Gifts of Heaven · Volume 3 · Chapter 376

Famine as a rod of correction

11th April 1847

[1] Just write, I do not need a petition, I know anyway what the Irish lack. These people lack everything. Hence this rod, which after all is better than eternal death! If little is enough for the wise man, you should have enough with it too; but for the brothers' sake, I shall have to put something more down.

[2] So I say that everything is missing from this people, that means, firstly, this people has no God, except for blind idols from Central Switzerland and the mammon money. The idols are in the houses of prayer and can neither help because they are dead nor of use, because their material is bad and worthless. Mammon, however, is in the hands of the usurers and in the "Repealer” (*1), which is composed of sheer lust for power and rank. That will be a strong category in the consignment of what the people lack!

[3] Secondly, the people lack leaders, and this is also a strong category! O'Connell was still their best man, and yet he did not deserve to be hanged. What then is the matter with the other men among them, and finally with themselves! O'Connell went away, and the others died away. It will be best if they are all gone as soon as possible. Good luck for the journey without God and without people and without "money" in the other world! In hell there is an overabundance of events. But go ahead in this way on the journey to eternity, there are loud ,,Repealers" at home!

[4] The people can act as they will, but the consequences are unchangeable in My hand. Throw as many stones as you like into the heights – that they have to fall down again, is My concern.

[5] Thirdly, this people has no laws; and if it has any, it has no respect for them, the worldly ones as little as the divine ones, which it hardly knows by name. But instead they have more usurers of all kinds and always a lot of military. And the blessing of all this is – the famine!

[6] When the people were well served with potatoes, they hardly knew what to make of them: schnapps, syrup, flour, starch, beer, and many other such industrial goods. But I gave this fruit only as a very simple food, which the poorest can easily prepare for himself. But if this "earthbread for the poor" was to become an industrial product for the luxury and the moneybags of the already rich, then away even with this food of the poor!

[7] In this country there would still be money and grain in large quantities in the hands of the usurers for a number of years, but it is precisely there that the vile property rights must be upheld, even if hundreds of thousands have to bite the grass! But protect the property of the usurers only even more, put guards at their granaries, but let hundreds of thousands starve to death because of it – verily, your wages will be great in hell! Cursed be the usurer and also the law that protects him!

[8] But I say, hang a stone on the throat of the usurer, and throw it into the sea, where it is deepest – if someone kills a man, you also condemn him to death; but if such a money-devil of a usurer kills hundreds of thousands through his insatiable desire for profit, for him you have no law! Oh then it serves you, you stupid British, rightly, if you all die of hunger together with Ireland! Go ahead with justice, everything shall become even better here on earth!

[9] I think it is enough that you may see Ireland's famine, it’s cause, and its’ reason.

[10] But I tell you this: if mankind turns out to be the same as in Ireland, then their lot will be worse than that of this country. Because there is no other school for people than that of misery! That speaks He who knows all the peoples of the earth. Amen.

Footnote (*1) O'Connell's Irish Catholic Independence Party Combat Chest