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Congratulations
3rd November 1843, in the morning
[1] Just write, because what you want, I have determined for a long time.
[2] Hear Me, My beloved K.G.L.! In the world it is customary among you that you meet each other on your birthdays and name days with all kinds of congratulations – at present, unfortunately, far more by means of so-called visiting cards than by means of true, love-filled hearts!
[3] The children also recite verses to their parents, and not infrequently in a foreign language which the children usually do not understand, and sometimes even some of the older ones do not. What the children congratulating in English or in French feel during their miserable neglect, should indeed be equivalent to that primordial substance of which it is said that I created the world out of it. So the well-wishers are seldom the touched part of the act of congratulating, since they always commit this act more out of a certain duty than for any loving reason. Only those who are congratulated are usually also touched. And after listening to a real Turkish ode or even an honorary poem in French or English, the parents move their thumbs and forefingers, which then touches the hearts of the children!
[4] Thus also the poor often congratulate their wealthy benefactors out of pure emotion, but not from the heart, and often even pray for the preservation and health of such benefactors, but not out of free love, but out of necessity!
[5] So then in the world, congratulations are usually offered on the predetermined birthdays and name days! But besides this I now also ask the question for Myself: How am I, as the Father of you all, to congratulate you, My children?
[6] For example, by means of business cards that are not completely blank? I certainly do that every day, but one pays little attention to it. Behold, the blossoms, the foliage of the trees, all the plants of the earth, the stars of the night, the moon, the rising sun, as now also the great spiritual – these are all congratulatory cards of a much more important kind than your own printed pieces of paper! But the children have little regard for them. If I don't also not move the "thumb," then these My tickets have no value.
[7] I sure do what parents do when they are congratulated by their children or when they themselves wish their children happiness. But still I never or only very rarely discover a true, free love in My children, but mostly only a distressed love, in which the children always pin their eyes more on My thumb than on My heart!
[8] I sure see that through this the children lose in true, free love – and still I do according to the desire of the children, so that they are to be awakened through My free love to true, free love for Me.
[9] And so then I now also come to you – you My dear son, as a father with a strong heart and also moving the thumb and forefinger, since without these latter, My other great calling cards are of no great value to you either!
[10] I, your Holy Father, am thus moving the "thumb and forefinger" and blessing you with the thumb of My power and strength, so that you may become strong in love as in faith; and bless you with the forefinger to show you the right way, which shall lead you into My dwelling, into your eternal, endlessly great, holy Father-house!
[11] Accept therefore this My congratulation as an eternally alive one! for I, your holy Father Jesus, give it to you!
[12] But if you congratulate each other among yourselves, wash each others’ feet, as I, your Father, wash your feet daily – i.e. do good to one another, spiritually and bodily, I will always be with you by touching your heart, thumb, and index finger. And My sun will illuminate and warm you as a great and living greetings card. Amen. I say this, your Father Jesus! Amen.