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6/29/2025, 7:33:38 AM
Once, two of Jesus’s students, Jacob and John, came to him and said, “Teacher! Promise that you will do for us what we ask.”
He said, “What do you want?”
They said, “We want to be equal with you.”
Jesus said to them, “You do not know what you are asking. You can live just as I do, you can purify yourself from mortal life just as I do, but to make you the same as me—that is not in my power. Every man must enter the father’s will of his own power.”
Having heard that, the other students became angry at the two brothers for wanting to be the same as the teacher, to be the most senior of the students.
Jesus called to them and said, “If you, brothers John and Jacob, asked me to make you the same as me in order to be the most senior of the students, then you have made a mistake. If, however, you, other students, are angry at them because these two wanted to have seniority over you, then you are mistaken also. In this world only kings and rulers count who is most senior, so that they can govern nations.
“But among you there can be no seniors and no juniors. Among you, in order to be greater than another, you must become a servant to all. Among you, whoever wants to be first must consider himself last. Because this is the will of the father concerning the son of man, that he live not to be served, but to serve all others himself and to give away his mortal life like a ransom for the life of the spirit.”
He said, “What do you want?”
They said, “We want to be equal with you.”
Jesus said to them, “You do not know what you are asking. You can live just as I do, you can purify yourself from mortal life just as I do, but to make you the same as me—that is not in my power. Every man must enter the father’s will of his own power.”
Having heard that, the other students became angry at the two brothers for wanting to be the same as the teacher, to be the most senior of the students.
Jesus called to them and said, “If you, brothers John and Jacob, asked me to make you the same as me in order to be the most senior of the students, then you have made a mistake. If, however, you, other students, are angry at them because these two wanted to have seniority over you, then you are mistaken also. In this world only kings and rulers count who is most senior, so that they can govern nations.
“But among you there can be no seniors and no juniors. Among you, in order to be greater than another, you must become a servant to all. Among you, whoever wants to be first must consider himself last. Because this is the will of the father concerning the son of man, that he live not to be served, but to serve all others himself and to give away his mortal life like a ransom for the life of the spirit.”
6/28/2025, 2:53:26 PM
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Let the thought-creativeness of the Subtle World remind us of what kind of amplifier is revealed to us. Verily, he who passes over in righteousness multiplies the righteousness, and he who passes over in evil becomes a source of evil. Thus we can multiply our energies without limit. It is therefore our duty to refine our organism in order that it be a worthy receptacle. And these actions can be performed in palaces as well as in huts. Only consciousness of the grandeur of the revealed Fiery World leads to the path of unity.
Let the thought-creativeness of the Subtle World remind us of what kind of amplifier is revealed to us. Verily, he who passes over in righteousness multiplies the righteousness, and he who passes over in evil becomes a source of evil. Thus we can multiply our energies without limit. It is therefore our duty to refine our organism in order that it be a worthy receptacle. And these actions can be performed in palaces as well as in huts. Only consciousness of the grandeur of the revealed Fiery World leads to the path of unity.
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