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The purpose of the mountains
17th July 1841, from 1:44 nm until 7pm
Writer: Andr. and Ans. H. Today we received from the Lord through His servant J.L.. We have received the following as a gift concerning the little one:
[1] What are the Alps, the highest mountains and small hills, towering over the earth's sparse surface? Nothing but the dust on an apple that fell from a tree onto a dust-laden road. But the dust hangs only loosely on the apple, while the mountains are solid excrescences of the earth. But with what should one compare the mountains? With the dust on an apple, for example, or with the outgrowths of a nut or even the small warts on the surface of an egg shell?
[2] In and of itself, the one does as little as the other. But take all three together, and the dusted apple, the nut, and the egg will each find something peculiarly corresponding on earth.
[3] But which one should we take first? Behold, there will be little to choose from here. But if you take all three together, you will have chosen the right measure.
[4] But must an apple fall from the tree to become dusty? Or can't rather winds come, loosen the dust from the road and so easily dust an apple when it hangs on the road?
[5] Or how about the nut? Is the inner fruit formed after the shell is bent, or is rather the firm shell bent by the fruit? Here it is surely better to look at the texture of the fruit – since everyone has his skirt made after the body and not the body made after the skirt. And thus the effect emanates from within, and not from the outside to the inside – since life's active force always remains in the center, but not on the outside, on the garment, it's dwelling.
[6] But what about the warts on the eggshell – how do they develop and why are they there? It would be easier for a hen to lay a smoothly polished egg than one whose surface is covered with thousands and thousands of warts! But could you not just as easily and with the same reason say: "Why the mountains on the surface of the earth? After all, a smooth earth would apparently turn around it's axis more easily than one with so many mountains!
[7] But let it be noted here, what then would force the air and water on earth to rotate with it, since neither one nor the other is immovably fixed onto the body of the earth with chains and ropes?
[8] If the egg would have no warts, at what would press against the specialised push- and pressure- nerves in the birth canal of a hen, in order to help it along to the outside world? And if the egg is then in the atmospheric air and would not have such small excrescences – with what should it suck in the related electro-magnetic life-fluid for the distant permanent preservation of the life substance and what would draw to itself the warming substance during the incubation time from the breast of the hen or from the rays of the sun or also from the warmed sand?
[9] If the earth were a smooth sphere, it would not fare much better on all it's points, even those below the equator, than on the top of Chimborasso or the North Pole itself, where eternal ice and snow prevail.
[10] But the mountains are on the earth what the warts are on the egg! They are not only air- and water-drivers, but they are even more heat absorbers. And what they absorb in heat they naturally cannot give away anywhere else but into the lowest lying valleys and plains.
[11] But if the vast plains are too far away from the mountains, you will find just as little vegetation there, even less than on the highest mountain peaks – and this for a double reason!
[12] Firstly, because it is too far from the mountains, therefore not enough fertile warmth! As for the burning heat on the heath-land, it is nothing but nitrogen exhaled by the neighboring fertile areas above it, which, although it concentrates the rays of the sun like the atmospheric air, it also absorbs
them. But, as I have said, such warmth is not the warmth of fruit, but is like that which comes from burning coals in a closed chamber. It does therefore not have a destructive effect on animal-life, but it has a destructive effect on the life of the plant world. And it is not difficult at all to prove that, where any plant-life ceases, there can no longer be animal-life either.
[13] But there are also regions, especially in Africa and also in southern America, where neighboring, very fertile regions exhale the sticky air so strongly that it then pours out like a sea of flames over vast heath-fields, steppes and deserts; and what this stream of flames reaches there is so completely destroyed in it's natural sphere of life as if it had been thrown into a strongly burning lime kiln.
[14] But there is another reason why such areas are barren: because they have a great lack of water. But you may travel all over the earth, and you will hardly succeed in finding any mountain that does not want to give, often at it's foot, several abundant, inexhaustible springs.
[15] So what else are the mountains – while they are already "water and air drivers" and, now known, also "life heat generators"? They are also "water conductors" in two respects. Because since they, as you have already been informed several times, stand together and all over large water basins, they often drive the water up to significant heights through their constant, equal pressure. And this conducting of water to the surface of the earth is the first way in which the mountains are even able to give off the richest sources of the purest water in the most diverse points.
[16] But since the atmospheric air must also be constantly impregnated with the vapors, which to some extent originate from the immeasurable etheric sea on the way of primitive-animalistic production, the mountains – like the polyps in the sea – are always quick-witted as true gluttons, in order to draw all moisture coming close to them from the air and suck it in. Through this "ethereal water" the subterranean is then enlivened and purified according to your chemical expressions, so that it is then sufficiently suitable for the necessary use of life. For the water from the interior of the earth is as little usable for life as the purely ethereal.
[17] But you do not have to take rainwater from among the "etheric water," which appears only when some clouds from the nearby mountains have saturated themselves sufficiently with oxygen; but the pure "etheric water" is contained drip-free in the air, but especially on the mountains.
