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Blessed mountain ascension
15th July 1847
On request of Marie and Wilhelmine Hüttenbrenner, regarding the ascent of the mountain Schöckel:
[1] Going up mountains is all well and good, but not at any time! And whoever wants to have a benefit for body, soul, and spirit from the ascent of a mountain, must do it in My name, and on the mountain truly pray to Me with all his heart and give Me alone the honor. So I will bless him and make him so that he is guarded on high only by the purest spirits, whereby then his body, soul and spirit will be exhilarated beyond measure and triply strengthened.
[2] But it must also be at the right time, as already mentioned above. The proper time is the half the month of September and from there on to half the month of October; and in spring from half the month of May to half the month of June. At this time the purest spirits draw to the heights and bless all that is there in My name.
[3] But before and after this time, as for example in winter or in high summer, it is not good and advisable to climb the mountains. First of all, because there on the heights usually only the unclean spirits have their existence and all sorts of secret, bad intentions and take great pleasure in accusing someone of some kind of lack. And secondly, because at that time the heights are not in My blessing and therefore the wanderer and visitor is like a stepmother to her stepchildren!
[4] But if any man is of a very pious mind, and has business to do on any mountain, let him go up in the night, and go back when the sun is set – and hurry neither up nor back and pray to Me several times, so it will not matter to him if he goes to the mountain heights also in summer or in winter. But of course, the people who will get away with it are those who anyway live on the mountains at all times.
[5] But people who live in low-lying towns and villages should not visit the heights of the mountains except at the above-mentioned two favourable times, except in an urgent case, and then only under prayer and righteous fasting, i.e. moderately filled stomachs – Otherwise they will at least get a disease for the body, which will always show itself in a quarter of a year and cause the flesh much trouble.
[6] Severe rheumatism, gout, toothache, sore throat and often nerve-fever are the usual consequences of an untimely mountain ascent. In women's rooms, also pneumonia, inflammation in lungs and bloodstream. It goes without saying that the soul and spirit gain little or nothing from this.
[7] Everyone can, however, in the time unfavorable for ascending higher mountains, to go up smaller and lower mountains with much benefit. However, they must not be much higher than three hundred fathoms, because what is above, belongs already to the alpine world which, in the above- mentioned times of My special blessing, is even higher up, completely exposed.
[8] Here you have the rules, how and when to climb and travel the mountains with benefit! But if someone, for whatever secondary reason, wants to go on this or that already considerably high mountain, even at the times designated as unfavorable, he must ascribe it to himself, if he, at least for his own body, collects some subsequent sufferings.
[9] But as I said, already accustomed mountain climbers can probably dare it at all times: it will do them little, especially when they walk in My name. But if they are pure nature-people (*1), then they are close to the same level as the mountain-spirits anyway. And there, like and like gladly joins and rarely damages each other with anything more than that such wanderers either get gray hair early or sometimes even become bald.
[10] But now people move alone by their understanding of the world and have completely freed themselves from the old wisdom, they also no longer know anything about the old order of things and do what they want and how and when it is most convenient and seems good to them. For here no-one asks any more for My time, but only for his own. And no-one asks whether it would be pleasing to Me – but everyone is satisfied with what pleases himself, and he does this and that, as it suits him, his time, and his company.
[11] For this reason, however, from year to year more and more and new evils, physical and spiritual, arise among the people, and the doctors do not have a prescription for them!
[12] Therefore do what you want – but do not forget Me and My time!
[13] I do not forbid you in the least to go to your intended mountain at this still very inconvenient time. And if you go, it will not be accounted as sin to you either, just as little as someone who goes into the open air, will have hail fall from the clouds. But as you I cannot make July into September, so I cannot change My time and order!
[14] Now you know enough and can do what you want without fear of conscience. But whether your body gets a "heap of blows," so to speak in the process – that I will not care too much about. Amen. This says the One who has His time and order in all things. Amen.
Footnote (*1) People connected only with nature, not with God (i.e. Hsg.)