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Lorber\tab\tab\tab\tab\tab 26.6.1841\par \f0 When someone believes in the help and guidance of certain guardian spirits and angels, he is like one who well knows the monarch - that he is exceedingly good - but out of fear that perhaps the monarch may not like it if he himself were to bother him w\f0 ith his supposed clumsiness, therefore he makes a bond with other guardian and helping beings and, in the end, believes, in all earnest, that these (alone) have helped or protected him from dangers, when only the monarch - as the chief builder - has im\f0 parted his help and protection to the weak believer for which the weak believer has called.\par \f0 Think for once rightly within yourself! You know that all people and all spirits and angels are nothing else than by-Me-carried thoughts who, at all times, have their life and their all out of Me and, certainly, everyone as much as it accords with My e\f0 ternal order, as it is precisely most goal-fitting for him. But when one comes to the other and says to him: \ldblquote Help me in this or that!\rdblquote and when the other then wants to help the one who called,as if out of himself, is that not exactly like when a blind \f0 one would liketo lead and a dead one to breathe life into the other, or a very sad one to comfort the other very sad one?\par \f0 I say to you: Each human being, spirit and angel has enough (to do) if he stands for himself and has not an atom more, so that he could stand for another, out of himself.\par \f0 But whoever comes to Me, with whatever need and closes a living bond of faith around Me, the sole Living One, how should it not happen to him, since he united himself through a living faith?\par \f0 There is, upon the way of pure truth, only one true guardian spirit -and this one is I Myself!\par \f0 All other \ldblquote guardian spirits\rdblquote arise from a weak faith, called forth through a gain-seeking establishment of the outer church.\par \f0 But because people have called on, still now call, and will in futurecall (on saints etc. - The Ed.), there remains nothing else for the present - order to leave the freedom of the people unharmed - except to allow themto receive My help and providence\f0 upon the way of the so-called mediatorship.\par \f0 On the other hand, you must not think that the love-activity of the blessed ceases. But it is not made in such a way as weak faith teaches. But because all the blessed are in Me, as I am in them, they are also made blessed by one and the same love of t\f0 heir holy Father and vivified for all eternal times.\par \f0 There is not one person alive on earth for whom spirits from a betterworld are not given. And these spirits are constantly making efforts to leadto light and to the Life of all life, the one to whom they are assigned.\par \f0 But wherefrom stem, and what is this exceedingly love-active strivingof such spirits? - Is it not I who effects all this in them?\par \f0 How unjust, therefore, it is when the person passes Me by and seeks help from those who have nothing out of themselves, but everything only out of Me!\par \f0 What shall a person seek (elsewhere) when he knows that I, as the Highest, desire to be a human being, yes, even a Brother, so that he should be able to see that I, more than any man, am humble and gentle from the heart, and exceedingly condescending a\f0 nd not a God in the distance, but a Father and Brother most close to you - so that your own life is farther to you thanI Myself.\par \f0 Unless the person has become life-shy in earnest and has befriended death, so that then he doesn't\rquote t care to grasp the true life and grasps into the distance, and through great byways, what is to him closest of all and, so to speak, continually carries\f0 him in His hands. For upon another path, he would surely find it impossible to find the highest (like a four-cornered circle) which is truly as impossible as that a person who loves life would not, above\~ all, want to (since he can if he only wants to\f0 ) grasp it by theroots.\par \f0 However, go back and ask any of the Gospels, as all the apostles and other disseminators of My Word, and show Me any place where it was taught to hold also to certain \ldblquote protecting spirits\rdblquote (patron saints) besidesMe. Or, rather, doesn't it say in the Gos\f0 pels: \ldblquote Come you all to Me who are weary and heavily-laden, and I will refresh you all.\rdblquote\par \f0 Is anyone made an exception of in this invitation, or anyone recommended to the protection of angels? - Certainly not! Whatever is said there, issaid for the whole of infinity and for the whole of eternity!\par \f0 But which one of you would still like to maintain that My Word is notperfect in that I, at the time, have not weighed everything properly andonly in later times have got a more prudent or better one\rdblquote - Such aconjecture would make every worldly ruler ir\f0 ritated who yet is imperfect inany word, out of himself. \~ How would then such (a thing) ascribed to Me bean exception?\par \f0 See, therefore, such a \ldblquote protecting patron belief\rdblquote is likea parasitic plant upon the tree of Life. But who would like to maintain that the parasitic plant sucks its life from elsewhere than from the tree upon which it sits.\par \f0 What, however, is the fruit of the tree and what the fruit of the parasitic plant? - Only upon the tree grows the true fruit. Whoever eats it, to him itbrings eternal life. But what concerns the fruit of the parasitic plant, its juice can, at best, ser\f0 ve for - if it were possible - to catch even the birds of heaven for death. (Bird lime is prepared from the berries of the mistletoe, a parasitic plant which lives on fruit trees. - The Ed.)\par \f0 See, thus it goes with everything that does not bond itself to Me, i.e. whoever does not build with Me from the ground up! That is the plastered(patched up) house, or a parasitic plant upon the tree of Life, whereby oneis of as much use as the other. I\f0 alone am the Way, the Truth, and the Life!He who does not gather with Me, scatters.\par \f0 A branch that is separated from the vine, will it not soon dry up and\~ never bring forth fruit?\par \f0 Therefore, whoever needs something, let him come to Me, and believe, thus he will receive it!\par \f0 Whoever is oppressed by any doubt, he should think that the doubt is only the result of that someone does not walk with Me and does not let himself be drawn by Me. But whoever has a doubt, let him come to Me, and believe, and there will become light up\f0 on that in which he has doubted.\par \f0 Whoever is blind, and deaf, and lame, and palsied, and dumb, and possessed, let him come to Me, and believe, thus he will find the most certain assistance!\par \f0 But take notice - I am no small, but an extremely large God. Whoever wants to take hold of Me, let him open his arms wide, i.e. he must embrace Me completely and not think only that I could help him if I wanted to. But he must think that I will, at all\f0 times, and most of all, help him. When he will unitesuch in himself, then will only such faith become alive.\par \f0 It could, however, i.e. spoken according to your measure, be acceptable for someone here and there, to put his faith in some protecting spirit apparitions, especially those which happen in the realm of the so-called somnabulism (trance?)\par \f0 To this I say: Such \ldblquote protecting spirit\rdblquote apparitions are nothing more than creations of one\rquote s own belief. They have great similarities with those dreams in which people, under various circumstances, come to see - in animated imagery- that which they, in\f0 a waking state, have thought about most vividly, not in their mind, but in their feeling.\par \f0 But just as in, on the one side, such dream constructions are something, thus are such described apparitions, with the somnabulist, not only an empty appearance, but is also something real. - But what is this reality? Thisreality is nothing else than a\f0 creation of one\rquote s own belief in unionwith the all-realizing love.\par \f0 For no man can seek help in anything that he did not believe in beforehand, and then lovingly and trustingly embraced the same with his feeling.\par \f0 And even a material artist cannot bring about a figure which he hasn't in a certain manner, first created within himself.\par \f0 But how has he created it? - He thought, firstly, about some object. This object pleased him. But since it pleased him, he embraced it with his feeling and was, in a certain manner, in love with his idea. But just as he embraces his idea with love, he \f0 will also, if he also possesses the ability for it, infallibly put it into effect.\par \f0 Thus, see, so it goes with all the apparitions, especially in the so-called trance state in which only then his visionary illusions cease and the self-creations disperse like fog, when not only the soul, but is also the living spiritof the somnabulist,\f0 awakens, in which state (see something about it in the\ldblquote Great Gospel of John,\rdblquote vol. 4, Ch. 42 and in the special editionof \ldblquote The Dream of Zorel\rdblquote ) which naturally arises only seldom. Thenthe somnabulist makes very little mention of the previously observe\f0 d \ldblquote protectingspirits\rdblquote etc., since the spirit clearly sees, hears and recognizes onlythe One and Only protecting spirit.