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The way to rebirth
15th August 1840, evening.
[1] Here I give you very short rules of conduct, which are to be observed exactly and well, when you want to be safe from all persecutions of the world and also take the shortest way to reach as soon as possible the possession of My grace and from it, the complete rebirth.
[2] First of all, everyone must follow whatever political law in all its external essence very closely and certainly put up with any scrutiny pressure; for there is nowhere a power but in Me and through Me. Everything is subject to Me either (rarely) consciously or (mostly) unconsciously; because there good and hard rulers rule according to the circumstances of the life of the subjects, because all this depends on Me. But if all vices are still quite usual among the people, as it is the case with you to a highly damnable degree, how should I give you unselfish regents, who let even more whore food come among the people, so that the people then completely suffocate in all fornication? So woe to any agitator; he shall be punished not only with death in time, but also with eternal death.
[3] For rulers stand too high as to be of themselves what they are to the people; and there is no-one without My righteous will, and the good and gentle is a comfort and the hard and greedy is a righteous scourge in My hand. Whoever rebels against him, will stand against My scourge and will kick hard against the prick. But who lives there in My love and grace flowing out of it, his back will never bleed under the sharp blows of My scourge, but he will grow strong as an oak under the hard blowing of the stormy winds. But blessed is the pure born again; because he will find great bliss in the great outpourings of My love.
[4] My kingdom is not of this world, therefore give to the emperor what is his and to Me what is Mine – namely, your heart in obedient, pure humility. Do not worry about the rest, for I your Father am among you. Therefore be obedient to your ruler; take willingly without grumbling the light cross on your shoulders and follow Me, denying yourselves, in all love and gentleness, so you will live and make alive in My grace, which you will only look at all the time in My name Amen.
[5] Secondly: As far as the external ruling church is concerned, every subject of faith born into it remains in this relationship to it, as long as he is of their outward faith with regard to all their dispositions, like subjects to their ruler, only with the difference that a desertion is not to be punished as with the state, but tolerated with impunity. But I add that I will look with angry eyes at him who will leave his earthly mother of faith, and one day he is not to fare much better than a mad suicide. For since you have a body through which the first impressions reach the soul and nourish it, there must also be an outer pantry, which is the outer church, so that through it your wicked body may be broken through and worked on like a child in its mother's womb.
[6] But who now leaves his mother's womb too soon, say, what will or what can become of such a one? Obedience and humility is the nourishment of the soul for the rebirth of the spirit. But if the Roman teaches you such things, and does so excellently, what then drives you away from your body's mother of faith? So then everyone remains loyal to his church, and shall as a Roman be 99 times blessed to Me, if he corresponds to his church in obedience, and everyone else only once, as if he is a self-loving just man, as no humility and very terribly little love can be seen.
[7] Verily I tell you, it will not be easy for anyone to come to My Living Words in any sect, except in the Church of Rome, where obedience and utmost humility is preached over head and neck according to My Will. But as far as the ceremonies in it are concerned, no-one should prod at it; for there for the living everything is alive, for the pure man everything is pure, for the obedient everything is right, and for the humble, everything is sanctified. Only a sow wallows in the mud and seeks vital air by digging in it’s own excrement.
[8] And so the dead man will find everything dead and full of filth, while the pure man looks with completely different eyes. But how can someone argue about the conditions of the church and the state, who believes to be in My light? Does he then think that I do not have so much insight and power to change circumstances when they do not want to appeal to My will? Oh such judges are deeply under even a weak believer when they think that I needed their judicial assistance! Truly I tell you, such things are an abomination to Me. Because there everything happens at the right time, and I alone am the judge of all things and circumstances, because I alone am holy and love- righteous – but you are all liars and full of fornication. Therefore follow your church in her desire and let your hearts be pulled towards Me, then very soon you will come to the life of grace and thus to the rebirth of the Spirit and you will enliven your outer church in your body, Amen.
[9] Thirdly: For as a tree grows, sprouting branches and twigs, then buds, leaves, blossoms, and in the same female and male stamens, all of which in time falls away as worthless and useless, so that the fruit may flourish freely and effectively in all the power of it's ordered essence – this is also the case with the ceremonial church. If someone were to eat it all together, he would perish with such unripe food, but only the ripe fruit is edible, although not infrequently healing powers have already proven themselves in the blossom, which have served you well in many a disease. Now see, these vegetative processes are like the dead ceremony; but must you not say: They are necessary for the sake of order, because if the trees stand flowerless, little fruit will appear? But there only the ripe fruit is blessedly edible, although not seldomly already in the blossom, salutary powers have proven themselves, which have come in handy in many a disease. Now see, these vegetative processes are equal to the dead ceremony; but don't you have to say: They are nevertheless necessary for the sake of order, for when the trees are flowerless, little fruit will appear?
