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Appendix A
The Sermon on the Mount
(first two chapters)
The sermon on the mount, as depicted in The Aquarian Gospel, encompasses
8 chapters - approximately 10 pages. The first two chapters are quoted here:
Aquarian Gospel, Chapter 94
"...Jesus and the twelve went to a mountain near the sea to
pray; and Jesus taught the twelve how to pray. He said,
Prayer is the deep communion of the soul with God; so when you pray
do not deceive yourselves as do the hypocrites who love to stand upon the
streets and in the synagogues and pour out many words to please the ears of
men. And they adorn themselves with pious airs that they may have the praise of
men. They seek the praise of men and their reward is sure. But when you
pray, go to the closet of your soul; close all the doors, and in the holy
silence, pray. You need not speak a multitude of words, nor yet repeat the
words again and again.... Just say,
Our Father-God who are in heaven; holy is thy name. Thy kingdom come;
thy will be done on earth as it is done in heaven. Give us this day our needed
bread; Help us forget the debts that other people owe to us, that all our debts
may be discharged. And shield us from the tempter's snares that are too great
for us to bear; And when they come give us the strength to overcome.
If you would be discharged from all the debts you owe to God and man,
the debts you have incurred by willfully transgressing law, you must pass by
the debts of every man; for as you deal with other men your God will deal with
you.
And when you fast you may not advertise the deed. When fast the
hypocrites they paint their faces, look demure, assume a pious pose, that they
may seem to men to fast. A fast is deed of soul, and like a prayer, it is a
function of the silence of the soul. God never passes by unnoticed any prayer,
or fast. He walks within the silence, and his benedictions rest on every effort
of the soul.
Deception is hypocrisy, and you should not assume to be what you are
not. You may not clothe yourselves in special garb to advertise your piety, nor
yet assume the tone of voice that men conceive to be a holy voice. And when you
give to aid the needy ones, blow not a trumpet in the street nor synagogue to
advertise your gift. He who does alms for praise of men has his reward from
men; but God regardeth not. In giving alms do not let the right hand know the
secret of the left."
Aquarian Gospel, Chapter 95
"And Jesus and the twelve went to the mountain top, and Jesus
said,
Twelve pillars of the church, apostles of the Christ; light-bearers
of the sun of life and ministers of God to men: In just a little while you must
go forth alone, and preach the gospel of the king, first to the Jews and then
to all the world. And you shall go, not with a scourge of cords to drive; you
cannot drive men to the king; But you shall go in love and helpfulness and lead
the way to right and light. Go forth and say The kingdom is at hand.
Worthy are the strong in spirit; theirs the kingdom is. Worthy are
the meek; they shall possess the land. Worthy are they who hunger and who
thirst for right; they shall be satisfied. Worthy are the merciful; and mercy
shall be shown them. Worthy they who gain the mastery of self; they have the
key of power. Worthy are the pure in heart; and they shall see the king. Worthy
they who are maligned and wronged because they do the right; their persecutors
they shall bless.
Be not discouraged when the world shall persecute and call you crust;
but rather be exceeding glad. The prophets and the seers, and all the good of
earth, have been maligned. If you are worthy of the crown of life you will be
slandered, vilified and crust on earth. Rejoice when evil men shall drive you
from their ways and cause your name to be a hiss and by-word in the street. I
say, rejoice; but deal in mercy with the doers of the wrong; they are but
children at play; they know not what they do. Rejoice not over fallen
foes. As you help men rise from the
depth of sin, so God will help you on to greater heights.
Woe to the rich is gold and lands; they have temptations multiform.
Woe unto men who walk at will in pleasure's paths; their ways are full of
snares and dangerous pits. Woe to the proud; they stand upon a precipice;
destruction waits for them. Woe to the man of greed; for what he has is not his
own; and, lo, another comes; his wealth is gone. Woe to the hypocrite; his form
is fair to look upon; his heart is filled with the carcasses of dead men's
bones. Woe to the cruel and relentless man; he is himself the victim of his
deeds. The evil he would do to other men rebounds; the scourger is the
scourged. Woe to the libertine who preys upon the virtues of the weak. The hour
comes when he will be the weak, the victim of a libertine of greater power. Woe
unto you when all the world shall speak in praise of you. The world speaks not
in praise of men who live within the Holy Breath; it speaks in praise of
prophets false, and of illusions base.
You men who walk in Holy Breath are salt, the salt of earth; but if
you lose your virtue you are salt in name alone, worth nothing more than dust.
And you are light; are called to light the world. A city on a hill cannot be
hid; its lights are seen afar; and while you stand upon the hills of life men
see your light and imitate your works and honor God. Men do not light a lamp
and hide it in a cask; they put it on a stand that it may light the house. You
are lamps of God; must not stand in the shade of earth illusions, but in the
open, high upon the stand.
I am not come to nullify the law, nor to destroy, but to fulfill. The
Law, the Prophets and the Psalms were written in the wisdom of the Holy Breath
and cannot fail. The heavens and earth that are will change and pass away; the
word of God is sure; it cannot pass until it shall accomplish that whereunto it
hath been sent.
Whoever disregards the law of God and teaches men to do the same,
becomes a debtor unto God and cannot see his face until he has returned and
paid his debt by sacrifice of life. But he who hearkens unto God and keeps his
law and does his will on earth, shall rule with Christ.
The scribes and Pharisees regard the letter of the law; they cannot
comprehend the spirit of the law; And if your righteousness does not exceed the
righteousness of scribe and Pharisee you cannot come unto the kingdom of the
soul. It is not what man does that gives him right to enter through the gates;
his password is his character and his desire is his character. The letter of
the law deals with the acts of man; the spirit of the law takes note of his
desires."
The entire text of The Aquarian Gospel is available
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