The thoughts as causes of sickness "Thus also health, sickness or even death are not a direct result of the disruption of the functions in the human body, but the causative factor behind a healthy or sick body, the maker of a beautiful or ugly exterior, is the fleeting, invisible thought, which makes the nerves tingle and accelerates the processes of elimination or the metabolism. Since most passions are the result of thoughts nurtured with love and leave their traces in the human countenance, beautiful or ugly facial forms are the reflection of the inner soul-life." (Secrets of life, 22) Understanding the real meaning of death " The horror of death is my work, and by that I (Satan) keep my creatures with me, and they stay with me so that my qualities can live in them." (from GGJ Book 25, chap. 41) "Thus also health, sickness or even death are not a direct result of the disruption of the functions in the human body, but the causative factor behind a healthy or sick body, the maker of a beautiful or ugly exterior, is the fleeting, invisible thought, which makes the nerves tingle and accelerates the processes of elimination or the metabolism. Since most passions are the result of thoughts nurtured with love and leave their traces in the human countenance, beautiful or ugly facial forms are the reflection of the inner soul-life." (Secrets of life, 22) The causes of physical sickness
“I said: “For what concerns your question of yesterday, namely about the often long lasting and severe state of illness that precedes the death of the body, and also about the often very early dead of children, this is only allowed by Me to improve the people, but this does not mean that it was a decision that came from the almightiness of My will. [2] Look, the first men, who always stayed in the order and simplicity that was shown to them by My Spirit, did really not know about any sickness which precedes physical death. They mostly reached a very high age, became never sick, and they finally fell quietly asleep, and by that their soul did not feel any pain or fear of death. [3] Their food was always the same, and not today this and tomorrow something different. They mostly lived from milk, bread and good, ripe tree fruit. This kind of dish was their food for their body during their whole life, and to quench their thirst, fresh spring water was used. [4] For this reason the nerves of their body were always fed by the same good, harmless substances of the soul, and no bad, impure and therefore harmful soul substance could creep into the body. That is why those men always stayed strong and healthy, spiritually as well as physically. [5] But in this time and also in the much earlier times, look at the many thousands of different delicacies with which people fill their stomach and belly, then it will immediately become clear to you how in this situation all kinds of unfermented and therefore impure, bad and harmful substances often take possession of the whole human body and gradually torture and torment it more and more. Because such various substances in a human body are then constantly coming into a fight which can be calmed down for a period of time after seeking protection by taking all kinds of herbs and roots that are known through experience and with which they appease the internal soul substance revolution. [6] But such good health does not last long, especially for an old person, unless he for a long time sought protection by taking very simple food for his body. But this does usually not happen because when the people, for what concerns their body, become bearably healthier through a fortunately chosen medicine, most of them will soon like their old delicacies again, become then more sick than they were before, will begin to have trouble and will usually end in a painful way. [7] Look, this is why Moses prescribed the menu for the Israelites who were delivered from the hard slavery of Egypt. Those who strictly lived according to it, remained healthy up to a high age, but very soon many wanted their Egyptian meat pots, and the result was that soon after that they became sick, weak and tired and had to end their earthly life with all kinds of physical sicknesses. [8] Still more sadly in this respect is what happens to children. [9] Firstly their parents have sinned here and there and have by that filled their body with a great number of bad and harmful soul substances, and thus the child is procreated by a sinful father in the body of an even more sinful mother. Question: how can out of such body come forth a healthy child? [10] And secondly, it is especially during pregnancy that the mother is mostly craving for all kinds of delicacies, and her family members cannot think of a better service than to give in as much as possible to the desire of the pregnant woman. [11] On this occasion, the child receives a second blow against his health. It is not sufficient for the child to come out completely sick from the mother’s body, but immediately after that he must be nourished with an even worse mother’s milk. This is the second, even harder blow against the basic principles of the health of a child. [12] If a child withstood as fortunate as possible and so-called ‘safe and sound’ those two blows against health with