Gifts of Heaven · Volume 2 · Chapter 214

Medical advice in case of possession

12th April 1842, in the afternoon

O Lord, the sick F. G. has not been able to open her eyes for a fortnight, medical means do not help; I, too, the most unworthy of You, tried three kinds of magnetic awakening agents in vain today, namely aspirating, counter strokes, and coating the eyelids with cold water. – I humbly ask You, most powerful and merciful physician of all physicians, full of the highest love, grace and mercy, that You would indicate to Me a remedy through Your servant, whereby the girl's pathologically closed eyes could be opened again. Your most holy will be done in and on us now and for all eternity! Amen.

[1] But my dear Ans. H.-W., do you want to be more merciful again than I am Myself? Do you know My ways and do you know then why I let such things happen? I tell you, however, with this sick person, all the proper means will not bear much fruit until a certain time. But when it becomes warm, there she shall only use baths, first lukewarm and then colder and colder, thus it will well be better with her. But she will never become completely healthy, except through continuous prayer as much as possible from her side, and also mainly through the prayer of her relatives. For this girl has an old, merry, but very blind family-spirit in her, and this spirit is over the ears infatuated with this child; therefore he pulls the child close at every opportunity and in different ways.

[2] But since the child cannot pay heed to him, he has now grabbed her by the eyes. And there nearly all cures will be in vain, sympathetic ones however better than medical ones. Magnetic cures will awaken and embitter the spirit even more; If he is made to leave by this also here, he will, however, in return, turn by stealth even more violently and revengefully to another part that is much more dangerous to life and will begin to mutilate the girl thereat.

[3] Therefore, as I have already noted above, the remedies will not make much progress there, except baths and prayer with time.

[4] Better, however, than all means used so far, would be milk from a healthy cow, freshly milked, laid warm in linen shreds on the eyes and changed every two to three hours. But the shreds would have to be cleaned in pure running water every time before they could be used again.

[5] However the warm time, baths and prayer can make the somewhat afflicted child completely healthy again in full confidence in Me alone; but otherwise everything will be of little permanent use to her. This is how it is with the child!

[6] But if you pray for her earnestly and lay your hands on her in My name in the spirit, you will be of more use to the girl than by any of your other magical or medical means.

[7] Do you, A. H.-W., understand this? Pray, and I will then certainly do what will be right. Amen.