And salvation came from above.... For the earth lay in deepest darkness, the earth and the kingdom of light were unbridgeably separated from each other, and therefore first a bridge had to be built from above to the earth, which people were then to enter and were also able to do so, because one preceded them, Who wanted to lead them back to the father.... For the father longed for His children.... But He could not lift them up by virtue of His love, instead, the guilt had to be settled first which had caused a wide gulf between the creations and the creator. Without atonement for this guilt it was impossible to return to the father; but again, the guilt-ridden creatures were also unable to make atonement themselves. And therefore the gulf was unbridgeable until a saviour descended from above Who accomplished the work of atonement.... The eternal love Itself descended to earth and brought salvation to humanity.... The eternal love Itself redeemed the guilt and made atonement for the great sin by incarnating Itself in a human shell and now made a sacrifice as a human being which was unique.... for this human being Jesus took upon Himself a measure of suffering and torment out of love and walked the path to the cross with people's guilt of sin burdened.... He suffered and died on the cross in order to offer God the sacrifice of atonement for His fallen brothers. For this man Jesus recognized humanity's enormous guilt of sin because His soul came from the kingdom of light, because a soul of light, a primordially created angelic spirit, voluntarily offered to make atonement for His fallen brothers as a human being. This soul of light therefore animated the body of the infant Jesus and as such began its journey across the earth with the same task that is given to all of God's creatures: to spiritualize themselves through a life of love and to reunite with the eternal love as it was in the beginning.... And Jesus exemplified a life of love to people, He showed them the path to the father, He demonstrated in Himself the effect of a way of life in unselfish neighbourly love, and He concluded His earthly life with the work of redemption, with the redemption of that great guilt which once caused the beings to become wretched.... But this act of atonement was not accomplished by the 'human' but by the 'love' in Him.... For through His life of love He caused the eternal love to manifest Itself in Him, to fill Him completely. And Jesus then drew the strength from it to accomplish the work of salvation. A human being would never have been able to accomplish such an act without love, and thus it was love Which atoned for humanity's sins.... it was God Himself Whose fundamental substance is love and Who was in all fullness in the man Jesus, so that He deified Himself on earth through love, so that He became one with the eternal love.... God became 'man'.... Jesus was 'God'.... Only he who has changed himself into love will be able to understand this mystery, and he will also be able to understand that from the hour of redemption onwards there was a bridge which leads to the father, which can be entered by every one of His creatures who wants to reach the father, and that Jesus, the divine redeemer, built this bridge through His suffering and death on the cross. Love Itself devised a path to enable the fallen being to return home to the father, and love Itself initiated this path.... And thus salvation came from above to earth, which was cut off in deepest darkness and no longer had any contact with the kingdom of light. The eternal light let Himself descend, He broke through the darkness, the lord of light and bliss took up the battle against the prince of darkness.... And He defeated him, He paid the debt on the cross with His death and ransomed the souls from the one who held them in bondage. But God accomplished this act of salvation in a human being because God was unable to suffer and die and because a sacrifice which was intended to compensate for this immense guilt could only be associated with immeasurable suffering and torment and the most bitter death, which the human being Jesus wanted to endure out of love for humanity in order to bring His children back to the father, for whom He yearned. This work of salvation was unique, for profoundest love and highest wisdom united, which the man Jesus possessed, and He therefore mustered all willpower to suffer and die for His fellow human beings. And thus salvation came to earth on that night when the infant Jesus was born.... God Himself sent His Son to earth, Who then prepared a dwelling place for the father in Himself, so that father and son.... God and man.... united and accomplished the work of mercy, so that the original sin was redeemed and the path is now free for every human being upwards, to the father, to the kingdom of light and bliss....
