MATTHEW
MATTHEW 2:1,
• The Book Of Love, chapter: The great man of love, page 36
• The Wisdom of John, chapter: The Aftermath, page 65
MATTHEW 3:1,
• The Book on The Living God, chapter: A call from Himavat, page 285,
“Mankind is ready to recognise itself finally as part of the earth…
No longer will it dream of the cloudy thrones of their gods, and the new day approaches when – probably for the first time – it will experience within itself the meaning of those words once spoken by a man of God:
“The kingdom of heaven is at hand.” – – –
MATTHEW 4:1-11,
• The Mystery of Golgotha, chapter: Spiritual guidance, page 98,99
MATTHEW 4:4,
• The High Goal, chapter: Festive joy, page 90
MATTHEW 4:19,
• The Book Of Love, chapter: The great man of love, page 39
MATTHEW 5:3,
• Worlds, chapter: The visions, page 45
MATTHEW 5:7,
• The Book Of Love, chapter: The great man of love, page 44
MATTHEW 5:26,
• More Light, chapter: On the true service of God, page 268:
May no one enter that ‘night’ when working is impossible, from which there is no escape until the debt of those biding is paid ‘to the last penny’!
Still it is ‘day’, and helpful hands are at work to lead spiritual help to all those who seek it. – There is no need of special training to call upon this help; there is no need of any individual instruction to make it one’s own.
“He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”
The High Goal, chapter: On the power of love, page 69
MATTHEW 5:28,
• Marriage, chapter: On temptation and danger, page 105:
Once there was One who taught, who was truly permitted to teach from the spirit, that adultery is already committed by anyone who is tempted by the very sight of a woman into desiring her physically.
This saying has lead to much displeasure, and people have tried to twist and turn it because it makes so many feel uncomfortable. –
But I must say to you that all deliberate attempts to nurture and intensify the natural erotic impulses between man and woman, – as soon as they apply to someone other than one’s own spouse, – desecrate marriage, even if this intensification comes nowhere near to physical desire and does not yet lead to spiritual adultery! – – –
MATTHEW 5:44,
• The Mystery of Golgotha, chapter: Love and hatred, page 54
MATTHEW 5:48,
• The Book On Man, chapter: The Mystery: ’Man and Woman’, page 37:
Only in your eternal life can you experience yourself as man of eternity! –
Thus the sacred word of the exalted Master will also apply to you when he says:
“Be perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect!”
But nothing earthly that is a part of you can ever attain the ‘perfection’ meant here. –
Only when you have found your eternal life within yourself and you live in it will you be ‘perfect’ like the ‘Father’ who is in ‘heaven’
MATTHEW 6:6,
• The Mystery of Golgotha, chapter: The growth of the soul, page 78
On Prayer, Knock, and it shall be opened unto you, page 56:
Spiritual arrogance, full of stupid pride, thinks that nothing must come between God and man, – yet the only proper answer to this is the request: “Lord, forgive them, for they know not how they scorn you!” – –
He therefore who really wants the door to be ‘opened’ unto him when he dares with all his life and with all his earthly acts and deeds to ‘knock’, let him not expect ‘God’ – in whatever form he believes in him, – to be standing at the doorway, as eternal original being, to ‘open up’ to him! – –
MATTHEW 6:19,
• The Meaning Of Life, chapter: Conclusion
Spiritual law wants from you wakeful and well considered action! – –
Truly, ‘too much’ as it were, is not required of you!
You must only prove that you are serious in your striving; you can produce evidence for this simply by using the power given you over earthly things to secure your eternal treasures, where “neither moths nor rust doth corrupt”! – – –
MATTHEW 6:20,
• The Meaning Of Life, chapter: Conclusion
MATTHEW 6:26, MATTHEW 6:28,
• The Book Of Love, chapter: On love’s primordial fire,
Do not say you have love as long as you still worry about yourself!
Like the ‘lilies of the field’ growing wild in many parts of the Orient, and the ‘birds of the air’, you must no longer know of worries about yourself, if you wish to be capable of love in its highest form!
MATTHEW 6:33,
• The Book On Happiness, chapter: The duty to be happy, page: 15
• The Mystery of Golgotha, chapter: The growth of the soul, page: 78
MATTHEW 7:6,
• More Light, chapter: The secret of the ancient cathedral building works, page 231
MATTHEW 7:7,8,
• The Secret, chapter: The rocky Island, page 152
• More Light, chapter: The secret of the ancient cathedral building works, page 153
On Prayer, chapter: The mystery of praying, page 9,
Yet, according to the ancient account it was also said:
“Seek, and you shall find!”
“Ask, and you shall receive!”
“Knock, and it will be opened unto you!”
Let us tarry awhile here and persevere in all stillness until the mystery that is contained in these words reveals itself to our inner eye…
MATTHEW 7:16,17,
• The Wisdom of John, chapter: The pure teaching, page 102
MATTHEW 7:21,
• The Book Of Love, chapter: The redeeming light, page 89:
“Not every one that saith unto me: Lord, Lord!, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father,” – he who feels this will within him and fulfils it in his deeds! –
Your mere desire will be of no use to you; – you will have to ‘call’ through your entire behaviour, through your deeds and actions. Many poor inconspicuous ones who only loyally perform their daily chores have often ‘called’ in a better way than those exalted ones, acquainted with all the profound writings, who consider themselves so worthy that a helper ‘would be bound’ to come to them and raise them to further ‘exaltation’ in their view and that of others! – –
The High Goal, chapter: The two path, page 20
• Hortus conclusus, chapter: Once more on truth and reality, page 55
MATTHEW 8:11,
• More Light, chapter: The light of the spirit in Christianity, page 222
MATTHEW 9:8,
• Showing the Way, chapter: The power of healing, page 104:
“But when the multitudes saw it,
they marvelled and glorified God,
which had given such
power unto men.” Matthew IX, 8.
The story is told of a Maori in New Zealand who carried out unheard of healings. The man was a baptised Christian and he asked of those he was about to heal that they should give thanks for their cure only to the ‘Holy Trinity: – Father, Son and Holy Ghost’. He even threatened that the cure would fade if this faith he requested were to disappear in those he healed.
In Christian circles, however, the work of this Maori was regarded as a tangible confirmation of the dogma…
MATTHEW 9:38,
• More Light, chapter: The light of the spirit in Christianity, page 223
MATTHEW 10:33,
• Letters to one and many, chapter: On professing to men, page 169
MATTHEW 11:11,
• More Light, chapter: The light of the spirit in Christianity, page 222
MATTHEW 11:12,
• The High Goal, chapter: On seeking and finding, page 25
• Path of my Pupils, chapter: Unnessary self-torment
MATTHEW 11:15,
• More Light, chapter: On the true service of God, page 268:
May no one enter that ‘night’ when working is impossible, from which there is no escape until the debt of those biding is paid ‘to the last penny’!
Still it is ‘day’, and helpful hands are at work to lead spiritual help to all those who seek it. – There is no need of special training to call upon this help; there is no need of any individual instruction to make it one’s own.
“He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”
MATTHEW 11:25,
• The Mystery of Golgotha, chapter: The most dreadful of our enemies, page 52
MATTHEW 12:8,
• The Wisdom of John, chapter: Portrait of the Master, page 26
MATTHEW 12:27,
• The Wisdom of John, chapter: Portrait of the Master, page 24
MATTHEW 12:30,
• Spectre of Freedom, chapter: The urge to associate, page 52:
In the ancient sacred account the most divine of the men of the earth says:
“He that gathers not with me: he scatters!”
If ever a word of a man was: the ‘Word of God’, here it has been uttered! – –
Not gathering together – not to seek to gather – is in itself already: scattering! –
MATTHEW 12:31,32,
• More Light, chapter: The architects of the cathedral of mankind, page 78,79:
Even a spiritual ‘master’ can, when it comes to his earthly existence, still ‘fall’, yet even he can only as a man of this earth, commit the one ‘sin’ for which there is ‘no forgiveness’ – ‘the sin against the Holy Spirit’, – which in his case is the resisting, arrogant ignoring of what seeks to reveal itself through him. Without a sound he will then disappear from the spiritual world like an extinguished star sinking into space. His name is eradicated from the ‘Book of the Lamb’ bearing the ‘seven seals’.
MATTHEW 15:40,
• The Book On Man, chapter: Marriage, page 83
MATTHEW 16:19,
• The Secret, chapter: The rocky Island, page 137
MATTHEW 17:20,
• The Mystery of Golgotha, chapter: Occult practices, page 106,107
MATTHEW 18:3,
• Worlds, chapter: To conclude, page 97:
The path to the essential spirit is basically so simple that you will do well to ‘simplify’ yourself in the whole manner of your thinking and feeling!
This is the sense of the words spoken by the exalted Master when he taught: “If you become not as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.” –
Above the Everyday, poem: A hard demand, page 28,29:
Smile not in amusement at the child, dear friends,
When he tells you of things
Which are real to him, –
Though you can no longer comprehend
The reality of these things,
As once you did, when you still
Could experience in your way
The same reality!
Smile not in amusement
At what the little mouth –
Scarcely mastering all the words
He would like to utter –
Tells you of wonders
Which have happened by night and day
In the world of your child!
You will have to find in yourselves
This world of the child,
If you would find your way to that place
The deepest yearning of your soul
Strives to find!
Poem: Respect for the old, page 32:
If you “do not become as little children”,
None among you will ever become a finder!
Yet: – if he does not shelter it with the old,
None will hold on to what he has found!
Youth creates value only by waiting!
Youth is a garden ready to sprout!
Only among the old do the fruits ripen!
In youth they are ruined by lustful crazes!
Youth can never mould itself,
Unless it finds moulders among the old!
Every people becomes its own destroyer,
If the old no longer are their guides!
MATTHEW 18:20,
• The Book on The Living God, chapter: The hidden temple, page 138
MATTHEW 19:17,
• The Wisdom of John, chapter: Portrait of the master, page 22
More Light, chapter: On the three steps, 148
MATTHEW 19:24,
• The Book On Happiness, chapter: Wealth and poverty, page 48:
Poverty may be blessed; yet poverty does not imply deprivation…
Wealth can bestow immeasurable benefits; yet it must not wallow sated and without creative power in those nether regions of which a divine teacher once said that “it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle” than for ‘a rich man’ to enter through the gates of the ‘Kingdom of Heaven’…
MATTHEW 24:15,
• The Book Of Love, chapter: The creative power of love, page 119:
But those who are still able to move, including even me will suddenly amaze the world with their work!
They will no longer tolerate ‘the outrage of devastating a holy place’ and will erect the temple anew!
MATTHEW 24:24,
• The Book Of Love, chapter: On love’s primordial fire, page 76:
Thus they lead thousands, through their teaching, into destruction, intoxicated by their power to confuse human souls, and surrounded by a fog of vanity at the number of those who follow their banners.–
“There shall arise false Christs and false prophets…”
Pay heed to the signs of the times and save yourselves from ensnarement in infernal nets from which escape is rarely possible!
More Light, chapter: Theosophy and pseudo-theosophy, page 99
MATTHEW 24:42,
• More Light, chapter: The architects of the cathedral of mankind, page 89
chapter: Theosophy and pseudo-theosophy, page 105:
Countless are the errors derived from ignorance about the Christos-mystery; it would have been very easy to avoid many false teachings, had the saying been understood: “I am the door: if any man enter in through me he shall be blessed.” –
In this way the “the stone set as the cornerstone has been rejected by the builders” and men seek on false paths, for the path which is ‘truth’ and ‘life’ appears inaccessible to them.
MATTHEW 25:23,
• Path of my Pupils, chapter: Inner life and outer world, page 156
The Mystery of Golgotha, chapter: The growth of the soul, page 67
MATTHEW 25:29,
• The Mystery of Golgotha, chapter: The mystery of Golgotha, page 16
MATTHEW 28:10,
• Above the Everyday, poem: The greeting of the one who has risen, page 19:
Be not afraid:
I will walk with you!
“Be not afraid!”
I will stay with you, –
MATTHEW 28:20,
• The Secret, chapter: Epilogue, page 215
The Mystery of Golgotha, chapter: Introduction, page 7
Thus it came to pass that a new age, all too sure of its rationality, questioned the Master’s very existence.
But he whose saying was reported: “I will be with you until the end of the world” – was of a different stature than his servants and of a different stature than his deniers.
Blessed are you if you recognise his exalted, pure features when reading this book!
More Light, chapter: Theosophy and pseudo-theosophy, page 132