Gifts of Heaven · Volume 3 · Chapter 501

Only one thing is necessary!

Beginning of 1856

A word from the Lord to Johannes Busch, in a letter from Jakob Lorber in 1856.

[1] All these exceedingly many things are of no use to you, whether spiritual or material, for whether one knows much or has much is one thing; if he does not make perfectly right use of them, the soul still remains equally poor.

[2] It is enough that someone loves Me above all things and his neighbor as himself, because to him I will come and will reveal Myself to him. Then he will be led by the great light of My Spirit – which has become one with his soul – into all wisdom and will then see and recognize things, which up until now nothing has ever been seen in any worldly sense.

[3] This is difficult at this time because people are already spoiled in their brains in their mother's womb by the horniness of the flesh of both the woman and the man and thus later also in the completely proper training of the other physical organs of life.

[4] A man must now strive exceedingly warm and very active in love for Me and out of it in love for the neighbor, must even very much deny himself in many parts of life and be exceedingly patient and completely humble in everything, then the soul with the help of My Spirit first trains the bodily organism to the necessary order – and is only then able to completely absorb the light of favour of My Spirit in itself and only then to enter into true wisdom because then everything becomes bright and clear to it, what was once veiled in perfect night-darkness. (Added by Jakob Lorber:) These few words from the mouth of the Lord will certainly give you, dearest friend, very much consolation, but at the same time the convincing assurance that in this most corrupt material and loveless time, in which only the outermost, most crudely material mind rules all knowledge, the Kingdom of God needs a great power (love-will-power), and only those who make it their own, will seize it by force! But violence does not consist in pure faith, but mainly only in true and living love for the Lord and neighbor. Observe this, and you will find yourself in the same light from within yourself that I have been in for 16 years.