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Text & Audio to Video Content... https://jesus-comes.com/index.php/2023/05/11/unnotige-sorgen-unnecessary-worries/ Heavenly Gifts Overview... https://jesus-comes.com/index.php/jesus-reveals-thru-jakob-lorber-heavenly-gifts/ Channel Overview... https://jesus-comes.com/index.php/2022/10/16/kanalubersicht-channel-overview/ Endtime-Prophecies... https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL73-eEs6JmCvqoP8fdADZdKJ--VYSyaHQ Video Playlist Jakob Lorber... https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL73-eEs6JmCvsQ4B1aWRCU_QMhWG5sTWe The Lord's Revelations through Jakob Lorber... https://jesus-comes.com/index.php/category/english/jakob-lorber-pdfs/ Heavenly Gifts Unnecessary Worries Mai 24, 1840 Sunday morning Question: May we not ask You, O Father in heaven, in childlike humility, that recruitment may cease, whereby the husband is torn from his wife, the father from his children, the son from his parents, the citizen from his trade, and the peasant from his field, and is often forced into a state in which little Christianity is to be found. – How long shall this evil continue, according to Your will? – May it please You to demand of us a sacrifice that this hard yoke, the sight of which fills us with bitter melancholy, may be taken from our brothers! – However, not our will, but Your holy will be done, for all eternity! The Lord answers: 1. As your good and holy Father, I am always pleased when you turn to Me in whatever matter troubles you. Only you must not ask of Me any foolish things, to which I then would not want to give you an answer, as it would be nonsensical to encourage you in an error or superstition. 2. Questions such as these, concerning the determination of timeframes and dates, according to year, day and hour! – For you see, I never determine a time for anything, but always act according to the circumstances of men, as Father with the children, and as God with the men of the world. Would I not have to be cruel if I said: “During the next year I will unleash My judgement upon you” – and then would certainly do it, even if you were to better yourselves from the ground up!? – Well, judge for yourselves! – And if I would not do it, would I not be a liar!? How could this be reconciled with My love and holiness? 3. For this reason I will not allow the prophetic determiners and calculators of time to get ahead, and, in the end, they will be put to shame. And so, it will not be I but men who will unconsciously determine the time through their actions, and then I will come like a thief when they least expect it. 4. A second such foolish question is: By what sacrifice could I be moved to do anything? – Behold, being asked such a question by My children hurts Me, for I glean from it that they still consider Me some kind of idol, instead of their sole good and holy Father, in truth and love, who expects nothing from you but your filial love. – Your childlike love is the only sacrifice that pleases your Father, and wherein your God delights the most! 5. As far as recruitment is concerned, however, it is not the greatest of the world’s evils, but merely a consequence of the love for the world, and therefore more a consequence of the evil itself. And so, the military profession will remain for as long as worldliness born of the self-love of men exists… Therefore, worry not so much about it for the sake of the recruits, for be fully assured that My children shall never bear arms, for I am their weapon against all evil. And even if they were obligated to do as the children of the world, which will and can only rarely happen, believe Me, I will be their Father then as well, a strong God, and a sharp, invincible weapon for them to carry. 6. Behold, it matters very little what you were in this world, be it peasants, citizens of cities, soldiers, princes, kings or emperors. No, what matters is the way you were it – out of self-love, love for your neighbour or My love within you, meaning out of love for Me and, thereof, for your neighbour. Accordingly will your life in eternity be as such. 7. I am well aware that there is little religion to be found among the military profession, and that debauchery therein is evidently more severe than among the regular citizens. On the other hand, however, punishment is stricter there than that of the citizens. And so many things are prevented that, among the regular citizens, often have free rein. 8. By the way, religion, as it generally exists among you at this very moment, is as good to Me as none at all. For where there is nothing, there may something be built that can be good. But where there is only depravation, there is little room for good. Everything worldly, however, is infernal and, as such, brimming with all manner of cruelties, the reward of which won’t be long in coming, for the citizen as with the soldier. 9. However, My children shall not worry about anything! For I have much to give to the oppressed and the needy, if only they wish to come to Me. And those who have lost something in this world, for My sake, will one day find it again, one way or the other, in the bosom of their good and holy Father. – Amen.

Text & Audio to Video Content... https://jesus-comes.com/index.php/2023/05/06/gruss-von-jesus-greetings-from-jesus/ Heavenly Gifts Overview... https://jesus-comes.com/index.php/jesus-reveals-thru-jakob-lorber-heavenly-gifts/ Channel Overview... https://jesus-comes.com/index.php/2022/10/16/kanalubersicht-channel-overview/ Endtime-Prophecies... https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL73-eEs6JmCvqoP8fdADZdKJ--VYSyaHQ Video Playlist Jakob Lorber... https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL73-eEs6JmCvsQ4B1aWRCU_QMhWG5sTWe The Lord's Revelations through Jakob Lorber... https://jesus-comes.com/index.php/category/english/jakob-lorber-pdfs/ Greetings from Jesus Christ to His friends Heavenly Gifts, Vol. 1, Chapter 8 - May 9, 1840 The Lord says... To My Friends 1. Amidst your mutual expressions of love, allow Me a spot to enclose a small greeting as well. For you see, I invite Myself right away whenever I receive even a moderately tasty morsel. Though I already knew you would not be disagreeable with Me today should I take the liberty of entering your midst as an uninvited guest. 2. Behold, those whom I love, because they have begun to search for Me and love Me, and have recognised My voice through My poor and weakly servant, them I gladly keep company, even if, more often than not, at perhaps a somewhat inopportune time. Though, what can the Father really do about the fact that He has more love for His children than the children have for Him? So, really you ought to give credit to My great love for properly imposing Myself upon you more often than not. Oh My children, how much I do love all of you! And thus, may you love Me as well, your good Father, and do always look to Me! I Myself shall one day be your reward! 3. Hear Me, all those of you who love to see Me in your midst: One day I shall take you into the midst of My love, and you shall dine at the great table of your Father! Behold, so shall I wholly be among you for the first time today. You will not see Me with your mortal eyes. However, I will touch your hearts as My poor, weakly servant presents these words to you. Know then that I have entered into your midst! 4. You need not be embarrassed in your merriment, be happy and of good cheer! For remember, when I am with you, you are with Me also, your good Father! Thus you are at home, and this is where embarrassment ceases. 5. Now that I am wholly in your midst, may all of you, My dear children, accept My supremely affectionate Father's greeting, as it has been given to all of you! May this Mine sincere greeting be a true blessing to you, as certainly as I am the true Father of all of you, should you receive it just as willingly as I always gladly give it to you. The greeting goes as follows: 6. Peace be with you! May My love be your sole wealth, may My grace illuminate the obscurities of the world and gently reveal to you the path of eternal life! Amen.

Text & Audio... https://jesus-comes.com/index.php/2023/10/30/zauberberge-magic-mountains/ Read online... https://search.jesus-comes.com/index.php?title=EARTH-36 Channel Overview... https://jesus-comes.com/index.php/2022/10/16/kanalubersicht-channel-overview/ The Third Testament in various Languages... https://jesus-comes.com/index.php/das-dritte-testament-the-third-testament-el-tercer-testamento/ Jesus' Revelations thru Jakob Lorber... https://jesus-comes.com/index.php/category/english/jakob-lorber-pdfs/ Jesus' Revelations thru Gottfried Mayerhofer... https://jesus-comes.com/index.php/category/english/53-sermons-of-jesus/ LoveLetters from Jesus... https://jesus-comes.com/index.php/liebesbriefe-von-jesus-love-letters-from-jesus/ Trumpet Call of God... https://awakeningforreality.com/latest-video-and-audio-letters-neuste-video-und-audio-briefe/ The spiritual Earth Chapter 36: Of the Magic Mountains (February 23, 1847) 1. Even today, the peculiar names of the mountains, if not much else, testify to the fact that, in times past, clairvoyant people dwelled upon the mountains, individuals who were in contact with the spirits. 2. (1) In your country (i.e. Styria) there are many such mountains, even now containing within their names hints as to what happened in times past. In Carinthia, in Tyrol, in Switzerland, in Savoy, upon the mountains of Germany, and everywhere else with the presence of mountains, there are those whose names openly reveal what once took place upon them. Even your Schöckel is such a mountain, for it had received its name from a word of an old vernacular, the word “Schögeln” to be precise, roughly meaning “to make weather”. (2) However, Schögler was also used to describe someone who could perform some of the arts of nature, practices like today’s sleight of hand. Even individuals dancing on rope or otherwise performing mighty leaps were called Schögler. This word, “Schögeln”, is an ancient Asian word, after which the magicians there are named as well, such as jugglers or jogles. 3. (1) In the German language, even today there is a common word, though admittedly somewhat obsolete, which derives from this old term, namely the word “Schock” (a large number, around 60), e.g. a Schock of people or a Schock of sheaves. Certain groups of people were called a “Schock” because they were usually thought to include an individual who knew a little more than the others, one who therefore was certainly a “Schögler”, and as such the crowd received the “Schock” description from him. (2) Those who dwelled upon the mountains were also usually seen in groups, which is quite natural there, for it would not be advisable for isolated individuals to carry out work for which a single man’s strength would not suffice, and even if it did suffice, something might happen to the worker, and there would no one be around to help him. In earlier times, however, if the inhabitants of the valley spied such a small group of people upon a mountain, and, by chance, a small cloud above the peaks, they immediately believed those upon the mountain to be practicing magic, certainly responsible for making weather. Upon this Schöckel of yours, this is exactly what transpired in times past, and still does to this day, except for the weather making. 4. (1) This mountain was inhabited far earlier than the valleys, and its first name was “Freitauer”; but in later times, when the valleys began to be inhabited by more effeminate peoples, those valley dwellers soon began to suspect the mountain dwellers of being sorcerers, and the name “Freitauer” was soon changed into “Schöckel” or “Zauberberg” (Magic Mountain). There was a time, hardly even a hundred years ago, when this mountain was so notorious that no honest Christian ever dared to climb its uppermost peak, for all who were to any degree of a Catholic-Christian mind were warned most emphatically of the “Schöckel witch”. (2) For this reason, its loftiest summit was deforested in order to deprive the Schöckel witch of her cover, so she could no longer hide from the consecrated powder she was shot at with from all sides. The weather hole can be seen to this day, but the fact that no weather was ever conjured there and that no witch ever inhabited the Schöckel hardly needs to be elaborated to you in any more detail. However, you may assume without a shadow of a doubt that, in earlier times, this mountain was, and still is today, inhabited by many so-called mountain spirits, with whom the old inhabitants of this mountain frequently had natural dealings, and were therefore much wiser than the valley dwellers. In truth, this mountain was once a volcano, and its apparent weather holes are nothing but craters that have remained open. 5. As was the case with the Schöckel, many other mountains in Styria first received their mysterious names in like manner, all of which the scope of this communication would not permit us to discuss. Thus the “Raxalpe” is of similar origin, for the word “Rax” is, in a way, apostrophised from “Racker” (varmint, rascal), in a sense, a little devil. The “Tote Weib” (Dead Woman) wears the meaning of its name upon its very sleeves, a most powerful portent of what this mountain once was, namely a territory of witches. Once a woman was intercepted by them, yet she refused to yield to their will, and so she was turned into a stone. With this transformation, of course, she was dead. 6. In later times, a hermitage was established further down, in which another woman was once found dead as well. Several other such legends have been associated with this mountain, though, of course, there is as much truth to all of them as the very lie itself. The reason for this continuous suspicion and the malignant naming scheme of such mountains is the same as has already been disclosed throughout the course of this enclosed memorable tale. 7. In the same vein, the “Hohe Schwab” (High Schwab) is also renowned as a magic mountain. Its name hails from a descendant, or emigrant, of Swabia, one of the most famed sorcerers to exist in this region. He wreaked havoc, until the nearby pilgrimage site (Maria-Zell), which you probably know, put an end to him. In like manner, there is the “Teufelsstein” (Devil’s Stone), and this one requires no further explanation. The “Predigerstuhl” (Preacher’s Chair) is of similar origin, for it was said that thereupon, Satan, in the flesh, once preached the rules of conduct to the warlocks. 8. Thus, “Grimming” is of an equally suspicious reputation as well. Especially suspicious, however, was the expansive “Tragelgebirge”, which forms the border between Salzburg, Upper Austria and Styria. In a way, the “Tragelgebirge” was an academic institution for sorcerers and wizards from all over Styria, Austria and Salzburg; Even today, the name carries an ominous weight, and no inhabitant of Altaussee or Ramsau, for instance, could be easily persuaded to ascend this barren mountain range, especially should he belong to the so-called lower class, the exception being marksmen who, ever so prudently, no longer take any stock in the idea of witches, but are all the more interested in the fat chamois that make their home upon this vast mountain range. 9. We could go over at least a few hundred more such mountains in Styria, but we shall be content with the ones mentioned so far. We will follow up with a few more mountains from Carinthia, Tyrol and even one from Switzerland, in the same manner as was done above, elucidating those that played an extraordinarily mystical role about 120 years ago.

Text & Audio... https://jesus-comes.com/index.php/2023/10/21/hexen-hexenprozesse-witches-witch-trials/ Read online... https://search.jesus-comes.com/index.php?title=EARTH-35 Channel Overview... https://jesus-comes.com/index.php/2022/10/16/kanalubersicht-channel-overview/ The Third Testament in various Languages... https://jesus-comes.com/index.php/das-dritte-testament-the-third-testament-el-tercer-testamento/ Jesus' Revelations thru Jakob Lorber... https://jesus-comes.com/index.php/category/english/jakob-lorber-pdfs/ Jesus' Revelations thru Gottfried Mayerhofer... https://jesus-comes.com/index.php/category/english/53-sermons-of-jesus/ LoveLetters from Jesus... https://jesus-comes.com/index.php/liebesbriefe-von-jesus-love-letters-from-jesus/ Trumpet Call of God... https://awakeningforreality.com/latest-video-and-audio-letters-neuste-video-und-audio-briefe/ The Spiritual Earth Chapter 35 – Of Witches and Witch Trials (February 22, 1847) 1. There would hardly be anyone who has never heard of the so-called “witches”; for not even all that long ago the courts still held witch trials and thereby transported great quantities of the most innocent people from this world to the other, with a most painful death. 2. But how did mankind arrive at witches? Let us answer this question with a few little stories. 3. In times past, when people lead much more simple lives than they do now, there were often those who possessed the “second sight” as it is called, individuals that lived naturally in both the material and spiritual world. Even the people of this time could easily come to live in such a state, if only what they consume was of a more simple nature; mostly, however, the food that they consume nowadays only harms them. With it they spoil and stultify their nature in such a manner that the soul itself becomes entangled and agglutinated, like a bird captured with glue spindles, so that it cannot possibly attain the agility and dexterity necessary to perform a free ascent and departure. 4. So then, what did the diet of those simple people of times past consist of? 5. Their diet consisted mostly of legumes, simply cooked until they grew soft, with a little salt added, never eaten in a hot state. Likewise, bread, milk and honey were also an ancient, simple food, with which the people, for the most part, reached quite an old age, continuously in possession of the second sight, until the very last moment of their lives. 6. Everyone may enjoy wine every now and then, in moderation of course, but never so much that they would feel intoxicated. 7. Meat dishes should only be eaten at certain times, and never for more than seven days in a row, quite moderately and always from freshly slaughtered animals. The meat of fish is better than that of pigeons, the meat of pigeons is better than that of chickens, the meat of chickens is better than that of lambs, the meat of lambs is better than that of goats, and the meat of goats is better than that of calves and cattle, just as among the bread, wheat bread is the most suitable. However, of the foods indicated, never more than one type should be eaten with some bread, just as fruit should be eaten only moderately at all times, and only those of the best ripeness; the same goes for some root crops, but only one at a time. 8. With such a diet, the body would never become so bloated that it grows sluggish, sleepy and dull, that the soul would then have to bend over backwards just to keep such a labored machine running, let alone that it could occupy itself with any other task besides this one. 9. Behold, these people leading simple lives were plenty in the past, as already mentioned above, and especially simple did those people live who had erected their dwellings upon the mountains. These were in continuous possession of the second sight, they had natural contact with the spirits by day and night, and they had the spirits teach them all manner of things. The spirits showed them the effects of herbs, revealed to them the locations of some noble or base metals laying hidden within the mountains, and they even taught them how to extract the metal from the rocks and forge and smelt it into useful tools for all manner of purposes. 10. In short, there was seldom a house upon the mountains that did not come with its own host of spirits, as much belonging to the house as the other household servants. As a result, there were also a lot of wise men, especially on the mountains, living in greatest familiarity with the secret forces of nature, with our spirits. In essence, these forces, or spirits, were almost always at their disposal, so to speak. 11. When people from the lower regions, as well as from larger villages, markets and cities, came to these wise mountain dwellers, they must have taken particular notice of the many, to them, uncanny and mysterious things, especially when one or the other ill-disposed individual attempted to take issue with them in some matter. Such a disputant will then have certainly received a, to him, incomprehensible rebuke, of which he could, of course, think nothing else than that he had received it from none other than Satan incarnate, or at least from his accomplices. 12. What followed? The shrewd marketer, villager or city dweller in question immediately paid his local clergyman a visit, who, at that time, was commonly even more stupid, or at least more wicked than the plaintiff. Masses, processions and exorcisms were ordered, for a fee, of course, always having to amount to a considerable sum, if not the entire fortune, including house and farm, of the, in this case, bewitched, if not entirely demonized plaintiff. 13. If the plaintiff had thus met the demands of his clergyman, the case was reported to the secular court. This court then journeyed to the house where the plaintiff had supposedly been bewitched or demonized, bringing with it all manner of consecrated apparatuses ordered by the clergyman to counteract the influence of witches and devils. It was common that such a secular court then proceeded to capture the entire population in an abominable manner, leading them straight to the burning pyre without any further interrogation, seizing all their treasures, including house and land, though of course not before all of it was exorcised and consecrated seven times over. Again, a consecration such as this had to be diligently paid for as well. 14. In later times, it was often even worse, for in the end, anyone who was seen in a black coat outside the clergy and who could walk faster than anyone else was considered a daredevil, and all it took was a somewhat maliciously inclined plaintiff to bring the black-coated individual before the witch’s court. This was commonplace, and only recently did the natural scientists and chemists finally bring about change, making the exceedingly stupid mankind begin to realize that its supposed witchcraft is nothing but utter stupidity. 15. However, all went from one extreme to the other, forgetting the following proverb: In medio beati (in the middle lies happiness); for as misguided as it is to seek to be wholly surrounded by spirits as a natural man, so and even more misguided is it to banish the entirety of the spirit realm and declare it null and void. 16. It certainly cannot be denied that, in those earlier times, the people occasionally got into conflict with wicked spirits, with whose assisstance they caused quite a bit of damage to their surroundings; but these same evil ones have always been proficiently controlled by their diligent disciplinarians, their good neighbors, who knew right away what evil intentions any of these wicked ones harbored. Of course, back in those days, as well as today, the clergy takes no account of this, and everything, whether it be angel or devil, must be burned; for it did not matter whether it was good or evil, only whether or not it brought in any profit. Should the plaintiff have no fortune, and neither the alleged sorcerer, then the verdict was thus: Requescant in pace! (They may rest in peace!) On the other hand, if one or the other plaintiff had sufficient funds, things did not turn out so well and peacefully. In those days it was almost the same with these witches as it is today with funerals, where all manner of ceremonies and prayers are performed at the rich man’s burial, while the poor man must be content with but a “Pater noster” (Our Father) and a “requiescat in pace” (may he rest in peace!); and if the poor man cannot pay for anything at all, he may be content with nothing but consecrated earth! 17. Does this not mean practicing magic? Ah no! There it is said: The poor go to heaven either way; only the rich shall sweat a little before the gates of heaven are opened to them! Oh, that will make quite the comedy in the spirit realm! 18. These practices are considered honorable and legal by everyone, all the while, from a spiritual point of view, they are much worse than all the previous witch trials; the sole reason for those was usually stupidity, but here, it is nothing but pure greed, and a witch trial conducted for the sake of greed is much worse still than one carried out because of stupidity. And what is a funeral other than a witch trial, whereby one falsely supposes to exorcise many a devilish influence from the deceased. 19. I do mean this has been made quite clear; therefore, a few more little histories, and then on we go!

Text & Audio... https://jesus-comes.com/index.php/2023/10/20/luft-berg-wandergeister-air-mountain-wandering-spirits/ Read online... https://search.jesus-comes.com/index.php?title=EARTH-34 Channel Overview... https://jesus-comes.com/index.php/2022/10/16/kanalubersicht-channel-overview/ The Third Testament in various Languages... https://jesus-comes.com/index.php/das-dritte-testament-the-third-testament-el-tercer-testamento/ Jesus' Revelations thru Jakob Lorber... https://jesus-comes.com/index.php/category/english/jakob-lorber-pdfs/ Jesus' Revelations thru Gottfried Mayerhofer... https://jesus-comes.com/index.php/category/english/53-sermons-of-jesus/ LoveLetters from Jesus... https://jesus-comes.com/index.php/liebesbriefe-von-jesus-love-letters-from-jesus/ Trumpet Call of God... https://awakeningforreality.com/latest-video-and-audio-letters-neuste-video-und-audio-briefe/ The Spiritual Earth Chapter 34 – Air, Mountain and Wandering Spirits February 19, 1847 1. The mists that soon develop here and there above one or the other rocky ridge, especially upon high mountains, are, if no rain, snow or the like has preceded them, nature spirits for the most part, ones that did not originate from deceased people, and can only become human souls and spirits after quite some time. 2. These spirits rising readily into the air, even covering it entirely on occasion, are the so-called air spirits. These already enjoy more freedom than the firmer earth spirits, but, even in this free state of theirs, must nevertheless be most carefully supervised by the pure spirits of peace, otherwise they could easily come to do great harm. 3. These spirits are seldom seen by men, and they do indeed most carefully prevent this from happening, for they have a great fear of everything that is material, but especially of that in which they feel a strong sense of perception. This very fear instills in them a sort of hatred for matter at large, wherein they have been imprisoned for so long, which is why careful supervision of these spirits is very much understandable; because every spirit, once it has been freed from matter, cannot ever be brought close to it again. Even the spirits of the deceased have great disgust for it, even though within them a perfect intelligence is present. How great the aversion to matter of those spirits is, they who merely a few moments ago, by special permission, have escaped the bonds of severest imprisonment, within which they pretended to be perfect, to the freedom demanded, without traversing the long, fatal and tedious path of the flesh. 4. (1) This desire is granted to them, though thereafter they usually never keep their word; for these spirits, out of disgust and hatred for matter, either turn malicious and vengeful, or they gather together by the millions and seek to escape into the vast infinity. Those harboring malicious and vengeful intent are once again captured and brought down to Earth by way of the above described meteorological phenomena, where they are soon ordered to operate within the plant kingdom. (2) However, should they not feel like doing so, they are driven into streams, rivers, lakes and seas, appearing now as water, though even there, as you already know, more often than not they are up to manifold mischief. Should they go even further, growing severely mischievous and uniting with the harsh spirits of the sea, it could and does happen quite often, that such wicked patrons are driven back into the very bowels of the Earth; a most unfortunate fate indeed. (3) On the other hand, if these spirits apply themselves diligently to the business of plant growth, they may either start their journey upon the path of the flesh, or, after a certain period of service, which may extend to 200 years at the most and somewhat beyond, they may return to their former free state, wherein they may then inhabit the air, the mountains, the earth, the forests, and occasionally the lakes and rivers as well. 5. This kind of spirits then possess a perfect intelligence; they are tremendously knowledgeable in all things pertaining to nature, and they can see and hear everything that occurs on this Earth, all that is spoken there. 6. These spirits may even deal with humans, sometimes rendering them decisive services, though all men must beware of getting too close to them in whatever matter unfolding, for they may easily grow embittered and cause significant harm to the one who had embittered them. They might indeed inhabit matter, but they are nevertheless mortal enemies thereof. 7. Places they prefer to inhabit must be remote and quiet; in such surroundings it is not advisable for anyone to shout, to whistle, and even less so to curse and scold, for by doing so could the spirits still imprisoned within matter be stirred to action and rebellion, which would consequently bring harm to those who have already grown more free in their understanding. 8. To prevent this, they attempt to frighten the hikers visiting such areas by employing all sorts of phenomena, so the hikers would want to vacate the area as quickly as possible. They are particularly dangerous in the mountains, as well as in tunnels and shafts, where they have frequently brought about great misfortune for those working in such places. A sudden collapse of shafts and tunnels, noxious air, unexpected floods, disappearing metal veins and other such freakish occurrences are all the work of spirits such as these; even things like landslides and enormous snow avalanches are managed by these fiends. 9. If, on occasion, these spirits for once wish to do well by people, or at least do not intend to do them any harm, they usually appear in a dwarven form, of a dark gray, blue or green hue. This small shape they choose indicates that they lower themselves to the people to do them good, for, in a certain way, they pity the banished spirit within them. However, if, even after this gesture of goodwill, a person would behave in an unbecoming manner towards such spirits, they not seldom grow to a tremendous size, and once they take this form, it is no longer safe to stay near them, and certainly not without invoking My name. 10. The fact that such spirits exist has already been shown in the last message. The only question that remains is whether or not such spirits will also traverse the path of the flesh. 11. If they show themselves to be useful and active on this Earth, their flesh may very well be forgiven; though instead they will go either to the moon or another planet entirely, where they must nevertheless accept an incarnation, to be made flesh, and they must do so more willingly as well, for an incarnation on any other celestial body is commonly more fleeting and delicate. 12. Usually these spirits are then called “wandering spirits”, in that they travel from one planet to another, and during these travels they are not seldom accompanied by spirits of the deceased as well, particularly from among the so-called nature philosophers and astronomers, to whom these wandering spirits, as they had never become flesh on this Earth, typically render desirable services, for the spirits of the deceased could not see anything on the other celestial bodies without the assistance of these wandering nature spirits. These nature spirits guide the spirits of the deceased into the people of other celestial bodies, so they might behold these foreign worlds through their eyes. 13. When such nature spirits grow weary of wandering, in time it usually happens that they indeed return to Earth and finally acquiesce to the difficult incarnation, without which a childship of God could never even be thought of; for all who wish to become a child of God must go the way of God as well, all the way, which is why, as has already been made known to you, spirits from countless other celestial bodies journey to this Earth to undergo the incarnation of the Son of Man. For just as there is only one God, one truth and one life, so too is there only one way that leads to it, which is not to say that it is necessary for all inhabitants of all celestial bodies to traverse this path in order for them to be blessed in their own right, just like the innumerable amount of nerves and fibers within the human body that are healthy despite them not being nerves and fibers of the heart. 14. By this contemplation and memorable introduction may all surely and easily get their bearings within the second spiritual region. Next, therefore, merely a few memorable little histories, and then let us descend quickly into the first air region!

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Rain falls to the Earth in the form of drops and droplets, some smaller, some larger; the same goes for snow as well as hail, where only tiny grains fall down on some occasions, while on others they grow as heavy as a pound, and upon high mountains even as heavy as a quintal, and usually in exceedingly large quantaties, so enormous in fact that they could hardly be enunciated. The following question might be posed here: If each and every drop of rain, every snowflake and every hailstone draws a spirit along with it, then whence does such an immense host of spirits hail? And when it rained, snowed and hailed back in the days of Adam, whence then came the spirits in that time, if none of the men upon the Earth had died yet? Only, he who would consider the matter from this point of view, he would yet have to fall into a far greater error, one as great as the entire Earth. 2. Concerning the spirits of the people who died on Earth, they may participate in the occurrences that must be carried out upon those spiritual beings beginning their migration through the flesh for the first time. Thus, when it snows, within the snowflakes are always contained spiritual potencies, i.e. newly arriving spirits, making communion with the souls liberated from the Earth, and together they begin to make the journey through the realm of natural phenomena. 3. And so, these are not spirits of the deceased, rather they are new arrivals, in a way, or if one would like to put it even more accurately, they are new emergences from the long slumber of the earthen matter. 4. However, the spirits of the deceased, who wish not to adhere to the order of progression, may be pushed back onto the same path that the new emergences must traverse. The latter will remain within the Earth and trot along their specific path there, yet the spirits of the deceased will return after a short period of humiliation, something that can already be seen in the natural world. When it rains, the drops enter the earth and are consumed by plants, animals, and minerals; but here and there one may already see, either during rainfall or thereafter, and especially in more elevated regions, how pale mists begin to rise. This certainly is but the smallest fraction of such a rainfall’s volume, once more rising skyward in the shape of these mists, but it is also the smallest part of the spirits originating from the deceased, compared to the large part of the spirits that are just arriving. 5. In terms of appearance, there is no difference at all, but in the manner in which the phenomenon is brought about, and how the spiritual being tethers itself thereto, therein lies an exceedingly great distinction. With the newly arriving spirits as well as the new emergences, everything pertaining to both spirit and soul is still entirely enclosed within matter. In this case, matter is not an inner center of mass being made manifest, something that draws down the spirit, like the compression within our balloon man; instead, the spirit as well as the soul are still very much divided, so much so that hardly even a million raindrops, snowflakes or hailstones contain the essence of but a single spirit and its soul. In contrast, it is quite a different case with an already complete spirit, for with it merely its material desires and inclinations are bunched together in a material form, after which these must, however briefly, share the bitter lot with those spiritual potencies that are just beginning the great cycle towards their eventual freedom. 6. It would be quite difficult to determine which raindrop or snowflake would contain a nature spirit or a spirit that has already left behind all nature, because the outer appearance is the same; but it may certainly be considered when examining the varying size and weight of any given raindrop, snowflake or even hailstone. For instance, within a large hailstone is not seldom contained a humbled spirit, one that has already gone its earthly course. So what about the smaller phenomena; all these are so-called nature spirits, of which, of course, there must be an inexpressibly large quantity, for they come to this Earth not as a whole, but divided into an infinite number of spiritually specific particles, just as no soul ever emerges from the Earth with all its spiritual specifics united, for it always starts out divided to the highest degree. But why are they so divided in the first place? 7. This division is important for two reason: The first lies in the primordial spiritual being itself, where every spirit has divided and torn itself to infinity by its desire to become great; and the second reason lies in the fact that, by this very division, these primordially created spirits have naturally severely weakened themselves, down to the last drop of their strength, and as a result they could never carry out their arrogant schemes. 8. This dispersion of the spirit resembles the Babylonian language confusion, for just as the peoples had to scatter there, so did the perceptions and notions of the spirit have to scatter, so that nevermore could it grasp a full thought, let alone an entire plan. 9. For this reason, to this very day Satan is still eagerly endeavoring to reform his own archetype within every individual human being and spirit, to thereby regain the power that was his own in the beginning. 10. For him to never again regain this power, he is divided and scattered throughout the whole of creation, and his spiritual was made material, from which the soul matter of every man now emerges. New spiritual matter is breathed therein, so that from every such emergence, an entire being may come forth, identical to the originally created being that sought to raise itself above God by its arrogance or expansion of ideas. This original conceit had led the being to, in a certain way, split itself apart, being fragmented into infinity, so that nothing remained of it, save for its ego and fundamentally evil will. All its faculties, ideas and innumerable conceptual perfections were taken away, and it is exactly these things that now continually reach the celestial bodies, though most of them are already present, banished within the celestial bodies themselves. Thereby they divide themselves into spirit and soul, for within the soul, the I that was given and the self-awareness emerge from matter, and within the spirit, the knowledge of God is once again implanted in the soul, without which the soul, like a plant lacking rain and sunshine, would soon wither and die. 11. Within the plant, as you know, the life of the soul first appears, and it cannot progress unless it receives spiritual nourishment from the air. 12. From this it becomes apparent how and why so much spiritual matter descends to this Earth in the form of the phenomena described above, and it may also be easily understood that it is not necessary for many people to have already lived on this Earth for the multiplicity of these phenomena to come about; though it is clear that still many will live thereupon. However, once all the matter of spirit and soul of this Earth is exhausted, a perfect spiritual Earth will take the place of the natural one, no longer consisting of banished, but of free spirits and souls. 13. The fact that the Earth now consists of a myriad of banished souls and spirits is not only attested to by the daily recurring meteorological phenomena, but also especially by those simple individuals who have the ability to see things pertaining to the spirit and the soul; those countless armies of water, earth, mountain and air spirits, which have been seen at all times by one or another person. 14. Of course, the learned world does not see such things, though it is unable to see many other things as well, things that are even closer and would be even more necessary for it to see than these spirits banished in earthen matter. However, no matter the faith or non-belief among the worldly scholars, the primeval truths remain as they are, and the bird may master the air today as it did ages ago, even without having ever diligently studied aerostatics at a Parisian university. 15. And so, even today there are still many modest individuals who, in their simplicity, see and, not infrequently, even know more than an entire faculty of scholars. There certainly are more adept scholars as well, ones who at least do not doubt these things, but still only a few can even see them. 16. We may now add to this insight many more useful observations, giving us a vantage point from which we will easily be able to survey the entirety of the remaining spiritual Earth at a glance. Thus, we shall make a few more observations of this kind shortly, as well as some memorabilia.

