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A brief look at the essence of the railroads
30th January 1842.
[1] Think over the points carefully, and you will see the whole thing blindfolded and easily understand it completely.
[2] How great is the difference between poor, meager humanity and the rich wastrels, usurers – and then also those who are probably and richly well-off, who after all have filled at least the hundredth or sometimes even the fiftieth part of their heart with charity? I tell you, the difference is barely a hundred to one! But tell Me, who will win in this great branch of industry? Certainly not the vast majority of the poor, not even the now better-minded citizen of the country, but only the self-loving, lustful, ostentatious swaggerer in a fixed alliance with the profit-seeking usurer. Why then?
[3] Whoever pays for the cow, also owns the milk, is already an ancient proverb. Who is building this road? You say the State, with the help of those who now already possess so much usury riches, that they may advance a sum, which I will not pronounce, to the State for that purpose. Good! But what must the state do in response? You say: He must issue them interest-bearing promissory bills and secure their sounding loan close on life, death, fire and murder. Also good again. But who will finally pay back the large loan including the strong interest? Oh, are you shrugging your shoulders here already? Yes, you're right to shrug! But there will come a time when many people will start to shrug their shoulders enormously and finally their whole body. And especially the stomach of many will start to cramp and will complain about it’s emptiness!
[4] Behold, but because you shrugged your shoulders, I will give you an answer, and so it is: So that the state can then wash it’s hands like a Pilate with a clear conscience, if such paths soon become worm-eaten, so he will have to hand them over to the hands of the usurer sooner, with healthier wood. Tell me, which poor and needy will then win something there, where the sharp-toothed usury will gnaw hot-hungrily at the dead skeleton and will not find more meat on it even for a hollow tooth! But you think: In the beginning this cow will give so much milk that from it’s large abundance, also all can be helped! But I tell you and ask you: Have you never seen how to catch flies in the summertime? One puts a deliciously smelling dish before them and mixes poison into it; then the poor flies swarm joyfully in masses and eat themselves full at the delicious meal. But what their fate is immediately afterwards, I do not need to tell you.
[5] So it will also go there in external bodily civic regard and still disproportionately more, but only in internal spiritual regard! I tell you, this cow will only be handed over to the usurer, who will also milk her out properly, and not even the last whey will come on the poor. However, it will certainly happen that at the end the poor will have to hand all it’s fodder to this cow, if it’s milk becomes less and less and less, so that it would become milk-rich again for the usury. But, be assured, I will never bless this cow, therefore it is a cow in the stable of the usurer!
[6] But how the tradesman screams now: Happy countries, where will be ridden on iron tracks; likewise he will soon begin to miserably intone an opposite topic. Your most beautiful oxen will be led out, but you will gnaw on meager mutton at a costly price. Your good wine will be consumed outside, but you will be able to get your strength from the cesspools at an expensive price. Your beautiful fruits and grains will be consumed outside and will not be a substitute for them. Your wood-rich mountains will become naked; but I will not therefore abolish the winter. You will indeed get fabrics of all kinds and other clothing fabrics cheaply and easily from outside, but the citizens of your country, which is poorer, will wail and weep and many will take up the begging stick and many will curse as incompetent debt payers in the debt arrests!
[7] In fact, many will be able to travel far in a short period of time and some will be able to visit theaters, balls and the like in other cities with great ease – there will be a real central conflict of entertainments and amusements of all kinds. But what and how much I and My kingdom will gain by this, listen, that is a quite different question!!! Luxury of all kinds, new worldly needs, pride, arrogance, splendor, evil foreign customs, fornication, harlotry, forgetting God, self-love, acquisitiveness, gluttony, gluttony among the gluttons, contempt for the fatherland, contempt for everything that concerns Me, coldness against the brother’s poverty, contempt even for all state laws, if they are to extend, for instance, to restrictions of profit, hence discontent in general! But of the other beautiful consequences of this – let us keep silent for now. Experience, however, will only hand over you the receipt of this bare reception in blood-red writing, signed by countless poor people!
[8] How therefore such an industrial operation and only fully the success thereof is written down with Me, you can imagine very easily!
[9] The apostles brought My word without railroads to all continents. This was surely the most important article for every human being who cares about Me and eternal life. And My chosen ones came to Me and found Me surely without railroads! But who knows what else the railroads will be used for? There are indeed no railroads in all My heavens as yet, but – it could easily be – that in the end I Myself will therefore let the heavens be covered with nothing but railroads for the future, that it will there be completely metal again, as it was in the days of Noah and Lot! But then also will I lead My present Lots out of the cities and give the cities the part of Sodom and Gomorrah!!! Understand it well. Amen.