New Revelation recieved by Bertha Dudde

Proclamations No. 4804 - 4913

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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

4804 - The arduous path to the top.... earthly reward

4805 - Outpouring of the spirit....

4806 - God’s word gift of grace.... unbelief in connection with God....

4807 - Gulf and bridge.... Renewed banishment.... Circuit of flow of love....

4808 - Who is it that reveals Himself?.... God, the eternal light....

4809 - Acknowledge Jesus Christ necessary....

4810 - Purpose - God's evidences of His love, omnipotence and wisdom....

4811 - Divine revelations: knowledge.... help.... creation.... word....

4812 - Bliss of the soul only in union with God....

4813 - Measure of grace unlimited.... no preferential treatment of the individual....

4814 - Spiritual marriage....

4815 - Teachers must be taught by God Himself....

4816 - Justice of God.... guilt and atonement.... bondage - redemption....

4817 - Defacing the pure teaching of Christ.... free will....

4818 - Judgment announcement.... longsuffering of God....

4819 - Spiritual turn.... last judgment....

4820 - Conditions in the beyond....

4821 - Grace of inner enlightenment....

4822 - God's plan of salvation....

4823 - Purpose of creation.... re-creation in matter....

4824 - He who does not leave God, will not be left by Him either....

4825 - Unbelief and devils during the last days.... Battle of faith.... The coming of the Lord....

4826 - God's extraordinary gift of grace....

4827 - Strong faith result of love....

4828 - Need of reapers at the time of harvest....

4829 - Sacrificing time for God and spiritual work....

4830 - Battle between light and darkness....

4831 - Professing Jesus before the world.... Voicing the name of Jesus....

4832 - Testing the power of faith.... miracle healings....

4833 - Voice of conscience.... commandment of love.... knowledge....

4834 - The right, lawful marriage before God....

4835 - Essential Deity....

4836 - Spiritual death - new banishment in matter....

4837 - Retribution - Atonement.... Eternal Order.... Forgiveness through Christ....

4838 - Reference to great adversity.... Battle of faith.... Admonition....

4839 - God's revelation through His creation....

4840 - Ecclesiastical commandments....

4841 - Disbelief towards the truth bearers....

4842 - True disciples.... Working of the spirit.... ‘Why’ misguided teachings....

4843 - Swirl of the world.... (Rose Monday)

4844 - Purification of the teaching of Christ....

4845 - Composition of the soul.... Miniature creation....

4846 - Reference to the approaching time of adversity....

4847 - The process of Christ's return.... Ascension....

4848 - The work of God's servants in the last days....

4849 - Work in the vineyard of the Lord....

4850 - 'I will remain with you....' 'I will send you the Comforter....'

4851 - Old seers and prophets.... pictures.... accordance....

4852 - Recognizing God and faith not without love....

4853 - Prevalence of sin....

4854 - Blind guides.... preventing the truth.... arrogance....

4855 - The right to teach.... holy office....

4856 - God's love and mercy then gives way to His justice....

4857 - Directive to take action.... Final admonitions before the end....

4858 - Knowledge of plan of salvation from eternity.... right servants....

4859 - Teachings in compulsion.... love in free will.... (cath.!)

4860 - Grace....

4861 - God's voice can be heard everywhere.... The gravity of the time....

4862 - Supply of the divine word - good or bad forces....

4863 - Training of teachers directly or through light beings....

4864 - Peace of the soul....

4865 - Intercourse with the spiritual world exceptional benefit....

4866 - God's revelation....

4867 - No one can serve two masters....

4868 - Neighbourly love....

4869 - The working of the spirit.... Spiritual rebirth....

4870 - Seers and prophets of the end time.... little understanding....

4871 - Union with God - The human being's goal....

4872 - Prayer in spirit and in truth....

4873 - God reveals Himself mentally to serious seekers....

4874 - Spiritual guides....

4875 - Spiritual turning point is not a reversal but renewed banishment....

4876 - Christ's path to the cross....

4877 - Unattainability of God.... Recognising His fundamental nature....

4878 - Jesus' forerunner at the end....

4879 - Fulfilment of predictions made by seers and prophets....

4880 - Importance of work for the kingdom of God....

4881 - Acquiring spiritual goods.... earthly activity.... idleness....

4882 - Call to action.... spreading the truth....

4883 - Immense affliction before the end....

4884 - Freedom of will....

4885 - Dissemination of revelations....

4886 - Spiritual connectedness.... question and answer....

4887 - Remorse of souls who rejected divine gifts of grace....

4888 - The dead shall rise.... guilt of sins....

4889 - Reference to the end....

4890 - The reward of a life of love, blissful fate in the beyond....

4891 - Bridge to God - prayer in spirit and truth....

4892 - "Seek ye first the kingdom of God...."

4893 - Spiritual rebirth....

4894 - Explanation for divine revelations....

4895 - Wake up, you sleepers....

4896 - Divine revelations - words of love and wisdom....

4897 - The kingdom of God has come near.... epiphany of the lord....

4898 - God's love for His creatures....

4899 - Incarnation of beings of light.... Forerunner....

4900 - Retribution and rescue work.... spiritual need....

4901 - Transcending matter....

4902 - Using the power of the divine word....

4903 - Characteristics of the right servants of God....

4904 - Admonition to stand firm in faith....

4905 - "I will pour out My spirit on all flesh...."

4906 - Embodiment of immature beings in the end time.... (Hitler - Hausser?)

4907 - Process of conveying the Word from above....

4908 - Communion.... flesh and blood....

4909 - 'I Myself Am the Word....' The disciples' Gospel....

4910 - God's blessing to the workers in the vineyard.... time of need....

4911 - Through the world goes the angel of light....

4912 - Faithful servants.... devils of the end time....

4913 - Retrogression never will of God.... re-embodiment.... reverse process.... new banishment.... light beings....

The arduous path to the top .... earthly reward

B.D. 4804 from December 28th 1949, taken from Book No. 55

What will be your salvation is your fate in life. A person's education into a child of God will always be a path of suffering which has to be travelled with a will turned towards Me until the end, so that I can then accept him into My kingdom, so that I can draw him to My heart in order to reward his loyalty. And thus souls of light also have to take this path if their embodiment on earth is to be successful for the sake of which they entered the embodiment. An earthly life without hardship and suffering also reduces the possibilities of maturing and is only granted to those who make no effort to gather spiritual wealth, who therefore only strive for earthly aims, who devote themselves to My adversary who grants them worldly support in order to no longer lose their souls. Therefore never envy people who succeed in everything, who revel in earthly prosperity and have to endure few trials. Know that their souls achieve almost no progress from the beginning of their embodiment until the end, that they certainly live but are doomed to spiritual death, that they therefore already receive the reward on earth, as it were, for deeds which were not motivated by love but which helped their fellow human beings in their hardship. Nothing remains unrewarded for people, but woe betide them if only earthly reward is granted .... People will enter the beyond miserable after their death, and their hardship and darkness will be great there. Endure everything that is imposed on you and increase your spiritual possessions when earthly hardship oppresses you, so that you will be rewarded in the spiritual kingdom and don't need to live in want there. And know that only a thorny path will lead you to the aim, that it is the right path which leads laboriously and steeply upwards. And if the path is even, ask for a quick ascent and for strength to be able to walk every path, no matter how arduous. And don't look with envy at those who can enjoy their earthly life, for one day they will be pitied, while the just reward still beckons to you, which I Myself will grant you if you have entered My kingdom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Outpouring of the spirit ....

B.D. 4805 from December 29th 1949, taken from Book No. 55

What speaks to the soul does not touch the senses of the human being but only the heart. And that is why the voice of the spirit cannot be heard and felt with the senses of the body but only resounds in the heart, i.e. rises from the innermost part of the human being and only then becomes conscious to the human being. If it were to touch the senses of the human being in a pleasant way, then he would certainly listen more often to the voice in the heart, but the spiritual success would then only be slight, because the body is also involved. But that is why it is also far more meritorious to let the inner voice sound without bodily impetus, because then only the human will strives for the connection with the spiritual world, with the kingdom from which the voice, audible to the soul, sounds. And that is why it is only rarely that the inhabitants of the kingdom of light can express themselves to a human being although they constantly endeavour to make themselves known to them. They are in a kingdom of which the human being as such cannot form an idea, and that is why the existence of a spiritual kingdom is doubted. And thus they do not seek to gain insight into this kingdom, they do not seek to establish contact with the inhabitants of it. But if a person is willing to do so because he believes and wants to hear the beings of the kingdom of light, he will also never be abandoned by these beings again because through him they can gain contact with people and communicate with them, albeit indirectly. And therefore the human being will only need to want and never wait in vain for the utterances of the beings of light, which are therefore, so to speak, power stations for God's emanating strength, for His spirit, which pours itself out on all sides, which is only looking for an open vessel in order to pour itself into it. Hence there are only obstacles on the part of the human being when his willingness decreases, although this is only ever a temporary state, because once a person has been touched by spiritual currents in such a way that he was allowed to hear God's expression through the beings of light within himself, he will never want to miss this spiritual voice again and again and again opens his spiritual ear because the soul impels him to do so .... or also the spirit. The latter wants to make itself known to the soul, and if it finds no resistance then the soul constantly drives the body to create opportunities for a quiet inner contemplation, for the reception of spiritual good through the inner word. Everything that promotes the human being's spiritual development is under God's care and will be supported, which is why even the most difficult living conditions cannot affect a spiritual striving, because the human being's will adapts itself to divine will, because God wants to speak to people through the voice of the spirit and therefore the receipt of spiritual good is supported in every way. And thus it is always pleasing to God if an earthly child desires to hear His voice, and He will always accommodate it because it is the soul which desires nourishment and He will never let it go hungry ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God’s word gift of grace .... unbelief in connection with God ....

B.D. 4806 from December 30th 1949, taken from Book No. 55

The gift of grace of a direct connection with Me is of such inestimable value that people cannot be grateful enough to hear words of love from Me which otherwise could never touch their ear. For this not only applies to the direct recipient of My word but also to fellow human beings who take notice of it through him, even though it first requires people's will to hear Me speak, otherwise My word will touch the individual like a word spoken by people. You can all come into possession of a gift of grace if only you have the will to do so .... if you want your heavenly father to draw close to you and make you happy with His word. But very few carry this pious desire in their heart. Countless people walk this earth to whom the thought is alien to connect with their father and creator in order to hear His voice .... and the few who certainly have the desire to hear Me do not believe that this is possible .... And thus there are only a few whose faith allows for a connection with Me, because this faith came alive through love and only a living faith allows for an audible utterance on My part. It is now up to these few to enlighten people about their relationship with their creator and about His willingness to make Himself known to His living creations. But they will only find faith again where love is active, where the spirit is awakened through unselfish activity of love, so that what is said to him about the living connection with Me appears credible to the human being. And then the desire to hear Me speak also arises in him. Whether he hears Me directly or My word is conveyed to him through My servants is the same in its effect, for he will recognize and feel the word conveyed to him as being spoken by Me and accept it with the same love as if he were honoured by a direct address from Me. Just as his desire for Me is, so is the fulfilment of his desire .... His heart's emanation of love also determines the degree of bliss when receiving My word, but which is felt more by the soul than by the body. I thereby enable you humans to take notice of My will and to fulfil it, since I also give you the strength at the same time as My word. There is the possibility of approaching Me to the highest degree if My will is fulfilled. And therefore I make sure that you know about My will and convey it to you through My word. For all who don't believe in a living connection with directly imparted word I send My messengers to bring My word to them from outside, to proclaim the gospel to them which expresses My will as a teaching of love. Yet the word received from outside only comes alive when it penetrates the human being's inner being and is enlivened there by the spiritual spark .... when the spirit from Me can therefore be active in the human being so that the word coming from outside is also recognizable to him as My word. Then it will exert its effect, it will guide the human being's will in the right direction, it will give birth to a living faith through love, the human being will establish the living connection with Me and become able to hear My voice in his heart himself. But then he will already be very close to Me that only his earthly life will still stand between us as a separator .... Then he will depart from this earth as My child and be lovingly received in the spiritual kingdom by the father from Whom he once originated and found his way back again in order to never again separate from Him for eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Gulf and bridge .... Renewed banishment .... Circuit of flow of love ....

B.D. 4807 from December 30th 1949, taken from Book No. 55

The gulf between humanity and Me grows deeper and deeper, for the number of those who believe in Me with conviction continues to fall. The strength of My representatives on Earth gets constantly weaker, they certainly speak in My name yet are not the distributors of the pure truth. Ever more people leave the faith and turn to the one who is My adversary .... they turn to the world which is his kingdom and thereby increase the distance from Me which they should reduce during their earthly life. They move away from Me and broaden the gulf that separates them from Me. Yet this only works up to a point, for once the limit has been exceeded when the strength of My love no longer affects them, the spiritual substance within people hardens again into solid matter .... As long as the earth still exists the defected people will remain within the circuit of My flow of love, yet leaving it signifies the disintegration of the forms which shelter the spiritual substances .... it signifies the death of people as well as of animals, it signifies a dissolution of creation and a restoration of the same.

No being can distance itself from Me with impunity, for it will lose its life if it loses Me. And so, anyone who wants to stay alive and does not want to lose his life ever again must strive towards Me and look for Me, he must endeavour to reach Me and thus lessen the gulf between us. However, without faith in Me as Father and Creator of eternity there is no path across this gulf, for the bridge leading to Me is invisible .... Only faith makes the bridge apparent, for faith causes people to call upon Me. Faith in Me leads to prayer, which is the safest bridge to Me. Untold people go past this bridge and even those who should be their leaders often don't find the bridge themselves because their words are lifeless, because the paths they take are unsuitable to serve as a bridge, paths, which time and again lead back to the beginning; because their words of prayer do not emerge from their heart and therefore do not reach My ear either, thus they do not use the bridge which is the only path that leads across the gulf to Me. Sooner or later, however, even this bridge will not exist anymore, for once My Own have come across it will be too late for the others, because then every path will be cut off and there will be no more escape for those left behind; then they will be devoured by the abyss, the earth will admit them again and everything will become solidified and become matter once more, because it didn't strive to ascend but chose to reach the abyss ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Who is it that reveals Himself? .... God, the eternal light ....

B.D. 4808 from December 31th 1949, taken from Book No. 55

You will always fulfil the will of the one Who created you if you want to serve Him and commend yourselves to His love and grace. For I will truly not let you go to ruin if you seek ascent, if you want to be subject to Me. But who is He who speaks to you? .... satan is truly unable to influence you who desire God, who desire Me, Whom your soul strives for, Whom you want to belong to and Whose children you are through your will. For it is the will which decides which lord you belong to. My creations are in My adversary's hands as long as their will applies to him, who once turned away from Me and thus succumbed to his influence. As soon as this free will of yours pushes towards Me you will also have escaped the adversary's control and he will no longer be able to harm you, even though he still lurks around you as a constant tempter in order to bring you down. But I seize a will turned towards Me and no longer tolerate a downward turn. If you are willing to listen to Me, to hear My voice, then I will also fulfil your desire, for anyone whose will turns towards Me belongs to Me, he has passed the test of will on earth, he is an aspirant of the spiritual kingdom in which the free spirits dwell close to Me. And if he now hears My voice then he need no longer fear deception, no error and no untruth, then he will be in contact with Me, Who is the eternal truth Himself .... But his will is always decisive .... But you must test yourselves as to whether your will applies to Me, for it is the desire of the heart, not the language of the mouth, which I evaluate. A person can use the same words with which another expresses the desire of the heart and yet his thoughts and aspirations can be turned towards the world, which is My adversary's kingdom. I Myself certainly know about the human being's will, yet the fellow human being can be deceived by pious words of which the heart knows nothing. Then satan can certainly intervene and influence the human being's thoughts so that he expresses what is not My will. But then it is not I who speaks in the human being, but the human being himself speaks, driven by satan. He speaks his own words, which are not the working of the spirit. But anyone with a humble heart who offers his services to Me, who appeals to Me for help and grace, who renounces the world and strives to fulfil My will, will not give the enemy of his soul a target of attack, he will be completely seized by Me and protected from evil influence because I know his will. Anyone who prays to Me in spirit and in truth is also in love, otherwise he does not possess the living faith in Me which enables him to pray in spirit and in truth .... And My love also applies to him, which would never let him run into a fire so that he would get burnt. Therefore, anyone who prays in spirit and in truth hears Me speak, for satan will not approach him because I am present and he shuns Me and My nearness. To anyone who wants to hear Me I will also reveal Myself as God and creator, as father and eternal spirit of infinity, and My words will touch his heart so that he will recognize Who is speaking to him and will never be able to doubt, for the words of love are unmistakable, just as the words of the one who expresses himself under a mask, in the garment of light, to those who are in bondage to him through their wrong will, are also recognizable .... At the end of days there will be much error and lies and the truth will seem to be darkened everywhere; error and truth will walk side by side, unrecognized by most, yet the light of truth will shine brighter and soon eclipse all false lights, for I Myself choose people as bearers of truth who have a strong will which is entirely meant for Me. And these will carry the light everywhere and protect it so that it will not go out, they will courageously face My adversary and blind him with the bright light so that he will flee back into darkness, so that he will avoid all those who are in My service as bearers of light, for he knows that I Myself am the light which illuminates the darkness, which he can never ever extinguish ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Acknowledge Jesus Christ necessary ....

B.D. 4809 from January 1st 1950, taken from Book No. 55

Jesus Christ must be acknowledged as God's son and redeemer of the world, otherwise the human being will fall back into darkness, from which God's great fatherly love has already helped him up so that he can easily reach the light. But the light of knowledge also includes an understanding of Christ's work of redemption and thus an acknowledgement of Christ as redeemer. The man Jesus broke through the night of death, He changed people's dark spiritual state into a luminous one through His death on the cross, because He proved through His death that there is a path to eternal life, the path of love .... Through His way of life, which was crowned by His death on the cross, He showed people a path which leads out of the darkness of night into the most radiant light; thus He overcame this state of darkness, spiritual death, and likewise acquired the grace for people to enter the light with His help, because no-one alone is capable of doing so due to the weakened will which, without the divine redeemer's help, is influenced by His adversary who would like to pull the souls back into deepest darkness again who already possess a faint glimmer of realization. Jesus Christ stands by these souls in the battle against the adversary; but alone they are too weak and succumb to the strong power of satan .... The human being is the product of a creative power turned away from God, i.e., a being which abundantly fed God with strength used this strength again to create beings which carried its will turned away from God within them .... These were spiritual beings which, as products of God's emanating strength, were also His share which He will not relinquish for eternity. But God's strength, which was, as it were, profaned by the adversary's will, had to take on its original form again, i.e. the beings which emerged from this strength had to become truly divine beings in order to be able to enjoy the bliss in the spiritual world which corresponds to their perfection.

This change takes place in the creation which came into being for this purpose in an inconceivably long time. However, God's adversary, i.e. the producer of those beings, does not want to allow this change, and so a battle is now being waged for these beings, but the being itself has to bring it to a conclusion in its short earthly lifetime as a human being. However, due to the adversary's influence on his creations the human being is very weak-willed during his earthly life, so that the decision on his part would always apply to his producer, thus to God's adversary, which, however, cannot be regarded as a free decision of will, since satan keeps it bound, so to speak. And therefore God came to the aid of the bound beings by sending them a saviour Who was to redeem them from these bonds of satan, yet He also now demanded free will. The human being's will now has to decide for itself again whether it leans towards the divine redeemer or towards its creator. But now the will is truly free and strong if it avails itself of the grace of the act of salvation by acknowledging Jesus Christ as redeemer and appealing to Him for support in its decision of will. If, however, the divine redeemer is ignored, if His act of salvation is not acknowledged as well as His mission, then the human being will continue to remain under the control of the one who has placed his God-opposing will into him, and he will remain eternally in the night of death, in a state of deepest spiritual darkness, without recognizing himself and his relationship to God as creator and father, as controller of all infinity. He remains eternally as a child of satan in a state of wretchedness, bound and enslaved .... in eternal captivity. He absolutely has to call upon the help of the redeemer, Who alone can free him from satan’s power, Who alone can rescue him from the state of death and raise him to life, because He died for him on the cross and with His blood ransomed him from the one who had been lord over him since the beginning ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Purpose - God's evidences of His love, omnipotence and wisdom ....

B.D. 4810 from January 1st 1950, taken from Book No. 55

Divine omnipotence intervenes where divine love wants to express itself and reveal itself to the human being in his adversity. For with God no thing is impossible and His will becomes action through His love. But the human being's intellect cannot grasp what divine love is able to do, for it is strength which manifests His will, and thus the human being can truly ask for everything, God can make it possible even though it appears humanly impossible. And therefore no adversity is so great that it cannot be remedied by God, and no work is too difficult that it cannot be carried out by God .... Nothing is impossible that a person asks of Him if only he believes in God's love and omnipotence. God does not deny Himself and does not close His heart to the child which sees its father in Him and comes to Him in its adversity. Faith in God's love and omnipotence is a sure means to remedy any adversity. God's omnipotence knows no limits, and God's love is without end and of a depth which is incomprehensible to you humans but which you can feel if you faithfully entrust yourselves to Him. Creation and your own life prove to you that His love applies to you, for it is a gift of grace from His love that you may take the path through creation ....

(2.1.1950) Because His love willed it, His will became powerful, the strength of love unfolded and let everything come into being .... an exceedingly exemplary creation and yourselves as the crown of the .... His love created man .... He established a relationship with what He had created, like a right father with his child. He provides for and cares for the whole of creation, and He bestows His special love on the human being, whom He wants to educate into a right child of God. And His love, His wisdom and His omnipotence will always work together to make that which has come forth from Him happy. Whatever He wants will happen, but it will always be good for the being which He wants to reshape into His child. But it will also always learn to recognize its creator and father of eternity through God's wise activity, through the visible evidence of His love and His omnipotence. It will love Him again and long for Him, and this is what God aims for through all evidence of His love, wisdom and omnipotence .... He wants to win His children for eternity, He wants to make everything that has emerged from His strength blissfully happy, He wants them to enjoy His vision as blissful spirits, He wants them to be eternally blissful ....

Amen

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Divine revelations: knowledge .... help .... creation .... word ....

B.D. 4811 from January 3rd 1950, taken from Book No. 55

What the spirit reveals to you from Me is valid for all eternity. And thus you will realize that only that which is to be addressed as heavenly wisdom can be considered divine revelation, that is, the knowledge which gives you knowledge of the otherwise eternally unfathomable, of the essence of your creator and father, of His eternal plan of salvation, the knowledge of the cause, purpose and aim of everything that is. This is therefore the divine knowledge which is imparted to you through My spirit in the form of My word .... as divine revelation. This includes everything that explains the cause, purpose and aim of the whole .... Divine revelations are furthermore the proofs of My existence, My love, omnipotence and wisdom .... And thus the whole of creation is also a revelation of Myself to the one who wants to recognize it as such, but just as any obvious help in earthly adversity is also a revelation on My part. For you humans will always be able to recognize a proving expression of Me, a sign of the creator's love for His living creations, if you want it. However, the greatest revelation will always remain My word, which is heard through the inner voice in sound or in thought. For through this word I Myself approach the recipient and through him also all people and express Myself to them. I speak to people in such a way that everyone can understand Me .... Thus I create a connection between the spiritual and the earthly world through the word, I direct people's thoughts from the earthly world into the spiritual kingdom .... I point them to their aim and guide all means which are intended to fulfil the purpose of leading people to the aim. I give people direct revelations from above so that they shall escape the abyss and strive upwards. For these revelations, which therefore only have the purpose of guiding people upwards, to Me, are not transient, they will remain in existence for all eternity, because My word is imperishable, because what is once spoken by Me inevitably lasts for eternity and also has to, otherwise I could not be called perfect. What comes forth from Me, what is announced to people through My spirit, must be irrevocable truth, and truth remains eternally what it is. And thus I am the original source of truth, and from this source flows the living water .... divine revelations which are life-awakening gifts of grace which help the soul to perfection, to the maturity it needs in order to unite with Me eternally. There is no substitute for a divine revelation, for is there anything better than being honoured by Me with an address which must always have a beneficial effect on the soul? Is there anything more blissful than to be instructed by the father as to the path by which the child attains eternal life? Is there a greater guarantor for truth than the eternal truth itself? But if I take care of My children, they are truly well cared for .... Therefore I reveal Myself to those who are My true children and give them My word as a sign of My immeasurable love ....

Amen

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Bliss of the soul only in union with God ....

B.D. 4812 from January 4th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

Bliss only exists in connection with Me. On earth the connection with satan can indeed trigger a feeling of happiness in the human being but then it will always be physical pleasures which delight the human being but in which the soul has no part. The soul only finds happiness and peace in unity with Me, because it is spiritual substance which originated from Me and thus never loses its feeling of belonging to Me, it is just not aware of it as a human being in a state of imperfection. The spiritual cannot be satisfied with worldly pleasures, and if the soul is pushed back from the body because of matter then the soul's cover, which is spiritual in itself and now sinks into a state of death or sleep as long as it is surrounded by matter and dominated by it through the human being's will, condenses. The soul could certainly defend itself but it is too weak and gives in to the body's desire. But it will never be blissful as long as the body finds fulfilment of its desires. My nearness triggers the highest bliss in it. It strives towards Me as soon as it has once felt My presence, as soon as it has once found union with Me through loving activity, since I am present in every work of love and thus it draws Me to itself when it works with love. And it no longer wants to miss this bliss and only strives ever more eagerly towards Me. What a soul finds in union with Me compensates it for all adversity during its long course of development on earth and for all suffering during its earthly life as a human being. Yes, it is grateful to Me for these because they had brought it the union with Me. It will never have to give up the happiness of a union with Me, for a relapse is never possible. It can certainly exchange the kingdom of light with earth for a short time for the purpose of a mission on earth, but compared to eternity this is only a single moment where the soul is, so to speak, left to itself again but constantly longs upwards, for My kingdom, because it unconsciously feels what it left there. Nevertheless, it takes upon itself the embodiment on earth as a necessary work of love, for it is aware of its mission and also serves people of its own accord in order to likewise help them to become blissfully happy. Such a soul always stays with Me in spirit, it is only for its own sake that it is deprived of recollection as long as it lives on earth. Yet satan has no influence on such a soul, for it has much spiritual strength, it has much love for God and its fellow human beings. And this love always makes it seek contact with Me on earth, for Whom it longs until it is united with Me again ....

Amen

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Measure of grace unlimited .... no preferential treatment of the individual ....

B.D. 4813 from January 5th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

You will always be granted the measure of grace you want to accept, i.e. let it become effective in you. I am always ready to pour out grace upon every person, yet not all are willing to accept it, to open themselves to the flow of grace and to bathe in it. How often are you surrounded by My grace, how often do I pour out the cornucopia of My grace over the earth, and everyone is entitled to take possession of it. Yet My gift of grace is only rarely valued as a gift of love from Me of utmost success. And that is why people's development on earth varies so much, that is why there are so many stages of maturity, and that is why many people remain at the bottom while others ascend to the highest height, because ever more grace beckons to them the higher they ascend. My love, however, embraces all My creatures, and therefore I consider none of them meagre .... They can all take as much as they want from Me but they don't want much, that is, only a few have recognized the value of My blessings and enrich themselves with them, because they are not limited in receiving blessings, because they constantly work on themselves and thus also let the blessings take effect. However, I do not force grace on anyone .... I also give it to those who don't desire it of their own accord, I offer it to them, but then the human being's will first has to be willing to accept My gift, otherwise it will remain completely ineffective, thus they will not have received any grace in reality. The fact that the influx of grace is evident in a few people should not justify the conclusion that I give extraordinary consideration to these people, that they are destined to achieve great things according to My choice and that I therefore shower them with grace .... The will of these people was ready to work with My grace for My glory .... This is why they were also able to draw immeasurably from the source of grace which My love has made accessible to every person. Yet anyone who avails himself of My grace can achieve everything on earth which is his spiritual aim. For to receive My grace means to do nothing without Me anymore, to request and achieve every assistance from Me and to constantly be under My special protection .... He lives in My grace, I look upon him favourably, for his thoughts often seek Me in the awareness that I am his most faithful friend and father Who provides him with abundant gifts of grace. No human being on earth needs to manage without grace, that is, I am always ready to help where My help is needed, because My mercy and My love applies to all My living creations whom I want to help to beatitude; anyone who accepts My grace will become blissfully happy, yet anyone who rejects it will be hopelessly lost for all eternity, because no-one can escape spiritual death without My help ....

Amen

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Spiritual marriage ....

B.D. 4814 from January 6th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

Be united in spirit with Me, Who wants to be everything to you, friend, brother, father and bridegroom of the soul. The world has no part in Me, and so I will have to avoid the children of the world, and their lust does not have Me as a companion. They stand lonely in the world, although they are surrounded by friends, for these are again children of the world and without connection with Me. But I am everything for My own and leave no-one alone. For I seek closest communion with My creatures, and what is still far from Me I seek to win. And thus I am to everyone what he wants to see in Me. Anyone who needs a friend I will support with advice and action, anyone who sees the father in Me I will also give him My fatherly love, My concern for all those who regard Me as a brother is brotherly; but those who give Me all their love I also want to make happy with My love, and they shall eternally desire nothing more than this love of Mine ....

(8.1.1950) The spiritual marriage with Me presupposes a love from both sides .... My love is eternally unchanging, it will never diminish or become less, it draws to itself with its ardour everything that had its origin in it. My love does not want to give up anything it once possessed, and therefore every being could feel loved by Me. Yet only reciprocated love makes the being capable of feeling My love, and I constantly court this reciprocated love. Only when the love of My living creations, and thus especially of the human being, has reached a degree which can bear the weakest degree of My love does the union, the spiritual marriage with Me, take place, which is truly the highest happiness for the human being's soul, because now My strength of love can continuously overflow and the soul thereby becomes blissfully happy. In the spiritual kingdom such a union is indescribably sublime and blissful; on earth the union can also take place, yet the human being as such only feels peace within himself and the feeling of security at the father's heart, because through his love for Me his faith in My love, wisdom and omnipotence is also alive and in this awareness he no longer knows earthly worries. An increased degree of bliss would be unbearable for him on earth as long as he still has to fulfil earthly duties and thus is active in life. In the spiritual kingdom, however, every barrier between Me and My living creations falls. Then a blissful union takes place, accompanied by inconceivable light radiation, which returns the being to its original state where it was able to freely create and shape according to its will. And this state is every creature's aim, which I want to help it achieve. You can only reach this aim through intimate union with Me in spirit and in truth, and this is the spiritual communion which you should only strive for in your heart, for which you don't need external signs and customs, because this act of union with Me only requires the unification of the spiritual spark in you with the father-spirit of eternity and this unification can only take place in the heart, at any place and at any time .... wherever the heart quite lovingly longs for Me, there I will also be and marry Myself to that heart ....

Amen

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Teachers must be taught by God Himself ....

B.D. 4815 from January 10th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

Anyone who has the gift of hearing the word of God through the voice of the spirit thereby gains knowledge which enables him to be active as a teacher of his fellow human beings, for he is taught by God Himself. Although he has not received any special school wisdom and will therefore rarely be recognized as a teacher, he will nevertheless be able to enlighten his fellow human beings, which teachers who have been educated through study are often unable to do, especially when deeper problems have to be solved which directly require the imparting of the truth from God. Furthermore, there are often disputes to be resolved which have given rise to divisions in the church and which will always remain an object of dispute. Only a person who has been taught by God is able to shed light on this, and everyone who seriously strives for truth must acknowledge the logic of the explanation on the part of the one who has been taught by God and declare it to be the only acceptable answer. And then the proof is given that the right answer can only be sought and found with God. No matter how diligently a person studies, he will not be able to acquire the wisdom he receives through instruction by the spirit. But all too little attention is paid to them, all too little truth is examined or truth is striven for. Nevertheless, a servant taught by God must make use of his ability, he must also try to impart to his fellow human beings what he has received in knowledge, he must again and again contrast the spiritual results with the teachings of others, he must come forward with the truth wherever error can be recognized and draw people's attention to it and advise them to contact God through heartfelt prayer and approach Him for clarification in the disputed question. And he will always receive an answer, but it will be supplied to him in a completely natural way, so that he now has to let his will become active again in order to examine the commanded as well as the challenged knowledge. The servant taught by God is in possession of truth, which would be inconceivable otherwise, and he will be able to answer every question, he will be able to enlighten where there is still darkness, for his thinking is enlightened by God, and in a flash he becomes aware of every wrong teaching, every erroneous statement of faith, and just as quickly also the correction of that which, as error, exerts a poisoning influence on people. But anyone in possession of the pure truth due to God's great love and omnipotence will not hesitate to give it to his fellow human beings, and therefore a seeker will not need to search for long and a bearer of truth will step into his path and instruct him, and well to those who listen to His voice, who accept what God Himself sends to them through His messengers, through His disciples, whom He Himself chooses to spread the gospel throughout the world ....

Amen

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Justice of God .... guilt and atonement .... bondage - redemption ....

