Gifts of Heaven · Volume 1 · Chapter 18

Earthly and heavenly legal order

28th May 1840, Thursday afternoon

[1] I give you (in the following) a drop of wisdom – palatable for you finite creatures through My eternal love. For as God, I have no children but only the eternal Word in Me, which is the only Son with whom I am well pleased. But in the Son, I am also your Father and am well pleased with you, if you have received this My dear Son in you and thus also My sanctification through Him!

[2] But this (drop of wisdom) falls on the hot sand of the desert-earth, since you can enrich your knowledge with it, but are unable to act upon it, which is the main thing – since only action, but never (only) knowledge, determines eternal life.

[3] You see, all your political "justice" is based on all the falsehood and evil of self-love, which has marked the earth with boundary stones, on which "mine" is written everywhere and never "yours" – from which irreparable error your offenses mostly originate and which is why quite illegal laws had to be invented, who have to secure for everyone his imaginary property by force of outrageous punishments, even by death – while I have created the earth, like the air, like the water, like the rain and the sun rays for all collectively, and I have not granted any privilege to anyone.

[4] But now the earth is circumscribed like hell, since everyone has his or her own special, inalienable place. Thus only a corresponding administration of justice can be set as limits to malicious acts, and accordingly only similar punishments can be set as limits to malice. And so then the punishments, when they are appropriate to maliciousness, cannot be other than "legal" – seen from hell, as everything, I tell you, is taken literally from it, so the boundary stones, so the laws and so also the punishments.

[5] See, in such circumstances it is difficult to guess from the heavens where one has everything for all and all have everything for one out of love – what the gospel teaches you, that you should give the coat in addition to the requested coat, in order to avoid all disputes. If everyone did the same as in heaven, then no new laws of hell would be necessary, because then no-one would have anything and therefore would also remain free from any robbery or stealing.

[6] Now I have briefly shown how things stand. For this reason you should not force your (heavenly) Father into the right hand of hell and thereby offend His long-suffering and great patience in the face of such abominations and iniquities, and all the more so since I am already standing at the door armed anyway to thunder the last judgment over the earth so that all the hellish rubbish can be thrown onto the pile, where it’s author has long since established his permanent dwelling place.

[7] Take good heed of these My words and act out of love in doing so, and one day it will be shown how much gold will be found in the rubbish of hell. Amen.