emmerich -6

While these changes were going on upon the dark globe... 

I saw, as it were, a streaming forth of light... 

out of that highest of all the spheres, the God-sphere, that sphere in which God dwelt. It was as if the sun rose higher in the heavens, as if bright morning were awakening. It was the first morning. 

No created being had any knowledge of it, and it seemed as if all those created things had been there forever in their unsullied [onbezoedelde] innocence. 

As the sun rose higher, I saw the plants and trees growing larger and larger. The waters became clearer and holier, colors grew purer and brighter — all was unspeakably charming. 

Creation was not then as it is now. 

Plants and flowers and trees had other forms. They are wild and misshapen [misvormd] now, compared with what they were, for all things are now thoroughly degenerate.

When looking at the plants and fruits of our gardens - apricots, for instance - which in southern climes are, as I have seen, so different from ours, so large, magnificent, and delicious, I often think: As miserable as are our fruits compared with those of the South, are the latter when compared with the fruits of Paradise. 

I saw there roses, white and red, and I thought them symbols of Christ’s Passion and our Redemption. I saw also palm trees and others, high and spreading which cast [wierpen] their branches afar [ver weg], as if forming roofs.

Before the sun appeared, earthly things were puny [nietig]. 

But in his beams, they gradually increased in size. 

Until they attained full growth.

~bron~