Gifts of Heaven · Volume 2 · Chapter 233

Midnight of the soul

13th June 1842

Question of Andr. H.-W.: "Oh Lord! It seems to me that I am more dead than alive. Will the midnight not soon be over by Your great love, grace and mercy?

[1] That depends only on you! When you, along with your whole house, break with the whole world, the midnight will soon be over! But if someone is still bound between two rugged pillars which are some distance apart, that, while he is drawn to the living pillar by someone in the morning, he is also drawn to the pillar of death in the evening by someone else with equal ropes – how will he fare with this double pull?

[2] But you say yourself: "The clever one yields!" And I tell you that there I must always be the "clever one" and must always give way with My pulling mechanism at My morning-pillar, when the busy master begins to tighten his lacing mechanism too tightly at the evening pillar.

[3] If I also attract you on such occasions, you almost become an insect, that your spiritual breath escapes you. And that is exactly this condition with you, why you say that it seems to you as if you were "more dead than alive"!

[4] But when you want and like (for it is completely up to your free will to free yourself from the ropes of the evening pillar!) – so soon also will your supposed "midnight" will pass; for the morning pillar then casts no more shadow, but the evening pillar, an all the greater one.

[5] But he who glorifies Me through his faith and whom I have already entwined from all sides with love-ropes, fares well, if he soon gets rid of all that still draws him to the evening pillar.

[6] And that is not so difficult after all, as someone might think there! A true, living love for Me makes everything easy, and nothing is impossible for him!

[7] But if you would sometimes like to keep a small account with yourself regarding the evening pillar, I tell you, you would easily see how you still tolerate some cords from the evening around your body!

[8] But these must be removed from the body! Otherwise it won't get much better with your supposed "midnight"! Note this well! Because now I no longer need to add to you from Whom this gift is! Amen.