NEUOFFENBARUNGThis nineteenth-century devotional text describes historical remedies. Please do not use these preparations or procedures as medical advice or in place of professional care.
[HS.01_001,01] In all these matters, you should concern yourselves very little with measure and weight, and give heed solely to true faith and true trust in Me. For you know that I am quite able to drown one person with a few drops of water and keep another alive who has fallen into the ocean.
[HS.01_001,02] The material agents have no effect in themselves here, except that under the stated conditions they draw the sun’s rays to themselves and retain them. Once these agents have served and fulfilled this purpose, they will have their effect when used in cases of illness in the stated measure, with the prescribed diet and with true faith.
[HS.01_001,03] Above all, a selfless good will and firm faith are needed, especially on the part of the one who helps, if he is to aid a sufferer in the power of My name with the grace I have thus revealed to him. For one cannot always expect the sufferer to have full faith. If the sufferer too has full faith, the remedy will prove effective all the more surely and sooner. (Note)
[HS.01_001,04] In the earliest times when people already inhabited this earth, if they felt any discomfort in their bodies they used the sun, that is, its light and warmth, as their only remedy for restoring their health.
[HS.01_001,05] They laid their sick in the sun and completely uncovered the parts of the body in which the sick person felt weakness, discomfort or pain, and before long the person improved.
[HS.01_001,06] If the sick person had trouble with his stomach, he first had to expose the region of his stomach to sunlight for a time and then drink water from a pure spring exposed to the sun. He soon began to feel better.
[HS.01_001,07] As a rule the earliest inhabitants of the earth seldom drank any water that had not first been exposed briefly to sunlight, whenever that was possible.
[HS.01_001,08] Deep and covered wells were unknown to them, and no one drank water from a spring that the sunlight could not reach. For they knew, and indeed could see, that coarse and sometimes even evil spirits remain in such water until they are driven out by the power of heavenly sunlight.
[HS.01_001,09] See, there is a profound truth in what has been said so far. For as you can readily imagine, the light of the sun carries purer spirits with it. These spirits have the closest kinship with the substantial parts of the human soul. If the action of such purer spirits imparts a sure and vigorous strengthening to the soul, the soul thus strengthened will very easily and quickly overcome any weakness that has arisen in its body. For the health of the body always depends entirely on a sufficiently strong soul.
[HS.01_001,10] For wherever a weakness first arises in the soul, that is, in its substantial parts, and the soul cannot strengthen the weakened parts in an orderly way, it turns to its own nerve spirit and draws from it what it lacks. As a result, just as in discharged electrical jars, the nerves plainly come to lack that vital fluid by which alone they are kept at the proper tension.
[HS.01_001,11] The nerves, made hungry as it were, then draw nourishment from the blood that is still too impure. When this happens, an unnatural vital process quite naturally arises in the flesh. From it all manner of diseases can arise, according to the way in which, in the deeper reckoning of the soul, each corresponds to one or another part that has grown weak in the soul.
[HS.01_001,12] But since all the particular substances of which the soul itself consists are found in the pure spirits, the soul can easily take from them whatever it lacked and needs for strengthening. It can thereby restore the former order in its nerve spirit and, through it, the proper natural vital tension in the nerves and blood.
[HS.01_001,13] For this very reason, in many respects a true homeopathy is far preferable to any allopathy. For through homeopathy, something spiritual akin to the soul is conveyed directly to the soul itself. Once the soul has taken into itself from without whatever it lacked, or whatever in it was at least weakened, it becomes the physician of its own body.
[HS.01_001,14] In allopathy, however, the body is compelled first to become the physician of its soul. If the soul should recover through great suffering on the part of the body, only then can it in turn set about restoring its body. This is surely the least suitable way of regaining full bodily health, as anyone can plainly see from the long, ailing convalescence of the body and, with it, of the soul.
[HS.01_001,15] As I have said, homeopathy is therefore a true method of healing. But bear in mind that there are two kinds of homeopathy.
[HS.01_001,16] The first is a specific kind, whose results are necessarily less certain, because even the most skilful physician cannot always tell with certainty where the soul is weakened and which parts are affected. He therefore cannot apply the right specific remedy for the soul. A physician reborn in the spirit can indeed do so. But for a physician who is still only partly reborn, or as is usually the case has not been reborn at all, this is difficult or altogether impossible, however skilful his intellect may be.
[HS.01_001,17] For this reason, full attention should be given above all to the second kind of homeopathy, which I call general simply to distinguish it from the first. With it, a physician of even moderate skill cannot go wrong.
[HS.01_001,18] And this is the very kind of homeopathy I announced to you when I spoke of the healing power of the sun’s rays (on 16 July 1851).
