The Gospel of Matthew

Aquarian Gospel

Chapter Five

Chapter 95

1: And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him:

AND Jesus and the twelve went to the mountain top

2: And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying,

and Jesus said,
2) Twelve pillars of the church, apostles of the Christ; light-bearers of the sun of life and ministers of God to men:
3) In just a little while you must go forth alone, and preach the gospel of the king, first to the Jews and then to all the world.
4) And you shall go, not with a scourge of cords to drive; you cannot drive men to the king;
5) But you shall go in love and helpfulness and lead the way to right and light.
6) Go forth and say, The kingdom is at hand.

7) Worthy are the strong in spirit; theirs the kingdom is.

6: Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

9) Worthy they who hunger and who thirst for right; they shall be satisfied.

10) Worthy are the merciful; and mercy shall be shown to them.

11) Worthy they who gain the mastery of self; they have the key of power.

12) Worthy are the pure in heart; and they shall see the king.

9: Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.

10: Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

13) Worthy they who are maligned and wronged because they do the right; their persecutors they shall bless.

11: Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

15) Be not discouraged when the world shall persecute and call you crust;

12: Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.

but rather be exceeding glad.                                            16) The prophets and the seers, and all the good of earth, have been maligned.                                                        17) If you are worthy of the crown of life you will be slandered, vilified and crust on earth.
18) Rejoice when evil men shall drive you from their ways and cause your name to be a hiss and by-word in the street.
19) I say, rejoice; but deal in mercy with the doers of the wrong; they are but children at their play; they know not what they do.
20) Rejoice not over fallen foes. As you help men rise from the depth of sin, so God will help you on to greater heights.
21) Woe to the rich is gold and lands; they have temptations multiform.
22) Woe unto men who walk at will in pleasure's paths; their ways are full of snares and dangerous pits.
23) Woe to the proud; they stand upon a precipice; destruction waits for them.
24) Woe to the man of greed; for what he has is not his own; and lo, another comes; his wealth is gone.
25) Woe to the hypocrite; his form is fair to look upon; his heart is filled with carcasses and dead men's bones.
26) Woe to the cruel and relentless man; he is himself the victim of his deeds.
27) The evil he would do to other men rebounds; the scourger is the scourged.
28) Woe to the libertine who preys upon the virtues of the weak. The hour comes when he will be the weak, the victim of a libertine of greater power.
29) Woe unto you when all the world shall speak in praise of you. The world speaks not in praise of men who live within the Holy Breath; It speaks in praise of prophets false, and of illusions base.

13: Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.

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.

14: Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.

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.

15: Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house

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.
 

16: Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

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

17: Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.

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 where-unto it hath been sent.

19: Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

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.

20: For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.

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

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.

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 our 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 men 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

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 (human) 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.

21: Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment:

5) The letter of the law commands; you shall not kill; and he who kills must stand before the judgment seat.
6) A person may desire to kill, yet if he does not kill he is not judged by law.

22: But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.

7) The spirit of the law avers that he who shall desire to kill, or seeks revenge, is angry with a man without sufficient cause, must answer to the judge;
8) And he who calls his brother soulless vagabond shall answer to the council of the just;
9) And he who calls his brother a degenerate, a dog, fans into life the burning fires of hell within himself.

23: Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee;

10) Now, in the higher law we read that if your brother is aggrieved by something you have done, before you offer unto God your gifts, go forth and find your brother and be reconciled to him.
11) It is not well to let the sun go down upon your wrath.

24: Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.

12) If he will not be reconciled when you have laid aside all selfish pleas, have waived all selfish rights, you will be guiltless in the sight of God; then go and offer unto God your gifts.

25: Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and then cast into prison.

13) If you owe aught to any man and cannot pay; or if a man shall claim a greater sum than is his due, it is not well that you dispute his claims.
14) Resistance is the sire of anger; there is no mercy and no reason in a wrathful man.
15) I tell you it is better far to suffer loss than go to law, or call upon the courts of men to judge of right and wrong.

26: Verily I say unto thee, Thou shall by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.

Chapter 97 continued below

Chapter 98

27: Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shall not commit adultery:

28: But I say unto you, That whosoever looks on a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
29: And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
30: And if thy right hand offend thee, cut if off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
31: It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:
32: But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, save for the cause of fornication, causes her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced commits adultery.

