I

There is an enormous secret in your heart,

of which you have never been aware,

for you have been living in a world without light,

for you have been living in a world without light.

Your heart and your spirit have been wrested away by the evil one.

Your eyes are obscured by darkness,

and you can see neither the sun in the sky

nor that twinkling star, twinkling star of the night.

Your ears are clogged with deceitful words,

and you hear neither the thunderous voice of Jehovah,

nor the sound of the waters flowing from the throne,

nor the sound of the waters flowing from the throne.

II

You have lost everything that is rightfully yours,

everything that the Almighty bestowed upon you.

You have entered an endless sea of affliction,

with no strength to save yourself, no hope of survival,

and all you do is struggle and rush about….

From that moment onward,

you were doomed to be afflicted by the evil one,

far away from the blessings of the Almighty,

out of reach of the provisions of the Almighty,

walking down a road of no return.

A million calls can hardly rouse your heart and your spirit.

You slumber soundly in the hands of the evil one,

who has lured you into a boundless realm

without direction or wayposts,

without direction or wayposts.

III

Henceforth,

you lost your original innocence and purity,

and began to shun the care of the Almighty.

Within your heart,

the evil one steers you in all matters and has become your life.

No longer do you fear him, avoid him, or doubt him;

instead, you treat him as the God in your heart.

You began to enshrine and worship him;

the two of you have become as inseparable as body and shadow,

committed to live and die together.

You have no idea from whence you came,

why you were born, or why you will die.

You have no idea from whence you came,

why you were born, or why you will die,

why you will die.

IV

You look upon the Almighty as a stranger;

you do not know His origins, let alone all that He has done for you.

Everything that comes from Him has become hateful to you;

you neither cherish it nor know its value.

You walk alongside the evil one,

starting from the day you received the provision of the Almighty.

You have endured thousands of years

of tempests and storms with the evil one,

and you stand together with him against the God

who was the source of your life.

You know nothing of repentance,

let alone that you have arrived at the brink of perishing.

V

You have forgotten that the evil one has seduced and afflicted you;

you have forgotten your beginnings.

Thus has the evil one afflicted you at every step of the way

up until the present day.

Your heart and your spirit are benumbed and decayed.

You’ve ceased to complain about the vexations of the world of man;

no longer do you believe the world to be unjust,

still less do you care whether the Almighty exists,

because you long ago deemed the evil one to be your true father

and cannot be apart from him.

This is the secret within your heart.

from The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. The Sighing of the Almighty