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Symbols of love and their "master key"
4th April 1842, afternoon
"This is He who comes with water and blood, Jesus Christ, not with water alone, but with water and blood. And it is the spirit that witnesses that spirit is truth. – (For these three are they who bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one). And they are three who there bear witness on earth: the Spirit and the water and the blood; and the three are together.” To this passage of Scripture (1 John 5:6-8) the request was made by Jakob Lorber: "Most beloved, holy, merciful and most wise Father Jesus! See, here again lies already a hard nut before us! We all cannot master this. If it were Your most holy will, You could certainly well reveal it to us. But only Your holy will be done! Amen." The answer was:
[1] Say for yourselves whether it must not greatly surprise you that you are, despite so much light from Me, nevertheless so blind that you can not completely grasp such an easy text at first sight!
[2] What is the "water"? This has already been shown to you clearly on many an occasion. What is the "blood"? Also this has already been shown. And what is the "spirit"? That too, has already been shown to you really often.
[3] But I assume the case that either only the water or the blood or the spirit would have been shown to you – but since these three are one, you must nevertheless understand the whole, if you were able to think in the right place, namely in the heart! But all of you are still knights of the intellect, and so it does not work with such texts, which can only be explained fully true and alive in the heart.
[4] Do you not yet know the "master key" with which alone all the secrets of the heavens can fully validly be opened up to the deepest depths at all times? If you after all do not know it, then I must certainly indicate it to you again! And so then listen:
[5] This master key is and is called love, i.e. the true, pure love of your heart for Me, as predominantly My infinite love for you!
[6] Behold, these are the most real keys of Peter! That is why I finally asked Peter three times whether he loves Me.
[7] Oh you blind ones, do you not see and notice then anything yet? Why does nothing grow on or in a very dry soil? But if the soil is irrigated, won't countless plants, each according to it’s species, soon find their perfect food?
[8] So what is the water? Is it not love, which there with you on earth is a sole nourishment from Me for all beings and things, like sole life itself? Now, what corresponds then to this natural water for another, spiritual water? Have you then never heard of "living water", by which is understood My Gospel and especially My living Word in you, as it is manifested in a heart that loves Me?
[9] But I think that saying more about "water" will well be unnecessary after all; because a more perfect picture for My love with you can surely not be found than the water, of which every drop already carries a food and a life in itself for innumerable beings naturally, but firstly, spiritually!
[10] So we have the "water". But now comes the "blood". What will the "blood" then be? Don't you notice anything yet? Oh you blind and deaf! Oh the blood, the blood, that is admittedly strongly in the way of the mind! For the less blood in the head, the brighter the mind. That is why
the real scholars not rarely look like unhappy spirits. But the heart must have blood! He cannot be indifferent whether there is blood or no blood. For the heart's life is the blood!
[11] What, then, will the "blood" be? – Now prick up your ears and listen: The "blood" is here completely the same as the "water" – thus again: love – only with the difference that by it, that love is understood which is taken up by you in your hearts into life for your eternal revival – thus as food is for the body, which comes all from water, is taken up and is converted in it to the nourishing and animating blood for all body parts.
[12] So we also have the "blood"! But now comes the "spirit". What is perhaps the spirit here? However, we do not want to leave the news on the shelf for too long; and so now again perk up your ears and hear what a completely different new thing the "spirit" is:
[13] It is already again nothing but what the "water" and "blood" are, namely love! But only the living, essential love in you, which is „My Spirit," or the eternally clearly conscious imperishable life in you, which is your very own being itself.
[14] But what then is the "earth" or the carrier of water, blood, and spirit? Grab yourself by the nose and you will have the earth between your fingers!
[15] Now what difference is there between "water," "blood," and "spirit" since all three are one and the same love? Since they are one and the same love, so surely they will also be completely one?!
[16] So we would be in the clear with that too! But now come the three great "witnesses of heaven", as the Father, the Word (the Son) and the Holy Spirit, or the Eternal Love in God, or the great living testimony that became flesh and has dwelt among you, and still now dwells in the Spirit with you, among you, as "the Holy Spirit of all love and all truth", and if you will, also most alive in you!
[17] See, there we have everything already! Only „Heaven " is still missing. But I do not want to take you for so stupid that you should not know that under "heaven" is understood the eternal life of love in Me, the holy, most loving Father!
[18] Behold, now you have all things: water, blood, Spirit; Father, Word, and Holy Spirit, and the earth and heaven! And all this, I tell you, is one and the same love.
[19] Therefore keep yourself to love, then you have everything!
[20] Understand all this well! Amen.