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THE BLINDNESS OF THE PHARISEES Being very surprised the Pharisee said: “Master, who are You that you speak so mightily and can break the staff above us?”
[GGJ.11_006,02] I said: “Did I not tell you that you become blind with seeing eyes and deaf with hearing ears because of your hardness. Purify yourself of all the filth of the temple, so that you will hear and see. I know very well that you and your two companions are the last who still are half ways of a better nature.
[GGJ.11_006,03] You three went out and you zealously performed your task, for you wanted to know the actual truth of all the stories about the Galilean, but despite that, you went out as someone who hears about a big treasure that is buried in the desert and thinks: ‘I will try to search for it, maybe I will find that treasure.’ And so he leaves without much hope, but only to try it. If he finds the treasure, all the better, if he does not find it, he will not be worried about it.
[GGJ.11_006,04] However, I say to you: the Kingdom of Heaven is not a treasure that can be searched for carelessly, but the treasure should be searched in the desert of life through fervent struggle and striving and with great zeal, and it can happen to the one who does not do that, that someone after him will search and dig on the same spot with much more zeal and find the treasure which the first one did not find on the same spot.
[GGJ.11_006,05] You went out now, so search diligently and not carelessly, so that may find for what you went out.”
[GGJ.11_006,06] The second Pharisee, who meanwhile looked at Me ever more attentively, said: “Master, this sounds as if we are standing at the border of the Kingdom of Heaven and cannot find that treasure. Would You not give us a little indication as to how we actually have to search to attain to that treasure?”
[GGJ.11_006,07] I said: “I already told you: follow only My words.”
[GGJ.11_006,08] Then I went to My disciples who were very surprised that these 3 were so terribly blind and deaf and could not understand the clear things that I spoke to them.
[GGJ.11_006,09] And I said to them: “You are completely in My light, and therefore it is easy for you to see. But they are in darkness and cannot see – as they say – a hand before their eyes. We will also not succeed to make them entirely seeing, because what could be made entirely seeing is already withdrawn from the temple. But these here can and must be prepared to at least form a little obstacle against the evilness of the other temple servants. That is why they will also not recognize Me but they will still take Me for only an important disciple of the Galilean, and we will also leave it that way. After My ascension they will become completely converted.”
[GGJ.11_006,10] Nota bene: It will be striking to many that here and also before that, I directly spoke to My disciples about My coming ascension. The remark should be made here that they never took this literally as long as it did not really happen, but they thought that I would leave Palestine when My time as teacher would be over and go to Greece or Rome to continue My work there. Also My words that the Kingdom of Heaven would be given to the gentiles were mostly understood that way. I left them in that belief for that moment but nevertheless prepared them for something great in the future by repeatedly pointing to it, so that the coming events would rectify all false ideas by itself.
[GGJ.11_006,11] Also now I still teach in this manner all those who follow Me and who are full of faith, so that not a dead faith by authority would take root but a living faith and would be adjusted by the pure reason of the heart and guided in the right manner.