I've just heard, I've been called all together, and maybe that, in the weeks, you know, I've just, we've heard some things on the rule that we have done for such a long time, really, but to an opportunity to take out, let's say, pick out certain things from the holy rule which are really acceptable. And here this is the law of the kingdom. We have heard in these last days of yesterday evening also in the resume about the doctrine of the kingdom and the coming of the kingdom as it is marked in the Feast, approaching Feast of the Epiphany and here in Benedictine. and in the follow proclaims there the law of the kingdom who shall dwell in their tabernacle who shall rest upon their holy hill dwelling and resting to being rooted to the real Bible I would say a status you know which is marked by in our way by the power of

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stability that enables us to dwell and to rest just as the Holy Spirit in the kingdom as the Lord has proclaimed it here on earth comes to rest and to stay with us and then of course the wand of the say the law of the kingdom as we know it in the messianic age is this fact of the duration enduring things. It's staying. But the other thing is, of course, the totality, the wholeness. The wholeness in the sense of not only the out, our external actions, but also of the internal disposition. The monk is always the one who has to watch his heart. From the beginning of the day to the end.

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Because the heart is the principle from which all our actions proceed. So it is therefore also the source of all our sanctity. He that walketh without blemish. That is that old halak tamim. That is the walking before the face of God. Tamim whole. In absolute hope. Of course, this wholeness is guaranteed by the heart. The heart is the center. Therefore, one cannot be whole without being pure of heart. And that then he that speaketh truth in his heart, and then useth no deceit in his thought. And then, as it is, you know, in the deviastic form of social talking, nor done evil to his neighbor, nor believed ill of his neighbor.

[03:33]

It's one of those, you know, rhetorical forms. But, of course, both mean the same thing, that the doing speaks truth in his heart, and that is then the source from which comes that guileless speaking uses no deceit in his talk. or believed ill of his neighbor and therefore does not do any evil to his neighbor. That is, then, the wholeness of that sanctity which is proper to the tabernacle, those who dwell in the tabernacle. But then is another, that is, the general law. Then he has, taketh the evil spirit, attenteth him. He is, may, inside, I mean, the law, of the kingdom is written inside. As Jeremiah says, another covenant I shall make, and that covenant is not a thing like the old one.

[04:39]

I had to force them, but it is a covenant which is written in the heart, and that's exactly here. But then, of course, we have always still, from the outside, the temptation of the evil spirit, to which we are And there our attitude is that comes in, that is temptation, from the side of his heart again. Because, of course, the devil also gets and tries to get first into that center. And our reaction must be one who goes, is perfect, absolute, goes into the depths of the heart in that way, brings him to north. rasps his evil suggestions as they arrive and dasses them to pieces on the rock that is Christ. That rock, thank God, is of course in us. That is the rock on which we stand. Such men, but then comes the last, you know, first is that inner, I can say, inner puritas coris, which is the source for the puritas actionis, because all this here is directed, of course,

[05:53]

to what St. Bendy calls the operarius, the workman. It is not a theory, it is not a thing for writing books about, but it is an operarius, it is workman. He addresses himself to the operarius, the workman, and of course it is the workman. But there is the inner center as the source of the external action, then the attitude towards attacks from the outside, and then finally, when everything is done, let us say, on the way of, in the law of the kingdom, then comes the last critical moment, and that is that one gets pride upon, proud upon achievement. Such men as these, that is then indicated in the last sentence, fearing the Lord. and for the fear of the Lord always remains, are not puffed up on account of their good work, but judging that they can do no good of themselves, and that all comes from God, they magnify the Lord's work in them, using the word of the prophet, not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name give the glory.

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So it's very clear, this whole, the beautiful, wonderful, thing if we look forward into the new year, another year of dwelling in the tabernacle and of living as an operarius and a servant under the law of the kingdom. The first is that the law of the kingdom is written into our heart. It cannot be written into our heart without our dying and rising. There has to be a complete capitulation and surrender. Without that the depth of the heart is just not reached. We call that surrender conversion, conversatio mon conversion. Then comes the fruit of that conversion in the righteousness of our actions in accordance with our heart, our attitude towards the devil who comes from the outside,

[08:20]

not come from the inside, is not, so to speak, our true self, but is a tempter, comes from the outside. And therefore, energy and decisiveness in meeting him, as the Lord has shown to us, after his baptism, then comes the descent of the Holy Spirit, the heavens are opened. And then the Spirit casts him out into the desert there to fight with the animals. That is this stage. And after that, then the triumph. But what is that triumph? Not the stuff of our own good works, but the glorification of God in the fear of the Lord. realizing that everything that is good in us comes from God, not from us.

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And in that way, then, we are able, out of the wholeness of our heart, to give really, fully glory to God. So let us stand with good zeal, cooperate, you know, with all the gifts, the good gifts that the Lord has given us in this way, and run the way of life as long as it is still day.

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