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The Elder – Old ones
I also speak about the elderly, those who long ago left the prime of their lives, and now they feel the cold of winter. As they grow older, they are lacking strength, the energy, and health; the work becomes heavy, their limbs turn sluggish, and their services are no longer needed for work.
Thus the elderly see themselves excluded from the struggle of the rest; they feel abandoned, and their heart, depressed, sinks with sadness and has to experience hardship, misery, hunger, and loneliness. I speak about them, because they also need your aid and comfort. Love them, O! My people! And you will have the right to sit at the great table of the spiritual banquet where I will say to you: “Blessed are you who, in imitation of the Master, were able to understand all those who suffer.”
Have respect and love toward the mature and the elderly. You may discover in them the spirit who has already passed through the top of the mountain of life. Whatever the Earth had to offer, little or much, they have already received it. They expect nothing from it anymore. They place everything in the future which awaits their spirit; however, from among all men, they are the ones who have the most to give, because they have already gathered from the harvest all of what they sowed along their existence.
You should hear them and from them you shall receive. If they need support, care or aid, it is not their spirit who is in need of your help; it is their tired flesh, worn out by the struggle. Be attentive toward them; have tenderness and respect, because they need it and deserve it. After so much bitterness and fatigue, a drop of honey is very pleasing to those hearts.
That is how I want you to regard Humanity, beloved people, spiritually, so that you may give to each of your brethren the value he has and the place he deserves. If you forget your essence and continue treating them only as material beings, you would be denying the true value that exists in every human being, which is the spirit.
Aged ones: The passage of time and the struggles of life have humbled you. Your lips are silent; your heart is sad. You have learned that no more can you yearn for the glories of the world since you are no longer young. Your only hope lies in the life found beyond death which your spirit awaits. You feel useless because your brethren believe that you no longer serve a purpese since you are physically weak However, you know that within your heart a light shines and an abundance of knowledge exists.
I, your Master, understand you; I know your heart and I say to you: talk to me, behold how My love envelops you. Calmly await the hour of My calling. Do not be disturbed, for there the true life and eternal youth await you.
Men of maturity and aged ones: Do not lament the time that you have let pass without hearing me; you are with Me today. If you love Me, you will in a short time learn My teachings and benefit from it You are already on the path and you can begin the journey.
The sorrow of many men comes from not having found in his lifetime a shady tree under which to rest. They have found trees on the path but they were dry and fruitless.
When they come, satisfying their hunger and thirst and take pleasure in resting, all their past will, through imagination, become known to them; the painful journey through the desert, the darkness with its temptations, the abysses full of dangers, of vices and of death. They will remember one by one the bitter chalices that they drank, and they will observe within themselves traces of the struggle.
Elders, be with Me and never more separate from Me. Follow Me today and when your spirit arrives at the threshold of the spiritual valley to begin a new life you will experience youth eternally. You will always be young and strong.
Ah!, if only you knew how to live with the simplicity of the birds who live loving one another. As winter approaches they fly away seeking better climates, but leave their nests prepared for their brethren! Old age represents the winter of your life. However, you who have little faith perceive the coldness of death and the finale of life in that winter. You fail to realize that after winter, spring will always arrive and nature will be renewed, birds will trill their songs, and the fragrances of spring will be released.
Elders who weep because your reasoning tells you that you will not see on Earth the triumph of My Law, truly I say to you: Who can assure that by then, you shall not be back in this world to be witnesses to the coming of My Kingdom, and attain one more step along the pathway? To those who will not return, I say to them that I will allow them to behold from the hereafter the triumph of My justice, and the voice and presence of those beings will be felt on Earth.
Angels – The Enlightened Beings
Humanity: I say to you that you only know of things that pertain to this world, for you deny what you cannot verify materially. If you knew just a little about the spirit, you would not dare to deny the existence, nor the communication of the spiritual world.
Before I left this world, I said to My disciples: The Comforter will come among you, the Spirit of Truth who will reveal to you what is in His Arcanum.
Here then, is the continuation of My Work, My coming in the Third Era as The Comforter, surrounded by My great armies of angels, as it has been written.
The multitude of beings whom I have destined to accompany and to help you along your journey is so great that it is beyond your imagination. Complete harmony exists among them. The light they emit is wisdom and love, for they have dedicated themselves to helping humanity. Their greatest desire is to guide their brethren to the summit of spirituality.
