BD.1081
September 4, 1939

CLOUD FORMATION IN THE SKY - CHRIST'S SUFFERING AND DEATH

God the Lord of Heaven and Earth shall give you a visible sign, which is to testify of His Might and Glory. This was determined from eternity and will be shown so conspicuously that you shall marvel at this configuration through divine omnipotence and love. Insubstantial though this little cloud in the sky may appear; it nevertheless harbours life similar to that comprising your being. And this life also God guides in accordance with His will and forms also this cloud-formation with such wise purpose that the Lord's suffering and death shall easily be recognisable, and you shall identify the One on the cross whom the world wants to deny; you shall be either seized with horror, or shout with joy, depending on whether you reject Him or harbour Him in your heart. The latter shall pause in prayer whilst the former, standing aloof of Jesus Christ, shall try to shake off this image.

And the Lord wants it thus, He wants to give mankind a sign of His grace and love because it facilitates their faith: to either resurrect their faith in Jesus Christ, Saviour of the world, if they lost same, or to even cause same to grow to unshakeable power. And mankind tries yet again to play down this wonder of divine love, it brands it as an appearance formed fortuitously and without meaning: attempts to undo the divine providence.

But, defying all human explanation, the configuration holds fast, so that the entire world can view it. And the consequence shall be that even those of a most anti-mystical persuasion shall be provoked into pondering. The point in time has arrived when mankind can be offered extraordinary appearances without coercion into faith, because mankind's thinking has become so insipid that they would explain every appearance scientifically, i.e. with the intellect, denying all spiritual mediation through powers unprobed.

And thus man's free will is no longer endangered by such appearances; indeed, scientific explanations will be accepted, over those that these are signs from above. And again, only the God-seeking and those walking within love shall recognise this visible agency of the eternal Deity; and hence, the grace of divine love again is offered to men, with only few recognising it as such.

The Lord loosens the natural laws for a time, and precisely this should make the experimenters think; but where the desire to recognise pure Truth is lacking, there even the stars can leave their usual tracks, and the suns lose their shine without bending the hardened will of men, but make them seek instead natural law that much harder, and thus deviate still further ultimately from true cognition.

Hence this sign extraordinary though it may be, also is a direct bestowal of Grace; nevertheless only for him who recognises the marvel of the appearance with his heart, or begins to think about it. But he who does not use this gift of grace, viewing yonder celestial configuration soullessly, without an attempt to draw any conclusion, - regarding this phenomenon as blind chance of an exceptional nature such a one, lacking love-action of the heart, resulting in intellectual non-comprehension, therefore is not fit for deeper wisdom either.

AMEN