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A new light of love
26th August 1841
Letter from Greifenburg to the friend and later life-storyteller of Jakob Lorber: Karl Gottfried Ritter von Leitner in Graz
[1] Most beloved, most honored friend! It would be impossible for me, out of my strength, to give even a single sun-dust size of all that is worthy with the feather[pen], which I have twice seen, heard and felt here, and will see, hear and feel again! Indeed, for areas of this kind, man should be provided with a hundred eyes, ears and hearts! For one becomes a formal spiritual miser and insatiable with the ordinary senses here, since the great, beating miraculous abundance almost makes one faint, and one must always ask oneself carefully: Where to go with all this immense amount? How will I bring this immense harvest under my poor roof?
[2] Truly true, here is too much of the great and good, especially for a spiritual eye. I pass over all the high mountains and do not want to touch all the many natural rarities, least of all the many places that are worth seeing in a serious way, etc.; but as for the natural-spiritual activity, I tell you, beloved friend, so strikingly visible and comprehensible at first sight, it would never have occurred to me in a dream! Truly, if a blind person does not want to become seeing here, even with a little mental and medical help, I would have to become a denier of God myself. For whoever does not live to believe, for him in earnest all baptism and all chrism is pure corruption! I have made experiences here that I had no idea about before. A whole new light has been lit for me. And in this rare light rays I see an endless sea of miracles upon miracles, which, in a certain way, one almost completely knocks down the other!
[3] Most beloved friend! I can tell you for this moment nothing else but that I have for the time being already received many a thing from my high Dictator into the pen and am of the very best hope of receiving many an exceedingly rare things. And for the second, however, I dare to add the final remark that these my spiritual collections, both in writing and – on a pleasing occasion, verbally – will not be without spiritually useful interest to you!
[4] For so it was in me at first: "Behold, a new light I give you! It is not enough to break through the bark of things and the wood and the marrow, but what will become of the bark and of the wood and of the marrow. He who wants to see this, let him see that he sees right! And he who wants to hear, listen carefully, that he may hear all things! And whoever wants to feel, put his hand on his chest and count every pulse, and consider what feelings were all around him! Only then will he soon be able to look at himself and all things to the true reason. Understand it well! For behold, this is a new light of love, which will show you the fruit that is becoming in the mark, the pith in the wood and the wood in the bark. And likewise after your doing, eternal life in you! – Behold, this is a new light, and what you will receive here shall become to you in this new light. Amen. Understand it well! Amen."
[5] So you see, dearest friend, judging by this few, you can rightly expect many things that will surely give you a lot of pleasure. I am now only a collector, but I hope to become a communicator as soon as possible! Meanwhile, I have only one wish for you, dear friend, as for all my other dear friends, that you will find this simple letter of mine in the best of health!
[6] The love and grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you now and forever! Amen. This is the always most ardent wish of your eternally loving friend and brother in the spirit of Jakob Lorber, servant of the Lord.