Gifts of Heaven · Volume 2 · Chapter 289

The nature of man and woman

3rd May 1843

In the main work "The Household of God", written in 1840-1844, the circumstances of Adam's descendants living on the mountain heights are described. The forefathers received revelations from the Lord about the nature of man and woman.

[1] The founding fathers: "Oh Lord, Most Loving Father! Give us all a greater light for our reassurance about Your most sublime answer to Muthael; for in the light about our most moral, best women we cannot be happy, but only unhappy, since they are after all our greatest good after You and we can never thank You enough for this eternally… Oh dear Father, therefore let our dear wives be with us from above and not from below!

[2] And the Lord opened His mouth and said to the fathers, "You still speak as fully blind in My order. If you do not know what is said in the spirit 'above' and what is said 'below', why do you not ask for it, but instead demand of Me a light now where you need none, and that I should pervert My whole eternal order for the sake of your foolish desire?

[3] Tell Me: Does the woman lose something before Me because of this, if I say of her to the man that she is from below and thus constitutes the most necessary antipole to the man, without which neither the man for himself nor the woman for could exist?!

[4] But what will you say if I now say to you: Compared to Me, you are all from below, and only I am from above! But am I ceasing to be your Creator and your only, eternally holy Father?! Or did I not create you, Adam, out of the earth’s clay, like your wife, Eve, out of your 'rib'?!

[5] But since you all know that the 'clay' denote My love and the 'rib' My grace and mercy, since My grace and mercy include your life as it encloses and maintains the body's life’s solid skeleton, so you have to recognize yourself as more than blind if you find an irreconcilable difference where you should only find one solved!

[6] Tell Me what is more praiseworthy: the shining sun itself, or it’s outgoing light? What do you think is higher?

[7] You say in yourselves: "Oh Lord, one is as necessary and good as the other! Well, I say; if the sun is to be regarded as the set height in itself, but what then is there with its outgoing light for a standing relationship?

[8] You say: "It must then necessarily be under the sun everywhere!" Good, I say; but if the sun in and for itself has no higher value than its outgoing light, since the sun without the outgoing light would be as good as no sun at all and would also have no value at all, then this will certainly not harm the woman and will not impair her value in the least, if she is necessarily "below" the man.

[9] But I say, If the woman is as she ought to be, she has before Me the value of a just man, and is a dear little child of Mine same as the man; but if the woman strays, I will seek her as much as I seek the man. But a wicked woman is just as wicked as a wicked man; for the ray from the sun is like the sun itself.

[10] But a time will come when I will gather the ray in the woman, to illuminate the extinct sun in the man! Understand such things, and for once let go of your old folly! Love your women justly, but do not make of them more or less than they are out of Me! It is enough, if you respect them equally; more or less, shall be sin! Amen."