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Announcement of a blessed one
18th February 1849
On February 18, 1849, Elisabeth Hüttenbrenner, Anselm Hüttenbrenner's wife, who died in November 1848, showed herself to the servant during another spiritual activity in order to convey motherly admonitions to her daughters Julie and Wilhelmine through him. Jakob Lorber wrote the following about this conversation:
[1] Elizabeth: "My dear Jacob! – I'm here too, I'm here too, and I'd like to congratulate my Julerl and also the Minerl a little!
[2] Said I, Jakob Lorber: “Yes, yes, yes! Well, well, I am very pleased that you, my most beloved Elisabeth, are visiting me again! I need not ask how you are!? Because where you are, every happy person can only be infinitely well. So, to the point! I am already ready to write anything you ever want – but only in a pretty short way, please, because I am a little bit pressed by the miserable time! Next time I want to give you, my dearest woman – ("Don't say, Mrs"! "Says Elise in the meantime) – Elisabeth for a whole morning the most willing service. If only you weren't so heavenly, there I could also write more easily! But as I look at you, I would much rather hug you and die in such a heavenly embrace than wiggle the pen back and forth on the paper!"
[3] Says Elizabeth: "Just don't be so bad, my dear Jacob! For that is not proper. But because you are still a little weak, I will go behind your back. So, now I am already behind your back! Don't look around and write diligently, or you'll get a slap!”
[4] Said I: 'I'm okay! But please do not address me as "sir" but as "you".
[5] Says Elizabeth: "Yes, yes, but you must address me like this too! But now write, otherwise the time will be even shorter!
[6] Elisabeth dictates: "To my Julerl and Minerl! My dear daughters! If the Lord is with you, I am also with you. For I am now always with the Lord, and my happiness is infinite, my bliss ineffable!
[7] My Julerl! Just enrich your heart more and more with the love for the true heavenly Father, so you will be just as happy and blessed and maybe already be on earth as I am now in heaven. Because the Lord loves you very much – just as you had the unspeakable luck today to get the same assurance from the Lord Himself. But also do everything that the holy, loving Father advises you so often! You can very easily become a true bride of His innermost heart. And that is the highest bliss that only a very few receive.
[8] But you also, Minerl, give yourself to this holy Love. For the most holy Father loves you very much, as do all the others, and also my Anselm. But only do not think so much, in certain times and hours, of worldly things, as, e.g., of the tiresome marriage, of the inheritance that will fall to you after me from the grandparents' side, and so still some other unnecessary things; but let the most holy Father alone be the only object that occupies your hearts to the very depths – so you will already get from Him in due time everything that is necessary for you and is good and useful to your souls!
[9] Think more often of me, your earthly mother, I who often had all sorts of wishes and was happy to end my last days with you somewhere in the country. But what has become of all these wishes ?! I don't need to repeat it to you because the grave and the gravestone will tell you.
[10] I tell you: The earth's ground is nothing but a great mortuary, a real graveyard. The mountains of the earth are gravestones. And so no-one can hope for happiness in the house of the dead, except such as was given to my body.
[11] But I, who loved the Lord Father Jesus above all things, was not laid in the grave to putrefy, but was received most alive by the Lord Father in His heaven, where it is just so indescribably
beautiful, where all people love each other so intimately that there is not even a thought in the world that could describe such beauty and love even approximately!
[12] Instead of being a farmer somewhere on earth, I am now in the heaven of heavens, gifted with the highest freedom! What do you think is better? Yes, heaven – heaven, this is the true abode for all who love God! This is all reality and truth – while the whole earth is just a phenomenon that only too soon passes. Therefore strive for the kingdom of God above all, so everything else will become for you too.
[13] Take heed therefore to these words which I, your mother, have spoken to you, and you shall be happy for ever. The Lord Father's blessing, love and grace be with you all in the name of the Lord Father. Amen."