Gospel of the Nazirene
CHAPTER 69: The Messiah Within,
The Resurrection and the Life
1.As Yeshua sat by the west of the temple with his disciples, behold there passed some carrying one that was dead, to burial, and a certain one said to Him, "Master, if a man die, shall he live again?"
2.He answered and said, "I am the resurrection and the life, I am the good, the beautiful, the true; if a man believe in me he shall not die, but live eternally. As in Adam all (1997 = are bound to cycles of rebirth) die, so in the Messiah shall all be made alive. Blessed are the dead who die in me, and are made perfect in my image and likeness, for they rest from their labors and their works do follow them. They have overcome evil, and are made pillars in the temple of my God, and they go out no more, for they rest in the eternal."
3."For them that persist in evil there is no rest, but they go out and in, and suffer correction for ages, till they are made perfect. But for them that have done good and attained to perfection, there is endless rest and they go into life everlasting. They rest in the eternal."
4."Over them the repeated death and birth have no power, for them the wheel of the eternal revolves no more, for they have attained to the center, where is eternal rest, and the center of all things is God."
5.And one of the disciples asked him, "How shall a man enter into the Kingdom?" And he answered and said, "If you don't make below as the above, and the left as the right, and the behind as the before, entering into the center and passing into the spirit, you will not enter into the kingdom of God."
6.And he also said, "Don't believe that any man is wholly without error, for even among the prophets and those who have been initiated into the Messiahhood, the word of error has been found. But there are a multitude of errors which are covered by love."
7.And now then the eventide was come, he went out to Bethany with the twelve. For Lazarus and Mary and Martha whom he loved, lived there.
8.And Salome came to him and asked him, saying, "Lord, how long shall death hold sway?" And He answered, "So long as you men inflict burdens and you women bring forth, and for this purpose I have come, to end the works of the heedless."
9.And Salome said to him, "Then I have done well in not bringing forth." And the Lord answered and said, "Eat of every pasture which is good, but of that which has the bitterness of death, don't eat."
10.And when Salome asked when those things of which she inquired should be known, the Lord said, "When you crush the garments of shame and rise above desire; When the two become One, and the male with the female shall be neither male nor female."
11.And again, to another disciple who asked, "When will all obey the law?" Yeshua said, "When the spirit of God shall fill the whole earth and every heart of man and of woman."
12."I cast the law into the earth and it took root and bore in due time twelve fruits for the nourishment of all. I cast the law into the water and it was cleansed from all defilement of evil. (1997 translation adds: The Law was cast into the fire, and the gold was purged from all dross). I cast the law into the air, and it was made alive by the spirit of the living One that fills all things and dwells in every heart."
13.And many other like sayings He spoke to them who had ears to hear, and an understanding mind. But to the multitude they were dark sayings.