New Revelation recieved by Bertha Dudde

Proclamations No. 6189 - 6284

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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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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

6189 - Work of redemption.... ransom.... free will....

6190 - References to the end....

6191 - Only love is valued....

6192 - Redemption from form occasion of the transformation of the earth....

6193 - The key to wisdom is love, not reason....

6194 - Serious admonitions....

6195 - Hearing the word only after the death on the cross....

6196 - Love life.... power of love....

6197 - Returning the spiritual to God.... free will....

6198 - God's blessing to all proclaimers of Jesus Christ....

6199 - Life or death....

6200 - Every person is addressed by God....

6201 - Decision of faith.... confessing before the world....

6202 - Task in life: Helping with love....

6203 - Hostilities.... faith struggle.... vineyard work....

6204 - The right will guarantees the transformation of beings....

6205 - Helping assistance of people at redemption from the depths....

6206 - Ability to love.... willingness to love....

6207 - Deification of the created beings....

6208 - Will to God and power of the word weapons against enemy....

6209 - Increased suffering during the time of the end....

6210 - Explanation about 'spiritual spark' and 'soul'....

6211 - Connection with God - bliss.... separation - unblessedness....

6212 - The gospel is to be spread "in the whole world"....

6213 - Fulfilment of every spiritual request sure....

6214 - God's will: principle of love....

6215 - Urgent vineyard work....

6216 - Desire of a mature soul for God....

6217 - Guide through the spirit.... vineyard work....

6218 - Redemption work for souls.... intercession....

6219 - God's will: fitting into the eternal order....

6220 - Paying off the debt 'in pennies and nickels....'

6221 - Life and death.... Jesus Christ - redeemer....

6222 - Word reception.... protecting the truth....

6223 - Requesting grace in free will....

6224 - Mission of the servants of God on earth....

6225 - "God is in me...." loving activity....

6226 - Readiness to receive the means of grace....

6227 - The ‘redeemed’ at the end.... Inhabitants of the new earth....

6228 - Fear of death....

6229 - Recognition and reception dependent on will....

6230 - The end.... Transformation and new creation....

6231 - God reveals Himself again and again as love....

6232 - Good Friday.... love....

6233 - Suffering and dying....

6234 - Death and resurrection.... life....

6235 - Struggle time before the end.... afflictions....

6236 - Accountability before God's judgment seat....

6237 - Word of God: love doctrine.... right heralds....

6238 - Spreading the truth.... living faith....

6239 - Divine love light.... lightbearer....

6240 - Jesus took all suffering upon Himself.... Why suffering?....

6241 - Gifts of the spirit.... Conditions....

6242 - Punishment for sin? Self-inflicted fate....

6243 - End for all.... positive or negative success....

6244 - From God is appointed the day of the end....

6245 - Redemption of Lucifer.... resistance to the test of will....

6246 - Greatest danger of sinking to the depths....

6247 - Meaning of the word 'court'.... justice....

6248 - Desire for truth guarantees truth....

6249 - God's protection of His fighters and servants....

6250 - Spiritual turning point.... The approach of night....

6251 - The truth cannot be prevented....

6252 - The task to spread the truth presupposes receipt of truth from God....

6253 - God's plan of salvation proves His love....

6254 - Connection with God secures His protection....

6255 - Feeding of the divine word.... act of God's grace....

6256 - The human being is close to the goal....

6257 - Lack of sense of responsibility.... lack of faith....

6258 - Redemption of souls from the deep before the end....

6259 - Beholding face to face....

6260 - Body.... soul.... spirit.... unification task....

6261 - Divine guidance through the spirit....

6262 - Voice of conscience.... Feeling.... Right path....

6263 - Exhortation to diligent vineyard work....

6264 - Blessed or dark lot.... evidence.... Jesus Christ....

6265 - Strength of faith needed in the final battle....

6266 - No intercession in vain for souls beyond....

6267 - Beginning and end of the redemption period far lying....

6268 - Task of the disciples: proclaiming the doctrine of love....

6269 - Deification.... Spiritual spark.... Whitsun May 25, 1955

6270 - Outpouring of the spirit....

6271 - Calm before the storm.... Forearmed fighters....

6272 - God's boundless love.... return....

6273 - Subordination of will.... responsibility....

6274 - Distance from God and wrong attitude towards Him....

6275 - Power and effect of the divine word....

6276 - Redemption of Lucifer.... homecoming of the prodigal son....

6277 - Strokes of fate.... The Father's love....

6278 - Connection with God.... safe ascension....

6279 - Separation - unblessedness.... "Come all ye to Me...."

6280 - True prayer and church service....

6281 - Correct direction of will – total freedom....

6282 - Transformation of Earth.... Eruptions....

6283 - Opening the heart to spiritual gifts....

6284 - Spiritual guides on earth.... Jesus Christ....

Work of redemption .... ransom .... free will ....

B.D. 6189 from February 14th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

I brought help to the enslaved souls in their distress, for they felt the bondage and were unable to free themselves from it on their own .... They were imprisoned by a master who was strong and brutal, who lacked all love and therefore put his servants in hard fetters which they were unable to loosen without help. I brought this help to the people because I, as lord, also had the power to loosen the chains. However, I first had to defeat him, I had to confront him, I first had to acquire the right to liberate his property, for you humans were his property because you had surrendered yourselves to him through your will .... Your adversity was self-inflicted but humanity endured Me because I loved My creatures despite their voluntary turning away from Me .... And so I faced My adversary for battle .... and I defeated him with the weapon of love .... I offered him a great ransom .... I voluntarily let Myself be crucified, I gave My life on the cross to prove to him that My love was capable of anything for you men, to bring you salvation .... I let His servants and executioners perform their despicable deeds on Me unhindered .... My love for you humans was so profound that I took all suffering and pain upon Myself to deliver you from it .... My adversary and his followers were allowed to practice on Me what you had earned through your apostasy from Me and what he constantly wanted to practice on you if I did not release you from his power .... I therefore paid the guilt of sin for you, I gave Myself into his hands so that he went wild on Me, even though I was not his own. And he had to release you in return because I made atonement for you. I confronted him .... but I only waged the battle with the weapon of love. However, I broke his power which he could now no longer prove on you because you became free from his power through My act of salvation. He can only still rule unrestrictedly where I and My act of salvation are not recognized .... For these voluntarily remain under his control and are now also at his mercy until they also call for Me to help them in their adversity. I have paid the ransom for all souls, thus no soul can be kept in the abyss by My adversary which desires to ascend, which is willing to let itself be redeemed by Me, which acknowledges Me as its lord and therefore also wants to belong to Me .... Yet against its will I cannot release it from My adversary, for then he will have a claim on this soul because it inwardly professes him. The soul's will determines whether it will also benefit from My act of salvation, whether it will partake of the blessings of the act of salvation which are available to it without measure but which cannot be bestowed upon it against its will .... I certainly descend into the abyss and bring salvation to the souls of the deep .... yet I don't force any soul to follow Me, but I also loosen the heaviest chains if the soul appeals to Me for it, if it is willing to follow Me, if it wants to escape My adversary's power .... I give everyone the freedom they desire, for I died on the cross for all people, because all people are My creations whom I love from the beginning ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

References to the end ....

B.D. 6190 from February 15th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

My call will still sound often and I will still send people signs which shall make them think. For My love will not let up in coming to people's aid before the end is upon them. And every person will experience it, for I will not leave out anyone who can still be saved .... And I also give My adversaries the opportunity to come to their senses and turn back .... and therefore they will obviously be able to recognize the power and love of a God in My own, for where earthly help is no longer possible I am working to help people believe in Me who only pay attention to what is going on around them. Every individual can still find his way to Me, for the path will be clearly shown to every individual .... And I will ensure that people's attention will be attracted again and again, I will try in all places to cause them to think seriously, again and again I will let proclaimers of My word appear who will address people in a lively way and also point out the forthcoming end .... News will reach them from all sides, even those who are not believers will not remain unaware of what the believers expect and what moves their hearts .... Even if they themselves cannot be convinced of the truth of it they are not without knowledge, and earthly events in the world will constantly remind them of what is said about the end .... Natural events of great magnitude will likewise give people food for thought because they follow each other in ever shorter periods of time and become people's horror .... Wherever I can prove My power, without compulsion of will, there I will also appear, so that no-one can say to have remained completely ignorant of the imminent end .... The fact that people don't believe in it is their own will, but they shall know about it because individuals can still change their thinking, because some will still listen to the call from above when it sounds again and again and they cannot find an explanation for it which fully satisfies them. And I wrestle for every soul and do not let up until the end is there .... He who has eyes to see, let him see .... he who has ears to hear, let him hear .... For I show Myself and always manifest Myself so that I can be recognized if only the human being is willing to do so .... I do not keep Myself hidden but again and again come forth as a caller so that people turn away from the abyss they were heading for, so that they hesitate to move on when the warning shouts sound to them .... but I do not force people's will, My love, however, pursues every person until the end .... but then judgment inevitably comes ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Only love is valued ....

B.D. 6191 from February 17th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

It is love alone which I value, because everything that has love as its principle has to be good before My eyes. And I will also bless everything which, driven by love, is undertaken .... and it will not harm people but only benefit the soul, although no earthly advantage will emerge. Whatever is undertaken with love must also always correspond to My will, for it will not be done without Me, Who is love Myself .... Yet it is only ever to be understood as giving, wanting to please, sacrificing love, not the love which wants to possess, which as self-love can also be the cause for actions and undertakings of all kinds .... You must make this distinction and seriously examine yourselves as to what kind of love moves you, if you intervene in a helping way, as it were, if you feel prompted to act and ask yourselves whether it is right before Me .... whether you may expect My blessing for your actions .... Only unselfish love is ever decisive, for selfish love belongs to the world, it is not My share and therefore cannot be blessed. I tell you this because much is done under the guise of love and because this, too, is an activity of My adversary who, as it were, appears under a mask in order to kindle and strengthen selfish love .... For this is the opposite of pure unselfish love which unites you with Me because it is divine. Anyone who seeks his own advantage is not yet Mine, even if it appears as if the person sacrifices himself .... I see the heart, I recognize every impulse in it; therefore the human being must examine himself whether he wants to give or whether he wants to achieve something. In the first case he can undertake everything without worry, My blessing will always rest on him and I will not leave him .... He will be strengthened and My help will visibly be granted to him, because then I Myself will be in him and then I will truly also guide him correctly, order his thoughts and give him the strength to master his task .... If he is only driven by unselfish neighbourly love he can undertake everything and My blessing will be assured to him. However, every selfish thought is known to Me and I want to warn people against it, because they cannot deceive Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Redemption from form occasion of the transformation of the earth ....

B.D. 6192 from February 18th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

I come to the aid of the spiritual bound in form, for it unconsciously pushes towards perfection, it senses the coming change of its abode, it pushes forward in its development towards a loosened envelope. The spiritual, which is still bound in solid matter, has now reached a degree of maturity which allows for a loosened outer form, and that is why enormous earthly changes are already noticeable before the end of this earth, solid matter is blown up by natural disasters, the spiritual in the earth is constantly pushing towards the surface .... And this state of the spiritual alone would be an occasion for the reshaping of the earth's surface, because the upward development must progress and a development period has truly lasted long enough to induce the spiritual in hard matter to give up its resistance .... So for this spiritual the end of this earth means redemption and possibility for further development in another form .... And also the spiritual, which animates the plant and animal world, strives upwards, and it is embodied again on the new earth in creations, which it can walk through ever faster and also for this spiritual the time draws ever closer where it embodies itself .... embodied as a human being .... in the final test of will .... I alone know about the necessity and the blessing of a transformation of the earth's surface .... I alone know about the degree of maturity of the spiritual, both in the creations and in the human being .... I alone know when the upward development falters and how it can be set in motion again .... and accordingly My plan of salvation has been determined, which will now also be carried out in love and wisdom and might. The fact that you humans are without knowledge about this is already a sign of too low a degree of maturity, yet with some thought you could already conclude the existence of an exceedingly wise creator and then also realize the purposefulness of everything that happens .... for He Who directs your destiny according to His will also truly directs the entire universe in wisdom and love .... He is not a being who arbitrarily creates and destroys .... otherwise the wisdom would be doubtful .... And only My love underlies everything that happens .... even if this seems doubtful to you humans. Everything around you is spiritual, which shall return to Me like you .... and I create the possibility for all spiritual to reach the aim. The fact that you, in your delusion, do not keep the only desirable aim in mind is your own free will .... But he who strives for it reaches Me in the stage as a human being .... Endless times ago you experienced the same possibilities of change, you too were only able to become free from hard matter through My loving intervention, you too had to go the same way that the spiritual becoming free now has to go .... And My love is meant for all still unfree spiritual beings, as it was and still is meant for you. And therefore humanity will have to experience something tremendous and already experience much suffering and hardship beforehand, so that every opportunity can still be utilized to reach a higher degree of maturity before the last day has come, for it decides for all spiritual its stay .... It decides whether light or darkness is its lot, and it places everything spiritual into the external form which corresponds to its maturity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The key to wisdom is love, not reason ....

B.D. 6193 from February 19th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

No area is as controversial as the spiritual, for where no evidence can be produced people will never agree .... yet every representative of his view believes himself to be in the right, he believes to stand in the truth. The human being can intellectually expand every earthly knowledge, he can also prove it with evidence or again and again convince himself of error and change his thinking .... He can fathom it and come to a firm conclusion which can now be accepted as irrefutable by those who research and ponder in the same field .... But it is different with spiritual knowledge .... with the area which lies outside of earthly knowledge and which can never be investigated intellectually .... Whatever spiritual knowledge is passed on to people .... can never be proven but only ever has to be believed. And the fact that people express and advocate many and different thoughts as correct is understandable, because people are different in their nature and the exploration of spiritual territory is closely connected with the human being's nature .... with his spiritual maturity .... For this area is not explored by the intellect but by the heart .... This is incomprehensible to purely intellectual people and yet a fact that proves itself. Even people with highly developed intellectual thinking will not come to consistent results in the spiritual field as long as the heart is not involved in their research. But then the views will fully agree, because then the right key to the gate of wisdom will be found and applied .... And this key is love, which is kindled in the heart .... which now also enlightens the human being's spirit so that he cannot think other than right, because now his thoughts are guided by God and these thoughts are guaranteed to be truth .... People of intellect cannot be helped with such an explanation until love also ignites in them .... Then they will understand this mystery .... then they will understand that God reserves the truth for Himself and only gives it to those who make contact with Him through love. Although knowledge gained in this way cannot be proven, the inner conviction is sufficient for the human being to know that he stands in truth .... and to know that no earthly scientist can ever teach him otherwise and take away his conviction .... Anyone who has once received the truth from God Himself, through His spirit, can also no longer doubt or want to enrich his knowledge elsewhere .... He has taken possession of the spiritual realm, God Himself has introduced him, and for him there is no return to the realm of earthly science, for him there is no change in his thinking, for truth has taken hold of him because God Himself has taken hold of him, Who is the eternal truth .... But the path into this realm was and is love .... And never will a person be able to explore it without love, which is why all spiritual opinions remain disputed as long as they are not gained on the path of the heart .... Spiritual knowledge is knowledge which cannot be proven and yet becomes full conviction as soon as the connection with God has been established through a life of love, He Himself now instructs the human being and informs him in all questions, Who speaks to him through the spirit, Who works in him as He Himself has promised ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Serious admonitions ....

B.D. 6194 from February 21st 1955, taken from Book No. 67

Time and again I admonish you to detach yourselves from the world .... Yet you humans attach yourselves to it ever more, you progressively chase after earthly possessions, you increasingly indulge yourselves in the pleasures of life, and the spiritual kingdom becomes ever more distant for you, which can never be taken possession of alongside the physical world. And that is your ruin, the fact that you hand yourselves over to the lord who draws your souls down so that you get ever more entangled in his nets of lies, which are gold-plated and therefore not recognised for what they are .... Your desire for the pleasures of life will result in your death .... For this desire is placed into your heart by My adversary, he impels you to increase your craving of abandoning yourselves to worldly pleasures .... he inflames your physical longings into seeking and also finding fulfilment in sin .... He dispels all good thoughts, selfish love is being fanned into greatest passion, people only belong to him alone for they no longer question whether they live according to My will, to please Me .... The have fallen prey to the world and consequently to the one who is lord of this world ....

Dense darkness is spread across earth because no spiritual ray can penetrate it, and in this darkness My adversary has an easy game .... he captures countless souls and prepares their fate which they are incapable of realising in their blindness .... He will certainly give them whatever they desire in earthly life, yet their fate after the death of their body will be a dreadful one .... For then he will take full possession of them and render them powerless and unable to release themselves from his control, and they will have to pay for their short lifetime on earth in comfort with a dreadful destiny in eternity .... Yet regardless of how seriously it is presented to people, regardless of how urgently they are admonished and warned against the enemy of their souls .... they won't listen and steadfastly keep their eyes on the world, which attracts them with its radiance.

And sin gets out of hand, for what the human being cannot accrue automatically he tries to gain by wrongful means. Nothing is sacred to him, neither his neighbour's possessions nor his life if only he can improve his situation, if only he can derive an advantage to serve his body .... And with an attitude like that the light cannot possibly penetrate his heart, he lives in deepest darkness and feels comfortable therein. It is a time of depravity, a time of sin in which My adversary celebrates his triumphs, in which My messengers of light gain little influence and only the powers from below are successful .... My adversary is reaping a rich harvest .... and the time is approaching its end .... The work in My vineyard is needed more than ever so that people who do not completely submit to his influence can still be saved .... whose souls have not yet fallen prey to him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Hearing the word only after the death on the cross ....

B.D. 6195 from February 22nd 1955, taken from Book No. 67

The hearing of My word in you is an expression of My spirit working in you as soon as you fulfil the condition: that you shape your heart to love .... I have promised you to send My spirit who will introduce you to all truth .... As long as I Myself walked on earth My spirit worked on and in you (in the human being) if I so willed .... but alone, without My intervention, people would not yet have been able to hear My voice, for at that time humanity was so completely under the spell of My adversary that he did not allow it, for people had not yet been redeemed .... Nevertheless, I spoke through the mouth of the prophets always and constantly before the time of My descent. It was then that these prophets were driven by My spirit .... I used their mouths to express Myself through them, to speak to the people who turned away from Me .... and these prophets had to speak as My will commanded them .... The original state of hearing My voice directly had been lost to people long before My descent .... It was only ever individuals whose hearts belonged to Me and who, as souls from above, were meant to be guiding stars for their fellow human beings who stood at the greatest distance from Me. For satan still had unbroken power over all people which he first used to push people away from Me. And I first had to break this power through My death on the cross .... I had to redeem people, I had to establish the connection between the kingdom of light and people so that the path to Me became free for those who seriously wanted it .... Through My death people were born into new life .... people who voluntarily strived for this rebirth through a way of life in love were born .... according to My way of life on earth .... now filled with My spirit .... My spirit was able to work in them, thus I Myself was present to people, and thus they were now also able to hear My voice .... I could address them Myself .... not only make use of them to speak to humanity .... I could provide each one with food for his soul .... I could give them Myself as food, I Who am the word from eternity .... Yet this was only possible through My act of salvation, otherwise people would not have been able to attain the rebirth of the soul, otherwise they would not have been able to exchange the kingdom of darkness for the kingdom of light. I said to My disciples that I would send them My spirit .... I certainly instructed them in the process of hearing My voice within themselves .... yet they were still unable to fully understand what I was saying to them, because they, too, were still in My adversary's bondage which I only loosened through My crucifixion. Then I sent them My spirit, which visibly happened to these disciples of Mine. But all people can experience the outpouring of My spirit in themselves, even if not in that obvious form .... Through their will they can put themselves into a state in which they are in contact with Me .... They can be reborn through a life of love according to My example .... and now the father can speak to His child and the child will hear Him .... The father can now give His child the right food it needs to mature in order to become what its aim is on earth .... a being full of strength and light which has once again entered the original state in which it was once created .... This address, My word, is the sign of the working of the spirit in the human being .... it is the outpouring of the spirit which made My work of redemption possible in the first place. The human being has to voluntarily unite with Me through love, only then will he have accomplished his rebirth and only then will I be able to give him the bread of heaven .... My word .... administer to him. And the fact that he is able to do so is why I died on the cross and acquired the grace of a strengthened will for him, for previously My adversary kept him bound and prevented him from this intimate connection with Me, which necessitates the hearing of My word. But the people who were previously worthy of hearing My voice thereby fulfilled an assignment for the purpose of which their souls were embodied on earth .... It was always only individual people who had to fulfil a mission: to point to My descent and to lead people to faith .... But after My crucifixion it was (is) possible for all people to hear Me who only seriously wanted (want) to, who keep My commandments and thus fulfilled (can fulfil) the conditions under which I could (can) reveal Myself .... In faith in Jesus as God's son and redeemer of the world, in Whom I was able to embody Myself, the human being also receives the strength to fulfil My will. He can now, without being hindered by My adversary, take the path of love and shape himself into a receptacle of My spirit, which was previously only possible for a few .... but these few were still burdened with the guilt of sin and therefore the path to Me was not yet open for them either .... Thus the love which established the bond between people and Me had almost completely grown cold due to My adversary's influence and therefore people were also extremely distant from Me .... Through the man Jesus this distance was reduced .... He was completely united with Me, and He suffered and died for people in order to redeem the separating guilt, so that people could now also come to Me unhindered and then also hear the father's voice. The original state was to be restored, which presupposes a degree of perfection .... But this degree of perfection could only be achieved after the redemption of the great original sin of turning away from Me .... Therefore I died for you on the cross because this guilt could not be redeemed otherwise. And now every human being can reach the degree which makes him able to hear My voice .... every person can shape himself into a receptacle of My spirit, I can now pour My spirit into every person who lives a life according to My will and keeps My commandments .... To him I can reveal Myself as I have promised ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Love life .... power of love ....

B.D. 6196 from February 23rd 1955, taken from Book No. 67

You shall practice a right life of love and you will feel its redeeming strength yourselves, for you will be free from all fetters of passion, you will be free from all impure thoughts, free from desires of every kind .... you will no longer be able to feel hatred, because this, too, is a fetter which God's adversary has put on you but which will be loosened through the strength of love .... You will be able to wrest yourselves from his control because the strength of love will make you strong, and you will also be able to loosen the fetters of your fellow human beings if you only ever let love prevail towards them .... For love is part of God, and therefore it must have a redeeming effect, because everything divine is free or helps to achieve freedom. As long as you are still under the spell of passion, as long as a thought of hatred is still in you, you lack love, otherwise you would include everything in your love and everything impure would be banished from your heart because it is part of him who, devoid of all love, faces God as an adversary. Developing true love is blissful, the human being feels uplifted, he feels close to his creator, he is not dragged down to earth by vices and desires but he lifts his thoughts up, for love unites the human being with his creator because He Himself is love .... and being united with God must also necessarily be a state of freedom, for God does not let the human being languish in chains who has united himself with Him through love. Always make an effort to live a life of love if you strive for union with God, for He is where love is .... He Himself works in you if you carry out works of love .... But love does not ask whether the fellow human being is worthy of it, love comprehends (grasps) everything and seeks to radiate through it .... and the more hardened it is, the more it languishes in the fetters put on it by satan, the stronger it is .... Love has mercy on the weak and helps the suffering .... love is a balm for all wounds inflicted by hatred, love is a healing and redeeming power which sets right all that is wrongly set right .... Lead a way of life in love and don't eliminate any person, for they all need love in order to become free from their misery .... Anyone who passes away without love is still in the power of the enemy of his soul, which he will not be able to break until he makes use of the strength of love which, however, cannot be given to him but which he has to acquire through his own activity of love .... The human being can have a measure of strength at his disposal such that he will succeed in everything he sets his mind to if only he kindles the love within himself which then ensures cooperation with God, and therefore nothing is impossible anymore because it is not he himself but God who works through him. The human being is weak as long as he lives without love .... He cannot defend himself against being gagged by evil forces, he is at their mercy without salvation .... But he is immediately their master when he is flooded by God's strength of love, which comes to him with every work of unselfish neighbourly love .... but which he must carry out freely, in complete free will, in order to experience its redeeming effect .... For love loosens all bonds, love makes happy and free ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Returning the spiritual to God .... free will ....

B.D. 6197 from February 24th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

Immense periods of time were involved until the spiritual substance, which once voluntarily distanced itself from Me, was again in the state of free will, which I had to keep bound if I wanted it to come so far closer to Me again in order to receive free will back from Me. For previously free will became its undoing because it decided in favour of My adversary and would never have turned to Me as long as this adversary was still able to determine the spiritual substance on the basis of the will turned towards him. I took this power away from him and made the spiritual being unfree until there was the possibility to choose between two masters .... until the spiritual being was again able to make a decision itself. Only then did it regain free will .... It was an inestimable time for you humans which you had to spend in the bound state, yet it was the only possibility to call you, who were lifeless, back to life again. For you were created in order to live, in order to be active for your own happiness, and this destiny remains with you, and one day you will certainly reach the aim of being blissfully happy again in your original state, because you are close to Me and work according to My will and yet are free .... The fact that I kept your will bound for an infinitely long time was only a work of My love for you, who did not recognize My love and therefore turned away from Me in the belief that you would be loved by the one who dragged you into the abyss .... But this one was no longer capable of love and that he did not want to let go of you was only the expression of his hunger for power .... he wanted to rule over the spiritual substance of which he was the producer by using My strength. And because My strength was the original substance of yourselves you belonged to Me likewise, and I did not relinquish My right of ownership over you .... and therefore found a path which led you back out of the abyss again, albeit in a bound will .... But the final decision is left up to you whether you want to reach Me and stay with Me or strive for the abyss again, whether you spurn My love again as you once did and join the one who is My adversary .... I do not force you to return to Me, I only make this return possible for you which you would never have striven for of your own free will because My adversary prevented you from doing so .... Yet you have to bear an overwhelming responsibility in earthly life as a human being, where free will is returned to you and thus you are to make the final decision .... For the endless long time of your ascent from the abyss in bound will may have been covered by you in vain if you now fail as a human being .... And again you can be granted this endless long path of development in bondage and torment .... but also final freedom and unnameable bliss can be the success of a right decision if you return to Me in free will, from Whom you once originated ....

Amen

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God's blessing to all proclaimers of Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 6198 from February 25th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

Everything that is done to spread My gospel I will bless .... For My name shall be proclaimed, people shall be led to faith in Me in Jesus Christ, they shall be informed of My act of salvation so that they, too, will come to Me and request forgiveness of their sins from Me. In view of the approaching end it is extremely significant that people still on earth take the path to Jesus Christ, that they acknowledge Him as the son of God and redeemer of the world, in Whom I embodied Myself on earth .... For if they enter the kingdom of the beyond without this faith, then a less than pleasant fate awaits them there .... They are still weighed down with their burden of sin and cannot ascend, they will be inexorably pushed towards the depth or pulled down if they do not get rid of their burden .... They are without light and strength and no one can help them but Jesus Christ alone, Who can also save them from the depths .... But Whom they do not know or believe in Him .... It is a bitter fate they will face when they depart from this earth in that faithless state .... And I bless all people who make it their task to acquaint their fellow human beings with the divine redeemer .... who preach to them about the one Who proclaimed the divine teaching of love on earth, who present His crucifixion as a work of salvation which He accomplished for the whole of humanity .... I bless those who proclaim My name aloud, because no man can be blessed who does not profess Him .... I bless all those who carry My gospel alive, who fight with the sword of their mouth and thus wage a battle against the one who seeks to oust Me from the hearts of men .... For it is a dead christianity in which people are going along, and this is no less bad than complete ignorance, than complete rejection of the divine redeemer .... They are to be awakened to life again, they are to think seriously about Jesus Christ, His suffering and death and His mission .... so that they will have found Him when they pass over into the kingdom of the beyond, so that they will then be able to walk on by His hand, Who takes care of every soul that only speaks His name in full faith in redemption through Him .... Precisely this faith is lacking in people, and therein lies the great adversity which requires extraordinary work on the part of My servants on earth .... And I will support them in every way in their work for Me and My kingdom .... I will put the words into their mouths, and therefore everyone will be able to proclaim Me who only has the serious will to do so. For I Myself will make him capable and bless his will. Anyone who confesses Me before the world I Myself will also identify as My representative, for he will speak driven by My spirit .... I Myself will speak through him and give all words great strength .... For it is the time of the end when diligent work has to be done if still those souls are to be saved who lack faith in redemption through Jesus Christ and who therefore do not yet take the right path to Me and to eternal life .... which the man Jesus preceded you and which you now have to follow if you want to reach Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Life or death ....

B.D. 6199 from February 25th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

You should live and escape eternal death. This is why you live on earth, so that you acquire eternal life, which, however, can only be gained if you strive to attain light and strength, because light and strength are the characteristics of life .... because without light and strength you cannot be active and life means constant activity. Without light and strength you are in a state of death, i.e. powerless and in darkness, but you are most agonizingly aware of it. If you were completely extinguished by death, then death would not frighten you and would not induce you to strive for life, yet you would continue to exist and death would not end your existence, but you would not be able to pursue your destiny, which has been set for you since the beginning. And you cannot be blessed. For bliss consists in the right use of strength and light, in working and creating according to divine order .... bliss consists in recognizing, in knowing the truth and therefore also in working according to purpose. You were not created for death, but for life, for the perpetual development of strength, for the reception and distribution of strength .... But in the state of death you cannot distribute anything because you possess nothing, and you yourselves suffer utmost agony due to this lack of strength and light. But in earthly life you can easily acquire eternal life if only you remain in divine order, if you respect God's will and submit yourselves to Him, if you live in love .... For then you will acquire strength which can no longer be withdrawn from you, then you will cause the eternal love to be released and it will flow through you all the more the more loving you are. For you then draw eternal love .... the original source of strength .... to yourselves. And through this receipt of strength you must also become able to create and work which consists of ever more eager activity of love on earth, of utilizing the strength from God according to His will. Now you can enter the kingdom of the beyond without fear because you have now acquired life and can never ever lose it. And you will find a rich field of work which will make you happy because you have the necessary strength and knowledge and will gladly fulfil the tasks which are now assigned to you. And you will awaken the dead to life again, you will be able to measure the agony and darkness of death and full of love bring it out of this darkness. And you will impart strength to it and try everything to snatch it from death .... For only what lives is divine .... but what is in a state of death love can awaken to life .... And all of you should live, because God's love created you for life, not for death ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Every person is addressed by God ....