[18] The first visibility of the "ethereal water" is expressed in the so-called "lamb clouds". When these clouds become more and more electrically heavy, they fall down more and more until they are finally pulled down to the middle cloud region, where they start to suck in the oxygen. And when they then become so to speak life-heavy, they sink down into the foggy region of the mountains, which then begin to strip them of their electrical material.
[19] Then, very strong winds usually start blowing on the mountains. And whoever does not want to believe that such winds are nothing but the electricity drawn from the clouds (or rather now fog) by the mountains, should have only a so-called electro-sucking shield or a common "electric kite" at his disposal on the Alps and fix this shield on a fathom-long (*1), either completely glass or at least a rod well-covered with resin. If he has the courage, he should approach such a shield, then a strongly shining and even very deadly evidence will soon meet him with true lightning speed.
[20] So you see, in this way the mountains are also in a second way, "water conductors".
[21] What else are the mountains? You do not need to travel too far into the highlands, and the manifold and diverse ores will reveal to you at once what else the mountains are! Namely, they are also manufacturers of all kinds of metals.
[22] Where does the metal in the mountains come from? This, like water, enters them from below and from above and is basically a product from above through the countless rays of the stars and from below a product firstly of the subterranean fire and for secondly of the earth's constantly approaching and changing polarity at all heights of the earth.
[23] Although the metals are different, they only have one and the same basic cause. There is no other way! Because even on a meadow there are different herbs, and yet everywhere is the same earth, the same light of the sun and the same rain!
[24] Of course, humans are not able to do this, and no-one is able to drill holes of different sizes with one and the same drill or to lift all conceivable loads with one and the same leverage. No-one can make and use an infinite drill whose tip would be finer than a thought and whose last cutting screw would reach beyond all possible space. And likewise no-one can create a lever with which he could lift a sun from it's center.
[25] Behold, since man is not able to bring about two such simple tools, how would he then manage to explain how from one and the same cause so much infinitely different realities can arise, and how can he prove that all the metals in the mountains flow from one and the same source, and yet none is like the other!
[26] Only He alone whom you know is well able to do so, and understands the not insignificant art of preparing all possible colors in one and the same cauldron, so that, if you put innumerable materials in it, you take none out that is of one and the same color.
[27] Therefore, then, the explanation is easy, when here iron, there tin, elsewhere lead, silver, copper, zinc, and the like, more things come to light, that nothing more belongs to them than that every mountain, like a grain of seed, has been given a special form and a special property, by virtue of which it can easily use one and the same substance that it absorbs in itself, even according to it's peculiar property – as every seed can use one and the same substance for that which actually arises only from it.
[28] Whoever does not yet want to understand such things can make the following attempt, as soon as a significant light will shine on his still much more significant ignorance!
[29] He can take any big vessel, e.g. any large garden pot, puts into it the same completely identical soil, but puts into this soil different seeds, waters them with chemically identical water and, as far as the similarity of the sun's rays is concerned, he may be without worries, for these are still the same today as they were a few trillion years ago. If he then observes the plants that will grow from the different seeds, he will have to convince himself that his work and care was purely in vain. For, regardless all this, from the seed of the carnation a carnation with all it's peculiarities will appear, from the seed of the violet a violet, from the seed of the turnip a turnip, from the seed of the grain a grain stalk, etc. – from each seed the corresponding plant with all it's peculiarities.
[30] He who thinks only to a certain extent and has a spark of life in his mind that drifts upwards and not downwards, will not immediately have to ask himself in silence: “But how is it possible that from one and the same earth, from one and the same water, and from one and the same ray of light and heat of the sun, so very different products can appear? And yet, when I chemically examine all these seeds, I basically find only one and the same basic material! Even if I burn each plant on it's own, I always find one and the same ashes!
[31] When I squeeze the green plant, I indeed get a slightly different tasting and smelling juice from each one. But if I break the juices down chemically again, in the end it only shows again that everything comes down to one thing. And until I have come to my well-known carbon and basic oxygen, I have also finished my intensive examination-work and have to admit at the end that I am a purest botcher in my art which makes me so famous?”
[32] Behold, whoever has come to this result after such an attempt is already at the threshold of the forecourt! If he knocks there, he can be admitted, even if not immediately into the temple, but at least into the forecourt. And it is better to be in the forecourt with straight spiritual limbs, than to wait as a gout-ridden man on the arid shore of Siloah, until an angel, stirring water from the pond, saturates it with healing power. For he who has lost something there does better when he searches
for it, in order to find it again, than to wait carelessly on a point until, for instance, an honest finder returns and hands him the lost treasure.
[33] The earth is a place full of mountains, crevices, abysses, ditches, valleys and plains, and here and there it is covered far and wide with impenetrable bushes and undergrowth. Whoever has a treasure there and does not hold on to it, how easily it can be lost. And if he has lost it, how difficult it is to find it again on an earth that is so rich in dark hiding places! And whoever has lost something there, and does not even consider it worth the trouble to seek what has been lost, how will he find it again, especially if, in addition, he has the misfortune, out of himself, to be light-shy!
[34] Truly such a one will not become much more efficient, if he had also climbed all the highest mountains of the earth. For whoever climbs a mountain has great difficulty until he reaches the summit.
[35] And what is the reward for his efforts? That which he considers to be the sole main thing is a far-reaching view of other mountains, regions, and villages – but the actual enjoyment, which consists in the inhalation of the purer air of life (in which the main reward for his toil should actually be considered), he takes in quite indifferently.
[36] Thus natural man is also a perpetual climber of his own highly praised mind, climbing from one mind-level to another. As often as he has climbed some apparent height, he imagines himself to be on the very highest and most magnificent vantage point. But when he has satisfied himself with gawking at all sides, the thought comes to him: if only he could also climb that other, distant mountain peak – then there would a view that tears up all feeling, prove itself. And according to the old Latin proverb of a wise pagan who said: "Man can even storm the heavens with his foolhardiness, so what should prevent me from climbing even the top of this remote mountain, for it does not reach the moon or even the sun after all!" And so said so done!
[37] Man also climbs this peak with great discomfort, in the opinion that from here he will see at least half the earth at one glance. However, also here his high expectations are very limitedly satisfied. Because this mountain has again hidden higher ones behind itself. And so our mountain hiker again sees nothing but mountains around him, which he would like to climb all at once, if it were possible.
[38] It is the same with the human intellect; it rises from one intellectual level to another. But what does he see here everywhere? Nothing but but mountains and glaciers towering ever higher, which he will never be the first to climb! And probably to him, if he has brought it so far through his long continued fiddling with his mind that he finally confesses to himself: "The whole earth cannot be overlooked by any mountain; and the more one has seen, the clearer it becomes to him that, compared with what all else would be seen, he has seen so much as nothing at all," which, interpreted, means so much as that he who sees that he knows nothing, has brought it the furthest in the intellectual sciences.
[39] But to you I say: It is not difficult to clean a dusty apple from dust, for the dust sticks only to the skin. It would be more difficult to polish a nut smooth, and very difficult to destroy the warts on the egg without breaking the shell.
[40] But the earth is in truth a "dusty apple"; for on it rests natural primeval, other-worldly ruin dust(*2). Furthermore, it is a "dusty apple", because around it there is accumulated a miles-thick layer of atomic ethereal dust(*3). And thirdly, it is, in the spiritual sense, an apple that is thus extraordinarily dirty and dusty, so that through the dense veil of dust clouds a sparse light from the great sun of the spirit-world can penetrate this "earth apple" only here and there.
[41] The earth is furthermore a "nut". For it has for the time being something efficient to bite into for each of it's inhabitants. And again it is a nut, inasmuch as it's outer bark corresponds from the bottom to it's inner gnarled texture. According to this gnarled texture, the primeval mountains are
what the outer outgrowths of a nut are. And it is furthermore again a nut, since everyone who always wants to penetrate into the inner free life of the spirit, has first to take away a bitter wrapping and only then a hard shell, before he reaches the living fruit of life.
[42] The earth is also an "egg". For he who wants to know the inner nature of the earth, who boils an egg, then cuts it in two and studies it with a strong microscope, will pretty much know the inner nature of his earth. And again, the earth is an egg from which different chicks are born by the natural heat of the sun. And the earth is also spiritually like an egg. For as the egg only in the quiet, silent warmth brings the fruit of life to light, so also man will only through quiet seclusion and through the warmth of his heart to Me, be born again and anew in himself, in whatever state he is in, like a little chick that breaks through his own captivity, emerges alive from it and then leaves the shell, ignoring it.
[43] This is how man should be in a spiritual respect, he will not only overlook the whole earth, but a whole material and spiritual sun-region from every depth as from every mountain in the high feeling of free life.
[44] Finally, however, the ascent of the mountain pasture serves you in the fact that the path that leads to spiritual life, is not much different from the path to such a mountain pasture.
[45] Because from a distance everyone believes that the alp is not so high. But when he comes near it, he loses more and more of it's crown from his sight. And if he starts to climb at the foot, he already thinks that every next treeless hill is the highest point of the alp. But the higher and higher he gets, the more he convinces himself that it will take quite a few more climbs before he sees the light "triangulation sign of eternal life" on the top of the mountain, from where he will first reach that supreme surprise of which he had no idea before.
[46] Pay attention to this epithet in your hearts. Take the "flag" to hand and pay attention to the spiritual, which is given there in the corresponding fullness of life.
[47] Turn it around and research it, and you will discover fully inhabited worlds not only in the mountains, but also in the smallest grains of sand! Amen.