Their presence, their influence and their inspiration is so subtle that their presence among humanity could only be perceived by those who are prepared.
The world of virtuous spirits who have come to help you, is close to you. Ask with faith and with respect and you will receive their benefits. Call them without distinction, for I have prepared all of them in the same manner. All of them have become worthy to help humanity in this period.
Some refer to that world as invisible; and others call it the Hereafter. Why? Simply because they lack the faith to perceive the spiritual and because their human smallness makes them feel distant and unbecoming to a world that they should feel in their heart.
When I speak of the spiritual world, I am referring to those spiritual beings who are obedient and true servants; they carry out only the will of God. Those are the beings whom I have sent among you as advisors, guardians, doctors, and true brethren among mankind. They offer their assistance at the appropiate times and show humility and concern when they are summoned or needed. If you want to feel the influence and help of those who feel charity toward you, you must develop faith, obey their orders, have trust and sensitivity, and be well prepared when praying. Then you will be able to contemplate wonderful things along your path in life.
Those spirits, followers of mine, form a part of that comfort that I had promised you, and you already had proof of their charity and of their peace through their good counsel and examples of virtue.
Through them I have granted you benefits, and they have been intermediaries between you and My Spirit.
When you have perceived the grace and gifts with which they are endowed, as well as their humility, you have felt inspired to perform deeds as pure as those they have realized in your life. When they have entered your home, you have felt honored by their spiritual presence.
A legion of spiritual beings has been sent to assist you. Those beings will give you courage, inspiration, and will help you to arise when you stumble. When your path becomes invaded by beings full of darkness, the enlightened beings will show you how to illuminate those beings in darkness and free them from their confusion. The light of your guardians will illuminate you so that you may contemplate your path and discover its dangers.
When will man prepare himself in order to listen to the wise advise of the spiritual world and guide himself through their inspirations?
Truly I say to you that as your thoughts become more pure, and as your deeds become more simple and virtuous, you will perceive the presence and influence of the spiritual world in your life with greater clarity, and greater will be the miracles that you will receive from it.
The great spirits, great because of their struggle, their love, and their great efforts, seek harmony with their younger brethren on earth who are distant and neglectful. They have noble and elevated missions.
Those spirits know that they were created to become elevated and to be active; they know that inactivity is not for the children of God. Everything in creation is life, movement, equality, and harmony. And thus, those countless beings work, exert themselves, and rejoice in their battle, knowing that they are glorifying the Lord and helping in the progress and perfection of their brethren.
You ignore the influence that those brethren exert over you. But once you develop`the senssitivity to perceive their light, inspirations, and the messages that they send you, you will have an idea of the countless tasks and noble deeds to which they dedicate their existence.
It is necessary for you to know that those spirits, because of the love and respect that they have for the laws of the Creator, never undertake what does not correspond to them nor do they undertake that which is prohibited. They also do not penetrate where they should not, in order not to break the harmony among the elements of creation.
To battle against the world of darkness, you will need the world of light to triumph over the influence of war, you will depend upon the angel of peace; to battle against sickness, pagues, and death you will have the charity of those invisible beings who are ready to pour their balsam of charity and comfort upon humanity.
Now that I have informed you of the kindness and elevation of these beings, I must tell you that they are pure and thus can speak to the world about purity. They love me and love you, therefore, they have the right to speak of love. They are saturated with health and well-being and can share this with those who are ill.
Do you believe that they have always been virtuous beings? Are you not aware that a great number of them have dwelled on Earth and have known of the weaknesses and great faults?
Behold them now; there is no blemish in them, but it is because they heard the voice of the conscience; they awakened to love and repented of their past faults and, in that crucible, they have been purified to rise with dignity and now they serve Me by serving Humanity.
Their spirits have taken, through love, the task of helping their fellowmen to restitute all that they did not do when they inhabited Earth, and they have accepted, as a divine gift, the opportunity of coming to sow the seed they had not planted before and to destroy every imperfect deed they may have done before.
For that reason, you now behold their humility, their patience, and their gentleness, and on occasions you have seen them suffer because of their restitution, but their love and recognition which is greater than the obstacles that they have faced, overcome it all and they are willing to go to such an extent as sacrifice.
