Gifts of Heaven · Volume 2 · Chapter 312

A personal word about lukewarm daughters

Supplement of an epilogue from summer 1843.

[1] Listen well! What compels your heart to a little disapproval, has already since the concert on the second floor accomplished My complete farewell, because previously My great disapproval!

[2] See, thus the better people are against Me! I wanted to make them temporally and eternally as happy as possible, and therefore I have already proved them great benefits and made the most reliable promises. But because I did not give what I have promised already the next day, they seek to compensate themselves.

[3] But let us leave them their vainly foolish world-joy, let us leave them their evening walks, which now are much dearer to them than when they have to listen to My living word every now and then, as our friend A. H. W. reads it to them. Let us leave them their Roman – but to Me above all hostile – priest-love, and also the love of such, who bring them such priests under all kinds of friendship pretexts.

[4] Understand Me – but both of us will pretty far retreat on this occasion with our grace and love and our blessing. And the consequence will then already teach them, and they will recognize, if already too late, what exchange they have made and Who has left them in both of us.

[5] Behold, I and you have therefore become to jealous T-N, because we have dared ourselves to make some unfavorable remarks to the certain ones! But from now on we want to refrain from this and leave them entirely to their sense of the world and their desire to marry – but that we will not be present at such weddings, you can be sure of that.

[6] So far I have advised A. H. W. that he would read My Word to them. He also did it honestly. But from now on I no longer advise him this, because his older daughters secretly think it is only a silly poem from you and no longer respect it, and even listen to it with a quiet aversion.

[7] If they will not approach us in the most eager way, we will leave them as they are, and will not care about them in the least. For they listen to My Word sleepy and bored; but they are more cheerful and lively in the company of those who are pleasing to them. Therefore we let them go, and we do not want to have anything to do with them, so that we no longer appear before them as jealous T-n and Fadians (*)! Do you understand me? So let it be, Amen.

Footnote (*) Fadian: humoristic Austrian word for boring people