NEUOFFENBARUNG[MEr.01_003,001] Now look here. You will surely recognise the land that appears before your eyes on the white screen. It is Africa. Look at it carefully. It is no map, I tell you, but a faithful image of the land itself.
[MEr.01_003,002] See the northern coasts here. See ancient Egypt here in the north. Further west, see all those states you know for their plundering. Look at their rugged mountain masses, with boundless sandy deserts and steppes between them.
[MEr.01_003,003] See, everywhere the idol Mohammed reigns. Everywhere there is robbery, murder and slavery, and on the other hand despotism and tyranny of the worst kind.
[MEr.01_003,004] See, all the inhabitants who still practise any trade are merely serfs of their rulers. The despot's sword is ever poised over their bare necks unless they hand over to their ruler nearly everything they have earned.
[MEr.01_003,005] See how their priests preach curses and deceit from their towers and give no blessing. They fill the bellies of the poor with their heavenly air, while the poor must sacrifice to them, for this nothing, at least half of what the ruler has left them.
[MEr.01_003,006] See what a wretched, pitiful figure the few Christians here cut. Meanwhile other, more powerful Christians in name march about well armed in great armies. They make the unfortunate still more miserable than they already are. As you see, they bring them war, death, devastation, famine and countless other evils in place of My blessing and grace. Truly, Saul in his persecution of Christians did not go as far as these Christians go in their dealings with the unfortunate. But let us leave that coast above and look a little towards Egypt.
[MEr.01_003,007] See this beautiful land, once Jacob's blessing. Look at what has become of it. Truly, the harlot of Babylon is a pure maiden beside it.
[MEr.01_003,008] The old Nile still waters the soil where Joseph ruled and was everything to Pharaoh. But what land does this Nile water now?
[MEr.01_003,009] When I led the people of Israel home out of this land, it was visited by seven severe plagues, but only for a short time, until the children were let go. Yet what were those plagues compared with the present ones, which are without number? Indeed, they were true manna from heaven beside these. [1]
[MEr.01_003,010] At that time the land was ruled by heathens, but at least they were human and knew how to honour the worth of a human being. Their teaching, like that of Central Asia, dated from the days of Noah. They well knew the nature of the great God, and from this knowledge came their wisdom in many things. They taught it through their mysteries only to certain people, so that the great God would not be profaned by someone unfit and unworthy. Hence their land abounded in what are called wonders of the world of every kind, and their wisdom and their school of learning were acknowledged as great by all nations. [2]
[MEr.01_003,011] Even today you can see great remnants of this country's former greatness rising above the hot sand. Now look at the land as it is today. See its poor people hunted like animals. Look some way south at a few peaceful huts enclosed by mountains that are nearly impossible to cross.
[MEr.01_003,012] But look there and see the despot's daring, armed climbers scaling the mountain peaks. See how they rush down upon the peaceful huts, cruelly kill all their peaceful inhabitants and carry off everything they own. They put other captives in their place and, under threat of the most terrible death, impose on them the bitter duty of earning at least ten years' tribute for the despot in the space of three years.
[MEr.01_003,013] Look here at another district where this happened three years ago. See how the collectors of tribute are now approaching the slaves put there. After cruelly mistreating them and raping all their wives and maidservants, they take and carry off everything the slaves have earned.
[MEr.01_003,014] Now look farther up this way. See some of the despot's soldiers equipped with snares, swords and firearms. See how they cast their snares to and fro after the fleeing inhabitants of this mountainous region. Look a little to the west at those escaping by climbing over rocks, fathers, mothers and children. Young and old clamber with bleeding fingers to escape these brutal men. See also how the men pursue them and shoot them off the rocks one after another. Now see how they gag and bind a crowd of prisoners, men and youths, to take them in the most wretched and degrading way to the place where they are to serve as soldiers.