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It is certainly difficult to imagine that within a single raindrop, snowflake, hailstone or even tiny cloud, one or multiple spirits are gagged and pressed together, and that they possess a certain weight within such a volume, whereby they easily fall down or are thrown down. However, a more detailed description will make the matter quite clear to you, revealing to you how this is even possible. 2. Now you must not think that the spirit, together with the soul, is kneaded together like a sheet of paper, until it finally resembles a somewhat clumsy ball. That is by no means the case. The human form of the spirit remains intact, for only the soul, and, to be precise, not even the shape thereof, but only its very specifics are compressed in the region of the heart, and then, within this compression, depending on how severe it turns out, they appear in the form of the above-mentioned meteorological formations. 3. So, do not imagine that, for instance, within a hailstone, an entire spirit together with its soul falls down, for it is only its material desires. Finally, these desires are bunched together by the spirits of peace, due to their carnality, becoming material, and thus, heavy. However, since these desires are living possessions of the spirit and its soul, both of them are pulled along with their newly formed, material center of mass, in the direction they must necessarily head, due to its material nature. 4. To illustrate the matter even more clearly to you, we shall present an image you may easily understand. Imagine a human form, assembled from so-called “goldbeater skins”, into the shape of an air balloon, which may be filled with hydrogen gas, just like another ball and, if it were filled, would have a human form and would surely rise into the higher air regions immediately. If, however, this balloon in the shape of a man, filled with hydrogen gas, would suddenly experience a compression of said gas, then the whole structure would naturally gain weight, causing it to fall down to the Earth. However, because this compression is not outside, but inside of our balloon in the shape of a man, which has lost the required expansion by this inner contraction of the hydrogen gas, this balloon man will now be pulled down to Earth once again. The shape of the balloon man remains as it is, except for the fact that it has shrunk here and there and grew leaner, for it failed to maintain itself in the air region far above due to its newly formed center of mass. Once on the Earth below, i.e. on solid ground, the compression dissolves again into the gas by the addition of new heat, and the balloon man will rise once more. 5. Behold, this is, though entirely material, but nevertheless representing the spiritual accordingly, quite an appropriate image, from which you may glean how the soul of the spiritual man, taking the shape of a spiritual balloon-like outer shell, condenses within his being. Growing heavy, from his lofty heights he heads down to the real matter below, where this material condensation of his carnal desires soon dissolves by the fire of his love awakened in humility. Thereafter, more humbled, he again ascends to a place most appropriate for his being. 6. Particularly wicked spirits are commonly condensed into stones and fall down as such, and the dissolution thereof takes significantly more time than when such a condensation enters material existence in merely the shape of meteorological phenomena. However, some of them are kept for a long time even when appearing in such ephemeral forms, which are made to fall over high mountains and especially over the polar regions of the Earth. Within these particularly wicked spirits, much arrogance prevails, naturally carrying within itself many infernal qualities. 7. What happens to the spirits after experiencing such lessons will be made clear shortly; but for the time being, it suffices that you get a clear idea of how and why there is always something spiritual contained within these natural phenomena, nonetheless visible to the mortal eye. And so, we shall soon make several more observations.

Text & Audio... https://jesus-comes.com/index.php/2023/09/21/geistertreiben-spiritual-activity/ Read online... https://search.jesus-comes.com/index.php?title=EARTH-31 Channel Overview... https://jesus-comes.com/index.php/2022/10/16/kanalubersicht-channel-overview/ The Third Testament in various Languages... https://jesus-comes.com/index.php/das-dritte-testament-the-third-testament-el-tercer-testamento/ Jesus' Revelations thru Jakob Lorber... https://jesus-comes.com/index.php/category/english/jakob-lorber-pdfs/ Jesus' Revelations thru Gottfried Mayerhofer... https://jesus-comes.com/index.php/category/english/53-sermons-of-jesus/ LoveLetters from Jesus... https://jesus-comes.com/index.php/liebesbriefe-von-jesus-love-letters-from-jesus/ Trumpet Call of God... https://awakeningforreality.com/latest-video-and-audio-letters-neuste-video-und-audio-briefe/ The Spiritual Earth Chapter 31 – Spiritual Activity in the Second Air Region February 15, 1847 1. Here, at the very beginning, the following question may arise: Is the spiritual being of this second region good or evil, and is it ascending or descending? 2. By specially particular considerations of the spiritial being within the second region, this question may be answered clearly and sufficiently, and all will easily be able to discover what aspects thereof are either good or bad, as well as what direction it is heading in. 3. The second region is most similar to the material life of the people upon the surface of this Earth. There is continuous running to and fro, gathering of the like-minded, war, murder, capture, defeat, passing through, stealing and robbing, enacting evil, and doing good. All this may be found within the second region. It is the true battlefield of spirits; this is also why the mountains found in this region appear mostly ruined and destroyed, akin to a fortress that has withstood several years of siege. 4. The mere sight of these heights sufficiently displays how much contention and fighting occurs in this region. However, in like manner, a freedom like nowhere else reigns here as well, and that is because this is the very place where the spirits are prepared for either heaven, or for hell; for every deceased soul and spirit instantly arrives in this region after death, where it lives on just as it did on Earth. There, all enjoy complete freedom and naturally seek out their own kind. Thereafter, gatherings take place, and where several come together in association, plans are soon made as to how one or the other thing could be achieved, usually by force or trickery. 5. (1) Among such associations, traitors arise in time, betraying plans of their association to another, more powerful one. When two associations, or several on occasion, come to know each other’s plans by the actions of these traitors, preparations take place which can be seen in the natural world in the form of ever-increasing turbidity. (2) It will not be long until the fierce armies set out against each other. Unfortunately, however, above them dwell the all-seeing, powerful spirits of peace; these descend upon the fierce armies, capturing and ejecting them from the second region all the way down to Earth, where it will take them quite some time to pick themselves back up and gather the strength and courage necessary to once again return whence they were thrown out of, like a troublesome guest, though, in the spiritual sphere, this does not appear as it does here in the material world, but rather as if such a riffraff were caught by the police, bound and then locked up, placed under proper arrest. (3) This arrest is the matter itself, within which they are captured once more, and the police are the spirits of peace from the third region. Should the spirits humble themselves after having faced such a fierce rebuke, and should they, by such humiliation, be brought into a state wherein they are able and willing to pronounce My name, to seek help, rescue and salvation therein, then such spirits will instantly and affectionately be welcomed by the spirits of peace. Right away they will be guided into the third region, and once there, will be accommodated, though admittedly at the very bottom for the time being. From then on they will live in continuous union with the pure spirits, ascending ever higher, according to the degree of love they possess for Me and My order. 6. This act may be seen from the natural world as well, in the form of a not so uncommon phenomenon where the clouds disappear from the sky. The contrary may occur as well; when wicked affiliations are brewing, clouds suddenly begin to form in the sky, particularly around the peaks of tall mountains, where, previously, nothing but the purest air could be seen. 7. This phenomenon is brought about by the ever-increasing passion of such spirits, whereby they materialize themselves precisely according to the degree of these wicked passions rising within them, increasingly condensed and compressed; for all of matter is most distant from Me, being in itself nothing but an imprint of the most perverse passion. 8. And so, when a spirit is once again captured by the passion of its soul, it distances itself from Me; and the more it does so, the more ungainly and material its nature, until it ultimately becomes visible within even the material world, in a tangible form corresponding to its principal passion. Soon thereafter it is ejected, too heavy for even this second region, like a captive and coarse material body. The weight thereof may be likened to the will of the spirits of peace, which may be likened to Mine as well; for My will is the very weight of all bodies. 9. Such spirits commonly remain utterly material, preferring to inhabit heaps of rubbish, the filthiest animals and most hideous plants, out of their own wicked volition, refusing to humble themselves. At all times this fact is testified to by many examples, and proper management must be exercised here, so that, in its wickedness, this ejected rubbish does not cling to noble fruits and animals; for if this were to happen, both fruit and animal would be doomed. 10. The previous year’s great famine (1846) originates from the same source. If, on occasion, grain and wheat fields suddenly grow gangrenous, this too is a fruit of these wicked spirits taking possession, manifesting this phenomenon in the material world. Neither is it all too uncommon for these fiends to latch themselves onto all manner of animals; soon a certain plague emerges among them, and not even the fish in the water are spared from these spirit’s influence. And thus, even the bubonic plague itself, as well as other epidemic diseases emerging among the peoples, are usually a consequence of such evil spirits taking possession of the human body, and by this process they destroy it in one way or another, followed naturally by death, that is unless specific means are applied in My name, to which these fiends must inevitably yield. 11. Already you know many things, whether these spirits are good or evil, where they go, and how. However, for you to clearly understand how such spirits, even with their intelligence, allow themselves to be banished into apparently dead matter, and how they take demonic possession of it, we will make more particular observations shortly.

Text & Audio... https://jesus-comes.com/index.php/2023/09/21/geister-der-zweiten-luftregion-spirits-of-second-air-region/ Read online... https://search.jesus-comes.com/index.php?title=EARTH-30 Channel Overview... https://jesus-comes.com/index.php/2022/10/16/kanalubersicht-channel-overview/ The Third Testament in various Languages... https://jesus-comes.com/index.php/das-dritte-testament-the-third-testament-el-tercer-testamento/ Jesus' Revelations thru Jakob Lorber... https://jesus-comes.com/index.php/category/english/jakob-lorber-pdfs/ Jesus' Revelations thru Gottfried Mayerhofer... https://jesus-comes.com/index.php/category/english/53-sermons-of-jesus/ LoveLetters from Jesus... https://jesus-comes.com/index.php/liebesbriefe-von-jesus-love-letters-from-jesus/ Trumpet Call of God... https://awakeningforreality.com/latest-video-and-audio-letters-neuste-video-und-audio-briefe/ The spiritual Earth Chapter 30 The Second Air Region and the Spirits thereof (February 13, 1847) 1. As there exists a transition from the purely spiritual to the carnal within a human being, in like manner is there a transition between the highest and the middle region as well, and the two regions behave like soul and spirit. The spirit acts upon the soul and may penetrate it, yet the soul can never escape beyond the boundaries of the spirit, for it is here exactly to be penetrated by the spirit, while the spirit is not here to be penetrated by the soul. However, the soul may be received and assimilated by the spirit, whereby it too becomes spiritual. 2. In the same way the spirits of the second region may ascend to the third, should their souls, or, in a certain way, their substantial bodies, grow ever more spiritualized, becoming wholly one with the spirit. The soul, in and of itself, as a compendium of innumerable substantial intelligence particles, therefore too is filled to the brim with a myriad of drives and urges, which it contains within itself as specifics. 3. If, at one point or another, a certain element becomes more prominent, then all the other components incline towards the point where such an eminence, or authority, appears. Such inclination brings about a certain passion within the soul; this passion, however, may soon be exchanged for another, should some other specific intelligence particle of the soul take precedent, in a sense overpowering and outshining all others, making them inclined towards it now instead. 4. It is easy to see from this description how many a soul whose spirit yet sleeps, is driven from one pole to the other by innumerable passions and desires. However, that which is concentrated within the soul, both in a being as well as in a single point, generally occurs all the more often in the second region, for in this region dwell many souls whose spirits have not yet fully awakened. This soul possesses one drive, that soul possesses another, and many millions of other souls possess varying inclinations, drives and urges; one wants to fight, another wishes to rest; one seeks nothing but the secrets of creation, another studies botany; yet another journeys continuously throughout the world, and so every individual soul from among these millions possesses a drive wholly unique to itself and different from the others. 5. What a motley turmoil of souls must therefore congregate in this second region, and what innumerable and highly diversified phenomena must occur there. Finally, these phenomena pass over, as if condensed, into the natural world, visible, for mortal eyes to behold! And so it is. All of those ever so diverse cloud formations, as well as countless other phenomena within this middle region, originate therefrom, and no day or night could ever reproduce the exact same shape or form of any given appearance, the way it once was, and shall never be again. 6. Just take a look at the cloud formations some day and trace one of them; you may well compare all the new cloud formations coming along thereafter with the one you had traced, and you may do so every single day for a hundred years and even beyond, yet you will never again behold one that is completely alike, for it will never be the way it was! In the same way you will discover and experience many a phenomenon to come, and though they remain similar in the way they function, according to each of their natures; in shape and form, however, none of them are ever the same. No snowflake appears wholly identical to another, no raindrop is exactly the same size as another, and when it hails, compare two hailstones, and see whether or not they are completely alike to one another! In both their shape and weight you will notice a discrepancy. And though ice will indeed be ice, the manner in which it is formed is just as disparate as the passionate configurations emerging from the beings of souls. This, however, may already be perceived on the surface of this Earth, with still living people. LINK TO TEXT AT THE TOP

Text & Audio... https://jesus-comes.com/index.php/2023/09/21/seligkeit-der-reinen-geister-bliss-of-the-pure-spirits/ Read online... https://search.jesus-comes.com/index.php?title=EARTH-29 Channel Overview... https://jesus-comes.com/index.php/2022/10/16/kanalubersicht-channel-overview/ The Third Testament in various Languages... https://jesus-comes.com/index.php/das-dritte-testament-the-third-testament-el-tercer-testamento/ Jesus' Revelations thru Jakob Lorber... https://jesus-comes.com/index.php/category/english/jakob-lorber-pdfs/ Jesus' Revelations thru Gottfried Mayerhofer... https://jesus-comes.com/index.php/category/english/53-sermons-of-jesus/ LoveLetters from Jesus... https://jesus-comes.com/index.php/liebesbriefe-von-jesus-love-letters-from-jesus/ Trumpet Call of God... https://awakeningforreality.com/latest-video-and-audio-letters-neuste-video-und-audio-briefe/ The Spiritual Earth Chapter 29 – Sojourn and Bliss of the Pure Spirits February 11, 1847 1. To return everything, to completely return everything, therein lies the perfect, most perfect, yes even the most perfect of all degrees of blessedness. However, in regards to returning all that belonged to a spirit’s being, all that it was granted in the beginning and all that it was given throughout its journey, it is neither demanded nor required of the spirit that it must do so on its own account. 2. Whatever concerns the spirit’s body and its previous being, in essence, everything it consists of, it will receive in due time, and without any intervention of its own. However, it is an entirely different matter when it comes to the spirit’s ability to pick back up everything that once belonged to its being. In a certain way, it will indeed be called to account for this ability, and that is because every spirit can and should acquire such ability from the precepts of the purest religion. Whoever refuses to be active, burying his talents and preferring to be satisfied with what is of the flesh, rather than what is of the spirit, someone such as this must then ascribe it to himself when he is judged by the word that was given to him from on high, as a faithful guide on how one must regain the life that was once granted and return it to whence it originally came. 3. Thereupon the already purified spirits must remain longer within this third region, to regain their psychological components, or to put it more bluntly: The fact that they must wait within this third region until their earthly substance has, in a way, decayed, and thereafter passed over into their spiritual substance, this process is not to be considered a punishment, but a necessity of equal importance as the duration of one’s corporeal life on this Earth, which too must last a certain amount time. For some it might be short, yet longer for others, so that during this lifetime the spirit may gain sufficient time to continuously develop and manifest its very being. 4. Who could claim that one must give an account of the time one has spent here on Earth in the flesh? No one, for this life is a necessity removed from and located outside a spirit’s sphere of will, just as none must give an account of how long one’s hair or the nail of one’s finger has grown, nor of the pulsations of one’s heart and how often one has drawn breath; for all of this is a necessity. What form the reckoning, or rather the judgment, will take, depends solely upon one’s active will; everything else matters not, for it is all good and given freely, if only man’s free will would be put in proper order, in accordance with the pure understanding of My Divine Will. 5. If, on occasion, such pure spirits remain in this region for even several hundred years, they not only lose nothing, but only gain; because for the time being, they lose nothing at all, they are wholly joy- and blissful. However, as far as their ever-increasing intelligence is concerned, it is evidently but a continuous occasion of gain, and the more they gain, the more complete and perfect they will return to where both their temporal and eternal destiny await them. Should they be responsible for but a small business, yet still make it their own, administering it properly and wisely, then one day they will be all the more capable of administering even greater things, where, as angelic spirits, they shall exert their vigor not merely over individual pieces of a heavenly body, but over entire swathes of outer space and celestial regions inhabited by suns, first over the spiritual, and from there over matter itself, through and through. This task certainly requires more than merely supervising individual areas, and this under the overall management of the angelic spirits, to whom this task of supervising the entire Earth, from its very center all the way to the sun, has been entrusted. 6. Yes, My beloved ones, wherever you believe to see little or nothing at all, there great things are unfolding, and it is thus, as a wise man once said: “Between the Earth and the sun, things are occurring of which human reason has not yet even dreamt.” 7. It is also not a rare occasion for these pure spirits to descend to the second, sometimes even the first region; for the most part, however, their principal dwelling places are those regions of the Earth which, due to their considerable height, are continuously covered in snow and ice. Therein too lies the reason for why such regions possess, as you tend to say, an almost magical, beatific and simultaneously exhilarating, invigorating and calming allure for nearly all of humanity. He who harbors sorrow in his heart and never seems to find rest, let him ascend to these heights, in My name, or travel close by at least, and his mind shall be doused with a strengthening balsam. 8. As the mind grows duller, more difficult and afflicted in the lower regions, the way a climber of mountain gorges and caves would feel, so too does the disposition of one who climbs these purer heights grow ever more cheerful and serene, and whoever ascends to such places may well exclaim: “Lord, it is good to be here!”, but I respond thereto: “It is not yet time for you to stay here!” Nevertheless I say: 9. Go gladly into the mountains! For even I, when I walked this Earth in the flesh, frequently visited those heights. It was upon a mountain where I was transfigured; it was upon a mountain where I drove away the greatest of all tempters; it was upon a mountain where I preached the Kingdom of Heaven; it was upon a mountain where I prayed, and it was upon a mountain where I was crucified! Therefore, go gladly into mountains, for not only your spirit, but your body as well, will gain so much more from this than they would from visiting a hundred pharmacies. 10. And thus we now have passed through the third spiritual region of the Earth as well, and not much remains to be said about it, merely this: Initially, the firstlings of the pure spirits reside where they had dwelled on Earth during their corporeal lifetime. Once they become more perfect, however, their sphere of influence extends over the entire Earth. The strongest of the spirits guard the polar regions, while the softer, gentler and weaker spirits guard the tropical regions. The energetic spirits guard the sea, lakes and rivers, while the beginners are entrusted with larger or smaller mountains to watch over, including everything that exists thereupon. 11. This you may commit to memory as well: Female spirits mostly supervise the plant life, exerting influence over the whole of vegetation upon the surface of the Earth. 12. Now that we know this too, we may descend into the second air region, where things start to become much more ragtag compared to the third region, also known as the region of peace. And so, next we shall cover the second region!

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Let us first turn to the uppermost region of the air and see what spiritual beings are at home there and how they rule and reign. 2. In this region there are nothing but perfect spirits, and all such who were formerly physical men on the earthly body. These already enjoy light continually, for not even naturally it becomes completely dark at such a height. But in the spiritual nature there is already a continuous, uninterrupted day; for this third region already shows a third, quite pure spiritual level, while the second region is not yet pure and is exposed to very frequent turbidities; but still more is it the first or lowest air region, in which, like on the first level, good and evil float among each other like cabbage and turnips. 3. We now know that the third region is home to the purest spirits of this earth. But why? What are they doing there? 4. No spirit that passes from this outer natural earth to the spiritual one, no matter how perfect he may be, can immediately ascend to the real great kingdom of heaven, and this cannot be, because something still remains in the earthly body for its final perfection, which it can only absorb little by little. Only when he has absorbed into his being the last remnant of what belonged to him, refined and spiritualized, can he leave this region and enter a real first level of Heaven. 5. The spirit in and for itself, as the original principle of life out of Me, certainly does not need anything out of the earthly body for his perfection; but his formal entity, which is the soul, this must unite again in itself up to the last atom, what was once given to it out of the endless fullness of My idea forming it. What was given consists of endless many particles of intelligence, which naturally cannot be made afloat all at once when the human being dies. There are parts of his body and specifics, which he breathed in and out during his life, also all wastes of his body, his tears, also other ejections of his body, even his clothes, his building; in short, everything that he has at some time produced and done by his power, all this must be absorbed by the psyche over time as kind of purified psychic specific, so that the spirit then has in himself an accomplished contemplation and through this contemplation a clearest recollection of all that has gone on with his complete being, and what the whole and long way was like, from which he has again arrived at this his most primal perfection. 6. The spirit could not get this kind of special recollection, if he had not received in his psychic being everything that originally belonged to his being, and everything that he had acquired on this long circular way. That is why it is said that all the hairs on the head are counted, and only he who walks according to My teaching gathers; but he who acts otherwise scatters. Thus, the spirit must wait for a while until all that is his has been absorbed by his being. 7. But how does the spirit recognize his own? – That already lies in the eternal order. As each grass finds exactly its specific out of the endless specific mixture, even more exactly finds the spirit his own. 8. But what does the spirit do in the meantime? – He acts according to the laws of love and thus rules in this region and causes by his presence and by his loving action that this third air region exists, and for the time being he settles and arranges the ways for those who come up as newcomers into this region, and assigns them a place and what to do; then he commands in an edifying manner the already purer spirits in the lower region; and if there is friction and turbidity, he descends together with all of his kind as peacemaker and works there energetically. 9. But when foreign spirits from other world bodies arrive here, he tests them, and if he finds them capable, he leads them down to the earth on the right ways, is present at the procreations by his influence, helps such new arrived spirits upon the way of the flesh of this earth and then also sees to it that these spirits are led exactly upon those testing ways of the flesh, which ways they have decided elsewhere in the world to walk in order to become children of the Lord. 10. In this third region walk and live the so-called guardian spirits of men, which is well known to you. However, these pure spirits are not yet sole rulers, nor can they be, because they still lack perfect knowledge and insight in many things, for reasons that have been made known above; therefore, perfect angelic spirits are constantly above and among them, who always give these spirits the right instructions as to what they have to do and how they have to arbitrate. But for the spirits of this third region, this very third region is a glorious paradise, where they have everything that can ever please their hearts in their love for God. 11. There are marvelous regions, which, however, depend on the nature of the spirit, because every spirit becomes the creator of his ground and the region in which he is at home. This region is exceedingly fruitful and rich in all things. The spirit enjoys everything there in abundance, and hunger is far from him. And behold, in this very enjoyment the spirit gradually absorbs everything of his being, that has stuck to the earth; and these fruits and the regions are formed in a reflective way ascending from the earth into this third region psychologically specifically, and the spirit recognizes them as his own, absorbs them into his cognition and then only from this cognition comes into a formal seeing of what is his own, then also enjoys the same and absorbs it completely into his being. When he has absorbed all this and he owes nothing to the earth anymore and the earth to him, then he has reached his complete solidity and can be taken up to the higher perfection into the kingdom of heaven. 12. However, there can also be spirits who still have some things belonging to them in other world bodies for reasons already known to you. These then also ascend to the spheres of those world bodies, from where they either got their main specific, or where they once already lived physically, in order to also fetch there what belongs to them – but all this on the way of love, which alone is the attracting principle. And all this must be done by free choice, in which every spirit strives to gather in himself what is Mine, and then bringing it back to Me completely in his great love for Me.

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In the contemplation of the spiritual part of the earth, in order to instruct ourselves thoroughly, we will make a retrograde movement and will not rise from the depth to the height, but from the height to the depth, which is quite in order, because one must not turn from the inside to the outside, but from the outside to the inside, in order to reach the really spiritual, which is the deepest and the innermost in every thing. 2. It has already been shown to you too often that within the material there is always spiritual hidden, and how the actually visible matter in and for itself is basically nothing else than caught, bound and fixed spiritual. Nevertheless, for a more thorough knowledge of it, some explanations shall follow here as well. 3. You can look at whatever matter, you will still not find that it only appears as completely solid, but every matter is divisible, because it consists of parts, and between these parts there are still little spaces, which are called pores by the experts of nature. 4. No scholar is yet clear about the division of matter, and no one can determine into which finitely smallest parts matter is divisible. Take, for example, a granule of musk, and place it in a large chamber: in a short time, all the rooms of the large chamber will be filled with the scent of musk, and one may leave such a small piece lying around for many years, and it will not lose anything noticeable, neither in its volume nor in its weight; and yet, in every second, many millions of particles must have fleetingly detached themselves from this small piece, in order to continuously fill the wide rooms of the chamber with the scent of musk. A great number of similar examples could still be cited; only this single one is sufficient for our matter, in order to understand that it certainly has its ways (i.e. its doubts) with some definite (final) determination about the finite divisibility of matter. But if now it is shown that at least for your terms all matter is divisible up to a near infinite minimum, then it is more than clear on the other hand that the matter must be necessarily composed of parts. But who pulls these parts together and sticks them so firmly to each other that they finally look like a simple mass which is sometimes more, sometimes less firm? - Behold, there is already the first level from which the spiritual begins. 5. These endlessly small parts are originally nothing but merely a power of ideas from Me, the Creator of all things; this power of ideas gets form, and the form gets life from the life of the Creator. 6. The Creator releases the newly animated form from Himself, gives it its own light from His own original light and with this light, which is alive, its own intelligence, through which the newly animated form recognizes itself and becomes aware of itself as an independent being. 7. When the form has thus recognized itself, the order, a law of all being, is given to it, and with this order the innermost fire of the divinity, a spark of the eternal love, from which the will emerges. Now the newly revived form has light, self-knowledge, self-consciousness, the order and the will and can arrange its will according to the order or also act against this order. 8. So, if a new creature acts and moves according to the order, then it will be strengthened like a tree and will appear as a perfect, free being in the great space of creation for eternal continuance, because all its being is created from Me, who surely am and will be eternally; and therefore man is a creature, because all his being is drawn from Me, and his lot can be no other than My Own, because his is drawn from Me, as if someone draws water from the well, the water in the vessel is equal to the water in the well and has the same destination as the ground water in the well, from which it was drawn. 9. But if such a new being or creature with its free will does not follow the given order, then it naturally goes towards its downfall or... 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In the contemplation of the spiritual part of the earth, in order to instruct ourselves thoroughly, we will make a retrograde movement and will not rise from the depth to the height, but from the height to the depth, which is quite in order, because one must not turn from the inside to the outside, but from the outside to the inside, in order to reach the really spiritual, which is the deepest and the innermost in every thing. 2. It has already been shown to you too often that within the material there is always spiritual hidden, and how the actually visible matter in and for itself is basically nothing else than caught, bound and fixed spiritual. Nevertheless, for a more thorough knowledge of it, some explanations shall follow here as well. 3. You can look at whatever matter, you will still not find that it only appears as completely solid, but every matter is divisible, because it consists of parts, and between these parts there are still little spaces, which are called pores by the experts of nature. 4. No scholar is yet clear about the division of matter, and no one can determine into which finitely smallest parts matter is divisible. Take, for example, a granule of musk, and place it in a large chamber: in a short time, all the rooms of the large chamber will be filled with the scent of musk, and one may leave such a small piece lying around for many years, and it will not lose anything noticeable, neither in its volume nor in its weight; and yet, in every second, many millions of particles must have fleetingly detached themselves from this small piece, in order to continuously fill the wide rooms of the chamber with the scent of musk. A great number of similar examples could still be cited; only this single one is sufficient for our matter, in order to understand that it certainly has its ways (i.e. its doubts) with some definite (final) determination about the finite divisibility of matter. But if now it is shown that at least for your terms all matter is divisible up to a near infinite minimum, then it is more than clear on the other hand that the matter must be necessarily composed of parts. But who pulls these parts together and sticks them so firmly to each other that they finally look like a simple mass which is sometimes more, sometimes less firm? - Behold, there is already the first level from which the spiritual begins. 5. These endlessly small parts are originally nothing but merely a power of ideas from Me, the Creator of all things; this power of ideas gets form, and the form gets life from the life of the Creator. 6. The Creator releases the newly animated form from Himself, gives it its own light from His own original light and with this light, which is alive, its own intelligence, through which the newly animated form recognizes itself and becomes aware of itself as an independent being. 7. When the form has thus recognized itself, the order, a law of all being, is given to it, and with this order the innermost fire of the divinity, a spark of the eternal love, from which the will emerges. Now the newly revived form has light, self-knowledge, self-consciousness, the order and the will and can arrange its will according to the order or also act against this order. 8. So, if a new creature acts and moves according to the order, then it will be strengthened like a tree and will appear as a perfect, free being in the great space of creation for eternal continuance, because all its being is created from Me, who surely am and will be eternally; and therefore man is a creature, because all his being is drawn from Me, and his lot can be no other than My Own, because his is drawn from Me, as if someone draws water from the well, the water in the vessel is equal to the water in the well and has the same destination as the ground water in the well, from which it was drawn. 9. But if such a new being or creature with its free will does not follow the given order, then it naturally goes towards its downfall or... 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In the contemplation of the spiritual part of the earth, in order to instruct ourselves thoroughly, we will make a retrograde movement and will not rise from the depth to the height, but from the height to the depth, which is quite in order, because one must not turn from the inside to the outside, but from the outside to the inside, in order to reach the really spiritual, which is the deepest and the innermost in every thing. 2. It has already been shown to you too often that within the material there is always spiritual hidden, and how the actually visible matter in and for itself is basically nothing else than caught, bound and fixed spiritual. Nevertheless, for a more thorough knowledge of it, some explanations shall follow here as well. 3. You can look at whatever matter, you will still not find that it only appears as completely solid, but every matter is divisible, because it consists of parts, and between these parts there are still little spaces, which are called pores by the experts of nature. 4. No scholar is yet clear about the division of matter, and no one can determine into which finitely smallest parts matter is divisible. Take, for example, a granule of musk, and place it in a large chamber: in a short time, all the rooms of the large chamber will be filled with the scent of musk, and one may leave such a small piece lying around for many years, and it will not lose anything noticeable, neither in its volume nor in its weight; and yet, in every second, many millions of particles must have fleetingly detached themselves from this small piece, in order to continuously fill the wide rooms of the chamber with the scent of musk. A great number of similar examples could still be cited; only this single one is sufficient for our matter, in order to understand that it certainly has its ways (i.e. its doubts) with some definite (final) determination about the finite divisibility of matter. But if now it is shown that at least for your terms all matter is divisible up to a near infinite minimum, then it is more than clear on the other hand that the matter must be necessarily composed of parts. But who pulls these parts together and sticks them so firmly to each other that they finally look like a simple mass which is sometimes more, sometimes less firm? - Behold, there is already the first level from which the spiritual begins. 5. These endlessly small parts are originally nothing but merely a power of ideas from Me, the Creator of all things; this power of ideas gets form, and the form gets life from the life of the Creator. 6. The Creator releases the newly animated form from Himself, gives it its own light from His own original light and with this light, which is alive, its own intelligence, through which the newly animated form recognizes itself and becomes aware of itself as an independent being. 7. When the form has thus recognized itself, the order, a law of all being, is given to it, and with this order the innermost fire of the divinity, a spark of the eternal love, from which the will emerges. Now the newly revived form has light, self-knowledge, self-consciousness, the order and the will and can arrange its will according to the order or also act against this order. 8. So, if a new creature acts and moves according to the order, then it will be strengthened like a tree and will appear as a perfect, free being in the great space of creation for eternal continuance, because all its being is created from Me, who surely am and will be eternally; and therefore man is a creature, because all his being is drawn from Me, and his lot can be no other than My Own, because his is drawn from Me, as if someone draws water from the well, the water in the vessel is equal to the water in the well and has the same destination as the ground water in the well, from which it was drawn. 9. But if such a new being or creature with its free will does not follow the given order, then it naturally goes towards its downfall or... 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In the contemplation of the spiritual part of the earth, in order to instruct ourselves thoroughly, we will make a retrograde movement and will not rise from the depth to the height, but from the height to the depth, which is quite in order, because one must not turn from the inside to the outside, but from the outside to the inside, in order to reach the really spiritual, which is the deepest and the innermost in every thing. 2. It has already been shown to you too often that within the material there is always spiritual hidden, and how the actually visible matter in and for itself is basically nothing else than caught, bound and fixed spiritual. Nevertheless, for a more thorough knowledge of it, some explanations shall follow here as well. 3. You can look at whatever matter, you will still not find that it only appears as completely solid, but every matter is divisible, because it consists of parts, and between these parts there are still little spaces, which are called pores by the experts of nature. 4. No scholar is yet clear about the division of matter, and no one can determine into which finitely smallest parts matter is divisible. Take, for example, a granule of musk, and place it in a large chamber: in a short time, all the rooms of the large chamber will be filled with the scent of musk, and one may leave such a small piece lying around for many years, and it will not lose anything noticeable, neither in its volume nor in its weight; and yet, in every second, many millions of particles must have fleetingly detached themselves from this small piece, in order to continuously fill the wide rooms of the chamber with the scent of musk. A great number of similar examples could still be cited; only this single one is sufficient for our matter, in order to understand that it certainly has its ways (i.e. its doubts) with some definite (final) determination about the finite divisibility of matter. But if now it is shown that at least for your terms all matter is divisible up to a near infinite minimum, then it is more than clear on the other hand that the matter must be necessarily composed of parts. But who pulls these parts together and sticks them so firmly to each other that they finally look like a simple mass which is sometimes more, sometimes less firm? - Behold, there is already the first level from which the spiritual begins. 5. These endlessly small parts are originally nothing but merely a power of ideas from Me, the Creator of all things; this power of ideas gets form, and the form gets life from the life of the Creator. 6. The Creator releases the newly animated form from Himself, gives it its own light from His own original light and with this light, which is alive, its own intelligence, through which the newly animated form recognizes itself and becomes aware of itself as an independent being. 7. When the form has thus recognized itself, the order, a law of all being, is given to it, and with this order the innermost fire of the divinity, a spark of the eternal love, from which the will emerges. Now the newly revived form has light, self-knowledge, self-consciousness, the order and the will and can arrange its will according to the order or also act against this order. 8. So, if a new creature acts and moves according to the order, then it will be strengthened like a tree and will appear as a perfect, free being in the great space of creation for eternal continuance, because all its being is created from Me, who surely am and will be eternally; and therefore man is a creature, because all his being is drawn from Me, and his lot can be no other than My Own, because his is drawn from Me, as if someone draws water from the well, the water in the vessel is equal to the water in the well and has the same destination as the ground water in the well, from which it was drawn. 9. But if such a new being or creature with its free will does not follow the given order, then it naturally goes towards its downfall or... 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In the contemplation of the spiritual part of the earth, in order to instruct ourselves thoroughly, we will make a retrograde movement and will not rise from the depth to the height, but from the height to the depth, which is quite in order, because one must not turn from the inside to the outside, but from the outside to the inside, in order to reach the really spiritual, which is the deepest and the innermost in every thing. 2. It has already been shown to you too often that within the material there is always spiritual hidden, and how the actually visible matter in and for itself is basically nothing else than caught, bound and fixed spiritual. Nevertheless, for a more thorough knowledge of it, some explanations shall follow here as well. 3. You can look at whatever matter, you will still not find that it only appears as completely solid, but every matter is divisible, because it consists of parts, and between these parts there are still little spaces, which are called pores by the experts of nature. 4. These infinite small parts are originally nothing more than the mere power of ideas flowing from Me, the Creator of all things. Such an idea acquires form, and the form receives life out of the life of the Creator. He gives the newly enlivened form its freedom from Him, and gives it its own light from His primordial light, and, with this living light, its own intelligence, through which this newly vivified form recognizes itself and becomes conscious of itself as an independent being. 4. No scholar is yet clear about the division of matter, and no one can determine into which finitely smallest parts matter is divisible. Take, for example, a granule of musk, and place it in a large chamber: in a short time, all the rooms of the large chamber will be filled with the scent of musk, and one may leave such a small piece lying around for many years, and it will not lose anything noticeable, neither in its volume nor in its weight; and yet, in every second, many millions of particles must have fleetingly detached themselves from this small piece, in order to continuously fill the wide rooms of the chamber with the scent of musk. A great number of similar examples could still be cited; only this single one is sufficient for our matter, in order to understand that it certainly has its ways (i.e. its doubts) with some definite (final) determination about the finite divisibility of matter. But if now it is shown that at least for your terms all matter is divisible up to a near infinite minimum, then it is more than clear on the other hand that the matter must be necessarily composed of parts. But who pulls these parts together and sticks them so firmly to each other that they finally look like a simple mass which is sometimes more, sometimes less firm? – Behold, there is already the first level from which the spiritual begins. 5. These endlessly small parts are originally nothing but merely a power of ideas from Me, the Creator of all things; this power of ideas gets form, and the form gets life from the life of the Creator. 6. The Creator releases the newly animated form from Himself, gives it its own light from His own original light and with this light, which is alive, its own intelligence, through which the newly animated form recognizes itself and becomes aware of itself as an independent being. 7. When the form has thus recognized itself, the order, a law of all being, is given to it, and with this order the innermost fire of the divinity, a spark of the eternal love, from which the will emerges. Now the newly revived form has light, self-knowledge, self-consciousness, the order and the will and can arrange its will according to the order or also act against this order. 8. So, if a new creature acts and moves according to the order, then it will be strengthened like a tree and will appear as a perfect, free being in the great space of creation for eternal continuance, because all its being is created from Me, who surely am and will be eternally; and therefore man is a creature, because all his being is drawn from Me, and his lot can be no other than My Own, because his is drawn from Me, as if someone draws a water from the well, the water in the vessel is equal to the water in the well and has the same destination as the ground water in the well, from which it was drawn. 9. But if such a new being or creature with its free will does not follow the given order, then it naturally goes towards its downfall or its dissolution, which can be easily grasped quite naturally. 10. If someone puts a plant in the ground, but does not allow it moisture, sunlight and warmth, – what will happen to the plant? But let us assume that the plant had free consciousness and could take water, light and warmth, but it did not want to, – what will become of it? It will wither and perish. 11. Or someone wanted to be portrayed by a painter in a completely similar way, but never wants to turn his face to the painter, – what kind of image will that become in the end? 12. But it cannot be indifferent to Me, the creator, whether a being, which was not only formed by Me like an image in the idea, but was created in the above-mentioned way from the fullness of My Divine Substance, exists only for a time or eternally. The first (add: existing only for a time) would obviously have to be able to destroy a part out of Me, which is impossible; therefore it can, if it is once created, only be created for eternities. 13. But such a creature can pervert itself in My order, and that is just as much as to cease to exist for Me in a certain way; for he who is not for Me is against Me. In this way, however, an opposing force and power potency would form next to Me in the course of time, which would oppose My free working, which in other words would mean nothing else than: I, the very highest perfection, would have to be imperfect Myself in order to tolerate an imperfection next to Me. 14. In order to control this highest evil, a creature, which does not want to conform to My given order, is immediately captured and is fixed to a point and to a place; and behold, this fixation is what you know, see and feel as matter. 15. In the endless many particles of matter lies the endless intelligence of the newly created, but now imprisoned being, and that intelligence can never perish; but it is bound and turned against the sun of the spirit for so long, until it has reached that maturity, like a mirror, which absorbs the light of the sun until the sun turns it back and makes it blind for everything else, so it is in the end only capable of receiving the light of the sun. On the outside, of course, the mirror becomes duller and duller, and fine matter becomes looser and more porous; but this matter becomes more and more capable of absorbing the image of the sun into all its dissolved parts, even if highly rejuvenated, and this is actually the good transition: that such a being begins to receive the divinity in all its parts, and not only in one single part. And so it is not enough for someone to say… “Lord, Lord!” – rather he must have absorbed the Lord in all his vital fibers; only then is he ripe to return to whence he came. 16. For this reason all matter must finally be dissolved again into the minutissimum (the smallest), so that there is no particle left which would not be able to receive the image of the eternal sun; and in this reception of the eternal archetype is then again the new creation, in which the endless intelligences of a being, which were imprisoned before, but now became free again, seize each other again, go back into the first archetype and become again what they should have become already in the primal beginning. 17. From this introduction it will surely be clear to you that in matter there cannot possibly be anything other than merely spiritual; and we can now make our wanderings over and into the spiritual earth on well-lighted paths.

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Great Gospel of John Vol. 9, Chapter 83 About the tree of life and the tree of knowledge 83,1. I (The Lord) said: “Firstly the truth will remain one and the same truth, even without signs, and whoever will live and act accordingly will become deeply inside aware that My teaching is divine and not a human word. 83,2. Secondly, those who will transmit My teaching about the Kingdom of God in man to others and who will not only be teachers but who they themselves will also do My will that is clearly contained in My teaching, will also be capable to perform signs in My name, and even greater signs than I am performing Myself. 83,3. But as mere teachers and not as men who apply My teaching themselves, they will not be able to perform signs because the power to perform signs does not come from the reason but from the living faith and the firm will to act. Because the reason of the brains is a dead worldly light of man that can never penetrate into the most inner regions of life of the spirit and its power. And the living faith in the heart is the true light of life of the soul that awakens the spirit in him and takes care that it will penetrate into the whole person. And once man is permeated of the Spirit, then he is also permeated of its all-capable power. And whatever the living Spirit wants, which forms then one being with the soul, happens, and the will is then already an accomplished work. 83,4. Therefore it is also stated in the Scripture that God put 2 trees in the garden of life: a tree of life and a tree of knowledge, and said to man: ‘If you will only eat the fruits of the tree of life, you will live, but if you also will eat the fruits of the tree of knowledge before it will be blessed by Me for you, then death will come over you and you will die.’ 83,5. But man – since he had a completely free will – let himself be seduced by the snake of his lust, and ate of the tree of knowledge even before it was blessed by the ripeness of the faith in the heart of man. That means: he searched and tried to grasp the Spirit of God, and so also the Spirit of life, with his natural reason. The result of it was that by that he only withdrew himself more and more from God instead of drawing more and more close to Him. And that was already death, that means the spiritual death of man, and the whole man became powerless and lost the authority over all things in the natural world and was forced to work for and to acquire his feeding bread with the help of the weak glowing of his brains’ reason in the sweat of his face, physically and even more so spiritually. 83,6. And look, until now, men withdrew so far away from God, and thus also from the true inner life, that they now believe almost no more in a God, and thus also not in a continuance of life of the soul after the body has fallen away. And those who still believe mechanically in a God, or through a blind superstition in many gods – just like the heathens – imagine God or the gods to be so endlessly far away from them, that finally it seems impossible to them that a human being could ever come close to the God of whom they believe that He is so endlessly far away from him. 83,7. And now that God Himself has physically come to men in all the fullness of His eternal might and power, and with all His love and wisdom, they do not see that, and in their great blindness and foolishness they consider this as impossible, while nevertheless with God all things are possible. And because He reveals Himself now with a physical mouth and not with lightning and thunder, they consider God Himself now as a blasphemer and a malicious agitator of the people against God and against the kings of the world who consider themselves to be gods and who also let themselves be honored as such by men. 83,8. And look, all this is the result of the fact that all men preferred to eat the dead fruit of the tree of knowledge instead of the living and life-giving fruit of the tree of life.” Chapter 84 – ‘Adam, where are you?’ – an important question (Genesis 3:9) 84,1. The question that God asked Adam when he already ate of the forbidden fruit and that sounded like this: ‘Adam (or ‘man’), where are you?’ still continues and will still continue until the end of this world, as long as there are people who prefer to eat from the tree of knowledge instead of the tree of life. 84,2. Because the person who eats from the tree of knowledge will very soon lose God, himself and his inner life, and he does not know anymore who he is, why he exists and what he should be. Then his soul is full of fright and fear, and to his question: ‘Man, where are you?’ he seeks the answer that would give him rest and comfort in the reason of the brains of his body. But then always the comfortless answer comes: ‘You are in the judgment, which is the real death of the soul. Acquire your bread in the sweat of your face.’ 84,3. What can the soul actually find in the brains? Nothing else except images of this world that are in the reason, and those images are all much further away from what is of the spirit and life than the soul himself. If the soul does not recognize the spirit of the life from God, which is always nearest to him, then how will he recognize in the brains of his physical head the spirit of the life from God, which is in the images of the world often endlessly much further away from him? 84,4. Out of this complete error results inevitably and automatically the still greater error that the soul imagines the Being of God to be ever further away and unreachable, and this as long as he will totally get rid of it and after that will turn to Epicurism or cynicism. 84,5. In this condition in which most of the priests of all kinds are now – and now especially the Pharisees, the elders and scribes – and the princes and kings, together with their great following, the soul does not know the truth anymore. The lie is worth as much to him and even more than the purest truth, as long as through that he can get some earthly advantage. If one or the other truth would hinder him, then he will become hostile against it and will run away from it or will persecute it with fire and sword. 84,6. When the soul is in such a condition, sin does no more exist for him, and a person who can possess some worldly power can do whatever pleases him and whatever will flatter his senses. And woe to the righteous one or someone who lives in the truth of life, who would go to such a mighty one and would say to him: ‘Why are you an enemy of the truth and why do you commit the greatest injustice that is crying to Heaven among the people, who are on this Earth no less than you, blind fool?’ 84,7. Just look around you into the world now whether this is not the case everywhere. And what is the reason of that? I say to you: nothing else except the ever increasing eating from the tree of knowledge. 84,8. I have come now Myself physically into this world to the people who turned too far away from the true goal of life, and ask them once again: ‘Adam, where are you?’ and no one knows what to answer Me as to where or who he is. And I am showing them now again the tree of life and urge them to take from its fruits and to satiate themselves with them. 84,9. Truly I say to you: whoever will eat from the tree of life will also come to the true life of the Spirit out of Me, and he will never again be hungry or desire to eat from the tree of death, because once someone is in the life of the Spirit out of Me, will also be in all its wisdom, and only then will the tree of knowledge be blessed through that, and the soul will know in one moment more than if he would investigate for 1.000 years with his outer and vain reason. 84,10. When you will be in the condition of the true life, you will also perform signs in My name, and in this manner you will be able to give everyone a testimony of the truth of My teaching – if that will be necessary. Did you, scribe and friend, understand this well now?” Trumpet Call of God March 6, 2005 WATCH O peoples of the earth, hear the word of The Lord your God… You are lost, drowning in a deep sea of transgression, sinking in the ever-shifting sands of religion and science! You are stuck in the mire of your iniquities, slowly suffocating, as the fruits of your labor come full circle to take away your life! For by your own works have you destroyed the garden, on account of your greed have you caused much suffering and death, bringing calamity upon your own heads! Thus because of your great iniquity I have drawn back My hand, and for the multitude of your transgressions has the judgment of God come upon you!… Dead generation, foolish children, evil surrounds you on every side! Darkness closes in, yet you are unmoved! Detestable birds gather and predators come forth to stalk you as prey, yet you see no cause for alarm! Therefore, as I live, says The Lord, surely My flock has become a prey, and My children have made themselves meet for the slaughter! For the peoples of the earth have forsaken Me, days without end; they have altogether gone astray! My created ones have removed themselves far from Me, and My own beloved have not returned to Me, but do always seek their own way! And of the shepherds, they did not go out to search for My flock, but have fed themselves! They did not feed My flock, BUT HAVE FED THEMSELVES! The Third Testament, Chapter 50 Vanity of Knowledge 1. The Lord: “I ask the men of this time, who consider themselves to be the most advanced in history of the world. Have you not found, with all your talent, a way to make peace, to achieve power, and obtain wealth that does not mean killing, destroying, or enslaving your fellow men? Do you believe that your advancement is true and real when, morally, you are dragging yourselves through the mud, and spiritually wandering in shadows? I do not fight with science, since I inspired it in man; what I censure is the purpose to which you sometimes put it.” 13. “Do not become vain with the fruits of your science, for now while so much progress has been made through it, is when humanity suffers most, when there is more misery, unrest, illness and destructive wars.” 14. “Man still has not discovered the true science, that which is gained through the path of love.” The same applies to science: “Love God above everything and your neighbor as yourself!” Again… “Did you, scribe and friend, understand this well now?”

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A collection of statements of the Lord The Household of God, Vol. 3, Chapter 362 (HHG3-362) 362,9. (after the Flood…) (But) The Lord blessed this beautiful country three times and gave it completely to Noah and his children to own. 362,10. And Noah praised and glorified God for it over and over and said to the Lord: “O Lord, what service do You ask from me now, which forever should remain in all the seed of me?’ 362,11. And the Lord said: “You know, what I have said to Enoch! See, this order is always yours too; and thus remain in it for ever and ever! For I forever demand nothing else from the people, but to love Me, their God, Lord and Father above all! I demanded this from Enoch, and I also demand this from you and all your seed. 362,12. But I want to reveal another thing to you: Behold, since it now pleases Me on this earth, as a true Prince of princes, a Lord of lords and a King of kings, I want to build a dwelling for Myself on this earth! Not far from here I’m going to build a city, and will dwell in the same until the big time of times, when I will walk in the flesh Myself among My right children! 362,13. Thus the earth shall now be the place, on which My feet shall rest and walk! 362,14. When I came to your fathers, I became invisible again; but you shall see Me walk on My feet on the ground of the earth as a man, and move towards the evening up to a country which shall be called Canaan (blessed country)! 362,15. You will reach it in a seventeen days’ journey! There I will build a city for Me; this, you and all your descendants, shall call ‘Salem’! But My name as the Prince of princes, a Lord of lords and a King of kings shall be ‘Melchizedek’ {See also: “The three days in the Temple”, Chap. 19 ‘an elder (priest) since eternity!’} 362,16. You are free; but your descendants will have to give Me the tenth part of everything; who will refuse will be driven out of My neighborhood! Amen.“ Great Gospel of John Vol. 1, Chapter 4 (GGJ01-4) 4,6. But because he refused to submit to this mild ‘you shall’, he was given a more severe and mightily sanctioned law, and the sanction promptly executed when this second ‘shall’ was disregarded (see the deluge and similar cataclysms). 4,7. After this disciplining the Divine Being descended to the Earth in Melchizedek and guided men, but they soon began once more to fight and had to be bound through new laws and returned to order, so that they were left with only a kind of mechanical movement limiting all their inclination. 4,8. Thus through the law a wide gulf had been created and no spirit or entity was able to leap across it. This is caused the prospect and the inner awareness of an eternal existence of the inner, thus considerably limited, life to become seriously doubted. 4,9. Following this limitation the divine primordial being then appears in its own fullness, namely, in the person of Christ. Great Gospel of John Vol. 2, Chapter 12 (GGJ02-12) 12,3. (Jairus) “I say unto you: all the high priests and all junior priests fear neither the fire nor the big storm that passed the cave where the great prophet Elijah was hidden; but the gentle breeze above the prophet‘s cave they fear, because they keep saying that the high priest in the order of Melchizedek will come quietly as a thief in the night and take everything they had earned up till now! Wherefore no priest wants to live through the arrival of the anointed God from eternity but have same postponed as far as possible into the most remote future.” Great Gospel of John Vol. 2, Chapter 66 (GGJ02-66) 66,5. The Lord: “66,5. Are you so well versed in the most general history of mankind that you have reason to reproach Me for only now responding to those calling and seeking, but never in former times? 66,6. Did not the first men constantly associate with Me, Who was, beginning with Noah until Moses, the high priest at Salem, called Melchisedek, who dwelt at Salem also as a real king of kings? Who was the Spirit in the ark of the covenant? And since the Spirit from the ark entered Me, – question: Who am I!?” Great Gospel of John Vol. 6, Chapter 221 (GGJ06-221) 221,4. The Lord: “Who was Melchisedek, the only highest Priest, the King of Salem? Where are his teachings and his most wise and loving laws for all people?! See, your fathers have destroyed them! 221,5. Everything that was lost, Moses reproduced in his great sixth and seventh book, and you again hid it from the people and instead gave them excrements. 221,6. When all humanity has become bad through the actions of selfish priests and other power-addicted people, can God help it?! 221,7. God gave to man a free will, so that man, free out of himself, can become active for himself; but also gave to man reason and mind, so that he can understand the advice and laws of God, and also gave him the strength to act accordingly. When however man with his free will, still allows him to be ruled by the world and does not regard the advice of God, is it then not his own fault that he through his own actions becomes ignorant of God’s order and must fall from one misery into the next?! 221,8. Since it now has become too bad and too lightless among the people, I Myself again come to you as the old Melchisedek even in the flesh, as I have announced this already long ago in advance by the prophets.” Great Gospel of John Vol. 10, Chapter 59 (GGJ10-59) 59,1. The Lord: „But there is also a big cemented cellar, made of basalt stones in this castle. Did you never discover or see it?“ 59,2. The eldest and 2 of his nephews who were almost as old as him, said: “Yes, there once must have existed a cellar full of the best wine, and also other treasures must be hidden in it, but no one of us has ever dared to go into the subterranean spaces and investigate amidst all kinds of malicious vermin and other evil powers. And thus no one of us knows the real, exact entrance to the mentioned cellar. Where and how can we enter it? I suppose that by Your power, also that, just like all the rest, will be in excellent condition now?” 59,3. I said: “If you believe that, sure. But since no one of you knows its entrance, follow Me and I will bring you to the cellar.” 59,4. Then the eldest and 10 of his family members followed Me with one of the many torches of wax that we took from the kitchen, and we also lighted it there. A gallery led from the mentioned big kitchen to a big door that was made of a plate of basalt. I showed them how the door could be easily opened, and I Myself opened the big and heavy gate. When the gate was open, large stairs became visible at once, along which we could easily come into the very spacious, big cellar. 59,5. When we were in the cellar, about which those poor Jews were again extremely amazed, we found a large quantity of big and small containers of stone and also a still larger quantity of drinking utensils made of stone, ceramic, silver and also gold, about which the poor Jews were of course extremely surprised and they did not know whether also these things were created by Me in a miraculous manner or if they still dated from primordial times, which could be suspected from their appearance. 59,6. And I said to them: “All the things that we have found here come from the time of the great King and High Priest of Salem. This was on Earth His castle, which – just like the mountains with their many extraordinary caves and holes – was not built by human hands, but by that same power by which it is now constructed again, for only I am the true King of Salem and High Priest Melchisedech from eternity.” Great Gospel of John Vol. 10, Chapter 179 (GGJ10-179) 179,6. I said (The Lord): “Yes, you are right in this, as it is also written that I will take away My light from the Jews and give it to the gentiles. 179,7. Therefore, I say to you that I then also will abolish the Old Covenant and the Old Testament, and will establish a new one for the Jews as well as for all people on Earth according to the order of Melchisedech who was a King of all kings and a Supreme Priest of all supreme priests. That is why all kings and patriarchs had to give the tithe – even Abraham was not excluded. 179,8. And that Melchisedech was I, from the time of Noah till much after Abraham with whom the Covenant was concluded by the great promise that was made to him. And now I am here again as the same. But not to confirm and maintain the Old Covenant, but to make a New Covenant with all people, and then I also will remain King and Lord and Supreme Priest forever, entirely according to the order of Melchisedech.” Great Gospel of John Vol. 10, Chapter 217 (GGJ10-217) 217,1. So the patriarch Abraham, who was the owner of the Promised Land, was also an unrighteous steward, but you surely heard that in Salem, the place where he lived, he always had a big table ready where every day several thousands of poor and needy people were satiated, and so it became a proverb that the happy ones were those who were blessed to eat at the table of Abraham. 217,2. Look, that is why Abraham was My favorite and I blessed him and his family manifold, which you can conclude from the fact that Abraham was the most important and greatest friend of the King of Kings and the Priest of priests, who was without beginning or end and whose name was Melchisedech, to whom he personally gave the tithe. And he was the only one among the many kings of that time who was fortunate of having the right to come to the residence of Melchisedech. And this Person once went personally to him, escorted by 2 angels, and predicted to him that his aged wife Sarah would bare him a son, which Abraham also firmly believed. 217,3. But at the same time, Melchisedech revealed that the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah would perish. And He further revealed to him that finally He Himself would come from his tribe as a human being of flesh and blood to make all human beings truly blissful. 217,4. But let us leave Abraham and Melchisedech to rest now, because the latter is now personally sitting with you, and the old patriarch Abraham is in the spirit not far away from Him…” The Childhood of Jesus Chapter 169 (CYOU-169) 169,9. And the Infant spoke: “I know that – and I also know a few things that you do not know! 169,10. However, it would have been fitting, if you had also served the Lord a full portion! 169,11. Do you really know who Melchisedech, the king of Salem, was? – You do not know! 169,12. However, I know it and I will tell you: the king of Salem was the Lord Himself; but apart from Abraham, no one was supposed to know this! 169,13. That is why Abraham bowed to the ground before Him, and voluntarily gave Him a tithe of everything. 169,14. Joseph! – I am the same Melchisedech, and you are the same Abraham! 169,15. Why do you not want to give me a tithe of these good fish?” Genesis 14:17 And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that were with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which is the king’s dale. 14:18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God. 14:19 And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth: 14:20 And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all. Three days in the Temple of Jerusalem Chapter 19 The explanation of the two words ‘Jerusalem’ and ‘Melchisedech’ by the twelve years old Jesus 1. Barnabas said: “But you dearest marvelous Boy, about the two words ‘Jerusalem’ and ‘Melchisedech’ we should like to hear something from you today!” 2. I said: “Well, so pay attention to the roots alone of the single words in the old Hebrew tongue: Je (this is) Ruh or Ruha (the dwelling place) Sa (for the) Lem or Lehem (great King). Me or mei (of My) l’chi or lichi – read litzi (countenance or light) Sedek (seat) – “~This is the dwelling place of the Great King – the seat of My Countenance”. 3. You know of course that the elders pronounced the vowels between the consonants at the formation of words, but did not write them down because of a certain veneration (Jehova = j e o u a): therefore one must understand how to put the vowels between the consonants in words more than a thousand years old, and the true significance of such an old name explains itself from its roots…”

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The clear knowledge and practical usage of the 12 divine commandments (10 commandments of Moses and the 2 commandments of love) are part of the most important educational section for the childrens souls. The universal validity and truthful elucidation are immediately evident. Chapter 103 – Room 12 103,1. We have entered, and we can, in the center of this most magnificent room, see again another sun tablet, upon which the following is written, in glowing red letters… ‘This is equal to the first commandment, that you should love your neighbor as you love yourself; therein is the law and the prophets contained.’ – Certainly, someone will rise up and say… ‘How is that to be understood… to love our neighbor as we love ourselves? The self-love is a vice, therefore must the equal brotherly love also be a vice, because here, the brotherly love uses the self-love as the base. So if I wish to live like a virtuous human being, I am not allowed to love myself. However, if I am not allowed to love myself, then I am also not allowed to love my brother, since the measure of loving my brother is supposed to be completely equal to the measure, with which I love myself. Therefore, ‘Love your neighbor as you love yourself’ would actually mean, that I should not love my neighbor at all, because I should not love myself either. 103,2. Look, this would be a common interjection, which would certainly not be difficult to counter. Since the self-love of every human being represents its own life, so in this way, the natural self-love is pretty self explanatory, for having no self-love at all would basically mean to have no life whatsoever! 103,3. Therefore, here we have to find out the difference between a just and an unjust self-love. 103,4. Self-love is ‘just’, when it has no greater desire for the things of the world, than what the right measure of the Divine Order has bestowed upon it, the measure which has been shown substantially in the 7th, 9th and 10th commandment. Does the self-love demand things reaching beyond this measure, it exceeds the set boundaries of the Divine Order, and with its first transgression has to be considered as sin already. And thus, the brotherly love needs to be measured accordingly, for if someone loves a brother or a sister beyond this measure, he is committing idolatry with his brother or sister, and by that, he does not make them better, but worse. 103,5. The fruits of such excessive brotherly love can be seen clearly in most of the nations rulers today and at all times. Why? – A nation has loved someone from among them beyond the right measure, due to his more splendid talents, and they made him their ruler, and from then on, they had to endure – on account of this negative habit of excessive brotherly love – the massive punishments that came together with this ruler or with his descendants. 103,6. One will surely say here… But there have to be kings and rulers to lead the nations, and they are ordained by God Himself. – However, I do not want to oppose this completely with a no, but I do want to illuminate this matter here a little bit more, as to how it is and how it should be. 103,7. What did the Lord say to the Israelites, when they demanded a king? Nothing else than… ‘Atop all sins, which this people has committed before Me, it has added the greatest sin, namely, that they are not satisfied with My guidance and now demand a king to lead them in My stead’. – From this phrase, we can clearly recognize, that the kings are not given to the nations as a blessing, but as a judgment. 103,8. Question… Are kings necessary to lead humanity alongside of God? This question can be answered with the same answer given to another question, which states… Was the Lord in need of any helpers when He created the world and when He created man? 103,9. Another question… Which kings and rulers are currently and at all times helping the Lord to guide the worlds, keeping them in their order and leading them along their correct path? Which duke does He need for the winds, which ruler does He need to spread the light, and which king does He need for the observation of all worlds, suns, and the infinite space? If the Lord is able to girth the Orion without the help of human kings and rulers, and to supply food to the Canis Major, and to keep the people of all worlds and suns in their proper order, should He then be in need to ordain kings and princes for the people of this earth, to help Him with His business? 103,10. If we go back to the primordial history of every tribe and people, we will find out, that all of them, originally, had a theocratic constitution, which means, they had no other lord above themselves than God alone. Only after quite some time, when one or the other tribe started to be unsatisfied with the freest and most liberal reign of God, because they lived too comfortably, they began to love one another beyond the right measure. And, as usual, an individual with special talents became the recipient of their general love and praise. They demanded then, that he would become their leader, but it didn’t stop there, for the leader had to instate laws, and the laws had to be sanctioned, and thus, the leader became a lord, a patriarch, then a ruler, and at the end, a king and an emperor. 103,11. And so, we see that emperors, kings, and rulers never have been selected by God, rather only confirmed as judgment for those people, which – on account of their own free will – had chosen such emperors, rulers and kings from among their midst, which they bestowed with the complete power over themselves. 103,12. I mean, this elucidation should be enough for all of you to realize, that any excess of self-love, as well as brotherly love, is an abomination before God. 103,13. Therefore, to love your neighbor as you love yourself means… To love your neighbor in the given Divine Order, meaning in that correct measure, which has been given by God to every man since the beginning of time. For those, who cannot see this clearly by now, I want to add some more examples, whereof one will be able to clearly see, what kind of consequences any kind of excess has. 103,14. Let’s assume, there is a millionaire living in a village. Will he be a blessing for the village, or will he plunge them into disaster? Let’s see. The millionaire is aware of the fact, that the public banks are waning; so what is he doing? He sells his bonds and buys realities, goods. The ruler, to whom the millionaire was a subject before, is, as usual, in financial difficulties. Our millionaire is asked to lend some of his capital to the ruler. He does so, in exchange for good percentages, and for the safe mortgage of the ruler himself. His neighbors, and the other citizens need money as well. He lends it to them without demur for a priority notice in the land register. This continues for a couple of years. The ruler is becoming less and less wealthy, all the while the citizens do not become wealthier. What happens? Our millionaire grasps the ruler first, and because he does not possess even a single dime anymore, he must surrender unconditionally, and only because of sheer good will, he receives some money for his journey, and our millionaire becomes the sole owner of the dominion, and in the same time lord over all his indebted neighbors. These will soon be estimated and distrained, since they cannot repay him the capital nor the interest. 103,15. Here we have the natural consequence of the fortune, which a millionaire or owner of an excessive self-love has provided to the citizens. Nothing more has to be said about this. – Let’s continue with the second case. 103,16. An exceedingly poor family is living somewhere. They have barely as much as they need, to carve out their daily miserable life. An overly rich and unusual charitable man gets to know this poor, but honest and respectable family. He, in possession of several millions, has compassion with this family and thinks… I want to make this family very happy. I want to bestow them with a mansion, and add a considerable asset of half a million to that. All the while, I want to have the joy to see, how the faces of this poor family will cheer up. – He does it as determined. An entire week, this family does nothing else but shed tears of joy, even the Lord receives many a ‘Thank God’. 103,17. But let’s look at this fortunate family only about one year later, and we will discover all the luxuries there, like they are present in the homes of the rich. This family also becomes more callous, and they will try to take vengeance on all those, who did not want to look at them in their distress. The ‘Thank God’ will disappear, but instead new equipment, liveried servants and similar things will be adopted. 103,18. Question… Has this excess of brotherly love helped or harmed this family? I mean, not many words are needed here, one only needs to grasp after the luxury with both hands to clearly see, what benefit this excess of brotherly love towards this family has brought them for their eternal life. When looking at this, it is obvious, that brotherly love, as well as self-love, has to stay within the measure of the Divine Order. 103,19. When a man loves his wife too much, he will surely ruin her. She becomes conceited, and will esteem herself and from that, she will become a so called coquette. The husband will hardly have enough hands in order to satisfy all the demands of his wife. 103,20. Also a bridegroom, if he loves his bride too much, will eventually make her cheeky, and in the end, unfaithful. 103,21. So, the correct measure of love is always necessary. However, the brotherly love consists in something completely different than we have come to know so far. – But wherein brotherly love consists in its inner spiritual sense, we will clearly learn to recognize during this message. Chapter 104 Wherein consists the actual true brotherly love? 104,1. To thoroughly know, wherein the actual true ‘brotherly love’ consists, one has to know and to clearly understand, who actually a neighbor and brother is. Therein is the central issue concealed. One will say… How should we know this? For the Lord Himself, the sole founder of brotherly love, has not given us any closer definition about this. When the scribes asked Him, who the neighbor is, the Lord just showed them with a parable, who a brother to the known injured Samaritan was, namely a Samaritan, who brought him to the shelter, and previously poured oil and wine unto his wounds. 104,2. And through this it is revealed, that only under certain circumstances the injured people do have a ‘neighbor’ as their benefactor, and, in turn, they are also the ‘neighbors’ towards their benefactors. So, if only under such circumstances ‘neighbors’ exist, what kind of neighbors do common people have, people who do not have an accident themselves, and also do not have the chance to come to someone else’s aid, in their times of distress? Isn’t there a more general text, that describes the neighbors more closely? For here only the greatest distress, and on the other hand, the greatest opulence, coupled with a good heart, is brought face to face as ‘being neighbors’. 104,3. So, let’s see therefore, if we can find any other, more extensive texts. Here is one, and it reads as follows… 104,4. ‘Bless those, that curse you, and do good to your enemies!’ – This is a text from which we can clearly see, that the Lord has extended brotherly love quite far, He didn’t even exclude the enemies and those who curse. 104,5. Here’s another text that says… ‘Make yourselves friends with the unrighteous mammon’. What is the Lord trying to tell us with this? Nothing else, than to never let an opportunity pass by, to do good to our neighbors. He even allows, at least in the external sense, an obvious infidelity towards the belongings of a rich person, of course only in an extremity, if thereby many or at least several people in need can be helped. 104,6. In yet another text we find the Lord talking about the following… ‘Whatever good you did to one of these poor in My Name, you have done it unto Me.’ – The Lord confirms this phrase during the portrayal of the ‘last’ or spiritual judgment, where He says to the chosen ones… ‘I came to you naked, hungry, thirsty, sick, imprisoned, and without a roof and you have received, cared, clothed and fed Me and you gave Me something to drink’ – and to the discarded He said, that they have not done this. The righteous ones apologize, as if they had never done this, all the while the bad ones say, that they would have done such things, if He had come to them. Then, the Lord clearly points out… 104,7. “Whatever you have or haven’t done to the poor in My Name, that applied to Me.” 104,8. From this text we can quite clearly see the true brotherly love, and it also shows, who the actual neighbors are. 104,9. But we want to look at another text still. It says this… “When you prepare a meal for guests, do not invite those, who will be able to return it to you with a counter invitation. You will not receive a reward for that in heaven, for such you have received on earth. Instead, invite the needy, the lame, the invalids, people, who are poor in every respect, who will not be able to return it to you, that way, you will receive your reward in heaven. In the same way, lend your money to those who will not be able to pay it back to you, thus you will be profiteering for heaven. But if you lend your money to those who will be able to return it to you together with interest, your reward is gone. If you give alms, do so in quiet, and your right hand shall not know what your left hand is doing. And your Father in heaven, who sees in secret, will bless you therefore and reward you in heaven!” 104,10. I think, that after looking at these texts, one can grasp it almost with both hands, who is called a ‘neighbor’ or ‘brother’ in the eyes of the Lord. And so, we will take a look, what significance is behind all this. 104,11. Looking from the Lord’s perspective, we can only see, that everywhere the poor are standing opposed to the wealthy. What is the conclusion? It means nothing else than that the poor are the actual neighbors of the wealthy, as described by the Lord, and not the rich to the rich, or the poor to the poor. The rich among themselves can only look at each other as neighbors, if they join hands to carry out good, and God pleasing purposes. And the poor can likewise only be neighbors to each other, when they also, if possible, unite in a brotherly way, in patience and in their love for the Lord and among themselves. 104,12. The main purpose of brotherly love remains therefore always between the wealthy and the poor, and between the strong and the weak, and it stands in an equal relation as it is between parents and children. 104,13. But why should the poor towards the wealthy, the weak towards the strong, as well as the children towards the parents be considered and treated as the closest neighbors? For no other reason than, that the Lord, as being the closest neighbor of every human being, prefers, according to His own saying, to present Himself thru the poor, the weak and the children of this world. For He Himself says… “Whatever you do to the poor, you have done unto Me!” – Even though you won’t have Me among you personally, you will still always have the poor, as My perfect representatives, among you. (This is what the Lord wanted to convey) 104,14. The Lord also says the same about a child… “Whoever receives such a child in My Name, receives Me.” 104,15. From all of this, we can clearly see, that men should consider themselves more or less as ‘neighbors’, depending on how much they are imbued with the spirit of the Lord. The Lord doesn’t bestow His Spirit on the rich of the world, but always only on the poor, weak and worldly under-aged. The poor person is already much more imbued with the Spirit of the Lord, because he is a poor one, for the poverty is a major part of the Lord’s Spirit. 104,16. Whoever is poor, resembles the Lord in his poverty, all the while the rich does not resemble Him. The Lord does not know them, but He knows the poor. Therefore, the rich shall consider the poor as their neighbors, and the rich will have to come to the poor, if they want to come closer to the Lord. For the wealthy can in no way consider themselves as brothers of the Lord. The Lord Himself has shown during the narrative of the rich wastrel, how infinite the chasm between Himself and the rich one is. 104,17. In the same way, the Lord made it clear in the story of the rich young ruler, who first should be his neighbors, before he might again come to the Lord and follow Him. And the Lord illustrates everywhere the poor, as well as the children as those, being closest to Him or also as His literal representatives. The wealthy shall love them as they love themselves, but not necessarily those equal to them. For this reason the Lord spoke that this commandment of brotherly love is equal to the first commandment, whereby He didn’t want to convey anything else than… Whatever you do to the poor, you do to Me! 104,18. And that the rich should not see each other as neighbors, is visible therein, where the Lord says, that the rich should not invite the rich and should not lend their money to the rich, as well as out of this, that the Lord didn’t command the rich young ruler to give his goods to the rich, but spread it among the poor. 104,19. But if a rich man wants to say… My closest ones are my own children, there I will say… Certainly not! For the Lord has only taken up a poor child, that was begging by the wayside, and He said… Whoever receives such a child in My Name, receives Me! The Lord never had anything to do with the children of the rich. 104,20. For this reason, the rich commits a great sin against brotherly love, when he only cares fearfully for his own children. The rich cares best for his children when he provides them with an upbringing, that is pleasing to the Lord, and does not save his wealth for his own children, but instead shares it for the most part with the poor. If he does this, the Lord will grasp his children and lead them on the best path. If he doesn’t do that, then the Lord will turn His Countenance away from them and withdraw His Hands, and He will give them, already in their most tender youth, over into the hands of the world, which means, into the hands of the devil, so they may become worldly children, worldly men, which means as much as becoming devils themselves. 104,21. If you knew, how all the capital stocks and especially the entails *) are most frightfully cursed by the Lord into the lowest third level of hell, you would for sure be perplexed, out of shock and fear, and immediately become rigid like a diamond! *(families) entails = Family assets, that are to be preserved forever by a foundation 104,22. And therefore should all the rich, wherever they may be, take this to heart as much as possible, and turn their hearts away from their riches, and do with the riches as much good as they possibly can, if they want to escape the eternal smoke chamber. For in the beyond, a twofold smoke kitchen exists, a long one in gloomy places, from where only unfathomable narrowed pathes depart, on which the wanderer will not feel much better than the camels, standing in front of a needle eye. However, there exists also an eternal smoke kitchen, out of which, at least to my knowledge, no paths depart. – This is for the rich, that they may take it to heart, as well as for anyone who possesses still enough to be able to do something for the poor. From this it becomes visible wherein the true brotherly love consists. In the same way it is taught here in the sun and also continually practiced.

Text & Audio to Videocontent & Related Messages... https://jesus-comes.com/index.php/2019/05/09/gebot-11-die-gottesliebe-commandment-11-the-love-of-god/ Channel Overview... https://jesus-comes.com/index.php/2022/10/16/kanalubersicht-channel-overview/ Video Playlist Commandments of God... https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL73-eEs6JmCsw5J2MK1od7SnWFzMmUpBW Commandments Overview... https://jesus-comes.com/index.php/2015/12/03/erlaeuterung-zu-den-zwoelf-geboten-des-herrn-10-gebote-moses-und-die-2-gebote-der-liebe-jakob-lorber/ Read online... https://search.jesus-comes.com/index.php?title=SSUN2-98 The Third Testament in various Languages... https://jesus-comes.com/index.php/das-dritte-testament-the-third-testament-el-tercer-testamento/ Jesus' Revelations thru Jakob Lorber... https://jesus-comes.com/index.php/category/english/jakob-lorber-pdfs/ Jesus' Revelations thru Gottfried Mayerhofer... https://jesus-comes.com/index.php/category/english/53-sermons-of-jesus/ LoveLetters from Jesus... https://jesus-comes.com/index.php/liebesbriefe-von-jesus-love-letters-from-jesus/ Trumpet Call of God... https://awakeningforreality.com/latest-video-and-audio-letters-neuste-video-und-audio-briefe/ Explanation of the 11th Commandment… ‘The Love unto God’ The Spiritual Sun, Vol. 2 Messages of Jesus Christ on the spiritual life in the Beyond Given thru the inner word to Jakob Lorber (1842-43) Millions and Millions of souls from children are mentored, taught and provided for in the ‘Kingdom of the Children’ (Spiritual Sun Volume 2, 67-102). The Guidance through the ‘Children’s Kingdom’ takes place by the Apostle of Love, John. Chapter 98 1. We are already in this hall, and here in the middle of it, we also see a round tablet on a large, white, shiny pillar. It shines like the sun, and in its center is written in ruby-red writing: 2. You shall love God your Lord above all, with all your mind and with all your life forces bestowed upon you by God. 3. In addition to this meaning-laden, beautiful solar tablet, we see already grown children, more than the usual amount of the other halls, who, as you may notice, soon look at the table, then talk with their teachers again, and then become absorbed in themselves, their hands crosswise over their chests, standing like statues. The whole scene implies that this is something extraordinarily important. 4. Some may perhaps ask and say: Such would probably be expected. But if one looks at the matter in the correct light, then this commandment written on the solar tablet will say nothing other than what all the previous commandments have basically said together. Why, then, does this tablet here have to shine, while all the preceding ten tablets were simply white and, as usual, inscribed with a dark substance? – This remark is not without content. Nevertheless, it loses its value here, just as all other doctrines and claims against a single word from the mouth of the Lord must necessarily lose their appearance. 5. It is the same situation as is authenticated every single day in the world in the great nature. Suppose how many thousands upon thousands of smaller and sometimes stronger and slightly larger lights shine down from the high heavens to the dark earth every night. The moon itself is often active throughout the night. In addition to these beautiful lights, at night, people on Earth light almost as many artificial lights. 6. With this abundance of lights upon lights, one would think that at nighttime on earth, it would be impossible to bear it all. But experience has always shown that on the earth, after each sunset, it becomes darker as the sun sinks below the horizon, despite the ever-increasing number of lights in the sky. 7. Who can say these lights are not gorgeous? Yes, a mediocre admirer of the wonders of God must, at the sight of the starry sky at night, beat on his breast and say: O Lord, I am not worthy to walk in this, Your sanctuary, in this infinite temple of Your omnipotence! Yes indeed, one can rightfully exclaim every night: O Lord! Whoever looks at Your works experiences a vain desire for them! 8. Why then a vain one? Because every human being has reason enough for himself, out of sheer pleasure and bliss, to be piously vain because He who created such marvels, is his Father!! Thus, everyone has, as it were, a sacred right to rejoice when he looks at the great wonders of his Almighty Father during a night. And indeed, the flame of a lamp and that of the stove are no less a miracle of the almighty Father than the glorious radiance of the countless stars of the heavens! 9. And look now, all of this marvelous admirable splendor likens to the Old Testament in all its parts. 10. We see a barely countable amount of larger and smaller lights in this old nocturnal sky. They radiate splendidly, and whoever looks at them is always filled with a secret, holy reverence. Why? Because his spirit suspects great things behind these lights. But they are still too far away from him. He can look and grab and feel, but the little lights with their great content do not want to move closer to his inquiring spirit. 11. But who are these heavenly lights in the old heaven of the spirit? 12. See, they are all the patriarchs, fathers, prophets, teachers, and leaders of the people who are known to you by the Spirit of God. – But on earth there are also a lot of artificial lights, who are they supposed to be in the Old Testament? These are the worthy people who faithfully lived according to the words that came from the God-saturated men, who throughout their lives enlightened and refreshed their neighbors. 13. So we have this wonderful night scene in front of us. It is true that the nocturnal local storms occasionally obscure the rays of the sky, with clouds drifting rapidly away. But the same storm that once brought a fiery cloud over the glorious star-spangled sky drives this cloud away over the horizon, and after him the firmament becomes purer than it was before. Everything becomes fearful at such a short-lasting storm and wishes again for the quiet, glorious night, illuminated by so many thousands of lights. But a naturalist speaks: Such storms are nothing but ordinary harbingers of the day, so one should not be afraid. 14. That is indeed true. For where large forces are set in motion, one can rightly conclude and say: Here an even greater, yes even the greatest primordial force cannot be far away, for these lesser winds are nothing but side streams of a not-so-distant great hurricane. So our naturalist is right and we are still refreshed by the wonderful splendor of the miracle night. 15. Like lovers we swarm around under the many windows of the big, magnificent house, and look with imaginative and longing chests up to the light-filled openings of the house, dimly lit by a night lamp, behind which we sense the object of our love. 16. Many fantasies, a thousand content-heavy thoughts twitch like shooting stars over our love-heaven, but no such fleeting ephemeral light will suffice to satisfy the thirst of our love. 17. It is the same for the people in the old night sky of the spirit. But what happens? Through the rising of the sun the horizon begins to redden. It gets brighter and brighter over the horizon. One more glimpse of the once so beautiful sky, and what do you see? – Nothing but the disappearance of one star after the other. 18. The sun, the glorious one, rises with its primeval daylight, and no star in the sky is visible anymore, for the one sun has enlightened every heavenly atom with its singular light, something which at night all those innumerable stars together could not manage to do. 19. For the tarrying lover, who had raved in vain all through the night, one window of the for him very meaningful house opens, and from this one window the longed-for object of his heart greets him, and tells him with a benevolent glance more than all his innumerable fantasies and thoughts during the night! 20. Thus we see every day in the great nature, a scene that corresponds perfectly to our spirituality. 21. The moon, like Moses, we see with diminishing and pale light dipping behind the evening mountains, when the mighty sun rises in the morning over the horizon. Whatever had been shrouded in the night in the most mysterious darkness, is now brightly lit before everyone’s eyes! 22. All this is the effect of the sun. And in the spiritual heaven, it is all the effect of the One Lord, the One Jesus, who is the only One God of heaven and of all worlds! 23. What He Himself is in Himself as the Divine sun of all suns, that is also every single word spoken out of His mouth against all countless words from the mouths of enthusiastic patriarchs, fathers and prophets. Countless exhortations, laws and regulations we see in the course of the Old Testament. These are stars and also artificial lights of the night. But then the Lord comes, speaks only one word – and this word outweighs the whole Old Testament. 24. And, for that very reason, this first word appears here in this eleventh hall as a self-luminous sun, whose light illuminates innumerable stars, but it is never necessary for it to make use of the counter-reflection of the stars. For it is the primeval light from which all the countless stars have taken their partial light. 25. And so it will certainly be understandable here, too, why the former ten erected tablets are only white, that is with a dull shimmer, whereas here we see the primordial sunlight, which requires no pre-light and no post-light, but it is all light in itself. 26. Whoever takes this to heart to a certain extent will fully understand why the Lord has said, “In this commandment of love, Moses and all the prophets are contained.” It is certainly said as much as one would of course like to say: In the daylight, therefore, one no longer sees the stars and no longer needs their light, because all their light gets completely overpowered by the single light of the sun. But how the full truth presents itself palpably through all this, you will see soon. Chapter 99 – The Love of God as the primordial Material of all Creatures 1. The love of God is the primordial substance of all creatures, for without it nothing could ever have been created. This love corresponds to the all-enlivening and generating warmth, and only through this warmth do you see the earth become green beneath your feet. 2. Through heat, the rigid tree becomes leafy, flowering, and the warmth in its essence is what ripens the fruit on the tree. There is not a single creature or thing on the earth’s surface which could have its origin in the total lack of heat. 3. It will be said and argued that ice surely lacks all warmth, and especially the polar ice. With that, the heat will not be able to do much, because at near forty degrees below zero, one would like to know the measuring instrument that could detect some heat there. But I say nothing else than that the scholars of this earth have not yet invented an instrument with which they are able to discern the actual heat from the actual cold matter and precisely determine it. With us, who are in the inner pure knowledge, a completely different measure is introduced and in use. 4. The scientists of the earth begin with the measurement of cold, where water freezes. If at freezing point the actual cold begins, then I would like to know the reason, according to which laws or in which way cold then can increase? Why is a temperature of about four to five degrees below the so-called ice-point still tolerably bearable? But when the thermometer has dropped to eighteen degrees below, everyone will feel the cold very painfully. Can one not, with full rights, say here: Eighteen degrees of cold are therefore more sensitive than four degrees, because at four degrees, apparently more heat than at eighteen degrees prevails. Can one now accept eighteen degrees as complete coldness? Oh no, because you’ve already experienced thirty degrees of coldness. This was even more painful than the eighteen-degree one. Why? Because it contained far less heat than eighteen degrees. But forty degrees will be even more painful than thirty. But is it therefore justified to declare the forty degrees as completely void of heat? 5. But I want to tell you that these are nothing but transitions from heat to cold, and vice versa. Therefore one can accept this much more correct scale: 6. Every thing, every body that can still be heated, cannot be called completely cold, for the amount of heat it has within itself corresponds to its size and density. A lump of ice from the highest north can be melted by the fire, and the water brought to boiling point. If this ice had no inherent heat, it could never be heated. 7. Cold is therefore the property of a being in which there is no longer any warming capacity. Thus, one can justifiably attribute the formation of ice on the North Pole solely to the reaction of heat, where it is threatened by the cold, seizing, contracting and solidifying its bodies so that they can resist the actual cold. 8. Warmth is therefore equal to love, but the real cold is like the real hellish lovelessness. Wherever it wants to appear ruling, the all-enlivening and sustaining love arms itself against it, and the real cold, which kills everything, cannot achieve any victory against the armed love. 9. Therefore, what does “love God above everything” mean? Of course, it cannot possibly mean something other than: 10. Combine your God-given warmth of life with the original creative and preserving warmth of your Creator, and you will never lose your life. 11. But if you want to voluntarily separate your love or your warmth of life from the Divine primordial warmth of life, and want to exist as an independently ruling being, your warmth will have no more sustenance. 12. You will thereby move into an ever greater degree of cold. And the deeper you go down into the ever more powerful, colder degrees, the harder it will be to warm you up again. But if you have gone into the perfect cold, then you have fallen completely prey to Satan, where you are so cold that no more warming is possible! 13. What would then happen to you, no angel of heaven would know what to tell you. 14. In God, of course, are infinite depths. But who will be able to fathom these and keep his life? 15. I think that from this short discussion, one can already quite clearly begin to form an idea of why this commandment, this one word of the Lord, is the epitome, indeed a sun of all suns and a word of all words. We want to talk more about it shortly. Chapter 100 – What does it mean to love God above all else? 1. I see one who comes and speaks: It would be all right, but how should one realize this one Divine word on God Himself? How could one truly love God, and above all else? Should one be so in love with God like a young bridegroom would be with his beautiful and rich bride? Or should one be in love with God like a mathematician with a mathematical calculation or an astronomer with his stars? Or should one be in love like a speculator with his commodity, or a capitalist with his money, or a sovereign one with his dominions, or even like a ruling monarch with his throne? These are the only possible standards of serious human love, for the children’s love for their parents cannot be properly established as a serious measure of love, as the example teaches that children can leave their parents to either build a good marriage or to gain much money or to take a high honorary position. With all this, the love of the children for their parents steps down and must necessarily take on a more powerful position. Therefore, only the most powerful standards of human love are given here, and then the question is, by which one should one actually measure the love of God? 2. But if now somebody comes and says: With this or that one, I say: friend! That cannot be. 3. It is true that the most powerful measures of love I quoted are probably the only ones according to which man’s greatest power of love can be measured; but it says that one should love God above all, which means as much as: more than anything in the world. 4. So, how does one begin to raise the love to such a potency of which no human spirit can form any measurable or comparable concept? One will say, for example, that one should love God even more than his own life. Here I say in objection: With the love of one’s own life, the highest love for God holds out even less of a comparison than with the love of the children for their parents. Because it is already well known that the children do not risk their lives out of love for their parents; on the contrary, they expect the parents to fight for them to the death. 5. The self-love of children is usually far more powerful than their love towards their parents. But we see, on the other hand, that the children of men often put their lives on the line for the sake of other benefits.One is sailing across the ocean on stormy nights, another is facing the line of fire of the enemys army, and a third often goes to the unstable abysses of the earth to fetch metallic treasures. And so we see that these external worldly-earnest standards of human love are certainly stronger and have a more general applicability than children’s love for their parents and the love of their own lives. 6. But of what use are all these standards, if far above them, the love for God should stand on such a level, against which all other love measures should sink back into pure nothingness? See, my dear friends and brothers, our objector has attacked us sharply, and we will have to stand up with much vigor in order to win against the opponent’s overweight. 7. But I am just seeing another very serious-looking opponent. This one is sure of his victory and says: Oh, we will deal with this objector soon, because the Lord has even given us the explicit standard of how to love God. Therefore, I need say nothing other than what the Lord Himself has said, namely, “He who keeps my commandments, it is he who loves Me.” – This is the actual measure of how to love God. 8. If the objector has enough sharp and strong teeth, he should still try to set up some other unbeatable measure. Good, I say, the objector is still around and makes an effort to bite this objection a bit. So we want to listen to him and see what he’s going to say. He speaks: 9. Good, my dear, friendly opponent! In the presentation of your objection you have shown to me, according to your measure of the highest love of God, nothing other than that you have a fairly good memory by quoting so many texts from the Holy Scriptures. But see, whoever wants to receive life from all the texts not only has to know them but should also be able to vividly perceive their meaning. 10. What would you say, if I spoke to you from the mouth of the Lord Himself, not just one, but several objections, according to which the Lord Himself presents the love from the fulfillment of the law as insufficient? Although you make a face now, as if you want to say: Such texts should probably be sparsely scattered in the Scripture. But I say to you: Dear friend, not at all. Just listen to me, I will immediately show you half a dozen, if you’d like to see. 11. Are you aware of the Lord’s talk with the rich youth? Does he not ask: “Master, what shall I do to achieve eternal life?” What does the Lord answer with? You speak triumphantly: The Lord says, “Keep the commandments and love God, and you will live!” Good, I say, but what does the youth say? He says, “Master, I have kept them since my childhood.” 12. That’s all right. But why, I ask, did the boy give this answer to the Lord? He wanted to tell him this: Although I have kept them all since my childhood, I still feel nothing of the wonderful eternal life in Me. 13. Why does the Lord then declare to the youth that the keeping of the commandments for the attainment of eternal life is insufficient, and also makes a very tremendous addition, saying, “So sell all your goods, distribute them among the poor, and follow Me! 14. Question, if the Lord makes such an addition, is the observation of the laws then the highest love for God? See, there’s a catch, but let’s move on! 15. What does the Lord say to His apostles and disciples when He introduces and preaches to them the duties to be fulfilled? He speaks nothing but the simple, very meaningful words: “When you have done all things, confess that you are lazy and useless servants. 16. I ask you now: does the Lord here declare the obedience to the commandments as sufficient, while He evidently declares that every man who completely fulfills the law should consider himself completely useless? See, there is already a second, even greater catch. But let us continue! 17. Do you know the parable of the Pharisee and tax collector in the temple? The Pharisee joyfully gives himself the faithful testimony before the sanctuary, that he, unlike many others, has fully fulfilled the law of Moses in all its aspects. The poor publican in a remote corner of the temple, in his immensely humble position, faithfully shows to every observer that he did not manage to fulfill the conditions of the Mosaic Law, for he dares not even to look up to the sanctuary of God due to his many sins, but confesses even his worthlessness before God and pleads for mercy and grace. 18. Surely I would like to know about you, my dear literal friend, why, if the law is sufficient, the Lord lets the Pharisee, who strictly observes the whole law, leave the temple unjustified, all the while letting the poor, sinful publican leave the temple justified? 19. See, if you look at this in the right light, it seems as if the Lord Himself has created a third great catch with the strict observance of the law. You now shrug and do not know what you should make of it. Do not worry about it, it gets even better! So let us continue. 20. What would you say, if I would quote to you from the Scriptures, and indeed from the mouth of the Lord Himself, a text, according to which He indirectly invalidates the whole law and sets a completely different aid, through which He alone guarantees the acquisition of eternal life? 21. You speak now: Good friend, I also want to hear this text. You shall have it soon, my dear friend! What does the Lord say when He found a child by the wayside, picked him up, pressed him to His heart and cuddled him? He says: “If you do not become like this child, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven!” 22. Question: Did this child, who had barely spoken a few words, ever study the laws of Moses and then strictly arrange his life accordingly? There is no person in the world so stupid who could say that. Ask therefore: How could the Lord here designate a child who had never dealt with the law of Moses before as the supreme motive for the gaining of eternal life? Friend, I’ll say nothing more than this: try to raise an objection against this. You are silent. So I see that with your lineup you have already retreated quite far into the background with this fourth catch. Chapter 101 – What does the Love for God consist of? 1. You have seen in these four points that the Lord, on the one hand, does not present the sole obedience to the law as sufficient for the attainment of actual eternal life, and, in the fourth point, even indirectly abolishes it. 2. But what would you say, if I would cite a few points where the Lord even spoke rebukingly about the observance of the law? You say here: That cannot be possible! For that, I can offer you not just one, but, if you wish, several examples. Hear! 3. Anyone who has studied the Mosaic Law only to some degree must know how much Moses commanded hospitality to the Jewish people. Those who turned against hospitality were declared worthy of punishment before God and before men. The law of hospitality was all the more intensified for the Jewish people who were very prone to greed, in order to protect this people from self-love and greed, and to lead them to charity. 4. The law, therefore, was to receive and serve a foreign guest with all attentiveness, especially if he belonged to the Jewish nation; and this law was from God; for God, not Moses, was the Lawgiver. 5. But when the very same Lord, who had once given the laws through Moses, comes to Bethania into the house of Lazarus, Martha is there ,law-abidingly, and offers all her strength to serve this most worthy guest with due respect. Mary, her sister, forgets about the law out of sheer joy for the exalted guest, sits down idly at His feet and listens with the utmost attention to the stories and parables of the Lord. Martha, somewhat upset about her sisters inaction and obliviosness of the law on this occasion, turns herself eagerly to the Lord and says, “Lord! I have so much to do, would you bid my sister to help me a little! “Or, to be more clearl, Master, You, the Founder of the Mosaic Law, do remind my sister to be obedient. 6. What is the Lord talking about here? “Martha, Martha!” He says, “you’re worried about worldliness! Mary has chosen the better part, which will never be taken from her. 7. Tell me now, my dear friend, whether this is not an obvious censure of the Lord against the zealous and exact observance of the law, and, on the contrary, an extraordinary commendation of the person who, to a certain extent, does not care about the whole law, but rather speaks through her actions (Maria): 8. Lord, when I have You, the whole world is not worth anything to me! Does the Lord not again show that the observance of the law alone does not give anyone the better, and especially not the best part, which would never be taken from him? See, that is a fifth catch. But let us move on! 9. What does the Lord Himself say to Moses, in the third commandment, “Thou shalt sanctify the Sabbath”? Question, what does the Lord Himself do in the face of His literal fulfillers of the law? See, He goes forth and desecrates the Sabbath Himself, apparently according to the literal sense of the law, and even allows His disciples to reap ears on a sabbath day and to satiate themselves with the grains. How do you like this observance of the law of Moses, where the Lord Himself, as it were, does not only desecrate the whole Sabbath for Himself, but to the greatest annoyance of the literal law-enforcers? You will say that the Lord could do that, because He is also a Lord of the Sabbath. 10. Good, but I ask: Did the angry Pharisees know that the carpenter’s son was Lord of the Sabbath? – You think they should have recognized His miracles. But then I say: marvels were not enough for these people to discern the perfect divinity in Christ, for all the prophets worked miracles at all times, the true ones as well as sometimes the false ones. One can therefore not assume that the miracles of Christ should have convinced the Pharisees of His Divinity and glory. 11. But all the prophets, except for Him, sanctified the Sabbath. He alone overthrew it. Would that not have been a nuisance to the literal law-abiders? Certainly, and yet the Lord did not stop with His activity. 12. But what does it mean? Nothing other than that the Lord sets the observance of the law at the very bottom. Why? A little parable out of your own sphere, like of the sphere of every man who has ever lived in the world, will bring you the answer: 13. A father has two children. He has announced his will as law to these children. He showed them a field and vineyard and said, “You have become strong, and so I demand of you that you diligently work for me in the vineyard and the field. From your work I will know which of you loves me the most.” Well, that is the law, according to which, of course, to the son who loves the Father most, would be given more glory. 14. But what are the two sons doing? The one takes the spade and persistently tills the earth all day long and tills the field and the vineyard. The other one is working at his leisure, as one would say. Why? He says: When I am in the field or in the vineyard, I must always bid my dear father farewell, besides, I am not as glory-hungry as my brother. When I have my dear father, who is everything in my heart, when I can be around him, I do not ask for much or for one or the other allotment of glory. 15. The father also says to his second son from time to time: but see how your brother works diligently and seeks to earn my love. But the son says, O dear father! When I am in the field, I am far from you, and my heart does not give me rest, but always speaks aloud to me: Love does not live in the hand, but in the heart, therefore it does not want to be earned with the hand, but the heart. Father, give my brother, who works so diligently, the field and the vineyard. I am sufficiently provided for by you, if you will only allow me to love you to my heart’s content at all times, as I want and must love you, because you are my father, my all. 16. What will the Father then say, and that from the innermost depth of his heart? Certainly nothing other than: 17. Yes, my dearest son, you have revealed your heart to me; the law is just a test. But my son, love, is not in the law, for everyone who keeps the law alone keeps it out of self-love in order to earn my love and glory with his energy. But the one who keeps the law is still far from My love, because his love is not attached to Me, but to the reward. 18. But you have turned back, you may not disdain the law, because your father gave it, but you have risen above the law, and your love has led you back to your father. So then your brother should receive the field and the vineyard and enter into my glory; but you, my dearest son, shall have what you have sought, the Father Himself and all His love! 19. I think, my dear friend, it will be obvious from this parable what is better, that dry abiding of the law, or to pass it over and embrace my love. 20. If all is not completely clear to you yet, I ask you: if you had the opportunity to choose a bride out of two virgins, of whom you would be convinced that both love you, but you are not yet completely sure which one loves you the most. Would you not very much wish to find out who does love you the most, to choose the one who loves you most? You say: That’s very clear, but how do I find out? That we’ll come to know shortly. 21. See, you come to the first one. She is busy and active. Out of love for you, she does not mind all the hard work she does for you, because she makes shirts, socks, nightgowns, and more such clothing for you. She has so much to do, that not seldom, because of all the work, she is hardly aware of you when you come to her. See, that’s the first one. – The second one works very casually. She also does things for you, but her heart is too busy with you to give her attention to the work. If you visit her, and she sees you coming from far away, there is no talk of working, because then she knows nothing higher, nothing more commendable than you alone! You alone are her all in all, for you she would give the entire world! Tell me, which of the two will you choose? 22. You say: Dear friend! The second one is dearer to me, because why would I care about a few shirts and stockings? Obviously it can be seen here that the first one seeks to earn me only by forcing me to acknowledge her merit. The other, however, seeks to love me. She is beyond merit and knows nothing higher than me and my love. I would take the second one for my wife. 23. Well, I tell you, my dear friend, do you not see clearly the nature of Martha and Mary here? Do you see what the Lord is saying to the law-abiding Martha and what to the idle Mary? 24. But from this you can also see what the Lord demands of every human being beyond the law, and at the same time tangibly reveals what mans love for God consists of. For just that very reason the Lord even curses, upset in his heart, the literal observer of the law (the Pharisees and the scribes), praises the sinful publican, and makes the kingdom of heaven more accessible to the thieves, whores, and adulterers than the dry slaves of the letter 25. Therefore I ask the objector now with the fullest right once again, according to which measure one should love God above everything? If I have the measure, then I have everything, but if I do not have the measure, then I love as someone who does not know what love is. So again the question: 26. How should one love God above all else? – And I, John, say: To love God above all means: 27. To love God beyond all law! – How to do this shall be made clear shortly. Chapter 102 – How to love God above all else 1. But in order to know and understand thoroughly how to love God beyond the law, one must know that the law in and of itself is nothing but the dry way to the true love of God. 2. He who begins to love God in his heart, has already traveled the way; but whoever loves God only through the obedience of the law, is still a traveler with his love on the way, where no fruit grows and not infrequently robbers and thieves of the wanderer wait. 3. But whoever loves God purely, loves Him above all else! For to love God above all means to love God beyond all law. Whoever is out on the way, must go on, step by step, in order to reach, in the most painstaking manner, the goal set for him. But he who loves God fully, skips the whole way, that is, the whole law, and he loves God above all else. 4. One could probably say here: That sounds odd, for according to our concepts “to love God above all” means to love God more than everything in the world. – Good, I say, and I ask at once: What measure does man have to measure such a love? The Objector has very clearly differentiated all these measures for the highest possible love of man upon earth, and has also shown that man does hereby indeed not have a measure for the above-all-love for God. 5. But I say: Is not everything explained by the given law, how man has to behave in his desire for worldly things? All things are therefore represented in the law, and besides that, for the love of man, the just limitation is given, according to which every man has to behave towards worldly things. 6. But if somebody loves God beyond the law, he certainly loves him beyond all worldly things, because, as I have just said, the use of worldly things and the attitude towards them, according to the Divine order, are represented by the law. A short addendum in a comparative position will make the whole thing as clear as daylight. 7. The Lord speaks to the rich youth: “Sell everything, distribute it among the poor, and follow Me!” – What does that mean? In other words, if you, young man, have observed the law, then rise above it, return all laws and all things to the world, and you stay with Me, then you have the life! 8. Who will now not know what it means to love God beyond the law? 9. The Lord continues to speak to the disciples: “If you do not become like little children, you will not enter the kingdom of God.” What does that mean? Nothing other than this: 10. If you are not like this little child, not caring about anything in the world, neither the law nor the things of the world, coming to Me and taking hold of Me like this child with all love, you will not enter into the kingdom of God! Why not? Because the Lord Himself speaks again: “I am the way, the truth, and the life!” So whoever comes to Me, who is completely one with the Father, must enter through Me into the stable or the kingdom of God. 11. As long as one does not embrace the Lord Himself, he cannot come to Him, even if he had, like a rock, observed a thousand laws without fail. For whoever is still on the way is not yet with the Lord, but whoever is with the Lord, what does he still have to do with the way? 12. But here among you there are fools, many hundreds of thousands, who hold the way much higher than the Lord. And when they are already with the Lord, they turn back and move away from Him once more, to be on the wretched way! Such people enjoy subjection, slavery, and the hard yoke more than the Lord, who makes every man free. His yoke is exceedingly light and His burden is gentle. Light is the yoke, so that in the course of your life, your love for the Lord will not press your neck, and the burden will be gentle, which is the sole law of love! – Next we will look at an example. 13. The just Pharisee praises himself by the wayside; but the tax collector finds the whole way quite difficult. For he will never be able to oversee his goal. He therefore bows down deeply before the Lord in his heart, realizes his weakness and inability to walk the path. But he embraces God the Lord with his heart and thereby makes a great leap over the whole arduous way and thereby reaches his goal! 14. Who will not reach out with his hands and realize what “to love the Lord above all things” means? – So let’s move on. The Martha is on the way, the Maria at the goal! One hardly needs to say more about it, for it is obvious and clear here what “loving the Lord above all things” means. 15. But if we want to make the matter clearer, let us look at the scene where the Lord asks Peter three times if he loves Him? – Why does He ask him three times? For the Lord knew anyway that Peter loved Him, and He also knew that Peter would answer all three questions with the same heart and the same mouth. The Lord knew that. It is not for this reason that He asked Peter this question, but that Peter should confess that he is free and loves the Lord beyond all law. And so the first question means: “Peter, do you love Me” – Peter, did you find Me on the way? – Peter affirms this, and the Lord speaks: “Feed my sheep”! that means: Teach also the brothers to find Me! – The second question: Peter, do you love Me? That means: Peter, are you with Me, are you at the door? – Peter affirms this, and the Lord says, “So feed My sheep!” Or: So bring the brethren to be with Me at the door to life! And for the third time the Lord asks Peter: “Do you love Me?” That means as much as: Peter, are you beyond all law? Are you in Me like I am in you? Peter apprehensively affirms this, and the Lord speaks again: “So feed My sheep and follow Me!” That means as much as: So you may also bring the brothers, so that they are in Me and live in My order and love, just like you. 16. For following the Lord means living in the love of the Lord. I think to say more about what “to love God above all things” means, would be superfluous. And since we now know this and have recognized the Light of lights, we will immediately go to the twelfth and last hall.

