The Grossglockner

Deutscher Text [Gr.01_003,01] You have already heard much about the usefulness of our Grossglockner and think the account of it almost complete. You may well ask yourselves, ‘What further use can such a mountain have in the natural world, besides all we have heard?’ [Gr.01_003,02] That is a good question, for it expresses a great…

Deutscher Text [Gr.01_004,01] We have yet to answer the third part of the question: why are mountains of unequal height? This third reason itself has three principal grounds. First, the high peaks must draw the upper region of air into motion around the earth. If there were too many such high mountains, too much of…

Deutscher Text [Gr.01_005,01] From the earlier communications you will already have gained enough light to see that all matter in itself is simply a thought from me made firm by my will. [Gr.01_005,02] On that principle our Grossglockner is neither more nor less than any other matter. [Gr.01_005,03] What difference is there, then, between the…

Deutscher Text [Gr.01_006,01] Recall some of the other things I have revealed to you about nature, particularly the origin of the animal world. You will soon understand why our mountain was called a large and remarkable almshouse in the introduction. [Gr.01_006,02] Souls and spirits still very much attached to earthly things generally remain in the…

Deutscher Text [Gr.01_007,01] In yesterday’s communication you heard that release follows the eventual captivity. If the spirits brought to reflection and calm have entirely reformed, they are either admitted to the spirits of peace at the lower level or given a new period of freedom. Pay particular attention to where the spirits left to exercise…

Deutscher Text [Gr.01_008,01] The third kind of spirits must itself be divided into three kinds, a lower, a middle and a higher kind. [Gr.01_008,02] The lower kind comprises the spiritual beings that inhabit the mountains and watch over the metals, sources of water, rock and soil within them. These spirits in turn fall into three…

Deutscher Text [Gr.01_009,01] To see clearly what the part concerning the gospel is about, you must become a little more familiar with the shape of such mountains. [Gr.01_009,02] It is helpful to climb such mountains yourselves as far as practicable, or at least to look carefully at good pictures of them. If you attend to…

Deutscher Text [Gr.01_010,01] The other benefits are these. Every mountain, by itself and in connection with others, and especially a glacier like our Grossglockner, is continually a preacher of love and a prophet of wisdom. [Gr.01_010,02] You will say, ‘That may be so, but how can we hear a mountain preach love and wisdom?’ [Gr.01_010,03]…

Deutscher Text [Gr.01_011,01] What else do the mountains teach and preach? [Gr.01_011,02] Any open-minded climber can see it at first glance and hear quite clearly in their own feelings words that might run as follows. [Gr.01_011,03] ‘Look at us, dust-laden pilgrim on earth. See how freely and independently we gaze from our high summits into…

Deutscher Text [Gr.01_012,01] What else do the mountains preach and teach? [Gr.01_012,02] We shall hear this too in a short and simple story. Listen, then. [Gr.01_012,03] A very devout man had long wondered whether it might be possible, even for a moment in this world, to share in the great grace of seeing me. He…