Gifts of Heaven · Volume 3 · Chapter 378

A gift for A.H.-W.

18 April 1847

Changing health problems as a result of indulgence, variety of food, drinking beer and wine together; health and nutritional advice.

[1] Listen, My dear and very diligent copyist of My gifts of love for spirit, heart and mind, which is a sight of the soul! You always complain about all kinds of weaknesses of your flesh; then your head is not in order, then your feet, sometimes even your stomach, which you often accuse of a certain stupidity. But see, this cannot be any different; because you are still somewhat of a reveler and drink beer and wine mixed and eat then this, then that, what you like every now and then. Do you really think that this serves your body? Oh by no means! All this is a poison to your in years already somewhat advanced body.

[2] Try just once and put a small portion of everything you eat and drink in a week into a pot and smell the contents after eight days, and you would have to have very dulled olfactory nerves, if this stench would not immediately cause you great disgust.

[3] But when all this mess in a cold pot produces such bad, suffocating vapors, what bad gases must it produce in the warm stomach, which unite then with the blood and narcotize the nerves of the body maliciously, from where then all kinds of bodily weaknesses must arise!

[4] But if you get a little more sickly every now and then, then you stay at home and get well again. There the house diet will well be useful for you. Will it well harm you if you are healthier? I don't think so.

[5] If you want to be completely healthy and grow old, then stick diligently to your house diet! Order a simple supper at home in the evening that tastes good to you, but not too sour and too salty, you may enjoy some wine with water and take a good walk outside first, so you will stay healthy and strong. You may go somewhere now and then on nice days, because there is a good wine, but avoid the bad rag swill of a beer! Because it has all the bad qualities but no good ones – especially in these deceitful times when hops and malt are purely tainted.

[6] If a pure barley and hops beer were still available, a moderate enjoyment of it would not be disadvantageous, even if not rather healing, because it contains only sluggish and very dumbing specifics. But a beer, as it is almost generally brewed here in this place, I tell you, is a barest poison. For it neither nourishes nor quenches thirst, but it only numbs and generates even more thirst, so that people are forced to drink all the more.

[7] But not only for the body, but still far more for soul and spirit, the evening feasting with beer and tobacco vapor is extremely harmful, since all kinds of nasty specifics are absorbed into the body by the bad food, which then make soul and spirit turbid. To this, however, joins the night of the Earth, in which also the worst soul-specific rabble rises up into the airspace of the Earth, and in it where and as only possible through the flesh, which penetrates it at once, defiles the soul with all kinds of abominations, and not seldom fills it with unchaste thoughts and desires.

[8] Behold, My dear friend A.H.W., I am also a physical doctor; if you will follow My counsel, you will always be quite healthy and strong in your body as in your soul, and your spirit will easily become it’s master.

[9] This prescription is therefore also a pleasant gift from Me for your earthly name day. Obey it, and it’s blessing shall not remain outstanding! This I say you, your holy best Father, Amen, Amen, Amen.