You do not see that the light of the sun, which judges the universe and looks
down upon the universe, will encircle everything and make slaves of its
enemies. You do not realize, either, how the moon looks down night and day and
sees your slaughtered bodies.
Woe to you who love intercourse and filthy association with womankind! Woe to
you, because the powers of your bodies will make you suffer! Woe to you on whom
the evil demons act! Woe to you who tempt the limbs of your bodies with fire!
Who will sprinkle a cool dew upon you, to put out all the burning and blazing
within you? Who will make the sun shine on you, to drive out the darkness
within you, and put the darkness and the filthy water out of sight?
The sun and the moon will give a sweet smell to you and to the air, the spirit,
the earth and the water. "FOR IF THE SUN DOES NOT SHINE ON THESE BODIES, THEY
WILL WASTE AWAY AND DIE LIKE WEEDS OR GRASS.
If the sun shines on weeds, they become vigorous and can choke a grapevine.
But if a grapevine becomes vigorous, casts its shadow over the weeds and all
the rest of the brush growing along with it, and spreads and flourishes, the
grapevine alone inherits the land where it grows, and dominates wherever it
casts its shadow. When it grows, then, it dominates the whole land, produces
abundantly, and makes the Lord even happier.
For the Lord would have suffered much because of these weeds before finally
pulling them out, but the grapevine disposed of them and choked them all by
itself. So the weeds died and became like earth."
Then Jesus continued and said, "Woe to you, for you have not learned the
lesson…, that they rise from death! Blessed are you who know beforehand about
what may entrap you, and who flee what is alien to you. Blessed are you who are
mocked and despised because of the love your Lord has for you.
Blessed are you who weep and are afflicted by those without hope, for you will
be released from all that binds you. "Watch and pray that you may not be born
in the flesh, but that you may leave the bitter bondage of this life.
When you pray, you will find rest, for you have left pain and abuse behind.
When you leave bodily pains and passions, you will receive rest from the Good
One, and you will reign with the King, you united with the King and the King
united with you, now and forever and ever. Amen."
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