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The Spiritual Sun, Vol. 2 Messages of Jesus Christ on the spiritual life in the Beyond Given thru the inner word to Jakob Lorber (1842-43) Millions and Millions of souls from children are mentored, taught and provided for in the ‘Kingdom of the Children’ (Spiritual Sun Volume 2, 67-101). The Guidance through the ‘Children’s Kingdom’ takes place by the Apostle of Love, John. Chapter 93 1. We are in it and see on the tablet written in clear font: “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife!” 2. It hardly needs to be mentioned that this commandment here in the pure realm of the spirit, and especially in the realm of children, surely sounds a bit strange to every thinker. For the moment, these children do not know in the least what a married woman is, for instance, and secondly marriage between the sexes is absolutely not the norm or the way at all, especially in the realm of the children. In the kingdom of spirits this commandment appears to have, according to this consideration, no application. 3. But it will be said: Why would the Lord not have given one out of ten commandments which corresponds only to earthly conditions? For on earth, the connection between man and woman is customary and is therefore an old-established relationship based on the Divine order, which without a commandment, cannot remain in the Divine order. So one can assume here that among the ten commandments, the Lord has given one merely for the maintenance of the order of an external, earthly relationship, so that by maintaining this order, a spiritual, inner, superior order is not disturbed. 4. Well, if that is so, then I say: this commandment is then nothing but a highly superfluous repetition of the sixth commandment, which in any case is quite the same. For even here, in its complete course, everything is represented as forbidden, which has only some relation to fornication, whoring, and adultery, both in the physical, and especially in the spiritual sense. 5. If we weigh this a little against each other, it follows that this commandment is not good for heaven, and that it is a superfluous addition to the sixth commandment. 6. But I already see someone saying: Ha! Dear friend, you are mistaken. This commandment, forbidding the very thing that is forbidden in and of itself, which is prohibited in the sixth commandment, is nevertheless quite peculiar to itself and higher and deeper than the sixth commandment. In the sixth commandment, evidently, only the real gross act is forbidden, but in this tenth, the desire, and the desire as the all-time root-cause for action. For one often sees that especially young husbands usually have beautiful young wives. How easy it is for another man to forget his wife, who may not be beautiful, and to gape at the beautiful wife of his neighbor, awakening an ever greater urge and an ever greater desire for his neighbor’s wife, and commit adultery with her. 7. Well, I say, looking at this commandment from this point of view, there are no more than a half-legion of ridiculous and foolish things, by which the Divine nature of such a sublime commandment gets dragged through the filthiest dust and the most stinking sludge of the worldly wits and minds of the people. For the sake of example and explanation, we will, of course, cite some ridiculousness, so that it will be clear to everyone how shallow and external this commandment was understood, explained, and acted upon, for over eight centuries. 8. A man should therefore have no desire for the wife of his neighbor. Here it can be asked: What kind of longing or desire? Because there are a lot of honest and well-tolerated longings and desires that a neighbor can address to the wife of his neighbor. But in the commandment it is absolutely necessary to have “no desire”. As a result, only the two neighbors may be in conversation with each other, but each other’s women should always be looked upon with contempt. This is no more and no less than an almost Turkish conception of this Mosaic commandment. 9. Further, if one considers the matter literally and materially, surely one must literally take everything literally, and not take a few words literally and a few words spiritually; which would be just the same as if someone would wear a pair of trousers with one leg black and the other a very subtle transparent white. Or, as if to claim that a tree had to grow such that half of its trunk would appear with bark and the other with no bark. According to this consideration, the tenth commandment prohibits only the desire for the wife of the “neighbor”. Who can that be in the literal sense? Nobody else but either the nearest neighbors or close blood relatives. Literally, therefore, one should have no desire only for the wives of these two neighbors; the wives of distant inhabitants of a district, and especially the wives of foreigners, who are certainly no neighbors, could be demanded without further ado. For such a person will understand without mathematics and geometry that in comparison to the nearest neighbor, one living a few hours away, or even a foreigner, cannot be reckoned for a neighbor or a close relative. See, that too is Turkish, because they hold this commandment only towards Turks, towards foreign nations, they have no law. – Let’s proceed. 10. I ask: is the wife of my neighbor exempt from this attitude of the Divine law? For the law only states that a man should have no desire for the wife of his neighbor. But there is no syllable of the commandment that a randy woman should have no desire for her nearest neighbor. In this way, the women is evidently given a privilege to seduce the men they see without hesitation. And who will forbid them to do such a thing, since there is no commandment from the Lord in this case? That, too, is from Turkish philosophy; for the Turks know from the literal sense of the Bible that the women are free from such laws. Therefore, they lock them up so they cannot go outside and make other men lust after them. If a Turk permits a walkabout to one of his wives, she must make her appearance so unflattering, that she would even inspire respect in a bear. She is only allowed to show her charm in front of her husband. Who can raise an objection against it, as if such could not be recognized from the literal sense of this commandment? Obviously, this ridiculousness has its undeniable cause in the commandment itself. But let’s go on. 11. Cannot the nearest neighbors have grown-up daughters or other pretty maids? According to the tenth commandment, is it lawful or not to have desire for the neighbor’s daughters or other girls, even as a husband? Apparently, such is permitted, for in the sixth commandment, there is no talk of desire, but only of the act. But the tenth commandment only forbids the desire for the wife, so the desire for the daughters and any other pretty girls of the neighbor is permitted without argument. – Look; Here again we have a Turkish interpretation of the law. But in order to make the matter clear as daylight we want to cite a few such ridiculous things. Chapter 94 – Who is the ‘you’ in the tenth commandment? 1. The law says: “Thou shalt not desire thy neighbor’s wife.” – Is it not possible to ask: Who is actually “you”? Is he a married man, a widower, an unmarried young man, a youth, or is it also a woman to whom one can also say: Thou shalt not do this or that? It will be said here that this is primarily intended for the male sex, regardless of whether single or married, and that women may incidentally also be included and should not have the right to entice and desire other men, all of that is self-evident. 2. But I say however: If men are even able to determine their statutes, and in their very statutes they make fine and clever dispositions for every possible case, then one cannot blame the Lord as if He had given inconclusive laws out of ignorance, or, like a cunning lawyer, He would have put his laws on paper as such that people would inevitably have to sin one way or the other. 3. I think that to come to such a conclusion at the closer consideration of this seemingly indefinite law, would be a bit gross. It is therefore much more feasible to conclude that this law, like all others, is a most definite one. It has been so distorted and misinterpreted over time, and especially in the period of the hierarchy that has arisen, that by now, no man knows the actual, true meaning of this law. And all that happened because of sheer greed. In the true sense of the word, this law would never have given a penny to the priesthood, but in its covert sense, it gave rise to all sorts of taxed mediations, dispensing, and divorces; and of course in the earlier days far more than now. For then it was the case that two or more neighbors could not protect themselves against the transgression of this law. How come? 4. Of course, they had to conscientiously confess several times a year, out of great fear of hell. Then they were diligently examined on this point, and even in the case of if some neighbour would give a beautiful young woman at the side of a neighbour even a thought, a glance, or even a conversation,it was explained to be an adulterous sin against this commandment, which was usually accompanied with a sacrificial penalty. If the approach was a little closer, condemnation was complete, and the one who had sunk down to Hell on the pair of balances of St. Michael had to throw very important sacrifices into the other empty scale, so that it would tip over again and pull the poor condemned sinner fortunately out of hell again. The priests who held the power of God are not among those who demand much, but they rather want everything in earnest! 5. In this way many very wealthy knights and counts once had to bite the bullet and, on top of that, as a remission from hell, bequeath their goods to the church. Their unfortunate wives were taken into a convent as atonement for the punishment of their unfaithful husbands. Also the possible children both male and female were then usually divided into such monasteries, where one must possess no earthly riches. 6. I think that this should be enough to see all the really nasty things that came out of the distortion of this law. The indeterminate “you” of the law was the primary source of dispensing, which usually incorporated the most. If someone had made a great sacrifice, you could modify the “you”, so that the sinner at least would not go to hell. On the contrary, however, this “you” could also be so damnably determined, by the presumed power of ‘binding and loosing’, that only very significant sacrifices could help the sinner in salvation from hell. 7. We have now seen to what aberrations the indefinite “you” gave opportunity. But let us not content ourselves with this, but consider some of these ridiculous interpretations, so that it becomes all the clearer to everyone how necessary the acquaintance with the pure meaning of the law is, without which one can never become free, but must remain slavishly under the curse of the law! – And so we proceed! Chapter 95 – Examples of wrong views of the tenth commandment 1. As the law says, we know that it prohibits a desire or longing. But now it comes to mind: some man is impoverished while his neighbor is a rich man. The wife of the neighbor, as the neighbor of our poor man, has, as he knows, a compassionate and benevolent heart. Our poor man evidently gets a longing for the benevolent wife of his neighbor, and desires to silence his hunger. Question, did he sin or not? He obviously had a desire and longing for the wife of his neighbor. But since it says: Thou shalt have no desire for the wife of thy neighbor, who can justifiably declare this reasonable desire of the poor as sinful? For under “no desire, no longing,” surely every desire and every longing must be forbidden, since in the word “none” there allows no exception whatsoever. So, therefore, a desire of whatever kind must be forbidden. 2. Does this not make it seem as if the Lord thereby wished to divert the female sex from charity, according to which, then, every good deed that a housewife gives to a poor man, is to be regarded as a sin which completely runs counter to the Divine command? 3. But is it possible to think of such an absurd command coming from the supreme love of the Lord? It could be said here, of course, that the commandment is limited only to carnal, sensual desire. But I say: It is good, so if it should be thus, then just allow me to make some remarks. If these remarks kill the “should be thus”, then every one of us must be content to take another course in determining this commandment. And so you hear the remarks. 4. The commandment should therefore only prohibit a sensual carnal desire. Good, I say, but ask: Is there a certain woman in the command, or are all the women included in the commandment, or are there certain natural exceptions? 5. Suppose several neighbors have old, no longer attractive women. We can be assured that these neighbors no longer have a carnal desire for both their wives. Accordingly, only the young women should be understood, and only if they are beautiful and charming. Surely even men who are old and full of days, will not be much tortured by carnal sensual desires towards whatever women of their neighbors. 6. From this, however, we see that this law is valid only under certain conditions. So the law has gaps and thus has no general validity. For where nature already makes exceptions and a law does not even have the full natural validity, how should it extend to the spiritual? If you cannot understand this, just break off a tree and see if it will then grow and bear fruit. 7. But a Divine law must surely be so constituted that its blissful validity is “lawful” for all eternity. If, however, in the course of the short earthly existence, it is naturally pushed beyond the applicable limits, and thus already ceases to be active in the natural state of man, what shall it then be for eternity? Is not every law of God founded in His infinite love? But what is it afterwards, when such a law is made invalid? Is this something different from what one might claim that Divine love, under certain circumstances, also ceases to be valid for man? 8. But this is also the basis of the sad faith of your pagan-Christian side, according to which the love of God lasts only as long as man lives in this world. Once he has died in his body and merely exists there in soul and spirit, the immutable, terribly strict, punitive angry righteousness of God takes immediate effect, in which there is no talk of everlasting love and mercy. 9. If man, through his way of life, deserves heaven, he will not go to heaven because of the Divine love, but only according to the Divine justice, of course, through his own good and pleasing mercy. But if man has not lived thus, eternal damnation is present immediately, from which salvation is never to be expected. In other words, it says as much as that there is some stupid Father who has set up a law in His household against His children, which means: 10. I give complete freedom to all my children from birth until their seventh year. During this time you should enjoy all my love without distinction. After the seventh year, however, I withdraw my love from all the children and from then on I either want to judge you or make you happy. Those who, as minor children, have kept my heavy laws, from the seventh year onwards shall enjoy their highest pleasure. But those who, in the course of the seven years, have not completely improved one atom according to my great law, from now on are to be forever cursed and rejected from my, the father’s, house. – Say, what would you say to such a cruel donkey of a father? Would not that be more than the most shameful tyranny of all tyrants? 11. But if you were to find such a man indescribably foolish, bad, and evil, how horribly nonsensical must those men be who can ascribe even far worse things to God, who is the Supreme Love and Wisdom Himself! 12. What did the Lord do on the cross as the sole Divine Wisdom, since, by manner of speech, He was as if separated from the eternal Love? He, as Wisdom, and as such the foundation of all righteousness, turned Himself to the Father or the eternal Love, not calling for just vengeance, but He implores Love to forgive all these abusers, including the high priests and Pharisees their deeds, for they did not know what they were doing! 13. So this is what Divine justice does for itself. Should the infinite Divine Love then begin to condemn where the Divine justice implores the still infinitely more merciful Love for mercy? 14. If one does not accept that the Lord was really serious in His request, and says that He has only done so as an example, does one not then make of the Lord a hypocrite, by only seemingly making Him ask for forgiveness on the cross, but secretly one sees in Him the irrepressible revenge, according to which He has long condemned all these evildoers to the most intense hellish fire? 15. O world! O people! O most terrible nonsense that could ever be conceived in all infinity and eternity! Is it possible to think of something more shameful than to make the Lord on the cross a liar, a false preacher, a traitor, and thus a universal con artist, for the false, though temporally lucrative, justification of hell? From whose mouth except from that of the arch-satan can such a doctrine and words come? 16. I think it is enough here, too, to bring you to the realization of what abominations may come from a very wrong interpretation and exegesis of a Divine law. That it is all the same with you in the world, you can already grasp with your own hands. But why it is so, for what reason, you did not know and could not know; for this law’s knot was too confused, and no one could ever fully loosen this knot. 17. Therefore, the Lord had mercy on you, and let you in the sun, since it is certainly bright enough to announce to you the true solution to this knot, so that you may have insight into the general cause of all evil and darkness. 18. It will of course be said: Yes, how can so much evil depend on the misunderstanding of the Ten Commandments of Moses? 19. I think: Because these ten commandments are given by God and carry in themselves the whole infinite order of God Himself. 20. Therefore, whoever would step out of the Divine order at one point or another, no longer remains in the Divine because it is equal to a straight path. If somebody deviates from this path, can he say: I have deviated only a quarter, fifth, seventh or tenth of the way? Certainly not. For as he leaves the path in the least, he has already departed from the whole way. If he does not wish to return, it will certainly be possible to assert that the single point on the way, where the wanderer deviated from it, had removed the wanderer from the whole way. 21. And so it is with every single part of the Divine law. It will not be easy to find someone who would have terribly sinned against every law, as this is almost impossible. But it is enough if someone would sin at a point and then insist on it. He thus departs from the whole law, and if he does not want it and the Lord does not want to help him, he would never return to the way of the law or the Divine order. And so you may also be assured that most of the evils of the world unfortunately probably originate from selfish and malicious misunderstanding, or rather from the malicious distortion of the meaning of these last two Divine commandments. 22. But we have now sufficiently revealed the ridiculousness and false interpretations of this commandment; Therefore, let us proceed to the correct meaning of this law, in the light of which you will all see these foolish things incomparably brighter highlighted. Chapter 96 – Reason for concealment of the actual meaning of the tenth commandment 1. Here are some who have read the preceding saying: We are seriously curious about what this commandment has for a proper permanent purpose, since every sense we have previously attached to this commandment has irrevocably been drawn into the absurdly ridiculous as it was presented. We seriously would like to know who is the “you”, and also, the wife? For out of this commandment, nothing can be established with certainty. “You” may well be anyone, but whether a woman can be understood by that is still uncertain. At best, the neighbor could be more closely defined, especially if one takes that word in a broader sense, whereby then anyone who needs our help is our neighbor. But the wife is causing the greatest dilemma; because one does not know if a married woman or a single person of the female gender is to be understood. Of course, it is written as singular and not plural; but that does not make the matter any more specific. For if one accepts polygamy in any part of the world, then obviously the simple number would have a new catch. For all this, we are all the more curious about the true meaning of this commandment, in that the literal sense is everywhere wholly inconsistent. 2. And I say: So it is certain and clear that with the assumption of the pure external sense of the letter, only the greatest nonsense can be represented, but never any established truth. 3. It will of course be said here: Yes, why did the Lord not give the law immediately so that it would not be obscure for everyone, but appear quite open in the sense that it actually exists and how it can be observed in that very sense? 4. This objection, at first sounds rather wise; but considered in the light, it is so stupid that one cannot easily imagine something more stupid. But for all to easily see the extraordinary absurdity of this objection, as if one would stand only a few miles away from the sun, and then suddenly see it up close – or like one who cannot see the forest for the trees, so I will make some natural, very brief observations for this occasion. 5. Let us suppose that a so-called naturalist and botanist would like to ask for the convenience of his investigation: Why did not the creative power of the highest Creator create the trees and plants in such a way that the inner core is outside and the bark inside? It would be easy to observe the rising of the juice into the branches and twigs and their reactions and other effects with a microscope? For it cannot have been the intention of the Creator to put the thinking man on earth in such a position that he should never penetrate into the mystery of the miraculous effects of nature. – What do you say to this desire? Is it not extremely stupid? 6. Suppose, however, that the Lord could be bribed by such a request and thus turn the trees and the plants inside out – will not other naturalists come in immediately and say: What good is the consideration of the external core, if we cannot discover the wonderful formation of the inner bark? What follows from this? The Lord would have to submit Himself again now and fix the bark and the core on the outside of the tree in an incomprehensible way. Suppose, however, that the Lord had really done so and the interior of the tree consists now only of wood. Will not another naturalist at once announce a new need and say: Because the bark on the one side and the core on the other, all the wonderful formation of the wood is now concealed. Could not a tree be designed so that everything, core, wood and bark were exposed or at least be as transparent as the air? 7. Whether one can make a tree with all of its countless many necessary organs as transparent as air or at least as pure as water is what opticians and mathematicians should decide. By the way, whether any fruit will grow on perfectly airy trees, may be experienced in the regions of the North Pole or South Pole. For there are sometimes such phenomena that, as in the winter, crystalline ice-trees burst open on the glass windows in the way you do in the winter, but there, in the air. Whether figs and dates appear on these trees, has not yet been determined. 8. With regard to the trees, where everything, core, wood, and bark, should be exposed, you can be perfectly assured that it would be just as easy to make a square ball as such a tree. I think that by this consideration, the stupidity of the above objection should be as clear as the sun before the eyes. But to make the matter, as usual, really excessive, let’s add a few more considerations. 9. Let us suppose that when a doctor who has to study a great deal, and has already swallowed a whole heavy cart full of erudition like a polyp, is called to a dreadfully ill patient, he is often at the sickbed, like a pair of newly-tethered oxen on a steep mountain. The doctor is asked by the bystanders: How is the patient, what is wrong with him? Can him be helped? 10. At these questions the doctor makes a scholarly, but still very questionable and embarrassed face and says: My dears! Nothing can yet be determined; I must first test the illness with some medicine. If there are any reactions, I’ll know what to think of it. But if no reactions occur here, then you must realize for yourself that someone like us simply cannot look into our bodies to find out the location of the disease and its condition. 11. But somebody says somewhat laconically: Mister Doctor, our Lord God would have done better if He had created man like the carpenter does a cabinet that you can unlock and see what is inside. Or the Creator should have placed the more delicate parts, which can be so difficult to reach by means of the fingers, ears, eyes, and nose on the outside, so that this can be easily fixed with a plaster, an ointment, or with a bandage. But it would be best if He had either created man transparent as the water or He should not have made him with such life-endangering parts, but should have made him overall more like a stone. 12. The doctor wrinkles his nose a little, but still speaks: Yes, my dear friend, that would be good and better, but it simply is not the way you just wished it to be. So we have to be content with it, if we are only able to depend on experience regarding the inner state of health and illness of a person by means of experience. For if man were also to open like a box, it would be much more perilous for every human being than it is, because only one little awkward grasp on the inside could instantly take a life. And if one were also able to inspect the entrails through such an opening, that would be of little use. The intestines and their fine organs would have to remain closed since all vital juices and every life activity would cease at the opening of the organ. But as far as the external positioning of the internal parts of the body is concerned, my dear, that would give the human form a most unattractive sight. And if the human being were completely transparent, each would be frightened of the other, for he would simultaneously see the skin, the muscles, the vessels, the nerves, and finally the bones. That such a sight would not be inviting, you can imagine for yourself. 13. I think that in this consideration, the foolishness of the above objection will be more obvious to you. 14. But there is someone else who speaks: It is, of course, absurd to think of natural, material things, that their internal things should at the same time make up their appearance. But the word in itself is neither a tree, nor an animal, nor a human, but it is in and of itself spiritual, in that it bears nothing material in itself. Why should it be like a tree or humans, or any incomprehensible inner meaning? Or how should this be possible considering the already extraordinary simplicity and flatness of the word? 15. Well, I say, let’s take the word “father”. What does it mean? Is the word already the father himself, or does the word signify a truly essential father, of whom this word is merely an external feature? It will be said: Obviously here the word is not the father himself, but only an external designation of it. Well, but then I ask: What then must one understand under the word, so that one recognizes this word as an external, correctly identifying type? Answer: The word must be a man of an appropriate age, married, having living children with his wife, and then truly caring for them physically and spiritually. 16. Who can deny in the least that this rather stretched and exceedingly essential meaning must be contained in the simple word “father,” without which this word would not be a word? 17. But even if in external relations every simple word must permit a more inward explanation and dissection, how much more must each external word have an internal spiritual sense, for everything which is signified by external words, has in itself an inward spiritual power and activity. A father certainly has a soul and spirit. Will the word properly describe the term “father” if it excludes the soul and the spirit? Certainly not, for the essential Father consists of body, soul and spirit, that is to say, something external, internal and deeply internal. If, then, the essential Father is thus alive, then must not the word indicating the father, just as perfectly reflect as in a mirror in the Word, the Father in its essence? 18. I think that a necessary inner sense of the word cannot be represented more completely and clearly. From this, however, it can also be seen that the Lord, if He manifests His will in the world, cannot announce it to external people according to His eternal Divine order, except only through external, pictorial representations, which then are obviously supported by an internal one and an innermost sense. Through this, then, the whole man is supplied with Divine love from his inward to his utmost. 19. But now that we have more than demonstrated the necessity and the certainty of such an institution, it will be an easy matter to find the inner, true meaning of our law almost by itself; and as it is portrayed by me, at least to recognize the incontrovertible, the only true and universal. – And so we go straight to such a presentation! Chapter 97 – The inner, self-evident meaning of the tenth commandment 1. The law therefore reads, as we already know it by heart: “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife,” or: Thou shalt have no desire for thy neighbor’s wife, which is one and the same thing. – Who is “the woman” and who is the “neighbor”? 2. The woman is the love of every man, and the neighbor is every man with whom I come into contact, who is possibly in need of my help. If we know that, we basically know everything. 3. What does the commandment therefore say? Nothing other than: Every human being should not demand the love of his neighbor for his own good; for self-love is in and of itself nothing else than to attract the love of the other for one’s own enjoyment, but not having one spark of love to give back to him. 4. This is then the law in its spiritual sense. But one says: 5. Here it is evidently reproduced in the sense of the letter, which one might have pronounced in the beginning just as well as now, whereby many aberrations would have been prevented. – But I say: That’s correct, though. If one splits a tree in the middle, the core also comes out, and one can look at it just as easily as you could the bark before. 6. The Lord, however, has diligently veiled the inner sense in an outer, natural picture, so that this sacred, inward, living sense should not be attacked and destroyed by any malevolent man, whereby then all the heavens and worlds could be brought to the greatest harm. For this reason, the Lord also said: “Before the great and mighty wise men of the world, it shall remain hidden, and be revealed only to the small, the weak, and the underaged. 7. This principle is already prevalent in the things of nature. Suppose that the Lord created the trees so that their core and their main organs of life would be at the outside of the trunk? Say you yourselves, how many dangers would a tree be exposed to, every second? 8. You know, if you deliberately or wantonly pierce a tree’s inner core, the tree is done for. If any evil worm gnaws through the main trunk root, which is in close contact with the core of the tree, the tree dies. Who is not familiar with the malicious so-called “bark beetle”? What does he do to the trees? He gnaws first on the wood and eats here and there into the main organs of the tree and the tree dies. If, in this already well-guarded manner, the tree is still exposed to so many dangers of life, to what extent would he be exposed if his essential life-organs would be at the outside of the trunk? 9. See, it is just the same and unspeakably worse with the word of the Lord. If the inner meaning would be exposed at the outset, then there would have been already for a long time no religion among men. They would have gnawed and clawed at this inner, holy meaning of their lives as if on the outer bark of the tree of life. The inner holy city of God would have been a long time ago so thoroughly destroyed that no stone would have remained on the other, as they did with the old Jerusalem, and as they did it with the outer words, which only exist in the literal sense. 10. For the word of God in its outward, literal sense as you have it in the Holy Scriptures before you, is so very much different from the original text, as today’s most wretched city of Jerusalem is different from the ancient cosmopolitan city of Jerusalem. 11. All this displacement and fragmentation, and also abbreviation only in the external sense of the letter, is not detrimental to the inner sense, because the Lord, through His wise providence, has created His order since eternity as such, that one and the same spiritual truth would stay preserved undamaged among a great variety of external images. 12. But the case would be quite different if the Lord had at once given the naked inner spiritual truth without a protective outer covering. They would have destroyed this holy, living truth and destroyed it at their discretion, and all life would have been done for. 13. But because the inner sense is so obscured that the world can never possibly find it, life remains secure, even though its outer garment is torn into pieces. And so, of course, the inner sense of the word sounds when it is revealed, as if it were equal to the external sense of the word, and can also be expressed by articulated sounds or words. But that does not confuse the issue in the least. For this reason, the inner, living, spiritual sense nevertheless remains, and is recognizable in that it embraces the whole Divine order, while the picture containing it, expresses only a special relationship which, as we have seen, can never have one general meaning. 14. But just as the commandment just described in the picture, is but an external envelope, and how the inner sense now announced to you is a truly inner, spiritual, and living one, I would like to clearly explain to you with a small reflection. 15. The outer pictorial commandment is known; inwardly it says: Have no desire for the love of your brother or sister! 16. Why is this content and vital commandment here wrapped in the image of the not to be desired woman? 17. On this occasion, I only call your attention to a saying of the Lord Himself, in which He expresses Himself about the love of man for a woman, since He speaks: “So a son will leave his father and his mother and cleave to his wife”. 18. What does the Lord mean by this? Nothing else than man’s most powerful love in this world is that for his wife. For what does man in his order love more in the world than his dear, good, honest wife? In the woman, therefore, the whole love of the man is contained, just as, conversely, the woman in her order certainly loves nothing more powerfully than the man who corresponds to her heart. 19. Thus, in this commandment, under the image of the woman, the whole love of the man or of man in general is set, because the woman is in earnest nothing but an outer, tender covering of the love of the man. 20. Who can escape the explanation that with the picture, “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife”, as much is said as: you shall not demand to your own advantage the love of your neighbor, and all other loves, because the world as wife also includes the whole love of man in itself. 21. If you would consider it with more detail, you will even grasp it with your hands, that all the outer, known vagueness of the external pictorial law are nothing but pure inner general determinations. How, we shall soon see. 22. See, the “you” is indefinite. Why? Because in the internal sense, “everyone” is understood, regardless of male or female gender. Likewise, the woman is indefinite, for it is not said whether an old or a young, whether one or more, whether a girl or a widow. Why then indefinite? Because the love of man is only one, and is neither an old nor a young woman, nor a widow, nor a single girl, but she, as love, is singular in each man. For this, the neighbor should have no desire, because it is each person’s own life. Anyone who has an arrogant, envious, or avaricious desire for this love, is a murderer of his neighbor, seeking to seize his life or love to his advantage. So the neighbor is indefinite too. Why? Because in the spiritual sense, “everyone” is understood, without distinction of gender. 23. I think it should be quite clear to you that the inner sense that I have shown you is the only right one, for it encompasses everything. 24. There may be some who, boasting out of their lunar quarter-light, may object and say, If this is the case, then it is not a sin for anyone to tempt or long after their neighbor’s wife or daughter. I say: Oh, my dear friend! With this assumption you have strongly lost your way into the blue. With the fact that you should not desire the love of your neighbor, and indeed all his love, is not understood “all that he carries as a life duty” in his heart. Behold, therefore, not only the wife and the daughters of your neighbor in the commandment are deprived of your desire, but everything that is embraced by your brother’s love. 25. For this reason, the two last commandments were initially given as one commandment. They are only distinguished by the fact that in the ninth commandment, the love of the neighbor is more singularly to be respected, but in the tenth commandment the very same is given in the most inward sense, representing the observation of respect in general terms. 26. That the desire for the wife and the daughters of the neighbor is forbidden, surely every man can reach this realization with his hands. It is the same than if you give someone a whole ox, you also give its extremities – the tail, horns, ears, feet and so on. Or if the Lord would give a world to someone, then he will give him everything that is on the same and not say: Only the inside of the world is yours, but the surface is Mine. 27. I think the matter cannot be made more clear to the understanding of man. We have now fully acquainted ourselves with the inner, true meaning of this commandment, as it is eternally valid in all the heavens and conditions the bliss of all angels, and we have met every possible objection. So we’re done with that and want to go straight to the eleventh illuminated hall in front of us. There we shall find everything that has been said so far in the clearest light, summarised and confirmed in one point. – So we enter!

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The Guidance through the ‘Children’s Kingdom’ takes place by the Apostle of Love, John. Explanation of the 9th Commandment Chapter 87 1. We are already in the ninth hall and look again at our round table, on which is written: 2. You should not long for what is your neighbor’s, neither for his house, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor his land, nor for everything that grows on it. 3. If we look at this commandment, we must evidently lose ourselves in the same judgments and undergo the same criticism that we have already met in the seventh commandment. For here again there is talk of property, and according to it, one should not have any desire for what one or the other was legally externally appropriated to own. 4. Who could not at once come back to the question and say: How could this commandment be given to the Israelite people in the wilderness, where there is no one who possesses a house, an ox, a donkey, nor any land or seed? One would have to imagine this property among the Israelite people. And at the most it could mean: If your neighbor imagines that he has something, then you should not imagine that you should have something similar, or even the imagination of your neighbor, to have it as if it were seriously your property or as if you want to actually own it. 5. I think that not many critical judgments will be needed here to see the utmost airiness of such a command at first sight. A commandment must always be there only for some assurance of a fixed reality, the loss of which must be something every one of them must have. But what would an air-castle architect lose to another air-castle architect, who would take the unlawful audacity of his fellow air-castle builder seriously. I think the weighing of such enormous damage would require a very fine, even ethereally spiritual scale to measure. If, according to the opinion of a certain sect on earth, the Archangel Michael is seriously endowed with such instruments, I am firmly convinced that he certainly does not lack such a very delicate weight-measuring instrument. 6. I have here only said this in order to accentuate the utter voidness of a purely imagined possession. If it is then so, then why such a commandment, which can certainly not uphold any security of the property of another, where no one has anything in the likeness of property, after which one should not desire, according to this commandment? 7. But one will argue here and say: The Lord has foreseen that, over time, men will create a right of ownership among themselves, and in this regard has already made in advance a command by which a future human property is secured and no one has a mutual right to be allowed to disown the property of his neighbour in whatever way. That would be a nice conclusion! I think Divine love and wisdom could not easily be inflicted more dishonor than with such judgment. 8. The Lord, who surely will advise every human against acquiring anything on earth; the Lord, before whom every earthly wealth is an abomination, should have made a commandment for the purpose and favor of greed, self-love, of usury and avarice, a commandment for the sure awakening of mutual envy? 9. I think it will not be necessary here to spend any more words; for the absurdity of such an exegesis is too obvious to anyone’s eyes to require a long and broad discussion. 10. However, in order to make the case palpable for the blindest, I ask every law-abiding lawyer: What is the basis for the right of ownership? Who gave the first person the property right of a thing? Take for instance a dozen immigrants in an uninhabited land. They find it and settle there. According to which ownership and ownership certificate can they take possession of such a land and settle there as legitimate owners? 11. I already know what they will say here: whoever comes first has the basic right. Well, I say, who then has more or less the right to the found land than the twelve immigrants? It will be said: Strictly speaking, the first instigator of the emigration, or the one who had at first seen this land from the deck of a ship, has the most right. Well, what advantage does the initiator have above the others? If they had not moved with him, he would certainly have stayed home. What has the first seer more than the rest? That he might have sharper eyes than the others? Should this advantage, which only benefits him, be a disadvantage to the others? That would be a rather unfair. So surely all twelve must have equal ownership of this found land. 12. But what do they have to do to realize their equal ownership of this land? You will have to divide it into twelve equal parts. But who does not see the coming quarrels at this division of the first land pieces? For surely will A say to B: Why must I take possession of this part of the country, which in my judgment is obviously worse than yours? And the B will reciprocate for the same reason: I do not see why I should swap my land part for yours. And so we can let our twelve colonists divide the land for ten years, and we will not see that the division will be all right. 13. But would these twelve agree among themselves and make the land a common property; can there then be a commandment to secure property among the twelve? Can one take away something from the other, if the whole country belongs to all, and thus also its products, all of which everyone can take as he pleases, without billing the other for it? 14. In the first case one sees here that originally, a creation of property rights is not easily conceivable. To see that this really is the case, you only have to look to the first settlers of certain areas of your own country, like the so-called Herren-Kloster clergy, who were in a sense the first settlers of this region. If they would be content with division and considered it good, they would certainly not have formed a common good. 15. In short, we can do what we want, but we cannot find any original ownership anywhere. And if somebody comes with his fundamental right, I ask whether one should kill the descendant at the moment of his appearance in the world, or let him slowly starve to death? Or should he be driven out of this country? Or leave him to the mercy of the landowners, but at the same time immediately protect them against him by means of the latest laws? 16. I think it would be fair to ask on what grounds such a descendant can, from the moment of his arrival, be made a scapegoat with regard to the right of land ownership, while the first arrivals could not sin against each other in this? Which lawyer can prove such behavior to me as legally valid? I mean, one would only be able to prove this if you have a satan as a lawyer; for every man, who thinks only reasonably well and fairly, would find such a legal proof impossible. 17. But I can already see that it will be said that in the first colonization of a country there can be no reciprocal property right between the colonists, especially if they have mutually compensated for the common property. But between colonisations, out of which came the first formations of states, the ownership right certainly occurs as soon as they have established each other’s right of existence. 18. Well, I say, if that is the case, then each colony must have original property rights. But how can they, since they only received a right of usufruct from the Lord, but no right of ownership? 19. The right of use has its certificate in the stomach and on the skin. But where does the right of possession express itself, especially when one considers that every human being, whether native or foreign, carries in his stomach and on his skin the same Divine legal right of use as the native does? If one says: The right of ownership has its origin in the rights of use, then this sentence certainly removes any special fortune, because everyone has the same right of use. But if one reverses the matter and says: Ownership gives you first the right of use, because one cannot say anything other than the old legal word: “Potiori jus”, which in other words means as much as: Kill so many usufruct owners by the power of your fist, that you alone can be complete master of a piece of land. 20. Should some foreign usufruct owners still have the appetite to dispute your fought for possession according to their Divine right of use, then beat them all to death or use them, at least in a better scenario, as taxable subjects, so that they may, on your conquered possession, work for you in the sweat of their faces, that you may grant them their right of use according to your discretion. Step up whoever will, and grant me another right of possession; indeed I will surrender all my bliss to him, and I want to be made the most needy citizen on earth for it! Who, from the Divine side, can justify this war? What is he? Nothing but a most brutal coup d’état, taking the right of use from the people and forcibly introducing a right of possession, that is, to destroy the Divine right and to introduce a hellish one in its place. 21. Who then could expect a law from God which would abolish the original Divine Law of Utilization, which was clearly documented in everyone’s being, and replace it with divine power and authority, with a law of hellish right of property? – I think the absurdity of this assertion is even bright and clear for a completely blind man and can be grasped with gloved hands. 22. But from this it is clear that this law must certainly have a different meaning from that of men, where it only secures possession. As Divine law, it must also be valid in all heavens from the depths of the Divine order. But where does anyone in heaven own houses, oxen, donkeys and fields? Heaven is full of usufructuary rights, and the Lord alone is the owner. We therefore want to move on to the right meaning of this law. Chapter 88 Reflections on the ninth commandment 1. However, before we give the full explanation, it will be necessary to make a few remarks in order to shut up the mouths of many juridical wolverines and outraged international law publishers. For they would be able to derive the right to ownership from the collection rights, by which they would apparently be able to win the case against us. Therefore, we want to entrench ourselves on this point. 2. However, it is not to be denied that everyone must have the right of collection before any rights of use. Because, before someone picks up and prepares something with his hands and his strength, he cannot assert his right of use. That’s right, before anyone wants to put an apple in his mouth, he has to pick it from the tree or the ground. 3. For the “collection right” he also has several Divine documents. Certificate No.1 is the eyes. With these he has to look where something is. Certificate No.2 is the feet. With these he has to move to where something is. Certificate No.3 is the hands. With these he has to reach out and take something. So according to this deed, the man has before the Lord the lawful right to collect as an undeniable property. 4. But could it not be said here: is not the collected material then completely the property of the one who, according to his Divine right of collecting, has collected it for his use? Now does another have the right to judge his hands or desire by what his neighbor has gathered? Because one right obviously depends on the other. If I have the natural right of use written by the Creator in the stomach and on the skin, then I must also have the right to collect, because without the right of collection, I cannot satisfy the right of use. 5. But what good is the collection right if it does not secure the bite I bring to my mouth? Because, since everyone has the right to take the apple, which I have picked up with my hand according to my collection right, out of my hand, because he is too comfortable to pick one up, I must obviously forgo my right of use and must starve, whether I like it or not. 6. It is thus necessary that the collection right would at least demand the property right regarding what one has collected, otherwise no right of use could honestly be reasonably thinkable. 7. The right to collection is connected with the right of preparation and production is combined with the collective right. If I would not be allowed to assert the full right of ownership over what I have prepared and produced, then all activity is in vain, and I am compelled, firstly, to consume all the edible things in secret, and, secondly, to always go about naked. Because if I make myself a garment and another, which is too lazy for this work would take it away from me according to his right of use, then the question is: what would be the case with my right to use? 8. If I build a house in a colder area and have no ownership rights according to the right to collect and produce, then the next best company can drive me out of the house and exercise my own right of use in my place. 9. From this, however, it can be seen that, with the natural right of acquisition, a certain prerogative of property rights should be granted to the actively producing person, without which such a property right, taken and considered as is, the existence of a human society is not even remotely conceivable. 10. If, however, the right to collect and prepare are admitted as completely valid, then a piece of land, on which I have cultivated a seed, like a tree which I have planted and refined, must also have been prerogatively considered to be my property. 11. But ask further: who grants me such a right at the planting of a colony? The matter is easy to explain. The colonists choose from their midst one void of greed and wise leader. They grant him the rights to divide and distribute and thus also the responsibility to protect, under mutual oath swearing, as insurance for the maintenance of and compliance to his decree. Because of this assurance, one or the other rebel would be called to order by these order-abiding brothers on behalf of the leader. The how and the means does not matter, for these can and must be first determined according to the degree of the rebellion and then executed. 12. Who does not immediately see the submission and the first monarchical foundation of a state? Also, who does not also see that, as soon as the right to collect, and the right of acquisition and preparation is systematically connected with a prerogative right of property, nobody can be limited to the right of collection, acquisition and preparation on his property granted to him. On the contrary, the chief executive must only endeavor to encourage his subjects to collect and produce as much as possible on their possessions. And the more one acquires by diligence on his property, the more pleasant a situation he creates for himself, and the less limited becomes his rights of use. 13. However, once this right of ownership has been ascertained to secure the right of collection, acquisition and use, this right inevitably leads to the right of hatred; for without this right, no one is the rightful owner of the property he has received from the leader. 14. But this hate-law first requires a precise survey of the property. Once the borders have been determined, only then can any owner make use of the hate rights or the rights of defense of his property. 15. But this hate right is not feasible without authorized guardians. So we have to set up military men, who have the unlimited right to secure everyone’s borders. You must therefore have the right of execution, that is, a criminal or punishment right. But who should guide these military men? Certainly none other than the head of the entire colony. 16. Here, therefore, we have necessarily the emergence of the military state, but at the same time also the determination of an unlimited power of the leader, who can now already command the military men and sanction his commandments. 17. Have we brought it so far, who can still stand there and say: The present state constitutions are not based on this Divine right? Yes, it is all right for a critic, only he cannot yet understand the overarching right of ownership of the monarch. But I say: If one has proved the former in such a way, which was far more difficult, then the right of ownership of a monarch beside it can be proved with a sleeping hood on. We shall see. 18. If, on the part of the leader’s executive wisdom, the right of property is properly in place and the leader has an army at his disposal, capable of guarding the colonists’ possessions, does the leader not have a twofold right to say to the colonists: I am in your midst, have provided for you through my wisdom, and you have made me the leader because you have recognised me as the least greedy man among you. 19. Therefore, I have fairly distributed the land among you, and now protect your property with my wisdom and with the wisely-led military men. But in the distribution I have completely forgotten myself due to my lack of greed. But you will surely see, if you would have need of my continual wise direction, that I cannot live off air. After that, what am I supposed to have for my maintenance in order to live? I have no time for collecting, because I have to use my time to constantly reflect on how your property needs to be continually secured. 20. So you will see that a faithful worker is worth his reward. That’s why I’m declaring that you agree to support me out of your secured supply. I can claim this from you even more rightfully, since the preservation of your mutual right of ownership depends only on my consideration. In addition to my protection, however, the support of the army, which secures your property, is also necessary, for they too, do not have time to work, by keeping your borders in good order. 21. Your own salvation and well-being must therefore make it clear to you that I and the army are unlike you, unable to work, and that each of you therefore should agree to pay me a certain amount of tax for his own benefit. 22. This announced demand seems completely legal and reasonable to all colonists, and they are content with the regulation. In this way, the chief executive has already asserted his first natural, if not supreme, yet co-owned right of all the settlers. 23. But there is such a small gap between co-ownership and the overruling right of ownership that even the smallest child can get a hold of this concept. The boss just needs to say: My dear colonists! It is not unknown to you that another colony has settled over against us. In order to protect us from it, you must give me the unqualified right in everything, so that I can act as your leader in case of emergency, as the main owner of your property, and in such a case can secure the external borders according to my wise insight. I must have the right, in your name, for your own benefit, to negotiate with a foreign nation if it would be more powerful than us. 24. You should also, being colonists who is in need of my guidance, understand what is easy to understand, that I as your leader, must have a permanently built place in your midst in which I can protect and preserve myself, above all for your preservation. But it is not enough for my well-justified security that you build me a dwelling-house, but in order to build my dwelling house, other dwellings have to be erected in order to accommodate the army, who are only dependent on my leadership. In other words, you must build for me in your midst a permanent home (residence) in which I am fully secure, both from strangers and from your own possible attacks. 25. Here we see with great clarity how the monarch necessarily declares himself the landlord of a country. But that was not enough. We want to hear other reasons as well, from the mouth of the founder himself, for he continues to speak: 26. My dear colonists, the indisputable reason for the establishment of a permanent place of residence for me in your midst, I have shown to your insight. So you have the first reason. But listen to me: The land is vast; it is impossible for me to be everywhere myself. Therefore I want to audit you and I will distribute out of you the wisest ones as my officials and deputies all over the country. These proxies you will then owe the same obedience as unto me, for their own benefit. 27. If, however, one or the other subjects under my wise management has been accused of alleged injustice by these my chosen officers, then shall everyone have the right to bring his complaint to me, where he can then be assured that the case will be attended to with perfect justice. On the other hand, for your own benefit, in order to prevent all disputes, you must give me the most faithful and conscientious assurance that you willingly follow my final judgment without the slightest further refusal. In the opposite case, for the good of all, I must also be assured of the indisputable right by all, to deter a rebellious person to defy my final judgment by means of a chastising force in order to obey my will. If all this is done in order, then you will become a truly happy people! 28. Here we see a second step, derived from all former things: Firstly, the sole rule, and secondly, the sole possession of the whole country. And so, in this way, we would have irrefutably displayed the first reason, which was completely grounded in the nature of the matter. This reason can be called the natural, derived from human society. But somebody will say that all this is in and of itself just as true to nature, as surely and certainly the man needs the eyes to see and the ears to hear. We look at these colonists, who are still very crude, and find them to be most zealous and fully obedient to their leader. 29. Yet, exactly from this obedience, the colonists begin to feel increased fear for their leader. And in this fear, one and the other soon ask each other: why is it that among all of us this man is so clever, and we are all to be regarded as true fools compared to him? This question, so small and inconspicuous as it appears at the beginning, is of extraordinary importance, and in its answer is expressed the inviolable official signature to the autocracy and of the sole property right of a monarch. That sounds weird, some might say in advance. Have just a little patience, and we’ll see it in another light right away! Chapter 89 – The inner sense of the ninth commandment 1. See, until now we have seen everything develop from the natural ground; but up till now there has been no higher divine sanction on any ground, by which man alone on earth, especially in his simple state of nature, is led to the inviolable consideration of all that has been imposed upon him by his leader as a duty. 2. The wiser such a primitive monarch initially guides his people, and the more the people are persuaded that the leader is really wise because of his successes, the more they will begin to ask each other: wherefrom is his wisdom and wherefrom our stupidity? The people still know very little or nothing about God, but the leader still has more or less good ideas about Him. 3. What should he now do, if the people who are naturally organized as well as possible, approach him now with such questions from all sides? He summons the more capable, proclaiming to them a supreme being who has created everything and directs everything. Then tell them, in answer to their varied questions, that he receives the wisdom to guide directly from this supreme being. He shows them, with the greatest ease, the undeniable existence of a supreme, all-creating, sustaining, and governing deity, and that this deity only bestows the deep wisdom to whom he has designated to be the beatific leadership of the people. 4. This then means something like: “By the grace of God,” or as with the Romans: Favente Jov. ” Once this step has been taken, the sole ruler and the sole owner is ready to go, and now sits perfectly safe in his center of power, supported by a powerful natural, and even more powerful spiritual necessity. 5. Anyone who has thoroughly gone through all this must finally say: Surely not one atom of this can be criticised, because everything is so closely connected with the first natural-legal records of every human being that one would not dare to split the thinnest thread in order to destroy a happy human society down to its innermost foundations. You can take away anything you want, the defect will soon be visible in the first natural principles of every human being. 6. But if, then, the matter is as such, it follows as clear as sunshine from that, that the Lord of Heaven and the earth, through this ninth commandment, has set up nothing but the complete safeguarding of the particular property for the maintenance of the first principles of natural law. And so there can be no other meaning behind the commandment than what His words signify. 7. For if one wants or is in a position to subject this commandment to any other meaning, then one abrogates the main reason of the first natural-law bourgeois association sanctioned by a supreme being. Ownership, when lifted, necessarily removes the original documents of each person, and no one can collect and make anything more. If he cannot do that, his stomach and his skin go under, and man will be worse off than any animal. With the removal of the literal meaning of this commandment, one takes away in advance every leading chief, and humanity stands in its first wild and chaotic state of nature, sunken beneath the animal kingdom. 8. That’s right, my dear friends and brothers. So far we have seen that through the representation of the inner spiritual sense, the external, natural sense in its just external effect has nowhere been violated. We have also seen that through the ignorance of the inner sense, a given commandment is observed with either very great difficulty, not seldom only for a third part, or not at all. 9. But if a commandment is recognized according to the inner senses, then the natural observance results automatically, especially when someone puts a good seed into the soil. Then the fruit-bearing plant will develop out of it, without the human being having to apply any manipulation to it at all. 10. And so it is with this commandment. If it is recognized and observed inwardly, then everything external, which touches on the sense of the letter, is itself of the good Divine order. But if this is not the case, one sticks only to the external senses, then one thereby negates all legitimate documents of man. The rulers become tyrants and the subjects miserly and usurers. The skin of the gentle is stretched over the military drum or the good-natured donkeys of subjects become the malicious tools of the powerful and usurers. 11. The consequences of this are full-scale uprisings, revolutions, state upheavals and destruction, mutual bitterness among peoples, and then protracted bloody wars, famine, pestilence, and death. 12. What, then, is the meaning by whose observation all peoples must find their indestructible temporal and eternal happiness? In short, it is as follows: 13. Respect one another out of true, mutual brotherly love, and do not envy one another, if one would be given more grace by Me, the Creator, because of his greater love. The one who received grace, however, should let the benefits coming from it benefit all his brothers as much as possible, and so you will thereby establish among you an eternal life-bond, which no power will ever be able to destroy! 14. Who does not immediately recognize that in this explanation of the commandment, not a tick of the literal sense is disregarded. And how easy is this commandment, of course, to think about when one observes it spiritually. Because he who respects his brother in his heart, will also pay respect to what he collected and produced. The spiritual observation of this commandment avoids all usury and all exaggerated selfishness, but only find its sanctioned representative or advocate only in those adhering only to the literal sense. A little review will put this all in the clearest light. Chapter 90 – Blessings of wise limitation 1. In everything, as well as in the commandment, it is by no means stated as sinful or faulty in spirit or nature, for someone to acquire the things collected and made with his hands for his needs; and to such a degree that his neighbor does not have the right to deny him such ownership in whatever way. On the contrary, everyone in it finds only a perfect guarantee of their legally acquired property. 2. But in everything that is said, as in the commandment itself, a wise limitation in the right to gather is offered to everyone. But that the commandment seeks to achieve this in the natural sense, and is meant to be like this even from the Divine order, is most easily visible from the primordial property birthright of every human being. But how? We shall immediately see. 3. How much does the first legal expert in man, the stomach, need according to fair measure? This can certainly be determined by every moderate eater. Suppose a moderate eater needs three pounds of food for the day, which is easily calculated over three hundred and sixty-five days. This is therefore a natural need of a human being. He is allowed to collect this quantity every year. If he has wife and children, he can gather for each person the same quantity, and he has acted completely in accordance with his natural rights. A strong eater, who has to do particularly heavy work, is allowed to collect twice as much. 4. When this is generally observed, the earth will never have to speak of need. For the way the Lord has organized the fertile land area, twelve thousand million people can make an abundant and proper living with proper cultivation and distribution of the land. At present there are hardly any over one thousand million people on earth, and among them there are seven hundred million people living a life of great need. 5. What is the reason for that? Because the very conditions of this Divine law, which is founded in the nature of every human being, are not brought into living practice. 6. Let’s go further. How tall a man is, and how much skin he needs to cover, can also be easily measured. But every human being is allowed to obtain a fourfold covering of the skin according to the season. This is the natural standard for the accumulation of the clothing materials and their preparation. But I want to add once again so much to the upper clothing, and four times more to the underwear, and that for the sake of a clean change. 7. If this measure is applied, there will be no naked human on the whole surface of the earth. But if tremendous garment factories are built on earth, which buy the raw materials with enforced shameful prices, then make an innumerable quantity of more luxurious than useful clothes, and sell them mostly at ridiculous prices to paltry humanity, as well as to many affluent ones, then in the course of ten years, especially the women, people are provided with more than a hundred-fold change of garb – thus, natural proportion is utterly disturbed and of a thousand million people at least six hundred million have to walk around naked. Let’s go on. 8. How big does a house really need to be to comfortably accommodate a couple of people with family and necessary servants? Go to the countryside and see for yourself, and you will surely come to the realization that a just and comfortable accommodation does not require castles and palaces with a hundred rooms. 9. Anything exceeding such proportions, is against the order of God and therefore against His command. 10. How big must a property be? Take a mediocre producing country. On this, with moderate work, and on a surface area of one thousand square klafter (1’000 Klafter² = ~3’600 m²), even with a mediocre yearly harvest, a perfectly sufficient provision for a whole year can be produced. With good soil, half of that is enough, with bad soil, the amount per person can be doubled. The size of land accredited for possession according to natural law, depends on the number of people living in a family house. But we want to be generous to the utmost extent and give twice as much for each person and determine it as being fully approved of God as a natural law. Even if the lands were distributed in this way, more than seven thousand million families on the surface of the earth could also find their fully secured land property. 11. But the present state of affairs on the earth regarding basic distribution is that the land belongs to a few landowners. All the rest of the people are either co-owning, under lease or leased out, and the vast majority of the people on earth do not have a stone to support their heads. 12. Therefore, anyone who possesses more than this given measure, possesses it against the Divine and natural law, and, such a possessor perpetually sins against this commandment. He can redeem this sin only by possessing the greatest possible degree of generosity, and in a manner of speaking only as a guardian, to work his too-large possession for a fair number of homeless people. But how this is foundational to this commandment, we will see in the second point of this reflection. Chapter 91 – Sin against the Divine order of the ninth commandment 1. Secondly, this commandment itself expresses the wise limitation of the right to collect and produce quite obviously and palpably. If we place the relative primordial property from the first point of observation adjacent to it, the ninth commandment points precisely to this by expressly forbidding to have a desire for what is the other’s. 2. So what is the other’s? The other’s is, on the ground the Lord has created for the sole maintenance of man, as much as there is given to him by his measure of natural law, derived from his needs. Anyone who collects and manufactures more than this measure, in fact, even in the first degree, sins against this commandment, for in this commandment even the yearning desire is already shown to be criminal. 3. In the second degree, the lazy sins against this commandment, who is too lazy to exercise his original right of collecting, but only with the desire to gain possession of what another constitutionally collected and manufactured. 4. We see from this that one can thus make oneself guilty against this commandment in a twofold manner, namely firstly, by an exaggerated want of collecting and processing, and secondly, by omitting it altogether. For both cases, however, the command is the same as the wise restriction. In the first case it restricts exaggerated collecting and processing greed, in the second case laziness, with the intention of finding the just middle road; because it expresses nothing else than the respect united with love for the natural needs of the neighbor. 5. But one can oppose here and say that there are presently many rich and wealthy people who, with all their wealth and riches, do not possess a square foot of country property. They have come into a wealth of money through lucky trading speculation or inheritance and now live on their legal interest. What to do about these? Is their property according to the Divine right of natural law or not? For by their possession of money they do not restrict human property by refusing to buy anything anywhere, but they lend their money to good places against the legal interest; or they make other permissible exchange transactions and thereby increase their capital share by many thousands of guilders annually, where they do not need the hundredth part of their annual income for their good food, according to the right of natural need. But they are not uncommonly very just, sometimes even charitable people. Do these too, fail against our ninth commandment? 6. I say here: It does not matter, whatever it is, for a person to possess beyond his need, or to have too much money or too much land. It is all the same. For if I have so much money that I can buy myself a few square miles of land as estate property, that is just as much as if I had really made so much land for this money. On the contrary, it is even worse and much more contrary to Divine order. For whoever possessed so much land property, would necessarily have to be able to provide a living for a few thousand people, since he personally would not be able to handle such a large land property. 7. But consider a man who does not have property, but so much money that he could almost buy a kingdom with it. He can manage this money profitably only in the strictest case, or he needs at the most some accounting assistants, who will receive from him, in comparison with his income, a very moderate salary, often hardly enough to satisfy their needs, especially if they have a family. 8. But no such money-owner can excuse himself with the way he has made the money, whether by speculation, by winning a lottery, or by inheritance. In any case, he stands before God like a receiver next to a thief. How, you may ask? 9. What does becoming rich through lucky speculation mean? That is, and means, nothing other than acquiring for himself the legitimate merit of many usuriously, thereby depriving many of the legitimate merit and appropriating it for himself. In this case, a man who has become rich through lucky speculation, is a barbarous thief. In lottery winnings, he is the same, because he acquires what is to be used by many, for himself. In the case of an inheritance, however, he is a stooge who also takes possession of the unlawful property of his ancestors, who could only claim it by the two aforementioned ways. Chapter 92 – Usury, the most damnable before God 1. But one will say: This provision sounds strange; How can the heir be at fault for inheriting the property of either his parents or other wealthy relatives? Should he, in such a transfer, calculate the natural portion, take that portion from the inheritance, and then give the other part to some random person? Or should he accept all this fortune, but accept only the part of nature which he deserves as his property, or manage the great surplus himself to support lazy idlers, or perhaps surrender such surplus to charity organizations, or the directors of charitable institutions? 2. This question is about as good as one that is usually worth no, and rarely only worth a monosyllabic answer. Are the Divine law and the law of the state, or the Divine wisdom and care, and the secular state politics and so-called diplomacy, one and the same? What does the Lord say? He says: “Everything that is great in the world is an abomination before God! 3. But what is greater in the world than an usurped state power, which, viewed from the Divine side, never submits to the Divine counsel, but only to its secular state wisdom, which consists of politics and diplomacy; and uses their powers for their own exploitative and consumptive welfare? 4. But if it is abominable and disgraceful if any man deceives only one, two or three of his brothers, how much more abominable before God must it be when men know how to crown and anoint a man with all their might, and then under such coronation anointing, deceive entire peoples in all imaginable ways for their own revelry advantages, either by the so-called state wisdom, or, should it not do, then with cruel open force! 5. I think that from this little sentence, one can almost grasp the extent to which the rights of most of the present states handle their affairs contrary to the Divine. I also think that when the Lord said to the rich youth: “Sell all your goods and distribute them among the poor, then follow Me, and you will prepare for yourself a treasure in heaven”, hopefully this statement will suffice to learn what kind of distribution the earthly rich man, if he wants to reap the kingdom of God, should do with his wealth. If he does not do that, then he must ascribe it to himself when the same verdict which the Lord has pronounced over the young man who has become sad, will be pronounced over him: that a camel would be able to get through the eye of a needle more easily than would a rich man be able to enter the kingdom of heaven! Of course, the circumstances must be taken into account that the Lord here has pronounced such a highly regrettable judgment over a young man, who was also certainly an heir. 6. One might ask: Why did “a rich young man” have to appear here, and why should not some old speculator have appeared before whom the Lord had made known His eternal displeasure with all earthly wealth? The answer is very close: the young man was not yet a diehard wealth manager, but he was still at the point where such a youth usually does not properly appreciate the earthly wealth yet. For just this reason he could at least approach the Lord for a short time in order to hear from him the right direction and the right use of his wealth. It is only when he realizes the Divine will, that he then falls away from the Lord and returns home to his riches. 7. So the youth had this privilege, as a youth who was not yet liable, to approach the Lord. But the already inveterate, old-aged rich landlords, speculators and usurers, stand as camels behind the eye of a needle, through which they would have to squeeze in order to reach the Lord like the young man. So it is no longer easily granted to such a rich one, like unto the young man, to meet the Lord. For these however, the Lord has unfortunately cited another very important example in the story of the “rich glutton.” I do not need to tell you more. 8. But whoever of you can think only a little, will with the greatest ease find out that no human vice is as contemptible to the Lord of heaven and all worlds as wealth acquired through usury and its usual consequences. For no other vices do we see the Lord of life and death very clearly open up the abyss of hell as with this one. 9. Be it manslaughter, adultery, harlotry and the like, in all this, no one on earth has seen the Lord condemning him to hell. But this sin of usury, He has punished with word and deed in the most urgent manner, both with the priesthood and with every other privileged classes! 10. Who can prove to the Lord, in the face of all other human offenses, that He has raised His almighty hand over such a sinner? But the money-changers, pigeon-merchants, and such kind of speculators, had to submit to being beaten and chastised with a tortuous rope from the temple by the omnipotent hand of the Lord Himself! 11. But do you know what that means? This true evangelical endeavor will say no more and no less than that the Lord in heaven and of all worlds is the greatest sworn enemy of this vice. In every other, His Divine love speaks of patience, forbearance, but over this vice, He pronounces His anger and wrath! 12. For here he hinders entrance to Him through the well-known eye of the needle, evidently opens up the abyss of hell, and shows in it a truly damned one, speaks up frightfully against the rule-hungry and greedy Pharisees, clearly showing them how fornicators, adulterers, thieves and other sinners are more likely to enter the kingdom of God than they are. 13. Finally, He even takes a chastening weapon in the temple and ruthlessly drives out all the speculators of any kind and calls them murderers of the Divine kingdom, turning the temple, which represents the Divine kingdom, into a dungeon of murder. 14. We could cite several such examples from all those who could be inferred that the Lord is the supreme enemy of this vice. But for whoever is able to think reasonably, this will be enough. On this very occasion we may take a brief look at our ninth commandment, and we shall see from this view that the Lord has not limited the desire in any other human relation, nor in any other self-forbidden opportunity and activity, as in the case of this most detestable opportunistic usury. 15. Everywhere He expressly forbids only the activity, but here already the desire, because the danger which arises therefrom for the spirit is too great. It totally withdraws the spirit from God and turns him completely to hell. You can also see this from the fact that every other sinner feels repentance for a sinful deed, while the rich speculator celebrates and triumphs over a happy successful speculation! 16. This is the true triumph of hell, and the prince of hell, therefore, seeks by preference to foster in mankind in every possible way, love for the wealth of the world, because he knows that they who are filled with this love, are most repugnant unto the Lord and that they receive the least mercy! – I do not need to tell you more about that. 17. Good for everyone who will heed these words deeply, because they are the eternal irrefutable Divine truth! And you can know it to be true and believe it, because not one syllable in it is too much, rather you can assume that there is far too little said. But everyone should remember this: the Lord will employ every possible means at every possible occasion, before he will let anyone perish, but against this vice, He will do nothing except open the abyss of hell, as He has said it in the gospel. All this is certain and true, and through this, we have come to know the true meaning of this commandment. And I say once more: Let everybody take what is said here to heart! – And now nothing more. Here is the tenth room, and so we enter it!

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The Guidance through the ‘Children’s Kingdom’ takes place by the Apostle of Love, John. Explanation of the 8th Commandment Chapter 85 – The material shell as a means to lie 1. We are in the eighth hall, and there we see on the round tablet, well known to us from all the earlier halls, clearly written: “Thou shalt not bear false testimony”, saying as much as: Thou shalt not lie. 2. This commandment sounds strange in the realm of pure spirits, for a spirit in its pure state is incapable of any lie. A spirit cannot speak anything but what he thinks, since the thought is already his word. A spirit in the pure state can therefore bring no untruth on his lips, because it is a simple being and can have no reserve in itself. 3. The lie is therefore only possible for an unclean spirit when it covers itself with matter. But if a spirit, even of unclean quality, is free from its coarser envelopment, it cannot speak any untruth. 4. For this reason, even the evil spirits envelop themselves with all sorts of coarse figures of guile in order to be able to lie in this wrapping. 5. Thus the well-known “Satan” in Paradise had to envelop himself in the material form of a snake before the first pair of men, so that they could thereby become ambushed and then afterwards think differently and speak differently. 6. For this sole reason, men on earth are able to lie as often as they will, because they have a hideaway in their bodies, and from there they can move the machine of the body in the opposite direction of what they think. 7. Such, however, as noted, is not possible to the pure spirits. Although they can express themselves in correspondences when they communicate with earthly people, they not infrequently say something quite different from what the inner meaning of their speech represents. But that does not mean lying, but placing the spiritual truth in earthly images that correspond exactly to this truth. 8. But we see that this commandment is of no use for the spirits, because they completely lack the ability to lie. 9. But to whom in the afterlife does this commandment then apply? I know that you will soon be able find the answer and say: It applies to the spirits enveloped in matter, and requires of them to use their covering no differently than how their thinking is conceived in them, and act in correspondence to their purely spiritual state. 10. But we know that this commandment, as well as all earlier ones, proceeds from God, as the Primordial Source of all spiritual things. As such, however, it cannot possibly have only material, and no spiritual validity. 11. But in order to get to the basis of it, we have to discuss what is meant by “lying” or “giving false witness.” What is the lie or a false testimony in itself? You will say: any untruth. But I ask: what is an untruth? And then somebody will soon be able to deal with the answer and say: Every sentence that a human being pronounces in order to deceive someone is an untruth, a lie, “a false testimony.” It’s all good on the outside, but not inside. We want to set up a small sample for it. 12. Question: Can the will think? Every human being must deny such a thing by clearly having to say that the will behaves like the cattle in relation to the wagon. They indeed pull it vigorously; but where will it take the wagon without the thinking driver? 13. Next question: Can the thought will? Let’s go back to the wagon. In the best sense of the word, can the wagoner drive the heavy wagon without the power of the beasts of burden? Anyone here will say: Thousands of the most clever wagoners can set up all sorts of philosophical principles next to the heavily loaded wagon, and yet they will not, with all these splendid ideas, put the wagon in motion until they agree in their thoughts that an appropriate power should be put in front of the wagon. 14. From this example we have seen that the will does not think, and that the thought can not will. But if thought and will are united, the will can only do what the thought leads it to do. 15. But now I ask: If it is how it is, what is it in man who can lie? The will certainly not, because this is a something that always depends on the light of thought. Can the thought be a lie? Certainly not, it is simple and cannot share. Will the body be able to lie in man? How the body can lie, being a machine that is dead in itself, and only stimulated to activity by the thought and will of the spirit through the soul, would be very strange to know. 16. I have just discovered a psychologist, and indeed from the class of spiritual dualists, who says: The soul of man is also a self-conscious thinking being and thinks partly natural and partly spiritual images. Thus, two kinds of thought may indeed be formed in it, namely natural and spiritual. It may therefore cover the spiritual in itself, but since the will of the spirit is also at its disposal, it can, instead of pronouncing the truth or the spiritual thought, express the natural, completely opposite thought than that of the spiritual truth. And if he does that, he lies or gives false testimony. What do you think, is this conclusion correct? 17. This appears to be correct, taken from the external man’s perspective; but he is nevertheless fundamentally wrong; for what kind of activity would result if, for the purpose of forward movement, one would harness the same number of horses of equal strength in front and to the back of it, and have drivers to steer both teams? 18. As the car would never be moved from the spot, the same it would seem to be with one’s life, if it would stand on two opposite life-principles. That would be just as much as plus 1 and minus 1, which adds up to zero. 19. So there just has to be one single living principle; but how can this lie and give false testimony? 20. Either this principle, as proven, cannot lie and give false testimony at all, or the concepts of “lying” and “giving false testimony” have to be something fundamentally different, than what has hitherto been understood. 21. Somebody would of course say: If the matter is to be taken this way, any falsehood known to us, every false oath, as well as every fraudulent word, is not to be regarded as sinful, but should be freely used. Well, I say: the objection would not be so bad, but according to your proverb: “Whoever laughs last laughs best,” we shall reserve a similar pleasure for the conclusion. Chapter 86 – What is false testimony? 1. But if we are able to disentangle this Gordian knot in a certain sense with one blow, let us immediately go into the discussion of the main concept of this eighth commandment. 2. We know that the Lord gave every spirit a free will, and also a free thought was given to illuminate free will. This thought in spirit is in fact the vision and the light of the spirit, through which he can see things in the natural sphere. 3. Besides this light, which every spirit has received particularly from God, he also has a second ability to receive an innermost, most holy light from God; but not through his eye, but through the ear, which is actually an eye. Certainly no eye for the reception of external appearances, which are produced by the almighty will of the Lord, but it is an eye for the reception of the purely spiritual light from God, namely the Word of God. 4. You can see that from your still natural condition, if you pay only a little attention to how different this is, what you see with your eyes and hear with your ears. Through your eyes you can only see natural images, but with your ears you can absorb rays from the innermost Divine depth. 5. You can hear the language of the spirit in the harmony of sounds, or rather, you can already externally hear the secret forms of the innermost spiritual creation through your fleshly ears. How deeply backwards does the eye stand in comparison to the ear! 6. See, it’s the same with the spirit. By virtue of such a device he is capable of accommodating two things, namely the external pictorial and the intrinsically essential reality. 7. In this double vision lies the secret of the free will. 8. Every human being, be it purely spiritual or still enveloped in matter, naturally hangs between the external and the internal through this ability. He can therefore always see a countless number of external forms, but he can simultaneously absorb just as much of the inner, purely Divine truth. 9. With the light from the outside, he grasps nothing of all that is seen, but merely the external form, and thus can be the creator of his thoughts in himself through the reception of these forms. 10. With these thoughts, he can also set his freely disposable will in motion, as and when he wants. 11. If he does not use the other eye of the inner Divine light, but is merely content with and deals only with forms, then he is a man who evidently deceives himself; for the forms are empty appearances for him as long as he cannot grasp them in their depths. 12. But if a man who simultaneously also possesses the inner light he received from the Lord and beholds it, perceives the interior of the forms, but disguises it and testifies only to the outer forms differently than he does about its great importance which he perceives with the inner spiritual eye, which is the ear; see, this is when he gives a false testimony to the externally perceived forms. 13. Here we have already fundimentally discussed what it basically means to give a false testimony. In the main point however it is once again important that man should not speak of Divine truth in any other way than how he perceives it in himself. 14. But with regard to the most inner things, the situation is as follows: love is equal to the inwardly perceived light of truth directly from God, and wisdom is equal to the radiating light from God through all infinite and eternal spaces. 15. When someone would possess the love, but would not practise it, but would, with his outer light and his divided will, continuously reach out more and more to the infinitely radiating rays, he becomes increasingly weaker, but because of his spirit fraying at all sides, he becomes increasingly bloated and increasingly less receptive for the inner, loving light of truth out of God. 16. If this is the case, then such a person becomes ever more dissimilar to God, and thereby gives with every atom of his being, a fundamentally false testimony of the Divine essence, whose perfect symmetry he ought to have been. 17. Therefore, he who hears the Divine word but does not follow it, but follows only that which captivates his outward eyes, and thus excites his sensual will, he gives with every step that he makes, with every word he speaks every movement of the hand he makes, a false testimony. Even if he wants to speak the purest Divine truth, the pure word of the Gospel, he lies and gives a false testimony to the Lord because he does not act according to the Word and the Truth. 18. Such a person who prays and performs his devotion to God, but does not live according to the word of the Lord, is a liar, as long as he is warm and alive. His prayer is there but an external formula whose intrinsic value is lost altogether, because the inner Divine light is not used to illuminate and enliven the interior of this external form. 19. It’s just the same as if someone would look completely enraptured at a star. What good does all this delight and contemplation benefit him if he cannot regard the star in close proximity as a wonderful world? He resembles a starving person in front of a locked cupboard. He may still look at this bread-cupboard so yearningly and so adoringly, but will he be saturated with it? Certainly not. For as long as he cannot bite into the inside of the bread and absorb it into his stomach, all contemplation, worship, and delight from the bread-cupboard, will do him no good. 20. But how can one open the bread-cupboard of true God-likeness and satisfy oneself? Certainly no other way than by using the innermost means in oneself and directing oneself to the truth received from God. Also, to use the external forms only for their intended practical purposes as far as one has found it to be identical with the innermost light and therefore as a Divine truth. As soon as that is not the case, everything that man does and endeavours, is a false testimony to the inner Divine truth and thus a gross lie to every fellow human. 21. Therefore the Lord says, “He who prays, should pray in the Spirit and in truth,” and, “If ye pray, go into your closet,” and also: “Do not think what you will speak, for in the same hour it will be put into your mouth.” 22. Here, evidently, outer thoughts are indicated, which are therefore in themselves no truth, because they are thoughts; for the truth is inward, it motivates for action according to the Word of God, and is always manifested rather than being a subsequent flood of thoughts. 23. Therefore should everyone also be guided by this inner truth and act accordingly. He will always more and more actively connect his thoughts with this inner light and thus come to inner unity and thus to the Divine likeness in which it then becomes forever impossible for him to be a liar. 24. But that everyone who speaks differently than he thinks, and acts differently than he speaks and thinks, is a liar, is self-evident; for such a one is already buried in the very outermost, grossest matter, and has removed the whole Divine form from his spirit. As such will this commandment also be explained to the students in its innermost content.

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The Guidance through the ‘Children’s Kingdom’ takes place by the Apostle of Love, John. Explanation of the 7th Commandment Chapter 82 – The seventh commandment in the seventh classroom 1. We are in the seventh hall. See, in the middle of it on a tablet on a white pillar is written in a clearly legible font: “Thou shalt not steal!” Here, at the first sight of this law-table, the question inevitably comes to everyone’s mind: 2. What can be stolen here, since no one owns any property, but everyone is just a usufructuary of what the Lord gives? This question is natural and has its good meaning, but it can also be posed with the same right on the world- body; for even on the earth body, all that is there is the Lord’s, and yet men can steal from each other in every possible way. 3. Could not one also ask and say: has the Lord not created the world equally for all men, and does not every man have the same right to all that the created world offers for the various pleasures? But if the Lord has certainly created the world not only for individuals, but for all, and therefore everyone has the right to enjoy the products of the world according to his needs, what good was this commandment by which man is obviously given the right to own, creating the possibility for theft? For where there is no mine and no thine, but merely a universal everything for all, then I would like to see the one who, with all his will, could steal something from his neighbor. 4. Would it not have been wiser then, to abolish every right of ownership for all time, instead of giving the commandment by which a separate property right is dangerously granted? This commandment would therefore be completely dispensable, all property courts of the world would never have arisen, and people could easily live among themselves as true brothers. 5. It must be remembered that the Lord gave this commandment through Moses just at a time when not one person had any of his own wealth among all the numerous children of Israel; for the gold and silver taken from Egypt, was the common property of the people under the supervision of their leader. 6. But as far as clothing is concerned, it was extremely simple and so poor that a single garment in your present time would certainly not exceed the value of some poor cents. Not one of the Israelites had a supply of clothing, but what he wore was all he possessed. 7. Then came this commandment. Surely the Israelite people had to ask each other with wide eyes: What should we steal from each other? Perhaps our children, yet everyone is in this present distressing situation content to have as few children as possible? Should we steal each other’s pots? But what should we gain? Anyone who does not have a pot has the right to cook in the pot of his neighbor if he has something to cook. But if he has a pot, he will not have to seize another, so that he will have more to carry back and forth. It is truly unclear what we could steal from each other here. Each other’s honor? We are all servants and laborers of one and the same Lord, who knows well the value of each person. If we also wanted to belittle each other, what would we achieve in the face of Him who always sees us through and through? So we do not know what we should do with this commandment. Should this commandment be valid for future times, should the Lord once want to grant each of us a separate property? If that is, then He should rather leave us as we are, and the commandment will abolish itself. 8. See, so did the Israelite people occasionally reason in all seriousness, and in their position in the desert, they could not be blamed; because everyone was equal in riches and equal in reputation. 9. But could not the present people, believing in the New Testament, raise their heads before the Lord and say: O Lord! Why then did You once give such a commandment, by which a special right of ownership was granted to men on earth, and because of this right of ownership an innumerable multitude of thieves, robbers, and murderers were formed? Therefore, abolish this commandment, that the army of thieves, murderers and robbers, and all sorts of deceivers, and a second army of world judges, who have ceased to be active in all manners of charity, would stop their doing! 10. I say here: The call can be heard and appears under this critical lighting as completely valid. How and why? Firstly, one can certainly expect nothing but the very best from God as the most loving Father. How could one possibly think that God, as the very best Father of men, wanted to give them a constitution which must make them unhappy, temporally and eternally? 11. But if one must ascribe to God the supreme goodness, the highest wisdom, and thus omniscience, according to which He must know what fruit such a commandment will unfailingly bear, then one cannot help but wonder: Lord! Why did you give us such a commandment, why did we oftentimes become unspeakably unhappy because of it? Was it really Your will, or did You not give this commandment, but the people only added it later on because of their self-interest, for example, by isolating themselves from the general number of their brethren and then legitimising themselves in such a state to collect peculiar treasures, to help them rise more easily as rulers over all their poor brothers? See, all that can be heard, and nobody can deny it. On top of that, one has to sprinkle some grains of real frankincense on a human mind, at least during this time, if he found it worthwhile to critically illuminate the laws of Moses in this way. But who won anything in this review? Not the people and certainly not the Lord, because this criticism does not express the Divine love and wisdom. 12. But how then shall this law be taken and understood, that it may appear as perfectly sanctified before God and to all men, that it would utter the highest Divine love and wisdom, and bear in itself the wisdom of the Lord for temporal and eternal bliss? Well, as it has been explained up till now, especially presently, it has indeed only caused mischief. Therefore, by the Lord’s mercy, we want to reveal the true meaning of this commandment, that men should find in it their salvation, not mischief. But in order to accomplish this, we will first consider what must be understood by stealing. Chapter 83 – What does ‘steal’ mean? 1. The fact that under the concept of “stealing” it was impossible at first to understand the unauthorized removal of the material possessions of another is clear from the fact that, especially at the time of legislation, no one from the Israelite people owned any property. Even when the people had moved into the Promised Land, their state constitution was ordered as such that no one could have full ownership in this land. But apart from that, property was communal as much as possible, and every poor Israelite, if he lived in the Divine order, could find everywhere the most hospitable reception and lodging. 2. But if in this commandment meant by “stealing”, the arbitrary and deliberate removal of the goods of another, then, as has been shown sufficiently clear in the course of this illustration, the blame would inevitably fall upon the legislator, thereby quietly procuring the industry and would also defend usury. For that must be obvious for everyone at first glance, if he is only capable of somewhat brighter thinking, that the right to property is then introduced as perfectly sanctioned and confirmed, as soon as one gives a law by which the property of each would be completely secured. 3. On the other hand, how could one expect such a law from that legislator who spoke to His disciples with His own mouth: “Do not worry about what you will eat and drink and what you will clothe your body with, because that is what the heathens are after. But above all, seek the kingdom of God; everything else will be given unto you. 4. The same legislator continues: “The birds have their nests, and the foxes their holes, but the Son of Man does not have a stone that He puts under his head!” On the other hand, we see His disciples even on a sabbath rubbing corn ears, and thereby obviously steal. But when the landlords complained about it, who got a reprimand and a very sensitive rebuke from the Great Lawmaker? You only have to look in the Book and everything will be clear to you. 5. We again see the same Legislator once in a position to pay a toll. Did He reach into His own pocket? Oh, no, He knew that in the nearby lake a fish had swallowed a lost stater. Peter had to go and take the coin out of the throat of the fish held by the power of the Lord and pay the toll with it. 6. But I ask: Does the finder have the right of ownership in any good find in whatever way? Did not the Great Lawgiver have to know – or did He not want to know – that of what He had found in the fish he had the right only for one third of it, and only after He made His find publicly or officially known? He did not do as such. Accordingly, He apparently committed a double theft or, basically, embezzlement. 7. Further, one might ask after the principles of law – assuming that few Jews fully knew who Christ actually was – who had granted Himself the right to have the known donkey taken from their owner, and then use it Himself at His own discretion. 8. One can say here: He is the Master of all nature and everything anyway belongs to Him. That is correct, but how then does He speak in worldly terms, saying that the Son of man has no stone, and on the other hand He says that He did not come to abrogate the law, but to fulfill it to the dot. 9. If we wanted to follow His story, we would still find many things where the Great Legislator, according to the present principles of property law and the comprehensive juridical explanation of the seventh commandment, has obviously transgressed these legal principles. What would happen to anyone who destroyed an owner’s tree or destroyed a large herd of pigs and more? I think we have enough of the examples that make it abundantly clear that the Great Lawmaker has intended with this seventh commandment, a very different meaning than was later given to it by a greedy and selfish humanity. 10. One can now say: This is now very clear and obvious, but the meaning He has connected it with, is still behind a dense veil! But I say: only patience! As we have until now properly illuminated the misconception of this commandment, the true meaning of this commandment will certainly be easy to find; for someone who can see in the night, will not be afraid that he will have too little light during the day. 11. What does it mean then after all, in the actual truest sense: “Thou shalt not steal?” – In the true sense it means as much as: 12. You should never abandon the Divine order, not put yourself out of it, and seize the rights of God. 13. But what are these rights and what do they consist of? God alone is holy and all power is His alone! Whom God sanctifies Himself and gives him power, he rightly owns it; but he who sanctifies himself and seizes the Divine power in order to rule in the luster of selfishness and avarice, is in the true sense a thief, a robber and a murderer! 14. Therefore, whoever is arbitrary and self-loving in whatever external appearances and deceptive means, be it earthly or spiritual, and rises above his brothers, it is he who transgresses this commandment. This is the sense in which this is taught to these children here, and it is shown in a practical way, that no spirit should ever arbitrarily use the power and might inherent in it, but only and at all times, in the Divine order. 15. But one will say now: If so, then the well-known stealing and robbing is allowed. But I say: Only patience, the next episode shall bring everything into the clear. But for now let us settle this by knowing what is meant by stealing, and that the Lord has never established a right of ownership by this commandment. Chapter 84 – Comments on social issues 1. It can now be asked, since the Lord never introduced a right of ownership, and therefore never gave any commandment by which one should specifically respect the accumulated fortune of so many stingy usurers, and that in contrast to a host of the very poorest people, – whether one may then steal; namely, what such “usurers”, contrary to the Divine law, have accumulated? Because one takes away, according to earthly laws, the stolen items from a thief as soon as he is found. Should one then not have the right to take away from the most basic thieves and robbers who transgressed the Divine law, the accumulated riches and distribute them amongst the needy? 2. According to the intellectual conclusion, none could object to this demand; but the true man has higher powers in himself than his intellect. But what will these say to this intellectual endorsement? 3. Let us ask our charity and our love of God. What does it say in our innermost, eternally living spirit out of God? It says nothing but what the Lord Himself has spoken, namely: “My kingdom is not of this world – and who loves his outer life, he will lose the inner; but he who flees his outer life and pays little attention to it, will keep his inner self.” This is what the inner spirit speaks. 4. Nowhere do we see an invitation to help ourselves to the goods of the rich. The Lord Himself says: “Pay to the Emperor what belongs to the Emperor.” Likewise does He not command the rich young man to sell his goods, but only gives him friendly counsel and the promise of eternal life. 5. Therefore, since we nowhere come across a commandment from the Lord, by which He had expressly commanded to somehow seize the wealth of the usurers, it is certainly as clear as day, that a true Christian has no right to own the goods of the rich. Even the one who is in the greatest distress has no justifiable right to seize the goods of even the basest thief, but in the case of a great state of emergency, a whole people has the right to do so. 6. Why then? Because then the Lord Himself appears among the people as a ruler and thus causes a just judgment for the insatiable usurers. Not even then should anyone, except in the highest emergency, allow himself to assassinate the usurers and the hard-hearted rich, but should only take from them as much of their most superfluous treasures as the people need to support themselves, to get themselves on their feet and to be able to peacefully acquire sustenance again. 7. But to the rich usurer should still be left so much that he does not suffer in the world; because that is his only reward for his work. The Lord does not want to punish anyone, but only reward everyone according to the nature of his activity. 8. But since the rich and the usurer cannot expect anything after this earthly life, it is quite fair that he finds his reward for his talent there, where he worked. 9. The Lord also will not judge a person completely in this world, so that there can still be a possibility for everyone to voluntarily turn from the world and return to the Lord. If everything were taken away from such a rich usurer, he would already be completely judged; for despair will take possession of him and an endless anger, in which he can never possibly enter the path of salvation. But if a sufficient fortune has been left for him, he is for the time being exposed to no earthly misery and does not appear completely unrewarded for his austerity; but secondly, in this condition, he is not yet completely judged, and he still can obey the counsel that the Lord has given to the rich youth, to thereby attain eternal life. 10. But where such extreme action would be taken by a deeply impoverished people, it should never be done in a gruesome way; for as soon as this happens, the Lord no longer works with the people, and the people will not see their deeds blessed! For if they prevail today, they will be beaten again tomorrow, and one bloodbath will flow into the other! Man should never forget that all men are his brothers. He should always do what he does with a love-filled heart; He should never want to do anything bad to anyone, but only to do something good at all times, especially regarding the spiritual share of eternal life. 11. If this is his purpose, then the Lord will bless his action, but on the contrary, curse it! For if the Lord, even though all authority in heaven and on earth is His, and He has no one to query what He does or does not do, does Himself not want to be an eternally deadly Judge, the less should any man on earth do something according to his ardent will. 12. But woe to the people which rise without the utmost necessity against the rich and powerful! These will be bitterly punished for this act; because poverty is of the Lord. He who loves the Lord loves poverty too; the wealth and the well-being, however, are of the world and of Satan! He who seeks that which is of the world, and loves it, has taken Satan into himself from head to toe! 13. Therefore, as long as any people can only be partly saturated once a day and still be able to sustain life, so long should it not rise. But when the rich and usurers have taken almost everything, so that thousands of poor people are evidently threatened with starvation, then it is time to rise and share the superfluous goods of the rich among themselves; for then the Lord wants the rich to be chastised to a great extent for their shameful self-love and greed. 14. At the end of the treatise on this commandment, perhaps someone might ask whether the interest on borrowed capital is not, to a certain extent, contrary to the seventh commandment. Here I say: If in a state the interest rate is determined by law, then it is also permissible, according to this interest rate, to gather the interests of the rich; but if someone has lent necessary capital to a needy person, he should not charge any interest. 15. If this poor man has helped himself with this capital to the extent that he is now bourgeois in his trade, he should be inclined to repay the borrowed capital to his friend. If he wants to pay the legal interest out of gratitude, the lender should not accept it, but he should remind the payer to give it to his poorer brothers according to his ability. 16. But no one should lend capital to the utterly poor, but what one gives them, should be given to them completely. That is the will of the Lord in this regard. He who does this, will love the Lord. Since we have thus touched upon everything concerning this commandment, we may at once go to the Eighth Hall, where we shall learn a commandment which in many respects will be like this seventh one.

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Here again we see a tablet in the middle of the sixth room. On the board is written in clearly legible writing: “Thou shalt not practice unchastity, nor commit adultery.” This is unmistakably the sixth commandment that the Lord has given to the Israelite people through Moses (Exodus 20:14, Deuteronomy 5:18, Matthew 5:27). This commandment is certainly one of the most difficult to grasp in its fundamental condition and then to exactly observe it in the very basis of life. 79,2. What is forbidden by this commandment? – And who cares about this commandment, the spirit, the soul or the body? Who is not supposed to drive unchastity out of these three life potentials? That would be a question. But what is actually the unchastity and what the adultery? Is unchastity the mutual act of mating? If that is the case, then by this commandment every act of procreation is included; for in this simple commandment we find absolutely no conditional exception; it is said, “Thou shalt not practice unchastity. 79,3. So if the act of intercourse is, in a certain way, regarded as the culmination of unchastity, I would like to know even the one who, under the present form of things on earth, could beget a generation without this forbidden act. Whether in marriage or out of marriage, the act is the same. Whether he is really committed with the intent of child-making or not, it is the same. Moreover, the commandment itself has no condition in which a regular marriage would be exempt from unchastity. 79,4. On the other hand, however, every human being must understand that the Lord is very much in favor of the reproduction of the human race, and to a wise education of the same. But by what means should the human race reproduce, if the act of procreation is forbidden on punishment of eternal death? I think that every human being can easily understand that there is a catch here. 79,5. But for that, everyone must necessarily bear witness that, among all the commandments that should be kept, nature will generally throw a mighty stick before the feet of man over which he must stumble, as with exactly this one. Anyone who enjoyed an even moderately decent education, has no problem, or at most only a very slight one, in the keeping of the other commandments; but with this commandment, nature always draws a strong line, even through the account of the apostle Paul! 79,6. We see an apparent prohibition of carnal pleasure, which is inseparably connected with the act of procreation. If, then, the prohibition lies only in carnal pleasure and not at the same time also in the act of procreation, then it is to be wondered whether carnal pleasure can be separated from the orderly act of procreation? Who among you can prove this and claim that two legally ordered spouses do not feel the temporal desire in the act of procreation? Or where is that couple that would not have been at least halfway driven by the imminent carnal desire for the act of procreation? 79,7. But we can see from this that we cannot possibly understand this commandment with regard to unchastity with regard to the bodily act of procreation. There must be either a pure act of procreation which has nothing to do with the lust of the flesh, or if such an act cannot be proved, the carnal act of procreation need not stand under this law and be regarded as a voluntary, unpunishable act of people. For it has been said before that the law is relentlessly expressed and without room for exception. 79,8. The necessary existence of people speaks out loud against the prohibition of this act, as well as the always relentlessly desiring nature. For, regardless of someone’s class, he will not be acquitted of it when he has reached maturity. He would then have to kill his nature through mutilation, for nothing would curb his concupiscence by any means, even if he would be prevented from doing so by external circumstances. 79,9. So is there nothing to be done with the flesh. Maybe this law affects only the soul? I mean, since the soul is quite the living principle of the body and the free action of it depends purely on the soul, which is dead without the flesh, then it would hardly be difficult to find a super-scholar anywhere who could seriously claim that the soul has nothing to do with the free actions of the body. 79,10. After all, the body is only a tool of the soul, artfully furnished for its use; So what can we do with a commandment only applicable to the body, which in and of itself is a dead machine? If someone made a clumsy hit with a hoe, was it the fault of the hoe or his hand? I think nobody would to say that it is the hoe’s fault. 79,11. Neither can one attribute the act of procreation to the body as a sinful act, but only to the acting principle, which here is the living soul. Thus, our previous critical illumination of this commandment must apply only to the soul which thinks, wants and acts in the flesh; and so the soul is necessarily free from this commandment, according to the applied criterion. So, since it’s not possible with the soul either; will it be applicable to the spirit? We shall see what is to be gained with the spirit. 79,12. What is the spirit? The spirit is the real life-principle of the soul, and without the spirit, the soul is nothing but a substantial etheric organ, which possesses all ability to absorb life, but without the spirit is nothing but a substantial-spiritual-etheric polyp, only continuously spreading its arms after life and suck up everything that corresponds to its nature. 79,13. The soul without the spirit is therefore a mere dumb polar force, which carries the dull sense of satiety in itself, but possesses no judgment, from which it would become clear, with what it saturates itself and what this saturation serves for. It is comparable to an arch-cretin who feels no desire other than to satisfy himself. With what and why? He himself has no idea. When he feels a great hunger, he eats what comes to his aid, whether it be filth, or bread, or the impure food for pigs, all is equal to him. 79,14. See, the same it is with the soul without the spirit. And these driven cretins have also only a soul life, that is, in whose soul either too weak a spirit or often no spirit is present. But to know that this is so, you need nothing more than to look into the world of the dark spirits; What are these? They are living souls after death, who lived their lives in the most reckless and often malicious manner, and have so weakened and depressed their spirits, that in such a condition they are scarcely capable of procuring the life-saving stimulus, often pushing back all life-benefits into the eternal background! 79,15. How does such beings act in the hereafter compared to blessed living spirits ? No different than bums, therefore as spiritual insane ones, being still in all possible ways malformed, showing no evidence of a human stature. These beings are often with regard to their actions in the spiritual realm, just as accountable as a cretin on your earth. This shows that not the soul in itself, but only the soul in possession of the spirit, can be held accountable, for only in the spirit dwells the free will; in essence, it is all in the spirit. 79,16. But if this is now evident, then the question arises: How and in what way can the absolute spirit commit unchastity? Can the spirit have carnal desires? I think there could hardly be a greater contradiction than if someone wanted to seriously think of a ‘carnal spirit’, which would necessarily have to be material in order to even have gross material desires in it. 79,17. But just like an arrested one does not find any comfort in his arrest, the absolute spirit has even less passion to unite forever with his free nature with coarse matter, and to find his pleasure in it. Therefore would the notion of an unchaste acting spirit surely be the greatest nonsense a person can ever pronounce. Now one wonders: What, then, is unchastity, and who should not do it by seeing that neither the body, nor the soul, nor the spirit can impart unchastity to themselves, as we now came to know them? Chapter 80 About two kinds of love 80,1. While some may say, Moses later elaborated on this by lawfully allowing the act of procreation only between the blessed spouses, but forbade it otherwise, and has ordained the other kind of procreation, especially if a married man wishes to commit this act that such an act should be regarded as adultery and that adulterers are guilty of death on both sides. This is correct, but subsequent ordinances nevertheless do not give a different form to the law which was simply given in the beginning. Whoever wants to commit himself to this must assert his trial in the first law; for neither unchastity nor adultery are forbidden in a certain way. 80,2. So far, we have clearly explained what you could possibly understand by unchastity. But since all this points to the act of procreation, it is impossible to regard as forbidden the kind of unchastity we have hitherto supposed to be known by this law. 80,3. Now, however, a well-informed one announces himself in the matter, saying: Under unchastity, which is forbidden there, only the empty gratification of the sensual impulse is understood. Good, I say; but if a man with another man’s wife, who cannot be fertilized by her husband, seriously longs for a child, I ask: can this be counted as sinful adultery? I also ask: If a young man, driven by his nature, has fathered a child with a girl, can that be counted as a sin of unchastity? 80,4. I also ask: If a man knows from experience that his wife is not fertile, he nevertheless sleeps with her because she has a rich flesh that stimulates him, and he therefore evidently only vainly satisfies his sensuous instinct; can this act be credited to the sin of unchastity? 80,5. I ask further: There are, especially in this time, as there have been at all times, an immense number of people of both sexes who are well able to produce and have a nature which is powerfully urgent; but they are unable, by virtue of political and meager circumstances, to marry. Now, if such doubly afflicted people commit the act of procreation, do they again sin against this sixth commandment? 80,6. It will be said: They are to sacrifice their instinct to God and not mate, so they will not sin. But I say: what judge can declare such a failing as a real sin? What, then, does the rich have the merit of being able to take a decent wife, but the poor are denied this bliss? Should the privileged have a greater right to procreation than the poor? Does money thus sanctify procreation because the rich can afford the proper possession of a woman, which is impossible for a thousand less privileged ones? 80,7. One can still ask: Who is really to blame for the multifarious impoverishment of the people? Certainly none other than the fortunate kingdom, who attracts many treasures through his self-serving speculation, by which not infrequently a thousand people could adequately qualify for ordinary marital status. And yet should the rich husband alone be free from the sin of unchastity, when he bears children with his own wife, and the poor man alone should be the scapegoat because he cannot take a wife? Would not that be just as condemnable as if one would on earth decide to go on a pilgrimage to a place, and be given a commandment that no one should visit this place on foot in order to receive any grace there, but everyone who visits this place and would want to receive grace, must go there in a most elegant equipage? 80,8. He who should find such a command righteous must certainly be in earnest of such a world, of which the Creator of heaven and the earth Himself knows nothing, that is, of a world which does not exist anywhere; or he would have to be a member of Satan! 80,9. But we now see from these considerations that it does not quite do with the explanation of our sixth commandment. What will we do to gain the full meaning of this commandment? I tell you in advance: It’s not as easy as anyone would like to imagine. Yes, I say: 80,10. In order to gain the right meaning of this commandment, one must burrow deeply and grasp the matter at the root; otherwise one will always find oneself in the dubious position in which it is easy to regard as sin what is not a sin in the farthest sense, and what is really a sin, scarcely worth the trouble, considers it to be a sin. 80,11. But where is this root? We will find it right away. You know that love is the foundation and the basic condition of all things. Without love, nothing would never have been created, and without love, no existence would be conceivable, just as little as a world would ever have been formed without the mutual attraction of the will of the Creator. For example, if you do not understand this, think of one world without the mutual power of attraction, and you’ll see how all the atoms of a world suddenly separate and vanish into nothingness. 80,12. Love is therefore the cause of everything and at the same time it is the key to all secrets. 80,13. But how can love be brought into an explanatory connection with our sixth commandment? I say to you, nothing easier than that, because in no act in the world is love as intimately interwoven as in the one we count as uncouth. 80,14. But we know that man is capable of a twofold love, namely the Divine, which opposes all self-love, and the self-love, which is contrary to all Divine love. 80,15. The question now is: if someone commits the act of procreation, what love was there the motive: the self-love, under whose authority also any craving for pleasure stands, or the Divine love, which only wants to communicate what it has, completely forgetting of itself? See, we are already pretty much on the track of the actual main principle. 80,16. Let us now take two men: one commits the act out of selfish lust for pleasure, the other in gratitude for the ability to procreate, to impart his seed to a woman in order to awaken a fruit in her. Which of the two sinned? I think it’s not going to be difficult to judge here and make a decision. 80,17. In order for us to understand the matter completely, we also need to familiarize ourselves with the concept of ‘unchastity’. What is chastity and what is unchastity? Chastity is that state of mind of man in which he is free of all selfishness, or in which he is pure of all the defects of self-love. Non-chastity is that state of mind in which man takes only himself into account, acts for himself, and completely forgets his fellow-man, especially concerning a woman. 80,18. Selfishness, however, is nowhere more disgraceful than it is in the case of a deed in which it is a matter of a man’s perversion. Why then? The cause is as clear as the day. As the ground, so the seed, so also is the fruit. If Divine love is the chastity of the seed, a Divine fruit will also appear; But if self-love, self-indulgence and pleasure-craving, that is, the unchaste state of mind the seed, what fruit will come forth from this? 80,19. See, in that lies what is forbidden by the sixth commandment. If this commandment had been observed, the earth would still be a heaven, for there would be no selfish and domineering person on it! But this commandment was already transgressed in the beginning of man, and the fruit of this transgression was self-serving and selfish Cain. 80,20. But from this it follows that not only the so-called falsely named ‘fornication’, which should better be called ‘pleasure-seeking’, belongs in the series of our sins to be treated, but any enjoyment of pleasure, whatever its design may be, but especially if a man makes the already weak woman selfishly useful for enjoyment, then it is to be regarded as a sin of unchastity. – A short pursuit will make things clearer. Chapter 81 What is fornication? 81,1. One could say here, in the Sixth Commandment, that only “Thou shalt not do unchastity,” and that fornication cannot be regarded as forbidden, since in the sixth commandment there is nowhere: “Thou shalt not commit fornication.” But I say: What is whoring, of whatever kind, spiritual or carnal? It is a certain accommodation of vice in the following way: One philosophizes about the sinful possibility, places all phenomena in the realm of ‘natural needs’. If one expresses to his own being the demand to satisfy them, then, according to his reason and his inventiveness, man does only something praiseworthy and fruitful, so that, for all the needs of his nature which are being demanded, he can bring about means by which the same goal can be accomplished , The animal must satisfy its needs in the most crude instinctive way, because it has no mind, reason, or inventiveness. In this way, however, man rises above the common, natural animal, that he alone can satisfy the requirements of his species in a refined manner. Therefore, the mind of the cultural man says: 81,2. Who can account it a sin to a man if, with the help of his intellect, builds an imposing house for his habitation, and thus exchanges a former burrow or a hollow tree with it? Who can account it a sin to a man, if he refines the tree fruits, and produces from the sour apples and pears, something sweet and tasty? Who can account it a sin to a man if he builds a chariot, tames the horse, and then journeys much more comfortable than with his own weak, troubled feet? Who else can still account it a sin to a man, if he cooks and spices the natural fruits to his nourishment and makes them more tasty? Or create things in the world for another purpose than to be useful to man? 81,3. How much beautiful and useful things have man discovered for his comfort and amusement! Would this be reckoned to be a mistake if he would pay honor to his Creator with his intellect, without which the body of the world would appear as uncultivated as a barren desert on which everything grows together in a chaotic disorder, such as cabbage, beets and stinging nettles? 81,4. If, however, mankind’s diverse cultivation of the earth cannot possibly be counted as a misstep, even though it contains no other purpose in itself than a more pleasurable and more comfortable enjoyment of things in the world; On the other hand, a refined pleasure in procreation cannot be attributed to man as an error, for otherwise even the most educated man would be, regarding this act, the least differentiated from an animal. Thus, even this instinct of man must be satisfied in a more refined and cultivated manner, for the same reason why one builds comfortable dwelling-houses, makes soft clothes, prepares tasty meals, and so on. That is, more amenities. 81,5. Just assume for instance that a man of the educated class, has to choose between two female persons for his satisfaction; one is a filthy, mean peasant maid, but the other, as the daughter of a respectablehouse, is a well-bred, very well-dressed girl, flawless in her whole body, and all together lush and charming. Question: Who will the educated man choose? The answer will not cause a headache here; certainly the second one, because the first one will disgust him. So here, too, refinement certainly a most convenient purpose, because man attests to it, proving that he is a higher being, who has everything in his power to purify and dispose of everything unpleasant and dirty and make things clean and pleasant. 81,6. But since the man and the woman in this regard often have a great need to satisfy themselves, and yet cannot always make the demand to produce a child, would it again be their duty to exercise the intellectual powers, setting up the means to satisfy this impulse, be it only by blind intercourse with a woman or by self-gratification or, in an emergency, through the so-called boy’s desecration? For this is what makes a man different from an animal in that he can satisfy this most natural instinct in other ways than just that which he has been instructed by rude nature. And so, after all, well-conditioned brothel houses and such institutions are to be endorsed, and can by no means dishonor the intellect of man! 81,7. See, what objection can be raised against this from a natural perspective? For it is true that the animal cannot achieve such cultivations and all sorts of nuances to the satisfaction of its sexual instinct, and so, in a sense, the mastery of the human understanding is undeniably to be discovered. This is all right, the animal has its time in all of this, yet otherwise, it remains dull unto the satisfaction of this urge. 81,8. But what is all this sophistication? It is a quick question, but the answer is big and weighty. Surely this sophistication has nothing to do with basic motives, but with appallingly exasperating lust for pleasure. But pleasure-seeking, we know, is an unmistakable child of self-love, which is quite identical with the lust for power. 81,9. It is true that living in a stately home is easier than living in a lowly mud hut. But let’s take a look at the inhabitants! How proud and lofty we see the inhabitants of a palace company, and how humble the simple hut-dweller bows before such a splendid palace lord! 81,10. Let’s take a look at the inhabitants of a big city and those of a small farming village. The inhabitants of the big city do not know how to help each other out of sheer lust for pleasure, they all want to live comfortably, they all have to talk, they all shine and maybe they can reign a bit. If a poor country-dweller comes to the big city, he has to address at least every boot polisher: ‘Your Grace’, if he does not want to expose himself to any rudeness. 81,11. But if we go to the village, we will still find fathers, not infrequently peaceful neighbors, who do not call themselves ‘Your Grace’ and ‘Lord of’. What is preferable: when one farmer says to the other: ‘Brother’! or if in the city, a slightly more middle-class appeals to a slightly more privileged: your grace’, and ‘Lord of’ and the like? 81,12. I think it will be barely necessary to go on pursuing such nonsensical offshoots of the sophistication of the human mind, but we can at once make the main proposition: All such pleasure-seeking refinements are, according to preceding considerations, nothing but idolatry; for they sacrifice the human spirit, to the outer dead nature. 81,13. But if they are idolatrous, they are also the hardest whores, and their tendency cannot be accepted into the sphere of chastity. 81,14. Why was Babel called a whore? Because every imaginable finery was at home there. This also includes, the whoring urge in the true sense: unchastity serves all their life force. Thus, a rich husband who, for the sole enjoyment of a sumptuous and randy wife, is nothing but a barbarous fornicator, and the wife, a hard whore. And so here too, unchastity is shown in its foundations, as it is a most base desire for self-service and self-pleasure. 81,15. It was necessary to shed more light on this commandment for you, because man does not pass over any command as easily as he does this one. – Therefore I think that you now also understand this lecture; and so we will immediately go to the seventh room.

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PART 1 ... https://search.jesus-comes.com/index.php?title=SSUN2-78 PART 2 ... https://search.jesus-comes.com/index.php?title=GGJ07-31 The Third Testament in various Languages... https://jesus-comes.com/index.php/das-dritte-testament-the-third-testament-el-tercer-testamento/ Jesus' Revelations thru Jakob Lorber... https://jesus-comes.com/index.php/category/english/jakob-lorber-pdfs/ Jesus' Revelations thru Gottfried Mayerhofer... https://jesus-comes.com/index.php/category/english/53-sermons-of-jesus/ LoveLetters from Jesus... https://jesus-comes.com/index.php/liebesbriefe-von-jesus-love-letters-from-jesus/ Trumpet Call of God... https://awakeningforreality.com/latest-video-and-audio-letters-neuste-video-und-audio-briefe/ Explanation of the 5th Commandment … You shall not kill The Spiritual Sun, Vol. 2 – Messages of Jesus Christ on the spiritual life in the Beyond Given thru the inner word to Jakob Lorber (1842-43) Millions and Millions of souls from children are mentored, taught and provided for in the ‘Kingdom of the Children’ (Spiritual Sun Volume 2, 67-101). The Guidance through the ‘Children’s Kingdom’ takes place by the Apostle of Love, John. Chapter 78 1. You once again see a tablet installed in this fifth hall, and on it is written in an easy readable script: “Thou shalt not kill.” If you consider this commandment only somewhat moderately and then consider the history of the Israelite people, your eyes would have to more than triple cross, if you would not see it at the first moment that there is a strange problem with this commandment “thou shalt not kill!” How, where, when, and what? 2. What does “kill” mean anyway? Does killing kill the body or deprive the spirit of its heavenly life force? If killing is restricted to the human body, the killing of the spirit cannot possibly be meant by it; for it is said that every man should certainly kill his flesh in order to enliven the spirit, just as the Lord Himself speaks: “Whoever loves his life, that is the life of the flesh, he will lose it; but whoever loses it for My sake, will receive it. ” 3. Likewise, this is also evident in the nature of things. If the outer bark or pod of a fruit would not die, the fruit will not come to any living germination. But it is clear from all this that the killing of the flesh cannot at the same time be the killing of the spirit. But if this law is understood merely as the killing of the spirit, then who is sure of his physical life? 4. It is in contrast, well known to all that the prevalent contemporary multifarious exaltation of the flesh, is nothing but the “killing of the spirit.” If you would compare it to the history of the Israelite people to whom, as you would say, these laws were freshly baked, you will find the strange contrast that the lawgiver Moses himself, was the first to have many Israelites killed; and his successors had to do the same with transgressors of the law. 5. “Thou shalt not kill “- this law was as good as all the others in the ark of the covenant. But what did the whole Israelite army do when it entered the Promised Land, with the former inhabitants of that land? What did even David do, the man after the heart of God? What about the greatest prophet Elijah? – See, they all killed, and very often, and often quite cruelly. 6. Whoever is of a sober and unbiased spirit, does not have to pronounce the judgment in himself and say: What is this commandment, against which, as otherwise against none, even the first prophets appointed by God were obliged to act? 7. Such a commandment is as good as none. Even in our times, the killing of brothers in war is even a matter of honor! Yes, the Lord Himself kills legions of human beings day after day; and yet it says: “Thou shalt not kill!” and David had even had a military commander killed, for he had spared a place which had to be destroyed, despite the swearing of an oath. 8. Good, I say, so it is with the commandment on earth. But here we see it in the heavenly realm, where one being cannot kill the other anymore, and certainly no one will even remotely conceive the slightest thought of killing anyone. So why is it written here on the board? For example, from a purely historical point of view, so that the students should learn here, what commandments have been given on earth? Or should these very good-natured children’s spirits, for some time be brought into a lust for murder by this commandment, to then fight against it in themselves? You could indeed accept that; but what conclusion or end result will you get from this? I say to you nothing else than: If the murder-lust must finally be removed from the children, if they have proven themselves as sufficiently resistant against murder lust according to the law, one must assume also that they would not have gained or lost anything thereby, as if they had never been filled with the lust for murder. 9. But I see that in this thorough account of the matter you do not know what you are supposed to do with this commandment. Do not worry; just a few words will suffice to put everything that is doubtful in the clearest light before you, and the law will be just as worthy as on earth, even in heaven, as a sun shines in the sky! 10. But for you to grasp the following explanation easily and thoroughly, I only point out to you that in God the eternal preservation of the created spirits is the unchangeable basic condition of all Divine order. Now if you know that, look for the opposite, that is, for the destruction; and you have the full spiritual and physical implication of the commandment before you. 11. Instead of saying: Thou shalt not kill, one should say: thou shalt not destroy, neither thyself, nor all that which is thy brother’s; for preservation is the eternal basic law in God Himself, according to which He is eternal and infinite in His power. But since on the earth also the human body is necessary for the everlasting education of the spirit until God’s appointed time, without an explicit command of God, no one has the right to willfully destroy neither his own body nor that of his brother. 12. So, when we speak of the required preservation, it goes without saying that everyone is just as little entitled to destroy the spirit of his brother as his own by whatever means and make one unfit for the attainment of eternal life. God, of course, kills human bodies every day; but at the right time, when the spirit has matured in some or the other way. Even the angels of heaven, as perpetual servants of God, kill the bodies of men on earth; but not unless they are commanded by the Lord, and then only in the way the Lord wants it. 13. In this way do the children here learn in spiritually practical ways in which the preservation of created things consists, and how, united with the will of the Lord, it must always be handled with the utmost care. And if you have understood this only to some extent, it will certainly be plausible to see for yourself, firstly the great dignity of this law, and secondly why it also occurs here in the realm of the heavenly children’s spirits. But since we know such things, we can immediately go to the sixth room. Regarding this Commandment, the Lord says in the great Gospel of John, Volume 7, Chapter 31:10-15 10. When you judge My laws with a human sense, then surely you must find gaps and shortcomings therein. If you love your neighbour as yourself, you will not hate him, not treat him with hostility and not harm him; but if you do this, even less so would you try to ever kill him, either physically or even to a lesser extend emotionally by all kinds of nuisances. 11. You shall not kill! This is absolutely correct and true stated in the law. But why? Because since primeval times under ‘kill’ is understood, jealousy, enviousness, rage, hatred and revenge. 12. ‘You shall not kill!’ therefore means: You should not envy anybody, you should not look at the more fortunate with askance eyes and you should not burn with anger against your fellow man; since anger breeds hate, and from hate arises the evil revenge destroying everything! 13. It also is written: “Mine is the anger and Mine is the revenge, says the Lord.” 14. But you people should respect each other in all love, and one should do good to the other; since you all have in Me one Father and are therefore equal before Me! You should not annoy and curse each other and the one should not through bad lies cut off the honour of the other; since who does that, kills the soul of his fellow man! 15. And see, all that is in short expressed with ‘You shall not kill!’ And the first Jews, also during the times of Solomon, did not understand this law any other way, and the Samaritans as the old Jews, still understand it today in the same manner. If this law from its foundation is understood only like this, – how can anyone assume that through this law man is forbidden to defend himself against evil people and even savage animals?”

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Millions and Millions of souls from children are mentored, taught and provided for in the ‘Kingdom of the Children’ (Spiritual Sun Volume 2, 67-101). The Guidance through the ‘Children’s Kingdom’ takes place by the Apostle of Love, John. Chapter 77 1. The fourth commandment, as you have it on earth, is: “Honour your father and your mother, so that you may live long and you may prosper on earth.” – This commandment is as good of Divine origin as the first three. But what does it require and what does it promise? Nothing but the obedience of the children to their parents and for this obedience, a temporal benefit. 2. Can everyone not ask and say: How can such a divine commandment sanction itself through mere temporal promises and has apparently nothing in the background which offers eternal spiritual advantages? What is up with such a temporal benefit? What does the well-being mean, what the long life, if nothing higher follows after it? 3. It’s true: a good and long life is better than short and bad. But when, at the end of the life-period, the inhospitable death appears, and what advantage does the good and long life have above the bad and short? I mean, you do not need to be a fundamental mathematician to say that the difference is overall a pure zero; for the first as well as the second overcome a bare nothing, and then it matters very little whether the road to this reception was good or bad. 4. By this measure, the Fourth Commandment would be based on a very slippery ground, and the parents would indeed be sick of it, if their children were born into the world with such philosophy, and the children themselves would find little reason in such consideration, to obey her parents. Furthermore, the following critical consideration can be made of this commandment: As the commandment sounds, it has only a temporal basis, that is, merely representing the duty of the children toward their parents. 5. The question then arises: What is the purpose of this commandment here in the spiritual realm, where the children are separated from their parents forever? For if they are separated from their parents, surely they will be relieved of their earthly duty. Nevertheless, here in this fourth hall we notice this commandment written on the blackboard. Should it be related to the Lord for these children? This could be heard, however, if only the prophecy did not stand under it: “To live long and to live on earth?” If it were there: “To live forever and to live well in heaven”, such a transversion of the law would be easy to understand; but a temporal promise in the eternal realm of the spirits sounds a bit strange. 6. What do you think, what will be done here, to give this law a fully established Divine prestige? Of course you shrug your shoulders and say quietly in yourselves: Dear friend and brother! If it would depend on our discretion here, then there will be a significant snag with the purely Divine sphere of this law; for, according to the above consideration, one would think it is easy to find not too much spirituality here. 7. But I tell you that exactly this commandment, like almost no other, is purely spiritual. You are now making big eyes; but the thing is no different. But in order to see this at once, I will do nothing but say this law with slightly different words, as it is also said here in this lecture, and you will immediately see the fullness of the truth. But how is it said here? – Listen! 8. Children! Obey the order of God, which proceeds from His love and wisdom (ie father and mother), so that you may live long on earth in well-being. What is long life, and what is eternal life compared to it? The “long life”. denotes life in wisdom; and “long” is understood not as duration, but as expansion and ever greater power of life; for the word or the concept “life” already implies eternal duration. But the word “long” does not mean any duration, but only a spreading of the life-force, with which the living being always gets deeper into the depths of Divine life, and thereby makes his own life more and more perfect, firm, and effective. 9. This we now understand; but “well-being on earth” what does that mean? Nothing other than the taking-unto-self of the Divine life, for by the “earth” here is meant the proper being, and the “well-being” in this being is nothing other than the free being in itself, according to the completely taken-unto-self Divine order. 10. This short explanation is enough to see that this very law is completely of a purely spiritual nature. If you want to check it out more at your leisure, you will find it to be so on your own earth. But here too, it is practically taught to the children, and with the greatest benefit. But now that we know this, we immediately proceed to the fifth room.

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Given thru the inner word to Jakob Lorber (1842-43) Explanation of the 3rd Commandment – The Guidance through the ‘Children’s Kingdom’ takes place by the Apostle of Love, John. Chapter 76 11. „Thou shalt hallow the Sabbath.“ – But what does that mean, especially here, when no more night alternates with day, and only perpetual, eternal day exists? When is the Sabbath? Since the commandment is of Divine origin, it must be an eternal and not a merely temporal rule, and must have a fully valid meaning in the realm of the spirits as on earth. 12. With you it is said that one should, on a sabbath, being a compulsory day of rest, do no servile work, by which is meant all gainful occupation. But it is permissible to perform a show, to play, even to dance like the gentiles. It is necessary to fast one day before the Sabbath in order to be able to eat better and more on the Sabbath. So even the hosts are allowed to sell their food and cheat their guests on a holiday more than any other. That is, according to law, to hallow the Sabbath; the more blessed work in the field and in the acre may not be done, but everything else is fit for the Sabbath. 13. But the Lord has shown in the world that even on the Sabbath one can work fitly and do good. But if the Lord Himself worked on the Sabbath, then I believe that every person should have enough proof that the ‘hallowing of the Sabbath’ should be understood as something quite different from not working, or taking something in the hands which is useful and beneficial. 14. But what is meant by the sanctification of the Sabbath? What is the Sabbath? I want to tell you very briefly: 15. The Sabbath is neither Saturday, nor Sunday, nor Easter or Pentecost, nor any other day of the week or year, but it is nothing but the day of the spirit in man, the Divine light in the human spirit, the rising sun of life in the human soul. That is the Living Day of the Lord in man, which he is continually to recognize and sanctify through all his actions, which he is to do out of love for God and out of love for his neighbor. 16. But since man cannot and will never find this holy day of rest of the Lord in the chaos of the world, therefore, let him withdraw from the world and seek that Day of the Life of the sacred rest of God. 17. Therefore the people of the Israelites were commanded to appoint at least one day of the week, when they should withdraw from worldly affairs, and seek in themselves that day of life. But the law was observed only externally and materially, and in the end it was brought to such an extent that even the Lord of the Sabbath was not recognized, the Holy Father, when driven by infinite love, came to earth on his children! 18. I think that you would fully understand from these words what was meant by the sanctification of the Sabbath and how it should be kept. 19. You should as well be able to understand the question of whether your Sunday keeping is a true sabbatical sanctification, whether one can, through an hour of worship, followed by worldly entertainment, reach the innermost, eternal Living Day of rest of the Lord? 20. If I were with you on earth, I would like to set a very high price on the proof, whether by attending church, then by hard eating, and finally by going for a walk, driving or riding, sometimes even by dancing, playing and drinking, not infrequently through lies and deceit, through ordinary personal visitations, and more enterprises of the like, one would find the true Sabbath in spirit and sanctify it. Who knows if there are not philosophers who could provide such proof? Of course he would be exposed to be like a false coin with us. 21. It is barely necessary to mention that here, only the living Sabbath-sanctification is taught to and practiced by the children. You can form for yourself a thorough concept of how these commandments of the Lord are actually to be understood. 22. Just like these two commandments and the previous one, we also want to walk through the others, for you to get a proper concept, in which sense all the commandments here are being taught to the children.

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Given thru the inner word to Jakob Lorber (1842-43). The Guidance through the ‘Children’s Kingdom’ takes place by the Apostle of Love, John. Here in the 2nd hall the second commandment is explained to the children’s souls… „Thou shalt not take the name of God in vain“. Chapter 76 3. Thus, immediately in the next hall, the commandment: “Thou shalt not take the name of God in vain,” is discussed. In fact, you yourselves also do not understand what this commandment fundamentally means, and that is why I also want to correct your understanding of these commandments through some examples and explanations. 4. Thus, in this second room, this commandment is not interpreted as if no one should not, on secular occasions, pronounce the Name of the Lord without due respect and reverence, which prohibition would certainly be of no use here. For if someone thinks that he has to pronounce the name of the Lord only in the most extreme case of need, and always with the highest reverence and respect, this would have meant nothing more and nothing less than: one should certainly never pronounce the name of God, by which two conditions are presupposed under which the name of God is to be pronounced. These conditions are, however, in the first place based on such screws, that none can say for certain and with conviction, which occasion would be such an extreme emergency which would justify the utterance of the most holy Name. Secondly, even if such a case would occur, such as in extreme life-danger, which can happen under various conditions, it is still to wonder whether any man in such most dubious conditions would possess the presence of mind and the capacity to dignify the name of the Lord as would be proper? 5. So, if you look at the explanation of this second commandment, as it usually occurs on earth, you must necessarily arrive at this final conclusion that the name of the Lord should never actually be pronounced, and for the simple reason that the two hardly discernible, given conditions can never actually agree with each other. I would like to know those people on the earth who, in their highest distress, would be able to place themselves in that quietly exalted reverent and devout state, in which he may utter the name of the Lord with dignity. 6. If this would be so, then no man should pray, for in prayer he also names the name of the Lord. But man should pray daily and give glory to God and should not restrict prayer to the most extreme emergency. 7. It is clear from all this that this commandment is wrongly understood. But in order to put an end to all brooding over it with one blow, I will tell you in a nutshell how this commandment is to be fundamentally understood. And so, “Thou shalt not call the name of God in vain” means as much as: 8. Thou shalt not merely utter the Name of God with your mouth, not merely utter the articulated sound of a few syllables, but since God is the reason of your life, you must always utter it from the very bottom of your life, that is, you shalt not pronounce it mechanically, but always alive in all your actions; because whatever you do, you do with the power God has given you. If you use this power for evil action, then you evidently desecrate the divine in you; and this is your power, the Living Name of God! 9. See, so much does this commandment say, that for the first time you should know the name of God, what He is, and wherein he exists; and then you should not pronounce it vainly with outward words just like another name, but always actively, because the name of God is the energy of man. Therefore, man should also do everything he does in this name. If he does that, he does not speak the name of God in vain with outward words, but actively and vividly.