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Spiritual illumination of ebb and flow
24th October 1840 (continued)
[1] But what is the reason for this exhalation and inhalation? Precisely because of how it is brought about in animals, namely because of the ever-renewed need for fresh food when the previous one has been consumed and thus become negative again.
[2] During consumption the organs fall closer together again, to a certain extent, as they begin to rub themselves in their own hunger. Then there is saturation again, through which the parts naturally expand again more and more. Hence the phenomenon in question afterwards: the ebb through the need for positive food – and the flood through saturation.
[3] You will of course say: If this is so, then we should also perceive this phenomenon on the mainland and on the mountains. But I say, it is not so. Do your head, hands and feet expand when you breathe? And you will say: No, these limbs remain still". So I say to you, also the solid parts of the earth remain calm.
[4] So that you can now visualize this phenomenon all the more clearly, step into a bathtub and then notice the water that is supposed to surround you sparingly in the bathtub, and you will surely notice that the water rises a little with every breath and will fall when exhaling. Well, if you think about this well, you will very easily see that I understand very well how to shoot My arrow into the center of the target.
[5] But if someone tells you that the moon is the cause of the ebb and flow of the tide, ask him how the moon, when it is on the opposite side, is able to cause a flood by virtue of it’s attraction on the half of the earth facing away from it ?
[6] Anyone who could or would claim this, would be above the blind archer, who turned his back against the target and accidentally hit a tree opposite instead of the target. Or, who could think of, if he was lying in a bathtub, to claim that the water rises and falls because several fathoms above him have hung an apple on a string that a wanton boy has made to swing . Should he not prefer to look at his own belly, then – in order to also use a learned expression – it would have to become "empirically" clear that it is not the apple, but only his belly that causes the water to fall and rise.
[7] Well, we would have explained this phenomenon clearly enough, but as already said, all of this is only an external appearance, which, viewed with the eyes of the spirit, does not look like it can be seen with the fleshly eyes. But there is a positive pole: spiritual – and a negative pole: natural. And the positive pole is: substance – and the negative pole is: a receptive vessel. And the positive is: inside – and negative: outside. And the positive is like love and wisdom – and the negative is like mercy and grace.
[8] If it were not for the negative, love and wisdom could not reveal themselves in anything but themselves. Hence out of My mercy, beings became. And the beings are My mercy itself, and this mercy is the vessel of My favor.
[9] If it were not for love, there could be no mercy. But because love is, so also can mercy be. And so everything exists, lives and weaves as mercy out of My love!
[10] If you now want to know what the positive, nourishing polarity is, I tell you that this is nothing other than My love.
[11] But the mercy from this My love has formed beings to receive the love from Me. And love nourishes the beings further and further and forms on the way of it's eternal order, a being around the other, a being for the other and a being from the other – and thus prepares a series of stages of life, more and more perfect and perfected, in order to with it, reveal love forever in ever greater and
greater extent of it’s infinite mercies and, as it were, to contemplate itself in it’s infinity more and more and to be able to become more and more alive.
[12] Therefore everything is arranged and everything happens according to My order, so that death will one day be completely destroyed and the whole of infinity becomes an eternal perfect content of the fullness of life from and in Me!
[13] Think carefully in your heart about what I have just shared! Because, if I have already communicated and revealed many great things to you so far, I have still nowhere let you look so deeply into the plan of My eternal love and wisdom as just now.
[14] So once again – take heed what has been said here! Because see, I first made you eager, and I knew why! If I had just kept a simple pear hidden in My sack from your eyes, I would not have let you fidget for so long. But this time I have kept a rich treasure hidden, and therefore I also paused a little in order to give you all the greater joy; at the same time, however, also to make you feeling strongly that I am only and completely your most loving, true, holy Father.
[15] Amen. This is what I, your most loving holy Father, say. Amen.