CHAPTER 89
The twelve apostles are at Jesus’ home and are consecrated to their work. Jesus instructsthem.He goes to the synagogue on the Sabbath and teaches. He casts an unclean spirit out ofone obsessed.He heals Peter’s mother-in-law.

NOW, on the day before the Sabbath day, the twelve disciples who had received the callwere met with one accord in Jesus’ home.

2) And Jesus said to them,This is the day to consecrate yourselves unto the work of God; so let us pray.
3) Turn from the outer to the inner self; close all the doors of carnal self and wait.
4) The Holy Breath will fill this place, and you will be baptized in Holy Breath.
5) And then they prayed; a light more brilliant than the noonday sun filled all the room, andtongues of flame from every head rose high in air.
6) The atmosphere of Galilee was set astir; a sound like distant thunder rolled aboveCapernaum, and men heard songs, as though ten thousand angels joined in full accord.
7) And then the twelve disciples heard a voice, a still, small voice, and just one word wassaid, a word they dared not speak; it was the Sacred name of God.
8) And Jesus said to them,By this omnific Word you may control the elements, and all the powers of air.
9) And when within your souls you speak this Word, you have the keys of life and death; of
things that are; of things that were; of things that are to be.
10) Behold you are the twelve great branches of the Christine vine; the twelve foundationstones; the twelve apostles of the Christ.
11) As lambs I send you forth among wild beasts; but the omnific Word will be your bucklerand your shield.
12) And then again the air was filled with song, and every living creature seemed to say,Praise God! Amen!
13) The next day was the Sabbath day; and Jesus went with his disciples to the synagogue,and there he taught.
14) The people said,He teaches not as do the scribes and Pharisees; but as a man who knows, and has authorityto speak.
15) As Jesus spoke, a man obsessed came in; the evil spirits that obsessed the man were ofthe baser sort; they often threw their victim to the ground, or in the fire.
16) And when the spirits saw the Christine master in the synagogue they knew him, and theysaid,
17) You son of God, why are you here? would you destroy us by the Word before our time?we would have naught to do with you; let us alone.
18) But Jesus said to them,By the omnific Word I speak; Come out; torment this man no more; go to your place.
19) And then the unclean spirits threw the man upon the floor, and, with a fiendish cry, theywent away.
20) And Jesus lifted up the man and said to him,If you will keep your mind fully occupied with good, the evil spirits cannot find a place to stay;
21) They only come to empty heads and hearts. Go on your way and sin no more.
22) The people were astonished at the words that Jesus spoke, the work he did. They askedamong themselves,
23) Who is this man? From whence comes all this power that even unclean spirits fear, andflee away?
24) The Christine master left the synagogue; with Peter, Andrew, James and John, he wentto Peter’s house where one, a near of kin, was sick.
25) And Peter’s wife came in; it was her mother who was sick.
26) And Jesus touched the woman as she lay upon her couch; he spoke the Word; the feverceased and she arose and ministered to them.
27) The neighbors heard what had occurred, and then brought their sick, and thoseobsessed, and Jesus laid his hands on them, and they were healed.

CHAPTER 96
The Sermon on the Mount, continued. Jesus considers the Ten Commandments.The philosophy of Christ. The spirit of the Commandments. Jesus unfoldsthe spiritual aspects of the first four Commandments.

GOD gave the Ten Commandments unto men; upon the mountain Moses saw the words ofGod; 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 mademanifest 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 isAlmighty God.
4) Jehovah wrote upon the heavens and Moses read,
5) I am Almighty God and you shall have no God but me.
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 courtillusion, vain,
9) A shadow of the One, Jehovah, God, and they who worship shadows are but shadows onthe wall; for men are what they court.
10) And God would have all men to be the substance, and in mercy he commanded, Youshall seek no God but me.
11) And finite men can never comprehend infinite things. Man cannot make an image of theInfinite 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 ofGod.
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, andthus they are accursed.
19) If men did know the sacred name and spoke it with unholy lips, they would not live tospeak it once again.
20) But God in mercy has not yet unveiled his name to those who cannot speak with HolyBreath.
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 asSabbath day for men. God said,
25) The seventh is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God; remember it and keep it wholly set apartfor 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 Lordthey must do naught for self.
27) This day is consecrated unto God; but man serves God by serving man.