New Revelation recieved by Bertha Dudde

Proclamations No. 6795 - 6867

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

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

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

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

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Autobiography of Bertha Dudde

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Recorded November 22, 1953

Bertha Dudde

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

Table of Contents

6795 - God wants to reveal Himself to every human being....

6796 - Whoever remains in love....' Strange gods....

6797 - Every soul must find Jesus Christ....

6798 - Unusual gift of grace in view of the end....

6799 - 'Judgment'.... The Word Itself will pass judgment....

6800 - Father-child relationship with God....

6801 - Satan's and the demons' activity during the last days....

6802 - Life and death.... longing for God's love....

6803 - What is love.... love power?....

6804 - Work of love and mercy of Jesus Christ....

6805 - The day of the end is set....

6806 - A gift of strength from God or from the enemy?....

6807 - Imperishable beings.... 'taking life itself'....

6808 - Shaping earth life fatefully....

6809 - Experiencing the work of redemption in the hereafter....

6810 - Resurrection on the third day....

6811 - Resurrection of the dead into life....

6812 - Indicating the end of an era....

6813 - Fulfilment of humanly decreed commandments will not replace actions of love....

6814 - Truth comes from within.... desire for it....

6815 - Spiritual beings help only after call to God....

6816 - Life and death.... abusing the life force....

6817 - The soul's change of abode.... Death of the body....

6818 - Redemption work presupposes own redemption....

6819 - Justification of renewed revelations....

6820 - God's address is heard by the whole spiritual world....

6821 - Androgynous beings.... Beyond....

6822 - Life water contamination....

6823 - Return to God necessitates sincerity of will....

6824 - 'But seek ye first the kingdom of God....'

6825 - Significance of the love commandments and fulfilment....

6826 - God's address to all souls.... (cemetery)

6827 - Intensified fight against enemy.... call of Jesus Christ....

6828 - Reason for the destruction and new creation.... Hell - banishment....

6829 - Vocation to vineyard work....

6830 - Mental superiority.... mental arrogance....

6831 - What are 'means of grace'?....

6832 - Help from above in the final battle of faith....

6833 - Warning against appearances and outward appearances....

6834 - Right christianity....

6835 - Tireless reminder and warning of the end....

6836 - God's infinite fatherly love.... painful means....

6837 - Earthly improvement.... Worldly progress....

6838 - State after death....

6839 - Can pure truth come to earth without error?....

6840 - Power of God indispensable for ascension....

6841 - The will for truth guarantees its receipt....

6842 - God's will comes forth when adversariy transcend boundaries....

6843 - Thoughts are emanations from the spiritual realm....

6844 - The right physician and the right medicine....

6845 - The good Shepherd ....

6846 - Loving activity means transformation of being....

6847 - Influencing the soul by the spirit....

6848 - Reason for the revelations....

6849 - True peace only in God....

6850 - Jesus Christ opens the gate to eternal life....

6851 - Reunion and associations in the beyond....

6852 - In the beginning was the Word.... '

6853 - The father's safe guidance....

6854 - All creations in the universe are schoolhouses....

6855 - Pollution of air - water - food....

6856 - Proof of a 'living God'....

6857 - Admission of the spiritual work....

6858 - The earthly path of angel-beings....

6859 - Blessing of mental communication with God....

6860 - No liberation without Jesus Christ....

6861 - Evaluation of the existence on earth....

6862 - 'The table of the Lord'.... Divine Host....

6863 - The disciples were also taught by God....

6864 - Earth is a place of perdition.... Devils....

6865 - Activity of love.... law on earth and in the hereafter....

6866 - Recognizing and acknowledging a creator power....

6867 - God's power of love guarantees success....

God wants to reveal Himself to every human being ....

B.D. 6795 from March 31th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

I Myself speak to you, your God and father of eternity, if only it is your will to hear Me. Whether you still live on earth or already in the kingdom of the beyond, you constantly need strength in order to ascend. And I convey this strength to you in the form of My word, which touches you all miraculously and your soul also noticeably feels the influx of strength. And truly, everything spiritual would already have reached the ascent if it would use this great grace to let Me speak to itself. But people and also the still immature souls in the kingdom of the beyond lack faith in this, faith in My infinite love which seeks contact with you .... (3/31/1957) You well know that you are the creations of a power, and you are told that this power is supremely perfect, that It works in love and wisdom .... But you have no proof of this as long as you have not yet established the connection with this Power yourselves .... And you, in turn, do not establish this connection because you have no proof that it is love and wisdom in itself. And therefore I continue to seek the connection with you .... and indeed I speak to you even if you don't believe yet. For because you yourselves are completely ignorant as a result of your former fall into the abyss, you now need to be instructed about what you lack in knowledge, but especially about your connection with your God and creator and about your earthly task. Therefore my word is sent to you which can truly give you the brightest realization if you accept it in your heart and then also become active according to My word .... And my word is conveyed to every person once, I always try to force Myself into the human being's heart, yet not by force because this would be futile .... But where I have found entrance into a person's heart the bond is also established, and now I can speak with increased effect, now I can speak to the person like a father to his child, and I try to achieve this bond because then every guarantee is also given that the person will receive information about My true nature and that he will then also kindle love within himself for his God and father of eternity. I reveal Myself in the word, for I don't want people to remain ignorant, that they leave the earth in the same state of lightlessness as when they entered it .... I want to impart knowledge to them, gifts, to such an extent that they will be able to love the power Which created them, for only love sets them free from all bondage, from all darkness and all weakness .... And if they are now able to show love towards Me then they will also voluntarily do what I demand of them through My word; they will keep My commandments of love and thereby attain the light. Only My word can achieve this, only if I can address a person can his state of darkness be changed, but never by his fellow human beings' teachings, no matter how wise, which are not based on My word .... And even if my word is conveyed to the human being by fellow human beings, he himself must now give Me the opportunity to address him. He must .... prompted by this transmission .... mentally connect with Me, and then I Myself can speak to him and my word will not fail to have an effect. Only then will the human being be able to believe without proof, and he will voluntarily submit himself to the power Which created him, he will surrender himself to It, and then the resistance will be broken which greatly prevented My bestowal of love .... Then the evidence of My love will constantly flow to the human being .... Light and strength and unusual abilities will now become evident in him, he will increase in wisdom, and the close bond with Me, which also results in unusual activity of love, will also cause all those powers and abilities to emerge in the human being which he once possessed as a spiritual being as evidence of his divine origin but had lost due to his apostasy from Me .... But now the return to Me has taken place because the human being allowed himself to be addressed by Me and willingly followed My words .... because he believed them and learned to love Me, Who revealed Myself to him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Whoever remains in love ....' Strange gods ....

B.D. 6796 from April 1st 1957, taken from Book No. 73

Whatever causes you to form a bond with Me is a blessing for you humans, because the goal of your earthly life is to revoke your separation from Me which you once voluntarily endeavoured towards yourselves .... thus uniting with Me again of your own free will. And whatever helps you to do so is therefore good .... Hence the will to reach Me is decisive for achieving your goal on earth, and this determination also includes that you live a way of life that is pleasing to Me, for being of sincere will you will never want to sadden Me again, you will never delight in sin if your will and your love are intended for Me.

But the connection with Me can only be achieved by practising love, because where love exists I Am present Myself. 'Whoever remains in love remains in God and God in him ....' Without love there can be no bond with Me, no matter how loudly and eagerly the mouth would like to affirm its will for Me. Only love is the evidence of this, for love and I are the same, and acknowledging Me and fulfilling My will is the same as working with love ....

You humans should know that no-one can and will approach Me if he lives without love .... Only love connects us, and love demonstrates the rejection of My adversary and return to Me .... With your fall into the abyss you turned away from Me and rejected My love, thus you also became completely heartless. Your change of will on earth therefore has to consist of your desire to be illuminated by Me again and of igniting love in yourselves again which will unite you with Me once more.

The more sincere your determination, the more you will think of Me, of your God and Creator of eternity, Who wants to be recognised and loved by you as a Father. And soon your thoughts will be engrossed in Me, for then I will not leave you again, I will not release you anymore, I will constantly court your love because love is the most solid bond between us which cannot be undone again by any hostile power.

I want to own all your love .... you shall not have any other gods beside Me .... you should not strive for anything else with the same love, for whatever you endeavour or love in your innermost being that is your God .... irrespective of whether it concerns honour and fame, earthly possessions or even the people you love .... You must not value anything more than Me, I want to be to you the highest and most desirable Being in heaven and on earth. I want your whole heart, and as long as you still share it, the bond with Me is not yet established, for whatever fills your heart stands between Me and you ....

Every person's will is free, he can turn wherever he wants, but the goal on earth will only have been accomplished when he turns to Me. But there is great danger in the fact that the human being considers many things desirable and that My adversary places everything before his eyes to prevent him from forming this heartfelt bond with Me .... and that he also brings additional gods close to the person just to divert his thoughts from Me, for they are all strange gods permeating a person's thoughts if I Myself Am not the essence of his innermost thoughts ....

Therefore you humans should seriously scrutinise who or what moves you most, you should ask yourselves whether you are as close to Me as a child is to its father, whether the connection with Me is your first and only goal .... and you should push everything from your thoughts which stands between Me and you, you should give Me first place in your heart and make no concessions whatsoever. For your return to Me can only take place through the unification with Me, and you have to seek and find this of your own free will, because no-one else can establish it on your behalf ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Every soul must find Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 6797 from April 3rd 1957, taken from Book No. 73

Every soul thanks you, which was led through you to Jesus Christ as its redeemer from sin and death .... For He alone can open the gate to life for it, He alone can lead it into the kingdom of light to eternal beatitude. But as long as it has not yet found Him it wanders around unhappily when it has arrived in the kingdom of the beyond, its thoughts become confused, its surroundings are devoid of light and its own state is agonizing because it sorely misses the vitality it now lacks but feels the agony of its lack of strength and its state. For this reason it is the greatest work of love and mercy you can accomplish on a person while he is still on earth if you acquaint him with Jesus Christ, if you make it clear to him that he may not pass Him by if he does not want to endanger himself and meet an unhappy fate after the death of his body. All people you come into contact with know Him, yet their attitude towards Him leaves much to be desired, they know Him but do not evaluate this knowledge, they have certainly heard of Him as redeemer of the world but His act of salvation is not a true concept for them. They know about His death on the cross but only consider it in a purely earthly way and are hardly aware of its spiritual significance .... They also do not have the inner bond with Him and therefore do not take the path to the cross, they do not feel like sinners and therefore do not ask for forgiveness of their sins either .... They do not recognize the eternal deity Himself in Jesus Christ and therefore do not call upon Him in full faith either. And therefore they remain burdened by guilt and enter the beyond with this guilt, without light and without strength, for they have not yet attained the life which can only be given to them by Jesus Christ. And then their earthly life was also an idle one and did not bring them any success, it did not bring them closer to God, Who walked across earth in the man Jesus .... These souls will be unhappy when they arrive in the kingdom of the beyond, and they will not be blissfully happy until they have taken the path to Him on the other side. But even in the kingdom of the beyond they are often unteachable when it comes to the problem of Christ, and it requires a lot of love and perseverance on the part of those who want to help them, be they beings of light or people on earth who want to help the souls. But anyone who lovingly takes care of such a soul will also succeed in imparting so much light and strength to it that it will strengthen its will and that it will listen without resistance when it is informed about Jesus Christ, and that it will now no longer resist calling upon Him for love and mercy either .... It has to find Him in the kingdom of the beyond, and Jesus Christ can also be found .... He comes to meet every soul, but only if it has given up its hard resistance, if it looks around helplessly and begs for salvation, if it is aware of its weakness and now listens attentively to what is conveyed to it by beings willing to help or by people on earth .... Then Jesus Christ Himself will force Himself into its thinking and truly make it easy for the soul to believe in Him .... But the first step has to be taken by the soul itself, and in order for it to take this first step it has to be helped by people on earth or by beings of light in the spiritual kingdom through loving intercession or through everlasting instructions. It must find its way to Jesus Christ .... otherwise there is no beatitude for it .... But it is extremely grateful to those who helped it to salvation. And precisely the great hardship awaiting such a soul in the beyond, which has not yet found Him, should prompt you humans to repeatedly mention His mission on earth, so that fellow human beings will still find Him on earth and not pass over into the spiritual kingdom without light .... so that Jesus Christ Himself will now come to meet them and open the gates to paradise .... that they will only be relieved of their great burden of sin for the time being, but only Jesus Christ Himself can take it away from them and therefore He has to be recognized and acknowledged as God and redeemer of the world ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Unusual gift of grace in view of the end ....

B.D. 6798 from April 5th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

An unusual wave of grace pours over humanity through the direct supply of my word from above. For information is given about the greatest secrets which are therefore secrets for people because they lack the light of knowledge. And their lack of knowledge can also lead them to completely erroneous opinions as long as one mistaken person tries to instruct the other. And if the secrets are to be revealed to humanity then I Myself must do so, because only from Me can the pure truth reach you, because I alone know everything and can also explain the correlations to you, because I alone can kindle a light where darkness still reigns. For it concerns spiritual knowledge, it concerns things which you are not able to explain intellectually. It concerns areas which are and will remain closed to you as a human being until the One grants you insight, the lord is this kingdom .... until I Myself convey the knowledge of it to you .... And in this unusual grace you humans are now standing because the end is near .... I convey knowledge to you which is actually only yours when you have acquired it through loving activity. However, the nearness of the end, the great spiritual adversity, prompts Me to offer you humans a 'gift', and even those people who have not yet attained the spiritual maturity which is the prerequisite to receive such knowledge directly from Me may enrich themselves with it .... For I give these people the opportunity to let their intellect become active now, so that they will now deal with the solution of spiritual problems by way of intellect and then humbly bow their hearts before the one Who reveals such secrets to them. For as long as the different schools of thought are still in dispute, as long as people only conjecture but do not know, the significance of their earthly life cannot be made understandable to them either, and they are only interested in what is provable to them. But no human being can deny a creator of heaven and earth .... However, only when they recognize a purpose of creation and a purpose and meaning of their earthly life as a human being will they make an effort to live this earthly life consciously. And My bestowal of grace is only intended to help thinking people find an acceptable explanation for the creations and their motive as well as for the relationship of all created things .... thus also of the human being .... to its creator. This is an unusual gift of grace, because people themselves do not demand such a solution to the greatest mystery. But it will be brought to them, and depending on the evaluation of this knowledge it will now also have an unusual, blessed effect or remain entirely without effect. Thus the human being's will will not be forced by unusual knowledge but he will be granted a special grace even without his desire. The being, which itself was responsible for its spiritual blindness, is unusually supported to become sighted again. A knowledge is imparted to it which it originally possessed but carelessly gave away and now it wanders aimlessly in a state of darkness and again and again ends up on wrong paths if a bright light does not illuminate the right path for it. So I do not look at people's will to defend themselves, yet I come to meet them .... I give them a light, I lift the veil that is before their eyes, I stimulate the intellect where the heart does not strive towards the light of its own accord. But I do not force the will of man .... But the unusual gift of grace can be the key to the gate of eternal life for you humans, for everything is explained to you in such a way that it is acceptable and that you now take an affirmative attitude towards problems which you previously ignored completely because they were insoluble for you .... And you can now also find the right attitude towards Me in Jesus Christ .... For the pure truth enlightens you as soon as you are of good will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

'Judgment' .... The Word Itself will pass judgment ....

B.D. 6799 from April 6th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

One day you will all have to justify yourselves as to how you valued My Word which was offered to you by My love. And the Word Itself will be your judge. But understand this correctly: No punishing judge will put you on trial; you will merely be transferred to where you belong according to your state of maturity. And your state of maturity will, in turn, correspond to your way of life on earth, as to how your will allowed itself to be influenced by My Word. For you either entered into heartfelt contact with Me as a result of My Words of love intended for you or you rejected them again, leaving your soul unable to change its shape, therefore it can only dwell in such spheres which also correspond to its nature. The Word Itself will judge you, for it was given to you by My divine love and irrevocably had to help you attain full maturity if it were accepted .... Yet the rejection of My Word is also a rejection of Me Myself, and this repeated rejection can only result in staying in dark spheres again, because the soul itself shied away from the light and preferred the darkness. My Word is light and anyone who rejects it will never reach the light .... But since the human being's will is free it also voluntarily determines the judgment, namely the state which corresponds to his resistance and which cannot be called a free one. The soul will be 'judged', that is, it will be moved to where it belongs .... And sooner or later every person will be offered My Word, everyone will be able to hear it wherever public sermons are given on behalf of Me and My kingdom. And I also approach those in My Word who are outside of church communities, who are thus already on the defensive because they are not approached in the right way .... Others, again, will become receptive to My direct inner communication as a result of conversations or the reading of books, and their thoughts will be guided such that they can deliberate on them .... I try in every way to enter people's hearts in order to stimulate them to listen to My Word regardless of where and how it is proclaimed, because the human being's will decides whether the Word has an effect on him. However, the hour of accountability will come sooner or later, the hour which reveals the state of the soul, and this state will also place it into its appropriate sphere .... And thus it will have been judged, because time and time again order will have to be re-established ....

But blessed are those who listen to Me and My Word, who endeavour to live according to My will which is revealed to them through My Word .... Blessed are they, for they will also be judged and their judgment will mean the hour of entry into unimaginable beatitudes for them, for they, too, will be assigned to spheres according to their nature and My Word will have helped them to attain a garment of light, so that they then may move within the inconceivable abundance of light without ceasing to exist. And light is beatitude .... Understand this correctly, no merciless judge carries out his duty and plunges the soul into darkness, instead it is a self-chosen destiny which every soul is approaching, but understand also that this harsh and agonising fate can be averted by willingly accepting My Word and complying with it .... and that therefore the 'Word Itself' will pass judgment on every soul. And this judgment will happen in all righteousness, for every thought, every activity, the right and the wrong love .... will be revealed and determines the fate of every individual soul. However, if My Word is accepted then the transformation of soul will take place on earth already and thus it need not fear the judgment because it will only result in light and bliss, whereas the rejection of My Word will even thicken the darkness surrounding the soul and it will enter the spiritual kingdom utterly misshapen, consequently its fate cannot be any other than lack of light and agony ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Father-child relationship with God ....

B.D. 6800 from April 7th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

You enter into the right relationship with Me when you see your Father in Me and not merely your God and Creator of eternity .... For I want you to become children who entrust themselves to their Father with love; I don't just want to be feared and revered but be wholeheartedly loved, so as to be able to delight you with My infinite love. I want to achieve a true Father-child relationship, because this is supported by love for Me. When I created you, I was only able to externalise you as created beings, even though I furnished you with all gifts to the highest extent .... I was indeed able to permeate you with My burning, all-consuming love but I was unable to force you into accepting this love and responding in kind, because such reciprocated love could not be as pleasing to Me as the love freely granted to Me by My child .... Only love bestowed upon Me in free will induces happiness, and I constantly invite My living creations on earth to grant Me this kind of love, because this love will also result in their inconceivable bliss. The beings, having voluntarily remained with Me when the great fall of the originally created beings happened, can certainly also be called inconceivably happy, for they are constantly permeated by My love and thus they are also glowing with love .... Nevertheless, the degree of love and bliss between them and My true children differs, but the former can still attain this degree if they likewise voluntarily travel the path which allows them to attain the childship to God as well .... the path across earth for the purpose of a mission .... In that case in the beginning they consider themselves, like any other person, as God's 'living creation' and must establish the relationship of a 'child with its Father' of their own free will. However, every person is capable of doing so, every person need only hand himself over to the Power he can acknowledge as God and Creator, if he is of good will .... As a result of the human being's devotion to this Power the 'Father' will take hold of His child and draw it to Himself. Then the child will lose all shyness, all fear of him, then it will trustingly come to Me and start to love Me with the love of a child which feels a close bond with its Father but which also submits itself to Him with profound humility, which does not want to sadden Him but also desire His love, otherwise it is not happy .... Then all its thoughts and intentions will be inclined towards Me and the hitherto existing separation will be revoked, then My 'living creation' will have become My 'child' and the goal I set Myself when I created it will have been achieved. And the goal you were given for your life on earth is to establish this true Father-child relationship with Me .... As long as I Am merely your God and Creator, Whom you certainly revere and fear, you will still be very distant from Me, for then you will still lack the right kind of love which urges you towards Me and also recognises the Father in Me .... My illumination of love cannot as yet affect you to the extent that it kindles your love and thus love will strive towards love. The love of a child for the 'Father' is a different love than you feel for your God and Creator. True love always seeks unification, and the union with Me will always ever be one of the child with its Father, because I Am, after all, your Father from Whose love you emerged .... And once you have established the correct relationship you will also know how close I Am to you and how much I participate in My child's every experience, even the smallest .... And you will even come to Me with the smallest request yourselves, because you will lose all shyness towards the One Whom you love and honour as your Father .... because you hand yourselves over to him with childlike trust and this love will not deny itself, it will constantly give pleasure to the child which has found its way home to the Father and is devoted to him with burning love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Satan's and the demons' activity during the last days ....

B.D. 6801 from April 8th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

All demons will be unleashed during the last days of the end; hell will spat out its most evil spirits and the prince of darkness will transfer his thoughts onto them to act destructively amongst people on earth. And you humans will be living in the midst of his domain and will be in constant danger of being devoured by hell and its forces .... But they cannot compel you .... as yet it is still up to you to let them be victorious or to defend yourselves against their onslaughts and you will truly not be at their mercy because the good spiritual world will also stand by your side, it will merely wait for your call in order to be able to help you. All hell will have broken loose and God's adversary will know that he won't have much time left and will really make every possible use of this final time of his. And many hellish forces will take possession of people if they don't resist them, if they themselves delight in the conduct by the evil world. The demons will try to take control of their own kind, they will take possession of their body and then commit truly evil things, and that alone is a sure sign of the end .... For only too often they will have an easy game, people will follow their suggestions only too willingly and scrupulously accomplish what the former demand of them. The prince of darkness will have truly gained great power over people, and therefore his activity will become ever more obvious, after all, he believes himself able to win the final battle against God. Consequently he will not leave any stone unturned in order to incite people against God, he will not even shy away from assailing those who want to work for God, he will use his accomplices to cause them grief with the intention to destroy their faith in God and he will try to extinguish any light coming forth from God .... His arrogance will know no bounds and thus he will exalt himself above God to an extent that it will result in a speedy end to his activity.

However, people will be drawn into this battle and should prove themselves therein. For they will not be without knowledge about God's love and power and will be able to call upon Him for protection and help in every adversity, which then will definitely be granted to them. Thus no human being will need to be afraid of this coming adversity and pressure on part of the dark world, because the path to God is open for everyone and no person can be prevented from taking it. The demonic activity is also easily distinguishable by every individual and would be able to make them think. And, thus, these forces will fight in vain wherever people are of good will, because they are on God's side and the world of light will form a wall around them. You humans should indeed be careful and always on your guard but you need not be fearful, for your resolve will banish the danger or defend against it .... And therefore the direction of your will depends entirely on you. Every look you take into the adversary's realm is noticed by his vassals who constantly entice you ever deeper into their domain. This is why great care is required but all those who have the serious will to resist them are also guaranteed to receive strength. You can certainly be tempted but not be forced .... Nevertheless it will be and remain a fight for those of you who want to remain faithful to God, which will last until the end. You will be able to survive it and emerge victorious, for you can expect as much protection and help from God's side as His adversary can gain influence over you, and you decide for yourselves to whom you concede more right. However, the activity of hell and its forces will be recognisable everywhere, and people more than ever will give way and hand themselves over to them. And therefore the time will come when God Himself will put a stop to His adversary's activity and put him and his followers into chains, so that there will be peace again amongst people of good will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Life and death .... longing for God's love ....

B.D. 6802 from April 9th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

In a world of hatred and unkindness you should long for My love which will never be withheld from you, which you can receive from Me at any time because only your will is needed to accept it .... You should long for My warmth of love because you live in the coldest environment which is not suitable to give life or to sustain life but is like a tomb of death where everything that is still alive also comes to death. You should flee to Me of your own accord, to My heart, so that you are safe in My love. But only a few remember the one Who is always ready for them, Who wants to give them love in abundance. And only these few will come to life and also keep life. For only love guarantees life, but lack of love also means certain death. I would like to embrace all of you with My love so that you could arise to life, I would like to give all of you what you are so desperately lacking: a love in whose glow everything that has solidified comes to life. But as long as you still resist Me, as long as you don't let yourselves be embraced by My love, you will also remain in a state of rigidity of death and you will never be able to come to life. But the world is still capable of suffocating every little spark of love, for My adversary reigns in it, who is completely devoid of love and also does everything in his power to imprint his nature in you, who incites people against each other and only ever impels them to think unkindly. And people are hostile towards each other, they try to take advantage of each other, they strengthen selfish love and will only ever strive for self-interest but never serve their neighbour in selfless love .... They are in the midst of the world but do not fight against its dangers, they let themselves be driven willy-nilly by the one who is without love .... And they don't think of Me, Who in infinite love follows people's goings-on and wants to help them to leave the area of death and turn towards life. And only love will ever achieve this, only love will give life and truly make people happy, for unkindness will never be able to provide true happiness. And it should truly not be a question for you humans Who can give you true happiness. You should not look for it in the world but in Me, Who is love and life from eternity and can truly also give you life if you allow Me to radiate My love into you, if you no longer resist it yourselves but voluntarily open your hearts to Me, if you come to Me yourselves and desire to be safe in My love. And from that moment on you will also feel the life within you, you will truly be reborn because My flame of love has also ignited in you and everything that was dead in you will come to life. And now you indeed still live in the midst of the world but yet no longer in the realm of death, and your warmth of love is also able to give life to the dead, which you embrace and want to snatch from its rigidity of death. For the fire of love has great strength, and a loving person is able to carry out great rescue work even in seemingly dead territory. For a loving person is always in contact with Me and thus also constantly draws this strength .... Thus he can also turn My love to the numb as a mediator where I Myself cannot find access .... Yet My fountain of love is inexhaustible and blessed those who come to it themselves, who want to come to life and therefore take refuge in My proximity in order to escape death .... Their hope of finding life with Me will never be disappointed, for I spread My arms in ardent love and draw all to My heart who suffer from the unkindness of their fellow human beings, who long for love and therefore press towards Me, Who now truly also kindles the spark of love in their hearts to the highest fervour ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

What is love .... love power? ....

