for your feet”’? If David calls him Lord, how is he his son?” And no one
could answer him a word. (Matthew 22 : 41 – 46 ; Mark 12 : 35 , 36 , 37 ; Luke
20 : 41 – 44 ; Psalms 110 : 1 )
[ 3 ] Here I will add something previously unknown. On one occasion
I was given an opportunity to talk to Mother Mary. She happened past,
and I saw her in heaven over my head in white clothing apparently made
of silk. Then, stopping for a while, she said that she had been the Lord’s
mother in the sense that he was born from her, but by the time he
became God he had put off everything human that came from her.
Therefore she adores him as her God and does not want anyone to see
him as her son, because everything in him is divine.
From the points above another truth now becomes manifest: Jehovah
is as human in what is first as he is in what is last, as the following pas-
sages indicate: “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the
End, the One who is, who was, and who is to come, the Almighty” (Rev-
elation 1 : 8 , 11 ). When John saw the Son of Humankind in the middle of
seven lampstands, he fell at his feet as if dead; but the Son of Humankind
laid his right hand on John and said, “I am the First and the Last” (Reve-
lation 1 : 13 , 17 ; 21 : 6 ). “Behold, I am coming quickly to give to all accord-
ing to their work. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the
End, the First and the Last” (Revelation 22 : 12 , 13 ). And in Isaiah, “Thus
said Jehovah, the King of Israel and its Redeemer, Jehovah Sabaoth: ‘I am
the First and the Last’” (Isaiah 44 : 6 ; 48 : 12 ).
To these points I will attach the following secret. 103
The soul we get from our father is our true self. The body we get from
our mother is part of us but is not our true self. It is only something that
clothes us, woven out of substances belonging to the physical world. Our
soul is woven out of substances belonging to the spiritual world. After
death we put off the physical component we acquired from our mother but
keep the spiritual component we acquired from our father, along with a
border around it made of the finest substances in nature. For those of us
who go to heaven this border is at the bottom and the spiritual part of us is
above it. For those of us who go to hell the border is at the top and the spir-
itual part of us is below it. This border allows angelic people to speak from
heaven and say what is good and true. It allows devilish people to speak
from hell when they speak from their hearts, and to seem to speak from
heaven when they speak with their lips, the latter being what they do in
public and the former what they do at home.
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