Secrets of Creation · Chapter 07 · Typhoon, or Giant Waterspouts in the Pacific Ocean (February 19, 1871)

Chapter 07

Typhoon, or Giant Waterspouts in the Pacific Ocean (February 19, 1871)

01] Your brother has asked you for a spiritual explanation of the storm which his friend almost fell victim to in the Pacific Ocean.

02] I am well aware of your brother's desire to draw this friend into the realm of your faith and doctrine of life.

03] The wish is worthy of all honor, and it would also be pleasant for Me too if it were fulfilled; but the realization is not as easy as your brother believes.

04] I have already told you many times that men who are not afflicted by misery or other sad circumstances and who are not admonished to turn their backs on worldly joys and interests are difficult to win for My kingdom. They are accustomed to carrying a cross on their shoulders, however light it might be.

05] The admonitions, which I sometimes send them through dangers and misfortunes, but from which they always happily escape because it is My will, have only a momentary influence on them and their impressions are immediately forgotten, like the suffering in the bed of a sick person after the establishment of health.

06] So it is with your brother's friend: This friend, probably endowed with a noble heart, as you would say, and with cosmopolitan views, has also experienced many things, where the other world or the transition into it was very close to him; he has also in those moments, pressed by the circumstances, thought of me; But, the danger passed - and I was set aside again, as the Chinese (where he has now been) do with their household gods, to whom they only grant the place of honor in the house when they need the help of such a God; if what one wanted is achieved, the God will be put down again, locked into a dark chamber and can wait there until another difficult matter brings him out of his hiding place. Your brother wants to win this friend for me, so he judges, but whether his friend wants to be won over is another matter!

07] Your brother asks for the spiritual explanation of a "typhoon" or " whirlwind" or a "giant waterspout" as you call it, what it should have meant spiritually in relation to his friend.

08] Well, that is settled immediately with two words: Spiritually this storm wants to show: the powerless of men and My omnipotence; here you have its spiritual explanation and meaning.

09] But as far as your brother's friend personally is concerned, this storm, as well as many other things that this friend experienced was only a spiritual hint that there is still someone above all science and intelligent calculation who knows how to produce the greatest effects by simple means.

10] Behold, this friend has now almost circumnavigated the whole world; he has seen many countries and people, other animals, plants and flowers, has breathed in a different air than yours and through this he has influenced his inner self; Wherever he stood and went, I have guided him and given him many instructive signs of My existence; only he was too busy with his mission (with earthly things) to be able to hear the spiritual voice within him.

11] But now that he returns to his domestic flock, greets his children and his wife again, now there are many things to be done to kill the time, as you would say, all events experienced will be regarded as natural and are also explained in such a way, which generally helps to increase the pride of a returnee of long journeys because he has overcome these dangers; the spiritual warnings and signs that lie in such moments are the least appreciated and even less understood.

12] After all, there is so much spirituality in a person's life that he does not understand that such moments do not have to be counted, where the intrusion of another world with such grandeur or other important events has merged with human life! How often do I remind My children, and how little do they understand My admonitions and think it is just a game of chance.

13] But your brother would like to know in detail what this storm in the Pacific Ocean means, where his friend with his ship was in danger for days to be hurled out of earthly life and falling into eternal oblivion a few days afterwards.

14] I have said it before, it was only a sign of human powerlessness against My omnipotence; it was a hint showing how little the calculation of the journey, the crossing of the winds or the current of the water helps when I, for example, as it happened there, let the steering wheel break.

15] What does that mean spiritually? It wants to say spiritually: what good is all self-confidence when the main factor, the trust in Me is missing!

16] Of course, in danger I am then called upon to help, but earlier I would have been superfluous; the man, proud of his little science and boasting of himself, overlooking abysses and dangers, daring to do everything as if he had no need of a higher spirt and was self-sufficient.

17] It is precisely to minimize this self-conceit that I send such unforeseen natural events, and let men without them knowing it, approach great natural phenomena, where again great processes necessary for the welfare of the earth are taking place, in order to make men feel their nothingness and at least to show for moments that they are not the masters of the world, but that only I am the Lord!

18] Your friend felt the same way, he came too close to one of those great whirlwinds (These waterspouts there stretch hundreds, often thousands of miles in area.), which in the Pacific ocean precedes a great spawn of nature spirits, where just in the middle of the calm Pacific Ocean, from where the moon was once separated from the earth in the same place, these spirits are freed from their captivity, and pass into the lighter, flowing air, in order to be allowed to continue their further development there; there they congregate, and where the conical air column with pure nature spirits descends, in order to gradually take the lower ones into their realm, a water mountain rises up, also conically shaped, impregnated with these nature elements.

19] The greedy sucking up from above and the rapid pushing of water from below causes a circular movement, which then becomes more and more violent as the urge to rise increases and the ascent from below accelerates, like a whirlwind then pulls over the wide expanse of the sea and draws everything into this whirling dance, which it encounters on its way.

20] Figuratively, this event resembles the whirling dance of life and the people who are carried away in it; they too are drawn into this circle of interests and desires, cannot come to a proper consciousness; one event pushes the other, regions, landscapes, countries, everything flees past them like the people who inhabit them; all vices, all virtues, customs and traditions so completely give the form of a "typhoon" or whirlwind in spiritual relation to these passing travelers that only the mind, as a spiritual helm, maintains the entire power of judgement in case of need, so that it does not get completely lost.

21] That is what I wanted to show the ships passengers when their supposed steering wheel is broken, that they themselves no longer know what they should adhere to. And so your friend and his companions on their ship also broke the steering wheel, and they were exposed to the waves, winds and My will, just as they must, without their common sense, fall prey to all passions and desires on the waves of life and no longer know where their heads are actually standing.

22] When the steering wheel on the ship was broken, they first saw that there was something higher, a higher being, to whom they turned, and silently inside they begged for help. What did that mean? "If in your calculating earthly life you no longer have the power of reason, then descend into your heart, there you will find an abundance of wealth which will also lead you back to the same God whom you have invoked inevitably in the middle of the sea between waves and winds.

23] There seek your peace and your point of reference, if the sense of reason fails, there you will learn that far beyond all calculation and all earthly, transient treasures an even higher one lies hidden there, which will lead you to where you will get to know the actual value of the world and your very self!

24] Your brother now wants to bring his friend, through such a spiritual explanation of the storm in the Pacific Ocean, to the point where he too, now that he has happily sailed through the worldly Great Ocean, in the same way enters the quiet ocean of domestic peace and tranquility, which is more worthy of the name than that great expanse of water where great processes of development are carried out in the earth in silence, but which do not always take place as quietly for humans as the name given to this sea suggests.

25] Your brother would like to tell his friend, when he is back in the circle of his family: “Look, brother, now you have seen and experienced much in the world, and yet with all this seeing and experiencing you have not yet arrived at the source where peace and tranquility dwell and man can rejoice in his spiritual existence and mission.

26] Throughout your stay in foreign countries, you have done much for others and little for yourself; you will also be rewarded and compensated for this in a worldly way; now comes the time of physical rest, a standstill in domestic life where nothing new changes, but other obligations come to you that you owe to your family and children. See, now that the curiosity to see other countries, other peoples is satisfied, now that you, honored by your comrades and appreciated by your monarch, will be sufficiently compensated, now I come, old friend, and would like to give you friendly advice. Behold, those who suffer, have for years been bound only to a room with four walls, at most able to take a little walk in the open air by means of slow movement, behold, the Lord of the great creation, of which you have seen more miracles than I have ever read, this Lord full of grace has opened My heart, has shown Me how much beauty and grandeur is buried there, and now that I have found peace and comfort, even divine bliss through this finding, now the desire is rising in Me to let you, My old friend, enjoy the same thing, and all the more so that you also have children and certainly want to educate them to be men in God's image.

27] Now I am urged to open this way for you, o listen to My words, now that the outside world has left you enough unforgettable impressions, let Me now open your gold mine inside so that you too, who may think and feel the same way with me in so many things, may also agree with Me in this pure, holiest and most exalted point! This is also the reason why, in My simplicity, I asked the Lord to help Me and to express in His words that which is not possible for My weak tongue.

28] Now that we enjoy in our circle this great grace of the Lord's direct communication, take these lines from Him, O friend, to the loving Father who, as He draws us all, wants to welcome you and yours into the circle of worshippers of His Word; let yourself be drawn by Him and you will see that wherever He leads you, the way will not reprove you; for as I and many others can testify to you, this way leads to the only happiness that man can achieve in this world - to the happiness of knowing himself and his Creator as Father!"

29] So if your brother will present to his returning friends your aspiration and My influence into you, then be sure that he will not remain unmoved, and even if he does not become yours immediately, I will make sure that from time to time the impressions of this written word will be refreshed by events, so that he does not forget God and his Father, the God who did not forget him in the turmoil of battle as well as in the cyclone whirlwind, when he called on Him there begging for help, which he also received, which proves his return to the best health.

30] Your brother just has to be patient, trust in me, and the rest will then teach him to what extent his trust was founded or not! Amen.