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The signet ring
11th July 1842.
[1] A seemingly insignificant, trivial thing appears to the eye as an honorable signet ring. But when a prince carries it on his hand, it has a great weight for the whole land. Such is a ring worn by a prince, of such great value, that even in the latest days some deed researchers ask after it and busily hunt for such old treasures!
[2] There is an office even in some states, which there has the name seal preservation. And to him is such an office trusted, on which the prince also surely builds great things. Only of one country's tried and tested faithful the prince then empowers to freedom; another one may scream himself to death, never but he will enjoy the office!
[3] Many a pious person also of Moses speaks: He was the Lord's ring, a great light! Verily, he is still that at this hour, a seal of God for the old covenant, which God has already placed in Abraham; and what He has most wisely concealed from him, He has, to announce to the entire world, chosen Moses, him He has inspired with Himself!
[4] But if such is the case with Moses and every prophet is in Moses' image, since in his spirit everyone speaks to that people is an inscrutable light! How so high then Moses, who passed away, why not ask for what is there, why hang on Moses only in high esteem, why not also, what is there, thus embrace?!
[5] So notice it then, you vain presence,
I tell you: you are so hard inside you, you do not recognize the signet ring, it seems to you, like the eye, a vain thing. But so the prince's ring you hold in honor, who still tends to turn himself to worldly things; oh look, how may then you infatuate thus yourself, to honor Me so weakly in My ring?!
[6] Is even every signet ring in itself a trivial, insignificant little thing, so is He, who needs and leads the same, sublime high and full of the highest dignity'. Who therefore want to honor the prince, they must also pay attention to the ring; but if someone would resent the ring, will he not also pout the prince's honor?!
[7] Let it be, and let the ring be of bad brass, put on My finger through the heart; It is not, but he who wears it yet worthy of respect for the seal! Therefore let no-one argue wisely, Not even prayerfully stride to a ring; But by preparing a time of gloom for a ring, thereby no-one will gain much from Me!
[8] What is said, no-one offers defiance to it, but everyone should make use of it! Can you not respect what your eye sees, how to honor then, that always your eye flees? Who of Me to the ring is shaped, he is also like Moses not outdated, yet through him everything is reshaped anew, so there through him the love of love prevails!
[9] This is something just for you. If you want to show it to someone, you can do it, but you are not obliged to do so. It is indeed due to you for My sake! For yourself, however, it is better to forbear and have, as before, a humble heart! Therefore it is not your duty to inform the others of such things immediately. Amen.
Explanation to the song 'The Signet Ring'. –
Oh Lord, most patient teacher and leader of all mankind, behold, the song 'The Signet Ring' is in the whole as well as in detail something of too secretive sense. I do not
understand it, for I cannot relate it to my person; how then am I to take such thing? Oh Lord, be not angry with me worm in the dust of all nothingness before You, and also not, as I am much inferior to all my brothers and friends and much worse than they, therefore I now ask for this of You – but be merciful and gracious to me poor sinner! If it were your holy will, you could well add a shining spark of your grace! But only – if you want it. Amen.
[1] So write then! I tell you: You and the signet ring have nothing to do with each other, except that through you, this new signet ring is given from Me.
[2] But the signet ring is the word and not you – even then not when I speak through your spirit with your tongue. Therefore the pronounced respect has nothing to do with you, but only with the word. But that everyone may surely and exactly understand this, he should know that under a prophet never his person and being, but alone I am understood in the word. But also the word itself in and for itself is not My actual being, so it is however still My will, which is revealed to you or also to all other people, represented for contemplation either by words from the mouth of a man called by Me or by signs, which he either records himself or has recorded by someone else.
[3] The will, however, is therefore the signet ring, but not he who serves Me himself only as a tool!
[4] So the present word, which I now bring down to earth through you, is the proverbial signet ring, but not you. This is from the same finger as at the time of Moses. But Moses had to cover his face to show that it was not he, but I alone, who was the sole prophet in word and law, and not he.
[5] But if Moses had to do such a thing, how then can it occur to you, even in your dreams, to relate the signet ring to your person? See how blind you still are to yourself in spite of all that you have already heard! But that I gave such a thing more for you than for someone else, you must therefore understand, because you yourself were not clear about many a gift from Me and heeded many a point less for yourself, than the others did for themselves!
[6] Behold, therefore also I have set the signet ring so that it’s sense thus looks as if it refers to your person, to give you thereby a new touchstone for yourself, on which you are to test the gold of your knowledge, whether it is solid for what I let pass through you daily. But if you have so sometimes clouded the ring with you, what prey shall one day become to you from it?
[7] Oh, behold, many other called ones have done the same and have pondered over what they had received, while they should have practiced it above all through the most living faith, and I have therefore laid similar, even much stronger traps for them. Those who, like you, turned to Me, I gave them the solution as soon as possible, but those who took it upon themselves, they ended up like the wise Solomon.
[8] Accordingly, the signet ring denotes the new Word, as it appears outwardly, which no-one should worship in itself, but pay attention in everything and everyone, therefore it is a true signet ring put on My finger of mercy through the heart – or through My great merciful love!
[9] Now understand this well, because I have given it to you only for the time being. Therefore you should also understand this, as each one accordingly, in the right sense. This I say, the eternal Truth and Wisdom, Amen, Amen, Amen.