The Apocryphal Beatitudes 

 

·         Blessed is he who insisteth not on being in the right, for no man is wholly in the right.

 

·         Blessed is he who forgiveth others, and he who forgiveth himself.

 

·          Blessed are they which hunger not after righteousness: for they see that our lot, whether kindly or cruel, is an act of chance and unknowable.

 

·         There is no commandment which may not be broken: neither those I say unto you, nor those laid down by the prophets.

 

·         The deeds of men are worthy neither of heaven nor hell.

 

·         And if thy right hand offend thee, forgive it: for thou art thy whole body and thy whole soul, and it is not profitable for thee to divide them.

 

·         Thou shalt not magnify the worship of truth: for at the day's end there is no man who hath not lied many times with good reason.

 

·         To bless thine enemy may be righteous and is not difficult: but to love him is a task for angels, not for men.

 

·         Give that which is holy unto the dogs, cast thy pearls before swine: for the thing that mattereth is giving.

 

·         Nothing is built upon rock: for all is built upon sand: but let each man build as if sand were rock.

 

From Fragmentos de un Evangelio Apocrifo   by Jorge Luis Borges

 

 

 

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