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only one for all of them until evening comes when man leaves his work and gets his rest. Those
who come to be with this people have to come and be useful to God’s work and not to them-
selves, for they can be useful to themselves only there where they get used to come, and behold,
some do not know what the coming into this heavenly work means, and some have already
come and have not known and by so doing they have become a burden; and it is not only that,
for they want to be big and are not obedient and they are not dedicated too, and if there is this
distinction, for which all kinds of pains appear among those who live together, then where does
the prayer go, the prayer of the one who mourns in all manners of way over his brother? How-
ever, all these things bring about pains too because of the lack of work, because of the lack of
watch and because of the lack of brotherly dedication, for when man falls and hurts himself and
damages his body, then why does this happen? It happens because he does not watch so that he
may not fall and he does not watch for his spirit as well, and the one who falls does not watch
for his body too, and he falls because he does not have God as love in him and because he
does not have any guidance upon him.
It is hard for man with guidance upon him, it is hard for him in this way and that is why
he has got many falls and blows. The example of Israel, who could not stay under guidance
and rebelled according to the law of self-freedom, is a bad and hard example, and he who
wants to learn can learn from it. Man has to see his faults, he has to humble himself for them
and he also needs to let himself be guided by those who have the Lord in them by God’s gift.
When man has God in him, then he can show the Lord to the people. He who has God’s king-
dom in him, that one can truly know God, and also the one who shares Him to those who
seek Him, not to those who seek and do not want the Lord.
Elijah cried out to the people to repent and to clean themselves from idols. There were
so many holy disciples around him, who had the spirit of prophecy upon them and an angelic
life in the mountains, far from the sins and far from their places on the earth, and these had love
for God, for the faith by which man gives himself to God is love, which does not go out and
which always longs in those who have faith, because faith becomes longing of God in man and
the longing is the greatness of love and this has to feed those who come together to serve God.
Those who give themselves to God with their love and with their work have to bring
forth fruit to God. Elijah, the prophet, brought forth fruit to God on earth and turned the sons
of Israel from idols to God and he brought a great sacrifice, and his hunger for God cried out to
heaven, and he fasted for God not only from food. Oh, if God had not given a house to Elijah,
he would have not had one. If God had not protected him in the city, he would have watched in
vain. If the Lord had not given him to eat by the angels, he would have sought in vain to work
from dawn till night for the bread of pain. The Lord would give him sleep and the angel of the
Lord would come to him and tell him: «Get up and work upon Israel, for the king Ahab says
that you have brought trouble over Israel», and Elijah got up and told the king: «I have not
troubled Israel; but you, and your father’s house, in that you have forsaken the command-
ments of the Lord, and you have followed the Baal. … Now let us bring a burnt offering to
the Lord, you and I, and see to whom the Lord will answer in the Mount Carmel, for you
waver between two sides… I, even I only, am left a prophet of the Lord; but Baal’s prophets
are many hundreds men. Let us, therefore, bring a burnt offering and put no fire under, and
then let each of us call on the name his God, and the God who answers by fire, let him be
God». (See 1 Kings 18: 17-24) And the prophets of Baal cried aloud, and cut themselves after
their manner with knives and lances until the blood gushed out on them, but there was no an-
swer. Then the prophet Elijah called the people of Israel near to him and he told them what to
do and then he cried aloud to the Lord and said: «Lord, God of Abraham, of Isaac and of
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