New Revelation recieved by Bertha Dudde

Proclamations No. 8325 - 8424

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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

8325 - True servants of God.... Instituted words.... Working of the spirit....

8326 - State of weakness.... love gives strength....

8327 - The soul's union with its spirit....

8328 - God’s ceaseless help on the earthly path....

8329 - Great spiritual need in the end times....

8330 - Call of the shepherd.... great spiritual need....

8331 - Jesus lived life for the people....

8332 - Decision of the will, ability to think.... voice of conscience....

8333 - Task to spread the Word....

8334 - Who was "Abedam".... (household of God - debate)

8335 - In the hereafter only the truth brings bliss....

8336 - Transformation to love....

8337 - Examination of spiritual 'receptions'....

8338 - God will implement His act of Salvation....

8339 - Twilight in the afterlife.... faith in God....

8340 - Power influx through connection with the light-filled world....

8341 - Introduction to spiritual knowledge....

8342 - Go to the source....

8343 - Action-love.... good example....

8344 - God's commission to His servants....

8345 - New redemption period....

8346 - Living out the divine commandments of love....

8347 - Devotion to God ensures beatification....

8348 - God wants to be loved and not feared....

8349 - Redemption of the guilt of sin through the blood of Jesus....

8350 - The word of God is proof of Himself....

8351 - Confused thinking of humanity.... Admitting the truth....

8352 - State of paradise on the new earth....

8353 - Messiah, Saviour of humankind....

8354 - State of powerlessness and lightlessness....

8355 - Jesus' promises must be fulfilled....

8356 - God's care for the vineyard labourers....

8357 - Knowledge of the cause of the deficiency....

8358 - Limitation of God's effect of love....

8359 - Bonding with God guarantees His illumination of love....

8360 - False reports from the astral world.... "spiritual guides"....

8361 - The end is near....

8362 - Christmas message 1962

8363 - "I am with you all the days.... "

8364 - The human being's duty is to scrutinise spiritual information....

8365 - The adversary's onslaughts in the last days....

8366 - God applies painful means....

8367 - Childship to God is the object of life on earth.... The Word of God....

8368 - God's address proves His presence....

8369 - Living faith at the time of the faith struggle....

8370 - God's decision is final....

8371 - Clarifying traditional doctrines....

8372 - Right light and blinding lights.... Love doctrine....

8373 - ‘Whose soever sins ye remit....’

8374 - The house-father assigns the work to His servants....

8375 - The church of Christ in its beginnings....

8376 - Healing power of water at the spring....

8377 - God's help for the purification of the soul....

8378 - Correct decision of will in the state of self-awareness....

8379 - 'The powers of heaven shall be shaken....'

8380 - Inner mandate to spread the truth....

8381 - Spreading the truth.... Love life....

8382 - Purpose of divine revelations....

8383 - Illumination of the divine light of love....

8384 - Knowledge of the purpose of life on earth....

8385 - Feeding the soul is a priority.... Communion....

8386 - The light from God illuminates the way up....

8387 - Indication of the many adversities before the end....

8388 - Mis-educated truth cause for new revelations....

8389 - Warning against changing the word.... Love one another....

8390 - Turning away from the world brings in spiritual gain....

8391 - Error to be corrected again and again....

8392 - Can the pure truth be guided to earth?....

8393 - Extent of knowledge dependent on degree of love....

8394 - Purification of the soul....

8395 - Does man have free will?....

8396 - Truthful enlightenment about plan of salvation from eternity....

8397 - Spiritual state before the crucifixion.... Book of Books....

8398 - God's merciful love....

8399 - God is from eternity....

8400 - The soul's entry into the kingdom of light....

8401 - The soul's realisation what it once had been....

8402 - Impact of the knowledge of the plan of salvation....

8404 - Evidence for the authenticity of the gospels....

8405 - Different kinds of creations correspond to the beings' fall....

8406 - Language of God by cosmic events....

8407 - Examining spiritual information....

8408 - Enlightenment about "outpouring of the spirit"....

8409 - "He who abides in love.... "

8410 - Fight against error.... Light conditions desire for truth....

8411 - Redeeming cooperation in the end times....

8412 - Every spiritual work has a redemptive effect....

8413 - "Work while it is still day.... "

8414 - The significance of life on earth as a human being....

8415 - Knowledge of the plan of salvation.... Working of the adversary....

8416 - Difference between the 'working of the spirit' and 'psychic' receptions....

8417 - The soul is imperishable.... State of ego consciousness....

8418 - Grace of the act of Salvation: fortified will....

8419 - What is meant by "plan of salvation from eternity"?....

8420 - Only through the work of redemption is "divinisation" possible....

8421 - Address of God proof of His existence....

8422 - Jesus is God....

8423 - Unkindness causes lightlessness and transformation of the earth....

8424 - Condition for receiving truth: to give up knowledge of mind....

True servants of God .... Instituted words .... Working of the spirit ....

B.D. 8325 from November 10th 1962, taken from Book No. 88

You, who believe in Me and the working of My spirit within you, receive extraordinary knowledge from Me .... And this knowledge obliges you to communicate with your fellow human beings, for you don't just receive it for yourselves, you merely act as mediators between Me and people whom I cannot address directly but who urgently require truthful information in order to be able to fulfil their earthly task. Their will to draw closer to their God and Creator again has to be stimulated, and therefore they must be enlightened about Me and their relationship with their God and Creator .... They know about My will and their task on earth .... Only then can they be held to account as to whether and how they make use of their earthly life. They must also be informed of the process of return they are going through themselves and the reasons on which this is based .... For all this knowledge can help people to reflect about themselves and give their presently purely worldly attitude a spiritual outlook so that their pilgrimage across this earth will not remain unsuccessful but result in their return to Me and to supreme bliss, as was destined for them in the very beginning.

This task of distributing the knowledge conveyed to you from above is your most important work, the implementation of which can lead to tremendous blessings .... I Myself will support any task you undertake on My behalf, for the result could be that I will win back countless saved souls which My adversary has to return to Me if it is their own will. And then these souls will have completed a process of development which has lasted for an infinitely long time already .... but which can be prolonged for an infinitely long time again if the human being fails on earth .... I convey to you, My messengers of light, such extensive knowledge as to enable you to carry much light into the spiritual darkness .... And your fellow human beings need only open their hearts and ears in order to partake in a greater than great treasure of grace which you are permitted to unearth because you want to be of service to Me. You shall only ever distribute the bread of heaven and the water of life, the healing strength of which is true wine for your souls .... Then you will be My true disciples to whom I give this instruction just as I gave it to My first disciples when I took the last Supper with them. Although I handed them food for the body they nevertheless knew that My instruction meant the distribution of spiritual food .... they knew that My Words called them to the teaching ministry, that they should carry My Gospel into the world, that they should nourish their fellow human beings' souls with My Word which they had received from Me and continued to receive through the working of My spirit within them ....

Thus I called these disciples and instructed them to go out into the world .... But this instruction first required them to receive from Me the bread of heaven, the water of life, for they were meant to pass on divine gifts and not human ideas which do not benefit the soul. Thus, as long as these proclaimers of My Word and their successors were called to teach through the working of My spirit within them, they were My representatives, My disciples, and therefore the successors of My first disciples who had received the true Gospel from Me .... And everyone can regard himself as My disciple, as successor of the first disciples whom I had called to the teaching ministry .... in whom My spirit works such that he is introduced from within to extensive knowledge which cannot be intellectually acquired .... And even traditionally adopted spiritual knowledge first necessitates My spirit's working in the proclaimer so that he can fully understand this spiritual knowledge and pass it on in a way that it will have a truly beneficial effect on those who are being taught ....

Only a spiritually awakened proclaimer of My Word is a true successor to My disciples .... and not those preachers who decided for themselves to make it their career and who believe that they can academically acquire the knowledge with which they then want to work in My vineyard .... These labourers are unsuitable for they have to wait until I call them Myself, prior to this they cannot work properly in My vineyard because I Myself want to work through My spirit in those who are active for Me and My kingdom. And neither can this calling come from fellow human beings, from someone who, in turn, has also taken up his office without an inner calling, who was also made a 'servant of God' by his fellow men .... This teaching ministry carries so much responsibility that it truly also requires the qualifications for it and human will or human action can never suffice to confer such an office .... I descended to earth Myself in order to bring My Word to humanity, the knowledge which corresponds to the truth, which grants complete enlightenment and returns a person into a state of realisation which was his share before his apostasy from God .... I brought this Word to people Myself and .... since I was only able to stay for a limited period of time on earth .... chose suitable vessels for Myself whom I filled with My flow of spirit, whom I instructed Myself and .... since they lived a life of love .... to whom I also promised the working of My spirit while they carried out My instructions ....

And you humans know that due to people's free will the purest truth can be spoilt if the conditions no longer exist which permit the working of My spirit .... Do you really believe that all people who claim to be My 'representatives on earth', who claim to be the successors of My first disciples, displayed the prerequisites which enabled the working of My spirit? And thus the pure truth was no longer guaranteed, for a person who has not shaped himself into a vessel for My spirit can be easily influenced by My adversary, whose sole intention is to always undermine My pure truth .... This is why countless misguided teachings were able to assert themselves without being recognised by them as such .... For wherever My spirit is as yet unable to work darkness still prevails, for only My spirit ignites the light in the human being, for My spiritual spark is love, and love is also light and strength ....

As the divine spark of love in the human being .... the spark of God's spirit .... unites with the eternal Father-Spirit a bright light has to shine which no error can endure, because it will be exposed and refuted by the truth from Me, Who will only ever support the pure truth and make it accessible to you humans .... Understand that this was the real meaning of My last Supper with My disciples, that they thus received the instruction to bring the pure truth to people and at the same time mention My act of Salvation and My human manifestation in Jesus, therefore I said: Do this in remembrance of Me .... For only by proclaiming the pure Gospel was it also possible to provide people with the knowledge of My act of Salvation .... And since this knowledge is extremely important I mentioned it with the above Words, for all people who want to become blessed should remember Me .... But as long as precisely these 'instituted' words are misunderstood and associated with a completely senseless action there is still profound spiritual darkness in people .... And this I why I now instruct My last disciples again to carry My Word into the world, the pure truth which I was able to convey to them through My spirit 'which effectually worketh also in you that believe' ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

State of weakness .... love gives strength ....

B.D. 8326 from November 11th 1962, taken from Book No. 88

You should never believe that I will withdraw My love from you if you have failed, for I know about your weakness, I know about the afflictions you are exposed to on My adversary's part and I also know about your will which is devoted to Me. And therefore I will only ever help you up when you have fallen, but I will never pass you by without having granted you support. Time and again you will get into difficulties, time and again the enemy of your soul will try his hand at you, and your resistance will always flag, even if it is only for a short time, for since your will is meant for Me you will also confess your weakness and call upon Me for help. And you can be sure of it .... you will also no longer consciously sin because you want to belong to Me and have also manifested this to Me through your inner attitude towards Me, yet time and again you will fall into states of weakness, for My adversary knows exactly where you are still vulnerable and he always attacks you there .... He takes advantage of your weakness and wants to tempt you into sin .... Therefore you should always be vigilant and pray for strength so that you will not fall in hours of temptation .... Yet you need not fear the enemy, for as soon as you stand by My side he will no longer be able to control you, for I am truly stronger than he is and I will protect you as soon as you desire My protection. But earthly life will remain a battle for every human being until the end because he is not yet perfect, for My adversary will not give up struggling for your souls for that long either. But anyone who has once given himself to Me can also be certain of My constant protection. And no matter how persistently he will exert his influence .... I will pour out My grace to the same extent and influence people with My love who want to escape him and his power .... It is only ever a matter of your free will which lord it turns to. And as soon as you believe in Jesus Christ and His act of salvation you need only call upon Him to strengthen your will, and truly .... the adversary will lose, you yourselves will emerge victorious from the battle waged for your soul. But without a fight your earthly course would also be unsuccessful .... Unless love is so brightly kindled in you that you are constantly of service, that you then have already reached a high degree of maturity which pushes the adversary away from you, for service with love is the only means from which he flees, because it spreads a bright glow of light in which his evil activity is recognisable. The human being must serve or fight until the end of his life .... Serving with love will make him happy himself, for it will earn him an abundance of strength .... But the fight requires strength, and this he must request from Me or acquire again through loving activity. And if you now stand in love then you will no longer fall into states of weakness in which you succumb to the enemy of your souls, in which you become sinful .... where you stumble and can easily fall. Therefore only ever make an effort to live a life of love and all weakness will leave you so that you will be able to resist all temptations of the adversary and only fulfil My will. For through your activity of love you draw Me to yourselves, and where I am My adversary has lost all right and all power ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The soul's union with its spirit ....

B.D. 8327 from November 12th 1962, taken from Book No. 88

I reveal Myself to you humans in the most simple and understandable way, for My Words are not solely intended for the intellectual person but for all who desire the truth, even if they do not possess a keen intellect. However, I speak to them in a way that they can understand and therefore I avail Myself of a plainly spoken person, who can also be understood by everyone when he speaks to them from person to person, because then I will work through My spirit if he takes part in spiritual conversations .... When My Word is therefore conveyed to Earth it also happens in a way that the contents of My revelations are clear and understandable. And thus every person will be able to understand that the process of the spirits apostasy consisted of the fact that they rejected My illumination of love, My 'spirit of love' .... and that the return to Me also consists of the fact that they will voluntarily accept My illumination of love again .... that they thus must unite themselves with My spirit once more. The union with My spirit takes place when the divine spark of love, which is placed into every person as My share, gets kindled into a bright flame which incessantly strives towards Me, the Primal Fire .... Then the fallen original spirit will have become its fundamental element again, and this consciously .... For even after its apostasy from Me it remained My strength because My emanated strength of love cannot cease to exist .... Hence the return to Me can only be achieved consciously and this requires free will, which is returned again to the previously constrained being as a human who must subsequently use it correctly .... The original being certainly takes the path of return in an unconscious state .... dissolved in countless tiny particles .... while it is bound within the creations of earth. This return is an act of grace on My part, because I want to help the extremely deeply fallen being to reach the point again when it can receive its free will back. But then the unity of the spiritual spark with the eternal Father-Spirit must take place if the final return is to be accomplished.

The original spirit, which travels the earthly path as a human soul, will remain distant from Me for as long as the human being is without love, for I have also given him a spark of love which he must first ignite before a union with the Father-Spirit can be accomplished, for only love can achieve this union, and love must voluntarily be practised by a person, which also makes the illumination of My strength of love possible and the being becomes again what it was in the beginning .... The soul is a fallen original spirit .... Consequently, when it is said that the soul unites with its spirit, then the latter should always be understood as the spirit of love from Me, which the original spirit once rejected and thereby closed itself to all illumination of love .... As a human being the soul .... the once fallen original spirit .... carries a tiny spark of divine spirit within itself, but it must voluntarily acknowledge it, which it consciously does when it opens itself to My illumination of love and thereby becomes lovingly active itself .... Thus it has the spirit within itself and it is its earthly task to let itself be influenced by this spirit, which will always result in the fact that the person will practise love and through love unite with Me, since I Am the Eternal love Itself. Hence the soul unites itself again with its spirit .... The original spirit no longer reacts negatively towards Me and My illumination of love, instead, it consciously strives towards Me, it wants to be illuminated by Me and every distance between us is abolished .... It is the same divine original being again which originated from Me and after its voluntary apostasy also voluntarily returned to Me again, except that it has become My 'child', which I was unable to create because it required the created beings free will to become supremely perfect. Thus it deified itself voluntarily and can now create and work with Me in supreme beatitude and free will which, however, is the same as Mine, because a perfect being cannot want and think differently than I, as I Am the most perfect spirit in infinity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God’s ceaseless help on the earthly path ....

B.D. 8328 from November 13th 1962, taken from Book No. 88

I forever want to bestow My gifts on you because My love knows no limits .... And if a person consents to My direct action in himself then it is also his will to receive My gifts, then it does not amount to compulsory faith since he opens himself to My gift of grace because he believes in Me .... But I cannot work openly where this faith is absent, therefore no human being will hear My voice if he does not enter into conscious contact with Me due to his living faith as a result of love .... I want to give people whatever they need, be they spiritual or worldly possessions, for as long as My living creations are still imperfect they require constant support to accomplish perfection; and for as long as they live on earth as human beings they also need earthly support in every sense. But only I know to what extent ....

I know the state of the soul's maturity and thus I also know what it needs to mature .... But I also know of its earthly needs, I know what can be useful for the soul and what causes it harm and I give to everyone according to his nature .... because not all human beings have the same nature. Due to your pre-existence, due to your development through the creation, every soul has shaped itself differently, thus I have to take care of everyone individually in order to give him what he needs .... Even earthly I have to consider you differently since your soul's condition necessitates this. You all need My particular care, therefore you should believe that everyone's spiritual success, which I intend to advance by using the right means, is close to My heart .... My love wants to guide you into highest maturity because I want and can make you infinitely happy in My kingdom.

Since you voluntarily turned away from Me some time ago, and thus your imperfect state is your own fault, everything you receive is a means of grace. My love will not cease until you are united with Me again because you came from My love and will irrevocably return to Me again one day. But you can be certain that My means of grace will be successful, just don't resist them, you should not close yourselves to My love by opposing Me, by giving yourselves to My adversary who will use any means to prevent your return to Me .... I require of you a conscious change towards Me which simultaneously means a turning away from My adversary .... But then My love will take hold of you and will never let you fall again ....

However, if you have no room for thoughts of Me in your hearts then it belongs to My adversary, and then it is only filled with worldly thoughts, with earthly wishes, with all kinds of lust, and then he has taken complete ownership of your (hearts) soul and can only be cast out with great difficulty. Although My love will persistently attempt to bring about a change of your will with all manner of strokes of fate, you must always fight for yourselves to change the direction of your nature. And you cannot be forced to do so, thus I cannot talk to you directly, because such a communication would amount to a compulsion of faith and will. You have to take the path to Me voluntarily and truly, you will find helpers everywhere to ease your path and carry a light ahead of you so that you may know the way. And then I will accompany you Myself, I will offer Myself as your guide and you will be blessed if you accept My guidance and completely surrender yourselves to Me .... Admittedly, I will guide you away from the world but you won't look back, you will no longer desire the realm you have left voluntarily, instead your eyes will be directed upwards and only seek one goal, Myself .... And you worldly people can believe that I will fight for your souls and pursue you with the same care, that I will cross your path time and again because I don't want to lose you, I want to direct your mind towards spiritual possessions which are eternally unchanging, and therefore I want to open your eyes to the fleeting nature of the world .... You still have a short time during which My love and grace pursues you, as long as you don't resist Me you will be blessed with My love and grace .... And I will talk to you time and again through My servants, I will give you a most effective means of grace if you don't oppose Me and consciously accept My grace ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Great spiritual need in the end times ....

B.D. 8329 from November 16th 1962, taken from Book No. 88

You must not be surprised at the confused views of people in the last time before the end .... no matter in which field .... My adversary rules everywhere, and he influences the thinking of those who are not completely firmly united with Me. But My own will ask themselves how it is possible that such wrong thinking has set in amongst humanity, for they are guided by Me Myself in their thinking and therefore cannot understand the direction of humanity's thoughts, because they have little faith and go their way alone without Me .... and therefore My adversary can join them. Earthly and spiritually people have turned away from truth, from natural feeling and from everything good and beautiful .... In contrast, they pay homage to the world in the most blatant form, i.e. they distort everything and have lost all feeling for what is right and good .... And spiritually they are in deepest darkness, they know nothing about spiritual correlations, about their God and creator and their task in life on earth and desire to know nothing about it either. They live in a completely wrong direction of will and therefore give My adversary unrestricted power which he uses in the most evil way. And help is impossible as long as the desire to gain clarity in all things does not arise in them. This desire must arise from them in the realisation that the world and its goods are transient and that their life cannot only be an end in itself but must be a means to an end. They can gain this realisation as soon as they have lived themselves out, as it were, as soon as they have enjoyed earthly what seemed desirable to them .... Hours of inner reflection can come which make the life they have lived so far seem stale and absurd, and then it is possible that they will undergo a change, that they will be accessible to the speeches of fellow human beings who walk the right path and try to convince them that their path is the right one. And people should take pity on the spiritual hardship of their fellow human beings and intercede for them ..... For such prayers do not go unheard. Yet for the most part the adversary retains his power over such people, and the spiritual hardship becomes increasingly more threatening and also causes the transformation of this earth .... For as soon as the spiritual low point is reached a destruction of the old earth with all its creations is also justified, a total transformation of everything that contains immature spiritual substances for the purpose of ascent development. Before the end of a redemption period this disinherited state will always be amongst people because many people will walk across the earth at that time who still harbour much immature spiritual within themselves but whose time has expired, which was granted to them for release from the form. These people can reach maturity in the time until the end but they have to give up their resistance against Me, they have to change their will and turn towards Me .... Yet they lack faith in Me as God and creator Who can and will give them strength .... But without such they are too weak .... But they are constantly pointed to the power which gave them life, both through My word, which also reaches these people at times, and through their experience, their own fate and that of their fellow human beings .... For I reveal Myself to all people who only think about what earthly life gives them .... The human being is completely free to think, he is certainly influenced by My adversary or also by the forces of light, but he is not forced to think in the same direction as those. But as long as the human being possesses the ability to think on My part he also has to answer for how he has used his earthly life, for everything is done on My part to stimulate his thinking .... (11/16/1962) And therefore it is also possible for such people to reach maturity on earth which allows them to enter the kingdom of light .... who enter this earth in a still very immature state .... They may be of whatever nature they want, it is not impossible for them to change and reach perfection, because My grace flows to everyone in an unusual way and only needs to be utilised .... And I even take a very weak will into account by letting such people get into situations where their resistance decreases and it could be easy for them to turn to Me .... I use every means which still promises success so that the soul will not fall into the lot of new banishment .... But I must leave them the last freedom. And it is a great mercy if they are prematurely recalled from earthly life, because then they will no longer be able to fall deeper on earth and everything will truly be tried in the kingdom of the beyond to protect them from a further fall into the abyss. But then they will still stay close to earth, and they can also follow the fate of many people on earth who were close to them in earthly life .... They can also still think in the spiritual world, even if they are often confused, but time and again they are granted assistance by the beings of light which present themselves to them in the same garment. who join them in the same garb .... and talk to them .... Every effort is made to bring the souls on the path of ascent, always without compulsion of will but with loving care, which is sometimes also recognised and gratefully accepted .... But as soon as this period of redemption comes to an end the gates into the spiritual kingdom are closed, i.e. the separation of the goats and sheep has already taken place on earth .... Only those people remain who are faithful to Me and will be raptured to the new earth .... But the others are My adversary's followers, and they also share My adversary's fate .... They will be bound again for an infinitely long time. And therefore you should not pity the people who are called out of life, for there is still an improvement to be achieved in them, they have not completely fallen prey to My adversary, even though they can still sink in the kingdom of the beyond, whereas those who stay behind certainly still have the opportunity to turn back until the end and will then also be saved from the downfall, but they will make little use of this opportunity and therefore face a dreadful fate. And you will also be allowed to regard the departure of your loved ones beforehand as an act of grace on My part, and as soon as you let loving thoughts and intercession follow them you will no longer need to fear that they will be lost .... These assurances on My part shall always comfort you and explain all strokes of fate, misfortunes and disasters where many people lose their lives .... For I want to reduce the number of the wretched who experience a new banishment as far as this is possible .... For it will be very high, after all, My adversary is active in the end in such a way that he has and retains a large following. Yet one thing is certain, that every single soul will be fought for on earth as well as in the spiritual kingdom, that everything will be done to guide people onto the right path and to provide assistance to the departed souls .... For all shall attain beatitude ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Call of the shepherd .... great spiritual need ....

B.D. 8330 from November 17th 1962, taken from Book No. 88

Only a few listen to My voice that sounds from above .... It is only a small flock that I can gather in the end and lead home into a better world .... be it on earth or in the spiritual kingdom .... And that is why I still pursue each individual soul to the end and entice and call it to find its way back to Me .... As a good shepherd I seek to save all sheep that are in danger of falling, that have lost their way and can hardly manage the path alone. I will leave none of My sheep without help and do everything to free them from the clutches of My adversary who broke into My flock, drove them apart and wants to prevent them from finding their way back to their shepherd .... And anyone who heeds My calls and follows them will also be protected by My strong arm from these attacks. And therefore My voice will always and forever sound and everyone will be able to hear it, for since there is dense darkness they must first hear My call and follow it, then it will also soon become brighter, they will attain light and freedom, for I am truly a good shepherd Who has prepared a home for all His little sheep where they feel at ease .... I want to lead people to beatitude, I want them to find their way home into their father's house, and therefore I speak to them time and again from above. People need much help in the last days before the end because they are weak and constantly threatened by the enemy of their souls. Yet how few accept the help which their father of eternity wants to give them .... How few listen to Me and follow My words .... And no matter how unusually I appear, they pay no attention to it and force Me to use means which affect them painfully but which nevertheless can still be successful and therefore can also be regarded as proof of love on My part .... Then, too, only a few will find the path to Me, yet for the sake of these few I will leave no stone unturned, for they will be saved from the dreadful fate of a new banishment, and only I know what that means .... The spiritual adversity on earth is immense, and it is this that prompts Me to intervene, which is imminent for you humans. Believe these announcements of Mine and prepare yourselves by establishing contact with Me through thoughts or heartfelt prayer .... For as soon as you have established the bond with Me you can no longer get lost, even if your degree of maturity is still low, but you have acknowledged Me Myself and then you need no longer fear the fate of a new banishment .... and even if you lose your earthly life I can still accept you into the spiritual kingdom where you can still ascend. Then you will have followed your shepherd's call and returned to Him, and My adversary will have had to release you, for as soon as your free will acknowledges Me you will no longer reject Jesus Christ's act of salvation if it is truthfully explained and substantiated to you, and you will take the path to the cross, even if it only happens in the kingdom of the beyond, but redemption is nevertheless assured to you. Only call upon Me in great adversity when My voice sounds to you from above, which expresses itself through the forces of nature .... Call upon Me so that you will not be lost again for an infinitely long time. But before that I will guide My word wherever there is still a willing soul which recognises My voice as the 'voice of the father', and everything possible will happen to save souls from ruin who are only willing, who give up their resistance against Me and allow themselves to be taken hold of by Me and My love .... For I truly take no pleasure in prolonging My living creations' path of suffering, I only ever want to provide beatitude and help all My living creations to become blissfully happy. And therefore I only want people to experience My nature, which is love, wisdom and might .... that they trustingly turn to Me in every earthly or spiritual adversity so that they can prove their will to Me and I can help them .... And therefore I will speak to people until the end, I will not stop warning and admonishing them, I will call and entice My sheep, for I am truly a good shepherd Who will gather His small flock before the end comes ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Jesus lived life for the people ....

B.D. 8331 from November 18th 1962, taken from Book No. 88

The life of the man Jesus on earth was a continuous service of love, for He wanted to give people an example of a right way of life in order to induce them to follow Him and thus also to receive the blessing of the effects of a life of love .... He Himself was filled with love, for He brought love with Him from the kingdom of light from which His soul had descended to earth .... He was not burdened with the original sin which consisted of the beings completely renouncing their love, that they rejected their father's illumination of love from eternity .... He was most intimately united with the father, and thus He also constantly received His illumination of love and therefore brought love with Him to earth .... And by virtue of His love He also knew what lack of love meant for people .... He knew that they were darkened in spirit without love and that they were therefore completely enslaved by the one who, devoid of all love, ruled them and caused them to act in a way that was contrary to God .... And He took pity on this great misery of people .... He drew all people into His sphere of love and served them by taking care of all earthly needs of those around Him, by healing their sick and freeing them from their weaknesses and infirmities .... And He also took care of the spiritual hardship by teaching and trying to introduce people to the truth in order to dispel the darkness from them .... to enlighten them that they could only return to God through love again .... For He knew that He would accomplish the act of salvation for humanity in order to make the fallen brothers' return to God possible again, which could never have taken place without His death on the cross as the redemption of the original sin. Yet the act of salvation could only be successful for people if they now also lived a life of love, because only through this could they regain their original nature .... because only love made it possible to approach God as the eternal love .... This is why He taught constantly and the content of His gospel consisted of the divine teaching of love .... the commandments of love for God and love for one's neighbour .... which His disciples were then also to spread throughout the world .... Therefore you people should walk the path of following Jesus .... You should live a life of love but also patiently accept a measure of suffering. For Jesus' earthly path was unspeakably sorrowful and He already knew beforehand what great suffering awaited Him and yet walked this path of His own free will .... For He had come to earth to make an immense atonement to the father for His fallen brothers. This guilt of sin could only be redeemed by an unusual path of suffering, and this was truly walked by the man Jesus .... Yet the love within Him also gave Him the strength to do so .... He was filled with divine love, His body contained eternal love itself .... And thus He also constantly drew the strength from it which enabled Him to accomplish the act of salvation. God Himself was in Him, His soul was a soul of light, and only the body belonged to earth which still contained immature substances but which the man Jesus spiritualised through His life of love and finally through His suffering and death on the cross .... Thus He exemplified to people the life which all people can lead with His help, i.e. as soon as they are redeemed through Jesus Christ and have found forgiveness of their sin .... For without this redemption they are too weak to live as followers of Jesus, they will neither practise love nor be willing to bear suffering because the original guilt still weighs them down and thus they are under the influence of the adversary who caused their fall into the abyss .... But anyone who is willing to take the path of following Jesus also acknowledges Him as the divine redeemer, and he has carried his guilt under the cross, he asks Him to strengthen his will, for he will make use of the blessings which the man Jesus acquired for him through His death on the cross. And his soul will also mature through love and suffering .... It will .... as being rid of its original sin .... will now also be able to cast off all dross, which love and suffering bring about .... For Jesus did not speak the words in vain: Take up your cross and follow Me .... He went before you as the bearer of the cross, and you are to follow Him. He took the strength for His walk on the cross from the love that dwelt in Him .... You humans can make use of Jesus' love and His strength at any time, for He is the eternal love itself, which took abode in His fleshly shell, which completely spiritualised this shell and radiated through it in order to make itself visible to the beings which once emerged from the eternal love and wanted to behold God .... But the human being always has to put himself into that state through love which was his own in the beginning .... He must accomplish the change back to love as long as he remains on earth, and he can do so if only he takes refuge in Jesus Christ .... if he follows Him and takes the path of love and suffering ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Decision of the will, ability to think .... voice of conscience ....

B.D. 8332 from November 19th 1962, taken from Book No. 88

The stage of ego-consciousness is the last stretch for you on the path to perfection, which you, who possess free will, can reach .... but you can also ruin it again for a long time if you use your will wrongly again. At this stage of ego-consciousness, when you walk the earth as a human being .... you are gifted with intellect, i.e. your ability to think allows you to deal with everything you experience .... And through your thinking you now enter into contact with spiritual forces which try to determine your souls to want and think in the same direction as they do .... And since negative and positive forces fight for your soul, both kinds of forces will therefore also try their hand at you, they will transfer their will to you, i.e. they will interfere with your thinking and try to win your will. And thus you must know that you bear responsibility for your earthly life, for your existence as a human being was given to you for the purpose of moving your thoughts in God-ordained order, and you are also able to do so, for you are urged from within to think and want correctly by the voice of conscience .... A small admonisher and warner is within you which lets you recognise good and evil and which always tries to determine you towards the good .... The slightest devotion to good also results in the activation of good forces, so that your thoughts are also pushed in the right direction ..... And furthermore, God will ensure that His word is made accessible to you, that you become acquainted with the commandments of love for God and your neighbour, that you are given knowledge, even if it is only slight at first, about your God and your neighbour. about your God and creator .... And it is up to you to find the right attitude towards Him, to follow the influence of the positive forces which will always direct your thoughts towards God and the spiritual kingdom .... At the same time God's adversary will also try to gain influence over you by sending negative thoughts, and you yourselves, i.e. your will .... will now decide whom you listen to. But you have been given the ability to think by God because you should decide for yourselves and because you create your own fate for eternity through your decision of will. Your 'I' will one day have to answer for itself, for this 'I' is the soul .... the once fallen original spirit .... which, as a human being, certainly has the ability to make the right decision .... otherwise no responsibility could be demanded of it .... But since this soul initially emerged as a divine creature from God's love, it is also of such a nature that it can accomplish the return to God because it is helped in every way .... But it decides for itself whether it wants to do so, and it must also answer for this. For even if the opposing spirit also fights for its will, it cannot force it. But God has equipped the human being in such a way that he can practise love ..... And love also guarantees him a right decision of will, and the good forces in the spiritual kingdom constantly contribute to this and convey knowledge to the human being which proves (reveals) the effect of a life of love to him and only the human being's will needs to decide, but it is free and neither God nor His adversary will force it. And therefore the stage as a human being is extremely significant for the soul's fate in the spiritual kingdom, which it will enter after the death of the body .... For the soul will be like the human being's decision on earth: .... Turning towards God or belonging to His adversary .... And thus it will be considered by God or by His adversary. Time and again earthly life will offer it the opportunity to direct its will in this or that direction. If it listens to the inner voice then its will and thinking will be right, for God makes Himself known to every person through this inner voice, and anyone who pays attention to this voice will also reach his goal, he will soon unite with God Himself and consciously appeal to Him for His guidance, and then he can also be certain of his goal, then the positive forces will always prevail and displace everything that wants to have an unfavourable effect on the soul. The I-conscious, the human being, must conclude of its own accord that it originated from an I-conscious being, which stands in highest perfection, and seek to unite with this being through thoughts and through love-consciousness. Then it is guaranteed to reach its goal, the permanent union with God for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Task to spread the Word ....

B.D. 8333 from November 20th 1962, taken from Book No. 88

Thus carry My Word into the world .... If I give you this task Myself then you can rest assured that I will also do everything to provide you with the opportunity to accomplish it .... I Myself will arrange the destiny of your life such that you will be able to cope with My request, and I Myself will determine the ways you should take in earthly life. Nothing will happen to you by chance, everything is arranged to serve the spreading of My Word. And even fellow human beings will cross your path as I deem appropriate for the maturity of their souls if their will does not object. And even if it seems as if opportunities to work for Me and My kingdom are taken from you .... I will continue to create new opportunities because I know how much people need to hear My Word, which I Am able to convey to you directly from above. My adversary, however, will be equally eager to stop your work, and he will do everything possible to prevent you from accomplishing My instructions, yet he will not be victorious, for My Word is the light that shall shine into the darkness of night, which comes forth from Me Myself and also illuminates you .... And My adversary will flee from this light because it shines too brightly already and he is no longer able to extinguish it. Thus you should always rely on My help which will not fail you, and you should know that I will not allow My work to become endangered, that time after time I will send messengers of light to earth who will work on My behalf, even if you don't recognise them as such ....

But I have known people's will for eternity, and thus I also know whether and when it is necessary to send you willing servants who will support the spreading of My Word conveyed to you from above as soon as My adversary has succeeded in raising obstacles or is using his influence to endanger the vineyard work. I will constantly speak to you, who open yourselves as vessels for My spirit, and you need not fear that the flow of My grace will diminish, for as long as you give yourselves to Me I Am able to work in and through you, and My will shall arrange your earthly life such that it serves the spreading of My Word. But I will never force a person to serve Me if he does not want to, if he allows My adversary to influence him, for only free will can achieve a blessed work for Me and My kingdom .... And time and again there will in fact be people who will offer their service of their own free will, for the kingdom of light knows of the immense hardship on earth and beings of light have voluntarily offered to descend to earth during these last days and as human beings accept a spiritual mission ....

The Word that comes forth from Me shall be spread because it is the only way to help people save their souls, because it gives them light and strength at the same time, and because My direct help has become necessary .... Thus I will also ensure that My Word can be spread .... I will arrange everything so that it will be successful and also chose the right servants who then will work on My behalf. For My might is great, and My love for you justifies My might to express itself, and therefore you will experience things by which I want to demonstrate My infinite love for you .... Hence you can carry out your vineyard work without worry, for I Myself will guard it and will not let My work of love for you become endangered .... For you humans need My Word, you need a living sermon by Me so that all souls still living in darkness can become enlightened ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Who was "Abedam" .... (household of God - debate)

B.D. 8334 from November 21st 1962, taken from Book No. 88

This is a problem which is difficult to explain to you because it concerns events which took place on earth at a time when people's bond with Me on earth was even stronger than it is now, because many spirits of light and love stayed amongst them for people's instruction, partly embodied as human beings and partly descended directly from above in spiritual garments but visible to people as likewise existing physically ..... but who then only ever stayed on earth for a short time in order to strengthen people and to kindle love in them for Me, their God and father of eternity .... All these beings of light were permeated by My strength of love; thus they had light and strength in abundance and also radiated it to people so that they recognised them as something supernatural and were blessed to be allowed to stay close to them. Admittedly, people's spiritual state at that time was just as ambivalent as it is now, for the burden of original sin still kept them down so that they succumbed to the lower urges time and again and yet were also supposed to mature during their earthly life to such an extent that they did not enter the kingdom of the lower spirits after their death but could be admitted into limbo .... that they therefore led a God-fearing way of life during their earthly life and were also helped in every way. Therefore I repeatedly sent beings of light .... i.e. non-fallen original spirits .... in the midst of people who taught them and made them aware of My will .... And those who now fulfilled My will also awakened love for their God and creator within themselves, and love also attracted Me as the eternal love .... However, as 'love' I Myself was not an imaginable being to people, yet they were able to hear Me; My word resounded to those who had awakened love within themselves, and thus sometimes even forefathers were able to hear Me when it was necessary for them to be given advice about their way of life .... And then also beings of light descended to earth who assumed a human form and through whom I, as the father .... as the eternal love .... could now express Myself .... So this presence of Mine on earth was not a 'becoming human', it was not an 'embodiment' of My primal being in a human being .... but it was and always remained a purely spiritual process, that the eternal love .... of the "producers" of all created beings .... revealed Himself to people in a temporarily visible spiritual form, i.e. that they were allowed to hear His word or also: that these beings of light allowed love to speak within them .... that the word, which originates in Me, audibly expressed itself to people through love-filled spiritual beings .... The 'father' thus addressed people, just as the flow of love emanates from Me, which the highest beings of light receive and pass on .... only that those beings of light ascended to earth and made themselves visible to people through their will and their strength, since like Me everything was possible for them, for they stood in My will and were only ever executors of My will .... And these beings did not remain visible to people either .... whereas Jesus, in Whom I embodied Myself as a human being, was and also remained visible to everyone on earth until His death and even after His death is and remains the being which became a visible God for all My living creations. This act of God's 'incarnation' in Jesus is and remains unique, even though I Myself had often been present to people as the eternal love before, but since humanity was still under the burden of the original sin I could not embody Myself in any form but chose a form out of My will which, however, could only ever be the spiritual garment of one of the highest beings of light ..... whereas the human being Jesus came into the world without original sin and completely spiritualised His human body through love and suffering and was therefore able to become My abode, so that an 'embodiment', a manifestation of My spirit of love in Jesus .... of the "incarnation of God" can be spoken of .... The father certainly spoke from those high beings which descended to the first human beings, for these beings only ever conveyed My word which they received directly from Me through the illumination of love and thus the father spoke from them, just as I Myself still speak today through an instrument chosen by Me whose original sin has been redeemed through Jesus' act of salvation .... but which therefore cannot be addressed as God, as the father Himself .... Understand that the word is I Myself .... and that the word also always testifies to the father, but that the cover through which the word sounds will only be a 'mediator' from the father to His child .... whereas the man Jesus, through His act of salvation and as the purest original spirit, was able to receive Me Myself in all fullness, because now the 'redeemed' people should also be able to behold Me .... whereas previously it was impossible for the still unredeemed creatures to behold Me Myself. Therefore I did not remain visible to them as a figure of light either. I only ever wanted to help those whose hearts were willing to love to at least reach the degree on earth that they could enter the preliminary kingdom, where they would remain for the time being until Jesus' act of salvation, and after My crucifixion I could then take them over into the kingdom of light and beatitude ..... In Jesus I Myself became human, for Jesus had a visible shell which He Himself, however, spiritualised but which was to remain visible for My creatures in order to be able to behold Me in My kingdom .... And thus let this explanation suffice for you, that My fatherly love certainly always dwelled amongst people where they shaped themselves such that I no longer endangered their existence with My love; yet this love was always held in check in those forms which certainly contained My fundamental substance, because they themselves were spiritual beings which belonged to Me and which only made themselves visible to people to a limited extent, as was My will .... Yet they brought people the evidence of Myself .... they brought them My word .... yet the word Itself had not yet become flesh .... which only happened in Jesus, in Whom I Myself accomplished the act of salvation in order to set people free from sin and death ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

In the hereafter only the truth brings bliss ....

B.D. 8335 from November 22nd 1962, taken from Book No. 88

Everything you need to mature in earthly life is presented to you. Yet time and again questions are asked, either by people on earth or by souls in the kingdom of the beyond, which I want to answer through you, My servants on earth, so that you will be able to teach again and at the same time fulfil the desire of those souls which have become hungry for light through My word, which they, too, may hear when I convey My word to you from above. Souls which are ignorantly secluded from earth are quickly receptive as soon as they have once felt the strength of My word .... Yet the souls which have entered the spiritual kingdom with knowledge which is not free from error are far more difficult to dissuade from their error and to convince of the truth, yet they keep asking questions because they, too, recognise the strength which flows to them from My word. And therefore I am always ready to answer them, so that you also have the explanation which occasions underlie the various teachings. They are often the same questions asked by those souls in the beyond who first have to free themselves from their previous thinking, who have to realise in the beyond that certain blessings they were promised on earth by their church will not be forthcoming .... It is the 'eternal bliss' expected by those who have made it their business to fulfil everything demanded by their church .... who believe that by keeping the commandments .... but which were issued humanly .... they have received eternal beatitude and cannot understand that they are not yet blessed indefinitely. These souls must first be led to the light of truth before they can distribute it again and thereby be happy themselves ..... Time and again they must be made aware of the fact that love is the most important thing and that they ...., if they did not pay enough attention to this commandment of love on earth, must practise much love in the beyond and they will have to practise much love for the unhappy souls around them in order to be able to partake of the truth which will only make them happy now .... And this is why My instructions from above through My word will time and again be based on My divine commandments of love. You will understand that I cannot speak enough about love, both to people on earth as well as to the souls in the beyond, who would truly already have a higher degree of light and increased knowledge if they had practised love more on earth and thereby also acquired a higher degree of knowledge. The commandments of love are the only commandments I have given on earth, and these commandments of Mine are not heeded enough, on the other hand, people use all their strength to fulfil humanly decreed commandments which do not result in any spiritual success for them and therefore they look for or expect the hoped-for beatitude in the kingdom of the beyond in vain until they receive enlightenment if they don't close their minds to My words, which they, too, are allowed to hear, for My love wants to help them all to life and beatitude. This is why you, My servants on earth, also know about the importance of your mission, even if you can record little success on earth, yet no work you do for Me and My kingdom is in vain, after all, it is pursued by countless souls in the spiritual kingdom who have not yet reached the degree of maturity that they can receive My illumination directly themselves. You are constantly surrounded by these souls, and every thought which applies to Me is a ray of light which they now rush towards and will always participate in as soon as contact is established between Me and you which results in the supply of My word, My flow of strength of love to earth. And I also make every soul happy which desires My address by always receiving strength and increased impetus to work with love for needy souls .... Then it will also communicate itself to them and try to motivate them to likewise come to the place where a light shines. Believe that the redeemer's work is extremely extensive and that I bless everyone who participates in it, on earth or in the spiritual kingdom .... For I only want everyone to attain eternal life, and therefore I Myself will convey the truth to those who desire it in order to be able to become blissfully happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Transformation to love ....

