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Mount Kulm
22nd May 1841, afternoon from 3:30 until 8pm
Writers: K.G.L.-Andr and Ans. H. The Lord graciously revealed the following through His servant about the journey undertaken on Wednesday, May 19, 1841 by Jakob Lorber and some friends to mount Kulm near Michelsdorf in the Graz district: (NB. Instead of driving from Graz to Waiz to get to mount Kulm, we took the detour via Gleisdorf. And instead of going straight from Gleisdorf to Pischelsdorf, we ended up on Ilzer street, namely to Sonnabendkirchen (Sinabelkirchen), from where we first went to Pischelsdorf. We only climbed mount Kulm at 6:30 evening.
[1] The next time you enter a mountain height in My name, arrange firstly that you take the shortest route, and secondly that you stay on such a height for at least three hours.
[2] For when it is about externally seeing a miracle, the senses must first be fully saturated by the vast sight of the external things. Through this full saturation, the mind then falls into a kind of stupor, which is not unlike the magnetic state with which you are familiar.
[3] If you then turn to Me in the spirit of love and all truth, only then can I connect the inner eye of the soul with the eye of the spirit and then focus this double inner sight before the eye of the body. Thereby you can be put in a state to see natural things in a completely different light and to discover spiritual things in the midst of natural things in such a way that in a strict relationship with natural things, they appear in a kind of transparent way and thus take up their position like the cause to the effect.
[4] But if you eat a food that is only meant for the stomach, then you spend a short time in rest after the meal and say that this is necessary for digestion. Do you think that such rest is only beneficial for the stomach when it has eaten it's food?
[5] But I tell you, you need such rest all the more when the still very weak stomach of your spirit has indulged somewhat. For if such rest remains after the saturation of the spirit, the spiritual digestion also proceeds badly. However, every food must be digested before the substance that promotes life is released and rises as nourishment for the higher life.
[6] For every food substance first nourishes the lowest potency of life. Once this is nourished, the substance is refined for the service of a life on a higher level of power, and this continues until it reaches the high sphere of self-consciousness and finally full self-perception.
[7] Now think, when you arrive at such a high spiritual chamber and you gather many things in a moment with ravenous hunger, but as soon as you feel to some extent satiated by such fast feeding, you run away as if you were thieves! Ask yourselves, where does the digestion and the ascending refinement of the food remains?
[8] Therefore, as already said, arrange it better for yourselves next time, and that indeed because of your weak faith, by virtue of which you are more or less pure "Thomases". For as long as there is nothing to gape at and to grasp, truly, you are still in half a faith and also in half love and in half trust. But if someone blindfolds himself or moves from the place where I have prepared a showpiece for him, then I am not to blame, but he himself is to blame, if he has not seen anything and also has not felt too much.
[9] But so that you nevertheless reach an inner view through the word, I will show you the omitted things towards the end of this script and present them according to the order by virtue of My everlasting, unlimited love and mercy. First, however, the natural features of this mountain, as well as it's extensive surroundings and dista
[10] As for the mountain itself, it has the same origin as the Chor- and Kleinalpe already shown to you last year. For the rock has the same sheet-formation as the already known two Alps. It's inclination is from southeast to northeast. For thus the over hundred fathoms thick leaf-stone mass came to lean as consolidated periodic precipitation of the sea after the sponge-like elevation from the bottom to it's own sub-mass, after this sub-mass had been washed away by the still large water currents of that time, what all the small hills show you, since they were covered up to a height of hundred fathoms and also above it by rounded pebbles with submerged drifting sand often several fathoms deep.
[11] You will have discovered two prominent extensions from this mountain, one extending to the south, the other more to the east with several small branches. These foothills, being the highest, are of the same origin. The lowlands or the branches of these main extensions, are nothing but alluvial deposit; the slope towards the north and the smaller branch towards the northeast, are only a form of the original quarry from the depths and is it's soft and gentle outflowing foot, formed partly by the breaking off of the rock pinnacles rising high above their base, but partly also by alluvial deposit and precipitation of sand and small stones, which the tide often carried far away and let fall there.
[12] See, this is now the basic formation of this mountain! If you have now and then fixed your eyes on the treaded ground, then also here small rounded quartz crumbs will have necessarily appeared to you; only with the difference that their color is not white, but reddish. This quartz is not of the same origin as the white one on the Choralpe, but it originates from the Noahic time, when – as you have already been informed a little – the great flood of water, which at that time went over almost three quarters of Asia and the whole of Europe and over the northern half of Africa, was preceded by an extremely violent fire-eruption mainly in Europe and western Asia, i.e. about 77 years before the following flood of water.
