Gifts of Heaven · Volume 1 · Chapter 33

Worldly sense and light of the heart – addendum to the "Angel"

17th July 1840

[1] With regard to my angel (song), tell the sincere K.G.L. that he can try out of love for Me, with his excellent earth-language education, to revise My great song according to his insight and his judgment. And if he had thus brought it to the level of worldly splendor, then let him read it to himself and also to all of you, so that you may notice the difference.

[2] I say it will please your mind, but your hearts will grow colder the more you deviate from the original. For look, things are like this: If one speaks to the ear, then an educated language in a secular way is right, because the ear is secular. If you speak to the eye, you must speak in well-lit pictures in a secular way, because the eye is secular. Furthermore, if you speak to the feet, your speech must be familiar, to lift up the worldly feet. If you speak to the palate or stomach, your speech must be sweet if it is to please you. And when you speak to the shallow, (arid) waterless heart of a girl, then your speech must also be like her heart, outwardly full of flowers, but inwardly full of nonsense, which kind of speech will of course not cost you much effort, for it is said: the more stupid and senseless, the more beautiful and popular.

[3] But I did not give My poem under all these conditions, but only under the sole condition of the love of your spirit in the soul and in it’s body, but not in it’s excrement.

[4] Therefore you should also understand it, where it is given to you, and be far away with your worldly understanding, which is a true cancer of the spirit, since it consumes love and kills the will. But as the marrow is nourished from the heart, so also your intellect is to grow from love and be a good fruit from the life of the tree – but not like a parasitic plant on the branches of life, undermining, suffocating and finally even destroying it.

[5] Remember this, you who are eager for knowledge! What do I care about all the science and education in the world! Ask yourselves whether you can manage even a blade of grass with it! Yes, there is even nothing in wisdom, but only in love!

[6] Therefore love Me – this is My Kingdom! Everything else will be given to you according to your love! Amen.

[7] I, the Eternal Love and Wisdom! Amen, Amen, Amen