[HS.01_001,19] You will quite naturally ask how this is to be done.
[HS.01_001,20] I showed you one way at the very beginning. This way is, or rather would be, sufficient if people today observed the way of life that earlier people faithfully observed.
[HS.01_001,21] For the present way of life, in which all manner of contrived foods tend to take constituents away from the soul rather than give them to it, and whatever it still receives can only be called poor, the way the ancients used sunlight would be too weak.
[HS.01_001,22] For this reason I will make several methods known to you, along with the diet they require. If you follow it closely together with the prescribed sunlight remedy, and bear in mind that I mean very closely, you may thereby surely heal any illness, whatever its kind or name.
[HS.01_001,23] Even external injuries to the body can be healed most readily in this way through proper use of this remedy.
[HS.01_001,24] The rest will follow shortly.
[HS.01_001,25] We will now set out the particular ways in which the health-giving substance of sunlight can most readily be bound to some subtle material substance, and how it is then to be used in cases of illness as they arise.
[HS.01_001,26] Anyone need only glance across a carpet of meadow grass to see plainly that the substance of sunlight combines with the most varied kinds of matter.
[HS.01_001,27] Pick the first little plant you come across, smell and taste it, and both fragrance and taste will say, “We come from the light and warmth of the sun!”
[HS.01_001,28] A pane of glass exposed to sunlight for a long time will soon begin to show all manner of colours on its outer surface. Why does it not show them on its inner surface as well? Because the inner surface is not exposed to the first impact of the sun’s rays.
[HS.01_001,29] Put a flowering plant in a dark cellar. Even if it blossoms, its flowers will show either no colour at all or only a very faint one.
[HS.01_001,30] It follows that the colours of flowers and fruits are also the work of the active spirits of light in the sun’s ray.
[HS.01_001,31] In the lands you call hot, the play of colours in plants and even in animals is far more vivid and abundant than in a temperate or cold zone. In the latter, nearly everything shades into a common grey, there is scarcely any strong fragrance to speak of, and the taste is generally harsh and bitter, akin to the harshness and bitterness imposed by judgment on the spirits confined in the earth.
[HS.01_001,32] Someone might say here, “If all the different kinds of plants and animals, as well as minerals, especially in the hot zones, already contain so much of the sun’s light substance, why make further artificial arrangements to borrow from the sun by artificial means what can be obtained quite naturally and without much trouble?”
[HS.01_001,33] This objection is quite correct, and almost all medicine to date has been founded on it.
[HS.01_001,34] Anyone who uses known healing herbs will surely always feel some effect from them. But no herb is constituted in such a way that it can take up the health-giving light substance from the sun’s rays in its general form. Each plant takes up only what corresponds to it and can take up nothing further. Its structure allows it to absorb from sunlight only what suits it and corresponds to it.
[HS.01_001,35] If a physician could examine a sick soul closely enough to discover which of its specific vital constituents have grown weak or are entirely lacking, and if he also knew the little herb containing those same constituents, he would surely be able to restore full health to a sick soul or, what amounts to the same thing, to a sick person.
[HS.01_001,36] But since such deeper knowledge of the human being and the soul is generally as unknown to an ordinary physician as an undiscovered continent, his art of healing is and remains more a matter of guessing than of knowing.
[HS.01_001,37] People commonly treat their sick with what experience and a few fortunate trials have taught them of the healing powers of plants, minerals and animals. To most physicians one could apply the northern proverb that compares such a physician to a cudgel: “If the cudgel happens to strike the illness, the patient improves. But if the cudgel strikes the sick person instead of the illness, the person is as good as dead.”
[HS.01_001,38] What we are concerned with here is neither the use of old experience nor of new experiments to cure people, but with something like an arcanum that can revive ailing humanity for as long as the machinery of the body allows. It does so in the same way that the steadily strengthening light in spring revives plants and animals, provided their organisms are capable of receiving such renewal. For bear in mind that there is no arcanum for an eternal life of the body on earth in union with its soul, such as some miracle healers have dreamed of. But insofar as My order grants a person a span of bodily life, a proper diet and the right use of the arcanum can enable that person to attain as great and healthy an age as possible.
[HS.01_001,39] Now that we have made this necessary introduction, by which everyone can understand how the various specific vital constituents from the sun’s rays unite with nature, we may pass on to one kind of apparatus for collecting the sun’s rays.
Source: Jakob Lorber, Die Heilkraft des Sonnenlichts, Lorber-Verlag, sixth edition, 1996. Deutsche Fassung dieses Kapitels.
The German source marks HS.01_001,03 with “Anm.” The supplied file contains the marker alone.