9)あなたがたの十分知っているように、地球の或る場所には、その脉動（みゃくどう）する心臓が、天に向ってエーテルの波動を投じ、上からのエーテルに会うところがあります。
10)その場所で、霊光と知性が夜の星のように輝きます。
11)地上どこでも、これほど感受性があり、また本当に霊福のあるところはアテネ以外にはありません。
12)いや、ギリシャ全部が祝福されて居る。あなたがたの芳名録を飾るような、このような偉大な思想家たちを生んだところは、どこの国にもありません。
13)哲学、詩歌、科学、芸術の巨人群がギリシャの国土に生れ、そして清浄無垢な思想の揺藍（ゆりかご）をゆるがして成人に育てあげました。
14)わたしがここに来たのは、科学、哲学、芸術について語るためではない。これはあなたがたが世界最大の達人です。
15)しかし、すべてあなたがたの高尚な教養は感覚の領域を越えた世界に進む踏み石に過ぎない。時の壁に飛びすぎる空しい影に過ぎない。
16)しかし、わたしは上なるまた内むる生命について語りたい。この生命は過ぎ去らぬ真の生命であります。
17)科学、哲学には、魂が自覚し、また神と交通する強い力はありません。
18)わたしはあなたがたの旺盛な思想の流れをせきとめようとはしない。ただこの流れを魂のチャンネルに向けたいのです。
19)聖気の助けがなければ、思惟作用の大きな働きは、目に見える事物の問題を解決する助けとはなるが、それ以上は出来ない。
20)五感は過ぎ去る事物の単なる絵姿を心に運ぶように命ぜられるだけで、実体そのものを取り扱わない。永遠の法則を会得しない。
21)しかし、人間の魂には何物かがあって、その何者かが実体の世界を見ようとして、幕を引き裂こうとしています。
22)わたしはこの何物かを霊識と言う。これはすべての魂のなかに眠っているが、聖気が賓客として迎えられるまでは、目覚めることができません。
23)この聖気はすべての魂の戸を叩くが、人間の意志が広くこれを開くまでは、入ることができない。
24)知識にはその鍵をまわす力がない。哲学と科学は共に幕の内側をのぞこうとしたけれども無駄であった。
25)魂の戸を開けっぱなしにしておく秘密のバネは、純潔な生活、祈祷、聖想以外にはない。
26)帰り来たれ、ああギリシャ思想の神秘の流れよ、汝の清澄なる流れに霊生の溢るる水を交えよ。しからば霊識はもはや眠らず、人間は悟り、神は祝し給わん。」
17)イエスはかく言って傍らに退いた。ギリシャの教師たちは、彼の言葉の智恵におどろき、誰も答える者がなった。
【原文：The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus by Levi H. Dowling 】
SECTION X
JOD
Life and Works of Jesus in Greece
CHAPTER 44
Jesus visits Greece and is welcomed by
the Athenians. Meets Apollo.
Addresses the Grecian masters in the Amphitheatre. The address.
THE Greek philosophy was full of pungent truth, and Jesus longed to study with the masters in the schools of Greece.
2)
And so he left his home in Nazareth and crossed the Carmel hills, and
at the port took ship, and soon was in the Grecian capital.
3)
Now, the Athenians had heard of him as teacher and philosopher, and
they were glad to have him come to them that they might hear his words
of truth.
4) Among the masters of the Greeks was one, Apollo,
who was called, Defender of the Oracle, and recognized in many lands as
Grecian sage.
5) Apollo opened up for Jesus all the doors of Grecian lore, and in the Areopagus he heard the wisest masters speak.
6) But Jesus brought to them a wisdom greater far than theirs; and so he taught.
7) Once in the Amphitheatre he stood, and when Apollo bade him speak he said,
8)
Athenian masters, hear! In ages long ago, men, wise in nature's laws,
sought out and found the place on which your city stands.
9)
Full well you know that there are parts of earth where its great
beating heart throws heavenward etheric waves that meet the ethers from
above:
10) Where spirit-light and understanding, like the stars of night, shine forth.
11) Of all the parts of earth there is no place more sensitized, more truly spirit-blest, than that where Athens stands.
12)
Yea, all of Greece is blest. No other land has been the homeland of
such mighty men of thought as grace your scrolls of fame.
13)
A host of sturdy giants of philosophy, of poetry, of science, and of
art, were born upon the soil of Greece, and rocked to manhood in your
cradle of pure thought.
14) I come not here to speak of science, of philosophy, or art; of these you are the world's best masters now.
15)
But all your high accomplishments are but stepping stones to worlds
beyond the realm of sense; are but illusive shadows flitting on the
walls of time.
16) But I would tell you of a life beyond, within; a real life that cannot pass away.
17) In science and philosophy there is no power strong enough to fit a soul to recognize itself, or to commune with God.
18) I would not stay the flow of your great streams of thought; but I would turn them to the channels of the soul.
19) Unaided by the Spirit-breath, the work of intellection tends to solve the problems of the things we see, and nothing more.
20)
The senses were ordained to bring into the mind mere pictures of the
things that pass away; they do not deal with real things; they do not
comprehend eternal law.
21) But man has something in his soul, a something that will tear the veil apart that he may see the world of real things.
22)
We call this something, spirit consciousness; it sleeps in every soul,
and cannot be awakened till the Holy Breath becomes a welcome guest.
23) This Holy Breath knocks at the door of every soul, but cannot enter in until the will of man throws wide the door.
24)
There is no power in intellect to turn the key; philosophy and science
both have toiled to get a glimpse behind the veil; but they have
failed.
25) The secret spring that throws ajar the door of
soul is touched by nothing else than purity in life, by prayer and holy
thought.
26) Return, O mystic stream of Grecian thought, and
mingle your clear waters with the flood of Spirit-life; and then the
spirit consciousness will sleep no more, and man will know, and God
will bless.
27) When Jesus had thus said he stepped
aside. The Grecian masters were astonished at the wisdom of his words;
they answered not.
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