Amen
TranslatorOdrešenje je prišlo od zgoraj.... ker je Zemlja ležala v najgloblji temi; Zemlja in kraljestvo svetlobe sta bila nepremostljivo oddaljena eden od drugega, in zaradi tega je moral biti od zgoraj do Zemlje zgrajen most, po katerem so potem ljudje morali in so tudi lahko hodili, ker je bil pred njimi Eden, Kateri jih je želel pripeljati nazaj k Očetu.... ker je Oče hrepenel po Svojih otrocih.... Vendar pa jih On ni mogel dvigniti z močjo Svoje Ljubezni, ampak je moral biti najprej poplačan dolg (krivda), kateri je pripeljal do širokega jeza med stvaritvami in Stvarnikom. Brez plačila tega dolga (brez pokore za to krivdo) se je bilo namreč nemogoče vrniti k Očetu; vendar pa stvaritve obremenjene z dolgom niso bile sposobne same izvršiti nadomestila. In zato je jez ostal nepremostljiv toliko dolgo, dokler se od zgoraj ni spustil Odrešenik, Kateri je naredil delo odrešenja. Sama večna Ljubezen se je spustila na Zemljo in ljudem prinesla odrešenje; Sama večna Ljubezen je z utelešenjem v človeškem ovoju odstranila dolg in dala zadoščenje za velik greh ter sedaj kot človek ponudila žrtev, katera pa je bila edinstvena.... namreč ta človek Jezus je iz Ljubezni vzel na Sebe mero trpljenja in muke ter se obremenjen s krivdo greha ljudi podal po poti do Križa.... On je trpel in umrl na Križu, da bi Bogu ponudil žrtev odrešenja za svoje padle brate. Ta človek Jezus je namreč prepoznal ogromno krivdo greha človeštva, ker je Njegova duša izhajala iz kraljestva svetlobe, ker se je neka svetlobna duša, nek prvobitno ustvarjen angelski duh prostovoljno ponudil, da kot človek da zadoščenje za svoje padle brate. Ta svetlobna duša je torej oživela telo otroka Jezusa in se kot takšna napotila po poti na Zemlji z enako nalogo, katera je postavljena vsem Božjim stvaritvam: preko življenja Ljubezni se poduhoviti in se ponovno zediniti z večno Ljubeznijo, kakor je bilo to na začetku.... Jezus pa je ljudem postavil primer življenja Ljubezni; On jim je pokazal pot do Očeta, On je na Samemu Sebi dokazal učinek življenja v nesebični Ljubezni do bližnjega in On je svojo zemeljsko pot dokončal z delom odrešenja, z odplačilom tega velikega dolga, kateri je nekoč povzročil, da so bitja postala nesrečna.... Vendar pa ni to »človeško« uresničilo tega dela odrešenja, ampak »Ljubezen« v Njem.... On je namreč preko Svojega življenja Ljubezni spodbudil večno Ljubezen, da se v Njem manifestira (učloveči), da Ga popolnoma izpolni.... In Jezus je sedaj od Nje prejel moč, da uresniči delo odrešenja. Človek ne bi nikoli mogel narediti takšnega dela brez Ljubezni, in tako je bila Ljubezen ta, Katera je odkupila grehe človeštva.... bil je to Sam Bog, Čigar izvorna substanca je Ljubezen in Kateri je bil v človeku Jezusu v vsej polnosti tako, da se je On na Zemlji preko Ljubezni deificiral (postal Bog), da je On z večno Ljubeznijo postal Eno (Janez 10:30).... Bil je to Bog »Človek«.... To je bil Jezus »Bog«.... In edino tisti, kateri samega sebe spremeni v Ljubezen, bo lahko dojel to skrivnost, kakor bo obenem tudi dojel, da je od trenutka odrešenja pokazan most, kateri vodi k Očetu, h kateremu lahko pristopi vsako Njegovo bitje, katero želi priti do Očeta, in da je Jezus, Božanski Odrešenik zgradil ta most preko Svojega trpljenja in smrti na Križu. Sama Ljubezen je izumila način, da padlemu omogoči vrnitev k Očetu in Sama Ljubezen se je napotila po tej poti.... In tako je od zgoraj prišlo odrešenje na Zemljo, katera je bila odrezana v najgloblji temi in ni imela več nikakršnega stika s kraljestvom svetlobe. Sama večna svetloba se je spustila dol; On je razbil temo, Gospodar svetlobe in blaženosti je začel boj proti princu teme.... In On ga je porazil; On je s Svojo smrtjo na Križu plačal dolg in osvobodil duše izpod tistega, kateri jih je držal privezane. To delo odrešenja pa je Bog naredil v človeku, ker Bog ni mogel trpeti in umreti in ker je morala biti žrtev, katera je morala poravnati ta ogromni dolg, povezana edino z neizmernim trpljenjem, muko ter najhujšo smrtjo, katero je človek Jezus želel prestati iz Ljubezni do človeštva, da bi Očetu vrnil nazaj Njegove otroke, po katerih je On hrepenel. To delo odrešenja je bilo edinstveno, ker sta se zedinili najgloblja Ljubezen in najvišja modrost, katere je posedoval človek Jezus. In On je sedaj zbral celotno moč volje, da bi trpel in umrl za Svoje bližnje. In tako je Odrešenje prišlo na Zemljo v tisti noči, ko se je rodil otrok Jezus.... Sam Bog je na Zemljo poslal Svojega Sina, Kateri je sedaj za Očeta v Sebi pripravil bivališče, da sta se na ta način Oče in Sin.... Bog in človek.... zedinila in uresničila delo usmiljenja, da je odstranjena (izkoreninjena, izbrisana, odplačana, uničena) prvobitna krivda. In sedaj je za vsakega človeka svobodna pot v višave, do Očeta, v kraljestvo svetlobe ter blaženosti.
AMEN
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