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Dangerous situation
4th April 1848
Oh Lord, You always eternally best, truest and most loving Father of all people and angels! You, the only almighty ruler of all beings, of all things, of all worlds and suns! You see and have already planned from eternity how things on earth now take shape. Here it looks terribly dark and threatening. One rebellion gives the hand to the next, lawlessness increases from hour to hour, in that all means are taken away from the lawful upholders of the law to maintain the very laws by which order is conditioned. What are we then, who have always kept to You and want to and will forever keep to You alone, and will do now in Your most holy name? Where shall we flee to like a plumb line, when You will visit this wretched city with judgment, because it seems to have fallen away from You completely? Oh Father! We all implore You in our hearts, give us poor sinners a counsel, a holy hint! We want to do everything with all our strength, whatever Your most holy will wants to show us. Oh Father! Forgive us our sins as we forgive all our insulters and enemies, and lead us not into the temptations of hell, but deliver us from all evils!
[1] Write! How this time is constituted and what people now think, strive for and do, I know – and also know what I will do, as I have already predicted to you many times before, and you therefore also know what will come when the stupid and blind people of this city will also pass over into decided wickedness, from which they are now really not more than a hair's breadth away.
[2] But if that will shortly come over this city as well as over other no less bad places and cities of these as well as of other provinces – namely, an abomination of desolation, flee either to Carinthia or also in this your country at least eight to ten miles(*1) far from this city, either to Unter- or Obersteier, and you will then certainly find lodging there for a moderate rent. But I do not want to show you a specific place because in every place there live free-will people who can be like this today and different tomorrow. It is enough for you that I want to and will protect you there, where you in the meantime want to move, from all evil. But you must be ready to leave here any day; for if I say to you to go tomorrow, do not wait until the third day! Put therefore now all your things in good and right order.
[3] But for your sake and for the sake of some others in this city I will still admit seven to fourteen days for the improvement and return to My order in the sense of the Roman Church, which at present calls them to repentance. But if this city will not all turn away from it – which you will easily see and recognize – then I will hardly set the above date once more, and you will thereby see that the time for departure is at the door.
[4] But now still some so-called spectacles will certainly occur, which, however, are not to frighten you all too much because I am with you after all; otherwise you might fare like Peter when he came to Me over the troubled sea.
[5] Also do not be afraid when you would have to leave here, but do everything joyfully and in firm trust in Me, there we will soon and easily find a place that will be good for us for a time. But my servant is with you anyway, through whom I can speak to you hourly, in writing and orally, for your present needs – as no less also through your own hearts, if you want to wait there for My words. And so you can be quite unconcerned, since I am therefore doubly with you every hour!
[6] But dear brother André, who is now following his family to Vienna, should not stay too long in this city with his family; for it will soon look quite strange there, since no-one will know who is the master, the cook, and the waiter. Especially so also this city in it's high and domineeringly evil delusion will continue as up to now and will do nothing or little on the upper side and demand too much and too foolishly on the lower side, which is very much in prospect, since no party can now
conduct itself moderately anymore. The property in Lower Styria, Merlhof, should be a safe asylum for him, as well as for you the first, possibly necessary moment, from where the safe path leads to Carinthia – the safest country in this realm – although it will not get through without excesses.
[7] None of you should trust Vienna, because strange things will happen there! I tell you this in confidence: Here I stand for nothing that can happen from today to tomorrow! For this city is now outlawed by Me, as was the city of the French. Do you understand that?! Therefore, for the time being, let every man prepare himself for everything! It may rise mightily if it recognizes it's time, but it may also fall deeply if it does not recognize it's time! That to your secret knowledge and according action! Finally, however, I now recommend My servant to you as always. Do not forget him, and I will not forget yours, and will replace you many times what you do and can do for him; for in worldly respect, he really has nothing apart from his music. My blessing to you all. Amen, Amen.