When Slavery Is Needed and Useful

GGJ II/205 = NRJC 5/47

[1] Says Jarah: “O Yes, Lord, You are my only love, true children
need a more firm up-bringing than the children of slaves; for the
children of the house will be educated to, after their parents or
together with them, provide for the whole house, while the children
of the slaves only need to know that much as their always same and
very monotonous service requires! Of course in this regard the
important question arises why God the Lord allows it that on this
earth one person must serve the other as a wretched slave and as the
lord of the slave even has the power from the emperor, over his life
and over his death.”
[2] Say I: “Yes My dear, to discuss this at length would lead us all
too far; however, a few similes about this I will give to you and
thereby also to all the others. Who will comprehend this will also
understand a few other things at the same time; and therefore
remember and listen properly to Me:
[3] One has different varieties of grain, like the smooth and bearded
wheat, two- and four-line barley, the high grain, the oat, the big
maize wheat; then you have the lentils, the vetches and different
types of beans; and behold, these different types also always require
a different soil, without which they could not grow. A certain variety
of grain requires a firm clay ground, another also clay ground which
however must always be properly fertilized otherwise the grain is
not going to grow. Again another type of grain requires a loose and
stony and another a sandy soil. Some types of grain require a moist
and again another a dry ground. All this is taught to the people by
experience.
[4] Equally so does different kinds of people require a different
upbringing, depending on the constitution of their hearts and souls.
As it is the case with individual people from one and the same
father, it is the same with whole communities and with large nations.
There is a certain nation which requires a more gentle and loose
treatment, and grows into a large blessing for other nations of the
earth. Another tribe requires a hard approach, otherwise it would get
out of hand and waste away as a curse for the neighboring nations.
Again another nation has the distinct inclination to tyrannize
and to rule over its neighbors. For the souls of such people
nothing is better than to fall into slavery for many years, where
they can be properly humiliated. If they have accustomed
themselves in humility and finally carry their lot with all
patience and without grumbling, they then will become free
citizens of this earth again and will now as an ennobled fruit on
the best and fattest ground prosper exceedingly well.
[5] Behold, this is a picture which you all can comprehend very
easily, since you already have understood quite a few other things!
[6] However, to make this very important issue even more clear, I
present to you the different parts of the human body, of which each
part has a different form and therefore requires a different treatment
and if ill, also of course requires a different treatment, so that it
recovers. If someone feels a pain in the eye, he certainly must use a
completely different treatment than treating a pain in the one or
other foot. Who has a suffering in the belly must treat it differently
from an illness in one or other hand and as such with illnesses of the
body it must be considered if these are new or old and stubborn
evils. A young evil can often be removed by light means, while an
old illness requires a strong medicine, nearly on life and death, to
get it removed from the body. People however always correspond
with their souls to the different parts of their body. Depending on
any soul corresponding to a more noble or less noble part of its
body, the more the soul must be treated correspondingly like that
individual part with which it corresponds.
[7] From this picture again the different relations of people to their
soul-moral sphere, have also to be treated differently like the
individual parts, with which they correspond in their soul-moral
sphere. A bad tooth in the mouth must finally be torn out and be
discarded if all other treatments are not helping, so that the healthy
teeth are not affected; equally so must an incorrigible person be
removed from a community, so that the whole community is not
spoilt. Similarly, even a whole nation, although may not be
physically, has to be, however, exterminated morally, so that in the
end not all nations on earth are spoilt by it.
[8] Look it up in the Chronicles and you will find how big a nation
the Babylonians, the Ninivetians, the Meders, the Persians, the
Egyptians, the old Greeks and before them the Phoenicians and
Trojans were! Where are all these nations now? Where are the
Gomorites and the Sodomites and where the people of the ten cities?
Yes, physically they still exist in their neglected descendants, who
however do not have names and never ever rise under the old name
to become any nation on this earth; since there is nothing worse than
an old name to which a lot of futile inexpressiveness is stuck. Such
people or nations regard themselves, because of such ancient-
famous name, as much better and venerable than any young nation,
which by gentleness, humility and love towards their brothers, find
themselves in a state of righteousness and therefore soul healthiness
before God.
[9] If you look at this with just some attention, you will soon find
how good and just the Father in heaven is! Since this earth does
have the fixed destination, that on it for the whole of infinity the
children of the Spirit of God are brought up, and therefore it is
necessary that the earth is always more hard and meager than kept
too loose and too fat.
10] The weeds shooting up among the choice grain do not hinder the
growing, ripening and blessed thriving of the choice fruit, even
whilst they afterwards serve as manure for the soil, that has become
hard and meager. In short, what God allows is good, whilst to the
completely pure human, everything that the Earth carries in and
upon it is pure. Say whether all of you have fully understood what I
said unto you!”
[11] Say Cyrenius: “Lord, who should not have understood You
there? It all is lucent as the sun!”
[12] Say I: “Very well, so let Josoe give us a sincere opinion about
it!”

GGJ II/207 = NRJC 5/49

JOSOE’S CONCEPT ABOUT DIVINE ACQUIESCENCE
Usefulness and proper time for Slavery

[1] Says Josoe: “In Your name then I shall try it with all brevity, but
whether my view is correct will be another matter.
[2] Among life’s priorities, man’s feet obviously stand below those
of the hands; but if the feet did not transport man to water then they
could not be cleaned of dust and dirt by the hands. Wherefore I
believe slavery generally to be as important as employment. When
the feet slip, the whole man falls, and it hence is good and expedient
that the feet, which by all rights can be called the body’s slaves, are
cared for more than any other body-members. Dull and resignedly
the feet have to carry the heavy and often quite indolent body on
days of journeying, to finally receive hardly any reward other than
some cleaning refreshment at some spring; whilst the body,
following a journey, having been indolent during the entire journey,
fortifies itself with food and drink. What can and what are the feet
going to say to that? Nothing, for they are created for that!
[3] Wherefore I maintain that slavery is a necessity which cannot be
abolished, if mankind is to remain within the order set for it, be it
that mankind with time discovers some other kind of locomotion,
whereupon the slavery of the feet could of course be made
redundant. And so I expect it could happen with slavery.
[4] It would of course be better if degrading slavery could be done
away with altogether; but it may be a long time yet before such
blessed condition shall be kissing the Earth.
[5] Verily, among mankind, a slave is regarded as weed. But by this
rare weed, free man is superbly manured, and becomes indigent and
fully inactive, and this I consider most evil. In this respect it would
be better that there be no slavery at all. If on the other hand slavery
is a school for humbling, then of course it is a necessity for the too
highly ascended mankind, because after the Babylonian captivity the
Israelites once again had become a quite good nation, it is merely
regrettable that the captivity did not last at least a century! Because
after the liberation, there were to my knowledge too many of those
among them before whose eyes there still swam the former
brilliance of the Jewish nation, wherefore they then also had nothing
more urgent to do than to restore the bygone brilliance. And once
the walls and the Temple were rebuilt, the old arrogance too was at
hand and things soon went on more wickedly in Jerusalem than
before the Babylonian captivity. Forty years was therefore obviously
too little, but in about a hundred years our forefathers’ taste for
glitter, splendor and haughtiness would have completely left them
for hundreds of years!
[6] All this nonetheless is only my rather immature conjecture, and
is bound to attract its well-founded retorts; yet I speak from the
heart. Because anyone getting smacked shall avoid doing evil for no
longer than the pain lasts; if however God visits him with a most
painful suffering then he is not likely to commit a sin through which
he has brought such pain upon himself.
[7] Wherefore I cannot but regard long-lasting slavery as
appropriate, and now also comprehend the steely necessity for this
class, thinking to myself: basically, a good and willing slave is a
much more perfect man than a free one; for the free one is a slave of
his senses, whilst a material slave can be quite free spiritually.
[8] For there is a big difference between a man who is in control of
himself, which has to be the case with a true slave, and a person who
knows no obedience and for whom things go the way he wants them
to.
[9] And thus I now fully endorse slavery, not wishing to abolish it!
For I say to myself: when this chief school for true humility ends,
the people of this Earth shall be overtaken by great adversity!
[10] It is of course to be wished that mankind live by Your
doctrine, in which case slavery would be preposterous, and a
travesty against human rights; but as long as that is not the case
and perhaps will not be for a long while yet, slavery is and
remains for haughty mankind a true gospel from the heavens,
prescribed to Earth for mankind’s reform. –
[11] These are my feeble thoughts about Your comments on slavery;
but I beg You oh Lord through Your grace to point out the mistakes
I made, so that I can get to the full truth in this sphere!”
[12] Say I: “Dear Josoe, here you are right in everything, and there
is very little if anything to be added. But concerning the duration of
the Babylonian captivity, you were somewhat side-racked by your
zeal. Since behold, every captivity and also every slavery is
basically nothing else than a punishing judgment allowed by God! A
judgment however is and remains unfortunately always an extreme
coercion for betterment and therefore has normally for the soul of
man a rather negative than a good effect; for who avoids the bad
only because of its bad consequences and does good just because of
its good consequences, is still very far from the kingdom of God.
Only him who does good because it is good, and avoids which is
bad for the sake of its being bad, is a perfect human. For as long
man does not transport himself to the true light out of himself, he
remains a slave in the spirit and is therefore dead for the kingdom of
God. External coercion leads man still onto other stray roads of
moral love-life of which we will soon hear more about.”

Source:
The New Revelations of Jesus Christ,
www.franky1.com