NEUOFFENBARUNG← Gifts of Heaven · Volume 2 · Contents
Soul-vermin
16th February 1844, morning
[1] So write down a few little words, because you really want it – and you believe that without these little words, the earth will get a hole!
[2] I always sweep with big and small and young and old in all ways! And so then you too, little worldly Martha, listen to Me, what I tell you on this day!
[3] Behold, everything in the world passes away, only one thing remains, and that is pure love for Me and every action out of it!
[4] If you will have this love, only then will I recognize you and bless you completely! But if you want to achieve this love, you must first make your heart completely pure from every other love, which now created all sorts of small and even trivial pleasures for you!
[5] See, with what the heart is filled, the mouth always speaks, and the birds are recognized by their singing. Listen to yourself, therefore, only for one whole day, to all that comes out of your mouth, and you will see from it easily and clearly how much of the most worthless stuff your youthful heart is filled with! And as long as the heart is not purified by such a witness, there can be no talk of a pure love for Me!
[6] See, you are still an unclean soul, and would have a clean bed to sleep in; and it would disgust you greatly, if you should have to lie in a garbage bin instead of a clean bed. How much more must it then disgust Me, the Most Holy and eternally pure, if I had to take My dwelling in an unclean heart!
[7] But I do not want to tell you by this as if your heart were a dwelling place of dragons, snakes and vipers; oh no, you are far from that. But see, lice, fleas, and bugs under the dustpan are not attractive either!
[8] People are now full of "lice, fleas and bugs" in their hearts and consider such gifts to be very laudable. But I am by no means of this opinion! For I was never a friend of such vermin.
[9] But you will ask: "Yes, what are the "lice, fleas and bugs of the heart"? Just listen to Me! I will immediately describe them to you more closely!
[10] The "lice" are all sorts of silly, stupid thoughts of which the head is full! From the head these lice like to climb into the garment and become more annoying there than on the head. Thus also more often stupid thoughts rise from the head into the heart and become embarrassing worldly desires! Behold, these are the "lice" of the heart!
[11] When it gets warm and the rooms are unclean, that's when the fleas appear. And so it is also with humans! When he warms his heart, which is filled with unclean desires, by these very desires, all kinds of trivial and often dirty worries arise from it, which itch and sting the heart and jump diligently back and forth and up and down. Behold, these are the "fleas" in the heart.
[12] And what are the "bugs"? Behold, where a house is not carefully cleaned, the bugs emerge from the filth of the rooms and nest in all the cracks, disturbing the sleeping ones by their stinging and their stench! In the same way it happens in the heart of man, when he is enlivened by all kinds of thoughts, desires and worries to many a resolution and deed! These too already stink and no longer give the heart any peace. And such intentions and willful attitudes are then the "bugs" of the heart!
[13] All this is already in your heart! That is why I tell you today on this day of yours that you are to be quite attentive to yourself – and you are to get to know your own heart from your mouth and, accordingly, carefully cleanse it of all such witness, so that I then can enter it!
[14] Away with all of this – so I will come to you and take up residence in your heart! This I say and advise you, your most loving, holy Father, so that you may become to Me a quite pure and dear daughter forever. Amen.