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Of ghostly, heroic and loving deeds
25th May 1841, afternoon (continued)
[1] You will think in your innermost being: This (on the return journey from the "Kulm", the cemetery seen by the servant) apparition, albeit spiritually, has just not too much in it’s appearance that is extraordinarily excellent! It is true that often many an apparition from the spirit world offers nothing extraordinary to the eye in it’s possible outward appearance. But it is the same with all spiritual phenomena: The greater they are in the spiritual sense, the less they are in their outward appearance. But the greater any ghostly apparition appears, the less there is basically to it.
[2] You will have heard and read more often that in some old, dilapidated, so-called knight's castles, there are often such magnificent apparitions and "spooky things" going on that several provinces and countries gain an uncanny knowledge of them. And if you had the opportunity to witness such nightly "spookings" yourself, you would surely exclaim "Oh, this is something extraordinary!" And if you, like many other people, were to see such enchanted castle princes throwing stones and other objects around or carrying them around in the night, you would surely not digest the extraordinary appearance of such a phenomenon for your whole life, for the sheer size of it!
[3] But if I were to open your spiritual eye in doing so, you would not judge much differently than if you had met some street urchins on the way, who take pleasure in carrying out some meaningless, loose pranks.
[4] The petty apparition of two mosquitoes mating, of which you care as much as nothing, surpasses in size and importance all castle haunts since the most ancient times up to yours and far beyond.
[5] It is the same with the "deeds" of men. There are "heroes" among them who, for thousands and thousands of years performed the so-called greatest deeds, and still today they are sung of and reborn by a thousand historians for the poor memory. But truly, I tell you, when one day the great library in My kingdom is opened to you, you will seek in it many a "hero of great deeds" with quite vain effort. But you will be highly astonished at how in these eternal books of life, often one of the acts of love committed in secret and unnoticed by anyone, takes great credit for all eternal times for new and ever new wonders!
[6] So, for example, one of you would have ever in any way seen a poor, burdened man or a poor, helpless child of whatever gender, and you would have shown him mercy – indeed, this deed alone already outweighs all ordinary great deeds of all world heroes, which had men slaughtered by the thousands and again by the thousands, as if they, like Me, were masters of life and death, while they are not able to revive even one withered blade of grass. And if they could, how small would be such an act against those through whom you have not only enlivened a little blade of grass, I tell you, infinitely more than a little blade of grass – listen and understand well – through which act you have enlivened one of My brothers!
[7] When you now consider the endless differences in spirit from such great slaughter to the enlivening of a blade of grass and from there to the enlivening of an immortal brother, it will certainly become clear to you why in My library such earthly heroic deeds do not exist at all and why again other deeds, often just so little noticed on earth, cause such an extraordinary, say, eternally wonderful sensation in My kingdom.
[8] These small acts of love on earth are almost as simple as if someone had buried his name in the tender bark of a young tree with the tip of a needle, since the name grows like the tree itself. And if the tree could grow into infinity, as in My kingdom, then the name with the tree itself would also grow into infinity, so that every single writing would become an infinite field at the end, on which again new and innumerable wonders would have a great space to reveal themselves.
[9] Hence also, my dear friends: where you always go in My Name, and what you always look at and observe in My Name, if you want to observe truly great things, turn your eyes to small things and seemingly minor events!
[10] Verily, in your spirit you will feel without effort what is greater there: a radiant central sun, or the tear of a poor, weeping child. Verily, if you have dried the tear and given even a meager piece of bread to the hungry, you have done more than if you had created and destroyed a trillion Central Suns.
[11] For these and all worlds with their glories will one day pass away and be destroyed, as the present worlds are works of wrath and it’s deadly power. But from the acts of love, imperishable suns and worlds will come forth in their place and will grow and become more glorious for all eternity of ages. And you will see in it the great glory of the "new heaven" and the "new earth", which will be there and already are now: pure, imperishable works of eternal love.
[12] Do therefore love everyone without distinction, and help according to your ability everyone who is in need of your help, and your works will be perfect, and you in your works – as I, your most loving Father in heaven, am perfect
[13] This I say, to whom the small is dearer than the great. Amen!