B.D. 6803 from April 10th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

The tiniest living being experiences My love which helps it forward on the path to ascent. And I never withdraw My love from it because then it would cease to be. And thus every human being can also know himself loved by Me or he would not be able to enjoy his life, for only My strength of love ensures his existence as well as the existence of the whole of creation. But you humans don't know what you should imagine by 'My strength of love' as long as you have not yet kindled love within yourselves in order to then also be able to accomplish things 'by virtue of this love' which seem supernatural to you. And as long as you are unable to imagine Me Myself as the being Whose fundamental substance is 'love'. You humans only attain a low degree of love .... And therefore you also lack the understanding for the activity of individual people on earth who tried to increase their degree of love and who thus make use of the 'strength of love' for the benefit of their fellow human beings. The higher degree of love alone is an explanation, but again only for people who are willing to love themselves. Thus those people work with My strength, they, as it were, convey My strength to their fellow human beings who are in need of it, be it physically or spiritually. And therefore they can help the sick to recover, they can supply strength to the weak again, they can give light to blind souls and impart knowledge to them .... They can heal physically and spiritually .... and only ever by using the strength of love from Me .... You humans can only believe this, for you will not understand it until you are also so filled with love that My nature becomes a little more comprehensible to you. For you still only regard 'love' as a characteristic which one person has and the other lacks. Love, however, is something intrinsic, it is the all-emerging strength and therefore the 'original substance of God' .... For I Myself am 'love' .... As long as you humans stay on earth you are in an area where lack of love predominates, which therefore also means lack of strength and complete ignorance of that strength Which brought everything into being and sustains everything. But every human being is free to let love flare up in him to a high degree. Then he will take on his original nature again, then there will be no limits to his abilities, then the same power will be stimulated in him which enables him to create and shape .... Then there will be no earthly laws which impose a limitation on him, for then he will work with Me and My strength, which only a certain degree of love will cause to be released, because My divine laws have to be complied with and this is precisely a divine law, that love alone is the source of strength but that it is never exhausted. Only a few people will understand this, but all should make an effort to increase their degree of love, because then a light of realization will also be kindled in them which will also make the essence of love comprehensible to them. Everything you see, as well as yourselves, is held by My love, it is permeated by My strength of love, albeit in different strengths, otherwise it could no longer exist. But you yourselves can consciously catch this ray of love and increase your degree of light, you can acquire the strength of My love, you can request it or acquire it yourselves through loving activity, and you will now also be able to work unusually. So you will be powerful through love and now use your power again in love. And you will be able to constantly increase the degree of love and thus increasingly more align yourselves with My fundamental being, and then the term 'love' will also be fully comprehensible to you, and you will know that everything which is love has to be addressed as divine .... so that you will now also recognize your God and creator, your father of eternity, as 'eternal love' ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Work of love and mercy of Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 6804 from April 11th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

For all people I shed My blood, for all I suffered, and for all I died on the cross .... No human being is excluded from My act of salvation, for all people are burdened with sin which keeps the gate into the kingdom of light closed to them. And therefore all people are wretched who cannot find forgiveness from this great sin of their past apostasy from Me. Nevertheless, every person is free to make use of My act of salvation. For people were not redeemed abruptly when My act of mercy was accomplished, instead, it also requires the consent of the human being himself in order to be considered redeemed, otherwise there would truly be no being left on earth and also in the spiritual kingdom which still walked along under the burden of sin. But the human being's free will can never be eliminated, everyone must freely confess Me in Jesus Christ and thus also My act of salvation, and then everyone must also avail himself of the blessings of the act of salvation in order to become free from his burden of sin. Hence people's free will explains the spiritual low in which they find themselves despite My sacrifice on the cross .... For only very few people consciously stand by Me, by their divine saviour and redeemer of the world. The majority, however, take little notice of the greatest act of love and mercy that has ever taken place on this earth, although they are not unaware of it. They have an immeasurable treasure of grace at their disposal which they pass by, which they do not evaluate, which does not at all tempt them to take a closer look at it ..... And they don't know what they are forfeiting through their indifference, they don't know what an unbearable fate they will have to take upon themselves after their physical death through their own fault. For they enter the kingdom of the beyond unredeemed when they could have found complete redemption on earth .... What I as the man Jesus have taken upon Myself in terms of pain and suffering, in terms of abuse and bitterness, in terms of hostility and hateful actions, I only did out of love for you in order to atone for you, in order to pay off your guilt of sin .... I wanted to suffer for you in order to turn away from you the effect of your sins, I wanted to atone for them and thus redeem your guilt .... It was a measure of torment and suffering which you humans cannot measure, for what I did for you was superhuman .... It was truly a work of love and mercy, for I would not have been able to endure all this as a human being if My love for you had not given Me the strength .... and My love for you was infinitely great, and therefore I suffered and died for you .... And you humans need do nothing more than imagine My great love for once, think about what the man Jesus endured for your sake, you only need to imagine the agonies of His crucifixion, the maltreatment by His tormentors and His superhuman suffering and death on the cross .... and you should be seized by a fervent love for Him, Who endured for you all that you yourselves would have had to endure for the sake of your great sin .... And your love should now drive you to Him, to Whom you now repentantly hand over your guilt of sin, asking Him that He may also have shed His blood for you .... And you would be free from all guilt, you would recognize My great love for you, Who accomplished the work of salvation for you Myself in the human being Jesus. How easily you could acquire eternal life, how safely you could enter through the gates of the kingdom of light after the death of your body, if only you would avail yourselves of the blessings of the act of salvation, if only you would remember Him Who accomplished this great act of love for you, and if only you would appeal to Him for strength where your own will is too weak .... if only you would entrust yourselves to Me in Jesus Christ with complete faith .... You must believe in Him as the divine saviour and redeemer, because then you will also acknowledge Me Myself, Who died in Him for you on the cross ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The day of the end is set ....

B.D. 6805 from April 14th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

You are approaching the end with incontrovertible certainty .... And no matter how much you resist in thought you cannot stop it because God's plan of salvation has been determined and everything unfolds in accordance with it, including world events which also contribute towards accelerating the course of events which lead to the process of dissolution of the earth's creations. The end of this earth period has been foreseen since eternity, but the free will of man is the reason for it, which God also foresaw from eternity and was able to base His plan of salvation on it. It comes, as it was predicted by seers and prophets from the beginning of this redemption epoch, and people themselves offer their hands to it, for they completely step out of divine order. They are partly in a spiritual low that can no longer be surpassed and which alone justifies an end .... and partly in such arrogant thinking that they believe they can master divine laws of nature which, however, are still unknown to them. God Himself no longer finds access to these human hearts, otherwise they would desist from their activities and also be able to escape the spiritual blindness which, however, now holds them captive. And thus the fate of people and also of all created creatures is fulfilled, and everything is approaching a change which will usher in a new period of time again .... which will bring peace and harmony on earth again and guarantee safe ascent for the spiritual. But these predictions find little or no credence .... Humanity has not yet experienced such a transformation, and what lies far in the past has remained alien to people. They have no evidence of similar processes and therefore do not believe that they are threatened by events which signify a total transformation of all that has gone before. But time moves forward and the last day for this earth draws ever closer. And that is why God only directs this unusual knowledge to earth, to still shake up the few who have not yet completely sunk into the deep. The end will come irrevocably and the signs will still emerge so clearly that individual people will become apprehensive, and for them explanatory knowledge will also be a blessing because it will provide them with information which is credible to them .... For God does not want to let any person go astray, and as long as there is still a prospect of bringing salvation to a soul, the rescue attempts will not be abandoned either. But the day of the end is fixed, and according to divine law it will also be observed .... But people themselves would rather hasten the end than stop it, for their conduct proves that the low point has been reached which necessitates an end .... And as in the time of the flood of sin people walk blindly along .... as in the time of the flood of sin, they seek to extract treasures from the earth and make them useful to themselves, they unleash forces whose inconceivable effects are unknown to them. They themselves carry out what destruction means for the earth and all its creations. People close their ears to all warnings, they unflinchingly pursue their aims, and God has calculated this will into His plan of salvation and still made what happens through satanic influence serviceable for spiritual further development, so that His adversary unintentionally participates in the work of salvation, that he himself steers the process of development back on the right track against his will .... that the spiritual substance which he believes to have gained is once again wrested from him and his power and bound anew in creation and thus nevertheless walks the path upwards again, even if endless times are necessary until the aim is reached again: to be able to make the final decision as a human being .... And God foresaw all this, and seers and prophets repeatedly pointed to the end on His behalf .... Yet humanity has no idea how close it is to this end .... But God constantly sends it admonitions and warnings so that everyone who believes can prepare himself .... But for the unbeliever the end will be terrible ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

A gift of strength from God or from the enemy? ....

B.D. 6806 from April 15th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

Whatever you start in earthly life you must experience My support if it is to be a blessing for you, for you can also work with My adversary's support, but then every activity can only contribute towards the body's well-being but never towards your soul's salvation. For then you will have sold your soul to him and he will pay you for it with earthly goods, he will make everything easy for you which you tackle and he will also ensure your success. But then you will live your earthly life in vain, you will only serve him and completely submit yourselves to his will, and the end will be his renewed fall into the abyss which you had already left .... Therefore I admonish you again and again not to start anything without having invoked My blessing. I admonish you to constantly think of Me and request support from Me, and you will certainly receive it, for I don't want you to turn to My adversary, and I will truly also give you what you desire, I will also provide for you earthly, because you first seek Me Myself and thereby prove your will turned towards Me. And you can also come to Me with the slightest request, I will not close My ear, for I always want to be your advisor and guide, I want you to always turn to Me, that you constantly regard Me as your father to Whom you can entrust yourselves like children, that you see in Me your friend and brother Who is always there for you, Who will never let you down, Who will always reward your trust .... But you should also think of your soul first, you should not regard earthly things as the most important but know that you only live on earth so that your soul will mature .... And if your salvation is close to your heart then you will be even closer to Me, and then My fatherly eye will watch over you and also protect you from the attacks of the enemy of your souls, from My adversary. For then I will have the right to place Myself protectively in front of you, which your devotion to Me grants Me .... for you must know that My adversary also has a right to you due to your past fall into sin, but that you yourselves have the freedom to choose your lord yourselves to whom you want to belong .... And this decision is your earthly task. My adversary, however, tries by all means to win you over or to keep you so that you will not escape from him. And therefore he entices you with earthly promises, with earthly goods, and he provides everyone with strength who is in bondage to him, and therefore he is usually very successful, for you humans think far more about your present fate than about the fate which awaits you in eternity. But I assure you that I will also give you strength if you request it from Me, for I also want to win you over for Myself so that I will never lose you again .... But I can only provide you with strength again if you request it from Me of your own free will, because I exclude all coercion. And you can always be certain that I will shape your earthly existence such that it will be bearable for you if only you adhere to Me, if it is your will to live in accordance with My will and if you let Me be your constant advisor and companion .... Then you will truly not lack strength, then My blessing will also rest on every earthly activity, then you will be able to achieve great things, and then your soul will also mature, for then your eyes will constantly be turned towards Me, Whom you recognize as your God and father, Who loves you and Whose love also wants to prepare a carefree earthly life for you, because you have consciously become His, because you separated yourselves from My adversary of your own free will and thus you have already passed your test of will on earth through your conscious devotion to Me .... And now you will constantly walk the earthly path with Me because you yourselves gave Me the right to be your companion on the path ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Imperishable beings .... 'taking life itself' ....

B.D. 6807 from April 16th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

Always and forever you will remain, for what has come forth from Me can no longer pass away eternally .... And therefore I cannot and will not destroy what opposes Me, although this is certainly possible by My power, but I will always seek to regain what turned away from Me in the will to rebel .... For My love for everything created by Me prevents complete destruction, which is why even My adversary .... the first-created and first-fallen spirit .... never has to fear destruction because he, too, belongs to those who shall return home again to their father's house. I can certainly disapprove of his actions, I can brand his nature as being completely contrary to My eternal order and warn you humans against him .... I can do everything to protect you from his influence .... but I don't withdraw My love from him either, only this ray of love does not hit him, i.e. it loses its effectiveness because My adversary opposes My illumination of love. But he, too, cannot remain in his resistance forever, he, too, will return to Me one day and live a life of utmost bliss, even though eternities will still pass until this change of will and return to Me .... But he cannot pass away .... Everything created by Me remains eternally. Therefore it is also unimportant to Me how long that which has fallen away from Me remains in its defence, for I am from eternity to eternity, for Me there is no time, and a thousand years are like a day before Me .... But it is significant for the being what periods of time it spends in utter wretchedness, in a state which cannot be called life and bliss .... And you humans would be horrified if you could look back and overlook your previous course of development and measure its endless time, for you neither 'emerged from nothing' nor do you sink back into 'nothingness' with your bodily death ..... You continue to exist, you can only lose your ego-consciousness in great resistance and then have to cover endless long distances again in darkness and torment .... And if you finally return to self-awareness, you can still fail in this state and still have to struggle for eternities as a self-aware being in the beyond until the kingdom of light receives you and you ascend. But you will not perish .... And that is why you cannot extinguish your being as a human being, even if you make your physical shell unfit for further earthly progress, even if you believe that you can 'take your life away' ..... For your actual self remains in existence because the spiritual substance which once originated from Me cannot pass away. And thus you only interfere with My process of development which should bring you freedom from a state which is not life and bliss .... You act against My will, you act arbitrarily and wrongly, you deprive yourselves of the opportunities created for you in My plan of salvation .... You are, as it were, halting the course of your development and are also in great danger of sinking back into the abyss again if you don't change your mind in the beyond and make use of the opportunities My love offers you there. You should seriously consider that you will always and forever continue to exist and therefore not treat your earthly life lightly either, which one day you will recognize as an unheard-of gift of grace because it could bring you final freedom. But people mostly lack faith in continued existence and therefore go through earthly life irresponsibly and don't make use of the great gift of grace. And My adversary, who has distanced himself furthest from Me, encourages them in their unbelief in order to prevent the spiritual from attaining life in beatitude, which he himself has drawn into the abyss. But that is why the time he spends far away from Me will also become eternity for him. And even if he believes himself to be strong and mighty .... the time will come when he will lie weak and helpless on the ground, when he will wish for an end to himself and yet not be able to pass away .... And only then will he desire My illumination of love and also receive it, only then will he also awaken to life and return home to his father's house ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Shaping earth life fatefully ....

B.D. 6808 from April 17th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

However your earthly life may turn out, you will be held by My love and always guided such that you will be able to successfully cover it for your soul. People's different destinies are also due to their different predispositions, everyone needs different aids, and the different situations in life therefore offer enough of them. But since you humans are used to seeing with earthly eyes you pay far more attention to physical than to spiritual success, and a difficult earthly fate rather appears to you as a lack of love on My part where it nevertheless testifies to increased love from Me. For I know where an evenly carefree life free of strokes of fate can lead to: to a flattening of the soul, to indifference towards everything, thus to a standstill of spiritual development. But I have given you life as a human being on this earth so that you should reach the ultimate aim of becoming free from every cover which still burdens the soul .... And therefore I also give you the possibilities to reach this aim which, however, you don't recognize as such because your body often has to suffer or go without if the soul is to win. And in the last days before the end you will have to suffer particularly many harsh strokes of fate, for you will completely forget the purpose of your earthly life, you will only live for your body, for your earthly well-being, and you will completely ignore the soul. It has to live in want if I don't come to its aid. But as soon as you humans also see (long for) My will, My fatherly care in suffering and hardship, in hard strokes of fate or in difficult situations in life, you will not feel everything so difficult, for then you will already be on the right path: You turn to Me in every adversity of body and soul, and then your soul will also derive the right benefit from all events which painfully affect the body. For whatever comes upon you, you can always feel safe in My love, you can know that you are cared for by My love and also fully trustingly expect that I will lead you out of every adversity .... For I truly neither lack love nor power, I only want to see the aim achieved that you direct your thoughts and eyes spiritually and not just pay attention to the world alone. For you can recognize clearly enough that I try to kill worldly desires in you through all kinds of strokes of fate .... And I know every individual person's will, I know what he most longs for, and I also know what dangers threaten his soul if he is taken captive by the world, if he only lives for the world. And I know from eternity how every soul's will is directed, and its earthly existence is determined according to this will, but without forcing this will in this or that direction .... Again and again he can use it freely and thus, as it were, also shape his earthly life according to his will .... Nevertheless, I will always let every event take effect in such a way that the soul can derive its advantages from it. The human being can certainly shape his earthly life and believe that he is in control of his own destiny. But he will never be able to determine the effect of his actions, because I Myself have reserved the right to help where the soul is in danger of falling completely flat. Yet even My plans of salvation, My visible guidance or even fateful interventions will never force but only guide or help the human being to remember his actual purpose of earthly life and his associated task. Therefore all difficulties of earthly life should not frighten the person who has already entered into a bond with Me, for they only serve him towards perfection, and he always knows a master Who can straighten out everything that is crooked. And the others shall learn to turn to that master, and they will only then desire or accept My help when they recognize their own lack of strength in great adversity. As long as people's eyes and thoughts are not yet spiritually directed they often have to be touched harshly, it has to be proven to them that they themselves are not master of their life's fate, that it is rather determined by another, and to this other they now have to hand themselves over .... Then even the most difficult earthly life need not frighten them, after all, it is only imposed on them by Me because I want to win their soul for a life of beatitude, which will make everything .... even the most difficult earthly fate, and will last forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Experiencing the work of redemption in the hereafter ....

B.D. 6809 from April 19th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

No matter how the suffering and agony of My crucifixion and My death on the cross are described to you, you cannot measure the work of mercy and love I have accomplished for you .... But one day you will also be allowed to witness it, one day you will be able to experience everything for yourselves in retrospect, and only then will My infinite love be revealed to you which motivated Me to accomplish this act of salvation. For as soon as you have reached a certain degree of light there will no longer be any concept of time for you, and thus you will also be able to experience the past as present .... And you will be overwhelmed by an event which no human mouth is capable of reproducing and which no human intellect would be able to grasp if it were also described to you correctly. For the sufferings and torments were immeasurable .... because I, although human, suffered unspeakably from the filth of sin, which contradicted My pure, divine nature .... As a human being I nevertheless harboured the fullness of the eternal deity within Myself, thus I could not at the same time grant access to the adversary, who, however, approached Me via My tormentors and therefore caused Me to defend Myself to the utmost, so that My body and soul had to suffer torments which you humans cannot comprehend because the contrast between immaculateness and sin is hardly comprehensible to you .... My body, however, was still earthly oriented, it felt all sufferings and torments in excess, the soul resisted its oppressors and multiplied the torments many times over, (suffered the torments even far more), for it looked into the deepest hell, it faced the greatest depravity, it saw into abysses which made it shudder, and all its fears and terrors were still transferred to the body, so that truly every other human being would not have had to suffer the death of the cross, because he would have already lost his earthly life under the hands of his tormentors .... Yet I also took pity on them, for I knew that they were under My adversary's control and thus were acting out against Me on his behalf. And therefore I wanted to take upon Myself the greatest measure of suffering, therefore I wanted to complete the act of salvation in order to also bring salvation to those, in order to also release those from his control .... What took place on the day of My crucifixion on earth takes place again and again in the spiritual kingdom, evident to all souls which stand in the light and again and again praise My love and mercy in view of the sacrifice of atonement for the whole of humanity .... But not that the process is constantly repeated, but that all spiritual beings full of light experience the past retrospectively as present .... that past, present and future are apparent to them at all times, because there is no longer any limitation for the being of light, thus also every concept of time is switched off .... Even if you humans on earth try to imagine the work of mercy of the man Jesus it will only ever be a weak comparison to what you will one day be able to experience yourselves .... For you can certainly visualize the external events but not the nameless suffering which Jesus' soul had to endure and which only becomes comprehensible when a soul stands in the light and knows about the horrors of darkness .... when it knows what it means to have to exchange the kingdom of light with the kingdom of darkness and to now be at the mercy of all demonic powers. The soul of the man Jesus came voluntarily from the kingdom of light and sought to compensate for all counter-influences with love .... But even this love could not prevent the adversary from taking possession of His body, from testing all the powers of hell on Him. And therefore He patiently took upon Himself even the most severe suffering: He took the path to the cross .... He endured abuse and maltreatment and forced His soul and body to endure until death on the cross. For the burden of humanity's sins was immeasurably great, and therefore the work of atonement also had to be immeasurably painful. I Myself was in the man Jesus, I Myself gave Him the strength but I did not determine His will, only that I, as love dwelling in Him, was the strength which enabled Him to carry out the sacrifice on the cross. And therefore the sacrifice on the cross is not to be judged as a human work but it was offered for you humans by Me Myself in Jesus Christ .... And therefore you will only be able to grasp the great significance and the immense suffering when you yourselves experience it in retrospect in the spiritual kingdom in order to then also praise and glorify the one Who redeemed you from sin and death ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Resurrection on the third day ....

B.D. 6810 from April 20th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

To what extent you humans acknowledge My act of Salvation determines whether you believe in life after death, in a resurrection from the grave into the kingdom of the beyond. Because the act of Salvation, My suffering and crucifixion, found its culmination in the resurrection on the third day, which was meant to verify all My earlier teachings. It was meant to provide people with the evidence that life is not over when the body dies but that spiritual life begins once a person lives in accordance with My teaching. Admittedly, My resurrection is doubted and only taken notice of as a myth .... And neither can it be proven, such teachings can only be believed or rejected. This belief is also a result of My act of Salvation or an indication that the person is redeemed by Jesus Christ .... because he believes in Him as the divine Redeemer and therefore also utilises the blessings of the act of Salvation. However, the fact that My body visibly vanished from the grave does not mean that ‘the flesh’ had risen from the dead, instead My physical shell had completely spiritualised itself due to My suffering and crucifixion. It was the spiritual garment the soul had put on, which I only made visible to people in order to show them that death had finally lost its fear because I had conquered it. My life on earth intended to show people the path that leads from the abyss to the pinnacle ....

To every one of My teachings I attached the promise that eternal life would await them .... But I required faith in Me in Jesus Christ .... Yet I found little of it, and even My disciples had little faith, and they were frightened to death when I handed Myself over to My enemies .... Their faith was not yet strong enough to believe that I was also Lord over death, consequently they did not remember My Words that ‘I will rebuild this temple in three days ....’ Every one of My closest followers was seized by great sadness, something had fallen apart for them when they had to witness My death on the cross .... I wanted to help them, I wanted to strengthen their faith again and at the same time provide them with the evidence that I Am Lord over life and death ....

For this reason I made something visibly take place which, however, is granted to all souls .... that they cannot die but wake up in another kingdom, which is in accordance to their life on earth. The soul leaves the body but this, still being immature, stays behind. Therefore a person has no proof of a resurrection after death and neither can it be given to him, on account of his freedom of will. But I was able to resurrect My body simultaneously because its substances had spiritualised themselves, and thus My resurrection on the third day need not be doubted. However, not all people were able to see Me, I only appeared to My Own because I had announced My resurrection on the third day to them, and because their degree of maturity allowed for it .... But those who found My tomb empty looked for many other reasons to explain the disappearance of My body, and therefore they were not compelled to believe. I had risen from the dead .... People had only been able to kill My body, and even this was no longer subject to natural law after My crucifixion, for it was liberated from all constraints ....

But a human being on earth only rarely achieves the degree of maturity which enables the body’s substances to align themselves with the soul after the earthly death of the body, and therefore the belief in a resurrection is extremely fragile or associated with wrong concepts. Therefore it has to be preceded by the redemption through Jesus Christ, because someone who is still burdened by the guilt of sin is still completely under control of My adversary .... And he will suppress every thought of a possible resurrection, he will only ever influence the human being in a negative sense and thus also portray My act of Salvation and My resurrection as implausible to them. The fact that the resurrection on the third day took place all the same will hardly be doubted by anyone who whole-heartedly professes Jesus Christ and His act of Salvation, since My spirit will tell him so. And thus his thoughts will be guided correctly by Me, since I can work through My spirit in every person who has found his way back to Me in Jesus Christ. He will not taste death anymore either, because he will enter into the life which Jesus Christ promised him .... He escaped death because he escaped the one who brought death into the world. And he escaped from him because he fled to Me in Jesus Christ. From the moment of his surrender to Jesus Christ he has risen from the dead, only now has he come alive, and he will eternally not lose his life again.

But even the disbeliever will not cease to exist, he, too, will only lose his earthly body and not his soul’s existence, it will merely enter the kingdom of the beyond in a state which is similar to death .... The grave will keep it locked in, and if Jesus Christ Himself does not roll away the heavy tombstone, it will stay there. But the divine Redeemer died for everyone on the cross, and one day the hour of resurrection will come for every soul, because one day it will call for Me in Jesus Christ, and I will not let its call go unheeded .... Then it will rise from the grave and awaken to life, then the darkness of the grave will recede and it may behold the light .... Because I died for all human beings, and even those who rest in their graves will take notice of the fact that I arose from the dead and that I will give life to anyone who desires to live ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Resurrection of the dead into life ....

B.D. 6811 from April 21st 1957, taken from Book No. 73

Humanity was held in bondage .... and it would never have been released had I not sacrificed Myself to redeem the souls from the one who held them captive. My overwhelming love motivated Me to make this sacrifice, to pay the purchase price which gave me the right to seize the souls from My adversary, providing they themselves wanted to leave him and follow Me. But the sacrifice I made by My crucifixion was intended for all once fallen spirits, it applied to all people past, present and future. It was made for the spiritual essence which has taken, and has yet to take, the path across earth as a human being.

I bought freedom and paid with My blood for every entity that once was pulled into the abyss by My adversary and is kept there in bondage, and no being needs to stay in the abyss any longer against its own will. But it has to yearn to leave the abyss, it has to want to ascend, it has to want to return to Me from Whom it once turned away voluntarily. Hence its former rejection of Me was the cause of its death, because the abyss amounted to complete lack of light and strength for the beings, the state of death .... So that it should rise from death into life, so that the being could rise from its grave and step into new life again, I purchased a life for the dead with My death, and no being need be subject to death forever, every being is able to rise from the dead just as I Myself came back to life on the third day ....

But My adversary will want to prevent the beings from escaping his domain and therefore they have to be helped, since they are unable to rise by themselves and My adversary keeps the grave, which engulfs the beings of darkness, tightly locked. But one cry to Me will penetrate even the most impenetrable tombs, one cry to Me in Jesus Christ and I Myself will hasten to help the weak and tormented soul, and My adversary truly cannot stand firm against Me Myself, he has to leave because I paid the ransom and thus he has no further claim on the soul who wants to leave the grave of darkness, the grave of sin and destruction ....

Do you now understand the significance of My act of Salvation, of My sacrifice on the cross, which was achieved for the release of the once fallen beings? Do you understand why only your own will can lead to this salvation, why you yourselves have to want to leave the grave before I can roll away the gravestone?

My adversary lays claim to you as long as you grant him this right, as long as you don’t resist the restraint he had put on you, as long as you don’t call for the only One Who can remove this restraint. You only need your will and you will be free .... because you will receive the strength to free yourselves as soon as you acknowledge Me in Jesus Christ, as soon as you desire to be redeemed by Him and request His help. But then My adversary cannot hold on to you any longer, he has to release you, then he has to accept that I roll away the gravestone and help you to rise, for I acquired the right to do so through My death on the cross .... I paid the ransom on your behalf, and therefore it is not irrelevant whether or not you humans on earth acknowledge the divine Redeemer Jesus Christ .... because you are wretched as long as you stay in the grave .... And thus the day of resurrection will sooner or later come for every soul, just as I was resurrected on the third day, and you will live and eternally not lose your life again ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Indicating the end of an era ....

B.D. 6812 from April 22nd 1957, taken from Book No. 73

You will all enter a new stage of development, for one period of Salvation will come to an end and a new one will start again. It has been said to you many times already without finding credence amongst people. And yet it is of greatest significance that you believe in it, because you will decide for yourselves as to whether you will advance or regress in your development, and because you will be affected by two entirely different destinies: exceedingly lovely and glorious or incredibly painful. Life will no longer go on as monotonously as before .... the upheaval approaching you will be so great that you will be unable to imagine it and thus you will live on indifferently although it is pointed out to you time and again. But you won't believe what My messengers proclaim to you and one day will bitterly regret that you did not accept and comply with the advice given to you. My Word is the only way to draw your attention to it, consequently I keep talking to you through a human mouth and only want to find enough belief so that you will become thoughtful and give account to yourselves about your way of life. But who listens to My Word? Who recognises it as the Father's voice Who wants to save His children from ruin? People's spiritual pride is so great that they overestimate their own thinking, that they don't want to accept anything, they don't believe to need any instructions and are satisfied with dead teachings which have lost all sanctifying strength. And those who claim to be My representatives on earth have too little contact with Me themselves, otherwise they would be able to hear the same Words from Me and would let Me speak through their mouths, in which case they would proclaim the same to their listeners as I announce time and time again: that you are facing a significant turning point, earthly and spiritually ....

You humans plan far in advance, you create and work as if you had an infinitely long time at your disposal .... You don't want to believe in the conclusion of an era which is nevertheless approaching you shortly. Thus you are tirelessly active in an earthly sense .... But what are you doing for your souls? Why don't you consider it in the same way since you know, after all, that you will have to die one day and you cannot take any of your earthly possessions with you into the kingdom of the beyond? But since I tell you that all people's lives will come to a sudden end it should prompt you into working harder at improving your souls and make you realise the futility of earthly hunting and striving .... But you do not believe and cannot be forced into this belief. Even so, you shall hear it time and again from Me through My messengers who bring you My Word .... You shall not be able to say that you remained without knowledge; you shall not be able to say that you were taken by surprise, thus time and again people will cross your path admonishing and warning you, and the happenings surrounding you will also contribute towards making you thoughtful .... And blessed is he who takes notice of it and prepares himself for a change that will occur .... He will truly thank Me one day that I pointed the forthcoming out to him .... for the time granted to humanity to attain spiritual perfection has come to an end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Fulfilment of humanly decreed commandments will not replace actions of love ....

B.D. 6813 from April 23rd 1957, taken from Book No. 73

You humans have to understand that there is no substitute for loving actions, that you will not be able to acquire eternal bliss by other means as long as you ignore My commandments of love, as long as you do not act with unselfish love for your neighbour. Whatever else is recommended to you, apart from this active love, as being beneficial or promising happiness, is worthless and will not lead you one step forward in your perfection. And you will be offered much that will supposedly result in happiness .... Thus you often disregard the only helpful means to bliss. I required nothing else from you humans apart from complying with My commandments of love .... I gave you no other commandments but those which only ever necessitate your love for your neighbour, I only preached those guiding principles which intended to improve the relationship between yourselves and your fellow human beings, because I wanted to kindle the love in you which you were lacking and which had caused your wretched situation. And thus My continued concern simply relates to increasing your willingness to love, because the ability to love is inherent in all of you but your will to put it into practice is extremely poor. Consequently, only a person who, like Me, will simply preach love can be My true representative on earth, because he alone will show people the right path which leads to Me, to blissfulness.

However, you should not believe that you can replace your deeds of love with other actions or customs; you should not believe that I will be content with the compliance of commandments which were not decreed by Me and whose implementation without love is completely worthless. You won’t receive any ‘blessings’ for it because I will not take notice of such actions and customs and neither will it save souls, because these are just human promises which I will never be able to sanction. Only love will save you from regressing into the abyss, only love will guide you into perfection, and love will always express itself with actions, because love will urge a person from within to work in divine order.

But you humans are seized by a certain amount of indifference regarding My commandments of love because you were led into thinking wrongly .... Because you were urged to comply with ecclesiastical commandments which people added to My commandments as their own work .... You now fearfully attempt to meet these ecclesiastical commandments, but rarely or never pay attention to My requirements yet nevertheless believe to live a just and Christian life. This is a serious error which was also brought into the world by My adversary .... Because your only purpose of earthly life is to kindle love and let it flare into the brightest light because this denotes the unification with Me from Whom you once separated. However, only love will be able to achieve this unification, and not the means which were given to you as ‘commandments’ for the attainment of eternal life, such as formal prayers, indulgences, actions and the conferring of blessings which are known as ‘sacraments’, which must only be regarded as ceremonies and formalities and will not provide you with any spiritual success, neither on earth nor in the kingdom of the beyond.

My adversary tried to prevent what the compliance with My commandments of love will achieve by distracting people’s attention from them with external formalities and false teachings and presenting his arrangements as their priority .... Because he knew that he would find many victims, because love required people to make an effort and they are not gladly willing to make sacrifices. Thus time and again love has to be emphasized to be the first and most important, time and again I have to remind people of My commandments of love for God and other people, time and again I have to instruct them that everything else is useless without love and that actions of love cannot be replaced by anything else .... But this teaching is not taken seriously, people prefer to follow those humanly added commandments more readily because My adversary still has great influence over such people and is trying to prevent their return to Me by all means. Nevertheless, My teaching of love, which I preached on earth, is known to people and everyone with genuine aspiration will also recognise it as a priority and not be content with pointless outward appearances, with everything that did not originate from Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Truth comes from within .... desire for it ....

B.D. 6814 from April 25th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

Seek the truth within yourselves .... What is offered to you from outside need not always be truth, but you yourselves will not be able to judge it as long as you cannot be informed from within. Many things can be offered to you as truth, and even the greatest untruth is often disguised in such a way that it is accepted as truth. But first of all it requires the serious will to be offered truth .... Only then will you be able to examine what is offered to you and recognize it for what it is. The will to come closer to the truth is also at the same time the will to come closer to Me, because I Myself am the truth from eternity .... If I now recognize this desire in a person, then the possibility is already given to mentally guide him, thus to make knowledge accessible to him in the form of thoughts, to let him recognize correlations, thus to guide his thinking truthfully .... So then he stands .... still unconsciously .... with the one Who alone can provide him with information, and then he will oppose every misguided teaching with inner resistance but be open-minded towards the truth, for then he will have a certain ability to judge, he will be instructed from within .... My spirit has become effective in him, and he will now no longer be so easily deceived if he receives knowledge from outside which does not correspond to the truth because it did not originate from Me .... Every person is capable of testing who is only serious about not falling prey to error and lies .... who seriously desires truth. For the human being carries all wisdom within himself because he harbours the divine spiritual spark which knows everything and also wants to impart knowledge to the human being if he gives him the right to do so, i.e., desires to know. The human being is only isolated from Me as long as he behaves in this isolation himself .... He can give up his defensive position against Me at any time, and as soon as he thus desires to be connected to Me he also causes the spiritual spark within himself to secede .... And then the bond is already established, the isolation is lifted, for now the human being hears the voice of the one Who is the eternal truth and Who therefore also instructs him truthfully. But the desire for truth will always prove a certain degree of maturity, for love and truth cannot be thought of without each other, because they are My fundamental nature, because God - love and truth - are one and the same and because therefore only the person who acknowledges Me and lives in love can stand in truth. For the latter also seriously strives for truth, he seeks to penetrate knowledge which cannot be proven and which therefore can also never be fathomed purely intellectually .... (25.4.1957) And therefore truth cannot be transmitted to you humans in a scholastic way either .... For as soon as the preconditions are not fulfilled, as soon as the prerequisites for receiving the truth are not present, the human being will not recognize it either, even though it is offered to him. It has to resonate in him, as it were, for it is present in every human being, i.e. the spiritual spark in the human being, as a part of Myself, is also the truth, and what it emanates cannot be anything other than truthful knowledge. Only when you humans have grasped this will you also know the reason for the lie and error which is widespread in the world and which people accept far more willingly than the pure truth, and you will also understand why it is not possible to impart truthful knowledge to all people in a scholastic way. For the resistance towards it will remain as long as the human being closes himself off to the expressions of the spiritual spark dwelling in him or denies it any expression through an anti-divine attitude, through unbelief and unkindness. Everyone has the same right, the same claim to truth, but this must also be so desirable to him that he fulfils the conditions which are attached to the supply of truth. But anyone who thoughtlessly accepts all spiritual knowledge conveyed to him from outside, without desire for truth and therefore also serious examination, is closer to the one who is My adversary and thus an enemy of truth, who will always fight against Me by going against the truth .... He, too, will influence your thoughts but always meet with resistance where the bond with Me is established through loving activity and where the desire for the pure truth predominates. For My spirit will always be active there, the 'comforter', Whom I have promised to send to you and Who will "guide you into all truth" ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spiritual beings help only after call to God ....

B.D. 6815 from April 26th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

In every situation in life you have helpful forces at your side which are only waiting for your support. And these forces have been assigned to you by Me for your earthly path, you have been handed over to them for care, and it is now up to you whether you make use of them, whether your will unites with these forces, i.e. whether you consciously call upon them to grant you help where you are too weak. This applies to spiritual as well as earthly areas, for you will constantly need help because you will have to struggle and fight until the end of your life on this earth. But one prerequisite must always be met before help can be given to you: You must have already found your way to Me, you must have recognized that only My will applies, and thus you must first make this will of Mine inclined towards you, you must recognize and acknowledge Me Myself as your father of eternity and, like children before, hand yourselves over to the father so that He will now take care of you physically and spiritually .... And then you may also always turn to all beings of light who only ever carry out My will, thus you can entrust yourselves to their protection and care at any time, and you will always experience their support because they now only look after 'My children', thus you do not exclude the 'father'. It is of utmost importance that you don't entrust yourselves to those forces which do not work on you in My will, for they, too, can approach you if you request help and pass Me over .... if you hand yourselves over to forces which I have not entrusted to your care but which you believe to have power because you are wrongly informed about the spiritual beings and their activity. As soon as you have established the intimate bond with Me you will truly be assisted by countless helpers on My behalf who, through this bond, are now also entitled to help you .... The first step must therefore lead to Me, only then will I hand you over to their care .... However, anyone who believes he can reach his aim the other way round, who ignorantly asks for help in earthly adversity from beings whose spiritual maturity he is unable to assess, can run the risk of receiving strength from opposing forces or remaining without help, because no being of light intervenes without or against My will and My will can never be a help which still strengthens the human being in his wrong attitude. And very many such appeals are made, beings are called upon which neither have the mission nor the right nor the ability to bring help which serves the human being. But such calls open the door for negative forces which are interested in suppressing the thoughts of Me even more from people's hearts and which therefore also grant help .... help which, however, does not serve the salvation of their souls. All good forces are willing to help you if you call upon them for heartfelt devotion to Me .... But if you refrain from the latter and nevertheless call upon beings in the beyond, then you also hand yourselves over to these beings .... You believe that you call upon 'saints' and place yourselves in the sphere of activity of anti-divine forces, for all spiritual beings full of light work with Me and in My will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Life and death .... abusing the life force ....

B.D. 6816 from April 27th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

Life alone can make you happy, but death will eternally remain an agonizing state for you, for 'life and death' does not mean physical life and its ending but the state your soul is already in on earth and certainly then in the spiritual kingdom .... which can therefore be called 'life' or also 'death', depending on the state or maturity the soul is in. Life is a state of activity, in full possession of strength and light .... Death, on the other hand, is a persistence in inactivity, because the soul lacks all strength but nevertheless feels its state as agony, just as 'life' makes the soul happy and its bliss increases the more active it is. But you will only be aware of true life and true death after the earthly death of the body, when you either receive unlimited strength or can also realize in horror that you lack all strength which you were previously still able to use for vitality. Only then will you know how meaningful earthly life as a human being is or was for every soul, and you will be blissful or feel deep remorse, depending on your earthly way of life, which has brought you to your present state. But you were created for life, and even though you have fallen into the state of death God's efforts will not cease to give you life again because He wants you to enter the state of bliss again which was granted to you in the beginning. He Himself is life, He is strength and light which are constantly active, and nothing dead could ever exist next to Him if His strength and light shone through it .... Yet even the dead once came forth from Him as a living being and was therefore able to freely determine itself .... and thus could also reject the animating strength and fall into the state of death without being prevented by God. But now it can no longer dwell in the vicinity of 'eternal life' either, it has completely isolated itself from the source of strength and thus deprived itself of life. But eternal life Itself seeks access to the dead again and again in order to breathe life into it too, so that it can be active again for its own happiness, for in the state of death it is condemned to inactivity. As a human being on earth it is temporarily supplied with vitality which, however, cannot be compared to the strength which makes the being happy in the spiritual kingdom .... But the right use of vitality also allows the soul to gain possession of spiritual strength, which only guarantees true life and is therefore inconceivably blissful. Thus the human being's available vitality is a gift of grace which cannot be valued highly enough, for it is the means to acquire the spiritual strength which then guarantees eternal life, a state where the being can act according to its own will, where it nevertheless uses its strength in accordance with God's will, where it can stay close to Him because it is constantly permeated by God's strength of love .... But if the human being misuses the strength of life given to him by only using it in a purely earthly way, the still dead soul will not come to life either, and when it departs from this earth, when the strength of life is withdrawn from it again, it will fall into a state of complete lifelessness and powerlessness, and it will remain in this state for an infinitely long time because it cannot be forcibly awakened to life and thus its free will also determines the duration of death. And yet, God does not abandon it to its fate, but He also brings these dead souls together again and again with living souls .... or also: All living beings are constantly active to also give life to the dead, and the agonizing state nevertheless causes isolated souls again and again to let themselves be illuminated by God's strength of love, which those souls wanting to help now convey to the dead. But only life means bliss, and life requires strength and light .... And if the dead is to come to life then strength and light must be imparted to it, and it must accept strength and light of its own free will, otherwise it will be and remain wretched until it once gives up its resistance ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The soul's change of abode .... Death of the body ....

B.D. 6817 from April 28th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

The soul's change of abode .... Death of the body ....The soul is your actual Self which is immortal, which merely changes its abode after the death of the body, which has concluded its earthly progress in order to continue maturing in other spheres if it does not stay in opposition to Me and thus descend into the abyss. Hence the thought that you don't have to fear death should make you very happy, that you will live although you have to leave this earth .... and that this life is far more pleasant and joyful than earthly life as a human being could ever be. You should look forward with cheerful anticipation to the day when your external cover will be taken from your real Self, when all heaviness will fall away from you and you will be able to easily and light-heartedly lift yourselves up into your true home, which truly offers you inconceivable splendours. You should rejoice at the fact that there is no death for you because your soul will merely experience a change of abode which can make it infinitely happy ....

Why do you therefore fear death or anticipate the end of your earthly life with unease? Why has death become a horror for you humans, why does it trigger in you a feeling of fear when, in reality, it is just a transition into another sphere after all? Because you unconsciously sense that you did not live your earthly life correctly, and because your soul is not acquiring the light which would take all its fear away .... For a person who complies with My commandments of love, who thus lives on earth in accordance with My will, has no fear of death but yearns to shed his earthly cover because he longs for his true home, because love has kindled a bright light in him and, looking ahead, he also knows himself to be near to Me, where no suffering and pain, no affliction can touch him, where he feels sheltered by My love .... All people could have this blissful certainty, that they will exchange a sorrowful and difficult existence for this feeling of security when they depart from this earth, if only they would live their earthly life with this aim in mind .... if they would always follow their inner voice which clearly informs them of My will .... if they would already on earth enter into the right relationship with Me, their God and Father of eternity. The thought that their existence ends with the body's death is already the best evidence that the person's way of life does not correspond to My will, for this idea comes from the opposing spirit's influence wanting to prevent people from gaining correct realisation and therefore also constantly increasing their desire to enjoy earthly existence to the full .... for these people do not believe in the immortality of their soul, they impose on it the same restrictions as is the fate of the external frame ....

And thus they try to savour earthly life in every way, only ever considering their body but not their soul which, after physical death, has to accept a rather uncertain fate, which will be unable to experience the splendours of its true home, since due to its imperfect disposition it cannot find admission to the spheres where inconceivable beatitudes await it. Although it is still possible for the soul to detach itself from the abyss and enter into higher spheres, it nevertheless requires far more effort and exertion than on earth and will be impossible without help, yet even then the soul will have to muster its own will, which is far easier on earth. The Self cannot cease to exist but it creates its own fate of blissfulness or agony .... and only when people no longer consider their body as being 'alive' but learn to recognise the soul within the body as their actual Self, only when they learn to believe in the immortality of their soul, will they live more responsibly on earth and then no longer fear death either, which only concerns the earthly body but not its indwelling soul. Then they will live in accordance with His will and long for the hour when the soul will be allowed to leave its external cover in order to then enter the kingdom which is its true home ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Redemption work presupposes own redemption ....

B.D. 6818 from April 29th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

Every individual can and should carry out redemptive work, i.e. help his fellow human beings or also the souls in the beyond to become free from bondage. But he must first have found redemption himself through Jesus Christ, Who alone can remove the chains from him and thus also enable him to be active in redemption again. And thus you can conclude that every person who wants to proclaim the gospel to his fellow human being must be completely filled by the spirit of Christ, that he therefore lives a true christianity and identifies himself as redeemed by Jesus Christ. To bring help to the bound requires strength and freedom, which no human being possesses who has not first been redeemed by Jesus Christ. Redemption, however, means to have become free from the power of God's adversary, who always only influences the human being in a negative way and also has power over him as long as he still stands apart from the divine redeemer Jesus Christ. And his power is expressed in an unloving way of life, in faults and vices of all kinds, in a visibly imperfect state, in which therefore everything unredeemed is found .... And such a person is not able to be redemptively active towards his fellow human beings. Nor will he want to help the unredeemed in the kingdom of the beyond because he cannot muster compassionate love for their hardship .... And such a person is also not suitable for proclaiming the gospel, for his words will have no strength and will never be able to awaken the dead to life. He himself is still unredeemed .... Successful redemptive work, however, can only be accomplished with the grace and power of Jesus Christ .... And therefore you humans should not be surprised that the bondage, the affiliation with God's adversary, is so openly apparent, for there is a lack of helpers who can be active in redemption .... There is a lack of followers and confessors of the divine redeemer who themselves draw knowledge and strength from their devotion to Him to also help their unhappy fellow human beings to salvation .... There is a lack of truly redeemed people .... For these now set to work themselves, because they are urged from within to also bring their fellow human beings the freedom which now makes them happy .... Anyone who has found the path to Jesus Christ himself and has consciously walked it will also lure and call his fellow human beings onto the same path, he will lead them to Jesus Christ himself, he will not rest until the signs of salvation are also recognizable in them .... And he will become more diligent in his work the more success he achieves, for the strength which flows to him for his work of salvation will always increase. God cannot be deceived by beautiful words and gestures, and no human being can feign redemption through Jesus Christ, for this also has an outwardly recognizable effect. And an unselfish work of love is the surest sign of redemption from the power of the adversary. But if this is not recognizable, then the human being is not fully committed to the work of redemption for his fellow human beings, for then he also lacks faith, even if he confesses it with his mouth .... He himself is still in sin, he is still under the power of the adversary, he does not know the bliss of redemption through Jesus Christ .... And he is and remains a dead proclaimer of Jesus who himself has not yet grasped the significance of His act of salvation. But again, anyone who has found redemption through Jesus' blood can do redemptive work himself without being privileged outwardly for it .... He can prove his freedom from the adversary through his way of life, he can vigorously stand up for Jesus Christ and His teaching, he can point his fellow human beings to Him, Who alone can loosen their bonds; he can work in silence and achieve more success than those who call themselves God's representatives on earth but represent His adversary far more .... He can contribute a great deal to the souls' redemption through his own example and intercession, he can already be an eager co-worker for God on earth and one day in the spiritual kingdom, because My love .... the sign of being redeemed .... incessantly urges him to bring help to those who are still unredeemed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Justification of renewed revelations ....

B.D. 6819 from April 30th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

All My children who want to serve Me are right by Me if only each one does the work I assign to it, if it supports Me and My teaching and thus tries to bring the gospel to its fellow human beings. For I will bless them and their work will not be done unsuccessfully. And again and again I assure My protection to the servants in My vineyard, and like a good householder I provide them physically and spiritually with everything they need, for the work for Me and My kingdom on earth has to be carried out by people, because I cannot work directly on the individual apart from a few who then, however, also have an important mission: To receive the knowledge from Me Myself which is necessary for a teaching ministry, or also: to catch the ray of light from Me, on which My vineyard labourers shall also light their candles again in order to be able to carry the light into the darkness. But whomever I look after with this mission to precede his fellow human beings as bearers of light can also feel secure of My constant care that I will protect his light from going out as well as from every dimming, for this power is truly at My command, and My love and My wisdom alone will secure this protection, because otherwise it would be impossible to guide the pure truth to earth. Thus pure truth is guaranteed to reach earth from Me .... However, it does not remain unchanged on the part of people, for as soon as the human being's intellect deals with it and now supplies his own result of intellect to his fellow human beings, the pure truth is already deformed .... And this is the reason why again and again my word has to be directly conveyed to earth by Me .... because only that is pure truth which flows forth from Me and is accepted by a servant awakened by Me who only hands himself over to Me as a tool, who does not strive to be more than a good servant to Me on earth. Again and again you humans will be allowed to receive the pure truth from Me because the again and again by-people-formed teaching prompts Me to do so .... But again and again you humans will also deface this pure teaching of Mine. For you are not content with 'My word' .... You want to speak for yourselves, and you presume to add your own explanations, to weave in your own trains of thought, and you don't notice that despite your good will you now give the opponent of truth the opportunity to intervene again .... And he can do so because you are of an arrogant spirit to believe that you are called to still explain My directly conveyed word. My word is truly given to you humans such that anyone who wants to understand it can do so. And it truly needs no explanations, no improvements, only a deeply humble heart devoted to Me in love into which the light will then shine brightly because it has the highest luminosity. But because you humans still lack the right attitude, your spirit is still darkened and in the end you no longer recognize my word in its meaning either .... And the extensive scriptures which contain My pure word, which I Myself conveyed to earth through faithful servants, are no longer of use to you, it has, as it were, lost its luminosity for you and you misinterpret it .... And that is why I always let a light shine anew, I guide my word to earth again, I open up a spring again from which the purest water of life flows, and this water of life is the same, and it has the same strength but it flows freely and uninhibitedly again, it fertilizes the fields again and makes them receptive for good seed .... It is not surrounded by a wall which men have erected and which hide the clear stream of life from above .... And I have told you that I will again and again purify the gospel from false additions, that I will again and again open up the understanding for the pure gift of God from above, I Myself have drawn your attention to the fact that I purify it every few weeks, because then people will also lack understanding again, that they will also attach a different meaning to My directly spoken word and that this already results in the necessity to address people again who willingly lend Me their ear and are also willing to use what they receive. Consider, you humans, that My adversary has been particularly eager to undermine the pure truth in recent times and that a renewed influence on My part, a renewed obvious help, has become urgently necessary .... Consider that most precious spiritual possessions also require faithful guardians to whom every material attitude is alien, who are only willing to serve Me unselfishly .... and consider how few of you still find such an attitude towards Me. Then it will also be explainable to you that the adversary will find shelter and even the purest truth from Me will be exposed to his influence. And I certainly foresaw this, and I also pointed out again and again that I will descend to earth in the word because this is necessary again and again, that I straighten out what you humans have bent yourselves .... that I explain what is not quite understandable to you humans, and that in view of the end I will also send you enlightenments which were not given to you until now because you did not need this knowledge to mature your souls. And this spring which I open up will let purest clear water of life flow forth again until people again believe that they have to improve it and add their own explanations .... People who are not satisfied with My clearly understandable speech but arrogantly believe themselves to be able to instruct their fellow human beings better than I Myself .... This is why you humans are ill, and you don't know that you will support My adversary again who will seize every opportunity to invalidate the pure truth in order to plunge you humans into confusion again .... but who will never be able to unfold his power where I Myself am active, because it is My will to convey the pure truth to people and because I therefore also prevent every contamination at the source by virtue of My power and love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's address is heard by the whole spiritual world ....

B.D. 6820 from May 1st 1957, taken from Book No. 73

Even that which you feel in the depth of your heart is my word spoken to you, however, only on condition that your will, your thoughts, are turned towards Me. And therefore every person who seeks Me, who wants to unite with Me, who therefore has not turned his will against Me, can be certain that I speak to him in the form of thoughts, for I know every innermost stirring of the heart, and likewise I place the answer in his heart .... and if he only pays attention to what moves him inwardly in this union with Me, in silent dialogue, in times of inner gathering, he will also always think right and do what is right. You can rely on Me without worry when you turn to Me, be it with questioning thoughts or requests, for I know about them and do not close My ear because I love to hear such questions in order to be able to answer them. And thus you are told that nothing in life is coincidental, that everything has its purpose, that even the smallest event fits into My eternal plan of salvation and that only the human being himself should benefit from what he encounters. And thus an address by Me wewill never be pointless or purposeless, everything I say to you is not only heard by yourselves but by the whole spiritual world which desires to hear My word. And thus questioning thoughts have also been whispered into your heart by beings in the beyond who likewise want to hear an answer and who work again with the knowledge they have now gained, because they only spread the truth once they have been admitted to activity in the spiritual kingdom. And those souls often ask themselves why the earth is shrouded in such profound darkness, and they too must be taught that people themselves are to blame for the darkness and that they are rarely only willing to let light shine into the darkness. For the souls in the spiritual kingdom know that only truth can make them happy, and therefore they cannot understand why people deprive themselves of this bliss .... And again and again they have to be informed that people's will itself resists the truth by influencing My adversary, who finds access to them far sooner than I, Who would like to make people happy. The light, however, is constantly guided to earth .... But people are free to accept or reject it. However, what is held in low esteem on earth is accepted in the spiritual kingdom with true hunger, and all beings are blissfully happy about every ray of light which shines upon them .... And thus a treasure of grace can certainly remain unexploited on earth but in the beyond it will be desired and utilized as the most delicious. But you, who on earth seriously strive to fulfil My will, you can hear My address in your hearts at any time .... You, too, can ask questions and leave them to Me for answering .... And your thoughts will brighten up, you will soon be able to give yourselves the answer, for you have received it from Me Myself, Who always addresses you through the heart when you desire to hear Me. But in deepest humility you should turn to Me .... You should always feel like ignorant little children who have to be taught by the father, you should never believe that you are knowledgeable if you have not first been taught by Me Myself. But you need not remain ignorant, for I am always willing to enlighten you, just as I impart the same knowledge to all souls in the spiritual kingdom who desire it. For knowledge is bliss, and I want you to be blissfully happy that you brightly and clearly recognize the truth, so that you can now also work with this truth for Me and My kingdom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Androgynous beings .... Beyond ....

B.D. 6821 from May 2nd 1957, taken from Book No. 73

I will give you what you need for the maturing of your souls .... And in the last days I will also give people the kind of knowledge which, although it is not absolutely essential, should also reveal My love and wisdom to you, which will explain much that is incomprehensible to you and could cause you to doubt Me .... I Am revealing to you My detailed plan of Salvation because the end is approaching and unbelieving humanity should still receive a slight opening which lets the light shine through if people do not refuse to accept this knowledge. I Am lifting a veil which was still enshrouding people, I Am revealing secrets to make it easier for people to believe in Me .... And therefore I Am also always willing to answer questions which are put to Me either openly or in thought on earth or in the spiritual kingdom. For I want to give light to everyone who wants to escape the darkness ....

Consequently, I have also occasionally given explanations which the human being on earth does not yet need but which will become self-evident to him in the spiritual kingdom if he has prepared himself for the spiritual kingdom .... Then he will receive the understanding in a flash as soon as he desires it. One of these questions concerns the 'gender' of the beings which I created, which already has been the cause of much deception but which is of little relevance to people during their earthly life.

There is no being that does not incorporate both principles of gender within itself .... They are merely distributed differently in each being, so that one is governed by the male and the other by the female aspect. But perfection requires the complete balance of both principles, neither shall be more or less .... Only then will the state of perfection have been achieved, hence a perfect being can either be called androgynous or male and female in one. The male principle must have aligned itself completely to the female and vice versa, only then will the being correspond to My nature .... it will have become My image .... This alignment will either already be achieved on earth or it will take place in the spiritual kingdom, where the being will be constantly subjected to tests in which the male and female principles have to prove themselves in turn .... Hence it is entirely irrelevant whether the being is embodied on earth as a man or a woman, because the alignment with the opposite principle must irrevocably take place. However, this is not meant in an earthly-perceptible way in as much as the man or woman should acquire the characteristic features of the other, but the alignment is an entirely spiritual matter .... it is a person's integration with divine law, which therefore also requires different degrees of willpower and this can be easier for one and more difficult for another person.

And therefore it follows that there is indeed a division of the sexes on earth but in the spiritual kingdom the being's own earthly shape will merely surround it as an aura, thereby also identifying the individual. Consequently, one can speak about a closer relationship of spiritual beings who, having the same degree of maturity, feel attracted to each other. But one cannot speak of a union between different sexes, since every individual will be a perfectly androgynous being. However, where the alignment of the different principles has not yet taken place the characteristic features of the different sexual beings will also be more apparent, which is particularly noticeable in the spheres where the separation from the earthly-physical world is not entirely complete ....

But such sexual differences do not exist in higher spheres and therefore it is wrong to speak of relationships which resemble those between a man and a woman on earth, because the blissful unity of two beings is based on spiritual similarity, on the same degree of maturity and complete spiritual agreement. This will always be more prevalent amongst beings who have aligned both principles within themselves and whose bliss is therefore beyond imagination when they associate with similar beings to create and work together ....

But the being's earthly progress is neither an advantage nor disadvantage irrespective of whether the human being is a man or a woman .... Resistance to Me can be equally strong, and surrender to Me can be carried out by both .... The separation of the male and female principle is merely to make every being's acceptance of divine order easier, thus accepting the characteristics of perfection increasingly more. My wisdom is certainly able to make this assessment and therefore I gave every being the outward appearance which offers the guarantee of achieving its best possible alignment. But the beings' happiness in the spiritual kingdom is beyond measure when both principles within themselves have become orderly, and therefore they are also able to put themselves in the position of every yet unsaved being and support it in its fight against itself and its anti-divine characteristics, which first have to be put right.

And then again, the happiness in the kingdom of the beyond .... although it cannot be compared .... will match the happiness on earth which unites two people with heartfelt love when compatible beings find each other, whose deepest love for each other will give them the kind of happiness which is known by you humans as a marriage made in heaven. However, worldly standards or worldly concepts can no longer be applied in the kingdom of the blissful spirits, where the greatest happiness is triggered by deeply felt love for Me, which will always be reciprocated by Me again ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Life water contamination ....

B.D. 6822 from May 5th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

Even if my word is repeatedly conveyed to you in all purity, it will always be watered down, because this word of Mine enters an area where the adversary asserts himself, where the human being's will determines himself and this will is even more inclined towards the adversary than towards Me. Consider that truth is something divine but that the divine will never prevail against the satanic because this would be equal to compulsion which, however, is completely excluded from My side. But the satanic still rules the world, i.e. the people of this earth, and thus it is easy to explain that pure truth is always opposed and that the resistance also consists of clouding everything clear, of contaminating everything pure .... And thus it should not be surprising that truth does not remain as pure for long as it originated from Me, just as a drop of poison is enough to make a whole vessel of purest water unfit and dangerous, but pure water will not cancel its effect .... And so I only warn again and again to drink far away from the source .... Only at the source are you safe, only at the source do you receive healthy, pure water of life, and only at the source do you not need to fear any harmful admixture which, however, will always be contained in the water the more it distances itself from the source. If the riverbed is guarded with great care, the water can remain pure for longer and retain its inherent vitality, but even the slightest carelessness allows contamination, and it is then difficult to restore the old condition which guarantees healthy, clear water of life. I only want to say that everyone who wants to become healthy and attain the right life for his soul should go to the spring, and that I therefore always open a spring again because you humans should attain life .... (5.5.1957) and you can be grateful when such a fountain of life is at your disposal. But I would also like to warn you to dig a well on your own authority of which you don't know whether it will let healthy water flow forth .... whereby I would like to warn those people who were not called by Me but who call themselves to distribute teaching material which did not come to them from Me .... I would like to warn those who set themselves a task and are unable to accomplish it, but who present themselves as 'called by God' and place themselves far more at My adversary's disposal than at Mine. You humans are unaware of the dangers which surround you, yet wherever the slightest ambitious thought arises in a person this danger will be drawn upon. And every person should seriously account for the motive which drives him to engage in spiritual work .... How many people want to gain recognition for themselves, how many again seek to imitate others in order to be considered 'gifted'; but how few are driven by pure, unselfish love for Me, in recognition of guilt and weakness, which makes them deeply humble .... And only such can I use for such a significant mission as this: to receive My pure word and to convey it to their fellow human beings. For only these can be called the 'source' which I Myself open up for people .... from which they may draw the pure water of life at any time. And for such a mission I have also chosen suitable vessels for Myself, and thus I have trained people for Myself. They have already fatefully passed through a school of teaching which allowed them to mature because I well recognized how their soul was shaped by it, but without forcing them, for they could also have resisted any spiritual activity at any time. But they could also become suitable rocks which I only had to touch with My rod so that they opened and delicious water of life flowed out of them. But then it is also guaranteed that such a spring of life will be protected by Me from all contamination and that everyone who draws from it will consume a true drink of life. But just as people build artificial wells for themselves which do not always guarantee pure good water, so too there are people who want to feign a genuine spring, who use artificial means .... who are intellectually active themselves and in the best case can also offer their fellow human beings a potion which, however, can never be compared in its effectiveness to that which flows from My natural spring .... And thus you can only ever receive the warning to take food and drink whose giver is unknown to you. You can only ever be admonished to take the path to the source of life .... to come to Me Myself and request the right food and the right drink from Me, and I will truly lead you to the right source, and the water of life will refresh and revive you on your path through life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Return to God necessitates sincerity of will ....

B.D. 6823 from May 6th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

Anyone having made it his goal to travel his earthly path in accordance with God's will, can also always be assured of assistance on the part of God, because God only allowed him to embody himself for the purpose of aligning his will to divine will. And since, during this time on earth, only the human being's will makes the decision, this very will has already passed its test and thus God can now take care of the person in every way without exerting any coercion of will. As long as the human being is still undecided or even still adheres to God's adversary, the human being's will is indeed fought over by God and the beings of light, that is, it will be just as influenced by Him as by the adversary's side, so that it should freely decide ....

But once the human being has freely decided to subordinate himself to God's will by living a way of life in divine order, then he will also have entered His sphere and God will no longer let him fall prey to His adversary. But his will has to be sincere .... The apparent fulfilment of God's will as a result of a church upbringing is not enough, nor will it suffice to carry out deeds of love which, again, are mere church requirements and are more or less fulfilled as obedience towards these demands .... Wanting to belong to God has to be an innermost endeavour, the inner fully-conscious surrender to Him must voluntarily have taken place .... thus he himself must have directed his will towards the One, Whom he has recognised as God and Father of eternity. And from this follows that the return to God is not a mass movement, that every individual person must have set out on the path by himself and therefore he also has to do everything necessary for it himself: to recognise God and to acknowledge Him and to appeal to Him for strength to be able to accomplish the return to Him. But he will not appeal to God in vain, for He knows of his will, of his sincerity and also of his weakness, He knows that it will not be possible for him alone, that he will need help .... But it is assured to him. He had lost his strength the moment his will had turned away from God, and he will receive it again when it turns back to Him.

And therefore an external formality alone cannot suffice, words alone cannot guarantee a truly God-devoted will, and belonging to a religious denomination cannot demonstrate this change of will, rather, it has to be proven by action, and this consists of unselfish loving activity without coercion and without law .... God certainly gave people the commandments of love, nevertheless love has to be practiced voluntarily, for even what is done as fulfilment of a commandment can be accomplished without the innermost will, which then will lessen its value. Therefore the attainment of beatitude, the return to God, has to be every person's very own affair, which he cannot pass on to other people and which no-one else will be able to accomplish on his behalf either. And even the deed itself is not decisive, only the innermost will is important .... which truly is obvious to God but which is also supported in every way. And whatever will then happen to you humans in life is only due to the influence of God or the world of light, which make sure that your will shall aim into the right direction, that it shall voluntarily submit itself to God and that it shall regard its return to God as its only goal.

However, once this act has been accomplished, once the human being's innermost thoughts are turned towards God and he makes an effort to live on earth according to God's will, then his earthly life will not have been lived in vain, and it will, with certainty, also result in freedom for the human being's soul. It will be able to detach itself from its tormentor, it will be able to strip itself of the shackles which kept it imprisoned for an infinitely long time, it is now on its path of ascent and no longer needs to fear God's adversary, who has no further power over the soul because God Himself will seize it, and will safely guide it upwards, for the human being's will has turned towards Him, from Whom he once had emerged as a created original spirit ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

'But seek ye first the kingdom of God ....'

B.D. 6824 from May 7th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

Only spiritual adversity need weigh you down, whereas earthly problems can leave you unconcerned, because they will be remedied as soon as you pay attention to your soul's adversity and are willing to help it. Yet precisely the people who experience immense earthly adversity are unaware of the fact that their spiritual adversity is the reason why they must suffer and live in want, for they do not know the correlations and My means of salvation, nor do they know the extent of their spiritual adversity, since they are focussed on worldly things and their lack of faith instantly rejects any thought which might cross their mind as an explanation of their difficult fate. Nevertheless, these people need to be instructed about the meaning and purpose of their earthly existence, are they to change their thinking. And in view of their earthly distress such instructions would indeed by appropriate; however, they are usually only successful when people see no other way out by earthly means anymore. Then they will become thoughtful and they can change their mind .... And I will manifestly support especially those people when they turn to Me in thought and appeal for My help. They will not take the earthly adversity over into the kingdom of the beyond; nevertheless, their spiritual adversity will follow them and will not let go of them either until they have turned their will and their thoughts towards Me which, however, is far more difficult than on earth. This is why I said the Words 'But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you ....' I can remove earthly adversity at any time; spiritual hardship, however, must be removed by yourselves .... I can certainly assist you with it, yet you must have the will and become active yourselves, you must take the path to Me, you must believe in Me and seek to fulfil My will, thus, you must live according to My commandments of love for God and your neighbour .... But in that case you will be able to confidently place all earthly adversity into My hands, for then you will have fulfilled the requirements, and My promise, that I will help you both in a physical and spiritual way, I will be able to take effect on you, because your soul will no longer be at risk of getting so engrossed in worry about its earthly needs that it cannot perform its actual task because it is too weak and makes no effort to gain strength. Time and again I have promised My help in earthly adversity, I Myself have asked you to come to Me if you are depressed and in need of help, I have given you the assurance that you will never ask anything of Me in vain .... Why don't you avail yourselves of My assurance, why don't you hand yourselves over to Me with complete faith, your Father of eternity? Because you do not believe in Me. And this is the immense spiritual adversity you find yourselves in, for without faith in Me you will not establish the connection with Me, and without this bond you are and will remain weak and will not be able to make any progress whatsoever in your development. As soon as you live your life on earth without Me .... precisely because you don't believe in Me .... you will remain on the same level or even descend further. But you ought to ascend if earthly life is to serve its purpose for you, you ought to get to the point that you can discard all material shackles and enter the spiritual kingdom as free and happy beings .... As long as you do not strive for this, as long as you merely regard your life on earth as an end in itself, you will suffer great spiritual adversity and will require a noticeable earthly burden which will lead you to a different way of thinking. And although it seems that your physical strength is not sufficient in order to master the earthly adversity, you can nevertheless ease your fate .... by merely taking the path to Me .... when you become conscious of your imperfect state and appeal to Me for help .... Then the earthly adversity will be removed from you at the same time or be arranged such that it will be endurable for you, for then I will have achieved what I wanted to achieve by means of the adversity: that you will get in touch with Me, your God and Father of eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Significance of the love commandments and fulfilment ....

B.D. 6825 from May 9th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

I want to proclaim the gospel of love to you again through My servants whom I chose Myself for this purpose because it is necessary that My divine teaching of love shall be conveyed to you in all purity. Nothing else but love can redeem you .... and therefore nothing else is necessary but that you are instructed again and again in My teaching of love, that again and again the commandments of love are presented to you as the first and most important ones and that you are urged to constantly carry out unselfish works of love, because only these are a blessing for you. Although My messengers do not bring you anything new, what use is it if you know about My commandments of love for God and your neighbour and yet do not fulfil them? For this reason the significance of their fulfilment has to be held up to you again and again, and you have to be taught why you are embodied as a human being, why you are imperfect creatures and how you can regain the perfection you once possessed. The sermons alone are no longer sufficient, they fall on your ears and no longer penetrate your heart, they have become dead phrases for you to which you no longer pay any attention. It is extremely important that you seriously think about why I gave you these commandments when I lived on earth and why I keep giving you the same teachings. It is extremely important that you not only take note of these commandments but also know about their reasons .... Your bliss only exists in the connection, in the union with Me .... Whether earthly life as a human being also gives you earthly happiness and joy, you cannot be called blissful, for your state is inadequate, you cannot determine your own destiny, nor can you prolong the duration of your earthly life when your hour has come .... But then your soul's deficient state will clearly become apparent if it has not found unity with Me. Only then will it feel unhappy and can only do little to change its wretched state. On earth, however, it is very easy for it to find union with Me and also to change its imperfect state .... It only needs to live in love and thus joins Me, Who is eternal love Itself. It only needs to do what it has resisted until now: to let itself be illuminated by My love, thus to want to make contact with Me .... Then My ray of love will also strike it and stimulate it to be lovingly active, and then its transformation will certainly take place, and as soon as its earthly life is over it can enter the kingdom of light in order to be able to work in strength and freedom for its own happiness. But at the beginning of his embodiment on earth the human being is still afflicted with a wrongly directed love, he mainly thinks of himself and his thoughts and aspirations are only meant to improve his own situation in life, for he is still under the control of the one who is completely devoid of love himself. Moreover, the human being is also without knowledge, he has to be instructed, knowledge has to be brought to him which he can deal with mentally so that the will can arise in him to unite with Me .... For his salvation of soul, his further fate in eternity, depends on this will. And because love is the means which guarantees his beatitude, he therefore has to be pointed to it again and again and stimulated to be lovingly active. If he is easily influenced, if he lets himself be addressed by his fellow human being's obvious hardship and prompts him to help them unselfishly, he will very soon realize that this is his true purpose of earthly life, and My divine commandments of love will also be comprehensible to him. These commandments of Mine mean nothing to hardened-hearted people, but they are in a desperate situation as soon as their earthly life is over. And therefore I keep trying to make the significance of My teaching of love clear to them .... I don't stop giving them advice, I let them receive the knowledge of My divine teaching of love in an unusual way and at the same time also the reason for My earthly life, which should be an example to them of what a life of love can lead to: to the soul's complete deification .... Although I only rarely find faith in them I nevertheless again and again send My disciples out into the world to proclaim the gospel of love to people. Whoever believes in it will become blessed, for he will endeavour to live in love. But without love there is no success for the human being, no spiritual progress, no beatitude after his death .... And again and again My teaching of love must therefore be brought to people, again and again I must sound my word from above and preach love through the mouth of My servants .... And I cannot give them anything else .... i.e. no further knowledge .... until they practice love themselves, because only then will they unite with Me and then they can receive unlimited light and strength from Me ....

Amen

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God's address to all souls .... (cemetery)

B.D. 6826 from May 10th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

All shall receive strength, all shall be comforted, all shall attain eternal peace who let Me speak to them. They should only willingly listen to Me, then strength and light will already flow to them from My speech and their thinking will change if it is still directed against Me. Their weakness will fall away from them, they will feel calm and secure and henceforth ask for nothing else but to be addressed by Me again and again .... And this is the only thing I want to achieve with all My living creations, both with people on earth as well as with the souls in the kingdom of the beyond who have not yet found the union with Me which alone can make them blissfully happy. For without Me you will all walk along in hardship, weakness and darkness, which you do not yet feel so painfully on earth but which will cause you unspeakable agony in the spiritual kingdom. I want to help you, I want to lead you all out of this wretched state, I want to open up a source of light and strength for you which can be used by you at any time, where you can constantly fetch what you still lack, where you can make contact with Me Myself and where you will no longer be lonely and abandoned nor sick and weak. But you must have the will to come close to Me, you must not reject Me or still inwardly rebel against Me. For you must know that I do not want your painful state but that you are to blame for it yourselves and therefore must change it into a blissful state yourselves. No matter how great the guilt separates you from Me, I will not look at it if you repentantly confess it to Me and ask Me for forgiveness of your guilt. For I am not a punishing God, not a judge who condemns you, but I am your father Who only ever looks down on His children full of love and longs for these His children. And whether you languish in deepest darkness, you can call upon Me, for there is also redemption from hell, because I, as the man Jesus, also died on the cross for the deeply fallen, because I also bought their souls with My blood, because I also paid the ransom for them, thus I also redeemed their guilt. But these must now also call out to their saviour and redeemer Jesus Christ from the depth .... I am only waiting for this call to rush to their aid, to loosen their chains and set them free from their jailer .... And endless souls still languish in the abyss and yet could so easily reach the height if only they would listen to Me when I speak to them. And again and again my word resounds in the abyss, admittedly only faintly audible to these souls but they feel it as a gentle call which they can now follow in order to then also be able to hear my word ever louder and clearer. My voice permeates the whole universe, the earthly and the spiritual kingdom. And all beings can hear it if they do not openly reject Me. The souls in darkness are also often startled by sparks of light, and these, too, can cause them to follow them if only a small desire for light awakens in them .... And they will now likewise reach where they can hear My word, because I want nothing else but to be able to address them in order to then break the last resistance, for they will surrender to My loving address, they will feel My love and learn to love Me .... Let all of you be addressed by Me, your God and father of eternity, your saviour and redeemer from sin and death. I only want to bring light into the darkness which is your fate as long as you deny Me access to you through your will; I want to help you to beatitude, I want to bless you with a loving hand and distribute the bread of life to you, I want to give you the food and drink you need in order to shape yourselves so that I can accept you into My kingdom of light .... And you should not spurn this gift, you should always find yourselves where My table is abundantly laid; you should let yourselves be given My gifts of love with a longing heart and you will experience the greatest blessing from it. And if you have satisfied yourselves, then also lead other hungry souls to the table of life, for all those who have not yet found this gift of life are in greatest need, and to help all of them is My everlasting concern, which you should and can also share by helping to deliver souls from darkness .... by also calling them when my word of love sounds to you yourselves ....

Amen

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Intensified fight against enemy .... call of Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 6827 from May 11th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

And no matter how much the adversary presses you, resist him, i.e. take refuge with Me .... and he must leave you. You will easily become his master if you take this path, if you immediately send your thoughts to Me and appeal to Me for protection, if only you want to offer him resistance. But he often manages to weaken your will so that you don't find the strength to resist because you don't immediately join Me. And I constantly want to draw your attention to the fact that you are able to do everything with My help but that without Me you are weak and powerless and then My adversary gains control over you. Remember that you are constantly surrounded by beings of light who want to help you, who are only waiting for My order and are ready to defend yourselves as soon as you mentally turn to Me. And you should always be so intimately united with Me that it is natural for you to call upon Me. And then you will also be able to resist every temptation, you will not get caught in his nets which he casts out again and again in order to reap a rich harvest among My own too. And again and again I tell you that you will only achieve victory through constant battle, because an existence without a fight will not result in success for your soul. And the closer the end is, the harder the battle will be, the greater the temptation and the more obvious My adversary's activity. But My influx of grace will also flow ever more abundantly and help will be offered to you in every way. Thus you need not succumb in this battle if only you yourselves heartily desire to be and remain Mine .... Then all his arts of seduction will be in vain and he will let you go, because then he will be blinded by the light which emanates from Me and in whose glow you are. And thus you can prevent his approach yourselves if you let Me be present in you through constant prayer and prayer of love .... Then he will not be able to approach you, for he will not dare to come close to Me and you will be removed from his power and activity. But one thing should be said to all of you, that the coming time will still bring many battles for every individual person in order to also give every individual person the opportunity of a faster maturing, because not much time remains for all of you. And his activity will manifest itself in unrest, discord, people's hostile attitude towards each other, in unkindness which also turns into hatred .... He will try everywhere to incite people against each other, to cause confusion, to harm them physically and again and again make use of people who are in bondage to him .... And then you should not become restless, you should remain in utmost patience and only ever lift your eyes to Me. For just one call to Me is enough to push him away from you .... And you will have taken a step forward again if you have taken the right path in such temptations, the path to Me. But many will succumb to it .... And you should set a good example for everyone, you should call upon Him Who is stronger than he is, and you should also point your fellow human beings to Him Who defeated the adversary and whose power was broken by His death on the cross .... In all temptations of body and soul only ever remember the divine redeemer Jesus Christ, then you will also remember Me, and then the enemy of your soul will truly have lost all power over you, for no call to Jesus Christ will go unheard, He will set you free from the adversary, He will give you strength, and with His help you will always be able to resist him, you will likewise defeat the one whose power I broke through My death on the cross ....

Amen

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Reason for the destruction and new creation .... Hell - banishment ....

B.D. 6828 from May 12th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

I take pity on the lowest fallen spirit, and time and again will provide a rescue anchor enabling its ascent, and every soul holding on to it will be raised up, for it is demonstrating its will to escape the abyss and thus it will also be allowed to experience its eternal Father's mercy. But there is also a degree of resistance to Me in the region of the lowest fallen spirits which no longer allows for a rescue, where the will has not changed in the slightest and where the spiritual essence has become almost solid and there is no other possible help but to banish this spiritual essence into matter again ....

This new banishment is also an act of mercy on My part, for without it the soul would never be able to reach the point again where it has to pass its last test of will by which it can attain eternal life. The path of development in the spiritual kingdom has to take place within My divine order, no phase can be left out, and in the stage of self-awareness .... either on earth or in the kingdom of the beyond .... the being's will is at all times decisive .... Consequently, if this is utterly abused I have to constrain the soul again and make it take the path through the creations of this earth in the state of compulsion once more, because I don't want it to remain in an extremely agonising and wretched state forever. Ever new arising creations, the continuous growth and decay in nature, is equivalent to the perpetual change of external forms by the progressing spiritual substance which steadily approaches its final form as a human being on this earth .... But the spiritual essence which had descended back into the deepest abyss or which has already been there for an infinitely long time will have to be placed into the hardest matter at the start of its higher development. It cannot be placed into already existing creations which serve already more mature spiritual substances as an abode .... The first phase of the banishment cannot be skipped, instead the path of development has to start in the external form which corresponds to the unbroken opposition to Me .... in hardest matter, because this in turn is required by My law of order.

For this reason new creations have to arise again and again after long periods of time to accept these spiritual substances, just as creations having existed for incredibly long periods of time .... hard matter .... need to be disintegrated one day in order to release the spiritual substance therein to continue its path of development in less compact forms .... The periods of time which pass after such outright destructions and redevelopment of earthly creations occur are very long, and as a rule the length of time cannot be demonstrably established by people either. Furthermore, they lack the knowledge of the spirits' process of development, of the true purpose of matter and of the appallingly agonizing conditions in the spiritual kingdom, even though the word 'hell' is known to all people ....

But they don't know what is meant by it in reality, otherwise the total transformation of earth and its creations would be more credible to them. Yet it will always remain unverifiable to people .... However, a loving and merciful God aims to save His living creations, He will not leave them in darkness forever, and My love and mercy is My fundamental nature which will not ever change. My love and mercy will forever apply to My living creations which descended into the abyss, and time and again will find ways and means to rescue them from there. Yet before a new banishment happens again, every effort will be made by Me and My spiritual co-workers that the souls will take the path of ascent in the spiritual realm in order to spare them the agonising fate of a new banishment. Yet the will of the being makes its own decision, and depending on its will shall be its fate. But My plan of Salvation will be implemented and not be without success .... One day I will reach the goal, and one day the darkness will also have surrendered everything, because My love will never end and no being will be able to resist it forever ....

Amen

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Vocation to vineyard work ....

B.D. 6829 from May 13th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

Anyone who feels called to do vineyard work for Me should regard this as the most urgent work, even if it apparently results in an earthly disadvantage for him. For only then will he provide the evidence that he is called by Me, that he feels responsible towards Me and that he listens to My inner instructions. And My instruction will never be to treat the work for Me and My kingdom indifferently and to give priority to earthly work, because I know how necessary it is that spiritual knowledge is conveyed to fellow human beings which serves them for the salvation of their souls and because I know that the world always pushes itself into the foreground and that the souls are constantly in danger of falling prey to it. Only one thing is important in earthly life: to help the soul ascend. And for this it needs My word, a nourishment which gives it strength to cover its ascent. I Myself cannot always provide fellow human beings directly with nourishment for the soul, I usually have to do this through willing servants who are more likely to find the way to people's hearts. These have to do vineyard work, they have to plough up and cultivate the field as My faithful servants and thus supply good seed to the soil which they have previously cultivated .... And this work is truly the most urgent, if only because not many servants make themselves available to Me and because therefore much work has to be done by each individual in order to nevertheless be able to gather abundant fruit at harvest time .... But fellow human beings seldom appreciate vineyard work .... the work for Me and My kingdom .... because they rarely appreciate it properly, for they only consider that important which brings earthly success, and they usually lack understanding for spiritual work. But it is so important that I bless every faithful servant and this blessing is also earthly evident, that I give him what he needs for his earthly way of life and he need not suffer any hardship because he is a good servant to Me and because I, as a good father of the house, truly take better care of My own than the world will ever be able to provide for a person. For worldly goods do not last, and no human being knows whether he will still be able to enjoy these goods the next day .... But I also provide for people in such a way that their earthly life is secured, and I also distribute goods to them which last and cannot be taken away from the human being when he leaves this life. And My servants should be satisfied with this assurance, but they should know that their services cannot be dispensed with because I have to make use of them due to people's freedom of will. They should only know that there is great spiritual hardship amongst humanity or that vast stretches of land lie fallow and therefore labourers are needed to cultivate this land on behalf of their lord .... And even if fellow human beings cannot muster any understanding for the fact that a person places spiritual work in the foreground .... but it proves his calling to serve Me and My kingdom. For as long as spiritual work does not take precedence over every other activity, it is not yet possible to speak of a 'calling', for anyone who 'feels called' by Me to cooperate has heard My direct address within himself and this is also sufficient for him to fully commit himself to the work I now assign to him. And he need not fear that he will not be able to survive on earth, for I will give him everything as I have promised. For I am truly one lord, and I alone determine and grant .... I sustain the whole of creation and all creatures, and I will also know how to sustain the one who offers himself to Me for eager cooperation in order to control the great spiritual adversity. And truly, this work will also be blessed and have an effect on earth and in the spiritual kingdom ....

Amen

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Mental superiority .... mental arrogance ....

B.D. 6830 from May 14th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

Spiritual superiority must not be confused with spiritual arrogance .... For it is mostly a matter of right knowledge, which probably gives a person the feeling of spiritual superiority, that is, that the person is convinced of the truth of his knowledge .... whereas spiritual arrogance is found where the person lacks right knowledge .... the knowledge of the truth .... Nevertheless, he feels clever, and he represents his own intellect results and denies the knower any power of judgement, which, however, he himself particularly lacks. The knower indeed also represents his knowledge full of conviction, and he is therefore called spiritually arrogant by the ignorant without being so, only it would be impossible to reveal the once recognized truth in order to merely avert the reproach of spiritual arrogance from himself, for this is the characteristic of truth, that it gives the human being complete certainty .... thus spiritual superiority .... which can no longer be taken away from him. And this feeling of security, of standing in the truth, is a divine gift, a gift of the spirit, which again must not be confused with keen intellect. It is true that this difference cannot be made comprehensible to ignorant people, which is why it cannot be argued with words either. But there is a characteristic for each of the terms: spiritual superiority and spiritual arrogance .... The former presupposes an unconditional desire for truth and spiritual striving, whereas the latter is always a sign that the human being is not serious about attaining the truth but only about being right, for the person who seriously demands and strives for truth would very soon come to the same result, which now gives him spiritual 'superiority' instead of spiritual 'arrogance'. For the human being then becomes small and humble in the realization of pure truth .... which, however, does not mean that he does not eagerly and convincingly represent this recognized truth .... And every person who thinks himself clever and wise should seriously examine himself as to whether he has the desire to become 'knowledgeable' at all, or whether he is content with what he has learned by chance or what he has puzzled out for himself intellectually without having first asked God for enlightenment of thought .... He should always remind himself that error always goes hand in hand with truth and that human intellect alone is not sufficient for examination but that God Himself must be called upon for help. Furthermore, he should examine himself to see whether it is only a spirit of contradiction that moves him to reject a thought system other than his own .... Then he must be addressed as "spiritually arrogant", whereas spiritual superiority presupposes deepest attachment to God, unconditional submission to His will .... a 'humility', therefore, which only earns him truthful knowledge. But such knowledge will make the human being immensely happy and give him such a secure feeling which will also let him recognize error brightly and clearly. And if he did not have this feeling of spiritual superiority then he would not be able to stand up for knowledge with conviction either, he would very quickly be drowned out by the adversary, he would remain silent where speech is required and be unsuitable as a representative of truth on earth .... He must therefore rather accept the reproach of 'spiritual arrogance', he must not tolerantly accept the error he has recognized .... because then he would not be a fighter for the lord, who should fight with the sword of the mouth against those who bring error into the world and spread it. For having received the truth also obliges one to represent it .... But anyone who advocates error will never be able to claim to have attained it after a heartfelt desire for truth. And thus it would be easy for every person to recognize where truth and where error is .... if only he honestly answers the question for himself as to whether he has seriously sought the truth .... But the spiritually arrogant person is so convinced of his intellectual knowledge and not willing to surrender any of it .... And therefore he never asks himself this question, and therefore he will also hardly arrive at the truth ....

Amen

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What are 'means of grace'? ....

B.D. 6831 from May 15th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

In the last days before the end I will pour out My blessings in abundance. I will use all means of help just to awaken you to life before the end because I know what spiritual death involves for you when the end has come. You yourselves take no measures to bring your soul to life and completely blindly walk towards the abyss from which I, however, want to pull you back in order to spare you an even more dreadful fate. But since your free will has to be left to you I can only ever try to influence this will to change the direction of your goal yourselves, to turn around before it is too late. And therefore all means which intend to favourably influence your will are blessings .... gifts which you certainly don't deserve because you are still resisting Me, but which My love nevertheless gives to you because I take pity on your deluded state. And the abundance of My grace will pour itself out over you humans the more the end approaches. Every person will be placed into situations where his own strength, his earthly abilities, won't suffice to cope with them; every person will be urged by providence to take refuge in Me. I will not bypass anyone without knocking at the door of his heart. However, given that his will is always decisive My gifts of grace will rarely be noticed because the human being's thoughts vastly digress from Me and I will not force him to think differently. Daily life, however, provides people with so many indications that all people's bodies will die, and even if the individual person is not affected himself his fellow human being's fate should nevertheless cause him to think about his own death and influence his will to comply with his actual purpose of life beforehand .... Then he will also try to discover it, in which case he will already have used one blessing for his benefit ....

But what do people understand as 'blessings'? They often believe that they only need to use external means in order to gain a wealth of grace .... They don't realise that gifts of grace are offerings which only need to be used in order to help a person to ascend. They call ecclesiastical customs and traditions 'means of grace' which help them achieve beatitude and ignore My gifts of grace given copiously by My love and leave them unused .... as long as they do not seriously strive towards changing their nature and thereby also demonstrate that their will is directed towards Me. For the work of improving yourselves has to be done or a change of nature cannot take place. And it is My will that you should still achieve this before the end, that you should seriously decide to want to live a life of love, I only want that you , who live without love, won't continue on the path you have travelled so far .... All My means of grace, adversity and misery, disease and worry, all kinds of misfortunes and other harsh strokes of fate always only serve the purpose of making you realise your own weakness and to deliberately look for the bond with Me in order to then establish it through kind-hearted activity .... Then the means of grace will not have been without success, then they will have been used by you and then you will not have to fear the end either, because your path will no longer lead to the abyss but you will strive towards the right goal, to Me Myself, Who can only be reached through love. However, what you so often describe as means of grace is worthless as long as it does not motivate you to live a life of love. But love will be kindled in you as soon as you try to unite with Me .... And this is why My loving care only relates to your change of will, which is still held captive by the world, by My adversary .... If you are able to direct this will to Me then I will also have reached the goal, and you will have escaped the great danger of being devoured by the abyss in the end .... And everything that will still come upon you humans shall only bring about your change of will, so that it will turn away from My adversary and towards Me .... Then you will be saved for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Help from above in the final battle of faith ....

B.D. 6832 from May 17th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

You will be fully compensated in the spiritual kingdom for all the hardships imposed on you by earthly life if you take them upon yourselves with devotion and pay less attention to your body than to your soul. I have prepared a glorious fate for all those who have to bear suffering and hardship for the sake of My name, who value Me and My kingdom more highly than earthly goods and earthly rewards .... who prove their loyalty to Me by gladly taking physical hardship and deprivation upon themselves when it is necessary to confess for Me and My kingdom .... For this time will come one day and make great demands on you humans. Much will be taken from you if you refuse to deny Me. They will try to force you with brute force and you will need much strength to resist but you will also receive it in abundance. Yet physically you will not be able to indulge but only ever have what you need to sustain your life. For this comes to you from Me, because I Myself take care of My own when they are deprived of everything by an enemy power. But it is only a short time and they will be repaid a thousand fold for their loyalty .... on the new earth or also in the spiritual kingdom where glories await them which are inconceivable to them. But as long as they are still on earth I will assure them of My constant help, I will truly not leave them in earthly adversity, no matter how threatening and dangerous their situation may seem .... He who sustains heaven and earth can also sustain you who stand by Me and openly confess this before the world. And for the sake of My own I will also shorten the days. (17.5.1957) I know that they are difficult for you and I don't want you to waver in your faith because you are still weak people despite your will and because I also know how much My adversary will press you in your battle of faith. And I will not let you fall into his hands. That is why the last battle on this earth will take place in a very short time, and you can confidently and with full faith expect My imminent coming as soon as this battle erupts on earth. But then you should also humbly take all difficulties upon yourselves and only ever confidently wait for My help, for I will not leave you. And you should not grieve for those whom I fetch home first, whose earthly life seems particularly difficult to you and gives you cause for doubt .... For a glorious fate truly awaits them in My kingdom, and their suffering and hardship on earth will be repaid to them a thousand fold as well as the loyalty they have shown Me. And thus no person need fear the coming difficult time who already feels inwardly connected to Me, who is willing to fulfil My will, to serve Me and thereby come close to Me .... For he already belongs to Me and his further fate is only the ladder to ascend the final height. And then all those promises concerning My care for you will obviously come true: I will refresh you .... I will hear your petitions .... I will take care of your body and your earthly life, I will make the burden easy for you and only put a gentle yoke on you .... I will take Me as your father so that you will not be orphaned in the world .... for the world will hate you and persecute you, it will cast you out of its community, and My little flock will fearfully flee to its shepherd, and My sheepfold will receive all of them and grant them safe shelter. I will deny the wolf his further advance, and shortly, therefore, the fate of him who is .... completely dominated by My adversary .... will play a major role in that battle of faith, who himself rules over his followers and whose measures will be directed against all believers and thus also against Me Myself, Whom he seeks to dethrone. He will not have a long life span, and this should also be an indication to you and a hope that only a short time will pass until the end comes, which means redemption from all adversity for My own ....

Amen

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Warning against appearances and outward appearances ....

B.D. 6833 from May 18th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

I know all your thoughts, I know your innermost heart's emotions and therefore you can never deceive Me. I want to say this to all those who think differently than their mouths speak, who can indeed throw sand in the eyes of their fellow human beings but who must never believe that I evaluate what the mouth speaks but only ever look at the heart as it feels. And thus you humans will also be able to understand that every outwardly recognizable behaviour is pointless and futile, that it is only ever intended to hide your innermost feelings and emotions from your fellow human being and that it only encourages deceitfulness and dissimulation when people think and feel differently. But nothing remains hidden from Me .... I see into the furthest corner of the heart and I will also evaluate all of the human being's actions accordingly. For this reason I would first like to educate you into truthfulness, I would like to awaken the feeling of responsibility in you so that you will judge yourselves, that you will exercise strict self-criticism of your thoughts and actions and that you will drop all games towards Me, that you will completely expose yourselves and approach Me as you really are .... in order to then also recognize your faults and shortcomings and now work on yourselves with all seriousness. For the little cloaks which you like to put on yourselves in order to hide the real thing underneath are of no use to you. And I ask you: Are you more interested in the judgement of your fellow human beings than in Mine? What you do in a worldly way might well give you cause to cover yourselves, to put on a mask .... But you also play such a game of hide and seek on a spiritual level. Where the salvation of your soul is concerned you should remain truthful or you will only prove that you don't believe in Me as a supremely perfect, all-pervading being. And therefore the person who refrains from everything that is to be regarded as soul work and also openly admits this is even better to be called than those who give themselves the appearance of being good and pious and yet do no work at all on their soul. For these know what their earthly task is but they don't comply with it but feign it. And every lie is from the adversary, therefore they also voluntarily give themselves into his sphere. Anyone who seriously strives to attain perfection quietly works on himself, and fellow human beings will only notice little of it, only his way of life in love is outwardly recognizable .... Works of love can also be feigned and in truth be certain striving towards a aim, but even these are not valued by Me, for true love awakens in the human being's heart and cannot be replaced by external actions. All people should be told that I demand true sincerity where salvation of soul is striven for .... that I will not be satisfied with externalities if this sincerity of love is lacking, and that no-one can pretend to Me .... You should pray in spirit and in truth, and in the same way you should act in spirit and in truth .... But every outward appearance is pretence and deception, which the heart also recognizes and the human being therefore avoids all outward appearances as soon as there is a deep and sincere desire in his heart to unite with Me .... Then every outward appearance will only disturb his inner gathering, then he will also keep away from traditional customs which are nothing but symbols lacking the actual meaning. Many people lack the right seriousness for a change of nature, and yet this alone will earn them a life of bliss, for a deformed soul cannot be transferred into a sphere where it would have to perish .... It cannot enter the kingdom of light if it has not first shaped itself such that it has become receptive to light .... And for the purpose of this transformation it is on earth .... And therefore this transformation, the change of nature, should be pursued with all seriousness, for the human being only has a short time at his disposal for it which, however, is fully sufficient if he has the will to reach Me. Then I will truly assist him and help him to mature in every way, then he will recognize himself and call to Me from within his heart, and I will hear his call because he was sent to Me in spirit and in truth ....

Amen

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Right christianity ....

B.D. 6834 from May 19th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

A good christian is only the person who endeavours to live a life of following Jesus, which means that he lives in love, that he also patiently takes up his cross and devotedly carries it into My will; it is not only enough to confess Jesus Christ with his mouth but profound faith in His act of salvation must also cause him to live as the man Jesus lived on earth, because then he will also accept the divine teaching of love which Jesus preached on earth .... Only through a life of love does he prove that he is a true christian, but not through external affiliation to a church which can also harbour completely unbelieving, unloving people who must be denied the name 'christian'. Thus, if christianity is to spread it is not enough to induce people to join a church, a religious organization, instead, in addition to the knowledge of Jesus Christ and His act of salvation they must first be taught the divine teaching of love and its living out as the most important thing in order to be accepted as a true christian into My church .... which only includes 'true christians' .... because pseudo-christianity cannot signify belonging to My church which, like its founder, is spirit and truth .... You humans must seriously come to terms with the fact that I, as the eternal truth Myself, can never be satisfied with a sham christianity .... And then you must ask yourselves whether you are seriously trying to rightly bear the name 'christian' .... You must take Jesus the man as an example and make an effort to follow His example .... And this means working on yourselves, for all of you must become gentle and patient, peaceful and humble, merciful and just and full of love in order to be like the one Who took life on earth as a human being upon Himself in order to exemplify a right way of life for you .... And only someone who consciously works on himself walks the path of following Jesus, he strives to be a right christian and Jesus Christ helps him to do so, he walks the earthly path together with Him, and he now also belongs to the 'congregation of believers', which is to be understood as His church .... who, in view of the divine redeemer, walk their roads in love and in suffering, who are therefore also redeemed from their original sin, who recognize Him in their heart and have joined Him and not just talk empty words and in truth have not yet found the divine redeemer Jesus Christ. Christianity will be spread over the whole earth .... Wherever true love is kindled in the heart, the divine redeemer will also be acknowledged and My spirit will guide them into truth .... And therefore My gospel can resound everywhere and touch people's hearts .... But the working of My spirit is not guaranteed everywhere, even if people are brought close to the knowledge of Jesus Christ, the divine redeemer .... Only living according to His teaching gives people the right to call themselves christians, otherwise people remain dark heathens, whether they belong to a church organization or not .... And again I have to emphasize that I Myself will not allow Myself to be deceived but that countless people carry out such a deceptive manoeuvre because they do not fulfil My commandments of love which show the path of following Jesus. A true christianity is only ever a way of life in love .... Where this is lacking there is also a lack of the right seriousness to reach Me, and there My adversary will have an easy game if the right christian is to prove himself .... in the last battle on this earth ....

Amen

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Tireless reminder and warning of the end ....

B.D. 6835 from May 21st 1957, taken from Book No. 73

Only a short time separates you from the great event which will take place as My direct influence in order to send you the last great warning before the end. It can only ever be pointed out to you but you cannot be forced to believe it, but one day you will bitterly regret not having believed these predictions, for it depends on whether and how you use the short time for your souls. For this event will cost countless sacrifices, and none of you knows whether he himself will also be a victim, and then his soul will enter the kingdom of the beyond completely unprepared, and yet it could have achieved great spiritual progress .... (5/21/1957) You have travelled a long path before you were allowed to stay on this earth as a human being for the purpose of the test of will, the passing of which will earn you a glorious life in the spiritual kingdom in light and freedom .... Now during this time, which precedes the last end, only a few people are intent on fulfilling their actual purpose of earthly life, and once they have passed earthly life then the course of development on earth is irrevocably completed. A completely different phase of development begins in the spiritual kingdom when a person's passing away occurs even before the last destruction. And this can still be a blessing for the human being that the soul still comes to realization and strives upwards, for which it is also given every help in the spiritual kingdom. But when the hour of the end has come, then a period of development is completely finished, then there is no longer a possibility for the immature soul to make up for what it has missed in the kingdom of the beyond, then the gates into this kingdom are closed for a long time and a thorough purification takes place, both in the earthly as well as in the spiritual world. For people who failed in their earthly lifetime, the long course of development beforehand has been in vain .... They do not attain freedom, but the earthly-material shells of the soul harden .... It begins a new course of development in solid matter, it takes upon itself the dreadful sufferings and torments of being bound, it goes through the creations of the new earth again in its individual substances .... It falls back into endless depths and yet was shortly before the end of its course of development .... You humans should seriously try to imagine this, then you will also understand why I constantly and with untiring patience send you warnings and admonitions. I want to protect you from this fate of a new banishment and only ever admonish you to work on your soul to such an extent that you may still enter the spiritual kingdom first. I know about the countless souls who are approaching this fate but whose will remains completely free until the end and can still change in the last hour. I also know about the many people of weak faith whom I therefore also want to address, and I try to bring all of them to their senses through My last great intervention before the end. And all of them shall experience that not long afterwards the end will also come, as it is proclaimed .... Especially the predictions through seers and prophets are still means of grace of special value, but they have to be used in free will. And I help everyone to strengthen their will precisely through My coming intervention, which is only a confirmation for them that the end will not be long in coming either .... And those who do not yet believe can still come to faith. You don't know how beneficial the belief in an end can be for you humans, but I cannot give you such clear evidence that your faith would be under compulsion. Yet I speak to you again and again, and I will speak to you until the last day in order to merely achieve a turning of your thoughts towards Me .... For then the greatest danger will be averted, then I will still be able to call you away beforehand and spare your soul the repeated earthly progress through the creations .... even though it will then also have to struggle hard in the kingdom of the beyond in order to ascend, yet it will receive help in every way in order to attain beatitude one day after all ....

Amen

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God's infinite fatherly love .... painful means ....

B.D. 6836 from May 22nd 1957, taken from Book No. 73

Nothing needed to make you doubt the 'love of God', for I would not let the smallest disaster come upon you if it were to harm you. But you humans don't see the disaster which threatens you on the part of My adversary, which causes My love to draw your attention to you, which can often only happen through suffering and hardship, through which I only want to get you into contact with Me so that I can now also obviously assist you. My love for you is so great that it only ever wants what is best for you, and you should never doubt My love, for it brought you into being and will remain with you for all eternity .... But there is one thing it cannot do: restrict your free will .... If only My love were the only determining factor you would all have been supernatural beings long ago. Yet My love is so great that I would like to shape you into gods, but this is only possible if this transformation takes place of your own free will and you have to use this free will yourselves, thus it can never be 'directed' by Me, otherwise you could indeed become blissful 'creatures' but not 'divine images'. And this great love of Mine does not diminish, it is always and constantly meant for you and will therefore only ever do what favours your bliss but will never want to harm you. But as long as you live on earth as a human being you lack full knowledge of My nature as well as of My plan of salvation. The correlations are not yet known to you, nor are you able to grasp all correlations. This is why you still often question and doubt, even if you have already joined Me of your own will, that you strive towards Me and are also able to believe in Me with conviction as your God and creator; but you are not yet able to see the father in Me .... For you will not doubt the 'father's' love for his 'child' because it is quite natural that the father's love is for his child. And if doubts arise in you about My love, then always remember that you are My children whom I will never ever give up .... remember that My fatherly love is truly something else than the love of an earthly father for his child .... that it exceeds the latter's love immeasurably in ardour and that such love only ever wants the child's beatitude. And as soon as you are convinced of My love you will also accept everything with devotion, even if it involves suffering and hardship. But then you will also turn to your 'father' with complete trust and wait for His help, which will certainly be granted to you. The dangers which surround you in the last days before the end often make Me resort to means which make you doubt My love .... but if they drive you towards Me, then I will have achieved the purpose, I will have indirectly shown My child an act of love which I recognized as salvation .... It is about your bliss in freedom, it is about your deification on this earth. And nothing happens which would not be helpful for you to reach the aim .... Therefore, nothing shall cause you to doubt the love of your father and creator from eternity, for it never ends, it applies to you, My living creations, for all eternity and only wants to achieve that you shape yourselves into My children inzorder to be able to make you happy with My fatherly love forever ....

Amen

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Earthly improvement .... Worldly progress ....

B.D. 6837 from May 23rd 1957, taken from Book No. 73

Do not let yourselves be deceived even if you see earthly improvements .... You should know that I do not curtail any person's will, that everyone may create and work freely and that he therefore also frequently uses the strength to do so wrongly by promoting earthly development and taking pleasure in it .... And you should know that even then spiritual attainment is still intended for the bound spiritual substance in matter, that it will reach to be of service, if only for a short time. But this should not deceive you who know about My plan of Salvation and who should also assuredly defend what My spirit has proclaimed to you. You should refer to the near end and to the transience of all worldly things with increased vigour, even if everything around you speaks of the opposite. You should not let yourselves be deceived, for everything will come to pass as I proclaim to you over and over again. And precisely people's increased drive to produce earthly works should also be seen as a sign of the end, where an abundance of material gain is intended which will completely dominate people's thoughts. However, spiritual aspirants will watch the development with uncertainty and doubts, it will seem impossible to them that an end should be so close while everything only testifies to development and worldly progress, a heightened enjoyment of life and with it spiritual regression .... But you should not doubt, and therefore I repeatedly remind you that I will come like a thief in the night .... When everyone is fast asleep, that is, when people rest on their laurels, when they, satisfied with themselves, slow down and drift into a certain sleep of death .... they will be rudely awakened in the middle of their souls' night. If anything, the worldly progress can far more likely be regarded by you as a definite sign of what lies ahead of you .... But you must not waver in your faith in My Word, for you shall stand up for it. That is why I enlighten you.

I do not stop people from achieving their worldly plans, and I even take part in it Myself insofar as that I temporarily allow those spiritual substances to be of service which are willing, so as to be able to grant them at the time of disintegration an easier external form .... And many of the constrained spirits will still be able to serve, hard matter will be disintegrated and used for helpful purposes; the will of these spirits shall be taken into account and I alone know the extent of these spiritual beings' resistance and thus support or hinder them accordingly. But the apparent worldly development and progress will also completely alienate many souls from Me and already gives reason to intervene unexpectedly .... And because people's thoughts and intentions are dominated by matter I once again will have to show them how transient it is and how little people can do themselves in order to protect what they had built .... Once again I will have to demonstrate My power and My will which cannot be resisted by anything. But time and again I also want to tell My Own that they need not doubt My Word .... that heaven and earth shall pass away, but My Words shall not pass away. You receive clarification from Me time and again; worldly people, however, keep distancing themselves from Me ever more and My Word does not affect them. They are engrossed in matter, they hoard earthly possessions, they indulge themselves in all kinds of pleasures and outwardly everything gives the impression of improved living conditions .... But the spiritual state continues to decline and draws the end ever closer .... and it will come to pass as it is proclaimed .... when no-one expects it I will let My voice be heard, and when no-one expects it the end will appear .... For My Word is and remains eternal truth, and it has announced an end and a Judgment to you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

State after death ....

B.D. 6838 from May 24th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

After your death you will enter a realm which is like the one you left .... i.e., your surroundings will now also correspond to your state of soul. If only matter filled your thinking, then the world you now enter will also appear material to you; it will place all things before your eyes to which your senses still apply, only that it is an illusory world which will pass away as soon as you want to take possession of it. But it takes a long time for a dark soul before it understands that it no longer inhabits the material world, which is why even such souls often don't know that they have died in the body. However, the illusions of their new surroundings become ever more unclear, ever more blurred, so that they then feel an appalling emptiness because their spiritual eyes are still closed and their power of imagination for earthly things becomes ever less. And so then they move in barren, endlessly vast regions .... if they don't sink very deeply and wage battles with beings of their own kind in bitterest enmity. A change through completely meaningless vastness can bring the souls to self-contemplation and let them recognize the worthlessness of earthly material goods, and then they can also become aware of their dead state, and as soon as only that is achieved that the souls start to think about their desolate situation, the time has now also come when these souls are helped by suddenly meeting beings and they now look for a way out together .... Those beings come from the kingdom of light but veil themselves and come in the same form to leave the souls fullest freedom of will. And then, with good will, their surroundings can brighten noticeably and an activity can now be assigned to them according to their own will to help. The nature of their activity cannot be presented to you humans because the different areas of spiritual activity also require completely different conditions and often also demand unknown work for spheres unknown to humans. For God has let undreamt-of creations arise for the maturing of the still imperfect souls .... but the state of the souls also determines the creation to which they are now supplied for further development. But if the human being on earth has already been able to detach himself from matter, if his thinking and striving has been turned towards the spiritual kingdom, then the soul can find itself again in spheres of light when it leaves the earthly cover .... i.e., it is able to recognize its surroundings, it sees magnificent creations which, however, have nothing in common with earthly things, which likewise cannot be described but which can be immediately grasped by that soul because of its state of maturity .... thus, as it were, realization comes to the soul in a flash and it possesses knowledge which was never conveyed to it before .... It becomes light in and around itself, and this light makes it immensely happy and awakens in it the desire to communicate, to help and likewise to make itself happy. It will also feel transported into areas which are indescribably beautiful to look at, and it will not be alone but meet equally mature beings and want to work together with them .... And it will also grasp its new activity in a flash, it will not have the feeling that it is entering a foreign realm but feel transported to its home, which it only left of its own free will .... It will also know that this caused its unhappiness and that many beings are still in an unhappy state whom it now wants to help to return to the father's house. An indescribably beautiful fate awaits those souls which have passed their test of will on earth and consciously turned to God in free will .... And these souls will see indescribably beautiful creations, they will also be able to be creatively active in abundance of light and strength, depending on the soul's degree of maturity. Their concern, however, will be especially for the unfortunate souls which were close to them in earthly life and have taken a completely different path than those souls .... but they will not forget them and thus work on them in the spiritual kingdom, albeit unrecognized, in order to snatch them from the abyss for the time being and also enable their ascent. For all work in the spiritual kingdom is meant for the redemption of the fallen .... And every being which can enter the light offers itself for voluntary cooperation because it is full of love and would like to carry the light of love, which shines through itself, into the darkness in order to thank God and serve Him eternally ....

Amen

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Can pure truth come to earth without error? ....

B.D. 6839 from May 26th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

Every human being must fight against the attacks of the enemy of his soul. And he truly finds many means with which he hopes to reach his aim. He always attacks people where they are sensitive, which is well known to him. Whether it is weaknesses or vices, he will always make use of moments where they come to the fore, and then he also has an easy game, even if he only succeeds in causing confusion and unrest which drive people one step closer to him again. And a particularly effective means for him is to scatter doubts into people's hearts, doubts about divine care, about God's love and power and about the correctness of man's thinking itself. Such doubts create confusion and unrest, which he then seeks to exploit to good effect. But every human being also has his protective spirits around him which take up the fight with God's adversary in such a way that they also influence the human being's thoughts and these will truly be more successful than he is if the human being himself is of God-turned-will. And thus you humans are told again and again that even a brief thought of God will save you from this danger, for this will enable all your guides and guardian spirits to push God's adversary away from you, and inner peace and the blissful certainty of security in God will return. And then everything that caused doubts to arise in you will be clearly laid out in front of you and you will be able to meet all attacks with strength and repel them ....

It is certainly true that God speaks to all people who want to hear Him .... It is also true that He gives them comfort and admonitions through the voice of the spirit, that the thoughts which move a person after heartfelt prayer to the father can therefore be regarded as the working of the divine spirit, Who now directs the thinking correctly if the person allows the working of the spirit within himself through his way of life in love .... It is true that they can all feel addressed by God, their creator and father from eternity .... But all these people will also recognize the father's voice if spiritual knowledge is imparted to them which has likewise reached a person as 'working of the spirit' but which, apart from comforts and admonitions and fatherly words of love, contains wise enlightenments .... knowledge which cannot reach earth in any other way than directly, which requires a special vessel into which the spirit from God can pour itself. And this knowledge is only conveyed to earth because individual people, who are to be active on earth as teachers, are to be introduced to God's plan of salvation so that the correlations are clear to them and they can now also speak to their fellow human beings about it with conviction when questions are asked or clarification is desired. It is simply a matter of the fact that only truthful explanations can lead to inner conviction, thus to a living faith .... But people must also know that truth can only be recognized as such when the human being lives in love. Therefore, the divine teaching of love has to be preached to people first, and only the living out of this teaching enables him to directly receive as well as recognize the truth if it is offered to him through mediators. A certain degree of maturity is a prerequisite in order to be able to be introduced by God to a knowledge which can be called the 'divine plan of salvation' .... a knowledge which also cannot be taught in a school-like manner because it cannot be proven .... a knowledge which is also not absolutely necessary to attain beatitude, which is already guaranteed by fulfilling the divine commandments of love .... a knowledge which, however, can be the key for many seriously seeking, reflecting and truth-desiring people, which opens the gates for them, which can lead them to faith and also to love. And such knowledge has therefore been deemed necessary for humanity by God because error has already spread and established itself through His adversary's influence to such an extent that even those people are almost no longer able to recognize truth which has nevertheless asserted itself alongside error. God truly knows that it is necessary to inform people, but not every person is capable of receiving such knowledge, and therefore doubts about the truth of unusual knowledge are also justified, but they cannot be denied, that God guides the truth to earth when He deems it necessary, otherwise He would also have to be denied love and power which would not and could not prevent the adversary from likewise using his instrument to invalidate or contaminate the truth guided to earth by God .... Admittedly, God does not use any means of coercion to prepare an instrument for Himself, but as soon as this instrument surrenders its will to Him, as soon as it voluntarily submits itself to Him, God's love and power can and will also surround the vessel into which He pours His divine ray of love like a protective wall. And because God's adversary is then completely powerless, because his cooperation is made impossible, he will then try to invalidate God's activity in another way by trying to awaken doubt after doubt in the hearts of those who approach the examination of this divine spiritual knowledge, and he will also gain great influence where greatest desire for truth and pure love do not illuminate a person's spirit so brightly that he recognizes the father's voice, which also speaks to him and reaches his heart. But complete devotion to God in all humility and love could let all people brightly and clearly recognize His rule and activity, which is based precisely on the end time and wants to save you humans from the abyss into which His adversary seeks to push you .... But the human being himself must seriously want to know the truth ....

Amen

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Power of God indispensable for ascension ....

B.D. 6840 from May 27th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

No soul is able to rise from the depths on its own, for it is completely powerless and can only do so with God's help. God has granted it the first help by allowing it to walk the path through creation .... by dissolving it into innumerable little particles, to each of which He assigned a purpose. And thus the fallen being in the state of compulsion thus walks the path upwards .... But once it has overcome this period of development, once the soul is to continue its ascent as a self-aware being in the stage of a human being, then it will need the supply of strength again, for its own strength is still too small to master the last short but ascending path. But now the being is no longer determined by God's will but it is left to itself to request strength, to receive it and to evaluate it correctly. Admittedly, every human being on earth has enough vitality at his disposal, and if it is now used in accordance with God's will then it will inevitably also provide the soul with the strength to cover this ascent, and it will then certainly also reach the aim. However, the right use of vitality is synonymous with love activity .... You humans don't know how much strength you can acquire if you use your vitality in accordance with God's will to carry out works of unselfish neighbourly love .... Then your lack of strength, which was caused by the former fall into sin, will disappear. But you will be able to understand it when you are told what this fall into sin consisted of: you rejected God's strength of love and thereby became weak, thus completely powerless .... As soon as you work in love again you let yourselves be illuminated by God's strength of love again, and thus you also regain the abilities you originally possessed. Yet the will alone to be united with the deity, to Whom you owe your existence, results in strength flowing to you from God, because this will makes God's illumination of love possible. However, you will not be able to achieve anything without the influx of strength from God .... For then you will still be in the same resistance as when you once fell away from Him, you will reject what alone signifies strength for you. You are still in the sphere of death which you entered with the devotion of strength and light .... And if the life energy, which is at every person's disposal on earth, is used wrongly, that is, that it is only used for the benefit of the body and the soul cannot derive any benefit from it, then it will also remain in the same state it was in at the beginning of its embodiment as a human being. It has not taken a step forward and is in greatest danger of losing even the degree of maturity it reached in the state of compulsion. For the soul cannot rise without strength, it is held fast by God's adversary and offers no resistance itself because it is too weak to do so. This weakness is therefore the result of the original sin, and if the human being wants to become master of it, then he must repeatedly request strength .... he must call upon the one Who died on the cross for acquiring strength for weak people .... He has to entrust himself to Jesus Christ in his weakness and ask Him to help him gain strength, which will certainly be given to him out of grace and mercy, so that the human being can now successfully cover the path upwards. Then God's adversary will no longer have control over him, then he will have to release him, and then the soul will also seek and find unity with God again and will no longer want to detach it eternally ....

Amen

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The will for truth guarantees its receipt ....

B.D. 6841 from May 29th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

The will for truth also guarantees its receipt. You humans should believe that He Who is the essence of truth, Who is full of love and mercy, Who would like to help all people become enlightened .... since only light can give beatitude .... wants everyone to know the truth and thus will also bestow it upon anyone who requests it .... Believe that He also has the might to repel the prince of falsehood and darkness every time he tries to interfere, but that the desire for truth must be present .... And because this desire is only rarely to be found My adversary succeeds in spreading error and lies all over the world. If you are therefore indifferent and unreservedly accept whatever is offered to you, then your desire for truth is not present in you and you will hardly live in truth, for then God’s adversary has the prerogative which you have granted him yourselves. But where the desire for truth prevails, you must not dispute God's might .... nor should you doubt that His love wants to give what is beneficial for you. It is so simple to accept this explanation that God will always prove His might and love where people submit to Him. And it is foolish to assume that the human being cannot possibly receive the pure truth because he is imperfect ....

Only the person’s will is the decisive factor but this cannot be substituted by fine words. And thus you need only ever ask yourselves whether you aim for nothing else but the pure truth, whether you desire the ‘truth’ from the bottom of your heart, for then you desire ‘God’ and He will also give Himself to you. And even if your thoughts were to go astray, even if your thoughts gave room to error, He is nevertheless able to enlighten you so that you can recognise wrong thoughts and turn towards the only truth. But a person who only wants the truth will also be protected from misguided thinking, he simply will not be compelled. Yet the spirits of light, the messengers of truth, will have far more influence on his thoughts than the forces of darkness, and can protect the person from misguided spiritual knowledge .... They, on their part, can send him mental impulses which are more readily accepted and invalidate the wrong thoughts. Due to the desire for truth they are entitled to do so, given that this desire acknowledges God Himself Who is ‘Eternal Truth’. People should never forget that it is God’s aim to lead people to beatitude, that everything which is immature and imperfect is not beatitude and that error and falsehood simply demonstrate imperfection, that they are a part of the one who brought all evil into the world.

Spiritual darkness, lack of realisation, is also a sign of imperfection. But all these are just the consequences of a wrongly directed will by the self-aware spiritual being. If, however, this will is turned in the right direction .... which is proven by the desire for truth and thus for God as the Eternal Truth .... then the effect of the wrong thoughts will be neutralised .... Then God Himself must take the being’s ignorance away and lead it into realisation. And that necessitates an imparting of truth. Hence people can always count on it that God will place the person into a state of enlightenment as soon as he wants this himself .... But the fact that he wants it is a prerequisite which has to be fulfilled by the person himself. In that case, however, his initiation into the truth will be assured, then his thinking will be enlightened, and he brightly and clearly will be able to distinguish error from truth .... For God’s love wants to help its living creation find beatitude and not plunge it into darkness again, if it desires to receive light ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's will comes forth when adversariy transcend boundaries ....

B.D. 6842 from May 31th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

You humans cannot oppose God's will if He allows it to become active. His will rules in heaven and on earth, in the kingdom of light as well as in the kingdom of darkness. But He will only ever use His will when the opposing will is so completely out of order that it has to be overruled in order not to endanger the still weak-willed spirit which has not yet completely fallen prey to the prince of darkness. In the kingdom of light only God's will is valid, and all spiritual beings lovingly conform to this will and find their beatitude in the implementation of divine will. Now on earth the will of the spiritual .... of people .... has not yet been completely decided. has not yet completely decided whether it should bow to God's will or allow itself to be captured by the prince of darkness .... and although God's will is always decisive, He will nevertheless remain silent towards the human being, i.e. God does not use any compulsion of will but seeks to achieve by other means what He has set as His aim:... that the human being voluntarily submits to His will. His aim is and remains the integration of the being into the divine law of eternity .... Although it is easy for God to place the being into that divine order, this is not enough for Him. This placement should take place in complete freedom of will, only then will the being be suitable for the kingdom of light, where only God's will rules. But this is why earth is a station of development where chaotic conditions can be found next to divine order, where people themselves determine what they will do with their earthly life, in which sphere they will live and which degree of development they will attain. God's will does not determine the human being but He also allows that which does not correspond to His will or His eternal order, yet He knows this and also allows such to become a means again which can be beneficial and promotes ascent development. God is powerful and wise .... He applies His power where His wisdom recognizes expediency. And He withdraws His will when the being's will is to decide freely in order to achieve perfection .... And thus He also lets the beings rage and work in darkness, yet always putting a stop to it when an encroachment on the human being's free will on earth is intended from that side .... And such an encroachment will always take place before the end of a redemption period and is also to be expected again now, which consists of making it impossible for the human being to make a free decision of will .... insofar as, on the one hand, people are forced to give up their faith in God, and on the other hand, people are to be deprived of the knowledge of God and the act of salvation through coercive measures. As long as people still have the possibility to decide freely of their own free will, they are responsible for their own decision .... But if this possibility is taken away from him, then the will of God's adversary will prevail, and then the adversary will find his master in God, Who rules everything in heaven and on earth .... Then God's will will also take His adversary's freedom away and bind him so that the divine order will not be completely overturned. Then His power will prove itself to everything that is hostile towards Him. And it will not be long before this encroachment on the part of the adversary becomes obvious, for the time has come when people's weakness of will can no longer offer resistance, where the adversary has an easy game and where he would make all maturing of people impossible if a stronger person did not take away his power. For God is indeed long-suffering and patient, and He watches for a very long time as His adversary rages amongst humanity, but He does not let him have victory .... He helps the weak who cannot resist him, and His will is enough to put an end to his activity, even though it seems for a long time as if the adversary will reach his aim .... For God alone reigns in heaven and on earth, in the kingdom of light and also in the dark world ....

Amen

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Thoughts are emanations from the spiritual realm ....

B.D. 6843 from June 1st 1957, taken from Book No. 73

No-one knows his own destiny and no-one is able to determine it .... but everyone knows that he won’t stay on earth forever and that he can be called away even on the next day, that he can also be surprised by strokes of destiny which he is unable to avert. But only a few people make use of this certain knowledge by working towards the life which follows afterwards .... towards life in the spiritual kingdom which lasts forever. And the rest don’t make use of it because they are not convinced of life after death .... It is, however, also impossible to provide them with proof of this because it would render the whole of earthly life useless, as its purpose concerns a completely free decision of will .... but proof would already result in a coercion of will. For this reason people are left to a certain extent to their own devices, they walk through earthly life without precisely knowing its meaning and purpose, nevertheless they are able to reach a clear understanding if they strive for it. For people are able to think .... For the duration of their earthly life they received a gift, the capacity to think, thus also the intellect to process thoughts and to verify their truth .... for people can have right as well as incorrect thoughts. This is proof of the fact that they receive thoughts from two sides but that the choice of thoughts is left up to them .... Thus, thought itself is not a product generated by the person himself and emanated outward but it first flows to him as strength from the spiritual kingdom. However, you ought to know that thinking will not stop with your body’s death but that this demonstrates to the self-aware soul its bond with God .... insofar as that, in the state of perfection, it will receive His spiritual illumination in the form of thoughts .... In contrast, in the imperfect state God’s adversary gains influence over the self-aware being, regardless of whether it still lives on earth or it is in the realm of the beyond. Hence thinking does not stop, it can merely be confused or entirely wrong if the soul’s degree of maturity is low and therefore God’s adversary has a greater influence than God Himself, Who will never forcibly impose Himself but wait until the being submits itself to Him .... Thoughts are thus something spiritual, more or less corresponding to truth but always contributions from the spiritual realm, which can therefore also be classed as forces .... once again, with good or evil consequences, depending on their origin. Anyone who does not believe in the continuation of life is satisfied with the explanation that thought originates in the human being himself. But then death would extinguish all reasoning power, then it would not be easy to explain the concept of ‘soul’, which, in contrast to the body .... the earthly-material external shell .... is the human being’s inner life, his thoughts, feelings and intentions ....

The soul is everlasting, thus it will continue to be able to think, feel and want, if it is to continue living after death .... Something that is alive, self-aware, has to be able to show these characteristics that it can think, feel and want.

As long as these abilities do not exist, the being is still in a state of constraint in which it cannot be held fully responsible for its actions. But the being is given a task during its lifetime on earth, consequently, it must also be able to think and want and to act accordingly .... Hence, the point is that it should voluntarily adapt itself to the divine order which it revoked when turned away from God. Since its apostasy from God resulted in its decent into darkness, i.e. into complete lack of realisation, it must now, in order to make a free decision of will, be introduced again to knowledge which flows to it from the spiritual kingdom and which can be accepted but also rejected again by the human being. People’s thoughts are therefore such influxes, but they can come both from the kingdom of light as well as from the realm of darkness. The human being himself is equipped with the gift of intellect in order to be able deal with the thoughts flowing to him. But sharpness of intellect is not so crucial as a heart willing to love in order to be receptive to thought waves from the kingdom of light .... Consequently, the degree of realisation will match accordingly and a person who lives a life of love will find it easy to make the right decision .... whereas a heartless person is sent thoughts from the realm of darkness and is more willing to accept these and thereby becomes increasingly more enslaved by God’s adversary. The human being certainly believes that the thoughts are his own spiritual product, that he, by virtue of his intellect and his externally received education, generates them himself .... in that case, however, his soul would be entirely empty at the moment of death, but it is, in fact, the human being’s actual Self and can therefore not stop thinking, feeling and wanting .... it therefore remains within the area of thought waves but it created or can still create the sphere which it now occupies. Although its thinking will be weak and confused in the dark spheres, nevertheless, it can think .... and also clarify this thinking if it wants to. Thought is spiritual strength which cannot disappear, for that reason every thought will also have some kind of result, negative .... if it flows from the kingdom of darkness and is accepted, or positive .... if it originates in the kingdom of light and finds acceptance in human hearts. Thus, the human being himself need only prove his willingness of acceptance by desiring contact with the kingdom of light. This is why no person will ever allow good thoughts to arise in himself if he is totally captivated by the adversary, because he does not produce the thoughts himself but they flow to him like waves, he must allow them to surround him if they are to have a beneficial effect on him .... if they are to impart the knowledge to him which helps him to make the right decision. For this is every individual person’s only goal in life, on account of which he was allowed to embody himself on Earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The right physician and the right medicine ....

B.D. 6844 from June 3rd 1957, taken from Book No. 73

Time and again you humans will receive what helps your soul's recovery, but it will only ever be offered to you, you will not be forced to accept it. And therefore many souls will remain ill and weak because they ignore what I constantly offer them in My Love: My Word, which is the best medicine for the critically ill soul. Your soul is already ailing when it begins its earthly life and shall take the path across earth in order to achieve complete recovery. But it can also leave earth again in the same state of weakness, in that case, however, it will still have to struggle for an infinitely long time until it achieves what it could easily have achieved on earth .... complete well-being, a state immersed in light and abundant strength, which makes it indescribably happy.

I Myself lived on earth as a human being in order to give you an example as to how to live a correct way of life on earth .... I knew all the weaknesses and shortcomings of a human being and have shown you how you can reach your goal despite your weakness and imperfection .... I instructed you, hence I spoke to you Myself, I offered you on earth the medicine by which you can be healed. Admittedly, I returned again into My kingdom but time after time My Word is made accessible to you, for I Myself speak through the mouth of My servants, My disciples, who speak on My instructions .... I Myself descend to you humans in My Word, I Am present with you in My Word, because I took pity on you when I saw your ailing and weak souls, because I know that you need a physician Who can heal you because He knows your condition and keeps the right medicine ready. Yet only rarely do you turn to this physician and thus remain in your weakness and cannot recover. And even if I speak to you, you don't listen and the short time of your life on earth is passing by without having made any spiritual progress.

And so I have to speak louder .... As a conscientious physician I must also undertake painful interventions in order to save your souls from certain death .... Remember this when you experience things which appear cruel to you, which you are unable to reconcile with the 'love of a God' .... Remember that I do not force you to listen to Me but, if you refuse, I will speak to you such that you will have to hear Me .... Remember that even the most painful intervention is only based on My love for you. But if you give Me the opportunity to speak to you just once by thinking about the One, the Almighty, Who controls everyone's fate, then great danger will already have been averted from you. Then you will have entrusted yourselves to the Physician and Helper to some extent, and then He can also administer the right medicine by speaking to you and giving you instructions which, if you follow them, will surely save you from death.

I only want that you spend thoughts on Me, for only then will I be able to gain access to you, because then you will voluntarily open the door of your heart to Me through which I can enter and give you what you urgently need. And because I don't use any coercion I use other means which can direct your thoughts to Me. All distressing events, all kinds of misfortunes and even natural disasters are such means used for My living creations who hardly ever think of Me and their actual task during their earthly life, I pity them, for their ailing souls will still have much sorrow to bear if they do not strive for recovery while they are still living on earth. For I Am a God of love Who wants to see all His living creations be happy but Who also always respects His creatures' free will and thus leaves the shaping of its future fate to the soul itself ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The good Shepherd ....

B.D. 6845 from June 4th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

The parable of the good Shepherd illustrates My relationship to you; it shows you that I confer My loving care on all My living creations and that all those who listen to My call belong to My flock which I protect from the adversary’s onslaughts. All of you need a Shepherd, a Guide, Who shows you the right ways, who escorts you and is always ready to shield you from all dangers, because during your earthly life you resemble dependent babes which constantly require protection. Like a flock of lambs you are scattered all over the place, frequently entering paths leading down into the abyss .... Sometimes you scale heights where you are at risk of falling very low indeed, you also often enter unknown regions and run the danger of getting caught and killed, occasionally you let yourselves be pushed away and separated from My flock and, were I not to keep a watchful eye on you, you would be lost. But I Am the good Shepherd Who even sacrifices His life for His sheep .... I will not allow anyone .... belonging to My small flock .... to be unlawfully abducted. I will not allow the wolf to break in and rob Me of My little sheep. And if one of My sheep goes astray I will coax and call so that it will find its way back into its stable. Only a good shepherd gives his life for his sheep, and My relationship with you is truly that of a good shepherd. You are incapable of understanding My love for you because, in your present state, you are still unaware, you can only follow My call and faithfully crowd around Me, you can only recognise My love for you from My call but you cannot grasp its depth, just as a little sheep can only feel that it finds refuge with its shepherd in every danger but is unaware of how much love the shepherd feels for his flock. I Am and remain the good Shepherd, and I feed My sheep a good pasture. I will give them what they need and I don’t want anything else but that they should feel My love and join Me ever more closely, so that the enemy cannot interfere with them and cause them harm. Nevertheless, My sheep can move freely, I guide them and coax and call but I do not keep them tied on a string, they are allowed to roam freely because I do not love constraint .... I do not want to hold on to My flock with force, instead, they shall feel their shepherd’s love and desire it and therefore follow Me in complete freedom when My call rings out .... And My call will ring out time after time, I will speak to people with all kindness, I will warn and admonish them, I will always help them when they are in danger, I will take account of their every weakness and fault and give them strength .... I will truly look after My flock like a good shepherd so that none of My sheep will die .... I will constantly let My voice ring out so that all those who once left Me will come back to Me again, who followed a deceptive voice but who shall return to Me again one day, in order to remain with Me and to experience My infinite love for all eternity.

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Loving activity means transformation of being ....

B.D. 6846 from June 7th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

You should all only make an effort to live a life in which unselfish neighbourly love is expressed. Then you will all still have to discard many faults, you will still have to fight against your self-love, you will have to overcome yourselves, make sacrifices and renunciations in order to help your fellow human beings in their adversity. But step by step you will reach the heights, for only a life of love will ensure your ascent. A life of love therefore also means your change of nature, the change of self-love to neighbourly love, the transformation to the former nature, it means the path to perfection. Nothing else can fulfil the same purpose, nothing else can bring you to the aim than only a life change in love. And you constantly have the opportunity to do so, for living together with people creates such opportunities for you where you can be active in serving love. (7/6/1957) Again and again you will see hardship and help your fellow human beings, you will support them through good encouragement and loving sympathy and also be able to awaken counter-love in their hearts, and again and again you will find yourselves in situations where you can prove your willingness to make sacrifices .... where you have to put self-love aside and think of your neighbour more if you want to comply with God's will. And thereby you will ascend yourselves, for then you will fulfil your earthly task, you will change your nature into love .... This change is certainly difficult for some people and requires a strong will, yet you need only make an attempt, you need only once have the serious will to ensure that your earthly life is not lived in vain .... and it would become increasingly easier for you to put your 'I' aside and take care of your neighbour, for every act of love provides you with strength and strengthens your will. And soon it would no longer be a sacrifice for you but you would find your own happiness in your activity of love, because with every deed of love you come closer to God, Who is love Himself, and because you experience your approach to God as bliss. A person who is absorbed in love for his neighbour will live in quiet contentment and inner peace, he will not know any earthly desires because he will also have what he needs; the love within him will not allow any unpleasant thoughts to arise in him either, he will go through earthly life with a cheerful mind and also exude a good influence on his surroundings, for a loving person is already close to his aim because he has found unity with God through love .... Yet this is only slightly obvious to his fellow human beings, who are also supposed to carry out this change of nature without any compulsion of will. But his example, the teaching of love put into practice, will inspire far more imitation than words alone can. In earthly life it is always only about this change of nature, about shaping oneself into love, about fighting one's own love and becoming absorbed in caring for one's fellow human beings .... But works that lack love are not enough .... For it is not the 'works' that do it, but the love that must underlie the works. And a truly paradisiacal earthly life can therefore only be expected by a human race which is absorbed in love for each other. And every work of love carries its blessing within itself, it has an effect on the neighbour as well as on the person himself who gives away his love .... whereas all thinking and striving, all activity and creation is worthless if it is not based on love. And this is what people lack in the last days, what they can only ever be taught but which they must try out on themselves in order to experience the blessing of unselfish love .... Humanity is particularly addicted to selfish love, and this is synonymous with standstill or decline but can never result in ascent .... which is why love has to be preached again and again and also exemplified to fellow human beings as a good example, for without love no human being can attain perfection ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Influencing the soul by the spirit ....

B.D. 6847 from June 8th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

Your thoughts can be spiritually or earthly directed during your earthly life, and therefore the aims you reach will also be spiritual or earthly. You are now not subject to any compulsion on earth, you are completely free how you shape your inner life and which thoughts you give priority to. During your time on earth the spirit in you, which is My share, makes an effort to find a hearing with you but it does not forcibly influence the soul .... However, the body also tries to assert itself with its desires and cravings which are far more earthly directed. It, too, seeks to determine the soul and make it inclined towards its desire, and the soul .... the thinking, feeling and wanting .... must now decide. At the beginning of its embodiment it will also comply more with the body's desire because it is still very earthly orientated itself, because its substances shall first approach spiritualization and therefore it is also influenced by the spirit. Now the spirit spark, as a part of Me, is love, and it only ever seeks to stimulate the soul into loving activity, the soul quietly feels urged to do so and can now act according to its thinking, willing and feeling. It can therefore work in love but is not forced to do so. If the body's influence is very strong then it gains the upper hand and holds the soul back from loving activity, if the soul listens to the spirit's quiet voice then it complies with its urging, and the consequence of this is that the spirit's strength can now already have a stronger effect, that its voice sounds louder and can convince the soul more and more to live right and according to God's will on earth. So spirit and body struggle for dominion over the soul .... They struggle to win the human being's thinking, feeling and wanting for themselves, and the aim the human being strives for and achieves on earth is also in accordance with the victory. The spirit is My share .... The body is composed of still very immature substances which therefore still more or less belong to My adversary. And thus I and My adversary wrestle for the human being's soul, which once came forth from Me as a self-aware entity but voluntarily surrendered to My adversary, but which has already largely travelled the path to Me and shall now decide anew in earthly life for the lord to Whom it wants to belong. But as soon as My spirit has already gained some influence in the human being, the connection with the eternal father-spirit has already been established, and now it is also possible for Me to constantly let My spiritual strength flow into a vessel which opens, because the soul, if it gives in to the urging of the spirit within itself, will perform deeds of love and increasingly open itself up to Me and thus always prepares itself more and more for the 'reception of the divine spirit' .... And now the influx of the divine spirit can also appear in an unusual way through various abilities which the human being now has at his disposal, so that then one can speak of an obvious outpouring of the spirit, as My disciples were also allowed to experience after My ascension into heaven .... For a process took place in them for the first time which only became possible through My act of salvation .... that the spirit was able to develop freely because My adversary's power over the souls of people who wanted to belong to Me was broken, whereas previously the souls were still so burdened by original sin that they were unable to hear the voice of the spirit within themselves and at the same time their will was too weak and their thinking was darkened .... But through My act of salvation the soul became free and it was now possible for it to listen to the spirit as well as the body, and only its will had to make the right decision .... but My spirit, which is love, helps it to do so. Once the spirit has gained the upper hand in the human being, then the right aim is also guaranteed, then it will no longer be possible for the body to win the soul for itself, rather, the soul and the spirit will still influence the body to likewise comply with divine order, and then the human being will be 'filled with spirit' .... then he will have passed his test of will on earth, then he will be an aspirant of the kingdom which lasts forever and bestows beatitudes, then the soul will have finally detached itself from My adversary and will now belong to Me for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Reason for the revelations ....

B.D. 6848 from June 9th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

I want to reveal Myself to all of you who listen to Me as a God of love, wisdom and omnipotence .... My revelations require but an open heart, a ready ear that listens to My voice when I speak . . . And My revelations will always be proof of My love for you, because I speak to you like a Father to his children: admonishing, instructing, comforting and promising love .... I want to touch the hearts of you who listen to Me; I want to make you happy by speaking to you, I want to give you something that will help you progress: light and strength, which is needed by every being in order to come closer to Me. Therefore, I speak to you.

However, I also want to reveal My fundamental nature to you, I want you to recognise Me as a God of love, wisdom and omnipotence and, once you have recognised Me, also see the Father in Me and then strive towards Me as My children. If you believe in My love, wisdom and omnipotence, then you will also surrender to Me in meekness and love and relinquish every resistance that still keeps you separated from Me. And that is the reason why I reveal Myself to you .... For you all should know that your God and Creator would like to embrace you with infinite love which, however, will not abide resistance. And in order to break your resistance, I speak to you, yet I will not force you to listen to Me. Nevertheless, you shall feel My love as soon as you hear My voice, you shall be touched by a flow of energy which shall prove to you that it is I Who speaks to you, but that the flow of energy becomes instantly less effective if you continue to resist, whereas it will keep growing when you are willing to accept My Word. I want to bring a light to all of you whose spirit is still dark and prepare you such that the spheres of light will be able to receive you. Yet this is only possible if, due to your faith in Me, you decide to live a life of active love .... If, however, you are able to love Me you will also feel the inner desire to do kind-hearted deeds .... and so that you may learn to love Me, I reveal Myself to you.

You humans on earth certainly speak of a 'God' Whom you fear and honour as a Power at Whose mercy you are, Which can destroy or judge you .... if you still believe in it .... but you do not offer Him the love He would like to receive from you. I, however, only want to be loved, for then a far better relationship can be established than fear can bring about. I want to receive your love and constantly pursue this love; yet you will only be able to love a Being Whose perfection you recognise and of Whose love, wisdom and might you are convinced. And if I can speak to you Myself, you will soon gain the conviction that My love for you is infinite, that My wisdom is unparalleled and My might unlimited. And then you will also surrender and long to unite with Me eternally. And thus, Words of love will continue to be spoken to you which seek to enter your hearts .... And anyone who willingly receives Me shall be gladdened by My Words, and I will open the gate to beatitude for him, for with My Word I will bring him a light and as soon as it shines, all darkness will leave him, he will recognise Me as the light of eternity, he will love Me with all his heart and stay with Me forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

True peace only in God ....

B.D. 6849 from June 10th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

You will only find true inner peace when you have joined Me, when your thoughts and intentions are directed towards My kingdom, when you grant Me access into your hearts. I alone can give you peace, for the world does not possess it and therefore cannot give it to you either. But it is something delicious to find true peace, for it is already a part of beatitude, it makes you immensely happy and is a sign that I Myself am in you .... You must find peace in God .... As long as you stay on earth your lot will be constant battle, because you will have to deal with the one who is your enemy and adversary. And he will not let you have peace unless you are completely at his beck and call, then you will seemingly have peace but it is more like self-deception, it is not a lasting peace, you are only blindly held by the one to whom you have granted the right to rule, and you do not see the dangers which surround you and therefore do not fight against them either. But whoever is not his, whoever is not yet completely enslaved to him, his life is a battle .... partly against him and partly against himself .... But he can emerge victorious from this battle, and then there is a peace in him which is incomparably blissful .... For then he will have found Me and I Myself will grant him the peace of his soul. But then nothing will frighten him anymore, neither earthly unrest and hardship nor spiritual danger, for he knows that One is watching in his place, he knows that I will no longer leave his side and that he is safe and secure in My protection. There is peace within him, a peace which can no longer be taken away from him .... But the people of the world are not interested in this peace, because they have to give up what the world offers and because they love the world more than the 'inner peace in God' .... Only when they have succeeded in overcoming matter, only when their eyes and thoughts turn to another realm, only when they have found the path to Me will they also desire peace from Me, but then they will no longer be able to understand that they took pleasure in the world, the battle against the world and its dangers will delight them, and then they will also emerge victorious and now also find the peace which the world could not offer them. Therefore it is truly not a bad exchange to have surrendered the pleasures of the world for the inner peace of heart. But only the overcomer can understand this, for as long as the world still entices and desires, true inner peace still counts for nothing to people. "But I will give you the peace which the world cannot give you ....", and what I have promised you truly has value .... It is a gift you should strive for with all diligence. For I want your soul to be made happy, but not the body, which takes pleasure in things which are not helpful to the soul .... You should find peace of mind because then I Myself can dwell within you and My nearness will only ever benefit you, because then you will know that you are safe and need no longer fear the enemy of your souls ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Jesus Christ opens the gate to eternal life ....

B.D. 6850 from June 12th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

The gate into a life of light and glory is open to all of you who have found Jesus Christ; however, it remains closed to those who are still distant from Him and His act of Salvation. Therefore you all should seriously ask yourselves whether you have already taken the path to Him, to the cross; for His path on earth ended with His death on the cross, hence you will have to seek and find Him there, and that is where you must go if you want to participate in His act of Salvation. The goal of His life on earth was the cross, because the crucifixion was intended to bring redemption to you humans.

Thus you will find the divine Redeemer under the cross, which means that you will carry your guilt of sin, for which the human being Jesus died on the cross, to Him under the cross, that you will thereby prove your belief in His divine mission and so also reveal your will to be released from the guilt which separates you from Me, your God and Father of eternity .... In that case you acknowledge Me Myself Who accomplished the act of Salvation in the human being Jesus .... Your path must lead to the cross of Golgotha if you want to reach the gate into eternal life, for no other path leads to this gate. All of you should seriously question your attitude towards Jesus Christ .... However, with the exception of a few, you fail to do so, even if His Gospel is repeatedly proclaimed to you, even if His teaching of love is time and again presented to you and you continue to hear His name mentioned as that of the divine Redeemer .... You keep your ears closed and all Words bypass you like empty talk. You are barely touched by what you hear about Jesus Christ and His labour of love, it does not enter your hearts, it has not yet come alive in you and you have not yet spent any serious thought on what you have received so far. One day you will have to stop short at the gate to eternity, you will not find admittance, for you had not found salvation as yet because you did not take the path to the cross, His blood was unable to cleanse you and therefore you will arrive at the gate to eternity burdened by guilt. It is not enough to merely voice Jesus' name with your mouth in order to be released from your guilt .... You must approach Him yourselves, you must hand yourselves over to Him with childlike trust and in awareness of your fault and sincerely appeal to Him that He should accept you, that He might also have shed His blood for you, and you must faithfully wait for His forgiveness .... And the weight of your guilt will fall away, clearing the path to the light and opening for you the gate into eternal beatitude .... Jesus Christ Himself will escort you into His kingdom, but without Him you will never be able to go through this gate. If only you would believe that His name is everything, that calling upon His name with profound faith will lift you out of all the adversity which is the result of the sin which still weighs you down .... This is why I descended to earth in the human being Jesus, in order to relieve you of the immense burden of sin and I died on the cross in order to redeem the great guilt which makes all of you sigh while you live on earth .... I died on your behalf .... but you must want to belong to those for Whom I have died .... Hence you must also take the path to the cross, you must make contact with Jesus Christ Who concluded His life on earth on the cross .... Then He will walk with you and guide you into His kingdom which He promised to all those who believe in Him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Reunion and associations in the beyond ....

B.D. 6851 from June 14th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

When souls which had been united in love on earth meet again in the spiritual kingdom they can unite and work together if they have the same degree of maturity .... otherwise one partner has to strive for the same degree which, however, will be eagerly supported by the other. And then both souls will be supremely happy to be able to create and work together, although their sphere of activity is now entirely different than on earth. The spiritual bond delights the soul far more than the earthly one, they are remarkably helpful and of service to the still unhappy beings, which are now recognised and loved as brothers by the more mature souls, and therefore everything is done to deliver them from their wretched situation. And for this reason they care especially lovingly for souls which had been close to them on earth and entered the kingdom of the beyond in a still immature state .... The already mature soul can indeed recognise its lifetime partner in the beyond, but he will be unable to see the former and often wanders about in desperate search for his loved ones ....

Especially the desire to see their loved ones again is a significant factor for attaining maturity of soul, for the desire draws the loved beings close to the soul, which then will tirelessly endeavour to bring it to the degree of maturity which will at last result in a reunion, even if it is just for a short period of time. Then it will strive ever more eagerly to reach perfection. It is, however, lamentable, if two souls, having been closely united by love on earth, enter the spiritual realm in a state of darkness .... if they so disbelief in a continuation of life that it would not occur to them wanting to see the other one again. Such souls will not meet each other and thus wander about feeling incredibly lonely. And even if they think of the one they had loved on earth, he nevertheless cannot make himself noticeable because he is wandering about like a shadow himself, unable to see or recognise other souls. Yet the souls of light are also taking care of these .... But they hardly can get through to them due to their unbelief .... They don't accept any advice to improve their state, they are completely lethargic, and only the thought of people they once loved is keeping them alive. Yet the love which thus united two people on earth is also a blessing for them in the beyond .... because a soul of light is capable of awakening in the soul a beneficial wish for the other, and this loving thought in itself can already ignite, irrespective to which level this wish relates, but it can be unselfish and therefore provide strength. And this strength subsequently expresses itself such that the soul will listen to the light beings' instructions, whose advice promises to be beneficial for the soul which is loved.

Immature souls still remain in the vicinity of earth, hence they merely feel separated but not as having passed away from earth, hence they try to overcome the apparently spatial separation and as a result also accept the advice of spiritual friends. And it is a great blessing if such souls are also granted intercession by people, as it will have a comforting influence on them and the gift of strength will result in a transmission of light, so that their thinking begins to become clear and realisation will gradually dawn on them. But they will never be able to experience the happiness of a reunion as long as they have not found Jesus Christ .... All efforts by the beings of light are leading towards motivating them to turn to Jesus Christ for help .... For the state of darkness is the state of the unredeemed, the state of those who have entered the kingdom of the beyond without Jesus Christ and who therefore have to find Him there first of all. Love can also prompt a soul to appeal to Jesus Christ that He might take care of its adversity; and if such an appeal on behalf of the other soul is rising up to Him, He will truly consider this love with kindness .... then these souls will be approached by loyal helpers on His instruction .... And even these souls will be allowed to experience a reunion on day, and they will praise and thank the One Who had delivered them from their hardship ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

In the beginning was the Word .... '

B.D. 6852 from June 15th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

In the beginning was the Word and the Word will exist for all eternity. The Word is the emanation of My love; it is My connection with every creation which, being conscious of its identity, desires to unite with Me .... Because only this desire, the will to hear Me, will result in a being's ability to feel touched by the Word's inherent strength of love. The Word provides the being with evidence of another being, Which thus speaks to it .... The Word emanated from Me when essence of being from within Myself entered into life. I gave the essence of being the ability to perceive something within itself which penetrated it as Word .... as a formulated thought .... and which demonstrated the presence of a second being wishing to communicate ....

Only the 'created' being needed My Word and therefore it is said 'In the beginning was the Word' .... I Myself exist eternally, but as long as no other spiritual being but Myself existed it was not necessary to pronounce My Word: however, I intended to speak to the created spiritual being in order to intensify its bliss. It was unable to see Me but I wanted it to hear Me, it should be able to share My thoughts, which therefore sounded as 'Words' within itself and which, in turn, stimulated the spiritual being itself to think, to freely use its mental capacity and its will .... because I had externalised the being to be independent, but it should also be able to stay in constant contact with Me through the exchange of thoughts, which expressed themselves through 'the Word'. I was filled with love beyond description when I created beings in the image of Myself and the urge to impart Myself to these beings motivated Me to speak to them and tell them of My love for them. In so doing they themselves also felt the bond with the Being, Which loved them in abundance .... Thus My love flowed into these beings in the form of My Word, and they too were able to respond to My love for they were the products of My love, therefore they were 'love' themselves in their fundamental nature .... They could also understand and reply to My Word. They were equally capable of communicating with each other by way of the Word .... but this always consisted of the thoughts which first flowed from Me to them in form of My Word .... For the Word came forth from Me, since I Myself Am the Word of eternity .... the all-creative strength, Which is love in Itself.

And the Word will exist eternally .... I Am eternal .... The Word had a beginning but it will remain forever because My created spiritual essence cannot cease to exist. Hence I will eternally speak to and thereby delight this spiritual being, just as the strength of My love will flow to the spiritual being thereby touching and delighting it in form of My Word. I Myself Am the Word, and I give evidence of Myself to My living creations by way of the Word. They can hear Me even if they are unable to see Me, and they can feel that I Myself speak to them .... their God and Creator of eternity, Whose infinite Fatherly love expresses itself in a way which verifies a link between the Creator and the creation, between the Father and His child. And the Word will sound for all eternity because the love for the creation cannot cease, and consequently the creation will also always experience this love ....

I will always speak to My children, I will pronounce My Word throughout infinity, I will not just speak to the spiritual beings of light but I will also speak to people on earth, who know little as yet about the infinite love of the Father for His children .... In that case I will make use of a person who joins Me voluntarily and therefore serves Me as an instrument .... For all people shall know that I exist, and they shall also have proof of it in form of My Word, the outstanding divine emanation of love .... However, whether they allow themselves to be addressed by Me, whether My Word touches their hearts, is only ever the result of good will, which I do not want to gain by force .... But anyone of good will shall also recognise Me Myself in the Word, and anyone consciously allowing himself to be addressed by Me has also received My illumination of love which will never be without effect .... And blessed is he who consciously allows himself to be spoken to by Me .... For he will enter the sphere of My love voluntarily, and then My love will constantly flow to him, and he will achieve the state again when he will hear Me always and forever because he has sincerely united with Me once again ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The father's safe guidance ....

B.D. 6853 from June 17th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

You must walk by My hand and you will truly be guided correctly through your earthly life .... A child which is ignorant of the way will go astray and no longer find its way back. And so do you humans if you remain without My guidance, for you are like underage little children whose knowledge is still weak and who therefore cannot be held responsible as yet but who have to be urged to obey so that they will not be endangered. And I likewise demand obedience from you humans as soon as you have recognized Me as your father Who well knows what serves you or can become a danger for you. And I speak to you with all love, I warn and admonish you, and you should listen to all these loving words of the father and act accordingly .... This is the obedience I demand of you, for again and again I emphasize that I require more from you, that you love Me with all your heart, because then you will enter into My will of your own accord and because I will no longer need to admonish you to obey, which you will then do for Me of your own accord, out of love. But you will remain children as long as you stay on earth, and you constantly need My protection and My guidance. And therefore you should repeatedly take hold of My fatherly hand, you should keep close to Me, you should not walk any path without Me, for I also want to be able to speak to you constantly .... I want you to listen to My words because I have wonderful things to tell you which will never come to an end .... because you shall still experience many things so that your knowledge will increase, so that you will be educated for your later activity which you will one day have to accomplish in the spiritual kingdom and which shall already begin on earth. But I also want to guide you in order to spare you perilous paths, for the enemy lurks everywhere who would like to stop your safe progress and wants you to fall .... But if you hold on to My hand then you cannot fall, and you will never be without support when an arduous ascent requires strength from you which you alone are unable to muster .... None of you shall walk alone and trust in your own strength, for you are all still weak little children who can be knocked down by the slightest onslaught. But if I walk by your side, if you walk your path by the father's hand, then whatever may come may come, you will be able to defy every danger, every resistance, for you will receive strength from Me for this as soon as you approach Me for it. And in close unity with Me you will also entrust all your hardship and worries to Me, you will pour out your heart to Me in childlike love, for My love, which you feel, will encourage you to do so, and your father will gladly assist you and take away from you what is troubling you, for I want to win your love, for which I have been longing for eternity .... I want you to be inseparably united with Me again, as it was in the beginning. But this bond can only be established by the love I solicit until it completely belongs to Me. Your path through earthly life shall lead to complete unity with Me, and therefore I always hold My fatherly hand out to you which you shall grasp in order to be able to guide you through it towards the right aim. And you are to be called blessed if you feel weak and look for a foothold with Me, if you yourselves reach for My hand which stretches out towards you. For then you can safely take the path to the end, for your father guides you with a loving hand ....

Amen

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All creations in the universe are schoolhouses ....

B.D. 6854 from June 20th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

People will rarely recognize the truth as long as they still hold on to erroneous thoughts and, as it were, always first build on erroneous thoughts and do not try to free themselves from them. Therefore every false doctrine is a good weapon of the adversary with which he also attacks the pure truth and often even wins. Once a false doctrine has taken root, it is far more difficult to uproot it, and it is easier to teach a completely ignorant person than one who has already absorbed knowledge which is, however, wrong. And there is always only one path to truth .... To approach Myself for it in full desire for truth .... Anyone who takes this path will also be able to free himself from error, for this will suddenly also appear to him as error, because I help every person to attain the truth who has approached Me for it .... Anyone who considers the whole course of development, anyone who seriously thinks about the meaning and purpose of earthly life in the first place ...., anyone who considers the question of what could have motivated a wise creator to let the creations come into being and to place the human being in the midst of these creations, will also thoroughly investigate the question of his own relationship to his creator .... And he will not rest until he receives a satisfactory answer. But this can only be given to him by the creator Himself from Whom he has taken his origin. Now the human being will not be able to overlook and understand My plan of love and salvation straight away because he only has insufficient knowledge if he does not live an exemplary life of love. But he can remedy this deficiency through a life of unselfish neighbourly love .... And as soon as he has gained knowledge of My plan of love and salvation it is impossible for him to give room to an erroneous thought within himself, because then everything will be clearly evident to him which motivated Me and My creative spirit to let the whole of creation, and thus also you humans, come into being. It was love in unlimited measure Which wanted to express Itself, Which therefore created beings and brought them forth from Itself which were supremely perfect. And these beings were created in such a way that they could also work and shape according to their own will. They stood immeasurably high and fell into the depths .... likewise in free will. But they must inevitably reach the height again on which they had stood in the beginning. They fell in free will and must also ascend in free will. But I, Whose endless love created them and Whose endless love the creatures will eternally possess, constantly help these fallen beings to ascend. I will never push back a being I love and which has already worked its way up or deny it ascent because this would contradict My infinite love .... In contrast, I do everything to constantly pull it upwards but I don't force it to do so. I leave the being its freedom, provided it has reached the stage in ego consciousness .... in contrast to the stage of its development where it ascends in the law of compulsion. In this state, therefore, it ascends according to My will, because otherwise it would eternally be unable to ascend, because it is no longer capable of doing so .... (19.6.1957) But as soon as it has regained the freedom of its will, no more coercion will be exerted on the being but it will always and constantly be helped so that it can reach the height if it wants to .... A measure of grace is poured out which is fully sufficient to reach the original state again on earth if it is used correctly. My love and mercy constantly applies to the beings which are embodied as human beings on earth because of their final test of will, and I truly do not give them scanty consideration .... I do everything that is suitable to bring them to perfection. Thus it is possible for the being to achieve this perfection. And so it is also a certain failure, an unutilisation of grace, an inner resistance, if it does not reach perfection. Then it is its own fault, the consequences of which it has to bear itself, because everything was at its disposal, because the human being carelessly passed by what was offered to him by My love and mercy .... The path before, until the embodiment as a human being, was a perpetual ascent .... the soul had already reached a high level when it was allowed to embody itself. And free will in the stage as a human being can earn it a relapse to the abyss again .... But My will will never cause a regression, I will never transfer the being back into a state which already lies behind it, which it had therefore already overcome, instead, the being created this state for itself, it voluntarily returned to where it had dwelled long before in unspeakable agony. Free will allowed this, but it could just as well turn upwards, it could strive for the most glorious aim: the complete unification with Me .... The fact that people's free will on earth is abused far more than it is rightly judged is only the consequence of the non-recognition of Jesus Christ's act of salvation .... The apostasy into the abyss would not be possible if the human being faithfully wanted to turn to Him for help, Who died on the cross in order to acquire strength of will for people .... And no human being will ever be able to reach perfection during his time on earth without Jesus Christ, because he is still burdened by his original sin which gives My adversary power over him. And if the soul enters the kingdom of the beyond unredeemed it will be in the same state of weakness as on earth, and it will need the divine redeemer's help just as it did on earth in order to ascend from the abyss .... In the beyond she will also be offered help but again be left with the free will to accept or reject it. And thus it can still rise or fall even then .... But it will never be pushed up by Me or pushed down into the abyss, it will go its own way in complete freedom of will. And thus a repeated earthly progress as a human being would only be possible if it was the being's own will, for My will does not allow for a return to an already past state, because I truly have enough other possibilities to provide the being with progress in its development. But an immature being which has departed from earth is completely weakened in will. It also usually doesn't know that it already dwells in the beyond, instead, it believes itself to still be on earth and only struggles with its fate because it only feels agony and unhappiness .... Yet it mainly stays close to people on earth who are of the same spirit, thus also in the same imperfection. And it seeks to express itself through those people, it transfers its thoughts to them and often impels them into actions which it wanted to do or did on earth itself .... But such a soul will never be allowed a re-embodiment on earth, even if it were its will, because for this soul a repeated course on earth would also be an increased danger of an even deeper fall and this is recognized and prevented by My love and wisdom. With increasing realization a being's will in the beyond is also strengthened, and then it would certainly be possible for free will to make a decision itself again and strive towards an aim .... But increasing knowledge also means light .... And in this glimmer of light the soul now also sees the field of activity which awaits it, and at the same time it also sees the safe ascent to hight .... Its free will now so surely directs itself towards the aim lying before it and would never ever desire to return to earth, which now appears to the being like a dungeon imprisonment from which it has escaped and which it would never voluntarily visit again .... (6/20/1957) But in the kingdom of the beyond it will be given tasks again, it will be required to be of service which demands its full activity. In accordance with its spiritual maturity this activity now takes place in one of My infinitely many schoolhouses, which therefore means the countless creations outside of earth .... the worlds and celestial bodies which shelter all spiritual beings for the purpose of their further development. Hence these worlds also came into being out of My will of love and again and again accept new beings whose degree of maturity just corresponds to this or that heavenly body on which they can now fulfil the task given to them: to participate in the work of salvation again with serving love. The soul does not need an earthly-material outer form for this. But it is self-aware and therefore also able to recognize itself at any time and everywhere and to work on its own authority out of My strength as soon as it has become receptive to light. And then it only strives to also help those souls to receive light who still walk in darkness, which it can easily recognize. And like a nightmare it thinks back to the time on earth where it was surrounded by a heavy shell and had no freedom. Only in very special cases will the soul voluntarily decide to take another earthly journey, but then it will already be permeated by light to such an extent that it will realize what help it means for people on earth if a direct connection is created for them from the kingdom of light .... And in order to place people in the blessing of such a connection it voluntarily takes upon itself this mission which it, as a being of light, also recognizes as extremely short-term. Such a being of light can no longer descend in earthly life either, for although it dwells on earth under the same living conditions the soul nevertheless has so much strength and never breaks contact with Me and thus also continues to draw strength from Me in order to successfully complete its mission .... Thus it no longer needs to pass the test of will which is required of every still imperfect being. Once an imperfect being has left the abundant blessings flowing to it unused, it must also bear the consequences of its neglect .... It cannot expect that it will be offered the same opportunities again and again, which it can also pass by again in its blindness and in its resistance against Me. But My love and mercy will not let any being fall, and what it cannot achieve on this earth can still be granted to it in My infinitely many schoolhouses .... it can one day attain beatitude, even if after an infinitely long time ....

Amen

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Pollution of air - water - food ....

B.D. 6855 from June 23rd 1957, taken from Book No. 73

Every human being may expect from you what you expect from him. You should give justice to everyone just as you demand the same from them. You should not apply different sets of standards and believe that you have greater rights than your fellow human being in those instances where you are beneficiaries of what has freely been bestowed upon you by Me .... what you have not acquired yourselves but what is at the disposal of all people equally .... meaning those spiritual and earthly riches which My love and My creative will always place at your disposal.

This includes all gifts which you receive from My hand .... which you cannot produce yourselves, which are present without your involvement and which contribute towards your continued existence .... which are necessary for your natural life and which may not be taken away from any human being if his life should not be endangered. These are the life preserving elements to which every human being is entitled and which may not be taken away from him by other people or the offence against My eternal order has far reaching consequences which not only affects the guilty people but also the creations and can even result in their termination.

You will understand this by merely asking yourselves what elements of life you require and imagine their diversity .... when you experience air and water and their composites and effect on yourselves, which give the human being complete health but which can also result in illness and destruction of the body's organs when, due to human will, contamination of air and water occurs that causes incalculable damage .... And the sinfulness of people already shows itself in the fact that they are not afraid to pollute these particularly important life preserving elements such that it brings about life threatening damage to their fellow human beings .... And just as every human being holds his own life dear he sins when he reduces his fellow human being's most essential necessities of life, when he plays a part in jeopardizing the life of other people .... In addition, 'endangering life' also includes when the soil, which produces nourishment for human and animal life, becomes deprived of its natural quality; when, by the use of artificial agents, the designated land for cultivation takes on a different quality, the products of which now also contain substances that are by no means beneficial for the human body. Human beings are interfering with natural law, what's more, they want to improve, that is, they portray My creations as imperfect, they want to increase the soil's yield and are using the wrong methods for that .... since they need only ask for My blessing to achieve truly blessed harvests as well ....

Another sin in this respect is the harvesting of fruit before it has ripened .... when, because of greed and materialistic thought, harvesting takes place in advance of the natural process of ripening and when, as a result, the human body is forced to fight against as yet immature substances .... which is not a merely physical but also a spiritual matter which is frequently unknown to you. But all this is integral to the disregard of My law of eternal order. The human being damages his fellow human, he does not treat him fairly and he contributes towards the steady increase of chaos on earth because only an earthly life lived within lawful order can have the right effect for body and soul.

Every human being has the right to have the order of nature upheld because I made creation for the whole of humanity and not just for one human being. Every person requires clean air, clean water and good food for his physical life and no human being is entitled to cause harm to another that he wouldn't want to be caused to himself.

But during the last period before the end there is no more consideration for the life of other people, all kinds of unscrupulous experiments take place, and always just because of ambition, greed or hunger for power, which endangers all healthy life. Thus he who wants to destroy all living creations to release the constrained spirit within in the mistaken assumption that it will then belong to him again, is triumphant .... All people who act in opposition to divine order have handed themselves over to him, they follow his suggestions and ignore My commandments which require love and justice ....

Everyone just thinks of himself and his own advantage, and the fate of other people leaves him untouched. The life of his fellow human being is no longer sacred to him, otherwise it couldn't come to what is to be expected with certainty: that the life of all human beings will be gambled with because the divine laws of nature will be overthrown .... because one day the elements will forcefully break through. Human beings themselves will be the cause of this because they sin against divine order, against My commandment to love God and their fellow human beings ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Proof of a 'living God' ....

B.D. 6856 from June 24th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

A living proof of My love for you is my word which you hear within yourselves and which signifies an unusual act of grace towards you. Admittedly, this word is not recognized by all people as coming from Me Myself .... your God and father .... Yet to those who receive it directly and who willingly and desiringly accept it from them again it will always be and remain proof that their father addresses them, that His love wants to express itself to His living creations and that there is therefore a direct connection from people to their God and father .... And these will be alive in thought and action because the word has awakened them to life, because as an outpouring of a living God it is 'life' in itself .... Only a few people allow themselves to be directly addressed by Me, because only a few people willingly accept my word if it is offered to them .... And therefore there is no real spiritual life on earth anymore; it is rather a state of death, even if people enjoy their physical life, for the life of the soul requires an influx of strength from Me which is life-awakening and which is therefore conveyed to the soul in the form of My word. On the one hand the human being must be given the knowledge of My will and on the other hand the strength to be able to fulfil this will of Mine .... The kind of activity he should carry out during earthly life has to be explained to him, and he now also has to be enabled to do so, because knowledge alone is not enough but action should also follow .... But whoever now allows himself to be addressed by Me Myself .... be it directly or indirectly .... will be instructed correctly, and he will also receive the strength to carry out the work on himself which gives life to his soul. But as long as you humans are still in a dead state yourselves, as long as neither your faith in Me is alive nor your will desires a right life, you will not live an earthly existence according to My will, and you are in danger of leaving the earth in the same dead state as when you entered it. Therefore, again and again I seek to give you evidence of the 'living God' by addressing you, and I seek to stimulate your will to open your ear and heart to My address .... This can have the effect that you now listen to what I say to you without inner resistance .... that you feel the awakening of life within you, that you release yourselves from the rigidity of death, that you become active in accordance with this address of Mine .... that my word has thus found its way to your heart and that you now no longer want to miss My address .... Then you have come to life, and now you will no longer lose life either, for I Myself can now guide and instruct you through My Spirit .... You are no longer dead and powerless but you live and constantly receive strength to also prove your life. And you now also believe in Me alive, for you have drunk from the water of life, you have been refreshed and refreshed by my word because you gave ear to Me and My address. And all people would be able to obtain the evidence of a living God, because the connection between Me and people on this earth always exists and only the willingness to participate is necessary. Then my word would also be able to touch your hearts, and the strength of my word would release the rigidity of death and help the souls to come to life, and the awakening life would also recognize the one Who gave life to the dead .... Whose love will also not rest until everything dead has been brought to life ....

Amen

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Admission of the spiritual work ....

B.D. 6857 from June 25th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

I do not resist the spirit in the human being, nor should you resist it if it wants to express itself, otherwise you run the risk of another speaking in and through you which can then take possession of you and completely confuse your thinking. The spirit within you is My part which only influences you in such a way that your return to Me is guaranteed if you listen to it. For the spirit from within Me continuously points you towards Me and shows you the path which leads to Me. But the opposing spirit also tries to gain influence over you but will never penetrate as long as My part of the spirit is active in you, because it cannot exist next to Me. But if you resist the spirit within you then you voluntarily open the door to the other, because you push Me away, as it were, which means the other's taking possession of you. My spirit is always ready to give, you can constantly request clarification through My spirit .... quite simply said: You can always pray to Me for enlightenment, for My guidance, for My protection .... And you will always receive enlightenment from within, you will receive instructions, for I Myself influence you humans through My spirit .... If you unite with Me through heartfelt prayer, then you will also allow My spirit to work in you, you will hand yourselves over to Me in prayer and I will reward you for your trust .... you will think and act logically in My will, which you also feel as an expression of My spirit. And it is understandable that My adversary also makes use of all these possibilities when he gains power over you .... But you grant him this power yourselves if you live your earthly life alone, if you exclude Me, if you have no connection with Me whatsoever .... You don't need to consciously unite with him but you are already enslaved by him because you belong to him as long as you don't consciously want to separate from him, which requires the very bond with Me. You make an expression of the spirit impossible because the spiritual spark in you is inseparably united with Me .... thus it does nothing without Me, without My will, but which you first have to incline through conscious recognition and devotion to Me. Then a light can shine in you which is so bright that it permeates everything, that wrong thinking or wrong speaking and acting is simply no longer possible. Then My spirit's working will be obvious, then I will have completely won you over for Me, and then My adversary will also no longer be able to intervene because he shuns the light and can only work where there is still darkness, which is why he always tries to spread and intensify the darkness. I can only ever call out to you: Do not resist the spirit in you through ungodly attitudes and sinful actions, for then you will render it ineffective yourselves and open yourselves to all evil influence. And you walk in complete blindness, in ignorance over this earth and cannot reach the light. But a spark of light slumbers in you which can become a bright fire, a light which illuminates everything and makes you unspeakably happy. Ignite it and chase the prince of darkness out of you, so that then the Eternal Light Itself can take abode in you and you will no longer need to fear darkness forever .... so that My Spirit may now work in you and fill you with light and strength and bliss ....

Amen

(This translation was created by an „artificial intelligence“ using the original documents ‘Word of God’ received through the ‘Inner Word’ by Bertha Dudde.)

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The earthly path of angel-beings ....

B.D. 6858 from June 26th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

Being allowed to live on earth is also the wish of non-fallen beings, which indeed live in unimaginable happiness but were unable to reach the highest perfection of childship to God, which necessitates the path across earth. These beings' wish will be granted, and they will travel their path under extremely difficult circumstances in life on earth, but generally will attain the final goal, although as human beings they don't know their origin. They are, however, very frequently and severely tempted, and their earthly life, too, is particularly difficult and sorrowful, yet since their souls came from above they are far more willing to love and therefore also recognise the purpose of their earthly life very quickly, thus steadfastly following their goal despite their externally difficult circumstances, ill-health and all kinds of adversity. Attaining childship to God is the highest goal for the beings in the spiritual realm which, however, can only be accomplished by overcoming the abyss .... Consequently, such beings will predominantly embody themselves particularly in times of people's spiritually low level in order to carry a ray of light into a world of profound darkness .... For wherever a person willing to love is working on earth a soft light will be shining which is soothingly touching his fellow human beings' souls. And a being of light will always bring such a soft shining light along to earth, since love in the soul will not need not be ignited but a small flame is already glowing when it enters into earthly life.

But such people will often be treated with hostility and have to prove themselves .... hence pass the test of will as well, which this life on earth requires. For God's adversary will tempt particularly them in the hope of bringing them to fall, which he once failed to succeed in doing. Nevertheless, the human being is not left defenceless against his power since his spiritual friends will always support him and provide him with strength, which he will at all times request from God. For a soul from above will never relinquish its bond with God, even though it is free in its will and actions. And thus in times of spiritual decline messengers of light and love will arise time and again, who openly acknowledge God and work for Him and His kingdom .... people who are permeated by His spirit and who eagerly and with conviction proclaim the divine Redeemer and consider it their task in life to lead their fellow human beings to the cross, because they understand the significance of the sacrifice on the cross and therefore also know the danger people find themselves in .... They gained this knowledge through their life of love, and therefore they can also be diligent representatives of Jesus Christ and His act of Salvation.

Especially in times to greatest spiritual adversity the helpers will descend from above but without knowledge of their origin. For they, too, will have to pass the test of will, they often have to live a most difficult earthly life for the sake of their goal and on no account are they allowed to be spiritually so influenced that they are compelled in their thinking, talking and behaviour .... But they can always expect help when they need it, since they will always take the path to God, Whom they recognise as their Father and Whom they love with all their heart .... This is why their hearts are always open to receive a flow of strength from the spiritual kingdom, and reaching their goal is usually assured and only at risk if the person establishes contacts on earth which want to pull him down. The soul will not have to fear a fall into the abyss yet there is the danger that it will not achieve the highest degree of light, nevertheless it will keep its former happiness .... only that it is no longer the created angel-being which can't help but think and act in accordance with divine will, but that it has gone through earthly life and proven its free will and its direction, so that it thus can enter into the highest spheres of light in order to be indescribably happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Blessing of mental communication with God ....

B.D. 6859 from June 28th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

Anyone who listens to Me when I speak to him takes the reliable path of ascent .... And I speak to all those who receive My Word, who in turn accept it from those who question Me in thought and who thus also may regard the thoughts they receive as My Words. You cannot think wrongly once you have acknowledged Me as the source of truth by directing your thoughts to Me, once you want to know the truth. Nor can you take misguided paths anymore once you appeal to Me for guidance .... But you must willingly offer Me the opportunity to speak to you, and that always happens when you mentally occupy yourselves with Me, your God and Creator, for every thought of Me calls Me to you, and I follow this call.

You should often occupy yourselves with Me in thought, because this means that your heart is receptive for My communication and because you can only ever gain by this, for then you will also constantly receive the strength to do what I ask you to do, what My communication conveys to you as My will. You have to establish the connection with Me yourselves, because you had once isolated yourselves from Me .... You need not do anything else but think of Me without a will of resistance .... I Am always willing to meet you as soon as I recognise in your thoughts the resolve to make contact with Me .... And then you are truly protected from taking misguided paths, since now that I can speak to you I have also gained influence over you. Thus it is truly not difficult for you to acquire an immeasurable amount of everlasting riches in earthly life, as this is the result of your mental bond with Me.

It is completely impossible to leave Me empty-handedly, it is completely impossible that I will not make use of such a bond and remain silent in you, for I Am only waiting for such quiet moments when you make contact with Me, when you enter into conversation with Me or approach your God and Creator with questions, and I will certainly answer you again in the form of thoughts, if I cannot speak to you directly through the inner Word. This is why every person has the opportunity and the right to communicate with Me, and every person will receive as much as he desires. Even if nothing is visibly given to the body, the soul can still receive unlimited riches for itself. I want to speak to you, and I will speak to every one of you who thus is willing to listen to Me, who wants to hear My voice .... You all should avail yourself of this assurance, you should excel yourselves and devote every free minute to Me, and you would truly use your time on earth well. Then the connection would be established ever more frequently, because you would desire Me from the bottom of your heart, Whom you now recognise as your Father and constantly wish to be spoken to by Him. And you will also gladly comply with everything, you will fulfil My will because you have already adopted My will as your own, because the constant bond with Me also results in a constant submission to My will and because you have become enlightened as to Who I Am and what kind of relationship exists between us .... Think of Me daily and hourly, never exclude Me from any undertaking, constantly let Me be present with you by mentally calling Me to you .... And you will truly not take the path through earthly life in vain, you will grow and mature and reach the goal .... You will join Me once more in order to never ever separate from Me again ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

No liberation without Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 6860 from June 29th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

You need Me if you want to be liberated from your adversary .... You cannot free yourselves from him on your own, you need help and only one can provide it: Jesus Christ, Who overcame the adversary by His death on the cross .... I Myself was in Him, and He and I are one, thus you have to request help from Me in Jesus Christ, and you will truly receive it .... If you acknowledge a God yet cannot relate this God to Jesus Christ, the divine Saviour, then your acknowledgment of God is not yet certain. Then you merely speak with your mouth, without faith in your heart, and then you walk your earthly path without Me, and you will be unable to become free from the one who opposes Me and still controls you, and whose power you cannot overcome by yourselves. Believe Me when I tell you that you need Me .... or you will not fulfil the purpose of your earthly life: the separation from the one .... whom you once followed voluntarily .... and the return to Me, your God and Father since eternity. I Am always willing to help you get away from him but you have to request this help from Me because your will determines whether I can liberate you, since the adversary has the same claim on you as long as you share his will, which amounts to renouncing Me.

However, your weakness as a fallen being is taken into account .... A human being died for you on the cross for the sake of love and mercy, Who knew of your weakness and hence also that it would be impossible for you alone to break the chains put upon you by My adversary, although it was your own fault. I embodied Myself in this human Jesus because I took pity on your weak, helpless, tormented state and because I wanted to give you the opportunity to return to Me and to your original state, which is freedom and bliss for you .... Thus I made the sacrifice of compensation on your behalf, in a manner of speaking I Myself paid for the guilt of your past apostasy from Me in the human being Jesus, and I offered My adversary the ransom for you to set you free if you ask for it yourselves .... But you also have to voice this request, you have to want to come to Me, and you have to want to belong to those whose souls I have bought back from your master ....

You have to make use of Jesus Christ's help, you have to call to Me again in Jesus Christ, and you can certainly do so if you believe in Him, in His act of Salvation, in My human manifestation in Him .... Only then will you have certain faith in Me Myself, then I will have become alive in you, and then you will no longer walk your earthly path without Me, but then you will also surely reach your goal. And thus you only need to seriously question the purpose and objective of your earthly life and your true task .... And you should only have the sincere will not to have failed at the end of your life on this earth .... And if you have this will, then ask Jesus Christ for help, the only one Who can help you .... because He and I are one, and when you call to Him you call to Me, and your call will not go unheeded. Anyone who genuinely wants to reach the goal of his earthly life will soon have his thoughts guided into the right direction and he will realize that there is no help without Jesus Christ .... But I cannot determine the innermost desire .... that is free .... I can only ever warn and remind you again, I can stimulate your thoughts .... but you have to act in accordance with this inner desire, and such will be your state of maturity when you leave this earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Evaluation of the existence on earth ....

B.D. 6861 from June 30th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

Your existence on earth is too little evaluated by you humans. You take it for granted and don't think about the purpose for which it was given to you, indeed, you sometimes rebel against the fact that you were placed into the world without your will if you don't like the course of earthly life. And yet you have taken it upon yourselves in full knowledge, it was presented to you before your embodiment, and you have approved of your earthlessness because you see in it the possibility to finally become free of all material fetters. You are mistaken if you believe that you have to live on earth as a human being against your will, for no being is forced by Me once it has reached a certain degree of maturity that it is no longer subject to the law of compulsion. And all of you who lived on earth had that degree of maturity which only allows you to embody yourselves on earth. But you had to be deprived of the recollection of the agonizing past because otherwise you would never be able to reach the aim set for you on earth. But you should not rebel against the fate which determines your earthly change .... You should only let yourselves be convinced that your earthly progress is not pointless and always know that everything you encounter in earthly life only serves this purpose: that you mature for a life in freedom and bliss. Yet as long as you only see earthly life as an end in itself you will grumble and complain and inwardly rebel if it does not give you complete fulfilment. But you also know that you yourselves are powerless in the face of fate, and this should make you worry .... For if you rebel .... against whom is your disapproval directed? Surely you must then acknowledge a power which is stronger than you, which therefore imposed on you that which makes you indignant or dissatisfied? And if you therefore acknowledge this power, Which once gave you life and then also determined your course of life, then you would also have to grant this power that It pursues a purpose with it, and in this realization you would have to bow to It and only ask to be able to evaluate your earthly life according to this purpose, so that it is not lived in vain. But on the one hand you know about your own powerlessness and yet you do not submit yourselves to the stronger power, Which constantly proves Itself to you .... And therefore you do not make use of your life, instead you only rebel inwardly and seek to shape your life according to your will on your own authority .... You can also do this without being hindered by Me, yet as long as My love and mercy are meant for you I must also intervene and again and again make Myself known to you in My might, for this alone can result in you voluntarily submitting to Me for once, in you recognizing that earthly life is only a means to an end but not an end in itself .... And only then will you fulfil your actual task in life, you will entrust yourselves to the power you have recognized, you will voluntarily submit yourselves to It and ask for guidance and strength to successfully end the earthly path. For all people can also derive the greatest benefit for their souls from the most difficult experience, however, only if they find the right attitude towards Me, their God and creator of eternity .... if they recognize in Me their God but also their father, Who truly only wants to prepare bliss for His children and therefore applies the most diverse means so that they will reach the aim .... Then their earthly path will also always become easier because they will now cover it with Me, to Whom they are now completely devoted ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

'The table of the Lord' .... Divine Host ....

B.D. 6862 from July 1st 1957, taken from Book No. 73

Let yourselves be guided to the table of the Lord where He Himself distributes the nourishment and refreshment He has prepared for you. You are all invited to be His guests and the Host wants to make everyone happy, He wants to offer you something you will not be able to receive anywhere else .... He wants to satisfy everyone with His flesh and blood, with His Word of eternity, which is of vital importance for the soul, providing it with the strength and light that can only be offered by Him directly. All your souls are still weak, you must constantly receive the sustenance which gives you strength for your task on earth; all of you are still spiritually blind as well, you must receive light and regain your sight in order to recognise and subsequently take the right path .... All of you are needy and must be given food and drink .... The heavenly Host realises that, He is aware of your soul's adversity, and thus His love has prepared sustaining nourishment and a refreshing and revitalizing drink .... Therefore He calls everyone to His table to enjoy what His love has in store for them. He gives Himself to those who want to take Supper with Him, for He bestows His Word upon them .... And He Himself is the Word of eternity. Hence His Words 'Whoso eateth My flesh, and drinketh My blood, hath eternal life ....' And furthermore He said 'Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man .... opens the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with Me...'. He brought Himself to people, for He is the Manna That comes from Heaven, Which people shall take pleasure in so that they may enjoy eternal life. However, He Himself must offer it, that is, you must enter into direct communication with Him and receive from His hand that which shall grant you life .... It is His table you should come to, you should be His guests, don't let yourselves be offered nourishment in places where He Himself is not welcome or where you are too distant from the Host Who invited you to come to His table. People everywhere are invited to Supper, no-one is excluded and everyone may dare to come to His table without distinction, all who need it will be fed and refreshed and all who travel the path through earthly life are in need of it. And so, truly, no-one who accepts the constantly offered invitation will need to starve and go short .... For the Host continuously sends His messengers into the world and they speak to all those who cross their path. They show them the way to a hospitable house, the path to enter the heart, which need only open its door in order to let the One in Who wants to distribute delicious food and refreshing beverage. And they may all receive without limit, for alone the will of being allowed to be His guest is enough for the Host to take special care of him and to give him what his soul requires. And once the soul has allowed itself to be fed at the table of the Lord it will no longer be satisfied with other food, time and again it will return to Him and always accept the bread of heaven from His hand. It will receive the Word of God directly from the One Who is the Word of eternity and Who gives Himself away to anyone who desires Him and His Word ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The disciples were also taught by God ....

B.D. 6863 from July 2nd 1957, taken from Book No. 73

I Myself want to teach you and proclaim the gospel of love to you again, as I did on earth. My disciples, too, had to receive this gospel in the same way as I now impart it to you, they, too, had to listen inwardly to what I spoke to them, and after My earthly death they had to let My spirit speak to them, which told them the same as I Myself did during My life on earth. My disciples, too, were previously ignorant of it, and I imparted to them a knowledge which was completely unknown to them, but the basis for receiving such knowledge was present in them .... And thus I can now only speak directly to those who can also demonstrate the necessary prerequisites .... which enable the working of My spirit within themselves through a life of love, through complete devotion to Me and complete submission to My will. For only these are able to hear the subtle voice within themselves which gives them knowledge of My will again, of the divine teaching of love, which is the epitome of the gospel which shall be proclaimed to you humans. And it makes Me Myself happy to be able to introduce you to knowledge which shall reveal My love, wisdom and omnipotence to you .... You shall learn about My plan of salvation, about My infinite love for you and about the aim you can reach if you accept the gospel of love and make an effort to live accordingly. I also want to make you happy with this knowledge which, however, will only come alive for you when these prerequisites are present: a life of love .... a fulfilment of My commandments of love for God and neighbour .... For only then does that knowledge signify 'realization' .... whereas otherwise it can certainly also come to you but remains dead knowledge which does not result in progress for your souls. But if I Myself can instruct you, if I can speak to you directly, then these prerequisites will also be there, then you will be able to understand everything like My first disciples and also pass it on, because My spirit will enlighten you so that your thinking will be right and you need not fear any erroneous thoughts. And I truly take pleasure in being able to guide the truth to earth, for truth is My nature, and people who are still subject to the prince of darkness mostly live in a world of lies and error .... If I can now bring light into this world I can oust him from his territory, I can gather people around the light which emanates from Me, I can give them the truth and thereby chase My adversary away, I can invalidate his activity, for the truth will make him and his activity recognizable and he will lose his following because the truth will also drive him towards Me Myself, Who is the eternal truth. I have promised you the 'comforter', the 'spirit of truth', who will guide you into all truth .... and I also let My promises come true .... But I set conditions for this which you now also have to fulfil because I do not unlawfully invade a territory which belongs to My adversary .... But if you fulfil these conditions you thereby also prove your will to detach yourselves from My adversary's territory, and then I can come to you and in the form of My word .... through the working of My spirit .... bring you light and freedom. So then I can teach you like My first disciples .... I can give you the proof that I still dwell amongst you just as I did at the time of My life on earth. I can speak to you and you will hear Me, I can let you gain insight into My reign and activity, into My plan of salvation which only aims at your perfection; I can make you see who previously walked blindly through earthly life .... I can guide you into all truth, as I have promised, for my word is and remains eternal truth, and every promise comes true ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Earth is a place of perdition .... Devils ....

B.D. 6864 from July 3rd 1957, taken from Book No. 73

The opposing prince will deploy all of his vassals in order to gain victory in the last battle on this earth and in their darkness these beings believe that they will win. Admittedly, he will be very successful with people on this earth the closer the Judgment comes, the last day of this earth .... Yet the apparent victory will be his assured loss, because those he believes himself to have won will be removed from his influence and banished into matter again in order to advance once more. And many of his vassals will also be banished into the hard form, since they will have descended so low that their spiritual substance solidifies, and thus the being forfeits its self-awareness again and, dissolved into individual tiny particles, must repeat the process across the earth again. Many of these lower beings will be incarnated on earth in the last days, and God allowed this to happen for they, too, should still have the opportunity to find redemption during their life on earth as a human being .... Yet with few exceptions these beings only use the opportunity to influence their fellow human beings in a negative sense, thus they admit openly and freely their affiliation to God's adversary, therefore they can also expect to suffer the same fate as he .... to be bound again for an infinitely long time. Such a being could truly find redemption, because it receives the knowledge of Jesus Christ on earth and would only have to surrender to Him to liberate itself from its present lord .... But in their heart of hearts they are wicked and wholly satanically minded .... And thus the opposing prince works with them and this truly successfully, insofar as he makes many people's return to God more difficult since their influence is far greater than that of the beings' of light which, on God's instructions, are likewise constantly working on earth, directly or indirectly. In view of the conditions in the last days many beings of light are also embodied on earth. This is because both masters fight for people's soul and both masters will also use all means at their disposal to gain influence over the souls ....

And thus the time of the end comes ever closer, and you humans will be put under ever increasing pressure by the adverse power, the activity of satanic forces will surface ever more obviously, and calm and peace can only be found rarely amongst people, for even those who look for peace will be unable to protect themselves from the influence of these forces .... However, they should not let themselves get carried away; they should humbly endure everything and only ever call upon God for His support .... They should entrust themselves to all good spirits to settle seemingly inevitable arguments, for these are the adversary's weapon to incite people against each other, to disrupt the peace. And he finds many people following suit, who through their conduct demonstrate that they belong to him, who do not resist being taken possession of by satanic forces and who then will also readily accomplish what the latter demand of them. And these will be atrocities which can only be hatched out in hell, so that true devils will inhabit the earth in the end and there will be no more space for the few good people who are faithful and loyal to God. Earth will have become a place of perdition and therefore will have to be cleansed again from this spawn of hell .... For it shall serve as a place to mature for the spiritual beings which are close to attaining perfection, and this is almost no longer possible anymore. Hence a forcible act of purification will have to take place, and that which the adversary believes himself to have gained will be removed from his control .... new creations will accept the spirits and the adversary along with his followers will be bound again .... And peace will reign on the new earth, which will truly arise as a paradise for all those who remained loyal to God ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Activity of love .... law on earth and in the hereafter ....

B.D. 6865 from July 4th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

The same law applies to every human being on earth and every being in the spiritual kingdom: to be active in love. On earth the activity of love helps to achieve perfection and must therefore also be practiced by the still imperfect beings in the kingdom of the beyond so that they progress on the path to ascent. And once the height has been reached, once the being has reached perfection to such an extent that it is now receptive to light, then steadfast activity of love will make this being happy again, because this now means 'passing on the light' which it receives itself .... because steadfast activity of love is divine working, thus fulfilling the law of eternity. For love is everything .... It guarantees union with God and eternal bliss, redemption of the still imperfect spiritual, preservation of all existing and also the emergence of constantly new creations, which have their foundation in divine order and His greater than great love. Love is the power that is constantly active in the entire universe, in the earthly and in the spiritual realm. It is the divine law itself, and a violation of it is also irrevocably an act of destruction which not only affects earthly creations but also becomes recognizable in spiritual states to the one to whom this law is sacred. Therefore it cannot remain concealed in the spiritual kingdom if the beings have violated the law of love, for they themselves, which were beings of most perfect beauty in the beginning, have become deformed, disgusting beings and as such are also recognizable to the beings of light, which, however, do not turn away from them in disgust but in merciful love want to help them back to their former form, which corresponds to the law of divine order. Without love there is no order, no harmony, no peace, without love there is no bliss .... and all states which a being feels to be deficient or tormenting are evidence that the being lacks love, that it has stepped out of divine order. And all these conditions will not change until the being itself has changed to love. But this is not to be understood as a person's external appearance on earth, which lacks perfect beauty, indeed often shows deformities which give rise to questions and doubts .... For such an external form can conceal a well-designed soul which has voluntarily taken on such an external form (for the sake of its certain perfection). And deformed souls can also dwell in outwardly perfected people, for it is merely a matter of the spiritual being, which therefore has to place itself under the law of divine order in order to be blissfully happy. For a life of love only creates spiritual values, for earthly things pass away but works of love follow the human being into eternity. If people on earth could already see spiritually then the effect of the activity of love on the souls would also be apparent to them, and they would only ever gaze in amazement at the perfected beauties which walk amongst them. Such evidence, however, cannot be given to people who, in all freedom, have to fit into the law of divine order .... And likewise, their spiritual friends and helpers can only approach the unfinished souls in the beyond in a veiled way, and in all freedom of will they have to follow their advice, which only ever amounts to activity in love. But they cannot be released from this law, from its fulfilment .... Love must also break through in them, otherwise they will eternally be unable to attain beatitude. For only love cancels the separation from God, only love brings about the union with Him .... And only love returns the being to the state of perfection in which it once emerged from God's hand ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Recognizing and acknowledging a creator power ....

B.D. 6866 from July 5th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

The human being is mostly unaware of the purpose and aim of his earthly existence, for as soon as he does not sincerely believe what he has been taught about it, these teachings are also irrelevant to him. And therefore he will only ever follow earthly events and his own fateful course of life and be more or less satisfied with it, yet only ever with regard to earthly effects and his own state or situation in life. And only one question will ever remain for that person, which he will not be able to answer for himself. Then he will also walk along in a state of inner indifference or inner resentment but he will never find full satisfaction in his earthly existence, which seems pointless to him. A veil hangs before his eyes .... If he can lift this veil he will see a radiant terrain which appeals to him and frees him from his indifference towards earthly life. For now he recognizes his aim and strives towards it .... But it is difficult to open the eyes of those people so that they can behold something hitherto unknown to them .... But a person will never again be able to close his eyes once he has glimpsed an area where there is light and warmth, where he was made happy by knowledge, where hitherto unanswered questions answered themselves, where the truth shines towards him and gives him complete enlightenment and satisfaction. And therefore no man should think himself knowledgeable who does not feel inner peace and inner happiness, for he has not yet looked into that radiant terrain. Before his eyes is still the veil which darkens everything, which covers everything, although earthly knowledge fills the human being but which never gives the feeling of that inner contentment because it is transient. Only the right direction clarifies man's thinking, and the right direction consists in wanting to fathom those areas which remain closed to the intellectual researcher. But they can be opened up .... And that is what people doubt .... that it is possible to get behind the secrets of the eternal creative spirit, that this creative spirit Himself is willing to reveal them to the one who seriously desires enlightenment. He who seeks and finds fullest satisfaction in the world does not desire to know what is hidden from him .... But anyone who is left unsatisfied by the world should turn his attention to unsolved problems, he should think further, earthly knowledge alone should not satisfy him, he should look for a connection between himself as a created being and the eternal creator-spirit, no matter how he imagines it. He should also recognize and admit this connection because he himself is powerless in the face of fate .... And he should also consciously seek to enter into contact with the creative spirit of eternity .... with the power which he can recognize above himself and thus should also acknowledge. Then he will already enter an area which was previously unknown to him, for that power will reveal Itself to him .... Whether you humans want to believe it or not .... you have the possibility to cause this supreme power to reveal Itself only through your will alone .... You can desire and also receive an immeasurable amount from It, for It does not deny Itself to you because you are Its creatures and .... even if standing in isolation .... are and remain indissolubly connected with It. The concept of God does not yet need to be completely clarified for you if only you bow to the omnipotent creator power, Whom you cannot deny .... And your thoughts will now go completely different ways, waves of thoughts will be received without resistance, which will circle around you and give you ever new enlightenment because they flow towards you from that power to which you bow, with which you desire to be connected. You will not remain without an answer if you ask questions in this contact, yet you must sharpen your spiritual ear in order to hear the subtle voice which answers you .... i.e., you must now wait in truly serious desire for the thoughts which now come to you, for these are the expressions of that omnipotent power Which wants to reveal Itself to the earnestly desiring person .... No thinking person will be able to deny this power, no matter what he calls it .... but it exists, and man himself is its product .... a being which is capable of thinking and has a will of its own. And thus the creative spirit must also be granted thinking ability and will, the characteristics of an entity in highest perfection. Only this realization should suffice to entrust oneself to this power, to request information from It about the meaning and purpose of earthly life and to express to It the willingness to strive towards the actual aim .... And then the human being, recognizing his own weakness and shortcomings, will also appeal to this power for support, for strength and light to be able to successfully cover the path of life .... And his request will not be in vain ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's power of love guarantees success ....

B.D. 6867 from July 7th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

Only where I Myself work with My power is there success. But success is also guaranteed there .... You should all make this certainty your own, that nothing can fail you if you make use of My strength .... if love drives you and you appeal to Me for support .... For love draws Me Myself to you, and your prayer will certainly be answered, because everything is good for which love is the driving force. Every person can therefore have an inexhaustible source of strength at his disposal if love impels him to unite with Me and I can therefore work together with him. Thus every human being could achieve extraordinary things which, however, only seem 'extraordinary' to fellow human beings but in truth are entirely natural: that the human being's powers, which were originally possessed by the being that embodied itself as a soul in the human being, come to fruition again .... that this being allows itself to be permeated by My strength of love again, the rejection of which caused it to become a deficient and powerless being. People could truly achieve incredible things if they wanted to request and use the strength of love at their disposal from Me, for they need not fear any restriction from Me, unlimited strength comes to them from Me. But this requires conscious opening through a lovingly sent up appeal to Me. Then the being has voluntarily expressed that it believes in Me and desires to be united with Me, and then it will also receive unlimited strength. A person who has kindled love within himself also knows about the fellow human being's unhappiness who has neither knowledge nor a convinced faith .... He is then driven by the love within himself to help him, and then he can make use of My strength at any time, i.e. approach Me Myself for help, and then I will work unitedly with him, or else he will work unitedly with Me .... But love must always strive for a work of help in order to be successful. No selfish interests may be involved, it only has to be the will to help which prompts the human being to call for support if this success is to be achieved. Whether it is a matter of spiritual or physical need is irrelevant .... I will never deny My strength, for a person's love for his fellow human being is the guarantee that he can draw strength from Me without restriction. For this, too, is quite easy to explain: that without love even faith in My help is weak and therefore My strength cannot be used either, even if your mouth utters a prayer which may well be well-intentioned but without strength of faith nevertheless only remains a structure of words and thus no living call which reaches My ear. For love is already the strength which now becomes active, love is the guarantee for My presence, and love carries the certainty of success within itself. And thus I only ever want to enlighten you as to why you are weak, why your prayers are also often not answered .... A call sent to Me by a loving heart cannot go unheard because love speaks to love and love always opens and grants itself. But a prayer which lacks love cannot have any effect because it does not reach My ear. Love for Me or love for the fellow human being must be the cause of a prayer which shall be fulfilled. And love for a fellow human being is valued extremely highly, it makes Me Myself happy and makes Me abundantly willing to give, or even .... love in a person's heart opens the door wide to the influx of My strength of love and now also enables the person to unusual activity, to unusual persuasion, to unusual help of every kind. For love is strength which nothing can oppose, which only then keeps quiet when it encounters blatant lack of love, which is like a resistance which love, however, does not break by force but holds back until this resistance is given up. But for the most part resistance does not withstand true love for long, the person surrenders to whom love would like to bring help .... because then I Myself can work and truly no-one resists Me for long ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers