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The Love for God and Neighbor
and a Bent, Distorted
Christianity

 

Dear friends,

Especially at the present time, who is not moved by many, many thoughts? And so, many people are prompted by the circumstances of our times to analyze even more deeply and thoroughly the how comes and wherefores.

Friends share things with each other, including their thoughts. A friend leaves his neighbor free to deal as he wills with what has been shared with him. And this is how I want it to be with this Gabriele Letter. It assumes a receiver, that is, a reader, who is willing to accept the statements as given and then to freely think about them, letting himself be stimulated into developing his own thoughts, recognitions and conclusions.
This letter will give you little detail, but much insight of a basic and concise nature. Everyone can and will make up his own particular rhyme to fit with this, according to his experiences, to what he has lived and what is in his world of thoughts.

A great part of mankind wastes away its existence far from the belief in the law of God which is the love for God and neighbor. Many are so wrapped up in their own egoism as if they were married to it. Egoism knows only hardness, lack of love and lack of consideration. It uses others for its own purposes.
People who see their all-too-human aspects as a means to their own well-being are, in the final analysis, weak. If they hear about the love for God and neighbor, they simply smile and call the person who believes in it and speaks about it a utopian. People who are caught in the straightjacket of their egocentricity negate anything that is connected with God and with higher values. They greatly overrate themselves. Behind all this lies a secret fear that they overplay with seemingly convincing words.
Whoever turns away with a mocking smile from the statement “God is love and the love for neighbor” should ask himself: “Whom do I belong to?”

True love is the love for God and for neighbor. Whether people reject this fact, smile at it or ignore it – it is simply so. I believe in it. I want to base my letter on the truth, which is the law of God, the love and the love for neighbor, because only the truth gives people a feeling of worthiness and makes them free. A person in whom love has become truth keeps away from the ping-pong games of intellectual exchanges, where egotists strive to overtrump each other, considering their thought patterns as the measure for all things. The seeker of truth searches with heart and mind and the additional help of his conscience. He gains inner self-reliance and steadfastness because he struggles within himself for the clear recognitions that show him the steps into a conscious life. He never binds himself to dogmatic attitudes.
God’s love is inviolable. No human being can bend or distort it. Any attempt to do this is doomed to failure.

Even though the law of God, the love, is the infinite, almighty power that nothing can surpass, as a result of the free will of men, it can be hindered in its effects by the self-will and egotism of the human being. All the more so, through hugely negative efforts, as the pronounced and advanced greed for power of an institution which, in its thoughts and actions, does not orient itself to the criteria of the commandments of God. Wherever the commandments of God are not respected and heeded, the Spirit of God cannot blow.
Church Christianity has marked the so-called Christian Occident, its customs, morals, social order, yes, its whole culture. At all levels of public as well as private life, battles and wars took and take place. Nature and animals, too, have had to suffer unendingly under the murderous ambitions and the warring, aggressive doings of mainly “Christian” people.

Who gave weapons into the hands of people to kill humans and animals? Christ or the institutional churches? I want to work out the answer to this question in this letter. My analysis rests on the commandments of God and the teachings of Jesus, the Christ.
Whoever does not feel addressed can, as a Christian, compare his thinking and acting with the Ten Commandments of God and the teachings of Jesus. If in doing so, it becomes clear that his way of life is according to what it means to live in a Christian way, then I do not mean him.

The eternally cosmic law is impersonal.

Everything I say here is meant in a general way and is not related to a particular person.
For example: If a negative, all-too-human characteristic, like “egoistic” or “inconsiderate,” is addressed to a certain person, that is against the law of freedom. If the word “egoistic” or “inconsiderate” is used to generally explain something, then it is impersonal, that is, it is not said in relation to a particular person, thereby being in the law of love for God and neighbor.
We should really question what we think, speak and do in order to explore and grasp their content, which gives information on the worthiness or unworthiness of what we express with our life. For it is written: “I tell you, on the day of judgment you will have to give an account for every careless word you utter.” (Mt. 12:36) From this one can deduce that every person is responsible at every moment for what he or she thinks, speaks and does.

The love for God and neighbor, the eternally cosmic law, is, therefore, impersonal; it speaks in general terms. God does not speak in a personal way; He does not directly address anyone, for example, by calling a person unloving, for no person is without the love of God. It dwells in every soul and cannot be driven out. We can break with it, but we can never get rid of it, because the love of God is the law of life. God explains in a general way about self-love, about the causal law, how it came into being, how it builds up and expands, but He never ascribes it to anyone, personally.

The law of God, the law of love for God and for neighbor, does not contain the causal law, which is also known as “the law of cause and effect” or “the law of sowing and reaping.” This was created by humans through their offences against the eternal law, which is God. Even so, God, the eternal law, speaks into the causal law in order to explain about it, so that those who want to may recognize themselves and free themselves from the causal law.

The causal law emerged from the sum of all personal offenses against the law of God. This is why it is also called the person-law; every person contributes to it according to his personal violations. And so, we have to be alert in order to figure out what is the love for God and neighbor, and what is self-love, which is the same as the causal law. The roots of our behavior, that is, the content of what lies hidden behind our thinking, speaking and acting, give information about ourselves.
If the shell of our behavior puts us in a totally different light than its content, then basically we are not as we present ourselves. We are not as one in ourselves, we are divided.

If our thoughts are one with our feelings, if our words correspond to our thoughts and feelings, if we act in accord with our words, which, in turn, are in accord with our thoughts and feelings, then we are a truthful, upright person, who is one in himself. The so-called causal love, on the other hand, is always conflicting, that is, ambiguous.

Especially during this time, many ways are shown which supposedly lead to the “wholeness” of the soul. Many people have esoteric leanings, or are glutted with divine knowledge. But both do not lead a person to the life that is God. Only the step-by-step fulfillment of the divine principles, which can be taken from the commandments of God and the teachings of Jesus, the Christ, makes us a person of the Spirit, a person of freedom, who keeps to the life that is God and does not bind himself to books and people.

We are “glutted” when our consciousness, or conscience, is no longer able to weigh and measure, that is, to analyze whether what we say, or what we have seen or heard, is in accordance with the commandments of God and the teachings of Jesus, the Christ, that is, the cosmic law of love for God and neighbor.

Basically it is as follows: A person’s consciousness is his alert awareness. The person is aware of what the consciousness registers and he can later recall it. Generally, he is not aware of what is stored in the subconscious; it takes its course without his being aware of it. The subconscious contains what the person has pushed aside, forgotten, repressed and suppressed, his secret wishes and longings, as well as the fears he has not admitted, his ambitions, what motivates him and much more.

The one who strives for an aware life, who wants to be clear, upright and free from within, in order to find his way out of the spinning top of the narrow ego, of being held captive in egocentricity, will endeavor to grasp his subcommunications, those things that take place below what he consciously thinks, says or does. This person comes to know himself more deeply than a superficial person. He gradually frees himself from being tied to his own person, to his “personal,” “human,” and “all-too-human” aspects; he gains a certain distance to himself; he will master his life better and better and be able to help and support others selflessly, that is, without wanting acknowledgement and ovations of thanks. From within, he becomes increasingly more impersonal, independent, self-reliant and free. The horizon of his consciousness broadens: He knows what is going on around him; he is far-sighted and acutely perceptive, thus becoming capable of truly bearing responsibility.
People whose consciousness and subconscious are both filled with spiritual knowledge react rashly. Without control, they blurt out whatever moves them. The controlling authority, the consciousness and conscience are switched off by the operating subconscious. The person concerned hardly recognizes this conflict anymore. If the controlling authority, the consciousness and conscience, is intact, then we notice – if we monitor ourselves – that we think differently than we speak, and that we speak differently than we think. The subconscious registers the content of our thoughts and words alone; the consciousness registers the deception, that is, the shell, not the core. The person who does not monitor and examine himself believes that he is just the way he thinks and speaks.

Because most people do not question their thoughts, their conversations and their so-called good deeds, they are of the opinion that they think positively. They believe in their thoughts, which are, for instance, how friendly and helpful their neighbor is, or that he is dressed in a nice and orderly fashion, or that he is moral and well-behaved and much more. Such and similar thoughts are positive – but only when the content of the thoughts agrees with them. Only with a conscientious self-critique and self-analysis, can we get behind what is really romping around in the world of our thoughts and words, that is, what we have stored in our subconscious. What a person stores in his subconscious – the content of his behavior patterns – is what forms his true nature, his character. Over the course of time, our character marks our body; it is the expression, the cast or imprint of our character.

Our body constantly proclaims who we really are. For example, when a participant in a conversation speaks against the way we portray ourselves or even acts against us, that is, acts in such a way that it could damage our image – how do we react? Do we stay calm and relaxed, or does our subconscious become active, first setting our solar plexus in action via our central nervous system, so that we react in an agitated, fidgety manner and finally, with anger? Without our thinking about it, it bubbles out of us and indicates who we really are. Our body, the reflection of our character, reveals our thoughts, words, gestures, yes, our total behavior.
In situations in which we are affected, in which we “lose our heads,” whatever is concealed under our “positive” façade comes to light. It becomes evident or we even react with an outburst. The consciousness, which upheld the illusion of the positive, doesn’t have a chance anymore. It loses control. The mask of sanctimoniousness collapses; the ignoble, ugly or malignant aspects, which we stored in our subconscious, come to light. We show – and are shown – who we really are. At this point, the nerves then block the “positive” singsong of the consciousness. This would be the moment in which the “loving one,” who thought he was anchored in the law of love and love for neighbor, could have recognized himself. But does he want to? When the first surging of the senses has ebbed away, when the nerves have calmed down somewhat, then many a one thinks: “What was going on with me? I don’t even know myself this way.”
However, the one who has never questioned himself will cling to his accustomed, hypocritical self-image, which he also nurtures. He will quickly draw the mask of good behavior over the faux pas, thinking: “Despite everything, I know I have thought and spoken rightly, that is, ‘lovingly.’” It is totally possible that our words were kind and loving, but our surging emotions spoke in completely different tones. What is behind this emotional turmoil? What lies behind it is exactly what comes to light when people displease us or when we don’t get what we want, even though we may even have arranged it in such a “good, kind and friendly” manner, or when we fear that our neighbor’s statements could expose us, or other such things.
The thoughts and words that are stored in the consciousness as mere shells and block what is stored in the subconscious, cannot be brought into concordance with the love for God and neighbor. It is nothing more than a put-on sham-love, a self-love, a love that is focused on our person – we also call it egoism. Egoism can be dressed up with many frills and embellishments; it can be veiled with tactics and cunning evasions of the human ego for a long time, until one day the subconscious is filled to such an extent that it takes charge of the consciousness. Then the consciousness is no longer able to weigh and measure things and the subconscious gains control of our body, of our thinking, speaking and doing.

The core of egoism is always egocentric love; it is a self-love that is focused on the person.

The term “love” has often become merely a hollow word. To most people “love” means physical love. It is the motive force for processes that bind; it leads to unhappiness, to greed, to possessiveness and to exploitation, because it is the love that is focused on a person, which demands the best only for itself and which says: Everything “good” only for me. Only the best is good enough for me. Everything for my well-being and my life. How things are going for the other one in this is of no consequence to so-called “love,” above all, when someone we once praised acts differently than what we “positively” thought toward him.
The egoist will continue to see his fellow man in the shine coming from the lantern of his selfish, personal consciousness for as long as his fellow man fits into his consciousness standard, his shine, and is useful and of benefit to him. When we have learned to question our concept of what “love” means to us, we will gradually find out that the love for God and for neighbor must be another kind of love.
The critics who think they can take apart the word of God, which is spoken into the present time, trip over the word “impersonal” again and again. They are of the opinion that “impersonal” means depersonification, a negation of personality. If the critics, who are mostly church Christians, would read their Bibles more closely, they could see that it has nothing to do with building and expanding on the human personality when Jesus, the Christ, says, for instance: “You, therefore, must be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.” (Mt. 5:48) It is not the “personal” or the “human” or the “all-too-human” that characterizes the image of God that Moses talks about, but instead this highest ideal image is much more the human being, and it is that person, who – in accordance with his divine origin and destiny – personifies in his life the divine, the divine basic powers and principles.

The personal, or the human, is cut to fit the person, to fit his more or less egocentric thinking, wanting and doing. The impersonal does not depersonify the person – quite the contrary. It is a lawful yardstick, which weighs and measures according to the divine principle of justice, which alertly observes the ego, the personal, the ultimately base humanness that is focused on the person. In the last analysis, the “personal,” or “human,” everything that is solely focused on the person, is self-love, which is expressed in the so-called all-too-human aspects. In the all-too-human there is again a hint of the “human,” which is so important in our world. Particularly the attribute of the “personal humanness” often gives a special attractiveness to scintillating, willful or “striking” “personalities” in our externalized society. The all-too-human, but also the human, has nothing to do with the human being in the Bible, of whom it is said that he is the image of God.

God, who is also the Father-Mother-God, made man according to His image. Man sinned and sins deliberately against that image, the human being, and thus, against God. Through this, the human being has become his own personified self-love, that is, his personal “humanness.” It is as this personality, equipped with specific traits and peculiarities, that one person mostly meets another – precisely on the “human” level. They assess each other according to their “human aspects” and compete with these, when it comes to such things as prestige, recognition, influence and power and even more illusory blossoms of human egocentricity. The one strives to outdo the other; the one with the stronger ego then triumphs as the victor.

In contrast, God looks to what He has created, His image, the spirit being in the basis of being of the person’s soul. If the image of God becomes apparent in and on the person, then the person may very well be on this Earth in the life form of a human being at this time, but he is not “human,” that is, “personal.”

The impersonal, the law of God, the love for God and for neighbor, does not judge; it does not make value-judgments; it does not damn and chastise. God loves the perfect being in the innermost part of the soul of every human being. God radiates His impersonal love into the causal law without looking at the person, in order to help the one who truly asks for help. And so, He helps the person to recognize himself, to recognize what does not correspond to the divine in his causal “humanness,” in his ego-shell, in order to then dismantle this with the help of the Christ of God.
However, God is not the personal law. He is not the causality, with which the person surrounds himself. Nor does God affirm the person’s “personal” aspects, but leaves it up to him to recognize himself in the “perversions,” in the peculiarities of the base human nature, with the strength of the Eternal, and to freely decide for the “divine” or for the “human.”

