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To a very weak one
4th November 1840
[1] There is a very unstable person who prefers the big to the small (and more for the pleasant than the useful) – and makes many visits to the higher-ups for the sake of his honor, so that he can then tell someone again that he is been with this and that gentleman and this or that lord had literally reproached him for not having visited him in so long – and he did that more for the petty reputation than the actual inner friendliness – and is also very busy with the female world and pays homage to the lovely flesh of the beautiful children of Eve – who also attach great importance to old friendship where it is about pleasant men, although he does not despise the poor because of his good name – but to the new, respectable one, especially female acquaintances are always preferred to old men of the same rank.
[2] So he is also a friend of the scholars and possesses great pieces of renowned artists – but again more for his honor than for the honor of these scholars and artists (in order to be considered thereby with the understanding as an insightful man!).
[3] And so this poor man often runs his feet sore out of sheer self-satisfaction in order to do others some petty favor that no-one has ever cared too much about – and yet, with all his personal kindness, he is always more a friend to himself than to those who are befriended by him.
[4] To this man, since he nevertheless, with all these usual human defects, possesses a rather good and half-willing heart and secretly already has a rather pure pleasure in My now descending grace and also has a hidden longing for My kingdom and also begins more and more to respect the good and truth of it for it’s own sake and to appreciate it in his heart (which has also enabled Me to look at him seriously in My love and, if he wants, also to help him out of his labyrinth) – thus I say to this man:
[5] That he should stop his useless, exuberantly manifold visits as much as possible and instead should rather start to visit Me, his Father! This will be of more use to him, temporally and eternally, than all the thousands and thousands of visits he has already paid to people for nothing and nothing again.
[6] Because his visits – which have become mostly annoying – never resulted in any advantage for him or for them, were often quite worthless – except that he was often laughed at behind his back, being praised in his face, but often smirked at behind his back. Of course he did not see this – but I see and hear everything!
[7] However, so that he may know that he is still very ignorant, the judgment of those people who belong to the better ones should also be made known to him, as a reward for his many years of effort. What do they say? Nothing but that he is a good fool, but at the same time very ignorant and stupid, and resembles a well-known good-natured beast of burden, which always willingly lets itself be nipped in the back for the worst food.
[8] For such a reward, then, this person is so busy and runs and runs from house to house to get his back full of spiritual and material blows! Oh the weak one!
[9] I do not want to address here all the inconveniences that have already happened to him for the sake of such foolishness…. What has been said, shall only show him how he did not need to come to such hard inconveniences at all, if he had at least followed the good advice of his very few true friends, who are also My friends, and had sat down at Jacob's well to drink the water of life from it and had made a well-behaved visit to Me, his eternal, holy best Father, there in quiet peace.
[10] But that would make him melancholic! Understand it well! But how is it that he does not become melancholic when he runs breathlessly from one female being to the other, in order to disperse his natural love or finally even to suffocate in the deadly mud of such madness?
[11] He shall answer this question for Me: "Why have you not yet married any virgin?" – since you have already courted thousands and have already lied many times about marriage and in this way also already, in your earlier time, seduced some underage girls! What excuse can you give Me, so that it will cleanse you before My eyes and My holiness will not condemn you?
[12] I tell you, you had better not answer! For every one of your answers would condemn you! And would you tell Me: I have not yet found the right that is without fault! I say: Oh you false judge! Why did you look so carefully for the splinters in the eyes of the girls and did not want to know about your beam, even many beams in your eyes? Because you are afraid of being deceived by them. Why did you not fear that they would be deceived by you and become unhappy? Therefore depart from Me, you self-loving selfish one! For all girls have come out of My love the same as you! Why then were they not right for you? I say, because in their weakness they – all of them – were better than you!
[13] Therefore do not answer, but be silent in all penitent humility, lest your answer condemn you. And may you say: "My income was too small for me to be able to take a wife and keep her". Then I would give you the answer: Listen! Since you measured your income and found it too small, why did you not at the same time measure your small abilities and your great demands, and why did you not also measure the excess of your sensual desires, since you saw with longing eyes the luxuriant happiness of the great and rich of the world and wanted to be like those who have what you desired, but if it did not work out that way, you preferred not to have a wife, but to have free fornication!
[14] Oh behold, there are yet poor and good girls in the multitude, several of whom thou know well -why then dost thou not marry one of them? You would say: "For the sake of our mutual lack of means!" But I suppose you would be rich! Yes, then you would look down on a princess as pityingly and sensually as you do now on a lowly maid, who is also My daughter.
[15] But in order that you may realize that this is exactly the case, I call your attention to your secret fantasies of thought, in which you promoted yourself by all kinds of grandiose, romantic reveries to the various most brilliant circumstances of earthly life; and when you had then reached some peak – how you then snatched around like a sultan after the most beautiful and most charming girls! Yes, you often hid your dreamed-of height and, as you used to say, "incognito" crept up to some virgin who had at some time had turned you down quite rudely, and asked for her hand in marriage. But since she, in your dream, refused your hand again, you revealed your fantastic Sultanic imperial dignity before the brittle one and spurned the beautiful one, who had now gone into herself and was humiliated by such a revelation, and had great joy when you saw her crying and wringing her hands towards you, now a great emperor.
[16] Oh behold, such thoughts are a faithful mirror and show man very precisely the direction of his desires and tendency of his love, which is based on nothing but imperiousness, which is the cause of all damnation! Therefore, do not answer, lest you catch yourself and condemn yourself in your foolish excuse!
[17] Or would you like to say: I can't marry a common woman, since I am an educated man and a royal-imperial civil servant and have all pleasant acquaintances! What would the latter say to that?" But I say: There is no woman in the city so mean that she would be too mean for you – although you would want to leave out of anger, if someone other than I would admit this truth to you. For behold, if there is any common whore, she has often become such out of double need, namely first of all out of spiritual (for with sheep, the wool is like the fodder) – and then, however, often out of natural physical need, the demand of the stomach as well as the satisfaction of the natural instinct, to whose early development and unscrupulous promotion the poor, abandoned, now despised whore has come
only through such courtiers similar to you. In her weakness she easily believed the sweet words that flowed from the hyena breast of a sweet courtier likened to you, who unscrupulously often poured one satanic kindness after another into the very receptive breast of a luscious twelve-year-old girl, like poisonous daggers, in order to look at the spiritually bleeding girl with eager, lustful eyes and then to lie in wait like a tiger for the next opportunity to inflict the first stab of death on the unhappy, weak unsettled one, and then to make himself big and able to say: "Well, that's going to be one of them, since she already allows everything happen to her!
[18] See, when you have corrupted their nature to such a disgrace – you hyena, you tiger! – how dare you look Me in the eye and say: "I cannot like such feminine meanness!"?
[19] Therefore, you had better not answer, lest your excuse become a millstone to be put on your neck and with which you would like to be sunk into the bottom of the sea.
[20] But you say: "I will not be served by a pauper!" But I say: You are not worthy of a pauper! For the poor are My daughters. Woe to those who deceive them and make them feel worthless! Their heart shall be dulled like a stone, so that it shall never be moved by the gentle gaze of such a poor woman, and such a wicked man shall remain wifeless and childless until the end, and his vile name shall be buried with him!
[21] But whoever marries a poor woman out of love, he has Me as his Father-in-law and enjoys My blessing. And it is better to marry the poor than the rich. For the poor, in their distress, do remember Me, their Father, and always seek help from Me when things go badly for them; whereas most of the rich hardly know Me by name and, when things go badly for them, they despair and not infrequently become suicides. Behold, therefore, do not answer, lest you be condemned for your foolish excuse!
[22] And do you want to say: ,,Evil experiences have deterred me. What I have seen elsewhere has caused my marital state!" But I say: Cursed be he who thus excuses himself! For he obviously shows himself to be a self-loving despiser of the weak female humanity. And his conscience cries out to him: ‘Because you know how little you are worth and how unfaithful you have always been in all spheres of your life, therefore your freedom is dearer to you than a poor but blessed marital state, which alone could bring you to spiritual order!
[23] For if you thought as an upright Christian man should think in his heart, you would say: "Oh Lord! I am a great debtor to You! Have pity on me beyond all measure bad self-lover! For in my ignorance I have sinned grossly before You, and have greatly sinned against all Your weak children, and am now myself weaker than all whom I formerly thought weak – and all this through my boundless, self-willed folly!
[24] Therefore, I beg You most earnestly that You may again look upon me graciously in Your infinite love and give me an honest mind, so that I may again perceive the true human value of Your daughters and not remain, as until now, where I, like the evil world, sought value only in wealth and youthful beauty and, in addition, in an unbelievable loyalty and dependence (since I was a jealous, stupid donkey according to my great self-love!).
[25] Oh Lord, now that I see my great error, be gracious and merciful to me, a poor sinner, and let me recover what I have so often despised in my wicked, perverse heart. For since I am not one who has ever been drawn by the spirit, but always by the flesh, I also know that until now, I have been only of the flesh and not of the spirit. Therefore, Oh Lord, let me also honestly find again righteousness pleasing to Thee, that I may be purified in it, that I may one day arise from it in the spirit according to Your holy will! Amen."
[26] Behold, this excuse is better than all the others, and in this alone is life instead of death!
[27] Although I do not want to impose on you by all this exactly the duty that you should marry – if you have any better reasons to remain single, and that out of pure love for Me, i.e. if you are
capable of it and can withdraw from your much visited world – but I want to have seriously admonished you to true remorse and repentance by this, that you should finally realize how much you were wrong all the time, that you were busy trying to push all guilt away from you and to grossly impute it to others. Think only quite firmly within you whether this could have been approved by Me in eternity?
[28] Therefore I now showed you what is necessary through My poor servant, who also cannot know out of himself what is right and what bad (since he himself is still neither right nor bad), and who knows what he knows only from Me through a special, undeserved, great grace for the sake of others, not for his own sake – so that the others would be judged in their hearts through him and he only through them in the end – and so that you would be judged in your flesh, in order to thereby escape the eternal judgment of the spirit.
[29] For whoever wants to be accepted into My new kingdom must first be judged, so that he cleanses himself completely from all the old mud of his accustomed foolishness! But you are still thoroughly foolish and crossly confused. Therefore there was also very much to judge with you and will still be judged moreover so much, before your name is registered fully in the large book of life. Therefore, take heed of this word addressed to you! It is a new word of life full of light and truth and also full of love!
[30] If you want to live, then marry some girl in proper order, and I will bless you with My peace. And you are making a small sacrifice in yourself for the many sacrifices of female loyalty that you have already slipped in and out of! And have no fear of being betrayed; but rather fear that you are not deceiving anyone yourself! And don't have your advantage in mind so much as the advantage of those you want to be trusted with! Then you will do well – for a short time and then forever.
[31] For can you know whether you will live another fifty years? Or must you not rather think that every second of your earthly life is in My hands and that I can either lengthen or shorten everyone's life according to his obedient behavior, since I alone see when the fruit is ripe – either this way or that!
[32] So think about which is better: this, or whether you want to turn to Me and want to forego everything out of pure love for Me !? See, you can do that too! But then remember that half a service is no service to Me at all – if you would believe that you are saving your freedom in this way.
[33] For behold, in your supposed freedom you are only a slave of your flesh, your desires and your free worldly lust among the people, with whom you like to chat about great things and then laugh at your own follies afterwards.
[34] But all your flesh, all your desires must become deeply submissive to you, like the very best slaves, and you must at once give the barest farewell to all your mad habits, and then immediately turn to Me in everything! Listen! I say: immediately! Because from now on every hesitation would be accounted to you sky-high.
[35] Now, in your weakness, judge for yourself what would be easier and more beneficial. I will give you no further advice on what you should do, but only tell you that the reward will be equal to your obedience.
[36] So do what you want! It is the same to Me, either way. But to remain as you are now, that I do not advise you!
[37] See, you too stood idle that whole long day. So now you too go to My vineyard and work in it one way or another for the last hour! And one day I will give you what will be just. Amen. I, Eternal Love and Truth Myself! Amen.
Post Comment
[38] Like all the others, this adjoining word must be added to the "subwords" and should be read out to the indicated unnamed person at a specially designated meeting – he should not be ashamed, but only be very happy if he wants to become a seventh disciple what he will learn when I pronounce his name.
[39] But if he should want to gloss over and justify himself as he usually does, then he should also experience how far he is from My kingdom and how very unfit for a disciple!
[40] For to whom I say many things, I will also give many things and have given him, if he will do My will, also already by the fact that I have told him many things. For if the master-builder lays a wide and broad foundation, he will certainly not want to build a snailhouse on it, but the building must correspond to the foundation. But if already an earthly master-builder acts so intelligently, how much more will I do, who am the most powerful and most understandable master-builder of infinity!
[41] Therefore let not the one who has been deceived be ashamed, but let him rejoice greatly. For I do not give such gifts in vain! But whoever wants to be glorified by Me forever, must first be revealed before the world and glorify My name in his humility.
[42] Little is what I demand of you, but infinite the reward for it! Therefore rejoice, all of you, that I ask these things of you, for there will be no end to My kingdom forever. Amen. I say this, Father and Lord of you all! Amen.
Thanksgiving prayer of the servant And I, sinful, worthless, worst servant dare to add in my great dishonesty: Honor, praise and thanks be to you, Oh most holy, best Father, from our weak, impure hearts! Oh purify us all with the holy power of Your infinite love and mercy! – so that we may one day thank you, oh you dearest, most holy Father, more worthy and praise you more holy than was previously possible on the great night of our sins! Oh most holy, best Father, have thanks also for the glorious gift of this new brother given to us in Your most holy name! Oh Your most holy name be praised for this! Glory be to You, Father, and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit in You and from You – for all eternity! Amen.