The Book of Formation of the Patriarch Abraham

The Law of God Latin: lex Dei; here referring to the moral and spiritual guidance for life on earth, which belongs to the journey and not yet to the heavenly homeland, is to be so written in the hearts of all men in actuality—that is, in practice and not merely in potential—under the guidance of supreme reason which compels all men. In this way, all shall know God from the least to the greatest, so that there may be one God, and His name one. Thus it is necessary for all things to be restored in the spiritual coming of Christ Latin: Christi adventu spirituali; a theological concept focusing on Christ's presence within the soul rather than a physical return.

Thus, there shall now be what has not yet been before: the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins. All of these shall indeed be virgins, for open scandals will have been removed from the world, although five will be foolish, laboring under hidden hypocrisy and destitute of the oil of charity. Thus it is now necessary that the children of the first resurrection A reference to Revelation 20, interpreted here as a spiritual renewal of the faithful should reign with Christ—He being poured into them through their whole substance, albeit hiddenly—for the full thousand years. This is not according to the dreams of Cerinthus or the Chiliasts Followers of Chiliasm, who believed in a literal, earthly thousand-year reign of Christ characterized by physical pleasures; the author distinguishes his "spiritual" view from their "material" one, but according to a lower constitution of the Kingdom of God, where it is absolutely necessary for God’s will to be done on earth as it is in heaven. For otherwise, there is still a far greater...