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Enoch and Elijah and princes, but instead we must first beg for the merciful permission to ask for something that we would like!” 12. I interrupt, “Friend that is not needed here at all! This is certainly a custom in Persia, but it shall always be far from us! Before God, My friend, a foolishly demeaning humility of the human soul is as much craziness as any other which occurs in paganism – all the more so a too great humility of a person before simply another person. Such a too bootlicking expression of humility of a person before another person only makes them both worse; the former, because he only feigns such humility and thereby pulls his neighbor to even greater arrogance, and the latter because he thereby really becomes more arrogant! 13. That humility which comes from pure love is a correct and true humility; for it ob- serves and loves in its neighbor a brother as a brother, but makes neither itself nor the neighbor into a god, before whom one should fall on ones knees and worship. 14. Whatever you want or would like, demand it as a person from a person and as brother from your brother; but no person should crawl in the dust before another! 15. What God never demands from a person, all the less should a person demand it from his fellow man! That is also a correct wisdom in the fullest order of God; therefore observe it and act accordingly, and you will be pleasing before God and before man! 16. But now about something else again! So that you can understand the gentle breeze before the prophet‟s cave a little deeper as corresponding with this time, I will now give you another question, since you are still in a manner of speaking solid Jews.” The Great Gospel of John, Vol. 3, Chapter 195. (Jakob Lorber) 37