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In the beginning, Jesus created the heaven and the earth. All things were made by him; all life. He was the light shining in the darkness.
Then Jesus, the God of creation, came into this world which he had made, as a light into darkness, but the world did not know him.
Anyone who receives the breath of Jesus becomes a child of God: that believer exists not only as mortal flesh and blood but as divine spirit. For the first man was crafted from wet earth and made alive by Jesus. After Jesus handcrafted a body, he breathed his own breath into it: this filled the man with movement, which is life and light.
To follow Jesus means discarding the earthy element of the body, and instead living as pure spirit, which is air, wind, unadulterated force. This spiritual body has the appearance of mortal flesh, but it is everlasting and perfect.
Jesus, the God who created the world, put on a flesh body himself, to show us mortals, his creatures, the way to become pure spiritual bodies.
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Now there was a man named John, who was sent into the world to inform all creatures about the luminescent wind. John cried to all who live on earth, saying: “God has filled us with his holy breath, his spirit, to make us divine. No one has ever seen God at any time, for God is the invisible wind that blows through all life; but this clear spirit has now become visible as Jesus, and he multiplies his image in all who receive from his mouth a physique of spirit.”
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The day that John saw Jesus coming toward him, he shouted: “Behold, the Power of the Air! This is the one about whom I was prophesying.”
And after John baptized Jesus, he turned and spoke of him to the multitudes, saying: “I saw the Spirit of God descend from heaven, and it filled this fellow’s body full. This is the one who sent me into the world to perform aquatic purification; he said to me: ‘You baptize with water, and I shall baptize with spirit. You cleanse the flesh of mortals by way of dipping; I shall make them gods with my divine breath.’”
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Three days later, there was a wedding, and Jesus was invited, along with all who followed him.
Now, at the reception, they ran out of wine. So they approached Jesus, saying: “There is no more wine.”
And he said: “Do as I say.” Then he pointed to a waterpot of stone, and said: “Fill that up.”
And they said to Jesus: “But we just told you, we’re out of wine.”
And he answered: “No; fill it with water.”
So they filled it to the brim. Then Jesus said: “Now serve that to the bridegroom.”
So they went and filled the bridegroom’s cup from the waterpot, and he tasted it, and said: “How exquisite! It is the custom to serve the finest wine first, and then to bring out the subpar wine at the end of the feast; but this evening they have saved the best for last.”
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After the wedding, Jesus went to Eldorado for Easter. And he entered the church that was there, in which he found bankers and merchants engaging in commerce. Jesus made a scourge of small cords, and he whipped these bankers and merchants out of the church, and he overthrew their tables. “Do not make my house a marketplace,” he shouted: “Destroy this temple!” And he was not talking about the temple of his body.
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Later, a Christian whose name was Neanderthal came to visit Jesus at night, and he said: “Dear Master, I know that you are divine because you do miracles. But what is all this talk about being initially born with an earthly form that decays, yet then being reborn of a heavenly substance that lasts forever? I was already born with this flesh body: must I therefore find a way to get gestated all over again, within the womb of an airy goddess, so as to inherit eternal life?”
Jesus answered: “No, we were comparing John’s baptism, which concerns being born of water, with my own mission, which concerns being born of spirit. You need not climb back into any womb, because the body that I give you does not wrap around your exterior: on the contrary, the breath of God fills your interior. So you develop this spiritual body while you are walking around in the flesh. And the way that you become born as a pure spirit is to die. You discard your flesh body as a husk, like a snake sheds his skin, or like a seed becomes a plant. I therefore urge you to develop your body of air, which is the God-breath, your spirit, so that you can attain everlasting life as a child of heaven. Earth degrades, but air abides. The wind blows about as it pleases; you hear the sound of it, yet you cannot tell where it comes from, or where it shall go next: this is how everyone acts whose body is pure spirit.”
Neanderthal then asked Jesus: “How can these things be?”
Jesus said: “Are you a Christian, and yet you know nothing of this? Who has been teaching you? Have you been attending that church, which I ordered to be torn down?”
For God so loved the world, that he granted by way of his mercy, that all creatures should not perish, but have everlasting life.
God did not come to condemn the world, but to save it.
Jesus Christ is the light that entered the world; unfortunately, people loved darkness rather than light. But those who follow Jesus have nothing to fear, for they will amalgamate into the Everlasting, which inclines pleasureward.
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After this, Jesus went with his followers to Sweet Beulah Land in Eldorado, and he began baptizing.
Meanwhile, John was still baptizing in the desert, because there was plenty of water there. This was before John’s imprisonment.
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Now Jesus returned to the town where, at the wedding feast, he had performed his first official miracle. And there, he performed his second official miracle. Here is what happened:
In the months following the wedding, the groom had sired a son; and now this lad was sick, on the verge of death. So, when the groom saw Jesus walking through town, he ran up to him and said: “I remember how, at my reception, you converted the water into wine. Now I beg you to perform another wonder. My son is dying; he is at my house, which is only a day’s journey from here: please come and heal him.”
Jesus said: “You people love to see miracles, but once I perform them, you do not change your way of living; instead, you just continue in your old habits.” Then he asked: “What time is it, right now?”
The groom checked his watch and answered: “It is noon exactly. But, Master, please tell me that you are in jest about not helping my son.”
Jesus raised his hand, to stop the man from speaking, and said: “Go home. Your child now lives.”
The man was perplexed at this answer. But since Jesus turned and left him so quickly, the groom had no choice but to begin the long journey back to his house.
Then, on the next day, when the groom was approaching his home, his servants saw him coming and ran to meet him, shouting: “He is risen!” And, when closer, they added: “Your son was at death’s door, and we thought that we had lost him; but then, in an instant, he leaped out of the bed, completely well.”
Now the groom asked what time it was when the lad suddenly revived, and they said: “It happened at exactly noon yesterday.”
The man remembered that this was the hour when Jesus had told him “Your child now lives.” This was Jesus’ second official miracle.
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Now Jesus spoke to the multitudes in the churches, saying: “I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.” Then he raised his hand to heaven and said: “I live forever. Marvel not at these words that I say: The hour is coming when the dead shall hear my voice, and they shall wake. All that are in the graves shall come forth unto the resurrection. For I raise the dead, and quicken whomever I will. I am the light, and the truth. Not until now have you heard my voice, or seen my shape. But I know you, and am coming for you, whether you will receive me nor not.”
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Then Jesus went up into a mountain to meditate. And his followers followed him.
And when Jesus finished meditating, he lifted up his eyes and saw how great was the size of the company that had joined him there. He then asked a man who was standing near him: “Where can we buy some food, so these people can eat?”
And that man, whose name was Philip, said to Jesus: “Even if we had millions of caesar coins in our treasury, it would not be enough to buy food for this multitude.”
Jesus then saw a lad nearby who was carrying a satchel; so he pointed and said: “What do you have in your bag?”
The lad answered: “Five barley loaves, and two fishes.”
Jesus gestured for the lad to pass him the satchel. The lad complied. But Philip asked: “What could you possibly hope to do with such small fare?”
Jesus said: “Just tell everyone to sit.”
So Philip shouted, and the masses sat on the grass of the mountainside. There were five thousand people, total.
Then Jesus took the satchel, with its five loaves of barley and its pair of fishes, and he went from person to person, distributing the fare. However much each person desired, he gave; and the supply lasted through the entire crowd.
And everyone was filled. Then Jesus told Philip to go around and collect all the fragments that remained; he did so: and there were twelve baskets filled with leftover food.
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Now, after the feeding of the five thousand on the mountainside with the loaves and fishes, the multitudes wanted to replace the emperor with Jesus. So, he escaped over to another mountain, alone.
Then, at evening, some of Jesus’ friends wondered where he had gone. They looked around for him, but they could not find him. Therefore, they decided to go for a ride in their boat.
So these friends of Jesus were out on the sea, when the sun went down and the sky became dark.
Then the wind rose, and the sea became rough; so the boaters tried to row back to shore. But the waters had grown so turbulent that they could make no progress.
Now, in the darkness of the stormy sea, these boaters perceived a man walking on the waves: he was drawing near to the ship; and they were afraid.
But Jesus said to them: “Fear not. It is I.”
Then, recognizing him, they welcomed Jesus into the ship. And immediately the ship was on land, where they had been struggling to reach.
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Jesus and his boater friends were now on the other side of the sea. Then the multitudes from the mountainside came around and found him, and they said to Jesus: “We have been looking for you, because we are hungry again. How did you get here? For there was only one boat, and we saw that you were not with those men who left in it.”
Jesus answered: “You do not seek me for the fruit of immortality; rather, you seek me for the meat that perishes.”
And the masses answered: “But when our ancestors were in the wilderness, you gave them sky-bread to eat. Why not do the same for us?”
Jesus said: “I have done even better; for I AM your sky-bread. I came down from heaven, and whoever accepts me shall never hunger.”
But the people were confused by this saying, and they inquired: “Are you preaching cannibalism?”
Jesus said: “Truly, truly I tell you: Unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood, you die. But whoever eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, has eternal life. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He who eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, dwells in me, and I in him. Again, I say: your ancestors ate the sky-bread, and are deceased; but whoever eats my flesh with the blood shall live forever.”
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Jesus lost many followers after that speech. It caused many of his friends to turn back and stop traveling with him.
But once the crowd had mostly dissipated, there were still about a dozen men who remained. So Jesus asked them: “Will you also leave me?”
They answered: “No, we still believe you are God. Besides, where else would we go?”
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