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My word and the living faith are the best remedy
3rd September 1848
For Elize H.
[1] Just write, I already know what it is. It is already again a consolation or a medicinal prescription. I tell you, as I have told you many times before, that I have not chosen you as a physician of the flesh; but only as a scribe for the revelation of My Word, I give to you the spirit and not to the flesh, I have called you. But still you come to Me again and again anew with things of the flesh. Do you not yet distinguish the ways of the flesh – and the ways of the spirit?
[2] Must not then every man be crucified in his flesh, if he is to become alive in spirit?
[3] This is also the case with the wife of A. H. W. Therefore it is not pleasant for Me if you come against My set order and demand things from Me, which I always reluctantly do, and this because I have not called you to be a so-called miracle doctor, but merely as a scribe of My living word. I certainly also give you – and have already given you – medical advice when you come to Me with it, but you need not make a rule out of it.
[4] I gladly give to everyone what he faithfully and trustingly asks Me for; but much rather what belongs to the healing of the spirit than to the healing of the flesh.
[5] Whoever reads My word and lives according to it and has a strong, firm faith, the word will help him through his faith, as it is even often seen in the gospels. But if the right, living faith is missing, the "Rise up and walk" will have little effect.
[6] Therefore My word and the living faith are always the best remedy also for the flesh, and no pharmacy has a better one. But to the weakness of your faith and the anxious weariness of your trust this purest medicine is not enough and cannot be enough, because you still too anxiously hold on to the life of the flesh and only too soon become overly small-minded and weak in belief, when something happens about it. Therefore you demand not only My words but also a medicine, either clay or the water of the pool of Siloah; in any case you cannot be helped.
[7] And there the wicked dog lies buried, as you are wont to say, because if I allow medicines to heal your diseases, it weakens your faith in My word. But if I help you despite the weakness of your faith and trust just through the word, there you would be judged and imprisoned, and that in spirit, from which imprisonment only an oversized cross then could free you again, as it was also the case with the first Christians, who were forced mostly through miracles to accept My word – they afterwards could only become free from their judgment through a mighty test.
[8] All medicine is weaker than My Word. But My word cannot and must not work there alone because your faith is still much too weak, which you can quite easily take from your great love for the earthly life, because the living believer longs with Paul for the dissolving, which will still not be the case with you for a long time, as you still care much too much about some things of the world. Therefore, for the sake of your salvation, also here medicines must work beside My words, which of course delays the healing, especially if the trust in it is more or less anxious.
[9] But I have already shown in the previous word, how medicine works and how doctors work. If you have too little confidence in one medicine or in a physician, take another medicine, and the same goes for the physician; for I say to you once more, it is not medicine and not the physician alone that help in the proper sense, but mainly the firm confidence. Yes, the doctor as well as medicine are mostly indifferent, and both work only if the calm, trusting soul takes or can take the time and effort to use the specifics present in the medicine where they are useful. If this is not the case with the more or less frightened soul, then not only do the best medicines would not work at all, they often work completely wrong, because the restless and uncertain soul often leads them to a different place than where they should have been led.
[10] According to their specifics, the drugs indeed always have an effect in the flesh. If certain specifics are lost somewhere in the flesh, they can be replaced by a good medicine and thus make a sick body healthy, if they are used by the soul. But if they are led somewhere else by an anxiously confused soul or sometimes even left to chance, since they then come to where the mute blood leads them or the even mute gastric juices, then you can already guess how it looks like with the healing of the flesh.
[11] I say that the healing of the flesh is like repairing a damaged house, where the inhabitants – for too great a fear of being slain in the house if it collapsed – instead of looking around the damaged house, where it is in want and how to help, only hide themselves in a corner where they still believe themselves to be the safest, or sometimes even hurriedly look for the hole through which they are most likely to get out into the open.
[12] If this is the case with a soul, then of course all the doctors of the world can come together, and with the best will and desire they will still not be able to make a sick body healthy, because this soul does not cooperate.
[13] That is why magnetic cures are preferable to all others, because through them the soul reaches that good rest, in which it takes time to take a closer look at its fleshly house, where it is in lack and how and with what it can be helped. If then that means is taught to the body, which the calm soul in the sleep of flesh called a useful one, the soul also recognizes it as such and then also uses it mostly where it is to be used. And the repair of the body is then mostly done with good success, and sometimes by means of remedies which any intellectual doctor would surely shy away from naming!
[14] But still the rare remedies nevertheless work, not because they are the only right ones, but only because they are used by the soul as the only right master-builder of it's flesh-house in the right place and with the right intelligence.
