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About the spreading of the New Word
5th May 1842
Oh most Holy Lord and Father! We are sure deeply imbued with the truth of the 7th verse of the 7th Psalm, which Your great love and mercy has graciously given us. There it says truly with the fullest right: "For who can thank you in death, and who in hell can praise and extol you?" And in the following verse: "How can the unholy one thank the Holy for the holy?” Oh, tell us then, oh most loving Lord and Father, for a consolation: Will not the joyful day come soon, on which Your holy, new, living Word, which now comes to us few unworthy ones through the mouth and pen of Your servant, be known to other purer hearts and better children than we are? Glorify, oh glorify soon, oh Lord Jesus, Your most holy name! Let us blaze brightly in the great conflagration that the publication of Your most gracious revelation will cause, in love for You, Most Holy Father, in love for You alone, You good, most loving Father Jesus, Jehovah, Emmanuel! Amen.
[1] Listen, My dear Ans. H.-W., you have a vain concern, that you do not know the course of time. My apostles and disciples once also asked when the time would come that all this should happen, what I foretold them about the "last time". I have indeed told them this too, but they also did not understand it, as you too did not understand it until the hour! And it is well and good that you do not understand it; for if you would understand it, then it would also be at the expense of the freedom of your life!
[2] What then do you care about the spreading of these My morning gifts given to you few? If you worry, are you not like children who cannot wait for a fruit to ripen fully, but reach out with hands and sticks thereafter, to drive the unripe fruit from the tree, that they might then bite into it and delight in each other's sour faces. But if they have a bite of this fruit in their mouth, will they then eat it? And if they did so, wouldn't they easily get sick?
[3] See, therefore also here the maturity is firstly triple necessary! Namely, first as a finished work. Although every word in and of itself is quite mature, thus, however, full maturity is understood to be the completion of the entire work. Secondly, however, full maturity means a mature people to receive such a light. But thirdly, maturity concerns the maturity of your hearts. For without this, you must put up with the world asking you: "Where are the fruits of what you offer us?" And you would then have to answer: "These we expected first ourselves with great confidence!" And the world would then respond to you again: "Yes, if it is so, you would keep your light only to yourselves until it will bear visible fruit in you. And when that happens, only then will we accept it!"
[4] Behold, therefore maturity is a main condition of that which is to be enjoyed with benefit from all people.
[5] Behold, but I have divided maturity in such a way that you have only to mostly care for the maturity of your heart and besides for the few writings of what comes to you through My grace, love and mercy. – The word itself is indeed My concern. And you will sure not be able to contribute much to the maturation of the peoples anyway.
[6] Therefore worry only about what is entrusted to you for now, and leave the rest purely to Me – Who knows the time and maturity – and so everything will go well. And do not ask: How and when? But think to yourselves: For now I give it only to you.
[7] But when it will be finished, then think yourselves: We have received a precious pearl for free, and it shall not get among the pigs! But when we give it away, then we give it away, how and at what price it was given to us, and when I will expressly demand it of you.
[8] You have indeed touched the passage of the new psalm for this purpose – but is not maturity first necessary before the light can break through this darkness of death and hell? Of course, surely no- one would want to thank Me in death, and no-one would like to praise and extol Me in hell; or what can the unholy offer and give and do for the Holy One, which would be pleasing to the Holy One, if it is not first sanctified through true repentance and complete conversion to Me?
[9] But that is indeed the "ripening" mentioned! For the Psalm says this more than loud and as clear as daylight, that the dead are not receptive to love, like the blind is not deft to the light. But where there is still no life and no light, but only death and hell, tell Me, what should heaven full of life and most holy light have to do there?
[10] But I tell you: It would be far more bearable, if you would inhabit a house of the dead or a tomb, which is full of dead man's bones, musty and of disgusting smell, than if you would push this word of Mine out into the still very dead and exceedingly dark world before the right time of maturity!
[11] I indeed once said to you: The world needs this in the near future. But this only refers to maturity, which will now already be prepared everywhere.
[12] Therefore – watch and work! Because you do not know and are also not allowed to know when the time of maturity will come. Sure then and so, as you will least expect it!
[13] "For now, I give it only to you!" Why don't you observe all this more deeply? But who may ask Me: "Father, if you give Me food, why do you then let the others starve? Truly, I sure would like to respond to him: "Have I ever made you My counselor of the house, so that I should give account to you?”
[14] Therefore you remain with the bowl handed to you and eat carelessly from it and do not dictate about it to Me what I should do! Because I know very well what I am doing!
[15] But if I would say to you: "Go out, etc. –“ there you would surely tremble before the world. But since I know your strength, therefore I also do not demand such from you. So stay with it as you have it, until maturity – but then I will already tell you the rest!
[16] But if it should not be right to you like this, then you can put everything away and befriend the whole world! But I will surely achieve My intended purpose in another way. For I truly do not depend on your weak faith, which is always full of objections – but you eternally depend on my faithfulness! – Now you have it, so also keep it! Amen.