Matthew




MATTHEW 2:1,
• The Book Of Love, chapter: The great man of love.
• The Wisdom of John, chapter: The Aftermath.
Twelve months later they left Palestine for ever and wandered towards the east: towards their homeland – near the highest mountains in the world…

They were in reality those ‘wise men’ from the east – priestly kings and kingly priests – who once ‘saw far away in the east’ the ‘star’ of the young carpenter from Galilee. They had come to teach him until the day he could comprehend his mission himself, – even if they did not, as later legend would have it, kneel at the babe’s crib and offer him their gifts. – –

MATTHEW 3:1,
• The Book on The Living God, chapter: A call from Himavat.
“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.

MATTHEW 4:4,
• Resurrection, chapter: Festive joy.

MATTHEW 4:19,
• The Book Of Love, chapter: The great man of love.
For the sake of ‘fishing for men’ his teaching has been sinned against in a way that is hard to put into words. These sins, committed by foolish disseminators of badly distorted doctrine, still exert an influence today. There is no end in sight for such misleading practices!

MATTHEW 5:3,
• Worlds, chapter: The visions.

MATTHEW 5:7,
• The Book Of Love, chapter: The great man of love.

MATTHEW 5:26,
• More Light, chapter: On the true service of God:
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.

MATTHEW 5:28,
• Marriage, chapter: On temptation and danger:
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.
“Love your enemies! – Do good to those that hate you!”
It is difficult beyond words to follow such a command as long as you are only, conscious of bad conscience, having to force yourself to love. –

MATTHEW 5:48,
• The Book On Man, chapter: The Mystery: ’Man and Woman’:
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.
On Prayer, Knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
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 6:26MATTHEW 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.Not everyone needs the same things; yet everyone undertaking to create his own happiness will obtain everything he really needs for his happiness.

“Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and its righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you!” How badly misinterpreted have been these words of the Master of Nazareth! Certainly He also said, according to the books which describe his teaching, these words: “The Kingdom of God cometh not with observation: neither shall they say, lo here! Or lo there, for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you!”,
• The Mystery of Golgotha, chapter: The growth of the soul.

MATTHEW 7:6,
• More Light, chapter: The secret of the ancient cathedral building works.

MATTHEW 7:7,8,
• The Secret, chapter: The rocky Island.
• More Light, chapter: The secret of the ancient cathedral building works.
On Prayer, chapter: The mystery of praying.
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.

MATTHEW 7:21,
• The Book Of Love, chapter: The redeeming light.
“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.
• Hortus conclusus, chapter: Once more on truth and reality.

MATTHEW 8:11,
• More Light, chapter: The light of the spirit in Christianity.

MATTHEW 9:8,
• Showing the Way, chapter: The power of healing.
“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.

MATTHEW 10:33,
• Letters to one and many, chapter: On professing to men.

MATTHEW 11:11,
• More Light, chapter: The light of the spirit in Christianity.

MATTHEW 11:12,
• The High Goal, chapter: On seeking and finding.
• Path of my Pupils, chapter: Unnessary self-torment

MATTHEW 11:15,
• More Light, chapter: On the true service of God:
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.

MATTHEW 12:8,
• The Wisdom of John, chapter: Portrait of the Master.

MATTHEW 12:27,
• The Wisdom of John, chapter: Portrait of the Master.

MATTHEW 12:30,
• Spectre of Freedom, chapter: The urge to associate:
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:
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.

MATTHEW 16:19,
• The Secret, chapter: The rocky Island.

MATTHEW 17:20,
• The Mystery of Golgotha, chapter: Occult practices.

MATTHEW 18:3,
• Worlds, chapter: To conclude:
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:
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:
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.
Therefore all who have received the right and power to teach of these things are obliged to repeat the saying of the exalted Master of Nazareth: –
“Where two or three are gathered together in my ‘name’, there am I in the midst of them!”

Yet let there never be more than ‘two or three’ coming together to exchange their experiences of the soul in the words of the external language!

MATTHEW 19:17,
• The Wisdom of John, chapter: Portrait of the master.
• More Light, chapter: On the three steps,.

MATTHEW 19:24,
• The Book On Happiness, chapter: Wealth and poverty:
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:
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:
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.

MATTHEW 24:42,
• More Light, chapter: The architects of the cathedral of mankind.
chapter: Theosophy and pseudo-theosophy:
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.
• The Mystery of Golgotha, chapter: The growth of the soul.

MATTHEW 25:29,
• The Mystery of Golgotha, chapter: The mystery of Golgotha.

MATTHEW 28:10,
• Above the Everyday, poem: The greeting of the one who has risen:
Be not afraid:
I will walk with you!

“Be not afraid!”
I will stay with you, –

MATTHEW 28:20,
• The Secret, chapter: Epilogue.

The Mystery of Golgotha, chapter: Introduction.
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.

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