The Twelve Hours

The Twelve Hours – Fourth Hour

Deutscher Text [MEr.01_004,001] Now look at the screen. Here is another picture. There is nothing to see but wave upon wave, each surge driving the next. I need only tell you that this picture is a small part of the Atlantic Ocean. In this fourth hour we shall spend a little time on this great…

The Twelve Hours – Fifth Hour

Deutscher Text [MEr.01_005,001] Now that we have been sailing about at sea, let us board one of these slave ships and, with a very favourable wind, sail to North America. [MEr.01_005,002] Look, that green strip beginning to come into view is a familiar stretch of the east coast of North America. [MEr.01_005,003] See how it…

The Twelve Hours – Ninth Hour

Deutscher Text [MEr.01_009,001] Now that we have travelled through the south of the Earth and you have seen its conditions, inwardly, mind you, more than outwardly, let us return to the northern hemisphere and, as already mentioned, pay a short visit to the island state of Japan. [MEr.01_009,002] As you already know, we shall need…

The Twelve Hours – Tenth Hour

Deutscher Text [MEr.01_010,001] Now that we have taken a brief look at foreign peoples with regard to their moral observances, let us turn to our home ground. I call it home because you were born there, but chiefly because it is on this ground that I am best known through Christianity, fragmented and wholly degenerate…

The Twelve Hours – Eleventh Hour

Deutscher Text Scribes: K. G. L. – F. S. – Andr. and Ans. H. [MEr.01_011,01] You have read the story of the prodigal son in My book, in the Gospel of Luke, chapter 15. You will have read and heard it more than once. But I tell you that in the whole book there is…

The Twelve Hours – Twelfth Hour

Deutscher Text The Great Man of Creation and His Return 25 March 1841, from four in the afternoon until a quarter past eight in the evening. Scribes: K. G. L. – F. S. – Andr. and Ans. H. [MEr.01_012,01] In the eleventh hour we followed the prodigal son from his rise to his decline and…

The Twelve Hours – Twelfth Hour (continued)

Deutscher Text 25 March 1841 (continued) [MEr.01_013,01] You have heard that the rags of the prodigal son were scattered by the winds like chaff, and that those which remained were taken off him and burnt. Do you know what is meant by these rags? [MEr.01_013,02] They mean the former universal man on our screen, who…

The Twelve Hours – First Hour

Deutscher Text [MEr.01_001,001] In the supposedly better and educated world, where the Christian religion in particular is widely practised in various denominational forms, morality is generally preached in whatever way best serves the political interests of those in power, whether in worldly or ecclesiastical affairs. [MEr.01_001,002] The people are given a bleak idea of God.…

The Twelve Hours – Second Hour

Deutscher Text [MEr.01_002,001] Look here at this screen. See, the land spread out before you is Asia. Look at its peoples, every one of them wrapped in the thickest spiritual veil, running to and fro and sending forth nothing but lament upon lament from their hollow breasts. [MEr.01_002,002] Here there is nothing to be found…

The Twelve Hours – Third Hour

Deutscher Text [MEr.01_003,001] Now look here. You will surely recognise the land that appears before your eyes on the white screen. It is Africa. Look at it carefully. It is no map, I tell you, but a faithful image of the land itself. [MEr.01_003,002] See the northern coasts here. See ancient Egypt here in the…