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still God's child, and he repented of his first evil lust. Thereupon the Lord showed him the Crusher of the Serpent Christ, as predicted in Genesis who would break his monstrous birth: and he would be born anew from the monstrous birth into the same Crusher of the Serpent's form, shape, power, and strength, and be placed again with power into Paradise, into the Holy birth, and eat again of the h Of the Word of the Lord. verbo Domini Word of the Lord and live eternally, over and against all i Or power. gates of severity, in which the Devil lives: of which more shall be told in its place.

6. Note this well, beloved Reader, and consider this well: do not let yourself be led astray [on account of] the simplicity; the Author is no more than others, he also knows nothing more, he also has no greater power than all children of God. Just look at yourself: why do you think so earthly of yourself? Why do you let yourself be deceived by the Devil? And be made to believe by the world as if you were but a figurative likeness, and not born of God?

7. Your monstrous form is not God, or of his being, only the hidden man, which is the soul, is the own being of God, provided that the love in the light of God rises in your own center, from which the Holy Spirit goes out, in which the second Principle of God stands: how then should you not have power to speak of God who is your Father, of whose being you are? See, the world is indeed God's, and if the light of God is in you, then it is also yours: as it is written, The Father has given the Son everything, and the Son has given it to you. The Father is the eternal power, and the Son is his heart and light eternally remaining in the Father, and you remain in the Father and Son. If the Holy Spirit now goes out from the Father and Son, and the Father's eternal power is in you, and the eternal light of the Son shines in you, what then do you let yourself be told? Do you not know what Paul says: That our conversation is in Heaven, from where we expect the Savior Jesus Christ, who wants to lead us out of this monstrous image and birth (in the breaking of the third Principle of this world) k Or in the Paradisiacal constant maintenance. into the Paradisiacal birth [in order there] to eat of the verbo Domini?

8. Why do you let yourself be told [false things] by the Anti-Christ, through his laws and boasting? Where do you want to seek God? In the depth above [over] the Stars? There you shall not find him: seek him in your heart! In the l Or in the ground of the bearing or maintenance of our life. center of the birth of your life, there you shall find him, just as father Adam and mother Eve did.

9. For it stands written: You must be born anew, through water and the Spirit, otherwise you shall not see the Kingdom of God. This birth must happen in you: the heart, or the Son of God, must rise in the birth of your life; then the Savior Christ is your faithful Shepherd, and you are in him, and he in you, and everything that he and his Father has is yours, and no one shall pluck you out of his hands; but just as the Son (namely the heart of the Father) is one [with the Father], so also is your new man, in the Father and the Son, one, one power, one light, one life, one eternal Paradise, one eternal Heavenly m Or constant springing up. birth, one Father, Son, Holy Spirit, and you, his child.

10. See how the Son well knows what the Father does in the house: if the Son now also teaches the same, what displeasure does the Father have [at that] in the Son? Shall the Father not rejoice over his Son that he is so well-pleasing n Or disposed.? Why should the Heavenly Father be grieved over his children in this world who cling to him and ask after him? Who would gladly learn to know him, delve into his works, and do his will? Does the re-generator Christ not command us to come to him, and whoever comes to him, he will not cast out. o That is, would anyone want to hinder or oppose the Spirit of the explanation of the mysteries of God. Would someone then want to deny the Spirit of the prophets, which is God's? Look at the Apostles of Christ, who else was it that taught them but God, who was in them, and they in him?

11. O! dear children of God in Christ, flee from the Anti-Christ, who has set himself over the breadth of the earth, who portrays to you an p Or image. image just as the Serpent did to mother Eve, and [who] portrays your own image of God far from God; consider how it is written there, the Word is near you, yes in your heart and lips: and God is himself the Word which is in your heart and lips.

12. But the Anti-Christ has never sought anything else than only to fulfill his lust in the third Principle, in this house of flesh: therefore he has kept the people under [invented] Laws, which are not grounded in nature, nor found in the Paradise of God, nor also in the center of the birth of life.

13. Dear children consider, how mightily and powerfully, with wonders and deeds, the Spirit of God went in the word and in the works in the times of the Apostles and thereafter, before the Anti-Christ and the spirit of own pride brought forth his [invented] Laws and [his] star-wisdom, and placed himself under the worldly and fleshly arm, only because he sought his own lust and honor. There the precious words of Christ (who gave the people no other Law than the Law of nature and the Law of love) had to...

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