[10] The Jewish church was an exemplary, purely ceremonial one, as leaves and blossom to the living fruit of the Word of eternal love. Now I ask: Was it not right if it was what it had to be? When you are given children, with what do you want or can you teach them to recognize Me and My will better than just through the help of ceremonial perception?
[11] But no-one is to seek something meritorious in it, as if it is suitable for eternal life, because nothing helps but a contrite, humble heart, full of My love and grace – what then the living church is in you, in and through which only the dead church becomes alive and full of deep meaning – either so or so, rising from death or sinking back from life to death. That means: You can either by obedience to her enter into humility and thereby into grace and by grace into rebirth, or you can bury yourselves in the dead ceremony like the Gentiles and thus perish in their vain, helpless flickering.
[12] All of you are initially nothing but Jews and children and therefore very much need church ceremony as long as you are still children, but – what goes without saying – it does not have to remain with that; but who has gone through the elementary class, step into a higher class and learn to read and write there and finally calculate in My love and act in the grace of My wisdom. And whose heart has lovingly become pure, he then comes to My school where he will only come to eternal life through rebirth. But who, disregarding his inner being, gets stuck in the ceremony, which is dead in itself, will himself become dead, for he was so stupidly sinister as to seek the purpose in external sensorial means, which is the greatest nonsense, indeed a nonsense bordering on the most blatant madness. If anyone throws out the child together with the bathwater, he is a great fool; but whoever throws away the child in disregard and keeps the bath, he is already dead out of his superstitious malice. But the wise man keeps the child with the tub and only pours away the bath – the child, because it is a living fruit, and the tub, in order to be able to bathe the child even more often.
[13] But therefore, if you want to become true children of My love and grace, do not let yourselves be annoyed by the blossom; because if the blossom looks how it wants to, what do you care? Think of the fruit, and the blossom shall also appear sanctified to you, for you know that it is not to be left
with the leaves and the blossom. But if such a one has grown into fruit, he is not mistaken if he looks around more often and respectfully progress with the becoming of his spiritual life; well, but the one is not pleasant to Me who, scorning his children's shoes, rises proudly like a vulture and then, from dizzying heights, looks murderously at the modest dovecotes and greedily looks at their fall in order to gain something from it!
[14] Think that without My approval, nothing happens and eternally nothing can happen, so everything will immediately appear completely different to you! Every man has indeed the full freedom of his will; but the leadership of the nations is My work! This I have told you so that you may have full rest in your heart, without which you may not become capable of anything higher. May the peace of the Sabbath be your greatest blessing; because true love is a pregnant woman who needs rest in her delivery! I therefore tell you this, that you may have complete peace in Me, your Father, who is always holy, holy, holy forever and ever Amen.
[15] Fourth: A further relation is the reading of the so-called forbidden books. Here I do not say that you are not to read them at all when they come into your hands as I do not forbid someone to pronounce the name of the lying prince and where it is necessary to mention him as a warning. But now ask yourselves, what all of what you have already read, serves! What is in the books that come from the proud human intellect? I tell you, nothing but nonsense and over head and neck foolish gibberish, and has no use, but has stuffed your head with all kinds of will-o'-the-wisp and your heart with all kinds of rubbish and has thereby closed you up in many ways and made your spirit dark. Or say: is he right when I call out to him: Come to Me when you are weary and burdened, I will refresh you; ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find it; and knock, and it shall be opened to you; when I still call out to him furthermore: Whatever you will always ask the Father in My name, that He will give you immediately, and seek above all My kingdom, everything else will be given to you freely!
[16] But how is it then, if you know this and still do not come to Me so that you may receive it from Me and learn from Me the great ways of My grace and receive eternal life from My hand, unless you consider Me, like you, to be a bare liar, or consider Me to be so hard-hearing and hard-hearted to give you My living Word, and you rather let the world tell you a lie and starve in their madness, than that you come to Me in trust out of true love and receive there the truth of all life and being from the primordial source, instead of seeking the life in death. Oh you fools, I give you the bread of life, and you want to bite into the hard dead stones; I call you loudly to come to Me and you run after mad dogs and behave like them. I cry out like a night-watchman into your ears day and night, but you cover your ears up with whole piles of rubbishy books, so that you do not want to hear anything of My voice, and like drunken sleepers seek life on the blackened glued rags! What expression could possibly describe such foolishness? Oh I say that you will weep in eternity over your madness, that you, disregarding gold, have chosen lead, while so much of the noble is offered to you!
[17] Therefore read little, but pray the more, so I will come to you and give you more in a minute than all the libraries of the whole world have to show – of which I have hopefully given you some very strongly speaking evidence.
[18] So do not worry too much about the ban on freedom of books; because before whom I have opened the great book of My eternal grace, he will quite well be able to do without reading forbidden writings, as My book does not follow any worldly censorship; because it will always be opened in the heart of the faithful where no worldly censor's view is able to penetrate and also no barriers will be drawn forever. Amen.
[19] Fifth: But as for the Scriptures, let him who is of a simple heart and has an obedient and docile nature read them; and shall not read it out of pride or curiosity, for there he shall find death sticking to the letter, but he who reads it shall read it as a guide to the living word and act accordingly – and
is also not to brood and do research in it, but is to live thereafter forthwith and grow up in love with Me. Then in due time, he will be given the knowledge and shall be revealed in his heart the spirit's and eternal life’s heavenly purpose, just as it is the case with you, My servant, since you have never read this holy book completely and yet you have become a professor of the professors therein in every point of it by My grace. But what you are and understand can become everyone’s when he does not strive for vain knowledge, but only for the knowledge of My love and the grace flowing from it in and through the pious, humble simplicity of his heart.
[20] It is the same with those mystical writings whose reading is no more fruitful and useful to you than any stupid, donkey-like and filthy novel, which at all times can quite well be compared with a mud puddle, if you cannot come to any conviction about it in you; for with all this, you weigh down only your memory as the mouth of your haughty mind. Instead of making him hungry and thirsty for love and wisdom, you are only feeding him all kinds of filth and thereby diminishing his appetite for the food of life. Oh ye repeated fools!
[21] I am the living Holy Scripture and giving life, I am the best interpreter of it and at the same time I am the deepest mystic! Therefore read little, but act accordingly, then everything will become yours. Because the mustard seed is small, but it can become a great plant, under whose branches even the birds of heaven will take up residence Amen.
(Continuation on 18 August 1840)
[22] Sixth: As for the priests, I say: There are many of them; among them, there are very few that deserve this name. For there are those who are priests because of prestige and power, who are disgusted by My great poverty and complete powerlessness in worldly things, because I didn't want to be a prince, but just a savior of the world. And there are others who are priests because of their spiritual caste dignity. These presume to be the Church alone and then, out of jealous arbitrariness, condemn everything coming from Me through some poor fisherman and teach straight against My will and say, their belly bloating big: I reveal Myself to no-one but the Church, which they believe to be. In this shameful way they then also block the doors to My living word for many thousands and thousands.
[23] Truly I tell you, this treacherous kind is an abomination to Me; because it is My enemy as it is angry because of My condescending love towards the sinners. But I tell you: They will never hear another word from Me than the great one: “Turn away from Me, you cursed ones, for I have never known you; for you have always been despisers of My living Word and always resisted the Holy Spirit! My written word you burdened with eternal damnation, so that it will expect you. You had made Me a liar, for it is written: "He who keeps My commandments, it is he who loves Me; but he who loves Me, loves Him who sent Me, namely the Holy Father, and We will come to him and take up residence with him and reveal Ourselves to him.” I've said that to everyone; yet you curse and blaspheme this My everlasting true promise and resist My Holy Spirit in it; therefore may My curse strike you eternally, for you have surely been servants of Satan all times. Therefore depart from Me and receive the reward from him whom you have served in his chapel, which he has built on the threshold of My Sanctuary!”
[24] Behold, these are the so-called priests of the spiritual, blasphemous caste dignity.
[25] Again, there are others who become priests for the sake of their belly, in order to be able to fatten themselves properly on a so-called good prebend. This species has no spirit and is like a fat sow or a fattened ox, good for nothing. Such priests disgust Me, for their god is their belly, and the grunting of their fat pigs, the bleating of their sheep and goats, the roaring of their fat cows and well-fed oxen is a thousand times dearer to them than to hear My living word, which certainly
would be quite desperately inconvenient for them, when I wanted to let them hear it. But they really have nothing to worry about in this alone invigorating respect, because I never use to throw My words as pearls to the pigs. And for the bad service, which they did to Me, they will have been paid more or less well enough as I gave them an abundance for almost nothing, after which their heart thirsted so longingly through the whole life on earth. Since they were so frugal, so they are to lie down in the eternal rest of death after life on earth after such belly exertion and wait there, until the last sun will be gone out, to the resurrection of the flesh and belly!
[26] Again there are others who are priests because of the money. These then grant indulgences for money and sell the sky for yokes, fathoms, shoes and inches; but they are much more generous with hell and the so-called purgatory than with heaven. When their coffers have become empty, they keep hell and purgatory fully wide open, and who does not buy indulgences or otherwise pays quite a lot of masses, he will be thrown in without grace and mercy, so that there is then again something to redeem, namely quite many sounding souls – namely from hell the foxes and from purgatory, the mildew.
[27] Look, they almost tear their mouths apart on their pulpits and beat around with their hands like possessed people, to thereby startle up any last penny out of his rest in the pocket of a beggar and to catch him in their doomed snares. Such eager carriers of My word will once receive very much reward; their heaven shall be a heart of gold, and a soul of silver, and a body of copper; and as much as there is life in these dead metals, so shall they also have forever.
[28] There are others, however, who are literally ascetic trackers and hypocrites, in order to attract the attention of a shepherd, to place themselves in his favor, and thereby to see themselves as soon as possible transferred into the possession of some very prestigious benefice. They almost pluck their eyes out for devotion and humility; they bend their bodies down to earth almost all the time; perform their sacrifice extremely slowly, and they almost always move their lips as if they were praying, hardly speaking in a half, always broken voice; when they pronounce My name, they almost kill themselves; they fast and observe the exterior for the sake of the exterior in the most punctual manner before the people, but with themselves they laugh at everything, and their heart is firm as a stone, so that they out of nothing but devotion are not even aware of the poor brothers, who pleadingly closely pass them by. And as they acted as chaplains and thereby wanted to become vicars soon, so they act as vicars to become deans; and if they have become that, then their attention is directed to a brilliant canonry, and so on up to the episcopal dignity; and even there the cardinal's hat still floats before their eyes, if not even the tiara itself. But what concerns Me in truth, they never cared about that. They never wanted to know anything about My living words and preferred to put Me – as the Life of all life – with skin and hair into the dead ceremony and have a formal revulsion against the Holy Scriptures.
[29] See, there are many such skulkers in the Roman Church, especially now. They are priests who do not give the people any nuisance, but they bring very little good fruit, because their word is like a fruit, where no core of life is within, and perishes rotting in the earth, which is: the hearts of the people. I let those reach their aim more often while I never lack inner admonitions, which constantly call out to them: Put your cross on your shoulder and follow Me, then you will live and truly revive the dead hearts of your flock entrusted to you! But instead of listening to it and doing it afterwards, they prefer to buy, if it' s still going well, a so-called little crucifix, hang or nail it somewhere and blink before it now and then, if someone sees it, with their sanctimonious eyes; but if it depended on them, that little crucifix would have a long rest. And in this lighter way they keep their tender shoulders free. They even send fervent prayers, sometimes in writing, to the people, variously but also with themselves out of spontaneity about the speedy recall of some worthy, deservedly higher one out of pure neighborly love – through some saint – to Me.
[30] Oh look, this kind is also an abomination to Me. These will once make very big eyes when they will see which strange monstrous creature will take their lives to the beyond.
[31] And still again there are others who are more lecherous than dogs and goats and there commit fornication of all imaginable kinds and often bury their children alive in the earth so that they do not appear in a despicable light with some worthy bishop, as well as before the much better people to whom he was given as a true guiding monster. I say these will one day come to be very much to the left; verily with them shall once be fed the whores' burning garments.
[32] And of such various ones there are still a lot more, all of whom are called priests: but I have never recognized them as such, but especially in the monasteries, where they often live together like wild dogs and cats out of brotherly and neighborly love and each one often begrudges every bite from the other.
[33] But there are also priests who deserve this blessed name. These are friendly and loving towards everyone. What they have, they give to the poor. They do not condemn anyone, but they just carefully seek to save what is lost. They comfort the afflicted, they shelter the strangers and give them a soft bed, and out of true love they place a stone under their sacred head. They don't allow anyone to pay sacrifices, but say him who wants to do so: Brother, the sacrifice is holy and of inestimable value, for it represents again vividly the great work of redemption in faith and love. That is why it cannot be paid for and carried out for the good of an individual, but just as through the power of the great redemption all can and are to be born again to eternal life, so also works the power of the sacrifice appointed by Christ himself for this purpose. Therefore, sacrifice your gift beforehand as help to a poor brother, and then, if you have anything left over, bring it faithfully and lay it on the altar of the Lord and pray for your enemies; then the great Lord will look upon your sacrifice in the most holy sacrifice from my hands with favor and give you what you need.
[34] Behold, this is a true priest to Me, whose sacrifice is infinitely pleasing to Me. Verily I say unto you, go and hear his preaching, for not one word is his, but livingly Mine! But this one will soon know how great the reward will be that awaits him. Verily I say: He will live with Me, his Holy Father, forever! I do not need to tell you more; but by their works you will easily recognize them, as a tree by its fruit.
[35] See, here I have shown you the whole sickness of the Roman priesthood as it is in and of itself; but I say that all this is of little concern to you and – each one of you sweep in front of his own door and never of his neighbor's and least of all of a priest's, but always be willing and obedient, and do not let yourselves be annoyed and deceived from evil by it’s example, but follow as children the teaching which must be right in the Catholic spirit, and if weeds should have intervened, they will be destroyed in due time. And do not judge the ways of such a priest; because I, the true judge, am already sitting on the neck of such a one anyway, and before he will know it, the same will be broken. Just don't let anyone use you as ear blowers; for cursed be a postman and a chatterer, for he is like the evil sower who mixed tares among the wheat. The bad priest will once argue for himself and for you; but you will argue according to your obedience and true humble charity only for yourselves.
[36] Therefore you should not upset yourselves against the church because of the priests, since there are also quite a lot of honest and faithful ones among them. But least of all you should be upset by any bishop. As such one already stands higher and presides over people, so you can also already think quite well that he does not stand there all alone but that every one of his steps and words and deeds is very exactly counted by Me; and through him the external state of affairs shall be kept in good order at all times.
[37] But as far as your inner being is concerned, you know anyway that it always depends only on yourselves and afterwards on My grace, which neither an angel of heaven nor any bishop nor whoever can give you, but first of all you yourselves through true love towards Me and the neighbor through exact keeping of the commandments – or as sinners through earnest repentance.
[38] Because out of everything what you do, radiate love to My and the neighbor. Therefore care little and think not at all about a bad priest, and keep fraternal communion in all good among you, and I will come to you and make you alive through and through. Love those who hate and persecute you, and bless through prayer those who curse and condemn you; then you will start to perceive great effects of My light in your dark hearts. Amen.
[39] Seventh: Finally, as far as the so-called ear confession and the seven holy sacraments are concerned, I tell you and even ask you not to be offended by them, use everything justly and in the right living sense, and you will live! For nothing is right for the dogmatist, but everything is right and holy for the righteous person; even the nest of a bird will elicit praise from his heart, and yet it is only a dead nest of a bird. How much more can you imagine that things that have been built for your sanctification will not be taken out of the air, but how you use them, will always depend on you.
[40] Whoever confesses and acknowledges his sins to the priest has thereby publicly confessed his sins before the world, and such confession will be forgiven him one day, if he sins no more. But whoever sins after as before the confession, has made confession a savings bank of sins, which one day will bear him high interest to hell. Therefore, he who confesses and does true repentance and immediately sins no more, does very well; But whoever thinks that all this is so completely null and void, will one day be very much mistaken, because he will find a chasm which he will find difficult to jump over.
[41] But if you say: If we had it like in the times of the apostles, then we would certainly be completely different people, since we could grab into the bowl with our own hands (like a Judas!)! But I alone say that these cried out at the top of their voices for a regular service and a visible reformatory like the Israelite people for a king, while they often came to fight like wolves and bears at their communion table.
[42] Now if I have given you rule, order and system, what is it then that does not suit you therein? Use it justly, and respect it as you have it, and do not wish otherwise; for, as I have already said, the outside is of little importance, but everything is up to you as you take it! As good and true as it can be, just as bad and false it can be, if you want to use it that way or not. But if healing and poisonous herbs grow under the sun, think: It is not the sun, one way or another, but always the inner nature of the plant, either good or bad, whether blessing or poison. Therefore it is always up to you, whether good – or bad Amen. I your dear Father. Amen, Amen, Amen.
But this is the shortest way to rebirth.
[1] Admittedly, in this respect, the righteous man is like a tree whose fruit does not ripen at once, but gradually; but if the spring was mild and cheerful and the summer was persistently warm, alternating with small rains, you say: this year we will have an early maturity. See, it is the same with you, when you have spent your youth cheerfully in gentle love for Me, then also the summer will become all-invigoratingly warm, alternating with rain of grace from heaven, and you can be assured that the eternal golden autumn for the eternal ripening of the immortal fruit, will not be far away. Because as far as someone wants to be born again of Me, so far he must recognize his sins and publicly confess them to his humiliation, that is: earnestly through confession outwardly and inwardly to Me and must ask Me for forgiveness as it is indicated in My prayer and must like a Peter feel true remorse and sadness and fear and weep over the so inestimable loss of My grace, and has to make the most serious intention of will to not wanting to sin any more for all eternity.
[2] Then he has to firmly undertake to fully break with the world and to completely hand himself over to Me and have a great longing for Me in his love – and in this great longing, has to withdraw daily from the world and all the businesses in it and for at least 7 quarters of an hour with closed
doors and windows neither pray nor read anything, but he has to spend this time in complete calmness, just dealing with Me in his innermost being.
[3] And all the time, however, as often as someone has come into this peace, he is to give the following small inspiring speech in his heart to Me in most steadfast earnest and say:
[4] Lord! – Here I am. I let You, oh most loving Holy Father, wait a long time, since You have been calling me incessantly since my childhood.” “Come to Me, I will refresh you!” “Now, oh Father, the time has come that my ear has opened and my otherwise rigid will has surrendered entirely in Yours, full of humility and obedience before You, as well as according to Your will to all my better brothers. Therefore, You, my dearest Jesus, come to me and refresh my sick soul with the balm of Your infinite love; let me find my great rigors in Your bitter suffering and death; let me see the five holy wounds and recognize in them my great iniquity! Oh Jesus, you overcomer of death and hell, come to me and teach me even more to understand Your will; teach me to recognize my complete nothing and Your everything!
[5] Oh my sweetest, most loving Jesus, Lord of all hosts, come to me poor, – come to me weak, – come to me blind, – come to me deaf, – come to me leper, – come to me gouty, – come to me lame, – come to me crooked, – come to me possessed, – yes oh my, my, my dearest Jesus! Come, come, come to me dead and let me only touch Your holy garment, so I will live. Lord, don't take your time, because I need you infinitely; I can't be without you, because you are everything to me and everything else has been destroyed out of love for you! I can no longer live without You; therefore, oh my dearest Jesus, come to me immediately! But as always, so also this time Your holy will be done. Amen.”
[6] After that, come to rest and grow in longing and love for Me. If you will only practice this for a short time, I say: You will soon see lightning and hear thunder; but then do not be frightened, nor become afraid; because now I first come as judge to everyone under storm, lightning and thunder, and afterwards then in gentle, holy travail as Father!
[7] Who wants to make a so-called general confession in the true sense, he will plan a lot, because it requires more humility and self-denial. That means, very well noticed, there has to be a total intention to no longer sin and the Holy Communion has to be taken in living faith out of pure love for Me; only then will it’s miraculous effects be immediately felt in you, which will immediately manifest themselves in exceedingly great, incomprehensible joy and heavenly bliss.
[8] Behold, this is the shortest and most effective way to pure rebirth, in which alone eternal life can be gained. Any other route takes longer and is less safe, as there are many thieves' routes, where guileful thieves, robbers and murderers lurk behind the road bushes; whoever is not well armored and armed to the teeth, he will get there hard. Consider who he is telling you this!
[9] Therefore I mean, instead of worldly resources and entertainments and very dirty societies, you could justifiably choose My rest and Sabbath-resource and there for free, without entrance fee, talk to Me and use the other entrance fee for something better!
[10] What do you think would be better there and the more pleasing to Me? For look, as I once said to the apostles: That no-one can serve two masters, therefore consider well who is reminding you of this Amen.
[11] I, your Holy Father from eternity, am it Myself. Amen, Amen, Amen.
And I servant say Hallelujah, Glory and Praise and Glory to God in the highest as to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen. – (See the epilogue of Aug. 20, 1840, "Gifts of heaven", Vol. 1)