Gifts of Heaven · Volume 2 · Chapter 224

Of sects and orders

23rd May 1842

[1] All so-called sects and orders are an abomination before Me, the Lord. Because I have called all people to love and out of it, to eternal life. But love knows only brothers, but no sects and orders!

[2] Who then has drawn such barriers between you, through which brothers and sisters are often separated from one another in the most rugged and spiteful manner? Love has no barriers!

[3] But addiction to the world and all kinds of self-love have set all kinds of boundary stones! It is the sole founder of all sects and orders, which differ in all sorts of foolish stuff and all sorts of silly customs, all of which are adhered to outwardly, but inwardly they are full of mold and disgust, because there is no love in them, but only envy, resentment, persecution, ambition, and often excessive lust for rank, here and there also great arrogance, pride, splendor, contempt for the lowly, and thus lust for power in all it’s extension.

[4] Behold, these are the sects and orders at present, as they also were not much better in former times, and the driving forces by which they came into being.

[5] Hence you are not to belong to any sect or order if you want to live, but only to My love, in which are eternally no barriers! Amen.