The Great Gospel of John · Volume 1

God is a true God, a loving Father who has never failed to reveal His will to men. Also during the past almost 2000 years His revelations have kept flowing to individual recipients, to men and women who loved Him deeply with all their being and were thus capable of receiving His Word, either through visions or through the Inner Word, or both. These mystics and seers received the pure divine teaching and it was their task to spread it and thereby restore the original teaching to its former purity. But they did not succeed because people’s minds were held captive through fear and ignorance, and only few benefitted from the divine revelations.

The most comprehensive of these revelations was received in the 19^th century by the Styrian mystic and seer Jakob Lorber through the Inner Word. Born at Kanischa (Austria) on July 22, 1800 as the son of a vine grower who was in his spare time the leader of a popular band, Jakob Lorber grew up in a poor rural environment, but in a family that was deeply religious and dedicated to music. From his father Jakob had inherited a versatile musical talent and he early learnt to play the violin, piano and organ. Ibis helped him later to pay for his education, first in Marburg and then in Graz, the Styrian capital, where in 1829 he obtained his diploma as a teacher for intermediate schools. But when he could not find a suitable position, he reverted to his particular love, music. He gave lessons in singing and the violin, practiced for hours every day, composed and sometimes gave concerts, alone or together with others. He was successful, but never to the extent he had hoped for. During the years he devoted to music, Lorber followed also his inclination to deepen his spiritual understanding, diligently studying the Bible as well as the works of men who followed the “inward path”, among others such mystics as Jakob Boehme and Emmanuel Swedenborg.

In his fortieth year Lorber was offered – and accepted – a conductorship with the theatre in Trieste, a position that would give him the long hoped-for recognition and material security. But it was not to be.

Shortly before his departure for Trieste, on the morning of March 15, 1840, Lorber heard a clear voice in the region of his heart telling him: “Arise, take your pen and write!”

Lorber obeyed this mysterious call and began to write down what the voice dictated to him. It was the introduction to his first work “The Household of God “Thus spoke the Lord to and within me for everyone, and that is true, faithful and certain: Who wants to talk with Me, let him come to Me and I will lay the answer in his heart. But only the pure of heart, whose heart is full of meekness, shall hear the sound of My voice. And he who prefers Me to all the world and loves Me like a tender bride her bridegroom, with him I shall walk arm in arm. He will always behold Me like a brother his brother and as I beheld him from eternity, before he was.” When Lorber realized that this was the beginning of a book and who the author was, he did not hesitate to renounce the offered material security and served the Lord as His “scribe” to the end of his days.

It is important for the reader to understand how inspiration through the Inner Word is received. Lorber did not experience any states of ecstasy, nor was he a medium for automatic writing whose hand is guided by a spirit-entity. Fully awake he heard the voice and promptly wrote down what he heard. An expert describes the process as follows: “The subtle spiritual impulse must first have filtered through the mental sphere of the mediator before he can record in words of human language what he has perceived. This is also the reason why the Word of God, and thus each communication, expresses itself always in the mediator’s particular manner of speaking.”

At the time of his calling, this simple man never suspected that the task he was given would keep him busy for 24 years. He rarely interrupted his work and wrote almost daily for several hours, obediently recording what the voice in his heart dictated to him, without correcting even a single line, as the manuscripts show.

These works, eventually contained in 25 volumes of almost 500 pages each, not to mention a number of shorter writings, present an amazing phenomenon with the comprehensive knowledge they contain, the deep interpretations and detailed facts on subjects of cosmology, astronomy, biology, natural science, psychology and prophecy.

Lorber’s greatest and best known work, written during the years 1851 to 1864, is the Great Gospel of John in 10 volumes (Volume 11 was written almost 30 years later by Leopold Engel). It begins with an explanation of the Biblical gospel according to St. John and then gives a detailed, almost day to day account of the three teaching years of Jesus revealing to a matured humanity many secrets of creation and divine guidance.

To make this work accessible to more people, The Great Gospel of John was condensed by the German publishers to about a third of its volume and is available in a set of 6 books now being translated into English, of which the first two volumes are now published.

This literature will speak for itself to the reader with an open mind, who has the honest desire to learn the truth, possesses humility and perseverance in his studies. Here the truth seeker finds answers to all the questions that have forever puzzled mankind. He sees the great panorama of creation and God’s plan with mankind unfold, begins to understand the purpose of man’s existence on earth, of life and death, of God’s love and guidance and this knowledge gives him a feeling of security and frees him from his manifold fears.

But the reader must realize this: Only humility and the approach with a pure heart and good will opens the door to the understanding of spiritual things.

May the honest truth seeker find in these revelations what he is seeking!

The Editor

GREAT GOSPEL OF JOHN, VOLUME 1

TABLE OF CONTENTS

    1.Spiritual interpretation of the biblical Gospel of John
revealed by the Lord Jesus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

2.John the Baptist bears witness of the Lord …………… 7

3.Toward spiritual rebirth. First and second grace. ………. 12

4.About the law, judgment, grace and salvation…………. 14

NEAR BETHABARA

5.John the Baptist’s testimony of himself and the Lord

6.John baptizes the Lord

7.Examples and explanations concerning the style of the evangelists

8.The Lord’s first disciples: Andrew and Simon Peter

9.Further callings: Philip and Nathanael

IN NAZARETH

10.New disciples: James, John and Thomas

IN CANA

11.The wine miracle: symbol of the rebirth

IN CAPERNAUM

12.Call to the sons of Zebedee: James and John. Beginning of the Lord’s ministry

IN JERUSALEM

13.The cleansing of the temple by the Lord

14.The destruction and rebuilding of the temple

15.The Lord sees through the malice and deceitfulness of the Jews

AT THE INN OUTSIDE JERUSALEM

16.The spiritual meaning of the cleansing of the temple

17.Healing miracles and late guests at the inn

18.The Lord’s discussion with Nicodemus. Purification of the soul through humility

19.Nicodemus and the Kingdom of God on Earth

20.The plague of laziness

21.About the mission of the Messiah. Judgment and punishment.

22.There is no truth in man, except only love

IN THE LAND OF JUDAEA SURROUNDING JERUSALEM

23.Baptism with water and with the Spirit

24.The Baptist’s last and greatest witness to the Lord: “He must increase, but I must decrease.”

ON THE ROAD TO SAMARIA HALT AT JACOB’S WELL NEAR SYCHAR

25.Furious persecution by the temple servants

26.The Lord and the woman at Jacob’s well

27.About true worship of God in spirit and in truth

28.The Lord makes Himself known as the Messiah

29.Continuation of the scene: Healing of the woman and her testimony for the found Messiah

