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1. “Take heed that you do not give your alms before people, in order to be seen by them. Otherwise you have no reward from your Father in heaven. When you give alms, you should not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be praised by the people. Verly, I say to you, they already have their reward.

2. But when you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your alms remain secret; and the One who sees into the secret will publicly acknowledge it. (Chap. 26:1-2)

Christ explains, corrects
and deepens the word:

The Sermon on the Mount lived is the Inner Path to the heart of God. What a person does not do selflessly, he does for himself. Selflessness is the love for God. Self-interest is human love. The one who does good for his neighbor only when the latter thanks him for it and praises his good deeds has not done it for his neighbor, but for himself. The gratitude and the praise are then his reward. He is thus already rewarded and will receive no further reward from God. Only selflessness will be rewarded by God. Selflessness grows and matures only in the person who has taken the first steps toward the kingdom of the inner being, that is, who has actualized.

The first steps toward this are to monitor and control one’s thoughts: Replace egocentric, negative, brooding or passionate thoughts with positive, helpful, joyful, noble thoughts and with thoughts about the good in a person and in all that you encounter. Then you will gradually bring your senses under control. You will then also no longer want anything from your neighbor and will no longer expect anything from him. In the further course of the Inner Path, you will speak only what is positive and essential. Thereby, you gain control over your human ego because you have learned to rest in yourself. Then your soul becomes more and more light-filled and you find in everything that comes toward you the good that you are then able to address and express in the right way. If you have learned this, then you will also address negative matters lawfully. In this way, uprightness and honesty awaken in you and you remain faithful to God in all things.

This spiritual evolutionary process toward selflessness is the Inner Path to the heart of God. Everything that you do out of selflessness brings you manifold fruits.

So, if your sensations are without expectations and your thoughts are noble and good, then the power of God is in your words and in your deeds. This power is My energy of life. It goes into the soul of your neighbor and causes your neighbor to also become selfless. For, sooner or later, what goes out of your light-filled soul will enter your neighbor’s soul and his disposition, as well, depending on when he opens himself for it.

The one who gives selflessly does not ask whether his neighbor knows what he has given. The selfless one gives! He knows that God, the eternal Father, sees into the heart of all His children and that the Eternal, whose Spirit dwells in every human being, rewards the selfless one when the time for this has come. This alone is important.

Recognize: All good works, that is, selfless ones, become manifest in the right time, so that those who should see them may recognize them, so that they, too, become selfless, by accepting and striving for the life in Me, and doing what I have commanded them: to love one another selflessly, as I, the Christ, love them.

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