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Healing of the blind at Bethsaida
20th July 1847
Mark 8:22-26
[1] I know only too well how much this somewhat dilatory healing of the blind man of Bethsaida has become and will remain a stumbling block for many. But I also know why and for what reason I treated this blind man in this way, for an eternal testimony against the wicked world. But this is only to bump against itself, not only in this world, but in still a thousand other places, so that it should break.
[2] Here "Bethsaida" represents the outermost "world" in which one was blind to the world. But this very blindness to the world was the reason why this one who was blind to the world noticed that I came to Bethsaida, and asked those who saw the world that they might bring him to Me, so that I might heal him and give him back the light of the world.
[3] But since, in accordance with full freedom of will, everyone can have from Me what he wants – poison and balm, as they occur on earth, so this one too could have what he wanted. He initially wanted the world's light, therefore I led him outside the place and there spat in his eyes as a sign of My righteous disgust for the world and it's light, but also laid My hands on him as a sign that he, like everyone in the world, is in the power of My hands, whether he notices it or not, and has a share in My grace and mercy, one way or another, i.e. either for heaven or, if he prefers, also just for the world!
[4] For this very reason I did not immediately let this single blind man of Bethsaida become world- seeing at once, but only as if through a veil, and then asked him whether he saw anything. And he who was blind to the world looked up in the world and spoke: "I see people walking like trees!"
[5] This statement became a sign and testimony of how worldly people look according to their inner nature, and what they are after, namely: they look like walking trees that no longer have any life, since their roots are no longer in any earth that they could get food, but hang in the air – because they have let themselves be torn from the earth of My love, wisdom, and order by the hurricanes of their worldly sense and their worldly passions, and uprooted it completely!
[6] Since the world-blind man through this confession gave the world a true testimony in the face of Me and My brothers and became aware in himself what is in the world and it's light, I now out of true grace and mercy laid My hands on him again so that he should see what he saw only as if through a veil, also in full clarity. And that is why I therefore also no longer spat on his eyes as a sign that real, true sight into the world is pleasant for Me, according to which the world can no longer catch such a truth-seer in it's thousand times a thousand snares unto eternal ruin.
[7] Through this pure act of grace of the laying on of hands without any previous support, the blind man was first completely restored. But when he was restored, I spoke to him: "Go now into your house," that is, into the house of your spirit, of your inner life. But if you go out to the village, i.e., if you have something to do in the world, let it not be noticed that you now contemplate it out of Me in it's true hellish light, so that you may have peace from it and it cannot do you any harm. This is the friendly prohibition: "and tell no man, but keep it within you." For the time of the expansion of My kingdom in the world has not yet come, for the reason that the world is still "world" and remain in itself forever!
[8] Behold now, then, this evangelical fact is to be understood and does not permit any other interpretation except a purely heavenly one, according to which the world-blind person is the soul of man, the village of Bethsaida his body, and the house of the world-blind person, his own spirit – and this under correspondingly alike conditions.
[9] But since I have now revealed this weighty picture to you, so understand it indeed! For you know it that knowledge alone is of no use to anyone, but only action. Therefore, first of all, always do accordingly immediately as you have done up to now. For behold, the world still remains like the town of Bethsaida. Therefore everyone abstains from it in everything and do not be known that you know it in it's true form, so that you does not get any harm from it, neither bodily nor much less spiritually! I, the true eye Doctor, say this to you forever! Amen.