NEUOFFENBARUNG[Gr.01_000,01] Dear children, if you follow me, follow me fully in everything. Do not be drawn to walking in deep valleys, ravines and gorges, which are often full of vermin and foul air, and where neighbours all too often quarrel, bicker, hate, steal and curse one another. Come gladly with me instead onto the mountains and heights. There you will always experience something: a sermon on the mount, a transfiguration, a feeding with a little bread, a cleansing from leprosy, a victory over the strongest temptations, a raising from the dead, and much else of that kind which you cannot yet put into words. Take even the children with you, and you will see the blessing of the mountains very clearly in them.
[Gr.01_000,02] Let anyone who is weak in body have no fear of the blessed mountains, for their summits are bathed in the strengthening breath of the spirits of life. Truly, on the mountains and heights blessed ranks of spirits turn in circles and deck the fragrant summits with the golden flowers of eternal love. Even today, look closely at the mountain dwellers and see whether most of them do not put to shame those who quarrel in the valleys, the villages, the market towns and the cities. Only in the mountains does Christian hospitality still dwell unspoilt. The harmony that allows people to live together is absent from the cities below, the valleys and the ravines. Seek it in the mountains, where it is at home among the plants and the animals and, quite often, among people too.
[Gr.01_000,03] Let two enemies set foot on the fragrant summits of the Alps. You will often see them show affection for one another as friends. Even the wolf, that beast of prey which thirsts only for blood, often seeks its little healing herb in the mountains and, while doing so, spares the bleating flock of lambs.
[Gr.01_000,04] Look back to the earliest forefathers on earth. They dwelt on the mountain heights. From Sinai, towering towards heaven, I gave Moses the holy tablets on which laws of great freedom were written and deeply engraved for the people of the murky depths in the golden signs of eternal life.
[Gr.01_000,05] I need say no more to you about all the holy mountains or about the school of the seers and heralds of the eternal Word that comes from me. Just go into the mountains more often and spend time there gladly. You will always experience the fullness of the blessing of the holy Father’s eternal love. The Kulm, which I once recommended to you, will give whoever climbs its green summit out of love for me what Tabor once gave Peter, James and my John. But listen. I say neither ‘you must’ nor ‘you ought to’. Let whoever can and wishes to do so follow me, their Master and Father, and they will soon learn why I preached the sermon of heaven to the people from a mountain. The time is yours to choose, but the sooner the better. Remember that. Amen. I, the Father, say this to you in holiness and full of love. Hear it. Amen, amen, amen.
The Grossglockner in a New Light
[Gr.01_000,06] In the purer land of the pure,
Where pure breezes blow,
Where, joined in faithful love,
Brothers walk together,
Above the clouds rise stately witnesses,
Friendly in their sombre guise,
Bearing burdens of great weight
And offerings that rise on high.
[Gr.01_000,07] Among the many witnesses
That adorn this little land,
The great one, in its lofty silence,
Clearly shows the turmoil.
Many know this witness,
And it is spoken of far and wide,
Yet how many speak its name
Is hardly of concern here.
[Gr.01_000,08] How fissured and torn it stands,
How high it towers,
What it is like at its feet,
How much snow and ice it bears,
These things are for another telling.
Here let us briefly reveal
What the giant has to say.
Let anyone who asks now know:
[Gr.01_000,09] What use are heights like these?
Such heights serve in many ways.
When enraged spirits sweep about
And grow hot in their wickedness,
Threatening your earth with fire,
Bent on destroying all upon it,
And in the flames of their fury
Already scorching many a blade of grass,
[Gr.01_000,10] See how the lofty guardian reaches out
Far and wide with a thousand arms,
Grasps all those treacherous tribes,
Firm and cold, without a trace of mercy,
‘By the collar’, as you say,
And draws them in from every side.
Then none dares stir,
And none dares spread any further.
[Gr.01_000,11] Once it has drawn them in,
All those wicked disturbers of order
Who have so often deceived the earth,
Fanning madness upon it,
The hosts of the spirits of peace
Lay hold of them completely
And grind them down upon the ice
Until their lust for further killing is blunted.
[Gr.01_000,12] Now transformed into snow and ice,
They lie there in their quintillions,
An age-old grey adornment of the heights
Upon the cold thrones of dominion.
See the useful work of the Glockner,
See how it serves order.
Hence its rugged forms,
And hence its towering heights.
[Gr.01_000,13] Yet this alone was never
What it was created for:
To punish justly at all times
The restless hordes of wicked spirits.
What else lies hidden within it
And all the other work it does
Will be set out at greater length,
And the ways it serves will be made clear. Amen.