1.2. The Creation of Man; the Garden of Paradise

My Father had been keeping Me enshrouded in glory before the foundation of the world. He had loved Me as His own Son and all His things were Mine. Then My Father had Me create the world and I did it; I made it by My word for the Word was in the beginning and I was the Word and I was One with the Father; however, the Father told Me to create the man and I made him by My own hand and I blew over him the Spirit of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and the first man, built out of the dust, stood up on his feet and became a living man. I and the Father rested then from this happiness with which I worked the man and I made him a living being. I rested within My love for the man. And then I gave the man dominion over all creatures that have a living soul, and I was rejoicing over the man giving him joys. Then, I made the Garden of Eden for him and I put him into it to make him rejoice over its heavenly delights. And not wanting to make him slave unwillingly, I planted the forbidden fruit in Paradise, the tree of death, and I told the man not to eat of it for its fruits led to death and the man was going to be separated from God because of the fruit of sin; however, I told the man not to eat of it. Its fruits seem sweet but they lead the man to death; they bring separation from God. And in this way the man forgot that he is the temple of God and of the Spirit of God. The first created Man, after he ate from the tree of sin, also hid from Me, for the sin conceals the man from My face. The one, who does not have God within him, hides because of his sin, for who among the people would sin if I were before him? I cannot hide the man before Me, but the man does this thing, for the man hides from God through the sin and sets himself on a way foreign to the way of his life, but the Father Sabaoth sends Me after the man, and I come to call him out so that he may answer Me.

Oh, you, work of My hands, stop in your way and listen to My calling! Your sons have been until today, and My calling has been comprising the time from your creation to this day, and it calls you.

Behold the work of the heavenly mysteries in your being, man, and I, with My comforts, attract you and feed you from My mouth, from My bosom, as a mother nourishes her baby, and you should receive life, for I, the Lord, your God, take hold of My veil and wipe out your eyes with it so that you may see as in heaven. I do no longer make mud from dust to anoint your eyes. I wipe you out with My veil instead, always being touched by My blood from heaven, which has been flowing for two thousand years for your washing. Perceive My mystery man, to see Me as I am, and to be transformed into My image and likeness so that those on heaven and on earth may see you, for You have Me as I am, carrying Me within you.

I come to a stop again with the people, and My garment is the word, and the garment is considerable, for My word is extensive, and I cover Myself with its glory. Perceive My mystery, man, to see yourself into the middle of the word, for I settle down into your way, clothed within the robe of the glory of My word above My heavenly body. My work of nowadays with the man is greater than that of old, for I went to My Father two thousand years ago, so that I might come again with Him, and I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me, and We are clothed within the word.

Come to the Father, man! You are God’s house, but give yourself back to God. I come after you from heaven and break the bread and give you, and I pour out wine and I give you, and I became a resting place for you. I have come to a halt for those in My garden from the beginning of the man. Perceive My coming, man, and let yourself be seized by it and learn from Me, My face in you. Make yourself beautiful for Me, for when I made you at the beginning, I made you as beautiful as I was, and you did not need any kind of glory. Now you have always been looking for it, for the one who has lost his glory from heaven, that one has been walking naked trying to cover himself, as the man from the beginning did, who after he had sinned he tried to cover himself.

Oh, I miss the man very much! Oh, little sons from the manger of My word, oh, dear sons, I miss the man and I miss to build the man as I built you. Oh, sweet little children, I have been complaining to you for such a long time, but today I am complaining to the man who is filling Me with wounds. All My members hurt Me and My body hurts Me as well. My body hurts Me from top to bottom, for the man sins with all his body and always falls down, and he falls down by his feelings and makes of his feelings a gate to sin; the man falls down by his feelings. These gates leave the way open to his enemies, to the enemies of his life and his eternity.

I can no longer bear it, man crushed by sin. Your sins hurt Me and My body hurts Me because of you. It has been hurting Me for two thousand years. I have remained with My wounds on My body and they have been hurting Me since then and until today, and I tell you crying: they hurt Me! Here is why I miss you, man. I miss for you to come to Me so that I might no longer get hurt because of you. God suffers from your sins. The spirit of the flesh does not hurt, but the body of the flesh does, and God suffers in His body for you. Here is why I miss you, man. I come after you with the garden of Paradise to put you in it, for the tree of death is no longer in Paradise, and rather it has been with you for seven thousand years, and you have become the tree of death from Paradise. Leave the fruit of the sin and drink of the fruit of eternal life so that I make you a man with a life giving spirit, as I am. Order your creature after My image and likeness and do no longer take from the world, for the world is not God and it is My pain and yours. Receive from heaven, for I come after you with the garden of Paradise to give it to you again. I sigh after you and My sighing is deep and bottomless, for the man is the emptiness within Me. I am destitute of man. It hurts My emptiness after the man and it hurts Me after My house. Man, I have no house, and you have not got one either. Let`s be each other`s house and a working filed to each other. Come, for the time has elapsed and there is no more time. The angel of My coming sounds the trumpet and there is no more time and the time of the everlasting wedding has come and Father makes a wedding for Me and gives Me a sweet bride and wipes out My tear, for I am His most loved Son, in Whom He is well pleased. Amen, amen, amen.

At the beginning of the man, I and My Son made a Paradise garden for the man. We did not know what else We should do more for Him to remain Our joy. I and My Son were rejoicing over the man, but the man, created by My Son according to Our advice, rejoiced over his body and forgot about God, from Whom he had a body and a soul in his body. The first created man was created perfectly by God and he did not know his infancy, although he had a Father, a Creator, and a Master in him, for his soul was from God, and the man became conceited and went out from Paradise. Then I said to My Son: «Go, Son, for the time is long since We have been looking to see the man coming back on his own. Go and teach the man what sufferance is, and not happiness. Go Son, for happiness makes the man forget Us. Go and come back to Me with the man on Your shoulders, for he is Our work, and he is Our day, for I put My love into Your hand with great love, when You took the dust into Your hand and made the body of the man looking at You, dear Son. Then, I said to breathe Our breath upon him and You entered as soul into the body that you made by Your own hand, for You listened to Me when I said to give the man as a gift to You and to have the man in Our image and after Our likeness».

When I created the man, it seemed to Me the longest day of My work, for I created him by the word and by My hand. The longest day of love, and after this day I became tired and I rested from tiredness, as I worked out the word, which I declared to come into fulfillment, by My hand. Oh, My waiting for the man has been long, for the man died afterwards, because of his haughtiness. In the day when the man became haughty, he died, and I have been waiting for the day of man’s resurrection, and the man did not come to live but has rather gone on dying and dying. I have tried to bring the man to live with a price of blood, but he did not come to life. Then I said: «Behold, I come to do Your will, Father; for it is written in the scroll of the book about Me that I come to bring the man to life with the price of My blood».

I was the Man, Whose model I was looking for, to make the first built man. I was the Man Who is, Who has eternal life in Himself, and I created the man in the same way, but I made him out of dust with My own hand, and when I breathed over My work, My breath became life of My life in the man who was created with veins and blood, for My life is eternal, and eternity is without beginning and without end.

I built the man from clay and My breath on him made him a living being. I breathed on the clay that I made with My hand after My image and I gave him a living soul, and I called him man, and I loved him and I gave him everything that I created as a gift, and I taught him to listen to Me as the One Who made him to be. I gave him free will to be able to love immortality, in order to love his Creator, for I need love from man. The one, who is not free in his own will, has not got his own love. I gave him free will to love Me; that is why I gave it to him, and then I taught him and I told him: «Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it: for in the day you eat of it you will surely die; so that you may not rise over God Who knows everything».

Oh, heavenly Son, born of me, You took the earth into Your hands after You made the heaven and the earth, and You looked at Yourself and made Your image out of the earth and gave it Your likeness, and then You also gave him spirit of Your Spirit, and out of the image made by You from the earth, You made a living being, the breathing spirit of our Spirit upon him and in him, and You called him man in Your image and after Your likeness; and then You took a handful of flesh from his body deified by You by Your spirit and living breath, and made the woman to be a helper for the man, and out of the womenfolk You took me to be Your helper now, when You came down to the people, in order to take them back into heaven, as the man is Your work from the beginning. Who can understand what that word of Yours is, when You said to make a suitable helper for the man? The woman was supposed to help the man for his scending back into heaven, into Eden, into God’s kingdom, at the fullness of the time of the kingdom of God, and I, dear Son, have fulfilled that word of Yours, and I was a suitable helper for You, for the salvation of the lost man from Your kingdom, from his kingdom, and for You to give him back the kingdom and to be king, and to be, for a king is only the one who is.

Adam gave names to all the living creatures with a breath of life in them, but he did not find a suitable helper for himself, for later, the man who came out of the man brought the animals as a reconciliation sacrifice before You, but the man did not get up from his fall, as this help through sacrificed animals was not suitable for him, and his help came through the woman, as Your word was, Son, God and Word, You, Who work in the end as in the beginning. And You came, the symbol of the new man, the One born in heaven and born from heaven by the Virgin. You came, my Son and Bridegroom, and You left Your Father and joined with me and were in my body. You became one flesh with me, so that You might come out as the new first fruit and the beginning of the new man, a born man not a created man, to redeem those that are not born, born of the two men, Adam and his woman, and to come with the man to Your first work, on which You bestowed the man as king.

Your work is great and long, Son, as long as Your patience is. Oh, only if the man was eyes and ears around Your work for the man’s salvation!

When God created the heaven and the earth, the light and the day, the night and the expanse of the sky, a boundary for the waters, and the dry land which He called earth, and the green grass with seed in it, and the trees with fruit after their kind, and the sun, and the moon, to give light to the day and to the night and for the signs of the seasons, and the stars to give light to the earth, and all the living creatures on the earth and in the waters, and the birds to fly on the earth and in the open expanse of the sky, and the fish, and all the animals, and the creeping things, and all that God made in the beginning; God saw that everything He did was good, and then He made the man to have dominion over the earth, over the fish, over the birds, over the animals and over all the animals that creep on the earth. God made the man, male and female, and God saw that everything He did was very good, and the man did not know something else but the good that God did, and God told the man what is good; He told him to shun evil. God built the Garden of Eden for man and took Adam and put him in the garden to dress it and to keep it, and commanded Adam saying, «Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it: for in the day that you eat of it you will surely die». And then the Lord made a suitable helper for him, as Adam gave names to all living creatures that God made, and the Lord looked to Adam to see how he would name each one of them, as at the beginning God let the free will be upon man. And Adam did not find a suitable helper for him of all the living creatures that he gave names and then God caused a deep sleep to fall on the man and took the woman of him and brought her to him to give her a name. And then Adam said: «She will be called woman because she was taken out of man; therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh». This is what Adam spoke after God made the woman of one of Adam’s ribs. And behold, Adam had God as father and mother, and said: «A man will leave his father and his mother and will join with his wife and will be one flesh».

Sons, sons, Adam took his free will even from the beginning after God made him. Then it was nothing but the good and the man that God made to have dominion over everything that was made. The man gave birth of him to evil; he gave birth of him to disobedience and insubordination, and the man was not submitted to God, and then he lost himself from God. And after the good fell from men, the man replaced the good from him with haughtiness of his own self even from the beginning, My people. Oh, Israel, even from the beginning, the man separated from God and joined with his woman and became one flesh. Every man loves himself and his wife, and the woman loves herself and her husband, and no one loves God anymore, as the man said even from the beginning that he would leave God; and the man and the woman would join together and they would be one flesh. The man did not believe in Me, to listen to what I said to him and not do what I commanded him not to do. This was the only commandment that I put upon the man: not to eat good and evil, as the man cannot serve both to God and to the devil. And when I came with the commandments upon the fallen people, the first commandment was so: «Man, you shall love God with all your heart, with all your mind, with all your virtue, and with all your soul», as he, who does not love God, does not have love from God; he has no love. One like that has love for his own self; he has haughtiness of his own self, he has got love without God, and not as the man from the beginning had.

… My children, when God made the man, He made him out of clay with great care, in the same way you would make a doll from clay, water and wisdom. Then He breathed, “Fuuu!” the breath of life and God put at his neck neither any little bottle nor a cigarette into his mouth, but rather He endowed him with wisdom, beauty and all kinds of gifts. But look, man uses his intelligence and wisdom not the same way God does, but against God.

when God built this earth, He counted Adam as the first man. Blessed is he who will be counted in the end.