18) Thus every man is priest, and is himself a living sacrifice.
19) You need not seek the Christ, for when your heart is purified the Christ
will come, and will abide with you for evermore.
20) And then Lamaas journeyed on; he came to Jesus as he taught beside the
ford.
21) And Jesus said,
Behold the Star of India!
22) Lamaas said,
Behold the Sun of Righteousness!
And he confessed his faith in Christ, and followed him.
CHAPTER 81
The Christines journey toward
at Jacob's well and Jesus teaches a woman of
THE Christine gate into the kingdom of the Holy One was opened up, and
Jesus and the six disciples and Lamaas left the
2) Their way lay through
3) And Jacob's well was there, and Jesus sat beside the well in silent thought,
and his disciples went into the town to purchase bread.
4) A woman of the town came out to fill her pitcher from the well; and Jesus
was athirst, and when he asked the woman for a drink she said,
5) I am a woman of
6) And Jesus said,
Samaritans and Jews are all the children of one
God, our Father-God, and they are kin.
7) It is but prejudice born of the carnal mind that breeds this enmity and
hate.
8) While I was born a Jew, I recognise the brotherhood of life. Samaritans are
just as dear to me as Jew or Greek.
9) And then, had you but known the blessings that our Father-God has sent to
men by me, you would have asked me for a drink.
10) And I would gladly have given you a cup of water from the Fount of Life,
and you would never thirst again.
11) The woman said,
This well is deep, and you have naught with which to
draw; how could you get the water that you speak about?
12) And Jesus said,
The water that I speak about comes not from Jacob's
well; it flows from the springs that never fail.
13) Lo, everyone who drinks from Jacob's well will thirst again; but they who
drink the water that I give will never thirst again;
14) For they themsleves become a well, and from their inner parts the sparkling
waters bubble up into eternal life.
15) The woman said,
Sir, I would drink from that rich well of life. Give
me to drink, that I may thirst no more.
16) And Jesus said,
Go call your husband from the town that he may
share with you this living cup.
17) The woman said,
I have no husband, sir.
18) And Jesus answered her and said,
You scarcely know what husband means; you seem to
be a gilded butterfly that flits from flower to flower.
19) To you there is no sacredness in marriage ties, and you affintise with any
man.
20) And you have lived with five of them who were esteemed as husbands by your
friends.
21) The woman said,
Do I not speak unto a prophet and a seer? Will you not
condescend to tell me who you are?
22) And Jesus said,
I need not tell you who I am, for you have read the
Law, the Prophets and the Psalms that tell of me.
23) I am one come to break away the wall that separates the sons of men. In
Holy Breath there is no Greek, no Jew, and no Samaritan; no bond, nor free; for
all are one.
24) The woman asked,
Why do you say that only in
25) And Jesus said,
What you have said, I do not say. One place is just
as sacred as another place.
26) The hour has come when men must worship God within the temple of the heart;
for God is not within
27) Our God is Spirit; they who worship him must worship him in spirit and in
truth.
28) The woman said,
We know that when Messiah comes that he will lead us
in the ways of truth.
29 And Jesus said,
Behold the Christ has come; Messiah speaks to you.
CHAPTER 82
While Jesus is teaching, his disciples
come and marvel because he speaks with a Samaritan
Many people from Sychar come to see
Jesus. He speaks to them.
With his disciples he goes to Sychar and remains for certain days.
WHILE Jesus yet was talking to the woman at the well, the six disciples
came from Sychar with the food.
2) And when they saw him talking to a woman of
3) The woman was so lost in thought and so intent on what the master said, that
she forgot her errand to the well; she left her pitcher and ran quickly to the
town.
4) She told the people all about the prophet she had met at Jacob's well; she
said,
He told me every thing I ever did.
5) And when the people would know more about the man, the woman said,
Come out and see. And multitudes went out to Jacob's well.
6) When Jesus saw them come he said to those who followed him,
You need not say, It is four months before the
harvest time;
7) Behold, the harvest time is now. Lift up your eyes and look; the fields are
golden with the ripened grain.
8) Lo, many sowers have gone forth to sow the seeds of life; the seed has
grown; the plants have strengthened in the summer sun; the grain has ripened,
and the master calls for men to reap.
9) And you shall go out in the fields and reap what other men have sown; but
when the reckoning day shall come the sowers and the reapers all together will
rejoice.
10 And Philip said to Jesus,
Stay now your work a time and sit beneath this olive
tree and eat a portion of this food; you must be faint for you have eaten
naught since early day.
11) But Jesus said,
I am not faint, for I have food to eat you know not
of.
12) Then the disciples said among themselves,
Who could have brought him aught to eat?
13) They did not know that he had power to turn the very ethers into
bread.
14) And Jesus said,
The master of the harvest never sends his reapers
forth and feeds them not.
15) My Father who has sent me forth into the harvest field of human life will
never suffer me to want; and when he calls for you to serve, lo, he will give
you food, will clothe and shelter you.
16) Then turning to the people of
Think not it strange that I, a Jew, should speak to
you, for I am one with you.
17) The universal Christ who was and is, and evermore shall be, is manifest in
me; but Christ belongs to every man.
18) God scatters forth his blessings with a lavish hand, and he is not more
kind to one than to another one of all the creatures of his hand.
19) I just came up from
20) God cannot cast a child away; the Jew, the Greek and the Samaritan are
equal in his sight.
21) And why should men and women fret and quarrel, like children in their
plays?
22) The lines that separate the sons of men are made of straw, and just a
single breath of love would blow them all away.
23) The people were amazed at what the stranger said, and many said,
The Christ that was to come has surely come.
24) And Jesus went with them into the town, and tarried certain days.
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Jesus teaches the people of
Sychar. Casts a wicked spirit out of one
obsessed.
Sends the spirit to its own place. Heals
many people. The priests are disturbed
by the presence of Jesus in Sychar, but he speaks to them and wins their favor.
IN Sychar Jesus taught the people in the market place.
2) A man obsessed was brought to him. The wicked spirit that possessed the man
was full of violence and lust, and often threw his victim to the ground.
3) And Jesus spoke aloud and said,
Base spirit, loose your hold upon the vitals of
this man, and go back to your own.
4) And then the spirit begged that he might go into the body of a dog
that stood near by.
5) But Jesus said,
Why harm the helpless dog? Its life is just as dear
to it as mine to me.
6) It is not yours to throw the burden of your sin on any living thing.
7) By your own deeds and evil thoughts you have brought all these perils on
yourself. You have hard problems to be solved; but you must solve them for
yourself.
8) By thus obsessing man, you make your own conditions doubly sad. Go back into
your own domain; refrain from harming anything, and by and by, you will
yourself be free.
9) The wicked spirit left the man and went unto his own. The man looked
up in thankfulness and said,
Praise God.
10) And many of the people brought their sick, and Jesus spoke the Word,
and they were healed.
11) The ruler of the synagogue, and all the priests were much disturbed when
told that Jesus from
12) They thought that he had come to proselyte and stir up strife among
Samaritans.
13) And so they sent an officer to bring him to the synagogue that he might
give a reason for his presence in the town.
14) But Jesus said to him who came,
Go back and tell the priests and ruler of the
synagogue that I am not engaged in crime.
15) I come to bind up broken hearts, to heal the sick, and cast the evil
spirits out of those obsessed.
16) Tell them, their prophets spoke of me; that I am come to break no law, but
to fulfill the highest law.
17) The man returned and told the priests and ruler of the synagogue
what Jesus said.
18) The ruler was amazed, and with the priests went to the market place where
Jesus was.
19) And when he saw them, Jesus said,
Behold the honored men of all
20) And I am come to help, and not to hinder in their work.
21) There are two classes of the sons of men; they who would build the human
race upon the sure foundation stones of justice, truth, equality and right,
22) And they who would destroy the holy temple where the Spirit dwells, and
bring their fellows down to beggary and crime.
23) The holy brotherhood of right must stand united in the stirring conflicts
of the hour.
24) No matter whether they be Jews, Samaritans, Assyrians, or Greeks, they must
tramp down beneath their feet all strife, all discord, jealousy and hate, and
demonstrate the brotherhood of man.
25) Then to the ruler of the synagogue he spoke: he said,
United in the cause of right we stand; divided we
will fall.
26) And then he took the ruler by the hand; a love light filled their
souls; and all the people were amazed.
CHAPTER 84
The Christines resume their journey.
They tarry a while in the city of
Jesus speaks in the synagogue. Heals a
woman by mental power.
He disappears, but later joins his disciples as they journey towards
THE Christines turned their faces toward the
2) And then they went up to the synagogue, and Jesus opened up the book of
Moses, and he read:
3) In thee and in thy seed shall all the nations of
the earth be blest.