The human being, the image of God

How should the image of God, the human being, be?
Let us begin with a closer consideration of the law of God, which is love. The law of God consists of the seven basic powers of Order, Will, Wisdom, Earnestness, Kindness, Love and Gentleness. The first four basic powers – Order, Will, Wisdom and Earnestness – are the creation and creating forces of God. The other three basic powers of the Eternal are the forces of the filiation of God; they are the characteristics of the children of God. In the seven basic powers are contained the divine principles of equality, freedom, unity, brotherliness and justice.

From the four creation powers, the natures of God, the divine beings came forth. The Eternal breathed into them the filiation powers, which form the Father-Mother-Principle: Kindness, Love and Gentleness. As a result, every divine-spiritual body consists of the essence of infinity, because every divine being embodies all seven basic powers of the Being, the All-Law.

The eternal law of love is the life. None of the seven basic powers can be dissolved. Life is life, indelible, eternally existing.
Every human being bears the eternal life, because in the person is a spirit body, which, shadowed, we call soul. The soul incarnated at the birth of a child. The incorruptible core of being of the soul, the law of love, is the very basis of the soul. The law of God, the core of being of the soul, is divine life-substance and therefore incorruptible; it cannot be dissolved or changed. The person who offends against his eternal, divine existence, against the law of love and of love for neighbor, that is, against the seven basic powers and against the principles of freedom – equality, freedom, unity, brotherliness and justice – changes himself. He envelops his eternal being with low-vibrating energies that are foreign in kind to the image of God; with this, he burdens his soul, but not the law of God.

God, the law of love, is in everyone and in everything that we call matter or density. God, the law of love, is in all condensed stars and planets, in the soul, in every cell of a human being, in all aspects of the nature kingdoms, in every plant, in every stone, in every animal. In the eternally pure Being, God is not in the pure Being – God is the eternally pure Being. God is the law of the eternal worlds, of the divine suns and planets. God is the pure being, the spirit being. The spirit beings are divine, but not gods.

The divine beings are the sons and daughters of the Father-Mother-God. And so, God is not matter or density. I repeat: God is in matter, in density. As a result, God will never forsake us human beings, nor will He forsake the Mother Earth with her nature kingdoms, nor any planet either.

And so, God, the Creator, the Absolute, the Pure, is the life in the soul of the person, in nature, in every animal, in the material and condensed stars and planets. If God were to forsake us, He would destroy His creation, the pure in everyone and everything. He would also destroy a part of our soul. As a result, the soul would remain imperfect. Through the Redeemer-deed of Jesus, the Christ, everything imperfect, the sins against life, will transform into perfection, into the law of love for God and for neighbor. The Christ of God guides all pure souls, which have again become the divine being, back to God, the eternal Father.

If God were to withdraw from Himself, then the Absolute would be destructible, and burdened souls could no longer regenerate, that is, purify, themselves.
Our spiritual body, called soul in its burdened state, consists of spiritual particles, just as the physical body consists of cells. The spiritual particles can be burdened by the person, but, as already mentioned, not the core of being, the pulsating divine law-energy of the soul. The burdens of the person are registered in the soul’s particle structure as energy. This negative radiation from the burdened soul particles surrounds the soul as a fluidum. This is the fine-material soul-body.
In order to differentiate this from the ether body of the pure spirit beings, we call this envelopment of the soul the astral body. It consists of various astral coverings, also called astral garments. The astral garments have different colors. They take shape according to the violation against the divine law, against the seven basic powers, including the five principles of equality, freedom, unity, brotherliness and justice. The radiation of the soul is our aura. It marks our physical body and shapes our character. The radiation of our soul, the astral veils that surround us invisibly, is our fluidum, which is generally called aura.

During the dying process of the physical body, the soul very gradually draws to itself the breath that was the life of the person. It then becomes the breath of the soul. It also takes with it the aura, the astral garments, which then continue to surround the soul on its journey. We human beings call this whole process the separation of the soul from the body. The fluidum, which envelops the journeying soul, remains at first as its astral body.

The soul’s fluidum – its astral garments – consist on the one hand, of the burdens of the former human being and on the other, of the kind of life the present person in three dimensions leads. The soul’s radiation – its garments – is also registered in the corresponding planetary constellations of the material cosmos and in the planets of the purification planes. The total picture, soul and astral garments, is in the material cosmos as a matrix image. Via this matrix, the soul, if necessary, returns to a new human body, if, as a human being in the temporal, it has to clear up with people or with the nature kingdoms whatever drew it into this new state of becoming human.
Many people ask “Why am I a human being, when in the very basis of my soul I am eternal existence?” Most people are in the Earth-school in order to purify their souls, that is, to garb themselves with the garment of virtue, of the love for God and for neighbor. As guidelines, God gave human beings the Ten Commandments through Moses, and Jesus, the Christ, the teaching of love for God and for neighbor in the Sermon on the Mount, so that a person in the Earth-school has a concept that enables him to walk the path of purification of his soul. In today’s time and through the prophetic word, the Christ of God teaches us again the path within to the Kingdom of God, which is within, in every person.

And so, on the path to life, a person should cleanse his soul of the violations against life, against the law of love and love for neighbor, and cleanse it of the sins against the seven basic powers and against the principles of freedom. The one who compares his life on Earth, his feeling, thinking, speaking and doing, with the Ten Commandments of God and the teachings of Jesus, the Christ, in order to recognize himself, and repents of what is against the inherent laws of life, clearing it up and no longer doing it, will successfully finish Earth’s school of life. Already as a human being, he will then discard one astral garment after another, or at least brighten it. What then gradually crystallizes out of this is the human being in the image of God, the image of which Jesus said: “You, therefore, must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.”
Through the fulfillment of the spiritual principles of life, the commandments of God and the teachings of Jesus, the Christ, the all-too-human, or the “human,” which many people are so proud of, transforms into positive energies. Through this, the person becomes wise, because he respects life. Wise people are no longer dependent on words of praise and opinions of others. People who stand in the life that is God no longer want to be built up and glorified. They are no longer “human.” A person under the sign of true life is in communication with the all-wise power of selfless, impersonal love. This is what God wants from His human children who are in His Spirit, the sons and daughters of the law of love.

What has become of many people from today’s point of view? The masses have become all-too-human yes-men, conformists, indoctrinated people, ruthless, hard-hearted, inciters, character assassins, criminals, violent criminals, warmongers, those who commit fratricide, and glorified “saints” who express their “shine” through titles and means, and often through violence and brutality. These are all the evil spawn of high-grade “humanness,” of the “personal,” of egoism and vanity – and unfortunately there is still much more of this. Such negative, undignified, and in the end, malignant character traits of many people develop through the desecration of the All-Law of love and of love for neighbor.

Most people in the western world call themselves Christian. But only the fewest know what Jesus, the Christ, wanted. When the personal aspects of the person are involved, the one or the other calls for God and calls “God with me!” President Bush calls “God with America!” and Saddam Hussein calls “Allah with us!” Each one wants to use God for his own purposes. But since God does not conform to the patterns that man wants to give Him and since God cannot be influenced, many a person believes that God does not exist.

Equality, freedom, unity,
brotherliness and justice –
The basis for a peaceable
life with one another

The inherent laws, the basic rules of equality, freedom, unity, brotherliness and justice, are the foundation for a peaceable life with one another. They are what would make those who are part of a belligerent “Christian” western world into peaceable people.

Equality

The first principle is equality. What do we humans understand under equality? One thinks that everyone should be treated the same and have the same income and possessions. Another is for the right to have a say in all important political organs, in committees and panels, and at work. Still others don’t care what equality means; for them it is important that they have enough to eat and drink and a roof over their heads. Others shake their heads, saying: “Equality means equal rights, equal position, equal treatment, equal thinking and much more.” That sounds like the French Revolution, which, however, wasn’t carried through. People, thus opines the neighbor, are not willing and are also unable to fulfill the further principles of freedom, unity, brotherliness and justice.

The outlook of the latter is, generally speaking, correct. If the majority of people think this way, which cannot be shrugged off, then why do most people in the western world call themselves Christian? Why did God give man the Ten Commandments and Jesus the teaching of love for God and for neighbor if they can’t be lived?
God is real and a realist, which can’t be said of most people. And the one who claims to be a realist usually wants to point out with this that only what can be grasped and experienced materially is valid for him; all higher truth, the Spirit that is eternal and effective through all things, is neither real nor existent; and the teaching of love for God and neighbor is thus a matter for dreamers, utopians and “crackpots,” and therefore, not to be taken seriously. The “realist” is saying with this, though, that the positive powers do not exist in him. That would mean that man is merely a mass of bones and flesh, over which the skin is drawn – and nothing else.
If God – like many people – were a flag that waves in the wind of opinion-makers, then we would have no spiritual future, because we would have no soul. Those who are of the opinion that this or that won’t work, or that the fulfillment of the commandments of God and the teachings of Jesus is not possible as the churches claim are asked the following question: Why do they then go to church and pay tithes? It is inconsistent not to do what God called upon us human beings to do or even to deny it, and then in the same breath to call oneself Christian.

There is no objection if the church faithful sail under the name “Catholic” or “Protestant”; for they are then, simply Catholic or Protestant – but never Christian, for both church institutions basically act against God’s commandments and against the teachings of Jesus. The lukewarm church adherent doesn’t take the rituals and dogmas so seriously, but remains tied to the church, just because his parents belonged to this “congregation” or because there would be a scandal in town if he, the lukewarm one, didn’t pretend to go along with the masses. As a Catholic at the end of his life he asks for a so-called priest, to talk with him and give him the last rites. Even on his deathbed, he holds fast to denominational customs; for what would those who keep up the pretenses with him, the people in town, say if he didn’t go through with the ritual? Perhaps, “damned for eternity!” So, the priest has to come.

Through their behavior toward the commandments of God and the teachings of Jesus, many clergymen – as priests also generally call themselves – often have just as much, or just as little, knowledge as the sinner on his deathbed. But in such a situation, no conversation and no last rites are of any use, only a dialogue with God – for He is also present in the dying person. Whoever then repents from his heart and asks for forgiveness in his thoughts, insofar as it is possible for him, truly has Christ at his side. Christ does not give any good advice or even the “last rites” to the dying person. What Christ can forgive the sinner will be forgiven at the hour of death. What the dying person has caused by his thoughts, words and actions to other people, who today still do not want to forgive him, Christ cannot forgive either. This means that Christ cannot erase, or dissolve, this guilt in the person’s soul.

We can see equality in this. Christ does not apply the law of worldly judges, but justice in equality, for when two fight with each other or are at loggerheads with each other over something, then both are to blame. Both must forgive each other, and then the sin is paid off. The Lord’s Prayer points this out to us. There it says: “Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.”
Talents are given to a person
so that they can be used for the good of all

Let’s stay with the principle of equality. In order to make the principle of equality in the law of God more understandable, in the law of love and love for neighbor, I would like to go back to the talents. The following is written about talents.
“For it will be as when a man going on a journey called his servants and entrusted to them his property; to one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away.
He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them; and he made five talents more. So also, he who had the two talents made two talents more. But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master’s money.

Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them. And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me five talents; here I have made five talents more.’ His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a little, I will set you over much; enter into the joy of your master.’ And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me two talents; here I have made two talents more.’ His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a little, I will set you over much; enter into the joy of your master.’

He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not winnow; so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here you have what is yours.’ But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sowed, and gather where I have not winnowed? Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest. So take the talent from him, and give it to him who has the ten talents. For to every one who has will more be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away. And cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness; there men will weep and gnash their teeth.’” (Mt. 25:14-30)

The man in this parable, apparently the owner of a large estate, is the Father-Mother-God. On the way to becoming a human being, God gave each being talents to take with it on its earthly journey. They correspond to the respective mentality of the spirit being, to the region of heaven, to the basic power that is the nature of the being, for example, talents from the spiritual principles of the divine Order, of Will, of the divine Wisdom, Earnestness, Kindness, of the divine Love and of Gentleness. The divine talents are aptitudes for us human beings, certain capabilities, we could also call them divine energies, that on the one hand, we should put to work for our personal well-being and on the other hand, for the well-being of our fellow man as well as for the well-being of the nature kingdoms, that is, for our dwelling planet, Earth. A part of the talents that come from the Spirit is the unity, the working for everyone and everything.
How do so-called Christians see the God-given talents? Most people, whether Catholic, Protestant Lutheran or free-thinker, hardly develop them. The masses think only of their own well-being and are satisfied with being an employee, for instance. These are people who have become used to taking orders from employers or superiors, to taking on work they have to carry out, which they then more or less do. Perhaps one or another has developed a talent, which he nevertheless has “buried,” for it serves only his well-being. All other capabilities, that is, talents, that slumber in him, he does not activate. Why should he? He remains an employee, because it is more comfortable to bear little or no responsibility and to receive instructions, which he then carries out without greater responsibility.

The employee gets his salary, which may be considerably less than the income received by the employer or superior. If the salary isn’t enough, then those “above” are watched from out of the corner of the eye and corresponding judgments are given, for example: “ambitious so and so” or “offspring of success, clambering up the ladder of success while treading on those below” or “who elbows others out of the way to climb higher” or remarks like: “... it’s easy for him to talk, he inherited the firm he heads from his parents” or “... he has connections since he comes from a ‘prestigious’ family” or – and this is usually the last thing to be noticed – “because he is honest and hardworking.”
Dear reader, let’s do an analysis of the real talents, the aptitudes, that every human being has brought, and which are in accordance with his spiritual-divine origin.

According to the principle of equality, there should be neither employer nor employee. Why this inequality? The answer lies in the fact that only the fewest understand what it means to be a Christian and many don’t even want to accept Christianity. They prefer to stay in the lower ranks and bow down to those above. Every person can do as he wants, but then, it has nothing to do with the commandments of God and above all, with the teachings of Jesus, the Christ, in His Sermon on the Mount! This is why I say over and over again: Everyone can think and act as he pleases, but he should not use the name “Christian,” because Christ has nothing to do with this world, nor with anything that is built on human egoism. A person can be Roman Catholic or Protestant Lutheran; there is only one thing against these two institutional terms, namely, the word “Christian” – for that is what these two “Christian” institutions are not.

The Catholic, the Protestant or the so-called free-thinker sees inequality as a legitimatepart of life on Earth. He thinks it is nothing more than an expression of the quality of life of every individual. Just as he makes his bed, so must he lie in it.
As already mentioned, everyone can do as he wants, including those in the so-called Christian political parties. However, it would be honest and upright if those who give judgments would not use the word “Christian.”

