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Love, the fundamental force of life
18th November 1841
[1] Watch and pray, lest you fall into temptation! Even if your spirit is willing, yet your flesh is weak!
[2] He who does not constantly carry this eternal truth in his heart, is never safe from the fall! But how difficult it is for the fallen one to stand up again and then to stand up completely, the whole world shows you and, as an exceedingly understandable example, your own life, if you would consider it just a little. The whole visible creation, including human beings, consists only of particles of the great, fallen and in-matter-banned spirit of Lucifer and his followers.
[3] So the "flesh" is weak! But you are not to understand by this the flesh of your body, which is a dead flesh – but the flesh of the spirit, which is it’s love. This, you shall understand, is the very weak flesh, which is still exposed to all temptation. This your flesh is still like a reed in the water and a weather vane – which all orients itself according to the winds.
[4] But I tell you, whose "flesh" is still weak, he is afraid to climb the mountains, and cannot choose a firm rock on it, on which he could build his house; but he prefers to remain leisurely in the depth of the valley and builds his house there on sand.
[5] As long as no waters and storm-winds hit and push at the weak walls of it’s house, the house certainly stands just like the one on high, solid rock; and you wonder about the rock-dweller, how it could have occurred to him to build his house on such high, bare rocks. But when the storm comes and the waters and the winds (rise), will the inhabitant of the rock not also ask you there: "Oh ye leisurely fools! How could you ever have thought of building a house on the sand of the valley?!”
[6] Behold, thus your "flesh" is still weak, and you cannot yet separate yourselves from the house on the sand. I tell you therefore that you are to watch and pray, so that – when the storm comes – you will not succumb to temptation. What use is all knowledge to you, what the willingness, if the will is not supported by love, which is the flesh of the spirit! Will there ever be activity?
[7] Love is the eternal driving force of will, as will is the work itself. But judge for yourself what a strong clockwork is good for. But judge for yourself, what use is a strong clockwork if it does not also have a driving force that is strong and powerful enough to set this strong work in motion for it’s intended purpose? Who does not know how many a thing the will touches, and yet nothing happens, because it has been touched only by the will, but not also by love. How many girls are often overpowered by the will of a marriage-loving wooer; yet then not seldom none of all those overpowered ones becomes the wooer's wife, but a completely foreign one, because he has overpowered her not only with the will, but in union of the will, with just, strong love.
[8] But in what was the reason for the act? Certainly not in the will, since it is like a clockwork, which either has no driving force at all or a much too weak, sleepy one – but only in the strong love, which is the sole moving force of the will.
[9] Hence strengthen your love! This is the true watching and praying with Me, I, who am Eternal Love Myself! Or even more spoken to you in German [English – tr]:
[10] Love and act with Me in this love! Be not only willing, but be active in love, i.e. be active out of My love for you and hence then out of your love for Me!
[11] Observe My easy commandment of love, entrust yourselves completely to Me! Build your house from these rocks, and you will be safe and will be able to mock the waters and the winds when they come! For your house stands on a rock, and the clockwork of your life has a good, durable driving force. You then have a strong flesh with the willing spirit. Yes, then you have
experienced the true resurrection of the flesh, in which flesh you will see God, the Eternal Love, face to face and live and enjoy a new love for God without end!
[12] Behold, this is the true Supper! This is the true body of eternal love given to you, and the true blood shed for you! Take this body and this blood and eat and drink all of it, so that through it your flesh may become strong and rise to true, eternal life!
[13] My love is the true, great Supper! Whoever keeps My commandments, which are nothing but pure love, also holds My love, which is, that he truly loves Me.
[14] But whoever loves Me indeed eats My flesh and drinks My blood in the true sense, which is the true bread and the true wine of the heavens, the angels and all life! Truly, whoever will eat of the bread and drink of the blood, will never hunger and thirst in eternity!
[15] Now still another word for the one!
[16] Behold you, let this My body and this My blood be for you too, the highest bond of your physical life with Mine! Eat and drink of it as much as you like! I tell you, you will never overeat or drink too much! For this bread is constantly satiating and yet still produces a greater appetite, just as this wine produces an ever greater desire to drink!
[17] When you will do this, then you will, when the "Bridegroom" comes, have of the oil in great quantity and will be received with joy by the Bridegroom. For My love is the true lamp-oil of life, which is also a true anointing of the still weak flesh to the living resurrection!
[18] What use is only the wick for the lamp – which is a willing spirit – if it lacks the oil of love? So therefore supply yourself then with the oil! The wick is given to you with the lamp. But you must get the oil from Me in time yourself, before it is too late.
[19] But this is the "Watching and praying with Me", and this is also the "true, holy Supper", which I offer you today as always for free enjoyment. Eat and drink from it! But mix no world-raisins and no worldly sourdough into the bread, and do not water down the wine, then you will truly resurrect in the flesh, the love of the Spirit unto true, eternal life! Amen.
[20] May this be to you from Me an eternal bond! Amen.