Gifts of Heaven · Volume 3 · Chapter 368

The Pearl

31st January 1847

[1] In the sea's deep bottom, where the mighty wave, aroused by the gruesome wind, never rummage in the deeply lying sea sands and indeed does not easily cloud the sparse shimmer, which, a ray of sunshine, still tangles the damp sea wall and the last peaks of light dive into shark's hawks- eye – there rests very quietly in a firmly closed mother, a noble fruit – the noblest of the deep, which, brought up into the sunlight, becomes a mirror to the sun – and shines and flaunts with it as the noblest with the noblest! There the king adorns his throne with it, the princess her arm, head and neck. The great pearl's great value even Solomon did not appreciate enough. Gemstones must first be sanded, otherwise they do not decorate the crowns; but no sanding is needed for the pearl; as the dark deep sea bed has given it, it is already the most magnificent jewel!

[2] Oh people! In you there is also a sea, it’s peaceful depths hides such jewelry wherewith the heavenly princes will adorn their foreheads, breasts, and loins most abundantly! Do you people know it, do you know the pearl which the heart of poverty hides in the poor brother, and which shapes itself more glorious and greater in the loving heart of the giver that always practices good things in the quiet ocean depths of his peace of love – and becomes nobler and more sublime than the sun's light-filled spheres?

[3] Oh behold, this is heaven’s becoming and it’s light-shaping in the deep foundation of life; My Divine Word, still covered with flesh, but working heavenly, because even heaven itself is above all heavens, thus begetting heaven, creating, giving birth to light in the Mother, who there is Love – Love of God, brotherly love, encompassing, embracing all, attracting and endeavors in her nobility even the lowest of the lowest to convert to her nobility – just like the pearl draws the deep sea's mud into it’s high nobility and inverts it into it’s noble nature.

[4] The pearl does not prepare the mud, which it inverts into it’s being through it’s silent activity, which the world does not see and does not notice, where after all so much nobility is begotten, that the world does not even know the great value and does not appreciate it, and there the noblest and most precious is begotten in the most cramped, silent space.

[5] So also a true man should be reflected in the pearl's own shimmer, which is much lovelier than the Orion's blaze of fire, then he will find in himself, what his life's sea depth hides.

[6] The way is open, the storm has subsided, slumbering; who can still waver? Act, act according to the word, become real fishermen of real pearls! In your heart's sea of mercy lower your will's diving bell, and stretch your brotherly love's net over the mud of poverty, there you will make a good catch – for I Myself will be as a pearl of pearls among the pearls you have caught in the brotherly net of your love; for as the pearl grows in the calm depth of the sea, so I grow in your heart a pearl of life, which will never be taken from you forever.

[7] This pearl is a life, it is a life, a living word, a heaven, I Myself am the pearl of pearls! Therefore, go and gather the pearls, and if you find the great one, then give everything and buy it, for I Myself am this great pearl – he who has it, has everything; for it's value will remain eternally, eternally priceless! So a God speaks from God, who became man to make people into gods. So through the pearl of pearls, become pearls yourselves; become gods through Me, your God and Father forever. Amen, Amen, Amen.