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Chapter 21 - Two Blind Persons
1. When they set out on their way to Jericho, many people followed him.
2. And behold, two blind persons sat by the wayside; and when they heard Jmmanuel going by, they cried out, saying, "Oh lord, son of a celestial son, have mercy on us!"
3. The people threatened them to be quiet, but they screamed even louder, saying, "Oh, lord, son of a celestial son, have mercy on us!"
4. And Jmmanuel stood still and called out to them, asking, "What do you want me to do for you?"
5. They said to him, "Lord, open our eyes so we can glimpse the splendour of the world."
6. And he had pity on them and asked, "Whose power, do you suppose, is it that can make you see?"
7. They replied, "The power of Creation, which is in the laws."
8. Jmmanuel was astonished and said, "Truly, so far I have never found such faith and knowledge among these people. Be it done to you as you expect."
9. And he touched their eyes and immediately they could see; and they followed him.
10. As they went on their way, Jmmanuel taught the people with sincerity, and he spoke,
11 . "Truly, truly, I say to you, if you are knowledgeable and comprehending and embrace wisdom, and if you practice love truthfully and do not doubt, not only will you do such things with blind eyes, but when you say to the fig tree: 'Dry up' it will dry up. Or when you say to a mountain: 'Lift yourself up and throw yourself into the sea,' it will come to pass.
12. "Be knowledgeable in truth and wisdom, so that your spirit and your consciousness will become powerful.
13. "And when you are knowledgeable and live in the truth of wisdom, your spirit and your consciousness will be filled with infinite power.
14. "Then everything you command or ask for in prayer, you will receive if you trust in it.
15. "Do not suppose, however, that prayer is necessary, because you will also receive without prayer if your spirit and your consciousness are trained through wisdom.
16. "Do not delude yourself by heeding the falsified teachings that a person has a predetermined will, because this belief is wrong.
17. "Know this: Whatever a person may wish to accomplish, they must always first create the will to do so, because this is the law of nature.
18. "Thus a person determines the course of their life, known as fate.
19. "But it is a fact that one must acquire knowledge and learn the truth in order to engender a will that is imbued with the laws.
20. "Consider yourselves as people who live in order to learn and perfect the spirit,
21. "because you were born with the task of becoming perfect in spirit.
22. "Pay no attention in the future when the erroneous teaching will be spread that humans must once again perfect themselves in spirit because they have fallen away from Creation.
23. "Beware of this false teaching, because it is wrong down to the final dot on the 'i.'