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Fixed ideas, their healing and prevention
29th July 1843
Oh Lord! How can someone be cured of a fixed idea, for example, that he is the pope, the emperor or a virtuoso?
[1] As for this question, the reason for such fixed imaginings has already been discussed on another occasion, when it has been shown how the mind is like a balloon and love like a lower center of gravity, to which the mind is bound by the cord of will. If now the mind pulls too hard, the cord breaks and becomes, as you say, "a spinning wheel". But now the mind has no food; the spiritual dephlogiston (*1) flows out, and the mind-balloon begins to sink.
[2] But man is a microcosm. When the intellect has now sunk, then it happens spiritually that the torn cord of will in the microcosm encounters the one, sometimes the other object in a corresponding manner. There it pushes, there it also hooks itself and sticks on like a polyp (since it is still a living string) and sucks from it as before from the true reason for life and thus feeds the balloon.
[3] If the string has reached a tree, a dog, a bird, a grain of wheat, a stone, or a human being in any other way when it sinks into the microcosm, as if by chance, but only in a corresponding way, then the whole human being will think that he is what his balloon is saturated with.
[4] If the object on which the torn-off string came to sit is fertile, this fixed state will last a long time. But if it is not, the human being will soon change into the so-called cretin state, because his balloon together with the string, will shrink. And if the string comes across another fruitful object, the fixed idea is then changed, and man will believe to be something else, and thus passes from one madness to another.
[5] I think that will now be clearly evident. But where is the help for that?
[6] With Me! For I immediately foresee that at the moment when such a break occurs, the part of the cord left behind in love will take hold and begin to form itself into a new mind-balloon over it. If the torn-off part of the cord is wisely robbed of it's fruitful object from the outside, and this so often when it settles down somewhere new, it soon shrinks. And the new mind-balloon grows the better away, for what reason man begins to think in a completely orderly fashion again.
[7] If, however, the fruitful object is not properly moved out of the way of the old balloon, then the person gets into a double state, which now looks and is now ordered, now again confused. In order to remedy this condition, the physician feeds the patient's heart in particular. As a result, the new balloon will grow quickly and begin to energetically counter the effects of the old balloon.
[8] These are the most effective remedies for such conditions. But certain harsh procedures are quite in vain and rather make matters worse than improve them; because through them the new growth is prevented. If the old balloon is also deprived of its nourishment, the new one will not be prepared either, so that it will then wither together with the old one – and the cretin state is finished.
[9] Somnambulism could also be used successfully here and there. But it has to be carried out by very strong-willed people, otherwise the magnetizers would have to fear that the patient's condition would overturn in such reports. Magnetic methods will be of little use here, because the evil is spiritual and not material.
[10] See, these would be the means by which one can outwardly counter these evils. But the best remedy by reason of the essence, is I! He who from the beginning remains quite at home with Me and does not strive out into the world, with him such a disruption will never happen.
[11] But he who strives only for the worldly is already more or less in such a state, which certainly becomes worse from day to day, until the cord is completely severed. Do you understand this?
[12] Yes you should understand! Because you also have children who have already stretched their string quite strongly into the world. Pull it back, otherwise soon one or the other might be in significant danger! Because I cannot hold them and must not, for the sake of their salvation and their life, if they do not look at Me and do not have a living faith in My word.
[13] So pay attention to this, My dear friend! Amen.
Footnotes (*1) Filling gas