From Hell to Heaven · Volume 2 · Chapter 266

The bishops’ delusion about sainthood. God alone is good. Dark spirits

1. The two bishops say together, as with one voice, “O Lord, beside him we are certainly nothing at all, for we never had a hard time on earth. But if this son of Your love is a great spirit before You, he will surely forgive us for having shown him far too little honour in our ignorance. We will more than make up for it in future. We only cannot understand how we were found worthy of such grace as to be admitted into the heavenly fellowship of so great a saint. For how great must he be who always walks so close beside You, acts according to Your will and is taught by You in all things!”

2. I say, “You were quite respectable bishops, yet now you talk as if you had spent years being schooled by a pious old woman. Who is a saint with Me? God alone is holy and good. All the rest are brothers and sisters, and the least is always the greatest in My kingdom. Honour belongs to God alone. All others are to understand themselves only in and through love.

3. But let us leave the rest for now, for we have a whole eternity before us for that. By earthly reckoning we have already been here about three hours, and the seventeen prelates are still lying on their faces. They must be helped now, and then we must hurry back to our hill. Some of our earthly friends are there and are now leaving it. But that does not matter. They have still received our blessing, which remains upon the hill. Now then, to the prelates!

4. Rise, you seventeen brothers of Rein Abbey! You have now received new eyes to see the true light and to grasp the truth. Therefore do not turn the new light of your eyes towards the dark ground, but behold the light of all light and understand it!”

5. The seventeen rise and look around in utter astonishment. The primate speaks for them, “Lord, God and Father! Only now do we fully recognise that it is You to whom all heavens and earths bear glorious witness. O Father! What shall we do now to be worthier of Your holy presence?” I say, “From now on, love Me above all things, for your love for Me is your true, eternal life. And love all your brothers and sisters as yourselves, for the love of brothers and sisters is the condition of your blessedness. The more true, active love you show one another, the more blessed you will be!

6. All the heavens, with their blessings beyond number and name, spring from true and mutual love of neighbour, just as all the pains and torments of hell spring from self-love. Were there no self-love, there would be no hell and no war, famine or plague on earth. But because people are full of the most destructive self-love, out of which they themselves have made hell, they must also bear all the evil that springs from self-love and selfishness. I did not make hell.

7. Satan is indeed still the prince of hell, as he was its first founder, but he long ago lost the power to corrupt people, for they have already become his masters. Since people depend on their own free will alone, there are many among them to whom Satan could go to school, especially among the high Roman clergy and the Jesuits, for whom even Satan has respect. Yet such beings call themselves ‘servants of God’. How does that strike you?”

8. The primate says, “Lord! It is dreadful to hear such a thing from Your mouth!” I say, “Yes, indeed. But so it is, and for the time being little can be done about it. Now it is nearly half past five, so let us return to our hill.

9. So be it! Let it come to pass! And look, here we are back on the Reinerkogel. But now a dense cloud is rising above the city, and lighter mists are rising from all its cemeteries. What do you think this means?” They all say, “Lord, we do not know. Explain it to us!”

10. I say, “The black cloud above the city is a gathering of at least ten thousand monks and other clerics who have been in this region for four hundred years and, because of their blindness, could find no way out. There are also some bishops, prelates and provosts among them. We will now give them rafts and send them all downstream to the region of the Black Sea. Here they would begin to cause much harm, for in My personal presence they have grown a little more awake and can see a little better. In the sea they may come to their senses after some hundreds of years, and only then will it be possible to do something with them. The light wisps of mist above the cemeteries, however, contain very poor, sick souls who thirst for healing. They too shall receive full help during this earthly night from Wednesday to Thursday. I will that they draw near to us! And look, they are beginning to move towards us.”