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All kinds of confusion
19th March 1848
Write in separate verses what I will give you here in the spirit of foreknowledge in relation to this time and a time to come.
[1] What does the great mess want, what the empty weapon-play of the unbearded youth? Do the people want to reach into the rights of God?
[2] If there are sick people, will they become healthy from such blind noise? Are the hungry satisfied and do they clothe the naked?
[3] If you put candles in the windows at night, go up and down the alley with torches and play field music – will it dry the tears of the poor and enlighten their soul?
[4] Oh I tell you, these are great foolish farces and lead to nothing but ruin!
[5] Mosquitoes used to be sieved, but now camels will be devoured! Will the great armament bring peace? Will it make richer the one who has nothing, and satisfy the hungry and clothe the one who is completely naked?
[6] Will it give light to the blind and wisdom to him who has been made only ever dumber and dumber through half a century?
[7] Behold, this empty posturing of the city will only further upset the country, which is stupid and dark beyond all measure and never understands where this is to lead, and will soon bring it to the point to conspire against the cities in the most violent measure!
[8] Question, what will the city do there? Will it be able to tame the country with it's childplay- weapons?
[9] I say, one thing is needed, namely true love and true light; everything else would give itself of it's own accord. Away with taxes that are too excessive, especially with stately ones, and away with paganism, otherwise it will never get better, but only worse from hour to hour!
[10] Instead of the ribbons and cockades, the rich city dwellers should rather make rich collections among themselves and rush with it to the aid of the poor rural dwellers as quickly as possible, so they will be reassured and will regard the movements in the cities as a blessing.
[11] But if, instead of giving them pure help, you send them only eloquently, incomprehensibly written proclamations from which they decipher for themselves more bad than good, then you will drive misfortune upon yourselves.
[12] Do you think that the matter can be fought out? Oh I say to you, without Me, the townspeople will not achieve much!
[13] Where is the one now repenting? Where then is a people turning to Me in the time of trouble?
[14] But I say: Who now through other means than through Me will seek to obtain justice and help, he will perish where he stands, even if he put a hundred weapons around him!
[15] Who will force Me to bless this year? And if I did not bless it, who will then protect you from famine and from the revenge of the mob?
[16] I gave you a blessed year the year before, and you have set no limits to usury, and have not seen to it that the bread should increase and the meat become cheaper.
[17] The most miserable consumption tax remained, and other taxes were increased. What wonder then that the people ask: Where is the blessing of such a beautiful year? Who devoured it so that we are thereby put into even greater misery?
[18] But if the peoples rightly ask about the great blessing of the past year, would they want Me to bless the coming year, because of the first one’s total wrongness?
[19] Verily I say to you: That which now happens, as I have often already predicted to you, is only a quiet prelude.
[20] The real will only follow, while the madly proud city dwellers believe that their arms, their cockades and their unwise petitions will bring them salvation, when they completely forget Mine!
[21] Freedom from pressure is right, and some other things are not bad; but the right to choose superiors and to take them away again, if they do not dance to any whistle, that is bad. For I alone have the right to anoint superiors and to remove them!
[22] I would also certainly do such things through extraordinary signs, as I also do in other, better countries and will do even more obviously in the future; but where such a pompous people completely forgets Me on such prominent occasions, I will also forget the people.
[23] Or would any of you like to think that the patrols of a few bloated boys – who are asleep mentally and physically, and when they are only physically awake, make nothing but the rudest speeches among themselves and get drunk in the taverns – will protect the city if it is attacked?
[24] Do you think that if the patrols were too weak, the cannons would come to their aid?
[25] But I say: If I send only half a million locusts over you, you go to waste with all your cannons, let alone if I will send such a mass of people over your neck!
[26] But what do you need all this warlike stuff for, since the main thing was already agreed upon in the imperial city anyway? All your fuss is now a vain boasting, which will not escape it's chastisement.
[27] Only a few days more, and the country folk will recognize the city guards and see that they are not for them, but are against their cause; then it will begin!
[28] Those who now show themselves full of courage will soon seek the most secret corners to hide from the fury of the country folk.
[29] Now the city greatly rejoices and acts like a victor; oh that is very vain! So much rejoicing now, so much woe soon!
[30] You know that without Me nothing is and nothing can become. But I say to you, I am not among these madmen, not at all with these sabre-hung ones; what will they do without Me?
[31] The lords of this city go to much trouble, but it will be a fruitless one; for they do not do it to Me!
[32] There is one among them who is My friend, but the city does not pay much attention to him, and he must now do what it wants. Oh that shall not be a blessing to the city, though I shall bless him!
[33] Pay attention and calculate carefully, every order from the highest authority will soon be covered with much disgrace since it does not have and does not know My Spirit and now only builds on the recently and vainly created spirit of violence, for which twenty wolves are enough to disperse it!
[34] What is that supposed to mean – to begin a certain work and then to fight against it? Will you make the publican so that the country-folk may come upon you sooner?
[35] But I tell you, you who are My friends, go with Me to the poor and not without Me to the respectable, so I will also shield you in the time of danger, otherwise you would have to seek shelter with your prominent and dear ones. Whether you will find them, I can not to tell you!
[36] For verily I say to you: I have no favour with those who dress according to fashion in these times when so many can hardly cover their shame with the poorest rags.
[37] How far does the world still want to go with the so-called noble deeds, doing business, noble clothing and all kinds of comedy shows, when you clearly see My punishing hand above their heads?
[38] Oh you magnificent people! If you only enter your neighbor's house, you are already dressing as if you were going into the chambers of a king, and thereby make your neighbor even more wonderful than he was before. And when he then comes to you, he does it even worse than you and wants to surpass you.
[39] But I say to you, when you visit your neighbor, dress yourself simply, lest you make him more arrogant in his heart than he was before.
[40] But rather visit the poor often, and I will protect and shield you in every trouble!
[41] So do not take part in this present armament. I tell you, it will offer you little protection; for they are not among them who walk with Me! But those who are now their leaders, I do not know, as they also do not know Me!
[42] I tell you, these blind, haughty leaders will themselves sooner or later fall upon each other, for one want white and the other black!
[43] But when you all only trust in Me and orient yourselves according to My will, then I will protect you and your possessions and shield you from every attack because I know that you are of an honest spirit and heart. Hence My most powerful blessing with you all. Amen.