[1] (The Lord:)
"Look at the mountains full of forests and shrubs. Behold, these absorb a
suitable number of all the nature spirits ( electricity, magnetic fluid)
compatible with them. Go and deforest all the mountains and you will soon
become aware of the most dire consequences. Thereby great masses of free,
very crude nature spirits will begin to more and more fill the atmosphere
above the whole earth. Since these do not find a suitable abode and sphere
of activity, they will begin to cluster in great masses and, driven by their
hunger and thirst (assimilative instinct), cause the worst, all-devastating
gales and ruin entire countries to such an extent that in a hundred, often a
thousand years nothing will be growing there but here and there a moss
plant. Thus there are to this very day on the wide world places extending
for many leagues which are as bare of vegetation as the desolate, barren
lime - stone on the shores of the Dead Sea in Lower Palestine into which the
river Jordan is flowing.[2] Well, is that perhaps My will? Oh no! Where men must have freedom of
will and freedom of action so that they can become human beings also in
spirit, I Myself do not interfere - no matter how foolishly they may act.
All I do is allow them to reach, unperturbed, that which they have so
eagerly striven for as if their life's happiness depended on it. It does not
make any difference to Me whether the consequences are good or bad. What
they create they get. Although I know what will happen afterwards, I can -
and must - not intervene with My omnipotence; for if I do that, man ceases to
be a man. He is then nothing else but an animated machine and can be of no
value forever, either for himself or for Me.
[3] Of course, the will can be regulated through all kinds of precepts
and laws; but neither precept nor law can prevent the free will from
carrying out what it wants to do. If the will of man wants to adopt a
precept and a law as a guideline for his actions, he will abide by it
spontaneously without any inner coercion; but if he does not want to do
this, no power on earth and in heaven can - and must -force him into it. For,
as I said, without a free will man is no longer a man but purely an animated
machine. In the course of time men will also invent machines which will
perform very highly skilled tasks which nowadays hardly anyone is able to
carry out.
[4] But man can, out of himself, do whatever he likes, and no one can
prevent him from doing it. Thus, man can do what he likes with the earth
that carries and nourishes his body; and only the consequences will teach
him whether his will was good or evil.
[5] Therefore, every human being possesses reason and, issuing from that,
intellect. He can become enlightened through precept, worldly laws and every
kind of experience and then choose spontaneously what is good, right and
true and determine his course of action accordingly. With all this he
suffers no coercion, since he himself chooses freely what he has recognized
as good, right and true.
[6] Now we can see daily in hundreds of instances that people, usually
for the sake of gaining some temporal advantage, often spurn what they have
recognized as good, right and true and act to the contrary. This is further
proof that the freedom of the human will cannot be endangered and curtailed through anything. It is quite possible that as time goes by people
make great inventions and thereby begin to affect the nature of the earth,
which must in the end spring a real leak. Of course, the result of this will
not be pleasant and appear as a sure punishment for the wrongly applied
will; yet all this will not be intended by Me but will be a consequence of
man's will.
[7] If you want another Deluge, let them drain - and dig through - the
mountains, and they will thereby unlock the subterranean water
reservoirs. If they want to see the whole earth aflame, let them destroy all
the forests. As a result of this the nature spirits (electricity) will
increase, so much so that the earth will suddenly become enveloped by an
ocean of fire and lightning. Would it then be also My wish to punish the
earth through fire? Therefore, do teach men to be wise, lest they bring
about their own judgment. But, although I know that these events will
happen, I can and must not intervene through My omnipotence, but only
through the precept."
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