Gifts of Heaven · Volume 1 · Chapter 38

Announcements at a spring (Andritz spring near Graz)

30th July 1840

Revelations about the origin of the Andritz, north of Graz, near St. Veit: Lorber speaks what the source tells him, that is, what the Lord says of the source. – Writer: K.G.L.; Andr.H.; Ans.H.

[1] Before I (the source) show you my essence, it is first of all necessary to know where and how I originate.

[2] More than 4,000 fathoms deep in a direction inclined towards morning is a wide, large opening which was created by the divine fire during the formation of the mountains. All the water that is drawn in by the mountains from the humid air, collects in this opening. And since this large, wide opening is in this way kept almost constantly full, and as the weight of the mountain masses elevated above this opening, as well as the already very concentrated pressure in this depth (on the waters) presses down, it is not only on this spot, which you see here, but also in many other places, that this subterranean water is brought up to daylight through small as well as larger openings and through hollow passages of the mountains. For see, that is the way I am brought up to the surface of the earth on which you are, and not down to the depths, as some would think, because the foundation of this subterranean dwelling, which you call the bed, is a very solid rock in which I rest as in a cauldron.

[3] However in this cauldron there are three veins as thick as a man's arm, which run in a northeasterly direction more than three miles below the mountain, which you call "Schöckel", where there is a much larger cauldron and water reservoir, which also arose through the formation of the mountain by means of the divine fire-power, which is the love of the Father!

[4] Originally, fire dwelled in these openings for many centuries and continued to burn incessantly inside. And when the water penetrated through the cracks in the fire-wall in masses, I was almost evaporated and consumed on my way through the hot cracks. And my calm power was stirred up by the fire and had to help to bring the underground masses to daylight. But as these gulfs gradually grew larger and larger through the tearing away of parts, and as a result of this I was also able to penetrate and fall there in ever greater masses, in order to soften the great exuberance of the fire, which, although it came from the love of the Father, but as a fire contained a significant part of the wrath of the Godhead within itself – then gradually the same thing went out in the lower parts of the cauldron and only now and then burned in the higher regions of the raised masses for another two centuries.

[5] But finally, when, according to the will of the Creator, the mountains had received their right shape, height, width and load, Eternal Love sent a good little angelic spirit and completely quenched the fire.

[6] No-one would believe that such a mountain-dominant spirit is a fable! For since infinite, innumerable armies of spirits are willingly subject to the loving power of the Eternal, and find the greatest joy and bliss in it, if the love of the Lord gives them something to do anywhere, then the love of the Lord also gladly grants what these spirits desire.

[7] As you see me there before your eyes, I only penetrate through small veins a hundred fathoms long, up to this visible place. And you see, if a benevolent spirit had not also been assigned to my course, and if it had not cleansed my ways, they would have long since been blocked or otherwise destroyed by my blunt awkwardness. But it is this very spirit which is assigned to me, guarding my ways, which keeps my small ways in the same beautiful, calm and gentle order for almost a

millennium, and, for the sake of an example, does not let me become cloudy – so that people who like to visit me for my purity and quiet seclusion, and who delight their eyes with my serene freshness and clarity, may enjoy my beauty, should remember and well consider (if they are of any pure sense worthy of God) that purity and clear vision down to the bottom of their own being as well as that of another, can only be achieved by a calm and humble appearance in the quiet, drawn- in solitude of God.

[8] There used to be a number of pious people living in this area, whose sense of God and whose actions were nothing but love. These people came to this place almost every day with a pious and simple heart, as you are now. And if they found there a contemplation pleasing to God, had done devotion and sacrificed their daily work to the Lord, the same good spirit always came from there to the left hand of the monument (which was only recently placed there unworthily) and taught the pious crowd the love of God and wisdom, obedience and humility and in them, also God's great love and therefore also (all kinds of) wonderful secrets of nature.

[9] And then these people talked with this spirit for hours. And he only left them when a necessary action called him. Then if you would have been present and looked in my reflection, you would have seen that before God, everything gives joy and is receptive to joy. I will tell you this much – but it should not seem ridiculous to you – I was jumping like a lively dancer in my little pool, and the stones were laughing at me and clapping their appreciative applause.

[10] But the people living now, who have become far more material than these weathered stones that surround me, will probably never experience such a spectacle of natural spirituality and cheerfulness. For whoever has not made the life of the spirit alive in himself under the influence of the spirits of heaven through obedience and humility before the Almighty Creator, his life is merely a material life and is entertained by the spirits of matter, which come into him through food and drink. Such a person, since he thereby becomes matter again, cannot see, hear or feel anything with his material senses other than the matter from whence he is, lives and breathes.

[11] But it is quite different with the humble and obedient spiritual man. He does not only see matter, but he sees in matter the original (spiritual) being related to him, alive and wise, and through humble conversation with such a spirit, he experiences the deepest insights into the diverse, here and there intact, here and there destroyed, as well as often completely dissolved, coarser matter. But he will not only be able to place himself in speaking fellowship with one spirit, but there are many spirits for every realm of visible nature, both living and seemingly living, as well as seemingly completely dead, with whom he can secure an instructive speech.

[12] See, when you look at my reflection, you will become aware of many movements of my surface: one orderly, regular, circular, which is caused from within me – and another, disorderly, irregular, misshapen, which is caused by external circumstances, disturbing my reflection.

[13] Behold, the movement would be to you, if you were in the life of the spirit, not only a movement caused by gross material circumstances, but you would discover a quite marvelous, well- readable writing by the almighty finger of God in great clarity. But since you are not able to do this, I want to teach you something of this spiritual ABC and it's consequent profound meaning.

[14] This circular movement is caused by a material-spiritual bubble rising from my inside, through which (do not be surprised about what I will announce to you) a purified spirit-being is released from the too hard pressure of dead matter; from which you can also take the following, spiritually corresponding lesson, that also your being has been previously released from matter in a similar way and that it is also in you – where it too, is still bound to matter – the same, from the innermost part of your being to your surface and there also in such an orderly, godlike circular effect shall reveal itself, in order to put your whole being – which is material in and for itself like my mirror- smooth surface – into a well-ordered movement. But let my position also be a corresponding image

for you, that this godlike life of the spirit becomes all the more beautiful, the more you have withdrawn from the evil world storming from outside.

[15] This little that you have heard here is all that I can and may communicate to you from me and out of me at this hour. However, if you will perceive from your spirit on your surface similar life movements as you see on my mirror-smooth surface, then come again and learn to recognize more deeply on my small and shallow shore miraculous things of divine love and power! Amen.