30.The true Sabbath

31.The true badge of honor: love of the Lord

32.The Lord sees only the heart. As one sown, so will one reap

IN SYCHAR

33.The doctor and the Samaritan Mosaists

34.The heavenly arrangement of the house

35.The disciples see the Heavens open

36.Joram and Irhael joined conjugally

37.With Irhael. The nature of dreams

38.Not the hearing but the doing brings salvation

39.Sermon on the Mount

40.The priests criticize the Sermon on the Mount

41.Lack of understanding of the image of the Sermon on the Mount

42.The Sermon on the Mount clearly explained by Nathanael

43.Further explanation of Nathanael

44.Symbolic eyes, arms and feet

45.Not everyone can follow the Lord physically

46.Return to Sychar. Healing of a leper

47.The Lord’s celestial servants

48.Glorious promise for true followers

49.Every day is the Lord’s day

50.The honoring of the Sabbath

51.The Gospel of Sychar

52.The slandering of the daughters of Jonael

53.The punishment of the liar and slanderer

54.The Lord with Jonael. The disciples criticize the Lord

55.Esau’s castle. The clever merchant

56.The result of lies and truth

57.How the merchant expected the Messiah

58.He who worries about the Earth and the flesh is a fool

59.God is to be loved more than feared

60.With God the right will is already accepted as the deed itself

61.A miracle does not free the spirit

62.The Lord opens the way to Heaven for all

63.The good effect of the heavenly love wine

64.The will of the Lord is the power of the angels

65.Accused and declared innocent

66.Healing of the palsied near the village

67.The new law of love

68.The Roman commander and living according to the teaching

69.The insignificance of the gods. The mystery of love

70.If love is lacking, there is no truth

71.The Lord witnesses of the Father

72.The end of the world and the judgment

73.John, the healed and Jonael

74.Do not return evil with evil

75.Dealing with criminals

76.Man knows what is good but does what is evil

77.The Lord known the right measure

78.Gentleness and patience more effective than anger

79.The treatment of the soul-sick

80.Avoid self-esteem

81.The Lord is the bridge to the spiritual world

82.Farewell to Irhael and Joram

83.The power of the Word. Departure from Sychar

84.An eclipse

85.The new everlasting Kingdom. Further journey to Cana in Galilee.

86.The Lord back in Cana of Galilee. Satan’s trick

87.The Jewish skeptics

88.The chief commander Cornelius. The lord’s cleansing of the temple

89.Two days of rest in Cana

90.Healing of the son of a royal nobleman

91.2,000 years of Gospel

92.God’s omniscience and His guidance

93.The Lord forces no one

94.The curse and the dangers of money

95.The nature of Judas

96.The Lord’s hints about Judas

IN CAPERNAUM

97.The sick servant of the centurion

98.The people challenge the priests

IN BETHABARA

99.The temple servants’ anger Peter’s daughter-in-law

100.The miraculous catch

101.The unusual wine-miracle for Judas

102.The healing of all sick people in Capernaum

103.Jesus and the storm

104.The healing of the possessed

105.Disbelief prevents miracles

106.Life, deeds and teaching of Jesus of Nazareth

107.The comedy of the world is a tragedyto God’s children

108.Mary, the mother of the Lord

109.You are a winnowing fan in the Father’s hand

110.The Lord and the three Pharisees

111.The healing of the Greek woman

112.The daughter of Jairus

113.Details regarding the different nature of the biblical Gospels of Matthew and John

114.A lesson for Judas

115.The people’s intention to proclaim Jesus king

116.Healing of the man with gout

117.Speech of the young Roman

118.Revelations about the temple

119.The example of the road to Roma

120.Matthew the tax-collector

121.Conversation about Joseph, Mary and Jesus

122.The doubt of John the Baptist

123.The testimony of John the Baptist

124.Parable of the new and old garment and the new wine in old skins

125.The trust of Matthew the tax-collector

126.God does not change

127.The death of Cornelius’ daughter in Capernaum

128.Resurrection of Cornelius’ daughter

129.The experiences in the hereafter

130.The 2 blind beggars

131.Healing of the possessed deaf and dumb

132.The greed and hardness of the tributary king Herod

133.A food and clothes miracle

134.Calling of the 12 apostles

135.Instructions to the apostles

136.The objections of Judas

137.The apostles comforted

138.The question of Simon of Cana

139.A promise to the faithful

140.The divine secret in man

141.The first sending out of the apostles

142.The first missionary work of the apostles

143.At the sea. The Lord’s answer

144.The Lord’s testimony of John

145.John the Baptist’s spirit and soul

146.Conversion of Kisjonah, the tax-collector

147.The parable of the children in the market-place

148.The Lord’s pronouncement over Chorazim, Bethsaida and Capernaum

149.The awakening to eternal life

150.The Lord exposes and deals with the Pharisees’ maliciousness

151.The mountain’s quaking answer and its effect

152.The spirit world

153.Three lunar spirits speak about the lunar world

154.The return of the 12 apostles

155.The difference between science and faith

156.Moses’ account of the creation

157.The first day of creation

158.The second day of creation

159.The third day of creation

160.The fourth day of creation

161.Continuation of the fourth day of creation

162.The fifth and sixth day of creation

163.The end of Jerusalem

164.Judas Iscariot reports on his journey through the air

165.Why must men be born?

166.The fall of woman and its bad effect on man

167.Beware of tempting women

168.The holy Word, the world and mankind

169.A Gospel on laughter

170.The healing of the half-blind Tobias

171.Rhiba invents a story about the Nazarene

172.The curse of a Pharisee

173.The Pharisees want to stone Tobias

174.Conduct for judges and law-givers

175.The Pharisaical Sabbath

176.The Gleaning of the wheat on a Sabbath

177.The fulfilling of the prophecy

178.Healing of the possessed, dumb and blind

179.The old host’s humility

180.The plan of the young Pharisee

181.The young Pharisee’s artfulness with his colleagues

182.Ahab called by Jesus

183.Ahab the Templer with his colleagues

184.The people against the Pharisees

185.The Lord calms down the people

186.The different types of possession

187.Jew or Greek

188.‘Who is My mother, who are My brothers?’

189.Ahab warns against the Temple’s revenge

190.Sermon on the Kingdom of Heaven

191.The parable of the sower

192.The parables of the tares among the wheat, and the mustard seed

193.The Lord stills the sea

194.Man’s spiritual house

195.Reunion with Jairuth and Jonael

196.The power of the angel

197.Explanation of the parable of the tares

198.Not keeping a promise is most reprehensible

199.Parable of the great pearl and the net

200.Why does God not always help immediately?

201. Twofold nature of tolerance

202. The true church and Sabbath

203. Jonael’s song of praise to the Lord

204. Parable of the mother with her two sons

205. The nature of love

206. Human nutrition

207. The right kind of fasting

208. Earthquake, sea and thunderstorm

209. The purpose of this storm

210. Excursion to Cana in the valley

211. Great healing miracle in Cana of the Valley

212. The hardened stoic

213. About reincarnation

214. Relationship between body, soul and spirit

215. Archiel speaks about the Lord’s incarnation

216. The last will be the first

217. Warning against Satan’s traps

218. A great healing miracle

219. Parable of the fattening bull

220. A late-riser will soon age

221. Rest and activity

222. The 5 Pharisees washing the Lord’s feet

223. Hints on teaching

224 Importance of introspection

225. The Leviathan

226. The way to rebirth

227. A voyage at sea

228. The doctor of Nazareth

229. Jairus’ cowardly and timid answer

230. Death of Joseph and his testimony on Jesus

231. Kisjonah’s people capture a band of Temple robbers and smugglers

232. Preparation for the trial

233. Intensive interrogation of the 12 Pharisees

224. A good catch

235. The chief judge Faustus and the Lord

236. Marital hints

237. The trial of the Temple robbers continues

238. Public confession of the 30 accomplices

239. The Temple treasures

240. About the true honoring of the Sabbath

241. A word for our time

242. Our daily food

©Copyright: Jürgen Pless, 2005

CONTENTS

Chapter 1: Spiritual interpretation of the introductory words of the biblical gospel of John. [John 1, 1-5]

