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In response to questions from Ans. H
28th November 1841, on the 1st Sunday in Advent, in the afternoon.
J. L. encouraged Ans. H. to ask questions, which he would answer in the name of the Lord.
Oh Lord! What does the frequent, even so deep sighing when reading Your holy, new, living Word mean?
[1] Answer: What does the empty wind-belching mean for a hungry stomach? Why do the children, who love to eat, sob if they don't get the desired large portion of bread right away? But why does the father not give it to them?
Is it not already beginning to dawn in my wife?
[2] Answer: Oh yes; but it is still a dawn like that where the morning rays still have to deal with the maturity of the world.
Is this a good saying that I wrote down for myself: Do not turn to the horse, but to the rider?
[3] Answer: It only depends on what the rider is like. Sometimes the horse would be preferable to the rider. But the best saying is: Turn to the Lord! For he is both horse and rider at the same time!
After a fall, I usually feel the return of spiritual power only on the third day. How could I rise faster?
[4] Answer: Rise more quickly? If you would better not fall at all, it would be the fastest! But who is still weak in the chest, he must then certainly pant for a while, until he has risen again after an adverse fall. But who is good in the chest, he does not fall or at least very hardly and rarely, but can straighten up again immediately. Because as the breast, so the feet!
Can we believe the prophecy of the Bug of Milhas in the Pyrenees, according to which the year 1842, which is soon to come, will be a very disastrous one for England and France?
[5] Answer: As the people, so the prophecy, and the prophecy as the people. That's all you need. Why a sermon for the deaf and a threatening light for the blind – would anybody want to turn to after that?
Have I not failed to write a word of comfort to my brother Andrä in Your holy name, in the form your servant writes?
[6] Answer: If you have faith and love, what makes you doubt? – Or have you comforted your brother with your name or with My name?
May we also call on you, Lord Jesus, under the name of Abedam?
[7] Answer: Are you also from the gray primeval times? Or not rather fruits from the great time of the times? When you have Jesus, why then still Abedam?
The Chinese appear to be a good, loyal people; how have they been so cowardly in battle with the British?
[8] Answer: What the Chinese once were since they didn't fight with the British, they are no longer, such a whine! Leave them henceforth in peace!
Does not the outer appearance of your servant reflect the inner being of your unworthy disciples?
[9] Answer: Nowhere does it say that the servant was chosen from a mirror factory, but itself from the darkness of the world; he is only for the passage of light like a burning glass, but no mirror. Mirror, yes, you shall be a living mirror, a good tinder, easily catching fire through the concentrated rays of the burning glass!
What do you say the keys of the kingdom of heaven that you gave to Simon Peter, the rock man, indicate?
[10] Answer: No sausages on sauerkraut certainly not; what a question! Nota Bene – with a whole bunch of keys in hand!
Can you blame us, o Lord, that we also feel the greatest longing to see You as Asmahael, Emanuel or Abedam among us and to stammer at Your holy feet our childlike and simple-minded thanks to You?
[11] Answer: Can you do this to your children? But true love is higher than all contemplation! But I have already been visible among you more often, but until now I have received only a sparse alms from you in My visibility! Do you understand such things? I want first to be found in the heart!
What is the safest means to recognize people?
[12] Answer: Love – everything else is opaque glass! Understand this well, Amen. He who is with you, among you and in you, and lives and makes you alive, say Amen.
29th November 1841, in the afternoon. (In response to questions from Ans. H.).
Oh Lord! How can pure bliss be found in Your kingdom in retrospect of committed sins?
[13] Answer: That's a question! What then do you pray in My Prayer that I may forgive you your sins as you forgive your debtors? And does it not say in the Scripture that the shepherd left ninety- nine sheep and went to seek the hundredth lost? What does it say afterwards? Such you will probably know!
How there differs Your old and new light, indeed, You most loving Lord, I do not know!
[14] Answer: You can confess such things of yourself? Is there then an old and a new God? But how do you read in John of the word what it is? Old and new, however, does not refer to the word, but to the man who takes it up in himself. There the old man becomes a new one, and then he is also a word – and thus certainly a new one!
Isn't the water cure the best of all healing methods for ill physical nature?
[15] Answer: Yes, but especially for the suffering natures of fish. But for humans there is still another simpler and more effective one – you will well understand which one I mean?
A mild, cool, holy blowing around the head, is it your closeness? Make it known to me, the poor rogue!
[16] Answer: Not the blowing around the head of the body, whether it is mild, gentle and cooling, can show you My nearness, but only a humble, contrite heart. Or would you even like to put Me among the delicate spooky spirits? What you feel comes from you and the sometimes surrounding spirits of a better kind.
The heights of the north being pure, the east being completely veiled, what did this picture of yesterday want to tell us?
[17] Answer: The knowledge is quite pure, but the love is not fully pure – what you observed was a mild depiction!
To avoid being buried alive, what caution should doctors take?
[18] Answer: Do you care about it? Whoever dies to the world first, will certainly never experience such a thing. – But physicians should take care that they do not bury the dead too quickly!
Is it not to be hoped that the Berlin philosophers will finally see the night within themselves?
[19] Answer: Oh there is always something to hope for – of course not always the same, nor always something good! But there is not much to hope for from your philosophers this time!
You went to barren places, Lord, to pray there. Is that not a hint that we should do the same?
[20] Answer: Too much directives will make you loose courage. Therefore pay attention only to love, for it has the best impulses. You cannot do everything I did, but only as much as you can.
1st December 1841, in the afternoon. (In response to questions by Ans. H.)
You said, Oh Lord, that You have often been visible among us. But we did not recognize you. Should you once again come to us visibly, graciously tell us how we can recognize you – whether by your gaze, your speech or anything else?
[21] Answer: What a question! In nothing but love alone, and with nothing but the heart alone. For a beggar has and bears no order marks but only those of sheer poverty!
Whoever has recognized You, Holy Father, and loves You above all, does he not basically stop to be a husband to his wife, a father to his children? Will not then the woman be his sister, and the daughters and sons his sisters and brothers?
[22] Answer: Such things have already been told to you anyway and have been faithfully announced! But the born-again is already in heaven, who is eternal life, which comes from love and the living faith out of it. But what does Scripture say about marital relations, and according to these also about all the rest, what do you read? Where there is only one father, what else is there?
Where do shyness and aversion to proud rich and powerful people come from, since one feels pity for them in the heart after all?
[23] Answer: Therefore, where from the mutual polarity of the magnet, since also the poles are always as far away as possible. Nevertheless, however, the polar line is not cancelled. That is already in the eternal order!
If the innocent animals, which serve man for consumption, feel pain when they are killed, wouldn't it be better for man to live solely from vegetables?
[24] Answer: Because of an animal’s pain nobody will be lost, but certainly because of the brother’s pain, if someone does not respect that in his heart. However, wantonness even towards stones is criminal, therefore certainly also to the animals. But those who torture animals, are also dangerous for humans!
Were not the terrible thunderstorm and the violent hurricanes that recently raged around the seven hills in Rome a sign for the Pontifex Maximus?
[25] Answer: As for the place on earth, I do not answer. But let the power of the fiery hurricanes rage and lightning as great and bright as suns crushingly fall – and nothing is heard by the metal ears! For the Pontiff is a metal idol! Understand and keep silent.
Will the peoples of German tongue ever achieve brotherly unity?
[26] Answer: Hardly ever here, but many on the other side; for here too many pay homage to the old lie and rigid greed!
Is it not unjust that in some countries, as in ours, no Jews are allowed to live permanently?
[27] Does it go better with Me, the Arch-Jew? Where I do not serve as an article of bargaining, there one consults already for a long time about My admission! But what happens to the Jew is a sign for them; but what happens through the Jew, that is the abomination of desolation, of which Daniel speaks!
Oh Lord, forgive me the curiosity and say graciously, what did your virgin mother, the mother full of grace, look like?
[28] Answer: Oh you women-addicted man, would you not like to gape at her semi-sensually on some walk? Behold, such is not necessary for you. But if you will be completely pure, then your curiosity shall also be satisfied! She was quite beautiful! Understand it.
May we hope for the joy of seeing all those who loved You when You walked on earth, such as a Magdalene, Mary of Bethany, John, Zacchaeus, etc.?
[29] Answer: Why then, in the question, have you cited two women and only two men of your desire, while I have communicated much more with men than with women? Behold, such is not in order. To Me it is dearer that the man inquires about his own kind, but helps the women in My name, do you not mean such things with me? But who will live with Me, why shall these not see and recognize each other? Are they not also your brothers and sisters?
Oh Lord, why was he who was redeemed from evil spirits by Your word of power not allowed to follow You?
[30] Answer: Because of My love, which wanted to preserve him, but not destroy him, because a cleansed dwelling house of Satan is not immediately able to serve the Holy Spirit as dwelling – for forced redemption is not sufficient for eternal life, but only a free one, co-actuated by the redeemed himself, namely the free rebirth!