VII/19 [1] (Raphael:) "Just as the Seven Spirits, or special
attributes, in God are continually in conflict because one always
provokes the other to activity, thus you can easily observe the same
conflict more or less in all God's creatures.
[2] Love by itself is blind, and it always
strives to draw everything to itself. But in this striving it ignites,
and now there is light within it and, therefore, understanding and
cognition.
[3] Can you now see how the light fights against the solitary
effort of pure love and calls it to order and to its senses?
[4] From this conflict - or war - there arises at the same time the
will, as the active arm of love and its light, putting into practice
what the light has wisely arranged.
[5] At the same time, through love's understanding thanks to its
light and through the combined power of the two, order is called forth
and, henceforth, fights against any disorder through the light and the
will of love. And there you have again a forever continuing "War of
Jehovah" within Him and within all created beings.
[6] All this would be quite in order if one could only be sure that
what the four Spirits have brought about so nicely arranged would
thereby already have permanence. But the ever so magnificent works of
the first four Spirits still resemble the plays of children, who with
great pleasure and joy build something very efficiently, yet soon
after no longer enjoy their work and destroy it more eagerly than they
originally created it. And truly, friend, there it would still look
very bad regarding the permanency of all created things.
[7] To prevent this from happening, there arises out of the four
Spirits - actually because it liked the great perfection of the works
- the earnest, as a Fifth Spirit in God and His created beings, and
this Spirit then fights against the destruction and annihilation of
the once created works, much as a sensible and serious man who has,
for instance, built himself a house and laid out a vineyard will do
everything to maintain and make use of the house and the vineyard and
not destroy them soon after, as I have shown you in the example of the
contrived playthings of children. And look, this is - as said before -
again a War of Jehovah.
[8] However, as time goes by, the erected house shows faults and
the vineyard still does not yield the expected harvest. Then the
builder regrets having taken so much trouble and spent so much effort
due to his earnest. Therefore, he would like to destroy the whole
project and replace it with something quite new and different; but
then the Sixth Spirit which - as already shown - is called patience,
stands up to such earnest and, look, this then preserves house and
vineyard. And that is again another "War of Jehovah."
[9] Well, patience by itself, or also combined with the preceding
spirits, would hardly undertake any improvements to either house or
vineyard and would let things slide along. But there comes the Seventh
Spirit, namely, mercy which encompasses gentleness, concern, industry,
active love and generosity and, look, now the man repairs his house so
well that it no longer shows any faults worth mentioning, and he
cultivates and manures the vineyard so that it soon yields a good
harvest. And this is once more a conflict or a War of Jehovah in man
as well as in God and in angel.
[10] Thus, the true, perfect life in God, in the angel and in man
is a continuous conflict of the Seven Spirits described to you. Now
this conflict is in God and the angel not such as if one or the other
of the Seven Spirits would try to suppress and inactivate the other
spirits, but the conflict is forever aimed at one spirit supporting
the other with all its might so that each spirit is then fully
contained in the other. Thus, love is within the other six spirits and
light or wisdom is within love and the other five spirits and so
forth, so that in each individual spirit all the others are present,
forever supporting each other in complete harmony."
Continued
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