4) And then he closed the book and said, These words were spoken by the Lord of
hosts unto our father Abraham, and
5) We are his seed; but not a tithe of the great work that we were called to do
has yet been done.
6) The Lord of hosts has set apart the Israelites to teach the unity of God and
man; but one can never teach that which he does not demonstrate in life.
7) Our God is Spirit, and in him all wisdom, love and strength abide.
8) In every man these sacred attributes are budding forth, and in due time they
will unfold; the demonstration will completed be, and man will comprehend the
fact of unity.
9) And you, ruler of the synagogue, and you, these priests, are honoured servants
of the Lord of hosts.
10) All men are looking unto you for guidance in the ways of life; example is
another name for priest; so what you would that people be, that you must be.
11) A simple godly life may win ten thousand souls to purity and right.
12) And all the people said,
Amen.
13) Then Jesus left the synagogue, and at the hour of evening prayer he
went up to the sacred grove, and all the people turned their faces toward their
holy mount and prayed.
14) And Jesus prayed.
15) And as he sat in silent mood a voice of soul spoke to his soul imploring
help.
16) And Jesus saw a woman on a couch in sore distress; for she was sick nigh
unto death.
17) She could not speak, but she had heard that Jesus was a man of God, and in
her heart she called on him for help.
18) And Jesus helped; he did not speak; but like a flash of light, a mighty
virtue from his soul filled full the body of the dying one, and she arose, and
joined her kindred while they prayed.
19) Her kindred were astonished and they said to her,
How were you healed?
And she replied,
20) I do not know; I simply asked the man of God in
thought for healing power, and in a moment I was well.
21) The people said,
The gods have surely come to earth; for man has not
the power to heal by thought.
22) But Jesus said,
The greatest power in heaven and earth is thought.
23) God made the universe by thought; he paints the lily and the rose with
thought.
24) Why think it strange that I should send a healing thought and change the
ethers of disease and death to those of health and life?
25) Lo, you shall see far greater things than this, for by the power of holy
thought, my body will be changed from carnal flesh to spirit form; and so will
yours.
26) When Jesus had thus said he disappeared, and no one saw him go.
27) His own disciples did not comprehend the change; they knew not where their
master went, and they went on their way.
28) But as they walked and talked about the strange event, lo, Jesus came and
walked with them to Nazareth of Galilee.
CHAPTER 85
John, the harbinger, censures Herod
for his wickedness.
Herod sends him to prison in Machaerus.
Jesus tells why God permitted the imprisonment of John.
HEROD ANTIPAS, the tetrarch of Paraca and of
2) He drove his wife away from home that he might take as wife Herodias, the
wife of one, a near of kin, a woman, like himself, immoral and unjust.
3) The city of
4) Now John, the harbinger, had left the Salem Springs to teach the people by
the sea of Galilee; and he rebuked the wicked ruler and his stolen wife for all
their sins.
5) Herodias was enraged because the preacher dared accuse her and her husband
of their crimes;
6) And she prevailed on Herod to arrest the harbinger and cast him in a dungeon
in the
7) And Herod did as she required; then she lived in peace in all her sins, for
none were bold enough to censure her again.
8) The followers of John were warned to speak not of the trial and imprisonment
of John.
9) By order of the court, they were restrained from teaching in the public
halls.
10) They could not talk about this better life that Herod called the Heresy of
John.
11) When it was known that John had been imprisoned by the tetrarch court, the
friends of Jesus thought it best that he should not remain in
12) But Jesus said,
I have no need of fear; my time has not yet come;
no man can stay me till my work is done.
13) And when they asked why God permitted Herod to imprison John, he
said,
14) Behold yon stalk of wheat! When it has
brought the grain to perfectness, it is
of no more worth; it falls, becoming part of earth again from which it came.
15) John is a stalk of golden wheat; he brought unto maturity the richest grain
of all the earth; his work is done.
16) If he had said another word it might have marred the symmetry of what is
now a noble life.
17) And when my work is done the rulers will do unto me what they have done to
John, and more.
18) All these events are part of God's own plan. The innocent will suffer while
the wicked are in power; but woe to them who cause the suffering of the
innocents.
CHAPTER 86
The Christines are in
and they attempt to kill him. He
mysteriously disappears, and returns to the synagogue.
