The Household of God
Volume 2
Rise and spiritual prime of the first world empire Hanoch
- Chapter 122 -
PURA'S GREAT, EXEMPLARY LOVE FOR THE LORD. THE LORD'S PROMISE TO PURA
When Pura had heard these words she lifted her tender hands over her head and, folding them by entwining her fingers, finally said in a rapture:
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O You eternal, infinite Love and Wisdom, what endlessly profound meaning lies behind everyone of these words!
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"O You holy Life of all life, You endlessly holy primordial source of all being, who can grasp the depth of Your wisdom and fathom the counsel of Your love?
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"O my God, my God, - how great and majestic You are!
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"Jehovah! You, Who even lets Himself be called 'Father' by man in his weakness, yes, not only that, but Who wants to be known faithfully and truly in full childlike love and earnest in the heart of every man as such, - how shall I, a mere nothingness before You, praise and glorify You, how thank You for this Your immense mercy and grace?
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"For You have just poured such solace into my heart like an immense stream of light that I cannot help myself for sheer heavenly delight.
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"O you greater friends of this super-holy good Father, help, help me weak one to carry the excessive burden of delight and praise with one voice Him Who is here among us so holy, so good and so lovingly gracious and merciful!
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"O You my Jehovah, what bliss it is to be with You; what living food for the weak heart hungering for love when it is appeased by Your infinite fatherly goodness!
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"Oh let Yourself be loved by me, let me die out of love for You!
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"Oh how sweet should it be to die, to die for You out of love!
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"Jehovah, God, Father! Until now I have restrained my heart out of excessive, holy awe before You; but now I can no longer do it!
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"So let Yourself be embraced and loved by me so that the fire of my love for You will dissolve and consume me like a dry straw! For behold, all shyness has now left me, neither have I any more fear and anxiety because of You; for I want to die out of love for You. O You, my inexpressibly sweet and beloved Jehovah!"
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Here she threw her hands abruptly around Abedam, pressed Him to her with all her strength, repeatedly moving her hand to her heart as though intending to tear it out and then press it to the heart of the Most High.
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In this love soon also her whole being became beautifully radiant just like the sun's light as it illuminates a glorious rose petal.
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When the patriarchs and all the others noticed this they began to beat their breast and Enoch said with a sigh: "O You holy Father! We are children of the height, but this one is an infant of the mud of the lowlands; yet what a difference there is between her and us.
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"She alone loves You more than the whole height put together and in her heart understands You more clearly than we all, who have from childhood on searched and acted in Your love and grace.
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"Oh look, look you fathers all, what an excess of divine beauty, what glory is radiating from this child of the lowlands!
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"O Adam, O Seth, O all of you, fathers, brothers and children, where is the eye that would ever have beheld something more beautiful, more exalted, indescribably more delightful than this barely twenty-summers-old maiden from the lowlands in the strength of her to us all totally incomprehensible, mighty love!
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"What exceedingly divine sweetness and exalted beauty shine from her whole form, what mildness, what gentleness in all her limbs. How infinitely tender in all her parts - and yet: What mighty love in her more than ethereally tender breast.
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"Yes, truly, this one has been set as a great teacher for us all. For only now were we all given a measure of love by which we can easily gauge the excessive weakness of our heart.
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"O Jehovah Abedam, You alone shall be eternally, eternally praised, glorified and loved for setting up for us all a child from the lowlands for a holy measure ofYol1r love!
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"O Father, You holy Father, how endlessly good and full of love and mercy You are!"
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Here also Enoch fell silent. Thereupon Abedam said to him: "Enoch, believe that it is so and will thus be forever: A child of the world and of sin shall surpass ninety-nine who are righteous from birth, if it will seize Me like this maiden here.
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"You, My little child, shall henceforth not leave My breast ever. You alone will at all times throughout your whole earthly life see and have Me as now.
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"You shall not become a man's wife until in the Time of times when you will be filled with all the fullness of the might of My infinite Spirit's love. Amen."