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A Herald of the New Revelation
9th October 1843
Anselm Hüttenbrenner's report: "Today Jakob Lorber's mother, who came to Graz, told me that last year she coincidentally met a seventy-year-old beggar in a strange house. He always talks only about divine things, he is of great stature, gaunt, and yet friendly looking. According to his language and clothing he must be an Illyrian. When asked where he was from and where he was staying, he answered: I am actually everywhere and yet nowhere at home! Later (in the summer of 1843) this old man visited Jakob Lorber’s mother in her dwelling and told her an old prophecy, according to which Styria was a happy country, in which in his time a man would rise from which the Spirit of God would speak. Then he said to his mother: "Your son is this graced one! He received this grace in his sleep. Do you know how long your son has been hearing the voice of God? The mother, only halfway informed of the revelation to her son, said "I think about two years." The old man spoke: "Look, I know better! Your son is already in his fourth year of writing. And when the fourth year is completed, he will once again fall into a deep sleep lasting 24 hours and will then pass from hearing to seeing. The old man further said: "It would be good if your son at the time of this second sleep will not be in the city where he now lives, but with you in his homeland. The mother offered the old man a place to sleep, since it was already quite dark. But he said he still had to move on, and he would be very happy if he could talk to her son Jacob. He could not come to Graz, he said, because he had no friends there. When the mother told the man about the priesthood in an unfavorable way, he referred such things to her and said that she should leave everything entirely to God. He said that God would put everything in order. One should let Him alone prevail! The mother, who does not fully understand the old man's Slavic dialect, believes that she has also deduced from his statements that he once served in the military. But she cannot vouch for whether she has understood correctly. Ans. H. Question of the servant: Oh Lord! Most loving, holy Father! What about the man of whom my mother brought me the news? Can his statements be trusted?
[1] Write! Such men, young and old, several will soon be set up and filled with my Spirit. Therefore they are to be trusted.
[2] I Myself now often go along in such men and prepare the people here and there for My imminent great appearance!
[3] Verily, verily, with fire and sword will I visit the cities, the dwellings of devils and their servants. I will pour out upon them great famine, famine and pestilence, and will cause great waters to come upon the usurious land. Three times cursed be all the dresses of women, who want to entice men with them, because they are no longer aware of any intrinsic value; and three times cursed be also the man, young and old, who pays homage to the world and to women because of the fashion of dresses, and grows a large beard, a moustache, a gag beard, and a naughty boy's beard, in order to make himself conspicuous before the world and before the women! Verily, verily, I will let such men perish in My sea of wrath, and My mercy shall be as far from them as one infinity from another! No devil is worse to Me than the arrogant fashion-devil; upon him I will pour out all My
judgment in the end; for it is he who turns all mankind away from Me, and pollutes all the world with the foulest foulness of hell! Behold, now already everything strives to be dressed according to fashion; one promotes it's industry; one advances horribly! Oh abomination of abominations; Oh world, how fast you are heading for ruin! Would you not, My servant, hang fashionable garments on your body, that I might leave you and condemn you? Oh tell those who delight in this, how displeasing they stand before Me! Behold, therefore now come such men; by these the country people must be prepared here and there! But for the city dweller, the worldly priests are enough; if he will go according to their words, I will spare him; but if he will not, let him be accursed. But you, to whom I Myself preach, will lose all the more if you do not live by it. This is a most valid prophecy!
[4] Every man should speak from My Spirit, but his sight is not yet perfect. It is not correct to "sleep", because you must be able to see.