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LAMECH'S FOOLISH DEMAND FOR LAWS. THE LORD'S REVELATION ON THE JUDGMENT IN THE LAW AND THE FREEDOM IN LOVE. (11th January 1843)
[1] After this sublime instruction Lamech, full of gratitude and humility, again began to speak and asked the Lord:
[2] "O Lord, having once begun to entreat and ask You, and fully trusting in Your infinite goodness and patience, I dare to continue to entreat and ask You.
[3] "I want to learn directly from Your most holy mouth Your detailed instructions on what pleases You so that man might act on them in all his earthly affairs.
[4] "For look, O holy Father, on a completed road from one place to another no one can lose his way, except he had wanted to lose it deliberately or had tried to find a short-cut, on which occasion he could have lost his way and ended up in a thick scrub filled with snakes and vipers.
[5] "So nothing could be more desirable for us all than a road precisely outlined by You, O holy Father, namely, a definite law to act thus and not otherwise.
[6] "For, once we have a rule prescribed by You personally, we then know that You want and what is in keeping with Your divine order and it will be very easy to live in a way pleasing to You.
[7] "Without a rule our every step must be accompanied by great fear lest we easily commit an offense against Your most holy order.
[8] "If it might please You, O holy Father, I would ask You for it in the name of the whole lowland, at the same time assuring You of my incessant, most punctual loyalty always and forever!"
[9] And the Lord lifted up His hand and said to Lamech and all the others: "Verily, verily, say I, now still the holy and most loving Father to you all:
[10] "Once I shall bind you through laws, I shall also bind you through judgment; for without judgment no law is possible nor is any judgment possible without laws!
[11] "If you, Lamech, had laws from Me, I would not have come to you as a Father and thus a helper to you all, but as a most inexorable judge to condemn you for all your evil deeds!
[12] "However, from the beginning you had no laws; thus you were like infants in the cradle. You have done much evil, indeed you have committed atrocious deeds; but, having no definite law directly from Me, but only an indirect advice, you were so far not liable to any judgment, – and now I am here to help you.
[13] "How can you, Lamech, then ask Me for laws?
[14] "What is better, to be quite free in the love for Me, thus having Me as a Father, or to be bound by laws, thereby having Me as a permanent judge?
[15] ''Verily, say I to you all: I will rather destroy the whole of creation than fetter My children with laws, thereby ceasing to be their Father and judging them for eternal death!
[16] "Therefore you, Lamech, take back your request and let it completely wither within you; for in all your erstwhile wickedness I liked you better than I would if you were to observe the laws with the most painstaking severity.
[17] "For the law rescinds all love between the lawgiver and the one encumbered with the law and instead of love establishes the most severe, inexorable judgment.
[18] "Who can say of himself: 'I can completely fulfill the law!'?
[19] "Look, I alone could do this, but no other free being; the created being would have to walk in judgment like the animals.
[20] "If so, where is the free life-activity of the spirit?
[21] "Woe betide you and woe betide every nation to whom I shall give laws; for then the house of the Father will be locked with iron bolts!
[22] "And unless I come personally to fulfill the same, the whole of creation will perish!
[23] "Therefore, I now give you no law, but only tell you as a Father to love Me above all and each other as you love yourselves. This is My will; all else do out of the wisdom which comes to you through My love, and you will live as it is most pleasing to Me.
[24] "Observe all this and do accordingly and you will have My love at all times and the great house of your Father shall not ever be closed to you! Amen."