Gifts of Heaven · Volume 3 · Chapter 388

Your friends and brothers the explanation of the ten letters in

'The household of God', 1st volume, 3rd chapter, 12th verse according to their spiritual meaning 27th May 1847

[1] Verse 12: "Behold, I will name them all unto you: H1, P, R1, T, S, S, A, I, S, M. They are all to receive My Father's greeting and today still, if they want, the gates of heaven are to be opened to them, which are the eyes of their spirit, and I want to dwell in their hearts still today. There is only one thing they shall do with perseverance, namely, they shall wash their flesh clean out of the well, wherein is living water, and they shall take a rod, half of which is black and half of which is white; half of it they shall break off, and the black part they shall throw under the feet of the world, and keep the white part for themselves, as a sign that they have broken with the world and with their flesh forever.

[2] As far as these ten letters are concerned, which have not been understood from the beginning, the salvation of the sun and the moon firstly does not depend on them, and the stars also go their way without being disturbed by the lack of understanding of these ten letters. But each of you knows that only one thing is necessary for eternal life; whoever looks at this and strives for it, has chosen the best part for his spirit, and everything else will be added in due time as a free gift. And so also each of you could have revealed this small secret according to his spirit long ago, if he would have turned to Me therefore seriously and full of confidence in his heart asking. But instead of that, you have often pondered – far more with your mind than with your heart – and hence you do not yet understand this little secret, and that because such things are not given to the mind, but only to the heart and to the spirit!

[3] But so that your heart, still greatly lacking in understanding in purely spiritual matters, shall no longer send out the tiresome intellect as a scout into the secret spiritual realm like a blind hunter who has never brought home to him any fat game, but always only a half-decayed carrion, I will nevertheless make known to you in more detail the symbolic friends designated under these ten letters; and so hear it, and understand it well.

[4] H1 refers to hell as the carnally inclined soul; the number 1 means arrogance (*), lust for power and haughtiness just of hell in every human being and thus also in you. But hell is every earthly man's most intimate friend, in that it provides him with everything that flatters his nature and fills it with all sorts of carnally comfortable charms.

[5] If I now want to take up a man into My kingdom and educate him to eternal life, then I also have to take up his friendship, from which the person, as long as he lives on earth, is never able to separate completely; therefore also sin, as a member of this friend, must appear before My eyes as completely erased, without which appearance a further education of your spirit is and cannot be conceivable. In other words: If I want to preserve you, I must also wrap My holy Father's hands around your hellish house and so raise you together with your still until now very intimate girlfriend in My lap! There you have now the first letter, the revelation of which I have hitherto concealed from you, and this for well-wise reasons.

[6] The following P denotes all possible passions, which just come out of H. That the passions are also friends of man according to his carnal nature and all must be seized by Me, lifted up and converted into the noble, if the spirit of man should recover to eternal life, that will be clearly understandable by itself?

[7] R1 means reason, paired with the mind, as the world or hell gives it to the outer nature-man. That this couple, who dominate the whole world, stands beside hell in every human being's greatest friendly favor, hardly needs to be mentioned further, because a person lets rather go of everything

than these his best and most intimate house friends. Is a person sometimes not also the most satisfied with his other inner world-friendship, so he has against these two almost never or only extremely rarely something petty to object.

[8] But if I want to elevate man to Myself, then nothing else remains but to give full amnesty also to these his most intimate house friends. I think that might well be very plausible to each of you, too, in that you, too, up to this day, still puts very much value in these your old house-friends, but you can see how far you can get with them in the land of the spirit.

[9] The T designates the with the mind equally up sprouting talent, through which man can reach all kinds of splendor, on which the S (selfishness) is mainly at home and with this the second S as Gloating (*1), sheer house friends of man from the world, which I must also take up with him, if I want to save his spirit!

[10] Out of these goes the faithful attachment to all worldly splendor and the impulse to rise ever higher in worldly favor and in it’s advantages, and, ruling as much as possible, to rise above everything in his way, for which his friend T has paved the way!

[11] It goes without saying that in the reception of man according to his spirit, the two friends A and I cannot be left behind and must be included for conversion and true spiritual ennoblement! And, as everything has already been taken up, there also the last two S and M, cannot be left behind, as all sorts of carnal sensuousness, which is legion in every man, and, at last, the worldly, stupid morality, well known to everyone, like fashion, compliments, etc..

[12] Behold, these are the friends and brothers in you, as in My servant, but under whom everyone is understood. To these you are to proclaim loudly in yourselves that I have stretched out My hands to them and washed their evil, put away sin and brought it into harmony with the true interests of your spirit, so that you now, if you will, can quite unrestrainedly walk the faithfully shown way of light and life.

[13] But if you want to remain more faithful to these old friends of yours than to Me, Who showed you this great grace and holiest Fatherly favor without your help, then it is also up to you. Also the salvation of the sun and the moon will not depend on it, and the stars will not miss their way! For you have known for a long time that from Me, there is no obligation for the spirit. But I think that since I have already done so much for you, you will also do the little, namely from now on you will cling stronger and stronger with your love to Me and not leave your brothers in the lurch!

[14] But I could have explained to you the ten friends of your earthly life in the flesh well long ago, if that would have been salutary for you; but since I well saw that these your old friends would have made a great noise in you, as I would have announced them to you before time more than just according to the initial letter, and there only in the person of the servant, so I have delayed such closer definition till now.

[15] But since you now have them, it is now also up to you to think very seriously about it and to direct the order indicated in the main work, as much as your powers are able, to exactly these ten letters; because as long as you did not know the closer meaning of these letters, I did for you what I demanded and still demand in the person of the servant from the servant himself and from everyone of you.

[16] But now that this secret is revealed to you, you yourselves are obliged to fulfill this order to you, otherwise you can not be completely skillful for My kingdom, – for here it is said to put the hand to the plow and not to turn backwards! Nevertheless, I have always shown you in other ways what is in the natural man, and what he has to do to turn the natural man little by little into the spiritual one. And so you have so far already been able to do without this present revelation and therefore have not lost anything and have been able to continue on the right way without policy,

which will also be the case in the future, when you faithfully observe what I show you most faithfully to observe.

[17] But above all hold on to love; it will not leave you! Everything can pass away, only love remains eternally! But where it is, there is everything; for love preserves everything and is everywhere the foundation of all existence. Be therefore not fainthearted, not sad, not grumpy, not grouchy, but in all things courageous, cheerful, of joyful courage, and of pleasant and pleasing mind, heart, and spirit, so you will walk the easy way and have the gates of the kingdom of heaven always wide open before you, whereby you will then have an easy game to introduce your pre- revealed world-friends ennobled into My kingdom, which is the most fervent love-will of the One who here, through the servant, grants you this great grace. Amen, Amen, Amen. Knowing God is awakening of love, but not, to love God. But to love God means to live completely in Him. – Where then the highest love prevails, there is also the highest life and thus also the highest freedom! (‘Household of God’, volume 1, chap. 134, 20; 86, 4.)

Footnote (*1) In German, all the named terms begins with the mentioned letter, but is obviously not the same letter in English in some cases.