NEUOFFENBARUNG← Gifts of Heaven · Volume 1 · Contents
Cause and natural as well as spiritual and spiritual-political
reason of the unusually cool weather for this season 19th June 1841, from 1/2 4 in the afternoon to 3/4 8 in the evening.
Writer: Andr. and Ans., Wilhelmine and Pauline H.
[1] You will have noticed that in this year, unusually warm and dry weather has already appeared early; you will also have noticed that during the persistent dry-warm period of time, more and more southern winds were blowing, helping to warm the air with the sun's rays; you will also have noticed that in this warm time, very few electrical weather occurred, and that after each of these few electrical weathers, it remained cloudy for a day or two and rained occasionally. Someone who has a so-called barometer will surely, if he is otherwise familiar with the rules of this instrument, have made the observation that it has rained in a high level of the silver column as well as in a medium and low level even while climbing or falling.
[2] You see, if someone had observed all this closely and had awakened his spirit of research, he would not have shot far from the target, as he might well initially ask himself: Where does the air, which always flows from south to north, go, mind you, when it flows northwards from all noontime areas around the whole earth? And the answer would also be very easy, especially if one still presupposes and must presuppose that air is a weighty body capable of accumulation, of which each bellows can be a teaching to you, just as your lungs do with each breath.
[3] This researcher must have necessarily concluded that, because the air of all midday-areas of the earth moved towards north, that through it just over the significant North Pole, a great accumulation and charging of air must have taken place. See what real discoveries our researcher has already made. Now we ask the researcher, if he is by the way only a little familiar with the air pressure experiments: What will happen when such masses of air are layered on top of each other over the icy North Pole and one layer begins to press the other more and more? And the researcher will after a not too long thinking give the following answer: So if experience does not deceive me, which will certainly not easily be the case, the stratification of the air above the North Pole must produce the same effect as when two large bellows are turned against each other with their air outlets and, at the point where the two air currents stubbornly meet, water is allowed to trickle through, which immediately freezes into small hailstones; and when the mutual flow of the air is increased in it’s intensity, one soon sees a lot of small fire-sparks like the electric ones twitching in all directions, namely under a known electrical crackling of sparks. If therefore, our researcher continues, the compressed air always shows the same appearance and effect, then the cold over the North Pole must have increased more and more since the onset of such air- accumulation, and this in the same proportion as the lowest layer of air was pressed more and more by the increasingly accumulating upper layers. And if the pressure has reached the highest degree, then the air must have ignited there in it’s lowest position just as well as in the small area between the two large bellows. Behold, our researcher is really not unreasonable, for his conclusion is correct.
[4] So it was also taken in a natural way. The sun has driven the air from south to north with its rays from all parts of the earth, and this is because the sun in this early warm time through it’s large and many newly formed fire-craters has multiplied it’s light more than a thousand fold, which of course is not the case every year. The air now piled up above the North Pole and thereby caused the greatest possible cold, so much so that the sea surrounding the North Pole has turned to ice over a hundred
miles further down south to the bottom and thus in some places, where the sea is very deep, the ice was often several thousand fathoms deep.
[5] But now I must still draw your attention to an apparition. Can you still remember the day when in A.H.W.'s room a small freely suspended pendulum began to swing without any conscious cause to do so? Behold, just about this time the layer of air above the North Pole ignited under the naturally most magnificent explosion, which explosion was of such violence that it shattered with one blow almost all the ice which surrounded the North Pole, hundreds and hundreds of miles far, and by the subsequent continuing ignitions, pushed the ice from the pole in not infrequently country-sized pieces into the more southern regions, of which up to now, some have even reached the equator. Such an explosion scene would infallibly kill you, if you only wanted to watch it and listen to it’s thunderous banging from quite a far distance; for of this you cannot form any idea what expressions of natural forces, incomprehensible to you, happen there.
[6] Indeed, if you would like to fill your whole empire definitely a thousand fathoms high with your powder and then ignite it, this would be just as much against such a polar appearance and also in relation to the whole earth, as if you wanted to ignite a single grain of powder on a table. It is precisely in this relationship that the explosion-effect of the North Pole stands against that of the ignited large pile of powder, just as the explosion of this pile stands in relation to that of the individual grain. Since you may now to a certain extent be able to sense the explosion, you may also have a faint idea of the general bang, which was produced by more than a trillion simultaneous lightnings. Such a blow is felt by the whole earth, as also the pendulum known to you, has felt it.
[7] If you now summarize this and then deduce from it that the cold that occurred immediately afterwards in your already rather southern regions will certainly no longer be a mystery to you. For if now the air mass from the North Pole over all the ice fields, often stretching over a hundred miles, begins to flow again towards the equator and on it’s return journey also carries with it several thousands and thousands of mountain- and country-sized pieces, it will be understandable to you that the air, returning from the north, cannot be warm, as if it came from the burning equator.
[8] For this reason, very little electrical weather has reached you, and the rising and falling of the silver in the barometer is not only a consequence of the inner earth crust elevations, but is merely caused by the fact that soon a larger and soon a smaller portion of air from the north extends over the surface of the earth and thereby, by virtue of it’s greater or lesser gravity, also causes the falling and rising of the silver in the tube.
[9] See, so it can rain all the time, may the mercury stand in the tube as it likes, or may it fall or rise, since the air is cool all the time and the earth temperature is warm. And thus also always the same appearance, which you can already notice on your windows, when it gets cold outside and you heat your rooms, because the oxygen of the colder air combines with the nitrogen, which is a consequence of the heating in the rooms, and appears on the window pane as dripping water.
[10] How high the air has accumulated above the North Pole, you may very easily recognize from the long lasting dusk, by virtue of which you may discover a considerable glimmer of light towards the North, even just around midnight, and this glimmer of light is nothing else than the illuminated far stretched column of air above the North. Those of you who can calculate by the circle bend and by the number of degrees up to the so-called polar circle, can determine with a fair amount of certainty by miles the height of the column of air, which has piled up above the North Pole along the already known path. But for now I tell you that this time the pillar of air reached a height of seven thousand miles. Now you know the natural reason of this phenomenon, as far as also a well-understanding, so-called natural scientist could have made it known to you.
[11] But what does it look like with the spiritual reason, which is the actual main reason, where every scholar of nature must pronounce the sad „So far and no further"? If you want to look up the explanation about the North Pole, as well as many others from the mineral-, plant- and animal- kingdom, but especially also that explanation about the earthquake, the spiritual reason would be quite familiar to you. Only the different circumstance is to be considered here, since for this time, which admittedly is only rarely the case, a general spirit-capturing – as well as a release – has taken place long ago of those waiting in the ice of the north. The prisoners are those who were led from south to north, and therefore were led there because otherwise they would have caused too great a disaster over all southern parts of the earth.
[12] If you may look at all the warlike and rebellious movements of all the southern peoples, the reason for such general imprisonment may not be entirely unclear to you. And if you now say: Such a thing has indeed much for itself and seems to us most likely, but on the other hand it cannot be understood just as easily why then on the other hand just as many strongly cooled down ones from the north became free again – and were and are still led up to now in the southern warmer areas, partly in large ice masses and partly in the back-streaming air itself. I will only tell you about this, that he who understands the one can just as easily also understand the other.
[13] A small example should brighten up the whole thing for you. What do you think would be the best way to calm roughnecks in a warm room as soon as possible? I tell you: Pour ice-cold water over them or take them out into the snow, and you can be completely assured that the cooled ones will not lay hands on each other at least for this time. So it is also the case on a large scale. Had I now not allowed such things and thereby cooled the worldly powerful hotheads and ruffians through the peaceful spirits, the whole southern world would now be involved in war, turmoil, hunger, and plague over head and neck. But so I let cold air blow. But these not only cool down your skin, but, since they are in themselves only peaceful or yet at least pacified spirits, they also exert on the minds the same effect that the cold wind externally exerts on the skin. Do you know on how many people it often depends that whole peoples are involved in wars?
[14] You only need to take a look into the past, and you will seldom originally encounter more than two mutually high-ranking hotheads. If these inflame, they influence the people just like a spark to a dry forest, that falls there on an easily inflammable body, that therefore soon flares up brightly and very soon sets the whole forest on fire. The spark, for example, is some burning minister, the very ignitable object is either the monarch himself or the military people, and the barren forest is all the rest of the people, who often languish physically and mentally under the pressure of some too selfish government. The rowdy minister considers the war to be highly necessary, naturally due to his own lust for power and profit. The monarch and the warlike people are no less carried away by the same motive, and the poor people must go along with it, whether they want it or not, and even then they usually say: I am there either way – and so whole nations murderously grab each other by the hair due to two single sparks. But if the burning spark is extinguished by a falling raindrop before it has touched the ignitable object of the forest, is not the entire forest spared?
[15] Behold, this is also the nature of the present persistently cool weather and makes the great ones, instead of rubbing each other, rub their hands together, but not their heated heads, so that it would flare up all the sooner.
[16] From this now given example you may well conclude, how I do well understand to put aside many a spiritual evil through every phenomenon that appears to you only naturally. But if you think more deeply, then you will anyway find in all natural phenomena very little that is natural, since I, as the originator of every natural phenomenon, am certainly a Spirit in the most perfect sense of every word
and every meaning, but am no outer sensual nature, which in itself is nothing but – as already announced to you – My held idea or My fixed thought.
[17] But if you now know such things, then you may also know and understand that, if I set My thoughts only somewhat in motion, I do not do such things because of the thoughts, as if I wanted to quasi air them and protect them from the moths as a furrier does his skins, but I move My thoughts all the time only for their sake, which are now more than only My thoughts; that is what you are, namely free, self-acting beings, who here should become My children. But if one or the other is a good father for his children, does he not run his whole household for the sake of his children and work and manage and think and save up for them?
[18] If you, who are imperfect, do this for your children, how would you then think, I as the most wise and most loving Father of all human children, will let even the smallest cloud be carried through the air by the winds for pure entertainment, let alone accomplish such a great North Pole expedition for nothing and again nothing for pure entertainment – and thereby be like you, who often do things for nothing and again nothing and sometimes are not dissimilar to the wind-loving boys who load a key box and then take pleasure in the escaping steaming powder, of which, after all, according to your judgment, certainly nothing profitable can occur.
[19] Finally, I still call your attention on this occasion to that banging and sounding worship of God existing with you. Such is not to be compared with the little cloud carried by the wind, still less with that great phenomenon of the North Pole, but is still seven times less meaningful than the key-box plucking of the wind-loving boys, who, however, at least amuse themselves exceedingly – while by such banging and metal-bashing and other kind of ringing, which is supposed to glorify My name, even nobody is cheered, nor amused. But all this is done according to a certain rule, as if by instinct, and man is built up by it just as one tree is built up next to another when a branch is cut off from one. Understand this well!
[20] But in order that they may come to such a stirring of thoughts, which is worthy of Me, I will soon be forced to set a greater thought in motion! Understand it well, Amen. This says I, the only great Thought-stirrer. Amen!