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To the question of the Trinity
27th April 1842
It is written: "He who sees Me also sees the Father! (John 14:9). But in Mark (13:32) it says: " Alone of that day and of that hour no-one knows; not even the angels in heaven, not even the Son, but only the Father. How can these two points be brought in line? And doesn't it also say, "The Father is greater than I am"?
[1] That is certainly a true request to Me indeed; but only the questioners should have tried before quite busily to debate through the main key of love and through this to see in themselves and to experience and measure how deeply they have already penetrated into their inner being. But there are still a thousand places, which they do not yet recognize down to the bottom of the spirit, and so there is still work left for them!
[2] But concerning the present points, hear and look with an open heart into the holy depth of My love in you! For thus speaks the Love-light:
[3] The "Father" is the purest "Eternal Love in God" or the "Eternal Essential Word" in Himself. But the "Son" is the word uttered by the Father, or the Father Himself, who reveals Himself to you essentially in the Son. Both behave like a thought and a pronounced word, since the thought is the cause or the Father of the pronounced word, but the pronounced word again nothing else but the thought that reveals itself, or the Father of the word itself.
[4] If you now understand this, it must then already be clear as daylight to you that he who sees and hears the Son, yes, must also necessarily see and hear the Father, and that therefore Father and Son are one and the same, as the thought and the then uttered word – and that the Father is in the Son and the Son in the Father, as the thought in the uttered word and the uttered word in the thought.
[5] You must also understand then why the Father is more than the Word or the Son. The Word would be an utter impossibility without the Father or the preceding thought! Thus the Father, as the eternal begetter of the Word, is more than the begotten Word. But if the Word is begotten, then it is after all completely identical with the Father!
[6] And if you understand all this, there I think it might be almost unnecessary to illuminate you even further, why (in Mark 13:32) "no-one" knows anything about the coming day and the hour of the coming great judgment over the whole earth, taken spiritually, except the Father only – and also not "the Son". If you possess only a grain of mustard seed of great understanding in the heart (not in the brain of the head), then you must see at once that the knowledge of thoughts makes itself known through the Word – but is therefore the word the knowledge itself? Therefore still only the Father can know such a thing like everything else – but not the Son, who is so to speak the tongue in the mouth of the Father.
[7] But so that you may have a full view of the Father, Son, and Spirit, so know then:
[8] The God-man Jesus was essentially the Father Himself or the Eternal Love and Wisdom Self, clothed with human flesh – or the fullness of the Godhead incarnate.
[9] But the pronounced "word" of the God-man Jesus – or His teaching – is the "Son”.
[10] But, since the Father already knew from eternity what He would do, so was the God-man Jesus also already from eternity "in the Father," but manifested Himself as a "God-man" only then bodily, since the Father Himself had perceptibly expressed Himself!
[11] Tell Me, do you not yet perhaps understand now how the Son and the Father are one and the same? But if you still have uncertainties, look to the Spirit, for He must lead you into all truth!
[12] For the same Spirit that was eternally in the Father (who there is the primeval fundamental thought or the eternally purest Love itself) – is after all also certainly in the "word" pronounced by the Father. But where there is a spirit, there will surely also be one and the same being! If it were not so, how could the God-man Jesus have pronounced of Himself: "I am the way and the truth and the life! No-one comes to the Father than through Me!" (John 14:6) – which means: I am the Love or the Father, and the eternal wisdom or God Himself, or the Spirit and the uttered Word, or the eternal Life itself, in which dwells all fullness of the Godhead bodily!
[13] But since it is so, say, in what other way can someone reach the Father, if he does not let himself be seized and drawn by the same, for what reason he has the freedom of his own will?!
[14] Whoever thus actively or vitally receives the word pronounced by the Father, he then also receives the Son. But whoever has received the Son in himself will receive the Father also, since the Son and the Father are one and the same!
[15] But he who has thus received the Son and Father into himself, he will surely also have in himself the "Spirit" or the "Light," which is the same as in the Father, therefore also in the Son, and will be out of this Spirit "in all truth," and this for the very simple reason, namely, because there is no longer any other light apart from this Light, and all light thus comes only from this sole Light. But He who is in that light is also in the Father through the Son.
[16] But since the Father is the primal eternal basic-love-life, and all light emanates from this Life, so will man after all surely also have eternal life, if he is in the same and the same in him through the Son, Spirit, and Father?!
[17] But I think that if you are not still blinder than the center of the earth, then this should be enough for you to realize that whoever sees Jesus in spirit, will no longer need a telescope to also see the Father!
[18] But that you do not understand such things, if you read it, is due solely to your material-pagan triple-godhead, which was concocted in Nicaea and was later still more and more materialized, even to the point of plasticity, so that you are now more or less unable to separate yourselves from it. Therefore, you must now die off from all former (delusional) light, if you want to get to the pure spiritual light from Me!
[19] Understand this and do also afterward, and by this you will easily and soon reach Me, the Holy Father! Amen.