 

THE law forbids adultery; but in the eyes of law adultery is an overt act, the satisfaction of the sensuous self outside the marriage bonds.
2) Now, marriage in the sight of law is but a promise made by man and woman, by the sanction of a priest, to live for aye in harmony and love.
3) No priest nor officer has power from God to bind two souls in wedded love.
4) What is the marriage tie? Is it comprised in what a priest or officer may say?
5) Is it the scroll on which the officer or priest has written the permission for the two to live in marriage bonds?
6) Is it the promise of the two that they will love each other until death?
7) Is love a passion that is subject to the will of man?
8) Can man pick up his love, as he would pick up precious gems, and lay it down, or give it out to any one?
9) Can love be bought and sold like sheep?
10) Love is the power of God that binds two souls and makes them one; there is no power on earth that can dissolve the bond.
11) The bodies may be forced apart by man or death for just a little time; but they will meet again.
12) Now, in this bond of God we find the marriage tie; all other unions are but bonds of straw, and they who live in them commit adultery.
13) The same as they who satisfy their lust without the sanction of an officer or priest.
14) But more than this; the man or woman who indulges lustful thoughts commits adultery.
15) Whom God has joined together man cannot part; whom man has joined together live in sin.

16) Upon a table of the law, the great lawgiver wrote, Thou shalt not steal.
17) Before the eyes of law a man to steal must take a thing that can be seen with eyes of flesh, without the knowledge or consent of him to whom the thing belongs.
18) But, lo, I say that he who in his heart desires to possess that which is not his own, and would deprive the owner of the thing without his knowledge or consent, is in the sight of God, a thief.
19) The things that men see not with eyes of flesh are of more worth than are the things that man can see.
20) A man's good name is worth a thousand mines of gold, and he who says a word or does a deed that injures or defames that name has taken what is not his own, and is a thief.
21) Upon a table of the law we also read: Thou shalt not covet anything.
22) To covet is an all-consuming wish to have what is not right for one to have.
23) And such a wish, within the spirit of the law, is theft.

Chapter 99 (partial)

33: Again, ye have heard that it has been said by them of old time, Thou shall not forswear thyself, but shall perform unto the Lord thine oaths:

THE law has said: Thou shalt not lie; but in the eyes of law a man to lie must tell in words what is not true.
2) Now, in the light of spirit law, deceit in any form is nothing but a lie.
3) A man may lie by look or act; yea, even by his silence may deceive, and thus be guilty in the eyes of Holy Breath.
4) It has been said in olden times: Thou shall not swear by thine own life.

34: But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God's throne:

35: Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King.

36: Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black

37: But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.

5) But, lo, I say, Swear not at all; not by the head, the heart, the eye, nor hand; not by the sun, the moon, nor stars;
6) Not by the name of God, nor by the name of any spirit, good or bad.
7) You shall not swear by anything; for in an oath there is no gain.
8) A man whose word must be propped up by oath of any kind is not trustworthy in the sight of God or man.
9) By oath you cannot make a leaf to fall, nor turn the color of a hair.
10) The man of worth just speaks and men know that he speaks the truth.
11) The man who pours out many words to make men think he speaks the truth, is simply making smoke to hide a lie.

Chapter 97 (cont.)

38: Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:

16) The law of carnal man would say, Eye for eye and tooth for tooth; resist encroachment on your rights.

39: But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.

17) But this is not the law of God. The Holy Breath would say, Resist not him who would deprive you of your goods.         (see verses 21-23 below)

40: And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also.

41: And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.
42: Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.

18) He who would take your coat by force is still a brother man and you should gain his heart, which by resistance cannot be done;
19) Give him your coat and offer him still more and more; in time the man will rise above the brute; you will have saved him from himself.
20) Refuse not him who calls for help and give to him who asks to borrow aught.

see verse 39 (above)

21) And if a man shall strike you in a fitful, or an angry way, it is not well to smite him in return.
22) Men call him coward who will not fight and thus defend his rights; but he is much the greater man who is assailed, is smitten and does not smite;
23) Who is maligned and answers not, than he who smites the smiter and reviles the one who slanders him.

43: Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.

24) It has been said in olden times that man shall love his friend and hate his foe;

44: But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

but, lo, I say,                                                                   25) Be merciful unto your foes; bless those who slander you; do good to those who do you harm and pray for those who trample on your rights.

45: That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

26) Remember, you are children of the God who makes his sun to rise alike upon the evil and the good, who sends his rain upon the unjust and the just.
27) If you do unto other men as they do unto you, you are but slaves, but followers in the way to death.
28) But you, as children of the light, must lead the way.
29) Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

46: For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?

30) When you do good to those who have done good to you, you do no more than other men; the publicans do that

47: And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?

31) If you salute your friends and not your foes, you are like other men; the publicans have set the pace.

48: Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

32) Be perfect as your Father-God in heaven is.