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About the fire-salt of love
12th September 1840
On the request about Mark 9:49 and 50: "For everyone will be salted with fire. Salt is a good thing; but if the salt has become bland, how will you restore its seasoning power? Have salt in yourselves and keep peace among yourselves".
[1] First write the following invocation: "Lord! Together we know nothing; and our heart is more void of understanding than a stone, for we have hardened it by our boundless folly and manifold wickedness, and can never soften it without Your mercy. Therefore, oh most beloved Lord Jesus, be our only refuge in all things, and soften our stony heart with the fire-salts of Your infinite love, so that we may love You, You eternal goodness, ever more and more, eternally! Amen
[2] And now write down the explanation:
[3] Oh how weak your love is still – since you do not understand what the salt is, and even less what is fire-salt!
[4] Behold, he who thinks that salt is wisdom is still very foolish! Is it not so that you say and teach that oxygen is the air of life in the atmosphere? And if it is not present at all, you know that the flame of the torch goes out and the fire does not ignite in the stifling air. And you further say that if the wood is not dry and has not absorbed much oxygen, it will not burn well and therefore there will be few flames. You also know that in pure oxygen even the iron burns with bright, sparkling flames. You even know that phosphorus is a pure acid and has a greenish-white light inside. See, you know all this! But how is it, then, that you do not know what the fire-salt of life is?
[5] Oh you deaf and blind – hear and see! For the salt of fire is nothing else but true love for Me, with which you must be thoroughly salted if you want to enter My kingdom.
[6] For, just as salt is the only living spice of all creatures and at the same time, through it’s concentrating power, the preservation of all things – so too is the pure love of the Spirit for Me, likewise the fire-salt of all life, is the sole preserving and working power of eternal guidance!
[7] However just as only oxygen is combustible and causes bright flames and with that also illuminates the dark chambers – so also true love alone is fire and flame and therefore also capable of light, which light is a true light because it is an equal light of My eternal, true wisdom-light.
[8] And just as a stale salt is of no use and is not suitable for the flame, but only generates foul embers, since it’s acid has become impure – so it is with a tepid love that cannot be kindled to a flame. It is only a deadly, lazy ember of coal in a closed chamber, which consumes all salt, but causes death to those who deceitfully warm themselves with it.
[9] Do you not say to the maid, if she smokes your chambers with spices, "Throw salt on the coals first"? Behold, you too do the same and throw the fire-salt of My love on your deadly, rotten coals, so that the flame of love may strike them, destroy the worm of death in you, and enlighten you and warm you to eternal life.
[10] For the "worm" is Satan, and his wrath is the rotten embers; but they have no flame, and therefore no love, no light, and no life. Therefore, everyone must be salted with and in the fire of My love, as also every sacrifice offered to Me, if it is to be pleasing to Me.
[11] Yes, I tell you: You must become completely the salt of fire if you want to become My dear children! See, as salt is a seasoning of food, so you too shall become a seasoning of My eternal love. Amen! This say I, Jesus, Eternal Life!