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About life, death and love. More about the Andritz source
15th November 1840, Sunday, from 1/2 10 a.m. to 1/4 1 p.m.
On November 13, 1840, in the afternoon, J. L., Andr. and Ans. H. went to the source of the Andritz and stayed there for half an hour, enjoying the calmness and clarity of the spring.
[1] What the virgin, visible to you alone, told you as my servant, when you asked her in yourself at the footbridge, whether she would further communicate something about the spring, that also serves here as a good introduction. Namely: “There is only One, and only this One can speak. And when this One speaks, all nature is reverently silent, for it does not understand the word of any being except the word of this One.“
[2] Behold, this is quite a good and fitting introduction, for nothing inanimate can speak a language and in any way answer; but I alone, who am Life itself and thus alive through and through, can make alive what I will and what I look at and can give the stone itself eyes and ears, a mouth and a familiar tongue, to speak the language that is comprehensible to Me as well as to the one whom I want to give the understanding.
[3] But since there is nothing dead for the living, as has already been remarked once, so for Me, as the most living, there can also be nothing dead and therefore also nothing incapable of speech. Because in My face even the ashes of a burned body must rise and answer Me all questions. For is there anything in the whole of infinity that would not be from Me?
[4] But I have been, as already said, from eternity the Life itself and will be it also eternally. But how could something dead come out of life? Even if a thing is lifeless before your eyes, it is not lifeless before My eyes! And even if you have become dead in and of yourselves through sin, you have not become dead in My sight. The first is possible, but the second is a complete impossibility.
[5] But in order for this to be understood accurately as a prerequisite for the following discussion, it is necessary that you obtain a closer clarification about death and about life itself.
[6] Everything that came out of Me, has emerged alive. But since My life is in itself the Love and the Wisdom in the greatest order, so also everything should continue in this order, in which and from which it necessarily emerged out of Me. Because what was not, could not emerge of it’s own accord, but had to be created by Me first and then as a created being, only emerge from Me through the power of My order according to My will.
[7] But when the beings have stepped out, then they also had to be equipped with the ability to move freely according to My order – just as the child immediately assumes a free movement with it’s limbs as soon as it has stepped out of the mother's womb.
[8] As long as the child is still weak and small, it is led by the leading string. But once it has become strong, you let it run free. And when it has become stronger and stronger, you give it, through education, which expresses itself through all kinds of sanctioned laws, such direction that most corresponds to your own order.
[9] But if a child is so bad that he does not want to conform to your order and is constantly against it, what will you do with him? I say: You will chastise him, and that in the same measure more, the more he contradicts your order. And if, as a result of all your chastisements, the child becomes worse and worse in his freedom instead of better and in the end even dangerous to your order, say, what will you do with the child then? Will you not say yourselves: If I drive the child from the house, he will return in time, and at night time, taking revenge for his wickedness, he will set fire to the house over my head. And then the whole story and my domestic order could come to a bad end.
Therefore, I will not drive the child from the house, but I will bind it’s hands and feet, keep it in a locked room with sparse food and patiently wait for the time to come, if it will not repent and return to my order.
[10] Behold, what ye would have done unto your children, the same have I done unto that which has come forth out of Me. But ask yourselves: Did you kill the child before you because of that, when you justly limited it only in the abused freedom? Certainly not! And as you have not killed the child, although you are in and for yourselves all and all evil, how much less will I, the eternal, only Goodness Itself, kill something that has come forth from Me! Since I am alive, nothing dead could come out of Me; and since I am supremely good and loving, nothing can be killed.
[11] Now you will ask, what then is "dead" and what is "death"? I say to it: Dead in and of itself is only that which is deliberately deprived of the ability to move freely in it’s evil order against My order. And death itself is therefore nothing else than a persistence in everything that is against My order. The consequence of such perseverance is then the necessary judgment, by which the hands and feet of a disorderly being are bound and consequently a chamber is prepared for it, in which the disorderly creature is locked up, until it, going into itself through repentance, returns to My order again voluntarily.
[12] But what life is afterwards, I do not need to tell you any more; for if you know what death is in and of itself, then life gives itself.
[13] Now that you have heard this and can also see from it why I only need to speak and all nature understands Me, you can also understand afterwards what the virgin spoke invisibly to My servant at the spring.
[14] But if you had such a confined child, as I have mentioned before, I ask you, who then can always speak to the child who is well constrained? And you will say: "We permit no-one but ourselves to speak to it, lest firstly, the wicked child be corrupted more than he already is by any untimely mouth feigning mercy, and secondly, lest by the wicked mouth of the child also any orderly heart be led into disorder."
[15] But if an honest man will come to you and will say: "Father, let me see your unruly child; I have found a good word in your name in my heart for your child. Therefore, let me see and speak to it." Then the father will say to the friend: Let me first hear the word, and I will lead you to my child and open his dark room for you. Behold, this Father is also Me! Whoever comes to Me with an honest, loving heart and comes to Me in My name, I will also immediately recognize him that he has come to Me for the sake of My name, in order to glorify this My name in himself and thereby in all My creatures. Behold, to him I will also say: Come to Me, and I will lead you into all the chambers of My prisoners and show you their dungeons and reveal their wickedness to your heart, so that they may be shocked by the faithfulness of your heart devoted to Me and shall see from it which is better, to be a friend or an enemy of My order".
[16] See, with this I want to tell you nothing else than that to him who is completely serious with his love and with the glorification of My name, also all chambers of My infinite creation will be opened to him bit by bit. And also not one point shall remain dead and strange to him, and the chambers of the air, the chambers of the earth shall be opened to him. And he shall see with one eye the great world of spirits and with the other eye simultaneously the world of bodies, so that he can see how one comes out of the other and one is there for the other.
[17] However, mind you, this shall not be granted to anyone – and would he ask for it day and night – until he has become completely serious about his love for Me. For the kingdom of heaven always suffers violence, and only those will possess it who seize it with iron force. But this "iron force" is none other than the force of love. Because love is able to do everything!
[18] But if anyone among you would say: Yes, I would like to do everything and deny myself to the last drop of blood, if only I could see or hear something, so that I could know whether there is really anything in all this? But I say to you in answer to such a statement: "Firstly, have you really not heard anything yet? Who gave you the light of the eyes, who the hearing? And who gave you all the other senses? Who gave you a heart to love and a mind to think? If you have not received these, since you obviously possess them, how can you say that you have not yet seen and heard anything?
[19] Are you not far more in your whole being a living word from Me? But if you read a book and leave out the first word, which is the most significant and around which all the words in the whole book revolve, how will you understand the rest of the book of life? Look, you yourselves are the first word in the book of life! If you want to read this book, and read it comprehensibly, you must first pronounce this first word perfectly, which is you yourself, and only then the other words, which are all written in the great book to explain the first basic word.
[20] But what is this word? This word is: "Love!"
[21] What your love has embraced, that will also seize your life! If your love has embraced itself, you have thereby made your life a slave to yourself. But since your life is nothing but your love itself, your love has put shackles on it’s hands and feet and has crawled into the dark room of it’s own self-conceit!
[22] But if your love has embraced Me, Who am the freest life Myself, then it has also embraced the greatest freedom through this and has also made itself free through the greatest freedom of My eternal, one and only true life and becomes free itself, just as also the life is free, which it has embraced.
[23] Behold, this preliminary consideration is necessary to understand what follows. You have recently walked up to a spring, which you call the "spring of Andritz". Now ask yourselves, what did you see there? You have seen completely pure water coming out of the earth quite calmly. And if you really did not notice significant holes in the ground, from which the water, springing from the interior of the earth, comes to the surface, you must at least have thought that it seeps through the sand and other crumbled rocks very quietly. Furthermore, you have seen a peculiar green herb growing quite abundantly under the water. You have also seen stones and fish, as well as all kinds of other objects known to you. But all this we want to leave untouched for now, because for firstly you have already received the natural-essentials of this spring by My permission from the spring itself, and secondly, because the water and other natural objects will be spoken of in detail in place anyway.
[24] But as for the special usefulness of this spring, I inform you that if this spring would be transformed into a decent bathing place, it would almost have the quality of the pond near Jerusalem known to you, and there many people suffering from gout and disease, would be cured. There are indeed many springs, but not all of these springs are constantly accompanied by a protecting angel spirit. But this spring – as you already know – has such a spirit. And therefore a special healing power is inherent in it! That is the natural usefulness of this spring.
[25] But the spiritually useful thing is that everyone should quietly emerge from himself in the same way through small mouths, so that he will not cloud the life in him by a foolish vehemence and the light of grace will be able to illuminate him to the innermost ground and his whole life will be full of living hopes, like this spring ground is overgrown with beautiful, bright green herbs. And so also his humble realizations will move freely in all directions like the lively little fish in this spring in the bright water of his life. And the weak reed will appear only in it’s outwardness, but the depth of his life will be free to receive at all times the rays of grace to the innermost ground.
[26] But also the whole pursuit of this spring shall show you that if man uses his powers too much for his daily bread, then also the water of his life becomes more and more clouded. So you will also have noticed that the same highly pure water is by far no longer so pure after it has set several mills
in motion in the course of a little half hour. You will say: Isn't it right to use one's strength in a useful way? Or is it not right that several mills have been built on this stream? Oh, I do not object to that at all – except for a few on which no white, but a black flour of the devil is produced. Also I do not want to say with it that you should not use your forces for temporal good, but only that you should use them justly according to My will.
[27] For just as the spring is allotted it’s usefulness already in itself, so it is also allotted to every man, if he will only recognize it and act accordingly. But to use the given powers for unnecessary things and even for bad things – see, that is what in the end makes the water of life turbid.
[28] Therefore, you should not build too many "mills", least of all "powder mills", at the little stream of your life; so it will always remain as clear as it was from it’s origin. And when it will unite with the stream of eternal life, there it will be clear and pure, like the stream itself, unite with it and flow into the sea of grace of My own, eternal, most clear life. Amen. I, your Father, say this to you for a small, well-ordered lesson! Amen.