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About the Gospels
24th April 1864, 4 pm – 6:45 pm
[1] Yes, My dear servant, the bear deaf in one ear in your dream has led you to a great evangelical contradiction, which you did not encounter before, from your childhood on, despite your frequent reading of the New Testament.
[2] I Myself would have already pointed this out to you in the following. But it is better for you and also for many others that this matter has already now come to daylight so that everyone recognizes and understands that I have now again come to this earth in spirit in a quite special, perceptible way to enlist and receive the last workers in My vineyard. And these workers are just the worldly wise and worldly philosophers who, just at this time, are taking the trouble in all earnestness to wipe Me out completely, as I now exist among the so-called Christian sects, and to destroy Me, together with those Gospels, which only two or three hundred years after Me have become what they still are now through pagan and Jewish machinations.
[3] Blind humanity, which tests nothing and has never tested anything, still believes in such a largely hopeless work in My name.
[4] Therefore I do not want to judge Luke, Mark or Matthew, because in their time they at least took the trouble to select the purest and best from the many already often defaced aspects of My teaching. But as to the material fact, they partly wrote their own poetry, and for the greater part they had to take from it in the end something which they had heard from the mouths of such people, who often enough boldly and pertly pretended to be eyewitnesses and ear-witnesses of this and that. Then they compared this with the passages known to them from the old prophets and found it to be in agreement with what they had written, and thus for them the criterion for the truth of what they had written was completely finished and valid.
[5] If these gospels had remained as they were, it would be much better than it is now. For in these Gospels there was far too little of the miraculous, the cruel, and the terrible for mankind, hence it was later found necessary, especially in part among the Jewish Christians, Greeks, and Romans, already a hundred years before the great church meeting at Nicaea, to make many additions – especially those who strongly smell of miracles and who have a strong criminal-judicial face, in order to make Me, the benefactor of mankind, who has put nothing so dear to men's heart as love and truth, just the opposite.
[6] I have never been against true science of mankind, but have on many occasions instructed people about many things in which they formerly stood in full ignorance and blindness; therefore also the deceitful Pharisees hated Me most because I instructed the people in everything in which the Pharisees formerly took the greatest trouble to stultify the people for their loose purposes.
[7] And they really went so far as to let the high priest Annas or Caiaphas – in order to move the people to greater willingness to sacrifice – testified in the temple with a grim voice that in the brook Kydron nothing but blood would flow for three days and the sun would not shine for a whole day. The people believed such nonsense, crept into their innermost rooms out of fear of such punishment, and when the punishment was over, full of fear, anxiety and trembling, went to visit the Kydron to see whether blood was still flowing. And when the Kydron had it's natural water, the people had nothing more industrious to do than to bring heavy sacrifices into the temple and lay them at the feet of the priests.
[8] Admittedly, the sun shone also on that day, and not a drop of blood flowed in the brook Kydron, of which the clever Jews doubtlessly convinced themselves of and wanted to instruct even the poor and too superstitious common Jews about it, but mostly without success; for these, in their imagination and fear, have [seen] blood flow, and also did not see the sun shining for a whole day.
[9] And just as the common people were at all times in the most blind superstition, so they still are today. You can tell such people the most absurd miracle-tales, and they will believe them. And if these tell it to their neighbors, they will still add much to it, and turn it into the miraculous, which was to them not miraculous enough when told by the first narrator. But nothing can be done with them concerning any truth.
[10] That is why it was also in My time exceedingly difficult to bring the proper hard-core Jews to the knowledge of the truth; a miracle had to happen, through which they were shaken awake from their sleep and then began to think a little within themselves what I had said with this or that.
[11] But I have already told the apostles in My time several times that they are to speak and preach much less of My miracles than of the inner depth of truth of My teaching when My teaching is spread further.
[12] Only the only one – John – remained true to this admonition, all the others much less so; they preferred to rather begin with the miracles, and only then began to speak of the kingdom of God and of inner truth, so that the listeners were already ensnared by the miracles.
[13] The addiction to tell miracles then increased from one decade to the next so much that a large number of partly written and even more of the traditional gospels grew to such an extent that no-one could make sense of them anymore.
[14] Luke as well as the pseudo-evangelist Matthew (l'Rabbas) did not even begin to record their Gospels until many years after Me, and yet they got so lost in some things that in the end the greatest contradictions had to surface even in some very important things.
[15] There was no talk of testing in those days anyway; for every evangelist had his certain readers and listeners, and cared little for another evangelist, and the evangelists themselves adhered even to what they had written down, and sometimes even had a real joy in it, when another evangelist did not have in his gospel what one or the other had in his gospel.
