New Revelation recieved by Bertha Dudde

Proclamations No. 4420 - 4547

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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

4420 - Christianity - name-christians - act - incarnation of God....

4421 - Spiritual arrogance of the leaders....

4422 - Debates.... objections.... opposing attitude.... God's work....

4423 - Effect of the divine word.... influx of power.... exhortation....

4424 - Battle of God and satan for souls of men.... lure....

4425 - Reference to natural disaster, destruction and living situation after....

4426 - The earthly kingdom and its rulers.... earthly fulfilment of duty - spiritual work....

4427 - Right and false representatives.... "He who hears My servants hears Me...."

4428 - Crossroads.... tests of the faithful.... inner conflicts....

4429 - Antichrist.... Brutal laws....

4430 - Value of spiritual teachings....

4431 - Reference to spiritual convulsion (Rome?).... right church of Christ....

4432 - Judgment day.... closed gates to the afterlife....

4433 - Final battle.... Frankly professing Christ before the world.....

4434 - Ability of God's servants to see through people.... sharp judgement....

4435 - Justification of the extraordinary work of God.... spiritual wealth....

4436 - Relinquishing the world.... Fulfilment of earthly duties and the blessing of God....

4437 - Disciples of the end time.... earthly relationship.... God's worry about family....

4438 - Demonic influence on light bearers.... fight against truth....

4439 - Thought material.... emanations of spiritual beings.... will-o'-the-wisp....

4440 - Purpose of divine revelations....

4441 - Extent of the work of destruction....

4442 - God's blessing and protection to the co-workers....

4443 - Presentation of the divine word great help....

4444 - (Can God suffer?) Love of God....

4445 - God's will - human will.... free will....

4446 - Right teacher.... God as teacher.... school of the spirit....

4447 - Call of God like a spoken word....

4448 - The audible Word and conditions....

4449 - Hour of the calling.... announcement of the end....

4450 - Struggle for strong faith....

4451 - "He who receives one of My brethren...." reward of God.... help the servants....

4452 - Directed matter.... bound will....

4453 - Supernatural powers.... transmission from the spiritual realm....

4454 - Living water....

4455 - Gathering spiritual treasures on earth.... Regret in the beyond....

4456 - Spiritual dialogue.... presence of God.... doubt - worry....

4457 - Announcement of the end.... 'You only have little time left....'

4458 - Danger of flattening (cath.).... duty.... free will....

4459 - Hard struggle and suffering before the end.... safest help God’s word....

4460 - God’s word must not force to acceptance.... free will....

4461 - Bridge to God - prayer.... narrowing the gap....

4462 - The ability to hear God's voice.... Conditions....

4463 - Gift of prophecy....

4464 - Proof of truth of the word.... response from God through mediator....

4465 - Supper....

4466 - Influence of matter on humans....

4467 - Spiritual transmissions of blessings for the beings in the hereafter....

4468 - Power of the divine Word.... Antidote to suffering....

4469 - Mission.... reciprocation for reception: forwarding the word....

4470 - Various spiritual activities: wisdom, seeing, prophecy.... (Konnersreuth)

4471 - Absolute truth....

4472 - Abolishing the laws of nature.... satan’s power at the end....

4473 - Disciples of the end time.... spreading the truth....

4474 - Working charity.... union with God....

4475 - New banishment in matter....

4476 - Exhortation to work for God and His kingdom....

4477 - Worldly minded servants of God....

4478 - Destiny.... maturing opportunities.... exams....

4479 - Doubts about truth of announcements.... natural disaster....

4480 - "You must be taught by God...."

4481 - Sounding word....

4482 - God of love.... not God of wrath....

4483 - Prayer in spirit and in truth prerequisite for the working of the spirit....

4484 - The doctrine of the Trinity of God....

4485 - In the end, apostasy from the faith.... living faith.... reflecting on teachings....

4486 - Pure gospel.... additional human work.... disciples' task....

4487 - Spiritual seeing....

4488 - Heaven and hell....

4489 - Originate of matter.... What is matter?....

4490 - Worker in the vineyard of the lord....

4491 - "Forerunners you shall be to Me on earth...."

4492 - Communion....

4493 - Death of a worldly ruler.... Turn of events....

4494 - Faith and love - constant presence of God....

4495 - Spiritual power supply through prayer and love work....

4496 - Closing the gates into the spiritual realm at the end....

4497 - Research-wise, spiritual territory cannot be fathomed....

4498 - The ability to receive divine wisdom through the heart....

4499 - Justification for rejecting the truth.... God as judge....

4500 - Overcoming matter.... voluntary renunciation....

4501 - Proclamation on objection: There is no God Who permits what is happening....

4502 - Presenting the divine word in love.... success assured....

4503 - Wide way to perdition, narrow way to the height....

4504 - Spiritual attachment.... souls without earthly binding....

4505a - Understanding the word guaranteed for seekers....

4505b - Understanding the word guaranteed for seekers....

4506 - Special grace - commitment.... knowledge of plan of salvation - enlightenment....

4507 - Where two or three are gathered together in My name.... '

4508 - God’s word.... parables.... imagery.... people's unwillingness....

4509 - Exhortation to workers in the vineyard of the lord....

4510 - Justice.... atonement for sins.... judgment....

4511 - Life fate according to the will of the people....

4512 - Resistance of the people.... powerlessness....

4513 - Assurance of protection at time of great need.... act of destruction....

4514 - The spirit gives life to the word....

4515 - Condition for right representatives of God: working of the spirit and truthful knowledge....

4516 - Desire for God’s word.... urgent reminder....

4517 - End of the redemption period.... total change of the earth....

4518 - Humbly enduring fate....

4519 - Tabernacle....

4520 - Unmistakable sign of spiritual low level: Rejection of the divine Word....

4521 - Cosmic changes....

4522 - Words to truth bearers....

4523 - Signs of the end....

4524 - The world lay in bands.... (Christmas announcement)

4525 - 'Thou art Peter, the rock....' Living faith - the church of Christ....

4526 - Decision between spiritual and earthly world....

4527 - Use of grace.... free will.... strengthening of the will....

4528 - Reference to natural disaster.... surprise....

4529 - New Year's message: people's resistance to God....

4530 - God's love and mercy....

4531 - Coming in the clouds.... Rapture.... End....

4532 - Making use of the power from God....

4533 - Spiritual turning-point.... Total transformation of earth....

4534 - The right kind of teacher.... Truth - Error....

4535 - Feeding the soul.... God's care for the earthly....

4536 - Power of evil.... strong faith.... "Come all ye to Me...."

4537 - Earthly knowledge meaningless against spiritual knowledge....

4538 - Spreading the divine word.... seeping water....

4539 - People’s deliberate rejection of the divine Word....

4540 - Destiny.... purification possibilities....

4541 - Existence of God.... Worldly scholars.... Heart and intellect....

4542 - Development of the soul independent of physical advantages....

4543 - Last hour.... nightfall.... light bearers....

4544 - Follow Me.... '

4545 - Necessity and blessing of spiritual work....

4546 - Attainment of childhood of God....

4547 - Retribution.... Sin and atonement....

Christianity - name-christians - act - incarnation of God ....

B.D. 4420 from August 27th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

Anyone who is not for Me is against Me .... and anyone who only confesses Me with his mouth and does not feel a sense of belonging to Me in his heart is likewise not of My flock, whom I will fetch home into My kingdom on the last day. The name christian is not enough to be a christian, i.e. a confessor of Me, but the thinking and acting, the inner desire to belong to Me, is what makes a person My follower in the first place, and then it makes no difference what race, what nation and what denomination he belongs to. And this is so significant, after all, it only gives an acceptable explanation for the fact that christianity is taught all over the earth, that thus there is certainly a large crowd of followers but they are still far from being christians, and thus the world is not improved by My teaching either if it is not followed, thus forming true christians. Only tactual christianity can be called christianity, and this will also produce people who provide evidence that the christian teaching is divine, for they will have a great deal of light and strength at their disposal, they will be full of wisdom and be able to accomplish things which testify to My support; they will prove that they are in union with Me and thus My teaching of love is the only right teaching which encompasses the truth. But if people are satisfied with words, if they certainly know about the christian teaching but do not live it out, they will not be entitled to the name 'christian', even though they are affiliated to organizations which stand up for Me and My name. I am not satisfied with empty chatter with the lips, I test the hearts and reject those who are found too easy. And I agree with those who do not recognize this christianity as a divine work, for it does not meet with My approval to use My name and disregard My will. My will, however, is that the teaching, which I conveyed to earth through the man Jesus, should be accepted in all purity and therefore also followed, so that the effect of following My teaching can become apparent and the faith and love for Me thereby strengthened. On the other hand, however, every person is free to examine, and this is truly more advisable than to reject without examination. Anyone who therefore wants to reject Me Myself because he judges those who are not true followers of Me but only name christians is also to be condemned himself, for you should all examine and keep what is best. But a serious examination will also lead to the acceptance of My teaching of love, then you will also live it out and experience its effect on yourselves. But if you reject My teaching then you also reject Me Myself, and this will not bring you any blessing, for without Me you cannot become blessed. I Myself spoke through the man Jesus to all people on earth, it was I Myself Who died for you on the cross ....

I only chose a form through which I could make Myself visible to you. Thus the man Jesus was only the mediator between Me and you insofar as I could be visible through Him if your existence was to be assured. The fact that the form, the man Jesus, first had to form Himself through a right way of life so that He could serve Me as an abode, was at the same time an example for people of the effect of rightly used will, for He showed people the path which leads to perfection. But what spoke out of Him was Me Myself, it was My word which He preached, thus My will was made known to people through the mediation of the man Jesus. And therefore He cannot be rejected if one wants to acknowledge Me as the originator of Christ's pure teaching of love. But everyone who lives it will feel that My word is not just human speech, for he will experience the effect in himself, he will become wise and full of strength, for then he will likewise enter into association with Me like the man Jesus, Who, through His exemplary way of life, received light and strength from Me in abundance and Who therefore can be addressed as a divine being, even though He lived on earth as a human being. And therefore, again and again I will try to explain to you the mystery of God's human manifestation in Jesus Christ, again and again I will explain to you why you should not reject Him if you want to believe in Me and attain Me. For He and I are one, and anyone who rejects Him also rejects Me, because He was embodied love, which is My fundamental substance from eternity, and thus I was in Him and My strength was expressed through Him. His word was My word, and the word was I Myself ....

Amen

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Spiritual arrogance of the leaders ....

B.D. 4421 from August 28th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

Spiritual arrogance does not let people accept the truth which is offered to them by Me through you. They certainly feel the divine in it but take offence at the messenger and don't want to submit to him. Consequently, the pure truth has no effect on people which they should recognize by virtue of their ability to judge, yet they cannot reject the truth in their hearts because they feel its effect as increased knowledge and comprehensibility of that which was previously incomprehensible to them. Thus they take possession of the truth, which they utilize, but do not recognize it as such towards their fellow human beings .... they are untrue to themselves .... This is a gross sin, because against their better knowledge they reject the most precious thing that can be offered to them. And yet I must tell you that you are right to speak without shyness where it is possible. The truth can also be spread as a supposed error by first being brought to people's attention in an adversarial sense, whereupon the individual's thinking activity kicks in and he can then accept or reject it of his own free will and reach his decision according to his way of life .... But how blind are men in spirit, and what will-o'-the-wisp do they follow ....

(29.8.1948) They defy every right direction of their gaze and feel comfortable in darkness, and I am unable to do anything where such open resistance is offered. As soon as the veil falls from their eyes they will clearly recognize the error and blindness of those who only go through earthly life as followers and don't care about the path they have taken. And that is why the leaders should choose the right path, for they bear a great responsibility for all who follow them. But if someone who knows the way gives them hints, because he sees that the chosen path leads away from the aim, the leaders should not pass by loftily and look down on the one advising them; they should recognize the help from above and accept it gratefully. Great things are preparing themselves, and people will then questioningly follow the effects which, without knowledge, remain incomprehensible to them. I want to bring you clarification but you don't listen to it, I want to light a little light for you because of the coming events, for it will become very dark around you, a darkness will envelop you which only My light from the heavens can penetrate. And you try to extinguish the light, you don't take pleasure in its glow, although you see the light and cannot render its rays ineffective .... You put it under a bushel and no-one takes pleasure in it, no-one can delight in it .... and yet it is a light from the heavens .... But I have warned you and offered you My love .... But you are free in your will, thought and action, I show you the way but do not force you to go it ....

Amen

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Debates .... objections .... opposing attitude .... God's work ....

B.D. 4422 from August 29th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

Don't let yourselves be thrown into doubt by objections which betray My adversary's spirit, for they want to challenge the truth of that which is conveyed to them as My word. They will fight against you, they will want to label you as liars, as fantasists who presume to want to hear Me, they will persuade you in such a way that you will become weak and have serious doubts yourselves which I, however, will always dispel through My word. For I hear every conversation, I know your opponents' thoughts and the direction of every individual's mind and will, I also know your will and your weakness of faith in the face of such an onslaught. And I will faithfully stand by you and not hand you over to the arbitrariness of hostile people, I protectively hold My hands over you and speak through you Myself where the opportunity presents itself. And they will not be able to withstand My word, for it emanates strength which puts a spell on anyone who fights against it, if I Myself offer the truth. My servants will be able to refute every objection, for I will enlighten your spirit as this is necessary for the debates which have Me and My working as their cause. Objections must be consistently refuted, the opponents must notice that the speaker is fully committed to the matter, that no wrong teachings can be opposed to him, and therefore he must also be intellectually active, and My spirit must work in him so that he speaks correctly. Hence you can face every test in this respect without worry, you need never fear that I will withdraw My support from you, you need not fear any questions either, for you will always know the right answer and truly better than the questioners who have only been taught by you in the end, even if they don't want to acknowledge you. The knowledge you possess is so extensive that you will be able to answer every objection, and every answer will reveal spirit to the one who examines seriously and conscientiously, without prejudice and without the intention of rejecting what is unknown to him. And thus the adversary will also contribute to stimulating people's thinking, and then much will be gained, even if people don't want to admit that they are in error. Anyone who is of serious and good will will have his spirit enlightened, and he will realize that he is only offered pure truth through My love ....

Amen

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Effect of the divine word .... influx of power .... exhortation ....

B.D. 4423 from August 30th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

The direct influx of spiritual strength in the form of My word has an extremely beneficial effect on the human being's soul, even though he does not physically feel it. It is a state of spiritual freedom, for the soul no longer feels bound by the body, it does not feel the heaviness of earth, it temporarily dwells in spiritual spheres and sees and hears there what it cannot render to the physical human being, thus it would be incomprehensible to the human being's intellect and therefore is not conveyed to him either. For this reason the soul often feels that its stay on earth is a torment, it can only move back with difficulty and has to struggle a lot because earthly things burden it and it longs for the eternal home. Yet the soul also has to go through this hardship as compensation for the grace of being in contact with the spiritual kingdom and being fed by Me Myself with strength, with nourishment which ensures its eternal stay in those spheres. As long as it lives on earth the heaviness of earth will also burden a person who strives spiritually upwards. If the soul now succeeds in making the body insensitive to suffering and hardship, so that the body also despises earthly things and turns towards the spiritual kingdom, then the human being will rise above everything and bear earthly life with equanimity and peace of mind and regard it as a short transitional station for eternity. And My word helps the human being to achieve this .... the strength which has taken on form in order to also be able to be effective for the earth-bound .... For this reason you should often read My word and take it into yourselves, and then the body will also feel its beneficial effect, then soul and body will be nourished and draw strength from the soul's nourishment; the human being will become strong and resilient, he will be able to do any work and no longer feel earthly life to be so difficult. And therefore I always and constantly admonish you to let Me speak to you and to make more use of My gift from heaven .... I give to you but you must also accept what I offer to you, your heart must open and eagerly let My word flow into it and you will obviously feel the effect .... For I want to help you, earthly as well as spiritually, and reveal the right remedy to you, but you must use it without doubting. Receive the strength from Me which is offered to you without restriction, refresh yourselves with My word and accept the evidence of My love, for I know about all your needs and want to help you because I love you ....

Amen

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Battle of God and satan for souls of men .... lure ....

B.D. 4424 from September 1st 1948, taken from Book No. 52

Choose between Me and My adversary .... Both woo and fight for your soul and for your will, so that it turns to the one who wants to possess it. And you are free to surrender to My wooing or to let the enemy become the victor. And since everyone fights with different weapons, everyone will also have different success. Those whose hearts are willing to love will turn to Me, for they recognize Me as the God Who is love in Himself. But those who are devoid of love don't recognize Me either, but they will certainly strive towards the adversary of their own accord, for his battle for their souls consists of offering pleasures and pleasures of this world .... most people will succumb to this means of battle. However, I will never appear together with My adversary, thus My courtship for people's love will never be connected with enticements of the world which completely captivate weak or unbelieving people and thereby deprive them of the strength to be lovingly active. People who succumb to the enemy and adversary take pity on Me, for I know the arts of the one who wants to pull you into the abyss, and I try to come to your aid, I speak to you so that you will recognize My voice and let yourselves be held back by it from the enticements of the world. But I do not force you, you must give yourselves to Me and thus grant Me the right and the power to oust the adversary from your circle of vision. You must acknowledge Me as your lord and carry My image deep in your heart, i.e. you must feel attracted to everything that means love. Then you will be considered My followers, My successors, and you can rightly call yourselves 'My own'. And as 'My own' you will also always feel My father's hand, the adversity of the last days will not press you as much as it seems, for you can burden Me with everything that presses you, I will help you carry it.

(2.9.1948) You should not fear any opposing power if you believe in Me. For I am truly stronger than the one who is My adversary, who wants to win you over. He cannot harm you if you don't want it, if you are turned towards Me in your heart. His power will only appear when the human being detaches himself from Me and stands masterless in the world, then he will appear as lord and cast his spell over you. But he already tempts you before then, and you must not succumb to these temptations, for what My adversary holds before your eyes, with which he wants to tempt you, is far from Me, and you must turn your back on Me if you want to gain his possessions. And I want to warn you against valuing these worldly goods more highly than Me and My presence .... Then you will be lost to Me and he will have won you. But if you direct your gaze towards Me, upwards, a gentle radiance will delight your eye, it will touch your hearts and fill you with love for Me, and then you will despise the world's goods, then My adversary will have lost all power over you and I will have won you for ever ....

Amen

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Reference to natural disaster, destruction and living situation after ....

B.D. 4425 from September 2nd 1948, taken from Book No. 52

The world has already experienced great things, and it will have to experience even greater things. You humans are not yet aware of the time in which you stand, and you have even less idea of the time you are approaching. You pay no attention to the indications and when you listen to them you do not believe what is announced to you. And thus you will watch in horror the events which will shortly take place and draw people's attention to themselves. And you will constantly hope for a remedy because you cannot believe that your earthly life shall continue without all pleasures. Yet earthly help will only be granted to you if you betray Me, and only a few will remain faithful to Me, take a difficult life upon themselves and realize that the time of the end has come. These few have My love because they don't allow themselves to be blinded by My adversary, they renounce earthly possessions and earthly pleasures, they take up the cross and carry it until the end, until I come to fetch them home into My kingdom. But the others believe they can force life, for they don't believe in Me, they don't believe in fate, just as they don't believe in life after death and in having to answer to a judge Who knows all their thoughts, their deeds and their will. They do not fear this judge because they do not believe in Him .... But He will already make himself heard shortly, even though My voice will not be recognized there either because the will to do so is lacking and the adversary likewise harasses people and presents life to them as beautiful and tries to influence them into purely material thinking. And he will be able to achieve great success, for people are far more his followers than Mine and therefore don't want to hear about the end either. And yet, they, too, will be horrified by the magnitude of the destruction which will take place through the elements of nature. But hardened hearts will not be touched by it, and whether My word is also held up to them, whether they are seriously pointed to the end, they reject a divine power, they only regard it as a natural phenomenon and attach no significance to this My intervention. For them the final admonition is unsuccessful, they sink ever deeper and in the end will belong to those who will be cast into darkness by Me, for they don't take hold of the hand which reaches out to them, and thus they will fall into the abyss again for a long time ....

Amen

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The earthly kingdom and its rulers .... earthly fulfilment of duty - spiritual work ....

B.D. 4426 from September 3rd 1948, taken from Book No. 52

If you are devoted to the world, then you are also devoted to the one who rules the world insofar as he makes people slaves to their instincts, which are only directed towards worldly pleasures and material goods. And then you can only with difficulty free yourselves from his rule. But if you establish the connection with the spiritual kingdom then you make yourselves subject to Me, the father of eternity, Who truly wants to give you other goods than the transience of the earthly world. Although you live an earthly life and have to meet its requirements, you should also fulfil your duties to the best of your ability, you should by no means sink into idleness and believe that you serve Me by withdrawing into solitude and neglecting earthly activity; You should be active and create and work for the benefit of your fellow human beings; your earthly work should consist of constructive activity which benefits your fellow human beings and thus you should be active in serving neighbourly love, even though the work is a duty imposed on you. Yet you should not start anything without Me, always request My blessing for it, and then I will also bless your work, I will help you to master it, so that you can meet all requirements and yet also fulfil your spiritual task, which is the purpose and aim of your earthly life. But you should never put the worldly above the spiritual .... Every excessive worry is detrimental to the soul, just as it is unnecessary, for I will take over every concern for your physical well-being if you diligently care for your soul and put this concern before everything else. You should not favour the earthly kingdom and its rulers too much if you don't want to run the risk of becoming superficial towards the spiritual kingdom, but if you strive for this first then you will also be considered earthly, and truly, better than you can manage yourselves, for I take fatherly care of My own as soon as they see their father of eternity in Me, Whom they love and want to serve Him ....

Amen

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Right and false representatives .... "He who hears My servants hears Me ...."

B.D. 4427 from September 5th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

Anyone who opposes My own fights against Me, for My servants also emerge from the ranks of My own who are to bring you My word as a gift from their lord. If you do not listen to My servants it is a rejection of Me, Who comes to you through My servants in the word. You cannot separate My representatives on earth from Me, only if you have obvious evidence that something is brought to you by the enemy of your souls may you reject it. This is obviously recognizable from the gifts themselves which are offered to you .... if they lack love, if they lead to the world, thus if they try to push you away from Me as the eternal deity, then your rejection is justified. Yet My chosen servants will never offer you anything which could cast doubt on My mission, for even the slightest test indicates a divine gift .... it only radiates love, it teaches love and is offered to you by My love. But anyone who pretends to acknowledge Me, to believe in Me, to belong to My church, yet does not want to acknowledge My direct word, is far removed from Me, for how will he speak of the father if he does not recognize His voice? And I truly speak clearly, so that every willing person must recognize Me, and only the one who is not willing to believe that I Myself speak to people will not recognize Me. He can acquire this faith through serious reflection, thus the will must first be present to open himself if I Myself approach him with a rich treasure of grace. I will not condemn a rejection after careful examination, even if the human being makes a wrong judgment if this is the result of his serious examination, yet again and again I have to emphasize that the human being then also rejects Me Myself, thus his attitude towards Me is such that he cannot recognize the truth. I have chosen servants from My own and you shall hear them, and you will also be taught by them what the characteristics of truth are and when you humans can feel in possession of the truth. For they speak on My behalf, they speak on My behalf, and if you listen to them, you listen to Me. But you should not lend your ear to those who preach My word but have received it in a distorted form and pass it on in a distorted form. For if they were My true representatives they would work together with you, My servants, they would receive the right knowledge directly from My hand through you and also recognize it as such. However, if they oppose you they cannot be My rightful representatives .... and if they fight you they are servants of satan, who uses every mask to suppress the truth. The truth will speak for itself, the truth has to be recognized if the human being's will is turned towards Me, thus towards the eternal truth. And therefore everyone who opposes you and does not want to accept you for what you are is to be regarded as My adversary .... My disciples, whom I Myself have chosen to spread the gospel throughout the world ....

Amen

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Crossroads .... tests of the faithful .... inner conflicts ....

B.D. 4428 from September 6th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

You, My faithful, will also be led before crossroads and must now decide which path you want to take. For you, too, will not be spared the testing of your will, you, too, can only mature through constant struggle unless you work with increased strength of love, then the decision will not be difficult for you either, for you clearly and distinctly recognize which path is the right one and your will has the strength to take it even if it appears stony and thorny to you. Increased strength of love is the compensation, and thus the activity of love will always have a visible effect on you, you will master everything if you live in love. But a life of love is lived by every person who does not place himself at the centre but has an open eye for his environment and helps where he is needed; a life of love is lived by every person who feels urged to do good, who seeks and finds his purpose in life in carrying out unselfish works of love, who thinks well, speaks well and acts well .... i.e. who adapts his thinking, speaking and acting to the eternal order, which aims at preservation and building up in the divine sense. Every human being has a feeling for what is good within himself, for he will always feel the effects of both good and bad thoughts and actions inflicted on him by his fellow human beings, he will be able to distinguish very well between what makes him happy and what harms him. And thus he should always apply the standard, and his feeling will always instruct him what is good and what is bad. And anyone who has the will to act well will truly not fall into wrong thinking. The fact that I also let you, My faithful, get into inner conflicts is necessary because you also have to be purified of self-love which sometimes clouds clear thinking and holds you back from loving activity. But you shall grow and serve Me as an instrument in the coming time. Therefore you must discard everything that still hinders My constant dwelling in your hearts. Every suffering, every inner struggle is a preparation so that I Myself can take possession of you in order to work through you. You will often be at a crossroads, but I will always stand invisibly by your side and lovingly push you onto the right path .... I help you to overcome self-love and to rise up in restless neighbourly love .... in order to shape yourselves into love, so that I can completely enter your hearts and dwell therein ....

Amen

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Antichrist .... Brutal laws ....

B.D. 4429 from September 7th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

A visible power will control you which will refuse to acknowledge an invisible Power .... And this power will provoke your last test of faith, for it will be fighting against Me and will also want to educate you into becoming My adversaries. And this is why you will require your entire strength of faith in order to resist it. Many will bow down under the sceptre of the ruler promising them golden mountains but will demand the surrender of all faith in return, of all spiritual knowledge, the acknowledgement of his power and sovereignty and the denial of an eternal Creator, of a loving and righteous God, Who will call people to account one day for their will, thoughts and actions. And thus he will oppose Me, and although the last battle will not last long it will be very difficult for My believers because they will be placed under inhuman pressure which will make professing Christ incredibly difficult for them. Yet the knowledge of the pure truth, My obvious help and the hope of My coming and life in paradise on the new earth will give you the strength to persevere and to defy every onslaught on part of the worldly authority. You have My Word that I will not let you remain in adversity, you can be firmly convinced of that. I know My Own and will support every one of them if only they rely on Me, if only they believe in Me. But the one who will come will dazzle people with his intellectual sharpness, his comprehensive knowledge, with his easy-going conduct towards other rulers, and they all will grant him the right of organisational activities with the ultimate goal of displacing all spiritual schools of thought.

For he will try to portray spiritual striving as the wrongly applied energy of life, which should be used for the construction and improvement of earthly requirements. And he will find followers everywhere, who will acknowledge him and likewise proceed against all spiritual work. And thus My servants on earth will have a difficult time. At first the intention will be to take all means which enable you to be spiritually active away from you, but you will also be individually persecuted and will have to give account to the earthly authorities about your convictions and activities. Furthermore, you will also be plunged into earthly hardship as a result of laws which seem, and indeed are, extraordinarily hard and brutal for the believer if I was not going to manifestly stand by you and sustain you by spiritual means. And you will feel My obvious help, you will sense that I Am with you and know the hardship of every individual person which I will remedy when the time is right. The Antichrist will come and with him all the signs of the approaching end. For as soon as the battle of faith commences you can be certain that the end will not be long in coming, because the battle of faith will be waged with such severity and so brutally that I Myself will have to come in order to rescue My Own from deepest distress and lift them up into the realm of peace .... And then the last Judgment will happen and My adversary's power will be broken for a long time ....

Amen

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Value of spiritual teachings ....

B.D. 4430 from September 9th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

You are not yet able to assess the value of spiritual instructions because you are still too entangled in earthly matter; however, upon entering eternity you will realize what possessions you call your own or how terribly poor you are, for only with spiritual values can you create the life in the spiritual world which signifies beatitude. What you can freely have on earth because My greater than great love offers you something which no human being is denied, whether he deserves it or not, you must also attain in the spiritual kingdom if you do not already enter the beyond in a state of spiritual maturity. And this achievement requires great willpower, which you then no longer possess because you have not practiced love enough on earth, which earns you increased willpower. Now you certainly also have the opportunity to take part in spiritual instructions, however, only ever on condition that your will expresses itself in loving activity towards fellow suffering souls, that you want to help them; and precisely this will will be lacking for you, for the adversity you find yourselves in, which you enter into the spiritual kingdom empty and bare, only lets you think of your own fate, and you pay no attention to the hardship of other souls. And therefore your spiritual wealth can only rarely increase unless you receive a lot of help from people on earth or beings of light who were in close contact with you and try to pull you up. Nevertheless, even then your will is still decisive. But if you are already instructed on earth and thus blessed with spiritual possessions upon entering the kingdom of the beyond, then you will only ever increase them, even though you constantly give them away .... For the will to love is exceedingly strong in you and expresses itself in the distribution of what makes you happy ....

As long as you walk on earth everything earthly-material is more important to you than spiritual teachings, and yet the latter represent a far greater value because they are imperishable, whereas earthly goods can be destroyed or lost from today to tomorrow. Therefore you must imagine the transience of that which is desirable to you in order to learn to despise it, in order to reduce your desire for it. Accordingly, the value of spiritual goods will increase for you if you hope for a blissful life in the spiritual kingdom, treasures which you can take with you into eternity and which can no longer be taken away from you. If you now have the extraordinary grace of being taught directly from the spiritual kingdom, you will have an overwhelming wealth at your disposal which you can already utilize on earth. Love must drive you to share it with your neighbour, to want to impart the same to him. You should present your treasures to the world and offer them to people who are in need and in spiritual distress. For they are poor and you should give them what you have in abundance, for I want to help them to enter the blessing of spiritual possessions, so that they will hear the truth through your mouth through which I thus express Myself, because I want the soul not to enter the spiritual kingdom poor and naked at its death ....

Amen

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Reference to spiritual convulsion (Rome?) .... right church of Christ ....

B.D. 4431 from September 10th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

You humans on earth have to expect a great spiritual shock, for I want to show you that My arm also reaches where you believe to have built on solid foundations. I want to disturb you from your complacent rest so that you will become agitated and seriously ask yourselves what I intend and want to tell you through this visible sign of My displeasure with your building, which seems to you to be extremely good and sublime. In the last days I need workers who are diligently active for Me and My kingdom; I need servants who have a living faith and make the working of My spirit in them possible through a life of love according to My will. I need good shepherds for My sheep and thus eager representatives of My word, which is to be conveyed to people in all purity and which I therefore convey to My servants on earth by direct means so that it can be conveyed to people unadulterated. And this is the work of My servants, the labourers in My vineyard, for the time of harvest has come, as it is proclaimed in word and scripture. And thus I obviously work outside of those who believe to be My representatives on earth, and I Myself have chosen My right representatives who, however, do not recognize the former as My emissaries and therefore do not want to accept My word. And therefore it is necessary for Me to manifest Myself through an external sign so that people will become suspicious and reflective ....

(12.9.1948) For it is of urgent necessity that people think about the worthlessness of what people have built if it does not correspond to My will. They should think about the form in which I want to see My will fulfilled, what is of rightful value before Me and what alone is advantageous for the soul for eternity. They should abandon preconceived opinions, traditionally adopted spiritual knowledge which is of no value because it is characterized by externalities which cover the core and make it unrecognizable. It has to be clarified what the characteristics of the church are which I Myself founded on earth, it has to be illuminated from earthly teachings which are to be considered erroneous because they make the affiliation to My church dependent on the affiliation to a certain denomination, which never corresponds to My will. Everything that is organized is the work of human beings, for My church is only a purely spiritual building, it has its foundation in thinking and striving, in wanting and acting according to My will and will never be outwardly recognizable in any other way than in active loving activity and the resulting recognition and understanding of everything I demand of you humans to believe, which I submit to you and convey to you as spiritual knowledge mentally or through the inner word .... The visible working of My spirit in the human being .... enlightened thinking and convinced faith .... is the sure characteristic of the church which I Myself founded, but which is more likely to be found outside a church organisation, although it can also make people happy within such an organization, as long as they understand the core .... My christian doctrine of love .... of everything else, but then they will also realize how little value any ceremony as well as the entire worldly-style structure is for the soul's development, indeed, it is often even a hindrance, because profound inner immersion and striving for heartfelt union with Me is impeded by externalities which captivate people's eyes and senses ....

The human being who has recognized the happiness that lies in the intimate bond with Me, who has found his way into the spiritual kingdom and entered into mental contact with its inhabitants, will never again take pleasure in actions which are obviously carried out. He will turn his back on them because he recognizes and feels them as not wanted by Me. And this is to be recorded as spiritual progress which I want to help all people to achieve by directing everyone's eyes to an event which clearly reveals My hand .... I will lower a doubt into their hearts which they shall deal with if they are of good will and seek the truth. I will shake the foundation, and good for him who recognizes the language of God in it ..... He will gain if he gives, for he receives precious gifts and exchanges worthless goods for them; he joins My church, which can only be understood purely spiritually ....

Amen

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Judgment day .... closed gates to the afterlife ....

B.D. 4432 from September 13th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

Whether you live to see the last day is of decisive importance for eternity. For on that day there will only be living and dead, thus only people who will enter eternal life or be damned. Then there will no longer be a death which can only be addressed as a purely physical death, where the soul, although imperfect, enters spiritual spheres where it can still develop further upwards. On the contrary, on the last day the gates will remain closed in the kingdom of the beyond, for then there will only be living people who are transferred to the new earth, thus do not taste bodily death, and dead people who are devoured by the earth, i.e. who find their bodily death in the work of destruction and whose souls experience re-embodiment into solid matter. And thus the last day on this earth has come, which signifies an end for all spiritual beings dwelling on earth and where a judgement takes place, where everything that lives on earth as a human being will be called to account .... This is the day which has been proclaimed since the beginning of this redemption epoch, which seers and prophets foretold, which is doubted by all who do not believe and therefore also do not have the right knowledge. It is the day when every guilt will find its atonement and when there will probably be no human being apart from My own who will not be found guilty. Yet for the believers this day will be an end to all earthly adversity, for them it will be a day of triumph where they will see Me in all glory and be raptured from earth; but for the others it will be a day of terror, for they cannot escape their fate, they have no faith to call for Me in their adversity. And thus they only see certain death before their eyes and don't know that they are now banished from My proximity for an infinitely long time, because they in no way acquired the right to My kingdom, whose ruler I am, which can only accept souls which have accepted My fundamental nature, thus have become love. And all earthly terrors precede the last day, for I still want to admonish people in the last hour to stretch out their hands towards Me so that I can seize them before they sink into deepest darkness .... before they are banished from My proximity for eternal times. Everyone can still come to Me if he makes good use of the last time, and everyone is entitled to unmeasured grace, yet I don't force anyone to make use of My grace but leave everyone his freedom. But the last day will be a reckoning for everyone .... Love and bliss for My own and death and destruction for all who belong to My adversary, for they will be cast down into darkness and have to atone for their sins according to divine justice ....

Amen

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Final battle .... Frankly professing Christ before the world .....

B.D. 4433 from September 15th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

War will be declared on everything of a spiritual nature during the last days before the end. Thereby you will recognise which hour has struck on the clock of the world and that the day is drawing to a close. Then you can expect considerable commotion as a result of the rigorous measures taken by the worldly authorities. You will be beleaguered with questions and threats about your attitude towards Christ and faith in general. They will not shy away from watching you, from eavesdropping on your conversations and will take you to court for your words and actions. That is the time when you must profess Me openly and speak without fear about how you think and feel about Me. This open admission is what I require as evidence of your affiliation with Me. I Myself certainly know how you think and feel in your heart; nevertheless, it is a final battle in which a separation of the goats from the sheep shall take place. And this final battle must be openly conducted so that the battle itself becomes evident, so that the opponent's guilt clearly emerges before the world in order to push the undecided into a decision due to the believers' as well as their enemies' conduct. The battle will only last a short time and will happen everywhere, albeit in different ways. Heartlessness will always fight against love, the material world will mock and intimidate the spiritual world, two camps will be distinctly recognisable wherever the teaching of Christ has been accepted and where the divine teaching of love is the principle of what is preached to people and what they are required to believe. For this reason the apostasy from Me will be clearly discernible in the whole world; but where the Christian teaching of love is widespread the battle of faith will proceed extremely ferociously, and that will be the end. At this time you humans have no idea how the forthcoming events will proceed and, therefore, it seems incredible to you; nevertheless, it will happen as I proclaim to you through My spirit, and the time is so near that it would scare you were you to know the day and hour of destruction .... And yet you should not worry, for your loyalty to Me will also assure you My full protection and supply of any strength so that you will be able to stand firm, and the knowledge of it will make you confident and strong in faith, so that you will survive the time, particularly since I will shorten the days, so that you will become blessed ....

Amen

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Ability of God's servants to see through people .... sharp judgement ....

B.D. 4434 from September 16th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

You will recognize the spirit of the one who turns away from Me, for all signs will be noticeable to you as soon as a person is not united with Me in love. And thus you will not be deceived by the words his mouth utters to conceal his true feelings. You will find little understanding if you hold spiritual conversations, you will be able to detect disbelief towards all predictions and also towards those teachings which are intended to contribute towards explaining the difficult time of suffering. For anyone who is distant from Me lives too much in earthly life and does not find any spiritual explanation credible, he does not live in contact with the spiritual world and his thoughts are little influenced by knowing forces because he does not grant them access. You will always recognize such people and find little appeal, and no matter how much they listen to you, you will still have little success, little will to pay attention to My word by living it out. And thus they will not be able to convince themselves of the truth of My word either, and the spiritual success will be zero. Yet you should therefore not grow weary and not take offence at the fact that you are not listened to as My word requires .... Your vision will become sharper, you will be able to judge the individual person's level of development, you will gain the ability to see through a mask and thus not be deceived by beautiful words or a pious nature, because nothing escapes your gaze and you know full well how the connection with Me and a life of love affects a person's nature. Moreover, only a few will be true listeners and doers of My word, but the majority will be indifferent towards My gift from above, otherwise the spiritual low would be remedied very quickly. But where the will is lacking there is little success. Nevertheless, I instruct you to mention what I offer you so that no-one will be able to say that he was not warned, for only through the word can the spell be broken, only through the word from above can the human being be prompted to think and guided onto a different path. The word itself possesses strength but requires the human being's will in order to take effect; and where My word .... the emanation of Myself .... remains without impression, there is truly no other means unless great earthly adversity causes a person to establish the bond with Me through prayer. Then I will approach the person once again through visible help and make Myself known to him. And then My word will no longer remain without impression. Therefore spread it everywhere, for the great adversity is inevitable, and what the word cannot accomplish can still create adversity, and you humans will bless it if you have still found Me through it ....

Amen

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Justification of the extraordinary work of God .... spiritual wealth ....

B.D. 4435 from September 17th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

Open yourselves to receive My emanation of light, listen to My word .... When I manifest Myself to you by working extraordinarily, when I convey My word to you from above, you must know that this act is necessary for your own sake. You must know that you will then be in a danger in which I want to warn you audibly and help you, furthermore, you must know that something will then prepare itself of which I want to inform you for the sake of your souls. For everything that happens is only about your soul, about its upward development. If it proceeds in such a way that your earthly life is fully and completely evaluated, then you will not need extraordinary evidence of My love and grace, because through a way of life according to My will you bask in My love and grace and recognize and believe in Me. But if your development comes to a standstill which all too soon turns into a step backwards, then your attention must be drawn to the idleness of your life, then admonitions and warnings must be sent to you from above, and so that you pay attention to them I will work extraordinarily among you .... I speak from above and thus bestow an extraordinary gift of grace upon you, because I take pity on your adversity and My love for you is exceedingly great. Therefore listen to Me: Don't value your earthly life too highly but think about what will happen after death and let it be said to you that you won't live long on earth but that the time is only short until I Myself put an end to everything that lives on earth. All your striving on earth will be in vain, you will not be able to keep material goods, yet you can still gather many spiritual goods in this short time, and these are a wealth which will remain with you, which you can take with you into eternity, which makes your departure from this world easy, which makes your soul unspeakably happy and with which you can work when you have entered the kingdom of the beyond where true life only begins. Gather these goods by listening to My word commanded to you from above and live accordingly .... Open your heart, let Me Myself enter in the word, grasp the spirit of it by uniting yourselves with Me in thought and request enlightenment from Me, stay united with Me through prayer and loving activity, and thus you will live out My word .... you will be active in thinking of Me and your activity will correspond to My will .... you will perform works of unselfish neighbourly love which will earn you the right reward; you will mature in your soul and your earthly life will not have been in vain ....

Amen

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Relinquishing the world .... Fulfilment of earthly duties and the blessing of God ....

B.D. 4436 from September 19th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

What does the world offer you? If you really think about it, it only offers things which make your earthly life more pleasant for a short time but which have no lasting value. And if you consider that you could be called from this earth any day then you work, from a worldly point of view, just for one day, because tomorrow could already be your last day. But even a long earthly life cannot be compared to eternity and it is simply unwise to provide for oneself for this limited time and not to consider eternity. But not until you occupy yourselves with thoughts about life after death can you know that you are chasing after illusive possessions and then you will understand the spiritual aspirations of those who don’t see the earth as an end in itself but as a means to an end. And then you too will strive for the truth, for enlightenment and for Me, Who can impart all that to you.

But one thing you should not fail to do: to appeal to Me to become your support and adviser, that I should take care of you and continue to guide you during the course of your life, that you choose Me and for My sake relinquish the world, i.e. that you have no great expectations to live a life of external comfort but that you, deep inside of yourself, live your life with Me, away from the world. This detachment is imperative, just as it is imperative that you take notice of the pure truth which, when you receive it externally, worldly people cannot offer you. If you entrust yourselves to Me I will walk with you and also ease your earthly labour because no one who works for Me and My kingdom shall be harmed. You shall indeed do your duty, that is, take up your position that has been allocated to you but who blesses your worldly labour if I don’t?

You cannot automatically enforce your success and if My will opposes it you are helpless even though you are laboriously and constantly working. Alternatively, I can favour your work and help you to accomplish it. I do, however, ask that you accept My gift from above, that you give it your whole attention and help to pass it on. Then you can live completely carefree because I will take care of every problem. First carry out your spiritual work and everything you do to accomplish your earthly allocated task will be blessed, because I truly provide better for you than the earthly world .... But I will not change My prerequisite that I as Father, will give you, My children, everything that you require spiritually and earthly ....

Amen

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Disciples of the end time .... earthly relationship .... God's worry about family ....

B.D. 4437 from September 20th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

Just as the disciples had to separate from their families, from house and farm, in order to follow Me, so the last disciples must also be prepared to give up everything if they hear the gentle call in their hearts to work for Me. Their love for Me must be so great that they will not prefer any earthly bond to Me, only then can they work as My true disciples on My behalf. As long as they are still bound by earth they cannot hear the inner voice which, however, is absolutely necessary in order to spread My word, in order to be able to teach their fellow human beings. Nothing may be dearer to you than My word, the expression of My love for you, and you must gladly and joyfully and at all times be willing to hear My word, directly or also indirectly. The more you have gained insight into the spiritual, into the eternal truth, the more you will understand that you must completely give yourselves to Me if you want to serve Me as an instrument, for every connection between you and the material world prevents Me from working through you. And thus you also have an explanation about the problem of how far My servants should remain free from firm ties which do not apply to spiritual striving, thus do not strive to achieve a common spiritual aim. My disciples had to leave their wives and children in order to follow Me, and I blessed them for it ....

(21.9.1948) Anyone who has Me as his aim must not send his eyes backwards, anyone who strives towards the spiritual kingdom has overcome the world and can therefore also calmly leave the world without harming or damaging his fellow human beings. For then I will take over the care for his own, whom he has looked after until now. Then I will also make his earthly task easy for him and only assign it to him to such an extent that he can do spiritual work at the same time, i.e. inform his fellow human beings of the purpose and aim of earthly life. If I need My disciples for this, this task is their most important, but then they should confidently relinquish what could prevent them from carrying out this work. They shall set themselves free and now proclaim My word as My true disciples and be without worry .... But anyone who loves the world more than Me is not suitable as My disciple in the last days, for he cannot serve two masters, he cannot pay tribute to the world and strive towards Me at the same time; the separation must first be completed before I can accept him as My servant who will no longer backslide and for whom My goods offer full compensation for the world's goods. But as long as there is still something which is placed before Me I cannot obviously work in and on him, and therefore he must have completely overcome the world in order to be a true disciple for Me in the last days before the end ....

Amen

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Demonic influence on light bearers .... fight against truth ....

B.D. 4438 from September 21st 1948, taken from Book No. 52

The demonic influence is particularly strong where the truth threatens to break through, and that is why you are often plagued by thoughts which these beings let flow towards you and which are intended to make you unfit to receive or pass on the truth. Light and shadow are always together, the battle of light against darkness always takes place, and the human being's will determines which forces will win the day. Where there is light, i.e. truth, the dark beings also crowd together to extinguish it, to displace truth through lies and error. And this has the effect that every spiritual work is made difficult for the bearers of light as soon as they themselves do not muster the strong will to be constantly active for God and His kingdom. Then a light bearer draws strength from God and can resist every influence from the demonic side, then he is stronger than that strength, then he has the spiritual light as a protective wall around him and can resist every influence, every wrong thought. The strength of will must never weaken, then even the demonic forces will have no effect. Yet a bearer of truth will always feel the proximity of these beings which fight against the truth insofar as the spiritual work is more difficult, that inhibitions and obstacles influence it and the human being must again and again request strength anew from God and thus join God ever more intimately if he does not want to become weak and leave victory to the demonic forces. Yet he will never remain without help, for once the light can be guided to earth there are countless beings of light ready to defend him, and anyone who has once offered his services to God will also find a faithful helper and advisor in Him Who will never abandon him to the enemy but protect him against his influence ....

Amen

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Thought material .... emanations of spiritual beings .... will-o'-the-wisp ....

B.D. 4439 from September 22nd 1948, taken from Book No. 52

How you utilize the thoughts you receive is decisive for your development. Light and dark beings try to influence you mentally, forces which are full of truthful knowledge and those which oppose everything that is truth, partly out of their own ignorance, but partly also out of evil motives, in order to destroy everything that signifies light and strength. These beings now fight for the possession of your will, they seek to transfer their thoughts to you; these play around you like waves, and your will now accepts them or rejects them, i.e., the heart takes them up and forwards them to the brain where they are processed, thus they are called to the human being's memory if he wants to utilize them .... or he rejects them by not first feeding them to the brain for processing, thus he drops them. The thought only becomes conscious when the intellect deals with it; yet the human being himself is not the originator of the thought but it is emanations from the spiritual kingdom which can touch the human being as rays of light or also as a deceptive light which then accompanies him as a shadow, that he thus walks in darkness. But the human being does not feel darkness because, as long as he does not walk in the light, he turns to will-o'-the-wisps, thus he believes to be in the light which, however, spreads no light, radiates no warmth, which illuminates nothing but is only a blinding light. If the thought material is now to be utilized, then it turns out what effect it has, for the right light, the true thoughts, will ignite and let a little light flare up again everywhere, whereas a dazzling light has no strength to give off a glow but is well accepted by people who walk in darkness because they don't know the bright, radiant light of truth and have not yet felt its effect on themselves. And the thought material can now be worked with, whether it flows from the knowing spiritual world or from the forces of darkness, only it will have a different effect on the distributing and the receiving person. Whoever passes on true thought material will always receive more and more, whether he also constantly gives it away. And his soul will develop upwards, it will stand in ever brighter light, recognize everything and understand everything .... for light has an exceedingly beneficial effect. But anyone who passes on erroneous thought material will still walk in darkness and feel that he is not bringing any light into this darkness, only believing to be temporarily in the light through the flashing of will-o'-the-wisps, only to fall into even deeper darkness afterwards. He will remain without understanding despite the supply of thought material, the darkness around him will not recede until he is touched by the rays of a right light, until he accepts the mental inspirations from the kingdom of light, thus surrenders himself to the influence of knowing beings which alone can impart light and truth to him ....

Amen

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Purpose of divine revelations ....

B.D. 4440 from September 22nd 1948, taken from Book No. 52

The eternal deity reveals Itself to you humans in Its infinite love and mercy. These revelations are of such great importance that you servants of God on earth should use all your strength .... to spread them. They are a sign of God's constant concern for His creatures, but they are also an unbroken chain of suggestions to help people find themselves and enter into the divine will. (23.9.1948) The divine revelations encompass knowledge which reaches into all areas and which is so extensive because the understanding for everything is to be awakened in the human being so that no gap of knowledge can raise doubts into the pure truth. For it is God's will that people should live in truth in order to learn to recognize and love their father and creator of eternity and to submit to Him of their own free will, so that the original relationship between Him and His living creations, which signifies unlimited beatitude for the latter, will be re-established. The human being also always has the ability to recognize divine revelations as such, however, this always presupposes his will, and the will should be stimulated by conveying these revelations to people in a way which appears supernatural and which should make them think; their attention must be drawn to it and thus to the spiritual as a whole, because at the time of his earthly change the human being allows himself to be captivated by matter and spiritual territory is avoided by him due to ignorance and often wrong attitude towards God. However, interest can be awakened through instructions and teachings and thus also the announcement of God's visible activity through a human being, which, however, is intended for all people and has significance for all people. They must be made aware of the connection between God and human beings so that they will enter into the right relationship with Him of their own accord and now be able to recognize both God's working and the teachings imparted to them and, through the knowledge of His will, shape themselves in such a way as is necessary to re-establish the original relationship .... to be true children of the father with light and strength and thereby wise and powerful beings themselves who can create and shape according to their own will, which is then also the will of God ....

Amen

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Extent of the work of destruction ....

B.D. 4441 from September 24th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

The extent of the act of destruction as a result of God's will is as yet inconceivable to you humans, for it will surpass anything that has ever happened before. Countries and oceans will change, rivers will burst their banks and thus scenes will be created which make people believe that they have been transported into other regions, which in itself will cause indescribable chaos because people will no longer be able to find each other. They will restlessly wander about until strong-minded people try to establish order and take care of the weak. The adversity will be so great that it can only be endured by love, and where one will actively help the other relief and help will soon be felt, which will clearly be granted to them from above. Thus, anyone who turns to God and calls upon Him in his heart will receive help, for God will then so clearly demonstrate His love and omnipotence that those of little faith will find it easy to gain a firm belief, and this time is a time of grace for the unbeliever, when he can still easily change himself in view of the occurrences which are based on the strength of faith. These occurrences will provide food for thought to everyone, yet only someone willing to believe will derive benefit from it, whereas the others will only ever speak of coincidences and face the immense adversity embittered, rejecting a Creator or condemning His actions. The magnitude of the disaster cannot bring them to their senses, they will try to find a natural explanation for everything and entirely reject spiritual correlations. They also remain hard and insensitive towards their fellow human beings' experiences and won't shy away from improving their own situation at the expense of people who are too weak to defend themselves.

There will be hardship wherever God has spoken and He will speak wherever the spiritual adversity is greatest, so that the survivors will receive a warning signal which will enable them to utilise the time until the end, and to also bring the people of the unaffected countries to their senses in view of the disaster which is too immense to be ignored. For the whole of humanity will be gripped by fear that the natural disaster might repeat itself and result in complete destruction of the earth. This will in fact happen but not immediately after the natural disaster. All the same, this fear is beneficial for many people since the thought of a sudden end and a life after death will come alive in many of them and can result in a change of lifestyle. The world will helpfully want to intervene yet won't be able to help as much as is needed. Nevertheless, every human being who is willing to love and help will be blessed by God, for the immense adversity will come upon people so that they will soften their hearts and do justice to their actual task of being lovingly active on earth in order to attain psychological maturity. As long as people only provide for themselves they are selfish and won't progress spiritually. But their fellow human beings' hardship can awaken their kind-hearted activity, and then they will comply with God's will and thus their earthly task .... And then even the most severe hardship will be a blessing and will fulfil its purpose ....

Amen

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God's blessing and protection to the co-workers ....

B.D. 4442 from September 25th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

You have promised Me your cooperation, and if you now do so I will bless you .... And I want you to gain the inner conviction that you serve a just cause, I also want you to intellectually recognize what you receive from Me as pure truth and should pass on. Thus I want you to recognize Me Myself in the word which you mentally hear within yourselves, dictated by My spirit. You should be so convinced that I Myself speak to you that you can instruct your fellow human beings without a doubt and that no objection can shake you through counter-speech that I Myself am the author. I want to make My servants' ministry easy, I want them to work joyfully for Me, that they recognize the value of the spiritual gift which is offered to them from above as an extraordinary grace. And if they are of convinced faith they will also eagerly stand up for the truth. And then their work will be blessed, it will not remain without success, erring souls will be saved by being guided into truth and brought to Me. And whoever listens to you listens to Me .... I Myself can speak to people through your mouth. One day you will realize what it means to establish contact with people who are still distant from Me, who can never make contact with Me themselves due to their lack of love which excludes My closeness, for countless souls have been lost because they cannot establish contact with Me themselves and cannot be forced to do so. But if you are active as mediators a way has been created to influence the will of those, and it is possible to receive strength from Me which they would otherwise not be able to receive. Therefore your cooperation is so necessary and will never be hindered or prevented by Me, on the contrary, I will support you in every way, I will offer you the pure truth such that you will be urged to pass it on and your work will become a joy for you. For I don't want to lose you as helpers and servants, I want you to become increasingly more active, that only work for Me and My kingdom will satisfy you, that it will spur you on to increased activity and that you will not let any opportunity go to waste, for it is the last time, it is the time of harvest where I require many reapers, so that all work in My vineyard will be done when the last day dawns ....

Amen

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Presentation of the divine word great help ....

B.D. 4443 from September 26th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

The presentation of My word is associated with an extremely great spiritual help, for it is a visible sign of supernatural activity so that the human being can gain a firm foothold again if his faith has wavered. He has a certain guarantee that his thinking is correct if it led him to believe in a life outside of earth, he can move with certainty into an area which seemed to him to be only fantasy and is also portrayed as such by worldly-minded people. But thus a ray from the spiritual kingdom touches people who are still earthbound, and only their will is necessary to recognize the ray as originating from the spiritual kingdom. But if this will is present, then the connection between both worlds is already established. A bridge has been found on which the human being can enter the spiritual kingdom unhindered. And thus he can also believe .... Thus, through the presentation of My word I help the human being to attain a convinced faith, although this, too, is still dependent on free will. I help him but do not compulsorily determine his faith .... And thus it can be seen that I help you humans and constantly influence you with My grace, but that you must let the grace work on you yourselves if you want to partake of My help. The last days bring such great upheavals that a firm faith is absolutely necessary in order to stand firm, and no-one would keep his faith in view of the brutal means which are used to fight the faith if the human being could not gain a convinced faith with My help first. Since the time of the battle of faith is imminent I still try to influence people such that they can become convinced beforehand and establish the right relationship with Me. And therefore I speak to you through a person who hears My word directly and can also pass it on. This is an act of grace which is caused by people's extraordinary weakness before the end. The distance from Me is too great and cannot easily be bridged if it is not based on a firm faith in Me as a loving, wise and almighty God. I try to help you gain this firm faith and therefore reveal Myself to you by speaking to you from above in such a way that you will be able to recognize Me if you are willing, if you make use of the blessings I bestow upon you in My love and mercy for the weak beings in great adversity which once originated from Me and shall return to Me again. For as soon as they gain faith in Me they will be saved for eternity ....

Amen

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(Can God suffer?) Love of God ....

B.D. 4444 from September 27th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

He Who makes Himself known to you out of immense love, He courts you with all perseverance and does not give you up because you have been His for eternity. His love is unchanging but it is also law in itself, i.e. only love can join love, and since God is eternal love Himself He also desires love and therefore seeks to shape all His creations into love so that He can unite with them. And thus He seeks to win the love of His creations and has no other aim for ever, because the union in love means beatitude for the creature and also constantly increases God's beatitude. God is perfect and, as a perfect being, able to give unlimited beatitude, but conversely He also wants to receive it from His creations which have emerged from His strength of love. But preparing beatitude always presupposes love. Hence, if God desires His living creations' love because He wants to give Himself to them, the lack of love must also restrict the giving love, thus, although it cannot diminish itself, its strength will nevertheless be limited, which also signifies diminished bliss .... in the abundance of divine love only worth mentioning when almost all creatures turn away from Him, thus deny Him their love .... a state which occurred at the end of a redemption period in creation .... (28.9.1948) Then an incomparable longing takes the place of beatitude, which, although it is not suffering as on earth, nevertheless brings increased will to help and exceedingly great mercy to be released. God can never suffer, however, the increasing distance of His beings from Him will result in an increased development of strength, thus God's love will constantly woo His living creations' love because He will not abandon them, even if eternities will pass until they turn to Him in love. A state of suffering would only occur if .... what once originated from God's love were irretrievably lost to His adversary .... which, however, is never possible because the abundance of divine love allows nothing to be lost, indeed, it even wins His adversary itself, albeit in an infinitely distant time for which no human estimate is possible anymore. The fact that God's love ever decreases is completely eliminated, because love is something so powerful that it forces everything and the power of divine love would be enough to immediately make His creatures inclined towards Himself if He wanted to let it work in all its fullness. But His beatitude increases when His creatures themselves come to Him and offer Him their love. And that is why He only influences them to the smallest degree, always trying to stimulate the will so that it pushes towards Him. If the human being's will turns away from God, God's strength of love also diminishes but nevertheless does not abandon him. Courting the love of His creatures is likewise an act of beatitude, which is only comprehensible to people when they themselves are in reciprocating love, which will also never stop courting the love of the other. Fulfilled love is bliss, unrequited love, however, a state of loneliness, which has the effect of a lack of strength or an increased generation of strength .... depending on the strength of love, which is why the beings of the kingdom of light can constantly work in love, even though they often meet resistance on the part of people .... because they are filled with love and even unrequited love is not a diminution of their strength but only increased incentive for activity. People on earth still need an influx of strength which comes to them through love and therefore lack of love also means lack of strength and urge to be active for them, thus it is felt as a state of suffering. Yet the human being remains aware at all times that he is assured of God's love, that the human being's love will always be reciprocated if it is meant for Him, and that His love is the true beatitude for everyone who desires it ....

Amen

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God's will - human will .... free will ....

B.D. 4445 from September 29th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

As it has been decided since eternity, world events take their course, i.e., human will certainly determines the course but the effects of what is stimulated by human will will always correspond to My will, thus in some way serve people's upward development if they derive the right benefit from every event. And thus people's intentions can certainly be completely contrary to My will, yet if I allow something I also associate it with an aim, and thus every event corresponds to My eternal plan, because I have known about people's will, about their thoughts and actions since eternity, and therefore everyone can nevertheless freely want and act, thus he is by no means determined to carry out what he does. The fact that I know this is no evidence of a coercive influence on people's will .... what they want to do is up to them, yet the effect of their actions is subject to My will. And thus people will accomplish things in the last days which characterize their material spirit, they will want to improve their earthly life and obtain pleasures and therefore carry out actions which, however, will result in the opposite because I want it that way .... because I know that the realization of their plans only signifies complete spiritual decline, and thus I thwart their intentions in order to indirectly help them attain maturity of soul, even though only few recognize this and the number of those who know about My plan of eternity and see My guidance in everything is also small. More than ever people will be of faith in the end time that it is they who direct the nations' destiny through their will, and yet they are only the figures in the game. They will be governed by Me but always with respect for their free will, which I will never touch for the sake of people themselves. Thus, if people carry out an act which is not caused by love, if they strive for worldly advantages, if it contravenes christian neighbourly love or is expressed in hatred or unkindness towards their fellow human beings, then I will not prevent these actions, I will leave people free will there too, but I will also demand responsibility from them for every deed or every thought which harms their fellow human beings in any way. But whether their plans are carried out with the success they desire is entirely My will, and whatever happens now will always give the striving human being the opportunity to find Me, to recognize Me and to make contact with Me. And thus the underworld also serves Me, that is, it cannot stop My will either and will therefore only unintentionally contribute towards the realization of My eternal plan, which aims at the redemption of the spiritual world ....

Amen

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Right teacher .... God as teacher .... school of the spirit ....

B.D. 4446 from September 30th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

I have taken you into My school in order to train you to become capable teachers who are in possession of the pure truth and thus can teach for the benefit of humanity. This teaching ministry is extremely important in the last days before the end, for only a few people are able to hear the voice of the spirit within themselves and thus also to be taught directly by Me about their earthly task, about their creator and father of eternity, about their actual relationship with Him and about the effects of right and wrongly used will. This knowledge has to be conveyed to them in utmost truth so that they will not fall prey to misguided teachings, for many will presume to teach and each one of them will consider himself called without, however, having been called by Me for an office which requires bearers of truth in order to be provided properly. Pure truth alone signifies brightness, pure truth alone leads to Me, as it also originates from Me, and therefore I Myself take My servants to school for this teaching ministry and instruct them in everything they need for their mission. And I truly instruct them right .... I will never tolerate that anything other than pure truth is imparted to those who want to be active for Me as serving forces on earth, and I will always provide clarification where there is doubt or ignorance, so that the teachers will be able to see completely clearly, to refute objections or contradictions and to answer questions truthfully at all times ....

(1.10.1948) The truth has to be received by Me directly if it is to be pure and unadulterated, and again and again I therefore train suitable teachers who receive this truth for the first time through the voice of the spirit and also deal with it intellectually so that they can then teach with complete conviction, as is My will. If a person on earth expresses his will to work for Me he is a welcome pupil to Me, to whom I impart profound knowledge and prepare him for his pedagogical work. Thus he will first be instructed himself in the same way as he shall then instruct his fellow human beings who are outside of contact with Me. For they shall find their way to Me, they shall learn to recognize Me as a loving teacher, as a God of grace and justice, of love and wisdom; I also want to impart My gospel to them and therefore have to avail Myself of those who let Me speak through them. Thus, if I instruct you I am also active in you Myself, it is My mouth which speaks words of love to you, it is My spirit which sounds to you from it, it is My love which expresses itself in you through the word. You are merely the form which I use .... Thus I instruct people Myself through you, but My strength is always at work when you humans hear the gospel through those who receive the word from Me. Therefore, if you listen to them you listen to Me, and if you don't believe them you don't believe in Me either, otherwise you would immediately recognize My voice as the voice of your creator, the father of eternity. Therefore pay attention to those I send to you and take their words seriously, then you will also soon learn to recognize the teacher and join His school, for truly, I say to you, you are constantly surrounded by teachers who are all active on My behalf in the spiritual kingdom. And they make sure that you are instructed correctly, that you learn to recognize the truth and never ever lose it, so that you, as teachers on earth, can help them to educate people to think correctly, for only the truth helps you humans to unite with Me, to attain eternal beatitude ....

Amen

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Call of God like a spoken word ....

B.D. 4447 from October 2nd 1948, taken from Book No. 52

You will hear My call like a spoken word and then every doubt will fall, every weakness will be overcome, every indecision will leave you, then you will gladly and joyfully serve Me and be faithful labourers for Me on earth. I Myself will guide you along the paths you should take, everything will come to you so that you only need to act as it urges you from within, and every counterthought will fade away because My word still resounds in you, because you are full of bliss and willingness over this resounding word and are now completely absorbed in service for Me and My kingdom. But then you will also know that the hour has come when your mission begins and that great demands will be placed on you because the adversity will set in, because then what I have predicted through word and scripture will come to pass .... I will now make Myself audible to all people, I will speak to them through the elements of nature because otherwise they will not want to listen to Me and the time of the end will require a great shaking of people's thinking. And then I place the hope in you that you will be firm supports for Me on earth, that you will take your mission seriously and help Me to save countless erring souls. You can do it, and I don't demand anything unfulfillable from you, for I Myself am with you at all times and give you strength, so that you, so to speak, only need to carry out what I mentally instruct you to do, and you only ever need to make use of My strength .... that I Myself thus work through you, who completely submit yourselves to My will through conscious devotion to Me. The adversity around you will drive you to eager activity, everywhere you will find cared-for, anxious people who are grateful to you for comforting encouragement, for enlightening words which give them hope for help from above, which revive their weak faith or also make completely unbelievers think. Your convincing words will do them good, they will adhere to you so that you can be a strong support for them in the difficult time you all still have to live through. Yet I only place the burden on all of you which you are able to bear with My help .... If you don't make use of My help then it will weigh too heavily on you, if you don't commit yourselves to satan, who will certainly also help you, but then your soul will be lost forever. Anyone who believes in Me and trustingly appeals to Me for help will not call upon Me in vain, and he will survive the time until the end without harming his soul. Make this known to them, you My servants on earth, that everyone holds his fate in his own hands, that there is a possibility of help for every person if only he wants to take it, that I am ready for everyone and will help him carry the heaviest cross, yet he has to come to Me himself and appeal to Me for help, then he will be visibly cared for and every adversity will be bearable for him ....

Amen

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The audible Word and conditions ....

B.D. 4448 from October 2nd 1948, taken from Book No. 52

You need to pay attention to the slightest emotion if you want to hear My voice within yourselves. For this reason the transmission of My Word can only take place if you are in complete seclusion from the world. Although you are still living in the midst of the world everything around you can nevertheless subside into nothingness, it can stay completely unnoticed by you, if you direct your thoughts inwards and look for Me. Then you will observe different spheres to the earthly one, then you are already in the spiritual realm, your soul has lifted itself across while the body remains on earth but without having lost the connection with the soul. Anyone who succeeds in dismissing all worldly thoughts and concentrates will soon hear gentle Words in his heart, and the more the soul has detached itself from the body the clearer they will sound, that is, the more the soul strives towards the spiritual kingdom where My Word originates from, where I Am Myself amongst the beings which educate you on My instructions, if the teaching does not directly come forth from Me. The world certainly does not want to admit that God speaks directly to people, it finds it implausible because the world, that is, worldly people, will never be able to hear this gentle voice since they only take notice of their body's demands and what it achieves. The soul is an implausible concept for them, they do not acknowledge the soul and therefore do not accept what the soul receives from the spiritual kingdom and wants to impart to people on earth.

They don't believe it because they also lack the will to live up to the conditions which enable them to hear My voice. They don't mentally detach themselves from the world but constantly strive towards it so that they have no time for turning inwards, thus they never lead an inner life without which, however, My Word cannot possibly be heard. I do not approach people from outside but meet them in their hearts .... Although I also work so evidently that it is externally visible to whom I Am present, who receives strength from Me .... but only ever where a life of love is being lived, where I can enter a heart because I Am called upon in the heart. I only manifest Myself where an earthly child firmly believes in Me and loves Me with all its heart, and both are feelings of the soul which are unrelated to the body as such. Thus anyone who wants to hear Me must come to Me and I Am not in the world but in the spiritual kingdom, even though My will is also in charge of the world but only to win worldly people over to Me, to entice them away from the bustle of the world into seclusion in order to make those possessions desirable for them which alone are of value for eternity .... Withdraw into solitude and listen within and you will clearly and distinctly hear Me if you pay attention to every thought, for as long as you don't perceive the audible Word in you which needs a particular maturity of soul and most intimate contact with Me .... However, I reveal Myself to everyone who fulfils My will and desires to hear Me ....

Amen

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Hour of the calling .... announcement of the end ....

B.D. 4449 from October 3rd 1948, taken from Book No. 52

The hour of your calling is drawing ever closer and will also take you by surprise, although you are aware of it. Apparently a state of calm has occurred which also makes your work for My kingdom appear to be on hold, yet the change will come suddenly and a completely new field of vision will open up to you, you will be pushed away from the earthly and the spiritual will come to the fore, and then your last but extremely important mission on this earth will begin. Then all earthly worries will recede, for everything will take care of itself for you, and My working on you will be so obvious that a calm will come over you which will allow you to carry out all spiritual work. The time has come which I announced on and on .... the earth is entering the last phase of its development and surprisingly quickly a world situation has been created which fills all people with excitement .... Blessed is he who recognizes how close the end is and how everything is fulfilled that was proclaimed long before by seers and prophets. It is coming to an end .... You don't believe it because you are still in the midst of the world and only look at everything in a purely worldly, i.e. earthly material way and have no sense for the spiritual. You will also only look at the forthcoming events in a purely worldly way and again only take care of your physical well-being, yet I urgently warn you against this and admonish you to still only take care of your soul, for you are about to reach the end .... Again and again I have to give you this assurance because your faith is weak, if you still believe in Me and My word at all. But if you don't believe My word from above and yet think you believe, then compare the written word from the book of the fathers .... and you will find nothing else there than what I say to you from above. But if you do not want to reject that, then you cannot deny a last judgment with all the preceding signs .... But who of you wants to know when the end will be .... and who of you wants to consider it completely impossible that the time has already come? And if I now draw your attention to the fact that the time is fulfilled, then do not oppose My word with doubts but believe that it is I Who tells you this, that it is I Who knows everything and that My plan has been determined since eternity. Accordingly, everything will now also unfold as it is determined .... And so the call to you, My servants and disciples of the end time, will soon go out to you and bring great changes with it .... But then willingly give yourselves into My hand, which will guide you safely and carefully over all dangers of life, so that you will now fulfil your mission according to My will .... And I will bless you and every work you do for Me and My kingdom ....

Amen

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Struggle for strong faith ....

B.D. 4450 from October 4th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

The struggle for profound unshakeable faith must not diminish, otherwise there is a danger that the concern for physical well-being will outweigh the spiritual concern and the human being will become weak in every respect. Deep faith alone gives strength, faith is the guarantee of all success, faith gives peace and tranquillity of heart, and all worries disappear if the person has strong faith. A person's own strength is not sufficient to cope with the demands placed on him but only the strength of faith, for this is divine strength, it flows over to the person who presents all his needs to Me in profound faith so that I will help him. Firm faith that I will help him to master his earthly life also secures him the strength which is necessary to overcome earthly demands. But if faith is weak then the human being becomes anxious, he only focuses all his attention on his earthly activity, he becomes lukewarm in his spiritual striving and does not progress, but this alone is important in earthly life. A firm faith is trust in Me .... You must not lack this, for anyone who has no faith in Me does not believe in My love and My omnipotence either, thus he does not believe in a perfect being which is united with you in profound love. Strive for strong faith, don't cease to pray, to imagine that I belong together with My living creations forever, that you, who have emerged from Me, are constantly cared for and looked after and that I don't want to leave you in adversity if you feel yourselves to be My children and now also come to the father as a child and appeal to Him for help. First of all I want your trust in Me, your faith that I can and will help you .... If you have this faith you will already be helped, for I will never let a strong faith go to waste. Connect with Me in spirit, speak to Me and expect My help .... and it will become yours ....

Amen

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"He who receives one of My brethren ...." reward of God .... help the servants ....

B.D. 4451 from October 4th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

You will gain a reward from God if you grant shelter to My true representatives on earth, for then you will also give shelter to Me Myself, Who is with them, Whom you certainly cannot see but can perceive at any time if you follow My disciples' activities and recognize their extraordinary mission. Then it will become obvious to you that they are not active out of their own strength but, permeated by divine strength, are able to achieve supernatural things. And then you will also be blessed by divine revelations yourselves, you may receive and thus hear Me Myself when I speak to you through My servants. Then you will receive Me Myself and can expect My love in return, which will reward you a thousand fold for what you do for My servants. For anyone who is My true disciple will be as poor in earthly possessions as I was when I lived on earth, and he will call nothing his own and always depend on his neighbour's love. And therefore you should accept them and give them what they need out of true christian neighbourly love .... And you will receive more than you give, for you only give earthly goods but I impart spiritual goods to you which cannot perish and which you can therefore take with you into the spiritual kingdom. But this is how you recognize My true servants, that they are destitute and in many respects dependent on their neighbour's love, on people willing to help, that they have to be supported by those who have means at their disposal. I lead you to My servants whom you should accept if they ask you for help. You will by no means come to harm but you will gain an incredible amount, for My promise will come true: Whoever receives one of My brothers receives Me, and My reward is truly not small .... And by this you will also recognize the end time, that I call servants to work for Me and My kingdom, for I have announced to you that the time of harvest has come and that I need many reapers for this time. So that My servants can now work, they shall be relieved of earthly worries and find people on earth who faithfully stand by them, who relieve them of earthly worries and support them in every way so that they can carry out the spiritual work unhindered. And I will bless those, and they will feel My grace because they, too, participate in the flow of love which pours out upon My own, upon all those who are in contact with My own, whom they don't hostile, for they, too, are under My protection, I Myself am also close to them and express Myself to them in the word ....

Amen

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Directed matter .... bound will ....

B.D. 4452 from October 5th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

Directed matter is the spiritual in a bound state which has directed itself through its God-contradicting will, i.e. has been placed into the state of bound will by God's will. It can therefore no longer, as was originally the case, freely will and put its will into action, but it is completely powerless and stands in the law of compulsion, it is forced to move in the will of God .... it stands in the bound will .... This state lasts for eternities and encompasses infinitely many deformations and stages of development and passes through countless creations until the stage as a human being, where it then steps out of the bound will into freedom of will, where it can then redeem itself, although it is still judged, if it uses the freedom of its will correctly, i.e. to approach God. Hence, it is first a judged being which can step out of judgment into the state of spiritual freedom, strength and light .... Now it is a wrong concept that the human being falls under this judgment through sin, but he is already in judgment when he enters earth as a human being and is still in judgment as long as he is not yet born again, thus has not yet awakened his spirit. And depending on his way of life, which can be without sin but also very sinful, the cover around the spiritual substance thickens or gradually dissolves. If, however, the spiritual being as a human being remains in resistance to God, then there is a great danger that the whole endless long time of an epoch of redemption will have been in vain for the spiritual being, that it will have to travel the same path again and thus the spiritual being will again be bound in matter, which it had long since overcome. Then it enters the law of compulsion again, it is again directed by God's will and is bound in hardest matter, a state which can be called hell because it is extremely agonizing for the spiritual, which was originally created in fullest freedom and strength and power and now can no longer use it until it has completely changed and found union with God in free will. Then the being enters into God's will of its own accord and becomes the most blissful creature, as it was destined to be from eternity ....

Amen

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Supernatural powers .... transmission from the spiritual realm ....

B.D. 4453 from October 6th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

Supernatural forces are at work where the transmission of the divine word to an earthly human being takes place, for the human being in himself achieves something that he cannot do on his own. An ability emerges that can only be explained by the extraordinary working of unknown forces. If one does not want to accept the latter and assume a purely natural ability, then the ability would also have to be found in other people, otherwise it remains something extraordinary that must have its reason. And therefore the assumption is justified that forces are at work which the human being does not know, if he has not yet penetrated into the area of spiritual transmission. Both worlds face each other, the spiritual kingdom builds a bridge to the earthly world .... invisible forces unite with people on earth and mentally communicate with the latter in such a way that the thoughts can be recorded and also passed on to fellow human beings. And the thoughts are formed teachings which contain comprehensive knowledge. Hence a transmission of truthful knowledge takes place which can never be presented by people in such detail and to such an extent, thus it has to originate from beings which are exceedingly wise and able to carry out a teaching activity. These beings are only supernatural insofar as they dwell outside of earth or, to be more precise, outside of earthly creations, but otherwise they are beings of highest perfection which have discarded their physical cover and entered the spiritual kingdom. These beings try to communicate with people and share their abundant knowledge with them in the realization that knowledge makes people happy and that people on earth lack it. In their love they want to make people happy and lead them to perfection, and that is why they use every opportunity to reveal themselves to people if they make a revelation from the spiritual kingdom possible through their will. Then all barriers between the earthly and the spiritual world will fall, then the spiritual beings will draw people into their realm, the human being's soul will detach itself from earth, it will flee from the body and accept instructions from the spiritual kingdom .... The supersensible forces express themselves and the human being's soul is able to receive these expressions, it is able to hear the thoughts of the beings of light as words within itself, the words do not remain without impression, they imprint themselves on the soul and the soul takes them back to earth with it, it transmits what it has received to the intellect, and the human being as such is now able to process the spiritual knowledge received from the soul intellectually and to keep it as spiritual property. And so that people have a clear sign of this working of spiritual strength it is possible for the receiving person to write down the spiritual wealth, thus to provide visible evidence of the connection with the spiritual kingdom, otherwise his spiritual material could be regarded as his own imagination and the transmission which took place as the imagination of humanity. The human being can always recognize it if only he wants to, yet no compulsion is imposed on his will .... But blessed is he who recognizes divine working in every spiritual transmission, for he will derive great benefit from it for his soul, which the beings of light want to help everyone achieve ....

Amen

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Living water ....

B.D. 4454 from October 7th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

The source of eternal life from which the living water flows is inexhaustible, and anyone who longs for the living water will constantly be able to refresh himself from it. I Myself will never dry up this spring, but you humans can easily contribute to a weakening of the flow if your soul blocks the exit, if you erect obstacles, if you act against nature and thus consciously want to kill the spring. Once the water of eternal life has broken through the hard rock, there will never be a lack of clear, refreshing water for people, and everyone who desires refreshment will be able to feast on it. And yet, human will is capable of blocking even a spring if the delicious gift, the fresh, pure, healthy water of life is not recognized as delicious and the human being strives to render its strength ineffective because he believes he does not need it.

But then they will also have to blame themselves if everything becomes desolate and withers, if no real life can flourish within a wide radius, if people only live naturally but are spiritually completely without life, for they lack the strength they can draw from the spring of life, from the eternal source of divine love. My word is the water of life, born from above, emanating from the eternal source and flowing to all those who open themselves as a vessel into which the flow of My love can pour. My word refreshes everyone, it is food and drink for the soul, My word is a delicious drink for all earthly wanderers who need strengthening on their earthly path of life. And where My word is received, there the rock has opened to henceforth give fresh, life-awakening water. There faith is so strong that My voice is audible .... Where a spring has broken through the rock there will be vegetation everywhere in the vicinity, there people will be healthy in body and soul as well as they will refresh themselves at the spring, as soon as they live out My word and also consider their fellow human beings according to their feelings, for then they will also offer the cups of clearest water to those and thus also enliven their surroundings .... Anyone who does not pass by the source of life need not fear death, for there is truly no death for him, he only leaves the body and passes into eternal life, for he has drunk from the water of life and can no longer die forever .... He has received My word, he has recognized the eternal truth therein, and he will never ever let go of what he has received from Me, he will never ever let the spring run dry but his thirst will become ever greater the more he refreshes himself at the source of life, he will want to drink without interruption, and he will do everything to keep the fountain of life pure, and he will also know how to prevent fellow human beings from blocking the spring, because he is vigilant and also strong enough to keep every pest away, for he constantly draws strength from My word, from the water of life, from the source which My great love has opened up for you ....

Amen

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Gathering spiritual treasures on earth .... Regret in the beyond ....

B.D. 4455 from October 9th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

Anyone who has not gathered spiritual treasures for himself on earth and thus enters the gates of the beyond empty handed is one of the poorest in the spiritual kingdom. I would like to spare you this fate because you will experience bitter regret when you look back and see the many missed opportunities. Poverty in the spiritual kingdom is so depressing and hopeless that it will torment you and completely paralyse your will, as a result you will hardly be able to deliver yourselves from this painful state. And yet it is so easy to acquire spiritual possessions on earth if only you thought of Me and desired to speak to Me. Merely this desire guarantees receipt of My Word in different ways .... You will always be shown where you can receive My Word if you do not accept it from Me in your thoughts, that is, if you cannot recognise My voice in your thoughts.

However, it is certain that you will feel the inner motivation to do kind deeds as soon as you contact Me in thought and thus intend to get in touch with Me. I announce Myself by prompting you to love because only then can I enter into complete union with you. Thus, first of all I inspire you to actions of love, and this directly through the inner voice or through external advice and reminders by the deliverers of My Word who only preach love. If you listen to them and follow the Word then you will also gather spiritual possessions and acquire riches which will remain with you eternally, which cannot be taken from you on earth or in the beyond and which will increase in the same way, even when you constantly share them. To enter the kingdom on the other side blessed with such possessions is truly most desirable as it assures your eternal life in the spiritual kingdom, a life of activity which can only be called enjoyable and will be felt by you as a great blessing.

But those who enter completely empty handed will find it very difficult to acquire spiritual wealth even though it is not entirely hopeless. Even there the Gospel will be taught to the soul but, like on earth, it is not forced to accept it; like on earth, acceptance depends on its will which, however, is extraordinarily weakened and cannot make the right decision without the help of additional strength. And this input of strength in turn depends on the will of the soul to use it for deeds of love .... or on the loving intercession of a human being. For that reason you cannot have enough compassion for these poor souls who urgently require your help because they neglected to gather spiritual treasures on earth to make their state in the beyond a happy one. Their poverty is great but people do not listen to My Word, they do not believe and therefore enter the kingdom on the other side poor and with darkened spirit ....

Amen

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Spiritual dialogue .... presence of God .... doubt - worry ....

B.D. 4456 from October 10th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

The clearest answer to your mental questions will not satisfy you if you don't firmly believe that the mental answer is My spirit's working. As long as you doubt this you will not be able to have inner peace either, because you are constantly tormented by thoughts which require a clear answer from Me. Always feel so intimately united with Me that you are certain of My constant participation in your life, then you will also be able to believe that I live with you and know your every adversity and worry. You must acquire this awareness of My participation and constant presence, then your life will also be easy, then you will be filled with the feeling of togetherness which fills you with strength, then you will always know in Me the strong companion Who helps you over all obstacles, Who guides you and guards your every step, Who will not leave you unprotected against any enemy attack, Who is always with you because He loves you. Only gain faith in My love .... What you entrust to Me in thought, in the adversity of your heart, will not go unheard by My ears, and if you listen quietly and attentively within, you will also hear My answer in thought: only believe that I speak to you through your thoughts and therefore do not reject them .... After heartfelt prayer to Me My spirit's answer is active, which gives you the inner conviction to be right, for if you implore Me I will not remain silent because you should believe that I will help you. You are still weak in faith in Me and My love and therefore live in restlessness, in fear and worry and in a feeling of loneliness. Yet believe that I am with you, believe that My love applies to you and that I will never ever leave you, and let this awareness of My presence become so strong in you that you therefore fear nothing that approaches you from outside. For I want to give you peace of mind which, however, can only make you happy in the feeling of togetherness with Me. You are never alone, and My word is the visible sign of My presence .... How can you, who receive My word, doubt My presence? And what else but doubts about it are your fear and worry, which are invalid if you firmly and convincingly believe that I am with you and help you in every adversity and distress of body and soul? And therefore you will be able to do without any other help if it is denied to you by your fellow human beings. You will never turn to Me in vain, and therefore always come to Me when you are weary and burdened .... My love is always ready to help you if only you request My help, if you pray to Me in spirit and in truth and believe .... for I will never let a strong faith go to waste ....

Amen

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Announcement of the end .... 'You only have little time left ....'

B.D. 4457 from October 11th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

You don't have much time left and seriously ought to prepare yourselves for the day when an act of destruction will happen the likes of which has never been experienced before. And although I keep announcing it, you nevertheless doubt My Words and are therefore slow in your work of improving your soul. And you only have a little time left .... But I cannot make you aware of it by any other means than through My Word; if you don't believe it you will be shocked when the last signs start to appear. Although shortly before I will indeed warn you once again, yet even these Words will not be believed by you anymore than the previous announcements because you will be incensed by My forbearance and can't understand that I Am waiting for the sake of the souls yet to be saved, even though the time has long been fulfilled. Some can still be saved, I want to spare them the infinitely long path of a re-embodiment on the new earth and Am therefore patient and wait. However, even the final extension of time will come to an end, therefore take My Words seriously that you only have a little time left and that you will regret every day you have not used correctly for your soul.

And world events will change surprisingly quickly, just a few days will suffice in order to place you into a completely new situation. And then you ought to remember My Words and consider spiritual issues as being more important than earthly ones, for worrying about the latter is irrelevant since you cannot keep anything for yourselves if I won't retain it for you, and that it is up to My will and My might to physically protect and take care of you. Always consider your soul, be helpful and generous when you come across adversity, and enter into heart-felt contact with Me so that you will receive the strength to endure and to do justice to all requirements of life. Constantly draw strength from My Word, for it is a source of strength which can refresh you and which will never run dry. Be always ready for Me and I will not abandon you, regardless of what happens to you ....

Amen

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Danger of flattening (cath.) .... duty .... free will ....

B.D. 4458 from October 11th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

An unspeakable number of people are in danger of falling spiritually flat because they have adopted an erroneous view which makes serious reflection on the most important things seem unnecessary. What God demands of people is merely work on the soul and the fulfilment of the human being's duties for earthly life. But the work on the soul is the most important thing and can only be done from within, i.e. an attitude which corresponds to God's will must determine every thought, will and action, the human being, driven from within, must lead the way of life which pleases God. And this way of life is merely a life of unselfish loving activity towards his fellow human being. Then his soul will mature, then he will do the work on his soul which is the purpose and aim of his earthly life .... But how many people understand by a God-pleasing way of life an outwardly recognizable attitude towards a certain denomination ....? How many people are of the erroneous opinion that God has prescribed certain outward appearances for them, and they make an effort to fulfil these conscientiously without, however, furthering the maturity of their soul. Now they do not live contrary to God per se but they do not progress either, they do not sin but do not gather spiritual goods either; they are not contrary to God but not God-connected either; they do nothing bad but nothing particularly good either, they are not cold but not hot either, and they therefore always remain on the same level, they do not ascend but their path is even and therefore does not lead to the aim which requires an ascent otherwise it will never be reached. It is not only a few people who are in this danger, but a large number belong to those who cannot be taught because they are firmly convinced that they walk the right path and have the right knowledge. But these people lack one thing: the awareness of their own weakness and the resulting need to lean on the one to Whom they belong .... This awareness would make them request advice and help which God will not deny them but which also consists of guiding them into the right realization. People who do not correctly recognize divine will must first be correctly instructed and thus realize their ignorance and try to remedy it. This is a deeply humble admission of one's imperfection, which, however, is seldom made. Instead of humility, self-conceit is far more common, and this does not accept any teachings, but is convinced of the truth and the infallibility of one's own thinking. So the truth does not find its way in, because man thinks he is already in possession of the truth, which, however, would first have to be presented to him.

(12.10.1948) And thus countless people do not focus their attention on the transformation of their nature as it should be, instead they are content with adhering to laws which appear to be the most important to them because they are not properly instructed by those who call themselves My representatives on earth. However, it is only important how the individual person leads his daily life with regard to the spiritual life of the soul, i.e. how his conduct is in spiritual terms, whether it corresponds to God's will, i.e. whether it represents a fulfilment of His commandments of love. The commandment of love, however, predominantly extends to dealings with fellow human beings, with the neighbour, to whom the same measure of love should be given if the human being wants to fulfil the divine commandments. Activities which have nothing to do with neighbourly love, which in case of omission mean no harm to the fellow human being, are therefore also completely meaningless for the increase of soul maturity, they then fall into the category of worldly activities, which therefore serve some worldly purpose and therefore as purely worldly service cannot be evaluated for the degree of soul maturity. Laws which have been added to the fundamental law of love for God and neighbour are likely to make this fundamental law appear less important and therefore a danger to the human soul, so that precisely the commandments of love cannot be preached insistently enough, on the fulfilment of which the soul's salvation and thus its whole life in eternity depends. And again and again it has to be pointed out to people that they use their will wrongly if they use it to carry out humanly decreed commandments and believe that they have now fulfilled their duty, whereas they do not work on the transformation of their nature and therefore remain at the stage of their spiritual development, thus they make no progress during their earthly life. Only loving activity is required, for this fulfils the commandment of love which is the only one God has given to people so that they will become blissfully happy ....

Amen

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Hard struggle and suffering before the end .... safest help God’s word ....

B.D. 4459 from October 13th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

You children of My love still have to hold out for a short time until you are released from the form. It is a difficult battle you still have to endure, yet it will not be too difficult for you because I am constantly close to you and grant you support at all times. Yet for your own sake you still have to go through suffering so that you will be purified and no longer need to fear the last judgment. Yet again and again I give you the assurance that you will only stay on this earth for a short time, that every day is still a gift in which you can gain much if you surrender to everything difficult that comes upon you. It will pass by .... and one day you will look up to Me full of gratitude, Who, through suffering, has placed you in the degree of being allowed to look at Me, Who, through suffering, helps your soul to mature more quickly, because time is only short until the end. You are all My children, I certainly see your suffering but I also know about the necessity of it, and thus the suffering is only love for you again, and you should always gratefully accept it from My hand, for nothing comes upon you which I don't know or deem good and beneficial for you. Yet you are never abandoned by Me, even if it seems as if I don't hear your prayer .... Every call from the heart reaches My ear, and I am always ready to help, only it is not always immediately recognizable to you .... The gift of grace from above .... My word .... will always be a safe aid for you if you think you are weak or completely despondent .... Turn to Me in prayer and then accept the answer by receiving My word, and peace will come over you and My strength will flow over you so that you will be able to bear everything I send upon you. You don't need to suffer, for My word is full compensation for everything you lack, which makes you miserable. Every suffering and every worry disappears if you read My word and let it penetrate your hearts. For I Myself am My word, and can you really feel suffering when I am near you? Prove your faith and heed My advice, let Me speak to you and nothing will touch you, no suffering will oppress you as soon as you make contact with Me ....

Amen

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God’s word must not force to acceptance .... free will ....

B.D. 4460 from October 13th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

I inform you of My will but I do not force you to fulfil it. For I want you to live in accordance with My will out of love for Me, that it is therefore your free will how you live your life and that you then also bear the responsibility for your soul which determines your will. But in order for you to know My will I constantly make sure that it is conveyed to you, and thus you receive My word .... How it is conveyed to you depends again on your attitude towards Me. It is brought to those from outside who have not yet found the right attitude towards Me, so that they establish the right relationship to also be able to hear My word inwardly. Mentally it happens to those who are searching and send their thoughts into infinity .... My word comes to them in the form of thoughts which they regard as their own origin but which always conform to the proclamation of My will through the written word. Still others desire to hear Me, they believe and hold silent dialogue with Me, and I can reveal Myself to them through the inner voice. Thus My word is conveyed to them in purest form, it is My imprinted will which manifests itself to those who want to be active as labourers in My vineyard, who are therefore to pass on My imparted word to their fellow human beings on My behalf. Thus I take care that the gospel is spread throughout the world, that all people receive knowledge of My will which they are to fulfil if they want to become blessed. Yet I leave everyone their freedom of will .... And therefore My word must always be presented in a form that it does not necessarily influence people, and therefore it can certainly be easily recognized as My word but it must never be conclusive, thus it must force people to accept it as being of absolutely divine origin. And therefore I have to let you doubt again and again so that you have to use your will yourselves, which should freely decide to accept or reject what is offered to you from above as pure truth. For My word must never make you unfree, it must not determine your faith if your faith is still too weak. The word itself shall strengthen your faith, of your own free will you shall struggle for strong faith and draw the strength for it from My word. But as long as you still have weak faith I cannot lead you to strong faith through obvious evidence, for you should believe but not know, i.e. you should attain knowledge through faith but not eliminate faith through proven knowledge, because then it is no longer possible to speak of free decision. Fulfil My will .... live in love and you will also be able to believe and need no proof .... Establish the right relationship with Me .... Pray for strong faith, ask Me to help you, then you will already prove the right faith through your prayer and you will experience a strengthening that every doubt in you will disappear .... you will be able to believe because you have the will to do so and I help everyone who strives towards Me of his own free will ....

Amen

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Bridge to God - prayer .... narrowing the gap ....

B.D. 4461 from October 15th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

The bridge to Me can be entered at any time and no one will be denied to seek My presence. I Myself built it for you, I bridged the gulf between you and Me because I don't want to be separated from you forever, and I will also meet you halfway, only you must have the will yourselves to reach Me. And you will be unspeakably happy when you have reached the aim which you cannot behold in all its glory from across but which must be glorious for the very reason that it is My kingdom and because you have to leave all earthly things behind you when you enter My kingdom. The bridge to Me is prayer, the change of your thoughts from the earthly into the spiritual world; whether it is a silent call to Me, whether it is a dwelling of your thoughts in non-earthly spheres, then you always seek the kingdom which is not of this world, you seek to recognize Me, and your will is directed towards Me, you have entered the bridge on which you shall henceforth walk, always with Me as your aim in mind. And I recognize your will and come to meet you, because every soul delights Me which turns to Me of its own free will .... If you pray intimately and thereby become aware of My presence, you will already have come far towards Me, the gulf between you and Me will become ever smaller, My hand will reach out to you and guide and pull you. If you can now even hear My voice, you will soon have reached your aim .... I urgently call out to you: Use prayer, use the bridge I have built for you, often connect with Me in thought until you may never choose another path than this bridge which leads to Me, until only this aim seems desirable to you, until your soul has recognized its true home and all longing is directed towards it. Pray in spirit and in truth .... Admitting your weakness to Me and asking Me for grace and strength for the long path you have to travel until you reach the aim. And once you have called Me through your desire that I should come to meet you, then the path will no longer seem far or difficult to you, then the distance will diminish more and more, the bridge will soon be crossed and you will then walk in realms which seem lovely to you; then you will already be in My kingdom, even though your body is still on earth .... But your soul dwells above, it has reached its aim, it has found Me and now never leaves Me, it no longer gives Me up .... The child has found its way home to the father's house because it has used the bridge which My love has built for all My children on earth, so that they may become blessed ....

Amen

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The ability to hear God's voice .... Conditions ....

B.D. 4462 from October 16th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

You are only able to hear the voice of the spirit if all your thoughts and intentions apply to Me alone, if you thus completely detach your thoughts from the earthly world. This does not imply that you should not perform your earthly duties or totally withdraw into solitude. For this does not correspond to My will, but in the midst of the bustle of the world you should look for the opportunity, and you will indeed find it, where your soul disassociates itself from the world, where you can briefly detach yourselves from all earthly thoughts, hence where your soul lifts itself into spheres which are unrelated to Earth, where I Am the focal point of your thoughts, feelings and inclinations, where it looks for and wishes to speak to Me. Everyone can establish such short contacts with Me if he wants to, he can even turn his thoughts towards Me for a few minutes during his earthly work, and I will pay attention to every thought and impart My Word to him; and if a person mentally remains for a longer time in My kingdom, if he takes the time to hold an inner conversation with Me and pays attention to the thoughts flowing to him as a reply, he will develop the ability to hear My voice, and it will soon sound to him like a gentle but clearly pronounced Word in his heart. You all can develop this ability within yourselves; however, it requires complete detachment from the world .... Nothing externally must affect the human being if he clearly wants to hear the voice inside. For this reason it also takes considerable strength of will to withdraw from the outer world and not to allow any part of this world take effect upon oneself .... I must be desired and be able to completely permeate his heart, otherwise I cannot be present to him and he will not be able to hear Me either. No-one can serve two masters .... When I speak everything else must be silent, and anyone who shall possess My love, which manifests itself in the Word, must also grant Me his love and willingly detach himself from all worldly matters, for My gift is precious and must also be appropriately appreciated ....

Amen

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Gift of prophecy ....

B.D. 4463 from October 17th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

The gift of prophecy should not be misjudged, it should not be regarded as a prediction of earthly events in order to allow people a glimpse into the future but as what it really is .... divine enlightenment, a foresight of events which are closely related to people's spiritual development and which is therefore inherent to people in a certain degree of maturity, so that humanity will be warned and admonished in spiritual matters. Anyone who is called by God to proclaim the future to people will never want to exploit his gift materially and will not strive for or achieve any earthly advantage. He will only unwillingly make these announcements himself but, driven by the spirit within himself, he will fulfil the divine will by passing on what the spirit makes known to him. God needs people through whom He can express Himself, and it truly belongs to Him to draw people's attention to forthcoming events which could mean the individual's premature end, for His love wants to give the human being an impulse to think about his fate after death, because He gives little room to such thoughts in the world's affairs. A prediction which has spiritual content and is intended to stimulate a change can be believed at any time, and a prophet of this kind should not be rejected or overheard. A spiritual prediction always testifies to the seer's contact with God, because His adversary would never point people to severe sorrowful events, but every prophecy which is a divine mission always announces an approaching judgment. The fact that a person spreads such announcements of his own accord can only be assumed if an earthly success or motive can be proven, but this is not the case for people who strive to live in God's will. And if a person consciously places himself at God's service his thinking will also be guided correctly, for God needs people who give themselves as an organ through which He can express Himself. Moreover, the world of light constantly stands behind these servants of God and prevents any wrong influence where free will provides the opportunity to convey messages from the spiritual kingdom to earth. Therefore, give ear to the prophets and seers of the last days .... regard them as being in the service of God .... take their words seriously and believe what God makes known to you through them. The gift of prophecy is a gift of grace to humanity which must first be used again if it is to become effective .... Anyone who believes them will also live his life according to God's will, he will prepare himself and think of his soul, he will work on himself in view of what has been announced, and this alone is the purpose of a spiritual foresight which only testifies to God's love and mercy, Who wants to help people turn their thoughts away from earthly life and towards spiritual life .... because the end is near ....

Amen

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Proof of truth of the word .... response from God through mediator ....

B.D. 4464 from October 18th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

You are always free to ask Me where you are troubled by doubts, I hear you and will also answer you. But leave it up to Me in which form I want to give you the answer, only believe that I will give it to you. Consequently, evaluate My answer by not rejecting it but paying attention to it. Again and again I speak to you and try to win you over through My word, I try to make everything understandable to you and am never impatient because of your unwillingness; yet I often encounter contradiction because you stick to your preconceived opinion despite better knowledge and therefore don't need an answer either because you give it to yourselves. Yet I still reserve an answer for Myself which will convince you, yet then you will no longer have the advantage for your soul from the conviction which you could gain if you believed without the evidence. How do you want to have the answer that it would be acceptable to you despite your will to reject it? Only I Myself can give it to you and do so through the mediation of a person who receives My word directly. If you listen to him, you hear Me Myself .... If My word does not apply through his mouth, you are unteachable and would not believe either if I were to confront you with a miracle.

You forget that I cannot reveal Myself to you directly as long as you are not deeply religious. You have to consider everything possible, only then can you also be honoured by a direct revelation from Me, for then it will no longer be a spiritual coercion for you. To gain faith through an extraordinary sign would be of no use to you, on the other hand you can acquire faith if you live according to My will. Every person can believe as soon as he loves .... Then the word itself will speak to him, then he will not need any evidence for the truth of the word. Moreover, the human being should only look around him, he should draw comparisons between the people who acknowledge My word from above and those who reject it. Then they will be able to perceive a distance, if they consider the connection with Me, to what extent it is form or life. And he will have to admit that those who believe in My word from above are far more serious about following My will, that they live a spiritually directed life because they feel Me in the word and My nearness will never remain without impression and therefore success can also be recorded. My word speaks for itself. Anyone who does not believe My word has not yet received it with his heart but only with his intellect. But the latter will not feel My presence, but the heart will, which will also instruct you and answer every question, every doubt, because I Myself take abode in the heart and speak to you. And you will always be able to hear Me if you believe deeply and steadfastly, for I will remain with you until the end ....

Amen

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Supper ....

B.D. 4465 from October 19th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

And you shall be My guests who I invite to Supper. I will nourish you and quench your thirst with delectable sustenance for the soul, I will spiritualise your body so that its substances can also partake when the soul is being refreshed, so that it will mature faster, because this is possible with those people who consciously strive towards Me and desire to hear My Word. Be My guests and come to Me gladly to take Supper with Me at My table .... I will prepare you a meal of heavenly food with delectable manna which will provide you with strength and spiritual nourishment for your soul. I won't deny you anything you desire, I Am always ready for you and lay out the table with delectable food because I love you and, as My guests, want to provide you with everything that pleases you. However, you should come gladly and yearn for Me, you should accept My invitation with a grateful heart and prepare yourselves for a dignified reception .... You should adorn yourselves in My honour as Host, don't remain standing outside but step into My house and thereby profess that you are invited guests with a right to be fed at the table of the Lord, who belong to Him, who are His friends and who He therefore treats as a good host would by entertaining his friends and offering them the most delectable gifts as often as they want to receive them. Anyone who replenishes himself at My table will never ever go hungry and thirsty again and yet always return to Me full of desire, yearning for My presence and accepting from My hand what My love offers to him. For he will constantly draw refreshment from it, in his constant feeling of fulfilled desire he will be blissfully happy and desire Me without end. And so My Word will flow to Him incessantly, the bread of heaven, which secures eternal life for him. Come to the table of the Lord, delicious sustenance awaits you, take Supper with Me, let Me give you flesh and blood to enjoy so that you will be filled by strength .... Accept My Word and listen to Me when I speak to you, recognise Me as the most loving God and Father of eternity, as your friend and brother, and receive from My hand what My greater than great love offers you .... All of you, come to My table so that I can provide you with the food you need for your soul, so that I can feed and refresh all those who hunger and thirst for My Word, for My flesh and My blood ....

Amen

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Influence of matter on humans ....

B.D. 4466 from October 21st 1948, taken from Book No. 52

Directed matter exerts great influence on the human being insofar as the spiritual bound in it urges him to unite with it, which therefore has the effect of the human being's desire for its possession. The spiritual bound in matter pushes itself into the human being's love .... it seeks to make itself indispensable to him, it strives to unite with the human being because it thereby feels stronger in its resistance against God. For it also senses the resistance the human being still has against God, or it pushes towards people who still resist God in their immaturity. And these people are also easily influenced. They themselves have the greatest desire for matter, and thus like-minded things come together which are only on different levels of development. But the human being is in danger of sinking from his already higher level of development if he chains himself to matter, which is why he cannot be warned enough to strive for matter and is constantly admonished to overcome it. The spiritual in matter can indeed also be willing to serve and help the human being in his ascent development, just as conversely the human being can help the spiritual bound in matter to ascend. But then it concerns objects of use which do not kindle the human being's greed for possession, thus do not awaken the wrong love in the human being for material possessions. As soon as matter serves the human being the resistance against God is already broken; but matter which does not fulfil a serving purpose will often awaken an increased desire in the human being to possess it, and it is this matter which is regarded as a danger for the human being's soul, for its influence on the soul is great and can have such an effect that the soul itself sinks to the stage where it is embodied in matter again. Then the bound spiritual has achieved what it wanted .... it has drawn the free spiritual down to itself and, as it were, strengthened its own power .... the human being has fallen prey to the influence of God's adversary, who has influenced his will to use it in the wrong direction, who constantly presents dead matter to him in order to persuade him to relapse, because thereby he increases his kingdom, his power and violence and it stimulates the God-hostile beings into constant resistance. What turns towards God is lost to him, and this he tries to thwart with all means. Matter itself, i.e. the spiritual bound in it, is still in bondage to him in its immaturity, although God's adversary cannot have a determining effect on the spiritual. But since the spiritual itself has not given up its resistance to God, it also pushes towards people who are in the same resistance, who are pointed to matter by God's adversary, to whom he puts matter before the eye as a lure of the world. The human being can evade this influence or resist it with his will, yet he often uses the freedom of his will wrongly and gives in to the urge of the enemy of his soul. For this reason the battle against matter is the actual battle the human being should wage in earthly life, for once he has overcome it his ascent is also assured, because then there will be nothing holding him back on earth and then his soul can soar into spiritual spheres, because then nothing will hinder its flight upwards and thus there will no longer be any danger, and at the same time the human being then helps the spiritual substance in matter to ascend, which he uses, and thereby helps it to be of service, whereby the spiritual substance in matter can release itself from every form until it has finally also reached the last stage and can serve as a human being in free will ....

Amen

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Spiritual transmissions of blessings for the beings in the hereafter ....

B.D. 4467 from October 22nd 1948, taken from Book No. 52

The beings of light are only rarely able to assert themselves insofar as they can persuade a human being to serve as a receiving device for direct transmissions from the spiritual kingdom. They are indeed constantly endeavouring to influence people mentally but a vessel which opens itself to the emanations of these beings is rarely to be found, and therefore they then use every opportunity to express themselves through such an open vessel and are constantly close to it. As soon as a transmission takes place the barrier between the earthly and the spiritual world has fallen, and countless beings are willing to listen to the spiritual instructions to earth, because this signifies a stay in the light and the souls from dark or spheres of little light strive towards every ray of light which touches them beneficially. And thus a human being who has prepared himself as a receptacle for the divine spirit and is now in contact with knowing beings gives countless beings in the beyond the opportunity to expand their knowledge and thereby to mature in realization and to develop upwards. And these souls are eternally grateful for it .... At the same time, however, the human being accepts brightest knowledge, he gathers spiritual goods which can never be replaced by better things. Therefore he is supported by all otherworldly forces. The opportunity will always be created for him to maintain this connection with the spiritual kingdom, knowing and ignorant beings stay close to him, yet forces which are well-disposed will always instruct him, and souls which are willing will attend those teachings, and therefore every opportunity should be used to establish contact with the spiritual kingdom, for the blessing for these souls is often greater in the beyond than on earth, because earthly people are without faith and don't want to know about announcements from the spiritual kingdom. The beings of light are constantly willing to impart their knowledge to people on earth and are therefore extremely happy when they are offered an opportunity through a person's will to have a teaching effect on him and through him on his fellow human beings ....

(23.10.1948) Their work in the spiritual kingdom consists of bringing light to the people entrusted to them who walk in spiritual darkness, i.e., to impart true thought knowledge which proceeds through mental transmission but which requires the human being's will itself in order to be accepted. If a person is of help to them in that he encourages his fellow human beings to talk about spiritual topics and thereby opens their hearts to a certain extent, the beings of light can then intervene and influence both the speaker as well as the listener and thus convey truthful knowledge to earth. Very rarely can direct transmissions through the inner word take place, but where the connection has been established the beings of light are extremely active, and earthly as well as spiritually they stand by the receiver to support the spiritual work in every way. Yet they may never force the will to do so, which is why the human being may never be decisively influenced but his free will must strive for and assert the connection with the spiritual world. But the blessing of such a connection is great, for although little success can be seen on earth the countless souls in the beyond participate in the transmission and are eternally grateful to the human being who helps them to gain light, realization and knowledge ....

Amen

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Power of the divine Word .... Antidote to suffering ....

B.D. 4468 from October 24th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

My love for you is infinite and I will grant your every request, but occasionally it happens in a way that you do not immediately recognise it as such, nevertheless, one day you will realise how well I take care of you. The last days will bring a variety of perils and suffering because you will have to mature quickly or you will not pass the last and difficult test. You will experience constant distress and should always bear in mind that everything comes from Me, that I know of your hardship and misery but that they are also a blessing for you. Therefore do not fear and complain but remain devoted to Me in love, just as My endless love belongs to you, too, and wants to make you happy .... You should sample the power of My Word and soon you will recognise that you have an effective antidote against all suffering, fear and sadness. I have blessed My Word with My strength .... Why do you not use it? Why do you not accept strength when you are in danger of weakening in your earthly battle and lose heart? Why do you not give yourselves to its invigorating effect? You constantly receive evidence of My love for you, you are in the midst of immense grace, and yet you are of so little faith and fickle, so timid and weak. What else could I offer you that is better than My Word?

If you did not experience earthly hardship and worries you would not be able to hear My Word, because the world would hold you captive and stop you from heartfelt contact with Me. And therefore you should obediently accept this hardship when you receive My Word as compensation, because My Word is a great treasure for you which you merely do not know how to get. Let Me always speak to you in My Word, take refuge in Me in the Word, contemplate the expression of My love and you will feel a marked influx of strength. You will no longer feel weakness, fear and oppression and will have no more doubt .... you will master earthly life in full strength and honour and praise My love and grace, and then you will be active labourers for Me in the last battle on this earth. I bless your willingness to serve Me but you should also activate it by doing what I ask of you. Time and again I remind you to accept My Word within yourselves because I want to give you the strength of My Word, because I want to help you but need your free will to do so if you are to derive the right benefit from My help. You have to struggle yourselves because it is the only way you can arrive at faith, the profound faith that you will need in order to be loyal servants to Me on earth. What you receive from Me, what you write down, has to be considered by you in your heart, it has to come alive in you, so that you can endorse My Word with conviction, so that the effect is not lost on your fellow human being and he feels the strength of My Word in himself. You will always receive help in your need, and the more you fulfil My will the sooner you will receive help .... However, it is My will that you should contemplate My Word more often so that you become conscious of My presence and believe .... And as soon as you have profound faith the fulfilment of all your wishes will also be certain ....

Amen

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Mission .... reciprocation for reception: forwarding the word ....

B.D. 4469 from October 25th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

If knowledge is conveyed to you through My love, if I reveal Myself to you and introduce you to the eternal truth, this is also connected with a mission for which I want to make you suitable through My revelation. You receive a precious gift from Me for which I demand something in return, which only consists of you passing on what you receive to your fellow human beings. For My love and concern for the salvation of their souls applies to all My creations, all My creations walk in darkness as long as they are not in contact with Me. But in order to establish this connection they have to be taught, and this is your mission, it is the service I require of you who want to be active for Me for My sake. But as soon as you have surrendered your will to Me you are no longer responsible for your actions and thoughts, for I Myself already work in you because your own will no longer opposes Me. But you always give up your own will if you unite with Me to receive My word, My revelations, which are conveyed to your heart and intellect through the spirit within you. If you have the will to serve Me, to be active for Me and My kingdom, if you have the will to fulfil My commandments and to live on earth to please Me, then you are already Mine and you will always do what I want, because My spirit works in you and will not determine you against My will. There is only one danger that you will break off your connection with Me of your own free will, that you will become unfaithful to Me and sell yourselves to the world and thus to its ruler, to My adversary, for the sake of despicable worldly reward .... But you, who inwardly hear My word, need no longer fear this danger, for the world will no longer be able to offer you anything that surpasses My word, and you will never want to miss the precious gift of grace and therefore seek Me again and again in order to hear My voice. And therefore you will be able to fulfil your mission, you will willingly let yourselves be guided by Me and always give in to the inner urge when the opportunity approaches you where you are to speak in My name. I will assign the work to you Myself as soon as the hour of your activity for Me has come, but just as I already determine your path of life in accordance with your mission, and you will often feel My guidance, My rule and activity will be obvious to you, for I have taken possession of you and will never ever leave you. And it is My spirit which controls you, which determines your thoughts, will and actions, thus you are guided by Me and can let everything approach you without worry, for it will not come differently than it is My will, and as it comes it is good for you and successful for your fellow human beings. And thus wait for My call which places you into a new task of life and trust Me that I will safely guide you to the aim, that you will be able to accomplish everything with My help and that I Myself will remain with you until the end ....

Amen

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Various spiritual activities: wisdom, seeing, prophecy .... (Konnersreuth)

B.D. 4470 from October 26th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

My spirit can only become effective where people have aligned themselves with My fundamental nature, where they have shaped themselves into love. The individual's life, which denomination he belongs to and which origin he has, is irrelevant, and therefore everyone can cultivate different habits, everyone can practice different customs and traditions, everyone can have been educated in different religious doctrines .... as soon as he lives a life of love according to My will he can also be filled by My spirit and achieve supernatural things. However, the working of the spirit is of a different kind insofar as one person is imparted profound wisdom, profound spiritual knowledge, while the other is able to see spiritually, thus he can see and experience things which are most closely related to the spiritual kingdom, to Me Myself and the host of pure spirits. Thus he can look into the spiritual kingdom, which is the last aim of all human beings. With others again the gift of prophecy is the working of the spirit, so that they are able to look into the future and see the coming events taking place before their eyes. These, too, are filled with My Spirit, so that they must speak to their fellow men about their visions and about their prophetic gift. To see past, present and future things is the sign of an already high degree of maturity of the human being who is deprived of every concept of time as soon as he directs his gaze spiritually and thus now dwells spiritually in spheres far away from earth, his present sphere of activity. Such people are to be believed as long as their life is an exemplary life of love. Then no other than beings of light can make themselves known through them, then My spirit works in these people, for they are united with Me through love and can never stand apart from My will and act and think according to their own will. Love is therefore the surest sign of My presence, love is the guarantee for My working, no matter in which form the working of the spirit is expressed.

Thus My spirit can and will also work where a person was educated in the wrong direction of faith, where his thinking was steered into the wrong path by incompetent teachers in whom My spirit could not work and impart the pure truth to them. However, a person who thus thinks wrongly can nevertheless experience the working of My spirit through a right life of love, yet in a different form than through the transmission of truthful knowledge, for this would sometimes contradict the teachings of faith imparted to him and be of little use to the recipient. Thus My spirit works first by allowing the human being to gain insight into spiritual spheres which visually convey the truth to him, so that spiritual events are presented to him which correspond to the teachings of each individual denomination, which correspond to the truth, so that the working of the spirit will therefore only ever result in truth, even though the form is different ....

(27.10.1948) People shall be given evidence of the truth of what is taught but can no longer be proven by documents, then the working of the spirit will extend to past results and it will make them visible to the person in whom it can work so that he will bear witness to things which can no longer be proven otherwise. Such people will see the past and the future with spiritual eyes, and they must always be granted the working of My spirit, which necessitates a profound, strong faith which can be found where love is present. Truthful knowledge cannot be conveyed from above to earth everywhere, because the acceptance of it requires a completely neutral heart which is free from a specific teaching, which, as it were, offers no resistance through its own spiritual knowledge which contradicts the truth. It must unconditionally accept what is offered to it from above. And therefore the human being may not be bound by knowledge which was given to him from outside and which does not correspond to the truth .... And therefore spiritual working in this form is rarely possible, because mostly the seekers have already joined a school of thought, whereas people outside of every school of thought are rarely seeking, rather they have no faith at all, but faith in Me and My working is the first prerequisite for My spirit to become effective in a person. A person who lives in love but is weak in faith likewise opposes My direct working in him through the spirit, otherwise I could express Myself far more through the human mouth; yet they don't want to acknowledge a direct working, a transfer of My word to a person, because they lack this faith. And thus I can certainly arrange their thoughts and give them understanding for the only truth, I can also mentally introduce them to knowledge which they cannot accept from outside, yet they will always regard their thoughts as their own and not want to see My working in them. But where My spirit can work in an obvious way, where love and faith enable a direct transfer of My word to a person, there the power of the spirit clearly appears, and there all people should seek clarification, because then they can be certain of the fullest truth, because it is I Myself Who gives them this clarification through a person's mouth and hand. And I will always make sure that a source of truth gives living water to those who are thirsty; I will always make sure that bearers of truth walk the earth who can be true guides for their fellow human beings, who only impart to them what they have received from Me, who have prepared themselves to be the receiving vessel of the spirit and are therefore constantly instructed by My spirit in the truth, so that they will pass it on and be active in teaching according to My will ....

Amen

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Absolute truth ....

B.D. 4471 from October 28th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

Knowledge can certainly be made accessible to you, who have the grace of being directly instructed from above, which completely corresponds to the truth, and therefore you can also always represent what is imparted to you as truth. But it is nevertheless to be understood that people who are not instructed in this way doubt it and rather regard as truth what was gained as a result through eager reflection, through lively intellectual activity. And since these results are mostly of quite different kinds and people cannot or do not want to close their minds to either the one or the other reasoning or execution, and are also never able to recognize what is right by virtue of their intellect, the assertion has been made: Truth is relative .... But here men are gravely mistaken. And with this assertion they also reject the originator of truth, the essence which exists from eternity in this concrete truth, which can never change, otherwise it would become untrue to itself. Truth is fundamental law .... The way things are must be based on eternity, for truth is like the eternal order, the law, which is eternally irrevocable because it emerged from God, the most perfect being Which can never contradict Itself. During his time on earth the human being is indeed free to deviate from the truth by virtue of his free will, to overturn the law of eternal order, but it will always have a detrimental effect on the human being himself because it is contrary to law, because it does not correspond to the truth which is conveyed to people by God Himself. There is one truth, and this is with God .... Everything aspiring to God first seeks to penetrate this truth, which was and is its share in the state of perfection, but which is clouded or defaced and not recognized in the state of imperfection. Perfection and truth are not two concepts, but one results from the other. Therefore, where different views are still regarded as truth, the degree of maturity of people is also different, which determines the ability to judge and the bright realization of the divine, which includes pure truth. A person's degree of maturity requires a way of life that corresponds to the divine will, it requires an adaptation to the eternal order, to the law of love, in which the eternal deity moves Itself .... Then the human being will know the fullest truth, and he will also recognize that there can only be one truth, that it can only originate from God as the eternal truth, and he will also recognize that the human being's aim on earth is to come into possession of the truth from God, and that this truth must therefore be found, that it therefore cannot be denied, otherwise all faith in God would be invalid, in a being Which was, is and will remain perfect for all eternity ....

Amen

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Abolishing the laws of nature .... satan’s power at the end ....

B.D. 4472 from October 29th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

You must let yourselves be taught by Me if you want to stand in truth, and thus you must also listen to Me if I want to speak to you. I always want to speak to you in order to enlighten you, because you are all still very much in error and need much clarification: The lawgiver of eternity is truly at liberty to also overturn the laws if it favours His eternal plan of salvation, so that souls could thereby be won for eternity. Yet I only rarely make use of this right because My wisdom of eternity recognized how extremely favourable My laws are for the winning of souls for My kingdom and therefore I have no reason to repeal them. Yet in the last days before the end I will repeal many a law .... as I have announced through seers and prophets that the powers of heaven will move so that people will recognize the time of the end by the signs .... At this time you will experience things which are impossible by nature and which also give the researchers and scholars proof that I direct nature and can also let events occur which are contrary to nature at My discretion. And My adversary also takes advantage of this time by likewise divesting himself of his strength and also performing miracles, yet of a completely different kind, because he aims to cause people's apostasy from Me and therefore wants to present himself to people as equally strong and powerful .... And you humans are now at the mercy of this as long as you don't have knowledge of Me and My eternal plan of salvation yourselves.

(30.10.1948) Satan will always try to influence your thoughts in such a way that you turn away from Me. He wants to deprive you of all knowledge of Me, he wants to rule over you alone, yet not for your blessing but for your ruin. And if I allowed this you would all be lost. But I do not limit his power at all but leave it up to you humans yourselves whether you want to give it to him or whether you refuse him and join Me. Thus I also fight for you, and I do so with truth, I bring you light and then let you choose the path yourselves which you want to take, yet I enlighten this path for you, I don't want you to walk in darkness and be unable to find the right path. Yet My adversary also lets light flash, but they are only deceptive lights which blind you and place you in even greater darkness, so that you run the great risk of missing the right path and falling into the abyss. But the truth shines brightly and clearly, and I bring it to you and therefore want to speak to you, and you shall listen to Me. If you are informed of the truth you will never ever grant My adversary the right over you, for then you will see through him and know about his nature, about his evil plans and about your fate in eternity if you fall prey to him. And you will avoid him and take refuge in My arms, for the truth also shows you My nature, which is only love for all My living creations .... never ever will I allow you humans to be completely deprived of the knowledge of your destiny, never ever will I leave you to My adversary without a fight, and never ever will he be allowed to ascend to the throne by completely dominating you, My living creations, and forcibly pushing you away from Me. Yet I will not forcibly influence you humans, you will always be free to let yourselves be taught by Me, to accept My teaching and thus also be guided into the right knowledge. But if you listen to Me you will also escape from his power, for even he cannot force you but he can make you submissive to him if you don't resist him. And I will help you to resist him by supplying you with the pure truth, for this will give you strength and increased will to turn to Me and escape from him ....

(31.10.1948) Satan’s power is therefore great, and you will experience things at the end of times which will prove his power to you, yet it does not extend to creations which are still carriers of the bound spiritual. Thus he can certainly influence people by trying to influence their will, and with his support these people will be able to accomplish extraordinary things, yet his power does not extend beyond the human being, and therefore I will also step forward in the end in a very special way in order to counteract his power, that is, to give people proof of My existence as far as this is possible without compulsory faith. I obviously intervene in the laws of nature .... I abolish laws but announce this beforehand, as I have always done in order to prove the truth of My word to people and to reveal Myself as creator and controller, as almighty God, so that they will believe and know that the time of the end has come. I announce Myself and appear when the time is right. What has never been observed before will then come to light, what was completely impossible will become possible through My will, and science will be faced with riddles which are unsolvable to it. I abolish the laws of nature .... what this means no human being can imagine because it has not been experienced before. Yet this, too, is part of My plan from eternity, that satan’s power will be contrasted with My might and power in the last days and that people can now freely decide which power they want to be subject to. For now human powers and inexplicable supernatural power are facing each other again .... Destructions take place through the former, which are works of satan, because hatred, unkindness, greed for possessions and all bad instincts are the cause, whereas My working cannot be attributed to any human influence, thus other than human forces must be the cause and are therefore visible evidence to the believers that the end has come .... Anyone who has been informed of the truth will find it easy to believe. And therefore you should come to Me, you should request the truth from Me and accept it if I convey it to you directly or through My messengers ....

Amen

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Disciples of the end time .... spreading the truth ....

B.D. 4473 from November 2nd 1948, taken from Book No. 52

My disciples of the last days are instructed to convey to you humans that which will help you attain beatitude .... My word, which is conveyed to them in all purity from above through My love. The fact that I chose these disciples Myself must be understandable to you if you consider that the teaching, which is spread on earth as My teaching, is no longer pure and unadulterated and that I cannot allow the truth to be increasingly suppressed; that I therefore take care to convey the pure truth to people again and that this can only happen in such a way that a person receives it in the form of My word, which comes directly from Me and therefore guarantees fullest truth. My representatives by name could likewise serve Me as recipients if they lived according to My will, i.e. if they lived a right life of love, a life of unselfish neighbourly love and .... which is very important .... could believe in My direct working of the spirit. But they lack this faith because they have also lost the knowledge of My working of the spirit. And thus I Myself have to look for My disciples and train them as bearers of truth, I have to reveal Myself to those who carry this faith within themselves, who consider no thing impossible because everything is possible for God. To these I now bring My gospel with the mission to spread it throughout the world. I now take real pleasure in those who comply with My mission in their eagerness to serve Me, who are therefore constantly willing to listen to the inner voice and don't let anything from outside dissuade them from their intention, which is truly extremely beneficial for themselves and also for their fellow human beings. For I need these co-workers on earth to spread the pure truth, because it cannot be offered other than through human mouths to people who are still weak in faith and do not enter into direct contact with Me in order to be able to hear Me Myself. Admittedly, the act of transmitting the truth will always remain incomprehensible to people as long as they are not profoundly devout and live in love themselves. And therefore the spreaders of truth will always be met with doubt, but this shall not disturb My disciples of the last days in their work for Me and My kingdom. The truth will prevail, it will be victorious, albeit after a difficult battle against the one who, as the prince of lies, wants to suppress the truth and therefore will act with hostility against the bearers of truth. The truth is from Me and therefore the bearer of truth also fights with Me .... But the end is near, and only those who possess the truth will not perish in the end but enter the paradise of the new earth as My followers. And therefore My disciples' mission is of utmost urgency, for the end is near and with it the last judgment ....

Amen

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Working charity .... union with God ....

B.D. 4474 from November 2nd 1948, taken from Book No. 52

Labouring neighbourly love connects you with Me. That is why you should practice it, otherwise I cannot stay near you, otherwise I am not present to you. But how does it look in the world? How far away are people from Me because they live without love, because they only have their own well-being in mind and don't pay attention to their fellow human beings' hardship. They are far away from Me .... You humans don't know what it means when I cannot be present to you, you don't know how powerless you are, how little you can do for your spiritual development which, after all, is the aim and purpose of your earthly life. You are without light and without strength, even though you are powerful on earth and create earthly great things. If you don't have love then all your striving on earth is futile, for the death of the body puts an end to everything, you have to leave behind everything you created on earth, for only works of love will follow you into eternity. And yet I want to win you for eternity, I want you to warm yourselves in the rays of My sun of love, that you live in light and bliss, that you long for Me and I can always and constantly satisfy your longing. I want to make you aspirants of My kingdom and possess you for ever .... And all this is your share as soon as you are active in love, as soon as you practice active neighbourly love and thus draw Me to you, Who is love Myself. Try it out, muster the will to perform services of neighbourly love, in thought of Me distribute gifts which you have received from Me yourselves and which make yourselves happy, never let your neighbour go hungry if he asks you for gifts of love, put your selfish love aside and you will feel the success by mentally occupying yourselves with Me, by looking for the truth and you will also find it, for then you will live in love by yourselves because My nearness impels you to it. With My nearness I make everyone happy who is active in neighbourly love for the sake of My word. Keep this commandment, and if you are the only one to fulfil it, it will truly be enough to secure My closeness for you. And if you are thus united with Me then you are also won for the spiritual kingdom. You must fulfil this commandment if you want to become blessed .... you must help each other in spiritual as well as in earthly adversity, so that I can then also help you to the same extent. I can only approach you when you prove your love to Me by expressing it to your fellow human being. You are all My creatures, you are My children and I your father from eternity, and thus you should also treat each other well, that you do good to each other, that you alleviate hardship and provide help where it is needed. Then I will be constantly present to you, and in the awareness of My presence you will already find the peace on earth which I have promised you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

New banishment in matter ....

B.D. 4475 from November 3rd 1948, taken from Book No. 52

The soul has an infinitely long way to go before it can move into the physical shell as a human being. And this path is so dreadfully agonizing that one can rightly speak of hell, especially as long as solid matter is still its cover. Then the spiritual feels the fetter, the unfree, and especially because this stage is mostly granted to it after the stage of freedom of will. Usually the new banishment into matter is preceded by the embodiment as a human being, where he has failed. This new banishment into matter is imminent again, and people still have the opportunity to escape it if they make the most of the short earthly journey they still have to cover until the end and use the time for diligent soul work. They are still in possession of free will and vitality, which also enables them to carry out their will. In the state of new banishment the will is bound so that the spiritual can and must only move according to God's will; also not the slightest strength is at its disposal until it gives up its resistance against God and can hope for a small supply of strength. If people knew about this agonizing state they are approaching they would do everything to escape it. Therefore they shall be informed of it .... But faith is lacking and they must not be proven it, otherwise their way of life would be futile according to God's will, thus it would only be put aside out of fear but not in free will as it is necessary in order to escape the new banishment. People's attention is drawn to them and they are made aware of their responsibility, but their decision remains free. However, it is understandable how extremely serious this decision is and in what profound spiritual hardship humanity finds itself, which does not believe in the end and in a last judgment. The individual person is influenced in every way so that he will reflect and pay attention to the state of his soul, and God will truly leave no stone unturned in order to win people's souls, yet if people lack all faith, His word will also not direct anything through which people could be guided into truth and receive great knowledge, but which would then also lead a way of life in accordance with God's will. Nevertheless, it is of utmost importance to present the divine word to people so that a few will still accept it and their souls will be protected from a repeated journey through all creations of the new earth, so that they will be able to enter the kingdom of light in the end, into eternal beatitude ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Exhortation to work for God and His kingdom ....

B.D. 4476 from November 4th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

Anyone who therefore serves Me by speaking for Me and My kingdom gives himself to Me so that I can speak through him and he will receive My blessing in return. I want to give him strength to work for Me, and thus he will also be successful, and people will listen to My words and process them in their hearts. Every soul which makes contact with Me through you, My servants, will be able to enjoy My love, it will feel My working as desire for truth and desire for Me, Who am the eternal truth Myself .... and it will be granted to it .... Promote Me and strive to bring light into the darkness which lies over the earth .... Carry My teaching of love into the world, instruct those who listen to you and enlighten them about My working and about the near end. Instruct them about their earthly task and admonish them to love, make My will known to them and urge them to fulfil it, and do good to all who get in your way. Set a good example so that you will win over your fellow human beings for My teaching, which preaches love and gives love, which originates from Me and leads to Me, and make yourselves My servants by passing on My teaching of love .... and you will earn My pleasure, I will give you the reward I have promised you, I will be your constant protector and companion and take care of you like a father, because you want to help Me guide the erring souls onto the right path and illuminate it with the light which originated from Me .... And your work will be blessed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Worldly minded servants of God ....

B.D. 4477 from November 5th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

There are many worldly-minded servants of God on earth, and they are truly not the right representatives of My teaching because they do not know the truth, but this is necessary for an office which aims to spread My teaching. For the truth must be offered to people in all purity if success is to be achieved for the souls. "You all have to be taught by God ....", it is written, and this word is truth, for only God as the eternal truth can impart knowledge to you which corresponds to truth. Thus you can certainly accept spiritual knowledge from outside, yet My spirit must first work in you before you recognize the external information as truth and become inwardly convinced that the word is from Me. Therefore spiritual activity is absolutely necessary; but My spirit places conditions on you which you first have to fulfil before it can become effective. One of them is complete devotion to God .... intimate connection with Me, but this cannot take place if you are still too attached to the world. For the eye can never be directed outwards and inwards; moreover, the world is My adversary's kingdom, but My kingdom is the spiritual world from where pure truth is offered to you. Hence the world must be avoided, the heart must willingly detach itself from it because it longs for the spiritual kingdom, and thus spiritual striving is the first prerequisite for a servant of God to stand in truth. Only then will he be able to recognize the written word as truth, only then will his thinking be enlightened so that he can work as My representative on earth and be active on My behalf, for My honour and for the blessing of his fellow human beings ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Destiny .... maturing opportunities .... exams ....

B.D. 4478 from November 5th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

Every thought of Me, every call to Me touches Me and I don't let it go unnoticed. And thus I have knowledge of the human being's entire emotional life and know about his innermost impulses and thus also about the nature of his will. And if this will meets Me, then the human being will find the most faithful friend and caring father in Me, for then I will know that he wants to belong to My own and will gladly accept him. And then his fate is just a chain of maturing possibilities, for I want to help him to eternal beatitude and also make earthly life bearable for him, which is only possible with My support. A person who hands himself over to Me gains everything; but anyone who denies himself to Me will also be deprived of that which he had previously acquired, which was imparted to him through My grace and which he left unnoticed. I stretch out My hands towards the wrestler because he strives towards Me; yet anyone who turns his back on Me I let go wherever he is tempted, for My warnings go unheard in his ears. And no one who wants to come to Me need fear that he will not reach his aim. I know the will of the individual, and I protect his soul from falling away from Me. And therefore you can be without worry if I give you the assurance that you will reach the aim, for My love for you, My living creations, is too great for Me to leave you to the adversary if you want to come to Me. And although you often have to go through hard trials the thought should always comfort you that the trials come from Me and only because your soul matures in a shorter time, because there is not much time left until the end. Soon you will have passed the test of earthly life and be able to enter My kingdom as free, blissful spirits .... and you will reach the aim and unite with Me, because I am present to you as soon as you call upon Me in prayer and desire to receive My word .... I am with you and will remain with you until the end; therefore believe and love and hope, so that you will enter My kingdom as My children when you depart from this earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Doubts about truth of announcements .... natural disaster ....

B.D. 4479 from November 6th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

You should not trouble yourselves with doubts, and that is why I answer every question you ponder in your heart and which makes you uneasy. Why can't you believe that the time you live on earth is only short? Why don't you want to take My announcement literally and seriously prepare yourselves for a quick end? Why does a non-occurrence of My predictions seem more probable to you? Why don't you just believe My word and wait for the things to come? As I tell you, so it is and so it will come, and you will all be surprised at the sudden turn you do not expect because it will come sooner than you think. Whom I choose to be bearers of truth, whom I have assigned such a task to receive My word directly and to write it down for fellow human beings, him I will protect for the sake of truth from an influence which is opposed to My working. He is in My service and I will never allow My adversary to use him to place error next to truth. Nor do I want My servants to see things unclearly themselves, that they are weak in faith and doubt where they should spread the truth with conviction .... And therefore I speak to them again and again and point them to the coming time which will bring them the evidence that My word is purest truth. The fact that a short time will pass should by no means make you insecure in your speeches. You can represent every word which has been received through you from above, and you need never fear to have interwoven your own spiritual knowledge which contradicts the truth, for you are in My service. The fact that I have accepted you as My servants is proven to you by the transmission of My word. But anyone who is once My servant only carries out his master's will and his will is completely subordinate to Mine. Therefore he will only do what I want him to do and especially enjoy My protection in the spiritual work which is meant for the spreading of pure truth. He will only receive and assimilate truth, and he truly need not fear any erroneous addition. I repeat again that you are about to experience the greatest upheaval that has taken place on this earth. Whoever survives it will be able to speak of a miracle, but many of those who have knowledge of it through you, My servants and prophets of the last days, will survive My intervention because they shall serve as witnesses that I have made Myself known beforehand and thus My plan from eternity is evident from it. And this is why I delay so long, so that many people will still be given the opportunity to take notice of My rule and activity and of My revelation through the elements of nature .... But the time will soon be over, then there will be no more day of delay .... You would be frightened if you knew how near the event is that I am announcing again and again .... You should not doubt when I Myself announce this to you, you should believe without hesitation, you should know that it is I Myself Who speaks to you and that I convey nothing but purest truth to you and truly protect you from enforcing the truth with error. Let your faith grow stronger so that you can stand up for My word with complete conviction, which is conveyed to you from above, because it is My will that you should have knowledge of it in order to prepare yourselves and appeal to Me for strength, which you will truly need when the day has come which will prove the truth of My word to you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

"You must be taught by God ...."

B.D. 4480 from November 7th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

And you shall all be taught by God .... My spirit has to work in you so that you can meet spiritual instruction with understanding, no matter in which way it comes to you. If you are taught directly by Me it is only a result or sign of My spiritual working in you; if you receive instructions from outside, through My servants on earth, through fellow human beings who are instructed in truth or through the written word, you will only understand it when you receive enlightenment through the spirit within you, when the one who is My part can work in you .... when you have a divine teacher. And you should all commend yourselves to him, otherwise every external instruction is useless for you. Divinity wants to be grasped with the spirit and human intellect alone cannot comprehend it, and if he tries to assimilate it without the spirit's support then it will emerge as human work, deformed and incomprehensible, in a form which no longer has anything in common with pure truth, and then people will not know but be in error. You must therefore let yourselves be taught by God .... you must not oppose Me if I am to instruct you, and thus you must first seek contact with Me through heartfelt prayer and then, if you present questions to Me, listen within and wait for the answer. And most people don't pay attention to this process and don't wait until the answer clearly and distinctly arises in them, their thoughts wander and thereby make an instruction impossible which, however, will certainly be granted to them if they devote themselves to Me and listen inwards. Heartfelt prayer and the desire for the right answer will also let them think clearly and truthfully, for I enlighten the spirit of the one who calls for Me and asks Me for it. Then he can also consider himself taught by Me, and I will truly not instruct him differently than the recipient of My direct word, for what My spirit imparts to people is always and everywhere the same, because truth can never change. And thus you all have the opportunity to acquire the pure truth if you come to Me and approach Me for it; I will always be a true teacher for you and introduce you to the truth as soon as you request it ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Sounding word ....

B.D. 4481 from November 8th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

You must be in a particularly devout state of mind if you want to hear the sounding word within you. You must be completely permeated by love for Me and thereby also so united with Me that you feel Me present, that you sense Me to a certain extent and thus can also hear My voice as clearly spoken words which will touch you in a very strange way. My presence has now become certainty for you, you now have proof of what you had only believed until now; but since your faith is profound I can also provide you with the proof without putting you into a state of forced faith. Yet this gift of grace results in a state of deepest calm and quiet bliss and increased will for spiritual activity. Yet it will not remain a permanent state for the time being but only a crowning of particularly loving devotion to Me until the actual mission begins, which requires a constant ability to hear My word. Yet you are free to enter into intimate contact with Me if you want to, and therefore a constant striving upwards is necessary, a more frequent immersion in yourselves and listening to My spirit, which always makes itself known to you if you desire to hear it. And you will increase in maturity of soul, you will now eagerly carry out spiritual work and always be able to be certain of My love and grace ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God of love .... not God of wrath ....

B.D. 4482 from November 9th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

Recognize God's love in His rule and activity and not His wrath, for everything He does or allows to happen is only for your perfection but never an expression of His wrath. Although He can also be angry about satan’s power which he uses to harm the souls, God always tries to compensate the souls through His love for what the adversary has caused with his hatred. For He is far greater than His adversary, and He wages the battle against him with a weapon which will bring victory .... His weapon is love which nothing can resist .... and His love is accompanied by infinite patience, which is why He also does not give up anything which initially resists Him. He finally wins it through His love, yet His creations are not always willing to recognize His love, instead they see God as a punishing God, as a God of wrath and destruction. But that even apparent works of destruction are based on His profound love, that they are only means of love in order to promote the soul's perfection, is something people do not want to realize because they lack understanding precisely due to their lack of love, which is a sign of their imperfection. A God of wrath would destroy everything. But the God of love is intent on the preservation of everything that has emerged from Him, and as soon as a work of destruction takes place on earth it is nevertheless only an act of transformation but not of complete destruction and only for the purpose of preserving and perfecting that which is in need of transformation because it wanted to separate from its creator but inevitably has to find its way to Him. And thus even such works of destruction only speak of God's great love, for nothing is lost in the process, nothing comes to harm but only enters into another state which enables it to find its way upwards. Even the last work of destruction on this earth, which results in the complete destruction of His creations on earth, only aims at the reclamation of the deeply fallen spiritual and has been decided by God's love and wisdom since eternity, so that the spiritual will not sink even lower and make a return to Him impossible. His love establishes everything, His love determines everything, His infinite love also achieves everything He wants, and nothing other than love will ever determine His will ....

Love is the elementary power from which everything emerged, and this elementary power never splinters, it remains eternally unchanging and therefore also applies eternally to His creatures with whom He wants to be united in love forever .... What wanted to separate itself from Him of its own free will and thereby got into a state distant from God has left the circle of love and wants to be grasped by God's love again, because otherwise it is wretched. And therefore this wretched person is His constant concern, which is expressed in such a way that God's wrath appears to be expressed, which, however, only appears so to the blind in spirit who has no knowledge of the means God's love uses. The purpose and final aim of all events is the reclamation of the apostate from God, because God's love does not want to lose anything, does not give up anything and does not leave anything to His adversary which has emerged from His love .... And thus even the spiritual will one day surrender to His love, which still remains at the greatest distance from God, because His love overcomes everything, conquers everything and takes possession of everything in order to make it eternally blissful ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Prayer in spirit and in truth prerequisite for the working of the spirit ....