[MEr.01_003,015] Now let your gaze descend from the mountains again. See an officer and guardian of tribute appointed by the despot. To whet his lust he drives a whole crowd of enslaved women this way and that with a whip, so that he can then force himself on one who is bleeding from his heavy blows. I say nothing of the other atrocities now being committed in great numbers in this land.
[MEr.01_003,016] Now you see what this land looks like. Compare these plagues with the seven of old, and truly you must admit that those were pure manna from heaven. For if you wish to picture the utmost degree of hellish depravity, travel to Egypt and you will literally find it there.
[MEr.01_003,017] For I tell you, and can tell you no more, that things have gone so far here that even a kindness done there by the great ones of this beautiful realm is sheer cruelty.
[MEr.01_003,018] Look for a moment into these infirmaries, hospitals and asylums. See the sick tormented by all manner of treatments, the poor fed on little better than refuse, and the mentally ill crouching like mummies in recesses in the wall, behind iron bars, crying out and lamenting.
[MEr.01_003,019] I will go no further into the matter. Let it suffice that what passes for kindness there is sheer cruelty. Imagine for yourselves, then, what form cruelty itself takes.
[MEr.01_003,020] Let us leave the northern part of this wretched land, and the north of Africa as a whole. Here, see the unknown centre of this continent. There are still huts scattered here and there. Look, this is a vast country, enclosed on every side by mountains most difficult to cross. This is the only place on Earth where an unspoilt people of the kindest disposition is still to be found. [3]
[MEr.01_003,021] These people all still have inward sight. Apart from a disciple of the Apostle Thomas, whom I sent, no stranger has ever set foot in the country. And so these people, few in number and sparsely spread over the hot regions, hold to My pure teaching, which remains unclouded to this hour.
[MEr.01_003,022] This is also the one small point at which the Earth is still joined to My heaven. Mark well what I am about to tell you. When an insolent foot enters this sanctuary out of greed, I will fling My torch over the Earth.
[MEr.01_003,023] But look east and west from this very land and see how two leading nations, full of avarice and greed, are already setting every possible ladder against the mountains, to slake their insatiable thirst for the gold they imagine to be in this land.
[MEr.01_003,024] Yes, I tell you, they will soon succeed. They are close to breaking in. But truly, I say, they will find none of the gold for which they thirst. They will indeed find a kind of gold, but its weight will crush the whole Earth grievously.
[MEr.01_003,025] Now come a little farther, to the south-west coast of this land. Look for a moment at this admirable trade in human beings. See how despotic profiteers pack their ships, infamous under every name, to the brim with poor immortal human beings. Look into this ship. See how the wooden shelves all around it are barely a span high, and how these poor people are stacked on them like logs, lying face down side by side.
[MEr.01_003,026] See, a ship like this is packed with six hundred to a thousand of these unfortunates. For the voyage from this coast to America, each has a four-pound brick of stone-hard bread laid in front of their mouth for food. A trough runs along by their mouths, into which water is poured for them all once a day.
[MEr.01_003,027] See, with this food a poor person must make a journey of often two thousand miles. Each day on the voyage an inspection is made to see whether any have died.
[MEr.01_003,028] How is this inspection carried out? Look here. A so-called slave guard is now going along the shelves with a pointed instrument and stabbing someone in the foot. If the person cries out at this abuse, it is taken as a sign that they are still alive.
[MEr.01_003,029] There are other ways of testing for life that these truly satanic traffickers in human beings permit themselves. Let us speak no more of them. This much is certain. When these merchants carry lions, tigers, snakes and hyenas, they give these beasts infinitely more attention, care and tending than they give their poor brothers and sisters.
[MEr.01_003,030] Now that we have come to know the whole continent, look down a little farther at the southern part of this land, which is called Good Hope. Truly I tell you, there really is good hope here for Satan. Trade here is so profitable that the prince of darkness invests his capital at a thousand per cent throughout.
[MEr.01_003,031] I need tell you no more. You can easily imagine how much such conduct pleases Me, above all when it is done by Christians. A great reward will follow!