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Parliamentary and Imperial election
6th January 1849
Inquiry by Jakob Lorber about the upcoming election of a German Emperor.
[1] Well, so write! You are already poking Me in such a way that I in the end still have to speak to you again about things that have indeed now already become a great disgust to Me. But I can tell you that keeping the Imperial day and the Imperial Council is a main occupation of hell. For this hell has now already held more than a decillion Imperial day meetings, and yet it is always in the thickest night, and through all it's many Imperial day meetings, which are now going on into the completely innumerable, it has not even been able to get to the idea what a day actually is. That it has become a little worse after every Imperial day, that is the fullest truth; but of an improvement after such an infernal Imperial Council day, never the slightest trace could be discovered.
[2] Quite similar to the infernal ones, however, are in everything the present imperial days on earth; and their products, they may consist in whatever, can therefore hardly be better than those corresponding to a hair's breadth to hell.
[3] But why, you ask in yourself, should these imperial days be so bad? After all, there are all very learned and intelligent minds sitting there together, and they control every suggestion with all the sharpness of their intellect, and do not accept it as valid and legally valid until it has been quite properly rejected and ground off all learned minds.
[4] Yes, yes, My dear fellow, at least that is how the thing looks, but it is not what it seems, but quite different – and that is to say: at an Imperial day, at least one-third of the heads of the most snappy, one-third usually stupid and half-witted, and a weak third very haughty, sometimes also very hard and stubborn heads come together. The latter, of course, find it beneath their, mostly aristocratic, dignity to associate themselves with and attract the common and – in their opinion – stinking stupid rabble-deputies.
[5] This is what the smart heads know and use, so they deal with the plebs and win them over. Hence it usually happens that their amendments (to laws) must be accepted ob vota maiora (*1), if they were in themselves so bad and miserable. This must soon outrage the usually aristocratic right-winged and make them think of secret means to chastise the hated left. Thus begins then the purely infernal intrigue – or even better, the actual infernal Imperial day deputy dance! There then prevails a love and concord that Satan could never wish for more fruitfully for his purposes. I think you understand Me.
[6] Well, because you understand Me, then judge further yourself and say what fruits must grow from such a seed? You say in yourself: Oh Lord, the most wretched of the world! Right, I tell you, so it is and so it will be; but I have invented for this seed a special kind of moth, which will do it great harm. For the time being I do not want to describe this My invention to you more closely, but you will nevertheless recognize it soon and easily, when it will make it's entry from the east, perhaps also from the west.
[7] But if the German imperial crown is presented by the German Imperial day, you will now probably be able to conclude of what spirit it will be and what is to be expected of it.
[8] But do you know what a proper heavenly Imperial day would be? – Behold, a right and true heavenly Imperial day would be My word and it's observation in all people's hearts.
[9] But the regents are to remain as they are now, but also as the most faithful followers of My word, so they would all become great in My name like Solomon. But if they, like their peoples, will expect their salvation from the empires, they will fare very badly.
[10] But the most domineering and crown-addicted of all will receive the worst share, for I tell you: if he does not have an iron head and a body of stone, he will probably not wear this old-new crown, which will be quite white-hot, for too long; and such a new great German emperor should only too soon become a little German emperor, and soon after only a duchess, and still a little later a barren little nothing!
[11] Oh something quite different it would be if this crown were taken upon itself by an emperor already in existence, whereby no elevation of person and character can be possible, which on this side is most dangerous for every man, whichever class he is. Therefore nothing is so carefully prevented by Me as the statuting of new empires or kingdoms, because through it the lust for power would be stirred in too many minds, and with it necessary wars and their bad consequences, for what reason I even banished all electoral princes, because these elections also always brought the same consequences with them.
[12] Therefore the one who has been an emperor for a long time should remain an emperor, and the king a king. But if a king strives for an imperial dignity and wants to achieve it, he will then have to deal with Me, but especially so if the Imperial day in Frankfurt makes him emperor! Verily, he should fare even worse than a former emperor of the French! Do you understand that? Yes, yes, you understand it, therefore I need tell you also nothing more; for the recent times will already enlighten you about all this anyway.
[13] This, then, for you to think about. Amen.
Footnote (*1) “by majority of votes”