NEUOFFENBARUNGDeutscher Text · Volume contents
[01] After this speech of Danel, several youth and women came together and directed the following speech at Danel, saying:
[02] "Learned and highly respectable colleagues of our men and fathers! We have listened to your speech with rapt attention and have found some aspects of your words as true and good, but some are also incomprehensible!
[03] We ask you, therefore, what is the meaning of the drop of poison in the ten buckets of water and vice versa with one drop of water in ten buckets of poison, and in what way are we allowed to gather in the name of God! Enlighten us about these two main points so that we can understand them!"
[04] And Danel at once collected all his wits and said: "Thus listen to me; with the grace of the Lord which radiates brightly from His sanctuary over there to me, I want to make it as clear as the sun shines on the brightest midday to you, which of course does not shine now because it is covered by the densest masses of smoke which gushes from burning mountains!
[05] You are vessels from the still healthy, living water which there is your life from God; but the gatherings are the poison for your living spirit, and the reason for this is that during the same you forget God more and more through all sorts of silly gossiping and chinwag and let yourself be sweet stupidly honor mostly at the expense of a shameful humiliation and defamation of other, mostly harmless people – and also through all manner of silly and your laughter tickling games; and in the end in your often excited haughtiness thrill you are beginning to think that the whole world is just there for you and as if the salvation of the whole world depends on your chit- chat!
[06] See, that is against all neighborly love, therefore against the divine order and therefore a poison for the life of your spirit, which originally has been breathed into you as a healthy, living water of God!
[07] One drop of this poison which is the even so small and harmless appearing visits in the name of the world in you – easily poisons the healthy spirit, so that it becomes powerless in your soul and thereby your soul is stimulated to become haughtiness trigger sensitive and begins more and more to seek ways to find the right recognition of its sublimity!
[08] And the soul does all this because, according to the paralysis of the poisoned spirit in her, it is lacking a ladder to get up and in the end sees itself as the ruling principle of life, but which is in the highest degree an erroneous perception based on a secret but nevertheless all important reason, namely, that our souls as living substances of our bodies are from underneath, and only the spirit is from above to redeem the fallen soul from its old slag during the time of this earthly life!
[09] Such can only happen through the grace of God, provided we do not do everything possible to destroy our spirit, but to arrange our lives according to the holy will of Him who has given us the spirit as an uttermost present forever.
[10] I think that it has been sufficiently clearly shown what is the meaning of a drop of poison in ten healthy buckets of water!
[11] But what regards the contrary, it is only too clear then to waste too many words about it! Once a person is completely spoiled, will one word of truth better him?!
[12] As little as you can extinguish a raging fire with a drop of water, nor will a good admonition bring back a worldly corrupt person! Go to a burning mountain and extinguish the fire with a drop of water, if you can do it!
[13] I already have sprinkled many healthy drops of living water on you; but your old passion is still blazing, and I do not regard it as extinguished, and it still will take quite a mighty downpour over you until your great foolishness is extinguished! – I mean, this has been spoken clearly enough?!
[14] But with regard to fair visits in the name of God, it is actually abundantly clear then for me to make many words about it!
[15] Thus take careful note of what I have said to you, and it will by itself become clear how we should visit each other in the name of God! Understand this well in the name of Him, whose grace allowed me to speak to you! Amen."