' Yeshua speaks with Hillel '...

9. Rabboni, I would like to talk with you; I am disturbed about this service of the pascal feast. I thought the temple was the house of God where love and kindness dwell..... 10. Do you not hear the bleating of those lambs, the pleading of those doves that men are killing over there? Do you not smell that awful stench that comes from burning flesh?..... 11. Can man be kind and just, and still be filled with cruelty?..... 12. A God that takes delight in sacrifice, in blood and burning flesh, is not my Father-God..... 13. I want to find a God of love, and you, my master, you are wise, and surely you can tell me where to find the God of love. 14. But Hillel could not give an answer to the child. His heart was stirred with sympathy. He called the child to him; he laid his hand upon his head and wept..... 15. He said, There is a God of love, and you shall come with me; and hand in hand we will go forth and find the God of love. 16. And Jesus said, Why need we go? I thought that God was everywhere. Can we not purify our hearts and drive out cruelty, and every wicked thought, and make within, a temple where the God of love can dwell?..... 17. The master of the great Sanhedrim felt as though he was himself the child, and that before him stood Rabboni, master of the higher law......... 18. He said within himself, This child is surely prophet sent from God..... 19. Then Hillel sought the parents of the child, and asked that Jesus might abide with them, and learn the precepts of the law, and all the lessons of the temple priests..... 20. His parents gave consent, and Jesus did abide within the holy temple in Jerusalem, and Hillel taught him every day. 21. And every day the master learned from Jesus many lessons of the higher life..... 22. The child remained with Hillel in the temple for a year, and then returned unto his home in Nazareth; and there he wrought with Joseph as a carpenter.....................The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ by Levi