Then
Joshua, in at-one-ment with his Divine Self, the El
Shaddai, said in Greek, ‘Beloved ones,
offspring of Alaha, love the
Adonai Alaha and the Adonai Elohim in
you. Love your Alaha in you – Being-Ego-Self. Love your Spirit-Soul-Self
and love your Adonai Alaha in every other human being.
‘Beloved ones, Alaha is in you and the
Melekh Shamayyim (the King of the Heavens) is in your Spirit Being-Self.
You are the Melekh Shamayyim.
‘The El Shaddai and the Shekhinah are in your
Being-Self. The Shekhinah keeps your material body in good health through
your Tzool-mal (etheric double) filling it with Neshamah (Vitality). “Ateh
Gibor Leolam Adonai (You are mighty forever, O Lord), always filling our
Hakhamim (vital body) with your Divine life-giving Vitality.”
‘Beloved ones - Essenes, Israelites, Greeks, Bedouins, Romans, and all
human beings on this Earth – you are all offspring of the Alaha El Shaddai.
To call another your enemy is an insult to Alaha. All human beings are
individualized little selves in the El Shaddai Divine Selfhood. Love Alaha,
the Adonai, the Spirit-Soul-Self of All human beings, your brothers and
sisters, the sons and daughters of your Father Alaha.
‘Love those brothers and sisters who are under the influence of the Evil
One, calling themselves your enemies. They need your love more than your
friends. Pray to the Heavenly Father, yours and theirs, that they may be
freed from the dark snares of the Wicked One, going from darkness of
ignorance into the light of your love.
‘In the gross material world the Evil One, the Master of Evil, of
Darkness and Ignorance reigns and has power only for a limited time over
matter and human flesh. But the Master of Evil, his petty evil existence, is
no match to the Lord of Life, the Lord of everlasting Light, to the
Spirit-Soul-Self, the real Self-Soul of a human being. It is the Spirit
who gives life; the flesh profits nothing’
But
I say to you who hear: Love those calling themselves your enemies, do good
to those who hate you. Bless those who curse you and pray for those who
spitefully use you. To him who strikes you on the one cheek, offer the other
also. And from him who takes away your cloak, do not withhold your tunic
either. Give to every one who asks of you. And from him who takes away your
goods, do not ask them back. And just as you want men to do to you, also do
to them likewise. But if you love those who love you what credit is that to
you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those
who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even the sinners do the
same. And if you lend to those from whom you hope to receive back, what
credit is that to you? For even sinners lend to sinners to receive as much
back in return. But love those who call themselves your enemies, do good and
lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your reward will be great and you
will be sons of the Highest. For he is kind to the unthankful and evil.
Therefore, be merciful, just as your Heavenly Father also is merciful. Judge
not, and you shall not be judged. Condemn not, and you will not be
condemned. Forgive and you will be forgiven. Give and it will be given to
you: good measure, pressed down shaken together and running over will be put
into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured
back to you. (Luke 6:27-38)
An Israelite disciple said to Joshua, ‘Rabbi, you have said…”To him who
strikes you on the one cheek, offer the other also” What if he continues
slapping you? I cannot convince myself that accepting the slaps of an
unmannerly person will help.’
Joshua Immanuel answered, ‘Beloved one, offer real Love to those who
call themselves your enemies will change them, enduring their unreasonable
enmity. Imagine some coming to you, shouting and slapping you. You look at
him with love asking, not with words but with a look, why he is striking
you? Usually he will shout his reasons at you. And if you are calm, you may
understand why he is behaving so. If you have said or done something to
anger him, ask him to forgive you. It will calm him. Offer him your hand,
and your friendship, and do it wholeheartedly.’
‘But Master,’ the disciple said, ‘what of those who carry daggers or
knives or other weapons?’
‘Imagine now my dear one in your mind’ replied Joshua, ‘that before you
is an angry person who is shouting and attacking you, slapping your face.
Your react with anger, returning his slaps. The slaps become punches and
kicks. He draws his dagger. You draw yours. You stab each other. Bloodshed,
wounds, often death, and hell on Earth. My dear one, anger and weapons are
not an answer. “A tooth for a tooth” and “an eye for an eye” is not for us.
I insist emphatically: “To him who strikes you on the one cheek, offer the
other also.”’
The Israelite Rabbis were deeply disturbed by these words. The left the
synagogue arguing angrily, claiming the Essene Rabbi
was abolishing the Mosaic Law. The courtyard was filled with more than a
hundred sufferers, many in great pain, with wounds and illnesses that were
‘incurable’. Joshua concluded his lessons saying, ‘No weapon protects.
Instead weapons are provocations and dangerous temptations. Only love can
protect us.’ Rayis Rabbi Ephraim he went out of
the synagogue. In the courtyard he went, as he usually did to each of the
sick and infirm to caress their heads and hands, healing them saying ‘Your
sins are forgiven. Sin no more.’
These words incited the Israelite Rabbis and some Pharisees who
overheard them. ‘Who are you to forgive sins?’ the cried. ‘Only Alaha can
forgive sin, blasphemer. We charge you in the name of Alaha to tell us who
you are!’ Joshua answered, ‘Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh, Ehyeh Beni Alaha’ (I am that
I am. I am the Son of God).
Infuriated, the Israelite Rabbis cried, ‘You are an Archdemon! You
abolish the Law of Moses! You violate the Sabbath! You deceive the people
when saying you can forgive their sins! And you call yourself the Son of
God, accursed blasphemer!
The two Pharisees, who were good-hearted and broad-minded, thought that
if the Rayis Rabbis and Rabbis, and those Pharisees and scribes who were set
against Joshua, could hear him teach and witness him healing, that might
change their hearts and minds. So they invited Joshua to the Israelite
temple on the Sabbath, later in the afternoon.
That temple too was filled to overflowing, and in its courtyard was a
great crowd of those seeking healing. Many lay on the ground moaning in
their pain. Among them were two lepers, who, by violating the laws of
quarantine, had caused a panic in the crowd. Joshua went first to the
lepers. He uncovered their mutilated faces and unwound the bandages from
their limbs. He caressed the awful wounds, healing them entirely. And one by
one he healed them all saying, ‘Your sins are forgiven.’ The Rayis Rabbis
had been astonished by the healings, but still the words of the Essene Rabbi
infuriated them.
Joshua entered the temple
with the two Pharisees, followed by the angry Rayis Rabbis and other Rabbis.
Joshua in the pulpit in his snow-white robe was like an Archangel.
Stretching out his hands towards the ceiling, he said,
Kodoish, Kodoish, Kodoish, Adonai Alaha,
Adonai Bereshith Bara Elohim
Alaha Hushmal. Alaha Shamayyim.
Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God
The Lord of the Archangelic Hosts
The God of Light. The God of the Heavens.
While Joshua was trying to speak to the congregation of his Father’s
Love for all His children the Rayis Rabbis repeatedly interrupted. In the
meantime another crowd had gathered in the courtyard. Joshua suspended his
talk and went to them, with the Rayis Rabbis following close behind. While
he was healing the sufferers, a boy of fifteen, goaded by a Rabbi, threw a
stone at Joshua. It struck him on the right shoulder. Joshua turned to the
boy smiling and sending to him love, his blessing, and the wish that he
might one day come to the Truth. When all were healed, Joshua returned to
the temple. The Rayis Rabbi of the temple, in collusion with the other Rayis
Rabbis of the Sanhedrin, ordered that stones be pilled in the courtyard to
stone the blasphemer to death. Joshua, reading their thoughts, said to them,
‘You have seen me healing , doing good to our brothers. For which of these
good works would you have me killed?’
‘Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever
commits a sin is a slave of sin. And a slave does not abide in the house
forever, but a son abides forever. Therefore, if the Son makes you free, you
shall be free indeed. I know you are Abraham’s descendants, but you seek to
kill me , because my word has no place in you. I speak what I have seen with
my Father, and you do what you have seen with your father… Which of you
convicts me of sin? And if I tell the truth, why do you not believe me? He
who is of God hears God’s words; therefore you do not hear because you are
not of God.’ Then the Jews answered and said to him, ‘Do we not say rightly
that you are a Samaritan and have a demon?’ Joshua answered, ‘I do not have
a demon, but I honor my Father and you dishonor me. I do not seek my own
glory; there is One who seeks and judges. Most assuredly, I say to you, if
anyone keeps my word he shall never taste Maout (death)’ Then the Jews said
to him, ‘Now we know that you have a demon! Abraham is dead, and the
prophets, and you say, “If anyone keeps my word he shall never taste death.”
Are you greater than our father Abraham who is dead? And the prophets are
dead. Whom do you make yourself out to be?” Joshua answered, ‘If I honor
myself, my honor is nothing. It is my Father who honors me, of whom you say
that he is your God. Yet you have not know him, but I know him, and if I
say, “I do not know him,” I shall be a liar like you. But I do know him and
keep his word. Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day, and he saw it and
was glad.’ Then the Jews said to him, ‘Your are not yet fifty years old, and
have you seen Abraham?’ Joshua said to them; ‘Most assuredly, I say to you,
before Abraham was I AM.’ (John 8:34-38, 46-58)
As he left the temple, he faced the Sanhedrin executioners armed with
stones, intent on his destruction. Joshua, dematerializing his material
body, passed through them invisibly.
The they took up stones to throw at him; but Joshua hid himself and went
out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by. (John
8:59)
The following morning Joshua returned to the Israelite temple for the
sake of the two good-hearted Pharisees and his Israelite disciples. Some of
the Sanhedrin Rabbis were present and two Rayis Rabbis, full of
disappointment that their plot had failed. The two Pharisees and the
disciples of Joshua, who where also present, were plainly appalled by the
behavior of the Rayis Rabbis. In the midst of this a man, blind from birth,
approached Joshua…
Now as Joshua passed by, he saw a man
who was blind from birth and his
Israelite disciples asked him, saying, ‘Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his
parents, that he was born blind?’ Joshua answered, ‘Neither this man nor his
parents sinned, but that the works of God should be revealed in him. I must
work the works of him who sent me while it is day; the night is coming when
no one can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.’
When he had said these things, he spat on the ground and made a clay with
the saliva: and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay. And he
said to him, ‘Go, wash in the Pool of Siloam’ (which is translated as Sent).
So he went and washed, and came back seeing. Therefore the neighbors and
those who previously had seen that he was blind, said, ‘Is not this he who
sat and begged?’ Some said, ‘this is he,’ Others said, ‘He is like him.’ He
said, ‘I am he.’ Therefore they said to him, ‘How were your eyes opened?’ He
answered and said, ‘a man called Joshua made clay and anointed by eyes and
said to me, “go to the Pool of Siloam and wash.” So I went and washed and I
received sight.’ The they said to him, ‘Where is he?’ He said, ‘I do no
know.’ They brought him who formerly was blind to the Pharisees. Now it was
a Sabbath when Joshua made the clay and opened his eyes. Then the Pharisees
also asked him again how he had received his sight. He said to them, ‘He put
clay on my eyes, and I washed and I see.’ There fore some of the Pharisees
said, ‘This man is not from God, because he does not keep the Sabbath.’
Others said, ‘How can a man who is a sinner do such miracles.’ And there was
a division among them. They said to the blind man again, ‘What do you say
about him because he opened your eyes?’ He said, ‘He is a prophet.’ But the
Israelites did not believe concerning him, that the had been blind and
received his sight, until they called the parents of him who had received
his sight. And they asked them saying, ‘Is this your son, who you say was
born blind’ How then does he now see?’ His parents answered them and said,
‘We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind; but by what means
he now sees we do not know, or who opened his eyes we do no know. He is of
age, ask him. He will speak for himself’ His parents said these things
because they feared the Israelites, for the Israelites had agreed already
that if anyone confeessed that he was the Messiah he would be put out of the
synagogue. Therefore his parents said, “He is of age, ask him.” So they
again called the man who was blind and said to him, ‘Give God the glory! We
know that this man is a sinner.’ He answered and said, ‘Whether he is a
sinner or not, I do not know. One thing I know , that though I was blind,
now I see.’ Then they said to him again, ‘What did he do to you? How did he
open your eyes’ He answered them, “ I have told you already and you did not
listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become his
disciples?’ Then they reviled him and said, ‘You are his disciple, but we
are Moses’ disciples. We know that God spoke to Moses, as for this fellow we
do not know where he is from.’ The man answered and said to them, ‘Why this
is a marvelous thing that you do not know where he is from; and yet he has
opened my eyes. Now we know that God does not hear sinners, but if anyone is
a worshipper of God and does his will, he hears him. Since the world began,
it has been unheard of that anyone opened the eyes of one who was born
blind. If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.’ They answered
and said to him, ‘Your were completely born in sins and you are teaching
us?’ And they cast him out. Joshua heard that they had cast him out, and
when he found him he said to him, ‘Do you believe in the Son of God.’ He
answered and said, ‘Who is he, Lord, that I may believe in him?’ And Joshua
said to him, you have both seen him and it is he who is talking to you.’ The
he said, ‘Lord, I believe!’ And he worshipped him. (John 9:1-38)
The Israelite disciples of Joshua felt in their hearts great anger
towards the Israelite Rayis Rabbis, the Rabbis, and those Scribes and
Pharisees who were under the influence of the Sanhedrin. They believed them
to be both fanatical and malicious. But knowing his disciples’ hearts,
Joshua said to them, ‘Dear ones, do not poison yourselves with anger against
those who call themselves our enemies. For they too are our beloved ones,
intoxicated for the present by the illusions of the material world. Sooner
or later they will wake up to the Truth. Clean your hearts of anger and
complaint. Those feelings create dark elementals, and our lost brothers are
in need of our prayers, our good elementals of light, and love. Dear ones,
love those who call themselves your enemies.’
The next morning Joshua, Yiohannan, and the two Yiacoubs, sons of
Yioussouf and of Shabbatai, left Yerushalayim. Joshua did not tell Rayis
Rabbi Ephraim or the others what had transpired in the Israelite temple,
knowing how much it would disturb them. Only Yiohannan who who was in
complete attunement with his beloved Joshua and was Self-conscious out of
his material body, understood everything.
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