THE Christines were in
2) The keeper of the books gave one to Jesus and he opened it and read:
3) The Spirit of the Lord has overshadowed me; he
has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; to set the captives free; to
open sightless eyes;
4) To bring relief to those oppressed and bruised, and to proclaim, The year of
jubilee has come.
5) When he had read these words he closed the book and said,
This scripture is fulfilled before your eyes this
day. The year of jubilee has come; the time when
6) And then he told them many things about the kingdom of the Holy One;
about the hidden way of life; about forgiveness of sins.
7) Now, many people knew not who the speaker was: And others said,
Is not this Joseph's son? Does not his mother live on
Marmion way?
8) And one spoke out and said,
This is the man who did such mighty works in
9) And then the people said,
Physician heal yourself. Do here among your kindred
all the mighty works that you have done in other towns.
10) And Jesus said,
No prophet is received with honor by the people of
his native land; and prophets are not sent to every one.
11) Elijah was a man of God; he had the power and he closed the gates of
heaven, and it did not rain for forty months; and when he spoke the Word, the
rain come on, the earth brought forth again.
12) And there were many widows in the land; but this Elijah went to none but
Zarephath, and she was blessed.
13) And when Elisha lived, lo, many lepers were in
14) You have no faith; you seek for signs to satisfy your curious whims; but
you shall see not till you open up your eyes of faith.
15) And then the people were enraged; they rushed upon him, bound him
down with cords, and took him to a precipice not far away, intent to cast him
down to death;
16) But when they thought they held him fast, he disappeared; unseen he passed
among the angry men, and went his way.
17) The people were confounded and they said, What manner of a man is this?
18) And when they came again to
19) They troubled him no more for they were sore afraid.
CHAPTER 87
The Christines go to
The Christines go to
Jesus provides a spacious home for his mother.
He announces his intention to choose twelve apostles.
IN Nazareth Jesus taught no more; he went with his disciples up to
2) And here he met a man of noble birth whose home was in
3) The man had faith in Jesus' power to heal, and when he learned that he had
come to
4) The man met Jesus at the seventh hour, and he entreated him to hasten to
5) But Jesus did not go; he stood aside in silence for a time, and then he
said,
Your faith has proved a healing balm; your son is
well.
6) The man believed and went his way toward
7) My lord, You need not haste; your son is well.
8) The father asked,
When did my son begin to mend?
9) The servant said,
On yesterday about the seventh hour the fever left.
10) And then the father knew it was the healing balm that Jesus sent
that saved his son.
11) In
12) He called the men who had confessed their faith in him to meet him in his
home, which his disciples called, The school of Christ; and when they came he
said to them,
13) This gospel of the Christ must be proclaimed in
all the world.
14) This Christine vine will be a mighty vine whose branches will comprise the
peoples, tribes and tongues of all the earth.
15) I am the vine; twelve men shall be the branches of the stock, and these
shall send forth branches everywhere;
16) And from among the people who have followed me, the Holy Breath will call
the twelve.
17) Go now and do your work as you have done your work; but listen for the
call.
18) Then the disciples went unto their daily tasks, to do their work as
they had done, and Jesus went alone into the Hammoth hills to pray.
19) Three days and nights he spent communing with the Silent Brotherhood; then,
in the power of Holy Breath he came to call the twelve.
CHAPTER 88
Jesus walks by the sea. Stands in a fishing boat and speaks to the
people.
Under his direction the fishermen secure a great catch of fish.
He selects and calls his twelve apostles.
BESIDE the sea of Galilee the Christine master walked, and multitudes
of people followed him.
2) The fishing boats had just come in, and Peter and his brother waited in
their boats; their helpers were ashore repairing broken nets.
3) And Jesus went into a boat and Peter pushed it out a little ways from shore;
and Jesus standing in the boat spoke to the multitude. He said,
4) Isaiah, prophet of the Lord of hosts, looked
forward and he saw this day; he saw the people standing by the sea, and he
exclaimed,
5) The land of Zebulon and Napthali, land beyond the Jordan and toward the sea,
the Gentile Galilee,
6) The people were in darkness, knowing not the way; but, lo, they saw the Day
Star rise; a light streamed forth; they saw the way of life; they walked
therein.
7) And you are blest beyond all people of the earth today, because you first
may see the light, and may become the children of the light.
8) Then Jesus said to Peter,
Bring your nets aboard, and put out in the deep.
9) And Peter did as Jesus bade him do; but in a faithless way he said,
This is a useless trip; there are no fish upon this
10) But Jesus saw beneath the surface of the sea; he saw a multitude of
fish. He said to Peter,
11) Cast out your net upon the right side of the
boat.