B.D. 4483 from November 10th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

You can only hear the voice of the spirit within you after you open your heart through heartfelt prayer. And this prayer must be directed towards Me in spirit and in truth, otherwise I will close My ear and you will wait in vain for divine enlightenment. This is a law which has to be fulfilled, but which was not always fulfilled where the enlightenment of the spirit was necessary in order to be instructed in the pure truth. Anyone who is responsible as a teacher and leader for the souls of those he instructs must first stand in truth himself and make the transmission of truth possible through intimate contact with Me, he must know that I and truth are one, that therefore truth cannot be received without Me and that the connection with Me must be established first, otherwise the connection with truth cannot be achieved either. But the connection with Me depends on the human being's free will, and therefore he must turn to Me of his own accord, which happens through heartfelt prayer, through prayer in spirit and in truth .... Anyone who prays like this will also hear My voice, his thoughts will be guided such that they will move in truth, even though My word is not audibly heard by him due to his lack of maturity of soul. For this presupposes a certain degree of maturity which is not reached by all people who ask for the truth. And therefore people who proceed intellectually can also live in truth if they have first established the most intimate connection with Me, however, their way of life must also correspond to My will, they must live a life of love, otherwise My working on them through the spirit is impossible. For I, love and truth are one .... Again and again this has to be explained to you humans, that you recognize people's spirit by their fruits and thus can never grant right thinking to someone who does not live according to My will, and thus you will always have a standard if you want to test a person's statements for their credibility. Anyone who lives in love, who acknowledges Me and seeks the truth, will also live in truth and his thinking will be right, for I will enlighten his spirit so that the truth will spread through him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The doctrine of the Trinity of God ....

B.D. 4484 from November 11th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

You have the gift of being able to use your intellect and you ought to use this gift. In an earthly respect your life compels you to do so and you readily comply with this compulsion. It is the most natural thing in the world for you to think about everything you encounter, to explore and ponder and thus intellectually enhance your earthly knowledge. But only rarely if ever do you use your intellect in order to acquire spiritual knowledge of your own inner accord. You certainly allow yourselves to receive it from external sources and accept it without using your intellect, without scrutinising or thinking about it. But you don't assimilate it with your intellect and thus you don't use the latter, or you misuse it by drawing entirely wrong conclusions because you accept the spiritual knowledge you receive without examination. But He Who endowed you with intellect will also hold you to account as to how you have used it.

Countless people live with misconceptions because they don't think about doctrines which should motivate their scrutiny because, in the form they are presented to people, they are simply unacceptable .... Admittedly, you reject all scrutiny with the remark that you, as human beings, are incapable of making a correct judgment, and you are right insofar as your intellect alone is not enough for this. Yet each and every time this has to be countered by the fact that enlightenment by the spirit can and always must be requested in order to truthfully explain the most difficult problems, and that God will never deny His assistance to someone who seriously wants it. And thus it is also possible for a human being to get an explanation for questions which the intellect alone is unable to answer. But the less a person believes that he is incapable of making a correct judgment the more it is necessary to appeal to God for assistance. This is more advisable than to accept doctrines which a person finds difficult to accept, for whatever a person wants to endorse as truth also has to be completely explained to him, on account of which teachings from above are constantly conveyed to earth which bring light into the spiritual darkness. And darkness is wherever the truth is being displaced or veiled, where misguided teachings are spread and upheld by people as truth. And this darkness shall be penetrated by light .... Lies and error shall be displaced by the truth, it shall be exposed where people are wrongly instructed, because only the truth leads to eternal life and only the truth is divine, whereas misguided teachings are God-opposing ....

And so it is essential to throw light on a doctrine which, mixed up and completely distorted by the enemy of souls, has found approval amongst people, and precisely because the latter did not use their gift of intellect and accepted without inspection what they were offered: the doctrine of the Trinity of God .... This doctrine is completely incomprehensible, that is, it cannot be rationally grasped and understood, it is an unacceptable explanation of the eternal Deity because it is absurd, since the human being who is professing it is not allowed to think about it anymore or, if he thinks about it, cannot admit to it .... Wanting to place the eternal Deity into a strictly-limited form is a sign of those people's imperfection who accept this teaching. Every form is a strictly-limited concept but God's Being is limitless because it is something profoundly perfect. Hence something supremely perfect cannot be divided either, for perfection is a state of spirit and something spiritual can never be divided into three parts .... thus one can never speak of a three-person God because it is an inconceivable concept which will lead to completely wrong points of view about the Deity's nature. God the Father .... God the Son .... and God the holy Spirit .... these concepts do not justify the assumption that three persons have united themselves as the eternal Deity, hence that these three amount to one God, whereas the nature of God can be made comprehensible to people if the three concepts are explained such that the 'Father' is love, the 'Son' is wisdom and the 'Spirit' is strength ....

And this alone is the correct explanation which is the foundation of the doctrine of the Trinity of God, yet due to misunderstanding it was wrongly interpreted and resulted in the misguided teaching that the Deity consists of three persons.

The spirit of God, the partial concept of God's Nature, can never be personified; it cannot be limited to a form in line with human ideas, it is an infinite abundance of light and strength which is directed and used by an exceptionally strong will of love. The light is God .... the strength is God .... and the will of love is God .... one is not without the other, everything Divine incorporates this Trinity within Itself; it is the sign of perfection if love, wisdom and strength are inherent in a being, in which case it has become an image of God. Yet it is only ever one Being .... not a form but something infinite, spiritual, which requires no form in order to exist and which would burst all forms if they had not spiritualised themselves first, so that they were able to contain love, wisdom and strength in abundance without ceasing to exist.

Such a form was the human being Jesus, Who was chosen by God as the carrier of the entire abundance of love, wisdom and strength in order to serve people as a conceivable Deity so that they can believe in an Essence Which, being of supreme perfection, is nevertheless in connection with imperfect people, His living creations. But this form was purely physical, it was effectively only at the disposal of physical onlookers because the spirit requires no form in order to be able to be seen .... The idea of Father, Son and holy Spirit as three separate entities .... even with the addition that they are one .... is misleading, because people will then be at risk of implementing a separation by calling upon every part individually and will thereby increase the consciousness of each of the three parts, thereby losing the right, truthful sense of the one God to Whom alone they should turn in every earthly and spiritual adversity.

Even the man Jesus, Who lived on earth as an individual being in order to accept the abundance of God within Himself, became one with Him, which was evidenced by His ascension, because the body had completely spiritualised itself and all substances were able to join the eternal Deity and thus there no longer existed two separate beings who were perfect but it was only one Deity, Which was love, wisdom and strength in supreme perfection. God the Father, God the Son and His Spirit, which permeates the whole of infinity and implements everything that is determined by His will. It is the eternal Deity's Nature which is being characterised by the concepts of Father, Son and holy Spirit. Wisdom .... the Son .... comes forth from the Father of love, and the all-permeating strength implements what is decided by the Father and the Son. God is all-powerful and exceedingly wise and loving .... This concept is more understandable and solves the problem of the triune Deity in the simplest way, and only spiritually blind people are unable to grasp or acknowledge this uncomplicated solution because they are misled by spiritually blind leaders who are unenlightened and refuse to let themselves be taught ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

In the end, apostasy from the faith .... living faith .... reflecting on teachings ....

B.D. 4485 from November 13th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

Only a small number will remain faithful to Me until the end, for the adversity beforehand will still cause many people to fall away because they do not have a living faith and, in the time of decision, first have to realize how little they believe of what they have believed so far. And their faith is so weak because they have not strengthened it through works of love and because they have not yet penetrated the truth either .... because what they were supposed to believe did not correspond to the truth and therefore could not steel their faith either. They lack the realization of error because love did not produce the working of the spirit which would have formed their ability to recognize. And thus in the end there will be a frightening apostasy from faith, people will betray and deny Me, they will give up without a fight what should be defended as most precious possessions for the sake of despicable worldly reward, in order to create comforts for the body which only stays on earth for a short time. In the end it is such a sad state that the last day cannot come quickly enough to still save the few who want to be Mine and fight for their faith. For their fate is hard and difficult, and in view of the earthly wellbeing of those who betray Me it is also immeasurably difficult for them to remain faithful to Me; yet they stand in truth and thus also in the knowledge of the near end and their faith is profound and unshakeable. And thus they confidently await My coming in their adversity and I will not let their faith be shattered, I will fetch them home into the kingdom which is prepared for them as a paradisiacal abode until I bring them to earth again. For this reason it cannot be sufficiently pointed out to people the necessity of living faith, to the penetration of doctrines of faith and thinking about them in order to receive clarification about ambiguities, and people's attention must be drawn to misguided teachings which will inevitably cause them to fail when a decision is demanded of them. And therefore I constantly instruct My servants on earth from above and present the danger of misguided teachings to them, I acquaint them with such so that they will fight against them where the opportunity is offered. For the fight against faith is inevitable because a separation is necessary and a confession before the world for Me and My name. But those who belong to an ecclesiastical community should not feel safe if they are not true followers of My church .... the community of believers who stand in the living faith .... For this is decisive as to whether people profess Me and remain faithful to Me until the end .... The living faith demands loving activity, otherwise it will remain a dead faith which will not stand firm in the final battle on this earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Pure gospel .... additional human work .... disciples' task ....

B.D. 4486 from November 14th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

You will always be able to recognize My emissaries if you are seriously willing to examine. Then you must always keep My teaching of love in mind and use it as a yardstick to determine whether what My servants offer corresponds to this teaching. But you must never take offence at the fact that My servants on earth do not teach or stand up for what people have added, that they do not stand up for customs and traditions which are merely the work of men and that they condemn the latter and fight them as harmful for the attainment of maturity of soul. My servants shall bring you the pure gospel as I taught it at the time of My life on earth and as it no longer exists on this earth. They are to purge the gospel of additional human work, and they can also do this because they only convey to people what has reached them through the working of the spirit from above. This gospel, My teaching of love, will never be able to be objected to or declared erroneous by you in that form it is handed to you now, and therefore you should already respect My servants and listen to them in the knowledge that you will only receive a good gift from them. And if you are of good will you must then admit it yourselves that the deviations only extend to what I don't value, indeed, that they even oppose My will. I truly know best what hinders your ascent and want to remove the obstacles from you, I want you to find the path upwards more easily, to Me and thus to the aim, to eternal life .... Therefore I send you My messengers to instruct you and draw your attention to everything that is a danger for the soul. And if I were to send you no-one, how would you then arrive at the truth if it is no longer properly offered to you on earth? Awaken the spirit within you so that I will instruct you directly and it will tell you the same as I let My servants tell you, because you yourselves do not awaken the spirit within you. And gladly and without hesitation give up what is not in connection with My divine teaching of love, which you can recognize as human work by the fact that the disregard or non-observance of teachings or commandments causes no harm to anyone except perhaps the organization which has established these teachings or commandments. I only preached love to people and warned against every violation of love which will always cause harm to the fellow human being or even violate the law of order given by Me. And this commandment of love you shall fulfil .... My servants on earth bring you the same teaching, pure and unadulterated, as they received it from Me and as I Myself taught them on earth. And therefore listen to them and examine them if you are undecided, and with good will you will have to recognize them as My emissaries, for My teaching of love speaks for itself. And the fact that I fight against all human works, that I instruct My servants to take action against them, is truly necessary because I know the effect of human works when the time of the battle of faith begins and I want to protect you humans from becoming weak and falling away from Me, and therefore I already purify the teaching beforehand, because only the pure truth gives you strength and faith to endure until the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spiritual seeing ....

B.D. 4487 from November 15th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

The state of conscious seeing occurs when the soul is receptive to light through extraordinary purification which has taken place through love or suffering. Then the soul is so spiritualized that it can gain insight into the spiritual kingdom, that it can enter into contact with figures of light which it is able to recognize, thus it is in a clairvoyant state. People can reach this degree of maturity without consciously striving for it, i.e. they can be chosen for the sake of their fellow human beings in order to render them a service. For a short time they are in direct contact with beings of light for whom the heart longs, and these beings of light will also comply with the heart's desire and incline towards the earthly children because they are filled with profound love for them and use every opportunity to express this love. They share love according to God's will, and since they are full of light and strength themselves they can also radiate it in order to make people happy .... Spiritual seeing is therefore the truthful explanation for appearances of such a kind that they are only seen by one person, whereas fellow human beings cannot make these perceptions. It is therefore neither self-deception nor fraud, but only proof of the ability of a purified soul to gain insight into the spiritual kingdom. Likewise, such a soul is also able to sense natural forces inherent in the earth and to have them found through the clairvoyant gift. This is a sign of extremely deep sensitivity, a sensitivity which the imperfect human being does not possess, which has developed through physical suffering and is expressed in such a way that the body in the clairvoyant state is attracted by these forces and now, as if under compulsion, gives these forces the opportunity to unfold, so that to a certain extent such a person only opens the valve so that fellow human beings can come to benefit from such forces, if it is God's will. Thus the light phenomena and miraculous powers of earth are connected insofar as a purified soul is led by the beings of light to a place where the body feels the powers through its excessive sensitivity, and that the soul is able to see spiritually there, that the spiritual eye is opened to it and the human being then reports in a regressed state mixed with earthly impressions, which is now coloured according to the upbringing, the surroundings and the knowledge which was supplied to him from outside. The world, i.e. people who have no knowledge of it, will doubt or find no correct explanation, yet such processes are understandable to the spiritually awakened person and he will be able to differentiate between what is truth and what is humanly distorted, yet there are only a few who are able to give correct clarification about the fact that the soul is able to see things which are concealed from fellow human beings and that the bearers of these souls are to be believed ....

Amen

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Heaven and hell ....

B.D. 4488 from November 17th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

I will not let anyone who gives himself to Me as My Own fall ever again. But anyone who remains in opposition to Me is in great danger of losing the strength of My love completely and becoming hardened in his fundamental substance, an extremely agonising condition which I would like to prevent. This truth, which has not been concealed from humanity from the start, resulted in the concept of 'heaven and hell', of a blissful and a wretched condition, which in people's imagination is a limited space, until ultimately the real truth .... the condition .... became less important in their imagination and only the place remained, visualised by fantasy in every conceivable way. This gave way to many misguided thoughts so that the truth is now completely distorted and the human being no longer has any knowledge of what heaven and hell really mean.

Life and death are heaven and hell .... Busy, joyful activity in the most brightly radiating light is life .... Weakness, helplessness and deepest darkness are death .... And every condition can continually increase in both directions until the final aim, blissful union with Me or deepest descent, infinite distance from Me, has been reached .... Inconceivable is the bliss of the former, inconceivable is also the torment and suffering of the condemned, who languish for eternities and have no strength for redemption. It is these souls you should consider ....

It is a misguided teaching that there is no salvation from hell, that these souls are eternally condemned by Me .... It is not I Who condemns them but they themselves who have chosen damnation, not I Who pushed them into the abyss, but they themselves aimed towards the deepest point. However, My love leaves nothing so far away forever and therefore there is even salvation from hell, since I died on the cross for these beings too and accepted their guilt, because My love is greater than My wrath, than My justice. Even hell will have to let go of its last victims, i.e. even the hardest matter will be disintegrated one day, freeing the spirits within for the purpose of ascending to life .... Because hell, as you humans imagine, does not consist of an eternally blazing source of fire, it is not a place which contains the condemned. Hell is an indescribably agonizing condition, a condition which starts on earth when people do not acknowledge Me, hence they disassociate themselves from Me and remain without the strength of My love. They certainly continue to live their physical life without Me and as yet do not feel the weak condition, which their distance from Me entails, as torment, but as soon as their bodily life is over the agony starts: the consciousness to be completely without strength and yet to exist ....

It is still possible at first to let go of the resistance if the soul listens to the advice of knowing beings, but these opportunities are rarely valued and the soul descends ever deeper, the distance to Me gets ever greater and the weakness increases until the final hardening takes place .... the new banishment into most solid matter .... Then an infinitely long developmental period will have passed unsuccessfully for the spiritual substance which was once bound in matter and then set free as a human being in order to voluntarily strive for shedding every physical restraint. That it has failed is his free will because I truly do not withhold direct admonishments and warnings. But hell has a far greater attraction than heaven .... and the human being strives with utmost zeal towards matter again which the soul had long overcome. And therefore it is also his fate .... matter will once again be the shell for the spiritual substance which had failed its final test of will.

Hell has opened its gates wide, and countless souls will enter the darkness voluntarily .... Hell will triumph, i.e. its prince will have, as far as numbers are concerned, great success, but I will extort all these souls from him by placing them into the new creation again, and at the same time remove My adversary's every power over these beings by banishing him into the center of earth .... that is, he will be given the hardest cover as a constraint, which he will be unable to leave again until the will of humans gives him power once more, by people desiring material goods and increasingly distancing themselves from Me again. Then he will fight for the souls again and this contest will be permitted so that the souls can prove themselves by choosing between Me and him, because without the right decision no person can achieve blissfulness ....

Amen

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Originate of matter .... What is matter? ....

B.D. 4489 from November 18th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

There is a law according to which all matter approaches dissolution as soon as its substances have become useless, i.e. have lost their binding power, so to speak. It then disintegrates into itself and can also only experience a new formation in its remaining components together with other matter. The process of the dissolution of matter always and constantly takes place in the universe, where earthly material creations exist, but as also matter constantly arises anew, thus substances are joined together again and again using dissolved matter. The human being can certainly examine matter itself for its components but he cannot determine the origin and the original components of what his eye sees .... He only sees the perpetual becoming and passing away and the emergence of new creations again, but he does not know what was originally if it is not made known to him through his spirit. For matter is a new creation, it is not eternal. It exists, it is visible to the human eye and yet it is fundamentally spiritual, that is, it is power that cannot be seen with the bodily eye. It is an emanation of God, which has become form through His will .... This act is incomprehensible and will remain so .... it is: power moving away from God, which strengthens itself until it hardens the further it moves away from God .... So this power is animated with will, only this will is bound if it strives away from God .... It is spiritual which carries the God-opposing will within itself, whereas the spiritual, God's emanation of strength, which remains in His will, also stays close to Him and results in creations of light, thus it stimulates God's creative will to form structures of the most glorious kind, which, however, are constantly capable of change, yet they are imperishable and delight beings which, being completely in accordance with God's will, receive His emanation of strength for equally creative activity. Hence, what completely corresponds to God's will is not material, what is materially visible carries the God-opposing will in itself to varying degrees and has therefore become spiritual form, strength emanating from God which does not remain as it originates from God when it distances itself from God.

However, power that distances itself from God diminishes in its effectiveness, matter appears without life, it is in a state of death, of powerlessness and thus the resulting inactivity .... without life, which means uninterrupted activity. If the spiritual were completely insentient then the state of powerlessness would not be felt by the spiritual, but because the spiritual has known the state of freedom before as a free spirit close to God .... or also as a human being in the last stage of development on this earth-creation .... and is fully aware of its existence, it feels the powerless state as agony, which can now certainly contribute to giving up resistance against God, which is recognizable through a minimal beginning activity which results in a soon change of hard matter ....

(19.11.1948) The more life a work of creation betrays, the smaller the distance from God has become and the more the spiritual takes on its original nature, it becomes strength and light again the closer it comes to God, until it is finally intimately merged with God again. Matter is therefore power that has gone out from God, which has condensed and finally hardened the further away it is from God. Matter in itself is transient because it can dissolve again into its original state, but strength is imperishable, it remains in existence because it is an emanation of God which can certainly change in form but never completely pass away. But the change of matter is likewise law, it cannot remain eternally as it appears because it always comes into contact with that strength from God, which is still effective as strength, and this effectiveness is expressed precisely as a change of matter. The degree to which the strength from God affects matter depends on the resistance of the spiritual which this matter harbours. But even the strongest resistance against God will be broken one day, which is why from time to time violent dissolutions take place in creation which destroy all matter and let it arise again in another form, because the strength from God is constantly active and also wants to cause the spiritual that has emerged from it to be supremely active, because activity alone is blissful, because it alone is life ....

Amen

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Worker in the vineyard of the lord ....

B.D. 4490 from November 20th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

The will to work for Me is enough to make you capable of doing so. Which office is then assigned to the individual depends on the strength of will and the perseverance he shows in working for My kingdom. But he will always be given the opportunity to penetrate the truth, it will always be made accessible to him from some side, and mostly in a completely natural way, through conversations, through hearing or reading My word and through his own thoughts; thus, if he speaks for Me and My kingdom, he will also represent the truth because it appears acceptable to him, even if it was offered to him from outside, because his spirit is already effective in him through his will to be active for Me. He then makes himself a servant and will also render his services to Me in the right way. But the condition is that his will is serious .... that he deeply feels the desire in his heart to work for Me, that he does not just speak nice words and please himself and that he therefore often secretly converses with Me and thus appeals for My approval and also finds it. He has to be serious, then he can always be certain of My blessing and My help. Every person can render services to Me, for My vineyard is vast and I need many labourers in it in view of the approaching end, where every willing servant will have to perform increased work in order to be successful. And I am truly a just lord, I reward everyone according to merit, for I also know that the work will be difficult in the end but with My help it will also be achievable. Every labourer in My vineyard has spiritual advisors at his side who advise and help him where necessary. But the main work consists of talking to people about spiritual things, because this stimulates their thinking and only in this way can fellow human beings be prompted to live an inner life, thus to take a stand on the spiritual. And they should always and constantly mention love, for only love can cause spiritual progress, only through love is upward development possible, and only a life of love is like a field which bears good fruit. Anyone who voluntarily undertakes this work for My kingdom can also always count on My support, spiritually as well as earthly, for I gladly accept him into My service, and this also means complete care for his physical and spiritual well-being. I will maintain him and always give him what he needs for his office on earth, which will be assigned to him according to his maturity but will always find My full approval if he wants to be active for Me and My kingdom. For I bless all who serve Me, and especially in the last time before the end ....

Amen

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"Forerunners you shall be to Me on earth ...."

B.D. 4491 from November 20th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

You shall be forerunners for Me on earth, I have hired you for this purpose, because people have to speak to people so that they open the door of their heart to Me and grant Me entrance. For they cannot hear Me Myself as long as they have not removed everything from the chambers of their hearts which prevents My entry. Until then they will not hear My voice either. Yet they have to experience what I have to say to them, otherwise they will not make any effort to prepare their heart for My dwelling. Therefore I need you to enter them before Me, to call out to them: The lord comes and wants to enter you .... They can hear your call but whether they heed it is up to them. But if they have listened to you, they also know that I follow and knock at their door, and blessed are those who let Me in .... blessed are those who have prepared themselves for My coming, to whom your words gave cause to work on themselves. I speak to all who have heard the announcement through your mouth, and your work opens many a door of the heart to Me that would otherwise remain closed. You shall be forerunners for Me on earth .... you shall go before Me and listen to what I Myself say to you, so that you will then proclaim My word and speak in My name. And the more eagerly you are active in My name the more urgently My word will affect people, the doors will open of their own accord and hearts will wait for the coming of the lord, Whom His servant has announced, for a good speaker is capable of much .... But in order for you to be good speakers I will take possession of you Myself and speak through you, unrecognized by those whom you should make receptive for My coming, yet recognized by you because you serve Me with love, because I can already work in your hearts through your voluntary devotion to Me. And thus your ministry will not be too difficult, you will be guided by Me and led to all gates where I want to enter, and you will always speak in a way which is appropriate for the individual .... Only you must not tire and become lukewarm in your work for Me .... And therefore you yourselves must often grant Me entrance into your hearts by also letting Me speak to you, by desiring to hear Me Myself and thus longing to be fed by Me, to take supper with Me as I have promised you .... "behold, I stand at the door and knock; whoever opens to Me, I will come in and take supper with him ...." Open the door to Me, all of you, and let Me enter in, pave the way for Me, whoever you want to work for Me, and thus invite all guests to the supper, so that they may be strengthened and receive nourishment for their souls from My hand, for only then can they become blessed when I Myself feed them with the bread of life ....

Amen

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Communion ....

B.D. 4492 from November 21st 1948, taken from Book No. 52

Eating the bread and drinking the wine is a token of what you should be doing in order to become blessed .... You must consume bread and wine, that is, you must give nourishment to your soul, by ingesting the bread of heaven with its strength, by accepting My Word and withdrawing the strength from it, hence, by feeding your soul with the sustenance offered to you from above by My love. Thereby I wanted to explain to you that the soul needs as much nourishment as the body and that it must be fed in the same way as the body, by consuming bread and wine. Yet the consumption of nourishment for the soul at no time depends on an external consumption of bread and wine .... This was merely a comparison intended to illustrate to My disciples what they needed and what they should offer their fellow human beings in order to attain bliss. It solely concerns the life of the soul, and the fact that the soul does not require physical bread and physical wine is clearly self-evident. However, I have only ever had your spiritual life in mind, I only wanted to ensure your soul's life and therefore will not demand external formalities where nourishment for the soul is instead sought in all sincerity. Your hunger and thirst for My Word is, by itself, enough in order to be satisfied by the bread of life which comes from heaven, which in truth is My flesh and My blood, which assures the soul's survival, which permeates it with strength and thus provides it with eternal life .... The external intake of bread and wine can never provide nourishment for a person's soul if he has no heartfelt desire for My Word, if he does not want to be fed by Me with the bread of heaven. For only he will come to Me and take communion with Me. He will let Me speak to him. He feeds the soul with nourishment which sustains it and makes it happy. Consequently, anyone who merely enjoys actual bread and wine cannot claim that he is My guest digesting sustenance for his soul at My table. Only people's half-heartedness towards My Word made it possible to produce this misunderstanding of My Words and action, for as soon as the human being makes a serious effort to attain life for his soul, he will automatically understand the meaning of My Words, and then no person will ever be satisfied with merely performing an external act .... which seems to every thinking person a figurative comparison, which in fact it was .... The fact that the people of My church also maintained the external formality in the beginning was justified, insofar as in their heartfelt unity they always envisioned My presence, that they really congregated in remembrance of Me and together accepted My Word .... And I was in the midst of them and filled them with My spirit, thus they were My guests in truth with whom I took Communion .... I broke the bread and offered it to them ....

They heard My Word within themselves .... And they practised the same, they also distributed the bread .... they informed each other about what I revealed to them through the voice of the spirit. The first disciples understood the meaning of the external symbol, yet those who followed them already started to pay greater importance to the external symbol and this is how it remained, and only a few grasp the deeper meaning and take Supper with Me, because only a few connect with Me inwardly so that they have the desire to hear Me Myself, that My Word is so delectable and precious to them as to make them hunger and thirst for it, so that I can invite them to take Communion with Me, that I can distribute the bread of heaven and refresh them with the wine of truth for the salvation of their souls. Anyone who is so intimately connected with Me always lives in 'remembrance of Me', he will always allow Me to be present no matter where he is and what he does, thus I will also always be present with him as a guest at every actual meal, he will always remember Me and desire to feel My presence through My Word .... He will be so imbued by love for Me that he will also tell his fellow human beings and he will share what he owns, spiritual and earthly gifts, because he will feel impelled into actions of love as soon as he is inwardly in contact with Love Itself. Then his soul will constantly receive nourishment and also distribute it constantly, he will constantly communicate, he will stay in communion with Me and also be conscious of My presence .... Do understand, you humans, the act of Communion is not just a matter of a moment which is only carried out by the external consumption of bread and wine; understand that I expect more than merely a temporary commitment. Your heart must be completely prepared for My admission, an act of cleansing must have preceded it which only requires a life of love, and a loving person will also desire a sign of reciprocated love, he will desire to hear Me Myself speak .... and thus he will distribute first in order to receive from My hand a delectable gift in return .... My Word as nourishment for the soul is indispensable for him. And if he desires it he will indeed be fed, he will eat My flesh and drink My blood .... I will take Supper with him and he with Me ....

Amen

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Death of a worldly ruler .... Turn of events ....

B.D. 4493 from November 23rd 1948, taken from Book No. 52

When you hear of the death of a worldly ruler you have arrived at the point you can call the beginning of the end. Then the world will turn into a place of fire, flames will blaze high, unbridled hatred will rage and humanity will be gripped by horror as it sees no escape from the inevitable peril.

And then I will urge you to speak, for whilst everything is in uproar great calm will take hold of you as you clearly realise that the time of My appearance is drawing near, and thus you proclaim it to those who will listen to you. People see themselves surrounded by enemies on all fronts and are therefore without hope for a peaceful solution. Hence those without faith in the only One Who can help will suffer immense fear.

Consequently they will only focus on world events .... People will anxiously attempt to provide for themselves as they see the approach of great earthly hardship; they will anxiously try to secure worldly goods and prepare for escape even though it seems hopeless to them. Only the faithful remain calm, and then I will use these to encourage their distraught fellow human beings who despair in their unbelief. I attempt to bring Myself close to them once more, I let My servants talk to them and through them I Myself speak words of love and encouragement. I warn them against escape and not just to consider their physical well being; I demonstrate the futility of their intentions and admonish them to persevere and put their fate in My hands; and thus everything takes it course ....

The fire is kindled and people will not extinguish it anymore, I will put it out Myself by opposing it with other elements, by confronting those Myself who want to tear each other apart .... And My voice will sound from above .... The earth will experience a natural disaster which will tear the fighters apart; they will be faced by a power which neither can match .... The process will only take hours but it will create a completely new situation in the world, totally changed conditions and an initially uncontrollable chaos, utmost earthly hardship and unspeakable grief and adversity amongst people.

Yet you all must endure this, for the end is approaching and many opportunities for purification still need to be created since all people have a shorter lifespan now and need to mature in the shortest possible time .... The end is near and as soon as this point is reached you also can, without doubt, soon expect the last day and the Last Judgment, so that may be fulfilled what has been proclaimed in Word and Scripture ....

Amen

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Faith and love - constant presence of God ....

B.D. 4494 from November 24th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

It is enough for you to know that I constantly dwell among My own in spirit, that you are never alone if you profess Me in your heart and before the world. And if you are convinced of this, nothing can frighten you or make you waver in your faith. But this faith in My everlasting presence also makes you Mine who then also live in love because they believe in Me, or also believe deeply and vividly because they live in love. For faith without love is unthinkable because one emerges from the other. Faith can always be gained if a person makes an effort to be lovingly active without any self-interest, because this awakens the spirit in him which mentally instructs the person such that he is able to believe; that everything he is presented with, which is taught to him through My servants on earth or through My written word as truth of faith, is obvious to him. And therefore people who fulfil the commandment of neighbourly love must also always be of the same opinion in matters of faith, because My spirit teaches the same everywhere and because I prevent My own from disagreeing with each other. "Where two or three are gathered in My name, I am in the midst of them ...." And I will truly impart the truth to you and make sure that My own stand in the sole truth .... In the end time My own will be severely attacked and will have to answer for their thoughts and actions. Then you should just bear in mind that you are not alone in the face of hostile attacks, that you always have Me Myself by your side, that you need not fear what you should say and what words you should use to justify yourselves to those, for I Myself will put the words into your mouth as soon as you only stand up for Me and My teaching. Faith in My presence will always let you appear safe and fearless, you will not look for Me in the distance but always be certain that I am your constant companion and will not leave you alone in earthly or spiritual adversity. And thus you will stand firm in the final battle until you receive final redemption through My love ....

Amen

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Spiritual power supply through prayer and love work ....

B.D. 4495 from November 25th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

Spiritual strength is necessary if the human being wants to free himself from the state which is a bound state as a result of the past apostasy from Me. This spiritual strength is available to everyone but it has to be requested through prayer or acquired through loving activity. Thus the human being's will must always have become active in order to make contact with Me. The human being can indeed accomplish works of love without conscious striving towards Me, without the intellect being involved, whereas the intellect is also active in prayer, which indeed produces a prayer without the involvement of the heart, which does not reach My ear, but in connection with the heart will always achieve what the human being asks for. Hence a call for the supply of strength, for My help, which comes from the heart, will always result in the supply of strength, and a person who is capable of intimately, i.e. in spirit and in truth, will inwardly feel urged to be lovingly active, for this is already My answer, proof of My spiritual strength flowing to him, that love awakens in him towards Me and also towards his fellow human beings and lets him carry out works of unselfish neighbourly love which earn him increased strength, and thus he can now redeem himself .... He breaks the shackle which has held his soul captive until now, it becomes free and now ceaselessly strives upwards, it pushes towards the spiritual kingdom, its true home .... it escapes the state of bondage, and it will use its will at all times according to My will because it has given up its resistance against Me. A thought turned towards Me can already earn you humans the strength to want what is right and to do what is right .... which is why you truly don't have to accomplish anything difficult in order to initiate the release from the bound state, it is only ever your will to establish the connection with Me in your heart, yet you have to muster this yourselves or you will act under compulsion, which cannot earn you success. Ask for strength and you will receive, for if you want to mature spiritually you will not make a wrong request. I help you to achieve the aim of becoming free from every form, to become free from the bonds of satan in order to be able to enter the original state again, to work and create as light, powerful beings in all freedom for your own happiness ....

Amen

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Closing the gates into the spiritual realm at the end ....

B.D. 4496 from November 25th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

The gates into the spiritual kingdom will close with the last day of this earth's existence. For the spiritual being, which as a human being did not pass the test of faith on earth, can no longer make up in the beyond for what it missed on earth but has deprived itself of this grace because it has sunk too low for an upward development in the spiritual kingdom to be possible. And likewise the believers will no longer enter the spiritual kingdom in the end, for they will be raptured while still alive in order to take up residence in a paradisiacal place until the work of transformation of earth is completed, which will then be assigned to them again as their abode. Then the battle between light and darkness will also be over for a long time in the spiritual kingdom because satan’s power will be broken and he will be put in chains again for a long time, which will also have an effect in the spiritual kingdom as a stillness of battle and victory of the light-filled spiritual. But in the last days the spiritual kingdom will still receive many souls who will be granted the grace to continue their upward development, who will therefore still be recalled from earth before they join the adversary's camp; who are too weak and therefore find grace before the eyes of God. The end time will still contribute much to the purification of such souls, and the great suffering which passes over the earth makes it easier for them to depart from the world and opens the gate for them into the spiritual kingdom which receives them, albeit still in a less mature state. But a sinking into the deepest depth is no longer to be feared for them, for which they thank God as soon as they recognize their situation. But in the end the gates will remain closed .... and it will be astonishing how carelessly people live in the last days, how little they think of death and how they only live for bodily pleasure and neither believe in a soul nor in a continuation of life after death .... And when this time has come all ascent development of the soul will also be excluded, neither on earth nor in the beyond, because faith in God will be completely extinguished and spiritual life will be completely eliminated. Then the last day will surprise people who see their physical end coming with horror, who, facing death and without faith, are completely desperate and rage against each other like devils .... Then the unkindness of the individual will break through and the wickedness of men will reach its climax .... while the believers will only remember their heavenly father and await His coming in the clouds. Then there will only be people who are faithful to God and those who have become devils. And therefore the end must come so that an end will also be put to sinfulness and the faith of His own will be rewarded by God ....

Amen

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Research-wise, spiritual territory cannot be fathomed ....

B.D. 4497 from November 27th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

No spiritual field is accessible to you in terms of research, and it will be a futile effort to get a true picture of what is beyond the earthly. Research-wise you can certainly solve all earthly problems and also obtain evidence for the correctness of your results, yet you will never succeed in providing evidence for spiritual assertions, and consequently you will also never be able to represent the truth of them as long as you have not penetrated areas on the path of faith and love which are otherwise closed to you. And thus people will never be able to fathom the correlations between earthly creations and the creator of eternity if they seek information about them by purely scientific means, just as they cannot investigate the human being's course of development or his soul. They can only surmise and, according to their spiritual attitude, be more or less close to the truth. But there is no provable clue, according to which they could give clear reasons or assertions. This is a special knowledge which is imparted by God to those people who are in contact with Him through profound faith and active neighbourly love; it is a knowledge which can only be imparted to the human being in a certain degree of maturity and which has nothing to do with intellectual activity, which is therefore not gained through research but requires a self-forming towards perfection, although the intellect then also has to become active in order to utilize the gained knowledge correctly. The meaning and purpose of creation, the meaning and purpose of earthly life cannot be grasped with mere intellectual thought, and the greatest erudition is not able to approximately see through God's plans, His wisdom and His love, whereas God allows the believing, devoted human being who submits to His will to gain insight and also gives him the ability to understand the divine plan. But then it is not the intellect but the heart which gains insight into God's reign and activity, and therefore the earthly researcher first has to shape his heart such that it sensitively recognizes the truth, that it thus receives knowledge without intellectual activity which cannot be proven at all but which is nevertheless recognized as truth and may also be represented, because with truth the human being also gains the complete conviction to stand in truth. But then he will never be able to say that he arrived at the result through reflection or sharp intellectual activity, rather he will have no evidence to justify his assertions or assumption to the world. Yet he will believe it himself if he has received information through the voice of his heart, whereas he will never be able to inwardly advocate researched thought material as established truth if he is honest with himself, as long as he excludes God, thus does not acknowledge Him as the sole giver of truth and appeals to Him for His support ....

Amen

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The ability to receive divine wisdom through the heart ....

B.D. 4498 from November 28th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

Divine wisdoms have to be sought deep inside the heart, for mere human intellect will neither be able to explain nor understand them if the heart is not involved in it. For this reason divine wisdom can only be received by people who live a profound inner life, who often withdraw into solitude, that is, who stop thinking about the world, about earthly worries and earthly plans, who enter into contemplation and try to fathom the kingdom which is beyond the earthly world. Such people are rewarded by God by granting them insight into the most concealed things, by allowing them to behold His sphere of activity, by informing them of His plan of eternity and by giving them at the same time the necessary comprehension to understand everything and to grasp the correlations. He tries to reveal to them the greatest mysteries, although the human being's intellectual capacity is insufficient to receive a comprehensive explanation as long as he does not have the degree of maturity that allows him to be permeated by the light of wisdom. Yet with the person's continuing development his intellectual capacity will improve and it is therefore indeed already possible to penetrate profound mysteries on Earth, and thus to take possession of divine wisdom, however, it will only be comprehensible to those who receive it, whereas another person will not know what to make of it because he has no understanding of the correlations between all works of creation with the eternal Creator.

Nevertheless, the more mature person should make an effort to also inform his fellow human being, because the knowledge can encourage another person's spiritual striving and because light shall be brought into the darkness which is spread across humanity, which lives in total ignorance of spiritual truth and no longer recognises its purpose on Earth, just as it is unaware of the individual person's final goal, which should be eagerly aspired to during earthly life. The question 'Why do we humans exist?' remains open to most people, they don't even make an effort to answer it or to look for a suitable answer. They often pose this question but they never seriously desire an answer or listen to those who answer them, for they only ever let their intellect speak but never their heart .... that is, they don't take any notice of their feelings which would be a clear answer for them. They drown out the voice of the heart and completely turn towards the world, hence they are incapable of receiving divine wisdom which necessitates a withdrawal from the world. And thus the world will remain dark and without light, since only a few people can receive enlightenment through the inner voice. But these few will be and remain happy, for they will take divine wisdom over into the spiritual kingdom where it originated from, while the others will enter the realm of the beyond in profound spiritual darkness because they failed to look for the light on Earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Justification for rejecting the truth .... God as judge ....

B.D. 4499 from November 30th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

You cannot justify yourselves in any way if you are accused of having rejected the truth, for you were entirely free to accept it if you had the will to do so. The truth will be conveyed to you, for I will make sure that it is conveyed to each individual, albeit in different forms, and depending on his willingness to accept it his knowledge of the pure truth will be expanded. But anyone who shuts himself off cannot gain anything, he can only lose the little he possesses. He who is weak in faith will gain increased faith by receiving the pure truth, but he who rejects it will also lose his weak faith .... "He who has much will still be added to, but he who has little will also still have the little taken away from him..." This is how these words are to be understood. The human being does not lack the power of judgment when it comes to recognizing the truth as such, for since I Myself want you to know the truth I will also enable you to recognize it, only your will has to be willing to accept the truth from My hands, and you declare this willingness by making it your business to examine what is presented to you, by mentally dealing with it, by considering the pros and cons and thus expressing the desire to accept the truth if you recognize it as such. And then I will guide your thinking correctly, then you will only win but never lose. And you will be held accountable for how you have behaved towards the presentation of My word, the pure truth. I truly constantly give you the opportunity to gain knowledge of My will, again and again you are referred to My word, you can accept it everywhere if you desire it yourselves. Yet because you are material My word is troublesome to you, after all, it warns you against striving for matter and admonishes you to overcome it. But you attach your heart to the goods of this world and therefore don't want to know anything about what comes from the spiritual world .... Your will fails or is wrongly directed where it could just as well be rightly directed. And for this you will be called to account and no-one will be able to say that they have remained ignorant of My word and My will ....

I will be your judge where I wanted to be your father because you reject My love and do not listen to My word. But I can only act as a judge if I find fault with you, and this consists of you not acknowledging Me as father and therefore also not respecting My word. You have therefore deprived yourselves of the right of childship, then I can no longer act like a father towards you but have to face you as a judge and condemn you because of your will which has turned away from Me. And thus I urgently warn you against disregarding My word, a gift which My great love offers you, which you do not deserve as creatures still resisting Me but which I nevertheless give to you in order to help you recognize Me and learn to love Me. But if your rebelliousness is still so pronounced that you flee from My voice or try to drown it out, then you are not My true children either, then you still belong to My adversary, and therefore I hold court over you .... And you will be found guilty, your rebelliousness will result in Me turning My back on you, that the distance between Me and you will become ever greater and this will result in a hardening of your substance, that you will become matter again which prevented you from accepting the spiritual, My word from above. And you are judged because you yourselves did not want it any other way ....

Amen

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Overcoming matter .... voluntary renunciation ....

B.D. 4500 from December 1st 1948, taken from Book No. 52

What I don't want to give you you cannot acquire by your own strength unless you work with the support of the one who wants to ruin you and therefore fulfils your earthly wishes in order to win you over for himself. And therefore you have to choose between prosperity, which you create for yourselves with his strength, or a modest existence which serves your soul as long as you are still materially minded. Once you have overcome matter so that your heart no longer longs for it, then I can provide for you more abundantly and you will also utilize earthly wealth in the right way so that it can serve you for your soul's maturity, so that you utilize it in active neighbourly love, so that you thereby create blessings, give to the poor and thus alleviate hardship and awaken love by giving love. Therefore don't grumble if you have to live in want but know that you then still need purification, that I want to educate you and have to use the remedy which heals you where you are ill. And then strive to practice voluntary renunciation, gladly renounce and detach yourselves in your heart from what I withhold from you, become free from all desire for matter, and I will consider you according to your maturity of soul so that you will not harm the soul if fulfilment is granted to the body. What you gladly give up and sacrifice for My sake I will give to you so that your life will become easier, yet only when you are willing to do without it .... Then I will know that it no longer means danger for you and can safely let you take possession of earthly goods which you will then also use according to My will. But don't give yourselves into satan’s hands for the sake of earthly goods, for the sake of the body's well-being .... Earthly life will soon pass and you will have to leave everything behind which you have acquired with his help, and then you will be in his power for eternity and he will demand the tribute from you .... you will have to pay dearly for earthly goods, the soul will have to atone for what the body enjoyed on earth .... I will protect you from this if I deny you what you long for ....

Amen

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Proclamation on objection: There is no God Who permits what is happening ....

B.D. 4501 from December 2nd 1948, taken from Book No. 52

My rule and activity will always remain incomprehensible to people who are not united with Me, for I cannot explain to them the motives which determine Me to give people free rein if they want to sin. Everything I do, everything I refrain from doing and everything I allow or prevent has its reason which you humans don't know and also don't understand without explanation. But I can only give this explanation under certain conditions, just as everything that happens is adapted to the eternal order, of which I Myself am the lawgiver. I could certainly prevent people from doing bad deeds, I could punish them or make them mute servants of justice, but then their will would be unfree, they would not be capable of their own will and not of their own action and could then never become perfect, i.e., despite the possibility of being bad, to choose the good and thus to express the will turned towards Me. I therefore allow people's impulses free rein. The fact that in the infinitely long time humanity predominantly lets itself be carried away into bad actions which betray diabolical influence is only proof that the whole of humanity makes bad use of free will, that it therefore does not make use of the possibility to turn to the good and thus contradicts My law of eternal order .... (3.12.1948) Nevertheless, I will only put a stop to this activity when the measure of wickedness has reached its limit, when there is no longer any possibility that people will change, that their will can still be diverted, that it will turn to Me, thus to good. But as long as there is still the possibility that one or the other will change his mind, that he will become aware of his purpose of earthly life, I allow what people want to do in their hatred and unkindness, so that they themselves learn to recognize and detest evil by the effect of their actions, so that they voluntarily change. Moreover, the time has come when satan has great power. Not that he trumps My might and power, but his last time has also come, which he uses to increase his kingdom, his power, because he knows that he only has little time left, but in his spiritual darkness and arrogance believes that he can overthrow Me from the throne. Anyone who does not know about the original beginning and final aim of all spiritual things, about My eternal plan of salvation, about the meaning and purpose of creation and the meaning and purpose of earthly life, will also find the thought of a strong adversary of Me absurd, yet he can believe that two different forces are at war with each other, that good and evil forces fight for supremacy .... that these forces are now each subject to a strong will and that this will originates from one entity. How he names this entity is irrelevant, yet they work in infinity, even though their sphere of action is completely different .... unlimited with Me and kept within limits with My adversary, who is also dependent on My will despite his power. The fact that a battle is being waged between good and evil is obvious; the reason why it is being waged can only be explained to the spiritually awakened person, to the person who hungers for truth, yet he will always receive a truthful, convincing explanation if he strives for it and asks Me for it ....

Amen

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Presenting the divine word in love .... success assured ....

B.D. 4502 from December 3rd 1948, taken from Book No. 52

It is truly not insignificant in which way My word is given to you, for the degree of love in which My word is offered is often decisive as to whether you accept or reject it. Everything that is handed out should be given with love, otherwise it does not speak to the heart but has to be accepted by the heart. A person filled with love gives in such a way that he awakens counter-love, and this is of utmost importance when My word is presented, because then full understanding is guaranteed as well as love is involved which brings about the awakening of the spirit. Without love My word remains dead and without understanding, it is spoken but has no strength because then it is just empty sound without life. If the human being wants to make his fellow human being happy, then love for his neighbour is already predominant, and what he then hands out penetrates the heart, is accepted there and, depending on his own will to love, felt as a valuable gift, as a gift of love. Where the giver's love is recognizable, the will to reject will be weaker, for then the word will already emanate a strength to the recipient which he cannot and will not close himself off to. Therefore, the representatives of My teaching must be willing and active in love in order to be suitable for receiving My word from above and to make My word with its strength accessible to their fellow human beings, because the mere transmission of the external word remains without impression, thus it can very easily be something formal, a professional preaching of My teaching without life and thus also without spiritual success. Then My word is without strength because it is only heard with the ears but does not penetrate the heart. For only the soul feels the power, and that in the state of loving feeling and its response. Impulses which the human being as such hardly notices can cause the soul greatest happiness and not be felt by the body, and if the soul now hears My word in such a loving feeling it stands in the midst of the emanation of strength whose source I am .... If it is not willing to love itself and My word is offered to it in love, then the strength will also penetrate it and it will let itself be permeated by it without resistance .... The degree of love of the receiver and the giver greatly influences the effect of My word, and therefore attention must be paid to the fact that the spreading of My teaching must never take place through coercion or violent measures, but My true representatives must be patient, gentle, loving and yet eager if they want to be successful and be faithful servants to Me on earth. It is not enough that My word is only read out or brought to people's ears with fixed phrases. It has to come alive if the preacher wants to help his fellow human beings with compassionate love, if he wants to guide them into truth and thereby into the right knowledge of Myself, and if his love opens the door of the listeners' hearts. Then My word will be received by people, it will be perceived as divine, as truth and accepted, because its strength benefits the soul which recognizes the divine origin and feels drawn to Me through My word ....

Amen

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Wide way to perdition, narrow way to the height ....

B.D. 4503 from December 5th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

The path you should take is passable as soon as you direct your gaze heavenwards, as soon as you desire to reach Me and have no other desire in your heart than to be united with Me again. I truly do not demand anything unfulfillable from My children, I only warn them to take the broad path which certainly appears comfortable and easy but leads far away from the aim, which the children of the world take who lose themselves to My adversary. The path you should take is narrow and not very appealing, and therefore people hesitate to enter it, yet it leads towards a glorious aim which you all should reach. In addition, figures of light will often appear in your path to guide you and draw your attention to obstacles, to stones and cliffs and undergrowth, so that you will not fall or be harmed by them. You can walk this arduous path quite carefree, whoever has entered it will not go a step further without protection. But you must not look across to the broad path, because from there you will be blinded by illusions which will make your path appear dark. Avert your gaze from it, look up to Me and a mild light will illuminate your path, which will do you good and intensify the closer you get to the aim. And entrust yourselves completely to Me, then I will be able to meet you, take your hand and guide you until the end of your life .... until the path becomes wide and even and ends in your father's house .... until the kingdom receives you, which is your true home, which is radiant with light and wonderful to behold, but which can only be reached via this narrow, arduous path. Difficulties have to be overcome, yet they can be overcome with My help, but what awaits you is worth all difficulties and hardships .... But the broad path leads into darkness .... it is beautiful and appealing as long as the human being walks on earth, but it leads astray and finally into a dark and sinister realm, into ruin. Avoid this path, don't try to make your earthly walk easy for it is only short but life after death is endlessly long, and therefore strive towards the right aim and don't let yourselves be deterred even if the path seems less appealing to you. Enter it and stretch out your hands to Me and I will guide you so that you will safely reach your aim ....

Amen

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Spiritual attachment .... souls without earthly binding ....

B.D. 4504 from December 5th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

A spiritual bond can exist where no earthly ties exist but where the souls are so attuned to each other that they complement each other and live in fullest spiritual harmony. Such souls can find each other without being physically together, but then the human being is not aware of the fact that his soul has entered into such a spiritual union, for the souls find each other without the body's involvement, it is a purely spiritual coexistence of which the human being as such knows nothing. However, as soon as the bodily cover falls, the souls strive towards each other and complement each other in the spiritual kingdom and never leave each other again. Such souls are now forced to lead a double life on earth; for the first time they fulfil the actual earthly task of enlivening their body and stimulating it to spiritual destiny, and at the same time they also help their like-minded soul to spiritualize its body so that the union of both souls can take place, which is only possible when both souls have left the physical cover. Before that, however, they can unite, as well as the body in the state of rest releases the soul .... So then the soul lives its second life .... it dwells in different surroundings, in a completely different life situation, it gives and receives love because it feels completely connected with the other soul. They strive upwards together, for as soon as a soul has spiritually found a second soul it is already advanced in its development, otherwise there is no harmony but only opposing defence ....

(6.12.1948) A person can certainly feel lonely because he is not aware of the soul's bond, yet this feeling of loneliness contributes to the soul's increased maturity again and the further it progresses in its development the more it can spiritualize itself, thus already on earth it can succeed in often dwelling in spiritual spheres and being raptured from earth. The soul then lives a life separate from the body, the body does not participate because its functions are switched off when it is in a state of rest. But it takes the soul's abilities and achievements with it into those spheres and can therefore be a great blessing if it possesses much spiritual wealth itself, but it can also gain much because the soul connected to it also has spiritual wealth according to its state of maturity, which they can now exchange and thereby make each other unspeakably happy. Where such spiritual bonds exist every danger of flattening, of stagnation or decline is over, people constantly strive upwards, and this striving also lets them find each other even if they are unknown to each other as human beings. They strive towards a common aim, and in this striving the souls feel attracted to each other .... For the soul does not sleep but constantly pursues the light in its urge to ascend, and it often only reluctantly returns to its physical shell which, however, it does not completely leave in order to continue its path of earthly life until it is allowed to leave its material body and now completely unites with the soul to which it feels attracted ....

Amen

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Understanding the word guaranteed for seekers ....

B.D. 4505a from December 8th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

Constantly increase your knowledge and seek to gain it through Me. Then the darkness of night will be broken through, it will be bright in you, the light of knowledge will have flared up brightly in you, and if you recognize Me you will also love Me and keep My commandments .... Thus My word is the first and most important thing, for only My word can make you knowledgeable, only through My word do you learn to recognize and love Me, and only My word makes My will known to you and admonishes and warns you of good and evil. And thus you must listen to My word and go wherever it is offered to you if you do not receive it directly from Me. Although you can receive it everywhere, people are not willing to convey the pure, unadulterated word to people everywhere, and what is offered to them is no longer pure and unadulterated. But I want you to become knowledgeable and to be instructed in all truth. And so that you will recognize My voice when I speak words of love and wisdom to you, I will first make Myself known. I do not suddenly approach any of My creatures but prepare them for it by causing them through suffering to enter My succession .... thus to love and to suffer .... always with surrender into My will. Then the human being will also shape himself as it is God's will, he will mature in wisdom, he will live in a state of knowledge. I Myself want to bless you with knowledge, I want to introduce you to My reign and activity so that you will learn to believe again in a living way. You must be offered faith in Me in a form that you are also able to believe, even though your intellect is also active in the process.

I Myself instruct you and kindle the light in your hearts which shall enlighten you in the midst of spiritual darkness and from My hands you will be able to receive extensive knowledge if it is your will and you ask Me for it, for I distribute the truth to all who desire it ....

Amen

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Understanding the word guaranteed for seekers ....

B.D. 4505b from December 9th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

Those who seek Me also understand My word, for their thoughts and aspirations are spiritually directed and thus they also understand the spiritual language which does not touch upon worldly things but informs them of the spiritual kingdom, of the human being's spiritual life and its final aim. Anyone who seeks Me is not offered final fulfilment on earth but knows that the right life can only be found with Me, he knows that he is My share and therefore strives back to Me. And My word will be understandable to him, he will hear and read the meaning, he will know how I want My word to be understood and make an effort to live in accordance with the spiritual meaning of the word, and thus he will fulfil My will .... I tried to explain everything to people by way of examples, I made it understandable to them by way of images, and those who strove towards Me, who were good or made an effort to be good, understood Me. But the others were annoyed with Me because they took literally what was to be understood spiritually .... And thus people still interpret My word differently today, depending on their state of maturity and their will, which is turned towards or away from Me. Some only read the word and get stuck on it, they take offence because they don't understand the profound meaning. Others again fearfully only follow the outer word, they are satisfied with earthly tasks without paying attention to the spiritual meaning. And thus these people do not derive the advantage from My word for their soul. For them My word means nothing more than what they themselves read from it in their ignorance, in their lightless state .... And they could draw an unspeakable amount from it, they could constantly draw from a source of strength which no other can match if they grasped My word's spiritual meaning and lived accordingly .... Yet their heart decides .... this towards Me, then My word's strength will also become effective in them, for then their will is, as it were, the key to the door of the heart through which I can enter and bring light into it, and the human being will recognize and know how I want My word to be understood. For the understanding of My word I make it a condition that the human being's heart seeks Me, not just his intellect. And that is why there is much ambiguity among people, because mostly only the intellect is active, but it will get stuck if it does not question its heart. I will guide him through the heart into truth, I will make My word understandable to him, I will light a little lamp for him if only he asks Me for advice in his search and research, if he unites with Me in prayer or in thought .... if he seeks to recognize Me .... Then My word will no longer appear veiled to him, it will reveal itself in brightest clarity and speak to his heart, and then he will no longer need the written word, then I Myself will speak to him and he will hear Me ....

Amen

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Special grace - commitment .... knowledge of plan of salvation - enlightenment ....

B.D. 4506 from December 10th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

It is a special grace for you to know about the connection between you, as My living creations, and Me, the creator of eternity, about the purpose and aim of earthly life and My eternal plan of salvation. This knowledge explains everything that happens to you, whether it is sorrowful or joyful, whether it results in construction or destruction, whether it corresponds to My will or not. You will always be able to follow My rule and activity and also enlighten your fellow human beings about the meaning to be given to all events. And thus you are to a certain extent at an advantage over your fellow human beings as long as they don't make the right use of their free will and let you inform them, as long as they don't listen to you if you want to convey the truth to them. You are at an advantage and yet also burdened accordingly, for the knowledge you possess obliges you to pass it on if you want to prove yourselves worthy of it. It is not enough that you merely acquire knowledge for yourselves but you must constantly work with it if it is to be a blessing for yourselves and your fellow human beings. There is so much ambiguity amongst people, erroneous opinions are widespread, and thereby people's faith becomes weak and is in danger of being completely rejected, which can prevent the offering of the pure truth. You possess the pure truth, therefore pass it on, acquire for yourselves the right to have become knowledgeable through My grace by distributing what you have received and thus bring clarification to questions which only the person who is taught by Me through the voice of the spirit is able to answer. You, who hear Me, convey spiritual knowledge to those who are unable to hear Me but who would also like to have knowledge, inform them of the extraordinary gift of grace and inform them of My love for all imperfection, whom I want to help to attain perfection. You possess much and can still increase your wealth if you pass it on, if you teach your fellow human beings as I have taught you. Then you will bring light into the darkness which lies over the earth, then you will break through the night of the spirit and light will come into many hearts which desire the truth and cannot receive it directly from Me. Help all who are ignorant and desire knowledge, for I will speak to them through you, I will also instruct them as I have instructed you, so that they will recognize Me and learn to love Me ....

Amen

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Where two or three are gathered together in My name .... '

B.D. 4507 from December 11th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

And I Am with you when you speak My name, as long as your thoughts intend to reach Me. Then I Am in your midst .... Believe this and become aware of My presence when you speak of Me, and imagine that I knock at every heart's door and request entry, and that you should not reject Me if you want to gain My favour. You should be receptive when I want to talk to you through Word or Scripture, through thoughts or My servants on earth who bring you My Word. For if you accept My Word you accept Me Myself in your heart, if you comply with it you take Communion with Me, for then you will live in accordance with My will, which I will reveal to you through My Word .... with love, and through your deeds of love you will unite with Me, you will establish such a heartfelt bond with Me that you will hear Me when I speak Words of love to you and thus provide nourishment for your soul when I give you the bread of heaven, My flesh and My blood .... when I come to you Myself in the Word ....

Let Me stay with you often, let your thoughts drift to Me and hold frequent spiritual conversations, so that I can always be present with you, for I gave you this promise Myself: Where two or three are gathered together in My name, there I Am in the midst of them. And wherever I Am you can only benefit, for I always hand out My gifts because I love you, My living creations, and want to make you happy. And the amount of My gifts of grace can be determined by yourselves, you can receive much, just as you can reject My love by turning your attention to the world .... by interrupting your spiritual conversations and focussing on worldly interests .... I let you do as you please and don't force you to listen to Me, yet you deprive yourselves of much wealth. I can only give you as much as your free will accepts, I certainly offer you My grace but I won't impose it on you, yet you will lose My presence when you turn away from Me, for I want to be desired in order to give Myself. Nevertheless, I won't stop .... time and again I will send My messengers to prepare the path for Me, and I will follow them if you if you are willing to receive Me .... And thus you can always make use of My grace; you can always be My guest just by remembering Me and ignoring the world. For truly, I will give you better things than the world can give to you .... Therefore, don't let Me knock in vain but listen to My voice and follow it, let yourselves be invited to take Supper with Me and be My guests, so that I can refresh you physically and spiritually with food and drink ....

Amen

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God’s word .... parables .... imagery .... people's unwillingness ....

B.D. 4508 from December 12th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

You will only understand the meaning of My words if you are serious about standing in truth. I have always spoken to people in parables in order to stimulate them to think, otherwise the words would have fallen on their ears if they did not have the serious will to think about them. I gave free rein to their thoughts and therefore suggested everything to them accordingly. The imagery was intended to bring to life in them what I had to say to them .... And thereby I achieved more with those people than with a dry teaching which remained incomprehensible to them until they possessed deeper realization through a life of love. And in this way My teaching was also written down according to My will. And again, it only requires the individual's serious will to penetrate the core of My teaching, which was veiled by parables and figurative paraphrasing in order to encourage the human being to think about it. This is truly a small requirement to take My word as the content of one's thoughts, to seriously think about the meaning and purpose of those words which contain My teaching of love, and anyone who has the serious will will also soon understand the meaning and be able to give a correct explanation himself in case of dispute. For I want people to discuss My word, only then will they receive the right blessing from it, only then will the seed planted in the soil come up. Speech and counter-speech stick in the memory more than a written word which is read over if the person does not have the need to draw deeper knowledge from the scriptures which reproduce My word. Through speech and counter-speech the human being is forced to take a stand and to express his thoughts. Therefore it is far more successful to cultivate an exchange of thoughts in a small circle than to listen to My word without being allowed to express it in return, for the human being's intellect certainly accepts My word but not the heart, which is then dependent on the human being's will to encourage the intellect to convey to the heart what it has received through listening. However, what is heard usually escapes the intellect without the heart having taken notice of it, and then My words are completely meaningless because their meaning would be hidden from the intellect but obvious to the heart. And therefore I had My word written down in this form by the disciples, well considering most people's unwillingness to deal with these words of Mine in detail. Yet I have made it dependent on their thinking about it to what extent My word becomes comprehensible to them ....

Amen

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Exhortation to workers in the vineyard of the lord ....

B.D. 4509 from December 13th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

A large field of work will be assigned to you if you are to start working for Me and My kingdom, and you need not fear that you will not be able to cope with it, for depending on your ability you will be placed where you can work successfully. My call to you goes out in the clearest way so that you will no longer hesitate and joyfully serve Me. But so that you are capable of your work you must always draw on My strength, there must no longer be any separation between you and Me, the intimate relationship of a child with its father must be established so that you no longer fear the world but always know in Me a loving protector Who protects you from all adversity of the world, Who faithfully stands by your side and constantly supports you with advice and action. Only when you have established this relationship will you be fit for the service you are to render Me .... to openly and fearlessly confess Me before the world and to preach My teaching of love to your fellow human beings, to reproach them for the idleness of their lives and to proclaim My word .... You yourselves must be so fully convinced of what you say to your fellow human beings that your words ignite in the hearts of others, that they thus gain life and do not remain without impression on their fellow human beings. Countless souls are in need and waiting for help, and these are the people who have not yet completely surrendered to My adversary and yet cannot believe in a God of love, omnipotence and wisdom. To these you shall restore the living faith in Me through living language, through presenting My word from above, you shall inform them of My obvious working on you and of your mission which extends to your fellow human beings, so that they, too, feel cared for and willingly hand themselves over to Me as their creator and father of eternity, so that they establish the same relationship with Me as that of a child with its father .... Then they will be won for My kingdom, they will be won for eternity. And many you will meet on the path I lead you .... Many are in spiritual adversity and yet can still be saved if the truth is conveyed to them, if they hear words of love from Me through you to which they cannot and will not close their minds. It is a large field which you should cultivate, which you should cleanse of weeds and sow with good seed so that I will reap a rich harvest .... This work is your service for Me, to which I will soon call you and only ever admonish you to be diligent in your spiritual activity and to make use of every hour so that you will mature yourselves and be able to carry out your mission for the benefit of yourselves and your fellow human beings, for the time is hastening and the end is near ....

Amen

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Justice .... atonement for sins .... judgment ....

B.D. 4510 from December 13th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

People challenge My justice, for they sin incessantly. They are intolerant beyond measure, they have no love in their hearts, they are full of arrogance, full of sensual desires, they have no compassion for their neighbour, they are full of envy and jealousy and, due to their lack of love, capable of the worst actions. And thus they sin against My commandment of neighbourly love and against Me Myself, Who gave them this commandment. But anyone who violates My commandment of love forfeits My love, he distances himself from Me and hardens himself more and more until I take him to court again, i.e. his new banishment into matter takes place. Then My justice has been atoned for, yet the human being has judged himself, only My law of eternity underlies this process, which could rightly be called a punishment if it did not at the same time represent an effective means of education, thus always let My love for the created shine through, thus it is never to be regarded as wrath. Justice never eliminates love, but justice also demands atonement so that sin itself is invalidated. For My creations suffer from sin and can only reduce or cancel this suffering through righteous atonement .... So a sinful person is in judgment, i.e. in a banished state which is sorrowful. He must make satisfaction, he is forced to do what he did not do voluntarily as a human being .... he must serve. Man serves voluntarily if he awakens love in himself. But vices and bad habits displace love and he tries to rule where he should be of service, and his thoughts and actions are sinful. And if a change in the stage as a human being can no longer be expected he will be placed into a state where the spirit is forced to be of service in order to reach the free state again, and it can once again pass the test of will of free service. This course of development is only justice on My part, yet it is not based on anger but on love, and it is always determined by the human being's own free will, so that he will plunge himself into judgment as soon as he sins against the commandment of love for God and his neighbour ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Life fate according to the will of the people ....

B.D. 4511 from December 14th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

You are allotted a measure of suffering and hardship which you have to take upon yourselves in earthly life in order to mature your soul. This measure corresponds to the length of your life span, the will and the soul maturity of the individual human being, which is why it appears differently abundant to the human being who has not yet penetrated into the deeper knowledge about the purpose and aim of earthly life. It is no coincidence that one person's life is more difficult and arduous while another person is spared many things, but God's will has shaped the individual's destiny in a way which is most beneficial for his soul. Yet you humans can contribute a lot yourselves to make life easier for yourselves, because God's will to help is always ready if you call upon Him and appeal for His help. Thus, to a certain extent, you create the excess of suffering for yourselves, for you are always entitled to the grace of prayer which you only need to use in order to be relieved of even the greatest worry. For prayer can have the same success for the development of the soul as a measure of suffering .... the human being seeks God to Whom he wants to unite .... for which suffering is a good means .... Only the connection with God should be established, the path to this can be chosen by the human being, and therefore he can determine his fate and shape it in a bearable way for himself if he remains in constant contact with God through prayer or through active neighbourly love which results in God's presence, thus it triggers a direct connection with Him, because God Himself is love and therefore has to unite with the human being who shapes himself into the same being through love. Therefore, if a person believes he has to suffer excessively he should bear in mind that his nature still needs to change or it could be permeated by God's nature, which excludes all suffering. He has to suffer in order to take refuge with God and, through heartfelt prayer, request His emanation, which is never denied to him and touches the earthly person all the more effectively and invigoratingly the more he unites with God .... The union with God eliminates all suffering, thus it need only be striven for in order to reduce the measure of suffering and hardship and yet to mature in the soul ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Resistance of the people .... powerlessness ....

B.D. 4512 from December 15th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

My strength is also ineffective if it is resisted, otherwise My strength would mean coercion. You humans must first give up resistance, then you will also noticeably feel My strength and make use of it. Resistance to Me consists of taking a stand against Me and the world .... As long as you put the world before Me your will is still wrongly directed, and this also prevents the effect of strength on you, for My grace and strength is constantly at your disposal but can only be received, i.e. become effective, with heartfelt devotion to Me and turning away from the world. Admittedly, the world still has to be taken into account as far as the circle of duties requires it, into which you have been placed to fulfil the earthly task, but whether you do something dutifully or only direct your thoughts and aspirations towards it is a difference which also determines the measure of My influx of grace. Don't let yourselves be beguiled by the world, for it cannot make you happy forever but it can completely distract you from Me; put Me first and you will realize how easily you will also master earthly life, how My blessing will accompany you and My help will become visible to you. What is more understandable than that you have to become aware of My strength when you unite with Me? But if you turn your heart away from Me and towards the world, you also close your heart to the strength from Me, and you look for it in the world but cannot find it. Life with Me will never harm you, for even worldly you will be placed in such a way that your needs will be met .... But more is evil unless your heart remains completely untouched by it, and this is what you should strive for. Learn to despise what worldly people desire; share what you possess with your neighbour, and what you lack leave it up to Me whether I want to give it to you .... And always come to Me as trusting children, I will not deny you anything you ask for if you devote yourselves to Me and want to be Mine, if you present Me to the world and thus My strength can take effect in you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Assurance of protection at time of great need .... act of destruction ....

B.D. 4513 from December 15th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

You have My word that I will not leave you in distress .... If now the hour will come when everything will falter around you and certain death will be in front of your eyes, remember My words and do not be afraid .... Then I will hold My hand protectively over you and will not let any harm come to you. Then trust in Me, Who alone can help you, Who also commands the elements of nature to spare you who want to serve Me. And you will live even if death will reap abundantly around you, as it is proclaimed in word and scripture. For you are to bear witness to the truth of My word, you are to speak afterwards so that what I offer you from above will continue from mouth to mouth. You are to give strength and comfort to the survivors, you are to enlighten the unbelievers and make them aware of God's will, which is made known to them through you. You are to instruct the doubters and warn people who deny Me, who don't want to acknowledge Me, you are to point all people to the last judgment, to the day which means an end on this earth for all people, good and evil. I need you for this work and therefore also protect your life, and if I give you this assurance you can look forward to what is to come completely carefree, for I will always help you if you are in need and also always give you strength to endure earthly tribulations which you still have to take upon yourselves for the sake of your soul's maturity. You will not live in order much longer, you will only have a short time left to care for and build up your earthly life .... Then the day will come which will destroy everything again which you have laboriously built up for yourselves .... the day which will bring such enormous changes that you would no longer wish to live if you did not know about everything. Then strong demands will be made on your faith .... Then you will have to prove how far you have penetrated spiritual knowledge, the truth, for this alone will give you strength, whereas anyone who does not know the truth will despair, for he will lose all faith in a God of love and omnipotence, for My reign and activity is incomprehensible to him. You should enlighten them and inform them of My plan of salvation, of their earthly task and their destiny. You should point out to them the near end and inform them of your knowledge about it and your mission. And blessed are those who believe you, who take your teachings to heart and turn to Me .... The day is near, therefore be eager in your activity for Me and My kingdom, make use of every hour and bear in mind that only the spiritual endures, but the earthly perishes and therefore should not be taken seriously. For there is only one thing you need to do to protect your soul from harm, I will protect the body or release your soul from its cover when its time has come ....

Amen

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The spirit gives life to the word ....

B.D. 4514 from December 16th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

My spirit gives life to My word .... The word alone can be empty sound to him whose ear it only touches if My spirit cannot penetrate his heart in order to make My word come alive in him. And therefore My word can be spoken and also heard and yet remain without impression, for it is dead as long as My spirit cannot have an effect. But if My word emanates from Me it is shaped and also enlivened by My spirit .... For it only comes forth from Me if a heart has made itself receptive, that is, where the spiritual spark was able to establish contact with the father-spirit through loving activity. My word will also be understood there, it will live and stimulate activity. It is enlivened by My spirit .... This is why the written word, the book of the fathers, can only be understood if My spirit blows through it .... if it is read or listened to in the state of connection of the spiritual spark in the human being with the father-spirit of eternity. Otherwise it will only remain a dead word which is received by the ear and perhaps also processed by the intellect but which has no resonance in the heart and therefore cannot have any effect on the human being. It is a dead word as long as the spirit is not awakened in the human being; it will not give the human being anything further, it will be read and put aside again for lack of understanding or discarded. But the spirit is only awakened through love .... A person without love rarely or not at all takes the book of the fathers in hand because it says nothing to him, because he finds no understanding for the written word, although it originated from Me. But loving activity enlightens his heart, he grasps the meaning and the word goes to his heart, it inspires him to obey it .... My spirit works in him and he gains spiritual knowledge, he becomes knowledgeable and stands in truth .... he has awakened to actual life, for now his upward development begins, the inner life stirs, he strives for perfection because his spirit impels him to it .... My word gains life in him. As long as the dead word only touched him it remained without impression; the word which comes alive also changes the human being's nature, for now I Myself speak to him and he also accepts My word as My expression of love, as a gift of grace which is precious to him and of which he wants to make himself worthy .... He strives towards Me and fulfils My will, which I announce to him through My word and which My spirit makes understandable to him .... He has awakened to life and will never lose this life again ....

Amen

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Condition for right representatives of God: working of the spirit and truthful knowledge ....

B.D. 4515 from December 17th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

Anyone who wants to call himself My representative on earth must also instruct his fellow human beings in accordance with the fullest truth. Thus he must possess it himself and therefore be introduced to the pure truth by My spirit through My word. He cannot teach if he has not grasped the meaning himself, if it is not fully comprehensible to him how My word is to be understood, which can only be understood in a deeply spiritual way. Hence he must be so inwardly devoted to Me that I Myself can work in him through My spirit, only then will he be a true representative of My name, then he can be active for Me and My kingdom and work for the blessing of his fellow human beings on earth. But it is not enough for a person to say to Me: "Lord, lord ...." if he confesses Me with his mouth and wants to express his bond with Me through words .... I only look at the heart, but My eyes penetrate it and not the smallest corner remains hidden from Me. I know every thought of the human being and therefore also know the innermost life of the soul of every person who calls himself My representative on earth .... And in accordance with My eternal order I cannot deviate from the conditions I have attached to the working of My spirit in the human being. I cannot enlighten a person's thinking who has not shaped himself to receive My spirit; he will always walk in ignorance, My word will be and remain incomprehensible to him, and consequently he will not be suitable as a teacher for his fellow human beings as long as he has not established the heartfelt bond with Me through loving activity, which then also results in the working of the spirit. And since I am therefore well able to see through people's hearts, I Myself choose the suitable hearts which are suitable as receptacles for My spirit and pour the truth into them .... I Myself train them as teachers because it is urgently necessary that people are enlightened, that My word is conveyed to them in its purest form, that they find the truth if they look for it. And I will also always support these My right representatives on earth with My strength so that they can teach without hesitation and are always active in My will. The truth shall be spread and I bless everyone who contributes to it, who shapes himself such that I Myself can work through him .... that he is truly My representative, who can proclaim My word and make My will known to people and thereby bring light to all people who walk in darkness and desire light ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Desire for God’s word .... urgent reminder ....

B.D. 4516 from December 18th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

Let yourselves be taught and accept My word wherever it is offered to you. For I speak to you as soon as you desire to hear Me. Leave it up to Me how My word is conveyed to you, for each one of you is receptive in a different way and I approach each individual accordingly in the word, but I Myself am always present if you desire to hear My word, because I Myself am the word from eternity. Yet you should always bear in mind that you will only find full understanding for My word if you appeal to Me in spirit and in truth for full understanding of what is offered to you as My word. Then the hearing of My word will also be a blessing for you, then not only the ear but also the heart will hear and recognize My will. Then you will also endeavour to live in accordance with it, and then you will also converse with Me more often and accept mental instructions which broaden your knowledge and are precious spiritual possessions, thus you will gather spiritual riches for eternity. Again and again I must urge you to listen to My word, otherwise you will remain without strength for your ascent development and also lack truthful knowledge. I want to speak to you at all times; therefore make use of this and listen to Me and you will truly not regret it, you will broaden your knowledge and again and again let yourselves be taught, once you have received My word directly from Me through the inner word or through My messengers who convey the inner word to you. For this word proves My presence to you, it proves My love and care for you, which I want to regain for eternity .... For your own sake listen to Me, for without My word you cannot become blessed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

End of the redemption period .... total change of the earth ....

B.D. 4517 from December 19th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

The earth carries much that is wicked and awaits redemption. But the time set for its redemption has passed, which is why it is approaching a new stage where the upward development is partly continued, partly started anew. Humanity is almost at the lowest level of spiritual development, apart from a few people who are already touched by the light and can discard the earthly cover. And now a total change has to begin, a new form has to be given to the spiritual, which again exerts a certain pressure to influence the spiritual to change. Such a change has become necessary if I don't want to completely abandon My creations and lose them forever, i.e. let them sink so far that a return to Me becomes impossible due to their resistance against Me. The spiritual being is not aware in its darkness that it deprives itself of all strength and only receives strength for evil from My adversary, through which it becomes increasingly more wretched. I take pity on this total lack of strength and withdraw the being from the adversary's influence. And thus a new period of development begins for the salvation of the apostate spiritual being .... But before that a fierce fire will be kindled for the purification of that which is not yet permeable to light but feels itself forced towards the light, which does not escape the mild glow even if its will is too weak to expose itself to its warmth. This fire will rage and destroy everything, it will only be very short in time but of such intensity that its effect will be quite enormous. And the individual people will be forcibly forced to decide .... for Me or for My adversary .... But then the spiritual will irrevocably take its prescribed course .... in light or in darkness. You humans will no longer find peace on this earth, for the source of the fire is created in a short time and you will all be affected. It is a cleansing fire in the truest meaning of the word to which you are now exposed but which can purify you crystal clear if the shells around your souls are not so hardened that even the strongest fire is of no use, but then this shell hardens even more and surrounds the soul again as firmest matter, which itself did not want it any other way. And thus everything spiritual will create heaven or hell for itself according to its will .... For the time has expired which was given to it for redemption ....

Amen

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Humbly enduring fate ....

B.D. 4518 from December 19th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

I have instructed My angels to intervene where human will does not succeed. For it is time that people find themselves a way in order to escape the imminent disaster. But I will help them if the urgency is not recognised, and thus coincidences will emerge which are nevertheless only My providence, which thus influence the individual person's destiny. People don't know that they are in constant care of the beings to whom they have been entrusted, who determine every individual person's life in accordance with divine will, who thus intervene in their lives on My instruction. But I nevertheless do not interfere with free will so as not to force the human being's will who should freely decide or profess what is good. And he need not do anything else but accept his destiny without resistance and without grumbling or complaining. For I know what is beneficial for everyone and what condition the human being's soul needs in order to mature and take this into account. And thus all events will intertwine and thus create a new situation which is entirely beyond anyone's calculation. But then you should also recognise My working and be grateful that I look after you by placing beings of light by your side to care for you, or you would become unsuitable for spiritual work and unable to help your fellow human beings. However, I gave you a mission and thus handed you into the care of My angels which will do everything for you as long as you work on My behalf. My will alone decides, and this truly in a way which is good for you. And so you should stop worrying and calmly and cheerfully continue on your path of life which time and again will bring you sunshine and will never be too difficult for you to travel as long as you entrust yourselves to Me, as long as you push towards Me and work for Me and My kingdom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Tabernacle ....

B.D. 4519 from December 21st 1948, taken from Book No. 52

You should understand that I cannot abide in a limited, specially designed vessel, in earthly matter, in certain places at certain times, but that I Am wherever a heart has developed love. Only a loving heart can claim to harbour Me, to be blessed by My presence, for My fundamental substance is love and thus I can only be where love manifests itself. But a material vessel can never be the holder of My eternal spirit .... This assumption is only the result of thoughts by spiritually blind people who have the wrong idea of My Being, which indeed permeates infinity and is thus omnipresent but it will never be contained in a limited vessel, as people are being taught. What is humanity thinking of the eternal Deity .... This belief demonstrates spiritual poverty and how far people are kept from the truth by misinformed teachers ....

How can a spirit that controls infinity make its abode within a material form, which .... as the spiritually awakened person will know .... contains spiritual substance that is still on a very low level of development .... When I credit a person’s heart with My presence then I Am contacting the spiritual essence in its final stage of development, I Am effectively permeating the soul, the human being’s spirit, with the strength of My love, the expression of Myself .... And the influx of strength increases in accordance with the willingness of a person to love and thus fills the entire heart. Then I Am present in the person Myself; I will take possession of him just as he in turn will harbour Me within himself in abundance. Why should I dwell in a vessel which is still dead, which, in fact, is part of the spiritual essence opposing Me ....

My presence would cause any shape to melt if the strength of My love were to flow through it, and every thinking person will recognise the absurdity of this idea and reject such doctrines. However, human beings are very foolish, they will not let themselves be taught but hold on to what they are told to believe. They are holding a dead object in excessive veneration, which they themselves credit with contents supposedly representing the supreme and most venerable Being. A pure human heart capable of love is the only temple in which I Myself will dwell, and therefore I need not be sought in particular places at certain times and in a particular form .... Instead, every human being should prepare himself to become the vessel I want to occupy. Every human being should shape his heart into love, then I, the Eternal Love, will take abode in him, then he will be able to love and revere Me everywhere and at any time, I will always be present in him because My spirit will unite with his, because I Am in him Myself ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Unmistakable sign of spiritual low level: Rejection of the divine Word ....

B.D. 4520 from December 22nd 1948, taken from Book No. 52

It is very telling that you, My servants on earth, find little interest when you bring My Word to people as a gift from your Lord .... You, who are spiritually awake, who make contact with Me in thought and through actions of love, you know and believe that I speak to you Myself, thus you offer My Word as the Word of God .... Consequently you must also realise how far people have distanced themselves from Me, that only very few regard Me Myself as the originator of the Word, that people do not believe that I Myself talk to them directly and therefore do not accept the teachings either. They do not recognise the voice of the Father and Creator since eternity. This is an unmistakable sign of people's spiritual low level.

What you, My representatives on earth, give to them is rejected, and what is given to them instead by those who call themselves My representatives even though they are not called by Me, is accepted as pure truth and advocated with zeal which, however, is wasted on errors and lies. Anyone who knows the pure truth also knows the spiritual darkness of those who reject My Word even if they deem themselves to be eager servants. They have not yet recognised Me and want to bear witness of Me .... They want to lead My flock and don't know the right path themselves, they want to teach and are ignorant themselves, and at the same time they are so arrogantly minded that they do not let themselves be taught even if I confront them Myself in the Word. Hence, if they do not recognise My Word they will not recognise Me Myself either.

And thus it follows that the time of the end has arrived, because humanity cannot be guided back to Me by anything if it does not take notice of My Word from above. There is no way I can speak to people Myself other than through your mouth, and My Own, i.e. those who strive towards Me of their own free will, who often lift their thoughts to Me, will also recognise My voice. They will know which one of their fellow human beings belongs to My Own, because those who reject My Word and therefore Me Myself are My adversary's children even though they call themselves My servants, because My chosen servants recognise Me and My Word and are therefore closely united with Me, whereas the others will increasingly distance themselves from Me if they do not accept what I offer them as a special gift of grace ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Cosmic changes ....

B.D. 4521 from December 23rd 1948, taken from Book No. 52

Where cosmic changes become known, which indicate a forthcoming natural disaster, you can also be sure to detect My working in people through prior signs, all kinds of admonitions and warnings, through clairvoyant visions by especially devout people, and through increased influences by the beings of light on those whose will is devoted to Me and whose appropriate way of life enables their contact. Where natural events occur more frequently people are also more open to My warnings, and there is usually also the motive for frequent changes in the creations of nature as a result of such natural events, because the constrained spiritual substances strive towards higher development and will reach maturity faster where people are more compliant. Yet in accordance with My eternal plan of Salvation My direct influence through the natural elements will now also affect creations of nature where this is otherwise rare .... The spiritual forces, which have already been constrained for an infinitely long time, are pushing for liberation and will meet My approval .... There, too, it will be announced what is to take place in nature. People will be made aware of it although they are not interested in My admonitions and warnings, in My advice. Cosmic changes will also become apparent and could make everyone think; seers and prophets will arise whose gift of prophecy makes them feel duty bound to mention what they see or hear through spiritual contact. But in view of free will and belief everything will take its natural course, and even cosmic changes will be scientifically explained and therefore won't worry people.

However, although every happening, every process in nature, can certainly be explained in natural terms it will always have a spiritual reason and explanation, and it is more important to take notice of this than of the purely natural one, because you cannot stop or lessen the natural consequences with your knowledge, but you can utilise spiritual consequence for your benefit and thus calmly face the natural consequences .... You will be in control of them when you believe, when you have derived the spiritual benefit from your knowledge .... Then you will also be in control of nature .... Do you know what that means? To be able to stop even the elements of nature willfully, which is also My will if you are sincerely united with Me? And the liberated spiritual substances will also acknowledge you as master .... you will also be the ruler over matter and it will willingly subordinate itself to you. You cannot appreciate its profound meaning as yet but when you have reached this degree it will also become clear to you what you can achieve with My strength, which will then be at your unrestricted disposal. Yet only few people will reach this degree of maturity due to their profoundly steadfast faith in Me and My love, and their unlimited surrender to Me .... But My power and glory will reveal itself to them and they will proclaim Me throughout the world .... Moved by My spirit they will always and forever speak on My behalf because they will soon no longer be part of this world and close to their perfection ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Words to truth bearers ....

B.D. 4522 from December 23rd 1948, taken from Book No. 52

Something is in store for you which will help to turn around what is troubling you and which, despite all suffering, will bring you inner peace. You are My servants on earth and are looked after by Me, and thus I direct your steps so that you walk together in common service for Me and My kingdom. Only a short time remains for you, then the earthly battle will be over. Whatever suffering and affliction this short time still brings upon you, patiently take it upon yourselves, for I will reward you a thousandfold if you endure until the end. And to make it easier for you I will also give you the right companion for the earthly path so that you will support each other, so that one will help the other to bear the suffering which is still granted to you for the sake of your soul's maturity. Yet as bearers of truth I don't want to lose you, and therefore I watch over you so that you don't lose yourselves, neither to the world nor to error, i.e. the world is a danger for you because it keeps you away from the desire for truth .... Error is the same danger, for it likewise separates you from Me, Who is the eternal truth. and even if it seems as if I do not fulfil your prayer .... I have given you a task which you will fulfil together, and this requires a maturity of soul which is only achieved through inner struggle. Yet I will not let you out of My sight, and you can believe My words .... I guide you to each other because a separation of the workers is detrimental to Me and My kingdom. I love you, for you are all My children, and I also want to mutually promote the union of My children as soon as it is conducive to spiritual striving and cooperation for My kingdom. Then My blessing will rest on every union and I Myself will help you achieve it ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Signs of the end ....

B.D. 4523 from December 24th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

The signs which precede the final end are unmistakable yet only of significance to someone who looks at them from a spiritual point of view, because they take place within the framework of natural law and will therefore only be recognised as the previously announced indications of the end if people themselves believe in an end, thus if they are inclined to associate everything that is created with the Creator and all happenings with His will. Consequently, they find it easy to believe in God's reign and activity, they also know that nothing happens by itself but that everything is governed by God's will. But then they also know that the Book of the Fathers has to be believed, which had announced an end ever since the beginning of the epoch of Salvation. These predictions were confirmed and repeated by Jesus Christ Who effectively brought one stage of this epoch to an end and started a new one, but always with reference to the end, to the conclusion of a long period of Salvation, which is now coming to conclusion. To ensure that this period of Salvation will be successful for the souls He Himself accomplished the act of Salvation, thereby enabling them to quickly mature into spiritual beings which no longer required a material earth.

However, the act of Salvation was not made sufficient use of. Hence the earth can not yet be excluded as a place of redemption for the spirits, it merely needs to arise reshaped again if the redemption of the constrained spirits is to progress .... Thus, first it will have to be destroyed and dissolved in order to let something new emerge from it. The fact that this developmental phase is limited is understandable, for God has always granted the souls a specific length of time to release themselves from the form, which is tied to His laws of eternal order. This time has now ended and as a result the signs must show themselves too, for God will never leave people without warning or admonition, so that they can still make full use of the last days for their souls. Even the longest period of Salvation will end one day .... Yet only the believer will deem this to be true, and this is why only the believer will recognise and pay attention to the last signs .... he will know that he is living in the last days and that he seriously has to consider his soul ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The world lay in bands .... (Christmas announcement)

B.D. 4524 from December 26th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

Peace be to you humans on earth if you are of good will .... And therefore I Myself came to earth as a human being in order to bring you peace, that is, to show you the path on which you can attain peace of heart. For the world lay in the bonds of satan and had to be delivered from him. And so a man surrendered himself to his wickedness by granting him all power and fighting against him. He faced him for battle; not that he sought to escape from him, but that he should unfold all power against him, and he wanted to resist him, he wanted to emerge victorious from this battle in order to redeem people, in order to snatch them from satan. For the world lay in bonds .... And so you also lie in bonds again, and the saviour Jesus Christ has brought His work of redemption in vain for the people who now walk the earth and do not believe in Him. Again the adversity is immense, again satan rages and exerts great power, again people are distant from Me and need help. Again I fight against him from above by guiding the truth where lies and error are represented as satan’s weapons .... The world lies in bonds .... Like a fetter the darkness of spirit lies over humanity, it cannot free itself because it does not want the light of eternal truth to break through the darkness .... It lies under the spell of the one who is the ruler of darkness. And therefore I have to be its redeemer again, but in a different way .... I must wrest power from the adversary, I must imprison him so that the spell is broken, so that peace reigns again amongst people, the peace in Me which is granted to all those who want to live with Me and for Me .... I bring them peace, for I break the shackles and give freedom to all who are of good will .... I come to earth again, in the clouds I appear to all who believe in Me and fetch them home into the kingdom of peace before I cast a spell on the one who is their enemy and wants to destroy them. And so the saviour will also arise again in greatest distress .... A child was once born to you .... He descended from above to earth, and so too He dwells on earth today in the spirit of those who let themselves be redeemed by Him, and I will go with them into battle against satan, I will bring peace to those who are of good will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

'Thou art Peter, the rock ....' Living faith - the church of Christ ....

B.D. 4525 from December 27th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

Anyone who wants to belong to My church must have a living faith, for I do not acknowledge a dead faith because it does not merit the description of 'faith'. And thus you humans already have the right characteristic of My church as well as the explanation for My Words 'Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church .... ' My church is only based on the right faith .... But what is the right faith? .... Deeming something to be true which cannot be proven is your explanation. Nevertheless, this is not meant to be blind faith, not a thoughtless acceptance of religious doctrines, because this cannot give rise to a convinced faith. Even so, the human being must possess the inner conviction without proof .... This is the right faith or it would only be a play of words when faith is being talked about. Only a convinced faith is a living faith, and not blindly accepted dogma which is merely not rejected .... Peter possessed a convinced faith and this is why I referred to him as the rock which should be the foundation of My church. And time and again I will make this faith the condition for belonging to My church, for I Am not satisfied with those who only pay lip-service to a teaching but lack the inner conviction.

A living faith is a prerequisite, because the strength of faith will only become evident where the inner conviction exists. The fact that I expect more of people than a mere avowal with their lips should be obvious to every thinking person, after all, people could be presented with and expected to believe the most absurd teachings. But I made this impossible with My Words which specify a guideline to people .... Peter, the rock .... who shall be the foundation of My church. From this follows that you humans must therefore clarify your point of view regarding every doctrine, that you, in order that you can believe with conviction, will have to mentally form an opinion about it and thus, understandably, cannot accept every doctrine, that an erroneous teaching must be recognised by you, because you cannot gain the conviction that what you are expected to believe is the absolute truth. On serious reflection you will certainly be able to distinguish which doctrines correspond to the truth and which have to be rejected .... And thus you will also be and remain true followers of My church if you have a living faith, and I will bless you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Decision between spiritual and earthly world ....

B.D. 4526 from December 28th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

Choose between Me and My adversary .... Choose between the spiritual kingdom and the earthly world .... Know that the spiritual kingdom will be lost to you if you lose the earthly world, and know that you will also lose Me and that the adversary will draw you into his nets if you strive for earthly possessions and pay no attention to Me. To surrender the world is to gain Me, to possess the world is to lose Me. But the desire of the heart is always decisive as to how far you desire the world or Me. For even on earth you can call goods your own, yet how you relate to them in your heart also determines your spiritual development and the possession of spiritual goods; anyone who is only filled with desire for earthly possessions has no sense for spiritual things, he is so distant from Me, the spiritual kingdom is so improbable to him, he is without faith and also without neighbourly love, for he only has his physical well-being in mind and only creates and works for himself, for the physical shell which will soon pass away. You have to make a decision, for depending on your attitude you will be considered to be spiritually rich if you desire Me and ignore earthly goods, or you will gain worldly advantages if you strive for them and walk your earthly path with My adversary's support. But then you will distance yourselves from Me and go to the kingdom of darkness .... And I would like to protect you from this. The children of the world cannot be called happy, even though they seem to live happily and freely. For nothing that falls to them, that they possess or strive for, is permanent. Everything passes away and they themselves likewise, and what remains for them is misery and darkness .... But those who strive for Me and My kingdom can certainly be called poor on earth, they will also often go through suffering and affliction, yet beatitude is certain for them when they are rid of their physical shell. Then they will be repaid a thousand fold for what they had to do without on earth and what they now possess will last forever and will make you happier than you could ever be on earth. Yet you have to make a free decision, you have to choose between Me and My adversary without coercion, and your fate on earth and in the beyond will be the same ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Use of grace .... free will .... strengthening of the will ....

B.D. 4527 from December 29th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

Nothing will be withheld from you that will benefit your soul. And since truth is the soul's greatest supporter it will always and constantly be conveyed to you if you are willing to accept it. This is therefore the prerequisite that you want to progress in your development, that you therefore desire to stand in truth. The will is yours, it is free and is not influenced by Me in any way, however, it is supported in every way if it takes the right direction. Everything I give to you, everything that contributes towards the advancement of your soul's maturity, is a gift from Me which I, as the eternal love, offer to that which, having once fallen away from Me, has not yet voluntarily returned to Me. They are gifts of grace which you humans do not deserve but which My love bestows upon you in order to win you over. Nevertheless, all gifts of grace are ineffective if your will is directed towards Me, for only the will subordinated to Me turns grace into a real means of help, only if your will strives towards Me of its own accord can the graces become effective for you. It therefore only depends on you whether you travel the path of ascent, whether you reach Me as your aim, whether you become perfect and thus blessed .... It is your will which determines this, which is not touched by Me in its freedom. Yet I will strengthen this will if you ask for it, but then it will already be turned towards Me or you would not pray to Me. The will is your .... and the will determines the measure of grace which is used by you, yet an unlimited measure of grace is at your disposal from Me. Therefore, anyone who believes that he can achieve his beatitude on his own must be confronted by the fact that all use of strength certainly originates from Me, that it is therefore certainly My strength which works in him, but that he can and must request this strength himself before it can take effect in him, and this always first requires the will turned towards Me, which is not determined or directed by Me but has to be directed by yourselves. Thus your beatification can never be determined by Me, even though I have known about your will since eternity. For if you seriously think about it, Christ's act of salvation would be completely pointless, which was merely accomplished for the sake of the weakened will, which was intended to provide help where the human being alone was too weak to use his will properly in order to become free from the form. You humans can certainly do nothing without My grace, for your entire earthly life is only a gift of grace from Me .... But since it concerns the soul's free ascent development during earthly life I make everything dependent on your free will, which I have given to you so that you can become perfect, otherwise I would only have directed spirits and then the whole of creation would not be necessary if My will determined the beings to become blessed. My word must always be an enlightenment for you, which is always given to you in a way that is understandable to you and which always conveys the pure truth to you, so that you will be guided correctly in your thinking and therefore also in the direction of your will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Reference to natural disaster .... surprise ....

B.D. 4528 from December 30th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

You, My faithful, will also be surprised by the sudden earthly turn of events. You will receive a last hint, but you will also pay too little attention to it and therefore also be too little prepared. But I want to inform you once again that your days are numbered and that you can safely expect to enter a new phase of life which all too clearly indicates the near end. I have told you this, and I tell you again and again, that you are the generation which experiences the end. And so that you believe that the end is near and still have the last opportunity to seriously prepare yourselves, I announce My previous revelation to you through the elements of nature. I want you to believe and make it easy for you to believe. Furthermore, I inform you of what you experience and prove the truth of My words to you, so that you will also believe in the end and accordingly use the last days for your soul. But you doubt and are lukewarm in your soul's work; even you, My faithful, do not take My word so seriously that you would like to completely attune yourselves to it. And when I now appear you will be just as surprised despite the announcement before. But anyone who believes My word does not need another warning, for he expects Me daily and knows that there is only a short time left. And I will reveal Myself to him in an unmistakable way, for he shall still testify shortly beforehand so that his fellow human beings will believe when I appear. He will feel Me, I will always be present to him and therefore he will also be able to testify about Me and eagerly speak for Me. And I will bless his zeal and very obviously grant him My help when the great adversity begins .... The time limit has expired .... Believe this and expect Me and I will come .... Strong faith attracts Me, strong faith allows My presence and makes My revelation possible and thereby also makes the heavy burden of life easier, because I have also promised My protection to those who believe in Me and belong to My own. And they will know that the time has come, even though they, too, are surprised that what I have always and constantly proclaimed through word and scripture will come to pass ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

New Year's message: people's resistance to God ....

B.D. 4529 from January 1st 1949, taken from Book No. 52

People's resistance against Me is great, and only My greater than great love protects them from the complete fall into the abyss. Yet the distance from Me cannot be reduced as long as they don't give up their resistance. But resistance is every rejection of My grace, and grace is everything that leads you upwards, towards Me, and thus helps to restore the original state. Hence grace is also the supply of My word which imparts the pure truth to you, a knowledge which helps you to recognize Me, to love Me and to keep My commandments. The human being must accept this knowledge otherwise he will receive a wrong image of Me as creator and father from eternity. Lack of knowledge impairs love for Me, and wrong knowledge leads away from Me .... This has to be said first if the human being is to understand that and why truth is extremely important for the soul's higher development. Where truth is not represented the path to Me is blocked, and I cannot be reached through error, and thus it will also be understandable that I bestow a special gift of grace upon the human being: My direct word from above, because every misguided teaching has to be corrected if he is to progress in his development, for I Myself, as the eternal truth, cannot tolerate that error and lies walk alongside Me. And therefore I must first correct the erroneous teachings, and I only require people who place themselves at My disposal of their own free will, who are willing to accept My teaching in all purity and pass it on to their fellow human beings. I convey My word to them in different forms but always with the same content; whether they receive it directly from Me or through intermediaries, whether they read or hear it, depends on their state of maturity and their willingness to receive it. This is why My word can be received in all purity in many places, for the written word can also convey the same knowledge to a person if he receives it into his heart and memory in desire for truth. Then he will always be guided by My spirit into right thinking and thus stand in truth. But where the human being's will opposes Mine, where the human being does not hand himself over to Me but, as it were, wants to find the truth out of his own intellect, it will be difficult to present the truth. But the resistance against Me is great, for all those who persist in their spiritual knowledge, who stubbornly cling to a body of thought which was given to them from outside, offer this resistance because they are not willing to surrender this body of thought in exchange for better knowledge. And so the question must first be asked: What entitles you to regard precisely this spiritual knowledge of yours as truth, when different schools of thought, different denominations also represent different teachings? On serious reflection you must admit to yourselves that you have no proof that you possess the right knowledge .... unless you can prove direct spiritual activity which, however, will then always result in the same body of thought. The fact that you were taught this way is no proof that you were imparted the truth .... You must always bear in mind that the human being has free will and that, as long as he is still imperfect, he will, through the adversary's influence, profess ever more that which corresponds to his imperfection, that he therefore either has to be perfect..., in order to stand in the truth, or else, in awareness of his imperfect state and his ignorance as a result of it, he must stretch out his hands from the depths towards the light, towards the original source of truth, so that his hand may be grasped and he may be drawn up into the kingdom of light. He must ask and allow himself to be given gifts .... but not to search and ponder intellectually without the humble admission of his inability to do so. Humanity is too convinced that it stands in the truth and therefore it is difficult to supply it with the pure truth. But every thinking man would have to doubt his own knowledge because of the diversity of what is regarded as truth, and therefore now seek the truth where it has its origin. I now meet people's needs by sending bearers of truth to them, but they find open and hidden resistance .... But how do you want to come into possession of the truth? In what form shall it be offered to all those that it will be accepted without affecting their free will? It is only due to your resistance, which I will not break by force but which is nevertheless to blame for the great darkness which is spread across the earth. I could certainly achieve everything by force, yet in all freedom you must strive for perfection, and therefore there will only ever be a few people to whom I can convey the pure truth directly, just as the number of those who accept the word from above through you will not be great, even though My flow of love flows in all directions and the truth seeks to find entrance in some form or other everywhere. And mostly it is spiritual conversations which could give rise to pleading thoughts of the eternal truth. And no one will be able to deny having had the opportunity for spiritual conversations. It always depends on the inner resistance, which is often opposed to the pure truth through the influence of satan. But the desire for Me and thus for the truth breaks the resistance and enables the person to accept My word, through which he will be instructed in the truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's love and mercy ....

B.D. 4530 from January 2nd 1949, taken from Book No. 52

I mercifully look upon the inhabitants of earth who, in their delusion, strive and hunt for material goods and leave the short time on earth, which is given to them for salvation, unused. I know about their lack of maturity, I see their idleness of life, I see the spiritual hardship and the fate they face after the end of their physical life, I see their will, their hardened hearts, their unbelief and their lack of strength and inability to save themselves, and this state takes pity on Me. My love is for these wretched ones to whom no salvation can be brought because they don't want to be saved .... And My love always devises new means to turn their will towards Me; for I don't want to lose a soul, I want to win it back and possess it for eternity. I approach all people in the form of suffering which shall make their hearts pliable and receptive for My love and grace; I speak to all people Myself through life, and I seek to urge all people onto the bridge which leads to Me .... I seek to cause them to pray so that I can assist them. I Myself dwell on this earth amongst people who no longer recognize Me, I speak to them through My servants and constantly appeal for their love, for My mercy is exceedingly great because My love is infinite .... And I have little success, for greed for matter prevails, people are too earthly minded and don't think of their souls. Nevertheless, I will not give them up, for one day even the most obdurate soul will find its way back to Me, one day it will feel touched by My love and longingly approach Me, one day it will become Mine, even though it will take eternities, for My love is strength and life and My mercy knows no bounds .... And so I must one day win back every soul, and whether it languishes in deepest darkness .... one day it will strive for the light and thus also for Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Coming in the clouds .... Rapture .... End ....

B.D. 4531 from January 4th 1949, taken from Book No. 52

And I will come to you to carry you into My kingdom .... Remember this promise during your hours of distress and wait for Me and My help, firmly believe that I will come as your Saviour when the adversity becomes insufferable. And don't be afraid, for I Am stronger than the one who wants to ruin you. You should know that it would be easy for Me to destroy him; yet nothing would be achieved by this for his many followers would continue his work if they were not destroyed as well. This, however, is not acceptable, for that which came forth from My creative spirit will continue to exist forever, it cannot cease to exist because it is everlasting strength from Me. Nevertheless, I will rescue you from his power by banishing him and all those who are enslaved by him. You, however, will be led into the kingdom of peace where you will live as if you were in paradise, until I return you to the new earth which you then shall populate according to My will. No-one will believe this promise, this prophesy, for when I come in the clouds I will repeal the natural laws by lifting you up to Me in the flesh before your fellow human beings' eyes who succumbed to My adversary. They will effectively experience something unnatural, which they currently don't want to believe in.

But you, who are My Own, you know that nothing is impossible for Me, and therefore you also know that I can stop or revoke natural laws if it benefits My eternal plan of Salvation, thus you also know that there will be an end and that you are living in the last days before the end. Consequently you do not doubt this proclamation either, which I imparted to humanity at the beginning of this period of Salvation. You consider it possible, and you should firmly believe it, so that you subsequently will be able to survive the difficult time, always thinking and hoping for my assured help and My coming from above. Regardless of what evil people will do to you, don't take offence, for they will receive their punishment which will be bitter indeed. They will see you being lifted up before their eyes while death is lurking around them and they will be unable to escape in any direction; they will be devoured by the earth and be granted a wretched fate on the new earth. You, however, will receive your just compensation, all hardship will have come to an end, you will live in freedom and with joy on the new earth amid a paradise, amid love and in direct contact with Me, Who will often stay amongst the people who have become love. And this is the end which was predicted by seers and prophets time and again, which was announced ever since the beginning of this epoch of Salvation so that humanity will believe. Yet no-one takes these predictions seriously, nevertheless, the day will come when all this will happen and the last Judgment will occur, as it is proclaimed in Word and Scripture ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Making use of the power from God ....

B.D. 4532 from January 4th 1949, taken from Book No. 52

Make use of My strength and prepare yourselves for an extraordinary event which will soon surprise you. Only with My strength are you able to pass the tests which arise from the fact that you spread My word as a mission from above. I will always stand by you, I will not leave you, yet you will find no worldly support, only spiritually striving people recognize you and seek to help you, yet the world prevents them from doing so. But help will obviously come and then you will know that I am at work, that I will never leave you in adversity if only you trust Me. And you should acquire this trust by immersing yourselves in My word as often as you can. Your faith will experience a strengthening which you will never gain if you don't make use of the strength of the word. But in adversity you will feel it if you intimately unite with Me and never have the feeling of being abandoned, of loneliness and helplessness. And then you will fearlessly speak up when you have to answer for yourselves, and My spirit will tell you what you should say. Therefore do not be alarmed when My word is fulfilled in you .... as soon as you have to answer for your spiritual work you can be certain of all protection, even if the world is threatening you. There is only one thing I urge you to do: to draw strength from My word before the world's shameful activity begins, because it fears the power of the word or it would not take action against you. For the world .... i.e. opposition of the spirit .... also shows itself where it pretends to represent Me .... The world is everything that goes against Me, attacks My word from above and thus works against Me. But you are not inferior to this world, for it is My adversary, consequently I stand against it and thus on your side, and with Me you will also be victorious over the strongest opponents and therefore need not fear anyone if you are active in My name for Me and My kingdom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spiritual turning-point .... Total transformation of earth ....

B.D. 4533 from January 6th 1949, taken from Book No. 52

You can take it for granted that the world is facing a change, spiritually as well as earthly. The earth itself is approaching a total transformation, a transformation of its surface as well as extensive internal changes, and, likewise, people need to prepare themselves for a process that will have spiritual repercussions because all life on earth, human and animal, will cease to exist as soon as the reshaping of earth is under way. Thus it stands to reason that the entire transformation will have a spiritual foundation, that a new school for the spirit will be created which, however, will first call for the destruction of the former. Earth cannot continue to exist the way it is at present if it is not to circle through the universe amid other creations and heavenly bodies devoid of all purpose .... Change has to take place, and this act of transformation will be experienced by people to whom God has given the grace to use the final opportunities for achieving maturity. For God has blessed the last days of this earth's existence by providing blessing upon blessing for people who could certainly reach full maturity by the last day. That the gifts of grace are ignored, that the majority of people do not welcome and thus do not accept them, is only proof that the last days have arrived.

Hence only few will be able to observe the final act of transformation because they accept God's will and therefore also know of His eternal plan of Salvation. They will not be harmed by the process of transformation as they will be raptured before the last act of destruction of the old earth. And thus the change will merely affect them such that they will change their environment for a kingdom of peace until they are returned to the entirely reshaped earth as root of the new human race. Until the last day, however, others will still have ample opportunity to change and thus save themselves too. For as soon as their spiritual transformation has taken place, as soon as the soul has returned to God, Whom they had adamantly resisted so far, the souls also become aspirants to the kingdom of the blessed and need no longer fear the destruction of the old earth. No creation on the old earth will survive nor will any human being continue to exist who was not lifted to heaven by God's love beforehand .... The complete destruction of the earth's surface as a whole will also result in the demise of every creature, and the transformation of any soul capable of change will have been achieved by the hour of the Last Judgment. Hence it depends on the human being's spiritual change whether he will survive the end of this earthly period and be permitted to re-inhabit the new earth as a child of God ....

All people will still be capable of change but only few will be willing, and thus the earth's process of transformation will take place, given that people's will shall no longer take the right direction and earth no longer fulfils its intended purpose. Earthly life is misused .... As a result, the whole of humanity faces a spiritual turning-point. However, it will not happen on the old earth and it will only consciously be experienced by a few people, whilst the majority of people will indeed enter an entirely different developmental stage, hence also be affected by the spiritual turning-point, but in a regressive sense .... they will lose their physical life and continue their existence in a completely different form .... 'Life' will have ceased to be and the state of 'death' will surround the spiritual essence because it will have failed as a human being, because it did not use its opportunity to change in order to redeem itself.

In the universe, however, the act of transformation will denote an entirely new period of redemption and the conclusion of an era which was extremely significant, because God Himself incarnated on earth in order to exemplify to humanity the change from a human into a divine being, which all people should accomplish. Earth, which carried His physical body, will now have to help the hardened spiritual substances, solid matter, to achieve redemption. Every living thing will have to experience a change of its external form; everything constrained in a form below the human level will have to be able to comply with the impetus for ascent. As a result of earth's total transformation this will indeed be possible since the love of the divine man Jesus also encompassed the as yet unredeemed spiritual substances which He also intended to help with His act of Salvation. When this period of redemption comes to an end it will also mean the end for all creations in, on and above the earth. Then a continuation of development in the creations of the new earth can commence for all spiritual substances which still need to be redeemed and which, depending on their will towards God, will animate the various forms until their final salvation ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The right kind of teacher .... Truth - Error ....

B.D. 4534 from January 7th 1949, taken from Book No. 52

People must hand themselves over to a good teacher if they want to be taught correctly, so long as they don't come to Me Myself for schooling. They could be instructed by Me directly at all times, yet they would lack the knowledge of this as well as faith. Consequently, they will have to receive the knowledge from somewhere else and need only make sure that the instructor knows the truth and is able to teach them correctly. Being instructed in the truth must be very important to them, therefore they must investigate the origin of the teacher's knowledge; they should first clarify the relationship the teacher has with Me. Hence, they must first believe in Me as Creator and Father of eternity, they must inwardly acknowledge a Deity and make an effort to get to know this Deity. This is the first condition or hardly anyone would try to penetrate spiritual knowledge. A distinction must be made between people who allow themselves to be instructed and those who want to be instructed .... The first let themselves be pushed into a school without resistance, they let themselves be seized by teachers looking for subjects to whom they want to impart their points of view. The latter look for their own school in order to receive knowledge, and they are serious about attaining the truth. I will come to meet these seekers and guide them to the right teacher. However, since My adversary also wants to gain your soul he will not miss the opportunity to let representatives of error cross your path. Anyone who seeks the truth will also come across incompetent teachers, and therefore indications are given to you that you should conduct an examination in order to entrust yourselves to the right teachers and how you should do this. And again it should be said that your attention must first be drawn to the teacher's attitude towards Me, whether he spiritedly advocates My Word or whether his lips merely pass My Words on, which is very quickly recognisable for the serious seeker, since the repeat of the living Word ignites the listener's heart, whereas the lifeless Word is tiring and puts people off listening. Although someone with a hunger for truth can also derive some benefit from this dead Word, he will nevertheless feel dissatisfied with such teachings so that he will expect more, then he should give in to this longing and look for a different teacher. But teachers who inspire people's keen debates, who repeat My Word animatedly and cause a positive response in people's heart, whose bond with God can be recognised by their kind and loving nature, are true representatives of My Word and in possession of truth. You can trustingly hand yourselves over to them, they will teach you correctly and contribute to the fact that you will soon establish heartfelt contact with Me and thus can be instructed by My spirit directly, either mentally or through the inner Word. The origin of their knowledge might well be the same with both teachers, both might have gained the knowledge through study, and yet their teaching ability will differ and therefore their knowledge will also be either of purest truth or interspersed with errors, depending on their maturity of soul. For this reason you must always pay attention to the teacher's way of life, to what extent the human being follows Christ, that is, to what extent he is permeated by love for his neighbour, which will characterise his entire nature and will always be recognisable, because love does not hide itself. Truth can always be found where love is present because it cannot be gained academically; instead, it can only be gained, recognised and taken possession of through the working of the spirit, which is the result of a life of love. And thus it can always be noticed whether a teacher expresses his own thoughts or merely words which have not yet found the right response in his heart and therefore cannot be repeated spiritedly. Test the teachers and choose a suitable teacher for yourselves, for you will come into contact with both. The right ones will lead you to Me, yet the others will not be prevented from approaching you because you can and should decide for yourselves if you seriously want to be taught the truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Feeding the soul .... God's care for the earthly ....

B.D. 4535 from January 10th 1949, taken from Book No. 52

Do not only nourish yourselves earthly but remember your soul that it also needs food and more urgently than the body. You worry too much about your earthly well-being and don't consider that everything is invalid with the hour of death, but that tomorrow can already bring the end of your body's life and your anxious worry will then be completely useless. But what you have given to the soul it keeps, and that alone is the foundation of the new life in the kingdom of the beyond, it is the capital with which alone you can work. Again and again I want to point out to you that your earthly life will not last much longer and that you should seriously think about the time afterwards, that you provide for yourselves for this time, that you create an acceptable fate for yourselves for eternity. Live a life of unselfish neighbourly love and remember Me often, consciously unite with Me and appeal to Me for My support, and you will no longer need to worry earthly either, for then I will take care of you. How easy I make earthly life for you if only you want to accept My care and help, if you fulfil the conditions which let Me take care of you. You need not worry about earthly things if only you would care for your soul. It goes hungry and starves, while the body is provided with food and drink and all the pleasures of the world. Give food to the soul and offer it the bread and wine of life .... feed it with My word, for it hungers for it; give it spiritual food so that it will mature during earthly life, so that a weak, poorly nourished soul will not enter the kingdom of the beyond but the soul itself will be strengthened at the hour of death, so that it will easily detach itself from the body and enter the kingdom of light through the gate of eternity full of strength and light. You yourselves must help it to increase in strength and light, you must not pay so much attention to the body and its wishes but only satisfy the soul's desire and give it what it needs, then the body will also be nourished and receive what it needs. But one thing is necessary, that you provide the soul with food and drink so that it does not become incapable of the spiritual kingdom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Power of evil .... strong faith .... "Come all ye to Me ...."

B.D. 4536 from January 11th 1949, taken from Book No. 52

This is the power of the evil one who seeks to destroy those who want to be Mine. He does not let go of them and seeks to exploit every opportunity to push the souls away from Me. And he always creates opportunities by trying to pull the human being back to the world and wants to make him weak. Then great resistance is necessary which in turn requires great strength which only I can give to him. Strengthen yourselves through My word, then you will use the source of strength .... you get in contact with Me and I can supply you with strength without measure. How often have I already given you the assurance that you enjoy My special protection when you are active for Me and My kingdom. Why don't you keep My word, why is your faith so weak and always threatens to fail? Only a strong faith will let you attain inner peace, and you can attain this if only you let Me speak to you and ponder My words in your heart. Then the adversary will have no power over you either, then he will let you go and flee because you confront him with the power which is stronger than him. Strong faith banishes all harm and can also give a weak person tremendous strength so that he need not fear anything if only he believes. And you must acquire this strength, then you will be able to cope with all the onslaughts of life and be master over life and death .... For you can even command death if you have firm and unshakeable faith. But anxiety and fear are a sign of weak faith and therefore also a lack of trust in My help. Call upon Me in times of need, "come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest ...." Why do you not call this promise to mind, why do you hesitate and try to cope alone with what seems difficult and insurmountable to you? .... Ask for My help and it will be given to you. Draw strength from My word and you will lose all weakness .... do not take a step without Me and your path will be smooth, for I will not leave you in adversity if you call upon Me for help ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Earthly knowledge meaningless against spiritual knowledge ....

B.D. 4537 from January 11th 1949, taken from Book No. 52

Truly I say to you, your spirit will reveal to you greater things than science can ever teach you. You will never receive error if you desire the truth. Therefore you will also be able to do without worldly wisdom, it will be of little use to you, for you will also very soon recognize its worthlessness because My spirit will enlighten you about the actual meaning and purpose of your life. If you possess this knowledge all other knowledge is insignificant, you can call yourselves rich, even though worldly people have no understanding for it and prefer earthly knowledge to spiritual knowledge. But the latter lasts, whereas the former passes away with the moment of death. But anyone who receives spiritual knowledge from above should no longer attach importance to earthly knowledge, for he will not be able to assimilate both together with his heart and intellect because one tries to suppress the other, because both together mean a burden for the human being and the world of thoughts reflects itself to him unclearly and confusedly. Be satisfied with the spiritual instructions, know that you should mature very quickly and that only that which the spirit from Me informs you of is of sole value .... Know that worldly knowledge is invalid as soon as the last great battle begins, as soon as the last phase begins. What I say to you through your spirit will secure your spiritual as well as earthly life, yet you will no longer be able to utilize worldly knowledge; only works of neighbourly love which require earthly science will bring blessings to those who practice them, although spiritual truths will also bring them far more spiritual advantage. My spirit's voice is truly irreplaceable, earthly science, however, is not entirely needed unless it seeks to bring enlightenment in order to heal people from error which undermines faith in Me. But then the earthly scientist is already filled by My spirit and draws his knowledge from Me Who also supports him in earthly matters. But as soon as you pay more attention to earthly knowledge My spirit steps back and remains silent and waiting, and then it depends on you yourselves whether it continues its teachings, whether it imparts spiritual truths to you. As long as you are in the world you must indeed also conscientiously fill the post which is assigned to you, nevertheless, you should often let the spirit in you become effective which gives you more of the truth in one hour than you can ever experience through earthly teachers ....

Amen

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Spreading the divine word .... seeping water ....

B.D. 4538 from January 12th 1949, taken from Book No. 52

What you receive from above is intended for all people .... This means first of all that it can help the salvation of every person who takes notice of it, that it therefore signifies a means of grace for every person which secures his ascent upwards if he uses it. It will not lose its effect on one person or another if he does not make the effect impossible himself through his behaviour or attitude towards the divine word. It is therefore in truth a source from which everyone can refresh himself .... But the circle which takes notice of it can be smaller or larger, depending on the will of the person who is to carry it out into the world as My disciple. My word speaks for itself, and once it has found acceptance it will also spread again; My word will not lose its strength but it requires lively activity for Me and My kingdom if it is to spread widely. You humans can all contribute a lot to this if you take notice of what is brought to you. And everyone will also do this of his own accord if he is touched by My word in his heart, then he will be urged to convey the same to his fellow human beings and My word will then promote itself. However, the extent to which it now asserts itself depends on people's will whether they want to be taught and receive the delicious gift from above. For the will is free and is not influenced by Me in any way ....

The word from on high will spread far and wide, even though its point of origin on earth appears hidden from public view. It will seep out in all directions like water and again and again refresh thirsty people, yet the world pays no attention to it, and there are only a few of those who take pleasure in it because other things are more desirable to people than My word. Only a few ever accept it, and therefore the truth will only be spread very little, even though My disciples work diligently for Me. And thus it is not My fault that the world does not take notice of My gift, of the truth, which alone brings them salvation, but humanity itself does not want this light, it wants to remain in the dark and rather seeks to extinguish the light than to enter the circle of light .... Yet where there is a desiring heart I also truly direct the flow of grace of My love, for I show My disciples the paths which lead past their door, and everywhere I knock through those. And where only a small crack is opened, the living water seeps through .... Whoever therefore believes in My word, it will now constantly flow towards him and draw wide circles again, because it is a water of life which never stands still and also always has a revitalizing effect on the one who surrenders himself to its effect .... However, the fact that My word, measured by humanity, receives so little attention and spreads is due to the resistance of the human being himself, which I will never forcibly break. Yet I truly offer enough opportunities, but who uses them? .... But one day there will be bitter remorse among all those to whom I conveyed My word commanded from above and experienced its rejection .... For My love offers you humans a priceless gift of grace, yet you do not recognize its value because you love the world and desire its treasures ....

Amen

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People’s deliberate rejection of the divine Word ....

B.D. 4539 from January 14th 1949, taken from Book No. 52

It is remarkable how few people allow themselves to be affected by the divine Word, how little notice they take of the fact that it is conveyed to them in an unusual way, and how often they inwardly object to it and silently or openly reject it. People are already strongly influenced by God’s adversary who clouds their power of judgment and has weakened their will, hence they neither recognise nor do they want to recognise what they are lacking and what could help them. That which is most important seems utterly unimportant to them, they only pay attention to the body’s demands and have little spiritual interests. This also explains why the divine Word is only occasionally recognised as truth and sends its rays of light in the surrounding area .... Only a few people will feel the strength of the divine Word affecting them and thereby mature psychologically. The Gospel will certainly by carried to all places, but it will not find open doors everywhere, and thus tiny lights will only glow now and then and cannot expel the darkness of night which is spread across the Earth. It will only be bright and clear where the light from above is kindled, where the directly offered Word is accepted, whose effect on people is unsurpassed. And thus it is not down to the Word itself, nor to the activity of God’s messengers, instead, the fact that the divine Word will not find the wider distribution necessary for the human race to heal spiritually and to prepare itself for the Last Judgment is entirely due to people’s deliberate rejection. Countless threads are woven between Heaven and Earth, just as many threads stretch out from the Earth itself into all directions, the news of God’s extraordinary working reaches all places and therefore could also be spread into all directions, yet time and again the threads reach a dead end and, on account of respecting free will, it is impossible to convey the divine Word to people as long as they inwardly deliberately reject it. Hence it is necessary to campaign and work incessantly, and as soon as only one person accepts the message from above a great rescue mission will have been accomplished, and God conveys His Word to earth for the sake of these individual souls, so that they will find the path to Him before the end arrives, before night sets in and extinguishes all light .... Amen

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Destiny .... purification possibilities ....

B.D. 4540 from January 14th 1949, taken from Book No. 52

Do not rebel against fate if it seems hard to you, otherwise you rebel against Me. I know that you suffer and how you suffer, but that this suffering is also necessary for your soul. And if you desire a better fate for yourselves in eternity, you must regard earthly life as a short time of preparation for the actual life in eternity, which is intended to prepare you for it. But you can only be suitable for the spiritual kingdom if your soul can bear My nearness. This state therefore has to be reached on earth in order to be a candidate for the spiritual kingdom, and this requires a strict school where the soul is exposed to opportunities for purification which should and will bring it success if it is willing. Therefore life must offer such purification opportunities, and these only exist in opportunities for serving neighbourly love or in suffering of the most varied kind. You humans have now become very lukewarm in your work of love and therefore need the second means of purification .... Suffering in an intensified form. I would never let people suffer, because My love for My living creations is exceedingly great. Yet without suffering no human being would mature but be in greatest danger of completely detaching himself from Me and becoming attached to matter. And I want to prevent this, and thus I often use violent means, I approach you through sorrowful events in order to induce you to come to Me, to unite with Me and to receive the strength directly from Me in order not to succumb. I know about your development, about your will since eternity, and therefore your fate is also My work and imposed on you in wise foresight of its possibility of success. And therefore you should not grumble or complain but always bear in mind that I have intended everything for you, joy and suffering, and if suffering oppresses you excessively, remember that your earthly life is no more long but that increased suffering also ensures your spiritual progress. Rejoice that you may suffer, for My love has intended it for you because I want to help you become perfect in order to be united with you forever ....

Amen

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Existence of God .... Worldly scholars .... Heart and intellect ....

B.D. 4541 from January 15th 1949, taken from Book No. 52

The worldly scholar often finds it difficult to believe in a Deity because his intellect is forced to conclude otherwise due to knowledge which, however, does not entirely correspond to the truth. Simply a mistaken view concerning the evolution of the earth leads to wrong ideas, and then it is difficult to acknowledge an eternal Creator, a Being which could certainly be recognised by its expression of strength, but whose recognition is usually not wanted. Science attempts to prove everything. However, where this is not possible it does not admit its inability but simply refuses to acknowledge what is outside the scope of its research. And thus it is based on a wrong concept, and the path to the eternal Deity is ultimately very difficult to find, even if the will to do so exists.

All kinds of research activity should start by revealing God’s existence, which admittedly cannot be proven but which can be believed with complete inner conviction. Such research will then progress quickly and successfully. But to achieve this certain belief the human being, in spite of his keen intellect, has to disregard the latter for the time being and dedicate himself to the feeling of his heart, he has to leave all science to one side and, like a child, allow himself to be taught from within, i.e. he has to accept what his feeling imagines or wants as the truth. Effectively, he has to dream with open eyes. Then he will always find a Deity, Who directs and guides everything, and he will know that he is supported by It.

A human being’s innermost desire is and remains a strong power above himself; however, worldly intellect attempts to stifle this because it is also spoken to by the one who wants to supplant the Deity but who is unable to enter the human heart and instead attempts to influence the human intellect all the more. God expresses Himself through the heart, his adversary expresses himself through the intellect, unless the heart is stronger and persuades the intellect to be on its side. In that case it is also possible to recognise God intellectually, heart and intellect will aspire to the eternal Deity and then science will also build on a different foundation, it will draw different conclusions which will definitely not be false ones. Because once an investigation with belief in a Deity begins it will sooner or later achieve success and also come close to the truth, irrespective to which field it is applied. Then science and belief will no longer contradict but merely complement each other, and only then will knowledge be free from error, when it is in harmony with the belief in God as an omnipotent, wise and loving Being Which governs everything that was, is and remains in eternity ....

Amen

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Development of the soul independent of physical advantages ....

B.D. 4542 from January 16th 1949, taken from Book No. 52

The nature of the earthly body has nothing to do with the soul's development, it only affects the soul differently, so that every person is fully offered the opportunity to mature on earth. Spiritual abilities can certainly lead to faster perfection but on the other hand they are also a danger for the human being that he exploits them in an earthly, i.e. material way and hinders rather than supports the soul in its upward striving. A well-developed intellect should certainly be able to easily recognize the eternal creator and His working, yet a primitive person is usually more devout, who lets his heart rather than his intellect speak, whereas the intellectual person often presumes to be able to fathom everything by virtue of his intellect and therefore rejects what he is unable to fathom. But what the intellect alone cannot do is possible with the power and grace of God .... And thus one can certainly say that it is a grace to be able to believe and to penetrate spiritual truths, a grace which, as a gift from God, must also result in the soul's upward development .... But this gift of grace has to be requested or accepted or it will remain ineffective. God gave the human being earthly life for the purpose of perfecting the soul, which is still far away from God. Due to its deficient state the soul is weak and ignorant, it would never take and cover the path to ascent on its own strength if God did not want to help it always and constantly. And this help is grace which approaches the human being in many different forms, which certainly strongly stimulates the human being's will but does not force it. If the human being allows himself to be stimulated by it, grace will become effective in him, if he rejects it or acts inactively, then he will not make use of grace and will not be able to progress. However, God's grace is often not recognized as such, and only obvious phenomena of spiritual development are regarded and acknowledged as grace from above. However, people are unaware of the fact that every human being can constantly receive grace and that God's source of grace is never exhausted, indeed, they even start from the false assumption that people are already considered differently by God in their physical constitution and can therefore also mature differently. This much is certain, that physical advantages, gifts, talents and special abilities often make a spiritual maturing more difficult, because the will must first become active and is much more inclined to exploit such advantages earthly. So they are, to a certain extent, gifts of grace, but if they are not used, they are completely ineffective. The human being is constantly in the midst of graces because God's love is constantly looking for means to help him to ascend. Everything that approaches him is a possibility of help, and thus everything is also grace which will always be effective if the human being consciously asks for the supply of grace, if he constantly unites himself with God in thought, through prayer or through loving activity. Then he will also use the graces according to God's will. But a gift of grace with a special effect is His word, which is offered to you humans from above .... And again, the decisive factor is whether it is accepted by people, whether the gift of grace becomes effective in the individual and he wants to derive benefit for his soul from it. Anyone who has God’s word, who accepts it from above or from the mouths of His servants on earth, certainly has an extraordinary opportunity to mature, thus he is in possession of an exceedingly great grace from God, yet even this grace can be carelessly rejected if it does not want to be recognized as grace. And again, the primitively thinking person can be at an advantage who emotionally confesses the divine word, whereas the person blessed with all abilities only lets his intellect speak and rejects what the heart faithfully accepts. Thus graces can come to the human being unmeasured .... they want to be recognized and accepted as blessings, otherwise they are and will remain completely ineffective and the human being's development will come to a standstill because he does not make use of the blessings which God, however, in His infinite love bestows upon all His living creations because He wants everyone to become blissfully happy ....

Amen

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Last hour .... nightfall .... light bearers ....

B.D. 4543 from January 17th 1949, taken from Book No. 52

The world clock shows the last hour .... Do you know what this means? That you are close to the end, that then a night will dawn of dreadful darkness for all spiritual beings which have not found their way to the light, to Me. But light twilight is still spread over the earth, there are still rays of light which shine in the vicinity and make it possible for people to find their way. And you should turn towards these rays of light, you should not believe that they constantly shine, for when night has fallen this light will also be carried to where there is no darkness but where you humans can no longer reach if you have not already taken the right path. Make haste, for the little lights that can be your salvation will only burn for a short time. The first shadows of the night are already descending, and what the night means for you humans on this earth I will constantly inform you of .... Greatest darkness surrounds you and makes you incapable of all activity. You will stay in agonizing surroundings and will not be able to free yourselves from the shackles into which you will be beaten due to your desire for the goods of this earth. And there will no longer be any life in you, no strength for activity, for darkness paralyses all strength which the human being otherwise called his own. And the night will last endlessly before a ray of light will break through again. There is still light on earth despite the advanced time of day, My sun of grace still shines sporadically and tries to have an effect on people's hearts, the path upwards is still recognizably in front of you, again and again bearers of light step into your path, drawing your attention to the unevenness and dangers which threaten you if the night surprises you. But you can still finish the path if you are not tardy; it is only very short and the nightfall can already find you at the final destination and no longer harm you if you only hurry to get on the right path and follow the light which is lit everywhere for the wandering travellers so that they walk correctly and reach the destination. But woe betide you when the night descends and you stand in darkness and can no longer see a little light .... then your fate will be decided, then there will be no more light for you for endless times, you will have to languish in the night of death, and your fate will be a bitter one due to your own guilt ....

Amen

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Follow Me .... '

B.D. 4544 from January 18th 1949, taken from Book No. 52

Follow Me and the goal that has been set for you since the beginning will be reached by you on earth already. You have to make the effort to live a life of love which will bring you very close to the One Who is eternal love Himself. And if you now bear My life on earth in mind and for the sake of the act of Salvation appeal to Me for reinforcement of your will, you will also find it easy to live in love, for I will help you and constantly provide you with opportunities which enable you to live up to your will to love if you feel the urge to do so.

My life on earth was only a practical application of selfless neighbourly love. And the result was the unification of the Father, the Eternal Love, with Me, so that I could use His strength and might, His light and wisdom like My own possession. I was permeated by His spirit, by His strength and by His light .... And thus everything was possible for Me since God Himself was working in Me. As a human being I demonstrated that it is not impossible to be filled by the divine spirit, that thus every human being is able to work the miracles and signs I performed, that the human being can shape himself such that he, as an image of God, can utilize all powers and thus also accomplish whatever he wants.

Follow Me .... all of God's strength is at your disposal, He does not impose any restrictions on you, He gives without measure, and you may use everything He wants to impart because He loves you .... Follow Me .... live a life of selfless neighbourly love and you will become perfect and be able to constantly enjoy God's love and blessing. I speak to you as a human being, just as I walked on earth as a human being, Who equally had to attain divine strength through a life of love, and Who was also only able to accomplish the unification with the eternal Deity through love ....

I will show you the path which you only need to travel in order to then also recognise the truth of My Word. Let yourselves be urged by Me onto this path, don't offer Me any resistance, try to do kind-hearted deeds and your strength will increase, your will to love will be stimulated, for love itself is strength and if you practice it, whatever you give will also flow back to you again as strength .... Try it and let My Words touch your hearts, let yourselves be called by Me and follow Me .... I Am the voice in the wilderness of your life. Everything around you threatens to wither away if you don't irrigate the arid area with the divine flow of love .... if you don't develop all good instincts through love and increase the strength within you. Do not let My call go unheeded, take notice of it and bear in mind that I don't demand anything impossible from you, for I Myself as a human being had set an example for you as to what love and a human being's will are capable of achieving .... Follow Me, and you will be and remain blissfully happy for all eternity ....

Amen

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Necessity and blessing of spiritual work ....

B.D. 4545 from January 19th 1949, taken from Book No. 52

Only that which remains eternally is of value to the soul, and only that which brings success to the soul should be striven for, otherwise the human being wastes his strength which is given to him for the purpose of the soul's ascent development. The human being's thoughts constantly revolve around earthly questions and obligations, yet all these questions are solved for the spiritually striving person and every assistance is granted to him for the fulfilment of earthly duties. And this is why spiritual striving is the most important, for then the human being will comply with both insofar as spiritual beings will also assist him with earthly demands, as soon as the human being first thinks of his soul and meets its requirements. But you humans lack faith in the support of otherworldly forces, which is why earthly worries always and constantly weigh you down and prevent you from the spiritual activity which you offered yourselves to Me to accomplish for Me and My kingdom. Why do you have doubts that you are not up to the work? If I promise you My support you can carry out any work without hesitation, it will be blessed by Me and therefore always feasible for you as soon as you put spiritual work first and thereby secure My blessing. I need you and therefore also help you in every way. People's spiritual hardship is becoming ever greater, the possibility to help ever smaller, because only few people can be found who have directed their senses spiritually and are therefore suitable as a link between Me and people. Only through them can I help people in their great adversity, because I can speak to them through them.

And it is necessary that I speak to people .... although they don't recognize My voice, they don't attach great importance to the words which reach their ears through human mouths; nevertheless, they must hear what I have to say to them so that they cannot feign ignorance if they have to answer for it. They shall have knowledge of My will and receive this knowledge from My servants on earth. Understandably, I will now also give My servants on earth what they need because they are willing to serve Me. But they must always put the activity for Me and My kingdom in the foreground, then every earthly worry will be taken away from them, they will be cared for like children to whom all the father's love applies. The work for My kingdom is extremely important, for the earthly world will pass away but the soul will not pass away with it, instead it will continue its life in the kingdom of the beyond, and therefore it shall be thought of first, then the earthly work will also be blessed, it will be able to be accomplished because the human being will be granted support by spiritual beings who is active as a labourer in the vineyard of the lord ....

Amen

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Attainment of childhood of God ....

B.D. 4546 from January 20th 1949, taken from Book No. 52

You have now entered a stage of development where the last decision you still have to make on earth applies. This is the end of your earthly career, that you must openly confess to which power you want to be subject and where this decision is now decisive for your fate in eternity. Then your course of development on earth will be over. Your soul will then leave the sphere of earthly material creations and enter the spiritual sphere, where it can continue its course of development if it has the necessary strength, but it can also remain in its degree of development or sink back into an earlier degree of development. But one possibility is taken away from it .... to acquire the degree of childship to God, which it can, however, attain on earth. The human being's last decision on this earth is so significant because it results in the right of childship if it is correct, that is, if the human being has passed the test of earthly life in God's will. If this last decision of faith is demanded of you humans, you must be aware of the consequences, for then you will decide your own eternity, you will have the most exquisite thing at your disposal, you will be able to grasp it with your hands, which should be the aim and aspiration of people on earth: the childship to God .... Great demands will be placed on you and you will have to acquire the reward under the most difficult conditions, yet the struggle which arises from it will only last a short time in order to give way to a glorious victory .... the most blissful fate in eternity. To possess the childship to God is synonymous with palpable fatherly love, God's constant presence, unlimited light and strength and everlasting contemplation of God and a constant stay in the most light-filled surroundings, be it in the spiritual kingdom or on the new earth which, as paradise, will now become the abode of God's children for the beginning of the new epoch of redemption. Bliss truly outweighs the hardship and suffering of the last time of struggle on this earth, moreover, people will experience extraordinary strengthening who have the will to remain faithful to God and to fulfil His will. Thus it will certainly seem unbearable to the unbelievers what the believers take upon themselves for their faith, yet the believer himself will be able to withstand every tribulation due to the supply of strength and grace from God. For he has already reached a level of development where God's strength can directly flow over to him. Nevertheless, there will also be weak people who are in danger of falling away and whom God will have mercy on because He knows their will from eternity. And therefore many will still enter the spiritual kingdom beforehand so that they can continue their course of development there and not fall into the danger of falling away from God due to their weakness of will and faith. But inevitably the development on this earth will come to an end .... Inevitably the earth and its creations will experience a total transformation, inevitably all life on it will die, death will reap a rich harvest, but this will happen spiritually, for whoever remains alive at the end belongs to the group of God's children who will be raptured from this earth with a living body, but all others are a prey of death who lose their bodily life and whose souls will also be banished as completely spiritually dead into hardest matter, into the new creations of earth, because an ascent development in the spiritual kingdom has become impossible for them. The end to be expected now is exceedingly significant and cannot be presented to you humans responsibly enough. Yet only a few will take notice of these indications, only the small circle of God-faithful people who strive for God's childship and are therefore also informed of God's eternal plan of salvation, of the end and the last judgment .... And this knowledge will also give them the strength to endure until the lord Himself comes in the clouds to fetch His own home when the time comes ....

Amen

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Retribution .... Sin and atonement ....

B.D. 4547 from January 24th 1949, taken from Book No. 52

The God of righteousness will redress everything, and thus the conduct of humankind will indeed find its atonement, but not always in the way you humans consider right. God's wisdom recognises people's weaknesses, their moral degree of maturity and the souls' imperfect state, and thus He sometimes makes use of means which can also result in the opposite, because the human being himself is striving towards the abyss as long as he still expects advantage from it .... Consequently, he must first try to release himself from earthly cravings, otherwise the injustice will keep growing and God will have to balance things increasingly more, which signifies immensely difficult times on earth and an often unbearable fate in the beyond. For every injustice must be atoned for, unless the divine Saviour and Redeemer takes the guilt upon Himself and redeems it through His crucifixion which, however, presupposes total devotion to Him and the will to live a way of life according to His commandments. In that case, the human being will have already attained a level of improvement which assures him forgiveness of his sins. But anyone who does not believe in Christ's act of Salvation must inevitably make

Amends for the guilt himself on earth or in the beyond. The world, however, is inconceivably entrenched in sin, consequently, the earthly adversity is likewise inconceivably immense and brings forth one iniquity after another. Someone who recognises and abhors it is no longer part of it yet he will suffer because of it, because every light-desiring person will experience darkness as pain. Yet the hour of Judgment is not far away anymore, retribution is inevitable, and therefore you humans should not doubt God's justice .... Human will as well as Satan's activity must be allowed free rein so that people will show their true instincts, so that a decision of will is made, which can be good or evil, and good and evil must therefore be seen in order to affirm or to abhor it. But don't think that retribution will fail to materialise .... For sooner or later the day will come when every individual person will have to justify himself for his thoughts, intentions and actions .... and the closer it is to the end the more evident becomes the raging of the dark forces and thus also the onslaught against the righteous, who shrink back from the devils in human form and call upon God's justice .... Retribution, however, will not fail to materialise ....

Amen

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