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Rome and the coming Kingdom of God
8th July 1847
Oh Lord, you eternal guide of the ways, paths and conditions of people! what do we poor, sinful people have to expect from Rome at this time, as a result of the government of the present Hierarch Pius IX, which I find quite wise in some parts? Will it become brighter or even darker? And in the latter case, what would we have to do in and for this world? Oh Lord, if it were Your most holy will, let us have a few indications from Your endless fullness of love and wisdom; but only Your most holy will be done at all times as eternally! Amen.
[1] There will never be light from Rome, and may Peter or Paul, as the ecclesiastical ruler, sit there on the throne of the hierarchy! For you know that the true light, as the actual kingdom of God, is never outwardly materially visible, but only what occurs quite quietly inwardly in man, quite unnoticed – like a grain of mustard seed, when it is sown in the earth, then also comes out from the innermost part of the earth as a tender little plant to shine forth, then grows and becomes bigger and firmer and then shoots branches and twigs, so that even when it has grown up, birds from heaven take up residence under it.
[2] Also the Kingdom of God comes like a child out of the womb, out of the heart of man, and then flows through the whole man and takes root in all his parts and makes the whole man finally become a completely new being and immortal in all his parts!
[3] This light, this true kingdom of God, can therefore never emanate from Rome – and the Pope also wants to be an angel – but always only from each individual human being himself, if he is taught in the Scriptures and baptized thereafter through works and through the most powerfully perceptible witness of the Holy Spirit. Where this is lacking, neither Rome nor Jerusalem, neither Pope nor water baptism, bishop or confirmation will help!
[4] The present pope, however, is a quite fine man of the world and cares more for the political than for the outwardly ecclesiastical consistency of his regiment. He uses the church for purely political purposes. If he will achieve this, then he will do as his predecessors did, i.e. he will sow something better here and there outwardly. But his successors will already ruin it again, as the sad case has always been.
[5] What the pope does good as a man in secret and does not let trumpet out into all the world, from this he will also reap the eternal reward. But little or no notice at all will be taken in heaven of his ecclesiastical work, except what can be taken of all worldly superficiality.
[6] But the first sign of the coming Kingdom of God is the true, eternally never obvious and still less a so-called curial and pontifical humility, according to which a pope may well call himself a "servant of the servants," but at the same time he lets himself be called "Holy Father" against My word and commandment and thereby wants to be a ruler of rulers – in which sense one pope is as similar to another as one eye is to another.
[7] Thus, the Pope lacks even the very first sign of the Kingdom of God, without which no-one can ever reach the light of the heavens forever. But where the A is completely lacking, where then should the B come from, and still less the C, D, and E? That would be as a woman wanting to become pregnant and give birth, but she, out of pride and arrogance, never want to stoop so low as to allow herself to be bedded by a man, so that he might awaken a seed in her.
[8] But from where a light is eternally never to be expected (for the most trivial reasons mentioned above), only darkness can come from there. And let no-one be captivated by it, whatever it looks like!
[9] Because what happens there is purely external. The inside, on the other hand, is considered a "secret of all secrets" and is almost not there at all. And even if it were there, it should remain forever without effect, like the germ in a seed that is never sown in the earth. Such a seed must then certainly also remain an "eternal secret of life," because it can never pass over into life, since the means by which it should develop and manifest itself for life, is cut off from it for all time.
[10] Where God, who is the eternal Source of all life, is a "mystery" – what should life and it's light be?
[11] God is in everything the reason, the first requirement of all existence, therefore also the principal Light of all light, and must first be accepted and recognized, so that everything else, which is of Him, may be recognized. But if God is a mystery, that is, a bare night, then what should everything else be? Where the light is already the most bitter darkness, what then is the actual principal darkness itself?
[12] I think if I am only a small light with you in the house, you will easily be able to take from it what is to be expected from Rome at all times, as long as it remains as it is and as it was.
[13] But do not believe that night or light will ever depend on Rome – but all this depends purely on Me! When it will be the right time, it will be as light as daytime. And Rome will be able to put as few limits to the "great day of the Spirit" as someone is able to prevent the sun from rising.
[14] Therefore, do not worry at all! He who walks by day has nothing to fear from the night. But woe to those who fall into the hands of robbers! Amen.