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158:6.1 They remained overnight with Celsus, and that evening in the [[garden]], after they had eaten and [[rested]], [[the twelve]] gathered about [[Jesus]], and [[Thomas, the Apostle|Thomas]] said: " Master, while we who tarried behind still remain [[ignorant]] of what [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_158#158:1._THE_TRANSFIGURATION transpired up on the mountain], and which so greatly [[cheered]] our brethren who were with you, we crave to have you talk with us concerning our [[defeat]] and instruct us in these matters, seeing that those [[things]] which happened on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Hermon the mountain] cannot be disclosed at this time. "

158:6.1 They remained overnight with Celsus, and that evening in the [[garden]], after they had eaten and [[rested]], [[the twelve]] gathered about [[Jesus]], and [[Thomas, the Apostle|Thomas]] said: " Master, while we who tarried behind still remain [[ignorant]] of what [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_158#158:1._THE_TRANSFIGURATION transpired up on the mountain], and which so greatly [[cheered]] our brethren who were with you, we crave to have you talk with us concerning our [[defeat]] and instruct us in these matters, seeing that those [[things]] which happened on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Hermon the mountain] cannot be disclosed at this time. "

158:6.2 And [[Jesus]] answered [[Thomas, the Apostle|Thomas]], saying: " Everything which your brethren heard on the [[mountain]] shall be [[revealed]] to you in [[Timing|due season]]. But I will now show you the [[cause]] of your [[defeat]] in that which you so unwisely attempted. While your [[the Master|Master]] and his companions, your brethren, [[ascended]] yonder [[mountain]] yesterday to seek for a larger [[knowledge]] of [[the Father]]'s will and to ask for a richer [[endowment]] of [[wisdom]] effectively to do that [[divine]] will, you who remained [[Vigil|on watch]] here with instructions to strive to acquire the [[mind]] of [[spiritual]] [[insight]] and to [[pray]] with us for a fuller [[revelation]] of [[the Father]]'s will, [[failed]] to [[exercise]] the [[faith]] at your command but, instead, yielded to the [[temptation]] and fell into your old [[evil]] tendencies to seek for yourselves preferred places in [[the kingdom]] of heaven—the [[material]] and [[temporal]] kingdom which you [[persist]] in [[contemplating]]. And you cling to these [[erroneous]] [[concepts]] in spite of the [[reiterated]] [[declaration]] that my kingdom is not of this world.

158:6.2 And [[Jesus]] answered [[Thomas, the Apostle|Thomas]], saying: " Everything which your brethren heard on the [[mountain]] shall be [[revealed]] to you in [[Timing|due season]]. But I will now show you the [[cause]] of your [[defeat]] in that which you so unwisely attempted. While your [[the Master|Master]] and his companions, your brethren, [[ascended]] yonder [[mountain]] yesterday to seek for a larger [[knowledge]] of [[the Father]]'s will and to ask for a richer [[endowment]] of [[wisdom]] effectively to do that [[divine]] will, you who remained [[Vigil|on watch]] here with instructions to strive to acquire the [[mind]] of [[spiritual]] [[insight]] and to [[pray]] with us for a fuller [[revelation]] of [[the Father]]'s will, [[failed]] to [[exercise]] the [[faith]] at your command but, instead, yielded to the [[temptation]] and fell into your old [[evil]] tendencies to seek for yourselves preferred places in [[the kingdom]] of heaven—the [[material]] and [[temporal]] kingdom which you [[persist]] in [[contemplating]]. And you cling to these [[erroneous]] [[concepts]] in spite of the [[reiterated]] [[declaration]] that my kingdom is not of this world.

158:6.3 " No sooner does your [[faith]] grasp the [[identity]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Man Son of Man] than your [[selfish]] [[desire]] for worldly preferment creeps back upon you, and you fall to discussing among yourselves as to who should be greatest in [[the kingdom]] of heaven, a kingdom which, as you [[persist]] in conceiving it, does not exist, nor ever shall. Have not I told you that he who would be greatest in [[the kingdom]] of my Father's [[spiritual]] brotherhood must become little in his own eyes and thus become the server of his brethren? [[Spiritual]] [[greatness]] consists in an [[understanding]] [[love]] that is Godlike and not in an [[enjoyment]] of the exercise of [[material]] [[power]] for the exaltation of [[self]]. In what you attempted, in which you so completely [[failed]], your [[purpose]] was not [[pure]]. Your [[motive]] was not [[divine]]. Your [[ideal]] was not [[spiritual]]. Your [[ambition]] was not [[altruistic]]. Your [[procedure]] was not based on [[love]], and your goal of [[attainment]] was not [[Doing the will of God|the will of the Father]] in heaven.

158:6.3 " No sooner does your [[faith]] grasp the [[identity]] of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Man Son of Man] than your [[selfish]] [[desire]] for worldly preferment creeps back upon you, and you fall to discussing among yourselves as to who should be greatest in [[the kingdom]] of heaven, a kingdom which, as you [[persist]] in conceiving it, does not exist, nor ever shall. Have not I told you that he who would be greatest in [[the kingdom]] of my Father's [[spiritual]] brotherhood must become little in his own eyes and thus become the server of his brethren? [[Spiritual]] [[greatness]] consists in an [[understanding]] [[love]] that is Godlike and not in an [[enjoyment]] of the exercise of [[material]] [[power]] for the exaltation of [[self]]. In what you attempted, in which you so completely [[failed]], your [[purpose]] was not [[pure]]. Your [[motive]] was not [[divine]]. Your [[ideal]] was not [[spiritual]]. Your [[ambition]] was not [[altruistic]]. Your [[procedure]] was not based on [[love]], and your goal of [[attainment]] was not [[Doing the will of God|the will of the Father]] in heaven.

158:6.4 " How long will it take you to [[learn]] that you cannot [[time]]-shorten the [[course]] of [[established]] [[natural]] [[phenomena]] except when such things are in [[accordance]] with [[the Father]]'s will? nor can you do [[spiritual]] [[work]] in the [[absence]] of [[spiritual]] [[power]]. And you can do neither of these, even when their [[potential]] is present, without the [[existence]] of that third and [[essential]] [[human]] [[factor]], the personal [[experience]] of the [[possession]] of living [[faith]]. Must you always have [[material]] [[manifestations]] as an [[attraction]] for the [[spiritual]] [[realities]] of [[the kingdom]]? Can you not grasp the [[spirit]] significance of my [[mission]] without the [[visible]] [[exhibition]] of [[unusual]] works? When can you be depended upon to [[adhere]] to the higher and [[spiritual]] [[realities]] of [[the kingdom]] regardless of the outward [[appearance]] of all [[material]] [[manifestations]]? "[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_Matthew#Chapter_17]

158:6.4 " How long will it take you to [[learn]] that you cannot [[time]]-shorten the [[course]] of [[established]] [[natural]] [[phenomena]] except when such things are in [[accordance]] with [[the Father]]'s will? nor can you do [[spiritual]] [[work]] in the [[absence]] of [[spiritual]] [[power]]. And you can do neither of these, even when their [[potential]] is present, without the [[existence]] of that third and [[essential]] [[human]] [[factor]], the personal [[experience]] of the [[possession]] of living [[faith]]. Must you always have [[material]] [[manifestations]] as an [[attraction]] for the [[spiritual]] [[realities]] of [[the kingdom]]? Can you not grasp the [[spirit]] significance of my [[mission]] without the [[visible]] [[exhibition]] of [[unusual]] works? When can you be depended upon to [[adhere]] to the higher and [[spiritual]] [[realities]] of [[the kingdom]] regardless of the outward [[appearance]] of all [[material]] [[manifestations]]? "[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_Matthew#Chapter_17]

158:6.5 When [[Jesus]] had thus [[spoken]] to [[the twelve]], he added: " And now go to your [[rest]], for on the morrow we return to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdala Magadan] and there take [[counsel]] concerning our [[mission]] to the [[cities]] and villages of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decapolis Decapolis]. And in the conclusion of this day's [[experience]], let me [[declare]] to each of you that which I [[spoke]] to your brethren on the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Hermon mountain], and let these [[words]] find a deep lodgment in your [[hearts]]: The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Man Son of Man] now enters upon the last [[phase]] of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_120 the bestowal]. We are about to begin those [[labors]] which shall presently lead to the great and final [[testing]] of your [[faith]] and [[devotion]] when I shall be delivered into the hands of the men who seek my destruction. And [[remember]] what I am saying to you: The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Man Son of Man] will be put to [[death]], but he shall [[Resurrection|rise again]]. "

158:6.5 When [[Jesus]] had thus [[spoken]] to [[the twelve]], he added: " And now go to your [[rest]], for on the morrow we return to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdala Magadan] and there take [[counsel]] concerning our [[mission]] to the [[cities]] and villages of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decapolis Decapolis]. And in the conclusion of this day's [[experience]], let me [[declare]] to each of you that which I [[spoke]] to your brethren on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Hermon mountain], and let these [[words]] find a deep lodgment in your [[hearts]]: The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Man Son of Man] now enters upon the last [[phase]] of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_120 the bestowal]. We are about to begin those [[labors]] which shall presently lead to the great and final [[testing]] of your [[faith]] and [[devotion]] when I shall be delivered into the hands of the men who seek my destruction. And [[remember]] what I am saying to you: The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Man Son of Man] will be put to [[death]], but he shall [[Resurrection|rise again]]. "

158:6.6 They retired for [[Sleep|the night]], [[sorrowful]]. They were [[bewildered]]; they could not [[comprehend]] these [[words]]. And while they were [[afraid]] to ask aught concerning what he had said, they did recall all of it subsequent to his [[resurrection]].

158:6.6 They retired for [[Sleep|the night]], [[sorrowful]]. They were [[bewildered]]; they could not [[comprehend]] these [[words]]. And while they were [[afraid]] to ask aught concerning what he had said, they did recall all of it subsequent to his [[resurrection]].