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An unsuccessful invitation
16 April 1843
[1] Just write, because I already know what you have that is not of the greatest importance!
[2] Behold, the one whom you are inquiring about can neither be advised nor helped for the time being; he is still constantly seeking his happiness in the world, and wants only to have his worldly circumstances improved, but in Me he is basically still very little interested, since he does not seek Me because of Me, but only because of the great world.
[3] Last year I even invited him most kindly to My table and banquets. But he, due to the world, has never yet come to do what I have advised him to do, so that he would have recognized from it why he is actually in the world, out of Me! He serves and lives only for the world, so he must then also be content with the wages of the world!
[4] Everybody can do what he wants. Who I invite, may come or not. And everyone is indeed invited once – whether he comes for it or not, that is of no consequence to Me. For the world has it's children, and I have Mine. But when I call the ones who are Mine, and they do not listen to Me and also do not want to understand Me and therefore do not come because they have too much to do with the world, then I let them taste the world and let them feel how it tastes.
[5] When they have then sufficiently tasted and savored the world and have learned to appreciate the world's foulest reward sufficiently, then they will not so easily throw My reputation to the wind again when it will again be presented to them!
[6] But I say to you: Whatever happens in the sphere of this man, I allow only for his betterment. I let him taste the world in larger chunks, so that he is to see from it what benefit his office brings him, because out of sheer official and world zeal, he has never really found time to deal with Me just a little sometimes.
[7] Since he believes he will go blind immediately if he sometimes would read a chapter from My book, he should therefore try all the more in his official papers to see all his eyes are still able to endure!
[8] I do not like his whole way of life. He buckles on the one hand, since he could win the most beautiful time for Me, and then, however, on the other hand, can even be lively, where there is no time for Me and nothing can be won with him!
[9] Therefore, for the time being, this man is not to be advised and helped, that is, the way he thinks it, but is healed by Me homeopathically, namely by the world itself!
[10] But I want to have noticed such things only to you and, at most, to the other three. And they can therefore give him only oral nudges and riddles – it goes without saying, only at the proper opportunity!