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Council of God
15th August 1848
Writer: Pauline Hüttenbrenner.
[1] It is said: "Good advice is expensive". This "price" is right, especially among people, because no human can give truly good advice to another, and that is because no man is good.
[2] Truly good advice can only be given by someone who is absolutely truly good in himself. But nobody is really good in himself but I alone, says the Lord. So if I, as the Lord, give someone advice, this advice is only good because I, as the person who gives the advice, am perfectly good.
[3] But here the question continues: Why is such advice expensive? Such good advice is firstly expensive, because it is of exceedingly great delight because of it’s descent and origin and because of the eternal truth contained in it. Secondly, it is expensive, because it is rare; but everything that is rare is therefore delicious and therefore also expensive.
[4] Just as diamonds and large pearls and gold are precious and expensive because of their rarity, likewise advice from Me is also very precious and expensive because it is very rare. But why is My advice rare?
[5] Because there is only very rarely any person in the world who, through a life that is admittedly only half regulated according to My word, has obtained that qualification that enables him to receive good advice from Me, so that he can then apply this good advice for himself as well as for his neighbor.
[6] If many people were to participate in a special temporary self-denial, they could receive good advice from Me at every critical opportunity of their life, then such really good advice would of course not be so expensive and everyone could have good "house advice" all the time. But since this is unfortunately not the case, since among several million people there is often hardly one who has such a qualification, really good advice comes only very rarely among the people and must therefore be very expensive in every respect.
[7] I, as the only good advisor, can see that people react to My good advice almost like children to whom their parents give toys, which may consist of cut glass beads, but sometimes also of real diamonds. The children do not distinguish the common glass from the precious diamond, do not know its value and therefore treat both the same. Since, as I said, this is the case with people, especially at this time, people cannot judge the value of My counsel – and even if some could, they still don't want to, because the world is more important to them than I and My good counsel (which is always a little difficult to follow, because it is never for, but always directed against the world) – so I should finally be more or less indifferent to give people good advice, since I surely foresee that it will not be obeyed any better than if the next best sweeper and street cleaner had given it.
[8] Whoever then wants to have truly good counsel from Me, first examine his heart to see if it is worthy of a counsel from Me; secondly, if such a heart will earnestly follow My counsel; and thirdly, if such a heart can also follow such counsel because of the many worldly things living in it.
[9] If these three conditions are present in the heart, then a person comes to Me and ask for good advice, and I will not withhold such good advice from anyone who is serious about acting on it. But if this seriousness is not there, then it goes without saying that I will not give My good advice for nothing to people who either do not want to follow it or cannot follow it because their heart, more or less attached to the world, is not capable of it.
[10] That is why you, the current writer of this epithet, must also ask yourself very seriously, whether you are completely capable of taking good advice from Me in all seriousness. Then I will also give you such advice.
[11] But if your heart says to you, I will be able to follow it with difficulty, or, according to the advice, perhaps not at all – advice from Me would be for you just as good as none at all.
[12] Nevertheless, I am giving you very good advice, which consists in testing your heart and making such testing one of the main rules of your life! Then you will certainly be able to have My advice much cheaper than up to now. This says the Giver of the only good advice. Amen.