New Revelation recieved by Bertha Dudde

Proclamations No. 3180 - 3275

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The contents of this publication by no means intends to attract members of any Christian religious affiliation nor to recruit members into any other religious affiliation.

Its sole purpose is to make the present-day Word of God accessible to all people.

Between 1937 and 1965 Bertha Dudde was permitted to receive and record 9030 individual proclamations on a daily basis.

The publication of the proclamations was made possible due to the active support of the many friends of God’s New Revelation.

May this Word of God become a blessing to many people. (Also see B.D. No. 4015)

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‘He that hath My commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth Me .... and I will love him, and will manifest Myself to him ....’ John 14, 21

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Autobiography of Bertha Dudde

At the request of many friends Bertha Dudde wrote the following biography in 1953:

I have been writing messages received through the inner Word since June 15, 1937. In answer to the many requests of my friends I will give you a picture of my earthly life, a short explanation of what I received spiritually, and my own feelings about all this.

I was born April 1, 1891, the second oldest daughter of an artist of Liegnitz in Silesia, today's Poland. I had a normally peaceful childhood, with six sisters in our parent’s home. I learned the cares of life at an early age. The desire to make money to help my parents made me learn the trade of a seamstress. As the financial needs of my parents continued, so did the burden, and in this way I made myself useful.

My parents belonged to different denominations. Father was a Protestant - Mother a Catholic. We children were brought up in the Catholic faith but never experienced pressure or force to follow the practices of the church so that each child in later years was able to pursue their own chosen course.

I myself was religious but could not accept the doctrine of the Catholic system although I respected the church. I could not represent something on the outside that my inner conscience had not accepted. So I did not continue to attend church, heard little preaching and had no knowledge of the Bible. I did not read any religious books or scientific literature and did not join any other group or religious sect.

Anyone knowing the Catholic teaching knows what a conscious struggle one finds himself in when he wants to release himself from it. I was not spared from this either. But the question as to what is the Truth and where it is to be found, remained.

Often when I prayed the Lord's Prayer I would beseech the Lord to allow me to find His kingdom. This prayer was answered in June 15, 1937, as I prayed quietly and waited for the inner voice. In this attitude I persisted often, for a wonderful peace came over me and thoughts which came to my heart, not my head, gave me comfort and strength.

Still I did not know that these thoughts were given to me until, in a strange dream I experienced something which later proved to be the Truth and caused me to write down these thoughts.

So on a certain day as I listened inwardly a stream of words came to me, which I wrote down. This was the first message I wrote which started like this: "In the beginning was the Word, 'a Te-Deum' to the Creator of Heaven and Earth."

Then came doubt, …. did you write this by yourself? In short, I have wrestled, prayed and gone through many struggles, but again and again the words came to me like a stream, a wisdom, which made me tremble. Then God Himself took away my doubts. He answered me and I acknowledged Him as our Father, in His Word. My faith grew, doubt diminished, and I received and wrote daily.

The contents of the writings were beyond my understanding. Phrases, which I had never heard of or read about, strange and scientific expressions and references continually came to me. Then came unheard of expressions of the Heavenly Father's Love giving refuge and providing enlightenment to all the questions of life.

The Words came to me in the following manner: After sincere prayer and a short period of composure I listened inwardly. Thoughts then followed coming to my mind, clearly, distinctly, and the words flowed smoothly always three or four, one after another, like writing a radio announcement or a weather report, slowly so that I could easily keep pace, writing line after line.

Now I write the words in shorthand as a dictation without having any constructive or intellectual part in it. I am in no way in a 'trance', nor do I even form the sentences, but it comes to me one word at a time, neither do I understand the context while I am writing the words down.

After days, sometimes weeks, I transcribe the shorthand writings into longhand without changing or correcting a syllable. Each dictation takes about half an hour. I must stress that this could not happen forcibly or in a state of ecstasy. It all takes place simply and consciously, without any excitement or influence of my own will. I can interrupt myself at any time and finish the sentence after hours or days without reading the previous writing the dictated words continue again.

My will is under no compulsion, all that I desire is to serve God and do what His will wants me to do.

I can truthfully say that I was led into this Truth, and these concepts were, in every respect, foreign to me. It was only after years that I found confirmation of what I received when I came to know the writings of Jacob Lorber. No one can imagine my joy when I discovered the literature of Jacob Lorber; ‘The Great Gospel of John’ and ‘The Youth of Christ’. Then I understood that other people were also given the Word of the Lord, that God had spoken to His children at all times and that God will continue to do this in His endless love and mercy.

I found in Lorber's writings the same as was given to me. I often could not understand the Word that came to me, but in His love the Heavenly Father gave me the explanation. How wonderful are the innumerable manifestations in which the Father displays His exceedingly great goodness.

It became clear to me that my limited education due to lack of money, and my lack of time to read good books or visit performances, became my advantage. I was now able to concentrate on my work from early morning to late at night, and each day I received that precious spiritual Word without knowing for whom I received it.

It is because of my ignorance of the Bible and the Catholic doctrine that I accepted the Word from above without resistance. In my experience, an earnest Catholic or Protestant whose knowledge is rooted in dogmatic theories is too much bound to dogma to accept and embrace divine revelations without resistance.

Still, there are scientists at several faculties who earnestly discuss these divine teachings with increasing interest. Their interest not only concerns the irrefutable explanation of the origin of matter and the possibility of its dissolution, but also the principle of the wrong teachings of different religions, systems and confessions. In the messages I received, these errors are recorded and everyone is urged to give instructions concerning these doctrinal errors whenever there is an opportunity. But everyone is free to take the Lord's Word to heart or not. But whoever understands the spirit in the Father's Word and does not act accordingly increases the distance between himself and the Father even more. When he does not follow the warning Words of love he puts himself inevitably under the law. He will also, in the same measure, lack in grace by disregarding God's commandment of love.

In God's grace people are led anew to the Gospel, which emphatically points out the purpose of man's being. For the merciful love of God seeks to save all who still can be saved before the turning point comes. And it will come. The end-time which seers and prophets have proclaimed is now here. According to the revelations given to me, the Lord does not differentiate between His children. ‘Come ye all to Me’ sounds His call and blessed is he who hears His call and follows Him. God loves His children. He wants to make them all happy, even when they do not want to know Him.

Recorded November 22, 1953

Bertha Dudde

Bertha Dudde was permitted to leave her earthly shell on September 18, 1965 to return to the Father’s heavenly house.

Table of Contents

3180 - Intimate connection with God necessary....

3181 - Binding the adversary of God.... abuse of power....

3182 - Source of wisdom.... word of God.... effect....

3183 - The secret of eternal love....

3184 - God permits the battle of faith....

3185 - Wrong will.... intervention of God....

3186 - Last means.... earth walk again....

3187 - Love is the most effective weapon against evil....

3188 - Conditions for teaching activity....

3189 - The power of divine love.... nature of God....

3190a - Truth of inspired proclamations.... medial....

3190b - Truth of inspired proclamations.... medial....

3191 - The adversary’s mask....

3192 - Scrutiny of spiritual results by worldly researchers....

3193 - Prince of lies.... end time.... binding by God....

3194 - Test of the heart necessary to recognize the gifts.... free will....

3195 - Spheres of light.... different luminous intensity.... childhood of God....

3196 - Bad will determines events of the time....

3197 - Spiritual decline also has an earthly detrimental effect....

3198 - Task as commissioner of God....

3199 - The inner voice....

3200 - Right relationship with God....

3201 - Representative of christian doctrine must live in love....

3202 - Resistance makes the word of God ineffective....

3203 - Spiritual activity must precede earthly activity....

3204 - Total change earthly and spiritually....

3205 - Unification of spirit and soul.... Rebirth....

3206 - Helplessness in the beyond.... Law....

3207 - Earthly tribulation measured against suffering in the hereafter....

3208 - The word.... spiritual and earthly....

3209 - Signs of the last days.... Battle of faith.... Chaos....

3210 - Battle between light and darkness.... last decision....

3211 - Destiny of life is God's will....

3212 - Spiritual wealth.... activity in the afterlife....

3213a - Self-overcoming.... strengthened will.... Christ's act of salvation....

3213b - Self-overcoming.... strengthened will.... Christ's act of salvation....

3214 - Feature of spiritual upward development....

3215 - Happily effect of spiritual gifts on soul and body....

3216 - Strong faith.... answer to prayer....

3217 - Blessing of the divine gift, the word of God....

3218 - Obedience to the worldly authorities....

3219 - Increased divine activity in the end time....

3220 - Refutation of the doctrine of reincarnation.... justice....

3221 - Acknowledge Christ.... weak will.... demon....

3222 - Word dispute with enlightened people....

3223 - End time.... sign.... averting the judgement....

3224 - Justice....

3225 - Undoubted faith in the word....

3226 - "Seek ye first the kingdom of God...."

3227a - Law - Justice - Races.... Nations....

3227b - Law - Justice - Races.... Nations....

3228 - Christ problem....

3229 - Resistances increase willpower....

3230 - Helping or fighting.... Different purposes for suffering....

3231 - Exhortation to work for the kingdom of God....

3232 - Fulfilment of predictions....

3233 - Working for the kingdom of God.... pillar....

3234 - Source of power.... work of creation bearer of power....

3235 - Unification of the soul with the spirit....

3236 - Trailblazer.... servants of God....

3237 - Divine revelations.... heresies obstructive....

3238 - Exhortations.... (John 14.) dwelling in the heart....

3239 - "And the gates of hell shall not prevail against them...."

3240 - Life.... Awakening the divine spark in the person....

3241 - The servants' mission who receive the Word directly....

3242 - God's mercy and grace....

3243 - Blessing of prayer.... power from God....

3244 - Self-knowledge.... Psychological work.... Grace.... Humility....

3245 - Gift from the spiritual realm - privilege....

3246 - God's providence.... helpers in need....

3247 - Revelations of God.... understanding - condition....

3248 - God makes Himself manifest in the word....

3249 - Freedom of the will.... (doctrine of predestination)

3250 - Freedom of the will.... (doctrine of predestination)

3251 - Chaos.... battle of faith....

3252 - Acknowledging Jesus Christ.... binding satan....

3253 - Turning to grace and strength not physically tangible....

3254 - World and earthly pleasures or spiritual realm....

3255 - New course of development.... banishing the spiritual....

3256 - Needy souls.... Remorse.... Loving help....

3257 - And lead us through the temptation....

3258 - Premature departure from the world.... Purpose....

3259 - Destiny.... Free will - God's will....

3260 - Early death.... God's mercy.... Old age....

3261 - End battle with or without Jesus Christ....

3262 - Lack of knowledge sign of God's remoteness....

3263 - Miracles of creation.... language of God....

3264 - New wonders of creation on the new earth.... Brittle matter....

3265 - Arrogance.... humility.... grace....

3266 - Spiritual rebirth.... grace....

3267 - Admonition to workers in the vineyard....

3268 - Task of the knower.... work for the kingdom of God....

3269 - Submitting the will to God's will....

3270 - Vocation to work for God....

3271 - Power supply - opening up - spiritual friends....

3272 - Commandment to love one's neighbour.... self-love....

3273 - Bread of heaven.... strengthening in time of need....

3274 - Calling .... Preparation .... Renunciation ....

3275 - Clarification of contentious issues through instruments of God....

Intimate connection with God necessary ....

B.D. 3180 from July 6th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

You all have to comply with the commandment of the hour, and this is: intimately unite with God, for only with Him will you be able to assert yourselves in the world. It is more urgent than ever that you seek Him, that you approach Him and appeal for His grace and blessing, for the adversity will be great and no one will be able to help you but the one Who rules over heaven and earth. And therefore you should unite yourselves with Him, and that with all eagerness, for it is not much longer that you will need extraordinary strength. And then you will no longer be able to muster the will to approach Him when everything around you threatens to collapse. Therefore call upon Him beforehand and ask Him to increase your strength, to take all weakness from you, to have mercy on you and not let you fall in the temptations which will threaten every believer on the part of the earthly world. The heartfelt prayer beforehand will be answered as long as it only applies to spiritual well-being, and people need not fear that God will not take care of their worries and hardships .... He will show Himself to those who need strength as soon as they have already been in closest contact with God, for He rewards their love .... They are His children whom He will gently lead out of all dangers. And therefore believe in Him, believe in His might and in His love which looks after you uninterruptedly, and believe that He directs everything such that it is good for you, even if you don't recognize this straight away. If you vividly imagine God's love, wisdom and omnipotence, a deep inner peace will enter your heart, for then you will also know that nothing can come over you unless it helps the soul to mature. And no matter how it comes about, it is God's will to which you should submit yourselves so that you will no longer oppose God but, in deep, true filial love, appeal to Him for His support, which He will truly not deny you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Binding the adversary of God .... abuse of power ....

B.D. 3181 from July 7th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

God's power is unlimited and also extends into the realm of the one who is His adversary. This spiritual world is also subject to Him and yet He leaves His adversary great freedom by not taking away his power over the human being's soul, yet only up to a certain limit. The human being is not defencelessly at the mercy of evil, for he can oppose it with his will and his love, and then God's adversary is completely powerless. And God stands by the human being in every way if he turns to Him for help. But the latter retains power over the human being if he himself grants it. But God allows this because the human being must become active himself if he wants to become perfect. His paths must remain free both upwards and downwards, he must avoid evil of his own accord and strive towards good. Therefore evil must also be able to influence him and therefore cannot be completely banished in the world. But if the human being's will is too weak and he does not ask for God's support he hands himself over to the power of the evil one, and he uses it in such a way that he tries to completely displace God, that he tries to cast a spell over all beings on earth and is active in a way which now determines God to oppose His power and to defeat His adversary for a long time, to bind him, i.e. to take away his power. For the entire spiritual kingdom is subject to Him, and even that which does not voluntarily submit to Him must bow to His will and His power. And when the time has come all power will be taken from him. His opposition extends to separating the spiritual from God, to transfer it into endless distance and to get it under his control. The spiritual, however, must strive towards God of its own will if it wants to come close to Him. It is neither forced by God nor can God's adversary force it towards Him, but every power seeks to win it for itself, only with opposite means. And the adversary has also received permission from God to influence the essence, the human being's soul, but always on condition that the human being also has knowledge of the eternal deity and of His rule and activity and can therefore freely decide for one of the two powers, for good or evil .... But as soon as God's adversary abuses this permission by wanting to deprive humanity of the knowledge of God and His working, God's unlimited power will come into action and He will take all power away from him for a time, so that the spiritual being which strives towards God is unhindered, thus it can return to the one from Whom it originally originated. God's power is unlimited, and even if the adversary unfolds his power and appears to be successful, this power is still first given to him by God and He can take it away from him as and when He wants. Only one will rules over heaven and earth, and it rules in all wisdom and love .... But the power which expresses itself in opposition to wisdom and love is never divine and therefore also does not exist .... it must bow before the Most High if He demands submission, if freedom of will is abused in a way which exceeds His authority .... if the adversary of God takes action against Himself and wants to drag all spiritual things with him .... Then God lets him feel His power, He binds him and renders him harmless for a long time ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Source of wisdom .... word of God .... effect ....

B.D. 3182 from July 8th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

There is no more reliable source of wisdom than the word of God, for truth emanates from God and He Himself conveys it to people through His word. Therefore, anyone who constantly draws from this source need never fear to be in error, for the reception of the divine word is an expression of strength by spiritual powers. But only beings of light have strength at their disposal, and they will never spread error since they live in truth themselves and also want to offer it to people on earth with their love. Only a process of transmitting strength can convey the divine word to earth in such a form that it is also obviously present to fellow human beings and thus remains as an obvious working of God, Whose love for the unredeemed wants to provide a means for it to become free and gain eternal life. Therefore, that which visibly arises must come forth from beings which can receive and distribute strength, which presupposes that they receive this strength from God, thus they are, as it were, only the executors of divine will. Consequently, the word originally came forth from God and therefore has to be pure truth, it has to contain profound wisdom and have an extremely beneficial effect .... It must guide people into knowledge, make them knowledgeable and reshape them according to divine will. For this is made known to people through the word of God, and if the human being seeks to fulfil God's will of his own free will he changes himself, i.e. his soul, into love .... And this is the purpose of his stay on earth, that he conforms to the eternal deity, that he changes his God-opposing nature and submits his will to God's will. And the word of God guides him to this end, it is, so to speak, his signpost on his earthly path of life, it is the means which inevitably leads to the aim if it is followed, because the human being now changes the state of ignorance, which was his share due to his past apostasy from God, into the free state of knowledge, which is the prerequisite for acquiring eternal life ....

Divine truth will always contribute to the human being's perfection as soon as he allows it to have an effect on him, i.e. does not close himself off to knowledge. And truth will always be where God Himself can work, where He finds a receptive and willing heart. The ability requires a righteous way of life, the willingness the desire for truth. Both, however, are again the effect of the divine word if it is offered to the human being through intermediaries and he accepts it without resistance, for truth will always be recognizable by its effect, that it leads to God from where it originates. Hence the word of God is the soul's source of life, it is the spring from which it can constantly draw, from which the clearest water flows which strengthens and refreshes the soul. It is the most necessary thing for the soul on earth, which cannot be replaced by anything and which is therefore always and constantly conveyed to earth by God's infinite love, since without it people would have to live in want of their souls and their fate would not be life but death in eternity. But only God is the source of pure truth, and only there can truth be received where God is acknowledged in His love, wisdom and omnipotence and His word is consciously requested. Only then will the word of God be recognized as truth and be unsurpassable in its effect ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The secret of eternal love ....

B.D. 3183 from July 9th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

That is the secret of eternal love, that it is the basic element, that it is strength and thus divine original substance, thus also the epitome of the divine being. It is, as it were, something material in spiritual form, thus the substance of a being which can only be thought of as pure spirit and thus does not possess love as a characteristic but is pure love. For the still material human being this is inconceivable and incomprehensible and therefore a mystery until he has changed himself into love, until through his change he feels permeated by a current of strength which lifts him up and invisibly chains him to the eternal love Itself, until he feels intimately united with God in the working of love. Then the secret of eternal love is not yet revealed to him, but the essence of the eternal deity takes more and more shape .... the human being recognizes that love is inseparable from God, that everything which exists has its origin in it, that therefore the visible and invisible world is only an expression of this immense love .... that love is therefore in itself a strength whose effect is unlimited. Love will therefore be regarded as the substance of the eternal deity, because it is simply inconceivable without love ....

Only the human being who shapes himself into love on earth gains an idea which approaches the truth by now seeing God in everything which has emerged from His strength of love, and he now recognizes the creator in His creations. For the latter always remain products of the elementary power, and the elementary power is love, thus God Himself. And therefore the created must also be imperishable because God cannot destroy Himself. And the creations must be in the closest connection with the creator, because a power cannot be divided, but divine love is to be addressed as the original substance of all creation, as power .... as eternal deity, Which is therefore also present everywhere in Its beingness where the strength of love, a work of creation, is evident. Love, strength, creation is always the same .... never-ending emanation of that which is the original substance of the eternal deity. God is strength and entity at the same time, He is love Himself and emanates love, He is a spirit from eternity, Who becomes material as love, as strength, which now appears, otherwise the spirit of God could never be felt.

This is a mystery which remains veiled from the human being until his transfiguration, although it is revealed to him through God's infinite love .... But the human being as such does not grasp it until he has changed himself into love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God permits the battle of faith ....

B.D. 3184 from July 9th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

People will experience serious psychological conflicts as a result of worldly laws, and this time is not far away. They will be required to openly declare their faith, and God allows this to happen because it is necessary that people should give serious thought to the question of their salvation which they had disregarded so far. He allows them to be put under pressure by the earthly power, to experience serious difficulties due to their faith, so that they have to make a clear decision regarding their belief. He allows every human being his freedom, that is, God will not force anyone to acknowledge Him if he is not warned by his inner voice to remain loyal to God and thus feels the inner urge to confess Him before the world. God will indeed allow this inner voice and observer to speak where there is still doubt and the human being is weak-willed. He will help all those who are hitherto undecided, He will send them devout people and through them touch their hearts, He will come close to everyone in His Word, in suffering and in need; He will reveal Himself to them, and with the good intention to recognise God and to fulfil His will a human being will also know how he should decide, because then the beings of light, who care for him, will also guide his thoughts right. But many people will discard what should be their most precious possession .... their faith in Jesus Christ as the divine Saviour ....

They will choose the world without hesitation and cause serious distress to their souls. And God cautions them in advance by confronting them Himself through His servants .... by teaching them to know the strength of faith and thus giving them remarkable evidence which can result in faith if they are not entirely opposed to God. And for that reason He will allow the battle against the faith, He will allow it to assume shapes which indicate the depravity of people because He Himself wants to speak during this time in order to save those people who need a convincing reason to believe. Therefore He will not prevent the earthly power when it openly advances against people who confess God. And then people are forced to make a decision, and this decision is vitally important for the souls as it will determine the soul’s fate in eternity, whether it will awaken to life or to death after it departs from this earth. To help people make the right decision God will try beforehand to make them understand, He will try to influence them through His earthly and spiritual servants who will help them if they are uncertain what they should do. But He will not force their will and therefore it is necessary that people are compelled by earthly means to make a decision in order that the freedom of their actions is guaranteed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Wrong will .... intervention of God ....

B.D. 3185 from July 10th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

God does not command the will of men, but He puts a stop to their deeds if He deems it necessary. And therefore people are active in a way which completely contradicts divine order. And they are not prevented from doing so by God, so that they shall realize for themselves where it leads to if they do not submit their thoughts and actions to God. And what they do, they do out of themselves, without connection with God, in the feeling of their own strength and the conviction of right thinking, when they use their strength to act against the weak. This is a thinking and acting which does not correspond to the commandments of love for God and neighbour, and consequently the human being violates the divine order. His freedom of will will not be curtailed, his actions will not be prevented, so that the human being himself will recognize by the consequences that he has erred, so that he will change his thinking of his own accord and submit to the commandment of love for God and his neighbour. And therefore the will can develop uninhibitedly, it can initiate deeds which border on the satanic without being gagged by God, it can express itself in the wrong direction and achieve devastating effects without God forcibly guiding this will into the right path. However, God sets a limit to the procedure, namely when He Himself is completely ignored, i.e. when people only work with God's counter-power, when they listen to it and thus overturn the divine order, which is the preservation of all created things or dissolution for the purpose of serving activity. Then God will put a stop to it, in accordance with the depravity which humanity's actions prove. But then people who are not guilty, who recognize God and strive to live in His order, will also be most painfully affected. But it is understandable to them that God intervenes and that He lets His power become apparent. They humbly accept everything imposed on them for the sake of their fellow human beings, who must be visibly and tangibly affected if they are to change of their own free will. Nevertheless, free will remains with people if God does not take their earthly life away from them. They must let their will become active of their own accord, and happy is he who then uses this will correctly, who uses it for works of neighbourly love, who observes divine order and seeks contact with God, for God's intervention has become a blessing for his soul. But every indication of this is in vain where people are already so hardened that they only think of themselves and their well-being and therefore abuse their strength. Their will is unbending, the human being is not accessible to any idea and therefore does not shy away from any deed, even though it undeniably betrays satan’s influence. People will be capable of actions which endanger their fellow human being's soul and body, and therefore God will express Himself by not binding their will but by preventing the effect of their will .... by opposing His will to people's will and this signifies a work of destruction of dreadful proportions. For His love and justice will not tolerate that the weak perish and the strong seize what is not his due. His love also does not tolerate that people's souls are enslaved and that they are in danger of losing themselves to the lords of the underworld. And therefore He lets His voice be heard and calls people to come to their senses and strive towards Him, so that they refrain from their plan to destroy everything that is weak and to raise themselves above them ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Last means .... earth walk again ....

B.D. 3186 from July 10th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

God, in His love and patience, has granted the spiritual substance an extremely long time for redemption, which would have been fully sufficient for the spiritual substance's final return to Him if the human being had made use of it in the last stage as is his duty. The fact that he now fails, that he does not take his spiritual higher development seriously and only lives for earthly life, is his completely free will, and therefore the human being must also accept the consequences. He cannot throw off the fetters of matter but has to remain in it again for an infinitely long time because he himself desired it on earth. This is an unspeakably agonizing period of time for the spiritual, which was able to move in complete freedom in the beginning and already had to cover this agonizing course of development once in order to begin it again .... It is such an agonizing state that God still gives it every opportunity to free itself before the end, before the expiry of this redemption epoch. And He uses the most effective means, He forcibly detaches people from matter in order to make it easy for them to overcome, He takes away their possessions and places them into the world completely carefree, so that it would now be easy for the human being to turn away from matter and only strive for spiritual good. But in the last days man is so rooted in matter that he strives even more eagerly to gain possession of earthly goods again, and that he craves and strives for them more than before. And thus he will be granted what he desires .... He himself is incarnated into matter, and his freedom of will is taken from him again for an endless time .... But the human being does not listen to any such idea, and therefore no help can be given to him because he cannot believe and does not want to believe. Recollection cannot be given to him since the development upwards would then take place under a certain compulsion if he knew about the agonies of his past earthly life and this would cause him to completely change his thoughts and actions. However, unconditional freedom of will must bring about this change, otherwise it would be worthless before God. And therefore God still uses all means, He allows the end time to be painful for every human being in order to kill his desire for the material world, in order to direct his gaze into the spiritual kingdom, away from matter and towards God .... And therefore He also allows the appalling misery caused by human will, because this can contribute towards stifling earthly desire and achieving the highest spiritual success in the desire for God. And therefore hardship and affliction will increase the more it approaches the end .... People will be deprived of what seems desirable to them, they will have to give everything in order to be able to receive spiritual good, if it is imparted to them by God's messengers on His behalf .... Yet free will will never be touched, and therefore the harvest will not be great. Yet God's love will use every means to help the unredeemed spirits before the last hour has come in order to protect them from a repeated embodiment on earth, which is exceedingly painful ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Love is the most effective weapon against evil ....

B.D. 3187 from July 11th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

The human being's most powerful weapon against all evil is love .... Anyone in possession of love is protected by God Himself, because He dwells in him and truly everything must give way to His power. Evil takes flight from this weapon or allows itself to be overcome. For love is its most effective foe which it cannot bear up against. Love subjugates everything that comes into contact with it, if it does not visibly escape from it. This is why love will always be a person's most effective weapon; he will always be successful in battle and need not fear anything if he uses this weapon to fight with .... This should be heeded during every situation in life, during every dispute and above all during the final time of battle, when love itself will come under attack. For God's adversary will very strongly insist that even kind-hearted activity should be suppressed and thus made impossible to accomplish. He will put pressure on people into passing laws which will restrain the kind-hearted actions expected by God. He will not shy away from using people to declare something to be wrong, which alone corresponds to God's will, he will demand unkindness where God requests actions of love, because he can only triumph over people if they no longer use this weapon of love. And this denotes a great danger for the human soul which must be fought against completely consciously. Therefore God admonishes people to continuous kind-hearted activity, He explains to them the blessings and the strength a person can draw from constant actions of love. He must not let himself be misled by secular laws and only ever do what his heart tells him to do, for without love he will descend into darkness and the adversary will have reached his goal .... Love is divine, and he who remains in love carries God within himself and need not fear any power, regardless of how much it threatens him. He who remains in love inwardly resists the intentions of the world which is governed by the adversary. And this resistance cannot be broken by anyone, for the adversary's power is too weak to affect the strength of love. Love may not be banished or it would mean total downfall. Only those who love will live; heartlessness, however, will inevitably result in the soul's death. It is the adversary's intended goal to pull all the soul's striving towards the light into darkness. But he has no power over the one who lives a life of love, and he who lives in love shall also give love to his neighbour, so that he will recognise the strength of love and likewise strive for it by practising love wherever the opportunity presents itself to him. Only someone having shaped himself into love will be strong in the coming time. He will not be afraid of anything, he will try to balance each onslaught with love and he will erect a wall around himself which no-one will be able to pull down. Love is the mightiest factor on earth, it is the key to wisdom, it is the bridge into eternal life, it is the guarantee for God's love, and thus it also signifies light and strength, and both are life .... enabling the soul to be active in all wisdom for all eternity. Only love leads to the goal, only through love will the soul in the human being attain the original state again, only love brings God closer to him and may therefore never be excluded. And at no time ever should people give in to the laws which inhibit their activity of love and which is therefore always the work of the one who, as God's adversary, is devoid of all love and therefore fights against it ....

Amen

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Conditions for teaching activity ....

B.D. 3188 from July 11th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

The gift to teach as a servant of God must be consciously requested, by which the human being declares his willingness to be active for God and on His behalf. For in order to be able to carry out the teaching ministry he has to be pre-educated, he first has to have absorbed what he is to teach himself; he has to be imparted a body of thought which enables him to teach, he has to be able to think skilfully and logically, and this requires a training which can only be carried out by God Himself or by His spiritual messengers. And the human being must declare himself willing to do so, he must let his will become active and constantly accept instructions until he has attained a degree of knowledge which is now also sufficient to instruct his fellow human beings again, to refute objections, to correct errors and thus to spread the pure truth from God. Anyone who offers himself to God for this office, who is willing to serve Him and his fellow human beings, will also be accepted by God, because it is extremely necessary that people are guided into truth, and because only a few people are able to muster the will to accept mental instructions until they can call clear knowledge their own. For they must have strong faith, they must unconditionally accept what is offered to them, above all they must consider direct instruction from God possible, otherwise they would not listen to the inner voice which announces itself to them .... They must believe in the working of the spirit in the human being, otherwise it cannot be effective. And they must work tirelessly on themselves in order to increase their ability to hear the inner voice; they must do everything that requires a strong will so that they will now also be able to utilize what is offered to them, for the gift of being able to teach is now the result of their strong will, which God blesses and rewards by training the human being so that he can carry out his ministry as a teacher when it concerns proclaiming the gospel to fellow human beings. For God wants to convey His word to the world through His faithful servants on earth, He wants to give knowledge to all people through people who have received the knowledge from Himself and thus can now carry out their mission correctly for the blessing of humanity, which is seeking and willingly allows itself to be taught by them without resistance. For by the way a gift of grace is offered people will recognize where it originated from, and their willingness to accept or reject what is offered to them will be correspondingly. And therefore God needs servants on earth who offer themselves for it, and He imparts strength and grace to them, He instructs them and conveys His word to earth, He enlightens their spirit so that they understand what is offered to them and can transfer it to their fellow human beings in the same way and thus the truth is spread on earth, as it is God's will ....

Amen

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The power of divine love .... nature of God ....

B.D. 3189 from July 12th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

The more impressively the strength of love is presented to the human being the easier he will grasp the essence of the eternal deity, for he will then strive to test this strength, he will always and constantly practice love and consequently also be permeated by the eternal strength of love. But where God's love can become effective wisdom is not far away either, knowledge also flows to the human being there, he is guided into knowledge and God's nature also becomes more understandable to him, even though he will never grasp the last on earth, even though he will never be able to fathom God's nature in all its depth. Yet this is how far he penetrates in order to recognize God as an elementary power which is active everywhere in the universe and which only expresses itself in love. For everything that has been created and everything that takes place in the earthly and spiritual kingdom is based on His love, thus love is the elementary power which visibly expresses itself to the human being who changes himself into love and now enters into tangible contact with the elementary power. Only the loving human being can understand it, only the loving human being feels the strength of love in himself, and only the loving human being likewise enters the stage of emanation of strength, for God's strength of love flows towards him and makes him a bearer of strength who can now also distribute again what he receives. God is love, in God everything has its beginning and its end because it emerged from the strength of love and has to flow towards Him again. As long as the human being is without love he is also without strength, he is so unlike the essence of the eternal deity that he no longer has any connection with Him, that the flow of strength which emanates from God does not touch him and this means spiritual death for the being, because only where strength is there is also life. If love is presented to the human being as a redeeming principle, as a source of strength, as a direct emanation of God, Who is love in Himself, then he can open himself to this influx by virtue of his will by becoming active in love himself and thereby drawing God to himself, Whose emanation of love he can now feel as a pleasing feeling of strength which drives and enables him to always work again with love. This becoming aware of strength is also the awakening to life of the spirit, for as soon as the human being has once received, thus felt, the strength from God, his striving will be directed towards constantly receiving it, because the previous state of weakness now appears unbearable to him and he no longer wants to fall back into it. And the desire for God's love, for His strength, is also a guarantee for him that he will not go away empty-handed; for God provides everyone who wants to approach Him with the strength of love, after all, this desire already proves his love for Him. And in his desire for God the human being will also give love to everything that surrounds him, he will practice neighbourly love completely unselfishly, for this is the strength of divine love, that it shapes him into love who does not close himself off to it through his will. God's nature is love, He shares Himself with all who do not oppose Him, and He considers those who bend their will to Him. He rewards their love for Him through richest knowledge, for He guides them into truth and makes everything understandable to them so that they can mature in realization, so that they can grasp the essence of the eternal deity and strive ever more eagerly towards it by constantly being active in love .... For God Himself now works in them as soon as they practice love, God Himself takes abode in the one who has shaped his heart into love; he is inseparably united with God, Who is love Himself, because he has changed himself into love, because he has re-entered the original state, because he has returned to the one from Whom he originated ....

Amen

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Truth of inspired proclamations .... medial ....

B.D. 3190a from July 13th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

Man has the gift of being able to judge, and he should also use this gift. It is his right and also his duty to observe what is going on around him and to take a stand for or against it, otherwise he will leave the gift of understanding unused and this will be detrimental to his soul, which should mature in everything. A conscientious examination also gives the human being the right to judge, but it is also absolutely necessary for this. A conscientious examination also enables him to pass a just judgment, because then the will to possess the true is recognizable and this will is always blessed, thus the human being is provided with the power of realization and can now judge correctly and justly. The blessing of divine revelations remains reserved for many people because they do not acknowledge them. Conversely, however, many things are recognized and falsely represented as coming from above, even though their divine origin must be denied. This is immensely misleading when it is spread as spiritual knowledge and prevents people from recognizing the truth. If the human being is completely free of prejudice, he will very soon recognize the spirit in what is to be made accessible to people as truth. He will sense where others have to use their intellect in order to reach the same result, and then it is the voice of the heart which instructs the human being and warns him when untruth touches his ear, but which also lets him recognize what is right, which is helpful to people for their salvation of soul ....

The truth of the inspired proclamation can easily be recognized by the fact that it contains divine wisdom. The content of the proclamations must go far beyond human thinking, thus they must contain summarizing explanations which make the essence of the eternal deity clear to the human being, they must make God's love, wisdom and omnipotence recognizable, thus they must be profound in their content and clear in their structure. Their content must be teachings which reveal a high knowledge of the teacher, but on the other hand they must be held in such a way that they are comprehensible to every person who wants to understand them. The gifts which are offered medially often lack the depth of knowledge, and they also do not contain wisdom which increases the knowledge of the human being, because they lack coherence. But as soon as they have an improving effect on people they cannot be denied a spiritual giver who strives towards God; he is just not yet in the degree of light which allows him to teach people. But he seeks to impart his knowledge and uses people for this who surrender their will to unknown powers, which is therefore also not denied to him by God because people bypass the direct path, the path to God, the prayer for the working of the spirit, which gives them the most certain guarantee that erring beings can no longer instruct them. The strength of will is necessary to receive the truth from God, but not that the human being relinquishes his will, which can now also be appropriated by beings who want to assert themselves without being instructed by God to teach people. It is a welcome opportunity for these beings to transfer their still inadequate knowledge to people. Admittedly, they are prevented from imparting error by people's will to live in a God-pleasing way. But as soon as the human being himself clings to an error they will take up his thoughts and return it in detail; they will, in a manner of speaking, use human thinking as a foundation on which they now build, and thereby erroneous teachings arise which are now no longer recognized but eagerly advocated as truth imparted from above, although they originated from their own thinking and will. For the human being himself is the cause of such teachings, firstly through his will and his thinking and then through the devotion of the will, which can now be used by every being that has access to the one who avails himself of his will. The laws of the spiritual kingdom are fixed, they are clearly and unambiguously presented to people through the working of the spirit, through the inner word .... As soon as the human being tries to penetrate an area outside of this lawfulness which is otherwise closed to him, he must also reckon with the fact that he will not be offered unconditional truth, even though he reduces the danger of falling prey to evil beings through his own striving towards God. Yet the guarantee for unconditional truth is only given to him if he subjects himself to divine law, if he wants to receive the truth from within, from the spiritual spark within himself which is part of God and which will never ever teach him wrongly ....

People should contact God Himself, they should ask Him for the truth, for enlightenment of the spirit and then faithfully wait for the fulfilment of their requests. Then God will instruct them through His messengers or directly through the inner word. However, both results must agree, otherwise the divine origin can be doubted, for God's messengers teach nothing else but God Himself, because they always and constantly only fulfil His will. Wanting to receive the truth in a fully conscious state after heartfelt prayer also guarantees God's working through His spirit, and the human being does not need a fellow human being who surrenders his will in order to serve the beings of light as an organ. For the beings of light can mentally communicate themselves to the human being as soon as he surrenders himself to their influence. The human being should practice consciously listening within so that he will always be able to hear God's voice. The mental instructions are therefore far more valuable because they earn the human being profoundest knowledge who desires such and humbly requests it from God. But if God speaks to people through pure spiritual beings then these will announce the same as what is conveyed to people through the inner word, but the proclamations will never contradict each other. And this is the characteristic of the divine mission, that the human being increases in knowledge which he can now also pass on in the most comprehensible way, that he can therefore, as a disciple of Jesus, spread His teaching amongst his fellow human beings, that he preaches love to them, thus teaches love and practices love, otherwise he cannot receive the truth himself. For the reception of divine truth presupposes activity of love, and therefore truth will always be found where love is practiced, because then God Himself can work in the human being and His activity truly guarantees purest truth ....

Amen

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Truth of inspired proclamations .... medial ....

B.D. 3190b from July 15th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

What the spirit of God reveals is hidden from science, and therefore the gifts of the spirit cannot be received by a school unless the human being asks for the working of the spirit and the spirit makes itself known to him through those who are to teach on earth on God's behalf, who are called by Him to spread the spiritual knowledge which they have received directly from Him. But it follows from this that all truth originates from God, that it cannot be offered to people by any other means, that therefore everyone who wants to know the truth must be taught directly or indirectly by the spirit of God. It also follows that the origin of every source must first be examined before it is recognized and the human being is allowed to draw from it. God's working must be established without a doubt in order to be able to represent a mediated spiritual knowledge as pure truth. If this origin is not proven, then the knowledge can only be acknowledged when it fully and completely corresponds to the word of God, which He Himself directly conveys to earth through the inner word. For pure truth can never originally come from outside, it has to be placed by God Himself into the heart of the one who deeply desires it and humbly asks God for knowledge. It must be born out of him himself, i.e. the spiritual spark in the human being must make itself known, which cannot err because it is part of God's spirit, Who is truth Himself. And thus a precise characteristic is given which should always form the basis of the examination of spiritual knowledge, for God has always and everywhere guided His word to earth which is conveyed to those who sincerely desire truth; seekers are always guided on the path so that they can take notice of God’s word which was directly conveyed to earth and which they should now also examine like everything else which is offered to them as spiritual knowledge. And the true seeker of truth will also recognize it as God’s word, because the word speaks for itself, because it touches his heart and revives his faith with strength and now also urges him to accept it as God's working. But rarely do seekers take the direct path to God, rarely is their faith so strong that they call upon Him for enlightenment of the spirit, for the ability to recognize the truth. And this is why so many other paths are taken which certainly also have the same aim, i.e., whose followers all have the will to recognize what is right but who neglect to call upon God Himself, as the giver of truth, for His support and guidance, and if they do so they don't expect His answer in which form He wants to impart it to them but try to penetrate the spiritual kingdom themselves by disregarding laws which God has given .... by not consciously listening but believing that they can receive unconsciously, which results in the fact that mature and immature spiritual beings can make themselves known to whom such an expression is not forbidden by God. And it depends on the human being's will which beings use the will given to them for spiritual manifestations. Often it is not a conscious intention of the spiritual beings to mislead but their own ignorance, yet it is a welcome opportunity for the beings to seize a weak will in order to be able to transfer their inadequate knowledge to people, since these beings are not yet permitted to teach in the beyond. As soon as a mature, knowledgeable being expresses itself in such a way it will only point people to the working of the spirit, it will convey the truth to them which shall have the purpose of educating people to directly receive the divine word, His instructions through His spirit. But it will not prevent other beings from approaching people as well, as soon as they do not follow the instructions in order to attain the pure truth. For then people will only want to listen without being active themselves; they will not fulfil the conditions under which they are offered the truth and consequently also have to reckon with falling prey to erring beings, even though God takes every individual's desire for truth into account, so that this human being's soul will not suffer harm who has the deepest desire for God and is therefore also considered in accordance with this desire. But where many are together the same striving and desire for truth is not to be found, and the externalizing beings, which take account of every person and want to impose their own thinking on those who are in the same degree of maturity and give their thoughts the same direction, are also corresponding. For the will of individual people also determines the spiritual beings approaching them. And the proclamations which reach earth from these beings through a person who gives his will can also be interspersed with error because the giving being itself does not yet fully live in truth but wants to be active, which is now made possible for it through the person who gives of his will and the degree of maturity of the listeners, who again also determine the nature of the proclamations through their mental attitude, through their degree of desire for truth. As soon as they cannot completely free themselves from erroneous views, beings with the same imperfect or wrong knowledge will again and again push themselves close to them, for they will look for objects to whom they can impart their thought material, and the human being's will itself will always determine the extent to which he walks in truth. Therefore it is imperative to take the only certain path in order to reach the truth .... intimate prayer to God for the supply of them, a way of life in love and a complete surrender to divine love, which truly will not let his prayer go unheard .... However, the human being must now consciously listen within himself, he must also pay attention to everything that approaches him from outside but always let the voice of his heart speak which warns him to accept something wrong and urges him to accept what God sends to him through fellow human beings if he himself is unable to hear the direct answer from God. Constant practice, however, brings him to the aim .... he will be taught from within, through his spirit, and that in all truth .... Even erroneous announcements from the kingdom of the beyond, received in an unconscious state, can therefore be of value insofar as they stimulate the human being's mental activity, increase his desire for truth and thus let him consciously seek contact with the beings of light which will faithfully assist him if his will is good. But this commandment should always apply: "Examine everything and keep the best ...." If you want to have the guarantee of pure truth, then completely hand yourselves over to God and ask Him for it, and He will send His spirit to those who ask Him for it .... And thus you will always be offered the opportunity to acquire the truth, yet examine the sources critically, and even more critically if what you are offered from different sides deviates from each other .... For the truth from God must always and constantly agree wherever it is offered to people. And every different teaching is an occasion to make you think about it and to deal with it mentally. And if you ask God for help in doing so He will guide your thoughts correctly, you will recognize what you can accept as truth and what you can reject as error ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The adversary’s mask ....

B.D. 3191 from July 16th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

People allow themselves to become beguiled by the adversary’s mask and do not recognise his game of deceit. For this reason he is gaining ground everywhere since God does not set him a limit as long as the human being himself grants him power over his will. But he is using this power in every respect by means of increasingly bigger works of deception in order to mislead people. They could certainly see through it if they were striving for righteousness and justice .... But such endeavour is the last thing on their mind, everyone is merely interested in themselves and their advantage and no-one questions to what extent the next person has the same right. It is selfish love by which the human being delivers himself to the opponent and which also blinds and disables him to become conscious of his activity. But if the human being himself does not resist he will fall prey to this control and all clarity of thought will be lost to him. Because the goal of God’s opponent is to confuse people’s thoughts so that they will increasingly fall away from God and become unable to withdraw from his lure by themselves, that he will rage and unreservedly pull them into ruin without meeting any resistance, because only the human will is decisive and this is too weak. (Because) The adversary represents the world and therefore is a friend of those who are attached to the world.

But he is approaching under the cover of piety, and thus people allow themselves to be beguiled by him. He feigns goodness to them but his actions are evil, since he propels people into heartlessness, into self interest, into pursuit of earthly wealth, into increased physical comfort, and all this is a decline of the soul’s development, it is a disregard for the real purpose of earthly life, the maturing of the soul. And people do not recognise it because they are enslaved by the power which aims to separate them from God. Yet even this enemy of souls takes the name of God in his mouth, he wears this cloak in order to remain unknown, and his cunning is successful and puts untold people under his spell. But woe unto them when his cunning is revealed, when the mask drops and his true face appears .... Then they can only save themselves from his power with great difficulty, for they had left Him, Who is Lord of all creation, Who can redeem the human being whose will is willing to be redeemed. But the enemy’s cunning consists of first removing a person’s belief in the help of the divine Redeemer as well as in His Divinity Itself. And those who are spiritually blind will follow his banner and voluntarily separate themselves from their soul’s Saviour. Humanity, however, does not recognise the dark power’s activity, it sees light where there is utmost darkness, because making believe that there is light even though it is darkest night is also an act of Satan’s deception. And they flee the true light and do not accept the cautions and warnings which are given to them by the appointed messengers .... They worship an idol whose power in fact merely consists of weakening the human will but who is powerless when this will turns towards God.

And you will recognise this idol by the fact that he will not do anything to increase your faith in a loving, wise and all-powerful God. That the name of God will indeed come forth from his mouth, but he will not give him authority by deliberately calling on Him, that he will ignore love and for this reason is far removed from God, the eternal love, that he will not acknowledge Jesus Christ, the divine Redeemer, and thus he is an obvious opponent of Him, who will put humanity, which is in need of redemption, into bondage once again if it follows him and puts itself under his banner ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Scrutiny of spiritual results by worldly researchers ....

B.D. 3192 from July 18th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

Worldly acquired knowledge is not sufficient in order to act as a spiritual teacher. And therefore people cannot be called upon for scrutiny or clarification of spiritual scriptures or results if they only possess purely worldly knowledge and then entirely rationally try to ascertain what kind of value should be attached to these spiritual results. Such intended dissemination will always be unsuccessful, because spiritual knowledge can only be gained under certain preconditions, but without knowledge such scrutiny is not possible. However, if these preconditions are met on part of the examiners, then the same preconditions apply again to those who are interested in the results of the scrutiny. These preconditions are: sincere striving for God, for truth and for living a way of life according to divine will, for a life of love .... In that case, however, the human being need no longer investigate but God Himself will guide him into truth .... He will not need earthly knowledge and will still become knowledgeable, the spiritual sphere will be normal and familiar to him, he will not consider it outlandish as a critic and researcher; instead, he will live in this kingdom himself which will no longer belong to the material world but will be purely spiritual. Anyone who wants to investigate the spiritual kingdom can only do so if he completely hands himself over to God and puts the world second. But anyone who purely scientifically tries to examine spiritual subjects as a matter of worldly striving will not come to any results; the area will remain unfamiliar to him, he will purely gather existing results but never provide a truthful explanation because he lacks all conviction himself, which he can only gain by seriously striving for truth without any material or worldly interests. For this reason the world will be unable to employ teachers who research occult fields and pass on their knowledge, for this would be a purely intellectual activity without involving the heart. But spiritual areas can only be investigated by way of the heart. Although the intellect is not entirely excluded, the mental knowledge is conveyed to him from the heart, and this activity of heart requires great love, which not every worldly researcher has. If people therefore believe that they can scientifically fathom knowledge which originates from God, they will always have to take incorrect results into account, for the divine truth, the knowledge about spiritual things, is not a commodity which everyone can lay claim to who does not pay the correct purchase price for it ....

God truly will not deny it to any person, yet the striving for God, for highest realisation, for perfection, must drive the person to obtain this knowledge. Then people will be able to achieve greatest success if they pass the gained knowledge on to their fellow human beings with the same aspiration to help them attain maturity of soul. God will always and forever remain the Provider of truth, and God looks into the hearts of people who strive towards it and distributes His gifts of grace according to worthiness and desire .... His spirit descends upon those who love Him and strive to live according to His will. Consequently, these conditions must have been fulfilled first before the human spirit can become enlightened and clearly recognise the correlation between the eternal Deity, Creation and the living beings, and thus can derive knowledge from it which he can also advocate as truth and pass on to his fellow human beings. But such a person will not pursue earthly goals; he will not try to acquire earthly success, honour and fame through his knowledge but only conduct spiritual research for the sake of the pure truth, and if he wants to pass it on to his fellow human being then only as a result of an inner urge to also give him the happiness he does not yet possess. However, the worldly interested investigator will never ever attain the right realisation .... His result will always remain patchwork, he will add to already existing mental knowledge, he will intellectually try to find a connection and he will be mistaken as long as he does not have God as a teacher, but He will not enlighten him as long as he still belongs to the world. For the spiritual kingdom is subject to laws which are impossible for the beings of light to violate, but which they do not want to violate either since their will acts entirely in accordance with divine will. The laws must be complied with both by the Giver as well as the taker, and one of these laws is: Nothing can be achieved without God but everything with Him .... God, however, is love .... Subsequently, someone who wants to be taught by God must strive towards Him with all senses, and to strive towards God means to be active with love. Hence it will never ever be possible to penetrate the truth without love .... And if the worldly investigator is not lovingly active, his thoughts cannot correspond to truth either, because it contradicts the divine law, the requirements God expects of a person and which he must first meet without fail, before the pure truth can be offered to him. And even if he comes across this pure truth in his research, if he scrutinises the knowledge that was conveyed to devout people through God's love .... he will not recognise it as truth, because his thinking is still clouded by the influences of the enemy of truth, to whom he grants power over himself through his lack of love.

God is Truth, and only through love can it be found. Even if the human being searches and investigates incessantly, he will not reach the goal by intellectual means and will therefore also be completely incapable of offering truthful results to his fellow human beings. His points of view will not be convincing and will give rise to doubts and arguments as soon as they form a serious opinion of them. Conclusions can certainly be drawn from existing spiritual information, so that a spiritual kingdom, the activity of spiritual beings, cannot be denied; nevertheless, in order to penetrate the spiritual realm, the knowledge of it is not enough if the preconditions are not in place which allow the human being's soul to enter the spiritual realm. This sphere can therefore never ever become the subject of worldly research, and worldly research is everything that is approached without heartfelt devotion to God, without unselfish acts of love in order to gain possession of the truth, in order to explain a field so that it will be completely clear to humanity and on which a solid teaching can be based, so that therefore the gained knowledge can be structured in a way so that it is accessible to humanity and enriches its knowledge. This will never be possible, for the spiritual kingdom remains closed to those who do not seek God deep within their heart and testify to this through their love for Him and their neighbour ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Prince of lies .... end time .... binding by God ....

B.D. 3193 from July 19th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

The giver of truth is opposed by the prince of lies, and he truly has great power over people who are indifferent to the truth but all the more receptive to its work. Error and lies are always accepted more willingly, truth, however, finds resistance and rejection, and this is due to the fact that the adversary of truth speaks to people's liking, that thus what he offers people prefer to listen to and they gladly give up the truth in return, for truth demands renunciation of the pleasures of this world, but error and lies favour the latter and will therefore find much more favour than truth. And yet, the truth will defeat the lie, for the truth is God Himself, and no adversary will truly be able to withstand Him as soon as He seriously takes action against him .... The merciful time of self-redemption comes to an end and with it also the power of God's adversary. For his power rose and fell with the spiritual being's strength of will, which was able to freely use its will in the last embodiment on earth. As soon as this will resists him, the power of the adversary is also broken. The more the time of redemption approaches its end the weaker people's wills are and therefore the more they are under the control of the one who fights the truth in order to gain power over the spiritual. For truth strengthens people and gives them the power to resist. This battle between truth and lies, light and darkness, knowledge and ignorance is particularly obvious in the last days before the end, for the person who represents the truth will be fought by his fellow human beings whom the adversary of truth already has in such control that he will determine them to take the unnatural action of raping people's thinking. He will use cunning and power, power towards those who know the pure truth from God and defend it, and cunning where people have not yet grasped the truth in all its depth and yet are willing to serve it. And God will stand by both, distributing strength and enlightening the spirit, so that people can resist that approach. God does not force people to accept the truth but only offers it to them, leaving it up to their free will whether and to what extent they make use of it. But in the end only the truth will remain and every error, every lie and at the same time the prince of lies will be banished. He will no longer find an opportunity to poison people with it, for only the truth will remain, everything else will perish, just as the old earth perishes, and with it everything that lives on it, with the exception of those who walk in truth and are raptured beforehand through God's love .... Truth lasts forever, but lies are transient, for only that which has its origin in God is eternal .... And no matter how much the world is permeated by error and lies at the moment, no matter whether lies and error dominate people's thinking, they will not prevail, for God Himself works in the same measure and He distributes the truth wherever it is desired, and like an avalanche the truth will grow and carry everything away as soon as God, as the eternal truth, declares war on His adversary .... Worldly speaking, error does gain the upper hand, but only for this earth, which does not last forever. And since the time of the end has come, the lie and error will once again rage in all their strength, he will want to destroy the truth, and the means God's adversary uses are indicative of his opposition. And therefore God Himself binds him and takes away his power for a long time. And during this time truth alone will reign and lies and error will be banished amongst people. They recognize God and His working, they know about His love, wisdom and omnipotence, they know that He is the truth Himself, and they surrender to Him in all humility of heart and their thinking is right ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Test of the heart necessary to recognize the gifts .... free will ....

B.D. 3194 from July 20th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

Every spiritual gift triggers happiness as soon as it is recognized as such. And this judgement must be made by the heart, in association with the intellect, but not by the intellect alone. Consequently, the will to reject must not resist the heart and grant the intellect alone the right to judge. Then the effect of strength will never be felt, for it does not tolerate resistance, i.e. the strength becomes ineffective where it is opposed. God's love does not compel, and compulsion would be any proof. But it would be proof if the divine gift would always and in all cases trigger a feeling of happiness, even if the human being is not willing to acknowledge it. This feeling would then force him to accept the gifts from above, and thus no human being would then stand outside of their working, which would mean that a change in people's thinking would result in their higher development in a short time, yet always compulsorily, thus without their own will. Such higher development would not correspond to God's wisdom, and therefore the human being will not feel any effect in himself who only lets his intellect become active where his heart should carry out an examination. But he will lose a great grace, a grace which could promote him very quickly if he let it take effect in himself. Therefore it is very difficult to persuade people to accept the divine word as long as they do not have the will to believe that God is the giver of it, thus as long as they doubt such activity on God's part. The mere assumption that God could express Himself in an extraordinary way would weaken the will to reject, and he would examine it impartially and thus let his heart speak, which truly advises him correctly. For the strength from God would touch the heart so beneficently that it would recognize the divine origin by it and accept it unconditionally. The human being is completely free to decide how he will respond to the gift offered to him from the spiritual kingdom. All compulsion of will is eliminated, and therefore the gift of eloquence will also be reduced to an unwilling person so that the human being will not be influenced against his will, for God in His love certainly offers Himself but does not impose Himself. The conveyance of His word to earth is in any case an act of grace which humanity does not deserve, since only rarely does a person have the will to establish such an intimate connection with God that the strength from God can flow over to him and that .... the word of God .... can only be offered where it is desired. Yet God is satisfied with the will of one person who desires the truth in order to pass it on to those who are in need of it. And thus humanity is given a delicious gift and does not recognize it .... It does not make use of a gift which comes to it undeservedly, it does not take hold of the father's hand Who seeks to snatch it from darkness .... it hesitates where it should accept immediately in order to make use of every day, in order to mature in realization, in order to make the word of God its guiding principle for its earthly life. The gifts of grace will increase in the last days but the human being's freedom of will will always be respected, thus no gift will ever appear such that the human being will be determined to acknowledge it as divine. Anyone who opens himself to the gift of grace, who in profound faith in God does not deny its significance for spiritual development, will feel profound happiness, yet anyone who does not believe such an effect of God's love to be possible because he is unbelieving or only calls a dead faith his own will remain empty and unimpressed. And therefore only individuals will feel the effect of the gift of grace and mature in their soul because they are of good will ....

Amen

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Spheres of light .... different luminous intensity .... childhood of God ....

B.D. 3195 from July 22nd 1944, taken from Book No. 42

In the spiritual world there are many gradations, many degrees of bliss, which are recognizable as radiations of light of varying strength and correspond to the souls' degree of maturity. As soon as the being, the soul, has entered the kingdom of light, happiness and bliss are its share because it can receive God's emanation of strength, which always means bliss, even if the soul can only be considered to a small extent according to its maturity. But happiness increases according to the being's activity of love, which always means an increase of its strength, thus an increased radiating through of divine love. And the being can be active without restriction, it is in a state of life, of freedom and constant love under constant use of the power out of God, because the divine power continuously flows towards this being and the power reception triggers deep happiness in it. But the being is now continuously active, it works in love again by passing on the strength and making countless beings happy with it and promoting their spiritual progress and at the same time developing itself into ever greater perfection, which again results in an increased influx of strength from God. And ever more luminous are the rays of light which now surround the being. There is no limit in the kingdom of light, and spheres of light are everywhere where the beings have attained the degree of maturity that they can receive the divine emanation into themselves, that they are permeated by His strength of love. But since the abundance of receiving strength corresponds to the degree of maturity, the spheres of light will also have different intensities of light, for the more perfect the being is the closer it is to the eternal deity Who, as the original light, radiates an inconceivable abundance of light onto all beings. But since the perfect spiritual knows no limitation the being can always come closer and closer to the eternal deity, thus it can constantly progress, it can directly receive the emanation of love and yet it is not completely united with Him as soon as it has not attained childship to God. For this means complete merging with the original light, it means unlimited reception of strength and thus highest bliss. Every being in the kingdom of light is unspeakably happy and yet can always feel even deeper happiness the more it expresses its own love and thereby increases its reception of light and strength. But the being, once standing in the light, knows no limits in the beyond, and this awareness is just so extremely happy that the being can strive for ever higher perfection and that divine love is likewise unlimited in its emanation of strength. But receiving strength from God is always to be valued differently than the final union with Him, which earns the being the childship to God, for it is one with God and its activity in the spiritual kingdom is different from that of the beings of light. They create and shape entirely out of themselves and are exceedingly happy, because this activity requires the highest degree of love and therefore increases their bliss immeasurably ....

(22.7.1944) The entry into the kingdom of light therefore already takes place as soon as the soul has attained the maturity which allows light to shine through. But then there are innumerable degrees of perfection and thus also innumerable stages of bliss, which is why the soul can enter ever new spheres of light which always and constantly increase. For there is no limit to what is perfect. The soul floats higher and higher, it approaches the original light, and yet it is not completely one with the original light if it has not acquired the right of childship to God on earth. But it has found union with God from the moment it feels His radiance of love, when it is so purified that it can receive rays of strength and light within itself. For from now on it also has eternal life, it can be active, thus work in love, and it can ascend to immeasurable heights, it can receive light and strength from God and, through union with equally mature spiritual beings, increase them and be inexpressibly happy. But just as the abundance of light is inconceivable to man on earth, so there are also no possibilities of comparison for the bliss of the beings which have found entrance into the spheres of light. For as long as the human being lives on earth he is an imperfect creature, he only sees and hears with the eyes and ears of the body and cannot imagine the spiritual world which is devoid of all matter, which only exists spiritually and can therefore only be seen and understood by the spiritual being in the human being, by the soul, but only when the soul has reached a certain degree of maturity. And therefore humanity cannot form an idea of the spiritual kingdom, it can only believe, and this only if it is willing and allows itself to be taught without inner resistance. But it can strive to receive enlightenment and then many things will become comprehensible to it. For then the first rays of light will already begin to take effect, and just as a slow maturing of realization, of light, i.e. of knowledge about the pure truth, is recognizable on earth from then on, so the development of the being in the kingdom of the beyond will also increase .... it becomes more and more perfect, it joins God more and more .... it is unspeakably blissful .... But childship to God is a higher degree of perfection, and it includes infinite delights. It is the right of those who already strive for God on earth with all their senses, who love Him with all their heart and want to serve Him in most faithful devotion, who accept suffering and earthly hardship in submission, who strive to fulfil His will and are always and constantly lovingly active, for they already seek to assimilate themselves to the eternal deity on earth, and therefore God's love takes hold of them and paves the way for them to reach Him .... Yet their fate on earth is not easy, they have to pass many tests, they have to fulfil tasks on earth which require great strength and a firm will to reach God. Yet divine grace is available to these souls without measure so that they will reach the aim if only they strive for it ....

Amen

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Bad will determines events of the time ....

B.D. 3196 from July 23rd 1944, taken from Book No. 42

The will to do good is already considered an accomplished deed if the human being is prevented from carrying it out, and likewise the human being is responsible for a bad deed which he was willing to carry out, even if he could not carry it out. How he now attunes himself to the actions of fellow human beings, whether rejecting or approving, is how his will is evaluated, for which he will one day have to answer. And therefore the thinking and will of the whole of humanity is also decisive for what adversity and misery will befall the earth, for as long as people do not make the divine commandments, the commandments of love for God and their neighbour, the guiding principle for their way of life, as long as they do not condemn what is contrary to these commandments, their thinking is just as condemnable as that of those who carry it out, and a time of difficult living conditions inevitably approaches which is used by God as a means of education in order to change people's thinking. For the will, which expresses itself through thought, characterizes the spiritual state people are in, and if this is so profound that there is great danger of a spiritual downfall, then means must be applied which control this danger. The person who lives in love himself will also condemn everything which violates love; but if the person is unloving in his whole attitude then he also agrees with all actions of his fellow human beings which are bad and he is then to be called just as guilty as if he had carried them out himself. So men themselves determine the events of the time, they determine the degree of suffering imposed upon them, they determine the nature of the events, because they must be so affected that their thinking can change. And the harder they are, the more sensitively and longer they will have to suffer, and in their spiritual blindness they will believe that they are undeservedly affected. And yet they cannot be changed in their thinking in any other way than by feeling in themselves what they have approved of in their fellow human beings. People's wrong thinking is rooted in unkindness, it does not produce anything good but only evil deeds, and it therefore always means spiritual regression. Only the realization that the bad will alone is the cause of what affects the whole of humanity can induce people to change this will and thus also to strive for righteous thinking. And only then can the amount of suffering and affliction be reduced and people be granted an easy fate on earth, for right thinking will be expressed in the fact that every person wants the same for his neighbour as he claims for himself .... The human being will show his fellow human being the love which God demands and thus submit himself to the divine commandments ....

Amen

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Spiritual decline also has an earthly detrimental effect ....

B.D. 3197 from July 23rd 1944, taken from Book No. 42

People's spiritual flattening will always have a detrimental effect on earth, for even if people only strive for earthly goods and material successes and thus try to improve their earthly well-being, God nevertheless sets a limit for them by causing them to lose earthly goods through strokes of fate just as much as they strive for them. For God seeks to seize them where they are most sensitive in order to raise the spiritual low again; the spiritual decline is by no means easy to accept, after all, it hastens the end of creation, and therefore God still seeks to stop this decline, He seeks to persuade people to return, He seeks to induce them to strive spiritually, and the means He uses are earthly hardship and suffering of all kinds. Thus God allows people's possessions to be destroyed, although He never gave the order for such action. Consequently, earthly living conditions will be correspondingly more difficult and ultimately end in chaos, and people themselves are the cause of this, even if they do not want to and cannot understand it earthly. But on serious reflection they have to admit the correctness of these words, they have to consider that they have no connection with God and therefore cannot hope for salvation either, because they live entirely without love and close themselves off to all spiritual instruction. And they must admit that this is a spiritual step backwards. But then they will also make an effort to change their present state, and with this will the earthly adversity will also decrease, for God requires nothing more of people than that they love each other and refrain from everything which causes harm to their fellow human being, they must change from the state of indifference into the state of serious striving. Then the earthly adversity, which only has the purpose of changing people's attitude, will subside, otherwise total destruction will forcibly point people to divine will, which people ignore so that they will have to suffer because of it ....

Amen

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Task as commissioner of God ....

B.D. 3198 from July 24th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

It is a great task to proclaim His word as God's representative in a world which is no longer receptive to spiritual teachings, which lives without faith and without love and thus pays no attention to the life of the soul. It is a task which requires an extremely strong will and complete devotion to God, for only from this will the human being gain the strength to fulfil it. He has to establish the connection with God of his own free will, he has to offer himself to Him of his own free will and always and constantly be willing to serve Him, only then will he be able to successfully accomplish his task. Admittedly, he will have to reckon with great resistance, he will be opposed from all sides and people will try to prevent him, and therefore his will has to be strong, he must not allow himself to be distracted and only ever remember his task to instruct people who are ignorant in order to lead them to faith. Yet God makes his task easier for him by expressing Himself so obviously beforehand that his faith will be strengthened, that his love for God will be deepened and that he can now stand up for the divine teaching full of inner conviction, which is conveyed to him beforehand through extraordinary activity of God. God demands much but He also gives much, and He demands nothing which the human being cannot give Him. Thus, if He gives the human being a great task He will also make him capable of it, only the human being's will has to become active itself, he has to submit himself to divine will, and love for God has to motivate him to voluntarily offer himself to Him as His servant on earth .... But his task is to speak on God's behalf, to proclaim the word of God, to teach people love, to impart divine wisdom to them, to enlighten their spiritual state and to induce them to work on the soul, so that God Himself can become active in them again, so that they can receive His word directly from Him. Furthermore, his task is to fight for the holy name of God, to fight for faith, to fight against unkindness and thus also against the darkness of spirit. For this fight is of the greatest importance; after all, it is a matter of spreading the truth, of suppressing lies and error. And in order to be able to do this, the person who wants to serve God must be completely in the truth and therefore first live a life of love, so that this will earn him the pure truth himself and he can then spread it again amongst his fellow human beings. And since it is necessary again that people are guided into truth, God will bless every person who makes himself available to Him for this task, He will give strength to the one who is willing to serve God, He will always and constantly grant him His assistance, He will prepare him for his service and make him happy with the truth beforehand, He will enlighten his spirit and never ever leave him in the soul's adversity, for the will to place himself at God's disposal proves his serious striving towards Him, and God seizes everything with His love which seeks to approach Him .... But whom God's love has seized, it will never let fall forever ....

Amen

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The inner voice ....

B.D. 3199 from July 25th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

Listen to the voice of your heart, it will show you the right way. A person's will is often undecided which proves that he is influenced by different spiritual forces which want to win him over for them. At this time the person must make a decision; he must not remain indecisive but ought to turn his will in one direction, and then he should pay attention to the inner voice which wants to advise him to use his will correctly. The more diligently he aspires to take the right path, the more clearly he will perceive this voice. Then it will warn him during temptations, it will strengthen his resistance, it will admonish him and always faithfully tell him if the person is in danger of wanting to take his own paths which don't entirely correspond to God's will. But it is almost imperceptibly faint in those who live their life unscrupulously, who care little about right and wrong. And frequently it will be silenced completely because the person fails to listen and the gentle voice will be drowned out by the voice of the world. In that case, the human being will be in great danger, he must make his own decisions and is more likely to allow himself to be determined by ungodly forces and he will act accordingly. A person with the will to live a good life, thus to live according to God's will, is never left without spiritual guidance, he will be guided, his thoughts will be directed, i.e., although his freedom of will is not being curtailed, the thoughts will come so close to him that he has to accept them if he does not consciously reject them. And if he is weak-willed the spiritual forces will try twice as hard to convey their thoughts to him and he will merely need to listen within, i.e., the human being need only enter into a silent dialogue with himself, and he will be mentally clearly instructed as to what he should or shouldn't do.

However, people often don't remain in this short contemplation, their thoughts fly all over the place, one moment here, one moment there, and this results in indecision, in hesitation, both in regards to good as well as to evil .... For this reason you are admonished time and again to pay attention to the voice of the heart, so that you will act clearly and determinedly and not digress from the right path. An indecisive resolve offers God's adversary an excellent target, for this is the start of his control over the former, and every temptation confronts the will with a decision to be for or against it. If, however, the person pays attention to his inner voice he will not have to fight for long, he will resist the temptation since he will be supported by the forces of light as soon as he pays attention to them and complies with their admonitions. Then he will also grow in strength, for his will entitles the beings of light to give him strength, whereas a lack of will prevents them from doing so. For no human being receives strength against his will, although the beings of light are concerned for the human being's soul with utmost love. Yet their activity is subject to divine law as well, which respects free will first and foremost. The inner voice, however, is only audible to someone who voluntarily listens within, and therefore it can never be considered coercion, it can be heard or ignored, it can be complied with but also disregarded, all depending on the person's will. It merely gently admonishes and warns the person, it assists the weak and guides the undecided; it will never push itself to the fore but will only be heard by someone who listens. But he will be guided correctly and able to live his life without worry, for if he complies with the voice of his heart he will also know that he conducts himself correctly and lives in accordance with God's will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Right relationship with God ....

B.D. 3200 from July 26th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

People will experience how important it is to establish the right relationship with God when great adversity befalls them, for only those people who take refuge in the father like children and call upon Him for help will endure this adversity and again and again feel the care with which the heavenly father surrounds them. They are never abandoned, for they always know the one around them Who has the power to help them and Who is full of love and never leaves His children without help. The right relationship with God must be established, if the human being is to be able to pray to Him correctly, if the cries for help are to come from deep within the heart and reach the heavenly father's ear. For anyone who does not feel like a child of the father will not be able to speak to Him trustingly, he will not be able to appeal like a child but will only be able to stammer a formal prayer without thought and without trust in help. And this prayer will not reach Him, it is indeed a cry of anguish which, however, is not prompted by faith but only by need. God, however, demands faith in Him, He demands childlike trust, He does not want to be called upon as a powerful God but as a loving father, He wants the child to stretch out its hands in supplication to the father in order to draw close to Him in all love and to be able to help him. The right relationship with God is the human being's strength, for the father will not leave His child in adversity, He will protect and look after it wherever it goes and stands. The father's love will never deny itself to a child, and therefore he who has established the child's relationship with the father through intimate prayer to God for strength and fortitude can confidently look forward to the coming time. And he will receive them in due time, he will be able to present his adversity to God and present his weakness to Him, and he will faithfully wait for His help, and God will not let this faith fail, the child's faith in its father Who has both the power and the will to help it and to avert the adversity from it .... If the human being is able to establish the right relationship with God, nothing will frighten him any longer, no matter what may come, for the original relationship was the most intimate union with God, and this original relationship endowed him with power and strength which he could use in all freedom of will. And the strength from God is also now at his disposal as long as he wants to use it, as soon as he requests it through prayer, which is sent up to God in the right attitude. He will not need to fear that the father will rely on His child, and he can receive the strength from God, he can overcome every adversity and turn it away from himself in the right prayer to God. Therefore, try to win the father's love, as His children always try to fulfil His will, then you will have established the right relationship with God and the adversity of the time will only dimly touch you, for your strength will banish it, the strength which arises from the right relationship with God, the strength which flows over you from God, which lifts you above your human weakness and lets you bear everything easily ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Representative of christian doctrine must live in love ....

B.D. 3201 from July 26th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

Every representative of the christian doctrine must live according to it himself, otherwise he will have little success with his fellow human beings. Christian doctrine preaches love, therefore its representative must also live in love in order to first find followers, because a good example encourages imitation. But then he must also teach the truth, and he can only receive this truth through love, i.e. he himself must be active in love in order to be instructed by God in the truth. Only then can he pass it on and proclaim His teaching in the world as a true representative of Christ. The christian teaching of love thus contains the truth within itself, it is the only path that leads to truth and thus to knowledge, for man will never ever reach wisdom, the spiritual knowledge that corresponds to truth, by any other path than through love. Only love leads him into this knowledge, and therefore love has to be taught first; and therefore the teaching of Christ is the teaching proclaimed to people by God, and therefore it can never be portrayed as man's work, for it contains divine wisdom which no human teaching can exhibit. It is very simple and understandable for every human being, it is also acceptable and not difficult to follow for the one who is of good will. And he will also soon become knowledgeable as soon as he lives in love, as christian teaching demands. And this is how you recognize Christ's teaching, that love is only ever preached, that the human being is admonished to be gentle, peaceful, patient and merciful, that love for his neighbour must therefore always prevail if the human being wants to lead a God-pleasing way of life. And as soon as he makes this effort, he stands in the light, i.e. in the knowledge of the pure truth. Therefore, if a representative of Christ on earth wants to stand up for His teaching he first has to live a life of love in order to provide his fellow human beings with the evidence that only love leads to wisdom and that then the human being will have fullest knowledge and everything that happens in the world will be understandable to him, because he will be able to recognize cause and effect and because he knows that a life without love has a destructive effect but that love sustains everything and therefore cannot be eliminated. Christ's representative on earth will always provide the evidence that he is wise as soon as he lives His teaching himself, and then he will also be able to present it to his fellow human beings such that it appears acceptable to them, and then it will meet with approval and spread, for then it will speak for itself. Therefore, only people who live a life of love themselves can be considered as Christ's representatives on earth, otherwise they are just dead words which don't go to the fellow human being's heart and therefore don't inspire activity of love either. In that case, however, no knowledge can be attained, people are far removed from the truth, they may well be christians in word but not in deed, and then those people will also lack the profound knowledge which can only be born from love alone ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Resistance makes the word of God ineffective ....

B.D. 3202 from July 27th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

The strength from God can only work where it is not opposed, and therefore the word of God can sound completely ineffective at the human being's ear as soon as he closes his heart, thus he does not want to receive it as God’s word. For the strength from God is something which has to be ardently desired; it does not flow to the human being against his will. And that is why the word does not come alive but only remains a dead word which neither blesses nor increases knowledge. It is neither recognized as truth nor as a divine mission, it will neither inspire faith nor spiritual striving, but then the reason for rejection is never to be sought in the word itself but only in the human being's will, which is still full of resistance against God, even though he does not admit this. He persists in defence without being able to justify it properly, for he accepts without resistance the mental transmissions which are imparted to him by God's opposing power. And this is the cause of every blatant rejection, for God's adversary works with all zeal to suppress the pure truth and to dissuade people from it. And he has succeeded so that the human being is no longer able to recognize the divine gift, which everyone can recognize if only he is willing and desirous of the truth. The word of God is offered such that its origin can very well be recognized, for the word speaks for itself, yet only for the one who intimately unites with God and desires to receive the truth from Him. If, however, the word is received unwillingly, if it is opposed, then the desire for truth is excluded, and then it will neither be understood nor have a beneficial effect on the human being, it will not be followed and thus will not result in the blessing which the lived word inevitably brings to the human being .... it cannot enlighten the spirit and give the human being the bliss of knowledge. And thus the word is then ineffective, its strength is not felt because the human being closes himself off to it. It is the greatest grace when God comes to people in the word, it is a measure of grace which is placed at his disposal without the human being's merit, yet it is entirely up to him whether he uses this gift of grace, whether he allows the word to speak to him, whether he acknowledges it as a divine gift, whether he thus allows the grace to take effect in him, for this depends on his will alone. If the will resists, then the human being will have no success whatsoever for his soul, then it will not contribute particularly to his higher development unless he practices love and thus unconsciously relinquishes his resistance to God .... But then he will also recognize His word, he will no longer reject it, even though he still hesitantly lets it affect him. However, it will touch him more and more and he will slowly become convinced of the truth of what is presented to him through the word of God .... Then his resistance will be broken and the word of God can take effect on him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spiritual activity must precede earthly activity ....

B.D. 3203 from July 28th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

You must be fully active for the kingdom of God. You must not put earthly activity before spiritual activity but always bear in mind that you want to serve God and therefore should fulfil His mission first before you think of the world and its demands. Every hour you devote to this spiritual task will earn you more blessings than your earthly activity can ever achieve. But in this one you will find support so that you will also master it without difficulty. Time is hurrying by, the spiritual battle is becoming increasingly more difficult, the earthly adversity is growing, and people are increasingly falling away from God and must be made aware of the consequences, they must be admonished and warned, and God has called you to speak on His behalf, to enlighten people and to try to guide their gaze into the spiritual kingdom. And therefore you must be constantly active and not let anything hold you back but always remain in contact with God and receive instructions from Him. You should not fear that you will neglect another task, for beings of light are constantly at your side which guide your earthly work and enable you to carry it out without resistance. But spiritually they support you to a far greater extent, and you must pay attention to their wise admonitions and not resist them if they urge you to spiritual activity by causing other thoughts to arise in you in a flash which are to stimulate you to spiritual activity. Surrender yourselves daily to the care of the heavenly father and pay attention to what the voice of the heart urges you to do. Detach yourselves from earth from time to time and turn to Him in prayer, Whose servant you want to be .... Increase your strength by receiving His word, whether directly or through mediation, surrender yourselves to its effect, and then set about the day's work and it will be blessed ....

And even if you create and work on earth, without God's blessing nothing you start will succeed. But as soon as God blesses your activity it will be easy for you. But God's blessing is certain for you if you are first active for the kingdom of God, if you put your spiritual work before your earthly work, if you first consider your soul before you give your body its right. God needs you, who want to work for Him as His servants on earth, and He presents you with tasks whose fulfilment is incumbent upon you and dependent on your free will. And you should take this task seriously and not become lukewarm and lazy, for every day is significant and can bring great blessings to you and your fellow human beings if it is used spiritually in the right way. But if the world is put before this task then time will pass uselessly for the souls, for earthly achievements are worthless for eternity; earthly life, however, can end very quickly, and every earthly success is futile in view of death. Spiritual work, on the other hand, carries eternal values .... And you should always bear this in mind if you are undecided about which activity you should tackle. Use every hour and serve God by devoting yourselves to Him and accepting His word, by working for Him and for His kingdom, by instructing your fellow human beings and informing them of God's will .... And your spiritual as well as your earthly activity will earn you God's blessing, and you will be successful in whatever you start ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Total change earthly and spiritually ....

B.D. 3204 from July 29th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

Extensive changes are at hand in the physical as well as in the spiritual realm .... because the unavoidable spiritual upheaval also calls for a total earthly change in every way. This first occurs in the creations of nature which have to be completely transformed since their present structure is no longer adequate for the spirit’s process of maturity. The spiritual substance which is now striving towards higher development has to travel the path of development in a shorter time than before and needs different forms to serve, although in a condition of constraint. And this change of nature drastically affects the human generation which lives on earth before its transformation. The preceding time will lack all order, there is a complete disintegration process even in respect to worldly issues; people will violate the divine order, they will carry out an extremely strong destructive will, there will be unsurpassed chaos and people will be entirely earthly minded except for a few who consciously pray for and receive divine mercy. And since an offence against the divine order ultimately has to result in destruction, it is obvious that everything in existence has to be, if not destroyed, at least transformed to restore order, which is absolutely essential for the development of the spiritual substances.

The creations of nature change in accordance with God’ will .... the human spirit, which previously had completely separated itself from God, will take these creations as their abode; and since the new period of redemption has a shorter duration than the previous one, the new creations will be of a completely different consistency than those of the old earth .... They will be somewhat harder and thus more compelling which is a far more agonising condition for the constrained spirit than any previous earthly progress has been. Thus the God-opposing will is intended to be shattered within a shorter period of time in order to liberate it for continuation of its evolutionary progress in other creations. As a result, the whole process of transformation also signifies a complete spiritual change.

The time will come when no opposing power can prevent the souls’ ascent because they have resisted temptations and trials and no longer require them. They have the degree of maturity which, in unity with God, has become a recipient of light and strength. They live a blessed and peaceful existence which is in fact eternal life, but experienced on earth because they will start a new human generation, which is necessary for the higher development of the immature spiritual substances in creation, i.e. they have to fulfil earthly tasks to help the still struggling spiritual substances to ascend. Thus it is a heavenly paradise on earth, and blessed is the person who is permitted to experience this peaceful state as an inhabitant of the new earth. It will be a time of calm, of peace, because the battle between light and darkness has temporarily ceased, darkness being the furthest distance from God and light being the closest proximity to Him. The furthest away from God is banished and requires a period of time for its redemption which ensures a peaceful spiritual life for those who are closest to God, which will be unimaginably beautiful for the human beings who survive the end of the old earth, because they had remained faithful to God during the previous extremely difficult time of battle and can now exchange the chaotic condition for a state of profound peace and divine order.

God’s spirit will govern them, His love will look after them, He Himself will stay as Father with His children audibly as well as visibly, and after the conclusion of the old era, which ends with the Last Judgment, a new period of redemption will begin .... And this Last Judgment amounts to the disintegration of everything on this earth .... solid matter, plant and animal life as well as the human generation shall experience a total change, as God’s love and wisdom has ordained and His omnipotence will bring about .... so that the God-opposing spirit will give up its resistance and change ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Unification of spirit and soul .... Rebirth ....

B.D. 3205 from July 29th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

The soul will feel an irresistible urge to ascend when, due to its actions of love, it unites with the spirit within itself, since the latter seeks to influence and lead it to the kingdom which is its true home. And, to the same degree, it will detach itself from earth, i.e. its intentions and thoughts will no longer be directed towards the body and its wishes but will be focussed on spiritual values. As soon as this stage has been reached the soul will be reborn in spirit, it will have started a new chapter in life, it will have recognised its true purpose of earthly life and become conscious of its earthly task. From this point on it cannot turn back, it cannot regress into the previous condition when it had no spiritual knowledge and only paid attention to earthly life. And from now on it will gather spiritual wealth, by consciously striving to ascend it will open itself to mental influences from the spiritual realm and will thus act with kindness, because the beings of light express themselves through the spiritual spark within the human being and this consistently encourages actions of love.

The more the human being acts with kindness the more capable he becomes of hearing the voice of the spirit within himself and increases his knowledge. He can fulfil his actions of love in two ways: he can help his fellow human beings worldly as well as spiritually; he can help other people by supporting them in times of earthly distress, but he can also take care of another person’s soul by teaching and giving what he previously has received from his spirit .... spiritual knowledge which corresponds to the truth .... He can pass on everlasting wealth and thereby help other souls to ascend too, and this loving action is extremely beneficial, it is the kind of support for which the souls will be eternally grateful. Because spiritual help always denotes an awakening to life, as long as the human being accepts help, as long as he does not reject this help. However, as soon as the human being has started on the spiritual path himself he will never want to ascend alone but will always encourage his fellow human beings because he realises that spiritual aspiration is the most important part of life, since it can lead to the goal, providing the person is willing.

The soul no longer feels comfortable on earth and constantly strives to escape; and for that reason it can lift itself anytime and anywhere into the spiritual realm, as the bridge shall always be built from there if the human being desires to enter the spiritual realm. The beings of light are always willing to impart the strength they receive from God to the human soul, and the spiritual spark within the human being is always willing to pass on the spiritual gifts to the soul, because the spiritual spark is in permanent unity with the light-giving world and therefore with God, Who communicates the knowledge of truth through the beings of light to any human being who wants to receive it. This is because the soul’s desire, its thoughts and intentions determine the amount of spiritual gifts it receives, which are unrestricted providing the soul shares the received spiritual wealth with other people for their benefit too ....

Amen

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Helplessness in the beyond .... Law ....

B.D. 3206 from July 30th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

If the soul does not receive strength it will remain inactive. This condition of inertia can only be remedied by actions of love which the soul is unwilling to do when it finds itself in this helpless state in the beyond. However, on earth this willingness can be stimulated by the Word of God. The human being can be shown that deeds of love are a blessing to him, and then he can take God’s Word to heart, he can reflect on it and voluntarily decide to act kindly, because on earth he does not lack the strength to do what he wants to do. Then the soul will receive spiritual strength and further its development. But it is different in the beyond where the helpless soul can do nothing else but want .... And whether or not the being will receive strength depends on this will. Thus the soul in the beyond is reliant on the help of more mature beings, whereas the human being on earth can use his will without help from spiritual beings. Therefore the human being should not remain indifferent if he does not reach his goal on earth in the mistaken belief that he can make up his neglect of earthly development in the beyond. This is a deceptive hope which he shall bitterly regret one day, albeit the state in the beyond is not entirely hopeless. The soul has to endure appalling distress which it can easily avoid by seriously striving to ascend while it is still on earth. The state of helplessness is something terribly dismal, it is a state which the soul cannot remedy at will, rather, it is dependent on the love of other beings. And this love, which corresponds to its own love towards other suffering souls, is at times difficult to perceive by the soul.

Thus an uncaring soul can spend eternities in its helpless state without being approached by a caring being if it holds on to its selfish love, if it merely cares about itself and its fate without compassion for another soul’s fate. According to divine law it cannot receive what it is unwilling to give to other souls, and its selfish love prevents the approach of beings of light to bring relief. And since it is unwilling to give or to help itself it cannot be given anything or helped either. Worst of all, it cannot be given God’s Word which could remove the soul’s spiritual blindness since God’s Word is light, and as a result of its unkindness the soul is still unable to accept light. On earth, however, the Word of God is even offered to unkind people, because this is God’s mercy for the lost souls on earth who may accept or reject it in line with their will .... Whereas the being in the beyond is only touched by God’s mercy in as much as it is free to want and to stimulate loving thoughts within itself, after which it will receive strength too. Yet many a soul is so hardened that it cannot have loving thoughts, and then it is in an intolerable situation which it is unable to end by itself.

However, these souls are surrounded by fellow sufferers who could kindle their love, and thus they can improve their situation at any time if they allow themselves to love .... because even the least resolve to help their fellow sufferers will give them strength. As soon as they notice this influx of strength they become more helpful, and this helpfulness towards other souls results in inner happiness, and then they have overcome the helpless state, the state of complete inertia. From this point on they can also receive God’s Word, i.e. the teaching beings of light can approach them and reveal God’s laws and why they have to be fulfilled. The light beings’ lessons then have to start so that the uninformed souls can receive light and strength, i.e. knowledge which they then can pass on with lovingly care to improve the fate of suffering souls. But such helpless souls might have to do without help for eternities, and this condition could be easily avoided if the human being would make the best of his opportunities on earth in order to enter the beyond with a maturity which will give him light and strength and enable him to be blissfully active in the spiritual realm ....

Amen

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Earthly tribulation measured against suffering in the hereafter ....

B.D. 3207 from July 30th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

The greatest earthly tribulation is small compared to the torments of an unredeemed soul in the beyond. And if the human being can avert the suffering in the beyond through those, he should patiently take it all upon himself while he is still on earth. And therefore God sends him tribulation and suffering on earth so that the soul will mature from it and leave earthly life in a degree of development which will earn it beatitude in the spiritual kingdom and spare it the suffering state which is the fate of imperfect souls. It is only a short period of time where suffering is imposed on the human being compared to eternity, to the often infinitely long time a soul has to spend in the agonizing state in the beyond until it is redeemed. And yet, this short time on earth can completely purify the soul, and this brings about the suffering and affliction, which is why people should still be grateful to God and regard it as a proof of God's love. And people should always bear this in mind in the coming time, that God only sends upon them what is necessary for their soul's salvation and that He never imposes suffering on them for no purpose or reason. Everything that happens is ordered by His wisdom and serves the human being's perfection. And if the tribulation is unusually great, then it is also necessary because humanity has sunk unusually low, because it has completely turned away from God and can only be won through great suffering. The freer and purer the human being can be at the end of his earthly career if he humbly accepts every suffering and only endeavours to draw spiritual advantage from it. And then he will be compensated for it, he will be able to enter the kingdom of light and all adversity will come to an end .... And the human being looks back with gratitude on his earthly life which, although it seemed difficult to him, nevertheless brought him the highest success .... the maturity of soul, which is the purpose of earthly life. The human being will need much strength for the coming time, and he can request this at any time in prayer, and it will truly not go unheard. And then he will also be able to endure the difficult, suffering and affliction will not affect him so, although he cannot be spared it. And the more humbly he accepts everything from the father's hand, the faster the adversity will leave him, or the more insensitive he will be when, for the sake of his fellow human beings, suffering cannot yet be taken away from him. But he knows that there is a helper who stands by him in all adversity if he calls upon God's help in prayer. And this comforting confidence, the firm faith in God's love, wisdom and omnipotence allows him to overcome even the most difficult things, he matures and does not live his earthly life unsuccessfully .... he paves his way into eternity, into the life beyond, which is now granted to him in bliss, which does not mean a tormenting state for him but a life in fullest freedom, without suffering and pain, because he no longer needs such ....

Amen

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The word .... spiritual and earthly ....

B.D. 3208 from August 1st 1944, taken from Book No. 42

The word that is not alive will fail to have an effect. It can certainly be spoken but it lacks spirit and therefore does not awaken activity. And therefore the word must always be enlivened by the spirit if it is to have an effect on the listener of the word. It must be permeated by the strength which is the sign of life .... And this vitality only emanates from God, it is His spirit which is expressed in His word and which is truly life-giving. As soon as the word comes forth from the human being, he has to put all his conviction into it in order to have an effect on his fellow human being. And he will be able to muster this conviction if he has received the word from God beforehand. But if God Himself is not the source of the word then it can certainly be received by the fellow human being but the effect will be absent .... it is a human word and lacks the spirit which brings it to life. It will not last, it will perish like everything that is earthly, it will not radiate any strength and bring no noticeable blessing .... it will be a dead word, even though it is championed ....

The power of conviction must be inherent in the word, the human being must feel that what he speaks is truth, then he will speak in such a way that it will not remain without effect on his fellow human beings. Divine love gives people the word in order to make Itself known, and It gave people the ability to make themselves understood again through the word. This gift of grace is immeasurable, for it means true life, because without the word a dead state would prevail, a state of non-understanding, a dull existence without knowledge of the other, of his thinking and life. Only the word enlivens and makes people into independent thinking and acting beings who can have contact with each other, who can come into contact with each other through the spoken word, who can teach each other and convey their own thoughts and impressions to the other. But it must not be spoken thoughtlessly, it must be spiritually enlivened, thinking and speaking must correspond, otherwise it does not awaken an echo but blows away at the ear of the other. For man was given intellect for this purpose; he can think before he expresses himself through the word .... He is able to put meaning and spirit into what he speaks and this by virtue of his intellect as far as earthly things are concerned. But if the human being wants to be spiritually active, i.e. to convey words of spiritual content, the spiritual spark in him must have awakened to life, if the word is to have an effect. The word itself must be alive, the intellect as well as the heart must stimulate the fellow human being to activity, the intellect must think it through and the heart must stimulate the will to obey what is recommended to the human being through the word. Only then is there life in the word, it testifies to the spirit of God if it awakens the spirit in the human being. For the word is the means of transmitting thoughts, it is the means of communication from person to person on earth and from God to the human being in the spiritual realm .... The word is the sign of His overwhelming love for people, it is the means of winning souls for eternity .... On earth, however, it is equally beneficial if it is used for the practice of unselfish neighbourly love, if the word is offered full of love, even if it touches earthly things. But the word must always express what the heart feels, it must not be a dead word, thoughtlessly spoken and received without impression. Then it will not be valued for what it is, as a form of expression of the innermost thoughts, as a means of transmitting what moves the heart, as an admonisher and warner against injustice, as an impetus for spiritual striving and as proof of divine love, which manifests itself in the word to all those who want to live and thus awaken the spirit within them .... For God is spirit and can only speak to people through the spirit and convey His word to them ....

Amen

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Signs of the last days .... Battle of faith .... Chaos ....

B.D. 3209 from August 2nd 1944, taken from Book No. 42

To specify (know?) the moment of spiritual change would not benefit humanity since the precise knowledge is an interference with free will, because at the approach of the predicted time the human being would feel obliged to change his way of life. But it is not God's will that people shall receive knowledge of the day and hour when He sits in judgment over them, they shall only know that the end is near and by the signs of the time become aware of this end. However, if devout human beings ask Him for clarification He will answer them in a manner that is helpful for the salvation of their soul ....

The Last Judgment is preceded by the last days, which last just a few months and are characterized by an exceptionally rigorous battle of faith. As soon as this battle of faith is carried out quite openly, as soon as all secrecy is ignored and all spiritual aspirations are bluntly and recklessly attacked, as soon as laws and decrees are endorsed which prohibit people's spiritual pursuits, as soon as all divine commandments are no longer observed, as soon as all believers are persecuted and have no more rights, the last days have entered into their final phase and the Last Judgment can be expected daily and hourly .... However, before this battle of faith flares up, humanity will find itself in a spiritual and worldly chaos; there will be noticeable regression in every respect. And this regression will be initiated by people who are dominated by Satan. He will show himself in earthly devastation and destruction, in heartless laws, in a God- opposing way of life, in civil disobedience and rebellion against the governing powers and in brutal oppression by the latter, in restriction of freedom and in evasion of law and justice.

These conditions will ensue after a huge earthly tremor, which takes place in accordance with God's will in order to terminate a conflict between nations that human will fails to end. For the people who are affected by this earthly tremor it will denote a change of their accustomed way of life, it will be a time of greatest deprivation and most difficult living conditions, and although this time will be favourable for the spreading of the divine Word it will not signify a revival of a worldly-clerical power. People will indeed eagerly strive to improve their earthly living conditions but these efforts will not be compatible with spiritual aspirations, with the belief in an Authority Which holds them to account and with the divine commandments that require love. And that is why everything that interferes with the return to the former good living standard comes under attack. Thus the battle of faith will start soon after the divine intervention which turns global affairs into a different direction. The events will follow each other quickly as they are hastened by people's low spirit, and this spiritual low shows itself in people's heartless actions, in their thinking, which shows extreme depravity and which prepares deeds that can only be called satanic. And thereby you can identify the moment in time when God's intervention can be anticipated. The global affairs themselves shall be a timetable to you, by the actions people are capable of doing you can see that they have totally distanced themselves from God and this clearly contradicts the opinion that this human race can still expect a spiritual renaissance.

The people who faithfully remain with God will indeed intensify their intimate relationship with Him, they will be in truth His church which will stand firm amid misery and affliction, but it is just a small group. The world, however, denies God, it is hostile towards all who support God, and this spiritual need signifies that the end is near .... Therefore pay attention to the signs of the time, pay attention to humanity's conduct, to their desertion of God and their preference of the world, when people are evidently influenced by Satan, when they are enslaved by him and do everything to disobey the divine commandments, when nothing is sacred to them any longer, neither the life of their fellow human beings nor their possessions; when lies triumph and the truth is treated with hostility you know that the end is not far. Then you can watch the events unfold as they are revealed to you, because it will all take place during the lifetime of a man who, in a manner of speaking, hastens the disintegration, who pays homage to the destructive principle, who is not constructively but destructively active. And this man's end is also the end of the world, i.e. the end of the world in its present form and the end of those people who presently inhabit the earth, which are separate from those who belong to God. And now you know that there is not much time, that you are not given a long period of time and that the end is upon you shortly. And for this reason you have to prepare yourselves, you have to live as if every day is your last because you don't know when you will be called back and whether you will live to see the end of the earth. If, however, you are needed as defenders of God during the time of battle before the end, God will also guide your thoughts correctly and you will know when the time has come .... the time of the divine intervention by means of unleashing the forces of nature, the time of the battle of faith and the time of the Last Judgment .... It is God's will that you make people aware, thus He will also enlighten your spirit and guide your thoughts in a manner that you understand correctly and only voice and reveal to your fellow human beings what you have understood properly ....

Amen

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Battle between light and darkness .... last decision ....

B.D. 3210 from August 3rd 1944, taken from Book No. 42

Incessantly the light fights against darkness .... This spiritual battle is so significant but people don't know it and would rather support the powers of darkness than resist them by striving towards light. And this spiritual battle will reach its climax shortly before the end of this earth, for then the spiritual battle will not only take place spiritually but in public, so that even ignorant people will follow it and, depending on their attitude, support or stop it. For the spiritual battle .... the battle between light and darkness .... takes shape in the battle of faith, which will be waged without consideration by man against man. This is a time epoch which forms the conclusion for the present humanity. The battle of faith is unavoidable, for it is to bring about the final decision, the decision of the individual human being for or against God. The spiritual struggle of light and darkness has consisted since infinite times in the fact that the forces of the spiritual kingdom, good and evil, try to influence the soul of the human being, that they try to transfer to it the thought material that they themselves possess .... And thus the beings of light try to pull people up, to ennoble their thinking and to induce them to strive for perfection, whereas the evil forces try to pull them down, plant earthly desires in their hearts and want to push them away from spiritual striving altogether. And this battle is decided by the human being's will .... Whichever spiritual forces he surrenders to are victors over the soul. People's will is weak and therefore God's adversary's power is strengthened and he now completely tries to win humanity for himself by undermining the knowledge of God and His power, wisdom and love and by stopping all spiritual striving. And the beings of light work all the more eagerly; light is supplied to people from above to the same extent, and this no longer happens purely spiritually but it is given such that it is recognizable as light activity, that a visible sign of God's love is sent to people. His word is spread on earth through beings of light, recognizable and visible to all who want to recognize and see it .... And this word points to the coming battle of faith, to a battle which only has the human being's spiritual striving as its aim, a battle which, on the one hand, strives for the complete destruction and eradication of everything spiritual and, on the other hand, only has the ultimate aim of maintaining and strengthening faith in God, in Jesus Christ and His teaching, amongst people. And this battle will no longer be waged secretly but it will move the whole world, different in its form but compelling all people to take a stand. And now the good and evil forces of the spiritual kingdom will again be active to an extraordinary degree. Those who are in contact with the beings of light will stand up for faith and will now be strengthened by them, they will receive strength which will enable them to do extraordinary deeds, for for the sake of faith people have to be given signs so that they can believe if they only want to. In the same way, however, the spiritual powers will be effective from below. They will cause people to do the most unkind deeds and also provide them with the strength to carry them out. And thus good fights against evil and vice versa. But the light will be victorious, although only a small part of people will emerge as victors from this battle, because the defeated will now find their temporal end and this means banishment in the solid form for them. For they will not give up their resistance and thus rebel anew against God, Who has offered them every opportunity to abandon their resistance against Him .... They have fallen prey to the forces of the underworld and therefore have to travel the infinitely long course of development on earth once again until they are given free will again to make the final decision .... the battle of faith is unavoidable, after all, the end of the redemption period has come where a clear separation of spirits has to take place. But beforehand every person is given the opportunity to take an emotional and also intellectual stand on the most important question of their earthly life .... God or the world .... And anyone who has not given himself an answer so far will now be forced to make the final decision .... and good as well as evil forces will whisper the answer to him. But his will is free to choose which forces he will listen to ....

Amen

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Destiny of life is God's will ....

B.D. 3211 from August 3rd 1944, taken from Book No. 42

World events will run their course according to God's will, and thus earthly life will equally take its course for every individual person as it was determined by God. No-one can avoid his destiny; by way of thoroughly trusting prayer he can merely reach a point where God will help him to bear up to it if he is too weak himself. And therefore the human being is unable to shape his own destiny differently, even if he believes otherwise, for the way it turns out is the way God has intended it for eternity, and He Himself places the thoughts into a person's heart so that he will do precisely that which corresponds to His divine plan. The human being certainly has free will but earthly events must always be looked upon as God's will or permission which entirely coincides with the eternal Plan. For God has known every human being's spiritual state for eternity. And thus nothing comes upon the human being which His profoundly wise will does not consider to be beneficial for his soul. Consequently, it is not possible for the human being to avert anything from himself, only through heartfelt prayer can he increase the effect on his body, if it is favourable, or reduce it, if it is damaging to him. For this reason the human being can leave himself to God's reign and activity with complete confidence, since whatever happens will be good for his soul, and the strength of faith can indeed make every earthly happening bearable if the person fully and trustingly hands himself over to the Father in Heaven and allows Him alone to reign. Without the slightest worry he can let everything happen to him, for nothing exists which wouldn't have met with God's approval first, thus is considered good for his soul and therefore imposed upon him. Hence the human being need not fear anything either, he need not be afraid of forthcoming events as soon as he intimately unites himself with God, after all, his whole course of life proceeds in accordance to his attitude towards God. And if he realises this he will calmly and collectedly await what is given to him, since he knows that only God's love is the reason if joy or suffering comes upon him. For He has known for eternity what means the earthly child needs in order to be able to mature psychologically, and He employs these means .... Everything will happen without fail as He determined, and no human being will be able to change it of his own strength. This is why all worries a person has about his future are unnecessary for he cannot improve it if it is not conducive for him, just as it need not become worse if the person's faith is so strong that he will remain in close contact with God. For His will shall always be done in Heaven and on Earth, no human being can oppose His will, and His will is truly wiser and therefore always good ....

Amen

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Spiritual wealth .... activity in the afterlife ....

B.D. 3212 from August 4th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

By using spiritual strength the human being can create wealth on earth which will bring him supreme happiness in eternity, for through this spiritual wealth he is able to be redemptively active in the kingdom of the beyond for his own happiness. He is himself a bearer of strength and light and can therefore also distribute what he already possesses in abundance, and his love can be active. This is a blissful state which is completely independent of earthly activity, thus it does not require any material creations but only spiritual wealth .... a truthful knowledge which he can now impart spiritually to the ignorant souls in the spiritual kingdom and also to people on earth. The human being should gather these treasures on earth, he should try to penetrate truthful spiritual knowledge, and therefore he should practice love, because spiritual knowledge can only be attained by way of love and thus love is the only path to beatitude. In the beyond the spiritual beings' activity only consists of working in love, of distributing spiritual gifts, and therefore the being first has to possess these gifts before it can work in love. Now the greater a soul's spiritual wealth is at its demise the more blissful it will now be, for an extensive field of activity is at its disposal, and it can bring infinite blessings to souls which are without knowledge and therefore also without strength and which therefore are in a state of hardship which they can only remedy when the spiritual treasures are at their disposal. And thus a soul of light can constantly alleviate hardship by giving away from its wealth. Yet it constantly receives new wealth, for its activity of love is rewarded again by God through the supply of ever new strength of love .... wisdom and bliss .... The soul can constantly receive this strength and constantly distribute it. And it will be exceedingly happy in teaching the ignorant. The spiritual hardship on earth is caused by the fact that too little love is practiced and therefore the pure truth is not recognized, the spiritual treasures are not striven for and therefore no-one wants to be active in distributing these treasures in order to remedy the spiritual hardship. He who possesses nothing himself can also give nothing .... but what people offer each other is not spiritual goods but pretence, as well as they are (not) earthly goods. It is spiritual knowledge which does not correspond to the truth, which is therefore spread by God's adversary in the world in order to mislead people. Spiritual possessions which are meant to make people happy must be unconditional truth, only truth is spiritual wealth, and only pure truth can cause bliss upon entry into the spiritual kingdom, only truth carries the soul into spheres of light and otherworldly activity in love presupposes the possession of truth. And therefore the human being on earth should only strive for pure truth and make himself worthy of it through unselfish activity of love. Then he will be able to collect spiritual treasures on earth which will make him a blissful being as soon as he departs from earth and can enter the kingdom of light ....

Amen

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Self-overcoming .... strengthened will .... Christ's act of salvation ....

B.D. 3213a from August 4th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

A way of life according to the will of God requires great overcoming of oneself, thus a strong will. However, man cannot muster the strength of will on his own, since the will is often weakened to the point of complete lack of will due to the original sin through the former apostasy from God [here the sentence is changed in the manuscript as follows (sin of the former apostasy)]. Nevertheless, man can acquire the strength of will through heartfelt prayer to Jesus Christ, the divine redeemer .... This is the simplest yet surest means to defy all dangers, to be able to resist and to overcome oneself. And the weakest will will become strong, for this is what Jesus Christ died for on the cross .... With His death He bought people a strengthened will, and everyone may request this strengthened will who believes in Him and His act of salvation. The former sin bore man's weakened will .... Jesus Christ took upon Himself the sins of the world and thus also the consequence of sin .... the weak will. He redeemed the guilt of those who acknowledge His sacrifice, and thus He restores to them the strengthened will by virtue of which they can now lead a way of life according to God's will. It is a grace which He acquired for people on the cross which people are unable to grasp, for what lies helpless and weak on the ground can rise up and now work on itself full of strength and power; His will is strong, and a strong will is able to do anything .... However, free will remains untouched, for the grace of the act of salvation is only granted to it if it expresses its will to ascend through heartfelt prayer to Jesus Christ. Weakness of will need not prevent him from striving towards God, it is just that the human being cannot muster the perseverance to do so. And therefore he should appeal for a strong will for the sake of Jesus Christ, and his appeal will be heard as soon as he acknowledges Jesus Christ. And then he will be able to wage the battle against the world, which is expressed in the overcoming of himself. He has to renounce everything that belongs to the world, what his body desires, he has to sacrifice, i.e. give to his neighbour, what makes him happy, he has to put himself aside and do kindness to his fellow human beings, and all this requires overcoming, it requires a strong will which puts all good intentions into action. But this strong will can be requested at any time, and this prayer will never go unanswered ....

Amen

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Self-overcoming .... strengthened will .... Christ's act of salvation ....

B.D. 3213b from August 6th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

Before Christ's crucifixion God's adversary had great power over the human being's will, and this power manifested itself in the fact that people were not able to live a life of love unless they were exceptionally intimately united with God. The temptations of the world were always too great and their will too weak to resist them. This is his weapon even now, that God's adversary seeks to weaken people's will through the pleasures of the world, and he is completely successful with those who trust in their own strength, who don't believe they need help from above, who don't believe in Jesus Christ and His act of salvation and therefore don't ask Him for His grace, for His help, which earns them increased will. Without Jesus Christ people are still completely under His control from which they are unable to release themselves unless they sincerely call upon God for help, but then they will also soon learn to recognize the significance of the act of salvation and Jesus Christ Himself as saviour of the whole of humanity, and then they will also consciously avail themselves of the blessings of the act of salvation. The path of ascent will become easy for them, for where there is the will there is also the strength to accomplish .... But the weakened will only has the strength to do things which lead to the abyss, and this strength comes to it from below, i.e., it uses the vitality for bad deeds, and the strengthening of this vitality is supplied to it by God's adversary. Thus the weak-willed human being is not in union with God but with His adversary, and he cannot free himself from the latter's spell unless he appeals to God for help, which is granted to him as a grace of Jesus Christ's act of salvation. Consequently, the recognition of the act of salvation must be the first condition, otherwise the human being cannot avail himself of this grace. In faith in the act of salvation the human being can accomplish great things, for his will will experience a strengthening which enables him to do anything if he deeply believes, for the strength of will, which Jesus Christ possessed in abundance, communicates itself to him, he can liberate himself from the adversary's power, he can strive towards God without being pulled back by this power. And he reaches his aim even if numerous temptations make his striving more difficult, but he resists them because his will is strong and accordingly also the supply of strength which Jesus Christ acquired through His death on the cross for people who believe in Him and consciously avail themselves of the blessings of the act of salvation ....

Amen

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Feature of spiritual upward development ....

B.D. 3214 from August 7th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

This is the sign of spiritual upward development, that the human being is no longer content with the pleasures the world offers him but strives for something higher, that worldly knowledge is not enough for him either but he ponders over things which go beyond worldly knowledge. He seeks information about everything that lies beyond the earthly, because the earthly no longer satisfies him, and thus he strives for higher knowledge .... To the same extent he now also thinks about himself, he sharply criticizes himself and his thoughts and actions, he seeks to shape himself into perfection. And the word of God also becomes effective in such people, it falls on good ground, the human being receives it, he thinks it through and seeks to live accordingly. For as soon as he begins to detach himself from the world and its pleasures, as soon as he strives for higher knowledge, the word of God is presented to him in the most effective way. And he heeds it and seeks to live by it. And thus the slow change of his nature begins, the spiritual ascent begins, the soul begins to mature and the human being fulfils his task of earthly life. Thus the renunciation of the world and its pleasures must inevitably precede the awakening of the human being's urge for a more valuable life, before he becomes spiritually active through serious reflection and striving towards God. For both at the same time are impossible. A person who still belongs to the world only listens with half an ear to the teachings which impart higher knowledge to the human being, for the world drowns them out, and as long as the world still entices and appeals the human being finds no pleasure in spiritual things, he is neither thirsty for knowledge nor desirous of truth, he has no urge to ennoble his being, he only pays attention to the world and completely places his body at its service. And therefore he pays no attention to the divine word, it is empty sound to him, it only resounds to his ear but does not penetrate into the heart and also does not let his will become active to work on himself, he does not become aware of his imperfection but in his arrogance considers himself a creature which is powerful and mighty, but he will never be able to give a sign of this strength and power. His spiritual striving only begins as soon as he is aware of his inadequacy, and this again presupposes reflection and strict self-criticism. But a person who loves the world and its trinkets is still far removed from inward self-examination, instead his life is a hunt and chase after earthly goods and he seeks to gain everything from the outside, but he does not pay attention to his inner being and therefore does not recognize himself and also not the necessity of changing himself, his nature and his will. He remains on the same spiritual level until he lends a hand himself, until he makes an effort to live a life according to the word of God. But then he also detaches himself from the world and seeks connection to the spiritual kingdom .... The further a person is in his spiritual development, the more diligently he works on himself. For the approach to God is his aim, and this presupposes an adaptation to the essence of the eternal deity, thus a shaping of himself into love. The human being who strives towards God recognizes his inadequacy, his great distance from God, and he therefore seeks to change. But he is only successful if he does not only think of himself alone, but also tries to influence his fellow human beings, so that he tackles the work on himself. For he shapes himself into love if he lovingly works on his fellow human being, if he helps him with advice and action where he alone is too weak. As long as the human being only leads a life of his own, as soon as he only seeks to lift up his own soul life, self-love is still too strong in him and this does not support him. And that is why spiritual activity must also draw large circles, for as soon as the human being seriously strives for his perfection he also wants to communicate himself, he wants to bestow upon those he loves what he himself considers worth striving for. And so he will also work for the kingdom of God, even though he is not officially considered a servant of God .... He will communicate, i.e. express his spiritual thoughts and also try to transfer them to his fellow human beings, thereby he will draw them into the same striving, he will set an example himself through loving activity and encourage them to love, he will be a representative for Christ's teaching, for the divine word, as soon as he encourages people to love activity. And thus he will mature himself through his care for his fellow human beings, he will shape himself into love, and he will be successful because he will become knowledgeable, knowledge will make him happy and spur him on again to pass it on. For the word of God will be conveyed to him as soon as he wants to work with it. Spiritual work requires knowledge, and spiritual work is done by the human being who tries to guide his fellow human being onto the path of love. For he must also introduce him to the blessing of love, he must enlighten him as to what love helps him to achieve, he must instruct him and can only do this as long as he is knowledgeable himself. This is the course of higher development, that the human being, through activity of love, puts himself into the ability to receive knowledge, that he utilizes this knowledge by trying to transfer it to his fellow human beings, and that he thereby rises again, thus he can register progress in spiritual development. But the human being must never be concerned only with himself, for then he will not practice neighbourly love. Then he is only intellectually active, i.e. he endeavours to mature, however, he lacks the activity of the heart and therefore the soul cannot mature, for only through unselfish neighbourly love does it attain the height of love.

Amen

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Happily effect of spiritual gifts on soul and body ....

B.D. 3215 from August 8th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

The bliss of receiving is not so unusually perceptible to the human being physically as long as earthly life still makes its demands on him and he therefore cannot completely switch off the physical senses. Then the soul lives a separate life, so to speak, which only comes into its own when the body is not occupied. Then it feels the happiness of the connection with God, then it is also receptive to the extent that the intellect also grasps what the spirit imparts to the soul .... Then the soul will also glow with love and feel the need to be active, because then the strength of love will flow through it. Nevertheless, the soul does not remain untouched by the effect of spiritual gifts even if it does not consciously feel the delightful sensation; it absorbs a knowledge which remains with it and suddenly emerges when it needs this knowledge. It is, so to speak, constantly fed, and the spiritual nourishment promotes its growth, its maturing and thus its upward development. For every transmission is a supply of strength which is received with full will, even if not always with the same ability of understanding. The soul cannot always separate itself from its earthly surroundings, from a sphere which is little suitable for a purely spiritual life, yet if it establishes contact with God in the will to receive truth and to serve God, the gift of grace will flow to it, and a divine gift will always have its effect as soon as it is not opposed. Yet the human being should seriously strive to detach himself from earth as much as possible, he should try to increase his faith to such an extent that he will be completely unimpressed by the demands of the world, trusting that God will arrange everything as it should be, and he should devote himself all the more intensively to spiritual work, then he will also soon feel the purely physical pleasing sensation, because the strength from God has to refresh him as soon as the body surrenders to its effect. The person's way of life certainly contributes to the extent to which the body is involved or uninvolved in receiving the gifts from above. The living out of the divine word carries the blessing in itself, the lived word of God makes the body and soul quiet, calm and peaceful, and then every spiritual gift in the feeling of spiritual communion with God must also trigger a feeling of happiness, for restlessness, worldly worries, the lack of inner peace burden the body so that it cannot participate in receiving the spiritual gifts, that therefore only the soul receives and this is not or only slightly noticeable physically. Yet the human being is not spared these trials, for he should try to pass them himself, he should eagerly fight against being dependent on the body; again and again he should try to separate himself from all earthly thoughts, he should take refuge with the heavenly father, present his adversity to Him and listen entirely to His voice, for only He is able to banish earthly adversity Who also allows it in order to win His children's hearts. The earthly task God sets for the human being is never unfulfillable as soon as the human being asks for God's help. Then every previously seemingly inextricable knot will be easy to untie, the human being will succeed in every task, he will master life because he first pays attention to his spiritual task .... he establishes the connection with God .... God has assured people of earthly help and His promises will be fulfilled, yet he has to work on his own initiative to shape his soul, and he does this as soon as he often withdraws into himself and communes with the father in heaven, as soon as he requests spiritual nourishment from Him and allows himself to be taught in humble devotion to Him. And the strength from God will never emanate ineffectively but always benefit the soul, however, it will only be felt when the body completely surrenders itself to Him and disregards the earth, when it strives together with the soul to unite with the spirit within itself and thus strives to fulfil its actual task on earth .... to overcome matter and to assimilate itself to the eternal deity, Which instructs it through the inner word so that the attainment of the aim will be easy for it and it will become perfect ....

Amen

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Strong faith .... answer to prayer ....

B.D. 3216 from August 8th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

The strength of faith achieves everything, and therefore the strength of faith does not cause anxiety but the human being confidently lets everything approach him and trusts in the help of Him Who is in heaven, Who possesses all power and Who directs everything according to His will. He does not become discouraged and fears no one but God alone. But he also loves God and this love prompts him to speak to the father like a child and to present all his needs to Him; he trusts in the father's love for His child and from this he also draws the profound faith that He will help him. He feels himself to be the father's child, and this is the reason for his rock-solid trust .... And therefore nothing can frighten or worry him, no matter what may come. The more confidently he expects God's help, the stronger his faith will be, and God will never let it fail. And that is why the human being should not stop struggling and asking for strong faith. He should try to imagine God's infinite love which looks after and cares for everything that has emerged from it .... But love fulfils every request, and the more confidently the human being trusts in divine fatherly love the less he will make wrong requests, for love denies the human being nothing; only the fulfilment must not harm his soul. But a person whose faith in God's infinite love is very strong and unshakeable is no longer in danger of losing himself as soon as his request is granted, for he no longer asks for earthly goods but only for the prevention of severe suffering which he fears. And he himself can banish this suffering through his faith if he lets it grow to such strength that he is fully convinced of the fulfilment of his request. For then he trustingly gives himself entirely to the heavenly father, he humbly awaits His working and also completely submits to His will. And therefore he now also thinks correctly, and this is expressed by the fact that he expects God's help with utmost calmness and confidence because he knows that God's love leans towards the earthly child which firmly believes in Him. God demands a firm unshakeable faith and will therefore never disappoint it. But the human being himself has to struggle for this firm faith, he has to pray fervently to God for the strength of faith, he has to ask that he will not fail when great adversity approaches him. For God will never let this prayer go unheard, which is more for the soul than for the body .... It is a request for spiritual possessions, for a profound unshakeable faith is not an earthly possession but something purely spiritual, it is the foundation of the spiritual kingdom, because without faith no-one can enter the spiritual kingdom which signifies eternal life for the human being, for his soul. For only through faith does the human being come to God, and only faith prompts him to live a way of life pleasing to God, only faith allows him to reach his final aim .... the final union with God ....

Amen

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Blessing of the divine gift, the word of God ....

B.D. 3217 from August 9th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

A great blessing will overflow people who do not close themselves off to God's grace, who allow themselves to be taught by the word of God and make an effort to put it into practice. For they will have a foothold from the start, they will feel relief everywhere even though earthly life is hard for them, the heaviness will only touch them to a certain extent but will soon be overcome. For through the word of God they receive knowledge of the meaning and purpose of suffering, they know about the necessity of it, but they also know that they are never helplessly left to themselves but have a constant helper at their side Who is always ready to respond to their plea for help. And this awareness is deep faith, which must always have a beneficial effect. Thus only the will is necessary to observe the gifts from above, then the blessing of the gifts will also become apparent, for the receiving person will pass them on and want to introduce many people to the knowledge he has received himself. This first requires a good relationship between people, and from such a relationship they already draw spiritual advantage, for they cultivate love, and love redeems .... But then the human being will also be strong, whatever comes over him. He will walk his path unwaveringly even if he is pushed away, he will always know that he has the most powerful One over heaven and earth as his companion and that it is truly not too much to remain faithful to Him if His holy name is fought against. And this knowledge will let him go joyfully into battle .... God Himself blesses His labourers in the vineyard, He helps them not to grow weary because they only have a short time at their disposal and should use it to initiate many people into God's plan of salvation and redemption. People on earth will indeed feel little of this influx of increased grace before they have decided to accept the divine word, but then they will become wide awake and they can be active again in enlightening God's will. The chaos of the end time will divide many people and put them into an earthly hardship which seems almost unbearable to them. And yet, at the same time the best means has been made accessible to them .... the word of God .... And this divine word brings about a balance, it heals where wounds have been inflicted, it gives light where there is darkness and it gives strength where previously a feeling of weakness made people look anxiously to the future. And the human being will feel the blessing of the divine word, for it will be the only salvation when everything threatens to perish. Yet God's love considers His own, i.e. all those who take refuge with Him in adversity .... He speaks to them Himself, and thus His word is spiritual strength which is able to banish everything, even the most difficult things on earth .... For it is His emanation, His spirit, which therefore has to be felt beneficially wherever the human being willingly opens himself to it ....

Amen

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Obedience to the worldly authorities ....

B.D. 3218 from August 12th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

Whatever is demanded of you, you will be able to fulfil it if you entrust yourselves to God's guidance and only let Him rule. For whatever He allows will be a blessing for you as soon as you regard it as God's permission and tackle everything in God's name. And therefore you need not fear any measures, for they will only affect you if it is God's will, you will be in God's constant care, for His will determines your course of life and nothing can come upon you against His will. Just strive to strengthen your faith, to recognize the heavenly father's activity in everything that concerns you and to always submit yourselves to Him .... Always observe His word and live according to it, and always and constantly ask for strength of faith .... Do not fall away from God when trials come upon you which threaten to shake your faith .... He will truly not abandon you if you do not leave Him, and He will always reveal Himself to you if you are in distress of soul, and He will also help you in earthly adversity. He looks after you in all situations of life, even if it seems as if you are dependent on yourselves. For your call always draws Him close to you, He hears every sigh and every silent prayer you send to Him, and He fulfils it as it is good for you. And the more firmly you believe that God is love, the more trustingly you will place yourselves and your life into His hands and the more reassured you can go through earthly life. You certainly have to expect great changes which extend to your usual life, yet none comes upon you without God's permission, and thus you must always regard yourselves as guided by Him if you have to carry out something by force which does not suit you. No-one has more power over you than God if you trustingly hand yourselves over to Him, and this confidence must make everything easier for you to bear, for you are never alone if you call upon God for strength and grace. And then you will be able to master everything that is demanded of you ....

And do not shrink from it if you are commanded to take part in the battle which means destruction, for you must submit to the laws of the worldly authorities. But your thinking, your inner attitude, is decisive as to how God views your actions. The will to act rightly before God evaluates all your thoughts and actions. If you are forced by the world to act contrary to God's will, then the world is also responsible for these actions. But you should strive for righteousness, you should give account to yourselves about your thinking, to what extent it corresponds to the commandments of God. You should comply with the demands of the authorities as soon as your freedom of action is taken away from you. For any opposition to the authority of the authorities is unwise and not wanted by God. And therefore you must be obedient, whatever is demanded of you, as long as it concerns earthly conduct, as long as the gagging of the spirit is not the basis of the demands, for you alone are responsible for your soul, thus your thinking must also remain pure and unadulterated, even though you will be forced into actions which God can never approve of because they contradict the commandment of neighbourly love. But always ask for strength, ask for the prevention of what is detestable to you, and God will help you in every adversity and danger to body and soul ....

Amen

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Increased divine activity in the end time ....

B.D. 3219 from August 12th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

The activity of the eternal deity becomes more apparent the closer it gets to the end. For the work of the adversary is all the more obvious, and this becomes apparent in humanity's thoughts and actions, which lack all love. A more dreadful state cannot be imagined, a state which has to result in complete dissolution because it is untenable and no longer shows any sign of improvement. And therefore God's activity will also appear extraordinarily in order to give support to those who still respect Him and now watch the events of the time in horror so that they will not doubt Him but their faith will be strengthened. Yet His activity will only be recognized again by the person who seeks Him, who surrenders himself to Him and calls to Him in his distress for help .... who believes in Him and in His power ..... He will be able to feel Him daily and hourly, he will always be able to enjoy His grace and care, he will hear His voice, i.e., His word will be conveyed to him in many ways so that he can always be in direct contact with Him and draw strength and faith from this contact. And the greater the earthly adversity is, the more the human being will be spiritually strengthened so that he will no longer feel the earthly adversity so harshly and become master of it. The human being only needs to maintain the connection with Him, then he will derive the greatest benefit from this connection, for then God Himself will walk with him and His guidance will truly be good and right. Then he can confidently tackle everything that is required of him, it will serve his best. And during this time you must not become lukewarm and lethargic, you must strive for perfection in all seriousness, you must withdraw from all worldly pleasures and only think about your aim, for this is no longer far .... Your life will not last long, for it will be prematurely ended by God's will as soon as the end has approached. And therefore don't postpone anything until tomorrow which you can already do today, don't let yourselves be deterred from cultivating spiritual contact, for this alone will give you the strength you need to stand firm in the last days. Divine love will not abandon you if you only keep your thoughts turned towards it, and divine love will also appear to you in order to help you if you are in need. And therefore the signs will also increase in which you can recognize the working of the eternal deity if only you pay attention to what is and happens around you. His love will find ways and means to reveal itself to you without affecting your fellow human beings extraordinarily, if they are unable to believe. But His love does not leave unthinking those who are close to Him, who want to be His children and acknowledge Him as their father in prayer. His love supports those who, anxious and despondent, call upon Him to strengthen them so that they will overcome all opposition, so that they will be able to meet the demands of life and yet remain faithful to Him until the end ....

Amen

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Refutation of the doctrine of reincarnation .... justice ....

B.D. 3220 from August 14th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

A bright light is given to you if you have the will to let it shine .... A time of confusion also confuses people's thinking, their ability to think becomes weaker and they can no longer recognize spiritual truths as such, which is why a constant supply of them is necessary and this requires people who are willing to receive them, through whom spiritual knowledge can be conveyed to the seekers. Such instruction can take place in various ways, it can supplement knowledge which already exists, it can be offered as completely new knowledge if the human being had previously thought wrongly, but it can also clarify an area as a refutation of wrong teachings about which people are still unclear. But the prerequisite is always that God-oriented forces convey the spiritual thought material to the human being who, as a receptacle of the divine spirit, declares himself willing to serve God by spreading the truth. And this prerequisite is given as soon as heartfelt prayer for the supply of pure truth precedes every spiritual instruction .... All good spiritual forces only have one aim .... to unite the embodied being on earth with God, i.e. to help him to do so. However, spiritual unification only exists in the state of light, i.e. in the state of realization, which is the result of a life of love. In order to reach this state the human being is given earthly life in which he can develop his abilities, which are only weakly developed at the beginning of his embodiment but can experience an ascending or also descending development according to his will. His course of life gives him every opportunity for this development, but it does not depend on more or less developed gifts of intellect but solely on the will for good, on the attitude towards God and thus the activity in love .... the striving for connection with God through good works .... Only through this can the human being reach such a high level of spiritual development that he enters a stage of light already on earth, i.e. that he attains realization .... Then the alignment with God has already taken place, and this state ensures the human being's soul's entrance into the kingdom of light at his death, into spheres where it can participate in Christ's act of salvation, where it is able to help other souls into wisdom, into light again, by teaching love and thus being active in redemption. Thus people can easily reach this degree of perfection if they only have the will to do good and establish contact with God through heartfelt prayer .... The fact that people have different faculties of perception, that they are more or less intelligent, is by no means decisive for this will for good. For the spiritual spark in the human being is awakened through love. But love is born in the heart, and it can be exceedingly active in a person whose intellectual activity is considerably behind that of another person. And even if the light, the realization of truth, does not become extraordinarily apparent during earthly life, the soul can be flooded with light upon entering the kingdom of the beyond, i.e., the realization can come to it in a flash and an abundance of knowledge can enable it to be eagerly active in love in the beyond. And therefore the concerns that a less developed intellectual thinking could impair the soul's maturing are invalid, that therefore every soul once has to be offered the opportunity to make use of advanced physical abilities in order to attain increased maturity on earth. Such souls can indeed work extremely beneficially on earth insofar as they place their extraordinary intellectual abilities at the service of their fellow human being in order to impart spiritual knowledge to him and thereby stimulate him into increased activity of love. But a person can also develop love to the highest degree without any special stimulation, and this person will undoubtedly reach the highest level of maturity. But his thinking can be completely uncomplicated, it need not reveal higher wisdom, and yet his thinking and actions are guided by good spiritual forces which consider him according to his perceptive faculty and constantly impel him to increase his activity of love in order to achieve his union with God. For love is the first thing, wisdom is only born from it, and this wisdom is the soul's share as soon as it enters the spiritual kingdom. But love can fully develop a unique embodiment on earth, because love can be practiced in every situation of life, in every fate of life, in every physical and spiritual condition, because this only requires that the divine spark in the human being is ignited and kindled into the highest flame, and this can be done by the most primitive human being in thought if only he has the will to be good. But the knowledge of good and evil is in him because both forces, good and evil, fight for his soul and thus his thinking is influenced by both spiritual forces and the forces to which his free will turns bear the victory over him. But how his will decides depends to a certain extent on his faith, on his attitude towards God and Christ's act of salvation, as soon as he has knowledge of it. Jesus Christ died on the cross for the weak who were not able of themselves to muster the will for good. But no one thins himself to be strong .... Although he has high spiritual abilities he nevertheless requires the grace of the act of salvation, the strong will purchased by Jesus Christ, in order to be able to mature into a being of light during his earthly life .... And for this reason Jesus Christ created the compensation, so that all who are of good will can become blessed ....

(13.8.1944) Humanity is indeed very backward in its spiritual development and pays no attention to any possibilities of progress. This is an unmistakable process of development which, however, has its cause in the human being's free will and for which he also has to answer. Consequently, man cannot expect any benefit for something that has occurred through his own fault. But it would be a benefit if he could make up for the development he missed or neglected through his own fault in a renewed embodiment on earth. For he did not use his free will in the right way, but he was capable of doing so in every situation of life due to Christ's act of salvation, Who broke His adversary's supremacy over people's will through His death on the cross. Therefore, there is no justification for an imperfect soul's repeated life on earth which could be based on divine justice, for as soon as the human being has failed despite the granting of grace he cannot claim any repetition of an embodiment on earth in order to reach the same degree of maturity which a person of good will can achieve during his life on earth, instead, he must then cover the far more difficult ascent in the beyond as just compensation for his wrong will. People certainly have different realizations, different knowledge and different earthly abilities, and this often leads them to the erroneous opinion that the maturing of the soul takes place according to these abilities. But then it is disregarded that only the activity of love is decisive, thus only the activity of love promotes the upward development. But love can be practiced by every human being, because only the human being's will is necessary for this, it is an instinct of the heart, which is in no way connected with (dependent on?) a certain degree of knowledge or a particularly developed intellectual activity. That the cooling of love understandably also results in reduced knowledge is indisputable, and therefore the dark spiritual state also appears particularly, because it is the consequence of unkindness, for which the soul therefore has to answer ....

(8/14/1944) Higher development can only be spoken of when the soul has united with the spirit, when it therefore practices love and thereby awakens the spiritual spark in itself to life, which now remains in constant activity, i.e. stimulates the soul to everlasting loving activity. Consequently, without love activity a standstill of development or even a decline in the case of obvious lack of love is to be recorded. However, the same measure of grace is available to every human being and the same opportunities are given to him for the maturing of the soul. If he does not make use of them and does not take advantage of the graces because they cannot take effect in him, he must also accept the consequences according to divine justice, i.e. he must himself deal with the state in the beyond into which he has fallen through his own fault, i.e. deservedly .... It would then be an injustice, so to speak, if he, who has not utilized the great grace of embodiment for the salvation of his soul, were offered the same opportunity again to make up for what he has neglected .... This would be an injustice to those who made full use of their earthly life by disregarding their body, by renouncing and constantly abstaining from the pleasures of the world. Deeper knowledge is not absolutely necessary but loving activity is, and therefore even the most ignorant person can develop upwards if only he is lovingly active, for knowledge will then come to him as soon as he needs it for his fellow human beings or he enters the spiritual kingdom. For then he will be able to delight the souls in the beyond with his knowledge, which will then be imparted to him in a flash, so that he can work in love again as a bearer of light in the spiritual kingdom ....

Amen

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Acknowledge Christ .... weak will .... demon ....

B.D. 3221 from August 15th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

The demon rages and will take more and more possession of people's souls, and people do not fight back .... They are without a sense of responsibility. Their will is inclined towards evil, and their thoughts and actions correspond to this will. And thus they themselves head towards the abyss, they accelerate the process of dissolution and thus their own downfall. As spiritual beings they cannot perish but they are deprived of their freedom of will because they misused it during the time of their partial freedom. And this abuse of will is the result of the weakness of will which God's adversary exploits in order to influence him in a wrong way. But the weakness of will, which is therefore the cause of complete decay and spiritual downfall, can only be banished by acknowledging Jesus Christ and His act of salvation. But the world rejects Him .... Even if it still acknowledges Him according to the word, even if people call themselves followers of Christ, they are far from understanding the act of salvation, and even less do they make use of the blessings of the act of salvation, which imbued the human being with a strengthened will, thus also provides him with strength of resistance against evil. To recognize Christ and His work of redemption means to know the significance of the life of love lived by Jesus and now, in order to be able to receive the graces of the work of redemption, also to lead the same life of love .... thus to know that only love can redeem and therefore Jesus Christ and His act of salvation is only acknowledged by people who decide to live this life of love .... Humanity lacks this knowledge and again because it also lacks love. And the consequence of this is an extremely weakened will which is incapable of resisting the evil power. The world cannot resist the demon because it forfeits its own strength by rejecting Christ. Christ and His work of redemption must be acknowledged, otherwise the world will approach its downfall as soon as it has knowledge of Him. And the knowledge of Jesus Christ has been spread on earth. The acceptance of His teaching, however, does not merely consist of confessing it through words but of living a life of love .... Where people are loving towards each other is where true christianity is, and in these people the will will also be strong to ascend, to reach the light, and the strength will be supplied to them to resist evil, for the works of love carry this strength within themselves and share it with the human being .... These therefore avail themselves of the blessings of the act of salvation even though they lack knowledge of Christ's suffering and death on the cross .... But if they have this knowledge they will also inevitably acknowledge Jesus Christ, since love lives in them and they recognize the eternal love which was embodied in Jesus Christ. But the world does not have this love within itself; people who belong to the world only love themselves and therefore hand themselves over to God's adversary. They reject Jesus Christ because He preaches neighbourly love to them, their will is hardened like their heart, but the hard will gives itself to the one who wants to corrupt it. The human being has a will which is immediately ready for evil deeds but no strength of will whatsoever for good deeds, for only love can achieve these. Good deeds, however, are a compliance with Christ's teaching of love, good deeds are accompanied by heartfelt prayer for strength and the follower of Jesus has the blessings of the act of salvation at his disposal .... But a follower of Jesus is every person who lives in love, who therefore follows Him and acknowledges His working of love on earth. He will be able to resist the work of evil and muster an ever stronger will when the last time has come. He will also confess before the world that he belongs to Christ's church, and he will stand firm when satan rages in the worst kind .... He receives his strength from God Himself, and this will truly suffice to become master over the one who wants to destroy his soul ....

Amen

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Word dispute with enlightened people ....

B.D. 3222 from August 15th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

People who are enlightened by the spirit of God have the knowledge that they can speak without hesitation if this is demanded of them. They will never need to be afraid of not being able to answer a question, for they are not the ones who answer intellectually but the spirit within them answers whatever question is put to them. For He alone can give the right answer and does not owe it to the person who desires it. And therefore it is not easy to argue with a person enlightened by God's spirit about spiritual questions, for he will emerge victorious from every dispute about words. And therefore he can approach every test without worry, he will not fail and no question will be able to make him uncertain, for he knows more than those who want to confuse him; his knowledge is profound, he knows all correlations and he will also be able to talk about them because nothing is alien to him and the spirit in him is constantly active, especially if he is to answer for himself. Thus, when the time has come for a person to be called to account who, as a servant of God on earth, is in contact with Himself, then the success of this contact will also obviously become apparent .... The human being will be permeated by divine spiritual strength, he will be able to speak without shyness and his speeches will be wise. He will not let himself be affected in his opinions, he will hold them because he can substantiate them, and all words will be given to him from within, he will only speak what the spirit within himself tells him to speak. And again, this is a sign of divine love which openly manifests itself if the fellow human being wants to test the extent to which he possesses the right knowledge; for what God guides to earth He will also know how to protect, and therefore He lets His working become obvious, He speaks through the human being, and His voice will be recognized by those who believe or approach the tests with serious intent to accept what appears to them to be truth. God meets them by placing enlightened people in front of them and now demands a lively work of thought from them .... namely, that they themselves immerse themselves in questions which are raised and that they now let every answer given by the divine spirit in the human being speak to their heart, that they thus take a stand on it themselves. As soon as they are of good will they will recognize and feel the power of the word, and this will earn them spiritual advantage. And therefore don't fear people who want to call you to account but answer for yourselves with a calm conscience .... He who teaches you also puts the right words into your mouth, and there will be no question you cannot answer, for whom God has enlightened also has knowledge at his disposal which he can apply at any time and will also apply for the blessing of his fellow human beings ....

Amen

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End time .... sign .... averting the judgement ....

B.D. 3223 from August 16th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

The turn of time will be marked by world events, as it is written. But the spiritual condition (of man) is the cause of everything that happens. Earthly events are only the effect of the spiritual decline, i.e., the spiritual low determines all events which take place on earth because all people have to be the ones to suffer in order to achieve a still possible improvement of their spiritual nature. And you have to recognize the spiritual low from the hardship and affliction on earth, from the atrocities which are caused by people, from the immense destructions which also express human will, and thus you have to make sure that it is first remedied before you can expect earthly events and circumstances to take a tolerable form for you. Suffering can only subside if every individual person strives to steer his life in a God-pleasing direction, if he endeavours to work on himself and his soul and is willing to lead a life of love. Only then will the earthly tribulation subside and an improvement will occur. The last days have begun and will not last much longer, a spiritual blossoming on this earth can no longer be expected, for humanity does not recognize the low it is living in and therefore does not change either. And yet, the individual should make an effort to save himself and his soul before the end has come. The individual can certainly carry out this spiritual change, he need only want to increase his knowledge and fulfil his purpose of earthly life, he need only not completely oppose God by being accessible to the instructions imparted to him by God's messengers, and he will be richly blessed, for God's help is assured to anyone who thinks correctly and only has the will to come to Him. And that is why God has repeatedly pointed to the end time through seers and prophets, He has drawn people's attention to the signs so that the individual will become perceptive, recognize the truth of what is written and now also take to heart everything that is imparted to him through God's love. For everyone is responsible for himself; and even if the whole world corrupts and perishes, the individual can save himself from it, he can escape the inevitable judgment because he can determine himself, because he can take the path to God as soon as his will impels him to do so. And his will is free .... he can just as well turn towards God as he can turn away from Him .... And this is why the human being should recognize the great danger his soul is in by the signs of the end time if it does not change before the end has come. For this reason God does not specify an exact time so that the human being will immediately start the work of transformation; for this reason he will be afflicted by suffering and affliction so that he will become thoughtful and can now be offered the opportunity to attain realization. For only the thinking person can be instructed, otherwise every instruction will only sound in the ear ....

Only a short time will pass until the end, yet this time can still be well utilized if the human being is seriously willing to reach his aim. He can progress very quickly, he can make use of the increased blessings of the end time and thereby mature in a far shorter time, however, he must strive diligently and put his spiritual development before all earthly striving. He has to work on himself as if he would be called away from earth every day; he has to entrust himself to all good forces and allow himself to be guided by them, so to speak; he has to be devoted to God with heartfelt love and extraordinarily loving towards his neighbour. Then he will also be able to avert the judgment for himself insofar as he will belong to the chosen ones who will be raptured before the end of the world. Countless people will be made aware of their wrong way of life, they will be informed of the approaching end but they will not pay attention to the information and the end will come as a surprise to them, for they pay no attention to the signs of the times, they are only earthly-minded and not accessible to spiritual instruction. Consequently, they are also not concerned about their salvation because they deny life after death. And it is these who bring about the end, who are so spiritually backward that one can rather speak of a retrogression than of a standstill, and who therefore give immediate cause for a transformation of earth. For since they do not establish any spiritual connection with good forces they are open to the work of evil forces whose aim is to remove such souls from God. And these forces are successful, for all people's thoughts and aspirations are only the increase of earthly possessions, the well-being of the body and worldly joys and pleasures. And therefore this earth ceases to exist in its present form, and although people themselves are not directly involved in its destruction they are nevertheless the cause of it, because their way of life completely contradicts God's will and therefore the time has come which brings an end to their life ....

Amen

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Justice ....

B.D. 3224 from August 17th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

A righteous way of life earns you My love, for the righteous person not only thinks of himself but also grants to his neighbour what appears desirable to himself. Justice always seeks balance in all things, and the justly thinking person will also endeavour to be able to exist before Me in all his actions, he will be aware of his responsibility, he will always give account to Me in his thinking and base all thinking and acting on My commandments. For the righteous person does not switch off love, he always seeks to level and compare where the feeling for the right measure has been lost. For injustice is a lack of feeling for equality, it is one-sided giving or judging, and thus it is contrary to My order, for I observe justice in all things. Where there is love, there must also be justice, and thus I, as love Itself, must also be justice Itself. And anyone who therefore wants to follow Me and lives a life of love will never be able to judge unjustly. And therefore he will detest injustice in the world, he will suffer from the fact that people do not have the desire for balance within themselves, that selfish love drives them to think in a way which does not correspond to divine order and divine love teaching .... For unjust thinking shuts love out, unrighteousness cannot awaken love, and consequently it is a hindrance to spiritual progress in a way that people themselves are not aware of. For I cannot send My love to the unjust-thinking person because then I would take action against Me Myself, because I would then have to acknowledge something which contradicts My nature .... Although I don't let the person fall, My strength of love cannot reach him because injustice is a form of self-love which rejects My emanation of love. The unjust person is not receptive to love from Me, he would certainly accept the strength if it were physically perceptible to him, but again he would only be unaware of his neighbour who also needs this strength. He would take but not want to give, and this is unjust thinking, thinking which eliminates all sense of justice as soon as he claims something for himself and denies it to his fellow human being .... And therefore I cannot grant unrighteousness with love, with a gift which requires righteousness as a condition for receiving, for My nature is righteousness and love, and My gift presupposes the same .... that the human being lives a righteous way of life if I am to bestow My love upon him ....

