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the departed spirits of the Prophets and the blessed
believers, under the reign of a divine Lamb; with angels
for its police and gendarmes; the Cherubs for its governors
and judges; the Seraphs for its officers and commanders;
or the Archangels for its Popes, Patriarchs, Bishops, and
evangelical preachers. The Kingdom of God on earth is
a Religion, a powerful society of believers in One God
equipped with faith and sword to fight for and maintain its
existence and absolute independence against the Kingdom
of Darkness, against all those who do not believe that God
is One, or against those who believe that He has a son, a
father or mother, associates and coevals.

The Greek word euangelion, rendered “Gospel”
in English, practically means “the enunciation of
good news.” And this enunciation was the tidings of
the approaching Kingdom of God, the least among
whose citizens was greater than John Baptist (pbuh) .
He himself and the Apostles after him preached and
announced this Kingdom to the Jews, inviting them
to believe and repent in order to be admitted into
it. Jesus (pbuh) did not actually abrogate or change
the Law of Moses (pbuh) , but interpreted it in such a
spiritual sense that he left it a dead letter. When he
declared that hatred was the root of murder, lust the
source of fornication; that avarice and hypocrisy
were as abominable sins as idolatry; and that mercy
and charity were more acceptable than the burnt
offerings and the strict observance of the Sabbath,
he practically abolished the letter of the Law of
Moses (pbuh) in favour of its spiritual sense. These
spurious and much interpolated Gospels report
frequent parables and references of Christ to the
Kingdom of God, and to Bar-Nasha or the Son of
Man, but they are so corrupted and distorted that
they have succeeded, and still succeed, in misleading