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To a world-weary
17th December 1841
[1] Oh Abba Emanuel! In deepest humility I beseech You All-merciful One, You Who refreshes all the weary and burdened who come to You – look graciously upon the bowed-down heart of my sister Cecilia, whose worldly hopes are all destroyed and who does not possess the power to lift her benighted mind to You, oh Holy Father, with Whom alone comfort and peace and new, true life can be found!
[2] In the great darkness of her heart she does not suspect it and can hardly believe that the gates of heaven are wide open in this great time of grace and that You, oh most loving, holy Father, meet all Your lost children with outstretched, forgiving and blessing hands.
[3] Oh, so send Your light and Your truth into her heart, which seems tired and weary of the life on earth. Show her, since she desires it, the illness of her soul as well as of her weak body! Give her mildly rich, You divine Savior, only a few strengthening and revitalizing words from Your Father's Heart, which overflows with compassion and mercy!
[4] A little infusorial animal from the muddy depths asks You with a contrite soul for it! Your most holy will be done in and on this sister who professes herself to the Reformed Church! Amen.
[5] But you, oh most holy Lord and Father, are the true and only Reformer, Redeemer, Retriever and Re-birther! To you alone all thanks, all praise and all love! For you are friendly, oh Lord, and Your goodness endures eternally! Amen. Father’s answer to Cecilia
[6] Who turns his eye in whatever towards the world will sooner or later become aware of what and how the world rewards it’s admirers, applicants and workers.
[7] What is the world? Nothing but the body of death, which is like a grave, in which not much rare is to be found, namely, nothing but stinking mold, the most disgusting filth, and bones passing into decay, and to all that, a legion of eating worms! See, these are the "treasures of the world"! As dreadful as they always are, they are, however, especially at this time, sought after with such passionate vehemence that people – even if I keep them from it as unimpaired of their freedom by My Fatherly love as possible – almost despair, even with a sense of self-abnegation, if I do not at once permit them to plunge into the grave of eternal death!
[8] Behold, so now is the world! And thus unspeakably foolish and often truly evil are now also the people in it! And I also tell you that at present there is hardly one half-righteous among a hundred people and hardly a fully righteous person among a thousand. For the world has beaten them all more or (rarely) less with all blindness.
[9] See the disgraceful dress fashion! I tell you, it is a cruel worm of death that begins to eat up the hearts already in the living body. On it lies one of My greatest curses! For it is the "makeup of death," by which thousands and millions have already been cheated from eternal life.
[10] See further the cursed dance! This is equal to steam, by means of which one can both physically – but still much more spiritually – reach the double grave (physical and spiritual) with truly gigantic speed! The male and female dancer leads death under the arms. What shall I do with them then? I let them go, because they already have their wages, for which they have sweated so much!
[11] And further see the usury, the envy, the stinginess! These three are, from top to bottom, the "soul" of the human larvae (the name human being is after all too exalted for such badly dead
servants of death). Yes, they cannot even be called "sinners" anymore. For the sinner is repentant, and at least still has the desire to mend his ways. Only this worldly soul-trinity which determines every man's value only according to the eternally cursed money, has no remorse. Where is the rich one who regrets being rich! Even if one already has so much that he, if he would only be able to consume five thousand florins annually, could suffice from the capital alone for a hundred years and more, then he always still wants to become richer and richer. And if he shall once give a poor man a hundred guilders, how unwillingly will he do it! How few there are among the rich who are rich with joyful hearts for the sake of their poor brothers and sisters – I certainly know that best of all! I tell you, if you want to count them by the fingers, you might have a few fingers left for this city, where there are more than five hundred rich ones!
[12] See further the disloyalty of people who love only themselves! Do you think that one of those who explained themselves to you loved you for yourself? Oh believe Me, each one loved only himself in you! But since in your better breast the arrogant eye of your declared ones had to see itself diminished in a certain respect, they became uncomfortable, because their self-love suffered from it and no less strongly their carnal sensuality. See, and hence they became unfaithful to you!
[13] And now may you grieve in your heart that I carefully guarded you and freed you from those who are loyal to no-one but themselves? But I say to you: Rather rejoice in what you mourn for! And believe Me that you will doubly recover in your cheerful breast through the cheerfulness in Me, and then it will not be difficult for Me at all to reward your heart devoted to Me with a man already here, who will remain to you eternally an angel of heaven!
[14] Believe this My word: I am closer to you than you would ever dream of! Therefore, if you seek Me with the love of your heart, which you have so abundantly wasted and still waste on your unworthy love – indeed, already long ago you would have found Me completely!
[15] Behold, I am your bodily illness! Yes, I Myself am sick in you; yes, I am love-sick in you! And therefore you yourself are weakly and sickly! But now turn henceforth all your love from the world only to Me, so I will soon become healthy and strong in you, and you then with Me and in Me!
[16] You think that your lungs are lacking! Oh no, this is wrong – but with you the heart is lacking! For you are not from below, but from above! That is why the happiness of the world can not please you!
[17] When your heart is healed, you will also be healthy through and through! For this is only your test!
[18] But the world, as it is now and I have shown it to you in the beginning, will not offer you a healing balm for your heart – which is sick in two respects – but only I, if you turn to Me! For only in Me alone will you find the fullest, freest, and most serene rest, and nowhere else – not even in the garb of a so-called privileged Sister of Mercy, nor in the cold, walled churches; but with Me alone, through trust and through ever-increasing love for Me!
[19] Behold, My servant was also formerly sick like you. But since he has found Me, he is healthy and cheerful and free! But you can become just as healthy if you want to turn to Me!
[20] Behold, I, your eternal, holy Father, will not leave you! But you must come to Me in your heart!
[21] But when you will come to Me, you shall be adorned with a great glory! For I look only at the confession of the heart; everything else is equal to Me!
[22] Therefore come to Me, your Father, to your Jesus! Amen.