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Communion. Spiritual meaning. Flesh – blood.
18. July 1948. B.D. NR. 4379.
The perpetual desire for feeding at the table of the Lord secures you his love. And so I again and again invite you to take communion with me, as often as you have a longing for it. My table is always set for all, who hunger and thirst and want to be refreshed, and they will be able to fill themselves with the bread of life, with the manna, which comes from heaven. And every feeding at my table is communion; it is the union with me, without which the presentation of my flesh and my blood – my word with its power – cannot take place. You therefore, you who receive my word, supplied to you directly or through my messengers, you communicate if you receive this my word in the desire for it in your heart. Then my spirit connects itself with the spirit spark in you; then the marriage takes place, the joining together, the spiritual communion. Then I myself hand out the bread of heaven; I give you food and drink; I keep communion with you – you experience the same event as my disciples, for whom I broke the bread and served the wine with the words: Take, eat, this is my flesh, take, drink, this is my blood. Do you now understand what meaning I have put into these words? How unspeakably important is it that you receive communion at my table because my flesh and my blood gives you the power to attain eternal life. You have to be fed with soul food so that your soul matures, so that it secures eternal life – it has to permanently receive power which it can only get directly from me and which I impart to it any time when it connects with me. Then I break the bread and serve it to it, and so it therefore eats my flesh – my word – also the power flows through the blood of it – with which I have blessed my word. A man will never need to hunger and live in want, who carries desire for soul food, who wants to be my guest. I myself come to him and invite him; I stand before the door and knock, and if he opens for me, I go in to him and keep communion with him. I feed him at my table and he will truly be filled and never need to suffer lack. And so everything is to be understood spiritually what I have spoken on earth. I taught my disciples, and they understood me and carried my words further into the world. And because men were taught properly, they understood and lived according to my will, according to my word, in fullest cognition of it. And therefore my church, the assembly of the believers, was at first build up completely in accordance with my idea. But this was then no longer enough for the over-keen representatives of my word; they wanted to stand out towards the world. And so processes, which were just to concern the soul, were made out to be visible to fellow men; external acts were combined with it, which perhaps were at first not to be condemned, because they were carried by the spirit, because men were serious about my will and its fulfilment. But men changed and with them also the nature of my church. What was supposed to be deepest inner experience became outward appearance; the external acts were given special emphasis, and the deep, spiritual meaning got lost – until the simple process of spiritual communion, the union with me and the direct receiving of my word was no longer understood by men, so that they now no longer considered a direct transmission of my word to be possible, although I myself promised them clearly and intelligibly my direct work through the spirit, although I myself – the flesh that became word – pointed out to them the feeding with the bread of life, with the manna, which comes from heaven. Men no longer understand the simple meaning of my word and in their blindness also do not want to accept the simple explanation. But he who wants to hear and understand, he will recognize, and the truth will make sense to him; he will strive for establishing the union with me; he will be my guest, and I will have communion with him and he with me. Amen. B.D.NR. 4379.
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