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The ‘rags’ of the prodigal son
25th March 1841 (continuation)
[1] However, you have heard that the rags of the prodigal son were dispersed by the winds like chaff, and the remaining rags were taken off him and burned. Do you know what these rags mean?
[2] Understand, it is nothing other than the former withered cosmic human being on our tablet. For through the salvation of each individual person is the noble, coming out of Me, or My prodigal son restored. The rags or the actual prime-evil will be thrown into the fire, from which it actually came out of. However, it is this fire – the one in the Divinity – out of which all things have their material existence.
[3] Consequently, whoever depends on the world and clings to matter, clings to the rags of the prodigal son; however, all matter shows you already it’s big similarity to the fire; this is also the rags on the loins of the prodigal son.
[4] This is how it will happen! So that God becomes a free God again, in which no more matter seethes, so must the fire or the related wraths once again return from where it—as that what it is— came from. And it will happen, as if you have some kind of hardening on your body and you cover it with a hot poultice , so this hardening becomes soft again. So too will My eternal fire seize this primeevil hardening in its all-ness or entirety, in order to thereby again assimilate its own being.
[5] There is another question present in you: Whether those beings, which are understood as rags, also will have a continual self-consciousness or not? I, however, say to you: The question answers itself almost automatically, because you cannot possibly assume that there should perhaps be any unconscious point in the Deity
[6] This question therefore solves itself; except for one more question: Whether this self-consciousness is a suffering one or not? See: that is a different question. However, to understand this correctly, you must first recognize that every effort, in order to find itself, must comprehend a certain necessary suffering in itself. Only now, it depends only on whether this suffering is painful or pleasant.
[7] If this suffering consists in the fact that the being seizes continuously in itself and by this seizing is striving to form or shape itself forever into a unity, then such a suffering is extremely pleasant and the feeling from the clearest self-assurance an extremely blissful one.
[8] If, however, the suffering, or the self-assured feeling of a being, is tearing and destructive in itself, then it is also an extremely painful one; this you can simply learn from nature as well, if you have ever observed any kind of an inflammatory illness, which consists of nothing other than that certain parts in the body begin to expand more and more. The more violent such an act carries on, the more painful it becomes. The result from this is that the self-confident essential condition of the fire-related prime-evil must also be extremely painful and cause immense suffering.
[9] You will now perhaps think that as a result the Deity must thereby continually suffer extremely painfully in its portion of wrath. In fact it is not so! But it is simply as if food is boiled down in your stomach; driven through the fire of the stomach, here the little husks crack open from the nourishment one has eaten. However, do ask yourself whether this horrific destruction-process has ever hurt you in your natural state in the fire of your stomach?
[10] However, since I have led you already so far, I want to give you on this occasion a never before outspoken hint! If you want to see the final cause of such a situation of all worldly material
primemalice, then look into your stomachs and observe what happens there with the food that you eat; observe the how and why? Consequently, you will all see a great segment of My ways, as to what will happen. However, the time is not recorded in your stomachs, and it is enough for you all that I have shown you the purpose.
[11] Now see, dear children! This is everything that can be given to you; this is everything that you are able to endure; you do not need to know any more; but heed this from point to point, and in fact from the very first hour to the very last hour. Walk this way through the entire earth within you, and in doing so, find the prodigal son within yourselves.
[12] Do the same that this one has done and still does in each and every sinner who yearns for My Kingdom. In the innermost chamber of your spirit, on the tablet of your world-avidities with the world, allow That which you just now saw happening to take place on the tablet with the cosmic human being. Thus will the prodigal son be found again in each one of you and will become his [own] nearest and dearest, comprehending all, as I showed you, since another human being has stepped in the place of the former one, who melted together onto one point;
[13] only then will all of you as foundlings, discover the immense truth that is given to you in these 12 hours; you will also see and recognize the truth in the brightest light within yourselves.
[14] As was said previously, that all people together constitute one human being, like one so are all, then also search for all the evil within all of you. And once you have found this evil and managed with My strong support to rid yourselves of it, then will I—as your Holy Father—who has already come to meet you half way, come all the way to you. I will then free you completely from your rags and receive you into the immense [and glorious] and eternal house of the Father of My eternal Love!
[15] Finally I like to make you aware of this: Presently I have not only come toward you, but have also already come towards many other prodigal sons.
[16] However, direct your attention mainly within yourselves upon My arrival, and worry less about the overall one. However, what you generally feel, carry prayerfully in your heart before Me – nothing else needs to concern you; the big when, how and why is well guarded in the best hands. This say I, your great, holy, most loving Father. Amen.