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Answer from on high
27th June 1841, Sunday morning
[1] Be calm and do not make yourself idle because people cannot become as wise and powerful as I Myself am and will be eternally!
[2] For behold, where is he who would like to begin a wisdom-fight with Me, and this with the understanding of the world? Verily I say to you, he would be much wiser, however, if he hung a rod on a fishing line and held it up in the air on a long pole to catch stars from heaven like fish with it, than that he stretched out the rotten net of his intellect to catch My eternal wisdom in it and then to dissect it at his pleasure!
[3] But as My gift is always a double one, namely out of love and out of wisdom – is it not then clear to everyone that only that which comes from love is truly a "bread" to eternal life for the children? The "wine" of wisdom is given only to dampen the understanding of the world, so that man may see from it that all his foolish knowledge fails because of this "cornerstone," which is a true sour "wine stone," a stone of every offense!
[4] When Jesus speaks to you in your heart and preaches His mercy to you, then understand, that you may come to life. If the Father draws you, you should also recognize His voice. But when the Spirit of God comes over you and teaches you wisdom, then believe, if your understanding is unable to grasp the unattainable height and depth, that the Spirit of God is either seemingly in contradiction with itself, or the instrument through which the Spirit speaks, is bad and give the word differently than he heard it. But do you not notice that you are resisting the Spirit !?
[5] What is worse, then, to quarrel with the Spirit of eternal wisdom, or to assert by a word of understanding that the Spirit has chosen an unfit tool for itself, or even to think that the mediating man takes everything from his fingers arbitrarily, which is just as much as the assertion that the world and also everything that is on it, has created itself.
[6] Says man: "If the thing does not have a mathematical certainty, who can accept it as perfectly true? Two times two is four – that is a definite truth and is therefore obvious to everyone!
[7] But I say, Take care, Oh wise man, that your wisdom, which is so certain, does not become a great shame. For if you understand nothing more of arithmetic than that two times two is four – indeed, there you have enough wisdom to become a turncoat. How can anyone come to Me with such numerical wisdom to challenge Me through it for the sake of truth and wisdom, since he has never yet seen and will never see that two times two can just as well give five, six, seven, eight, nine, or so on into infinity of any desired product.
[8] Oh the vanity of the blind man! How much people know and how sharp their judgments are! They measure the heavens with the compass, poke My suns like peas from the sky and then look at them with the sharp microscope of their worldly understanding so thoroughly that almost no atom escapes them! To determine the size, distance, movement and the purpose of the celestial bodies is only pure fun for them! And all this because they know that twice two is equal to four. Yes, that means to have brought it far in the wisdom!
[9] However, they still lack two things to the full wisdom that almost surpasses Me – namely: "squaring the circle" and the so-called "perpetual motion machine". If they do, it will be over with Me. If I were capable of fear, I could almost begin to be a little afraid, people would want to start building a very
finely considered "Babylonian tower" again, which dangerous construction could not be stopped by a confusion of tongues, since there are now interpreters of all languages! Or they could indeed even with the sharply increasing wisdom build railways, if not even sending air-steamships to all the stars and then even Sirius or other, larger and probably also gold-richer central sun, attack and occupy them like with the country of China – for example even with two thousand forty-eight pounders!
[10] Behold, all that I have to fear! And with what will I defend Myself, since I really have no cannons, bombs, grenades, howitzers and cartridges in heaven? The Chinese are subjugated and yet they have entrenchments and batteries – how will the battery-less stars defend themselves?
[11] Behold, what dangers – and all this because twice two equals four! If I were like you, I too would perhaps exclaim and say: "Thank God that people have not yet discovered the "squaring of the circle" and the "perpetual motion machine" and will never discover them! Because in case of these discoveries, misfortune would be complete!
[12] But there are already now people in North America and also in England who deny Me and dispute My existence because I have completely forgotten the construction of the extremely expedient railroads when creating the earth. How could such a thing not have occurred to a most wise God? If man seems to be composed of industry, how could not God be, if He had created the universe? But since there are no railroads anywhere in nature, and certainly no steamships either, there can be no God, who would certainly have created everything, if He were one! See, what wisdom even in the railroads!
[13] But I say to you: Be with Me without fear. Even if I have no artillery or steamers or ship-liners, I still have a very strong lungs and a tongue in the right place! And My breath is stronger than all cannons! And through My tongue, every human wisdom is to be spoken to death!
[14] Therefore you only always diligently put on paper what you hear! For that is why I give it to you, so that I thereby set a new cornerstone and boundary stone for the world, over which many will fall, who will not walk on the described ways of humility, of complete self-denial, of patience, meekness and all love!
[15] But whoever has called out to Me and gives the right gift to Me, he should always gratefully accept what is commanded and follow it exactly! But if he does not do this, what does that concern Me and you !?
[16] Let us therefore let grow in the field what is sown there until maturity! My reapers know already for a long time, what then has to happen! Happy is he, who is not angry with Me!
[17] But My grace will one day be preached to the wise people by a rattle mill, so that all their teeth should clink like the heavy chains that keep father-, mother- and brother-murderers in the deepest prisons. Amen!
[18] So be calm, knowing who He is who reveals all these things to you. Amen! I, your Jesus! Amen.