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The awakening power of love
10th June 1842. morning.
Blessing of a believing father and a pious mother To Andr. H. W.
[1] Hear and see, My beloved Andr. H. W., for I have something consoling to say to you!
[2] A communication, which I sent to My wordsmith for the necessary reassurance, brought you into a somewhat too fearful reflection, and, moreover, made you a little bit pessimistic with respect to what concerns the full mortality of the lukewarm, and this mainly because you understood thereunder your admittedly very worldly-minded and -mannered wife, and, not very far away, also your children with her. Alone, I tell you, you are well very perfectly right to take heed of such things. But what is said there in the epilogue to the scribe, such things nevertheless have only a general sense, but not as if I had wanted to coin something secretly on your house through it, so to speak.
[3] In order that you may see such things clearly, pay good attention to what I will now tell you about this point!
[4] See, wherever both spouses were equally lukewarm in spirit and therefore completely turned to matter, and likewise also in their care for their children, there also the epithet to My scribe would be applicable in full validity. But where one spouse is believing, especially when it is the man, and full of love for Me, there is his wife – as she is one flesh with him – sanctified by faith and by the love of the man, which can also well apply in the opposite case.
[5] Hence it is also the case on the part of a believing father toward his children, since his blessing can still pass over into the third, sometimes into the seventh, and sometimes even into the seventy- seventh generation, so that they can be awakened on the other side through an abundant life of such a father, which says so much that they can be completely revived again!
[6] Such a thing can indeed also be accomplished by a very pious life of the mother. But, since every woman must have a man if she wants to become a mother and so already sexually belongs to the man, more thus still spiritually, the obvious advantage! If her husband is of the same spirit with her, they are anyway completely one; and what therefore applies to man, applies also to his wife.
[7] But if the man was unbelieving, but the woman believing and pious, then of course she is the awakener of both the man – if he alone was only lukewarm with the children, but also evil at the same time – and the children. On this occasion, however, the mother's big blessing then extends only into the third generation in the most extended case. But her husband and her children can even be awakened by her life and are thus sanctified by her; but in that case the man who is thus awakened and sanctified, has no further enlivening capacity in himself, but only that he lives in the life of his wife through her love for Me and out of it for her husband. But thus also the life of the woman is accordingly, which in and of itself is dead through it’s lukewarmness, that it lives in the life of the man through his love for Me and out of it, for his wife. That such a co-enlivened and co-sanctified woman has also in and for herself no further vitalizing ability in herself, but only that she lives the life of the man, does not need to be discussed here still further.
[8] But since you would certainly ask how this is to be understood – how does therefore one live in or from or through the other? So I quite gladly want to explain such things to you completely, and so hear it then:
[9] Behold, you would certainly never have married your wife if you had not first united yourself with her in your heart. But through this inner connection, the image of her spirit has been taken up
alive into your soul and now lives on in you, very much like your outer real woman, only with the difference that, while the outer real woman lives only to the world, her image in you becomes ever more alive and spiritually refined through your love, loyalty and faith in Me.
[10] If we now set the case that your outward real woman dies before you bodily, all her life has indeed perished according to her worldliness and her lukewarmness. She has died there completely for herself for all eternities; only her living image lives on in your glorified soul. You then pray for your deceased wife. What happens then? Behold, here then a true spiritual miracle happens! This living, ennobled image of your wife then emerges freely from you (which you would realize if almost all sadness for your deceased wife had left you) and comes to the dead matter of the deceased wife, then glows through it and then awakens and purifies her completely solid soul and takes into yourself the withered spirit and moistens it with your love, which was indeed taken from you, but which is now already completely your own.Thus the truly dead spirit of the deceased woman is revived, then passes completely into the life of your living image and becomes completely one with it. So then the woman lives a certain kind of second love life out of the man, which can also be the case, however, in a doubly reversed respect.
[11] But what can be the case here between the spouses, also applies to the children on the part of the good and pious parents. Basically, however, these peculiar phenomena, which My apostle Paul already mentions, are nothing more than a miniature painting of what I Myself am doing on a large scale, even in the infinite – for there, through My image in you, which is My love or Christ in you, your dead and withered spirit is again softened and revived and thereby reborn to eternal life, after it has previously, through the love-fire of this very image of Me in you, been released from dead matter, which act is then and therefore then justly called redemption!
[12] If you, My beloved Andr. H. W., will surely see and fully comprehend this, then you will see just as easily that with Me, all things are possible! And how I am even able to drive not only one but a thousand camels at once through the needle's eye!
[13] But all this notwithstanding, the servant's epithet remains true after all, as soon as either both spouses are lukewarm, or one is not much superior to the other in life's virtue, or they are deliberately mutual adulterers, therefore the one does not want to follow the other in everything!
[14] But that a revival out of Me is better and infinitely more perfect than such an after-awakening, is already evident from the fact that I Myself am certainly more perfect than any spirit created by Me. But as every one awakened by Me must remain eternally dependent on Me, which dependence alone constitutes the eternal most blessed life of the spirit, so also the after-awakened one will remain eternally dependent on him who has awakened him again, and therefore will never be able to depend directly on Me and therefore also to be able to see Me directly, but only indirectly through him who has awakened him out of My love in himself! This you shall rightly understand, and it shall give you great comfort in your heart!
[15] I Finally I tell you concerning your children that you leave them a little too much free will; see, they are still far from being mature for this. Therefore, bend it now, since it can still be bent, otherwise they would soon cause you many a sorrow on earth, which could then make you fainthearted! If you therefore hold them to everything you let them learn in complete earnest, and that they fully obey their teachers without argument, you will obtain good fruit from them. For every seriousness underlies the life of the spirit, since I always walk just behind the seriousness of love! Take therefore note of this also, and I, your dear Father Jesus, will not let any of your own perish. My blessing with your spirit forever. Amen.