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The inner body design of doves and other birds (continued)
23rd August 1840
(continuation of the announcement of August 16, 1840).
[1] Regarding the inner arrangement of a dove and it’s flying, it is all the same as with any other inhabitant of the air.
[2] It’s exterior is covered with down and smaller and larger feathers. But it’s interior consists in a human-like heart, in a peculiar stomach, in the intestines as well as in a rather wide lung and liver, which entrails are enclosed by the necessary light limbs from the upper side and, halfway, at the lower part, only by a soft skin.
[3] The heart naturally performs the same function as the human heart and all warm-blooded animals, including the lungs. However, as far as the stomach and the liver are concerned, there is a great difference between that of the pigeon and that of man and all other warm-blooded creatures.
[4] As for the rest of a bird's flesh, it is usually made of soft, light and whitish fibers connected by a fine nerve-like tissue, by virtue of which it is capable of greater expansion and contraction than the flesh of other animals.
[5] On the body (of the birds) sits, usually on a long neck, a small head, provided with extraordinarily sharp senses. Because an eagle, as well as almost every bird, sees better with his eye than you through a good telescope. Likewise, his hearing far exceeds yours. It’s olfactory organs are sharper than the organs of the best dog. Because with it, an eagle perceives carrion lying several day’s journey away and knows exactly the direction from which the stinking fumes of decay reach it’s olfactory nerves. Likewise, his taste is so strong that he even perceives the spice and the salt that suits him, in the firmest stones.
[6] Just as his organs are equipped with the highest degree of stimulation of the senses, so is his brain stimulated and full of activity. And it is in the same degree more intelligent than in all other animals, even the great elephant is not exempt. For this reason also some species of birds have a memory of very special strength above all other animals, which you can also convincingly infer from the fact that some birds can even imitate regular human singing styles as well as words and often also entire sentences, which is not possible for any other, however docile animals. From this you can also infer that this species is closer to you than the other, which, like you, laboriously moves with it’s feet on the Earth.
[7] All this is due to the fact that a bird, by virtue of it’s internal arrangement, is organised in such a way that it possesses the highest receptivity to the impressions of the outside world, and that in it’s very stimulated brain, it can already form a certain regulated idea of what it has absorbed through the senses – for which reason, even in the natural state of a bird, it’s voice often appears quite well articulated.
[8] Now the question arises: How does the reproduction of birds happen? The answer lies in their procreation and in their eggs.
[9] According to My will, the female has the ability to reproduce itself on the so-called ovary in a vesicle-like manner through the intelligence that is unconsciously inherent in her from the food she ingests – which happens in the following way:
[10] For from her heart go very extraordinarily fine organs, through which a white substance is passed. Where the organs opens out, a net-like tissue is formed from this juice, which existed since the primordial beginning. Once this tissue has received it’s proper form, whereby it looks as if a string of small, somewhat shapeless funnels has been strung together, then this tissue is attached to
the backbone by the organs that form it. When this has happened, then these organs tear off and direct their openings into these funnels.
[11] If this is so ordered, then in the same way vessels are also led, from the stomach, through the liver into the openings of these funnels. At last, when all the vessels have been somewhat enlarged by this from the heart, another vessel grows in every such vessel, and likewise directs it’s opening into each of such little funnels. Now, when this whole organism has been fully formed in the time which is appropriate to the nature and size of the bird, then first a viscous droplet is deposited from the juices of the stomach, so that the mouth of the two organs which have been pushed into each other, projects into the middle of this droplet.
[12] Now, when this too has taken place, then at first completely water-white juices from the heart begin to pull themselves through the outer organ, thereby driving the outer droplet coming from the stomach, apart, like a soap bubble and filling it up to the size of a grain of hemp, or like a hazelnut or even an apple, depending on the size and nature of the bird. Then the juices, coming directly from the blood, start to penetrate into this white ball and form the so-called yolk.
[13] During such formation, certain extraordinarily fine organs also develop through the intestinal canal, piercing this new fruit in a certain way. And now take note:
[14] The hen, that is the female, has two drainage channels, one to drain off the excrement and one to drain off the egg that has grown to maturity. However, this second channel unites with the excrement channel before the opening of the latter through the aforementioned organs that discharge from the intestinal tract. These form a wide tube, which divides into as many branches as there are funnels in the ovary.
[15] And through this tube, during the act of mating, an ethereal-spiritual substance is led with great speed into the center of the yolk. But this substance is that which I have already mentioned before of the union of animal-life from the waters as well as from the earth.
[16] Now when this has been done, the middle organ from the heart grows into an extraordinarily fine tissue around this new guest of life, namely in the primitive form of an extraordinarily small, completely naked bird, and then extends from it’s center in all directions of the egg, thus opening to it the paths of food.
[17] When this has happened, the organ sweats out of the stomach – from the dissolved stones – a calciferous mass, which immediately hardens into a firm shell due to the internal heat around the soft egg. Now the egg is complete and ready!
[18] This development of the egg can indeed also occur without mating; but then it is not viable. But if it is now viable, then the fruit becomes completely mature through the vegetative warmth. And after it has consumed all the supplies in the egg for it’s development, it breaks through the shell and goes into the outside world as a perfect bird, which, although it still has to be cared for by it’s parents for a short time, is then also already endowed with all the abilities of it’s parents. Now, that is the formation of a bird!
[19] Since we mentioned it’s stomach before, you know that a bird's stomach consists of very blunt, muscle-like, thick leaves.
[20] This stomach is not both a storeroom and a digestive workshop as with animals; for the goiter serves – at least with birds of prey – as a small forestomach; the (actual) stomach is only concerned with digestion, which happens in the following manner with the so-called core-eaters, to which also the dove belongs:
[21] The stomach always has a small supply of stones in it. It opens and takes in a little bit from the previous stomach. Now when this food comes between it’s leaves, they begin to rub against each other as if you were rubbing your hands. This causes the food to be crushed with the help of the pebbles in the stomach, and of course the pebbles wear out as particles are constantly being
detached from them. Through this friction, however, also an electrical heat is released or generated, decomposing these detached stone-particles chemically. The lime-like particles are distributed to the destination already known to you; but the mineral particles serve to nourish, maintain and strengthen these stomach leaves; and the coarse sediment is discarded of with the excrement.
[22] Now the question is, why this mineral diet for the bird? – The first cause is already given. The mineral food is used for digestion, like a so-called voltaic column, but also for the delivery of the finest hydrogen gas, which can be developed at will from the water that is often absorbed, and this in the chemical way you already know.
[23] The oxygen, or the tartness of the water, combines with the corresponding mineral from the stones. Also the peculiar heavy fat of the gas is separated by an extremely fine, organic filter. The purest gas, however, flows in countless small organs into the quills of the feathers, which are previously formed by secondary organs from the separated fat, mixed with other juices coming from the blood. There is in the quill a so-called "soul" or "feather mother", which is formed from several bubbles strung together.
[24] When the bird wants to fly, it instantly fills these bubbles and it’s other organs with this gas, making it considerably lighter. Then it immediately spreads it’s wings, rises with great ease, gives itself direction with it’s tail, and directs it’s mass nimbly with it’s pair of wings. Only at the beginning of flight does it need it’s wings to lift, but as it flies, it becomes lighter and lighter, no longer using it’s wings to carry it, but only to move forward.
[25] If a bird now wants to settle down again on earth, it lets some gas escape as needed and fills the quill with atmospheric air. This is now the secret of how a bird flies and how all this is effected by it’s inner mechanism.
[26] But now we still have his lungs and liver left. The lung is also so constituted that it’s elasticity is firstly far greater than that of all other animals. For a bird can draw a hundred times as much air into itself as a human being.
[27] A similar chemical process occurs with the air as with the water in the stomach. The gas from it flows into the hollow bones. The oxygen combines with the blood to form nerves, muscles, tendons and bones. Only the nitrogen is exhaled again and can be used at will to form the voice peculiar to each bird.
[28] But the liver of a bird is of the same quality as the cell tissue under the bladder of a fish. It consists of a large number of pyramid-like vesicles, which are only attached to each other with very light and more loosely held, mucous-like fibers. These pyramidal cells or vesicles have the property of small electric vials, sucking the electromagnetic fluid developed by the friction of the stomach leaves and are now filled one after the other like an electric battery. This electro-magnetic fluid is then used at all times, as often as the bird wants to fly, to form the already known gas.
[29] However, what is released from the so-called carbon during such a process, accumulates in it’s own small gall bladder and is reabsorbed by the stomach if anything difficult to digest enters the bird's stomach, which is especially the case with the dove.
[30] Well, there you have the natural bird developed from it’s origin to it’s perfect being. And thus only the cause of the different coloration of the pigeon's feathers as well as their fast flight, remains to be addressed.
[31] The different coloring of the plumage is partly due to the different kinds of food, but partly also to My will, in order to indicate the greater gentleness and to give you a hint as to which animals can initially become distinctive and familiar to you.
[32] Regarding it’s fast flight, this is due to the greater amount of electro-magnetism in a bird, which can very easily be seen from it’s lightning-fast flight.
[33] Now you know everything that is necessary for you to know in your natural-spiritual sphere. But regarding the further relationships, these are still too much above your still primitive grasp of concepts for you to be able to understand them. Therefore everything in it’s time! First the seed, then the germ, then only the plant, then the root, the stem, the leaves, the blossom, and finally the ripe fruit of your spirit, developed through the warmth of life of My sun of grace in your hearts. Amen.