Gifts of Heaven · Volume 3 · Chapter 415

About ecclesiastical mysteries and ceremonies

9th July 1847

Oh Lord, what are the "mysteries" with which our Roman Church in particular is so exceedingly filled, and by which it does much good and, so to speak, bases her main reputation on? If it is Your most holy will, give us a few indications!

[1] Secrets" (mysteries) are nothing but night and darkness in the very things that are considered mysteries. And so also the ecclesiastical are the bare blindness of the soul and a complete death of the spirit.

[2] And again the "secrets" are malice! For people usually shroud in secrets that with which they do not openly dare to come into the light with, because there the others have seen the deception and then want to take revenge on the deceivers – which has not too seldomly already occurred! But every deception is the greatest sin and therefore the greatest wickedness. And thus a "mystery" that is nothing but a deception, is also a most barren wickedness.

[3] Furthermore, a "secret" is also a murderer and a manslayer! For nothing kills the spirit so much as "secrets". Hence they are then also spiritual robbers, murderers and manslaughterers. For man has more courage over everything than over a secret – for what reason superstition was so widespread in earlier times, since no-one had the courage to reach behind the eye-cover of Moses to see what might actually lie behind it! Everyone regarded the "secrets" as purely unfathomable and remained and remains so, because in the end he feared and still fears not only the secret, but also it's revelation.

[4] But every secret gives birth to another, and the other to a third, and so on, until at last everything becomes a "secret," the whole of life including death. So, in order to spiritually kill mankind completely, one needs only to drive it into quite many and quite tough secrets; so one can be certain of his cause, of course from the hellish side.

[5] But it is profitable to go out on the robbery in the night; fishing is good when it is cloudy. The blind are easily led. And the dead can be carried wherever one wants, and they can boil and roast on, they will not stir. There is therefore no better means than a great many great "secrets," and a people is shattered for a millennium and lets everything happen by itself.

[6] When such "secrets" are accompanied by only a few money generating miracles, with great pomp and glittering ceremony and with a lot of smoke and terrible histories, then they have such tremendous power that even the most courageous people are not able to resist.

[7] Yes, there the tribulation is then so strong that it could harm even the elect, if these could possibly be led into their region without My special assistance. Hence all Christians, with whom "mysteries" rule, walk regarding the essence of life according to the body – dead in complete death.

[8] But of what worth is such a cursed faith? I say: It is not even worth laughing and whistling at! For it cannot save anyone from death. Hence also all such weak believers die away as if they had never been there, and become shadows and phantoms of the spirit world, even lacking the ability to pronounce My name – which is all a fruit of the "secrets"!

[9] What God, what I, Jesus, what the Holy Spirit, what this Trinity, what the Lord's Supper, what the Word of God is, they know just as much as the next best stone! They may well worship God; but a God who is and can be nowhere. But the Father, who should be their most well-known and closest educator, without whom no-one can receive eternal life, is the most mysterious and therefore most distant and therefore also a completely non-existent Being! Question: How can a love ever be awakened to such a Father, on which everything depends, Who is the only cause of eternal life?

[10] There may well be secrets for laypeople – as there are for students, as long as they are still at school and have to learn. But with humans, with true humans, there should be no secrets! For you now know that the true Spirit of God, as it is in man, also penetrates into My depths, as My Paul taught out of Me.

[11] Away therefore with all "secrets"! They belong to the dark world!

[12] But let it be day in your hearts! For that is why I always give you so much light that you are to be redeemed forever from the hard imprisonment of the "mysteries"! Amen.