\par \f0 But what concerns, next to the trance state (protective spirit) apparitions, which some monastic ravings have occasioned, there you would possess sufficient wise cleverness yourselves and not, like the heathens, be of a foolish belief, to accept all th\f0 ese ravings next to the fullest bright side of My Word, as a genuine coin and, in the end, be of a quarter-faith, as if even wooden, stone and painted pictures of certain \ldblquote patron saints\rdblquote could give you help.\par \f0 I say to you: Such a faith is not better by a hair\rquote s breadth than that of those servants of Baal! When the living person cannot help his brother - and it stands in the Scriptures that all human help is of no effect - what should then a piece of carved \f0 wood or some other kind of dead material accomplish?\par \f0 Or would you like to be of the opinion, in such helping circumstances, that the \ldblquote patron saints\rdblquote are stuck in their material images?-This little (something) should convince you, to excess, of (it being in)the negative.\par \f0 Take, for example, the best picture that presents Me, Myself, hangingon the cross, count all the crucifixes in the Catholic, and other Christianworld, of which sometimes, in a single house, there are dozens of differentsizes -should all such pictures t\f0 ogether help more than one, or should thelarger ones have more power than the smaller ones? \par \f0 Or should the consecrated Christs (images) be more powerful than the unconsecrated, and a (one) consecrated at the high altar be by far more powerful than another one at a side altar?! - Can you not see the foolishness at the first glance?\par \f0 When I, as the Living Helper Himself do not need any man, yes, not even an angel, and still much less a carved image, (for when I help, I help in Spirit and in Truth, but not in the wood, the stone and in the color!) -what sort of power and effect can \f0 then the portrayals of the \ldblquote patron saints\rdblquote have, since the\ldblquote patron saints\rdblquote have no power or effectiveness whatsoever, in and for themselves?\par \f0 Let us take the case that they had, because of the weak faith, some sort of helping power out of themselves, but would be appealed to, at the same time, by a hundred thousand people who kneel before their images - how would such an indivisible protecti\f0 ng spirit flash all over (like lightning) through all his images, so as not to come too late with his help anywhere?\par \f0 Or do you think that a spirit can be present everywhere at the same time? The Eternal Spirit can certainly do so, since all things are in Him. Buta created spirit will not be able to do such in all eternity, because he,in comparison with Me, is only a \f0 finite spirit.\par \f0 But what man can think a thousand thoughts at the same time? But the thinking is the activity of the spirit and a seeing of the soul, which takes up either the thoughts, or rather the spiritual works out of the spirit, just as externally, the great tho\f0 ughts or visible works of the eternal divine Spirit. \~ But if the spirit in you can think only simply one thought after another, so is he himself simple and indivisible, and thereby sees My works which Ihold fast in the greatest clarity only one after \f0 another and will not be finishedwith this seeing in all eternity. How can he be present in all the imagesin the same helping power and also at the same time?\par \f0 But the people (spirits) who have arrived in the other world, are only laboriously healed of this \lquote protective spirit sickness\rquote . Andit often happens that all the so-called \ldblquote patron saints\rdblquote mustbe re moved from the path. For if such did not happen then mo\f0 st of the roman Catholics would flee from Me and turn to their protecting spirits. I do notneed to go far back, for precisely now (as you write this) the poor spiritsare running around all over and seek their \ldblquote patrons\rdblquote with greatzeal. \~\~ But Me, who co\f0 me towards them visible, as a loving Brotherand most loving Father, and call out to them that only I alone am the Onewhom they have to seek and to find, they flee from Me in all earnest and themore courageous ask Me to take them to their protecting spi\f0 rits.\par \f0 See, when such foolishness is so strongly found even in the spirits, who already live in the beyond, what sort of evidence may then the (\lquote protecting spirit\rquote ) apparitions deliver upon this material world, and especially to him who strives (to live) acco\f0 rding to the spirit of living love and living truth in faith?\par \f0 Therefore, if your house has become damaged, or you fear some damage ,then turn, at all times, to Me who am the most understanding Master Builder of souls, and the most certain helping protecting spirit of all protective spirits, and you can be assured\f0 that when I tear down a house, I will also be able rebuild the same again at the cheapest price and, certainly, firmly enough.\par \f0 And think that a monarch like I does not need any mediators, but I Myself am All in all!\par \f0 And whoever wants to come to Me, let him come and he will find Me at home at all times, and precisely in such a way as if I had nothing to do except to only serve the one who seeks Me.\par \f0 Therefore, trust and build upon Me! For I am a firm foundation!\par \f0 Whoever builds upon this foundation, His house will never become leaky. For whoever takes the material from Me, he has it in a living manner, just as I Myself am the sole Living One and give life to everyone who seeks it in Me!\par \f0 You, too, seek it in Me and you will live eternally! Amen. - This says He who alone has and gives Life. Amen.\par \pard\s2\qc\sb100\sa100\frmtxlrtb\plain\b\fs36\f0 A V E\~ M A R I A\~ EXPLAINED\par \pard\s15\sb100\sa100\frmtxlrtb\plain\f0 Sunday, 26\plain\super\f0 th\plain\f0 April, 1848\par \f0 To a question:\par \f0 See, your whole duty is, was, and will be eternally, - love, that is,a pure, divine love in you to Me and, in the same way, also to all your brothers and sisters.\par \f0 According to the degree of this, My love in you, will be given to you, from Me, since I - in My whole Being - am love Itself. You are, if you love Me with all your strength, all beloved children of My love -which has also fructified Mary, the mother of\f0 My physical being. But this physical being is also a true brother to you and strong enough to carry you, as little brothers and sister, with all patience and tenderness and to lead you, as grown up brothers and sisters. And whoever wants to (get) to t\f0 he Father, let him turn only toMe, as the Father\rquote s greatly beloved who is the only true Brother to you, full of the highest love and wisdom. And thus you have no need to turn to any other than exclusively to Me in all your entreaties and needs.\par \f0 See, the greeting to Mary came (at the time of the Annunciation) fromthe most exalted height of the holiness of God, in all the fullness of thepower and might of His Spirit, so that the love in the Father became a trueBrother to you! - No, ask yourselv\f0 es, what you still have to do with thisgreeting now? Mary does not need it, neither does she thirst for it. Andshe knows better than any of you that My ear is sharper than hers and Myeye brighter, also that My love, My meekness and tenderness is not to\f0 becompared with the love, meekness and tenderness of all, even the most blessedspirits of heaven.\par \f0 Truly, your ignorance and your great error would only prepare sorrow,unless I, out of My exceedingly great love for you, anticipated constantly,by taking for Myself what is directed to her, or also to another blessed.\par \f0 See, therefore, I make the ears of the blessed deaf (against such displeasing veneration) and their eyes blind, so that their bliss would not be disturbed through your great foolishness.\par \f0 Whoever seeks Me, Mary will also have great joy in him and, likewise,all the blessed. And they would, at all times, be prepared to serve him according to My love in them, through which they will recognize where and what is lacking to you. Therefore, it\f0 is also useless to seek to achieve grace anywhere else than, precisely, in Me. For only I alone am the door to the Father where\~ all the grace resides. Whoever does not go in through Me, does not get there.\par \f0 You can certainly, respectfully and lovingly, remember whatever has connection with My Incarnation and, thereby, imagine all the dispositions of My great, merciful love for you. And such would be pleasing to Me. But if you wantto make blabbering prayer\f0 s out of it (rosary? The Ed.), then you have become fools or, through the great blindness of your blind guides, (have been) made such and are deceived through the deceived deceivers.\par \f0 But now I have, out of My highest truth, shown you how the case stands, and thus you should act accordingly if you want to be true children of One and the same good Father, and true brothers to the son of Mary who loves you, just as you love Me! - Amen\f0 .\par \f0 (Translated from German from \ldblquote Heavenly Gifts\rdblquote Vol. I, p. 14-15, given through J. Lorber)\par \f0 ..........................................\par \f0\~\par \pard\frmtxlrtb\plain\b\f3\cf13\par }