B.D. 8336 from November 23rd 1962, taken from Book No. 88

All My teachings therefore only amount to making it clear to you humans why you live on earth and what purpose earthly life has for you .... You only need to know one thing, that you start your earthly life without love and should have changed to love by the end .... This is all I ask of you, but it requires your free will .... you yourselves must want this transformation into love.... I will now do everything else by first trying to influence your will so that it turns towards Me. Then I will provide you with the strength to also be able to carry out the will .... And since the transformation into love is to be every person's first and last goal, a spark of love has been placed in your heart from Me .... and you are now no longer incapable of this transformation, but you constantly have to be admonished and stimulated, and this shall now be achieved by My word, My word, which conveys My love to you, which longs for your return to Me .... As long as you are without love you have no knowledge whatsoever .... you know nothing about your origin, about your former state in which you were unspeakably happy .... You don't know that you had forfeited this bliss yourselves through your rebellion against Me .... that you thus completely changed your nature into the opposite, that you gave away your love and rejected every illumination of love on My part and therefore fell into an unhappy state. Yet only when you possess this knowledge again will you approach the former state of perfection, for such knowledge will always be the result of a life of love and can never be gained without love .... But the knowledge will also make you happy, for you will now also recognise Me Myself, your God and creator, and know that you are in contact with Me, that you possess the love of your God and creator and therefore may also receive love from Me time and again if you declare yourselves willing to accept it. Hence My word gives you this knowledge, and therefore it is truly a gift of grace of immeasurable value, because at the same time it is proof of My existence, which completely loveless people want to deny because they are devoid of all knowledge as a result of an unkind way of life. But faith in Me is already a blissful benefit for the human being, for to be able to believe in Me also presupposes a degree of love, and the evidence is also given that you are on the path back to Me if this living faith is within you. It merely concerns Me that you step out of the spiritual darkness into the light during your earthly life .... that you gain an even if only slight realisation, a truthful knowledge .... For then a light of love will have been kindled in you which will flare up ever brighter as love increases in you .... But as long as it is not possible to stimulate you into working with love of your own accord, as long as you don't voluntarily accept My word and live it out, it will also remain dark in you, and your return to Me during earthly life is questionable, if not hopeless. My love truly uses all means to guide you to the light, and therefore it will create opportunities for you time and again where love can ignite in you, where the spark of love within you flares up and pushes you from within into a work of love .... And if you don't resist inwardly, if you listen to this quiet admonition within you, to the expression of your conscience, then you will also safely walk towards the light of day, for love will be allowed to work in you ever more often. You will find your own happiness in helping your fellow human beings in every adversity. For only giving, selfless, gratifying love is to be understood by the love which I demand of you so that you perfect yourselves. Thus I can only influence your thoughts so that your will is directed correctly and time and again create opportunities for you to turn your will into action .... And I can only ever preach love to you .... And if you comply with My will you will also attain the brightest realisation while still on earth and truly be able to enter the kingdom of the beyond with rich treasures when your earthly life is over. Yet if you never awaken the spirit of love to life you will remain in spiritual darkness and your earthly life will be an idle one, yet always through your own fault, for everything will be done by Me to help you find your way out of your wretched state .... However, your free will decides, and therefore you will one day have to answer for this will as you have used (directed) it ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Examination of spiritual 'receptions' ....

B.D. 8337 from November 24th 1962, taken from Book No. 88

I want to send My Word to all places, I want all people to be informed of it and I will also lead all those to you to whom you shall impart My Word. I will pour My spirit upon all flesh and choose the right vessels for Myself far and wide which I will be able to instruct mentally or even through the inner Word because it is essential to inform people of My will and their earthly task. And thus I work everywhere because the last days before the end will require extraordinary help. And time and again I say to you that I speak to you directly or indirectly through My messengers of light who receive My Word from Me and pass it on to those of you who allow the flow of spirit to enter you. In the latter instance My Word, which is given to these messengers of light by Me, will also be recognisable by the style of the Word .... Yet it will always be the pure truth from Me, because the messengers of light merely comply with My will and will not pass on anything other than truth to those of you who sincerely desire the truth. Nevertheless, you should always check it and, at all times, bear in mind that My adversary, too, wants to express himself in the last days and that he will present himself as an angel of light .... you should always remember that I have warned you about false Christs and false prophets .... For they, too, wreak havoc on earth and intend to confuse people. And you will always be able to carry out this examination by appealing for My support and by taking My Word into consideration: that every spirit which professes that Jesus Christ came in the flesh can also be regarded to have been called by Me .... But attention always has to be paid to the fact that this embodiment in the flesh has to be explained to you .... For in order to deceive you an evil spirit can use the same words too, since it knows them well yet it will be incapable of explaining them.

Similarly, immature spirits which are as yet unenlightened but bear no ill intentions may also want to express themselves and thus pass on what they remember from earthly life. These should not to be acknowledged as teachers .... And, again, the recipient's attitude is decisive as to whether such immature beings will be able to express themselves or whether the sincere will for truth will prevent them from carrying out their intentions. In the same way as preachers exist on earth who only use what they know as subject matter for their sermons without, however, being spiritually enlightened .... and yet they need not be bad .... so beings express themselves in the beyond which had also once performed this ministry on earth and then continued their instructions in the beyond. And as long as they pass themselves off as otherworldly teachers they will be listened to or rejected .... depending on the person they try to educate. But since these beings in the beyond don't know that God and Jesus are one and only ever see the 'human being' in Jesus Who perfected Himself on earth .... but neither do they know what this 'perfection' implies .... they avail themselves of His human name in order to make their instructions credible .... For they lack the full realisation of this great sin otherwise they truly would not commit it .... They still intend to lead people into the 'heavenly kingdom' just as they planned to do on earth during their work as preachers. This is why their reports from the spiritual kingdom will also give people the impression that they are perfect spirits from higher spheres .... The spiritually awakened person, however, can sense that I Am not and cannot be the source of this spiritual knowledge, because My divinity in Jesus is not clearly emphasised, but this shall always be made comprehensible through My Word since Jesus Christ's act of Salvation will only be understood and acknowledged if you humans receive truthful clarification about it. You can never be advised often enough to constantly enter into heartfelt contact with Me and to pray to Me in spirit and in truth, so that everything is excluded which is misguided or incomprehensible to you and does not benefit your soul but is more likely to cause it damage .... For My adversary, by using shadows, eagerly tries to darken the light which shines brightly wherever the will for truth prevails and where he himself is therefore unable to lead people astray .... Yet whenever you are unsure, ask Me and I will always grant you illumination and, time and again, give you the evidence of My love which will lead all of you to the light so that you will be able to become blissfully happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God will implement His act of Salvation ....

B.D. 8338 from November 25th 1962, taken from Book No. 88

Nothing will prevent Me from implementing My eternal plan of Salvation, for My love and wisdom have realised from the start when it is necessary to manifest My Power, to restructure My work of creation called Earth by virtue of My might, and this time will be adhered to, for that which I realise to be necessary will also be carried out by Me. For people's low spiritual level necessitates this change, since it almost cannot be surpassed anymore, and thus the day which was designated for eternity is not far away anymore .... All that needs to be done now is to provide people with the greatest possible help so that those who accept it will still be saved. Yet no-one should think that he can persuade Me to abandon My eternal plan of Salvation .... although I will always grant heartfelt prayers, as I have promised. But you should not pray for the prevention of the last Judgment on this earth, because this act is purely an act of love on My part and you should never prevent Me in My activity of love .... For I know that a complete transformation is necessary, both for you humans as well as all the spiritual substances which are still bound in the creations and which should strive to ascend. And if you pray for prevention then you are only motivated by selfish love because you neither want to forgo your earthly life nor your earthly possessions .... If, however, your love aims in the right direction so that it belongs to Me and your neighbour then your spirit will also be sufficiently enlightened so that you will be able to realise that the last Judgment is an act of love on My part .... Then you will recognise the low spiritual level yourselves and you will know that I must give rise to a change in order to save what can still be saved .... I have indeed always referred to this last end yet never mentioned a time to you, and even now I will not inform you of the precise time but you can be assured that My proclamations will soon fulfil themselves, that you will not have much time left until the end of the earth .... that you are very close to it .... And when you pray then only pray that many people may still become enlightened, that they may take the path to the cross, so that the hour of the end will not mean their downfall but beatitude for them .... Try to explain the commandments of love to all people, try to motivate them into changing their love into unselfish love for their neighbour, and you will truly pray correctly when you pray for help for the people close to you which have not yet gained realisation themselves ....

But do not think that prayer campaigns will be able to determine Me and My will not to accomplish My plan of Salvation, for it really would not be an act of grace, instead My adversary would merely increase the number of his adherents, and even My Own would be at risk of being plunged into ruin by him .... Believe that My love and wisdom only ever want what is best for My living creations, that even this last Judgment is not an act of punishment on My part but only a judgment of that which has completely left My order .... I want to restore the order which was revoked through human will, through My adversary's influence, so that even My living creations' process of return is at risk .... My plan of Salvation only ever intends to return the fallen beings to Me .... However, you humans lack the overall view, the correct realisation, and neither do you know to what depth the human race has sunk already and that therefore the point in time has come that its fall will have to be stopped, that the souls will have to be wrest from My adversary again and banned anew, so that one day they will have the opportunity once more to start on the return path to Me, which they forfeited in this life on earth, which they failed to make use of and are therefore lost again due to their own fault. But My adversary will not keep them in his control, and that is a plus for the fallen soul already, which has to pass through the creations of the new earth in a dissolved state again. You humans are unaware that I Am only ever determined by love because one day you shall become My Own again .... and only see the punishing God in Me .... Yet you have created this 'punishment' yourselves, through your inclination towards matter, which has become your downfall, you have aspired towards this fate yourselves .... For matter belongs to My adversary, thus you voluntarily handed yourselves over to his authority, and he will hold on to you until I Myself wrest you away again from him, which will happen through a banishment into hard matter .... but which, at the same time, will be the start of your ascent from the abyss to the pinnacle again .... All this will be said to you time and time again, and therefore prepare yourselves for an end of this earth and do whatever it takes to detach yourselves from the one who wants to ruin you .... Come to Me and, truly, I will help you to resist him .... Then you need not fear the end, which will irrevocably come as I have proclaimed to you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Twilight in the afterlife .... faith in God ....

B.D. 8339 from November 26th 1962, taken from Book No. 88

And if only a small light can be kindled for you before your passing away from this world, then you need not enter into deepest darkness and you can find your way, you can also already include other souls in your small circle of light and likewise help them into brightness. And it is such a small light if you believe in a God and creator and pray to Him .... Then your resistance will be broken, and then it will also be possible to let ever brighter light shine towards you in the kingdom of the beyond .... And then you will not reject Jesus Christ either when the knowledge of Him is conveyed to you by spiritual beings of light. For brightest light can only shine for you when you have become free from all guilt, when you acknowledge Him and ask Him for redemption and forgiveness of your guilt .... But how many people depart from this earth without having found Him, and then they cannot be accepted into the kingdom of light either .... Nevertheless, they can move in the twilight if they have faith in Me, if they don't completely deny a God and creator, for the latter would inevitably also mean deepest darkness for the soul .... To walk in twilight is not bliss but not hopeless .... The soul will recognise like-minded souls and also have opportunities to be helpful and thereby also increase the light within and around it .... For the fact that it believes in Me also makes it remember Me and ask for help, and this can only ever be given to it in the kingdom of the beyond if it accepts the advice given to it by unknown beings of light which only ever consist of calling upon Jesus Christ and providing help for suffering souls. The resistance will also no longer be so great because it has already given up resistance on earth through her faith in Me. Therefore it is extremely important to bring My word to people while they are still on earth, which instructs them and can bring Me Myself close to them, for their will is free and their faith in Me must also be free, and they can only gain it through faith in love .... Hence the constant admonition to fulfil the commandments of love for God and neighbour is necessary .... and anyone who follows these admonitions will also soon recognise Me through his activity of love and believe in Me .... And he shall at least have reached this degree on earth, then he need not fear the hour of death either, even though he cannot enter the realms of the blessed, yet he will take a small light across with him which will illuminate his path and, in accordance with his even now still free will, will be increased and his ascent upwards will be assured for him .... But where not the slightest light could be kindled, deepest darkness is irrevocably the fate of a soul which will sink far deeper rather than take the path of ascent, even though lights occasionally shine in the darkness and entice the souls out .... yet the help offered to them is rarely accepted unless much intercession is given to those souls, which has the effect of a flow of strength and can then also cause a soul to change and desire light .... But at present human hearts on earth are in a state of profound darkness, for faith in Me has been lost to humanity because a formal faith .... a church faith which is not alive through love .... cannot be called faith and people themselves are not inwardly convinced that there is a God before Whom they will one day have to answer. This is why the kingdom of darkness is extremely densely populated and the earth is surrounded by souls which are unable to detach themselves from their former surroundings and which affect people in the most unfavourable way. So that this darkness on earth will still be broken through, small lights will shine everywhere, i.e., I will try to guide My word everywhere which shall enlighten people's hearts so that the number of those who hopelessly sink into the abyss will be reduced. For the spiritual kingdom will soon close its gates and no longer accept such dark souls, for as soon as the end of the earth has come they will fall into the lot of the new banishment .... Darkness will be their portion because they shunned the light which was offered to them from above ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Power influx through connection with the light-filled world ....

B.D. 8340 from November 27th 1962, taken from Book No. 88

Every spiritual contact, i.e. every bond with Me Myself as well as with the good spiritual world, allows for a transmission of strength which is of greatest benefit to you humans, for receiving spiritual strength means that the soul comes to life again, which lasts forever .... It has emerged from its state of death through its voluntary turning to the world of light, to Me, Who reigns in this world of light, and it can now also receive the flow of life which originates from Me and is also conveyed to it through the world of light. You don't know how beneficial it is when you daily place your thoughts into this world full of light, when you call upon all those who are benevolent towards you, when you ask all good spirits surrounding you for support in all your earthly affairs, if you trustingly hand yourselves over to the messengers of light who have joined you on My behalf in order to guide you and who only ever carry out My will, as soon as you also sincerely remember Me and thereby establish the contact between you and Me, which is a prerequisite for the transmission of strength .... And don't let yourselves be put off even if your body doesn't feel this influx of strength but your soul receives it, and truly, it gets healthy and matures to such an extent that you can go through earthly life with joy and hope, for you will surely reach your goal .... the union with Me. It is still an unreal world for you into which you mentally place yourselves as soon as you seek contact with Me and all spiritual beings full of light, yet it is your soul's true home, and it also recognises the home and consciously strives towards it. But it cannot transmit the impressions to the body because it would not be able to bear it and would be incapable of its life on this earth .... Yet the soul itself is enabled by the supply of My strength of love to look into the spiritual kingdom, and it is happy to be allowed to enter this kingdom one day. And whenever you humans sincerely remember Me I can let this strength flow to you, for the contact between you and Me results in this influx, for I constantly emanate My flow of strength of love, and where it finds no resistance it can become effective .... But where a person's thoughts never turn towards the kingdom of light, i.e. where they never seek Me Myself, an influx of strength is impossible and the soul remains in its death-like state and can also pass over into the kingdom of the beyond in the same state .... Therefore establish this heartfelt bond with Me often and receive unlimited strength of love from Me, and believe Me that you can do nothing better than to repeatedly send your thoughts to Me and entrust yourselves to all spiritual beings full of light, for truly, you will be protected and guided like children who are always in need of loving guidance .... But you will also be able to walk along carefree and need not fear any lack, for the soul and the body will receive what they need because you yourselves make it possible for Me to provide for you spiritually and earthly through your conscious devotion to Me .... Believe that I constantly want to give you gifts but that I need your open hands to receive My gifts of grace .... that your hearts have to open in order to receive My illumination of love .... And thus this happens when your thoughts turn towards Me and repeatedly dwell with Me and in the spiritual kingdom .... Then you will no longer be distant from Me, for then your being will also be full of love, otherwise you would not look for Me as the eternal love. And thus you will also understand why I keep warning you about the world, why I keep you away from it and demand that you should go into stillness .... For I cannot be found in the world, and through the world you will be hindered in your intimate bond with Me and therefore will also be able to register little strength as long as the world still stands between us .... You also seem to receive goods which are beneficial for the body but never what the soul needs in order to perfect itself. For only I can give it that, and it also receives it as soon as it unites with Me and enables the influx of strength which alone helps it to live eternally ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Introduction to spiritual knowledge ....

B.D. 8341 from November 28th 1962, taken from Book No. 88

I want to give people an easily comprehensible instruction; I want to enlighten them in the simplest possible way if they are still entirely without knowledge but willing to accept a correct explanation: You humans can imagine that I did not create you as you are, for you can detect many shortcomings in people, and if you spend some thought on it, it will seem doubtful to you that the most perfect Being, Which you call 'God', should have created such an imperfect human race .... But since you, as well as all visible works of creation surrounding you, could not have been able to create yourselves there must have been a Power at work, in Which you are expected to believe .... A God has to exist, a Creator of everything you can perceive, including yourselves .... Thus this Creator is supremely perfect, and you can procure numerous evidence of this in earthly life .... He created you humans too, but not in the state you find yourselves in at present, rather, you emerged from Him in a supremely perfect state, you are products of the absolutely perfect Creative Power, Which is an intelligent Entity .... just like you but of highest perfection .... therefore you were perfectly created but did not remain perfect because you possessed free will which was able to evolve in any direction and therefore was also able to relinquish all perfection and change into the opposite .... And this is what you have done ....

You left the Father's house, you distanced yourselves from your God and Creator, you rejected His Fatherly love and became unhappy creatures, because it requires God's unlimited love in order to be happy. My love, however, is infinite and also follows you into the abyss, to which you aspired of your own free will .... My love wants to achieve your return to Me one day and therefore won't leave you in your wretched state but will help you to ascend from the abyss again, it will help you to return from the realm of darkness into the kingdom of light again and regain your former state of bliss, because love always wants to please, and so My love will not lessen until you have completed the path of return to Me. And your existence as human beings on this earth is a very short stage on the path of return to Me .... You have the gift of reason, you possess free will and intellect, you are able to think, feel and want and therefore can also conduct yourselves accordingly .... And if you think and want correctly then your thoughts and intentions will always be based on love, love will determine your thinking and wanting because a correctly directed will allows itself to be determined by Me Myself into activities of love and because the activity of love is the same as approaching Me, Who is Eternal Love Itself .... because it is the same as transforming your imperfect nature into the original being which had once came forth from Me in utter perfection .... Thus you humans on earth only have the one task of living a life of love .... In doing so you fulfil the purpose of your earthly life which connects you with the Eternal Love again and thereby enables the Eternal Love to make you abundantly happy and you will become blissful again as you were in the beginning ....

This is the only goal you should endeavour towards reaching on earth, and in order for you to do so you will be taught by Me Myself through the voice of conscience, through the voice of the spirit, the spark which glows within every human heart and only needs to be kindled through kind-hearted activity in order to tell you humans what you should or should not do .... and which will stimulate you into more and more loving actions .... Love is the fundamental substance of your nature, and if you want to be and remain perfect you also have to be completely permeated by love .... If, however, you neglect love you will remain imperfect beings, and then you will belong to the generation which you can presently recognise all over the world: heartless, selfish people who only ever think of themselves and never take care of their neighbour who is suffering in adversity next to them .... But a lack of love also means a lack of happiness, it means spiritual darkness, ignorance, weaknesses and a lack of freedom, for then the human being will not recognise his God and Creator either, and he will not take the path to Him .... Yet only through a union with Me can the being regain beatitude .... And for the sake of this union with Me you are living on earth. You ought to achieve your perfection again which you once renounced of your own free will, you ought to change yourselves into love again which had been your fundamental substance, and with this change you will also establish unification with Me .... You will be allowed to give love and receive unlimited love yourselves, you will be able to enter into a true life which lasts forever, and you will be perfect and therefore also infinitely happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Go to the source ....

B.D. 8342 from November 29th 1962, taken from Book No. 88

My life source constantly lets fresh, healthy and healing water flow to you, which is available to every earthly wanderer, where everyone can bend down and draw from it and quench his thirst .... It is truly a delicious stream which flows unstoppably and which is accessible to all of you who merely take the path to this source which My love has made accessible to you. Your pilgrimage on earth requires strength .... This is at your disposal because vitality also flows to you at the same time so that the body can fulfil its task and become active according to its destiny .... But earthly life is about the maturing of the soul, and therefore the soul also requires an influx of strength which, however, cannot be supplied to it through physical nourishment. It needs spiritual strength to mature, and it receives this from Me Myself in abundance and need only use it .... This spiritual strength is My word, it is the treasure of grace which only needs to be lifted up, it is the fountain of life which feeds and waters every earthly pilgrim's soul and thus ensures its maturing on earth. But My word has to be accepted voluntarily, the soul has to feel hunger and thirst for it, and thus the human being has to take the path to the source where he can draw the living water, where the soul can fetch strength for its earthly life. I will not let you go through earthly life without strength, time and again I will offer you delicious food and refreshing drink .... but you must also gratefully accept My gifts and make use of them .... You must not resist it, and you must not draw the water of life far away from the source, for then it will have already lost much of its healing power, then it will no longer have the effect it has at the source where it is offered to you directly by Me and where you will also be able to ascertain a great healing power yourselves .... Make the effort and take the path to the source, which cannot be found in the depths but you already have to undertake a slight ascent, i.e. you have to seriously want to fulfil your earthly task and be willing to turn away from the depths of the world with its attractions and temptations and stride upwards… seek the height and strive towards it .... You must earnestly seek out the source of life, then you will be overjoyed to find it and be able to refresh yourselves, for the water that flows from it is a true refreshment for the soul. And then you can also be certain that you need not fear any impurities, that the drink will not harm you but that you will only be able to recover from it because I Myself have made the gift of life accessible to you, Who, after all, wants your soul to attain recovery while still on earth, and because I also know that it therefore requires strong, wholesome nourishment which can only be offered to it at that spring. As soon as the water has already created a riverbed and flows into the depths, it is also possible for the riverbed to become polluted, and then the water will also lose its healing power if it does not become completely unsuitable and harm the people who enjoy it .... Thus there is no longer any guarantee that My word will remain pure and unadulterated if it is mixed with human additives or even replaced by human intellectual results .... I want to warn you all of this so that you do not accept spiritual goods which endanger the salvation of your soul rather than help it to recover .... For the enemy of all life will try everything to poison My flow of life by interspersing truth with error, and then the soul will truly not benefit from spiritual knowledge which did not originate from Me but has him as its author .... Therefore I admonish you time and again not to accept any kind of nourishment but to seek the source where unclouded water of life flows to you, which has Me Myself as its source and which I will constantly convey to My living creations so that they will reach their goal on earth .... that your soul will mature and attain life which will last forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Action-love .... good example ....

B.D. 8343 from November 30th 1962, taken from Book No. 88

You shall proclaim My teaching on earth, which only teaches (demands) love .... love for Me and for your neighbour .... And thus you must also live a life of love yourselves, otherwise you will not find faith with your fellow human beings if you yourselves act differently than you preach .... But if you give them a good example they will also try to live a life of love in accordance with it, and then they will also experience the effect of a life of love on themselves .... The blessing will not fail to materialise then either, and they will be allowed to constantly receive much in the way of light and strength, in wisdom and spiritual strength supply .... But first they have to let love flare up within themselves, and you should help them to do so through your teachings and your own life of love .... Very often the words are quoted: Love God above all else and your neighbour as yourself .... But they always remain just words, these commandments of love are not lived out, and therefore only a few know about the blessing that a right life of love entails. Love is the divine, which glows in the human being as the tiniest spark and has to be made to flare up by the human being himself .... Love is light and strength in itself, and thus a loving person must emerge from the state of darkness and weakness .... And this must be recognizable by rich knowledge and strong faith .... The human being must come to recognize the truth and also be allowed to connect with Me as the eternal love through his life of love and thus also receive strength, the influx of which results in every connection with Me. However, the person who is satisfied with empty words, who does not live out love and thus sets a leading example for his fellow human beings, will not be able to achieve any of this. For a good example is often more successful than words can achieve. And if you humans keep telling yourselves that every form is worthless before Me, then you will also make an effort to live a right life of love, and the blessing will not fail to materialise, you will be happy about the effect yourselves, for since you now enter a state of realisation the meaning of your earthly life will also become clear to you and you will now live consciously .... The love within you will become ever stronger, because strength constantly flows to you from Me which you use again for loving activity. But what is meant by true love? You should regard all your fellow human beings as brothers who all have the same father and for whose return the father longs .... You should help these brothers in every need and danger, you should try to make them happy, give them joy, distribute gifts they need; you should protect them from all harm .... you should do everything you wish for the one you love with all your heart, for this love is within you and only needs to be kindled .... You should also know that every person is in danger of getting lost who does not find the path to Me, and therefore you should help him onto the right path, you should illuminate his path with a bright light which shines brightly for you again through loving activity and which you should let shine out into the darkness of night so that your brothers will also recognize the path which leads back to the father .... You should think of your neighbour more than of yourselves, for truly, I Myself will then know how to protect you if you lovingly take care of your neighbour who is too weak to help himself. Nor will you ever need to fear that you will have to live in want yourselves because you first thought of your neighbour who was in need .... For as you measure out, so will it be measured out to you, and thus you also banish your own need when you take care of your neighbour .... And you can believe it, your fellow human beings will also take an example from such a life of love, and then their spiritual state will also be brightened .... they will be accessible to the truth and also be able to understand everything they are told about their destiny on earth, for love will break through all shells, people's hearts will become light, they can now also be instructed about all spiritual correlations, about their beginning and their final goal .... They will understand and want to share their knowledge with their fellow human beings again, because they themselves are delighted by the knowledge and now love impels them to also let others participate in the light which enlightens their hearts. For the right proclamation of My teaching of love also includes a love of action, it includes a way of life in unselfish neighbourly love which will also cause fellow human beings to fulfil the commandments of love for God and neighbour ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's commission to His servants ....

B.D. 8344 from December 1st 1962, taken from Book No. 88

I will bless your work which is meant for the spreading of My word, for truly, the spiritual hardship is great, the darkness is almost impenetrable, and humanity needs a light through which the path it should take in order to achieve the purpose on earth is illuminated: to return to Me, from Whom all beingness once originated .... People know nothing about the most important thing in earthly life, about the return to Me, just as they don't know about the meaning and reason for their existence as a human being. And therefore they know nothing about it because they don't kindle the light of love within themselves which would give them spiritual brightness and thus truthful thinking .... And therefore a light has to be brought to these people, through the shine of which they can gain a small enlightenment if they accept the advice you bring to them through My word, which reveals My will. People must be helped, for they are helpless in their spiritual blindness, and there is only one help, that they are admonished to live a life of love, that My will is made known to them, which consists of fulfilling the commandments of love .... If you, My servants on earth, succeed in informing them of this, if you merely induce them to think, then a blessed work will already have been accomplished, for then it will also be possible for the beings of light to intervene in their thoughts, for everything will be done to pull people out of their spiritual hardship, to bring them help, to save their souls from the end. And thus you only ever have to be diligently active for Me and tirelessly work in the vineyard: to plant the seed, with which I provide you so abundantly, in fertile soil .... to convey My word to people's hearts, so that the seed will sprout and bear abundant fruit .... so that My word will give strength and light to all who willingly accept it. Every assistance will be granted to you from Me to carry out the work for Me and My kingdom, and the more willingly you comply with this work the richer blessings will flow to you as well as to all people to whom you convey a delectable gift which originated directly from Me and which therefore cannot remain without effect either: .... provided that this gift of grace is not consciously rejected, which, however, only proves the hard resistance of people who are still under My adversary's control .... But remember the many weak and undecided people who only need strong support, who only need to be enlightened about their purpose of existence, who are not unwilling when they are truthfully instructed .... You should help them and create the opportunity for them to receive My word through you .... For I will not stop speaking to humanity and I only want you, My servants, to continue praying My word, because I cannot address people directly but there is no other option but to convey to them what they need for their ascent upwards .... Don't let any work spoil you, be diligently active and believe that My eye rests favourably on you who willingly serve Me and fulfil the task I repeatedly give you because time is pressing. Yet My concern for love will not cease, it will not let up and time and again will try to bring help, for which you, My servants on earth, should support Me insofar as it is easier for you to gain access to people's hearts than it is for Me, Who, due to people's imperfection, cannot come into contact with them so closely that they would be able to recognize Me and give up their resistance .... But they can accept you because you do not force them to believe but leave it up to their free will whether they listen to you or not .... But you receive the seed from Me which you shall impart to them, and I will provide for you abundantly so that every person can receive what it needs. The great adversity causes Me to repeatedly stimulate you into eager activity, for I need you and therefore explain to you time and again in what way you can be of service to Me .... Yet I do not force your will either .... If, however, you have love within you, you will do everything yourselves to participate in the redeemer's work, you will take pity on your fellow human beings' great spiritual hardship and strengthen your will to find a remedy, and truly, you will always be able to be certain of My blessing ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

New redemption period ....

B.D. 8345 from December 2nd 1962, taken from Book No. 88

No major spiritual advancement can be expected on this earth any longer, only a few more people will find and walk the right path which leads to Me .... back to the Father's house. There will certainly be people everywhere making every effort to work for Me and My kingdom, supporting the doctrines of the various ecclesiastical organisations with sincere dedication for Me .... They will have the good will to guide the human being into truth and are successful too when My spirit can work through them as soon as they preach for Me and My kingdom.

But only few people take the development of their soul seriously, whose faith in Me also includes the belief that they have a responsibility towards Me and who therefore consciously live their earthly life. However, most people are and remain indifferent, even if they are confronted by the most powerful speaker .... They simply dismiss everything spiritual with a superior smile, because people consider it a fantasy and unreal and are therefore not captivated by it either. But for the sake of the few the work shall still be done eagerly, because to have saved only one soul from its downfall, to have prevented it from a repeated progress through the earth's creations, is such a tremendous accomplishment that no effort should be spared, since every soul will eternally thank its saviour to have guided it onto the right path.

Many people apparently revert back to faith .... But greater still is the number of those who fall away and carelessly sacrifice their faith in Me and who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ's act of Salvation as an act of atonement for the whole of humanity either .... And precisely because the belief in Jesus Christ is increasingly declining, spiritual hardship is getting progressively worse.  This will finally lead to the disintegration of the earth so as to prevent an even deeper descent into darkness, which shall be accomplished by releasing the spirits which belong to My adversary and confining them again in the material creation.

Time and again I tell you that this earth cannot expect a spiritual change for the better, that a new period of redemption will start and that this, at the same time, will be a spiritual as well as an earthly turning point, because nothing which lives and exists on, in and above the earth will remain, but everything will be transformed, a new earth will emerge, and this new earth will start again in lawful order, so that the development of all spiritual substances thereon will be safeguarded and the process of return within this lawful order will continue.

My eternal plan does not depend on whether you humans believe this or not, but those of you who do not believe My statements will be surprised how soon the day will dawn when the first revelations fulfil themselves: when you may yet witness a last sign from Me which shall confirm all revelations of this nature .... Especially those people who deem themselves intellectually superior to their fellow human beings deny such last day revelations and thus also doubt the truth of My Word, which is transmitted to earth directly from above .... Yet who else could make such a specific prediction but He Who has every power at His disposal and Who is Lord of all the forces of heaven and earth? ....

You can indeed accept His Word to be true and certain, for I do not merely speak but also substantiate every event to be inflicted on you by My love, wisdom and power, because this is necessary for your souls which should still call for Me in the last hour before the end. My predictions are not intended to achieve anything but to stimulate your sense of responsibility, by believing that you are soon approaching the end and by asking yourselves whether and how you can stand before the eyes of your God and Creator .... You should not believe those who deny an end, who want to awaken in you humans the expectation of changes for the better .... for a spiritual renaissance on this very earth that only requires a different human generation which observes My will .... On this earth no such human generation will be found anymore, because the decline of spirituality is continuing, and this alone will result in the end of this earth's era.

For the earth is meant to be a school for the spirit, but people's thoughts are dominated by matter and therefore they themselves will become matter again too, which they desire above all else.  By doing so they completely forget God Who gave them their earthly life for the sake of a specific purpose .... And people do not fulfil this purpose, even the earth itself does not fulfil this purpose any more, because divine order has been completely reversed, the earth has become My adversary's kingdom who wants to prevent the higher development of all spiritual substances ....

And you, who still believe in humanity's spiritual turning point on this earth, are spiritually deluded, you have no inner enlightenment, you are merely directed by your human intellect to make accusations and to deny divine revelations and to portray them as an expression of the opposing spirit. Otherwise you would know yourselves which level humanity has arrived at, and you would do better to be quiet, if you yourselves cannot believe in an end .... than to expose your lack of awareness by allegations which oppose My predictions .... Because you too will have to be answerable for this, since you are, after all, preventing people from evaluating their failed life and thus from a return to Me, which will have to take place before the end if the soul is to be saved from the appalling fate of repeated captivity in the creations of the earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Living out the divine commandments of love ....

B.D. 8346 from December 3rd 1962, taken from Book No. 88

You are all called upon to live on earth in accordance with My divine commandments of love, because no person can reach perfection on earth if he ignores these commandments of love. And therefore you should all listen to the gospel which My disciples bring to you, because it contains the divine commandments of love and because you will only receive inner light when you fulfil them. Before that you live on earth completely ignorant, and you only strive for worldly knowledge which, however, does not ensure any ascent. Only when spiritual knowledge is granted to you, when you gain insight into a spiritual realm, will you live a conscious life, and I want to open up this spiritual realm for you but I can only do so if you first kindle a light of love within yourselves, and this, in turn, is the result of a life of love on this earth. You don't believe how important the commandments of love are to be taken; you don't believe that they have to be fulfilled first if your soul is to develop progressively. But the soul only lives on earth as a human being in order to reach perfection, in order to mature, in order to change itself into love and to reach its original state again .... And this can only happen through loving activity, through the fulfilment of My commandments which demand love for Me and for the neighbour. And this is why My gospel will be proclaimed to you humans time and again, this is why My word will be conveyed to you time and again, because I will not cease to admonish you and explain to you how extremely important it is to comply with My word, which will only ever stimulate you into loving activity. Your imperfection, your shortcoming, only consists of the fact that you lack the strength of love, that your life on earth is determined by self-love, that you only ever think of yourselves and have no understanding for your fellow human being's adversity, that a certain indifference towards your spiritual earthly task exists and determines your way of life .... For all your wanting and thinking is only earthly directed and only aims at helping the body to feel comfortable, yet you ignore the soul because you do not acquire the strength it needs through loving activity .... And thus your earthly life will only ever remain idle .... and no matter how many earthly goods you acquire and possess they are transient and you cannot take them with you into the kingdom of the beyond if you have to give up earthly life. As long as your soul has to live in want you will not fulfil your purpose of earthly life. And you should only make an attempt and practise love .... For once you should not expect any self-benefit but completely unselfishly accept your neighbour in his adversity .... And you will feel a blissful feeling which earthly fulfilled wishes cannot give you .... For your neighbour will show you love again which will make you happy, and truly, a little light has been kindled in you .... For this reason love is also constantly preached to you, because you should be stimulated, for as soon as you try it will not remain an attempt, you will feel inwardly urged to renew your activity of love, because every work of love signifies an influx of spiritual strength for you which you will use again to work in love .... For this is the blessing of every work of love, that the human being's will is strengthened, because love always provides strength. Anyone who proclaims the gospel of love, who tries to motivate his fellow human beings to be unselfishly active in love .... and who also sets a good example himself by exemplifying a life of love to his fellow human beings, which will always be felt charitably by all people around him, can be certain of My blessing. Know that love is a great strength, that you can all make your lives much easier if you use the strength of love, which will also help you to have a living faith, and then you will also have escaped all danger .... For love and faith are the foundations of My church, which I Myself founded on earth; then you will also belong to this church of Mine and you will also regain the knowledge you had lost due to your apostasy from Me, which consisted of you rejecting love .... that you turned away from Me without any love .... Only when love fills your heart again will you be able to unite with Me again, and then your purpose of earthly life will be fulfilled. Therefore listen to My messengers and don't reject them when they proclaim the gospel of love to you, for I send them to all of you who still walk through earthly life without light and love .... Listen to them and seek to live out My word which they bring to you, and truly, you will gain much, and your earthly progress will not have been in vain if your soul leaves the body and enters the kingdom of the beyond, which is your true home ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Devotion to God ensures beatification ....

B.D. 8347 from December 4th 1962, taken from Book No. 88

Thus let yourselves be guided and led by Me by consciously entrusting yourselves to My guidance, by asking Me not to let you go and to walk every path with you so that you will not stray from the right path but always walk in accordance with My will. And believe that you will then also fulfil your earthly task, for in contact with Me My flow of strength of love will also radiate into you and you will change your nature into love, because its presence is the surest guarantee for this. Then you will also serve voluntarily, driven by love, and your soul will mature, it will repel everything of an anti-divine nature, for love crystallises the soul and enables it to absorb ever stronger radiation of love. Love, however, is light, and thus the soul can enter the kingdom of light unhindered upon its departure from this earth, for it has shaped itself in earthly life such that all coverings have fallen off it and it can now also receive the beatitudes of My kingdom in a high degree of light. Devotion to Me has then brought this about, for once a person surrenders to Me I will truly never let him go, and I will also shape his earthly progress such that it can bring him the highest success .... Then you will have to mature, because all resistance in you will have dwindled and thus the return to Me will also have been accomplished. Yet consciously handing yourselves over to Me requires a degree of faith which is achieved through actions of love .... It requires a .... even if only slight .... knowledge of My nature, which in turn can only be attained through loving activity .... For if you know about My being, which is love, wisdom and power, you are also urged to surrender to this being, and then you will have passed your test of will on earth, you will have voluntarily acknowledged Me again and long for union with Me .... Therefore it is My greatest and everlasting endeavour to give you this small realisation, to reveal Myself to you, to give you information about My being, from whose infinite love you yourselves originated. But this knowledge is not forcibly given to you .... Your free will must be willing to accept it, and thus your free will alone is decisive as to whether you find your way back to Me in earthly life or remain at a distance from Me, which is wretchedness. And therefore it is also possible that the earthly path as a human being will be travelled in vain, and yet I can do nothing else but time and again influence your will so that you listen to Me when I want to enlighten you, when I want to kindle a small light for you in which you are able to recognize Me Myself and My nature. You are capable of doing so, but whether you are willing is for you to decide, and no coercion whatsoever will be exerted on you, neither from My nor My adversary's side. But you need never fear that I will abandon you .... Until your death I will try to win you over for Myself in order to facilitate your entry into the kingdom of the beyond, so that you will not have to fear the deepest darkness from which you will find your way out with great difficulty if you don't sink even deeper. But I have to leave you free will, and now you will understand that I will take hold of you in order to never ever let you go if you entrust yourselves to Me voluntarily, if you request My guidance and I can now also take over the guidance which truly also ensures that you reach the goal. You humans should all just know and believe that I Myself am love which does everything for its creations in order to save them from the abyss, from a new banishment into matter .... You should only believe that you can trust Me unconditionally, that you are saved if only you adhere to Me .... For I also take all your weaknesses into account and will always provide you with strength to walk the earthly path with the right direction .... I will always walk beside you and you will be able to cover the ascent effortlessly, for you will walk it by My hand and you will always find the right support when the ascent seems difficult to you. But the goal is glorious, for all burden and toil, all tribulation, suffering and hardship will fall away from you as soon as you have reached the gate of eternity and the kingdom of light will receive you, where all glories await you and you will be blissfully happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God wants to be loved and not feared ....

B.D. 8348 from December 5th 1962, taken from Book No. 88

I do not want you to look upon Me as an avenging and punishing God Who ruthlessly condemns and inflicts hardest punishments on all those who act in opposition to Him .... I do not want to cause you to fear Me as a stern Judge because I only want you to love Me .... I want to gain your love, therefore you should also recognise Me in My nature and give no credence to those who provide you with a completely wrong image of Me which will never be suitable to awaken love for your God and Creator Who is also your Father and wants to be recognised as Father .... Every doctrine which portrays Me as a God of revenge and an eternally wrathful Judge is wrong, for such misguided teachings will only ever increase the distance between you and Me, because as long as love for Me is not in you, you cannot come closer to Me either .... My fundamental substance is love and you emerged from this love .... But this love remains unchanging and constantly requests reciprocated love .... It can neither change itself nor vanish, and therefore My love will apply to you for all eternity. It will follow you into the deepest abyss in order to release you from it again .... but at no time ever will I throw you into this abyss, I will never ever condemn that which originated from Me, even if it opposes Me and rejects My love. But this love will do whatever it takes in order to encourage you, My living creations, to come close to Me again .... My love will seek to attract your love until, one day, you yourselves will turn to Me with burning love and try to find unity with Me. And then your fate will be unlimited bliss as it was in the beginning before you rejected My illumination of light. My nature has been wrongly portrayed to you humans on earth, at best you fear Me if you acknowledge Me as a Power which brought everything into existence .... but you dare not come to Me like children and appeal to Me for something because you are unaware of My greater than great love for you which wants to give itself away yet requires you to approach Me voluntarily ....

However, I do not merely want to be recognised as a God of power but also as a God of love and therefore I constantly reveal Myself to people who experience hardship or sad events an untold number of times in earthly life and are time and again helped to overcome them .... They would certainly be able to recognise Me as a loving God Who knows everything and time after time is willing to help .... For I come close to every human being in earthly life, by just paying attention to it he would be able to detect a higher providence in his earthly life, in his destiny, in all experiences he encounters. But I also reveal Myself to people through the Word, I speak to them and also give them a sign of My great love by admonishing and warning them, by offering advice and comfort, by plainly explaining to them their purpose of life and promising them strength and assistance for their earthly progress so that it may lead to the goal, to unity with Me .... For the Father longs for His children who emerged from His love .... and love will never abandon its children. However, for as long as the human being fails to recognise God's love because false doctrines only taught him to fear God .... he will not establish the right relationship of a child to its Father either, and his return to Me will be at risk. And you can reject every doctrine as error if it causes you to be frightened of your God and Creator, for I take pity on the greatest sinner and try to help him, but I do not worsen his state of torment which he precipitated himself .... I do not condemn but lift all fallen beings up again .... I do not punish, instead the being punishes itself as a result of its guilt of sin and I try to bring him redemption. And what you consider divine Judgment is only a just compensation and helpful act on My part, because every transgression against My eternal order must have a lawful consequence, in which case I only ever help that which has become disorderly back into order again, because My love and wisdom recognises this to be beneficial, for I want to give Myself away and Am only able to do so within the scope of My eternal order .... And whatever you humans regard as sad only ever helps you to fit into My law of eternal order again one day so that I will then also be able to bestow gifts upon you once more, so that I will be able to make you happy with My infinite love, as it was in the beginning ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Redemption of the guilt of sin through the blood of Jesus ....

B.D. 8349 from December 6th 1962, taken from Book No. 88

You humans should all take notice of the work of salvation which the man Jesus accomplished on earth in order to make atonement for the exceeding sinfulness of the created spirits' past apostasy from Me and in order to satisfy My justice .... this is why I sent My disciples out into the world to proclaim Me and My love which manifested itself in the man Jesus, for love accomplished this work of mercy, and love is I Myself .... Thus My disciples had to mention Me time and again when proclaiming My gospel, they had to inform people of My divine commandments of love for the first time and also inform them of Jesus Christ's act of salvation .... they always had to remember the One Who sent them into the world with the mission to feed people with My word and, in remembrance of Me, to inform them of the sacrifice on the cross which the man Jesus offered. The knowledge of this sacrifice on the cross shall be given to all people, and this knowledge will not be lost as long as there are still unredeemed spiritual beings which walk the earth as human beings. All people shall know that a human being shed His blood in purest, selfless love in order to redeem their guilt, which required an exceedingly great sacrifice of atonement, in order to be considered a just compensation towards their God and father ..... Yet time and again you are told that you, as human beings, are unable to grasp the magnitude of this sacrifice on the cross, yet it should suffice you to know that Jesus Christ has to be acknowledged as God's son and redeemer of the world, in Whom the eternal love embodied Himself in order to redeem people from sin and death. And this knowledge should prompt you to take the path to the cross, i.e. to freely confess your guilt, to hand your guilt over to Him and repentantly ask for forgiveness .... for purification in order to be able to step before the face of God again, Whom you humans can now behold in Jesus Himself .... Know that it is only ever My effort to let you find the path to the cross .... that I do everything to make this problem of My human manifestation in Jesus and My sacrificial death on the cross understandable to you through My messengers, through My disciples, whom I choose Myself, because there is no other salvation for you to be released from the guilt of your past apostasy from God ..... because only the divine redeemer Jesus Christ has redeemed this guilt and therefore you must acknowledge His act of salvation and also accept the blessings of His act of salvation, otherwise you will eternally be unable to return to Me as your father .... because I cannot accept a sinful being into My kingdom of light and bliss. But you must be washed clean through His blood, which He shed for you on the cross .... His death was a sacrificial death, for He voluntarily took it upon Himself, He voluntarily walked an unspeakably difficult path of suffering which was then crowned by death on the cross, which brought humanity redemption from sin and death .... But you can also be certain that every human being's guilt was redeemed through His act of mercy, that He shed His blood for all people past, present and future and that only your free will is necessary to accept this act of mercy; thus you must want to belong to those whom His blood has washed clean of all guilt. He gave His life on the cross .... He consciously took the last path when He sacrificed Himself for the sins of humanity, and thus you must also consciously take the path to Him, under His cross .... Redemption cannot be given to you against your will .... A 'human being' offered this most difficult sacrifice because I, as God, could not have suffered and therefore also withdrew in the end, even though I completely filled Him with My strength of love, yet the man Jesus no longer used this unusual strength in order to liberate Himself from all adversity and torment .... which was indeed possible for Him .... but He suffered as a mere human being and died as a mere human being on the cross .... With His blood He ransomed humanity from My adversary, who still has a right to the souls as long as they do not make use of Jesus' act of salvation and the treasure of grace. But My adversary has to release those who want to be redeemed, because the great sacrifice was offered on the cross for this. And if I repeatedly convey the knowledge of this to you humans, you should also pass it on, you should proclaim My name in the world, in Whom alone salvation can be found .... You should spread My teaching of love and always mention Him Who Himself gave the commandments of love, Who Himself lived a life of love on earth and finally accomplished the greatest work of love through His death on the cross, because He wanted to redeem you from the sin which had kept you separated from Him for eternities and which you yourselves would not have been able to remove for eternity either .... But your earthly path as a human being will also be in vain if it does not lead to the cross of Golgotha .... For My adversary cannot and will not follow you on this path, he will have to release you, for then he will have lost all right to you, and your former apostasy from Me will have been atoned for through love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The word of God is proof of Himself ....

B.D. 8350 from December 8th 1962, taken from Book No. 88

I speak to you and give you proof of My existence and My presence through My word. Yet again, only a few people accept this as evidence, and in order not to make their faith unfree every person will also be able to give himself another explanation if he wants to. For the evidence of My existence will never be so strong that the human being will have to believe ..... But My address is also only meant for people whose resistance against Me has already diminished, for those who are still firmly in My adversary's control do not acknowledge Me, and they will also stubbornly reject clear evidence and signs because their will is still completely directed against Me. Thus I will no longer win these before the end, they will remain in bondage to My adversary and will have travelled their earthly path in vain .... Yet I speak to those who are still undecided in order to induce them to think, and if only they have an open heart for My address I will also still win them over before it is too late. The adversity of the time will make many people willing to accept My word, for even if the living conditions appear to be good, even if the world offers earthly goods which are desirable to every person .... nevertheless great adversity will fatefully be recognizable, because time and again disasters of all kinds will startle people out of their spiritual lethargy and give rise to questions or self-contemplation. I know about the emotions of every human heart, thus I also know when My word can be conveyed to them so that it will not remain without impression .... And truly, My messengers always stand by the path when a wanderer passes by who is in need of refreshment .... I establish the strangest connections between people, I tie on threads which seem quite impossible to you .... I always direct My word to where it is needed and where an accepting heart desires comfort and encouragement .... I also know how to find those who search for truth and send out questioning thoughts into infinity .... They too will be considered according to their will. And you who serve Me on earth can always rely on Me to show you the right ways. And if you yourselves are willing to alleviate spiritual hardship, if you have mercy on your fellow human beings, then you will also always act in accordance with My will, which I clearly place in your heart. Always let yourselves be driven if you feel inwardly urged to do this or that .... There is nothing arbitrary about what you experience, what is presented to you or what moves your thoughts .... My visible guidance is always recognizable by the effects which every event entails. For I know how much people need My words who have not yet completely fallen prey to My adversary. And time and again I will address you and impart strength to you to be active on My behalf and to spread My word.

(8.12.1962) You will also always be allowed to enjoy My protection, for My work shall not be endangered, yet a giving of the pure truth in the form of My word is not often possible because people are still too bound to earthly knowledge or to spiritual knowledge which was given to them from outside, which cannot be regarded as pure truth because it is always based on spiritual knowledge taken over from fellow human beings which is not free from error .... For you humans have no idea in what way and to what extent My adversary is active in the last days before the end. He creates confusion wherever he can, and precisely those people who are convinced of their clear intellectual thinking, who therefore also research intellectually to uncover spiritual secrets, are strongly exposed to his influence .... The truth only emanates from Me alone but it is accessible to every person who takes the direct path to Me so that I can now also consider him and this happens in many ways .... by meeting light bearers who can give him the light from Me, or also through scriptures which likewise have Me Myself as their origin .... Let it be said to you humans that you can all come into possession of the pure truth if only you approach Me Myself with an earnest desire for the only truth .... For once this desire has awakened in you, then your attitude towards Me will also be such that I can comply with your desire .... For there will hardly be a person who desires pure spiritual truth who walks completely without love, because he does not acknowledge Me Myself either, he is without any bond with Me and therefore does not take the path to Me either .... The fact that pure truth can also be conveyed to people through beings of light is certain, for time and again I tell you that these beings of light will teach nothing other than what they receive from Me themselves, that they therefore also only distribute pure truth and therefore the result must always be the same. And therefore, even if the deepest wisdom, the most profound knowledge from Me, cannot yet be made accessible to a bearer of light .... because everything I distribute knows no limitation .... yet everything must agree, for I always express Myself in such a way that it is comprehensible to all people and that therefore it should not be believed that I make the transmission of truth dependent on sharper intellectual thinking, rather, even the most simple person will be able to clearly understand what I impart to him through My word, and he will not need to seek clarification or deepening of his knowledge elsewhere .... Just don't let the spiritual knowledge lie idle but pass it on, for all your fellow human beings are in spiritual hardship who have no knowledge whatsoever about their task of earthly life and the purpose of their existence as a human being .... This is why I provide for you, My servants on earth, abundantly, and you will never need to starve, My flow of grace will never stop flowing as long as you yourselves are willing to serve Me and I can now direct this flow of grace to earth through you .... For My love for My living creations is endless, and it only ever seeks to save those who are in danger of being lost again for a long time ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Confused thinking of humanity .... Admitting the truth ....

B.D. 8351 from December 9th 1962, taken from Book No. 88

This, too, is a sign of the confusion of human thinking, that it is difficult to make people believe that I make Myself known through the inner word. For their thinking does not reach beyond their intellect, they try to explain everything intellectually .... and since the human being only ever has limited abilities as long as he is not spiritually attuned .... My adversary's influence is still too strong for him to recognise a divine-spiritual working. Then he always looks for an explanation corresponding to his own confused intellect for unusual spiritual processes. This explanation will always be 'satanic activity' in the case of religious fanatics, while completely earthly-minded people will look for an explanation in fantasies and religious, enthusiastic ideas ..... For they are only able to recognize all spiritual activity through the spirit within themselves .... And this is only awakened through love, which is why no understanding can be expected from unloving people, whereas the person who is willing to love thinks about it and is also willing to accept what is conveyed to him about the 'working of My spirit' in the human being. But how far away are people from love and also from truth .... The truth can only be understood by a person who is willing to love, and love has grown cold, so that only a few people ever live in truth, that only a few people ever recognize Me Myself and My voice when it is heard or conveyed to them by My messengers. I Myself am unusually active in the last days before the end in order to wrest the souls My adversary holds captive from Me .... but I am not recognized and yet cannot influence a person through coercion that he opens himself to My voice .... Dense darkness lies over the earth which could well chase away My light from above, yet anyone who does not allow the shine of the light to penetrate him, who closes himself when a ray of My light wants to enter his heart, will not find his way out of the darkness, for his free will alone determines whether I or My adversary gains influence over him .... People's thinking is excessively taken up by the world, by matter, which My adversary always enticingly presents to them .... They only ever use their intellect to increase their worldly advantages, to increase their earthly wealth, and the more confused their thinking will become, for it distances itself from everything divine and spiritual .... Man can no longer think spiritually because he is filled with the world belonging to My adversary, who is the prince of this world .... And until the over-strong urge in him to provide his body with all comforts subsides, until he feels the world's goods to be stale and dull and now seeks something else which satisfies him and which he can only find by spiritual means, he will not clarify his thinking either, and he will be unable to recognize and accept My gifts of grace. Nevertheless, time and again attempts shall be made to offer them to worldly people, attempts shall be made to awaken their interest and to point them to the actual purpose of earthly life. For time and again such people are mentally influenced by the beings of light which were given to them as guides for their earthly course .... And strokes of fate or sorrowful occasions can nevertheless change their thinking one day and make them realize the emptiness of their existence. And therefore no effort should be spared on the part of My servants on earth in order to save a soul from spiritual darkness time and again .... For patience and perseverance can achieve much, because time and again My wisdom and care also create opportunities which can change the thinking of an obdurate person .... which is why you should also learn to look at the many disasters and accidents which affect people as means used by My love to bring such people to their senses who find it very difficult to detach themselves from the world and matter .... And what My word does not achieve can bring about such strokes of fate, and only then can I confront such people in the word and also address them through My mediators .... Only then will they attach meaning to this word and think it through .... And then My word can also become a bright light for them, in the light of which they recognize the right path and walk it .... For I want to bring salvation to all people from their spiritual adversity .... But people must not erect barriers themselves which completely shut them off from Me, because I will not force their transformation into right thinking against their will ....

Amen

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State of paradise on the new earth ....

B.D. 8352 from December 10th 1962, taken from Book No. 88

I want to turn the earth into a place of peace again where love reigns supreme, where there is no hostility, where all created beings live together in harmony and happiness, where the radiance of people's love will also beneficially touch all still constrained spiritual substances, where everyone makes an effort to help his fellow human being spiritually as well as earthly .... and where I Myself, the Eternal Love, will be able to dwell amongst people because nothing of a negative nature prevents Me from doing so .... It is My will that the earth will once again serve in helping the human race to attain utmost maturity, so that many people will be able to leave earth in a perfected state because they are closely united with Me and thus they will no longer be burdened by the effects of the past original sin, for they all will have been redeemed on earth through Jesus Christ already and therefore can be placed onto the new earth .... For their removal from the old earth prior to Judgment Day is evidence that they belong to Me, it is proof that they have found union with Me on the old earth .... that they are free of all vices and cravings which thus enabled Me to return them to the new earth ....

And a new period of redemption will begin which will at first result in many human souls' maturity because My adversary will be bound and unable to oppress these souls and also because they voluntarily abandoned all resistance .... hence they had already become My Own and only live an earthly life for the sake of the succeeding generations, for they shall bear witness to My might and glory, they shall be able to speak from their own experience about the state of the old earth and also teach their descendants to love Me .... Their children and children's children will be imbued with love as well; their souls will not be far from their original state, for they were conceived in pure, unselfish love due to My adversary's lack of influence on the people who populate the new earth .... Love, however, is strength which can truly hasten the soul's maturing, it can also help the bound spiritual substances to leave their form and they, too, will relinquish their resistance and always move forward in their development according to My will ....

This state will continue for a long time .... during which many of the fallen spirits will return to Me in a perfect state, during which I will gain many 'children' and My as well as their happiness will know no bounds, for I know that all fallen spirits will return to Me one day and that My eternal plan of Salvation will not be unsuccessful. And yet, even this state on the new earth will change again one day, for ever more souls will incarnate which had passed through the creations of the world and the inclination for material things will break through once more .... rarely at first but steadily increasing, and the desire for material goods will also loosen My adversary's chains, for people's free will is decisive and this can be influenced by My adversary again because the people themselves will no longer resist him. Yet time and again My love will also help these souls and the struggle for them will start anew, however, people's resolve itself will decide which lord shall be victorious. For the knowledge of Jesus Christ, the divine Redeemer, will also be imparted to these new generations .... Hence they will not be left helplessly at the mercy of My opponent and will also abandon their resistance sooner, because their faith in Me as God and Creator will still be strong enough and thus My influence through the voice of conscience will have an effect ....

Nevertheless, it will no longer be the paradise-like life that it was in the beginning, people will go through inner conflicts, My adversary's temptations will not fail to materialise themselves and the struggle for existence, too, will get harder yet be easily endurable for those people who remain faithful to Me and foster the love within themselves .... And even then My messengers of light will help people, partly embodied as human beings, partly exerting a spiritual influence on those who entrust themselves to them and remain in constant contact with Me. And as long as love reigns My influence on people will be strong and no regression into the abyss will have to be feared .... for My adversary fights against love in vain ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Messiah, Saviour of humankind ....

B.D. 8353 from December 12th 1962, taken from Book No. 88

From bright heights I descended to earth to carry My light into the darkness .... The sun of the spirit had gone down, no ray of light illuminated the darkness of night, and humanity suffered dreadful hardship. And those who recognised their adversity screamed to Me for help, they called for a Saviour to rescue them, for these few were not entirely imprisoned by My adversary, they lived a life of love and had not completely lost their bond with Me as yet, and thus appealed to Me in their distress to send them a Saviour. And so I sent My Son to earth .... A spirit of light, Who emerged from My love and remained loyal to Me when the host of original spirits deserted Me .... offered Himself for an act which was unique yet nevertheless brought redemption to all humankind .... He descended to earth and dwelled amongst the people.

He started His life on earth like any other human being but had accepted that he must fulfil a great mission: to shape Himself, i.e. His earthly shell, such that it could serve Me as an abode, because I wanted to tend to My living creations Myself, I Myself wanted to redeem their immense guilt with which they had burdened themselves due to their voluntary apostasy from Me .... This being of light, a child of My love, offered Itself to accomplish this act of atonement as a human being on My behalf and, as a soul, took abode in the infant Jesus and began His earthly progress, which was so incredibly sorrowful because His earthly body was intended to become spiritualised as well in order to serve Me Myself, the Eternal Love, as a dwelling. Even at His birth the world around Him was already able to recognise that this infant was the promised Messiah, for His great abundance of light broke through from time to time and expressed itself in extraordinarily profound speeches by the infant. Yet His soul was exceedingly harassed by My adversary who incited all spirits still belonging to him into taking possession of His body so that, due to this influence, the body became subject to powerful temptations against which the man Jesus subsequently had to fight so as not to succumb to them. Love gave Him the strength to do so yet He had to exert great effort, and the whole of His earthly life was a true path of the cross, which He nevertheless voluntarily took upon Himself for love of His fallen brothers, whose extensive hardship was known to Him. But His life was also an uninterrupted service of love, and since I Am Love Itself I was always able to be in Him and provide Him with the strength to fulfil the mission: to accomplish the act of atonement for humanity's immense guilt of sin ....

He was My Son, He was a soul of light which found complete union with Me on earth, which accomplished the work of deification which is the goal of every one of My created beings: to change from a 'living creation' into 'My child' which voluntarily accepts My will completely and thereby is able to attain the highest degree of perfection. Jesus was a non-fallen original spirit, and yet this deification had to take place in free will which was achieved by taking the path through earthly life .... the path through the abyss .... And thus His soul had to be exposed to all harassments on the part of My adversary, because he wanted to possess this soul too, whose fall he had been unable to bring about. And since the earth was his kingdom .... hence the kingdom of the fallen spirits .... Jesus' soul was exposed to all satanic instincts and harassments, and the human being Jesus had to resist them, in the face of all temptations he had to stand by Me as His Father of eternity, He had to make Me His comrade-in-arms and did this by constantly requesting My love and through His activity of love also received it, because love does not deny Itself and the great love of the man Jesus drew Me tremendously. And by virtue of this love .... for love is strength in itself .... He was able to put up resistance and continue with the act of Salvation until the end. The Saviour had been sent to mankind in truth; the Messiah had come as had been promised long before .... The light had descended to earth in order to illuminate the hearts of those who acknowledged Him, who recognised that I was in Him Myself and wanted to bring people salvation from sin and death .... And the light penetrated the darkness .... In Jesus emerged a fighter Who defeated My adversary .... For His weapon was love, and My adversary fights against love in vain, he will always succumb to love for I Am Love Itself, and I Am truly stronger than the one who once plunged you into the abyss ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

State of powerlessness and lightlessness ....

B.D. 8354 from December 13th 1962, taken from Book No. 88

To pass through the earth valley requires strength, for the human being is a weak creature as long as he has not yet found the bond with Me again, from Whom he receives strength when he wants it himself. The being, which now lives on earth embodied as a human being, had once renounced its strength and light; it had voluntarily departed from Me and exchanged its powerful state for a wretched state of weakness in deepest darkness .... This initial dreadful state has already been remedied by My love and with My help to such an extent that the being can receive a small measure of strength, namely the vitality necessary for being a human being, which now enables it to move on earth with a certain freedom of will and can now will, think and act on its own .... Thus it uses the life force flowing to it for earthly work in order to meet the demands placed on its body, thus in order to be physically active .... It has also been given so much light that it is able to mentally weigh up what is beneficial for body and soul ..... And if he now evaluates this ability correctly, that he not only thinks of his body but also of his soul.... if he not only uses the vitality at his disposal for the body's well-being but also acquires spiritual treasures with it, that he also uses the body's strength for unselfish activity of love, then he will soon also be able to increase the measure of strength, for then he will receive unmeasured strength from Me which he will use spiritually again and soon emerge from the state of lack of light and strength and slowly approach his original state which meant strength and light in all abundance for the being. Then his earthly existence as a human being will have brought him complete success, then the being will have returned to its divine nature which it once voluntarily changed into the opposite. And you can see from this that earthly life as a human being is a gift of grace for you which My love bestows upon you because you deprived yourselves of strength and light and voluntarily turned away from Me ..... Yet My love for you, My living creations, is so great that it took pity on Me to know that you were without strength and light and I wanted to redeem you from it again .... I had certainly lost you to My adversary, yet only temporarily, and that is as long as your free will applied to him. And since you were immersed in complete darkness you would never have turned your will towards Me of your own accord .... Therefore, for the time being I had to help you back into a state where you could use your free will again in all freedom .... And since all power is at My disposal I snatched from My adversary the creatures which had risen from My strength, which were therefore also My share, and banished them into creations of various kinds, so that through service in the law of compulsion they attained a degree of maturity again which then also enabled a decision in free will. And this degree of maturity is now reached when you are allowed to embody yourselves as a human being on earth and then you also receive your free will back, which should now decide again to which lord you want to belong. This was and is My activity of love for you, who emerged from My love, that I will not leave you in the wretched state of powerlessness and lightlessness, that I will do everything in order to help you attain beatitude again, which you voluntarily surrendered through your apostasy from Me but which you shall nevertheless attain one day because you are divine living creations. For this reason earthly life as a human being is an unheard-of grace for you which you should not forfeit by using the influx of life energy wrongly, i.e. by only using it for the benefit of your body. For that would be tantamount to a decision for My adversary, and you will sink into deepest darkness again and will still have to languish in it for eternal times until you are offered the opportunity again in a renewed earthly life .... after another endlessly long walk through the creations of earth .... you will be given the opportunity again to make the decision of will .... You can reach your goal in one course of development, but you can also have to go through repeated re-cannings in hard matter if time and again your free will is wrongly directed, if time and again you refuse to acknowledge Me as your God and creator and therefore remain in a state devoid of light and strength until your stubbornness is broken, until you voluntarily surrender to Me one day ..... which may take eternities but one day your will will certainly long for unification with Me and you will then consciously unite with Me as a human being on earth in order to be unspeakably blissful forever ....

Amen

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Jesus' promises must be fulfilled ....

B.D. 8355 from December 15th 1962, taken from Book No. 88

You shall be introduced to the truth by My spirit .... I gave you this promise when I lived on earth because I knew that you always had to stand in the truth in order to become blessed .... because I also knew that the pure truth would never last long among people, for they were and are imperfect and will never receive the perfect, pure truth unchanged .... You humans who think about it will never be able to claim that a transformation of the pure truth is not possible, nor will you be able to claim that I Myself cannot allow such a change of truth, for since you possess free will as a characteristic of your divine origin I cannot and will not curtail this free will if the human being makes changes of his own accord to the spiritual knowledge which originally came forth from Me as My word .... And this alone substantiates My new revelations which I send to you so that you will also be able to move in truth if this is your serious will .... It is so easy to understand that I, as the eternal truth, will only ever be anxious to make them accessible to My living creations, since I don't want them to live in spiritual darkness, because then they would never find their way back to Me. Yet seek Me a word from the scriptures which states that I will never ever express Myself to people again, because I will never be able to find My way back to them .... allegedly .... in this book of the fathers and thus now remain silent towards those who desire to hear the father's voice .... You will not be able to provide this proof, for My fatherly love truly knows what My children need on earth and also always turns to them what they need .... And you humans have distanced yourselves from the pure truth because you .... as long as you are still unawakened in spirit .... you do not understand how to interpret My word in scripture correctly either .... For you do not grasp the spiritual meaning of the word, otherwise not so many errors would have been able to assert the pure truth and humanity would walk along in bright light, whereas the opposite is the case .... And whether you learn all the letters by heart, they remain dead as long as the spirit is not awakened. But an awakened spirit hears My voice and recognizes it as the father's voice, because spirit speaks to spirit and beneficently touches the soul. "My sheep recognize My voice .... "Why do I emphasize this? Because you should all ask yourselves whether you are My sheep .... you represent My word which is written in the scriptures which testify of Me .... But then you must also represent everything I Myself have spoken as the man Jesus, and then you will be very clearly informed that I reveal Myself to people who 'love Me and keep My commandments .... "And then you will also not be able to claim that every direct address on My part contradicts the book of books. You yourselves have created statutes for yourselves and adhere to them ironclad .... For you the book of books is regarded as complete, which certainly contains everything that is useful for the human being to know .... but remains without value for the person whose spirit is not awakened and who (not) understands the spiritual meaning of the word. And if I now inform people Myself that and how the spirit in them has to be awakened .... if I want to help them to enlighten their spirit through My direct address so that they will also learn to understand My written word .... then you cannot deny such proof of love on My part or dismiss it as adversarial activity .... For then you will only prove that you yourselves are still unawakened in spirit, that you read My word and do not think about the fact that every promise I Myself made to people has to come true. And I said: 'I will send you the comforter, the spirit of truth, Who will guide you into all truth and remind you of what I have said to you .... " I have said, "I will remain with you until the end .... " "He who believes in Me, as the scripture says, from his body will flow rivers of living water .... " I have said, "You must all be taught of God .... " and also gave many other indications about the "working of My spirit in you." But have you already seriously considered these words of Mine, how and if they come true? No .... for otherwise you truly could not doubt My direct utterances, you could not accuse Me Myself of lying, but you must believe what I have said and gratefully receive what I offer you .... And behold the great spiritual hardship around you which truly could not be if all people would read the book of books enlightened by the spirit. But since people do not fulfil the prerequisites for enlightenment through the spirit, which consist of unselfish activity of love, this book, which could indeed suffice to lead people to beatitude, is of no use to them either .... Yet they don't understand it and are mostly just formal christians whose mouths speak differently than their hearts are made of .... But I cannot be satisfied with a pseudo-christianity, for where unselfish neighbourly love is lacking there can be no light, there is no living faith, otherwise I Myself would be recognized in every word which My greater than great love sends to people from above because they need help; for it is the time of the end and only the pure truth can give people the light which illuminates their path that leads back to Me ....

Amen

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God's care for the vineyard labourers ....

B.D. 8356 from December 17th 1962, taken from Book No. 88

Those of you who offer to work in My vineyard are being led and guided by Me .... Nevertheless, you must consider it a priority, for you receive and distribute everlasting spiritual possessions .... whereas all secular work merely provides you with transient goods .... And do you know how long your existence on earth will last? .... Hence, you can work and work and yet derive no benefit from what you acquire through earthly exertion .... The work for Me and My kingdom, however, is followed by many spiritual blessings which will be permanent and will also provide earthly benefits, for you will truly not need to live in want as long as you, as My servants, fulfil the will of your Guardian, as long as you are of service to Me during the last days before the end when I will particularly require your assistance. You can indeed believe that your earthly worries will diminish as long as you consider your work for Me more important, for I said 'Seek ye first the kingdom of God .... and all these things shall be added unto you ....' Even so, as long as worldly needs are taken into account first, the work for Me will fade into the background and then you will find it increasingly more difficult to commit yourselves to Me and My kingdom .... Your thoughts will be far more inclined towards the world; My kingdom, however, is not of this world and the human being must fight if he wants to make heartfelt contact with Me again .... But I urgently need you as fellow workers, because I don't force anyone to place himself at My disposal since only a free act of cooperation will result in the blessing that the redemptive work will be successful, regardless of which work you accomplish for Me .... As soon as you are permeated by love for Me and your neighbour you are suitable assistants for Me and this love will always impart upon you the strength to work for Me. Therefore, don't allow yourselves to become depressed by worldly worries which I can easily avert and will indeed do so once you predominantly commit yourselves to the spiritual profit you will achieve through your keen cooperation .... both for yourselves as well as for the souls needing redeeming and, not least of all, for Me as well, once I have regained these souls for Me through your activity for Me and My kingdom. You should always bear in mind that every person's life can come to an end tomorrow and that no amount of earthly gain will be of use to you anymore, but that you may take the spiritually acquired rich treasure with you into the kingdom of the beyond and that your activity in this kingdom will then be a blessed one, because then you may distribute and receive again without limit. And if those of you who want to serve Me as faithful servants always bear a near end in mind, irrespective of whether it concerns the whole of the human race or just yourselves .... then you will recognise the futility of earthly labour and will surely give priority to spiritual work, and you will certainly also be sustained by Me Myself. You will not need to suffer hardship, because I Myself, as your Guardian, will look after your physical needs as well so that you will be able to accomplish your task .... You should believe that I will always find means and ways, that nothing is impossible for Me, that you only need to fulfil My will to be certain of My help at all times .... However, I will often also put you to the test as to whether you are willing to resist the world's onslaught, and you need to pass such tests of faith because precisely your faith must be particularly strong if you want to withstand My adversary's temptations, as he will confront you time and again in order to prevent you from working for Me and My kingdom .... But then you should know that My power is stronger and that I will certainly protect you from him if only you are willing to be of service to Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Knowledge of the cause of the deficiency ....

B.D. 8357 from December 18th 1962, taken from Book No. 88

I do not want your ruin but only your bliss .... You have created your own wretchedness and I want to release you from it again and give you a blissful life which will last forever. But it is necessary for this that you voluntarily submit yourselves to the law of My eternal order, the principle of which is only ever love .... You emerged from love, the strength of love let everything come into being, all spiritual and earthly works of creation were brought into being by My strength of love, and everything that emerged from My love can be called accomplished. But you humans .... i.e. your soul .... voluntarily stepped out of My flow of love and thereby became imperfect, thus also wretched. But My fundamental nature is and remains love, which is unchanging and never ends .... And this love also takes hold of what has become wretched and seeks to illuminate it and restore its bliss .... But it remains ineffective as long as it is resisted, as long as the wretched being closes itself to My illumination of love .... So for as long as it can no longer experience the bliss of My illumination of love, and for as long as the being is outside My divine order .... This process has to be explained to you humans again and again so that you will learn to understand why you are wretched and what this wretchedness consists of: that you are weak, imperfect beings who are limited in strength and knowledge .... which can indeed want but usually take the wrong direction of will because they lack all knowledge, which cannot always carry out their will because they lack the strength to do so, which go through earthly life with darkened spirits and lack all knowledge about their original state and their relationship to their God and creator .... and which cannot change their inadequate state themselves as long as they lack love, as long as they do not voluntarily integrate themselves into the law of order. If you now want to remedy this unfortunate state of imperfection you must also know about it for the time being, and now you will also recognize the importance of My commandments of love, for the knowledge of the reason for these two commandments of Mine must be conveyed to you or you would not be able to be called to account .... precisely because you are poorly formed due to your once wrongly directed will. And if you now try to fulfil My commandments of love you will truly also be helped to beatitude, for then you will enter into close contact with Me again, Who is eternal love, and then you will no longer be without strength and light, because you will open yourselves to My illumination of love again through loving activity. Thus you will also attain eternal life again, for then you will return to Me because love urges you on to love, and you will have escaped ruin, then you will no longer be able to fall back into the abyss once love has been kindled in you, instead you will constantly ascend, for there is no limit for all perfection, it constantly strives towards Me, and in this desire and striving towards Me it finds its happiness which will never end. But as long as you are imperfect and live on earth as a human being I will only ever try to encourage you to love, for only love conveys strength and light to you, only love unites you with Me, only love returns you to the original state in which you were infinitely happy. And therefore you will also understand why I repeatedly address you humans and recite the commandments of love to you .... You will also understand why I send My disciples into the world who are to inform people of their earthly task and who preach the gospel of love to them time and again .... For you came forth from My love, and My endless love wants to make you happy .... But you must first become love again yourselves, for I can only unite Myself with the same but never have contact with beings which have turned into the opposite, for their resistance also nullifies the effect of My strength of love .... which is why it first has to be broken before I Myself can work in a person again .... but then he is also assured of unlimited beatitudes, for he will live eternally in light and strength and freedom and be able to behold Me face to face ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Limitation of God's effect of love ....

B.D. 8358 from December 19th 1962, taken from Book No. 88

You cannot grasp how great My love for you is .... For you can only grasp limited things, yet My love is unlimited, it never ends and fills everything that exists, be it spiritual or earthly creations .... It sustains everything that exists, and it will eternally not turn away from My living creations even if they have voluntarily distanced themselves from Me, for they are products of My love which are indissolubly united with Me. They are strength of love once emanated by Me .... thus My fundamental substance is always and forever in the beings I have created. I Myself am in all works of creation, I am in the smallest grain of sand as well as in the entire universe, for nothing could exist if it were not permeated by My strength of love, for every work of creation is precisely this strength of love .... Thus your whole being must also shelter Me Myself within itself, even if it is not perfect, i.e. has voluntarily turned itself into the opposite .... But it is imperishable because it is love-power from Me .... Yet just as the sun emits no light when it is densely covered by clouds, My ray of love cannot shine through dense coverings which the wrongly directed will has allowed to come into being. And the being's free will first has to dissolve these covers again before My ray of love can penetrate and the being also feels My love as beatitude .... You can therefore certainly say that I am in you because otherwise you would not be, for everything that exists is strength from Me .... And I Myself am the source of strength, I Myself am the strength and the light .... And thus you will understand that the being's imperfection also hinders My working of love, that as long as a person's soul .... the once fallen being .... limits My working of love through its imperfection, there cannot be complete harmony in him. Thus the human being must first enter the state of perfection, then he will no longer be burdened in any way, for all these burdens are still evidence that he has not yet attained the perfection again which originally made him happy .... Only few people, however, already attain this on earth, and therefore people are also more or less burdened with suffering and illnesses of all kinds. However, if they have an unusually high degree of love, then love will dissolve their soul's dross, then My strength of love can take effect and also help the soul to ever higher maturity .... But then faith will also be so alive through love that every illness will disappear by virtue of faith, so that I can now also take possession of My house, of the human heart which belongs to Me again for eternity. But since My wisdom also plays a part in determining the fate of every individual person, all hardship and suffering often serve to create opportunities for the human being to go deeper and deeper into himself, to establish a bond with Me and thus to consciously strive for Me and My kingdom .... They serve to stimulate the human being to spiritual activity, to conscious vineyard work, in order to again help fellow human beings who are in spiritual need. Just such work requires a degree of maturity which is easier to achieve through suffering, where love and suffering contribute towards the human being reaching this high degree of maturity, which then also guarantees My illumination of love and is expressed in unusual working of the spirit .... For My love for you humans is exceedingly great, you who came forth from Me as My living creations and should return to Me again as My children .... And everything that concerns you, whether suffering or joy, is determined in My plan of salvation from eternity, because I know about the will of every individual and will do everything to ensure that it is rightly directed, so that one day it will also bring about the perfection of the being, which is the final goal of everything I let come into being ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Bonding with God guarantees His illumination of love ....

B.D. 8359 from December 20th 1962, taken from Book No. 88

This is the surest sign of My love that I am always in contact with you, that you only need to raise your thoughts to Me in order to draw Me to you, that I always lean down to you and speak to you when you ask Me for it, when you want to hear My voice yourselves .... No-one will call to Me in vain if his prayer is directed to Me in spirit and in truth. For I long for this bond between you and Me because you are My children and because My fatherly love wants to find unity with you, which has to be accomplished of your own free will. But as soon as you yourselves are convinced of My love you will also give your love to Me, and then your return to Me, for the purpose of which you live on earth, will also be assured. I know no limitation, and therefore you can receive My illumination of love unmeasured .... Only open yourselves to this ray of love by never leaving Me out of your thoughts, by turning to Me time and again and conversing with Me in secret as often as possible, for then I will be able to answer you even if it is not obvious, but My emanation of strength is also an answer, and since you constantly need strength for your ascent upwards, there is no better way to receive My strength than that you intimately remember Me and mentally speak to Me. Yet what you receive yourselves you should also be able to distribute to your neighbour again, and therefore My flow of strength is sent to you in the form of My word, as a direct address which you can hold on to and pass on .... And this process is such visible evidence of My love that you should not give it up, for you are to be called rich, after all, you receive a gift of grace of greatest value which cannot be surpassed by anything earthly .... You receive the proof of My existence and My presence .... You can no longer deny God because you hear His address .... And you also receive an unmistakable sign of His love, for what He gives you are imperishable goods which you can no longer lose for ever .... I give you again what you had lost through your former apostasy from Me .... Light and strength are imparted to you again because My love knows about your lightless and powerless state and wants to remedy it .... For love always wants to give itself away, love wants to give and make happy .... And My word, which you receive, is truly a gift of grace which will make you happy, even if you are unable to appreciate its value on earth .... But in the kingdom of the beyond you will be able to look upon a wealth over which you will rejoice and exult, for you will be able to recognize Me Myself and My love and praise and glorify Me eternally .... Every person on earth could accept these proofs of My love, yet his free will alone decides whether he allows himself to be addressed by Me or rejects a gift of grace .... And only a loving person will correctly recognise this gift as a gift of love from his God and father of eternity .... And so that you now also feel a right love for Me, I would like to illuminate you, and therefore you should often and intimately remember Me to make this illumination possible .... For then you will open your heart for My flow of love which now touches you and fills you with strength which you use again for loving activity .... Time and again I want to fill your thoughts, I only want you not to switch Me off, that your daily routine often gives you the opportunity to send your thoughts upwards to the One Who created you and Who wants to make you endlessly happy, Who wants to help you to live a life of bliss which lasts forever. And truly, I will always be with you and you will feel My presence, for you will go through earthly life cheerfully and carefree, because you will never be without strength and therefore also able to cope with all demands made on you .... And you will mature spiritually, for the strength flowing to you from Me impels you into loving activity, and thereby you will also find unity with Me, which is the purpose and goal of your life on this earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

False reports from the astral world .... "spiritual guides" ....

B.D. 8360 from December 21st 1962, taken from Book No. 88

I am truly always ready to speak to you humans who want to hear My voice and allow My spirit to work in you .... And I look down with pleasure upon you who come to your father as children and desire to hear Me .... And then I will also make My will known to you, I will give you, who still walk in darkness of spirit, a light, I will let the spiritual gifts buried in you break through, and you will regain the knowledge you had lost through your apostasy from Me .... I will also initiate you into My plan of salvation from eternity .... you shall receive information about My reign and activity in infinity, for you shall attain beatitude again, you shall emerge from your state of death and be awakened to eternal life, as was your original destiny .... Therefore I reveal Myself to you and to all people who live a life of love and intimately unite with Me through love .... For I Myself am love from eternity .... I am your God and creator, from Whose love you came forth .... I am your father, Who manifested Himself in Jesus .... Who therefore became a visible God for you in Jesus .... And this has to be explained to you again and again that Jesus and I are one, that the eternal Deity reveals Himself to you when Jesus speaks to you .... as I Myself spoke on earth: 'To him who loves Me I will reveal Myself .... "But I will always reveal Myself through the spirit, if therefore 'My spirit can work in you' .... And you can also always feel addressed by Me as soon as you fully consciously unite with Me and expect My address .... But I give you to consider that I speak to you as a father speaks to his child .... clearly understandable, lovingly and wisely .... that I speak to your heart, not to your intellect, for once I have won your heart so that it beats towards Me with love, then the soul will suddenly be enlightened upon its entry into the kingdom of the beyond and know and understand everything which can never be imparted to it on earth, because such knowledge is meaningless for its earthly life, for its ascent development. And if you humans receive statements in a mediumistic state which make unusual demands on your intellect, you can conclude with certainty that such messages from the spiritual kingdom come to you from beings who only acquired their knowledge intellectually on earth, whose thoughts certainly dealt with spiritual questions but whose (unjust) bond with Me had not created the possibility that I Myself could reveal Myself to them .... They still move within a certain worldly knowledge which is not free of error, and they also try to transfer this to people. The recipients of such messages certainly also have the will to work for Me and My kingdom, yet as long as they hand themselves over to these spiritual beings instead of causing the spirit from Me to express itself within themselves, no act of violence can be used on account of their free will, for every person must intimately unite with Me himself and enable the expressions of My spirit, then he will also be able to be certain of the truth of what he now hears through the inner voice .... but which is then My voice, not that of a 'guiding spirit' which does not work on My behalf .... The human being should seriously examine what he gains from such messages for his soul, which, as long as it stays on earth, is only meant to increase its degree of love, but then it will be enlightened from within and truly does not need alleged enlightenments as they come to it from the astral world as alleged revelations of Jesus .... but which prove themselves to be error through the misrepresentation of the relationship: God .... Jesus .... For I am not to be thought of separately .... It is one being, and this being reveals Itself through the Spirit in you .... Although every person is free to believe what he wants, as soon as he is serious about the truth he must also earnestly request it from Me, Who is the eternal truth Myself. And I will quietly and tenderly work in a human heart, I Myself will kindle a light in him, and My eternal plan of salvation will also be revealed to him, yet such that he can and will only burn with ardent love for Me, because My infinite love, greater than great wisdom and omnipotence will become apparent to him and he will then also be able to receive ever deeper wisdom, yet only ever by way of a true revelation from Me through the working of My spirit in him .... And then you will also learn to separate error from truth, because the eternal truth itself enlightens you, which can never err ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The end is near ....

B.D. 8361 from December 23rd 1962, taken from Book No. 88

Every day brings you closer to the end .... For the time is fulfilled and My eternal plan of salvation will be carried out, which was recognized by My love and wisdom as successful for countless beings who are still in ascent development and need My help. And although you are not given the day and hour you can nevertheless expect this end with certainty as being imminent, for you are in the last days .... And this will pass very quickly and bring many unforeseen events by which you will be able to recognize the truth of these words ever more clearly. Yet whatever may happen I protectively keep My hands spread over My own, over those people who are consciously in contact with Me, who want to belong to My own and who are also closely united with Me through prayer and activity of love. Although it seems that the world will experience an upswing, people's prosperity will seemingly constantly increase and no thought will be further from their minds than that everything could suddenly change and the greatest adversity and gloom will befall people .... But as soon as I let My voice sound through the elements of nature, misery and chaos will set in, and the last phase on this earth has begun and will also pass very quickly .... And I will keep reminding you of this so that you do not become lukewarm and lethargic in this time which still offers you everything .... It will not remain like this and the hardship will affect you all the more terribly, you who know nothing of My eternal plan of salvation, who cannot draw strength from a living faith in Me, Who can and will always help if only I am called upon and thus acknowledged as God and creator, Who is full of love and uses His power because He is also your father, to Whom you should pray like children in spirit and in truth .... And truly, you will also endure the coming time of adversity, the time of greatest tribulation, and time and again you will be led out of every adversity as long as you keep to Me .... And the end will come just as surely not long after, for the day of the end has been fixed from eternity and it will be kept .... Therefore I can only ever call out to you humans: Remember the end .... Live in such a way that you need not fear the end, do not let yourselves be blinded by the apparent blossoming which you can observe everywhere around you .... Know that you live in the last days and make good use of them, then the last day need not frighten you either, for then you will only exchange this earth for a place of peace where I will transfer My own before the last work of destruction takes place .... which, however, is necessary for the still bound spirits which are to be liberated and which are to continue their upward development in new forms. The end has been announced to you long enough, for I have always informed you through seers and prophets that one day the day of judgment will come .... the day when everything will be 'judged,' i.e. transferred to where it belongs according to its degree of maturity .... be it the still bound spiritual or the human being who is also still on the path of his higher development and has let it come to a standstill through his wrongly directed will .... Everything has gone out of order and must be restored to the state of My order from eternity .... it has to be "straightened" so that the upward development of all spiritual things can continue again .... And you are now standing shortly before this 'judgment', and you will do well to reckon with it and prepare yourselves for a sudden end, so that you need not fear it .... But this requires faith in the truth of My predictions, and you will also gain this as soon as you make an effort to live a life of love, as soon as you strive to fulfil My will. Then everything I convey to you Myself from above will be understandable and credible in order to save you humans before the end comes ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Christmas message 1962

B.D. 8362 from December 25th 1962, taken from Book No. 88

I Myself came to you because you needed Me in your great spiritual adversity .... I descended to earth; I entered the realm of darkness and brought a brightly shining light, for I Myself was the Light of Eternity which constantly emanates its radiance into the darkness .... And thus I took on a human shape because only as a human being was I able to accomplish that which signified to you salvation from the great hardship .... And this human being was the infant Jesus, Who was born to you in the Holy Night .... For this infant was conceived in all purity and without sin through My power and love and was therefore able to accept Me Myself, the Eternal Love, within Itself .... His was a soul of light which was able to serve Me as an abode, because I can only shelter in a pure vessel otherwise the bright light of My love would have been unable to shine. The infant Jesus was infused by the spirit of love, for His soul brought the love with it to earth .... It was a non-fallen original spirit Which did not close Itself to the love which I incessantly transmitted. And this original spirit did not relinquish Its love when It embodied Itself in the infant Jesus, It merely stemmed the radiance of Its abundant love as not to illuminate people with a brilliance they would have been unable to bear due to their imperfect state. However, unusual events took place at His birth which gave evidence to people who loved that the promised Messiah had come into the world. Yet only a few recognised Him, and thus the infant Jesus started Its earthly path like every other human being, for the mission It had to fulfil was under no circumstances allowed to impose a compulsory faith on people, for He, Jesus, was merely meant to show them the path which every person must take in order to ascend from the abyss into the light .... Nevertheless, the love of the infant Jesus was at times overwhelmingly powerful, for I Myself was this love, thus I had chosen the human shell so as to accomplish the greatest act of compassion on behalf of the sinful human race which, however, had to be accomplished by every human being who was capable of suffering in order to atone for these beings' original sin of apostasy from Me .... I Myself descended to Earth and embodied Myself in a soul of light which voluntarily wanted to take the earthly path in order to serve Me Myself as an abode. Seers and prophets had already announced the Messiah to people long in advance, and those people who were still devoted to Me in love yearned for His arrival, and they soon recognised Him in the boy Jesus, they realised that His unusual wisdom was divine and that I had sent them the One Who was to bring them deliverance. Yet even Jesus was not allowed to compel people's faith through His extraordinary strength and wisdom .... His brightly shining light of love certainly broke through every so often and My spirit expressed itself through Him but it nevertheless withdrew itself time and again, and the man Jesus lived His earthly life like any other human being, for He was meant to exemplify the right kind of life to people which they should follow if they wanted to release themselves from My adversary, who can only be defeated through and with love.

