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Become Perfect As Your Father in Heaven

17. And if you desire something which causes another pain and sorrow, tear it out of your heart. Only in this way will you attain peace. For it is better to endure sorrow than to inflict it on those who are weaker than you.

18. Be therefore perfect, as your Father in heaven is perfect.” (Chap. 25:17-18)

Christ explains, corrects
and deepens the word:

Everything that goes out from you and is not divine – like unlawful thoughts, words and deeds – can cause pain and sorrow not only to your neighbor, but also to you, yourself. For what the person sows, he will reap.

 The harvest corresponds to the seed. It is always harvested by the one who has sown – not by his neighbor. Your neighbor did not sow your seed, and neither will he reap your harvest.

However, your seeds can have wings – like the seeds of different types of flowers, which, after blooming, are carried away by the wind and take root wherever they are able to take hold. So can your thoughts, words and deeds also fall like winged seeds on the field of your neighbor’s soul and sprout, if they find the same or similar conditions there.

The same or similar thing to what is in you is also in him, if he becomes upset and angry by the words and deeds with which you caused him sorrow. Stimulated by your winged seeds, he thinks, speaks and does the same or similar thing. You, however, have triggered it and can be called to account for this in the law of sowing and reaping. You are commanded to love your neighbor selflessly and to serve and help him – and not to cause him pain and sorrow by your behavior.

If your neighbor then burdens himself because of your unlawful behavior, because you intruded on the field of his soul and brought causes into vibration, which he later has to bear and from which he has to greatly suffer, then you are bound to him. And if he, too, reacts unlawfully to your behavior, he is, in turn, bound to you. In this or another form of existence, you will have to clear this up together.

Recognize: A small insignificant winged seed of human ego can create a great cause, which already bears its effect in itself.

So, recognize that every cause must be remedied!

Another example: If you send out your negative thoughts, words and deeds like winged seeds and your neighbor hears what you say about him but takes no notice of it, because he has no correspondence to it in the field of his soul, then only you will burden yourself; and you are bound to him – not he to you. Your neighbor can enter heaven because he has not accepted and absorbed your negative seeds, since he did not think or speak in same or similar way. However, if by your wrong behavior you have set causes into motion in your neighbor that would not have had to come into effect in him, because he would have been able to clear them up later without pain and sorrow, then you are the one who bears the greater guilt and has to bear that part which you have caused to your neighbor.

If, therefore, you have to endure pain and sorrow, do not blame your neighbor for your condition. You are the creator of it yourself – and not your neighbor. Your pain and your sorrow are the seeds in your soul that have sprouted and show themselves in or on your body as harvest.

Only I, Christ, your Redeemer, can free you from this – and only when you repent and no longer do the same or similar thing. Then the burden is taken from your soul and it will go better for you.

Recognize: The one who recognizes his pain and his sorrow as his own seed and accepts his suffering shows true inner greatness. This is a sign of spiritual growth; spiritual growth gradually leads to perfection.

The pure being is perfect; it is the image of the Father-Mother-God. It lives in God, and God lives through the pure being.

Blessed are those who are pure in heart; for they will behold God – because they have again become images of the heavenly Father. From a pure, meek heart, flows gentleness and humility.

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