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GRM 199.5 · Volume 3

The Gospel as revealed to me

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«And now let us go to Ben Hinnom» says Jesus.
(...) They cross the Kidron, walk along the southern side of Mount Tophet and enter the little valley completely strewn with tombs and filth. There is not one tree or any shade from the sun, which blazes down on this southern side heating the stones of these new hellish terraces where the stinking smell of burning rubbish increases the heat. And inside the sepulchres, similar to crematoria, there are poor bodies, which are wasting away… Siloam may be unpleasant in winter, damp as it is and facing north, but this place must be dreadful in summer…

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It [the sun] beams down and scorches the stones of these new terraces of hell, at the base of which smoke pestilential fires that increase the heat even more. It is in the Valley of Hinnom, otherwise known as Gehenna, that the garbage of Jerusalem is burned.

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GRM 203.1-2 · Volume 3

The Gospel as revealed to me

Quotation

They are at the north-east corner of the circuit of the walls; they turn around it and proceed along the hill of Moriah to a point where they can cross the Kidron by a little bridge.
«Are we going to Gethsemane?» asks James of Alphaeus.
«No. Farther up. To the Mount of Olives.»
«Oh! It will be lovely!» says John.
«The boy would have liked it too» whispers Peter.
«Oh! There will be many more opportunities for him to come here! He was tired. He is only a boy. I want to give you a great thing because the right moment has now come for you to have it.»
203.2
They climb up among the olive-trees, leaving Gethsemane on the right, until they reach the top of the mountain, where the leaves of the olive-trees are rustling in the wind.