And since the soul .... although having descended from the kingdom of light .... had to live in the midst of the satanic world and its earthly body also consisted of immature spiritual substances, the man Jesus had to fight very hard to remain victorious against and during all temptation used by My adversary to make Him fall. Yet Jesus had not relinquished love, His soul was so filled by love for Me, His God and Father of eternity, that He thus was full of strength and light and therefore able to perform miracles and in all wisdom instruct His fellow human beings. Even so, His body imposed human limitations on Him as long as He had not fully matured, but He used His life on earth to that effect until He accomplished the actual act of Salvation, which concluded His suffering and death on the cross .... As a result of His life of love His body had indeed almost spiritualised already, yet He took His death on the cross upon Himself as a weak human being. And He voluntarily gave up all divine strength of love for the sake of the final hours of His act of compassion in order to then suffer incredibly and die as a mere human being and through this greatest act of atonement of all times to redeem the great original sin for the whole of humanity .... It was pure love which motivated Him to accomplish this work, and this love was I Myself .... Yet you will never ever understand this unless, of course, you, too, become pure love, as you were in the beginning .... Only then will you understand the nature of love, only then will you know why I Myself have to be acknowledged by you as your Redeemer from sin and death, and then you will also understand the fact that and Jesus and I are one, why 'God' can only be conceived by you in 'Jesus', and you will understand why a 'human being' had to accomplish this act of Salvation on earth .... For the atonement of the immense guilt of your past apostasy from Me was only possible to be rendered by a human being who was as full of love .... in whom I, the Eternal Love, was able to take abode .... as the man Jesus had been .... It was a truly unique act and the effect of the act of grace will never ever come to an end, so that all once fallen spiritual beings can be completely redeemed, because Jesus died on the cross for all human beings past, present and future and further atonement for this immense guilt will never be necessary again .... Nevertheless, the human being's free will is always and forever required in order to find redemption from his guilt. The battle against My adversary, who had kept all fallen beings captive until then, started when the infant Jesus came into the world .... Yet Jesus severed the chains and wrestled from him the souls which took refuge in Him in their adversity, which availed themselves of the act of Salvation and wanted to be liberated from the adversary .... And the first souls, the first once-fallen original spirits, came back home to Me, they came back as children into the Father's house again which they once voluntarily left, for the man Jesus had paid for their guilt with His death on the cross, and every soul becomes free which acknowledges Him, which recognises its God and Father in Him Who died on the cross on behalf of the human race ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

"I am with you all the days .... "

B.D. 8363 from December 26th 1962, taken from Book No. 88

"I am with you always, even to the end .... "You are never abandoned, even if you are burdened with earthly hardship, for there is always one Who is ready to help you .... I always walk beside you as soon as you only allow My presence, as soon as you consciously request My guidance. Hence you yourselves determine whether I can stay with you, for as soon as inner resistance is still put up against Me I withdraw, i.e. you will then not be able to feel My love either, even if it never gives up on you .... But I have promised you that I will remain with you until the end. And you can truly believe this promise, because every word that flows out of My mouth is truth .... But if I am with you, you need not fear any disaster either, for I can avert it and also want to avert it if you unite with Me through prayer and activity of love. Thus you, who want to belong to My own, are constantly under My care .... And I constantly give you proof of this by speaking to you as a father speaks to his children .... I admonish and warn you, I make My will known to you and inform you about My nature so that love for Me will ignite in you which then also guarantees My constant presence .... But you will experience what it means to be present to you in the coming time when it will storm and roar around you, when you will have to go through a time of tribulation because it has to come for the sake of the whole of humanity if individual people are still to be saved from ruin .... You, who are Mine, will certainly constantly experience My protection and My help, but the magnitude of the adversity will also demand a strong faith from you, otherwise you will not be able to withstand the tribulations you are exposed to by My adversary and in which you shall prove yourselves .... You need not fear this time of adversity, for as soon as you commend yourselves to Me, as soon as you call upon Me, I will always be present to you, for I promised you this when I Myself walked across the earth .... Only allow this presence of Mine to be with you by asking for it, by not allowing yourselves to be captured by the world, which will approach you overpoweringly with its temptations .... But you would make a bad exchange, for it is transient, just as everything that is around you will very soon fall prey to destruction, as it is announced through word and scripture .... And what people possess they will lose and stand poor and naked on the day of judgment. But you can always know yourselves to be safe in My protection, and your possessions will truly be imperishable; they will secure your entrance into the kingdom of light if you depart before the end of this earth .... or enter a life in the paradise of the new earth, which you will then enter with great wealth and can now work in bliss. And then you will be allowed to experience Me Myself, then My promise will obviously come true, for 'I will stay with you ....‘ because you show Me the love which makes My presence with you humans possible .... Always remember these words of Mine and don't be afraid whatever may come, for I have foretold to you that a time of tribulation will pass over the earth which heralds the near end and which also has to be endured by My own .... but the strength to do so will be supplied to you at any time .... And you should acquire much strength beforehand, you should always open yourselves to Me and allow My presence in you so that your faith will become unshakeable and you will no longer let go of My hand which guides you and lovingly leads you through all adversity .... And if you do not leave Me out of your thoughts I will not leave you either, I will fill you with extraordinary strength in every hour so that you will feel My presence and constantly give Me more love which will unite you ever more intimately with Me .... for one redemption period will be concluded and a new one will begin, as I have predicted from the beginning of this period through seers and prophets .... And everything will come to pass, for My word is truth .... And this word of Mine you can hear until the end, for I remain with you, and My presence is proven by My address to you who desire to hear Me, who want to be and remain Mine for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The human being's duty is to scrutinise spiritual information ....

B.D. 8364 from December 28th 1962, taken from Book No. 88

The fact that you had been wrongly instructed cannot be used by you as an excuse, for you have been placed by Me into the position of using your intellect and therefore it is also your duty to scrutinise what you are being taught .... As soon as you receive the information of a God and Creator Who created and sustains everything that you can see around you, and also you yourselves, you only need to turn to this Creator in thought and, truly, I will also guide your thinking such that you will be able to understand, if only you want to understand. And you will always be sent such thoughts from the spiritual kingdom which relate to Me and to yourselves, which make you question what kind of relationship you have in regards to Me, your God and Creator. And such thoughts ought to be picked-up by you and reflected upon ....

You should at all times be conscious of the fact that every person who only uses his intellect can be mistaken .... Thus you must also ask yourselves whether the people who are instructing you, who present you with knowledge which they, in turn, receive from other people or which they have academically acquired, are free from error .... For doubts will certainly arise in you and then you do well to contemplate them. But in that case it only depends on your own will whether you yourselves desire the truth .... since only this will shall determine that pure truth will be imparted to you .... If you, however, accept everything that is presented to you without thinking about it, you will never find the path to Me, for then you will only possess pure intellectual knowledge which will never be able to touch your heart and will not benefit your soul in the slightest, since it will neither lead to the correct realisation nor motivate you to seriously improve yourselves .... It is and will remain mere worldly knowledge, even if it concerns spiritual problems. For only your intellect is affected and this is not being used to think about the information so that it can deal with it, and subsequently it won't be able to recognise what it was offered.

And if you are prevented by law to reflect on it, then you should also recognise the foolishness of such law and become wary and on account of this alone start to doubt the truth of the teachings imparted to you. Not everything needs to be wrong, yet you should obtain clarity by starting to think about it and turn to the One Who is your God and Creator and Who alone can grant you clarification. Hence you ought to try to attain living knowledge and not content yourselves with dead knowledge, which remains dead as long as it doesn't influence the human being's soul by stimulating it into improving itself eagerly, which first and foremost consists of kind-hearted activity .... For as soon as a person lives a life of love his thinking will also be enlightened, and then he will no longer be satisfied with teachings which do not completely correspond to the truth .... The light of love within himself will no longer let him unreservedly accept everything he is offered but will cause him to scrutinise it, because love is a divine principle and can never tolerate error or untruth beside itself ....

Hence, at that moment an active desire for truth will set in and the truth will subsequently be imparted to the person, no matter in which way .... For anyone who desires the truth will receive it .... Anyone who desires the truth will also ask for Me, Who is the Eternal Truth and I will also reveal Myself to him, that is, I will convey the truth to him in some form or other, which he then will accept and make use of without hesitation ....

Every person has to aspire towards his own perfection, and he also has the ability to do so, for truly, it only requires the connection with Me and a prayer in spirit and in truth for My help to successfully travel his earthly path. And this prayer will be granted to him .... he will constantly be inwardly urged to do deeds of love and he will also gain the light which will let him recognise the right path that leads to perfection ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The adversary's onslaughts in the last days ....

B.D. 8365 from December 29th 1962, taken from Book No. 88

You still will have to prove yourselves many times, for My adversary will attack you wherever possible .... And he will sow strife, he will incite people against each other, he will do everything to make you feel uneasy in order to bring you to fall, and you will always have to appeal for the strength to resist his temptations .... And therefore you should at all times take refuge in Me before he is able to attack you, you should daily and hourly appeal for My protection, so that I can stand by your side and repel him. The battle against him will continue until the end, for he will not hand you over to Me, your God and Father of eternity, without a fight. But I, too, have a claim on you, hence you need only turn to Me and I will always stand by you, because I love you and want to keep your souls' enemy at bay to prevent you from falling during the temptation .... Wherever My adversary recognises spiritual aspiration he works particularly rigorously and seeks to stop it .... Then you will have to prove yourselves and seriously resist him, you must not offer him any targets by allowing yourselves to get carried away by impatience, irritation or unkindness, for then it will become increasingly more difficult to get away from him, although I Am always willing to help. But then your thoughts will not find the way to Me as quickly .... And only your heartfelt bond with Me will protect you from his onslaughts and temptations. And as long as he is still able to unsettle you into becoming impatient and enraged you will also be weak and he will make use of his power ....

This is why you should constantly work on your soul and try to relinquish all faults, and you only ever should appeal to Me for the necessary strength and, truly, just your will alone will give you strength and you will emerge victoriously .... His activity is so obvious in the last days before the end, he tolerates no peace, no harmony, no unity amongst people, he only ever intends to disturb, and it is up to you yourselves whether he will be successful, for just a call upon Jesus, your Saviour and Redeemer, will strengthen you and you will be able to resist .... For Jesus defeated him with His death on the cross, and if you call upon Me in Jesus he has to release you .... However, especially during such temptations you often forget to remember the Saviour and Redeemer, for the adversary's work consists of confusing your thoughts so that you react to his onslaughts and try to humanly assert yourselves where only I Am able to help because you don't have enough strength ....

Hence you shall prove yourselves in every temptation, that is, you shall take the path to Me in Jesus, for then he will have to withdraw, because My strength is truly greater than he is and because I will not leave anyone in distress who takes refuge in Me. Yet by yourselves, of your own strength, you are unable to do anything but with My strength achieve everything, and thus time and again I will give you strength provided you request it from Me, for then your thoughts aim towards Me and I will be able to assert My claim and protect you in every adversity and danger .... Don't forget this, for he will still provoke you many times, he will still often push himself between you and Me, and you will still often be in danger of succumbing to his temptations .... Just one call to Me in spirit and in truth is enough and I will push him away from you, I will not leave you to him but always help you in every spiritual crisis ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God applies painful means ....

B.D. 8366 from December 30th 1962, taken from Book No. 88

You must never doubt My love, no matter what may happen in the world or in your environment .... I know why I allow it, even if it is not My will but the will of people themselves is active and causes suffering to their fellow human beings. I know what helps the individual person to mature again, and therefore I Myself must often intervene and try to influence you through harsh blows of fate so that you come to your senses when you are in danger of losing yourselves to My adversary. But don't believe that I will unkindly and unjustifiably let suffering come upon you, for only My love determines Me to intervene in the most diverse ways. The danger that you could be lost again for an infinitely long time is too great, and I don't want to indifferently leave you to your fate, and therefore I still use all means to avert this danger from you. This is why the events which make you doubt My love will increase in the last days, disasters and misfortunes of various kinds, severe strokes of fate and hardship and misery will occur ever more frequently, and people will ask themselves how a God of love can allow such things to happen ..... Yet believe Me, I have to use these means because I cannot curtail your free will and because these events can push your will in the right direction .... Believe Me that I also pay attention to every call you send up to Me in this adversity and grant you help in order to prove Myself to you, and then you will also learn to recognize My infinite love for you which does not want to destroy but only to save. If all of you humans knew about the correlations which justify your earthly existence as a human being then you would certainly also live in such a way that you would not need to suffer any severe strokes of fate; yet even if you are enlightened by My messengers you will not believe them, and you will continue to live irresponsibly into the day and be in greatest danger of getting lost again for an infinitely long time. What it means to have to cover the earthly path through all works of creation once again is beyond your comprehension, but you would be horrified and live a different way of life for fear of it, yet I cannot give you the recollection of the path of development which you have already covered for your own sake .... Yet time and again I let you be warned and admonished by My messengers, and if only you would believe them you would banish this danger yourselves and adopt a different way of life. And therefore time and again you will be startled out of the sleep of death you are still in, for you shall awaken and My wake-up calls will sound ever louder .... Yet My love for you will not diminish even if you are no longer able to recognize it yourselves. But one day you will know that everything that happens should only serve your best, but that I cannot force your free will and that you therefore can also let all painful events pass you by without having gained any success for your soul. Time and again I call out to you humans: Believe in My infinite love which applies to you for all eternity and believe that I only want your bliss, that I want to awaken you to a life which lasts forever and signifies light and strength and freedom. And if you are able to believe in My love then you will also humbly accept everything from My hand, and I Myself will also be able to help you out of all adversity again as soon as it has only contributed to your change, so that you entrust yourselves to Me and appeal to Me for help .... For as soon as you acknowledge Me as your God and creator, the great danger of being banished again into matter will be over, and then you will not be lost but can continue to mature on earth or in the kingdom of the beyond ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Childship to God is the object of life on earth .... The Word of God ....

B.D. 8367 from December 31th 1962, taken from Book No. 88

The process across earth as a human being is a greater than great gift of grace from Me; after all, it offers you the opportunity to shape yourselves into a child of God, for you once came forth from Me as creatures of My will, My love and My strength .... You certainly possessed supreme perfection, because nothing imperfect could emerge from Me, even so, you were a mere product of My will which could not be any different from how I created it; yet I wanted children which were to create and work with Me in supreme beatitude .... You had to strive for and acquire this childship yourselves by totally accepting My will, even though you also had the freedom to think and want in complete contradiction to My will .... Thus you had to be put to the test; you had to prove your love for Me by not accepting any other will than Mine .... This test of will was demanded of you and you did not pass it .... You wanted you own way, despite the fact that you were brightly illuminated by the light of realisation .... However, you were not forced to think and want like Me and thus you misused this freedom of will .... You had once been self-aware beings, but after this wrong decision of will you lost your self-awareness because it had been My eternal plan that you nevertheless should one day create and work in the same will as Mine in supreme happiness .... You should be able to shape yourselves into children of Mine and this necessitated an infinitely long path of development from the deepest abyss, which you voluntarily strove for, to the highest peak .... Disintegrated into minute particles you travelled this path through all the creations on earth without self-awareness .... until you reached the degree of development in which you regained your self-awareness when you lived on earth as a human being in order to voluntarily make the right decision of will, but which will then also lead to your childship to God, which guarantees you supreme blissfulness. Making this right decision in earthly life as a human being will truly not be made too difficult for you because, since I Myself yearn for the return of My living creations as My children, I will help you in every possible way to reach the goal .... I just must always respect your free will, which has to accomplish this change into a child of God.

However, I shall do everything in My power to direct your will correctly .... I speak to you Myself, and this address has a truly powerful effect, it merely requires your free will again to listen to it .... My Word is the greatest gift of grace you may receive from Me, for you once rejected this Word when you separated yourselves from Me voluntarily, and it should only be given to you again in your state of perfection .... But I grant it to you as a gift, I provide you with an unmerited gift of grace and only expect your willingness to accept it. But then you can also be certain that you will attain the goal .... the childship to God .... For once you are willing and allow Me to speak to you, My Word has the effect that you are ready to fulfil My will and you try, even if you still have to struggle and fight because you are weak creatures as long as you still live on earth in an imperfect state .... Yet you can recognise My greater than great love which leaves no stone unturned in order to regain you as true children so that I can provide you with unlimited bliss .... And if My love for you is so strong, then it will also help every individual living creation, it will not leave them to their own devices ..... Only, it must not oppose Me again as in the past, and that happens when it refuses to listen to My Word, when it rebuffs My messengers or completely and indifferently ignores the greatest gift of grace which can be offered to him on earth .... In that case the being will lack the strength for its final ascent, and his life on earth as a human being will be pointless and can lead into the abyss again if the human being does not change before his death .... However, anything that can be done from My side for the salvation of such souls will indeed be done, for truly, I do not want its downfall, I want everyone to become blissfully happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's address proves His presence ....

B.D. 8368 from December 31th 1962, taken from Book No. 88

And when you hear My speech you know that I am present to you, that I am not a God Who is to be sought in the distance but that I am like a father with My children and speak to them because My overwhelming love urges Me to do so .... And then you, too, should come to Me trustingly like children, listen to Me and return My love for you by doing everything I advise you to do, so that you will become blessed .... You should only submit yourselves to My will, and truly, you will now no longer do anything which would not be pleasing to Me, for My spirit within you impels you to always fulfil My will and you will also listen to it. You, who experience this love on a daily basis, can justifiably speak of My presence, and you should only once consider what it means that I Myself am present to you .... You should know that I am the most perfect being in all of infinity, that everything that exists has come forth from Me and that you have therefore also taken your origin from Me .... You should often think such thoughts within yourselves, you should consider that you yourselves are the same as Me in your original element, only that you no longer recognize yourselves correctly in your present state because you lost perfection due to your former apostasy from Me .... But when you walk the earth as a human being you are close to perfection, and you can also reach it if this is your free will .... And as soon as you yourselves make it possible for Me to be present to you .... which happens through a conscious life of love, through your serious will to enter into My will .... then you will also be allowed to experience proof of My presence, you will be able to hear Me, for your father Himself speaks to you who desire to hear Him .... And then you will be able to rejoice and be glad, for My infinite fatherly love has seized you in order to never let you go again .... You have come back to life, you who had spent eternal times in a state of death that was agonizing and miserable. For the most part you will not be able to grasp this great grace of My direct address. For I Myself take away your full understanding of it so as not to make you unfit to fulfil your earthly task until the end. For you would be filled with immense bliss if you were able to measure the grace of My presence .... But I want you to complete your earthly journey unaware of the bliss My presence means for a human being .... And therefore you are still going through earthly life burdened in some way .... Nevertheless, you should constantly occupy yourselves with the thought that I am present to you when you hear My word. And you should always glow more in love for Me, your God and creator of eternity, Who proves Himself to you as a loving father through His address, because He also wants to be loved by you, for this is My bliss that My children long to return to the father from Whom they originated. You will never grasp My great love because you yourselves are not capable of love to the extent to understand that My whole being is only love .... But love gives itself away, it wants to make people happy, it hands out unmeasured blessings, it is constantly ready to help and redeem the unhappy, bound person who languishes in My adversary's bonds .... And I express My great love by speaking to you because you need help and a supply of strength which is now granted to you through My address. Because I long for you, because I want to promote My children's return to Me in every way, that is why I address you, that is why I delight you with My presence and bestow gifts of grace upon you which shall prove your father's love to you. And thus the highest and most perfect being of infinity bends down to you, His children .... Can you measure this great gift of grace? Can you measure My infinite love, which applies to you and will apply to you for all eternity? Try to move this thought within yourselves time and again and believe that you will achieve everything with Me if only you sincerely believe that everything is possible for Me and that My love will not deny you any request .... Seek to gain this profound, unshakeable faith in My love and you will come ever closer to Me until you completely unite with Me, until the father can draw His child to His heart and now prepare all beatitudes for it because He loves it as only a father can love his child ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Living faith at the time of the faith struggle ....

B.D. 8369 from January 1st 1963, taken from Book No. 88

Blessed are those who have found the path to Me, who occupy their thoughts with their God and creator, who let their thoughts wander into the kingdom which, although it is not apparent to them, is the real kingdom, which will remain for all eternity .... Blessed are those who have already started on the path to their homeland, who not only live an earthly but also a spiritual life and have entered into contact with the spiritual world .... Blessed are those who have taken the path to the cross and call upon Me in Jesus Christ and whom I can therefore also redeem from sin and death .... For all of these people have correctly directed their will, they have passed the test of will for the purpose of which they are on earth. Yet there are only a few people who seriously strive towards My kingdom and thus towards Me. For many are satisfied with the mere form, they are satisfied that they are outwardly regarded as christians, that they belong to a church and fulfil the commandments .... which these churches demand of them. But they lack living faith, living christianity is alien to them, they are not very touched inwardly, and therefore their souls do not mature either .... And because they consider themselves christians, they will not strive to change their thinking either .... And time passes without (having) imprinted on their souls the maturity which secures them a blissful life in eternity .... And these people must be awakened from their spiritual sluggishness, which only ever results in suffering and hardship .... For in such a deficient spiritual (spiritually deficient) condition they will not be able to victoriously endure the battle of faith which still lies ahead of you humans .... They will completely fall away from faith, for they lack the strength to resist which only arises from a living faith. Yet it will come and be waged with such brutality that even My own will have to call for much strength if they want to stand firm when My adversary, through his vassals .... through the people who are in bondage to him, will pick apart every doctrine of faith as a lie and deception and (when) they themselves have no better knowledge to be able to oppose them .... Only a person who lives a life of love and thereby can be guided in his thinking can gain a living faith, who therefore will also recognize the truth brightly and clearly and also represent it to those who deny all faith in God and also want to destroy it in his fellow human beings. And for this reason I repeatedly bring the pure truth to you through My word, and if you accept it as a result of fulfilling My will and living a life of love, even the battle of faith will not be able to dissuade you from your conviction, for once you have recognized the truth you will no longer surrender it, you will also defend it at the risk of your life, for then you will also know how futile all earthly things are and that you will gain far more in My kingdom than the earthly kingdom can ever offer you. Yet the formal christians will not be able to muster this conviction, and My adversary will not have much trouble that they completely abandon their faith because they lack all knowledge and therefore regard everything as a human creation, because this is presented to them by the adversary .... Therefore, knowledge alone is of no use unless love first brings knowledge to life and gives the human being the inner conviction from which he will then draw strength and resist until the end. This is the only thing I want to achieve, that you take the path to Me of your own accord, that you mentally occupy yourselves with Me and My kingdom, which is not of this world .... And you can believe that I will then no longer leave you out and time and again intervene in your world of thoughts so that time and again you will establish the bond with Me which will also ensure the influx of strength you will need in the last days. If I have only found entrance into your heart you are not lost, for since you are also My share I will not give you up either, and you yourselves give Me the right to push My adversary away from you, because you have found Me of your own free will, because you do not close yourselves off to Me and My illumination but allow it to take effect on you and therefore you have now become and will remain My own for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's decision is final ....

B.D. 8370 from January 2nd 1963, taken from Book No. 88

The fact that you are facing a turning point, which will take place both in an earthly and a spiritual way, is certain .... And once you merely observe the events in the world as well as the low spiritual level it must also be understandable to you that this can only be remedied by establishing a new order, by restoring the law of eternal order. Humanity has overturned this divine order and the spiritual essence embodied in the human being which was supposed and also able to conclude its higher development, has utterly failed, therefore new possibilities for continuing the development must be created or for starting the whole process of development anew. There is noticeable chaos on earth, for due to people's inclination towards matter they have become completely disorderly, they are influenced by the one who governs the earthly world and have therefore also reached the low level which makes their earthly life pointless and thus the time has definitely come which can be regarded as an earthly and spiritual turning point. Everything on earth will change, because the old earth will undergo a total transformation and a complete separation of the spirits will take place .... so that people who had failed will be banished into matter again and the spirits which are still bound in hard matter will be released in order to be able to continue their process of development in the new creations on earth. The old state on earth cannot go on, otherwise there would be no opportunity for the spirits to continue with their process of development .... First everything has to be arranged anew; everything of a spiritual nature must be moved to where it belongs in relation to its degree of maturity and thus even the human being who longs for matter must return to the state he had already long overcome yet misused his attained freedom and therefore descended again into the abyss .... Then divine order will exist on the new earth again and people, too, will live within this divine order, for the new earth will be populated by those who had attained a degree of maturity on the old earth which justifies their placement on the new earth .... Both the earth as well as the human race will be completely renewed; a new earthly period will begin with spiritually mature people who will also help the spiritual substances bound in the creations with their advancement, which will proceed in lawful order again.

You humans should not believe that a spiritual turning point will still occur on this earth, that people will change, that is, that they will improve and thereby create a change .... This possibility does not exist, only an act of violence can still achieve a purification of this earth .... The goats must be separated from the sheep, God will have to implement a change because people are no longer capable of steering themselves into different waters .... They keep descending increasingly further the more time they have. For this reason the time in God's plan of Salvation is predetermined and this will be adhered to, for what He, in His wisdom, recognises to be necessary and decides will be final and never change, for His wisdom is supreme and His resolutions are unchangeable. This is why all events in connection with this turning point can be revealed to people by His side. And credence can be granted to the prophesies which are proclaimed to people time and again through seers and prophets. The fact that the last Judgment and the Earth's redevelopment have no parallel in the events humanity has experienced so far does not entitle people to the assumption that these prophesies are wrong .... Yet people should bear in mind what is proclaimed and in store for them, and prepare themselves, for they still have a short time of grace which could be used if a person's will would only strive to do justice to his task on earth. Then he would not have to fear the end, because God will help every individual person who calls upon Him, and therefore He will reveal Himself through His Word time and again .... He announces the events yet He allows every person free will, which therefore will also decide his fate ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Clarifying traditional doctrines ....

B.D. 8371 from January 4th 1963, taken from Book No. 88

You have already been assured many times that everything you have received from Me through the working of the spirit within you can be supported by you as pure truth .... I will certainly not let you live in error if you have the sincere will to live in truth .... to think correctly .... and if you always ask Me to impart the truth to you .... But people are frequently unwilling to abandon erroneous thoughts because they have accepted a mental concept which they deem to be irrefutable truth .... because they have repeatedly adopted and passed it on over a long period of time. And since no particular knowledge was necessary for the souls to mature, but more likely would have confused people's thoughts, they did not need additional knowledge either. But if a person's desire to attain (receive) clarification is very strong, he will also receive it, because only I can give clarification, only I can instruct those people correctly, who allow the working of My spirit within themselves ....

The Word I convey to people excludes all error, but the person who receives My Word has to free himself from all spiritual knowledge received from other sources, because truth can only be given to a heart devoid of error .... in other words, I can only exist where My adversary has left ....

You humans rely on the Book of Books and believe that its content has not been subjected to forgeries .... But I repeatedly tell you that nothing remains pure once it is handled by imperfect human beings. Although it will indeed always be similar to what had originally emerged from Me but you have no guarantee of undistorted spiritual truth .... and this even less the further back you look to the earliest time of people on this earth .... Whatever you are told about it now is only partially true, because pure truth is an attribute of perfection and people are not perfect, consequently you cannot rely on the reports from primeval times which you still consider to be the only truth ....

The truth will never remain pure throughout the generations, whereas error and a misguided doctrine will be tenaciously supported and even maintained for a long period of time without infringement. And these misguided teachings are people's foundation, and they are not willing to be taught differently either .... until once again an opportunity arises when the purest truth from above can be conveyed to people .... But this is not accepted if it differs from adopted ancient spiritual dogma, and only those who desire the truth with all their heart will be touched by it and accept a teaching even if it contradicts traditional doctrines.

My spirit does not err, but My spirit cannot always work in a person who allows himself to be drawn into the world .... when he wants to know things which cannot be considered to be spiritual knowledge, which are of no importance for the maturing of the soul and which the person usually has already answered himself, and thus by his own thoughts he prevents the expression of My spirit .... This is a danger which can only be eliminated by means of an intimate bond with Me and a constant request for protection from error. And if it now concerns a teaching which has never been doubted since time immemorial, which every person has accepted as his mental property by being unable to believe any other account, it cannot be disproved either if I don't want to compel a person's thoughts .... But anyone who desires the pure truth will receive it and then also gain the inner conviction that it is the truth .... The point is to transmit spiritual knowledge to earth during the last days which should make My reign and activity in the universe understandable to people, so that they can extract from it the right explanation for everything, because this pure truth shall be taken along to the new earth.

Consequently, misguided teachings will have to be revealed and counteracted by pure truth, and that is only possible if I Myself, as the Giver of truth, can work within a human being who is so loyally devoted to Me that he unconditionally accepts what I offer him, and then also distributes what he receives .... Particularly at the time of the battle of faith it depends on who accepts this truth, for he will endure all attacks because the truth will also give him the necessary strength to defend it. The issue is not that the human being should know everything, but every misguided teaching, which was spread amongst humanity by My adversary himself, will be used by My adversary during the last battle of faith to destroy all faith in people when they will have to recognise that they have supported implausible doctrines, and these very doctrines will be quoted by your enemies themselves to encourage you into surrendering everything. You do not know his cunning and trickery, but I know how he proceeds against you who want to believe.

And therefore I inform you of the facts wherever possible. And you, who are receiving My Word, will soon be faced with questions which you cannot answer in any other way but with My given clarification from above, and then you can also understand why such knowledge was given to you by Me, which appears to contradict the Book of the Fathers and yet is the pure truth .... For the origin of this book can no longer be examined by you for its credibility ....

But when I speak to you Myself then I Am also the origin of the spiritual information you receive, and then you need not fear that you receive errors, because I Am the truth of eternity, and I give it to those who sincerely desire it. And ever since the beginning I have informed the people Myself, because the first human beings heard My Word within themselves, but they only possessed the degree of knowledge which was necessary to recognise Me and to fulfil My will. However, due to My adversary's influence the light of awareness faded steadily the less they observed My commandments. Beings of light who would let their light shine amid people were also embodied amongst the first human beings, but the growing heartlessness of people resulted in an increasingly darkened state of mind .... And time and again I spoke through the mouth of the prophets to repeatedly kindle a light in them again ....

When Jesus descended to earth, because the darkness had become almost impenetrable, a bright light was emitted yet again into humanity's spiritual night .... And you must know that error could always establish itself during such times of spiritual darkness .... And the people who had accepted the task of recording the events which were compiled in the Book of Books had not been without misconceptions either ....

Consider the length of time which has passed since and don't believe that such records have been truthfully preserved throughout this time .... But I have always been able to tell you through enlightened human beings what you require for the maturing of your souls .... And these messages have always remained the same, time and again they have been made known to people as 'My Word', and I will continue to convey My Word to earth time and again so that humanity can obtain the pure truth. However, historical records cannot be described and valued as 'My Word' as long as they do not relate to spiritual events which had taken place in the spiritual realm at the time of and after the creation of the beings, which had been brought into existence by My love ....

You should know of these events, and thus you will be instructed in all truthfulness, because you should know the meaning and purpose of your earthly existence .... And thus I will also give you clarification about the process of return of what had deserted Me and shall return to Me again .... and this in all truthfulness .... Hence you were also given clarification about the origin of creation and the path of all fallen spirits through the works of creation up to the human being .... The origin of the human being has also been explained to you, but every event of creation has occurred countless times, because I have no limitations and My strength is constantly at work .... besides, countless spiritual beings were also in need of the works of creation, the human being cannot even imagine their huge number. But the human being limits himself even in his thinking and therefore he will also be subject to wrong conclusions, which can only be rectified again by Me if My spirit is allowed to work in him. Then the correct clarification can be given but only if a truthful clarification about it is requested .... because it has nothing to do with the achievement of a person's spiritual maturity .... But such a clarification has been requested and therefore the prayer has been fulfilled ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Right light and blinding lights .... Love doctrine ....

B.D. 8372 from January 5th 1963, taken from Book No. 88

A light will be given to you and in its glow you will find the right path and no longer go astray .... As long as this light shines down to earth from above you can also go through earthly life completely carefree, for where there is much light I Myself am also, for I am the light from eternity ....... Time and again you must keep this thought within yourselves that a light can only shine if it comes forth from Me Myself and you therefore know that I Myself am concerned for your well-being and therefore will not let you walk in darkness. I take pity on the dark earth, and therefore I kindle a little light everywhere which shines more or less brightly but will always spread a glow so that you need not walk in dark night. For My adversary works in the night and makes it his business to lead you astray, but you yourselves cannot recognize the ways if you lack a light, and therefore you are exposed to him and his work, and that is your ruin. But I want to expose him, and I want you to recognize Me Myself and now strive towards the lord Who wants to rescue you from his power. Therefore everyone who consciously hands himself over to Me and wants to help his fellow human beings in spiritual adversity will be allowed to receive and pass on a light from Me. For as soon as he only testifies to Me, as soon as he stands up for Me and points people to Me, he will also be at My service and I will be able to use him for vineyard work since he has voluntarily offered himself to Me. A light will shine where I Myself am proclaimed as the divine redeemer Jesus Christ .... Light will be where My divine teaching of love is proclaimed and where people are called upon to take the path to the cross, because they can only find redemption if they carry their guilt of sin under the cross in order to find forgiveness with Jesus Christ, in Whom I Myself offered the sacrifice on the cross for sinful humanity. And if a light is brought to you then you must clearly recognize the path to the cross in its glow, otherwise they are only blinding lights which, as My adversary's activity, will only lead you astray. For he, too, will disguise himself as a bearer of light because he will use the most shameful means in the last days to prevent your return into the father's house .... But those who are of good will will recognize him and not be deceived by the blinding lights .... For a good will strives towards Me, a good will will also recognize the right light and pursue its glow, and the human being will be led out of darkness and not get lost. In the last days, however, many lights will shine and cause great confusion amongst people, for they fail to do the first thing: to kindle a light within themselves through loving activity .... They seek to gain knowledge through their intellect and through contact with the spiritual kingdom, which they cannot control for the very reason that the light of love has not yet been kindled which guarantees them clear recognition. Love certainly brings them clarity of thought but people mostly only want to expand their knowledge .... even in the spiritual sphere .... and they don't seriously examine from which side such knowledge comes to them .... If love has been kindled in them then their spirit will also be awakened so that they will be able to distinguish a true light from a blinding light .... Without this awakening of the spirit, however, they are in great danger of falling prey to the adversary who disguises himself as a bearer of light and causes great harm .... But time and again love is preached, time and again My divine teaching of love is proclaimed, so that every person can kindle a true light of love within himself. However, if the most important thing is neglected, to live a life of unselfish love, the human being cannot stand up for the truth of the spiritual knowledge he receives, for without love My adversary still has power over him, which he truly uses to good effect and whose thinking becomes increasingly more confused. Hence you humans can certainly possess great knowledge but as soon as this knowledge does not put you into a state of brightest realization it is not light from Me, it is not emanated by Me Myself ..... Where My light shines, knowledge will be made accessible to you brightly and clearly and in all simplicity which will make you happy and bring you close to Me Myself, for this is the purpose of driving away the night which veils My image for you .... that you will learn to love Me Myself in the bright glow of knowledge and push towards Me, for the bond with Me is the purpose and goal of your earthly life, and My ray of light of love will help you achieve this, it will illuminate the path which leads home to Me into your father's house ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

‘Whose soever sins ye remit ....’

B.D. 8373 from January 6th 1963, taken from Book No. 88

Many mistakes have already resulted from the wrong interpretation of My Word and were spread, and it is difficult to remove such mistakes and replace them with the pure truth because people rather accept an error and spread it as truth than allow themselves to be educated and accept the pure truth. And this could always happen when My Word was interpreted literally, because the spiritual meaning of the Word was never understood. That people are burdened by sins is the result of their former apostasy from Me .... the result of the original sin which engulfed the once fully aware and completely enlightened beings in darkness. Hence people are still subject to this sin if they are not delivered from it by Jesus Christ. And for the sake of these wretched people I descended to earth Myself and as the man Jesus made the sacrifice on the cross for the redemption of this immense guilt. However, since people are at liberty to regard Jesus as the divine Redeemer, in Whom I Myself became a human being, they also have to be introduced to the knowledge of Him, to the reason why they are human beings and to the act of Salvation. For this purpose I sent My disciples into the world, whom I Myself had instructed prior to this and who therefore could also proclaim the Gospel as My representatives to all the nations. It is now very easy to understand that people who accepted the blessings of the act of Salvation were freed from their immense guilt of sin .... that their sins were taken from them when they confessed their sinfulness and turned to the cross, to the divine Redeemer, for refuge.

So My disciples bore witness of Me and My act of Salvation to people and anyone accepting their teaching was also assured by them that their sins were forgiven, because I had given them the task to explain to people why they were wretched and burdened. Hence they could also assure them on My behalf that they would be liberated from all guilt if they acknowledged Me and asked Me for forgiveness. For they went into the world to preach the Word of the cross on My behalf, thus they could also forgive people’s sins on My behalf .... As long as they brought the Gospel to people as My representatives they were enlightened by My spirit and recognised people’s sinful state. They also recognised the people’s willingness to repent which gave them the right to absolve them from all guilt on My behalf .... They only did what I would have done Myself when I lived on earth. Thus the Word ‘Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted to them ....’ was justified and also has to be understood in this context ....

But the question is: who is acting as My true representative on earth? .... since it depends on this alone whether it is possible for a person to forgive sins, i.e. whether it is sanctioned by My will .... Because not everyone who calls himself My representative is enlightened by My spirit and is able to recognise the person’s state of soul whose ‘sins’ he wants to ‘forgive’. Not everyone who calls himself My representative can preach My Gospel to his fellow human beings. Only people enlightened by My spirit know of Jesus’ act of Salvation, of its spiritual reason and the immense original sin. Hence the ‘working of My spirit’ must definitely be possible, but it is not noticeable in those who all profess to be My servants, My representatives on earth .... Consequently they are neither entitled nor able to judge their fellow human beings’ state of soul and to remit their sins. And if they do it, the person is nevertheless not delivered from his immense guilt unless he himself takes the path to Jesus Christ and asks Him directly for forgiveness of his guilt ....

For this reason people should not rely on assurances by those who themselves are incapable to forgive sins because I have not assigned them to this office. Hence a misguided teaching like this can have a very damaging effect on souls which believe to have been delivered from their sins through specific customs and then fail to hand themselves over to Jesus Christ sincerely appealing to Him for forgiveness of their guilt .... For the redemption of the original sin can only be given to people by Jesus Christ, and this requires knowledge which, in turn, can only be gained through the pure truth .... But as long as people, who themselves were not appointed by Me, feel entitled to remit sins it will merely result in a half-hearted attitude, since the human being then believes to have been relieved from his responsibility as soon as his fellow human being assures him the forgiveness of his sins .... even with reference to the fact that I Myself gave this promise ....

I spoke these Words to My disciples ‘Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted to them ....’ And these Words will always be justified with those whom I Myself choose as My true disciples .... But the same Words can never be applied to those who declared themselves, or who were declared by their fellow human beings, as My successors .... Only I know who serves Me in the right way and who has the necessary qualifications for it .... And thus once again I choose My true representatives on earth who shall proclaim My Gospel in all truthfulness and also clearly expose and fight against error .... For only truth can be the right light for people by which they find the path of ascent, home to Me into their Father’s house ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The house-father assigns the work to His servants ....

B.D. 8374 from January 7th 1963, taken from Book No. 88

My will will be placed in your heart as soon as you are willing to fulfil it as My servants on earth who are active in My vineyard. I Myself will assign your activity to you, I will direct and guide everything so that you will follow the paths where you can successfully work in the vineyard. I will guide your thoughts so that you will feel driven from within to carry out the thoughts and My will will then always be followed by you .... Therefore you need not worry at all about how and in what way you can advance your spiritual activity .... As your father of the house I know best what kind of work you are capable of doing, and I assign it to you by giving you the right thoughts and you will then act in accordance with My will. But there is one thing you should always bear in mind, that you commend yourselves and your actions to Me, that you don't leave Me out, that you always ask Me for My blessing, that you therefore always willingly place yourselves at My service. I know people's hearts and I know which hearts I can still address with success .... I know every person's inner attitude towards Me, and where I only recognize the slightest desire for truth I will also guide them there, and then you will always be the executors of My will. Admittedly, everything will only appear to be small-scale work to you and yet every spiritual work will have a far-reaching effect, not only on earth but also with the souls in the kingdom of the beyond. For as soon as they could only be touched by a small ray of light their desire for knowledge becomes ever greater, for they feel the benefit (truth) of light which consists in the expansion of their knowledge .... And you contribute to this daily and hourly through your spiritual work, no matter how little successful it may seem to you .... The bond with Me and with the spiritual kingdom is always a supply of strength, both for you as well as for those souls which participate in every spiritual exchange. And every supply of strength again is also spiritual progress, a coming closer to Me, which is why I time and again spur you, My servants on earth, on to eager vineyard work, so that many people will still reach their goal on earth: that they will join Me and attain the life which lasts forever. The fact that time and again your activity will be opposed as My adversary's work will not affect your vineyard work but rather be proof that you are walking on the right path, which is why the adversary is at work to hinder you .... Yet your bond with Me protects you from him, and if you only ever let your father of the house assign the work to you then you will also be able to carry it out according to My will, because then you will also receive the strength and even adversary attacks will not be able to disturb you. For I want you to be active for Me and My kingdom. And therefore I will also bless your work and always provide you with strength, and you yourselves will feel in your heart what you should do and what you should refrain from doing ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The church of Christ in its beginnings ....

B.D. 8375 from January 8th 1963, taken from Book No. 88

My disciples received the Gospel of love from Me directly when I lived on earth, and thus they were able to carry it into the world in its pure and unadulterated form after I accomplished My act of Salvation and ascended to My kingdom of light again. And they, on their part, also kept My teaching pure and people came to know Me as their Redeemer from sin and death .... They were instructed by My disciples that they would have to take the path to the cross and live a life of love in order to be able to fulfil the purpose of their earthly life and to enter My kingdom after their death. My disciples were guided into truth by Me and also passed on the same truth because My spirit was able to work in them .... In the beginning, therefore, people accepted My pure Gospel and also made an effort to live a life of love, and thus they, too, became spiritually alive and I was able to work in them Myself. And so My teaching remained pure for a certain period of time, My disciples passed on their teaching ministry because they recognised the spiritual state of those they appointed as their successors ....

Yet it did not take long before people assumed such a teaching ministry by themselves, partly due to selfish reasons, partly due to overzealousness of complying with My will but without waiting for the inner calling .... And so it came to pass that this teaching ministry was eventually conferred indiscriminately .... that the inner ability, the human being’s spiritual state, was no longer pertinent but that external circumstances played a part and thus increasingly endangered the pure truth as well which, however, was not noticed precisely because of the teachers’ unenlightened spirit .... The people, however, to whom the Gospel was preached were denied the right to form their own opinion and to voice doubts about the absolute truth of what they were taught .... Those who deemed themselves spiritual leaders were convinced of their mission and authority and allowed no contradiction whatsoever. And those who were being taught were obliged to accept without scrutiny that everything they were offered was true. It was only possible for the truth to remain pure as long as its guardians were spiritually enlightened themselves. Yet the number of those who were placed into positions of authority without being enlightened by My spirit soon predominated and all objections by a spiritually awakened person were dismissed .... The former grew more powerful and the pure truth became interspersed with error .... with ideas which had originated in people’s intellect and were endorsed by them as divine truth. And although spiritually enlightened people time and again tried to eliminate this error .... My adversary succeeded to assert himself, for his followers’ power was already too great and the pure truth was no longer recognised as such.

This explains to you that in the course of time something entirely different established itself as the ‘church of Christ’ than what was founded by Me on earth .... Only this explains how an organisation came into power, why time and again divisions occurred within this organisation and why I only ever want the ‘church founded by Me’ to be regarded as a spiritual edifice that includes those people who live in truth due to of a life of love, which results in a living faith and the awakening of the spirit. And this church has indeed kept itself alive to this day, for time and again My spirit could pour itself out over people who made an effort to live a life of love and to fulfil My will .... And so the pure truth which exposes all misguided teachings could always be imparted to them again, and every genuinely truth-seeking person will receive an explanation how humankind was able to fall into such confused thinking and is unwilling to free itself from it. Yet it will also be understandable to everyone that the masses will never be open to the truth but willingly accept error, and thus every individual person should try to free himself from wrong spiritual knowledge as soon as My grace offers him the pure truth, for just his sincere desire will enable him to differentiate between truth and error, and then he will also belong to the church which I founded on earth Myself ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Healing power of water at the spring ....

B.D. 8376 from January 9th 1963, taken from Book No. 88

I want to administer the water of life to you at the spring, because then it still has the greatest healing power, because then you can also be certain that your soul will become healthy and that you will receive a measure of strength which will enable you to easily overcome the ascent to heaven. And therefore I have opened up a source for you which you only need to seek out and you will be able to draw the best drink for your souls. What you receive is purest spiritual knowledge, it flows to you directly from Me, you can take it directly from My hand and now also be convinced to receive the most delicious thing that can be offered to you on earth. If you humans allow yourselves to be taught by Me Myself, no error can mix with the truth, for the purest truth comes to you from Me and you can also unhesitatingly represent it as truth, and therefore you should refresh yourselves at the source, you should seek out the source even if you have to climb up .... i.e. fulfil certain conditions first which cost you self-conquest .... For you first have to make an effort to live a life of love, because I can only ever administer My gift of love to a loving person .... But then you will not regret the ascent which has led you to My spring, for you will be able to strengthen yourselves again and feel the beneficial effect of My water of life, which will cause you to never again give the delicious gift and also hand it out to every weary wanderer who lies down at the spring in order to strengthen himself. You will also hand them the filled cup, for My stream of life flows constantly and only needs to be drunk in order to also reveal a great blessing .... This is why you can consider yourselves blessed, you who have reached My source, you who may constantly refresh yourselves, you who receive My word, the water of life, which is imparted to you directly by Me .... This word is not yet deformed, it has not yet passed through human hands, it has not yet been picked apart and changed by human intellect .... As pure as it comes forth from Me it will be received by you, and it cannot touch your souls in any other way than in an exceedingly healing and purifying way because it originated from Me. And thus every earthly pilgrim can confidently continue on his path who has refreshed and feasted on My source .... Every person who repeatedly let himself be fed and watered with My word can walk his earthly path with peace of mind, for strength is constantly supplied to him because My word is blessed with My strength .... For he needs nourishment for his soul, otherwise it is too weak to cover the path to ascent .... He needs the bread of heaven, My word, which gives him everything he needs to perfect himself during his earthly progress .... And if he then makes use of the nourishment which I Myself offer him, he can also be certain that it is beneficial for his soul, that I Myself protect the human being from a watered-down wine of life, from a mixed bread which no longer possesses its full nourishing power .... He can be certain that he is offered the best by Me Myself and that his soul must recover if it willingly accepts My delicious gift. For just as the body needs food and drink in order to be able to accomplish its earthly task, the soul also needs healthy nourishment which enables it to mature .... And I Myself give it this nourishment if only it takes the path to the spring which I have opened up and which is also accessible to everyone who desires to be fed and watered by Me Myself, who is not satisfied with inferior nourishment .... who puts himself in contact with Me so that My flow of life can flow into him .... directly or indirectly .... For whether My messengers also offer him the potion of life .... they are instructed on My behalf to bring My gift to you humans, and then you will always be allowed to draw from 'My source', for they always bring you the word which originated from Me Myself and is to be conveyed to all those in need who only receive it with gratitude, whom I can thus indirectly feed and water so that their souls may recover .... And truly, you will increase in strength and light, for My word imparts this to you, and anyone who listens to My word and lives accordingly is also at the right source and will lack nothing. Only the human being should not be indifferent and believe that he will receive the right nourishment for his soul everywhere .... For he does not know from which source the water will be supplied to him if he does not test it for its origin .... He does not know whether it still possesses healing power or has been diluted .... And therefore he should set out and seek the source .... He should pay attention to My revelations and take part in them, for I will also protect every sincere desirer from going the wrong way and being misled .... If he desires to be fed and watered by Me he will truly also find the right source, his soul will receive what it desires and it will mature while still on earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's help for the purification of the soul ....

B.D. 8377 from January 11th 1963, taken from Book No. 88

All earthly experiences should and can contribute towards your perfection, for everything is arranged in such a way that you are forced to find the right attitude which will then also have an effect on your soul. You can humbly accept everything and recognize it as My will or My permission, but you can also rebel inwardly and then you will derive little benefit for your souls, and many events can pass you by without the effect they should have on your souls. Believe that nothing affects you 'by chance' but see My guidance and My will or My permission in everything, because I want to create opportunities for you where you can carry out diligent soul work .... where you can practise patience, gentleness and peacefulness, where your mercy shall be stimulated or your humility shall be strengthened .... where you shall practise unselfish neighbourly love and patiently accept all suffering. And this will always bring salvation to the soul which only walks across earth for the purpose that it will be purified, that all dross will fall away from it which restricts or completely prevents My illumination of love .... And the more eagerly you carry out this work on your soul the sooner all oppressions will leave you, for then you will become increasingly more active in love, and love will dissolve all dross in your soul and it will mature in a short time. If you look at all the adversities of life, all daily discomforts from this side, you will also be able to overcome them much more easily .... you will know that you still need them because you are still unfinished, and you will also know that I will help you time and again, whatever it may be .... for every means I use to guide you to higher maturity is help which My love gives to you and which you should therefore also gratefully accept .... And when nothing is able to disturb you anymore, when you calmly let all adversities of daily life pass you by .... if you bear them humbly and patiently, they will also have fulfilled their purpose, and your soul will thank Me that I bestowed this help upon it which helped it to attain perfection. You all still have much to reject during earthly life, for only rarely has a person already attained full virtue, everyone has to work on himself in order to change his vices and bad habits into the state he should attain, so that he is able to receive My ray of light of love, so that My ray of love can shine through him without being prevented by impenetrable coverings. All bad habits and vices are such coverings which hinder My ray of love, which require diligent soul work but which you can accomplish if you are willing to fulfil My will. But since the human being does not carry out this work on himself he has to be stimulated by Me, as it were, by facing many resistances and obstacles in daily life which he should and also can master with My help if only he sends a call to Me to assist him in the battle against everything unspiritual which still oppresses him .... Then he will admit his weakness for once and humility will grow in him, he will make an effort to compensate and ward off everything with love. And love is the soul's best purifier, it dissolves all coverings and My love can now radiate through it in all its strength .... Only don't let yourselves be carried away into unkindness through such resistance, for then My adversary will have won over you and you will have to make ever greater efforts in order to achieve the perfection of your soul on earth. Nothing that approaches you is pointless and futile, for My will directs your earthly course and I only want to promote your maturing but not let you fall into the abyss again .... And therefore also recognize My will or My permission in everything that concerns you and submit yourselves to it ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Correct decision of will in the state of self-awareness ....

B.D. 8378 from January 12th 1963, taken from Book No. 88

Your soul will never lose its self-awareness again, it will recognise itself as My once emanated spirit of light as soon as it has attained the state of perfection, in which it will also fully realise the purpose I gave to every being when I created it. Then the soul will also have an abundance of strength so that there is nothing impossible for the soul, that it can create and work according to its own will which, however, has completely entered Mine. And this is a state of unlimited bliss which you humans are incapable of comprehending because you are limited beings .... limited in your strength as well as in light, which constantly increase the closer you are to perfection. You once came forth from Me in brightest light and in brightest light you return to Me again in order to live a life of unlimited beatitude forever. But no matter how thoroughly it is put across to you that you can create such a blissful fate yourselves, you nevertheless still conduct your psychological work half-heartedly because you do not believe with conviction and because you simply find it incomprehensible that you can reach such a high goal as human beings .... And yet, it can only be presented to you, the knowledge can be conveyed to you but you must utilise it yourselves, for if I Myself would make you act according to My will you would no longer have free will. But the latter is necessary in order to attain the state of highest perfection. However, I set Myself this plan a very long time ago and it will certainly be carried out, even if it takes eternities .... Sooner or later you will all attain this beatitude and then the time it took you will seem insignificant to you, for then every concept of time and space will have come to an end, the time you took will appear like a moment, whilst eternity lies ahead of you when you can enjoy pleasures without end. But while you are still living in a state of imperfection on earth you will have to bear much sorrow, for your soul's imperfection is a state of adversity and suffering which you can only numb yourselves through earthly joys and pleasures but which will not be improved, instead, it will surface time and again as long as you are not yet perfect.

Life on earth is merely an illusive existence for it is not permanent, it passes by, it is not absolute reality, only the spiritual kingdom can be that for the soul, whose true home is the spiritual realm after all. But the earthly realm can contribute towards removing the soul's impurities and enabling it to enter the spiritual kingdom in an utterly light-receptive state. And for this purpose you humans live on earth, because you should remove the impurities from your soul of your own free will, which is certainly possible for you if you strive towards the goal of living a profoundly blissful life one day for all eternity .... You merely need to be willing to become again what you were in the beginning, and truly, I will help to make it easier for you to achieve .... You should only ever visualise the high goal you can reach .... and you should want to reach it. For this resolve alone determines your fate .... And you can rest assured that I will not let you fall anymore once you grant Me this will .... You must merely be absolutely serious and not just use words which your heart is unaware of. This change of will can only be revealed by a self-aware being, for this very reason the state of self-awareness is so extraordinarily important .... For now you can think and use your intelligence, you can use the vitality of life granted to you according to My will .... you can be lovingly active .... Then you will also turn towards Me and I will hold on to you forever. You don't have much time left for this decision of will, for the human being's life on earth is like a moment in eternity, however, if you make the right decision the time will be sufficient to reverse your nature into love .... And if your will is wrongly inclined you would only descend abysmally low again were you granted more time as a human being on earth .... For the further you distance yourselves from Me, the stronger would My adversary's influence become .... This is why this time on earth as a human is limited and in eternity judged like a moment, during which you can nevertheless reach Me and be as boundlessly happy again as you were in the beginning. You will never be left without help, you will never have to rely on yourselves, I Am always ready for you and only wait for your call which proves that you grant Me your will which I will definitely accept and seize My children again in order to never let go of them; for you came forth from My strength of love, you are also a part of Me, even if you once turned to the one who was the first to fall away from Me when he should have passed the test of will that would have made him the most blissful being forever, which was meant to create and work with Me in the whole of infinity as My image ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

'The powers of heaven shall be shaken ....'

B.D. 8379 from January 13th 1963, taken from Book No. 88

I also foretold you that by the signs of the time you will recognise that the end is near .... And these signs will be so obvious that you will no longer need to doubt and know the hour you live in .... For the powers of heaven shall be shaken, you will be able to detect cosmic changes, natural phenomena which should make you think; they will be observable and even the lawful order of nature seems to have been revoked .... and yet this, too, is governed by divine law, for everything that will happen and take place is based on My will. Yet only the truth of what was proclaimed by seers and prophets and what I foretold you Myself about the end shall be revealed to you humans. For everything will become disorderly during the last days so as to make you humans take notice .... Since you no longer accept any faith in a God and Creator, since you think that My works of creation are subject to your influence, since you consider yourselves powerful and extraordinarily knowledgeable, you will also have to be given evidence to the contrary, you will have to recognise your powerlessness in view of phenomena which cannot be stopped or changed by you at will .... Furthermore, you must recognise that such predictions, which you cannot deny, have already existed for a long time and that the time has finally come when it will be fulfilled what is written and what is repeatedly proclaimed to people through My Word .... Yet people will even regard the cosmic changes to be the consequences of their own activities and consider themselves as masters with the ability to cause such cosmic changes, and thus they will deny God with absolute conviction. For My adversary's activity in the last days intends to dethrone Me and therefore he will be bound again ....

But there will also always be people who are aware of the time and speak on behalf of Me and My kingdom to the world, to those who are entirely without faith .... For they know that the last hour will soon strike, they also consider the cosmic changes as evidence because I predicted them Myself when I lived on earth. 'The powers of heaven shall be shaken ....' this Word, too, has a spiritual meaning which you humans are as yet unable to grasp .... Everything that comes forth from Me, that is based on My will, is alive, and since My strength, which always generates life, will express itself every rigid form will be brought to life .... In the last days before the end My strength will flow out abundantly, everything will become less dense everywhere, that is, the sun of My spirit will penetrate the darkness of night which enshrouds the whole of the earth .... The sun of My spirit will flare brightly and its radiance will give life to everything, it will awaken what is sleeping and give life to the hitherto dead as it is struck by this beam .... Thus the powers of heaven will express themselves which you humans are incapable of stopping .... But in the end My Power will also express itself in a purely natural sense which no-one will be able to explain, for I predicted unusual signs before the end, and these will happen in such a way that humankind will be able to observe the events in nature with horror since they cannot prevent them with their own countermeasures .... Instead they will even contribute by releasing forces whose effects have not been ascertained as yet and which therefore result in all-destroying consequences and accelerate the final end which, admittedly, is intended in My eternal plan of Salvation because I have always known people's will and therefore based My plan of Salvation on it .... but which nevertheless will be carried out by people themselves who believe themselves able to surpass Me and who are visibly under the adversary's influence whose devastating effect will then become apparent ....

It will happen as it is proclaimed, and anyone who pays attention can already recognise the signs of the time .... anyone who pays attention also realises that My Word is truth, which is conveyed from above to people as a greater than great gift of grace for anyone who wants to accept this gift .... For at no time ever have I left humanity without forewarning when it was faced by events which I had to send over people as soon as they were at risk of utterly losing themselves to My adversary .... My judgments have always been preceded by warnings and admonitions, for I always wanted to offer people the opportunity to come to their senses and make use of the short time they had left so that their souls' could emerge unscathed from all such judgments. Yet these admonitions and warnings were never allowed to compel belief, and this is why My present proclamations will also find little credence no matter how clearly the signs can be observed .... People try to explain everything in a way that is more to their liking, and this is why the end will take them by surprise, for the time is fulfilled, the end is near ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Inner mandate to spread the truth ....

B.D. 8380 from January 14th 1963, taken from Book No. 88

If you are to work on My instructions you will also feel this instruction in your heart and willingly comply with it, because you want to be of service to Me and your will is decisive. It is merely a matter of spreading the truth to Me, and I can only take care of those people who receive the truth from Me themselves, who can therefore convincingly represent the spiritual knowledge as originating from Me .... as pure truth .... I know how necessary it is that people receive the truth, because every misguided teaching originates from My adversary and can therefore never be suitable for people's maturing but prevents this from happening .... The human being's soul has reached a certain state of maturity through its course through the creations of earth which My adversary was unable to stop .... In its existence as a human being, however, it shall increase its maturity in free will, but at this stage My adversary can also influence it again and prevent its maturing, which he then succeeds in doing when he condenses the darkness, when he prevents the soul from recognizing Me Myself in the light of truth and now consciously strives towards Me .... Every misguided teaching is capable of giving a wrong image of Me, and then the human being will never be able to love Me and give Me his undivided will. Therefore it is My endeavour to repeatedly kindle a light for people in which they are able to clearly recognize their God and creator and then take the path which leads to Me. If a person voluntarily offers to cooperate with Me, if he is willing to accept the truth from Me and pass it on, then this person can also be certain that I will lead him by the hand and show him the paths he should take in order to fulfil his mission as a bearer of truth and light. And he will always feel My guidance, My indications, in his heart, he will feel urged to carry out this or that, and he shall comply with this inner urge, for it is My voice which assigns his field of work to him, which inwardly gives him all assignments, so that he will certainly believe that they are his own thoughts and yet it is My will which is revealed to him in the form of thoughts. And the less resistance is offered to Me the more clearly the human being will hear My voice, and he will willingly carry out everything because he is inwardly impelled to do so. For truly .... a hunger for truth can be felt everywhere, and people need only take the direct path to Me and they would receive unlimited .... Yet most people turn to other people again and desire information, but I know the degree of their desire for truth and will fulfil it, I will convey spiritual knowledge to them through My messengers of light which will give them the right information and enable them to free themselves from erroneous thinking. And everyone who takes the path to Me will also beneficially feel the ray of light which reaches him, for pure truth will always make him happy because it gives brightest realization, whereas error only intensifies the darkness of spirit and will never give a person inner satisfaction. And the brighter the light can (could) shine in you the happier you would go through earthly life, for you would recognize the meaning and purpose of it and also lead your earthly life accordingly, because no questions and doubts would oppress you, but they will always arise again in those who walk without light .... Unsolved questions make the human being dissatisfied, yet whether he can receive the right answer is up to him, because he has to desire the right answer and will only receive it when he shapes himself such that a light can be kindled for him .... i.e. when he lives in love, which is the light in him, which certainly glows within him but is only brought to light by the human being's will. Fulfilled inner wishes, however, will always cause happiness, and the fulfilment of a wish is when he desires light and also receives light .... But a gift is not respected or valued if there is no desire for it .... And this desire is a matter of free will. But desire can be stirred up in a person by being given knowledge which for the time being only touches his intellect but which can captivate him and he now wants to fathom what touched him mentally .... But a state of light is always delightful, whereas darkness weighs a person down. And thus anyone who desires light will receive it, for I therefore guide the truth to earth because I want to lead people out of a state of misery and hardship .... And all of you can make the truth your own if only you listen to My messengers which I send to you Myself and which truly bring you a delicious gift which will make you happy and which is also permanent, for you can take it over into the kingdom of the beyond when you leave earthly life, and it will signify a treasure for you which can never be taken away from you again ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spreading the truth .... Love life ....

B.D. 8381 from January 15th 1963, taken from Book No. 88

Carry the truth further .... Time and again I give you this instruction, and therefore you will only ever fulfil My will if your activity consists of receiving spiritual knowledge from Me and making it accessible to your fellow human beings. And you can believe that you no longer undertake anything on your own authority, because time and again you intimately unite with Me for the receipt of My word and this bond also guarantees you right thinking. And I cannot address all people directly, for as long as they are still in contact with the earthly world their hearts are not yet able to hear Me Myself .... For this requires seclusion from the world, for only then can I express Myself and make Myself understandable to them. But how rarely does this detachment from the world take place, even if people are serious about taking the right path .... But in order to truly serve Me as a bearer of light and truth, such complete devotion to Me must have taken place that the world is no longer respected .... which, however, only very few people succeed in doing, for the world will always push itself forward and intervene in people's thinking. And this should also be taken to heart by these people who certainly believe that they are spiritually active on earth but who also make too much use of their intellect due to worldly influences and demands which require the human being to think intellectually and thereby call purely spiritual activity into question .... Anyone who wants to serve Me must be completely committed to it, and he may no longer make any concessions to the world .... But then I can also be present in him and protect him from all unspiritual influence, and then the pure truth is also guaranteed, which he now receives directly from Me. And this truth shall then also be conveyed to the world, for it is not the sole property of the recipient but has been given to all people through him. And it can contribute again to the fact that the fellow human being also distances himself from the world, that My presence is so desirable to him that the world seems so stale to him and he gladly gives it up in exchange for spiritual goods from Me which will make him exceedingly happy .... Although the examination of spiritual goods first requires a life of love which enables the human being to think correctly, which also enlightens his intellect and both his heart and his intellect accept the spiritual goods .... For without love the human being himself still belongs to My adversary, and he will not allow any light but try to dim or extinguish it. But where I Myself have already been able to illuminate the spirit because the human being has kindled the light of love within himself through loving activity, the examination of spiritual knowledge which has originated from Me will also be easy and lead to the right success .... The examiner himself will feel addressed by Me and will not oppose My word with any doubts. And you can fully believe My word, for it preaches love to you first and foremost .... It also presents to you the effect of a right life of love as well as the state of death in which a loveless person finds himself .... Therefore only eternal love itself can impart such a teaching to you, and it does this in order to win you over for itself, in order to show you the path which leads back to Me again, from Whom you once approached your exit in light and strength .... Love is My primal element .... I Myself am eternal love .... And this love obviously expresses itself to you humans in order to save you from a renewed fall into the abyss .... And this love will truly also turn the pure truth towards you, for only truth can lead you to beatitude, only truth can dispel darkness, and only in truth will you find the path to Me .... And when I give you the task to pass on this truth you need have no qualms that you act arbitrarily in choosing those to whom you convey the spiritual knowledge from Me, for I Myself place the right thoughts into your heart, I Myself inwardly urge you to pass on what people need in order to successfully cover their earthly path .... And every work you now do is for Me, and it will also be blessed to you by Me .... For whatever can still happen to bring salvation to the souls in their adversity will also happen, because I love you from the beginning and will love you for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Purpose of divine revelations ....

B.D. 8382 from January 16th 1963, taken from Book No. 88

Whatever spiritual knowledge is offered to you through My love must always serve your soul's higher development if I want to prove My great love to you, for it is only ever concerned with helping you to mature so that you will return to Me again in order to become blissfully happy .... For you humans live on earth for this purpose, so that you take the path back to Me of your own free will. And therefore you must know My will, you must be informed of what you should and should not do in order to help your soul attain higher maturity .... You must work on your soul and thus also be guided to do so .... And therefore I convey My word to you which clearly and simply informs you of My will: that you should live a life of love and change your selfish love into unselfish neighbourly love. If you now comply with My will you will also soon enter a state of bright light, you will gain an inner realization, a knowledge which corresponds to the truth ..... Thus, for the time being you require a certain knowledge about Me Myself as your God and creator and about your relationship with Me. And your knowledge will increase depending on your attitude towards My commandments of love .... But whatever is revealed to you will only ever be suitable for learning to love Me, it will all only have one purpose, that you voluntarily change your nature into love, that you become again what you were in the beginning. And therefore I also reveal to you through My revelations the knowledge about those processes in the spiritual kingdom which are the cause of creation and your earthly life as a human being .... For all this knowledge is only intended to contribute towards you getting to know and loving Me as the highest and most perfect being and now voluntarily strive towards Me on earth and also achieve unification with Me. You can indeed penetrate the deepest realisations if your nature is pure love .... but as long as you stay on earth you will rarely reach the degree of love which is able to introduce you to the deepest wisdoms, and these will one day be your share in the spiritual kingdom, because then your bliss will know no limit .... I only want you to understand that you will always receive what you want from Me when spiritual possessions are offered to you directly from above .... from Me directly from above, you will always receive that which is helpful for your soul to mature, which provides it with the original state again, which lets it become My child as it shall return to Me into its father's house. I will not appeal to your intellect but to your heart .... I will give the soul the right food, a nourishment on which it can strengthen itself .... a medicine through which it can recover .... And 'My word' will always have this one purpose, to help the soul to change back into the original being it was in the beginning. And believe it, I will always address people as a father addresses his child .... You will hear words of love and comfort, gentle admonitions and comprehensible teachings will reach you, and your knowledge will constantly grow in accordance with your willingness to listen to My word and live it out .... For you will then regain the knowledge which was lost to you due to your apostasy from Me .... You escape the darkness and enter the circle of light again which, through My constant emanation of love, will envelop all people who desire the light .... But you will only be able to stand in fullest realisation when the original guilt of your former rebellion against Me has been taken from you, when this guilt has been redeemed by Jesus Christ, the son of God and redeemer of the world, in Whom I manifested Myself in order to take this great guilt from you through the greatest sacrifice of atonement ever offered on earth .... Thus you humans must also know about this act of salvation and its spiritual reason as well as its effect. And thus I also have to impart this knowledge to you as the most urgent, because you will not be able to record any spiritual ascent if you don't claim the blessings of this act of salvation for yourselves .... And thus you will always know whether you can describe revelations as divine if My act of salvation is mentioned as a matter of priority when spiritual knowledge is conveyed to you. You must have a touchstone for every spiritual gift you receive, and I will give you the surest sign of truth if you receive information about Jesus Christ, Who died on the cross for humanity's sins in order to redeem them from their guilt. Then you can also believe that I Myself convey this knowledge to you and that you receive 'My word' which will only ever inform you of My greater than great love, which applies to all people who live on earth for the purpose of their final return to Me .... Then you can believe that pure truth will be conveyed to you through My word, which I Myself speak to you so that you will reach your earthly goal .... And then you will also be able to represent this spiritual knowledge as divine truth, for bright light will come to you from Me, and in the light you will also learn to recognize Me Myself and love Me for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Illumination of the divine light of love ....

B.D. 8383 from January 17th 1963, taken from Book No. 88

How significant it is for you that a light is kindled for you on earth, that pure truth is supplied to you, that you as man cannot measure; but once you will recognize the greatness of My gift of grace and My endless love for you, My creatures, and never ever fall back into darkness from which I have led you out to the light. They are brightly shining rays which fall there where a person opens himself voluntarily for My love light .... And these rays let everything be seen clearly, man grasps his purpose of earthly life, his relationship to me, his God and creator, he grasps all spiritual connections, and he strives again for the connection with me, which he himself had only interrupted, but which could never be completely loosened .... One had struck you with blindness, he had caused you to follow him into darkness, and darkness has been your lot throughout eternal times .... But now, as you walk the earth as a human being, you will again be touched by rays of light if you do not resist them .... So much light will be brought to you that the desire can awaken in you to enter a state of light again .... And then your desire will also be met .... You possess as a human being intellect and free will and you only need to judge both rightly .... You only need to think about yourselves and your existence on earth and want to find out about it .... Then you already enter voluntarily into My love stream circle and can catch rays of light which will touch you truly beneficially and will strengthen the desire for light. But this desire has to arise in your free will, you cannot be forced by me, because you have to show through the desire for light that you want to escape from that state of darkness, and thereby you also prove that you want to escape from My adversary and turn to Me again ..... And this is the purpose of your existence on earth, that you confess Me in free will ..... Therefore also a ray of love light must reach you from Me, you must attain a glimmer of knowledge, which is offered to you all, but must be accepted by you voluntarily .... Therefore you will be instructed from outside and be able to mentally deal with all knowledge supplied to you, and then you decide yourselves what you accept or reject .... You decide whether you demand enlightenment or remain completely unimpressed by spiritual knowledge. And you are also urged by the inner voice .... by the voice of conscience .... urged to think right, but never forced. My love, however, pursues every man until his bodily death and seeks to direct the light of knowledge to him so that he finds the right way and also goes it, which leads back to me, into his father's house. This will always be My endeavor to give the soul a light, in the shine of which it now recognizes itself and carries out a conscious soul work .... in order to once again become the original being, which it was in the beginning and which changed in free will into the opposite. Man alone should and must recognize this, he must recognize his apostasy from me .... his great original sin .... must be pointed out to him so that he knows for what purpose he walks the earth and leads his earthly life accordingly. This alone is important to know, and therefore this knowledge is supplied to you through My word, which is offered to you directly by Me, so that you walk in purest truth. Your life on earth is short, therefore you should not waste the time with endeavours and researches of all kind, which have nothing to do with your soul's salvation ..... The knowledge about My work and activity in the whole of infinity will one day be transmitted to you in a flash when your soul enters the spiritual kingdom in a high degree of maturity so that it is close to its perfection .... But as long as it stays on earth, only the spiritual maturing is to be striven for and promoted, and the intellect is not to burden itself with knowledge which is irrelevant for the salvation of the soul as long as the soul has not yet reached perfection .... But this is likewise a trick of My adversary, to submit to men a knowledge which claims their intellect and holds them back from conscious work on themselves .... And never will I Myself support such an activity of My opponent by giving you knowledge of it, what to know is not of blessing for you .... For as long as you are not informed about the most important thing .... about the redemptive work of Jesus Christ, about My incarnation, about the "becoming one of God and Jesus" .... that knowledge which you strive for remains only a pure intellectual knowledge and brings you no advantage for your souls .... For the work of redemption of Jesus Christ only made an "outpouring of the spirit" possible, and therefore only then can My spirit work in a man and impart fullest truth to him, when that redemption through Jesus Christ has preceded, but which then also guarantees his working, so that man recognizes brightly and clearly what purpose divine revelations have and what can be rated as divine revelations .... For do not forget, you people, that you live in the end times and that I have warned you against false christs and false prophets .... And these warnings and admonitions I also repeat today that you should not believe any spirit .... For My adversary will also make use of the name Jesus, because he then only speaks of the man Jesus, but not of God Himself .... and he thus seeks to lead people astray, for God and Jesus are one .... And when Jesus reveals Himself, then God reveals Himself .... And truly, I am always determined only by My greater than great love for you, because it is a long way which you have already gone and which you had to cover in darkness because the light from Me did not find access to you .... But now let yourselves be illuminated and let Me kindle a bright light .... And you will walk in truth, as I have promised you, that I will send you the comforter, the spirit of truth .... Accept what My spirit now announces to you .... because you are to test, but keep the best. And what goes out from Me, that is a delicious spiritual good, which guarantees you an eternal life, because it is love power from Me, which can never remain without effect ....

Amen

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Knowledge of the purpose of life on earth ....

B.D. 8384 from January 18th 1963, taken from Book No. 88

Only truthful spiritual knowledge will enable you to recognize the meaning and purpose of your earthly life, and My concern will always be to provide you with this truthful knowledge so that you will not leave earthly life without results because you are completely unaware when you start your existence as a human being. And therefore I say time and again that a small light has to be kindled in you which provides you with information about yourselves and your relationship with Me .... And this small light can be intensified by your free will at any time so that it will become bright in you and you will no longer be burdened by any spiritual darkness but your knowledge will constantly increase and you will also safely reach your goal on earth: the complete transformation of your nature into love, into your original state in which you were blessed .... The fact that I give you this light is an undeserved grace, because you once consciously rejected it and therefore became apostates to Me .... It was arrogance that moved you to this apostasy from Me .... you felt like My first-created spirit Lucifer, standing in fullest strength, and believed that you could outdo Me, you believed that you could overrule Me Myself, and therefore you voluntarily detached yourselves from Me, always under the influence of that first-created spirit which believed itself so strong that it thought it could dethrone Me. But he stood in the brightest light, he knew that he had emerged from Me as a being .... he knew that he received strength from Me, that I Myself was the source, and yet he detached himself from Me despite better realization, for the unlimited strength flowing to him from Me made him arrogant, it confused his thinking, because he begrudged it to Me, thus a sinful, wrong will, which was the cause of his fall, already caused him spiritual darkness, so that he believed he could detach himself from Me and yet remain in possession of the abundance of strength .... Yet detachment from Me also always meant diminished strength of love, for My strength of love lost its effectiveness due to his resistance .... And the darkness around him became more and more dense .... And the beings which his will had created using My strength also fell into the same state .... They were not forced by him to follow him and they were also able to recognize themselves as creatures which had emerged from My strength .... And therefore their guilt was immense and could not be atoned for by the beings themselves. Despite the eternally long process of return through the creations of earth, through the material world, they remained burdened by this guilt and would never have been able to enter the kingdom of light if I Myself had not redeemed them from sin and death by giving My life on the cross in the human being Jesus in order to atone for this heavy guilt ..... yet only a human being who was capable of suffering and willing to suffer, who mustered such a measure of love for His fallen brothers that He took all conceivable suffering upon Himself and thus redeemed the guilt through His death on the cross .... In this man Jesus I Myself descended to earth and cleared the way for people to come to Me again .... I led them out of darkness up to the light .... My great love, which is and will be valid for all beings for all eternity, has accomplished a work of mercy, it has once again offered sinful humanity a gift of grace, which it only needs to accept and make use of .... For Jesus Christ's act of salvation has to be acknowledged and accepted of his own free will, the human being himself has to take the path to the cross in earthly life and carry the burden of sin to Him; he has to appeal to Jesus that He may also have shed His blood for him and thus acknowledge Me Myself in Him again. Just as he once voluntarily rejected Me and fell away from Me .... so he must voluntarily return to Me again, otherwise he will remain in darkness and wretchedness forever until his wrong will has changed. And this knowledge has to be conveyed to you in all truth, and then you will certainly take the path back to Me, you will make the right decision of will in earthly life as a human being and be able to be accepted into the kingdom of light and bliss, because then your past guilt of sin will have been redeemed for you through Jesus Christ, in Whom I embodied Myself in order to redeem humanity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Feeding the soul is a priority .... Communion ....

B.D. 8385 from January 19th 1963, taken from Book No. 88

I repeatedly have to impress on you the distress your soul experiences if it does not receive the right kind of nourishment. After all, the most important thing in earthly life is to provide your soul with everything it requires to reach the goal which is its reason for living on earth. It is supposed to mature fully and needs the right nourishment, it needs appropriate food and drink that directs it to a life which guarantees it the greatest happiness .... An immature soul cannot enter My kingdom of light, it must have matured fully on earth and is living on earth for this purpose .... You take the greatest care to maintain the life of its physical cover, the human body, everything is done so that it is preserved and feels as comfortable as possible ....

Yet you do little for your soul .... even though it needs good, healthy nourishment for its eternal continuation far more, whereas the body is transient and its lifespan might well be quite short .... At the beginning of its incarnation as a human being the soul is mainly weak and ailing and should be helped to overcome its helpless condition. It should receive the right food and drink to become purified during earthly life and be handed the right medicine so that it can recover and leave its earthly body fully matured when the hour has come to exchange its life on earth with the spiritual kingdom to be infinitely happy. And the right food can only be offered by means of My Word because then it receives its strength and support directly from Me and I will indeed only offer what serves the soul to achieve perfection .... But I need your free will to do so and therefore you have to come to My table yourselves and accept the nourishment for your soul from Me directly.

Time and again I invite you to be My guests, to refresh and strengthen yourselves at My table and to receive the right food and drink from Me because they are necessary for your soul's successful earthly progress. After all, the human being only lives on earth to achieve the soul's full maturity .... His body is merely the physical cover for the spirit which has almost completed the process of return and just needs to pass its test of volition to finally be admitted into the spiritual kingdom. Of course the body also needs its due to exist and to carry out its task to serve the soul, but taking care of the soul should be a priority and you should offer the soul everything it needs to mature completely. And since the soul is the spirit within the human being it can only be given spiritual food and drink. Therefore My Word is and remains its right nourishment which I offer you in all fullness if only you give Me the opportunity to speak to you and after that live in accordance with My Word. Then the soul cannot fail, it will irrevocably shape itself to constantly come closer to Me; since every contribution of My strength, which it receives through My Word, helps to transform it into its original nature .... because it reforms itself and can now also become consistently more enlightened by the light of My love ....

You humans have to hear My Word many times, then you give your soul the right nourishment which won't remain unsuccessful. For this reason you should constantly come to My table and hold communion with Me and indeed, your soul will be grateful that you nourish it first. Then your earthly progress is not in vain as your soul will constantly come closer to Me until one day the ultimate unity is achieved and the soul can create and work in light and liberty with Me in My kingdom again ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The light from God illuminates the way up ....

B.D. 8386 from January 19th 1963, taken from Book No. 88

From the kingdom of light you are illuminated with My light of love, and this means that the darkness need no longer frighten you, that you are able to clearly recognize everything in the glow of My ray of light of love and that you therefore also recognize every danger which threatens you as long as you walk in darkness .... Now you no longer have to fear that you can go astray, for you see the right path clearly and you also see where it leads .... Although you also see that it is not so easily passable, thus it requires effort if the goal is to be reached, which requires an ascent for which you need strength. But you no longer fear this ascent, for you have guides by your side who offer you their help and in whom you can also confidently entrust yourselves, for I Myself have assigned them to you and it is their task to assist you in every way. As long as you walk in the light nothing can frighten you anymore, for if you encounter an enemy you will recognize him and you can arm yourselves against him, you can protect yourselves against every attack because you will avert every hostile action against you with My help .... Hence, when My ray of love hits you in the form of My word you can truly be called blissful, for My love can only illuminate you when you open yourselves, thus when you are willing to receive evidence of My love. And if you develop this will within yourselves then you are also on the right path, then you are on the path of return to Me, and then you can also be certain that you are walking the path which leads to the goal, home to Me in your father's house. But a true light from Me will shine upon you when you attain knowledge which gives you the right information about yourselves and your God and creator as well as the right relationship with Me. As long as you lack this knowledge you are still in a state of darkness, thus you are still outside My circle of love and thus in the territory of the one who is the prince of darkness and drew you down into his kingdom when you voluntarily turned to him and followed him into darkness. And he will always try to prevent you from being touched by a ray of light on My part .... And he will light dazzling lights himself in order to lure you to these dazzling lights which, however, will not result in any realization for you but only blind your eyes so that you will then no longer recognize the gentle light from above which shines to you from Me. For this is his trick to announce himself in the same way .... that he disguises himself as a spirit of light, as a messenger on the path who would like to guide you .... and that he now seeks to distort everything and you do not recognize his working, for he keeps you in the darkness of spirit .... Yet he will only be able to win over those people who believe themselves to be able to examine without having asked Me for assistance, for enlightenment of spirit. He will certainly be successful with these people but not with those who have already given Me their will and with whom I will also assert My right, for I will kindle a true light for them, I will bring Myself close to them in the word so that they will be able to recognize Who is speaking to them and thus it will become light in their hearts and this light will constantly intensify so that My adversary's activity will also be brightly illuminated, so that he will be recognized as the enemy of all life and action can now also be successfully taken against his activity. I certainly let My rays of light of love fall wherever I only find a receptive heart which is willing to serve Me selflessly. Yet precisely for this reason My adversary is always on the spot and tries the same way .... Yet he will not come too close to the right light of love from Me, for this he flees because it exposes him .... And therefore you will also be capable of a right test if you receive My word from above directly, for the light of the spirit enlightens your heart and exposes every blinding light, it exposes every false teaching which My adversary wants to convey to you in order to draw you down into darkness again .... You truly need not fear his dazzling work, for he will not be able to stand before your scrutinising eyes because you are enlightened by a right light, by a light which I Myself was able to kindle in you because you were willing to listen to Me Myself, and thus I was also able to convey the pure truth to you which will make you blissfully happy, because it shows you the right path which leads to the goal and which you can only recognize and walk in My divine light of love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Indication of the many adversities before the end ....

B.D. 8387 from January 20th 1963, taken from Book No. 88

Earth will still experience much adversity, but only the people directly affected will derive a psychological benefit from it, if they are not entirely hardened .... Yet their fellow human beings are not impressed by it for long and therefore they, too, will be affected in other ways, for I have truly many teaching methods at My disposal which I have to use if I don't want to let people go astray and completely lose them to My adversary. For it is like a disease that they would rather comply with the will of the one who wants to ruin them than with Mine, Who only wants to help them achieve beatitude ....

My Words and admonitions bear little fruit and they have to be struck more severely if their thinking is to change and turn to Me. Only adversities which they are unable to master themselves can push them towards Me .... only the kind of desperate situations which make all help seem impossible can induce them to pray, to call upon Me in spirit and in truth. And if they are not entirely hardened, if they still have a glimmer of faith in an almighty and loving God and Creator within themselves then they will indeed call upon Me, and I will give evidence of Myself to them, because I Am only interested that they believe in Me with a living faith. For only a living faith will give them the strength for resistance during every earthly tribulation. Since it is the time of the end, the time of affliction will not stop either and time and again will affect people in different ways, and then a living faith will be of great help, for their trust in Me lets people bear everything more easily and confidently wait for help.

And from all directions you will hear reports about all kinds of accidents and disasters, and then you should always remember that I thereby only intend to change people's hearts, that nothing happens to people without reason and purpose, whatever it may be. And I often have to use such means which are unrelated to human cause, to human failure, for they are not meant to recognise their fellow human beings' shortcomings or sinfulness but identify Me as the originator of conditions which have put them into hopeless situations .... For they ought to call upon Me and not expect help from their fellow human beings who are unable to provide it. People have only one means of rescue left, and that is that they establish their bond with Me themselves, for the end will irrevocably arrive and the preceding time of adversity can only be endured by people who closely unite with Me and therefore can also always be certain of My help. For I love you humans and want to help you .... I have the power to do so and thus Am able to help you .... I only want you to appeal to Me yourselves, to take the path to Me, so that you will be saved and need not fear the final end .... For you will need much strength to withstand all onslaughts by My adversary, and you constantly should accept this strength from Me .... Yet this necessitates the sincere bond with Me which assures you a sufficient flow of strength and enables you to victoriously cope with all challenges.

And the closer it gets to the end the more subject you will become to adversity and sorrow, because there is not much time and My obvious intervention is necessary by which you can still escape the worst fate .... the banishment into matter, into the new works of creation on earth. This fate is so appalling that all earthly adversity seems small in comparison if you could assess the whole extent of the former. But you may not decide to change as a result of fear and dread and so cannot receive a complete overview, you can only ever be told about your fate, which you may or may not believe .... However, one day you will be grateful to Me when you, as a result of large earthly disasters, are spared this appalling fate ....

The time for the people of this earth is irrevocably coming to an end, and this also explains the harsh strokes of fate they will suffer .... But since love has grown cold amongst people their sympathy is not far-reaching either .... Only when people are affected themselves will such disasters and miseries cause them to stop and think and for once turn their thoughts spiritually to the One Who is Lord over life and death, over heaven and earth, Who is the Originator of all creation, to Whom everything is possible, Whom you humans only have to call upon with complete trust in order to receive assured help and thereby also the evidence of Himself, so that your faith will become a living one .... You could lessen the extent of your suffering yourselves if only you would revert to the faith you humans have lost, for the increasing disasters are due to the fact that a spiritually low level has been reached, that people have neither faith nor practice love and therefore live in complete darkness .... But they have to learn to recognise a God and Creator, they have to believe in Him and His infinite love, and then they will also be permitted to experience this love in every earthly and spiritual adversity ....

Yet even the harshest strokes of fate will often fail to change people, and therefore they cause the downfall themselves, they themselves contribute to the fact that the earth will be destroyed and a new one prepared, for it is intended to serve the souls for higher development. And this spiritual task has become impossible since people are getting worse and therefore everything has to be arranged anew, everything that has stepped out of it has to be brought back into lawful order .... that thus a work of transformation will be carried out on earth in accordance with the plan of eternity ....

Yet My loving care will still apply to all human beings until the end .... I will still use every method which promises success in order to reduce the number of those who will be banished into matter, so that they will be able to repeat their process of development from the abyss to the pinnacle which, although dreadfully agonising, nevertheless wrests the spiritual essence from My adversary's hands or it would never be able to return to Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Mis-educated truth cause for new revelations ....

B.D. 8388 from January 20th 1963, taken from Book No. 88

Throughout long periods of time the truth has never been able to remain pure, for it has always been distorted by people due to the influence of My adversary who, in the light of truth, was brightly recognized in his nature, which is devoid of all love, and who therefore only knew one endeavour, to obscure the light of truth .... which he also succeeded in doing time and again because people still largely adhered to him and allowed themselves to be influenced by him. They made changes to My word, which I turned to people time and again in all purity. And they were able to do so because I did not prevent them due to their freedom of will, for free will can also desire and receive the pure truth again. Hence the human being himself is responsible for the spiritual knowledge he possesses .... He himself determines through his will what he accepts, whether he lets Me Myself or My adversary have his say. But time and again he is also informed of Me and My adversary, even if this is only in the form of thoughts which circle around him like waves from both realms, from the realm of light and also of darkness, and which again require his will to pick them up and move them within himself .... He can attain right thinking if only he wants to, but he is not forced to do so. Therefore, as long as people live on earth for the purpose of maturing their souls, the world of light and the dark world will struggle for the will of these souls .... as long as the world of light will convey true and clear thoughts to people, just as the dark forces will endeavour to confuse people's thinking and to enforce the pure truth with error. And this also explains why I reveal Myself to people time and again, why I use every opportunity to guide the pure truth to earth, because every person shall have the opportunity to receive truthful spiritual knowledge who desires such. And this will also be an explanation to you for people's confused thinking in the last time which precedes the end. If people adhered to the pure truth, if they accepted My word conveyed to them from above without any contradiction, if they seriously thought about it and only wanted to make the right judgment, then they would also recognize the value of My word and most certainly fulfil their earthly task of shaping themselves into love .... For then they would also know how significant My divine commandments of love are and that eternal life in beatitude is solely dependent on their fulfilment. Yet only a few have this serious will to be instructed in truth, and therefore it is very easy for My adversary to assert the pure truth with his error, because those people accept everything that comes forth from him but always reject it when My pure word is offered to them. For humanity is more than ever his share, because its own will determines to which lord it surrenders .... Nevertheless, I will not cease to repeatedly convey My word to earth, for My word is the light which shines into the darkness and which has to be accepted in order to emerge from the darkness of night into the light of day. And where there is light the adversary will be recognized as an enemy, and he will have lost power because he will be blinded by the light which originates from Me Myself .... You humans cannot measure what you possess in the word which I convey to you from above .... You are in direct contact with Me, Who Myself is the word from eternity .... I Myself descend to you in the word and give you proof of My presence, I Myself enlighten you and guide you into truth .... You no longer need to fear darkness as soon as I Myself have been able to kindle a light in you, for My adversary will no longer be able to extinguish this light for ever .... And you can precede your fellow human beings as bearers of light, and anyone who follows you will likewise be directly addressed by Me and, with enlightened thinking, will also be able to recognize error and turn away from it. For My word is full of strength, it strengthens you in the battle against My adversary, and with the light of truth you will also overcome him when he fights against you, for I Myself stand next to you and he will flee Me because he shuns the divine light of love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Warning against changing the word .... Love one another ....

B.D. 8389 from January 21st 1963, taken from Book No. 88

I always preach love to you, and thus I also want love to unite you who want to belong to Mine .... You are all children of one father who once came forth from Me and shall also return to Me. The fact that you all take different paths, that you are more or less distant from Me, does not exclude the fact that you, as My living creations which shall become My children, also possess My undivided love and that this love will do everything to win you back. But you yourselves should all regard yourselves as brothers who have one father, and thus one should only ever endeavour to help the other but not condemn him if his ways are different, if he takes paths which lead away from Me. Then you should only help him and lovingly try to lead him back to the right path. Besides, you yourselves cannot judge the nature of every person's heart either .... But I know, and I often see successes which time and again inspire Me to help him, and therefore I prove My existence in every way to people who still don't want to or cannot believe in it. Thus I don't give up on a person until the hour of his death, time and again I intervene in his thoughts, time and again I knock at his heart's door and desire entrance, and often I even succeed in winning his will before his death, and then he is not lost but can still awaken to life in the kingdom of the beyond, which lasts forever .... And thus I also want love to unite you on earth who are active for Me .... I want you to unite and strive together towards the goal of doing redemptive work for Me, so that many more souls will be saved before the end .... Yet you should also always keep the spiritual knowledge you receive pure and not mix it with human additions which overzealous vineyard labourers often want to add and which did not originate from Me. This admonition is especially addressed to those who have been instructed by Me to pass on pure truth and who receive this truth from Me directly .... I know where there is a danger that pure spiritual knowledge will be diluted, I know where people .... who believe they serve Me .... unintentionally serve My adversary by following his whisperings and making changes to the pure truth I conveyed to people because they urgently need it .... Everyone believes himself called upon to improve or explain it. But this only detracts from the spiritual good, for people are not so perfect that they are entitled to make arbitrary changes ..... However, differences of opinion should not affect love, instead you should exchange your opinions in patience and tolerance, and then My presence will also be evident to you, for I Myself will dwell amongst you with My spirit and enlighten your thoughts and speeches. My spirit, however, will not contradict itself, and the only issue is that and whether spiritual good .... supposedly received from Me .... agrees. For by this the false christs and false prophets are to be recognized, that they impart spiritual good to people which is doubtful, and this they shall examine .... For people can have the best will to serve Me and the truth and yet My adversary can slip into their thoughts if characteristics still prevail in the human being which are his share and which first have to be completely discarded so that he no longer finds a point of attack for his wiles and trickery. But love will always have a balancing effect and through love the adversary will also lose strength, and therefore everything can be settled with love and victory will be yours, for My adversary is powerless in the face of love .... Where love is, there is also bright light, and the human being must recognize what was previously incomprehensible to him .... Where love is, there is also truth, and where truth is, I am Myself .... I Who am the light from eternity .... There can only ever be a spiritual battle between light and darkness .... And you humans must decide for yourselves whether you walk in the light or whether darkness still holds your spirit captive. You have to decide for yourselves whether you gain knowledge through spiritual knowledge .... and then it must also have come forth from Me if you are in possession of knowledge about your outcome and your goal .... about yourselves and your destiny and about your God and creator from eternity .... You must be enlightened about all correlations, about your fall, about the emergence of creation and its purpose and about Jesus' mission and the spiritual reason for the work of salvation .... You can always accept these indications as a touchstone as to whether spiritual knowledge offered to you has originated from Me or whether they are merely mediations from the spiritual kingdom whose outcome you cannot control .... Always try to find out if you want to judge the origin and value of spiritual knowledge .... But love should always determine you, and you should always relate to each other like brothers, for you are all My living creations who should become My children ....

Amen

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Turning away from the world brings in spiritual gain ....

B.D. 8390 from January 22nd 1963, taken from Book No. 88

Again and again My love feeds you spiritual food, again and again questions are answered for you or problems are solved because I want that you recognize Me more and more clearly and reduce the distance from Me Myself because you are supposed to feel it that I Myself am so close to you and that I live with you as it were and all daily events are wanted or allowed by me. Only when you yourselves feel intimately connected to me, your faith will have the strength that you walk your earthly way completely calmly, because you know it that I walk next to you and you can rely on me. And you will also understand it when I demand of you to turn away from the earthly world, because although you still live in the world, it is nevertheless a difference whether you still cling to it or have already overcome it, because as soon as nothing can cause you anymore to give up the intimate union with Me, the world has also lost its attraction and you no longer need to fear it as a temptation. You are truly far better off than your fellow human beings who are still attached to the world, although you .... earthly seen .... no joys and pleasures that can only be found in the world .... You seek your happiness and your inner peace elsewhere, and you will also find it. For is there anything more beautiful than to hear the voice of your father, Who speaks to you as a father speaks to his children .... full of love and kindness .... and who offers you treasures that are everlasting? As long as you still belong to the world, these treasures will not inspire you, because they are unreal for you, and you have little earthly use for them ..... And nevertheless it is the most delicious thing which can be offered to you on earth, and your soul is touched by it, which feels it exceedingly beneficent when it receives gifts from the spiritual kingdom, which is its true home ..... In earthly life the soul often cannot appreciate it, if it still clings too much to the world, which is transient, and it always only strives for what it can see and grasp .... But one day it will recognize that only spiritual treasures are valued, and it will be exceedingly happy when it possesses such treasures at its entrance into the kingdom on the other side. If I now can address My child Myself, because it has established the intimate bond with Me through prayer or unselfish works of love, then it will receive a wealth of greatest magnitude, for I do not limit My gifts of grace, I give unlimitedly, only man must also accept and utilize them voluntarily, otherwise he can also have no advantage from them .... And therefore I will also explain everything to you and give you information, what you also desire to know .... But you may only demand spiritual treasures from Me, therefore do not expect that My address refers to earthly questions and their answer, because I distribute spiritual goods unlimitedly, which however does not mean that I do not pay attention to your earthly needs .... Rather, these will be added to you if you strive for the spiritual gain as the most important thing. But who still wants to have earthly questions answered, he is not yet on the spiritual way, his senses are only earthly directed, and he will still need a long time until he also has overcome the world and strives to win the spiritual kingdom. Because this alone is your earth life aim, and if I Myself can address you, then I will always only give you knowledge of this kingdom and open up a knowledge for you, which alone concerns the spiritual processes, which are the basis of your being as man and are only explained to you so that you gain knowledge of the right nature of your God and creator, who wants to be loved by you because you once came out of his love. And such knowledge is not to be gained in the world, rather the world only serves the efforts of My opponent to keep that right knowledge away from you, because he does not want that you learn to recognize and love me, and that is why he works against Me wherever he can. But I will take care of your spiritual need, and I will truly provide you with everything you need .... I will also strengthen your body so that it can fulfill its spiritual task and the soul matures in it .... Again and again I will reveal Myself to you men, because alone you lack the strength to go the way up, but which has to be covered by you in free will, so that you reach Me again, and that with rich treasures, which started in the spiritual kingdom and will also help you again that you return to your father's house. For I do not rest until all My creatures have returned to Me as My children, so that I can now also make them immeasurably happy for all eternity .....

Amen

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Error to be corrected again and again ....

B.D. 8391 from January 23rd 1963, taken from Book No. 88

Every spiritually directed thought allows My working on and in you, and I can instruct you, I can increase the light in you, I can give you food and drink and thus draw you ever closer to My heart, for you must come close to Me yourselves in order to be able to receive delicious gifts from My hands. And I still have much to offer you, there is still much error in the world which I would like to correct if I find open hearts which are willing to listen to Me. For there truly could not be such a great spiritual low if people moved in truth, yet error confused their thinking and they are therefore completely unenlightened and therefore also live a completely wrong life. So much has been presented to people as truth and they unhesitatingly accepted knowledge which originated from My adversary whose only endeavour is to keep people in spiritual darkness. People's free will itself time and again gave him the opportunity to bring untrue spiritual knowledge to them and to displace the pure truth. And if you humans only consider the one thing, into what absurd forms My legacy was forced, what garment was given to My pure gospel, which I Myself founded on earth .... If only you consider in what schematic functions people see and recognize 'their church', how everything has become a form which is supposed to earn people eternal bliss .... and if you consider how little people themselves do to acquire an inner light in order to clearly and distinctly recognize what My will is and in what My church founded by Me consists .... For a long time they have been plodding along as 'followers' in organisations and don't even think about whether this can bring them eternal bliss .... And this indifference towards the most important thing, to fulfil the purpose of their earthly life, was brought about by My adversary, yet people themselves conceded this power to him, and it is difficult to light a light for them so that they could see a true picture of why they live on earth. Such a light has certainly been lit by Me time and again, and I have never left people to their fate, even though free will had shaped it this way .... Yet time and again this same free will also rejected Me Myself, and people held on to the wrong spiritual knowledge, they did not take the opportunity to kindle a light for themselves, for the bond with Me became ever weaker because they were unable to recognize Me correctly in the many misguided teachings and the image they received of Me was not suitable to awaken love for Me in them. Yet they need only have asked themselves whether a God of love, wisdom and might would have erected such a structure which was presented to them as a 'beatifying church'. Every clear mind, which would have examined in good will to do what is right before God, would also have recognized the nonsense ..... But people allowed themselves to be driven, only rarely did a person reflect on himself and think self-willedly because he desired the truth .... The majority, however, unhesitatingly accepted everything as truth, no matter how clearly the workings of the opposing power could be recognized .... And the more time went on the less people dared to doubt the truth of what was, after all, a structure of lies of the greatest magnitude, otherwise the effect could not have been that almost no one possessed a living faith anymore, which comes to life through love .... For love was certainly also taught but all other teachings were given priority .... so that the building could hold up .... But if love had been preached as a priority, this alone would have been enough for the light to ignite in people's hearts, which, however, would also have meant the downfall of a human work which is certainly presented as My work but which can never be My will and My work, which results from people's spiritual low level as it is in the present time .... in the time before the end .... is evident .... Time and again I have explained what is to be understood by My church founded by Myself. And people will also be found everywhere who belong to this church of Mine .... Yet precisely these are not recognized because they possess the clear realization through their love and faith .... the emblem of My church .... that all worldly works of construction, even if they believe to lead people to spiritual life, are not wanted by Me. For they are far more likely to hold people back from spiritual life than to promote it .... For lies and error cannot have a spiritually beneficial influence, rather they can only lead people away from the right faith and then also present Me to people in a distorted way, which is the adversary's intention. If only people could free themselves from doctrines imposed on them which never originated from Me .... they would only take the direct path to Me Myself and sincerely request that I Myself introduce them to all truth, that I help them to follow their earthly path in accordance with My will .... I will truly not let any such request go unheeded and help everyone to the light who earnestly desires it. For every person should also consider that he bears responsibility for himself, that he cannot pass it on to those who have taught him wrongly, for I step into everyone's path and bring Myself so close to him that he would be able to recognize Me. For I only want people to pray to their God and creator, to call upon Him as father and, like true children, to trustingly expect the father's help .... And truly, I will reveal Myself to this child and it will be able to recognize Me, for the light I will now kindle in it will shine so brightly that it will no longer be oppressed by darkness or doubt, and it will take the path which leads to Me, home into the father's house ....

Amen

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Can the pure truth be guided to earth? ....

B.D. 8392 from January 24th 1963, taken from Book No. 88

You can rest assured that it is possible for Me to convey the truth to earth and that I want to do so is due to the great spiritual adversity, the cause of which is precisely error and lies, as I have told you time and again. Salvation can only be brought to people by conveying the pure truth, and therefore I reveal Myself time and again. But you humans doubt that I choose the right vessels for Myself through which My spirit can work and which I therefore also protect from all error as soon as it concerns spiritual possessions. Yet you humans yourselves repeatedly water down My pure word by arbitrarily adding or changing it, by believing that you can teach people better by adding explanations which My pure word truly does not need, for it is given in an understandable way to every person with an open heart. But anyone who closes himself off is truly not helped by explanations either, he cannot understand it because he does not want to understand .... And this is why it is so difficult to keep people in the pure truth, for My adversary's endeavour will always be to disfigure them, and he has a strong influence on those people who make precisely these changes or improvements .... even though they are of good will to be of service to Me but also still have their own need for recognition or are linked to earthly interests. And thereby they support the adversary's activity themselves. You humans cannot be careful enough to guard My spiritual knowledge which I convey to you directly, because you have to live in truth if you still want to reach the goal in the short end time. For you must recognize Me in My nature so that you will then also love Me and strive towards Me .... And only the pure truth gives you My nature as it is .... not as My adversary would like to portray it .... that you see in Me a punishing, angry God of vengeance Who mercilessly condemns and condemns those who are not of His will. I know the human being's weakness and his wretched state takes pity on Me so that I will do anything that can mean help for him if he wants to be helped. And again, only the pure truth can have such an effect that he will remember his earthly task and strive to fulfil it .... If the human being can be offered the truth he will also lift himself up by it and strengthen his will if he has not yet completely fallen prey to My adversary. And because I know how necessary pure truth is for humanity in order not to get lost again in the end for an infinitely long time .... but because I also know that it is no longer present, that people are already thinking wrongly again, I descend to earth again in the word and enlighten them. But in addition I convey to them the knowledge of the forthcoming end and all preceding events .... For I let nothing come upon people without preparing them for it .... But even these predictions are not accepted by people, and only those who are of awakened spirit know about the correlations .... and will pay attention to them and also live their lives accordingly. And as soon as people express doubts about such predictions concerning the forthcoming end, their spirit is also unawakened. And you can also conclude from this their spiritual maturity, for they don't recognize the father's voice Who only conveys the pure truth to them. And you can be firmly convinced that I also know ways and means to make the pure truth accessible to those who seriously desire it, but I don't impose it on anyone either, for the human being should decide for himself whether and how he evaluates My gifts of grace. Yet one thing is certain, that I hold My protective hand over those whom I have chosen as My right vessels into whom I can pour out My spirit .... I will protect the source from all contamination, which I Myself have opened up, and thus you humans are also guaranteed to receive the truth at the source, as pure as it originated from Me Myself ....

Amen

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Extent of knowledge dependent on degree of love ....

B.D. 8393 from January 26th 1963, taken from Book No. 88

You only need the knowledge which helps you to recognize Me and to seriously strive for your perfection in order to then also be able to unite with Me. Depending on your soul's maturity you can be given knowledge which corresponds to the truth, but this knowledge will always serve you to attain a glimmer of realization as to the meaning and purpose of your earthly life. For as long as you are completely ignorant your earthly life is an idle one and you remain at the same stage of your development as at the beginning of your embodiment as a human being. But again, a light can only be kindled for you which illuminates your thinking and gives you a small degree of realization if you let yourselves be educated by the inner voice .... the voice of conscience .... to work with love, for only love kindles the light .... And depending on the degree of love is also the measure of realization, the granting of truthful knowledge .... And thus you can receive wisdom from Me to the greatest extent the more you cultivate love within yourselves, for the brighter the light will shine within you which imparts these deepest wisdoms to you. But since you will suddenly attain the brightest realisation when you enter the kingdom of the beyond with a certain degree of maturity, you only need the knowledge on earth which shall determine your path of earthly life, the knowledge which first lets you recognize Me Myself and My nature and yourselves as My living creations which My will of love has called into being .... the knowledge of your creator's will and of your beginning and your goal .... This knowledge would be enough for your soul to mature .... But now, through the influence of My adversary, misguided spiritual knowledge has been spread amongst people, because his aim is to give people a false image of Me which they cannot love and therefore do not strive for Me either .... And thus it has also become necessary that all these misguided teachings are uncovered and corrected; it has become necessary that people also have to know about all correlations, and now the human being's degree of maturity or love determines the extent to which this knowledge can be imparted to him .... But it is rare that a person's soul is so mature that profoundest wisdom about My reign and activity in infinity can be imparted to him .... And if the human being tries to find out just such secrets he often uses his intellect, and then pure truth is no longer guaranteed which, however, secures My spirit's working. Therefore let yourselves be given a gift, for I know what gift you require, I also know what questions will be asked, both on earth as well as in the spiritual kingdom .... And you yourselves may also ask Me questions .... However, you should not stoop into areas into which you have not yet attained the necessary maturity and the answers to which only satisfy your curiosity, but you yourselves cannot create any advantage for the soul with this acquired knowledge .... unless you reverently bow down before My greatness and remain in deepest humility .... Yet the truly humble person allows himself to be given gifts because he knows that I, as his father of eternity, always make people happy and offer them the right gifts which are a blessing for him. When I walked the earth I was often asked questions which reached far into My eternal plan of salvation. But these people had also been misled in their thinking and therefore I had to explain much to them which, however, is generally not necessary or useful for humanity to know .... For this reason, the truth conveyed in the time before the end, in which you humans now live, primarily concerns explanations which contribute to the understanding of My eternal plan of salvation and which provide people with the right information about the meaning and purpose of their existence and their task on earth. And every individual person can bring his soul to maturity and expand his knowledge, which corresponds to the truth, without limit if he nourishes the light of love within himself, so that its illuminating power becomes ever stronger and imparts the most profound knowledge to the human being ..... Yet the human being's will and activity of love is the first prerequisite for this, because any knowledge conveyed to him can only be described as living knowledge, as true realization, when he himself has become receptive to it through a life of love, which therefore also signifies full understanding of it. Even the deepest knowledge remains dead for the human being who has not himself brought his inner light to unfold .... For only then will the human being have the 'right knowledge' .... and penetrate the divine secrets which I Myself will now reveal to the human being who is about to attain perfection ....

Amen

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Purification of the soul ....

B.D. 8394 from January 27th 1963, taken from Book No. 88

All those who follow Me and also take up their cross, will also be blessed by the cross .... All who suffer in submission to My Will will be true followers of Jesus .... Your soul still needs purification as long as you live on earth, for only rarely has a soul purified itself so much in its existence on this earth that it no longer needs suffering, only rarely has an extremely high degree of love brought about the purification of a soul so that it can enter the kingdom of light and bliss as a true child of God. It will always still be burdened with a measure of suffering which will help it to reach the final perfection, so that all dross will have been dissolved and My light of love can now radiate through the soul in all fullness. And I will always give you the necessary strength to carry your cross or take it upon My shoulders and help you carry it if it seems too heavy to you, for then only heartfelt supplications to Me will suffice and you will feel noticeable relief. But you should not try to avert every measure of suffering from you, for then the measure of beatitude in the spiritual kingdom will also be less. But I know what you are capable of bearing, and truly, I will not burden you with a greater burden ..... Always remember that you still dwell in the kingdom whose lord is My adversary and that he will wrestle for your souls until your death, and his temptations mainly consist of causing you to rebel against Me, he only ever wants to trigger impatience, displeasure, agitation in you in order to lower doubts about My love in you at such moments .... He wants your love for Me to diminish and you should not grant him this triumph .... You should be devoted to Me with love and know that even this suffering is determined by My love which wants to cause you all the greater bliss and therefore your soul should become ever more perfect, to which every suffering, borne in surrender, also contributes. This is why I spoke the words: 'If anyone wants to follow Me, let him take up his cross ....' All your soul substances must spiritualise themselves, nothing that still belongs to earth should remain attached to your soul, including the urges and passions from the past which you brought with you into your earthly existence as a human being. And often you have to struggle for a very long time until you have overcome them. And all physical suffering contributes to this .... Your soul crystallises and dissolves all slag which prevents the penetration of My ray of love or reduces its strength. But My ray of love means bliss for you, it means right life which lasts forever. Therefore, calmly let your body die, don't be disturbed if you have to suffer but know that you will leave your earthly body all the more joyfully when the hour has come which I have set for your departure from this earth. But also know that I Myself determine this hour and that you can still live for a long time despite your infirmities and pain if it is necessary to complete a task I have set for you .... And as long as this task has not been accomplished you will also be provided with the necessary strength for it, and ever more quietly you will surrender into My will and carry your cross, because then I Myself will also walk beside you as a cross-bearer and the burden will no longer seem so heavy to you. The bond with Me also ensures My constant supply of strength, and My strength is truly mighty in the weak. For as long as I need you, your course of life is also determined by My will, and time and again you will be able to ascertain that everything will work out as it serves you and your task .... You will not need to worry about yourselves, for I will take care of you, and I will also visibly support your mission and bring it to completion. For it is not just about your own life but about the lives of countless people who shall still attain true life through you and who are in greatest spiritual hardship if they are not helped. But since such help always has to be given voluntarily and out of love in order to be successful, I will also not abandon My co-workers who have this will to help and let Me work through them .... And even if their earthly fate seems exceedingly difficult, the soul will nevertheless have the strength and take everything upon itself humbly, because it will constantly increase in spiritual strength as a result and also become the overcomer of its body .... For it, too, will be able to spiritualize its substances, and one day the soul will realize that even the greatest physical suffering has only been a blessing for it ....

Amen

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Does man have free will? ....

B.D. 8395 from January 28th 1963, taken from Book No. 88

I will never force a person's will to walk on right paths, be it in his conduct of life, in his attitude towards Me and the spiritual kingdom or even in his endeavour to verbalize the pure truth ..... He always has complete freedom from Me but he should not abuse it. Thus you will also understand that the human being's freedom of will means everything, that it is the cause of the human being's spiritual state, of his spiritual blindness but also of his enlightened thinking, for he himself, i.e. his free will, substantiates everything. Thus his free will can strive for the deepest depths again, but it can also strive for the height, and accordingly it will be fulfilled. But the human being's free will cannot be taken away, otherwise he would only act like a machine, only guided by My will, and a deification into an image of Me would not be possible. Yet the latter is My goal which I have set Myself and which I will also achieve, for no matter how long it takes this free will will one day belong to Me and strive for nothing other than the being's final unification with Me .... But this is also the reason for the everlasting battle between Me and My adversary for the human being's will, for the human being's soul is won by whomever he turns to. Both I Myself and My adversary use all means because all coercion is excluded and I cannot deny My adversary the right to try everything because the being once followed him voluntarily .... And since it concerns the deification of all beingness which once came forth from Me as a creature, as a work of My love, wisdom and might, My wisdom devised a plan which consisted of the being's will entering into My will of its own free will, even though it was not forced to do so but could also think and act of its own free will .... And this insertion or subordination under My will had to be accomplished by love .... The being had to be so devoted to Me in ardent love that it no longer wanted to accept any other will than Mine and was immeasurably happy as a result. Thus I did not prevent the being when it voluntarily turned away from Me, because only this created the possibility to become a 'child' from a 'work' of My love, which voluntarily allowed itself to be subordinated to Me with heartfelt love for Me .... For this love also led to the highest perfection which the very being itself has to strive for and achieve in order to be able to work next to Me completely freely in light and strength, which I achieved from eternity .... I can certainly make all beings blissfully happy without limitation, but nevertheless it is something different whether the work of My love always just remains a 'work' or is once a being completely independent of Me and My will which is no longer determined by My will .... even if it does not resist it .... but that it has made itself completely free and yet now, out of its love, which gives it brightest light, wants and achieves the same as I Myself .... because this very love indissolubly unites the being with Me, which, however, is a self-aware, free, individual being .... an image of Myself. "Become perfect as your father in heaven is perfect .... " This possibility therefore exists that you become My images, that you deify yourselves, that you become true children of God, whom My will could not create, but who must fashion themselves into it .... Hence your free will is proof of divine origin, but it is also the path to highest perfection and you will then have shaped yourselves into gods in truth, who create and work with Me in infinity and are immeasurably happy. Free will is the main factor of the whole process of return, but only for the self-aware being, for as long as the being is deprived of self-awareness, when it passes through creation dissolved into countless particles, it no longer possesses free will, which I have bound for a certain time in order to create the possibility for the being to use its free will correctly again. As soon as the being is self-aware it will always be able to decide freely and will not be forced in any way, neither by Me nor by My adversary. But precisely then a great responsibility rests upon it, for its free will can be directed downwards again, which results in an infinite state of misery .... However, his will can also strive (direct) upwards without any change and highest bliss can then be his fate for eternity. And you humans often dispute this free will because your earthly fate is sometimes shaped in such a way that you clearly sense a strong power and therefore consider yourselves unfree ..... However, it is not a question of whether it is impossible for you to carry out something, but only about your innermost will, how it is directed. It is not about earthly desire but only about spiritual goals which you can only achieve with a correctly directed will, because then you will also irrevocably receive the strength to accomplish what you want. And therefore you humans cannot shift responsibility away from yourselves with the objection that you do not possess free will .... that you are determined by your living conditions and your fate to your will and thinking .... Although the latter also contributes to you being able to direct your will correctly, for this is My constant endeavour, and therefore everything in life also comes upon you in such a way that it would be easy for you to give your will the right direction .... Yet you always have to decide for yourselves, and therefore your return to Me can also extend over endless times, and you may have to travel the path through creation several times .... precisely because you are free in your will and thinking .... Yet one day I will reach the goal of being able to draw you to Me as My children, and therefore My love will not rest until the beings created by Me will be able to work in supreme bliss for their own happiness, in free will, which is also Mine, because it is only ever determined by profound love and the love of all beings will one day belong to Me for eternity ....

Amen

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Truthful enlightenment about plan of salvation from eternity ....

B.D. 8396 from January 29th 1963, taken from Book No. 88

When you are introduced to My plan of salvation it is also evidence of My love, for a realm is opened up to you which no human intellect could fathom unless My spirit is able to work. The spiritual realm is so far away from you humans that you don't recognize it as reality, it cannot be proven to you, and you cannot establish a connection with it either unless this connection is spiritually established. And therefore I enlighten you as to how and in what form this possibility exists .... I present this plan of salvation to you which you can think about even if you have not yet progressed spiritually to such an extent that My spirit can work directly in you .... But your intellect can deal with knowledge and its will only determines whether it is comprehensible to it .... And the intellect must first be stimulated to think about it, only then will the human being's will have an effect .... which, if he positively attunes himself to it .... can achieve the greatest spiritual success. Once the human being is induced to let his thoughts wander into spiritual territory, then there is also the possibility that he will seek to fathom this territory .... And if a person is now moved into spiritual knowledge purely intellectually, then this is an incentive for him to research. But since he will not be able to achieve anything with his intellect alone, since no evidence will accrue to him if he only makes use of his intellect .... then the strength of his will to learn more is decisive for the knowledge he now receives. In some way, therefore, the human being must be pushed into a train of thought, although it is then entirely up to him to then pursue and further develop this train of thought .... And there is no area that would be better suited than to fathom the very "why" that explains everything that visibly exists .... provided that the human being occupies himself with such thoughts in hours of inner reflection .... For he who is only purely worldly minded also only thinks purely earthly. And yet deeper thoughts will also touch him again and again, which he can now accept or also reject. But even the thoughtful person remains ignorant as long as he only receives knowledge from outside. Often, however, strokes of fate or even the fate of the human being's life itself cause him to ask questions that he cannot answer for himself. And then a transmission of spiritual knowledge from outside can also be a blessing by stimulating his intellect, which then tries to deal with it according to its spiritual constitution .... And such fruitful spiritual material can be the clarification about My plan of salvation from eternity, about the cause of the emergence of creation and the meaning and purpose of earthly life .... about the process of return of the spiritual substances which once fell away from Me. If the human being has a deeper disposition, i.e. if he already lives a life of love in accordance with My will, then such knowledge will also appear acceptable to him, and then he will enter the spiritual level and seek to penetrate deeper, he will venture into areas which I will then gladly open up to him because he will not erect an obstacle himself which, however, a loveless way of life would erect. Thus My spirit will now also be able to work in him, and his initially dark spiritual state will change into a state of brightest light where everything concerning the spiritual kingdom and My reign and activity will be understandable to him. Then his thinking will not be able to go astray either. Anyone who acquires knowledge of My eternal plan of salvation .... i.e., anyone who willingly accepts the knowledge he is given .... knowledge will also come alive in him and lead to the right realization. For he will also soon recognize the purpose of earthly life and establish the state of divine order within himself, as is his earthly task .... For this reason, however, it is very necessary that people are instructed in all truth precisely about the eternal plan of salvation, for only this truth touches the human being's intellect and heart and both will willingly accept it, whereas an educated teaching only leads to inner resistance and people will soon drop such thoughts and never take the spiritual path but more than ever fall prey to the world and their hearts will no longer have room for spiritual thoughts. As soon as people live a life of love their thoughts will also move more in the truth and they will easily come to realize .... But since love increasingly grows cold and there is the greatest danger that the human being will not accept anything spiritual, I try to give him a direct explanation about My eternal plan of salvation which, as mentioned, is intended to stimulate the intellect to reflect .... Yet time and again a person's willingness to love will also determine his success, since his will is free and will never be forced by Me to make the right decision. Consequently, many people could still come to recognize the truth, and every effort will also be made to bring it to them .... but where there is still resistance My love cannot achieve anything either, which loses its effectiveness in the case of all resistance or repulsion. But I will not stop stimulating people's thinking and also use the most diverse means, and one day I will nevertheless reach My goal, even if a long time will pass, for My love will never cease ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spiritual state before the crucifixion .... Book of Books ....

B.D. 8397 from January 30th 1963, taken from Book No. 88

You humans often wonder why My eternal plan of Salvation is not clearly and distinctly mentioned in the Book of Books so that all people would be able to know what forms the basis of their human existence .... Consequently, you doubt the revelations which inform you of this in depth .... However, you should bear in mind that people's spiritual state before My birth would not allow for such knowledge, that people would have been unable to understand it, because prior to My crucifixion My adversary still ruled supreme and he would never have allowed any light, instead the darkness constantly increased since only a few people kindled a light within them as a result of their life of love. Although they knew of a God Who had created them they lacked all deeper realisation and therefore also the knowledge of their relationship with their God and Creator. They certainly knew that I expected them to abide by My commandments which had been imparted to them through enlightened people .... whom I had sent to earth for the purpose of instruction. And had they lived their life according to My commandments they would indeed have gained a small degree of realisation. But the knowledge about everything that was still hidden from them could never have been academically taught, for their intellect would have been unable to grasp it and their souls, due to their still unredeemed original sin, were not highly mature either. For this reason even the prophets were generally reluctantly listened to, because people, had they cared to heed them, would have had to limit their pleasure in life. There were only ever a few exceptions with the desire to be obedient to their God and Creator and to be of service to Him. And in individual cases they were indeed granted knowledge which they recorded but which did not remain preserved when My adversary's influence on people became increasingly stronger so that their spiritual state, shortly before My birth, was exceptionally low .... and therefore no longer receptive to such knowledge .... Then I Myself came to earth and brought a light into this extraordinary darkness .... But even then My light was only able to shine where My adversary was unable to assert himself, where the desire to live according to divine order motivated people to live a life of love .... I was able to grant a small light to them already and enlighten them about their relationship with their God and Creator.

Nevertheless, even these instructions only took place from person to person, because I knew every individual's degree of maturity and prevented that these, too, would be turned into academic knowledge, which indeed could have been passed on through tradition but which would have remained incomprehensible to anyone who had not yet ignited a light within himself through love .... Through My act of Salvation the original sin had been redeemed and My spirit was able to work within a human being whose kind-hearted activity allowed for it .... For even then I taught that love is the most important .... Anyone who lived up to this commandment was also instructed by My spirit and attained the knowledge he needed in order to fulfil his purpose of earthly life .... And this is what you need to fully mature in your soul .... The psychological work is paramount and everything that induces you to do carry it out will be sent to you by My spirit. And the wishes of anyone with a deep desire to penetrate more profound wisdom will indeed be granted. But since only a few people awaken their spirit to life, a traditionally-imparted knowledge would only confuse them as long as they are still spiritually unenlightened. For this reason, no such knowledge has been recorded on My instructions either, for anyone would be able to attain it if he seriously wanted to penetrate My plan of Salvation. Yet for the majority of people who live indifferently and who are satisfied with the spiritual knowledge they receive by educational means it would never be a blessing if all correlations were clearly explained, for they consist of such profound spiritual reasons which the intellect cannot grasp but presuppose an awakened spirit in order to be comprehended.

No-one who seriously strives for it is denied the right realisation, but this also necessitates compliance with My will, which is revealed to all people and which all people know because they are also told by the inner voice .... by the voice of conscience .... what they should or should not do. And since My adversary's only intention is to spread darkness and to fight against all light he will also always influence people such that they themselves will prevent all inner enlightenment, and he will also try to present the truth in such a distorted way to people that they will lack all understanding for knowledge which deeply penetrates My plan of Creation and which requires precisely this awakened spirit .... That which is contained within the Book of Books is completely sufficient for the complete maturing of the human soul provided everything is being heeded .... Yet even this content is beyond most people's understanding for the letters will remain dead as long as they are not read with an awakened spirit .... And this applies to all knowledge which time and again is transmitted to earth through revelations and is pure truth .... This, too, will only be correctly understood and utilised by someone who is willing to love and who is spiritually awakened, and he will then be able to penetrate the deepest secrets and understand My eternal plan of Salvation ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's merciful love ....

B.D. 8398 from January 31th 1963, taken from Book No. 88

Anyone who completely gives himself to Me will truly not regret it, for then he will have accomplished his return to Me, irrespective of his soul's degree of maturity, for it will still be able to raise it on earth and also in the kingdom of the beyond, because I will no longer let anything fall back which once turned to Me of its own free will. But only the serious will is to be understood by this, not empty words of the mouth, for such are not valid before Me. And therefore it is every person's own business to establish this intimate contact; yet he can be blessed if his thoughts no longer leave Me, if he .... whatever he starts .... always takes the path to Me and no longer leaves Me out of his thoughts. Oh, if only I could persuade you all to see your father in Me, in Whom you can entrust all your worries, Who is always ready for you, Who constantly stands by your side and spreads His hands protectively over you .... Earthly life would then only impart all blessings to you, open up all treasures of grace which you only needed to lift .... My infinite love is always intent on your spiritual well-being, and I only ever pour out My blessings upon you without measure .... For it is the last short time when you can still perfect yourselves on earth if only you enter into an intimate relationship with Me. And once you have established this relationship with Me, your earthly life will also be one of constant service with love, because you will also constantly receive strength of love from Me, for anyone who devotes himself to Me can be permeated by My love again, and then he can no longer help but work on earth with love .... And all his will and thinking will be filled with love, and his nature will change back into its original state, which means constant approach to Me and leads to complete union with Me. And because I long for this intimate bond with Me I help you to achieve it in every way .... Yet often My boundless love for you is not recognized, and often you humans pass by indifferently when I also obviously step into your path and want to lure you to Me .... Then I have to let it happen that you go astray, and I cannot stop you, I don't want to curtail your free will. But I will not give you up after all and court you until the hour of your death. And if I only succeed in making you still long for Me from the bottom of your heart then I will also be with you and not let you fall into the abyss ..... And in the beyond you will also still be given the opportunity to achieve a small ascent, and then you will strive for the height on your own .... Only don't completely turn away from Me on earth, for then you will have irrevocably fallen prey to the one who threw you down to the abyss, and you will have to spend an infinitely long time in wretchedness and torment again .... For your own will determines your fate. And therefore humanity, which still keeps itself so far away from Me, has mercy on Me because it has turned its eyes towards the world and passes Me by when I step into people's path. They all take pity on Me and therefore I repeatedly let My word resound which will also reach their ears if they are only temporarily open-hearted .... And My address can always bring about a change in their attitude, yet they will always decide for themselves whether they will let Me speak to them once .... Yet the most peculiar occasions can bring this about, and therefore My vineyard workers shall also be tirelessly active and speak in My stead or convey My word to them as soon as they inwardly feel an assignment to do so. For time and again people will feel addressed and will not be able to close themselves off to the power of My word .... And every single soul is precious to Me, and its return fills Me with a bliss which you cannot comprehend. For you don't know the depth and omnipotence of My love which wants to fill all beings if only they would give up their resistance .... And this love will follow every soul until the end and try to persuade it to return before it is too late. For soon the time limit set for you humans will have expired, and then the last harvest will be held on this earth .... And then My own will rejoice and be glad, and great horror will befall those people who resist Me until the end .... and therefore have to walk the path through creation again .... My measure of grace until the end is exceedingly great, yet every person must voluntarily avail himself of My grace, then he will also belong to My own who will be saved in the end, as it is proclaimed through word and scripture ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God is from eternity ....

B.D. 8399 from February 1st 1963, taken from Book No. 88

From Me all things have come forth .... There is nothing that does not have My power of love as its origin .... And there is no other source of strength from Me .... From eternity everything is My work, for spiritual creations exist from eternity, from eternity I work, because strength always requires a field of activity where it can become effective .... But these creations are completely incomprehensible to you humans; it is enough for you to know that I was and am active from eternity, that I cannot be inactive because the eternally flowing flow of strength does not allow such .... You humans have too weak a faculty of thought and cannot be given any information about the nature of My activity, yet you should know one thing, that only the creation of beings like Me prepared a beatitude for Me of which you have no idea. And this creation lies endless eternities in the past, so that you should only ever understand the term 'in the beginning' figuratively, i.e. determined for you and your capacity for comprehension .... For for Me there is neither time nor space, and thus the living with essential creations is likewise of eternity, only this process of the creation of beings is to be especially emphasized as an indescribable act of bliss. For you humans should be able to form a small idea during the time of your earthly change and it will therefore be explained to you according to your capacity. But as soon as your soul has already reached a small degree of maturity you will recognize of your own accord that nothing is limited for Me and that you may never spatially or temporally limit My creation and activity in all of infinity. But one thing is the incontrovertible truth that there was once a 'beginning' for you as spiritual beings .... precisely because you emerged from Me, because you were spiritual creations .... Evidence of My immeasurable abundance of strength which became active in love and wisdom .... Nevertheless, this beginning lies eternities in the past, and thus only the multiplicity and immense number of earthly works of creation will be explainable to you, which only concern a tiny measure of the entire creations, of the universe, and you will be able to imagine .... even if you don't quite grasp .... how innumerable the beings created by Me were, and as a result also learn to understand the endless times which are to bring about the deification of these created beings .... Yet you must never form limited ideas in this contemplation either, for with Me there is no limitation and will not be until all eternity .... And My strength will constantly let new creations arise, My love and wisdom will create nothing without meaning and purpose, and everything will always serve to make the beingness that emerged from Me happy .... For My fundamental being is love which wants to give itself away, which also requires vessels into which it can pour .... Beings which return love to Me and therein also lies My beatitude .... And love always wants to give and receive, and this exchange is a process of bliss which you humans are unable to grasp .... And if I give you a small glimmer of light of realization about it, this is also already a granting of My infinite love, for which I want to give you a small proof in order to also kindle your love for Me, which will then also drive you to seek the final union with Me .... For only then will I be able to make you happy when all earthly form has fallen away from you, when you, as inhabitants of the kingdom of light, can also be permeated by My light of love from eternity and are now also no longer bound by the law of time and space .... Then the concept of eternity will also be comprehensible to you, and you will know that you, too, already exist for eternities and that only the state of imperfection also signifies temporal and spatial limitation, but that even in this state you are unable to receive an all-encompassing enlightenment. Nevertheless, in My love I provide you with gifts of the highest value in order to spur you on to constant spiritual striving, so that you can still reach the degree of perfection on earth which makes you worthy of the brightest radiance of light when you enter the spiritual kingdom and you will be and remain immeasurably blissful for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The soul's entry into the kingdom of light ....

B.D. 8400 from February 2nd 1963, taken from Book No. 88

Every spiritual request shall be granted to you .... I have given you this promise because My love will fulfil everything that will benefit your soul. And thus you can also rest assured that you will enter the kingdom of light and bliss after your physical death if you have lived your life on earth in accordance with My will, if you have demonstrated your love for Me through your activity of unselfish neighbourly love .... and if you have lived your life on earth with Me by having allowed Me to be your constant companion ....

'He that believeth in Me hath everlasting life ....' And anyone who lives a life of love also believes in Me with a true, living faith, and he will therefore be granted a blissful life in the spiritual kingdom .... And realisation will indeed come to him in a flash, he will move within true thinking and his happiness is such that the soul with its light, by which it is permeated, will also be able to delight the souls which still linger in darkness and long for light .... by making others happy it will find its own happiness, and so it has to have a bright light shining within itself first ....

You humans cannot possibly imagine this beatitude nor the nature of the activity, but you may well believe that these souls will no longer desire to return to earth .... especially since they know that no human being will remain on earth and every soul will soon meet its loved ones again. Therefore they should not grieve either but only ever strive to achieve a high degree of love which will facilitate their spiritual vision, because this degree is necessary for souls to meet again immediately after their passing away from this world .... otherwise the souls will first have to strive for and attain this degree in the beyond.

Yet the fact that people will meet again one day is absolute truth, and it will be an exceptionally joyful moment when the union takes place in the spiritual kingdom. You humans, who are affected by harsh strokes of fate, should always bear in mind that whatever happens to you in earthly life is only founded on My love and wisdom .... Stay mindful of the fact that I don't want to cause you suffering but greater beatitudes, which you often gain through suffering .... And you should not doubt it but humbly accept everything and, truly, the blessing will not fail to materialise itself. And if, one day, you look back on your earthly existence, you will be filled by profound gratitude and love for Me, Whom you recognise as your Father, Who only has His children's fate at heart, which will await them in the kingdom of the beyond ....

Be aware of the fact that you won't stay much longer on this earth, and that you therefore will have to accept a greater amount of suffering in order to reach the goal of voluntarily uniting yourselves with Me. And every prayer you send to Me will come from the bottom of your heart and therefore will also be answered by Me .... You will often send your thoughts into the kingdom which is your true home, and will also be allowed to receive currents of light and strength from this realm, you will keep in constant contact with those who merely went ahead of you and who .... if you possess a high degree of maturity and light .... will support you to also achieve your goal while you are still on earth .... For a soul which is already permitted to spread light will also be able to transmit the light to you humans, and that means that you will then live within utter truth, for where light exists no error will be able to sustain itself because it will be recognised as such, and the path of anyone living in truth must lead to the goal without fail.

And believe that I know every thought in your heart, and thus I also know what you still need and take care that it will be imparted to you .... And even if I occasionally use painful means they will nevertheless liberate the souls from their physical constraints and they will merely exchange earthly life with a far more beautiful life in the spiritual kingdom, where they will be of loving service to Me and therefore also enjoy beatitudes which earthly life cannot offer .... For they have entered the eternal truth from whence they once originated ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The soul's realisation what it once had been ....

B.D. 8401 from February 3rd 1963, taken from Book No. 88

I only ever want you to think about the fact that you are of divine origin .... and that you therefore should regard yourselves as sparks which were emanated by Me Myself, which will eternally remain that which they had been .... divine living creations of the same fundamental substance as I Am, even if they changed their own nature and turned into beings who deprived themselves of all divine characteristics. However, this state will not go on forever but will also change again, so that their fundamental nature will surface .... so that they will create and work like Me in all perfection again, so that they will develop into My image again and remain that way forever. If you consider the fact that I Myself Am your origin .... that the highest and most perfect Being created you through its love, then you should tremble and have no other desire but to become again what you were in the beginning .... And your subsequently recognised imperfection and weakness should make you feel profoundly humble and motivate you into sincerely praying to Me for help to become the same again so that you will be able to join Me .... And truly, you will receive an abundance of blessings, for this resolve will open your heart to Me and I will be able to permeate it with My strength of love, which will enable you to change yourselves and to adopt your fundamental nature once more. You should only ever remember that you came forth from Me Myself .... that you are and will remain My Own, because I never relinquish that which belongs to Me .... Even if it voluntarily turned away from Me and remains opposed to Me .... you are and remain My strength of love which once flowed forth from Me and which will irrevocably flow back to Me again one day, because this is the law of eternity .... Nevertheless, your own realisation of your origin would shorten your path of return, for once you recognise yourselves as divine living creations you will have taken the first step of coming back to Me, for in the past you did not want to acknowledge Me as your God and Creator, and that was your downfall.

It was pride which made you assume that you can do without My flow of strength and which therefore caused your state of unhappiness .... If, in earthly life, you are aware of your divine origin then you will also know that only in association with Me can you receive strength and light again, that you can only regain your divine characteristics through being illuminated by My light of love and that it is not impossible to re-enter your original state, that you can truly become as gods, as you were intended to be in the very beginning. If, however, you only look upon yourselves as people living on earth without a purpose and goal, as creatures which, like other creations, populate the world and are transient, then you are spiritually utterly unenlightened and the path of your final return to your starting point, to your God and Father of eternity, will still be infinitely long, then you will not recognise any meaning or purpose of earthly life, you will only be earthly-minded and you manifest this completely wrong nature yourselves through your wrong attitude towards Me, your God and Creator. Recognise only yourselves and ask yourselves every so often what might form the basis of your human existence .... Think about what you are and where you came from .... Don't consider yourselves so inferior that you will vanish again into nothingness when your body dies .... For then you will even deem yourselves less than an animal which is unable to think, since you don't use the intellect given to you. And your free will and your intellect alone should be proof to you of a Power Which created you and Whose creations testify to supreme wisdom .... And this Power will truly not externalise from Itself something that is imperfect but beings of utmost perfection; yet you humans are not aware of the fact that you are these beings which fell away from Me, and therefore I keep informing you of this apostasy and My loving care to encourage your voluntary return .... And therefore I only try to stimulate you to think about yourselves, as to what you are and why you live on earth. You should consider what a wonderful work of creation you are, how intricately your body is structured and how supremely wisely its functions are arranged; by this alone you would have to recognise that you are of divine origin, that your Creator must be a supremely perfect Being Who externalised living beings from within Himself with the ability to think and want and which therefore must be destined to be something else than to just live as a human being on earth and to comply with earthly demands only to cease to exist again afterwards .... And if only it made you realise that your life on earth must have meaning and purpose, then you would make an effort to discover it, so therefore your ascent would also be assured, for then you would live responsibly and one divine characteristic after another would emerge in you again, because your fundamental substance is divine strength which strives to manifest itself .... In that case you will also look for unity with Me and thus offer Me the opportunity to illuminate you with My strength of love once more, and then you will be that again which you were in the beginning ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Impact of the knowledge of the plan of salvation ....

B.D. 8402 from February 4th 1963, taken from Book No. 88

Understand that everything you see arose out of love for you, My creatures, so that you had the opportunity to become again what you are now .... I-conscious beings who shall take the last short path back to Me, their origin .... grasp the fact that you had previously lost your self-awareness and had passed through all works of creation dissolved into countless particles, but that you were originally created by Me as self-aware beings and shall also reach your original state again, for which purpose the short earthly path shall serve you. This work of return is so powerful that it has to be held up to you time and again so that you will also recognize the great significance of your earthly progress, because your fate in eternity depends on it .... And therefore I initiate you into My eternal plan of salvation and give you knowledge which is not known to all people .... And only those people will ever be able to understand it who seriously concern themselves with the meaning and purpose of earthly life. And only these are also able to point it out to their fellow human beings again and make the great significance of earthly life clear to them .... And again, this is urgently necessary because it is the last time before the end and then a new era begins which will only be experienced by those people who seriously endeavour to return to Me. It is like at the time of My life on earth that only a few are ever receptive to profound knowledge about My reign and activity .... because humanity's spiritual level has reached a low again, that the general public is completely inaccessible to such knowledge and it would also be pointless to provide them with evidence that their existence as a human being required an endless path through creation which was excruciatingly agonizing for the soul .... Such knowledge is only accepted by a few and accordingly the way of life is now led. And in no way can people be forced to believe in it, because such faith would also be futile and only fear would then determine them to change their way of life. But I know how the knowledge of My eternal plan of salvation affects people of different natures, I know who gains spiritual advantages for himself through profound faith, who learns to recognize and love Me because he sees My love in everything and is full of reverence towards My working. And like sparks of light I spread this knowledge everywhere by passing on the word from My servants on earth .... Wherever there is only an open heart I will shine My light into it and thus will still be able to reap a rich harvest when the end comes for the people of this earth .... when the great transformation will take place, when completely new creations will arise again so that the work of return will be continued and the still bound spiritual substances can also ascend. Anyone who would only look at the works of creation around him with open eyes and an open heart would also think about it and soon receive truthful enlightenment. Yet people blindly pass by the miracles of My love and wisdom and might, for they are still completely blind in spirit and their state cannot improve as long as they are devoid of all love. And so long they are still in bondage to My adversary who will do everything to prevent people from working with love. But people's intellect shall be appealed to when the knowledge is conveyed to them of their infinitely long path before their human existence .... so that a few will become thoughtful and reckon with the truth of it and then a change in their way of life will also be possible .... And even though these prospects are very small I am nevertheless concerned about every soul in order to win it for Me before the end comes. Time and again people shall be instructed to think about everything that surrounds them, which pleases their eyes as a work of creation, which was not created by human hand .... Then they will also be open-minded towards the knowledge which explains everything to them but which cannot be explained to them humanly or only insufficiently and therefore had to be gained through spiritual working. For this reason I will time and again inform you humans of My eternal plan of salvation, especially in the last days before the end, in order to give you truthful information about My love, wisdom and might, which shall and can awaken love for Me in you and then also guarantee your return to Me, which, however, can never take place without love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Evidence for the authenticity of the gospels ....

B.D. 8404 from February 6th 1963, taken from Book No. 88

More and more evidence of My love shall be given to you if only you seriously desire unity with Me and make an effort to live in accordance with My will. For then your love for Me will also grow ever stronger, which I also desire because it makes Me happy when My children recognize Me as their father and return eternally. And you should also know that I know your every thought, that I want to answer your every question as soon as this serves the salvation of your souls .... And you should know that I only ever did one thing on earth, to instruct My disciples, as I do today, because I wanted them to pass on the knowledge they received from Me, that they should spread the truth .... as I also demand the same from you today, My disciples of the last days .... I also instructed My disciples about things which were not general knowledge but which required spiritual maturity in order to be understood .... But My disciples were not yet full of the spirit either, many things were still incomprehensible to them, even though I Myself had been their teacher. Yet the act of salvation had not yet been accomplished, which only made the enlightenment through My spirit possible, because the original sin first had to be redeemed before My spirit could pour itself upon My disciples .... But then they also had the realisation in a flash, and everything I had taught them clearly came to their awareness, and now they were also able to record it in order to preserve this spiritual knowledge so that it would not get lost and also become a blessing for the following generations. And I truly blessed all these efforts and gave strength to those who allowed themselves to be guided by the spirit within themselves which was closely united with Me, as the father-spirit of eternity. For I had come to earth in order to bring light to people, that is, in order to proclaim the truth to them, because they could only become blissfully happy through the truth. Hence it was also My will that this truth should be spread, it was My will that it should remain pure, and therefore I could only choose those people to be guardians of the pure truth who had the prerequisites for it: who were united with Me in heartfelt love and only ever demanded the truth themselves .... But these were also called to record My pure gospel, and thus the truth was established as it had originated from Me Myself. But I also knew that the truth would never remain pure, for I knew people's spiritual state, I foresaw that not all people carried the same urge for truth within themselves and that therefore the truth was in danger of becoming deformed, which also happened when the prerequisites for the 'working of the spirit in the human being' were no longer present .... And I knew that pure truth would be deformed again and again as long as people were in an imperfect state .... which is why I Myself promised people the 'comforter, the spirit of truth', which means that I will repeatedly guide pure truth to earth through My spirit as soon as this requires the defilement of My teaching .... So what could be more obvious than that I also wanted to give you humans proof that things are as I tell you? For people want proof because they are weak in faith and because precisely all events connected with My earthly life will time and again appear doubtful to people because a long period of time lies in between from this time to now which makes it difficult for people to believe without any proof .... And I will give you humans this evidence through scriptures from that time which were concealed by My will and which contain the pure gospel as I Myself proclaimed it on earth .... which was recorded according to My will in all purity under the working of My spirit .... For I Myself placed it into the writer's heart what and in what form I deemed it to be of blessing to humanity .... And I Myself held My protecting hand over a spiritual good which took its origin from Me as purest truth .... For all of you who will be exposed to great inner battles in the last days, through My adversary's attacks of various kinds, you shall experience an obvious proof of My love and grace by which you can raise and strengthen yourselves when it is necessary to stand up for the truth, for then your faith will be unshakeable that I Myself work in a human being and that My working can also result in nothing but pure truth .... You need not doubt that such obvious evidence of My working is present in My first disciples, for you, who have already given yourselves to Me, can believe that it is possible for Me to protect a true spiritual possession from change by taking it out of people's hands until I deem it fit to give it to them again. Especially for you it shall be a strengthening of faith, for anyone who only tries to fathom the truth of such spiritual knowledge on a purely intellectual level will never come to an inner conviction of its authenticity .... But people who want to believe will be extremely happy that I provide them with evidence of this kind. But whether this evidence will cause people to abandon the error with which they themselves have imbued the truth remains to be seen, for the latter will reject the pure truth as unauthentic again, and only those will recognize it who, through their will and way of life, are willing to accept My truth through the spirit from Me .... (6.2.1963) And those who examine the newly discovered spiritual knowledge will also be of two minds about its authenticity, for the examination also requires an awakened spirit and the intellect alone is not sufficient for this. And so groups will form again who will only accept what agrees with the spiritual knowledge they have held so far, even if they have to recognize and admit that they are faced with an undeniable proof ..... They will not draw the consequences .... and eradicate the error that has crept in over the course of time, as long as they themselves do not awaken the spirit within them .... What was recorded by My first disciples was faultless working of the spirit from Me .... It was absolute truth, and the fact that I allowed a part of these records to be protected from being altered by human hands was precisely due to the foresight of My adversary's activity of imposing truth with error to such an extent that people are no longer willing to accept this altered spiritual knowledge and that they also reject all revelations on My part as satanic activity .... And the great time gap understandably also had to make it increasingly more difficult for people to believe those events from the time of My life on earth .... Yet My love wants to give proof to those who are of good will, and they shall be informed of the pure truth which will always remain the same because it originates from Me Myself. Human intellect does not shrink from changing the truth .... Thus only spirit-filled people could ensure that a spiritual possession was preserved, and they acted according to My inner instruction when they protected it from the influence of people whom My adversary urged to undermine the pure truth. However, what is from Me cannot be lost, nor does it lose its effectiveness .... Hence it has to become an immense blessing for people who desire to know the truth. I cannot curtail people's will if it deforms the pure truth .... Yet I can withdraw a proof of My love from people's influence so that no change can be made to it. And I can then let it emerge again if it is to fulfil its purpose .... to strengthen My own and give them a living faith, to bring them close to Me Myself and My working and to kindle a bright light where darkness has already greatly taken over ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Different kinds of creations correspond to the beings' fall ....

B.D. 8405 from February 7th 1963, taken from Book No. 88

You inhabitants of earth are destined to become children of God, and therefore you have to overcome the lowest depths in order to be able to reach the highest heights. You will only understand this when you know that the beings' apostasy was quite different in as much as their resistance to Me was not equally strong either .... so that, as a result of your maker's will, you were also quite differently natured yourselves, which only relates to your degree of resistance, when you were supposed to make your free decision for Me or for My adversary. You all were permeated by the light of realisation, and yet you turned away from Me and joined My adversary, because you were able to see him in all his beauty, whereas I was invisible to you. Nevertheless you knew that you had originated from Me. Hence your resistance was more or less strong with the result that you were also assigned to different creations where you were likewise meant to take the path of return to Me, only the conditions differed from those which the inhabitants of earth had to comply with.

Earth is the work of creation which essentially makes the greatest demands on the fallen being in order to ascend again, whereas other stars offer their inhabitants easier possibilities, nevertheless, the ultimate goal .... the childship to God .... can only be attained on earth, even though the beings on other stars are granted unimaginable beatitudes after they have concluded their higher development and their will has subsequently been directed correctly ....

But in order to attain the childship to God the path across earth has to be travelled, and this can also be covered by a soul, if it so wishes, which has entered the spiritual kingdom from other heavenly bodies and which has reached the specific degree of maturity so that it can be granted a life on earth for the purpose of a mission. Then they (such souls) are already enlightened, yet they are not 'non-fallen' beings but beings from other stars .... whose distance to Me has not been so great, so that they relinquished their resistance to Me sooner and endeavoured to reach Me again. And as soon as they are enlightened again they also realise the significance of the creation work Earth, and many souls also desire to attain the degree of childship to God and thus accept the extremely difficult conditions because their love for Me and for humanity impels them to do redeeming work.

And thus souls, which do not achieve the degree of maturity during their earthly life, will similarly be able to continue their development in the beyond, and corresponding to their degree of maturity they will be assigned to schoolhouses where they can steadily ascend .... For creations everywhere are prepared for souls of all degrees of maturity, and since all creations are arranged differently and offer different living conditions they can already signify a state of joy for the souls having been transferred to them, for they are far more beautifully shaped than earth, since the creations therein delight the souls and inspire them to greater spiritual endeavours, for they so obviously testify of My love and might and wisdom, that it also intensifies these beings' love for Me. For when the apostasy of the beings took place an incredibly long time ago, which you would already consider an eternity, all beings indeed turned away from Me, but a countless number also separated from My adversary again soon after their apostasy, they did not follow him into the deepest abyss but left the large host ....

And My will did the same unto them as it did unto those who had fallen furthest away: From the strength which had been emanated by Me as a being It formed different kinds of heavenly bodies than earth, and the process through these works of creation was far easier and continued faster for the fallen spirits, so that the beings returned to Me sooner, since Jesus' act of Salvation was accomplished for these beings as well and it was possible to redeem their original sin, depending on each individual being's attitude towards its God and Creator, Whom they also recognised in Jesus. For they, too, received the knowledge of the act of Salvation through messengers of light who worked amongst them, whom I assigned as teachers to all beings so that they will find and take the path to Me.

Consequently, there are untold possibilities for the still imperfect soul departing from earth to mature spiritually, and My love and wisdom truly recognises the most beneficial opportunity to achieve maturity for every single soul. And thus all creations in the universe are populated by spiritual beings in the most diverse degrees of maturity, and they offer unparalleled kinds of bliss and splendours to those who have already achieved a higher degree of light, yet they will always .... even for less mature beings .... exhibit better and easier living conditions than earth. For this truly is the most wretched work of creation, which requires a lot of effort and makes great demands on the fallen being .... up to the human being .... but which can lead to the most glorious fate: the childship to God, which makes up for all hardship a thousand fold and turns the being into the most blessed child which will be able to create and work with Me throughout the whole of eternity.

To what extent the creations in the universe are of a spiritual or still material consistency will only be recognised by you humans when you have attained a particular degree of maturity or light, but this much is certain, they all serve the once fallen spiritual beings as an abode and thus are also shaped in accordance with their state of maturity. Hence you should consider all heavenly bodies as schoolhouses which I established Myself in order to one day bestow upon My living creations the bliss again, which they once had voluntarily forfeited and which they will also have to voluntarily acquire again ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Language of God by cosmic events ....

B.D. 8406 from February 8th 1963, taken from Book No. 88

You should always remember, that you can’t reach anything by your own strength, when it is about to avert disaster from you, that threatens you by unleashed forces of nature ....And even if you also have a great deal of vitality, so that you believe to master your earthly life .... you are completely powerless to events or forces, which are produced by the forces of nature ....you are at their mercy and you can only dam up their violence by having strong faith in Me and heartfelt prayer. And yet it seems impossible to you, that you selves will be affected by natural disasters, although you constantly get knowledge from those, that occur on the earth. But they don’t touch you much, as long as you are not affected from it. You will not accept something as truth, because it is not pleasant to you, but you will experience it, and then those will be blessed, who believe in a God and creator, whom is given all power in heaven and on earth, for he will call Him for help, which can not be given him by a human hand. And if you are still so richly blessed on earth, whether you are equal physically to all requirements, you will recognize your weakness and lack of strength in the face of impending disaster, that will come upon you. Because this is the last way, the last warning call before the end, which will bring you to your senses .... which applies especially to those, who go their way in thoughtlessness and lukewarmness and did not find a right attitude towards Me, their God and creator. I want to respond those people with a loud voice by the elements of nature, who do not respect My silent speech. I must try to make them thinking the other way by cosmic events, because teachings by My word are rarely adopted by them, and they don’t give credence to these. And so the earth will be afflicted by a natural disaster of such immense extent, that you people can’t believe, because nothing of that kind in the past is conscious to you .... But also that I have announced to you a long time before, but you always put everything in the far future, but once will become the present .... Countless people will lose their life, but these will have yet the possibility in the spiritual realm to develop upward. But the survivors is also available only a short time, which, however, would fully suffice, to ripen yet, if it is utilized right. Always again I must you people announce this natural event, that you can be prepared, that you believe it .... and that the unbelievers get to know a proof of the truth of My word, as they have through you acquired knowledge of what is imminent to the people on earth .... Never I have brought a court upon the earth without having people advised of such before .... And it will be a court for many people, who depart this life completely without faith and now must be responsible and must take the lot on themselves, which they themselves have created on earth. All of you would be shocked, if you would know, how short you are in front of that .... But you will never be given an exact time, because that would not beneficial to you .... But when I can speak directly to you and send on My word, then you truly can give faith to My words and accept everything as truth, even if it appears purely rationally not acceptable or not credible to you. Nevertheless deal with such thoughts, and this will only be a blessing. That’s why I let you people take insights into My eternal plan of salvation, so that you may understand it, that and why a total transformation of this earth is imminent to you, because it’s not just about you people, but also to the spiritual still bound in the creation, which shall get free and will continue its development .... And then you will understand also, that I let you people sound a last warning call by an immense natural disaster, so you do not get lost and must take again the lot of the new banishment upon you .... Because I’m still trying every means before the end, that could mean the aid for the people, who have not yet completely become addicted to My adversary .... But My eternal plan of salvation is set, and it comes true, when time has come ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Examining spiritual information ....

B.D. 8407 from February 9th 1963, taken from Book No. 88

You will still be given a great deal of spiritual information which supposedly came from Me and you will always have to carefully check whether this spiritual information did, in fact, originate from Me. This will indeed be possible for you providing you are only interested in receiving the purest truth and appeal to Me for assistance. My spirit certainly works in all places because it is necessary for a light to be kindled for humanity in its spiritual darkness .... Yet My adversary will also avail himself of it by disguising himself in order to confuse people, for he is incapable of giving people a true light, he will only ever ignite deceptive lights for you which dazzle your eyes so much that they will subsequently hardly be able to recognise the gentle radiance of a true light. For he is hiding himself behind eminent names and, in so doing, causing confusion. People dare not refuse and yet they are being misled by those who speak to them. And you would be appalled if you knew to what extent his counteraction has started and will be deployed by him until the end .... People have a desire for unusual knowledge and this longing enables his activity by pretending to introduce them to such knowledge which, however, is not of the slightest value for the human being's soul, which only lives on earth for the purpose of becoming fully mature. These 'teachers' will undeniably also speak words which intend to deceive, yet anyone who carefully examines them will have to admit that he cannot gain anything from such teachings, that he will not be 'illuminated by light', because My adversary himself does not possess light and therefore cannot distribute it either .... And time and again I can only ever advise you to sincerely appeal to Me for spiritual enlightenment, then you will also become bright and clear within and you will reject anything which did not originate from Me.

From many directions you will always be offered the same, for My adversary has no knowledge and therefore cannot impart it either. And only right and truthful knowledge will grant light to someone who genuinely desires it. Consequently, accept that which truly enlightens you .... which gives you the right information about Me and My nature and about My eternal plan of Salvation, so that you will then also brightly and clearly recognise your own task; that is the light which I Myself ignite for you .... However, if you are given empty words which don't provide you with profound knowledge as to what you used to be, what you are and what you shall become again .... if you are invited to work for the kingdom of God without being told what this work consists of and why it should be carried out .... then you can rightfully reject them as phrases which merely intend to bluff you. And you should question yourselves as to whether you would gain anything if nothing else was known to you, if you .... were you completely ignorant .... tried to derive clarification from those communications alone. You would truly not be able to gain any kind of benefit, because they are all empty words which only came forth from My adversary in order to confuse you and to keep you away from the pure truth. Time and again he will also try to cause confusion in My ranks, so that even My Own will hold different views and people will become tired of spiritual striving if they are not given absolute clarity. Yet you possess so much light already that you will also recognise his work providing you scrutinise it impartially. Therefore, only ever take the path to Me and desire clarification and you will feel what you can accept and what you should reject in your heart .... For My adversary's power will be defeated as soon as he wants to use it on those who already belong to Me due to their will, for I shall protect them from error because they desire the truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Enlightenment about "outpouring of the spirit" ....

B.D. 8408 from February 10th 1963, taken from Book No. 88

Let yourselves be guided into truth, as I have promised you: I Myself will teach you so that you will not doubt, because only pure truth can reach you from Me. And this truth especially extends to the clarification of knowledge which cannot be proven to you but which is necessary for you to fulfil your earthly task correctly. It is the knowledge of your beginning and your goal .... of your connection, your relationship with Me, your God and creator of eternity, and of Jesus Christ's act of salvation, its significance and its reason .... If this knowledge is truthfully conveyed to you then your return to Me is guaranteed, but if you are given a defective or erroneous explanation about it then you will hardly fulfil your earthly task, which consists of fulfilling My will and fitting into the law of eternal order which you had voluntarily overturned. Thus it is necessary that you are offered pure truth, because without it you are ignorant as a result of having once stepped out of order. But you will not be able to accept the pure truth from people as long as they do not possess this truth themselves, and they will not possess it themselves as long as they do not allow My spirit's working in them. But where does My spirit still work if people are taught completely wrongly, if they have no knowledge of this 'working of My spirit' .... and if they also do not fulfil the prerequisites which allow the 'working of My spirit' within themselves? .... Therefore they must first be instructed about this in fullest truth, which they must do themselves in order to hear My voice within themselves or .... in order to make it better understandable to them .... in order to attain right thinking, so that they will, as it were, penetrate the truth by themselves, so that they will only ever think as it corresponds to the truth from Me .... The 'outpouring of the spirit upon My disciples' is known to all, but they also only refer this miraculous event to those disciples and exclude themselves from the circle of those upon whom My spirit could be poured .... By 'outpouring of the spirit' you can first understand that your thinking is enlightened, that your thoughts are ordered and that they are guided by knowing forces which truthfully convey thoughts to you which you can process yourselves, and then you truly also possess a right recognition of truth .... that you represent it with conviction because you feel that it is the truth .... My spirit can then work in you and you need not fear to walk in error .... But you have to fulfil one condition: You must live a life of love, because you unite with Me through love and therefore also have to live in truth, whereas an unloving person has no bond with Me whatsoever and is only open-minded for the spiritual knowledge My adversary presents to him. A bright light shall be kindled for you humans about the meaning of the outpouring of the spirit upon you .... You should know that a spark of My divine spirit slumbers within you, which is inseparably connected to Me, and that you yourselves must ignite this spark within you through love .... This spirit spark is therefore in contact with Me, it is the same as I Myself am, it is divine share and thus light and strength in itself .... Thus it must also be able to impart knowledge to you because it knows everything, because it is a spark of light itself and a light always spreads a glow and illuminates the darkness. This divine spirit spark within you will therefore instruct you from within and always proclaim the purest truth from Me to you .... provided that you yourselves fulfil the prerequisite that you unite with Me through a life of love and that My spirit can flow into you. Only what My spirit imparts to you is truth, and therefore only the person who has received it directly from Me himself can pass on pure truth to his fellow human beings .... And pure truth will find acceptance where My spirit has already been able to take effect again, where I have been able to enlighten a person's thinking, where it is guided by Me through My spiritual spark and thus the right order has been restored: where the human being has made love his principle of life .... So few people know about the outpouring of the spirit correctly and yet it explains so much that is still incomprehensible to people but which they should know in order to recognize their purpose of earthly life and seek to achieve it. Intellectual thinking offers people no guarantee for pure truth, which is already evident from the fact that it produces different results, whereas only the same truth is ever offered and received through the working of My spirit in the human being and therefore the truth of a spiritual possession can also be recognized from it, that its content completely corresponds to what I Myself taught people on earth, Who also promised them the outpouring of the spirit in order to instruct those correctly who, after My life on earth, should also know the truth and no longer had any guarantee as to whether pure truth was offered to them by their fellow human beings .... I pour out My spirit on all who fulfil My will and live in love .... And you humans should know what I want to be understood by 'outpouring of the spirit' .... You should all know that you conceal a spark of My eternal spirit of God within you and that this will truly 'guide you into all truth' as soon as you allow Me to work in you Myself through My spirit by your way of life. But who knows this of those who believe they can teach you? Only a few, otherwise this obvious transmission of My word from above would not be doubted or rejected, as is the case, for only a few people have an open ear and heart in order to let the light shine into them which is kindled for them through the transmission of truth .... Only a few people attach a deeper meaning to the very words about the outpouring of the spirit upon My disciples and also accept them as spoken to themselves, only a few awaken their spirit within themselves to life and establish the intimate connection with the father-spirit of eternity .... because only a few know about the effect of a right life of love, because only a few people know that pure truth can only come forth from Me Myself and is conveyed to people through My spirit .... "who works in you who believe .... " (1 Thessalonians 2:13 [Luther]). And that is why humanity walks in darkness, in error and wrong thinking, because it denies the spirit to work in it and therefore cannot move in the truth either .... For truth emanates from Me and shares itself with the divine part in the human being if he himself allows it through his will and his love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

"He who abides in love .... "

B.D. 8409 from February 11th 1963, taken from Book No. 88

"Whoever remains in love remains in Me and I in him .... "You should always remember these words of Mine in order to grasp the great significance of every activity of love which you carry out .... Since I am love Itself, you must also be in direct contact with Me when you practise love, for then you will also make use of the strength which originates from Me .... but you can only ever say this when one of your activities is based on love. For you can also utilize your vitality by working on earth for the sake of earthly goals, yet the bond with Me, Who is eternal love, is only guaranteed if love impels you to work. Then I will be present to you, I Myself will work in you, and My presence is the greatest success you can achieve .... Your love draws Me to you, or: love is My fundamental substance, and you are the same in your original being .... Thus, when you perform works of love you receive Me Myself into yourselves, your love unites with Me and your being slowly returns to the original state where it was completely permeated and stood in most intimate bond with Me .... Time and again you should remind yourselves of these words of Mine, that you cause Me to be constantly present if you constantly carry out works of love; and I will explain to you what it means to constantly be certain of My presence, so that you strive for this bond with Me with all your senses: I then direct all your thoughts, I determine your doings and intentions, I guide you on all your paths, I protect you from every danger of body and soul, I give you strength in abundance, spiritually as well as earthly .... I keep My adversary away from you, for he can never be where I am .... I enlighten your spirit and I also lead you safely to the goal .... All this is brought about by love within you, for as soon as you perform works of love your will also belongs to Me and you consciously take the path of return to Me, from Whose love you emerged. Being certain of My presence will make your earthly path easy for you, for then you will fear nothing because you feel safe and secure in My presence. "You remain in Me and I in you .... "As soon as you move in love, as soon as you work in My will and with My strength. And you should be aware of the fact that I only require love from you and that you will then completely fulfil your purpose of earthly life .... so that you will not walk this earthly path in vain but safely reach the goal. For you should only allow one thing on earth, that My strength of love can illuminate you again, and this happens when you accomplish works of love yourselves .... when you think of your neighbour with unselfish love, when you support him in every adversity and distress, be it spiritual or earthly .... when you take care of all those who are still distant from Me and try to lead them to Me and only ever let love impel you to work on earth. Every activity which is driven by love is blessed by Me, for you always open the door to your heart for Me Myself, into which I can radiate My love, into which I Myself can move and take abode, because I, as the eternal love, can only dwell where there is love. You will now also understand that people who do not perform any works of love are still very distant from Me, for only love allows My presence, but without love the distance remains, which you should reduce and completely remove during your earthly life if you don't want to have lived it in vain. In the last days, however, love has grown cold amongst people, therefore My presence with them is impossible, therefore no living faith in Me as God and creator can be found anymore, and earthly life is an idle run for many and will therefore end prematurely for them. For without love there is no spiritual progress, there is no bond with Me and no redemption from the form .... Without love there is no light, and the human being remains in the power of My adversary, the prince of darkness, for without love the human being lives without God .... He remains distant from God and meets an agonising fate when the end has come ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Fight against error .... Light conditions desire for truth ....

B.D. 8410 from February 12th 1963, taken from Book No. 88

It is a futile endeavour to expel error from the world because it depends on people themselves to what extent they desire the truth, and because God's adversary has supremacy in the last days before the end and he will always work against the truth, supported by the people who are his followers. Thus light will never be able to be spread across the whole earth at the end of a period of salvation, instead, only sparks of light will ever flash up but these will radiate such a bright glow that the path people are to take, which will lead them to the goal, will be clearly recognizable. Although you are always given the task to carry the light out into the world, there are only a few light bearers who receive light from God Himself which they can pass on. And there are only a few people who long for light, who want to escape the darkness of spirit .... Yet for the sake of these few God repeatedly radiates the light to earth, and you humans yourselves must decide to accept the light or to continue to remain in the darkness of night. Error has taken root and is very difficult to eradicate, for the adversary influences the human being's intellect and it predominantly moves in the wrong direction, yet the human being himself is convinced of the correctness of his thinking, and this is the great evil that he does not doubt it and asks inward questions but unwaveringly also tries to transfer his thinking to his fellow human beings. And instead of turning to the eternal truth itself and asking it for clarification he draws his knowledge from sources which God's adversary also poisoned .... And he is often satisfied with enlightenments of dubious origin because he is unaware of the power and cunning of God's adversary. And again, the individual's degree of love is decisive as to how far the human being moves in truth .... But love has grown cold, it only applies to one's own ego, and therefore it is not the heart but only the intellect which decides when judging knowledge. Nevertheless, the bearers of light should spare no effort to spread the truth so that every person is offered the opportunity to take notice of it and to be able to oppose his own erroneous knowledge. Then the human being should also use his intellect and reflect on the truth conveyed to him, and as soon as he is of good will quiet doubts will arise in him, and then a blessing can arise for him after all. He can accept the light because it gives him inner clarity .... It will be a wrestling match of an incomparable kind which will take place in the last days between the light and the darkness, between the bearers of truth and misguided humanity. And therefore God Himself will guide the light to earth, which truly has great illuminating power but will never prevail where the resistance is still too great. And this will not be broken by force, but just as the adversary has no power over the bearers of light either, but he flees the light which has taken its origin from God. But his great counteraction against truth will be recognizable and increase the closer the end is. Where only one heart is still open, there a ray of light will penetrate, for truly, the turning towards God earns every person a light, only he may no longer extinguish it by not departing from his intellectual thinking when his heart instructs him otherwise. As soon as he is not certain enough of his own wisdom he can already be happy, for only a doubting, questioning person can be taught, whereas a person convinced of his thinking will no longer accept anything else, no matter how much he is in spiritual darkness. But whatever can be done will also be done on God's part, for only in the light can He Himself be recognised in His nature, and only the pure truth will portray Himself such that people will learn to love Him and strive towards Him. But the fact that the opposing power is so successful and the darkness is becoming ever stronger is due to the will of people themselves, who, because they lack love, are also deprived of all light and love for Him. are also devoid of all light and therefore also grant the adversary power over them, which he truly uses and causes ever more confusion .... Yet people have free will which is not violently broken ....

Amen

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Redeeming cooperation in the end times ....

B.D. 8411 from February 14th 1963, taken from Book No. 88

If you place yourselves at My disposal, if you want to be My co-workers in the last days before the end, you need not fear that you will not be able to cope with this work, for I know where I can use you so that you will be successfully active. Every person's abilities are different, and depending on this ability I will also assign the work to him, and if he is willing to serve Me he will also succeed in this work .... And since the end time is primarily about bringing light to humanity, I also choose the right bearers of light from among .... People in whom I can kindle a right light and who are now also willing to serve to spread the light .... who, in the light of their realization, know about their fellow human beings' lightless state and use all their strength to change this state. The emanation of light, the spreading of My word, is a tremendous task because it can and will have a redeeming success, because My word is strength in itself and does not fail to have an effect. Yet this task requires perseverance, strength of will and a loving, helpful heart, it requires constant unity with Me, constant readiness to accept the rays of light from Me, thus relentless spiritual activity which not many people want to do. Yet this work has to be done to Me of one's own free will, only then will it be successful so that the rays of light penetrate the darkness .... For this free will is determined by love, and only love has a redeeming effect. And to you, My co-workers, I always give the assurance that you will be guided and led, that I will direct your thinking correctly, that I will always provide you with strength and protect you against all hostility, because this work of yours is so urgent and important that I will truly do everything to keep My co-workers active in My will and through whom I Myself can work for the blessing of humanity. You should only entrust yourselves completely to Me, you should carry out your work with utmost confidence and always know that I need you, especially when I could entrust you with an unusual mission on which countless people's salvation depends. You all don't know how urgent the supply of pure truth is, because you also don't know to what extent error has already prevailed and that humanity lives along in entirely wrong ideas .... The world, i.e. the kingdom of My adversary, the prince of darkness, pushes itself everywhere and completely takes possession of people's thinking .... But My kingdom, which is not of this world, no longer finds access to people, and therefore I must always try to bring it close to them again, My kingdom shall come to people again, and blessed are those who turn to My kingdom, who can gain a true insight into it when the pure truth is conveyed to them. Consider, you My servants on earth, how short the time on earth is and what phantoms people chase after .... But you can enlighten them about this because you have already taken possession of My kingdom yourselves through your bond with Me and the direct influx of My strength, which is the origin of that spiritual kingdom .... Thus you are only the mediators between Me and the people who have not yet found the path to Me. And I make use of you because I cannot speak directly to people, which they deny Me due to their spiritual state .... Yet I love all My living creations and therefore also want to let My gifts of grace flow to them, which is now also happening .... My flow of love inexorably flows to earth, which is well suited to lead people out of the darkness of night into the light of day .... And I will truly bless anyone who helps Me to do so and grant him all protection and help .... For the end time constantly demands work for Me and My kingdom, the end time demands active counter-work to the activity of My adversary who also seeks to strengthen the darkness and, especially in the last days, causes much disaster and confusion which can only be prevented and fought through the pure truth .... My power is certainly greater than his, yet the human being's free will is decisive, and therefore it shall also be judged correctly through truth. Those people shall attain the light who seriously want it .... And you, who voluntarily work for Me, shall bring this light to them ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Every spiritual work has a redemptive effect ....

B.D. 8412 from February 15th 1963, taken from Book No. 88

Time and again I tell you that it is My will to convey My word to people wherever possible .... I have already assured you many times that I Myself direct your thoughts and also guide people to you who are open to My word. And you will feel every order in your heart and willingly comply with it. And again, your willingness determines the extent of your activity, and you need not fear that you will work in vain even if you cannot always ascertain success .... I alone know why and for what purpose I have given you this task to be constantly active in My vineyard, and I also know what great blessings will result from it, on earth as well as in the spiritual kingdom. You must never forget that everything you receive, as well as every spiritual activity you carry out, signifies a redemption factor of utmost effect for the kingdom of the beyond .... You must bear in mind that the hardship in the kingdom of the beyond is very great, for the many immature souls which depart from earth urgently need help if they are to take the path of ascent, and this help can only be granted to them through constant instructions which they can accept if they want to and which will then also earn them a great blessing. The work of redemption has to be continued in the beyond if it has remained unsuccessful on earth, and My word also sounds for these souls which are poor in spiritual treasures and first have to be brought onto the right path. And you don't know what spiritual wealth you offer those souls and how eagerly the light is accepted by them .... You can quench their hunger and thirst because they are allowed to take in everything I offer you and because they can also follow your thoughts and thus every spiritual activity is a source for these souls to refresh themselves. Believe that these souls accept such gifts of grace far more gratefully than people on earth, but that those to whom you convey My word on earth are surrounded by souls again who participate in it, and thus you cannot measure the large circle which benefits from this work of salvation, but I know it, and therefore I also call upon you time and again to diligently work in the vineyard, and I also bless every one of My servants who willingly serve Me, who work for Me and My kingdom. But I will also still open many human hearts, and the circle will also widen on earth, for I will guide you along paths which are still completely unknown to you .... I will establish the strangest connections, I will connect threads which you don't suspect, for I know human hearts and know who longs for My address and is happy when he can hear it through you. And you will always be considered yourselves as it is helpful for your work of redemption, I will always supply you with the strength you need to be able to fulfil your task. I gave you the task to be diligently active because you can still work unhindered. But the time will come when you will be hindered and you will no longer be able to come forward so openly .... And then My word must already have spread, because then every individual can work in silence, and even if only the souls in the beyond will still benefit from it, there will also already be a gain, for the more souls there find redemption and ascend, the more help can be given again on the part of these souls on earth, for they will be eternally grateful that they have been helped and now want to help those who are in need again .... be it on earth or in the kingdom of the beyond. Therefore, never believe that you are doing unsuccessful work but do whatever lies within your power and I Myself will bless every work ..... And only ever pay attention to your thoughts which move you after heartfelt prayer to Me, and whatever your heart urges you to do, carry it out, and it will be right before Me .... For I still want to win many souls before the end comes, and therefore every helper will also be dear to Me and always experience My protection and My blessing ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

"Work while it is still day .... "

B.D. 8413 from February 16th 1963, taken from Book No. 88

It is still daytime when you are in the grace to receive light, for much light flows to you from Me, you who open your eyes and desire light .... But the day draws to a close and is followed by a night of endless duration for those who did not use the light of the day to work on their souls, who did not seek and find the right path in the light, which leads up to the eternal light, where there is no more night .... You are standing in a late hour and are therefore admonished with a loud voice to make good use of the last rays, the last glimmer of light before nightfall, for you can also make up much in a short time if you are only serious about escaping the eternal night. Don't follow the one who wants to lead you back into deepest darkness again but turn your eyes upwards, to Me, from Whom the light emanates which will make you immeasurably happy, you who want to escape the darkness. But time draws ever closer, the world clock does not stop, and night falls for people who walk along indifferently and do not think of their souls. And what this night means for those you cannot understand, otherwise you would truly do everything to escape it .... The night means for the souls a relapse to the deepest depth, it means renewed dissolution and renewed banishment in solid matter, it means a renewed walk through the creation of the new earth, in torment of the bondage which they had already once lived through and overcome .... But you are warned and admonished again and again, and everything is tried to portray the night to you as black as possible .... However, you do not believe and it cannot be proven to you. But the words are well known to you: 'Work while it is still day, for the night is coming when you will no longer be able to work'. "But you only understand bodily death by this, you do not know that another night is meant, for bodily death need not mean renewed darkness for your soul; after bodily death the soul can also enter into the brightest light, where there is no more night for ever .... So the death of the body need not be feared, for it can also induce immature souls to seek the light in the kingdom of the beyond ..... But the night, which is meant by these words, is to be feared, for it lasts for eternal times and means endless torment for the souls until they slowly reach the height again in order to once more lead an existence as a human being on earth and to be faced with the same decision as the human soul is now facing .... Please listen to My warnings and try to get an idea of this dreadful imprisonment which you can still escape if you are of good will and turn to Me, Whom you are unable to deny upon serious reflection .... Don't let yourselves be completely taken captive by My adversary but believe that there is a saviour Whom you can call upon for help when you are too weak yourselves .... Jesus Christ, the redeemer of the world, Who defeated the adversary and also paid the purchase price for your soul if you yourselves only want to be set free from My adversary .... And hand yourselves over to Him, in Whom I Myself became a human being in order to redeem you from his power, so that you can become blessed again .... Don't let the night fall upon you which will deprive you of your self-awareness again, for you have already come considerably closer to Me when you start your earthly path as a human being. Don't let it be in vain, and don't let him triumph who only wants to ruin you but not prepare beatitudes. Just believe that night will irrevocably fall, for the time has been fulfilled which was granted to the spiritual being for its redemption from the form, and this time will also be kept, as it is intended in My plan of salvation from eternity .... Believe it, that you will feel exceedingly well when you have made use of the light of day and no longer need to fear the night, even when your temporal life has ended .... You will rise to eternal life and never lose this life again, which means light and strength and freedom in bliss ..... Therefore work while it is still day, for the night is coming when you will no longer be able to work ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The significance of life on earth as a human being ....

B.D. 8414 from February 17th 1963, taken from Book No. 88

Your life as a human being is the last stage in the development of the once fallen entity which is personified as the ‘soul’ within you and which, still enclosed in a physical external shape, can now overcome it and leave this form to enter the spiritual kingdom as a spiritual being. During this earthly existence the last transformation into the original entity can take place again if free will is used correctly, that is, if it consciously strives to return to Me again, Whom it had once left voluntarily .... And this transformation is certainly possible because the human being receives a multitude of blessings and with the right use of these blessings has enough strength available to cast off all impurities and to live wholly within the divine order; that is, to live a life of love through which he can spiritualise soul and body and thus the return to Me is accomplished .... However, the human being can also disregard all the blessings at his disposal and instead of ascending he can return into the abyss; this cannot be prevented because he has free will as a sign of his divine origin .... But then he places himself once again into the dreadful fate of bondage and it will take an infinitely long time until he finally can be released again ....

You do not want to believe how significant earthly existence is for you human beings and are therefore half-hearted in accomplishing your task on earth. But it concerns your own destiny, you yourselves have to bear the consequences, and the fate you prepare for yourselves cannot be taken away from you. You can choose between everlasting happiness and an infinitely long state of torment and you are doing little to acquire the first; instead you rather follow your earthly path indifferently .... And if fellow human beings, who know of the great significance of earthly life, draw your attention to this you listen with disbelief and remain unimpressed but believe them to be fantasists instead of thinking about the reasons for your earthly existence yourselves .... Yet time and again you will be confronted with events which could cause you to think .... Time and again your thoughts are pushed into that direction by means of conversations, the reading of books and your own experiences so that you should become mentally active and ask questions which concern you and your earthly existence.

If only you would believe that human earthly life is a most significant gift of grace which, if you make right use of it, can lead to unimaginable happiness .... if only you would believe that there is meaning and purpose to your earthly life, that you are not ‘chance life forms’ who are not responsible for their earthly progress and cease to exist when the body dies .... It is the soul .... the original spirit which once had fallen away .... who should achieve its final release from all physical external form and human earthly life is the last phase of an endless long process of development ....

You humans are self-aware and you are only ‘self-aware’ because your outer cover incorporates an original spirit who once came forth from Me as a self-aware entity .... Thus, not your body nor your intelligence triggers your consciousness of self but your soul, which is your real life and which ultimately turns the human being into a self-aware being. Without this soul the human being is only a physical outer shape without life, even when all internal organs are present they cannot function without this soul .... The ‘life’ of this outer shape depends on that soul .... an original spirit .... who enlivens the body and enables it to function in all manners ....

You humans should always keep in mind that you live on earth for a specific purpose and should try to find this cause and purpose, then you will also receive explanations in the form of thoughts, which I Myself will send to you in order that you may come to understand it. And thus I will send you My messengers again and again and through these try to make you think, and it will certainly be a blessing for you if you don’t walk through life in ignorance but also use the gift of intelligence. This can result in the right attitude towards your God and Creator and with this you will also find the right knowledge .... Because I truly care that every single human being should use the short time of grace as a human being in the right way and reach his final destination .... that his soul will return to Me again from Whom it once had come forth as created spirit ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Knowledge of the plan of salvation .... Working of the adversary ....

B.D. 8415 from February 18th 1963, taken from Book No. 88

What I have to say to you only concerns your salvation of soul, and if you let yourselves be impressed by it it will only be a blessing for you. And if I give you knowledge of My reign and activity in infinity, of My countless creations which the universe harbours, this knowledge shall also only serve to kindle the love for Me in you which will lead you closer to Me again, through which you will narrow the vast gulf between yourselves and Me .... For you will only learn to understand this knowledge when you have already reached a certain degree of maturity, depending on your degree of love .... Hence your first effort is to proclaim the gospel of love to you, and I will emphasize this time and again when I convey My word to you humans. The dormant spark of love in you shall be kindled if you want to reach the final goal in earthly life, the final union with Me. And I will do everything that only serves to ignite this spark of love in you ..... And this includes turning to the pure truth which reveals to you a true image of Me as your God and creator Who wants to be recognized by you as father. This also includes that you are able to gain a small insight into My eternal plan of salvation, for only when you know about your original beginning and your goal will you also understand My reign and activity, you will be able to explain everything to yourselves and then also seriously strive towards your goal. However, people's thinking is very confused, especially in the last time before the end .... since people do not fulfil the first conditions for attaining the truth: to kindle love within themselves, which only guarantees right thinking .... And therefore people will also fight each other, each one will hold his own view, no matter how erroneous it may be .... For the battle of darkness against the light will rage ever more fiercely the closer the end is .... And the darkness proceeds with truly satanic means in order to cause confusion, and it requires the most heartfelt bond with Me not to be drawn into this darkness. But again, the light which shines forth from Me has great illuminating power, it spreads an unusual brightness, that is, people who stand in the light of truth are also able to see through My adversary's work of deception, they already have realization and can easily distinguish pure truth from error and lies .... Thus they need hardly fear being led astray by the adversary's activity. For as soon as the bond with Me is established you humans can also be certain that I will protect you from error. Yet since every person has free will it is up to him whether his heart or only his intellect searches for the truth, and where intellect is predominant the adversary's influence is also possible and explainable .... Many people are satisfied with the illusions My adversary presents to them, they are gullible and accept the false as genuine, they cannot be enlightened about the error either because they have not yet kindled the inner light which would give them clarity .... Many people certainly connect themselves with the spirit world, however, since their intellect only establishes this bond they are now also served by that spirit world which is subject to the prince of darkness .... And if the pure truth is presented to these people they reject it because they are so certain of their right thinking and no longer accept any enlightenment. It is truly an eclipsed state in the last days where the light can almost no longer penetrate .... But again, it is only up to people themselves, for as soon as they live a life of love the light of realization shines so brightly in them that no error can hold on any longer and the truth breaks through .... And I will protect My own from My adversary's influence, My light from above will shine brightly into their hearts and expose everything as erroneous which is offered to them by My adversary .... And time and again I tell you that everyone who earnestly desires the truth will also recognize it and will not allow himself to be disturbed by My adversary's activity, for he kindles the light within himself and the darkness will no longer be able to frighten him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Difference between the 'working of the spirit' and 'psychic' receptions ....

B.D. 8416 from February 19th 1963, taken from Book No. 88

You should always bear in mind that the truth is intended to be distributed everywhere, therefore I must convey it to earth in all places, and this is always possible as soon as a person fulfils the requirements which the 'working of My spirit' in a person are based on. First, the willingness to be of service to Me has to motivate a person to enter into heartfelt contact with Me, and he will indeed be accepted as a labourer in My vineyard, since he is living a life of love otherwise he would not offer himself to Me as a co-worker. Hence, love is likewise the precondition that I can choose him as a suitable vessel into which My spirit can pour. Another requirement is the strong and living faith that I speak to My child as a Father, when it desires Me to speak .... And a further indispensable prerequisite is that he is permeated with the desire to be taught the absolute truth and that he therefore turns to the Eternal Truth Itself in order to receive it .... Now you will say that you humans are meeting every one of these requirements and that I should therefore be able to give My Word directly to many people .... Consequently, you will also gullibly accept messages from the spiritual world although they cannot be rated as the 'working of the divine spirit'. For many people have an overwhelming urge to make contact with the supernatural world, and since all of you humans are surrounded by inhabitants of the world beyond, you will surely find it understandable that they will also make use of every opportunity to make contact with you in order to express themselves to you.

It is indeed difficult for you to recognise the difference between such communications from the spirit world and the genuine 'working of My spirit' .... Yet the one thing I want you to consider is that I merely want to assist your soul to become perfect on earth .... and that therefore the contents of My imparted spiritual knowledge through the working of the spirit will be the Gospel of love .... furthermore, that you, in order to find redemption on earth from your original sin, need to receive the knowledge about Jesus Christ and His act of Salvation .... about the cause and spiritual reason for His mission .... and about My human manifestation in Him .... And you need to be enlightened by Me about your origin and your goal and about My eternal plan of Salvation, through which I will one day reach the goal I set for Myself when I created you .... This extensive knowledge can only be conveyed to you through the 'working of My spirit' in you, and therefore only those people can claim to be true Word-recipients whom I have initiated Myself either directly or through My messengers of light, through perfect beings in the spiritual kingdom which absorb the light ray of My love and forward it on My instruction. And thus everyone believing himself to receive My Word should first seriously question whether he received this knowledge from Me, whether he can state with conviction that he was 'initiated' by Me into the truth, into a knowledge which was previously still unknown to him .... The information about My plan of Salvation can only be conveyed to people by Me directly, for anyone who only accepts it intellectually from other people will not understand it, even if it corresponds to the truth, because it requires spiritual enlightenment in order to comprehend it .... And I certainly convey this knowledge to earth in a clear and fully understandable way in all countries on earth, and it will totally concur, because only pure truth can come forth from Me and this will never contradict itself .... And the recipients of such extensive knowledge should do everything in their power and try to distribute it.

And this can always be used as a guideline for proclamations from the supernatural world, for as soon as they fail to impart to people the profound knowledge of My eternal plan of Salvation they do not originate from Me but are expressions of those spirits which are not yet entitled to teach because they are not yet permeated by the light which they should forward on My instructions. It is particularly important to know in which way such messages are conveyed to a person, whether he, in a fully conscious state, mentally or audibly hears clear Words or whether a spiritual being speaks through the mouth of a person in a psychic state, who surrendered his will and is therefore unable to test which spirit takes possession of him. This examination must always be carried out first, for although truthful messages can be received in a psychic state too, such momentous and extensive knowledge which provides complete clarification about My eternal plan of Salvation will never be conveyed to people in this way .... Then partial truths may well be imparted but to the same extent misguided teachings can also slip in, such as the wrong description of the Deity in Jesus, Whose correct portrayal is, however, of utmost importance. And as soon as people are taught wrongly, especially in this respect, they still live in error and every error has a disastrous effect on the human being's soul. I don't keep clarifying this time and again for no reason, because Jesus Christ's act of Salvation and My human manifestation must be fully understood by you humans .... For the purpose of your existence on earth is that you will be free from all guilt when you pass into the kingdom of the beyond. And only if you possess a truthful explanation about this act of Salvation by Jesus Christ will you consciously take the path to the cross, you, who once denied Me your acknowledgement, will consciously acknowledge Me again of your own free will ....

But precisely as long as this problem of My human manifestation is not yet solved by you, you will still live in spiritual darkness .... And if you are now being taught by those in the spiritual realm which are instructed by Me to teach you and to convey My Word to you, then these beings of light will first of all provide this significant knowledge, and thereby you will also recognise the working of My spirit in you .... Then you will not need to be afraid of being used by other spiritual forces, which certainly will also disguise themselves and claim to be your guides and yet do not have the knowledge themselves as to be able to enlighten you. However, you humans don't know how My adversary influences people as well as the still immature beings in the beyond, and you don't know that he will try everything in his power in order to undermine the pure truth and to make people believe that they know the truth. Their skilful disguise will cause much harm, because people allow themselves to be used and are far too gullible themselves .... For they lack the right judgment, and they confuse the transmission from the supernatural spheres with the 'working of My spirit', which irrefutably grants truth to those who are instructed by Me to spread the truth throughout the world. And you should accept this truth and comply with My will, you should not just be listeners but doers, and then you will no longer need to doubt and question but know that you possess the truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The soul is imperishable .... State of ego consciousness ....

B.D. 8417 from February 20th 1963, taken from Book No. 88

Consider that there is no more passing away for you, that you will endure for all eternity .... And this thought will make you happy when you know that you will be blissfully happy for all eternity, even though you cannot imagine this bliss .... But it can also be an unbearable thought for you if you had to expect no end of this state in wretchedness because you are imperishable .... That you exist and now also shape your fate is a truth which cannot be disputed .... and even if you cannot provide evidence of it you will not be able to prove the opposite either, and therefore you should also consider the possibility and thus shape your fate accordingly yourselves. You should by no means give in to the hope that everything will end with the death of your body, that you will then return into nothingness, for once you have been emanated by Me as essential strength, this strength cannot disappear again either. But once it returns to Me again as the original source .... And that is why even the wretched state .... when you cause it for yourselves .... cannot last forever, but must one day irrevocably change again into the opposite .... But it is not unimportant how long the being is in this unhappiness, for the being is not insensitive. It was once put out into freedom, light and strength, which therefore means bliss ..... The state of wretchedness is bondage, darkness and powerlessness and therefore a state of unspeakable agony, which the being itself can no longer change when no help is granted to it. My infinite love, however, also belongs to those beings and has mercy on all wretched beings. Time and again it also finds ways and means to loosen the beings' bondage and to let them receive sparks of light and strength which help the being up out of the deepest darkness, so that once again it will have the opportunity to recognize itself for what it is and then it can voluntarily continue the path of ascent which it has taken with My help. And even if eternities pass by, the being will still exist, even if it is dissolved into countless particles and bound in the works of creation .... Yet no particle is lost, they all gather again and once more enter the state of ego-consciousness which they had lost through their own fault .... So the absence of ego-consciousness does not mean a passing away into nothingness .... but it is only a temporary state of complete powerlessness and lightlessness, which also excludes any recognition of oneself as a being .... Now it is certainly comforting for you humans that even you, who are still completely opposed to Me, will one day be united with Me again and be able to enjoy supreme bliss .... Yet this certainty should not make you lukewarm in your striving or indifferent and irresponsible towards earthly life, for the times of distance from Me are eternities for you during which you condemn yourselves, during which you have to endure a fate which cannot be described to you blackly enough and which you, as human beings, cannot measure in its agony. But you should accept all warnings and admonitions and not lightly reject every thought of it, for precisely during the time of your human existence it is possible for you to strive for the final union with Me, which guarantees supreme bliss for all eternity .... And it is truly not much that you need to do yourselves, for I only require of you a life of unselfish loving activity .... And if you are willing to come close to Me you will also receive the strength to work in love .... Thus you should only direct your will correctly, it should be turned towards Me as your creator, you should only want to recognize your purpose of earthly life and fulfil it .... And then you need never fear that you will still have to live in wretchedness, for My love, which belongs to you for all eternity, only wants to prepare beatitude for you, and therefore you should only give up your former resistance which cannot be broken by force .... You should .... believe whatever teachings you are told about your immortality .... even without proof, and then you will also consciously strive for a blissful life and become again what you were in the beginning .... Beings who are immeasurably blissful in light and power and freedom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Grace of the act of Salvation: fortified will ....

B.D. 8418 from February 21st 1963, taken from Book No. 88

Time and again you need advice, My admonitions and warnings, My instructions, in order to lead that kind of life which results in such maturity of soul that you will be able to enter the kingdom of light. And I will not stop conveying these instructions to you through My Word, I will help you in every way and also steer your destiny of life such that your will can turn around and enter into My will so that you will constantly ascend in your spiritual development. Yet living up to My commandments of love for God and your neighbour always remains paramount .... for then your own thinking will be right and you will always take the right path .... the path to the cross .... It will not be possible for you to completely enter into My will by your own efforts, because your will is weak since it is still determined by My adversary as long as you are not released from him, as long as you are still enslaved by him .... And this fetter can only be severed by Jesus Christ, Who died for your freedom on the cross and thereby also acquired for you the blessings of a reinforced will. Through His crucifixion He redeemed the immense guilt, the consequence of which is your bound and weak will .... If you are therefore released from this guilt the weakness of will is surmounted too, and through Jesus' redemption you also possess the strength to live your way of life according to My will. Your entire earthly life is at a standstill as long as you have not found the One Who will deliver you from the adversary's power, as long as you don't acknowledge Him as the Redeemer of the world, as the Son of God, in Whom I Myself became a human being, and appeal to Him for help, for with this call you acknowledge Me Myself again, to Whom you once denied your acknowledgment and thereby fell into the abyss, into your wretched state. Without Jesus Christ you will never be able to return to Me, without Him your earthly life is futile, for as long as your original sin is not removed from you, you will remain distant from Me, and neither can you be happy, you remain weak and unenlightened beings whose state is painful, because you once originated from Me in light and strength and freedom and lost light, strength and freedom because of your past apostasy from Me ....

As human beings you should express your will again by striving towards Me and your original state, and this will only be possible if your willpower gets strengthened through Jesus Christ's redemption, if you turn to Him with an appeal for forgiveness of your sin, if you want that He also shed blood for you .... You don't know how extremely significant your acknowledgment of Jesus and His act of Salvation is for you, for you don't realise that by calling upon Jesus Christ you call upon Me Myself and you thereby already testify to your will to return to Me, for Jesus and I are One. In Jesus the Eternal Deity manifested Itself for you, My living creations, so that you are able to behold Me since I, as a whole-of- infinity-permeating spirit, could not be visible to you and therefore so completely permeated a form that My created beings were subsequently able to behold Me face to face .... You will never be able to understand this mystery, yet you shall know that you cannot bypass Jesus Christ and understand that time and again I will inform you through My Word that this human manifestation of Mine in Jesus is the greatest evidence of love that your God and Father has given to His living creations, and that faith in 'God' can never exclude faith in 'Jesus' because I can only be conceivable to you in Jesus. And since I expect your acknowledgement of Me in your earthly life, since this acknowledgement is the purpose and goal of your entire earthly progress generally, you must acknowledge Jesus, Who is the embodied Deity Himself and Who redeemed your original sin in order to facilitate your return to Him .... For this reason nothing is more important than to inform people of this and to admonish them to love, so that they will become enlightened and subsequently also fulfil the purpose of their earthly life .... And in order to make this knowledge in all truth accessible to people I convey My Word to earth directly, for truth is the light which shines into your hearts and which will also accomplish your regeneration into your original nature, for only through truth will you learn to recognise and love Me, only truth will illuminate the path which leads to the cross, and you will find redemption from sin and death ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

What is meant by "plan of salvation from eternity"? ....

B.D. 8419 from February 22nd 1963, taken from Book No. 88

Seek My kingdom and above all seek the truth, because then My kingdom will also come to you .... For only the pure truth shows you the right path which leads into My kingdom, into the kingdom of light, of strength and of bliss. And the pure truth will be conveyed to you according to your degree of maturity, which also determines your receptivity .... Thus the deepest wisdom can be revealed to you if you are able to grasp it as a result of your degree of love or maturity. Yet you will also be delighted by less profound revelations if you are not yet able to grasp everything My love wants to offer you .... But I Myself always share the truth with anyone who seriously desires it, because I do not deny Myself to any of My living creations and .... as Myself the eternal truth .... therefore evaluate your desire as an acknowledgement of Myself, as a desire to also be united with Me .... But you yourselves will always determine the depth of the knowledge flowing to you from Me, and therefore you can also penetrate the deepest secrets if you completely shape yourselves into love, into your original being in which you stood in brightest realization .... You shall also reach this degree again, and then you will also be immeasurably happy, because then nothing will be hidden from you anymore, because then you will also recognize My love, wisdom and might and your love for Me will become ever stronger .... which means immeasurable happiness, both for you as well as for Me, Who desires your love. The knowledge I can already impart to you on earth will always help to kindle your love for Me in you, yet I cannot give you light as long as you are still without love yourselves, for then your spirit is darkened and My rays of light of love cannot break through the darkness against your will .... Knowing your outcome and your goal .... to know about My plan of salvation from eternity, about My being, about My reign and activity, to know about all correlations which concern your being as well as the coming into being of the whole of creation, is already a state of realization, a state where undeniably My ray of love light has hit you .... which has broken through the darkness into which you once plunged yourselves through your resistance against My love .... And even if you derive no earthly benefit from this realization you will nevertheless be happy to know the pure truth, and you will gratefully accept it from My hands and desire to penetrate ever deeper into areas which were previously closed to you. And I will also be able to give you ever deeper explanations which concern My fundamental nature, even though you will never be able to fathom Me .... Yet you will know that My goal is your complete unification with Me, you will know that a constant striving towards Myself also results in constant fulfilment and happiness and that this bliss will never end but that your longing for Me will never cease either .... Concepts which you as a human being cannot grasp as long as you are not yet perfected .... You came forth from Me and are therefore the same in your original substance which I Myself am .... But the 'created' must first shape itself into 'gods' in free will, thus become My children who can create and work with Me in equal power and will .... And this transformation, this 'becoming gods', is the basis of My whole plan of creation, because it requires your own cooperation, your own free will .... This, then, is to be understood by 'plan of salvation from eternity', and the knowledge of it is already a sign that this transformation is almost complete .... Yet it is only very rarely possible for a person on earth to gain access to the most profound knowledge, for body and soul must be spiritualized for this, not the slightest resistance may be offered to My illumination, which, however, a body which is not yet completely spiritualized will always do and thus not allow the complete effect of love. Not many people achieve this complete spiritualization of the body at the same time as its soul, and such a state of maturity also results in its departure from this earth, so that the soul, however, receives brightest light, i.e. deepest knowledge of everything when it enters the spiritual kingdom. on its entry into the spiritual kingdom .... (so that) all correlations are clear to it and, as perfected, it is now also flooded by the divine light of love without restriction and can now itself carry out the most blissful activity as a station of strength: to pass on the light and strength to lightless places on earth and also in the kingdom of the beyond. And these souls of light are then active on My behalf because they can spread the full truth since they possess it themselves .... You humans on earth could already receive much of the knowledge with a right life of love, because you unite with Me through loving activity and thus may also receive light again through this union, for I Myself am the light of eternity, and light is realization, light is truthful knowledge which, however, you lack at the beginning of your earthly existence, thus you enter earth in complete darkness but can leave it again in brightest light. Yet you cannot accept true light from people unless it originated from Me and is imparted to you by people. But it is bad for your soul if it feels comfortable in darkness and does not desire true light. Then it will also take the darkness into the kingdom of the beyond, and it can take eternities until a light will shine for it, because even then its will is decisive as to whether it will follow the sparks of light which, through My grace, will also light up again and again, because I will not leave any being in darkness forever .... On earth, however, it can easily enter the circle of light, because time and again I send messengers to every human being who are to give them a light on My behalf, yet it will always depend on the human being's will itself as to how he attunes himself to the light, to My ray of love, for no human being is forced to enter the circle of light but he must want to escape the darkness himself ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Only through the work of redemption is "divinisation" possible ....

B.D. 8420 from February 23rd 1963, taken from Book No. 88

The fact that you can shape yourselves into My 'children' on earth is My eternal plan which will also be carried out, only the duration of this transformation is determined by yourselves. It has become possible through Jesus Christ's act of salvation, for you can request strength from Him at any time, you can ask for the strengthening of your will at any time. For this is why the man Jesus died on the cross, so that He acquired graces for you without measure and all these graces can accomplish the return to Me. In order to reach the degree of childship to God the being once created by Me had to go through the deepest depths and, by overcoming them until its existence as a human being, reach a degree which it shall now increase in free will until its perfection .... i.e. until it has assumed its original nature again, which I brought forth in all perfection out of My might and My love .... But now My might is no longer the cause of your perfection but your free will has striven for it, and consequently you have become God's 'children' from 'creatures', you have shaped yourselves into gods, as this has been My plan from the beginning. And in the only exceedingly short time of earthly life as a human being your free will is tested .... The time of your human existence on earth is but a moment in eternity, and this moment can suffice for you to perfect yourselves, for your transformation back to your original nature to be accomplished, if only you direct your will correctly .... For this is not determined in any way, yet the human being will always be helped to direct it correctly .... My measure of grace is inexhaustible and every person can request and evaluate grace, he is not limited in any way .... But the greatest grace is the redemption through Jesus Christ, which takes away all weakness from him, for to surrender to Him means to be introduced into the kingdom of light by Himself .... the Son of God and redeemer of the world, in Whom I Myself accomplished the work of redemption .... to be introduced into the kingdom of light and bliss. For anyone who hands himself over to Him now also acknowledges Me, and he is forgiven for his original sin which plunged him into the abyss, and at the same time he is provided with the strength to cover the final ascent, to reach the final goal, to accomplish the change back to his original nature, which then is also the attainment of childship to God, the change from My living creation to My child. However, no human being can achieve this transformation on his own, without the help of Jesus Christ, for he is under My adversary's control as long as he is still burdened by his original sin, and for that long he will not be able to perfect himself either, because My adversary prevents it and does everything in his power to prevent the human being from recognizing Jesus and His act of salvation .... And yet, this is only ever decided by the human being himself through his will, and earthly life is given to him for this purpose because in it he can use his free will again, because My will and My might withdraws and leaves the human being fullest freedom .... But the goal is so exceedingly high and significant, for being a 'child of God' guarantees unlimited beatitude, which My might cannot grant to the being which, as 'created', has not yet reached the highest degree of perfection. It is your own work which you should and can accomplish because My love assists you, yet always respecting your free will. But love gives you means of grace in abundance, My love does not make any demands on you which would not be possible for you to fulfil ..... My love illuminates you, and the more you open yourselves to this illumination the easier your ascent will be, the more surely you will reach your goal .... For nothing else is required of you but a transformation of your nature, which initially as a human being is strongly self-loving, into right, divine love which is completely unselfish, which only wants to please and give and which the human being therefore has to let flare up in himself in order to achieve the complete transformation of his nature. And it is possible for every human being to practise this unselfish love, thus every human being can attain childship to God, because nothing else is required of him but love .... Once his original sin has been redeemed through Jesus Christ, his selfish love, the sign of his belonging to My adversary, has also been overcome .... He is free from his opponent's power and will only ever turn to Me in Jesus Christ with love, and this love will clarify and illuminate the soul, this love will grow and completely fill the soul and now the change back is also accomplished and I have reached My goal ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Address of God proof of His existence ....

B.D. 8421 from February 24th 1963, taken from Book No. 88

You can already be called blessed on earth that you are addressed by Me, that you receive My word and thereby come into possession of the pure truth, for at the same time you are given evidence that I am and that you are in closest contact with Me .... You are given the evidence that a power is at work which provides you with spiritual knowledge which you cannot acquire purely intellectually because it touches an area which is unknown and inaccessible to you .... And now you must also conclude that this strength emanates from a being Which knows everything and also wants to convey this knowledge to you, who are completely ignorant .... And then you will also turn your thoughts towards this being you have now recognized and try to fathom It .... And this alone is My intention, that you send questioning thoughts into infinity which I will then also answer, because I don't want you to remain ignorant but want to let a light shine into the darkness. To hear My address is truly blissful, for you are now also able to believe with conviction in a being Which created you and Which is in constant contact with you if you don't oppose it yourselves .... For then you would not hear My address or recognize it as the address of your God and creator. But anyone who feels addressed by Me also has evidence of Me, of My love and wisdom, and he can and will also soon reciprocate My love, for the word I impart to you is blessed with My strength, thus it will also have an effect on you and already give you the certainty on earth that you have a father in Me to Whose heart you are well sheltered. What you are required to believe becomes an inner certainty for you because I make Myself known to you through My word .... you can no longer doubt, and yet My word is not a compulsion for you to believe, instead, it can only resound in you when you believe in a God Who created you and now also reveals Himself to you .... And this inner faith is conveyed to you by My spirit, the little spark of love within you, which is My share .... This spirit instructs you from within so that you are able to believe in Me and My existence alive for the time being and now seek to make contact with Me and thus consciously establish this bond with Me .... which happens through prayer, loving activity and heartfelt thoughts of Me .... Then I can express Myself to you through My address .... And then faith will be strengthened in you, it will come alive, you will be aware of the presence of your God and creator, and you will now also not give up this bond .... However, the fact that you do not initially resist the expression of your spiritual spark was achieved by your free will, for you do not need to listen to it either, but then you will never be able to hear the voice of your God and father of eternity either .... otherwise all people would have to believe, but this would not be beneficial for the human being's soul. Yet I come to meet every person, and he truly only needs to take one step towards Me and I will take hold of him and never let him sink back again .... But this step has to be taken voluntarily, and it will be taken when the human being pays attention to the voice of conscience, to the silent expressions of My spiritual spark, which will only ever have the purpose that the human being acknowledges a God and creator Who also created him .... And no matter how weak this faith in Me may be, it can be strengthened, for soon I will try to make Myself known to him through his experience so that his thoughts will wander to the power Who is in charge of everything .... And his thoughts will truly be guided correctly, and the evidence of My existence will be given to him ever more clearly and prompt his closer bond with Me. But if he stands in the grace of hearing My word .... be it directly or indirectly through My messengers .... then he has also given up all doubts, then he is fully convinced of Me and My presence, and this firm faith is such a tremendous spiritual progress, for now his actions and thoughts will always be guided by Me, he will consult Me in everything he undertakes; he can no longer doubt because he has experienced Me and experiences Me anew every day and every hour. And the fact that he will now also fulfil his earthly task will be achieved by the strength he receives time and again through My word, and he will constantly pursue his goal of establishing the union with Me which will ensure his eternal life in bliss .... For he will not only listen to the word he receives but live it out, and that means to completely enter into My will, to live according to My will, to live a life of love and thus to shape himself entirely into love .... He will fulfil his purpose of earthly life and finally return to Me because he has become perfect again, as he was in the beginning .... because he has now become My child and will remain so for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Jesus is God ....

B.D. 8422 from February 25th 1963, taken from Book No. 88

Most profound wisdom can be revealed to you once you are receptive to it, and then you will also be able to penetrate knowledge which can only be understood in its complete profundity by an awakened spirit. Yet, if you desire an explanation where you are still not clear in your thinking, I will always help you to understand if you desire the truth. Then I will speak to you such that you can understand Me .... I will address My children with the voice of the Father according to their degree of comprehension: My nature is indeed inscrutable, and even if you steadily keep perfecting yourselves it will nevertheless remain unfathomable to you for all eternity. Nevertheless, you should strive for highest perfection and thereby finally find union with Me .... You should completely enter My nature, you should .... as once emanated sparks of light, merge again with the eternal fire of My love and still remain self-aware beings .... You will never be able to grasp this as long as you live as a human being on earth because your thinking will remain limited during this time, but the said process of fusing with Me can only be explained by the fact that everything of a perfect nature knows no limitation, that the union with Me definitely signifies your complete permeation with My strength of love, but I Myself will eternally remain out of reach for you .... I Am, therefore, close to you and yet you will never be able to reach Me .... For you must not imagine Me as a limited Entity since I Am not bound to time and space. You will never lose your self-awareness again, regardless of how intimately you are united with Me, because you will be totally permeated by Me with My strength .... Yet in infinity you will act as self-aware beings, and precisely that is your bliss. Then you will have attained your deification, the goal I set for Myself when I created you. You will have become My images, you will consist of the same fundamental substance as I Myself and you will be able to create and work in brightest illumination of wisdom, in possession of unlimited strength and with complete freedom of will and let new life arise from within yourselves .... Having become as perfect as your Father in Heaven is, you are miniatures of Me .... Jesus' soul was also subject to the same law when it .... as a being emanated by Me .... had to undertake its test of will and passed it, thus it remained with Me when the host of originally created spirits fell away from Me ....

This Being was so devoted to Me in love that It voluntarily offered Itself for the mission on earth to suffer for Its fallen brothers and to die as a human being in order to redeem the latter and bring My children back to Me .... Jesus accomplished this unique act, which no person has ever achieved before and will never be able to achieve afterwards either: to completely unite with Me on earth already, to manage the complete spiritualisation of soul and body so that the whole Being could be totally permeated, which was distinctly demonstrated by His ascension .... I was able to manifest Myself in Him, that is, I Myself, the Eternal Deity, the all pervading and penetrating strength, could never be personified .... However, I was able to completely permeate a form and nothing human remained in this form, even the external shell had become spirit of My spirit. The soul completely merged with Me and, in the true sense of the Word, 'Jesus' became 'God' .... His will, His thoughts, His actions were My will, My thoughts and My actions .... Two beings could no longer be spoken of .... It was an absolute union with Me, Jesus was, is and will remain for all My created beings the visible God .... The self-aware Jesus-soul returned to its original state of being, for it was the same emanated strength of love which merely united itself with the elementary power and thus completely merged with it, so that one can only speak of the Elementary Power .... of God Himself, the all-pervading Spirit, when Jesus is spoken of .... His Jesus-soul did not return as a perfect spirit from earth, instead it completely handed itself over to the Eternal Deity while it was still on earth, it abandoned itself for the sake of the greatest mystery: the human manifestation of God and His becoming visible for all beings which once had emerged from Him .... God and Jesus are one and the same, Jesus is not a second self-aware being but through His life on earth He attained the highest and final goal: complete fusion with Me, so that only My will and My thinking govern the Being Which controls and governs the spiritual kingdom as a visible God .... However, you humans will only be able to understand that when no limited concept exists for you anymore; and even then My nature will be, and remain, inscrutable, nevertheless you will be permitted to behold your God and Creator .... the most perfect Being in infinity .... face to face, and then you will know that apart from Him, Who became visible to you in Jesus, no other God exists .... And you will come aglow with burning love and forever strive towards Him, and He will return your love and make you abundantly happy .... For My love knows no limitation, nor will your beatitude be limited, instead it will last forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Unkindness causes lightlessness and transformation of the earth ....

B.D. 8423 from February 26th 1963, taken from Book No. 88

Don't be shocked by apparent contradictions, for what I give you is pure truth, it can only be difficult for you to grasp at times because spiritual truths cannot be understood with the intellect but only with the spirit. And as soon as your degree of maturity increases, your spirit will also become more and more enlightened and you will be receptive to deeper knowledge. Therefore try to attain this increased degree of maturity, for you will always be able to do so, because this only necessitates increased activity of love, as a result of which contact with Me will take place ever more often and I Myself will then also be able to directly influence your spirit through My presence. The fact that the number of the spiritually awakened is only small compared to those who live in spiritual darkness need not surprise you, for precisely the activity of love is extremely neglected; every person thinks of himself first, self-love is unusually great and compassion for the neighbour, for his hardship and suffering, is almost completely stifled .... And selfish love can never awaken the spirit within itself, however, it is always welcome to the adversary who sees his advantage in the darkness of spirit and also uses it for himself, who will constantly fuel selfish love and prevent people from being unselfishly active. And this is why error is so widespread that it is almost impossible to convey the pure truth to people because they don't recognize it and therefore don't want to accept it either. And even if I give you the order to let the light radiate which I Myself have kindled in you, this light will nevertheless only break through again where the working of love is not switched off, where self-love is fought against .... Brightest light could shine everywhere if people would fulfil My will, if they would observe My commandments of love, for this light is guaranteed through a life of love alone, and people would brightly and clearly recognize their earthly task and also comply with it. But it is the human being's free will how he attunes himself to My commandments of love, how he attunes himself to Me Myself and My will. And this free will is also the reason for the great work of transformation which concerns the earth, for since love constantly decreases there is no longer any ascending development for people, and the present earth fails in its purpose and therefore has to be totally transformed in order to release the spiritual substances still bound in the works of creation for this upward course of development ..... whereby people, who thus failed in their earthly life, fall back again through their own fault into a state which had long since been considered overcome for the soul .... but free will itself decides this fate, for free will could also turn towards the light but has chosen darkness .... and the being's will is also complied with .... In what bright light would you be able to walk and explain everything to yourselves which you see, which surrounds you as a work of creation, and how happy would you be that the secrets would be revealed to you and you would learn to recognize your God and father Himself in His nature, in His love, wisdom and might ....? Then you would also overcome every gulf which still separates you, because love is the bridge to Me and love is also the prerequisite for the bright spiritual state, for the light in which you may walk. But instead you flee the light, you feel comfortable in the darkness and don't dispel it but are rather willing to extinguish even the light which can only dimly shine for you, for as long as you yourselves are unloving you are still under the power of the prince of darkness, yet you don't recognize his activity and follow him, whatever he demands of you. He will always reinforce your selfish love and therefore the transformation into love cannot take place, just as the enlightenment of your spiritual state is not possible where love is missing. Conversely, however, it is possible for a loving person to make himself suitable for the reception of deepest spiritual knowledge. For the bond with the spiritual spark in the human being with the father-spirit of eternity is established through love, and then I can let My divine light of love radiate into a person in all abundance, and the spirit will then express itself in him and inform him of knowledge which the intellect can never fathom. And the higher the degree of love the deeper the human being will penetrate into areas which are closed to the intellect, and much will be revealed to him which only I Myself can ever convey to people, Who is the eternal truth and also reserves the distribution of truth for Myself, because I know people's hearts and also know who is mature for spiritual wealth which is everlasting, who works with it according to My will and who therefore serves Me as a bearer of light in the time of the end when the earth is shrouded in dense darkness .... For only light can enliven, but darkness is and remains a state of wretchedness which only the human being's own will can change ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Condition for receiving truth: to give up knowledge of mind ....

B.D. 8424 from February 28th 1963, taken from Book No. 88

The will to know the real truth is the only decisive factor as to whether the human being comes into possession of it. But as long as he resists it himself, as long as he is not willing to give up his existing knowledge, of which it is not proven to him whether it is pure truth, he makes himself unfit to receive pure truth, for this requires a completely empty vessel, because truth cannot exist next to error. It is therefore difficult to convey knowledge to a person whose heart is already filled with spiritual knowledge which he has gained intellectually or which he accepted without examining its origin. Nevertheless, the attempt can and should be made to also convey the pure truth to those who can also appeal to the intellect if the person is of good will. For I want to help everyone to become free from error, which, however, cannot happen compulsorily but requires the human being's free will insofar as that he takes notice of the spiritual knowledge offered to him without resistance. Then it is up to him what he wants to accept or reject from it .... Time and again I emphasize that the earth is a dark area which is only illuminated by weak rays of light, and that people themselves have to move into the area of these rays of light in order to feel them beneficially .... Yet how many people believe themselves to be in right thinking, and they now represent their own thought system to fellow human beings and thus carry ever more error amongst people .... Yet every human being can err, and this certainty should therefore also always give rise to doubts about one's own intellectual acuity, for every such doubt has a beneficial effect, because then there is still the possibility of being able to be enlightened, which is no longer possible towards a fully convinced person, for he closes himself off to the pure truth. This alone should make people think about the fact that there are so many different schools of thought which deviate from each other that no representative of these can provide evidence for the correctness of them .... but that there must be one truth .... and that this can only be received from the eternal truth itself ..... And whoever takes the path directly to it is also guaranteed to arrive at the truth. If a person receives knowledge directly from above .... i.e. that it is imparted to the spiritual spark in the human being by the eternal father-spirit .... then no counter-evidence can be produced for this knowledge, and the truth-desiring person's intellect will not be able to oppose it either, because everything is justified in such a way that it gives light and no longer allows darkness to exist. However, the correct recognition of truth always requires 'freeing oneself' from intellectually gained spiritual knowledge, because God's adversary can work as long as God Himself has not been approached for the truth, and the former's activity always consists of confusing the human being's thinking because he fights against all truth, since he only remains unrecognized in darkness .... And thus it is up to you humans yourselves how far you move in truth. Everything is offered to you and you yourselves have to decide what you want to accept or reject .... And the right decision can only be made when you no longer think and judge on your own authority but entrust your thinking to God so that He will guide you into the right realization. And this request must be made in spirit and in truth, you may not pretend to be truth-loving or truth-desiring as long as you are not willing to surrender what you have acquired in spiritual knowledge ..... For only the eternal truth itself lets you receive spiritual knowledge which completely corresponds to the truth, and if you already possess a few grains of truth beforehand, these will certainly remain with you or be returned to you .... But your willingness to empty your hearts to receive divine-spiritual thought material will be rewarded by the eternal truth itself letting the spirit flow into you, which can convey nothing but pure truth to you .... But who also accepts those teachings? .... Who does what he is asked to do? .... Each one thinks himself wise and prudent and sometimes represents the greatest error as truth .... And he tries to transfer this to his fellow human beings who gullibly accept his knowledge again. And the darkness grows ever stronger and even the flashing sparks of light are not noticed, for anyone who desires light must strive towards the light .... Anyone who desires truth must strive towards the eternal truth, then it will not be denied to him, then the eternal light itself will shine down to earth and illuminate the human being's heart who has established the bond with Him, who acknowledges God as the being Which alone can distribute the truth and Who will also do so, so that light will shine on earth and people will recognize the right path in the light of truth which leads to Him, from Whom the human being Himself once originated ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers