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Reconcile with Your Neighbor

11. Therefore, when you offer your gift on the altar and remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift before the altar, go there first and reconcile with your brother, and then come and offer your gift. (Chap. 25:11

Christ explains, corrects
and deepens the word:

If you want to devote your life to Me, the Christ, and surrender your faults and sins to Me, and you recognize that you have not yet reconciled with your neighbor, then leave your sin lying before the inner altar for the moment. Go to your neighbor and reconcile with him – and, if you no longer want to do the same or similar thing that led to the sin, then place your sin upon the altar. The altar is in the innermost part of your temple of flesh and bone. The Spirit of love and life will then transform the sin into strength and life. For you will attain liberation from that which you freely, willingly and without pressure surrender to Me, thus no longer doing the same or similar thing. Your soul will then increasingly receive the light from Me.

Take heed of the following lawful principle: When you have sinned against your neighbor exclusively in thoughts, through unloving, envious, revengeful, jealous or hate-filled thoughts, then do not go to him to talk about it. Know that your neighbor does not know your world of thoughts. If you let it be manifest in words, he will think about it. Come solely to Me, the Christ, who I Am in your inner being, and repent of your thoughts. At the same time, send positive, selfless thoughts to the soul of your neighbor, thoughts of asking for forgiveness and of inner unity. Then I will undo what was caused in thoughts. And if you no longer think the same or similar thing, then it is already forgiven you.

Recognize: If you speak to your neighbor of your human thoughts, you might possibly stir up in him some human aspect that is just in the process of transformation. It could then break out once again in your neighbor. He then begins to think and speak negatively again, burdening himself anew.

The law says that through your wrong behavior not only the one who is stimulated to think about it again burdens himself, but you, too, burden yourself when you express your thoughts and, through this, activate in your neighbor the human aspects that were in the process of transformation.

However, if unlawful things leave your mouth in that you accuse and insult your neighbor and speak ill of him – even if he hears it from a second or third party – then go to him and ask him for forgiveness. If he forgives you, so does the eternal heavenly Father in Me, the Christ, also forgive you. But if he does not forgive you, then your heavenly Father in Me, the Christ, will not be able to forgive you either. However, the love of the Father-Mother-God will touch the still rigid heart more and more, so that the person will sooner think things over and forgive you, and so that God in Me, the Christ, can also forgive you; then all that was once against the law is annulled and transformed.

Beware of your own tongue! For the unlawful things that leave your mouth can do much greater harm to your neighbor and to yourself than your thoughts, which you recognize in time and surrender to Me, the Christ in you, – before they have taken effect.

Recognize another principle of the law: You cannot see or hear thoughts – and yet they are there. They vibrate in the atmosphere and can influence the one who thinks the same or like things. If you surrender them to Me, in time, they are cancelled – unless the soul of your neighbor has already registered them. Then, you will be guided in such a way that you will be able to do good to the person of whom you thought negatively. And if you do good selflessly, without expressing your earlier thoughts, then what you unlawfully thought about your neighbor and which he already had absorbed into his soul will be erased. And what your soul had radiated is erased in you, as well.

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