[16] So also l'Rabbas cared little or not at all about Jesus being circumcised in the temple on the eighth day after birth, and so also not about the three wise men from the Orient and the escape to Egypt and the cruel infanticide by Herod in Bethlehem.
[17] L'Rabbas (Pseudo-Matthew) received such news to Tyre and Sidon and recorded it, but since he himself, at least in former times, was more Gentile than Jew, he also cared little about the circumcision of the child Jesus. And so these two evangelists show one of the strangest contradictions among themselves, while in many other parts they harmonize with each other except for the indication of place and time.
[18] According to Luke, Jesus was circumcised in accordance with all Jewish laws and customs. He was born in a sheepfold in Bethlehem, was greeted only by the shepherds, did not even receive a visit from the three wise men from the Orient, did not need to flee to Egypt, but instead returned quite comfortably to Nazareth, where he waited quietly for his twelfth year without any persecution on the part of Herod, and then made a hike with his parents to Jerusalem.
[19] In Matthew we see Jesus coming into the world in a proper house, not greeted by the shepherds, but by the three wise men from the Orient, of whom Luke in his gospel had not dreamt anything, nor of the flight to Egypt, nor of the cruel infanticide in Bethlehem by Herod, nor of the return of Jesus from Egypt to Galilee under King Archelaus. But Matthew did not dream of the circumcision of Jesus in the temple after eight days, nor of many other things that happened. And so, according to the writings of these two evangelists, you have one circumcised Jewish Christ and one uncircumcised Gentile Christ!
[20] With the twelfth year of Jesus' life, the two evangelists begin to be consistent again, except for a few minor secondary circumstances.
[21] Now everyone asks himself: Which of these two evangelists has remained true in himself? And the answer to this is: In and of itself, none! For each one gave only of the news of which he had heard talk of. In Jerusalem, no-one dared to speak of Herod's excessive cruelty for fear of punishment; but in Sidon and Tyre in the then Coele-Syria, Herod was hated more than death, and his cruelties were not concealed, nor was the motive that had led him do it.
[22] To the same extent, if you were to read the two Gospels comparatively carefully, you would still come across many a significant contradictions and irregularities, which nevertheless can be more easily compensated for and corrected than the Jewish circumcised and Gentile uncircumcised Jesus.
[23] But that is why just in this time both the old and still more the new nonsense, which contradicts Me in everything, has to be completely wiped out of these Gospels – and I Myself with them, so that the only and permanently true Gospel of John may step forward in it's full light.
[24] For everyone will easily understand and grasp that I can no longer exist for all time from the viewpoint of these four now existing Gospels and also of many a letter of Paul and the other apostles, because in them every contradiction that occurs makes Me a contradiction before the scholars of the world – the same, then, as with the present Christian sects, of which also every sect has it's own Christ, who takes the liberty of mutually condemning every other Christ of another sect.
[25] Whoever does not want to believe this, just look at least at the Catholic formulas of conversion; for example, if a Protestant wants to convert to the Catholic Church, read them, and he will be completely convinced of this mutual condemnation of Christ, for in it the convert must condemn his still Protestant parents, his birth with everything and everyone, and also all his Protestant things of faith to the deepest depths of hell; only then will he be accepted into the community of the faithful of Rome under all kinds of ceremonies.
[26] And so it is especially between the main sects. How is a shepherd and a herd to become one day, where the Christian sects themselves are more angry at one another than the most rabid and wildest animals of the forests?
[27] So all this has to go away, and for this I have already summoned the workers in My vineyard, and they work diligently and industriously, and soon even many will come after them, who will work even more diligently, industriously and effectively, so that then I can come to people in truth as the true Christ and God from eternity – and not as now, who – according to the pleasure of every sect – I can overall do nothing but to judge and condemn in one and the same way and can and may only make happy and bless those in heaven who are found worthy and capable of this by their leaders and representatives of God.
[28] Whoever, for example, finds himself in the grace of such a representative of God, especially through excellent sacrificial offerings, must then – according to their teaching – also find himself in My grace! You yourselves now probably understand that such hopeless nonsense, after I once rose as lightning in the firmament, can consequently no longer uphold itself, despite all agreements.
[29] That is why we now allow science it's full freedom; for it is now an effective instrument for sweeping away the garbage, and at the same time it is a powerful giant Hercules, who knew how to clean the great stable of Augias from its dung, which – as a good fable of the primeval gray pagan antiquity – can still be used quite well in this time.
[30] Think well over what has now been shown and given to you and let yourselves be enlightened by it; for it has been given to you by Me, the only true Christ, and by no pseudo-Christ, to whom the truth is a damnable abomination. Amen.