Gifts of Heaven · Volume 2 · Chapter 223

Peter the rock

18th May 1842, evening

What then is the pope, who also calls himself: A rock? Is this in truth a "rock" or "Peter the rock"?

[1] Yes, once, before the council in Nicaea, he was a capable rock. But then the evil enemy kindled a strong fire of self-love, selfishness and lust for power around the rock – and the rock became a limestone.

[2] If then the waters of heaven come upon him from all sides, it shall fare with him as it does with the naturally burnt limestone, so the water shall be poured out upon him – because it then also hisses, rushes, roars, boils with intense heat and then starts to boil and steam violently, but finally, in spite of all this, it all falls apart into a loose mountain which is mixed with sand, to connect the dead stones of an even more dead wall.

[3] But if then such a wall is torn down by another builder, such mortar is thrown into ditches as useless rubble to fill up the puddles! Behold, this is now the supposed "rock"!

[4] But keep this page with you! Because even without the page, the matter is really the same. Therefore keep this page only with and for yourself! Amen.