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Again: "Don't touch me!"
17th December 1840
Question: In Matthew, ch. 28:1, it says: At dawn of the first day after the Sabbath, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb. And ch. 28:9 it says further: And behold, Jesus met them and said, "Greetings! And they came near, and embraced His feet, and worshiped Him.` According to the Gospel of John, ch. 20:17, Magdalene wanted to touch You, oh Lord. And You told her: "Do not touch Me!" According to the Gospel of Matthew, ch. 28:9, on the other hand, Mary Magdalene as well as the other Mary touched Your feet. And in yesterday's statement, on the other hand, it says: Should a converted harlot have perished if she had touched Me? Oh Lord, graciously send Your light to brighten this darkness! Let there be no will, neither in the height, nor in the depth, but Yours! And whatever happens in the height as well as in the depth, let it be according to Your holy will! Amen. So that Your holy name may always be praised, praised and glorified! Amen. Amen."
[1] The man who does not understand these things is blind, deaf and dumb – or he is like the fruitless fig tree which a gardener tended in the garden for a long time, and when the tree brought forth nothing but leaves, the servants came and reported it to the Lord and advised him to cut down such a fruitless tree, so that it would not again take up space in vain in the so delicious garden. But when the Lord heard this, he said: "Let it stand for a year, cleanse and fertilize it, and then, if it bears no fruit, let your axe fall on it’s roots and cut it down to be burned.
[2] Behold, you who ask for such easy things out of your own contradiction, let it be told you that it is difficult to serve two in such a way that it becomes enough for everyone, the friend as well as the enemy! If you care for Me, what do you care for the world? But if you care to lend a level path to the world, how will spiritual fruit come from it?
[3] See, My will is higher than the will of the world! But if you want both, as there is: a happiness in the world, against which is My grace – listen, that cannot be! I say, however, that the first one will come at the right time anyway. But all your and your children's ways should be directed exactly according to My grace – then I will take care of everything! But if you feel comfortable carrying some unnecessary worldly worries, then carry them anyway, but be careful that one does not break out into a legion.
[4] The love of parents is always blind towards their children. They do not see the seed, but only the tree and do not consider what is locked in a seed. But the good seed comes up with a thousandfold fruit only in My earth. In the earth of the world, however, it suffocates immediately. But the worldly seed thrives in the worldly soil, bringing forth all weeds. But ask yourself, what is the use? Listen! Not for My kingdom and for My scouring!
[5] Behold, because of this contradiction existing in you yourself, I told you this, so that your contradiction of the gospel may become clear to you. But remember this especially: As you now know who He is before whose eyes all secrets lie open, so you should also know, when in worldly things you find wrong ways either for yourself or your children, that I am the only one Who knows what is right. Well, at present you take care of your three – and let Me take care of the rest!
[6] And so that Matthew may become blameless before you, take this contradiction upon yourself and understand when I say to Magdalene: "Do not touch Me, but first fall down before Me, clasping
the feet and worshiping Me in spirit and in all truth, and then go to My brethren and tell them that I am risen!"
[7] You should also do the same and not rather strive for wisdom, but for the true, pure love, which corresponds to My feet and from it first of all for your love, which in it’s greatest purity still has something sensual about it (and therefore is like My "feet", on which alone you can enter to life). Therefore you shall at first not be allowed to "touch" My wisdom before My feet have been grasped in all love.
[8] But if you say: Lord, how is the touching of Thomas to be understood? Then I say: He also had to turn his eyes to the stigmata of the feet and hands, before I told him to touch My broad and wide wound of the breast. But so that your own contradiction may become clearer to you, questioner, I will show you another reason why I at first said to Magdalene: Do not touch Me," and then I allowed her to clasp My feet with the others.
[9] Behold, Magdalene was also sensually in love with Me to the point of jealousy and formally considered Me her only chosen lover. Her opinion of Me was that I was a great prophet, but My divinity was still foreign to her. In view of her heart in love, no-one had lost so much through My suffering and death as she had, since she had not only lost her Savior, Lord and Master, but also, in the earnestness of her heart, her only lover; therefore, she was also inconsolable.
[10] See, it therefore happened that she was the first to inquire of Me in the presence of the rest, who did it more out of devout sorrow than out of such invincible love.
[11] When she saw Me, her lost lover, standing before her, her heart was lifted out of all bonds. She cried out and immediately wanted to rush at Me in the outburst of her passionate love. But now consider who and what I am – then the "Noli me tangere!" will become clear to you. But you should also consider Magdalena's strong love, and the embrace of My feet will become clear to you.
[12] And add to this the fact that My beloved John wrote from My soul, but Matthew from My "feet", then all this will become even clearer to you – and understandable also the great repentance of Magdalene after My full ascension, since only through this did she learn who was actually behind her supposed beloved, whereupon only through her great repentance did she then begin to love Me in the spirit of humility and thereby in all truth.
[13] But I tell you, if someone does not love me like Magdalene, he will not find Me again and enter into life at "My feet" and will never find a solution in the constant contradiction of his worldly life. Behold, My kingdom is of greatest, holiest clarity, and nothing unclean can ever get in. Therefore just think of the fig tree without fruit in the garden and of the servant of two enemies – and solve the contradiction in you! – your God, your Father, your constant advisor!
[14] See, today I speak, tomorrow I act and the day after tomorrow I will come! If you won't be at home, I'll pass by your home! Amen. That says He who always allows His feet to be embraced!