New Revelation recieved by Bertha Dudde

Proclamations No. 3356 - 3452

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

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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

3356 - Preaching love for its own sake....

3357 - Fulfilment of the divine commandments.... knowledge of God....

3358 - Progress - standstill - decline in the spiritual world....

3359 - Free will.... Knowledge of good and evil.... The new earth....

3360 - Instrument of God requires total submission and surrender to God....

3361 - Spiritual need.... great earthly sorrow.... prayer....

3362 - Supplication in intimacy and hearing....

3363 - Thought teachings.... consistency with word of God....

3364 - Conflict of body and soul.... cooperation of them....

3365 - Right will - right prayer.... short thought....

3366 - New school of thought.... Human work....

3367 - Increased life force supply from the adversary of God....

3368 - Belief in the working of the forces condition....

3369 - Striving of the adversary of God to alienate people from Him....

3370 - Vitality.... lack of strength.... power supply....

3371 - End of the battle.... Spatial separation....

3372 - Working in love.... desire for God.... fulfilment....

3373 - Recognition - faith - knowledge - love....

3374 - The spiritual in solid matter and in living beings....

3375 - Atonement sacrifice of Jesus Christ....

3376 - Unbridgeable gap.... redemptive work of Christ....

3377 - The purpose of God's revelations....

3378 - Living beings.... Activity.... State of compulsion.... Free will.... Being of service with love....

3379 - Life on earth is just a moment in eternity.... Suffering and pleasures....

3380 - Eruptions .... Natural forces .... Divine Order ....

3381 - The audible Word....

3382 - God's love.... Suffering or happiness.... Granting of prayer....

3383 - Warriors of God....

3384 - Blessing of poverty.... spiritual influx of power.... overcoming matter....

3385 - Increased suffering.... catastrophe.... call from the heart....

3386 - The primordial spiritual and its fall....

3387 - Dark spirit night.... work of the light beings....

3388 - Purpose of the time of need.... comforting encouragement....

3389 - Measures against love work....

3390 - Obligation to pass on spiritual knowledge....

3391 - Incarnated beings of light.... Mission of spiritual leaders....

3392 - Will of God and will of the adversary.... chaos....

3393 - "Work and create while it is still day...."

3394 - God's love is power....

3395 - Dissemination of spiritual knowledge....

3396 - Period of grace until the divine intervention....

3397 - The earth as a lightless star.... light reception....

3398 - Omnipresence of God.... beingness - power....

3399 - Will.... thought.... action.... responsibility....

3400 - Reason of great need.... last means....

3401 - Love.... realization.... kingdom of light.... activity....

3402 - Divine wisdoms – spiritual working....

3403 - Divine wisdom surpasses human wisdom....

3404 - False prophets.... end time....

3405 - Spiritual inertia....

3406 - Battle between light and darkness....

3407 - Hour of the end.... present.... seers and prophets....

3408 - The inner Word during the time of affliction....

3409 - State of life.... activity.... serve....

3410 - World order.... divine law....

3411 - Divine commandments - guidelines....

3412 - Loving care of God....

3413 - Man's will.... God's will.... assurance....

3414 - Spiritualizing the soul.... overcoming matter....

3415 - Motive of the suffering of time....

3416 - Disregarding the divine word.... consequences.... source of power....

3417 - Miracles of faith.... comfort and protection....

3418 - Revelation of God in hours of need....

3419 - Receiving the divine Word is an act of utmost will of strength....

3420 - Setback.... God commands stop....

3421 - Intervention of God.... plan from eternity....

3422 - Suffering - means of grace....

3423 - Progress of the need.... sites of peace....

3424a - Higher development.... construction - activity.... destruction reveals decline....

3424b - Higher development.... construction - activity.... destruction reveals decline....

3425 - Spiritual working.... ability enhanced by will....

3426 - Urgency of spiritual work on earth....

3427 - Faithful prayer.... power of faith and prayer....

3428 - The right faith....

3429 - Blessings of spiritual work.... power supply....

3430 - God is the word.... indestructibility of the work....

3431 - Comfort in need....

3432 - God's word gift of grace.... grace and power....

3433 - Cruel event.... promise.... help....

3434 - Divine creative power and creative will....

3435 - Divine love doctrine.... disregard.... suffering....

3436 - Path to perfection.... earth.... beyond....

3437 - Binding satan....

3438 - God's mighty voice.... end phase....

3439 - Paradise of the new earth.... battle of light and darkness....

3440 - Promise.... living water....

3441 - Strong faith, inner peace.... undaunted....

3442 - Light beings.... direct call of God....

3443 - Personification of God....

3444 - Strong faith.... tool of God....

3445 - "He who believes in Me...." graces of the work of redemption....

3446 - Participation in the work of redemption....

3447 - Harvest time.... wheat and chaff....

3448 - God's Word provides comfort and strength in greatest need....

3449 - Indestructibility of that which is to act as a force....

3450 - Free will.... fatherly love....

3451 - Revelation through the word of God....

3452 - Vocation of the servants of God.... office - power....

Preaching love for its own sake ....

B.D. 3356 from December 4th 1944, taken from Book No. 44

It is not in accordance with God's will if His word is used as a means to achieve earthly aims .... if it is used to induce the fellow human being into loving activity in order to derive his own benefit from it. This is a misuse of the divine word and an injustice against the neighbour, for he is, so to speak, urged to be lovingly active, yet always under pressure which does not allow his love to develop. The obvious purpose deprives him of the joy of loving activity, and spiritual progress is rarely achieved. The divine word certainly teaches love, yet it is not the deed itself which is valued but the degree of love in which the deed is carried out. If an earthly aim is the reason for loving activity, the deed itself can certainly be carried out but the feeling of love can be completely lacking, and then it is a dead work which is accomplished .... but the human being believes to have fulfilled the divine commandment of neighbourly love. But the person who influences his fellow human being to carry out a deed for the sake of an earthly advantage by reproaching him for the divine commandment of love is worthy of condemnation .... The latter can listen to the reproaches, he can do what is demanded of him and yet inner love can be completely absent. But the human being does not give an account of his inner feelings but is satisfied with having accomplished an act which apparently corresponds to the divine commandment of love. But the human being who strives for his own advantage and tries to induce his fellow human being does not observe the commandment of unselfish neighbourly love himself but tries to harm his fellow human being. Consequently, he is not justified in invoking the divine commandment of love; he thereby makes himself sinful, for this is no teaching and no educating to love, but the deed itself is given more priority. Love alone, however, is decisive for the soul's progress .... And this way of preaching love can often be found where earthly aims are pursued which require people's cooperation .... aims which mean an increase in power and which cannot be reconciled with true neighbourly love. And then the divine commandments come into a false light with those who seriously strive and now become suspicious because the representatives of this doctrine of love obey it the least and do not give true, unselfish love to their neighbour. The divine word is misused but people seek cover behind this word by citing it, yet it is not followed by the representatives of the divine teaching who strive for earthly aims .... power and wealth. And these inflict damage on humanity which, however, is rarely recognized, because a person who believes himself to be lovingly active does not practice love .... but the love of the heart must inevitably impel him into action .... for only this love is redeeming, and only this love connects the human being with God ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Fulfilment of the divine commandments .... knowledge of God ....

B.D. 3357 from December 5th 1944, taken from Book No. 44

To walk the right path on earth requires the fulfilment of divine commandments which, however, are extremely easy to fulfil if the human being lives in love, i.e. if he has the instinct from within to be good and to do good .... Then he will not feel God's commandments as pressure or influence which inhibits him, but he will strive of his own accord to do the same as God demands of him, and then he will also walk the right path. Then he does not need any commandments because his nature changes to love of its own accord and because his will strives towards God, thus the spiritual in him is already in the recognition of the eternal deity, even if the human being is not aware of it or has the corresponding knowledge. The knowledge is certainly already slumbering in him but has not yet come to light, and yet his soul recognizes God, otherwise it would not strive for good. The human being will also strive for perfection, for his heart, which is willing and able to love, impels him to constant activity in love. Thus his actions and thoughts do not contradict the commandments of love which God has given in order to make it possible for people to change according to His will. For many people's knowledge of good and evil is not so well developed because their inner will is still turned towards God's adversary. The latter clouds the human being's clear perception of good and evil, he presents evil in such a light that it seems tempting to him. And thus a person who has fallen under his influence, who allows all bad instincts to take effect in him, can nevertheless be convinced within himself that he is acting right, for he only sees his own benefit and considers everything to be good which brings him advantage. The deeper he sinks, i.e. falls into the power of God's adversary, the more his knowledge of good and evil fades. And the divine commandments shall now be a guideline for him as soon as he seriously endeavours to live right on earth. For again and again his wrong way of life has to be held up to him and the divine commandments have to be his standard by which his deeds are evaluated and judged. The commandment of love will always put one's own advantage aside and protect the neighbour's advantage, and only when the human being observes this will he begin to submit to these commandments. Individual commandments had to be issued for the person under the influence of the adversary by which he can recognize the wrongness of his thoughts and actions. The person who is in love, on the other hand, does not need these commandments, it is not possible for him to transgress the individual commandments because love prevents him from doing what a person without love does without hesitation. In a loving person the good forces are active and these keep him back from every thoughtless bad deed, whereas the God-remote person, who is devoid of all love, grants access to the forces of evil and these repeatedly drive him to carry out unloving actions. But if every single commandment is held up to him, the feeling of responsibility for his actions can also be awakened in him and he will then carry out a bad deed with inhibitions which can even result in a change of his thinking, providing he decides to change his way of life in anticipation of a life after death which seems forfeit to him ....

Then he directs his attention to the salvation of his soul, then he seizes every opportunity to gain information about God's will, and he seriously repents of his failed life, and then he seeks to change .... He detests himself and his previous actions, he acknowledges the divine commandments and henceforth endeavours to live in accordance with them .... And only then will he be granted spiritual success, i.e. his soul can still develop upwards shortly before his death, and although its degree of maturity is still low it nevertheless enters the spiritual kingdom with the realization of the eternal deity, and it is no longer completely turned away from God. As soon as it acknowledges God and His commandments it is saved, it is on the path of ascent, its ascent development has begun and the soul will also reach its aim, if not on earth then nevertheless one day in the spiritual kingdom. Yet as long as the human being ignores the divine commandments or associates the fulfilment of these with earthly advantages the soul will remain on the lowest spiritual level, and then it will also remain in dark spiritual night .... It does not recognize God and cannot love Him either, it will not strive towards Him but turn to God's adversary who, however, can never make the soul knowledgeable, thus he cannot impart knowledge of God to it either .... And it is this knowledge which humanity lacks, the knowledge of a God of love Who is omnipotent and wise and wants to win people over for Himself .... As soon as the human being is enlightened, as soon as he believes in God as a supremely perfect being, he will also take notice of what this supreme being requires of the human being .... and he will do this out of innermost impulse, because love for God awakens in him and he seeks to join the supreme, most perfect being .... And then he will not need any commandments but he will be full of love for God and his neighbour from within ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Progress - standstill - decline in the spiritual world ....

B.D. 3358 from December 6th 1944, taken from Book No. 44

In the spiritual world there is neither a standstill nor a decline as soon as the being is in realization, thus it has entered the kingdom of light. For since it then constantly receives strength it is also constantly active, and every activity is an activity in love which signifies spiritual progress. Light and strength receivers in the spiritual kingdom can never remain in inactivity, which would be equal to a standstill, or never think and act without love and thus cause a decline. Instead, the being constantly strives upwards, its strength constantly increases through its emission, and it can radiate ever brighter light and therefore be inconceivably blissful. For the state of light is bliss .... And therefore all spiritual beings must one day be released from their dark state, because this is the activity of the beings of light in the spiritual kingdom to break through the darkness, to bring light to the lightless beings. Only endless times will pass before all spiritual beings are in the state of light, thus in unlimited bliss. And that is why innumerable creations are still needed where the spiritual can mature, and these creations are also products of the spiritual working of love. The activity of the beings of light in the spiritual kingdom varies according to their degree of perfection and consists of transmitting light and strength, of imparting knowledge to the ignorant and supplying vitality or also of creating and shaping earthly creations according to God's will, thus an increased emanation of God's strength, so that this strength becomes visible in creations which carry life within themselves because they contain the still immature spiritual substances for the purpose of maturing. These creations are therefore the spiritual will which has become form, which in union with God has a measure of strength at its disposal and fulfils and expresses His will through these creations. These creations are God's works because His strength and power become visible in them, yet countless beings work in His will and participate in the shaping and preservation of all material creation because they find highest happiness in it and bring to bear the strength which constantly flows to them from God. For they cannot help but be active in love and therefore again and again create new opportunities for the still undeveloped spiritual to mature. This is the privilege of God's children who take on the father’s inheritance and can therefore create and shape like Him, using the strength from God which constantly flows to them because they are in the most intimate union with Him ....

And yet for them there is no limit to their bliss .... their spiritual abilities will never reach a limit, for the unlimited is the characteristic of perfection .... And thus they approach God more and more, although they are merged with Him eternally. But the eternal deity Itself is an entity Which is nevertheless constantly striven for because It is perfected beyond all measure and can never be reached in Its perfection. Thus, in the kingdom of light there is only constant upward development and constantly increasing abundance of light, yet whatever is outside the kingdom of light remains at a standstill or declines in its development because it is powerless and left to its own devices and therefore cannot receive strength either, unless it decides of its own free will to be of service with love .... Then strength will be imparted to it, and then the union with equally mature beings will take place and the slow ascent into the spheres of light will begin. But if this will is not present then it will remain in a powerless, dark state for eternities, or it will sink down into the deepest depths and harden again in its substance until it is banished again in new works of creation for the purpose of overcoming matter. And this state is inconceivably agonizing for the spiritual, it is inactive, unfree and ignorant, it is God-distant and powerless .... It has to cover the path of ascent development until it reaches the stage of freedom of will, until it can receive spiritual strength again which God imparts to it through His messengers, as soon as it is willing to use it itself to approach God. Only then does the activity of the beings of light begin, which then provide the being with love and patience in order to enable it to unite with God, in order to make it mature for the spiritual kingdom, for the spheres of light in which it can attain the vision of God and be blissfully happy, because it is constantly nourished with His strength and thus tangibly feels the closeness to God, which makes it the most blissful being ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Free will .... Knowledge of good and evil .... The new earth ....

B.D. 3359 from December 7th 1944, taken from Book No. 44

The human being has free will .... But the use of this free will necessitates a clear understanding of what it should as well as what it can strive for, since the will must be able to choose either direction in order to make a decision .... Hence it must be possible for the human being to distinguish between good and evil otherwise the freedom of his will would be futile or could be questioned. And for that reason God gave the human being intelligence .... Therefore, not to use intellect means to ignore the gift of free will, thus the human being has the duty to apply his intelligence or else he will be held responsible. And this results in the necessity to reflect on the meaning and purpose of life, because it also gives rise to all other questions which have to be considered in order to make a free decision.

In order to achieve spiritual growth it is absolutely essential for the human being to clarify his inner attitude towards God, towards righteousness, for him to learn to understand that a sincere relationship with God is the purpose of earthly life .... that his free will consciously strives towards God and affirms what is good. Hence he also has to know of the power of evil, he has to get to know it so that he can despise it and choose between one and the other. For this reason evil cannot be expelled from the world or the human being could never make a free decision of will. Evil has to be given some room to vent its fury .... And this is God’s adversary’s influence on human beings which is not denied to him because he can, at the same time, release the powers of good, i.e. the human will is prompted to aspire for good or for bad. Consequently even evil forces are of service to God because they inadvertently help the soul to ascend if it uses its free will correctly.

However, they frequently use their influence beyond what is allowed .... in that they, whose actions are not refused by God, try to prevent good actions .... by making it impossible for people to freely choose between good and evil .... by withholding the knowledge of good, of God, and thus try to compel the human will. And for that reason God puts an end to their activities for a long time .... He confines the forces, who had a limited amount of freedom, for a long time, but at the same time also prevents people, who have not yet clearly decided or whose decision gave evil forces power over them, from using their free will. Only those who have chosen God of their own accord and in spite of the greatest temptations will stay alive because they need no further test of will since they have endured the most difficult trial.

In the coming period only people who have undertaken this test of will can live on earth, who knew the effects of the opposing forces, who were exposed to them and yet escaped them by virtue of their free will, because only they have attained the degree of maturity which allows them to live on earth without being influenced by God’s adversary; while those who have failed must endure the long process of development again until they get at the stage once more when they can use their freedom of will .... Human beings always have to encounter good and evil and therefore the earth will remain a battlefield for both powers as long as immature spirits are embodied on it .... In the beginning the new earth will only accommodate beings of light, i.e. mature human beings shall live on the new earth and keep in constant contact with the beings of light in the spiritual kingdom, and God’s might and power will prevent evil from approaching the people. But the first people of the new earth don’t need further trials and therefore negative forces need not be close to earth either, which manifests itself in the fact that earth is in a state of profound peace, in a condition of mutual understanding and with societies of people living in perfect harmony, because love rules and no God-opposing entity can exist in the presence of love.

But this condition will not last forever because later generations will once again give power to God’s adversary over themselves, they will gladly give in to his temptations and distance themselves to the same extent from God, Who wanted to create a paradise for them on the new earth .... And thus the battle between light and darkness will start anew, and this shall again continue until the end of a redemption period, in order that human beings can decide of their own free will which Lord they acknowledge; and they will be judged in eternity in accordance with their free will .... they will have to suffer in darkness or approach eternal light until they are united with the primal light ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Instrument of God requires total submission and surrender to God ....

B.D. 3360 from December 9th 1944, taken from Book No. 44

Anyone who has been given the grace to be able to be active in enlightenment is also in a service relationship with God, i.e. he has offered himself to Him of his own free will and has been accepted. And therefore he is now also prepared by God Himself for His service. The human being's will must therefore have become active first. Consequently, it is not an arbitrary preference of a person by God but an effect of free will which is paired with serving neighbourly love. This gives people proof of what the right will and loving activity is capable of, what strength is released through both and how obviously God expresses Himself if the human being establishes intimate contact with Him. A conscious will to serve Him has to be expressed, the human being has to completely place his will under God's will, he has to devote himself to Him with body and soul, only then can God work through Him, thus things can be accomplished which seemingly surpass human abilities. Wanting to serve God is the most beautiful and successful task on earth, but it requires complete submission. The human being must allow himself to be pulled and guided, he may not do anything on his own authority, he must hand himself over into God's hand and only want to live for God's pleasure, then God will take hold of him and his path will be marked out from the start. The human being no longer needs to fear going wrong if he has expressed his God-centred will to Him through his request to want to serve Him. Serving in love is the human being's task on earth, and he can do this at any time and in any place, in all circumstances of life and all works of creation .... And if he places himself at God's disposal he will be admitted to a great serving task .... to contribute to the spiritual development of man. He is used, as it were, as God's instrument to convey His will to fellow human beings. Yet this ministry requires the abandonment of one's own will, for it is a spiritual mission which requires the strong will to abandon earthly well-being, i.e. physical desire, and to become completely spiritually attuned. And this will has to overcome all resistances and constantly fetch the strength from the intimate connection with God. As long as the strength of such a will is not mustered, it is not suitable for this service. God, however, knows about the human being's will, about his ability and about using it of his own free will. And therefore He will grant the right people His grace to be able to work for Him on earth. Profound humility and a strong will must prevail in the one who wants to serve Him on earth by setting the redemption of the unfree spiritual as his aim and tackling his work in prayer for God's help. Yet only few apply themselves to God for this work on earth, and therefore it is an extraordinary phenomenon that God Himself instructs a person in a way which makes His working evidently recognizable. Humanity is already too far removed from God to have any understanding for it, even if it still acknowledges God according to the word and does not deny His omnipotence and love. But as soon as this omnipotence and love gives a visible sign it does not recognize God in it, instead it doubts that He obviously expresses Himself, and for them He is a distant being. Yet God wants to bring Himself close to people, He wants to inform them that they are able to feel Him daily and hourly if they approach Him correctly, if they seek Him and desire to enter into contact with Him. And for this He uses a willing earthly person who has desired His nearness and who should and can now provide fellow human beings with the evidence that and how God expresses Himself when the human being opens up to Him. It depends on the person's will whether he is able to recognize Him, and in order to change this will, if he is still turned away from God, he should be instructed, he should be given the knowledge of God's will in order to then voluntarily submit himself to it, for only then will he be able to feel God's nearness, and only then can he receive strength for spiritual ascent development. But since this is the human being's final aim on earth and at the same time signifies complete union with God, a start must be made .... the human being's desire to join God must be awakened. Yet this desire is only awakened when the human being recognizes God as love, and this, in turn, is the result of his own activity of love. But since the human being is devoid of all knowledge at the beginning of his embodiment, this must first be imparted to him, that is, the divine commandments must be taught to him first, so that by fulfilling them he then puts himself into a state which brings him closer to God. Faith in God must come alive in him .... And therefore God reveals Himself to people again and again, He gives them evidence of His love, might and wisdom. Yet this is only possible through people so as not to force faith .... it is only possible through people who no longer resist Him but are completely devoted to Him. He uses them to bring Himself close to all people. The human being himself is only an instrument of God through whom His will is expressed. But the fact that he is used by God as an instrument is the result of his complete devotion to Him. He will never be called upon for such a task against his will, for he stands in the midst of a flow of grace whose influx, however, necessitates his opening, otherwise grace could not be supplied to him in this measure. God certainly needs servants on earth but they must be willing to serve Him voluntarily, only then are they suitable as instruments and their work on earth will be successful. It is not spiritual coercion on the part of God which is exerted on those servants, instead, through their will they have to provide evidence themselves of the strength and wisdom the human being can attain who surrenders his will to God and accepts unmeasured grace from Him. He shall be an example for his fellow human beings which shall serve them as an incentive, for only then will they develop upwards when they start their soul's work with the surrender of their own will, when they fully consciously strive towards God by fulfilling His commandments. Then they will also feel the strength, they will recognize God and learn to love Him and reach their aim on earth .... to find union with God, as is their destiny ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spiritual need .... great earthly sorrow .... prayer ....

B.D. 3361 from December 9th 1944, taken from Book No. 44

There is great spiritual hardship on earth and My love is unable to banish it, for people's will resists My help. It is an unparalleled chaos and yet humanity cannot find its way back to Me because it has already distanced itself too far and no longer recognizes Me. It has no faith, it lives without love and therefore also without recognizing the truth. People live and yet are spiritually dead, they use their intellect and will wrongly, they ponder and research, they think and act but without consulting Me, they are completely ignorant of My will because they don't listen to My word when I bring it to them. They don't let themselves be taught by Me but listen to those who are ignorant themselves; they are incapable of hearing My voice themselves because they lack love and their spirit remains unawakened. And yet, they believe to stand in truth or they are satisfied with what they were commanded out of tradition. And I cannot bring them help because they do not accept it. And the hardship will increase, people will no longer know where to turn and they will lack all strength to endure the coming difficult time. For the spiritual hardship can only be remedied through physical hardship, through earthly tribulation and suffering of an extraordinary kind .... the latter is intended to make them turn to Me in search of help so that I can assist them, yet I have to possess their will first .... The will, however, will only become compliant when the human being no longer has any earthly hope, when he realizes that there is no way out for him and that he is hopelessly lost unless help comes to him from above .... Faith must be born out of this adversity .... when everything around the human being breaks down, when only life is desirable to him; then he calls to the one Who gave him life .... then he gives up all resistance and bows before the lord and creator, and then he prays .... And this is how far I have to lead people, in spite of My love .... precisely because I love them .... I must intensify the hardship if they cannot be won any other way, I must keep Myself hidden from them beforehand so that I can then reveal Myself to them .... I must let them sink if they do not take hold of My hand which wants to bring them salvation .... I must seemingly act mercilessly because they do not submit to My love. And yet, My love is constantly active and concerned about their salvation. And therefore I always send My messengers to those who are in spiritual hardship, who want to escape the chaos and are unable to do so on their own. For they are too weak because they don't believe and therefore don't ask for strength either. But they have to gain faith themselves by letting their intellect become active and thinking in striving for the pure truth .... Then I will reveal Myself to them and they will also recognize Me as soon as they show Me love, which they demonstrate through unselfish neighbourly love .... For I have mercy on everyone who is of good will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Supplication in intimacy and hearing ....

B.D. 3362 from December 10th 1944, taken from Book No. 44

Request My grace in prayer and you will truly not need to live in want or remain in spiritual hardship .... Every appeal sent to Me from earth for the sake of the spirit will be heard and I will consider the person according to his strength of faith. But if you pray to Me with sincerity you will carry the firm faith within you that I can and will help you, and then My grace will flow to you to such an extent that you will have to recognize Me by your peaceful composure, for I will carry this peace into your heart as soon as you want to receive Me in it. The intimacy of prayer opens the door to your heart for Me, in which I look around and guide you to further order in it by admonishing you to love and also giving you strength to be active according to My will. And you will be able to do everything, you will reach your spiritual aim if you call upon Me for grace, for My help, My strength, which I have promised you with the words: "Ask and it shall be given you ...." The earthly adversity has to oppress you at times so that you will reflect spiritually: The earthly adversity is the means to induce you to intimate prayer, and it will also be remedied if you believe .... But anyone who prays to Me for the sake of his soul will noticeably draw Me to him, I will be close to him and lead him by the hand, I will provide his soul with nourishment which will let it recognize My love. And it will draw strength and power from it, for this is My help that I speak to it and give it the evidence that I hear it. Never again will I leave a person calling to Me in distress, and therefore you may appeal to Me without ceasing, I will hear you and help you, for My love will never cease ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Thought teachings .... consistency with word of God ....

B.D. 3363 from December 11th 1944, taken from Book No. 44

The same knowledge can be made accessible to the human being through mental instructions as is imparted by divine revelations, only this knowledge will mostly be addressed as human thought and will not be so easily believed. Yet he draws from the same source as soon as he fulfils the preconditions from which God does not depart .... if he lives in love, desires the truth and consciously listens within from where the pure truth is imparted to him. The same knowledge reveals itself to him, for he can regard it as knowledge insofar as he is convinced that he thinks correctly, that his thinking appears to him as a clear answer to his mental questions and that he therefore does not doubt but believes. Thus he gains a more convinced faith than that which he was only taught by fellow men. And as soon as the human being comes together with equally serious striving people, the exchange of thoughts will result in full agreement, for all God-seeking and striving people will be guided into truth, and this will remain the same forever. Therefore, the thoughts of those who love and strive towards God can also be accepted as truth without hesitation, because they will always be candidates for the pure truth, because God enlightens their thoughts as He has promised to introduce them to the truth through His spirit .... And therefore the word, which is directly conveyed to earth through God's great love, which comes into being as visible work through God's will, will never contradict people's thoughts who strive to live according to God's will. Only this word will deal with the intellectual questions in greater detail, it will surpass it in wisdom so that it will also be obviously recognizable as a divine work and fulfil its purpose on earth .... that people learn to believe in God's omnipotence, love and wisdom .... Furthermore, it shall be irrefutable evidence for the correctness of people's thinking who live a right way of life before God, for in the last days, in the severe tribulations by people who oppose God, it will be difficult for them to maintain their faith. They themselves will become fickle and doubt, and then God will meet them, He will come to their aid by confirming the truth and the justification of their faith. Depending on their spiritual maturity people will grasp the divine wisdoms .... And this is why the degree of knowledge in which individual people stand is also different. Spiritual truths of deepest significance will only be comprehensible to those who detach themselves more and more from earth, from earthly things, and often let their thoughts wander into the spiritual kingdom. They will accept without reluctance, although it is new and unknown to them, their thoughts will not oppose but only complement each other. And by this the true followers of Christ's church will recognize each other, that they all stand up for the same, strive for the same and call the same thought material their own, that they also recognize in it the working of the spirit, which only imparts the same truth to all, which distributes it according to the human being's will. And they will also recognize God's great gift of grace, which is only a confirmation to strengthen their faith and make them resilient in the last days .... For God takes care, He knows about the believers' hardship, about their weakness and the danger of succumbing to it. And He comes to their aid in such a way that He Himself will be recognized by those who strive towards God, who love Him and keep His commandments, who live a way of life according to God's will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Conflict of body and soul .... cooperation of them ....

B.D. 3364 from December 12th 1944, taken from Book No. 44

What serves the best of the soul will usually not be felt very pleasantly by the body as long as the soul and the body are in conflict with each other. For the body demands what is detrimental to the soul, but helps itself to greater well-being. And if the soul is to progress in its development, much must be taken from the body so that the soul is not hindered in its striving. So, to a certain extent, the thinking, feeling and willing must be forcibly diverted from earthly things, i.e., the body must be so thoughtful with renunciations and disappointments of all kinds that the soul distances itself in its thinking from things which please the body and can devote itself to its actual task, the work on itself. The soul finds it difficult of its own accord, therefore it is helped by God insofar as the human being's fate in life has many disappointments in store, thus life approaches the human being in such a way that bodily desire is sparsely provided for, that earthly goods and pleasures are lost to it and that thereby the soul has the opportunity to progress, thus to learn to overcome earthly things and to develop progressively. On the other hand, it is different when soul and body strive for higher development, when the body always gives in to the soul's desire, thus, as it were, participates in the work of change, which is the purpose of earthly life. Then the renunciations and disappointments are no longer so needed and can therefore also be spared the body; for as soon as both .... soul and body .... strive towards God in accordance with the spirit's desire in them, they will never let themselves be diverted from this striving, even though the world approaches them with its demands or enticements. They are won over for the spiritual kingdom, the spirit in them is too powerful and they can live life without worrying, they no longer fall back into the desire for mere earthly possessions but distance themselves from them more and more despite possessing them, for the spiritual possessions are more desirable to them once they have received them. Disappointments and sufferings of all kinds are therefore always a warning of a slackening in spiritual striving, or they should contribute to increased activity of the will, so that the work on oneself is carried out with the greatest intensity, because greater demands are placed on the human being in the field of redeeming activity. This work requires perseverance and self-denial, and the human being has to be educated to disregard the body but to shape the life of the soul such that it completely corresponds to God's will, that God's spirit can become active in order to make him capable of the spiritual work which is redeeming. However, if the body is ready for the same work, then neither joys nor sufferings of the soul are an obstacle to higher development, then the divine spirit's influence on the soul is so strong that it can never ever be diminished by impressions. The spiritual striving will always be in the foreground and never diminish, for the soul is completely controlled by the spirit within itself, nor does it have the will to withdraw from its influence, on the contrary, it draws the body into the spiritual realm, it determines it to completely join the spirit's urging, thus to comply with everything the spirit demands of the soul. And thus soul and body are now subordinate to the spirit in themselves, and this results in a faster maturing and thus also a special ability to be active for God, thus to take part in the redemption of the bound. However, the human being is in no way forced to do so but the will is placed into him, it is stimulated by everlasting spiritual instructions which reach the human being in the form of thoughts and which are again supported or affirmed by the divine word which is offered as evidence of divine love and omnipotence to people who want to receive and pass it on. For this word will be in accordance with the thoughts of the one who consciously works on himself. And the latter will be accepted by God as a labourer for His vineyard, his earthly life will now be guided and his spiritual activity blessed, and he will never ever be released from God's service. He will find support from people who are of the same spirit, he will also be supplied with earthly strength by his life unfolding in such a way that he will not be hindered in his striving. Thus earthly events can also approach him without seriously endangering him spiritually once he has offered himself to God for service. Then his body will also no longer be self-centred but always and in every way submit itself to the soul and the spirit, he will listen in joy and suffering to the inner voice through which God's spirit makes itself known, for he recognizes his purpose of earthly life and is willing to contribute to the redemption of the bound. Thus the voice of the spirit will penetrate and can never be drowned out by earthly sufferings or joys, and the spiritual striver will therefore also be able to experience the latter without seriously endangering his ascent development ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Right will - right prayer .... short thought ....

B.D. 3365 from December 13th 1944, taken from Book No. 44

The right will also guarantees the right prayer .... Although the human being is often unable to gather himself for intimate dialogue with God, if his will is turned towards God he will also overcome such weak states and again and again be able to establish the connection with God, for in accordance with his will God Himself comes to meet him and draws him to Himself, He gives him the strength to separate himself and to eliminate every earthly disturbance, even if only for a short time. For even a heartfelt thought of Him is a prayer pleasing to Him, which He evaluates accordingly. And the coming time will often confront the human being with this test of will, for it will so assail him that it will be difficult for him to hold a prolonged dialogue with God in complete seclusion, and yet He will not leave His children in adversity, and His children are all those who strive towards Him, who want to live in His pleasure, who use every opportunity to hold a dialogue with Him, who thus pray intimately because they want to belong to Him and need strength and help to do so. God knows about the human being's will and does not demand a long prayer but a constant opening of Himself to His grace, which happens through a will turned towards God and a requesting thought for the granting of strength and grace. And the greater the hardship, the more intimately people will have to pray, i.e. the more desirously they will send Him a heartfelt plea, entrust themselves to Him and expect His strength of grace .... A heartfelt prayer must start from the heart, it must rise from the depth of the heart to the height, it does not need a form that is outwardly recognizable, it does not need well-placed words .... the earthly child must devote itself to its father in loving intimacy, trustingly present its adversity to Him and ask for averting it or for strength to endure everything God imposes on it. And the human being whose will strives towards God will also always be able to raise his thoughts to God, for God Himself comes to meet him because He helps those who desire Him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

New school of thought .... Human work ....

B.D. 3366 from December 13th 1944, taken from Book No. 44

It will be the object of those who no longer recognise God, due to their heartless way of life, to coerce people into a completely new school of thought. They reject the old belief and will try to replace it with new teachings, their intention will be to confuse people’s thought by seeking to disprove everything and, through objections, will awaken their doubts in order to introduce them to the new school of thought, to recruit them for it with guile and force. Because they do not shy away from achieving their aim by unfair means, they will rigorously proceed against people who remain faithful to their old belief and honour those who do their will and promote the spreading of the new teaching. These teachings are the work of human beings, they incorporate neither wisdom nor love; the aim of these teachings is to de-spiritualise people, to make people get the wrong idea about the purpose of earthly life, they do not originate from the spiritual realm but deny all spiritual concepts and only accept worldly goals.

And these teachings are offered to people in such a way that no one may evade their influence, that daily life will more or less depend on the acceptance of these teachings so that people will have to make the serious decision to accept or reject them. This school of thought will find approval everywhere because it takes people’s worldly attitude into account which is the key factor for most people, because humanity is becoming increasingly materialistic and has completely turned away from the spiritual kingdom. They accept what they are given by people but do not recognise spiritual gifts as such, they laugh at or mock God’s Word and reject any truthful explanation. On the other hand, human structures and human ideas, which heartless people are trying to spread, meet the approval of most, and thus a school of thought will evolve which completely contradicts the pure truth. This is a school of thought which has nothing in common with Christ’s teaching since Christ’s teaching of love will be frowned upon. Since love is not taught first and foremost it will grow cold and wisdom, which is unthinkable without love, will also come to an end. People’s thoughts will be ever more misguided, fewer and fewer people will take refuge in God as the source of all wisdom and it won't be possible, therefore, to give the pure truth to them anymore either. Nor will the truth be recognised any longer while error will assert itself, since humanity will no longer be able to distinguish truth from error due to its heartlessness. And thus it will allow itself to be encouraged and descend ever deeper into a state of ignorance. There will be spiritual darkness for humanity and no one will want to see the light .... And for this reason the adversary will have an easy time .... The battle against faith will be carried out on all levels of society since unkindness dominates everywhere and prevents people’s perception. However, human work will not last .... It will disintegrate, like everything that is not of God, after it has triggered an enormous chaos, because these things do not survive for long and will therefore be eliminated by God Himself when the time for the end has come ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Increased life force supply from the adversary of God ....

B.D. 3367 from December 14th 1944, taken from Book No. 44

Distance from God means lack of strength .... Nevertheless, the God-remote human being on earth can have strength at his disposal in order to carry out God-opposing actions, yet he then uses the vitality which flows to every human being during his earthly life. He uses it wrongly, not for loving activity but disregards his actual task, he reigns in unkindness because he seeks to strengthen his power on earth through his actions. Increased vitality flows to him from God's adversary which enables him to carry out everything he tells him to do. But God's adversary will always hold an earthly aim in front of the human being, he thereby lures him into his snares, for he knows that the human being only pursues earthly aims. Thus the human being is far more connected to this adversary and this proves his remoteness from God. The state of remoteness from God is a state of powerlessness which, however, does not become so noticeably apparent in earthly life because the vitality seemingly proves the opposite. But by using the vitality the human being should acquire spiritual strength, the strength from God, he should use the vitality to approach God, this is the only purpose of earthly life. And if this aim is not achieved the human being misuses the grace of his last embodiment on earth, and he will have to pay bitterly in the beyond if he has come to realize what he failed to do on earth. But he never remains without admonition and warning during his earthly life, again and again God approaches him, pointing him to his actual purpose in life. God Himself seeks to reduce the distance and to change his powerless state into the opposite by also temporarily shortening his vitality, by letting him feel his weakness in order to change his mind, to change his thinking and to guide his heart towards Himself. Yet God's adversary also uses his power to comply with the human being's will .... he supports him and again and again turns strength towards him, and indeed, the more unwillingly the human being feels the divine approach the more successful he will be, for already the inner rejection of what God offers him restores his vitality to an increased degree, for this is the power of evil which is due to him, that he can extraordinarily support the people in bondage to him with his strength, because they themselves open themselves to this strength from below through their will, their unkindness and their wrong thinking. God fights with the weapons of love, He certainly also courts every soul but only ever wants this soul to be lovingly active, and thus He also always presents it to the human being that he should be lovingly active and therefore constantly meets with rejection, whereas God's adversary presents him with the advantages which arise for him from loveless activity, and he willingly listens to these ideas. And thus the distance from God is not reduced but constantly increased, and the lack of strength constantly increases, i.e., the human being becomes increasingly more incapable of developing himself upwards, he becomes increasingly more incapable of loving activity and therefore also of receiving strength from God. His state becomes ever more lightless, for he is now completely dominated by the power whose striving is to separate everything from God and to draw it down to himself into deepest darkness ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Belief in the working of the forces condition ....

B.D. 3368 from December 15th 1944, taken from Book No. 44

People close themselves off to true knowledge if they don't believe in the working of spiritual forces, for faith is the first condition for them to be able to work. If the human being is to attain realization his thoughts have to go in the right direction, since they can also take a different direction because the human being's will is free through God's will. The origin of the thought is always the spiritual kingdom, from there the thought flows to the human being, it is received by his will and processed by his intellect or also rejected. And since good and evil forces are active in the spiritual kingdom, the mental streams will also be accordingly, thus they can be accepted or rejected according to the human being's will, for his will closes or opens itself to the influx of thoughts. As soon as the human being believes and strives for good, he will also be open to the mental influences of the good spiritual forces, and these can then instruct him and also enlighten him about their own activity, about their strength and love, and if the human being thinks these enlightenments through intellectually, this is an acceptance of what is offered .... He believes that the beings of light can and want to be active in order to guide him to realization. But equally the bad forces can have an effect on him and impart thoughts to him in a form that he believes to be the originator of these thoughts himself, and understandably they will be such that they deny all connection of the spiritual kingdom with earth and all working of mature beings for the benefit of people, so that they make the human being unreceptive to the good influences and the human being closes himself against them because he does not believe in their strength and power. Then these beings of light can no longer express themselves. They do not find an open ear, and compulsorily no knowledge can be imparted to people. And that is why people will always live in spiritual darkness as long as they don't make contact with the light-bringing beings through their will, which, however, presupposes faith in the working of these forces. This can also be expressed unconsciously when the human being hopes and waits for inner enlightenment, when he believes that right thinking will bring him enlightenment even though he does not know the origin of the thought. But this ignorance is then only a state which is quickly remedied, for the desire for knowledge is at the same time a concession of a strength which can impart knowledge to him and thus also an opening up to it. As soon as the human being believes in God's love it will also be easy for him to believe that this love can and will increase his knowledge and that God has many possibilities to convey this knowledge to him. Then the thought that His messengers and servants in the spiritual kingdom are the intermediate bearers of pure truth and that God also finds the possibility to convey this truth to earth in a direct way will not be unacceptable to him either. For anyone who believes in God will also believe in unusual activity if he takes into account the great spiritual hardship, the state of people's remoteness from God and ignorance. He will believe that God uses spiritual forces which take care of those on His behalf who are of good will and call upon Him for help. The knowledge of the pure truth, however, is help, the state of realization is also a state of strength at the same time, for the right realization gives strength and makes people happy .... But if the human being does not believe in the possibility of a transmission of strength through spiritual beings, he is completely at the mercy of the onslaught of other thoughts which he indeed regards as his own thought activity but which also have spiritual origin, they only increase his spiritual darkness. Then he will not be taught truthfully but be forced into increasingly wrong thinking, and then he will no longer be able to find his way until he finally denies everything and also no longer wants to acknowledge God and His working. He is blind in spirit and cannot be helped, for since he does not believe he does not turn to God or the good forces for help either, and thus he closes his heart to every good influence; for a strength has to be acknowledged or it cannot become effective according to God's will, Who also gave the human being a free will to open or close himself to the influx of strength ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Striving of the adversary of God to alienate people from Him ....

B.D. 3369 from December 16th 1944, taken from Book No. 44

Spiritual development is so extremely important in earthly life and yet is mostly disregarded, and this is the work of God's adversary whose endeavour is to prevent people as much as possible from thinking about their actual purpose in life. Only active reflection leads people to the aim, it brings them to recognize their task in a short time. But as soon as the demands of the world approach him in such a way that they fully occupy his thinking, God's adversary will have achieved his aim of dissuading him from every spiritual thought, and then the human being will not do the slightest for his soul because he is not aware of its hardship. For in order to work on his soul he has to know that it is in a defective state, he has to imagine the cause of it, he also has to know about the consequences and recognize the former in a wrong earthly living .... Only then will he strive to change himself and thus tackle the work on his soul. But God's adversary tries to prevent all this by placing earthly life in the foreground and using every opportunity to entice the human being with what belongs to the world. And the human being all too willingly accepts worldly temptations, he allows himself to be lured and follows him by striving for the pleasures and goods of the world, by allowing himself to be completely captivated by the world. A person who still enjoys the world will never seriously think about the meaning and purpose of his earthly life, he will never care for his inner life but only ever pay attention to the external; he will enjoy life to the fullest and not miss any opportunity to help the body to enjoy itself while he will not think about his soul at all, and therefore he can never develop ascendancy as soon as he pays too much attention to the world, for it is part of him who wants to ruin the soul, who believes he can diminish God's might and strength and therefore also seeks to distance the human being from God. And humanity willingly follows him, it does not resist, it does not refuse but does everything God's adversary demands, and he believes himself to be over-strong in his power. People's will itself increases this power, the human being hands himself over to God's opposing power where he should offer resistance and can do so if he raises his thoughts to God and requests the strength from Him. For often enough it is held up to him what he should do and what he should refrain from doing, often enough his own task in life is presented to him and he is stimulated to think about it .... If he does not do so, it is his fault, for God truly does not lack opportunities where the human being can come to recognize his purpose in life. If he lets these opportunities pass he will have to answer for them, just as, conversely, he will receive grace upon grace if he strives to fulfil his task in life of his own accord and raises his thoughts to God. For God takes hold of every outstretched hand which appeals to Him, but just as He never forces the human being's will to incline towards Him if he strives towards His adversary ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Vitality .... lack of strength .... power supply ....

B.D. 3370 from December 17th 1944, taken from Book No. 44

Only through strength does the will become action, therefore strength must first be imparted to the being which is to let its will become active as long as it does not have it itself. And for the being there is a state of powerlessness and a state of fullness of power, depending on its spiritual nature. In the state of powerlessness the being is therefore unable to carry out an act despite its will, but in the state of fullness of strength it can continuously let its will become an act, and this is a state of perfection, of bliss and therefore of God-likeness. Nevertheless, even in the state of imperfection, where it cannot freely dispose of strength, the beingness does not need to be inactive because it has the possibility to acquire strength itself. This is especially true for the last time of its development on earth and also in the spiritual kingdom. On earth it constantly draws strength as long as it lives, i.e., life itself is already a process of transmitting strength, which becomes recognizable by the possibility of carrying out its earthly activity. Without strength the being, which is now embodied in the human being, would not be able to accomplish anything. He can therefore continue to be active during his earthly life and indeed carry out every action according to his will, as far as this lies within the realm of possibility. The human being should use this strength in order to acquire the actual strength to one day be able to work in the spiritual kingdom. For spiritual strength is different from vitality, even though the source of strength is the same .... the eternal deity, Who wants to snatch Its beings from the state of powerlessness. The human being's vitality ceases with his physical death, but the being's spiritual strength remains its own even in the spiritual kingdom if it has acquired it on earth. And therefore the being, which neglected the latter on earth, falls into the state of powerlessness again after its physical death, which is unspeakably agonizing for the being because it had previously known the state of strength. And yet, it can still acquire the supply of strength in the spiritual kingdom, but then its will has to strive for it .... it first has to submit itself to the divine law of love, otherwise the strength in the spiritual kingdom cannot be imparted to it. But as long as it does not do so it remains in powerlessness, it is incapable of exercising its will; and for the most part this will is also so weak that it remains completely apathetic in its powerless state in utmost agony and wretchedness. Yet the beings which are in fullest abundance of strength do not leave those beings in their distress because they are urged to give their strength to those who need it. But the transfer of strength can only take place if the beings fulfil God's demand, if they decide to serve with love of their own accord .... And therefore a great deal of work has to be done on these poor beings before the transfer of strength can take place; they have to be instructed and made aware of their task in the spiritual kingdom, their hitherto wrong thinking has to be directed correctly and thus the basis first has to be created for the beings to change into love, because they cannot receive the strength until they decide of their own accord to use the strength flowing to them for loving activity. Only then is the transmission of strength possible .... And therefore the possibility is always open to imperfect beings to acquire strength in order to then also put their will into action, for only the activity of their will is pleasing for the being in the spiritual kingdom, just as the state of strengthlessness is always a state of agony, for the beingness was originally created to be able to create and shape in fullest freedom according to its will. And only the original state is a state of bliss for the spiritual being, which is therefore the aim of all beingness as long as it has not yet become a direct recipient of strength from God and can therefore absorb and also release strength in all abundance .... Only then is the being perfect and has reached its aim .... it has joined the original power from which it originated ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

End of the battle .... Spatial separation ....

B.D. 3371 from December 17th 1944, taken from Book No. 44

You will be informed of everything that is beneficial for you if you let yourselves be taught by Me and thus pay heed to My voice which gently yet perceptibly speaks to you within yourselves .... Your opinion about the forthcoming sequence of world events is extraordinarily misguided if you believe that one of the opposing powers will emerge victoriously from the struggle, for My will has decided otherwise, given that not the physical well-being but the salvation of souls shall be promoted and this necessitates a complete change of their lives which can only take place once all earthly plans have become null and void and humanity is faced by an extraordinary event which will shock their way of thinking. A normal conclusion to the struggle between nations would not entail a change in their usual life, besides, none of the quarrelling powers are innocent and thus none of the powers are legitimately entitled to victory. Hence I will thwart people's plans, irrespective of which outcome they assume .... I will invalidate everyone's expectations and provide a solution which no-one expects and which is not welcome by anyone either, for I will end the battle such that it cannot be continued even if people were willing to do so. For I will spatially separate the fighting parties from each other, I will let natural obstacles arise which cannot so easily be overcome. And thus I will deprive people of every possibility to continue fighting each other.

And so the battle of the nations against each other will be brought to a halt, it will not be a decision, it will not be the defeat of one power but humanity will realise that its power has reached its limit and that the divine Power has to be acknowledged, which is only too distinctly recognisable in this outcome. I will bring about the end and yet severely punish the guilty parties in doing so, for they will realise that they were misled in their certainty of victory, they find themselves weakened and unsuccessful and are confronted by great misery and immense poverty. And this end was announced by Me a long time ago, so that the truth of My Word would thereby be demonstrated to you who still doubt it. I will put a stop to it when people's cruelty has reached its peak, so that the world will realise that there is a God in heaven Who punishes the sin which so evidently comes to light .... so that it will realise that it is not people but I Myself who determines the outcome .... and this in a different way than people expect. And the hour is not far away .... Hence I reveal Myself to those who believe in My intervention and know My intention, whom I instruct to draw people's attention to it and whom I send as prophets amongst humanity. For it shall be warned in advance because I will never let such an event come upon people without informing them of it, so that they will sincerely consider their souls' and prepare themselves. For no-one knows who will be affected .... My intervention will claim countless victims wherever it happens ....

Amen

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Working in love .... desire for God .... fulfilment ....

B.D. 3372 from December 18th 1944, taken from Book No. 44

God turns to every soul that turns its eye to Him, that gives itself to Him longingly and strives to possess His love. God loves His creatures with an intimacy that also allows His mercy to be understood, which applies to the beings most distant from God. He does not rest until He has won them over. How much more will He therefore consider an earthly child that does not hide from Him but strives towards Him. For this one is close to the aim and its soul swings upwards and God lovingly inclines towards it ..... And this signifies the supply of strength, for the soul requires strength for its ascent, which will not be withheld from it as soon as its striving goes upwards. But it must now also express its will to God, although He knows about its will, yet it must let the will become action by practicing unselfish works of neighbourly love. For through the activity of love it makes itself worthy of the supply of strength, for it shapes itself into an image of God Who is love in Himself. Every act of love leads it closer to God, yet without love its will towards God is still small, even if it wants to express love in words. A perfect union with God can only take place through loving activity, yet an earthly child will only reach God if the spark of love is ignited in it, for this is the latter's characteristic that it desiringly turns towards God .... Then the human being has already been active in love, for the desire for God is God's response. Desire is expressed and fulfilled at the same time through the desire for Him. For anyone who desires God will also be looked after by His love from hour one, and his path can never again be a wrong one. And every supply of divine strength of love will result in increased desire. The earthly child will never be able to fall again, even if it occasionally threatens to become weak, for God will now guide it by the hand as soon as it asks Him for His guidance, which it already does unconsciously when it looks up to Him and admires His greatness, for the imperfect will always strive towards perfection if it is good in its innermost being and thus request strength from this perfection to become like Him. And God fulfils this request, and no earthly child will ask for spiritual gifts in vain, for they will always be given to it. God's love considers His living creations in abundance so that they can become blissfully happy and enter His kingdom. For all people are His creations which He wants to win for Himself ....

Amen

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Recognition - faith - knowledge - love ....

B.D. 3373 from December 19th 1944, taken from Book No. 44

The individual's life on earth is decisive for life in eternity. This realization also allows people to live consciously, i.e. they will make an effort to live according to God's will in order to gain eternal life. Yet most people lack this realization because they can only attain true knowledge through love and lack the will to believe in life after death, otherwise they would also strive for eternal life without knowledge. The believing human being does not doubt this, even though it cannot be proven to him what he is taught about life in eternity; nevertheless, he adjusts his earthly life according to his faith .... But the human being who has become knowledgeable through love needs no proof, for the knowledge gained through the working of love is proof enough for him. And thus he now consciously strives for eternal life .... He seeks to shape himself according to divine will in order to be able to be close to God after his death, which means life for the being. But if the human being lacks all faith in a continuation of life he will only live on earth for this world, he will not respect divine will, he will not work on himself, that is, on his soul, he will only love himself and disregard the commandment of neighbourly love, therefore he will never attain spiritual brightness, he will remain without knowledge and therefore not use earthly life for the salvation of his soul. And at the end of his life he will recognize his idleness and pass spiritually dead into the kingdom of the beyond, for he has only used earthly life for his physical well-being. But the body will pass away and with it everything he strives for .... earthly goods and pleasures .... The human being takes nothing into the spiritual kingdom which was dear to him on earth, only his soul, and this is in an extremely poor state, weak and without life. For no other fate can blossom for the soul than the one the human being has prepared for it on earth .... And therefore the human being has to believe, i.e. he has to receive instructions about his earthly task and about the consequences of fulfilling or not fulfilling this task. And accordingly he must shape his earthly life. If he makes an effort then he will be active in love in accordance with the instructions, and then he will also receive the knowledge which will give him the inner conviction that his faith is not without reason .... And as soon as he is convinced of this, it will be easy for him to live according to God's will, for then he will know that life does not end with the death of the body, and this certainty will let him live and strive consciously, this certainty will fill him with strength and joy .... He does not fear death, he does not fear responsibility, for his thoughts and aspirations are always turned towards God and full of hope that one day his soul will attain the vision of God, that it will live in unlimited bliss and will no longer be eternally separated from the one Whom it recognizes and to Whom it has united itself through loving activity ....

Amen

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The spiritual in solid matter and in living beings ....

B.D. 3374 from December 20th 1944, taken from Book No. 44

There is an essential difference between the spiritual which is still bound in solid matter and the spiritual which is permitted to enliven the external form, where the cover of the spiritual therefore shows visible activity so that it is addressed as living. The spiritual in solid matter is still completely turned away from God, therefore opposed to Him, and therefore all freedom is taken from it. It has to endure an extremely agonizing constraint, for the external form does not give way, it is immovable and indestructible and does not allow the spiritual in itself to be free. And the spiritual substance has to remain in this state of compulsion for endless times until its resistance to God subsides, until it bends under Him, so to speak, and begins to submit to His will. Then the compulsion will also diminish, the spiritual substance will feel a relief of the external form until God's will breaks it and the spiritual substance enters a freer stage, although still in solid matter but serving a specific purpose, so that it can now already carry out an activity which initiates its further course of development. The resistance towards God must constantly decrease more and more, the spiritual must be willing to take the path of service, then form upon form will dissolve until the last solid outer shell falls and the spiritual is allowed to animate creations, thus life is recognizable in a creation. Now the outer form is no longer anything rigid, solid, but it is mobile, constantly changing and active in some way, even if this is still difficult for the human eye to recognize at first. And from now on the outer forms change more and more frequently, the spiritual does not stay in it for long but rises from step to step, and more and more life reveals the form it is allowed to occupy, until then life is so obviously recognizable that one can speak of living beings to which a certain task is assigned. The spiritual in it is already in a certain degree of maturity and is therefore admitted to an activity which is again of use for another work of creation or for another living being, and therefore the spiritual serves and thereby redeems itself from its respective outer cover. And thus a constant passing away of the old cover and a constant becoming and coming into being of a new cover must take place, which is also evident again and again in the whole of God's creation. And the outer shell must again and again release the spiritual as soon as it decides to serve, which is always recognized by God, which is why He takes the spiritual's desire into account to assign it a new serving activity. Consequently, the spiritual substance in the living beings is already significantly more advanced, for its will is no longer opposed to God, so that it will soon reach the degree of maturity required for its final embodiment on earth as a human being. The distance between this embodied spiritual substance in the human being and the spiritual substance which is still banished in solid matter is understandably very great, and therefore it is a sign of spiritual decline when a person strives for this solid matter, thus seeks to increase earthly goods and attaches his heart to things which still harbour completely immature spiritual substances. This is a danger for the human being, for the spiritual pulls him under its spell, it drags him down and thus makes the path of ascent more difficult for him, whereas the human being who disregards matter is much freer and strides upwards more easily. Nothing holds him back on earth, he can detach himself far sooner and will also want to leave the last form, and he feels it that he should never desire what he has long since overcome ....

Amen

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Atonement sacrifice of Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 3375 from December 22nd 1944, taken from Book No. 44

It was a superhuman deed which the man Jesus accomplished for His sinful fellow human beings that He allowed Himself to be nailed to the cross without being guilty. Due to His perfection He had the power and strength at His disposal to destroy His enemies and to avert the most shameful and painful death on the cross from Himself. He could prove His guiltlessness at any time, and yet He allowed what was done to Him by sinful fellow human beings to happen to Him, He allowed Himself to be seized and led to death under the scorn and derision of men. He suffered unspeakably and died the most agonizing death .... and this out of love for humanity in order to redeem it .... He took inhuman suffering upon Himself in order to offer God a sacrifice of atonement for the overwhelming guilt of sin which people had brought upon themselves. For He knew the dreadful consequences these sins entailed, He knew that people forfeited their eternal bliss, that they would never be released from their banished state and that they would have to languish for eternities if they entered the kingdom of the beyond unredeemed after the death of their body .... He was in union with God through love, His spirit was united with the father-spirit .... And thus He was also knowledgeable and powerful .... And He recognized the darkness in which humanity walked, He recognized the weakness and powerlessness, even though people seemed strong and full of superiority. He saw their spiritual hardship, He saw their souls in the power of satan, and He wanted to bring them help .... light and strength and strong will .... Humanity itself was not worthy of it, and God could not bestow upon them a gift which has purity of heart and profound love as its prerequisite. For God is just and distributes His gift according to merit and worthiness. And thus it could never again come into possession of this gift of grace .... light and strength and strong will .... if a human being full of love had not taken pity on it, Who offered Himself to God through His sacrifice in place of those He wanted to redeem from their spiritual adversity. And this human being was Jesus Christ, a purest being of light, Who embodied Himself as a human being in order to suffer and die for people's sins. His purity increased the extent of His suffering but His love for humanity was greater than great, and thus He accomplished the act of salvation of His own free will, because He wanted to suffer for people in order to spare them suffering and to buy their eternal bliss, which they had forfeited through sin ....

Amen

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Unbridgeable gap .... redemptive work of Christ ....

B.D. 3376 from December 23rd 1944, taken from Book No. 44

People are separated from God by an unbridgeable gulf who live without love and without faith in Jesus Christ as the divine redeemer .... For them there is no path to God, for only love is the bridge to Him, and only faith in Jesus Christ helps build this bridge, for anyone who believes in Him will also live according to His commandment and practice love, and this again establishes the connection with God. There is no other path, and anyone who does not want to take the path of love can never ever reach God. But the human being Jesus exemplified the path of love on earth, He bridged the gap through His act of salvation for people, so that everyone can now walk this bridge if they believe in Him and keep His commandments. And therefore earthly life is no longer hopeless, because the eternal love Itself has shown a path which leads across this hitherto insurmountable gulf to It, and because It gives all people the opportunity to take this path .... by acknowledging Christ and the act of salvation and thereby receiving His acquired grace .... increased will and strengthened power .... No-one was able to bridge the gulf by his own strength, but through the act of salvation the human being can increase his weak strength many times over, he is able to muster a will which masters the greatest obstacles. But faith in Jesus Christ absolutely has to motivate the human being to request His gift of grace, he has to turn to Him in prayer for His help, and he will receive it, because the man Jesus died on the cross to ensure that the human being will henceforth not be powerlessly at the mercy of the one who, as God's adversary, created this unbridgeable gulf in order to separate people from God. And since God is love Himself His adversary destines people to unkindness and thereby distanced them ever further from God. And therefore the human being Jesus faced this adversary of God for battle .... He likewise tried to separate people from Him by giving them the safest weapon in His hand, by encouraging them to work with love, for this guarantees the approach to God, thus it also has to be a bridge to Himself. But this is why He must first be acknowledged, otherwise His act of salvation will not be taken advantage of and the gulf between man and God will remain insurmountable. Only the loving human being understands the significance of the act of salvation, and he also knows about the power of love, he knows about the blessings Jesus Christ has acquired for people. And he also tries to win his fellow human beings for a life of love, he also tries to lead them to the bridge which alone leads to God, which reduces the excessive distance from people to God. And then he participates in the act of salvation which Christ started through His death on the cross but which will not come to an end and will continue on earth as well as in the beyond until the gulf has been overcome and the soul has found union with God ....

Amen

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The purpose of God's revelations ....

B.D. 3377 from December 24th 1944, taken from Book No. 44

God reveals Himself to people in order to make religious truths available to them by availing Himself of a person through Whom He speaks to all people. He makes Himself known to them, that is, He so discernibly expresses Himself that a person, if he is willing, can attain profound belief in a Being Which is supremely perfect, full of love, omnipotence and wisdom and Which, as creative power, is in closest connection with Its living creations. His revelations make this perfectly clear, but it is up to the human being to believe it or not; and for this reason His revelations convey what he should believe, nevertheless it will never be proven to him such that he must believe it. It is entirely up to his will whether the knowledge conveyed to him becomes his inner conviction, whether he thereby becomes a believer. And therefore God's revelations are presented such that they will never signify religious compulsion. They can certainly be recognised as divine revelations if the human being sincerely desires truth, that is, God; but they can also be made out to be human work, to be human thinking, and a person is entirely at liberty to make up his own mind. But since faith in God is imperative in order to ascend, God will time and again reveal Himself in order to give people the knowledge about Himself, about His reign and activity. And He appeals to the human being's intellect to process this imparted knowledge mentally and thereby arrive at the right belief. For as soon as the person discovers correlations which harmonise with God's nature, that is, which show God's love, wisdom and omnipotence, he will accept what is offered to him as plausible. And then he will try to establish his own connection with this supremely perfect Being.

And this is the purpose of God's revelations, so that people who are looking for Him will take the right path and thereby find Him. They should be able to believe as a matter of conviction and this entails that they have mentally processed the knowledge conveyed to them and subsequently acknowledge it as truth. For what God expects people to believe has to be made accessible to them in some form or other. But God Himself can never manifestly speak to them, because it would not be spiritual freedom but coercion, which would not enable people to gain a higher degree of maturity. Although it certainly would be convincing proof, it would nevertheless be worthless, for then the person would be forced into a God-pleasing way of life, but this has to be the result of profound love for God. For only love can lead to higher spheres, but love has to arise from the heart in absolute freedom of will, if it is to be divine and lead to God. Love is also the key to wisdom, that is, only a loving person recognises the truth, and this is why only a loving person will be able to attain true faith. But God preaches love through His Word, and everything He proclaims to people through His Word will therefore also be trustingly accepted if love is not excluded. Thus, God reveals Himself in order to educate people to love, in order to make them believe that He can come close to them with His gift of grace which intends to help them towards spiritual progress ....

Amen

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Living beings .... Activity .... State of compulsion .... Free will .... Being of service with love ....

B.D. 3378 from December 25th 1944, taken from Book No. 44

All beings are animated by the will to live, that is, every spiritual being strives to be active, because in the very beginning it was full of strength and able to use its strength without restriction. The state of inactivity is therefore painful for the spiritual being because it completely contradicts the being's true nature and destiny. For this reason it will always be effectively impelled into activity, yet in its constrained state, particularly in hard matter, it is prevented from doing so, and this causes the spiritual being great pain. Consequently, its weakness needs to be remedied first in order to make the being's state bearable, and the slightest flow of strength will spur it into becoming busily active and reveals life .... i.e., every living being, from the smallest plant to the highest evolved work of creation, the human being, is a recipient of strength and to various degrees capable of carrying out work, and thus life is within them. Every living being's activity, with the exception of the human being, is determined by God, and the living beings comply with their assignment in a certain law of compulsion, that is, they subordinate themselves to the divine law of nature, according to which every work of creation is assigned a task it has to accomplish. However, the spiritual being's urge to live is so strong that it does not oppose this law but fulfils its vocation because in so doing it will be allowed to become increasingly more active. For this reason, everything in creation exhibits diligent activity, everything demonstrates life, apart from hard matter, which is apparently dead, yet it, too, shelters life which so imperceptibly manifests itself to the human eye that it is scarcely noticed and therefore hard matter is assumed to be lifeless, although it actually isn't.

Yet the more a spiritual being has evolved the more its activity, its life, can be recognised by the human being, and this life within every work of creation should make him ponder the purpose of the whole of creation .... After all, the human being as such is capable of reflecting on this, while all other living beings still lack this ability. The human being, however, can largely be active, and of his own free will. Vital energy flows to him incessantly which he can use to work constantly, and thus he has already come considerably closer to the state of the originally created being and he can take advantage of the last stage in order to gain complete freedom and immeasurable strength so as to be able to actively create and shape again as it was his destiny in the very beginning. Yet the human being's activity on earth has to consist of being of service with love .... This alone determines whether the being will arrive at the true life. He can also misuse the ability to work in earthly life, by actively creating and shaping with unkindness, by using his vital energy to the detriment of his fellow human beings, for he has free will, he is no longer in the state of compulsion, coerced into a specific task, instead he has free choice but he will also have to be accountable for it and accept the consequences. A person misusing his strength will nevertheless not want to give it up, he will not want to end his earthly life; he senses that all strength will be taken away from him afterwards and is therefore afraid of dying, of losing his state of strength, whilst a person being of loving service is just as convinced that he will have even more strength at his disposal in the afterlife, so that he will gladly give up his earthly life for the sake of eternal life. The state of abundant strength always signifies life, but weakness always signifies death .... The spiritual being fears death and desires life .... Yet no life exists without God, and God is love .... Hence, the being has to love in order to be able to live. If, however, it ignores love then death, thus weakness, will be its fate ....

Amen

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Life on earth is just a moment in eternity .... Suffering and pleasures ....

B.D. 3379 from December 25th 1944, taken from Book No. 44

Earthly life is only of short duration, even if the human being reaches old age, for it is a phase of eternity which can be compared to an instant. And every pleasure and suffering the human being has to live through passes by like a fleeting moment leaving nothing behind but a memory. Yet every moment can affect the whole of eternity .... Every human being's fate, however, has been wisely considered by God and shaped by His love. Consequently, nothing will be without meaning and purpose, regardless of what the human being has to endure, it will be beneficial for the soul as soon as he completely entrusts himself to divine guidance and accepts his fate without grumbling. God wants to achieve the human being's total submission, since only then will He be able to fully work in him; He demands total dedication to Him in order to permeate the human being's soul with His love .... And therefore his heart has to abandon all longings which do not relate to Him ....

Earthly life is short and has to be made the most of, it has to be used to achieve complete union with God, and every day is lost if earthly goals preoccupy the human heart. This is why God frequently takes from people what they refuse to give up by themselves, in order to then offer Himself as a substitute for what they had to relinquish. And then it will truly not be to the person's disadvantage, for he will exchange something worthless for something precious, and one day he will be very happy when he realises how loving God's guidance had been which wanted to help him reach eternal beatitude. For He demonstrates His love and grace by the fact that He rules with wisdom because He knows what benefits the human soul and what might damage it forever. He keeps His protective hand over His children who strive towards Him and are at risk of separating from Him because they are approached by the world with all its temptations .... Nevertheless, the human being should entrust himself completely to divine guidance, he should know that his life on earth has been determined by His love and that he will be grateful to Him one day when his short time on earth is over, which is just a moment in eternity ....

Amen

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Eruptions .... Natural forces .... Divine Order ....

B.D. 3380 from December 27th 1944, taken from Book No. 44

An event is in the making which was planned from the very beginning, which is based on God’s will and will be caused by human will, but without the knowledge of the consequences of what people have devised. The point in time is coming ever closer when forces, which were set free through human will, will unite and, in unison, accomplish something with God’s permission, Who carefully weighs up cause and effect and will support the spiritually immature forces when they come under pressure by human actions. Nothing in the universe happens without God’s will or permission. As soon as the higher development of the spirits in the works of creation is prevented, God will give these spirits the right and the strength to defend themselves, and this will happen in a way that inconceivably powerful forces will begin to develop and rage by destroying the most solid matter and create chaos in order to avenge themselves for their interrupted process of development. What will take place inside the Earth as a result of destructions and annihilations through human will, shall very shortly become evident, for the eruptions which are inexorably in the making will break out with such force that people cannot possibly imagine it as yet. Any violation of the divine order is to the detriment of the human race and the earthly creations, because the purpose of God’s law is the preservation or orderly development of what He has created. If this law is counteracted, it will result in a dissolution or termination of that which was created, yet to the horror of those who do not respect the divine law .... to those humans who, being distant from God, no longer value anything that had emerged from the divine order. And people have reached such a low degree of maturity that they abandon themselves to the powers of darkness and comply with whatever these demand of them. They destroy creations in their blind hatred against their neighbour, and even the still banished spiritual substance is outraged, because it does not consider the unlawful liberation from its form a relief and so rages and runs riot in its freedom. Human will penetrates deep into the realm of the spiritual substance which is still at the beginning of its development, and this will take revenge. It is an act of huge spiritual turmoil which only seldom is permitted by God to the extent it will manifest itself. The activity of these forces will only last for a short time, yet it will cause inconceivable damage. God will banish the spiritual substance again which had liberated itself and thus prevent it from further raging and running wild. Nevertheless, He will grant it its freedom for as long as it is necessary to motivate the survivors to change their way of thinking. For it is the purpose of God’s permitted work of destruction that they will recognise the sin of their violation against the divine order and try to improve themselves .... For everything that will happen is merely a means to regain the spiritual beings which strive away from Him, it is an admonition and indicator to God’s omnipotence and, although not recognised, a confirmation of divine love, which wants to help those people who have gone astray in the deepest depths of vice and wickedness.

Amen

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The audible Word ....

B.D. 3381 from December 27th 1944, taken from Book No. 44

The inner Word certainly sounds clearly and audibly, yet only to someone who listens within and who, due to his way of life, has so shaped his heart that God Himself is able to express Himself through this heart. The human being's soul has to be so intimately connected with the spiritual spark within that it can hear its voice at all times and that the spiritual spark, which is an emanation of God, is able to express itself such that the person can hear its voice like spoken words, so that the Words sound in him and thus cannot be misunderstood. Just like people who speak to each other from person to person, God speaks to people through the heart. This process cannot be explained in any other way, yet it is only understandable to someone once he has heard the divine voice. He feels God's Words in his heart and is ecstatically happy to receive this grace, for then he will have no more doubt, no unbelief, no question which will not be refuted or answered to him once doubt or questions arise in him. The audible Word is the evidence for the person that everything he previously believed is true. And the audible Word reveals to the person the heavenly Father's presence .... His proximity, which causes indescribable bliss.

However, it sounds so very gently and subtly in the heart that it can only be heard by paying utmost attention. The most heartfelt contact must be mentally established with God and then the listening will have to start, the awaiting of His grace, which then will noticeably flow into him. But only a person whose heart has changed into love will be able to hear the divine voice, for it is divine love which expresses itself to a person and this can only manifest itself where true love exists. Yet once a person has audibly perceived the divine Word he will never lose this gift of grace again, then he will be able to hear His voice at all times and in all places .... he will only need to remain in heartfelt contact with Him and he will clearly and distinctly hear the answer. He will not be overcome by doubt as to the truth of it because he feels God's nearness and it will also be understandable to him that God manifests Himself audibly. However, as long as the earthly child has not attained a specific degree of maturity as a result of a selfless life of love it will not be able to experience the happiness of this blissful union with God either. Nevertheless, it should always and forever listen within and from the bottom of its heart appeal for this grace, so that it will receive the strength to live according to God's will, and His eternal love will draw close to it .... so that it will clearly and distinctly hear His voice, so that He will speak to it through the heart and the earthly child will feel His love and be abundantly happy while it is still on earth ....

Amen

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God's love .... Suffering or happiness .... Granting of prayer ....

B.D. 3382 from December 28th 1944, taken from Book No. 44

You humans don't understand with how much tender love I look after you or you would not so anxiously and fearfully look to the future. You are at all times well cared for by Me, I will not leave you on your own, and if you deem yourselves alone and abandoned you are merely unreceptive to My current of strength which flows to you continually. And then you will have to make an effort in order to feel Me .... you must think of Me in your heart and want to accept Me therein; like children you must take refuge in My arms with all your worries and troubles and ask Me to take them from you or help you to carry them, and My love will always gladly do so .... You came forth from My love, and this love can never ever diminish; and were you able to grasp the extent of My love you would live an entirely carefree earthly life because you would know that you are protected by My love, for true love, which is united with might and strength, can and wants to do whatever is good and a blessing for its recipient.

However, My love embraces all My living creations and therefore I only want what benefits them .... I want to make them blissfully happy without end, and I want to enable them to feel My love because this denotes their beatitude. And if you humans believe that I Am love Itself and that I Am unable and unwilling to do anything other than what is good you should let go of all problems, for I watch over you in earthly and spiritual respect, and this increasingly more successfully the more you allow Me to influence you and the less you resist Me. And if your soul is anxious then it is still held captive by the world and has to free itself from it, it must entrust everything to Me and leave it up to Me as to how I direct your earthly life, it has to be willing to make sacrifices if I require a sacrifice, for then it will only be in the interest of its spiritual welfare. And I truly know what the soul needs, I know when it is at risk and I know the right remedy to protect it from danger. And yet, I Am also willing to grant your earthly wishes if you appeal to Me from the bottom of your heart and faithfully wait for the fulfilment of your prayers. For My love will not let you go short, it always gives and fulfils as long as you look upon Me as your Father and approach Me with childlike love .... as soon as you believe in My love .... For love does not deny itself but is always willing to give.

And what you occasionally regard as suffering is often merely the bridge to happiness, yet to the kind of happiness which is permanent and can never be destroyed again. In order to reach a major goal you often must take cumbersome paths and not lose heart, for the goal is desirable and compensates for all previous disappointments and complications. But anyone who becomes weak and exhausted on the way will not reach the goal. And he is the one I want to encourage and provide with strength because My love cannot deny him help. Yet you have to believe in My love even if it is impossible for you to understand its entire magnitude .... Believe in it and try to be like Me by becoming love, you, too, should hand out what you own and thereby give Me the right to work in and through you, and you will be strengthened on your path through life, you will overcome all obstacles and gratefully and humbly accept whatever My hand gives you .... suffering and happiness .... For both are sent by Me to advance your soul's development .... If you always remain in contact with Me, if your heart constantly strives towards Me and confides its grief to Me I will comfort and strengthen you and relieve you of your grief. For My love will not leave you in distress if you want to be My Own and belong to Me for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Warriors of God ....

B.D. 3383 from December 29th 1944, taken from Book No. 44

Powerfully and courageously you shall represent My word before the world, you shall fear no-one and not allow any weakness to arise in you, for I am always with you and no harm can come to you if I don't allow it to happen .... And I need you, therefore I will not allow people to approach you and seriously endanger your life. For I need labourers who will be active for Me in the coming time. It is the last opportunity to promote My kingdom, it is the last opportunity for the erring souls to find their way to Me with your help, and therefore I will not let those be harassed and endangered who want to come to the aid of their fellow human beings, who proclaim My word amongst them, who stand up for My name and through whom I Myself can speak to people. I need you, you My servants on earth, and therefore I am also constantly with you for your protection. You don't take a single step alone, I accompany you on all paths, I direct your steps to those who need your help, I take part in your destiny which I shape Myself and which therefore approaches you according to your destiny. And I bless your work which is meant for your fellow human beings' salvation .... Thus you can pursue your spiritual and earthly work without worry, you need not fear any attack which could render you incapable of it, and you will always have unusual strength at your disposal if only you want to receive it .... And it will not be long before your mission begins, that you will have to openly advertise My kingdom .... Your work is still possible in secret and in smaller circles, yet the adversity of the time requires an open commitment to faith, to My word .... to My teaching of love, which would be in danger of being eliminated if people's will were able to carry it out. And then your will has to be strong and daring, then you have to speak fearlessly as your heart dictates, for then I am the one Who speaks through you, and then I want to use you as My instruments and also protect you until your mission is completed. Then My will will be active in you because your will is subject to Me. And do you believe that I let My fighters be defeated by the enemy? Do you believe that I leave only one of you to My enemy? Whoever fights by My side will be covered by My shield and no weapon will be able to injure him, he will neither be overcome by strength nor by deceit, he will receive My strength and advance step by step, for I fight beside him and overcome the enemy. And for this coming battle I will form My fighters beforehand ....

Only weapons of love will be used in My ranks, victories will be won with the sword of the mouth, My shield of faith will catch all arrows which shall injure My fighters, and none of them will fall as long as he fights in My ranks, for I have power over all, and even My adversary's army must obey Me if I insist. But I leave everyone his freedom, yet anyone who fights with Me no longer has to fear an opponent because My power will destroy those who oppose Me. And I will not let My own fall into his hands, even if the enemy is outnumbered. For great strength emanates from Me and those who dwell near Me will be filled with this strength, and now they will use their weapons, they will speak and thus fight with the sword of their mouth, and I will put every word into their mouths so that it will not remain without impression .... I will instruct everyone what to say so that the adversary's will will be broken and that those who are imbued with the strength of My word spoken through you will also defect to Me from his camp and step under My banners again to fight against evil. And I will be with you visibly and invisibly and always strengthen you if you go against the enemy and fight for Me ....

Amen

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Blessing of poverty .... spiritual influx of power .... overcoming matter ....

B.D. 3384 from December 30th 1944, taken from Book No. 44

Being permeated by spiritual strength outweighs all earthly possessions, for earthly possessions will never lead to perfection or to the transformation of one's nature, which, however, is achieved by spiritual strength. Earthly goods will not lead to God and therefore also not to man's final aim on earth, to union with God .... to becoming a child of God. Every spiritual success will always require the influx of spiritual strength but can never be acquired through earthly possessions. Therefore, anyone who is concerned about his soul's salvation, who strives spiritually, must also strive to open himself to the divine emanation, to His spirit, which will pour out wherever a receptacle is available. And he must completely exclude earthly striving, thus he must also not attach his heart to transient things, for striving for them reduces the supply of strength from the spiritual kingdom. What comes from the spiritual kingdom requires undivided willingness to receive in order to become effective. But every earthly desire weakens the will to receive and is consequently an obstacle for the divine emanation of strength. And the less he allows himself to be captivated by the world and its pleasures, by earthly possessions, the more he will open himself to it, the more he will overcome matter and desire spiritual influx of strength. Then earthly possessions will soon seem small and unimportant to him, for through spiritual strength he will be placed in a state of realization, and now he knows how worthless everything earthly is in comparison to the state of knowledge and truth, to the state of enlightenment through the divine spirit. For only now does he also know about the blessedness of knowledge, about the blessedness of possessing the fullness of strength, which has nothing to do with earthly possession. And therefore it is by no means to be regarded as a restriction of life's rights if the human being is poor in earthly goods and possessions, for the sooner he is able to establish the spiritual connection which earns him far more precious goods, the sooner he will become knowledgeable and possess spiritual wealth in all abundance, because he can only attain the spiritual goods which the divine spirit imparts to those who shape themselves of their own accord to receive that which flows directly from God .... spiritual strength which now makes the human being able to work for Him ....

Amen

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Increased suffering .... catastrophe .... call from the heart ....

B.D. 3385 from December 31th 1944, taken from Book No. 44

Earth has not yet seen greater suffering, and yet it is not enough to change people and make them turn towards God. It is a desolate state, for the earthly world is everything to people, the spiritual world nothing, since they lack faith in it. And even the greatest suffering does not change people's thinking, again and again they fall away from God and confess their affiliation to His adversary through their unkind actions. And thus they strive towards a wrong aim, they walk towards eternal ruin. The suffering still to come upon people would certainly be suitable to change their mind if they are not yet completely under satan’s control, yet he, too, tries to influence people with cunning and force, he tries to revolt them against God and he will succeed, for people themselves lean towards him because he represents the world and promises them an earthly life of well-being .... And thus the last will also come to people, for God wants to show them that everything earthly is transient and that their hopes and desires are deceptive, that everything is void if God does not want it, so that they will recognize that a stronger will rules to which they are subject. Because they don't believe in God, God wants to make Himself known to people, He wants to let His voice sound, powerful and unmistakable; He wants them to recognize their powerlessness and feel a power over them to which they are at the mercy or mercylessness of God. And therefore He will reveal Himself through the forces of nature and make it easy for people to gain faith by suggesting to them to call upon Him, by letting the adversity assail them so frighteningly that they call for help. And if this cry of distress comes from the heart He will help them, each one according to his faith and his desire .... He will consider the souls even if He abandons the body to the raging of the forces of nature .... For it is the souls who are in great distress, since the body's existence is no longer of long duration. Yet He will also save many people earthly, He will bring Himself close to them so that they give up their resistance, so that they allow themselves to be defeated by His love, which they now recognize through miraculous salvation from the danger of the body. Yet this adversity still has to befall people, an event has to take them by surprise which destroys all plans, all hopes, which makes them as helpless as children, so that they, too, call out to their father like children .... so that the soul in its distress turns to the one Who is lord and creator, so that it appeals to Him for mercy and can now be seized by His merciful love. And thus the suffering on earth has to take on forms which appear insurmountable so that the human being's powerlessness will come to the fore and he, in his feeling of utmost weakness and abandonment, in utmost adversity and danger, will call upon the one Who can help him .... And as soon as the call comes from the heart he will be helped ....

Amen

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The primordial spiritual and its fall ....

B.D. 3386 from December 31th 1944, taken from Book No. 44

The originally created spiritual substance was in highest perfection. It had emerged from God's will in highest perfection, it was endowed with all gifts, it stood in fullness of power and strength, for it was created in God's image, in which He Himself was pleased and which therefore possessed His full love. His love let something come into being which He wanted to make happy, and unsurpassable wisdom and strength were expressed in the created spiritual substance. And this originally created spiritual substance was in free will, because perfection is unthinkable without free will. But free will brought the essence to fall .... For one thing distinguished the created spiritual from its creator .... it drew its strength from God, Who Himself was the source of strength from eternity. And the spiritual being did not want to accept this difference. Its strength and power was inexhaustible that it believed it could detach itself from the centre of strength, that it believed it could exist as a power-giving entity and by virtue of its own strength wanted to diminish God's strength, thus wanted to make itself subservient to God Himself .... And since it had free will it was not hindered by God in its intention, even though it was unfeasible. But the will was enough to make this originally created spiritual substance sinful. However, the strength was still left to it, God did not withdraw it from it because what emerged perfectly from His hand never ever became imperfect through His will and the abundance of strength belonged to perfection. And the spiritual being which had become sinful took advantage of this .... It then let spiritual beings emerge again through its own will and the strength from God, the originally created spiritual substance created countless entities likewise in highest perfection, because the strength from God was at its disposal for this, and thus free will was also given to these beings. But God could never approve of it because the will of the originally created spiritual substance was to withdraw God's strength through the creation of entities and to elevate itself above Him. Thus it used the strength from God to work against Him, and it determined the created spiritual beings to act in the same way against God .... But God also regarded the beingness which had emerged from the adversary's will as His own, since it had emerged from His strength. But since it had free will it should decide for itself to whom it wanted to belong .... And it decided in favour of God's adversary, for the latter had placed his will, which was directed against God, into the beingness he had created. But the original perfection of the beingness also meant full knowledge, thus the beingness did not fall away from God out of ignorance but likewise out of arrogance and the intention to dethrone God. So this beingness also became sinful .... But everything came forth from the love of God, for the power of God was His love .... And this love cannot pass away eternally .... Thus it also seized the beingness which turned away from God in order to guide it back to Itself, yet since the beingness is endowed with free will it cannot be directed towards God against its will but it has to feel so attracted by God's love that it turns to Him of its own free will. And this leading back to Himself is God's eternal plan of salvation, which is the basis of His entire creation and which, even if after an infinitely long time, will one day lead to the aim that all beings will have regained their original state and unite with God again in utmost perfection, from Whom they once originated as strength ....

Amen

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Dark spirit night .... work of the light beings ....

B.D. 3387 from January 1st 1945, taken from Book No. 44

People shall be led through dark spiritual night to the light. This requires great spiritual work on earth and also in the spiritual kingdom, for people have to be guided into different thinking, they have to be made aware of the error of their thinking and warned of its consequences. This work is so necessary that unusual provisions are made on God's part to promote this spiritual work, to make people capable of it and to constantly enable them to be spiritually active. For countless souls are in need of help because they are too weak and darkness shrouds their spirit. They stand on the edge of the abyss and only energetic help can pull them back from it. And the spiritual beings of light constantly endeavour to guide them onto the right path, yet they cannot do it on their own but have to make use of willing people who are active on earth as their organs, who thus speak and act as the beings of light themselves would express themselves if they were not forced to remain hidden due to people's freedom of will. Spiritual work has to be carried out in such a way that it nevertheless appears humanly earthly, for people should be free to decide how they want to do it, yet spiritual work will be recognizable to everyone who strives for truth. For in order to be able to work as a labourer for the kingdom of God he has to be in knowledge, otherwise he would not be able to substantiate what he wants to make credible to his fellow human being. And this knowledge, which corresponds to truth, is unmistakably transmission from the spiritual kingdom, it is the utterance of the beings of light in the beyond who make use of the willing human being on earth in order to transfer their knowledge to people through them. For only through truthful enlightenment can the darkness of spirit be banished and humanity be brought to the day full of light. There is only little light on earth, there are only isolated rays which shine now and then, and these are not enough to illuminate the darkness of the night. But streams of light can be conveyed to earth from the kingdom of light as soon as only people declare themselves willing to let themselves be illuminated, as soon as they want to receive and pass on light as receiving stations. Yet this will already requires an increased degree of maturity, it requires a heart capable of love which, through the working of love, shapes itself such that it can now serve the light as a receiving vessel .... The human being's love must be so strong that he wants to be active in redemption and offers himself to God for this activity. Then beings of light can carry out their actual spiritual activity on God's behalf, they can convey light to earth, they can distribute knowledge and constantly instruct God's willing servants and through them fellow human beings who urgently need truthful enlightenment. And this urgency also explains the often extraordinary fate of those who want to be active as labourers for the kingdom of God, for they are guided by God's will and every event shall mature them for their spiritual activity. They will often have to go through suffering and affliction, through fires of purification, because their hearts are to become receptive for the light which they themselves, as God's instruments, are to carry on into the darkness of the night. For countless souls shall be shown the path out of this spiritual night, the bearer of truth shall lead the way with bright light and brightly illuminate the path, the beings of light of the spiritual kingdom shall find access to people through them, so that they can approach them disguised in their shells and the light from the heavens can shine brightly and clearly. For the light has to break through the darkness, otherwise it will remain night forever and people will walk towards the abyss ....

Amen

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Purpose of the time of need .... comforting encouragement ....

B.D. 3388 from January 1st 1945, taken from Book No. 44

Do not be afraid when great adversity comes upon you but lift up your eyes to Me with complete trust that I will help you. And I will take you into My care and guide all your steps so that you will reach your aim. Anyone who believes in Me will not be pushed to the ground by suffering because he will find firm support in Me, because I am his support and impart strength and power to him. He will never feel abandoned, he will never be lonely, for he constantly feels Me next to him, and thus he reaches out to Me if he fears losing the ground beneath him. And I hold him and raise him up .... And therefore don't be afraid of the time you are approaching but expect it calmly and with composure and prepare yourselves for it by uniting with Me ever more intimately and let your faith become strong through prayer and loving activity. For both earn you grace, and this is expressed in an unshakeable faith. To possess a strong faith is a grace which you can always request through prayer. That is why prayer is the first thing you should do if you want to acquire strength and grace. And if you are in possession of strength and grace, of a strong unshakeable faith, then the coming time will not frighten you, then you will entrust everything that worries you to Me, you will become free from all fear because you know that I stand by your side and that nothing can happen to you in My presence .... Yet the time of adversity is inevitable for humanity which has not yet found Me or does not want to recognize Me. The coming adversity shall lead people to Me, they shall, inspired by your example, also raise their hands to Me, they shall call Me and choose Me as their companion, as their guide, to Whom they entrust themselves in hours of danger and Whom they ask for His protection .... I would also like to help them, yet until they call upon Me I cannot grant them My help, because they have to gain faith in Me before I can express Myself to them. For without this faith to assist them would be futile and would not benefit their souls. Yet for the sake of their souls I allow hardship to come upon people, for these souls are in great spiritual distress .... they are in danger of losing themselves to My adversary, and I cannot forcibly guide them back to Me but they have to find the path to Me themselves. And this is the purpose of the coming adversity, that they call to Me and I can now turn to them .... But you, who believe in Me, should not fear this time of need, for I can approach you at any time and give you what you need .... strength and grace, spiritual and earthly nourishment; I can help you in every adversity of body and soul, I can help you bear every suffering and always grant you My support, because you raise your hands to Me in deep faith and I, as your father, can always give you according to your faith ....

Amen

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Measures against love work ....

B.D. 3389 from January 2nd 1945, taken from Book No. 44

The world will make demands on you which you will never be able to fulfil if you respect God's commandments. You should indeed be subject to the worldly authorities, yet if you are openly demanded to act against His divine will, that you thus disregard the commandment of neighbourly love and sin through unkind actions, then you should acknowledge God alone as your authority so that you will not let your soul perish for the sake of earthly advantage. And therefore you should firmly memorize God's will, you should know why you have to fulfil it and what consequences you will receive if you act against His will. You should know how extremely necessary the activity of love on earth is and that only love alone can redeem you .... furthermore, you should know how unstable earthly goods are and what an unfavourable exchange you enter into if you sacrifice your salvation for the sake of these goods. You will be hard pressed and it will not be easy to resist the world's demands, yet you will be able to do so as soon as you appeal to God for strength and join God the more the world wants to separate you from Him. For this alone is the purpose of its plans and measures, that the christian teaching of love is eliminated and thus God Himself is alienated from people, Who can only be found through love. People know nothing of the power of love or they would try to acquire it. They only know self-love and seek to increase their possessions at the expense of their neighbour. And thus they pay no attention to the commandment of neighbourly love, and they demand the same from fellow human beings instead of inspiring them to love. And they will severely harass people who make God's commandments their guiding principle because the latter are not in harmony with the commandments of the worldly authorities. And then they shall seriously examine to what extent the will of God is recognizable in the requirements of the worldly authorities .... What is harmful to the neighbour must never be done if it can be avoided, i.e. if the person is not incapable of defending himself through coercive measures. And the body should take suffering and tribulation upon itself if it can thereby avert a sinful act. For his soul will thank him one day by assisting him in his later upward development. Moreover, the body's adversity is not long-lasting, but the soul will have to atone in the beyond if it does not observe the commandment of neighbourly love on earth and, for the sake of earthly advantage, submits to the world's desire which demands unkindness from people. For if this rules, then the devil rules people and you must not submit to him. You must resist him even if you are severely harassed and have to fear for your physical life, for by doing so you will save your soul from destruction and through your example also that of your fellow human beings if you practice love, even if the world wants to prevent you from doing so ....

Amen

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Obligation to pass on spiritual knowledge ....

B.D. 3390 from January 3rd 1945, taken from Book No. 44

You are constantly instructed to increase your knowledge, and strength is also constantly conveyed to you which you ought to use for spiritual work as well. Therefore you should make use of this strength by distributing what is conveyed to you through the spiritual instruction, use it by passing on what you have received yourselves. Spiritual strength should never rest, that is, a person with strength at his disposal should never remain inactive, and thus spiritual strength should also continuously be used or it will be taken away from the person who leaves it lying idle. Spiritual work, however, is everything which contributes towards another person’s knowledge .... It is irrelevant in which way this knowledge is imparted to him, only the fact that it is imparted is important. And this task is given to you who receive the spiritual knowledge from God either directly or through His instruments. Everyone who is offered spiritual knowledge, who accepts it and, after deliberating on it, accepts it as his spiritual possession, will only benefit from it if he passes it on with love. For once it has become valuable to him he shall also share it with his fellow human being, otherwise he is still gripped by powerful selfish love and the blessing of God’s grace will barely be felt by him. Spiritual knowledge should never lie fallow if a person does not want to risk having it entirely withdrawn from him. For it is divine law that he who gives will receive, because unselfish neighbourly love is a prerequisite that the human being can receive. The spiritually striving aspirant should pay attention to his feelings .... his desires will be granted but it also obliges him to give the truth to the one who, like him, desires to know it. Furthermore, it also commits him to convey the truth to wherever error still exists, for the truth shall displace the error.

And therefore a bearer of truth must make an active effort to bring light to all places where darkness still exists. This is spiritual work which may never be excluded again if the human being is blessed to be educated by the spiritual kingdom. For the human being is only ever the organ of being’s of light which want to bestow truth upon all people, especially those who are entrusted into their care to be spiritually guided by them. People themselves can only rarely hear the light beings’ gentle voice; therefore they cultivate instruments for themselves which shall speak on their behalf .... This activity should never be ignored by a recipient of light, he should speak wherever the opportunity presents itself, he should communicate verbally and in writing, he should make use of every day and every hour and thus carry out the work he himself had offered to do for God, and constant achievement will be granted to him. He will be able to advance himself spiritually and likewise the people who are spiritually endowed by him. This admonition applies to all who are being refreshed by the font of eternal life and draw strength and fortitude from the divine Word. Everyone moves within a field of duty where he can be very industrious, and he should not neglect this, otherwise he makes himself unworthy of receiving the truth that is offered to him from above. For it is precious knowledge and shall be passed on for the benefit of people, so that it will remedy the immense spiritual adversity which is the cause of humanity’s spiritual decline and which also results in earthly adversity and suffering ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Incarnated beings of light .... Mission of spiritual leaders ....

B.D. 3391 from January 3rd 1945, taken from Book No. 44

Anyone who unites with God cannot eternally separate himself from Him .... And thus a being of light having incarnated on earth for the purpose of a mission cannot abandon Him and fall victim to the forces of darkness but will steadily strive towards God, even though as a human being on earth it is subject to all temptations and has to progress like any other human being. But its soul longs for God and turns away in disgust from God’s adversary. Such a person will be fundamentally good and accordingly develop abilities which identify him as an instrument of God. He will be a recipient of strength on earth and hence is able to guide and instruct other people, since his mission of earthly life is to serve people on earth as a spiritual guide. The close connection to God, which his soul had already established before his life on earth, constantly provides him with strength; it moves him towards his task in life which he fulfils joyfully and with devotion to God.

Nevertheless, he will be badly beleaguered by the forces of darkness which use every opportunity to weaken the light bearer’s flesh, to bring him to fall, because in their delusion they are unaware of the light beings which protect the embodied being of light on earth. Nor are they aware of his inner strength and his profound love for God which constantly ensures God’s protection of the human being. They can only see him as a human being whom they can seduce and try to weaken in every possible way. But he is surrounded by beings of light and since he is receptive to every emanation of strength from the spiritual world he also has the amount of strength and grace at his disposal to resist such temptations .... Humanity’s spiritual poverty necessitates extraordinary help, therefore God sends His messengers to earth to influence them for the better, partly spiritually, partly living as human beings amongst others, and in particular to inform them, to educate them in accordance with God’s will. But they find little pleasure in earthly life because they are constantly drawn back to their eternal home.

Nevertheless, they first have to fulfil the mission for which they embodied themselves as a human being .... since their work for the kingdom of God is of utmost importance during the time of need .... It necessitates exceptional strength and perseverance and complete acceptance of God’s will. Moreover, the living conditions during the last days are so difficult that people would easily fail without helpers and mentors by their side who, due to their closeness to God, receive their strength directly from Him. Their work on earth can be very beneficial and thus they will conscientiously complete their mission until they can return to the spiritual kingdom again, until they can closely unite with God once more, although they had never been separated from Him even though on earth they had not been aware of their close bond with God ....

Amen

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Will of God and will of the adversary .... chaos ....

B.D. 3392 from January 4th 1945, taken from Book No. 44

God's will is not respected by people but their own will comes to the fore and, if it does not subordinate itself to divine will, it is opposed to it. But a will which opposes God will also carry out deeds which are sinful before God because they lack all love, for only the human being whose will is turned towards God and who therefore only accepts God's will will work in love. God only wants what is good, and every human being who strives to be good also submits himself to God's will .... Yet God's opposing power always and constantly seeks to gain influence over the human being, it seeks to revolt his will against God, so that the human being's own will permeates and he refrains from good actions and instead carries out God-opposing actions. The more influence people give to God's adversary the less they will comply with divine will, and then the state of being distant from God will become very apparent, for people's actions will be without love. And where love is not there God cannot be either, where His will is not respected there is no love, and where love is not there is also no knowledge, no wisdom and no light. People must submit to God's will if they want to mature spiritually and come to the light of realization, for God's will is also the divine law which may not be contravened if the soul is not to suffer harm. For the transgression of any law entails detrimental consequences, just as the lawgiver has the power to punish a transgression. But people no longer recognize God's power and therefore act unquestioningly against His will. Since God's will is paired with wisdom, the God-opposing will lacks all wisdom, thus the consequences must be a chaotic state, disorder, decay and finally destruction. The divine will builds up, but the God-opposing will destroys, it is placed into the human being by God's adversary, who therefore uses the human being to destroy because he lacks the power to do so. And therefore his constant endeavour is to turn the human being's will away from God and to determine him to disregard divine will, so that the human being will then carry out what violates divine order. And thus he has exerted the greatest influence on people so that they use every opportunity to destroy creations. The human being is in bondage to him, he has no will of his own but completely surrenders it to him, he only carries out what completely contradicts God's will, they are not deeds of love but of envy and hatred .... God's will will no longer be respected and the consequences will inevitably occur, God will let people act unhindered until they themselves have carried out the work of destruction to such an extent that it will rebound on people .... until the chaos has become so great that people themselves perish in it .... For the will of God signifies divine order, and a contravention has an inconceivably detrimental effect on earth and far more so in the spiritual kingdom ....

Amen

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"Work and create while it is still day ...."

B.D. 3393 from January 5th 1945, taken from Book No. 44

Work while it is day, for the night will come when you can no longer work .... You are still in the midst of the time of grace, you are still in the midst of your vitality and you can use it for your soul's salvation. There are still no limits set for you, for My strength and My grace are available to you without measure. And therefore you can continue to move in the light, you can strive towards the light when it is dark around you, and you can intensify the dull glow of the light so that it brightly illuminates your surroundings. It is still day for you if you only want to walk in the light and not in darkness of your own free will. But this day will also come to an end and all those who have shunned the light will sink into the night of death, and there will be no rescue from this night for eternities. You will want to escape from it and will not be able to, because the night will last until the new day dawns again, and this night will seem eternal to you. For you knew the light and did not approach it .... I still call out to you: Use the end of the day, work in love and kindle the light within yourselves so that you will no longer need to walk in darkness. Take My light which shines for you in all abundance, kindle your weak little light on it and carry it to Me, to the eternal fire, so that the flame of love will flash over to it and your own light will be increased in its brilliance and all darkness around you will be banished. For light alone is life .... work and create, so that you may gain the life of the soul .... be active in love and earn the right to stand in the midst of light, to walk freely in the bright day, outshone by the sun of the spirit, and finally enter the eternal light, the spiritual sun, into spheres where you are surrounded by light and in constant bliss. But darkness is death; he who dwells in darkness is powerless, because no ray of light reaches him who has strength in himself. And when night has fallen it is too late to create and work, for I have set a aim for you, a limit of the redemption period until which you are entitled to the freedom of your will. And until the end of this period there is still a day which everyone can use to make his state of soul full of light. But when this time is over then sink into deepest night what has not used its will in the right way. It will be dead and lifeless because I will withdraw all strength from it, and its will will be bound again because it has abused its freedom, and night will be around the being .... darkest night, which is exceedingly agonizing. Only a few heed My call, only a few take My words seriously to create and work as long as it is day. But no human being on earth who needs them will remain without warning and admonition .... I want to bring light to everyone, yet I will not force anyone who prefers the night to accept the light. And thus he must also accept the consequences of having rejected a divine gift of love .... For My word is the light which sends a ray into every person's heart if it is opened to him. My word admonishes to work in love, and every person has already heard this word .... But whether he follows it, whether he works and creates with love on earth, is up to him .... But soon the day will be over and night will envelop all those who have not heeded My word ....

Amen

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God's love is power ....

B.D. 3394 from January 5th 1945, taken from Book No. 44

God's love knows no boundaries .... And again and again it inclines towards people who, as His creatures, also need His love in order to exist. For His love is also strength at the same time which has to flow to the human being's body and soul in order to keep both alive. God's love constantly supplies the body with strength so that it can serve the soul for higher development, thus this supply of strength is a proof of God's love for the human being's soul, which He wants to help reach maturity .... However, the soul itself can still directly accept the emanation of God's love, then it receives spiritual strength .... But this requires the human being's activity of love, thus the soul has to determine the body for works of neighbourly love, as a result of which the eternal love Itself unites with the soul and spiritual strength now flows towards it .... the strength of love which achieves everything the soul now strives for. For since God's love is unlimited it must also be possible to use the strength of love without restriction, thus the human being must be able to accomplish whatever he wants as soon as he completely unites himself with God's love through his own activity of love. Then the human being's will will also be God's will, divine wisdom will fill the human being, and strength and power will be at his disposal because it will continue to flow towards him from God Who does not deny Himself because He is full of love and constantly wants to make His living creations happy. Therefore every person will be powerful who enters into contact with eternal love through his own activity of love. And this strength should be used again for loving activity, be it spiritual or earthly, for both bring maturity to the soul .... maturity, however, is similarity to God .... the soul forms itself into the image of God, Who is pure love in Himself .... Hence the soul must also become love if it is to resemble God, and only then can it unite with eternal love and be powerful, because then it will always receive strength as a direct emanation of God .... Love and strength are one, they are the essence of the eternal deity, and since God's love never ever ceases, His strength must also be constantly active, thus it must also work in the human being who makes himself worthy of His emanation through loving activity, who opens himself to His strength .... And it works by giving birth to wisdom, by awakening the spirit in the human being, which is likewise part of God, thus it would be inconceivable without God's love and strength. And if love, strength and wisdom fill the human being he is also perfect, he is similar to God, he has found union with eternal love .... It has drawn him to Itself because love grasps everything that does not oppose it ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Dissemination of spiritual knowledge ....

B.D. 3395 from January 6th 1945, taken from Book No. 44

Through the grace of inner enlightenment knowledge opens up to the human being which enables him to make great spiritual progress in a short time if he uses it correctly, i.e. contributes to the spreading of pure truth. For the human being is only introduced to spiritual knowledge for this purpose. Only when truth is spread amongst people will it have a beneficial effect, for if only the individual person knew about it he would not derive any particular benefit from it because he cannot utilize it, for knowledge is only ever of value when it can be applied, that is, when it can be conveyed to a fellow human being. The person who cannot communicate, who closes his spiritual knowledge within himself, is no better off than a person who has no spiritual knowledge, for the former's possessions are dead goods which lie completely idle and thus lose their value. Spiritual knowledge, however, should help to recognize the eternal deity. Anyone who has recognized God himself also tries to teach his fellow human beings this knowledge, because he knows that striving towards God is the purpose of earthly life. If he does not impart this knowledge to people, then he has not yet recognized God himself, then he has indeed received the knowledge intellectually but not with his heart, and then it does not have a beneficial effect on him either. This applies to the person who receives knowledge but does not pass it on. But anyone who is enlightened by God's spirit will also use his knowledge, for his love for his fellow human being impels him to communicate with him and thus to spread the truth from God, for he knows that he will thereby lead souls to God who, having recognized Him, will also strive for Him with their heart .... Thus truth leads to God and therefore it should be spread on earth. The human being can indeed be negligent but then the knowledge he has gained will not fulfil him, then he will not have received it with his heart but only with his intellect, but then God's spirit, which only turns what he has heard into spiritual knowledge, will not have been active in him either. Therefore, the human being who receives spiritual knowledge must be active in love so that he will be taught by the spirit of God, i.e. that knowledge will first be made accessible to him through the divine spirit, even though it is imparted to him by the knowing fellow human being. A life of love is absolutely necessary if the pure truth is to be spread. Both the giver and the receiver must be in love if they want to derive the right benefit for their souls from the truth .... if they want to recognize God and strive towards Him .... Then they will be urged from within to share themselves, then they will only accept the knowledge themselves in the desire to be able to distribute it, and then they will also be able to use the knowledge according to God's will, and they can also be given through the divine spirit in the richest measure, for then they will work for the kingdom of God .... they seek to lead people to God through truth, and they are now restlessly active because the knowledge makes them happy themselves and impels them to also make their fellow human beings happy ....

Amen

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Period of grace until the divine intervention ....

B.D. 3396 from January 7th 1945, taken from Book No. 44

It will still take a little while before God will visibly manifest Himself, before the cycle is completed, before the hour has come when the extent of human atrocities has gone too far. Yet it will not be a long period of time, you humans are given only a very brief period of grace in order to distance yourselves from those behaving disgracefully before God because they violate their fellow human being in a most ruthless way .... However, God allows it to come to the worst so that people will still learn to recognise which way they are heading .... For only this realisation will motivate them to change. Every day is important as for many people it is the last one, it can be decisive for the whole of eternity, but many others will only have a few days left until their temporal end has come, and this is why God still hesitates although the event is inevitable and His plan has been determined from the beginning. However, people's low level gave rise to it much sooner, their heartlessness made the day overdue before its time, so that every day is a gift of grace by God bestowed upon humanity by His forbearance and mercy. And thus every day can still be utilised and offers many people the opportunity to change, if only they are of good will. Therefore they are constantly informed of the divine intervention, both through His Word as well as through people's exchange of ideas who are mentally advised from above about the forthcoming event. Everyone can form an opinion about that which is imparted to him, everyone can think about the events in the world as well as the end of it, and the thought of a supernatural intervention in world events will not just occur to a few, and then a person will still be able to hold himself to account regarding his attitude towards good and evil.

Every human being will be warned, directly and indirectly, and if he heeds the warning he will be able to derive benefit for his soul. For then he will also recognise the divine intervention as such, he will learn to believe and be saved, even if he loses his earthly life. And because God still wants to open people's ears for His call He will not sound His voice prematurely .... Yet the designated period of time cannot be exceeded according to divine order .... And people should assume that every day is the announced one when He reveals Himself and His Power. For what He has proclaimed will happen without fail, God merely keeps the time concealed. Yet the day will come like a thief in the night .... unexpectedly and causing a large amount of material damage .... And only someone whose heart no longer clings to earthly goods, who has united himself with God and knows himself always and forever protected by Him will not be fearful. These, however, are instructed by Him to constantly refer people to the fact that He will manifest Himself, and to admonish them to choose the right path which leads to Him, so that they, too, will take refuge in Him in the hour of affliction and find protection and help in Him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The earth as a lightless star .... light reception ....

B.D. 3397 from January 7th 1945, taken from Book No. 44

Countless worlds proclaim the glory of God to their inhabitants, and everywhere He is praised and glorified as creator and sustainer of these worlds. Thus He is also acknowledged by the beings inhabiting those worlds as long as they are not completely undeveloped, i.e. inhabitants of lightless stars. The earth is also a still lightless heavenly body, and its inhabitants have different degrees of development, and the recognition and acknowledgment of the eternal deity is also corresponding. The beings on earth, the human beings, are indeed constantly supplied with light, the knowledge of God is conveyed to them so that they can attain the recognition of God and then likewise praise Him as their creator from eternity. Yet the light can only shine and unfold its brilliance if vessels can be found to receive it .... where the will exists to be regarded as light bearers of a lightless heavenly body. God is recognized and loved by those light bearers, praise and honour are paid to Him and His name is held sacred. Yet only a few are, and the earth remains in darkness, it is one of the celestial bodies which harbour ignorant beings and which can never shine by themselves, although undreamt-of luminosity can flow towards them, thus these celestial bodies mean constant battle with darkness for the inhabitants .... Their aim is light, yet the inhabitants of such celestial bodies must strive towards the light, they must catch it and hold on to it. They must seek to recognize God and strive towards His nearness, then light can radiate to earth in all abundance, and it can become a body of light, a luminous heavenly body, because light can constantly flow to it if people, in clearest knowledge of God, love Him as creator and sustainer and are united with Him, Who is the eternal light, through love. For the earth and its inhabitants have been granted the incomprehensible privilege that eternal love itself took this heavenly body as its abode, that it carried the light to earth, thus illuminating a lightless heavenly body with its rays, and that this light will not be taken from it eternally as soon as its inhabitants join the light and let it take effect on them. The earth can be recognized as a brightly shining star in the universe if only people's will strives towards the light, if people make an effort to unite with the eternal light. Then the earth can never again become lightless, for where the eternal love Itself shines Its light, there can never again be darkness, there the lightlessness is banished .... The creator of heaven and earth is recognized, and His omnipotence, wisdom and love are praised ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Omnipresence of God .... beingness - power ....

B.D. 3398 from January 9th 1945, taken from Book No. 44

God is present everywhere, His spirit is not bound to place and time because His spirit is strength which flows through everything and is therefore present everywhere and at the same time. Yet this strength is not something without being, which is why it can always be called upon everywhere, because thought and will animate this strength and thought and will are always active, corresponding to the call through beings which are, as it were, emanations of strength from it and therefore the same as God, only in the tiniest degree .... beings which are an image of the most perfect entity .... God is everywhere, otherwise He would not be perfect, for perfection knows no limitation, it knows nothing bound to place and time .... However, God's perfection cannot be grasped by human beings because man only knows what is limited and something unlimited is inconceivable to him. This is why it is difficult to make God's omnipresence credible to him, because as soon as he tries to imagine the eternal divinity as an entity, something limited is already before his eyes, which is only imaginable to him in terms of location and space. Consequently, the human being tries to explain the eternal deity with the expression strength, which is indeed truth in itself but strongly impairs the human being's personal bond with God, for according to human understanding this can only be established with a being that is capable of thinking and has a will ....

But the connection with God is indispensable and therefore God must be acknowledged as a being, which is also extremely easy because every work of creation reveals a will which has become form through His omnipotence and reveals profound wisdom, thus perfect thinking. And as long as a work of creation is visible to the human eye, God's omnipotence is also proven to a certain extent, because every work of creation is an expression of God's strength, thus it must be God Himself where His strength is expressed. If the human being seriously thinks about it, the thought of an entity is much more acceptable to him, because the meaning and purpose of the works of creation leave no doubt that a wise will underlies them, and where there is a will there is also the possibility to incline this will. Consequently, the connection can be established through appealing thoughts, because the human being has gained the conviction within himself that the mental appeal will be heard everywhere and at all times, and that it can be granted on the part of the being Which is perfect and therefore also full of love and power ....

The being of God is by no means to be personified, for this would be a limitation according to human thinking, which would also make the omnipresence difficult to believe, for the beingness of God cannot be brought into a humanly imaginable form. But in Jesus Christ the elemental power of God, the radiance of God, has manifested itself, i.e., it has fully and completely fulfilled a physical form, it has become, as it were, the enlivener of this external form and is therefore visible to those who want to form an idea of God .... For God allows all His thoughts to become form through His will, including the thought of making Himself visible to people without them being consumed by His abundance of strength and light. A visible form, however, is bound to time and place according to natural law, it is only then spaceless and timeless when it has completely spiritualized itself, yet it remains imaginable to people. And in the spiritual kingdom the eye can then behold this form and thus see God face to face. God's spirit, however, is active everywhere and constantly, i.e. He lets His thoughts become form through His will. He must therefore be an entity because His will and wisdom is recognizable in everything His strength has created. And since the eternal deity wants to establish the connection with Himself, the human being must also be able to believe that God is an entity, for if he imagines Him as mere strength he will never ever try to establish this connection, but then he will live his earthly life unsuccessfully, for spiritual progress must require prayer to God for grace, and this will certainly ascend to an entity Who is omnipresent but never to a strength which is denied will and the ability to think, thus the characteristics of an entity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Will .... thought .... action .... responsibility ....

B.D. 3399 from January 9th 1945, taken from Book No. 44

Your will is free and therefore you are not forced to be good, just as you cannot be forced into bad deeds or thoughts by the forces of darkness, but it is up to you alone how you intend to lead your way of life. And if you are forced by people who are superior to you in strength to do deeds which are contrary to God, then you are not responsible for these actions, for then only your will, your inner attitude, decides what you are forced to do. But if your thoughts are bad, if your will is willing to let these thoughts become deeds, then you will not be relieved of responsibility and will have to take the consequences of your deeds upon yourselves, on earth or in the kingdom of the beyond. Actions carried out of free will therefore have an effect such that they determine life in eternity, provided they have not already found their reward or punishment on earth, whereas actions carried out under compulsion can certainly be significant for earthly life but do not endanger the soul's life after death. For these actions are the responsibility of those who had power over the human being and thus made his will unfree. They have to answer for the deeds they instigated, and their guilt is sometimes so great that eternal times are needed to atone for their guilt. The human being should examine himself more and more to what extent his innermost thoughts correspond to the divine commandments, to what extent his actions correspond to his thoughts, for thoughts are always the products of free will. Therefore, thoughts must be good if they are to correspond to God's will. If the thoughts deviate, if they take the wrong direction, then the human will has decided to act in opposition to God, even if he cannot carry out a deed. Therefore he is already responsible for his thoughts, because these are born of free will. And therefore the human being must give account of his thoughts, for again it depends on whether they are forcibly directed towards evil or good by fellow human beings or whether they arise in the human being of his own accord .... But the human being will always have the opportunity to reject thoughts he dislikes, for his thought activity again depends on his will, and it is also capable of dropping thoughts which oppose him, just as he can always inwardly condemn bad works and thereby free himself from all complicity. God only pays attention to the human being's innermost will, which is therefore expressed in his thinking. And God will never condemn him for what he does if this contradicts his inner will. But he is often confronted with the decision, and then he has to prove himself, otherwise one day he will have to answer for his thoughts and actions. For God gave the human being free will, but he must now also use it in the right way .... in good thoughts, words and deeds which will one day have an effect in the spiritual kingdom and bring the soul eternal life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Reason of great need .... last means ....

B.D. 3400 from January 10th 1945, taken from Book No. 44

The number of those who have no living connection with God, who do not regard Him as father, brother and friend, to whom God cannot be close because they distance themselves from Him, because through their way of life they have lost faith in a God Who is and remains deeply connected with what He created out of His love, is great. The number is great and will increase even more, despite His loving care for people, despite His obvious activity which is intended to bring people close to Him .... For they do not recognize Him wherever and however He approaches them. They only ever let their intellect speak but never their heart, and the intellect is influenced by God's adversary, to whom they are closer than God due to their way of life. For people lack love .... otherwise they would have to recognize God despite the working of demonic forces which is evident everywhere .... Without their own activity of love God remains alien to people, because eternal love can only be recognized through love. And without loving activity there is also no connection with God, He cannot be felt, and therefore it is also difficult to believe in Him for people who live without love. Yet the spark of love glows in every person's heart and can be ignited .... It can be kindled by the adversity of fellow human beings and spread like a tiny flame, and then the human being will approach God, faith in Him will not seem unacceptable to him, he will mentally try to make contact with Him himself and thus reduce the distance from Him .... And therefore the coming adversity is inevitable due to the vast majority of people who are completely distant from God, for God still seeks to save those who have not yet completely snuffed out the spark of love in their hearts .... Even if there are only a few, these few will have escaped eternal ruin; however, the whole of humanity will have to go through the time of adversity because every person will be offered the last opportunity to be one of those who will be saved .... God once again brings Himself close to all people in the great adversity, all people can call upon Him, thus establish contact with Him, and He wants to helpfully assist all people like a father Who wants to rescue His children from greatest adversity ....

God's love and mercy leaves no means untried, He courts every soul, the flow of His grace pours out upon the whole of humanity, everywhere He guides His word, and everywhere He seeks to make hearts receptive to it through suffering, everywhere He seeks to kindle love in people through suffering .... He constantly steps into people's path Himself, He knocks at their hearts, desiring entrance, He brings Himself to people's remembrance, He admonishes and warns them through His messengers on earth, He directs their thoughts into the spiritual kingdom .... Yet He leaves them the freedom of will .... He calls them but does not force them .... And His call goes unheard, people don't pay attention to Him, they turn away from Him more and more, they take a path which leads far away from the aim. Only a few walk the narrow path that leads to the aim, and only rarely does anyone from the ranks of those follow them. And people hear God's call ever more faintly, the admonisher and warner sounds ever more faintly in them, the conscience which is supposed to be their guide on their earthly path of life. And more and more souls go astray and end up in the territory of the one who, in hatred and unkindness, only seeks destruction, who tries to displace God and drags the souls into ruin. But people will not recognize him until they are lost, for they are blind in spirit, they are blinded by the false splendour of the world which is his kingdom .... they flee the light which shines down upon them from the spiritual kingdom, and they chase after a deceptive light .... the pleasures of the world .... But the light from the heavens would illuminate for them the path that leads to the aim .... They flee it and go after a will-o'-the-wisp in the darkness of night, and they never reach their aim. For they live without love and are so far from God that He cannot provide them with His light and His strength. And thus people are certainly still earthly alive but spiritually dead, and since they don't make use of their earthly life, since they don't awaken themselves, i.e. their spirit, to life, their earthly life is pointless and therefore it will end prematurely .... Only a few will truly live, but the majority is spiritually dead and no longer needs earth, and therefore the latter will be dissolved, i.e. its external form will be reshaped, and all life on it will be destroyed, every creature will be annihilated, and a new earth will arise which now shelters people who are indwelled by love, who live in light, i.e. in right realization, i.e. in the right knowledge, and who remained steadfast in their faith in God during the time of adversity, who remained united with Him through love and whose way of life was according to His will .... This is the small band of His fighters who stand up for Jesus Christ before the whole world, who fight for Him and for their faith and whom He Himself will fetch home into His kingdom in order to shape a paradise for them on the new earth, in order to reward them for the extremely difficult time of struggle before the end with a time of deepest peace and highest bliss ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Love .... realization .... kingdom of light .... activity ....

B.D. 3401 from January 11th 1945, taken from Book No. 44

An activity of unselfish neighbourly love puts the human being into the right realization, but the right realization deepens his love for God, and this in turn leads to union with God, because the human being, who loves God above all else, seeks to shape himself of his own accord in a way which is pleasing to God and thus a prerequisite in order to become one with God. Consequently, unselfish neighbourly love can never be eliminated if the human being wants to reach his final aim on earth .... the childship to God .... But it also has to be practiced if he wants to enter the kingdom of light when he departs from earth, for even the lowest sphere of the kingdom of light is only inhabited by loving souls, for without love there is no light, and the slightest radiation of light requires a receptacle which has only become such through love. The soul's work of love brings recognition, i.e., as soon as the human being is in love he realizes his deficient nature, he knows the consequences of his way of life, he knows divine will and the effect of all actions and thoughts. And this realization makes him consciously strive for perfection. But he can also be active in love on earth completely unconsciously, i.e. his heart drives him to love activity without initiating him deeper into the knowledge about the consequences. The deeper knowledge can still be withheld from him but it will suddenly enlighten him at his passing, and he enters the spiritual kingdom with an abundance of knowledge, as an inhabitant of the kingdom of light, for then love will have been the driving force of his whole life, and through the works of love the intimate bond with God will already have taken place, and the purpose of earthly life will have been fulfilled .... every good work increases the treasure which is unlosable and indestructible .... and spiritual wealth, which the world does not want to accept, follows the soul into the kingdom of the beyond. On entering it it will be permeated by light, it will know everything and also be allowed to instruct ignorant souls from the moment of its death, it will be able to hand out what it possesses itself in richest measure, spiritual treasures which signify an exceedingly pleasing activity for the soul, which now also works diligently in its love and also considers those who are poor and have to live in want. And it will be allowed to draw ever closer to God, for love shapes it such that it becomes God's image and thus unites with God, from Whom it originated in the first place ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Divine wisdoms – spiritual working ....

B.D. 3402 from January 12th 1945, taken from Book No. 44

Divine wisdom cannot be fathomed through human wisdom .... Divine wisdom can only be grasped by the human being's intellect if his spirit is active at the same time. And therefore the working of the spirit is absolutely necessary if the human being wants to penetrate knowledge which is superior to all human knowledge. However, human intellectual abilities are not necessary where the spirit of God can be active in the human being, for this enlightens the human being's thinking so that the deepest wisdom from God becomes comprehensible to him if the spirit of God Himself imparts it to him. For He offers it to him in such a form that he grows into knowledge which was previously completely unknown to him. At the same time the human being's ability to think is developed so that he himself is able to pass on the knowledge he has received, albeit in a simpler form of expression but in accordance with the meaning of the knowledge imparted to him by the spirit of God. Divine wisdom is unsurpassable, and thus the thought material conveyed by the spirit of God cannot be surpassed by human wisdom either, even though it initially appears insignificant and is sometimes conveyed to the human being's heart in the simplest form imaginable. But it finds its explanation in the fact that the human being should not only be an instrument to mechanically pass on the received knowledge, but he himself should be completely permeated by it in order to now also be able to represent it before fellow human beings. And therefore the human being has to be introduced slowly, it has to be made comprehensible to him in such a way that he really becomes knowledgeable, so that he can then also be made acquainted with the deepest wisdoms and these can also be fully understood, so that heart and intellect have processed it and it can now only be called true knowledge. Only now does the human being penetrate the deepest wisdom, the spirit of God speaks to the spiritual spark in the human being, and what it communicates to him reveals His wisdom, His love and His omnipotence .... It is knowledge which people could never fathom by virtue of their intellect, for it is not so trained as to ever be able to comprehend or truthfully portray God's reign and activity in the universe and in the spiritual kingdom if it never had knowledge of it before. The human being's intellect will always remain within the limits which God Himself has set for it, it will only ever be able to investigate earthly things and will probably also be able to offer evidence for the correctness of its findings. Yet everything divine, all spiritual knowledge, will remain alien to him as long as God's spirit is not at work, for only God's spirit penetrates the deepest depths of divine wisdom and can present it to the human being, i.e. his intellect, so that the latter will then become active, i.e. mentally process what he has heard, and only then will the human being become knowledgeable .... For only spiritual knowledge can be called true knowledge because it touches areas which are unfathomable to the intellect and can only be fathomed with the help of the divine spirit. And what the spirit of God imparts to the heart and the intellect are divine wisdoms which therefore can only be presented to the human being who makes himself worthy through his will to serve God by passing on the truth from God, which far surpasses human understanding .... This will and a conscious striving for perfection are prerequisites in order to receive divine wisdom and also to understand it, because a correct understanding of it is absolutely necessary in order to also convey it to fellow human beings, as it is God's will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Divine wisdom surpasses human wisdom ....

B.D. 3403 from January 13th 1945, taken from Book No. 44

A divine revelation outweighs every seemingly profound human wisdom, for it is purest truth and therefore irrefutable. For if God expresses Himself through the voice of the spirit, then every error is excluded. But God reveals Himself through an earthly child which is intimately united with Him, which believes in Him and establishes contact with Him through loving activity and desire for Him, as soon as a person is therefore active in love and intimately asks Him for enlightenment, thus also lives in faith that God can and will express Himself. If He is sincerely asked for it, God will not deny Himself to him either .... Then He speaks to him through the inner voice, and then these revelations are to be believed, they are to be accepted as truth because they are of divine origin. And then the human being will draw from the original source of wisdom and understandably surpass every earthly wise man in knowledge. Yet only the person who desires the right, divine wisdom will recognize it as wisdom .... And therefore it will never be possible to argue about the value of divine revelations, because an incomprehending person who neither seeks to penetrate the truth nor leads a way of life which can earn him such, is completely incapable of judging what is presented to him. Thus divine revelations are neither credible nor incontestable for him, indeed, they rather appear to him as not very wise, and it is not possible to argue with such people but they will always have the upper hand as long as the listeners are also of the same spirit, i.e. without faith in a God to Whom everything is possible and without love which only awakens to life where faith is still dead. It is wrong to try to bring divine revelations to these people, for they would always contradict and also influence their fellow human beings such that they would reject them before they had seriously taken a stand. Therefore it is of no value to initiate people who are completely without faith, who therefore have no spiritual striving whatsoever and only live exclusively in the world. Knowledge can certainly be presented to them, but never the origin of the knowledge, before he is put into a thoughtful state by the knowledge itself and desires light and truth. Only then can he be informed where to look for the source. And only then will he also recognize the profound wisdom that shines forth from the divine revelations. And he will no longer be satisfied with earthly knowledge, he will strive for spiritual perfection in order to be able to receive God's revelations himself, as He has promised. Nevertheless, the word of God, which guides His love for earth, shall be carried on, nevertheless, human wisdom shall be displaced by wisdom from God, for this will take root because everything divine will continue to exist while the human will pass away. Yet the word of God will only be recognized in all its wisdom when people voluntarily open themselves up to it, when they look for the reason in God's love and use His omnipotence and wisdom to explain His extraordinary working, thus when they believe that God, in His love, wants to help people who are outside of the pure truth and that He is also able to do so .... Then His wisdom will be recognized and His revelations will be gratefully received as an extraordinary gift of grace ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

False prophets .... end time ....

B.D. 3404 from January 14th 1945, taken from Book No. 44

Only completely immature souls make use of the strength from below and are therefore also used by the prince of the underworld for his work. No matter what God's adversary starts to fight against God he always uses willing people to carry out his will, because the power over every work of creation is withdrawn from him. And therefore he determines people to carry out his will, and they obey him because they feel connected to him through their inclinations and urges which hardly deviate from each other. Hence these are souls which are still completely materially minded, which are turned towards God's adversary and with whom he therefore has an easy game. People in whom such souls are embodied are completely under his control. But he equips them with great strength so that they can always carry out what God's adversary dictates to them. Because they have completely turned away from God they are doubly endowed with strength and therefore they are able to accomplish things which otherwise are beyond the strength of a human being. And thus signs and miracles also happen on the part of people who are hostile towards God if they are willing to let their strength have an external effect. And then these are often regarded as sent by God because of their miracles, and God warns you of these, and He has always done so by His constant reference to the false prophets in the last days, because they are a danger for those who are not yet firm in faith and who are not active in love. God has always made mention of these emissaries of satan in order to announce the power of that which he will gain over people in the last days. He warns His own not to fall into the nets of the false prophets, and He marks them out by the fact that they, too, will confess Christ .... the bringer of salvation .... yet not the redeemer of the world .... And take heed that Jesus Christ hath redeemed the world .... But the Christ, of whom the false prophets speak, shall yet come and bring salvation to men. And they shall deceive many, and shall cry unto men: Behold, here is Christ .... But do not follow them .... but know that they are emissaries of satan, whom you should flee, lest they destroy you .... And if they work miracles, pay no attention to them, for they use the power from below. And you will recognize them, for no love speaks from them, neither from their words nor from their deeds. What they do only testifies to their power but not to their love, and power is a gift of satan. And you can certainly recognize them if you always make love the guiding principle of your thoughts and actions. Then you will also notice by the miracles of the false prophets that they are not works of love but works of the one who originates from hell. If you yourselves stand in love and faith you will not be deceived, but the lukewarm are in danger who do not bear the characteristics of love. God's adversary can win them over, they will not recognize the false prophets and willingly follow wherever they are led by them, for the forces from below have power over those who are distant from God, who indeed still strive for Him according to the word but not in their heart .... And God especially warns them not to let themselves be deceived by the dazzling light of a miracle .... And He gives them a clear characteristic that love must always be recognizable where the power of God, which expresses itself through His prophets, becomes effective. And where love is not recognizable satan has his kingdom there, and this you should flee, for the forces from below will influence every immature person, i.e. every person who thinks and acts without love, and these will be servants in bondage to them who carry out what the prince of the underworld demands .... For it is the time of the end and he will use it to work against God and against everything spiritual that turns towards God until the hour has come when God will bind him and with him all people who are in bondage to him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spiritual inertia ....

B.D. 3405 from January 14th 1945, taken from Book No. 44

It is a certain spiritual inertia if the human being does not deal with questions which concern his purpose of earthly life, his relationship with the creator and the eternal creator Himself. And therefore these questions cannot be answered as long as he does not raise them himself. It is a spiritual inertia for which he has to answer, because he is endowed with the gifts of intellect, because the ability to think was given to him and he is also constantly led into situations in life where these questions arise again and again, thus his will only needed to become active to take a stand on all questions which help him to spiritual realization. As soon as he only once directs his thoughts into the spiritual realm he will also be stimulated from the spiritual side, and the spiritual inertia is remedied .... pondering sets in, he will mentally answer his questions himself, as he believes, yet the answers are already mental transmissions from the spiritual kingdom, in accordance with his desire for truth and his innermost nature. For the human being is considered by spiritual beings who correspond to his own nature. Serious desire for truth grants access to beings which are full of truth and can distribute it .... But anyone who desires truth simultaneously strives towards God, because God is the eternal truth Himself .... And anyone who strives towards God is also inclined towards good, and consequently spiritual forces connected to God will also consider him and thus enlighten him truthfully. A bad, lovelessly acting person will never strive for the pure truth, for he fears it since it contradicts his thinking and actions, and he only wants to acknowledge that as truth which is of use to him. And only those forces will approach him which lead him astray. And therefore a person who makes an effort to live well and right can also be convinced to think right as soon as he seriously thinks about spiritual problems. But he must first have this will to receive such enlightenment .... He must not reject spiritual thoughts as soon as they arise in him, he must not remain spiritually inert and thus make every mental instruction by spiritual forces impossible, otherwise it will remain dark and lightless in him and let his earthly life pass as a mere worldly man without maturing spiritually. The will to penetrate higher knowledge must awaken in him and now also let him become mentally active. Then, however, he will make great progress to his own happiness, for knowledge always makes happy, and the more it corresponds to the truth. Right, i.e. truthful knowledge is a wealth that the human being no longer wants to do without once it has come into his possession. Right knowledge is light which has a beneficial effect on the human being who is still enclosed in darkness, and right knowledge is a gift from the spiritual world which also reaches over into the spiritual kingdom, which connects this world with the beyond. And therefore right knowledge is worth striving for, it is precious good which cannot be replaced by earthly goods. And every person can attain it as soon as he overcomes spiritual inertia, as soon as he reflects on the meaning and purpose of earthly life, on the meaning and purpose of creation and his own relationship with the creator .... For then spiritual forces come into action which instruct him and move him from the state of ignorance into the state of knowledge according to his desire ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Battle between light and darkness ....

B.D. 3406 from January 16th 1945, taken from Book No. 44

The battle between light and darkness takes place most fiercely in the immediate vicinity of earth, for precisely the spiritual beings on earth are severely harassed by the forces of darkness, and therefore the spiritual beings full of light must also come close to earth in order to help people as long as they still live on earth. And that is why many beings of light are embodied on earth in the last days in order to be able to help directly and to form a bridge, so to speak, for the beings of light from the spiritual kingdom to people. For the forces of darkness have easier access to them because people are still full of darkness and listen more easily to the ideas of those forces, whereas the beings of light first have to overcome a sphere in which they have to conceal their luminous cover, and therefore they come to people unrecognized and they often don't want to accept their help. For the earth and its surroundings are little light-bearing, darkness has great power, and yet the light fights against the darkness. And wherever it shines it breaks through the darkness .... Where once the beings of light can become effective, there it can never again become night. And everywhere the beings of light embodied on earth pave the way for the spiritual beings of light, they light small flames everywhere, and the smallest shine of light attracts the beings of the spiritual kingdom, and it is magnified by them, often to the most radiant brightness, so that the light shines in a far radius .... And then the darkness is powerless, it can no longer extinguish the light, it cannot dim it, for the beings of light are stronger, and where they have once achieved victory they assert themselves and never again allow the enemy to come into their own. But the enemy also carries a light to people, but it is a deceptive light, it is the shine and glow of the illusory goods, of earthly possessions and of the world, which lure people with dazzling bright colours .... It is a false light because it only flares up and goes out, it is a will-o'-the-wisp light which radiates no warmth and which can never enliven. And the beings of light on earth are to uncover this false light, they are to present its ineffectiveness to people, they are to point them to the right light which warms and enlightens and awakens to life. And therefore the beings of light must be constantly active on earth so that the adversary does not gain the upper hand and the darkness on earth becomes ever more impenetrable, they must remain in constant contact with the beings of light of the spiritual kingdom and constantly catch the ray of light from there in order to pass it on into the darkness of night. And no ray of light will be lost which has found its way to earth ....

The light will shine from the rising to the setting .... everywhere where people live the connection is established between them and the spiritual kingdom through thoughts which are directed towards infinity, through questions concerning the eternal deity and through the will which is meant for good. Rays of light can be directed everywhere, i.e. thoughts corresponding to truth which emanate from the spiritual kingdom, from beings of light, on God's instructions and are accepted by hearts capable and willing to love. But the light has to fight against the superiority of darkness. For the forces of darkness are extremely active in confusing people's thinking in order to extinguish the light, which again and again flares up like a tiny flame in the night. And so the battle of light against darkness has been going on for an eternity .... People's state of ignorance shall always be changed into a state of knowledge, and the beings of light of the spiritual kingdom will stand by their side without hesitation .... But the end time has dawned, and this means that darkness has descended so deeply upon the earth that the light beings' battle must become increasingly fiercer in order to banish it. For God's adversary fights with cunning and force and with utmost perseverance because he knows that his power will soon come to an end, because he knows that he will be bound and can no longer exert his influence on humanity. And thus the earth is surrounded by good and bad forces, by beings of light and beings of darkness, and their struggle is for the souls which still walk blindly along .... The bearers of light on earth and in the beyond work with love and seek to bring salvation to people languishing in darkness. The beings of darkness, however, are driven by hatred, they seek to plunge people into the abyss through unkind actions, where there is eternal night. And thus a constant battle takes place against these souls which will end on the day of the last judgment when the eternal light Itself will sit in judgment and separate light and darkness from each other .... For this is the end, that the light will shine and completely conquer the night, that the truth will triumph and the powers of darkness with their followers will be thrown into the deepest abyss, into impenetrable darkness, into the kingdom to which they belong by their own will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Hour of the end .... present .... seers and prophets ....

B.D. 3407 from January 16th 1945, taken from Book No. 44

The divine plan has been decided and unchangeable since eternity. For it has been thought out in unsurpassable wisdom and predetermined down to the smallest details. And this plan is by no means arbitrary, but it is based on the reclamation of the once fallen spiritual, and every event in the spiritual kingdom as well as on earth unfolds according to this. There are constant phases of development, periods of time of different lengths, which are granted for the recovery of the spiritual, which are therefore limited and the end of which has been determined by God since eternity. And God announces this sequence of developmental periods to people through seers and prophets, and indeed, He will always point out the end of such a period to them in order to spur them on to fulfil their purpose of earthly life. But He will never predict the appointed time to people, so that they must always and constantly reckon with living in the time which precedes the end. In the period of eternity there are always only short phases of development which are always replaced by a new one, and therefore the end can also always be described by God as imminent, even though the time appears long to people. And that is why predictions of this end have been sent to people by God at all times, and a long time has passed in the meantime, seen through human eyes and according to human time reckoning. Nevertheless, these predictions will also come true, the announced time will become present, the redemption period will enter its final phase, and people of the present day will experience what seers and prophets have foreseen since the beginning of a redemption period .... The end time will have dawned, the end will be near, there will be no long time left because the time set by God will have expired according to God's eternal purpose .... And now the prophetic words begin to take shape in that the earthly events seen by the seers become reality and people's spiritual low can also be recognized by this, which determines the end of a period of development. And therefore, in the last days the end will be announced to people ever more thoroughly and urgently, even though the day and the hour will still be kept secret because it is not suitable for the human soul when it is revealed to it. God knows the hour and He will keep it, as it is intended in His plan from eternity. And His word is to be fully believed, the hour will come as a surprise even to those who are initiated, who reckon with the near end .... For once it will become the present, because the word of God is truth. And that is why this hour is constantly referred to in the last days, because it comes like a thief in the night .... And it ends a long period of redemption and ushers in a new era .... The old earth will pass away and a new earth will arise, not only spiritually but also materially, because this has been determined since eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The inner Word during the time of affliction ....

B.D. 3408 from January 17th 1945, taken from Book No. 44

During the time of affliction, you will clearly and distinctly hear the voice of the spirit as long as you uphold your contact with God and desire to hear Him. He will not withdraw His gift of grace, He will convey it ever more abundantly for He knows what you require, He knows that you need comfort and support and that only He can offer these to you. The more closely you join Him the more He will endow you with His Word, with His love, which He manifests in the Word. And you will not be so harshly affected by the affliction, for God Himself will lift you up and above the misery. He can give you a joyful heart despite the external adversity, he will make you modest and patient, so that you will not miss anything and only desire that He will reveal Himself to you, that He will speak to you and that you receive His grace .... And He will grant you this desire, He will sharpen your spiritual ear and you will hear His voice wherever you are and at all times. And the spiritual nourishment will make you more profoundly happy than any earthly fulfilment. Your body will be content with little, you will no longer pay attention to it, yet your soul will be abundantly cared for and will never need to starve.

And if you are faced by earthly adversity it will no longer discourage you, because you will be able to take it to the One Who promised His help to you because He loves you like a Father loves His children. The time of affliction need therefore not frighten you if you consider yourselves His children and communicate with Him from the bottom of your heart. He will answer you and you will hear His voice in your heart, and what He tells you will lift you up and make you happy, it will make you strong and confident, it will silence all your worries and troubles, for you will be able to gain profound and unshakable faith, because you will be taught by God's spirit and His voice will affect you like a fatherly word of encouragement which you will never ever doubt. And your heart will rejoice because you recognise the loving Father, Who deems you worthy of His voice. Your spiritual progress will let you forget everything, you will endure whatever suffering and deprivations the body has to put up with, for your body will become less sensitive the more spiritualised the soul becomes .... The soul, however, will rejoice once it has reached the goal of sensing God and hearing His voice as often as it desires ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

State of life .... activity .... serve ....

B.D. 3409 from January 18th 1945, taken from Book No. 44

In the night of death God's love is no longer effective on the being, i.e. its distance from God makes the being insensitive to it, and therefore its state is an extremely agonizing one which can only be lifted, i.e. alleviated, when the being strives towards God again through its will. Only then does it slowly begin to return from the completely powerless state into the state of life in which God's love can again have an effect on the beingness. The being never stands outside of God's love, but as long as it tries to withdraw itself from His love, it is also ineffective on it. But He constantly tries to persuade it to switch itself back into the circuit of divine love, and since it is initially too weak-willed or even has an opposing will, He binds this will insofar as that it is completely incapable of carrying it out. But since the being's freedom of will is its original nature it seeks to escape this banished state, and after endless times it declares itself willing to subordinate itself to God's will and thus to become active in accordance with His legislation, which underlies creation .... And then this activity is assigned to it, it is granted a relaxed envelopment in which it can now carry out what corresponds to God's will. It cannot act against it because it is in a state of compulsion, it is completely subject to God's will but through its willingness it has acquired the right to fulfil a task in the midst of creation which will always be a serving one towards another work of creation. But since it needs strength for every activity and therefore now also has it at its disposal, it has made itself receptive again through its will for God's strength of love. It can become effective on the beingness, even if it is unrecognized by the beingness itself in its darkness. The recognition of what the influx of the strength of love means for the beingness is only possible for the beingness in the state of free will, which can now step out of the darkness of the spirit into the brightest light embodied as a human being if it uses its free will correctly. The being's ascent development is only possible from the moment God's strength of love can take effect, and this effectiveness first requires the abandonment of resistance against God. Even if the being is too weak to strive towards God, the lack of will is nevertheless no longer open resistance against God, and the weakness of will can be remedied through the loving care of the perfect beingness, which constantly tries to move it towards God-turned thinking, as well as through the prayer of people on earth for all weak spiritual beings still languishing under the spell of matter .... If the beingness is willing to serve then it has overcome its weakness of will and progresses in its ascent development. And if, in the stage as a human being, service in love is the result of its free will, then God's strength of love will be fully effective in it, then the human being will have entered the state of life from the state of death, it will constantly receive strength from God, it will reduce its distance from Him and be constantly active in love. As a free, self-aware being it will act according to its own will and yet be subject to divine will, for since it is permeated by God's strength, which is love in itself, its entire being must also be love, and this is the effect of divine strength of love, that the being which does not close itself off to His strength of love also becomes love .... This is the state of life, of unity with God and of bliss, because the being feels the strength of love as highest happiness, as closeness to God and desire for constant activity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

World order .... divine law ....

B.D. 3410 from January 18th 1945, taken from Book No. 44

The world order cannot be overturned eternally because it is determined by divine law, and this is inviolable. No spiritual power can influence it, and only the spiritual beings associated with God are permitted to implement this law, which therefore also corresponds to divine will. Thus only the human being can sin against divine order, i.e. he can have the will to do so and is not prevented from doing so, yet even then he is unable to overturn the divine world order, i.e. to completely repeal His law, instead he can only seemingly interfere with God's order but at the same time incur the consequences which are to his own detriment. Because the human being has free will, he is given the opportunity to also transgress against God's will, yet he will not thereby cause His law of eternity to waver, which he believes he can do or he would not make the attempt. But the attempt is already a sin against God's wisdom, love and omnipotence .... For the attempt proves a will directed against God. The whole of creation is based on divine law, the spiritual kingdom and the earthly kingdom are governed by God's law, spiritual and material creations exist and move in accordance with divine order, and all entities have to submit to this law, they have to adapt themselves to the world order, otherwise they manifest a will which is contrary to God and exclude themselves from the blessings of divine order as being outside the law. To live in the order of God always means harmony and immortality, it means a state of bliss. But that which believes it can exist outside the divine order will also vegetate in an ungodly state until it voluntarily submits to the divine order. For profoundest wisdom was at work, and the divine law, the entire world order, the structure of the earthly as well as the spiritual creation also corresponds to this. But no being surpasses the wisdom and omnipotence of God, and in the state of perfection the being completely subordinates itself to His wisdom and omnipotence and completely submits to His law of eternity, it lives and works according to His order and does not transgress against it in the slightest. The being, however, which recognizes neither His wisdom nor His love and omnipotence, certainly makes an attempt to violate the divine order, but it only puts itself out of order but never God's law, yet this attempt already brings it spiritual disadvantage and eternal penance until it rejoins the divine order ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Divine commandments - guidelines ....

B.D. 3411 from January 19th 1945, taken from Book No. 44

By virtue of the guidelines given to the human being through the divine commandments he can also exercise spiritual control over his thoughts, words and actions at any time. And this is necessary if he wants to constantly progress in his development, for he can very easily fall into the error of becoming sluggish and neglecting the work on his soul as soon as he believes to live in accordance with God's will. Then there is always the danger of stagnation which he can very easily avert as soon as he exercises strict self-criticism and accounts for every thought, every word and every deed as to whether they are good, i.e. whether they correspond to God's commandments, Who only demands love. For God's adversary does not rest, he seeks to gain influence over the soul, over the human being's will, until the last hour. And therefore the human being is never out of danger of falling prey to him if he is not mindful and always takes God's commandments as a guideline for his way of life. Self-knowledge is the first thing a person needs if he wants to change from the bottom of his soul, for he will only strive for an improvement, a change for the better, if he discovers deficiencies in himself. In all humility he should ask God for the grace of self-knowledge, he should often hold up the mirror of his soul to himself and fight against everything impure, he should practice gentleness, peaceableness, patience and mercy, he should serve with love and be of an humble spirit, then he will also receive the strength to recognize his faults and correct them. For the human being cannot do anything without God's support, his will and strength are too weak if they are not strengthened by divine love. Yet the human being should muster the will to make himself worthy of divine strength of love. And thus he should work on himself and constantly think about his faults and weaknesses, only then will he be able to get rid of them, because with good will he will also receive the strength to fight against them. The divine commandments only demand love, and therefore it is easy to check how far one's thinking, speaking and acting corresponds to love of God and neighbour. And if this standard is applied the human being will exercise strict criticism of himself, he will not be negligent in his soul's work, he will wrestle and pray and thereby also gain possession of grace, he will unite with God ever more intimately through his prayer, and he will mature in his soul. For then he will live his earthly life consciously, he will try to shape himself according to God's will .... he takes God's commandments as a guideline and thus acts according to His word .... And he will never ever remain at a standstill but travel the constant path of ascent until he reaches the aim .... the union with God .... which can only be achieved if the human being changes to love, if he aligns himself with the nature of eternal love, which is supremely perfect, and if he thus strives to become perfect ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Loving care of God ....

B.D. 3412 from January 19th 1945, taken from Book No. 44

Your creator and sustainer constantly cares for you, and He takes care of each individual full of love. His hand guides you and He shapes your destiny according to His will, certainly always for the salvation of your souls, yet He also considers your body as long as it is the soul's shell and is meant to help it ascend. And if you believe this you will be able to travel your path through life carefree and also need not despair when stormy days come which require all your strength. Then trust in His help and ask Him for strength .... Present your needs to Him and wait for Him, Who created you, Who is your father since eternity .... Call to Him like children and take refuge in His fatherly heart, and His love will give you what you need .... strength and grace, earthly and spiritual help, by virtue of which you will master everything and overcome the most difficult situations in life. But make yourselves worthy of His loving care, remain active in love yourselves and strive towards Him, try to gain His pleasure through a way of life which corresponds to His will. And His fatherly love will cover you to such an extent that you will feel it, that nothing will be too difficult for you, whatever is demanded of you. Be strong in faith, be active in love and make God's will your own, then God will guide you and under His guidance you will walk the right path and reach the aim ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Man's will .... God's will .... assurance ....

B.D. 3413 from January 20th 1945, taken from Book No. 44

I intervene in world events at the right time, and I steer them in other directions. But before My will goes into action I give human will free rein to the extreme. I allow what people want to carry out in order to then tangibly instruct them, since gentle instruction completely misses its purpose because people close their ears when they are confronted with the ruinousness of their actions. Thus I do not hinder their will if they resort to means which every right-thinking person must abhor; neither do I hinder the great adversity their will conjures up; nor do I deprive them of the vitality they use to carry out deeds which are worthy of condemnation, but I let them do as they see fit. However, a limit has been set for them which they cannot cross .... And one day their will will not be able to do anything because My will is stronger .... You, My believers, should not indulge in heavy thoughts, you should live every day full of confidence and only ever strive towards My nearness through unselfish activity of love; you should help where your help is needed and thereby make your heart receptive for the strength of love which flows over to you from Me when you need it. For demands will be made of you and in order to be able to fulfil them you must receive grace and strength from Me. Whatever may come is My work, My will and your destiny, which will shape itself as your state of maturity requires. People still rage and everyone tries to increase his strength through unkindness, and this is ruin, for I have to prove their lack of strength to them .... But before that I still bring Myself to their remembrance by letting people get into an adversity that they should call to Me .... Their souls shall seek Me, they shall not call upon Me with their mouths but from the bottom of their hearts they shall appeal to Me for help. Everywhere is hardship and misery, and yet suffering is unable to transform people .... They remain unloving and domineering, and they forcibly seek their supposed right. And where they do not find this, they proceed with brutal means of struggle .... And I allow this .... But the end I determine Myself. I come at the right time and let My voice be heard. And therefore do not be afraid but faithfully wait for My help if it appears as if you are in serious danger .... My father’s eye watches over you who remain united with Me in prayer and loving activity .... I let nothing approach you which could endanger you, and I am constantly with you if you call upon Me. And this is certain, that the hours of adversity will come to an end through Me before you, My believers, are affected by it .... For I have promised you My protection .... But My word is truth and will remain truth forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spiritualizing the soul .... overcoming matter ....

B.D. 3414 from January 22nd 1945, taken from Book No. 44

It is absolutely necessary that you learn to despise the world if you want your soul to mature, for only when it no longer desires it will it turn to the spiritual kingdom, to the world which is its actual home, which offers it everything that helps it to ascend and which is therefore also the aim it should reach through earthly life. The more the human being detaches himself from material things, the more his senses deaden themselves for earthly pleasures and enjoyments, the more the soul spiritualizes itself .... As long as the human being lives on earth he must indeed submit to the demands of the body up to a certain limit, he must fulfil earthly obligations, he must carry out earthly activities; thus he is earth-bound and cannot detach himself from it purely physically until God calls him into the spiritual kingdom. Nevertheless, the human being can live a second life next to his earthly one .... The life of the soul need not be completely involved in the life of the body, the soul need not strive for the same as the body, but it can form its kingdom completely independently of it, which, however, lies far away from the yearning of the body .... it can turn to the spiritual kingdom, and then the body will certainly fulfil its earthly task but never strive for earthly pleasures for itself again, instead, it will soon join the soul's desire and likewise seek to be spiritually active as soon as its earthly duties allow it time and opportunity to do so. And as soon as this degree is reached, that the human being now disregards all material goods, as soon as he sets the spiritual kingdom as the aim of his striving, he is also immune to strong temptations on the part of the world. He can no longer fall prey to it, he will only have to endure slight struggles at times, if the world presents itself to him again and again with its joys and pleasures and wants to win him over for itself. But these are only temptations which he will always overcome because the powers of the spiritual kingdom .... the kingdom towards which his soul is striving .... never ever let him go, because they pull him with tireless love and thus constantly influence his soul so that it feels the strength within itself to offer resistance. The greater the renunciation of the material world, the stronger the transmission of strength from the spiritual kingdom. And this influx of strength not only benefits the soul but also the body, for the latter is now also able to master its earthly task without therefore neglecting the soul. And the earthly task will be a service in active neighbourly love, the human being will also attain maturity of soul through his earthly activity because this is now in accordance with God's will. For the human being who disregards earthly aims, who no longer desires the world's goods, will also only carry out an activity which benefits his fellow human beings, he will only give but not want to possess and thereby strive ever more towards the spiritual kingdom. Thus the soul voluntarily fulfils its actual purpose .... it overcomes matter and spiritualizes itself, it kills off the body's desire which is originally its own and makes it inclined to join the soul's desire; it pulls it over into the spiritual kingdom with it, and thus it seriously pursues the aim which is set for it for its earthly life, and it will also reach this aim, for all forces of light stand by it so that it finds the path into the eternal home ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Motive of the suffering of time ....

B.D. 3415 from January 23rd 1945, taken from Book No. 44

Despite greatest earthly hardship humanity does not find its way back to Me, and this prompts Me to let them continue to go through a hard school, for in a short time the earthly life which still gives them this opportunity will be over. People don't accept My admonitions, they don't hear My voice when I speak to them through suffering, they don't open the door of their heart which I knock on softly and louder, their thoughts are only earthly-minded, they only fear for their body and don't consider the hardship of their souls. And therefore I have to call even louder, I have to intensify the suffering even more in order to bring help to their souls. And therein you must look for the reason when a seemingly unbearable suffering befalls you humans; you must know that I am closer to you than ever, for your nature takes Me, I take pity on your spiritual blindness and your obduracy, the consequences of which you cannot measure but which I can never ever turn away from you against your will. And therefore I try to change the will, for as soon as it only turns to Me I can help people and grant them strength and help. And thus a time of adversity is approaching which will make the end time quite recognizable. And anyone who does not turn his gaze to Me, who does not raise his hands to Me in supplication, will be pressed to the ground by the great adversity and will no longer be able to rise. But anyone who remains united with Me, who finds his way to Me in adversity, will be guided through all suffering, and My love and grace will accompany him by making everything difficult bearable and giving him strength at all times. But your call must come from your heart, you must be able to believe in the depth of your heart that I am and that I can and want to help you, only then will you acknowledge Me, and only then can I noticeably give you strength and grace, I can take the suffering away from you and grant you earthly relief. But as long as you pass Me by when I step into your path through My word, as long as you don't accept this word of Mine as a gift of love from Me, as long as you don't recognize My obvious working or merely speak My name without your heart being involved, you may not expect to experience better times either. For then your earthly life will pass by unsuccessfully for your souls, although your body would gratefully acknowledge the relief of life. But I remember the souls, for they are in great need. And since the body's distress is only short-lived, whereas the soul has to languish for eternities, I come to the soul's aid. Only when the human being no longer has earthly desires does he turn to his soul, that is, he mentally occupies himself with knowledge imparted to him, and he gives the soul the opportunity to ascend into the spiritual kingdom, and thus he seeks Me and I let Myself be found by him. I will bring My word close to him, and as soon as he faithfully accepts it, complies with it and thus lives a life of love, his soul will mature, he will establish contact with Me and have drawn the right benefit from the adversity of the time, he will successfully strive upwards and spiritualize himself already on earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Disregarding the divine word .... consequences .... source of power ....

B.D. 3416 from January 24th 1945, taken from Book No. 44

You humans hear the word of God and yet you let it ring in your ears and don't comply with it, for you express this through your way of life which does not correspond to divine will, God's will, which is made known to you through His word and which should therefore determine your way of life. And therefore you are all to blame if God now makes His will known to you in a different way, if instead of His gentle word He lets you go through a school of suffering which is meant to teach you the same, only in a way which does not appeal to you. Suffering only affects a few people undeservedly, yet they know about God's eternal plan of salvation, they know about the meaning and purpose of earthly life and also about the meaning and purpose of suffering; they know that only God's great love uses this means of education to win people over for Himself, and therefore they humbly bear the suffering which they also have to take upon themselves for the sake of their fellow human beings. But at the same time they have a compensation for their suffering body .... they have refreshment and comfort for their souls .... for they gratefully accept the word of God and draw comfort and strength from it .... They refresh themselves at the source of grace which God's love has opened up for them, and suffering does not oppress them to the same extent as fellow human beings feel it, to whom that source of strength is closed due to their own fault. God foresaw the coming adversity and therefore conveyed His word to earth in order to help His own gain strength of faith and inner peace, for the adversity had to come because people's will itself had conjured it up; yet those who are devoted to God, who therefore are not to blame for the adversity, shall not be depressed by this adversity, they shall not remain without strength and without inner comfort .... And therefore they will always be allowed to hear the divine word, they will receive it directly or through God's servants on earth who shall serve as mediators between God and people. And anyone who allows this word of His to take effect on him need not fear, even though the adversity around him appears to be immense, for He Who sends it upon people is also able to banish it .... He is able to put a stop to the greatest calamity if His wisdom and His will deem it necessary. God does not leave His own in adversity, yet for the sake of their fellow human beings they often have to take part in it. But they should keep their firm faith that they are not abandoned by Him .... They should gain this faith from His word, they should draw strength from it and be strengthened in their love for God. They shall fulfil God's will before their fellow human beings' eyes and thus exemplify the right life to them, they shall give them an example of the effectiveness of the divine word so that they will remain in deepest inner peace even in the greatest earthly adversity, so that their fellow human beings will also learn to respect the word of God and live accordingly ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Miracles of faith .... comfort and protection ....

B.D. 3417 from January 25th 1945, taken from Book No. 44

Every event is based on My love, even if it is incomprehensible to people; they will never lose My love, even though they do not feel it. But My aim is to make them receptive and sensitive for My love. And I encounter resistance if I gently and tenderly draw people to Me and offer them My love. I encounter resistance, they strive away from Me and towards something which appears as a mirage before their eyes .... the world with its earthly goods, dead matter and everything which belongs to My adversary's kingdom. But I do not want to and cannot forcibly break their resistance because I respect the human being's free will. And yet I love My creations .... And thus I choose other means to win people over, to make them compliant and turned towards Me .... The tender wooing goes unheeded, thus I have to call louder, I have to make Myself noticeable to people .... I must let them get into trouble in order to then become recognizable to them through help as soon as they have not completely renounced Me .... I must teach them to pray .... And this only brings about hardship if people are in a low state of maturity and believe that they can live their earthly life without Me. They have to recognize their own powerlessness in order to call upon Me to help them. This is the purpose of all hardship and tribulation which humanity has to suffer. I always help if a plea from the heart comes to Me; I always accept the person who acknowledges Me and appeals to Me for mercy .... for My love does not deny itself .... But whether a prayer rises up to Me from the heart, that I alone know .... I don't pay attention to empty words, I don't pay attention to demanding prayer but I want to be approached in deep love for the fulfilment of a request, so that My love can now also express itself and become tangible to the human being. If a heart is sincerely devoted to Me and demonstrates its love for Me by being active for Me, then My love will also be revealed to him, for I will spread My hands under his feet and he will have nothing to fear because I Myself direct all events according to My will. And even if human will strives for the opposite, My will will keep everything from an earthly child devoted to Me, so that it will also recognize the loving father in Me and trust Me, if it is still weak. The more threatening the world is to the human being the more confidently he shall take refuge in My fatherly heart, and I will not disappoint his faith .... I will give him the evidence that his faith alone is able to work miracles and that I, as the lord and creator of heaven and earth, also force earthly events and guide them into other courses if I can thereby help a deeply believing earthly child because it loves Me and thus carries Me in its heart .... I want to see this intimate relationship between a child and its father established, where the child always approaches the father in full trust and asks for protection and grace .... Not words alone prove this relationship but only the feeling of the heart .... But I love My living creations, and where I find reciprocated love I am always willing to give and fulfil, and a prayer will never go unheard which ascends to Me from the depth of a loving heart. Therefore hope and believe and do not be afraid, for I, your father, protect you and will not abandon you for ever .... The more you feel threatened, the closer I am to you, and I will banish every adversity if you faithfully trust in Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Revelation of God in hours of need ....

B.D. 3418 from January 26th 1945, taken from Book No. 44

In hours of adversity God is so obviously recognizable that people of good will would have to become believers if only they would keep the course of their lives in mind, which again and again reveals divine guidance. His loving guidance will be recognizable especially in times of adversity, for again and again a way out will be found, and it would be unwise to portray this way out as coincidence, for it can often change a person's whole life. Every smallest event in a person's life is God's providence, i.e. according to God's eternal plan of salvation His unsurpassable wisdom found it to be beneficial for his soul and thus imposed it on him. If the human being is severely affected by such providence, i.e. if he finds himself in a difficult situation, God, in His love, is always willing to turn this situation into a bearable one again, and He often does this so obviously that the human being's thinking can become perplexed, that by reflecting on it he is guided towards an omnipotent, wise and loving being. And it is up to him whether he takes up these thoughts, thus comes to believe in a supremely perfect being and turns to Him. And thus God approaches every human being and tries to convince him of His existence. He tries to bring him to faith through every adversity and the subsequent help. But it is absolutely necessary that the human being is willing, i.e. that he takes his own stand, which requires thinking about the meaning and purpose of the adversity. A person who feels hardship bitterly will also gratefully accept God's help, and he will then seriously think about it, and this will bring him to inner deep faith. And therefore the coming time can also be exceedingly faith-awakening and invigorating because obvious help will come if the human being wrestles in prayer, who therefore believes in God and His might, in His love and wisdom. The help is therefore a recognizable sign of omnipotence and love, and it will not be without effect on the human being, he will be able to become faithful if he is willing and only ever pays attention to how his life's fate unfolds, where great adversity is often remedied and he learns to regard everything in life as God's providence .... For God reveals Himself in adversity, He reveals Himself to anyone who is thoughtful and wants to recognize God ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Receiving the divine Word is an act of utmost will of strength ....

B.D. 3419 from January 27th 1945, taken from Book No. 44

Only a few people are in possession of the direct Word because only a few are so strong-willed that they consciously and attentively listen within and thus also believe in God's working in the human being through His spirit. This belief is a prerequisite; however, it will also have come alive through practising neighbourly love so that through the latter the person will have become a receiving vessel for the divine spirit. But he must also muster the will to carefully listen to the instructions through the divine spirit. And this requires love and effort .... Love for God and effort to overcome all weaknesses and faults. The human being must constantly work at improving himself and have the will to come close to God .... Hence he must place spiritual striving above earthly matters and therefore also conscientiously undertake the spiritual work, and this first involves the work of receiving the divine Word, which requires a particularly strong will, for the daily acceptance of the divine Word is an act of utmost strength of will, because time and again the latter must be activated anew, for only then can the divine gift of strength be offered to the person. Although the person is only a tool of which God avails Himself in order to speak to people in a natural way the person's free will is nevertheless decisive, and thus he is not forced or obliged to write in a pathological state without his own will, but he can act completely freely and by no means needs to open his ears and heart. In that case, however, receiving divine spiritual knowledge will be impossible.

This is why only a few people can be found who completely voluntarily make themselves available and persistently listen within themselves every day .... who thus want and also put their will into action by withdrawing from the world, by establishing the heartfelt connection with God, appeal to Him and wait for the granting of their prayer. This requires time and the abandoning of demands made by the body. Anyone who loves his body too much, that is, who only seeks the purpose of earthly life in earthly well-being is totally incapable of mustering this will, for the body will always try to weaken the latter and the person will finally comply with the body's demand, he will become careless and sluggish, he will also have little faith in God's love and kindness and not appeal to Him for His gift of grace, and then it cannot be conveyed to him either .... Only few people are willing to hand their will over to God and to let themselves be guided by Him. But these few are true labourers in the vineyard of the Lord, they have proved themselves to be loyal followers of God and therefore they also constantly receive the strength in order to fortify their will, they are time and again willing to listen to the voice within. And the result is divine spiritual knowledge which can have an inconceivably blessed effect if, in turn, a fellow human being musters the will to let himself be taught by them. The will always has to become active again, because God does not force anyone to turn towards His kingdom and thereby also towards His grace .... But anyone who musters this will is blessed by God, and he will be able to achieve great success, both for his own soul as well as for that of his fellow human being .... And he will be a successful labourer in the vineyard of the Lord and strength and grace will be abundantly at his disposal ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Setback .... God commands stop ....

B.D. 3420 from January 28th 1945, taken from Book No. 44

An incomparable event will bring about a change in the adversity, for the earthly battle will thereby be ended in order to, however, usher in a new epoch which will be no less sorrowful. For in order to avert earthly suffering from humanity they would have to change seriously, yet they will not muster the will to do so. An enormous setback is to be expected, an event which comes completely unexpectedly and which will have tremendously serious consequences. No power will enjoy a supposed victory, no clear decision will come about in the struggle of the nations against each other, but a solution will come from a third side .... God Himself will speak the last word in this battle which was solely motivated by earthly aims. God will destroy people's plans and let His will come into action. But before that a hard test is still necessary, the battle still has to reach a climax which seems almost impossible but which will be of very short duration but which will make people's depravity so very recognizable. Then the hand of God will intervene and put a stop to it. One adversity will end but very soon be replaced by another adversity which will not depress people any less because the first one was not successful. People themselves are the originators of all suffering that comes upon them, for they do not improve even though they are admonished and warned again and again. Yet His will happens, and it is not human will which determines the course of an event, even though human will has caused it .... And therefore, no matter how carefully people's plan is worked out, if it does not correspond to the divine plan it will not be able to be carried out .... God will correct it and people will have to act according to His will .... And people are now at the end of their activity, for God Himself determines the further course, even though people believe to have initiated it. God's will is decisive, and it will soon become recognizable because a new time of battle will begin which will not have earthly but spiritual aims as its occasion ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Intervention of God .... plan from eternity ....

B.D. 3421 from January 29th 1945, taken from Book No. 44

Through world events the spiritual low shall be remedied, and the great hardship shall contribute to the approach to God .... thus earthly events have the purpose of leading people to their actual destiny, to educate them for the actual life in the spiritual kingdom one day. Therefore, the entire event corresponds to the divine plan of eternity, even though nothing will ever meet God's approval which is the fault of human will because it is obviously His adversary's work. Nevertheless, He also includes this work in His eternal plan of salvation, He lets it happen, as it were as a prelude to all upheavals in the last days. There can only be an improvement for people if they change fundamentally, that is, if they strive for a higher state of maturity. And if the fate of the individual or the entire events in the world have entered this higher degree of maturity of the soul, then it has not been without success, and then even God's adversary has indirectly contributed to God receiving His sheep back, that they join Him and are cared for by Himself. And the soul is no longer lost without salvation .... And thus everything in the entire universe serves and is subject to His eternal will. Thus even the forces of darkness are subject to God, and consequently God Himself determines the course of everything that takes place in the universe, regardless of whether it has good or evil will as its cause. God is just, He will never praise a bad thought or a bad deed, but He allows them to be carried out so that fellow human beings shall recognize that they are not God-willed, that they feel the effect of such thoughts or deeds in order to refrain from them of their own free will. But He will constantly draw people's attention to the injustice, and especially in such a way that He will not let people's evil plans succeed. And so He again directs a plan, which is recognizable through human hatred and the will to destroy, towards a completely different end than people reckon. But first He shows their depravity so that people will think again, so that they will make an effort to change, so that the spiritual low will be remedied and people will come closer to God, Who is to be their only aim on earth. For although they are left with free will, God nevertheless intervenes when this free will is abused and people are thereby spiritually endangered .... And such an intervention by God will also now steer world events in a different direction, because people's will let it become an injustice which clearly marks their corruption. Yet the adversity on earth will not become less, for it is necessary since people will not change and have to be brought into situations where they should and can seek contact with God so that their souls will be rescued from utmost spiritual hardship. For it is the time of the end which should still be used before it is too late ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Suffering - means of grace ....

B.D. 3422 from January 30th 1945, taken from Book No. 44

People do not recognize the gracious end time as such, for they do not know about the blessing of suffering, they do not know that suffering is also a grace through which the soul can still be saved, which is distant from God and eternally cannot reach the aim if it does not reduce its distance from God through loving activity. And loving activity can be the result of great suffering .... God gives people the opportunity to practice love, for suffering takes on the form that the fellow human being is stimulated to be active in love as soon as he is not completely hardened. What a person would not do of his own accord in a time of orderly circumstances, he can nevertheless do out of inner impulse in the face of overwhelming need .... He can take care of his fellow human being and helpfully assist him, the flame of neighbourly love can be kindled in him, and then his soul will have gained the greatest advantage from the earthly adversity. God is constantly intent on leading the souls to greater maturity or to put them into a state where their soul's cover is detached so that they can at least enter the kingdom of the beyond in a state of recognition before the end of days or join the small congregation of their own accord which perseveres until the end in faith in Jesus Christ, the divine redeemer ....

If man reaches this aim through suffering, then suffering is the last salvation for him, it is a grace that is still granted to him shortly before the end. For without suffering he remains in a state of remoteness from God because love is not active in him. The means God uses to help people's souls must be particularly sharp shortly before the end if they are not to remain without effect. And people in their spiritual blindness only see the sharpness of those means but not their blessing. But once they have been put into a bright state through the working of love, once they have joined the flock of Christ's fighters, then they look back with gratitude on the days of their physical hardship, they recognize the purpose and the blessing of the sufferings and also God's love, which is always mindful of the maturing of imperfect souls. The time until the end is no longer long, but people are so far behind in their spiritual development that they need a significantly longer time to catch up with it ..... Consequently, they have to go through a school in which they can mature faster if they pass every test of life, if they make use of every opportunity. They have to pass a purification fire, the wrapping of their souls has to be melted through suffering and love, then it is possible that they will still perfect themselves in this short time so that in the end they will belong to those who argue for Jesus Christ. And then eternal bliss is assured for them. And the sooner a person of his own free will practices the love to which his fellow human being's suffering should impel him, the easier the latter will seem to be bearable to him, for if the actual purpose is achieved through suffering, thus the sooner the person has made use of grace, the sooner this can also be taken away from him. The blessings of the last days will only be truly recognized in the spiritual kingdom, for the human being as such does not have an overview on earth, he does not recognize the great spiritual adversity, he does not know the danger he is in if he fails and what a tremendous concept it is to have to live through another period of development. This realization will only be granted to him in the spiritual kingdom, and then he will be grateful for every help he received in the form of suffering on earth .... Only then will he realize the measure of grace God has granted people on earth and that without suffering it was never possible to reach the aim. But as long as he lives on earth he is offered the opportunity for the higher development of his soul, and for as long as he lives he also has graces at his disposal. And suffering is one of the greatest blessings, after all, it is the most effective means to educate the human being into loving activity. And therefore God uses this means before the end has come in order to still win souls for His kingdom, in order to help them so that they will not be eternally lost ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Progress of the need .... sites of peace ....

B.D. 3423 from January 31th 1945, taken from Book No. 44

People give themselves false hopes if they expect improvement from the coming time, for it will only be bearable for a few people. Only those people who are united with Me through prayer and loving activity will be less burdened; the others, on the other hand, will have to go through a time of renunciation and most difficult life struggles in order to prepare themselves for the last test of earthly life, for the battle against faith .... Adversity and tribulation beforehand shall cause them to call Me, to learn to recognize Me, so that they will then remain faithful to Me and join the flock of My fighters .... As soon as they are united with Me the adversity and affliction will be alleviated, by virtue of their faith they will overcome all weakness and I will provide them with every relief when they have to endure the former for the sake of their fellow human beings. And therefore there can also be a quiet island of peace in the midst of greatest adversity; in the midst of human devils people can also live who are connected to God, to whom the former cannot harm anything, because a dense protective wall surrounds them, which is formed by good spiritual beings. And thus there will be places everywhere where My love and grace prevail in contrast to those where My adversary is active and where therefore no peace and tranquillity can arise. But I Myself create the places of peace because I know My own and will always make their life bearable for them. And these places shall also be recognized by fellow human beings as places of peace because I want them to take refuge there in adversity and receive words of comfort and strengthening from those who live in peace themselves and can now also distribute it by passing on My word, by awakening faith in My wisdom, love and omnipotence. For this faith characterizes the place of peace. But it will be very little represented amongst humanity, and therefore a haven of peace will only rarely be able to arise, for humanity no longer recognizes Me and is distant from Me .... And where I Myself cannot dwell there is no peace, no happiness and no light .... And the world will continue to be in darkness and earthly hardship despite the end of a phase of battle which has brought bitter suffering upon people, for they themselves are unwilling to accept instructions from those who constantly draw wisdom from their bond with Me. And this is why the time of adversity is not over so quickly, even though the earthly battle is nearing its end. For I can only consider those who strive towards Me and create an easier existence for them. For the majority of humanity, however, earthly life will continue to be a difficult battle until they submit to Me and make My will their own ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Higher development .... construction - activity .... destruction reveals decline ....

B.D. 3424a from February 2nd 1945, taken from Book No. 44

A progressive development must also be recognizable, for it will always express itself in a constructive way, never in a destructive way. Whether we are dealing with works of creation in nature or with the results of human creativity, it will always be possible to determine a purely external progress, which is equal to a constructive activity. Where, on the other hand, destruction or annihilation become recognizable, spiritual decline can also be unhesitatingly concluded, but this is only possible in the human stage, whereas progress, i.e. upward development, can always be recorded in the works of creation in nature, because even the apparent destruction or annihilation, which was not brought about by human will, results in the emergence of new creations in a higher degree of maturity, thus purely externally progress can also be recognized. But the human being can also accomplish works which in no way signify a higher development, which never promote the development of the human being but rather disadvantage it. These are the works which lack all love, which, even if they seem to build up, only pursue the opposite .... to destroy or to support a general chaos. Accordingly, every work can be examined for its value before God, and afterwards the spiritual state of maturity can also be recognized and judged at any time. Everything a person does should be viewed under the mirror of neighbourly love .... it must serve fellow human beings or other creations for their preservation or reproduction, it must be active neighbourly love in the true sense of the word. And this will always mean spiritual higher development. But where neighbourly love is not practiced, people's works will also show decay or complete destruction and consequently not betray any spiritual progress either ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Higher development .... construction - activity .... destruction reveals decline ....

B.D. 3424b from February 2nd 1945, taken from Book No. 44

Spiritual progress is approaching God, it is reducing the distance from God .... but God is the creator and sustainer of all things, thus the being which approaches Him must also endeavour to preserve divine creations. But God's adversary strives for the destruction of God's created works, and if the human being offers his hand to do so, if he is destructively active under his influence, he is also in bondage to him; he likewise opposes God, and this is a great spiritual decline which, although not particularly deeply felt on earth, is nevertheless decisive for the whole of eternity. The ultimate purpose must always be the creation of a useful object, then the destruction of matter can also be right before God, thus it can be regarded as a work of construction, whereas every action against an already existing work of creation, which is undertaken unkindly and to the detriment of the neighbour, must be regarded as a work of destruction contrary to God. Spiritual progress, however, is only possible through works of love, by which everything is meant which is helpful to the neighbour, which therefore does not violate the commandment of love for God and neighbour. However, spiritual higher development is the only aim on earth, consequently the human being's activity must be a constructive one, earthly progress must also be recognizable, a constant reshaping of external forms, so that the spiritual being sheltered in them can continue its course of development. And this is also, so to speak, a building up, even if works of creation are destroyed, because they have to arise again and serve a specific purpose, thus the human being helps the spiritual in form to develop higher, and the human being himself matures in his soul the more love becomes active in him. However, people who are not active in any way in the transformation of matter will remain at a standstill, even if they don't express themselves destructively, because spiritual progress necessarily involves an activity of love and this will also be recognizable as building up ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spiritual working .... ability enhanced by will ....

B.D. 3425 from February 3rd 1945, taken from Book No. 44

The willingness to fulfil a spiritual task earns the human being increased abilities which, however, must first be trained. So the human being is not exceptionally predisposed as such, but through his will he increases certain spiritual dispositions himself and can now be instructed accordingly. His task first requires knowledge, into which he must therefore be slowly introduced. It also requires a lively intellectual activity in order to be able to reproduce the knowledge vividly, otherwise it cannot become effective. The human being himself must be completely permeated by the knowledge, thus he must first have made himself receptive to it through serious desire, and this required the will for truth. If these conditions are fulfilled then the human being will be seized by God's love, he will be instructed, his knowledge will constantly increase so that he will then have spiritual wealth at his disposal which will enable him to carry out the task he has been given for the time on earth if he voluntarily offers himself for it. Thus his ability does not depend on his natural disposition but his will alone is decisive as to whether this ability is developed in him. And thus every person can grow beyond his natural disposition if he declares himself willing to work as a labourer in the vineyard of the lord and contribute to the salvation of countless souls from spiritual darkness. This serious will can completely change a person by directing his thinking into completely new areas which were previously foreign to him. And this is already the working of God Who prepares him for his earthly task. The gift of intellect will be sharpened so that he will therefore also be able to vividly reproduce the knowledge he has received. He always has to be completely permeated by knowledge if he wants to pass it on to his fellow human being, because he also has to expect objections from him which he should refute, which he can only do if he has intellectually processed what he has received extraordinarily, thus through spiritual activity. But the fact that God's spirit can work in a human being is irrefutable, only this also presupposes conditions which the human being's will has to fulfil. And the first condition is unselfish loving activity .... Without this the spirit of God cannot become effective in the human being. But where love is practiced, understanding will also be shown towards the extraordinary working of the spirit, even if the person previously lacks knowledge of the spirit's strength. Hence, a person's degree of love determines his abilities, and every person can reach this degree if he seriously wants to, thus every person can also have extraordinary abilities at his disposal if he is extraordinarily lovingly active and voluntarily willing to fulfil a task which applies to his fellow human being's salvation .... he makes himself available to God as a labourer in the vineyard of the lord. Then he is trained by God Himself .... he is instructed in order to now also be able to work according to God's will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Urgency of spiritual work on earth ....

B.D. 3426 from February 4th 1945, taken from Book No. 44

Spiritual work should come before earthly activity. The human being must imagine how extremely necessary it is, how difficult it is for the spiritual kingdom to be spread on earth and that the actual purpose of earthly life is the spiritualization of the soul. And since people are too weak and unwilling to undertake this work themselves, they must be helped by those who recognize the meaning and purpose of earthly life and have successfully tackled the work of spiritualizing their soul themselves. They must also help those on the right path, they must try to increase the small spiritual kingdom on earth, they must only ever strive to bring people closer to God, they must promote His kingdom on earth and use every opportunity to do so. But there are only a few who want to work as labourers in the vineyard of the lord. And therefore their activity is so extremely important that it must not be fragmented or neglected through overzealous earthly activity. For many people can be found for the latter but not for spiritual activity, which remains incomprehensible to people as long as they do not strive spiritually themselves. God Himself instructs His workers to work for Him, and He promises them His constant protection .... He makes them capable for their work, He assigns them the field of work .... the hearts and minds of people who are not completely devoid of God's will. He uses His willing workers as instruments to speak through them to people whom He wants to save from spiritual adversity, from the distress of their souls. And He uses a mediator to conceal Himself in this in order not to curtail people's freedom of faith and will, which would endanger His directly spoken word. And therefore every servant in His vineyard is welcome to Him .... therefore He blesses everyone who makes himself available for this work, who is active for the salvation of the erring souls out of love for God and his fellow human beings, for the last time has come .... and every hour shall be used before the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Faithful prayer .... power of faith and prayer ....

B.D. 3427 from February 4th 1945, taken from Book No. 44

A believing prayer will work miracles if you send it up to Me in distress. And thus you have a means which banishes every adversity .... Why then should you still be timid? .... For I hear and listen to such a prayer because it is pleasing to Me. Believe in Me and in My love, believe in My omnipotence and call upon Me, and I will come to your aid, for I do not want you to suffer .... Yet I want to be recognized by you as the father of His children, and therefore I want you to trustingly come to Me with every worry so that I will take it away from you. For I have the power and also the will to do so, I can help you, and I want to help you as soon as you are not apostate to Me, as soon as you feel like My children and desire to come to the father. And you express this will through believing prayer .... Stand in profound faith and ask for My grace, for strength and help .... this is the state which is to be achieved on earth and which enables you to gain insight into the spiritual kingdom. But this state also earns you the fulfilment of your requests, for now you are such that I can call out to you: Ask and it shall be given you. I Myself have given you the promise and I will truly fulfil it if you pray to Me in the right way. But a right prayer should ascend to Me in childlike trust, you should not doubt for a moment that I will grant your request, you should imagine My greater than great love for you and rely on this love so firmly that it will not deny you anything. Yet your prayer should predominantly be for your soul's salvation and earthly only for the prevention of severe adversity, but you should never ask for futile things, for I will give you what you need for your earthly life if you seriously strive for My kingdom. But if you are in earthly distress then trustingly take refuge in My fatherly heart and I will banish all adversity. And thus you are never alone, never helpless and abandoned, for you always have prayer as soon as you believe. And a prayer coming from the heart will always please Me, and I will grant My help to the earthly child, often in a miraculous way, because nothing is impossible for Me and therefore I can also banish the most severe adversity if I thereby want to prove the strength of faith and prayer to a believing earthly child ....

Amen

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The right faith ....

B.D. 3428 from February 5th 1945, taken from Book No. 44

The right faith is able to put you into deepest inner peace, for then you carelessly leave everything to the lord and creator of heaven and earth, Who is your father from the very beginning. Anyone who calls a profound faith his own is also intimately united with Him, for believing in God also means striving towards Him in order to attain the closest proximity to the most perfect being. To believe in God also means to love Him from the bottom of the heart because the human being acknowledges Him as the most perfect being. And therefore the believing human being will also always receive strength from God and through this be placed into a state of calm and peace which is blissful for him, for now he no longer fears anything but trustingly surrenders himself to his father of eternity. The right faith will therefore not be easily shaken, it is of such strength that it will not waver even in the face of the greatest onslaught, for the believing person draws strength from God and therefore nothing will seem impracticable to him, nothing will seem impossible to him and he will master everything because the strength of faith is unlimited. For the believing human being does nothing on his own but everything with God, he always fetches the strength from the source, he makes use of it because through the intimate connection with God he feels like His child and therefore unhesitatingly accepts what he is offered. But only the believing human being establishes this intimate relationship with God, which also earns him an unlimited supply of strength. And if the human being now applies this strength there is nothing insurmountable for him anymore, he need not fear anything, for he is now master of every situation. However, the human being only attains profound faith through active love .... Without love he can indeed be faithful according to the word but he lacks the strength of faith, for this strength is only the result of loving activity .... So faith only comes alive through works. Without works faith is dead, i.e. without strength, it is not true faith full of conviction but only a learned knowledge of a God of love, omnipotence and wisdom which, however, can only be called faith when the human being is so convinced that he establishes the most intimate connection with Him and now also desires and receives His emanation of strength and then also uses it .... Then faith will come alive, its strength will express itself and the human being will be able to accomplish things which reveal divine activity, for it is the strength from God which now becomes active and which can be used by every person who has the right, living faith ....

Amen

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Blessings of spiritual work .... power supply ....

B.D. 3429 from February 6th 1945, taken from Book No. 44

This is the blessing of spiritual work, that the human being remains connected to God and is constantly a recipient of strength from God. The human being must constantly seek God, he must mentally join Him through prayer of the heart and through loving activity, then he will continue to be spiritually active for himself and for his fellow human beings, and then the strength from God will also continue to flow to him. Spiritual work presupposes love for God and for fellow human beings .... the human being recognizes his own and his fellow human beings' shortcomings, he recognizes God's perfection and seeks to bridge the gap between people and God because he loves God and also his fellow human beings who languish far from God. And every work which is based on love is blessed by God, thus He always supplies the human being with strength so that he can also carry out his soul's work. The person who unites himself with God in heartfelt prayer will never be powerless if this prayer is first meant for spiritual well-being, if the praying person wants to carry out the work for the kingdom of God and needs strength for this. Yet this supply of strength will also strengthen him for earthly work, it will make him able to meet every requirement, because spiritual work, work for the kingdom of God, always remains the actual activity and the human being will never be without strength for it. If the human being wants to be spiritually active, i.e. contribute towards the redemption of erring souls, then his life's fate will always be adapted to this work, i.e. everything that affects him earthly shall spur him on to increased spiritual striving and let him mature his own soul so that he can work all the more successfully on his fellow human being's soul. He will often have to travel his earthly path struggling but he will always have the strength to do so, because he can only achieve victory through struggle. And thus his path of earthly life will not be smooth and thornless. Yet a hand will always stretch out to him which will guide him over paths which are difficult to walk .... God's love will not let him stumble, again and again it will strengthen him and make him capable for every work he has to do on earth. And again and again it draws him to itself .... But whoever remains united with God's love will not be powerless forever, and everything he does, God does through him ....

Amen

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God is the word .... indestructibility of the work ....

B.D. 3430 from February 7th 1945, taken from Book No. 44

The gracious experience of a direct transmission of spiritual knowledge from the spiritual kingdom must not be underestimated. Although it is nothing special for the non-believer, the believer recognizes it, and thus he should also appreciate it and be aware of the extraordinary gift of grace which is offered to him by God directly or through mediators, i.e. recipients of the divine word. For the knowledge transmitted from the spiritual kingdom is God's word Who speaks directly or through beings of light to people on earth. But where God conveys His word to earth, there He Himself is, for He is the word .... And where He is, there the enemy is denied access .... This is to be understood spiritually as well as earthly. God's adversary has lost his power where God Himself can work in the human being through His spirit .... Therefore, the word conveyed to earth cannot fall prey to any earthly enemy because God does not allow Himself to be destroyed, because He Himself is the word and because every expression of God, the divine word, is an emanation of God's strength which can never be destroyed by human will. The recipient is not aware of the great grace in which he stands; he certainly accepts the word of God but he does not recognize God's working in all its depth, otherwise he would not be able to live for love of God Who so visibly expresses Himself. However, He does not let a work come into being without purpose and for no purpose which has Himself as its content, and therefore He will also create the possibility that the purpose of the work will be fulfilled, thus He will also protect His work from destruction, and everything that comes into contact with this work will also be protected, for the word originated from Him and is therefore indestructible. It contains strength and grace which radiates everywhere. Where His word is received with a loving heart the enemy has lost all power, and there the God-opposing power will never be able to lay a hand on this work, for God's power works in a wide circle and keeps everything hostile to God away. Yet people rarely recognize the profound value of divine revelations, and therefore they are often despondent when earthly adversity assails them. But they have protection against all enemies, they have the direct word of God which, in its abundance of grace, also includes the grace that an immense flow of strength emanates from it which is so strong that it turns away everything that is hostile towards the word or towards God's servants, because the word Itself ascended to earth, the eternal deity, Which can never ever be attacked and never ever be harmed or destroyed ....

Amen

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Comfort in need ....

B.D. 3431 from February 7th 1945, taken from Book No. 44

The adversity is great, and it will become even greater .... And yet you need not despair, for My hand reaches out everywhere to help, just as it also reaches out everywhere to chastise. I know every person's will, I know every person's heart, I know his love for Me and his neighbour, and I guide his fate accordingly. Never forget that you have a helper Who is always ready to prove His strength and power and love to you .... And therefore always and constantly turn to Me, call upon Me in your thoughts and thus profess Me in your heart .... then a protective wall of good spirits will surround you, who will look after you because I want it that way. Don't despair, no matter how much you appear to be threatened, nothing can happen to you if I spread My hand over you .... I grant My protection to all who fully submit themselves to Me, who take refuge in Me, driven by the love of the heart. I help you always and everywhere, even though the help is sometimes not soon recognizable to you, for My ways often deviate from yours but they rather lead to the aim. Therefore, look forward to the future without worry, for My love protects you ....

Amen

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God's word gift of grace .... grace and power ....

B.D. 3432 from February 7th 1945, taken from Book No. 44

Ask for My help, ask for strong faith, ask for the light and seek it in My word .... and you will not ask in vain, I Myself will come to you in the word and grant you My help .... I will make you happy and full of confidence, I will guide your thoughts into the right direction, I will remove all anxiety from you and provide you with strength and grace in constant care, thus I will faithfully guide you until the end of your life. You can achieve all this if only your will is turned towards Me, if you feel like My children and long for Me, your father. Then I will also take you to My heart as My children and look after and care for you, and you will want for nothing .... you will not be abandoned and despondent but in constant certainty that you will be cared for by Me you will look forward to what is to come with strength and undauntedness. You will then also make use of the strength which flows to you through My word, for since My word is a gift of grace from Me it must also make you happy, strength must flow directly from Me to you which beneficially affects your soul. But if the soul is happy it seeks to remain in the same state, thus to establish the constant connection with Me in order to constantly receive strength through My word. And then all timidity, all anxiety will depart from you, then you will stand strong in the midst of the dangers which threaten you from outside, you will no longer fear the world, you will not fear your spiritual enemy either, for you have found Me through the word, your fatherly friend and advisor, you are closely united with Me, you no longer listen to the world but only to My voice, you listen to My word and continuously receive grace and strength ....

Amen

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Cruel event .... promise .... help ....

B.D. 3433 from February 8th 1945, taken from Book No. 44

Great things are preparing and your heart will rejoice at the truth of My word, even though you will tremble at the cruel events which will now be revealed to the world. I initiate you into My plan by announcing to you that I Myself will now intervene before you, My believers, are drawn into this event .... Therefore hear My voice: You will escape all danger and yet be in great distress because everything around you is in turmoil. Yet you will live under My care as if on an island, and you will feel nothing of the goings-on of satan .... you will wait anxiously until help comes to you. For now disaster will befall people whose hearts are ruled by satan, who sacrifice the lives of countless people for their shameful plans and without mercy carry out a work of destruction which can only be ended by My intervention. Take this word of Mine for comfort .... I will save you from all adversity, therefore hope and wait and remain united with Me in prayer, and you will receive strength to persevere until help comes to you ....

Amen

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Divine creative power and creative will ....

B.D. 3434 from February 11th 1945, taken from Book No. 44

The earth in its composition bears witness to God's creative will, Who constantly radiates His strength and lets it gain form in His works of creation. Profound wisdom is recognizable to every human being who takes a closer look at these works, and as soon as he reflects on their meaning and purpose he also recognizes God's love. The fact that God manifests Himself in His works is evident from the fact that these works are indestructible in their spiritual substance .... that the form certainly changes before people's eyes but can never be completely destroyed according to its substance, because this strength is from God which never ceases to exist. But the process of change proceeds according to divine law as long as human will does not act against it. What has emerged from God will therefore always take on a different form as soon as it is visible to the human eye, but in its substance it will always remain the same .... Spiritual, thus strength from God, which, standing in different degrees of maturity, is always unconscious of itself, yet can be free or unfree. Originally this spiritual emerged freely from God and, because it was the emanation of Himself, was also highly perfect .... The fact that it became unfree was the result of the fact that it pushed away from God, that it distanced itself from God through its will .... Nevertheless, it remained strength from God, it could not detach itself eternally from the original source of eternal strength, it only became imperfect through its will. And that is why God constantly let works of creation come into being, He bound the strength in the form which His will gave to the spiritual as a law as a fetter .... which was now bound by it but did not cease to be ....

Divine creative power is everlasting, it is God's emanation and cannot be eternally destroyed what emanates from God, thus has its origin in Him. It is visibly expressed in earthly creations, but the visible again harbours invisible spiritual things which must also be recognized as God's emanation. God's will, wisdom and love are constantly active in order to guide the emanating and advancing strength back to Himself, which He can certainly do by virtue of His omnipotence but does not want to do because His infinite love prevents Him from making the originally free unfree. For bondage is the state of imperfection. But God in His perfection only wants to have perfection in His proximity .... Therefore He seeks to guide back to Himself that which has become imperfect through its own will, through its striving away from God, by binding it in order to cause it to voluntarily strive towards Him again .... And thus He binds it in the form, in the manifold works of creation, which His creative will always and constantly lets come into being; for since the strength can never ever be lost, there are only two possibilities .... ever greater distance from God and the resulting ineffectiveness or flooding back to the original power, which means highest effectiveness, which results in unlimited strength and power for the beingness, which can now create and shape like God, i.e. in the God-like will for its own unlimited bliss ....

Amen

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Divine love doctrine .... disregard .... suffering ....

B.D. 3435 from February 12th 1945, taken from Book No. 44

Be fearless and full of faith in My help .... I have given you a commandment that you should live in love, because you can only redeem yourselves through love. And the fulfilment of this commandment determines your whole earthly life, it determines your fate, because the maturing of your soul, which signifies redemption for you, depends solely on the working of love. As long as you still stay on earth you languish in the bondage of sin, in an unfree state which was the result of the past sin of apostasy from Me. And you shall return from this bondage into a state of freedom again, you shall cast off the shackles, for you are bound by your own will. And in order for you to become free I gave you the commandment of love, for only love is the means of redemption. Without the working of love you can never ever become free, happy beings, neither on earth nor in the beyond; but love breaks every bondage, every cover of your souls, love leads you back into the original state, into the state of fullness of power and strength, of God-like will and thereby of unlimited happiness. And therefore you should strive for nothing but a life of love on earth, you should live the life I have exemplified to you, you should constantly be active in unselfish neighbourly love and thus shape yourselves according to My will .... And since you are too weak, too ignorant and therefore blind in spirit, I have shown you the way .... I have given you the commandment of love, I have imparted My teaching to you which is intended for nothing other than to inspire you to live a life of love .... And I wanted to see this teaching of Mine spread throughout the world and therefore sent My disciples out into the world with the words: "Go and teach all nations ...." For there is no other solvent than love .... Yet My teaching remains unheeded, and because people do not shape themselves into love I have to afflict them with hardship and misery, with all kinds of tribulations, in order to influence them to act lovingly towards their neighbour and thereby prove their love for Me. I want to achieve nothing else than to educate people to love because they do not respect My word, My teaching of love, and live their lives in complete spiritual blindness. Thus the commandment of love is My commandment, it is given to people by Me so that they will become free, so that they will redeem themselves. Every other commandment which does not originate from the commandment of love is not from Me, for I do not command people but leave them complete freedom .... For I don't want to forcibly guide My living creations back to Me, I don't want them to lose perfection as a result, which can only be achieved in fullest freedom of will. But you humans often pay more attention to human commandments than to My commandment of love .... And therefore you are in constant danger of not making the right use of your life. And suffering and misery is therefore necessary again and again until you have shaped yourselves into love, until it is therefore your innermost motivation to give love to your neighbour. Only then can suffering subside, for then it will have fulfilled its purpose. You should never believe that I have set limits for you, for you can prove your love for Me and your neighbour to Me in a thousand ways. However, I don't pay attention to the works you perform under compulsion, because only love gives every action, every thought its inner value and I want to have proven love for Me through active neighbourly love. For words alone are worthless if they do not become deeds of their own free will. But anyone who makes an effort to follow Me, who takes the path of love and thereby strives to come closer to Me, will successfully cover his path of earthly life. I will come to meet him, I will be close to him, and he need fear nothing more on earth, neither suffering nor adversity, for if he unites with Me through love I will guide him on all paths and he will safely reach his aim ....

Amen

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Path to perfection .... earth .... beyond ....

B.D. 3436 from February 15th 1945, taken from Book No. 44

There is a long way to go until perfection for the spiritual, which has distanced itself so far from God that it has to cover this path in the bound state to approach God. However, it can shorten this path considerably through its willingness to comply with God's will, and this especially in the last stage as a human being, where it can also, in contrast to its embodiment before, bring its will to fruition. However, the last period of earthly life, life on earth as a human being, can bring the spiritual to the highest perfection if the human being's will is active itself, if he seriously strives to come close to God and does everything that earns him the final union with God. The opportunity to do so is offered to him but it is entirely up to him how he uses it. No external means can bring about this final perfection, but only a life of love for God and neighbour .... unselfish neighbourly love and constant desire for God, which the human being demonstrates through the former and through heartfelt prayer, through striving for perfection, through fulfilling the divine commandment of love and thus shaping himself into gentleness, peaceableness, patience, mercy and humility. Nothing else earns the human being spiritual progress, and if he does not seriously strive towards these aims then his path is very long until perfection, for then life on earth is not enough but he has to continue it in the beyond, however under far more difficult conditions ....

Then the soul has to travel a path of suffering in the beyond which is extremely difficult because it lacks the strength it had at its full disposal on earth. And in order to spare it this God gives it every opportunity to perfect itself while it is still on earth, and He helps where the human being does not seriously strive. And therefore the great suffering which is intended to change people into God-turned, loving beings .... God wants to shorten their path because He knows about the agonizing upward development in the beyond. Life on earth as a human being is so short compared to the infinitely long time before and also in the beyond that even an earthly existence filled with suffering is easy to name against it if the human being thereby reaches his final perfection .... to be able to enter eternity as a being of light. Earthly life is a short phase which the human being will look back on gratefully one day if it has helped him to transform his nature through suffering. But if the human being is active in love, that is, if he fulfils his actual task in life, then suffering will not oppress him so much, for then he will come closer to his aim, and he will not need the suffering means of education to the same extent as people who do not recognize God, who are far from Him because they live without love. And this explains the great suffering which is going over the earth, which seems unbearable for all those who are not God-connected and draw strength from this connection. It is still God's last means of mercy, Who can no longer change people in any other way because they are hard-hearted and do not want to bow down before Him. It is the only means which can determine them to voluntarily return to Him if they are thereby driven from within to prayer, thus they seek contact with God through hardship of their own accord. For God will not compulsorily direct people's mind to Himself, because then every becoming perfect would be excluded, for only striving of free will leads to this aim. But people's will is still too much turned away from God ....

And He seeks to transform this will through suffering .... If suffering brings about the change of will then the soul will have gained an unspeakable amount, for even the most severe suffering on earth can be called small compared to the suffering in the beyond, because earthly life is only a very short phase, whereas the state of suffering in the beyond can last for eternities if the soul is too weak or hardened of will. For its final aim always remains perfection, only this can take eternal times, but it can also be achieved in the short time of earthly life. And God constantly stands by the human being's side to help, and He seeks to stimulate him into the right use and, if he fails, to guide him onto the right path through painful events. And thus the time on earth always remains a time of grace because it enables the liberation from every form. But the human being will never be forcibly transferred into the state of perfection because this would be against God's order and could not result in anything perfect. And depending on the human being's will, which is turned towards or away from God, events will approach the human being. And therefore there will be suffering on earth as long as people's will is turned away from God and they do not change this will despite admonitions and warnings. Then God will resort to painful means to spare the souls the far more agonizing state in the beyond or to shorten it. For His love is eternally meant for His living creations, whom He wants to lead upwards, whom He wants to make happy with eternal life, whom He wants to receive into His kingdom as perfected ....

Amen

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Binding satan ....

B.D. 3437 from February 16th 1945, taken from Book No. 44

No power is so strong that it can resist Me if My will thinks of breaking it, for I am the lord over all and the kingdom of the one who is My adversary is also subject to Me .... If I nevertheless grant him a certain amount of power then only for the purpose of testing the resistance of the good. But if he abuses his power to the extent that he tries to destroy the good, then he will find resistance in My strength which will shatter his power. For I remain lord of heaven and earth for all eternity. I still let him rage for a little while, but the end of his power is near. I bring him down when he believes he is victorious; I bind him when he believes he has attained fullest freedom. But until then the world will still feel his power, that is, people will be under his furious influence and submit to him because they are still too distant from Me to turn to Me for help .... Yet I also send My angels across earth which testify to My strength and love, which assist My own in their adversity and help them to resist satan’s desires. I take an interest in the adversity of every individual and leave no-one without protection and support who strives towards Me, who belongs to My own, i.e. who believes in Me and desires Me. I provide them with guardians who take up the fight with the dark power if it tries to gain access to My own by force. And those have the strength from Me, they carry out My will. And therefore they will be victors and protect you from all harm. But it is My will that you humans recognize the strength that emanates from those who believe in Me and keep My commandments .... You shall recognize that My help is visible where My name is kept holy, where the intimate connection with Me is established and I am recognized and called upon as the lord of heaven and earth .... And you shall change and likewise strive towards Me alone, otherwise you will fall prey to My adversary's power from which I cannot rescue you because you yourselves grant him power over you. I help everyone who submits his will to Mine, but I also only help these. And therefore turn to Me of your own free will, call upon Me to rescue you from your adversity and I will break the power of him so that he can no longer oppress you. And you will recognize My might and praise and glorify Me as the only mighty lord and creator of heaven and earth ....

Amen

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God's mighty voice .... end phase ....

B.D. 3438 from February 16th 1945, taken from Book No. 44

The greatness and omnipotence of God will be revealed at a time when people are completely hopeless and lie deeply on the ground. For God wants to show Himself to all those who believe in Him but are too weak to represent their faith before the world. He wants to make Himself known to His own who fully trustingly wait for His help, and He also wants to awaken the unbelievers and still bring light to them in the darkness of spirit .... Therefore He reveals Himself loudly and audibly .... His voice sounds mightily and cannot be overheard, for He speaks to people through the forces of nature in such a way that everyone has to hear Him. Before that He gives free rein to people's will, He allows them to rage against each other and become true devils, yet He puts an end to their activity when they have confessed themselves to belong to satan through their works. The will of people themselves determines the time of His intervention and the adversity of His own will come to an end thereby .... But the world will follow a process and await its effect with horror .... but God will destroy one plan in order to carry out another one, because He wants to prove His omnipotence and His righteousness to those who believe in Him. Yet there is no end to the suffering and adversity, only that the believers are strengthened by God's intervention and fully trust God, i.e. they surrender their fate in the hope that God will give them the strength to endure whatever is imposed on them. And so world events will turn around and a completely different solution will surprise the people who survive it .... The hopeless will draw new hope again, the weary will gather strength and become active, and every person will be handed out according to his desire .... earthly and spiritual strength, and the ascent will also be accordingly .... Body and soul will seek their advantages, and blessed is he who uses this time for his soul's salvation. For now there is only a short time left until the end, and this time must be eagerly utilized by those who still have to record a low point which endangers their soul. Yet the believers must also call for much strength so that they will pass their last test of earthly life, so that they will stand firm and persevere until the end .... For the separation of spirits requires a new battle which is only about spiritual goods .... the battle against faith in Jesus Christ, the redeemer of the world .... And the last phase of this redemption period will be initiated by God's intervention .... He will reveal Himself to people through this, He will speak to them with a brazen voice, and blessed is he who hears this voice, understands it and lets it go to his heart .... blessed is he who pays attention to world events and tries to explain them to himself spiritually .... for God's language will be understandable to him, and he will remember his soul before the end ....

Amen

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Paradise of the new earth .... battle of light and darkness ....

B.D. 3439 from February 17th 1945, taken from Book No. 44

Only good proves itself in the final battle, for it is in direct contact with God and will therefore be able to resist until the end. Evil, however, leans towards God's adversary, is seized by him and pulled down into the depths of the abyss. This is the end of a redemption period and at the same time the beginning of a new one, so that the upward development of the unfree spiritual will continue in a new time epoch, which begins again with paradise on earth. For the good, which will emerge victorious from the last battle, i.e., those people who love God and their neighbour, will now reap the reward of their perseverance, their loyalty to God, by being granted an earthly life in deepest peace, where suffering and sorrow are banished and bliss has taken their place. In harmony of their souls they will live a life full of unity, they will give love to each other and therefore may constantly receive love from God, Who dwells amongst them as eternal love. They can no longer be harassed by the enemy of their souls, for he and his followers have been banished for a long time, and thus he can no longer exert any influence on people who live a God-bound life on the new earth. They know no fear, no doubt, for they stand in light, in knowledge, as a result of their life of love. And this state is a state of perfection which also secures their entry into the kingdom of light. But they are still given a time on earth because they are to form the stock for the new human race which is to enliven this new earth. And only good people can be the inhabitants of the new earth, for they have discarded all inclination towards matter because they have recognized God and love Him from the bottom of their hearts and consequently also know about their earthly task and their final aim. God can now approach them visibly and invisibly, He can constantly dwell amongst them in the word, He can instruct them and enlighten their spirit, for they do not oppose Him in any way through their will or thinking turned towards matter. And as long as this state exists among people on the new earth, as long as they draw strength and bliss from Him in heartfelt unity with God, it will also remain a paradise where blissful people live, who will be spared suffering and adversity. But even this state will experience a change, but only after a long time .... Then matter will exert its attraction on people again, who will become more lukewarm in their love for God .... And then people themselves will give God's adversary the right to oppress them, for by striving for matter they themselves turn to the one who is bound in matter. And he uses this, he always seeks to turn people's will more and more towards matter and to push it away from God. For the human being cannot strive for both at the same time .... He will always have to give up one for the sake of the other, and therein lies the danger that people will attach their heart to matter again and leave God. And the battle of light against darkness begins again .... The struggle of the forces turned away from God for power over people is beginning. But the beings of light also wrestle for their souls, yet the will of the human being himself will always decide which power gains the upper hand, until satan’s raging becomes evident again and the end of a redemption period has come once more ....

Amen

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Promise .... living water ....

B.D. 3440 from February 18th 1945, taken from Book No. 44

"He who believes in Me, out of his body will flow rivers of living water ...." I have given you this promise, and it is fulfilled to the letter. For My word is truth and will remain truth forever. And thus the believing human being must also be able to hear My voice within himself as soon as he persistently listens within, for My spirit is the spring from which living water flows .... the water which awakens life, My word, the source of eternal life .... The water flows unceasingly and will constantly give strength and life, it will flow to the human being from within, it will refresh and strengthen him for his earthly path of life, for it is the emanation of My eternal love, it is the source of strength, the bridge across the gulf from the human being to Me. All of you may draw from this source, all of you can shape yourselves such that streams of living water flow out of your body, yet you must deeply and steadfastly believe in Me and My working, you must shape your heart into love and make yourselves receptive, you must sharpen your spiritual ear and muster the will to persistently listen within, otherwise you will not be able to hear the subtle voice of the spirit. But as soon as you believe you also listen to its utterances, and then the well of life will be inexhaustible, you will unearth profoundest wisdom, and knowledge will make you happy because you recognize it as pure truth. For I give you My word, I Myself speak to you through the spiritual spark which is a part of Myself, which unites with the father-spirit and receives every expression of My love in order to convey it to your soul as soon as you want to hear it. My spirit is constantly active in you but whether you pay attention to its voice is up to you. And this is why only few hear My voice, because they ignore the delicious gift of grace, because they lack faith in Me and My love, which wants to give them fatherly consideration, and because they also lack the will to take a look into their heart, to stop and remove every obstacle so that the spirit in them can develop freely and make itself heard. My voice does not sound louder than the voice of the world .... who therefore wants to hear it must withdraw from the world and listen attentively within. But his perseverance will be deliciously rewarded, for the source of eternal life will open up for him and the living water will flow out of him unstoppably, My word, which is your comfort and strength and refreshment at all times .... My word, which is most precious to you because it brings eternal life to the one who accepts it and lives by it ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Strong faith, inner peace .... undaunted ....

B.D. 3441 from February 18th 1945, taken from Book No. 44

All misgivings should disappear and be replaced by strong faith, then deepest peace will enter the heart and the earthly hardship will be bearable. All of you who are anxious and anxiously looking forward to the future do not yet have strong faith because you are still weak in spirit. And this weak faith must still be strengthened through heartfelt prayer and its answer. As soon as you pray for help in your adversity God will also make Himself known, for He knows about your will to believe, He knows about your struggle for it in prayer. And He will hear you, He will reveal Himself to you if you are in great distress. For He wants to help you to become profoundly faithful for the sake of your fellow human beings, to whom you should still serve as an example. He who calls a deep faith his own is above everything that approaches him. He will master everything that is demanded of him and live in inner peace, for he knows that he is never alone but always accompanied by the heavenly father, and that nothing can happen to him that God does not want .... but that everything also has to happen as God wants it. And he trusts in the heavenly father’s love which protects him from adversity and misery unless it is absolutely necessary for his soul's salvation. But the believing person also seeks to live according to God's pleasure. He seeks to ennoble his soul and therefore he does not fear suffering but trusts in divine love. And divine love must be thought of first if the human being wants to attain profound faith. The father’s heartfelt love embraces everything that has emerged from it and never ever wants to abandon it to ruin .... And the human being must be fully convinced of this heartfelt fatherly love, then he will also unhesitatingly place himself under divine protection, always hoping that God will keep everything difficult away from him because He loves him. And as soon as the human being can muster this complete trust his faith is strong, and then God will not disappoint him but He will grant him every request .... And it can fearlessly await the earthly child every day, He will only bring it what is necessary for its salvation of soul .... and the less suffering the more profoundly the child trusts in the father’s help ....

Amen

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Light beings .... direct call of God ....

B.D. 3442 from February 19th 1945, taken from Book No. 44

All beings of light are the servant spirits of God .... they are the executors of divine will, they are the messengers who convey strength and light to people on earth as well as to the still immature souls in the spiritual kingdom. They stand in love and therefore take hold of everything in need of help as soon as this is God's will. For their actions are also subject to divine law, which underlies the maturing of the still immature spiritual. The love of the beings of light is so great that they would truly leave nothing in need if God did not set a limit for them. And this barrier determines the will of the human being on earth as well as of the soul in the beyond itself. Every thought turned towards God and every appeal to Him or the beings of light for help breaks down this barrier, for now they are allowed to be active according to their will, which is also God's will. They constantly receive strength from God, thus they are powerful and can therefore provide all kinds of help to the asking and calling beings, they can protect the human being on earth, they can instruct him and guide him onto the right path, they can alleviate hardship, but they can also guide the human being into difficult situations in life if he needs them for the sake of his soul. Every thought turned towards God gives them this opportunity, for now they are also handed over by God to the care of those beings of light who are only ever the executors of divine will, whom God lets become active for their own happiness. For the spiritual being full of light has already found unity with Him and works and creates out of His strength in His will. Therefore it is always enough to pray to God for help in adversity, so that His messengers will also be active and look after and protect the earthly child. And likewise, every good thought sent into the spiritual kingdom establishes contact with those beings which use every opportunity to carry out their actual mission, to convey illuminating thoughts to people, to teach them to pray correctly, to increase their desire for God, to stimulate them into loving activity and thus to constantly take care of people in a redeeming sense who are turned towards them through prayer and good thoughts .... The human being is always surrounded by these beings of light, yet they remain completely ineffective if he does not establish a connection with them, if he does not believe in their existence and their strength, thus if he does not consciously hand himself over to them with the request for their care and support. For according to divine law they are prevented from coming to the human being's aid without being called, since this help would not result in spiritual success but would deprive him of the opportunity to approach God for help from within, thus to establish the connection with Him which is the prerequisite for receiving strength to mature spiritually. Establishing the connection with God is so extremely important that every opportunity to do so should be used, and therefore the path to Him should be taken directly, for He Himself gave people prayer as a bridge to Him which they can always and everywhere use .... Prayer is God's grace through which He makes Himself accessible to every human being, and this grace should be used, for it results in an inestimable influx of strength which is conveyed to people again through His messengers according to His will. People can draw from this source of grace, for they will never unsuccessfully call upon Him, even if they don't immediately experience earthly success. Yet the soul will never go empty-handed, because every call from God gives innumerable beings of light permission to be active in loving care, and the human being thereby matures spiritually. For God and the spiritual beings of light are one .... what God wants is carried out by His angels, and the human being can constantly know that he is protected and cared for if he sincerely calls upon God for help and sends his thoughts into the spiritual kingdom ....

Amen

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Personification of God ....

B.D. 3443 from February 22nd 1945, taken from Book No. 44

The belief in a spiritually tangible Deity by no means implies a personified Deity, for this reason the human being should not have a narrow idea of God, Who is omnipresent and beyond time and space. He permeates everything with His spirit, the whole universe, the whole spiritual kingdom .... and therefore He is not conceivable as a person who, according to human comprehension, is spatially limited. Instead, a personification of God must be completely avoided if the human being wants to come anywhere near visualising God as the highest and most perfect Being of God. God has indeed made Himself visible to His living creations in a human form by permeating Jesus' body with His Divinity and showed Himself in His transfigured state to people, so that they were able to visualise the eternal Deity in Jesus Christ. Yet once the soul has discarded its body and enters the kingdom of light it will realise that the eternal Deity can never be grasped by human intellect and that the embodiment in Jesus Christ was intended to awaken or strengthen the belief in a spiritually tangible Deity in people during their earthly life, otherwise they would find it difficult to have faith which, however, it is necessary to have in order to establish a connection with God through prayer ....

Thus the eternal Deity became visible to people in Jesus Christ and in merciful love It tries to make Itself accessible to people in order to encourage them in establishing their contact with Itself. Jesus Christ was the form which sheltered the eternal Deity for the people on earth .... In the spiritual kingdom the same form will be spiritually visible by those beings which have attained the degree of maturity that enables them to behold God .... But this spiritually tangible Deity is present everywhere and therefore never expended in a limited form. Hence It cannot be addressed as a personal Deity either, because this concept is only used for earthly life, for the human being himself who, as an isolated individual being within the universe, claims for himself the acknowledgment of being a personality, thus a person always has to be understood to be a human creature. That this concept can never be applied to the eternal Deity is due to the fact that God is a spirit .... but the spirit is never something restricted, something bound in a form, once it is perfect. The supreme Perfection is therefore limitless beyond all comprehension and permeates the whole of infinity; it is omnipresent because its fundamental substance is love which likewise is not restricted and therefore also not conceivable as a form. The human being's intellectual capacity is limited, he is unable to visualise anything but earthly things as long as he is still spiritually unenlightened. And therefore he tries to imagine the eternal Deity as a person as soon as he believes in a spiritually tangible God, in a God to Whom he can pray.

And God accommodated this purely human desire by embodying Himself in Jesus Christ, that is, by demonstrating how a human being living a God-pleasing life can unite with God on earth and thus become as one with Him .... He wanted to show people the path to achieve the final goal, the total unification with God. The emanation of the Divine Being completely permeated the man Jesus, consequently only the external frame, the physical form, was human, but His soul and spirit were divine, they had entirely united with God again from Whom they had come forth. Yet the eternal Deity did not expend Itself, because it is impossible for the most perfect Being ever to be limited within a form. Nevertheless the eternal Deity is something spiritually tangible, that is, it is spiritual strength which has to be granted will and faculty of thought, thus existing as a being with Whom the human being can also make heartfelt contact by using his will and his thoughts. For the human being's will and thoughts are not tied to the external form either but are part of the spiritual essence which is embodied in the human form. Once the physical shell falls away, the soul, the spiritually tangible being, remains capable of thinking and wanting, but according to its state of maturity the ability can merely be weaker or stronger, whereas the eternal Deity, as the most perfect Being, executes Its will and Its thoughts in profound wisdom and inconceivable strength.

The human physical form is just the means to an end for the duration of his earthly life. Yet anyone believing in the immortality of the soul will also understand that the external form, the person, will not be required for the soul's continued existence. Nevertheless, the soul remains conscious of itself as an individual being, even when it has joined equally mature souls .... just as the eternal Deity will likewise remain the highest and most perfect Being for the most elevated beings of light which have entered into union with It .... which are totally united with God and yet are inexpressibly happy in their own existence because they always and forever receive and feel God's strength of love Who, as eternal Father, is in intimate contact with them ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Strong faith .... tool of God ....

B.D. 3444 from February 22nd 1945, taken from Book No. 44

You will still often find yourselves in adversity but you need never despair, for if you don't abandon Me I will never abandon you either. There is still no standstill but a constant decline, for people do not find their way to Me except for a few who recognize Me and are united with Me. And to these I call: Bear the adversity of the time for the sake of others who do not yet know that their souls are in danger. Because of them the adversity which also affects you and makes you despondent cannot yet be ended. But you always have a helper by your side and every disaster will pass you by if you believe and take refuge in Me in your adversity. And I will guide you through all dangers, but you must stand firm and remain strong in faith, for you shall be an example to others, a support on which they can lift themselves up when they are pressed to the ground by suffering. Stay strong and be My helpers on earth, for I need you to prove the strength of faith to your fellow human beings, to point them to Me, to teach them to raise their hands to Me in supplication and to approach Me for help. You should instruct them in My stead, because I cannot speak to them Myself in order not to force them into faith .... You shall speak for Me, and you can only do so if you are profoundly devout yourselves and don't let anything make you waver in your faith. You will always have the opportunity to work for Me, you will always encounter needy, desperate people whom you can help onto the right path .... and whom you should draw to Me and My working, to My love which, for the sake of erring souls, lets great adversity come upon people .... They shall become believers through you, they shall recognize by your calmness and inner peace what strength lies in the right faith, and they shall seek to gain this faith .... But you must first be strong in faith yourselves or you will not be able to stand up for it with conviction. And therefore persevere in prayer for the strength of faith, take refuge in Me in every adversity of body and soul and recognize My help if I avert the adversity from you .... I want to make strong instruments out of you for the coming time, and thus I must place you in situations where you are to prove your faith in Me .... where you intimately pray to Me and visibly find an answer .... For I need you, I need people on earth who are so deeply permeated by their faith in Me that they no longer shy away from any danger, that they feel Me as present everywhere and cannot be shaken by anything. For they shall fight for Me in the coming time, and this requires courage and strength which they can only gain through profound faith. You humans don't know what you are capable of through profound faith .... how mighty and powerful you can be if this faith is inherent in you .... And therefore no earthly adversity shall frighten you, for your faith can banish it at any time .... Ask Me and wait for My help in the firm confidence that I will help you, and let go of all worries, for I will take care of you if you entrust yourselves to Me with complete faith. For if you carry Me in your heart through your will, which is for Me, you are My children, and I will not abandon them forever .... and I will protect them in every adversity of body and soul ....

Amen

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"He who believes in Me ...." graces of the work of redemption ....

B.D. 3445 from February 23rd 1945, taken from Book No. 44

To request the graces of the work of redemption is the order of the day. For now it will be proven how much stronger the will of the person can be who asks for strength and grace for the sake of Jesus Christ's death. Jesus Christ died the most painful death on the cross in order to spare people suffering. He took people's suffering upon His shoulders, He carried the cross for them, and consequently people can be spared suffering if they faithfully place themselves under Christ's cross, if they call upon Jesus Christ for His assistance that He may take their burden from them and carry it in their place. And the human being will be strengthened after this call, for the divine redeemer Himself imparts the strength to him as grace of His act of salvation. And his will will grow stronger, every anxiety will leave him, he will strive upwards with increased strength and earthly suffering will hardly touch him because Jesus Christ will help him to bear it. Yet how few call upon Him for help .... how few have faith in Him and His act of salvation, and how rarely are the blessings of the act of salvation requested and thus consciously received .... They call upon God but do not acknowledge Him in Jesus Christ, and therefore the suffering on earth has reached a level which seems to be overflowing .... And people have to bear it themselves. They have to take it upon themselves because they don't believe in Him .... And this is why the hardship is so great and humanity is weak-willed because it goes its way without Jesus Christ and therefore, as tremendously burdened, has to go through great purification suffering.

God wants to give people the opportunity to recognize Jesus Christ while they are still on earth by letting them take the path to Golgotha Himself, which is to melt their soul shell, which is to ignite the spark of love in them so that they will now also take the path of following Jesus and get to know Him as the redeemer of the world. And if the suffering only helps them to achieve the aim that they will not reject Jesus Christ at the end of their days, then they will have gained much, and one day they will be grateful and also bless the suffering which has brought them this realization. Yet they can only reduce it on earth if they deeply believe in Him and ask Him to help them carry the cross .... His confessors, however, will lose all weakness of will, they will go through the time of suffering undaunted, for they draw strength from Him, they make use of the blessings of the act of salvation, and thus they will no longer lack the strength by means of which they will master everything the world demands of them and will not be depressed by suffering either. For Jesus Christ bears the suffering for them, He died for the sins of humanity, and thus He also took the punishments of sin upon His shoulders .... And the human being can emerge from his earthly life purified if only he asks for forgiveness of sins in profound faith in Him .... He does not need the means of purification, suffering .... whereas unbelieving people can only be saved through suffering if they are not completely hardened in spirit. The graces of the act of salvation are available to the human being without limit and he can always and constantly request them. Yet they remain ineffective on those who reject Jesus Christ, and their earthly fate is truly not easy, since it is the time of the end which has to be utilized if the souls are still to be saved. Anyone who believes in Jesus Christ does not know that he is lost, for he takes refuge on the cross in every adversity .... And he will not ask in vain. His suffering will be bearable, his will will be strengthened and his strength to overcome every spiritual and physical adversity will be increased, and he will pass his battle of life and his earthly path will be successful .... he will mature spiritually and gain eternal life .... For Jesus Christ Himself has given him the promise: "He who believes in Me shall not die but have eternal life ...."

Amen

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Participation in the work of redemption ....

B.D. 3446 from February 24th 1945, taken from Book No. 44

Through spiritually mature beings in the flesh on earth or in the transfigured body in the beyond the divine will is proclaimed to the immature spiritual being, and this is the participation in Christ's act of salvation, that the imperfect being is informed of the divine teaching of love in which His will is clearly expressed. In order to be able to mature spiritually, the immature spiritual being has to be led to the recognition of truth, and depending on its attitude towards it, it either follows the path of higher development or it remains on the same level with the danger of regressive development. And therefore it is the most important and most beautiful task on earth as well as in the beyond to help this immature spiritual being to ascend spiritually. For the immature spiritual is bound and therefore in a state which is lightless and agonizing and which therefore should be changed into a free, blissful state. And therefore the spiritual, which has shaped itself into love, will always participate in redeeming the lightless, bound spiritual. It will participate in Christ's work of redemption because it stands in love .... and its love expresses itself by seeking to bring light to the lightless .... Only when the being knows about God's will does it begin to let its will become active, i.e., to fulfil the divine will or to neglect to do so or to act against it. For its own will must first become active .... the being must want to let itself be redeemed .... The imparting of divine will is therefore a task which is extremely significant and constantly requires willing forces. This applies in particular to the redeeming activity on earth, which has to be carried out by people so that free will is not impaired .... The gospel has to be brought to people, i.e. God's will has to be announced to them and the divine teaching of love has to be preached to them, so that they will thereby try to redeem themselves through love. And thus they have to be introduced to the truth by knowledgeable people who instruct them out of pure neighbourly love. And this activity again requires the cooperation of the beings of light of the spiritual kingdom, for through them the teaching human being first has to receive his knowledge so that truly divine wisdom can be imparted, which alone can accomplish the souls' redemption. Only he who has the truth walks the right path to final freedom .... only he who has the truth can pass it on; and thus bearers of truth must be constantly active, both in the spiritual kingdom as well as on earth, so that the ignorant spiritual beings will be guided into knowledge and thereby learn to love God and fulfil His commandments .... But since the redemption of the bound spirits is the purpose and aim of earthly life as well as of the whole of creation, it is also understandable that every redemptive activity is also blessed by God, that it meets with God's full approval and that every person on earth who is willing to be of service is a welcome worker to God whom He provides with all gifts he needs for his work. For his will to participate in the act of salvation also makes him suitable for His work. He will always place himself at the disposal of the bearers of truth of the spiritual kingdom, who now transfer their rich knowledge to him and thus make him able to be active on earth in a teaching capacity, thus to have a redeeming effect. For as soon as truth is spread on earth the state of darkness is also broken, the spiritual night is illuminated by a light which cannot be extinguished because it shines down to earth from the heavens. And anyone who enters the light will also be enlightened in spirit, ignorance will give way to bright realization, and the knowledge which fellow human beings now receive, if they are willing to receive it, will stimulate them to start the redeeming activity in themselves .... They will endeavour to fulfil the divine commandment of love and thereby become increasingly freer and more permeated by light .... The ignorant state will change, and the light of truth will kindle ever hotter love for God which impels the human being to be lovingly active towards all God's creatures. And he will become free from bondage, he will strive towards God and detach himself from His opposing power .... He will likewise take part in the work of redemption, for once he has become love, everything that is unfree and enslaved will last for him and he will seek to bring help to it .... And every redeeming activity will bless God, both on earth and in the beyond ....

Amen

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Harvest time .... wheat and chaff ....

B.D. 3447 from February 25th 1945, taken from Book No. 44

The spiritual turning point is imminent .... The spiritual low will be replaced by a state of highest maturity of people on earth, and therefore a separation of spirits has to take place first, so that the chaff will be separated from the wheat .... So the time of harvest has come, for which many reapers are needed, many labourers who are active in the field of God to gather and to gather the fruit into the granaries .... to look after all ripe spiritual things until the end, when the l3ord Himself will come to bring His flock home to reap the harvest on earth on the last day. And tremendous activity will begin during this time; all God's labourers on earth and in the spiritual kingdom will endeavour to make the last harvest a rich one, to bring forth good fruit from every sowing; they will be diligently active in order to still awaken people in the last days, in order to remedy their spiritual low and to induce them to strive upwards .... For time is short and the end cannot be postponed. The will of men itself draws it forth, which constantly strives towards the depth and therefore determines the divine will to bind the former. And no matter how eagerly the spiritual work for the salvation of the erring souls is carried out, it will not result in great successes; yet it is done for the sake of the few who allow themselves to be saved and for the sake of the elect, the faithful to God, who need exceedingly strong help which is offered to them from the spiritual side. And therefore the last days should be used, for they will soon be over .... spiritual work shall always and everywhere be done, earthly events shall not be taken into account as much as the souls' state of maturity, and all spiritual help shall be granted to them so that at the end of days they can be counted amongst those who are on the side of the God-faithful, who strive upwards and whom God will fetch home from utmost adversity .... who, as spiritually mature people, shall enliven the new earth and thus be separated as wheat from the chaff .... For the time of harvest has come, as it is proclaimed in word and scripture ....

Amen

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God's Word provides comfort and strength in greatest need ....

B.D. 3448 from February 25th 1945, taken from Book No. 44

During fearful hours, when you believe to be cut off from the world and are only able to communicate with God in prayer, you will discover the strength and grace emanating from the Word which God's love sends to earth .... Then He will speak to you in His love and give you strength, He will care and provide for you and His Word will be ample food and drink until you receive help. No human being can give you the comfort which flows from His Word because you feel that He Himself is close to you in His Word and faithfully entrust yourselves to Him. And when you hear His Word your fear will leave you, His love will speak to you, His Fatherly hand will take hold of you and never let you fall again .... His Word is mild and kind, it gives you hope and you know it is truth, and thus all dread and worry comes to an end because you now have complete faith in Him.

The greater your earthly need the closer God is to you, if only you call upon Him ....He will not leave you and conveys this in His Word which you, if you wish, may always hear directly or through mediators. Indeed, God will gladly fulfil this desire, He will not leave you without spiritual nourishment, He will not seal the well of living water .... He will protect it from destruction, He will not allow human will to obscure it, He will not allow the well to run dry which His great merciful love had opened for you who are hungry and thirsty, who suffer distress of body and soul and long for refreshment. And thus God Himself descends to earth in His Word to His Own when people prevent all access to you .... then He will be with you and you may receive precious gifts from His Fatherly hand, you will be strengthened in body and soul, and when you have abandoned all earthly hope and only give yourselves to God, He will take your fate into His hands Himself and deliver you from all danger .... because His love embraces you and all those who seek refuge with Him in prayer ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Indestructibility of that which is to act as a force ....

B.D. 3449 from February 27th 1945, taken from Book No. 44

Take this and write it deeply in your memory: No power in the world is able to assert itself if its aim is to render the divine expression of strength ineffective, for the spiritual, which stays close to earth in an immature state and is still opposed to God, gives up its resistance the moment it is touched by divine strength and completely submits to God's will, so that even there the effectiveness of that strength can still be ascertained where the spiritual, which is opposed to God, apparently has the upper hand. Thus no opposing power can measure up to God's power, which means that God's power will always penetrate, even if this seems impossible. The more highly developed the human being is, the more understandable this is to him and the more he trusts in God's omnipotence, which accomplishes everything, because God's power cannot be eternally deprived of its effectiveness. And thus, through this realization, he attains profound faith. A divine expression of strength, once it has taken on form, can never dissolve into nothing .... it can only become invisible to the human eye as soon as God has assigned the form the purpose of serving as an envelope for the spiritual striving upwards. Then a constant becoming and passing away can be observed .... Then every form dissolves again and again, but in order to continue in another form, so that it helps the spiritual in it to serve, thus to constantly develop higher .... But it is different if the divine strength is to become directly effective in the human being and thus expresses itself in a form which is to be a constant source of strength for him. Then this will not require the form to become and pass away but for it to remain as a source of strength, as a vessel from which strength can be drawn at any time and which therefore will not dissolve until God Himself withdraws His strength .... until the form has fulfilled its purpose .... And this again is determined by God's wisdom and love at its discretion. But God's expression of strength is of such immeasurable value for people that He will truly not withdraw the strength from them at a time when it is extraordinarily urgently needed. Therefore He has provided receptacles everywhere into which His strength inexorably overflows so that it can be taken by anyone who desires it. Only where it remains completely unused will no effect be felt; nevertheless, the fountain will remain, the vessel which contains the strength will be preserved by invisible forces, for opposing forces cannot penetrate an area which is filled with God's strength. Neither God-opposing people nor spiritual forces will find access, however, a ray of light will penetrate the one who desires the strength of God in his desire for truth .... And this ray of light will shine for him so that he will also discover the source and be able to refresh himself from it. For it is God's will that what flows forth from Him as word is indestructible, offered to people to strengthen them in times of greatest adversity .... so that it does not take the course of disintegration which is granted to all earthly matter .... For it flows out of the spiritual kingdom, is spiritual strength and aims at the spiritual development of the human being .... It is conveyed to earth through the spirit in the human being who received it from the father-spirit, and truly nothing will pass away which has its origin in God and which is intended to lead people back to God who are still weak in spirit and no longer recognize God .... Truly nothing will pass away which guides God's infinite love to earth in order to gain His children through it and make them eternally blissful ....

Amen

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Free will .... fatherly love ....

B.D. 3450 from February 27th 1945, taken from Book No. 44

I do not command the human being's will but leave him his freedom .... Yet I will call and pull My living creations as long as they walk the earth as human beings in order to gain their will for eternity. And so it is now up to the human being himself whether he comes to Me voluntarily and does not need My gentle pressure .... whether he submits to the gentle pressure or resists, so that I have to guide and direct him more tangibly .... towards Me .... It is up to him which relationship he establishes with Me, whether he feels My gentle fatherly hand or I have to intervene educationally in harshness and severity. Only love for My living creations ever determines Me to treat them as they need it in order not to get lost forever. Yet they themselves will feel little of My love as soon as they still resist Me and thereby force Me to use means in which they do not see fatherly love. And yet it is love .... And every kindness towards them, every granting of earthly requests for the body's well-being would be unkindness from Me, because it would cause the souls' ruin. Earthly life passes quickly and every day should be used for the souls' maturing. And therefore the human being's free will has to be active. But they usually use it wrongly, they don't turn this will towards Me but towards the world, which is My adversary's kingdom. But I do not force the will .... And thus I have to show people the transience of the world, I have to deprive them of earthly pleasures in order to show them how wrongly the will is directed. I must put another aim before their eyes .... I have to make imperishable wealth accessible to them so that their will will strive towards it and therefore towards Me Myself, Who can give them imperishable wealth, spiritual goods, if they desire them. And therefore earthly matter must approach dissolution. People have to separate themselves from it in order to more easily recognize and desire spiritual possessions. Thus I must try to change their will so that it will strive towards Me in fullest freedom, as is the human being's aim on earth. And the more desirously the human being's heart clings to matter the more painfully My loving father’s hand will strike him, which will take from him in order to give far better things back to him if he is willing to accept My gift. Yet it is the apparent calamity which strikes people, a helping hand for their souls, which now have to part with what they do not voluntarily give away .... I painfully intervene in people's lives but only in order to save their souls, that they should recognize how futile earthly matter is, that they should look for more valuable possessions which they will find more easily if they are not captivated by earthly things. For My love recognizes the right means and applies them .... Yet it is always left up to people whether they make use of My love, whether they want to let themselves be guided by My hand which safely leads them towards the aim .... For I certainly direct their will but I do not force it .... The human being's will is free because without freedom of will he can never become perfect ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Revelation through the word of God ....

B.D. 3451 from February 28th 1945, taken from Book No. 44

I remember My own at every hour .... And I reveal Myself to them through the word, which is conveyed to them partly mentally and partly through mediators who have received it directly from Me. And thus they will also be able to overcome the great time of adversity because I impart the strength to them through My word, which is the outpouring of My eternal love and which therefore will always be a source of grace for the human being from which he draws strength and fortitude in every adversity. Through My word people are in closest contact with Me, it is the sign to them that I hear their appeal when they are allowed to receive My word directly or through messengers. For with My word I am with them Myself, and in My presence they need not fear anything, they need not fear for their bodies and souls. For I protect both as soon as I am with them in the word. But they must also recognize My word as such, they must recognize Me Myself in it, then they will also be under My protection and strength and grace will flow over them in abundance. But My own believe in Me, they believe in My love and thus also that this love manifests itself in the word .... And thus they acknowledge Me Myself in the word and consciously place themselves under My protection. But anyone who is timid and unbelieving will not be able to feel the strength of the word in the same way, for My strength of love only flows into a heart which is completely open to Me, and this opening of the heart requires profound faith in Me and My love. My word never loses its effectiveness, yet the latter depends on the human being's own will, on how he attunes himself to Me, the eternal love. If his heart is capable and willing to love then he will also unconsciously make contact with Me in order to slowly come to realization and now consciously strive towards Me. And then he will also be able to believe and understand My working, My care for people, which is expressed in the transmission of My word .... And if he seeks the reason in My love he will also recognize My word as the outpouring of My love .... and then he will belong to My own who will draw strength from My word in abundance. And I will reveal Myself to all who, believing in Me and My love, desire My word .... I will guide their thinking towards the truth, I will convey My word to them through messengers if they are unable to hear it themselves through the inner voice, and I will give My servants on earth increased ability to hear the voice of the spirit within themselves. I will be with people in the word at all times so that the coming adversity will not depress them, so that they will draw strength to resist from it, so that they will send their spirit to Me and not be drawn down by the forces of darkness .... For My word is the strongest weapon against them, for it teaches people love, it makes My will known to them .... And where love is practiced, thus My will is carried out, there the forces of darkness are powerless, there the soul strives towards Me .... and My love takes hold of it and never lets it fall again .... And therefore hear My word and you will overcome all adversity and persevere until the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Vocation of the servants of God .... office - power ....

B.D. 3452 from March 1st 1945, taken from Book No. 44

To whom God gives an office, He also gives the strength to administer it ..... And if a person is destined to spread the word of God, strength will always and everywhere flow to him from God so that he can fulfil his task. For this ministry is the most important on earth, after all, it involves saving countless souls from eternal ruin. And therefore God will also choose suitable people for this office, He will call them to be His servants, His labourers, who are to work for the kingdom of God. Power and grace will constantly flow to them as long as they are willing to work on earth as God's servants and if they have the calling from God Himself. But this is the prerequisite for His working to be successful, for only those who are called by God live in the full truth, because they are able to receive it, and because only this ability is the reason to be called by God for an office on earth which strives to spread His word. And this must be well observed, for God will distribute His strength where it applies to spreading the pure, unadulterated truth .... But spiritual strength will never flow to those who are in error, even if they believe themselves to be in truth. Then they will only use the vitality every human being has at his disposal but they will lack spiritual strength. And they will never be called by God, instead they can only attain this calling if they fulfil all prerequisites themselves, so that spiritual strength flows to them, so that they thus become suitable for work for the kingdom of God. And thus they have to establish the connection with God so intimately through an unselfish life of love that they become enlightened by God's spirit and are now able to distinguish error from truth, declare war on the former and are now ready to stand up for the pure truth before the whole world. Only then will God call them to be His servants, only then will they be capable labourers in the vineyard of the lord and then also always receive the strength to administer their ministry on earth. Yet as long as they are still under the spell of error, as long as they do not free themselves from it, they lack the ability to be proclaimers of the divine word. The human being's will, his activity of love and his desire for the pure truth is always the prerequisite for an activity on earth which aims at the salvation of erring souls. But since this activity is extremely important God again and again awakens people in all circles who, out of love for Him and their fellow human beings, offer their services to Him, and as soon as the human being is willing to work for the kingdom of God he will also be trained for this work, providing he shapes himself such that he can hear the voice of the spirit within himself, because otherwise the pure truth from God cannot be conveyed to him. And as soon as the human being hears this voice within himself he is also called by God to be active for Him on earth. He will know the truth and also have the gift to pass it on in an understandable way; he will be guided by God's will, he will be assigned a field of work and will never lack the strength for uninterrupted activity for the kingdom of God, for he is now a servant of God who is equipped by his lord with everything he needs for his service ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers