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Marriage council
27th June 1842, morning
[1] Just write, write; for I have already known for a long time what you want to ask Me!
[2] My dear K.G.L., who loves Me and trusts Me in your heart, that is why you want to have good advice from Me in the to you well-known cause! Behold, here is again a point where, as you use to say, the „good advice is expensive!" Because I tell you, and you can believe Me exactly: In hell and presently in the world, a good and effective advice is in earnest difficult for Myself; except I wanted to swipe with the advice, also with My omnipotence.
[3] But if I did such a thing – for what then would the preceding advice be good and suitable? See, not long ago I gave to the so-called Western India, because of it’s too industrious and philanthropic striving, such an advice connected with My omnipotence, that they should return to Me from the world. But this advice has cost many people (I don't want to use another expression here) – their lives and the existence of many places!
[4] But see, what this example has shown you here on a large scale, and how still several similar, where not even greater examples will show you for the future, what My advice connected with My omnipotence – and therefore also very tangible – is able to do. The same can also be the case with individual people, if I would give them omnipotent advice, which then certainly would be effective for now.
[5] But do I give the people of the world friendly advice either through the better instinct of their heart or, as it is the case here, through an awakened seer and word servant, tell Me, where is he who believes such things completely and therefore also observes them most faithfully? For thus wrong are men's senses, that the greatest miracle of the living word is so indifferent to them, as only always another everyday phenomenon in the world.
[6] Therefore, you can believe Me that giving good advice on many occasions and in many points is truly difficult even for Me!
[7] Nevertheless, I still want to tell you something about your matter of concern, but of course only as it stands with Me and not as it is found in the great world-order of man as they are at present.
[8] Behold, if any man has slept with a maiden, so that he thereby also has begotten out of her a fruit, after having first obtained her most intimate affection by all manner of preliminary words of marriage – only three scenarios are possible, which release him from his made covenant. And these three cases are: first, the one-sided or other-sided death of the body; secondly, a complete incapacity for marital status caused by whatever circumstances; thirdly, when the girl becomes completely unfaithful in her heart to the man without his fault and has accepted in her heart the love-proposal of another.
[9] See, only these three cases can and are regarded by Me as a fully apologetic reason. But all other reasons, which have grown on the meager and exceedingly deceptive ground of worldly mind, are always regarded as null and void!
[10] Who then says from his mind: I would like to take the girl as a wife, if my financial circumstances would allow it! To him I say: "You, who according to sin can calculate so well, why did you not acquire a counting table before [committing] the sin? Truly, now you are too late for Me with this account of yours!
[11] For I know no such calculation, which excuses sin and absolves you of your made covenant! Why? Because man, through sin, has already broken the eternal covenant with Me anyway, which
he swore to Me in water baptism, so he shall not add to this main break another one, which is completely equal to the main break.
[12] Secondly however, the man who calculates thus, should consider that his provision depends not so much on the worldly circumstances of wealth as rather, yes, completely alone, on Me – so with a faithful understanding of the heart he will easily find that the test of the worldly calculation is better than the calculation itself!
[13] Because whom I take care of is truly taken care of; while some are languishing in worldly dungeons of a double kind, because the tests of their calculations have turned out worse than the supposedly well-managed worldly calculations!
[14] Behold, this is the only advice that I can give you, which is also alone only good and true! But who will obey it? Will it be obeyed at all?
[15] Verily, who – out of love for Me – does not marry, does better. But whoever once gave the word to a maiden, does a gross sin when he breaks his word. But if anyone has already once laid with a girl against My commandment, how much more must he therefore also be obliged to make amends for his sin to the girl – without which deed it is never erased from the table of guilt to him in the kingdom of life!
[16] If you, My dear K. G. L., want to give such advice to your friend as if from you, you can do it! But whether it will bear fruit, that we will in the meantime, leave undecided in the world. Amen.