Yeshua and Miriam travel back to Nazareth to spend some time with their children before heading into the mountains. Yeshua fasts for forty days, drinking only water with a little honey. Both Yeshua and Miriam spend their days in prayer and meditation. After forty days, Yeshua finds all the answers he has been seeking, and they prepare to journey to the river Jordan so Yochanan can baptize them. A great whirlwind comes and carries Yeshua onto a mountaintop where he is confronted and tempted by the adversary within but does not allow darkness to take hold. Angels of Light return him to the glade and to Miriam.

1 And it came to pass that on the following morning after everyone had said goodbye, and the fisherman had taken their boats onto the lake, Yeshua and Miriam began to walk the road to the south along the western shore.
2 Arriving again at the villa of Magdala, they stayed a night and then made haste to Nazareth the following morning that they might see their children again.
3 They remained for eleven days in Nazareth and Yeshua took great pleasure in being with his children, who were excused from many of their normal duties that they might spend as much time as possible with their father and mother.
4 Following the Sabbath, Yeshua and Miriam departed south and avoiding the towns of Samaria they came to the confluence of the river Jordan and the river Jabbok, and followed the Jabbok east into the mountains.
5 They followed a tributary up into the mountains until coming upon a beautiful glade where they prepared to stay for some time, alone and away from all people.
6 In the solitude of the mountains Yeshua fasted for forty days, drinking only water and a little honey. But Miriam did not fast, save it be for a few days at the beginning, but she ate very sparingly and prayed often.
7 Each morning upon arising, they would do the Contemplative Movements together and afterwards pray, facing each other and holding hands, for some time.
8 Afterwards Yeshua would most often go alone atop a hill to pray and meditate, while Miriam remained at the glade, also often in prayer and meditation.
9 Just before dark Yeshua would return and recount to Miriam many of the visions he had, and of the words of his Father and Mother in heaven, which they had spoken to him.
10 After the fortieth day, Yeshua was weak from his fast. He had found the answers to all that he had sought, both within and without, and said unto Miriam, “It is time that we take journey to the Jordan that we might be baptized by Yochanan.”
11 And Miriam looked at him questioningly saying, “Why should you need baptism of Yochanan? For he baptizes that men might show they have shed their old skin and will henceforth live a new life pleasing to God. What need have you of this? Your life is already dedicated in purity to the work of Elohim.”
12 And Yeshua answered, “I have ascended to a new mountain of light in my fast, worthy of baptism to mark the path now before me.
13 Verily, baptism is an act of commitment to the path of light, which all men and women who love the light should embrace, for in it they are born anew and they will know it in their heart.
14 Let me go now into the water and come forth that all who love the light may know without doubt that unless they take a true baptism from their heart, by immersion in the water, they are still in the world and fall short of a sacred covenant with God to be born anew.
15 And after water comes the fire, and only those who have known the water can receive the fire of the Holy Spirit of Elohim to ever be their guide in righteousness.
16 Suddenly a great wind came up and Miriam was afraid, but Yeshua held her and told her to be calm and to wait for him.
17 Then great, dark clouds came overhead and a mighty whirlwind came down from the sky. Yeshua pushed Miriam to the root of a tree and she watched in fright as a funnel of roiling fury came down and lifted Yeshua up into the clouds and he was gone.
18 And the whirlwind carried him to the top of a nearby mountain and he heard a voice speak to him in his mind saying, “You think you are the only begotten Son of of the Father and Mother in heaven. If that is so then appease your hunger and turn these stones upon the ground into bread,”
19 And Yeshua answered aloud, saying, “Hunger is here today and gone tomorrow and in the light of forever, it is not even a memory; but the word of Elohim is precious and eternal and to that, all who love light will always hold.
20 Verily, the power of Elohim is not given to edify the holder, but to edify others.”
21 Then the whirlwind came down again from the cloud and carried Yeshua to the top of the temple, and the voice of the adversary within came again into his head, saying, “Prove to yourself that you are really the only begotten Son of God and cast yourself from the pinnacle, for it is written, ‘He shall send angels to protect you, and in their hands they will bear you up, lest at any time you dash your foot against a stone.’”
22 And Yeshua answered aloud, saying, “My Father and Mother in heaven are proven by faith, not tests, and they who would test Elohim have no faith, therefore their test must fail, for they ask not in need and with faith; and only by such is the power of Elohim made manifest.”
23 Then the whirlwind came down again from the cloud and carried Yeshua to the top of a high mountain from which he could see the vast waters and the lands far beyond. And the voice of the adversary within came again into his head saying, “If you are the only begotten Son of God, what is man to you that you would be mindful of him?
24 All that you see before you and all the world beyond can be yours. What man could stand before the Son of God? Take what is yours that all men may bow down before you and serve you and obey you.”
25 And Yeshua answered aloud, saying, “Leave me! There is no place for evil within me! I have come to serve, not be served. It is only when one is in the service of their brothers and sisters of spirit that one fulfills the greater light of Elohim.
26 Only those who walk in darkness seek to be served and serve not others.
27 I am the light and you are the darkness, and the darkness has no place with me. Therefore, I say unto you, be gone, and trouble me no more!”
28 And the darkness left as he commanded, and was no more in his presence ever again.
29 Then came angels of light with a warm wind upon their breath. And they lifted and carried him up in the brightness of the sunshine until he came again back to the glade where Miriam awaited.
30 And she rushed to greet him and held him tight. And he told her all that had transpired, and she cried.