Gifts of Heaven · Volume 2 · Chapter 286

Be careful with the heavenly light

17th April 1843

[1] Let by no means the transcription of the "Sun”(*1) be done by an uninitiated person! Especially and least of all, if one is already of such age that he is no longer accessible to a new light, in that his spirit has necessarily founded itself in so many wrong things, in which there is indeed a great contradiction with the light of the "Sun"!

[2] Behold, if you were to give something out of My new living words to such a man to copy, who, on the other hand, depends far more on the Roman ceremonial merits than on the pure teaching of the Gospel – you would obviously not make him better by this, but only worse. For, on the one hand, he would begin to suspect his church and his conscience in himself, but, on the other hand, he will suspect all the more in comparison to his Catholic reasoning what is to be copied, since it runs straight as a line against his old reasoning.

[3] But the man is also a human, and it is important to Me that he does not perish. Therefore no-one is to copy such inner revelations unless he is a son of Swedenborgian light or himself a seer of spirits, or he is a still very prudent youth who doubts Papism in himself and is a blood-relation to you, and so also a soul- and spirit- relation!

[4] Behold, this word is powerful in itself, either to animate or to kill. Therefore, in the beginning it must certainly be handled with extreme caution. Whom it seizes, it never lets go – either to life or to death!

[5] But since it leads just as powerfully to life, so also to judgement, so I now also let it happen that he who take hold of this mighty word, gets enlivened and made powerful and even mightily reborn – but he who receives it only somewhat tepidly and soon retreats and refuse to receive it any further, so that he may still escape judgement!

[6] Because it is better to hear nothing of My love than to handle it with lukewarmness while it once has been given to him in such most living fullness.

[7] He who has received the light and turns again from it, he comes into darkness. But he who has received Love, as My own life, and then leaves it again, he enters death, from which it will be all the more difficult to escape again, the more love someone has already absorbed into himself from Me.

[8] So also single rays of the most living love-light are fatal for the one who receives it in an unprepared state – while the actual rays of grace are fatal for no-one, just as the flashes of lightning kill no-one; But if someone is struck by lightning itself, i.e. by it's basic rays, he gets killed, if he is still in the natural state. But if someone is a somnambulist, he can withstand a whole ground- electric sea without the slightest damage, since he is completely related to it in his state as a somnambulist.

[9] But from this you shall see why I do not want and cannot want before the time, that someone is to make a copy of this My living word of love in an unprepared state, because it would greatly endanger the life of his spirit!

[10] Of course, you will probably not completely understand how this is possible. But consider: If a crippled tree sits on a rock and has a weak life there, will you save it's life by taking it from it's meager place and setting it in a fat soil? So is it also better to leave the established where they are. For a violent transfer will cost them their lives!

[11] But wait for a short time with the transcript, and you will receive everything in a good and safe way! This is to be observed! Amen.

Footnotes (*1) the works "The natural sun" and "The spiritual sun"