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Still some of the humans' multiple lamentation
15th June 1847
[1] Particularly much is being complained about the Roman Catholic Church today, and in many ways it’s finite and complete defeat and the cessation of it’s work, it’s idolatry and it’s entire sinister activity, is to be expected. The one holds her the history in front of her nose and shows her all the millions of abominations from all times, which she has committed everywhere through her priests. Another holds her the whole Bible wide open under her face and proves to her with a hundred texts that her pope descended even less from Peter than the Chinese emperor from the sun, and that he is linea recta (direct, in a straight line) instead of Christ's deputy only a deputy of the dragon and shows him mathematically on year, day and hour, his certain demise. And when the time comes and the year passes and the day and the hour and the dragon of Babel does not want to go to hell yet, either the calculation is incorrect or the Revelation of John is badly translated – or is not authentic at all – or just a sinister excerpt from the old prophets – or the whole Bible is a pure half moral, half old political work, which no longer fits into these new enlightened times. Others simply condemn the ceremony and approve of the other institutions of this world church. To some the monks are a thorn in the eye, to others merely the so-called Jesuits, again to others the Latin rite, others curse celibacy and again others auditory confession, and each one something else. But all of them wish, in part secretly and in part publicly, that this whore would soon come to an end.
[2] But nevertheless, it wants to take such a versatilely desired end for once, but always exists further, like to the most annoying defiance of all their ever increasing enemies and most merciless judges. But I say: Not only Rome, but every outward church is bad if it puts salvation only in outwardness and does not consider that My kingdom is not of this world, but of a quite different world, and that the true church is to be found only in the human heart and nowhere else, through which alone, excluding everything else, man can reach the eternal life of his spirit. For every other merely external world-church, whether Roman or Protestant or Greek, applies forever anyway, what I have foretold in the 51st chapter, verses 36 – 39, of the prophet Jeremiah, and this especially through the above mentioned four verses of the 51st chapter, where it says:
[3] "Therefore says the Lord, 'Behold, I will carry out your cause and avenge you; I will dry up their sea and dry up their wells. And Babel shall become a heap of stones and a dragon's dwelling, for wonder and for chiding, that no man may dwell therein. They shall roar together like the lions and scream like the young lions. I will drive them into the heat with their drinking, and I will make them drunk, that they may rejoice, and sleep an everlasting sleep, from which they shall never awake, saith the Lord!”
[4] These texts, which are not difficult to understand, show sufficiently how Rome and every other outer church stands and what their fate is forever.
[5] I want to turn your cause, that is, your deceit and your fraudulent pretensions inside out, so that man's inner remains intact and thereby his spirit and his soul can be saved; and just thereby shall your outer church have My revenge in you, which is eternal death. I will make your wickedness (the sea of falsehood and evil) powerless, and let your rich golden wells dry up more and more, so that your power for evil will be diminished more and more, and much more.
[6] Thus every Babel will of itself become a dead pile of stones and the dwelling place of the dragon, who is a symbol of eternal death, and thus a mockery of all who are alive in themselves, which mockery is indicated by wonder and by chiding or hissing. And he that is alive in the spirit shall eternally never dwell under your roof; whether they – such outward church servants – will roar like lions in anger and rage and soon after cry out in hunger like young lions, if the elders stay away too long with the food-prey, it will nevertheless no longer frighten any lively person, and no reborn person will notice their cries. But they that want to be blind and dead shall drink of the cup the wine
of death, the wine of all deceit and of all lies and pretension, and shall be drunken thereof, and then shall fall asleep in that drunkenness, out of which dead sleep they shall never be raised, neither temporally nor eternally!
[7] What was thus prophesied in Jeremiah of such Babels is literally happening in Rome, as in all external churchdom; or what happens there with all externality, this also happens continually with Rome and all other churches, insofar as they are merely external – they wilt and dry up and become dead heaps of stones. Shall then even more happen than what is destined to happen?
[8] That is why also such complaining concerns are not in the right place.
[9] But each one only provides for his inner living church and confidently leaves the judgment of the outer churches to Me; then everything will continue in the eternal same order, as it otherwise also goes, even if the always lamenting and judging blindness of mankind does not notice it, Amen. That and so speaks the Lord, Amen, Amen, Amen.
So it will be in My kingdom one day: Who there will be the smallest and least, he will also be the greatest. For in heaven everything is inverted against this world order. That which is great and glorious before the eyes of the world is small and minor in heaven, and without all glory and splendor. (JL, GGJ 07.177, 05)