What to read after The Gospel in Brief?

THIS short exposition of the Gospel is a summary of a large work which exists in manuscript and cannot be published in Russia.That work consists of four parts:1. An account (Confession) of the course of my own life and of the thoughts which led me to the conviction that the Christian teaching contains the truth.2. An examination of the Christian teaching: first according to its interpretation by the Orthodox Russo-Greek Church, then according to its interpretation by the Church in general-by the Apostles, the Councils, the so-called Fathers of the Church-and an exposure of what is false in those interpretations.3. An examination of Christian teaching not according to those interpretations but solely according to what has come down to us of Christ's teaching, as ascribed to him in the Gospels.4. An exposition of the real meaning of Christ's teaching, the reasons why it has been perverted, and, the consequences to which it should lead.The division of the Gospel into twelve chapters (or six if each two be united) came about of itself from the sense of the teaching. This is the meaning of those chapters:1. Man is the son of an infinite source: a son of that Father not by the flesh but by the spirit.2. Therefore man should serve that source in spirit.3. The life of all men has a divine origin. It alone is holy.4. Therefore man should serve that source in the life of all men. Such is the will of the Father.5. The service of the will of that Father of life gives life.6. Therefore the gratification of one's own will is not necessary for life.7. Temporal life is food for the true life.8. Therefore the true life is independent of time: it is in the present.9. Time is an illusion of life; life in the past and in the future conceals from men the true life of the present.10. Therefore man should strive to destroy the illusion of the temporal life of the past and future.11. True life is life in the present, common to all men and manifesting itself in love.12. Therefore, he who lives by love in the present, through the common life of all men, unites with the Father, the source and foundation of life.So each two chapters are related as cause and effect.In addition to these twelve chapters an introduction from the first chapter of the Gospel of John is added, in which the writer of that Gospel speaks, in his own name, as to the meaning of the whole teaching, and a conclusion from the same writer's Epistle (written probably before the Gospel) containing a general deduction from all that precedes.These two parts do not form an essential part of the teaching, but though they both might be omitted without losing the sense of the teaching (the more so as they come in the name of John and not of Jesus) I have retained them because in a straightforward understanding of Christ's teaching these parts, confirming one another an the whole, furnish, in contradiction to the queer interpretation of the Churches, the plainest indication of the meaning that should be ascribed to the teaching.At the beginning of each chapter, besides a brief indication of its subject, I have given the words which correspond to that chapter from the prayer Jesus taught his disciples.The reader should remember that Jesus never wrote any book himself, as Plato, Philo, or Marcus Aurelius did; nor even, like Socrates, transmitted his teaching to educated men, but that he spoke to many uneducated men and only long after his death did.