Gifts of Heaven · Volume 3 · Chapter 418

Parables for God – and self-knowledge

13th July 1847, afternoon

[1] No-one comes so far that he can not go further, no-one is so perfect that he can not become even more perfect, and no-one is so happy that he would not be capable of becoming even happier – but also nobody, if he comes to a fall, falls so deeply that he can not fall even deeper; for the spiritual space as well as the natural is equally infinite, and the sea of eternity has also eternally nowhere a ground. Whoever falls into it, can sink eternally deeper and deeper; but whoever climbs up in it will also eternally never reach it’s surface, but eternally, in ever larger and more powerful movements, slurp-in it’s endless blissfulness, the further upwards he will ascend.

[2] Therefore the kingdom of God is like a grain of seed, which is laid in the ground, then rises and already at the first rising brings a hundredfold fruit. And when this is put back into the earth, then, at the second insertion of the hundred seeds produced by the first seed, already ten thousand seeds, at a third insertion one million, at the fourth one hundred million, and so on to infinity, which infinite reproduction eternally no goal is set.

[3] So it also goes with the spiritual perfection in eternal life, since never a spirit will reach that stage where he could say: Now I have it all! Every blessed spirit will indeed always have everything that he can have perfectly, but still at the same time continuously also an eternal lack, which he will never be able to satisfy in all fullness. Every perfect spirit will be like Me, like one brother to another, but still eternally never reach My fullness.

[4] The Son can indeed be reached, for it is said: "You will do greater things than I do!” So also the Father can be reached, because it is written: "You shall be perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect." But the Father and Son as perfectly one Being, have in themselves the Holy Spirit, Who is God holy, holy, holy, and is the actual God-life in the Father as in the Son, Who are perfectly one, and the Life of all life, the Light of all light, the Force of all force, the Power of all power, the Love of all love, the Wisdom of all wisdom, the Depth of all depths, the Greatness of all greatness, the Eternity of eternity and the Infinity of infinity in all things and beings of infinity.

[5] Therefore it also comes about that such a one who strives with the Son will be forgiven, and he who strives with the Father will also be forgiven, but he who strives with the Spirit will not be forgiven, neither temporally nor eternally; for Father and Son may well be striven with, but eternally never the infinite Spirit of the Father and the Son, Who are One, just as a man and his love or his heart are also completely one and can become one with Father and Son, if these have been received into the heart's love; for the Spirit is infinite in all things, and therefore eternally unreachable and impossible to strive against!

[6] But just as a man who fell from the roof would remain lying on the ground and can be healed again, if he had not fallen too roughly, or who would fall into water, is also still salvageable, if his fall had been noticed: but who would fall out of the earth into infinity, who well could save him? Or if he fell into a sea of fire, who will protect him from burning and complete consumption?

[7] Therefore pray and watch that you do not fall into temptation; for it is most terrible to fall into the hand of the Spirit of God through self-exaltation, pride and arrogance!