Chapter 2: John the Baptist bears witness to the Lord. [John 1, 6-13]

Chapter 3: Toward spiritual rebirth; first and second grace. [John 1, 14-16]

Chapter 4: About the law, judgment, grace and salvation. [John 1, 17,18]

Chapter 5: John the Baptist’s testimony of himself and the Lord. [John 1, 19-30]

Chapter 6: John baptizes the Lord. [John 1, 31-34]

Chapter 7: Examples and explanations concerning the style of the evangelists. [John 1: 35-37]

Chapter 8: The Lord’s first disciples: Andrew and Simon Peter. [John 1: 38-42]

Chapter 9: Further callings: Philip and Nathanael. [John 1: 43-51]

Chapter 10: New disciples: James, John and Thomas. [John 2:1-5]

Chapter 11: The wine miracle: Symbol of the rebirth. Peter’s confession and toast. [John 2: 6-11]

Chapter 12: Call to the sons of Zebedee: James and John. Beginning of the Lord’s ministry. [John 2:12-13]

Chapter 13: The cleansing of the temple through the Lord. [John 2:14-17]

Chapter 14: The Lord’s prophetic allegory about the destruction of the temple and its re-erection in three days. [John 2:18-22]

Chapter 15: The Lord sees through the malice and deceitfulness of the Jews. [John 2:23-25]

Chapter 16: The spiritual meaning of the cleansing of the temple.

Chapter 17: Healing miracles and late guests at the inn.

Chapter 18: The Lord’s discussion with Nicodemus. Purification of the soul through humility. [John 3:2-5]

Chapter 20: Continuation of the discussion: Nicodemus fails to understand. [John 3: 13-15]

Chapter 21: Continuation of the discussion: about the mission of the Messiah, about judgment and punishment. [John 3:16-21]

Chapter 22: Continuation of the discussion. “There is no truth in man, except only love.”

Chapter 23: About the baptism with water and with the spirit. [John 3: 22-26]

Chapter 24: The Baptist’s last and greatest witness to the Lord: “He must increase, but I must decrease.” [John 3: 27-36]

Chapter 25: The effects of grace with the Lord’s believers. The number of His followers grows. False gospels. Furious persecution by the Templers. [John 4: 1-6]

Chapter 26: The Lord and the woman at Jacob’s well. About living water. [John 4: 7-16]

Chapter 27: Continuation of the scene: About true worship of God in spirit and in truth. [John 4: 17-24]

Chapter 28: Continuation of the scene: The sprit’s healing power in a believer. [John 4: 25-26]

Chapter 29: Continuation of the scene: Healing of the woman and her testimony for the found Messiah [John 4: 27-30]

Chapter 30: The Lord’s “living food”. The great harvesting mission. Sabbath foolishness. [John 4: 31-38]

Chapter 31: The Samaritans recognize the Lord: The true badge of honor: Love of the Lord [John 4: 39-42]

Chapter 32: The Lord sees only the heart. As one sows, so will one reap.

Chapter 33: Miraculous goings on in the woman’s house. The physician and the Samaritan Mosaists. Blasphemy against Jesus and its just punishment. The physician’s report and the Lord’s comments.

Chapter 34: The teaching and acts of the Lord recorded by the evangelist John The Lord and His own at the old house of Joseph at Sychar. The preparations of the angels for the holy entourage. The relationship between God the Father and the Son.

Chapter 35: At Sychar. The servants testify of the miraculous service at the house. The woman’s reverence and recognition of the Lord. The Lord’s command of secrecy and His care for Mary. The disciples see the heavens open. Nathaniel’s great testimony. The Lord indicates silence about the holy secret.

Chapter 36: At Sychar. The Lord points out to John, the Evangelist, that not everything is suitable for recording. The promise of the present Revelations. ‘It is enough that you believe and love Me!’ About the Messiah and His kingdom. Words of blessing for the doctor and the woman. Joram and Irhael joined conjugally. The Lord does not sleep.

Chapter 37: The chant in the morning of the priests at Sychar. The Lord directs them to the mountain. The calling of Matthew as an evangelist and disciple. About the nature of dreams.

Chapter 38: At Sychar. Matthew, the former tax-collector, directed by the Lord to record the Sermon on the Mount. The high priest’s welcoming address to the Lord. The Lord’s reply. Hints on life. ‘Not only the hearing but also the doing of My teaching brings salvation!’ Country breakfast.

Chapter 39: At Sychar. The morning meal at Irhael’s. Table talk. The milk and honey of the promised land are the best on earth. The wise man’s speech in praise of the Creator. The Lord’s speech about perfection being man’s destiny. ‘My yoke is easy and My burden light’. Life hints. ‘He who heeds My advice shall do well!’ The real house of God: nature and the human soul. Sermon on the Mount. [Mt. Chapters 5-7]

Chapter 40: The priests criticize the misunderstood sermon on the mount. Nathanael’s profound explanation on behalf of the Lord.

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Chapter 45: Nathanael’s apostle-confession about the imitation of the Lord according to the new teaching of love from the sermon on the mount.

Chapter 46: During the descent from mount Gerizim: Healing of a leper. About zeal and proper restraint.

Chapter 47: At Sychar. The miraculous supper at Irhael’s, in fellowship with the angels. The Lord’s hints about His celestial servants. The Lord’s compatriots’ anger and lack of faith.

Chapter 48: At Sychar. The guests and the celestial servants. The high priest’s misgivings about his ministry of converting the faithless people. The Lord’s comments in reply and His foretelling of His passion, death and rising. Appearance of spirits. Glorious promise for true followers.

Chapter 49: At Sychar. Hints on the how and where of true worship. Irhael’s commendable talk. ‘Not houses of prayer, but refuges and hospitals for the poor you shall build Me’. Allusion to the temple of the Creation.

Chapter 50: At Sychar. About the honoring of the Sabbath. What God wants men to do. Work day and Sabbath. God’s constant activity. Moses’ teaching about the Sabbath. ‘Be ye perfect even as your Father in heaven is perfect.’ Promise of answered prayers.

Chapter 51: At Sychar. The angels’ talk to the apprehensive dinner guests. The ‘Sycharite Gospel’. The story of Nathaniel’s conversion. The Lord’s command of silence about His Deity until He be uplifted on the Cross.

Chapter 52: The Lord discusses the high priest’s domestic problems with him. Mother Mary’s apparel. The slandering of the high priest’s family. Jonael’s sadness. The Lord’s comfort and testimony against the world.

Chapter 53: At Sychar. Peter’s spirited testimony to the Son of God, and his stinging assessment of the unbelieving Galileans. The Galilean’s opinion about Jesus and His disciples. Peter’s worthy retort. The angel and the Lord punish the evil slanderer. The wicked’s atonement.

Chapter 54: At Sychar. The Lord with Jonael’s noble family. The disciples’ annoyance, along the road with the marvelous scene with Jonael’s daughters. The Lord’s telling rebuke. The whereabouts of the kingdom of God. ‘Abide within love’.

Chapter 55: At Sychar. The walk through the lovely grove. The old Esau castle. Episode with the lord of the manor, his servants and the Lord. The clever merchant – a friend of Truth, and his dilemma. The Lord as mind-reader. The merchant of poetry. A delicate question.

Chapter 56: At Sychar. The cautious merchant’s extensive answer to the ticklish question about the Lord’s identity. About adverse experiences of witnesses to truth on earth. Examples of thieves and deceivers. Jonael’s presentation of the lies as the cause of evil on earth.

Chapter 57: At Sychar. The answer to the ticklish question. ‘So You are the Messiah?!’ Welcome: For Him have I worked all my days! The Lord accepts the merchant’s invitation to lunch.

Chapter 58: At Sychar. Life and behavioral hints. ‘Giving is more blessed than receiving’. ‘What is done by love remains good forever’. The plight in the beyond of friends of the world. The Lord’s advice on the proper use of wealth. How to come by God’s blessing.

Chapter 59: At Sychar. The weakness of the merchant’s trust in God’s providence. His deep reverence for Jehovah and his charity towards the poor. God is to be loved more than feared.

Chapter 60: At Sychar. One surprise after another, and wonders upon wonders. The Lord, as guest of the merchant, serves the latter at the old Esau castle, with celestial fare brought to the newly-created hall by celestial servants. ‘I am wealthier than you’.

Chapter 61: At Sychar. Continuation of miraculous surprises. The angels as the builders of the glorious chamber. The exceedingly astonished merchant senses the ‘Son of God’ in Jesus.

Chapter 62: At Sychar. The heavenly meal in the hall of the angels. The merchant’s praiseworthy resolution. Jairuth’s pessimistic but only too true after-dinner speech about conditions in those days. The Lord’s graphic speech about the kingdom of God and the Messiah’s ministry. The whereabouts of departed human souls before the Lord’s ascension.

Chapter 63: At Sychar. The good effect of the heavenly fare, and above all the heavenly love wine. After-dinner speeches. Jairuth’s speech about the difference between the law and good advice. About the respective reactions to wine by diverse human natures.

Chapter 64: At Sychar. Jairuth gives up wine, caring instead for the poor and receiving two guardian angels. Nature and mission of angels. Jairuth’s commendable speech about the blessedness of human weakness.

Chapter 65: At Sychar. Jairuth accompanies the Lord. The guardian angel’s service. Scene with Roman mercenary soldiers.

Chapter 66: At Sychar. Healing of the palsied near the village. His joyful thanks with song and leaping. The flight and return of the Roman soldiers.

Chapter 67: At Sychar. Memorable discussions about the Messiah, Satan and the divine order. The Lord as proclaimer of the new law of love. Jehovah’s presence in the gentle breeze.

Chapter 68: At Sychar. The Roman military deputation. Dialogue about truth between the Lord and the Roman commander. Men and human cocoons. About perfection. About following the Lord.

Chapter 69: At Sychar. The nothingness of the gods. The worth and nature of truth and the way to it. The real Gordian knot. The mystery of love. Head and heart. The key and seat of truth.

Chapter 70: At Sychar. The natures of head and heart. ‘Don’t deal with the sinner like a judge but as loving brother, and you shall find truth and bliss. Anger is judgment. Where love is lacking, there is no truth. Universal truth throughout infinity. Hints about the individual in the beyond. ‘Who are you?’ Follow Me.

Chapter 71: At Sychar. The Lord heals the chief’s wife. Vital hints on arriving at full truth and power action. The Lord witnesses of the Father. Core of the teaching.

Chapter 72: Journey to Sychar. Memorable prophecies about the future. About the great tribulation. Promise of the angels with trumpets before the Lord’s return. The earth as paradise. Satan’s last test. The Lord’s passion and rising.

Chapter 73: At Sychar. The Lord with His at Irhael’s. John, the healed, and Jonael. The Lord praises and blesses their sensible comprehension. The Lord and Jairuth.

Chapter 74: At Sychar. The confrontation with the brazen dumb ones with their lying mates. Joram’s resoluteness and the disciples vigor against the liars. The Lord’s rebuke and His guidelines in dealing with men’s wickedness. ‘Do not return evil for evil’. Parable of the master and servant. The evil of dogmatism and retribution.

Chapter 75: At Sychar. The drawbacks to being good. Zoological example. About redemption from evil. The new Way to freedom for children of God. About dealing with criminals. Parable of the lion. About apostolic ministry.

Chapter 76: Peter’s commendable talk and request (the Lord’s Prayer). The Lord’s instructions on national policy for keeping order and peace. ‘You shall achieve everything with love’. Force awakens the devils – for evil. Peter’s humane suggestions for the spreading of Truth. The Lord discusses the work of guardian angels, and the nature of miscreants.

Chapter 77: At Sychar. The Lord and the troublemakers. The commander’s dark thoughts about mankind’s depravity. Jonael indicates trust in the Lord. ‘He shall do it in His time’.

Chapter 78: At Sychar. Continuation of the discussion between Jonael and the commander about tolerance. The chief’s commendable testimony to Jesus, and his anger about the blind and evil Jews. A hint about allopathy. Consequences of sin, and a medicine. Gentleness and patience more effective than anger. Better to follow than forestall the Lord.

Chapter 79: At Sychar. Jonael’s comments on the treatment of the soul-sick. Evil consequences of over-strictness. About the death penalty. Revenge by the departed. David’s killed enemies as example. The blessedness of peace and friendship. Revenge by departed enemies.

Chapter 80: At Sychar. ‘Live in peace and unity.’ About guardian spirits. Hints about the order in the divine household. A pertinent question: how and when shall it get better on earth? When shall the kingdom of God take effect?

Chapter 81: At Sychar. The Lord’s instructions regarding the treatment of criminals. The death penalty and its effect. A hint for judges. The main reason for God’s Incarnation. The erection of a bridge between here and the beyond. Guides for the ignorant in the beyond. Commendable request.

Chapter 82: At Sychar. Promise of a secret visit from the Lord. A prophet is more effective abroad. Matthew accompanies the Lord as a scribe. The high priest’s thanks. Jonael receives his calling as a teacher, with miraculous powers and an angel as companion. Irhael’s and Joram’s deep sorrow at parting. The Lord’s reassurance [John 4:43-4].

Chapter 83: At Sychar. Important missionary hints. The power of truth. About the essence of the Lord’s Word. The grace of man’s calling to the childhood of God. The Lord wants no pessimists or condemners of the world. Life-hints. What the world is, and how it is to be utilized. Departure from Sychar.

Chapter 84: Matthew’s reproach of the Lord. About God’s nature and the creative process. The sun’s beauty, distance and size. An eclipse. ‘A little fear does not harm sensual man.’

Chapter 85: Continuation of journey. Arrival in Galilee. Diverse opinions about the Messiah. Hints about the kingdom of God. Further journey to Cana in Galilee.

Chapter 86: The Lord back in Cana of Galilee. The unwitting self betrayal of the unchaste ones. The Lord speaks about unchastity here and in the beyond. Sensual stimulants – Satan’s trick.

Chapter 87: The true homeland is with the Lord. The Jewish skeptics. Their departure and arrest by Roman soldiers. Cornelius with the Lord.

Chapter 88: The Lord’s discussion with Cornelius about the Temple brood and the Lord’s cleansing of the Temple.

Chapter 89: Jesus prays for His, and sends His brethren to attend to their domestic affairs. About Thomas and Iscariot. Peter and the Lord. ‘Where faith is lacking there is little work for us.’ The best seasoning. Healing by the laying on of hands. Return of the disciples. The young Mark – Peter’s son. Thomas’ good catch. Iscariot’s nature.

Chapter 90: Healing of the Son of a royal nobleman. [John 4: 47-53]

Chapter 91: Comments on the Gospels of Matthew and John and evidence concerning the new revelation. [John 4: 54]

Chapter 92: The Lord and Matthew. A proper order always is helpful – examples in washing and gathering up of stones from the field. About God’s omniscience. The guidance of men. About guardian spirits. ‘God is love!’ About the relationship of God as purest love, and men. Exhortation to departure for Capernaum.

Chapter 93: The Lord and Roban, the host, at Cana. About self-determination. Example in art. ‘He who has, to him shall be given!’ The life proper comes from the heart. Free of everything, the pilgrim’s travel is easy.

Chapter 94: About money. Judas Iscariot’s worldly intellectual objections. Trust in God – the greatest treasure. Why Moses did not reach the promised land. The Lord’s testimony about Himself. About the curse and the dangers of money in the hereafter and now. The redeeming fire from above. Judas’ impudent praise of money. An earnest answer. ‘What one loves one knows how to praise’.

Chapter 95: Thomas and Judas. Judas’ nature and Thomas’ prediction. Judas’ blasphemy.

Chapter 96: The Lord quietens down Thomas, counseling forgiveness, for inner freedom. Thomas tells of Judas’ arguments with John the Baptist and of his spiritual conceit. The Lord’s hints about Judas. Arrival at Capernaum.

Chapter 97: Occasion with the centurion of Capernaum. Healing of the sick servant in response to his master’s request in faith. ‘He who believes and has love – whether heathen or Jew, shall be blessed.’ Diversity of signs at Capernaum.

Chapter 98: The peoples’ cunning towards the Jewish clerics, their challenge to them to also heal the sick through God’s grace. The parsons’ evasiveness. The peoples’ threatening response and excellent testimony to Jesus.

Chapter 99: The Templers’ anger and vindictiveness against the Lord. The Lord in Peter’s the fisherman’s hut. Jesus’ favorite environs – the Galilean sea. The miraculous healing of Peter’s daughter-in-law. [Mt. 8:14-15]

Chapter 100: The Lord’s instructions to Matthew. The distinction between Matthew’s and John’s Gospel: Matthew’s is a factual report whilst John’s highlights correspondences. The meal at Peter’s hut. The miraculous catch. Peter’s humble witness to the Lord’s Deity. Allusion to the traitor.

Chapter 101: Interruption of Peter’s testimony to the Lord. Dinner at Peter’s. The occasion between Peter and the boastful Judas. An unusual wine-miracle. Judas drunk. Great miraculous healings.

Chapter 102: The case of the Jewish believers at Capernaum. A great healing miracle. The Lord’s warning against the temple vipers. The leading scribe gives good testimony to the Lord from Isaiah. A crowd. The Lord puts the clever scribe in place.

Chapter 103: ‘Let the dead bury the dead!’ The Lord and His in the ship, avoiding the crowd. The storm. The Lord sleeping in the small boat, awoken by His. ‘Oh ye of little faith’. The storm stilled and the people astonished.

Chapter 104: Landing among the Gadarenes. The spectacle with the two possessed. Their healing through the Lord’s word. A pagan sermon. The Gadarenes’ fear. The Lord’s departure. Good missionary work by the two healed.

Chapter 105: Return to Nazareth. The Lord’s morning meal at His earthly home. Diverse views about why Jesus worked no signs here. Visiting a synagogue. ‘To speak is good but silence is better.’ The nature of the temple clan; their hypocritical retort and furious questioning after Jesus. [Mt. 9:1]

Chapter 106: A righteous man gives a good and true testimony of the Lord in the Synagogue. Comments on the personal and public life of Jesus of Nazareth – His life, deeds and teaching. The Pharisees’ heated reaction. The man’s renewed attack on the Pharisees’ wickedness and his testimony to the Lord’s Deity, causes the accused’s furious departure. The believers try to elevate Jesus to teacher and high priest.

Chapter 107: Simon the host’s gladness about this fitting defeat of the Templers. The Lord’s guidance on when to feel rightful joy and His warning against bad jokes. Examples: the healed Gadarenes and the duped blind man. The comedy of the world is a tragedy to God’s children.

Chapter 108: The Lord relieves Mary’s domestic worries. Her thanks and His admonition. The disciples’ and the Master’s praise of Mary. The Lord’s foretelling of the idolizing of Mary. Warning against presumption. Vanity and haughtiness, women’s weaknesses.

Chapter 109: Peter and Simon discussing the future prospects for the Lord’s teaching. The Lord urges trust in God. ‘Do not trouble yourselves about future events but willingly attend to what you have been called’. Parable of the artist and his tool. ‘You are a winnowing fan in the Father’s hand’. ‘What art Thou, Lord?’ Hints about Father and Son.

Chapter 110: Judas offended. The Lord’s hint on him. Judas the glutton and trader in pots. The Lord and the three Pharisees, including Jairus of Capernaum.

Chapter 111: The holy One with His company in the boat. Return to Jairus’ house. The healing of the Greek woman with the issue. Her life-story in brief.

Chapter 112: The death of Jairus’ daughter. The Lord’s comfort and promise. Resurrection of Jairus’ daughter. The risen one’s experiences in the beyond. The Lord’s admonition to secrecy.

Chapter 113: Further details regarding the different nature of the biblical Gospels of Matthew and John.

Chapter 114: The Lord’s words to Jairus about proper thanking. Peter’s public testimony to the resurrection of the dead. Return to Mary’s house at Nazareth. Peter’s and Nathaniel’s advice to Judas. Cain’s spirit in Judas. Courage as a vice. The heathens as examples.

Chapter 115: The surging crowd in front of Mary’s house at Nazareth. The people’s intention to proclaim Jesus king. A spokesman for the people explains to the maid that Jesus is the Promised One. The people seek and find Jesus. The commander Cornelius’ timely assistance.

Chapter 116: The occasion with the palsied and the Pharisees. The Lord comforts the sick. The ambitious and annoyed Templers. Healing of the palsied. The benefits from the healing.

Chapter 117: The young Roman’s severe but true addressing of the Pharisees. Example in the creation of Adam. Reference to the murder of Zacharias and his son John the Baptist. Commendable testimony to the Lord.

Chapter 118: The offended Pharisees turn to the Lord. The Lord reveals still more of their profanity, their temple-abominations and so-called divine services.

Chapter 119: About Temple-oaths. Where God does not dwell, there evil dwells. ‘Though you believe not Me, yet believe the works!’ The scriptures only a signpost to God. Parable of the journey to Rome. Only the doer of God’s will gets to know God! The Lord soothes the people’s revenge against the Templers and sails off by boat.

Chapter 120: The Lord’s landing and turning in at Matthew’s, the tax-collector. His associating with the sinners and the Pharisees. About the rearing of children. About man’s purpose and goal.

Chapter 121: The Pharisees’ conversation about Joseph, Mary and Jesus. A complaint of Joseph’s and his doubters about Jesus. John the Evangelist hints to the Pharisees.

Chapter 122: About the two Matthews – the tax-official and the scribe. Occasion with the fishermen. The disciples of John, and those of Jesus. Peter’s reply about John’s behavior. [Mt. 9:14]

Chapter 123: John the Baptist’s testimony to the Lord. Parable of the bridegroom and bride. ‘He who has the Son has life eternal.’ A blind critic of Jesus.

