Reason of usual childhood illnesses "[5] For there is an immense difference between a pure and a most impure child. The first can be guided by Me directly, while the second only indirectly and that along essentially, or as need be, thorny paths. [6] It should not therefore be rashly asked why, not seldom children, who surely have committed either no offense at all or who at least are not yet of an accountable age, are afflicted by Me sometimes more harshly than aged sinners, who would find it as hard to number their sins as the sand of the sea. [7] Here I say: whoever has notions of making a tree lean towards some direction, must start to do so while the tree is still young and tender. Once the tree has grown old, then extraordinary means would need to be applied for giving it any possible new direction; a very old tree however shall accept no other direction than the final one, when hewn down. [8] And it therefore happens that I, speaks the Lord, sometimes worked children and even little ones over more severely than someone ripe in years, because nowhere are the evil spirits busier and more ready to serve than with the children, in helping the soul to build her body in such a way as for her body to harbor free and comfortable dwelling places for a large number of their kind. [9] But what does the Lord, to whom nothing can remain unknown, then do?
[10] See, He sends His angel and has the work of the wretched helpers pulled down and removed as foreign parts through outwardly apparent sickness. [11] Consider the diverse sicknesses of children and little ones, and I say unto you, these are nothing but castings out of the evil foreign substances, through which evil and dishonest spirits, assisting the soul in building her body, wanted to build for themselves free dwelling places in that self-same body. [12] If such mischief were not constantly tackled in children most decisively, then the numbers upon Earth of the possessed, deaf and dumb, idiots and cripples would swell to such proportions that hardly a single healthy individual could be found upon the Earth." (GGJ, Book 4, chap. 41) [5] This is also the case with children. What is on this earth to become of a child that is physically completely stunted, particularly if the parents have already been born in sin? Who will educate them and who heal them from their ailments? Is it not better to take them away from this world so that they can be raised by the angels in the specially created realm of children? [6] I tell you: God knows about everything and He cares for everything! However, since most men nowadays no longer know about God and His existence, how can they be expected to know what God does and what He ordains for their possible redemption? [7] If God had not allowed the corresponding ailments to follow the sins of men, more than half of mankind would totally perish and the earth would turn into a complete hell and have to be destroyed, its dead wreckage wandering about in endless space, as this visible space of stars and worlds can testify with some examples, about which My disciples can tell you more.’ “ (THE GREAT GOSPEL OF JOHN vol. 6 chap. 55) “Of all the vices the worst is fornication, lechery and lewdness of all manner and kind. Men are seduced to this vice through idleness, arrogance and pride. For nothing is any longer sacred to pride. For nothing is any longer sacred to pride. It looks for all the means at its disposal so that it might satisfy through their employment its worldly passions. [2] If then such a man begets children, - what miserable and with many ailments afflicted people thereby enter this worlds! – This sin is, therefore, a main source of the worst afflictions in this world. [3] However, there are also gluttony and revelry, anger and various resentments, vices through which all sorts of ailments develop in men, tormenting them in the most miserable manner. [4] Did I not say, after I had healed him, to the sick man in Jerusalem who had waited a full 38 years at the pool Bethesda to be healed: ‘Go and sin no more, lest you suffer something worse’? His bad gout was, therefore, also an outcome of his many previous sins. And this applies to nearly all of those who were healed by Me. Had they never fallen ill through their many sins, their souls would have perished. Only a rather serious and painful illness sobered them up and showed them how the worlds rewards those who worship it. Through their illness sobered them up and showed them how the world rewards those who worship it. Through their illness they lost their love for the world and longed to be soon set free from it. Thereby their soul became freer and the healing of their body occurred also at the right time. [5] Apart from these main causes responsible for most illnesses of men, who are anyway weakened from birth, there are still others, through which man in his weakness can fall ill, - but I emphasize it again: This can happen only to the one already weakened from birth. I will briefly summarize the reasons for you. [6] There is, firstly, the ingestion of bad, impure and poorly, not freshly prepared food and drink, - then the eating of all sorts of unripe fruits. Also, many have the bad habit of cooling themselves down too quickly when hot. Again others, unaware of their inherited weakness, expose themselves to all kinds of dangers, thereby either perishing or suffering lifelong damage. [7] Well, this is not God’s fault, so much the less since He gave man intelligence, free will and the best laws of life. [8] Against man’s indolence there is no means other than all sorts of allowed calamities, which must necessarily follow the non-compliance with the divine will. These rouse man’s soul which is fast asleep in its flesh and show it the unfortunate outcome of its indolence, and it will then become more careful, wiser, more active and resigned to the recognized divine will. Thus, the various ailments now afflicting men are also of decided advantage. [9] Of course, they are also a kind of judgment coercing the soul towards the good. Yet the soul does thereby not lose its free will entirely, and it can better itself considerably during or after an illness, although it will have to accomplish its further perfection in the beyond. [10] There are also sick people who have entered this world sick from the womb because of the sins of their parents or ancestors. The souls of these sick people are mostly from above and merely undergo a temporary life-trial on this earth. These are anyway well cared for in the otherworldly realm of the spirits, and whoever cares for them in love and patience, will be invited by them with the same love and patience into their heavenly abodes beyond.” (THE GREAT GOSPEL OF JOHN vol. 6, chap. 56/ Book 14, chap. 26)
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