[13] That such a quartz mass is formed in the underground water reservoirs through precipitation, you can see from the fact that this same quartz mass is also formed in the surface waters through a slime- like precipitation, if you only take a little notice of the countlessly occurring quartz on the banks of the rivers.
[14] If you take such a rounded lump of quartz weighing about a pound, put it in a water tub, either at the well or somewhere else where you keep water for fire insurance, leave it in there for two years and weigh it afterwards on an accurate scale and you will find that firstly it has become heavier and secondly it has certainly become somewhat larger. But if already such a short time makes such a noticeable impact in respect to the formation of the quartz, think how strong the formation of these stone masses must have been only in the large underground water reservoirs for so many millennia!
[15] When the fires burst out of the still greater depth of the earth and in their lightning-quick way tear apart the large water basins located above them together with the earth's crust several thousand fathoms thick above the waters, then it must happen, that during such an eruption all kinds of torn stone masses are hurled out of the depth of the earth up to high above the clouds, from where they fall down naturally partly again into the abyss and partly on the surface of the earth, where they then, if any mountain plate is not yet lifted, are lifted with it then soon after. Or they also already fall down on formed mountain elevations, which was also the case with the Kulm. For this was already there when, in the northernmost region – namely between the village of Buch and the castle, which I do not want to
name – such a subterranean fire-eruption took place, from which the irregular leveling of the ground known to you, originates.
[16] If you have only paid a little attention to the course of the valleys, you will have discovered with some effort that they all extend more or less to the southeast. This shows nothing else than the passage of the former great water current, which once had it's shore on the Carinthian Alps and, on the other hand, on the Carpathian Mountains of Hungary, and thus had almost three times the width of the Adriatic Gulf, as the latter is the widest.
[17] Later, the water drained away more and more, and was then only seen as many individual streams of the same width, as you can still see the individual valleys now. And of all these streams, nothing is left but the little brooks found in the valleys, which only make up a somewhat more significant river when they have joined together in hundreds after a longer course.
[18] Now look, when you come again to any such height, be it the same or one chosen by you or one determined by Me, then you must awaken your imagination and power of imagination in this feeling and see the past in comparison with the present, and always what the earth itself offers you for viewing, then you have laid the true foundation for the inner sight.
[19] In it you will discover My work and admire My architecture and you will come close to Me in your ever more awakening feeling.
[20] But if you have nothing else to do on such a hill but to look at heaps of stones and wood covered with lime, you will do better by far if you stay at home in your city, where you do not have to strain your eyes so much to look over a lot of whitewashed heaps of stones, which on top of that are built more artistically and splendidly for the greater external pleasure of the eye than the manor residences, which are more repulsive to Me than anything, in which people live who consider themselves to be more than other people because, in addition to many animal characteristics, they also possess those of leeches and vampires, by virtue of which sad predicate they can draw the blood of their supposed subjects' meager belongings for nothing and again nothing without any hesitation.
[21] It is true that every monarch has to impose proportional taxes on his subjects for the true needs of the state, but that such a so-called "lord of the manor" also demands taxes from his supposed subjects, truly I say to you, that is an abomination to Me. And if such a so-called lord of the manor does not strive to redeem such old iniquities as much as possible by frequent benefactions to his supposed subjects, then he will one day have to give hard reckoning and will have to prove himself exceedingly perfect about what he has used the last penny for. Woe to those who have wasted, squandered and whored away their pensions! Verily, I shall bury them under their hellish manor residences! And they shall be pressed there by the materials with which their manors was built, until the last little stone has dissolved into dew and dust by the falling rain.
[22] Now look, therefore, from such a height you should let the contemplation of such very last things pass also on the very last time and then sit down on the height in the digestion rest discussed at the beginning. Then you will have looked at things in My order, you will have dined properly on My world table and through this, you will also reach the useful digestion.
[23] If you have telescopes with you, use them in the same order, but not vice versa. And when you begin to bring distant buildings closer to your eyes, point them first at poor huts and chalets. I tell you, the sight of such a dwelling of poverty will be more vividly strengthening to your feelings, to your imagination and fancy, than the manifold sightings of some remote, rusty city, or of a half-ruined castle, or of a mere meaningless bell-tower at a church of stones, bricks and mortar!
[24] Is not every tree, every plant just as well and even more a living temple, through which My power, wisdom and love faithfully make themselves known to the one who contemplates this, than the certainly much more artificial temple with it's spirit and it's love? Therefore, for the time being, it is more necessary for you to contemplate these living temples of My love and mercy, and only afterwards those with high bell towers.
[25] For at the high bell towers, there I must have, in a certain way, the strange honor to sit as a perpetual detainee in some gilded tabernacle and to wait until the priest, either compelled by his order or sometimes also by a ringing satchel, hands Me out to the poor, half and often also completely non- believing people for the mostly very uninteresting viewing, murmuring and invocation. After an empty blessing once or twice accompanied with metallic tinkling and a blaring choir, however, I must let Myself be locked up again idly.
[26] That such is most bare nonsense, which the later lust for splendor has concocted, you may well see without a telescope at first glance from My Gospels and from the first genuine church customs in the times of the apostles and their successors through several centuries.
[27] Where I connect Myself with matter, there matter becomes alive. For the living conqueror of death has nothing to do with it. But whoever seeks Me in the bread believes that I have appointed the bread and the wine as a permanent monument of My incarnation on earth. But the bread and the wine must be what they are; and must not be enclosed and put and bound in dead metal; but they must be bound in living faith and in true love!
[28] And just as the bread is to be a true bread to satisfy, and the wine a true wine to strengthen the vitality and quench the thirst – so also faith is to be like bread, and love like wine!
[29] But in such stone churches, faith is now like the host, which contains only the form of bread in a most unsatifiable potency, and love is likewise either none at all, because no wine – or watered with temporal interests, as in the so-called "Mass sacrifice".
[30] I do not need to tell you more about this, since you can easily see from this little, whether a blossoming tree does not offer more nourishment for the spirit than such a faithless and cold temple.
[31] Now, after I have acquainted you with everything truly useful for this as well as for a future event, I want to show you – as already mentioned in the beginning – also that which you should have experienced there in yourselves, if you had not had too much need to return to your night quarters.
[32] If you are somewhere in My name, you do very wrong if you worry about whatever, be it about the health of the body or about other possible dangers of the return. For where I serve you as a guide, there you are as well protected in the middle of the night as in broad daylight, whether you lie, stand or walk. Or can you reproach Me that on some journey in My name only one hair has been broken?
[33] The fact that you have deviated a little from the nearest path on this journey has had no other reason than the "active testimony", from which you may easily see that man often takes the longest way to the set goal not so much out of bad will as out of ignorance, without considering that also in the spirit – well understood – the straightest way is the shortest.
[34] For with Me, there are no "high offices" and no "Sunday churches" that you must first go through and attend in order to reach Me. And in My great state administration I am the lowest and highest authority Myself. But you have not seen such things and have felt them only very quietly.
[35] On the very top of the mountain, however, where there is a poor chapel, you would have felt a breeze from the morning. In this breeze I have blown towards you a certainly serene mood and a great strengthening of your tired limbs and a mysterious rustling through the tops of the quaint little trees
gave you no small tidings, that you could have surely said about it: The Lord has blown over me in a holy wind from the morning!
[36] If you had stayed there during the seventh hour and had turned your heart and your eye to Me, you would have seen a resurrection of the dead from the mountain at the cemetery of this parish, where you stayed, as I had let My servant see it for one minute – under the prohibition to inform you about it. Which scene showed up there, the servant may tell you after this report either orally, if you want it, however, also on a day through the pen!
[37] Accordingly, only the evening opacity of the atmosphere remains to be explained to you. The "evening" is the worldly sphere of man. When man approaches the "morning" and it begins to clear up more and more for him, it will be necessary to cover the "evening" as much as possible for the still very evening-minded morning-wanderer, so that his eyes should not find any attracting object which would like to draw them away from the contemplation of the "eternal life-morning"! See, that is why the evening was also so filled with vapors from the earth, to teach you likewise that when the "morning" is opened to one (even if still a little clouded here and there), he should not turn his eyes to the hazy "evening", but to the "morning of life", i.e. not to worldliness, but to that which is of the spirit and of My eternal love.
[38] The next day – as on a day of celebration or rest – you see everything in the purest light, without the slightest hazy cloudiness. This is to tell you that only in the silent celebration of the "digestion" of the food served by Me, finally, everything cloudy and dark is brightened and the clear, self-confident view then enters in great clarity from the newly awakened morning of life into the wonderful existence.
[39] So you also consider this image in your heart! Walk straight and take care that you do not forget the "digestible rest", then you will also see in you, as the "new morning" full of shine and light, so also the purified "evening" of your world-life well illuminated.
[40] Make the mountains your friends, the valleys your view of humility, and Me your guide through the valleys to the mountains of rest and peace, and you will know now as always and for all eternity that only I, your Father, am the true Way, the Light, and the eternal Life Myself forever!
[41] This is what I say, the very best guide. Amen.