Chapter 124: Parable of the new and old garment and the new wine in the old skins. Of bourgeois economics and mercy. Social hints. The earth as man’s common weal, within the Divine order. Reason for the Flood. Pointer to today’s catastrophe. [Mt. 9:16-17]

Chapter 125: The Lord’s further talk with John’s disciples about the Essenes. About the worldly wisdom of the bourgeoisie. The tax-collector’s house as an example of altruism. About God’s blessing and trust in God. The Lord’s testimony to John the Baptist. An exhortation towards mildness and mercy towards the poor. Enemies of God.

Chapter 126: A food and wine miracle. Those whom angels serve and where. About God’s faithfulness and constancy and blessing.

Chapter 127: Judas and Thomas talk. The blind disciple of Johns’ awkward question. The Lord’s gentleness draws praise. The death of Cornelius’ daughter. About the true emulation of Christ.

Chapter 128: Occasion with another woman with issue. About the Evangelist Mark and Luke. The Lord in the chief Cornelius’ house. Resurrection of Cornelius’ dead daughter. [Mt. 9:20-25]

Chapter 129: The awakened one’s experiences in the hereafter. Her appropriate question about like. The Lord’s answer. A Roman stranger’s good testimony to the Lord. The Lord’s special instruction. About free will. [Mt. 9:26]

Chapter 130: Occasion with the blind beggars. The Lord disregards their flattery. The two blind healed. ‘Work only out of love!’

Chapter 131: Healing of the possessed deaf and dumb. The Pharisee’s testimony as of the devil. Cornelius pronounces crucifixion for the wicked. Matthew talks to the condemned. Their clever apologetics and rescue through Jesus. [Mt. 9:32-35]

Chapter 132: About the great misery of the people: A food and clothes miracle.

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Chapter 134: First mission of the twelve apostles. Further explanations regarding the choice of texts in the biblical Gospels of Matthew and John.

Chapter 135: Matthew the tax collector’s talk to his fellow disciples. The Lord’s hints for His missionaries. Judas and Thomas talk. Simon of Cana’s financial question. The Lord’s Word about money and money-orientation of the time.

Chapter 136: Judas’ questions and comments about travel without money. The Lord’s holy hints – ‘Be ye clever without guile and gentle.’ Judas’ judgmental retort. [Mt. 10:11-16].

Chapter 137: The Lord’s answer to Judas’ missionary suggestions. Judas’ soul from below. An earthly lifestyle is the death of the spirit. Retrospection to mankind’s guidance. Now is the joyous time of the Lord’s coming in the gentle breeze. The sufferings of the missionaries. A passage from Isaiah. The disciples comforted. [Mt. 10:17-20]

Chapter 138: A proper question: What if the harvest from sowing heavenly seed, full of love-peace, yields discord? ‘Do not be concerned about Satan defending himself.’ More objections from Judas. The Lord’s exhortation to trust and to fearless spreading of the Gospel. [Mt. 10:21-33]

Chapter 139: Portentous life and behavioral hints. He who loves anything more than the Lord is not worthy of Him! The world has need of conflict. A glorious promise for the love-faithful.

Chapter 140: About the spirit world in eternal, infinite space. The power of God’s children in eternity.

Chapter 141: Missionary and behavioral hints for the apostles. Perpetual prophecy and about true and false prophets. The first sending out of the apostles to Israeli locations. Promise of more light upon the apostles’ return.

Chapter 142: The first missionary work of the dispatched apostles. Occasion of the weeping residents and the Herod’s tax-extortionists. Missionary success. The converted extortionists as good witnesses to the disciples.

Chapter 143: The Lord’s works during the apostle’s absence. More details about John the Baptists’ doubts about Jesus’ Messiahship. John’s inquiry of the Lord Himself. The Lord’s answer. [Mt. 11:1-6]

Chapter 144: The Lord’s hints about John’s works and plight. Jesus and John – sun and moon. ‘He must wax and I wane!’ The Lord’s testimony of John: ‘He is more than a prophet, he is Elijah’ Mt. 11:7-14

Chapter 145: John the Baptist’s spirit and soul. ‘I am the Way and the Life’ John’s calling and individual freedom as prophet. The nature of asking. About the penitent sinner and the ninety-nine self-righteous.

Chapter 146: Kisjonah, the tax-collector’s conversion. An instance of the Lord’s condescending and merciful grace. The Pharisees’ and fanatical Jews’ anger. Their conversation.

Chapter 147: The departure of the ultra-orthodox Jews and their losing their way and their return. Their overnight stay with Kisjonah. The Lord’s parable of the pipers. The Jews’ anger and their threatening of the Lord. [Mt. 11:15-19]

Chapter 148: The disciples want to see the Lord vindicated. ‘After this life there still comes an eternal life.’ The Lord’s pronouncement over Chorazim, Bethsaida and Capernaum. Vision of a future judgment. ‘I thank Thee Father… that Thou hast revealed it unto babes.’ ‘I and the Father are One.’ [Mt. 11:20-26]

Chapter 149: Nathanael, keeping a Gospel privately and the Lord. About judgment day. Glorious promises for the awakened. ‘Woe betide the opponents of My order’. ‘He whom the Father has not drawn comes not to the Son’ ‘The Father is the love of the Son.’ ‘Come unto Me, all ye… that I may quicken you’. [Mt. 11:27-30]

Chapter 150: The Lord exposes and deals with the Pharisees’ maliciousness. Fear-struck, they head for the sea; driven back again by the storm, fear keeps them quiet in Capernaum.

Chapter 151: Mountaineering. About Canaan’s mountains. Kisjonah’s questioning of the temple spies. The mountain’s quaking answer and its effect. First overnight stay on Kisjonah’s alp.

Chapter 152: Reaching the peak the second day. Beautiful views and wondrous occurrences. Communication with the souls and spirits of the departed. Special location in the beyond for celebrities. Regions of the beyond – Satan’s exclusions from the beyond. About viewing of the spirits. Kisjonah’s wish to see the angels.

Chapter 153: About time-keeping in accordance with the movement of the stars in yonder time. Kisjonah’s inquisitive daughters instructed by three lunar spirits about the lunar world. ‘Let go of wisdom and go by love’.

Chapter 154: The three angels (Cherubim) bring the twelve disciples to the Lord on the mountain. The heavenly meal of the eight hundred upon the mountain. Kisjonah’s speech The book of ‘Jehovah’s wars’.

Chapter 155: Caution towards spiritual novices. Hints about graduated spiritual development. How God can be Man and man a god. Distinction between scientific orientation and that through faith. How to initiate, spiritually, in the right way.

Chapter 156: The cool, invigorating morning breeze. Peace-spirits. Descent from the mountain-peak after the Lord’s company’s extended stay. The blind Mosaic detractors. The Lord’s hint about Moses’ account of the creation.

Chapter 157: Spiritual interpretation and correspondence of the Genesis of Moses. [Ge. 1:1-3]

Chapter 158: Spiritual interpretation and correspondence of the Genesis of Moses. [Ge. 1:4-10]

Chapter 159: Spiritual interpretation and correspondence of the Genesis of Moses. The fourth day – the right cognition in the heart.

Chapter 160: Spiritual interpretation and correspondence of the Genesis of Moses. Creation of the Fourth Day.

Chapter 161: Spiritual interpretation and correspondence of the Genesis of Moses. Continuation of the explanation of the Fourth Day.

Chapter 162: Spiritual interpretation and correspondence of the Genesis of Moses.