12) And Peter did as Jesus said, and, lo, the net was filled; it scarce
was strong enough to hold the multitude of fish.
13) And Peter called to John and James, who were near by, for help; and when
the net was hauled to boat, both boats were well nigh filled with fish.
14) When Peter saw the heavy catch, he was ashamed of what he said; ashamed
because he had no faith, and he fell down at Jesus' feet, and said,
Lord, I believe!
15) And Jesus said,
Behold the catch! from henceforth you shall fish no
more for fish;
16) You shall cast forth the Christine net into the sea of human life, upon the
right side of the boat; you shall ensnare the multitudes to holiness and
blessedness and peace.
17) Now, when they reached the shore the Christine master called to
Peter, Andrew, James and John and said,
18) You fishermen of Galilee, the masters have a
mighty work for us to do; I go, and you may follow me.
And they left all and followed him.
19) And Jesus walked along the shore, and seeing Philip and Nathaniel walking
on the beach he said to them.
20) You teachers of
and then they followed him.
21) A little farther on there stood a Roman tribute house, and Jesus saw the
officer in charge; his name was Matthew, who once abode in
22) The youth who once ran on before the Lord into
23) And Matthew was a man of wealth, and learned in wisdom of the Jews, the
Syrians and the Greeks.
24) And Jesus said to him,
Hail, Matthew, trusted servant of the Caesars,
hail! the masters call us to the tribute house of souls; I go and you may
follow me.
And Matthew followed him.
25) Ischariot and his son, whose name was Judas, were employed by Matthew and
were at the tribute house.
26) And Jesus said to Judas,
Stay your work; the masters call us to a duty in
the savings bank of souls; I go and you may follow me.
And Judas followed him.
27) And Jesus met a lawyer who had heard about the Christine master and had
come from
28) This man was Thomas, man of doubt, and yet a Greek philosopher of culture
and of power.
29) But Jesus saw in him the lines of faith, and said to him,
The masters have a need of men who can interpret
law; I go, and you may follow me.
And Thomas followed him.
30) And when the evening came and Jesus was at home, behold, there came his
kindred, James and Jude, the sons of
31) And these were men of faith, and they were carpenters of
32) And Jesus said to them,
Behold, for you have toiled with me, and with my
father Joseph, building houses for the homes of men. The masters call us now to
aid in building homes for souls; homes built without the sound of hammer, axe,
or saw;
33) I go, and you may follow me.
And James and Jude exclaimed,
Lord, we will follow you.
34) And on the morrow Jesus sent a message unto Simon, leader of the Zelotes, a
strict exponent of the Jewish law.
35 And in the message Jesus said,
The masters call for men to demonstrate the faith
of Abraham; I go, and you may follow me.
And Simon followed him.
CHAPTER 89
The twelve apostles are at Jesus' home
and are consecrated to their work. Jesus
instructs them.
He goes to the synagogue on the Sabbath and teaches. He casts an unclean spirit out of one
obsessed.
He heals Peter's mother-in-law.
2) And Jesus said to them,
This is the day to consecrate yourselves unto the work
of God; so let us pray.
3) Turn from the outer to the inner self; close all the doors of carnal self
and wait.
4) The Holy Breath will fill this place, and you will be baptized in Holy
Breath.
5) And then they prayed; a light more brilliant than the noonday sun
filled all the room, and tongues of flame from every head rose high in air.
6) The atmosphere of
7) And then the twelve disciples heard a voice, a still, small voice, and just
one word was said, a word they dared not speak; it was the Sacred name of God.
8) And Jesus said to them,
By this omnific Word you may control the elements,
and all the powers of air.
9) And when within your souls you speak this Word, you have the keys of life
and death; of things that are; of things that were; of things that are to be.
10) Behold you are the twelve great branches of the Christine vine; the twelve
foundation stones; the twelve apostles of the Christ.
11) As lambs I send you forth among wild beasts; but the omnific Word will be
your buckler and your shield.
12) And then again the air was filled with song, and every living creature
seemed to say,
Praise God! Amen!
13) The next day was the Sabbath day; and Jesus went with his disciples
to the synagogue, and there he taught.
14) The people said,
He teaches not as do the scribes and Pharisees; but as
a man who knows, and has authority to speak.
