Seeking Answers Within

We, people of this world, have been given a special task to seek what we have lost .If we wish to find it, then we must not seek outside of ourselves. On the whole, we do not need flatterers and imposters who encourage us and promise us mountains of gold so that we should follow them alone and outshine them. And when i have attended sermons my whole life, always heard speak and sing of heaven and the new rebirth, and was left standing aside, i would not have advanced from one moment to the next. When one throws a stone into the water ant gets it out again, the stone is as hard as it was beforehand and has kept its shape.  But if one throws it into the fire , then it gets a new shape.

Man , so it with you, even if you run off to church and wish to be seen as a servant of Christ; that is hardly enough . In case you have been standing aside, then you are the same as before. Neither is it enough that you have learned all books by rote and that you have continued for days and years reading all the writings and if you know the Bible of by heart, you are still no better in God's eyes than the pig herder who all this time has kept watch over his pigs, or a poor prisoner in the dark who all this time has not seen the daylight . This is how the doubting soul remains outside the temple of Christ , it knocks , it seeks and increasingly doubts whether this is true way. You will not find  a new rebirth or precious stone in the battle, nor any wisdom of reason ; you  have to let go of everything in this world no matter how beautiful it may be , and you have to go within, do nothing other than place your sins in a heap which have poisoned you, and cast them away with God's mercy , and raise yourself to God to ask Him that he will forget them and that He will illumine you with his spirit.

     

   If you should fall and lose the beautiful crown , do not despair, seek, knock , turn back and try again and you shall experience the spirit which has written these words. You shall then receive a tree instead of a branch and you shall say : Has my branch thus becomes a tree while i was  asleep? Then you shall immediately recognize the philosopher's stone.