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Chapter 9 Explanation of Scriptures

"Since it was evening He came with the twelve" (Mark.14, 17, written on 04.01.1844)

1. So just start writing again, and we'll see how it fits our cause!

2. "Since it was evening, He came with the twelve."

3. So we have the text in front of us, and I have to make the old remark again that you still cannot find a text that would not be perfect for our cause. The present text does not seem to have too great a relationship with our cause, but that is by no means the case; on the contrary, it has the very greatest correspondence with our cause, and if you had not chosen it, I would have chosen it!

4. "Since it was evening, He came with the twelve."

5. Who came? - The Lord came from eternity!

6. When then? - in the evening!

7. And where did He go? - Into the dining room prepared by His disciples!

8. With whom? - With His chosen twelve apostles!

9. What did He do then in the dining room? He was holding a communion, during which some were satiated and some annoyed; and at the same time, at the Last Supper, the traitor was indicated.

10. Here is the complete picture in front of you, and this case, you can reach with your hands.

11. What is the evening? It is a half-light condition of the day when the light is increasingly dwindling, until at last no effect of the rays of the sun is any more to be discovered.

12. But when is such an evening in man? Certainly, in spiritual terms, when he has read and studied a great deal, which many reading and studying resembles the sun's rays throughout the day. But as these sunbeams are in their natural appearance, so too are the reading and studying rays of a natural kind. The sun goes down at the end of the day, and then it immediately becomes evening and finally night.

13. It is likewise with reading and studying; the reader and the student at last become weary and morose, because through all his reading and studying, he could not multiply his inner light any more than the light of the sun can be increased, but it remains in its uniform state. In the summer it is stronger and weaker in the winter, and always in the same up and down conditions. So too, the morning light is weaker; it is on the rise until about noon, and towards the evening it also gets weaker.

14. So, it is also with the external reading and studious education of man. If he begins to read and study in a well-supplied library, then it is a reading and studying morning in him.

15. If he has read his eyes sore over the course of several years and believes that he has eaten Solomon's wisdom, then he has lunch - or it is summer.

16. He then continues reading and studying, but unfortunately finds nothing new, but comes across already known ideas. As a result, he gets tired because he cannot get any refreshing food for the time being, and secondly, he finds no evidence of his soaked theories in all the other reading and studying sessions, but not infrequently the most powerful refutations of all that he made his own with so much zeal and effort.

17. His real supposed gold is often lead, and when he has recognized this less valuable metal in himself instead of gold, he becomes grumpy and disgruntled with himself, loses all his ground and ends up like a wanderer on an alp, surrounded with dense fog.

18. See, this state is the evening of man; It is usually said, "If all else fails in man, then he crawls to the cross!" - which would be better if one would say: "The cross crawls over to him."

19. Thus, in times of need, man then begins to think whether there is anything in the teaching of Christ, and this thought resembles this text: "And He, the Lord, came there with the twelve in the evening." For ‘the Lord’ is here understood by the oppressed as the founder of the doctrine and the twelve as the doctrine itself.

20. Where does He come with the twelve? - In the hall prepared with food and drink!

21. Who is this hall? - Man himself in his evenings! Because he has a lot of food and drink in him. But since he is not present for whom such food is or ought to be, the food stands there until the one who wants to bless the food and then enjoy it, comes; for without consumers, the food is in vain and has no value.

22. Thus, all science and reading have no value, and man has vainly ordered his spiritual dining room and dining table, but the One who should bless these foods, then consume them and transport them into a spirit-invigorating juice, is not there.

23. But the Lord comes in the evenings with the twelve, or the Founder with His doctrine enters into the hall, sits down to table, blesses and consumes the food. But because the food is of a natural kind, its effect is equivalent to that of the sacrament, in which the Lord employs a true living supper in the words of love, - when many disciples become angry and say, "What is that for a hard teaching! Who can believe and obey it? "The disciples removed themselves, and soon the traitor is indicated.

24. Who are the disciples who are angry and go away? - These are the wrong justifications out of all that you read and studied! These are opposed to the principles of the teaching of Christ; then a general contradiction soon arises, which thus reads: "A doctrine so full of individual contradictions cannot possibly be of Divine origin; Thus, it is but a temporary (time-conditioned) shallow product, scientifically uneducated and therefore necessarily inconsistent (fully unconstitutional thinking) people who in some crude past, by the way of eclecticism (selection, from philosophical doctrines) have laboriously wangled something together themselves, to make poor humanity tributary and enslaved."

25. As a result, as you say, is the child thrown out together with the bath water, or the traitor is indicated, then soon moves away and does what he was called. He passes on the living to death and thereby perishes; and that is the night that followed (the following) night; or, now everything is dead in man.

26. And so I come seriously to everyone in the evenings with the twelve, find the dining room and the dining table prepared, but they are nothing but natural foods. I Do eat these too, or I do approve of them on the condition (prerequisite) that these foods should be converted into foods of active love, and say that such things are for My memory or in My name and not in My own self-love, self-respect and self-love. Because of this, the disciples become annoyed and become repelled of Me; Judas will soon sit there exposed, and it will not be long before the death sentence is published (announced) on the way to such betrayal.

27. Therefore, do not wait for the evening, but rather call Me in the morning, as you are still full and receptive, and I will then come to you and say to you: Do not go too much in the rays of the sun, these will tire you and make yourself inactive, but strengthen yourself under the cooling shade of the Tree of Life, so that you remain energetic for the whole day! And if I then come to you in the evening, you will recognize Me well; and if I ask you, "How is your dining room ordered? Do not you have anything to eat? Is it starving you? ", You will only have to show me a small and poor food supply, but I will bless it and will take Me with you to the table, where no traitor is waiting on Me anymore, or the little knowledge that you have, I will expand to central suns, so that you shall have the light in endless abundance.

28. I think that this text: "And He came in the evening with the twelve ..." should probably be very clear in front of everyone's eyes and exhaust the matter completely. Nevertheless, I do not want to set a limit for My generosity.

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