Amen

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Undoubted faith in the word ....

B.D. 3225 from August 18th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

Your faith must be so firm that you no longer harbour the slightest doubt about My word. As long as you cannot unconditionally believe what I reveal to you through My word, you are not yet so far advanced in knowledge that you are able to grasp everything. Only when the context is clear to you will you accept every word without doubt and represent it to your fellow human beings as pure truth. Thus you are, so to speak, only knowledgeable when you have complete faith, for knowledge requires profound faith. You can certainly hear My word, it can appear intellectually clear and plausible to you, yet it will only signify profound knowledge for you if you have faith, because it is My will that you first deepen your faith before you become knowledgeable. Earthly knowledge requires proof in order to be addressed as knowledge. But since spiritual knowledge cannot be proven, it requires faith. Through faith the human being then reaches the level of knowledge which makes him free, for to possess spiritual knowledge is a degree of freedom, a degree of perfection. Where you lack faith there will always be a gap in your knowledge, and thus you will lack the context without which, however, knowledge cannot be spoken of. You accept My word, and this word of Mine shall shape you into beings of light, but then I must also demand undoubted faith in it, because My light can only radiate if you open yourselves completely, but doubt is not an opening but a defence against My ray of light. As long as something is not quite clear to you, you can certainly gain clarity through doubt and subsequent reflection, yet if I convey something clearly and understandably to you and you doubt these conveyances, this is a disparagement of My word, a non-acknowledgement of it or a doubt about the truthfulness of the giver, and both are injustice to yourselves because you thereby deprive yourselves of the strength which can only work if you believe. But if you believe that I speak to you humans, if you believe that you are able to hear Me, then you may not doubt anything I reveal to you, for I will truly not tell you anything wrong, just as I will never remain silent to a believing earthly child which desires to hear Me. Thus what such a child hears is truly purest truth, even if it seems difficult for you to accept. And therefore you can represent every word with conviction, just as you received it after heartfelt prayer for enlightenment of spirit. Then you can also boast of standing in knowledge because you, being taught by Me Myself, have received the right knowledge and are thus instructed in truth and now possess spiritual knowledge which allows you to seamlessly recognize the connection between all creations, all creations and Me, the creator of everything that is visible to you ....

Amen

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"Seek ye first the kingdom of God ...."

B.D. 3226 from August 20th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

Seek first the kingdom of God and you will be able to cover earthly life without worrying about what the body needs, for all this will fall to you, as the lord has promised. For only one thing is important, that you receive the life of the soul, then God Himself will take over the care of your body and its needs. But as soon as you lose faith in this promise you will have to take care of yourselves, and thereby you will get caught in the adversary's nets, who will try to make you believe that this care is the most important and wants to prevent you from thinking of your soul. And now you run the risk of becoming materialistic, of focusing your thoughts and actions entirely on the acquisition of matter, of neglecting the kingdom of God in your constant concern for your body and finally only living a purely earthly life without taking your soul's salvation into account. God has only set one aim for your earthly life .... that your soul will develop upwards .... and in order to achieve this aim you must detach yourselves from matter, you may desire nothing but that which is helpful to the soul. And you can free yourselves from all worries with complete faith if you remember Christ's promise, for His word is truth, and if you first seek God's kingdom then you will fulfil His will and God will also take care of you. But people's striving is mostly directed towards the preservation and well-being of the body, and this in excess, so that spiritual striving takes a back seat and understandably no spiritual progress can be achieved. And it is this lack of trust in the love of God, Who sustains everything He has created. With faith and trust in God's help the human being can become free of all earthly worries, he can easily and light-heartedly go through earthly life, but as soon as he spends every effort on his soul's salvation, as soon as he fully consciously strives towards the spiritual kingdom, as soon as he tries to fulfil God's will in everything and thus strives to reach the kingdom of God. But the belief in this is almost no longer to be found amongst people, and therefore they create a life full of worries and troubles for themselves, they burden themselves with a burden which the lord God has promised them to carry if they fulfil their task in life .... to put their spiritual welfare before the welfare of the body. God sustains the whole of creation, He continuously takes care of its existence and everything develops according to His will. And likewise His care applies to the most highly developed creature, the human being, and his earthly life is just as assured as that of the whole of creation. Yet God has made it dependent on the human being's will, He has set him a condition the fulfilment of which will result in a carefree existence. But if people do not observe this condition they will have a difficult earthly life because they will lose God's care for the body. Earthly life is given to the human being for the sake of the soul, and thus the soul should be considered first, it should be supplied with what it needs for spiritual maturity .... and this can only be fetched and received from the spiritual kingdom. Therefore the human being's senses must always be directed towards the spiritual kingdom, for the earthly kingdom does not offer the soul the nourishment it lacks. The earthly kingdom only fulfils the body's needs, and the human being should faithfully and trustingly allow God to give it to him, as He has promised, and strive all the more for the spiritual kingdom, which is not given to him but which gives what the soul desires according to its desire. And therefore cast all worries upon the lord .... He will take them from you the more intimately you strive for union with Him, the more your soul detaches itself from earthly things and only adheres to that which brings it union with God. And you will truly be safe in His care, you will want for nothing, for He is full of love and might, He can provide for you and will provide for you if only you strive for Him, for His kingdom ....

Amen

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Law - Justice - Races .... Nations ....

B.D. 3227a from August 20th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

It is unworthy of a whole nation if it is not accountable to itself regarding its thoughts and actions. The conduct of a nation's people should be impeccable towards each other; but they should also observe the commandment of neighbourly love towards other nations, even if this is not to be understood such that actions and thoughts should extend to individual members but that all feelings and intentions towards another nation should be honourable and decent and not lack a feeling of justice, i.e. they should not be denied what the people of a nation claim for themselves. Law and justice should apply to all people, and the affiliation to a specific race or nation should not determine the actions implemented against them. God set no restriction when He gave people the commandment of neighbourly love, for every fellow human being shall be regarded as a brother, as God's living creation, who should also be treated with brotherly feelings. Hence, the human being should not impose this restriction himself, he should not think that he is entitled to exclude certain people from neighbourly love; he should practise the commandment of neighbourly love without distinction and thus also be accountable to himself when he disregards this commandment. And therefore he must be clear about his thoughts and actions as to how far they correspond to the divine commandments .... He cannot make different judgments at his pleasure and own discretion, he cannot sin against one person and believe his sin to be justified because he deems himself to belong to a different circle, which was drawn by racial or national affiliation.

This dividing line does not exist before God, before God all human beings are equal, and right and wrong remain right and wrong everywhere. It is not acceptable that the human being claims rights for himself which he denies to other people, and if people's thoughts become so misguided that they believe themselves to be right even when they act wrongly, then the human being's spiritual development has already sunk low, for then he places earthly life high above the latter, otherwise he would be unable to defend a way of thinking which arose from the striving for his own advantage .... Anything a human being requires for himself he must inevitably also grant to his fellow human being, and he should never ever set up his own laws if he does not want to fear that he will not be considered by God in a way he would like, but that he will be measured by the same yardstick he measured himself ....

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Law - Justice - Races .... Nations ....

B.D. 3227b from August 22nd 1944, taken from Book No. 42

The earth embraces the most diverse nations and races which, on the whole, also differ in their degree of development. Yet no nation received the right from God to oppress less developed nations or to deprive them of their rights. They should certainly exert an educational influence if they are spiritually more highly advanced, they should protect weaker nations against stronger oppressors, but a specific ethnic origin should never stop them from fulfilling their human duties towards a fellow human being. For they should always bear in mind that all people are God's living creations, and that no-one is entitled to cast certain fellow human beings out of the community of states or to pressurise them and plunge them into hardship. One day they will have to justify themselves for this, and they will be judged as they themselves had judged .... anyone who treated his fellow human beings harshly or without love, regardless from which ethnic group they originated, will also only reap harshness and unkindness, he will find no mercy and should never expect a mild judgment, for he will receive according to his attitude, to his will and his actions .... And therefore the human being should always be accountable to himself as to whether his thoughts and actions are just. Justice, however, demands the same rights for everyone without distinction. As soon as selfish love is strong, the sense of justice recedes, then the human being will unscrupulously take for himself what belongs to his fellow human being. And if whole nations are dominated by this way of thinking, there will never be peace on earth, for the strong will suppress the weak, or those of equal strength will inflict suffering and misery on each other and the adversity will find no end. No heartless action can be justified with the objection that other laws apply to other races or nations, that they may not claim the same humane consideration which a person of their own ethnic origin is entitled to. All people are equal before God, the same law applies, always and forever, before God .... love your neighbour as yourself .... and every human being is a neighbour, irrespective of his racial or national affiliation. And as long as whole nations are trapped in erroneously thinking that they have different rights than the former, injustice will also get out of hand; people will be in a constant state of dispute, time and again hostilities will find renewed nourishment which will give rise to increasingly worse thoughts and actions, for the commandment of neighbourly love will remain ignored and this will result in actions which are sinful. The same standard for oneself and one's own desire should always be applied; what a person wants for himself he should not take away from his fellow human being, otherwise injustice will constantly grow and, with it, a state which will also confuse people's thinking .... They will lose the power of judgment between right and wrong, because they themselves will have relinquished it since they themselves don't want to think righteously and fairly ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Christ problem ....

B.D. 3228 from August 21st 1944, taken from Book No. 42

Just as the life of the inner human being relates to the outer world, so does the spirit relate to the soul. For the soul is the envelopment of the spirit, and the spirit can only be active according to its destiny when no obstacle is placed in its way by the soul. In the same way, the inner human being can only develop when the outer world leaves him untouched. But the inner man is now to be compared again with the soul, with the shell of the spiritual .... inwardly towards the outer world, but still outwardly towards the spirit, for the inner life of the human being is feeling, thinking and willing, and as soon as this no longer opposes the spirit in itself, it no longer signifies an outer fetter for the latter, but has united itself with it .... And then the working of the spirit is unlimited, it can bring itself to unfoldment in an exceedingly rich measure, and then the human being advances inexorably in his development, for he has understood his purpose of earthly life and also fulfils it .... This knowledge of the life of the spirit in the human being is first necessary in order to also be able to explain the problem of Christ to the human being, in order to make him understand why the human being Jesus attained supreme perfection on earth, why the power and wisdom of God was at his disposal and why he is now to be addressed as a God-like being. The human being must first know what is meant by the higher development of the human being's spirit, he must know that this state of union of the soul with its spirit is the result of a life of unselfish love, furthermore, he must know that and why love is necessary for the redemption of the human being's spirit and thus also of the whole human race, only then will he be able to understand why a human being accomplished the work in greater than great love, which should be redemptive for the whole of humanity but which, in turn, only brings redemption to the person who acknowledges Jesus Christ and His act of salvation. But he must also know about the state of guilt in which all spiritual matter still dwells and how this guilt affects earth as well as the beyond. Only then will he penetrate this great problem on earth, and this recognition will also bring light to him in countless other spiritual questions which previously seemed insoluble to him. The light now permeates him from within, he can answer every question himself and no longer needs instructions from outside which can never convey the right wisdom to him if it has not first become light within him. But the light which radiates through the human being from within can only be gained through the working of love, because then the divine spirit in the human being awakens to life, because through love God Himself unites with the human being, because then He Himself is active in him, because then the human being is on the same path as Jesus Christ to spiritualize himself through love, to assimilate himself to the eternal deity and to become His image, so to speak. Then the human being has God in him, he has the light in him, which embodied itself in Jesus Christ on earth and was thus visible to all people .... Therefore, a true christian is only one who lives in love and thereby becomes similar to Christ, who thus crystallizes himself through love so that he can be completely permeated by God's love, who bursts all shells which prevent the divine spiritual spark in him from developing freely .... This one alone can call himself a christian, for in him is the same life as in Jesus Christ, in him is light .... knowledge and wisdom and thus also power and strength .... But in him is also at the same time the will to help all those who still dwell in darkness. The redeeming instinct awakens to life in them, they know about being bound and want to lead what is bound to freedom. They now participate in Christ's work of redemption, and their being is animated by the same thought that once moved Jesus Christ to take upon Himself the death of the cross .... They, too, will be willing to make sacrifices when it is necessary to bring salvation to their fellow human beings in spiritual adversity, and this willingness to make sacrifices will be in accordance with their activity of love, thus in accordance with the divine love which permeates them .... for the closer a person's soul is to the divine redeemer and the more strength he can receive from Him when it is necessary to be active on earth in redemption, and this at the risk of his own earthly life .... The human being who is united with God, who has already found union with the eternal love on earth, who has fully accepted Christ within himself, i.e. who, following His example, has awakened the divine spark within himself through eager activity of love and thereby grants entrance to divine love, which now radiates through him and shapes him into a luminous vessel of the divine spirit, which now works in a light- and strength-giving way and impels him to redemptive activity, is able to do everything ....

Amen

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Resistances increase willpower ....

B.D. 3229 from August 23rd 1944, taken from Book No. 42

Anyone who declares himself willing to work for the kingdom of God will always be blessed, even if he does not obviously feel the blessing. Although he often has to fight against resistance in order to strengthen his will, all these resistances contribute to the fact that the person will then work all the more diligently, that spiritual activity will always become more important to him and he will use every moment to serve God. But God knows why He sends trials upon him .... He cannot use lukewarm and indolent labourers in His vineyard, for they will not be successful with the people on whom they are to carry out their spiritual work. The kingdom of God demands militant fighters who only fight with such weapons as are compatible with the commandment of love for God and neighbour .... they must fight with the sword of their mouth, they must teach, admonish, warn and correct error and lies, they themselves must have knowledge to pass on this knowledge .... And this way of fighting requires perseverance and strength of will. It is a spiritual battle which again and again necessitates devotion to God and does not tolerate lukewarmness and sloth. For it is still moving along calmly, but very soon God's fighters will have to prove to themselves to what extent their will is firm and whether they use their weapons correctly. Admittedly, the opposition will become greater and greater but anyone who has once offered himself to Him as God's fighter will not fall away from Him but will need the supply of strength in various degrees. And that is why he should already practice himself in constant battle with oppositions beforehand .... He will always feel that God's adversary wants to stop his striving, and the difficulties with which the one who wants to serve God has to struggle will be ever greater. And yet, his will must not be shattered, it must be stronger than the resistance, and God also blesses such a will. The fact that God allows it is due to the fact that the human being has to be strengthened against even harder attacks from the world, which will want to prevent him from all spiritual work without secrecy. For God's adversary fights with all weapons in the last days and will stop at nothing. Yet God will not remain hidden even in this difficult time of battle, He will distribute strength where it is needed, He will teach and enable people to work in His vineyard, He will donate strength and power in the battle against the enemy of the souls. Yet He only requires the human being's will for this, and in order to form it into supreme strength He allows adversities to come upon the human being, for these increase his power of resistance ....

Amen

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Helping or fighting .... Different purposes for suffering ....

B.D. 3230 from August 24th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

In the state of freedom of will the being would not have to fear God's adversary if only it would live in love. Then it will have defeated him, because God's adversary is utterly defenceless against love. Hence, the human being would also be able to free himself from temptations and challenges, for they have no influence on him as soon as he acts with love. The latter, however, depends on a person's free will, and therefore the human being himself is the reason for an earthly existence which is either a constant battle or helpful love .... God knows every person's heart and gives the human being what he needs, but He also lets a person go short if he does not require His help, His comfort and His counsel because he inwardly opposes Him and therefore does not exercise love, which demonstrates his God-devoted will .... God and love are one and the same, and therefore a loving human being is also united with God and thus has to be superior to God's adversary. If the human being is willing to actively engage himself in neighbourly love he will not be quite so besieged by the temptations of the world; he effectively has already overcome them which, however, does not rule out that he will have to endure suffering, because suffering is not only intended to lead a person to God whose will is still turned away from God but it shall also purify the person who strives towards God. However, the suffering in these two stages is experienced differently. The former revolts against it because he does not want to bow down to a Power Which restricts his enjoyment of life .... He still desires the world and experiences all suffering as disadvantage, as an inadequate enjoyment of life and thus a constraint he refuses to accept. And it can require a lot of suffering before he has surrendered, and this kind of battle is the adversary's work, who still uses the world and its pleasures to gain the human being for himself, who continues to place all these before his eyes in order to intensify his desire and thereby alienate him from God. But if the human being is actively helpful, then the suffering will merely serve him to become perfect, to achieve maturity of his soul, then God's adversary will have little control over him, then he will turn away from the world and due to his suffering join God ever more closely.

This difference has to be recognised when the disparity of suffering is being considered, when good and bad people are affected by it .... people, who are still completely averted from God and those who seemingly no longer require suffering in order to find Him .... Each time the suffering serves a different purpose, yet the final purpose is the complete union with God. The greatest danger for the human being is his inclination towards the world and his lack of love, for then he will still be wholly enslaved by the one who wants to ruin him. And then he will need strict teaching methods in order to change. Only when his inclination towards the world subsides can love ignite in him, and then the suffering can take on different characteristics, yet it cannot be entirely spared to him as long as the soul is not totally purified. Practising neighbourly love is therefore a decisive factor for his degree of development, it is a decisive factor for the intensity of his suffering, for wherever love is practised, and thus where God is present Himself, the suffering will be more bearable because the human being will be able to receive God's emanation of strength and therefore the suffering will not depress him as much. He need not fight anymore but only bear it and wait for God's help which will remove all suffering from him when the time is right. The human being must be helpful or fight, and namely in accordance with his will and his ability to love .... Being helpful will come easily to him, yet fighting will require great strength if he does not want to succumb to the power which will use whatever it takes to pull him into darkness and which will continue to exert an influence on the human being as long as he lives without love, for then he is still far removed from God. Only love sets him free from this power, only love makes him strong, for the loving human being is united with God and receives his strength from Him in order to defeat the adversary ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Exhortation to work for the kingdom of God ....

B.D. 3231 from August 24th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

You should preach love and always point people to Me, Who am love Itself. Then you will fulfil your mission on earth and be true instruments for Me who represent My teaching in faith in Me. Again and again you should point out to people that they inevitably have to strive towards Me if they want to fulfil their purpose of earthly life. You should try to make them understand the worthlessness of that which holds their physical senses captive, and you should announce to them the near end which they have to fear if they don't change to love but remain in worldly love. For this will bring them spiritual death. I instruct My servants on earth to constantly warn and admonish them because I want to help people who still live blindly through earthly life. And My servants now speak instead of Me .... and anyone who hears them hears Me, but anyone who rejects them also rejects Me. But it is up to their will and I do not force them to listen to Me. But I call out to you: Do not tire in your wooing, for it is bitterly necessary that people hear you. Talk constantly about the love they lack; explain to them that this lack of love causes great suffering for humanity and that they therefore cause it themselves .... and point out to them that everything which is contrary to My commandments is unkindness. Even an injustice suffered does not entitle a person to do wrong again, i.e. to repay like with like .... If a person commits an injustice, then the other person must not take this as an example, but he should contribute to the injustice being remedied, and he can only do this through love .... It is important that people are informed of the fact that even unkind thinking or agreeing with unkind actions of others is a lack of love which endangers their souls and at the same time also influences their earthly life unfavourably, for where love is not there I cannot be either, and where I am not there is adversity and darkness, bodily and spiritual. And pay no attention to the speeches of those who do not acknowledge you, give them what you possess and leave it up to them what they want to accept from it. But distribute your gifts with love, for My love gave them to you and love should motivate you to pass them on. Even if your love is not acknowledged, be patient and bear in mind that a strong opposing power fights with you and makes use of people who still cling to the world and have little capacity for love. Yet know that I Myself am also constantly active with them, that I direct their fate in life and leave no means untried in order to help them to seek and find Me. And therefore don't tire in your work for My kingdom, and take every opportunity where you can preach love and announce the near end to your fellow human beings, for your cooperation is necessary and I will bless it to you .... I will lead you to those who need your help, to whom you should be active by preaching love to them, because without love no-one can become blissfully happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Fulfilment of predictions ....

B.D. 3232 from August 25th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

I will inform all people of the forthcoming end, for I will also draw My adversaries' attention to it so that they will not be able to say one day that it remained hidden from them. But if they close their ears, if they mock or laugh at what touches their ears in the form of prophecies, My warnings and admonitions will be in vain, for I will not force anyone to believe. But they will tremble when the end is near, for they will recognize their wrong thinking and also the hopelessness of their situation. Humanity no longer wants to accept anything offered to it from the spiritual kingdom; it is so earthly-minded that it lacks all feeling for spiritual good, but I cannot offer people more than what they are willing to accept. I cannot force them into faith through obvious miracles because they are My living creations which were originally active with utmost freedom of will and which would completely lose their freedom through compulsory faith and thus remain imperfect for all eternity. I can only express Myself through human mouths and must leave it up to them whether they want to recognize My word through unconditional desire for truth and unselfish activity of love. For now My word will sound to them and they will recognize the giver of the word in every admonition and warning, and thus they will also heed it. But what willlessness dominates people especially towards these spiritual announcements. They take nothing seriously and believe that God will direct events according to their will and calculation. And how little they therefore do to shape their nature .... And the hour will come without them being prepared for the near end .... They only follow world events and draw their conclusions from them .... But I will startle them and show them that I rule the world and that I truly rule in a way that serves you humans .... And everything will take place according to My plan from eternity .... as I announce to you humans through My servants on earth .... And people will now have to realize that I was only concerned about their well-being, that I wanted to save them and only found resistance from them. For only the will towards God unites their souls with Me. But the will towards Me also gives them the understanding for My word, for My action and activity in the last days before the end. And only then will My word be obeyed as soon as it is still time, for what I announce literally comes true, because I convey knowledge to earth through the spirit which fully corresponds to the truth .... And therefore everything I announced to you humans a long time ago has to come true so that you will know when the end is near ....

Amen

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Working for the kingdom of God .... pillar ....

B.D. 3233 from August 26th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

An extensive sphere of action is available to the person who wants to work for the kingdom of God. For wherever there are people, there is spiritual need .... Only a few people consciously strive for the kingdom of God, but the majority are without knowledge and faith because their will is wrong. But God does not force the will .... If the human being is to be guided into faith and knowledge, then his fellow human being must helpfully assist him until his will has changed, and this can be achieved by the word of God; and therefore people must be active who bring the word of God to those who need it. That is why God's servants will always and everywhere be able to be active. They will never lack work, and God will supply them with people according to their worthiness. For again a distinction must be made between weak-willed people and those whose will is indeed strong but turned towards God's adversary. Bringing the word of God to them will mostly remain unsuccessful, but the weak-willed urgently need help. It is not an easy task, it requires patience and love, for the ignorance, which is the result of faithlessness, makes those people indifferent towards their souls, and thus they cannot easily be persuaded to accept the divine word. The weakened will does not reject but does not accept either, instead it often remains apathetic, and that is why God's servant has to try again and again for his salvation until the will strengthens, until he decides to take a stand, for or against. This is why the work in the vineyard of the lord is arduous and yet pleasing to God, for God needs representatives of His teaching on earth through whom His word is conveyed, because He cannot express Himself obviously in order not to curtail the freedom of faith and will. And therefore God also constantly stands by His servants on earth .... They will not take a path without His guidance once they have offered themselves to Him for service. They are never left to themselves but every word, every work and every thought is guided by Him, they are always under His protection, even though they themselves also have to fight against opposition for their own sake, in order to still mature in strength to resist. For God needs their strong will, which is meant for Him alone. His servants must have this strong will, otherwise they are unfit to work for Him because God's adversary is constantly at work to stop or destroy the work for the kingdom of God. Resistance will therefore always and constantly hinder the servant of God's work for the kingdom of God, and only the strong will will then stand firm; the strong-willed person does not let himself be distracted, he always tackles the work again, he does not fear the enemy, he is constantly turned towards God and can therefore also constantly receive His strength. And anyone who places his strong will turned towards God at His disposal, who only wants to live and fight for God, will always be certain of His grace and blessing, and the difficult circumstances of life will not be able to knock him down, for he is a support, a pillar on earth, which is so necessary for the kingdom of God that God Himself strengthens it and protects it from collapsing. He will be able to work and constantly enjoy God's protection even if the world wants to prevent him from being active for the kingdom of God. For His kingdom will continue to exist but the earthly kingdom will perish, and therefore every work which is meant for the eternal, imperishable kingdom is blessed, and every servant of God will receive power and strength in order to be able to work ceaselessly for Him ....

Amen

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Source of power .... work of creation bearer of power ....

B.D. 3234 from August 27th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

All creations must be regarded as gathering points of spiritual energies, yet they are obviously expressed in the works of creation which betray life, where constant activity therefore proves these energies. Thus forces are recognized in these creations which are active in them, yet the origin of the strength is understood differently .... and not infrequently completely independent of the works of creation. The fact that God Himself is the source of strength from Whom all life originates is usually denied .... as well as man cannot believe in a simple-minded way. A force is indeed acknowledged, but it is presented as emanating from itself and founded in itself. For intellectual thinking only reckons with things that are demonstrably present, but not with those whose existence is not proven. This is a stage of spiritual ignorance, although earthly man is regarded as knowing. The strength which is given to every living being is clearly recognizable for the time being, since without it the being would be lifeless. But this power is also in every other work of creation, otherwise it would slowly dissolve, just like the cover of a living being after its death. But as long as it exists and is visible to people's eyes, it is also the bearer of spiritual strength which must of necessity have its origin somewhere. For this strength is indestructible .... it can flow towards or away from a vessel, but it can never evaporate into nothing .... The coming into being and passing away of creation obviously testifies to the inflow and outflow of this life force .... so the force must have its exit somewhere. And this exit is the centre of power, it is God Himself .... no matter what concept man has of God. If every work of creation were itself the producer of the power which animates it, then the work of creation could never ever pass away as such, because a power does not cease to be .... Therefore, the human being as such would also have to be eternally imperishable if he himself were capable of life on his own, independent of a force donor. For since he is the bearer of a force during his life, but force is eternally indestructible or indissoluble, he, as the self-generator of this force, would already be immortal as a human being .... But if the force flows out of him, then it flows back from the original source, or a new receptacle is fed with it, but again from the original source .... Otherwise death and birth in human existence would have to be directly separated, or at least the death of the human being would at the same time cause the birth of a new being. A source of power must always be recognized from which the power radiates in a certain regularity and feeds the respective receptacles. And everything that is visible or tangible in creation must be regarded as receptacles. Every work of creation is a source of strength, every work of creation draws strength from the centre of strength and thereby becomes alive, i.e. it can carry out an activity which is its duty, an activity which is the purpose of existence and requires a constant supply of strength. How one names the source of power, how one imagines it, is unimportant, as long as it is recognized and the dependence of all created things on this source of power is recognized. Then the human being, who is equipped with intellectual thinking, will also be able to grasp the correlations, which he will never be able to do as long as he believes himself to be independent of the power which sustains him. The power always and eternally remains what it is, it does not change, does not need itself and does not lose its efficacy .... it is there and cannot pass away of its own accord .... And since constant death and constant passing away is evident in creation, this must be caused by an outflow of this power .... therefore this power must also have once flowed to creation .... but the source must be sought elsewhere than in the created things themselves .... But the source of power is from eternity and will remain for all eternity .... The source of power is God Himself, a being Who stands in supreme perfection, Who is full of strength, power, love and wisdom, and Who continually pours out this power on everything created by His love according to an unsurpassably wise plan ....

Amen

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Unification of the soul with the spirit ....

B.D. 3235 from August 27th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

It is an extremely significant process when the human being's soul unites with the spirit within it, for then the turning point has, so to speak, occurred; the material existence has been overcome even though the human being still dwells on earth, and the spiritual world is predominant for the last part of his earthly change. The soul can now accept every manifestation of the spirit, it is able to understand it, and it uses its ability in the most extensive way .... It allows itself to be taught and thus enters the state of knowledge. The spirit in the human being is constantly anxious to impart the richest knowledge to the soul in areas which are otherwise closed to the soul and which it can only enter with the help of the spirit. However, every material bondage is an obstacle in order to attain this knowledge, consequently the soul must first have overcome matter, for the soul's unification with the spirit is a purely spiritual process which does not tolerate any earthly bondage. Matter has such an effect on the soul that it is incapable of hearing the voice of the spirit within itself. The soul has to be completely detached from matter and completely abandon itself to the spirit within itself, it has to surrender itself completely without resistance to its strength, which now becomes effective in it as strength from God. And thus the soul is guided into knowledge, divine wisdom is imparted to it because the spiritual spark in it is part of the divine spirit, whose gifts are of highest value and which therefore must help the soul to perfection. The soul will now be educated according to divine plan, it will be introduced to knowledge which signifies spiritual progress for it ..... For the more the soul stands in knowledge the freer it becomes and the more able it is to utilize this knowledge. And thus it now engages in love by passing this knowledge on to its fellow human beings. Knowledge which the human being receives from his fellow human being first has to be tested for its truthfulness, knowledge, however, which the human being draws from himself, which the spirit in him has imparted to his soul, carries the unconditional truth within itself, and the soul feels this and therefore represents such knowledge full of conviction. And this knowledge will also not remain without impression on fellow human beings, because it is presented full of conviction and fully comprehensible to everyone, because it carries truth within itself and this also captivates the fellow human being as soon as he seriously desires truth. And this is why the unification of the soul with its spirit is so significant, because it not only helps one person to the truth and thus to maturity but has a beneficial effect on wide circles, because the truth breaks through and is also recognized as such by people who strive for it again but have not yet established the unification of their soul with the spirit themselves. However, this unification will not be difficult for them as soon as they have the serious will to do so, and this will is stimulated again by truthful instructions from a person whose spirit is awakened ....

Amen

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Trailblazer .... servants of God ....

B.D. 3236 from August 28th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

You shall prepare the way for Me so that when I knock they will open the door for Me, so that My voice will be recognized and they will recognize the lord in Me Who sends His servants ahead to announce Him. You shall constantly speak of My love and care, and you shall mention My grace so that people joyfully and longingly expect Me, who accept My gift of grace and who want to be cared for by Me and My love. For this is why I send you ahead to inform them that they are prepared for My coming and joyfully look forward to Me. I want to make Myself known to them through human mouths in order to then be able to speak to them directly through human mouths .... they shall be admonished to love through human mouths in order to then be able to take abode in them as love Itself. I want to come to them Myself, yet I can only do so if they are lovingly active, and therefore you should encourage them to be lovingly active, you should try to explain My being to them, which can only approach love .... You should advertise for Me by trying to persuade your fellow human beings to change into love, because then I will have a right to them, because I Myself, as love, can now make contact with them and I have now won them for eternity. Although I Myself also approach every person they don't recognize Me and therefore you should work for Me and use every opportunity to speak to them of My love, which does not pass anyone by but wants to be desired by them in order to be effective .... You shall smooth the paths for Me so that I will no longer find any obstacles when I come Myself but open doors to their hearts through which I can now enter in order to remain in them forever .... And thus you should work for Me tirelessly and full of devotion, for if you bring souls to Me which seek to come close to Me through love, your activity on earth will be a blessed one, you will serve Me and one day receive the highest reward, because you proclaim Me to those whom I want to win and to whom I Myself can come if they have shaped themselves into love ....

Amen

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Divine revelations .... heresies obstructive ....

B.D. 3237 from August 29th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

A direct revelation of God is characterized by the father's direct word to His child, and this word is to be believed as soon as the recipient of the word is a person who stands in faith and love, who therefore strives towards God. However, the prerequisite is not always given that wisdom can be offered to a person, be it that he does not listen inwardly persistently enough or that he is also captivated by teachings which do not entirely correspond to truth, so that he would regard every corrective teaching as the work of God's adversary. And therefore divine revelations only extend to personal admonitions and warnings but must nevertheless be recognized as such. A person's desire to be in personal contact with God and the belief that this is possible are the first preconditions for God to reveal Himself fatherly. In which way depends on the human being's ability and willingness to receive and also on the task he has been given for his earthly life. If he is to be active as a teacher again and places himself at God's disposal for this office, the divine revelations will take place like an instruction and thus also contain profoundest wisdom, because the human being himself must first have knowledge at his disposal before he can spread it. However, this requires complete non-resistance, i.e. the spirit of God, the giver of truth, must never meet with resistance if it conveys the truth to the human being. Resistance, however, is every false doctrine if it is not unconditionally surrendered and makes room for the truth .... But a person can be deeply religious and fully convinced that he knows the truth, his way of life also corresponds to God's will .... yet he is incapable of spreading the pure truth as God's servant because he does not possess it himself .... because he does not ask and desire an answer and expects it but believes himself to be the bearer of truth and therefore erroneous thinking cannot be corrected. He can certainly hear God's voice because he loves Him and a loving heart is capable of receiving the divine spirit, yet the spirit of God gives the human being according to his desire .... comforting, admonishing, warning or educating father words to the human being, which express His love for the earthly child, or even wise instructions and profound knowledge to the person who is open to it and makes himself worthy of it. The human being's desire is decisive, and therefore everyone will be considered as he desires .... The fatherly encouragement is enough for one person and he ends his inward listening, while the other listens in his thirst for knowledge for every word which divine love gives him ....

God does not limit His gifts, He gives as long as it is desired; but the human being himself sets the limits, for as soon as his desire diminishes, as soon as his will is no longer active, thus he stops consciously listening within, the inner voice also no longer sounds, the supply is interrupted and can only take place again when the human being, by listening within, declares himself ready to receive the divine gift. And therefore the human being himself determines the measure of knowledge and also the way in which it is offered. A person permeated by spiritual knowledge will mature extremely quickly, and therefore it is decidedly more advantageous to be offered this knowledge by God Himself than to acquire it through study, for the latter need not be unconditional truth, after all, people are the transmitters and they are never free from error .... But anyone who holds on to this spiritual knowledge adopted by people and does not even consider the thought that he may also have been imparted error is not to be given profound knowledge, for he would not accept it as truth but conclude that it is from erroneous givers if it does not correspond to his old knowledge .... And therefore only those people are to be educated as bearers of pure truth who are completely free from erroneous spiritual knowledge and who therefore constantly desire to be taught by God Himself in order to receive guaranteed pure truth, for God can now consider them in all abundance and make them His representatives on earth, and it is these who are now to teach and pass on the profound knowledge to their fellow human beings because they are capable of doing so and have the firm will to help their fellow human beings .... These will be abundantly endowed with knowledge, the divine teacher Himself instructs them and trains them so that they can now teach in His name, always and everywhere where people are open to the pure truth ....

Amen

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Exhortations .... (John 14.) dwelling in the heart ....

B.D. 3238 from August 31th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

Your heart should be pure and without dross if you want to receive Me in it. And thus you should make an effort to ennoble yourselves and only carry good thoughts within yourselves; every ignoble impulse should stay away from you, you should treat each other with peace and love, you should not allow any resentment or hatred to arise within yourselves, you should always be willing to help and use your strength to work in love; you should often pause in prayer and also remember the deceased, you should practice mercy and bear your fellow human beings' weaknesses with all patience and not want to excel but serve in humility and meekness wherever you can accomplish a work of love. For only then will you become like Me if you make an effort to follow Me in everything, if you constantly work on yourselves and discard all faults and weaknesses. Then I can take possession of your hearts and dwell and work in you .... This is an exceeding bliss already on earth, for if I Myself am with you there will be no more hardship, no more earthly suffering and no more pain .... For your body no longer feels anything, only before the world it still appears sensitive for the sake of people who do not yet grasp a high degree of maturity which allows My presence. And thus I am also not obviously recognizable, yet the earthly child which has fulfilled the conditions to revel in My presence feels My nearness and is exceedingly blissful. It hears Me and is happy about My voice .... And every person can achieve this happiness if he eagerly strives for perfection, if he does everything to gain My pleasure and shapes his heart into love. For then he will inevitably draw Me close to him and I will take abode in his heart and never ever leave him. But if you have shortcomings and don't make an effort to get rid of them, you create an obstacle for Me and My activity, and then I will remain eternally inaccessible to you. You must seriously want and request the strength from Me to carry out the will, and you must do everything in order to progress in your development, you must examine yourselves and fight your faults, you must compete in good and constantly strive to perfect yourselves, then My love will assist you and strength will flow to you .... your striving will be successful .... you will be able to receive Me Myself into your heart, and this signifies beatitude already on earth and eternal unification in the spiritual kingdom. For unification with Me takes all earthly hardship away from you, it makes you free and powerful, it relieves you of earthly heaviness, and knowledge opens up to you which makes you happy and stimulates you into utmost activity of love. For then My voice will continue to sound to you and I will teach you and determine all your ways, your actions, your thoughts and your will. Yet I do not force you but your heart, which is voluntarily offered to Me, carries the same will within itself, it has completely subordinated itself to My will, and therefore the human being can no longer think and want differently .... and this is the great bliss of being one with My will .... Therefore, strive for this union with Me with all diligence, work on yourselves and shape yourselves into love, so that I can be with you in all fullness, so that I can take abode in your hearts and you will no longer be lonely and forsaken .... so that My love can make you happy and My strength flow to you, so that you no longer walk the earthly path alone but have a constant companion in Me ....

Amen

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"And the gates of hell shall not prevail against them ...."

B.D. 3239 from August 31th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

"And the gates of hell shall not prevail against them ...." the small flock of My believers, for they will remain faithful to Me even in the greatest earthly tribulation, their faith will be so profound and unshakeable that even the powers of darkness will shake it in vain and they will not succeed in gaining victory over them. For My own will have Me as their commander and even hell, whose power is otherwise not to be underestimated, will be powerless against Me. But strong faith is like a wall which withstands all onslaughts, and all belong to My church who call this strong faith their own .... Anyone who believes in Me with all firmness need no longer fear anything, no matter from which side it may come. Admittedly, there are always bad forces which try to shake this strong faith and it requires the will to resist. But anyone who has faith also knows about My love and My omnipotence, and therefore he does not fear any adversary but confronts him courageously, he defeats him with My strength. But he draws strength from his faith in Me, he knows that I stand by his side, he trusts in My help, and I reward his profound faith .... My help is certain for him. And thus the believer will emerge victorious from the last conflict, he will survive the end while the faithless perish; he will feel the strength of faith and also be able to prove it to his fellow human beings, while the unbelievers will be weak and helpless in the face of the downfall of earth which, however, the believers need not fear, for they will remain unscathed where thousands upon thousands lose their lives. As brutally as the battle will be waged beforehand that one can really speak of hell, the latter will not celebrate any triumphs, for no matter how small the number of believers is, it cannot be defeated because the deep, unshakeable faith prevents this. For the believer fights with Me and I am his surest protection .... "The gates of hell will not prevail against them ...." I have given this promise to My church, and My church consists of profound believers who are in living contact with Me and will also always feel My nearness, who recognize Me in the word and are therefore also fearless because they feel the strength of My word and oppose this word to the enemy of their souls. He will certainly still rage furiously before his dominion is wrested from him and he will use all means, he will open all gates and appoint his accomplices to bring the human being to fall; he will want to take away his secure faith but every effort will be in vain .... Those who believe in Me are My children, and these I do not leave in the distress of the soul .... I give them strength and fortitude to endure, I help them to join Me the more intimately the enemy wants to separate them from Me. And he will struggle in vain against the bulwark which is and will remain strong faith for all forces of the underworld which will never be able to tear down this bulwark because it is built on a firm foundation, on a strong rock .... on convinced faith which can never ever be lost once the human being has gained it. For convinced faith recognizes Me and also hopes and builds on Me. And the person of convinced faith will not let Me fall, he is faithful to Me on earth and will remain faithful to Me until the end, and no power of the underworld will ever have power over him, not even the worst hell, i.e. the prince of the underworld is powerless against the one who asks for My help by believing in Me ....

Amen

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Life .... Awakening the divine spark in the person ....

B.D. 3240 from September 2nd 1944, taken from Book No. 42

The divine spiritual spark in the human being is his actual life, consequently, one can only speak of rebirth when the spirit in the human being has been awakened, when it can start to become active and thus the spiritual life begins .... In that case the human being is spiritually reborn, for his physical birth only makes sense and serves its purpose when spiritual rebirth has taken place. The divine spiritual spark has consciously been acknowledged by the person's soul even if the person is not yet able to rationally differentiate between the two concepts of soul and spirit. For the process of unification of spirit and soul can happen without a person's knowledge, since this is only conveyed to him when it occurred. Only then will the spirit explain to the soul what the unity of the spirit with the soul means, and only then will the soul strive towards ever closer union with its spirit and will accept the most valuable knowledge from it. And from then on the human being will be alive, that is, he will utilise his knowledge and consciously work for the kingdom of God; he will eagerly work at distributing the obtained information and at imparting the knowledge to his fellow human beings .... Life is continuous activity .... Admittedly, the human being is certainly physically alive without having awakened his indwelling spiritual spark, that is, he is active in an earthly way and thus works for his earthly life, for his body and for earthly goals. But this is not the true life, the life which is everlasting, the life Jesus had spoken about and which He promised to anyone who believes in Him .... True life is the never-ending life of the spirit, the attainment of which is the purpose of life on earth. This purpose will only be achieved when the human being's spirit has come to life.

Spiritual rebirth is the most worthwhile goal to strive for, because it will yield indescribable gain for the human being's soul. That which is offered by the earth is impermanent and only benefits the body but never the soul. In contrast, what the spirit offers the soul will refresh it and quench its thirst, it is its nourishment, thus it is strength for living; it is a precious commodity which can no longer perish, which induces happiness and encourages diligent activity and therefore can be called the elixir of life, because death, which previously had threatened the soul and would be its inevitable share had rebirth not taken place, will no longer be possible. The carnal body is the shell which harbours the divine spark and it is up to the person's free will as to whether he bursts the shell, whether he strives to awaken the Divine within himself to life. If the soul, the bearer of the will, turns towards the divine spirit by trying to penetrate the shell, by trying to liberate itself from all earthly wishes, from bad habits and vices, if it tries to dissolve the shell through activity of love, the divine spiritual spark will start to move, it will make contact with the human being's soul, it will help it rise above itself, it will constantly whisper advice and instructions and thus guide the soul as soon as it allows itself to be guided. From then on the divine spark in the person will take the lead and this will truly be right .... Then the spirit and soul will no longer oppose each other but pursue their goal together .... they will strive towards the eternal home and pay no attention to the body, the earth and everything of an earthly nature, even though the human being still lives on earth. The human being is alive, even if earthly matters are of no further interest to him, for his spirit is alive and is constantly active. The human being only works for the spiritual kingdom, for the kingdom of God, he works at improving himself and his fellow human beings, he is incessantly active, for the indwelling spiritual spark will not allow him to rest, that is, to rest idly, as it is harmful and synonymous with death .... with a state which is painful in eternity and should therefore be feared as the worst fate that can befall the human soul. However, once the spirit has come alive then death will no longer exist, for the spirit is immortal and also draws the soul into eternal life, into everlasting glory ....

Amen

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The servants' mission who receive the Word directly ....

B.D. 3241 from September 2nd 1944, taken from Book No. 42

My Word can only be directly conveyed to a few people, because only a few believe that I speak to people Myself and because this faith is absolutely necessary for Me to be able to express Myself in a person .... People lack faith in My work, in My omnipotence and love, and thus I cannot make Myself known to them in the Word either, for in order to be able to hear My Word the human being's spirit has to be alive, but this is part of Me, and thus it cannot manifest itself in the Word where I Am not acknowledged, where faith in Me is insufficient. Yet those who hear My Word and to whom I can speak directly are needed by Me on earth, for they have to accomplish a great mission .... They shall let faith in Me arise anew amongst people, they shall strengthen those who are still weak in faith, they shall proclaim Me, speak of My love, omnipotence and wisdom, they shall bring Me close to people and refer them to the Word which they are able to hear themselves. And thus they shall speak on My behalf where My voice is no longer heard .... I Myself want to speak through them because divine activity is not acknowledged, but it is imperative that people should be informed of My will, that they are admonished to live according to My order, that they are informed of the dangers which result in a way of life in opposition to My order, and that love is constantly preached to them so that they will reduce the distance from Me and thus become capable of believing and of hearing My Word themselves. The number of labourers in My vineyard is not large, for people seek earthly reward for their service; but those in My service have to work for spiritual reward and this remuneration does not appeal to the former. Yet the few who are of service to Me receive far more than they relinquish, for they are the servants of a Lord Who has all the treasures of heaven and earth at His disposal, Who has the power to give everything and Who, in His love, provides His Own with an abundance of everlasting gifts which outshine everything that the earth is able to show. Those who want to serve Me can be certain of My love, and I prove this love of Mine by speaking to them like a father who speaks to his child, yet in a way which benefits its soul. For not all people are capable of enduring My loving Word if I include My full abundance of love, not all are mature enough as to hear Me audibly; yet merely their will to help Me enables them to grasp My Word, regardless in which form I transmit it to them.

My Word is the token of My love, but My Word is also the evidence of My omnipotence for a person who is still weak in faith. For I, being invisible to you humans, manifest Myself through My Word which is eternal truth and will also be recognised as such as soon as you believe in Me. But through My Word I also want to provide evidence for the unbelievers by predicting things they will experience and which will thus enable them to recognise My truth. At the same time, I will give them the evidence of My omnipotence too, because the forthcoming occurrence will not be accomplished by people but will be entirely My work and therefore will help many people to believe in Me. This is why I instruct My servants to mention My predictions far and wide, for My love applies to those who are incapable or weak in faith, and in order to help them I will visibly manifest Myself after announcing it in advance. I grant the grace of hearing My Word to those who want to receive it, who desire Me and My Word with all their heart and who humbly submit themselves to My will. This grace, however, enables the person to mature if he allows it to take effect in him .... And My Word is the most effective means of grace, since the soul of anyone who has My Word and lives accordingly is already bound to become fully mature on earth. You should therefore be grateful that you may hear Me through a person who allows Me to speak to him, i.e. who believes in Me, in My work, My love and omnipotence and who therefore listens within to what I say to him. You should not hear him but instead hear Me in every Word that reaches you, you should let the grace take effect in you, you should become strong in faith and try to motivate your fellow human beings to gain faith as well by informing them of the heavenly Father's concern for His children who have distanced themselves and are no longer able to hear His voice. But you should receive My servants as My messengers who want to convey the grace of their Lord to you, who want to bring you peace if you are of good will .... Pay attention to their words and you will hear My voice, comply with it and submit yourselves to My will .... My servants, however, are blessed and prepared by Me for their work in My vineyard ....

Amen

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God's mercy and grace ....

B.D. 3242 from September 3rd 1944, taken from Book No. 42

God's grace and mercy is granted to all who are in distress of soul. For His love embraces all His living creations, and His love seeks to lift up the fallen, He seeks to comfort the suffering, to help the erring to the truth and to strengthen the weak, so that the soul will recognize that there is ne Who is full of love and to Whom it should now turn in love .... And therefore His grace and mercy comes to the aid of all people who only want to be helped. For no human being is too far removed from God not to be loved by Him, and no person who wants to accept His grace needs to do without it. For God's love and patience knows no bounds .... But if the person's resistance to God is so great that his will of rejection is strong, then God will withdraw His love and patience, then He will not prevent the being from acting according to His will, which will lead him towards the abyss. The whole of humanity has reached this stage that it closes itself to God's grace and mercy. Then this means a slow cooling down of God's love, i.e. His creatures' insensitivity to His emanation of love, and .... since love sustains everything .... a perishing of creation. Yet God's mercy and grace remains eternal, and it also helps the one who has completely fallen away from Him to ascend again, only in a way which is not recognized as grace and mercy. For even the most agonizing state .... the state of banishment in the solid form or the state of greatest torment in the beyond .... is a means of helping the fallen one to rise again. If God's mercy, the eternal love, were to withdraw completely from the fallen beingness, the material creation would also cease to be, for God would no longer need it as a form for the spiritual, which is to develop upwards .... The spiritual would remain in eternal darkness in the spiritual kingdom. But God's love is eternal and unchanging .... It does not rest until that which once came forth from It has completely united with It again in order to prepare the bliss of Its nearness for it. And this love always finds new ways and means to win over that which resists it. But in its state of resistance it must eternally lack divine love which, although it flows towards it, it cannot feel and which therefore also remains ineffective in it. But as long as the human being stays on earth he can constantly receive His love if he only wants to. God's mercy and grace comes close to even the most distant human being in such a form that he can change, that he can give up his resistance against God and come close to Him again. And His mercy and grace will become more evident in the time to come. It will one day throb on all hearts and bring news of God's infinite love, admonishing them to give up their resistance against Him and warning them against remaining in rejection, for the end is no longer far away when God's love will seemingly withdraw from everything that lives on earth .... Yet the spiritual darkness is so great that God's love is no longer recognized, and every day thickens this darkness, although a bright light shines .... the divine truth which descends to earth as a ray of light and could bring recognition to people if they would expose themselves to the effect of these rays of light. But they flee the light, and therefore the end has come for people who are of dark spirit, so that they can start the renewed earthly path in order to one day reach ascent after all ....

Amen

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Blessing of prayer .... power from God ....

B.D. 3243 from September 3rd 1944, taken from Book No. 42

This is the power of prayer, that you connect with God and thereby open your heart to receive strength. You enter the bridge to Him, and He comes to meet you, and He distributes what you lack, what you can only receive from Him .... strength from God .... For you need this and it can only be supplied to you if you request it, if you acknowledge God through prayer. For through prayer you prove your faith in Him, in His might and His love, otherwise you would not pray to Him. And faith is the first prerequisite for God's strength to flow to you and become effective, for only by believing in Him and His might and love do you open yourselves to the influx of His strength and thus consciously receive it. You do not resist it and your soul will feel this strength as stimulation, as striving for perfection. This is the blessing of prayer, even if it is an earthly request which God does not fulfil for the sake of the soul's salvation, the soul nevertheless benefits from the strength which arises from the connection with God, it benefits its spiritual progress, for every connection with God carries its blessing within itself, not always outwardly recognizable but beneficially felt by the soul. As soon as an earthly child prays it has escaped the power of God's adversary; a praying person is seized by God's love and is under His protection. A praying person is humble and therefore also receives grace, for if the person is arrogant he does not pray or his prayer is formal without deep feeling, for right prayer involves humility of heart, the admission of weakness and submission to God's will .... But God gives His grace to the humble .... And being in God's grace must result in spiritual success for the soul, for receiving grace always means being certain of God's help which he needs for his ascent. As soon as the human being prays he reduces the distance between himself and God, he draws closer to Him and God does not withdraw from him. He bends towards the child pleading with Him full of love, and every approach to God strengthens the soul because strength radiates from God to the being which desires such. And that is why prayer is the first thing to be able to mature spiritually, the conscious contact with God is an unconscious profession of faith, and the believing human being can constantly be certain of God's help, even if the help is offered to him in a different form than he desired. But prayer never has no effect on the soul, because it will always receive strength from God without which the human being can never mature, and because this strength is the most exquisite good that can be conveyed to the human being on earth, it nevertheless provides him with the spiritual maturity which is absolutely necessary for eternal life ....

Amen

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Self-knowledge .... Psychological work .... Grace .... Humility ....

B.D. 3244 from September 4th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

The human being is at greatest risk if he indulges in self-satisfaction, if he deems himself psychologically highly developed and does not know himself. For he lacks humility which he, however, will have to demonstrate to God if he wants to receive His grace in order to continue maturing. Only someone who deems himself small will strive to ascend, only someone who feels weak will appeal for strength, and if he humbly approaches the heavenly Father in prayer strength can be given to him.

The human being should constantly work at improving himself and he can only do so if he considers himself imperfect, if he is aware of his faults and weaknesses and tries to discard them. Every step towards perfection must be laboriously fought for, since fighting one's own faults and weaknesses requires fighting against oneself, against one's cravings, one's leaning towards the world, towards material possessions, against one's evil instincts which make it difficult for the soul to release the spirit.

And this battle is an easy one as long as the body still makes demands which impede his psychological maturity. But first of all the human being must recognise himself; he must know what God wants and to what extent his will is still in opposition to God's will; he must know that God requires a complete transformation into love, and he must contemplate what this change into love means .... that no evil thought should arise in the person and thus no evil deed may be carried out, that every movement of the human heart must be virtuous and gentle, that all bad habits should be fought against and that the human being must train himself to become gentle, peaceful, patient, compassionate and humble. He must constantly observe himself, and time and again he will find weaknesses and flaws if he takes his work of improving himself seriously .... he will not be satisfied with himself as long as he lives on earth, for he will not become so perfect on earth that he would have nothing to criticise about himself anymore. He must strive for perfection as long as he lives, and he will only do so as long as he is aware of his imperfection as a result of his stringent self-criticism and as long as he is absolutely determined to take the path of ascent .... And thus he has to remain profoundly humble and consider himself and his work small and even more sincerely request the gift of grace so that God's strength will flow to him and enable him to carry out the work of improving his soul, because God giveth grace to the humble ....

Amen

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Gift from the spiritual realm - privilege ....

B.D. 3245 from September 5th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

People on earth enjoy the privilege of being directly instructed from the spiritual kingdom, and thus they can penetrate the eternal truth if they make use of this privilege, i.e. if they accept the instructions. God Himself instructs His messengers to bring light to earth because it lies in complete darkness. And where a willing earthly child is found which accepts this light, direct instruction from the spiritual kingdom can also take place. And such an instruction has extraordinarily many advantages, after all, the human being has the guarantee of pure truth, which can never ever be given to him by people. For human intellectual thinking is out of the question as soon as spiritual results continuously arise in an extraordinarily short time. But if spiritual activity is recognizable this activity must inevitably take place on God's instructions or in accordance with God's will, because forces which oppose Him would never make the divine plan of salvation and redemption comprehensible to people. God-dedicated spiritual forces are active which want to help people in their great spiritual adversity, and they can only offer purest truth because every untruth, every error, is far from them as soon as they have the spheres of light of the spiritual kingdom as their abode. And the fact that they are beings of light who express themselves in an instructive way is evident from the fact that only teachings full of light, thus teachings which illuminate people's thinking and impart wisdom to them, are conveyed to earth, that light shines into the darkness prevailing there and chases away the darkness .... thus people become knowledgeable and this knowledge can be transferred to their fellow human beings again. Light, however, must flow from a ray of light, light cannot come from darkness but it must come from spheres which are full of light, which are therefore subject to the eternal deity Itself, whose inhabitants stand in the light because they are close to the eternal light ....

The instructions from the spiritual kingdom are therefore immensely valuable for people because they are the key to the knowledge of God and to the recognition of themselves and their task. They are a sign of God's great love, Who does not want them to walk in spiritual darkness and thereby forfeit light and strength because they see no way to reach it. He wants to show them the way, He wants to instruct them about everything that is connected with their existence .... He wants to impart the pure truth to them for their own benefit, for the attainment of eternal bliss .... Anyone who therefore accepts the spiritual instructions must also take the right path which leads upwards, for God Himself calls him and guides him if he allows himself to be led. For it is certain that God offers His creations every opportunity to learn to recognize Him, but that He does not force any of His creatures into recognition. But if spiritual knowledge is offered which has a noticeable spiritual origin, which thus comes to earth from the spiritual kingdom, the human being's free will will be appealed to in order to be adapted .... If he wants the good and his desire is directed towards God then he also acknowledges the spiritual origin; but if he lacks the ability to recognize it as God's mission then his will still inwardly rebels .... he does not seek God but is content with what earthly life offers him .... he knows no spiritual striving and God's grace is not effective in him. The giver of what comes from the spiritual kingdom can easily be recognized by the spiritual gifts themselves, which only concern God and His rule and activity, His love, wisdom and omnipotence, His act of salvation through Jesus Christ and the divine plan of salvation and therefore can never come from God-opposing forces or have arisen through human thinking. For even the latter is guided by God Himself as soon as it deals with things which reach into the spiritual kingdom, and then the intellect alone is no longer active but the spirit of God expresses itself through such people. But if a gift from the spiritual kingdom is conspicuously offered it is a privilege which cannot be valued enough, for God obviously takes care of humanity which is wrongly guided in its thinking and therefore lives in spiritual darkness .... He gives it light so that it will recognize the path which leads to Him ....

Amen

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God's providence .... helpers in need ....

B.D. 3246 from September 6th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

Recognize God's guidance, and give thanks and praise to Him .... For your fate in life is based on His will, and therefore everything has to happen as it happens. And therefore bear everything with patience, accept everything with gratitude, be it joy or suffering, for both will be for your best if you acknowledge it as God's providence and submit to His will. You will still have to endure the suffering of time for a little while, for the end will not leave anyone out, yet the father always and constantly holds His protective hand over His children and guides everything to the good, no matter what may come. Adversity is never greater than the Helper, and it is truly easy for His might to change the greatest adversity into happiness and to ease the earthly fate of the person who is in hard distress. But he must believe in Him and His power, in His love and seek to attain this love .... He must strive to live according to God's will so that God's love will also express itself. And even if earthly adversity seems insurmountable, firm faith and unshakable trust in God's help will banish it, and thus the human being himself has the surest means to avert it as soon as he appeals to the father in heaven, Who will not leave His children in adversity ....

Amen

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Revelations of God .... understanding - condition ....

B.D. 3247 from September 7th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

What is hidden from the world is revealed by the spirit of God to those who have detached themselves from the world and desire to hear God's voice. And His revelation is truly of inestimable value, for it is profoundest wisdom which the spirit of God conveys to them, and this wisdom paves the soul's path to eternal life. And as soon as the spirit of God can become effective in the human being he is in constant contact with God, the highest spirit of heaven and earth, and consequently he must now also increase in knowledge and light, because God, as the eternal wisdom and the original light, constantly emanates wisdom and light. And His revelations are inexhaustible, and the human being can always draw from the source of wisdom and enrich his knowledge because God does not set him any limits. But if a fellow human being wants to understand these revelations, if they are conveyed to him by a person enlightened by God's spirit, he must first absolutely have the will to penetrate the pure truth and make himself worthy of it through a life of love. Only then will the imparted spiritual knowledge become comprehensible to him, otherwise it will either pass unimpressively by his ear or remain misunderstood or be completely misinterpreted. For God certainly gives His revelations to the recipient in an understandable way, yet this understanding is due to the working of the spirit in the human being, and where this cannot become effective the human being lacks understanding as soon as he does not fulfil the condition first. For this reason no person who is not called to do so should ever try to interpret divine revelations as long as he is not in contact with the spiritual kingdom and its messengers. These can certainly influence his thinking and try to guide it correctly, yet a certain training on the part of the spiritual beings is necessary in order to grasp spiritual truths, which requires the human being's will who then submits to the conditions imposed on him. For as soon as he is instructed by the divine spirit he will become light and bright, and every gift will supplement his knowledge and increase his spiritual wealth. For it is only purely spiritual truths, it is knowledge which is meaningless for the earthly world because it does not earn the human being any earthly, material goods, because it only concerns the spiritual kingdom and simply appears unacceptable to worldly people. Yet it makes everyone happy who strives spiritually, who despises the world and makes an effort to live a life of love .... For he knows the value of spiritual goods and may never ever give them away for the highest goods of the world ....

But it is an unspoken rejection when a spiritual gift is accepted apathetically, when the intellect does not become active, thus the human being does not take a mental position on it and the gift does not touch the will at all and stimulate it to activity. But then he will never have knowledge in the spiritual field either, for he can never gain it through the world. And his own intellectual thinking is not enough to penetrate the depths of divine wisdom. There is only one possibility .... through the working of the spirit in the human being .... to be guided into truth, into spiritual knowledge. If this possibility is not used then the human being will remain ignorant and lightless, even if he has great earthly knowledge at his disposal. But the spirit works from within, for even what is conveyed to the human being from outside has to be made comprehensible to him from within, so that truth can never be transferred to the human being in a scholastic way but the working of the spirit is also an essential part of this scholastic knowledge if it is to be recognized by the human being as truth. The right source of spiritual knowledge always remains the word of God, yet this also has to be explained by the spirit of God, otherwise it can be misunderstood and thus also passed on incorrectly. But if an explanation meets with any resistance on the part of the pupil, then the meaning will also remain dark to him, for he will close himself off to the ray of light which wants to shine through him. Thus every erroneous teaching that has taken root in a person is caused by his own will insofar as he has thoughtlessly accepted a teaching imparted to him from outside and now holds on to it as truth. In this way he makes himself incapable of the working of the spirit, because he does not pay attention to its voice, since he believes himself to be standing in the truth .... But the human being must always listen to the inner voice if he wants to be taught by the spirit of God. But then knowledge will be made accessible to him which will fully compensate him for the effort of listening inwardly .... For the truth from God is a most delicious commodity which can now never be taken away from him but which constantly increases the more the human being gives of it and the easier it is for him to detach himself from what was previously offered to him as truth .... For God demands unconditional acceptance of His teachings, and any resistance reduces the possibility of penetrating divine truth ....

Amen

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God makes Himself manifest in the word ....

B.D. 3248 from September 8th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

God's activity comes to light in an unmistakable way as soon as the spiritual need of humanity requires it. God is a God of love, He does not separate Himself eternally from His creatures, to whom He has given a free life that brings them the highest freedom and perfection. However, as soon as they are in danger of losing this free life, as soon as they enter a state which means for them to sink into complete bondage, God Himself will obviously confront them, yet only recognizable to the one of good will .... He does not touch freedom of will but seeks to arouse its will .... And thus God will be recognizable to some people but remain unrecognizable to most because they lack the will to do so. God does not abandon His living creations to their fate as soon as weakness of will has caused them spiritual adversity, yet every individual person is the shaper of his future life according to his will. It can be a life in fullest freedom and highest bliss as well as a life which can rather be called death, in bondage and greatest torment. God's love wants to avert the latter and therefore appears wherever there is still the possibility to change a person's mind. And it expresses itself in the most diverse form, depending on the human being's degree of development and maturity. The eternal deity manifests Itself, but only to deeply believing people, for whom this manifestation no longer means compulsory faith .... However, It also expresses Itself perceptibly where faith is only weak, and it is up to the human being himself how he evaluates this .... He only needs to believe that God's love does not leave any creature in spiritual hardship, then God's diverse activity will also become explainable to him, and then every extraordinary phenomenon will gain in significance. And thus He also makes Himself known to people in the word, which He Himself conveys to people in an extraordinary way .... This is a process of such far-reaching importance that it has to be explained again and again. God speaks to people, and that in fullest truth .... However, the human being has never been content with His divine word but has tried to add to it on his own initiative, and the consequence of this was that the pure word of God, as it was originally given by Him, is interspersed with human words which were certainly added in the best sense but which always impaired the purity of the divine word. People of unenlightened spirit are unable to separate the pure word of God from the additional human work, and thus it is always a danger for them if they are not assisted by enlightened people who first have the task of clarifying ambiguities, refuting erroneous teachings and extracting the divinely pure word if contradictions arise. For God, as the eternal truth Himself, is not pleased with error and lies, and again and again He seeks to substitute truth for them. Again and again He conveys the pure truth to willing earthly people who willingly offer themselves to Him for service, He comprehensibly and patiently informs them about questions which are still unresolved or give rise to different opinions. He trains those servants so that they speak in His place where it is commanded in order to spread the truth. Thus He obviously expresses Himself, for He visibly lets a work come into being which informs people of His love, His activity and His wisdom .... He makes this work accessible to people and thereby gives them grace upon grace .... Yet the human being's will remains free, he is not forced to acknowledge this divine truth as such; however, he only derives grace and blessing from it if he faithfully accepts what is offered to him in love. His will determines, but not the will of God .... consequently, the human being's will also determines his future state, his life in eternity .... whether this is a happy life or spiritual death for him .... Never again is God's will decisive for the human being's course of development and degree of maturity, but solely the human being's will. Divine will certainly guides him towards all possibilities which are favourable for spiritual progress, yet the human being has to exploit them himself in free will, he is by no means compulsorily driven to do so but only guided in fatherly love as soon as he allows himself to be guided. The acceptance of the divine word offers the human being an exceptional opportunity to mature, thus this is a gift of grace from God which can bring him the greatest success if he uses it. Thus the will must first become active again if God's grace is to take effect in him. And in order to stimulate this will God appears extraordinarily by revealing Himself to people in a way which deviates from the everyday .... by switching off a person's intellectual thinking and yet writing down spiritual wisdom which reveals God's will and is intended to help people to live a way of life in accordance with His will. Depending on his faith the human being will draw blessings from these proclamations, especially in the last days when this divine word alone will give people strength and comfort and is certain proof of the divine dwelling amongst people. And thus God visibly manifests Himself through His word, He speaks to them, audibly by all who are enlightened by His spirit because they love Him, desire the truth and also consider His working possible, for these will listen inwardly in silence and receive God's grace and become partakers of its blessings because free will decides to accept it and thus allows the divine grace to be effective. And it is these who acquire the kingdom of God, who enter the kingdom of light after their death, into eternal life, which signifies unceasing activity and unimagined bliss in the proximity of God ....

Amen

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Freedom of the will .... (doctrine of predestination)

B.D. 3249 from September 9th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

The sun of the spirit shall rise and chase away darkness .... where there is darkness there shall be light, where there is lack of understanding and ignorance there shall be enlightenment by the word of God, for it is God Himself Who instructs people if they want to receive His word. And He truly gives them these instructions in the right form, in accordance with their will for truth and according to their receptivity and worthiness. And this is His word: Try to think of the divine will as the fundamental principle according to which everything takes place in heaven and on earth .... try to let this divine will apply first, and then you will only look at every event from this side, that the divine will cannot be uninvolved in it, for without (His) God's will no other will can come into effect .... even if it is completely adversarial. Every will, whether good or evil, must first be sanctioned by His will before it can come into activity, thus the divine will underlies every happening, which, however, does not mean that God approves of what the evil will gives birth to. Nevertheless, even the evil will could not be if the human being were not enabled by God to want, thus every will is founded in God's will .... But God never determines man to want good or evil, but the direction of his will is left up to him, and this is free will .... The fact that the human being can want is God's gift, God's destiny or also a grace of God .... but what he wants is his own destiny, in this God leaves him complete freedom, even though he can also be prevented from carrying out what he wants. Nevertheless, his will has been put into action, he has declared the direction of his will to God, and it is this direction of will for which he has to answer. And the divine commandments are the standard for good or evil will. Thus God will never try to influence the human will to violate His commandments, but He will put the thoughts into his heart to take a stand on one of the commandments .... Thus good and evil will always approach him, the will in the human being will also be stimulated according to divine determination .... however, it is up to the human being how he decides. And God will cause him to express his will through earthly events, and therefore earthly events approach him in a way which is most favourable to his decision of will. And this is fate, his predetermined course of life, which takes all his predispositions into account and gives him the greatest opportunity to let his will become active in the right direction. Freedom of will is very often misunderstood, for it is related to the execution of earthly activity, and a prevented execution of what the human being wants is called unfree will .... The possibility of execution is completely independent of the will itself .... This is free, i.e. the human being himself determines the direction the will takes, and the freedom of his will will never be touched by God .... However, freedom of will can be misused for God-opposing activity as well as for God-opposing thinking. Even then the human being makes use of the strength from God, i.e. the life force which flows towards him, and consequently, in a certain sense, of God's approval, because without His will nothing can happen and without His will the human being would also not be able to think. And yet, it cannot be said that God has determined the human being's will for his thinking and acting. Even if God Himself placed the will in the human being, He nevertheless did not direct this will to good or evil deeds. And this has to be kept apart, otherwise free will would have to be denied and the human being could never have a claim to perfection. People usually relate the freedom of will to purely earthly actions, thoughts or events, and they often experience that they are very unfree because actions, thoughts and events do not always correspond to their will. Then the will of God obviously expresses itself and they eagerly contest the doctrine of free will. But even then 'will' and 'possibility of execution' are still different terms, because the human being can always give the will the direction he likes. In spiritual terms, however, the will will always be able to be carried out, for what the human being wants he also receives the strength for, except that his will also determines the origin of the strength, that the strength is supplied to him from above or also from below, thus he hands himself over to the strength which his will inclines towards. But even then God gives His approval, i.e. He does not hinder the human being's course of development although it leads away from Him, because He has given the being the freedom of will and will not eternally revoke this freedom if it lives out the last stage on earth as a human being, which shall earn it the final maturity.

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Freedom of the will .... (doctrine of predestination)

B.D. 3250 from September 10th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

I do not command the human will but leave it its freedom. I certainly remain constantly active in him by constantly supplying him with the strength to want, think and act as an independent being. And thus I am the originator of his life as well as of his thinking and wanting. For once something has emerged from My hand I must also constantly put it into the state of being able to fulfil its purpose, which underlies every work of creation, every product of My strength of love, otherwise My working could be denied wisdom, which, however, undeniably appears everywhere if the human being has reached a certain level of realization and has an open eye for My rule and working. But if I constantly supply all created things with vitality in order to be able to exist, then understandably all life, all activity, is dependent on My will and consequently also all organic activity of the human being, which only My will allows to come into operation, and thus it is I Who works in the human being .... both the will and the accomplishment; for I gave the human being this ability as the highest work of creation on the visible earth. Without this gift, however, the human being would not be a free, independent being and thus would not be able to develop himself upwards. Yet I also gave him freedom of will, i.e. he is free to use the gift of will and accomplishment in every direction, and he will never be forced by Me to take this or that direction, he will only be lovingly guided on his path of life such that he will be faced with decisions, because this is the purpose of his earthly life, that he will use his free will correctly. I want to make blissful creatures out of all people, yet beatitude depends on the will for good .... Deciding in favour of the good in all freedom of will brings the soul the highest bliss .... But if the human being is good as a result of being influenced by Me, then he is no longer a free, independent being, and without freedom there is no bliss .... It is free will which should always and constantly be safeguarded, both in the earthly as well as in the spiritual kingdom, if all beings are to shape themselves in My image one day. And the question of free will is so extremely important that the human being will always be given an answer to it, so that his thinking will not be in error and thus the doctrine of salvation will become completely incomprehensible to him. I always instruct you humans in truth if you trustingly turn to Me Myself for clarification of such questions, and I convey this truth to you if you don't hear it yourselves, for your knowledge is inadequate if you are wrongly instructed in crucial questions and then want to build on it. The freedom of will must never ever be denied, otherwise you will reduce yourselves to machines which have to willingly accept everything I, the lord of creation, want .... My will is indeed decisive, yet I never determine the individual being's course of development, just as I never push its will into a certain direction and thus impair the freedom of thought, instead, the decision is left to the human being himself, and as his decision is, so is his state of maturity .... I bestow the blessings on every individual person unmeasured, and thus his will to accept My blessings alone is decisive as to what extent they can take effect on him and what strength he now has at his disposal to put his will into action. My love applies to all My living creations, and therefore I also allocate the same measure of grace to all living creations, yet how they use it is up to them, for I certainly command heaven and earth but I do not force human will ....

Amen

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Chaos .... battle of faith ....

B.D. 3251 from September 11th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

And it will come as it is written .... A spiritual change is imminent but only after a state of extreme confusion, earthly and spiritual perplexity, clearly recognizable satanic activity and utmost earthly and spiritual hardship. For all this must precede so that a new spiritual life will emerge from it, which will now be led by those who assert themselves in these end time, who place spiritual life above earthly life and do not allow themselves to be determined to fall away from God. They will experience the new time, the spiritual transformation and thus also the transformation of the old earth, and God's greatness will become apparent to them, His wisdom, omnipotence and love. The eternal deity is apparently far away from the human race in the last days, but in truth it is closer than ever, for He courts every human soul, and that is why all the suffering on earth is necessary, because it is the last means of winning them. And suffering is also a sign of God's love, Who knocks at the individual's heart in order to make Himself audible to him. And when the last time has come there will be no end to suffering and affliction, so that the human being will close himself off from the pleasures of the world, so that he will turn his thoughts towards eternity, so that he will learn to despise the earth and only recognize its spiritual purpose. And then an unspeakably sad process will take place, carried out on the faithful who faithfully stand by God .... This will signify a final onslaught against the faith, a disenfranchisement will be introduced which shall expel all believers from the circle of the general public; a time of unspeakable suffering will come for these believers, yet it will only appear so to fellow human beings, for the believers themselves do not feel the suffering to the extent it appears, since the strength of God will assist them and make them able to bear the fate imposed upon them. Depending on the depth of faith is also the depth of suffering, which indeed appears unbearable in the eyes of the world but is not such a great burden for the believer that he is unable to bear it. But the world tries to celebrate triumphs, people will be more materialistic than ever, they will chase after worldly pleasures, they will unscrupulously take what seems desirable to them without consideration for their fellow human beings, and they will heap injustice upon injustice, sin upon sin and offend against the divine commandments because they no longer acknowledge God and testify to this in the openly waged battle against the believers. And it is only a small flock that lives scattered amongst people who recognize the near end and eagerly await it. For they know that the end also brings with it the coming of the lord and faithfully wait for Him Who shall bring them salvation from deepest adversity. And God blesses their profound faith by revealing Himself to them wherever the adversity is great and people need strengthening. He is with them at all times, for every believing thought calls upon Him. Yet He still remains invisible, He only appears visibly in individual cases until the hour has come when He raptures His own, when He lifts them up in a living body before the work of destruction on earth takes place. And then the great earthly adversity will be over, for the believers can no longer be harassed if they take possession of the new earth again in order to start a new redemption period as the tribe of the new human race. For all evil has been banished and thus rendered harmless ....

Amen

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Acknowledging Jesus Christ .... binding satan ....

B.D. 3252 from September 13th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

The spiritual collapse is inevitable if Christ is no longer acknowledged and people no longer establish the right relationship with God, for then they are helpless and in greatest spiritual hardship because they are heading towards their downfall. Spiritual decline also results in earthly collapse, for everything dissolves as soon as it is deprived of its spiritual foundation. Nothing can exist without God, but where the spiritual is completely pushed into the background God is no longer acknowledged either, and this is the worst thing people can do, that they deny God, for thereby they also accelerate their own downfall, and they weaken or lose their power of realization for the time being, they don't recognize the adversity they are in. They are only concerned about meeting earthly demands and give up everything for the earthly world which could lead them spiritually upwards. And the result is a spiritual and earthly collapse and a terrible end bodily and earthly. Faith in Jesus Christ could prevent this, yet without Him humanity no longer finds the strength to change, and it sinks ever further and thus inevitably draws the end closer, because without God nothing can exist .... (13.9.1944) Satan’s power is overwhelming because people themselves grant him power over themselves, yet only the human being can be victorious over him who, through Jesus Christ, has a strength of will which nothing can resist. But where faith in Jesus Christ has been lost, there God's adversary rages with increased violence. And his weapons are hatred and unkindness, which have a destructive and devastating effect in every way but only ever through the will of man, since God's adversary has no power over the other works of creation. And thus he makes use of the will of the people in bondage to him in order to destroy and annihilate, in order to release the spiritual substances banished by God in creation against God's will. And this spiritual that has become free, standing in a deep degree of development, now also exerts a devastating effect on its surroundings, be it the natural world, plants and animals, or also human beings. An unparalleled chaos arises, a chaos which is not suitable for the spiritual upward development of the human being and also of the still bound spiritual in creation, and this chaos would lead to the final destruction of what is accessible to human will if God Himself does not assert His power and put an end to satan’s activity. From the time when people presume to take action against God Himself, i.e. to declare war on everything divine-spiritual and in particular to eradicate faith in Jesus Christ amongst people, God's activity also becomes evident, the more noticeable the further this battle against God has progressed. For if people are to retain the possibility of higher development, they must also retain the knowledge of God, Who descended to earth in the man Jesus to redeem humanity, otherwise people would be completely defenceless and powerless at the mercy of satan’s rage and inevitably have to perish, spiritually and also earthly. The decision, which is the purpose of earthly life, could no longer be demanded of them, since they would only come to know the one, evil, and the good, divine, would remain hidden from them. But as soon as satan takes action against God Himself, God lets him feel His power .... He wrests from him his own and binds him for a long time .... And this binding happens in such a way that he, together with the people in bondage to him, who were his servants on earth, who carried out in hatred and unkindness what he demanded of them, is banished again into the new creation, into hardest matter, which remains his imprisonment, so that he cannot oppress the good spiritual, for whom the path to ascent is now facilitated for a long time. Spiritual ascent development certainly requires strength and resistance, it requires a decision between good and evil, and therefore good must always be opposed by evil, so that people can decide, so that they can let their free will become active. However, on the new earth people all stand under the sign of the cross, they are followers of Christ from the bottom of their hearts, they are in closest contact with God, they have already made up their minds through the extremely difficult time of battle before, during which they remained faithful to Him, and for the time being they don't need any opposing force against which they are to assert themselves. And as long as they remain in this intimate bond with God, God's adversary is also bound, whose shackles will only be loosened again by the human being's will. For as soon as the connection with God begins to weaken, the human being's senses turn to matter again, which contains the fallen spiritual substance .... and with their desire they loosen its bonds, and thus God's adversary slowly becomes active again through the human being's will .... And the spiritual battle, the battle between light and darkness, begins anew .... And Jesus Christ must always be the centre of attention if the battle against darkness is to end victoriously; for the light on earth and in the beyond is the spiritual being redeemed through Jesus Christ's blood, and only the one who acknowledges Jesus Christ as redeemer of the world and son of God can irrevocably attain the light, otherwise satan’s power is so great over him that he drags him down into darkness to eternal ruin. And the denial of Christ will always lead to earthly and spiritual collapse, because then humanity will make a pact with God's adversary, because it will completely distance itself from God and this will mean the dissolution of every form which will no longer fulfil its purpose, the purpose of the soul's higher development, and which will therefore pass away through God's will, i.e. change itself, so that God will assign it a new purpose again. For God's power will overcome every opposing power, He will bind the adversary when his hour has come ....

Amen

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Turning to grace and strength not physically tangible ....

B.D. 3253 from September 13th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

I give strength and grace to every earthly child who asks Me for it. For I want it to reach Me because I love it and woo its soul without ceasing. And therefore I will not let any of My children go without if they express their will to come close to Me. I know that the human being is too weak without My grace, My strength, and therefore I give it to him unmeasured, and he may make use of it at any time if only he wants to and opens himself to My supply of strength. I constantly bring Myself close to him, and his heart will also feel Me if it glows with love for Me itself. Yet as long as the human being dwells on earth, as long as he has to fulfil his duties and meet earthly requirements, it is not suitable for him to sink too much into the shower of My love, for this makes him unsuitable for earthly life, it transports him into supernatural spheres and renders him incapable of his earthly task. And therefore the human being will not physically feel the attention of My grace and love in an extraordinary way and therefore at times believe himself abandoned by Me. Yet the child which hands itself over to Me will remain in My love forever. It will also always be allowed to receive My strength and grace in the form of My word which is constantly conveyed to it. And although the process of transmitting My word takes place without any mental excitement I am nevertheless with the earthly child with My love, and I bless it by considering its soul, as it is beneficial for it to reach maturity. As long as the human being stays on earth he is also bound by earthly laws, and My emanation of love must still reach him with moderate brilliance, otherwise it would destroy him and he would no longer be able to fulfil his earthly task, because then his longing for the spiritual world would be too strong in him and he would want to leave earth forever. And this would, to a certain extent, be a curtailment of free will, it would be a coercion, a higher development in compulsion, because the physically noticeable effect of the supply of strength would spur the human being on to highest striving for the sake of the bliss he feels .... But the human being should strive upwards completely uninfluenced, he should fulfil his earthly life and seek and strive for Me without any compulsion, he should prove his love for Me through his way of life, he should believe in My word that My love is constantly with him, and he should see My greatest love in the fact that I make him happy with My word, which earns him eternal beatitude as soon as he departs from earth and enters the spiritual kingdom. And then he will be allowed to tangibly receive My love, then he will revel in bliss, and his constant longing for My nearness will be fulfilled without restriction. Then I will be able to embrace My child with the hottest emanation of love, for then it will be able to endure My emanation of love and be unspeakably blissful, because it is also capable of love itself, because it has changed itself into love on earth through the uninterrupted influx of grace and strength ....

Amen

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World and earthly pleasures or spiritual realm ....

B.D. 3254 from September 14th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

Anyone who makes the world his friend will have no share in the spiritual kingdom, for the earthly world prevents the human being from seeking contact with the spiritual kingdom, and without this connection there is no spiritual progress, thus no higher development of the soul. The human being is earthbound as long as he stays on earth, but he can still detach himself from it, he can overcome the earth as long as he only pays as much attention to earthly things as is necessary to fulfil his earthly task. Then he will be able to join the spiritual kingdom all the more eagerly and fully receive its treasures, the spiritual wealth which promotes his higher development. Spiritual treasures and earthly treasures can never be acquired at the same time, but only one at the expense of the other. And the human being must be clear about what he would rather give up and what he would like to receive. He will often be confronted with the decision, temptations will approach him, the world will entice him with earthly joys and pleasures; yet the spiritual kingdom will also send its messengers and make itself desirable to him, and then the human being must decide in all freedom of will which treasures he desires. Spiritual treasures are far more valuable than earthly treasures, for they outlast earthly life and ensure a blissful life in eternity. Earthly treasures and joys, on the other hand, are only temporarily gratifying, only to flatten out and leave an emptiness in the heart, for the soul feels that they do not contribute to its salvation, to its spiritual development. And therefore earthly pleasures are a danger for the souls as long as they fill the human being's heart and deny him the entrance into the spiritual kingdom. And yet the human being has to be confronted with such decisions, he has to learn to decide, he has to realize that he can only take one path, upwards or downwards. If he is seriously willing to acquire the kingdom of God he will always remain close to God in prayer and in loving activity, and then God Himself will take the lead and guide the earthly child through all dangers. He only needs the human being's complete devotion in order to be able to look after him with fatherly love, and He only wants what is right for His children. He wants to make them blissfully happy, and He will safely guide them towards the eternal home where glories await them which outweigh every earthly happiness a thousand fold. And therefore the human being should overcome himself, he should not worry about his life on earth but about eternal life in the spiritual kingdom. He should give up everything that prevents him from connecting with that kingdom, he should be strong in renunciation and even stronger in desire, yet only spiritual goods and be willing to sacrifice earthly goods for them. Then his higher development will not be questioned, for anyone who desires the world will also receive the world's goods; but anyone who longs for the spiritual kingdom will be given from this kingdom in abundance .... He will be instructed and strengthened, he need not fear a decline, he is always and constantly in contact with good spiritual forces, and his earthly body no longer desires anything for itself but joins the soul's desire which wants to gain eternal life and therefore sacrifices everything that means a danger to its spiritual development .... For the human being only received earthly life as a grace for this, and therefore spiritual development must never be disregarded ....

Amen

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New course of development .... banishing the spiritual ....

B.D. 3255 from September 15th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

The course of development of the spiritual is interrupted by divine will .... What was in constant upward development for infinite times and now fails at the end, i.e. comes to a standstill or declines in development, that is prevented from further decline and is bound again. Because a decline or standstill of development can only happen in the state of free will, while the bound will always means an ascent development, indeed in a state of compulsion, but also most extensively adapted to the will of the beingness, which is apparent to God at all times. The binding of free will now again necessitates new external forms, which are in accordance with the hardness of the opposing will and now again have to hold the spiritual within themselves, which starts the course of development anew. In God's eternal order and lawfulness there can only be an upward development where His will is active; and only the human being's free will can overturn this order. To a certain extent God does not interfere with the human being's free will, He leaves him complete freedom as to how he uses the last embodiment on earth for his spiritual development. However, if there is a danger that all spiritual ascent development will be prevented, that the spiritual being which strives towards God will also be dragged into a state of lightlessness, then the divine will will put a stop to it by depriving the spiritual being which acts against His will of its free will .... by binding it again in the firmest form in order to give it every opportunity to change its opposing will, which irrevocably has to happen once, even if eternities pass by. For every decision must take place in free will, and free will always presupposes a stage of maturity where the spiritual can embody itself again as a human being. Eternities pass for the beingness which again and again lets this free will become active in a wrong way, and that is why ever harder and more difficult tasks have to be given to it so that it finally gives up its resistance against God and turns to Him in the state of free will. Understandably, therefore, at the end of a period of development the God-opposing spiritual will always start to rage extremely strongly because it feels that it will soon be deprived of its power and because it now seeks to gain control of the light because it believes it will thereby reduce God's power. And this battle with the light takes on such forms shortly before the end that only a violent intervention by God protects what is full of light, for the adversary's power has become tremendously strong due to humanity's voluntary support, and this always signifies the end .... For God will take away his power as soon as the battle against the light comes to light undisguised, as soon as people who strive towards the light are to be forced to turn towards darkness. Then satan’s fight is directed against God Himself, and then he finds in Him his master .... The binding in form robs all dark spiritual of all strength and power. It cannot now be active in any work of creation according to its own will, but must now be active according to God's will, it must serve in a state of compulsion and thereby cover the course of higher development, it must in an infinitely long time bring itself again to the state of maturity which earns it the last embodiment on earth .... as a human being, using free will. As long as divine will alone is decisive there is no regression, and therefore the spiritual being must mature as long as it is in bound will, although the strength of the opposing will also determines the external form and therefore also the extent of the torments of being bound. Only when God withdraws His will from the being insofar as He gives it the freedom of its will, thus allowing it to determine itself, is there a danger that the upward development will come to a standstill or decline, and this again up to the limit which God has set .... Then He will interrupt the course of development for the spiritual being and it will have to start it anew in a new earth period which is again intended for its final redemption if it is utilized correctly in the last stage. For only the perfect can get rid of its external form and only through the right use of its freedom of will can the spiritual in the human being become perfect ....

Amen

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Needy souls .... Remorse .... Loving help ....

B.D. 3256 from September 15th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

When you humans have concluded your earthly life and entered the spiritual realm, the time of your earthly life will appear like a mere moment as soon as the memory of the infinitely long time before your embodiment as a human being is returned to you. And then you will also understand that the last stage of your soul’s development has been an great mercy, and anyone who has used it and achieved admission into the spiritual realm, anyone who need not reproach himself for having allowed the graces of earthly life pass him by, is blessed. The remorse in the beyond is all the more painful when the soul realises that it is no longer able to put right what it had avoided or neglected on earth, when the soul becomes aware of the inconceivable suffering of the infinitely long earthly path and how easy the short life as a human being had been in comparison, which it did not value correctly .... The soul’s regret of a wrongly lived earthly life is so agonising and depressing that this in itself causes the soul to do penance and worsens its painful situation; yet physical life with its many opportunities to mature is over now and the soul has to accept the consequences of its earthly way of life. It has to continue its process of development in the beyond but with far more difficulties than on earth as long as it is not allowed to enter the realm of light.

You humans do not know the distress of such a soul in darkness and the merciful love it requires to receive help. You all should have compassion on such souls, you should think of them with love or they can never be redeemed because they are too weak without help, because only love will give them strength and the souls hope and ask for this love from people .... since the spirits of light can only help these souls when they are willing to help other souls. But in order to awaken this willingness to help their will has to be strengthened, and only the strength given to them by people’s love on earth can achieve that. Lost souls, i.e. those who have not used their earthly life correctly or who lived entirely without spiritual aspiration on earth are in greatest need because they have no strength whatsoever and entirely depleted willpower. To help these souls is one of the greatest works of love which the human being can perform. He should constantly pray for such souls, he should mentally inform them that they ought to act with kindness even in the beyond, time and again he should urge them to love, he should mentally communicate with them and with his love give them strength, which is comforting to the soul as it alleviates its state of suffering. And the souls will be eternally grateful to people whose loving help will release them from their agonising situation as soon as they can take part in the redemption work themselves, as soon as they can reduce the suffering of other souls by bringing them spiritual knowledge which, however, they first have to acquire themselves.

Due to their will to help their greatest need is remedied and their remorse will lessen at the same rate as their willingness to help grows. For then the soul understands that it is needed in the spiritual realm and in its enthusiasm forgets its own suffering .... It strives to gather spiritual values in order to share them again; it has created for itself a new sphere of activity and tries to make up for what it had neglected to do on earth .... to give love .... And now it can continue its process of development in the spiritual realm, thanks to the help of people’s loving thoughts on earth for which it will be eternally grateful ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

And lead us through the temptation ....

B.D. 3257 from September 16th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

You should always pray .... And lead us through the temptation .... when the world tries to discourage you from your spiritual striving and you are at risk of succumbing to its attractions. Since this temptation comes upon you in order to strengthen your will, you will always be subject to this temptation in order to demonstrate your will and you will always be successful if you take refuge in God’s protection, if you call upon Him for the strength to resist. Time and again the opponent will attempt to alienate you from God, and his ways of doing so are dangerous, because they appeal to people’s senses and therefore the soul will always have to fight in order to resist him. Nevertheless, God’s help is assured to you if you confide in Him and appeal for His guidance ....

Amen

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Premature departure from the world .... Purpose ....

B.D. 3258 from September 16th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

People are repeatedly reminded of the transience of earthly things, and they are constantly confronted by death when many people pass away prematurely and when they are helpless in the face of events which cause suffering and despair to human beings. Yet they will not change their mind nor think about the real reason for suffering and untimely death. Thus the suffering becomes ever more painful and humanity will observe world events with horror and turn numb at the size of the disaster that engulfs it. Humanity, however, is asking for it, since the despair of the time leaves people entirely indifferent and they derive no gain for their souls. And therefore God applies the harshest measures to disturb their lethargy, because in spite of people’s earthly and bodily suffering their souls remain uncaring, they remain indifferent to the blows of fate or they would attempt to change in the knowledge that their spiritual attitude is the cause of the increased suffering on earth.

Hence many people have to depart prematurely from this life because a longer life would be detrimental rather than beneficial for their souls as they would lose their faith completely and only take care of their physical life. In spite of their inadequate state of maturity God therefore allows the loss of countless human lives to prevent their regression, to give them the opportunity to fully mature in the beyond, because the situation on earth does not remain hidden from them, they can observe the developments and become aware that due to the neglect of their soul’s salvation, due to their wrong way of life, due to their lack of faith and unkind thoughts, human beings themselves are responsible for the severe suffering on earth.

In addition, people who are called away by God prematurely can still become aware when faced with death, they can still truly unite with God, they can still become purified due to intense suffering, and thus achieve a higher degree of maturity which they would not have attained during a longer earthly life, and then a premature parting from earth is a blessing for them. And irrespective of how much earthly suffering exists, it is only a means for the benefit of souls .... yet few people understand this as such. The magnitude of hardship is intended to direct their path to God Who can and will banish every distress if the human being faithfully awaits His help. However, when even the immense suffering is unsuccessful, when human beings forget about Him and are in greatest danger to finally strive towards the abyss, God shall end many an earthly life and permit apparently inhuman disasters because He forever considers the human souls and aims to save these even though the body will perish as a result .... because God never does wrong but only what is good and a blessing for the human soul ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Destiny .... Free will - God's will ....

B.D. 3259 from September 18th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

The human being can derive a spiritual benefit from every situation if he tries to associate it with God's will and considers it to be in line with his development. No matter what happens to a person, God has known this person's will from the start, and thus he shapes his life according to His will, but He also always uses the person's own will as the basis of his destiny .... thus human will is in accordance with divine will insofar as God determines and directs the destiny of life such that the human will nevertheless comes into its own, or, in other words .... God gives His approval to anything the human being wants, yet the consequence of what human will accomplishes corresponds to His plan of eternity and serves the person as an opportunity for maturing, since the consequence of every thought, word and action cannot be enforced by the human being's will. Thus a person can apply his will at all times, he can want to shape his life's destiny according to this will but he can never predetermine the outcome with certainty, for then so-called destiny will come into force .... everything takes place according to God's wise and predetermined plan of eternity .... Nevertheless, free will cannot be disputed, the human being will always remain an independently thinking and wanting being which also has the vital energy at its disposal to put his thoughts and intentions into action. Whereas the direction of his entire earthly life, which God reserves for Himself, only relates to the creation of opportunities for the maturing of the soul. For since the human being's meaning and purpose on earth concerns the transformation of his will, of his inner being, since earthly life was given to him for his soul to attain maturity, God, in His love, will also always show him the means and ways to achieve it, and He will place him into life so that he can always and from every event derive a benefit for his soul. However, if life on earth entirely corresponded to the person's will his soul would never mature, especially if he were materialistically minded and only looked to benefit the body.

Consequently, God has to reduce or redirect the effect of what the person deliberately strives for and puts into practise in order to launch a constant battle for the person, for the human being only matures through struggle. Even so, divine will adapts itself to the human being's will, He allows him to carry it out and does not curtail his independent thinking and activity, yet He helps where human will intends to accomplish something detrimental for his soul, so that this accomplishment will not result in the desired worldly success but that he, by his failures, should learn to recognise the will of a higher Power, because recognition of This is already an advantage for the soul. However, in a spiritual respect God does not impose limitations on the human being's free will .... in a spiritual respect his will shall remain sacrosanct and the effect, too, will be accordingly. For the effect is already the maturity of soul, which is never raised or reduced through divine will but entirely depends on the human being's free will. Every earthly situation can be used by the human being to mature spiritually if only his will strives to gain an advantage for his soul. And then God will always grant him .... blessings upon blessings .... for if free will has turned to Him by striving to improve the shape of his soul first then God will only arouse this will increasingly more and also give him the strength to remain strong in the face of opposition. Thus, in a spiritual respect, human will is entirely free, but even in an earthly respect free will can be spoken of, even if destiny is shaped according to divine will, since God has known the human being's direction of will for eternity and, accordingly, how the course of his life will proceed. Wanting and accomplishing and effect must be distinguished .... the human being can want and accomplish according to his will, yet the effect is God's privilege, on account of which the human being subsequently believes himself to be constrained and subject to his destiny or he refuses to acknowledge a Controller of his destiny .... Yet all happenings in Heaven and on Earth are subject to the Guidance of the One Who upholds everything, Who is in charge of everything in His supreme wisdom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Early death .... God's mercy .... Old age ....

B.D. 3260 from September 18th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

God's will determines in which degree of maturity a human being is called from his earthly life into the spiritual realm. This is also an apparent injustice which could further the opinion that God selects certain people to become blessed while others have to suffer being distant from God. And yet this attitude is totally wrong .... because divine love and wisdom always knows the human will and therefore cuts a life short when higher development on earth is doubtful.

During the state of constraint before embodiment as a human being there is only progressive development until the spiritual substance's degree of maturity is ready for this last embodiment. But now the human free will makes its own decisions and development can continue, remain static or even regress; and again it depends on whether the human being as such has already improved his initial degree of maturity and is in danger of coming to a standstill or whether he has remained on the same level as at the beginning of his embodiment and is in danger of regressing. In that case it is always due to God's mercy that the human being is recalled when he has arrived at the highest level of his development on earth, i.e. when God's love protects him

from regressing or from failing to advance his soul during a longer lifetime .... because his guilt will increase the longer he uses his embodiment's time of grace without making proper use of it.

The human being can advance during his younger years and then stop, his development up till now comes to a halt, and then God will recall him and give him further opportunities to mature in the beyond .... But the human being can also change his will in later years and his yet inadequate development can experience a sudden improvement and thus he can attain a higher degree of maturity even though for a long time he had ignored his soul until then. In that case God will give him a long life, because God knows the human being's will since eternity and shapes his life accordingly .... For every human being's destiny is considered by God's love and wisdom and does not depend on God's arbitrary use of power ....

God would not withhold the opportunity to mature on earth from any human being if he is willing to use it. But people pay little attention to His mercy and are unwilling to accept the relevant information. And because God knows since eternity which humans are particularly resentful to Him, because He knows when a person has reached the highest degree of development on earth, the duration of his earthly life has also been established since eternity and varies, depending on what divine wisdom deems best and most successful. God will never cut short an earthly life if the human being could still achieve higher maturity because God's love is forever concerned that the human being should attain highest possible maturity on earth; He would never withhold an opportunity from a human being which would result in complete maturity. But He knows since eternity the human will's every inclination and protects the soul from complete desertion, i.e. from certain regression if He would not end that earthly life.

For that reason anyone who constantly strives will reach old age while, at the same time, old age is proof of steady higher development even if this is not evident to other people. A long earthly life is always a mercy but even a short life is evidence of God's love, which is forever active although it is not always recognised by the human being ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

End battle with or without Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 3261 from September 19th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

The believing christian, i.e., the person who lives on earth in full faith in the divine redeemer and His work, will feel great relief in the coming battle of faith, for the graces of the act of salvation will obviously flow to him .... the strength of will and thus also the strength to overcome the adversary, which can be described as everything that is carried out in the battle of faith as measures against the believers. Faith in Christ is the strongest weapon, and the fear of the enemy will be far away from anyone who deeply and firmly believes in Him. For His protection and love surrounds His own, the people who are faithful to Him and take all adversities upon themselves for the sake of His name. And He will also help them in earthly adversity and distress, He will supply them with what they need for their body. He will give them the strength to persevere, He will supply them with His word directly or through intermediaries, and He will also protect the recipients of the word and grant them the gift of speech which will always and everywhere smooth the way for them if earthly power calls them to account. And daily and hourly He will be ready with His help and guide them through all dangers of the body and soul .... But those who lack faith in Christ will be much troubled by the battle of faith. These are people who are not entirely distant from God, who certainly believe in a higher power to which they will one day have to answer, who also acknowledge this power by being afraid to deny God, but who have no connection with Christ, who doubt His act of salvation, who therefore deny Christ as redeemer of the world and son of God .... these will experience severe hardship if they have to make a decision, for they will lack the strength to endure everything that is done against the believers. And their distress of soul will increase if they see the strength of the christians' faith and yet cannot believe in Jesus Christ with conviction until they have penetrated the knowledge of the significance of the act of salvation. And therefore the believers in Christ will have the task of instructing and lovingly helping them to believe in Jesus Christ. And therefore, through the word of God from above people will again and again be guided into the right realization, and as soon as they have the will to help their fellow human beings they will also be given the gift to be able to speak when the adversity of the time and of people requires it. For faith in Jesus Christ cannot be eliminated in the end time .... He alone gives people the strength to persevere and fearlessly take up the fight. Yet these fighters of Christ will not be defeated despite the adversary's great power, for Jesus Christ Himself leads His army and He truly provides it with the best weapons which guarantee complete victory, even though the flock of His fighters is small and severely antagonized by the adversary. But anyone who enters this battle without Jesus Christ will be in danger of being overthrown, he will not be able to resist and maintain the little faith in God he possesses .... he will become fickle due to the hardship of life which the profound believer has to take upon himself. And in the end he will fall away, for he is powerless as soon as he does not make use of the grace of the act of salvation. But in order to do so he has to be able to believe in Him, he has to unite with Jesus Christ in full faith and appeal to Him for strength and grace for the sake of His merciful love .... It will be a difficult battle for the believers but never hopeless, for where God contends there is victory .... but God and Christ are one .... And you humans, who are instructed by God Himself, are to help your fellow human beings attain this faith, this knowledge, so that it will be easy for you to enlighten those who are still profoundly ignorant. This is your mission to which God has called you and which you should always and constantly carry out so that the final battle will also be successful for many people who still lack profound faith .... For God has mercy on every soul which does not resist Him, and therefore He sends His messengers to meet it so that it will be helped ....

Amen

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Lack of knowledge sign of God's remoteness ....

B.D. 3262 from September 19th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

Inadequate spiritual knowledge is a sign of remoteness from God, for as soon as a person has reduced his remoteness from God through love his knowledge will also increase, i.e. his thinking will correspond to the truth as soon as it is directed towards the spiritual kingdom, as soon as it touches things which are related to his soul's life. And therefore a loving person will often be able to answer spiritual questions with a conviction who need not possess earthly knowledge, for he will be instructed from within and this will not deceive him. But anyone who practices little love and is therefore still distant from God will also be able to give little enlightenment, for the spiritual realm is completely alien to him. And love urges activity, and if the loving person can be spiritually active he is happy in the distribution of spiritual knowledge which corresponds to truth. And then he is also close to God, for this urge to spiritual activity is a sign of the working of the divine emanation of love. Yet this inner urge is lacking in the human being who never lovingly engages in activity, he does not feel the strength of divine love which stimulates him into activity, and therefore he behaves completely apathetic if spiritual stimulation is given .... For he possesses nothing he could give and therefore cannot be happy in giving either .... He is still too far from God and therefore does not feel the strength of love either. Spiritual knowledge is a wealth which only the connection with God brings to the human being. But anyone who is still distant from Him is spiritually poor, he lacks knowledge of the truth and therefore cannot distribute truth either, and therefore he remains poor, and his knowledge also remains inadequate, because this is only the result of the working of love. And thus inadequate knowledge can always be concluded to be distant from God or to have a loveless life, because the thinking of the one who is close to God through activity of love becomes enlightened and the human being can now distribute spiritual good. And therefore an ignorant person should first be admonished to live a life of love, his attention should be drawn to the blessing and consequences of a life of love and the spiritual advantage should be made clear to him, so that he himself will strive to acquire spiritual wealth, so that he will reduce his remoteness from God through a life in accordance with God's will, through a life of active neighbourly love. And his knowledge will increase and make him able to distribute spiritual good as soon as he listens to the ideas of spiritually enlightened people and works on himself by shaping himself into love. Love and wisdom are inseparable .... only the loving human being will become knowledgeable, and only the knowledgeable human being can distribute spiritual gifts again with love, he can make himself and others happy with them because he possesses the truth which is absolutely necessary in order to be able to be enlightened.

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Miracles of creation .... language of God ....

B.D. 3263 from September 21st 1944, taken from Book No. 42

The miracles of nature's creation remain mostly without impression on people because they always repeat themselves in a regularity and this turns the miracles of nature into something commonplace which they only pay little attention to. These people also do not hear the language of God in nature, Who expresses Himself to all people through His creation and thus makes Himself known. And therefore it is not easy to make them believe that an essential deity wants to make Itself known to people in the works which have emerged from It. For since they don't pay attention to the works they don't think about the creator of these works either, and therefore they are completely without faith, i.e. they lack the convinced belief in an almighty, wise and loving God .... The soul's higher development is the human being's first and last aim on earth, and thus an earthly life which has not earned the soul an increased degree of maturity is completely pointless lived, for earthly successes are not in proportion to the grace of embodiment as a human being. Nor do they come close to the miracles of creation which, after all, were formed by the wise and loving creator for a specific purpose .... i.e., earthly successes would be very minimal in relation to the things which came into being for the sake of a purpose. However, anyone who passes by the miracles of creation indifferently does not think about the meaning and purpose of these either, because he does not acknowledge a creator of them, and again, he does not acknowledge Him because he does not take the works of creation into closer consideration. Otherwise he would inevitably come to the conclusion that his earthly life was given to him to achieve an aim. As soon as the creations of nature are observed attentively, a constant higher development can be observed in them, and this in itself should cause the human being to think that he himself must also constantly develop upwards if his earthly life is not to be lived in vain. An observation of creation necessarily results in a question and answer game in which man is always the questioner and God, through nature, is always the answerer. And such a dialogue must give information to the human being who earnestly desires Him. For God wants to reveal Himself through creation to people who have not yet recognized Him otherwise. He first shows them His work before He reveals Himself as the master of the work. And the human being can very well recognize the infinite wisdom, omnipotence and love of the creator from the work and thereby also come to believe in the creator of heaven and earth. And this self-acquired faith is incomparably more valuable and unshakeable than the faith transmitted to him by fellow human beings, which must first become a convinced faith through its own opinion. By observing the wonders of creation, by intimately immersing himself in nature and its daily miracles, the human being enters into direct contact with the creator Himself, and he gains insight into His rule and activity and thus into His essence, because he can recognize love, wisdom and strength in everything that surrounds him, and love, wisdom and strength are the epitome of His essence .... And this highest and most perfect being reveals Himself to people through His works .... He lets people, as it were, take a look at them in order to confront them Himself, for every work of creation must have a creator and upholder as Whom He then wants to be recognized, for the creator expresses Himself in the work, and if the human being attentively observes a work he will always have to conclude that it is also the creator and upholder and also recognize Him in His works. But if works come into being and have come into being which man cannot copy with his own strength, as the creations of nature undeniably testify, then it must be concluded that the creator of these works has a strength at His disposal which is incomprehensible to man. Therefore he must be able to affirm the omnipotence of God in his deepest heart .... In the same way, the human being contemplating the wonders of nature also recognizes all creations as being founded in deepest wisdom, and he must conclude from them God's greater than great love for human beings. And thus he slowly penetrates the truth, and he truly does not need people to teach him intellectually about it, for a dialogue with God, a question and answer game in nature alone will earn the human being rich knowledge with which he can work again. Only then will he recognize that the creator has a purpose with His creation, thus he will now think about the purpose, and if he thinks legally he will try to live in accordance with this purpose, and then he will also be seized by God's great love and the pure truth will be presented to him. And thus the miracles of creation contribute much towards the human being becoming a living believer, for the inner conviction has to be gained such that the human being draws conclusions, weighs up all pros and cons and now possesses clarity of thought .... It is now rock-solid certainty to him what seemed to be only legend to his fellow human being, for the miracles of nature speak for themselves, they testify to God, to His supremely perfect being, to His love, wisdom and omnipotence .... they make him a believer.

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

New wonders of creation on the new earth .... Brittle matter ....

B.D. 3264 from September 22nd 1944, taken from Book No. 42

Throughout every single phase of development the spiritual substance is kept in a constrained state until it has acquired the necessary maturity for its final embodiment as a human being, hence .... if it failed its previous phase of development as a human being it has to start in the confines of hard matter again and cover the path through the mineral, plant and animal world until it can become a human being once more. However, spiritual substance which has not reached the final stage in this period, but is nevertheless released by God due to the last destruction of earth, will be bound in outer forms which correspond to its maturity again, i.e. the interrupted process of development of the past period will continue in the new phase of development .... on the new earth .... For this reason the new earth will contain the most diverse creations again, however, they will be entirely new and different forms from those on the old earth. And thus new wonders of creation will come into being which the first people living on the new earth will undeniably acknowledge as miraculous, as a testimony of God’s glory, as evidence of His love, omnipotence and wisdom. People will be extremely amazed at what the new earth has to offer and in admiration will praise God, love Him and give thanks to Him with all their heart. And the souls will continue with their development ....

But the substance constrained in solid matter is tormented by its restriction and tries to escape. Depending on the resistance of its will it shall either succeed or fail, but God takes the will of the substance into account and thus the material of the new earth is of utmost solidity and stability in order to soften the inherent spirit’s will that it should finally surrender its resistance. Consequently, the slightest change of will shall loosen the form .... in earthly terms this means that although the solid matter of the new earth is indeed exceptionally hard it is also very brittle and thus can easily break or shatter as soon as God’s will intends a release from this captivity. Similarly, other creations will also have a shorter lifespan, because the transformation of the spirit substance shall proceed at a faster rate, which can indeed be possible but nevertheless depends on the spirits’ willingness to serve. The spiritual substance is merely intended to achieve its final embodiment as a human being faster than in previous phases of development as long as its will is not entirely opposed to God. For this reason the first human beings on the new earth shall experience miracles upon miracles, they will be so affected by them that their love for God and their unity with Him will grow ever more and they will live in His grace, but they will also understand these miracles, they know that they are only the expression of God’s infinite love Who wants to retrieve all spirit and offers it every opportunity to change its will.

And this shall continue for a long time until the initially constrained spirit substance within the plant and animal world has reached the stage of embodiment as a human being .... Then people’s understanding for the wonders of divine creation will gradually fade, the inclination towards matter will be awakened again and, due to their own longing for possessions which still contain immature spiritual substances, Satan’s influence on people becomes stronger again. Subsequently, the unity with God will diminish and the battle between light and darkness, which in the beginning had disappeared because everything living on earth of its own free will was enlightened, will increase again .... For the evolutionary process of the spiritual substance is always the same during every period .... the spirit has to live within the hard form until it is willing to walk the path of service through the creations, which amounts to less constraint, and then it has to serve until it has achieved a certain degree of maturity which results in a condition where it should serve of its own free will but, unlike during the previous stages, it is no longer forced to do so. And at this stage it should not fail otherwise the whole earlier process of development has been in vain. The human being’s volition determines whether this will be his last earthly embodiment or whether he has to repeat the evolutionary process, whether he will turn towards the light in the last stage or allow himself to be captured by dark forces and has to be banished again into hard matter for ages to come ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Arrogance .... humility .... grace ....

B.D. 3265 from September 22nd 1944, taken from Book No. 42

I turn My love to the least of these, if he prays to Me for mercy .... for his humility pleases Me, and everything that seems small I exalt .... And therefore everyone can and may come to Me, I will not deny Myself to anyone because I love you, you who are My living creations. But you must not exalt yourselves or you will lack grace. As long as you stay on earth you are imperfect and in need of My grace, My help and My love. And as soon as you are in need you must also feel small towards Me and testify to this in humble prayer. For I want to make you happy, I want to give you what you lack and thereby gain your love for Me. But you will never be able to love the giver from the heart if you feel exalted towards him. But true love knows no exaltation, and thus I want to be loved from a humble heart, in childlike submissiveness, in order to be able to consider you as a father, in order to be able to love you again like a father loves his children. Therefore you should always establish a childlike relationship with Me so that I can draw close to you with love, for as soon as you humbly ask Me in a childlike way you also give Me the right to look after you in fatherly care, and then I can provide you with everything you need for soul and body. And My grace will help you to ascend, for this is now abundantly at your disposal. Therefore, anyone who feels completely poor and weak will receive, for he opens himself through his prayer for grace and thus receives the grace which My love now provides him with in abundance. However, anyone with an arrogant spirit does not feel in need of help and his prayer is certainly external but it does not come from the heart, and I cannot approach him like a father because he has not yet established the childlike relationship with Me. And he will also hardly establish the right relationship with his fellow human being, he will also believe himself superior to him, he will not be to him like a brother to a brother but he will only demand because he deems himself greater than his fellow human beings. And this does not please Me, for love requires love, and true love knows no distinction, it does not exalt itself but also takes hold of the lowest in order to elevate it .... And thus I also love the lowliest with an intuition and help him to ascend, for the humble always finds grace before My eyes ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spiritual rebirth .... grace ....

B.D. 3266 from September 23rd 1944, taken from Book No. 42

The act of grace of spiritual rebirth is evidence of the rightly utilized free will .... For this spiritual rebirth is not accomplished by divine will, otherwise no human being would remain in spiritual darkness, because God loves every one of His living creations and this love never grows cold. But the spiritual rebirth is a sign of progress, it is a step towards perfection, and this can only be achieved in free will. Nevertheless, the spiritual rebirth is an act of grace, i.e. divine grace has brought it about, for without grace the human being is incapable of progressing even one step further on the path of perfection. So free will has evaluated the divine grace available to the human being in the right way, he has let it work on him, free will has desired it and received it, and the effect of divine grace is spiritual rebirth. Hence, only someone who has consciously turned his will towards God, who strives towards Him and enters into contact with Him through heartfelt prayer and who therefore opens himself to receive His gift of grace .... His word and with the word of His power .... And thus the awakening of the spirit in man is an act of grace .... a manifestation of divine love, which now reveals itself to the human being through His spirit. Without the human being's will the awakening of the spirit does not come about unless the soul is bound by the strong power of satan, who controls it against its will .... In that case God can break satan’s power and liberate the spirit in the human being without his conscious intervention, since in such a possessed state he is deprived of his free will. Nevertheless, the soul then already has a certain maturity and is no longer resistant to God, thus as soon as the human being can dispose of his will again, he also turns to God. Then God's grace appears even more obviously, because at the same time the revival of the spirit is connected with a healing of the sick, which must always be considered (evaluated?) as a gift of grace from God. But once the spiritual rebirth has taken place the human being's will has to remain constantly active, the human being has to constantly ask for the influx of grace, he has to constantly open himself to this grace and make use of it, because the awakening of the spirit actually means a constant receipt of that which God's love bestows upon people for the attainment of perfection .... And all this is grace .... but it can only ever be received by the human being if he opens himself to it of his own free will. Free will requests grace, free will accepts it, grace again awakens the spirit to life, and the spirit's activity is again the imparting of gifts of grace .... For everything divine, if it is made accessible to the human being, is grace, because the human being in his lower state of maturity is not worthy to come into contact with divine gifts. Yet God's love overlooks the human being's unworthiness and grants him divine gifts as soon as the human being is willing to accept them. The will is manifested through prayer and through loving activity, for the latter is the direct connection with God which increasingly earns the human being grace.

(23.9.1944) If the human being is spiritually reborn, God's grace has therefore become effective in him, and then the human being will also remain in His grace, for the spirit now guides and leads him and stimulates him into constant activity of love, as a result of which God's grace constantly flows to him. And therefore a spiritually reborn person can no longer fall, he can no longer distance himself from God because this is prevented by divine grace, by God's love, which keeps and constantly cares for the human being. The human being truly does not deserve the abundance of grace which is at his disposal, for as long as he lives on earth he is not so good and perfect that he would be entitled to claim it, yet he can become so if he uses grace, for it is the means at the human being's disposal to become perfect. Everything that helps the human being to develop upwards can be called grace. And so suffering is also a grace which, if used properly, can bring infinite blessings and ensure spiritual progress for the soul. Suffering must also be accepted by a person whose spirit has awakened to life, who is therefore spiritually reborn, for suffering is meant to mature him, it is meant to purify him, because no soul, not even the spiritually reborn, is already so clear and pure that it no longer needs a purification process. And that is why suffering is also to be regarded as grace, like everything else that helps the spiritually awakened to higher development. For to attain the highest possible maturity on earth should be the aim of the one who is spiritually reborn. But without God's grace he cannot reach the aim, but with His grace he is able to do everything. God, however, leaves it up to him which measure of grace he wants to acquire, which measure of grace he requests and wants to receive by opening himself. The spiritually reborn person, however, will not slacken in prayer for the granting of grace, and therefore he will constantly strive towards God and be seized by His love, which will never ever let him fall but constantly help his soul to ascend ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Admonition to workers in the vineyard ....

B.D. 3267 from September 24th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

And everyone who is willing to serve Me will be accepted as a labourer in My vineyard .... But great work still lies ahead of you. People no longer recognize the school of the spirit which earth is meant to be for them, and therefore you should take them into your training, you should inform them of their earthly task before the end, you should make it clear to them that they have to fulfil their purpose on earth and that otherwise they will have to face bitter consequences; you should lovingly admonish them to seriously consider their souls, to take their earthly task seriously and to make good use of the time they still have; you should encourage them to work with love and make this the most important thing for them and constantly mention My love which tries everything to win your souls for the spiritual kingdom. And so if you are diligently active for Me I will not withhold the blessing from you which lies in every good work .... I will give you strength to speak in My name, I will guide you towards those who need your help, I will impart wisdom to you which will make you capable of working in My vineyard, and I will protect you against all dangers of body and soul. For I need you as My servants on earth .... A time is coming when ever less of My word will be heeded, when faith in Me and My word will become ever weaker, when the world will increasingly come to the fore and all spiritual striving will be successfully suppressed because people themselves are lukewarm and sluggish and in their weakness of will allow themselves to be determined by the forces which want to displace Me. And only a few carry Me in their hearts, and therefore only a few are willing to stand up for Me before the world, to want to transfer their faith to their fellow human beings and thus to fight for Me and My teaching .... And I remember these few with all love, and I will bless their activity on earth. For they are the ones through whom I can now work Myself so that My word will find entry amongst people, they are the ones who are now active for Me, whose will I can direct because they have voluntarily subordinated it to Me .... And I constantly feed these few with My word, I prepare them to be My workers so that they can then also successfully carry out their work. I guide their thoughts correctly, I put the right words into their mouths and constantly give them strength so that they will persevere until I Myself come at the time of harvest. And anyone who thus wants to serve Me will be accepted to work for My spiritual kingdom, because this work is the only important one in the coming time. Do not worry and ask yourselves which work you should put first, but do what I tell you to do .... work for Me and My kingdom .... Leave the earth and its demands unnoticed, for time is pressing and every day is to be used because the end is near .... And therefore let yourselves be guided and don't resist Me but act where your heart urges you to. For it is My voice which the heart makes known to you. Do not become lukewarm and sluggish but remain eager in My service, and work while it is still day, for soon the night will come for many .... And so that you may still win souls and save them from this night, you should be eagerly active for Me and My kingdom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Task of the knower .... work for the kingdom of God ....

B.D. 3268 from September 25th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

Anyone who is in knowledge understandably has greater tasks to fulfil on earth, for he is in grace, i.e., every person is indeed called to be in grace, yet anyone who does not allow it to take effect in him is also still in a lower degree of maturity of the soul, and thus he cannot give, he cannot be active and thus cannot work for the spiritual kingdom. This task, however, is incumbent upon the human being who, through his will, has allowed God's grace to take effect in him and has attained realization .... He can now work according to God's will because he knows about it .... And thus he can work for the kingdom of God. This is the most beautiful task that can be given to a human being, for it alone brings success that has eternal value. It is an activity which does not end with the death of the body but will also continue in the beyond and which is extremely important for the still ignorant souls. Thus the human being has received a gift of grace which enables him to work with it, and as soon as he possesses this ability he must also make use of it, otherwise God's gift would remain idle and this would be a disregard for those for whom the human being would have to answer. However, the person who is in knowledge will also gladly and joyfully carry out his task, for he is urged to do so from within .... he is happy about it himself, and his happiness makes him communicative .... he is eager to give and therefore also willing to give. A person who only uses the spiritual knowledge he has gained, the visible sign of God's active grace, for himself alone, who therefore does not feel the need to give it to other people and thus to spread it, is not yet permeated by it himself, thus he does not yet possess the spiritual knowledge as mental property but is merely a listener of it and consequently does not yet have the right knowledge .... he has only accepted it from a fellow human being's hand, to a certain extent as a listener, but without the truly profound will to draw deepest wisdom from it himself, and thus it does not make him happy to the extent that he is inwardly urged to pass it on. Then his degree of maturity is not yet so high that he can receive divine wisdom himself, and thus he cannot work for the kingdom of God until he has matured so far that he recognizes the necessity of working for God and His kingdom. Then it also begins to become bright and light in him and he now rejoices in his activity which is meant for the soul of his fellow human being. And then he has to be restlessly active, he has to use every day for spiritual work, he has to take his task seriously, for it is also important to guide fellow human beings into knowledge, and this requires restless activity, patience and perseverance. His work will spread far and wide again, it will not rest, for anyone who has recognized the meaning and purpose of life, the love, wisdom and omnipotence of the creator, anyone who knows the significance of the act of salvation and the eternal plan of salvation of the divine creator and father of eternity, anyone who has thus become knowledgeable, will not keep his knowledge but radiate it again, he wants to give it away because the spreading of truth makes him happy. And this is his task, which he should and will take seriously once he is seized by God's grace, once he has become knowledgeable himself through divine grace and knows about the great hardship of those who still live in complete spiritual night and cannot save themselves from it alone. Then the knowing person's willingness to help comes to light, he is active in enlightenment and promotes the kingdom of God, he leads souls to Him who allow themselves to be permeated by God's grace and who are willing for it to become effective in them as well. And therefore he who is in knowledge will be restlessly active in the vineyard of the lord, he will advertise and work without ceasing, he will teach and preach love in order to lead people onto the right path, onto the path of knowledge through God's grace ....

Amen

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Submitting the will to God's will ....

B.D. 3269 from September 25th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

Whoever completely submits to God's will can no longer want anything other than what God wants. This complete submission of the will is a process which has nothing to do with lack of will or weakness of will but rather requires a strong will, a will which overcomes itself, which completely surrenders itself, which humbles itself and puts all its own desires behind. And such a surrender of one's own will requires love for God, which is therefore stronger than love for oneself, to which the human being sacrifices everything that otherwise seems desirable to him. And therefore the surrender of the will is already a sign of spiritual progress, of a special degree of maturity and also a sign that the human being has entered the path to perfection. For as soon as God's will takes hold of him he has to progress inexorably on the path of his spiritual development. The will devoted to God guarantees complete spiritual success, for God now guides the human being and truly the right path which leads to Him. Nevertheless, the human being's will itself remains active, only that the human being can be unconcerned to always want and do what is right. As soon as he has placed himself at God's fullest disposal, as soon as he asks Him to be allowed to use his weak strength for God-oriented activity, as soon as he hands himself over to His guidance daily and hourly, God's love also takes hold of him and guides and directs him .... his ways, his thoughts, his words and his works. For God only requires people to relinquish their own will because it had previously turned away from God and had His adversary as its aim. If the human being is now willing to hand himself over to God he will have recognized the earthly purpose and his life on earth will only be in accordance with God's will, he will mature to the highest perfection the deeper and more intimate his devotion to God is. For this reason a person who has subordinated his will to God can also live his life calmly and carefree, for he will then always carry out what corresponds to God's will, even if it seems as if this is disadvantageous for the human being on earth. As soon as the human being has expressed his love for God by applying for spiritual work, God will never leave him unattended, for He draws His children, who see their father in Him, to Himself with all the strength of His love, and His means are truly successful if the human will no longer opposes Him. And thus the desire to belong to God must arise in the innermost heart. The human being must devote himself to Him in deepest humility, he must feel love for God and acknowledge Him as the mighty creator of heaven and earth, as the most loving father of His living creations, and as a child he must hand himself over to the father. He must be willing to accept everything from His father's hand as a gift of grace, be it joy or suffering; he must always endeavour to shape himself according to divine will and remain in intimate contact with Him through prayer .... Then his will will no longer rebel against God's will, then he will have completely subordinated it to divine will, and then his earthly life will be successful for his soul because he will no longer walk alone but with God, and because his path can then never ever lead astray. And therefore the subordination of the will to God's will is the first demand God makes, which can never remain unfulfilled if the human being wants to mature in his soul .... For as long as his will is still opposed to God he neither accepts grace nor takes recourse to prayer, and then he can never be permeated by God's strength which secures his spiritual ascent. And therefore selfish love must first be overcome before the human being is able to muster the strength of will in order to subordinate himself to divine will.

Amen

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Vocation to work for God ....

B.D. 3270 from September 26th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

You are called to work for the lord and this calling should fill you with deepest joy and gratitude, and your striving should be to continue to serve God and to work for His kingdom. You must bear one thing in mind, that there is nothing more beautiful than to be a servant of God on earth, to fulfil His will and to be allowed to work for Him. For then you will be mentioned as spreaders of divine truth. Consequently, you must be in the truth yourselves in order to be able to spread it. And therefore it is conveyed to you by God Himself, and this is a grace of such inestimable value that you may consider yourselves fortunate to partake of this grace, for you directly receive strength from God, His emanation of love, and thereby you become able to convey His word to people as God's organ .... You have an office, a task, which can have an inconceivably beneficial effect if you fully commit yourselves to this task. This is why you must not slacken, for only diligent activity will outweigh the grace bestowed upon you, and only diligent activity will evaluate the grace, i.e. it can only become fully effective when you pass on to your fellow human beings all the wisdom imparted to you. But as soon as you are called to work for the lord you first have to become knowledgeable, i.e. you have to receive divine truth, and God Himself gives you this truth in the form of His word which He sends to your soul through the spirit within you. Therefore, anyone who hears the inner voice himself is also called by God to work for Him .... anyone who joyfully and hungrily receives the results of the spirit and refreshes himself with them is likewise called to pass them on, for if the divine gift makes him happy he should also offer it to his neighbour with love, otherwise he is still strongly filled with self-love and would then not be suitable as a true servant of God. But God sends you to people who are devoid of all knowledge, and you are to bring the gospel to them .... And thus God makes you His disciples, and He commissions you to carry His word into the world, to teach the nations and to proclaim the divine commandments to them .... Thus He calls you to work for Him, because people first have to know about His will before they can be called to account. And therefore He needs servants on earth who speak on His behalf, who take their calling seriously and who are therefore chosen to be taught by Him directly .... who can constantly draw wisdom from the eternal spring which will never run dry. They stand in knowledge, they are bearers of pure truth from God because they are called to be active for Him on earth. But they also stand in love, for love alone enables them to receive the pure truth from God and to pass it on to their fellow human beings, for without love it is inconceivable to spread it. But if the human being is called by God by being given the truth he should not resist when the lord calls him, he should willingly place his weak services at His disposal, he should always listen inwardly to the task God assigns him, and he should immediately comply with the inner voice, thus he should fulfil God's will, he should willingly pass on what he has received himself and thus try to penetrate the dark spiritual night which prevents people from recognizing the light which shines towards them from God. Then they will not resist their calling, and they will be eager servants of God on earth and also one day in the spiritual kingdom ....

Amen

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Power supply - opening up - spiritual friends ....

B.D. 3271 from September 27th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

You must open yourselves to every emanation of strength which touches you from the spiritual kingdom by always and constantly mustering the will to make contact with the spiritual forces by consciously immersing yourselves in spiritual questions. This can happen through prayer for spiritual maturing, through a thought turned towards God for right will and right knowledge, through asking for guidance and help in all earthly matters and through prolonged dwelling in spiritual thoughts or inner introspection. You always give your spiritual friends the opportunity to take possession of your thoughts, and this always means an influx of spiritual strength. As soon as you consciously live earthly life, that it is given to you for a spiritual purpose, you will never be abandoned by spiritual forces, and then they can also constantly transfer the emanation of strength from God to you, and you will mature in your soul. You will increase in knowledge which corresponds to truth, your way of life will correspond to God's will because you receive the strength to carry out what His will dictates to you. And as long as you maintain this connection with spiritual forces you will only be able to record spiritual progress, for love impels the beings of light to give you what they possess in abundance, and through their gifts you must mature. Every thought turned towards good is an expression of these beings of light which you therefore mentally receive; it is strength from God which impels you into loving activity and which must also ennoble you if you follow the thoughts arising in you, i.e. if you let the now stimulated will become action. And also for the execution of the deed the strength flows to you from God as soon as you open yourselves to it, thus consciously request it through prayer. And this process of emanation of strength from God will continue as long as the human being maintains the connection with the spiritual kingdom, thus he is willing to let himself be guided by spiritual forces, even if he interrupts his conscious thinking of spiritual questions in the fulfilment of earthly tasks .... For the beings of light know about the human being's will, and as long as it is not turned away from them through worldly desires or obvious connection with God-opposing forces, through sinful actions or thinking, they will not leave the human being and also guide him earthly into right thinking and action. For they have been instructed by God to help struggling human children, and their own love also drives them to their work of help, and since they are constantly recipients of strength they also hand it out as soon as it is merely desired. And therefore the human being should constantly request strength from God, he should believe that he cannot master anything without it, for you humans are weak as soon as you are not granted help from above. God, however, does not leave you alone in your weakness but provides you with beings of light for your lifetime which should and can support you in your spiritual striving as soon as you open yourselves and give them the opportunity to have an influential effect on you .... as soon as you consciously surrender your will to those who guide it in the right direction, because you are willing to do good, because your will strives towards God. This is no interference with your free will but you must turn it towards God yourselves, only then can the beings of light be active on you. And as soon as you desire strength and help you will also open yourselves to the influx from the spiritual kingdom, and you will be richly endowed by divine strength .... And therefore, pray often, send your prayerful thoughts into the spiritual kingdom, thereby enter into contact with it and its inhabitants, and then trust that you will think and act correctly, for your spiritual friends protect and look after you and will not abandon you .... They are always around you and carry out God's mission for their own happiness .... to convey His strength to every willing earthly child who desires this strength ....

Amen

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Commandment to love one's neighbour .... self-love ....

B.D. 3272 from September 27th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

The commandment of neighbourly love should put a stop to self-love, for this is the death of the soul. A person is only allowed to love himself to a small degree, i.e. he should be careful with God's gift of grace insofar as he protects his life from wanton harm and does everything that preserves this life, because it is not given to him without purpose. However, as soon as he loves himself excessively he does not fulfil his actual purpose of earthly life, for self-love does not ennoble the human being but degrades him. But love for one's neighbour must inevitably reduce self-love, and that in the same measure as love is practiced for one's neighbour. And since the human being has the opportunity to practice neighbourly love in the most extensive way, he will soon be able to surpass self-love many times over, yet it always requires an overcoming to do good to the neighbour if love has not yet kindled into a bright flame in the human being's heart. And that is why God gave the commandment of neighbourly love, because the person who has love within himself does not need the commandment. But where self-love still predominates, man must be stimulated by the commandments to fight against the former, he must first be accustomed, so to speak, to pay less attention to himself for the sake of his fellow human beings. If he forces himself into active neighbourly love, even if initially without an inner drive, love will nevertheless soon ignite in him and he will then carry out the works of love out of an inner drive to help and please .... And then self-love diminishes and yet he does the greatest work of love in himself, for he saves his soul without selfish thoughts, for he practices love for the sake of love and goodness .... And thus love for God also grows in him, which is expressed in love for his neighbour .... For loving God with all your heart means keeping His commandments, and His commandments demand love .... love for everything God has created, but in an unselfish way, for selfish love only seeks self-interest and is therefore not divine love. And if the human being does not fight selfish love he will constantly go backwards in his development, for divine love will then remain alien to him, but this alone will bring him redemption. Ego love wants to possess everything, however, it only seeks earthly goods and thus hinders the development of the soul, for only the giver will also be allowed to receive. But anyone who loves himself more than his neighbour will not want to hand out anything and therefore will not be able to receive anything either. But since God measures according to the human being's will to give, he must first be urged to give through commandments, and as he now complies with the commandments he will also be considered by God. And thereby he is slowly educated to love activity, which can then also become more and more unselfish the more the human being fights self-love. And only then will he also recognize the blessing of neighbourly love, because it makes him all the more happy the more it is the instinct of his heart. And the more the human being awakens to life, whereas self-love causes him to fall prey to spiritual death .... Love must be practiced if the spirit is to come alive in the human being. And this is why God gave him the commandments, for the human being is constantly in danger of losing himself to the opposing force if love for himself prevails, whereas he comes ever closer to God the more he gives himself up, thus overcomes self-love, for love for his neighbour earns him God's undivided love which seizes him and unites with him and makes him the most blissful being on earth and one day in eternity ....

Amen

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Bread of heaven .... strengthening in time of need ....

B.D. 3273 from September 28th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

In expectation of what is coming you all need comfort and strength. You will not be able to do without them if you don't want to lose your faith and also fall spiritually victim to earthly events. God knows about this time of tribulation and about the demands placed upon you, He also knows about the weakness of your will when you are in great distress. And He remembers this time by sending you the bread of heaven which alone can give you the strength to endure every tribulation. He prepares food for you which will strengthen you, which brings you comfort and encouragement, physical and spiritual strength and which will always be your salvation if you eat it. And anyone who eats this bread need not fear that he will become weak, for whatever He Himself supplies to you must also fulfil its purpose, it must truly be refreshment and revitalization for you, it must revive your faith and give you such strength that you will be able to endure everything without becoming fickle. And therefore always ask for His gift and gratefully receive it .... His greater than great love offers it to you, it is nothing earthly but comes to you from above, the heavenly father Himself prepares it for you, it is heavenly manna which is indestructible and never loses its strength .... It is His flesh and His blood, for it is His word Himself, and thus it also has to be of utmost effectiveness, it has to surpass everything earthly, no matter how beneficial it is, for what the heavenly father offers His children cannot be surpassed by any other gift. Divine love provides people on earth abundantly with this gift, for it strengthens the soul, and if the soul loses its weakness every earthly influence, every earthly danger is insignificant or invalid. They are no longer to be feared, for the soul overcomes everything because it is supported by the strength from God which comes to it through the divine word. God's fatherly love constantly cares for His children, yet in the coming time especially, because this time requires much assistance and because this assistance can only be granted to the human being in the form of divine supply of strength. But anyone who is fed by Himself will have his anxiety and weakness removed, and he will be up to every task he is now given .... he will remain faithful to God and be able to serve Him, and he will also master the world, he will also only derive benefit for his soul from earthly events. For God does not abandon His own, and let this faith be your support when it seems difficult to you and your soul is anxious .... Then take refuge in Him in adversity and His word will comfort you .... Desire His assurance and listen to His voice; in whatever way His word is offered to you .... it will never fail to have an effect because it comes from God Himself. And be grateful for this grace, for His fatherly love, for His constant care for you. For He has long prepared this time and made Himself known through the transmission of His word, so that people can approach this time fully aware and with strong faith in His help. And anyone who has His word is assured of life, even though he will lose it earthly, for his soul lives and need not fear death eternally. Yet his earthly life is also in God's hands and His will alone determines the end ....

Amen

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Calling .... Preparation .... Renunciation ....

B.D. 3274 from September 28th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

The task you have to accomplish will require all your strength, therefore you will be led through trials which are intended to strengthen you for this task; for only when you have overcome yourselves completely, when you have detached yourselves from everything dear to you on earth, will you become absorbed in your work for the kingdom of God. And you are assigned to accomplish this work. Consequently, do not let yourselves be misled or distracted by worldly events, work diligently and hand all your earthly worries over to the Father in Heaven, Who will remove them from you as soon as you work for Him. God expects a lot from you but He also gives you infinitely much .... He expects you to renounce everything that delights your senses, but He will give you what makes your soul happy .... He takes earthly possessions away from you and bestows upon you spiritual wealth, which makes up for all worldly possessions. And you must thank Him for every gift, because it is offered to you by His love. Yet even earthly suffering is a gift of love from God as soon as it matures your soul. For the task you are to accomplish requires undivided dedication, because it is spiritual work which does not tolerate earthly hindrances. But then it is delectable, it delights the giver as well as the recipient .... The point in time when a general breakdown will occur is drawing ever closer, and good for the one who releases himself from earthly goods before they are forcibly taken from him, for his spirit can freely develop and occupy itself with things of eternal value. His life on earth will not last forever, yet what he takes over into the spiritual kingdom can be permanent and subsequently make him infinitely happy. But he will only attain it on earth if he relinquishes what belongs on earth. For this reason God will take the latter away from you, if He has called you to work for Him. You must feel your calling within yourselves as soon as you hear His voice, as soon as you receive His Word and are deemed worthy of the great grace of being instructed by Him directly. The conveyance of spiritual gifts should be your proof that God has chosen you to work for Him. And if you realise this, then you must humbly accept everything from His hand, for everything that comes upon you is necessary and determined by His wisdom. Then you will also feel yourselves called, you will feel yourselves as His servants and receive the instructions of your Lord .... Let Him reign alone, for His way will benefit your souls, and don’t resist Him if He draws you to Himself, but follow His call instead .... Work for His kingdom and don’t worry how you will survive on earth .... God will always find ways and means if you humans need something .... but you cannot protect yourselves from earthly worries if God Himself deems them necessary for you. If He needs you as servants, as labourers for His kingdom, He must first make you capable of it, and for this He uses different means. And the fact that you are meant to work for Him is proven to you every day as His gift of grace flows to you, which teaches you to become His fighters, because He needs you during the last days .... Therefore wait patiently and don’t fail, be tirelessly active and trustingly hand yourselves over to divine guidance, and you will accomplish your task on earth, you will be valiant fighters in the final battle, as it is His will.

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Clarification of contentious issues through instruments of God ....

B.D. 3275 from September 30th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

Anyone who is granted the grace of being able to enlighten people should not miss any opportunity, for the receipt of this grace also obliges him to use it. God has chosen him to be His representative on earth, to act as a bearer of truth against untruth and error, because these are extremely harmful for the soul, because its maturing is then called into question. Therefore he must always and constantly stand up for the truth, as soon as he has recognized it as such. But to learn to recognize it only requires a loving heart which constantly asks for the truth. For the eternal deity unites Himself with a loving person and instructs him until he has penetrated the pure truth himself and no human being can rob him of his conviction of it. Only then is he able to oppose the knowledge of his fellow human beings with divine knowledge. He is able to do this, and his activity is extremely necessary because untrue thinking must be corrected as irresponsible carelessness and this is only possible on the part of a person who is in contact with the forces of light and truth. Therefore, anyone who has once established this bond will soon have knowledge at his disposal, and he should also pass this on or the gift of grace will be taken away from him again. For God speaks through a human being to everyone .... Therefore, the bearer of truth must always consider himself an instrument of God and eagerly endeavour to utilize his gained knowledge again, i.e. to apply it as a contradiction as soon as a question is raised as an object of dispute and people cannot agree on it or are wrongly informed. Such an object of dispute, if left unresolved, can push thousands into wrong thinking. And then God Himself meets people and instructs them according to their will for truth .... He does this through a human being in order to make Himself known to those who believe in Him or to give the unbelievers proof which, however, they may or may not accept as evidence .... A knower must inevitably teach, for he alone can offer truth. And only he who is a recipient of strength from God can be knowledgeable. First of all, these are the beings of light in the spiritual kingdom who directly receive the strength from God, which is light and wisdom. They then pass this on to all beings who are willing and worthy to receive it .... both in the spiritual kingdom and on earth. And thus the right knowledge, the pure truth, will always emanate from God, thus it will originate from Him, and the beings of God-directed will and thinking will always be permeated by this light and knowledge, and thus also the people on earth who, being in most intimate contact with God through loving activity and prayer, receive spiritual knowledge from Him directly or through His messengers. And you should listen to them if controversial questions are raised, for they alone will be able to answer truthfully. However, seriously examine the intellectual thinking, but give preference to the thinking of the heart .... What the human being tries to fathom purely intellectually by examining and pondering he will never be able to clarify completely, but if he lets the voice of his heart speak, if he allows himself to be guided by his feelings, then he will come considerably closer to the truth, for God speaks through the heart. But in order to confirm what the heart of those who seriously strive for the truth proclaims, God obviously makes Himself known through an instrument in order to help those who are willing to believe to recognize the truth. And through these instruments He gives information about controversial questions, if the intellectual thinking has already moved too far away from the truth. And understandably these tools must now work for Him by trying to spread to the world what they receive from the spiritual kingdom, directly from God or through His messengers. For this is their earthly task as soon as God has chosen them to serve as mediators between Himself and people .... It will never be God's will that humanity should walk in error, and He constantly helps it if it is unable to distinguish between truth and error itself. But truth only comes forth from God, and thus it can only be where God can be active, where loving activity allows God's nearness and activity and the will for truth is present .... God gives the most enlightening clarifications to them in abundance, and you should listen to them ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers