NEUOFFENBARUNG← The Childhood and Youth of Jesus · Part 2 · Contents
Analogical and explanatory hints about the nature of comets. 5 June 1844
01] Here Jonathan began to think deeply but was totally unable to come up with a sensible idea.
02] Naturally, the Infant realized at once that Jonathan could not see the correlation between the heavenly comet and the milk bowl comet.
03] He therefore sat up and spoke to Jonathan:
04] "My dear Jonathan! See, what is occurring within you is the same as that which you saw in the image of the milk bowl comet!
05] A big bowl full of milk represents your heart, whereby the milk represents your love.
06] But there is now an enormous swarm of midges, flies and mosquitoes just above that milk bowl.
07] And the shape of this swarm gives rise to your highly ridiculous thoughts on the similar nature of the two comets.
08] Oh – friend Jonathan! – Who could seriously consider the core of a heavenly comet to be a milk bowl and the tail a swarm of flies?!
09] These are only analogies but not completely natural similarities!
10] Do you really know what an analogy is? – What is a bowl, what is the milk inside the bowl and what is the swarm of flies and mosquitoes?
11] See, you do not understand this; so listen to me, and I will tell you something about it!
12] The bowl represents a vessel to receive substances that are linked to the nourishing life force from Me.
13] Milk is a substance that can carry the nourishing life force within itself to an extremely high degree.
14] The life force in the midges, flies and mosquitoes is freely active;
15] but if they are not nourished with a reasonably nourishing life force, they soon get weak and cannot develop towards a higher and more perfect level.
16] Now look, the heavenly comet is nothing more than a newly-created developing world!
17] The core is the vessel to receive the nourishing life force from Me.
18] This life force is warmed up by a fire, which is also created from the life force given by Me, thereby dissolving into nourishing vapour.
19] However, so that this vapour with a more developed life force does not evaporate, thereby depriving the new celestial body of this life force,
20] they are absorbed into innumerable monads (tiny ether animals) and carried by these to the newly-forming celestial body towards a more perfect development.
21] Look, that is the corresponding similarity between the heavenly comet and our milk bowl comet!
22] Do not investigate further into this matter, so that your love will not be weakened by your investigation!"
23] Many others also heard this explanation, but none understood it; however, many believed that it must be so.