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Word of warning and consolation
31st July 1841
[1] So write then a short word as a reminder and consolation to Th. M. H., who, out of a box-like love for Me, holds the "prisoners in spirit and in the flesh" in high esteem, who hold the clergy in much higher esteem than Me, and so sometimes also more the calendar-saints than Me, and the pagan ceremonies and customs more in in higher esteem than Me, and a Latin prayer book which they do not understand, than Me, and honor each other and the clergy as much and even more than Me, and regard confession higher than true repentance and the forgiveness of sins. That is why they confess constantly, but also fall back into their former sins immediately after confession. And those who think that many a cloistered monastery is undeniably true, but flee the Holy Scriptures and regard it as a great, unruly heresy, if anyone wants to read the Book of Life and Holy Love. But they consider a meaningless devotional booklet written by an hypocritical, strongly Pharisaic monk to be a true key to heaven!
[2] Oh the poor blind man! Once a brighter light will be kindled for them for this, if only they have not – for instance, because of their monastic-chastic-privileged holiness – put inner humility behind them, and do not secretly consider themselves better than any other, free, un-monastic man.
[3] But this is the word of warning and consolation to Th. M. H.:
[4] Above all, seek Me only through true self-denial, inner love, patience and gentleness! Because if you seek Me alone, you will also find Me. And when you have found Me, then you have found everything. For I alone am the greatest treasure of all treasures and am more than all worlds and all heavens!
[5] But if you seek Me, then you must seek Me with yourself and not with others! For can He be sought abroad who is constantly at home in you and awaits you? As you live your life not in a foreign body but in your own, so you must also begin to live towards Me in you and seek Me in yourself! There you will surely find Me! Because for you I live only in you! And were it not so, how would you want to live, breathe, think, feel, perceive, sense and then pray to Me!
[6] Behold, this is the right way to Me! Everyone else always leads astray. Therefore walk it freely, courageously and without fear, and you will find the longed-for goal even easily and soon, and only then will you also see and recognize how gentle My yoke and how light My burden is!
[7] But also take the New Testament to hand and read it carefully, so you will soon discover the school of real life. And if you just begin to act accordingly, streams of eternal light will be poured out over you and from your loins will flow living water!
[8] Be also always cheerful in your meagerness! For the smaller share a man has in the world and it's dead idols, the more he is with Me, and the more he has invested in Me his eternal, imperishable share to exceedingly high usury interests! Therefore be cheerful, for I am closer to you than you would imagine!
[9] But if you take the New Testament in your hand, first look at the 15th chapter of John and consider therein the 17th to 23rd verse. In these passages you will find a great hidden treasure. It will be opened to you and you will see with astonished eyes the "true key" with which you will easily open the little chamber in which I wait for you within you! Amen.
[10] This your true Bridegroom tells you through the lazy servant, Amen! NB. The key or the opened realm is already shown in the last four verses of this chapter, that is in the 24th, 25th, 26th and especially 27th verses. For what is spoken here to the apostles is spoken to the whole world! Here is what the First and the Last tells you. Amen.