The law is always one-sided. On the other hand, justice is a Christian principle. It is a part of equality, just as equality is a part of justice.
Thinking in terms of power and striving for power, envy and hatred toward superiors and those who earn more also developed through this “downdraft of the Fall,” inequality. From hatred and envy grew the craving for wealth, possessions and prestige, from greed, hostility, from hostility, war and thus, fratricide.

Why does inequality exist? Because Christians are not Christians. Unity turned into egoism, equality became inequality. I repeat: Every one can act the way he wants to – but it has nothing to do with being Christian, or even with Christ!
When we let the “differences in the world” pass through our mind, we realize that many employers abuse their position of power, no matter what circumstances or achievement they should thank for this, whether good connections, or an inheritance or even their own diligence. One could not object to the latter, if the person concerned did not think solely of his bank account and his well-being, like those who occupy such a position because of connections or inheritance.

However, we should also take a close look at the many employees who are not willing to expand their capabilities, their talents. Many of them are content with being responsible for only a small sector and to remain those who take orders. For them, leisure time, sports, vacation, eating and drinking are more important than developing their talents. But when it comes to telling their employers and superiors what they really think, then they are big-mouths somewhere else, and their words betray their envy of others for their good income, their bank account and their property. And at their regular table in the pub or bar, more things are then brought up – always against the others, seldom against themselves, which means: Their fellow man is constantly and critically examined, perhaps even cynically, but seldom does one look at oneself critically .
These days people go on strike, in order to let “those up there” know “what we really think.” Mostly it concerns money; everyone wants more money. Seldom does anyone ask himself: Does my performance reflect my capabilities, my aptitudes?
Inequality has become something that is taken for granted. That’s how the law is, one-sided, and everyone wants rights for himself, whether employer or employee, whether rich or poor. Many a one thinks he is in the right when he says: “Why should I spread around my hard-earned money? To whom? Who gives me anything? Then I’ll give to him, too. But how much?” Or vice versa: “I give to the one who gives to me.” Will it be the same? In the careful safeguards that take place during “exchange transactions,” we recognize the mistrust, and not without reason. When everyone thinks solely of his own well-being, of his bank account, of his possessions, which he wants to increase for his personal well-being, then none should call himself Christian. And certainly not when he is being a big-mouth at his regular table in the pub or during a strike – otherwise, it’s all the same to him, just as long as there is enough for him.

Let’s talk about inheritance. Is it right that children inherit from their parents? Well, according to the standards of Christian values, is it fair at all to possess so much more, that parents can leave behind a considerable inheritance?
How often does one hear: “The parents used all the strength they had to build a good family business with many employees.” And to be regarded as a benefactor, they then say: “We gave work and bread to many employees.” However, the workers’ salary is a far cry from the profit the employers made with their family business. After many years, the employers have accumulated not only considerable assets in their bank accounts, but also possessions like land and property. Houses are also part of their assets, from which they collect rent to fill up their bank accounts even more. That is the usual inequality in the world.

The present owners take it for granted that their children are the heirs who will carry on the family business the way they have. One can hear or read again and again that heirs brought their inheritance to ruin, because each of the heirs wanted his share for his own personal concerns. Consequently, many a family business had to be dissolved. The heirs who continue to run the business don’t even need to develop their divine talents – they simply inherited the business, and beyond that, no “effort” is needed.
Everything that a person invests for himself personally that is beyond his needs, that is, hordes, is against the divine principle of equality, against the commandment of God, the love for God and neighbor.

Many a one rightly says: “Neighborly love is often exploited. Why should I share my wealth with someone who is a so-called idler? No, you should not! Every person who calls himself Christian should contribute to helping every person develop his talents, and not bury them in that he lives off others.
Nor does a person do justice to love for neighbor when he merely donates money to the poor in order to soothe his conscience. True love for neighbor means to give a willing person the possibility to further his aptitudes, his talents, and later to multiply them for the good of all – namely, for all those who promote the principle of equality. For the same thing holds true for all equally: Pray and work.
The same is true for people in underdeveloped countries. It doesn’t do much good to simply donate money for them. For one thing, it may very well help these people to still their hunger; they need food, and also medicine. But bread and medicine are soon used up. What then? For another, their land was taken from them, as has happened to many people. They were dispossessed. The rich have helped themselves and continue to do so.

In the long run, it doesn’t do much good to send bread and medicine to the poorest of the poor. They need land and people who teach them what it means to develop their own aptitudes, their talents, and to put them to use in community for the good of all who want to pray and work. Anyone who does not want the latter also has no right to call for equality. Indirectly, he makes it known that he doesn’t want to work and doesn’t want to develop his talents. Then he has to be satisfied with having little or nothing to eat.

Let us look into our world and ask ourselves who is called upon again and again to donate to the third world. It is the middle class, and it is the poor, the people, who are supposed to donate. What about the rich, above all, the churches that are worth billions? And what about the state? The churches that are worth billions give largely from the subsidies and taxes that they receive from their faithful as well as from all the taxpayers via the state. At least this is the case in Germany. They don’t let their assets be touched at all, to say nothing of decreasing them.

State officials have become adherents and vassals of the church institutions. The state gives out billions for the production of weapons, which serve for nothing other than eventual war and the “conquest of outer space.” This and much more is how “love for neighbor” is practiced by Christians in the western world.

Surely it must gradually dawn on anyone who believes in God that the prayers of church officials loaded with billions achieve nothing, absolutely nothing – nor do the prayers of those who on a small scale do the same as the officials of the church institutions and government authorities. The following is written in the Bible of the Catholic and Protestant faithful: “Once more I say to you: It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God.” (Mk. 10:25)

The person who does not further his God-given talents in order to apply them for the good of all also does not contribute to the good of all. Christianity in its entirety has become a distorted and bent matter. A person who believes in God should leave the church institutions and request the government organs to refund him the sum of money that was taken from his taxes and paid to the church as is done in Germany; for the church institutions are completely against the commandments of God and the teachings of Jesus, the Christ.

Let us ask what is God’s will: a church worth billions, so-called houses of God embellished with gold, church authorities who show off their titles in expensive robes – or people who have shelter, clothing and food, who develop their talents and put them to use for the good of all according to the principle of “pray and work,” who again will be and are as God wants: those who personify the image of God. And how is it with the state authorities who are the adherents of church officials? What happens with the taxes and contributions that they demand from the people? How is the money administered? How and where is it applied? Isn’t a lot of tax money squandered? Where is it channeled and for what purposes squandered? In part, it is spent for weapons; in part, it is channeled into the church coffers. It is also reported every year that hundreds of millions of the national budget is wasted in bureaucracy and squandered in pointless projects.

We read and hear about love for God and neighbor. And so, the question arises: Is the Son of God an army commander who turns people into soldiers, to whom He teaches the art of killing? God did not give the beings that were developing into human beings any talents for this. God gave the people the commandments, one of which reads: You shall not kill.

Many a reader may think that the churches are against war. But are they really? One could think so when one reads in SPIEGEL ONLINE (A German magazine of international standing) of Feb. 1, 2003: “Bush raises the holy wrath of the churches. George Bush likes to present himself as being deeply religious; but at least the German churches damn his Iraq politics with unusually sharp words. The highest Protestant calls the impending war ‘not morally allowed’ – and the highest Catholic finds that Bush is no better than the Islamic fundamentalists ...
In the ‘Bild am Sonntag’ (a German Sunday paper) Karl Lehmann, Bishop of Mainz and President of the German Bishops’ Conference, writes that according to the Church’s point of view, war may be considered only under extreme conditions. It may be used to ward off an imminent attack – or to fight a crime against humanity, such as genocide.”

“Dreadful Fear” reads the following subtitle:
“However, in the case of Iraq, these criteria are not fulfilled: ‘A war to overthrow tyrannical and threatening governments or to prevent dangers – sometimes also called ‘preventive war’ is ‘morally not allowed,’ writes Lehmann. ...”
The caption on this page summarizes Cardinal Lehmann’s position in the sentence:
“War is legitimate only under extreme conditions.”

Further in the text, it says: “Previously, Kock, the Chairman of the Protestant Lutheran Church Council in Germany, sharply criticized Bush, saying that the US President is a ‘religious fundamentalist.’
And, that Bush presents himself as though he has to fulfill a religious mission. Islamists who call for holy wars would argue similarly.
Kock said to the ‘Stuttgart Newspaper’: ‘Such reasoning causes me dreadful fear.’ It is hard for reason to get anywhere against such an irrational attitude,’ Kock continued. He also said that he has little hope that a war can be prevented and that Washington is not at all earnestly endeavoring to find a diplomatic solution to the Iraq conflict.”
What the churchmen say fits with all those who are little or not at all convinced about the existence of God, or who have not yet preoccupied themselves with the issue of love for God and neighbor. For example, theologians Kock and Lehmann reject a war in Iraq for theological reasons. Note well: for theological reasons. Bishop Lehmann said: “From the point of view of the Church, war may be considered only under extreme conditions.”

Well, maybe from the “point of view of the Church,” but not according to the will of God! The churchmen are talking about their churches. Apparently they don’t think anything of the commandments of God and the teachings of Jesus. And so, it is the church that decides for war or for peace. Jesus taught something totally different to what the churches are literally selling to their faithful. Jesus taught us: “.. all who take up the sword will die by the sword.”

Karl Lehmann further argues: “... from the point of view of the Church, war may be considered only under extreme conditions. It could serve to ward off an imminent attack – or to fight a crime against humanity such as genocide.”
Who were the “extreme” examples for crimes against humanity and genocide? Especially in this catalog of “examples,” the Church is right at the forefront along with others. For instance, it was the Church that called for the bloody Crusades, in which those of other faiths were killed by the hundreds of thousands. It was under the aegis of the Church that the natives in South America were tortured and murdered. And still during the 20th century, Pius XII tolerated, or rather furthered, the genocide of the Ustascha regime in Yugoslavia.

One should always go forward as a good example. If Karl Lehmann condones war under extreme conditions, then he should have all priests trained as soldiers and put them on the frontlines in the battlefield, thus setting a good example.
According to the Church’s point of view, war may be waged in extreme cases. But war is always fratricide, no matter what one calls it. Jesus taught us peace. “Christianity” is bent and distorted. It has become a mixture of paganism and ecclesiastical conceptions. If we want to concern ourselves more with the teachings of Jesus, the Christ, then first of all, we have to turn away from the church institutions and turn within, for the Christ of God dwells in the person himself.

Jesus wanted all people to be equal. He wanted the community in and with Him, which means freedom. He wanted people to become the images of God, by following and personifying the commandments of God and His teachings, the teachings of Jesus, the Christ. He wanted every person to activate his inherent talents, thus contributing to unity and consequently, to the true common good. Jesus wanted brotherliness, and not fratricide. Jesus wanted justice and not rights. Jesus is the Prince of Peace and, in the last analysis, the churches are nothing more than a pagan army. The one who condones war under extreme conditions is not on the side of Jesus, the Christ. In extreme cases, he pleads for fratricide.

What are “extreme conditions”? Karl Lehmann means with this, “crimes against humanity like genocide.” If Jesus had condoned a war – whether a preventive war or a war under extreme conditions – then with the power of the Spirit, He would have long since razed the church institutions to the ground and killed the church lemmings who blindly adhere to paganism and take His name in vain. Who committed the greatest crimes against humanity? Who committed genocide? The churches! Karlheinz Deschner writes about this: “After intensely studying the history of the Christianity, I know of no organization in antiquity, the Middle Ages and present times, including and especially the 20th century, that at the same time is so long, so continuously and so terribly burdened with crime as is the Christian Church, particularly the Roman Catholic Church.”

Let us turn to the Catechism of the Catholic Church for advice. Number 2309: “The strict conditions for legitimate defense by military force require rigorous consideration.” Many questions could arise concerning this ecclesiastical point of view. For instance: Who requires? And what? With what authority? Did Jesus, the Christ, teach this? The text of the Catechism continues. Previous statements are built upon: “The gravity of such a decision makes it subject to rigorous conditions of moral legitimacy. At one and the same time:

And the question arises: Why, then, are weapons produced?
“These are the traditional elements enumerated in what is called the “just war” doctrine.
The evaluation of these conditions for moral legitimacy belongs to the prudential judgment of those who have responsibility for the common good.”
Did Jesus talk about a just war? Every war is fratricide. Is that the justice of the God of the churches? Who takes from this the right for himself to talk about a “just war”? With what legitimacy? From whom? Not from Jesus, the Christ! Not from God, for the law of God is love for God and neighbor. So, from whom?

“Public authorities, in this case, have the right and duty to impose on citizens the obligations necessary for national defense.” (2310) – The state and the state church are in agreement; they are one. Their statement is valid. They determine right and duty.
“Those who are sworn to serve their country in the armed forces are servants of the security and freedom of nations. If they carry out their duty honorably, they truly contribute to the common good of the nation and the maintenance of peace.”
Violence, to make peace? Did Jesus, the Christ, teach this? Who is the example for such a conviction, for such a posture, for such a way of behaving? Jesus, the Christ, it is not. God, the Eternal, it is not. – Who then?

“Actions deliberately contrary to the law of nations and to its universal principles are crimes, as are the orders that command such actions. Blind obedience does not suffice to excuse those who carry them out. Thus the extermination of a people, nation, or ethnic minority must be condemned as a mortal sin.” (2313)
Wasn’t it the Church that was involved, right into the 20th century, in all these crimes that are called mortal sins here? Are these words valid only for lay persons? And can, or may, the Church afford this? Is it exempted from mortal sin? – “One is morally bound to resist orders that command genocide.”
In its Catechism, the Catholic Church says: “Every act of war directed to the indiscriminate destruction of whole cities or vast areas with their inhabitants is a crime against God and man, which merits firm and unequivocal condemnation. A danger of modern warfare is that it provides the opportunity to those who possess modern scientific weapons – especially atomic, chemical or biological weapons – to commit such crimes.” (2314) What does the American President Bush have to say about this?

But why don’t the churches start with the bottom line? Whoever produces weapons is already sending disaster along with them. And so, the production of weapons means war!

Because the churches do not embody the teachings of Jesus, the Christ, they determine what is forbidden and what is allowed. Read and be amazed: “The prohibition of murder does not abrogate the right to render an unjust aggressor unable to inflict harm. Legitimate defense is a grave duty for whoever is responsible for the lives of others or the common good.” (2321)
Conclusion: Churches accept war and thus, fratricide with approval!
Jesus was a pacifist through and through. Again and again, church representatives stress: “We are not pacifists,” and so, they are not Christian, either.
Many people are presently preoccupied with the war in Iraq. In some countries, including America, there are protests against the war. And so, people protest against a war that is directed against human beings. Few think any further. But war is also taking place in the forests, on and in the fields, in the barns of factory farming, on animal transports, in slaughterhouses, in laboratories conducting animal experiments. Everywhere, where animals are abused and deliberately killed, war is taking place. War always shows the weaknesses of an attacking country. And anyone who is in favor of murdering animals can also call himself a weakling, or even an aggressive debauchee.

On March 7, 2003, Radio Vatican put out the following report via internet:
“Great Britain
According to the opinion of the Catholic military bishop, British soldiers can view their participation in a possible Iraq war as ‘morally honorable.’ The order to go to battle would be issued for the ‘attainment of a morally good purpose,’ as it says in a pastoral letter published today from Bishop Tom Burns to the Catholic members of the British fighting forces. During the course of the Iraq crisis, all participants, above all in the army, had to search their conscience. Marching orders would follow only when all political means are exhausted, according to Burns. The military bishop stressed that church leaders had left the decision as to when this point is reached in the hands of the government. Thus, it is a ‘lawful order from a lawful government.’ To obey this does not bring the soldiers into conflict with the church’s teachings. London Cardinal, Cormac Murphy O’Connor, and Anglican Primate, Archbishop Rowan Williams, had recently emphasized in a mutual statement that the moral legitimacy for a war against Iraq did not exist at that time.”
These statements speak for themselves.
The true Christian, the one who truly believes, looks for the reason: Why war against people, animals and the Mother Earth at all, when we are supposed to be Christians?

What is the basis for war?

Every reader who calls himself Christian must address the following question: Do I live in peace with my fellow man? Are my thoughts free from denigrating my fellow man, from hostility, hatred, envy and greed for wealth, property and prestige? Or do I find myself at war, in thoughts and word exchanges, with family members, friends, acquaintances, colleagues? To say nothing of the disasters taking place in the political arena.

The war in Iraq shows that Christianity has failed. No church Christian should be allowed to call himself Christian, especially no politician.

Most people are conformists.
The creation of dependency is a fundamental
component of the “church system”

Once more: Why war?
Why was the peaceable teaching of Jesus, the Christ, rejected, a teaching that would have led to security, unity and prosperity?
One answer among many possible ones is that most people are conformists. A conformist is not a free person. He is a person who adapts his attitude to the prevailing opinion, for instance, an adherent of a state church, which by way of threats has made and continues to make its faithful dependent. On the other hand, those with the mandate to govern in a state and their opposition are opportunists who out of utilitarian considerations become conformists in order to collect their sinecure from the state and keep their positions. Many conformists, who are involuntarily adherents of state and church, have become “yes-men” out of fear of possible repercussions. Still others – above all those who have already climbed higher on the state ladder of success – are adherents of the state churches for utilitarian reasons, because church leaders appear to be a “promising” means for securing their success.

In the western world, it is mostly the Catholic and Protestant Churches that are adhered to. Most church recruits are not convinced, true Christians – otherwise, the western world would not have become warlike and pagan, waging war against all those who do not conform to the masses of adherents.

The creation of dependency is a fundamental and important component of the “church system.” This is clearly, if not nakedly, expressed in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. That the sacramental ritual of baptism is mystified, classified under the “mysteries of God” as it were, is shown by the heading of the chapter, “The Celebration of the Christian Mystery,” in which the following can be read:
“Having become a member of the Church, the person baptized belongs no longer to himself, but to him who died and rose for us. From now on, he is called to be subject to others, to serve them in the communion of the Church, and to “obey and submit” to the Church’s leaders, holding them in respect and affection ...” (No. 1269)
And so, the baptized infant has already been condemned to dependency and can’t even raise an objection to this.

The greatest impudence thereby is to even bring Jesus, the Christ, our Redeemer, into play in this context. Jesus was a man of freedom, who tied no one to Himself, nor did He call upon anyone to let himself be tied, patronized, monopolized, subjugated and indoctrinated.

Christ came as Jesus to set us free – all human beings and souls. He gave His earthly life so that everyone now has the chance to grow a bit closer each day to freedom in the law of God.

It was Paul who talked about subordination – not Jesus. Jesus did not subordinate Himself to the “heads” of the “Church” at that time; nor did He teach His fellow man to do this. Quite the contrary!

The Catechism speaks of the “communion of the Church,” which ultimately means only those who subordinate themselves to it.
True communion is the love that links, the love for all people and beings, for animals and nature, a love oriented to the one Spirit who is the true communion, Christ. Communion means to work together on the basis of equality, freedom, unity and brotherliness, in order to be justly active for the good of all people and of all forms of life. This, of course, presumes peaceableness in and with Christ.

During the past centuries, the state has become a structure of conformity, which the church institutions fill out, because the state let itself be infiltrated by the powers that be in the Church. We should ask ourselves again and again: Why did it happen this way? Whoever is capable of making a healthy analysis – which means to be free of membership in a powerful church and free of its direct influence – reaches the conclusion that most people are conformists, whom the churches have turned into dependent church-lemmings by baptizing them as infants, by following through with indoctrination, by making them afraid of eternal damnation and by the celebration of its rituals.

Hardly any willing church faithful know the church teachings to which they are obligated, and the church law to which they are subject. Little can be heard about this in the sermons on Sunday. However, the Catechism of the Catholic Church, for example, is available to everyone in bookstores, and it is not forbidden to read it either. In what follows, we examine the doctrines therein with the clear eyes of an alert, independent person.

The independent thinker, whose inner moral-ethical authority, his conscience, is still intact, does not accept, let alone absorb, anything without examining it. He questions statements for their truth. For only the truth makes – and keeps – one free.
The following quotes from the Catechism of the Catholic Church are under the heading “The Church, Mother and Teacher.” (No. 2037)
“The law of God entrusted to the Church is taught to the faithful as the way of life and truth.” – Do the churches know the law of God? The law of God is the love for God and neighbor.

Whoever wants to teach a path must have walked it himself. Where is the way that is taught in the spirit of the law of God? Where are those who have walked it and still do.

The next sentence reads: “The faithful therefore have the right to be instructed in the divine saving precepts that purify judgment and, with grace, heal wounded human reason.” For one thing: The divine commandments may very well be mentioned by the Church – but what about their fulfillment? How does the Church want to instruct people about it when it merely preaches about the commandments? For another thing: Why does human reason need to be healed? With what was it wounded? Countless people suffered damage to heart and mind through a church teaching that is contradictory in itself, which, for instance, inflicted upon them the duty to love a distant and cruelly avenging God, whose terrible and unfathomable mysteries meant a constant threat, and at that, beyond death, “eternally.” The absurdities along with a simultaneous and massive claim to validity not only annulled human reason, but also led to the capitulation of a healthy ability to make judgments. On the way to indoctrination, the defects developed in the process were then “purified” and “healed.”
Especially a just reason can teach much to the clear thinker, the free person. In any case: to become free or to remain free.

The faithful have “the duty of observing the constitutions and decrees conveyed by the legitimate authority of the Church. Even if they concern disciplinary matters, these determinations call for docility in charity.”

Let us take both sentences and let them work in us. They are a masterwork in the art of ecclesiastical manipulation. Do we recognize the clutches of the Church on the person and his soul? Do we comprehend how skillfully the natural resistance of a healthy human mind to demands, to infiltration and influence is foiled right from the start? Do we recognize the incredible presumptuousness in the words “the legitimate authority of the Church”?

Jesus, the Christ, is the authority, and not the Church! And Jesus, the Christ, does not dwell in churches made of stone, which church officials and their faithful call churches, or houses of God. Christ dwells in every person, because the human being is the temple of God.

Happy the one who has to do with the true Christ! His word is filled with divine truth, it is clear and unambiguous, without mantraps and malicious deception. His teachings do not lead one into dependency, but into freedom.

The consortium “Church,”
the unholy alliance with the State

Let us continue with the Catechism of the Catholic Church. There one can read under No. 2244: “Only the divinely revealed religion has clearly recognized man’s origin and destiny in God...” That’s true. But not for the Catholic Church. Through divine revelation and through His life, Jesus, the Christ, brought the inner religion. What happened to it?
“The Church invites political authorities to measure their judgments and decisions against this inspired truth about God and man.” This high-handed statement by the Church, which serves its claim to omnipotence, brings consequences for public life in our state and our society. For this reason, judges who belong to the Church are very limited in their ability to make free decisions.

If judges are believing Catholics, they should follow the teachings and instructions of the Catechism. And so, one could say that they, too, are indoctrinated.
Because the churches, the state and the judges who give judgments without letting justice prevail are one, they are also in unity where the voters are concerned, the people who should vote a government into power. The people who are held in conformity, and who first of all belong to the Church and then to the state, are the so-called “gullible voters.” Governments – no matter what they call themselves – are tied to the churches, because the latter drive the “gullible voters” to them. And so, the mandate holders of the state bow down to those above and are thus eager subordinates of the church leaders, in order to, as I already said, count on enough gullible voters. The churchman who favors a certain political party then preaches forcefully in his church for those who as a party offer the most advantages to the church. And judges, too, who belong not only to the state, but also to the Church, sometimes prefer to administer justice in the judicial chambers for those who, like them, are church conformists.

That this is so is proved by the Catechism of the Catholic Church. There it literally says: “The citizen is obliged in conscience not to follow the directives of civil authorities when they are contrary to the demands of the moral order, to the fundamental rights of persons or the teachings of the Gospel.” (No. 2242) According to No. 121 of the Catechism, the Old Testament is also a part of the Gospel: “The Old Testament is an indispensable part of Sacred Scripture. Its books are divinely inspired and retain a permanent value, for the Old Covenant has never been revoked.” There it says in Deuteronomy, among other things: “If any case arises [before the court] ... which is too difficult for you, then you shall arise and go ... to the Levitical priests, and to the judge who is in office in those days, you shall consult them, and they shall declare to you the decision. Then you shall do according to what they declare to you from that place which the LORD will choose; and you shall be careful to do according to all that they direct you; according to the instructions which they give you, and according to the decision which they pronounce to you, you shall do ... The man who acts presumptuously, by not obeying the priest who stands to minister there before the LORD your God, or the judge, that man shall die ...” (Dt. 17:8-12)
The Church practiced this for centuries, for example, through its “holy” Inquisition. The state was the lackey of the Church at that time, as well; it willingly carried out the “executions” of the most varying kind. Besides: Even today, anyone who does not comply with the will of the Church is still fought by it – today, by character assassination – but ultimately, as then, with the goal of elimination. Today people who don’t belong to the Church are still ostracized and discriminated against.
The churches were responsible not only for the cruel persecution, torture and burning of hundreds of thousands of “witches,” but also for engineering the bloody Crusades. Countless “pagans,” Jews, Indians and those of other faiths were slaughtered at its behest.

In the Catechism of the Catholic Church, in the chapter with the lofty heading “The Life in Christ,” one can read the following:
“In times past, cruel practices were commonly used by legitimate governments to maintain law and order, often without protest from the Pastors of the Church, who themselves adopted in their own tribunals the prescriptions of Roman law concerning torture. Regrettable as these facts are, the Church always taught the duty of clemency and mercy. She forbade clerics to shed blood. In recent times it has become evident that these cruel practices were neither necessary for public order, nor in conformity with the legitimate rights of the human person. On the contrary, these practices led to ones even more degrading. It is necessary to work for their abolition. We must pray for the victims and their tormentors.” (No. 2298)

Let us remember the summarizing statement by the famous historian and church critic Karlheinz Deschner:

“After intensely studying the history of Christianity, I know of no organization in antiquity, the Middle Ages and the present times, including and especially the 20th century, that is at the same time so long, so continuously and so terribly burdened with crimes as is the Christian Church, particularly the Roman Catholic Church.”
One can also read in the Catechism of the Catholic Church: “At the same time the conscience of each person [in the service of the Church] should avoid confining itself to individualistic considerations in its moral judgments of the person’s own acts. As far as possible conscience should take account of the good of all, as expressed in the moral law, natural and revealed, and consequently in the law of the Church and in the authoritative teaching of the Magisterium on moral questions. Personal conscience and reason should not be set in opposition to the moral law or the Magisterium of the Church.” (No. 2039)

This means: pure dependency! The Church and its teaching, its law, should thus be the measure for all things. A clear renunciation of the use of conscience and reason. Thus, a ban on thinking. Total subordination, even the giving up of oneself, is demanded. In doctrinal statements, the Church often refers, as we know, to Paul, who said in his letter to the Romans: “Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore he who resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of him who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain; he is the servant of God to execute his wrath on the wrongdoer. (Romans 13:1-4)
The liaison between state and Church is, as we will hear, anchored in church doctrine. The Church pronounces its judgment out of its, allegedly God-given, authority and the state carries it out. An unholy alliance!

Whoever liberates himself from ecclesiastical constraints, because he has recognized that the churches are state churches, and not the people’s churches, who bases himself solely on the commandments of God and the teachings of Jesus, the Christ, and lives according to these step by step, hardly has a chance against this pagan imperium of power. Jesus, the Christ, has nothing in common with such a state-church-conglomerate, where the motto is: “You give to me, then I’ll give to you, and then we are in agreement.” That cannot be either, because church and state have little concern for the people. The people are, after all, the “gullible voters.”

The one who does not go along with those cloudy masses that have turned away from God remains an outsider, who must accept many losses, because he is not one of them – because he has joined HIM, Jesus, the Christ, who truly sets one free. True followers of Jesus, the Christ, are upright people who see clearly, who follow their active conscience, their inner ethical-moral controlling authority – alert, self-responsible, independently thinking and acting people.

Freedom, one of the five divine principles, develops from the principle of equality. Where there is inequality, as is usual in the world, where there are those in power and subordinates – which is accepted as a matter of course – true Christianity cannot take root. The churches reject the basis for a better world, the Sermon on the Mount of Jesus. They say it is utopian and meant for a better world. And so, the question arises: Through what or through whom shall a better world emerge? Should it simply fall from heaven, without mankind doing anything for it? Or should we humans improve ourselves, each and every one? However, for this, the power apparatus of the Church is not necessary.

Jesus was a man of the people. He did not even let himself be called Rabbi, as opposed to church leaders.
Christianity has been totally bent and twisted out of shape by the churches and their dependents. Paganism has taken root. Human gods are to be worshipped, who have joined together into a conglomerate and go against all those who do not worship their offices, their titles and also their means.

Freedom: independence,
inner security, straight-forwardness,
truthfulness, awareness of responsibility

Every divine principle is also contained in all the other principles. For this reason, without living the principle of equality, freedom cannot exist.
Many people are of the opinion they are free. To think you are free – because you are not externally imprisoned, for instance, or because you can pretty much do or not do what you want, or because you think you are free of responsibility – can, however, never mean freedom. Freedom is the alignment with the one power, with the divine law of love and love for neighbor, which is all-ruling. Only the person who believes deeply, who has experience in fulfilling the commandments of God, knows what freedom means. Freedom in the spirit of the divine principle is the same as secureness in God’s all-ruling love; it is a security and straight-forwardness in all matters that pertain to an earthly existence.

Freedom also means independence from people, from money and property, from striving for recognition, prestige and power. A person who is free in the spirit of freedom is aware of his responsibility. What he promises he also keeps. One can depend on him, in the family and in society, as well as at work. His heart is in his work and he is also industrious, trustworthy and competent in his activities.
“Pray and work” is for him a balanced life. His pay is also the service for his fellow man. People of freedom earn their living, but will never bow and scrape, because what they do they do with the power of the Spirit and thus, carry and fill it out according to the law of life.

Many people are of the opinion that when they refuse one of their fellow men because the one or the other seems unpleasant to them, then they are free; or when two people quarrel and one parts company with the other, no matter for which reason, then he thinks he is free; or when an employer is not satisfied with the work of an employee, because defects crop up in the work process, and reprimands the employee who then gives notice, the latter thinks he is then free. There are many things in our earthly existence that are unpleasant for us. If the one who finds himself in dire straits rejects everything that seems offensive to him without seeing his own part in it, then he thinks he is free. But, the one affected can be sure that whatever made him react in such a way could tell him some things about himself.
If instead of actively dealing with it, we avoid the learning task a day gives us through an unpleasantness, then we believe we are thus free. But we can be sure that what we have left behind will follow us. There is never a disturbance – in business matters as well as in interpersonal relationships – where only one of those involved is guilty. The one who despite everything is of the opinion that he is totally innocent, could question his thoughts, words and behavior patterns. Since no energy is lost, whatever goes out from us follows us. Generally, this means that our deeds follow us.

In order to attain the freedom that truly makes one free, we should raise ourselves to truthfulness in all aspects of our life on Earth. We should keep, for example, the following maxim: Do not lie; for every lie, be it ever so seemingly harmless, makes one unfree and harms the one who believes us. Respect and cherish the life of people, of nature and of animals; for what you do not want done to you do not do to others, neither people, animals nor nature.

Do not kill, neither people, nor consciously, that is, willfully, animals and plants; then you honor the life in all things and become free according to the will of God, according to his law of love for God and neighbor, which means freedom.
Be honest and sincere. Never bear false witness against your neighbor. Then you will gain the freedom that truly makes one free.
Do not steal. Stealing means to take possession of what does not belong to the one who stole it. To consider something stolen as one’s own property, to not want to return it, is lasting theft. The one who becomes a thief remains unfree; and the one who remains a thief harms others in the long run. It is not only that he cannot become free; he also violates the unity. This holds true for the individual as well as for groups and organizations of all kinds.

For example, the church institutions can never be churches of God when they consider the stolen goods that they have pilfered and taken from other countries to be their own property and keep it for themselves. Because they oppose the will of God, they have turned away from the truth, which makes one free. They act and react according to church laws, but not according to the commandments of God, which leave people their freedom, where it says: “you shall” – and not “you must,” as church laws command.

The one who includes God’s commandments in his thinking and living, also concerning the divine spiritual principle “pray and work,” will respect his fellow man and not cheat him. He will neither covet the wife of his neighbor nor his neighbor’s possessions and property. He will render unto Caesar what is due to Caesar and to God what is due to God.
God, who is the law of love and freedom, has no principle of force in His law, even where an earthly state authority is concerned. God, the Eternal, never spoke, not even to the respective ruling people, of a “state authority.” Without hesitation or self-doubt, an authoritarian church attributes such statements to the All-Highest.

Let us think logically: If God is the All-Love, Wisdom and Greatness, if His law is perfect, if the excerpts from the eternal law, the Ten Commandments, do not force us, then God will not control us human beings. God is the sole authority, because He Himself is the law of infinity. God says in His commandments “you shall.” The one who wants to make people dependent and unfree speaks the revocable “must,” which is often pushed through in our world with force and brutality. God does not have the principle of force in His All-Law, because He simply is not violent.
Every state authority instituted by God?

As already said, the law of God consists of the seven basic powers, the first of which is the basic power of Order. God’s Order, like all His principles, is perfect. So that we humans may again open up our divine heritage, the seven basic powers, which are the true life, He gave us the first steps toward this in the Ten Commandments, and Jesus, the Christ, gave us the teachings of the Sermon on the Mount. God does not demand. On the other hand, the Church teaches and demands, for in its Catechism we read under No. 1899 the following well-known words of Paul: “Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore he who resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment.”
Paul, who was a faithful vassal of cruel Roman constitutional law, is unsurpassable for that time – as far as his creative writing is concerned. With great audacity, he composed the most daring stories about the teachings of Jesus, the Christ, and about the laws of God, which he mixed with the cruel Roman law. And for anyone who can think, it is now clearer than ever before why both church institutions, the Catholic as well as the Protestant, fell prey to Paul.
In the Catechism of the Catholic Church it says: “There is no authority except from God.” The authority of the state is embodied by the representatives of a state and its respective government. And so, one could say that every representative of a state and those assigned to him, all his fellow government workers, the government as a whole, are appointed by God. Whoever opposes this state authority appointed by God resists – as it says – what God has appointed, and the one who resists Him, that is, God, will incur judgment.
One must really thoroughly consider this statement and let it “melt in one’s mouth,” so to speak. According to this church statement, God would have appointed Hitler and his cohorts, for instance, a violent mass murderer, a murderous tyrant, who subjugated all those who did not bow down to him and did not pay homage to him with “Heil Hitler.”
And so, if God instituted “state authority” to every nation of this Earth, then, in my estimation, no country should be allowed to wage war against another country. It would then be solely in the competence of God to cancel this “state authority,” because, after all, He instituted it. Unless God, who supposedly appointed such violent state criminals as Hitler, waged war via another country or countries – for example, through Russia, England or America – against this ruler, against this country, to whose state God gave – as to all other states as well – state authority. In such a case, God would be waging war against Himself, in order to depose the representatives whom He Himself appointed, simultaneously killing millions of people and plunging others into suffering and need. With this, He would not only be opposing what He has appointed, that is, resisting Himself, and consequently incur judgment; He would also be a mass murderer like the one whom He fought against through other states. God would also be breaking His commandment: You shall not kill.

From this perspective, how do things look for the Iraqi state, which is currently in the sights of Americans for a war? If we start with the premise that “every state authority is appointed by God,” then President Hussein – as “state authority” – would have been appointed by God. If President Bush and his government, which must also be seen as appointed by God, now go to war against Hussein, who, then, is fighting against Hussein – God or the USA? And if President Hussein and the Iraqi people defend themselves – is God then defending Himself against the armed forces of the USA? Who then is opposing what God appointed here, and who will incur judgment?
There have been countless wars in the history of mankind! Who triggered these wars, which were always followed by crimes – God or the respective ruler or the disobedient people?

Once more: So, whoever opposes state authority thus opposes what God appointed. And whoever opposes Him will incur judgment? Will that person then land in eternal damnation according to the church watchword, or … what?
The truth is logical, because God is the logos. Whoever lets himself make a church rule like the one considered here is in danger of becoming confused in the foundation of his logical observations. If he falls into this condition, then he could possibly go astray and become, in the end, a member of such a strayed church!

For general understanding, I repeat: The Church does indeed speak of the commandments of God, but it does not keep them itself, and it considers the Sermon on the Mount of Jesus to be utopian. The Church lets the latter possibly be valid for another and better world. Why? If the Church were to acknowledge the Sermon on the Mount of Jesus, then it would have to improve itself, that is, fulfill the will of God. However, then there would no longer be the power and the wealth of billions, which it maintains and which is supported and promoted by those who have not learned to think.

“Go forth and teach ... and then baptize!”

That the church institutions inflict bondage upon their faithful can be seen in the baptism of infants. The Church openly goes against a very decisive statement of the great teacher – obvious to all those who are able to think. In its Bible was and is written: “Go therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.”

This is essentially what Jesus, the Christ, taught. Newer versions of the Bible formulate it differently: “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.” (Mt. 28:19-20) This formulation clearly says that one should first baptize and then teach. This is how the Church has operated since time immemorial: unlawfully.

Here is statement against statement. Now who should believe what? The surest way is to live according to the commandments of God and the teachings of Jesus, and then the Spirit of God can come over the person and baptize him with the Spirit of love for God and neighbor, with freedom in God. And besides: Jesus let himself be baptized by John the Baptist with water. Jesus was a grown man and could freely choose.
An infant cannot understand the divine teachings and therefore cannot choose freely either. “Go therefore and teach all nations” is the commandment of Jesus, to teach those people who understand His message. The one who accepts them and lives accordingly receives the baptism, the Spirit of truth. God gave the people the Ten Commandments. Since the Church does not keep them, it is also not authorized to baptize people in the name of the Spirit of God, neither infants nor adults.

The wisdom of God bears witness to the freedom that God expresses in His commandments when it says: “You shall.” On the other hand, the Church teaches: The one who is not baptized falls into eternal darkness.

No salvation outside the Church?

A heading in the Catechism of the Catholic Church reads: “Outside the Church there is no salvation.”
This statement, as it is there, has often been repeated by the “Church fathers,” from whom a large part of the so often referred to church “tradition” is derived.
Under this heading, one can read that Christ “... is present to us in his body which is the Church”... “Hence they could not be saved who, knowing that the Catholic Church was founded as necessary by God through Christ, would refuse either to enter it or to remain in it.” (No. 846)
“The Church does not know of any means other than Baptism that assures entry into eternal beatitude...” (No. 1257)
As a matter of course, it is claimed that God Himself “has bound salvation to the sacrament of Baptism...”
What a statement! Any commentary here would be superfluous, because we would hope that everyone can think for himself.
We can read what threatens the lemming who suddenly wakes up one day, and sees clearly now as a result of his own thinking. In accordance with the words of the Apocalypse of John 18:4 “Come out from her, my people...,” he now makes a long-due decision, but in “Der Glaube der Kirche in den Urkunden der Lehrverkündigung;” (The Belief of the Church in the Documents of the Teaching Proclamation) Neuner-Roos, 915, p. 546, we read the following:

“The one who wants to attain the state of bliss must above all keep to the Catholic faith; whoever does not maintain this in its totality and uninjured will doubtlessly be eternally lost.”

As the saying goes: “If you believe that, you’ll believe anything!”
Logically, then the person who is Protestant or belongs to another church is eternally lost. What presumption and hypocrisy! Jesus, the Christ, came for all people and brought redemption to all, thus opening the way home to the Father-house for each soul. One can understand more and more the statement of John of Patmos, which reads in its entirety: “Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues.”

Jesus, the Christ, wants an adult person to decide freely in matters of faith. This is why he should first be instructed on the inherent laws of God, on the Ten Commandments and the teachings of Jesus, the Christ. If he accepts these and lives according to them, then the Holy Spirit will come over him and baptize him with wisdom and greatness. The Church baptizes an infant with water; God baptizes an adult with wisdom and greatness, when he fulfills the inherent laws of life.

An infant, which cannot make decisions, will, as already mentioned, be baptized without freedom of choice into an institution that literally indoctrinates him from cradle to grave. In this way, many become lemmings, driven by the anxiety psychosis of eternal damnation so that they hold out until the grave. In the eyes of the Church, the one who liberates himself from this is not only a leper, he will “doubtlessly be lost.”
And if the “eternally lost one” should join a Christian community that is not part of the Catholic and Protestant “conglomerate,” he will literally be cast out. The state church then has him persecuted through the state, the indoctrinated judges and their servile journalists, being branded with vicious defamation. The result of this is that those defecting from the Church have to accept many disadvantages. The persecution campaigns, which indoctrinated judges then declare to be “expressions of opinion,” will, whenever possible, be used as grounds for indirectly punishing the “lepers,” “the eternally lost ones,” with the damning seal of expression of opinion. And why? Merely because he no longer belongs to the lemmings who blindly do what a coarsened Church demands.

The whole thing is then classified as “freedom of religion.” This is, of course, anchored in the constitution, but the one who has power and money ostracizes without hesitation those who do not play along on the “Christian” stage. This is the love for neighbor of the state-bearing pillars, the churches, including the mini-supporting pillars of the state mandate holders.

The unity in the common good –
The all-encompassing “sense of family”

Unity can never develop without equality and freedom. One cannot conclude there is unity from the statement “we are in agreement.” Perhaps they are merely in agreement as long as they have others for scapegoats?
Many, many people mostly look solely at the other one – because “the other one” is not the way they think he should be. No person is just like another, because each one lives in the world of his ideas, which he is convinced is right. Unfortunately, it is this way: Each one looks only through the “glasses” of his own small world, which is put together from his ideas and opinions.
But the carpenter of his own small world wields hammer and chisel on himself, mostly without being aware of it, for what a person thinks and says, how he acts and shapes his existence, marks his character and his appearance.
When two people share the same opinion, when their ideas are alike, having been shaped by them in the same way, then both of them, usually only for a short time, agree on these points. They exchange ideas – energy flows. In this energy cocoon, which one thinks is complete harmony, both then find seeming happiness at first. On the basis of this “unity,” which for many means being-one, most marriages are made.
When the communication energy from these points of agreement is used up, then the former basis is no longer present. One is taken aback and feels estranged. Other aspects in their way of thinking, feeling and wanting come to the fore. They no longer understand each other. Their attitude toward each other is suddenly destroyed; they talk past each other; this leads to quarrelling, and may even lead to divorce or separation.

Wherever one looks, over and over again two or at the most three people team up against the one or the other, whereby the third party is soon excluded. It seldom concerns a mere matter. There are always people involved who do not correspond to the ideas of those who are in alliance. This being against “others” is the cement, so to speak, that holds these buddies together.
And so, it can be said, and one also sees it, that the whole world is in conflict – whereby “the world” is not the Earth. The world is made up of people, of their ideas and opinions. The way the world is shaped is the result of this. The world cannot be placed on a par with the Earth. Everything that is on the Earth and that has been created by people out of their all-too-human aspects, their “personal” aspects, the egocentric, is “the world.”

Mankind and its world have nothing in common with unity, which is from God. Unfortunately, the masses of people are a much-divided, power-hungry and power-obsessed society clan, in which every clique wants to push through its own interests. In this process, not only the view for unity is lost, but one also fights against the formation of true unity, for each one wants to feather his own special and particular nest.
On the other hand, the Earth symbolizes unity. If humans would let the forces of Mother Earth prevail, this planet would be a paradise. But no – each one is against the other. And just as people are amongst themselves, so do they also act toward their dwelling planet, the Earth. The result of this is war against brother, against sister, war against animals and nature, war against minerals, and so, war against the whole planet.
Jesus said in the following sense: Wherever two or three are gathered in My name, I Am there in the midst of them. The “Christian” western world has unloaded Jesus, the Christ. The Prince of Peace had to give way, because under the leadership of the church institutions the western world has become a warlike society that follows church doctrine and does not orient itself to the commandments of God and the teachings of Jesus, the Christ. Right up until this very day, the church institutions have taken His name and abused it in the most disgraceful manner.

The divine principle of unity can develop solely out of the principles of equality and freedom. If these two principles are not lived, then there is no unity either.
So-called civil servants talk a lot about the common good. For the government of a country, common good means the well-being of all the members of a community. Who belongs to this “community”? Is it only those who are loyally subordinate to the state and the state churches, by saying yes – even against every bit of reason and against their own conscience – to whatever state and church decide, approve and practice? Many a one had to and has to still today make the bitter experience that even though he gives to Caesar what Caesar demands, by, for example, paying the accrued taxes according to law and order, the state nevertheless puts him at a disadvantage, if he, for instance, does not belong to the state church.

Whoever talks about the common good, about the well-being of all the members of a community, should answer the following question: Why then – if the state approves of the welfare of all – are there so many people who live under the poverty level? Especially for the church institutions that call themselves Christian, the welfare of all people ought to be a Christian concern. However, in Germany, their desire is that through state subsidies, the state continue to feed their golden calf worth billions and also continue to collect the church taxes that they demand from their faithful, so that these may continue to remain members of a church worth billions.
The divine principle of unity has nothing in common with the “common good” of a state and a state church. The well-being of all begins with the first principle, equality. The divine principles as well as the commandments of God and the teachings of Jesus, the Christ, were bent and distorted by the people of the “Christian” western world. The masses of people became followers of church institutions that provide the best “example” for power, prestige and chasing after money and property.
The inequality among the followers of the institutions where money and property is concerned stirs up, particularly in those with low income, hatred, envy and the craving to also possess what is taken for granted by the wealthy: money, property and prestige. And so, the one who juggles the terms “unity” or “common good” at this level is trying to deceive the masses of people.

Unity, the common good in the Spirit of God, should be understood in a completely different way. Divine unity consists of the encompassing “sense of family”: Each member of the large family bears full responsibility and applies the talents he received from the Eternal to take along into incarnation, for the welfare of the great whole, of the entire Creation.

For us humans, this means that every kind of thinking in terms of individual lots leads to a break with cosmic unity, thus excluding the welfare of all. Mankind, particularly Christianity, is far from such great thoughts. The “Christian masses” are not only “of little faith,” but unbelieving. The root of every evil, of every violation of the divine principles, is the church institutions, which, on the one hand, live as examples, thus setting the standard for what is against every Christian value. On the other hand, the followers of the church institutions have adopted inequality. Each one thinks only of himself, whether it is the “small-minded one” or the power-obsessed one, each one wants and demands only for himself.
What crystallized out of this during the 2000 years of “Christianity,” particularly in our time, is staring many in the face. It is the discrepancy between the wealth of the one and the bitter poverty of the others. Especially the people of the Third World are suffering, where countless brothers and sisters die of hunger. On the other hand, the churches not only hold on to their wealth of billions, but increase it, and billions are given out for purposes of war, probably causing millions of people to suffer need, misery, infirmity, homelessness, or they have lost their lives. Besides that, billions are expended for the exploration and conquest of outer space and much more.

The one who tries to imagine all this in his thoughts and becomes aware of it, and then still talks about the common good, about the welfare of the human community, would have reason to seriously doubt his sanity. What happened to divine equality, to freedom in God and the unity of all in His Spirit? Equality got stuck in egoism, in indifference, instead of developing equality, which shares fraternally and where one selflessly supports and helps the other. Freedom got stranded in the egotistical “we are united against the others,” and unity in the individual’s striving for his own personal well-being.
Since the church institutions and their adherents argue that the Sermon on the Mount, which contains the divine principles, just cannot be lived, that it is meant for another world, one should ask: For which one? And who should shape this “other world”? Hasn’t Christianity had a long 2000 years to let this world evolve in the sign of Jesus, the Christ, the Redeemer of all people? Now if Jesus, the Christ, brought mankind redemption – which the churches also say, without knowing, however, what this means – then Christians, with their Redeemer, should also have had the strength to redeem the Earth from its servitude.
But how did Christianity act right up until the present time? Directly and indirectly, on a large scale as well as a small one, it wages wars, and through wars it upholds fratricide right through our time. Even today, Mother Earth is violated and exploited. People took and take living space away from the animals, torture them in bestial ways, hunt them as prey, slaughter them and then consume the pieces of their carcasses. To take their dignity away from them, animals are treated as wares without feelings – a dignity that man has long since sacrificed on the altar of lack of dignity. However, despite the bestial and cruel human excesses, animals have nevertheless retained their dignity – in contrast to human beings, many of whom have become inhuman monsters who crush and destroy everything that comes into their clutches.
Unity also contains brotherliness and justice. The one who does not contribute to the true common good does not promote unity either and thus, the welfare of all. The words of Jesus: “What you want others to do for you, do it for them first,” contain all five divine principles. These basic rules of life, the five principles, are also an inherent part of the life of the Earth with its minerals, plants and animals.
Divine unity also teaches us that when your neighbor feels well, you will feel well, too; when your neighbor feels bad, you will feel bad at some point, too. This results in the law of sowing and reaping: A person will reap what he sows.
Especially in our time, the law of cause and effect is becoming more and more visible. It will touch the rich as well as the poor. Let us be aware that God’s mills grind slowly, but surely and justly.

Brotherliness

As already presented, each one of the five divine principles is contained in each of the others. Just as the three afore-mentioned divine rules for life, the principles of equality, freedom and unity, were not accepted by the people, but were rejected and reversed, as it were, into inequality, into lack of freedom and egoism, people also sacrificed the fourth principle on the altar of egoism, the principle of brotherliness. The reverse of the fourth principle is: masters and servants, whereby during the present time, servants may also give themselves the titles of masters. Nevertheless, they remain under the rule of the excellencies, eminencies, the professors, doctors, hereditary princes and princesses, counts and earls, highnesses, and so on. They rank beneath all the further “worthy ones,” who put themselves above the common “ladies and gentlemen of the people.”
A very primitive German saying, according to which people act especially in this our time, shows very crassly and clearly how “Christianity” deliberately proceeds against the love for God and neighbor and against brotherliness. It reads: “If you don’t want to be my brother, I’ll bash your brains in.”

The person for whom this statement seems too hard as a counterpart to brotherliness does not follow the news media that, despite many hypocritical appeals and implausible statements, supports fratricide, above all, where preventive wars are concerned. The churches reject these, whereby at the same time they condone defensive wars in special cases. With all the talk about war, we should realize that it is not Jesus, the Christ, who condones a so-called defensive war, but solely the churches. Jesus taught us peaceableness and the love of enemy. We can read in the Sermon on the Mount:
“About the love of enemy:

You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you salute only your brethren, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? You, therefore, must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.”

“About killing and reconciliation:
You have heard that it was said to those of ancient times:, ‘You shall not kill; and whoever kills shall be liable to judgment.’ But I say to you that every one who is angry with his brother shall be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother shall be liable to the council, and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ shall be liable to the hell of fire. So if you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift. Make friends quickly with your accuser, while you are going with him to court, lest your accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you be put in prison; truly, I say to you, you will never get out till you have paid the last penny”

These words of Jesus, the Christ, touch upon the causal law, also called the law of sowing and reaping or the law of cause and effect. The causal law is the register of the sins of mankind, which exactly weighs and measures according to the principle of justice, so that to each soul or to each person comes only what he has sown, that is, the cause that he has created.

The soul of the one who in the temporal does not clear up his causes in time, that is, who does not reconcile with his brother or sister in the temporal, takes the burden of his causes along with it into the beyond. It is possible that the soul brings its burdens back again, in a future incarnation. The wheel of reconciliation and making amends will continue turning until “the last penny has been paid.”

Many a one will now refer to the grace of God. The grace of the Almighty One is always present in us. But when we do not ask for it and do not entrust ourselves to the Christ of God, our Redeemer, when we do not repent of the negative behavior patterns that are directed against the love for God and neighbor, and when we do not ask for forgiveness and do not want to forgive, then the help, which is in the grace, the mercy, cannot become effective, because we do not approach our neighbor and thus, not Christ either.

The commandments of God
in the mirror of church doctrine

The person who wants to walk the path to God must become aware of the commandments and of the teachings of Jesus, the Christ. The first commandment reads: “I Am the Lord, your God. You shall have no other gods before Me.” The churches, which promise salvation to mankind, are already sinning against the first commandment. Gods are, for example, the “saints” of the Catholic Church, the statues with their offertory boxes, statues that, through adoration and money offerings, the faithful beseech to put in a good word with God for him, the sinner, so that He, God, shall have mercy on the “poor sinner.” The Eternal One, who is the Father of all people, did not place saints before Himself. What a cruel Father that would be, whose children could not go to Him personally, and who alledgedly commissioned the pope, a human being, to canonize other human beings and appoint them as intercessors.

Such false doctrine gained acceptance only because the Church and thus, its faithful as well, do not know who God is and where He can be found. High-handedly, the Church presents itself as similar to God and claims to be appointed and commissioned by God. In reality, it conceals God through its false doctrine; it darkens and distorts His image until it can no longer be recognized, so that the believing and God-seeking person has to recoil in fright before this monstrous image. In his inner need and disappointment, the person may then willingly accept the crutch that is offered to him, the saints, the intercessors, in order to barely manage with this.
The second commandment is also mocked by the church institutions – it reads: “You shall not take the name of God in vain.” The pope, himself, and all those who support the so-called “Holy Father,” the pope, as the “infallible Holy One” are violating the second commandment. In Samuel it says: “There is none holy like the LORD, there is none besides thee; there is no rock like our God.” (1Sam. 2:2) The divine words of Jesus, the Christ, read: “But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one master and you are all brethren. And you shall call no one your father on earth, for you have one Father, the one in heaven.” (Mt. 23:8-9)
The fifth commandment is not observed either by the church institutions and their adherents: “You shall not kill.” Jesus said: “All who take up the sword will perish by the sword."

Jesus did not differentiate between killing and murdering, for dead is dead, whether killed or murdered. And the Catholic Church along with many of its adherents also violates the eighth commandment: “You shall not steal.” The one who does not give back stolen goods – like that which the Catholic Church pilfered, that is, stole, from other nations and which is stored in the Vatican – remains a debtor. This holds true for all people, no matter what the person acquired for himself illegally and from whom he stole it.

The church institutions violate no less the eighth commandment “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor” and are a “good example” for many where this is concerned. If we just think about the ostracism of people who don’t want to be Catholic or Protestant, who have made it their life goal to follow Jesus, the Christ, in their actions – they are directly and indirectly persecuted by the institutions.
Where the tenth commandment is concerned, the churches, in turn, set the worst example. It reads: “You shall not covet your neighbor’s belongings.” The mere fact of the lie that the Church alone can provide access to salvation and to heavenly bliss, the lie that the Church can dissolve guilt via absolution by a priest or condemn an individual to eternal damnation, makes many feel compelled not only to pay church taxes or a tithe, but beyond that, to make donations and to “sacrifice.” Hoping to buy his way out of the threatening eternal fires of hell, in the hour of his death, many a one turns all his possessions and property over to this church, which “alone can provide this state of bliss” – perhaps bypassing family and relatives.
The one who hoards goods, takes them for himself and robs, for instance, the Mother Earth. She is so designed by the Creator that she can give to all people, not only the so-called privileged. Who divided the Earth up into lots of “mine” and “thine”? Again, man, because he opposes the divine principles of equality, freedom, unity, brotherliness and justice, by having reversed them.

All the Christian values were bent, distorted and reversed. Again, I would like to point out that Christians who strive to follow Jesus, the Christ, are not against the institutions, for example, Catholic or Protestant – they are only against the abuse of the name “Christ” in the use of the term “Christian.” This is a clear labeling fraud.
The divine principle of brotherliness excludes every kind of force, no matter what one calls it. Christ said to this in His Sermon on the Mount: “Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.”

Divine justice – The human law

Whoever makes the effort to understand the divine principle of justice will recognize that people make of this a behavioral substance that is like soft soap. It is the law, with which one can wash his hands in innocence after judging and condemning in a way contrary to justice. For example, when a judge can order an unpopular plaintiff out of the courtroom for the time being with a judgment that can sound somewhat like this: “You did not suffer any injustice; it was merely a permissible expression of opinion.”
In His law of love for God and neighbor, God does not have the human law, the so-called judgment. The worldly law is always one-sided. It has an inherent taste of wrongness in it. There is no person in the whole world who, in a matter brought before a worldly court, is only right or only wrong. Jesus said about one-sided judgments: “Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and the measure you give will be the measure you get. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.” (Mt. 7:1-5)
The worldly administration of justice may very well have a scale that should be the symbol of equilibrium. But it is seldom used according to the divine principle of justice. In many cases, the court worms its way past the scale, for instance, with the famous, or rather infamous, “expression of opinion.”

In many a case, the court, in this case, the judges, measures according to its own discretion, whereby it depends on the plaintiff, from which “stall” he comes and how the judges appraise him, that is, apostrophize him, in order to fit him in the corresponding category. When a community of faith is involved that is not acceptable to the Catholic or Lutheran Churches in Germany, they are mostly put into the category of “sect.” The label is then “they are wrong” or “expression of opinion,” whereby usually the judgment is in favor of the churches. Ultimately, this cannot be otherwise, for the judges belonging to the Catholic or Lutheran faiths have to act according to the catechism of the churches, which we have cited on pages 46-48.
There we read, for instance:

“The Old Testament is an indispensable part of Sacred Scripture. Its books are divinely inspired and retain a permanent value, for the Old Covenant has never been revoked.” (No. 121) But as we know, it says in Deuteronomy: “If any case arises [before the court] ... which is too difficult for you, then you shall arise and go ... to the Levitical priests, and to the judge who is in office in those days, you shall consult them, and they shall declare to you the decision. Then you shall do according to what they declare to you from that place which the LORD will choose; and you shall be careful to do according to all that they direct you; according to the instructions which they give you, and according to the decision which they pronounce to you, you shall do ... The man who acts presumptuously, by not obeying the priest who stands to minister there before the LORD your God, or the judge, that man shall die ...” (Dt. 17:8-12)
That the law is one-sided and opposes the divine principle of justice, we experience again and again when we not only listen to the news in the media, but also compare what is said there with the Christian rules for life, the five principles.
I would like to pick out two examples from the countless ones that prevail in the media: Several countries supplied another country with munitions and weapons, such as chemical and biological weapons. The receiving country paid the producing country, the sender, for the munitions, or weapons. Why does a country acquire war equipment and weapons, including of the chemical and biological kind? To preserve them in a shrine or to put them in the deep freeze – or if the need arises to use them against a hostile country, whereby at the time of purchase there was no talk about the “when” and “where”? In the last analysis, it was an arms deal that brought profit to both sides.
How is it now according to the principle of justice? On the one hand, according to the divine principles, no weapons, no war munitions should be produced at all, because weapons, no matter of what kind, are always harbingers of war. On the other hand, the question arises: Who is to blame in the case of war – the country that supplied the weapons? Or is it the country that received the weapons? Or are both countries guilty? As already said: Weapons are simply harbingers of war, whether they are put to use today, tomorrow or only in the distant future.

When a country now threatens another country, to which it supplied weapons, with sanctions and war and threatens to destroy it, and when the receiving country had to that date acquired and paid for the weapons from the country that is now making threatening gestures – how should the judgment be? Who is right? And how would the scales of justice weigh?

Another example: Two people have been fighting for many years. The one subjects the other to his arbitrariness, whereby the finances and health of the subordinate person are harmed and he has to endure awful things right up until he passes on. The one harmed may have to witness to the very end how the other one, who fought against him, increases his assets – of which, for example, perhaps a third would belong to the one fleeced, the one bled dry – and cares only for his own well-being. There is no reconciliation between the two opponents and thus, no making amends. Each remains hostile to the other. Does this enmity hold true only until death or does it go beyond death?

Christians affirm the immortality of the soul, and so, the soul lives beyond physical death. No energy is lost – be it positive or negative energy, energy of reconciliation, of love for God and neighbor, or energy of hate and retaliation. According to the principle of divine justice, not only one of the two is guilty, but both are.

In the earthly existence, which we humans call our “life,” nothing happens by chance. According to the principle of causality and of making amends, both will be led together again, either as souls in the regions of the beyond or in a new human life, in order to clear up what is still present in both souls from previous existences. For according to the law of equilibrium, like always attracts like. It could be that in this earthly existence the one who is today the subordinate was the dominating one back then. The page has now turned. The complex of guilt, which is engraved in both souls, is not yet cleared. Quite the opposite: It has even grown larger through even more aggressive thoughts, words, through hatred and envy. Because of this new debt on both sides, both remain debtors, the one more, the other less. Justice truthfully plumbs the depths of everything.

Reincarnation –
An Original Christian knowledge

We just heard about reincarnation as something to be taken for granted. For many readers, the teaching of the reincarnation of a soul is not only new, it is often rejected, especially by church Christians, because they were taught wrongly about it. The possibility of making good on a debt and of reconciliation in a future incarnation is Original Christian knowledge. When one thinks about the fact that the eternal law contains freedom, which the commandments of God teach us in the sense of “you shall,” and not in the sense of “you must,” then it becomes clear that God, the Eternal One, who is the freedom, coerces neither humans nor souls. In the Lord’s Prayer, Christians pray: “And forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.” If the one does not forgive the other, and vice versa, it is possible – depending on the severity of the debt – that the engraving of debt in their souls draws both of them to incarnation again. The two souls then go into physical bodies again, that is, they become human beings, possibly at different times. According to the cosmic law of attraction, those people attract each other again who have something to clear up between them. A mutual clearing up of things is also possible in the beyond; it depends on the severity of the guilt. If both souls remain irreconcilable, then through this they could set things up for a future incarnation.
Jesus taught: So if you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift. Make friends quickly with your accuser, while you are going with him to court, lest your accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you be put in prison; truly, I say to you, you will never get out till you have paid the last penny.” (Mt. 5:23-26)

Does God, the Eternal, want reincarnation? God wants people to reconcile with each other, to make peace with each other, without fighting or war – whereby war never brings peace. War intensifies the hatred of those who have to suffer under it. This again results in the corresponding causality, because no energy is lost.
God, the Eternal One, wants people, His children, to fulfill the laws of life. The commandments of God and the teachings of Jesus, the Christ, are excerpts from the peaceable law of love for God and neighbor. The one who despises them despises God and also acts against his neighbor.

I repeat: If a guilt, a sin, is severe, and if the person and his soul is irreconcilable, then the soul will come again, that is, it will be born again as a human being.
The Christ of God is the way, the truth and the life for each soul, for each human being. The one who walks the path to the Father with Christ by following the laws of life enters into the Kingdom of Peace and will be eternally at home in the law of love for God and neighbor. This is the will of the Eternal.

What does Universal Life mean?

Since I have reported much about the relationship of church and state to being Christian, many a reader will ask: “And what about Universal Life?”
In this my letter, I would like to give witness to my person and something about my relationship to Universal Life.

What does Universal Life mean?

The life is solely God, the all-encompassing divine law that in the eternal Being is the unveiled law of love for God and neighbor. In matter, in the coarse material, the life, the law of God, is in all forms of matter, in every person, in every animal, in plants, in minerals, in the planets and in the elements. The eternal, irrefutable law, God, the life, is in every component of matter.

And so, the life is in matter and – where humans are concerned – is veiled, through sin, which is the all-too-human. A person’s life which is focused on the Spirit of God again can be called universal.

The Spirit, GOD, is boundless and therefore, universal, and thus, omnipresent in the pure Being and in matter. Accordingly, Universal Life means: omnipresent Spirit, GOD, who is the life.

The mission of being the prophetess of God.

And now to my person. About 30 years ago, God, the Almighty, took me into His service. After intensive instructions and schooling – it was a preparation for being the instrument of God – He gave me the word of life, His word, and named me His prophetess. The Spirit of the Christ of God and His assigned servant, a divine being, explained to me everything that would happen to me as a person in the coming years, if I accepted the mission of God as His speaking instrument, His prophetess, to serve Him and His children, my fellow men and women.

I was asked if, as a human being, I wanted to help support, with the help and support of the Christ of God, many a thing that would come along with this great task.
Based on inner knowledge, the inner certainty that God, the life, is love and that I am carried by this great love, I said yes to this mission – out of love for God, who is the Father of all people and souls, and out of love for Christ, the Redeemer of all people and souls. Through this yes to the Christ of God, I experienced via the prophetic word that man is absolutely free and that no person should bind another to himself, and certainly not to the word of God. Everyone who wants to can hear the prophetic Spirit through His instrument, His prophetess. He is and remains free to believe it, that is, to accept it – or to leave it.

I was further taught by the divine world to bind no person to the prophetic word and to the divine work, to found no church, but to give the people an understanding of the church of the heart, where every person remains free in his belief. Concerning my behavior toward my fellow humans, I was taught that above all it is important to offer them the bread of life, the spiritual tools in word and in books, so that they may recognize and walk the path to life, to God, if they want to.
After some time, the Christ of God sent me to the people as His prophetess.

From the Homebringing Mission of Jesus Christ
to the work of the deed, Universal Life

At the beginning of the word of God in public, the Spirit of God named His work the Homebringing Mission of Jesus Christ. Why the Homebringing Mission of Jesus Christ? He, the great Spirit, wants to bring people home to Him in their inner being, into the Kingdom of God, which is in the innermost part of every person. Through me, the Christ of God revealed the basis of the path within, for without spiritual knowledge, without the appropriate spiritual tools, there is no way to be able to take the steps into the Kingdom of God, into our eternal homeland, where our true, original being is at home, and which waits for liberation deep in the innermost part of our soul.

The spiritual basis for the path within, to find the way home to the One who is the homeland of all of us, Christ in us, was revealed by the Spirit of the Christ of God in all its details. On the whole, one can say that the Inner Path consists of an all-encompassing spiritual-divine explanation of the meaning of the Ten Commandments of God and the Sermon on the Mount of Jesus, the Christ – down to the last detail. And so, the Homebringing Mission of Jesus Christ was a great work of teaching and enlightenment.

When many people in Germany and abroad had received much divine knowledge, that is, the basis for the path to living in His Spirit, He created from the root of the work of teaching and enlightenment, the Homebringing Mission of Jesus Christ, the work of the deed, Universal Life.

The work of the deed, Universal Life, means living in the Spirit of God. It consists of people who have acquired much spiritual knowledge and apply it first to themselves, step by step, in order to then stand by their neighbor in word and deed.

Universal Life is a free work. It has no paying members; neither is it an external church. It is for all people who want to experience the word of God, who pray with brothers and sisters, who walk the Inner Path, or people who are new and want to acquire the spiritual basis by way of cassettes and books, in order to then walk the Inner Path, “Nearer My God to You.”
After my yes to God to be His instrument, it did not take long before what the Eternal One and His servant, the one responsible for His work, had foretold came true. The church institutions began their activities against the divine truth, which had come onto this Earth in the word of God and had begun to fill the atmosphere of the Earth with the splendor of the heavens, the law of love for God and neighbor. Again and again and above all, these activities were aimed at me, the instrument of God; nor did they exclude my family from this, either.

Despite myriad adversities, I firmly kept my promise, my yes, to Christ.
While in Germany certain negative forces were raised against the work of the Lord and against those who supported the Spirit of the Christ of God, the Eternal One gave His word through His instrument in many cities abroad. The Christ of God did not let Himself be put off. He continued to explain things to willing people, also about the machinations of the church institutions, and He taught the path within. Year after year, more and more people heard the word of God and many began to walk the Inner Path.

Christ enterprises, led by Original Christians in the spirit of
the Sermon on the Mount of Jesus

Once the path to the Kingdom of God that is found in the person had been taught for some time in many details, so that one could set out from a certain basis of spiritual knowledge and practical, specific experience on the path, the Christ of God addressed the people and in essence revealed to them that the Sermon on the Mount, which He taught in all its details, can be lived – if and when people join together as brothers and sisters and live and work together in His Spirit. Some brothers and sisters came together in living communities and founded Christ enterprises, in order to let the Sermon on the Mount of Jesus become visible in daily life and at work.

During the course of this development, the community with Christ emerged. Every Saturday a festive meal took place, a supper at the Lord’s table. People in the Spirit of God gave their yes to the Christ of God to found enterprises and lead them in the spirit of the Sermon on the Mount. Based on this promise, the Covenant Community New Jerusalem emerged. It is a free joining together of people who – like me – have given their yes to Christ.

A community in and with Christ is like a large family. For this family in Christ there is a family book, the regulations for the community. Over the course of months and years, more and more people joined in. None of them were forced to come, and no one has been or is held back when he wants to leave, when in the community of those of like mind, he breaks the yes that he gave to Christ.

Universal Life is the teaching and the basis for the community and for a life according to the Sermon on the Mount. However, it is and remains what meanwhile has become a worldwide work of teaching and enlightenment that broadcasts the Inner Path into the whole world.

In many countries of the Earth, people joined and join together who – without being tied to the work of the Eternal One, and certainly without being tied to me, His instrument – walk the Inner Path and help to spread the message of God. Since the message of the Eternal One goes into the whole world, the Christ of God also named me, His instrument, His prophetess, as His spiritual ambassador.

Universal Life has no enterprises. Over the course of these past nearly 30 years, Universal Life has become known to countless people all over the Earth as the divine-spiritual work, the work of eternal truth and of the life, where people find their way to the Spirit of the Christ of God in themselves, in their inner being, and who with Christ open up the kingdom of the inner being. People in His Spirit pray together in the stillness, each one as he feels in his heart. They ask the Christ of God within themselves for help, for support and healing. More and more people in Germany and abroad are learning to feel secure and at home in Christ.

I repeat: Universal Life has no enterprises. It is a work of teaching and enlightenment, where people also find the Inner Path. It is not Universal Life that founded the enterprises. Instead, people who accept the teachings of the Sermon on the Mount founded enterprises and still do so today. I work in Universal Life as the instrument of God.

After nearly 30 years, during which time I have stood in the service of the Almighty, I can openly and truthfully testify that during this long time, where I met many, yes, very many people, I have not tied one single person to me. I am merely someone calling out into the desert world, who makes people aware of Jesus, the Christ, who dwells in every person and in all forms of life. Every person can entrust himself to the Christ of God in his inner being and can walk in His footprints, but no one should follow a human being, especially if he classifies himself as belonging to a caste of priests.
 

During these nearly 30 years of divine activity, I, Gabriele, have remained a sister among my brothers and sisters, who also call me Gabi. God, the Almighty, called and calls me His prophetess and spiritual ambassador. I have never called myself this. I call myself Gabriele, and always have and always will.

The term “sect” –
Means of defaming and excluding
those who think differently

As already indicated, various kind of nasty things have been poured out over the divine work on Earth, Universal Life. The Original Christians in Universal Life have been slandered, defamed and put at a disadvantage in many different ways.
For example, Universal Life was disdainfully called a “sect” again and again, a term that in public bears the character of an insult, a stamp for branding people for the purpose of excluding those who think differently.
However, Universal Life cannot be a sect, because Original Christianity comes directly from the roots of the teachings of Jesus, the Christ. Nor does it have any paying members and forces no person to believe the divine word. Each one who comes can leave again. He is not talked into or even pressured to do anything. Each person is responsible before God for his behavior and not before any human being.
As we know, the word sect means to break with a religious faction, to break with a main religion. The Catholic and Protestant Lutheran Churches broke with the Original Christian stream. And so, both institutions are sects, which should basically face up to their own “sect-watch agents.”

The attacks on Universal Life with unjustified accusations were, and are, for more than 25 years, the order of the day. Those who participated in this and still do are mostly so-called church appointees for ideological questions, in short, “sect-watch agents.” However, in their so-called “clarification work” that they carried out with great zeal, they preoccupied and preoccupy themselves not only with ideological or religious questions; on the contrary, their interest was and is widely diversified. They were much more concerned with the social and economic exclusion of all those who feel close to the Original Christian teachings. They attempted to bring the natural medicine practiced by physicians into disrepute, even though the health authorities had no objection at all to it. They drove a data processing firm to ruin, by describing the danger of a violation of the protection of private data, even though for 10 years there had not been the slightest indication of this. They went against market stands merely because the salespersons leaned toward Universal Life. They incited the media and much more.

“Drop-outs” in the service
of defamation experts

Right from the very beginning, there were people in the work of the Lord, in Universal Life, who left the community of those who had decided to follow Christ in their inner being and in His work of the deed. And so, at first one or the other started to work in one of the enterprises led by Original Christians, whose personnel was united in their decision to live and work in their daily life according to the Ten Commandments of God and the Sermon on the Mount of Jesus.
Many a one realized after a while that he did not want to continue to work according to these precepts and left. Nothing against this. But many left without reconciling with their fellow men beforehand. They often took bitter accusations with them – and not seldom, subsequently made up a welcome justification, and took satisfaction by taking their personal inflammatory material to that place where it then found versatile and extensive use in smear campaigns.

Consequently, in-house matters were used as an opportunity for accusing Universal Life, even though it – as the Eternal’s work of teaching and enlightenment – had nothing to do with running businesses and the organization of their daily work.
Some brothers and sisters in the enterprises consider the teachings of the Sermon on the Mount to be higher than do others who have left a Christ enterprise, because they had the mirror of un-Christian behavior held up to them by fellow workers in the enterprise.

There always were and are inconsistencies when people live together. The one thinks he knows better than all the others, which can lead to an escalation of the problem, to quarrelling, when those involved are unyielding and find no basis for forgiveness. This is particularly true when one wants to have a girlfriend, besides his wife who also works in an enterprise. This is in opposition to the teachings of Christian ethics. When, in relation to these desires and wants, a co-responsible of the enterprise then advises him to leave the enterprise because this is not in accordance with the higher ethics and morals of the principles of the Sermon on the Mount of Jesus, then in many cases, he went to side with those who were and are receptive to malicious arguments against Universal Life, in order to exploit them for further discrimination.

Still another ran up large debts without consulting with his colleagues in the enterprise. He was addressed concerning this. The result was that he left the enterprise. Still another, had invested money in the enterprise. Because he was praised too little for this, he used the media to wring the money out of the enterprise. The person concerned would have received his money anyway, because he owned shares in the enterprise. However, this was not the real point for him – he wanted to sound off to the general public and to pillory former brothers and sisters, whereby Universal Life, the teaching work, was and is dragged into it once again.
Similar things were and are experienced again and again by those people who do not tolerate the abuse of the life in the Spirit of God by individuals for arbitrary acts. Many a one who was not willing to reconcile, and thought he was in the right, let himself be publicly honored by expert opinion makers as a heroic “drop-out,” who then, with them, discriminated against former brothers and sisters.

Each one must take the responsibility for himself, for his way of thinking, speaking and acting. In any case, I can say with good conscience that what I have written here is the truth. I guarantee this and I can take the responsibility for this before God, the Eternal One.

Dear friends, my wish and my prayers are that still many people may awaken and find the Spirit of God in themselves, for the Kingdom of God is within, in each of my fellow human beings. I wish and pray that ever more people attain unity with Christ and sense that the life pulsates everywhere – life in all planets, life in all components of infinity, life in animals, plants and minerals, life in the Mother Earth. I wish for each one that he may become a person who can say: “I am the image of God for the most part,” for that is what Jesus, the Christ, wanted when He said: “You, therefore, must be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.”

The path to perfection does not go through church institutions, but exclusively inward, because the Kingdom of God is within, in the person. That is the central teaching of Jesus, the Christ, and that is the path that many people walk.
Yes, dear friends, even though disastrous developments in this world are escalating, even though the satanic is on the rampage, bringing suffering, need, ruin and death to many of us humans and to countless life forms of nature that are so finely sensitive, we are truly living in a blessed time, for we know that God never leaves us alone. Christ remains in us, in our soul, and the one who turns to Him and does what God wants more and more grows ever closer to the One who is the true life.
We know that God, the eternal, indestructible power in everything, is also present in the negative things that people created and create. Even though this world is shaken by terrible turbulences, which bring hellish torment to many people and the nature kingdoms – Christ will emerge victorious, because the light is stronger than the darkness. Despite the tempestuous state of affairs in the world, the message of Christ radiates around the planet Earth. His word is available to every person on all continents. The one who can be addressed in his inner being by Him, Christ, begins to search for the truth, which, as already mentioned, can be found all over the Earth in word and writing. When we turn to Christ, we experience His supporting and guiding power.

When we strive to follow the instructions of the Sermon on the Mount in the situations of our everyday life, by giving up every kind of fighting against our neighbor, for instance, by recognizing the hostility in our feelings, sensations and thoughts in ever more subtle nuances and conquering it with the strength of the inner Christ, then His light will shine out in us more and more, and we will experience His workings in our daily life in manifold ways and means.

The one who learns to experience and feel Christ in himself gains inner stability, independence, inner security and strength – gifts of the All-Highest, which are indestructible, because God’s power, love and wisdom are everlasting.
Christ is the peace that streams throughout and encompasses everything good and divine. If we let it be this way, then we are united with the Spirit of truth, and we are happy.

I wish this for each one of you, dear friends, and for all people, for then there will be peace.

Gabriele

 

 

 

Dear reader,

In her letter Gabriele merely touched upon the direct and indirect activities of the mainstream churches against Christ, against the divine work on Earth and against the speaking instrument of God, against her, the prophetess of God, that is, she merely referred to it with extraordinary restraint. That is why we, the co-workers, the Original Christians in the publishing house THE WORD – for the sake of giving a complete picture – are taking the liberty of adding some details that we think are important and which come from a manuscript with autobiographical notes that we have at our disposal.

Since we have been active in the work of the Christ of God since 1979/1980 ourselves, we know from our own experience what Gabriele writes there and we are of the opinion that our fellow men all over the world should learn about it.
Our sister Gabriele is always very reticent where her person, her well-being or her merits and her achievements are concerned. She is impersonal in the best, the spiritual, sense, which means that Gabriele always thinks of herself last. Untiringly, she strives to contribute so that others feel well. As the instrument of the Spirit of God, her whole life is dedicated to her high and great task, which is not only extensive, but also of extraordinary, far-reaching, cosmic significance, for the fulfillment of which she gave her yes to God.

Mostly, Gabriele does not talk about what she feels. All the more reason for us to convey, in the following words from her, to our fellow humans, the readers of the Gabriele Letter No. 3, a small inkling of how Gabriele experienced the events in and around Universal Life.
In her autobiographical notes, Gabriele writes, among other things, that before taking up her prophetic office, Christ and the cherub of divine Wisdom instructed her on everything that would happen to her:

“They explained to me about the vituperation and ostracism that would come from those people who reject the word of God through me, who would dismiss me as arrogant and presumptuous. They explained to me about the church institutions, that via their so-called sect-watch agents and compliant journalists and reporters they wanted to ruin my existence, by disparaging me, by making me look like a fool and spreading lies about me. The also explained that they would harm the work of God – which at the beginning was called The Homebringing Mission of Jesus Christ, later Universal Life – via character assassination.

Things happened just as they had told me. When right from the very beginning, the church institutions not only questioned the authenticity of God’s word through his instrument, but totally rejected, strongly disputed and denied it, present-day pharisees and scribes now felt bound to make aggressive and loud reactions. Yes, they vehemently campaigned against it with all the means available to them at the present time.

They incited the people via trained character assassination experts, who call themselves sect-watch agents. With disparaging remarks pulled out of their medieval coffers, they not only spread lies about the Original Christians – and about me, too, since I am an Original Christian – but also poured all their medieval repertoire over the divine work, and above all, pilloried me using tried-and-true Inquisition tactics and the most ingenious demagogic cunning. With further hair-splitting lies and outrageously malicious defamation, they even invaded my family life. The purpose of their whole medieval campaign was not only to make my family and relatives turn away from me, but also to incite people. The divine work was to be eliminated at any price.
I am aware that there are certain anti-Christian forces, which via certain institutions wage a bitter campaign that is ultimately only superficially against me, the instrument of God. In actuality, they are going against the One whose name sham-Christian churches keep on using and whose teaching of love for God and neighbor they have betrayed in the most outrageous manner for 2000 years.

At the present time, there are no longer guillotines and pyres for burning people at the stake, but there are compliant journalists and reporters who work for the church institutions and so arrange and formulate the latter’s reports in their organs of dissemination, that the pyres and guillotines flare up in those people who believe them and are servile to them.
With microphones and cameras, the reporters invaded the family sphere, right into the rooms of the house, so that my family became very worried and afraid of possible further smear campaigns that could not only make their lives hell, but would lead to the loss of their jobs, which also happened. One family member lost his job due to the malicious campaign and another was forced to turn his back on the Lord’s work so that he, too, would not lose his job.

I suffered unspeakably under these dastardly lies that the character assassination experts spread so systematically, above all, because they drew my family into their plans for today’s newfangled pyres and guillotines. The character assassination experts, their journalists and reporters were lurking everywhere ...
Universal Life is and remains a free work, even though the church institutions – according to their customs of old and via the Inquisitors trained by them, their character assassination experts – want to hunt down, with clever qualifying clauses, lies and accusations, those people who could expose their machinations. Unfortunately, many a judge dances to the church’s tune and bends the scale, the emblem of Justice, with the term ‘expression of opinion.’ Many people do not know that the church lies can be so bent and twisted that the court is able to contrive an expression of opinion from it, especially when the judges are loyally linked to the Catholic Catechism, which, among other things, says: ‘Their [the citizens’] loyal collaboration includes the right, and at times the duty, to voice their just criticisms of that which seems harmful to the dignity of persons and to the good of the community.’ (No. 2238)

Sect-watch agents, journalists and reporters – they are all doubtless citizens and thus, according to the Catechism entitled, yes, even obligated to “criticize” whatever they want to. Just merely the word ‘seems’ – whatever the individual feels it to be – already legitimizes the ‘criticism,’ according to the Catechism. And the judges clearly state what is ‘just’: It is the ‘expression of opinion’!

And so, according to their ruling, one is allowed to repeat as an expression of opinion what the churches cleverly tell as lies, that is, to continue to lie in accordance with expression of opinion, just as the church institutions and their sect-watch agents do. The work of the Eternal One was branded as a ‘sect’ by the modern inquisitors who pass themselves off as sect-watch agents.

Original Christians, as the free Christians in the Spirit of the Christ of God call themselves, cannot be sectarians unless the caste of priests of today stamp Jesus, the Christ, today as a sectarian, as the caste of priests of that time did with Jesus, the Christ. This would mean that the Original Christians follow the sectarian Jesus, the Christ. If this were so, the churches would be even more implausible than they already are today.

The church institutions have worked their way into becoming a large sect only because they let the state slaughter ethically high-standing people and communities, whose possessions they then robbed.

Today these ecclesiastical-institutional large sects are called the state churches. Each one can form his own picture in relation to this.

The church character assassination experts have a long arm, which became the forum for those who wanted to publicly ‘settle accounts’ with brothers and sisters in the Christ-enterprises. They took the discrimination, the tool of the sect-watch agents, as a means to an end, in order to defame those in the enterprises who did not condone their behavior and who therefore reminded the co-worker that he had agreed to keep certain ethical-moral principles. The forum of character assassination then made a sweeping blow and defamed Universal Life at the same time, even though it had nothing to do with any business matters.

This was and is welcome fare for present-day inquisitors. They and the drop-outs glorified by them then fire together the church rubbish, their correspondences, at people and at the work of the Eternal and do not shy away from the most disgraceful actions, as well. Even though I did not know about many of these incidents in the enterprises, Universal Life and my person were thrown along into the pot of accusations. This slander and degradation was also instigated by the church inquisitors, whereby the material carried to them was mostly lies, which people, whose personal expectations and ambitious plans had not been fulfilled, wanted to use to take revenge on the work of God and on people.

The courts have draped the cloak of ‘expression of opinion’ over such tirades of lies. Many people spread the lies of the church institutions and their sect-watch agents, and still do, without thinking about what they say. For they say after all: ‘One can say it for the judges have confirmed it.’

There is a method behind this deliberate spreading of lies. Experience teaches that something or other will stick. And it is so. People who don’t think, and are tied to the church institutions speak disparagingly of Universal Life and call the divine work ‘sect’ or ‘U. L.’ That is a mockery of the Universal Spirit, who is the All-Life.”

Thus far, some passages from Gabriele’s autobiographical notes.

Verlag DAS WORT




The Price List “for Your High Flight”

It may have become clear to many a reader of Gabriele Letter No. 3 what kind of spirit blows in the institutional church. Further conclusions are offered by the following information from the book “Finances and Assets of the Churches in Germany,” by Carsten Frerk, 2002:

“The Vatican is said to have a sort of price list,
from a simple postcard (50 cents), to a printed papal blessing ($7.50), to a personally signed blessing with representative document ($2,500), all the way to a private papal audience ($15,000), including video.
For the more well-heeled, there is said to be an honorary doctorate (for a donation of $25,000) or an Order (Order star for the Great Cross of St. Sylvester or of the Order of St. Gregory) for $60,000, a barony granted by the Curie (for $150,000) and finally being elevated to royal ranks, (up to $ 1.3 million).
All prices are based on 1990.”

What did the Seer of Patmos, John, say in his revelation? “Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues.”
By now it must be fully clear to the alert contemporary what he should do.