15) As Jesus spoke, a man obsessed came in; the evil spirits that
obsessed the man were of the baser sort; they often threw their victim to the
ground, or in the fire.
16) And when the spirits saw the Christine master in the synagogue they knew
him, and they said,
17) You son of God, why are you here? would you
destroy us by the Word before our time? we would have naught to do with you;
let us alone.
18) But Jesus said to them,
By the omnific Word I speak; Come out; torment this
man no more; go to your place.
19) And then the unclean spirits threw the man upon the floor, and, with
a fiendish cry, they went away.
20) And Jesus lifted up the man and said to him,
If you will keep your mind fully occupied with
good, the evil spirits cannot find a place to stay;
21) They only come to empty heads and hearts. Go on your way and sin no more.
22) The people were astonished at the words that Jesus spoke, the work
he did. They asked among themselves,
23) Who is this man? From whence comes all this power
that even unclean spirits fear, and flee away?
24) The Christine master left the synagogue; with Peter, Andrew, James
and John, he went to Peter's house where one, a near of kin, was sick.
25) And Peter's wife came in; it was her mother who was sick.
26) And Jesus touched the woman as she lay upon her couch; he spoke the Word;
the fever ceased and she arose and ministered to them.
27) The neighbors heard what had occurred, and then brought their sick, and
those obsessed, and Jesus laid his hands on them, and they were healed.
CHAPTER 90
Jesus goes alone to a mountain to
pray. His disciples find him.
He calls the twelve and they journey through
At Tiberius Jesus heals a leper. The
Christines return to
own home Jesus heals a palsied man and makes known the philosophy of healing
and the forgiveness of sins.
THE Christine master disappeared; no one saw him go, and Peter, James
and John set forth to search for him; they found him at his trysting-place out
on the Hammoth hills.
2) And Peter said,
The city of
3) The men, the women and the children everywhere are asking for the man who
heals by will.
4) Your home and our homes are filled with people who are sick; they call for
Jesus who is called the Christ. What will we say to them?
5) And Jesus said,
A score of other cities call, and we must take the
bread of life to them. Go call the other men and let us go.
6) And Jesus and the twelve went to
7) The multitudes believed on Christ, confessed their sins and were baptized,
and came into the kingdom of the Holy One.
8) The Christine master and the twelve went everywhere through all the towns of
9) They opened up blinded eyes, unstopped deaf ears, drove forth the evil ones
from those obsessed, and healed disease of every kind.
10) And they were in Tiberius by the sea, and as they taught a leper came
a-near and said,
Lord, I believe, and if you will but speak the Word I
will be clean.
11) And Jesus said to him,
I will; be clean.
And soon the leprosy was gone; the man was clean.
12) And Jesus charged the man, say naught to anyone, but go and show yourself
unto the priests and offer for your cleansing what the law demands.
13) The man was wild with joy; but then he went not to the priests, but in the
marts of trade, and everywhere he told what had been done.
14) And then the sick in throngs pressed hard upon the healer and the twelve,
imploring to be healed.
15) And they were so importunate that little could be done, and so the
Christines left the crowded thoroughfares, and went to desert places where they
taught the multitudes that followed them.
16) Now, after many days the Christines came back to
17) And there were present scribes and Pharisees and doctors of the law from
every part of
18) Four men brought one, a palsied man upon a cot, and when they could not
pass the door they took the sick man to the roof, and opened up a way, then let
him down before the healer's face.
19) When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the palsied man,
My son, be of good cheer; your sins are all
forgiven.
20) And when the scribes and Pharisees heard what he said, they said,
Why does this man speak thus? who can forgive the sins
of men but God?
21) And Jesus caught their thought; he knew they questioned thus among
themselves; he said to them,
22) Why reason thus among yourselves? What matters
it if I should say, Your sins are blotted out; or say, Arise, take up your bed
and walk?
23) But just to prove that men may here forgive the sins of men, I say,
(and then he spoke unto the palsied man)
24) Arise, take up your bed, and go your way.
25) And in the presence of them all the man arose, took up his bed, and went
his way.
26) The people could not comprehend the things they heard and saw. They said
among themselves,
This is a day we never can forget; we have seen
wondrous things today.
27) And when the multitudes had gone the twelve remained, and Jesus said
to them,
28) The Jewish festival draws near; next week we
will go to Jerusalem, that we may meet our brethren from afar, and open up to
them the way that they may see the king.
29) The Christines sought the quiet of their homes, where they remained
in prayer for certain days.
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