A0463: How is the Revelation of John to be understood? – Part 7

John had the gift of travelling on the astral planes from the second meeting with the angel and John made many of these journeys. The angel still spoke to John many times because his understanding around things had to be built up. The astral journeys had helped John a lot because John could experience the realms and was not only taught about them theoretically. When John was able to call a broad understanding of the realms his own, he began to officially question the Christian doctrinal faith and John did this so cleverly that his brothers in the order could hardly figure out what the actual motivation behind it was. John went down in history as the great reformer of the Christian doctrinal faith, and now we will mention a few incidents so that you can see how well-intentioned questions could lead to the collapse of a centuries-old structure of lies and what allowed the original faith to remain, but we also emphasise that what you now know as the revelations of the Creator is still not what the spiritual world once taught you, but still much better than it was before the great reformation when John began to interpret the old revelations correctly. 

Do not think now that the writer will continue John’s work, for the writer has no desire at all to deal with such subjects, so that it will probably remain with this one series, which not only illuminates religious things in a historical context, but everything that has to do with the so-called God, bores the writer, because he understands the true structure of your so-called God better than most persons of you. 

John was very gifted at mirroring others’ misbehaviour because John had learnt to see behind the façade of human behaviour. Since John had always been a good observer, he could also use the knowledge he had acquired to ask the first well-intentioned questions. For example, he asked his brothers how they actually knew that God was a man, and you would hardly believe the abstruse ideas his brothers came up with. Another time, John tried to find out why the Church has so many codes of conduct. He asked, as a matter of course, where these codes of conduct were revealed and whether you believe it or not, everything you do in your faith buildings was once simply made up, none of it is in any revelation. 

Do you really believe that the so-called God wants you to live celibate lives against your nature? Although life is the greatest gift you have received! 

Why do men of faith have to abide by so many rules that are hard to keep? Ask yourselves, what must be the meaning of these rules? If you cannot figure it out, then we will tell you now. The religious man is supposed to fail, so that man realises that he is not worthy to ascend to the kingdom of heaven! And who offers the solution to the problem of human failure, we ask? The Church, of course. It was only through this that it was also able to build up so much power, but the approach also has a side effect that the Church’s rule-makers could not properly foresee at the time. 

The church has dug its own grave with it because there will always be a time when humanity moves into a social zenith and when an organisation is built only on fear and rules that work against human action, then the social zenith of humanity will see to it that these fear organisations disappear and that this vacated place will be occupied by humanity with something contemporary. The church will cease to exist and all your faith communities will be severely tested so that the great faiths will still exist, but not in this form that you know today. For when it is clearly revealed that all, we say almost all, faiths will be almost completely misinterpreted, then these faiths will no longer exist in their present form. 

The official first contact will herald the next social zenith for the human species on this planet and your churches will collapse because humanity will realise that it has been in bondage to the faiths and that the ecclesiastical orientation of these faiths robs man of his sovereignty. Once people have realised this, churches are less and less frequented. People also no longer want to be dictated how to practice their faith in the so-called God, because that was never given as it is usually practised today. 

John did not know all this at that time and this was not intended for his task at all, because John was supposed to correct the ecclesiastical interpretation of the revealed faith. He himself thought about it a lot, but he did not think that far ahead, so that we can say that John completed his task to his fullest satisfaction, but he was so bound to his faith that he could only make the changes that his understanding of faith allowed and not more, even if he had wanted to, because the time was not yet ripe for that. 

Once John asked how much wine could be drunk at a mass. In doing so, John formulated the text in such a way that it could be assumed that John wanted to make an accounting of costs and now wanted to be told exactly how much wine may be drunk. The answer writer was visibly pleased about this, so that he advised John to always have enough wine in stock, so that no one would ever get into the predicament of running out of wine. After John had received the answer, he went with it to his superior friar and decreed that the wine supply had to be increased mightily. The friar was not pleased and wanted to know why a council should now cause the expenditure on wine to increase so much. With this remark, the John turned again to the answering clerk with the question how he could prove to his friar that this was necessary. The answer writer now saw it as his duty to prove his assertion conclusively, so he took the trouble to search for all the necessary documents in which it can be clearly proven that there must always be enough wine for a mass. Of course, he did not find a single conclusive reference to this, so the matter was sent to other offices of the bishopric. No one was able to prove what everyone seemed to think, so that it was already clear on this occasion that there must have been someone who saw this circumstance of wine consumption during a mass as an opportunity to increase his wine cellar, but nowhere was it revealed that wine should be drunk, and if we want to be precise, nowhere was it revealed that masses should be held at all, and the church buildings were also nowhere revealed, because the church does not reflect the Christian faith either, but is a special interpretation of it. 

If you only take the Christian faith in its basic knowledge, then there are neither churches, priests, monks nor all the rules that you know in the Western world. For the primal faith of Christianity is only human and is meant to promote humanity and all your churches and faith communities distort this primal faith because they reinterpret and reinterpret everything to their advantage. The writer does not think anything of these religious practices, he does not even believe in this so-called God. But because the writer acts in an exceedingly human way, he is more Christian than any would-be Christian who dutifully goes to church and is a quiet sheep of this Christian community. Even if you do not dwell directly in an ecclesiastical position, however, you act so because you take the misinterpretations of the community of faith at face value. You act contrary to your human nature because, caused by fear, you cannot freely live out your humanity. In John’s time, it was even worse, which also led John to ask the following questions. 

• Why do churchgoers have to pay a collection? 
• Why are there religious who have neither knowledge of the faith, yet hold a significant position in the church? 
• Why are people divided into groups when we are all equal? 
• Why is there a nobility when there are only human beings? 
• Why are revelations not taken literally? 
• Which revelations are not part of the Christian faith and why not? 
• What has society done that the church feels it must lead these people? 
• Why are not all people treated equally? 
• Why are women not as respected as men when we are all equal? 
• What does the patriarchy have that the others don’t? 
• Why is God a man? 
• Why do church leaders squirm at accepting women? 
• Do church buildings have to be so ostentatious, where has this been revealed? 
• Why is there no department that scientifically studies the ancient texts (revelations)? 
• Who has allowed the church to judge people of other faiths? 

The last point of our list was particularly sensitive for John because this point was a heretical question. John could only lose by asking this question, but John had to do it because his inner drive compelled him to do so, so he packaged this question well so that his original question would not appear immediately obvious. We want to reproduce this conversation, which is documented in writing, and we have to use a lot of phrasing because there are hardly any ecclesiastical words in the writer’s vocabulary, so it will sound more modern. However, if you compare our text with the documented text, you will be able to work out the similarities. 

“I have a question regarding the human way of dealing with persons of other faiths. If I talk to a non-believing person, then I can communicate our faith to him, but if a person of a different faith tries to convert me or I try to convert him, then we will not be able to reach a consensus because I will not accept his faith and he will not accept ours. What is the official procedure in such a situation?” 

“We always advise you to be extremely careful when dealing with people of a false faith, they will lead anything to damage our faith and you should stay away from these people.” 

“But if I have hope of converting that person, then I should do it. Our faith does not say that persons who do not believe or believe differently are bad people, but they just do not have our ecclesiastical knowledge and if I can impart this ecclesiastical knowledge to the person who believes differently, then he will understand that our faith must be the right one. If you write that the person is trying to badmouth our faith, then I am now puzzled. Our faith is unassailable, so for every verbal attack on us, there must be a clear response that not only exposes that attack, but we must have all the arguments that prove that our church lives the true faith. What must be done to make our action seem right and what can I do to find the right arguments?” 

“We are not advising you not to have a conversation, but to be especially careful. These people always find arguments that put our faith in a bad light and if you are looking for valid arguments, you are free to go to the library, there you can find all the answers you can give in such a conversation. Beware that these people can confuse your understanding of faith, so we advise you to study all the ancient scriptures, they will give you the answers that are pure and uncorrupted. All later interpretations have something added, so our faith is clearly evident in the ancient texts.” 

When John replied to this letter some time later, the reply writer was also aware of where the journey of this conversation was going to end and many levers were then set in motion to silence the troublemaker, but all persons found no heretical hint in the remarks and questions, so that John’s well-meant questions had to continue to be answered. 

“John, we had advised you not to read the new scriptures because many things in these scriptures can be interpreted differently, so the old revelations are the ones you should study. Just because you have now found a passage that does not explain exactly how differently believing persons should be treated, does not mean that the Church treats these persons in the same way. Your quotes are wrong because the ancient revelations do not prove that people of other faiths should be ostracised, in fact nothing is proclaimed about it at all. We advise you to take the old revelations for your study purposes and don’t be confused by the new revelations.” 

This was the moment when many persons in the church realised that the new revelations did not explain the old revelations in a better and more understandable way, but rather the new scriptures misunderstood many things and also added many interpretations not found in any revelation in order to strengthen the church and to make the sheep more and more docile. In the next and last part of this series, we will give another example, not so drastic, but showing how cunning John was in holding up a mirror to others.