The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ

30 You men who walk in Holy Breath are salt, the salt of earth; but if you lose your virtue you are salt in name alone, worth nothing more than dust.

31 And you are light; are called to light the world.

32 A city on a hill cannot be hid; its lights are seen afar; and while you stand upon the hills of life men see your light and imitate your works and honor God.

33 Men do not light a lamp and hide it in a cask; they put it on a stand that it may light the house.

34 You are the lamps of God; must not stand in the shade of earth illusions, but in the open, high upon the stand.

35 I am not come to nullify the law, nor to destroy; but to fulfill.

36 The Law, the Prophets and the Psalms were written in the wisdom of the Holy Breath and cannot fail.

37 The heavens and earth that are will change and pass away; the word of God is sure; it cannot pass until it shall accomplish that whereunto it hath been sent.

38 Whoever disregards the law of God and teaches men to do the same, becomes a debtor unto God and cannot see his face until he has returned and paid his debt by sacrifice of life.

39 But he who hearkens unto God and keeps his law and does his will on earth, shall rule with Christ.

40 The scribes and Pharisees regard the letter of the law; they cannot comprehend the spirit of the law;

41 And if your righteousness does not exceed the righteousness of scribe and Pharisee you cannot come into the kingdom of the soul.

42 It is not what man does that gives him right to enter through the gates; his pass word is his character and his desire is his character.

43 The letter of the law deals with the acts of man; the spirit of the law takes note of his desires.

CHAPTER 96

The Sermon on the Mount, continued. Jesus considers the Ten Commandments. The philosophy of Christ the spirit of the Commandments. Jesus unfolds the spiritual aspects of the first four Commandments.

God gave the Ten Commandments unto men; upon the mountain Moses saw the words of God; he wrote them down on solid rock; they cannot be destroyed.

2 These Ten Commandments show the justice side of God; but now the love of God made manifest brings mercy on the wings of Holy Breath.

3 Upon the unity of God the law was built. In all the world there is one force; Jehovah is Almighty God.

4 Jehovah wrote upon the heavens and Moses read,

5 I am Almighty God and you shall have no God but me.

6 There is one force, but many phases of that force; these phases men call powers.

7 All powers are of God; and they are manifests of God; they are the Spirits of the God.

8 If men could seem to find another force and worship at its shrine, they would but court illusion, vain,

9 A shadow of the One, Jehovah, God, and they who worship shadows are but shadows on the wall; for men are what they court.

10 And God would have all men to be the substance, and in mercy he commanded, You shall seek no God but me.

11 And finite man can never comprehend infinite things. Man cannot make an image of the Infinite in force.

12 And when men make a God of stone or wood or clay they make an image of a shade; and they who worship at the shrine of shades are shades.

13 So God in mercy said, You shall not carve out images of wood, or clay, or stone.

14 Such idols are ideals, abased ideals, and men can gain no higher plane than their ideals.

15 The God is Spirit, and in spirit men must worship if they would attain a consciousness of God.

16 But man can never make a picture or an image of the Holy Breath.

17 The name of God man may not speak with carnal lips; with Holy Breath alone can man pronounce the name.

18 In vanity men think they know the name of God; they speak it lightly and irreverently, and thus they are accursed.

19 If men did know the sacred name and spoke it with unholy lips, they would not live to speak it once again.

20 But God in mercy has not yet unveiled his name to those who cannot speak with Holy Breath.

21 But they who speak the substitute in idle way are guilty in the sight of God, who said,

22 You shall not take the name of God in vain.

23 The number of the Holy Breath is seven, and God holds in his hands the sevens of time.

24 In forming worlds he rested on the seventh day, and every seventh day is set apart as Sabbath day for men. God said,

25 The seventh is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God; remember it and keep it wholly set apart for works of holiness; that is, for works not for the selfish self, but for the universal self.

26 Men may do work for self upon the six days of the week; but on the Sabbath of the Lord they must do naught for self.

27 This day is consecrated unto God; but man serves God by serving man.

CHAPTER 97

The Sermon on the Mount, continued. Jesus unfolds to the twelve the spiritual aspects of the fifth and sixth Commandments.

God is not force alone; for wisdom is his counterpart.

2 When cherubim instructed man in wisdom’s ways they said that wisdom is the Mother of the race, as force is Father of the race.

3 The man who honors the almighty and omniscient God is blessed, and in the tables of the law we read,

4 Pay homage to your Father and your Mother of the race, that your days may be prolonged upon the land that they have given you.

5 The letter of the law commands; You shall not kill; and he who kills must stand before the judgment seat,