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Father's gift
21st April 1842
[1] And so write then: Since the so-called congratulation is already on your agenda, I too will make no exception to this agenda, and namely for the very simple reason that I firstly am the greatest friend of order, and secondly, because I am the eternal order Myself.
[2] But only expect no so-called congratulation from Me, which in and of itself is nothing but a most barest, only worldly somewhat more well-behaved lie and equals a fruit, which has fallen from the tree in full immaturity and is then trampled on the earth completely unnoticed. For it is much better to give a man a copper penny than if you would wish him a thousand pounds of the purest and heaviest gold.
[3] Therefore I wish you, My dear Ans. H.-W., nothing at all, but give you My Father-blessing for you as well as for your family – and add a little cross as confirmation of this holy Father-blessing- gift that I am now giving you. And be assured, such will be more sanctifying to you than if I would wish you a whole earth full of the most precious gold!
[4] But this My Father-blessing-gift consists in that I want to enrich your heart with and will enrich it with My Father-love and you will then reach the inner recognition through it that is not well possible for a child which is still in the womb, to see the father with it’s eyes. But when the child is born from the womb and sees the light of the sun, i.e. the illuminating rays from it, it will also soon see the father in these rays and after a short span of time will also completely recognize him as such.
[5] See, you are now also still in the mother's womb of My love in you; therefore you cannot see Me yet either! But if you are soon completely born out of this body of My mercy-love in you in the Spirit of love and all truth out of it, there you will also see the Father and recognize Him as such. Of this be completely assured!
[6] But there is still a difference between the birth of a child from the flesh-body of the mother and the birth of the spirit out of and through My love. Because the first birth is conditioned by the necessity of nature; but the second through the free will of man and consequently then through My immediate grace, which never remains outstanding.
[7] If therefore someone wants completely earnestly and denies himself in all humility of his heart, coerced through My love in him, he will then also certainly reach the holy final goal of all blessing much earlier, which is the rebirth of the spirit, which is already well known to you.
[8] But if there is someone who is fully lukewarm like a music pupil (well-known to you in the present time), who sometimes cooks, sometimes splits wood, sometimes sweeps the alley, sometimes sews, sometimes threshes, sometimes takes a stroll, sometimes prepares the pigs' fodder, sometimes chats about useless things, sometimes lazes about again, yes, sometimes does and undertakes this and that, but only rarely spends half an hour hardly at the piano or with another instrument – when and how will such an "industrious" music student become a free artist? And when, then, will the one who only lets Me for the sake of habitual and sometimes better diversion so quite carelessly co-argue beside all his worldliness, achieve the rebirth of the spirit?!
[9] I tell you: On this earth, hardly ever – but perhaps, if he has not made himself completely dead, after the death of the body most laboriously and arduously, because he will there be like a struggling and overtired wanderer, who will have to begin to fight where he had expected the finite, most sweet and most blessed rest.
[10] If you, My dear Ans. H.-W., pay good attention to all this, it will become clear to you what great things you have received from Me with this My Father-blessing-gift!
[11] The rebirth of the spirit is the only condition of this earthly life, as the final goal of all free existence. But this cannot happen without the sufficient degree of warmth of My love in you. But that is why I hereby give you a great love-touch, so that you should soon get to the most just degree of love, necessary to full rebirth.
[12] And so then accept My Holy Father-gift, so that you then may live eternally in the bosom of your Holy Father. Amen.
[13] This I give you today as always – yes, I, your Holy, most loving Father Jesus! Amen, Amen, Amen.