Just as you see how they are today, you will be tomorrow. You will also inhabit that world, and your love, effort, and repentance, will wash away the blemishes that may have remained within you, so you may be as clean and pure as they are.
Your perseverance and your love for righteousness will help you send your prayer toward those whom you leave on Earth involved in vicissitudes and evil, and you will plead with the Father: “Lord, permit me to return, even in an invisible or intangible form, to my brethren, to carry a message of peace and health to those who suffer.” And I shall grant you that grace.
Then you will be as angels, and nothing can keep you from visiting other worlds of expiation, taking within you that spring of grace and kindness which I have entrusted to you as My children.
Anti-christ
You have been told about the anti-Christ, to which My disciple John refers in Revelation; and in your confusion you have attributed that personality to many of your brethren, as much of the past, as well as in the present.
Today I say to you, that this anti-Christ, as Humanity has conceived him, has never existed, nor will ever exist. Anti-Christ is anyone who does not love, because Christ is the love of the Creator. Be aware then, how your world is full of anti-Christs, blinded by materialism.
I say to you, that it is better for you to be filled with uncertainties and denials, than filled with false affirmations or falsehoods that you regard as truths. A sincere denial, born from doubt or from ignorance, is less harmful than a hypocritical affirmation of a falsehood.
A clear doubt which hungers for comprehension, is better than the firm belief of any myth. A desperate uncertainty, which cries out for enlightenment, is better than a fanatical or idolatrous firmness.
Today there is an abundance everywhere of unbelievers, distrustful and embittered ones. They are the rebellious, ones who many times see more clearly than the rest, who do not feel ritualism, nor are they convinced of the affirmations they hear from those who guide Mankind spiritually, because all those complicated theories do not fill their heart that thirsts for pure waters, which will calm their anguish.
Those whom you judge as rebellious, many times have in their questions more light than the answers given by those who believe to be wise or great. They feel, see, sense, hear, and understand more clearly than many who regard themselves as masters in the divine teachings.
You have believed right down to the letter in the coming of men who would call themselves Christs, and you have ended up believing and understanding that those will be the false Christs.
You persist in regarding the symbols the other way around, and you become attached to them in such a way, that you become confused; and finally you do not know what to think. Stop thinking so much. Purify your spirit and your heart and come to Me. I shall give you the light, and I will reveal to you what you should know, both for your material improvement, as well as for your spiritual ascension.
Who are the false Christs? All those who, proclaiming superiority and virtue, and claiming to be propagators of righteousness, do everything just the opposite.
The so-called Devil
Today man cannot think about God without giving Him some type of material form. Man cannot talk of temptation without personifying the influence of evil as a being, whose mission is to induce spirits to become lost; nor can he think of the restitution of one who has sinned without imagining the punishment of the fires of hell, a hell which has never existed.
Why do you not call men who are evil on earth demons if they also tempt you, induce you to the evil deeds, and separate you from the true path?
Truly I say to you that I do not have an enemy among those who dwell on earth or those found in the spiritual valley. There does not exist one being who dedicates himself to hating me, cursing me, or separating his fellow beings from the righteous path, solely for the pleasure of hurting me. Lies! Those who separate men from their faith, who erase my name from the heart of men, and who fight against the spiritual, do not do it to offend me. They do it because is convenient to their terrestrial ambitions and their dreams of greatness and human glory.
The existence of the Prince of Darkness has been interpreted erroneously!
Many have come to believe more in his power than in mine; these men are far from the truth.
Evil exists, and all vice and sin originate from it. Sinners, or rather those who practice evil, have always existed, as much on earth as in other dwelling places or mansions. Therefore, why do you personify all existent evil into one being? Why do you put him in opposition to my Divinity? I ask you: Of what significance is an impure being compared to my absolute and infinite power? What does your sin signify in the presence of my perfection?
Humanity has misinterpreted the words of parables of the first times. Those revelations were symbolic. The intuition that man had about the supernatural became influenced by his imagination. Man created sciences, cults, superstitions, and myths related to the force of evil which have remained to the present day.
No devils could emerge from God; you have created them with your own imagination. The concept that you have of that being, whom you constantly place before me as an adversary, is false.
How can you conceive that I would ever place in the path of man a being infinitely more powerful than he, continually tempting him and leading him to eternal condemnation?
How badly you think of Me and My justice, those who say that you know Me and love Me!
Hell – Infernos
Men have imagined hell as a place of eternal torture where all who disobey my laws are sent. And they have created a hell for those with great faults, have imagined another place for those with lesser faults, and yet another for those who have done neither wrong nor right.
In this period, I will abolish with my word that hell that men have created through their religions and erroneous interpretations. They have done this to instill fear, placing a veil of ignorance upon humanity.
The spirit cannot suffer the physical pain that the flesh experiences. The suffering of the spirit comes when the conscience makes him aware of his deeds, making the spirit see and understand clearly his mistakes and imperfections.
There is only confusion in the heart of humanity, and that confusion forms part of a foundation upon which rests the beliefs of most individuals.
Do you believe that I, your Father, have created places specifically destined to punish you, thus eternally taking vengeance for your faults?
Or what benefit would it be to Me, if I punished you with eternal fire? You would only curse eternally a God whom you felt judged you injustly, cruelly and vengefully.
I did not create death nor hell. When My Spirit conceived the idea of creation, I only felt love. Thus, only life emerged from My bosom. If death and hell exist they are human deeds, though small, and you know that nothing human is eternal.
I have told you in this period: Do not harbour the idea of hell that exists among humanity. There is no hell other than the life you have created with your wars and hatred. In the Hereafter, there is no fire other than the repentance of the spirit when the conscience points out his mistakes. Hell is a symbol of the great sorrow, terrible remorse, desperation, pain, and bitterness experienced by those who have greatly sinned. But they will free themselves from those feelings as their spirits evolve with love.
Question your conscience and you will know if you are living in hell and atoning for your faults, or if you are experiencing the peace of Heaven.
What men call Heaven or hell are not specific sites; they symbolize the essence of the deeds which the spirit will harvest when he reaches the spiritual valley. Each one lives in his own hell, inhabiting his own world of restitution or blissful joys, which gives elevation and harmony with the Divine spirit.
How different spiritual reality is from that which man has imagined! Neither is My justice what you believe it to be, nor is it as easily and quickly attained as you have imagined. Also spiritual restitution is not as you have described it, nor is temptation a spirit.
My justice does not condemn anyone and much less for eternity. The fire described in the scriptures, is the unyielding conscience that will burn like fire until the spirit is purified of every blemish. That fire will cease when all trace of sin disappears. Understand that it is not I who dictates your sentence, but you yourself.
If human sins were punished with fire, then the material bodies of all sinners would have to be thrown into the fire while alive on earth, because they would no longer feel anything once they were dead. The physical body does not elevate toward the spiritual space but descends to the inner surface of the earth once it has concluded its mission. Once there, it unites with nature, where material life began.
If you believe the eternal fire is for the spirit and not the body, then this is another grave error, because there does not exist any material elements in the spiritual kingdom, nor does fire have any effect upon the spirit. What is born of flesh, is flesh, and what is born of spirit, is spirit.
Glory – The perfection of the spirit
Eliminate the wrong interpretations you have been taught concerning scriptures of past times. Those erroneous interpretations have been like a thick veil preventing you from perceiving the truth.
The glory of the spirit, with all its happiness, is in the perfection of the spirit.
Glory it is not a specific place. It is when the spirit comes to the end of his evolution. It is necessary for you to comprehend why those who doubt the existence of the spirit proclaim, “I will die”, believing that death represents the end. But those who believe in eternal life will proclaim, “I will live eternally”.
Your ideas are incorrect about the meaning of life on the earth, the spirit, and the spiritual valley. Many believe that if one has certain virtues or repents for his sins before he dies, he will have assured glory for his spirit.
This false belief does not permit man to persevere in the fulfillment of my law throughout his life. When he leaves earth and enters the spiritual mansion, his spirit reaches a site that does not have the wonders that he had imagined, nor does he feel the supreme happiness he thought he deserved.
It is necessary to clarify these mysteries to humanity so that it can understand that the material life offers man the opportunity to achieve merits for his spirit, merits that will help his spirit to elevate until he is worthy of inhabiting a mansion that is spiritually superior. But once he reaches this state, he will need to continue to achieve merits so that he does not become stationary. The spirit will continue to ascend step by step because in the Father´s house there are many mansions.