[15] If the soul of Elisabeth H. would be as calm as the soul of many a somnambulist, her evil would turn good. But since this is not the case and she is always driven back and forth by the fear of her parents, because she does not see a doctor – and again by the fear of a doctor, what he would do or say if she would go to him, whether he would help her or deny her life – and finally also by the fear of possible bodily death, how is her soul to have time to be active where it is to be active? Under such circumstances an evil must of course turn into a formal evil.
[16] She uses with her hands, with her will, of course, almost exactly the recommended means, but her fearful and sometimes more and sometimes less fearful soul does not and cannot do it, because it constantly jumps around between triple fears, which it can hardly get rid of.
[17] Here it says, either to put all salvation into My hands and not to think, "If I should die in the end, what will become of them? To what misery will they be exposed?" For I alone am the Lord also over these parents, and can make your children completely happy even without the help of your parents!
[18] If Elisabeth will think so, and all of you with her, her soul will become calm and will be able to work on the healing of her body. Then the healing will be easy and soon, but otherwise it will be slow and difficult, and – with increased fear – not at all, because only chance works there. For if the working flesh-spirits seize the right specifics from the medicine, then the healing progresses somewhat; but if they take the wrong specifics from the medicine, as a completely blind painter takes the colors, then the healing goes backwards again.
[19] Can the sick Elisabeth have such confidence in Me and also in A.H.W. and the children that you thereby make yourselves completely independent of the grandparent's house in your hearts and think:
[20] "Lord! Let it be done according to Your will, You alone are our Father temporally and eternally. Our future welfare depends on you and on no-one else, for we know that the help of all people, whoever they may be, is of no avail. Your will be done! Let us fear no-one but You alone, oh Lord, and expect no help from anyone but You alone, oh good Father! You wants us to be whole in the life of this world and also in it's necessary death, which will free us from the flesh and then finally lead us to You who are our only living hope through faith and our only love in the awakened life of our spirit!
[21] But is this complete and fullest devotion to Me not possible for you, in which alone the living faith, which can effect everything, is at home, then seize another suitable means, through which the rest can be accomplished by the soul. Go to a doctor, for example, to get rid of your grandparents' fears, or take refuge in magnetism, which will be even better because it will give the soul the peace it needs.
[22] Do what you will; but do everything you do, completely and in My name, and you will easily reach a desired goal. But with half measures you will nowhere and never be helped.
[23] I, as the highest perfection, work perfectly only in the perfect, but in the imperfect like the sun in winter! Therefore, all are perfect in everything, as I, your Father, am perfect, so you will easily find help everywhere, if you lack anything.
[24] But all of you are not allowed to count on a purely wonderful help from Me for the flesh because either a nail-firm faith is needed for it, with which you could almost move mountains, or else the full rebirth of the spirit, but which is neither the one nor the other the case with you. For it is precisely because of this that your weak faith wants miracles, to become supposedly strong through them, which would be just the reverse case; for nothing weakens true faith so much as a miracle, for it forcefully tears the whole man out of the state of freedom and puts him into the state of inescapable coercion, which is death to the spirit. And nothing strengthens faith more than the cross; for faith is nourished and strengthened only by the cross and suffering of this world.
[25] But whether you are capable of miracles when fully reborn in spirit, and it being harmless to your spirit, – I think, even your still very weak and, in many a part, sensual nature can teach you most faithfully about this. But I still help you with and in nature as quite natural, only you therefore have to behave as it is required by the order of nature, otherwise I Myself can never help you with My best will except temporally through a judgement, but with which however in truth certainly no man will be served.
[26] But that you may also see why I called Elisabeth's boil an evil, I say: At first, this evil consisted only in a few messy specifics, which, as not belonging to the essence, sought their way out, because for some years already they have entered Elisabeth's flesh through clumsy medicines. They used to be scattered in the flesh, but now they have just found themselves in the chest area, united, and broke through there by force. When they made their way out, the soul should have helped actively, so that they all would have come out together with their evil nest.
[27] This stranger has now become stubborn and does not want to leave because it is too hard and therefore not so easy to bring to match. But regardless of this, it will have to give in, if the soul will work quite energetically. But in any case, it can last for a long time, especially in the already very stubborn flesh of Elizabeth; for all flesh conceived in the far north is more stubborn, firmer and more durable than that conceived in the south, and therefore more difficult to cure in case of illness. Therefore also Elizabeth should not be afraid if she has to suffer longer; for first of all the sufferings are healing to her spirit, and secondly her nature is accordingly – and especially, if the soul has no proper rest. But this it must obtain one way or another, and there it will certainly become better for it.
[28] I could tell you a lot of good means, all of which would have the most decided effect on the proper rest of the soul, but which would not only produce no effect on the smallest fear, but would
make the matter even worse. Therefore, take first of all care for the full rest of the soul, either in one way or in the other, then I will easily be able to help you. Amen. This I say, I who can and will help everyone who completely follows my counsel. Amen, Amen, Amen.