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Three words: Go, Stand, Fall
13th December 1848
Oh Lord! Yesterday morning, when A.H.W. woke up suddenly, thinking of K.F.J., the following three words came to his mind: Stand, go, fall! Since we do not know how to interpret them, we ask You, oh most Holy Father, that You would like to give us a little light on this, if it would not be contrary to Your most holy will!
[1] So write! There is not as much to this triplet as you think, since it expresses a quite naturally correct state of appearance, which can be given to every person, if he acts according to this quite natural triplet.
[2] Do you not then know that through one and the same commandment of love I have also set one and the same finite destiny for every man, and have therefore also set him one and the same unchanging goal, which he alone has to pursue, achieve, and finally firmly grasp and receive for eternity in the fullest reception? I think this should be clear to you without further explanation. But now, if someone – be he a beggar or an emperor on earth – knows the goal well, pursues it for a time, and then, when he comes to it, stops before it and does not seize it, as if he regretted that he has reached it – he falls, because he stops before the goal and does not seize it.
[3] But it is he who stands there, when he has the means fully in his hands, and does not grasp them and does not use them, which is then the sure reason that he falls; for if a hungry man seeks food and also finds it, but if he has found it and does not enjoy it in the opinion that it might bring him harm, then he must also blame himself, if he sinks down with weakness and dies.