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THE TESTAMENT OF TRUTH and THE GOSPEL OF PEACE OF
JESUS CHRIST -
A COMPARATIVE STUDY
The translation of the Gospel of Peace of Jesus Christ
is a direct translation from the Aramaic Manuscript held in the
library of the Vatican and in Old Slavonic in the Royal Library of
Habsburgs. These manuscripts have been translated into English by
Edmond Szekely, London 1937.
The Teachings of the Essenes, from Enoch to the Dead Sea Scrolls,
published in 1978 and The Gospel of the Essenes, published in 1976,
are also translated by Edmond Szekely.
The Testament of Truth is the recent work of Terence Malaher.
He has at no time studied either the Dead Sea
Scrolls or the Aramaic manuscript. He is not a scholar and is
ignorant of the works under study in this document, however, he is
and has always been a man of God. The Testament of Truth is a work
inspired by the Source for whom Terence is a "messenger."
Whilst this article is aimed at stirring the curiosity of
scholars, intellectuals, theologians and ministers of religion, it
is written for all who earnestly seek the Truth.
In The Testament of Truth it is revealed that
if Satan entices others to abuse you and you pay your dues at
their hand by not retaliating - only then do you become free from
Satan's influence.
It is Satan, God’s servant, who is
sent as God’s 'Reaper' to release us from our past debts. Only when
we can "welcome" the suffering or mortal death at the hands
of others have we been "enlightened" by God’s Wisdom because
then we have truly supped on God’s bread and on the waters of
eternal life.
Satan only
becomes our enemy when we allow him
to use us as his reaping tool, that is, when we carry out the
retributive reaping process of another person
by being the one to mete out their punishment.
Satan is the servant of God sent to release us from our past
debts, a release
that although painful is a necessary evil
to ensure that we repay the pain we caused others in our past.
This the fulfilment
of the One Just Law, a Law that, if not fulfilled, would mean we had
no hope of ever going back to the Light.
When we do not allow ourselves to be Satan's 'hand-piece'
we no longer defy God and
we walk in the Light and receive a return of Light from
others because that
too is the fulfilment of the One Law…….the energy you use in your
interaction with others, whether the negative energy of condemnation
or judgment or the positive energy of forgiveness and understanding,
IS the energy you personally have to feel. That is the
fulfilment of God’s One Law.
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BRIEF OUTLINE OF THE RECORDED TEACHINGS OF THE
ESSENES
The Essenes recognised only positive, constructive forces on operation in the
universe. For them man’s role was to endeavour to strengthen
the good positive forces to such an extent that the negative evil
ones would be overcome and disappear from the earth.
An observation of the tragic state of the human race highlights that the
‘strengthening of the good positive forces’ by man has done nothing
to abate the negative forces. (This
has obviously not occurred) Thus, whilst the Essene teaching reveals
things in common with the Testament of Truth what it fails to do is
reveal the reality of the Dark and the Dark’s capacity to stop us
from being positive, something which is revealed with great clarity
in The Testament of Truth.
Whilst all other religious world pictures, from the ancient
Babylonians to Christianity conceived of two forces at play in the
universe, those of Good and Evil; forces that were in constant
opposition to each other, in the Essene teaching as set out in the
"Tree of Life" they represented positive forces only.
In the section of the Essene writing concerning the Tree of Life
the roots represented the force or power of the Earthly Mother and
the Angels of Earth Life, Joy, Sun, Water and Air. The branches
represented the cosmic powers of the Heavenly Father and his Angels
of Eternal Life, Creative Works, Peace, Power, Love and Wisdom.
At the centre of the Tree, half-way between Heaven and Earth, was
man, surrounded by all the forces which both impacted upon him and
were impacted upon by him.
The central position of "thought" as the superior force
was due to the belief that man’s thought constantly sent out and
received currents from the visible and invisible universe.
The nearest that the Essenes came to defining the opposite of the
Good positive currents, forces of the Light, was their belief
that the inexhaustible energy in the universe containing knowledge,
harmony and the Light of Wisdom, remained untapped because of the
Darkness of ignorance.
Darkness or negativity was conceived of as an absence of harmony
or ‘ignorance’ rather than an independent inexhaustible energy
which also transmits, and is received, throughout the visible and
invisible universe.
This tendency to minimise, if not 'conceal' the Dark is one of
the most consistent features of all world religions.
Whilst evil, the dark, or negative forces feature in most world
religions, the unequivocal nature of its powerful independent
existence is always watered down by the fact that teachings
contained in theological and philosophical dissertations maintain
that 'evil is subject to man’s interpretations of it.'
This is evidenced in all religions where theological leaders
maintain that the Dark’s power and omnipotence is
believed to be subject to the Light. Further there are also
assertions that the Dark is also subject to various practices
which render the Dark "manageable." The best examples are the
many rites and rituals whereby a priestly figure acts as
intermediary between the people who have sinned and God against whom
they have sinned.
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These rituals (the rite of confession being a prime example) are
said to ameliorate the consequence of the individual failing to obey
God's one Command to only be loving merciful and never retaliatory
. The strong belief in the
capacity of rituals to ameliorate the consequence of man defying God
by using the Dark,
is revealed as gross error in Terence's Testament, for there it is clearly
stated that no
rituals of man ameliorate or nullify God's one
immutable Law – the
energy you use in your interaction with others is the energy that
will come back to be felt by you.
Either through the practice of apologetics, theological exegesis,
or philosophical and intellectual debate, the
omnipotence of the Dark as equal with the Light
and therefore an integral part of the Source has been
concealed. The teachings of the Essenes are no exception to this.
In one way or another the initiates of each world religion see
themselves as capable of establishing immunity from the power of the
Dark force. The beliefs vary but held in common by all is the belief
that through some "man sanctioned" ritual, dogma, ceremony,
incantation or the calling on the name of a messenger such as Jesus,
the absolute power of the Dark is rendered impotent. The other
universal belief is that
man thinks he can not only
control the Dark but also destroy it.
In The Testament of Truth there are unequivocal statements
warning of the danger of the above positions because there it is
made clear that only absolute obedience to God's Command - "Be
peaceful, merciful,
loving compassionate and forgiving" gives us protection against
the dark which is
indestructible. This means that it is only by being
"forgiving and non retaliatory" in all situations that we
gain freedom from the Dark.
When we no longer utilize the dark to condemn, judge, oppress,
retaliate or destroy,
in fact when we are following the example shown to us by
Jesus and "going" quietly as a lamb to the "slaughter"
if we are required to be put to death, only then are we set free
from the 'inquisition'
by the Dark.
For man the power of the Dark was apparent in both disease and
physical death with which the Dark was ultimately equated. The
Essene teachings as well as the teachings of the Israelites
exemplify this in rituals associated with "bodily cleansing"
which they believe is pleasing to God whilst the Christian tradition
is one of identifying physical death as the darkness man must face.
The above religions fail to accept that darkness within man is a
reality. What these
religions hold instead is, that adherence to 'religious
rituals' ameliorates that Dark. This failure leads most religions to
deny that darkness in man is increased in the soul
each time negative deeds are performed by man.
In the Testament of Truth on the other hand "real" death,
that is the spiritual death of being "lost to the dark and
forgotten," is a direct result of failure to accept that it is
our own dark negative actions alone by which we are
judged by the Dark. Conversely,
when conforming to the "Love one another" Command and being loving
and kind, our positive actions are judged by the Light, and we
receive a 'benign' and joyful return.
The reported conquering of physical death by Jesus was presumed
to be the culmination of
the losing fight by humanity against the powerful Dark force. The Light had purportedly conquered
the Dark thereby supposedly not only divesting it of its power, but
rendering it subject to the material laws of the universe. This is an error
of judgement and of belief.
The act of the
‘reported’ physical resurrection
of Jesus is today
still considered an act that renders "Christ followers"
immune, not only the power of the Dark,
but to give them an
immunity from
spiritual death no matter how often they utilize the Dark to judge,
condemn, vilify or even take life. Thus while Jesus the messenger
constantly taught that
the greatest
Command was
‘forgive under all circumstances
and turn the other cheek,’
later followers and later interpretations of his teachings again
buried the true nature of
the Dark, causing it to remain concealed under the weight of
man-made laws, beliefs and
"mens’
translations" of God's Command.
This is falsity born out of ignorance and a deceit that continues
to be perpetuated through contaminated teachings as is evidenced in
the way mankind continues to abuse and even kill, believing that
these actions in war are somehow absolved by those professing to
follow Christ. The reality as now revealed is that any who abuse others in any way
are refusing to obey
God’s
Command to always
turn the other cheek and forgive, and
the consequence of that
disobedience is the sad reality that they fall deeper into
spiritual darkness.
From the time man attained the capacity to reason he has grappled
with the obvious existence of Good and Evil, Light and Dark. In an
attempt to reconcile these contradictory, irreconcilable forces he
created an artificial dichotomy separating
the unified duality
– light and dark -
into a conveniently
manageable separation.
The benevolent force he named the Light/God in whom no Dark
exists believing this force of good would always protect and save
him. The malevolent force he named various things, but predominantly
Dark/Satan/Evil in whom no Light exists, believing that he should
destroy not only it, but those he deemed were it in action
through their expressed
negative deeds.
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The Testament of Truth reveals the enormous implications of these
false beliefs and misunderstanding concerning the Dark. The
revelation contained in this inspired book is
a full revelation
of the Dark and how it works through the negative emotions and
thoughts of all spirits, both incarnate and discarnate.
The Testament of Truth elucidates that by denying the Dark equal
status and co-existence with the Light, mankind has presumed the
Dark to be impotent against man’s ordained "authority." This
belief has led many of God’s children to believe that negative
treatment of others is acceptable when it clearly is contrary to the
teaching of the messenger, Jesus, sent by God.
The truth is that the Dark is impotent in the face of the Light
only when we as individuals walk in the Light.
This we do only when we live the Command by expressing only
love, by being peaceful and by forgiving others in all
circumstances. When we fail to keep this Command we empower the Dark
by using IT in our interaction with others,
and IT is then 'self-empowered'
to abuse us because, by failing to keep to the Command we not only
place ourselves in ITS domain and within ITS immutable Law
but we continue to deny the call of the Light to always obey the
Command.
The reality is that the Dark is omnipotent, omniscient and
omnipresent with the Light because it is an eternal part of the
Source. That Source is Energy, at one end of Its spectrum
is the pure Light
and at the other end is the pure Dark. Both these energies are
indestructible. It is arrogant man who chooses to deny the wisdom of
the Light of God by "using" the dark.
This man does each time he is destructive to others, forceful, interfering or controlling.
As soon as any of
us express the dark in action, we bind ourselves to the Dark
until such time as we pay all our dues through the Karmic process.
The "dark one" entices us through our ‘thought’
processes often
seducing our minds by thoughts that give us a valid reason to
express a negative action.
These thoughts tempt us to deny the Light through
such actions as
verbal criticism or judgement of our fellow man.
As we give in to these
thoughts we ultimately become overpowered by them because, by letting them
‘play’ in our minds, we give the Dark permission to seduce us into using
It’s judging energy. Since Judgment belongs
only to God, when we presume to act on the thoughts that give us
every good reason to judge others we are using God’s energy.
God’s energy to Judge and deliver retribution is 'Just' energy.
That energy in our hands is always negative retribution which must
be paid for by us and as such must again become God’s Just
retribution to be felt by us.
Each time we use God’s energy to judge, condemn or seek
retribution we increase that
negative energy within us. It is through using this dark energy
endlessly that we ultimately
stand to lose our souls to it and
fall into the underworld in the afterlife.
We have consistently ignored the revelations throughout mankind’s
history that "Justice is mine says the Lord," a justice which
alone has the Right of Retribution and retaliation. This
Right is the domain of the Dark and when we usurp that domain
by assuming we have the right to be it in action, we
are not only using the Dark but we ourselves are being used by
It to mete out "Its divine retribution."
We have remained too arrogant to see our ignorance of the Dark
and consequently we are now unable to see that each time we seek
justice in any form the dark is using us and that for allowing it to
so do we must pay the painful price.
The Command that we be "only loving in all we do,"
revealed universally throughout world religions, takes on its full
significance when seen from this understanding of the nature of the
Dark as revealed in The Testament of Truth.
This universal Command is a Command from the Light that we be
true to that aspect of IT in whose image we are created however, it
is also a Demand from the other aspect of God, the Dark, in whose
image we are also created.
The difference between the Command of the Light and the Demand of
the Dark that we be loving is of great importance for, contained
within this difference is the revelation of the nature of that which
Commands and that which Demands.
The Light’s Command to Love comes from its infinite Wisdom and
knowledge that if we fail to heed Its Command the Dark
will overpower us. The nature of the Light is thus both revealed
by and contained within Its Command.
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We need to understand that the inner sin is a part of the Dark
within us and that it is this "Sin" which allows the Dark to
invasively intrude and access our minds. The demand of the Dark
through us is that we destroy "bad" people who themselves are
or have been 'that Dark' in action.
The Light's Command is therefore to protect us which it does when
we reject the negative thoughts of the dark and do not turn them
into expressed deed. It is only in this denial of Satan‘s thoughts
that our deeds remain positive. When we give in to any negative
thoughts we are bound by the darkness until such time as we have
paid our dues, usually through the hands of another.
The nature of the Dark is contained within the Father’s Demand
that we be loving, a demand built upon "control by force."
Refusal of a Demand is our freedom of choice but, that choice MUST
result in the full weight of the controlling force being imposed.
This imposition is the Darkness in action abusing those who have
been abusive before and,
it uses anyone that is ignorant of Its reality and power to
destroy them.
Now, since the Command of the Light and the Demand of the Dark
both have the same requirement of us, one respectfully requesting
and the other forcefully insisting that we obey the Command
to be peaceful, loving,
compassionate and forgiving, it follows that whilst we still
have the choice to be loving or destructive, we had best choose
wisely because should we not heed the Command and the Demand, the
consequences are eternal.
When we refuse to obey the Demand often enough it gives rise to
much negativity and consequent suffering through the fulfillment of
the One Law "Reap what you did Sow." Through the process of
constant use of the Dark we almost blot out the Light within us
causing the inner dark to "overshadow" that inner Light. Once
this balance towards using the Dark is tipped (so that Light seems
lost,) the negative emotions within us "over-ride" our
freedom of choice, and we diminish and ultimately lose our capacity
to even obey the Command.
At that time our inherent desire to fulfill the Command is lost
beneath the overwhelming emotions of negativity we feel as a result
of the suffering endured at "debt payment time." At this time
our inner Light’s capacity to be loving becomes merely a faint echo
of some long forgotten memory, as our intensified emotions are
incessantly fuelled by incoming dark thoughts which give us endless
reasons to deny the call of Peace.
The call of Peace is set out in
"The Gospel of Peace of
Jesus Christ," but only in
The Testament of Truth
is there a full understanding of "how and why" we must remain
"non-retaliatory and peaceful in the face of adversity."
Further, only now are the reasons for our inability to adhere to the
call of Peace and non retaliation revealed in
"The Testament of Truth"
as well as the means to 'enlighten' ourselves and become truly free
from eternal pain and suffering.
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For your convenience I give you an extract from 'The ONE true
faith' document written by Terence:
Let it be clearly understood, that there are
only TWO ideological beliefs that exist that are 'classified' as
'religions,' for the true meaning of the word 'religion' is the
IDEAL or ideological code of conduct POLICY to which the
'follower' is 'faithful' and loyal, and their 'fidelity' to the one
or the other is shown to God and man by their interaction 'ACTIVITY'
with other children of God.
IF you are a seeker of Salvation and wish to find
your way to the Promised Land, paradise, heaven, then you need to
read, comprehend, and follow the ONE True faith revealed herein by
my sacred pen, as you turn your 'back' on any named religion of man
and 'choose' to simply follow the
TRUE LIGHT that
reveals the TRUE spiritual
WAY via me.
There are many 'named' religions of MEN that are
misleading humanity and turning man against man, for there are in
fact only TWO religious ideological codes of conduct
beliefs/policies/faiths/doctrines. These are the ideological
'policies' available to be followed:
The ONE is the
TRUE religion.
The 'ideal' being the belief in:
Tender loving CARE
Peace, compassion,
kindness, truthfulness, mercy, respect, forgiveness, freedom &
creativity using
LOVE.
(benign)
Thus the aspirant, pilgrim or
'follower' remains loyal in being an absolute pacifist in
their interaction with others at all times.
The other is the
FALSE religion.
The 'ideal' being the belief
in the justification for:
Cruel merciless PERSECUTION
War, control, deception, disrespect, vengeance, torture, killing &
destruction
using
FORCE.
(malignant)
Thus the 'follower' is thus an
aggressor that terrorises and injures others when they feel
'justified' to so do.
People of ALL races and named 'creeds' or 'religions' need to
know that the 'key' to
Salvation
is 'simply' to obey and remain in absolute conformity at
all times and in all situations to:
The Primary TRUTHFUL and RULING Command of God
that stipulates:
"Go
your way in peace and love one another and be merciful,
compassionate and forgiving."
You have been spiritually 'baptised' when the
above IDEAL 'policy' has been given unto you and you have
made a personal choice to be faithful and loyal to its
code of conduct policy at all times and in all situations,
especially when faced by aggression.
It follows that the pilgrimage is not one whereby
you visit the 'Ganges' to wash away sins, or to 'Mecca' or any other
supposedly 'holy' site, for that is nonsense, as no 'visitation' to
any earthly place reduces your inner capacity to defy
God and fight when fearful or angry. The true pilgrim seeks the
spiritual realm of heaven, and prepares her or his mind using my
wisdom so that the
daily journey is one whereby they remain steadfast unto the
Holy Word above
and never wields a sword nor raises their voice with critical
or angry words.
The true follower knows that God has but
ONE Law:
"As you or your servants do unto others
will be done to you by others, be it
benign
or
malignant."
The true also know that any 'harm' or
'disadvantage' befalling them is simply a spiritual due that they
accrued in this or, in a past time when in a spiritual realm
pre-birth, and thus they never retaliate, and they 'turn the other
cheek' as such and remain steadfast unto the holy word of
PEACE.
This simple Truth of Salvation became lost as it was
replaced by the multitudes of
'rites, rituals, decrees,'
and other measures of
control that were
established within all scriptural 'teachings' of mankind by
vain men seeking power and control and wealth untold, and the
simple 'secret'
wisdom
being the 'ideal' code of conduct policy to be adhered to at
all times and in all situations was 'shrouded' in
black and misplaced - - - to now be reinstated by me.
The fullness of the message as contained
in The Testament of Truth with its "ray
of hope" giving the means to fortify our
minds against Satan’s intrusiveness is
available "free on air" on the
internet web page :
http://www.the-testament-of-truth.co.uk
Clemencia