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Date Posted: 16:11:27 06/07/04 Mon
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I offer this text to anyone who do not know yet that division game, and to make oneself looks spiritual, at the expense of the brother/sister who has to be considered as the monster..., or hurting, or destroying the reputation, or being the traitor of the brother/sister, is evil. No matter if someone is good to put sweet talkings on his/her lips to appear more spiritual to the most naïve of you, the actions of this person, in the back, will tell everything about his/her heart...
Spiritualists, learn to talk with your heart, not with your lips; I mean acting with sincerity and generosity.
Learn to hear with your heart, not with your ears.
Learn to judge with your heart, not with your eyes; I mean analyzing a situation over the appearances.
Then the evil people who are used to draw a curtain of illusion and of appearances , will fail to divide us.
To be spiritual means to protect the neighbour as oneself, and not hurt anyone. Let us build a true brotherhood between us, on the image of the divine oneness between the spirits, and for the ones who do not want to change, leave them on their evil path.
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(The Manhood of Jesus - Geraldine Cummins - Page 182 & 183)
On the day after the baptism John saw Jesus as he walked, and said: "Behold the Lamb of God." But he did not know him then to be in truth the Christ.
They conversed together, and presently John told Jesus of the community of the New Israel, that baptism made each man a member of it. And it would be well for them to have some secret sign by which one brother would be known to the other.
Then with a stick Jesus drew a cross in the dust and said: "Behold the sign."
Astonished, John cried: "But it is the brand of Cain, the mark that was set on his forehead after he brought death into the world by slaying his brother Abet."
"For that cause I have chosen the sign. It will be a continual reminder to the brethren. Take upon yourself the mark of the cross and follow me; take the sin of the world upon your shoulders."
The prophet was abashed. "A strange saying. What is the interpretation of it?"
"Cain, the first slayer of men," said Jesus, "was the first man who made war upon his kind. Since then for greed, for covetousness, or because of distress and dearth, men have continually made war upon one another, bringing to themselves and women and children, all manner of evil. Thus the peace of God is far from the hearts of the people. But the cross of Cain shall no longer be the mark of the sin of bloodshed. It shall, through the community's use of it, be changed into the sign of redemption."
"And how may that be so?"
"By making it a reminder of the man who first brought the principal evil into the world. Verily, Eve disobeyed God, but greater was the offence of Cain."
"How may we overcome the lust for war &emdash;the slaying of brother by brother?" asked John.
"Making the sign of the cross of Cain we shall eschew all violence. Not with the weapons of death but through the acts and ensample of our lives shall we resist authority." Then Jesus cried: "By following the path of peace and love of our neighbour we make war upon the Romans. All things are possible with God. Let the people of the New Israel abolish the death of Abel through the wisdom of the Holy Ghost."
And John agreed that there was only this way by which war and violence, Satan's mightiest weapons, could be overcome. And they must be overcome if the Kingdom of Heaven was to reign in the hearts of the elect.
So it came to pass that, each time a Nazarene made the sign of the cross, he renewed the vow that for no cause would he shed his brother's blood, for no cause would he in the words of the Lord "be cursed from the earth which had opened her mouth to receive Abel's blood from the hand of Cain".
Thus the cross of Cain became the Cross of Christ.
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