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About balls and amusement parks
17th July 1840, morning
[1] I tell you this, as My lazy servant, in order to indicate to you the cause of the response that befalls you, if you hear anything about the dance, the "redoubt", the "reunion", the "ballet", "casino", and so even now especially about the foundation for the poor of the so-called bourgeois "resource" (closed amusement society, literally: source of recreation).
[2] This response is very true, since it comes from the Spirit. but with you, by a direction unconscious to you, starting from Me, it was first naturally caused in such a way that three girls very valuable to you (spiritually) were completely spoiled by the above-mentioned institutions and thereby also became unfaithful to you over the hair and under the heels, which was certainly good for you, but in general still very bad, since a faithless girl (who (in the natural sense) becomes unfaithful to a man, either because she likes another one better, either because he is younger and more handsome, or because he is richer and more flattering, and also has more lust shooting out of his horny eyes at her than a former one with a face pleasing to Me and a sincere heart), has let her heart be captured by Satan in the moment of her unfaithfulness, and has become a serpent, uglier than Satan himself, and has transformed her love into the poison of the whore; the harlot is just a harlot, but such an (unfaithful) girl is a queen of harlots and not worthy that she carries the earth and blows the air, the sun shines on her and the rain moistens her (spiritually); I say: in front of a bear, in front of a dog, even in front of a pig and all ravening beasts you should open the gospel; only in front of such a girl it should remain closed (i.e. the understanding even if she reads or hears it). (i.e. the understanding, even if she reads or hears it), because she has mocked the heart of a sincere man. But this is the cause spiritually: As your senses are disgusted, sickened and depressed by a stench, a carrion, an abyss, so it is with the senses of the spirit. For it is a dance entertainment, a "reunion" and a "ball" an open grave full of rubbish. The "casino" is a carrion (heap) of large dead amphibians. And such a "resource" is an abyss, since Satan has set up an incense burner barrel in the lowest depth, so that one should not notice the coarse, seductive stench of his filth that makes itself felt here and there by some spiritually sensitive noses.
[3] If little is enough for wisdom, I have told you everything with these short words. But also your friends shall take a note of it. And so it is still necessary, because of their more limited insight, to add a few more words.
[4] Satan has seen with sorrow and much anger that (in this city) several better families have refused to submit to his amusing temptations because of the stench. Therefore he invented a means, namely in an infinitely deep abyss, where he has placed a large, well-closed barrel at the bottom; but he has covered well the abyss of hell with beautiful, very smooth planks and decorated the entrance with very fragrant flowers of the world – so that no-one should even suspect anything evil!
[5] "For", he said to himself, "here I will prepare a good meal for myself, and will begin to live on the tender flesh of the children, and will not always eat the tough flesh of the emaciated harlots; they shall chew and digest my (hellish) angels in the future. I will hide behind the fragrant, enticingly beautiful flowers, because no-one shall notice me. And when the flower-addicted little children stream down, I will seize them, devour them, digest them and let them down as fine filth into the barrel in the abyss. Then let parents see how they shall get them out of there, as I, Satan, am the most powerful one! It will be easier for them to pull a fixed star from the sky than to rescue a single hair of a child, whether a young lady or a young man.
[6] There you have revealed Satan's own word and Plan! How do you think I like such an institution?!
[7] I have shown you (now) with Fatherly and divine care the great danger in all My incorruptible truth. In the full depth of his wickedness, Satan stands exposed before you, My few children. Therefore take good heed of My love and this great grace of your Holy Father flowing out of it and be on your guard! For whoever sees the enemy, can flee him. But woe to the blind and deaf, and to those who will not turn back according to My counsel! I will rather send My angels into all the hells to convert those who go astray and illuminate the darkness there, than that I would even look at such a barrel with a merciful look! Amen. – Mind you, I say this, God from eternity. Amen, Amen, Amen.