B.D. 6200 from February 26th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

In every situation in life God comes to meet you in order to motivate you to make contact with Him, in order to step from the earthly into the spiritual sphere .... in order to mentally place yourselves into the latter. As long as you humans take your earthly path of life with purely earthly focussed thoughts you will live an unsuccessful earthly life, you don't achieve anything for your souls for whose sake you live on earth .... And if you have not changed this attitude of yours by the time your body dies, your existence as a human being will have been pointless and the grace of your embodiment entirely futile .... You are unaware of the serious significance of earthly life, you are unaware of the immense regret you will suffer when you eventually realise in the kingdom of the beyond what you neglected to do due to your own fault, what you could have achieved had you made the right use of your life on earth as a human being. And because you spend no thought on this, God crosses your path time and again. Time and again he provides you with a reason to think about the actual purpose of your earthly life, He more or less affects you such that you should feel Him and could start to wonder, He Himself enters your thoughts but leaves it up to your free will whether you want to occupy yourselves with Him, whether you allow yourselves to be mentally addressed by Him. He does not exert any force but He is constantly concerned that you should turn to Him so that you will not live your life on earth in vain, without any success for your soul, which continues to exist after your body fades away. No-one will be able to say they have not been addressed by God, for every stroke of fate, every illness, every sorrow is an expression of God through which He wants to manifest Himself .... through which he tries to divert the thoughts from the world and motivate the person to take stock of himself. Every human being is granted hours of privacy when he can enter into solitude and seek contact with God .... and anyone who merely spends a thought on Him will be lovingly seized by Him and receive nourishment for his thoughts which benefit his soul. And no matter how far-away the person still is from God of his own will .... God follows him and tries to persuade him as well to turn around, yet always by different means. However, no one is left to his own devices, God leaves no one out in His endeavour to change his thinking .... no one need to do without the love of God, for all people are His living creations, whom He wants to win back as children .... He extends His hand to everyone, yet the human being must voluntarily seize His hand and allow himself to be pulled without resistance .... Then his earthly life will not be in vain, the soul will benefit from it and he can calmly await the hour of death, for it will merely be the gate to eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Decision of faith .... confessing before the world ....

B.D. 6201 from February 28th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

There will be no way out for you, you will have to decide for Me or against Me .... And you will have to do it before the world, for the decision will be demanded of you. Therefore, don't believe that you can deceive the world or Me, don't believe that it is enough for Me if your will is good but it bows to My adversary .... that you pretend to reject Me outwardly because you fear worldly power, even though inwardly you don't want to deny Me .... I demand an open decision from you, I demand a confession of My name before the world. And I know why I demand this of you .... because I require faith from you which is alive and which places Me higher than everything in the world. And because through such faith it is also possible for weak people to strengthen themselves so that they can withstand the oppressions of earthly power, but who would helplessly fail if they lacked faith in their fellow human beings whom they had considered to be believers .... And therefore I spoke the words on earth: "Whoever confesses Me before the world, I will also confess him before the father ...." i.e. I, as the father Myself, will draw him to Me and give him strength to resist .... I Myself will hold him so that he will not fall, in order to be able to fetch him on the last day when he will receive the reward from the father for his confession, when I Myself will rescue My children from greatest adversity .... It is of no use if you humans only confess Me with your mouth, but it is also of no use if you only confess Me inwardly and deny Me before the world or are afraid to bear public witness to Me and My name .... The final decision of faith demands a strong will and much courage .... But living faith musters this will and this courage because it is the result of a life of love and love gives it strength in abundance. Therefore I only demand love from you humans again .... For this gives birth to a deep, living faith and gives you the strength to confess Me before the world. The end time will still give you many opportunities to practice love. More and more your hearts will be addressed by your fellow human beings' adversity, more and more you will see spiritual and earthly hardship around you, and anyone who is not completely hardened of heart will kindle the flame of love within himself and happily realize that his faith will become ever deeper, his desire for Me will grow and he will also be aware of My presence .... Everything will gain life which was previously still dead knowledge to him, which he certainly did not consciously reject but which was also no conviction to him .... He will now look at and understand everything with the eyes of love, and his faith will also gain that strength which is required in the last battle of faith on this earth .... He will gladly and joyfully confess Me and My name before the world because he has experienced Me Myself through his life of love and I Myself can work in him .... And he will never ever give up this faith .... He will bear witness to Me and My kingdom and also be accepted by Me into My kingdom when the end of this earth has come ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Task in life: Helping with love ....

B.D. 6202 from March 1st 1955, taken from Book No. 67

Your task in earthly life is to lovingly help each other .... You are only able to work your way up through helpful love, for this alone raises your soul's degree of maturity, this alone enables you to enter the kingdom of light and will ensure beatitude after your physical death. All other efforts are of no benefit to you if you exclude being of loving service, if your heart remains hardened, if you want to dominate where you should be helpful. For only through helpful neighbourly love will you make

Amends for the past sin of having rejected love, when you yourselves withdrew from love in order to follow the one who is totally devoid of love, who revolted against Me. Your life on earth has only been given to you to acquire the love again which you once rejected .... so that you demonstrate that you want to change your nature, that you demonstrate your change of will by being lovingly active .... Hence you cannot ignore love if you want to become perfect again, if you want to return to Me again in order to be infinitely happy. The knowledge of this is worthless to you if you don't put it into practice. And the opportunity for this will always be offered to you .... and you will always see hardship around you, people in need will always approach you and appeal for your help .... And then don't let them go from you without having helped them, if you are able to do so .... And don't worry that you have to go short yourselves, for the measure you use will be the measure you receive again ....

But also use you intelligence .... this, too, is My advice so that you will not damage your neighbour more than helping him .... For adversity caused by a person's own fault shall also be remedied by him again, where this is within the scope of possibility .... And the fact that it will be possible if the person is willing, can be appealed for by him from Me .... You must therefore distinguish between adversity and negligence .... You should certainly ease suffering but never encourage another person's carelessness, which is a great evil and should therefore not be supported .... Yet where love helpfully intervenes the adversity will also quickly be remedied, for I will help as well, if I recognise love on the one hand and gratitude on the other .... No human being will be abandoned by Me, and if he turns to Me Myself he will also be shown a way which will guide him out of all adversity .... However, anyone who only relies on his fellow human being is not truly entitled to help, and the adversity is intended to make him see that he himself must change .... For adversity is often the teaching method I use for a person in order to win him over for Myself, so that the adversity impels him to Me, so that it reminds the person of Me and he takes refuge in Me Who will then never disappoint him. It is My will that all people shall become blessed, and thus it is also My will that they should recognise Me .... However, many people spend no thought on Me as long as they have a good life on earth, and thus they are on a downward spiral, towards My adversary .... Only through adversity can I influence them such that they turn around and strive to towards Me as their goal, that they pleadingly raise their hands to Me for help .... And I will hear this call and send them help when the time is right .... Be lovingly active as long as you live on earth and give to your neighbour what he needs .... And I will bless you and that which you give to your neighbour for love of Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Hostilities .... faith struggle .... vineyard work ....

B.D. 6203 from March 2nd 1955, taken from Book No. 67

Much will still be imposed on you before your task is fulfilled on earth .... This applies in particular to My servants who have to do more work in the end time and are therefore also exposed to much hostility from those who are in bondage to My adversary and thus also go against Me on his behalf. They will pursue you, they will put obstacles in your way wherever they can, they will try to prevent your work for Me and My kingdom from being successful; they will do everything to make your spiritual task more difficult, to put you in situations which make you doubt My love and My might. But I predict this to you so that you will be armed, so that you will stand firm in faith and not let yourselves be distracted by them, for I am stronger than they are and will help you in every earthly and spiritual adversity, as I have promised you .... But this difficult time must also come for you, because the end will not come until the satanic forces have exhausted themselves .... For My adversary also has a certain amount of time to work for himself, and he uses it, as he believes .... to overthrow Me .... And I allow this because I cannot bind him until he has exceeded his authority .... For everything is laid down by law, and since he, too, was once My creature which, equipped with strength and power, was active in My will .... he therefore also possessed a right to the beings he created through My strength .... I will not deny him this right as long as these beings want to remain with him .... But if he tries to snatch them from Me against their will, he tries to prevent the voluntarily returning to Me from doing so .... by unlawfully trying to oust Me Myself from their lives .... then I protectively place Myself in front of them and make him unable to carry out his evil intentions. Then I bind him and thus prevent his further influence on people who want to remain faithful to Me. But his attempts beforehand will have a tangible effect on you, he will leave no stone unturned to overthrow Me, to disturb the bond between you and Me .... and all these attempts will have a painful effect on you but nevertheless will not bring you to a standstill .... For I also keep watch over you, over all who belong to Me and want to remain faithful to Me. Therefore, whatever may come upon you on the part of those who have power on earth .... for spiritually and earthly you are under My protection, and if you are firmly convinced of this the hostilities of this power will no longer affect you as little adversities of life to which you are always exposed. You will be attacked and it will seem to your fellow human beings as if you will be their victims .... Yet if you trust Me, if you feel like My children, you are also assured of the father's protection .... and you expect everything without fear .... you have strength through your faith and you will be able to resist the power that oppresses you .... You will remain victorious in the last battle on this earth because I Myself fight with you against satan, because I put him in chains and release you from his power when the day of retribution has come ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The right will guarantees the transformation of beings ....

B.D. 6204 from March 4th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

Secure your right to eternal beatitude through everlasting striving for spiritual perfection .... If you want to reach your aim, if this will is serious, then you are already aspirants of My kingdom, and then I will help you to reach Me. Only the right will secures you the strength to carry out your intention, whereas without this serious will you will never be able to change your nature .... Thus the change of being never takes place against your will but first requires this very will. For the will is the sign of conscious devotion to Me, from Whom you once turned away. But it can never be understood that you only express your will through words .... I look into your heart and take pleasure in it if I see the serious will in you .... And then I will always be ready to give you strength, and you will now also carry out what leads you to perfection .... you will perform works of unselfish neighbourly love. A person who seriously strives for perfection can no longer help but be active in love .... for this activity of love is already the expression of the strength he receives from Me after he is seriously willing to ascend. But the will is free .... No earthly and no spiritual power can force the will into a certain direction, for even if the human being were forced to outwardly manifest a certain will .... if he were also compelled to carry out certain deeds .... his innermost will .... disgust or pleasure in the required action .... cannot be determined; he will be and remain free and yet be evaluated by Me .... And therefore be mindful of your will .... give account to yourselves how you think and want in your innermost being, ask yourselves whether your thinking and wanting corresponds to My will, whether it is such that you can come before My eyes at any time without fearing that I will condemn you. Pay attention to your will and judge it right .... Only ever let Me Myself be your aim and nurture the desire within you to become perfect, just as your father in heaven is perfect .... Strive for spiritual perfection and you will also be assured of a blissful life, for I will not let an earnestly striving person fall back into the hands of the one from whom he tries to escape. As soon as he turns his will towards Me he will be seized by My love and endowed with My strength which will then also enable him to accomplish what he wants and which will surely bring him to perfection. Therefore you should often go into silence and reflect on yourselves, you should always subject your will and thinking to serious criticism if you strive to enter My kingdom and become blissfully happy, if you seriously strive for unification with Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Helping assistance of people at redemption from the depths ....

B.D. 6205 from March 5th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

I distribute an inexhaustible measure of grace because My love constantly endeavours to prepare an eternal life in beatitude for you. Thus I do not leave the souls in darkness without help either, because they cannot help themselves alone, but just as I also look after the still weak souls and give them strength to reach the light. My love applies to all souls, which does not stop, which wants to help and make happy and which therefore also grasps the spiritual which is still very distant from Me .... which is why I bestow graces there .... undeserved aids which shall prove My love. My merciful love follows the souls into the abyss and seeks to redeem them .... And therefore you must understand that every human being on earth is also allowed to participate in this act of salvation and that I accept and bless his cooperation if it applies to the redemption of those souls from the abyss .... just as I bless everything which demonstrates love for the unredeemed spirits .... You humans can help by intervening as mediators, because direct contact between Me and those souls in the abyss is impossible, because these souls would not be able to bear the abundance of light which would shine upon them with My direct presence .... but this presence is also forbidden because it would signify a compulsion of will. But you build a bridge through your love which the souls of the abyss can now enter in order to come to Me of their own free will .... My love and grace also sends messengers to these souls, beings of light who approach them in disguise in order to induce them to release themselves from the abyss and strive upwards. But you humans on earth have greater influence on those souls, especially if love for them impels you to grant them help. You have greater influence because you appear more real to them, because you are still in the spheres where these souls also came from .... And you have a special influence if you are able to convey My word to them which, as a direct emanation of love, has an incomprehensible effect, which provides them with noticeable relief, which touches them beneficially and can therefore be regarded as a very special means of grace for these souls. The otherworldly messengers of light and love also bring My word close to them, yet until they have gained the realization of what they have to strive for in order to be blissfully happy they still behave rejectively towards these beings of light until they have gained the realization through you, whom they are more likely to believe and follow your instructions. People on earth can establish contact with the inhabitants of darkness much more easily and sooner if they want to help them in My name, if they make it their task to be redemptively active .... Then such an endeavour will also be blessed by Me, then I Myself can imperceptibly help .... I can open the gates for the souls of the deep to reach you, which they are not allowed to do without My will, so as not to harass you on behalf of the one who is My adversary .... And thus they come to you soothed and appeal to you for help, which you can now also give to them by offering them My word which is of real help to them and which does not fail to have an effect. People who consciously take care of these souls, who consciously want to carry out redemption work, will always be blessed by Me, for they carry out work which will never remain unsuccessful because they use a means which will certainly bring redemption to the souls .... They convey My word to the souls, and they establish the connection between those souls and Jesus Christ .... and if they now take refuge in Me in Him they are saved for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Ability to love .... willingness to love ....

B.D. 6206 from March 6th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

You all carry the divine spark of love in your heart and are therefore all capable of love .... which is why no human being can say that he was created entirely without love. People are certainly differently inclined in their feelings which, however, does not exclude the fact that every person can shape his nature so that it is only absorbed in love for God and his fellow human beings .... It only depends on the will of the individual, and only where this resists is an activity of love not possible. Thus you are all capable of love because the basis for it is created in you .... but the willingness to love is your own work, because your will is free, because you yourselves determine the will within you. Thus a person who is willing to live according to God's commandments will also develop love within himself, even though he is also exposed to the temptations of the adversary who would like to suffocate love in the human being when it ignites. And this is the only way you can explain to yourselves the fact that you don't always act and speak in accordance with the commandment of love, even though you are willing to live to please God .... even though you are also aware of the shortcoming it means for you if the degree of love in you is lower. God's adversary puts obstacles in the way of every striving person because a life of love means the certain loss of the soul for him .... He will always endeavour to stifle love, he will always try to prevent the flame of love from flaring up into ever greater embers .... And thus he will have an effect on the human being by allowing love for himself, self-love, to emerge .... which always places itself as a shadow in front of true love and thus wants to darken it. A strong will does not allow this shadow to arise, but often the will is only weak and the human being's activity of love accordingly. And every hindrance to loving activity, every unwillingness towards a loving deed is the adversary's influence, which you humans should certainly take into account and counteract if you strive to ascend .... You must know that you are constantly besieged by him, that he knows all tricks, that he slips in where only the smallest gap in the heart is open to him due to the human being's weakness of will .... therefore be constantly on your guard against him and join ever more firmly to the one Who can protect you against him .... to Jesus Christ, Who died on the cross to strengthen your will, and Who .... as love itself .... will only ever influence your will to love in order to help you attain a degree of love which completely transforms your nature and unites you with the one Who is eternal love Himself. It is always these two masters who want to make you their property .... whom you hand yourselves over to of your own free will you acknowledge as your lord and who then also exercises his power over and on you .... Always turn to Jesus Christ and you will drive away His adversary, since he cannot hear the name of Jesus without fleeing. And Jesus will also kindle love in you, for the connection with Him in thought already gives Him the right to also influence your heart, and this means that love will flare up in you to bright embers and that you now no longer have to force yourselves but your heart will drive you on, because you have united yourselves with the eternal love and love has now become your very essence, as it was in the beginning ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Deification of the created beings ....

B.D. 6207 from March 7th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

In the beginning you all were on My side because you were utterly permeated by My strength of love which drew you to Me .... You enjoyed a state of supreme beatitude because you were divine beings, you were My shaped emanations of love, formations of highest intelligence and in possession of light and strength which, in turn, enabled you to be creatively active. You were perfect beings, images of Myself except that you had come forth from Me, whereas I Myself Am eternal and apart from Me no other creative power reigned. Consequently, everything having emerged from Me was My work .... Even the first-created being which, with My approval and with the use of My strength, produced all of you .... Even this being was My work and not, as it wanted you to believe, the creative power itself. Countless beings were brought into life by this being because it wanted to make creative use of the constant influx of strength from Me .... and it was indeed capable of doing so because I externalised it as a perfect being 'like Myself' for this very purpose .... to populate the infinite spiritual kingdom for its own blissful happiness .... The pleasure I experienced should also make My first-created being happy and therefore I granted it unlimited light and strength, I gave it free will which it was allowed to use as it wished .... but which it should have used according to My will if it wanted to be active in line with its perfection .... However, it started to use its will in opposition to My will .... which was indeed possible since the being was entirely free, thus its perfection would not have been questioned by any coercion whatsoever .... Nevertheless, this would have been impossible had the being aspired more for My love than for My power .... had it been satisfied with the strength of My love it constantly received .... The immense number of created beings brought into life by our mutual love aroused its wish to control them .... and although it knew that My strength had been instrumental in the creation of these beings, its love turned into an opposite feeling .... it was envious of My strength and therefore intended to separate the beings called into life by My strength in order to possess and rule them himself .... But since these living creations of Mine were permeated by My strength of love which kept them inseparably united with Me .... it would have been impossible for him to separate them from Me had I not released them Myself .... which I indeed did for the sake of My beings' deification ....

You, who had been created in all perfection, would only ever have remained My creatures .... creations which would only ever be able to think and act according to My will but which did not correspond to My idea when I created you: free children who existed and worked in supreme perfection, who are certainly active according to their own will which, however, as a result of their love for Me, was the same as Mine .... This is what I wanted to achieve and therefore set you free for you to shape yourselves into what I had set as a goal for Me .... I did not withdraw My love from you, but neither did I stop the first-created being .... which is My adversary now .... from influencing you as well. Yet you, too, were endowed with free will and able to make a free decision for Me or for the first-created being .... You did not have to fall, for you were enlightened and able to feel My love and could have allowed yourselves to be drawn by it to Me .... However, the first-created being exerted great influence over you and you fell prey to it .... You voluntarily followed the one who did not make you happy but pulled you into the abyss instead .... For My adversary resisted Me, he rebelled against Me, he rendered My strength of love ineffective .... I Myself did not withdraw it from him but he distanced himself to such an extent that My illumination of love became increasingly weaker because he openly opposed it .... in the belief that the host of his followers he had pulled into the abyss with him gave him enough strength of his own .... From then on you all had to do without My strength of love even though I Myself did not withdraw it; instead, you had rejected it and therefore become weak and spiritually unenlightened .... You voluntarily forfeited your original inconceivably happy state. Even so, you shall not remain in your self-chosen condition forever, because My love will not abandon you, because you are My living creations as well and I will not leave you forever in a state which entirely contradicts your purpose and your origin .... I will not give up the goal I once had set for Myself .... the deification of the beings I created. I will accomplish it, and those of you who are still wretched as a result of your past rebellion against Me, will also enter the kingdom of light again one day, you will enjoy unlimited strength and be blissfully happy .... However, I will not exert force on you, you must completely voluntarily take the path of return to Me which will lead you back into perfection, which was once part of you and which you forfeited but which you will attain again one day, because My love only pursues this one goal, that one day you will work and be active again in light and strength as My children in My kingdom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Will to God and power of the word weapons against enemy ....

B.D. 6208 from March 8th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

The strength of grace and the spirit from Me is strong enough to displace all evil if you consciously oppose it and want to live your life in accordance with My will. But bear in mind that I can only pour out My spirit upon a person if he fully and completely professes Me in his heart and if he establishes the connection with Me through his will to love, thus if his decision of will on earth has already been made to belong to Me and to separate himself from My adversary. Only then will his heart be open into which I can now pour My spirit .... or the connection with Me is so intimately established that My strength will overflow into him .... and My strength is My spirit, the emanation of My never-ending love .... Hence such a connection makes the human being My child which is now able to hear My voice, and I watch over My child and never let it be snatched away from Me, for I possess its will, and I also have a full right to this child towards My adversary, whom I truly do not restrict in his right as long as My living creations' will is still turned away from Me and therefore it is still his share. But as soon as it has entered My (will) possession I will no longer give it away, and this means that I will also no longer hand it over to his power, even though he will try to win it back until the human being's death. But he will always try you .... and approach you again and again in order to lure you into his realm .... He will awaken desires in you, he will touch you where you are still vulnerable .... he will not refrain from anything which seems successful to him because he knows about your weakness. Yet as long as you are willing to fulfil My will, as long as you place My will above everything, thus as long as you consciously strive towards Me and want to be Mine, he cannot achieve anything and you will be able to resist all temptations .... For you are, after all, permeated by My strength, especially when My presence is proven to you through My address .... And this strength is truly sufficient to repel him and also every hostile being which wants to harass you. Moreover, My word is strength itself, and thus if you let Me speak Myself .... when I can let My word resound through your mouth .... then the spheres are also purified of all evil spirits in which you find yourselves, and only beings of light surround you or those whom you should help but who are not allowed to harass you and also come to you completely soothed, whose love they feel and to whom they surrender .... How limited would My power be and how small My love if I did not grant protection to those who have found Me and also offer Me their weak strength to help in the work of salvation .... As long as I am the aim My adversary does not have the slightest influence on a person, but he uses all opportunities when the person has other gods besides Me .... when he allows himself to be captured by the world, when his love is not yet exclusively meant for Me and the bond with Me is not yet complete .... Then there is danger that the temptations will become stronger and stronger and the human being will succumb to these temptations. For only the will decides which lord wins him, the will alone resists him who is devoted to Me, who has already decided in favour of Me, who never ever wants to lose Me, for this will secures him a supply of strength from Me and now he need never ever fear the adversary ....

Amen

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Increased suffering during the time of the end ....

B.D. 6209 from March 9th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

Much will be laid upon you to bear, for it is the time of the end. All your lives will come to an end on this earth and many people will therefore be called away from life prematurely. The time of their embodiment as a human being is shorter and therefore also more arduous. What some people had a long life span at their disposal for, others have to achieve in a far shorter time, and this is the explanation for the measure of suffering and hardship imposed on those people who are supposed to mature on earth in a short time and who are also able to do so with the right attitude towards God, with a correctly directed will and devotion to God, which is the guarantee that the human being will reach his aim. He alone knows what is necessary and helpful for each individual to achieve perfection. He knows about the inner resistance as well as about the will turned towards Him .... He knows about the degree of maturity of every human being and about his or her ability to develop. And where the resistance is still too great, where there is a danger that the human being will not pass his test of will on earth, there He applies particularly effective means of education so that this soul will not be lost, so that He will win it before the end is there .... And to the same extent God's adversary works .... Sometimes with great success, because he has easier access to the human being's heart than God .... because the latter is still completely addicted to the world and does not want to know about a higher task on earth .... And where the will is directed, that is also the soul's share .... The decision of will has already been made, as it were, why the human being lives on earth .... But God does not give up on worldly people as long as there is still a possibility to change the will, to change the thinking and the desire .... He does not give up any soul as long as it is still embodied as a human being on earth; yet His means which He then applies are painful and exceedingly sorrowful, after all, they are meant to have the effect of an intervention which is intended to save life .... Strong resistance can only be broken through such means, because coercion cannot be used when it concerns the development of the soul. Time is rushing and life will weigh ever heavier on people so that they will come to realize that more is at stake than just earthly life, so that they will set themselves a different aim than they previously aspired to .... But as soon as they have recognized the purpose of life, the burden no longer presses them to the extent that it seems unbearable to them .... Then they also realize that they have lost nothing, but only gained, and that their possessions can no longer be taken away from them. Then they find peace because they have found God ....

Amen

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Explanation about 'spiritual spark' and 'soul' ....

B.D. 6210 from March 12th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

You will always receive clarification providing you appeal for it, because misguided thinking can result in doubts, misguided thinking shows gaps, but the truth is complete wisdom which enlightens you, which increases your realisation so that you learn to understand Me and My nature, My reign and activity as the most supreme and perfect Spirit .... and thereby also attain an ever more profound and living faith, which only the truth can achieve. This is conveyed to you by My love, whereas misguided spiritual knowledge is My adversary's work who wants to destroy your faith in Me .... And I will always teach the same truth to you, the knowledge you receive will always concur and never present contradictions .... I Am a Spirit for ever and ever .... And spirit came forth from Me again .... beings of the same spiritual substance which were perfect like Myself and yet were first created by Me .... The fact that and the reason why these beings lost their perfection has already been explained to you many times by My love so as to make My plan of Salvation comprehensible to you and let your love for Me awaken and grow .... But any being in a state of imperfection cannot be considered 'divine' anymore; it belongs to a different sphere than the one I occupy with the spirits which remained perfect .... It took on a different nature, it completely changed within itself, its nature is contrary to My fundamental nature; nevertheless, it is and will remain strength which came forth from Me, which flowed into infinity and will one day flow back to Me again .... but it will only have reached Me once the spiritual being has attained a state of perfection once more.

In order to enable their return to their source the beings, having emerged but distanced themselves from Me, were disintegrated into countless minute spiritual particles, into countless substances, which were all given a task to fulfil in the whole of My Creation .... in order to then travel a path which definitely led them upwards again, back to Me .... Thus I drew the fallen spirit back to Me since, due to the great distance from Me, it would not have undertaken the ascent by itself in its weakened state .... And I achieved a situation in which all particles belonging to a spiritual being came together again .... I then gave these minute particles an external cover suitable to fulfil a great task: to stimulate the soul .... the union of all those minute particles .... into taking up an activity that would help restore it to its original state of perfection .... First I animated the dead external form, the human body, with the soul, with the spiritual being which had originally been in My image but had freely left its perfect condition .... And then, in order to enable this soul to attain perfection again, I embedded a tiny spark of My eternal strength of love into this soul .... Something divine joined the soul so as to help it on its way to reaching perfection ....

Hence a spark of love establishes contact with Eternal Love .... however, it first has to be kindled by the human being himself of his own volition .... it indeed glows within every person but it can be fanned into brightest radiance or be smothered .... in which case any contact with Me would become impossible .... and would lead to renewed banishment. This spiritual spark, which is a part of Me, dwells within the human soul from the start of its embodiment until the human being's physical death .... Once the soul has united itself with its spirit during its earthly life, that is, once it has kindled the divine spark of love within itself and allows this spirit of love to determine its thoughts, will and actions it will have reached its original state again and returned to Me, because that which is part of Me strives towards Me, thus the union of this soul with Me as My child will have to take place. If, however, the soul has totally ignored this spark of love, if it has completely smothered it, then it will have deprived itself of its divine part again, which alone was able to help it attain life .... Thus it will have voluntarily chosen death again, the banishment in the solid form .... into which the divine spiritual spark cannot follow since, given the opportunity, it can only influence a self-aware being but never a being that has been dispossessed of its consciousness and which, in its constrained will, has no option but to comply with My will ....

Only freedom of will allows for the working of My spirit, yet this freedom of will can also prevent it, on account of which the soul can also enter the spiritual kingdom without ever having become aware of the spirit within itself. Such souls are in darkness in the beyond for an infinitely long time because the divine spiritual spark cannot shine .... because it left the soul at the moment of death and returned to its origin again .... Although the being is self-aware .... it is nevertheless still full of opposition, which makes it impossible for the spirit's love to take effect. This is why it is immensely difficult to awaken the souls from their dead state into life but it is not impossible .... Sparks of love also burst forth in this kingdom, thus time and again My emanation of love tries to ignite within these souls and motivate their will to step into this ray of light and love, and then a willing soul will also be joined by My spirit again, but in that case it will no longer influence the soul from within but affect the soul externally .... i.e., it will be led into realisation by the world of light which on earth, however, could have been brought about by the spiritual spark within the person, had he allowed its working.

This is why the ascent into the spiritual kingdom is incredibly difficult. But it can never be denied that the soul is the actual self-aware entity, the formerly fallen originally created angel-spirit .... And it will remain a 'fallen' soul as long as it has not united itself with My spirit .... as long as it is not governed by the principle of love and has adopted its original nature again .... The spiritual spark within the human being .... the part of Me Myself is precisely this love which was missing in the fallen beings but which is placed into the human being's heart as a minutely tiny spark to be aroused by him into a blazing flame .... The fallen being had renounced love .... and rejected My love. Without love it would never be able to return to Me, but I want to win it back again and, therefore, I place a tiny spark of My divine spirit into this soul which, however, has to be voluntarily kindled into the brightest glow. The being may also reject My love and will nevertheless not be left without help in the beyond, but the ascent into the world beyond is quite different to that on earth .... The soul will never be able to attain the degree it can accomplish by living on earth if it willingly allows itself to be guided by My spirit within itself .... if, through a life of love, it awakens the spiritual spark and thus, to a certain extent, has already entered into union with Me so that I can influence it directly because it does not oppose My emanation of love and thus changes its nature completely by conforming to My fundamental nature .... It will not be offered the same possibilities in the spiritual kingdom, but the soul will still be helped to ascend from the abyss into the light providing it does not resist the efforts of the beings of light and descend again into the deepest abyss, which would signify renewed banishment. The divine spiritual spark within you is the love which is the part of Me that rests in every human being and which can be kindled, but only voluntarily .... This spiritual spark has no shape but can permeate the whole soul and thus spiritualise it .... For the soul is the once fallen, self-aware entity which is intended to become the angel-spirit it was in the beginning ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Connection with God - bliss .... separation - unblessedness ....

B.D. 6211 from March 13th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

All of you could already establish the connection with Me on earth and it would truly be a paradisiacal life on this earth, for you would fulfil your earthly task and very quickly be released from every earthly bondage and enter My kingdom and dwell close to Me as most blissful beings. But since this is an act of free will but your will is extraordinarily weakened, you humans mostly still keep your distance from Me, the separation between us is still too obvious and you are not yet in agreement as to where you should turn .... You still look too much to the one who is My adversary and are much more willing to unite with him than with Me .... But this is why your earthly life is not a blissful one, it is not a paradisiacal state you are in, it is a life of adversity and suffering, of sickness and weakness. For what you all lack is the strength from Me which arises from the connection with Me. And the lack of strength results in hardship and misery .... because you are unable to resist the one who keeps you in bondage, and every bondage also signifies a state of suffering. I would like to release you from this bondage, I would like to liberate you from its power but I can only do so with your consent .... You yourselves must want it and then also unite with Me so that I can then take action against him in order to help you. But where is your consent? .... You yourselves have no desire for unification with Me and have therefore fallen prey to My adversary. The earth does not bear many blissful creatures who are blissful because they have united themselves with Me .... There are only a few who have voluntarily detached themselves from My adversary in order to strive towards Me, there are only a few who have already found inner peace, even though their bodies are still exposed to burdens and afflictions .... but which are bearable because they constantly see their father in Me Who offers them protection in every adversity and danger. And I still seek to increase the flock of them before the end comes, which can only ever happen through My word, which shall be conveyed to people so that they will gain knowledge of My will and the effect of a life according to My will. This is the only possibility to lure people away from My adversary if another kingdom is presented to them which they can acquire with good will and which offers them everlasting possessions, which promises them beatitudes after the death of their body. And no matter how small the number of those who believe My word is .... they are saved from eternal death, they can become inhabitants of the paradise of the new earth if they persevere in the last battle on this earth .... My word will give them the strength, for with My word I provide people with an aid through which they will safely survive the last battle on this earth .... With My word they receive the strength to detach themselves from the one who holds them captive and to unite with Me. And the connection with Me is the fulfilment of their earthly task and the guarantee for a blissful life in the spiritual kingdom or in the paradise of the new earth .... For now they are Mine and will remain so for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The gospel is to be spread "in the whole world" ....

B.D. 6212 from March 14th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

My gospel shall be spread to all nations, the work of the divine redeemer shall be proclaimed to all, and everyone shall be pointed to His teaching of love so that they will follow Him by also living a life of love as He did on earth. And all of you can contribute to the spreading of this divine message that there is redemption from sin and death. For as soon as you yourselves stand up for Jesus Christ .... as soon as you prove yourselves to be true christians you already bear witness to Jesus' act of salvation, which has already brought about your redemption, because your way of life is now in accordance with the will of Him Whom you confess .... because you are alive and no longer a slave to sin and death. Speeches alone do not reveal a living christianity, but a person's conduct reveals which lord he has joined. When I walked on earth I sent My disciples out into the world .... I gave them the command: "Go and teach all nations ...." but at the same time I said: "Wherever they do not receive you after you have given them the greeting of peace, there shake off the dust from your feet and go on walking .... For you should not throw the pearls to the sows ...." And you would preach My gospel to deaf ears if you wanted to speak everywhere despite rejection and counteraction, for there My adversary still has power over people which he uses to withhold the truth from them. But anyone who is permeated by My spirit will always and everywhere proclaim Me and My name, for the spirit within him impels him to offer his fellow human beings the same which makes him happy, and therefore he will not remain silent wherever he is heard .... And living christianity will also always have a stimulating effect on fellow human beings so that they themselves will feel the strength of the one Who is represented before the world .... so that they, too, will feel drawn to the redeemer and desire to be accepted by Him as well .... My gospel shall be proclaimed to all people .... yet you alone cannot fulfil this task, I Myself must guide it to places where it would be impossible for you if you wanted to take over the proclamation of My word alone .... And this transmission also takes place through messengers of light who are embodied on earth for the purpose of this very mission in order to proclaim Me and My act of salvation to people so that they will also attain beatitude. These messengers of light are also My disciples whom I send out into the world, for they, too, have received My teaching of love from Me and can therefore faithfully teach on My behalf according to the people's state of maturity in their environment .... And the fact that I can convey My word, the knowledge of Jesus Christ and His act of salvation and the knowledge of My teaching of love to people in direct speech is something you, who have been taught by Me yourselves and are still being taught, will now not doubt either .... My spirit works always and everywhere .... and if My kingdom were only built on the few pillars .... truly the gospel could not be proclaimed in the 'whole world' and My word could not be fulfilled for eternity .... But you humans cannot overlook and measure My rule and activity on earth and in the spiritual kingdom .... But all My creatures are cared for by Me out of full love and every opportunity is made available to them to acquire eternal life .... I approach all people and knock at their heart's door .... I convey My word everywhere, albeit often in different ways, but I make sure that all people receive knowledge of what Jesus Christ has done for sinful humanity .... I make sure that everyone is informed of My will to fulfil the commandments of love .... And where this will of Mine is observed, there My light of love can also radiate profound knowledge, there My gospel is heard which bears witness to Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Fulfilment of every spiritual request sure ....

B.D. 6213 from March 15th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

I will not deny Myself to anyone who calls upon Me for mercy, for help in spiritual adversity .... For this call is the dearest thing to Me which I can hear from an earthly child .... that it entrusts itself to Me in its spiritual weakness, it is a call which the soul sends to Me in the realization of its imperfect state and in the foreboding of its actual destiny. The desire to be supported by Me in its struggle to ascend will always be fulfilled, for it is on earth for the sake of its spiritual maturity, and its request is the first step towards ascent .... It will now also receive unmeasured grace .... Help of various kinds which all favour its ascent. I will not leave My child in the depths if it desires to ascend, to Me. For the fact that it desires Me is a manifestation of will for Me; it is a willing turning away from My adversary who strives to keep the soul in the abyss and from whom it cannot release itself without My support. But this support is granted to every person in abundance, and no-one will send this call to ascend in vain .... after all, I have been waiting for it for a long time in order to now be able to lead the soul to perfection. Earthly requests can certainly remain unfulfilled because I know about their detrimental effect on your soul .... but I will not ignore any spiritual request and you can confidently count on its fulfilment. If you are unaware of My eternal plan, if you know nothing about your destiny, about the meaning and purpose of your earthly life and the questions about it move you with the innermost desire to want to do what is right on earth, you will certainly come to realize that you are dependent on a higher power .... And if you do not resist this higher power, if you desire to be seized by it, you will also mentally take the path to it and ask to be accepted by the being Who created you .... And in the realization of your weakness and unworthiness a humble prayer rises up to Me which I exceedingly gladly hear and now pour out My grace upon that child, spiritual strength to strengthen its desire and help in every spiritual adversity .... never will the truth be withheld from a person who earnestly seeks it .... never will he be left in weakness of spirit when he asks for strengthening .... never will he accept error as truth if he desires the truth from Me .... Everything will be given to him which is beneficial for him to mature spiritually, and I truly know many ways which lead to the aim, only he has to strive towards Me, he has to want the highest and most perfect being to accept him, and he has to consciously entrust himself to this being .... Then his spiritual ascent is assured, for I grant every spiritual request, I don't leave any soul in darkness which longs for light, I obviously reveal Myself to it as the light of eternity Itself, and I lead to ascent the soul which voluntarily hands itself over to Me .... For it has recognized the meaning and purpose of its earthly life and seeks to fulfil it ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's will: principle of love ....

B.D. 6214 from March 17th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

Only that corresponds to My will which reveals the principle of love .... And thus you have a precise characteristic of My will: Your thoughts, intentions and actions must be based on love for Me and your neighbour .... you must only ever want to help and make people happy and never combine your actions with selfish thoughts. For selfishness is self-love, a perverse love which you may only cherish in your heart to a very small extent .... to a degree that ensures the preservation of your body as long as it has the task to fulfil .... to be the carrier of your soul .... What you therefore need to make the body suitable for this task is the measure of love for yourselves granted to you. But you yourselves are free to increase or decrease the degree of self-love, and the latter will always mean a plus for your soul which you will only recognize when you reap the fruits of what you have sown on earth .... For what the body desired on earth for itself it has to give away .... what it denied itself in order to help its neighbour the soul finds again in the kingdom of the beyond as wealth with which it can now work, which makes it blissfully happy .... So I will not force you in earthly life, I will not hinder you in your thinking, wanting or acting .... you can cover your earthly path at your own discretion, but "what you sow you will also reap ...." And you will always know about My will which only ever requires loving activity from you which, however, you have to practice voluntarily if it is to serve your soul's perfection. And if the heart is willing to love, if the human being has fought against selfish love as far as possible, then he will do of his own accord what corresponds to My will .... He will no longer do it in order to merely fulfil My commandments, but out of the innermost urge of his heart he will think and act according to My will .... It will inwardly urge him to give and make happy, for then he already carries My spirit of love within himself, he has changed his initially love-poor nature, his heart embraces everything that surrounds him with its love .... And thus he also radiates love to his fellow human beings and can also cause them to change their nature according to his example .... Love is divine, it is My primal element, and it therefore has to deify everything that is seized by it and let it become My image. A heart which now allows itself to be seized by Me Myself, which ignites love within itself and now unites with Me, must irrevocably approach the original state again, for it deifies itself and again assumes all characteristics and abilities it once possessed when it was externalized by Me as an emanation of love in all perfection .... Love alone restores this original state, because love deifies the being and because love causes the union with Me which results in an overflow of light and strength in abundance .... This is why My will can never ever have anything else as its aim than to always cause you humans to do deeds which reveal the love principle in you .... This is why My will can only ever be the fulfilment of My commandments which teach you love for Me and your neighbour, and this is why you must all know about this will of Mine .... For this reason My word is repeatedly brought to you humans which informs you of My will .... And only he who fulfils My commandments of love will be blissfully happy, for he can only return to Me when he has become the love again which he was in the beginning ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Urgent vineyard work ....

B.D. 6215 from March 18th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

There is still much work to be done in My vineyard, for it is still necessary to bring much fruit to maturity before the end and to bring it into the sheds before the end comes .... It is arduous work because the time is extremely unfavourable for sowing and for the seed to emerge .... because it is late seedlings that are still to be brought to maturity and there is not much time left for this. And this short time is used too much by people in a wrong sense, therefore you should be eagerly active as My servants and make the work on the souls of the world your concern, which .... precisely because they belong to the world .... are difficult to work on and often only have little time because their earthly life will soon end. You cannot overlook the many fallow fields, which are the hearts of men .... But I can and therefore know that a great many servants are needed who shall work diligently .... in order to still achieve an abundant harvest before the end. I overlook the earthly and the spiritual kingdom, and I tell you that no work is done in vain, that all your efforts are blessed and that one day you will be happy about the success, for although your work on earth seems almost unsuccessful in the last days, the value of every spiritual activity will be fully recognized and utilized in the spiritual kingdom .... indeed only ever by willing souls, yet every willing soul will then continue the work of redemption with the souls surrounding it, and then a seed you have scattered will already have sprouted and spread .... But if no willing labourers are active on earth for Me, much ground remains fallow which could still have brought forth fruit .... And you should always remind yourselves that even the smallest success is valued, that a single soul which finds light on earth crosses over as a being of light and brings light to countless souls in darkness again .... And every person can contribute to this, every person who belongs to Me has the opportunity to influence a fellow human being if he does so with love, and his effort will not remain without success, because even apparent resistance can be abandoned in the hours of adversity which still lie ahead of you humans. Sow the precious seed you receive from Me .... and even if it does not immediately sprout .... it has strength within itself and will one day break through .... perhaps already on earth, but certainly in the beyond, when the soul remembers your words .... Then only a slight push will be necessary and My word will take effect in it. And even if countless souls sink into the abyss when the last day has come .... there will also be souls which don't need to share their fate, which have already broken through the darkness, which strive towards the light as tiny little plants. And for the sake of these souls I command you, for you shall bring My word to them .... You should try to make their hearts receptive and able to receive the seed .... for My word, and you should always bear in mind that My word contains the strength and that this strength will never be lost .... It often only expresses itself in the kingdom of the beyond .... And therefore you do not only work for people's earthly time but often the seed only comes into being in the beyond, yet the soul is redeemed who brought it My word, provided it did not entirely belong to My adversary on earth. Much work still has to be done, and again and again I call you to work, because the end is near and therefore everyone is needed who wants to help redeem erring souls ....

Amen

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Desire of a mature soul for God ....

B.D. 6216 from March 20th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

The soul longs to return to God as soon as it has become light within itself and has recognized its exit .... Then it pushes towards its exit again, for love is within it which seeks to merge with eternal love. And then its stay on earth will only be a burden and only the body will still cling to the earth because it still contains unredeemed spiritual substances which need the form to mature, because the matter the body is made of is not yet spiritually mature, thus the earth is still the element where this spiritual substance resides. But the soul is different if it has recognized the right purpose in earthly life and lives in accordance with this purpose .... if it has thus attained spiritual maturity through its way of life .... This soul feels that everything only means a shackle for it which makes its ascent into the kingdom of light impossible. Therefore it would like to be released from this fetter and take its path to where light and strength flow to it ..... It longs for the original source of light and strength. And thus a soul will willingly and without struggle detach itself from its physical shell, it will still give it the opportunity until the end to purify the spiritual substances so that these, too, can approach their spiritualization more quickly .... even though the path of development of these substances still requires a longer stay in matter, but it can be significantly shortened as soon as the body allowed itself to be guided and determined in earthly life by the soul whose desire was directed towards God. And a longing soul's desire is satisfied .... God calls it to Himself into His kingdom where it now recognizes that it has returned home to its father's house .... This is why a person's departure from this earth only ever signifies bliss if he strived for God's kingdom on earth, if his soul turned towards God when it walked the earth, if it belonged to those who believed in God's love, which embodied itself in the man Jesus to help people return to the father's house .... It fulfilled its life's purpose, it passed the test of will .... Its will turned completely towards God, Who now fulfilled its longing and called it back into His kingdom, to Him from Whom it once originated. And you humans should rejoice in the certainty that this soul has reached its aim and only ever strive to go the same way .... All your thoughts and aspirations should only be directed towards achieving the same unification with your father of eternity, for the hour of departure from this world lies ahead of you all, and the more your soul longs for this hour the sooner it will be called away, because the father will satisfy His child's longing if it applies to Him. But anyone who loves the world does not yet long for God and if he is nevertheless called away from this earth, then the body, which does not want to lose its life, will resist and a fierce battle will precede the departure .... A purified soul, however, also helps the body, which was given to it to mature, to purify itself until the end, and many spiritual substances can join the soul when it escapes its shell in order to enter the kingdom where it is now free from every bondage and will live in bliss ....

Amen

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Guide through the spirit .... vineyard work ....

B.D. 6217 from March 22nd 1955, taken from Book No. 67

The spirit within you constantly impels you to work for Me and My kingdom, it constantly impels you to establish contact with Me, and if you listen to it you cannot help but walk correctly and be active as a faithful servant to Me. And I will truly give you the opportunity to do so, for wherever just one person is willing to do beneficial work for his fellow human beings' erring souls I will also lead such souls there which need help in spiritual adversity. And there will always be an opportunity for you to speak for Me and My name .... because I Myself create this opportunity for you, because I Myself assign the work to you which you should do .... and because people's spiritual hardship is immeasurably great. If you could take a look from above at the earth shrouded in darkness, which is only very rarely broken through by sparks of light, you would be frightened by the darkness and willingly try to bring light into it .... you would then understand My constant suggestion to do so .... you would seek to illuminate the dark night of your own accord because you know the horrors of darkness and want to lead your fellow human beings towards the light. For anyone who stands in the light himself knows what such darkness means, and he also knows that people need help because they cannot find their way out by themselves.

And an impenetrable darkness lies over the whole earth, for people do not remember Me except for a few exceptions .... They indeed have a God .... but their God is mammon, that is, he who is lord over darkness .... They constantly strive only for his kingdom, earthly matter, which is transient, but that which is imperishable they do not remember .... They keep their eyes closed for the light which could also shine upon them, or they are in such dark surroundings that no light can shine upon them. And yet, My love also wants to give them light, and anyone who offers himself as a bearer of light to go into the darkness in order to chase it away will truly find My approval and always support for his intention. I direct his steps correctly, I guide him through the spirit, I put the right words into his mouth .... I fill him Myself with light and strength so that he will also be able to enter the darkness as a bearer of light and that he will succeed in chasing away the darkness. He himself will radiate light and attract people who desire light. They will feel good in his presence because they will feel the benefit of light .... But there will only ever be a few who accept your light .... But for these few the morning dawns, they escape the night, and they are saved from spiritual death .... And that is why your work is so extremely important, that is why I urgently need you, because as a human being you have access to your fellow human beings sooner than I Myself, because My light radiation is too strong for them and they would have to perish .... But you dim the glow, you can let your light shine to the extent that it is beneficial for your fellow human beings and I can then intensify it according to their will to stand in the light .... Let yourselves be driven by My spirit, for it assigns you the work you are capable of doing .... And I Myself am with you with My blessing and My love ....

Amen

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Redemption work for souls .... intercession ....

B.D. 6218 from March 23rd 1955, taken from Book No. 67

Whatever is done in good will to contribute towards the souls' redemption, to help them in their spiritual adversity, is also regarded as redemptive work and benefits those unhappy souls which you want to save from the fate of darkness .... They feel your intercession and you call them to you with your loving thoughts so that they will never ever leave you again as soon as they feel the strength which emanates from you through your love .... And I know very well which souls need your intercession when you pray for the souls languishing in the abyss .... I also know how these souls behave towards your will to help, and I will also bring those souls to you so that they can let themselves be redeemed with your help .... for the gospel must first be conveyed to them so that they can then become active themselves if strength is imparted to them .... They must know about Jesus Christ themselves as the redeemer from the abyss before they can also lead other souls to Him .... which then also consists of their activity, if a small light of realization shimmers for them .... These souls can do nothing without Jesus Christ, yet in the abyss they are completely without knowledge about Him, Who alone can save them from darkness. And this knowledge shall be conveyed to them through you, only then will they be able to call upon Him of their own free will, and only then will they be saved. But as long as the souls are without knowledge of their redeemer they are also hopelessly exposed to My adversary's power, and your prayer for these souls means a slight loosening of their shackles which gives them the impetus to come to you in the hope of changing their situation. And then they shall receive information from you in which way their situation can be improved, in which way they can become free from the power of their jailer. And as soon as they have been given this knowledge, they can again decide for themselves whether they want to follow your advice or not .... But once they have stayed close to you the return to the abyss is so dreadful to them that they will seriously reconsider and mostly follow your suggestions, that they, in order not to be beaten into shackles again, call for the one Whom you have proclaimed to them as saviour and redeemer. It is the redemption from the depths dependent on the free will of the being .... a soul cannot be arbitrarily redeemed and led to the light against the law of My eternal order if it does not want it itself .... And you should stimulate this will and lovingly inform the beings of My word, which has a strong effect of strength on them and therefore you yourselves possess great attraction because you give them love and strength. Only rarely is a soul so stubborn that it returns into the abyss once it has felt the benefit of light and strength with you. But otherwise it will fall even deeper than before, and it will take eternal times until it experiences the grace of light supply again, for such an obdurate soul is still completely in the adversary's fetters, and it has only followed the sparks of light with the intention of extinguishing them .... even though it will only then be illuminated and could easily release itself from that power. But the will of the soul is taken into account .... But such souls redeemed from the abyss are exceedingly grateful to those who have helped them into the light through loving intercession or mental instructions, and they prove their gratitude to people through help in earthly adversity and through redeeming work in the spiritual kingdom .... they become eager co-workers in My kingdom, they descend into darkness again and help those up into the light who are willing ....

Amen

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God's will: fitting into the eternal order ....

B.D. 6219 from March 25th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

God's will is fully complied with when the human being lives a life of love. For the human being's ungodliness only has its cause in unkindness, and as soon as the human being is in love again his nature also corresponds to God's will, thus it is divine, as it was from the beginning. God's will is therefore only the integration into the eternal order, which therefore requires constant loving activity. The fact that the human being is on earth, that he is in an imperfect state, is only the effect of unloving thinking and willing .... As a result the divine order was overturned, and this also means distance from God, since His nature is pure love .... But God does not want to leave you at a distance from Him, so He makes you .... as uncognizant beings .... familiarized with His will, which you should fulfil in order to come closer to Him again. He informs you what His eternal order consists of and how you can restore it .... He gives you the commandments of love for Himself and your neighbour .... And if you are now willing to fulfil these commandments you will enter the divine order again. As a supremely perfect being His will must also apply to the perfection, to the deification of the beings created by Him .... Thus He will also reveal this will to you so that you can act in accordance with it if you want to reach perfection. The will of the supremely perfect being can only ever be good, full of love and wisdom .... And therefore God will only recommend to you what is a blessing for you, what brings you close to perfection. Anyone who is now willing to live on earth in accordance with this will will enter the state of eternal order again of his own accord. He cannot help but shape himself into love, because God Himself draws a willing will to Himself .... As soon as the human being inwardly desires to do what corresponds to God's will, God takes possession of the human being and constantly pushes him towards the aim of becoming perfect again through loving activity in order to re-establish the union with God, from Whom the being had once voluntarily separated itself. He only requires the concordance of the human will with God's will in order to help the human being again .... for initially the human being has to overcome himself in order to change his selfish love into unselfish neighbourly love .... But as soon as the spark of love is ignited in him it quickly spreads, and it becomes the human being's innermost need to only ever distribute love, for he is filled by God's strength of love, and that means thinking and wanting the same as God, it means that what he thinks and wants is in accordance with the law of eternal order .... He is permeated by God's spirit of love and completely absorbed in His will .... This aim is set for you .... But it can only be achieved if the human being submits to God's will, if he submits to the commandments which God gave to people in order to show them the path to perfection. God's nature is love, God's activity is love, and God's will is love .... As soon as the human being tries to conform to Him, his nature, his activity and his will must likewise be love, then he too will move in the eternal order .... He has then re-entered his original state, he is perfect again as he was in the beginning ....

Amen

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Paying off the debt 'in pennies and nickels ....'

B.D. 6220 from March 27th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

My justice demands the removal of all guilt .... for it is the law of divine order that every cause brings its effect. Every guilt is an offence against the eternal order, it is an act which must somehow have an effect and which will only ever have a bad effect because it was a violation of My order from eternity. Evil will only ever give birth to evil .... and no bad deed remains without effect. Thus you humans, burdened by guilt, would never be able to live in freedom and bliss in the spiritual kingdom, because this guilt is therefore a burden for the soul, because the bad effects would constantly admonish the soul to make a just compensation .... because the guilt simply does not allow for the consciousness of 'blissful freedom' .... because the soul has stepped out of divine order and absolutely has to restore this divine order first before it can enjoy its freedom. This is by no means an act of punishment on My part but simply law, because justice and love reign in My kingdom and because neither is compatible with unbalanced guilt. Only a guiltless being can be blissful, a being which has compensated for the smallest lack of love with love, a being which has now completely entered into the eternal order .... a being that has paid all guilt, that has made up for all guilt with love .... And hardly any being is capable of this which lived on earth as a human being and became guilty in many ways .... because it travelled the earthly path in an imperfect state, because the being does not move in divine order due to this imperfect state .... because it has not yet developed love within itself, thus due to unkindness it has accumulated a measure of guilt which earthly life is too short to redeem, even if the being still changes to love in it .... precisely because My justice must demand a compensation which corresponds to its guilt .... I cannot grant bliss in My kingdom before the debt has been paid 'in pennies and nickels' .... But I can accept an atonement which is paid for the guilty soul .... but only if love makes this atonement .... because only then will My justice be satisfied. And now you will also understand the work of love and mercy of Jesus, the man, Who recognized the adversity the human being is entangled in and cannot release himself from it during earthly life and also in the spiritual kingdom if he enters it burdened by his guilt .... He knew that My justice could not simply cancel a debt which had not yet been paid, and therefore He offered Himself on the cross as a sacrifice of atonement in order to place people into the state of freedom which only allows for bliss in the spiritual kingdom. He therefore paid the debt in 'pennies and nickels' for the one who accepts His work of redemption, who feels guilty himself and asks Jesus Christ to have paid the debt for him through His shed blood on the cross. There would be no blessed being in My kingdom without this redemptive work of the human being Jesus. Yet only the person who recognizes his guilt as a separation between himself and God, who has gained this realization as a result of his will turned towards Me, in whom the spark of love has ignited, can enter into the blessing of the act of salvation .... otherwise he would never feel guilty .... (27.3.1955) and the awareness of his guilt now drives him to Me in Jesus Christ, and he asks Me for forgiveness for the sake of Jesus Christ .... And his guilt is compensated, it is completely redeemed, and he can enter the kingdom of light as a free being .... where it is now his task again to participate in the work of redemption. As redeemed itself, the soul can now be active to such an extent that it now also seeks to lead those souls back into divine order which are unhappy because unredeemed .... And this activity is often laborious and requires great patience and perseverance, yet its love gives it strength and it uses this strength to serve Me and My kingdom .... it serves Me and, as it were, pays a debt with its labours of love which I have certainly redeemed, thus cancelled, yet gladly accept such compensation because love offers it to Me .... The souls redeemed by Jesus' blood are restlessly active in the spiritual kingdom in order to bring the still apostate souls to Me, yet they no longer carry out this activity in guilt consciousness but in complete freedom and are therefore not only regarded as My servants but as My co-workers who, without the slightest self-interest, only contribute to the happiness of the inhabitants of the spiritual kingdom .... for love of Me and of all spiritual substances I created. Hence the souls which still languish unredeemed in the abyss are still burdened by their guilt, and therefore they partly atone for it in their agonizing state .... yet they will never be able to redeem themselves merely through these torments, they will never be able to deal with their guilt without the redemption through Jesus Christ .... On earth they have missed the opportunity to hand over their guilt to Him who made atonement for them through His death on the cross .... But they have to do it once or they will not be eternally released from their guilt. And I will be satisfied if they only call to Me from the depths in order to write their guilt in the sand, in order to lift them up into lighter spheres where they will indeed have to struggle hard but nevertheless offer themselves for once for the work of redemption and who, for their part, will pay off much guilt again precisely through their work of redemption which, however, they will only ever be able to carry out once they have handed themselves over to Jesus Christ so that He will release them from the power of their prisoner. They therefore bear their guilt voluntarily and out of love, because it has already been redeemed through Jesus redemptive work. But they cannot express their gratitude and happiness about their deliverance in any other way than by participating in the act of salvation, because they themselves know about the hardship of the souls in darkness and in their love now want to help everyone to bliss in freedom .... But without Jesus Christ no being would be able, neither on earth nor in the beyond, to pay off the guilt of sin itself .... Yet for the sake of justice every guilt must be atoned for, and Jesus accomplished this work of atonement, and you humans can become free from every guilt, on earth or in the kingdom of the beyond ....

Amen

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Life and death .... Jesus Christ - redeemer ....

B.D. 6221 from March 28th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

The living has strength at his disposal, the dead lacks it .... Whether on earth or in the kingdom of the beyond, these two states, life or death, are always the soul's lot, except that on earth 'life' is not understood to mean actual life, but people regard the life of their body alone as 'life' and they can nevertheless find themselves in the state of death because the soul .... the actual I .... is powerless and thus also enters the kingdom of the beyond powerless, where again only life or death is every soul's share .... For this reason Jesus died for people in order to prove to them through His resurrection that true life only begins after bodily death and that it is everyone's most important task on earth to acquire this life after death, because then he no longer needs to fear death, because his bodily death is only the transition of his ego to eternal life .... He has proven this to people through His resurrection and yet only believers are convinced of it, whereas worldly people will always doubt or deny Jesus' resurrection from death, and this because their souls are already in the sleep of death even though they still live on earth. If people would take a closer look at the terms 'life and death', they would realize what is actually meant by them .... they would then strive much more to acquire eternal life .... But for people 'death' only means 'being extinguished' .... And they fear that less .... And yet, 'death' is the most dreadful fate a person can imagine, because the soul retains the consciousness of its ego but is struck with complete lack of strength, yet the urge to live and the knowledge of a life in strength remain with it .... Such a death of the soul is truly to be feared, and its horror is so great that therefore the man Jesus died on the cross in order to eliminate this death from the world, which is part of all beingness which failed to strive for a 'life' on earth .... For because Jesus Christ died on the cross and rose again from the grave after three days, it is now also possible for people to acquire eternal life on earth. He has conquered death .... He has abolished the horrors of death, He has made it possible that the soul's powerless state can be changed into a powerful one, because He helps all people who believe in Him and ask Him that their souls may also rise to eternal life .... For He has shown people how they can acquire the life of the soul which lasts forever .... He has shown people that love is the strength needed for eternal life, and He has promised His help to all those who want to follow Him .... He rose from the dead, and so too will the souls rise to life who, like Him, walk in love and therefore cannot die for eternity ....

Amen

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Word reception .... protecting the truth ....

B.D. 6222 from March 29th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

The spiritual bond between people and Me is not always the same, because every person's nature is different, because everyone feels differently and everyone has different ideas according to which he will adjust himself to the spiritual kingdom. But the fact that the human being seeks the bond with Me also guarantees that I will grant him My protection, that beings of darkness cannot simultaneously harass him as long as he has established the bond with Me. Thus anyone who seeks Me and strives to experience the truth through Me will also be the recipient of pure truth .... And then I can also inform him of everything that is beneficial for the soul .... I Myself can proclaim the gospel to him, clearly and purely, because I Myself can speak to him, because I can convey My word to him which always and constantly testifies of Me .... And because I need servants on earth who spread this pure gospel again, who carry it out into the world, therefore I bless every person who, wanting to do so, listens within himself to what My love reveals to him .... I bless all who want to receive My pure gospel in order to be active with it on My behalf on earth .... And I will always unambiguously convey this gospel to earth so that it will remain clear and pure as long as possible, because only My pure, unadulterated word contains the strength to help the souls mature .... I truly know best what is necessary for people on earth to know, and what people ask Me for I explain to them through My servants who are able to hear My voice within themselves. But for the sake of truth I then also protect these recipients from misguided teachings as soon as they can endanger the pure truth. And misguided teachings are a danger as soon as they cloud or change the meaning of My gospel or even contradict it .... However, erroneous teachings can only be conveyed by My adversary if the direct connection with Me is severed .... if the human being's thoughts digress into areas which are My adversary's territory .... if the world thus pushes itself forward, which can easily happen where too much attention is still paid to the world .... For the connection with Me does not dissolve the freedom of the will .... but it can be strengthened through heartfelt appeal to Me, and then all error is excluded .... always provided that the purpose of this connection is only the reception of the divine word .... My pure teaching of light and love, is .... For anyone who seriously desires this in order to work for Me and My kingdom will leave all worldly things untouched, he will only ever be concerned about the soul's salvation, he will only ever desire nourishment for the soul, and this he will certainly receive as true food from heaven, as bread of life through which the soul matures and attains perfection. Yet I am also a loving father Who always looks after His children, Who also enlightens them in worldly matters when I see the truthfulness of such questions .... Yet you should ask as few such questions as possible, because the straying of your thoughts into worldly areas also opens the entrance to you for My adversary, especially if you allow yourselves to be captured by such thoughts .... because then My voice no longer penetrates you and instead you hear other sounds .... according to your innermost desire .... For only the intimate connection with Me guarantees you purest truth and satisfies your spiritual desire ....

Amen

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Requesting grace in free will ....

B.D. 6223 from March 30th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

If you request My grace you also open your hearts to receive it, and then My grace can become effective upon you .... The request for My grace is an expression of free will to receive help from Me, and thus it is at the same time also an acknowledgement of Me .... that which is your aim on earth, to learn to recognize your lord, your creator and father, in Me again. The request for mercy is the call from the depths to the height .... which I love to hear, for it brings the creature back to Me which I had lost .... But it has to send this call to Me because without My grace, without My help, it cannot ascend from the abyss, for its former turning away from Me has caused it a state of weakness, as a result of which it would remain in the abyss forever if I did not come to its aid .... But I can only turn My help to the creature when it is willing to accept it of its own free will, which testifies to the requirement of grace .... And since My love is unchangingly turned towards all My living creations, it now also distributes what they lack. An inexhaustible measure of grace is available to all of you, and your request for the allocation of grace is a voluntary opening of your heart to this inexhaustible flow of grace of My love .... Once you humans have sent up this plea for grace to Me from within your heart, you will never be able to remain in the abyss, for then My love will pull you up, it will help you, who are too weak to cover this ascent alone .... And then you will see rungs everywhere and in every kind which will now secure your ascent, you will be able to reach your aim with ease .... because you want it yourselves that you reach Me, otherwise you would not request My grace. This is why this call for grace should be the first step for everyone who desires to ascend .... for he feels that he is in the depths .... as long as he has no connection with Me .... Therefore, if My servants on earth advise him to seek contact with Me, then he should willingly hand himself over to Me in thought and ask Me to grant him assistance so that he may fulfil his earthly task, so that he may reach the aim for the purpose of which earthly life was given to him .... Then My love will take hold of him and pour out an abundant measure of grace, and then he will also use the grace for his perfection. Every person needs Me if he wants to ascend because he is too weak on his own .... And as soon as he is aware of his weakness he also appeals for help and grace, and only someone who is still completely under My adversary's control feels so strong as not to need help, and he also closes his heart to every influx of grace which My love nevertheless offers him .... It cannot take effect on him because he resists My love and thus remains powerless and therefore in the abyss until he also calls upon Me for mercy ....

Amen

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Mission of the servants of God on earth ....

B.D. 6224 from March 31th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

You have to fulfil an extremely significant mission, for it is necessary to strengthen people's still very weak faith, it is necessary to lead them to faith through the presentation of My word which is directly conveyed to them from above through you. It is the last attempt to inform people of their belonging to God .... of their task and of the working of My spirit, so that they will now also recognize the credibility of what is written in the book of the fathers .... so that they will not doubt what they should know in order to become blessed .... My word will always and forever be the sole means to lead them to beatification, and therefore I now also address people again .... And you shall convey My word to them. Before the end it is particularly necessary that people know about it so that they feel connected to the one Who speaks to them, so that they listen to Him and follow His Words and are now also saved from the downfall. But since people do not believe the word they have known for a long time, since the 'scriptures' which testify to Me no longer apply to them and yet I do not want to let them go astray, I convey My word to them again in a way which should make them think .... For the origin of this word which is now imparted to them cannot be explained in an earthly and natural way .... It must be seen as the fulfilment of My promise, which is also written: "I will send you the comforter, the spirit of truth .... he will guide you into all truth ...." The working of My spirit has to be recognized when the origin of this word is seriously investigated. And then people will already have been given proof of the creature's connection with the creator .... And they could believe and devote themselves to this creator and father they have now recognized .... My word alone can accomplish this, and therefore I leave no stone unturned in order to convey My word to people, which is why your mission is so important, after all, you are the mediators who willingly receive from Me what they are to pass on to their fellow human beings. It will now be possible for people to gain a living faith, for now even the scriptures are no longer so untrustworthy to them, after all, they realize that it is possible for God to address people .... that He has always spoken, just as He does now .... And their faith in Me and My working lets them themselves seek intimate contact with Me .... And you shall help Me to find access to those who want to believe, who took offence at educated teachings and urgently need the truth in order to now also be able to believe .... You shall help Me by conveying My word to them, My pure gospel, which makes My will known to them, which points them to the forthcoming end and which warns and admonishes them, which inspires them to a life of love .... And My word will not fail to have an effect because it is blessed with My strength, because I Myself can address the human being through you and now his ascent upwards is assured ....

Amen

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"God is in me ...." loving activity ....

B.D. 6225 from April 1st 1955, taken from Book No. 67

When eternal love Itself draws close to you there can no longer be a relapse into the abyss, for what It grasp It hold on to forever .... because love has found itself to love .... Therefore you humans take care that you remember My affection, take care that you live in My will and thus shape yourselves into love, because then I can unite with you, because then I can grasp you and remain united with you for all eternity .... You can truly feel grasped by Me if you practice love, if you only ever do what is My will, for then you submit yourselves to My will and My love permeates you and impels you to ever new activity in love. As soon as you do good out of your innermost urge I am already within you, for this inner urge proves Me, it proves My spirit of love which now influences you, which guides you and impels you into ever new works of love. As soon as you carry out works of love you are also connected with God .... He is in you .... But only if you are lovingly active .... The saying 'I have My God in me ....' is only justified if your heart is willing to love, for only there can I be present where love is, because I Myself am love .... And then you will also be able to judge if and when the human being only uses empty words .... For My presence can never be spoken of where the heart is without love. Love and I are the same, but love is unselfish, it is always willing to sacrifice, to give, to alleviate hardship .... it is only concerned about the welfare of its fellow human being .... Love is divine, and it also makes the being a divine creature with which I Myself can unite .... whereas My presence is impossible with a person who acts and thinks without love, who himself has left My flow of love due to his nature, who therefore has no other connection with eternal love than that the strength which animates him has flowed out of Me, but which does not force him to enter into the connection with Me in love .... A 'God' can never be denied by a 'thinking' human being .... But the connection with God has to be made possible by the human being himself, he has to establish it through love .... Only then can he justifiably say: "God is in me ...." for then I have grasped him and will never let him go from Me, then man has fulfilled the conditions that unites him with Me .... He has entered the law of eternal order, he has changed his nature into love, he has forced My presence upon himself, because I always have to be where love is .... but can never be where love is absent. Love alone guarantees My presence .... The spark of love glows in every person as My share, yet it is completely ineffective as long as it is not ignited .... which the human being's own will has to do, but then he will remain eternally united with Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Readiness to receive the means of grace ....

B.D. 6226 from April 2nd 1955, taken from Book No. 67

You shall receive from My rich treasure of grace as much as you desire, for My love is always willing to hand out and make you happy if only you want to accept My gifts of grace. I am abundant, but you suffer as long as you are not yet able to stay close to Me and create and work spiritually with Me .... You have no abundance, you are poor in spiritual treasures as long as you don't come to Me, to the one Who alone can and will give you His wealth .... as long as you don't ask for spiritual wealth from Me. But you can constantly appeal to Me for it, I will always be willing to hand it out to you with full hands. And what I give you will make you into beings like Me if only you use it correctly .... if you use My gifts of grace in My will. I also offer them to you without your desire, but they will only bring you success if you willingly accept them and follow My instructions for the right utilisation. You are weak-willed and powerless, and you would not be able to reach your aim on earth if I did not help you. My help, however, consists of giving you the means to remedy your weakness of will and lack of strength .... I Myself also give you these means, but you have to use them yourselves if you want to feel success, you have to follow all My instructions in order to then also experience a noticeable increase in strength, in order to then also be able to easily cover the ascent, which is the purpose of your earthly life. You shall ascend and cannot do so by your own strength because you deprived yourselves of all strength due to your past apostasy from Me .... Therefore you need help, which I will grant you in abundance .... Yet you have to accept My help voluntarily, because I will never force you to accept light and strength which you, however, need in order to reach Me as your final aim. You are weak beings and can always draw strength from Me .... Yet this strength can only work on you if you accept it and use it correctly. But I only ever offer you spiritual values .... And they shall help you to ascend spiritually .... Your soul should desire them and the body should support it by willingly carrying out what the soul wants to do in order to exploit the treasure of grace in accordance with My will .... The body should willingly live out My word which, as a source of strength for the soul, is My most precious gift of grace .... or also, the human being should not only be a listener but a doer of My word .... Then he will experience an exceedingly great blessing, for he will also feel a noticeable increase in strength that he will always be more willing to fulfil My will .... For the influx of grace will be unlimited, it will become increasingly easier for him to free himself from the shackles which still bind him to earth .... it will ceaselessly strive upwards, and it will also reach its aim .... Then it will have made use of grace, it will have accepted My saving and helping hand and without resistance let itself be pulled up by Me .... it has made use of the graces which are unlimitedly available to every soul but which have to be accepted and evaluated in free will .... otherwise they will remain ineffective and the soul will never be able to ascend from the abyss ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The ‘redeemed’ at the end .... Inhabitants of the new earth ....

B.D. 6227 from April 3rd 1955, taken from Book No. 67

When, due to My will and My might, the destruction of this earth will take place, i.e. when everything living on this earth will be destroyed, it will become evident who is truly redeemed, for only they will survive the end and be able to enter My paradise on the new earth. For in order to survive this final work of destruction it is necessary to have utmost faith in Me in Jesus Christ as well as utmost devotion to Me .... thus it requires a complete separation from My adversary .... it necessitates the state of freedom which was purchased for humanity by Jesus with His death on the cross .... Only a being redeemed by His blood can inhabit the new earth where Satan has no more power; where I Myself can dwell amongst My Own because their original state has been re-established ....

Admittedly, salvation through Jesus Christ can be experienced by people called away by Me from this earth prior to the final end .... They, too, will be blissfully happy inhabitants in My kingdom where no evil power can harm or oppress them anymore, precisely because they are 'redeemed' from it .... Yet the people who shall inhabit the new earth will live in the same bliss, in complete freedom, full of light and strength, but nevertheless in earthly spheres, because they shall become the root of the new human race, because they shall help the following generation towards complete redemption, which has to live on earth until everything is completely spiritualised. Being redeemed themselves, the first human beings on the new earth are able to exert an extraordinary beneficial effect on their descendants as well as on the spiritual substances surrounding them and which are still constrained in the creations of the new earth. Thus this spiritual substance will be able to cover its process of development faster ....

For the time when My adversary is still bound in chains has to be used well .... while he has no access to the people on earth, since the strength and light of the 'redeemed' is so strong that it prevents his every approach to people .... In the same way as his working and raging was clearly noticeable in the last days before the end, in the same way as he used his every influence to draw people into the abyss, so will the influence of the Divine predominate on earth now .... everything will strive towards ascent and achieve it extremely easily because no adverse power can prevent it .... The redeemed human beings will bring forth new people who are full of love, thus the divine principle is dominant in them, enabling them to mature fully within a very short time in order to enter My kingdom of light after their earthly life comes to an end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Fear of death ....

B.D. 6228 from April 4th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

Every soul has to pass through the gate to eternity, no human being can turn away from this path, everyone has to exchange his stay on earth with the stay in the kingdom of the beyond .... All must discard their heavy earthly body, because only the soul enters that kingdom, but everything earthly remains on earth, even if the soul is still so strongly connected to it. Yet it can rejoice and exult on entering the kingdom of the beyond but also arrive there in utmost unhappiness, in hardship and poverty, depending on the human being's life on earth. The stay in the spiritual kingdom can also cause the most beautiful earthly life to fade, but this can also have to be exchanged for extremely dark surroundings, which the soul already feels before and therefore resists leaving the body as long as possible. Yet all people are facing this hour, and no-one can prolong his life by just one day .... the hour of departure from this earth has been foreseen since eternity, and the soul has to bow to divine law. But it has it in its own hands to shape the transition from the earthly to the spiritual kingdom gloriously, and then it will not be able to wait for the hour when it will be released from the heavy earthly garment and clothed in a spiritual garment in which it can now move freely and blissfully and offer praise and thanks to its creator and father Who has prepared this blissful fate for it. Irrevocably, every human being is called away from this earth .... and death means fear and terror for most people, they think of it with unease and do nothing to get rid of this terror .... because they don't believe but are nevertheless deeply afraid of the hour of death. And they will not get rid of this uneasiness until they seriously examine themselves, until they give themselves an account of whether and how they could survive if they had to answer for it ..... A serious self-examination could cause them to change, to live according to God's will or according to what they themselves know to be right .... and their fear of the hour of death will diminish the more they work on themselves, even if they are not yet able to believe correctly. A right and righteous way of life also includes loving actions, and then the teachings of faith will no longer seem so unacceptable; the human being will occupy himself in thought with questions which previously did not touch him .... because the will to live right is already a step closer to God, in Whom it is difficult for him to believe .... Every person knows or feels what is right and just, and if he only allows himself to be guided more by his feelings, he will also learn to think differently .... he will be more concerned with his departure and the state afterwards, and he will look forward to his end more calmly, for now he will follow his inner voice more, he will act as he deems right, and he will learn to believe .... And then he will also find God before his time is over, and the hour of death will also have lost its terror for him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Recognition and reception dependent on will ....

B.D. 6229 from April 5th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

I can only ever consider people as their own will allows .... They could receive everything from Me, My gifts of grace could flow to them without restriction, yet as long as they ask for little or nothing at all My gifts would only ever be a certain constraint on their decision and entirely without purpose, for the being shall attain perfection of its own free will and not change due to My will or My influence against its will, because then it would lose all freedom of its self and always and forever only remain My 'living creation' but could never become My 'child'. Thus you humans can only ever be influenced such that you recognize your weakness and imperfection yourselves and voluntarily desire to change this state into a better one, I can only ever make you aware of your weakness and imperfection by contrasting it with the original state in which you were unspeakably blissful .... And I can only ever do this through My word, through enlightenment about the correlations, the origin and purpose of everything you see around you and what you are yourselves. Whether you want to believe this is entirely up to you again, which is why such knowledge can never be proven but will not seem improbable to you again if only you seriously occupy yourselves with such thoughts which My word will let arise in you .... because this is My will .... For I help you wherever possible without curtailing your will .... You can come to realization but you have to muster the will for it yourselves, then, however, you will noticeably experience a grant of grace and be able to easily cover the path of ascent, for whatever you lack in strength and light I will give to you in abundance. And the more you desire the more you will also receive, for My love sets no limits to My will to give .... Everything is at your disposal, you just have to come to Me and appeal to Me for My gifts of grace, you have to entrust yourselves to Me in your weakness and ask for strength, you have to give yourselves to Me willingly in faith in My infinite love and might and ask Me to have mercy on your weakness .... You must feel unhappy yourselves in the state you live in on earth and certainly want but cannot always carry out what you want because you lack the strength to do so .... And I will also not leave any request unfulfilled which is meant for the aim that you reach perfection .... I will always and constantly take care of you, even when your will is still turned away from Me .... but then only ever try to direct it towards Me, because I must leave you the freedom of your will .... You are never abandoned, for My aim is to bring you to Me, and thus I will try to influence you until you voluntarily surrender yourselves to Me in order to then be able to supply you with unmeasured grace and strength .... so that you will reach your aim, so that you will unite with Me from Whom you once originated ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The end .... Transformation and new creation ....

B.D. 6230 from April 6th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

And it will come to pass as I have told you .... the earth will lose its present appearance, an earthly and spiritual turning point will come, there will be a separation of the sheep from the goats .... My Own will attain beatitude and those who belong to My adversary will be banished again .... And this will have to happen or no further development would be possible anymore, for all souls strive towards the abyss except the few people who will remain true to Me until the end. But the people of the present time, who have already passed through the creations, will have taken the whole previous path of development in vain .... they, who have already reached the highest stage of development due to their previous earthly path, are now failing during the last stage and descend to such a point that the entrance into the spiritual kingdom will remain closed to them .... so that they will have to be banished into hardest matter in order to be admitted once again to take their last test of will as a human being after an infinitely long period of time ....

The number of those who use their earthly life correctly in order to become perfect is very small, since My adversary's spirit exercises such poisonous influence on all earthly inhabitants that the earth will have to be cleansed first before it can fulfil its real purpose again .... And thus I want to carry out this cleansing process through a huge work of transformation which mankind cannot avoid, since they give rise to it themselves with their conduct and their utterly rebellious attitude towards Me. A change has to take place for the sake of My living creations which will have to suffer for an infinitely long time if they don't complete their path of development on earth according to My will .... And this point in time has arrived, although it seems unbelievable to you humans that something should happen in creation, in nature, for which no proof of similar events on earth exists ....

The earth in its present form is in the last days of its existence .... None of you can possibly grasp what this means .... that everything will cease to exist .... that human beings, animals and all works of creation will come to an end and an entirely new earth will arise which will exceed your wildest imagination, because completely new works of creation will come into being which have never been seen by human eyes and which to you, who will experience and populate the new earth, will mean one miracle after another .... All through the ages I have told people that a new earth and a new heaven will come into being .... People failed to understand the meaning of it. But My Word is truth and will fulfil itself .... yet it will only be proof of My Divinity to the few whose profound faith in Me made them become My Own and to whom I can open the paradise of the new earth because they are and will remain My children forever .... These few also understand the meaning of My Words and they will expect Me and My arrival in the firm belief that I will rescue them from the adversity which precedes the final end. For they are My children and I will come for them when the time is fulfilled ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God reveals Himself again and again as love ....

B.D. 6231 from April 7th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

I turn to all My living creations with love because they are spirits which originated from Me, albeit in different degrees of development .... But My special love applies to people, for every soul is a created original spirit which I finally want to win back for Myself after an infinitely long time of distance from Me. Consider this, you humans, that you are close to your perfection, and then you will also be able to believe that I will leave no stone unturned to win you over completely, and you will no longer ask yourselves whether every person experiences My grace .... whether I approach every single one in order to show him the right path to Me .... Even if My gracious influence appears more obviously in one or the other, My love does not leave out any person, and I woo every soul from the beginning of its embodiment until death .... But whether I will be heeded depends on the will of the human being himself .... No-one will be able to say that he has not already been in adversity and was led out of it again, no-one will need to do without loving guidance from Me .... only whether he sees it as guidance from Me is questionable if he does not believe in Me and My love .... but I am not far from anyone, I pursue him with My love even if he rejects Me .... I do not leave him out, always only seeking to determine him, to turn in thought to the one Who created him .... Yet many a person cannot be moved by the whole of earthly life with all the strokes of fate that approach him and the ever-recurring help to mentally unite with Me .... But then it is always his will or unwillingness, but never a lack of help or expression on My part. I only want to induce him to speak to Me in thought, to turn to Me asking or requesting, because then he will prove to Me that he acknowledges Me .... For even the acquired knowledge of a God of love and omnipotence is often not enough to establish an inner connection with this God. So then the knowledge of a God is without success for the soul .... but an intimate thought of Me is much more valuable .... And every human being can let this intimate thought of a God and creator arise in him, even if he lacks further knowledge .... And he will cultivate this heartfelt thought as soon as he is of a loving mind, for love urges him to think of 'eternal love' .... And this alone I want to achieve, and therefore I approach people in many ways, through adversity and suffering, through fateful experiences, I reveal Myself through creation .... Everything is suitable to let people seek contact in thought with their creator and father of eternity .... And once this connection has been established the human being will also progress in his development, for then I will have grasped him and I will not rest until he has completely become Mine .... even though free will is always decisive, which nevertheless once professes Me because My love affects him until I have won him over for Myself ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Good Friday .... love ....

B.D. 6232 from April 8th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

Love is able to do everything .... love endures the greatest suffering, it endures the greatest pain, because love gives strength to do so .... Therefore only love could make atonement for humanity's immense guilt of sin, which required an equally great atonement for the sake of divine justice .... For never would a being without love have been able to endure what the human being Jesus endured for sinful humanity in order to redeem it. Nor would there ever have been the will to do so where there was no love .... And thus Jesus' act of salvation and God's incarnation are also understandable, that God .... as eternal love .... embodied Himself in a human being in order to accomplish precisely this work of redemption .... and that God therefore allowed Himself to be crucified in order to redeem people .... Love took full and complete possession of a human being .... or also: a human being unfolded love in Himself to the highest fervour, and then the man Jesus endured the greatest suffering and torment with a heart full of love in order to thereby bring redemption to His sinful fellow human beings from their guilt of sin. It was a work of immense love, for the torments the man Jesus took upon Himself were immeasurable, which He endured until the hour of death, fully consciously and without the slightest resistance. He would certainly have been able to end His suffering in His abundance of power and strength, which was characteristic of Him through love. He truly could have reduced the extent of His suffering because God's strength was in Him as a result of His love ....... Yet He suffered voluntarily because this was the only way people could find redemption from the immense guilt they would have incurred as a result of satan's bondage, from which Jesus wanted to liberate them. Jesus, the human being, suffered the most dreadful physical and mental torments which could only be endured through love .... because everything is possible for love .... You humans have no idea of the magnitude of your guilt, just as you therefore can have no idea of the extent of Jesus' suffering, Who as a pure human being, as a completely sinless being, suffered in a completely different way than you humans, for His soul felt even far greater torments, which had to stay in a sphere which completely contradicted its light and purity .... This will only be comprehensible to you in the spiritual kingdom when you yourselves dwell in the spheres of light and can only then appreciate what it means to have exchanged this sphere for the darkness on earth, where people were burdened with sin and, like devils, pounced on that pure soul .... which patiently endured everything, which did not resist, which took indescribable torments upon itself only to help the oppressed souls bound by satan to become free .... The love of the man Jesus for His fellow human beings was so profound that He voluntarily went to them into the spheres of darkness, for only through love could they become salvation, only God Himself .... the eternal love .... could bring salvation to people. And that is why 'love' embodied itself in the human being Jesus .... God's incarnation can only be explained to you humans in such a way that love Itself descended from above to people, because otherwise no salvation, no liberation from God's adversary's power, was possible. But everything is possible for love, yet the act of salvation had to be visible to people .... it had to be obvious to people what sinful humanity was capable of and what love, on the other hand, was able to do .... A pure human being had to die on the cross in dreadful agony but this sacrificial death was taken upon himself voluntarily and out of love for people who thereby find redemption if they want the act of salvation to have been offered for them as well .... For love died for all people, it redeemed the guilt of all people .... Love was victorious over satan, who is devoid of love and therefore powerless where only the weapon of love is used in battle ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Suffering and dying ....

B.D. 6233 from April 9th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

My suffering and death on the cross could not be avoided, I had to empty the cup completely, I had to take everything upon Myself if the act of Salvation for you humans, to redeem you from all guilt, was to be accomplished .... Only the knowledge of your pitiful state persuaded Me to make this self-sacrifice because My heart was filled with love for you .... and this love wanted to prevent the appalling fate which awaited you after the death of your body .... Because I knew of this appalling fate, since My eyes could witness the blissfulness of the kingdom of light as well as the suffering and torment in the realm of darkness, and since My love was for you as My fallen brothers I searched for a solution to avert your dreadful fate .... I accepted all the guilt Myself and carried it on the path to the cross ....

Whatever had been physically done to Me was more than less just a symbol of what the entire burden of sin meant to Me, an immensely arduous, painful and suppressing burden, which made Me fall time and again and which I nevertheless carried with utmost love .... I took upon Myself all the pain My body could endure, for I carried the burden of sin on your behalf, I wanted to accomplish the atonement which you irrevocably would have had to make .... which you would have been eternally unable to do .... I suffered and fought, I truly sweated blood, I looked into all pits of hell, and fear and horror tore My soul apart .... I endured everything you would have had to endure yourselves .... And My love for you gave Me the strength to endure until the hour of death.

There is no comparison for My torment, no human being could have suffered to this extent .... But I had offered Myself voluntarily because I knew that only in this way could you be released from Satan's chains .... I already knew in advance what to expect and carried this burden around with Me too, I consciously took the path which would finally lead to the cross, but I suffered terribly because of My knowledge and therefore could never be joyful amongst My Own .... I saw the tragedy imposed on the souls, I saw the futility of their earthly life if I had failed and not brought them salvation from sin and death ....

And this knowledge strengthened My will so that I accepted My fate without resistance, which has was the purpose and objective of My life on earth .... But right up to the end I had to make a great effort, right up to the end the burden on Me had increased so tremendously that I could feel My strength diminishing and thus I called as a human being to God, to let the cup pass Me by .... But the strength of My love was stronger than My human weakness .... And the day of My indescribable suffering and My death on the cross became the day of Salvation from all guilt for you humans .... And the knowledge of this enabled Me to patiently accept everything so that I could finally call out 'It is finished ....' And My soul could return from whence it had come, since through My death the complete unification with My Father, from Whom I too had once emerged, took place ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Death and resurrection .... life ....

B.D. 6234 from April 10th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

I walked the path which was marked out for Me, but which I had to travel voluntarily in order to reach the aim .... to be completely united with the father from eternity. I walked the path through death to life .... through darkness to light .... And I proved the light and the life to men through My resurrection on the third day .... I had to suffer death in order to enter into eternal life, for 'life' is only in union with God, Who in Himself is 'eternal life'. It is about far greater things than you humans easily understand by the word 'life'. It is the divinization of that which has been created which has been set as the aim for that which has been created, and in order to achieve this complete divinization, the depths must be overcome, a path must be travelled which leads over death to life .... And death is everything that is far from God .... The path to life is the path to God .... and since once the created 'fell' in plurality, it must now 'resurrect' .... And it must return from darkness to light .... it must emerge from the night of the grave in which it languished for eternity and step out into the light of day. I have risen from the dead, I have given you humans the proof that you too can rise to life, even though you suffer earthly death .... I have proven to you that death can be overcome, that you can all step out of the night of death into the light of day if you follow Me .... if you live as I lived on earth: if you lead a life of love .... For then you will strive to come closer to God, then unification with God can take place, and then there can no longer be death for you, because you have united yourselves with 'life' after all but still have to discard the earthly body which is only a hindrance to you for a life in freedom and bliss .... Thus you have to die earthly, your soul emerges from the grave which previously kept it locked up; it enters radiantly into the kingdom which is its true home .... it rises from darkness to light .... what happened to Me will also happen to you, and therefore you need no longer fear death, because I have taken away all its terrors .... I rose from the dead on the third day, made visible to My disciples, who were to behold My spiritualized body, so that they themselves might believe and go into all the world proclaiming that I live .... But before My crucifixion people still remained in the abyss after their death, the path had not yet been cleared for their entry into the kingdom of light, and therefore I also had to descend into the abyss after My death and also build the bridge from there upwards into My kingdom, and all souls which languished in the abyss were allowed to follow Me. My love also called them to follow Me .... The day of resurrection had also come for the souls in the depths, they too could attain life through My act of salvation .... For death was overcome through My work of love, and all souls will rise to eternal life who, like Me, seek union with the father from eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Struggle time before the end .... afflictions ....

B.D. 6235 from April 11th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

You will still have to fight a difficult battle against yourselves and also against your enemies .... you will be so oppressed from outside that you will find it difficult to give up everything, and therefore you will also have to struggle with yourselves so that earthly matter does not become a disaster for you .... that you give up Me for its sake .... For you would make a bad exchange, because it will only last a short time when your body has to live in want and in miserable conditions .... For I shorten the days for My own sake, because I know that they need much strength to stand firm against their enemies. And then they will receive the reward for their faithfulness .... Therefore I warn and admonish you humans not to let yourselves be oppressed, no matter what may come over you .... All this must precede, and so the decision must also be demanded of you; but then you should also know that the end will soon be there, that I will come to fetch you .... and that this very test of faith will mark you as My own .... Therefore always remember that people can indeed kill the body but not your soul, and if you firmly believe this your body will also endure everything and I will give you the strength so that it will not feel as it appears to other people. It will certainly be a battle you wage against yourselves, yet only until you immerse yourselves in My word .... until you let Me Myself speak to you .... Then a wondrous calm and strength will flow through you, and then you will not hesitate for a moment anymore, you will surrender what is demanded of you, but you will defend your faith with words which My spirit gives you .... You will no longer feel fear but be My confessors with a joyful heart as soon as the confession for Me and My name is demanded .... But therefore I admonish you to let Me speak to you first as often as possible .... I therefore admonish you so that you already store up strength within yourselves, so that you don't get into inner distress first, so that you know what lies ahead of you and already detach yourselves from everything in your heart which will nevertheless be taken away from you if you want to remain faithful to Me. You truly have nothing to fear if your heart belongs to Me completely; only for the lukewarm this battle is difficult, and to them I therefore speak urgently that they should prepare themselves for the time of battle when it is a matter of proving loyalty to Me or of denying Me for the sake of the world and its goods .... You, too, will have to take the path of the cross, yet you, too, can become conquerors of death, for My love will always helpfully stand by your side as soon as you are willing to testify for Me. Yet again and again I must point out to you that it will be a battle, that you may not effortlessly acquire the palm of victory .... but that you are capable of surviving the battle and therefore should only prepare yourselves, that you should remain in constant contact with Me and then also constantly draw strength to endure until the end. You, who are allowed to receive My word, you are blessed, for you constantly receive strength, and you can also pass on the word with its strength .... Then you will have to make a special effort to also come to the aid of the weak, to lift them up and to make them understand the significance of a decision for or against Me .... You will be specially trained for this time of battle and you need not fear any failure because you have offered yourselves as fighters for Me and I Myself will fight by your side .... But you must be restlessly active to represent Me and My word beforehand, you must prove yourselves as My true servants on earth who only ever carry out their lord's order and proclaim Me and also the near end .... You must willingly let yourselves be guided and recognize everything as My guidance .... And your work will be blessed and bear fruit in the coming time of battle. You yourselves will rule your office full of strength and distribute strength in the richest measure to all who listen to you and want to remain faithful to Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Accountability before God's judgment seat ....

B.D. 6236 from April 12th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

One day you all will have to justify yourselves before God's judgment seat .... make sure that you can step before Him without fear and trepidation; make sure that you will be acceptable in God's eyes so that you may share His kingdom with Him .... This is a serious admonition, for you will greatly regret it one day, if you neglect to subordinate yourselves to His commandments, if you pay no attention to His will on earth and then realise the consequences of your indifference and opposition. As yet you all still have the opportunity to change if you don't live the right way, if you don't care about God's will, your earthly task is still constantly pointed out to you, the Word of God is still made accessible to you and His might is time and again revealed to you through all kinds of events .... You can still change if you seriously want to .... However, once your hour has come, when you are called up from this world, then the hour of your accountability will also have come, and you will no longer be able to undo anything nor catch up on what you have done or neglected to do during your earthly life, then you will be judged according to righteousness and justice, then all your sins will be revealed and you will recognise yourselves .... for then you will live in darkness and find yourselves in a miserable state .... which, however, you created for yourselves through your way of life on earth .... Don't live carelessly from day to day, consider the fact that you were only permitted to embody yourselves on earth for a purpose, that you did not arbitrarily come into existence as a whim of the Creator .... that you were given a goal and that this goal can only be reached if you subordinate yourselves to God's will, if you adapt yourselves to divine order .... if you work at improving yourselves, so that everything which had left the order will live in eternal order again .... when you, who are imperfect, shape yourselves to perfection again by fulfilling the divine commandments, which demand love for Him and your neighbour. God gave you these commandments because you were devoid of love which, however, is the epitome of divine order .... He gave them to you as a guiding principle for your life on earth, according to which you can therefore conduct yourselves in life .... Only the fulfilment of these commandments is His will .... which He time and again proclaims to you through His Word .... Thus, listen to His Word and try to live up to it by only ever accomplishing works of love in order to thereby come ever closer to Him. Then you truly need not fear the day of Judgment, then you will be able to step before God's judgment seat, before His eyes, and He will be well pleased with you .... the hour of passing away from this earth will also be the hour of your redemption and you will be able to enter the spiritual realm in a free and unburdened state .... Abide by My admonition which sounds to you from above, don't be half-hearted and indifferent because you deem the day of passing away still to be distant .... Bow to His will and fit in with it .... live in love, because then you will live in and with God and one day you will be accepted in His kingdom, where love reigns supreme and where love bestows beatitudes without limitation ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Word of God: love doctrine .... right heralds ....

B.D. 6237 from March 13th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

Wherever the teaching of love is proclaimed My word is preached there and the human being is shown the path which leads to Me. For it is love which you lack, and the shaping into love is the right path to Me. But since your purpose of earthly life is unification with Me, which can only take place through love, every proclaimer of the teaching of love is blessed by Me, for he contributes towards bringing My living creations back to Me again, which I had lost, which voluntarily distanced themselves from Me. Your earthly existence as a human being was only given to you for the purpose that you turn back on your previous path, that you take a different path, which always happens when you practice love .... And because you don't do this by yourselves My servants have to encourage you to do so, they have to exemplify a life of love for you themselves and also acquaint you with My commandments which only demand love for Me and your neighbour. You shall be introduced to the knowledge of the fulfilment of My will and its effect by these servants, through them you shall learn of My never-ending love for you and of My aim to make you My children .... you shall come to know Me as a God of love, wisdom and power .... so that you will now learn to love your God and call upon Him as your father, so that He will receive you again as His children and fetch you home into the father's house. You can only solve your task if you know about it, and I will bless anyone who instructs you about it, after all, he is My servant and co-worker who speaks on earth in My stead, because I cannot express Myself in order not to force the freedom of faith. And you humans can always regard the one who preaches love as My servant, for he preaches Me Myself .... He can never be in the service of another master if he brings My commandment of love for God and his neighbour to you humans' attention, because then he will irrevocably speak for Me, namely, what I Myself would speak if I were visibly present amongst you humans .... And only someone who is unloving in his actions and nature has no right to speak of love, because his words are lies and illusions which are only intended to cover his nature if he expects an advantage from his speeches. But he will never speak and act selflessly, and such only confirms him as My right servant who is active on My behalf and therefore also receives My blessing. Love alone confirms his mission, and love alone also gives My servant the ability to speak for Me and My name. For if he himself does not have love within himself his words are dead, nor do they awaken fellow human beings to life .... And he will also rarely only take love as the subject of his speech, he will speak what he has learned himself but not what he has experienced himself .... For the spirit is missing which gives life to his words but which is only the result of a life of love .... Love will fill the preacher with strength to speak and appeal to the listener and motivate him to put into action what he has heard, and then he will shape himself into love, which is like turning to Me from Whom he will no longer detach himself in eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spreading the truth .... living faith ....

B.D. 6238 from April 14th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

The truth shall be spread, people shall be able to think correctly, they shall be able to form a correct picture of their God and creator from eternity and their actual purpose of existence .... And they are to be informed of what is to help them attain beatitude, a state of perfection which they lack as long as they are still distant from their creator and thus also from the truth .... People's thinking no longer corresponds to the truth, it has been wrongly guided by teachings which distort what people were once taught by God Himself, Who lived on earth as the man Jesus in order to convey the pure truth to them .... This pure teaching is no longer conveyed to people by those who believe themselves called to it, it is a distorted teaching which therefore cannot trigger the strength of conviction in people which, however, is necessary in order to live on earth in accordance with the divine teaching. The pure truth will always be credible, but every educated teaching gives rise to doubts and shakes the whole structure of spiritual knowledge which was given to humanity .... People can no longer believe even if they want to, because erroneous teachings evoke a will of resistance in them and then they very easily reject everything and go completely without faith. But the pure truth is like a light which shines brightly .... the pure truth provides information about all questions, and it cannot be invalidated because it will always break through the darkness with its bright light .... because error cannot withstand it. It could truly be made easy for humanity to believe in God alive as soon as only the pure truth would be supplied to it .... Yet one fights this truth .... the adversary of God, who would like to extinguish all light in order to play an easy game with humanity, in order to prevent them from returning to God Whom they once left through His influence .... The adversary of God is an enemy of truth, which gives a true picture of God and His working. For this reason he will always strive to enforce it with error, and he will also succeed because the human being himself decides whether he desires light or seeks darkness .... For his will determines the influence of God or the adversary on him .... The earnest desire to stand in truth also secures him the supply of it, but indifference towards truth subjects him to the influence of God's adversary .... And that is why error is so widespread amongst people, and it is an urgent necessity to enlighten them and to oppose their wrong thinking with the pure truth. This is why God instructs His servants on earth to stand up for the pure truth, and He conveys this truth Himself to the servants, just as He will provide every person with the truth who merely strives for it, either unconsciously or by appealing to the supreme being to give him enlightenment .... For truth is necessary in order to evaluate earthly life correctly. Truth is irreplaceable through spiritual knowledge which does not provide complete information .... Truth is a divine gift which irrevocably leads to beatitude and is also offered to anyone who does not close his mind to it .... Truth emanates from God, Who Himself is the eternal truth, and it leads back to God .... But without truth no one can become blessed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Divine love light .... lightbearer ....

B.D. 6239 from April 16th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

My light of love shall shine everywhere, and therefore I instruct My light bearers to speak without shyness that I Myself will fill him with light so that he shall radiate it again to his fellow human beings so that it will be a blessing for them. To stand in the light means happiness and bliss for all people and also for the souls in the spiritual kingdom .... People don't always feel it on earth, but in the beyond they are so poor and miserable without light, and therefore every shine of light triggers bliss in them. The earthly inhabitants have turned to artificial lights and believe that they will be able to overcome their darkness with them .... yet their souls constantly live in darkness and still need light in order to become blissfully happy. I know about this spiritual hardship and therefore I send light bearers to people, and I truly choose the most able people for this who speak fearlessly wherever it is possible for them .... In the last days before the end there will be less and less desire for light, for enlightenment, and people will shy away from each other to speak about what, however, alone is important and worth knowing .... about the truth My word contains within itself .... They have almost no contact with Me any more, and My word is merely old-accepted knowledge to them which they give little or no credence to and which they only dismiss with a pitying smile when it is mentioned to them .... And therefore I approach people again with My word in order to cause them to take a stand on it and to think about its origin .... I kindle new little lights again, I send My rays of light and love to earth once more by choosing suitable people for Myself who are to receive My light and carry it further .... And anyone who serves Me as a bearer of light shall use all his strength to spread the light which shines down to earth from above .... he should not be afraid to openly speak of the fact that he is in contact with God Himself and also receives an obvious sign of presence from Him .... Through his speaking he shall bring Me to people's remembrance again, he shall instruct them in all questions put to him by those who doubt or even unbelievingly reject everything if it cannot be properly explained to them .... And I Myself will ensure that My bearers of light are able to do so, because My spirit fills them if they stand up for Me and My word .... for the eternal truth from God .... stand up. Then they will be able to speak and always find the right words because I Myself put them into their mouths and bless everyone who contributes towards spreading My light of love. And I will also supply him with people who could make use of My allocation of grace if only they are willing and don't reject My grace .... if only they want to listen to you and eagerly move what they hear in their heart .... And anyone who desires a light to shine for him in the darkness will soon be able to see it and warm himself in its glow, he will feel the benefit of the light and brightness will be given to him as soon as he desires it .... for I am pleased with him to whom the darkness appears to be torment and who is willing to enter My circle of light, and he will constantly be supplied by Me with light and strength and grace ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Jesus took all suffering upon Himself .... Why suffering? ....

B.D. 6240 from April 17th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

I took all people's suffering upon Myself .... Thus you can live a carefree earthly life and strive towards ascent unimpeded, you can truly live your life on earth as if you were in paradise already .... if only you lived with your final goal in mind, if you consciously strove for unity with Me, which would certainly be possible for you, because I paid for the original sin so that you can take the path of ascent without a burden. However, you are still exposed to My adversary's influence, and from this influence you ought to release yourselves .... For your time on earth was given to you so that you can test your will, My adversary can still influence you during this time and you must pass this test of will by offering him resistance and consciously striving towards Me. His influence will not bypass you entirely without a trace, you will more or less react to it and therefore, as a result of My counteraction, become subject to afflictions and adversities which should let you seek a heartfelt bond with Me so that the danger of being captured by him will be eliminated .... Your soul still belongs to him in body for as long as it is still physically bound and encased and surrounded by immature spiritual substances .... I died for you on the cross so that you would be able to detach yourselves from My adversary's chains, yet the soul has to achieve this detachment itself, i.e., it must sincerely want to separate itself from My adversary ....

And in order to influence your will accordingly you need to experience adversity and misery .... unless your will fully belongs to Me and no longer allows itself to be influenced by My opponent .... In that case, however, your earthly life will be more bearable, then you can already rightfully claim that you are redeemed from sin and death, from weakness and bondage .... But then you will fit into the missionary work of redemption for your fellow human beings of your own accord, for then you will know the significance of earthly life and want to help your fellow human beings' to also become liberated from the power which keeps them captive. And then your earthly life will not be without distress so as not to force your fellow human beings decision of will, for as long as the person's soul is still immature he looks for a carefree life of happiness and would only try to change his life again for the sake of achieving selfish goals which, however, would not lead him to attaining perfection .... Through My death on the cross I wanted to facilitate your entry into eternal beatitude .... and not purchase you a paradise-like life on earth .... Nevertheless, you can make your earthly life bearable, as long as you only live in heartfelt unison with Me .... Then nothing can depress and burden you anymore, then everything that happens to you is just evidence of My love for you and then you will also know its purpose and voluntarily submit to your fate .... You will no longer suffer but consciously evaluate everything and consider it a gift of grace because it guarantees you a higher degree of maturity, because one day it will increase your bliss, for which you will only ever be grateful. So therefore you only carry a cross for your fellow human beings' sake .... for yourselves, however, it is a sign of My love which has destined you to participate in My act of Salvation ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Gifts of the spirit .... Conditions ....

B.D. 6241 from April 18th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

The gifts of the spirit are bestowed upon every person who sincerely strives for them. They cannot be given to them, they have to be acquired by complying with My commandment of love for God and one's neighbour .... by living a life in accordance with My will. For as soon as My will is done the person will be living in My eternal order, and then light and strength will permeate him as in the beginning, since he was created in My eternal order, in perfection, that is, as a being with the same nature as Mine .... My spirit permeated the being, and My spirit will permeate it again as soon as it enters My eternal order as a human being once more. The fact that My spirit will never be able to work in a person who lives outside of My eternal order, that he will therefore never be able to demonstrate the gifts of the spirit, must be completely understandable to you. This is why every Word-reception also requires the working of My spirit in the human being .... for to receive My Word means to be instructed in absolute truth, to know about everything which makes My Nature understandable to you humans .... to know about the reason and cause, the purpose and aim of My reign and activity and of everything that is visible to you ....

To be instructed in the truth means to be guided into realisation, which you once possessed but lost due to your own fault. Hence this initiation into the truth through My spirit, through My Word, is a present .... a gift which I convey to everyone who voluntarily attains a degree of maturity, as this is the condition for the granting of spiritual gifts .... Each one of you is able to acquire them, no-one will be excluded, however, they cannot be attained by someone who does nothing to contribute towards it .... who does not shape his nature into love, which alone enables the dormant spirit within him to establish a connection with the Father-Spirit, so that I Myself can then work in him through My spirit. Therefore it follows that a connection with Me must always be established and that this requires conscious striving towards Me. Anyone who thus makes contact with Me Myself has already voluntarily taken a step into My kingdom, he had relinquished his resistance to Me and completely turned his will towards Me, and his share therefore has to be light and strength, which are offered to him from My kingdom.

The human being can enter My kingdom unhindered at all times if I Am his goal .... But he will not be granted admission as long as I Am still excluded from his thoughts and aspirations. However, in that case he can be led by My adversary to his realm, who will make him believe that he arrived at the right goal .... who will also know exactly what the human being is striving for, and who will give him what he is looking for according to his desire .... This applies to people who thirst for knowledge, yet not for the sake of the pure truth but for their own advantage .... who want to know in order to be important and not in order to testify to Me and on My behalf .... They, too, will receive something but from the one who opposes the truth .... because he opposes Me .... True gifts of the spirit will only be received by an earthly child which is utterly devoted to Me, which therefore also knows the full truth since it will request it from Me Myself, and which therefore also clearly recognises what is error and what is truth .... whose desire for truth prevents My adversary from gaining entry, because he identifies a connection between the earthly child and Me as a brightly shining ray which he avoids so as not to be touched by it himself. But where he finds admission due to congenial thinking and striving he will cause all the more damage .... For he will always make an effort to obscure the light which shows people the right path .... He will always work against Me yet hide his true face behind a mask, for it is the time of the end and he knows that he doesn't have much time left ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Punishment for sin? Self-inflicted fate ....

B.D. 6242 from April 21st 1955, taken from Book No. 67

No-one can avoid being punished for his sins since with his sins the human being himself creates a state which is painful to him .... I do not punish him for his sins, yet according to the law of eternal order every action, every wrong thought and deed has an effect, and precisely this effect is caused by people themselves and experienced by them as torment, as punishment, which, however, only ever corresponds to the law of eternal order. And this is why the adversity and torment is inconceivable which people are approaching who lead a sinful life, who blaspheme and mock Me, who think they can pull everything that is divine and pure into the mud without having to pay for it. They commit one sin after another and will be horrified how the consequences of their violations will affect them .... Yet they cannot avoid their judgment .... For I cannot give them anything they didn't want themselves, I can only give them the reward which corresponds to their life and their deeds, and therefore they will have to endure much pain. And they can consider themselves fortunate if they are still pulled up on earth to make

Amends for their guilt of sins, if they still have to suffer on earth before they are called away from earth. For they can still come to their senses on earth, they can still recognise their sins on earth and turn around on the path they had travelled so far ....

In the kingdom of the beyond, however, the realisation of their guilt can often only be expected after an infinitely long time, for a sinful person enters the kingdom of the beyond with a completely darkened mind and it takes a long time before he can clarify his thoughts and regret his way of life on earth .... because he is without light and strength, yet he feels every pain which he nevertheless had prepared himself .... Anyone who presents Me as a punishing God does not know My law of eternal order or he would never be able to speak in this way .... For My love tries to protect all people from the fate they are preparing for themselves and which can never be called blissful. And I truly will do everything in order to make it easy for people .... However, if they don't want this, if they won't let themselves be guided by Me and act wrongly of their own accord, then they will also have to accept the consequences, but they will never be able to say that I have prepared the fate for them which they are creating for themselves .... For I know about the dreadful agonies and try everything in order to avert these torments from the beings .... But I will not take your free will away .... And anyone who sins must also accept the results of sin, because this corresponds to My law of eternal order. People can indeed act heartlessly and make their fellow human beings suffer, but I Am Love Itself and I only ever want to provide you with happiness .... But where human will does not allow for this there cannot be happiness .... For anti-divine desire also creates an anti-divine fate, a fate of excruciating torment and darkness, a fate of most bitter captivity .... a state of bondage and weakness, which is always the consequence, the result of sin and therefore the punishments were precipitated by the being itself .... which lived on earth in opposition to My eternal order ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

End for all .... positive or negative success ....

B.D. 6243 from April 22nd 1955, taken from Book No. 67

You are all set an aim towards which you are heading inexorably .... But the success with which you arrive at the aim is up to you. It can be the conclusion of a beneficial change on earth, but you can also have completed earthly life with negative success .... But the day will inevitably come when you will have to end your earthly life, irrespective of the degree of maturity your soul has reached. For the time allotted to the people of this earth for redemption has expired .... The end of a redemption period has come, and the day of the end is shortly approaching you .... You will all have reached the aim, more or less matured .... And then everything spiritual will be reincorporated again, it will be put back into the outer form that corresponds to its degree of maturity .... This is an incontrovertible fact, yet it finds no credence among people .... a sign of the low degree of maturity in which people stand in the end time. And the knowledge of this would not be necessary if they would make an effort to live rightly and justly of their own accord and then an increased degree of maturity would be assured in the end. But this is precisely what people lack, and therefore they shall be informed of the approaching end even though they don't want to believe in it. But they shall be made aware of the consequences of a wrong way of life; they shall know what lies ahead of them: that all will find their end, young and old, poor and rich .... that no-one can escape the final end unless he lives according to God's will, in and with God .... You are all heading towards the same fate, all life on earth will come to an end, all creations will experience a change .... the outer form of the earth will be reshaped and all 'life' will be brought to a standstill .... It still surges with tremendous momentum .... people create and work and seek to extract from life everything it offers them .... Plans are still being made and carried out, treasures are still being taken from the earth, and all human beings' thoughts and endeavours are directed towards controlling earthly creation, towards using and exploiting the treasures which are taken from the earth. Man still believes that he is or will become the master of creation .... A sudden stop will be offered when the hour has come, and people will recognize their powerlessness and stand aghast before forces they cannot master, which have a devastating effect and destroy all life .... But then it will be too late to make use of this knowledge, then everything living in, on and above the earth will be doomed .... Then you humans will have reached the aim which, depending on your attitude, will be glorious or horrific. And no-one can escape his fate, for now the hour of retribution has come, the hour of judgement, where all spiritual takes on the form again into which it belongs .... where that which was already free is once again captured and that which was previously banished is transferred into freer forms, where it now begins its upward development .... And it is the day of the end fixed since eternity .... Humanity has reached the stage where only a transformation of the earth guarantees the continuation of development, which is the purpose and aim of all work of creation .... The time has approached to which reference has always and constantly been made, and the end is near ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

From God is appointed the day of the end ....

B.D. 6244 from April 23rd 1955, taken from Book No. 67

In My eternal plan of salvation the day of the end of a redemptive era is also fixed, for I foresaw the spiritual development, I foresaw the standstill and the danger of the complete descent of the spiritual into the abyss, and I truly know how this danger can be stopped and the development continued .... I know when the time has come when a tremendous upheaval must take place, and I also know about the blessing of such an upheaval. Whatever happens in human existence is included and based on My plan of salvation, so that the day of the end could also be determined and will also be irrevocably observed .... Yet you humans do not know the day and hour of the end .... And it must also remain hidden from you for your own sake, but this does not exclude that everything will take place as I have deemed it beneficial from eternity .... And you humans would do well to unconditionally believe in the end predicted to you and to prepare yourselves for it, for this will only be to your benefit. The entire spiritual world is active to awaken the right realization in you humans; it constantly endeavours to direct your thoughts towards the inevitable end and also influences you in every possible way .... Thus everything is truly done to make you aware of the transience of earthly things and also to make your own life seem unsecured by calling many people away from the midst of life. The end of the world is being preached everywhere .... The thoughts of all people are influenced, yet always without coercion .... and therefore often without results .... But no matter how you humans behave, no matter how you relate to Me or to the word presented to you .... you do not determine My will by your behaviour, you do not stop the end, rather you always give more cause for the fulfilment of what is foretold by seers and prophets .... For you do not change and therefore I Myself must bring about the change .... as I foresaw it from eternity. But until the end you will be admonished and warned, until the end you will be given the opportunity to change your will .... But until the end world events will take place in such a way that they will not force you to change your will. And therefore everything will take its course, people will eagerly endeavour to secure their well-being, they will make great plans, want to carry out great undertakings, they will undertake much that promises worldly advantage, they will live and enjoy, unaware of what lies ahead of them .... And I will let them do as they please because I don't want to exert any coercion, only I will address people again and again and hold it against them what awaits them .... I will address all people through My servants on earth and again and again announce to them the forthcoming judgment, i.e. the transformation of the earthly works of creation, which has the purpose that everything of a spiritual nature will be placed into the form it deserves. I will not stop proclaiming this until the day when My words will be fulfilled .... And this day is close at hand for all of you .... Believe My words and prepare yourselves, for there is only a short time left to you .... use it and change before it is too late ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Redemption of Lucifer .... resistance to the test of will ....

B.D. 6245 from April 24th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

The world with all its creations contains spiritual substances in different degrees of development, which now also determines the nature of the different creations. Mature spiritual substances which are in the light no longer need material creations, whereas immature spiritual substances need material creations for their stay in order to mature therein .... And thus it can certainly be said that the visible creations are My adversary's kingdom because they contain precisely that spiritual substance which still belongs to him of its own will. Nevertheless, he cannot determine it to work according to his will because the power over the spiritual bound in the creations is withdrawn from him. And therefore it is also possible that an ascent development of the spiritual takes place in the works of creation without being able to be prevented by My adversary, and that one day the time will come for the spiritual when it can decide again in possession of free will to whom it wants to belong .... Me or My adversary, but which would never be possible if the latter previously had unlimited influence on the spiritual being in the state of bound will. And thus it follows that My adversary's power is already broken and only extends to the human being .... thus actually only the human being is the adversary's possession if he does not let himself be helped by Me .... Creation was only the consequence of the mind of the first-created being, it was the consequence of the abuse of his will .... For I took care of all creatures deceived by him and paved a way that led back from the depth to the height .... I withdrew them from his power and bound them into the creations .... but I have to leave the influence on the human being to him because it concerns a free decision for Me or My adversary and because what remains with him in free will belongs to him. Moreover, the first being emerged from My love, I externalized it as My image as a free being, and I will never dispute this being's right .... But neither will I ever deny the being that emerged from Me in the same perfection the same right to decide freely .... And therefore I had to withdraw it from its influence until it is capable of making a free decision of will itself. And that is why I let creation come into being .... I reshaped, as it were, the fallen spiritual substance .... since it did not fulfil its initial purpose, I let the strength once emanated for the creation of beings become effective elsewhere .... in apparently dead and in life-producing creations which now had to fulfil their purpose according to My will .... the will of My adversary was thus now completely switched off until the strength gathered again and gradually became the being once emanated by Me again .... But this being must now have full freedom of decision again and therefore also be exposed to My adversary's influence just as it is to Mine and steer towards its aim in free will .... So now My adversary reigns again in his world .... because the being still belongs to him until it voluntarily turns away from him and strives towards Me ....

The adversary relationship between Me and the first-created being has existed since its apostasy from Me and will continue to exist as long as it still has its followers who once gave rise to its desire to rule. This following must first be redeemed before My adversary also returns to Me, thus he no longer faces Me as an enemy .... For if My adversary decided to return, the return of all spiritual substances would also be guaranteed, because then they would no longer be exposed to My adversary's influence in the stage of free will and the degree of maturity reached in the state of compulsion would also guarantee a further striving towards Me. However, only an act of free will can bring about the deification of beings .... deification presupposes a resistance which is overcome by free will .... And this resistance is offered to the greatest extent by My adversary, and he will continue to offer it to Me for endless times to come .... And as long as there will also be earthly creations, as long as one redemption epoch will replace the other, for his fall into the abyss was so endless that he will need eternal times in order to ascend together with his followers .... The work of creation, however, was an act of grace and mercy on the fallen spiritual being .... to which the first-fallen spirit could also have submitted itself if it had given up its will and likewise allowed itself to be pulled up by Me .... But I did not bind his will, for he was free and had emerged from Me in My image, and I allowed him this freedom, whereas the spiritual being which emerged from his will and My strength needed My help, because My adversary had already placed the will which had turned away from Me into this spiritual being, which therefore had to be bound until the being had reached a degree of maturity again that it could decide completely freely. For there was a difference between the first-created being and those which both of our wills of love let arise .... For this reason the act of return to Me is also different, and on My adversary's part the return will only take place when he, completely deprived of his strength and power, lies helpless and weak on the ground and then he will give up all resistance against Me in desire for My love, which he once rejected but which will flow towards him again to the same extent if he voluntarily surrenders to Me .... The act of redemption of the once fallen one takes place in an infinitely long time according to the law of eternal order, it will certainly be completed one day, for the deification of the created beings is and remains My aim which I pursue and also certainly achieve .... But eternities will still pass until the prodigal son returns home to his father's house, eternities will still pass before the battle between light and darkness rages, but the light will overcome the darkness and one day shine in fullest power ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Greatest danger of sinking to the depths ....

B.D. 6246 from April 26th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

The danger of sinking into the deepest depths is becoming ever greater for people because the world with its demands is pushing itself forward more and more and less respect is paid to the spiritual, because less and less thought is given to the actual purpose of earthly life, which seems implausible to people. Therefore everything must still be done to stop the fall into the abyss, where there is still a possibility that people can be saved. Again and again mention must be made of what lies ahead of humanity, for all people are approaching the end because the time has come which was announced always and constantly. You, My servants on earth, will not find much faith but people should take note of what lies ahead, and if the same thing is repeatedly held up to them they will also think about the possible possibility, for every human being has hours when he thinks about himself and asks himself about the meaning and purpose of existence. In the last days before the end the work of My servants on earth is not very successful, for people are so removed from the spiritual kingdom that the emissaries of this kingdom, My representatives on earth, only appear to them as fantasists whose words are not to be taken seriously. The contrast between these and the representatives of the world is very marked, and a bridge between the two is hardly to be found. Nevertheless, I urge My servants on earth ever more urgently not to let up, because every single soul is dear to Me and I want to save it from ruin .... from another walk through the creations of earth. And I cannot do more than inform people through My word what awaits them if they don't change, that is, if they put earthly striving aside and strive for the kingdom, which they irrevocably have to reach and also will, but eternities can still pass by if they don't take My word to heart, which My love repeatedly conveys to them. The fact that it cannot be proven to them should not cause them to completely reject it, they should mentally process it, then their will to reject it will also decrease and they will no longer consider the forthcoming entirely impossible. Your path is already endlessly long .... Do you want to lengthen it again, now that you are close to the aim? .... Do you want to turn back and begin again at the starting point? Let yourselves be warned and admonished that you are approaching a dreadful fate but can avert it yourselves if you listen to what My servants proclaim to you .... Believe that I only ever speak to you because I want to save you from ruin, from endless long periods of torment and darkness. Save yourselves before it is too late, for with giant strides you are all approaching the end which, although it is only an establishment of the eternal order in the true sense of the word, signifies an extremely painful transformation for those who have left the order, a state which you cannot imagine .... This is why you do not believe My servants either, for you are completely unfamiliar with the processes and conditions which await you if you live contrary to My will .... you do not have much time left .... make good use of it and prepare yourselves, and you will not regret it if you withdraw from the world and occupy yourselves with the spiritual world .... You will derive considerable benefit for your souls from such endeavours but conversely suffer spiritual death when the hour has come when what I had proclaimed through seers and prophets will be fulfilled .... For the time is fulfilled and every soul awaits the fate it has prepared for itself ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Meaning of the word 'court' .... justice ....

B.D. 6247 from April 29th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

Each one is judged according to his works .... Understand that by 'judging' we do not mean 'condemning' but placing into the sphere where he belongs through his works in the flesh .... My righteousness cannot place immature souls who still have satanic instincts in them into a sphere where there is light and bliss, but it must give light and bliss to those who have lived according to My will .... My righteousness must give them freedom, but it must also keep the former imprisoned in an external form corresponding to their spiritual state or in dark spheres where they are not free because they lack light and strength. You may not imagine a punishing but only a just God in Me. However, a pitiful fate is never a punishment on My part but chosen and striven for by yourselves .... thus you punish yourselves but never the one Who called you into life in order to grant you beatitude. You should not fear My punishment but My justice, which cannot consider you other than in accordance with the eternal order. As long as you stay on earth you are in the midst of judgment .... For everything around you and also you yourselves are 'judged spiritual things' .... i.e. incorporated into the right form which corresponds to spiritual maturity .... And when the day of judgement has come .... the most recent, because the last day on this earth .... the divine order will again be established, for I truly know where the spiritual belongs in order to be able to continue the ascent upwards, to the final liberation. I know about the maturity of the spiritual which is still bound in the creations .... But I also know about every individual person's degree of maturity, I know about his guilt and merit and can therefore restore the eternal order by renewing the earth and enlivening all creations with the spiritual substances which have matured for this purpose .... If people now reshape themselves again in free will in a way, this is their own guilt .... and according to this guilt now also the souls' stay, because this is a placing into My law from eternity. Therefore, don't fear a punishing and avenging God, yet remember a righteous God Who does not condemn you but in His love wants to help you to beatitude, yet He can never prepare this beatitude for you as long as you are inadequately shaped by your own will, because then you would perish in a sphere which you cannot bear in your spiritual state. My righteousness does not exclude My love, just as conversely My love cannot be thought of without righteousness .... My love applies to all My living creations and will never cease to exist, yet My law of order will continue to exist for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Desire for truth guarantees truth ....

B.D. 6248 from May 2nd 1955, taken from Book No. 67

Whoever seeks the truth will also find it .... Therefore do not worry, for I will not let anyone who earnestly desires the truth fall prey to error and lies. You humans have brought it upon yourselves whether you walk in error or walk the light-filled paths of truth .... You yourselves walk the path of your own free will, and your will alone is decisive as to which path you take. The only harm is that you are mostly lukewarm and indifferent, thus you neither consciously desire the truth nor fear becoming spiritually darkened through error; you yourselves are little affected whether truth or error is offered to you, and therefore humanity goes along in a dark spiritual state .... People who consciously strive towards Me will always feel addressed by the truth, on the other hand they will feel a slight uneasiness when something is offered to them which does not correspond to the pure truth .... And I will always assist them so that their thinking is and remains correctly directed .... Again and again I will also warn the others and offer them the pure truth, but their willingness to accept it will be low because they lack the seriousness which is required for the recognition of truth. The battle between light and darkness will rage ever more fiercely the closer it is to the end, for My adversary fights against the light, against the truth which testifies to Me. My adversary has great influence on all those who are still attached to him in their nature. And therefore every person must seriously examine himself if and when he offers him the opportunity to confuse his thoughts, i.e. to convey untrue spiritual knowledge to him, but this can certainly be prevented if the desire for truth is so strong in a person that I Myself can thereby deny the adversary his influence. Every person should seriously ask himself whether he wants to live in truth and then sincerely request this from Me .... And My adversary will no longer be able to present him with an error which he would not recognize as error .... It cannot be prevented that erroneous spiritual knowledge is presented to people, because I cannot stop My adversary's handiwork in the last days before the end, since he also has a certain amount of freedom at his disposal .... But the human being himself can prevent such spiritual knowledge from being accepted if he only strives for truth, if he does not want to walk in error .... The human being is not defenceless against error, thus at the mercy of My adversary .... He will bounce off him as long as his desire is for the pure truth. He will feel it within himself when My adversary addresses him and he will close himself off to his influence, for anyone who seeks the truth seeks Me and I truly let Myself be found by him. And you humans know that the time has come when My adversary will try to oust Me from people's hearts by all means, you know that he will stop at nothing and always wants to spread more darkness the brighter the light shines, and he will always want to cause confusion where the light from the heavens shines .... But he will not succeed as long as the human being unites with Me, as long as he himself strives for the truth and asks Me for it .... There he has lost his power, there he is recognized and rejected .... For there I Myself am, and there My light shines ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's protection of His fighters and servants ....

B.D. 6249 from May 3rd 1955, taken from Book No. 67

Whatever will be done against you .... I hold My protective hand over you and the work you want to do for Me and My kingdom. The truth will always be fought against and consequently also against you, who spread the truth, and this is My adversary's weapon that he disguises himself as a proclaimer of truth and that he will find far more followers than you, who receive the truth from Me Myself. As long as people listen to you, perhaps also reject you, but do not take action against you, My adversary is not satisfied, for he wants to extinguish the light which I Myself have kindled on earth. And therefore he looks for people whom he can influence to take action against you .... And he finds them, namely in the ranks of those who are spiritually arrogant; he finds them where he has been able to work for a long time, where enlightenment through the spirit is lacking so that they were unable to distinguish error from truth .... He also deludes them into believing the truth, and they believe him more than those who really bring it to them. And therefore they are of unenlightened spirit because they have no love, because they believe they can replace the working of love with actions which My adversary has presented to them as beneficial and successful for their souls. Without love, however, the light of realization cannot be kindled in them, and therefore they will remain without realization and always be welcome objects for My adversary which he can use to work against you. But I know about his plans and about the compliancy of the people in bondage to him .... I also give them the opportunity to recognize but I don't force them to do so .... and where they want to harm you I place guards there who protect you from their pernicious slobber, who prevent them from getting to you .... For whomever I appoint to work for Me will also experience My protection in the richest measure so as not to be hindered in his work .... The battle between light and darkness will flare up ever more fiercely, and you are standing in the time of this battle .... You will have to prove yourselves as strong, fearless fighters for Me and My word .... But I will also give you the strength to be able to resist every instruction; you will fight with the sword of the mouth and I Myself will wield the blade, I will put the words into your mouth at all times if you fight for Me, because it is My will that error be exposed, which only a fearless fighter will do who receives the strength to resist from Me .... Therefore do not be afraid when you are attacked but always know that you are accompanied and protected by Me and calmly take up the gauntlet .... Face those who go against you for a battle of words, you will certainly not be defeated, and even if My adversary himself attacks you .... For you are never alone, but you can always be certain of My presence, which even the adversary is no match for. Yet the last time before the end will not be without a fight .... But you fight for Me and My name, and therefore you will also enjoy My protection, as I have promised you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spiritual turning point .... The approach of night ....

B.D. 6250 from May 5th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

You humans cannot expect a spiritual revival on this earth anymore, for all forces of hell have been let loose which work on My adversary's instructions and truly have immense influence over people, because due to the extent of their own lack of spirituality they don't recognise who is controlling them. A spiritual turning point can no longer take place anymore, yet individual people can still be led onto the right path, individual people will still accomplish a change in themselves, and for the sake of these individuals everything will still be done before the end arrives. However, it will be strikingly obvious how rapidly humanity slides down, how increasingly deeper it descends into darkness and shuns the light .... it will be obvious how brutally the light of truth will be fought against, how much the unbelief comes to the fore, how far away from God people live yet pay homage to My adversary .... And therefore there can be no delay anymore because there is no further prospect that a change will ever take place unless I accomplish this change Myself .... but in a way which is unwanted by humanity .... by putting an end to everything and creating a new beginning .... The time span until the end is exceedingly short yet no-one knows the day, and therefore everyone strives half-heartedly, even My believers don't imagine it to be forthcoming so soon as to diligently work for their souls .... But I keep telling you time and again: You will be approaching it shortly .... I must reiterate this call over and over, I must incite you to be extremely active, I must also ask My servants to do their work ever more eagerly, because it is important and can still save individual people from ruin when the end arrives, which I announced on and on .... Although the events in the world will have to take their natural course, and this also places My Own into a certain state of calm, yet time and again I say to you: The end will arrive suddenly .... the day will dawn unexpectedly and end differently than usual .... it will be followed by an everlasting night and the light of day will only shine again for the few who are and will remain My Own despite the testing hostilities and pursuits by My adversary .... Admittedly, you still have to face the time of the battle of faith yet even this will only last for a short period of time, because it will be extremely fiercely waged, so that the day of My coming to earth will be precipitated by people themselves .... Events will very quickly follow each other and yet appear to people as completely natural occurrences which deserve no special merit .... hence they will not want to associate these events with the shortly approaching end ....

For this reason it will also take My Own by surprise, for I will come like a thief in the night .... because no-one will think of it if the announced event still appears to be far away. If only you humans believed that your attention is merely drawn to it so that you can prepare yourselves .... Your remorse will be painful, for all of you still do far too little for the salvation of your soul. Earthly life was not given to you as an end in itself, and every day could be utilised such that you could attain an incredible abundance of light which will provide you with incomparable beatitude in the spiritual kingdom .... and one day you will realise this and sorrowfully remember the insufficiently used time on earth. But at the time of the end no-one believes or understands it, the prevailing low spiritual level can almost not be thought worse anymore, for you humans are unable to see that which is open before My eyes, you humans must believe what cannot be proven to you, and this also includes the termination of this earthly period, which is of great spiritual significance. You must, if you don't want to believe or think yourselves unable to believe, make an effort to live a life of unselfish love, and then you will feel within yourselves that you are approaching a completely different era .... And you will not go astray, for I take pity on all those who don't entirely belong to My adversary and help them to progress further in the kingdom of the beyond, if their earthly life comes to an end before the Last Judgment .... An extremely dark night is approaching, the day soon comes to an end but as yet there is still light .... you are still able to use the light of the day and ignite a light within yourselves which will never be extinguished again .... And then you need not fear the approaching night ....

But woe to you if you are sluggish .... if you believe that the day will never end .... Woe to you if you live from day to day without considering your soul .... And to those of you who don't fear death because you believe that you will cease to exist .... I say that you will experience death with all its terrors and that you will be unable to escape these terrors .... Then you will no longer be able to discard your life for you cannot cease to exist, you will continue to live even in the state of death, you will have to suffer agonies which you cannot get away from .... For spiritual death is far worse than the death of the body, which can also be your admission into a blissful life .... Listen to My call from above, let yourselves be warned and admonished .... Don't be indifferent and let these Words pass your ears unheeded but vividly imagine the hardship which will await you if you don't give credence to My Words .... You will constantly be able to observe the signs of the end, yet everything will happen so naturally that you certainly could believe but don't have to. Nevertheless, your beatitude depends on your belief, for only the believer will prepare himself, he will remember Me and stay in contact with Me, even when the work of disintegration has begun. For time has run out and in keeping with divine order, what has been determined in My eternal plan of Salvation will come to pass. The earth will be transformed and with it all living creations, so that all spiritual substances will be engendered into those forms again in which they belong according to their degree of maturity .... The divine order will be restored again, because there is no other way to guarantee the spirits' higher development, yet the goal of My love is only ever this higher development which intends to bring you, My living creations, closer to Me again ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The truth cannot be prevented ....

B.D. 6251 from May 6th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

Never ever will I allow the path to truth to be blocked for those who want to take it .... Never ever will My adversary have the right to forcibly influence those, for this right has been taken away from him through My death on the cross. He can no longer prevent you if you want it yourselves that you reach the aim through truth .... the eternal union with Me. For this reason everything can be done on earth by the hostile power which is directed against the truth .... I Myself will ensure that it is conveyed to those who strive for it .... for I truly don't need people for this, I can impart it directly to those who strive for it or let it reach them through My servants, and such spiritual knowledge is truly inviolable on the part of the adversary of truth .... No earthly or spiritual evil power can rob a person of what is imparted to him through the spirit, for My spirit works outside of earthly laws, My spirit only requires the deep, serious desire for truth in order to be able to work in a person. Therefore no counteraction needs to be feared where I Myself am active .... even though people are oppressed from outside. No human being need fear falling into darkness, into spiritual darkness, if action is taken against the truth. The right light comes from within, the right light is ignited by love, and as long as no earthly power is able to forcibly invalidate the will to love .... as long as no power is able to stifle the human being's desire for truth, it is impossible to eradicate truth itself, for it will always arise again in the heart of the one who strives for it .... And anyone who has turned his will towards Me will also always strive for the truth, because I Myself am the truth .... So let it be said to you that My adversary cannot displace Me Himself, no matter how much he fights against the truth, against the light which enlightens human hearts .... He will succumb to Me, for My light will blind him so that he will fall to the ground when I let it shine in all its strength .... But I still leave it up to you humans how brightly the light shines, nor do I make it dependent on your will which determines the luminosity. You yourselves must strive for the truth in order to be able to warm yourselves in its shining light, I will not push Myself forward with the truth if you don't develop a desire for it yourselves .... and thus you don't have to fear My adversary but only yourselves if you remain lukewarm and indifferent towards the truth and thereby make yourselves My adversary's friend because you fulfil his desire. Then you will never attain the truth .... but the sincere seeker cannot be prevented from receiving it by My adversary; I Myself will instruct him, and I will truly also know in what way, in what form I can offer it to him .... And no power will be able to prevent him from receiving the truth directly from Me, Who Myself is the truth, the light from eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The task to spread the truth presupposes receipt of truth from God ....

B.D. 6252 from May 7th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

You should speak in My name for Me and My kingdom .... You should say the same to people as I would say to them Myself if I visibly lived amongst them .... you should instruct them truthfully like I Myself have done during the time I lived on earth ....

If I give you this task then I also have to provide you with the possibility to accomplish it .... And if I expect you to impart the truth to people then I also have to give you the truth, so that you will be able to work in accordance with My will for Me and My kingdom. But therefore you can also be certain that whatever I give to you is the utter truth, otherwise I could not demand of you to proclaim the Gospel in My name. And thus you can confidently regard yourselves as My instruments, you can repeat with utter confidence what you receive from Me through the spirit, you can stand up for the truth with conviction, you need not trouble yourselves with doubts or you would have to question God's love, omnipotence and wisdom if He could not protect you from error.

I have initiated you into My eternal plan of Salvation .... I gave you knowledge of My reign and activity, of your purpose of existence, of the reason and goal for everything in existence .... I tried to make you understand that My love constantly cares for all living creations .... I have introduced you to knowledge that you cannot simply dismiss as implausible because all correlations were revealed to you with profound wisdom .... And this knowledge alone can already be regarded by you as evidence of extraordinary activity .... you can also believe everything, because it is offered demonstrating My love to you far more comprehensibly than the knowledge acquired by human intellect which, however, lets doubts arise in My love, wisdom and omnipotence .... But I have only conveyed the information to you for one purpose: to distribute it amongst people, so that they learn the pure truth which originates from Me and which should be passed on to them unaltered .... I Myself, Who is Eternal Truth Himself, give this instruction to you .... And I give to you in abundance, I provide you with extensive information which you should pass on, and you truly need not accept 'additional knowledge' from elsewhere .... I therefore caution you not to combine My pure truth .... the spiritual information you receive from Me .... with spiritual information not imparted to you by Myself, for there is a great risk that the pure living water will be mixed with harmful embellishments .... Pass it on again as pure and adulterated as you received it from Me, for you are drawing from the spring of life, a source has been opened up for you which lets the most delectable gift flow out: direct strength from Me, My Word, which originates from Me directly and affects your spiritual ear. Thus I Myself bring the living water to you which fully suffices to awaken people to life and to keep them alive ....

I truly know what is necessary and helpful to you, and that is also what I will convey to you .... Keep to this and only this .... then you will speak in My name and proclaim the pure Gospel to your fellow human beings .... And you will always be blessed by Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's plan of salvation proves His love ....

B.D. 6253 from May 9th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

In My eternal plan of salvation you recognize My never-ending will of love which constantly seeks to promote, which does not allow itself to be discouraged, which is constantly active and expresses itself in ever new creations. There can never be a standstill with Me, but neither can there be a backward development which would be based on My will, for only progressive development is possible from Me as long as the will of the freely created entity does not prevent it by opposing Me. I have set Myself an aim, I pursue this aim and one day I will achieve it .... that all beingness which has fallen into the abyss through its own fault will ascend again, that it will shine in brightest light, that it will move in fullest freedom with unheard-of strength and create and work in unlimited bliss .... To anyone who knows about My plan of salvation nothing seems inexplicable any more, no matter what he experiences in his earthly existence, for he sees My will behind everything and knows that it only ever aims at progress but never at a decline. However, it is often difficult for a person to bring his own suffering, the sometimes oppressive earthly walk, together with the love of a God .... And this already requires a certain realization, the knowledge of My plan of salvation and of My greater than great love which applies to all My living creations. For this love explains everything, and where God's love is doubted the human being also faces events in complete ignorance or with a lack of understanding, and he loses all faith .... Nothing is arbitrary, My love and wisdom underlies every happening, everything serves the perfection of the spiritual being, it serves its return and perfection, for My aim is the deification of all beings which were once created by Me. Only those who know about My plan of salvation also know about the deficient state of all beings and creations of all kinds on earth .... And nothing seems implausible to anyone who knows about the final aim of all this, for he has already reached a certain degree of maturity, otherwise the knowledge of My process of salvation would be alien to him. But the person who knows about it is happy, for he also knows that he is seized by My love and sees an aim before his eyes towards which he is striving. No worldly knowledge can satisfy a person as much as spiritual knowledge does, for only now is the purpose of existence known to the person and he sees everything in a different light than the person to whom that healing process is unknown, who only ever regards earthly life as an end in itself and becomes increasingly poorer the more he strives for and possesses worldly goods. Knowing My infinite love and feeling seized by it gives the human being inner peace and the certainty that he was not only created for this earthly world .... And his aim will also only ever remain Me Myself, for he feels the unity with Me, he seeks to restore it as it was in the beginning .... he consciously strives towards Me and he will certainly reach his aim .... I will unite Myself with him and fill him with happiness now and forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Connection with God secures His protection ....

B.D. 6254 from May 10th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

Stay in constant contact with Me and you will emerge safely from all difficulties which still have to befall people before the end. No human being need fear this time as long as he has found Me Myself and does not let go of Me, for as long as he walks by My hand, as long as I walk beside him, he is immune to all adversity .... And My presence is certain for him if he never leaves Me out of his thoughts, if he always converses with Me, if he commends himself to Me daily and requests My nearness .... And if he lives in love .... For then he is intimately united with Me for time and eternity .... To all of you I promise My protection in the days of coming adversity, you who only want to be united with Me, you who have recognized Me .... you who believe in Me .... reflect that I have created you to mould you into My children .... Think about the fact that My fatherly love never ends, then you will also know that I don't want you to suffer unless it is necessary for you. But the necessity exists as long as you exclude Me from your thoughts, as long as you still turn away from Me and pursue aims other than Me .... Then I will have to be hard on you so that you remember Me and turn to Me, so that you learn to recognize the father in Me Who will help you if you want to let Him help you. Then you may well suffer and be in need until you appeal to Me for help .... Yet as soon as you seek Me of your own accord and have also found Me you can be without worry that you will still be threatened by danger, for My nearness eliminates such. Yet you must call a living faith your own, for words which are only spoken by the mouth do not secure My presence for you; on the other hand, a thought of the heart draws Me to you and then you will truly be under safe protection. You must achieve in your earthly life that you always feel Me close to you, you must pray to Me 'without ceasing', that is, you must consult Me in everything you do ..... I must be the first and the last in your world of thoughts, you may no longer live without Me, and the closer I will be to you because you yourselves secure My presence by thinking of Me. Great strength lies in thinking of Me, which you can let take effect at any time, which is why nothing will touch you painfully and no danger can threaten you as long as you remain united with Me in your heart. I give you this comfort for the coming time, which should therefore not frighten you because I Myself watch over you and constantly grant you My protection ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Feeding of the divine word .... act of God's grace ....

B.D. 6255 from May 12th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

Into the darkness you shall be brought a light .... You shall experience God's love and mercy, you shall be showered with His grace, you shall experience a direct sign of His working and evidence of His presence amongst people who are of good will .... You shall take notice of His word which He conveys to earth as an outpouring of His love, because people are in great spiritual hardship and urgently need help. For this reason He expresses Himself through the mouth of a human being, He lets His spirit shine down into the hearts of those who open themselves to Him and gives them true light. He imparts the truth to them, knowledge which puts people into a state of realization and which shall serve to kindle love for their God and creator, for their father of eternity .... for only love for God causes people to live according to His will and strive towards Him .... Only love awakens in people the desire for union with the eternal love Itself .... It is truly a proof of immense love for you humans that God makes Himself known to you, that He kindles a light in you which shall brightly illuminate the path you have to take on earth .... It is an act of grace and mercy that He approaches you again who once strayed from God of your own free will, that He speaks to you and tries to persuade you to turn back and strive towards Him again, Who alone wants to grant you eternal bliss .... You humans walk in the night due to your own fault, for the divine light of love once shone upon you in abundance, yet you rejected it. Accept it now that it shines for you again, receive the gift of grace from God's hand and use it well .... and you will once again be what you were from the beginning: perfectly active and blissful beings full of light and strength. God Himself offers you the means which you only need to use in order to attain your former perfection again .... He grants you graces which you did not deserve since you had voluntarily distanced yourselves from God .... Yet He wants to win you back again, He wants you to return to Him as His children into your father's house, because His love created you and this love for you will never cease and therefore He will tirelessly court your love, the love of the child for the father, Who is and will remain for you for eternity. This is why He Himself speaks to you, and if you listen to Him and deeply move the words in your heart, you will also feel the love and strength which His word contains .... You will feel Him present to you and your heart will burn with love and want to belong to Him forever .... Open your hearts to His speech, do not close them unwillingly but listen to what He wants to say to you .... And you will experience an unimagined blessing, you will escape the spiritual night, the light of a radiant morning will shine upon you, filling your hearts with bliss .... You will approach a new day and no longer have to fear the dark night for ever, for the eternal light Itself comes to you and fills your hearts with radiant glow ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The human being is close to the goal ....

B.D. 6256 from May 13th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

You humans are close to the goal .... Don't invalidate the success of your previous long life on earth by failing now and descending into the abyss again from which you worked your way up over an infinitely long time .... Don't let the final test of will become the cliff which destroys you .... Instead, diligently pursue your goal and you will be happy and free in a very short time. The significance of your life on earth as a human being is usually unknown to you .... you don't spend any thought on what happened to you before and what will happen afterwards .... nor are you aware of the fact that you have reached the final stage of your development where your free will must become active in order to reach the final goal: unification with God, which will result in beatitude and freedom. And, because you lack knowledge, there is a great risk that you won't make full use of your earthly life as a human being and that the last opportunity of attaining freedom for good will remain unused. In that case, the previous infinitely long path your soul had to take through the works of creation in a bound state will have been in vain .... Then the laboriously attained degree of maturity, which the embodiment as a human being resulted in, will be at risk, for you do not remain on the same level but descend again instead, and might even have to take the process through the creations once more, since so many blessings are at your disposal during earthly life that you will transgress against God again if you again reject the help He offers you .... And this signifies that you will fall all over again, which God in His greater than great love would like to prevent. For this reason He conveys His Word to you, the knowledge about His eternal plan of Salvation, about your beginning and your goal, about your task on earth .... It is not His will that you should fall back into the abyss again, but He will not curtail your free will .... He will certainly help you but He will not force you .... And therefore it is indeed possible, but not certain, that you will reach your goal, because your resolve is the decisive factor; and in order to strengthen your will, in order to turn it in the right direction, you are approached by God Himself in His Word .... He instructs you, He informs you of the significance of your life on earth and He tries to strengthen the sense of responsibility you have towards your soul .... He conveys the truth to you humans and every person can accept it if he is of good will .... if he seriously thinks about the reason for his existence, if he feels affiliated to a supremely perfect being and would like to establish the connection with this being .... The Word conveyed to earth by God Himself will make him happy, for he will recognise the truth, he will feel that God Himself is speaking to him and he will do what God demands of him, he will fulfil the will of God, and God will reveal Himself to him through His Word ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Lack of sense of responsibility .... lack of faith ....

B.D. 6257 from May 14th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

You bear a responsibility for your earthly life which you cannot absolve yourselves of. And one day you will have to give account to your God and creator of eternity as to how you have used this earthly life, what advantage your soul has gained from it .... And you will mostly have to recognize that you only thought of your body but the soul came away empty-handed. And therefore the soul must be .... your real self .... must suffer exceedingly in the kingdom of the beyond, yet you yourselves have procured this suffering, you yourselves could also be eternally happy in light and strength, for you could have acquired such a blissful fate on earth with the right use of your will. On earth you will always strive for advantage, you will always do what brings you success .... and thus you should also constantly strive for the right kind of success for your soul, because you know full well that the body will pass away, that you will not even be able to preserve your own life if you are called away before the time God grants a person .... You know that you can be called away every day, and therefore you should dedicate all your efforts and striving on earth to the well-being of your soul, which continues to live even when the earthly body passes away .... Why do you not have a sense of responsibility for your soul? Why don't you think about its fate after the death of the body? Because you do not want to believe that your soul lives on .... Nevertheless, you must answer for yourselves when you enter the spiritual kingdom, for you have not remained unaware of it. During your earthly life you were repeatedly informed and you will be informed until the end, for the spiritual world will reveal itself to you in a good or bad sense, your attention will always be drawn to the working of supernatural forces, even if you reject it as fantasy, yet these indications should always suffice for you to think about what awaits your soul after the death of your body .... No hundred percent proofs from the kingdom of the beyond can be given to you, for you must believe without being prompted by evidence .... for you should voluntarily strive for perfection but not compulsorily .... through evidence .... bring about a change in your nature. Yet you all have spiritual guides who will not let any opportunity pass by to influence you from above and who will also occasionally resort to means which could cause you concern if only you paid attention to them; in the last days before the end connections from the beyond to earth will be extremely frequent, because it is only intended to confirm to unbelieving people a continuation of life after death without, however, forcing the human being's will to believe .... It is truly made easy for you humans to gain faith in a continuation of life, for you will still experience many things which seem supernatural to you but which are only permitted so that you will look within yourselves and henceforth only think of your soul, that you will learn to believe and still work diligently until the end so that the soul will attain 'life' in light and bliss ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Redemption of souls from the deep before the end ....

B.D. 6258 from May 15th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

Countless souls will still ascend from the abyss before this period of redemption comes to an end, because the world of light is constantly working on the spiritual being's redemption and because the haven of grace is inexhaustible and available to all who muster the slightest will to become free from their state. The act of new banishment in the creations of earth is certainly a change of its situation but no less agonizing, which is why all possibilities are still utilized to spare this spiritual being in the abyss this new banishment, to release it even before and to lead it towards a less agonizing state, in which it will then also certainly find the path to ascent. There is also turmoil in the depths, for there, too, spirits are divided .... The increasingly frequent flashes of light do not miss their effect. Divine love sends them ever more intensely into the abyss, and many souls feel their benefit and their resistance becomes ever weaker .... until they finally desire to expose themselves to the effect of that radiation of light, until they expect it more and more and follow it .... while others take refuge in darkness even more in order not to be touched by it .... This separation of spirits must also take place there before the last act takes place .... that the latter are banished into form again, so that one day the time of liberation can come for them too .... Countless souls, however, emerge from the depths, they accept the graces, they give up their resistance and submit to God's judgement .... they want to do what they refused to do until now: serve in humility and help where their help is needed .... They have been struck in the depths by sparks of love that have brought about this change of will .... And these sparks of love emanate from God but also from you humans on earth, for every helpful, merciful thought which applies to the souls of darkness, which are far away from all bliss and in an extremely pitiable state, is evident to these souls as a spark of light, and it does not remain without effect. Countless people on earth certainly fail in their decision of will and sink into immeasurable depths .... yet the redemption from the abyss is a compensation, for they accept what people on earth spurn .... they are saved through the means which people on earth reject .... They hunger for the word of God which gives them strength and beatitude, whereas people do not recognize it and therefore pass by a delectable gift which could likewise lead them to the light. The word, which emanates from God as direct radiation of love, does not remain without effect, for infinity receives it and it works as strength everywhere where it is not opposed .... And thus it also penetrates into the depths where 'love' has already done the preliminary work. The divine word now affects those souls with all its strength and brings about a change of will which also signifies a certain transformation of the sphere in which the souls are now allowed to dwell. Great spiritual upheavals are taking place on earth and also in the spiritual kingdom, and the time of grace has not yet expired which is granted to the souls for the final decision .... God's love constantly endeavours to bring redemption to all souls, and love can contribute much to this .... for every ray of love has a redeeming effect, and nothing can be lost that is touched by such a ray of love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Beholding face to face ....

B.D. 6259 from May 16th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

And eternally My Name will resound in the world of blessed spirits .... eternally My ray of love will strike them, eternally My word will resound and My will will be their will. Eternally their love for Me will glow and find fulfilment in My love .... I will be their father and they My children .... This is the aim I have set for Myself from the beginning and which I will also achieve, albeit in an infinitely long time. For Me the longest time is like a moment, for I am from eternity and will be for eternity .... You are immeasurably tiny compared to My all-filling deity, yet even the tiniest is My bliss, for it emerged from Me and thus is the same in its fundamental substance as I, and therefore it will never need to do without My love, even if it is still at the farthest distance from Me .... even if it is still infinitely far behind and has no access to the world of light .... I will nevertheless look after it, only to an extent which is bearable for its state. But one day even the most distant will be accepted into My kingdom of light, one day it will join in the hymn of praise of the blessed hosts, it will be radiated through by My love and likewise be inconceivably blissful, and it will long for Me with all its love and My nearness will be certain for it. But the being has passed through countless spheres since its departure from Me, and it will still pass through countless spheres until it is so close to Me that it will be able to behold Me face to face in praise. For this requires a degree of maturity which allows My closest proximity, because the being would have to pass away if My illumination of love were to affect it in a state which is not yet perfect, which is why an ever-increasing bliss must first so completely spiritualize the being that it can always come closer to Me without passing away .... No description of this state can be given to you humans, for you still live in a sphere where it is exceedingly dark, even if a light from above gives you enlightenment .... You are still far away from complete spiritualization and therefore also still far away from Me .... I can certainly send you a ray of love but you would not yet be receptive for a greater abundance of My love .... This is why I still hold back with My strength of love so as not to harm you, but I do everything to reduce your resistance to Me .... because I also want to have you one day where your exit was .... with Me Myself, your God and father from eternity. I do not renounce you because you are the same as Me and irrefutably belong to Me, but I do not draw you to Me prematurely, for then your being would be endangered, the imperfect would be consumed by My strength of love, it would have ceased to be .... provided that My love would be limited and would not protect the spiritual from complete perishing through unwisely radiating through during a still imperfect state .... Love, wisdom and omnipotence is My nature, and love, wisdom and omnipotence strive towards the deification of the created as their aim .... And love and wisdom accomplish everything, because omnipotence has to be where love is, for this is effective strength. Only a love-filled being can endure My presence in the kingdom of the blessed spirits without passing away, for now it has become like Me and can behold Me face to face ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Body .... soul .... spirit .... unification task ....

