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Four questions in relation to the moon (3 June 1841)

a) Oh most loving Lord and Savior! How do the moon people worship You? Do they form a church, a state under any visible head? b) How do they raise their children? c) What do they take our earth for, and do they know that You became man on earth and took away the sins of the world through Your bitter suffering and death? d) How does the moon cause sleepwalking or somnambulism?

[5.1] You can see all these questions on the earth itself fulfilled up to one letter, and that for this reason, because between the people of the earth and those on the moon in spiritual regard there is no essential difference; because as you already know anyway, the moon inhabitants are nothing but people from the earth to be improved, and bring their works with them like every other spirit. But that the works of these lunar transmigrants are just not of the best kind, such transfer already sufficiently says.

First question answered:

[5.2] If you now want to experience My veneration from the side of the moon inhabitants on both sides, then take a look at the worldly people of this earth itself, and you will find a faithful mirror, which will show you, how My veneration is formed to the greatest part with the inhabitants of the moon.

[5.3] What are the worldly people doing here? What honor do they pay Me, and with what praise do they pay Me the due duty? Do not these worldlings spend all their care on their filthy box? Some are always busy worrying with what rags they should wrap the dung heap of the spirit. Still others are worried about what kind of tasty food they should prepare for themselves, in order to shove them into the stomach, as the true workshop of death. Still others are concerned about a splendid house, a beautiful shiny interior, soft chairs and sofas, shiny tables, and extremely soft beds, in order to roll on them all the more easily and comfortably during the day as well as at night, and to take careful care that their inner most beloved friend stomach does not suffer any offensive pressure or even a somewhat painful bruise. These stomach friends are also particularly afraid of the rays of the sun, for which reason they then again take care that not too much sunlight falls through the windows into the room, which are therefore also covered with all kinds of rags. Don't you notice that such people already here have a slight kinship with the cave hucksters of the moon, who, because they can no longer build such splendorous houses and are no longer able to hang their windows with rags, Instead, they flee from the sun's rays into their caves and also stay there until late in the afternoon, just like the lords of comfort and good on this earth, who climb out of their rooms into well-cushioned and swinging carriages in order to make a movement that, in their opinion, is beneficial to the health of the body. And again there are others on this earth who know no other more important business than the usury of money and property; and again there are others who have no other thoughts than to clean themselves in every possible way, which diligence is especially practiced by the female gender, and that with the honest intention to deceive some young inexperienced person and to deceive him after the fathom; for such a maiden recognizes her true inner value and from this, also the value of the neighbor; Ask yourselves, will she also clean herself in order to deceive someone by herself and do like the Jews who clean the bad metal in order to sell it to fools as gold. I say that she will not do so, since she knows that it is not false gold, but real gold, for which she does not need a fool, but an intelligent one, who will immediately recognize the gold, and will take it for the just price. And look, I could still list a lot of such worldlings for you; but it is not necessary for the enlightenment of the matter.

[5.4] You know, as I once said that no-one should worry about what he would eat and drink, so also not about the clothing of the body; but seek only My kingdom and it's justice, which is My great love for those who also love Me, as I love them, above all. What then is My veneration like among those people on this earth, of whom the better kind spends twenty-three hours on the average of the day for the care of their body, but hardly deals with Me for a scattered hour! Does this mean to seek the kingdom of God? I say to you: the frogs in the puddles and the moles in the earth could well serve you as teaching apostles; for truly the frog quacks most of the day in his joy at the perceived life in his puddle, and thereby unconsciously praises Me in his quacking joy for the possession of life; and the mole recognizes and makes it's way in the dark earth, and it's work and it's silent rest is a silent praise song, by which it unceasingly praises Me, it's Creator.

[5.5] But man, for whom I have created everything, for whom I have done such great things, still do and eternally will do, yes, for whom I care constantly and use all My wisdom and love for him, more than a most loving bridegroom for his most beloved, most dear bride, this man finds only hardly one hour in the day for Me, and this, moreover, only in such a way as a dissolute cook often throws salt into the food quite thoughtlessly, because she is already used to doing such things, or at least in order to be able to say that she has salted the soup, even if it often tastes no better than pure lukewarm water, without oil and salt! Truly I say to you, by such worship your God will not become fatter, and by it your life itself will not become stronger, than the life of your wooden house and room crucifixes, which physically show you the great wretchedness, how much your worship and service resembles that of the Jews, who at least have crucified the living One, while you would be too lazy and too lukewarm for this work for a long time, and are content that someone sells you such a wooden crucifixion already finished, which is then also perfectly suitable to take the atoms of your worship in My place. Oh you fools! So you worship the shaped wood or stone or metal, as the dog worships a corner stone, which a predecessor has already sniffed at, and press your lips to the wood, and think, if you have still babbled a so-called Our Father and Hail Mary, or if you have spent an hour or so in a church, made of stone and full of carvings, thoughtlessly and plastered with a gilded prayer book in your hand, you would have served Me and worshipped Me above neck and head; Oh you fools! Do you think that I am in wood, or in stone, or in metal, or in other vain carvings from the hands of carpenters and sculptors, turners, locksmiths, blacksmiths, masons and painters? Truly I say to you: All such worshippers, if they do not think of something else here on this earth, will one day have to go to school for a long time on the moon, and there they will have to experience under greatest hardships spiritually and often also physically that the living God is not at all pleased with such nonsensical worship, which is much worse than that of the blind pagans, who at least make a serious sacrifice to their idol out of fear, if not out of love, whereas you worship Me, the living God, as if I were either not at all, or as if I were seriously only made of wood, or, if it goes a little better, either newly baked or old baked from flour.

[5.6] If you now want to know in what the worship of God consists with the moon people, both on the spiritual and physical side of this world body, then I tell you that the local worship consists in nothing else, than in that the people there only gradually learn what the true worship of God consists of, according to which learning they then begin to worship God in spirit and in truth, and indeed in themselves; but not as you do during the day for one hour only, and even then still exceedingly lukewarm in wood and all kinds of spiritually praised foolishness. Also the worship of God consists in this, that those, who here have done their body good for twenty-three hours a day, there must learn to do without such extra fine bodily benefits through long times, deny themselves to the innermost fiber of life, and expect everything only from Me, and often have to confess their faith as living through the most manifold and most difficult trials, but not like you, who either have no faith at all, or if you already have one, then this one embraces Me, the living God, with just the petty strength with which it embraces a wooden, badly formed crucifix.

Second question answered:

[5.7] And if the first question is answered by this, the second one answers itself; because where I appear as a teacher either outwardly through angels sent there, and inwardly Myself, there is no need for an ecclesiastical, as well as all-terrestrial head, from which you can also see that the one to whom I have become a teacher can quite easily do without all other head teachers or not head teachers, especially if the head is rather a golden one than a spiritual one. And so the whole moon forms nothing else than a spiritual correction state under My sole direction.

[5.8] According to this inner teaching also their children are brought up, and their only need is love, and out of it faith according to the teaching of the spirits, that I am a man, and have assumed such nature bodily on the world from which they originally descended, in order to make all people happy not only on the earth and the moon alone, but also to gather together in their kind all those who are scattered in the endless spaces from countless world-bodies, and to establish under the cross of love also for them a permanent place. Behold, this is the whole of religion and worship on the Moon.

[5.9] For this reason the men must carry their wives around, so that they may be cured of their sensual carnal lust by their ever oppressive burden. Verily I say to you: On earth a king in his state could impose such an indispensable duty on all the voluptuaries, that if such a voluptuary has made love to a prostitute, he would then have to carry her around on his back for a whole year, and would have to keep her thus day and night, either lying, sitting, standing or walking; truly, during this period, he will be satisfied with sweet meat, as a licking boy after the consumption of honey, by which he has spoiled his stomach so burdensome that after the restoration of his stomach he is even more afraid of the honey than of the stinging bee.

[5.10] Of course, this is said here only for a more vivid testimony of the moon, and may not be well applied on earth, where man is in his fullest freedom, because the punishment certainly improves the flesh for a time and brings it to order, but not at all the soul, and even less the free spirit; therefore, in the moon such action also does not take place as punishment, but only as intimately better love.

Third question answered:

[5.11] The question, what the inhabitants of the moon think of the earth, is after all completely unnecessary; because those inhabitants, who could see the earth by virtue of their position on this side of the lunar body, are spirits, and can see the material only by the way of spiritual correspondences; the otherworldly ones, however, never get to see the earth and know it only spiritually.

Fourth question answered:

[5.12] Regarding the last question, your conception is quite erroneous, as if the moon caused such sleepwalking; but such is only caused at the time of the full moon by the magnetic fluid of the earth itself becoming more intense; for when the moon is in the full light of the sun, the light drives the magnetic fluid from the moon back to the earth in a certain way, in which way the earth then becomes more fully charged; and people who have more metal in their blood due to various influences, either from the water, the air or food, then also have the natural ability in themselves to conductively absorb this very backflowing fluid.

[5.13] When his nerves are filled with this, and thus begin to press the soul annoyingly, then the soul awakens, or rather it breaks free from it's bodily bonds and wants to escape from the oppressive body. Since the body also possesses a very peculiar nerve-spirit, which is first of all highly related to the magnetic fluid, but on the other hand just as intimately related to the soul, which through this nerve-spirit is connected with the body and corresponds with it; when the soul then wants to leave the dust, it then also awakens the nerve-spirit, which is most intimately connected to it, and this naturally awakens the body; and so the so-called sleeping procession proceeds as if three people were walking along one after the other, bound to each other; however, the spirit remains in the soul, which is why it is also alive. If such a sleepwalker then turns his face towards the moon and often climbs up on roofs and church towers, this happens so that he rises from the magnetically overfilled depth of the earth, and thereby reduces his oppressive overfilling of this fluid, so that then the body would again become suitable to receive and accommodate his soul with the spirit again through the nerve-spirit. When the body has become free again, the soul carries it back to it's former place through the nerve-spirit, and only there fully reunites with the body. Naturally, the soul does not know anything about the state, because it has no memory, which is erroneously explained by the philosophers as a soul faculty, while the soul only knows what it just sees, and the memory of the soul in the body is nothing but a repeated seeing again of the corresponding natural impressions of the artificial organism of the body, to which seeing, of course, it is awakened only by the corresponding countless forms, which the spirit carries in itself.

[5.14] Now you know everything except the actual essence of the magnetic fluid itself. What this is and what it consists of, however, in order to bring it closer to your understanding, nothing sufficient can be said in a few words; for with few words in the way of wisdom, you would hardly ever understand it, and for many words you are already too tired;

[5.15] therefore expect for the next occasion this not unimportant addendum, with which only this task shall be regarded as finished; and thus for today, Amen! - I your Father, Amen!

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