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About the nodule of the heart and the toe
9th May 1864
Writer: L. Cantily Question by Leopold Cantily: In "Center of the Earth" (Earth and Moon) it is said that the earth is the nodule wart of the little toe on the left foot, and in "John”(*1) it is said that the earth is the positive central nodule of the left half of the heart. How is this to be understood?
[1] For a right thinker, who would be able to make a proper distinction between what is material and what is spiritual, the matter would indeed be comprehensible in itself. But to him who is not yet able to understand the difference in it's full depth, it must admittedly appear to be at least an apparent contradiction.
[2] Regarding the 'center of the earth' is mainly referred to the material earth, and of the spiritual, only insofar as both the nature spirits and the souls of the many deceased having their dwelling in the sphere of this earth and even quite far beyond it.
[3] In 'John’(*2) only the spiritual earth is made mention of, and thus two apparently contradictory explanations of life occur in relation to the Great Cosmic Man.
[4] The feet of man are indeed his lowest parts, but regardless of what everyone can easily understand, they are the most important for the existence of man. For imagine people without feet, what would they do with all their other faculties if they could not move easily and nimbly from one place to another by means of their feet? With their hands alone they would not get far. But movement is the main thing of life; for the more a man or even an animal loses mobility of it's limbs, the nearer they are to death – that is, with regards to natural, physical life.
[5] For what concerns the spiritual life in and of itself, it is the all-vitalizing and creating power itself, which cannot be destroyed by anything. But the physical life is only a life brought about by the influence of external forces, if the physical organism is so built that it is suitable for the absorption and the action of the free forces. Once it has become unfit for this influence, the life- forces return to their freedom and rest, and the organism decays again into it's former elemental existence.
[6] The little nodule under the little toe on the left foot therefore corresponds to the innermost positive nodule in the back part of the heart in man and that on the right foot to the negative one, and the whole movement of the feet depends on the health, the continuity of this mutual correspondence.
[7] Anyone who has suffered damage to these two most unnoticed extremities by whatever means, will soon become crooked and have difficulty moving. Complete immobility will not happen because of it because of the aforementioned nodules and also those on the balls of the other toes, so also at the rears, of which the toes are the offshoots, as behind the whole sole and the heels are its rear offshoots. But regardless of this, a human being would become aware of a quite significant crippling in walking with loss of one of the two small toes, particularly at the left foot.
[8] If therefore such a little nodule is mentioned, so also is always to understood the little nodule in the heart, and where this belongs, there also the little nodule of the toe belongs to. According to the circumstance of the matter the difference is then only a verbal and not a real one; for the validity for the spiritual and true has only that which is spiritual and true in itself, and on which life depends. And thus also among the two nodules I have shown you, both in the 'center of the earth' (resp. '12 hours') and in 'John', there is in the greater perspective, as much as no difference at all. Everything is to be taken only spiritually, which in material relation, works everywhere through the corresponding offshoots.
[9] He who grasps this correctly in it's true depth, will also keep to it and find no more difference; for life is life everywhere, but it's main ancestral seat is nevertheless only there from where it emanates.
[10] I Myself as the very Source of all life dwells also in My eternal center, but I am nevertheless present as the same life in all infinity. The same life that awakens the heart also moves the whole body. Whoever understands this also understands everything else, and I need tell you nothing more about it. Amen.
Footnotes (*1) "The great gospel of John – Jakob Lorber (*2) "The great gospel of John – Jakob Lorber