NEUOFFENBARUNG← Gifts of Heaven · Volume 2 · Contents
Clarification of ten questions
6th August 1842, afternoon.
Ten questions, written down on demand of the servant by Ans. H. Oh Lord! I cannot understand that in the Mosaic law the death penalty was fixed for so many actions, and that some tribes together with their belongings were mercilessly destroyed by the Israelites in Your name, while You Yourself as Jesus, said: Judge not, that you may not be judged; condemn not, that you may not be condemned.
[1] Answer: Behold, under Moses and after Moses, the Old Covenant lasted until My descent. In this covenant only faith was required for justification, because the old love from Noah downwards began to pass more and more into pure wisdom. And so also the Mosaic law was based only on faith; But love has become an inner, secret, in a certain way unconscious condition alone through strict obedience – for since Wisdom had detached itself from Love, it also had to be always and severely judged, so that it does not want to step out of the circle of eternal order. And so this period from Moses up to Christ was a hard period of formative judgment, that is why I also had to finally take the burden of judgment and all it’s statutes on Me and erase the judgment and reinstate the old love in the place of the cold faith. See, that is a reason.
[2] But another, still deeper reason of the first reason itself is this, because at that time the prince of death and lie was not yet judged, but still completely free! Why, is easy to guess, because he wanted to complete himself then by the only faith-wisdom and judgment. But this direction of his went over into all idolatry, and so My side had to proceed against his judgment again with equal measure.
[3] Behold, this is why it seemed cruel at that time! But when I came down, he was judged, and the old love became again the only law. If then also evil happens, then it happens out of the self-evil will of people through demonic whispers; but in My law there is no longer any reason for it. Behold, this is the reason. Is the marriage bond an eternally indissoluble one?
[4] Answer: Certainly, if it was concluded from true pure love both mainly in My perspective, and then also in view of the mutual human value or at least afterwards was thus completely manifested. But if such is not the case, then that which is called marriage has no name and value at all for heaven, but often a stronger and greater one for hell! Understand it, everyone! When I say I go into myself, I want to explore myself – does the spirit go into the soul or the soul into the spirit? Does the soul explore the spirit or the spirit the soul? For the soul cannot go into the soul and the spirit cannot go into the spirit. Who is therefore here the "I" and who the "me"?
[5] Answer: But I tell you that neither the one nor the other is the case here, but under the going into oneself is only understood that the spirit or love move into it’s free will and directs it alone to that which is of My will. But when love lets the will unbridled, then the will soon become stronger than the love towards Me and then pulls it outwards, weakens it – and therefore also itself, as My power to work outwards in it! Going into oneself means therefore: draw the emanations of the will into itself; and exploring oneself, is called: see through the rays of will with love for Me, whether everything is directed to Me! Behold, so it is. What does the joyful whirling flight of countless swallows around the seven-bell tower, which I saw on the height of the castle hill the day before yesterday, mean?
[6] Answer: The very stupid people of the world, who also prefer to flutter around flashing metal rather than around the living trees of life and cannot part with that which is more than dead and brings eternal death, like not seldom also these little animals from a gilded tower knob overfilled with electromagnetic fluid. Behold, such is the meaning of the image you have seen! Is to the indication from a Somnambulist to be attributed faith, that some people have a cornered and some a spherical evaporation, and that the former are more spiritual and the latter more worldly?
[7] Answer: The somnambulists do not always see correctly. But concerning this statement, it is sure pretty much correct in the appearance, but not also so in the meaning. By the appearance only the magnetic or rather soul polarities are represented, but by no means the either more spiritual or more worldly qualities of the spirit or the actual love-will-life. Therefore the spheres can be as heavenly as the cornered; it depends only on the love! See, this is correct. Is the assertion of another somnambulist correct that every human being is given a certain number at birth? For example, C.L. and I would have the number five.
[8] Answer: If you want to believe it, then it is as you believe it – but otherwise no-one is counted except by the greatness and strength of his love. But this is always the number one with Me! But everything else hangs on pure faith. Behold, this is pure, good and true. Is the death of the Duke of Orleans to be considered an event of importance?
[9] Answer: For the world nonetheless, but in the heavens, even the cessation of a solar region is considered small! But in the time, all sorts of signs must indeed happen; so this too shall be a sign that I am by no means a friend of a constitutional dynasty. For if several coachmen on a wagon want to steer the wagon differently wilfullly, where will the carriage come to? Or does such steering not make the horses scittish and in the end tear the whole carriage apart? Behold, therefore such a people are given also such signs. This is how it is to be taken. Does not often the gaze say more than the word, and does not often in the gaze lie more power than in the word?
[10] Answer: Oh yes, if through the gaze the spirit speaks! But so you should have asked: Whether in the spiritual word lies more power than in the word of the tongue? So you would have understood your question immediately! See, this is the right reason. Oh Lord! How is the passage in chapter 19, verses 17 and 18 of the Revelation of John to be understood: Come, gather yourselves to the great banquet of God, that ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains of armies, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all, both free men, and of the servants, small and great?
[11] Answer: Oh My dear friend! You don't understand that?! Look, look! You already have the big banquet in front of you, and you can ask for it like someone who is looking for something while carrying it in his hand?! My love, this holy city, is certainly the great banquet, which in time will consume all worldly things! Behold, this is the great banquet of God to which you have just been invited! Behold, therefore the sense of the heavens is manifested here. Oh friend! Come, come to the banquet completely! Can I influence someone who is in France in such a way that he is thereby deterred from an action or encouraged to act?
[12] Answer: I tell you, through love and through the living faith that comes out of it to Me, not only someone in France, but indeed someone even more remote – and would he be in Sirius or even infinitely further away; because with Me, you can do everything, but nothing without Me! Surely that will not be strange to you? Therefore love and believe, and you will always win, Amen.
154