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Encouragement for the servant
7th June 1842
Request of the servant: "Oh You my most beloved Lord and Father Jesus, You most holy, You most loving God from eternity to eternity, You all-merciful counselor in every need! You see that my heart is troubled by so many apparitions and you know them. Therefore I have no need to recite them to You, oh most Holy Father, with the mouth or with written letters. Oh so give me then a consolation, so that I may not become incapable, through such blows on my truly poor heart, of carrying out the business of the spirit that You have entrusted to me, and in the end well even lose through such incapacity what You have thus graciously entrusted to me poor sinner. Oh You holy, dear, more than good Father, have mercy on me and free me from this great distress of heart! Your Will be done! Amen."
[1] Yes, yes, I know very well what you lack. But remember this for such cases: Where you cannot change anything according to the freedom of will and knowledge that is inherent in every man, there spare yourself every effort and work for all future! For you will never bring a tree trunk to life that is completely rotten from the center, no matter how diligently you want to water it daily.
[2] Therefore do not be troubled by the speech, which comes from the mouth of unclean, purely world-addicted human spirits! Let these draw only from the treasure of their worldly wisdom, which is of the world and belongs purely to the world! Let them speak and let them practice their highly praised monetary virtues! Let such worldly wise people speak black and white, let even My old and every new Word be to them a purest foolishness! For, behold, this truly miserable, short blessedness we must give them for their monetary virtues, since they conclude everything in the world with this life, which is so just right for them, anyway!
[3] Behold, such purest materialists are at all times the most lukewarm intellectuals! Yes, they are as inert as the matter itself to which they cling – which is why they cannot rise above the dead nature of their and any other matter.
[4] But, since only matter is for them something solid and comprehensible, their spirit too passes completely over into it, leaves itself entirely to matter, and thinks, as long as a spark of life still glows in it, entirely out of it. And all spiritual is therefore to them nothing else than a very purest foolishness.
[5] But, since the spirit sticks wholly in it’s matter, it also happens that it sometimes speaks out of it’s matter wittily and apparently astutely, which is then worldly wise speech. But only now comes the big but! Now you shall hear something completely new!
[6] But when such people' s matter has consumed their spirit like a burning wick consumes the oil in the lamp (on which occasion the dull flame goes out) – there their spirit will also go out for all eternal times of times. For behold, these are just those human larvae which are neither cold nor warm, but lukewarm – that is, they are neither evil nor good, but dead as matter itself. Therefore they are also to be spat out of My mouth – or in other words: they eternally cease to be after this life. For they are just as incapable of an animating chastisement as a dead stone.
[7] But where life is no longer conceivable, to what should a reward go, which in and of itself is only the most actual eternal life? Hence it is also said that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a spiritually dead rich man to the life! Verily I say to you, if the rich man will not do as I have advised the rich young man once, he will not receive life.
[8] But whoever says: "I'm saving for my children so that I can provide for them one day and make them independent" – we also do not want to begrudge him his joy, and we also want to let him undisturbedly prepare the eternal grave for his children. Do you think I care about such people? I tel you: a rotten apple stands higher with Me than such people!
[9] Therefore you also need not take offense for yourself, nor worry, but joyfully grant them this brief bliss, so as I do. For if they despise the old Gospel and call Me Myself a "poor fellow," they will surely do nothing else towards you, since you only bear witness of Me – of Me, the despised and mocked one, of Me, the crucified one.
[10] But I tell you: If your word had the applause of the world, it would not be from Me! But the contempt of the world is always the greatest testimony of that which comes from Me.
[11] Whoever thus reviles and flees you, he reviles and flees Me also! For what comes from you that indeed also comes from Me. Therefore be cheerful! Amen.