Chapter 163: The Pharisee’s response to the Lord’s explanation of Moses’ account of Creation. The Lord’s prophecy about Jerusalem’s judgment. Silence to be kept on the spiritual vision and experiences.

Chapter 164: Judas Iscariot reports on his journey through the air and asks useless questions. The Lord’s answer and Thomas’ reprimand.

Chapter 165: The Lord’s entourage upon the mountain. Kisjonah’s question to the three angels. ‘Why must men be born?’ Pure angels, fallen spirits and men. Flesh not as an end, but a means for soul development.

Chapter 166: Kisjonah’s amazement and comprehension. About the creation of Adam. About the nature of man and woman. The fall of woman and its bad effect on man. Mankind’s decline. About the Lord’s Incarnation and salvation.

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Chapter 168: About culture and schools. Priorities. The Pharisees’ sadness at mankind’s straying. The Lord’s hints about His Word, the world and mankind. Man’s relationship with God.

Chapter 169: Competition for warmth in the alpine hut. Occasion with the old blind descendant of Tobias. A special kind of heating. Fireworks on the alp. The angels’ reprimand the derisory women. A Gospel on laughter.

Chapter 170: Occasion of the half-blind Tobias with the three angels and the Lord. Tobias is healed. Correspondence of this healing with our time. The evening meal upon the heights.

Chapter 171: The Pharisees among themselves. Rhiba, the smart one, invents a story about the Nazarene. His suggestion to kill Jesus for the sake of peace.

Chapter 172: A worthy retort from another Pharisee – the healed Tobias. His honest testimony to Jesus and His holy teaching and deeds. About the Templar’s atrocity. A curse prophesied for the Jews.

Chapter 173: The Pharisees’ rage against their colleague. The three angels prevent Tobias’ stoning. Continuing discussions between the faithless Templers and Tobias. The Lord tells the drunk and sleepy Templers to rest. Climbing the hill for sunrise.

Chapter 174: A glorious sunrise. Tobias’ fitting words. The Lord’s life hints to him. Conduct for judges and law-givers. Dealing with criminals and the condemned.

Chapter 175: The Lord with His, back at Kisjonah’s hut. Domestic hints. The Lord’s magnanimity towards His enemies. He and His, fasting. The Pharisaical Sabbath. Descent. The Pharisee and Matthew on the Sabbath.

Chapter 176: Occasion with the Pharisees and the gleaning of the wheat on a Sabbath. Mercy is better than offerings. ‘The Son of Man is lord over the Sabbath’. Healing of the person with the withered hand. The Pharisees want to stone Jesus. Kisjonah intervenes. The Lord departs, healing many. [Mt. 12:1-16]

Chapter 177: The disciples puzzled at the Lord’s apparent fear. The Lord’s response. The hungry Judas and his counselor Thomas. Peter’s timely chiding of both. The Lord’s praise. Rules of conduct.

Chapter 178: The Lord’s company crosses the sea. A meal on board, on arrival. The inhabitants’ joy at the Saviour’s arrival. Miraculous healing of the possessed, dumb and blind. An upright man extends hospitality to the Lord.

Chapter 179: The old host’s humbleness and magnanimity. Grace from above. The Lord’s glory. The people praise the Lord and expose the Templers.

Chapter 180: The consulting Pharisees. The young Pharisee’s commendable plan for protecting the Savior and what he said to the people.

Chapter 181: The young, better Pharisee is well received by the people. The people threaten revolt against the Temple. The young Pharisee’s artfulness with his colleagues.

Chapter 182: Ahab, the better Pharisee, called before the Lord. Sins which are forgiven. Priestly “infallibility”. Temple-fraud. Healing miracle.

Chapter 183: Ahab the Templar with his colleagues: his success. They head for Baram’s house.

Chapter 184: The people work the Pharisees over, cornering them. [Matthew 12:24]

Chapter 185: The Lord quietens the people down for the sake of the Pharisees, extending an invitation to the latter. His precious talk to them. [Matthew 12:25-33]

Chapter 186: The Pharisees’ incorrigible stubbornness. The Lord’s sharp words to them. Hints about diverse types of possession and the influence of evil spirits. The Pharisees’ fury.

Chapter 187: Ahab instructed and warned by the Lord. ‘To remain silent is better than well-meant lies!’ Salvation comes to all nations from the Jews. Comparison of the Jerusalemite Temple with that of Delphi. An instance of oracular dialectics. The Greek’s testimony to the Lord. The Gospel of life to the Greeks.

Chapter 188: Arrival in Jesaira of Mary, with Joseph’s sons. ‘Who is My mother, who My brethren’. Baram inviting the Lord to supper; dismissal of the people. The Pharisees’ curse over Baram and their just mugging. [Matthew 12:46-50]

Chapter 189: Baram apologizes for his behavior. Ahab warns against the Temple’s revenge; the Lord’s comfort for both. Baram – Joseph’s apprentice. Mary’s joy upon reunion with the Lord. Ahab speaks about a typical, fanatical Temple-maneuver against Jesus, in view of the resurrection of Jairus’ daughter.

Chapter 190: Mary’s account of her and Joseph’s sons’ expulsion from their property by the Pharisees. Baram’s and Kisjonah’s offer to Mary pleases the Lord. The Lord boards a ship to give His sermon on the Kingdom of heaven to the people. [Matthew 13:1-2]

Chapter 191: The parables of the kingdom of heaven, the sower and the seed. Explanation of: “He who has, to him shall be given; he who has not, from same shall be taken what he has. [Matthew 13:3-23]

Chapter 192: The parables of the tares among the wheat, and the mustard seed. The disciples’ non-comprehension. Ahab’s commendable quote from Isaiah regarding the Messiah. The uncomprehending people are sent home. The Pharisees upon the stormy sea.

Chapter 193: The Lord with His in the storm, stills the sea. Ahab reprehends the doubting disciples. Judas’ remark, and Ahab’s humble testimony to the Messiah. The Lord’s hints about Ahab.

Chapter 194: Man’s spiritual fatherland: his interior as a life gathering abode. About Father, Son and holy Spirit. The Lord blesses Kisjonah.

Chapter 195: Surprise upon arriving at Kisjonah’s home town. Jairuth and Jonael’s reunion. The Lord’s miraculous assistance through an angel.

Chapter 196: More miraculous angelic service in Kisjonah’s house. Just one angel in charge of the terrestrial plant world. The angel’s hints about his power, which only is that of the Lord. The quick messenger.

Chapter 197: The holy entourage at supper, and then in the star lit open, upon the hill of snakes, where Kisjonah intends building a school. Hints about conditions on earth. Jesus, Lord over the snakes. Clarification of the parable of the tares. Life hints.

Chapter 198: Continuation of the clarification of the parable of the tares. Not keeping a promise is most reprehensible. ‘Let you be loving and righteous!’ Parable of the treasure in the field. The disciples’ comprehension. [Matthew 13:43-44]

Chapter 199: Parable of the great pearl, and of the net. Ahab’s understating of the foul fishes. A good householder uses the old as well as the new. [Matthew 13: 45-52]

Chapter 200: The Samaritans’ disgraceful expulsion of the high priest Jonael. ‘The Lord works in mysterious ways’. The Lord’s imponderable acquiescence. A seemingly just petition.

Chapter 201: The Lord’s hints on the twofold nature of tolerance, to test Satan and the faithful. Hints on ministry and conduct.

Chapter 202: Further hints on ministry and conduct for the Sycharites, ‘Teach firstly through good deeds and then with simple words’. The truly free church. ‘Ye all are brethren’. The right Sabbath. A proper ‘House of God’, and ‘Divine Service’.

Chapter 203: An admission of guilt. The true spirit of Jesus’ pure teaching. Further hints on ministry and conduct. Jonael’s song of praise to the Lord.

Chapter 204: Kisjonah and Baram excel each other in charity. He who does good has wind in his sails. Parable of the mother with the unequal sons. True love and self-interest.

Chapter 205: About the nature of love. Love desires and seeks gratification. Difference between celestial and infernal love. Baram, from love of the Lord, bring the Lord a morning meal. Hints on reward for charity.

Chapter 206: The guests’ good cheer at the morning meal, and the angel’s sadness. About human nutrition. Body, soul, spirit.

Chapter 207: The bad consequences of intemperance upon the soul. Spiritual death as a consequence of immoderacy. The harmfulness of castration for the sake of communication with spirits. The Lord’s life and teaching as our example.

Chapter 208: The Lord with His in the garden. Matthew orders his Scriptures. Quiet before the storm. The wise angel comforting the people in the face of the impending hurricane. Earthquake, sea and thunderstorm.

Chapter 209: The purpose of this storm: the demise of the Lord’s enemies. Dangers to missionaries. The storm’s good results. The good catch

Chapter 210: Excursion to Cana in the valley. The poor Jewish farmers and the profiteering Greek traders. Kisjonah’s debtors and his generosity. Brief life-instructions for the people. The Lord’s testimony to Himself and His ministry, and its good effects.

Chapter 211: Great healing miracle in Cana of the Valley. Commendable petition to the Lord by the elders. A faith-test. The Lord’s address to the physically sick. Gospel rules and social hints. The curse of usury. Progressive social disintegration. Threat of punishment from above.

Chapter 212: The Lord’s decisive and humorous chat with Philopold, the Greek. The hardened stoic’s loud-mouthed reply. God’s patience too has its limits. Matthew and the obstinate Greek.

Chapter 213: About visitor-souls on earth. The earth as the only school for children of God. About re-incarnation. The solar world Procyon. About the Lord’s Incarnation. The angel’s messenger-wonders. Murahel (Philopold) and the Archangel Archiel. The contractual deed from the solar world.

Chapter 214: Philopold’s spiritual vision. An occasion with the family upon the solar world Akka. The converted Philopold’s hymn of praise to God’s love. The recently-signed contract. Reason for the veiling of our retrospection to our pre-existence. About the relationship between body, soul and spirit. Man’s spirit a miniature God. Difference between terrestrial, spiritual being, and other worlds.

Chapter 215: Archiel speaks about the Lord’s Incarnation. Philopold’s timidity, and his being summoned to the Lord.

Chapter 216: Philopold’s unassuming and commendable talk. The Lord’s grace-filled reply. Two varieties of men upon earth – from below and from above. Reason for the Lord’s Incarnation upon earth. ‘The last will be the first’. Behavioral hints for the healed. Hints for Matthew and John as scribes. About the current New Revelation.

Chapter 217: Warning against Satan’s traps. The wicked one can influence only the senses, but not the will of the soul.

Chapter 218: The goings on at Kisjonah’s during the Lord’s absence. The Pharisee’s mis-direction by Kisjonah’s servants, and their recall on the Lord’s order. The Pharisees’ confession and request for healing of their sick. A great healing miracle.

Chapter 219: Another hint about ministry. Fermenting of the emotions. Parable of the fattening bull. Blessing in affliction.

Chapter 220: Ahab’s astonishment at Divine wisdom. Self understanding is most essential. Be not only hearers, but doers of God’s Word! The true, living rest in God. Warning against excessive sleep and indigence.

Chapter 221: Chapter 222: The five Bethlehemite Pharisees washing the Lord’s feet. A quick Gospel of life.

Chapter 223: The five Pharisees’ opinion on the Lord. One Pharisees’ view: He is either God or a devil! The Pharisees’ opinions on socialism. Hints on teaching.

Chapter 224: Kisjonah and Baram compete in love. Importance of introspection. Introspection disturbed by Satan.

Chapter 225: Chapter 226: The spiritual method of teaching and about nature and effect of proper introspection.

Chapter 227: After the meal, a voyage at sea. Messengers herald the falling ill of Jairus’ daughter. The Lord warns Jairus’ messengers. Return to Kis.

Chapter 228: Jairus and the physicians at his daughter Sarah’s death bed. Borus of Nazareth tells him the truth. The Pharisees’ threat. Borus’ retort and blunt question to Jairus.

Chapter 229: Jairus’ cowardly and timid answer. Borus’ bold and sharp reproach. About retaliation in the beyond. Borus denies help to Jairus, and leaves.

Chapter 230: The disciples’ gladness at Borus’ stand, and Mary’s thanks. Kisjonah’s gift for Mary and Joseph’s sons: a lovely property. Joses’ (son of Joseph) piousness. The Lord’s comforting prophecy. ‘I and the Father are One, not two’. Death of Joseph, and his testimony on Jesus. Caution when confiding spiritual secrets.

Chapter 231: Kisjonah’s people apprehend a band of Temple robbers and smugglers. Kisjonah and the Roman judge’s orders in the case. Arrival of the ‘fine’ caravan.

Chapter 232: Liberation and care for the stolen children. The Lord’s instructions for the prosecution of the Pharisaical scoundrels. Preparation for the trial.

Chapter 233: Intensive interrogation of the twelve Pharisees. Augustus Caesar’s favorable certification of the Templers. How the Templers fulfill God’s Commandments. Heavy penalty for the evil doers for breach of forestry law, and crime against the crown.

Chapter 234: The trapped Pharisees. Steep penalty paid. Another suspicion: ambush by the Pharisees of imperial tax moneys. The robbers take fright.

Chapter 235: The Chief Judge Faustus and the Lord. Great friends and moving encounter.

Chapter 236: At the meal. Faustus’ praise of Jesus’ teaching. Faustus’ love for Lydia. The Lord as middleman. Lydia’s loving acceptance. Faustus’ memorable dream about the glorious Father in Jesus. ‘What God has joined, man should not sunder. Marital hints.

Chapter 237: Philopold’s arrival. The Lord’s prophecy. The trial of the Temple robbers continues. Faustus’ effective sentencing.

Chapter 238: Continuation of the trial. Public confession of the thirty accomplices. Faustus’ mitigation of the sentence.

Chapter 239:Continuation of the court scene. The eleven Temple scoundrels cornered. They plead for mercy. Offer of further cave treasures as ransom.

Chapter 240: About the true honoring of the Sabbath. Release of the eleven. Distribution of the cave treasures. Return of the children, and compensation of the robbed.

Chapter 241: A word for our time. Illness and death of children. Negative spiritual influence on children. The material Creation as gathering place of spirits under judgment.

Chapter 242: About the secret of life-force. The cleansing effect of sickness and diet. Importance of proper nutrition for children. The Mosaic dietary prescriptions. Warning against consumption of maggoty and unripe fruit; potatoes and coffee.

End of Volume One

S ref. ‘Childhood of Jesus’, Chap. 196.

S ‘Childhood of Jesus’, Chaps. 192 – 196.

©Copyright: Jürgen Pless, 2007