Secrets of Creation · Chapter 16 · The Rain (2) (April 29, 1871)

Chapter 16

The Rain (2) (April 29, 1871)

01] "What does rain mean in spiritual terms - and how do the countless little animals whose home is the earth behave?"

02] So you, My daughter, heard a voice asking you in the stillness of night; and since this question has not been answered any further, the same voice must now send you the answer through the mediation of its scribe. Now look then, My dear child:

03] "The rain - is a blessing." It is a blessing because it comes from above; it is a blessing because it is powerful, invigorating and revives everything where it falls and penetrates; it is a blessing, because with it the love or materially the warmth is developed, and it is a blessing, a divine blessing because it delights and revives everything - and as I once said as Jesus of the sun that the Father in heaven lets it rise over good and bad, the rain also drips down over useful and harmful plants in equal measure. As for the little animals in the ground, you yourself indicated the answer in your letter when you write: "When I thought about true love, I saw many things as sin, which was often regarded as a virtue.

04] You see, My child, the little animals living in the ground, larvae and pupae, which one already develops in external life, the others are waiting for development, resembling the small mistakes that man often does not regard as a mistake, but even as virtues or good qualities.

05] Now, when the rain falls on the earth and deprives many an animal of its life or its dwelling, mercilessly washes them away, then this resembles your heart, onto which also My shower of grace trickles down or, with suitable disposition, even flows down in abundance.

06] This rain of grace produces the same result as the rain on the ground. The rain first softens the hard parts of the earth; the descending grace must also soften in a heart inclined to My Voice the persistent, accustomed bad qualities and desires there. The rain warms the ground, brings life to its vegetation, and allows the roots to spread with more strength and elasticity.

07] The rain of grace and love moves the heart joyfully, it becomes soft then happily eliminates these little habits and mistakes and revives the good. And how the animals then become active in the ground, partly to protect themselves from the water, partly only to be woken up by the water from their hibernation, like the hard clod of earth, which they can now break through more easily, so that they can also be exposed to the light and the heat of the sun as well as love and the rain of grace in the human heart. He also awakens the better and more sublime qualities of human nature, gives them strength to break through the hard shell that has drawn the world around them so far, so that they too may guide man to the light of truth and love.

08] What the rain destroys and washes away, what it spoils in animals, their eggs and dwellings, thrives again on another side. After a rain, the balance between producers and consumers is restored in the natural environment. And after an efficient cleansing of the human heart everything there is balanced again, since the coarser has been eradicated, but so much remains that the fight of good with evil does not fall asleep; for only struggle requires an active life, because without it there would be no attraction and no "why".

09] In the human heart, as in the ground, the small animals must be stimulated to activity by the rain - the good qualities must be able to develop and the bad ones washed away, eradicated, but the still unborn sex of the pupae and larvae must also be accelerated in their development by this spiritual fermentation process.

10] Also on your heart, My child, My shower of grace has been pouring down for a long time; even with you it becomes active in your heart. Certain little peculiarities, like the little animals of the earth, hid themselves from this grace and love water, they did not want to wash away from you, they did not want to be chased away. Only the rain did not stop, yes it multiplied, and see, My dear child, now that the bottom of your heart has been softened, warmed and strengthened to action by the love and the rain of grace, now that the roots of your good qualities have spread against the light, now also the rain of grace begins to fall abundantly on you. Now that most of the superfluous little traits and peculiarities are gone, you begin to clear up even more of what was still in you as a weed, and you now stand there like a flower after the rain, where brilliant drops of fallen rain on its leaves and calyxes reflect the whole universe, lifting your heart up to Me, openly displaying the glorious results of your Father's all-embracing, never-ending love in heaven, who has also guided you spiritually through night to the light, through rain and wind, made you able to now breathe in the balsamic fragrances that always follow the refreshing rain, whether it be in the material as well as in the spiritual world.

11] Stand firm! as the beautiful, spiritual flower I have brought up in you; be a joy and comfort to Me in your surroundings; and like a flower spreads only balsamic fragrance around it, you too spread soothing love, tolerance and love awakening gentleness around you!

12] This is supposed to be the result of the spiritual rain which I now let pour down on you. And as the rain and the sun both pour out blessings on the good and the bad, so you also spread only good around you. Do not mind how this good is understood and utilized; do it because you want to resemble Me, the giver of all good, whether others use it for good or not, you do not care. You, doing good, collect on your head diamond pearls of benevolent rain; the others, who do not know how to use the gifts, or often do not want to use them, or even abuse them, these collect instead of (pure) water pearls, which are able to reflect infinity in their luster, only dirty water that clouds their vision even more than it strengthens it.

13] Be like Me! Consider all of nature - what I do not do every day, every hour, even in every pulse beat or least period of time! How many rains of grace I am sending over all mankind, and where are those who understand all this, where are those who only want to look up to Me and cry out: "Lord, what are we that you remember us!"?

14] And yet I do not cease to multiply graces on graces to finally force even the most hardened to repent, not by punishment but by love.

15] So you do it also, My dear child; let grace upon grace, blessings upon blessings pour on your fellow men; they are all steps to Me, your Father, who has long since led you and is waiting for His child with outstretched arms when, after long struggles, he will sink victoriously into them.

16] I have given you this beautiful goal! So do not let the rain of grace pour down on you in vain, let it wash away everything that does not belong in your heart, and the rain of grace that came from above will also lead you up again.

17] So - persevere! The goal is worth the struggle. Do not despair, the one who wrote this to you will always support you as long as you walk on His paths! - Amen.