all kinds of medicine, there is still a third blow against health. The child grows up of course, becomes cute and adorable for the people around him. Then he all too soon will be greatly spoiled and provided with all kinds of sweets, because such foolish parents cannot forbid anything to their darling. But what is the result of this? That the child will prematurely spoil and weaken his stomach and the necessary digestive organs, so much so that he will already soon catch all kinds of physical sicknesses and also die early. [13] Many children die already in the body of their mother. A greater number die soon after birth within 2 to 3 years, but most of them from 4 to 12 years. The children who then still reach a riper age must firstly have clever and reasonable parents, must have followed a chaste and healthy life and did not get angry or vexed. In this way they still can come to a very good and bearable health and reach 60, 70, 80 years or older. But then their old age is in itself as good as a sickness which is still a result of the mother’s body and comes mostly also from the sins of their youth. [14] From this short explanation you can see that I absolutely was never the cause of the human physical sicknesses, but the people themselves, and this from the moment that they thoughtlessly and willfully left more and more My commandments and rules which I always gave to them, and they followed their reason and their will which became more and more darkened and confused by the evil spirits that are in the air, the earth and the water. [15] The elders knew very well that the night outside is no friend of men, but nevertheless, they try to accomplish their big plans of speculation during the night. However, all this kind of excessive speculation is the same as theft and murder that – as you well know – are committed mostly during the night. [16] The Earth is big enough to feed thousand times more people than the people who live now on the Earth. But greed, miserliness and the lust for speculation have bordered and marked the landed properties. And those who are most rich, miserly and powerful often took the biggest and best pieces of land into possession, and they persecuted all those who wanted to resist against it. And so it happened that many possess thousand times more of excellent land than is needed for the livelihood of themselves and their family. [17] On the other hand, many hundreds of thousands had to go to the coasts of the sea to take out from there their bad and unhealthy food. By that, the navigation was invented, and men sailed far and wide along the shores of the sea and hunted recklessly for the treasures and riches that were hidden in the sea, and so very big nations live at this time at and from the sea, and all this was not the case with the first men on Earth. [18] But when this is so – as experience teaches us – how can a somewhat reasonable person think by far that the nations in this time who greatly stepped out of the former order, can be and stay as healthy as those first men on Earth who, since the body of the mother, never stepped out of that order? [19] The state of sickness which presently precedes the physical death of men is therefore nothing else than the result of the almost complete rejection of the ancient order, but is at the same time also a protector of the healthy soul still present in many, for it takes care that the soul will gradually separate himself from his bad flesh, will by that detach himself from the shackles of the bad soul substances of his body, and when these cause too much damage he can still in time separate from his body forever with the help of his better spirit of the beyond. After that, he will eternally not wish anymore in the least to enter a body again, except when he would have come out of his body entirely evil, and then, to bitterly revenge himself against the flesh, will try to enter the flesh of a human being who still lives on Earth in order to torture it in the most cruel and merciless way, which you could see and experience oftentimes from people who were possessed by evil spirits.” (THE GREAT GOSPEL OF JOHN vol. 10, chap. 182/ Book 24 chap. 64) On the dangers and influences of impure foods "Impure spirits, partly those who already once lived in the flesh in this world, but for the greater part those nature-spirits which have never been begotten in human flesh, are everywhere-in the air, upon and in the earth, in the water and in the fire, in stones, metals, plants, animals, and also in the blood and flesh of human beings. This is why human beings should not eat the flesh of suffocated and unclean animals. In an emergency, the flesh of unclean animals can be eaten, but first it must be well-cleansed and marinated in salt and good herbs. Then it should be smoked in good herbs, in order that the flesh is free of unclean spirits. The flesh of predatory animals is harmful for human beings, regardless of all My advice in respect of the aforementioned precautions, since the unclean spirits can never be entirely removed from this flesh. Human beings should also not drink water from unclean springs, and they should keep their wells clean, just as Moses strictly ordered the Israelites to do in My name. Whosoever lives in accordance with Moses' instructions regarding his body will be secure everywhere, and at all times from being possessed by wicked and impure spirits. And he will be especially more secure when he believes in Me and My Fatherly care, and commences and concludes everything in My name. Without this, however, through his own indolence, ignorance and foolishness, he is subject at every moment to a thousand dangers of all kinds and descriptions. If I would not protect human beings with My angels-which are already by nature of a better sense and will-there would be very few human beings upon this earth who would not be possessed! But human beings should not rely too much on this because My angels will not restrict their will. (THE GREAT OSPEL OF JOHN 10, chap. 54) The Lord: "In an emergency, you can eat the meat of any animal, and it will serve you well. Because all nourishment that a human being is forced to eat because of a certain predicament, is cleansed by Me; but here, he must exercise an even greater temperance. The flesh of pigs is good, but the blood of the slaughtered animal must be well drained, and the meat should marinate for seven days in salt and vinegar and thyme. Then it should be taken out of this solution and dried well with a linen cloth, and smoked in good wood and herbs for several weeks, until it becomes totally hard and dry. If you wish to eat this meat, boil it first in half water, half wine, with thyme and parsley. Therewith, you will have good and healthy nourishment on the table. These animals, however, must always be slaughtered in the winter. In the manner as we dealt with the pigs, that is how you must deal with all other unclean animals; their flesh, when eaten in moderation, should not harm human beings. That which applies to animals on land, also applies to the various species in the air, and a multitude of animals in the great oceans!" (THE GREAT OSPEL OF JOHN vol. 5, chap. 239) Moderation in eating and drinking Eating in the case of pure spirits. The bad consequences of intemperance upon the soul. Spiritual death as a consequence of immoderacy. The harmfulness of castration for the sake of communication with spirits. The Lord’s life and teaching as our example. “[9] Says the angel: ‘Strange. Have you not seen how the Lord of all Heavens also ate and drank, and yet He is the highest and most perfect Spirit. How then should we angels not also eat and drink, when we have to put on a body in order to serve you in the physical? [10] Give me also some fish and bread, and you shall see how I can not only drink but also eat quite well, for where the Lord takes terrestrial sustenance, the angels also do so.’ [11] Whereupon Jonael passes the angel a whole fish and fair-sized lump of bread, the angel taking and consuming both. [12] After the angel showed the two how a spirit also can consume material sustenance, Jonael asks him how such is possible, since he is fundamentally only a spirit. [13] Says the angel: ‘Have you ever seen a dead person eat and drink?’ Says Jonael: ‘No one has ever seen that.’ [14] Says the angel: ‘But if a soulless and even more spiritless body which is almost pure matter does not and cannot take nourishment, it is obviously the soul and its living spirit that take food. Since the body being no more than an instrument for the soul does not need any nourishment for itself, it is the soul with its spirit that takes nourishment from the Earth as long as it dwells in the body and sustains the latter by letting it eat its excrement. For the body is nourished with the soul’s excrement. [15] Since in the still material man only the soul, while it is in the body, takes nourishment from the Earth, should not I, as soul and spirit, be entitled to partake of earthly fare during my stay on Earth where in order to serve you I also have a certain body which I created for myself from the matter of the air? What do you think about this?’ (THE GREAT GOSPEL OF JOHN vol. 1, chap. 206) “[1] Both of them, and still many others who had heard the explanation by the angel open their eyes in surprise and Peter asks Me, ‘Lord, is it right what Jonael’s servant has just said? It does sound a bit peculiar. How can the body be nourished with the soul’s excrement? Does then the soul too have a stomach and maybe even an anus?’ [2] Say I, ‘The angel has spoken truthfully, this is how it is. Therefore, feasting and carousing makes the soul itself sensuous and material. It is surfeited, the body cannot absorb all the soul’s excrement and as a result this stays in the soul, oppresses and frightens it, so that it makes every effort to rid itself of the too much accumulated excrement. This is done through all kinds of unchastity, fornication, adultery and so on. [3] However, since these things offer the soul a certain stimulus for lust it keeps becoming increasingly lustful, turns more and more to feasting and carousing, becomes finally most sensual, absolutely ignorant in spiritual things and as a result hard, unfeeling and in the end evil, proud and arrogant. [4] For, once a soul has lost its spiritual worth - and it had to lose it through the here described way of life - it begins to literally erect itself a throne from excrement and finally even finds honor and authority through the fact that it is so rich in excrement. [5] I tell you: All people who in the world enjoy the things that please their sensuality are over their ears and eyes in their thickest dirt and, therefore, spiritually completely deaf and blind and no longer want to see, hear and understand that which would be of benefit to them. [6] Therefore, you should always be moderate in eating and drinking to avoid falling ill in your soul so that this may not perish in its excrement.’ [7] Peter, looking very doubtful, says, ‘Lord, if so, which cannot be doubted, one should probably fast more than eat?’ [8] Say I, ‘He who fasts at the right time does better than the one who is always feasting. But there is still a difference between fasting and fasting. A really proper fasting consists in abstaining from sin and in all worldly things denying oneself with all one’s might, carrying one’s cross (in those times figuratively: misery, want and oppression) and following Me without being too scrupulous in eating and drinking, but also not exceeding what is needed by indulging. All other kinds of fasting has little or no value at all. [9] For there are people who be a certain mortification of their body wish to penetrate into the world of spirits and with their help conquer the forces of nature. That is then not only useless for the soul, but extremely harmful. There the soul falls from the tree of life as an immature fruit whose core of life is always rotten, hollow, empty and thus dead. [10] Such a mortification and fasting is therefore not only no virtue, but it is a very gross sin. [11] Therefore, who wishes to live in accordance with the true order, let him live as I Myself do, and as I teach him to live, then he will see the living fruit of life blossom within him and fully ripen. In this fruit there will not be a dead stone, but a fully alive one for the once to come everlasting life in the spirit will be growing and forming into the most alive self-awareness in the best of order and beneficial progress. Now you know also in this matter what you have to do in full accordance with the divine order. Act accordingly, and you will have life within you. (THE GREAT OSPEL OF JOHN vol. 1, chap. 207) Vegetarianism "Every kind of unnatural death is an act of violence, and through this act occurs a decomposition of a large amount of specifica which, during the quiet life of the animal, harmlessly slept and was bound in the body and in the blood of the animal. This is how I organized the life of an animal. Through a violent death, the blood as well as the flesh is being changed. Processes occur which are partly being removed through the cleansing process of the fire during cooking and roasting, but they are never totally eradicated. It is, indeed, thankful that after ingestion, the body immediately reacts with particular emerging ailments, especially after eating the flesh of wild animals killed in fear and excitement. A much deeper reason regarding meat-eating lies in the fact that animals of any kind and species are just as different in this disposition as are human beings. Because, there are peaceful and vicious, quarrelsome and good-natured animals, it is therefore self-evident that the flesh of one animal must be quite different than the flesh of another. Whosoever is capable of abstaining from eating meat, or eats it in moderation, protects himself in this manner from a multitude of spiritual specifica, or elements, whereas another human being thoughtlessly fills his stomach with it. As far as the spirit is concerned, through vegetarianism, he provides the soul with a healthy body, while another human being is prone more to ailments and maladies, wherein the cause presents a puzzle. When you are permeated with the beautiful spirit of compassion, and do not want to take the life of an animal, merely to turn its flesh into your own, you do well should you not wish to do that. Because everything a human being is convinced of as a spiritual being, he should never do the opposite, since it would have a harmful effect upon him. It is, however, for this reason not necessary to totally forbid the eating of meat, and ban it as a means of nourishment for human beings. If I would have wanted it that way, I would have organized your corporeal structure in such a way that you, just like the ox, the donkey, and the horse could not tolerate anything but grass and herbs, or vegetation, or fruit. But since I made man Lord of the Earth, I gave him a body which is suitable to live in all climates, and from all kinds of products. It is, of course, self-evident that too much is harmful. Therefore, a human being, besides his ability to be able to eat everything, should retain his intellect, in order to preserve the proper limits. I gave man the means and the ability [to eat everything], but at the same time, I also placed within him the principle to fight his cravings and desires, and that he would not declare his stomach as his god! This struggle - which to Me spiritually comes first - of which the fundamental principle lies within your vegetarianism, strengthens your soul and maintains your body's health with moderate meals, and so serves the soul as a proficient tool!" (Gottfried Mayerhofer, 12.9.1870)
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