Gifts of Heaven · Volume 2 · Chapter 202

The 60th Psalm of David

Verses 8-14 – 3rd March 1842, in the afternoon from 3 to 1/2 7.

Writer: Marie, Wilhelmine and Pauline H.

[1] To understand such verses, one must first know what is meant by ‘David’ in the course of his psalms. For as long as someone understands ‘David’ to be nothing but a king of antiquity who wrote psalms, so long too there is not the slightest talk of understanding such texts.

[2] But if there someone understands in the spiritual sense what is ‘David’, he also understands what is said by Shechem, the valley of Sukkot, Gilead, Manasseh, Ephraim, Moab, Edom, and Philistine.

[3] So let us then see what is behind ‘David’!

[4] Behold, My dear little children, behind David is no more and no less than I Myself. Now you already have a key. But how is this to be understood, that David is at the same time a man like any other, composed of soul and body, and how is he therefore also Me, since he has sinned before Me?

[5] So hear then, and let us see in what way I and David become one; because in these verses, David yet obviously speaks to God – and God to David.

[6] Look and note well now: Under the viewpoint of David is understood the descending Love of God, and under God is understood the endless Wisdom of the eternal Spirit. Since you now know such things, it will no longer be difficult to understand what the eighth verse of the 60th Psalm says, which is: God speaks in His sanctuary – or God speaks in His Love and not in His wisdom, but the wisdom in love; I am glad of this, and will divide and not pay too much attention to the wisdom, which is understood under Shechem, but for this I will well measure the valley of Sukkot, or the true humility and the pure love out of it; I am glad of this. It will hardly be necessary to mention who is understood by the ‘I’, who is happy there, or full of love and why? Because of the unification of infinite Wisdom with the equally infinite Love through the mercy of God.

[7] Since you now certainly understand the eighth verse, you will understand no less the following ninth, which is only a dissection of the first, just as the tenth and the eleventh are.

[8] See, since Sukkot says the humility and according to it the love, but in the love the wisdom now lives as completely one, then Gilead like Manasseh will be Mine after all, – Gilead, the wisdom or light, which is changeable and unstable, and Manasseh, the love or fire of life, which there is the eternal remaining.

[9] Ephraim is the power of My head, and Judah, My rule. See, if you would like to take this literally, the greatest nonsense would come out of it, because David would have had firstly to carry around in his head or on his head an entire Jewish tribe, secondly a country of the same name, and thirdly, a city of the same name, and in addition he would have had to be well equipped with all the weapons of war. In spite of this, however, the mighty king David would still be subservient to the prince of Judah, therefore he speaks: Judah is my ruler, which says as much: Judah is my Lord. Do you now already see a little what nonsense would grow out of the literal sense, if there were not a purely spiritual sense underlying it?

[10] But since Gilead is Mine and Manasseh is Mine, Ephraim as the light of love is the power of all wisdom, which is My head, and Judah truly a prince in Me, which there is the living word of love from eternity, by which all things have been created, and which there by that David mighty began to pour out over the earth. See, My dear little children, how this verse, especially started by Ephraim, has not a much wiser sense than how it appears on the outside in the letter?

[11] Thus also in the tenth verse under Moab, the most humble love, which is as repentance in the human heart, becomes here a washing basin; and the shoe, which is the natural worldly, is stretched out over Edom, which is the night of death. And Philistine rejoices in Me – or purified love becomes one with Me. But if purified love is now one with the light and has enclosed it in

itself, which is the sole guide of all things, then here in the eleventh verse, an apparent question is asked – therefore the light is enclosed in love, namely: Who will lead Me to a strong city? And who will lead Me as far as Edom? But in this apparent question the answer is already obvious, if you understand by who My Love and by Me the Wisdom and by the solid city a well prepared heart, and by Edom a heart full of worldly things and therefore also with everything that is of death.

[12] But as it is with the question of the eleventh verse, so it is with the more explanatory question of the twelfth verse, namely: Will You not do it, God, who cast us out, and will You not go forth, God, upon our army? – which means: You light of love will lead Me at the time when I will descend to earth; You will not go out by the power of light, but by Our army, which is the power of eternal Love.

[13] But so that you understand this correctly inwardly, I draw your attention to the fact that when the divine Wisdom is spoken of, it is always called in the singular, if it is represented for itself alone. The divine love, however, is often mentioned in the multiple number, because everything that exists in the whole of infinity and eternity, has come forth from It.

[14] If you now understand the preceding, it will not be difficult to understand the identical last two verses, which are nothing but a living, humble repetition of the former, and thus read: Create support for us in times of need – or: You eternal light, be and remain the eternal Guide in your love; because human aid is not useful – or: Love is not good for itself alone, since all love without the holy light is only pure, self-consuming self-love.

[15] Therefore, God, let Love through You perform all deeds – and darkness, as the greatest enemy of life – will be eternally subjugated. But such is love's enemy, that it is blind without God. But united with God or with the eternal Light, it is the very highest power, force and authority, to which the whole of infinity must obey eternally at the slightest hint.

[16] Finally I also tell you that these revealed verses have a double relationship, and exactly so, as they refer to Me, so also they refer to every single human. – Therefore, embrace it very deeply, indeed very deeply in your hearts, and you wil gain a great light in the night of your heart. Amen.

[17] My grace, love, and mercy to you all Amen.