Gifts of Heaven · Volume 3 · Chapter 480

An anti-Christian scripture

20th June 1849

Request from Jakob Lorber: – about a work published in Leipzig by Kollmann in 1849, titled "Historically important revelation about the manner of Jesus' death", according to a manuscript of a contemporary of Jesus found in Alexandria; and – about the refutation of the aforementioned brochure printed in Weimar and written by Dr. Wohlfarth zu Kirchhasel

[1] So write then! The first is a speculation by the poets and booksellers, who are now running out of ideas of inventing something attractive with which they could make their purse, which has become rather airy, a little less airy again.

[2] And the second is a fruit of the same content. There is no kernel in it. And so he who calls and says "Lord, Lord!" I do not know him. And there is one Judas like another. For both work, betray and advise for money!

[3] The first one says: "Brother B. I will now send a small anti-christian speculation into the world, which will be eagerly bought and read by thousands. But you then immediately write a counter- illumination, which will then also be bought and read just as eagerly. The sale will give us a round sum, with which we can then undertake something greater. Maybe we will even experience several editions. Then, little brother, Victory! High! Then, I tell you, we will talk to the publishers in a very different way!

[4] And B. then says quite pleasantly about A's good idea: "Brother, the idea is very good, but where will you get the material from so that you can show the world something that seems to be believable?"

[5] Says then A.: "You need not worry about that, you know how I am smeared with all ointments. Look here, at the flea market I bought for a few pennies a Rousseau, a Helvetius, a Dr. Strauß and the whole Hegel. You have the Dr. Barth and Hess. So the devil was to be the cause of all this, if one could not get an anti-christian pamphlet out of these authors. And look here, I already have a perfect sketch!"

[6] B. is now completely calm and helps A. And just as A.'s work leaves the press, A. then helps B. work on the counter illumination.

[7] See, this, in short, is how such wonderful little works come about, that they do not cause much work and expense and that they can also be sold for a cheaper and therefore more attractive price.

[8] This is how your two "little miracles" came about, and therefore neither one nor the other is of any use. Because the whole thing is speculative money-fencing!

[9] The first will not turn away from Me a spirit that has been awakened even to a certain extent, being too miserable and stupid and shallow. Because every one of My true confessors knows from which source he has to draw the fullest truth and what in a person's heart forms and represents the most irrefutable proof of My divinity in a living and contemplative manner.

[10] But he who is not Mine through love and through works according to My word, for him there is then also no conviction, neither inwardly nor outwardly, and neither pro nor contra. For such people are like dust and clouds that go where the wind goes. They have no independence and therefore also no deeper and more serious judgment about the events of this world. Nor do they have a spirit, and therefore they cannot judge of which spirit-child a product comes forth from. For this reason they soon and easily accept something if it suits their senses. But in a few days, all is smoky again. And then many hardly know that and what they have actually read.

[11] But for this reason also a refutation is quite unnecessary for such people.

[12] Now there you have a right illumination of your two little books. And I grant you one more effort to write something against it. For these little enemies do not cause us the least harm, but rather a benefit. And therefore we let them live! Amen.