B.D. 6260 from May 17th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

It is the human being's destiny that his soul should unite with the spirit within himself .... If this destiny is adhered to, then the soul's fate is already assured, then the earthly life has been successful when the soul departs from earth. At the beginning of embodiment both .... soul and spirit .... are still separated, for the soul, as an ego-conscious being, had voluntarily accomplished this separation. It must now voluntarily unite again, it itself must seek union with the spirit, it must reveal its willingness to love to the spirit, which is then also immediately ready to help it, for God Himself .... the father spirit from eternity .... now comes to meet it. He has an effect on the soul, for a spark of Himself is given to the soul for the earthly change, which now also has a guiding and instructing effect as part of God and draws the soul to Himself and thus also constantly pushes it towards the father-spirit of eternity .... Only the soul's unification with its spirit within itself needs to take place in order to also secure the final aim: the union with God, which signifies freedom and beatitude. It is a simple solution to find the meaning of life, and yet this solution is rarely sought by people only because it is incomprehensible to them as long as the soul has still remained completely unimpressed, as long as it has not yet granted the spiritual spark within itself the right to instruct them .... as long as it has not yet bridged the separation between itself and the spirit through its own working of love .... as long as it does not recognize its purpose of earthly life, and its thinking and desire is only earthly directed .... and as long as its earthly life is also unsuccessful and does not earn it the slightest ascent, for the unification of spirit and soul is the purpose and aim of its earthly change. And since this unification is and will always remain an act of free will, the human being's will can only ever be influenced by God and the world of light so that he takes a different direction than before, yet always with respect for his freedom, which therefore requires great patience and perseverance. The spiritual low would not be so alarmingly low if humanity's will could be forcibly directed, yet this would be worthless for the individual person's spiritual development, even if a state of peace would then be recognizable on earth instead of the present adversity .... Freedom of will must be preserved, even if this results in a sinking of the essence into the depths .... People must voluntarily return to God, voluntarily they must change the self-love dwelling in them into unselfish neighbourly love and thereby accomplish the unification of their soul with the spirit .... Yet in every way they will find support from God and the world of light, for all events in earthly life approach people in such a way that a change of will is possible .... Imperceptibly the soul is drawn by God .... and as soon as it is willing to relinquish its former resistance it will be seized by God's love .... then it will give ear to the spirit within itself, and then it can no longer eternally sink back into the kingdom of darkness ....

Amen

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Divine guidance through the spirit ....

B.D. 6261 from May 20th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

If all of you meet the conditions which allow for the working of My spirit in you, then the constant guidance through My spirit will also be assured to you and you need no longer fear that you are taking the wrong path .... Then you will only encounter what My eternal Father-Spirit recognises to be of benefit to your soul's maturity. However, fulfilling these conditions presupposes the sincere will to live within divine order, that is, you must want to do what is right .... In that case you will make an effort to cultivate a life of love, you will believe in a supremely perfect Being Which had created you and you will desire to enter into contact with this Being .... You will pray to Him .... And thus you will establish a connection with Me, which is required first so that I can express Myself through the spirit. Without the fulfilment of this condition it is impossible for My spirit to work in you, since this would give rise to compulsory advancement. But once contact with Me has been established so that I can influence you through My spirit, you can also be convinced that your whole life on earth will be subject to this influence, that everything will therefore happen and approach you in a way that will move you upwards .... For I will never lead you towards the abyss but will draw you higher without fail .... Admittedly, you must strive constantly, you should not become half-hearted or complacently hand yourselves over to all forces which seek to influence you, instead, your resolve must ceaselessly be and remain inclined towards Me, I must always remain your goal, then you will reach your goal, Me Myself .... to Whom you have belonged since the beginning. My spirit works in every person who merely has a positive attitude towards Me .... who acknowledges Me and wishes to be seized by Me .... You humans must seriously question your attitude towards Me .... whether you reject Me, whether you do not believe in the existence of a Creator in relation to yourselves and therefore live your lives entirely separately from Him .... or whether you acknowledge Me as existent and fear My power and therefore only feel a sense of discomfort when you sin against My commandments .... or whether you love Me and therefore try to live in accordance with My will .... You must seriously realise that the working of My spirit in you can only ever take place when you unite with Me in love .... Therefore you cannot expect to become enlightened or guided by My spirit if you are deliberately still apart from Me although you believe in My existence .... Only your will to be closely united with Me will result in the working of My spirit in you, and then your life on earth will no longer be without guidance, then everything will approach you such as My love recognises to be good for you and your perfection. Then you will listen to the inner voice of the spirit, that is, you will comply with your inner urge and, in a manner of speaking, will only do what My spirit in you asks you to do ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Voice of conscience .... Feeling .... Right path ....

B.D. 6262 from May 21st 1955, taken from Book No. 67

The path intended for you to follow on earth will be repeatedly shown to you, even if you don't receive any direct instructions from Me, for I also speak to you in a way which you describe as 'feeling', so that you can use your common sense, because you will encounter either painful or pleasing situations which will not leave you unimpressed .... Through your feeling you are able to recognise what is desirable for a human being, what makes him unhappy and what has a damaging effect on his body .... and be subsequently influenced by your will to withhold what is painful from your fellow human being or to give to him what makes him happy .... Feeling and intellect by themselves can show you the right path if you lack truthful instructions or if religious instructions don't appeal to you because their origin appears to be doubtful. His own experience can determine a human being's will, thoughts and actions, and every human being certainly knows what is fair and just, because everyone lays claim to be happy himself and because every human being can 'feel' physical and psychological pain. The love he has for himself will always prompt him to gain possession of that which makes him feel free and glad .... and a righteous way of thinking will also allow other people the same .... thus the knowledge of the right path is placed into every person; but how he uses the knowledge he gained through his own feeling and intellectual reasoning depends on his will, which is and will remain free for the sake of his own perfection.

And therefore it will also always be possible to differentiate between good and evil, and more precisely, their effect on the human being himself. This is why one can speak of the 'voice of conscience', which will always express itself in 'feeling' but which can also be stifled in the human if his selfish love is so strongly developed that the human being lays claim to all that is pleasant for himself and is unkind to his fellow human being .... In that case his sensitivity becomes increasingly weaker and then people will often claim that not every person knows what is good or evil .... And again, the only answer to this can be: He does not want to know it. For as long as he knows what is desirable or undesirable for himself he also knows the difference between good and evil .... even without any external instruction, but which would always confirm that his inner feeling corresponds to My teaching, through which I show people the right path they should take on earth .... to My teaching of love, which only ever requires a person to practise love. However, where animalistic instincts from the previous time of development are excessively present in a person only the feeling of strength towards the weak prevails .... for the forces of darkness take hold of such a person and impel him to act according to their will ....But such a 'possessed' person cannot be used as evidence that the path to Me cannot be found and taken without instructions from Me .... For My love cares for all My living creations but allows them to keep their free will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Exhortation to diligent vineyard work ....

B.D. 6263 from May 22nd 1955, taken from Book No. 67

You should be tirelessly active, for the time is only short when you can work unhindered for Me and My kingdom. But as soon as the time of chaos begins, as soon as the battle of faith begins afterwards, you will only be able to carry out your vineyard work in secret, for the world hates and persecutes you because it sees your faith, your attitude towards Me, your creator and father, your redeemer from sin and death, as a stumbling block in its worldly activity. And then much preliminary work shall already have been done by you, then My word shall already have been conveyed to many people who were also willing to pass it on themselves, and it will be a great source of strength for all recipients in the time of adversity which now lies ahead of them. This will be a time of testing for all of you which, however, you need not fear if it is only your will, your desire, to stand firm and not to betray Me for the sake of earthly advantage .... What the world can offer you will not benefit you for long, for nothing will remain for you when the end has come .... But great profit will remain for you if you remain faithful to Me, for your spiritual possessions cannot be taken from you and your soul will possess great wealth when the body passes away .... Therefore don't let yourselves be blinded by the world's goods which are assured to you in order to persuade you to apostasize from Me. And therefore much preliminary work shall still be done so that people will be informed of what awaits them and how transient the earthly matter is to which they still pay homage. Although you will always be able to work for Me, you will only be able to do so in secret when the battle against faith, against everything spiritual begins .... Then you must be clever as serpents and gentle as doves .... And even then you will still be successful with many who find their way to Me through adversity and need strength and comfort and will seek these from you .... I know the time that lies ahead of you, I therefore also know that and how you will survive the battle .... And therefore I call upon you to remember the many who are still weak in faith and to stand by them so that they, too, seek strength where you have found it .... with Me Myself, Who can now also be with each individual and lead him out through all dangers .... that I can constantly give them strength because they join Me and faithfully ask Me for it .... Your activity shall reach even wider circles and I Myself want to help you spread My gospel .... I want to supply you with people whom you are to look after on My behalf, to whom you are to convey the truth, the pure gospel, which I supply to you from above because humanity is in great spiritual need .... My word shall bring help to all in this adversity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Blessed or dark lot .... evidence .... Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 6264 from May 23rd 1955, taken from Book No. 67

The gate to eternity can be wide open for you, then an abundance of light will shine towards you which will make you exceedingly happy, and you will rejoice and exult and be blissfully happy. But it can also remain closed, the entrance will be denied to you and you will often have to remain outside for an infinitely long time. And then darkness will surround you, you will walk in inhospitable regions, you will suffer hardship and unspeakable torment, and all happiness will flee from you .... And you can choose between both lots as long as you live on earth, for you create each lot for yourselves. But because you cannot obtain evidence of it you lack faith and live unaware of the fate which one day awaits your soul. And no evidence can be given to you, for you should acquire beatitude of your own accord, you should live freely of your own accord as it is God's will .... You should strive upwards without any compulsion, towards the kingdom of light which was your former home and will also remain your home for all eternity .... Proof cannot be given to you, yet you will not be left without knowledge either, and therefore you should accept as possible what cannot be proven to you. And you would already gain much through this acceptance, because then you would mentally concern yourselves with it and could now also be mentally influenced by the beings of light .... which, however, is impossible if you stubbornly reject everything that is imparted to you about the kingdom of the beyond. But the believer has no lack of evidence either .... For he sees and hears many things which are confirmation for him but which remain hidden from the unbeliever and must remain so as not to make him a believer against his will. The spiritual kingdom also reveals itself to those who have already reached a certain degree of maturity and can even look into that kingdom before the soul leaves its body .... And again, such sightings are accepted as credible by striving people who desire God and truth, whereas they are rejected as imagination by others because they cannot see what those see .... Two separate worlds remain, the earthly and the spiritual kingdom .... Yet the human being can bridge the separation himself, he can find the entrance into the spiritual world if he only ever strives to reach God. Then he will also reach his aim and be able to enter the kingdom of light after death .... he will not be denied entry, for one has opened the gate to eternity but Who also demands that He be acknowledged as the son of God and redeemer of the world .... And whoever does not pass Him over will be introduced by Himself into His kingdom .... Thus Jesus Christ must be acknowledged on earth, and this means that the human being also fulfils God's will, Who made Him known through the human being Jesus in His teaching of love, Who only requires that people fulfil the commandment of love for God and their neighbour so that they will become His and remain .... Then they will follow Him and He will lead them with certainty along the right path to eternity .... He Himself leads them into the kingdom of light, to eternal bliss ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Strength of faith needed in the final battle ....

B.D. 6265 from May 25th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

You will often still experience My visible help so that your faith will become strong and be able to withstand all oppositions which will come your way in the last days before the end .... You will often be so pressed that without firm faith you would surrender without resistance. Yet your faith in My help will let you courageously face everything .... you will not fear or doubt, for you know My eternal plan of salvation and therefore also know that everything has to happen as I have planned it and that nothing happens without My will or My permission .... You therefore also know that you are under My protection, that nothing can happen to you as long as you trust Me .... and you trust Me because you firmly and unshakably believe .... Therefore your faith shall still be strengthened, which will also happen through frequent visible help on My part .... For you, who are devoted to Me, you belong to the army of My fighters which I am training for the last battle on this earth .... And My fighters will fight courageously for Me and My kingdom. They will draw strength from Me, they will faithfully speak My name and be immune to all attacks on the part of My adversary. And because I need you I will also allow you to suffer, and you should always remember this when the world rises up against you. For it will do so because your light shines too brightly, because it reveals what My adversary prefers to keep hidden .... because he fears being exposed and therefore incites his followers to take action against you with all severity .... He tries everything to elevate himself to the throne and therefore does not shy away from declaring war on Me Himself .... thus to eradicate all faith in Me and My act of salvation. Yet he will not succeed because I have an army in you which resists, which cannot be defeated and which, through faith, has courage and strength against which the enemy fights in vain. Therefore you will never ask for My help in vain, I will always be ready to help you in every adversity .... therefore only ever turn to Me trustingly, whatever it may be .... I will help you to strengthen your faith so that it can no longer be shaken by anything .... The world will attack you shamelessly, for it does not shy away from false suspicions, and My adversary's activities will be revealed .... Yet all this is only to prove to you the truth of My word, all this is to prove to you how near the end is, because everything will happen as I have foretold it to you, that the gates of hell will open and all who are of good will and belong to Me will be harassed by diabolical forces .... but I stand beside you protecting you and the shield of faith covers you against all enemy attacks .... until the day will come when I will come forth with My power and glory .... when I will save you and put in chains the one who is My adversary and who wants to overthrow Me and whom I will defeat and bind for a long time ....

Amen

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No intercession in vain for souls beyond ....

B.D. 6266 from May 26th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

You will all experience that My love for you is unlimited and that I therefore do not leave anyone to his self-chosen fate but come to everyone's aid, be it on earth or in the kingdom of the beyond. I take care of every soul you commend to Me, for whom you pray, whom you want to help in spiritual adversity. I help wherever My help is requested because I love you all .... But you will only understand this when you enter the spiritual kingdom and all the souls come to meet you whom your prayer has delivered from their adversity .... Only then will you know that I have heard every call from you and that no request was directed to Me in vain .... But you shall already know this on earth from My mouth. I will tell you Myself that you can help every soul to whom you give love .... And I want to tell you because a great deal depends on it, because all these souls only need to behold a small ray of love from you in order to turn towards you, which then already signifies the beginning of redemption .... because they receive from you what they need for further ascent. If you knew what effective means are at your disposal .... you would have no other thought than to rescue souls from darkness. And they all thank you for it and always surround you so that you never do any spiritual work without their presence .... and you cannot imagine the effect of this, for a single ray of light ignites again and makes countless more souls receptive for My word .... That is why I already direct it down to earth, because nothing else extends its effect into the kingdom of the beyond and because it also has a transforming (influence) on the souls from the abyss .... (effect) .... I give but I receive far more in return, My creations find their way back to Me who kept themselves far away from Me, who feel your love as strength and now also turn to Me voluntarily because their hearts become soft and compliant through your love. And for the sake of your love My love can now also express itself in these souls, I can provide them with strength which they can use again to work in love on the souls which are still in darkness .... The work of redemption is so extensive that it can now be done on those unhappy souls of the deep, for a single soul has its appendage again, which will now, as it were, also be redeemed through your help, which is now before the end of the earth .... before the beginning of a new redemption period, is of utmost importance, for countless souls will still be saved from the fate of a new banishment, which would irrevocably befall them if they were still languishing in deepest darkness and had not been shown a path to ascent. I love all My living creations and don't want them to suffer for an infinitely long time, yet I keep My law of eternal order and therefore cannot unlawfully redeem the souls which still oppose Me. But your love can break this resistance and then My love can also become active .... Therefore I help all those you commend to Me, for whom you pray, and I release them from their adversity .... for My love never ends, My love includes all My living creations, My love wants them all to become blissfully happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Beginning and end of the redemption period far lying ....

B.D. 6267 from May 27th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

The individual redemption periods take place at long intervals so that the beginning of one is hardly proven at the end, because this is also necessary for people to remain free in their faith. For an end which can certainly be expected would be decisive for people's will. Nevertheless, the knowledge about the end of the previous period has not been lost so that everyone can accept it if he wants to. And no-one will be able to prove that that end of the past epoch did not exist .... This is why the forthcoming end of this earth remains a matter of faith, and this is why the spiritual hardship is so immense, because the end is imminent and people so little expect it and prepare themselves .... And it is like the time before every end .... Prophets and seers arise who, driven by their spirit, point to what is coming .... but, as always, find no faith because people are infinitely distant from everything spiritual and their earthly thinking and striving does not allow for an 'end of the earth', because they simply do not want to believe it and it cannot and must not be proven to them either .... No one knows the exact day and hour, but many know that they are no longer far away. Even these only believe it and yet are inwardly firmly convinced of it because their spiritual knowledge, the degree of their realization, is also able to read God's plan of salvation and they can trace cause and effect and therefore also know that the end is inevitable because it is not just about the people of this earth but about the upward development of everything that is bound in the works of creation .... The knowing, cognizant human being observes everything with different eyes and only realizes that everything takes place according to divine law. But he cannot transfer his knowledge to people whose degree of realization is so low that they are still blind in spirit .... who only believe what they can see and prove and have no sense for the spiritual. He cannot transfer his thinking and knowledge to his fellow human beings but he can admonish and warn them because he can point to the forthcoming end with full conviction, as it is, however, to be expected .... The conclusion of a redemption period is something so powerful and not yet experienced by people that it is difficult to believe it is possible and therefore also appears implausible to people. And no matter how clear the signs are given beforehand, they will not be respected by faithless humanity either .... But the greater will be the horror when what seers and prophets announced long before comes true. And yet, nothing can be done to prepare people for this but to constantly inform them of God's word, Who therefore only conveys it to earth in order to find faith, because people no longer believe. For this reason God addresses people but also in such a way that they are not forced to believe but can believe if they are willing to do so. And this is the last opportunity to bring knowledge to people which could determine them to change and still seek the path of ascent alone .... a knowledge which would give them the right explanation and thus be of help to them and mean salvation from the downfall .... But God's word is also not recognized and therefore not accepted .... And humanity is heading towards ruin, it only continues to strive for matter, and matter will become its abode when the end has come, when a new era of redemption begins, as it has been intended since eternity in the divine plan of salvation, so that everything that still remains in wretchedness will attain beatitude ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Task of the disciples: proclaiming the doctrine of love ....

B.D. 6268 from May 28th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

This is My commission to you, that you preach love which helps to attain eternal bliss .... I can only give this mission to those who are willing to listen to Me Myself first in order to then pass on what they have heard to their fellow human beings .... I can only send people out into the world with this mission who voluntarily place themselves at My disposal, who thus acknowledge Me as their God and father and now want to fulfil My will as My children .... otherwise they will not listen to what I have to say to them and what they should proclaim in My name. But they must also be able to hear Me .... This is the first prerequisite for a disciple chosen by Me, for what they are to pass on alive is not a human but a divine gift which they therefore have to receive from God Himself, because people do not possess it and therefore cannot distribute it. For the word only comes alive with My support, I Myself must be able to work in the human being if he wants to understand My word as it has to be understood in order to be able to pass it on again in a living way .... And this always applies, also to the people who receive it from My disciple .... Only when I Myself can also work in them through My spirit will it be understandable to them and awaken them to life .... Therefore it always has to be Me Myself Who speaks and wants to be heard, otherwise they are just empty words which do not touch the heart or are misunderstood, thus not interpreted meaningfully. Hence you shall spread the gospel throughout the world, you shall proclaim the teaching of love to people, and although you are familiar with the word 'love' you must first be made to understand the profound significance and urgency of a life of love according to My will, and you must know that beatitude only depends on the fulfilment of these commandments of love, which is why My eternal plan of salvation is revealed to you and you can now recognize why love is most important .... why I Myself descended to earth when humanity completely ignored love .... In order to be able to teach correctly the teacher has to be profoundly knowledgeable, and if I give you the task to go out and teach your fellow human beings I will also give you the necessary knowledge, and I will convey it to you through the spirit .... Therefore, everyone is able to carry out My assignment who allows My spirit to work by first shaping himself into love, by doing what he is also supposed to teach his fellow human beings .... For then he can also speak to them with conviction about the effect of a life of love, he can warn them of the consequences of a loveless way of life .... he can make known to them in a living way what his spirit gives him, and he will know that it is I Who speaks through him, and he will be a willing form for Me through whom I can reveal Myself .... The commandment of love is the first and greatest commandment .... Whoever fulfils this will also have heaven open to him, for his will also be the kingdom which is not of this world .... He will become an aspirant of this kingdom, and he will be eternally blessed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Deification .... Spiritual spark .... Whitsun May 25, 1955

B.D. 6269 from May 29th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

You shall be united with Me for all eternity .... You shall enter into My kingdom and work and create in unison with Me for your own happiness .... You shall work according to My will and yet of your own accord, not being determined by My will, only then will you be My children, only then will you be united with Me forever. But this heartfelt bond is only the result of overcoming the abyss .... which is the task every 'living creation' has to accomplish which wants to shape itself into a 'child' .... The path out of the abyss makes great demands on the creature, yet these demands are always attainable because My love constantly draws it upwards and because My love supports every living creation where its strength is not sufficient .... Hence, it is only expected that the living creation's will desires its ascent from the abyss, then it will never lack the strength to reach the goal, because the being's will in the past also caused the opposite .... its fall into the abyss and separation from Me .... However, everything that strives away from Me is and will remain weak since it rejects My strength of love and only when it is willing to accept it again, will it also have the strength to travel the path back to Me, into the Father's house .... The just punishment for the voluntary apostasy from Me would be eternal damnation, thus eternal separation from Me which signifies extreme agony for a created free being full of light and strength .... Yet My greater than great love for My living creations does not allow for this, consequently, an opportunity was created for 'Love' to regain the renegade spirits without evading 'justice' .... Eternal Love Itself redeemed the guilt .... I came to earth and atoned for the immense guilt so that the return of the once fallen spirits became possible again, yet it depends on the will of the living creation .... And in order that this will should turn to Me again, in order that I would be aspired to as the highest goal by the beings in the abyss, I influenced these beings through My spirit .... i.e. the love, which is My fundamental nature, whose strength brought everything into existence, also looked for a way to enter the hearts of My living creations which had already started on the path of return to Me within the framework of My eternal order but which nevertheless must one day voluntarily profess as to whether they want to continue on the path to Me or return to the abyss again ....

At this stage of free will, as a human being, My love tries to influence him again by providing him with a tiny spark of My spirit of love to accompany him, which shall influence him if the person allows for it. The human being is able to remain in constant contact with Me by means of this tiny spiritual spark but he is not compelled to establish this connection .... Nevertheless, the spirit within the person is an immensely helpful factor which offers the guarantee that a person will find unity with Me .... providing his will no longer offers open resistance to Me .... When I Myself accomplished the act of Salvation as Jesus, the human being .... when I took the immense guilt of sin upon Myself and atoned for it, it cleared the path from the abyss to higher spheres for the first time .... But then I also conveyed to people who were willing to take this path the strength they had hitherto lacked .... I Myself made contact with them and no longer left them without help .... I Myself associated with them through the spiritual spark yet leaving it up to each individual as to whether he wanted the connection with Me .... for I do not impose Myself and My spiritual strength on any living being but I make it available to them so that everyone can be permeated by My spirit and its strength, providing he wants it .... My spirit is My part .... It is the strength of love which, in the very beginning, flowed through all My living creations, but their rejection resulted in their fall into the abyss. All people can receive My strength of love again without restriction once they have liberated themselves from their past guilt of sin by acknowledging Jesus Christ as Redeemer and by appealing to Him for forgiveness of their guilt .... Only then will they be able to receive the divine strength of love from Me, then My spirit will be able to take effect in them, then I can 'pour out My spirit', and the connection with Me will have been established to the extent that a relapse into the abyss will no longer be possible, that the path of ascent with the final goal of total unity with My will have been effortlessly travelled and My living creation returns to Me as My 'child' into its Father's house. Without My help this would be impossible, precisely because the creature had forfeited all strength .... However, My love grants it this strength again, My love unites itself again with the living creation if it is willing to return to Me .... My love sends My spirit to all My living creations in order to guide and instruct you, in order to show you the right path to Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Outpouring of the spirit ....

B.D. 6270 from May 30th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

And no matter how you want, think and act .... it is determined by My spirit within you as soon as you hand yourselves over to its guidance, as soon as you completely hand yourselves over to Me that I shall protect and guide you .... Only your devotion to Me is necessary in order to now also be completely grasped by Me, in order to now be able to work in you through My spirit. You are now no longer left to your own devices, you can walk your earthly path without worry, it will lead to the right aim, because I will now supervise all your steps through My spirit and always guide them correctly if you yourselves are in danger of straying from the right path .... I Myself am present to you as soon as My spirit can work in you .... But you must allow this of your own free will .... But as long as you humans lack the connection with Me, as long as you let the spiritual spark in you slumber completely inactive, you still isolate yourselves from Me, and what you now do, what you think and want, is still determined by My adversary, for he constantly influences you because he is entitled to do so as long as you still belong to him in terms of will .... Then I cannot exert My influence and your fate is endangered .... For without Me nothing good is in store for you but certain ruin, i.e. apostasy into the abyss, into My adversary's kingdom .... As long as you live as a human being on this earth you give little thought to your fate after your physical death, yet you will not escape this fate which can be dreadful but also exceedingly beautiful .... Why don't you hand yourselves over to your God and father from eternity in fullest trust that He will then guide you right? That He will prepare for you the bliss He has promised you? Because you have no faith and because this is already My adversary's work on you, that he seeks to suppress faith in Me .... But I gave you the intellect, I gave you the ability to think .... and by virtue of this ability you can affirm Me, by virtue of intellect you can recognize a power Which called everything into being that surrounds you and to Which you also owe your being .... Make this power your own and you will no longer bear any responsibility for your earthly life, for this power will now do everything to safely guide you to the aim .... because you have returned to Me with your devotion, from Whom you once voluntarily separated. Surrender yourselves to Me and from that moment on you will walk under My guidance, your will, thoughts and actions will correspond to My will, because I Myself can influence you through My spirit .... Do you now know what the outpouring of My spirit upon you means? .... It can indeed take place in different strengths, depending on your love for Me and your neighbour, but you can always feel seized by Me, you can always become aware of the voice of My spirit within you if only your desire is directed towards Me, if only you want Me to take possession of you, if you therefore pray to Me as your own .... Then I will guide you wherever you walk .... Then you will go through earthly life without danger, then you will safely reach the aim .... Then you follow Me and will never leave Me for ever .... For then you will be filled with My spirit, you will have become My own again, as you were in the beginning ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Calm before the storm .... Forearmed fighters ....

B.D. 6271 from May 31th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

Keep yourselves ready so that I will find an army of prepared fighters when I lead you into battle .... Don't let yourselves be deceived by the apparent peacefulness around you, by the fact that global affairs seem to calm down, and don't let this make you become half-hearted in your spiritual striving .... Don't think that My intervention will be delayed, that there will still be a long postponement of that which I always and forever announced to you .... It is the calm before the storm, it is the time in which all people are still able to take stock of themselves, in which they should also withdraw into solitude and not solely pay homage to the pleasures of the world and thoughtlessly live from day to day .... It is still a time of grace which I grant to all people so that they won't be able to say that they, in their constant worry and physical anxiety, have had no opportunity to take care of their spiritual wellbeing .... Yet My faithful followers should not let themselves be deceived and consider the time of peace as the calm before the storm .... For it will only be of short duration, and suddenly everything will change, and then it will be too late for many people because they didn't make use of the short period of grace in order to gather strength for the impending time .... My Own, however, shall prepare themselves, for the battle will be severe, which will be waged for the sake of My name. And it will also require much strength in order to do justice to all the other demands .... For this you should also gather strength, which you will only be able to do by keeping in continuous contact with the spiritual kingdom, by constantly working at improving your soul, by turning your thoughts away from the world and by penetrating the spiritual spheres ever more, whose inhabitants are always at your service on My instructions ....

Every spiritually directed thought will be blessed, and just like the earthly world is incessantly active by pursuing earthly interests, so will the spiritual world work and help to build up the kingdom which is not of this world .... It will not be so evident to you humans but My Own will be full of strength as soon as their thoughts apply to Me and their spiritual activity .... This is why My Own will also be noticeably guided, so that they will not tire in their striving, so that they will not interrupt their contact with Me, so that the world will not hold them captive when they are as risk of getting weak .... for My adversary is exceedingly diligently at work because he believes that the time is in his favour .... And so it is, for people greatly hunger for the world .... and My adversary will satisfy this in an obvious way .... He will give to people whatever he has to offer and they don't realise how dangerous an earthly life of luxury and earthly pleasures are for their salvation of soul .... However, the forces of light are just as diligently active, it is just that they don't find access with many people where My adversary has already found his way in. But My Own will feel the increased working of the world of light and be happy when the time comes that I will need them .... And then I will make sure that the flock of My Own will not become smaller, I will always be present with them so that their love and loyalty for Me will constantly grow, so that they will be willing to make sacrifices and do whatever it takes to be of service to Me and to live in accordance with My will .... so that they will fearlessly take up the battle when it matters to prevail over the enemy when the time has come ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's boundless love .... return ....

B.D. 6272 from June 1st 1955, taken from Book No. 67

My love made you come into being .... Boundless love filled Me for you, My created beings .... and boundless love will embrace you for all eternity .... It is not possible for you to grasp these words of Mine in all their depth, for you do not know divine love, you are unable to form an idea of it, and therefore you can only accept My words as true and believe that I will never let you fall into depths from which there will be no return for ever .... As long as you keep yourselves distant from Me by virtue of your free will you will not feel anything of My love for you either .... But the closer you come to Me the more you will be permeated by My love, and then you will also slowly understand that and why you cannot remain separated from Me forever .... you understand that My love follows you and does not cease to woo you, because only reciprocated love can unite you with Me and because I have been longing for this love of yours since your departure from Me. My endless love is the explanation for everything .... for the coming into being of creation, for its constant revival and renewal, for your course on earth and My fateful guidance .... But My love is also the explanation for all adversity, for catastrophes and nature-related destruction .... My love is also the reason for the dissolution and change of the old earth, when the time has come that My love is no longer recognized on the part of My creatures, when they are more distant from Me than ever .... For if I did not love you then I would truly not be interested in your return to Me .... but then there would also be no need for creation and also no people who embody the spiritual striving away from Me. Yet I also love you despite your imperfection, despite your self-inflicted weakness and imperfection .... because love never ends and thus cannot let you fall either, even though you resist Me .... And this love also once achieves your return to Me in free will, for it is a strength which nothing could oppose if it wanted to rule over everything .... Yet it wants to work together with you, it wants to inspire, and it wants to be reciprocated with the same intimacy, and therefore it courts you, your counter-love .... And thus you will not be able to detach yourselves from My love for eternity, yet it can only make you happy if you reciprocate it of your own free will .... But then you will be able to experience and behold the unimagined .... Then you will find yourselves in inexpressible bliss and you will realize what My love has done for you and had to do because it does not and cannot give up on you, you who emerged from My love and remain in My love forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Subordination of will .... responsibility ....

B.D. 6273 from June 2nd 1955, taken from Book No. 67

You are no longer responsible for your earthly life once you have handed yourselves over to Me .... as soon as you have granted Me the right to influence you, as soon as you have relinquished your will and fully subordinate it to Mine. Then I can act on your behalf, then My will can take effect in you, then My spirit can work in you, which will truly always guide you in a way which is beneficial for you .... But this requires a strong faith, a convinced belief that you are My children and can confidently hand yourselves over to your father because He loves you and is powerful and wise. Once you have established this relationship with Me, then you will be blissfully happy already on earth .... Then you will only go your earthly path in order to be able to help others attain the same realization, for you have recognized Me yourselves and have become My own of your own free will through the surrender of your will to Me. Your thoughts, will and actions are now determined by Me and yet you have free will .... You yourselves think, want and act in accordance with My will, because My will has already become so powerful in you that it fills you and you cannot act against it .... But then you need not fear that you can grieve Me either, then everything you undertake will be good and right .... as long as you maintain the intimate bond with Me .... yet you will always be exposed to temptations .... i.e., My adversary will always want to disturb this intimate bond with Me by trying to direct your eyes and thoughts towards things which belong to his kingdom .... And if he succeeds in making you fall prey to his wishes then you will loosen your bond with Me yourselves, and then you will have to be on your guard .... Therefore commend yourselves anew to My love and grace every day and want Me to guide and look after you, and then you will always give Me the right to put Myself between you and My adversary when he wants to seduce you .... This is your sure weapon against him, that you make Me your guardian .... that you want to be Mine and surrender yourselves to Me. Then all attempts will bounce off you, then you will close your eyes to the attractions of the world, then you will only live for Me and in Me, then all your thoughts will be directed towards your spiritual perfection, then you will only be tempted by intercourse with Me and your work will only be devoted to spiritual aims .... And then you erect a strong wall around yourselves which My adversary is no longer able to tear down .... You cannot even measure the blessing of devotion to Me .... but when I tell you that you will then be free from all responsibility, from all concern for your spiritual well-being .... when I tell you that you will then no longer be able to fall because I will hold you and safely guide you upwards .... then you should not concern yourselves with anything but securing My love, you should want to belong to Me and now leave everything to Me .... And it will turn out right .... Therefore do not worry about earthly things, for everything is included if you devote yourselves to Me, so that I will take care of you .... Spiritually and physically you will now be in My care, and spiritual and physical needs will be covered by Me, for you will have given up all resistance which once separated you from Me, if you now unconditionally hand yourselves over to Me .... Then the separation is lifted and being united with Me again is a sure guarantee for thinking, wanting and acting according to My eternal order .... For you yourselves are now only executors of My will, yet in full freedom, for you no longer feel any compulsion from any side because you carry the same will within yourselves and now belong to Me for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Distance from God and wrong attitude towards Him ....

B.D. 6274 from June 3rd 1955, taken from Book No. 67

The distance between people and God is increasing and time is coming to an end .... Only very few narrow this distance, and these are the people who belong to the church of christ, who stand in living faith, which was awakened to life through works of love. They are the few people who do not lose themselves to the world but live consciously, i.e. seek to fulfil God's will .... These come closer to Him, and they need not think of the coming end with horror, for they also know that and why the end has to come and that it only means the beginning of a new life for them .... in the kingdom beyond or in the paradise of the new earth .... And the distance from God must be reduced beforehand if the end is not to become ruin for the soul .... For distance from God inevitably means hardening of the spiritual substance, thus transformation into hardest matter .... Distance from God means powerlessness, thus inability to be active .... a state which hard matter obviously exhibits. For the divine strength of love cannot flow through the spiritual substance which resists Him, and therefore it is completely without strength, and it remains in its powerless state for eternal times until it begins to give up resistance .... As a human being you feel full of strength and therefore you don't consider it possible that this fate awaits you .... and you don't consider it possible because, due to your remoteness from God, you are completely ignorant of the aim you are supposed to achieve on earth and that you are completely opposed to your destiny .... that there can therefore be no other fate for you than a new banishment into matter, precisely because you completely distance yourselves from God .... because you don't acknowledge Him as long as you don't live according to His will .... even if you confess God with your mouth .... And this attitude towards God will have extremely painful consequences for you .... How seldom does a man remember his creator and father from eternity .... He is constantly filled with worldly thoughts, all doing and thinking is turned towards earthly things, the day is begun and ended with earthly worries and with earthly activity .... There is no time left for Him Who gave them life, and if they think of Him, then without any sense of responsibility towards Him. They switch Him off and in a few cases are content with a public hour of "worship" because this has become a tradition for them .... There is no more life in the churches which are supposed to bear witness to God; there is no spirit in them, and the spirit cannot therefore be in people because there is no more love in them, because love alone reduces the distance from God and without love the gulf is almost unbridgeable .... And faith in God will only ever be alive where hearts are filled with love .... And thus you will also be able to judge for yourselves from people's degree of love on earth that the distance from God will always increase and therefore an end is also inevitable .... because people bring it on themselves through their attitude towards God .... The gifts of grace available to human beings .... They do not use their intellect, free will and abilities to come closer to God but to strive away from Him more and more, and thus they will lose these gifts of grace .... They will be unfree and powerless again for endless times .... they will sink into a depth from which they had already laboriously worked their way up .... But in free will they have striven towards the depth again and thus voluntarily distanced themselves from God, and this will determines their fate as soon as the end of this earth has come ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Power and effect of the divine word ....

B.D. 6275 from June 4th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

Continue to strengthen yourselves with My word .... I cannot recommend this to you enough, for you will still need much strength and fortification in the coming time, you must first have come so far that you unite with Me so intimately that you always feel Me beside you, as it were, and that you therefore also present every adversity, every doubt and every question to Me immediately when they have seized you .... You must always feel Me present, then you will not fear whatever may come .... You let everything approach you calmly, always certain that I will take care of everything for you. And you can only attain this very strength of faith, this certainty, by constantly immersing yourselves in My word .... if you always let Me speak to you and therefore become ever more convinced of My presence, of My love and power .... then I am with you even when I am not visible to you .... And I am truly a safer protection for you than any human being on earth can ever be. If you therefore know yourselves to be under My protection, then all anxiety, all fear will be gone, you will hand yourselves over to Me in complete trust and will certainly not be abandoned, for I will not let you down. Let Me speak to you again and again .... and draw from My word the strength you need in the last time before the end .... Every day is still a reprieve for the people on earth who are still far from Me and shall also find Me .... But every day is also a reprieve for you, My faithful, because you can mature more every day and My word truly provides you with a treasure of grace which you need only use in order to reach a degree of maturity which will secure your entrance into paradise on the new earth. Only if you receive help directly from Me will you be able to survive the last time on earth and emerge victorious in the last battle .... And I will grant you this help in abundance, for the eternal deity Itself bends towards earth, It sends a ray of light into the darkness, and everyone who enters into its light can rise from this darkness .... The fact that the earth and the people living on it will have to endure all difficulties in the coming time will be fully compensated for by this unheard-of grace that I convey My word to people from above, for anyone who receives this word in his heart will be able to pass by all suffering and hardship almost unimpressed .... It will not affect him himself as it does all fellow human beings who have to experience this hardship for the very reason that they still have to find their way back to Me in order to reduce the far distance from Me .... And therefore I admonish you again and again to make right use of this unheard-of grace .... I admonish you to live out My word .... I warn you not to become indifferent or lukewarm .... for you will regret it if you are weak and helpless in the face of adversity, whereas My own, powerful and undaunted in their union with Me, feel constantly secure and master all opposition .... because I stand by them, because they call upon Me in full confidence and I always hear and answer their call .... With Me you will be able to overcome everything but without Me you will be at the mercy of every adversity, and if I keep calling upon you then also embrace Me with your love and never ever let Me leave you .... Let Me speak to you and thus prove My presence to you through My word .... and then you can calmly and confidently approach the future in which everything will happen as I have proclaimed, where the end will come and with it the Judgment ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Redemption of Lucifer .... homecoming of the prodigal son ....

B.D. 6276 from June 5th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

Worlds will still arise and pass away again, again and again, My creative will will become active, again and again. I will create new forms which are to shelter the spiritual striving up to Me .... and again and again I will dissolve them in order to redeem the spiritual in them .... There will still be an eternity of becoming and passing away until I can consider My work completed, until all spiritual substances have returned to Me and I have also won over My adversary for Me when he, devoid of all strength, voluntarily turns to Me, Who is his God and father .... And he will request love from Me and receive it in abundance .... But eternities will pass before this happens, for as long as there is still unredeemed spiritual substance there will also be creations .... and as long as there are creations the redemption of the fallen one has not yet been accomplished .... And so long also remains he My adversary and enemy who has fallen himself and is to blame for the fall of countless beings .... whose love for Me dwindled when he became aware of the excess of strength which flowed through him and as the source of which he was supposed to acknowledge Me and resisted it .... And therefore he first has to lose the feeling of his strength before he surrenders to Me again as a self-weakened being and will then also love Me again as in the beginning .... He cannot change his feelings towards Me beforehand, he cannot give up his resistance beforehand because he still believes himself to be in possession of strength as long as there is still unredeemed spiritual that belongs to him .... For this awareness of strength was the cause of his fall into the abyss .... You humans do not know what he was to Me and what he still is to Me .... You do not know that he unintentionally collaborates in the deification of the beings created by Me, but in his delusion and in his hatred against Me he does not realize that I have also made him an instrument of My plan, which, however, does not lie in his will .... but that I was only able to do this because I knew about his abysmal hatred .... but would never have used him for My purposes if only there had been the slightest prospect of an early return, of the change of his will and his feeling against Me. I have only made his free will serviceable to Me, but I have known about it since eternity. I would truly have supported the possibility of a change of will with all means .... precisely because he was the first created being to whom all My love belonged and whom I certainly would have also wanted to rescue from the abyss. But his resistance is unbroken and will remain so for eternities. And I built My plan of deifying the 'created being' on this resistance, which was well known to Me, and I was able to do so completely out of the question .... But that nevertheless My undivided love also for this first-created being .... now My adversary .... is also meant for this first-created being, it follows from the fact that I respect his will, that I allow him full freedom in his activity against Me as long as this happens to the extent he is allowed .... But if he exceeds the limits of his authority I bind him, whatever will happen at the end of a redemption period, that I put him in fetters again so that the voluntary striving towards Me is not endangered .... but to always release him from it again when he is to serve Me again, even if unconsciously, that the spiritual reaches its final maturity .... For truly I say to you: Heaven and earth serve Me in My plan from eternity, and so that My adversary did not retain the predominance he initially had over the host of fallen spirits, I sent 'My son' to earth .... Who was now victorious in the righteous battle against My adversary .... Who broke the power of the latter, so that the will of the being could now oppose his will by availing itself of the graces of the work of redemption .... Through Jesus' death on the cross, the adversary's power decreased immensely, he was defeated .... but he now rebelled all the more violently because the light of knowledge had left him, because the fall into the abyss also meant darkness of his spirit and therefore he always just rages blindly, driven by hatred .... without recognizing where his hatred leads .... that again and again the spiritual that still belongs to him is snatched away and banished in the creations and thus he always loses more of his strength, for the fallen alone is his stock of strength .... and the redemption of the fallen means a constant decrease in his strength .... And that this redemption is possible is why I Myself died on the cross .... My love made this redemption possible, and My love will not rest until all that has fallen away from Me is in My possession again .... until it has voluntarily found its way back to Me and now My adversary, deprived of his strength, will also surrender to Me .... until he, too, desires redemption, which My endless love does not deny him .... until the prodigal son has returned home to his father's house, to Me, from Whom he once took his departure ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Strokes of fate .... The Father's love ....

B.D. 6277 from June 6th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

My care pursues you with never changing love, for I don't want your downfall but your happiness .... I want your salvation from darkness and your admission into light. This is why I will not throw you into misery and hardship for any other motive than to aid your ascent, because you still languish in darkness and cannot muster the strength to ascend on your own. But My methods and their effectiveness are unknown to you, and you are easily inclined to believe that I Am cruel .... Yet believe in My love and believe that My action is only ever motivated by love, that with every event I only ever intend your beatitude .... Only I know the outcome of such events, only I know which path you would have followed without My strokes of fate .... and only I know when such a path will lead you astray. And what I then allow to happen to prevent it is only ever based on My love and will have beneficial results even if this seems incomprehensible to you humans.

Thus, the last days before the end urgently require painful interventions on My part, and they will repeat themselves many a time, My hand will increasingly have to solve problems and there will be much suffering and mourning, but souls will also be rescued, people will be evidently directed to the One Who holds everyone's fate in His hands .... even though they will then only fear Him since they will be unable to love Him .... but they will acknowledge Him, they will believe in a God and Controller of heaven and earth .... And this belief can show them the way forward if they are of good will .... My love belongs to the smallest creature and I alone safeguard all life so that one day it will enter the stage of free will and be able to fulfil its last task on earth .... But how much more will I look after those who have already reached this stage so that they do not regress and will not have walked their earthly path in vain ....

But I also recognise the obstacles on every person's earthly path. And I know whether a human being will rise above this hurdle or whether he is in danger of failing .... And therefore I pursue him with My care and pull him back or continue to guide him onto another path .... But I will never want his downfall .... Besides, you should know that I Am always a considerate Father .... and that My Fatherly care is truly more valuable for the earthly human being than any person's care for his fellow human being ....

You should always hold on to this when you doubtfully question yourselves as to how I can allow children to become orphans, families to be deprived of their provider, the most precious possession to be taken away from people .... I can give comfort to everyone, I can take all worries from them, and I Am a Father to all who are lonely and abandoned .... yet they have to find their way to Me .... And this is what I intend, that they establish a relationship with Me in utmost adversity .... For of what use are words which confess faith in Me if they are not turned into action, if people don't come to Me when earthly suffering threatens to depress them .... The living faith will be a true support for people .... but a dead faith will awaken one doubt after another about God's love and omnipotence .... And every human being is confronted by hours of intense hardship .... Then they shall take their path to Me and I will truly help them in their distress ....

I Am the only One who can take but also give. And if you humans know this then you should also believe that I can heal the wounds I have inflicted on you for the sake of your beatitude .... believe firmly and without doubt that not everything you regard as good and useful will always lead to beatitude .... My ways are often different but they will certainly lead to the goal. Always come to Me in this belief, and you may then experience My love because you believe in Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Connection with God .... safe ascension ....

B.D. 6278 from June 7th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

Do not detach yourselves from Me and you will be saved for time and eternity .... And in order to establish the connection with Me, which you once voluntarily gave up, earthly life as a human being was given to you. The only purpose of your existence is to achieve this aim, to unite with Me again. And it is truly not difficult, for your will to reach Me is already enough for you to achieve this aim. The human being who wants to undertake this voluntarily will never lack the strength to ascend .... because My love and grace will then provide him with everything he lacks in order to reach the ascent. And he need not travel this path alone .... My love will send guides and messengers of light towards him whom he can lean on when he is in danger of becoming weak, who will constantly illuminate his path and lovingly guide him when it becomes difficult. The desire for Me also assures him of My presence, of which he becomes all the more aware the deeper his love is .... And as soon as he is aware of My presence there can be no more relapse into the abyss. Then he will have already overcome all cliffs, then he will see the homeland before him, he will know where he has come from, and he will hurry back to his home .... He returns to Me in free will .... To feel My presence is a proof of union with Me, which you can indeed dissolve because you are of free will but only rarely will dissolve .... unless you turn your eye back to the world from which you distanced yourselves through your striving towards Me .... then it may well be possible that you shrink back from the arduousness of the path and want to take the comfortable, tempting path .... And therefore I warn you: Do not detach yourselves from Me .... but always remember the transience of that which sometimes tempts you. But I offer you a blissful life in eternity .... And anyone who has once found Me so that I can be noticeably present to him will hardly look back at the world either. For he has overcome it .... But where the bond is not yet firm enough the tempter can also occasionally register a victory, for he knows very well how to come forth with his enticement precisely when the ascent is particularly arduous .... And then you should grasp My hand all the more firmly, you should know that I walk beside you unseen and that I always offer you My hand .... If you grasp it, then the tempter will let go of you and the ascent will also seem less arduous for yourselves .... For the will to Me already dispels the obstacles, and I bless your will through the supply of strength .... And you cannot get lost if I am your aim as long as you live on earth .... you will surely reach your aim because I Myself am with you if you desire Me and My presence ....

Amen

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Separation - unblessedness .... "Come all ye to Me ...."

B.D. 6279 from June 8th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

You can still keep yourselves separated from Me for eternities but then you will also be wretched for eternities because My love cannot make you happy. Then you will be isolated from Me, alone and exposed to the forces which are hostile towards Me, and then you will also be hostile towards Me and increasingly prevent Me from having a pleasing effect on you .... You must constantly try to reduce the distance from Me .... Otherwise a change of your unhappy state cannot be achieved, because My nearness also guarantees happiness. Yet in order to strive towards Me you first have to get to know Me, because I have become a stranger to you due to the great distance from Me and because all hostile forces darken your spirit such that you are no longer able to recognize Me. Therefore I must reveal Myself to you through My word .... You must be informed through the word of an exceedingly wise, powerful and loving father Who is in closest contact with you .... only then can you freely decide whether you want to enter into contact with this father .... I must reveal Myself to you humans in such a way that the desire can arise in you to approach Me, and only then can you let your will become active and do what I demand in order to bridge the distance from Me .... you must fulfil My commandments of love which unite you with eternal love .... to all I say: "Come to Me, you who are weary and burdened ...." for all are weary and burdened who are not yet with Me, and all these I call .... follow Me and come .... and you will also improve the condition that is your lot as a result of being far away from Me .... For now My ray of love can reach you. I will now take you in again like a father takes in his child .... and I will give you what you need: light of love and strength .... And you can receive everything from Me, but only ever when you come to Me yourselves and stretch out your hands to Me asking Me to fill them .... I cannot provide for you if you turn away from Me, for My strength of love only works in open hearts. But I want to know you blessed .... you are My living creations and will remain so, but you can only become My children if you voluntarily strive towards Me, if you allow My strength of love to permeate you and fill you such that you completely enter into My will .... But then all weakness and inadequacy and all hardship will come to an end .... Then light and strength will flood through you and you will be blissfully happy, for you will be close to Me, you will be intimately united with Me and no longer stand outside of Me .... Then you will be what you were from the beginning: beings filled with light and strength who work and create with Me in the same will in the spiritual kingdom and are indescribably blissful ....

Amen

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True prayer and church service ....

B.D. 6280 from June 9th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

A child’s trusting prayer will rise to heaven and be heard by Me .... and his prayer will be answered .... And yet so few people take advantage of this privilege because they have become accustomed to external formalities and no longer experience the strength of prayer in spirit and in truth .... Only great hardship can persuade them to voice words from their hearts which will reach My ear, because great hardship will let them turn to Me for help .... And I will bless them when they then let go of all superficial formalities and speak to Me like a child speaks to its father .... However, I will not take notice of thoughtless prayers, and yet they are so very frequently spoken .... just as I will not take notice of what a devout attitude should express but which lacks all deeper thought ....

Therefore I asked you to call upon Me in spirit and in truth .... because all pretence and external formality is abominable to Me. You humans might well be able to deceive each other but you will never be able to deceive Me .... And you believe that you pay homage to Me with empty displays of splendour, with ceremonial acts, with a superficial service. But I take no notice of it, whereas a simple, devout prayer to Me will sound lovely and is pleasing to Me. And this kind of prayer can be sent to Me anywhere and at anytime, it will always be received and heard by Me. It is so easy to honour Me when you build an altar in your heart on which you bring your love to Me .... when you enter into a silent but heartfelt dialogue with Me, when you commend yourselves to Me, ask for My mercy and always long for My presence .... Then you will be praying ‘in spirit and in truth ....’ Then I will also be with you, because I will always be with My child when it sends its loving thoughts to the Father .... However, I abhor all external formality which is all too easily just a disguise for an unfriendly, indifferent attitude, that will lead a person into ruin.

Besides, you are misjudging your God and Father if you believe that I .... like you humans .... would want to be honoured with external splendour and glamour .... All splendour and glory are at My disposal and I want to give it all to you if only you offer Me your love in return. For I Am only asking for your love which, however, you cannot show Me with external formalities, instead I want to discover it in the human being’s heart .... which is selflessly turned towards his neighbour and therefore also proves your love for Me. A loving heart is the greatest honour for Me, a loving heart only speaks words in spirit and in truth, and I will look upon a loving heart as My child which has all My love too .... but then it may also ask Me for everything and never get disappointed due to its faith in Me, and I will not allow its faith to be destroyed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Correct direction of will – total freedom ....

B.D. 6281 from June 10th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

The path you travelled until now was a path of captivity, when you had to do what My will demanded of you .... Such a path would never have provided you with happiness, because you can never be happy without freedom and strength and must be of service against your will .... when you live in a certain bondage even though the lord, who was to blame for this bondage of yours, had no control over you. You were held in bondage and you still are, even though as human beings you received free will again, thus you can do as you please and decide for yourselves. However, now this lord of yours has a certain amount of control over you again, which had previously been taken away from him .... You ought to know that you should use this apparent state of freedom in order to liberate yourselves totally, in order to completely free yourselves from your ruler's control. And this liberation has to be endeavoured and accomplished by you yourselves, thus you must use your will such that you only ever do what helps you to attain permanent freedom .... My adversary, however, still being your master, uses his power by influencing your will, by presenting all that as worth striving for which is, in fact, not suitable to release you, it will only ever chain you more firmly to the one from whom you should release yourselves. After the previous infinitely long path this time of free will signifies an immeasurable grace, and if you avail yourselves of this grace the state of slavery will end for good, the apparent freedom in your earthly life will become an actual permanent condition, in which you no longer need to fear being harassed or influenced by My adversary, thus you will be and remain truly free for all eternity ....

Nevertheless, you can also succumb to his influence during the time you were given for testing your will .... and can strengthen the chains instead of loosen them .... And you don't realise what you throw away by using your will wrongly, by yielding to and fulfilling My adversary's will .... A life of inconceivable bliss lies ahead of you which you voluntarily relinquish purely to spend your short lifetime on earth in pleasure which is only felt by the body. You are not aware of this but neither do you believe it when the knowledge of it is conveyed to you .... But during this short lifespan on Earth I must respect your freedom of will .... I will neither deny My adversary the right to influence you nor prevent you from using your will wrongly .... For it depends entirely on you as to whether I or My adversary will win you over, you yourselves must decide your fate in eternity, you yourselves bear the responsibility for your earthly life, but time and again you will be admonished and cautioned, you will be taught and informed about your task during this short time .... everything will be done in order to make you take the right decision, your will, however, remains free, and if you therefore strive towards the abyss again you will indeed attain it .... just as you will infallibly reach higher spheres if your will chooses thus. Your lifetime on earth is only short, but the consequences of your life on earth extend for an infinitely long time or even for the whole of eternity. For as long as you are still not free you are also wretched and far from your original state .... And this can be changed by you; you can become again what you were in the beginning and therefore also be immensely happy .... Don't let this time of grace pass you by unsuccessfully, make use of your granted freedom, so that you will release yourselves from the last fetter, so that your soul will be free and unburdened and able to lift itself up into the kingdom of light, into your true home, so that it can return to Me, its Father of eternity, and remain with Him forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Transformation of Earth .... Eruptions ....

B.D. 6282 from June 11th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

The core of the Earth will remain unaffected when the creations' disintegration takes place .... The Earth as a heavenly body will continue to exist, merely its external form will be so completely reshaped, that one will certainly be able to speak of a 'new Earth', but not of the Earth's disappearance. This change will therefore involve even the deepest parts because many spiritual substances shall be set free and continue their process of development in new forms .... A hugely powerful tremor will release the bound substances and matter will be dissolved and be solidified again on an extensive scale .... Human thoughts cannot find any comparison to the act which will take place, even though the inadequacy of human thinking will be the direct cause of it .... Nevertheless, people have no idea of the ramifications of their undertaking otherwise they would shy away from experiments for which they lack the final knowledge. But regardless of what people do of their own free will, the redemptive plan for the spiritual beings has been adapted to this free will, the consequences will correspond to the divine plan of Salvation, it will serve .... no matter what happens .... to release the substances bound in matter, one period of Salvation will come to an end and a new one will start again .... All liberated spirits will enter a new external form because entirely new creations will arise and the divine order, which will be entirely revoked in the end, will be established again .... because the Earth must continue to fulfil its task of being a place of education for the still immature spirits, consequently it cannot completely cease to exist until it has accomplished this task. However, in its old form it no longer serves its purpose, precisely because everything has become disorderly since, on account of their will, people do whatever God's adversary demands of them .... because they destroy creations or use them for wholly God-opposing actions and thereby prevent the indwelling bound spirits from developing .... which is the adversary's intention, as he has no influence over divine creations and therefore exerts his influence over people who are enslaved by him .... And so God's adversary will also impel people to implement the final work of destruction without realising that he will exactly achieve the opposite of what he wants to achieve .... that the new creations will incorporate everything again which he had influenced, that he will thereby only lose consistently more followers and that new opportunities will be created again for the spirits to mature fully, so that one day they will be completely free from the adverse power .... The conclusion of this period of Salvation has been planned from the start, yet the human being has no idea how it will take place although he would only have to imagine an eruption on a huge scale, which is very possible, since time and again such eruptions occur, which people cannot deny .... The rotation of the interior of the Earth is caused by influences unknown to man, but in the end people will cause it themselves without realising the consequences of their action. God's adversary will impel them to do so, and thus it is his will and the will of people enslaved by him, which was included in the divine plan of Salvation .... Consequently, even hell and its adherents are of service to the Creator of Heaven and Earth .... the dark world unintentionally takes part in the redemption of the spirits and, in the final analysis, even the resistance to God contributes towards the fact that the path towards ascent will, time and again, be opened again for the spirits .... until the work of Redemption will finally be complete one day ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Opening the heart to spiritual gifts ....

B.D. 6283 from June 13th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

I can only ever give you what you desire, for if I offer you something without your desire you will pass it by because it has no effect on you. For it is the law that My gifts only enter an open heart, that they do not force their way in where the heart is still closed .... And open is a heart that desires .... But an open heart never remains unfilled. This is why it is truly easy for you to come into possession of precious gifts of grace, because you only need to desire them in order to receive them .... And thus people can be .... seen with earthly eyes .... appear exceedingly active and caring and yet their hearts can be empty or filled with rubbish of which they have no use for their souls. The intellect cannot replace what the heart lacks, for what the heart needs can only be imparted to it by Me and does not require the human being's intellect in such a way that it could provide it for the human being. The intellect should certainly also become active and process what is received by the heart so that it becomes the human being's spiritual property. It is of little use to the human being to be given spiritual knowledge as long as he has no desire for it himself, for it will more likely cause him to reject it than to think about problems he had no intention of solving .... No knowledge, not even pure truth, is of any use to him as long as the spirit cannot work in him which gives him full understanding for it. But the spirit cannot become effective in him against his will .... i.e., its working must be requested .... The human being must want to receive light, only then can it shine in him, only then can it become bright in him, only then will he be instructed from within, for this 'wanting' opened his heart. The human being must want to receive, but not believe that he can acquire something through his intellect, for this does not penetrate the divine secrets .... The pure truth is a gift which, however, will not be withheld from anyone who merely desires it. However, the view that truth remains denied to the human being and that it is therefore a vain expectation to ever come into possession of it is completely wrong .... The human being makes himself suitable or unsuitable for receiving the pure truth through his free will, for his attitude towards truth determines whether and when he comes into its possession. And his spiritual wealth will also be accordingly, for through the truth he first learns to live consciously .... conscious of his earthly task and the aim he now seriously endeavours to achieve. Only the pure truth leads the human being to Me, his God and father of eternity, and therefore it should be dearly desired so that it will find its way into the human heart ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spiritual guides on earth .... Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 6284 from June 14th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

People need guides on earth, for they lack the power of realization to find and travel the right path on their own, they are still blind in spirit, their eyes don't recognize the path upwards and therefore they would often go wrong despite their will to reach the right aim. For the depth exerts a greater attraction which they would also fall prey to without help. I therefore provide them with guides whom they can entrust themselves to but are not forced to follow them .... These guides know exactly the right path because they come from above and want to lead everything to where it is light, where they themselves come from. They themselves are full of light but do not know in earthly life that they originate from the kingdom of light, for everything that is human on earth is also subject to the same law .... They lack all recollection so that they remain completely free in their decision of will .... so also these leaders assigned to people by Me, who only differ from their fellow human beings insofar as their whole striving applies to the attainment of a degree of maturity on earth, whereas their fellow human beings have turned their striving towards the world and now first have to be directed towards a different aim .... What seems to be in the nature of the former must first be slowly instilled in the others. And it is difficult both for the leader to persuade his fellow human being to do something that is less desirable to him and for this human being himself to turn away from what is desirable to him and to strive for goods that are completely unknown to him .... Yet precisely this is the actual test of earthly life which the human being has to pass, and that it can be passed need not be doubted because I only demand that from you which can be fulfilled .... But now, at My adversary's instigation, guides will offer themselves to the ignorant everywhere, i.e. at all crossroads, because it is his aim to conceal the right path from people such that they will pass it by and strive to where guides who 'know the way' offer themselves to them .... but who are completely unsuitable to guide them upwards because they don't know the path themselves. This is why you humans must be on your guard and first check every person who wants to lead you whether he is striving towards the right aim himself .... You can certainly do this, for a true leader must lead you past the cross of Golgotha .... he must first lead you to the cross so that you may surrender yourselves to the one who died for you on the cross .... You must learn from your leader's mouth about the significance of the act of salvation, through him you must learn to recognize the divine redeemer's overwhelming love and mercy, and now you must also recognize who He was Who died a criminal's death for you and why He did it .... A right guide will be able to provide you with this knowledge and you may also follow him without worry .... But a guide who does not know the way will lead you past Golgotha, he may mention the work of the man Jesus in passing in order to awaken your faith in his entitlement to lead you .... but you will not receive proper enlightenment about the significance of the act of salvation, you will indeed often hear the name 'Jesus Christ' from his mouth, yet not differently, as if He had only been a historical person, Whose life and teaching certainly had an ethical value .... The deeper connections, however, are foreign to those leaders .... And from this you can test which is the right path and which leader you may trustfully follow .... For the way to the aim leads past Golgotha, and there is no other way upwards. But the divine redeemer Himself sends the right guides to meet you, and those who are not sent by Him are also not right guides .... And thus you will also be able to judge which is the right teaching: only the one which puts Christ's act of salvation first .... Only the one who, as redeemed by Jesus' blood, is now permeated by His spirit and who is therefore entitled and qualified to lead his fellow human beings, because he knows that people first have to hand themselves over to the love and mercy of Jesus Christ before they can continue their path which leads upwards towards Me Myself, Who died on the cross as the human being Jesus in order to redeem you humans ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers