Gifts of Heaven · Volume 3 · Chapter 504

Against doubt and melancholy

17th September 1856

[1] Tell the young friend C. through these few lines that I let him say it faithfully and now say to him Myself: Banish everything that reminds you of your childhood, as if you could insult Me by some sin, in the end even by the so-called sinful thoughts, which often come on it's own volition and likewise go again.

[2] Have I then ever written a register of sins like did Ignatius of Loyola and imposed it on people to strictly observe? Only the love of God and likewise of neighbor I command, and all that is contrary to that, is forbidden. But surely this cannot displease anybody, but can only excuse him quite blissfully.

[3] But I will not create a man in order to pour out My wrath on him, but to say to all: Come to Me, all of you who are in any way labored and burdened, for I want to refresh you all!

[4] Just think thoroughly about it, and let go also the last spark of your Roman death-sin thoughts, and you will never again fall into melancholy, but will always be perfectly cheerful. He who truly knows and loves Me can certainly never become too sad even in the most bitter earthly moments; for many of the most conspicuous proofs must after all already have convinced him that I have never left unsatisfied and unblest him who has – always and vividly true in his love – turned to Me for whatever is truly good and useful for him.

[5] But you find all your occasional doubts solved anyway in John(*1); do read quite intently in it, because there I inform you as My youngest and therefore dearest children of everything anyway, which I Myself have not yet communicated to the archangels – except Raphael, who later, however, also took on the flesh.

[6] Be cheerful in My name, for I, your true Father full of love, thus will it for you, and do not fear the Roman sins. Amen.

Footnote (*1) The great gospel of John – Jakob Lorber