Prophets

All people desire false prophets, who, through the glorification of their gods, glorify their followers, and themselves. People long to be flattered in regard to their desires and virtues, their religious feeling and social activity, their will to power and utopian hopes, their knowledge and love, their family and race, their class and nation.

True prophets are the instruments of God in the actualization of His judgment against mankind. They are instruments in so far as the prophetic word always excites the opposition of man with respect both to his vital existence and his moral and religious existence - indeed, particularly with respect to his religious existence.