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29. And Peter took him aside and spoke to him angrily, "May god or Creation prevent that!
30. "This must not happen to you, because they will catch and torture and kill you."
31. But he turned to Peter, became angry and said, "Get away from me, Satan, for you are an annoyance, because you are thinking not in spiritual but in human terms.
32. "Simon Peter, again you make me angry and show your ignorant thinking.
33. "Truly, I say to you, owing to your lack of understanding, the world will shed much blood because you will falsify my teachings and spread them erroneously among the people.
34. "You will be to blame for the deaths of many people, as well as for the origin of a false name for me and for the evil insult of calling me the son of god, and calling god Creation itself.
35. "But you are still under the grace of my long-suffering patience, so you can still measurably improve upon your irrationality."
36. Then Jmmanuel said to his disciples, "Those who desire to follow my teachings should take upon themselves the burden of the search for truth, insight and understanding,
37. "because those who live their lives in truth and knowledge will be victorious, but those who live their lives in untruth and ignorance will lose.
38. "What would it profit them if they should gain the whole world, yet still damage their consciousness?
39. "Or, how can one help one's spirit if unable to think?
40. "Truly, I say to you, there are several here who will not taste the power of spiritual knowledge in this life, and so they will learn in the next life.
41. "The human spirit is ignorant until it has gained knowledge through thinking and inquiry.
42. "The spirit of a person is not a human product but is a part of Creation given to humans. It must be made knowledgeable and perfected,
43. "so that it proceeds to become one with Creation, since Creation, too, lives in constant growth.
44. "Creation is timeless, and so is the human spirit.
45. "The teaching of this knowledge is extensive and not simple, but it is the way to life that is diverse in its nature.
46. "The human life is destined for perfection of the spirit, in order that life be lived in fulfilment thereof.
47. "Even when humans burden themselves with mistakes, they act according to a law of Creation, because they learn from them and gather insight and knowledge, whereby they develop their spirits, and through their spirits' strength they are able to act.
48. "Without making mistakes it is impossible, therefore, to gather the logic, insight, knowledge, love and wisdom necessary to develop the spirit.
49. "Truly, I say to you, the teachings of the chief priests, Pharisees and scribes are erroneous and false when they tell you that a mistake would be punished by god or Creation when, in fact, the mistake serves the insight and knowledge, and hence the progress, of the spirit.
50. "Therefore there is no punishable mistake, if it serves the insight, knowledge and progress of the spirit; likewise, there is no inheritable mistake or punishment in this world or another world.
51. "Punishment of such a mistake would contradict all the laws of nature and thus all the laws of Creation.
52. "When one makes a mistake that serves the insight, knowledge, and progress of the spirit, there is no punishment, neither in this life nor in any subsequent life.
53. "Thus humans live with the mission of perfecting their spirits and obtaining insight and knowledge through mistakes, so that they may lead the lives for which they were destined.
54. "Humans, however, neither learn consistently nor in accordance with the greatness of their spirit, which is guided by the laws of Creation and introduced to situations that must sequentially ensue, for they are destined. Thus humans mislead their consciousness, their thinking, feeling and actions; they burden themselves with guilt and expose their inner selves to attacks from outside forces.
55. "In this manner the power of consciousness of others affects the life of the individual, for better or worse.
56. "Because humans at this time are beginning to think and perceive, they are in need of the teachings. Thus the prophets have been sent by the celestial sons to teach humankind about the true laws of Creation and the knowledge regarding life.
57. "But the people are still ignorant and addicted to the false laws of the chief priests and distorters of the scriptures. Consequently, they do not recognize the new teachings as truth.
58. "Lacking understanding, the people curse the truth which yet must come; they curse, stone, kill and crucify the prophets.
59. "But since the teachings of the truth must be brought to the people, the prophets have to bear great burdens and suffering under the curse of the people.
60. "Just as they persecuted many prophets, they are now after my life.
61. "The prophecy of the inexorable destiny says that it shall come true for me, insofar that I, an innocent man, will be declared guilty.