Chapter 16
O man, weigh the words of your God, your elder brother, of tens of thousands of years’ experience.
Where your soul perceives a ray of light, follow it in truth, and not in words merely.
It has been said of old: You cannot serve both, God and self. And many go about preaching this, but they themselves, labor for self every day.
To serve your God, is to work for others, especially the sick and helpless, and not for yourself. Your prayers and confessions to me are only the waste of your breath.
There are those who preach for money, and also are graduated from the colleges and are called learned priests; but they have not yet learned ̳not to serve mammon,’ except in words.
I say to you, that a poor man, who cannot read a line, who goes into the house of the afflicted, giving what little he has, and, with a willing heart, cleans the floor and garments of the bed-ridden, is more learned in my kingdoms than these graduated preachers are.
The word, labor, or work, is easily understood.
Do not allow yourself to be deceived by those whose trade is preaching and praying. They profess to be laboring for the spiritual man; and according to the number of their converts, who are also taught words, prayers and confessions, instead of works, so are they called, great workers for the Lord.
But I say to you, all these are only the subterfuges of satan (self), to palm off words for works.
All such preachers, priests and converts, are still lingering in the mire of grade one.
Hear your God, and weigh his words in the balance, and do not be blinded by the tricks of satan.
A preacher, receiving a good salary, gives half his money to the poor, and the other half to the church; and his people say: O what a good man!
And immediately they raise his salary, and they present him a good house, where he feasts sumptuously every day, laughing up his sleeve.
Now I say to you that this preacher contributed nothing to the poor. The money he gave away was not his, but the fruit of hypocrisy.
Because he did not practice labor, but as a beggar and a vampire obtained his money, not for work, but for words, he was false before Jehovih.
To serve your God, or to preach and practice the words of your God, does not require great oratory or education. I do not require colleges to brace me up; nor preachers who do not serve the Creator.
One cries out: Come to God! or: Make your peace with the Lord! But he himself would not give up his bed to a poor sick woman, nor share his house with the poor of his own church.
I say to you: All such are either hypocrites, or deceivers of their own souls.
Unless you use your hands, and bend your back in practice, producing something in the world, and contributing it to others, you are none of mine, nor know the way to come to me, nor to make peace with me.
It has been said of old: Do to others, as you desire to be done to you; also, to return good for evil, and to sell all you have, and give to the poor, and love your neighbor as yourself.
And these words are well known; but who is there, that practices them?
In which case, the words are impotent and of non-effect.
Instead, many practice serving themselves by their labor; but in Jehovih’s service, their practice is by prayers and confessions: words, words, words!
Saying: It is not possible to do these things in the present condition of society!
Did your God limit you, saying: Do this in the present condition of society? The way was open for another condition; but you did not seek to find it. You would not give up your self, and live in a brotherhood. Under the name of liberty, you held fast to satan and his haunts, saying: I am willing to serve the Creator, but I will not sacrifice my liberty.
And you sell yourself to self, which shall follow you into hada (the next world).
Know then, O man, that whoever would rise into my organic kingdoms in heaven, shall teach himself the first lesson of liberty, which is to free himself from self.
He shall not say: I want this; or: I must have that; or: I cannot have self abridged; or: I will suffer no dictation.
I say to you, all such men are already in the bonds of drujas and the throes of hell.
But you shall say: Here I am, O Jehovih, Your servant! Appropriate me whichever way I can do the most good to others! My self is no longer any consideration.
This is to be a Faithist in the Father.
If an exalted man marries a woman beneath him, he can lift her up.
But if an exalted woman marries a man beneath her, he will pull her down. Accordingly, a husband who is not oriented to Jehovih tends to dominate in ways of the beast, and in the aggregate will not nurture the es, either
And even so is it with the righteous man, who weds to the world and lives in it: sooner or later, it will pull him down.
But if the righteous man goes with his fellows into a separate place, and weds himself to Jehovih and His ways, then that righteous man shall be lifted up. And, moreover, he shall be a power to lift up the world.
Shall a bride not live with her husband? And those who chose the Creator, live with Him?
I say to you: If you do not live in a brotherhood on earth, you shall not soon find one in heaven.
But you shall unite yourself with those who are compatible with you; with whom you shall live equal in all things, where you can do to them as you would be done by, loving them as yourself, returning good to them constantly.
Being willing to make any sacrifice of your own self’s desires for the sake of founding the Father’s kingdom on earth.
Remembering, you were born in darkness [the world –Ed.], and are not the same as will be the generations who come after you, who shall be born in these communities, His kingdoms.
Even for those who are yet unborn, your sacrifice shall be.
In which you shall consider that it is for the resurrection of others, and not for yourself, that you are chosen of Jehovih.
For in this lies the key of all resurrections; which is to labor for others; to induce them to assimilate to Jehovih, and with one another.
The words of your God are not for the glory of any man under the sun, nor for any angel in heaven, but for Jehovih.
You have had sufficient revelation for thousands of years, and sacred books with most holy doctrines. And yet, many who know these well, come into the es world as low as drujas, and as wandering spirits.
You shall judge yourself; your spirit is like a manuscript in your own handwriting; you are daily writing your grade and the place of your abode in heaven.