B.D. 4816 from January 11th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

All creatures that are in the state of free will have reached a certain level of cognition, i.e., they are able to receive a certain knowledge. But whether it is comprehensible to them, whether it really puts them into the state of cognition, depends on how the human being uses his free will. For the state of knowledge is the sign of the human being's ascent development, it is a degree of maturity of the soul which the human being's free will should strive for and which is therefore not arbitrarily assigned to him. But the upward development is the result of a way of life according to God's will, and God's will is a life in love. Consequently, only a person who is active in love can stand in knowledge, thus higher knowledge can only be acquired when the person makes an effort to live a life of love. But then he will have understanding for everything, he will only need to occupy himself with a question in thought, and the right answer will also come to him in thought .... he will think truthfully and gain rich knowledge ....

Yet there will also be problems whose solution requires divine support, because the human intellect in itself would eternally be unable to cope with them, for they require the human being's spiritual rebirth, they require a degree of maturity which is not often found in people. Yet God never refuses to answer such questions if they are seriously put to Him. He alone can also present what is incomprehensible to people in such a way that it becomes understandable to them if they sincerely ask Him for it, yet a certain faith is always necessary which also accepts what seems incomprehensible as long as the human being's spirit is still unawakened, for everything is understandable to the awakened spirit.

(13.1.1950) There is nothing that does not reveal God's love, that does not have God's love as its reason. But the righteousness of God cannot be eliminated, because the perfection of God requires it. And this already clarifies a major problem: the redemption of humanity through Christ .... On the one hand there was a great guilt, on the other hand the eternal Godhead, to whom the spiritual became guilty. But the guilt was so great because the spiritual possessed knowledge, thus it did not sin as a result of a lack of knowledge. This sin also challenged the justice of God, because the perfection of God can never depart from His fundamental principle. Atonement for every violation of the divine order, which took place with the apostasy of the spiritual from God. But the atonement was unspeakably heavy, because sin was endlessly heavy. The distance from God resulted in the weakening of the spiritual. The spiritual beings lost all strength, they could no longer walk uphill on their own but sank deeper and deeper until a being of light took pity on these spiritual beings, until this being came to the aid of the weak, sunken being before it completely lost itself in the depths. The being of light wanted to atone for the guilt, it wanted to sacrifice itself for the unfortunate beings who, after an infinitely long course of development, now threatened to fail in the human stage because they were powerless. And this being of light descended to earth .... A child of God embodied itself as a human being in order to help its fellow human beings. The being of light was in contact with God and knew about the wretched state of the beings who lived on earth and forgot their actual purpose .... But the being of light also knew a path which led out of this unhappy state. It knew about everything that was happening in the spiritual kingdom, on earth and under the earth, i.e. about the fate of those who dwelled in the abyss. And as coming from the kingdom of light Itself, It wanted to provide people with the same enviable condition. But it encountered a great resistance .... It worked a being from darkness against the being of light with word and deed. It bound where the being of light wanted to loosen, i.e., the being of darkness had great influence on people and drove them to their thinking, wanting and doing. But the latter did not correspond to God's will, thus the essence of darkness worked in a God-opposing sense and the human being would have had to resist its influence if he had wanted to make up for his past wrong against God. But the human being was too weak to do so, he was, so to speak, bound by the will of God's adversary .... If people were to be redeemed from God's power they had to be confronted by a being which possessed strong willpower, which consciously stood by God and made use of His strength and power in the battle against Him. And this being was Jesus Christ, He was the being of light embodied as a human being, Who was exceedingly strong-willed and opposed the adversary with a weapon against which he was powerless .... The love which united Jesus with God and made Him the recipient of strength from God .... And thus He was superior to the adversary, and He delivered countless people from the yoke of dark power ....

(14.1.1950) But the yoke consisted of the fact that the human being, as being able to decide upwards or downwards, felt the greatest incentive downwards through the influence of that to which he owed his state of imperfection, that he thus took pleasure in everything that was contrary to God, that he strived for everything that pleased the body and dragged down the soul. The adversary of God sought to win over man's thinking, feeling and willing, and in doing so he met with little resistance because all the urges that were the adversary's principle were found in man. Thus man was to a certain extent in bondage to that power which did not give him freedom but always pressed him more and more so that he always carried out its will and distanced himself more and more from God. The human being was a weak creature whose will was bound, which is why he was unable to defend himself .... which would certainly have been very easy if he had used love as a counterforce, against which God's adversary is powerless. For this reason one had to come as saviour Who proved to people for the first time that a release from the adversary was indeed possible but only through love, which provides the human being with the strength to resist, thus results in strength of will. Furthermore, he had to enlighten people about their task in life because they lacked all knowledge due to the influence of God's adversary. The saviour out of spiritual adversity therefore had to bring light to people and impart strength .... He had to help them to freedom, He had to loosen the chains of the bound ones from which they could not free themselves alone. Christ's work of redemption only extends to people's spiritual state, which was so indescribably low that it was impossible for them to rise up on their own .... precisely because of the lack of love .... And therefore Jesus Christ first instructed people, and He gave them the commandment of love as the most important thing, so that people could bring themselves into possession of strength and light. But then He acquired a spiritual fund through His death on the cross, i.e. a treasure of grace which every person who believes in Him and His act of salvation can draw from. He acquired for the weak-willed strengthening of the will and forgiveness of their guilt .... God looked favourably upon a person's work of love and granted Him fulfilment of the request which the man Jesus presented to Him for His fellow human beings .... He was satisfied with the death of one human being Who wanted to save His fellow human beings from spiritual death. The love of the God-man Jesus was so strong that it satisfied the eternal deity, Who yearned for the love of all people. He gave His blood for the sins of humanity, He extinguished the guilt with His blood, but mind you .... only of those who acknowledge Him and His act of salvation and want to belong to the flock of the redeemed, otherwise all spiritual beings would already be redeemed but then they would not be able to reach the state of perfection which requires the free test of will ....

Amen

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Defacing the pure teaching of Christ .... free will ....

B.D. 4817 from January 15th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

What I spoke to you humans on earth should remain in all purity. This was My will, and therefore I simultaneously gave you the promise that I would remain with you in spirit and thus watch over what is proclaimed as My word on earth. But this promise only applied to those whose will was fully turned towards Me; it applied to those who desired Me in their heart and saw the father of eternity in Me. But I could and never wanted to bind people's will, and thus it could not be prevented that people's will disfigured My pure teaching, that what was right for these people was added and left out, and thus My word lost its purity, that it was mixed in with additional human work and therefore also lost the strength and effect which originally adhered to My word and as long as the teaching was divine, thus free from human work. I do not make the human will unfree. But it is understandable that this will was influenced by My adversary as soon as a person makes himself in bondage to him through thought, will and action. It is understandable that truth can no longer flow out of an evil person's mouth, just as his thinking must be directed against the truth if he harmonizes more with My adversary than with Me. My adversary's power is great and yet, again, not so great that people have to fall prey to him .... Their will alone determines the influence on the human being's soul. And therefore pure truth soon became illusory where people did not let Me Myself be present through their will, their love and their way of life. Yet I remain with you in spirit .... I was and am always present where the door of the heart is opened for Me and My dwelling place is prepared .... And there I will also always speak words of love and truth, and anyone who thus hears Me in his heart, who allows Me to speak to him through the spirit, will always know the pure truth and need not fear that he will receive untruth. And thus a constant purification of the teaching takes place which is proclaimed as Christ's teaching on earth and no longer corresponds to the pure truth, which is no longer what it was at the time of My life on earth. "Heaven and earth will pass away, but My word will endure for eternity ...." Yet only the pure word from Me endures, but word changed by people perishes, even if it has a long existence due to human will, but it will never be able to withstand the truth when it begins to shine in brightest light. For pure truth is like a sharp sword which defeats everything that does not submit to it. Truth will be victorious because it is from Me, Who am the eternal truth Myself ....

Amen

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Judgment announcement .... longsuffering of God ....

B.D. 4818 from January 17th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

For the sake of the few who are still undecided I still hesitate with My obvious emergence, and this gives you cause to doubt My word or to deny the divine origin of the word conveyed to earth. I certainly have great long-suffering, I take the weak, undecided into account, I still try to save as many as possible from ruin and therefore use all means to change their minds, and thus I still stand apart from My purpose .... But once the time has expired and you humans will not have to wait much longer, then word for word will be fulfilled to the sorrow of unspeakably many people but to confirm to you what I have announced to you. You should not doubt, even if one day after the other passes without bringing the announced judgement. Today you can still live in the midst of the hustle and bustle of the world in pleasure and joy, and tomorrow you can already be filled with horror in view of the destruction around you who remain alive. Today there can still be calm everywhere and tomorrow already the strongest storm, to which everything falls victim. Just believe that I speak to you Myself, your God and creator, your father from eternity, when the revelations from above are conveyed to you; believe that this only happens because you are close to the end and I want to save you by conveying My word to you. Understand that I had to choose servants for Myself on earth because you lack the truth and cannot become blessed without the truth. Take every word of this revelation of Mine seriously and believe that the end is near, even though the world would like to teach you otherwise. I certainly let everything take its course and do not hinder My adversary if he wants to draw you into his fishing nets by luring you with the pleasures of the world, that is why I send you My messengers who are to warn you and admonish you not to fall prey to the world; listen to them, don't turn away unwillingly, consider every word they say and prepare yourselves, for the day is already alarmingly close which will disrupt your life of rest and comfort which you strive for and also know how to procure for yourselves. It is not the right life you lead, for the world is dragging you down. Do not try to stupefy yourselves or to lie to yourselves, the truth will come to light in a frightening way, because there is no existence of lies and therefore also no existence of that which belongs to the realm of the adversary who shuns the truth and tries to suppress it.

Therefore I warn you once again to carelessly reject or disregard My word. Very soon you will remember My word and recognize in Me the one Who rules the world and directs all your destinies, Who spoke words of love to you which you did not accept as the father's words because you preferred to hear the voice of the world. Wake up, you who are still asleep, and prepare yourselves for the day which will come as surely as My word is fulfilled, because it is the eternal truth ....

Amen

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Spiritual turn .... last judgment ....

B.D. 4819 from January 18th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

The world is facing a turning point, i.e. everything that is worldly on earth undergoes a total change in a material sense through a process of destruction, and only the spiritual endures and survives the process of the work of destruction and continues to work in a different form on a new work of creation. Thus the earth renews itself, it emerges from the work of destruction in a completely new form and is again inhabited by human beings who partly originate from the old earth and partly also emerge from this old stock in high spiritual maturity. It is the conclusion of a period of development which will take place in a short time. A period of redemption is coming to an end and a new one is beginning, but so fundamentally different from the old that one can speak of a turning point before which humanity stands, which is to be understood purely spiritually and also earthly. The spiritual low of humanity necessitates a dissolution and reshaping of everything that contains spiritual substances, so that no standstill or decline occurs in the upward development of the spiritual. The human being's will is always taken into account, i.e., he is allotted the lot which his will strives for. And since people are only matter-hunters in the last days, they themselves become what they desire .... hardest matter encloses their soul and no longer releases it, until again through God's will the spiritual is redeemed from hardest form, until it is mature to dwell in less hard deformation and now slowly develops upwards in the state of compulsion until it again enters the stage as a human being where it can finally redeem itself if it wants to. But the period of time of such a developmental period is so long that the human being cannot perceive an obvious end of creation in his short earthly life (time) and therefore does not want to acknowledge an end of a period, a spiritual turning point, and therefore does not take his spiritual development seriously either. And thus humanity also now does not want to believe that it is close to the end of an earth period, and it does not recognize the great danger which is lurking for it .... they don't know or don't want to believe that the earth will devour all those who are still closely connected to matter, so that they completely forget God about it. They don't want to believe it and will therefore be surprised when all signs point to the fact that the day is approaching, that the earth will experience its last days. For God will obviously still appear before then, and anyone who is not completely hardened will also recognize Him. But most people have to expect the fate which has been announced to them, that the earth will open up and devour what cannot exist in God's sight .... And a new earth will emerge which is inhabited by those who remain faithful to God and persevere in greatest adversity until the end because they believe in Him and in His word ....

Amen

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Conditions in the beyond ....

B.D. 4820 from January 19th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

Once you have walked through the gate of death you will no longer feel your earthly shell but will be able to move about easily and freely, you will not be prevented from going wherever you want, you will not be forced in any way. And yet, this state can be painful for you too, namely, when you find yourselves in darkness, when there is no light and you are unable to see anything. This spiritual blindness is coupled with complete helplessness and a weakness of will which is unable to shake off its lethargy. Hence you will not be influenced by anything externally perceptible, but there can still be a limitation within yourselves which will prevent you from living, that is to say, from actively working in accordance with God's will, which all light-receptive souls may do when they leave earth, and who will therefore be placed into a kingdom where they may behold ever increasing beauty.

To dwell in this magnificent kingdom is immensely blissful for the souls of the dead, for they will leave all worldliness, difficulty, misery and imperfection behind and will be united by love with spiritual beings who are full of love, wisdom and strength. And the soul will take part in this now, ever new discoveries will enchant its spiritual senses, it will behold creations of exceptionally marvellous shapes which cannot be compared to earthly creations. Furthermore, it will no longer be subject to time and space, it will be able to stay wherever it wants and can move into the past as well as into the future. Once the soul has reached perfection, that is, once it has entered the kingdom of light, it is no longer bound to the law of space and time.

Yet even there the degrees of light differ, which stimulate ever greater aspiration and also unite the beings to shape and work with combined strength. The activity in love is a supreme law in this kingdom as well, for this reason the beings of light help each other in perfect harmony, giving happiness and receiving it in turn. Their constant effort, however, concerns the souls in darkness, whom they know to suffer utmost hardship and whom they want to help through teaching.

There is no impulse of life in areas of spiritual darkness, the beings are totally apathetic if they are not burning with rage, thirsting for revenge and engaging in constant fighting with one another. The latter need an endless time until they calm down and fall into a lethargic state. But only then can they be helped by the beings of light. In contrast to these, the imperfect beings are mainly full of selfishness and therefore unapproachable for teachings concerning the commandment of love. However, having ample patience the beings of light never tire of helping them, so that it almost always will result in spiritual progress after the beings have discarded their vicious instincts and no longer attempt to tear each other apart. The state of lethargy is at all times the preliminary state of awakening from sleep, and it only requires some loving support so that these beings, too, will catch a gleam of light and begin to see. Yet it will often take a long time, because free will takes precedence in the spiritual kingdom too, which may not be forced if the being is to achieve beatitude.

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Grace of inner enlightenment ....

B.D. 4821 from January 21st 1950, taken from Book No. 55

The grace of inner enlightenment proves the right relationship with Me, otherwise My spirit could not express itself in the human being, for the child can only hear the father's voice where it has entered into the right relationship with the father. As spiritual living beings with consciousness and free will you humans carry a tiny spark of My spirit of God within you, yet as long as you are isolated from Me your will is not yet directed towards Me. But until then this spiritual spark is inactive, it slumbers in an envelope which makes its activity impossible, because divine strength does not forcefully assert itself but only becomes effective when it no longer finds resistance. And even if I am in you to a certain extent, because this spiritual spark is My share, you still cannot feel anything from Me as long as you don't want to feel anything. Only your will creates the right state, only your will has to establish the right relationship between child and father, then the union of the spiritual spark with the father-spirit will also be established and then the child will hear every expression of the father through the spirit within itself. But anyone who approaches the father as a child also does His will, and thus a person's way of life who wants to hear My voice within himself must also correspond to My will, and anyone who does the father's will also has His love, which again affects the soul as strength and helps it to attain perfection. The strength now expresses itself in the form of My word, in enlightened thinking and speaking .... in the ability to receive My word and to be the proclaimer of My word to fellow human beings again. Everything the human being does for the kingdom of God, every spiritual work, is the evidence of inflowing strength from Me, which is therefore utilized in the work for Me and My kingdom and results in increased maturity of soul for the human being himself. Hence you should not expect a physical feeling of strength when the supply of strength is mentioned, instead, you must consider your spiritual development, the progress in knowledge, the gift of teaching or enlightening fellow human beings as the effect of the transmission of strength from Me, and then you will also recognize the truth of My word and draw strength from the word itself, because it secures increased knowledge for you, with which you can again be eagerly active for My kingdom. But the supply of strength is also noticeable physically because I increase every child's earthly strength if it wants to use this strength for the father. Even if My servants on earth are not spared the tests of faith I will not let them become incapable of work by diminishing their vitality. For their tasks are important and their help for their fellow human beings urgently necessary, therefore I also provide My servants on earth with earthly strength so that they can also carry out the work in My vineyard. For the last days require fit and faithful workers who are so intimately united with Me that I can work in them through the spirit; for they shall serve as an example to all who are willing to establish the right relationship with Me, to all who want to come to the father as children and speak to Him. They shall give evidence that the father is inclined towards every child which comes to Him in love and lives in accordance with His will. For My love longs for the creations which came forth from Me and which I eternally don't want to lose ....

Amen

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God's plan of salvation ....

B.D. 4822 from January 21st 1950, taken from Book No. 55

What has been decided in My plan of salvation will irrevocably take place, for My wisdom recognized the necessity of it in order to bring to perfection what once had become apostate to Me. The time for every event has been determined since eternity, because the will of the spirit has also been apparent to Me since eternity, so that I also recognized the length of time in which a process of development is to be regarded as finished or failed, which is why new phases of development always begin when no results are achieved. Since it is therefore now clearly before Me that and when people fail, it has been determined since eternity when a new earth period begins and the old one is therefore finished. And this point in time is held in abeyance because a departure from it would only have an evil effect on the spiritual and My constant concern only applies to these beings which are in dire need due to their imperfection .... (23.1.1950) The end of an earth period is therefore fixed in time and cannot be postponed by human will, yet human will can shape the way of the end of a developmental period into a less painful one if it would be willing to subordinate itself to My will, so that the destruction of the old earth would affect the spiritual substances still bound in the creations, whereas the human being who endeavours to live according to My will could reap the reward in a painless passage into the spiritual kingdom or even in a sudden transfer to a newly emerged creation. A will which submits to Me does not need such sharp means of education and the time of the end of the earth could approach for people without any horror. But people can no longer stop it from coming despite a possible change of will. For this has been determined since eternity. People can certainly shake off their belief in it, but then only to their own detriment. But if a person believes he can reduce the horrors for himself, even if he cannot completely avert them for the sake of his fellow human beings. Yet as soon as he submits to My will as an individual he is under My special protection, and that which completely opposes Me together with its lord cannot harm his soul, even though he is also earthly oppressed. Yet such a believing person is strong for himself because My strength flows through him and he feels safe and secure in My protection. I inform My own of My eternal plan of salvation, I announce the near end to them, I draw their attention to the signs of it and give them the promise of My help, My presence and My coming in greatest adversity. And anyone who believes these words of Mine will survive the time of the end without harm to his soul, he will not need to worry, for his faith gives him the expectation of My help, his faith gives him strength and grace to remain faithful to Me and persevere until the end ....

Amen

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Purpose of creation .... re-creation in matter ....

B.D. 4823 from January 25th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

An exceedingly wise creator was at work when the fallen spirit was in utmost remoteness from God and had cut off its own way back to Him by committing the gravest sin, by spurning His strength of love in arrogance and lust for power. God's infinite love thought of ways and means to lead this spiritual being, which had become sinful, back to Himself again, and His wisdom recognized a path for success .... the path through the whole of creation, through forms which had to serve each other and thus fulfil the purpose set for them. Thus His love and wisdom formed outer shells for the fallen spiritual substance out of His strength which were intended to stimulate it into serviceable activity, and these works of creation were intended to bring about a gradual upward development by enabling the spiritual substance to serve in them in a state of compulsion, so to speak, and thereby reducing the distance from God more and more. These forms, thus divine works of creation, are so versatile that they can shelter all immature spiritual substances, thus through their natural growth and decay they can also receive the most diverse spiritual entities and release them again until these entities have reached a certain degree of maturity. The divine creator saw all possibilities of a maturing process, and that is why creation is so versatile and includes works of creation in all degrees of maturity, yet it is only apparent to Him what success the spiritual being can achieve, He alone knows about the many stages it has to go through until it reaches the stage of free will as a human being. He determines the duration of every creation, He determines the activity of every work, and He alone recognizes the degree of maturity which then makes embodiment as a human being possible. But He also saw the negative successes, He saw the spiritual being, which was already almost close to Him, sink back into the abyss again because it had free will at its disposal, which God respects but which the being abuses again .... His creations testify to unsurpassable wisdom, thus there are paths of development to be taken which could guarantee certain success, yet He leaves the human being complete freedom, He does not force him to acknowledge Him and subordinate himself to Him, just as He, however, does not completely abandon the being to His adversary either but constantly endeavours to help it up so that it will become blissfully happy. God's infinite love and unsurpassable wisdom certainly recognizes and creates all possibilities for the spiritual being's perfection, yet free will is decisive as to whether the ascent development in the stage as a human being proceeds or the spiritual being remains in resistance and sinks into the abyss again and has to start the course of development anew.

(26.1.1950) The re-emergence into solid matter only takes place when a period of creation has found its conclusion, when therefore all creations release the spiritual, when they are dissolved for this purpose by God's will, which means destruction of that work of creation where the ascent development has begun. God's wisdom and love lets new creations arise again, which are again suitable through their assigned purpose to help the spiritual bound in them to higher development. Then the interrupted course of development is continued, again with the same aim, the stage of free will as a human being, where perfection or renewed apostasy can take place because God's love approaches the being again and can be accepted or also rejected. In God's sight a thousand years are like a day, and with infinite long-suffering and patience He looks after the beings, and if innumerable phases of development are necessary so a being remains particularly stubborn in its resistance to Him .... Again and again He gives it new opportunities until it has finally reached its aim, until it has found its way back to the one from Whom it once took its origin ....

Amen

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He who does not leave God, will not be left by Him either ....

B.D. 4824 from January 28th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

Don't leave Me if you don't want to be abandoned by Me, for I don't keep anyone who leaves Me, yet his path is then no longer Mine, it leads away from Me and ends in loneliness. Only he who stays with Me is certain of his aim .... it is eternal life .... But what use is a life on earth if you pass away without Me .... It can certainly offer you earthly pleasures, it can be a life entirely according to your wishes, you can possess everything you desire, yet if you live it without Me then someone else will take My place, then someone will constantly stand by your side who will never let you go and who will push you onto a path which, although it seems extremely appealing to you, will nevertheless lead into darkness. And darkness is your reward if you leave Me .... I certainly love you but I will not keep you if you want to separate yourselves from Me, for what I require of you is only your love, which you should give to Me of your own free will. But then you will truly find deepest reciprocated love and this will also make you happy on earth. But if you separate yourselves from Me it is also your free will and you will not be hindered by Me, even though I know that it is not a blessing for you. True life can only be with Me, true life can only be given to you by My love. Hence, if you live on earth without Me you are in truth dead, you only live an illusory life which My adversary helps you to achieve; he deceives you into believing that you live but in truth you are dead, for I alone am life and I alone can give you life, because I alone distribute the true strength of life which only requires love for Me in order to be received. But anyone who loves Me does not leave Me, and I will not leave him for ever either. Anyone who chooses Me as his companion will truly not lose his strength, for life flows forth from Me and flows to the one who walks with Me because he loves Me ....

Amen

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Unbelief and devils during the last days .... Battle of faith .... The coming of the Lord ....

B.D. 4825 from January 29th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

The lack of belief during the last days before the end will have alarming consequences, since people will only chase after profit and never remember a God. Then people will equally try to cheat and outsmart each other, for the sake of matter they will increase all evil instincts, their lack of conscience will not hesitate to harm their neighbour as long as it is to their own advantage. They will solely think and strive towards increasing their possessions .... God, however, will be forgotten, they will neither believe in Him nor fear Him, they won't believe in their future accountability and punishment for their sins, and thus they will sin without hesitation and fear of a Judge. In an earthly way they will be prosperous, because they are supported by God's adversary who impels them to ever more greed for material possessions. He will have great power where faith in God does not exist; this is why unbelief is exceedingly dangerous for people, because this will move them closer to devastation. Where faith is missing there is no love either, since only this would be able to revive their faith. Where love is missing, people are spiritually blind, they don't know anything, and what they know is untrue. Darkness is spread across the human race and the earth is approaching the end .... From a secular point of view, there is no adversity, people are living in prosperity apart from the few whose faith is still firm and who will be treated with hostility by the former. Although their fate will indeed be harsh for a short time, they will recognise the most unmistakable sign of the end in their unbelieving fellow human beings' prosperity, because they were informed of it in advance so that they will bear up against the adversity they experience as a result of their faith in God .... When the time of Satan's obvious reign has come, the end will not be far away either, for it also has been proclaimed in advance that the world will be full of devils, and people who do not believe will likewise behave like devils and therefore declare bitter war against the believers. But then the coming of the Lord will not be far away anymore, then every day might bring the end, because the Lord will come when the adversity is so great that they will fear to lose heart .... when Satan believes that he has won, when unbelief abounds to such an extent that the believers must fear for their lives. Then the Saviour will come from above, as it has been proclaimed .... He will come in the clouds and fetch His Own into the realm of peace and implement a final Judgment on earth. This will be the end, when Satan will be enchained and, with him, all those who were enslaved by him .... And a new Earth will arise which will only be occupied by profoundly devout people, people, who will remain faithful to God during the last battle of faith and thus receive their reward .... a life in the paradise on the new Earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's extraordinary gift of grace ....

B.D. 4826 from January 30th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

You can always be certain that you will receive an extraordinary gift of grace if the evidence of My love for you comes to you from above, and that you can therefore already attain a high degree of maturity of soul on earth if only you use the gift of grace correctly. I establish a relationship with you which is indeed the right one from eternity, yet it is not your love for Me which gives rise to it, as it should be, but My greater than great love takes hold of you who do not find your way to Me of your own accord. And My word is the proof of this, for I speak to you as a father speaks to his children; I lovingly present your spiritual adversity to you and warn and admonish you, I give you advice as to what you should do and what you should refrain from doing; I so openly inform you of My will that you only need to live accordingly in order to acquire My love. Thus I also come to the unworthy and approach him through My word .... I help him to become worthy of My love. I offer you a gift of immeasurable value, for you yourselves do nothing to acquire this gift. Yet without your will to work with My gift of grace you will hardly feel any blessing from it, and thus it is still up to you to experience the effect of My proof of love. Everyone has to become active himself if My word is to bring him the blessing which will help him to ascend. I let much grace flow down to you, yet you may not withdraw from this flow of grace, you must open yourselves so that the grace flows into the centre of your heart, then you will feel My love, you will live out My word, the soul will be at an advantage, it will mature in a short time, it will love Me again with all its strength and thereby be filled with strength itself. For this is My purpose, that through My evidence of love from above you will recognize that I am your father from eternity Who loves His children and also wants to win their love .... that He will give you a gift of grace which shall lead you back to Him so that you will remain with Him for all eternity ....

Amen

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Strong faith result of love ....

B.D. 4827 from January 31th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

You draw the strength to believe from your love for Me, or love brings faith to life. Everything will appear to you close to its essence, thus no longer unreal, as soon as love fills you, yet you can only understand this if you have love within yourselves, otherwise they are only words which have no life in them. Again and again I can only point out to you that strength emerges from love, that you are able to do everything if you live in love and thus can also believe deeply, that you then call a living faith your own. I can only answer every prayer to Me for strength of faith with the words: Love Me, then you will also be able to believe .... and love for Me includes love for your neighbour. Therefore you only have to be good and helpful towards your neighbour and your faith will grow into that strength which is unshakeable and withstands every onslaught. But if you have a deep, unshakeable faith then you will also feel Me near you, then I will always be present to you and you will be aware of it. As soon as you are able to speak to Me like a child speaks to its father, your faith will also be strong and alive, for you will only speak to the one Whom you acknowledge, and you prove your faith in Me through prayer in spirit and in truth, and if you then practice the intimate dialogue with Me for a long time, you will no longer be able to doubt either My word or My love, nor anything else which seems unacceptable to you. Then you will believe everything because you feel that your father only speaks the truth and that He loves His children. And because you believe in Me you will also do everything I ask of you, you will live as it is pleasing to Me .... Love will fill your whole being .... Then the union with Me will take place, then spiritual life will have become a reality for you, whereas earthly life will pass you by like a dream state, then you will be so firmly united with Me that a separation from Me will no longer be possible, then you will no longer be able to speak of faith but everything will be knowledge, realization, light for you. Every doubt, every unbelief is eliminated, you are completely permeated by Me and have returned to the original state which signifies light and strength and bliss for all eternity ....

Amen

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Need of reapers at the time of harvest ....

B.D. 4828 from February 2nd 1950, taken from Book No. 55

Many labourers will be needed when it is time to harvest and therefore I welcome everyone who offers His services to Me. And everyone will be assigned a place according to his ability where he can work and do his best to fulfil his duty. I will reject no-one because the work before the end is urgently needed and because I cannot have enough reapers when it is time to harvest. However, they must grant Me their will and their loyalty, they must support their Lord as suitable labourers and always accept His instructions with a firm determination to comply with them and thus to serve Me faithfully. Yet they should not only comply with My will but also adopt this will as their own, that is, they should be convinced that they can only help their fellow human beings through their work, that their spiritual work will not merely be accomplished mechanically or on My behalf but that they enjoy it themselves because they realise that only this work will profit the soul. Everything My labourers do for Me and for My kingdom must be carried out with utter conviction, eager dedication and love, only then will they be the true servants I have chosen to work for Me. Anyone who purely complies with his task under pressure will not gain any benefit from it, he will not be able to be the right leader of the blind because he cannot see himself. Being of service to Me means to be lovingly active for one's fellow human beings in order to help them spiritually and physically in their adversity. For that is what I do in My love, yet My servants shall do this instead of Me, they shall represent Me, thus fulfil their Lord's will if He cannot express Himself because people would be unable to endure My presence on account of their immature state of soul. To these I must speak through a human mouth and, for this purpose, diligent servants should lend Me their mouths so that I can talk to the former if they require My Word. There is much work to be done in My vineyard, there are many fallow fields, human hearts, which shall be made receptive for the pure seed, for the Gospel which originates from Me and which shall lead people back to Me. So anyone who spreads My Gospel, who enlightens people and enables them to accept My Word, who instils love in their hearts and thus makes them receptive for Me Myself, is My labourer and serves Me well and He will already be blessed on Earth and, one day, in the spiritual kingdom, for he helps to save many souls from eternal death. He spreads light and thereby illuminates the path to Me, the path to eternal life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Sacrificing time for God and spiritual work ....

B.D. 4829 from February 4th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

Offer Me your time, remember that it is I Who gives it to you and Who demands of you that you not only remember the world but also Him. Anyone who wants to serve Me must be willing to sacrifice everything for Me, and thus he must also always be ready for Me, i.e. he must want to be active as My servant for Me at all times if I require his services. Thus he has to put everything else aside when it concerns working for Me, when he feels that I want to speak to him or send people in his way to whom I want to make Myself known. Before every work for the world, before every earthly activity, he should direct his thoughts towards Me, and if his striving towards Me is serious then he feels the inner urge within himself for a work which is My will to accomplish. But he must want to hear My instructions, he must come to Me before every earthly activity so that I will bless it for him. If I now require him to do work for Me and My kingdom, then I instruct him to do it and he willingly complies with this instruction, i.e. he does what he feels inwardly urged to do. Thus the first condition is that a person wants to serve Me. Anyone who claims a lack of time has no serious will to work for Me, for he will always find time for what makes him happy if he seriously wants it. Anyone who desires to hear Me must not be deprived of this gift of grace, and as soon as I recognize his desire for My word I will always find ways and means to express Myself to him .... I give him the time as soon as I recognize his serious desire for dialogue with Me. The people of the world cannot and will not understand that I am lord over time and that I distribute it as I will .... that I can shorten or lengthen time, that I can make the human being efficient, but also that I let time pass uselessly through obstacles or the failure of all work if it is My will. How can you humans then complain about a lack of time if you shorten it yourselves because you don't invoke My blessing? What you sacrifice to Me I give back to you a hundredfold, and again and again I tell you that I spiritually and earthly bless every sacrifice that is brought to Me by blessing its work and it will truly achieve more and also gather spiritual treasures which are inaccessible to the only earthly creator. But anyone who only sees the world, who only devotes all his strength and time to it, will only have achieved little in the end, for he will lose what he possesses on earth and nothing can replace the lost time which he certainly believes to have used, which is why he withheld it from Me and acquired nothing for eternity ....

Amen

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Battle between light and darkness ....

