The Fire Gospel

By Da Free John.

Only edition: 12/82.
©1982 The Johannine Daist Communion.
ISBN: 0-913922-73-0 (paper).
LOCCCN: 83189849

 
At the origin of everything is the Creative Spirit,
the Intelligent Life-Principle,
the All-Pervading Matrix of the total world.
And the Living Spirit-Breath of God
is always united with very God,
the Radiant Transcendental Consciousness,
the true Heart of the world
and the truth of all beings.
Indeed, the Spirit is God,
for God is the Creative Life-Principal,
the Eternally Free Transcendental Reality
in Whom all beings and things
arise and float and change and pass out of sight.
All things and beings come to exist
throught the Agency of the Eternal Life-Principle,
and not otherwise.
And whatever or whoever exists
because of the Spirit is indeed Alive—
because everything and everyone is Sustained
through surrender into that Living-Spirit.
The Life Breath that sustains Man
is also the Light that can show him the Way
through the darkness and blindness of the world.
That Light is now and always has been
shining in the world and even
in the body and mind of Man,
and no darkness has ever quenched it.
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(Adi Da's expository translation of chapter 1, verses 1-5,
of the Gospel of John the Beloved.)

Introduction: The Liberating Power by the Renunciate Hermitage Order (9/3/82).

Prologue: 'The Ritual Fire-Sacrifice Is the Root of Religion and the Essence of Wisdom' (1/2/81).

1. 'Transcendence of the Politics of Spirits' (& talk) (10/31/82).

2. 'A Birthday Message from Jesus and Me' (& talk) (11/3/82).

3. "Surrender" (9/29/82).

4. "The Blissful Current of Happiness" (11/11/82).

5. 'Salvation and Liberation' (& talk) (11/22/82).

6. 'That and You: The Way as Liberation' (& talk) (11/25/82).

Epilogue: 'The Incarnate Spirit of the Transcendental Divine'.

(224 pp.)
 
 

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