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16th & 17th August 1842.
I want to give you and the others something very remarkable, and this should always be carried with you and be fully absorbed. Also to the children of Ans. H. W. should be granted such things. Who will surely pay attention to that in his heart, he will have the righteousness of life and will walk it’s straight way, which leads full of light to Me! And so write then:
[1] The servant is not greater than his Lord, nor the apostle greater than He who has sent him. John 13:16. How, then, is the present state of servants and apostles ordered, since altars have been built for the servants and the apostles are honored as if they were more than I! As furthermore all power is taken away from Me and all honor is seized from Me – and I have to be like the servant and the apostle want it but not that they are according to My will! And yet they pray: Your will be done! What is meant by that? Doesn't that mean denying God with every filament and fiber?!
[2] My yoke is gentle and light My burden. Matthew 11:30. But how is it that people prefer to put up with whole mountains on their shoulders under the pressure of an iron yoke to win death than just a feather-flake of My loving-will? Because they are dead and therefore do not notice how and what is pressing them! Oh the most horrible folly in the world!!
[3] It is the Son of Man, Christ, who alone sows good seed. Matthew 13:37. This proves more than enough whose spiritual children are those who say: What does not come from a certain city and not from a certain human ruler, or at least approved by him, is a work of Satan! If then the Son of Man does not do the will of this city, since He can impossibly do it, what is He then? Oh whore! What kind of bad game are you playing with Me?
[4] Not all who say to Me, "Lord, Lord!" will enter the Kingdom of Heaven, but only those who do the will of My Father in heaven. Matthew 7:21. Thus also the DOMINUS TECUM, the DOMINUS VOBISCUM and the DOMINE EXAUDI ORATIONEM MEAM, thus neither the TECUM, nor the VOBISCUM and least of all the EXAUDI will bring about the Kingdom of Heaven! This is understood, seen from My side. But I think that such things concern only the Lord of the world; for I look only at the works, but not at the DOMINUS TECUM, – VOBISCUM and at the empty EXAUDI!
[5] Who does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother, sister and mother. Matthew 12:50. Thereby it would be much better to say: AMATE FRATRES than ORATE FRATRES, whereby the silently babbled prayer is then regarded as a work of love, but all other love-activity is respected for nothing, except the mere touch of the thumb and forefinger for the ORATE FRATRES! Oh they are, they would be strange mothers and sisters and brothers?! Truly, they are not in any degree of inner kinship with Me!
[6] The one who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. John 14:21. This means: The one who has love and remains faithful and constant in love certainly loves Me and his neighbor; for these are My commandments, that people shall love God above all things and their brothers and sisters as themselves. But how can one brother love another when he is master and judge over him? But how can he even love a person as a brother if he does not first want to recognize and love the great Holy Father? What is without Him one person to another? I say: Nothing but a beast of burden that is supposed to be moral by nature, that is supposed to serve the rich and therefore also the powerful for the worst pay, and this then rules over him, the poor brother, as a lord and judge. But surely such lords and judges do not keep My commandments, just as then
also the beasts of burden that are supposed to be moral, because they are full of anger, full of envy and full of revenge against those who want to be their judges and their perfect masters over life and death. Oh abominations upon abominations! Truly, these shall never see the face of the Father in heaven! And I will never come to them and reveal Myself to them!
[7] In this the Father is honored that you bear much fruit. John 15:8. What is the fruit that is to be multiplied, what does it consist of? The works of love and all humility out of it, are this fruit that is to be brought to Me. But on which tree should this fruit grow, if the tree of love and life belonging to it has dried up from the root and is therefore completely extinct?
[8] This I command you that you love one another (John 13:34), but do not condemn and judge – and then have more joy when a brother, when he has gone astray, falls into a legal punishment, instead of you taking mercy on him and setting him on the right path. Verily, as I would have bid: If one of them robs the other and then beats him to death, such a commandment would surely have found much applause in all activity; but nobody wants to love his brother and sister! Oh you more than evil world! There will be much of the very worst fire needed to loosen you from your hardness!
[9] But if the light that is in you is a purest darkness, how great must your darkness be for itself! Matthew 6:23. That is to say, if a person already loves the wrong thing in order to be able to get all the more free space for his wickedness, how great must the love for evil itself be! Behold, this is the vaunted wisdom of the world, the enlightened rationality: to invent rules so that by them, man would be able to sin all the more freely! But My rule, which is love, is considered to be ridiculous and unworthy of a man who wants to be a perfect pupil of reason, who reproaches love and speaks laudable things about suicide! Oh world! Oh abomination!
[10] Blessed are the peaceable ones, for they shall be called children of God. Matthew 5:9. Where are they now? Certainly not behind the cannons, swords and spears. But where now lives a peaceful people, who lived together in the peace of true brotherly love behind My protective weapons? But where is any peace, there it is only out of fear of the cannons, swords and spears. Oh how few, therefore, live on earth, who would be called righteous children of GOD, how few blissful ones! For all go forth now with weapons, either with weapons in hand, or with a sharp and double- edged tongue! Where are the peaceful, the blessed, the children of God?
[11] If the salt has lost it’s savor, with what should one salt? Luke 14:34; Matthew 5:13. This text in question is especially valid for the present time, when nearly all salt has become stale, numb and stupid by no longer digging it from the mountains of love, but only preparing it from the cesspools of selfishness. But tell Me, what taste will the unripe and untimely fruits of the world get seasoned with this salt? Or doesn't almost every father now let his children be completely salted through and through with these dirty salts because of the independence to be gained once and the bread connected with it? Oh, it is to become for them one day also in My kingdom independence for eternity in great fullness! Also I will therefore know to put them independently and alone by themselves that certainly nothing will ever come close to them. Because I will make them into statues like the wife of Lot and then put them into eternally lonely deserted areas; there they shall keep their salt of independence unimpaired for eternity! Now do you understand the stale salt?! 18th August 1842. Morning. Short written text explanations, continuation
[12] When you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, so that you do not flaunt your fasting before the people. Matthew 6:17. This expressive verse is also especially suitable for this time, in which all kinds of hypocrisy has climbed to the highest peak everywhere. Some run to the churches only to be seen as pious people and to get into grace with one or the other clergyman, others to laze a little in the church, others
again, to meet there in some corner of the church with their appointed lovers and to communicate about one or the other intended opportunity to sin. Others again to slander people with a neighbor or to see what kind of clothes this or that person is wearing. Another goes again because of his sanctimonious relatives, in order to gain their respect, so that they may praise him and sometimes even give him presents. Many a person goes to church in order to counter many a bad suspicion that rests on him. The best one goes at best with half a faith, better superstition, into the house of prayer, to ask for a temporal advantage from Me less often, but still from some saint – but none that he gives Me the honor for! – Yes, there are still many considerations why people run into the prayer houses; only I am least of all the reasons why people run into the prayer houses. Behold, these are all unwashed fasting people and have no anointed head! So people also really fast only out of fear of Rome, but out of love for Me, nobody may fast neither in one nor in the other. No-one wants to truly deny himself, take the cross on his shoulder and follow Me. Everyone therefore wants to only pretend to be, but is not – since pretense is enough for world-service. Then why the arduous existence?! Why the anointing of the head, and why the washing of the face? Because the world is satisfied with pretense! I'm the nobody there, anyway! But the time will soon come for everyone when the unwashed and the unanointed will be separated like chaff from wheat. Then the pretense shall depart from them, and in their nakedness shall they be cast into the fire of the dragon. Understand this well!!!
[13] Judge not, that ye may not be judged! Matthew 7:1. I think that this verse text is now, together with some others, in the book of light and life, just about like a fifth wheel on the wagon! Whoever finds this exaggerated, for instance, should only go through the millions of worldly laws and decrees and then the countless mutual civil considerations, everything that can and even, politically speaking, must be dealt with, judged and condemned before the world’s courts – the fifth wheel of the chariot will become as clear to him as the sun at bright noon. Not to think of other mutual judicial considerations, since one person is a constant judge of the other! Should I then delete such fifth wheels of text from the Scriptures? Oh no, that will not happen; rather heaven and earth shall pass away before I extinguish even a single hook because of the wickedness of man! But one day just such texts will judge mankind and will block it’s way to life; therefore nothing more of the fifth wheel!
[14] The tree is known by its fruit. Matthew 12:33. Also this text now already belongs more into the realm of the fifth wheel on the wagon. You ask: Yes, why then? So listen: It is true, however, that one can only recognize a tree by it’s fruit, whether it is a good or a bad tree. But tell Me, how then can one recognize such a tree, which is barren and bears no fruit? Oho, how are you at a loss for an answer?! Behold, a tree can also be recognized by the leaves; for so I Myself recognized the fruitless fig tree, which was the only one I cursed because it did not bear fruit but only that of the appearance to feed the worms and the mold of the earth! Behold, on this tree is written with iron letters the fate of the now living tepid, fruitless humanity! Understand all such things!
[15] What the heart is full with, his mouth overflows with it. Matthew 12:34. Luke 6:45. Behold, this is the true judge. Only here at this time it can also be asked: From what does the mouth overflow when the heart is completely empty according to the great tepidity of man, who have even become too lazy to sin – through the former too diligent sinning – not to mention that they are even supposed to bear good fruit? See, that is now a completely different question! It also says: According to your works you will be judged. It does not matter; how then will the judgment be on those who have no works at all? I tell you: Everything according to the appearance of the above- mentioned fruitless fig tree; for what is dead, has already been judged, it needs nothing but a curse to destroy all the parasitic plants on the noble fruit trees! Do you understand such things? Oh, yes, you understand it!
[16] Every scribe, taught in the kingdom of heaven, is like a housefather who brings forth from his treasure new and old. Matthew 13:52. Why then? Because it is therefore already founded in My order from eternity that already from every seed grain, both a fresh fruit as well as also again the same seed, as it was sown into the earth before, comes to light – and without the older tree, no new fruit is conceivable. If something is to be created, there must be a cause. So an older word is the reason for a newer one and an older teaching is the reason for a new one, just as a past life is a reason for an afterlife. So understand such things; because according to it My word will be judged in it’s truthfulness whether it has the true old reason! Do you understand such things? Yes, this is what you need to understand most of all for now!
[17] The true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. John 4:23. That is, alive through the works of love! For no-one can say, Our Father, if he does not openly show from his heart, through the works of charity, that he considers all men and women as his brothers and sisters. But he who does the works of love according to this, it is he who worships the Father in spirit and in truth! Understand such things well and even alive, deeply!
[18] The letter kills, but the spirit makes alive. 2 Corinthians 3:6. That is, it is of no use to you knowledge and faith without the deed! What good is a bill of fare to a hungry man? A piece of the most meager bread outweighs for him a whole library full of the richest menus and cookbooks! Therefore, life depends only on the work itself, but not on the empty knowledge of the work. So this is what this verse says!
[19] The truth will set you free. John 8:32. How and when then? – When it becomes a living light in your heart, which originates from the fire of living love! And this light can also only be called truth with the fullest right. But otherwise, every truth that is understood by the mind is like a painted fruit, which is quite beautiful to the eye, but for a hungry stomach, it is pure teasing and as good as a barest lie. Understand it! 19th August 1842. Morning. Short written text explanations, continuation
[20] He who puts his hand to the plough and pulls back, is not deft for the kingdom of heaven. Luke 9:62. The hand is the will, the plough is the word of God, the kingdom of heaven is the loving-working life according to the word. If someone takes the word of God and does half of it, but half of the time he turns it into the secular and says: As long as I live in the world, so long I also have to live with it. Therefore I cannot completely break with it, but for it’s sake I am compelled to go along with many a thing at least for the sake of appearance, so that it does not think this or that of me or even say it aloud! Because you can't make the world different than what it is, and so you have no choice but to do with it what you don't consider to be absolutely bad. For the rest, however, one can still do and think and believe what one wants! Behold, such a thing, however, means to put one's hand to the plough and look pulls back to the world, only not to be crucified by it! But the question is: how will, with such cultivation, the field be tilled for the sowing of the seed of life?! Besides, it is certainly true that pulling the plough back takes much less effort than pushing it forward. But whoever does such things is, as the text says, indeed not deft for the kingdom of heaven; for before you have not returned to the world the last coin that you have borrowed from it, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven! Consider this well and be perfect peasants!
[21] The most serious thing in the law is justice, mercy and faithfulness. Matthew 23:23. Look, this is a main knot, who will untangle it and how? For, strictly speaking, justice and faithfulness that is firmly attached to it, excludes all mercy, for to act justly is nothing other than to act according to the law; while being merciful says to remit someone the law. But how is this to be understood? Be merciful, and you will also obtain mercy? How can someone be merciful and just?
I tell you: Nothing easier than that; If one is righteous to oneself and merciful to one's brother, one lives in the perfect order of God and is therefore perfectly just, merciful and faithful. Such thing is well to be heeded and to be understood in a living way!
[22] Blessed is the servant when the Lord comes and finds him (doing his duty). Luke 12:37. The question here is what kind of duty? Nothing else but alone only My will, which there exists only and alone only in the commended love; which is then prayed alive in spirit and in all truth: Thy will be done! Understand this for eternal life!
[23] One puts cider into new hoses, so both are maintained (namely cider and tube). Matthew 9:17. So the living Word can also only enter such hearts, which have become completely new through self-denial. But if it would present itself in the old ungrateful and therefore also rotten hearts, so it would do to them just what the new cider is doing in the old rotten hoses – namely that he tears them apart and then perishes with them himself. For the same reason one should not throw the pearls to the pigs. This should be understood very well.
[24] Wisdom justifies itself with her children. Matthew 11:19. So it is faithful and true. But they should not concern themselves with this if they are not understood by the world; for the ways of the night are different, and again much different are those of the day. He who walks by day knows where he is going; but the guests of the night run around like lunatics and nobody knows why and where. Therefore let not the day worry about the judgment of the night; for the day justifies the day! Such things you are to also understand quite well.
[25] To him that has, it shall be given that he may have in abundance. Mark 4:25; Matthew 13:12. It almost seems like an injustice, but that is not so. Because it only means: If someone has practiced his small strength and can now carry greater loads, he does not become weaker, but only continually stronger. But who never wanted to exercise his small strength, he will still lose this strength as soon as he will use it to carry a load, however small it may be, and will soon sink exhausted into full death. Thus you also constantly exercise all the powers of the spirit, so it will one day stand in the fullness of the eternal life-power and will even be well able to bear the greatest burdens of My love, favor and mercy on his shoulders. So to him who has, it is given in abundance; but he who has not, will also lose what he had from his foundation. Do you understand such things? Yes, you must understand it well!
[26] John said to Me, "Master, we saw one casting out devils in Your name, but he did not follow us, and we forbade him because he did not follow us. But Jesus spoke: You shall not forbid him: for there is no man that does anything in My name, and may soon speak evil of Me. Luke 9, 49.50. May this text always be your defense against all attacks of the world! Because who is not against Me, he is for Me. You do understand this? Only one thing is necessary and that one thing is My salt and My peace in you! Understand it all well, Amen. This say I, Jesus, always faithful and truthful. Amen, Amen, Amen.