B.D. 4830 from February 5th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

A constant battle rages between light and darkness, and there is not a being on earth which does not feel this battle, for no being is free but oppressed by some force which it has to defend itself against. The human being feels this struggle the most because he becomes aware that he is in bondage, because what he strives for is something other than what he experiences. Only, as a human being, he can also kill this consciousness, or he can strive for the same thing, which grants him life .... Then he stands on the side of the power of darkness, for the power of light grants something other than what earthly life gives. Man must fight against the earthly because it belongs to the kingdom of darkness; man must fight for the kingdom of light, he must stand on the side of the power which is light itself. The struggle between light and darkness is therefore synonymous with the struggle of the spiritual from the depths to the height, it is synonymous with the overcoming of earthly matter on the part of man in order to attain spiritual good .... Furthermore, it is synonymous with the transformation of the being, which is initially full of urges and desires, into love with all its virtues. It means, as it were, the transformation of the spiritual being, which acknowledged the adversary of God as lord and now detaches itself from him in order to belong to God .... It therefore means that God Himself confronts His adversary in order to wrest from him the spiritual which the latter wants to appropriate illegally .... And the light will be victorious .... God will conquer His adversary, with His help He will assist all spiritual beings so that they will release themselves from his control, He and with Him all spiritual beings full of light will stand on the side of the helpless spiritual beings enslaved by God's adversary in order to redeem them .... The power of God and of light alone would suffice to render the adversary harmless and to lead the spiritual substance to the light, yet the adversary's free will stands in opposition to this, and therefore a battle must be waged, not in order to break the will but in order to change it .... But such a battle can only be won through love .... otherwise it would have ended long ago with success. Yet this battle between light and darkness is not decided by power but only by love, which must be so strong that it bends the will, that the will allows itself to be defeated by love. Love wrests from the adversary what he holds bound, love is the weapon of battle that the adversary is no match for .... Love is God Himself to Whom he must submit. Where love is weak God's adversary has the upper hand, darkness rages there and seeks to displace the light. Earthly life is a path through dark territory which has to be illuminated by the human being himself, who has to shape himself into love in order to chase away the darkness around him. He himself must lead the battle against darkness, against everything that is part of God's adversary as being connected to earth. He must let love flare up in him, and since this signifies the presence of God Himself, he will pass every battle against darkness victoriously .... The human being himself brings the battle of light against darkness to an end, yet only ever with the help of God and the beings of light, whom he makes his fellow combatants through love, who win every battle against the darkness ....

Amen

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Professing Jesus before the world .... Voicing the name of Jesus ....

B.D. 4831 from February 6th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

Profess Me and don't hesitate to frankly mention My name when your attitude regarding your faith and Me is demanded of you. For your heartfelt avowal draws Me Myself to your side and all fear will leave you, you will speak candidly and without inhibition about matters of faith, about My teaching, about My working in you and on your behalf and also about the future. Then you will pull down a wall, a wall of silence, behind which much can be concealed and which is therefore suitable for covering-up the truth. Speak fearlessly wherever it may be, for I Myself will take you to where you will be asked to profess Me. Not much more time will pass until you, who still believe in a God, in life after death, will be mocked by the world, for increasingly more worldly people fall away and everything that is neither visible nor tangible is unreal to them. These worldly people will develop an open enmity towards the believers who, as a constant target, can barely protect themselves against the animosities. Nevertheless, it should not make you fearful, it must happen like this because the time is fulfilled when a separation between My Own and the supporters of My adversary takes place, who aims to stifle all faith in Me and by whom they are enslaved. You should know that I Myself Am with you, both in spirit as well as visibly, where necessary .... Know, that you are far stronger than they are, even if there are more of them. For as long as I fight by your side no-one will ever be able to defeat you. Yet you must openly and confidently stand up for Me, so that the enemy will recognise Who provides you with strength, because it will be obvious that you receive exceptional help. Simply voice My name with complete faith if you are being pressured, confront your assailants with My name, call upon Me with your heart and mouth and fear no earthly power .... and I will provide strength to all those of good will, to all who want to be My Own, as I have promised. In the name of your divine Redeemer you possess a weapon which truly cannot be surpassed, because all My love belongs to every person who manages to find faith in Me during the last days .... And anyone who professes Me before the world also proves his unwavering faith to Me and I will take particular care of him. Soon you will be forced to confirm or reject Me, then don't fear the worldly power, instead, merely remember My Words: Whosoever therefore shall profess Me before men, him I will also profess before My Father .... You will be forced to make a decision for Jesus Christ or against Him. Then gladly profess Him before the world, for you can only reach Me through Jesus, only through faith in His act of Salvation and His help can you come close to Me, the Father, Whose love wants to unite itself with everyone as it united with Jesus, Who redeemed the world from sin on account of His infinite love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Testing the power of faith .... miracle healings ....

B.D. 4832 from February 7th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

You must test the strength of faith so that you can also represent the truth of My word to the world. As soon as you have living faith yourselves, as soon as you know that I hear every prayer which is sent up to Me in complete trust, you can ask Me for whatever you want; your faith itself guarantees you fulfilment. Only the request must arise from a loving heart, thus what you ask for must serve your neighbour's well-being, it must be based on love for him and never arise from self-love. Put every test of faith to the test .... Where your help is needed, grant it, and what you are unable to do with your own strength, bring it to Me and request the necessary strength for it. Know that I will never withhold it from you if only you believe and want to work with love. Pure, unselfish love must prompt you to help me, then you will be full of strength and no longer doubt the success of what would otherwise be impossible for you as a mere human being. Every doubt, every timidity, every inhibition is the result of too weak faith. Then I cannot fulfil your prayer, otherwise I would be unfaithful to Myself, Who made the fulfilment dependent on a strong faith. The strength should come from yourselves so that your fellow human beings will recognize what a strong faith is capable of. Faith can move mountains .... But such faith is no longer to be found amongst you humans, and therefore these words seem like a figure of speech to you. But you can put yourselves to the test at any time if only you let Me be present in you through love, which then also makes your faith strong and unshakeable through its strength. If you feel Me Myself within you, not the slightest doubt of success will befall you, and then you will work with Me and nothing can fail you. Then every deed will certainly be considered a miracle in the eyes of the world, yet it is only the natural result of an intimate union with Me, Who now also makes you recipients of strength to an unlimited extent. Believe and put your faith to the test and prove to your fellow human beings the power of faith .... not in order to work miracles but in merciful neighbourly love you should use this strength of faith which truly lets you be powerful, because it is I Whom you now cause to express strength and Who will never ever let a strong faith fail. People will approach you asking for help, don't refuse their requests, help them by laying your hands on them in My name. By doing so, also help them to firmly believe and teach them that faith only comes alive through love. I place great hope in you, My disciples of the end time, to still win souls which find their way back to faith for the sake of the faith you possess and which proves My existence to them. Help these souls, for you are able to do so if only you intimately unite with Me in order to receive strength from Me which enables you to achieve every feat .... Try out the strength of faith yourselves and you will be able to work for the blessing of your fellow human beings for Me and My kingdom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Voice of conscience .... commandment of love .... knowledge ....

B.D. 4833 from February 8th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

I will provide you with what you need on earth to reach the aim in the richest measure so that the maturing of your soul will not be impossible for you. But I have also known for eternity the measure of grace needed for each individual .... I therefore also know which means are useful to him and how he adapts to them. Hence also the different fates of life, but they are all paths to the aim, to the final perfection, if the human being treads them and strives upwards. Life on earth consists for each one in a different activity, which brings him success or failure. The most diverse occupations produce striving people who are intent on earthly success, who therefore also make different demands on life according to their successes, which, however, are mostly for the well-being of the body. However, this earthly striving does not result in spiritual advancement, which is why this is completely independent of a person's living conditions and ability. Only a way of life according to My will is necessary in order to progress spiritually, and every person can lead this way of life, whether poor or rich, whether high or low, whether young or old, whether clever or limited in his knowledge. I have placed a reminder in people's hearts so that everyone also knows by himself what is good or evil, because he knows exactly how every action affects himself. Whoever heeds this admonisher, whoever listens to the voice of his conscience, will also take the right path that leads to the aim. But the voice of conscience is first formed through education, through teachings, through receiving My word, in short, through knowledge which is imparted to each one of you through the gospel which is proclaimed to you through word and scripture. This gospel makes My will known to you, which is summarized in one commandment: Love God above all things and your neighbour as yourself. Whoever fulfils this commandment lives in My order and his spiritual ascent is certain. He can also be without deeper knowledge, yet his soul will mature from .... But he can also receive knowledge from Me .... People are considered according to how they want to utilize the grace they receive .... He who wants to hand out much will receive much; but he who only lives for himself, yet this in My eternal order, will also be able to be ignorant on earth, yet he will not be empty of spiritual possessions, for he will stand in brightest light, thus he will be knowledgeable and powerful as soon as he discards his physical cover. To become perfect on earth does not require special knowledge but only the will to unselfish neighbourly love, and this can be mustered by every person who strives for more, who listens to the admonisher in his heart, who fulfils My will because he feels that he is only pleasing to Me if he is good to his fellow human beings of his own accord, if he shows Me and his neighbour the love I demand of him and therefore have given people the commandment of love as the most important commandment ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The right, lawful marriage before God ....

B.D. 4834 from February 10th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

Marital togetherness absolutely necessitates God’s blessing otherwise the marriage may well be lawful on earth but not in heaven. Anyone joining together on earth without believing in the Creator and Provider of all things, in the God and Father of eternity, will not be able to claim God’s blessing. He does not acknowledge God, and thus God will not acknowledge a bond either, even though it was legally joined on earth, i.e. all required formalities for a marriage ceremony were complied with. Only when both step before God with the plea to bless their bond, when both acknowledge God as their Lord, to Whom they will be striving in love, can they be assured of His blessing, for God is present where He is desired. He is effectively witness to a marriage which is based on love for one another .... And thus it is quite understandable that only few marriages are able to make the claim to be joined before God, since not even a ceremony in church will replace the fulfilment of God’s required terms. Because a church ceremony can also be performed by people who marry without love for the sake of earthly advantages, which will not ever be blessed by God.

Marriage is a sacred institution which was set up by God for the procreation of the human race as well as for the mutual maturing of souls who are attracted to each other by love. However, marriage should not be seen as a businesslike union which is to be entered into only to indulge in sensuality or to attain earthly advantages. Marriage is not a state which can be arbitrarily finished or changed either. Anyone who is lawfully joined before God, i.e. who had begged for God’s blessing with mutually agreeing will, remains eternally joined before God and can only be detached by death and experience a temporary separation. But for the most part such marriage partners also unite with each other in the spiritual kingdom and jointly strive towards ascent. The unification of spiritually like-minded souls on earth as well as in the beyond is the greatest joy and goal, and anyone having joined together through love will remain joined for all eternity. But there are only few such right, lawful marriages before God .... And for this reason profound happiness and spiritual agreement is rarely to be found on earth, because due to their sensuality people do not attach any importance to it but are content with purely physical sympathy which, however, can never be called deep love and will never last either. Only those who sincerely request God’s blessing will enter into a right, lawful marriage before God, and they will live in harmony of souls until their physical death and also in eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Essential Deity ....

B.D. 4835 from February 12th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

You humans certainly try to imagine Me as the most perfect eing, as the greatest spirit of infinity, yet you will never be able to fathom My being as a human being on earth. You only know limited things because you yourselves are imperfect beings which are bound to a form, and therefore you also imagine the highest entity as a form, albeit to a different extent, luminous and powerful .... You cannot imagine that there is no limit for Me, that I fill the whole universe and yet I am a being .... And what you cannot imagine you do not want to accept as truth. I fill the entire universe with strength which, however, has to have an entity as its original source, because strength works in a constructional way, thus it is applied in the recognition of its effect for the emergence and maintenance of all creation, whether spiritually or earthly visible. All power must therefore be wisely directed, otherwise it would unfold elementally and cause the greatest harm. Thus the original source of strength must be a thinking entity whose wisdom knows every effect and therefore assigns its purpose to every work of creation, which cannot be expected from a strength alone. You must believe in this entity in Me, otherwise I cannot speak to you because you do not listen to My voice. My love for you humans is infinitely great and I would like to reveal Myself to you in My entire nature, yet you would not be able to grasp it and therefore you will only ever have to recognize Me in a veiled form and believe that a being wants to make Itself known to you if only you always wanted to, but you cannot accept this from a force. If you speak to Me as beings on earth, the most powerful being in the universe will also incline towards you .... It hears you and gives you an answer .... Like you it has intellect and free will, only to a degree you cannot imagine. However, I don't need a form in order to shelter My strength, yet for your sake I took on the form which is conceivable to you as the human being Jesus Christ, because My whole creation has the same form and thus I sheltered the whole fullness of My divinity in this human form, just as the whole of creation also shelters Me, thus I am everywhere because I am an unlimited being Which can be everywhere and also works everywhere. Yet only one being can draw close to you and only one being can fulfil what you request .... You can only strive for a being as a being Itself due to Its perfection, whereas striving for a strength from you would be absurd and eliminate all assistance on My part. For I only consider people where I am called upon as the highest being, otherwise they would not have the right faith in Me and thus could not expect help from Me either. You will never be able to fathom My nature as long as you live on earth, yet you must believe in an essential deity, for only through this faith can you also penetrate this mystery, even if only in the state of perfection, but which you can only attain with My support, which you must request, which therefore irrevocably includes faith in Me as an entity and therefore you can only become blissfully happy through this faith ....

Amen

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Spiritual death - new banishment in matter ....

B.D. 4836 from February 12th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

It is truly better for you to endure bodily death than to fall prey to spiritual death at the end, from which there is only an awakening after an infinitely long time. You can exchange physical life with a life in the spiritual kingdom, and even if you have not yet reached the degree of light you are still given the opportunity to enter the kingdom of light from darkness, whereas spiritual death means that you are deprived of every possibility to still mature in another world. To fall prey to spiritual death means a new banishment into solid matter, a return to the state which was your fate eternities ago and which you had long since overcome when you were allowed to embody yourselves as a human being on earth. Let your earthly life be taken from you and don't be afraid, for it is only the body which your enemies can kill, but the soul remains alive because it is something spiritual which people cannot kill, especially if people want to kill you because you believe and don't want to surrender your faith. Then all fear shall fall away from you, then you should only consider that He, Who gave you life, is lord over life and death .... that He therefore will not let anything happen to you other than what is good for your soul. Anyone who loses his life for the sake of faith can calmly give it up, for his soul will be taken into the kingdom of light where it will live eternally in bliss. But woe to those who try to preserve their lives and deny God .... A short time is still granted to them where they pay homage to the world and prove their allegiance to satan. But then death will irrevocably befall them in two ways .... they lose their physical life and are doomed to spiritual death, which is the most bitter fate you humans cannot imagine .... But you will constantly receive warnings and admonitions, you will be made aware of the end, you will be made aware of God's working in an unusual way. The responsibility towards your soul will be held up to you, you will be made suspicious by world events by seeing the decay of earthly goods, thus the transience of matter, and in the end you will still experience things which God, in His overwhelming love and mercy, will make you aware of in order to still change you in the last hour .... But irrevocably the end comes and with it the fulfilment of what is announced to you. Make sure that your souls live, do not let them fall prey to spiritual death, from which there is no salvation for an infinitely long time ....

Amen

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Retribution - Atonement .... Eternal Order .... Forgiveness through Christ ....

B.D. 4837 from February 14th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

Retribution exists on this earth for all deeds, both good and bad, you cannot sin with impunity, just as you can't do something good without being rewarded, yet neither fear of punishment nor the expectation of reward should determine whether you perform an evil deed or a good one. Pure love for your neighbour should prevent you from harming him, instead you should help him, hence be willing to be of service to him, you should do good for the sake of it and abhor evil because it is evil. Thus is My will and corresponds to My eternal order; it is the law of the spiritual and therefore also the earthly kingdom to live in My eternal order so as to be happy, and anyone who revokes this law of order is in a wretched state and will be judged accordingly, that is, he will join those spiritual beings which oppose My will, thus likewise disregard My order. The being will be able to realise its wrong there, if it wants to, and likewise have the opportunity to make up for it. Yet this requires an extraordinarily strong will as soon as the being has departed from earth, whereas on earth it can much more easily realise as well as make

Amends for its wrong doing .... Nevertheless, according to divine justice every wrong doing must be atoned for, and you humans should consider this as long as you live on earth. This is why love is constantly preached to you, this is why the Gospel, the teaching of Christ, is made accessible to you, so that you will reconsider, recognise your wrong doing and make an effort to make

Amends through good deeds, so that you make an effort to live a life of love, which is and forever remains the law of My eternal order. There is retribution, and you can consider yourselves fortunate if you are already allowed to make

Amends on earth, for it is extremely difficult in the beyond to dispose of your guilt, so difficult, that you will need an incomprehensibly long time for it, while on earth you may take refuge in the One Who died on behalf of your guilt of sin .... Yet this always requires the realisation of your guilt and the will to dispose of it through a righteous atonement or through the help of Jesus Christ, Whom you must call upon for forgiveness of your guilt, but this necessitates that you despise it yourselves and have the firm will to become better and to enter My law of eternal order .... to live a life of love according to My will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Reference to great adversity .... Battle of faith .... Admonition ....

B.D. 4838 from February 14th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

Not much more time is given to you .... you should know this and live the short time consciously so that it will still be a time of grace for you during which you can prepare yourselves and gather strength for the forthcoming event which will require all your strength. Don't let yourselves be deceived by the apparent calm and state of peace, for this will change overnight and the conduct of people at whose mercy you are will petrify you. You will not want to believe that the past hardship repeats itself so soon and follow the events in the world with horror; yet believe that you will only be helped if you turn to the One Who is Lord over everything, Who can protect you even from the greatest danger and to Whom you must entrust yourselves if you want to endure the coming time and remain steadfast in the battle which you must fight for the sake of your soul's salvation. You can still gain much if you make use of the period of rest in order to reinforce your faith, to accept God's Word and to accumulate spiritual wealth .... yet sooner than you think great adversity will threaten to overcome you if you don't appeal for strength from above, which requires strong faith from you in order to be able to pray in spirit and in truth. The opportunity to be able to enter into contact with God exists for you at all times, and you should use it before it is too late, for once you get into difficulties you will hardly be able to think straight. This is why you should turn your eyes upwards now and call upon the One Who hears you in every adversity and who wants to and can help you if only you turn to Him with complete trust. Be seriously admonished not to forget about Him so that He will not forget you when you need Him and depend on His help. There is only a little time left, therefore make use of it and gather strength, which God imparts to you through His Word ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's revelation through His creation ....

B.D. 4839 from February 15th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

God's clearest language is His work of creation, which bears witness to Him, His love, His wisdom and His power to an unusual degree. Every work is the expression of His love, which is meant for His creatures on the verge of perfection, through which He wants to make Himself known to them. He speaks to His creatures through all His works, He speaks a language which is so powerful that it should be understood by all people if they do not close themselves off to His revelations, which are His works for them. Where wisdom, love and power are expressed, one must speak of a revelation of a being Who is supremely perfect and proves His perfection through His revelations. Creation is the greatest revelation of God, which can no longer be surpassed. Nevertheless, there are people who blindly pass by everything that surrounds them; who also pay no further attention to the miracles of creation and to whom these give no cause for reflection, who therefore do not want to or cannot recognize the creator of all things. God reveals Himself to them in another way in order to help them recognize Himself. He comes closer to them through the fate of life, which clearly shows the intervention of a higher power, but only if the human being wants to recognize. All revelations of God are incomprehensible to the unwilling, the unwilling person is blind and deaf and hears nothing, no matter how clearly it comes to light. He is still inaccessible even if God Himself approaches him through His word, through the greatest evidence of His love for people, which causes Him to express Himself audibly to them. And His word testifies to Himself, His word is the sign of direct contact between God and people who want to accept His word .... His word is the direct revelation of Himself, for only a being Which exists can express Itself such that It is audible; only a being Which wants to be recognized makes Itself known through the word and thereby demonstrates both Its essentiality and the degree of Its perfection ....

(16.2.1950) He comes close to people in such a way that they can recognize their own descent, that they must feel that it is the same being as themselves, only in a degree of perfection which they lack and which is their earthly aim to achieve. He reveals Himself to His creatures .... He speaks to them in various ways but only ever because He wants to be recognized by them as the father of the universe, as the creator and sustainer of all beings and also of matter. He shows Himself to them as the creator of the imperishable as well as the transient and wants to give them the proof that they themselves are imperishable as beings and that they can therefore be true children of their father if they assimilate themselves to Him, also in their essentiality. He reveals Himself to them .... His language is understandable to all if only the will exists to understand Him, His language is full of love and wisdom, whether directly through His word or through His creation, which came into being through His will, His omnipotence. It is a language that no human being can speak, for it is unsurpassable. People can only take note of it and through acknowledgement make themselves worthy of His love; they can hear His word and thereby put themselves in a position to conform to His nature. Then they, too, will bear witness to the fact that they are children of God, then they will have respected His language and increased in knowledge .... in wisdom and love .... Then the revelations of God will have become a blessing for people and will have fulfilled their purpose ....

Amen

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Ecclesiastical commandments ....

B.D. 4840 from February 16th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

You will not receive any special instructions from Me as to what kind of attitude you should adopt towards the humanly decreed commandments of the church. Whatever you do of your own free will is valued by Me, whatever you do under duress, be it for fear of punishment or even due to habit, means nothing to Me. Whatever people tell you to do shall also be rewarded by people, people shall never be assured of receiving a reward from Me which I Myself have never promised. Even so, I cannot sanction something that utterly opposes My will, because I gave people freedom of will which, however, is infringed upon by humanly decreed commandment, for a commandment is an obligation which excludes the use of free will. I Myself gave people only one commandment, the commandment of love which is fundamental law and must be observed so as not to violate My eternal order .... However, the commandment of love is nevertheless a commandment which allows people's freedom of will. There is no compulsion urging him to be lovingly active, and neither will he be punished by Me, it is just that he will punish himself because he pays no attention to the only means which signifies redemption for him from a self-inflicted state of constraint. I gave people the commandment of love which can be voluntarily complied with or rejected .... People issued additional commandments which do not meet My approval, for they are not borne by love for fellow human beings but are mere measures to increase power, because the affiliation to an organisation, which lays claim to be the true church of Christ, is made dependent on the fulfilment of these laws. Hence it places people under compulsion who, in the belief of committing a sin, will subsequently fulfil these commandments and thus direct their whole attention to them .... and neglect My commandment of love ....

Love can only grow in freedom. Love and coercion oppose each other, and therefore I cannot recognise in the fulfilment of the ecclesiastical commandments any love for Me as long as they have been traditionally complied with, effectively as avowal of the authority which decreed these commandments. Besides, these commandments are not suitable to ignite love for Me because they portray Me as a Being which is afflicted by human weaknesses, demanding obedience, reverence and acknowledgement when, in fact, I only want to be loved. Before My eyes nothing is a sin but that which offends against love for Me and other people. No-one will ever acquire merit who complies with the commandments of the church just because they are commandments which should be fulfilled .... Free will shall choose Me on account of love, and this is why people don't need any other commandments but the one I Myself gave to them in realisation of the blessing which arises for every person from fulfilling it.

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Disbelief towards the truth bearers ....

B.D. 4841 from February 17th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

The bearers of truth and representatives of My word on earth will not succeed in convincing people of the truth of what they have received directly from Me through the inner voice. And the process of receiving My word from above is unknown to people, they know neither the cause nor the purpose of this impartation, they are too distant from Me Myself that they have no living faith and therefore consider something impossible, but which is only extraordinary because they are not in the relationship with Me as it should be, and the people who have entered into this relationship are very rare. Hence they are confronted by something entirely alien, they lack the knowledge of the working of the spirit in the human being and reject every explanation about it .... They are unbelievers and call themselves believers. Only a few will be open-minded, and for the sake of these few you should speak and represent the truth wherever possible. Anyone who accepts it will be greatly blessed, anyone who rejects it will one day bitterly regret it, for salvation was close to him but his will is wrong and, since he is free, the truth cannot be conveyed to him in any other way. Nevertheless, you must not become weary, you must not allow yourselves to be distracted if you have little success. As bearers of truth you will know yourselves what people lack and that they cannot be won over in any other way than through instruction. As bearers of truth you will also recognize the attitude of the individual, you will know the degree of maturity and make corresponding efforts or slacken your efforts where you are not accepted. In the last days you will wrestle for every soul, your eyes will be sharpened and you will seize every opportunity to help a lost soul onto the right path, and even if it is only a few that you lead to Me, these few will be saved, they will escape eternal ruin, i.e. they will be spared the infinitely long time of a renewed path through creation. And these souls will thank you eternally. Therefore, be faithful labourers for Me in My vineyard, be eager representatives for Me on earth, because I need every one of you in the last time before the end ....

Amen

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True disciples .... Working of the spirit .... ‘Why’ misguided teachings ....

B.D. 4842 from February 18th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

My disciples were enlightened by My spirit and therefore taught correctly. When they preached for Me and My kingdom they could not utter anything but the words I put into their mouths, the words that My spirit revealed to them. And they taught the same as I Myself had preached to people on earth; they instructed them in My name, they spoke on My behalf, and thus they proclaimed to people the true Gospel in accordance with My will. And their true followers will always be those who are likewise enlightened by My spirit, for only they will speak the truth, only they will be My true representatives on earth. However, anyone who is not enlightened by My spirit yet preaches all the same will not uphold the pure truth, because a person in whom My spirit cannot express itself will distort the truth, he will interpret My previously spoken Word incorrectly, he will teach errors even though he has acquired knowledge through study and deems himself capable of instructing other people as a teacher.

The simplest explanation for it is this: Where My spirit cannot work My adversary’s spirit is at work, and he works in a truly truth-destroying manner .... This explains the ease with which My pure teaching can be spoilt and then be offered to people in the form of a distorted representation. To understand the spiritual meaning of My spoken Word as I want it understood requires the working of My spirit within the person, it requires enlightenment of thought, and this in turn requires a way of life in accordance with My will. Nevertheless, the latter does not consist of fulfilling commandments decreed by a church but solely of fulfilling My commandments, the commandments of love for God and other people. A life of love results in the person becoming a vessel for My spirit, and only such a person is enabled to instruct other people, only he knows the spiritual meaning of My every Word .... And this knowledge is absolutely essential in order to recognise the blatant error into which people have turned My Word. This knowledge, which My spirit gives to a person who wants to serve Me, entitles him to teach, and after that every instruction is again aided by My spirit .... Anyone working for Me will not utter anything but My will, because I want people to be told the truth ....

But the spirit of falsehood dominates people because My spirit, the mediator of truth, can no longer express itself in those who believe themselves to be My disciples’ successors, those who are holding the ministry but who have no contact with the giver of truth themselves. Although they interpret My Word they do not know the spiritual meaning of My Word at all, they teach what they were taught by the fathers. They thoughtlessly accepted these teachings and unreservedly passed them on, without thinking that sooner or later they will have to answer for every word. Being spiritually blind themselves they are blind leaders of their fellow human beings, instead of guiding them into truth they turn them away from it. I have never preached on earth what they claim to be Christ’s teaching, because they only observe the letter and do not understand the true meaning, since My spirit cannot enlighten them. Believing to possess it, they do not search for truth, thus they do not seek Me and therefore I cannot guide them into truth. For if they sought Me they would live within love and then recognise Me, because I reveal Myself to everyone who believes in Me and keeps My commandments. Anyone who wants to be My disciple has to follow Me as My apostles did, he has to live a life of selfless love for his neighbour, awakening his spirit within him so that he unites with Me through love and subsequently can be taught by Me Myself, as it is written ‘You all shall be taught by God ....’ My spirit will guide him into truth and only then can he be My representative on earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Swirl of the world .... (Rose Monday)

B.D. 4843 from February 20th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

In the hustle and bustle of the world, people stifle any drive to reach higher. It is like a poisonous breath that makes human hearts incapable of spiritual striving. No seed can sprout, it withers before it develops, because it is sickened by the pestilential breath of the world. Understand that you humans are in great danger of losing yourselves to the enemy of your soul, understand that he uses all means to stop your growth towards the light, that he spreads poison to destroy the good seed. Understand that the pleasures of the world are the poison to which your soul falls hopelessly prey. In the frenzy of pleasure you seek your happiness, and you plunge your soul into misfortune. You pay tribute to the lord of the world and you sell your soul, for you desire his treasures and only seek fulfilment of bodily desires and cravings. And he does not deny it to you, he gives abundantly, but he also demands everything in return, he wins you completely. For the sake of trifling rewards you give yourselves into his hands. Hours of exuberant joy of life are enough for you, and for this you sacrifice eternal times in bliss .... You have become slaves to him who drags you into ruin. If you were to remember Me you would not be able to enjoy the goings-on, you would turn away from the poisonous breath so that it could not touch you; you would recognize that the world is your enemy because it is part of My adversary. But your thoughts no longer find their way to Me, they are chained to earth, they only revolve around the lust of the world, around sin, which you try to conceal and yet love. You can well deceive yourselves but not Me, Who sees into your hearts. I do not condemn you, but you distance yourselves from Me, for there is no love in you apart from self-love, which pulls you down but cannot lift you up. For if you had love you would not be far from Me but would seek Me in all your ways. Then the world would not be able to tempt you, then My adversary would have lost his power over you, then you would not follow the temptations of the world. For through love you would also stand in knowledge. But it is dark in you and you only chase after the false light. You seek joys and find death in the process .... For once the enemy of souls has won him over he will not give him up again, and breaking away from him requires great strength of love which, however, can rarely still be developed by a person who once falls prey to him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Purification of the teaching of Christ ....

B.D. 4844 from February 21st 1950, taken from Book No. 55

A purification of the teaching, which is spread on earth as Christ's teaching, must first take place if a unification of christian denominations is to come about, for the core of every community of faith must always be the teaching which I Myself proclaimed on earth. But as long as this teaching is so deformed it can never shape people who are members of the church founded by Me. For this requires a deep, living faith which, however, cannot possibly be gained through a deformed teaching. What a person should believe with conviction must also stand up to serious scrutiny, i.e. the human being's intellect must be involved in the examination, and the intellect must also be able to recognize what is demanded to be believed as proving the nature of God. He must be able to believe it because it gives him an image of Me which corresponds to the truth, because it allows Me to be recognized as the God of love, wisdom and omnipotence. Such a teaching will not give rise to doubts or disputes but always unite people as brothers, whereas every educated teaching gives rise to divisions which can only be remedied again when the former is purified, that is, when those come together who possess My teaching again in its purest form, who seriously endeavour to live according to this teaching and convey it to their fellow human beings in the same purity. There is only one truth, and I Myself conveyed it on earth to people who listened to Me and believed in Me. Anyone who was pure of heart recognized it as truth and remained faithful to it. But anyone who exalted himself, who disregarded humility, who was devoid of all love, did not hold the truth sacred and changed it to his advantage. And thus My teaching did not remain what it originally was and could no longer bring blessings to people because they no longer recognized Me correctly, because they had fallen into wrong thinking due to the misguided teachings. And since everyone again believed himself to be in the truth, the divisions and different schools of thought arose which all claim to be the church founded by Me ....

(23.2.1950) Again and again they split off, again and again new organizations arise, the human being's intellect ponders more and more where only the working of My spirit can bring enlightenment. Individuals certainly come closer to the truth again, but they are opposed by those who represent their spiritual knowledge and yet are far removed from the truth. But the masses will never stand in the truth, because this is only the prerogative of those who seriously strive towards Me, and this is not the case with most people. It is only a few whose spirit is enlightened, although it is everyone's right to put themselves into this state, for the gift of grace to stand in truth is not denied to anyone by Me. And thus it will also never be possible to form an organization which unites all people and yet can claim to be the church founded by Me. Every existing organization has members of My church, these are the people whose faith is profound and alive through a way of life in love, who seriously strive to attain Me and eagerly strive for the truth .... They will also realize where the spiritual knowledge imparted to them contains misguided teachings, they will free themselves from them and only regard as My pure teaching what their heart unhesitatingly accepts. In order to confirm their thinking I will send the pure truth down to earth again, as happens again and again when people are no longer able to interpret My word correctly, when they have entangled themselves in misguided teachings and alone are unable to find out what is truth and what is error. I am again amongst people in spirit and give them My word, which My apostles also heard after My ascension into heaven through the inner word. Anyone who has this word of Mine, who receives it directly from Me, i.e. who hears My voice within himself mentally or in sound, who believes these direct recipients of Mine and also accepts the word as pure truth and now stands up for it, regardless of which denomination he belongs to, who teaches his fellow human beings about it in love, contributes his share, unification of ecclesiastical denominations, for in this sole truth all will find themselves who are of serious and good will, who place My church above all else, which I Myself founded, and who see no obstacle in the individual denominations to be members of the true church of Christ, which cannot be overwhelmed by the gates of hell, as I Myself have promised ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Composition of the soul .... Miniature creation ....

B.D. 4845 from February 24th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

The human being´s soul is a formation consisting of inconceivably numerous miniature creations. It is effectively a composition of creations which were its past embodiments, so that it can be called the whole work of God´s creation Who demonstrated His infinite love, wisdom and omnipotence in the human soul. The human being has no idea that he shelters the entire creation in his soul, but when, after the death of his body, he is able to behold himself in the spiritual kingdom he will look with utmost reverence and love for God upon the works of wonder he finds within himself again. The soul substance of every embodiment during this process of development is gathered, and thus the individual substances of the human soul have moved through the whole of creation and now exhibit an incredible versatility. Only then will it become obvious how magnificent God’s works of creation are, and His greatness, His love, wisdom and omnipotence will emerge so distinctly that all living creations remain poised in reverence and love for God Who provides such immeasurable happiness to His living creations through becoming aware of His strength and the realization of Himself. However, the soul requires a certain degree of maturity as to be able to behold itself, this is why it is one of the beatitudes belonging to those in the kingdom of light. Beholding the soul is part of Jesus´ promise ‘eye has not seen, nor ear heard, the things which I have prepared for those who love Me ....’ Hence the soul can examine all areas, it can behold what it has never seen before, but which is undeniably present in creation, and it is aware of the fact that these wonders will never end, that constantly new formations emerge and yet it will never tire of beholding these creations, instead it will want to see increasingly more and thus also become increasingly happier. The soul is something imperceptible for human senses and therefore cannot be understood either. For the person on earth it is something spiritual, in the spiritual kingdom, however, it is the essence, it is that which animates the spiritual creations, it is the true living being in the spiritual kingdom because it is permeated by the strength of God. And thus it finds within itself every thought of God again which He shaped into a form through His strength of will. Every work of creation is a manifested thought of God. And so the human soul is an enormous work of creation in miniature .... yet for people on earth it is a doubtful concept, it is something of whose existence they are not entirely convinced and which they can never prove scientifically either. Earthly people consider the soul a nothing or a questionable object, in truth, however, it is the most magnificent creation which gives evidence of God´s love, wisdom and omnipotence, which glorifies Him in the spiritual kingdom, which is everlasting and gives rise to constantly praising God by all those who dwell in the kingdom of light and are blessed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Reference to the approaching time of adversity ....

B.D. 4846 from February 25th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

Listen and believe that you humans are approaching a dreadful time .... It will affect every individual person, although it will be easier for those who carry Me in their hearts, thus, who live their lives looking upwards. This time will be a heavy burden for everyone, for it will result in further adversity which will seem almost too much to bear for you. You will be shocked to the core, for you will experience external and internal adversity so that you shall turn to Me, so that you shall finally find the path to Me, your God and Father of eternity. This is the last means I will use before the end. If this does not help to change those of you who have committed yourselves to the world nothing will be able to save you anymore, then you will be enslaved to My adversary for good and must share his fate .... to be enchained at the end of days .... You only have a little time left until then, and during this short time I will repeatedly approach you in order to save you from ruin, in order to bring you to your senses before it is too late. Take the message I send to you through My servants on earth seriously and adjust your life accordingly, and when you are confronted by the immense adversity remember that it will soon be followed by the end, which I also have announced. Then you should use every day by frequently seeking contact with Me, ignore all earthly matters and pray to Me in spirit and in truth, calling upon Me for grace, which I will truly not deny you. I will grant your prayer, I will shower you with blessings and give you strength and a strong faith so that you will persevere until the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The process of Christ's return .... Ascension ....

B.D. 4847 from February 26th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

My return, My coming at the end of the world, is being doubted by those people whose faith is not entirely firm. And yet, they would be able to recognise the individual phases of the end time and also perceive My presence simply by being observant. 'I will remain with you always until the end of time ....' These Words alone should be sufficient for you to form a correct idea of My return. The fact that I Am not visibly in your midst should therefore allow you to understand the spiritual meaning of My Words. I Am staying with My Own until the end of the world. For, since My ascension to heaven, I have been present to them at all times and everywhere .... For I said: I will remain with you .... Hence I was spiritually always with My Own and will remain with them until the end of time .... However, in those days I informed people of My return, of My coming in the clouds. Consequently, this return should be understood such that people will be able to see Me, just as My disciples saw Me ascend to heaven. Spiritually I Am indeed always with you humans if you prove yourselves worthy of My presence. But I will return bodily, albeit not in My earthly body, yet nevertheless visibly to those to whom I want to return .... But since I announced My return, you humans can also expect it with certainty if you believe My Word and belong to those who will experience the final end. I did not make this promise without reason before My ascension into heaven. I foresaw humanity's spiritual state during the last days, I also saw the tremendous adversity of the believers who want to remain faithful to Me and who will be put under extreme pressure, and I saw their struggle, the most severe battle people will have to fight for the sake of My name .... I saw their will and the great danger of having to stand firm amid devils. For this reason I promised to them My personal help, which I will indeed render when the time has come. I Myself will come to My Own and support them in the last battle. And thus many may be able to behold Me, for I will always be present where the adversity is immense and My Own need Me .... they will see Me as a human being of flesh and blood, yet not born of a woman, instead I will come from above and clothe Myself with a visible form for you, so that you will be able to endure Me .... And everyone beholding Me will be permeated by strength and survive the last battle on earth .... But then I will come in the clouds in order to fetch My Own home into the kingdom of peace. This coming will take place in the same way but in reverse to the order through which My ascension to heaven happened. I will descend to earth in radiant light .... yet enshrouded by clouds in order to be visible to you .... and gather My Own in order to save them from utmost adversity and distress on part of the underworld's demons as well as from the ultimate act of destruction to which everything alive in, on and above the earth will fall prey. However, this coming in the clouds will also only be visible to those who belong to My Own, for My adversary's followers will be unable to see Me. It will be a spiritual return and yet also physically perceptible, but only by those who are spiritually reborn, who have a profound and living faith and therefore also accept both My constant presence until the end of the world as well as My visible return without doubt, because they are taught by their heart, the spiritual spark in the person, and consequently belong to those with whom I will remain until the end of time .... They believe that I will come back and I will not disappoint their faith ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The work of God's servants in the last days ....

B.D. 4848 from February 28th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

You will know when your time has come, when you have to step forward to proclaim My Word to all those who need help. For your heart will tell you, you will feel inwardly urged to speak about My extraordinary working affecting you externally and internally, about My Word and the approaching end, in order to help your fellow human beings who take the wrong paths and therefore believe that they will perish in the earthly adversity. And I will support you in every way .... you will feel that I Am with you Myself when you speak for Me and My kingdom, for My name. You will be very busy because you are happy doing your work and, despite the surrounding adversity, will barely be affected by it. For My working on My servants on earth will be obvious, every person will be able to recognise what blessings the contact with Me entail if he merely opens his eyes and is seriously minded and does not deliberately oppose Me. I want to be your companion wherever you go; I want to guide you to where you are urgently needed. You will only be able to work for a short time and so you should use the time in order to offer God's kingdom to many people. For then a different kind of adversity will follow .... Oppression and brutal measures will be used by the earthly authorities against all those who inwardly carry the faith in Me, the faith in Jesus Christ and His act of Salvation. Then everyone who had previously listened will be able to make a choice, and this decision will come easy to him if he has accepted My Word he received from you in his heart. In that case he can be counted as one of the flock of My Own, he will likewise fight on My behalf, if not openly then nevertheless through professing Me and My name before the world. Much seed must still be sown and steps should be taken so that the field is well prepared to receive the seed. This is why much work must still be done beforehand, for which I will take you into My service and guide you on your paths such that you will also be able to accomplish it if you are willing. I need you and therefore will place you in a position where you can be of service to Me. I will smooth your every path, I will place you where you can successfully work for Me, I will prepare you for your teaching activity and provide you with the strength for it, I will take care of you so that you can devote yourselves to the service of God's kingdom without being burdened by earthly worry. I will speak to you through your heart when the time has come for you to take up your teaching mission. Whatever you do for Me and My kingdom must be done by you of your own free will, and therefore you must enjoy it, that is, you must be so permeated by your task that you, impelled from within, will fulfil it out of love of Me and your neighbour. You must be so permeated by My Word that you also want to pass it on to your fellow human beings and especially when the time of adversity comes, which I have always and forever announced to you. Then people will only be lifted up by My Word and then your time will have come for which I Am preparing you. Then you will feel My directive in your heart and diligently accomplish what I require of you. Then you will be actively involved as My endtime disciples in the redemption of erring souls out of love of Me and your fellow human beings ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Work in the vineyard of the Lord ....

B.D. 4849 from March 1st 1950, taken from Book No. 55

You still have a large field to cultivate, you shall cultivate a field which still lies fallow and needs diligent hands, and work will have to be done which requires all your strength because you no longer have much time left for it. Yet I will bless your work, I will give you a field to cultivate which is well suited to bear good fruit, even though not every seed will sprout. And thus I will lead you to those to whom you shall proclaim My word, in whose hearts you shall scatter the seed so that it will sprout and bear fruit. There are many seeking people on earth and they are like a good field which is pure from weeds and therefore well suited to receive the seed which is My word from above. You will recognize them, you will feel urged to speak to them and also find approval. And if you mention My working to them you will also feel that the seed falls on good soil .... that it will then sprout depends on the will of the recipient himself, it is the work the human being then has to do on himself .... He must expose himself to the invigorating sunlight, that is, he must allow himself to be irradiated by My sun of grace, so that the word will come alive in him and now transform his whole being .... so that My word will flood him with strength and light. You will still have to do a lot of work, for it is barren and desolate far and wide. You must make the hearts of your fellow human beings receptive for My teaching; you must let the living water flow to them, the source of which has been made accessible to you, so that anyone who is thirsty may drink it. Do not let any opportunity pass by to sow My seed, bear in mind that there is not much time left and that much ground still lies fallow which shall be cultivated, and thus work diligently for your lord, to Whom you want to be faithful servants .... Be diligent, fill His scrubbers, for the end is near, when the fruits shall be reaped, which, however, require a good sowing .... And at the time of harvest many reapers are needed. Therefore I accept everyone who offers his services to Me, who works in My vineyard as a faithful servant for Me and My kingdom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

'I will remain with you ....' 'I will send you the Comforter ....'

B.D. 4850 from March 3rd 1950, taken from Book No. 55

I will remain with you always until the end of time .... These Words alone should be enough for you to also believe in My working amongst you as well as being an explanation for all kinds of revelations which emerge as the working of the spirit. Furthermore, the fact that I Am in the midst of My Own was proclaimed by Me with the Words I said to My disciples: 'Where two or three are gathered together in My name, there Am I in the midst of them ....' Thus, the prerequisite for My presence, and therefore also for the working of My spirit, is faith in the power of My name, a confession of Me as the Redeemer of humanity .... Thus you should gather in My name if you want to hear Me Myself in the form of My Word, in the form of revelations from the spiritual kingdom. Each one of My statements is a spiritual revelation which, however, all people could hear through the voice of the spirit as I have promised: 'I will send you the Comforter, the Spirit of truth, which will guide you into all truth and will remind you of Me ....' 'It will remind you of everything I have said to you ....' Hence, through the voice of the spirit you will hear the same Words and you will know that it is I Who is speaking to you, that they are My Words I want to remind you of again. And you will remember Me, for My Words are spirit and life if you hear them through the inner voice. They are not merely empty Words which are only heard by the ear, instead, they penetrate your heart, after all, I Myself Am speaking to your through the voice of the spirit and I use the same Words as during My life on earth, so that you will recognise Me in them. However, you won't recognise My presence by these Words alone .... it is the spiritual meaning concealed within, which can only be grasped by an enlightened spirit, by a person whose way of life allows for the working of the spirit. He understands everything and in turn can instruct people who are still spiritually unawakened. My Word has to be explained to them, otherwise they interpret it literally and subsequently won't be able to recognise either My love or My wisdom, indeed, they frequently only interpret the meaning of the letter and gain little or no spiritual knowledge at all. But I Myself Am among you and want to educate you , and therefore I bless each person who prepares his heart as an abode and accepts Me therein and eagerly listens to what I reveal to him, but he is also a doer of My Word and therefore recognises its spiritual meaning. He will hear Me Myself speak and allow Me to speak to his fellow human beings to whom I want to reveal Myself, so that My promise will come true 'I will remain with you always until the end of time .... I will send you the Comforter, the Spirit of truth, which will guide you into all truth and will remind you of everything I have said to you ....'

Amen

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Old seers and prophets .... pictures .... accordance ....

B.D. 4851 from March 5th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

Worldly people in their ignorance of spiritual things will never be able to fathom what ancient seers and prophets have spoken on My behalf, and therefore only few people will understand the profound spiritual meaning of those prophecies, only few people will know in which time they will be fulfilled. From the beginning of this period of salvation I gave people indications of the end, of the abuses in the time of the end, of the devilish activity and the battle against the believers; I let them see, however, not the natural effect of people's will, which was completely turned away from Me, but the coming events stood before their eyes in pictures which they were unable to interpret themselves and whose meaning was also hidden from the seers themselves. Yet none of the images they saw was without meaning because the seers and prophets were pious people devoted to Me whom I chose to act as warners and admonishers among people of all generations until the end. Anyone who seriously endeavoured to lead a life pleasing to Me also came close to the truth when reflecting on those images; yet it is only possible for an awakened spirit to explain them correctly. I foresaw the time, I knew all grievances from the beginning, I knew the development of people earthly and spiritually, I recognized all shortcomings, the delusion among people, I knew about the stubborn rejection of truth, about the triumph of error, which therefore triumphed for a long time because the prerequisite was given in people's behaviour towards Me, because the majority of them are children of My adversary who take wrong paths and are therefore blind to the truth, while error is accepted and spread by them without hesitation. In the spiritual world such attitudes and the resulting events have an effect as distorted images, as everything spiritual has correspondences, and thus the seers of that time saw the course of events in the last days in such images which truly had to horrify a person whose soul was gentle and who was right with Me as a seer and prophet because of his devotion to God. It was not given to him to interpret his visions and dreams because I wanted what he saw to remain unfounded until the end. But his visions were to be preserved for posterity in order to inspire seeking and striving people to think again and again. And even in the end time there will only be a few who are clairaudient and clairvoyant and well understand the visions of My prophets of old in their realization of people's spiritual low and the nearness of the announced end. I will enlighten their spirit as soon as it is necessary for them to inform their fellow human beings, and if they then speak on My behalf they will also proclaim the pure truth, for they will not speak until they have been instructed to do so, and from that moment on they will clearly recognize the meaning of what is otherwise incomprehensible to their fellow human beings until I Myself lift the veil .... until what ancient seers and prophets have foretold in My will is fulfilled ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Recognizing God and faith not without love ....

B.D. 4852 from March 6th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

You will not profess Me if you live a life without love, because then you will not be able to recognize Me either and you will not stand up for something which is doubtful to yourselves. Love alone enlightens your spirit, love alone enables you to believe in Me. But faith is only to be understood as a firm inner conviction, not words of which the heart knows nothing. Love gives birth to this firm conviction, thus faith without love will not be possible even if My existence is constantly preached to you with eloquent words. But as soon as you live in love I am in you Myself, and then you must also acknowledge Me because you feel Me, even if you are not aware of it. Then your heart will drive you to it, you will desire that I am, and therefore you will also recognize Me because I reveal Myself to those who are united with Me through love. These revelations are of different kinds but the result is always a convinced faith; then you will no longer reject Me but recognize Me and also stand up for Me in front of your fellow human beings, and all this will result in love .... If you do works of love you already make use of My strength, and you cannot deny Whose strength you use. The fundamental substance of My being is love, you, My creatures, are also made of the same substance .... If you are without love you will no longer feel anything of that elemental strength of which I am the source. Thus I am not recognizable to you either, and consequently you are not aware of Me either. Then the teaching of God is only an empty concept for you, without meaning and understanding. Only love gives you the power of realization, you now feel like a product of a powerful force which has to be a being in highest perfection .... A light has been kindled in you through love .... You will recognize and love Me, the light within you will shine ever brighter, you will mature in realization, i.e. receive profound knowledge from Me, you will try to align your nature with Mine, and you will also confess Me before the world, because love makes you strong and believing and only in this faith can you resist all people who want to shake your love for Me. Love unites you with Me and makes you My children, and then you will have achieved the aim set for you for your earthly life as a human being .... you believe in Me and love Me and now unite with Me forever ....

Amen

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Prevalence of sin ....

B.D. 4853 from March 7th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

Sin will prevail and people will live in lust and sin without a sense of responsibility, for satan rules the world and people are in bondage to him. And they willingly follow his whisperings, weakly and without resistance they succumb to his temptations, they fulfil the body's desires and have nothing in abhorrence, sin entices them and thus people sink into their mire. It is coming to an end .... Anyone who pays attention to people's behaviour also knows what hour has struck, that the earth is ripe for destruction and that people forget their purpose of life on earth and thus stand before the abyss. Satan has them completely under his control and they no longer offer him any resistance, they acknowledge him as their lord and do what he demands of them. In sin people will suffocate, in sin they will perish, for in the midst of the enjoyment of life they will find their end, as it is written .... And so I call out to people: One day you will all have to answer for your thoughts and actions and words; you will all be judged according to your will and your works. Do not fall into sin, keep yourselves pure and detest evil, so that sin does not become your ruin, so that it does not drag you into the abyss. Do not dull the admonisher within you, listen to the voice of conscience which warns you against every bad thought and every bad action. Pay attention to its voice and follow it, do not easily ignore sin but remember Him who will judge you one day, who is just and punishes every sin because it demands atonement. Do not let yourselves be tempted by the attractions of the world, and do not fulfil your body's every desire, for it tempts you to sin. Keep yourselves pure and remember that you cannot stand before My eyes if you fall into sin and do not detest it. Free yourselves from satan, who tempts you if you do not resist him. Sin has great power over you and therefore you should beware of it, for you thereby commit yourselves to My adversary and distance yourselves from Me, and this means eternal ruin for you ....

Amen

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Blind guides .... preventing the truth .... arrogance ....

B.D. 4854 from March 9th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

The fact that people are kept in the darkness of the spirit is clearly recognizable by the fact that even the leaders do not seek the light but feel comfortable in the darkness and thus do not strive to bring light to those entrusted to them. They could well do so, just as anyone can stand in the light who only earnestly wants to do so. And so the leaders also have the possibility to awaken the spirit within themselves, which now imparts brightest light to them and chases away the darkness. But free will is needed for this act of awakening the spirit, and this is lacking. And therefore both the blind in spirit as well as their leaders grope in darkness, and the latter are even guilty of neglecting their actual office as teachers if they themselves are not serious enough about the truth and therefore are not able to be a teacher to their fellow human beings. They could very easily acquire the missing knowledge if they would listen to what is required to attain the truth from God. But they remain within the self-created limits of their knowledge, they shut themselves off from every ray of light which would like to penetrate the boundary, they also deny the light bearers entrance and are therefore ignorant through their own fault and yet full of arrogance towards those who stand in knowledge and in truth. The fact that they themselves do not see is their own harm, for one day they will have to answer for the way they behaved against God's grace, Who wanted to help them to the right knowledge. But they increase their guilt by their behaviour towards their fellow human beings, to whom they should serve as guides. They also withhold the truth from them, which they could very well distribute if they themselves had the will for truth. For the firm will also guarantees the supply of truth, because God helps everyone to realization who desires it. People are kept in ignorance and do not release themselves from the power which controls them, they voluntarily bow to the laws against which they have the right and the duty to rebel, because the laws are not given by God but concern His kingdom. There are not earthly measures enacted by earthly legislators which prevent people from recognizing the truth, but laws were enacted as sanctioned by God which prohibit a free search for truth insofar as people are obliged to believe in doctrines under threat of eternal punishments which, however, every thoughtful person would have to reject. This deprives people of their freedom of faith and thus also blocks the path to truth. People remain blind in spirit as long as they respect these laws, which is also made their duty. People are preached obedience to God, to His laws which, however, are not God's laws and therefore God does not demand that obedience which lets people remain in spiritual darkness. For this reason He will again and again try to enlighten people and send bearers of truth into their path, and blessed is he who gives ear to them and sets himself free from those who want to make his will unfree. Blessed is he who seeks to give himself light .... it will become bright in him, the light of knowledge will shine for him, and he will be able to be a right guide for his fellow human beings who likewise carry the desire for truth within themselves and therefore come closer to God than those whose will is bound by blind guides ....

Amen

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The right to teach .... holy office ....

B.D. 4855 from March 11th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

You have been given a sacred office .... to teach people in My stead who willingly listen to you. This office is to be taken seriously, and therefore you cannot be reproached if you try to convey My teaching, which comes from above as purest truth, to your fellow human beings and confront them as opponents, yet not in a hostile way, but as My representatives you try to bring them peace, the pure teaching from Christ, which has to be heard by people if they want to become blessed. Hence you only carry out My will if you try to spread the truth, even if it earns you enmity, even if you are rejected and My teaching is ridiculed. You shall first fulfil My will before people's will is taken into account, especially if people's will is opposed to Mine. If people are in a defensive position you can do little. Nevertheless, every attempt is blessed by Me, after all, it makes the adversary think and can lead to success after a certain time. This office has been given to you and I know about every possibility of success for you .... I guide you along paths which may indeed seem unsuccessful to you, nevertheless you should allow yourselves to be guided without resistance, because often only a single soul sees a light flashing through you which breaks through its state of darkness, and this soul is eternally grateful for it. You have been given the office by Me Myself to administer, and therefore you are first entitled to teach as My representatives on earth. But anyone who has acquired a teaching ministry for himself without being appointed by Me may not dispute your right, after all, he does not possess part of the knowledge which is imparted to you from above, and therefore he is not really suitable for the teaching ministry either, he will not be able to give anything because he does not possess anything himself. And by the degree of knowledge you can test the ability of every individual for the teaching ministry and from this it already follows that whoever wants to teach has to be taught by Me Myself. It follows that such an office cannot be given by people but that I alone determine who is suitable for such an office. Therefore, don't let yourselves be disturbed if you are attacked and your spiritual activity is to be prevented .... I protect My servants and help them, and he on whose side My help is will also feel this and neither be timid nor despondent. He will feel that it meets with My approval if he takes action against people's ignorant and error-spreading teachers. No counter-speech will make him incapable of his office, for he knows that those are not only his opponents but also My opponents, and thus he also knows that I stand on the side of those who stand up for Me and My teaching, whom I teach Myself from above and whom I train for an office which I Myself have given them because I recognized their will from eternity ....

Amen

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God's love and mercy then gives way to His justice ....

B.D. 4856 from March 11th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

You are still in a time of grace and God's mercy, there is still the possibility of salvation for you, God's love and patience is still striving for your return to Him, He also still comes close to those who are strangers to Him and do not deserve His grace; every person can still become blessed if only he is of good will. Very soon, however, the gates to eternal life will be closed, i.e. the hour will soon have come when God's love and mercy will give way to His justice, when people will no longer be able to make use of His gift of grace, when they will reap what they have sown during their earthly life and when there will be no opportunity to make up for what they have neglected, because those people will be wiped out from earth who cannot be counted as His own. Soon the hour of the last judgement will come when everything will be fulfilled as it is written, as it has been proclaimed by seers and prophets from the very beginning. The time of grace is only limited for a short time and yet it is also recognizable as a time of grace to everyone who has an open eye for everything that happens around him, who pays attention to how people relate to God and His kingdom, thus paying attention to the spiritual development of the human being during his life on earth. These will also see the emptiness of human hearts and, since they know about the effect of this, also consider the near end inevitable because they are in realization. And whether God also still forgives .... as soon as the time limit has expired, the end will inevitably come. Then the grace period is over and people will be called to account and rewarded or punished according to merit. So then justice takes the place of love and mercy, and yet this is not eliminated, for the last judgement is also an act of love and mercy with the fallen spiritual, which failed as a human being and for which the possibility must now be created again to rise from the depth to the height. The last judgement is also proof of God's infinite love, Who does not want to lose His creatures forever, but always puts them in a position to approach Him in free will. And this love will never cease until the last spiritual being gives up its resistance against God and voluntarily submits to Him .... until it can now dwell in His presence and be unspeakably blissful ....

Amen

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Directive to take action .... Final admonitions before the end ....

B.D. 4857 from March 12th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

You must be ready to work for Me at any time if you feel My directive for it in your heart. And you will very clearly feel what you should do and won't inwardly resist it because it will be your own inner urge to comply with My will. Although everything you are confronted with seems like a matter of course to you, it is nevertheless I Who is guiding you and instilling in you the feeling for your thoughts and actions, providing you are willing to serve Me and thus subordinate your will to Mine. Time flies by tremendously fast yet it will no longer result in a change of will; humanity keeps its face turned away from Me and towards material things, it continues to distance itself from Me increasingly more, it is seized by the opposing power and only a few can be stopped on the downward path, only a few will listen to the warning voice in the wilderness of their life .... For I will not leave people without warning so close to the end, I very often send people across their path who warn and admonish them, who point out the near end and beseech them to stop chasing after earthly possessions, who attempt to make them look up and announce the Judgment to them .... But who listens to them? Who still believes in a God to Whom they must answer, who still knows the actual purpose of earthly life, and who still believes in life after death? .... Their God is money, their purpose of life is material possession, and they think of death as a frightening, inevitable end of all life. And if they don't listen to My messengers, their wasted life and utterly wrong will cannot be portrayed to them either, making a change of thinking impossible. However, the only other available means than the proclamation of My Gospel consists of extreme adversity .... but an adversity which will be announced to them in advance by My messengers, so that they will learn to believe if they are willing. And for that purpose I require you, My servants on earth, now and especially in the forthcoming time, because the great adversity will soon be followed by the end; because you are to inform people that they can expect the last Judgment, even if they don't believe it .... Time and again they shall hear it until they pay attention to the signs of the time and take a near end into consideration, although they are not convinced of it. This is the task for which I have appointed you, so that you will speak wherever the opportunity presents itself, so that you will convey your knowledge to your fellow human beings, so that those of you who are informed of My plan of Salvation will attempt to announce to people the end of this earth period and explain to them that it is based on the spiritual low level. You must explain that to people since the time given to people for their redemption has come to an end, My love wants to start a new rescue mission .... and the soul of anyone who listens to you and takes your words to heart will emerge unharmed from all upheavals, it will be saved from the downfall on Judgment Day, because it will still grasp My lovingly extended hand just in time ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Knowledge of plan of salvation from eternity .... right servants ....

B.D. 4858 from March 14th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

To be initiated into My plan of salvation from eternity is the privilege of those who want to work for Me and My kingdom. But this does not always mean that everyone is a servant of God who is regarded as such by people. And thus the knowledge which also includes the knowledge of My eternal plan of salvation is often not found there either. This knowledge will only be possessed by people who receive it from Me Myself as My appointed servants in order to now also be able to work successfully for Me and My kingdom. The way in which it is imparted to him depends on the mission he is given. He can receive it directly from Me but also through My messengers on earth, i.e. it can be conveyed to him through human mouths through which I Myself speak when the conditions are fulfilled which require working in My vineyard. A true 'servant of God' will also be instructed by Me Myself, and this instruction also includes the knowledge of the eternal plan of salvation, because only this makes a living advocacy of the truth to fellow human beings possible. What a person preaches has to be understood and justified by himself, if he is to work successfully for Me and My kingdom he first has to make himself credible to his fellow human beings as a God of love, wisdom and omnipotence; thus he has to have logical reasons for love as well as for wisdom and omnipotence which presuppose knowledge of everything that has a connection with Me, the creatures and the whole of creation. And therefore I instruct My servants Myself, yet only when they have attained a certain maturity of soul through a way of life according to My will, thus have become receptive to My instruction. This is why this knowledge cannot be received in a school-like manner, instead, this knowledge requires the awakening of the spirit in the human being, otherwise it can certainly be heard with the ears but not grasped with the heart. And by this again a true servant of God on earth can be recognized that his knowledge surpasses the knowledge received in school, thus it is, so to speak, additional knowledge which cannot be taught from outside but comes to the human being from within, even if it has been conveyed to him from outside. As long as it remains incomprehensible to a person that he rejects it, the spirit within him is not yet permitted to be active, it is still slumbering because it has not been brought to awakening through a way of life in love .... which is My will .... has not brought him to awakening. Until then, however, this person cannot instruct others either, since he does not know the most important thing himself, the reason for My working in the entire universe, the purpose and meaning of creation and the purpose and aim of earthly life as a human being .... My eternal plan of salvation, which underlies everything that exists and happens in the universe. The knowledge of My plan of salvation is the crowning glory, it is the evidence of an awakened spirit and also the evidence of the calling as My servant and worker for Me and My kingdom. Anyone who is called by Me as a servant of God will also possess this knowledge, he will gladly and joyfully accept it as truth if it is imparted to him from outside, because then it is I Myself Who gives him this knowledge as soon as I deem him suitable to work for Me. For the spirit in him now guides his thinking and feeling, and thus he is also able to judge, because at the same time as knowledge he also receives the ability to recognize, as well as he lives in accordance with My will .... thus, through loving activity, gives the spirit within itself the freedom to express itself. But then he will also be able to instruct his fellow human beings with inner conviction, and his speech will earn him success, he will win souls for the spiritual kingdom because his work is purely spiritual, as well as he is active on earth as My true servant .... He will bring souls to Me who believe, who did not hear him but Me, because My spirit speaks from everyone who voluntarily serves Me on earth ....

Amen

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Teachings in compulsion .... love in free will .... (cath.!)

B.D. 4859 from March 15th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

I don't want to give you a commandment, I only want to advice you what you should do for your soul. For even My teaching of love is not a commandment, because love has to be practiced of your own free will if it is to bring you success. A work of love also requires love in the human being's heart; the work alone can be carried out purely mechanically and will then also be evaluated accordingly. I never say to you: you must, but always: you shall .... A compulsion is a law, the non-fulfilment of which entails punishment. But I will not punish you if you transgress the law of love, because this is indeed a law in itself, i.e. adapted to My eternal order, but I, as the law giver Who is love Itself, will not punish you since this contradicts My love. I can only warn you to live without love, thus I advice you to shape yourselves into love in order to be able to enjoy bliss, which you will never feel without love. However, what you obey as a commandment will not bring you bliss .... Thus I am also an opponent of all compulsion, since freedom is the right of the being which emerged from Me. Admittedly, I also use coercion in the stage of the being before the incarnation, yet this coercion arises from love which could not win you back in any other way, which cannot procure your freedom in any other way but through coercion .... but unconsciously. But in the human stage you are aware of every state of compulsion. If your free will is curtailed it violates My eternal order, since I have given you free will which you can and should use at your own discretion.

And now judge for yourselves who violates My eternal order .... judge by observing where compulsion determines people's way of life. I cannot approve of coercion as a means of spiritual education, for no human being will strive to ascend under coercion. Therefore, where coercion is used for spiritual development you will be able to recognize anti-divine activity, and coercion is everywhere where a punishment is threatened or a reward is promised, for both are means of pressure which are intended to determine a person's way of life. And coercion is everywhere where organizations are formed which seek to bind their members by measures, thus making them unfree in their thinking and acting .... (17.3.1950) Coercion is also present where people are not tolerated to acquire knowledge elsewhere, that is, where they freely research out of themselves and seek to arrive at the truth. Every lack of freedom of the human will is not in accordance with My will, for what the human being will one day have to answer for also presupposes his freedom of will. Wherever people are obliged to live their way of life, through commandments or threats of all kinds, it is not My will which is represented but the will of the one who is My adversary and therefore your enemy, even though My name is spoken. For countless false doctrines and countless offences against My will arise from the impersonation of the will. A person's will may never be considered so infallibly right that thousands of people blindly follow it and don't use their will themselves or are forced to think and act against their will. Even My pure teaching conveyed to you from above may not be forcibly conveyed to people but they should freely decide for or against it of their own accord, but how much less a teaching which is no longer as unspoilt as I Myself preached it on earth. People must always be granted the duty and also the right to examine and judge spiritual knowledge given to them by fellow human beings. And if the pure teaching is preached it should be done with love, and the inner conviction will then let the teacher find the right words to win over his fellow human being, yet all coercion should be refrained from. The person who is willing to believe and seeks Me also recognizes Me and can believe with conviction; then he will also practice love of his own accord, yet no longer out of duty but out of love for Me, in Whom he believes .... Compulsion kills love, and then every work of love is merely a mechanical exercise which cannot be valued by Me. You shall love .... because every ascent makes love a condition; yet you will not be forced, nor can you be forced to do so, because then love would not be love.... Consider this well and then realize what an error the spreading of My teaching of love is on the path of denominational regulations .... Everything the human being does to attain eternal life presupposes freedom of will, thus no commandment may be given to him whose fulfilment is enforced by promise of reward or threat of punishment .... He shall only be instructed about My commandment of love, which alone is significant and on the fulfilment of which eternal life depends ....

Amen

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Grace ....

B.D. 4860 from March 12th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

I want to draw you to Me through My grace .... As a sign that I love you I want to reveal Myself through word and scripture and through My personal appearance where strong faith and profound love allow it; I want to give you evidence of the truth of My word, yet only when there is no longer any danger that this will mean compulsory faith for you. Therefore you must first believe what is announced to you through My word, you must recognize and acknowledge Me as the giver of the word so that I can now also speak to you and also visibly appear to you. I crown a strong faith with the evidence of My love .... But in order for you to gain this strong faith I shower you with grace by constantly stepping into your path, thus making it easy for you to recognize Me and now believe in Me. Everything that helps you to believe is grace, every experience, every twist of fate that lets you recognize My influence is grace, every indication of My existence, of My rule and activity in creation, and especially in My living creations, is grace. Grace is everything that testifies to Me .... And through grace I want to draw you to Me eternally. Only he who recognizes Me comes to Me voluntarily, and only he who comes to Me voluntarily do I accept .... And thus I seek to win you humans through My word, I want you to recognize Me in the word and come to Me, I want you to hear My call and follow it, and if you are inspired by the longing for Me I will come to meet you. I will even visibly approach you because the adversity of the time requires it, because you need a strengthening of faith if you are hard pressed by My adversary in the last days before the end. Then I will reveal Myself so that you will not become weak, for My adversary's power is great and you are no match for it if I do not help you. But don't be afraid, I will not let anyone go astray who has turned his gaze to Me .... And My strength is truly stronger than that of the enemy of your soul. It is only a short time until a fierce battle will be waged for your souls. And during this time the strongest means will be used by both sides. Every power wants to possess you; My adversary's means are worldly promises, earthly goods and physical pleasures. But I will meet you Myself and My nearness will gladly make you renounce all worldly things. When I reveal Myself all earthly things lose their value, your soul feels the bliss of the spiritual kingdom and never ever wants to miss it. And therefore the body accepts every adversity and tribulation because the soul has sensed Me and now strives towards Me with an indomitable will. Then My flow of grace will flow ever more abundantly to strengthen the souls in their resistance against the enemy, and it will victoriously pass the last battle on earth, it will remain faithful to Me and persevere until the end. I will come in greatest adversity and distress and fetch it into My kingdom where all adversity is ended ....

Amen

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God's voice can be heard everywhere .... The gravity of the time ....

B.D. 4861 from March 21st 1950, taken from Book No. 55

You live in an extremely difficult time and are constantly made aware of it because it not only concerns the earthly development in the history of the world but humanity's spiritual development, which you should recognise as being at risk in view of the near end. You have to admit to yourselves that extraordinary events direct your thoughts to spiritual problems; you also have to admit that the references to the last days match old prophesies regarding the end, and thus you must pay attention to them and be full of gratitude when thinking of the One Who is admonishing and warning you. You ought to take every reference seriously and look at all earthly happenings in relation with people's process of development .... you ought to know that every occurrence is merely a means to induce the human being to work at improving his soul, so that he will voluntarily strive towards God .... This time is so grave because the consequence of a person's life on earth is of utmost importance, since missed or wrongly used time on earth cannot be repeated and yet no-one can be spared the responsibility for it. But all admonitions and warnings are only possible such that they will not result in compulsory faith. They certainly point to the end, to the Creator and Preserver of all things, but they don't prove anything, and therefore there are just a few people who recognise the approaching end by the signs and who, aware of the spiritual hardship, hand themselves over to God. Then they shall speak on behalf of God and His kingdom, they shall try to convey their assured faith to their fellow human beings, they shall at all times be in contact with their Father of eternity and accept the warnings and admonitions imparted to them in order to pass them on to those who are still distant from God.

He that hath eyes to see, let him see. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear .... God's voice can be heard everywhere, His activity can be seen far and wide, and in all places people are mentally influenced from above .... Yet their will is free, and God will not forcibly influence anyone even if an extraordinary experience clearly reveals God's activity. The time until the end gets ever shorter, the signs will increase, thereby facilitating everyone's realisation and belief; and if a person is of good will he will not resist and close himself to these indications. For God's grace takes effect in all places, the rays of the tiny lights which flare up everywhere can be persuasive if a person does not obscure them by not allowing himself to be affected by the rays .... And blessed is he who follows such a ray of light and need not spend the last days in darkness .... He will take the right path which will safely lead him to the goal, to God, his Father of eternity ....

Amen

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Supply of the divine word - good or bad forces ....

B.D. 4862 from March 22nd 1950, taken from Book No. 55

The spiritual entities cannot express themselves to a human being in the form of the inner word as long as they don't have the order from Me and the strength and also the light which is required for this. Immature entities can certainly influence a person's thoughts as long as he makes himself susceptible to such thought transmissions through a God-opposing way of life. Likewise, these beings can take possession of a person's will who voluntarily surrenders to them with the intention of establishing contact with the spiritual kingdom. However, these beings are never permitted to receive instructions from the spiritual kingdom which are to be assessed as divine emanations. And the transmission of My word to earth, which has to be received by a person in whom My spirit can work, always counts as such. I speak to people, and since not everyone can hear Me I make use of a human being in order to make My will known to others .... And the latter hears My voice in his heart .... sounding or mentally I convey My word to him as soon as he is able to hear My voice. And this ability presupposes that the human being's heart has prepared itself for the reception of My spirit, thus of Myself, thus has made itself worthy. Is there a simpler explanation for a process which takes place through My will and in My will? You humans create the state of not being able to recognize the truth for yourselves if you believe to recognize immature forces in the working of good forces, for what emanates from Me and reaches you through those beings of light is light which spreads brightness. If you do not recognize this light, then your soul is still surrounded by a shell which does not let the light through. Therefore something must then cling to you which weakens your soul's ability to recognize; there must be something in you which does not find My pleasure, which clouds your view and hands you yourselves over to the forces which confuse your thinking. Therefore examine yourselves before you judge and condemn, examine with the heart but not with the intellect alone, and do not be unbelieving but believing ....

Amen

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Training of teachers directly or through light beings ....

B.D. 4863 from March 23rd 1950, taken from Book No. 55

In darkness a ray of light blinds the eye and prevents it from recognizing what surrounds the human being. And thus the spiritual flash of light is first a blinding light for the human being's soul which makes all recognition impossible for it, for the soul is also still in darkness when the first ray of light touches it. Then it is impossible for it to understand spiritual knowledge immediately. And therefore it has to be slowly guided to brightness, it first has to come out of darkness into twilight, which then increases in brightness so that the soul's eye can become accustomed to the images it is now allowed to take in. A person who suddenly receives profound wisdom cannot grasp it, and it will therefore never appear to him as wisdom but rather remain incomprehensible to him until he is slowly introduced to knowledge which can now be called true light. For this reason the human being also has to be taught from the bottom up, he has to be educated for deeper knowledge in such a way that he will always receive more and more wisdom, yet only when he is mature, i.e. receptive for it. And that is why only teachers who have mastered what they are to teach themselves are admitted to a teaching ministry, in order to strengthen the human being with light food until he can bear heavy food, until spiritual knowledge has become so comprehensible to him that he can now be active as a teacher himself. Therefore, if I want good teachers to be given to people, then I must first train these teachers and first impart the knowledge to them, which they should then pass on to their pupils. Thus I instruct them Myself or let them be instructed by first forces which, however, are only active on My behalf because I want to provide them with the bliss of a transmission of strength from Me, which therefore never ever do or teach anything other than My will and which they themselves carry within themselves as their own will. For understandably only such beings are admitted to teaching activity who are knowledgeable themselves, thus who have reached a high degree of maturity, because they are receivers of light and strength, thus they can also distribute light and strength. I know about people's degree of maturity on earth, I know about their will, about the degree of desire for truth, I also know about the benefit of the gifts of grace which I impart to a person; thus I also watch over every individual person of good will that he will not be unlawfully bound by My adversary. And thus I will also not tolerate that a person devoted to Me falls into My adversary's hands, I will not tolerate that a person's will is inevitably alienated from Me, just as I will not tolerate that a person desiring the truth is wrongly instructed by forces which lack all knowledge. The lower spirits have their kingdom to themselves and are bound to it, i.e. they cannot freely move into areas where the light is and participate in the transmission of spiritual knowledge to people. For the beings of light recognize every spirit, and they know about everyone's maturity and ability. They are also concerned about people on earth and their state of soul, and in their love they also grant the human being protection against all harassment by dark forces as soon as his thoughts and aspirations are turned towards the kingdom of light and he detests evil. The beings of light do not miss the slightest thing that could endanger earthly people, and thus they form a wall around the one who has professed Me through his way of life and is now to be introduced to higher knowledge by Me. And no lower power is allowed to intervene in order to impart error or to distract people from the pure truth. For Mine is the kingdom of light, just as I also rule over the kingdom of darkness .... The beings of light work in My will, and those who oppose My will I banish from My sight, but I also deny them access to those who strive towards Me and thus prove to Me through their will that they acknowledge Me as father ....

Amen

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Peace of the soul ....

B.D. 4864 from March 26th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

Give us the peace of the soul .... Let this be your constant prayer, for this peace contains everything in itself, faith, love, strength and light. Only the right faith can give you peace, and only in love can you find it, because both are not separately what they should be. But if you have peace within you, you are also in knowledge, that is, in light, and out of this certainty you are also full of strength. Those who lack inner peace are unconsciously not satisfied with what they possess, yet they feel the longing for a state of light which they still miss. Such a soul, when it is still weak in love, seeks compensation for the light it lacks and is easily blinded by deceptive light. It seeks peace and still obtains it unjustifiably because it has not yet fulfilled the basic condition .... the transformation of itself into love. It can certainly also find a peace in which it feels happy, yet it is more of an anaesthetic, produced by the human being's intellect, but not the divine peace which lets the soul feel itself as the father's child. The feeling of being secure in the father's arms triggers a peace which is the most beautiful thing that can be striven for on earth. As soon as a person's right relationship with God, with his creator and father of eternity, has been established, his life on earth will also be a peaceful one despite events which approach the person from outside in a threatening manner. For the right relationship also guarantees a right faith in the father's help, and this firm confidence is already a sign of peace which makes the soul happy. These people are aware of God's presence and therefore remain unaffected by everything that approaches them, even if it forces them to assert themselves earthly or to fight against their enemies. Man will not lose the peace of the soul. Divine forces are at his side to hold and support him if it seems earthly that he would have to succumb. The world can no longer take away the peace of the soul, for it is the result of the intimate union with God through prayer and activity of love, which has also brought him the recognition of truth, and therefore a person who is knowledgeable no longer fears danger because he recognizes it and can meet it with the right weapons. For he always knows that he is not fighting alone but with God, Who is constantly present to him ....

Amen

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Intercourse with the spiritual world exceptional benefit ....

B.D. 4865 from March 27th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

Purely spiritual contact with the world beyond is a privilege of the highest value for you humans who make use of it. And therefore you can only gain, you will not be pulled down but constantly ascend. But pure spiritual intercourse presupposes an attitude towards God and towards faith in general, it presupposes a deep inner desire for truth and also a good will, otherwise negative successes will be recorded, an intercourse which has to be warned against. In order to understand correctly you first have to know that the supply of truth to the ignorant, be it on earth or in the beyond, is the actual activity of the knowing beings; that it signifies the activity of love for them in which they find their happiness. Every being of light is entrusted with people on earth whose thoughts they try to guide into the right direction. Hence the mental transmission of truth and the receiving or taking in of thoughts is the constant communication between earth and the spiritual world, which is only not mentioned because thinking seems self-evident to a person and he does not try to clarify the origin of the thoughts. It is a self-evident process which therefore receives little attention. But if the human being is consciously willing to enter into contact with that world, then the beings of light gladly seize the opportunity to manifestly express themselves and to a certain extent to offer people the truth by way of regulated instructions. And this conscious reception of spiritual knowledge is extremely beneficial for the soul's upward development. A person who desires truth is now protected by the beings of light against the activation of lower spiritual forces which are not able to impart truth but constantly want to express themselves and therefore impart error to those who are willing to receive it through their same lower maturity of soul. The human being himself determines the forces which want to mentally communicate with him, and therefore mediations from the spiritual kingdom, if they are consciously striven for, will often produce different results, which, however, does not exclude that spiritual strivers can gain unspeakably much through a connection with the spiritual world. Again, free will is decisive under whose influence he places himself. Whoever strives towards God in his thinking and willing will also be seized by God and given into the care of the beings of light, who can never have a harmful effect on the human being. He who still belongs to the world is not concerned with recognizing the truth but shuns it because it condemns his way of life. This is a welcome object for the expression of immature spiritual beings who, in the same desire for matter, seek to transfer their wishes to it and also find willing listeners. How the spiritual beings, the inhabitants of the kingdom of light or the beings of darkness, are induced to express themselves is again up to the human being's will, but it can happen in the simplest form, in the mental connection with the spiritual world, from which the answer also comes again in the form of thoughts. Only the ignorant human being uses material aids for this, which therefore also achieve certain successes because the beings of the spiritual kingdom use every opportunity to make contact with people in order to inform them that they are close to the human being and want to have contact with them. And therefore it is certainly advisable for the completely unbelieving to acquire knowledge; but it is also advisable to use the knowledge gained such that intimate mental contact is established with the inhabitants of the spiritual world, which will never remain without beneficial success if the human being is of serious and good will ....

Amen

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God's revelation ....

B.D. 4866 from March 26th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

Open your hearts to the voice of the One Who wants to speak to you and know that He merely avails Himself of a human being because He cannot reveal Himself to you directly. Yet also accept that His Word is addressed to you; after all, it intends to benefit all of you: I Am with you in spirit always, even unto the end of the world .... And thus you will always be able to hear the voice of My spirit if you believe these Words of Mine and through your faith are also convinced that I communicate with you. Hence you need to listen within in order to be able to hear My voice, and this requires seclusion, retreating within yourselves, a private dialogue with Me in solitude. But which one of you is making provisions in order to hear Me? Whose faith is so strong that he is conscious of My presence and, if he speaks to Me in the silence of his heart, also expects an answer? Behold, those of you who call yourselves devout don't do the latter, and thus you doubt the fact that I reveal Myself, consequently you cannot hear Me either, because all doubt renders the hearing of My voice impossible. Only a few people listen within with childlike faith, thus I can reveal Myself to them and inform them of that which you should all know about Me and My will ....

However, most people walk past these few, they don't recognise the Father's voice to his children, they take little interest in the proclamations coming to them from above; but they allow themselves even less to be stimulated into eagerly following an example of the consequences of faith and love in order to experience the great mystery of divine love, for every revelation is a disclosure of My Nature, of My reign and activity and My greater than great love. And therefore I cannot come closer to people, they cannot sense My proximity for they don't recognise Me. The Words 'I Am with you always, even unto the end of the world' mean nothing to them, they don't understand their meaning, they don't know the significance of My presence and the delectable gift which is the result of My presence. They don't understand My Words and won't even learn to understand them through evident proof. I reveal Myself to those people to whom I Am present if they want to hear Me. The eternal Deity draws Itself towards Its living creations and lets Its strength flow into them in the form of Words .... I Am the Word Myself, therefore My presence must also be obvious through the Word, through its transmission. And thus you humans have the evidence that I exist, for I descend to you humans in My Word. Understand this and don't pass by if I cross your path in the form of My Word. Accept it as absolute truth which is still unspoiled because it originates from Me directly, because My Word is the clear living water which flows from the Source so that you can refresh yourselves in order to successfully travel the pilgrim's path on this earth, in order to reach the goal which shall be the culmination of your earthly life .... in order to draw near to Me and become what you were in the beginning, children of My love who can create and shape and be inconceivably happy ....

Amen

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No one can serve two masters ....

B.D. 4867 from March 28th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

He who can give up everything will also gain everything. You cannot serve two masters, the world and Me at the same time, but you must give up one if you want to win the other. Thus you must sacrifice the world if you want to gain Me, but then you will receive more than the earthly world, for the kingdom, which is My share, is incomparably more beautiful than the world you gave up for My sake. But if you want to possess the world then you cannot possess Me at the same time, for I am not to be found there, and those who seek Me must do so outside the earthly world. You will truly not lose much if you give up the world for My sake, for I will compensate you for the loss a thousand fold and you will never regret it once you have gained Me. My kingdom is not of this world, therefore you should not attach your heart to that which is worthless, and you must make an effort to be accepted into that land and learn to despise the earthly world. You must free yourselves from all earthly possessions, from all desire for them, and only strive for that which is eternal, which belongs to Me and therefore must be extremely valuable. Leave behind what belongs to earth and strive towards My kingdom .... turn your eyes heavenwards and you will see more than earth can ever offer you. Learn to overcome the world if you want to possess Me, and decide what is of greater value to you .... but decide for what is right, for it concerns your fate after death, it concerns eternal life ....

Amen

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Neighbourly love ....

B.D. 4868 from March 29th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

What you do to the least of My brothers, you do unto Me, and thereby you demonstrate your love for Me and for your neighbour. For a deed of neighbourly love also testifies to your love for Me and will enrich you far more than you have given up. And who is your neighbour? Every needy human being who approaches you with a request for help is your neighbour, regardless of whether he voices it or whether it remains unspoken. For you will recognise yourselves when your help is needed and appropriate as soon as the spark of love in you flares up and you are affected by your fellow human being's adversity. Yet you can live in abundance and accomplish a deed of neighbourly love without sacrificing anything, but it will not be regarded as such if you lack love, if you help in order to dispose of an irritating petitioner or to shine before your fellow human beings. So many motives can prompt a person to render help, yet I only value a deed of merciful neighbourly love impelled by your heart. And you will experience the fact that, when love grows cold in people's hearts, help for other people will only occur due to organisation and deeds of love will effectively become routine, which certainly can alleviate people's adversity but which cannot be classed as deeds of neighbourly love, as the fulfilment of My commandment of love, and which therefore cannot have any redeeming effect either. The right hand should not know what the left hand is doing .... it should be a quiet giving; yet material gifts alone cannot be described as deeds of neighbourly love. Every other help, every kind look and every caring word can be valued as a deed of love if it comes from the heart. People's spiritual and psychological adversity is often even greater than their earthly adversity, there you should actively help by giving encouragement and comfort in suffering, by lifting people up spiritually, by conveying My Word and leading them back to faith, where it is necessary. All this is part of the commandment of neighbourly love, and I only expect a soft and compassionate heart for you to be able to fulfil My commandment of love for Me and your neighbour and also awaken love in your neighbour's heart, who thereby can be guided on the right path and you will have acquired a double reward. However, you should not help for the sake of reward but only for love of Me, then all your deeds will be blessed ....

Amen

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The working of the spirit .... Spiritual rebirth ....

B.D. 4869 from March 29th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

Let My spirit take effect in you and you will know the truth, for the working of the spirit will guarantee you such. Then I Myself will guide your thoughts correctly, I will inspire you with the right thoughts, I will pour out My spirit upon you. It need not always be an obvious, that is, an extraordinary activity like the direct transmission of My Word from above; instead, the working of the spirit can also take place in a completely natural manner, providing a person fulfils the condition I have linked to My working in the human being .... He need only want what is right and live as is pleasing to Me, i.e., he need only fulfil My will which manifests itself in actions of love, then his spirit will already be awakened and this spirit within the person, being in contact with Me, will teach the latter such that he will think correctly, that he will know the truth and will therefore also be able to recognise and endorse what is right. He will also be entirely convinced of thinking correctly, but he will ascribe this ability to himself and not to My working in him until My servants enlighten him about the working of the spirit in the human being. He will indeed understand this, but only when I Myself can take effect in him through the spirit, otherwise he will reject such teaching as implausible. Once My spirit can be active in a person he will also have been won over for the eternal kingdom, for this is already an act of spiritual rebirth, an act of redemption from the constrained state .... Then the spirit will guide the person and, without doubt, lead him towards the goal, towards eternal life. If a person therefore consciously strives towards Me, if he firmly believes in Me, if he lives a life of love and pays attention to his inner feelings, his thoughts and his constantly growing knowledge, often without any external influence, he can therefore also assuredly assume that his spirit has awakened to life and that a descent into the abyss need no longer be feared. Then his thoughts will concur with the Word from above with which I would like to prepare all people for this process, so that they will have a direct connection to their eternal Father, so that they will receive the knowledge about My reign and activity in the universe, so that they will learn to love Me as their Creator and Father and thus establish contact with Me so that I can convey the truth to them through which they will become blessed ....

Amen

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Seers and prophets of the end time .... little understanding ....

B.D. 4870 from March 30th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

There is little understanding to be found for the pure truth imparted from above, and people do not recognize the value of the divine word. They are touched by a ray of light and flee back into the darkness again because they are not comfortable with the shine. They are without desire for the truth, they do not believe in its continuation and therefore only live for this earth. And during this time seers and prophets are awakened who are to come before people as admonishers and warners and announce to them the downfall of the earth. They will find little faith and yet they shall repeatedly let their voice be heard, they shall speak to everyone about the forthcoming judgment, about the urgency of a change in people's attitude and way of life, they shall speak of God's love and mercy but also of His justice so that their sense of responsibility will be awakened and they will wake up from their sleep. The seers and prophets will not be accepted in their own country, for no one wants to hear them, and they will be attacked by the representatives of the world. And these are phenomena of the last time before the end, to which reference is made again and again. People are still being admonished to repent, but as the number of God's chosen servants and seers increases, the end is near and the time of grace has passed. Then what has been foretold will come to pass .... The unbelievers will be alarmed, the doubters will be perplexed and the believers will rejoice because they will experience a visible strengthening of their faith when they realize that everything predicted about the end is true. But then it will be too late for the unbelievers to turn back, for when the day of judgment has come none of them will be able to grasp a thought, for the earth will open up and swallow up everything. But one thing will protect people from destruction: the pure word of God, which He Himself has conveyed to earth .... Anyone who senses its strength will not be frightened by the last days, for anyone to whom God speaks will also emerge unscathed from all events due to His love and power. Whoever receives the word of God with heart and mind is immune to all harm of the last days, he stands in the light, in a light that no one can extinguish. And the light will break through the darkness and again and again send rays into the darkness and seek the last souls so that they will not get lost. Anyone who allows himself to be illuminated by such a ray of light will also feel the truth in his strength and now consciously expect the end .... And the lord will come in the clouds, He will gather His own and fetch them to Himself from the earth before it is destroyed by His will and the grave of all those who did not recognize God and therefore strayed from Him, who lived without faith; and the earth will swallow them up, and all distress on earth will come to an end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Union with God - The human being's goal ....

B.D. 4871 from March 31th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

Your goal shall be the union with Me .... Do you know what it means to be as one with your Father of eternity? Being able to create and shape like Him in strength and wisdom and being able to constantly work for the still imperfect spirits? And to be eternally happy?

Your past life will appear like a bad dream to you which, however, will no longer frighten you but only let you realise the Creator's love for His living creations, which guided you through infinitely many stages of maturing. And in the realisation of what you are now in the kingdom of light, you will look up to Me full of gratitude and love, Who is close to you now and bestows upon you beatitudes without measure.

To be united with Me means to be perfect, just like you were in the beginning before you became sinful. To attain this perfection is the highest goal of the human being on earth, because it is a prerequisite for a blissful life in the light. And the only means to achieve it is love, which consumes everything imperfect and shapes a light-receptive and divine soul which will be able to accept My emanation and, once it is touched by it, will feel indescribable bliss. The transfer of My love onto the being is the epitome of blissfulness and thus a prerogative of the perfect being which is no longer separated from Me but has fully united with Me.

The transfer of strength, however, includes everything else .... realisation of truth, light and strength, so that the being will therefore move within wisdom and use the inflowing strength correctly, that it thus, in accordance with God's will, will be able to create and give life to what it has created. Hence the being comes into all rights of childship, it knows no boundary, it knows everything, and its strength enables it to work in accordance with My will, which now is its own will, so that every activity will delight the being because it works for Me and finds rich reward in My love. The being yearns for My love and I constantly fulfil its yearning, and its happiness knows no bounds.

The union with Me can only be achieved through love, since love is the most effective fire which melts all hardness, purifies everything impure and clarifies all ambiguity .... love is the agent which releases and bonds at the same time .... It releases the pressure of oppression, the shackle of sin, and it forms the bond between the living creation and Me, which remains insoluble for all eternity .... And once a person has formed the bond with Me he will remain connected to Me, for as soon as My strength of love has flowed through him he inevitably becomes My possession which I will never abandon to My adversary. Anyone who succeeds in detaching himself from My adversary has already become My Own and proved himself as My child and is now always able to be constantly in the vicinity of the Father, Who will never banish it from His presence again ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Prayer in spirit and in truth ....

B.D. 4872 from April 1st 1950, taken from Book No. 55

You should pray in spirit and in truth. This requires true belief in Me Whom you call upon in prayer and Who is to help you. Hence you must believe that I exist, that I have the power to help and My love wants to help you. This strong faith will also let you find the right words or thoughts to make contact with Me. Then you will speak to Me from your heart, it will not be an empty prayer but the right kind of communication with Me, for you entrust your worries and problems to Me and expect My reply in form of an action, thus you rely on Me to grant your prayer. If you have established this state of trust in My help you cannot pray other than in spirit and in truth and I will answer your prayer .... But how can a person pray in spirit and in truth if he uses acquired words, if he, together with other people, performs long prayers which neither testify to devotion nor depth of feeling because the heart does not know what is voiced by the mouth? How can you humans expect Me to take pleasure in a prayer which is everything else but a trusting call of a child to the Father? Your prayer should be as simple and plain like the words of a child so that I can be present with you and you experience My grace.

Anyone who speaks to Me in that way is heard by Me and I will grant his prayer because I have promised you: Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. But lip worship is not pleasing to Me, for I only look into the heart, which no-one can conceal from Me. I will bypass a silent heart and neither My love nor My omnipotence will provide the person with proof that I have heard him. I turn away from those who constantly pray but whose thoughts are not even partially involved in what they express with their mouths. For all those who pray like this do not recognise Me as yet, because the true recognition of Me Myself will let them become silent and reverent, whereas profound humility utters heartfelt words which I understand perfectly because they are spoken by the heart, which at all times establishes contact with Me and which will always draw Me close. Prayers in spirit and in truth only seldom rise up to Me, and therefore I can only seldom grant a prayer although there are very many praying people on Earth suffering adversity. Yet My true children pray within their heart and will therefore always be successful, for true faith guarantees the granting of their prayers since I will never disappoint true faith ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God reveals Himself mentally to serious seekers ....

B.D. 4873 from April 3rd 1950, taken from Book No. 55

The path of salvation is taken by all those who once seriously immerse themselves in their innermost being and thereby consult Me, who in faith in Me questioningly request My assistance, who thus seriously seek the truth .... I reveal Myself to them and enlighten their thinking, i.e. they mentally come closer to the truth and find satisfaction in their mental results which they initially consider to be self-obtained. An earnest seeker finds the right path, he cannot go astray because I Myself approach him as a guide and direct his steps in the right direction. Although he does not yet recognize Me he nevertheless accepts My guidance, i.e. he does not oppose the mental influences even though he does not yet know the origin of the thoughts. His will is not directed against Me but he adapts himself to Mine. A conscious striving upwards can be observed as soon as the human being inwardly makes an effort to create order in his thoughts .... I now test every person as to whether his striving is serious, because his will should retain freedom, because he has to use it in the right direction in order to be able to enjoy My constant care, in order to be guided by Me into the realization of Myself. Everyone will have to pass these tests of faith before the pure truth is conveyed to him mentally or through mediators whom My love guides into his path. For the human being has to acquire the truth, it is not given to him as a matter of course, although it is offered to all people so that they will do everything themselves to be able to receive it. Truth is an extraordinary gift of grace which, however, everyone can acquire if only he seriously wants it, and he has to demonstrate his serious will by passing these tests of faith. But then he can be certain that he has taken the right path, the path of salvation, i.e. that he will very soon recognize his purpose of earthly life and adjust his way of life accordingly, that he will therefore reach the aim which is set for him as a human being, because his will subordinates itself to Mine, thus he wants the same himself and thereby comes close to Me, as is his destiny ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spiritual guides ....

B.D. 4874 from April 5th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

I Myself appoint those people as spiritual leaders who are suitable for it. All people can certainly shape themselves such that they are chosen by Me as suitable for spiritual guidance, yet no person can ever elevate himself to this position. Thus My words are to be understood: "Many are called but few are chosen..." All of you can shape yourselves through your will into servants devoted to Me, to whom I assign a task. So you are all called .... But the call to service then already presupposes a degree of maturity, for you can only serve Me if you are able to carry out the work I require of you. My servants on earth, however, have to work for My kingdom which is not of this world. They must enlighten the erring, guide the blind, support the weak and always act as mediators of their ministry .... Receive My will and announce it to their fellow human beings. These are the right spiritual leaders, and their office understandably also requires a mastery of everything they are to teach, thus it requires spiritual training which they, in turn, can only receive from Me Myself in a certain degree of maturity. And therefore I choose My servants Myself, for you humans lack the ability to recognize who is suitable for such a task which only results in purely spiritual success and is therefore little understood by the world. Therefore, only people who accept My instructions from Me directly, i.e. who do not feel bound by knowledge which was previously imparted to them through human mouths, can be considered as spiritual guides. They must establish the connection with Me in fullest freedom and thus unconditionally hand themselves over to My will and My guidance. These are the ones who have recognized their calling and want to let themselves be chosen by Me Myself, since they feel that only I can be addressed as the client. They want to serve Me and ask Me for My approval .... But spiritual leaders also call themselves people who have not waited for their calling to serve Me but who call themselves to a teaching ministry on earth, who therefore also want to work for the kingdom of God and certainly have the best will to do so, yet without My special calling they have entered into a ministry which is for people's spiritual benefit. I place certain conditions on such service; if they are fulfilled then I also accept them as My servants, yet this always requires an unconditional surrender to Me, an opening of the heart to receive My instruction, without which no-one can be active for Me on earth. Every service for Me and My kingdom presupposes the working of My spirit in the human being, for only he who is guided by My spirit himself can take over spiritual guidance. Without the working of the spirit no guidance of the blind is possible. And this should give everyone food for thought so that they recognize who, as a spiritual leader, has been commissioned by Me to work for Me and My kingdom. The working of the spirit in the human being is not a gift I give to those who want to work for Me, but only he can enter My service who has shaped himself so that My spirit can work in him. And thus the words will also be understandable: "Many are called ...." for everyone can shape himself in this way .... "but only a few are chosen ...." Only a few allow the working of the spirit within themselves, but this is the first condition for being chosen by Me for an office on earth: to be a spiritual guide for people. But anyone who is filled by My spirit can distinguish error from truth, and he frees himself from a teaching which is full of contradictions, which therefore did not originate from Me as it is currently preached. He stands in the truth and also represents it, he can enlighten the erring, guide the blind, support the weak and constantly convey My word, My will, to them, because he is in direct contact with Me .... because My spirit is working in him, because I have chosen him as a servant to work for Me and My kingdom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spiritual turning point is not a reversal but renewed banishment ....

B.D. 4875 from April 6th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

Development for the better is no longer possible on this earth, people will not even remain on the same level but descend constantly, they live beyond all bounds and distance themselves from Me to such an extent that they live their earthly life entirely without strength, hence it is totally pointless. And therefore a substantial change is intended to put an end to humanity's spiritual decline and to pave a new path which will lead to an ascent again. You humans are unaware of My plan of Salvation apart from the few to whom I reveal Myself. But you would be able to take notice of it were you at all interested in the issue as to what forms the basis of all events around you. Yet your questions are different, the questions you are concerned with only relate to earthly advantages, to ways and means of procuring a wealth of earthly goods. You only increase your knowledge in this field and ignore all spiritual matters. But therefore you will also be taken by surprise by the forthcoming events and will be unable to find an explanation if you intellectually search for it. However, the knowledge of My plan of Salvation would explain everything to you, the knowledge of My eternal plan of Salvation would let you look at everything from a different perspective, and it would awaken your sense of responsibility because your soul's fate after death is determined by your way of life. Then a small improvement could still be achieved, although only a few will take the explanation seriously which is offered to them by knowledgeable people. And therefore I will bring one period of development to a conclusion and let a new one begin.

This should certainly be looked upon as a spiritual turning point yet not as a reversal or a sudden advancement of the souls' development, instead it is far more a total failure on the one hand and the creation of new possibilities for development on the other. For that which failed during the old period of development will start its process of development again in the deepest abyss; hence it will not continue an interrupted process of purification. This is why the time before the end of this epoch is so extremely significant since it will, after all, shape the fate of countless souls as to whether they live or die. A continued existence of this earth would by no means benefit these souls, because they severed the bond with Me long ago, thus they are entirely without faith and in this state will not make use of the blessings either which could ensure their spiritual progress. Until the end every effort will still be made to save the individual souls, that is, to draw their attention to their purpose, yet they cannot be supported against their will and this will only strives to descend, it only applies to matter which shelters the lowest developed spiritual substances. And I always take the soul's will into account, it shall receive what it desires .... and therefore hard matter will become the external cover of that which had already reached the last stage of development on earth .... the souls of the furthest distanced living creations will be banished again in the creations of the new earth. And time and again this dreadful fate shall be presented to people, time and again they shall be given the information of My eternal plan of Salvation, because it is the time of the end when every person should become aware of the great responsibility he bears for his soul, because he can still use the last days for the salvation of his soul if he has the will to do so. He should know that an end will come and what this end means for his soul, he should know that there will be no postponement but that it will come true what seers and prophets have announced since the beginning of this epoch of Salvation, that the end will come without fail and with it the last Judgment, which will decide over life and death, over light and darkness, over reward and punishment .... over hell and damnation and paradise and beatitude ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Christ's path to the cross ....

B.D. 4876 from April 8th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

Anyone who wants to follow Me will walk a lonely path, misunderstood by his fellow human beings as was My share, too, despite the love I gave to fellow people. Anyone who wants to follow Me will have to accept his cross just as I did, although My eternal love will not let anyone's cross become as heavy as that of the man Jesus .... He will have to carry it, yet he can ease his burden at any time if he calls upon Me for help. Then I will place the cross on My shoulders and carry it for him, and with Me everything gets easier, with Me he no longer walks on his own, I will empathise and share his suffering and joy at all times; he can always follow his earthly path in silent togetherness with Me, and therefore he will find his cross bearable and humbly submit to his destiny .... I took all of humanity's suffering on My shoulders as I walked along facing crucifixion and endured unspeakable physical pain. I walked the arduous path that ended with death on the cross for everyone who wanted to follow Me one day. I suffered indescribably as a human being so that people's suffering would be lessened. I participated in all of humanity's suffering and carried the cross on its behalf. And anyone who loved Me followed Me .... There were only a few, compared to the whole human race on whose behalf I died, only a few shared My pain, they suffered with Me and for Me. They, too, carried their cross because they followed Me, since their love for Me made them feel all their suffering twice as much. Yet their love was like balm on My wounds which were inflicted on Me by pitiless people; their love increased My will to suffer on behalf of humanity and to bring help to them through My crucifixion. Many followed Me on the way to the place of execution yet only few sympathized with My pain .... Many people live on earth but only few are My disciples .... I died for all people on the cross but only few accept My sacrifice and make use of the attained blessings. Only few people follow Me and yet, only by following Me can they become blessed. Everyone should take his cross upon himself and remember My sacrificial walk to Golgotha, which was almost too difficult for a human being to bear and made Me fall .... But the love of a person came to My aid when I had almost failed as a human being and I made the sacrifice, I emptied the cup of suffering completely ....

And if you humans have to suffer remember My Words 'Whoever wants to follow Me let him take up his cross ....' You should know that all suffering you humbly endure in My will is taken into account as a path to the cross which signifies redemption and liberation from all guilt for you .... You should know that you are living on earth in order to release yourselves from guilt, the magnitude of which cannot be estimated by you as human beings, for which I have indeed died in order to lessen it but which every one of you also has to remove, as far as it is within your power, if you want to take part in the act of Salvation which was started by My love with My crucifixion. You humans were only given a small cross to carry because I have taken the heaviest weight from you, but you cannot remain entirely without suffering in order to keep going towards the One Who wants to help you at all times, Whom you should follow so that you will become eternally blessed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Unattainability of God .... Recognising His fundamental nature ....

B.D. 4877 from April 9th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

No human spirit will be able to grasp Me as long as it has not united with Me, with My eternal Father-Spirit. And this union with Me is an act which necessitates utmost willingness to enter into My will, thus it means conforming to My fundamental nature. Only what has become as one with Me is able to recognise Me, otherwise it is mere faith and not complete realisation. The human being's spirit certainly has the ability of insight but never by itself, only in unity with Me. It is a spark of My eternal Father-Spirit, it is part of Me which came forth from Me and keeps in permanent contact with Me, but only the human being's will brings it to a state where it can function. And this will has to subordinate itself to Me, then the spiritual spark can become active in the person. But it can often take a long time until the human being's will awakens the spirit in himself, and this time is lost for eternity.

The human being's earthly progress in the state of ignorance is futile for the soul, as then it will only live for the world, it is not yet able to understand the meaning and purpose of its earthly life, it has not yet got in touch with its inner spirit and is completely blind. Only the awakening of the spiritual spark in the person will safeguard the soul's higher development, its maturing. For the awakened spirit will persuade the soul to turn away from the world and listen to the spirit's voice, and then there will be a dawning, the darkness will be dispersed by light .... and the spirit will edify the soul about My Being, about My working and My continuous care for My living creation. Then the person's spirit will guide him into truth, it will convey knowledge to him which he cannot receive from an external source, since it would be presented to him incomprehensibly or he would not be able to grasp it. Then the spirit will persistently urge the soul towards a unification with Me since, being part of Me, it also wants to draw the soul unto itself; hence unification with Me should also become the soul's aim.

The human being will only start to appreciate My fundamental nature when he has reached a certain degree of maturity, even then he will never be able to fathom it in its full profundity. He cannot grasp it as a human being, and even a being of light is still very distant from Me, although permeated by My strength and therefore blissfully happy. It is impossible to completely ascertain My fundamental nature, for I outshine all other beings of light and strength and therefore I Am incomprehensible to every being, even when it has achieved the highest degree of perfection. If it were possible to comprehend Me, I would not be Infinite, neither in perfection nor in power. Yet precisely this incomprehensibility fills a being of light with bliss, so that it is able to look up to Me and love Me ever more profoundly, so that it will constantly strive towards Me with longing, and will always receive fulfilment of its desire. The fact that I Am unattainable to the being will intensify its love because, in awareness of My unattainability, it will regard My love as the greatest gift.

Yet on the other hand, My living creation is inseparably connected to Me .... Its self-inflicted imperfection, its thoroughly contradictory state to My fundamental nature does not limit My love for it and eternally will not induce Me to disown it, thus to separate Myself from it .... Irrespective of how unattainable I Am to the being, it is nevertheless connected to Me, it belongs to Me, because it originated from My strength and thus is a fundamental part of Myself. And this togetherness shall now find its culmination in the conscious unity on the part of the being. By striving to reach Me it should put itself into the state of bliss because, in order to feel My love and experience it as bliss, the being's will must be totally inclined towards Me. There must be no opposition in the being whatsoever. It has to want to reach Me in order to be lifted up by Me, and this lifting up, this drawing-to-Me, is a never-ending state in eternity ....

The being will never reach the final goal, yet it will constantly come closer to Me, this certainty is still incomprehensible to you as human beings on earth. However, the being's bliss rests in its continuous desire and fulfilment .... A completely satisfied being would no longer be able to feel desire and therefore also miss the elation of fulfilment. But I want My children to strive for Me at all times, I constantly want to give to them and therefore also want to be constantly desired .... And thus, as the final goal, I will stimulate the beings into utmost love and yearning, but always remain above My living creations, not due to lack of love but because of My greater than great love, for I want to bestow never-ending joy, because My love can never cease in all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Jesus' forerunner at the end ....

B.D. 4878 from April 13th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

Someone amongst you will emerge who shall bear witness of My coming in the clouds. And when you hear him you will know that the end is near. He is one of the purest, he is full of love and kindness and therefore closely united with Me, he is a comforter and friend to you humans, a liberator from emotional distress. He is spiritually illuminated and knows about the Last Judgment, and therefore he will warn and admonish people in My name. He will fight for Me and My kingdom and be fully enlightened. And thus he will also know where the pure truth is represented. Consequently he will emerge from amongst those who receive My teaching from above and, due to his way of life, due to his love for his fellow human beings, he will also be taught from above, because he will still have to accomplish a final task .... to be My forerunner prior to My return. For the time is fulfilled, the predictions of the prophets are coming to pass and thus he, too, will have to appear. He will descend from the kingdom of light to earth for My sake in order to announce Me to people who are suffering utmost adversity and distress.

He will bear witness of Me since his voice will be My voice and anyone who listens to him, listens to Me. However, he will not stay with you humans for long .... Until you recognise him he will indeed live in your midst, but My adversary will persecute him and provoke people against him. He will preach love but people will listen to him with hatred. They will pursue and try to kill him. But I will know how to protect him until his hour has come, for he has to complete his mission, he has to prepare a path for Me, he has to uphold the flock of My children and inform them that the Lord's return is at hand.

And once he appears, not much time will be left. His words will ignite and arouse the lazy and undecided from their sleep, for he will only be a mouthpiece for Me, through him I want to openly express Myself just one more time. And once again he will be a voice that cries in the wilderness, who will only return because I will need a strong worker in the end, a worker from above to help humanity. Yet the world will hate him and spare no means to eliminate him, even though he will only speak and do good. But the world will have descended into darkness and all lights will have gone out .... Consequently, a bright light will appear on earth and all bearers of light will fetch oil for themselves to brighten their own lights again, which worldly people will endeavour to extinguish. And all people of true faith will recognise him as the forerunner of My return, and they will know that the time is fulfilled when I can be expected and with Me the Last Judgment .... They will take his words to heart because they sense that it is I, Who speaks through him, and that I announce My coming through him, who is My messenger as destined since eternity.

But he will have a difficult time with people who worship the world and reject his admonitions and warnings, yet who will not shy away from trying to kill him in spite of the fact that he will prove himself helpful towards all people and many will also accept his help. The former will want to prevent him from completing his mission but I will not recall him into My kingdom until he has prepared the path for Me, until he has proclaimed My coming to all who long to behold Me and whose faith he has strengthened, because he will only proclaim what he receives from Me through the inner Word, through the remarkable working of the spirit within himself ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Fulfilment of predictions made by seers and prophets ....

B.D. 4879 from April 14th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

Very soon you will realise that My Word will fulfil itself, because the time has come I have always and forever announced through seers and prophets. They all proclaimed My Word, thus they only expressed what I wanted to tell people, and since I used the prophets as My representatives they were only able to say what I Myself wanted to say. Hence it is certain that these messages will fulfil themselves, because My Word is truth. The believers are merely unsure when My prophesies will come to pass and therefore they are not taken seriously either, for everyone believes that what people were foretold a long time ago will happen in the future. They don't know when the time will be fulfilled, but neither do they believe that they are living in the midst of this time ....

They believe and yet they do not believe .... They do not reject it, but they do not want to admit it is happening now, and therefore they have become indifferent to their psychological task. But I keep telling you that you do not have much time left to think about it if you do not want to be taken by surprise. You will only be on this earth for a very short time and it is up to you whether you, too, will belong to the inhabitants of the new earth. In that case you will have to believe firmly and resolutely that the end is near and prepare yourselves for this end. You have to live in accordance with My will, then you will discover for yourselves what time you live in. Then you will no longer waste time and also know what fate awaits humanity; and in order not to belong to those unfortunate people who will have to fear the end you will have to join Me and turn your back on everything that belongs to the world.

But if you exist without faith you will only pay attention to the world and will not recognise the gravity of the hour. Then you will be hopelessly lost for an infinitely long time. I can only warn you of the end and remind you to love, but I cannot forcibly convey the understanding and knowledge to you. You are therefore in utmost danger and only because you do not believe the Words, which will be repeatedly proclaimed to you through seers and prophets that the end is near. Yet time and again My love will cross your path in order to guide your thoughts to the end .... My love will let you take painful ways in order to take your eyes off the world .... My love will speak to you through My servants, it wants to save you, nevertheless, it allows you complete freedom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Importance of work for the kingdom of God ....

B.D. 4880 from April 16th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

A sign will be given to you from above when your actual activity is to begin, for you are still only doing the preliminary work of putting yourselves into a state of knowledge and also communicating your knowledge to those who, like you, want to actively participate in the spreading of truth, who are hungry for truth themselves and struggle for it. But your actual activity extends to the giving of the word, which is given to you from above, to all people who step into your path after the great shock they had to experience for the sake of their souls. I will once again sound a great warning cry, and this will be the last before the end .... All who are asleep shall awaken .... but whether they send their eyes upwards or continue to walk along with their eyes averted is up to each individual, yet in the last stretch of their only short life you shall meet them and call out to them that they should walk the path of light and not sink any further into darkness. You should proclaim the gospel to them, yet in its purest form, so that they will not be offended by it, as is now the case due to the many false teachings which are presented to people as the teaching of Christ. You should help them to find the right path, you should lovingly explain to them the cause and purpose of all sorrowful events, you should point them to Me so that they seek contact with Me and take care of all those who are in spiritual hardship, who don't want to believe or cannot believe .... You should speak to them and I will assist you, I will put the words into your mouth so that they will not miss their effect. This work is so immensely important that I will make you suitable for it and also give you the full understanding of what you should do or not do, where you should speak or remain silent and whom you should particularly take care of, because I know the hearts of all those I lead to you. This time still lies ahead of you and I am training you for this work, therefore you will be active in silence for the time being, you will be able to speak in small circles in order to still recruit workers for Me, because I cannot have enough of them in the coming time, for the time of your activity will only be short. And therefore the work shall be tackled with all diligence so that the short time will be fully utilized for the salvation of the erring and the lukewarm, for the salvation of the unbelievers who can attain faith again if only they are of good will. I will call you Myself when your hour has come and you will gladly and joyfully follow My call .... But then no longer worry about earthly things, for every earthly worry is invalid in view of what I send upon people. Then only spiritual work will be of value and importance, for you cannot secure anything earthly; only what I want will remain with you, and that without any worry on your part. Don't look back but only forward, give up everything voluntarily, for I will provide you with everything you need if you are active for Me. But I will bless you and your work for Me and My kingdom .... I will pour out My grace so that hearts will awaken and become receptive to My word .... so that all souls who want to be saved by Me will still be saved ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Acquiring spiritual goods .... earthly activity .... idleness ....

B.D. 4881 from April 18th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

Nothing is more important on earth than the soul's development upwards. Therefore, every earthly activity should only satisfy you if spiritual work is carried out at the same time, which, as the most necessary activity, must never be disregarded if earthly life is to be successful. For whatever earthly possessions you gain through earthly activity are impermanent possessions which can certainly secure you an earthly life of well-being, but only if My will allows it. You have an earthly task to fulfil which alone should be important to you .... you shall mature spiritually .... And the world, together with everything desirable to you, is only the means to an end; it is the opportunities in which you are to mature. And thus earthly life must indeed be lived in the midst of these things which stimulate and spur you on to earthly activity, yet it must not be an end in itself, you must become and remain aware that you have a higher task to fulfil than merely increasing earthly possessions or creating physical comfort, and only when spiritual work precedes earthly work will you fulfil the purpose of earthly life. And therefore you must always bear in mind that it is not in your power to prolong your earthly life by just one day. Furthermore, you must always reckon with being called away and be aware of the fact that you will then have to leave behind everything you have acquired on earth and may only take over into the beyond what you have acquired in spiritual treasures. And thus every thing is worthless which appears desirable to you on earth, for it is matter which does not follow you into the spiritual kingdom but is always and constantly a share of earth which, however, you only live in for a short time. And since you never know when your time is up you will only act wisely if you use every day to acquire spiritual wealth. Therefore, spiritual activity alone is profitable, even though you should also do your earthly duty and carry out work which is of benefit to your neighbour. One should serve the other .... then every earthly activity is, as it were, a service to the neighbour as long as it is not detrimental to him. For this reason a person must not be idle, otherwise he will not use his vitality and his works of neighbourly love will only be minimal. An idle person will not do spiritual work either, for this requires a heart willing to love, and willingness to love always expresses itself in such a way that the neighbour's needs, be they of a physical or spiritual nature, are taken into account. What the human being does to serve his fellow human beings is earthly activity which is at the same time credited as spiritual soul work, but earthly work which only strives for one's own advantage, which is only motivated by self-love, is worthless for eternity. It is uselessly wasted time which can never be recovered, which, moreover, still means a decline for the soul, yet from a purely worldly point of view the greatest advantages are achieved because the human being works with the help of My adversary who provides him with earthly goods to a great extent. Yet such a person enters the spiritual kingdom empty and poor after his death, for he has to leave everything behind on earth and has no spiritual treasures to show for it. His life was lived to no purpose and a sad fate awaits him in the beyond ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Call to action .... spreading the truth ....

B.D. 4882 from April 20th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

When you become aware of your call to work for Me then an inner peace will take hold of you and you will let everything approach you without worrying in the knowledge that everything that comes upon you is My will. And then you will be true representatives of My teaching, then you will feel Me close to you and your thinking will only be spiritually directed; everything earthly will no longer affect you, you will live with Me and no longer with the world, and then your power of persuasion will fill your speech and you will still win people over for My teaching who previously resisted you, for your conviction will make them think and seriously examine it. Every single soul which is still wrested from death is an inestimable gain for which I bless you, and every soul which still awakens to life before the end can count itself amongst the redeemed for whom I died on the cross. For it, too, has overcome death, it is free of every bondage and goes towards a blissful life on the new earth or in the spiritual kingdom, if it is still called away before the end of the old earth. The supply of pure truth is your task, for only pure truth has the right effect on the soul, only pure truth can cause the human being to strive spiritually, for only truth gives a correct image of Me and My being and gives rise to the human being's desire to come close to Me. And that is why the pure truth has to be brought to them, that is why you first receive the truth from above so that you can distribute it to your fellow human beings who are still without all knowledge. What you can now fully accept yourselves you will also be able to represent to your fellow human beings with conviction. And therefore you must have been instructed before you can take up your teaching ministry, you must know everything yourselves so that you can now enlighten those who are still of dark spirit. And I will make sure that you are suitable for this, after all, I need you as co-workers on earth in the last days before the end, because I can no longer bring the truth to people Myself and therefore have to speak to them through mediators. You shall speak in My stead and I bless everyone who places himself at My disposal so that I can work through him, for humanity is in great spiritual distress and urgently needs help because there is only a short time left until the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Immense affliction before the end ....

B.D. 4883 from April 22nd 1950, taken from Book No. 55

People everywhere will experience immense affliction when the final adversity before the end starts. Every nation will go through suffering and distress, partly caused through human will, partly through the influences of nature or fateful events, and people everywhere will have the opportunity to place themselves at the service of neighbourly love, for wherever there is adversity it can be alleviated by people who are able and willing to love. All people will be affected apart from those who receive their strength from below, that is, whose hearts are so hardened that they are enslaved by God's adversary who will provide for them to an exceptional extent. The contrast between good and evil will strongly emerge everywhere, and thus a spiritual battle for people's souls will also be waged before the end. Spiritual influence will therefore trigger all instincts in the human being during the end time, both good as well as evil will visibly manifest themselves and, therefore, a separation will also be noticeable, for good people will keep away from evil ones and yet will constantly be pursued with hatred, on account of which good, and therefore God-inclined, people will suffer progressively more distress. There will be an extraordinary scale of adversity .... The words of the seers and prophets who have proclaimed this immense affliction for the time of the end can be applied in all instances; it is merely the cause of affliction which will not be the same everywhere. But a separation of the spirits will happen in all places and thus the time of end can be recognised. The earth and the spiritual realm will be the goal of people's efforts, and anyone aiming for the earth with its possessions will be lost for the spiritual kingdom, he will pay homage to the world and therefore to the one who governs the world. And the majority of people will focus on the world, whereas the spiritual kingdom will only have a few followers; only a small flock compared to the whole of humanity will consciously or unconsciously strive towards God with a will for good and abhorring evil. For this reason there will always be just a small number of spiritual aspirants present among people, at first they will be laughed at and ridiculed by their fellow human beings until people's evil nature breaks through and expresses itself in hostile actions against all those who abide by God and remain steadfast in faith.

This will be the start of an affliction the world has never before experienced .... Evil will prevail everywhere and suppress good, evil will indulge itself in all places and good will suffer adversity. Until, finally, even the life of God's faithful followers will be in danger, they will have no more protection because people will reverse the laws, that which is right will no longer be acknowledged and only the power of the stronger will count. And this will be with those whose attitude committed them to Satan. They will be favoured by him throughout their temporal lives, for they will have sold their souls to him in return and will have elevated themselves as masters over the weak, treating them vindictively and denying them all earthly necessities. The extent of distress will be such that the believers will require, and indeed receive, an extraordinary supply of strength so that they will not give up during the final battle, which will only last for a short time and will be shortened for the sake of the chosen, so that they will not weaken in view of the hardship within their own ranks and the affluence in the ranks of the adversary. Then salvation will come to them from above, as it is proclaimed. The Lord Himself will come in the clouds and deliver all those who remain true to Him. The affliction will come to an end and a new life will begin on earth, and God's faithful followers will receive their reward .... just as Satan's children will be punished, because God's justice demands their atonement. It will come to pass as it is written .... The Lord will fetch His Own and place them into a realm of peace, He will pass strict Judgment on all sinners and they, too, will receive what they deserve, and the hardship on earth will be over ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Freedom of will ....

B.D. 4884 from April 24th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

Freedom of will is the explanation for everything that seems incomprehensible to the human being and which makes him doubt the nature of God. The still imperfect human being often uses his free will in such a wrong way, but then God does not prevent him from carrying out what his free will wants to do and thus, to a certain extent, gives His approval, i.e. He tolerates what the human being carries out in his imperfection. But He does not approve, even if He does not prevent the human being from doing it.

(25.4.1950) If the human being has freedom of will, he must be able to extend his will and actions downwards as well as upwards, for freedom eliminates every restriction. But man was created with free will, because this is decisive for eternity, for the life of the soul after death. The human being's free will creates the state in the spiritual kingdom for his soul. God's will will always be a moving in divine order, an adapting to His law which was decreed in highest perfection, in wisdom and love, so that God's creatures can live according to these laws and thus develop into perfect beings. But they must also be able to transgress these divine laws by virtue of their free will, because God confronts them with the decision. He does not influence the human being in any way against his will but even complies with his will by not turning away or withdrawing the human being's strength if he directs his will wrongly and wants to do something which completely contradicts God's will. Then He does not withdraw His strength but submits to people's will with His will. And therefore things happen which are not in harmony with the eternal deity, yet even then His wisdom considers the effect of every event in such a way that it can also benefit the human soul's upward development.

(4/27/1950) God does not touch the human being's free will, consequently He must also give him the opportunity to express himself and to be able to carry it out. And this always means the granting of power to works which do not necessarily agree with God's will. Yet God's wisdom foresees all possibilities of a favourable effect for the human being's soul; and thus a God-opposing will can unintentionally contribute to a soul's spiritual ascent, only then this ascent is not attributed to the human being's wrong will but he has to answer to God for this wrong will, even though a certain blessing has arisen from it in other ways. God directs all destinies, He gives His living creations freedom of will in their human stage, they will always be able to decide in favour of the good and are never compelled to act contrary to God, yet as their will is, so is their thinking and acting, and their fate in the beyond and the degree of perfection resulting from their activity in earthly life will be accordingly ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Dissemination of revelations ....

B.D. 4885 from April 29th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

You have been given a certain time to work for Me and My kingdom, and you should use it to the best of your ability. What is given to you by Me from above is only of value if it is spread, because I do not speak to one person alone but through one person to all who want to listen to Me. My word must therefore be brought to them, and it requires the full use of your strength and your will. I have awakened seers and prophets everywhere so that humanity will receive information about the seriousness of the time and the coming last judgment. If they are believed, then people will also prepare themselves. But I cannot force anyone to believe, it is a completely free matter of will, which is why nothing more can happen on My part than to reveal Myself again and again to those who are able to receive My revelations through their will and their way of life. Hence these revelations will only be acknowledged by those who live a loving way of life in accordance with My will. They will also know the value to be attributed to My revelations, and their endeavour will be to take care of their distribution. Where there is a will there is also a way .... Whatever is undertaken in order to make Myself and My working known to people, in order to save fellow human beings from eternal ruin, in order to inform them of the inevitable which humanity is approaching, I bless it, and every possibility can be used, the spreading can happen in many different ways, My blessing will always rest on it, because it is urgently necessary that people take notice of My word which is given to you purely and unadulterated from above. Not for nothing do I speak to people through My spirit, not for nothing do I choose suitable people for Myself through whom I can work in the spirit. Their work should not be regarded and treated lukewarmly and indifferently, for it is always Me to Whom you humans then demonstrate your indifference. Anyone who has My word should pass it on; anyone who receives it from others should likewise work with it as soon as he has recognized it as My word, and anyone who does not recognize it does not belong to My own, yet he should think about it, for one day he will be asked to give an account of how he reacted to the gift of grace I brought to him. And thus every day shall be used, no day shall pass without spiritual work. This applies especially to those who want to participate in the redemption of erring souls. They will receive all support from Me which enables the spreading of the pure truth, and therefore everything that approaches My servants shall be considered in terms of work for Me and My kingdom, for I gather My own together so that they can work unitedly for Me in the last days before the end ....

Amen

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Spiritual connectedness .... question and answer ....

B.D. 4886 from April 29th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

You, My servants on earth, will work successfully in constant unity. And therefore consider everything as providence and subordinate yourselves to it, but also pay attention to the voice of your heart, i.e., pay attention to the feelings which move your heart when people approach you, whose spiritual child they are. The strength of love radiates over you, but even evil thinking and striving or hypocritical behaviour is not without effect on a person's heart, and therefore you should pay attention to the feelings a person triggers in you when he tries to join you. You should not refuse anyone's request for help, yet joint activity requires spiritual solidarity which will always be present where there is good will. Therefore, always consult Me and I will instruct you correctly as to what you should do and what you should not do. Whoever asks Me will also hear the answer within himself. And thus I will always come to those who come together in the will to serve Me, and I will direct all their steps to where their spiritual work is successful. Anyone who is willing to work for Me and help his fellow human beings will always be able to count on My support, for he is driven by love and thus he is in contact with Me and cannot do otherwise than act correctly. And therefore he will do without hesitation what his heart instills in him, for I Myself speak to him through the heart ....

Amen

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Remorse of souls who rejected divine gifts of grace ....

B.D. 4887 from May 1st 1950, taken from Book No. 55

Souls will find themselves in serious spiritual difficulties if they have been approached by Me in the Word and did not accept it as the Father's voice. For they have the ability to recognise it, they merely lack the will to consider it seriously. Yet one day these souls will realise it and then their remorse of not having utilised My precious gift of grace will be huge and their self-reproaches will be inconceivable torments. Anyone who is offered My gift of grace is in fact being called to work spiritually, because I know his soul's degree of maturity and want to further its progress. He is capable of understanding as soon as he is willing to live in truth. Hence he will face the crucial decision to either follow eternal truth or the world, and it is then up to his will to choose which path to follow. Consequently, a person who can choose between two directions and voluntarily takes the wrong path has to be answerable for it. The soul is subconsciously aware of this and therefore in difficulty, even if the human being's intellect wants to dismiss such considerations. Then soul and intellect will argue about significant spiritual disagreements, and blessed is the person whose soul is still able to convince the intellect of its error before it is too late, that is, before the soul leaves its mortal shell.

But if it enters the spiritual kingdom in a state of darkness then it will experience the light, which should have illuminated it, like a fire within itself. For even in a state of ignorance the soul will remain conscious of the fact that it dwells in darkness due to its own fault, because it had fled the light that was ignited by My love and grace. Then it will live in great anguish and long for this immense gift of grace, which it cannot receive again once it has been rejected. Although it can be helped by the beings of light they will not appear to the soul as carriers of light, instead the soul's free will is tested in a different way, so that it will have to make a crucial decision again .... to follow the souls of light, which do not identify themselves but want to be of help .... or to remain obstinate and decline the light beings' assistance. Just as the human being on earth is not forced to accept the light that shines to earth from above, the souls' will in the spiritual kingdom also decides whether they should accept the help that is constantly offered by My eternal love in order to guide them towards progress.

On earth, however, they have an exceptional gift of grace in My Word, which will result in their spiritual maturity with certainty. Therefore, it is irresponsible to ignore My Word which is offered to people from above, and to be indifferent or completely negatively inclined towards it. And, understandably, it has to be extremely depressing for a soul to know that it had ignored the most certain means for attaining eternal life and has to dwell in an unfortunate state in the spiritual sphere of darkness and misery. Yet it was of its own free will, it will have created the pitiful state of its own accord and now either has to endure it or voluntarily strive to change, thus make use of every opportunity My love and mercy provide so that it will still be able to ascend and enter the kingdom of light, if only after an infinitely long time. Only the soul's will creates its fate in eternity .... its will awakens the soul to life, just as it can cause its spiritual death ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The dead shall rise .... guilt of sins ....

B.D. 4888 from May 1st 1950, taken from Book No. 55

Sin will be revealed on the last day .... The dead will also rise in their works, i.e., the souls which are spiritually dead will look back and experience every bad deed, every evil thought and will which they allowed to arise in their earthly life, as if written with fiery script, and then the soul will recognize its own hardness and also that it is not worthy for a life in the kingdom of light, because it will only be pleasing to God when it has complied with His wishes and decrees on earth. (3.5.1950) The dead will rise .... Nothing will remain hidden, good and evil will be revealed, everything man has done and thought on earth will come to light, and woe to those whose deeds were evil .... Every sin will find its retribution, provided it has not been deleted by Jesus Christ, that is, it was already forgiven on earth by the human being who, recognizing his guilt, carried it to the cross of Christ and requested absolution from Him. These are redeemed from sin through Jesus' exceeding love and grace. And these need not fear the last judgement. But how few are they .... Faith in Jesus Christ and His act of salvation is truly so rare to find, for mere words do not yet testify to Him as long as He is not alive through love. Hence only those people can be considered redeemed through Christ's blood who live a life of love .... who found Jesus Christ through love and recommended themselves to Him in their spiritual adversity. For only love recognizes Him as God and redeemer of the world; but anyone who does not have love within himself only speaks empty words when he professes his faith in Jesus Christ. Anyone who does not have love within himself will not approach Him in profound humility and confess his guilt to Him, for anyone who does not have love within himself is still a slave to God's adversary who stands against Jesus Christ and thus prevents his heart from turning towards Him. And therefore much sin will be revealed at the last judgment, only a few will belong to those redeemed through Jesus Christ's blood, and people's guilt of sin will be enormous when the dead rise from the graves to justify their actions and thoughts, i.e. when the souls of those will have to confess their guilt because nothing will remain secret any longer what once happened .... All those who died without Jesus Christ, all those who did not acknowledge Him on earth and thus did not avail themselves of the blessings of the act of salvation, will have to answer for themselves, for without living faith in Him they will still dwell in deepest darkness in the beyond, even if endless times pass over it. For they cannot ascend without Jesus Christ because they do not have love within themselves and even in the beyond an ascent is only possible through love. Even in the beyond they still have the opportunity to recognize Jesus Christ, yet only a few change into love of their own free will, only a few take hold of His saving redeemer's hand when He descends to them in order to help them ascend to Himself .... Without love they don't recognize Him and don't let Him help them. For sin pulls them down and holds them in the depths as if with chains. Only One can free them from it, and they do not recognize this One in the blindness which is the consequence of sinfulness. But the last judgement will separate the spirits. Even then the merciful father's hand will reach out to the sinners, and whoever grasps it and allows himself to be pulled up will be saved from the punishment of hell of a renewed banishment in the solid matter of the new earth. Sin will be revealed and also the will of those who have sinned, and the fate of the souls will be in accordance with this will after the last judgment, for God is a God of love and mercy but also a God of justice ....

Amen

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Reference to the end ....

B.D. 4889 from May 4th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

You only have a short period of time left .... Time and again I say this to you because you are of weak faith and don't want to believe that you are living in the last days and that My warnings and admonitions are therefore meant for you. But you should believe it, for it depends on your faith how you use this final time for your soul and its progress. Whatever you do without faith is only done for the world; but this will pass away and all your efforts will be in vain, all commodities will disintegrate and nothing will stay behind which will be useful to you in eternity. You will only keep that which is not of this world; only the spiritual treasures you gathered will remain with you. If you, therefore, believe in a speedy end, then you will no longer create and work for this world, for the body and its requirements, but you will first take care to improve the state of your soul, and thus you will work for your eternal life. The world stops you from doing this work, the world tries to captivate you with earthly pleasure and all kinds of enticements. And fulfilment of earthly wishes always results in a slackening of spiritual work, thus the loss of everlasting spiritual treasures.

For this reason I caution you against the world .... Don't take more notice of it than is necessary for your earthly life; don't seek it but avoid it wherever possible; don't ascribe any value to it other than that it is the necessary means for your maturation on Earth, and don't let it triumph over you but strive to rise high above the earth. And you will be able to do so once you allow the belief of the near end to come alive in you. Know that I Myself Am talking to you, your God and Father of eternity, and know, that every Word is truth because I tell you so. And therefore, only take care of today and don't worry what will happen tomorrow, for you worry about useless things and should only take your spiritual maturing and spiritual preparation for eternity seriously. You should always let this be your first concern, then you will not need to fear an end, you will await it calmly and collected and be prepared for My coming at the end of the time which you are still granted to release yourselves from Satan's shackles ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The reward of a life of love, blissful fate in the beyond ....

B.D. 4890 from May 5th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

Those of you who heed My will on earth are granted a blissful fate. I expect nothing else from you other than that you conduct yourselves on earth like your Father's children, that you love and help one another like true children of the same Father do. No other commandment is given to you by Me, for true love includes everything, from true love emerges everything that leads to unification with Me. Consequently, true love is all you need to strive for on earth. Your nature must shape itself into love, it must become again as it once was when it originated from Me, the Eternal Love .... Then you can stay in your true home again, in the kingdom of light, in My presence and illuminated by My strength, which signifies eternal beatitude for you. A blissful fate is granted to you if you respect My will .... Therefore, make My will your own, live in Me and with Me, and My will shall be yours too. To live according to My will is all I expect of you. But anyone who lives according to My will cannot be anything but good, and thus is kindness of heart also the evidence that a person has entered into My will, that he is a true child of his Father. And I watch over My children with all love and care, consequently they can go through earthly life without worry as soon as they feel themselves as My children and are closely united with Me through love, which characterises the human beings as My children. Be kind to each other, support each other in every adversity, try to keep all suffering at bay and help wherever possible. Prove yourselves as My children, and your Father's love will be your eternal reward ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Bridge to God - prayer in spirit and truth ....

B.D. 4891 from May 6th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

People no longer find the bridge to Me and therefore they are in physical and spiritual adversity. They are no longer in contact with Me because they alienate themselves from Me, because they strive away from Me and this always results in earthly and spiritual adversity, for the former is the consequence and the means to remedy the spiritual adversity. The connection with Me would also secure people the strength to master every earthly adversity, yet without Me they are incapable of overcoming the adversity, without Me they are weak and abandoned. They don't use the bridge which My love has built for them, they don't call upon Me, they no longer pray, and therefore I cannot come to their aid because this help requires their free will which they express to Me through heartfelt prayer. In prayer people unite with Me as soon as the prayer rises from the heart to Me. Then they have used the bridge, they have come to Me and present their hardship to Me .... How much easier earthly life could be for you humans if you wanted to come to Me in prayer, Who has shown you a safe path on which you can escape all adversity .... And you pay no attention to this, you are in adversity and misery and yet don't pray to Me as a father's true children do. I certainly see your adversity, I could also help you, yet without your will My help would not be a proof of love for you, instead, you would distance yourselves ever further from Me the better you are, and then you would be eternally lost to Me. And thus I have to wait for your call before I intervene to help you if I am not to completely endanger your soul's salvation. But who comes to Me in prayer .... who is so intimately united with Me that he speaks to Me at all times and presents all his needs to Me? There are only very few, and these shall give their fellow human beings proof that One hears the call which ascends from earth. And therefore they, too, must come to Me in adversity for help, and I will help them so obviously that fellow human beings will be able to recognize the strength which lies in a right prayer in spirit and in truth, which every human being can acquire because My love is unlimited and constantly gives. The right bridge to Me is prayer in spirit and in truth .... This bridge will certainly lead to the aim; a person will never pray in vain who expresses a request in intimate contact with Me, who establishes the right child relationship with the father and who, as a child, also fully trusts the father because he believes in His love. As long as the bridge of prayer is used, there is no adversity which is too great to be remedied. For a believing prayer is able to do everything .... it is able to stimulate My omnipotence and love into utmost activity, because I will not leave a believing person without help even if it seems earthly impossible. Everything is possible for Me and nothing is impracticable or insurmountable for Me. Yet anyone who does not want to take this path of supplication to Me, who stands apart from the bridge and makes no effort to reach Me, will continue to persist in his adversity so that he will realize how weak and incapable he is when it comes to helping himself because he believes he can do without My help. The human being must feel his own inability so that he turns to Him for help, Who is able to do everything and wants everything that is good and Whose love is unlimited, so that He wants to help everyone who comes to Him in his need ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

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

B.D. 4892 from May 7th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all else shall be added unto you .... Hear what I want to say to you about this statement: You can always rely on My fatherly care if you live according to My will. And My will is that you first think of the soul's needs before you let earthly worries approach you. However, the way you humans are at present you will not accept My statement, for your faith is so small and weak that it seems impossible for you to be earthly sustained. For you put this earthly life first and only think and create for this. But I want the soul to be considered first, and if you fulfil this condition I will take over the earthly care for you. This is a promise which I did not make in vain at the time of My life on earth, after all, I knew about the ever-increasing craving for matter and also about My remedies which I have to use in order to educate people. I have to let earthly adversity approach them in order to turn their thoughts towards Me, and I wanted to give them the surest means to get rid of earthly adversity. I therefore set a condition .... to seek My kingdom on earth .... the fulfilment of which I wanted to reward with earthly care so that they could carry out the work on their souls completely unburdened. My words were clear and distinct, and they may also be interpreted as they read: I take care of all physical needs as soon as the human being does what earthly life is given to him to do, to increase his soul maturity, to develop spiritually upwards, thus to strive for My kingdom with all eagerness in order to become blissfully happy. But who takes these words of Mine seriously, who shakes off every earthly worry in order to burden Me with it in full faith in My help? There would truly be no need for adversity on earth if these words of Mine were believed, which prove My living creations' right relationship with Me as their father from eternity and therefore also guarantee fulfilment. Only a few have created the evidence for themselves, only a few seriously strive to acquire My kingdom and are therefore free from every earthly worry, for I care for these few like a right father for his children .... I provide them with everything they need and My gifts of grace often flow to them in a miraculous way, because I don't leave anyone in earthly adversity who unconditionally trusts Me and tries to gain Me and My kingdom. For the others, however, My word is merely a figure of speech; they don't take it seriously and will not experience the fulfilment of My promise as long as they stay away from Me and My kingdom themselves, as they strive to possess the earthly world with its goods and forget their soul in the process. They have to take care of themselves, for I have made My care dependent on the fulfilment of the condition to seek My kingdom and its justice .... Everyone will be able to convince himself of the truth of My promise as soon as he puts the care for his soul before everything else, as soon as he strives towards Me and is therefore embraced and cared for by Me with all fatherly love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spiritual rebirth ....

B.D. 4893 from May 9th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

I want to help everyone of good will to attain spiritual rebirth. For eternal life, the state of freedom and strength, the state of bliss, only starts with spiritual rebirth. Everything that is still enshrouded in matter, everything that still languishes within its constraints, is still enslaved and weak and only ever wastes its energy of life in order to increase matter. However, the soul which detaches itself from matter begins to liberate itself and slides into a different sphere, although it still lives on earth. The soul, recognising its true purpose, begins to establish a different relationship with Me, its Father and Creator of eternity, a relationship which is more akin to the original relationship, albeit still in a primitive form. It strives away from one realm towards the other kingdom, it steps into another previously unknown world .... it is born-again .... And this rebirth clearly takes place when spiritual aspiration takes the place of earthly endeavour, when the world with its demands no longer comes first but is only taken notice of as far as the preservation of the earthly body requires. Spiritual rebirth is the result of intimate mental unity with Me through the right kind of prayer or actions of love .... I Am motivated to approach a soul the moment it looks for Me, the moment it strives towards Me. In that case, its attention has been focussed on Me and the purpose of earthly life will have been achieved, a change of will has taken place which will also cause a change of nature, an assimilation with My fundamental nature, which is love in itself. The soul has stepped out into a spiritual life and thus starts its spiritual ascent, which will certainly be achieved once it has taken hold of My hand and allows itself to be drawn by Me. In order to attain spiritual rebirth the soul must have buried its earthly desire, it must no longer be held captive by its old shell because of cravings which aim to comfort the body; it must unhesitatingly be able to renounce what the world has to offer because it cannot be in the earthly and the spiritual world at the same time, but the entry into the spiritual world can only take place when it has completely overcome the earthly world. It is, after all, the soul's life and not that of the body, which shall start anew. The body can certainly still be on earth; however, it must now submit itself to the will of the soul, thus its continued life on earth will be determined by the soul. I want to help everyone of good will to attain spiritual rebirth .... And My help for a human being happens first of all by way of assisting him to liberate himself from matter. Admittedly, this often signifies My painful intervention, yet it is only ever intended for the salvation of his soul, so that it will learn to rise above matter, so that it will seek a different life, a life with everlasting possessions, so that it will strive towards the kingdom which is its true home, where it is free from every shackle and full of light and strength, where it can be blissfully happy for all eternity ....

Amen

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Explanation for divine revelations ....

B.D. 4894 from May 10th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

You should learn to believe in a direct influx of My strength in the form of My word. Then you will also understand that in cases of great spiritual hardship and simultaneous open-mindedness of a willing person I will obviously announce Myself by speaking directly to him in order to help all people through him. Furthermore, it will be understandable to you that My love also indicates ways and means to help them out of spiritual adversity, that I therefore instruct them spiritually and sometimes also earthly if the situation requires it. I certainly often have receptive hearts, that is, people who are devoted to Me in love and want to hear My word. However, they rarely hear My word in sound, which requires a certain degree of maturity. Through the sounding word I can express Myself to people whose task is a special one, namely to be high spiritual guides for their fellow human beings. To these I will be able to make My will known so clearly and understandably that My direct address will leave no room for doubt. However, I cannot speak to all people in this way because they themselves do not yet have the degree of maturity which allows such an obvious working on them. Nevertheless, I approach all those in the word who show Me their love and will and want to hear Me. I would like to speak to all people but they do not lend Me their ear. Therefore I consider the few who want to hear Me as often as they open their heart, their spiritual ear, to Me. I give them no less than the former, yet they cannot receive everything themselves, which is why the content of the proclamations differs, since a person can only receive what his soul is receptive to. I certainly have personal contact with the recipients, just as I am so intimately connected with every one of My creatures that it can hear Me when it wants to. And thus it can also receive My instructions and advice which it perceives as clear thoughts and which can guide or influence its way of life. But spiritual work can also be demanded of him, for which he is likewise urged by Me and for which he receives instructions. For the spiritual work, the participation in the work of redemption of the many erring souls on earth, is extremely important, and anyone who makes himself available to Me for this I accept as a servant and also assign the work to him. I express Myself to My children in many different ways, and everyone can become aware of My word in a different way, yet I always enter into personal contact with those who desire My word, who long for Me to express Myself to them. The right, deep desire for Me also guarantees them the overflow of My strength in the form of My word. Yet this is not always recognized as My direct influence but is regarded as their own mental activity, which is why fellow human beings again and again fall into doubt about the diversity of what My children receive as manifestations. I communicate Myself to everyone who wants to hear Me, and the desire for Me will not remain unsatisfied ....

Amen

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Wake up, you sleepers ....

B.D. 4895 from May 11th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

Wake up, you sleepers, and get to work, for the day is short that is still given to you until the end. Every idle and negligent work will be avenged, and only he who is diligent and carries out his work in all seriousness will receive the blessing that means eternal life, while everything that fails is doomed to death. Wake up, you sleepers, and look around you and you will notice the changes which already indicate the approaching end. You must not regard anything as coincidence but know that nothing comes over you without a reason and that you therefore have to pay attention to it. Don't give yourselves over to idleness because it will only bring you ruin instead of rescue from the adversity which cannot be denied, and only those who are constantly active can control it. But your activity should consist of enriching yourselves with knowledge and then passing it on to your fellow human beings, of presenting yourselves with the questions which only I can answer for you, and of asking Me to instruct you. And then I will mentally give you the right answer and spur you on to carry out what I advise you to do through the voice of the heart .... i.e., everyone of good will will gain knowledge of what he should and should not do in order to secure peace for the soul. He will be awake and stay awake and not fall into the tempter's hands in his sleep, for the tempter does not sleep and constantly sets out to catch souls in his nets, which the human being does not see and recognize, who walks along drowsy and will surely fall because he does not protect himself against it. There is a safe way, indeed narrow and thorny, where an ascent without danger is certain, but the still drowsy man does not find it, he goes towards an abyss and is in greatest danger if he does not first awaken and look around for a safe way. And the day is short, soon night will fall, and whoever has not yet found the safe way will be lost, he will fall into the abyss without salvation. Anyone who does not make use of the time until the end belongs to those sluggish sleepers who do not take their work seriously and will therefore be rejected in the end; who cannot reach the aim because they did not let themselves be admonished and warned by My servants, whom I send into everyone's path so that they will guide those who take the wrong path, so that they are never helplessly abandoned to ruin but can always save themselves to Me ....

Amen

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Divine revelations - words of love and wisdom ....

B.D. 4896 from May 12th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

I and My word are the same; My word is the emanation of Myself, consequently therefore the same substance. For where My word is heard I must also be, because it emanates directly from Me. And thus My word will only ever testify to Me Myself wherever and however it is received. For this reason, however, it must also always agree, otherwise it is not My word but human word. The constant presence of Myself guarantees correct thinking, thus a person who is united with Me through a life according to My will, through a way of life in love, can never ever think wrongly as soon as he hears My word not in sound but in thought. For the time being you must have established this prerequisite in order to now judge right and wrong prophets, about the truth of that which is represented as revelation from above. Wherever I Myself can be present through love, right thinking and right feeling is guaranteed .... But you humans are often unable to judge the extent of a person's love, and therefore you sometimes lack the ability to judge the truth of the announcements which want to be received from the spiritual kingdom. Whatever points to Me, Who is eternal love Myself, must also be grasped by My spirit of love; however, this does not yet prove that the recipient of My word has penetrated wisdom. I impart words of love to every person who shows love towards Me and desires the expression of My love from Me. Words of wisdom, however, presuppose the fulfilment of a mission, words of wisdom are conveyed to those who have a teaching task, who are to bring the gospel to their fellow human beings. Where words of wisdom are imparted, a certain degree of maturity of the soul has been reached, just as the conditions have been fulfilled which are attached to a teaching activity for My kingdom. People's free will can well close itself to this wisdom, thus reject it as untrustworthy, if they don't believe in the mission of a prophet, of a servant for Me and My kingdom. But the one awakened by My spirit accepts these teachings without doubt and they complement his knowledge, his realization, they increase his love for Me. But anyone who takes offence at wisdom teachings can also certainly be denied the awakening of the spirit, otherwise he would recognize My word, thus also Me as the giver of the word. (14.5.1950) I take great joy in those who turn away from the world and seek and find their purpose in life in service for Me and My kingdom. I will always be close to them, I will give their thoughts the right direction, I will never leave them without spiritual protection, i.e. I will always provide them with guides from the kingdom of light who will look after them and prevent them from going astray, for where good spiritual forces are allowed to work through a will turned towards Me there is no danger of sinking into the abyss. All forces from the kingdom of light are receptacles for the strength of love from Me and thus stations through which My strength is also conveyed to people. Whether My word, the obvious emanation of My strength, is received by Me directly or conveyed to people through My bearers of light in the spiritual kingdom is of no significance for the value of the manifestations, since only My will determines and the bearers of light only ever carry out My will. It is always the spiritual spark in the human being which seeks contact with the eternal father-spirit and which recognizes everything spiritual and accepts it as an emanation of the father-spirit. I give without limit and let the rays of My eternal love shine down upon the imperfect spiritual, and gaps in knowledge are always filled, the human being is always instructed in such a way as I consider beneficial for his course of development. As soon as a person's knowledge is expanded, as soon as knowledge opens up to him which he had not possessed before and which was not conveyed to him from outside, an emanation of My love is evident, and then the person can also consider himself taught by Me. He may well have gained his knowledge mentally and yet My spirit was active in him which taught him to think correctly and let him find a result which satisfies him, which he therefore recognizes as right. Only he must .... and this is the first condition .... present the questions which move him to Me. He must consciously request My support, he must approach Me for help, for right thinking and full understanding for wisdom from the heavens, i.e. for knowledge which lies beyond earthly limits. He may not expect his weak intellect to be able to give him complete enlightenment but he must mentally turn to the originator of truth, he must come to Me and I will truly not let him go the earthly path in ignorance, I will instruct him in such a way that he will truly become knowledgeable, that it will become light in him and the spiritual darkness will be dispelled, for people are My living creations whom I want to educate into My children and who can only recognize Me as father and creator of eternity through truth, which is why I guide all people into truth who desire it and who believe in Me otherwise they don't request My support ....

Amen

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The kingdom of God has come near .... epiphany of the lord ....

B.D. 4897 from May 15th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

The kingdom of God has come close to you, My children on earth, yet familiarize yourselves with everything My love reveals to you. And thus you will be initiated into the knowledge of My eternal plan, of My rule and activity in the universe, of My everlastingly applied means

(16.5.1950) with which I want to win My living creations for Myself forever. I let you gain an insight into My kingdom insofar as that I let you know about the activity of the blessed creatures, about the connection of all spiritual substances with their creator and about the great plan of salvation, which underlies everything you humans experience and see on earth. Thus you gain spiritual knowledge which already makes you aspirants of the spiritual kingdom whose lord I have been since eternity. You can believe that My love has now seized you, for My love is a ray of brightest light, and light is wisdom .... My love is of inconceivable power, and anyone who experiences it is blessed, for he feels the benefit of light and strength, even though the body is initially still uninvolved. Yet the increasing realization is a visible sign of My influx of love, for it proves the soul's ascent which can now willingly transfer itself from the earthly kingdom into the spiritual kingdom, which has sought Me and found Me because its love unites it with Me. And thus I can now approach you and you will recognize Me when My foot treads the earth again, certainly also in the flesh but not as once born. For I will step into the path of many of My own where adversity requires it, where My own are badly pressed and I want to bring them help .... My kingdom has come close to you, and thus I Myself will also come close to you .... Although I always dwell among you spiritually, your love can also cause Me to approach you visibly, and you prove your love to Me by believing in Me .... I know how difficult it will be for you to believe in Me and therefore I will so obviously come close to you with My kingdom that you will be able to recognize Me, because I want to prove your faith and also reward it. Anyone who believes in Me has love within himself, but love is Mine .... And thus every person who lives in love is also Mine, and he shall also be allowed to possess Me as I possess him, he shall be My child as I am his father. He is admitted into My kingdom, although his body still dwells on earth, and I give him the evidence for it .... that he can behold Me .... Time is coming to an end and therefore you humans will still experience many things which seem impossible to you .... that the father will come to His children and obviously assist them and that His children will recognize Him because He makes Himself known to them. For My love knows no limits, and My children's earth fate at the end of days is difficult, and thus they require a full measure of My love which flows to them as strength and light, so that they will remain steadfast in the last battle on this earth and persevere until the end ....

Amen

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God's love for His creatures ....

B.D. 4898 from May 17th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

The fact that My love will never be withdrawn from you is proof that you emerged from My love which never changes. Therefore you will always be able to feel My love if you want it yourselves. Yet if you distance yourselves so far from Me that you will never be able to feel the strength of My love, you will not be excluded from My love, instead, My love will always create new opportunities to guide you back into its circuit so that you can participate in the happiness which My emanation of love means for you. You are children of My love .... You cannot grasp the full extent of this statement because you can certainly sense the bliss of love on earth but you would no longer be able to live if the abundance of My strength of love were to flow through you in the body of flesh. What has emerged from My love will eternally remain My share of which I will not let anything get lost because it is intimately united with Me, even in the state of apostasy, which the being itself certainly experiences but which can never take place from Me because it is kept by My love. But unlimited beatitude only means love when it unites both partners, which is why I constantly court My living creations' love in order to be able to provide them with bliss through this love, and I Myself find happiness in this love. Yet one day My love will reach it, because its strength is inconceivable, it just does not have an unrestrained effect on My children, because I want them to come to Me voluntarily, that they also voluntarily show their love to Me, that they become My children in truth, which lets them find intimate love for the father. And because I love you with unchanged strength you can also trust Me and consider everything possible which otherwise seems impossible to you if it is a blessing for you. For because I love you I don't want to deny you anything that makes you happy, I just don't want to grant you anything that contributes to your unhappiness either; therefore leave it up to Me how and in what form I give to you as long as you live on earth, for My infinite love determines this and My wisdom recognizes what is helpful for you. Yet always be convinced that you possess My love, that it looks after you and only ever wants to promote your eternal salvation; be convinced that you will eternally remain My children who will never be rejected by the father's love because they emerged from My love, which remains eternally unchanged.

Amen

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Incarnation of beings of light .... Forerunner ....

B.D. 4899 from May 19th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

I repeatedly convey the Gospel to earth, and as you receive it from above it is pure and uncorrupted by human will. I know that this is necessary since untold people are no longer able to find Me because they are no longer taught the truth. Therefore I have embodied Myself in the spirit of those who want to serve Me. The fact that they now receive the truth in its purest form is a necessity which was long recognised by My love and wisdom, which in itself prompts Me to protect the recipient of truth from above against the influence of impure spirits, which want to confuse his thoughts and prevent the truth from being conveyed to him. Therefore, anyone who receives the Gospel which I Myself taught on earth and which My servants on earth are once again instructed to spread, can rest assured that he has the truth, that he, as My apostle in the last days, may instruct his fellow human beings without fear that error could enter his teaching. And in this knowledge he should approach all those who cross his path. He should consider himself as My representative and always stand up on My behalf of what he has received from Me Myself, and which will express itself as an inner feeling because it is pure truth.

Many beings of light are presently embodied on earth because the immense spiritual hardship requires exceptional help which can only be provided by beings of light. Such souls of light are usually spiritual leaders, i.e. due to their way of life in accordance with My will they have a close relationship with Me and thus are able to accept My instructions directly and pass them on to people. The degree of maturity of these light beings is such that a descent into the abyss is impossible, on account of which they always live in utmost humility and unselfishness and only try to bring My kingdom to people without wanting any benefit for themselves but to serve Me and to help people. It is therefore possible for a being of light, sent to earth by Me, to incarnate several times if people's spiritual low level necessitates it. But these incarnations are always in utter service to Me until the end, for My will prevails in these beings as they had already submitted themselves to Me voluntarily and cannot lose this degree of maturity on earth anymore. Inferior spirits will never be able to dominate such a soul embodied in a human being, and it will never succumb to their evil influences either. Hence, an already perfected spirit on earth will never be able to fall, that is to say, not achieve its mission .... Such a mission can merely appear in people's opinion as having been interrupted as a result of a sudden recall into the spiritual kingdom or due to adverse human actions which prematurely ended its earthly life. Yet even this is known to Me since eternity, and I do not forcefully interfere so as not to enslave people's will.

Nevertheless, the act of Salvation will be completed, and everything will come to pass as destined by My eternal plan of Salvation. Even the most perfect spirits from the heavens will temporarily embody themselves in order to achieve spiritual progress amongst people, for without such help the latter will be too weak to resist. And then the dead will rise from their graves, that is to say, those who are spiritually totally blind can be awakened and enabled to see through a bright flash of light from above .... But then it will be the time of the last days when My return can be expected, which was constantly proclaimed by seers and prophets. And prior to My coming the greatest light on earth will shine in modest apparel. Yet again it will proclaim Me as he had done before My appearance in the flesh on this earth, before I commenced My teaching of people to whom I wanted to bring the Gospel .... He was My forerunner and will be it again. You humans will recognise him by his words, after all, he will be using the same words and will testify of Me as he once did before. His spirit will return to earth in order to fulfil the law whereby he has to precede Me in complete awareness of his origin and his task. He understands everything and also knows his earthly fate, which he will not avoid as it is part of the act of Salvation, in which he will participate for love of the unredeemed. He knows that his mission is only fulfilled with his death and has no other desire but for final unification with Me, his Lord and Master, his Friend and Brother, his Father since eternity.

And once he appears the end will be near, for I will follow him shortly and fulfil My proclamations. However, My return will be the final act before the earth's total destruction and everything that lives on it .... Then comes to pass what is written. A new heaven and a new earth will arise where I will dwell in the midst of My Own, where there will only be one shepherd and one flock, because all those who live will be united with Me and allow My presence. For all children on the new earth will be My children to whom I will come Myself to bestow utmost happiness on them ....

Amen

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Retribution and rescue work .... spiritual need ....

B.D. 4900 from May 20th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

It is a time of utmost confusion, a time of profound spiritual darkness; it is a state amongst people which is far different than it should be. People are only connected to matter and also live accordingly, for they don't pay attention to My commandments if they can only attain earthly possessions. They allow themselves to be dominated by urges which are visibly the influence from below; they no longer strive upwards but are far more turned towards the forces of the underworld from which they attain fulfilment of earthly desires and cravings. The spiritual need is great .... so great that it must be broken off by force so that people are prevented from sinking even lower. This is the actual cause of the forthcoming work of destruction of the earth .... to strip the spiritual, which is currently embodied as a human being, of its present form and to give it a new cover where a descent can no longer take place but an ascent must be achieved. The last end of this earth is at the same time a work of retribution as well as a work of salvation, incomprehensible to him whose spiritual state excludes a profound knowledge of My plan of salvation. But it is the end .... also regarded as a work of salvation .... extremely significant for those people who experience it. For the new banishment in solid matter is an agonizing state that I want to save all people from having to walk the path through the whole of creation once again. What is still free will be bound again, what is powerful will be completely powerless, what can think and want freely will then carry out what I want in a state of compulsion; darkness will surround the beingness for endless times until it moves up again to the state of free will in order to now be able to decide freely again. The new banishment will be an unspeakable torment for the spiritual, which still walks freely on this earth. If people knew about the pitiable state they are approaching they would truly change their way of life out of fear, but it would be a change of essence under compulsion, yet without value for eternity.

(21.5.1950) People must go their own way of their own free will. They can certainly be admonished and warned, the coming judgement can be presented to them, but always in the form of predictions which they can believe or not. But what will happen at the end of this earth is inconceivable to man, yet it is something so powerful that human intellect could not give itself an explanation for processes which are completely contrary to nature. Yet it is a spectacle which only My own, awakened by My spirit, can watch, who cannot suffer any damage to their souls as a result. But the rest of humanity, in its horror, is incapable of processing the impressions intellectually, for it only sees death before its eyes, which is also its fate .... spiritual and earthly. It is the greatest contrasts that appear at the end of this earth .... supreme happiness, jubilation and joy over My coming to earth for My own who only see radiant light and are free from all adversity .... and greatest horror, fear of death, darkness and dreadful events with the undeniable prospect of complete annihilation .... You humans are still given a period of time in which you can determine the outcome for yourselves; gifts of grace will constantly be sent to you through which you can become sighted if you are willing to do so. Your attention is drawn from all sides to the fact that unusual things are preparing themselves, the end is pointed out to you through all kinds of appearances; I reveal Myself in many ways so that you will think and tackle your soul's work; I constantly stretch out My hands to you in order to help you ascend .... But I leave you free will .... Use it in the right way and pay attention to the announcements of seers and prophets .... The time will irrevocably come when everything will be fulfilled .... Therefore take care that you belong to those who need not fear the day, for whom it will be a day of rejoicing and bliss, as I have promised ....

Amen

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Transcending matter ....

B.D. 4901 from May 21st 1950, taken from Book No. 55

The goods of this world lose their value as soon as the spiritual kingdom has opened its horn of plenty and pours it out on people. Therefore you will always be able to recognize who is in contact with the spiritual kingdom, be it consciously or unconsciously through a God-pleasing way of life, for the world does not mean much to him. But there are only a few of them, the majority of people are held fast by matter and have no will of their own to detach themselves from it, which would also give them the strength to do so. Matter exerts an ever stronger attraction on the inhabitants of the earth the closer it gets to the end. Matter pulls the human being down, therefore he is in greatest danger, and if he is to be helped it is only possible that matter is taken from him through divine will. He must be forcibly released from matter in order to still be able to renounce it of his own free will or to desire matter again with all his senses and strive to regain it. Then he has rejected help, his striving obviously goes downwards .... matter becomes his ruin .... Then he is granted what his desire stands for, but in a different way .... He does not gain earthly goods, but he himself becomes what he desires .... (22.5.1950) to the hardest matter, which again requires endless times to overcome. But as long as he stays on earth he has the opportunity to free himself from it as soon as only his thoughts take the direction of will towards the spiritual kingdom. For once he is touched by its emanation then the love for matter begins to diminish, the soul feels the benefit of the spiritual rays and surrenders to them more and more. A touch from the spiritual kingdom already takes place when the human being listens to the divine word. Mere listening with the physical ear has no effect yet, the human being's heart has to open up to it and heart and intellect have to process what is heard; then the spiritual rays of light begin to have an effect and emerge as a counterweight to matter. The time until the end is only short and yet it is enough to change a person's will, for with good will the influence from the spiritual kingdom can bring about a change in thinking within a short time, which is evident in the reduced desire for the world and its pleasures, for earthly possessions and honour and glory. A spiritually striving person withdraws from the world, he begins to turn inwards, he certainly still lives in the material world but is little touched by it, and therefore the spiritual world can have a successful effect on him, for it distributes in the same measure what earthly goods are given away, only that it gives goods of everlasting value which help the soul to eternal life. The world has to be sacrificed in order to be able to receive spiritual good; but where the eyes are still focused on earthly matter, on the world with its pleasures, spiritual good can hardly be guided there .... But if you humans knew how short your earthly existence is and that you, who desire the world, would then lose everything you now strive for, you would gladly and joyfully gather wealth for yourselves which will last for eternity. But full knowledge cannot be granted to you, i.e., you will indeed be told that it is so but you will not be forced to believe it because you should freely decide to surrender matter in order to exchange spiritual possessions. You must stand in the midst of the world and learn to despise it, you must have everything at your disposal and voluntarily relinquish it, you must detach your heart from it even though you are earthly blessed with many goods, you must sacrifice what is dear to you to your fellow human being in need .... Then you will receive everything you give back in imperishable form; you will receive a treasure from the spiritual kingdom which will enrich you unspeakably and which you need never fear to lose. For you will take this treasure with you into the spiritual kingdom when the end has come or when you are prematurely called away into eternity. Detach yourselves from matter, give it up voluntarily and change your desire while there is still time so that you need not fear the end which will bring the ruin of everything that still surrounds you as matter .... Gather spiritual goods for yourselves which will not pass away even if the whole earth passes away in order to be shaped anew again ....

Amen

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Using the power of the divine word ....

B.D. 4902 from May 23rd 1950, taken from Book No. 55

Constantly strengthen yourselves with My word, which will be refreshment for you in times of deepest adversity, but which also already provides you with strength and fortification for your will and your faith. Consider that My word is a direct gift from Me to you and that My gift truly has to be of utmost effectiveness; furthermore, consider that I Myself am with you with My word, that you receive eternal love into your heart yourselves when you accept My word. You make far too little use of the strength of My word or you would never be weak and discouraged, otherwise no worries would weigh you down and you would always be able to walk your earthly path joyfully and cheerfully. You give yourselves far too little to the effect of My word, you don't deepen yourselves enough into the meaning of the word and your thoughts too often stray into the earthly world, which need not frighten you at all if only you would strengthen your faith, which My word helps you to do. Immerse yourselves in My word often and thus let Me speak to you in every adversity of your life, in happy as well as in gloomy hours .... My word radiates strength into you which lets you endure or feel less weak whatever oppresses you. Always make your heart receptive for Me, Who wants to come to you in the word to strengthen and comfort you. I constantly want to be with you with My love, yet if you close the door of your heart to Me by turning to the world you will also be and remain weak, because no strength emanates from the world to refresh your soul. My word alone is food and drink for your soul, My word is the right nourishment which you should constantly supply to your soul if you also want to receive Me with the word within you. But to receive My word does not mean to merely read it or to accept it with your ears, for then you will feel no strength, then it will remain ineffective, for then it will only be empty letters in which I can never be. Intimately unite with Me in thought and desire to hear Me, then let Me speak to you and you will feel My presence through the strength which flows to you with every word from Me. You will feel that I speak to you and be happy, for the awareness of My presence fills you with peace and tranquillity, with an inner bliss which lets you endure everything that is allowed to happen to you for the sake of your soul and also for the sake of your fellow human beings. Immerse yourselves in My word and the effect of My word will not fail to materialize ....

Amen

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Characteristics of the right servants of God ....

B.D. 4903 from May 24th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

Anyone who proclaims the gospel to his fellow human beings, who helps them to attain the truth, to rightly recognize what the human being's destiny is, will truly not remain without My help, for his thoughts and actions meet My approval and I bless his activity. Only selfless love must motivate him to do so, love for Me and for his fellow human beings whom he knows to be in spiritual need. If other motives are decisive, if self-love is the reason for activity for My kingdom, then he cannot feel like a true servant of God, then he is just a worldly servant, he practices a profession which is assessed exactly like any other worldly profession, then he is not seriously active for Me and My kingdom but he serves himself, self-love has urged him to his profession. and My support is accordingly. And thus I assess spiritual activity according to the human being's will, for I look into the hearts of those who want to serve Me. Where the serious will exists, the attitude towards Me is also the right one, and consequently also the prayer. As soon as a person speaks to Me like a child to its father, he is united with Me and constantly draws strength from Me. And then the desire will awaken in him to communicate with his fellow human being, he will want to use and distribute the strength, he will want to pass on the knowledge he receives from Me, and thus he will become My servant of his own accord because he recognizes My will and wants to fulfil it. And now I can completely grasp him and direct all his thoughts because he has handed himself over to Me through his will, because he has relinquished all resistance against Me by establishing the right relationship with Me, his creator and father of eternity. But this is how a true servant of Mine must be, completely devoted to Me and listening to My voice within himself. Only then is he suitable as My representative on earth to proclaim My gospel to the children of the world whom he wants to turn to Me. He conveys the truth to them which he has recognized himself, which I Myself convey to him mentally or through the inner word. Anyone who calls upon Me in Jesus as father will also think correctly, because I will never allow him to walk in error if he has turned to Me. For as soon as he strives towards Me the spell is also broken, the former fall into the abyss and its consequences are atoned for and finally forgiven through conscious striving towards Me. My love has lifted up the fallen being because it no longer found resistance, and the being is again in fullest realization of truth and therefore also able to proclaim the truth to fellow human beings, whom he now wants to put into the same state to recognize the father in Me and to serve Me. These are My true servants whom I bless and always and constantly assist if love for their fellow human beings impels them to work for Me on earth. And I will give them strength to work so that the spiritual hardship will be reduced in those who are of good will ....

