NEUOFFENBARUNG← The Childhood and Youth of Jesus · Part 1 · Contents
The lovely interaction between the girl and the Infant. The dangers of the holy secret. The salvation and effusive happiness of the girl. 20 December 1843
01] The girl promptly went over to the Infant and said: 02] "O what a remarkable Prodigy You are!
03] Yes, you are the same radiant Infant who appeared in my wonderful dream, He who the mother had bathed and whose very same bathwater gave me my eyesight!
04] Yes, yes You divine Infant! – You gave me my eyesight; You are my Saviour; You are the true Apollo of Delphi!
05] Indeed, in my heart now, You already mean more than all the gods of Rome, Greece and Egypt!
06] What a lofty divine Spirit must reside in You, who has already untied Your tongue so soon and who reveals Himself through You in such a salutary and mighty way!? –
07] Hail to you, people of the earth, who live together with me in great darkness and misery!
08] Here is the sun of the heavens, which will give all of you blind people your eyesight back just like it happened to me!
09] O Rome! You mighty conqueror of the earth, look, here in front of me smiles the Hero who will turn you into a heap of rubble!
10] He will place His standard over your walls and you shall be buried; like chaff scattered in a storm, so too will you be blown away!"
11] The Infant offered the girl His hand and demanded to go to her.
12] And the girl took Him with tremendous joy and cuddled and caressed Him.
13] The Infant played with the girl's rich strands of hair and said to her softly:
14] "My dear sister, do you really believe the words which you spoke in front of Me when I was still in My brother's arms?"
15] And the girl replied equally softly to the Infant: 16] "Yes my Saviour, my Light, my first morning Sun! – and now that You have asked me about it I believe it all the more strongly!"
17] To which the Infant replied: "It is good for you, that in your heart you believe what you said!
18] But I tell you, for the time being keep nothing more secret than this, your confession of faith!
19] For never has the enemy of all life pricked up his ears as much as now!
20] Therefore keep silent about Me, and do not betray Me if you care not to be killed by this enemy forever!"
21] And the girl promised this most emphatically, and as she caressed the Infant she became so perfectly and youthfully pretty, that everyone around was amazed thereat; and the girl could hardly help herself out of sheer bliss; so blissful was she, that the started to coo and whoop with joy.