True merit is of the one who having everything in the world, would at any instant promptly renounce his possessions and comforts, because then he would be demonstrating his spiritual elevation and testifying that Heaven or Glory is not a specific place created by the imagination of men through the eras and ages, but rather a state of the spirit who could live, experience, and enjoy from their human existence, a condition that will be more pure and perfect as the spirit continues ascending along the ladder that leads him to the summit of the spiritual life.
These merits can be achieved only through love, as taught by the Eternal Law of the Father. And thus, your spirit will go step by step on the ladder of perfection, knowing the path that leads to true glory is the perfection of the spirit.
Heaven is not a predetermined place in the Universe. My Glory is everywhere; in the spiritual and in the material. Do you not say that God is in Heaven, on Earth, and in every place? Then understand what you say so that you will know that where God is, His Glory has to be there.
The Scriptures – The rightful interpretation
Humanity, where are you going? You are guided by those whom you admire as great teachers of the sacred revelations, but whom I perceive as confused.
Not all who preach along the streets and roads of life, speaking of the events of past eras, interpreting the prophecies or explaining revelations, are my messengers. Many of them, because of vanity, ill will and human interests, have utilized those teachings to offend, to judge, to humiliate, to injure, and to destroy.
It is time that you interpret correctly my parables and teachings which I have revealed to you through symbols. Thus, their significance can penetrate into your spirit and their symbolic forms can disappear.
Once you achieve that understanding, you will develop true faith, for you will have strengthened it with the truth.
Humanity has inaccurately interpreted my parables and teachings literally, giving material meaning to my teachings. It has given a material or human form to everything Divine.
Because of the material interpretation that man has given to my revelations, many beliefs about spiritual life are far from the truth.
Thus, how can man give a true interpretation to that which I call Kingdom of Heaven? How can he understand My justice, when he believes that there is a hell which his imagination has created? And when he will accept and understand that the law of reincarnation is not a simple theory? It is also not something false that only a few men believe, but rather a law of eternal justice and loving restitution. Through reincarnation the spirit has the opportunity to be purified, perfected, molded, and elevated.
Throughout the times those writings left by my disciples have been adulterated, changed by man. That is why there is disagreement among the religions. But I have come to clarify all of my teachings in order to unite humanity into only one light and only one will.
The scriptures of the past could reveal to you what I repeat to you today, but man has dared to falsify my truths to spread them adulterated. And there you have a spiritually sick, weary, and abandoned humanity.
Behold the material interpretation that you have given my revelations of the First and Second Eras, when in reality they only speak of the divine and the spiritual. Behold how you confuse material nature with spirituality. Thoughtlessly, you convert that which is profound and elevated into something that is superficial and lowly. And why have you done it this way? Because, wanting to do something for the work of God, you seek a way of adapting my doctrine to your material life and human needs that is what you believe are your best interests.
Those who live studying the scriptures of past eras, and who have divided into various sects and congregations because of differences in their interpretation of the word of God, will become unite through spirituality. As their analysis and interpretation of my scriptures becomes elevated, they will discover the true essence of my teachings. In the past, they had always given a human and material meaning to the divine revelations.
Man has dedicated himself to scrutinize the past testaments, torturing his mind in his analysis and interpretation of the prophecies and promises. Those who have come closest to the truth are the ones who have found the spiritual meaning of my teachings. Those who persist in a material interpretation and who do not know or refuse to discover the spiritual meaning of my manifestations, will experience confusions and deceptions like those suffered by the Jewish people when the Messiah came. They had expected and imagined his arrival to be in a manner different from that which He, in reality, arrived.
When you renounce your fanaticism, which is what blinds and prevents you from perceiving the truth, you will begin to understand. Then you shall behold the contents of my revelations of the present and past emerge before you in its full light. And then you will regard as perfect justice what you called a mystery. You will also give an eternal value to what is unchangeable, and give to what is human and temporary its proper importance.
Religions – Divine or human creation?
Where is the true wisdom? And I say to you: It is in God. Which is the true religion? And the Master answers: He who loves Me and loves his brother, has found the truth and has complied with the Law.
Every religion that teaches righteousness and love, and extols charity, is good because it harbours the light of truth, but when within them, man degenerates and converts into evil what was good at the beginning, then the path is lost between materialism and sin.
There you have a humanity languishing in their religions without taking a step towards the light, because they have not submitted to what the Divine Law ordains. Instead, they have attempted to conform it to their will, filling it with myhts and errors.
As such, I behold all churches, all religions, all sects that man has created upon the face of the Earth. They are so involved in materialism, fanaticism, idolatry, mysticism and profanations!
What do I receive from all this? Only the intention. However, not because I can receive the good intentions of mankind, will I allow them to eternally remain in darkness, involved in their idolatry and fanaticism.
Do the religions believe they are complying with the maxim of loving one another, recognizing only their followers and excluding those who belong to another sect?
Today I have come to free you from your spiritual stagnation, because for some time mankind have slept profoundly in a state of religious fanaticism, idolatry, false sects and materialism, with which they have wanted to substitute the practice of love for one another, charity, forgiveness, and all that is derived from the same Law.
Do not confuse the Law with the religions or forms that you may have to interpret that Law.
Do not be a preserver of habits, forms or traditions, because you will remain submerged for centuries in the lethargy of fanaticism and ignorance. On the other hand, be upholders of the Law and of the truth.
I see the great temples, the great religious organizations, the pomp and the riches; the splendor and the power, but I do not see spiritual magnificence; I do not see a gala of virtues; I do not see any spiritual might that is part of My universal power. I do not discern that might that should be part of My universal power; and, I can only say that men have built on sand, like foolish ones, and have not been able to construct on the solid rock, upon which men should have raised the true church for their Lord and God. And I also say to you: Of all that greatness, of all that power, no stone will remain one upon the other.
No one should believe that I have come to take away the gifted, the faithful or the followers from the different religions. No, but the hour has come when a new Era makes its appearance, stirring forgotten lessons; erasing customs, beliefs and useless traditions; purifying and divesting the spirit of all falsehood in order to give man the true bread of the spirit which he has always exchanged for rituals.
How much will you have to fight against the idolatry and the fanaticism of the different religions, warning you that this is the greatest poison that could surprise all men on Earth!
Observe how the spirit of all Humanity has awakened. See how all their congregations are touched. Observe in each religion, in each sect, a kingdom, a dominion, and all those kingdoms will rise calling each other for unification, and because not one will be disposed to humble itself and come forward on the calling of the others, the conflict will come.
The words of love will disappear to give way to the anathemas, the threats, the condemnations, and the excommunications. All this you will have to contemplate, oh my children!
The tongues will loosen, the human passions will become unleashed, everyone will use My name, My word, and My laws to cause a war against one another, to combat each other, to exterminate and humble one another.
Be on the alert, my people! Because Humanity will rise against their own idols, their fanaticism and their traditions, and a movement will begin among religions toward the beginning of spirituality.
I know that many will be scandalized when they learn about this word, but it will be those who in their confusion may not wish to recognize that there exists in man a spiritual part besides his human nature, or those who, relying on the spirit clinging on to the routine of their traditions and their beliefs, will deny that there exists a road of infinite evolution for the spirit.
Forgiveness
Learn to forgive whoever has offended you. I told Peter that if he were offended by his brother seventy times seven, he should forgive him the same amount of times. By this, I wanted Peter to understand that he should always forgive his brother, whether the harm was small or great. How many beings have moved along through this world calling themselves Christians without being able to forgive at least once during their lifetime!
Learn to forgive the defects of your brother. If you are unable to correct their faults, at least be tolerant with your brethren.
Eliminate your pride so that you may practice humility with your brethren. Humility represents triumph, and vanity represents defeat, even though you may value these two things differently on earth.
Be watchful always so that you are able to forgive with your heart whoever offends you. Meditate beforehand, for whoever offends his brother does so because he lacks enlightenment. And I say to you that forgiveness is the only way that can bring enlightenment to those hearts.
Anger born from vengeance increases darkness and attracts suffering. How could you not forgive someone who does not understand what he has done? He is not aware of his deed because he is ignorant of the fact that the wrong that he is doing to himself.
Once again I say to you, examine yourself carefully, and thus you will begin to feel more compassion, understanding, and brotherly love toward humanity, for you still consider disgusting the deeds of others simply because you have forgotten your own faults. But when you become aware of your own faults and mistakes, then you will understand my love, that love which awaits and forgives you. Then you will have no choice but to say: If my Father has forgiven me after having offended Him so much, I, too, am binded over to forgive my brethren.
I divide those who have tried to practice forgiveness into three groups. The first one consists of those who have forgotten my teachings and do not hold back when they are offended. They are confused and avenge themselves, returning blow for blow. This group has been overcame by temptation and are slaves of their passions.
The second group consists of those who, when offended, remembering my example, close their mouth, and hold back their impulses. Then they say to me: Lord, they have offended me, but I have forgiven them instead of avenging myself. But I, who penetrates into the depths of human heart discover in that individual a desire for me to avenge him and to carry out my justice upon his brother. This group is in full battle.
The third group, the smallest, is the one who imitates Jesus. When they are offended, they elevate themselves toward the Father filled with pity for their brethren and tell me: Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.
Who is God?
Who is God, where is he? Man has always struggled to reach an understanding of the truth.
In the beginning he attributed everything to Nature, but later on, by observing and meditating, he began thinking that it was not possible that so many marvels and perfect works could surge from nothingness; that there had to exist a creative force, an intelligence and a superior power. Within that belief the faith of men was assured, who at the same time created worships and rituals to venerate the One from who all creatures emerged.
New questions surged from the human heart: Who is God? What is He like? Does He really exist or not? These and other questions were asked among men regarding My existence and My essence, though I have always responded to every call and every question.
I am all that you still cannot understand in all its fullness, for you still dwell in the flesh, and possesing in it a limited mind, you analyze Me in accordance with your materialism. Cease to study Me outside the path which My Law points out, because that would only be misleading you from the pathway.
God has no form, for if He had, He would be a limited being, as the human being is; then He could not be God.
There is no form in My spirit, just as there is no form in intelligence, love or wisdom.
Do not try to seek Me with the poor and limited knowledge you posses at this time, for with it you will confuse yourselves.
Why is that being within you, you are unable to feel Me far beyond all that is material? But truly I say to you, that I am in everything and everywhere. Why should you always search for Me outside of you, when I am also within your own self?
There are some who say that God does not exist and others, while confessing in believing in His existence, show no interest. And one or the other ignoring they carry Him within do not know they cannot live without Him.
When your intelligence leads you to the beginning of life and there you get to discover how creatures are born and transformed, you will marvel while understanding the explanation of so many of my teachings. You will then discover that God manifested in everything, from the imperceptible beings within your gaze, up to the worlds and major stars.
Search for My presence within the works I have carried out, and you will find me at every step. Strive to hear Me, and you will hear me in that powerful voice which emerges from everything created, because I find no difficulty in manifesting Myself through the beings of creation. In much the same way that I manifest myself in a star, in the fury of a storm, I can do it in the gentle light of daybreak. And in the same manner that I allow My voice to be heard through a melodious trill of a bird, I can express it through the fragance of flowers. And each expression of Mine, each phrase, each of My works, speaks to you of love, of a fulfillment toward the laws of justice, of wisdom, of eternity in the spirit.
Men have always lost their balance of justice and truth. They had touched the extremes.
During past times you worshipped God in all material forms placed before your eyes; in the stars, in the elements and the idols made by your own hands. Today man feels greatness; he exhalts his personality, and he feels ashamed to speak of God, calling Him by other names, in order not to jeopardize his arrogance, so as not to descend from the pedestal of his position. That is why they call Me: Cosmic Intelligence, Arquitect of the Universe; however, I have taught you to call Me: Our Father! just as I taught you during the Second Time. Why, after calling Me Father, men believe to lower themselves or lessen their personality?
Nobody should be ashamed to call God, the Creator, “Father”, because that is His real name.
Some say: God is in heaven; others: God dwells in the Beyond; but they know not what they say, nor do they know in what to believe. Certainly I dwell in the Heavens of light, of power, of love, of wisdom, of justice, of happiness and perfection.
I am the Beyond, yes; but beyond human sin, beyond materialism, arrogance and ignorance. For that reason I say that I come to you, because I come toward your smallness, for I speak to you in a way that your senses are able to feel Me and your mind understands Me; not because I come from other worlds or mansions, for My Spirit dwells everywhere.
I am all Spirit, and I am present in all My works. If you look for me in everything that surrounds you on Earth, in the air, in space, in the light, there you will see Me. If you seek My presence in the most insignificant creature, in the leaf of the tree that moves by the breeze, or in the fragance of a flower, there you will find Me. You will discover there and everywhere a trace of love in which the Creator demonstrates all His works.
