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Who all commits adultery, harlotry, lechery, and fornication?
12th June 1847
[1] To understand the previous gift even more thoroughly, here the circumstances are to be still more closely examined under which adultery, harlotry, lechery, and thus the barest fornication is practiced, and which mostly causes such things.
[2] A human being, whether male or female, already commits harlotry through all kinds of indulgence and gluttony and in total through everything whereby he wants to spend a special lust stimulus to his flesh. The like are the innumerable public amusements, in which people already even behave freer and cheekier than usual in their usual condition, through which just the flesh will be served in the most amusing way. Whoever seeks out such amusements and takes part in them is already committing harlotry, because in so doing, he is sacrificing to his own most dangerous house idol, his flesh; but at the same time he also commits adultery with Me, the true life-Bridegroom, by breaking the vow of his faith through this. At the same time, however, he is also a lecher and fornicator; a lecher, because he indulges in the flesh, and a fornicator, because through such actions only death, but not life, is begotten.
[3] Furthermore, all those commit the harshest harlotry, which wrap their bodies in modern soft clothes. Because as someone says: One lives in the world and must therefore also for the sake of the world wear oneself according to fashion, otherwise one would be considered a moron who does not pay attention to morals and decency. Oh you fool! Who is more, Me or the world? But if I tell you that if you pay homage to the world, I will cast you out forever – will your stupid world then still be more to you than I, who gave you life and can take it away from you again, if he wants, forever? You may well take into account the decency of the world; but the decency, which I, your God and Lord, have the first right to demand of you, is like nothing to you, and you think I will already see to you this through the fingers. Oh – such My forbearance will soon cost you terribly dearly. The eternal abyss will show you how much forbearance I had with such world donkeys! There speaks one world donkey to another and one world sow to another: But listen, where did you have your tailcoat and trousers made? Ah, this wonderful cut, fit like a glove! Excellent, outstanding! But you have also grown like an Adonis, everything looks very good on you – and everything according to the last, thus newest fashion! No, I must imitate you right away, because only with such chosen elegance one can be a winner with the beautiful gender!
[4] Even more fashion-philosophy possesses the female gender, because they can spend hours, days and weeks with nothing but chatting about fashions, dress fabrics, ribbon and lace, without even once considering whether such a crazy whorish chat could displease Me! But I say: Oh just go ahead and continue in such foolish fashion- and garment harlotry, in this woven idol sacrifice for your stinking flesh, for the mortuary of your soul and spirit. It is precisely with properly adorned flesh that you will best please Satan; for that is his main thing, that the graves are whitewashed and the piles of dirt gilded. But with Me, who have My pleasure only in the adornment of the spirit, such eager fashion- and garment-harlots will never find an entrance, because I have no greater disgust about anything than the so-called fashion-heroes and -heroines!
[5] Truly, if you humans walked around naked after the Parisian tone and openly would wear your shame, you could well still become blessed. But since you decorate your house of death so much, you will perish in it forever! For all this is the sheerest harlotry, the sheerest adultery, the most despicable lechery and fornication on one's own being. It is spiritual suicide for whose healing no herb grows even in the gardens of heaven! For who sleeps with a harlot on account of his strong urge, usually comes to himself again after the act and not seldom feels remorse for his sinful deed; which therefore is also to be forgiven, because he recognizes that he acted wrong.
[6] But such a fashion-carrion, such an ornamental slut never comes to it’s senses, never to repentance, and holds the shameful, arrogant, selfish, overly whorish dressing up of it’s house of the dead, on top of that, not only for no sin, but for honor and decency, and is thereby not seldom ashamed of the poor brother, the poor sister, yes – hear it! It is not seldom ashamed of it’s poor parents – it is ashamed of Me! It is ashamed, just because it carries around a moth sack decorated according to the latest fashion, to pray to Me, it is ashamed to confess My name publicly!
[7] I ask here if there is a greater kind of harlotry than fashion- and clothing-harlotry? But I say to it: Every sinner will rather find entrance with Me than such a stupid ornamental lout and a fashionable ornamental sow. For these, as they are in their true Parisian style, the heaven will well eternally never be opened. Whoever blasphemes Me, before him I can step and show him how he has blasphemed Me without reason, and he will see his error and will weep because he did Me wrong – and I will forgive him, and he will become a Paul to Me!
[8] But what to do with the one who is obviously ashamed of Me? Verily, for that one I know no remedy! Because of which someone is ashamed, he avoids eternally more carefully than the plague; and that is precisely the main nature of Satan – namely, the highly praised sense of shame! Parents, imprint your children only a great sense of shame and worldly honor, then you will already put them on the best way to hell, from which they will deviate later not easily by a hair's breadth! Teach the girls quite strictly and seriously to hide their feet out of pure shame, but thereby to quite stuff out the b…, but chest and arms still after the fashion more bare to wear – go ahead! So it is just right to be fully assured of hell! Oh you most stupid people, what then is more honorable or more shameful on the body? Is not then the whole body My work? But where is it written that I have also added shameful things to the body?
[9] You are shameful fashion- and garment-harlots who, merely because it is fashion, find some parts of your body shameful and others honorable. And would it be fashionable to show the naked b… and to cover the face up to the eyes as you do it and would consider the rump the most honorable part of your body! Oh you great fools, you over stupid donkeys and purest pigs, do you not see then that by the wretched fashion in your clothes from hell you are the most hideously cheated ones? Therefore, let go of this greatest of all your follies, which alone is sufficient to close heaven for you for eternity!
[10] If humans were to walk around naked among themselves, they would be much more humble and chaste; But since they adorn their bodies, so that it would appear more pleasing, they burn continually for carnal lust, and condemn themselves deeper and deeper into eternal death. Who will be able to free them from this, when they begin to be ever more ashamed of the eternal Deliverer, the more finely they clothe their bodies according to fashion? Verily, rather will robbers and murderers and the naked Sodomites see My face than the ornamental rascals and all the finery-dolls.