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Barren doctrines of God
28th February 1841, in the afternoon from 1/4 to 4 a.m. to 3/4 in the evening
Writer: K.G.L. – Andr. and Ans. H. – J. L. spoke from the Lord:
[1] In the so-called better and educated world, where the Christian religion is common under various sectarian forms, morality is mostly preached only in such a way as is politically most expedient for the rulers, either in worldly or in spiritual matters. The people are taught a gray knowledge of God, not that they should recognize and love Him, but only that they should immeasurably fear Him as the most implacable tyrant of all tyrants. And so the Godhead is preached only as a hostage, which should still bear fruit when all other hostages have already become fruitless.
[2] Instead of the Godhead being made known to the people for the highest consolation, it is only given to them as something that has nothing to do but to irrevocably condemn millions of morally corrupt and disobedient children to the eternal sea of fire every minute. And so look around a little in the world; see the innumerable dungeons, which are all filled up with all kinds of moral criminals, and how from minute to minute these dungeons receive an ever increasing number, so that if these dungeons were united at one point, you would have to believe that the whole generation of the earth would have to prepare itself to march into all of them within a few years.
[3] And ask, what shall be the manner of these people that enter? Just look a little towards tomorrow! Behold, there already stand a number of deathly pale crowds, surrounded by all kinds of armed men and poisonous judges, and see there further, a myriad of murderous instruments with which these wretches are executed. There you see burning pyres, gallows, scaffolds and many other instruments of murder. See, this is the last "reformatory" for such moral criminals! Now you will ask, what have all these done? Yes, I say, among them there are murderers, robbers, thieves, defectors and agitators of the state. There are also people who have done great harm to the state by all kinds of frauds; among them are those who have seriously violated one or another political or even moral order. Behold, the crimes of these unfortunates are thus revealed, insofar as they can serve as a reason for justifying such punishments.
[4] But now let us look at another question: Why have these people become such criminals? And if you ask someone else about the reason, you will surely get no other answer than: The reason lies either in the neglected upbringing or, which is one and the same, the parents, forefathers and grandparents of these people were already shaped in this way. But I ask again, what was the reason that these people received such a bad education, that even a whole generation was neglected in education?
[5] You do not need to reach far, and the answer will force itself upon you: The main reason is no other than politics, by virtue of which the ruling class of people cares about nothing so much as that the subordinates shall be kept in darkness as much as possible, in the fear that if the people would get closer information about Me and thereby also about their own destiny, it might soon bring an end to their power and their temporal income.
[6] Oh these fools! A people that recognizes God and His destiny is also a people full of obedience and good will; and thousands of those can be ruled more easily with a feather fluff than ten dark dullards, who have no other concept of Me than that of a "perhaps" existing tyrant or a being, which like a vampire, first sucks out the last drop of blood from his believer, finally blessing him with eternal life, kneeling on a light cloud eternally and worshiping.
[7] Behold, is it not easy to understand that people will try to get rid of such a malicious God as much as possible? And if they still have any religion, it consists of pure ceremony, and this only out
of purely political considerations. The consequence of this was already in the beginning no other than that the more worldly-minded part finally done away with all religion and whatever Christian doctrine of God, as you are wont to say. On the other hand, church divisions and sects were formed by people who more or less realized the folly of such a doctrine of God and, in a certain way, said in their spirit:
[8] "Listen, with the divinity as it is taught there, it is not possible to get along purely! Let us therefore take the pure doctrine ourselves, examine it more closely and see whether there are any better aspects to be gained from the divinity. And in such examination they really found that I am not such a tyrant after all; but on the other hand they forgot that I am nevertheless God, and then they also took My will too lukewarmly.
[9] Others again set Me so high and in this way philosophized to themselves every action that found only some suggestion in it’s nature as just and completely according to My will, in the erroneous idea that whatever passed through their foolish minds, was My will. And so, instead of the old foolishness, such a lot of silliness and conceptual differences arose, that it is truly not worth the effort to enumerate them for you.
[10] But the reason of all this was and is no other than, as already noted above, partly the moral policy, but mainly also the sloth and fear of people to walk the marked paths to eternal life in earnest. For truly I say: Whoever does not take My kingdom as I have proclaimed it, will not receive it, and should he also unite all sects in himself or stand among all sects. For I alone am the Way, the Truth and the Life.