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PURE RELIGION & PRAYER CONTAIN NO EXTRA-
EXTERNALS & NO HOLIDAYS/ HOLY DAYS
[1] Said the female priest of Minerva: O Lord, one
could keep on asking for an eternity; but to what use
since we cannot grasp Your answers in our present
state anyway! But send us soon Your promised sprit
who will guide us in all truth and with all that we will be
more than content what we until now have received
from You. Only one thing would be worth mentioning,
and it would be good to have also in this regard the
right instructions.
[2] Behold, in all teachings of God to the people,
the praise worthy demand is given that a God being
must be worshiped by us humans! Now, for our false
gods we had a whole legion of approved and also not
approved prayers. The approved and thus effective
prayers were made by the priests of course of the
highest rank and were only allowed to be prayed at
certain ceremonies and at certain times in a day and
belonged to the so called mysterious gods service.
Subject to strict punishment such a prayer was not
allowed to be prayed by layman and
unconsecrated people, and one had to go to a
priest to bring him for all cases a predetermined
sacrifice, so that the priest could then quite
monotonously and absolutely absent-minded mumble
some approved prayer for him in a temple
accompanied the necessary ceremony. However, the
unapproved and therefore also ineffective prayers were
also allowed to be prayed by the layman, with the only
reason that also he could exercise himself to marvel
about the gods and thereby familiarize himself with the
effectiveness of the approved holy prayers of the
priests.
[3] Now, that such is before Your eyes and ears a
horror, nobody needs to explain and prove furthermore;
nevertheless, people should worship and call a true God
even more so with certain selected god-worthy words,
other than he speaks and talks to his fellowman. And in
this regard we also would like to have from Yourself a
word as a guideline.
[4] I said: My disciples have anyway given to you
the prayer I taught them and which every person can
pray in his heart with the same effect; every other
prayer with the lips is repugnant before Me.
[5] From eternity I always have been the same in
the spirit and forever will not change in My being,
effectuation and will. I now have been three days with
you and have taught you what you need to know, to
believe and to do everybody by himself, to obtain the
everlasting life of the soul. Did I say anything about any
special prayers or anything about an effective
mysterious, only Me pleasing God service, or about any
certain holy days like the Sabbath of the Jews, which
they call a day of the Lord Jehovah of the Jews, on
which the priests forbid the people all kinds of work,
while they themselves as priests on this very day of the
Lord commit the biggest and most shameful
fraudulences and at the same time are of the
unscrupulous opinion to thereby provide God with a
good service? No, about all this you not have heard a
single word from My mouth and I say it to you as the
full truth:
[6] Do away with all your ceremonial prayers,
away with all holy days, since every day is a true day of
the Lord, and away with all priesthood! For every
person who recognizes God and loves Him above all
and does His will, is a true and right priest and is
thereby also a right teacher, if he gives this very
teaching which he has received from Me, to his
fellowmen.
[7] Who therefore does My will, speaks the Lord
now, truly prays and prays without interruption; and
every day on which a person provides his fellowman in
My name with a welfare deed, is a true and to Me
pleasing day of the Lord.
[8] If somebody provides an act of charity to his
neighbor, he should do so quietly and should not talk or
boast about it before other people! Since who does this
has already taken his spiritual reward from Me, in that
he received a worldly fame for his noble deed: however,
it never strengthens the soul but only spoils it because
he makes it conceited and self-complacent.
[9] It is the same with asking for any mercy. Who
wants to receive something from Me by his request,
should pray quietly in his love-filled heart to Me, and it
will be given to him for what he asks, as long it is
conducive with the life-salvation of his soul.
[10] Likewise also two, three or even more can be
united and pray for themselves and the whole
congregation however, without the congregation
knowing about it, and I will certainly listen to such
requests. However, if the two, three or even more went
and tell it to the congregation that they on this or that
day or at this or that hour of the day had prayed for
them, so that the congregation would praise them, yes,
in the end even paying for such devout prayers, truly,
such a prayer will never be heard and thus will be of no
use to those who prayed and the congregation! Since
all this, also the heathens have done and still doing it,
by moving in large crowds from one idol temple to the
next, carrying all kinds of the most silly carved figures,
flags, vessels and a lot more of other stuff, making a lot
of noise, blowing the horns, hit the drums and jangle
with shields.
They also arrange for long pilgrimages to
extraordinary and special idol mercy pictures, and once
arriving they carrying out the most silly acts of
repentance and give to the idol large and often quite
considerable sacrifices, by which of course the idol
priests benefited a great deal, but never the stupid
pilgrims.
Thus, such general prayers and requests are
never heard by Me!
[11] Who wants to have his good request be
heard, should make a pilgrimage to his heart and in all
quietness carry his request before Me with natural and
undecorated words, and I will listen to him. But this I
also say to you, that nobody should come to Me with a
devout looking behavior and face! Since wherever
during a prayer certain deceitful devout facial
expressions occur, the request will also not be heard;
because who does not come to Me in a natural manner
he is, and will not pray in the right spirit of the fullest
truth, will not be heard, but only him who truly loves
Me, does My will and comes to Me without splendor and
compulsion, just like he is, will always be heard by Me.
[12] It is an old custom, even with the Jews, that
the blind and stupid people wear special, enhanced and
better clothing for their requests and prayers, because
they think that people cannot do enough for a so called
greater honor of God. However, such fool does not think
about it, that there are many poor, who barely can
cover their nakedness. How must the poor feel, if he
sees the rich abundantly clothed in a prayer house
honoring God, while he himself cannot do so and thinks
by himself that he in his rags can only offend his God!
[13] Truly I say to you: whoever prays to Me with
certain better clothes on, will also never be heard and
even less so a priest in his stupid, bounty magic coats
and skirts!
[14] There exists also an old bad habit during
prayers to God: that one should use a certain foreign
language for it and regards this for God the worthiest.
Where such nonsense will subsequently ever exist, the
request will also never be heard.
[15] People should only decorate their hearts for
Me and speak only their mother language and I will
listen to their request!
[16] I want, that all the old follies should be
completely abandoned and that the people should
become totally new, true and pure people. And where
they will be like that, there I will be among them;
however, the blind world-fools should from now on be
punished, thereby, that their requests will not be heard!
[17] God has created man without clothes and
created him to His own image, and God was pleased
with the form of man, because it was His own image.
But God also showed man how to make clothes for
himself so that he could protect his skin against the
cold; but God did not taught the first people to make
clothes for themselves, so that they can wear them as a
haughty adornment of their limbs. And God even less
so taught man to make himself bounty clothes, as the
only means to be worthy to worship God.
[18] Therefore dress yourself according to your
standing, but simple, and do not place any value on
skirt and coat other than to cover the body; what is
beyond is already evil and carries no good fruit.
[19] And as such you also know in this regard
what to do
Source: The Great Gospel According to Jesus
Christ thru John, volume 14, chapter 94: