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The Inner
meaning of the New Testament -
The first edition of the Inner meaning
of the New Testament was published by Květoslav Minařík
as a private publication at his own expense in 1945. He
prepared this second, revised edition for publication by
1957, but only now do the circumstances alow its
introduction to the general public.
Květoslav Minařík choses quotations from all four
Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles and some epistles and
adds his explanatory comments. He interprets the
Christian teaching of the New Testament as a teaching
about knowledge, power and liberation, leading a person
through the path of redemptive morality all the way to
a full recovery and gaining of wisdom. He argues for the
depth and greatness of the benefit of Christianity which
is, by some contemporary “mystics“, underestimated in
comparison with the oriental teachings. The path of
simple morality, as it is shown by the New Testament,
should be prescribed to everyone who wants to attain the
world of the Great Mysticism of all ages and school.
This book shows how to walk this path.
Excerpt:
The New Testament shows a person the right way. I have
taken the liberty to add explanatory notes to it in
order for its moral commandments to be substantiated
deeper. The reader will see that the religion pursues
real goals and builds on laws logical for the reason,
because its starting point is a teaching about
self-control, peaking in a total halt of the inner
activity during a vigilant consciousness. The vigilant
consciousness is the only real precondition for detached
observation. By this observation the senses are
sharpened to such an extent that the observer can
observe the happening in its causes and effects. That is
the second – the higher good of the religious teaching....
.....The value of religion is in the fact that if
a person observes its commandments, they will arrive at
an objective finding that the chains of attachment were
severed and in place of the feeling of attachment, a feeling
of bliss and freedom has arisen, indestructible by
anything and connected to the knowledge of transience of
all outer things... |