NEUOFFENBARUNG← Gifts of Heaven · Volume 3 · Contents
Closer illumination of the previous parable and a new parable
21st May 1847
[1] The Morningland is the Kingdom of God, which is the true kingdom of life – or eternal life in itself. I am the King, the Lord and Creator of all beings and things from eternity.
[2] The great banquet is My incarnation and the great work of redemption bound to it, to whose participation many, yes, even exceedingly many are called, at first the main tribes of Israel, but all of them, as is well known, did not want to show up for this purpose until this hour – partly out of fear of the not understood Mosaic law, and partly also because of the tenacity of their heart and it’s fullest unbelief.
[3] The able sons, who are to be chosen for My service out of the many called ones, are the past and forthcoming preachers of My word. And the beautiful and well-educated daughters, who are to be chosen as wives and concubines, are the still here and there pure kept old teachings, customs and habits of those Jews who have never bowed their knees before Baal and Mammon.
[4] The inviting ones are in part angels, prophets and lastly all the apostles and disciples and finally all those servants who have spread My word and My teaching unadulterated to mankind.
[5] And those in the lanes, streets and hedges, are all people who have lived there on earth, still live and will live in the future, namely those in the lanes – those who still live on earth, who are probably in some Christian sect, but are nevertheless afflicted with all the folly of the world, and do not like or do not want to grasp the right light, so that they would not want to pass over to true eternal life and become completely free and blessed.
[6] Those on the streets are those who also still live on earth, but are in some kind of paganism more or less known to everyone – and at last those on the fences are those who have already died in body and are in the spiritual world according to their soul and are there just as much invited to the great banquet of redemption through the right means of repentance.
[7] And finally, the one without a wedding garment who is among all those invited and now rather formally driven and drawn by force from the banquet, is first of all Satan, and in a broader sense all those who have remained faithful to him and could not be moved to repentance by any means; whose fate, as the parable says, will be that dungeon in which eternal darkness reigns, and which is full of howling and gnashing of teeth, which means: By howling is to be understood fundamental falsehood, the opposite of heaven, and by gnashing of teeth is to be understood fundamental evil and wrathful fury of hell, because, when one is inflamed with the highest wrath, he begins to gnash his teeth and yelp like an irritated hyena or like a furious tiger inflamed with rage.
[8] With these few words, the whole correspondence between the material image and it’s spiritual, true content is now revealed. But whoever wanted to and would like to grasp the matter even deeper, let him do so like a wise plant researcher and collector, who held advice with himself and spoke with himself:
[9] What should I do? I know exactly the plants and grasses of the fields, meadows and gardens; I have researched what grows in the Alps, and also what swamps do and what the seas' waters cover is not unknown to me. Of everything I know exactly the name, place, root, stem, leaf, flower and fruit. What else should I do with this science? Behold, now it occurs to me! I will arm my eye stronger and stronger and with it I will go through the inner building of the tubes, fibers and cells, there I will certainly find sufficient material for the farther training of my spirit.
[10] Well thought and even better done! The botanist is absolutely right. He who knows matter and it’s way, or he who knows the word and it’s purpose, let him do like the botanist, so he will penetrate into the depths of the spirit. But how, someone asks, should I arm my spiritual sight for
the deep understanding of the Word of God, in order to be able to penetrate with it’s rare help to where deep night rests for my present visual faculty?
[11] Oh friends, this is easier than you imagine. Faith is the ordinary unarmed sight of the heart. But faith awaken love – that is the fire, the warmth and the light, which three things in one love expand everything, enlarge it, magnify it more and more and finally unfold it completely, just as the fire, the warmth and the light of the sun already naturally obviously exercises it annually before everyone's eyes.
[12] With love comes patience, which is the fertilizer; then humility, which is the fertile rain; and gentleness, mercy, faithfulness and truthfulness, these are the good winds that drive away all evil storms.
[13] With these things firmly taken into the heart and implemented accordingly – and the extraordinary arming of the spiritual sight is accomplished in all fullness, by means of which every one of you, who is not of a grouchy stomach, will be able to contemplate in fullness the inner endless wonders of My given word for eternity ever clearer and deeper, to which everyone is invited and called for eternity. Amen, Amen, Amen. ✰ The seed for the Kingdom of Heaven is the Word of God. He who takes it up in himself and acts according to it has placed this heavenly seed in his earth, and heaven will grow out of him like a tree. (‘Spiritual Sun’, Vol. 1. Chap. 57, 9)