Gifts of Heaven · Volume 1 · Chapter 68

The size of the human heart. Feeling and understanding

16th October 1840.

[1] A brief epithet to illustrate the South Pole.

[2] Behold, the heart of man is indeed small, but as vast as the horizon of his feelings, so great is man’s power of faith out pure love for Me. I tell you, there is nothing so hidden that it can not be reached by the rays of pure feelings; and then if the pure rays of feeling have embraced something, ask yourself if it would still be possible to understand a matter differently than how it really is and exist in and of itself.

[3] Of course, it is quite different with intellectual people. They grope with this short hand (of the mind) after all things, just like underage children after the moon and other very distant things. These people then draw their feelings into their narrow mind and then let them fumble around in this haughty mind like a blind man who has sat down on a block of stone carved with hieroglyphics and feels around over it, without it even giving him the slightest idea that these are all hieroglyphics, and even less that this writing is a mysterious corresponding language from the bright rays of pure feeling.

[4] Look, so it is also with these My communications and revelations of My grace given to you. When you will examine and illuminate them with the rays of your feeling, their truth will immediately become clear to you, and you will immediately find yourselves as if the matter had been known to you for a long time. But seen with the mind, it will begin to alienate you more and more; because as I said, the mind has only very short arms, which are also very weak, and is therefore unable to reach great things, even if they were very close to them, and even less able to reach distant things, and then to draw them to itself – and then even pushing suns into it’s narrow snail-shell to blindly touch it’s violated emotion.

[5] Look, that's not possible at all. And as the mind has to realize in time that such things are impossible, it gets angry, leaves everything standing, removes all unnecessary stuff from it’s snail shell and is content with it’s own abstractions, finally says goodbye even to the violated emotion and becomes colder than the North Pole itself and begins to gaze at himself in his supreme stupidity as a god, if not even to worship himself, since he has finally gotten so far that he begins to know that he knows nothing, and in that ignorance imagines to know everything. That is then afterwards the greatest triumph, yes, a triumph for which the most harmless child would not give a penny – and every angel, no matter how small, is disgusted by it.

[6] That is why you also are to completely captivate your intellect to be obedient to pure feeling in living faith out of love for Me, so you will see all things as they are; and only then will you begin to see clearly where the eternal sun of truth and reality shines.

[7] This little is said to you so that you are to note in the future with which yardstick My revelations are to be measured. Amen.

[8] This I say, the great Master in all things. Amen, Amen, Amen.