Gifts of Heaven · Volume 1 · Chapter 64

Earthquakes and it’s causes

27th September 1840

[1] There are still very many phenomena in nature, both large and small, whose true cause no so- called natural scientist has ever dreamed of.

[2] To such phenomena belong, for example, the magnet of the North Pole, the Northern Lights, lightning, as well as the so-called fast formations, such as shooting stars, clouds in the purest blue sky, crystalline formations, the ebb and flow of the sea, the vibrations of the earth, prolonged tremors as well as enormous shocks, which, as several examples and experiences show you, have often completely destroyed entire regions in a few seconds. To these phenomena belong also landslides, large avalanches, often the sinking of whole mountains and islands and still further the splitting of the earth, disappearance of springs, drying up of the wells, the strong receding of the sea and on such occasions the frequent breaking out of smoke and fire from the crevices of the earth. And there are still innumerable such phenomena, some of which have already been observed, but some of which have not yet been observed by anyone.

[3] However, of all these exceptional and extraordinary phenomena now mentioned, I want today only to examine more closely the earthquake as well as the vibrations of the earth and impacts thereof, as well as many things related to it.

[4] The so-called earthquake is not a phenomenon in it’s own right, but is only the consequence of an earth shock occurring on some loose point of the earth, which is caused in the following way:

[5] Deep in the innermost structures of the earth-being, just as in the body of an animal, there are, so to speak, viscera. But, as already mentioned, innumerable armies of the once fallen spirits are banished everywhere through all parts of the earth down to it’s center, to whom all are given a certain period of time, according to My order, to be revived. Now, if on any point of the earth any human race becomes too sensual and material, so that on the death of such people, their spirits are not given over to eternal life, but are given back to death, then these spirits step back again into the depths of the earth and are chained as they were before they were born.

[6] Behold, if this goes on and on for a long time, such a point inside the earth will gradually become overloaded. These spirits then begin to push, rub and ignite in their evil desires. Through this, however, also those spirits that have not yet been born, are likewise awakened from the state of their rest, blow up their small dungeons, then break out in their offended zeal in mighty columns of fire at the other spirits and want to destroy them. But the spirits that have been born and have fallen again ignite there even more because they believe that such a fire stirs as the so-called hellfire as punishment directly from Me, then burn in rage against Me and want to destroy and annihilate Me, all angels and heaven.

[7] When this then begins to happen, then I will send an angel of peace and rest. This angel opens the sluices of some large underground water reservoir. And the water then, guided by the angel, plunges with lightning speed toward such a raging point on earth.

[8] Now when the water with it’s peace-spirits has reached such a place, then these emerge from their light-covering, ignite against such evil groups and chastise them with the fire of peace.

[9] But water itself naturally dissolves into the vapors known to you, and through such sudden expansion, with the help of it’s spirits, it exerts such a tremendous impact that, at the very spot above such a point, mountains, cities, markets, and villages are shaken together like chaff and overthrown.

[10] As a result, new clefts and fissures now arise in the interior of the earth, which often extend up to the surface of the earth, into which fissures the unborn nature-spirits, united with the peaceful water-spirits, then let themselves be guided by the angel for further training. The evil fallen spirits, however, who were already born in that area, then remain soothed in the mud puddle that was created in this way.

[11] And see, that is the real reason for the origin of such a tremor!

[12] But as far as the so-called thumping and vibrations are concerned, which are denoted by the general expression "earthquakes," these are nothing other than the small displacements of the layers of earth, which partly surround such a basin, but partly are also disturbed in their rest by the opening of the lock by the angel as well as by the falling of the water, when firstly the layers under the basin are forcibly separated up to the loose point by such a higher force; and secondly, however, are then also preserved in a longer lasting trembling by the enormously heavy fall of the water masses. This movement is then the reason for the vibrations.

[13] But as for the earth's trembling after such a tremendous impact, all this is a consequence of the retreat of the water-spirits with the unborn spirits into the various new crevices and fissures of the earth's body. For this is why the earth was created, to carry in it’s bowels a fallen generation of spirits for the final resurrection into a free, eternal life in and out of Me.

[14] As long as there is an unruly generation somewhere on earth, such phenomena will occur all the more frequently, the more sensual and godforsaken any human race on the surface of the earth becomes.

[15] For you see that all this is literally true, you can very easily see from it, if you first direct your gaze over the whole surface of the earth, and here and there you hear such phenomena in all the horror of their raging greatness, as, for example the destruction of Lisbon, and also that on the island of Jamaica, and the like – several, except for the present time in the region of Mount Ararat, which the latter occurred quite literally in the sense of My communication of today, and of which nearby, even up to you, not insignificant traces were heard a few weeks ago. Even as far as America, repeated impacts were clearly felt, which is effected as follows:

[16] If, underground, either a continuous layer of stone or earth continues uninterrupted to the free end, such a shock is propagated far away in the same manner as if you fastened a large number of poles to one another, in a straight line over a vast plain. If you would then make a huge impact on these continuous poles at point A, this impact would still be very noticeable at the moment of impact up to point B, where the poles stop. In this way such a shock can be perceived even in the most distant regions almost immediately.

[17] But although such perceptions are therefore natural consequences, they are not to be regarded merely as such; but, if they were improper, you may well imagine that it would be easy for Me to prevent them. But because they are useful out of My love and wisdom, so they will rather be led to such places as warning messengers, all where people are to be found, who hardly know anything more about Me than the trees in a forest. Such messengers then tell the people who forget God that I have not yet died, but still exist in all My power and strength. And, since only a slightest hint is needed from Me, so also such notified places of the earth can experience something similar as that in the region of Ararat.

[18] For see (in a depth of) hardly twenty thousand fathoms, yes, here and there (of) hardly two thousand fathoms, your country, called Styria, is thoroughly undermined with large and very deep basins of water. And so your mountains, as well as the few lowlands, rest, so to speak, floating on the surface of the subterranean waters, and here and there they are connected to the interior of the earth by masses of stone, columns of equal size.

[19] Accordingly, nothing more is needed than more forgetting of My existence as it has just occurred to a high degree – so you can be assured that I am also able here to present to you an even greater elemental spectacle at once. However, I say: Woe to people whom I am forced to visit with such phenomena! They will certainly have to await a second creation until they are given some path to another test of freedom!

[20] Now behold, as these events proceed according to My eternal counsel, so too no drop falls from the clouds, which would not have been first thought of in My love! And believe Me, when I send down a rain to the earth, as I did yesterday, from the higher drifts of emerging life out of Me, through the regions of light, the preservation of the whole earth – indeed of the whole universe – basically depends on the first droplet that barely moistened a grain of sand.

[21] You will certainly say that this is highly unlikely. But I tell you: If this droplet had not at the most precise time moistened this very grain of sand, the spirit captured and enraged in this grain would have shattered the grain, thereby awakening the spirits which surrounded it to a similar action, and these again their neighbors, and so on down to the last little atom of the earth. And you can be completely assured that in the next second, the whole earth would go up in devastating flames and smoke. And as here a grain of sand would have awakened the other to destruction, so one earth would awaken the other and one sun the other, and so on to infinity. And all this would be the work of almost a single moment – just think of a large mound of the cursed gunpowder to which someone would set fire to just one grain, and if the mound were as large as the earth itself, all the grains would simultaneously be seized by fire.

[22] But if such a grain of powder, which had just been exposed to the first absorption of the fire in a spark, would be moistened by such a drop – what will happen now, when the spark comes upon the moistened grain? The moistened grain will not ignite, and the whole other large lump will be protected from destruction.

[23] You see, nothing you may look at, not even the movement of a sun-atom, depends on so-called blind coincidence – but all this has been calculated and measured by Me in the most exact way since eternity. And if it were possible for a man or even for an angelic spirit to find a change in it, and if My eternal care did not participate for just a moment, then you would experience what devastation would take place out of the disorderly turning of even one sun atom.

[24] But I tell you: The center of gravity of a central sun depends in it’s order to the most intimate degree on the turning of a tiny particle no longer visible to your eyes. For My order is so well justified, and My gaze so directed at everything, that from the greatest to the smallest, one is there to preserve the other.

[25] Now you will also ask: Why these large water basins under the mountains and areas, whereby the surface is not safe for a moment from sinking into the mile-deep floods of such waters? But I say: everything is arranged in such a way that it can exist eternally, if the voluntary malice of man does not cause disturbances in My eternal order, which I must not hinder, because they come from the freedom of the will of people and because the free will of even one person is infinitely higher than a whole sun-region with all planets, moons and comets.

[26] And if I take the water out of these pools, then say, with what could the great fire in the inner chambers of the earth be softened and tempered?

[27] If such a phenomenon as that of the region of Ararat is frightening to you, it is on the other hand, however, a new blessing for the preservation of the whole. For if this were not to happen in the manner already mentioned, in the next moment, instead of the destruction of a small region, the whole earth would experience a completely devastating fate.

[28] Therefore, in everything that your eye and ear can encounter, I am nothing but Eternal Love itself. As the world once came into being out of the mercy of My love, so it consists in My love, and

so it will one day only gently be dissolved in My love. And even if the wrath of My divinity is the visible of matter, so it will still only be appeased by My love as long as My eternal order will find it necessary.

[29] And so you can also be completely assured that if in any place among a million people there is only one who has recognized Me in his love, then that place, even if the substratum were as thin as a sheet of paper, it would still be as firm and secure as if it’s base were a rock many miles thick and solid. But wherever among a million there is no longer one to be found who wants to recognize Me as the most loving Sustainer of all worlds and all creatures, everywhere a sun-thick diamond crust will become too weak to stop the destructive necessity of My eternal order.

[30] Therefore, if you truly love Me, you should fear nothing at all, and the earth would also crumble into ruins under your feet! Verily, I say to you: Even on the fuming ruins of a destroyed world, you would experience that I am Eternal Love, and a true, only good Father to those who have recognized Me in spirit and in the truth of the love of their heart.

[31] Yes, I tell you, I will destroy the suns and scatter the ruins of the world like lightning and ignite with the fire of My wrath the whole eternal infinity, and yet not a hair shall be singed from those who love Me. For I am always a loving and holy Father to My children! Amen.