Secrets of Creation · Chapter 12 · Jacob’s Ladder, continued (July 27, 1871)

Chapter 12

Jacob’s Ladder, continued (July 27, 1871)

01] Yes My children, rejoice over this spiritual level on which I have placed you, and do not immediately hang your heads when small odds darken your sense of purpose or individual privations in worldly life remind you that this earthly life is of short duration and has no endurance, so that you may recognize from it that the urge for the spiritual, for higher, lasting happiness is not in the satisfaction of physical and social comforts, but in the satisfaction of the spiritual value of your soul, which thirsts to unite with the spirit laid in you by me, to take the place in My spiritual world which until now the Spirit alone had held, but not the soul until it has attained the baptism of rebirth.

02] When I have demonstrated to you in earlier words My whole creation and its inhabitants in spiritual regard how they have to achieve spiritually in different ways their set goal, which for you is significantly shortened, it was only to prove to you and to make you understand how much more your zeal should be stimulated to satisfy this position in My Kingdom of Spirits and also to use all powers, since the way to Me is not closed to you, to continue to move forward not shying away from any obstacle, always looking at me, to regard everything that you may encounter only as a link in a chain that gradually develops, ennobles you and already in this earthly life prepares you for the hereafter in such a way that you can accomplish most of it more easily here than there, so that you may then immediately prove yourself capable of your higher mission without regression.

03] And especially you, to whom I give My light from the heavens with so much care, consider well that I, precisely because I am doing this, have so-called special purposes in mind with you apart from the purpose of mankind in general.

04] So show yourselves worthy of your mission and My grace; because when I have assigned important tasks to you, you also have to consider that in order to become such worthy instruments of My holy will, you yourselves must first be cleansed, purified and hardened with firm zeal before I can use you as supports for others!

05] Therefore, take all the events that happen to you as a school of practice, so that you can first establish in yourself what you are supposed to show others, not only in words, but in deeds, namely: that the teaching as I have given it to you is the true and only one that can make My children of men - purified spirits and souls!

06] Many of you do not want to grasp this idea; they still want to combine their comfortable world life with My Spirituality; they shy away from denial, deprivation, sacrifice; only it is in vain; if you want to become My children, you must, as I once did, empty the cup of suffering to the last drop! I too have proclaimed to the garden in Gethsemane: "Father, take the cup from me!" I did it when I (momentarily) had to leave My Love behind me, I had to feel completely My situation as a man (See the word "The Weak One" in the Passion Garden), and yet, as much as love only wants to make happy, only to make blessed, there it had to deny its basic characteristic, because of a higher purpose, and I drank the cup of suffering to the end.

07] And so any of you also cry out, “Lord, take the cup of suffering from me. And I, the all loving Father who only wants to see My children happy, the Father who loves all things, cannot for his own sake cannot comply with this desire, must make him suffer for his own betterment and for My great purpose, let him empty the cup completely so that he also, like once I myself, after enduring a struggle, gloriously learn to bless the hand which has led him from the bitter night of suffering to the bright light of happiness.

08] Of all the kinds of bad conditions that you may encounter, I have also gone through myself; it is for this very reason that I became completely human, as you are, so that all possible storms of the world could burst over me, so that no one can ever say: "Preaching is easy, but doing it yourself and proving it by deeds is difficult!

09] Therefore I went through your whole human life from the cradle on to show you that, if the Spirit is strong, he can overcome everything, conquer everything and endure everything, only he must be firmly convinced of his mission and spiritual destiny, from which point of view then all the illusions will receive their true value and enlightenment.

10] So if you really want to become My children you have to be firmly convinced for the time being that you also have to be pure as an example first, but that this "purity" is not possible without washing off the mistakes and wrong opinions beforehand!

11] I have the great worlds and their inhabitants before your spiritual eye. You can now see how much you are favored, but you can also see that each advantage is only there when you fight to achieve what you are aiming for, because if, as your proverb says, the roasted birds fly into your mouth, there is no merit!

12] The achievement is that consciousness which gives the nobility to the soul and whispers to it: I fought, but I also won (with the Holy Father's grace).

13] Behold the millions of worlds and their inhabitants, how many would like to fight to attain this, with even greater sacrifices than you have to make, and yet, My Fatherly Love, which loves them as much as you, cannot grant this fight as a whole, but can only allow this transfer to some of them, so that by losing spiritual freedom in his world he prefers servitude and the struggle on your world.

14] You are envied by millions and millions of spirits and yet, blind as you want to be, you still do not understand what it means to be chosen to be My children!

15] Do not let it become necessary in the other world to once have to proclaim: “Yes, if I had known that, I would have acted differently".

16] Should this cry escape one of you in the other world, it will be too late and it can only be reached there during long struggles and wanderings, which could have been accomplished here with so little.

17] Therefore, children, wake up! Rise up to me! Listen to the voice of love that flows towards you from all corners of creation; turn your backs on the world sun and immerse yourselves in the infinite sea of light of the spirit kingdom from which you have come; there lives your Father, there is your future residence and there one day you will find a solution to all the questions and doubts that seemed to be unsolvable to you here.

18] Go there! and you too, like sometimes My scribe, will also be overcome by visions which will give you insight into those spheres where only love spreads its gentle light, blessing and soothing everything, and from where all the sufferings and ills of this life and other desires of worldly, social and monetary position will disappear like nothing in comparison to spiritual enjoyment which raises you far above all this and only then makes you feel the power of My love and the high bliss of a consciousness to have finally reached beyond the waste of this life into the Eden of peace, where no discord interrupts the harmony of the spirit choirs, and all agree on it and eternally offer Me the hymn of praise of My love, not as creator, not as Lord, but as Father.

19] Wake up! That already gentle hints of such bliss permeate your hearts; learn in lonely hours to strengthen your spiritual eye so that it can see over, far above all material things, into that spirit world which lies partly far from you and yet also, if you wish, very close, in your own breast.

20] Once you have enjoyed such moments of spiritual consecration, then the worldly sun begins already - to go to its downfall, and the host of spiritual heavens, like the stars glittering at night, will make you grasp the greatness of a future being, the greatness of your actual dwelling place!

21] Thus consider this, act and live accordingly in order to be worthy of Me one day! Amen.