Amen

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Admonition to stand firm in faith ....

B.D. 4904 from May 24th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

Everything you have to endure for My sake will be repaid to you. Therefore remain steadfast and always remember that the body can indeed be taken from you but not the soul; that the body can indeed be killed but the soul will not suffer death at the hands of its enemies. Remain steadfast in your faith in Me as the son of God and redeemer of the world, for they want to take this faith away from you, they will prevent the knowledge of Me and My act of salvation, they want to displace Me from people's thoughts and achieve this through brutal measures which are very suitable to make the weak believers waver. But then trust in Me, Who will help you in every earthly adversity and can also protect you against these measures if I deem it good. Strengthen your faith, let it become so firm that you stand above everything the world wants to do to you. Remember My words: I will repay you for everything you have to suffer for My sake .... If your faith is strong the measures of the earthly rulers will not affect you, they will not frighten you because you recognize your lord in Me Who protects His servants, because you see your father in Me Who lovingly cares for His children and protects them from the enemy of the soul. The world will badly oppress you on the impetus of it, yet you will be able to resist it if only you join Me, if you draw Me into the battle against the enemy, Who will truly fight by your side in order to gain victory over him for you. You must not be afraid of him and openly confess Me and My name, you must not remain silent, for you shall speak where they want to silence Me .... I need you to bear witness to Me when people are afraid to confess Me. Then you should loudly proclaim My working in and on you, then you should provide them with the evidence of what strength of faith is capable of, you should not fear for your life, which has no value if you sell your soul, but you should also be willing to surrender your life and exchange it for a far more glorious life in the spiritual kingdom. But you will only be called away where it is My will, for you will not be able to be harmed against My will. And therefore I call out to you: Hold out and remain steadfast until the end, believe in My promise that I will come in the greatest adversity in order to save you and fetch you away from the place of ruin, from the kingdom of the devils .... Expect Me and do not fear, for My word will be fulfilled when the time comes. And I will truly not let My own fall into the hands of My adversary. I will come to fetch them into a kingdom of peace, and blessed will be those who are strong and persevere until the end ....

Amen

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"I will pour out My spirit on all flesh ...."

B.D. 4905 from May 28th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh, and servants and maids will prophesy .... I will draw your attention to the time of the end, when these words of Mine will be fulfilled .... The cornucopia of My grace will be poured out, for My spirit reveals Itself to all who allow Me to work in them. On servants and handmaidens I will pour out My spirit .... all who are willing to serve Me shall be taught by Me directly, they shall hear My words and proclaim the coming time. The prophecies of ancient seers and prophets will be repeated by seers and prophets of the last days, for they, too, see in spirit how it will come, they see the approaching end, humanity's great spiritual adversity, and they give themselves as mouthpieces for Me, they prepare themselves as vessels into which My spirit can flow so that they can brightly and clearly see what has been determined since eternity. My spirit thus works in those people .... When I ascended to heaven the work was accomplished .... death was overcome, the darkness of spirit was broken through, the ray of light from above was able to penetrate and My spirit was able to fill people who believed in Me. The connection had been established between heaven and earth, between the spiritual and the earthly kingdom, there was a bridge from one to the other which infallibly leads to Me, for anyone who allows My spirit to work is entitled to My eternal fatherly love, as My child he is the father's heir.

But the outpouring of the spirit was little recognized by people, it was regarded as a one-off Pentecostal manifestation, as a visible confirmation of the mission of My apostles who spoke in all tongues and were therefore filled with My spirit. The working of the spirit, however, is not a one-off, for My promise is: "Whoever believes in Me, out of his body will flow rivers of living water ...." With these words I announced the outpouring of the spirit on every human being who believes in Me and lives out of this faith as it is My will .... I pour My spirit into every receptive and willing heart which has prepared itself as a vessel well suited to let My spirit flow into it. Only a few people have experienced this process themselves, only a few people are so devout that I can work directly on and in them. And that is why humanity knows nothing of the meaning of these words, of the meaning of the outpouring of the spirit. In the end time, however, they will be made aware by the fact that the outpouring of the spirit will obviously take place, which is recognizable through prophetic indications of the end, through indications which only confirm what ancient seers and prophets have prophesied. Servants and handmaidens will be awakened, i.e. they will voluntarily place themselves in My service and now be filled by Me with My spirit; they will make My working in themselves possible through their will, which is entirely meant for Me, and thus they will be able to be active as My apostles of the last days and proclaim the gospel, the last end and My coming in the clouds. I will pour out My spirit upon all flesh .... Many will be able to hear My voice when the last end is near. But for the time being there are only a few who unite with Me so intimately that they will be able to hear Me. Yet all of them have been assigned a mission by Me: to be active on My behalf for Me and My kingdom. These few will feel the calling within themselves and therefore they will not shy away from voicing what My spirit announces to them .... they are not afraid to announce the last judgment and to a certain extent repeat the prophecies of the old seers and prophets

(29.5.1950). Thus they speak influenced by My will, their spirit perceives what is to come and the mouth speaks out what the spirit perceives and conveys to the human being's soul. He is filled by My spirit, otherwise hidden things are revealed to him, he foresees what is coming upon humanity and, in his urge to help his fellow human beings, he communicates to them what he has seen in the spirit .... and servants and maids will prophesy .... I pour out My spirit upon all flesh without distinction of gender, because everyone who wants to serve Me and consciously strives towards Me can be certain of the awakening of his spirit, of the flowing through of My strength of love, and this will obviously manifest itself before the end. What My disciples spoke at the outpouring of the spirit will also now be proclaimed by those who are awakened by the spirit, for My spirit remains the same, My spirit guides you humans into knowledge, My spirit introduces you to knowledge which you should pass on again to those who are not enlightened by My spirit. The feast of the outpouring of the spirit shall not only be a reminder that My disciples spoke in foreign tongues, but it shall be a constant reminder to you to also shape your heart in such a way that I can pour out My spirit upon all flesh. Furthermore, it shall make you remember My promise from which you can see that not only My disciples were receptacles of My spirit but that all people can be; that all people, impelled by My spirit, can speak if they truly want to be servants and handmaidens to Me, if they want to serve Me, because people's spiritual hardship requires servant help. My spirit will make it known to them what they are to say, and you can believe them even if they announce the approaching judgment to you and thus appear as seers and prophets in order to save you humans from eternal ruin. For now it is fulfilled as it is written: "I will pour out My spirit upon all flesh, and servants and maids will prophesy and young men will have bright dreams ...." I Myself appear in an extraordinary way because people are threatened by great spiritual adversity and because every person who applies for My help can experience the working of My spirit within himself so that the great spiritual adversity will be remedied ....

Amen

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Embodiment of immature beings in the end time .... (Hitler - Hausser?)

B.D. 4906 from May 30th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

Let yourselves be instructed by Me where you are beset by doubts or lack knowledge, for only I can inform you of the truth, which I will also do where the truth is desired. I will always clarify error, I will inform you where you are ignorant, I will give you light where it is still dark, for I Myself as the eternal light want to chase away darkness, I want it to become light in you, that you lose all doubt and entrust yourselves to Me with every question, which I will always answer: Comprehend that the world is full of immature spiritual beings which are admitted to embodiment because they themselves wanted it in order to find their conclusion on this earth; which therefore certainly possessed the degree of maturity which allows an embodiment as a human being on earth, but due to their instinctuality are completely under the influence of bad forces which therefore can exert the influence on them because the spiritual beings in them have not yet given up their resistance against Me, which therefore consciously turn downwards in completely free will. They could develop upwards in their earthly career, for their weak will is well taken into account and many means of grace are at their disposal which enable a path of ascent, yet they oppose Me anew and therefore descend .... they become devils, and the end time will reveal countless such devils. My adversary particularly takes advantage of this time by trying to cause spiritual delusion where the truth is to be represented .... by inciting his followers to appear as representatives of the truth and thus initially lulling people into the belief that they will blindly believe what is presented to them. Thus people appear as angels of light in pious garments and yet they are devils in human form but unrecognized by their fellow human beings because they know how to disguise themselves very well and also find support through the forces of the underworld. Whatever people want to do on earth will not be prevented by Me, and no being will be forced to be good if it wants to be evil, just as goodness can never be raped by evil forces either. But anyone who is subject to bad influence does not want it any other way himself

(31.5.1950) and therefore has to be counted amongst those who openly resist Me, for he recognizes the evil at the bottom of his soul. And because he recognizes it he often tries to disguise it, he hides behind a mask, he tries to blind his fellow human beings in the garment of light, always driven by the spiritual forces which still offer Me the greatest resistance, which defy Me and therefore fight everything that could lead to Me. In the end time they fight with all means, and not least they make use of My words to seduce people. Anyone who is in bondage to these forces is already a devil on earth, even though he hides behind the cloak of piety. Everything that is applied on My part in order to redeem people, in order not to let them fall prey to judgment, will also be applied in an adversarial sense, i.e. every extraordinary event, every extraordinary activity on My part will find a parallel in a negative sense .... And thus the beings of light which embody themselves on earth in the last days will also have their partners who are inhabited by demons, yet they will always work in a similar way as happens on the part of the beings of light. And many people can be deceived by this, especially if they neglect to ask Me for clarity in childlike humility and instead want to check by virtue of their intellect. Then great caution is called for, for the more it comes to an end the more confusion will take over. My adversary has a thousand traps into which he tries to lure the souls, and as soon as he has failed he always uses new means, and he wins over the weak believers and the spiritually arrogant who have left the path of humility and therefore often stumble even if they seek the path of ascent. Therefore you humans must be particularly careful in the end time where many dangers lie in wait for you, where devils incarnated as human beings want to give themselves the appearance of a God-seeker and beguile you. You will recognize them by their fruits, by their way of life, which is different from their speeches .... My adversary has much power in the end but he can never force you into his sphere as long as you strive towards Me and My kingdom. Just protect yourselves from arrogance, remain deeply humble and don't exalt yourselves above your fellow human beings whom you should help. Then your thinking will also be right, then the light of realization will shine brightly in you and let you recognize every error which the adversary would like to plant in you for his benefit. Anyone who is Mine recognizes his intrigue, and anyone who does not recognize him has alienated himself from Me through arrogance. For he can be recognized by anyone who is of good will and desires Me as the eternal truth ....

Amen

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Process of conveying the Word from above ....

B.D. 4907 from June 1st 1950, taken from Book No. 55

Accept My Words as purest truth and also always acknowledge Me as the Originator of what you receive as a dictation. Regard the form of transcription as being given word for word but not that a sentence is taking shape in your thoughts. This characteristic ought to disperse your doubts, should you succumb to such. The activity of thought cannot be compared to this way of writing, because a person's will usually dictates the direction of the former, that is, a person chooses a subject before he intellectually, by way of active thinking, works out the details, whilst a spiritual dictation, a genuine proclamation from above, excludes such deliberations, because the subject is unknown to the person and is effectively only given when the writing down of the dictation starts. The fact that the person can mentally comprehend what he is writing does not warrant the assumption that he himself performs the mental work as he only receives what he writes down. In fact, I also subject a person who earnestly wants to be of service to Me to tests of faith and willpower and repeatedly will expose him to temptations in which he should prove himself, that is, in which he voluntarily has to keep turning to Me in order to pass the tests of faith; yet the strength of My Word will protect him from falling away as soon as he allows himself to be affected by it.

However, you keep asking yourselves what you should regard as My Word .... I will always speak to you if you want to hear Me .... The only decisive factor is whether your heart desires to hear My voice. As soon as you want to hear Me I will indeed speak to you .... The idea that I might withdraw and deny you My strength is wrong, for I know what your heart desires and what you would like to know, and therefore I will also reply to unspoken questions and this truly according to truth. But whether you understand the answer correctly, whether you accept it according to truth or give yourselves a different interpretation is entirely up to you, yet it must always be taken into consideration. My Word is eternal truth but who stops you from interpreting My Word according to your liking because your will impels you to do so? Nevertheless the meaning of My Word remains unchanged, and you will also learn to understand the true meaning and recognise that only purest truth was imparted to you and that you only received what was given to you by My love. For I protect all those from misconceptions who want to be of service to Me and are of good will ....

Amen

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Communion .... flesh and blood ....

B.D. 4908 from June 3rd 1950, taken from Book No. 55

I speak to you and you hear Me and I want you to pass on My word to your fellow human beings who also long for the food of their souls, for My word, for My flesh and My blood. For this reason I have called you to be My guests and to be satisfied at My table and that you now again distribute the bread of life to those who are hungry and want to eat at the table of the lord. For I have laid My table for everyone, I want to distribute to everyone what they need for their souls, and you shall be My servants who administer My gifts to them because they have not yet made direct contact with Me themselves but nevertheless believe in Me and want to place themselves under My care. And thus you have an extensive work to do .... to feed and water the hungry and thirsty who are in danger of succumbing on the path if they don't receive strength which you shall impart to them. Flesh and blood shall be offered to them, bread and wine .... My living word .... For I am the word from eternity, Who became flesh and redeemed humanity with His blood. Whoever receives Me in the word into his heart eats My flesh in truth. And the power of My word is the blood that brings him redemption. Bread and wine, the right nourishment for a weakened body, shall also be received by the soul if it is weak and needs strength for its upward development. Then the bread of life, My living word, shall be its nourishment and the soul will be flooded by strength, it will not need to starve and be able to refresh itself at the source of life, it will be a proper guest at My table which I have laid for all people because I love them. And I send out My servants and also invite those standing outside to make use of the common banquet. Whoever wants to come and be My guest will be accepted and will experience the true strengthening .... Therefore you should eagerly advertize for Me and present My love to them so that they will desire to share the banquet with Me, so that they can convince themselves of My love which wants to give them everything the soul needs in order to become blissfully happy. My gifts are not meagre, but I give abundantly to those who let themselves be cared for by Me in a fatherly way. I want to knock on everyone's door and invite him to communion, and whoever opens his door to Me will be My guest for eternity. And therefore you should go before Me and announce My coming so that a place will be prepared for Me where I Myself can stay to take supper with those who listen to your voice and want to receive Me. I will offer them bread and wine, My flesh and My blood .... the living word, which they shall hear directly within themselves or through you, My messengers, whom you shall all seek out as mediators of My word, who will open the door of their hearts to you .... Let this be your mission, which I give strength to fulfil to all who want to serve Me ....

Amen

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'I Myself Am the Word ....' The disciples' Gospel ....

B.D. 4909 from June 4th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

Engross yourselves in the Gospel I send to you from above and you will realise that it is the same that My disciples had written down, who did so on My instruction. It is always Me Myself Who speaks to you humans if you accept My Word, wherever it may be. I spoke to people through My disciples and still do so today, because My love is not restricted and neither is My Word, that is, the emanation of My love, which expresses itself through My Word and will never end, which you will certainly understand when you know what My Word fundamentally is. I Myself Am the Word .... This alone must prove to you that I have not committed Myself to letters and that My Word will always and forever be conveyed to the spiritual essence which has embodied itself on earth as a human being. My Word will certainly forever remain the same because, being the only truth, it can never be changed by Me, yet you humans rearrange it through your will, you assign a different meaning to My Word, as long as you are not yet spiritually enlightened. And for this reason alone I must repeatedly convey My Word to earth, so that My Word will come true: Heaven and Earth shall pass away: but My Words shall not pass away. ... My Word, the pure Gospel from the heavens, which time and again provides you with the evidence of Myself and My love. As long as you humans are still imperfect you will not keep anything of perfection the way it is ..... Instead, you will always strive to change it, precisely because you are imperfect. It is a natural law that nothing will remain pure as soon as it comes into an impure environment, and human will is far more inclined towards that which is imperfect and will always try to drag down what is above himself. Nevertheless, it is free will, which will not be interfered with from My side, hence I will never keep My teaching pure by force, instead, I will repeatedly convey the pure truth again to those of you who desire it. People will never become aware of the distortion of My originally pure teaching if they do not profoundly desire the truth themselves, otherwise the error would not be so widespread. And neither will they accept anything that is offered to them by Me with love, for they are spiritually blind, they keep to the letter and remain untouched by the spirit of My Word. I will never expend Myself, and I will never stop bestowing the emanation of My eternal love upon humanity. And therefore I will never stop descending personally to people in the Word .... which I promised you with the Words: I Am with you always, even unto the end of the world .... If I therefore want to stay with you Myself, then you must also be able to hear Me, for I Am life, I Am strength and thus also the Word of eternity, which manifests itself as life and strength, light and love. I do not want you humans to look upon Me as a distant God. I want to be a Father to you, always close and always willing to give you Words of love if you want to hear them. Just as I once spoke to people when I lived on earth, just as I spoke to My disciples after My ascension to Heaven in whom I continued working in spirit as before on earth, that is how I also always want to speak to people like to My children, I want to convey Words of love and wisdom to them in order to reveal Myself to them as God, Creator and Father of eternity. And therefore I will never stop being present to My earthly children in the Word, and yet I will only ever impart to them the same that My disciples also received as Gospel from Me, because it is the pure truth, which shall remain, even if Heaven and Earth pass away ....

Amen

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God's blessing to the workers in the vineyard .... time of need ....

B.D. 4910 from June 6th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

I want to give you My blessing who are active for Me. For you alone recognize the spiritual hardship and do your utmost to remedy it or to save souls which allow you to help them. The spiritual adversity consists of the fact that the world, which is to be overcome, determines people's thoughts and aspirations and therefore they forget what purpose earthly life has in the first place. But since earthly life is limited for every human being and yet it is the last chance for him before his final entry into the spiritual kingdom, they do themselves the greatest harm if they have not made use of earthly life and enter the kingdom of the beyond naked and poor. But they do not consider this because they do not believe .... But faith must awaken in them without coercion or become a conviction. But people do nothing to gain it, they do not think about their outcome and their purpose in life. Thoughts of the world fill them and leave no more room for thoughts of what is after their death. There are only a few who carry a living faith within themselves, for even those who outwardly profess Me only do so in form; they have a traditional faith, they call handed-down knowledge their own which they have certainly received with their ears and also dimly considered in thought but which has not penetrated their heart and therefore did not have a life-awakening effect on their spirit. People are in great spiritual distress, for one day they will have to answer for their will which they do not use properly in their earthly life. Furthermore, they enter the kingdom of the beyond completely blind; as soon as they have left the earth in ignorance of their origin and their destiny, so they also stay there and therefore have to expect a twofold death, the death of the body and the spiritual death. Mankind endures Me, for they are My creatures to whom My unceasing love applies. I know about their hardship and torment which they have to endure, I know about their helplessness which they cannot overcome themselves if they don't change their will, and I cannot forcefully correct the will if I don't want to deprive them of the possibility of becoming perfect. And therefore I want to create opportunities for them to change their will while they are still on earth, which you should and can help Me to achieve if you work for Me and My kingdom with love for the suffering human race. This is certainly a thankless task compared to the world and its real pleasures, for the success of the spiritual work is only spiritual again, you can only win souls for the spiritual kingdom .... yet how much more valuable is a single soul than the whole earthly world .... The latter will pass away, but the soul is immortal and has all of eternity ahead of it, which it can spend in utmost agony or in supreme bliss. To release a person's soul from endless darkness and agonizing bondage is the greatest work of love you can do on earth and for which both the soul will eternally thank you and unspeakable reward from Me is assured to you, which outweighs all pleasures of the world .... I will bless you for your work, because only loving people can help those who do nothing for their soul by themselves. Don't leave them in their distress but stand by them, for their fate is so sad that it would take pity on you if you could see these souls in the spiritual kingdom. I will bless your work and assist you in every way so that you can carry it out according to My will; I will give you what you earthly need so that you can work for Me without worry; I will guide you so that you will always take the right path; I will mentally instruct you what you should do in order to successfully work amongst your fellow human beings, I will guide your spirit and body and take care of you so that you will feel My love and also give Me your love which enables you to work for Me and My kingdom. Always remember the suffering souls, remember that they are all My children whom I want to help to return into the father's house and that I need servants devoted to Me for this purpose who are to speak on My behalf and in My stead, who are to proclaim to people what they can expect here on earth already and later in the spiritual kingdom; who are to tell them the danger they are in, that they are not only threatened by bodily death but spiritual death when the end comes, which you are to announce to them and the last judgment. People are so far away from Me, they are so unbelieving that I Myself can no longer speak to them without forcing them to believe. That is why you should speak for Me, that is why I want to make use of you and speak to people through you in order to admonish and warn them of eternal ruin. Blessed be your activity if it applies to Me and My kingdom, if you take pity on the erring souls and help them to believe and to recognize .... And you will always feel My blessing ....

Amen

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Through the world goes the angel of light ....

B.D. 4911 from June 7th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

The angel of light goes through the world and proclaims My gospel everywhere. And where he finds willing hearts he stays there and lights a light which radiates into the darkness again. I know very well where I will find receptive hearts, I know very well who is suitable to spread My gospel again, who distributes My precious gift as a bearer of light and is therefore a support for Me on earth in the last days before the end. The spiritual darkness on earth is almost impenetrable, and where a light shines there are also opponents who try to extinguish it again, for light and darkness are in constant battle with each other. And it is the end time .... Consider this, you humans, that the earth will be in complete darkness at the end because dark forces have the upper hand; consider that the light can only still be guided to earth through souls of light which dare to enter the darkness in order to still wrest souls from the prince of darkness, and that equally strong dark forces want to destroy the work of the souls of light; consider that this is why the earth is facing its end, because darkness prevails and overshadows every ray of light unless people's will is so strong that they carefully guard the light; then you will also understand why the pure gospel does not prevail, why it does not spread as it should; I pour out My gifts of grace in abundance, yet My adversary also has great power in the end with My permission. It is a battle between him and Me which will certainly find victory on My side; nevertheless, I let him have his way, after all, the human being's free will is decisive as to whether he prefers light or darkness. And since free will is more inclined towards My adversary, his power is so great and I do not restrict it because I will not make the will unfree. But My messengers of light are constantly at work, and even if the little lights are rarely lit they nevertheless spread extraordinary brightness in the darkness of night, and the light has a beneficial effect on such souls which have not yet completely fallen prey to My adversary. And I try to save these souls from his power before it is too late. Humanity is not blameless for its state of darkness, for there is a sure remedy for it which, however, they cannot use .... to lead an active life of love. Then they will prepare themselves for a change from night to light, then they will not be defencelessly enslaved by My adversary either, and then it will become light within themselves. But who can force people to love, which has to be practiced completely freely or it could not be called love? Love can only be preached, and this is done by My bearers of light who come from the spiritual kingdom and work directly or indirectly on earth. Love has to be preached to people because it is the only means to redeem them from that power. And therefore 'spreading light' means conveying My teaching of love to people, to constantly admonish and spur them on to be active in love, and therefore it is most important to make people understand the significance of love, to teach them that love is strength and only through love can the human being emerge from the night of death into the light of life. Therefore, only those who proclaim My teaching of love wherever possible will ever be true representatives of Me on earth. Then they will scatter sparks into people's hearts which, if they find nourishment, can flare up into a flame and then give off a bright glow of light which can be seen and felt as warmth in a wide area again. Teach love to all of you who want to serve Me, try to reveal to your fellow human beings the secret of their salvation, kindle a little light everywhere and thus spread the gospel in the world, simply and purely, without outward appearances, then you, as My apostles of the last days, will be emissaries from the spiritual kingdom .... Then you fulfil your mission, which you have taken on of your own free will .... to be active in the redemption of erring souls in the last time before the end ....

Amen

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Faithful servants .... devils of the end time ....

B.D. 4912 from June 7th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

You shall bear witness to Me and My working in and on you. And therefore you should also know about things which only I can explain to you; your knowledge should surpass earthly knowledge so that your fellow human beings can recognize Me if they want to. However, the knowledge which is now conveyed to you by Me can neither be proven nor substantiated by human intellect, and yet I inform you of many things so that you will recognize Me in My wisdom, love and omnipotence and bear witness to Me. Hence it can only be believed, and in order for you to learn to believe it you humans first have to live a life of love. Then you will be so intimately united with Me that nothing will be impossible for you anymore, because you will feel Me Myself and no longer be mere earth dwellers but spirit people who can gain insight into the spiritual kingdom. I know what is beneficial for every person and accordingly guide him into knowledge; just as the individual person's task is decisive as to what knowledge he needs. However, you can enrich yourselves with knowledge if you ask Me for it, yet spiritual motives should always prompt you to make a request, the knowledge of which is important for your own development as well as for your mission. Therefore, what is unclear to you, request information about it and you will not make a wrong request. Your mission is to instruct your fellow human beings, and every instruction must testify to Me, i.e. let Me be recognized as a God of love, omnipotence and wisdom. Understandably, this also includes the correction of false teachings and everything that portrays Me as a distorted image, i.e. that lacks love, wisdom or omnipotence. Therefore you should confidently request clarification if you yourselves are in doubt or no longer believe you understand Me. And I will gladly instruct you as is comprehensible to you ....

To be a servant for the lord, thus a servant on earth commissioned by Me, requires certain prerequisites. Tests of will and faith have to be passed by which he proves his suitability. Furthermore, being a servant for Me requires his introduction into My eternal plan of salvation, thus an enlightened spirit which can hear Me at all times. It also requires a complete submission to My will. He is not allowed to will himself, but as a servant only to carry out the will of the lord. Spiritually, therefore, he is My representative on earth who, by subordinating his will, has already completely entered into My will, thus he carries My will within himself to a certain extent. He must detest evil for the sake of evil, strive for good for the sake of good and desire truth because otherwise he will not desire Me. Thus it is impossible for him to live on earth contrary to My will and yet be My servant .... Pay attention to this, so that you can recognize by their fruits where they come from .... Thus no truth can come out of such a person's mouth either, because his thinking is blinded, thus My will is not respected. Then every judgment he makes, be it in a good or bad sense, is also wrong. Then he can never ever be My servant. The will alone is not enough for this if it is not put into action, and My grace alone is also not enough if the human being does not let it take effect through his will.

(8.6.1950) Thus a faithful servant receives My instructions and also carries them out. But an unfaithful servant, once he has refused his service to Me, will never receive instructions from Me again .... thus he has left My service. And immediately he will be seized by the opposing power which will serve him in a similar way but with the aim of eternal alienation from Me. My adversary has great power but never over a person who seriously strives towards Me. But My adversary can also disguise himself and let the person believe that he receives words from Me, yet only if he exalts himself; for as soon as he is deeply humble he himself recognizes his faults and seeks to rectify them. Thus spiritual arrogance is a basic evil to which man inevitably falls victim .... The spiritually arrogant person is unable to distinguish My working from My adversary's working because he himself has already fallen prey to the adversary who now blinds him in every way. Spiritual arrogance irrevocably separates the human being from Me, for the human being who is spiritually arrogant establishes a peculiar relationship with Me, that of the superior being which loses all reverence towards the creator and is also without love for Him .... And this relationship takes effect in challenging language, in arrogant speeches, in hateful accusations and apparent nobility,

(9.6.1950) in a way of life which does not correspond to My will, and in continued tyranny towards his fellow human beings which he tries to determine where free will alone should decide. These are all signs of a God-opposing relationship which every person can recognize who strives towards Me himself and also remains humble towards Me. Forces are active in this world which try to assert themselves in order to mislead people and therefore do it in a different way than usual; which seemingly accept Me and subsequently believe they can overthrow Me, which therefore make use of the light at times, yet unlawfully, yet always with My permission. I want to prove to the adversary that he will not reach his aim even by using all means because he acts against Me. And therefore My adversary obviously works in people of the last days, and anyone who surrenders to him will be able to dispose of all powers, of extraordinary talent, of unusual knowledge and also of unusual strength insofar as that he suggests many of his fellow human beings and they follow him in blindness. Those people are emissaries from hell who, just like My messengers of light, appear in a negative sense in order to seduce people. At first they are considered to be of good faith but they are not, because the prideful devil prevails in them and they don't want to acknowledge anyone above them, which is the surest sign of their origin from below. Yet anyone who allows himself to be blinded by them does not walk the path of love which ensures his recognition of truth and is therefore easily in danger of falling prey to the adversary's whisperings himself, even though he can only use his power to a limited extent where the human being's will is turned towards Me. Spiritual arrogance is always a danger, for then the human being loses the certain feeling for truth and error, because he then lacks My grace, which is only a share of the humble. You must not exalt yourselves if you don't want to fall .... You must come to the father as humble as a little child so that He will shower you with His grace. And therefore My servants on earth must be My 'servants' in the true sense of the word and want to serve Me in deepest humility, then they will always recognize clearly and brightly which spirit's children the people are who surround them and who live their lives in the world .... For everything is admitted to their scrutiny, and He Who in Himself is light, truth and love will be able to give you a correct answer about everything ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Retrogression never will of God .... re-embodiment .... reverse process .... new banishment .... light beings ....

B.D. 4913 from June 11th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

A reversed process now takes place, certainly initiated by My will but determined by human will itself. It can be regarded as an act of retrogression when spiritual substances already embodied as human beings are bound in solid matter again, thus as an act brought about by My will, since I only favour progressive development according to My eternal order. Yet this act also has to demonstrate the same principle which is based on My order .... For the spiritual has already fallen into the abyss through human will, from which I guide it again on a slow path upwards. Hence a retrogression has taken place, not through My will but through human will, whereas My will enables the ascending development again and thus a new healing process now begins after the end of this earth, a healing process which is unspeakably painful and seems to have no end and yet is the only means to help the fallen up again. Therefore, what My work of redemption has not accomplished, this process must achieve: what was easily possible must, because it was not striven for, be achieved with extreme difficulty .... the redemption from form, the liberation of the spiritual and awakening from night to light. I made it easy for people through My death on the cross, but people did not accept My gift of grace, I took the suffering upon My shoulders, but they rejected My help, and therefore they have to take it upon themselves and bear it for an infinitely long time. They were already high up and plunged themselves low down .... And My love and mercy now creates new opportunities for them to reach the height again. The process of upward development has taken place backwards again at a tremendous speed; after all previous stages of development man has gone back in free will in the short time on earth and arrived again where he was an inconceivably long time ago .... with matter, which he strives for with all his senses and which will therefore also be his lot. Yet it must always be made clear that this decline was never caused by My will but by human will itself, and that only My will will now intervene by putting a stop to it and assigning a serving purpose to the solid matter which shelters this fallen spiritual substance, so that the spiritual substance will ascend again step by step, yet in bound will, because it would not be possible otherwise. And thus My will is expressed again, and thus also that only an ascent development is favoured by Me, but every retrogression is caused by human will. Hence it is absurd to think that something which has already matured experiences a retrogression through My will .... that a being which has already liberated itself from the material cover and entered spiritual spheres receives a physical cover again through My will which at the same time takes away the being's retroconsciousness and it has to pass a test of will again .... which it had therefore already passed once but could now just as well fail in free will. For the purpose of ascent development such a soul, which has already passed the test of will, does not need a new embodiment as a human being, since there are many opportunities in the spiritual kingdom to become increasingly more perfect. But if a soul has not passed the test of will then it will be even less transferred back to earth, because this transfer back would then have to take place through My will but would now be an act against My eternal order, because only constant progress is favoured by Me but not standstill or regression. If, on the other hand, the act of embodiment of a soul on earth is permitted by My will, then it is not intended to achieve a missed degree of maturity but merely to fulfil a mission for humanity's spiritual adversity, which can certainly result in a higher degree of maturity for the being but is not the reason for it. Souls which embody themselves on earth can certainly already have a certain degree of maturity if they come from other stars in order to reach the highest maturity on earth. But for these souls it does not mean a transfer back to an already overcome stage, which would be the case, however, if a soul from the spiritual kingdom, which had already once been an inhabitant of earth, were to be transferred back to earth again for the purpose of ascent development. Moreover, it could not be a blessing for such a soul, since its recollection would be taken away from it and thus it would not be able to use the knowledge it had gained earlier but would have to decide of its own free will just like the first time, which, however, could also lead to a complete fall downwards. Anyone who strives upwards will also find enough opportunity in the spiritual kingdom to reach the heights .... anyone who strives towards earth is still under its spell and will never be moved back by Me. However, anyone who is in the light and wants to descend to earth out of love for the unredeemed will be allowed this re-embodiment, but it can never ever result in a descent into the abyss, because the soul comes from above and, despite ignorance of its origin, possesses enough strength to resist all temptations on earth. For I will never ever let a being of light fall. It will always fulfil its mission, even though it always acts and lives on earth in free will. But its will is and remains turned towards Me, because it also has love within itself which recognizes Me and eternally no longer wants to lose Me. And thus what wants to ascend will be eternally supported by Me .... what desires the depth will not be hindered by Me. But My fundamental principle is always upward development, which will also always be recognized by those who strive upwards. What therefore leads upwards is My will, but every decline is the human being's will which is not touched by Me in its freedom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers