New Revelation recieved by Bertha Dudde

Proclamations No. 8625 - 8718

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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

8625 - Priority of vineyard work....

8626 - People lack love and faith....

8627 - Total devotion to God....

8628 - Man shall come to the light of knowledge on earth....

8629 - The great importance of a love life....

8630 - Complete submission of the will to God's will....

8631 - God knows from eternity the will of creatures....

8632 - "You must all be taught of God...."

8633 - People don't know about their immense spiritual hardship....

8634 - Historic evidence of Jesus and His act of Salvation does not exist....

8635 - Vineyard work according to God's will....

8636 - Human beings have free will.... abuse....

8637 - Strength and self-awareness.... Thinking ability - Will....

8638 - Meaning and protection of divine revelations....

8639 - Free will.... recognizing good and evil.... love spark....

8640 - What is meant by "faith"....

8641 - Indication of the adversary's activity.... (Speaking in tongues)

8642 - (Received after debate on intercession) "speaking in tongues"....

8643 - Explanation about baptism with water....

8644 - Why do people so easily fall prey to error?.... Truth....

8645 - The vineyard labourers trust in divine guidance....

8646 - The gospel of love must be proclaimed....

8647 - Forgiveness through Jesus Christ.... increase of the degree of love....

8648 - Answer to question about re-embodiment....

8649 - The source of all power is God....

8650 - Address to vineyard workers....

8651 - The true church of Christ....

8652 - The magnitude of the original sin necessitates Salvation through Jesus Christ....

8653 - Diseases and cure....

8654 - Everyone would be able to hear God speaking....

8655 - Voluntary transformation of the creature into a child....

8656 - God carries out his plan of Salvation....

8657 - Paternal address....

8658 - There shall be light among people....

8659 - Conscious voluntary commitment with God is bliss....

8660 - Misuse of divine gifts (Talents)....

8661 - Error rules men.... book of fathers....

8662 - Fight of the prince of darkness against light....

8663 - Task to spread the truth....

8664 - The embodied light beings' willingness to help....

8665 - Confession in the struggle of faith....

8666 - Only love helps to knowledge and bliss....

8667 - Jesus as a human being knew of His mission....

8668 - Reception and understanding of the divine word requires love....

8669 - Love degree is measure of truth....

8670 - The original debt could not be redeemed by the being itself....

8671 - Wretchedness is the fault of free will alone....

8672 - Cause of Lucifer's apostasy from God....

8673 - True church service requires a Father-child relationship....

8674 - Calling upon the 'Holy Spirit'....

8675 - Question: what would have happened had Adam not failed?....

8676 - Purification of Christ's spoilt teaching....

8677 - Warning about additional foreign teaching material....

8678 - The most important commandment has to be fulfilled: Love....

8679 - God is the source of light and power from eternity....

8680 - Following Jesus: Bearing the cross....

8681 - Ego consciousness state in free will....

8682 - God's assurance of assistance to the vineyard workers....

8683 - Effect of free will.... Sudden death....

8684 - The final powerful work of destruction.... I.

8685 - The final powerful work of destruction.... II.

8686 - Various schools of thought.... Pretended worship....

8687 - Unification of ecclesiastical organisations?.... Spoilt teachings....

8688 - Wrong interpretation of Jesus' Words....

8689 - Prerequisite for the illumination of love.... contact with God....

8690 - The only way to truth is the way to God....

8691 - The adversary's activity will not be prevented....

8692 - Sacraments.... (Ordination to the priesthood - Anointing the sick)

8693 - Effect of misguided teachings in the beyond....

8694 - Attribute of divine teaching: human manifestation problem....

8695 - Psychic receptions - Credibility....

8696 - Knowledge about Jesus Christ is of utmost importance....

8697 - Supply of truth also for the hereafter....

8698 - Clarification about UFOs....

8699 - Final decision in the battle of faith....

8700 - Truth emanates from God himself....

8701 - Powerful effect of the divine word....

8702 - The beings' gradual higher development in Creation....

8703 - God's promise to His co-workers....

8704 - Peace to those of good will....

8705 - Christmas 1963

8706 - Redemption of the original debt was only possible through love....

8707 - Christmas 1963

8708 - What is grace?.... God's word unusual gift of grace....

8709 - God is lord over life and death....

8710 - John 14, 15-26

8711 - The bond of love shall connect everyone without distinction....

8712 - Spiritual low level.... Lovelessness.... Selfish love....

8713 - John 7:38-39....

8714 - Hard struggle and suffering in the end time....

8715 - Frequent question: Why did the God of love let a human being suffer so?....

8716 - God's true representatives are appointed by God Himself....

8717 - Further indication of disasters and war....

8718 - Review of the light beings on the agony state before....

Priority of vineyard work ....

B.D. 8625 from September 24th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

When you feel inwardly driven to be active for Me and My kingdom then you can already register this as My work in you, then I Myself speak to you through the heart and urge you to comply with My request. Then you therefore also know that My will is expressed in you and you can now be active without hesitation and certain of My blessing. And your doing will always correspond to My will. Therefore just be untiringly active; do what you are able to do, and leave everything else to Me. Again and again I tell you that it is exceedingly necessary to supply fellowmen with truth, and therefore I will also bless all efforts and works, which are undertaken for the spreading of truth. Because I know it who is still receptive and willing to receive for it, and truth is also to be supplied to these out of Me. Only your will must be prepared for it, because I force no man to be active for Me, because such compulsion cannot have a beneficial effect, because love must always be the cause for activity for Me, but love tolerates no compulsion. But you will not lack evidence of My silent cooperation, and you will be happy to be allowed to serve Me. I see the great spiritual misery; I see the darkness in which men walk; I see the spiritual low, which has its cause in the lack of love of men, and it is urgently necessary that the gospel of love is again brought to men, although it will often be preached to deaf ears, but it must be supplied to men in all purity; it must again go out from Me directly and take the way to men, if there is still to be a possibility that their hearts are touched. Men must be given knowledge of their earth life assignment; they must be instructed in all truth, if success is still to be achieved at all. And even if there are only few who take the words to heart, who hear (open) their ears, but these few are rescued from a renewed walk through the creations of earth, and what that means, that only I know .... But exactly for that reason My fatherly care is meant for men, and I exhaust every possibility, which still can bring souls back to Me before the end. But I always need willing servants on earth for this, who are active as mediators, who accept the assignment from Me to carry the gospel out into the world, which is supplied to them by Me directly. You therefore, you stand in My service .... do you know what that means? That your God and creator, your father from eternity, has chosen you to work together with Him according to His will .... That is why you are not allowed to let yourselves be held back from this work, you should always regard it as a matter of priority and be certain that I will take care of all your earthly worries and that no earthly disadvantage will arise for you either, for I am a good father of the house Whose servants truly need not suffer any hardship if they only conscientiously carry out the work He assigns to them. Only you humans can help your fellow human beings, for an unusual address, which I could certainly also address to people, would only force them to believe, and this would be futile .... But I nevertheless address people unusually when My word is conveyed to them, when they listen to it. And if they listen to it willingly then it will also touch them unusually and cause them to think about it .... Nevertheless the freedom of will has to be left to them, but what can only be done to snatch men from the darkness of spirit and to stimulate them to love work, that I will still do before the end, and I want to bless those who offer themselves to Me for service, who are willing to do vineyard work and therefore to help in the redemption of those who have not yet completely fallen prey to My opponent .... Because it is not much longer time ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

People lack love and faith ....

B.D. 8626 from September 25th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

People keep distancing themselves from Me ever further, they want to believe less and less, for since they don't live a life of love they cannot attain a living faith either and a dead faith is completely worthless, because they will easily relinquish it completely when they have to profess whether they are for or against Me. For people will have to make this decision, irrespective of whether it will be demanded of them by the earthly authorities or as a result of harsh strokes of fate, when only the right decision can provide them with help in earthly adversity. Without faith they are lost, for then they belong to My adversary, who wants to destroy humanity's every faith in a God and Creator. Only a life of love will result in a living faith, and then there will be no further danger of falling prey to My adversary. For a living faith establishes the connection with Me and any hardship can be resolved because the human being believes in My power to do so, and also because he is convinced that My love will determine Me to help. Yet people who utterly lack faith in a Being Which is full of love, wisdom and power can be called poor and miserable. For even if they are quickly helped by My opponent in earthly calamities their souls will nevertheless be irrevocably lost, for they have abandoned all contact with Me and are therefore hopelessly subject to him. And many people will have to expect this destiny of being completely controlled by My adversary and will also have to share his fate at the end of the earth, so that they .... when he is placed in chains .... will be banished again into the creations of earth and must travel the path through these new creations once more.

Yet this happens in accordance with the will of every individual soul, and nothing can be done for their salvation other than to keep proclaiming the Gospel of love to people, to tell them what will await them if they live without love and therefore also without faith. Time and again people shall be called; time and again they shall be invited to turn their back on the world and to step into spiritual spheres .... Time and again they shall be reminded of the purpose of their earthly life so that they cannot claim to have been entirely without knowledge. Admittedly, they will pay no credence to your words but they shall not be left without warning either, for I will continue to cross their path and by means of misfortunes try to change their thinking .... since the possibility of changing their will still remains until their death and no opportunity shall be missed. And thus there will be a never-ending struggle for every soul My adversary wants to keep. And if you, My servants on earth, only succeed in persuading your fellow human beings to believe in a God and Creator from Whose Power they originated .... if you only succeed in motivating them to carry out deeds of love, then there is also the possibility that they will learn to gain faith, that they will seriously think about it .... especially when they have to recognise the fleeting nature of earthly things and begin to long for everlasting possessions.

Every change of mind can denote salvation for these human beings, and a person can still change his mind until he dies. This is why you, My assistants, should leave no stone unturned in order to awaken in people the belief in a loving Power Which wants to regain all people for Itself .... You shall also inform them of the fact that you are in direct contact with this Power and that It conveys comprehensive spiritual knowledge to you which clarifies the human being's real purpose of existence. There is always the possibility that a person will respond and listen to you, and in that case he is already saved for sure, for as soon as I Am able to speak to him Myself he will feel affected by it and form an opinion .... This is why you are repeatedly summoned to work diligently; this is why I won't stop seeking to attract the love of souls which are still distant from Me. This is why people often suffer great earthly hardship in order to motivate them into performing kind-hearted actions for their fellow human beings. And then it is not hopeless, for every deed of love connects the human being with Me and at the same time disconnects him from My adversary. If only people would believe that only love can deliver them from the enemy of their souls .... that love would also grant them realisation and could gain them a living faith, even in the Redeemer Jesus Christ. And a living faith in Him signifies definite deliverance from sin and death .... Love, however, has grown cold and therefore faith has also vanished, and no person can become blessed without love and faith, without love and faith My adversary is still dominating his soul and it cannot enter the life which lasts forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Total devotion to God ....

B.D. 8627 from September 26th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

Just always entrust yourselves to Me and so make Me your guide, your constant companion, who directs you and determines you to all thinking and doing. And truly, your earth life will be beneficial for yourselves and also for your fellow human beings. Because then My will will always have an effect in you, because you subordinate your will to Mine. That is why the complete devotion to Me is also the surest guarantee that you reach your perfection, because then all resistance in you is broken; voluntarily you acknowledge Me again, and nothing now stands in the way of the union, because a complete devotion to Me is not to be thought without love towards Me and because love in you will now also not remain inactive, because your earth change will now be an effect in love. The complete devotion to Me cannot take place as long as self-love still prevails in you, because then you still allow yourselves to be valid, and your nature will show arrogance, while the devotion to Me is an act of humility and your self-love has already changed to unselfish neighbourly love. You will also only ever hand yourselves over to Me when you have complete trust in Me, when you have already recognized Me as a being Which is love, wisdom and strength in Itself. Then you will enter into the relationship of a child to the father of your own accord .... You re-establish the original relationship, and therefore you will also reach happiness again, because you fulfil the law of eternal order; you have become love again; you can receive My illumination of love and now return as My children into your father house. Again and again I woo your love, your complete trust, your complete devotion to Me. And that is why I reveal Myself to you in My nature .... You are to be truthfully informed about My nature, because only when you can measure My endless love, only when you know that it is always and forever meant for you, because you have emerged out of My love, you will understand that I long for you, and when you believe in this great love of Mine, you will also return it, because love awakens counter love. But since you as man are still of darkened spirit, you often still stand in erroneous thinking .... You fear Me, Who comes towards you with all love; you do not let yourselves be addressed by Me, because you fear My severity, because you do not feel as children of a father, who can always trust in the love of the father and are allowed to flee to Him in all troubles. You have been given a wrong image of Me, in that I was certainly portrayed to you as powerful and righteous but too little mention was made of My endless love .... and therefore you lack the trust of a child in the father which, however, the father will never disappoint. And in your spiritual darkness you often go so far that you would like to free yourselves from the thought of a God and creator in order to be relieved of all responsibility .... And you will always be strengthened by My adversary, for he will want to deprive you of all faith in Me, and if you are therefore without love yourselves then you will also be unable to believe in a being Which is love in Itself .... But you can believe that I touch you again and again to awaken love in you, because I want to prepare happiness for you, which you already had to do without for eternal times. But I cannot act against the law of order; I cannot make you happy as long as you resist Me, as long as you do not return My love. Because so long you are outside of My love current. Every resistance makes My love radiation ineffective, and only when you have again become love, you can feel the happiness of My love radiation. But then you will eternally no longer let go of Me, as also I no longer give you, if I have once won you for Me. And once I also succeed, once you will take the way to Me of your own accord, and I will stretch out the hands towards you, which you will reach for to no longer let go of them, because your true home is the kingdom of light and happiness, your father house is with Me, and you return guaranteed once again to your start .... (9/26/1963) That is why I will also repeatedly recite the gospel of love to you, and anyone who wants to serve Me on earth should also pass on the divine teaching of love again, he should encourage his fellow human being to love and set a good example for him himself, for as soon as love is kindled in a person's heart he will also join Me, and then complete devotion to Me can also take place, which will secure him a blissful life for all eternity ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Man shall come to the light of knowledge on earth ....

B.D. 8628 from September 27th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

When My spirit teaches you, areas are opened to you, which are inaccessible to your intellect alone .... Spiritual knowledge will be presented to you, knowledge which you are not able to explore intellectually, for which no evidence whatsoever can be given to you and which nevertheless corresponds to the fullest truth, because it originates from the eternal truth Itself .... with Him Who alone knows everything, Who can also guide the truth to where the prerequisites are present for the reception and the right evaluation of truth. Then you truly need no evidence at all, and yet the firm conviction is in you that you are instructed in truth, because it is unique spiritual material into whose possession you come, and because this spiritual material gives you brightest knowledge, because it lights a light in you, which touches you charitably .... Because you win something back again, what you once possessed, but had lost through your own fault. For once you knew everything, you could see through all connections, you stood in brightest light, in fullest knowledge of that what is connected with your being and with Me, your God and creator, and you were immeasurably happy in this light of knowledge .... You lost the light through your own fault and still enter earth as man in this lightless state. But you can again come to knowledge through your will when you let yourselves be taught by Me Myself, who alone can again give back to you the lost goods when you only earnestly desire them .... With increasing maturity of soul now also your knowledge grows, for you will then be guided by My spirit .... by Myself .... when love has already flared up in you, because wisdom .... a truthful knowledge .... takes its origin from love, because the fire of love radiates the light of wisdom. Therefore you cannot reach truthful knowledge when you are still without love. And would it still be supplied to you, you would have no understanding for it; you would hear empty words without all meaning. But without love you would also not be able to hear My voice of the spirit, and you therefore remained in spiritual darkness and will also remain in it so long until you awaken the spirit spark in you through love, which then connects with the father spirit from eternity and can now be addressed by Me Myself to your soul .... that the spirit in you imparts deep knowledge to you and you now also recognize what you were, what you are and what you are to become again. This realization alone now lets you live consciously and strive for perfection, for if you possess this realization then love has also already been kindled in you, otherwise it could not have been imparted to you .... And a loving person will now also always be allowed to increase his knowledge, for with every work of love it will become brighter in him, because this is the effect of the working of love, that the person also increases in wisdom .... of truthful knowledge which can only be conveyed to him from Me. Believe it that you cannot draw this wisdom from books .... Because without love it can never become spiritual property; without love also error is accepted far sooner than truth, and without love therefore spiritual darkness remains, and man cannot record any progress for his soul. But you men can speak of a great favour that you have the possibility to still come to a state of light on earth, if you consciously request this light for yourselves, if you establish the connection with Me through love work and now make it possible in free will that I can address you Myself, that I can supply you with truthful knowledge, which helps you to the change back of your being again into its original state, since it also stood in highest perfection in brightest light of knowledge .... And even if you enter earth as a human being in deepest spiritual darkness, you can still leave it in the most radiant light and enter the spiritual kingdom, where a blissful fate awaits you, where you are again what you were in the beginning: divine beings, which can work and create as children with Me and in My will. For all darkness, all imperfection, all imperfectness has been repelled by the soul, which consciously walked the path back to Me again and was able to find it easily because it was supplied with truth, which brightly illuminated the path for it, which leads back to Me, back into its father's house ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The great importance of a love life ....

B.D. 8629 from September 28th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

The ascent upwards has to be covered, and every step to perfection requires strength, which you can only ever receive from Me and the supply of which always earns you the bond with Me. As long as you go level ways, which need no effort at all, your earth life earns you no profit; you remain standing on the same degree of development, as you have started earth life. And this has been in vain for you .... Only when you yourselves are of the will to progress and you then spare no effort to reach the aim, earth life is of use for you, and you can reckon with complete success when you do not slacken to strive and to work on yourselves. But as long as you are powerless, you will not succeed, but you can at any time request power from Me or acquire power yourselves through love work, because love itself is power, and as soon as you are active in love, you also possess the power to ascend and to perfect yourselves. Because you will then always more shape yourselves to love, because every supply of power out of Me again drives you to love work, therefore every love work has an effect as increased degree of love. And you can increase this degree of love unlimitedly, because I also hand out power unlimitedly, if you just request it and make the supply possible through intimate union with Me. And so the one thing will now become understandable to you that love is everything. Without love you stand still, or you sink back to the deep, but love inspires you, and you can reach heights and secure your perfection, because through love you unite with Me as eternal love and now also fulfil your earth life purpose: the change back to that being, which you were in the beginning and which now can also again be unlimited happy. But without love this change back is impossible; without love you remain in the deep; you remain part of him who is without all love. But I have lowered a spark of love into your heart out of favour, as proof of My endless love towards you, so that you well can accomplish the work of reshaping, which however always requires your will, because you are in no way forced to it. And so therefore only one thing is important that you recognize the importance of a love life during your earth change .... Love is strength and will always help you to ascend .... You men lack love at the beginning of earth life, because it has changed once to I-love, but which is a wrongly directed love and therefore can never lead upwards .... However, if the divine spark of love planted in you is ignited, then you will be able to change your selfish love into unselfish neighbourly love in a short time, into selfless love which makes you happy and wants to give, which alone has the right to be called divine. And you men are able to let the love spark glow in you, if you are just also willing to it, because the will alone determines your doing and leaving during earth life. And according to this will also your life will bring ascent or decline. And that is why I try everything to make clear to you the great importance of your earth life as well as the fulfilment of My love commandments, so that you then consciously walk the path across earth .... so that you consciously strive towards your aim and reach perfection when you ask for strength or acquire it yourselves through loving activity .... The great importance of a life of love is not yet properly recognized by all of you humans, otherwise you would only ever make an effort to let yourselves be driven by the love within you to every action and thought .... You would practice love until you would no longer be able to live in any other way than in love, and then your purpose on earth will also have been achieved, for then you will be able to unite with Me again as the eternal love .... The radiated little spark of love has merged again with the fire of love; it has returned to its start. And I have achieved the aim I set Myself when I created the beings: that they have returned to Me as My 'children' and can now create and work in immeasurable bliss ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Complete submission of the will to God's will ....

B.D. 8630 from September 29th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

If you completely subordinate your will to Mine then you also have to have My will in you, then you can only ever think right and do and speak what is My will .... So leave yourselves fully trusting to this assurance of Mine that you always only carry out My will, especially then when you want to be active for Me and My kingdom. The conscious subordination of your will under Mine is also the proof of your willingness to fully acknowledge Me again. You then give up all resistance and belong to Me again willfully, from Whom you also never could separate yourselves, because you are radiated power out of Me, which irrevocably has to return to Me as your origin. And when you are now no longer of will contrary to Me, then your earth walk will also again be an insertion into My legal order, and you then can also no longer sin, exactly because your will is now also Mine. And that is why you can also go your earth way without worry that it is wrongly directed, because My will is in you, without it being forcibly directed by Me. The devotion to Me, the conscious subordination of your will under Mine, is guarantee for the fulfilment of your earth life assignment, even when again and again temptations through My opponent approach you, which you will resist, because My will directs you in your thoughts and you recognize its goings-on, he therefore no longer has power over you. And so also no difficult situations in life are to frighten you anymore, because I will always know to remedy them, because you devote yourselves completely to Me and this devotion also secures My constant care for you, so that you no longer need to fear anything what also approaches you. And believe it that also your thoughts are always directed right, because the conscious devotion to Me also always lets the thoughts flow towards you so, as they are beneficial and are also recognized by you right. And you will always only take up the right thoughts and want to carry them out; you will inwardly resist every thought, which does not flow towards you out of Me, because that is the effect of your change of will .... the subordination of your will under Mine .... that now I Myself can work in you, that I give you the right thoughts and you are then always only active in My will. And this subordination of the will under Mine is prerequisite for the office of a light bearer, because he is to spread truth, and also this task demands a certain cleverness and caution (? objectivity); it cannot be carried out haphazardly .... My will must always be and remain decisive, but which now also certainly fulfils My servant and he is therefore also qualified for his office. I Myself want to have an effect in him and cannot use any resistance; My vineyard worker must be completely of the same will with Me, but what also guarantees his devotion to Me. But then you also need to fear no responsibility, because I carry this Myself for you, because you completely entrust yourselves to Me and have entered into My will. And so I will also again and again inwardly urge you to be active for Me and My kingdom, because this is so urgently necessary in the last time before the end, where mankind is in greatest danger to go down in darkness of spirit, and it can only be helped through supply of a bright shining light .... which it certainly can also still reject, but still brings rescue from the downfall in isolated cases. And this work for Me can only then be successful when a man puts himself completely into My service and gives up his own will to only be active in My will. But then he also does not need to fear that his wanting and doing could be wrong; he will always only act so as it corresponds to My will, because he has given up all resistance and I therefore can now work Myself in him. And his work will be successful; he will speak on My behalf; he will supply men with what I consider necessary for their salvation, and he will always be able to rely on My guidance, because I accept a will turned towards Me, because it also proves to Me the complete return of the being, which once separated from Me in free will .... His will is now Mine, although it is completely free and remains until all eternity ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God knows from eternity the will of creatures ....

B.D. 8631 from September 30th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

I foresaw everything, I knew how both the spiritual beings would decide in free will, but how I also know about the will of men from eternity, how long it resists Me. But this knowledge did not prevent Me from carrying out the plan of deification of the beings created by Me, because I likewise foresaw that I would one day reach the aim which I set Myself when I created spiritual beings out of My love. But I will never touch the free will of My creatures, and whether they still keep away from Me for so long, because for Me there is no concept of time, because in eternity everything is just fleeting moments, what you men regard as periods of time of endless long duration .... But you men, who still keep away from Me, who are still imperfect, for you the concept of time still applies, and that is so long until you have perfected yourselves again, until you have changed to your original being, where all limitations are abolished. And so long your lot is also not to be called happiness, because in this time until your perfection you must suffer .... The aim, which I set for Me when I created you, must be reached by you yourselves; your free will must strive for it, and as this is often very long opposed to Me, I must use means, which lead to the giving up of resistance. And one such means is often suffering, suffering where the human being recognizes his own weakness and feels the need to lean on a being Which will help him .... Then an approach to Me comes about which then also leads to the aim: the complete union (with Me) .... The plan of deification of the beings created by Me also prevented Me from preventing the beings' apostasy from Me, for this deification had to be accomplished by the being itself in free will, and since it relinquished its perfection, in which I had created the being, it had to accomplish a great work: to work itself up again from the abyss to the height, but to then reach the highest degree of perfection, which its will itself had to strive for .... thus it was not forced to do so by Me .... This freedom of will alone is the decisive thing, if I want to have completely free, most perfect beings next to Me, who now are and will remain true gods, because they have completely become My image .... I can do anything, there are no limits to My power, yet I Myself cannot violate the law of eternal order, which is founded on deepest love and most radiant wisdom .... I therefore could not create beings without free will, because I can only let perfection come into being, but free will belongs to perfection. And again these beings now also had to prove their divinity that they therefore also kept their perfection in free will and completely made My will their own and therefore through this also remained in perfection .... They therefore also had to have the possibility to direct their will wrongly, because they were no beings held under compulsion by Me .... And every being put out by Me had to make this decision, and I knew about the success of this test of will. But since nothing is impossible for Me I use the most different means, which My wisdom recognized as good and effective and which always only have My love as reason to make all My creatures immeasurably happy. So I also overlook the spiritual state of My creatures at any time and therefore also know when drastic changes or upheavals are necessary to again continue the faltering process of return. And time plays no role for Me because as soon as the being has reached the state of perfection where the concept of time no longer exists, it also sees this long time of ascent only as a short moment and is happy to have overcome it. It then also stands again in brightest knowledge, and therefore it also knows that the law of eternal order demands such a change back, if the being wants to reach the highest perfection .... the adoption as a child of God .... wants to reach. Then it will praise and glorify Me and give Me all its love, and then it will also again be unlimited happy, as it was in the beginning ...._>Amen

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"You must all be taught of God ...."

B.D. 8632 from October 1st 1963, taken from Book No. 91

You must all be taught by God .... That is why I must be able to speak to you in order to then introduce you to areas which are foreign to you because you once left them voluntarily and had lost all knowledge. But this knowledge will never be withheld from you when you earnestly desire to possess it. Voluntarily you gave it away; voluntarily you must want to receive it again, and truly, you can then receive extensive knowledge directly from Me that all spiritual darkness disappears, that you recognize brightly and clearly what is the basis of your existence as man. To possess this knowledge is a precious gift of favour, which helps you to perfection, which is purpose and aim of your earth existence. It is certainly given to you as a proof of My exceedingly great love towards you, but you must accept it willingly and evaluate it, only then it will have a beneficial effect for you. But that it is a gift of your God and creator from eternity, your father, Who wants to make His children happy with it, you can also believe convinced and represent as truth. Because only pure truth can go out from Me, and as long as it remains unchanged, you men will walk in its light and therefore also go the right way, because truth must inevitably lead you towards Me, while every error leads into the abyss, towards that, from which you are to free yourselves on earth. You must all be taught by God .... i.e., that you must receive all truth and make yourselves receptive for it beforehand .... For the readiness to stand in truth is part of it that you also recognize it as truth, and I Myself can also only then work in you and address you Myself when you prove this readiness by making yourselves worthy to hear My address, be it directly or also in a transferred way .... But every supply of truth requires My direct work in you, because your spirit spark has to be illuminated, and through the conscious connection with Me you now also have to attain the understanding for the spiritual material, which is supplied to you from outside, but which has always been radiated by Me Myself. But you humans no longer possess the pure truth because it has been permeated by error due to My adversary's influence, thus you are no longer 'taught by God', otherwise error would not be possible. You have no deeper knowledge or you are completely wrongly taught. Spiritual realms are closed to you because you don't want to penetrate them .... and thus you move in spiritual darkness, and this to the detriment of your soul, which needs light in order to find the right path which leads upwards. Darkness always emanates from My adversary, whereas I always emanate light .... And so you could also judge yourselves in whose power you stand .... As long as you are completely unaware of your purpose and cause of existence, you are still spiritually darkened. But if light is given to you about it, then you will also possess all knowledge about the connections, about meaning and purpose of earth life and your task. As soon as you are therefore knowledgeable you stand in light, and then you have become free from the fetters of the adversary; you belong to Me, Who alone radiates light, and you are then also 'taught by God', Who alone can open spiritual areas to you. Light, however, will always make people happy, while darkness lays itself oppressively over the human being .... And every man should seek to light a light in himself, what he will always do when he practices love. For love is the first prerequisite that the light from above can shine into a person .... Love is the first prerequisite that I Myself instruct a man because then eternal love itself addresses the love spark in man, his spirit, and can now also instruct him. And love will want to give itself away; it will constantly hand out gifts of favour, which are always only to be accepted willingly and thankfully to have an effect for the greatest blessing of men. Because what comes from Me must always have a beneficial effect, and this gift is offered to every man. But no-one is forced to accept it; the free will of man is always decisive, why also the light cannot shine where the will resists it. And whether also My love is exceedingly great towards you, My creatures, you who walk over earth as man, so I still leave you fullest freedom in your wanting, thinking and acting. And even if I want to give Myself away again and again, you must willingly accept and evaluate My gift of grace, only then will it be of value to you, but against (without) your will you cannot reach the light ...._>Amen

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People don't know about their immense spiritual hardship ....

B.D. 8633 from October 2nd 1963, taken from Book No. 91

You humans are not conscious of your hardship, yet this calamity cannot be described to you pessimistically enough, so that you will endeavour to remedy the situation yourselves, for you can do so providing you muster the firm will. But first you have to recognise this adversity yourselves .... You ought to know that you have reached the end of an eternally long process of development through the earthly creation, that you had to suffer indescribable torments during this time and that you now, as a human being, are able to end this state of torment and enter the spiritual kingdom as a free being of light .... You ought to know that it is your last opportunity to free yourselves from every physical shell, but that you now also have to lead an appropriate way of life as a human being otherwise you will fail and the whole preceding path will have been in vain .... You ought to know that you, in that case, will fall back into the deepest abyss again and have to cover the path through the creations in appalling agony once more, constrained in matter ....

You humans live your lives irresponsibly; it does not occur to you that you are on earth for a purpose .... you do not concern yourselves in any way with such thoughts and don't recognise a spiritual reason for your existence .... you do not look for a God and Creator, from Whom the creation as well as you yourselves originated, you live indifferently and .... most importantly .... you live without love. Only love can take you to the final state of perfection, only love guarantees that blissful fate in eternity, since you only need love to attain the last goal: the final release from matter. For although you will enter the kingdom of the beyond after your physical death you will nevertheless not be able to detach yourselves from earth, and then you can still descend further and get banished into matter again. But you can also be caught unawares by the end while you are still on earth, and then you will return to the abyss without fail, from where you had worked your way up already .... And you will have to bear this awful fate once more, for I cannot digress from the law of eternal order, even though My love belongs to you and will never ever abandon you .... But I cannot bypass My justice which is equally part of My perfection.

Time and again I call to you: Take stock of yourselves .... you are travelling the last short stretch of the path. Don't take the wrong path which will inevitably lead to the abyss, but join Me and cover your earthly path holding on to My hand .... Consider the possible cause and purpose for your earthly existence, and truly, I will illuminate you in this respect because I want you to follow the path to your Father's house, because I long for your return to Me and would like to spare you the terrible fate of a new banishment .... Realise the fact that you are in tremendous spiritual danger and try to change it, for it is entirely due to your will to fulfil the task that you were allowed to embody yourselves as human beings .... But you have to liberate yourselves from worldly longings; you should not look at your earthly life as an end in itself but always recognise it as the means to an end ....

And it will be possible for you to live an expedient way of life if only you endeavour to live a life of love .... Then you will have escaped the risk of failure in this end period, then you will recognise ever more clearly why you are living on earth, and you will always make the effort to fulfil the will of your God and Creator, you will enter into a father-child relationship, and then the Father will take hold of you and draw you to Himself and never ever let you descend into the abyss again. Listen to My admonitions and warnings, change your way of life, and try to conclude the infinitely long earthly path in order to enter the kingdom of light and bliss after your physical death. And if you muster this determination then you will also truly receive the strength to do so, for I will help you until the end so that you will attain life and not fall prey to death again ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Historic evidence of Jesus and His act of Salvation does not exist ....

B.D. 8634 from October 3rd 1963, taken from Book No. 91

People generally regard Jesus' death on the cross as a purely worldly event, providing they believe in His existence in the first place. They regard His death as the execution of a judgment against a troublemaker; they present Him as a court case based on an offence against the authorities by the man Jesus. And these people cannot find redemption through His crucifixion either, because they don't believe that He died in atonement for a grave sin which burdens every person, and from which everyone who believes in Him and His act of Salvation can be released. Therefore, as long as people have no knowledge of the reasons for the act of Salvation, as long as they are unaware of the immense original sin on account of which people live on earth, as long as they don't know the spiritual correlations which explain this said act of Salvation by Jesus, they will not avail themselves of the blessings of this act of Salvation either. They will only ever regard Him as a person who supposedly had a mission, for they have no time at all for this mission. And yet it is of vital importance for a person's life on earth that he professes Jesus Christ and His act of Salvation, that he tries to release himself from His immense original sin which cannot be redeemed without Jesus Christ, and thus also requires the acknowledgment of Jesus Christ in order to become free of it. And precisely the importance of it .... the great significance of acknowledging Jesus as Son of God and Redeemer of the world .... should make you understand why I keep enlightening you about it. This alone should explain My remarkable activity of conveying the truth from above to earth, for no historical evidence can be produced for the sequence of the crucifixion as well as for all accompanying circumstances .... for Jesus' way of life on earth and His countless miracles, which any person will deny who has no knowledge of the power of the spirit, of the power of love.

People believe mere traditions which were passed on from generation to generation, which cannot be reinforced through evidence and which therefore might just as well be consigned to the realm of fantasy. But time and again people must be informed of the fact that Jesus Christ is their only salvation if they want to enter the realm of blissful happiness after their body's death .... They must be informed of the fact that they do not cease to exist when their body dies and that their state afterwards depends on their attitude towards Jesus Christ and His act of Salvation. Faith in Him is so important that everything needs to be done to make it easy for people to gain this faith. And the quickest possible way is through a truthful portrayal of His life on earth, through clarification about His mission which was not based on earthly but instead on spiritual reasons. This also requires the truthful passing on of knowledge which explains everything that preceded Jesus' act of Salvation .... Anyone who can be introduced to this knowledge on account of his own willingness to know the truth, will no longer doubt the extremely important mission of Jesus, the human being, and acknowledge Him and His act of Salvation as well as profess Him to his fellowmen. Admittedly, none of this knowledge can be proven to him in an earthly way, but if he accepts the teachings through the spirit he will not doubt them, he will believe them with conviction, even without evidence, and advocate the truth of it himself. Every person's life on earth is in vain if he does not find Jesus Christ and take the path to the cross. And although it is still possible to accept Him in the kingdom of the beyond, he will nevertheless lose many blessings which he could have used on earth in order to attain the childship to God, which is only possible for him on earth. In the afterlife it is often difficult to receive a little light if the soul is as stubborn as it was on earth and refuses to accept the instructions it is offered by the beings of light. For this reason everything will still be done before the end to bestow upon people the correct understanding of Jesus Christ, wherein you can also recognise the reason for My revelations, for people cannot provide you with the true explanation. However, I will always make sure that the knowledge about Jesus and His act of Salvation is preserved, and I will always correct errors, for only truth is the right light and you will also be able to accept the truth without qualms if you desire it and appeal to Me to give it to you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Vineyard work according to God's will ....

B.D. 8635 from October 4th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

Every one of My co-workers is blessed by Me and given the silent assurance of My support as soon as he works for Me. For I need his cooperation, even though it is truly within My power to shape everything according to My will, and thus also to perfect you humans through My will. However, My plan for bringing you to perfection requires the human being's free will, for this reason the redemptive work must also be carried out by people, so that everything takes place within the framework of natural progression and no unusual activity compels a person to believe .... Time and again I give you the assurance that I will guide your every thought and that you then will also undertake the vineyard work according to My will. Yet I keep reminding you to work diligently and take pleasure in your willingness to help. However, in the final analysis, a blessed vineyard work will always consist of industrious detailed work .... the distribution of My Gospel will always take place on a small scale, for even if masses congregated in order to hear the proclamation of My Word, My Word would nevertheless only take root in a few hearts where the seed would grow. The success will decrease ever more during the last days, for the majority of people will turn away, they will close their ears because they no longer believe. But I know the individual human hearts and it is to these that I will convey the gifts of grace; I will bring them together with My vineyard labourers in order to speak through them directly ....

You can believe that I will not leave out one soul where there is still hope that it will gladly listen to Me. And you, My servants on earth, will truly achieve more with diligent detailed work than with major campaigns which will not yield the success you hope for. But if I Myself foresee a success, then I will also guide your thoughts correctly and put the means at your disposal so that you can work again according to My will. Yet you should not rush into things nor worry, just grant Me your will and let yourselves be guided, and leave everything else to Me. How few people are open to spiritual knowledge because only a few have an awakened spirit .... You must bear in mind that most people don't understand it even if it is conveyed to them because they live without love and are spiritually entirely unenlightened. This is why the spiritual knowledge that originates from Me directly cannot be distributed to the same extent as any other writing which is and can be offered to the broad mass of population, because the world only appreciates worldly goods. But I know what will be successful, and from My side everything will be done in order to increase the number of those who will be saved, and you should only ever do what is within your power, and always lovingly help your fellow human beings in their adversity. And I will bless every effort regarding this rescue work. I Myself will support them in every way but I also foresee the achievement and therefore also know which work is fruitless, thus I will prevent it so that you won't use your strength and effort ineffectively. Yet the achievements of silently rendered vineyard work cannot be estimated by you, where the souls pick up and observe every thought that moves you, and therefore your redemptive work will never be in vain, for I want to address all souls, which you will always enable Me to do if you unselfishly work for Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Human beings have free will .... abuse ....

B.D. 8636 from October 5th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

The will of man is the decisive thing. He is free and remains free until the end of his life, and also in the kingdom on the other side it is the free will of the soul, which causes it to ascent or fall, and that is why this will also alone determines the fate of the soul in eternity. If you humans now doubt free will because you are often unable to carry out your free will in earthly matters, then you must first of all realize that 'free will' must be understood to mean your innermost will, which cannot be determined by anyone, neither by Me nor by My adversary, nor by earthly power or by a fellow human being .... You will always determine this inner will yourselves, even if it is impossible for you to carry out what you want. For you must not confuse 'will' with 'possibility of execution'. That is why you so often argue that the human being possesses free will. And because you have free will you also have to answer for the direction of this will. What you now undertake earthly is perhaps important for your earthly situation in life, but not for the fate of your soul, and therefore it is about the direction of your will in spiritual relationship, i.e., your inner life is to correspond to My will, then your will is right directed, and you fulfil your earth life purpose. But only few men walk on the spiritual level, but the others therefore deny free will because they cannot always carry out their earthly plans, and they even stoop to the assertion that man is a plaything of fate and cannot do anything of his own to change his situation in life. But that mostly fate is always only to serve as means to give man's free will the right direction, so that it turns towards God and therefore brings man on the spiritual level, that they do not acknowledge, and already this inner refusal proves free will. People's free will is misused far more than it is used, otherwise the spiritual low would not have occurred, but which visibly characterizes the end time. People do not make it clear to themselves that they are free-willing creatures, that they can turn their innermost thoughts in any direction and that they themselves determine through their will which thoughts find access. Because every man leads his own inner life, which can be determined from no side, but is free matter of will of every individual. But as long as men dispute a free will, they also shake off all responsibility from themselves and always make Him responsible for their doing and thinking, Who has created them, when they believe in a God and creator. But as long as they do not know about the meaning and purpose of their earth life, they also do not think about how they lead their life, because they consider earth life to be an end in itself, but not a means to an end, and their wanting and thinking is only earthly directed. Free will alone is decisive whether they reach their aim on earth, because free will must confess God as God and creator (confess his God and creator), and in free will man must fulfil the love commandments of God .... Then free will will take the right direction and also experience strengthening at any time, because the man, who lives in love, will also find to Jesus Christ and receive from Him the favours of a strengthened will and then his lot in eternity is also secured. Free will is abused because all bad actions result from man directing his will wrongly, that he still is at the will of him who has brought all disaster into the world. Also the apostasy of the beings from God had free will as cause, and the return to God must therefore again take place in free will, what can only happen when it takes the right direction, when the will again turns towards God, and now man is also seized by Him and he then also guaranteed to again return to Him, from Whom he once started as free, light-full being ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Strength and self-awareness .... Thinking ability - Will ....

B.D. 8637 from October 6th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

You humans would not be able to exist were you not pervaded by My strength .... in other words, you would not be alive anymore had your souls escaped from you, which is My once emanated strength and the real life in you. Thus, you are animated by divine strength, which flowed forth from Me, the Primary Source of strength. Those of you who do not believe in a God and Creator consider your physical life a mere natural occurrence which, even though you cannot explain it yourselves, does not particularly occupy your mind; in fact, it leaves you indifferent and might only cause you to think insofar as that you will have to relinquish your earthly life one day, that you are transient, if you don't believe in the continuation of life. However, the fact that the strength from Me, which is the soul within you, is the foundation of the human being's real self-awareness and that you are basically the same in your fundamental substance as your God and Creator, is not something you think about, and therefore you won't make use of your earthly life if you are not conscious of its actual purpose. Every human being was originally a divine living creation, for the human state is not the beginning of his existence but only the result of the beings' infinite aberration, which I once created in all perfection ....

But it is always the same strength which flows through the once-created beings as well as through people and which enables them to live .... this strength merely affects the first-created beings as well as people to different degrees .... that therefore the same strength was once able to be unrestrictedly creatively active, whereas in the human being, because of his resistance to Me .... which was the result of his past apostasy from Me .... it only achieves very minimal activity. Yet people's will is able to increase this strength at any time, until they can be fully active again according to My will, if the human being perfects himself on earth. People have no knowledge of this and consider themselves not much different than any other work of creation around them, which are indeed strength from Me as well or they would not exist. For there is nothing that is not permeated by My strength, the works of creation are merely without self-awareness until all individual sparks of strength have gathered again as a human soul and then possess self-awareness again as in the beginning. But with self-awareness, the human being also receives his thinking ability again and this enables him, with good will, to weigh up arising thoughts against each other .... But a tiny spark of love is in him too, which can also kindle a small light in him, and thus divine powers, which he once possessed and lost through his apostasy from Me, can be awakened again. For the strength which permeates every human being .... as a divine living creation .... has to take effect in some form or other.

Nevertheless, the human being's will decides whether divine strength is used according to divine will and thus results in a constant increase of divine strength or whether it merely serves the maintenance of the body and is misused again, as before, when the beings' apostasy happened, because these beings were not active according to My will but opposed it with their own wrong will .... Only when the human being is fully aware of the fact that he is God's created being and that his continued existence is therefore only ensured by the permeation of divine strength will he make an effort to use this strength correctly and aim to constantly increase the influx of divine strength. For then he will also learn to love Me Myself, he will be lovingly active, and the more lovingly active he is the more strength he will have. Everything you see around yourselves is strength from Me, and thus in your fundamental substance you humans, too, can only be My emanated strength, and you should seriously consider that your Creator, being profoundly wise, has given you life for a purpose .... But your intelligence alone should tell you already that this purpose does not purely consist of earthly accomplishments or achievements and therefore you should not stop asking questions and try to ascertain the reason for your existence on earth .... Such thoughts are too important to reject if they arise in you, and a person who seriously reflects on them will truly not be left without an acceptable answer, even if it is only mentally imparted to him again. However, anyone who regards himself as so insignificant that he looks upon himself as a coincidental product of natural forces will, at the end of his life, not be able to show any spiritual advancement, he will be in the same state as at the beginning of his embodiment as a human being or have even descended lower still, for he will still harbour the same opposition against Me which once motivated his apostasy from Me .... And I will not forcibly break this opposition, yet he will have to suffer for an infinitely long time until, one day, he relinquishes this opposition by himself and returns to Me again ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Meaning and protection of divine revelations ....

B.D. 8638 from October 7th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

Even the deepest problems can be solved for you if you only submit them to Me Myself. I Myself am light, and again and again the light will shine through the darkness. But since you are creatures with free will, you must declare yourselves willing to receive the light, because against your will I do not send it to you. But then there is nothing about which you cannot receive enlightenment .... And so I also want to tell you that nothing happens haphazardly from Me, that I always pursue a certain purpose, whatever may happen. You yourselves often cannot fathom what causes Me to My work, because you lack the overview, and that is why questioning thoughts move you, which only I alone can answer for you: Once men on earth are completely wrongly guided in their thinking, when the whole complex of thoughts has become one single error, when no more understanding is to be found for the rule and work of a God and creator, then the whole earth is an area, which is completely shrouded in darkness. And then also no man finds his way anymore in this darkness, and the whole earth walk of a man has as it were become purposeless. I alone now know what it means when a complete standstill has occurred in the healing or return process of all spiritual, which is bound on earth and in the earth creations. Therefore a change must now be created; everything created by Me must again be supplied to its right purpose, and that means that the legal order must be restored, which alone secures a continuation of the ascent development. To this belongs first that mankind is enlightened about the error in which it moves. Because I Myself must take care of mankind walking in darkness by Me letting a light shine into it, which is to make men happy. The light of truth has to shine down to earth; every error has to be corrected; the goings-on of My opponent have to be pointed out as well as his mention has to be made, who can lead men out of every spiritual trouble: Jesus Christ, the divine redeemer .... Everything must be done to fight against error and to displace it through pure truth .... in short, everything negative must be overruled through positive activity and thereby the possibility created for the human being to become free from the adversary's control and thus to successfully end his course of development .... This intention underlies My unusual work of supplying you humans with a light from above .... And I can also give you the assurance that this light will assert itself, that its ray is so bright that it penetrates the darkness, especially then when the time until the end is only still short .... What once has reached earth as direct emanation of My divine light of love will also enjoy My unusual protection, it is a 'spiritual' asset which is indestructible insofar as that even the material form of it will be protected by spiritual forces when earthly destruction has become unavoidable .... which, however, only ever applies to spiritual assets received directly from Me. For just as the supply from above is a purely spiritual process, just as My divine power is expressed in this supply, so too will divine power express itself when it is necessary to protect the spiritual results, the evidence of My divine working .... Therefore do not worry about it; I know it that and when spiritual material is needed, which took its start directly from Me. I also know what is still to come for all of you men. But I can protect every single one of you when I see a blessing for fellowmen out of it. In the chaos, which you men face, unusual individual fates will not touch you particularly, therefore also mean no compulsion of faith, and therefore I can also accomplish miracles, which you do not think possible. But your whole earthly life is only the result of spiritual processes; your world is an illusory world, but the spiritual kingdom is the only real world, and what is inconceivable to you men on earth is simply a matter of course in the spiritual world, and the light beings are full of power and therefore can accomplish everything, because then they always just carry out My will. And thus they also protectively place themselves behind the spiritual knowledge which originated from Me, and they will know how to guide it to where it is needed again, so that people will be taught by 'God Himself' and therefore also be in possession of the truth when the darkness has been taken from earth, when people walk in bright light of realization and can also hear or read My direct address at any time, which will always and forever remain the same ...._>Amen

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Free will .... recognizing good and evil .... love spark ....

B.D. 8639 from October 8th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

The whole earth existence as man has only one purpose, to bring the still imperfect spiritual, which is in a bodily cover as soul, to the last perfection. And that is why the whole walk of life is to be so directed that it corresponds to the principle of divine order: Man is to always only think and want well; he is to always only carry out good actions, i.e., all thinking, wanting and acting is to be carried by love. For man, since he has free will, can use it in any direction. He can lead a good as well as a bad way of life, and he will not be able to be forced in any way. Every man also has within himself the sense of good and evil, because he has a silent admonisher within him .... the voice of conscience .... and because he feels the effect of good and evil actions on himself, beneficent or sorrowful .... And therefore it is also said: Love you neighbour as yourselves, do to him the same thing that makes you happy, and do him no harm, because you also will not be harmed yourselves. Every man knows how to distinguish between good and evil, if only he is honest with himself. But if he has an evil will, then he also seeks to pervert the law of order, then he denies even the sense of good and evil. But then he only lies to himself, and he will never be able to maintain this assertion before himself. As soon as man lacks all sense of responsibility, his whole way of life is only a lie against himself .... he does not want to be good because he is still firmly chained to God's adversary, but he also knows himself that he is bad, even if he does not want to admit this to his fellow human beings and falls into ever deeper sins .... A person who lacks the conscious feeling for good and evil could not one day be called to account for his conduct on earth .... But it is always only his free will how he leads his way of life, and for this he has to answer. If he himself is wronged, then he will also rebel against it. So he knows about right and wrong .... But the adversary is able to dull his feeling so that he is finally only a blind tool for him, that he lets himself be used completely without will for all bad actions and then he already becomes a devil, although he still walks the earth as man .... But his soul is completely dominated by the enemy, by him who seeks to snatch all souls into ruin. That no other fate can be granted to such souls than renewed banishment in solid matter will then also be understandable to you men who make an effort to live in divine order. Every man can reach perfection on earth, but his will alone is decisive, whether he seeks support in weakness of will and asks for strengthening, whether he has the desire in him to live right and justly .... Then every possible help will be given to him. And this desire could be in every man, because God leaves out no-one, to whom He {not} offers His favours, which however must also be voluntarily accepted and evaluated .... And man himself determines this. But it is wrong to think that a man would be completely incapable of reaching his aim on earth because he is "unusually" burdened with weaknesses and dispositions .... According to these is also the supply of grace, and also particularly burdened men will come into situations in life where they can think and devote themselves to their God and creator .... That they do not do it is again due to free will, but that they can do it cannot be denied, otherwise God would have to be denied justice, wisdom and love, but He wrestles for every soul to win it for Himself, and therefore truly leaves no means untried to help it. But when the soul of a man gives ear to the opponent and closes its ears to Him Who truly loves it, then it is also pulled down by the opponent, and it does not resist, but is in bondage to him in everything, and that also means that it again completely falls prey to him and again remains his belonging for endless long time. Because you men must not forget one thing that the divine love spark is associated with every man at the beginning of the embodiment on earth, that this therefore only needs to be ignited and the danger of a fall into the deep is thereby eliminated. Every man can be active in love, but whether he is willing to love, that is up to him, however decides the success of earth life and his further fate, which can be happiness and bliss in the kingdom of light or also again banishment in hard matter, because otherwise the final aim cannot be reached, which God has set for Himself at the beginning ...._>Amen

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What is meant by "faith" ....

B.D. 8640 from October 9th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

You humans are required to believe in something for which you lack evidence .... It is demanded of you that you should accept as truth what is communicated to you .... It is demanded of you that you also confess it yourselves. This is faith .... You therefore have to rely on the knowledge of the one who tries to impart his knowledge to you, and depending on his credibility you accept the knowledge. Earthly knowledge can now indeed be substantiated by evidence, and yet it is possible that such evidence is not accessible to you humans .... but you will nevertheless be convinced of the truth if you have complete faith in the one who imparts the knowledge to you. Such faith is nothing strange; it is simply a trust that the fellow human being is correctly informed and that what he imparts can be accepted without hesitation. But it is different with spiritual knowledge, for which proofs are not to be brought. Then it is up to you yourselves whether you trust the mediator of spiritual knowledge so much that you accept without hesitation that you therefore believe what he tells you. And you know that every person can err, that only on the part of God all error is excluded. How then should you procure for yourselves the inner conviction of the truth of what you are to believe? Because only a convinced faith is of value. Proofs cannot be produced, and the man who imparts knowledge to you can just as well impart an erroneous spiritual material to you, which you certainly do not contradict and therefore pretend a 'faith' outwardly, but which cannot be called faith as long as man lacks the inner conviction. And man can again only get this inner conviction from God Himself, from Him, Who knows about everything and Who also wants to give His creatures a light, so that they find their way out of darkness of spirit. Therefore man must turn to God in thoughts or in prayer, who wants to win a convinced faith. But man again only goes to God who inwardly confesses Him, who feels connected to him and who is therefore inwardly connected to Him because he lives in love. No man will have a living faith, which is without love .... Because the intellect will not be able to give him conviction, because spiritual areas, spiritual knowledge, cannot be fathomed with the intellect. Man will never reach spiritual knowledge intellectually. The intellect can well think through the knowledge received through the heart and take a stand on it, and as soon as love fills a man, the intellect will also not resist it. Then it will accept spiritual knowledge undoubtedly, also when it is offered to it on the part of a fellowman, because love in man gives it the light of recognition. One thing let it be said to you that there is no living faith without love, that intellect cannot replace love when it is about pure spiritual knowledge .... that on the other hand earthly knowledge, for which the proofs are only inaccessible to man, can be accepted believingly by intellect, as soon as the teacher seems to be credible to him. But there is no evidence for spiritual knowledge, and yet faith in it can become conviction in the human being, yet only ever when the human being, through a life of love, attains knowledge which is conveyed to him by God Himself through the spirit .... Then this 'working of the spirit in man' is proof enough, and then it can certainly also be spoken of a 'faith', and still it is no dead faith, but it has become alive through love, and convinced the man now represents that, what cannot be substantiated through proof. But when (now a) man has fullest trust and confidence in him who teaches him, also about spiritual knowledge, then he will also be able to believe; he will accept unchecked when he himself leads a love life, and he will build up on the spiritual knowledge imparted to him, i.e. always base his walk of life on the knowledge and make the will of God his own, which he gets to know through spiritual knowledge. And if he lives according to God's will then it will also become light in him, and he will learn to differentiate truth from error, he will also become knowledgeable and win a living, i.e. convinced faith ...._>Amen

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Indication of the adversary's activity .... (Speaking in tongues)

B.D. 8641 from October 10th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

You should believe that My adversary will try anything in order to overrule Me, to undermine My activity, to prevent you humans from hearing My Word which signifies light for you in the darkness. And he will always find people complying with his will; he will try to beguile them into believing that they are being of service to Me Myself, and yet they are his servants. He has already largely succeeded in confusing people by igniting deceptive lights for them, so that they believe themselves to be standing in the radiance of light, yet they are far removed from the light of truth. I cannot forcibly eliminate his activity because the human being must make his own decision as to whether he listens to him or to Me .... However, as soon as he has the serious will to know the truth he will also be able to recognise it. No person would ever reject My Word from above were he in heartfelt contact with Me and desired the pure truth from Me .... Yet as soon as he is indifferent or fanatically holds on to spiritual information of unknown origin, he will not be able to recognise the truth and spread his own spiritual knowledge. If he then wants absolute clarity, he must first of all be serious about it, he must appeal to Me Myself for protection from all deception by the adversary .... And I will protect him and grant him light .... he can be assured of that. I know what methods My adversary is using and that people are therefore in great danger of falling prey to his temptations. And yet I can only provide them with obvious help when I recognise their will to be of service to Me and the truth .... Then the adversary's power will be broken. He will no longer succeed in applying his artful deceptions, for then he will always be recognised as the one he is .... My adversary has many opportunities to work against Me, for he presents himself in the garment of an angel of light, he does not shy away from using My name and causing immense confusion among people. The pure truth exposes his activity and everyone who knows this truth will recognise him, providing he is of good will. Therefore, you humans bear a great responsibility, because it is you who allow his working, you could just as well prevent his activity if you seriously wanted to escape his power and his influence .... For I will always support this serious will by giving you strength to put it into action. It is always just a certain indifference which allows him to influence you. And if you want to liberate yourselves, then he will often use stronger methods to keep you enthralled: by trying to confound you through unusual phenomena. But then take notice: His activity will not grant you clear light; instead, it will always produce incomprehensible results whose mystic character will baffle you, thus they will seem supernatural, yet they are basically merely unpleasant deceptions from which you derive no gain whatsoever. Can you receive greater clarification than through My Word? For it is comprehensible to everyone and only requires good will in order to be felt by you as 'light'? As soon as something is incomprehensible to you, reject it, for I, your Father of eternity, will always speak to My children such that they can understand Me, but not in a way that you become even more confused than before ....

Where My spirit expresses itself, there shines brightest light .... where My adversary's spirit is active, you will always be drawn into profound darkness, by this alone you already know what you should make of experiences which all belong to the manifestations of the end, when My adversary will try anything in order to win people over for him. Therefore beware and don't lose yourselves to him, for as soon as you sincerely appeal for My protection you belong to Me and against Me he cannot win ....

Amen

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(Received after debate on intercession) "speaking in tongues" ....

B.D. 8642 from October 12th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

You always only need to request a light from Me, and I will also enlighten you, because it is My will that you walk in fullest truth, who are to serve Me as bearers of light and truth. Believe Me that only from Me the right truth can flow towards you, and therefore always only firmly hold on to Me, Who am eternal truth. Again and again I emphasize that the whole of mankind walks along in darkness, that error has crept in and taken root everywhere and that men can only free themselves with difficulty because they are too deeply entangled in error. Everywhere I want to light the light of truth where only men are willing to serve Me and to live in My will. But who does not completely free himself from adopted spiritual good, who is not able to break away from error and therefore cannot because the desire for the sole truth out of Me does not fill him to such an extent that he would recognize what contradicts this My truth .... He will also inwardly resist when pure truth out of Me is offered to him. For in the course of time you humans have erected an edifice of faith for yourselves which has many flaws, and you do not recognize them because there is a certain spiritual arrogance in you which prevents you from deeply and humbly asking for pure truth. And even if I let a bearer of truth step into your path who can give you enlightenment you try to impose your misguided spiritual knowledge on him again and don't recognize his mission. And again you believe to be of service to Me .... But I instruct My bearers of light to spread the spiritual knowledge which they received from Me Myself and not to accept anything which deviates from it, because a teaching which contradicts it can never have originated from Me .... And you represent a false doctrine, which you try to prevent people from interceding for the souls of the deceased .... Let it be said to you that you mislead people and prevent them from carrying out a work of love if you only impose the slightest restriction on them in their intercession for poor souls .... I truly do not contradict Myself, and I will not impart this teaching to one and that to another .... And if you believe that you have to take the book of the books (fathers) as your guide, then I will tell you that you misunderstand many things, that your interpretation does not always correspond to the truth, that you have adopted concepts which completely deviate from the truth .... I want to tell you that you cannot gain much spiritually as long as you do not fully stand in truth, even if you believe to be called to unusual work. Fullest truth is basic condition for beneficial work among men. And you do not yet possess this as long as you spread such opinions, which contradict My love and wisdom .... as long as you find yourselves in situations which you pretend to be, which are likewise no signs of divine activity, which never give light but only confuse, for your God and father will not express Himself to you humans in such a way that you cannot understand Him, instead you first have to unravel it and this is again only your own intellectual knowledge but never My word. Do not impute such work to Me for you, which neither testifies to My love nor My wisdom, but know that I will always express Myself so that everyone can understand Me and feels addressed by Me. People are not to be plunged into even greater confusion, for the darkness is already deep enough than that it should still be intensified. And when I bring you together with bearers of light, then accept the light and seriously consider what you are well able to give, you who still make use of such outer forms, because you do not know what is to be understood by 'spiritual gifts', because you adopted customs, which are senseless and have no value at all for the maturing of the souls of those who listen to you (speaking in tongues). All abilities shall certainly be revived in you, which you had given away through your sin-fall .... But then you must first recognize the one truth, and then you will not spread false doctrines; you will not demand of men the opposite of that what I Myself demand of them: that they take care of the deceased in love, that they give power through their intercession to the souls, which are completely powerless and depend on help on the part of men and the light beings in the kingdom on the other side. As long as you spread such false doctrine, you yourselves have not yet penetrated into truth and therefore can also not teach your fellowmen. But I still seek to guide the light of truth everywhere, and I will also provide My light bearers at any time with the power to pass on this light; I will do everything to take action against error, because error can never have a beneficial effect, because it is a means of My opponent, who will fight against truth until the end. But truth will be victorious, for I am truth Myself, and the light of truth will shine brightly into the darkness, it will make My adversary's activity visible, it will expose and refute every misguided teaching, and the truth will enlighten every person of good will ...._>Amen

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Explanation about baptism with water ....

B.D. 8643 from October 13th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

You still do not understand the spiritual meaning of My Word .... you interpret the letters intellectually and therefore cannot get the correct results. You cannot understand what I wanted to say when I told My disciples ‘Baptise them in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost.’ By ‘baptism’ you only ever understand the immersion in water .... an external formality performed by people to demonstrate their obedience to the commandment of baptism .... which, however, is and always was merely an accompanying formality but it does not affect the real core of My commandment. Baptism with water as such does not actually effect a transformation of the person, as you humans will have to admit .... Only the contribution of what emanates from the Father, the Son and the spirit .... which proves the Father’s love, the Son’s wisdom and the spirit’s strength .... can cause a change in the human being and is the true baptism, which every person must have received in order to reach his goal on earth: to perfect himself in order to be eternally united with Me.

The Father .... love .... is an eternal fire which emanates the light of wisdom .... the Son, and the strength of the spirit has to express itself as a result. The human being .... as a weak creature, has to be so permeated by love and wisdom that he in turn attains strength and freedom himself once again. He has to be permeated by My spirit, hence love, wisdom and spiritual strength have to characterise him as a divine living being which has returned to perfection. The human being has to immerse himself in the sea of My love, he has to be guided into truth, which will always come about by way of My will, My strength and My greater than great love.

Baptise them in the name of the Father .... be kind when you give them My Word which is wisdom, and thereby enable the working of the spirit in the human being, which presumes an activity of love, because the manifestation of My spirit is the gift of My love which expresses itself in the conveyance of wisdom .... of truthful knowledge .... Love, wisdom and strength .... they have to be truthfully clarified to you humans, and this clarification is a true baptism of spirit which cannot be replaced by an immersion in water.

Try to understand that you humans should not adhere to external formalities .... try to understand that I truly do not demand outward appearances from you but only ever evaluate what is done in spirit and in truth. And if you now, as evidence of your correct thinking, refer to My baptism by John in the river Jordan, then remember that people knew very little about Me in those days, that outward actions meant a lot to them then, and that every person needed a certain degree of maturity first in order to explain to him the spiritual meaning of baptism. Besides, by their willingness to be baptised by John people proved their desire to come closer to their God and Creator, and in those days this was indeed a substantial spiritual gain. And thus I, too, submitted Myself to this formality in order to legitimise the actions of My forerunner John. It would have been futile to explain the unimportance of this external action to people because they would have been unable to comprehend the pure spiritual truth. The baptism with water caused them no harm, but would only be beneficial to them when they also accepted the Word of God, which John passed on to them ....

And therefore the human being today will also receive ‘baptism’ when he accepts My Word, which is conveyed to him by My infinite Fatherly love, and lives accordingly and thereby finds wisdom .... as a result of love .... which awakens and activates My spirit of light and strength inside of him .... However, all this cannot be replaced by baptism with water, the latter will always remain a symbol, an external formality from which people do not want to part because they try to demonstrate everything outwardly and are not content with the value of purely spiritual experiences.

I can only ever repeat that all external actions and customs are of no benefit, that I will never judge a person by his outward action but solely by his inner attitude towards Me and My Word. As soon as a human being accepts My Word, acknowledges it and lives accordingly he will perfect himself while still on earth, because My Word is the water of life which comes forth from the source of all being. And in this water you should immerse yourselves, this water will flow from your body and you will experience the spiritual baptism when the spirit within you awakens to life, when you are permeated by love, wisdom and strength and you once again become the original being you once were, when by the water of life you achieve eternal life which you will never lose again ....

Amen

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Why do people so easily fall prey to error? .... Truth ....

B.D. 8644 from October 14th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

It is indeed difficult for you, My servants on earth, to assert yourselves against misconceptions, for everything that comes from the adversary will also be endorsed by him, and he will support those who are of service to him in every way by spreading error and plunging people into ever greater darkness. His worst action, however, rests in the fact that he makes them believe that they are working for Me. And thus you will also understand when it is said that he will appear in the garment of an angel of light, and you will equally understand that truth and error are often close together .... that the same seemingly takes place and yet it is entirely the opposite, concerning its content as well as its effect. And you will raise the question as to why I allow this to happen, since I, after all, love My living creations and would like to lead them into beatitude .... You will raise the objection that all human beings strive for happiness and yet can be misled by the adversary and the enemy of their souls. And again, there is only one answer to this, namely, that every person need only establish heartfelt contact with Me and sincerely appeal to Me to protect him from error .... Then he would also brightly and clearly recognise the error .... But what causes the adversary to have such a large following .... why do people allow themselves to be caught up in a misconception without opposing it? They are indifferent to the truth, they don't deliberate enough on what their fellow human beings tell them, they don't have the desire for the bright light of realisation to be kindled in them .... And this is because their nature is not yet controlled by love, because they are still too attached to the world and fail to live up to My commandments of love for God and their neighbour, otherwise they would be brightly enlightened and permeated by the desire for truth. They certainly acknowledge the fact that people are required to lead a spiritual life and therefore join this or that school of thought, they allow leaders to push them into this or that direction of thought and do not sufficiently reflect on it themselves because they have not yet found a heartfelt bond with Me which is the result of a life of love ....

The whole explanation only rests in the individual person's degree of love as to whether and why the human being falls prey to error. Equally, however, the person whose way of life is a life of love will just as surely know the truth .... And I can only convey the pure truth to earth by way of actively loving people, so that it is always possible to gain possession of the truth, because this is guaranteed by the love within a person's heart. And this, too, is known by My adversary, consequently he tries to distort the concept of love .... He stops people from correctly realising what they should do in order to gain My love .... He stops people from carrying out unselfish deeds of love and thereby also from attaining inner enlightenment. He will always know how to nourish a person's selfish love, and for that time the latter will remain in spiritual darkness and think wrongly, for he will be receptive to many currents of thought which originate from the adversary. The human being, however, has free will .... If he seriously wants to know the truth it will also imparted to him with certainty .... However, if a person only relies on that which is supplied to him by another fellow human being without actually experiencing the burning desire to learn the pure truth from his God and Creator himself, then he will neither recognise error nor defend himself against it and My adversary will have succeeded in his work of increasing the darkness; this will become particularly evident at the end of an earthly period so as not to lose his followers who, however, would recognise his true nature and renounce him if they knew the truth. Everyone who reaches out with pleading hands in order to accept the truth from Me will also be able to receive it in abundance, and the truth will indeed make him very happy. Even so, I cannot prevent My adversary's activity since he is entitled to fight for his followers. And no matter how apprehensible his methods are .... the human being need not succumb to him because he always has strength at his disposal and because he need only turn to Me Myself in order to be protected from his influence. And truly, My Word is being conveyed to earth as a brightly shining light which can also be recognised by all people as truth .... However, anyone who is still so entrenched in selfish love will also be instilled by My adversary with the belief that he lives on earth as an elevated spirit, and this misguided point of view entails that the human being also keeps himself closed to every emanation of light which originates from Me directly. And yet the person believes to be of service to Me and is nevertheless not aware of My will which requires him to hand himself over to Me completely in order to then be permeated by Me with the light of truth, in order to enable Me Myself to address him, Who undeniably needs servants on earth but only those who have completely entered into My will and are therefore able to work on earth on My behalf ....

Amen

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The vineyard labourers trust in divine guidance ....

B.D. 8645 from October 15th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

You can always rely on My guidance by merely placing yourselves under My protection and choosing Me as your guide. In that case you can rest assured that I will protect you from My adversary's every onslaught, that you will always receive the strength to resist him if he wants to tempt you, for once your will belongs to Me I Am also entitled to protect you from him, otherwise, however, I will not stop him because he, too, is fighting for the souls so as not to lose them. It is always the human being's own decision to whose power he entrusts himself .... Yet I will at all times assist the person who has found the path to Me. Then he will also be active in accordance with My will, for My influence consists of encouraging the human being to live a way of life which is pleasing to Me .... Then he will always feel inwardly impelled to do or not to do this or that and he can be certain of the fact that I Myself place this urge in him, that it is My expression which is felt by the heart of the human being who entrusts himself to Me. Similarly, I will place the right thoughts into your hearts, My servants on earth, when you work for Me in My vineyard, because this should also be done according to My instructions, even if it occasionally seems doubtful to you. As soon as you have offered your services to Me I will also assign your work to you and you can safely follow your inner inclination. Nothing happens thoughtlessly, I always pursue a specific plan or purpose, and you only ever accomplish what I would do Myself if I lived on this earth in the flesh .... Thus you represent Me, and you can believe that I place My will in you so that you seemingly act according to your own will, but that this resolve is always caused by Me because you voluntarily offer to work for Me. But not all people pay attention to the inner voice and therefore I cannot speak to them directly, nor can I speak so frankly to them that they will be convinced of being addressed by the Father Himself .... I must speak to people through mediators whose words they can either accept or reject, yet this is up to them on account of their freedom of will. Nevertheless, no human being shall go without My merciful care, I look after everyone and show them the right path when they go astray .... For this reason I inform them through My messengers of the right path which they, in their spiritual darkness, often can't find or take a path which leads them astray because it is illuminated by the deceptive lights My adversary has ignited in order to mislead people who want to reach higher spheres .... But as soon as these call upon Me Myself and appeal for My protection and guidance they are already on the right path and I will send My messengers to meet them in order to assist with their ascent to Me. Nevertheless, My protection and guidance are only rarely called upon, people believe they have enough strength and light at their disposal and that they will then also be receptive to My adversary's influence who knows how to present them with flowery paths and to conjure up the most attractive regions which, however, will infallibly end up in darkness .... and thus the human being has not ascended at all but walked down into the abyss. Only the person who voluntarily entrusts himself to My guidance can travel his earthly path without worrying, for he will reach the goal .... He has handed himself over to Me of his own free will, and I will indeed be his final goal, he will join Me, the One he always intended to reach .... I only want you to voluntarily give Me the right to guide you through your life on earth, then you will never need to fear going astray or failing, for then you will also always do what is right before My eyes, because this will is in you once you have accepted My will and given up your own will .... in that case the adversary will have no more power over you because you will resist his temptations, you will remain faithful to Me and I will always grant you My protection ....

Amen

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The gospel of love must be proclaimed ....

B.D. 8646 from October 16th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

When the gospel of love is preached to you then you know that it is Me Myself on whose behalf My messengers offer to you what is exceedingly important if you want to reach soul maturity still on earth. Then I will address you Myself through the mouth of a human being, for I want to impress upon you the importance of fulfilling My commandments of love; I want to induce you to change your selfish love into unselfish neighbourly love .... I want to encourage you to unite with Me Myself, for I am love, and every work of love unites you with Me, with every work of love you tie Me Myself to you, and therefore you can only take on your original nature again through loving activity, since you were emanated by Me as pure love and were perfect .... Only love brings about this change back. And this is your only earth life task, to form your nature again to love. And that is why I have to preach to you again and again My divine love teaching; I have to make use of the mouth of My servants on earth to preach to you the gospel, which demands from you fulfilment of My love commandments. Your nature is still too much filled with self-love; every person thinks too much of himself and does not respect his fellow human being who needs his help in spiritual or earthly adversity .... and he is not aware of the fact that every day is lived in vain where a work of love could not help his soul to mature .... And that is why he has to be pointed to it again and again; I have to send My messengers to him again and again, which remind him to take care of the neighbour unselfishly, to put his own ego aside and to always only practice love, which alone helps him to perfection .... But he is also to receive a right, truthful enlightenment about the meaning of My love commandments; he is to know about the effect of a right love life and about the severe consequences of a way of life without love .... The reason for his being human is always to be explained in all truth, which was the rejection of My love and the transformation of the original being into unkindness; he is to know what love itself is .... that it is My fundamental nature, that it is also the original substance of every single created being and that without love every being must be called highly imperfect, that perfection cannot be thought of without love .... that all beatitude, all light and all strength is dependent on love and that therefore the human being only walks across earth to shape his nature into love again if he wants to be eternally happy .... Where therefore the gospel of love is preached to you men, there you hear Me Myself, because I stand behind everyone who teaches love, and he then only expresses what I Myself would say, if I would stay in the midst of you and teach you. But I always have to make use of a man to force no man to believe, because also love must remain completely free despite the commandment, because a forced love is no love and therefore also draws no blessing after it. Deep in the heart the divine spark must be ignited, which I have placed into you, so that you are able to love at all, because you gave away this ability in free will when you rejected every illumination of love from Me .... You were completely devoid of all love, and you would never ever be able to reach perfection on earth if My merciful love had not provided you with a tiny spark which you only need to ignite, which can flare up brightly in you and burn into a mighty fire .... And this is the aim which you are to reach: that you are again filled with love power and afterwards become again divine beings, which you were in the beginning. But at the beginning of your embodiment you lack all knowledge about your original state, your apostasy from Me and your earth assignment. And that is why again and again the gospel of love is preached to you; that is why you are also again and again fatefully stimulated to love work. Your life will take place so that you can always practice unselfish love, and your will is always only to be prepared to use every opportunity where you can be active in love. Because your life in eternity depends on it. Only the soul, which shapes itself to love, can stay in nearness to God .... Only love brings about the union with Me, the eternal love, and only love gives you back again all qualities and abilities, which belong to perfection and which you once voluntarily gave away when you gave up your love to Me and therefore hardened in your substance .... You must again become love; you must again accept your original nature, otherwise you cannot become happy in eternity. And because you did not know this at the beginning of your embodiment as a result of your lack of love, which is also lack of light, My commandments of love are repeatedly brought to you, on the fulfilment of which your beatitude depends .... For only through love will you unite with Me again, and you will be perfect again as you were in the beginning ...._>Amen

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Forgiveness through Jesus Christ .... increase of the degree of love ....

B.D. 8647 from October 17th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

If you openly confess Me in Jesus, then you also belong to Mine, over whom I watch and whom I protect on all their ways. If you have accepted Jesus as divine redeemer then you will also have turned to Me Myself again, Who became man in Jesus. And since Jesus has atoned for your original sin through His crucifixion and you acknowledge Me again as your God and creator, you now also return to Me again, your free will has become active, which completely hands itself over to Me and which has subordinated itself to Mine .... And you belong to Me .... the release from My opponent is accomplished because Jesus Christ has ransomed you from him with His life, because He has redeemed your sin guilt with His blood. And anyone who has become Mine can now also fearlessly end his earthly life, he will no longer fall prey to My adversary, for his power has been broken through Jesus death on the cross. I Myself have won over him in a man, Who was so filled with love that He won the superiority over the opponent, who is powerless against love. What man now has to endure on earth are only purification means of his soul, which is to purify itself, so that it can be radiated through with light to a high degree, when it enters the kingdom on the other side. The original sin is therefore redeemed through the acknowledgement of Jesus and the request for forgiveness. But the soul still has to work on itself to reach the highest perfection, because through the endless long separation from Me, its God and creator, it had stepped out of its state of perfection, it had become a completely love-less being, which has indeed reached a certain degree of maturity again through service in the state of compulsion, which however has to consciously acquire the illumination of love from Me again in earth life, which has to consciously increase its degree of love through its own love activity in free will .... And this degree of love can still be low, and that is man's work on his soul to increase it, through which the soul becomes crystal clear and can now receive stronger and stronger light radiation. You therefore have to make a distinction between 'forgiveness of your guilt of sin' and 'perfection of your soul', which every person can achieve himself on earth precisely through conscious activity of love .... The forgiveness of sins is given to you through Jesus' work of mercy, but love must be kindled by the human being himself and flare up into the brightest flame, and that is why a soul which has found Jesus can certainly enter the kingdom of light because He has redeemed its guilt of sin .... but the degree of light can be completely different. And that is why the human being must make good use of his earthly life for works of love in order to increase his degree of love (light), and the more blissful he will be after the death of his body .... Love and suffering bring about the purification of a soul; love and suffering earn it an ever higher degree of light, and that is why you are also to bless suffering, because it is an effective aid, which brings you to maturity. People who have not yet found Jesus also often have to suffer, and then their gaze is to be turned towards Him Who took upon Himself the greatest suffering voluntarily and out of love for people whom He knew to be in greatest spiritual hardship and wanted to help them. For the thought of Him will once arise in every person who knows about Him, especially in great suffering .... but whether the thoughts are accepted is again determined by the free will of man, and that is why such thought waves can also be rejected. And the soul remains further in greatest trouble. And again, people who reject the divine redeemer Jesus Christ will also perform few works of love because love would already earn them a brighter degree of knowledge and they would then not be open opponents of the divine redeemer .... Because those men are influenced by the opponent and also prevent them from love work. And still opportunity enough is offered to all where they could practise love. But the acknowledgment of Jesus and therefore the acknowledgment of Myself .... earns every person increased strength, for I take care of all those who want to return to Me, which proves their acknowledgement of Me Myself in Jesus. I truly leave no man without help, without protection and without power, because I am infinitely much concerned about the return of every single soul, and what can be done for its rescue out of the fetters of dark power, that will truly not be omitted .... For My love pursues all My creatures who once voluntarily departed from Me, and My love was the cause that I Myself accomplished the work of salvation in the man Jesus, for this love was embodied in the man Jesus .... The eternal deity Itself had ascended to earth, It completely filled the man Jesus and accomplished the greatest work of mercy in Him for the sake of people who languished in the adversary's fetters and were unable to release themselves from him .... He loosed those bonds, He laid down His life to restore life to those who had fallen .... to those who had perished .... He has redeemed the great guilt that was the cause of your being on this earth. And He has cleared the way for you again to your God and creator, to your father from eternity ...._>Amen

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Answer to question about re-embodiment ....

B.D. 8648 from October 18th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

As long as you humans live on earth you are still imperfect, and this also means that your knowledge is still subject to limitations, that you cannot grasp everything .... Nevertheless, I instruct you according to your degree of maturity, and it is therefore up to you yourselves to increase your knowledge by increasing your degree of love, which will always be the measure of your maturity of soul. If you are full of love then you will also be able to see through everything clearly .... If you lack love then you will also lack understanding, even if you receive fullest enlightenment. For knowledge only then becomes realization when the spirit in you is awakened through love. But My direct address from above is to contribute to it that your will to love is strengthened, that you are to learn to recognize Me intellectually and then also love is ignited in you to Him, Who has created you .... And that is why I will also always fulfil your request to send you enlightenment so that you are able to recognize Me as loving father and return My love towards you with counter love. My plan of return is not unknown to you, and so you also know about it that every soul once has to start the course over earth, which then is the last stretch of way before the return into the kingdom on the other side. You also know that this walk on earth results in different success with different men and that this is the result of the free will of My creatures, which I will never touch because it is the characteristic of a divine creature. You further know that for this life as man a little spark of love is given to you, which only makes the change back to your original being possible for you, when you ignite this little spark of love in you and let it flare up to a bright flame. When a soul has covered the course through earth creation in bound will, that it has now reached the degree of maturity, which is the prerequisite for embodiment as man, then also the divine spark of love is associated with it, no matter where and in which stage of culture it comes into the world. And man himself has it in his hand to nourish this love spark or to completely stifle it in himself. The greater his inner resistance to the good, the divine, the more he will lag behind in his spiritual maturity. But the feeling for good and evil is present in every man, because he .... as I have often explained .... the execution of good and evil in himself and because he also has the silent admonisher, the voice of conscience, within himself. That he also can lack the concept in which measure he is to listen to the inner voice towards fellowmen is possible because his inner resistance against Me is still so strong and he therefore stands under the power of My opponent. And then his earth walk can hardly earn him the last maturity, and he will have to repeat it. But now the assumption of you men is wrong that he can return again to earth at will out of the kingdom on the other side and that it repeats itself so often until he once has reached the necessary maturity. For even in the kingdom of the beyond the soul will have the opportunity to develop upwards if it gives up its inner resistance .... But it can sink just as deeply into darkness, and endless times can pass if it does not accept the help offered to it to redeem it from hell .... Then it will be hardened more and more, and it will again have to pass through the passage of earth-creation .... And this can repeat itself more than once, and depending on how its inner resistance subsides, the embodiment as man will now also take place in such life situations where there is the most prospect to mature in an earth life. You all forget the many schooling stations which are ready in My creation for the reception of souls of all degrees of maturity .... When you are told that the soul of man enters the kingdom of the beyond, you do not yet quite understand what is to be understood by the latter: Everything outside of earthly life is "beyond." .... And all celestial bodies harbour spiritual substances in the most diverse degrees of development, where every soul can truly continue its course of development if it does not persist in its resistance so stubbornly that it does its mischief in uncreated spaces to its own torment. Also then it can once again come to its senses because My love and mercy gives up no soul and always gives every soul the possibility to come to a gleam of light and to carry out the change in itself by it giving up its resistance for the first time and being accessible to the instructions, which are also granted to it in the kingdom on the other side. And I truly also know the spiritual constitution of every soul; I also know about the maturing possibilities which are beneficial to every individual soul and which promise success .... But I never see these in a renewed earth course as man, in a transferring back of the soul to earth, if there are not very special reasons, which again only aim at the rescue of weak souls. I am not an unjust God, Who considers His creatures differently out of a whim and therefore not every man is offered the same possibilities. But time does not play a role with Me either .... I reach My aim .... However, I would never reach this aim through ever-repeated testimony as a human being on this earth, because there is one thing I cannot do out of My will: to force the human being's will so that he makes the right decision .... to induce the human being to have a rightly directed will through My power. His free will can fail again and again and the earth walk be in vain. Every soul lives its own life, and I know exactly about the successes, which it still can achieve, because I know its will. And accordingly I can and will shorten or lengthen the earth life of man .... I will call off prematurely where a relapse is to be feared, so as not to endanger the degree of maturity already reached, and I will give a high age to those where an increase of the degree of maturity or still a turning back to Me is evident, to make the course of development in the hereafter possible for the latter souls. But do not believe that the respective human state of culture has an influence on the development of the soul .... because a life of love is not dependent on outer things or on increased earthly knowledge, because it is at all times and everywhere about the ignition of the love spark in the heart, which however is independent of culture and custom, because it is a pure spiritual process in man when he ignites this love spark in him, and for this always the living together with other men and the divine creation surrounding him can stimulate him. Thus even the most primitive person will be able to increase his soul's maturity, especially if he is also given the knowledge of the divine redeemer Jesus Christ, which can still be imparted to him in the beyond if the soul is only of good will ...._>Amen

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The source of all power is God ....

B.D. 8649 from October 19th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

As source of strength from eternity only strength flows out from Me into infinity .... There is no other being which disposes of power on its own authority unless the power has flowed to it from Me. And no being will eternally be able to put Me out of power because all beings are the products of My power, which My will put out of Me. And no matter how perfectly they were created, no matter how they shape themselves in free will to the highest perfection and become My children .... they will never be able to outdo Me Myself as the source of strength, they will never be able to prevent Me Myself from carrying out My will, because the strength to do so is always at My disposal .... And thus I will always and forever remain the lord of heaven and earth, the lord of the universe, to Whom everything that is is subject .... And whether it be hell .... the darkest power .... it will have to submit to My will and My strength, it will never be able to overrule Me, for even the prince of darkness first emerged from My strength, and he would have long since passed away had I completely withdrawn My strength from him, for he, too, is imperishable, thus he is held in place by My strength, otherwise he would have to perish. And so My power also secures the existence of everything what came out of Me, be it spiritual or earthly creations, because also the earthly creations are bearers of My power, and whether they also seem to be transient to you men and are also transient according to their outer form, so the spiritual power still remains, out of which they are formed, because also all matter is power, which has condensed itself to form. And so I am everything in everything .... And I will be until all eternity .... The power will never use itself up; it will not decrease, and whether also power constantly flows out of Me Myself as the eternal source of power and enlivens the entire spiritual and material creation and sustains it, it will never decrease; it will constantly let new creations arise. The number of first-created beings, which fell away from Me, is now endless, and eternities belong to it to again lead these fallen into the deep back to Me .... Therefore also innumerable redemption periods, innumerable creations of spiritual and material kind belong to it, which again requires constant power radiation out of Me .... But all creating belongs to My happiness, and it is also to increase the happiness of all created beings, which have again reached the degree of perfection that they can create and form themselves in free will. All these beings now draw power from Me, and this influx of power is their happiness, which is constantly increased through the use of power in the right will. And this flowing through of the beings with My power will have no end, therefore also the creating and being able to form will have no end, but always My endless love and wisdom will also determine the creative activity in the law of eternal order, and the perfect beings will also always be active according to this order. And whether also My opponent, who stepped out of this eternal order, seeks to wrongly direct the power also flowing through him and through this to create chaotic conditions, he will always only succeed to a certain degree .... But he will never be able to prevent Me from constantly letting new creations come into being which only have the one purpose of invalidating his negative work insofar as that these creations harbour that fallen spiritual which the adversary once tried to cause to misuse the strength flowing out from Me .... This wrongly used power is now bound in those creations and can no longer work against Me; it is also wrested from the influence of My opponent and is now compulsorily caused to serving functions, so that it again works according to divine order .... All power, which goes out from Me, irrevocably flows back again to the source of power, and this law also guarantees the safe return of all fallen spiritual (to Me) and even My opponent will once again take the way to Me .... The power, which once voluntarily departed from Me, which no longer wanted to operate according to the eternal order, will also return again to its source .... For although My adversary is to be addressed as the antipole and thus embodies the opposing force, this force is not stronger than I, for it, too, first originated with Me Myself as the eternal source of power, it is just that I allow every force emanated as a creature .... created being the freedom to use its strength according to its will. And even if this will is now directed wrongly, it will still no longer be able to counteract, as far as I do not allow it, because I alone am the lord, and everything created is subject to Me, and no matter how perfect it was put out of Me .... A fight against Me is unsuccessful and only contributes to the own weakening of the one fighting against Me .... But it causes Me to constantly work and create anew, because My power cannot rest, and it always wants to work in a happy way and therefore also form all created so that also these creatures find their happiness in the right use of the power continuously flowing towards them ...._>Amen

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Address to vineyard workers ....

B.D. 8650 from October 20th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

Again and again I approach you with the assignment to spread My word, to bring light into darkness, to announce My gospel to all, whom I lead into the way. And when I give you this assignment then you can also be sure that I Myself bless your effort and support you in every activity, which you carry out for Me. And I also know in which way everything has to happen to be successful, both for fellowmen as well as for you .... I will direct your thoughts, and I will also remove all obstacles from your way, because I Myself want it that My word is supplied to men, which I Myself direct from above to earth .... And you can believe that everything is known to Me, that I know about the will of every single soul and therefore also about who will accept My word without resistance .... I also want to protect you from unsuccessful work, and that is why I will also put the right thoughts into your heart, which you always only need to pay attention to, which you then will also put into action according to My will. But often I also test the firmness of your will, whether you also do not let yourselves be frightened back by failures and still serve Me .... But you can also be assured that I am always with you with My help and that visible blessings flow to you, only you are not allowed to slacken in your striving, in your vineyard work, and you must constantly make an effort to prove your love to Me out of full heart, which drives you to work for Me. And you are to know that I need loyal servants in My vineyard because darkness is almost impenetrable and My light has to be carried into the night. Pure truth is hardly to be found anymore, on the other hand error is everywhere where My light does not shine from above to earth. Human thinking has supported error, and the intellect of man also no longer finds out of error alone. What once went out from Me in all perfection, when I Myself walked on earth and brought purest truth to men, that has been completely deformed and is still represented by men as truth, because they themselves are of darkened spirit and no longer able to distinguish truth from error. But only truth can lead men to perfection; error on the other hand will always hand them over more to My opponent, who himself does everything to darken the spirit of men, because he does not want to lose them and because truth brightly and clearly shows the way to Me, but which the opponent seeks to darken with all means to drive men towards the abyss. And people themselves, in all indifference, allow themselves to be pushed onto the wrong path by him if they are not constantly admonished and warned by messengers from above, if they do not allow themselves to be guided by those who know the right path .... And I Myself call My messengers and give them the assignment to guide their fellowmen, to give them a right light, to give them truthful instructions, which they have received from Me Myself. Believe it that I only therefore speak to you from above so that you yourselves are so convinced inwardly of truth that you represent it just as convinced to your fellowmen. Believe it that it is My will to bring truth to fellowmen, and that I will therefore also bless every effort, which applies to this vineyard work. And believe it that I know whether and when a man is receptive and when therefore spiritual material is to be supplied to him, and I truly carry out My will, by Me directing you so mentally and in work for Me that success will not fail to come. Because is there anything what would be impossible for Me? But everything also needs its time because I can also judge it best when man is ripe for My gifts of favour, which are to promote his soul maturity and are truly also suitable for it. However, present all your wishes and requests to Me and have a confidential conversation with Me, constantly ask for My blessing, ask for My protection from My adversary's activity, who will also do everything to undermine the work for Me and My kingdom .... But as soon as you entrust yourselves to Me and My protection, as soon as you hand over all your worries to Me, I will also bring all your endeavours to a good end, I will bless you and your work and you will carry out your assignment with success .... I Myself will guide all your steps, I will take you by the hand and you will walk the right path .... you will only want to be active for Me because you feel My presence. For you will receive strength from Me, and you will feel so intimately united with Me that you will be happy to be allowed to serve Me, because only then will you recognize your mission and faithfully want to fulfil it according to My will ...._>Amen

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The true church of Christ ....

B.D. 8651 from October 21st 1963, taken from Book No. 91

Anyone who belongs to My church also has to have a living faith, a faith which came alive through love and thus enables the working of the spirit in the human being, which again is only the result of love. The members of My church will only ever consist of people who are so sincerely united with Me that they feel My presence, whose faith is consequently unwavering and cannot be shaken .... which stands firm like a rock against every onslaught from outside, on account of which I said to Peter ‘Upon you I will build My church ....’ For Peter’s faith was strong and unwavering, even though during one hour he did not pass the test of faith, since events precipitated and shook his confidence .... It was, however, more due to his intellect, which saw no way out from greatest danger, whereas his soul was pushed back and felt abandoned .... Yet after this test of faith his love for Me grew ever deeper and his faith strengthened, and such faith I also expect of those who want to belong to My church. Then they will no longer fall victim to My adversary and their enemy ....

A member of My church will always recognise the truth and renounce all error, because My spirit works in him as an indication that he is part of the church founded by Me .... And where My spirit works there can be no lack of clarity, no doubt and no confused concepts .... A member of My church will be enlightened and his thoughts will be correct ....

This church needs no external characteristics, it needs no organisations, because there are people in all ecclesiastical organisations with a living faith who thereby arouse the spirit within them, and they all affiliate themselves to the ‘Church of Christ’ which, in truth, is a purely spiritual connection of those who unite with Me through love, who do everything consciously and not as a meaningless external activity which is purely mechanically implemented.

You are meant to be living Christians, always conscious of the fact that you should fulfil the purpose of your earthly life, always eagerly striving to reach your goal, and always submitting yourselves to Me so that I Myself can assume your guidance, and then you will truly reach your goal. For I Am not satisfied that you only fulfil humanly decreed commandments which you were taught during your upbringing, which are pointless and do not result in psychological maturity .... As members of the church founded by Me Myself you will also always be My true successors, you will always humbly accept all suffering and hardship affecting you, because you recognise them as a test of faith which you should pass, and as a means of help to increase the maturity of your soul .... For this is what the spirit within tells you, and you will also understand the reasons of what I allow to happen to you.

You will live a second life next to your earthly one, a life in unity with Me, your God and Father of eternity, and this life will guarantee your perfection. Hence every person is able to attain this perfection, irrespective of the school of thought he belongs to, providing he always stays in a living relationship with Me and can thereby also be guided into truth .... which, however, always necessitates a life of love and a firm, living faith .... As long as you humans are lacking both you are just dead forms on this earth which eternally cannot come alive, for your external actions will not result in inner changes which, however, are the meaning and purpose of a human being’s earthly life.

Join the church which I Myself founded on earth, wake up from your sleep of death, bring the spirit in you to life by doing selfless deeds of love, and you will thereby also achieve a faith so unwavering that hell will fail to shake it .... And when you possess such faith you will be truly close to Me already, then you will feel My presence, then you will also regain the abilities that were yours before your apostasy from Me. You will become perfect again as you were in the beginning, and your life will be a happy one for all eternity ....

Amen

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The magnitude of the original sin necessitates Salvation through Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 8652 from October 22nd 1963, taken from Book No. 91

If the knowledge of the infinitely long path of development, which you had to travel before your last embodiment as a human being, is given to you and you think about it, then you will also become aware of the tremendous guilt you had burdened yourselves with by your former apostasy from Me .... Because My sense of justice would certainly not let you endure an excess of suffering if you had not brought it on yourselves. Yet it is not an act of punishment on My part but once again only an act of My eternal love, because I want you to be joyful; however, I cannot give you a blissful life which conflicts with My law of eternal order while your frame of mind opposes Me .... which is the case due to your past antagonism towards Me. However, as human beings you cannot assess the magnitude of your guilt because your thoughts are only limited. Yet the beings which previously had fallen away had no such limitation of knowledge as you have as human beings .... instead they were perfect living creations who were fully enlightened. For that reason their guilt is so tremendous that it requires an act of atonement which could not even be achieved with the infinitely long path through creation. Rather, the greatest act of love and compassion had to be accomplished first by the man Jesus in order to make a final redemption of guilt possible which, however, also necessitates the acknowledgement of Jesus as Son of God and Saviour of the world ....

When you return to the realm of light from where you came you can judge the magnitude of guilt that an opposition to Me had meant. You will also understand that only by following the path through creation can you once again obtain the degree of maturity with which you can also comprehend and accept Jesus’ act of Salvation ....

As human beings, however, you cannot grasp the extent of the immense significance this act of Salvation has for you .... for each individual soul .... and you therefore have to ‘believe’ what you are told and accept the divine Saviour Jesus Christ without proof. Then you become free of your former guilt and once again place your trust in Me .... Who was incarnated in Jesus .... and at the same time voluntarily return to Him, Whom you once refused to acknowledge and Whom you resisted .... You humans certainly can be given complete clarification; however, you are not able to understand everything in your as yet imperfect state. Therefore it will always be an act of faith when you follow the path to the cross but it is also your only and certain salvation because Jesus Christ will then accept the guilt on your behalf, because He died on the cross for the sake of people’s sins, He took them upon Himself and redeemed them with His blood so that you would become free of sin .... And yet, this greatest and most important doctrine concerning the act of Salvation cannot be proven to you .... You have to believe it of your own free will and without any coercion .... And you are able to do so because I will never ask of you the impossible and because I will always help you to come to the right understanding.

However, one thing you should not omit or exclude: that you live a life of love .... because love is the strength which enables you to do everything, because through love you attain enlightenment, and because through love you unite with Me again and establish the condition prior to your fall into sin, when My light could continuously enlighten you. That way I can illuminate you as human beings, as soon as you practise love and voluntarily turn towards Me, no longer oppose Me and open up to Me so that the flow of My love can pour into you without restriction. But this is only possible after you have taken the way to the cross, so that you become free from the guilt of your sins, otherwise you will still suffer in the bonds of the adversary who will prevent you from doing actions of love and keep you in spiritual darkness because he does not want to lose you. Your guilt has been immense but it is redeemed by Jesus Christ Who now has become the visible God for you humans, providing you allow yourselves to be redeemed by Him, because you cannot ever remove your guilt yourselves. I, however, cannot admit you into My kingdom with your guilt because, although I Am in fact a God of love, I Am also a God of justice .... And this justice necessitates complete forgiveness of sins which you can only find in Jesus Christ, in Whom I Myself accomplished the act of Salvation ....

Amen

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Diseases and cure ....

B.D. 8653 from October 23rd 1963, taken from Book No. 91

If you know the blessing of disease, if you know that disease contributes towards the soul's purification .... that disease aids your patience and humility to accept My will and you consequently no longer oppose My will .... if you accept that everything happening to you is recognised by Me as beneficial for you, then you will know that I also recognise the moment in time of your recovery ....

However, the fact that I will not cure you instantly is due to your freedom of will, for then you would be forced to believe in Me and My might, but you shall attain this faith without coercion .... Furthermore, you know that the purpose of earthly life consists of providing loving service .... Thus one will always have to work for the other if he wants to fulfil his helpful earthly task. And thus I will also bless the people who are always willing to help even where it concerns physical ailments and pains, and who are able to do so insofar as that they recognise the cause of an illness and the correct remedies to heal it. For depending on their helpfulness and their love for their weak and suffering fellow human beings they will indeed be successful. But in the final analysis every cure is based on My will which therefore imposes a limit on a human being's work when I recognise that the effect of a long illness is of value for the soul. My will determines a human being's destiny, thus it also includes diseases which the human will is unable to cure despite all applied treatments.

I will never condemn people's attempt to discover methods which are intended to help those who suffer .... For as long as loving helpfulness is the reason for all kinds of research My blessing will rest on it too .... If, however, the motive for producing such remedies is based on the acquisition of earthly possessions, they will generally be ineffective or damaging for the human body despite apparent improvement .... The most harmless remedies can equally suffice to result in a cure, because it is My will and I deem the moment of a cure to have arrived.

An illness shall primarily further the bond with Me, the human being shall take refuge in Me and appeal to Me Myself to be healed, then I will send people to cross your path who only want what is in your best interests, whose thoughts will be guided by Me if they are in contact with Me in thought or through a life of love in accordance with My will. But such healers are only rarely to be found, and therefore people more than ever use remedies which likewise originate from unblessed work .... And then neither the body nor the soul will be able to derive a cure from them because I Myself don't allow that the soul shall be helped against the human being's will .... so that he learns to turn away from the world because the body is no longer able to meet the demands of the world.

Thus you humans can always call upon the help of a physician, but the cure is determined by Me, however, I will often bless the efforts of the latter so that you will recover; yet you shall also derive from every illness a blessing for your soul, that you submit yourselves to Me and My will, that you patiently and gratefully bear the suffering, because it is greatly beneficial for your soul when you prove yourselves during an illness.

But with a rock-hard faith you will also be able to free yourselves from every ailment .... just as I Myself during My life on earth was able to heal people 'whose faith had made them whole ....' For nothing is impossible to Me and if your love is so profound that it brings forth a living, strong faith then you will not doubt My love and might for a second.

Then you can be instantly healed, because then this recovery will not be compulsory faith for you since you will possess an unshakable faith .... But which one of you can muster this strong faith? Who can use My might without doubt, who will give himself to Me so completely with the plea to heal him and is also convinced that his plea will be granted? Then any miracle can truly happen, be it on yourselves or on a fellow human being on whose behalf you voice this request in strong faith .... But anyone who is very sincerely united with Me has already completely accepted My will and lets Me rule and does not use his will in advance .... He will bear even the most difficult suffering with humility in My will and thus renders a far greater service to his soul than through the healing of the body .... But I will always work in you such that your fate will be endurable .... and when a human being has to suffer immense pain it also just expresses My love for his soul, which one day will be grateful to Me in the spiritual kingdom that it was able to dispose of many impurities on earth, that it was also permitted to remove guilt on earth enabling it to enter the spiritual kingdom far less burdened, which it could never have achieved with a healthy body ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Everyone would be able to hear God speaking ....

B.D. 8654 from October 24th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

Just as I originally spoke to the beings having emerged from Me in order to reveal Myself to them as Creator and Father, so I speak today to you humans, who are these very beings .... The light of realisation you possessed in the beginning, because you were perfectly created, is no longer yours in your human state, for you once separated yourselves voluntarily from Me and therefore stepped out of the state of light into that of darkness .... But you are wretched in your darkened state and I want to help you become blissfully happy again and must therefore enlighten you again .... First I must speak to you and inform you of My will so that you as human beings can live according to this will of Mine. For the point is, that you will adapt yourselves to the law of eternal order again, that you will live according to My will, which requires you to fulfil the commandments of love .... Since, at the start of your earthly life, you are entirely without knowledge you need to be instructed about the meaning and purpose of your earthly life .... But you also need to be informed of the full truth, this is why I speak to you Myself as the eternal Father-Spirit by addressing the spiritual spark within yourselves, which conveys My Word to your intellect for you to think about it and thus, according to your will, either comply with it or oppose it once again. In the beginning, My Word made you very happy since you thereby recognised My love which time and again expressed itself in the Word. When you were no longer able to hear My Word, because you closed yourselves to My illumination of love, you also lost all knowledge and your state became dark and weak and therefore wretched.

However, if you, as a human being, become receptive to My illumination of love again, then you will be informed of My will which you only need to live up to so as to be spoken to by Me through the spiritual spark and thus, through My Word, receive the knowledge again which will make you happy because you enter the state of light again. My Word can always be heard within you if your will allows for it, for the connection between Me and you will forever remain on My part, only you yourselves can deliberately disconnect it by consciously turning away from Me .... Thus it will always be up to you as to whether you allow yourselves to be addressed by Me, but the possibility to hear Me Myself exists for every one of you humans, and every one should use it, for with My Word he also receives the strength to live his life on earth according to My will. Due to your vast distance from Me, which you aspired to of your own free will, you have lost the knowledge and understanding that you are able to communicate with your God and Father directly, that you can enter into a dialogue with Him, that He will answer your questions and that you can present all your thoughts to Him and communicate with Him at all times. And yet, if people inform you of it, you won't believe and ridicule them as fantasists and thereby you forfeit every gift of strength which is guaranteed to you by My Word. And only if you try it for yourselves, if you, after heartfelt prayer, quietly listen within, will the voice gently speak in you and you will be happy, for then you will be touched by My Fatherly love which wants to reveal itself in order to gain your love as well.

Yet only a few put this to the test, only a few desire My communication, and only a few believe that I Myself draw close to people in order to demonstrate the direct bond with them again, because they should recognise Me as their God and Father, Who is supremely perfect and also intends to guide people towards perfection. But this knowledge of My direct communication has to be accepted with faith, for it can only be effective if a person, through living a life of love, has gained the faith that the Father speaks to His child. Only then will he also be able to recognise the results of My Words as truth, and only then will his soul make use of them and advance in its development. However, you humans should always consider that My Words will always be more credible than a complete silence by your eternal Father .... For My fundamental nature is love, and you emerged from this love .... Love, however, always seeks to make contact with that which originated from it. This is why the sound of My Word will always be more credible than shrouding Myself in silence and never revealing Myself as a loving Father .... For My perfection would have to be doubted were I not to have mercy upon all My living creations who dwell in darkness, and this mercy therefore shows itself by the fact that I let a light shine into the darkness .... And this light is My Word which is conveyed to you from above, it is the emanation of My love which only requires an open heart in order to be able to take effect in you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Voluntary transformation of the creature into a child ....

B.D. 8655 from October 25th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

I will not give you up for ever, and that means that you will certainly return to Me once, because My love belongs to you, which never ever lets go of that what has come out of it. Once therefore you reach the aim, the last unification with Me and once I also reach My aim, which I have set for Myself with the creation of beings: that you have voluntarily changed yourselves out of My creatures to My children .... that you have become gods, which I could not create Myself, which the free will of the being itself had to form to it, i.e.., the beings had to remain in perfection although they could also assume an inverted nature .... or they had to voluntarily change themselves out of the inverted nature back to their original nature .... So the being could still turn away from Me so far, I however did not let it fall, I did not leave it to its self-chosen fate, but I pursued it with My love and created all possibilities to bring the being on its way back, which means as much as that I took over its guidance from the deep to the height and for the time being eliminated My opponent, who was to blame for the turning away of the spiritual from Me, that he could no longer exert influence on the beings, which once had followed him voluntarily. And I have often explained to you that this happened through the binding of all dissolved particles in matter, in the most diverse creations in the universe .... And as soon as this banishment of the spiritual has taken place, the way of return is entered and now leads upwards. All that is bound in creation is now still belonging to the adversary, and that is why it can also be said: The material creation is the kingdom of My opponent. Nevertheless the power over this bound spiritual is withdrawn from him, and he cannot hinder it in its ascent development, until it once is so far matured that it must cover the last stage as man, but is then again at the mercy of the power of My opponent. I must leave this freedom to it because you voluntarily chose him as your lord when you were to decide for Me or for him .... But again My love also pursues you during the whole earth life, because now we both fight for the soul of man, which is the once fallen original being, which is to return again completely to Me. He spends all his influence to determine man to acts of unkindness, while I again and again seek to stimulate him to a love life and also present its effect to him .... But man decides himself, and he cannot be forced from any side to it. But he has a father, Who loves His child, and therefore I will again and again reveal Myself to man, so that he learns to recognize Me and My nature and returns My love. Because then he certainly also turns away from My opponent, and then the return to the father has taken place, because love binds us together indissolubly. But then also the return into the spiritual kingdom must take place, because this kingdom is the only existing one, while earth as well as all visible creation is only an illusory world, which only exists for the still immature spiritual, which because of its immaturity cannot enter into the kingdom of light. into the only-existing world, and as long as the soul (also) still imagines itself in earthly material surroundings, {even} when it {the soul} has left the earthly body, until it has changed to love. Because this can also still happen in the hereafter as long as the gates to the spiritual kingdom are not closed. But the time is coming, and it is very close, when also this possibility will no longer be, to make up for in the kingdom on the other side what was neglected on earth .... The time is coming when the gates to eternity are closed for all souls, which still had the favour to be allowed to live until the end of this earth and to free themselves from the power of your (their) enemy. For by then a cleansing will have already taken place, a separation will have taken place from the goats and the sheep .... I will fetch the ones who are Mine to Me into a kingdom of peace, and they will be allowed to leave the earth in a living body because I have determined them to be the tribe of the new human race on the new earth .... But what does not belong to Mine, that will irrevocably go towards the new banishment, because for this spiritual there is no longer possibility in the kingdom on the other side to mature there further. It has reached such a low that also in the hereafter only a sinking could take place, which in the end would have to again lead to a new banishment. I also know about the state of the soul of all men before the end, and also hell is emptied, which holds so completely hardened souls that also these are banished anew in hard matter, because with them no ascent possibility is to be seen, but they once also have to again start the way back to Me, if the aim is to be reached. Every person, every once fallen soul, can know that it is loved by Me and is never left to itself. I also know what is useful for every single soul, but I leave it free will, and according to this also (its) fate will be decided when the end of this earth has come, because I do not tolerate a standstill in development, and that is why I also put an end to the work of My opponent, as soon as he seeks to stop the upward development. Then the end of a redemption period has come, and a new one has to start again, the order has to be restored in which all creatures have to move if they once want to reach the aim .... to the complete unification with Me ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God carries out his plan of Salvation ....

B.D. 8656 from October 26th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

You will never be able to prevent Me from implementing My eternal plan of Salvation. I have indeed said that you will be able to avert much from yourselves through heartfelt prayer, but My plan of Salvation is based on humanity's will which I recognised from the start and thus was also able to appoint the appropriate times when the great transformations will take place, and I will indeed adhere to these times. Due to his heartfelt prayer I can certainly avert occurrences from every individual person, I can guide every individual in a way that he will not be affected by the events which I allow to befall people if I want to achieve My purpose: to continue the process of return, which has come to a standstill .... Yet I have always predicted exceptional events to you, and these predictions will indeed fulfil themselves since they must fulfil themselves if the divine order is to be restored again. And I have truly known throughout eternity at what point the divine order will no longer be observed and have therefore always been able to refer to this time and mention the substantial upheavals which will irrevocably occur according to My announcements. But people will never believe these announcements undisputedly, for what is prophesied to them as shortly forthcoming surpasses human notions ....

They will certainly be able to recognise the course of world events, that a change will have to happen because people have reached the lowest point, as is clearly evidenced in their self-indulgence and an excessive craving for a good living standard, earthly commodities, honour and power .... Thus they would be able to recognise by the signs of the time that these announcements have a certain justification, which they ought to take seriously and then live their own life accordingly. But their unbelief is already too great for people to listen to such indications. They unreservedly live a purely earthly life and reject all thoughts of drastic change. And this is why humanity will be taken by surprise by a catastrophic natural event on a scale which has never been experienced on earth before, which will end many people's lives and lead to unprecedented chaos of huge proportions and mean immense misery for people. This is a last warning sign and shall therefore be constantly proclaimed to people .... My messengers shall draw people's attention to it so that they will recognise the truth when this event takes place, so that they will make good use of the last days before the soon-following end for the maturity of their souls. Admittedly, they will find little or no belief, and yet I keep instructing My messengers time and again to speak up wherever possible. People don't want to be disturbed in their lives of pleasure but they will get a sudden shock, and the forthcoming event can mean the end for any individual person, and he will be not be able to take his material possessions across with him. And this is what he shall always bear in mind, for even if he is usually not willing to believe he nevertheless knows that he cannot prolong his physical life by even one day because the hour of his death is predetermined, and he knows that one day his end will come and that this can happen at any day, that he will have to leave everything behind which amounts to the purpose of his life. And therefore he should not value earthly goods so highly but procure himself possessions for eternity .... And he would only be acting intelligently, whereas a purely earthly life is no sign of prudence but only attests to confused thinking ....

My plan of eternity, however, will be carried out and the day I have set for Myself will be adhered to, because the human generation no longer fulfils its earthly task and will therefore be devoured by the earth with the exception of those who have recognised Me, who believe in Me and remain loyal to Me until the end .... For the earth must continue to serve its purpose as a place of education for the spiritual substances which are on the path of return to Me .... And this is why the great work of transformation cannot be omitted and everything has come to pass as I always predicted, because I don't leave people without warning and offer everyone still enough opportunities to find Me and seek union with Me in faith and love. And truly, these shall still be saved before the end .... I will call them back earlier so that they will not run the risk of descending completely but they can still mature in the beyond .... Or I will remove them from the earth at the end and take them to a place of peace because they are intended to populate the new earth again as the root of the new human generation .... You humans should believe what I announce to you time and again, for there is not much time left, and everyone of good will can still be saved, so that he will not meet the dreadful fate of a new banishment ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Paternal address ....

B.D. 8657 from October 28th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

You are to experience My love and favour again and again and feel justified as My children, whom the father surrounds with His love and guides them safely through earth life. You are to go all ways in the awareness that I walk next to you, that you always just need to reach for My hand when the way seems to be difficult for you and you have to fight with obstacles. In Me you will always find the right support, no matter how steeply the path ascends. And you will also not need to walk in darkness, for I Myself radiate the light which brightly illuminates your path .... How gladly I lead My children by the hand and smooth all paths for them, how gladly I speak to them to make them happy, how gladly I let them feel My fatherly love and again and again prove My presence to them .... I only want that they return My love, but then I also hand out My gifts of favour without limitation. For truly, all My love belongs to you, who again and again unite with Me in thought. Because I know it whose longing is meant for Me, and fulfilment will also come to him. But as long as you still stay on earth your earthly body still keeps you imprisoned, and your soul cannot free itself completely; it is still held by matter which encloses it, which itself is not yet completely spiritualized, and therefore also your thoughts will still be subject to earthly restrictions; you will simply not be able to grasp intellectually the pure spiritual processes in which the soul has moved and also still moves. Much will seem incredible to you because the intellect is unable to penetrate spiritual processes which you will nevertheless one day brightly survey when you have discarded the material body. You can perhaps suspect them, but not grasp them in their entire depth. But if you could do this, then you would be unspeakably happy already on earth, because you then recognize My endless father love and this would make you happy in excess. But this you may believe that you, who serve Me as loyal co-workers on earth, will soon be able to move again in blissful realms .... you may believe it that you will soon forget again all toils of life and dwell in light heights where My nearness makes you unspeakably happy. I have sent My messengers of light to earth for the sake of a great mission, and you voluntarily take this walk on earth upon yourselves to help Me in the work of redemption for men, who go through earth life in great spiritual trouble. And you can be certain that I will support you in every way so that you will successfully complete your missionary work. But also you yourselves can increase your degree of light through this earth walk, and you can come so close to Me that you feel My constant presence and your soul now moves more into spiritual spheres than on earth. And then also your spiritual activity, the work in My vineyard, will be a blessed one because I can flood you with My power, which now directly flows over to you through your complete devotion to Me. And so it will then also happen that you do a work of redemption, which is so extensive as you do not think it possible, because it does not only extend to this earth, but far into the kingdom on the other side, and you will once experience deep thanks from all those souls, which through your activity for Me and My kingdom have come to light and become free from the fetters of the opponent. But as long as you yourselves still stay on earth, this great blessing remains hidden to you; you work as man in the midst of men; you can well believe it, what unusual mission was given to you, but all spiritual connections with it you do not know, but you can suspect them, for I let your soul take a small glimpse into My eternal plan of salvation, and flashes of light will also shine within yourselves which momentarily illuminate the darkness, and then no restrictions will be imposed on your thoughts which will one day also find their confirmation, because I also guide your thoughts correctly since you belong to Me. For a short time only you still dwell on earth, to then return again to your true home, to again move into the kingdom of light, from which you went out to serve Me, and you will only love Me, your father from eternity, more and more intimately; you will devote yourselves to Me, and My love will seize you; you will again be united with Me, as you were in the beginning ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

There shall be light among people ....

B.D. 8658 from October 29th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

A vast spiritual region is opened up to those of you humans who allow yourselves to be instructed by Me Myself, because through My messengers and mediators I can convey the knowledge to all who merely desire it and whose life of love enabled them to understand it. This region is closed to your intellectual studies; it is and will also remain unverifiable to you humans until you are granted such bright inner light by the spirit that it is conclusive for you to have the true knowledge. And this spiritual region is inexhaustible, your God and Creator will instruct you constantly and grant you ever more profound realisation if only you would always comply with the prerequisite which is expected of you: that you make heartfelt contact with Me in prayer or through deeds of love, for the bond with Me must be present otherwise you will forever remain spiritually blind .... For I Myself Am the light, I Am the truth, I Am the spring from which love, light and strength .... profound wisdom .... come forth. And this flow can only pour out if the contact has been established, which you have to establish yourselves because you once discontinued it voluntarily .... But then a region will be opened up to you which you, as mere humans, cannot enter if this contact with Me does not exist. But then everything becomes clear to you, you recognise the spiritual correlations, you understand My reign and activity, My eternal plan of Salvation will be revealed to you and you will be able to comprehend it. You learn about spiritual happenings which form the basis of your existence as humans, you also understand the natural processes and can explain to yourselves the happenings around you, My nature will be revealed to you and many a veil will be lifted before your eyes .... You will also be able to examine spiritual worlds, even if you are only mentally informed of them at first .... until your spiritual eye opens when you have attained a specific degree of maturity which allows for spiritual vision .... Knowledge you are entirely lacking as humans will be bestowed upon you by My Fatherly love, which would like you to be in the same state again as you were before your apostasy from Me, when you were brightly illuminated by the light of realisation and blissfully happy .... You are meant to attain this state again and can indeed achieve it during your life on earth as human beings .... However, you must strive for it, it cannot be given to you .... You must make conscious contact with Me, acknowledge Me as your God and Creator, as your Father and long for My presence which will subsequently grant you the highly valuable gifts of grace, because My infinite love wants to give itself and thus also wants to once again send you the bright light of realisation, which you yourselves clouded out and finally lost entirely ....

Now consider the spiritual darkness humanity lives in, consider that only a few people create a sphere of light around themselves, that, in a manner of speaking, merely sparks of light flare up on earth, which certainly could be caught by every person and which would suffice to ignite a light again in a person's heart who would like to escape the darkness. Consider how much happier people would be if only they had a small degree of realisation, which they could raise at any time. Then you, who have already kindled a light in yourselves, will understand that I favour everything which helps to bring a light among the people .... You will understand that I educate My own bearers of light whom I endow with an abundance of knowledge, whom I guide increasingly deeper into the truth, which can only originate from Me .... and that I instruct these bearers of light to let their light shine forth again, so that it shall penetrate the darkness which burdens the human race .... It is not My will that you humans leave earthly life in the same darkness as you entered it .... It is My will that you, in this life as a human being, desire light again and, truly, your desire will be granted, and it will make you happy on earth already when you learn to understand why you live on earth and what your actual task on earth is .... Only I know what darkness means for a free and blessed spirit which was created in brightest light .... Only I know that this spirit can only be happy again when it moves within the circuit of My emanation of love .... I want to draw it into this circuit of My flow of love on earth and therefore repeatedly send rays to him which should kindle a light in him that urges towards the eternal Essence of light of its own accord .... It means, that I first grant every person a small amount of knowledge pertaining to spiritual spheres, which the person can increase of his own will. He can constantly avail himself of the flow of My strength of love, he can gain spiritual possessions if he uses this flow of strength for acts of love whereby the love ignites an increasingly brighter light in him .... And light signifies knowledge, realisation, most profound wisdom .... but only ever pertaining to spiritual regions which are inaccessible to the intellect, because I Myself make a point of instructing those people who hand themselves over to Me and appeal to Me for spiritual enlightenment .... They may receive extensive knowledge and thus gradually enter the very state of realisation they enjoyed in the beginning. The darkness My adversary had imposed on them will recede, they will attain the light again by having established conscious contact with Me, the eternal Essence of light, and allowing themselves to be illuminated by Me once more as in the beginning, when they originated from Me in all perfection ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Conscious voluntary commitment with God is bliss ....

B.D. 8659 from October 30th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

I constantly seek to increase My living creations' beatitude, irrespective of their degree of maturity .... But the state of maturity is decisive whether they accept what I send to them in gifts of favour or reject them. My love light radiates incessantly into the whole infinity; it both touches the already perfect spiritual and constantly increases its happiness, but as it also radiates towards everything still wretched, only meets with resistance and therefore remains without effect. But where the resistance only decreases a little, the beingness feels a relief of its agony or fettering, which it has to endure until the resistance has completely subsided. And then it just needs to open itself willingly to My love illumination to be made happy by it and to ascend higher and higher, which also always results in increased influx of My love power. As soon as now My creature is again conscious of itself when it goes over earth as man or has also already entered the kingdom on the other side, then it has also established the union with Me and voluntarily opened itself to My love light ray, and then it will also feel the happiness, which My divine irradiation also has to prepare for it, because I always just want to make happy. And I will never now withdraw My love from My creatures and reduce their state of happiness when they once have entered this state. And therefore there can always only be an ascent; the state of happiness can always only increase as soon as the creature has consciously entered into union with Me. That is why this conscious union is what I try to achieve through means of most different kind, because until then the being can always fall back again, even if My love does everything to prevent it, but it cannot be forced, and the establishing of the union with Me is a completely free act of will .... It leads the being to beatitude, which constantly increases, but if it is not carried out then the being remains in an unhappy state and can remain in it for eternal times. But it is again and again illuminated by Me so that it gives up its resistance, only that the illumination remains ineffective with constant rejection. That is why you men do not know in what great responsibility you stand, because in earth life as man you have reached this degree that you consciously have to make the free decision of will, which can redeem you from all unhappiness, which can form you to a divine being, which now constantly stands in connection with Me and therefore can also constantly be illuminated by My love power. But exactly this test of will .... if it is passed .... is the great turning point in your being, on your path of return to Me. Your earth fate is so determined for every single man that he can pass this test of will .... But My opponent will do everything to prevent man to seek the union with Me, and that is why man has to pass a fight on earth, because he alone decides whether I or My opponent triumph over him; neither I nor My opponent force his will, but each only seeks to influence him, but man himself has to decide. And when you now know that you therefore also decide about your state, whether it remains unhappy or shapes itself into a happy one, you will also recognize the great responsibility in earth life, and you would then have to do everything to free yourselves from your opponent, what you now again can only when you ask for power from Me, and this request is already a connection with Me, which you only need to strengthen to win the victory over the opponent .... For I truly will not leave you without strength if only you request it from Me .... For then you open yourselves to My illumination of love power, and you have passed the most difficult test of will; you now stride upwards and will also never ever fall back once your union with Me has taken place in spirit and in truth .... For I only respect and value that which is deeply felt in the heart, while words alone are of no value before Me. Nevertheless, I will not rest in touching you again and again, for I will wrestle with My adversary for your souls until the death of your body, so that an endlessly long, wretched earthly walk through creation will not have been in vain for you; again and again I will let sparks of love light flash upon you on earth and also then still in the kingdom on the other side in order to make you, My living creations, give up your resistance and voluntarily turn your heart towards Me .... And every single being, every single soul, is a great gain for Me as soon as I can illuminate it again with My love .... And what I do not achieve in one earthly walk I will nevertheless surely achieve one day, because I give up no soul, which once came forth from Me, I pursue it with My love, and whether eternities pass by .... one day it will surely return to Me voluntarily ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Misuse of divine gifts (Talents) ....

B.D. 8660 from October 31th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

Don't believe that you can revoke My eternal order with impunity, don't believe that you will benefit from an action which contradicts My lawful order. And this will always be the case if you wrongly use the gifts you receive as a human being, which therefore trigger functions in you .... which prompt your will into becoming active .... The human being is intricately structured, he is a work of creation which testifies to My love, wisdom and might, all his functions are meaningful and can only have been devised by a Creator Who is unsurpassable in His wisdom .... merely the physical complexion differs, so that not all people have the same abilities at their disposal and their will to make use of them is either weaker or stronger. Thus people are differently talented in their skills and intentions .... they are also permeated by My strength differently, because it depends on the person's will whether he requests My strength, which is always at his disposal, or whether he only uses his vitality, which also flows to him at a weaker or stronger rate in a natural manner. A physically completely healthy person can therefore have more vitality at his disposal than someone with an ailing body; however, the latter can noticeably increase his own strength by directly requesting My strength and as a result accomplish achievements which surpass those of his fellow human being. And thus talents are also given to people which likewise express themselves in different ways. All these talents are gifts from Me, gifts of grace which the person should use correctly in his earthly life by being of service to his fellow human being again to the best of his ability, for he will want to develop his talents to either do good or to instil pleasure, providing the person always lives within divine order. Yet everything of a divine nature can also become distorted through My adversary's influence .... For he will leave no stone unturned in order to revoke the divine order ....

Consequently, the more enslaved a person is by him, the more the adversary can succeed in destroying his belief in a God, the more he can also influence him into wrongly cultivating the abilities .... these talents .... which rest dormant within him. He will remove his sense for everything pertaining to divine order, he will want to destroy the 'natural harmony' .... He will always think, want and create such that it will contradict this order, the harmony .... Then the person's thinking and feeling will become confused through the adversary's influence. And then distorted images will appear regardless in which field a person works. People will think wrongly and put their thoughts on paper, so that writings will arise which do not benefit other people, which present entirely wrong conclusions and which are unable to satisfy a reader who still moves within the divine order .... And only the adversary's followers will affirm and accept them. Yet their souls will gain nothing, instead they will even lose that which they possess .... And thus, through the adversary's incentive the most varied talents will be misused .... What they will then call into life will only ever be distorted images of what I give to people for their happiness .... The functions of hands, eyes and ears are being misused with inharmonious and distorted consequences, for they are being led by the one who is against divine order, against that which is perfect, and who also induces people to be actively against Me by producing works which testify to anything else but to the divine gifts the human being received .... on the contrary, they originate from a sphere where everything has left the order. And the fact that these products of satanic activity find recognition again demonstrates people's spiritual state, for their nature was not created such that they lack the ability of making the right judgment, rather, their disbelief is confusing their mind .... they are unable to think clearly even if, from an earthly point of view, they possess a sharp intellect, yet their spiritual blindness demonstrates itself in their wrong judgment, they are no longer capable of differentiating between harmony and disharmony, and time and again people with the same spiritual attitude will join them and their judgment. And this distortion of creative products is merely a sign of immense spiritual confusion, an obvious sign of My adversary's activity and therefore also a sign of the near end, for the soul's full maturing is no longer assured where almost nothing is within divine order anymore. All My creations testify to wisdom, love and omnipotence and these must also be recognisable in human work and activity, everything must radiate harmony and soothingly touch the human being's soul which is devoted to Me .... But anyone who is still distant from Me due to his wrong attitude towards Me, due to disbelief or his belief in error will also lose the right sensitivity for any harmony because his soul still belongs to the one who is My adversary ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Error rules men .... book of fathers ....

B.D. 8661 from November 1st 1963, taken from Book No. 91

How difficult it is to lead people to truth if I want to leave them free will .... My adversary's power over men is enormous, but also only again because of their free will, because they grant him the right to exercise his influence, because they once voluntarily followed him into darkness; they gave away all light, and he also prevents men that they come to the light of knowledge, that they walk in truth. They could well break away from darkness, and they also believe to possess truth, and exactly that illuminates their spiritual state that they are not able to distinguish truth from error because they are of darkened spirit. They certainly let their intellect become active and also want to penetrate into spiritual areas intellectually; they make use of the book of the fathers and also approach the interpretation there intellectually, but their spirit is still darkened until they take the way directly to Me, their God and creator from eternity, and request purest truth from Me. My adversary will always try to prevent them from precisely this request for the supply of pure truth by believing that they can only find the purest truth in this book of the fathers. But even if the wording would have remained unchanged, the knowledge about it is of no use when the spirit does not guarantee them the right interpretation. But also this content has not remained unchanged because nothing remains unchanged what once took its start from Me in all purity. But a spiritually awakened man will always recognize where error has crept in. And that error has crept in, My opponent has always taken care of that, because it was always possible for him to intervene in the intellect of such men, who believed to be guardians of spiritual goods, which once went out from Me. Already the many divisions of the churches prove this to you, because if all would have found the same interpretation for the words recorded in the book of the fathers, then no divisions would have arisen .... But every school of thought believes to have the right interpretation, and yet they are different .... and this alone should make you humans think, and again and again you should question your God and creator Himself, and you will also be truthfully instructed by Me. But you do not believe in direct revelations of your father; you consider the divine address to be concluded with the 'word of God', which you believe to possess in the bible alone. And you do not even know that „I Myself am working in him who believes ...." You do not acknowledge divine revelations, otherwise you would also accept what is necessary for you to know. But how is light to be brought to people if even you, who believe yourselves called to proclaim My gospel to people, do not accept it? Truth alone sets you free, truth alone leads you to beatitude, for only through truth can you mature, because truth is the light which radiates from Me Myself, because you will not find your way home to your father's house on a poorly illuminated path, for again and again My adversary will push you away from the right path and you will not notice that you are following him, because he disguises himself well and prevents you from accepting the right light through deceptive lights .... But the will of man alone decides .... And so a right light can certainly be brought to you again and again, but if you reject it, then you go further in the darkness of spirit. But again and again I ask you: Why do you not take the direct way to Me and ask Me for enlightenment of your spirit? Why do you rigidly hold on to an educated spiritual knowledge and do not assure yourselves whether you walk in truth by again and again asking Me for it? It will not even occur to you to doubt what has been conveyed to you through the ages .... But you should always bear in mind that nothing keeps itself pure what has passed through human hands because man has free will and therefore he is also not hindered when he makes changes .... and that changes have been made I emphasize again and again that I therefore again and again guide pure truth to earth because "heaven and earth will pass away but My word remains in existence until all eternity ...." And because it is exposed to changes through human will and then is also no longer My word, I again and again direct it down to earth, because My word is truth .... but always only My word. Think about it seriously because it is about that the spiritual darkness is broken through, which is spread over earth through the work of My opponent, who will always wage the fight against the light, and especially in the last time before the end. When your spirit is awakened then you will also clearly know to differentiate truth from error .... But then you also accept My word, which is directly directed from above to earth, because I alone know it how necessary it is to bring a light to men, because very many walk along in darkness of spirit and are therefore blind guides of the blind ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Fight of the prince of darkness against light ....

B.D. 8662 from November 2nd 1963, taken from Book No. 91

That again and again the wall of faith is shaken is not allowed to surprise you, My servants on earth, because My opponent will fight against truth more and more furiously and seek to put out the light, through which his true nature is revealed. You are not allowed to forget that he knows how short his time still is, and that is why his work is particularly frightening; that is why he will seek to intervene everywhere and disguise himself with the garment of an angel of light; he will as it were appear as a servant chosen by Me to lead men astray who believe in his calling. You have no idea where you can find him everywhere, for he sneaks in where only an existing error gives him the opportunity .... Where error is, is also his area, and there he can rule men and lead them deeper and deeper into error. You men can protect yourselves against it when you just devote yourselves to Me intimately, when you entrust yourselves to Me and ask for protection from him. But often you yourselves do not recognize the danger; you think to be standing high above error and yet are spiritually blinded, because exactly this overestimation of oneself is already spiritual arrogance, which offers the adversary the best possibility to slip in .... Again and again I call out to you all: Be alive in your faith .... don't flatten yourselves and don't let 'worship' become a habit which suffocates all life, for this is the great danger of those who believe themselves called to be leaders of their fellow human beings, that they themselves satisfy all forms and are inwardly far removed from the right, living bond with Me, which only gives them the right to count themselves as My sheep, who then also hear My voice and recognize it as the father's voice. Know it that I demand a living faith from every single man, that I do not let Myself be satisfied with a dead faith .... but that the inner living connection with Me must be established in the quiet chamber, that no public events are necessary for this, because these will again only reduce the devotion, but not increase it, as you wrongly assume it. "Where two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I in the midst of them ...." Remember this promise, and shut yourselves off completely from the world, and only when you preach to them the gospel of love, then gather your congregation around you, but refrain from all outward acts and customs, and seek only to establish an intimate relationship with Me .... the relationship of a child with its father .... and truly, then I Myself will be with you and guide your thoughts correctly, and you will also recognize truth as truth but error as error. Do not fall into states of ecstasy; be sober and always only turned towards Me in intimate love, and truly, you will then also work for the blessing of all those to whom you bring My gospel. But beware of being at My adversary's beck and call when he demands that you refrain from demonstrating love. Then you will always recognize him as the exit, who is the enemy of all life and who wants to prevent that you find back to Me, because you can only unite with Me again through love .... Therefore everything love impels you to do must correspond to My will and be blessed by Me .... If therefore a restriction is imposed on you men in love activity, if you are hindered in prayer for the deceased or for your fellowmen, then you know from whom these regulations or teachings start, and then you also know that he still controls you when you comply with his desire .... After all, it must be obvious and clear to you that no restriction will ever be imposed on you from Me in your activity of love, and every loving, intercessory thought will be pleasing to Me and have an effect as strength which the being receives to which the loving request is directed .... Should you men therefore bypass this most important commandment of love, then you must nevertheless clearly recognize who stands behind it, who presents such false teachings to you, and you must defend yourselves against him and his influence, by you joining yourselves all the more closely to Me, Who will truly also protect you from him. But know that you men yourselves allow him his work because you have already become too closely associated with him. You allow him too many rights over you, and he makes good use of them, so that you now can detach yourselves from him with difficulty. But powerless is he against love .... Live a life of love yourselves, prove your unselfish love for your neighbour, always carry all those in need on earth and in the beyond in loving intercession, and the adversary will no longer be able to approach you, for he is powerless against love .... Yet do not fear him, since I am also his lord, but intimately hand yourselves over to Me, and in the bond with Me the complete detachment from the one who is My and your adversary will also take place ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Task to spread the truth ....

B.D. 8663 from November 3rd 1963, taken from Book No. 91

The spiritual wealth you own also commits you to passing it on, and since it is My will that you spread the truth I will also always bless your efforts. Therefore, don't allow yourselves to be discouraged by obstacles or difficulties which My adversary will always put in your way, for if I promise you My blessing My adversary's activity will be futile. I only want you to trust Me completely, I do not want you to undertake anything without having appealed for My blessing and My help .... I don't want you to forget Whom you are working for, because you are not doing earthly work when you try to spread the truth .... it is the fulfilment of the task I gave you Myself, and even if you work in a more or less earthly way, you will nevertheless only undertake it with the support of spiritual forces which may influence you in My name in every sort of work you do for Me and My kingdom. For time and again I say to you that people urgently need light .... Even if only a few ever desire it, but even these few can be effective in their circle, and you will be surprised where the truth from Me will shine to, you will notice the strangest correlations and be happy that you were able to contribute towards the fact that people receive light. And even though My guidance is obvious, people must nevertheless be at work so that everything proceeds within the framework of natural progression and no person is compelled into believing, yet always shows the love, wisdom and power of a God and Creator. However, you, My servants, shall also experience My love and care time after time, for every good Caretaker looks after his labourers. But I also regard My labourers as My children and I will not withhold anything they need from them. Just hand yourselves over to My Fatherly care, give yourselves to Me completely and, truly, I will guide you wherever you go, I will bless your work for Me and My kingdom and make sure it is successful. You should always know that I need you, for people must carry out what I deem to be good and successful, but due to people's free will I cannot work visibly Myself since it must be left up to people as to whether or not they want to accept the truth from Me which is offered to them by you. Nevertheless, they are in urgent need of this pure truth, and therefore I repeatedly try to attract faithful co-workers, and they can be assured of My Fatherly blessing ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The embodied light beings' willingness to help ....

B.D. 8664 from November 5th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

Believe Me that people would be in dire straights during the last days before the end if I did not continually send messengers of light to earth to bring them light and strength directly from Me and thus contribute towards saving at least those people who have not yet entirely handed themselves over to My adversary. These messengers of light consequently fight against the prince of darkness by exposing the misconceptions which people adhere to, by bringing them the light of truth and thereby also illuminating the path of return to Me into their Father's house. There has to be an activity of strong counteracting forces, for the adversary's power is great given that people concede to this power themselves with their wrong attitude towards Me, their God and Creator of eternity. They are living in his realm and constantly move in spiritual darkness. My kingdom, however, is the kingdom of light and bliss, and from this kingdom helpful beings of light, motivated by their love towards the wretched, avail themselves to Me to descend to earth in order to help them still find the way back before the end. And since they are only impelled by love for this work of redemption, I accept it and place them where there is a possibility of success, where they are then lovingly active, both earthly as well as spiritually.

For now they are living as human beings amongst human beings and thus .... although their souls are already fully mature .... also have to fit in with people. Consequently they do not stand out in any special way but live like everyone else, often in underprivileged circumstances. Yet they will never need to suffer adversity, because they work as My servants on earth and, like a good Master, I will also always take care of all their earthly needs on their behalf. Nevertheless they are not conspicuously noticeable in their environment, yet every believer can recognise them by their unusual mission. For they serve Me as bearers of light, as bearers of truth, which they can receive directly from Me and pass on to their fellow human beings. Only the pure truth can still bring salvation to those people who still live in complete error, in spiritual darkness, and who are therefore at greatest risk of getting lost. For you humans are unable to assess in what danger humanity finds itself during these last days before the end. And this motivates Me to send messengers of light to earth which, as human beings, will then do their utmost to work on My behalf on earth to prevent people from becoming subject to compulsory faith. These bearers of light might well sense where they are coming from as soon as they, as people, receive revelations from Me in order to be able to fulfil their mission .... For they will soon recognise their fellow human beings' spiritually low level and their hopelessness of ever attaining the light of truth unless they receive special help .... And since they themselves will be guided into the knowledge of all correlations by Me through the conveyance of the Word, they will also know that they have come from a different sphere for the sake of a mission.

And yet, I shall keep their origin concealed until they have reached a specific degree of maturity as human beings which, however, they will only attain just before the end of their physical life, for it is irrelevant for the human being's mission which spirit has embodied itself in him, since all beings of light offering themselves to live on earth for the salvation of people are spirits of love which are close to My heart, and My love to all My living creations is so profound that I on My part do not apply any classification, as is always the case with limited thinking .... You humans, however, harbour this wish to know about your previous existence, and then I Am occasionally motivated by your love to give you small hints, providing you interpret these indications correctly .... For in My kingdom are countless beings with the same degree of love whose characteristics .... even though every individual being is self-aware .... correspond to a great original spirit again, precisely because of their greater than great love .... And I also embrace these again with My love and Am present to them on earth in order to support them in their spiritual mission, which is urgently needed because humanity has reached such a spiritually low level that only the pure truth can help it ascend again which you, My messenger, shall receive directly from Me and pass on, so that the error can be recognised .... so that there shall be light on earth, so that I Myself shall be recognised by people in My whole Being .... For it is precisely this realisation which My opponent tries to suppress in order to prevent people from looking for and finding the path to Me .... For anyone who recognises Me in My infinite love, unsurpassable wisdom and overwhelming might will also strive towards Me, and he will be saved from a repeated fall into the abyss ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Confession in the struggle of faith ....

B.D. 8665 from November 6th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

You all continue to experience My great love and grace when you allow yourselves to be addressed by Me .... You, who receive My word directly, and also all of you, who accept this My word from My messengers, who recognize it as the voice of your father from eternity, you can never ever get lost, as soon as your heart receives My words and you seek to obey My will, which you recognize through My word. You all do not know in which flow of favour you stand, that My opponent cannot dare to approach you as long as you stand in contact with Me, as long as you read My word and stand under its effect. And that is why you all can praise yourselves happily, who are directly or indirectly addressed by Me, because so long you are also intimately connected with Me, and that always means influx of spiritual power, which your body certainly feels less, but the soul all the more and it will mature in earth life. A process, to which I have already pointed out during My earth walk, now takes place, and many men do not want to believe that it is possible to stand in direct communication with Me, so that My voice is audible .... And so long these people are also still outside of My divine flow of grace, although they believe to be able to create advantages for their souls through a so-called divine service .... But only conscious contact with Me will ever earn the soul this advantage, and then the human being will also hear My word .... even in the places where it is usually offered .... But that conscious intimate contact ensures man that he also hears My address in the sermons, which are held in the usual way. Because I will direct his thoughts so that only truth touches him and he remains completely untouched by erroneous spiritual material. But My word directly conducted to earth is a gift of favour of inestimable value .... And still it is only accepted and recognized by few men as voice of the father. But I know about the hearts of men; I know about their maturity of soul, about their willingness to hear My word, and that is why I can also send My pure word to all those to grant them the help in the last time before the end, which they need to stand firm in the last faith struggle. Because then it will prove how deeply the man stands in truth, because this alone will give him the power to hold out .... And there will not be many, because only truth carries the power in itself, which man needs to stand firm when his confession is demanded .... He who stands in error gives up everything, for his faith in Me is a dead faith that never confesses Me in Jesus and My work of redemption .... And when you now know that an abundance of favour is sent to you through My word from above, then you can praise yourselves happily to be allowed to take part in an act of love and mercy, which gives you knowledge, which conveys purest truth to you and which makes you able to assert yourselves in the coming difficult time, because you are constantly supplied with power by Me, as soon as you listen to My word and sink into it. Then you truly draw from the source of all power; I Myself flood through you .... And whether you lose or have to do without earthly goods, you are nevertheless much richer than your fellow human beings, for you possess imperishable goods .... Your intimate bond with Me earns you spiritual possessions which no-one can take away from you, and no matter how hard earthly powers press you, they will not be able to push Me away from you, and where I am the adversary has lost his power. Grasp the fact that you are in contact with Me Myself .... understand that this process certainly appears unusual because the majority of people do not know that such is possible .... but that all of you, who hear My word directly or indirectly, can no longer deny this process and that a bright light has been kindled for you, in the glow of which you will find the path to Me and no longer need to fear a wrong path. You can gain insight into spiritual secrets, into My plan of salvation from eternity, and the understanding has been opened to you for much, which before caused you to ask questions. You can attain a living faith because you were always taught love through My word and because love only made you worthy to hear My word, because love only opened up the understanding for you .... For I can only address those people who shape themselves through love such that My love can also become effective in them .... My word will only ever touch hearts when they are opened to My illumination of love through a life of love, but then the human being will be in the midst of a grace-filled experience, and he will safely reach his aim on earth: unification with Me, Who am love Myself from eternity ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Only love helps to knowledge and bliss ....

B.D. 8666 from November 7th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

You humans cause Me Myself to express My love, as soon as you show Me your love and thereby force Me to be present to you, because I am love Myself .... And then My presence must also secure My constant illumination of love for you, for through your love you relinquish all resistance and My love can become effective in you. But the effect of My love illumination is that you penetrate into deepest knowledge, that you win knowledge, which indeed rests in all of you, but is closed to your intellect so long, until love illuminates your thinking and you then are able to grasp knowledge in all clarity, which is unknown to you before and also incomprehensible. All spiritual progress, all light which shines to your soul, is the result of your love for Me .... which is expressed in works of unselfish neighbourly love .... With every work of love you draw Me Myself to you; I do not resist love, because to win your love is also My happiness, because love wants to give itself away, and through your love I therefore can give Myself away and therefore make you immensely happy with spiritual gifts, which you only need to accept out of My hand. My last aim is your return to Me, which can only take place through love .... As soon as you now work in love, you come closer to Me step by step; through love the unification with Me takes place, and the original state occurs again, in which you were intimately connected to Me and My love power could radiate into you unhindered. In this state you were therefore radiated through with light, i.e., nothing was hidden to you, you saw through everything, all connections were clear to you, and this deepest knowledge, the knowledge about Me Myself, about My nature, My rule and work, made you deeply happy .... thus you were blissfully happy, and this bliss knew no limit .... That you changed this perfect state yourselves, that you rejected My radiation of light of love, had its reason in the fact that the knowledge of your perfection was given to you through the influence of the highest being visible to you .... Lucifer .... led you to arrogance, that you believed that you did not need Me .... because not visible to you and joined that visible being which drew you down into the abyss .... for rejecting My illumination of love also meant that the illumination of love was no longer effective on you due to your resistance .... So you lost all light, all knowledge and also all power, which once let you become creatively active and made you happy .... But now, after an endless long walk from the deepest depth to the height, you have again arrived in the state where you are free to request My love and are also allowed to receive it without restriction, yet this is your own free matter of will .... And you will now understand that I .... Who longs for your love because you came forth from My love .... am always ready to radiate towards you again, but this can only happen if you yourselves show love towards Me .... You yourselves therefore also determine the degree of love which shines upon you; you yourselves as man are able to do compulsion to Me, which I cannot resist when you devote yourselves to Me in love, because then I must be present to you, then I can no longer close Myself to you when you open yourselves that My ray of love can fall into your hearts. And I gladly let this compulsion be done to Me, because I long for the return of My children to be able to make them happy again as in the beginning. Because My nature is love, but love wants to give itself away; it wants to draw you to Me for ever; it wants that you reach your perfection again, what is only possible when you again get into the possession of light and power .... Light and strength are again the effect of My illumination of love, so that love is everything and without love there is no happiness .... From My side truly no restriction is imposed on you, if only you yourselves prove your love to Me, by you practicing unselfish neighbourly love; then I Myself can be with you in every work of love, and My presence must also have a happy effect. And so also the degree of light will always increase; you will again be able to understand My rule and work; deepest wisdoms will be made accessible to you, and you will be led out of the state of imperfection; all inadequacies will fall off you, and the aim .... the change of a creature to a child .... you will certainly reach; you will come closer and closer to My father heart, because your love draws Me and I am powerless against love, because it is My original element .... But you, too, were the same in your nature when you came forth from Me, and you must also assume the same original nature again .... And I will help you until you have reached the aim and you can intimately unite with Me through love, because love urges love and most intimate union also guarantees highest beatitude ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Jesus as a human being knew of His mission ....

B.D. 8667 from November 8th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

The earthly path of the human being Jesus was exceedingly sorrowful .... His pure soul found itself in an impure and dark environment and experienced this environment as torment, on account of which the child Jesus was never able to be cheerful, although He was not yet conscious of the mission the soul itself had offered to carry out .... From time to time the light of His soul's true nature burst through indeed, then My spirit expressed itself through Him, so that he already performed miracles as a child, which only could be accomplished by a being of purest light in possession of abundant strength and light .... Yet this only happened now and then in order that the people in His neighbourhood should believe in His mission ....

And even these remarkable expressions of strength troubled the boy Jesus as soon as He had regained His natural human frame of mind but they also impelled Him into ever more heartfelt contact with Me, His eternal God and Father, Whom He loved with all His heart, which therefore joined Him ever more to Me so that My love, too, permeated Him ever more until the moment came when He, in the brightest light of love, recognised His task .... until He realised that He was meant to deliver His fallen brothers, until He became aware of the complete act of Salvation and He saw before Him the arduous path to the cross He should take if He so wanted .... His path of suffering was shown to Him in every detail, the knowledge of which darkened His soul and filled it with fear from which only His burning love for the wretched living creations helped Him escape again .... Yet He had to struggle with the decision to voluntarily take the path to the cross, He had to be willing to shoulder humanity's every gilt of sin and render such an agonising act of atonement for it that it surpassed all human imagination. For Jesus had not been destined by My will to make this sacrifice on the cross, rather, His soul had voluntarily offered itself to bring the lost children back to Me. For this purpose it lived life on earth as a human being and then had to struggle to make this decision again as a human being, because free will was decisive again too, for I would never have destined a human being to make such a sacrifice of atonement against his will, because only a sacrifice made by love was able to redeem the original sin of the fallen beings. And the sacrifice not only involved the act of crucifixion, the days of most bitter physical suffering and humiliation inflicted on the human being Jesus by My adversary's vassals, but His whole earthly life was a path to the cross, because His soul suffered indescribably, having descended from the kingdom of light into the kingdom of darkness.

And Jesus very soon knew the cause and purpose of his descent to earth and this knowledge burdened the 'human being Jesus' beyond all measure, so that He undeniably travelled the path across earth as a human being yet the pleasures of earthly life were denied to Him, which every human being enjoying his earthly life was usually allowed to take pleasure in with impunity .... For His life was constantly overshadowed by the events ahead of Him which .... since He was merely human .... constantly frightened Him and never let Him be cheerful .... Only in his refuge with Me did He find peace and strength and then, due to his ever-increasing love, His will to make the sacrifice grew constantly stronger too, and He carried the heavy burden of earthly life consciously and only ever endeavoured to do My will and help His fellow human beings .... And this also steadily increased His strength enabling Him to work miracles and thereby helping his fellow human beings who needed His help. Yet His mission before the actual act of Salvation consisted of preaching the Gospel to people, of proclaiming My will to them and of admonishing and encouraging them into leading a loving and righteous way of life .... He brought people the truth which had not been recognised for a long time already and which had to be imparted to people in all purity again in order to induce them into a right way of living, so that His act of Salvation would then also be correctly understood and accepted by people who made the effort to live a life of love.

He led the way which all should follow if they wanted to return to the kingdom of light, to Me, and who would be able to do so after Jesus had redeemed the original sin through His death on the cross. This act of mercy by Jesus had such enormous consequences that you cannot receive enough clarification about it. Time and again the knowledge of it will be truthfully conveyed to you, for you should not just see in Jesus the human being Whose life was prematurely terminated by other people, but you should recognise His great mission, for Jesus' act of Salvation is of such immense significance for you humans that it is imperative for you to accept it if you ever want to escape the kingdom of darkness and be admitted into the kingdom of light. And you will only accept it if you are instructed of it absolutely truthfully, which always happens through My spirit which alone guides you into every truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Reception and understanding of the divine word requires love ....

B.D. 8668 from November 9th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

Anyone who has the grace to receive proof of the direct connection with God .... who is allowed to take possession of His word directly conveyed from above to earth, anyone who has this proof in that he feels himself addressed by the father, can no longer get lost for ever, for since he recognizes the father's voice he belongs to His sheep, which the good shepherd will never ever let fall into the hands of His enemy .... You humans cannot value this grace highly enough, to be addressed by the father Himself, for then you will already have passed the test of will, which consists of voluntarily turning to Him, otherwise you would neither be able to hear His word nor understand the word conveyed to you through messengers, for both require your complete devotion to Him, it requires the acknowledgement of your God and creator, Whom you once denied this acknowledgement. You can therefore already on earth beatify yourselves when this exceedingly great gift of favour is brought to you because it would be empty and meaningless for you when your will would still be completely set against God. Then you would laugh at His word and never be able to recognize its value. And the fact that you recognize it as 'God's word' proves a certain degree of maturity of your soul, which has almost reached its aim and still needs to cover a short distance until the death of its body in order to then be able to enter the kingdom of light and bliss ..... But why is not every person able to recognize the father's word? Why does not every person feel addressed to whom it is conveyed by messengers who seek to spread the truth everywhere on God's behalf ....? It is the lack of love which also means a lack of spiritual understanding .... The human being is the being which once turned away from God in free will and which therefore also rejected all illumination of love on God's part. After an endless long walk through the works of creation on earth it now enters this earth as man and is completely devoid of all love, because it rejected it and against its will the soul also cannot be illuminated. Nevertheless it possesses the ability to love through the God spark associated with the soul and therefore only needs to let its will become active to ignite the divine love spark in it .... Then it unites with God again and can again be illuminated by His fatherly love and now also comes to a certain degree of maturity where the 'word of God' is familiar to it, where it touches it and it recognizes the father's voice again .... which, however, is never possible without love. And therein lies the reason for the rejection of the divine word, which is directly conveyed from above to earth, for people are unloving .... Love has grown cold, the divine spark is rarely ignited in the heart because people lack the will to do so, whereas the ability cannot be denied to any human being. But the will is free, it cannot be forced, and people's lower degree of maturity is the reason that the word from above .... divine revelations .... are mostly rejected and only few people accept them happily, whose state of maturity is already higher due to love, who possess the ability to recognize divine wisdom and also make use of it by spreading the truth, by seeking to live out the word themselves and thereby attain ever brighter light .... But that you humans possess an invaluable gift of grace when you accept the word of God, which is offered to you directly by Him, you may believe. You only have to make the right use of the gift by withdrawing the power from it yourselves, with which the father has blessed His word, and by you also offering the treasure of favour to your fellowmen to make them happy, as also you were made happy by the father. All people should only establish the right relationship with Him, they should turn to Him like children and appeal to Him for strength and grace for their earthly way of life .... And truly, they would come to realize, they would kindle and nourish the flame of love within themselves and soon also be receptive to His word, for only love gives them understanding, only through love does the union with the father take place, which then also results in His word. And that is why His word also teaches predominantly love .... For if the human being has love then he has everything .... He receives light and strength, and then he also walks his earthly way as man with success ...._>Amen

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Love degree is measure of truth ....

B.D. 8669 from November 10th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

It is My will that the human being should live in love .... because love is the fundamental principle of a divine being and because you humans are to become divine beings again, as which I created you in the beginning. If you fulfil this will of Mine then you will also be obedient children who do not want to grieve the father, who gladly submit to His will, who no longer want anything else like Me, because then they will also have My will in them and can no longer sin .... Love is everything what I demand of you, because then all spiritual blindness softens from you, then you will also always recognize what is worth knowing for you and what helps you that your soul matures. You can believe it that you then also can no longer fall prey to error because love, which fills you, also gives you a clear recognition what has taken its start from Me and what from My opponent. Because love awakens the spirit to life, which rests in you as important part of Myself and which will always impart the right knowledge to you. You men could therefore no longer walk along in error when you would lead a love life .... But if you still think erroneously then you lack love .... You must take this to heart if you ever want to come into possession of pure truth. You will not recognize the truth as such as long as the degree of love still leaves something to be desired .... Because lack of love means darkness; it means lack of knowledge, therefore spiritual blindness, which can only be remedied through a life of love, through unselfish neighbourly love, through overcoming of self-love, which is never divine, but part of My opponent. Again and again the commandments of love are preached to you and again and again the effect of a love life and the terrible consequences of a loveless way of life are presented to you. But as long as you do not take this to heart, you will walk in error, and no matter how eagerly you believe to be in the 'service for the lord' .... which has no value before Me, where a life of love is not the proof that man moves in right, true thinking. The fellow human being should never accept what an unloving person tries to impart to him .... especially when it touches spiritual things which absolutely require a life of love if they are to correspond to truth. The preacher must live in love, but a life of love is also a prerequisite for understanding a sermon. And a right love must express itself in works; it cannot only be assured through words, because love is power, and every power will have an effect. That is why a spiritual connection with Me can only ever be established through loving activity, then the flow of grace of My love will also flow inexorably into the human being, and then a change in his nature will take place, which is the purpose and aim of earthly life .... Then man does not live his life in vain; it brings him perfection .... because the being once gave love voluntarily, and voluntarily it must practice love again to now also be able to be illuminated by Me again, what also helps it to the last perfection, so that it can unite with Me again, as it was the case in its original state. If you men would nevertheless hold up to yourselves the great importance of a love life, then you would also recognize how far fellowmen move in truth, if you only apply the standard to love. You are certainly not to condemn them but seek to help them .... But then you also know what you are allowed to accept from them .... whether truth or error is offered to you, for without love man cannot move in truth .... But love guarantees right thinking, and only a man standing in love is therefore entitled to teach, because I Myself can have an effect in this, I Who am love Myself. But a loving person will never accept or spread error because I Myself prevent him from doing so, for he is already Mine as soon as he has united himself with Me through a life of love, as I have promised with the words: 'He who abides in love abides in Me and I in him ...." Therefore truth must also be there, because I, truth and love are one .... But whether a man lives in love, that you know by his works, whether they are done in all unselfishness only for the neighbour's good or for help or are always only works, which show self-love or calculation .... Then you also have to be on your guard to accept instructions from that one, because then no truth is guaranteed yet, which starts from Me Myself, Who can only ever be there where true love is to be found ...._>Amen

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The original debt could not be redeemed by the being itself ....

B.D. 8670 from November 11th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

Through endless long times you had to endure torments for which you lack any concept .... And yet, these torments were not enough to erase the great original sin you had committed by falling away from Me .... through the conscious rebellion against Me .... This sin was not to be blotted out by yourselves, even if eternities were to pass, because you began it .... as you have often been told .... in a state of brightest realization, thus you were able to recognize Me Myself as loving God and creator even though I was not visible to you .... as well as being aware of the fact that you yourselves had come forth from Me .... that you were therefore the same as your creator from eternity and had called love into being for you .... You therefore went against love, you rejected love, which however was your primal element .... You lost everything divine and consciously turned away from Me .... Had you been somehow deficiently formed then your sin would not have been so immeasurably great, but precisely your perfection, which was inherent in you as divine creatures, also let you recognize what you did .... and yet you committed this sin, and the consequence of it was the fall into the abyss, the consequence was the hardening of the spiritual substance, because My love radiation was missing and this substance was now completely incapable of activity, thus it succumbed to death. You knew what you were doing and yet did not shrink from turning against Me .... against the eternal love .... And this guilt was immeasurable and could never be atoned for by the being itself, but it was cause for complete turning away from Me, for a separation, which could no longer be cancelled on the part of the guilty. Only the circumstance that that spiritual that fell away from Me was once emanated power by Me .... thus My part .... caused Me to find and initiate a way which brought My creatures back to Me. For the first time this was the way through creation, that is, the slow awakening to life of the dead, powerless beingness which was not conscious of itself. But this way was not enough, for even if the torments are unthinkable for you men, they were nevertheless no adequate atonement for the great guilt .... But I did not want to give up anything of what was My portion .... And therefore a work of atonement was necessary, which outweighed the exceeding great guilt of sin .... The beings once were blissful and gave up their bliss .... Thus, in order to redeem this great guilt, a being had to voluntarily take the guilt upon Itself, thus, in turn, surrender Its beatitude, yet It did not reject love in defiance but sacrificed Its beatitude out of love for the fallen being, It had to voluntarily take upon Itself an unhappy fate solely for the purpose of helping Its fallen brothers to beatitude. It had to voluntarily divest Itself of light and strength, as those beings had also done .... yet not as a result of lack of love, but as a result and effect of an excessive love .... This being had to take torments and pains upon Itself as man, which were superhuman; It had to let a work come to execution in Itself, which those once fallen beings accomplished through impulse of My opponent at this man. And His great love also requested for these executioner servants the forgiveness of their guilt .... And that man was Jesus, a being of light, which was devoted to Me in all love, which became a cover for Me on earth, in which I Myself could take abode and which I could fill with My love power, so that I therefore embodied Myself in the man Jesus and accomplished the work of redemption in Him. For only love Itself could redeem that guilt, Which only made use of a human form, to which a highest spirit out of the heavens gave life to take upon Itself as man the agonies, which I Myself as God could not suffer .... He and I therefore united completely because I as love from eternity took abode in Him and His human body now offered itself as a sacrifice for the sins of all mankind .... However it is explained to you, you can never fully grasp this My becoming man in Jesus as long as you yourselves still walk over earth as man. But you should know and understand one thing that you will remain eternally separated from Me if you do not accept Jesus' act of salvation, if you do not acknowledge Me Myself in Jesus as your God and father, Who has endured unspeakable suffering in a human form because He wanted to redeem the original sin and enable the fallen beings to return to the father. Why this guilt of apostasy from Me was so great that an own atonement is impossible, that you will also only recognize once you also recognize My immense love in the state of perfection, against which to rebel is the greatest sin a being can ever commit .... And only love Itself could redeem this guilt. And eternal love Itself also did this in the man Jesus, Who therefore also has to be acknowledged as God's son and redeemer of the world, in Whom God Himself became man ...._>Amen

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Wretchedness is the fault of free will alone ....

B.D. 8671 from November 12th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

No being gets lost forever. But it can be separated from Me for eternities, thus be in an unhappy state without Me, and you humans lack the understanding for the term 'eternities' .... But once you will surely return to Me .... For I would not be a God of love, wisdom and power if I only wanted to leave one being to My adversary, whose lord I am and who is also a being that has emerged from Me, which will likewise return to Me .... The idea of men therefore .... which is especially represented in the various ecclesiastical organisations .... that a man is eternally condemned by Me, is erroneous, because it contradicts My nature, you then imagine a God of vengeance, you measure with human yardstick, and you concede more power to My adversary, you regard him as an equal opponent of Mine, who through his power can completely snatch the souls from Me, while he himself is nevertheless also My creature, whom I .... despite his greatest guilt .... not destroy, but also lift him up from the depths to Me one day .... You therefore make a wrong idea for yourselves, and as long as you still do not recognize Me right, you will also not show Me the love, which I long for from you and which unites you again with Me. Again and again I emphasize that all harm, all wretchedness, all pain and suffering of people and also of all creatures, must not be attributed to Me Myself .... they must not be regarded as punishment on My part, but you yourselves prepare all these conditions for yourselves through your sinfulness .... be it the sins in earthly life or be it the original sin which burdens every person who does not allow himself to be redeemed through Jesus Christ .... Everything that the creature has to endure in suffering and misery, every unhappiness, is its own fault. It has put itself into this state of suffering through its past or present guilt, and no being can make Me responsible, Who is love in My original being and only does everything or lets it happen what helps you again out of the state of misery, which you have created for yourselves .... You yourselves therefore also determine the time of your wretchedness, for from Me you can return to Me at any time, you can change yourselves at any time so that you would be free of all wretchedness .... But you can also prolong your state of suffering and therefore remain in it for eternities if this is your will. For it is up to you yourselves whom you choose as lord, the one who makes you wretched or Me, Who would like to make you unspeakably happy with My love. But that you once certainly return to Me, that is also based on My love, because love gives up nothing; love does not rest until it has united with the object of its love. But My wisdom also recognizes on which way it reaches this return to Me; My wisdom knows the right means, and My love applies them and will also once be able to record the right success. You men can now certainly make a difference between happiness and wretchedness, and you can step out of the state of wretchedness, but as long as your will, which is free, does not strive for this, you must also bear your lot; but you can also never say that I have imposed this lot upon you, because you alone prepare it for you, and you alone can also free yourselves from it. For as once divine creatures you possess the free will, which I leave to you .... I only bound it for a certain time for your own benefit .... that you became free from the adversary's fetters (and) because I helped you up again from the abyss so that you could now strive for and pursue the return to Me again yourselves in free will, which is now to happen as a human being .... But how you now use this opportunity is again up to you, but now you have the possibility to put an end to the time of wretchedness, which you can call 'eternities'. You can now become free from the fetter of the adversary; you can now exchange the state of wretchedness with an immeasurably blissful state, but which will then no longer come to an end, which lasts forever. It is therefore you yourselves who are responsible for the fate which you endure; you yourselves created this for yourselves, and you can end it, what again your free will has to do that you strive towards the right aim, because only your will is necessary that you also receive the power for it, that you change your nature again to your original being and you then can also look back and see that you were separated from Me for eternities, but now remain eternally intimately united with Me ...._>Amen

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Cause of Lucifer's apostasy from God ....

B.D. 8672 from November 13th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

When I called miniatures of Myself into being I was motivated to do so by My infinite love which wanted to give itself away, which wanted to create vessels for itself in order to flow into them .... My love demonstrates itself as strength, and this strength wanted to be creatively active, and thus My creations .... because My strength flowed into these vessels .... likewise had to be creatively active again, for these beings, as images of Myself, had the same intrinsic creative urge which impelled the constantly inflowing strength into activity again, because the strength which emanated from Me as the primary source of strength constantly created life. And thus you will understand that all beings which had come forth from Me were in a state where they knew no restriction in the creation of manifold works, which made them blissfully happy .... but that they, like Me, were not subjected to any restriction either, for My love was infinite, and thus My strength of love flowed into all beings in order to give them pleasure.

Neither did the being's creative activity ever come to a standstill, because My strength had no limitation, it will never spend itself, it will always and forever flow, and thus new creations will eternally arise, just as all My once emanated beings will receive My unlimited strength for creating and shaping as long as they open themselves to Me, i.e., as long as they do not resist My illumination of love. And this blissful state truly would never have needed to end because I, for My part, would never have imposed a restriction on the beings and thus they never needed to fear a lessening of strength either. And yet a change occurred in the beings' greater than blissful state .... caused by a situation which the beings considered to be imperfect: the fact that I Myself, their God and Creator, was not visible to them as a being like themselves, that they indeed knew of Me as their Father from Whom they had originated, but because I did not visibly present Myself to them they looked at it as a limitation of My perfection. They began to entertain wrong thoughts since they did not openly raise this question with Me Myself, which I would have answered so that they could have realised and corrected their wrong notion ....

But they believed they could conceal these inner doubts about My perfection, and yet I knew of them .... However, I did not use coercion but gave their thoughts free rein which they nevertheless misused .... For they also recognised the same doubts about My perfection in the first being I had externalised and whose beauty radiated in supreme brilliance .... For eternities this being had given Me all its love indeed, and in this love it was exceedingly happy and shared My will .... even though its will was also free.

Yet now and then small doubts arose even in this brightly radiating being because it could not see Me either. Nevertheless, time and again its great love for Me suppressed the emerging doubts, and it gave itself to Me finding its beatitude in constantly creating same-natured beings by means of its will and the use of My strength. Yet this doubt about Me kept emerging and he, too, did not put it to Me, which he could have done .... He nourished the doubt so that it became increasingly stronger and reduced his love for Me .... But thereby he also weakened himself since his reduced love for Me also lessened My flow of love and thus restricted his creative activity as well.

Had he been able to see Me it would not have been possible for him to turn away from Me, yet the fire of My love would have consumed him, for no created being is able to look into the primal fire of My love without ceasing to exist .... He knew it, too, because he possessed supremely enlightened awareness, yet he played with the thought to be greater than Me because he radiated in brightest light and supremely perfected beauty .... He could not imagine any being to exceed him in light and beauty, and therefore he also claimed the right to rule over all created beings, whom he undoubtedly had created but the strength to do so he had received from Me. He now saw his power in the host of the spiritual beings and therefore believed himself able to do without My strength, he believed that he had withdrawn it from Me through the creation of the countless beings, and the fact that I did not visibly present Myself to him was regarded by him as evidence of My powerlessness ....

And I did not disillusion him because I had externalised him as a completely free being which I will never ever compel into changing its will and its thinking .... even if he keeps his distance from Me for eternities. Now My strength met with opposition and resistance, and consequently it remained completely ineffective. And now this, My first-created being, is no longer capable of generating any works of creation, yet it believes itself great and powerful because it looks upon the immense number of spiritual beings as his possession, who, like him, had revolted against Me and rejected My illumination of love .... They, too, are incapable of any activity, because they also moved infinitely far away from Me. But it was their free will, which I respect and thus they will remain distant from Me until they voluntarily approach Me again and appeal to Me for My illumination of love .... Even the first-created being .... My present adversary .... will take the path of return to Me one day, sooner or later he, too, will long for My illumination of love again and voluntarily accept it from Me, because one day he will give up his resistance, even if it takes an eternity .... Yet everything that was once emanated by Me as strength will inevitably return to the eternal source of strength again ....

Amen

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True church service requires a Father-child relationship ....

B.D. 8673 from November 14th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

Many people believe that they think and act religiously, but they lack the right attitude towards Me .... They certainly think of Me as their God and Creator, but not as their Father, and thus they do not establish the relationship of a child to its father. As a result they will not confide in Me in prayer either, they only see the distant almighty God in Me to Whom they are subjected as human beings, and Whom they rather fear than love .... because they are still unable to recognise My true nature.

And again it has to be explained that the degree of a person’s love determines his correct attitude towards Me .... that love will recognise the Father, Who is love Himself, and that the human being will then strive for Me with love and call to Me as My child. Only then can one speak of a person’s ‘religious’ way of life, because this way of life will lead back to Me for sure. But as long I Am still a person’s distant God and Creator Who, due to His might, will have to be feared, there is little prospect that the person will approach Me with love. He will merely fulfil, as a matter of formality, things which are demanded of him by his church. He is only motivated by his upbringing to conduct himself accordingly but this will not guarantee a change of his inner being, which is the purpose and goal of earthly life.

Consequently, if you humans experience heavy strokes of fate they are only intended to make you come alive, to forego mere formality and start thinking more about God, Who created you .... to start pondering why you are living on earth, and then voluntarily surrender yourselves to the power to Which you owe your life: because your indifferent attitude about Me will not result in your spiritual advancement .... However, if you seriously want to know what your God and Creator requires of you during your earthly life you are certain to find out. First of all you should ponder the nature of your God and Creator, and the urge to act with love will be aroused in you .... because this is My voice with which I Am speaking to your conscience and initially making Myself known to you.

By following the voice of your conscience you will come closer to Me, and then you will also establish the kind of connection with Me which corresponds to the relationship between a child and its father .... My gentle voice will always direct you towards actions of love which will bring you the light of knowledge and with it an understanding of My nature, Which is Love Itself .... Then you will leave ‘empty formalities’ behind and become alive in your essence and actions. You will no longer perform formal acts but begin to lead a second life next to your earthly life .... You will have set out on the spiritual path, since due to your new life of love you will be inwardly driven towards Me.

And thus you know that everything which tends towards love, is taught by love and is the activity of love, is good and acceptable to Me. For love is the indicator of truth and also the indicator of a person’s spiritual maturity who, as My representative, wants to lead his fellow human beings to Me. As long as he has no love himself, his 'preaching' will be without strength too; it will be a formal, lifeless service without benefit to anyone because I Myself Am distant from him, since only idle words are spoken which can never reach My ear. Only the close relationship with Me established through love will make your thinking, willing and actions come alive. Only then will you come to life yourselves, because as long as you are without love you are still dead.

And thus, taking part in a 'church service' is always just an external formality, and there can be no question of My presence as long as you humans only believe in a God and Creator but do not find the right attitude towards Me .... First you have to come to the Father as children and trustingly talk to Me, only then can you be sure that I Am close to you. And then your faith will also have come alive, because a ‘child’ will always endeavour to fulfil its Father's will. It will no longer just comply with external formalities but desire My presence with all its heart, which it will certainly also receive.

I only want you to come alive, to abandon useless habits and customs which you were taught to observe, but which are and remain completely worthless for your soul. You will only be able to love Me when you recognise Me as a Father, and only then will you fulfil the purpose of your life on earth .... Only then can you mature, which is always achieved by love alone ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Calling upon the 'Holy Spirit' ....

B.D. 8674 from November 15th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

You humans often call the 'Holy Spirit' that it may come upon you, and you are unaware of the fact that it is within you and only requires your free will so as to be able to speak to you .... The spirit is part of Me, it is inseparably connected with the Father-Spirit .... thus it is a divine spark which was added to your soul when it incarnated on this earth as a human being, in other words: you once emerged from Me as an emanation of love and therefore consist of the same fundamental substance as I Myself .... This substance solidified after your past apostasy from Me and you, who once had been full of life, became lifeless beings. For My strength of love permeated you and this strength was only able to be constantly active. However, since you rejected My strength of love it also left you incapable of any kind of activity. And you are still in this weak state when you enter the earth as a human being. In order that you will be able to accomplish the task given to you in your earthly life I radiate a spark of My eternal strength of love into every human heart, which thus is My share again .... You are alive with the once emanated strength and that means that you are in possession of vitality, that you can be active in an earthly way and therefore also comply with your task as a human being .... Your real task, however, is and remains your spiritualisation, the retransformation of your nature into its original state. And you can only accomplish this task if you change yourselves into love .... In order to be able to do that a spark of love has to be radiated into you first, since you, due to your past apostasy from Me, are completely without love. This spark of love is the emanation of Me Myself .... it is the emanation of My spirit into your soul which, however, only awakens you humans into life if you apply your will .... You all possess the spiritual spark, which is part of Me Myself, within you .... Hence it need not come to you anymore, it is inside of you but can only manifest itself if, through a life of love, you provide the possibility for it, because it will not impose itself and influence you against your will in any way .... Therefore you can at all times awaken the spirit in you but you will not be compelled to it.

When you pray for the Holy Spirit to come to you, you demonstrate your lack of knowledge regarding the right correlations, furthermore, you prove that you have a false concept of it, because you personify it to a certain extent and call upon it as an entity .... It is, however, My 'emanation', for I Myself Am the Holy Spirit of eternity, and I Am present to anyone who calls upon Me. However, you must never think that the spirit you call upon is separate from Me, and it will and cannot comply with your call as long as you do not shape yourselves into love, for even if My strength of love is unlimited it will never be able to radiate into a closed heart, and a heart remains unreceptive as long as it is unwilling to love .... since precisely due to the spiritual spark or spark of love it received from Me it is capable of loving .... Willingness to love, however, prompts the spirit to reveal itself to you, even if you don't call upon it expressly .... It is within you but will remain silent as long as you disregard love, because it is love itself and therefore can only speak to love. It is inseparably connected to the eternal Father-Spirit, and therefore enables 'My spirit' .... or the divine fire of love .... to flow into you humans in abundance and thus cause the spiritual spark to continuously educate you from within; for then divine light of love must also illuminate your hearts and that signifies brightest realisation, it signifies the receiving of knowledge which corresponds to the truth, because My spirit knows everything and can therefore only impart the pure truth to you. Therefore you can only ever pray that I Myself may be present to you, but this also requires you to shape yourselves to love, otherwise the Eternal Love cannot be present to you. You can therefore only pray to be granted the strength to fulfil My commandments, then you will always become aware of My presence, for with every work of love you draw Me close to you because I Am Love Itself .... And then I will also work through My spirit in you, as I have promised you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Question: what would have happened had Adam not failed? ....

B.D. 8675 from November 16th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

I want you to ask questions so that I can instruct you truthfully .... For these questions, too, are placed by Me into your heart because I know what you still need, and I want to give you enlightenment. You humans will find it impossible to understand all spiritual correlations down to the last detail as long as you are not yet so perfected that I can completely permeate you with the light of My love which then will also guarantee you the brightest knowledge. Yet I can already inform you beforehand in relation to your intellectual capacity so that you need not fall prey to wrong thoughts and become receptive to misguided teachings: .... The guilt of the beings' which had fallen away from Me was immeasurably huge .... However, it primarily consisted of the fact that they no longer wanted to acknowledge Me despite their state of light which clearly revealed their former origin to them. They sinned against Me in spite of better knowledge. Nevertheless, My love for them was so great that I made their return to Me dependent on their full acknowledgement of Myself and the admission of their guilt of having sinned against Me as their God and Father. But it always has to be emphasised that due to their apostasy My adversary had taken possession of the beings and that they were too weak to release themselves from his power .... Only love could give them the strength to free themselves from him .... Love was the only means which rendered the adversary powerless, only love could conquer him .... Yet the beings had voluntarily renounced love, they repelled My illumination of love and thereby were completely at My adversary's mercy. I, however, gave the first human beings the opportunity to accept love from Me again .... I endowed them with every gift and ability, and they had dominion over the whole earth .... I offered them an infinite measure of love which they merely needed to reciprocate by fulfilling My not too difficult commandment .... By reciprocating My love they, in turn, would have gained a measure of strength with which they could easily have resisted My adversary and released themselves from his bondage, and by fulfilling My will they would also have confessed their past sin .... they would have entered into My will again and every being, living on earth as a human being after them, would have done the same ....

And thus humanity repentantly would have returned to Me within a short time, for Adam's inherent strength as a result of his right kind of love would have transferred itself onto all his descendants, the complete spiritualization of the once fallen beings would have proceeded swiftly, precisely because the first human beings would have recognised their immense original guilt and through heartfelt love for Me would soon have removed it. For a sin against love .... a sin against Me Myself .... could only be cancelled through love again .... And truly, what I bestowed upon the first human beings when they took possession of the earth should have ignited their love into the brightest blaze .... For I only demanded 'love' as an atonement .... which was then .... because Adam and the human generation had failed .... shown to Me by the man Jesus to such an extent that he thereby redeemed the immense guilt .... Only love was able to atone for this guilt. And the first human beings truly could have mustered love, for their surrounding creation offered them incomparable glories which, after the agonizing state of constraint, made them blissfully happy and this beatitude could also have triggered a divine love within themselves, a love which only ever had to give thanks and praise and could have inspired their deeply felt devotion for Me ....

Yet for the sake of testing their will, which previously had been misused, I also had to grant My adversary the right to fight for his followers during their earthly life. And in order to reveal to the first human beings the great danger of a repeated offence against Me I only gave them an easy commandment which they were able to fulfil and had to fulfil if their love for Me was going to be able to reach this said degree which ensured their complete devotion to Me, which totally would have deprived the adversary of his power. He, too, tried everything to bring the first human beings to fall, and thus he opposed My easy commandment with a promise which, however .... because he was My adversary .... consisted of a lie and he impelled the human beings into the wrong kind of love .... He promised them that they would be 'like God' if they transgressed My commandment, he portrayed Me as a liar, since I had announced their death if they disobeyed My commandment .... And people believed him, not Me. And this was the repeated grave sin which also placed all descendants into a state of weakness so that they could no longer liberate themselves from the adversary on their own and which subsequently necessitated Jesus Christ's act of Salvation, if people were to one day be delivered from utmost adversity ....

Time after time I emphasize that only love was able to atone this immense guilt, that Adam would indeed have been able to demonstrate this love to Me but that due to his fall and after his fall no being was capable anymore to muster the kind of love which would guarantee the redemption of the immense original sin .... and that the loving act of redemption therefore had to be accomplished by Me Myself, Who manifested Himself in the human being Jesus ....

Thus the human being Jesus had an abundance of divine love, and in His love He suffered the sacrificial death on the cross, because no human being would have been able to return to Me without this act of Salvation, because My adversary will not release any soul and on its own it is too weak to liberate itself from him .... And because I have known since eternity that the first human being would fail, Jesus .... God's only begotten Son .... offered Himself for this act of Salvation, and He accomplished it because His love for Me and for all wretched souls was beyond measure ....

Amen

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Purification of Christ's spoilt teaching ....

B.D. 8676 from November 17th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

The reason for the present transmission of My Word by which I send the pure truth to earth is the very spoilt teaching that is proclaimed on earth as the doctrine of Christ .... It is no longer the pure Gospel as brought by Me through Jesus to the people .... His Words have been subjected to many changes, a lot is no longer understood properly and much is also misinterpreted .... Over a period of time the Word, which is described as 'My Word', has caused differences of opinions which resulted in divisions amongst those who campaigned for the truth of their own points of view .... Words with a spiritual meaning were interpreted in a worldly sense, and people hold on to this tenaciously because they simply cannot understand the spiritual meaning any longer. The result is a structure of faith whose teachings completely diverge from what I Myself brought to the people when I lived on earth .... As a result many people are no longer spiritually approachable at all because their intellect refuses to accept teachings which they regard as obvious error, which has indeed crept into the truth and which is now only upheld as truth by fanatics .... Such a distorted doctrine has to be purified if it is to be of any benefit for people's souls.

Hence this intention is the basis for My new direct revelation, which can be recognised as divine revelation by every willing person. But only the willing person will accept and acquire the pure truth again, and he will be able to see how and where humanity was moved by misconception until now. However, even this process of transmitting the pure truth .... of correcting misguided teachings .... can only be accomplished in a completely normal way. No unusual signs may decisively or forcefully influence the faith of other human beings .... Consequently, this task is not associated with strange phenomena, the transmission from above takes place in a most natural manner whereby a person hears with his spiritual ear what I Myself tell him and he transcribes My Word as he receives it from Me. Thus there is available evidence now and the person cannot be wrongly accused of confusion, self-deception or a deliberate literary work with the intention of deceiving or startling other people. The process of receiving spiritual messages cannot be denied because there is written evidence for it. And yet every individual human being has the option to accept it as credible or to reject it in order to retain his religious liberty.

However, the misguided spiritual knowledge which has crept into people's thoughts urgently needs to be examined and exposed as wrong and useless or dangerous for the development of the soul .... Because error can never lead to Me, the eternal truth .... As a result, the majority of people are taking the path which leads away from Me, and these people shall receive clarification, providing they want it and are willing to accept it .... And this task by the person I have chosen will be supported by Me in every way, because it is a necessary work to combat My adversary's activity, who will always fight the truth by seeking to contaminate it with error in order to prevent people from attaining the light of understanding. Therefore I will indeed bless everyone who contributes to this important work by wanting to spread the spiritual knowledge, conveyed to earth by Me, among his fellow human beings. For truth is a light which should shine for all who want to take the right path to Me, to their Father of eternity, Who can, however, never be found by way of misguided teachings .... For this reason war has to be declared on error, as well as on the one who has brought error into the world. And yet, truth will only gain entry into human hearts where there is a desire for it .... Because this desire proves that they also desire Me Myself and want to become free from the one who would like to keep them in spiritual darkness .... They shall receive the pure truth, and therefore the teaching of Christ as it is currently preached to people shall be cleansed, and My uncontaminated Word shall be made accessible to people once again, so that they can become blessed, because only truth comes from Me and only truth leads back to Me again ....

Amen

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Warning about additional foreign teaching material ....

B.D. 8677 from November 18th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

When you yourselves stand in the favour to be taught by Me directly, then do not let yourselves be misled through fellowmen, who want to teach you and bring something to you, what has not already been sent to you by Me Myself. There is divine truth, and this will never contradict itself, and if you are now instructed through My spirit, you need no additional instructions on the part of fellowmen, and you are also to repel them, so that your thinking does not get into confusion, what is the aim of My opponent, on whose suggestion also the fellowman wants to express himself towards you. You know it .... or it has often already been told to you .... that the fight of darkness against the light already exists for eternities and that it will also still exist for eternities, that again and again My opponent will try to enforce truth with error, and that there is therefore only one guarantee for the possession of pure truth: when you receive it directly from Me or you receive spiritual material through My messengers, which went out from Me directly and is supplied to you unchanged .... As soon as a man values his own intellect too highly and believes that he first has to explain to fellowmen the spiritual material that has gone out from Me, he overestimates himself, and already the opponent finds a slippage into his thinking, and pure truth is endangered. When you know about all connections, when you know in what spiritual darkness consists and who alone stands in the light .... then you also know that the origin of truth can only be with Me Myself, and you should now look for every opportunity to let yourselves be instructed by Me directly, for this happens both directly as well as indirectly when the word directly conveyed to earth is passed on and accepted unchanged .... Then it is always guaranteed that man moves in truth, in right thinking, and then he is to value the spiritual good highly and protect it from every distortion .... And if the fellow human being himself is of the will to move in pure truth, then his thinking will also be guided correctly, and he will never seek to weave in wrong thought material .... which, however, is easily the case if he overestimates his own intellect and takes a purely intellectual stance on the truth conveyed to him .... Then spiritual arrogance can easily lead to that his thinking gets confused and the opponent can influence him to want to teach again for his part, and now also the danger exists that he imparts wrong teaching material, if the receiver does not have such a strong desire for truth that he rejects wrong thought material, that he inwardly fights against it, because I protect his thinking from error. As soon as a man has a strong awareness of validity (need), he wants to be leader in every way, and then he also often presumes to want to impose his own thinking on fellowmen, which however then also cannot correspond to truth, because self-arrogance always gives the opponent shelter. You, who are now directly instructed by Me, you should close your ears if a fellow human being tries to 'instruct' you .... For I Myself take it upon Myself to instruct you, and I do not need a human being for this, even if he has an intellect as sharp as it is, and therefore you should only accept what I give to you, for I know if and when your knowledge is to be extended and in what way. You will also mostly feel an inner resistance towards humanly conveyed instructions to you, and then this is always an inner warning which you should heed, for the truth conveyed to you by Me is to be protected from human accessories. For I Myself will not instruct a fellow human being to apply his intellectual thinking where I Myself convey purest truth to earth. But I Myself will seek to fill every gap in knowledge where I consider this necessary, and that is why questions will be raised again and again .... For you are all allowed to ask if you humans are serious about receiving the right answer .... And I Myself will always be prepared to give you the answer so that you can also be certain of its truth. Because you will always have to admit that men can err, but not eternal truth itself. That is why you will always do well to only accept Me Myself as your teacher, for what you possess, who are taught by Me directly, can only be owned by the fellow human being who likewise lets himself be taught by Me directly, who only ever asks Me for purest truth. And this one will therefore also stand in the same thinking with you, and you will not need to be instructed by him, because then there will also be no opposing views between you, but as being in possession of the pure truth from Me .... can establish full agreement. A fellow human being can certainly have great knowledge at his disposal, which he has acquired intellectually, but in order to stand spiritually in the sole truth, not the sharpness of the intellect is enough, but a wide-open heart, into which the light out of Me, the eternal truth, can pour itself .... And where I find such a heart there will also be pure truth, which again only I Myself can expand, according to the degree of maturity of the soul, which must be in most intimate contact with Me in order to now also be directly instructed and initiated by Me into My eternal plan of salvation, in order to now also be able to guide this pure truth there, where hearts open again in love in order to receive the truth .... the light of knowledge .... because only truth leads you humans back to Me from where you once originated ...._>Amen

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The most important commandment has to be fulfilled: Love ....

B.D. 8678 from November 19th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

You, who want to serve Me, will repeatedly be reminded of the immense spiritual darkness which necessitates My Gospel to be carried into the world, which alone is the true light that can penetrate the darkness providing it is offered in all purity, just as it once originated from Me and is now conveyed to you from above to earth again. For only truth is the true light .... but what became spoilt will only ever intensify the darkness. However, the reason why the darkness is so extensive is because many lies and errors were added to the spiritual knowledge which guaranteed the most brightly shining light when it came forth from Me.

And so it is necessary that people are correctly instructed, that they receive clarification about areas which so far were closed to them or were not truthfully brought to light. It is only important that people change their nature to love, that they overcome their selfish love and change it into selfless neighbourly love .... And this important teaching, the fulfilment of My commandment of love, was placed into the background whereas other teachings came to the forefront and people's endeavours were pushed in the wrong direction. Commandments are being observed and fulfilled which are utterly immaterial and don't lead to any kind of advancement for the soul. And love is being put aside which simultaneously means that the light cannot shine brightly, that it only glows faintly .... that people's realisation, their knowledge of truth, is therefore poor .... that they exist in a spiritually darkened state, that they have an entirely wrong view of life, that they only ever strive for material possessions because no inner light is shining for them, which can only be kindled by love.

If all preachers preached nothing else but love .... if people were only ever encouraged to give up their selfish love and practise selfless neighbourly love .... truly, then they would also live in the light of realisation, they would recognise the irrelevance of earthly commodities, they would establish the right kind of relationship as of a child to its Father, for all this results in selfless, divine love .... Instead people are given misguided teachings, they are obliged to perform deeds and customs which can only be valued as external formalities and can never result into changing the state of the soul, because I only value what results in a living relationship with Me .... and this living bond with Me can only be established through kind-hearted activity. And therefore I will continue sending My messengers into the world to proclaim the Gospel of love to people .... And I Myself will always convey the pure Gospel to you who want to accept it and pass it on .... For by way of divine love, which you ought to practise, you will attain a living faith, you will arrive at the inner certainty that I Am close to you and that you can associate with Me directly. And by way of the light, which was kindled in you by love, you will also receive the kind of knowledge which corresponds to the truth, you will no longer live your earthly life in a blind state but possess truthful knowledge regarding the reason for your life on earth and the goal you are supposed to reach .... hence also regarding the earthly task you ought to fulfil.

And as soon as you know the truth you will also achieve spiritual progress, your earthly life will not be in vain, you will become more and more perfect .... which, however, is only the result of receiving the pure truth from Me. And this is what you much search for and desire, then you will also partake of it .... Then you will always be considered by Me, and then My adversary will have lost all claim on you, as soon as your nature has changed itself into love again, as you were in the beginning ....

Amen

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God is the source of light and power from eternity ....

B.D. 8679 from November 20th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

From Me alone the light goes out, because I alone am the source of light and power from eternity. And everything that exists was created out of My strength and filled with My light, which is the emanation of My infinite love .... And so you can also say love, light and power is one .... love, light and strength have their origin in Me, because I Myself am love, light and strength in My primal element .... But you, too, as My created beings, are the same in your original substance, for My divine strength of love could only emanate the same, which was only formed as a being, because I Myself am also a being Which has a thinking will .... In view of My highest perfection this awareness would crush you, because as a human being or imperfect being you are unable to grasp such, for you voluntarily stepped out of the former perfection in which I created you and are therefore no longer able to grasp that for which highest perfection is required. Your thinking ability is limited; the power of knowledge, as it were, is weakened; love as well as light and power are considerably weakened, which once was unlimitedly your share .... But it is always at your disposal .... So you yourselves can again acquire light and power, as soon as you ignite and nourish love .... the principle of divine order .... and nourish it, as this is your destiny as long as you are still imperfect, so that you will attain perfection again in order to be able to be permeated by My love, My light and My strength again without limitation. I am always the origin, and therefore the contact with Me is absolutely necessary that you can be filled by love-light and power .... But as man you cannot measure what happiness My radiating through with divine love-power gives you; you do not know about the exceedingly great feeling of happiness, which My direct supply of love-light and power guarantees you .... And that is why you make no or little effort to establish the close bond with Me in order to be able to partake of this immense bliss. You live indifferently because you are completely unaware of your own shortcomings as well as of your earthly task, your aim and your affiliation to Me, which you should only acknowledge yourselves so that it will be realized and earn you My rays of love. And even if the knowledge about it is conveyed to you, it appears to be little credible to you, and it does not fit into your world view, which is more familiar to you and to which you pay all attention .... And yet, everything that surrounds you earthly is only an illusion .... But real is your state of soul in its spiritual misery, which however can be remedied exactly through supply of love power and light, through union with Me, the original source, out of Which My love power current flows incessantly and only needs your free will to also be able to flow through you, so that you can feel a happiness, which you then certainly no longer want to give up, because it already means the intimate contact with Me, without which the love power transmission can never take place. You men are always to consider that I alone am the source and always only this source has to be sought out through conscious acknowledgement and call of Him, Who gave you life and Who also constantly wants to make you happy with His love power and light expression, only needs your free will to now also be able to work on you. You are to know that this is your aim in life and your task, to again cancel a separation, which you accomplished voluntarily, and therefore voluntarily again unite with eternal love Itself, so that It can now also again radiate through you with light and power, to prepare happiness for you. For once you yourselves were full of light and strength and therefore also blissful .... And so you also are to become again, because as man you are formed deficiently, you lack power and light, because you lack love, My divine radiation, which you once voluntarily rejected .... And what this rejection of My strength of love meant for the beings once emanating from Me you can already determine by your deficient state alone, for it is both the light .... your knowledge and realization .... as well as your strength is severely limited .... as human beings you are very imperfect creatures until you willingly turn to the eternal source of light and strength again and ask for the flow of His love, which truly will not be denied to you because this is also My aim from eternity, to permeate everything that once came forth from Me with the flow of My love in order to make it blissfully happy to an inconceivable degree .... For only in light and power can you lead a happy life, and light and power will again and again offer and supply you with My love, for light and power are the epitome of beatitude .... They are the evidence of My endless love, which applies and will apply to all My creatures until all eternity ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Following Jesus: Bearing the cross ....

B.D. 8680 from November 21st 1963, taken from Book No. 91

You will always cross the bridge to the spiritual kingdom if you follow Jesus, the divine Redeemer, Who established this bridge for you humans and walked the path before you. He Himself bridged this broad gulf between the earth and the spiritual kingdom through His act of Salvation, He walked the most arduous and painful path to the cross and thereby built the bridge into the kingdom of light .... which can be crossed by every human being and will always lead to the right goal ....

The path of following Jesus has to be taken, that is, just as He had accepted all suffering out of love for the wretched human race so the human being, too, has to take the path of love and suffering, he has to endeavour to follow Him in order to purge his soul .... even though the human being Jesus had taken all the guilt of His fallen brothers upon Himself and thus the immense original sin was redeemed through the crucifixion, through the act of Salvation .... His soul can only be cleansed and purified through love and suffering, and it has to accomplish this purging while still on earth if it wants to achieve the degree of light which guarantees its happiness. For the human being lives on earth in order to free his soul from all impurities, from all vices and longings, weaknesses and bad habits, which still cling to you as a result of your past apostasy, which it should and will be able to shed if it patiently travels the earthly path in suffering and makes an effort to live a life of love. For love is the most assured means of purification, love dissolves all impurities and layers which still burden a soul. And suffering .... humbly endured .... is likewise suitable to crystallise the soul, which then will become receptive to light and translucent when it enters the realm of the beyond.

For this reason Jesus spoke the Words 'Whosoever will come after Me, let him take up his cross ....' No human being will be entirely spared suffering, even if the weight of burden varies with each person. Yet earthly life is not the ultimate fulfilment, it is only ever a preparatory stage for the true life in the spiritual kingdom .... And any load the soul is still burdened with on earth can only raise its beatitude in the beyond, providing it is humbly endured as God's will. Thus the human being shall take the path of following Jesus of his own free will .... He himself has to want that his soul should attain greater maturity on earth, he consciously has to decide to follow Jesus, he also has to acknowledge His act of Salvation and make use of it for himself. For no earthly existence, no matter how sorrowful, will ever help the soul to achieve perfection if the human being does not acknowledge Jesus, if he does not make use of His act of Salvation and its blessings, if he does not believe in Him and the fact that it was God Himself Who accomplished the act of Salvation in the man Jesus. Then his earthly path can be as wretched as anything, but he will not derive any benefit from it for his soul, for he did not voluntarily 'follow Jesus' ....

However, the more you humans are filled with love the less you will be weighed down by suffering, for love is the best means of release, the fire of love will dissolve the soul's every layer, it will melt away everything that is unclean and hardened, love will achieve the soul's purification within a short time, and the extent of suffering can be reduced where love is already dealing with the soul's purification process ....

And therefore the human being will have to be of service to a large extent in order to express his love, for love impels people to be active, and as soon as it thus unselfishly applies to another person the human being will constantly perform labours of love, and then he will travel the path of following Jesus, Who time and again was likewise impelled by love to accomplish helpful acts, Who aimed to alleviate his fellow human being's suffering and distress and used remarkable strength in order to help his fellow human beings.

And thus a constant willingness to help will be the path that follows Jesus, because it demonstrates love, which can only ever have a beneficial effect, both for the provider as well as for the one who accepts the help .... For love is the most Powerful, the Divine, which has to lead to the soul's perfection without fail, which has to purge a soul and make it receptive to light .... love is the final objective on earth, because it leads to unification with the Eternal Love, because it restores the original state of the created being and therefore also guarantees supreme bliss, which the being then finds in closest unity with its God and Father of eternity, from Whose love it once emerged ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Ego consciousness state in free will ....

B.D. 8681 from November 22nd 1963, taken from Book No. 91

You receive your free will, as well as you as an I-conscious being .... as a human being .... go over the earth and also enter the kingdom of the beyond with this self-awareness .... Only in the time of your change through the creation of earth is your will bound, and also the I-consciousness lacks you, because you were dissolved into innumerable little particles, which have only gathered again in the stage as man, which also has triggered the I-consciousness of an individual being in you. So then you are also again in possession of free will, and you will now also keep it, no matter what degree of maturity your soul can register on earth or in the hereafter. And free will in you can bring about everything; it can again lead your soul to highest perfection, as it once plunged the being into deepest depths and the being was not prevented from what its will strived for. But will is the sign of divine origin; it is the sign that the creature was and is a divine being, even if it still moves in a very low degree of maturity. Free will can strive endlessly far from God, and it can again seek and establish the most intimate connection with Him, and it is in no way forced from God, but can also not be forced on the part of the opponent, why therefore every direction of will determines the being itself and therefore also creates its own state or degree of maturity itself. This is therefore also the reason for the difference of beings, the difference of men on earth and also of souls in the kingdom on the other side. Because every soul forms itself according to its will, which can cause both highest happiness as also deepest misery for it and is never inevitably directed differently, as it determines the soul itself. When God gave life to the beings, He put them out as something free independent apart from Himself .... And that also meant that every being itself could develop its will, because without free will no divine creature could be thought, which itself embodied life .... Only when it had misused its will did it thereby also surrender its 'life', it became dead works to which all wanting was impossible, which now had to submit to a higher will because it had lost 'life' through the misuse of its will and now first had to come to a certain degree of life again through the will of God .... It now became active according to divine will, thus it was under a certain law of compulsion, yet always with the aim to regain free will and then to use it right, i.e. according to divine will .... Only this aim, to once again live according to God's will in free will, to subordinate free will to divine will, is to be pursued by man on earth .... who is therefore again in possession of free will .... According to this aim he is to live and seek to achieve it, and he will again become a divine being in all perfection, for the alignment of his own free will with God's will means return to Him Who once gave life to the human being and his soul .... It means equal willing and thinking, equal love and bliss with God .... It means that the former 'creature' of God has become His 'child', because it has made right use of free will and has therefore shaped itself to love, which requires free will, to which the soul itself had to give the right direction of aim to come to eternal life in bliss, to reach the adoption as a child of God, which guarantees the most blissful lot to a being. As work it was once created, but had to form itself to a child of God, for which free will was first precondition. You therefore had to accomplish something your God and creator could not give: acquire divine perfection in free will, certainly with the support of your God and creator, however not driven to it by His power. The love in you had to be so strong that it felt drawn towards your creator and sought to unite with Him. For profound love also enters into the will of God of its own accord; the being which is full of love is in the same will with God .... The will subordinates itself to God and yet is not determined by God to submit itself to Him .... it remains free and will also eternally remain free, because the highest aim which God has striven for since the 0beginning is and will remain that the being freely gives love to Him out of itself and reciprocates His great love, which makes itself and all beings happy without limit for all eternity ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's assurance of assistance to the vineyard workers ....

B.D. 8682 from November 23rd 1963, taken from Book No. 91

Your whole life, your fate, everything still lies in My hand, and as I consider it good for your soul, so also your earth life will take place, so that you can devote yourselves to Me fully trusting and then also no day will be lived in vain, which you stay on earth. You certainly have free will, according to which you can shape your earth life yourselves, but how your own doing and wanting has an effect, both on your soul as well as in earthly relationship, that is again and again determined by Me, because I recognize it, in which way a benefit can arise for you. But your will is always determining, how every event, every thought has an effect on yourselves. What you now undertake for Me and My kingdom, how you make use of the time as loyal servants in My vineyard, that will also carry its blessing in it, because it is truly the most important task, which you can make for your purpose in life, because your and innumerable souls' lot in the spiritual kingdom depends on it and you can never earthly gain the same successes for your souls. And again and again I tell you that I will bless your work and always help you that you can carry it out, and no matter how unfeasible it still seems to you .... I still have all means at My disposal to make even the impossible possible, and with this trust in My help you should approach everything that serves the well-being of your fellow human beings. Because you are not allowed to disregard one thing that you have a divine gift of favour at your disposal, a spiritual good, which you receive directly from Me. And when I give you such a gift of favour then it will certainly also be possible for Me to help you with its spreading, and I will also be able to dissolve apparent resistances and difficulties when you just believe in My power and My love. But every timid thought is lack of faith .... But you are to consider that I do not send you a gift of favour of highest value and highest effectiveness without purpose, but It wants itself that this is spread, that it is supplied to all those who are accessible to you and open for it. And that is why you can tackle everything with full confidence in My sure help, what contributes to the spreading of My word. And you are also not to hold back or let yourselves be put off by objections or by failure of fellowmen, because I want to give double power to those who need such, because they want to serve Me .... Every hindrance is the work of My opponent, and through him you are not to let yourselves be confused or held back, but always only trust in Me that I have promised you My help and also stand by My word. Who sacrifices much to Me, he will also experience much blessing, but you are not to be anxious; you are to believe in Me that I take over all your worries and regulate everything for you, as soon as you serve Me according to all your powers and out of love towards Me and fellowmen, who are still to be rescued through you before the end. And so that you believe in Me, I will also give you signs .... Evidence of My love, which will make you draw ever closer to Me and you will feel My presence and thus your faith will also be strengthened. For I do not want to lose you as My co-workers; I want you to work ever more diligently, and truly, your reward will be no small one day in the spiritual kingdom. However, I also do not want you to be prepared to serve Me only for the sake of reward. For the work for Me and My kingdom will only be a blessing if selfless, divine love is the driving force, for love also contains the strength which is intended to help the souls to ascend. Only that will ever be successful what is done in pure, unselfish love, and I Myself will always give My blessing to it .... And when I Myself promise you My support, then you are truly allowed to undertake everything without hesitation, to which the heart drives you. Believe it that I Myself am always with you, you who work in My vineyard, that I as house father assign the work to My servants Myself and am pleased with every loyal servant, who follows all My instructions and serves Me devotedly. And I will also truly not let this one get into a trouble, be it earthly or spiritually, because as long as he lives on earth I will also cover his earthly needs; I will direct everything so that he can follow the spiritual work undisturbed, and I will also give him the power to be active for Me and My kingdom ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Effect of free will .... Sudden death ....

B.D. 8683 from November 24th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

Even world events proceed according to My divine will. Although human will is the driving force I nevertheless knew people's will an eternity ago and direct the outcome according to My wisdom, so that, in the final analysis, everything can contribute towards the souls' perfection as long as they don't openly reject it, that is, deliberately strive downwards due to their association with My adversary. For every event can have positive as well as negative effects, every event can be experienced by one person .... i.e. his soul .... as helpful, whereas for another it can be an obstacle towards higher development. I, however, know the outcome and therefore allow the human will its freedom. But the consequences have to be accepted by people again who seemingly had no part in it, nevertheless they, too, have to suffer such strokes of fate in order to mature fully .... Everything is known to Me for eternity, and My plan of Salvation was based on people's free will .... And human will sometimes causes confusion on a huge scale, the consequences of which must be endured again by the human race .... For as soon as divine order is ignored, chaos is the inevitable result, and people will subsequently have to suffer under this chaos. Yet it is the time of the end where almost no-one lives in divine order anymore, where only a small part of humanity endeavours to live according to My divine will, while all others transgress the law of order and thus a state of lawlessness is recognisable which results in lack of peace, hatred, hostile conflicts against each other and totally disorderly situations, in all sorts of miserable conditions .... For calmness and peace cannot reign where spirits of darkness are evoked through actions adverse to God .... there can be no happiness and no order where love does not exist, and love has grown cold among people. The prince of darkness incessantly impels people into acts of hatred and unkindness, and only ever greater misery can come out of it .... even if it is kept hidden from the general public it will nevertheless be recognised by every person who still wants to abide by the laws of eternal order.

However, I have also designated an end to this behaviour by people, to their sinfulness, which is expressed by their activities, for soon the time will be fulfilled, and soon everyone will have to reveal their own attitude and justify himself for his innermost feeling, for the time will soon expire which was granted to My adversary and which he has truly used well .... The eternal order will soon be established again as it was promised in Word and Scripture. Many shocking events will still take place before the end, people will be subjected to many rude awakenings and become conscious of the fact that every day could be their last .... and good for him who lives his earthly life appropriately. Nevertheless, My messengers will always inform them of what the human race can still expect .... Time and again My obvious activity will be pointed out to people, which could provide them with the evidence of a Power Which is in charge of everything, Which directs everything according to Its will, but without excluding people's will. Yet you humans can certainly take actions, in a good or a bad way .... but the effects of your actions are determined by Me, as I Am aware of all people's will and therefore always protect those of good will, even if they are plunged into greatest anguish through human will .... In that case, it will only be a blessing for their souls, and one day they will recognise My guidance and nevertheless be thankful to Me for the arduous destiny imposed upon them. However, you should always bear in mind that I will never enslave the human being's will, that every person can think and want at his own discretion, but that every person must also accept the consequences of his will, that one day every person must give account of his will, regardless of the outcome of the implemented action. And My permissions are indeed justified, even if you are unable to understand this because you know that I Am not lacking the power to stop another person from implementing his will. I, however, have a view over every person's progress of life, I know his maturity of soul and I know, what can still serve him to raise the latter .... I also want to confront every person with their own death, which no-one can avoid when it approaches him. And if I merely achieve that it reminds all people of the fact that they, too, can pass away at any minute, it is already an achievement for the individual person's soul. It is an approach by Myself, it is My direct intervention in his thoughts, which he then will certainly be able to direct according to his will but which can also lead him to the right path, because I leave no stone unturned in leading people onto the right path and because I alone know the right means in order to still achieve small successes, to gain a few souls before the end, which is not far away anymore ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The final powerful work of destruction .... I.

B.D. 8684 from November 25th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

Even if you are constantly made aware of the end your faith in it is nevertheless not alive enough to seriously prepare yourselves for it .... You are facing such an extraordinary event that it is difficult for you to believe since nothing remotely similar has ever taken place as far as you can ascertain from the past. The individual periods of Salvation are so long, and besides, it is My wise intention that you should not be able to estimate the interval between the beginning and end of such an epoch and that you should lack all knowledge in this regard. For even what you think you can ascertain by way of research is not reliable information, it will always remain unverifiable assumption. And thus the forthcoming work of destruction, which will totally change the earth's surface, will indeed affect the whole of the earth, yet it will only be consciously experienced by the few who, as the root of the new human generation, will be carried away before the end. And they will in fact still remember the old earth, however, the new period will start so entirely differently that people will soon get used to living in a completely new world and thus their thoughts utterly distance themselves from the events on the old earth .... It will only affect them like a dream since the new earth will present them with entirely different problems because they are spiritually minded and only ever try to come closer to Me. Worldly thoughts will dwindle, but the spirit will already be remarkably active and the souls will attain a high degree of maturity, so that, to a certain extent, they will have reached their earthly goal already and be in contact with the inhabitants of the kingdom of light although they will still live in their physical bodies.

What you are told in this respect is completely incomprehensible to you humans on this earth, yet it is the truth and therefore you are repeatedly informed that the time has come when you can expect unusual happenings, because events will happen thick and fast in the end and only a specific degree of maturity will assure people the strength to cope with what is to come and thus survive the last days in conscious unity with Me and the certainty that I will support them no matter what happens. Significant events of all kinds will always be caused by people themselves even if a direct cause is not perceptible, yet only I know what people's souls need .... And unusual occurrences will have to happen in the end in order to galvanise people .... And yet, all these events can be called negligible compared to the large work of destruction which will befall earth when the time comes for the lawful order to be restored in accordance with My will. Nevertheless, only the people carried away by Me and before whose eyes everything will take place will be able to watch the full extent of the destruction work .... and only because they shall realise their God and Creator's might and also experience the truth of My Word ....

Yet prior to this many an event will still frighten people and only for the sake of directing your thoughts towards the One to Whom all Power is given and at whose mercy everyone is .... And truly, every human being who is still called away from earth before the end may consider himself blessed, for he will not meet the dreadful judgment of the new banishment which, however, can be expected by everyone who does not belong to My Own .... to those whom I will carry away from this earth, as I announce to you time and again .... You humans cannot give credence to such an occurrence either, because no previous incident of that nature can be verified and because people will not allow for anything that contradicts natural laws. Yet He Who gave these natural laws can truly also revoke them, for nothing is impossible for Him, especially when it concerns establishing a new order again so as to safeguard the further development of all spiritual beings. This is why you should faithfully accept everything that is imparted to you through My Word .... You should believe that everything is possible for Me and that I will also use My might in the end because I want to repeal My adversary .... For his time is over, and he has really made good use of it to the detriment of what also belongs to Me .... And for the sake of these spiritual beings I will let new creations arise which will receive the spirits which had failed their last test of will on earth, for I always have the salvation of all spiritual beings at heart. And even if you find it impossible to recognise My love in all forthcoming events .... one day you will be able to understand it and then you will acknowledge the greater than great love, wisdom and might of the One Who wants to deliver you from the abyss but Who will let you keep your free will so that you will be able to become perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The final powerful work of destruction .... II.

B.D. 8685 from November 26th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

Great events cast their shadows before them .... And thus the final powerful work of destruction affecting the earth will be preceded by ever more distressing events, what happens to a lesser degree in many places will finally happen to the whole earth .... with the difference that the previous divinely intended natural disasters will horrify people, whereas the final work of destruction on earth will be triggered by human will, thus people will initiate the end themselves .... on the one hand by involving themselves in all kinds of tests and experiments and on the other hand by their increasingly firmer connection with God's adversary who impels them to do so because he himself is incapable of destroying works which emerged through God's will .... You humans will be kept in constant suspense, for the day which brings everything to an end because a new earth period will start, comes ever closer .... And every frightful event is intended to wake you up, for you are truly sleep walking, you don't see and realise anything because you don't want to see or realise anything. You are in grave danger of becoming lost again for an infinitely long time, and yet you could avert this danger if you were genuinely interested in your salvation.

However, regardless of what is yet to happen, only individual people will derive benefit for their soul, whilst the majority takes notice of everything, gets upset about it and then lapses into its state of sleep again, and nothing changes in their way of life, in their attitude towards God, for He is distant to them and they won't look for close contact with Him as long as their earthly life still seems bearable to them. Yet a state of calm will not return anymore, one piece of bad news will follow the other, and even the adversary's activity will become clearly evident, the separation of the goats from the sheep will become ever more distinctly noticeable. People will soon demonstrate that they pursue two different goals: people who still seriously try to find God and those who deny Him and aim to completely exclude Him from their lives. And the latter will treat the former with hostility and oppress them, for they will be in the majority whereas the believers will always be the weaker ones, yet they only outwardly yield to the superior numbers whilst always receiving strength from God in order to withstand the adversary's demands to renounce their faith .... For soon the last battle of faith will erupt and that will also be the beginning of the final phase, which will be closely followed by the end .... But due to people's low spiritual level such upsetting events cannot be avoided, everything will still be tried on the part of God to motivate people to think, and the proximity of death will be brought home to them over and over again ....

By way of destruction through the forces of nature they will be shown that everything is transient and be encouraged by any means to form an opinion about all happenings, for they shall be shaken out of their lethargy and motivated to reflect on the possible reasons for all occurrences .... And even people who are not directly affected themselves can nevertheless observe their fellow human beings' fate and form their own opinion .... Whatever it takes will still be done on the part of God which could result in some success .... Yet generally everything will be looked at from an earthly point of view, earthly disadvantages will be discussed .... but the fact that everything has its spiritual reasons will be ignored and therefore only little spiritual success will be gained .... Even so, you are told in advance that you will repeatedly be shaken up, you shall know that everything is planned for eternity and that nothing is without meaning and purpose even if you don't recognise it. Observe the cosmic events and heed world events .... And know that there are no coincidences in earthly life, that everything is determined or permitted by God's will because He also knows the results of what He sends upon earth and humankind. For He holds the reigns and knows how to steer them according to divine wisdom.

Try to understand God's language, for you only need good will to subordinate yourselves to His will, hence you should only ever try to derive benefit for your souls from everything that happens around yourselves, but don't remain indifferent, for God always wants to tell you something when your heart and mind are affected by extraordinary events .... Listen to His soft voice and don't let anything pass you by without impression, take notice of the signs of the last days which shall be your indication that the time has come which has always been mentioned .... And believe that you don't have much time left until the end and that everything will come to pass as it is written .... that the old earth will pass away and a new one will arise .... For the time is fulfilled and thus the divine plan of Salvation will be implemented as it has been planned for eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Various schools of thought .... Pretended worship ....

B.D. 8686 from November 27th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

It is just like the time when Christ descended to earth .... People's thoughts are just as confused, they advocate the same misguided teachings, they believe to possess the sole truth and yet they are living right in the midst of falsehood .... Now, as then, they uphold their hollow creeds even though all vary from each other, each creed endorses its own point of view and each one is convinced that it can lay claim to the truthfulness of its teachings. And the number of schools of thought has grown considerably, there are not just a few opposing each other but a great variety of opinions has created a great variety of faith communities which all endeavour to win supporters and fanatically insist on the doctrines they endorse .... Hence it is essential that people receive the truth, that they at last learn what God expects from people .... It is essential that God's will is revealed to them so that they learn to recognise that the fulfilment of His will is the meaning and purpose of life on earth .... However, every church or spiritual movement teaches that it proclaims God's will and still the various creeds differ. At the time of Christ's descent to earth people prided themselves just like today on practicing various customs, the divine service was fanatically performed and lacked spirit so that people did not establish any heartfelt contact with their God and Creator ....

And the same happens nowadays: a formal religious service giving due consideration to all rites and customs, demonstrating to the world the union with God whilst the heart of the individual is far removed from this heartfelt bond with Him .... It is just pretence and deception, there is no longer any truthfulness in people's way of life .... They solely belong to the physical world, and even if they want to give the impression of a relationship with God they only perform lifeless formalities which do not touch their souls. And you, who receive the truth from God, shall challenge this pretence of worship and remember that even Jesus during His life on earth did not support those who upheld wrong doctrines and tried to justify their pretence of worship as the only one pleasing to God and who condemned everything that contradicted their teachings. Nowadays people will not want to part with the doctrines handed down to them by people either and will therefore always remain in error, because they refuse to accept the pure truth which can only be granted to them from above .... from the Eternal Truth. Yet such a gift of grace requires free voluntary acceptance .... The truth cannot be forcibly conveyed to people who are unwilling to accept it. And therefore it is difficult to root out misguided teachings even if these are substantiated and

Amended to them as being wrong. There will only ever be a few who will be open-minded to what God Himself conveys to people, because they don't want to acknowledge such evident working of God .... because they have no knowledge of the fact that God pours out His spirit over those who willingly open up their hearts to Him for the receipt of His pure truth ....

Prior to Jesus' descent to earth, before His crucifixion, the pouring out of the spirit upon a human being was not possible, and therefore the world was full of error .... However, after His death on the cross truth could find access to mankind and it became possible to fully enlighten people as to whether and when their thinking was erroneous, it was possible to instruct them through the spirit and they could rid themselves of all error. Yet there was never any coercion and this is why time and again error could creep in and be advocated as truth and passed on with such tenacity that it is difficult to convince people of their wrong thinking, and thus they will always resist accepting the pure truth from God and giving up their misconceptions. And still, for the sake of truth itself everything has to be tried to make people change their points of view .... everything has to be tried to motivate them to think, everything has to be done to impart the pure truth to them, for they can only reach the final goal on the path of truth .... As long as they remain in their wrong thinking they will not be able to partake in the bliss of the kingdom of the beyond, which can only ever guarantee enlightenment ....

Only truth grants light, therefore truth alone leads to beatitude, for countless beings can be made happy with it again and happiness in the spiritual kingdom consists of the giving of light. This is why you humans must not fall victim to wrong thinking, this is why the truth is offered to you time and again, this is why everything will be done on the part of God to turn your thinking in the right direction, yet you yourselves need only have the will to live in truth .... For it is not as important on earth as it is in the kingdom of the beyond that you know the truth, because you cannot be happy there without truth, and even if you ignore your dark state on earth .... it will nevertheless torment you in the beyond, because only light is beatitude and light is only ever emanated by the Truth, by God Himself, Who is the eternal Essence of light ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Unification of ecclesiastical organisations? .... Spoilt teachings ....

B.D. 8687 from November 28th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

As long as people cannot decide to cleanse the Christian doctrine of all human additions, as long as every single denomination does not have the sincere will to embrace the fullest truth and to remove every error, no agreement of the churches will take place because the various denominations can only meet within pure truth and only then will they be united. However, no group is willing to renounce any of its spiritual knowledge and, above all, usually persists with the misguided teachings since they are unable to differentiate by themselves as long as they are merely governed by their intellect. And, remarkably, no school of thought endorses and solely accepts knowledge gained through the 'working of the spirit' .... God's working within the human being .... instead they deem the product of human intellect more valuable and are unable to dissociate themselves from it. Hence the attribute of the church which I Myself founded on earth is rarely found as proof of credibility and truth of what is preached. The ecclesiastical organisations lack that very aspect which guarantees the truth or they would all meet at the same truth and any disagreement would be eliminated.

And thus it has to be stated to humanity's greatest regret that the pure truth can no longer be found where one would expect to receive spiritual knowledge .... It has to be said that merely a thin thread connects everything when the commandments of love for God and one's neighbour are taught .... although this faintly glowing teaching material could still suffice to make truth accessible to the people since compliance with these commandments of love also guarantees 'God's working in the human being', who is then taught from within, thus he is certainly able to differentiate between truth and error .... But only the teaching of love has survived as divine teaching material, consequently every human being has the opportunity to live within truth as long as he complies with this teaching. Then he will also know that everything else is human work which only leads to wrong concepts .... that they are mere earthly expressions of what is spiritually demanded of people by God. However, people do not have the will to thoroughly cleanse the structure which they themselves have erected in the state of spiritual blindness ....

No school of thought desists from its doctrines and rules and each one remains a purely secular affair as long as they advocate external customs and practices which can only be regarded as symbols which lack the true interpretation .... And yet they are all fully convinced of their own school of thought, and precisely this is the tragedy, because in doing so they show their heartless attitude which prevents them from recognising the truth .... as well as their indifference and their irresponsibility towards their souls. For every human being living within love will value truth too highly not to seriously ensure that he is living in truth. And merely a sincere question and request for it would result in enlightenment. But where can one find doubts concerning the truth among those who have made themselves leaders of people, who took on and are in charge of a teaching ministry themselves? .... Where, on the whole, is serious desire for truth still to be found? Why doesn't anyone raise the most important question 'What is truth? Do I possess it myself? ....' Everyone upholds with certain obstinacy what he has adopted himself without forming his own opinion .... He believes himself to be 'devout' by accepting everything without a word of protest about what was conveyed to him by other people .... He shakes off all personal responsibility, he neither uses his own intellect nor his heart to examine the accuracy of what he in turn is supposed to endorse again .... He himself sins against the spirit, because the spirit is within him and only wants to be awakened by love in order to be able to express itself. And this in a manner which will give him light and clarity so that he will become truly wise because he may receive the light from Me Myself which will give him brightest comprehension .... But why do so few people experience this light of comprehension .... why are so many upholding spiritual values which are so unconvincing when they are seriously examined? ....

Why are people satisfied with doctrines that have truly not come from Me and why don't they accept the precious spiritual knowledge from My hand which may be asked for and received by every person who earnestly searches for pure truth and who can, through a life of love in accordance with My will, also establish direct contact with Me in order to be taught by Me directly .... because you humans lack the knowledge about the working of My spirit within the human being. And this in itself is proof that you were and are not correctly instructed, that even the teachers are lacking this knowledge and that consequently they were not given their teaching ministry by Me. For when I commission someone to become a teacher to his fellow human beings I will certainly also equip him with the right knowledge .... But you, who deem yourselves appointed to be in charge of your school of thought or denomination and want to be looked upon as leader, lack this knowledge. You have not been appointed by Me, and you will never be able to lead your fellow human beings into truth because you do not possess it yourselves and do nothing to receive it.

And therefore take notice of what I tell you: The true church, which I Myself founded on earth, can only be found where the working of My spirit in the human being is evident. And this is not outwardly recognisable but it includes members from all the different religious communities, from different schools of thought, for they have won a living faith through a life of love. These will also know that My church does not present itself outwardly, instead it guarantees the closest union with Me to which I then disclose the truth as .... a clear spiritual perception.

This is missing in those who do not belong to My church, who cannot dissociate from misguided spiritual knowledge which cannot possibly have originated in Me but is a human addition, motivated by My adversary who will always oppose truth but which will never be accepted by those who give themselves to Me in love and faith. And thus you will also understand that there will never be a unification of Christian denominations because each one will insist on the doctrine it has represented so far, that the argument between the denominations always concerns misguided teachings which will be anxiously guarded by every one of them because they are unwilling to abandon them .... However, only truth can lead to beatitude and only the person who genuinely wants it will also receive it if he takes the path to Me directly and asks Me for it in all sincerity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Wrong interpretation of Jesus' Words ....

B.D. 8688 from November 29th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

Human thought has an earthly tendency, consequently people also interpret everything in an earthly way that had a profoundly spiritual meaning, that was conveyed to them as spiritual guidance by Me, Who has always spoken to humanity either directly or through messengers. My teachings, however, were always intended for the salvation of the soul and whenever I speak to humanity, be it in ancient or more recent times, My Word has always had a spiritual meaning. This was quite correctly understood at the time, but soon the spiritual meaning was interspersed with worldly ideas and, eventually, interpreted in a purely worldly sense. And thus My Word never remained unspoilt, performances and customs evolved from it which no longer correspond to its spiritual meaning, and My Word has lost its healing power, since it is no longer My pure Word ....

That which was demanded of you spiritually .... because I expected its fulfilment to be a blessing for your souls .... has been turned into earthly performances by you humans. For every one of My requirements on your souls you invented and instituted an earthly activity which you called 'sacraments', attaching too much importance to them. As a result many people conscientiously comply with the regulations in their belief that they are accumulating a treasure of grace by fulfilling humanly decreed commandments .... However, it is all a mere matter of formality and appearance and completely unnecessary for the maturing of the souls .... Yet you stick with great tenacity to the formalities you created for yourselves but which I never demanded of you.

Everything I said during My life on earth as a human being had a profound spiritual meaning and can never be substituted by external acts .... But you do not understand the profound meaning and are satisfied with external customs which can never benefit your soul. Just think of the effects you attribute to 'baptism'! .... You perform a simple external act and are then convinced of its spiritual success: be it the deliverance from the ‘hereditary sin’, or the admission into My church .... the admission into a religious community .... But all this has to be gained by the human being himself during his earthly life, he has to voluntarily let himself be delivered from sin through Jesus Christ. Consequently it requires more than just the act of baptism performed on a child .... And again, he will only be able to join ‘My church’ voluntarily by consciously living his life as My follower, in order to gain a living faith through love .... the characteristic of the church founded by Me.

Think of the Sacraments of Confession and the Altar .... What you made of them and by what formalities you expect your ‘forgiveness of sins’. Think of how I want you to understand the Words, that you should invite Me in so that I may hold communion with you and you with Me .... and how you turned My Words ‘This do in remembrance of Me ....’ into a process which, again, cannot have any effect on your soul unless you live a life of such profound love that I Myself can be present within you ....

All spiritual requirements your soul was meant to cope with by itself were combined with earthly concepts by you humans and thus you created your own structure, so that you eagerly comply with what is demanded of you, what is claimed to be My will .... Time and again you have to be given clarification about this, yet you do not accept such clarification but keep fulfilling the humanly decreed commandments with ever growing zeal whilst My commandments of love for God and your neighbour are being ignored. As a result your spirit is growing consistently darker until, in the end, you will become quite unable to recognise the error of your thoughts and actions. Besides, you have placed yourselves into bondage by submissively accepting everything as truth that is presented to you as 'My Word' ....

You ascribe a purely earthly meaning to My Words and ignore their spiritual meaning. And this is why errors have arisen which can only be rectified if you are filled with love, for then you will become enlightened and notice when you are confronted by error .... Then you will know that all humanly decreed commandments and sacramental acts are a deception, which could only have been alleged to be divine will by a dark spirit, and you will endeavour to free yourselves from error in the recognition of pure truth which alone can benefit the soul, and which can only be recognised as truth by someone who dwells in love, and who thus will fulfil My commandment of love first and then, as a result, also think correctly ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Prerequisite for the illumination of love .... contact with God ....

B.D. 8689 from November 30th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

My love light ray lowers itself into the heart of him who opens himself to Me to the reception of love and power. And a blessing for his soul will always arise for him through it, because the time of intimate union with Me must also earn him My presence, which can never remain without effect at the soul. And My divine love light radiates in form of knowledge about pure truth to man, who now increases in knowledge and reaches constantly higher light, to whom a knowledge is opened, which cannot be supplied to him in another way in such a way that it touches his heart. The intellect certainly can be considered from different sides, but it will not be able to judge, which knowledge corresponds to truth, while My address, My ray of light, illuminates the soul so brightly that it now also knows that it walks in truth. And I want to make My creatures happy with a spiritual good, which puts them into a state of light; I do not want to let them pass away in darkness of spirit, but the prerequisites must be there, which allow a direct radiation of light. Yet you can be certain of this, that you need only express the request to be touched by My ray of light of love in order to now also be chosen as a receiving station which can pick up My ray of light and pass it on again .... Only few people have the will and the desire to receive My emanation of love, and I can now grant it to them directly or indirectly through you who receive My ray of love, for no person will address such a request to Me in vain to be allowed to receive My light of love, it is just that people's degree of maturity varies and that is why the granting does not always take place directly, yet every person who desires to receive will receive. But people usually think I am too distant for them to believe that they can establish a direct connection with Me in order to be addressed by Me directly .... They must first have established the right relationship with Me .... the relationship of a child with its father .... in order to now also childlike appeal to Me to let My light of love shine to them in order to enter into the blessing of light and strength which every soul needs. Only the close bond with Me is necessary, which, however, is only established with the father, not with a distant God .... And to this close bond I always try to stimulate you .... Often a small impulse is enough that you raise your thoughts to Me .... it can cause you joy and gratitude or also sorrow and affliction to talk to Me in your thoughts ....

I will always give you an answer when you just expect it. But it can also first bring about great adversity that you call upon your God and creator, and then I will also make Myself known to you as a father Who is concerned about all His children and wants to help them in every adversity, be it earthly or spiritual .... And then also those oppressed will experience My address, and their bond with Me will become stronger, because every help on My part is an allowance of power, which the soul feels beneficently. No human being can measure the blessing that the conscious bond with Me in thought or prayer will result in for the soul, for it will always create the opportunity for My flow of love light and strength to flow into the person who first needs to establish contact, otherwise the person will still be separated from Me, since he once established the separation himself .... And every bond is a step of return to Me .... The original relationship is established again, in which the being was inseparably connected with Me and also conscious of it .... The willful separation from Me has also triggered in the being the awareness of an endless far distance from Me, and every intimate union with Me cancels the state of separation from Me and must now also earn the being again light and power from Me, which will always have an effect on the soul, which always comes closer to Me, which attains knowledge again which it had lost and thus is also placed into brightest realization, because I Myself convey truthful knowledge to it which chases away all darkness and makes it happy, because it feels in possession of light and strength again and now also recognizes Me as its origin and as the final aim towards which it seriously strives ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The only way to truth is the way to God ....

B.D. 8690 from December 1st 1963, taken from Book No. 91

There are only few people who occupy themselves with deeper questions, who demand to penetrate deeper into such areas which are alien to people .... There are always only few who want to know about things which are unprovable and which earthly intellect cannot fathom. And among these few there are even fewer such people to be found who simply turn to their God and creator and ask Him because they believe in Him with conviction .... For the others the spiritual realm remains, in their opinion, inscrutable, and they certainly seek to attain knowledge by listening to what is fed to them about it verbally or in writing, but without being able to guarantee pure truth .... (but without having the guarantee of pure truth) But the former alone take the right path when they ask Me Myself for clarification, for I consider everyone who approaches Me with this request, because I Myself want people to live in the light .... in truth .... through earthly life. But where even faith in a God and creator is missing or only very weak, there the direct way to this God is also not taken, and the result is that man never knows whether he moves in truth, because he only receives thought material, which the intellect has given birth to, but was never imparted to men through the spirit. And bright light could truly shine on earth when many men would take the way to Me and then men could recognize a full agreement of that what is now directly imparted to them .... But thus the process of direct transmission of truth is such a rare one that it is regarded as a completely unusual, implausible occurrence and people reject rather than accept the spiritual results because they cannot give themselves an explanation as long as they have not penetrated My laws of eternity a little deeper themselves, which find their confirmation in the knowledge gained .... For everyone who moves himself in divine order, everyone who lives according to My eternal laws, will live a life of love, and such a life of love now also earns him the deepest knowledge; he will penetrate the secrets which are hidden from people as long as they still move outside of divine order. And that is why a loving person will also find the reception of divine messages .... the penetration into spiritual knowledge .... not unusual, for he is informed of the correlations because a light shines in him himself through his way of life in love .... And again it is explainable why only few people come into this light-filled state of knowledge about spiritual things .... because love has grown cold among people .... There are certainly men who seek to penetrate into unenlightened areas, but as long as they lack love, only intellectual thinking is interested in knowledge, but not the soul, which seeks the light of truth .... Then also that knowledge, which concerns spiritual things, remains only a world knowledge, which man wants to possess as earthly directed aim .... And such desire will not be satisfied for him, for although he has access to that knowledge he will not accept it because he lacks all understanding for it. And that is why only people will ever be willing to accept it who make an effort themselves to live a life of love according to My will, and these will receive light in all abundance and also never be able to doubt once they have received the spiritual knowledge from Me, be it directly or through My messengers. Anyone who possesses the pure truth will no longer surrender it .... For only a loving heart accepts it, and that then also means enlightenment of spirit and intimate union with Me. And many people could achieve this if only they would like to believe in a God and father Who gives them information about all questions that move them when He is approached about them .... For the will for truth is the condition to be allowed to receive it .... And the right desire should also drive man towards Him, Who alone can give information about it, because He Himself is eternal truth. But this path is rarely taken, people mostly rely on what fellow human beings offer them without being able to give the guarantee of receiving pure truth .... And when they eliminate Me Myself as the giver of truth then they can also be considered by the opposing force, which also confirms the depth of spiritual darkness in which people move. For they seek to fathom everything with the intellect, and this is dominated by My opponent .... Or they seek to penetrate spiritual spheres again on the way, which My opponent leads them, so that they also then are instructed by spiritual powers on his behalf and are convinced to now stand in right knowledge .... But pure truth only goes out from Me Myself, and I guide them again there, where earnest desire and intimate union with Me makes the process of direct transmission of truth possible .... And there you men can also fetch the pure truth for yourselves, who firmly believe in Me and My working through the spirit ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The adversary's activity will not be prevented ....

B.D. 8691 from December 3rd 1963, taken from Book No. 91

Though I Am Ruler indeed over heaven and earth and no being shall be capable of opposing Me, I do not contest My adversary's right within the domain which is his kingdom: the terrestrial world which harbours everything that still belongs to him and where he can exercise his influence when the developing spiritual essence has reached the human stage .... Then he will pursue this spiritual essence .... the human being .... in every way in order to prevent his development and to pull him down into the abyss again, from where he had worked his way up by means of an infinitely long process .... Then he is, in fact, lord over his world ....

And this explains why I allow so many disasters, why I don't intervene where the adversary's activities are so clearly apparent .... He has a right to you humans because you once followed him voluntarily into the abyss; and he also exercises his right in order to dominate you. But you can resist him since you possess free will. And you do not lack strength either, if only you would ask Me for it. But My adversary's activity will not be prevented by Me. For the physical world is his share .... even all matter, over which he has no control, is part of him because it harbours the fallen spiritual substance, which is only temporarily beyond his control due its constraint in matter. But as soon as it lives on earth as a human being he can exercise his power over it again without being hindered by Me .... And he truly makes full use of it ....

Yet in Jesus Christ, the divine Saviour, he has a very powerful opponent indeed .... And every human being can turn to Him in order to be liberated from the enemy of souls. For Jesus is stronger than he is, and He delivers every soul from his power which simply appeals to Him for it and with its prayer demonstrates its faith in Him and His act of Salvation, which thereby also acknowledges Myself, Who in Jesus Christ became a human being in order to redeem all fallen spirits. Thus the adversary's power on earth is great indeed, and yet in Jesus Christ he finds his Master .... And regardless of how much control he has over people, in Jesus Christ they nevertheless have a Redeemer and Saviour from his domination .... Thus the human being cannot expect that I, his God and Creator of eternity, will curtail My adversary's activity, or that I will prevent him from carrying out disgraceful actions, because I will not, by any means, remove his right to influence a person in order to hold on to him .... The human being himself, however, does not have to tolerate it, for he can always turn to Jesus Christ and ask for His help to be released from his prison guard, to become free from the power to which he, however, will succumb without the help of Jesus Christ.

How often do you humans say 'Why does God allow this? ....' I do not prevent My adversary's activity because you once accepted his domination and he is still your lord today if you don't want to free yourselves and approach Jesus Christ for salvation from him. But I also know what serves you and each individual soul best .... I know the nature of every individual soul, I know what it needs in order to mature fully, and even the dark world has to be of service to Me, for I also know how to direct the effects of the dark forces' actions such that they will be successful for people's souls who are willing to be released from his power and strive towards Me.

And this is always determined by the person's will, since this is free .... As long as the spiritual substance is still bound within the works of creation My adversary is unable to influence it; but in the human stage he has the right to do so because it involves the being's free decision which the adversary wants to win for himself. Hence he takes advantage of every opportunity, and the human being is at his mercy the further away he is from Me, the less often he establishes contact with Me, or: As long as he does not acknowledge Jesus Christ by seeking sanctuary with Him in his distress, he is at the mercy of the opposing power, which nevertheless is determined by his own free will.

I certainly have the power and can prevent anything, including the adversary's activities, but then the human being's life on earth would be in vain, where he has to freely choose between Me and him. But you humans should also understand that and why difficult tests are given to you, and why he often causes you extreme distress and I don't stop him, because you do not turn to Me for help and this is the real purpose of every adversity, which I therefore allow so that you will find your way to Me ....

Yet you can rest assured that I will not leave you on your own and will help you if you try to get away from him and trustingly flee to Me and thereby also acknowledge Me as your God and Father .... when you call upon Jesus for forgiveness of your guilt and for deliverance from the enemy, who also fights in order not to lose you .... Yet truly, My might is greater, and if you call upon Me in spirit and in truth you will indeed be released from him and your earthly life will not have been in vain ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Sacraments .... (Ordination to the priesthood - Anointing the sick)

B.D. 8692 from December 4th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

I shall further teach you that you should free yourselves from error when it is explained to you that you have interpreted My Word in an earthly, rather than spiritual, way. You should know that external ceremonies do not suffice for My spirit to express itself, and that likewise a person cannot be appointed into a teaching ministry or become a leader or principal of a community by way of external ceremonies .... Many are called but only few are chosen, and the few are instructed by Myself; I Myself put them into the place where they can work for Me and My kingdom. But the person is also subject to conditions in order to make him a capable teacher and leader of his fellow human beings .... My spirit has to be able to work in him so that he himself lives in truth and thus is My representative on earth who administers his office in My name, in accordance with My will and guided by Me Myself.

It cannot be denied that amongst those who call themselves My representatives on earth there are also people who live entirely within My will and serve Me conscientiously .... But they were appointed to their ministry by Me Myself and did not become My servants through external ceremonies .... performed by their fellow human beings .... because their appointment is a personal matter of free will which surrenders to Me completely, so that a human being is closely united with Me by love .... so that I Myself can then give him the task he is to administer ....

But this heartfelt commitment and their life of love also assures the awakening of their spirit and then they will delve deeper into the truth too .... They resist any kind of inaccuracy, they resist the distortion of everything that originated from Me and will also disassociate themselves from error .... So now you understand that you won’t find My true representatives where people expect and acknowledge them to be, for these exclude themselves by representing error and not genuinely looking for truth .... They cannot be My servants and representatives because they accept erroneous beliefs and do nothing to acquire the pure truth ....

Thus you will also know what to make of the ‘Sacrament of ordination to the priesthood’, for even if a person is of good will he has to prove it by declaring to Me his willingness to completely submit to My will .... And that means that he has to investigate every doubt arising in himself which I put into his heart Myself to enable him to draw close to Me and the truth .... And if he shies away from contemplating such doubt he will keep himself forcibly blind. He could receive the light yet he closes his eyes, and thus his heart is not open to Me so that I could send a ray of light into it ....

You humans should not say that it is not possible for a person who genuinely longs for Me to detach himself from error, for you all know of My power and love which truly helps everyone who strives towards Me, the eternal truth .... But you have to let yourselves be taught first, you have to take notice of the pure truth, of My adversary’s activity, of the misguided belief with which he has entrapped you, and you have to have the sincere will to free yourselves from him and request Me to help you ....

Don’t you think that I would help you, since I only ever want to deliver you humans from the darkness of spirit and give you light? You only need to use your intellect with good will and you would recognise the flaws in what you are expected to believe .... But you were given intellect otherwise you would not differ from an animal which cannot be held responsible for its actions. You, however, will one day have to give an account of whether and how you used your intellect since it can help you to become enlightened, providing you are of good will and desire a true light. As I keep emphasising .... doubts about the truth are appropriate wherever external ceremonies are to vouch for a spiritual achievement. Your soul will never be able to gain such an achievement, neither on earth nor in the beyond, if such external acts are performed on a person before his passing away, they are nothing but ceremonies and customs and are of no benefit for the soul .... However, I Myself know every single soul and judge it by its degree of love, for only this determines the degree of light the soul enters into after its physical death, providing it does not enter the realm of darkness because it is completely without love and therefore belongs to My adversary who governs the kingdom of darkness ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Effect of misguided teachings in the beyond ....

B.D. 8693 from December 5th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

Many more errors will still have to be corrected by Me if human beings are to live in truth. People's thoughts are thoroughly lead astray, one misguided teaching leads to many other misguided teachings, and people cannot escape from them, they are representing a truth which was given to them by people who did not have the truth themselves because their spirit was unenlightened. And countless souls enter the spiritual kingdom in this lightless state. Even then they still defend their doctrines and cannot be convinced that their reasoning was wrong, and will remain wrong as long as they do not accept a light which shines for them in the beyond too, but which they have to accept of their own free will. The battle between light and darkness even rages in the kingdom of the beyond, for time and again the beings of light try to kindle a light for those of dark spirit, but their endeavour is frequently in vain since the souls hold on to their misconceptions. And yet, the latter cannot understand why they do not experience beatitude although they believe to have done everything on earth in order to gain it.

And as long as they do not understand that My will is in fact different from what they were told on earth .... as long as they do not realise the irrelevance of what had been demanded of them .... as long as they do not recognise that I make other demands on people than to comply with ecclesiastical customs and external appearances, that I only expect love from people and only assess a person in accordance with his degree of love and that his beatitude will depend on his degree of love .... the souls will not experience an enviable fate, even if they are not languishing in deepest darkness.

But they argue and do not comprehend the state of their wretchedness, indeed, they frequently reproach themselves for not having sufficiently fulfilled the ceremonies and humanly decreed commandments, and as a result are not yet admitted into beatitude. It could be theirs in a very short time if only they would accept the light beings' teachings or accept a small light where the ray of light is transmitted to earth, where purest truth is distributed and avidly accepted by all famished souls .... But they are just as stubborn in the kingdom of the beyond as they were on earth and reject everything which disagrees with their opinion, and the adversary still has immense power over these fanatics ....

For even in the kingdom of the beyond they fail to help each other which would increase their degree of love and decrease their rejection of light .... They cannot make any progress in the spiritual kingdom because love is the strength that helps the soul to ascend in the spiritual kingdom too. But love is also the light, and even in the kingdom of the beyond they can love each other, for in a state devoid of bliss there is still hardship and misery, and one soul will always be able to help another .... Then the souls' thoughts will become ever more enlightened, they will question each other and will certainly receive an answer .... But love always comes first, and those souls' big spiritual misconception rests in the fact that they superseded love by what human folly had elevated into a 'divine doctrine' .... that they always complied with human demands first and ignored divine demands .... And their condition will never change unless they put love first and, due to their loving will to help other souls, begin to recognise the pure truth, which will then give them unlimited beatitude ....

It is for this reason that every human being, whose thoughts had been misguided on earth but whose will to love and to take action had reached a high degree, will suddenly realise the truth in the kingdom of the beyond and will readily let go of misconceptions. He will endeavour to pass his knowledge on to other souls because he recognises the immense harm caused by error and because his love urges him to help alleviate spiritual blindness. His influence can be extraordinarily beneficial because he had held the same thoughts on earth which he now can justify to be wrong, and therefore be successful with souls who just listen to him. Error is the worst poison for human souls and the fight of light against darkness will therefore continue relentlessly, and one day the light will surely win .... The human being, however, is free to choose between light and darkness, he will not be forced and can make a free decision .... but everything will be done to make him aware of the truth while he is still on earth. But the beings of light do not cease their efforts even in the beyond, for only the soul who knows the truth can become blessed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Attribute of divine teaching: human manifestation problem ....

B.D. 8694 from December 6th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

I repeatedly emphasise that it is necessary for you to be informed about My human manifestation in Jesus Christ .... For your maturing, too, solely depends on the fact that you are truthfully instructed about the significance of Jesus and His act of Salvation for you humans. For although he lived on earth as a human being and as a human being concluded His life with His crucifixion, He was nevertheless only the outer shell of the Eternal Divine Spirit, He only served Me Myself as a shell, because I wanted to make Myself visible in Him, since no being was able to behold Me in My full abundance of strength and light without ceasing to exist.

And this great secret of My human manifestation can only be revealed to you by Me, albeit you humans will never be able to comprehend it completely as long as you are not yet perfect. If, however, you are truthfully instructed about this very problem of My human manifestation in Jesus you will no longer be in danger of taking a wrong path, for once you have this knowledge you have already attained a certain degree of maturity, and then you will only ever turn to Me, Whom you have recognised in Jesus. Yet this is what My adversary wants to stop or prevent, and therefore he will lead people into misconceptions and above all try to prevent a truthful explanation about 'God's manifestation in Jesus' .... By means of constant new formulations and wrong portrayals he will not generate clarity in people, and then he will have succeeded so that neither I nor the human being Jesus can be clearly recognised, for he will always want to create two concepts of God and Jesus, although only one God exists, Who is at all times approachable in Jesus.

Anyone who knows the truth will not allow himself to be worried by this, and he will also identify every teaching which is different as error. And yet, the adversary will have many followers with his portrayal of Jesus, Who has achieved a high degree of maturity as a human being but Who will always be explained to people as 'existing outside of God' .... when he disguises himself as a spirit of light before those who do not completely reject Jesus .... And you can always particularly apply this criterion for truth when God's human manifestation in Jesus is emphasised as being true. This will always be an assured attribute of a divine instruction. For only I can reveal this secret of My human manifestation to you, and you may justifiably discard everything which contradicts My information. Every single school of thought endorses its spiritual knowledge as truth, yet as long as they still differ from each other great care has to be taken and, above all, a serious desire for truth is required in order to be able to recognise it as such. Nevertheless, it is up to each person whether he sincerely desires the truth, he alone has to make the decision, and thus he also determines the teacher who will instruct him. He cannot be offered any misguided spiritual knowledge if he sincerely entrusts himself to Me and appeals to Me for truth .... This sincere appeal is required by Me but it will surely be granted.

But anyone who knows My directly transmitted Word to earth and does not use it as a criterion has not yet opened his heart to the truth either, otherwise he would feel that no other spiritual knowledge can be likened to it if it contains other concepts and notions which contradict the truth from Me. Consequently, if a person does not recognise the pure truth his degree of maturity is still so low that My adversary is able to use him as a vessel in order to deceive countless people through him again and lure them into error .... Truth always and forever remains the same, it does not change and cannot be offered to one person like this and to another like that .... as far as its fundamental essence is concerned ....

You humans will always have to be vigilant if you want to possess the pure truth, so that you will not get ensnared by the adversary who is always keen to work in the same manner, and he will be successful too if the person is indifferent or purely expects sensations, which he anticipates from contact with the supernatural world. What I offer to people will always take place within the framework of natural law and only the contents will provide a genuine seeker with the certainty that I Am the source Myself, and he will gladly accept the spiritual information, he will increase his knowledge, his inner light, and then no error will be able to confuse him any longer for he will identify and resist it .... Yet My adversary's activity will not lessen, and people give him the right to it. If they would only ever desire the pure truth he would be unable to interfere, in that case only My messengers of light would be at work fending off everything impure, unspiritual, and protecting the human being from its influence. And your criterion for truth can always be applied by how Jesus and His act of Salvation and My human manifestation in Him are portrayed to you. Only virtuous, illuminated spiritual beings exist in utmost truth and also pass it on to people on My instructions.

As soon as the Deity and Jesus are portrayed to you as two beings you are not being truthfully taught, for I and He are one .... I Myself, the highest and most perfect Spirit in eternity, manifested Myself in the human being Jesus, in His human shell, in order to become a visible God for you, My created beings, Whom you are able to love with all your heart and Who also wants to be loved by you .... And thus you should only believe the spirit which teaches this to you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Psychic receptions - Credibility ....

B.D. 8695 from December 9th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

You, who received My commission to distribute the pure truth, must also be informed about everything yourselves in order to be able to form a clear opinion about the value of spiritual conclusions which are advocated by your fellow human beings as truth. You should know that both valuable as well as worthless connections are being established with the spiritual world, that beings from all spheres of the spiritual kingdom want to make themselves heard by you, that they try to transfer their thoughts to you and that the human being himself is the determining factor of which beings will be able to approach him. And the desire for truth is always decisive but this is often displaced by the desire for experiencing the unusual, so that the craving to learn something unknown from the psychic world takes priority .... although with the best intention to act and think righteously and good .... Such opportunities are also used by the inhabitants of the spiritual world of light which want to lead people to the right path and thus also try to influence them to deepen their attitude regarding the spiritual realm and to especially draw their attention to the fact that love is the first and most important commandment. Therefore any advice to love can be considered as corresponding to My will. The purity and the will of the recipient who receives messages in a psychic state also determine the quality of these messages .... However, it also depends on the spiritual state of the circle of listeners, on their attained spiritual maturity .... And the flawed thoughts of an immature person alone are enough to enable impure spirits to slip in; they likewise make use of a medium in a state of trance and then often repel the messengers of light, because forces of darkness gather wherever the opportunity presents itself to speak through a human being who has given up his own will .... who therefore speaks in a psychic state of mind .... The purer the circle and the greater the harmony within as well as the desire only to be truthfully instructed the more credible will be the results, but then they will also concur with the teaching which is conveyed to you directly from above, thus their authenticity will be beyond doubt, for countless beings of light try to gain access to people from the world of the beyond and impart the truth to them on My instructions. Yet these beings of light will time and again try to influence people into establishing the connection with the spiritual world in an awake, conscious state, they will enlighten them about the 'working of the spirit' in a person and aim to encourage them to enter into heartfelt contact with Me, which will enable them to receive profound knowledge which cannot be conveyed to earth in a psychic way .... in a state of trance. For I Myself promised you humans the working of My spirit, and you can and should believe My Words .... But the fact that My adversary's working will also strongly come to light cannot be denied, and he will always make an effort to confuse the concepts ....

He will use psychically inclined people in the same way in order to speak through them, yet only ever with words which lack all coherence, words which intend to feign wisdom but are sheerest nonsense.

You can put this to the test yourselves by questioning what kind of spiritual benefit you can gain from transmissions which, on closer inspection .... on the basis of My Word .... utterly contradict the truth. Then spirits will answer which are still unenlightened, which still possess a certain amount of worldly knowledge and .... since they diligently supported it on earth .... will also try to pass it on to people now. They enshroud themselves in the garment of an angel of light, indeed, they even use Jesus' name for their transmissions because they don't recognise Him as 'God' and thus avail themselves of a human name .... And although, in order to mislead people, they grant Him an exalted mission, they nevertheless only do this with the intention of stopping people from thinking correctly and to belittle Jesus' work of Salvation, thus preventing them from calling upon Myself in Jesus. They try to lead people completely astray about Jesus' mission on earth and My human manifestation in Him .... Transmissions from the spiritual world which fail to offer truthful clarification that a pure soul of light dwelled within the man Jesus, which so shaped the body that it could become an abode for Me .... that I Myself, therefore, accomplished the act of Salvation in Jesus and the complete unity of Jesus with Me took place .... that I and Jesus are one .... can always be rejected by you as error and as a deliberate deception by spirits in the beyond. They are especially active during the last days before the end in order to cause confusion in circles which want to do what is right but have not awakened their spirit as yet, so that it can grant them the gift of discernment in order to be able to keep divine and ungodly revelations apart ....

People are unaware of the fact that they will always have to fight the forces of darkness, and specifically in the last days, because the latter want to prevent people from becoming enlightened, and that the only assurance not to fall prey to them is to desire the light directly from Me, and this sincere appeal to receive the truth will also establish the connection with Me, which then will also ensure your correct protection from the activity of these forces. But it isn't always love for Me and therefore for truth as well, but generally only inquisitiveness for an insight into spheres which are still closed to them. People know that earthly life alone is not the reason for the existence as a human being, and they certainly try to obtain information but believe that forces from the beyond will only ever instruct them truthfully and thereby only provide the adversary with more opportunities to confuse their thinking. However, it can help a person to think correctly if he sincerely desires the truth, if, according to his sincerity, his maturity of soul and his desire, beings of light enter such a 'spiritual communication', which certainly realise to whom they can convey pure truth. Yet they will always try to educate a person to the point that he will no longer require an aide .... no mediums which receive transmissions from the spiritual kingdom .... but that he shall establish such heartfelt connection with Me Myself in order to let himself be addressed by Me directly or to enter into contact with the right bearers of light who will impart the right and true spiritual knowledge, which he will therefore also recognise as truth, because he has already awakened the spirit within himself which will guide him into truth .... A person can certainly be warned about futile communication with the spiritual world .... But he cannot nor should he be prevented from it, because there is always the possibility that thereby he will come to believe in a continuation of life after death and he can also be shown the right path if he is serious about knowing the truth. Anything that reveals the will to act right before Me is good, yet first and foremost be warned of anything that only serves to satisfy the senses or to increase earthly knowledge, for no blessing will ever rest on it and a person like that will never be able to recognise the truth and always rather believe teachings which are still far from the truth and will never originate from Me. For this reason I Myself mentioned as a sign to recognise the truth of spiritual receptions the characteristic that you should check whether the enigma of My human manifestation in Jesus is revealed to you such as I Myself explain it to you through My Word, through the working of My spirit within you .... Reject that which does not correspond to My Word conveyed to you from above, no matter how many fine words are used to demonstrate a divine source to you .... My adversary also uses such words, he will stop at nothing because he wants to keep people in the dark .... because he knows that truth is a light which unmasks him and his activity .... And he will always seek to extinguish or obscure it ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Knowledge about Jesus Christ is of utmost importance ....

B.D. 8696 from December 10th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

The fact that you repeatedly receive explanations about Jesus Christ's act of Salvation is because people only slightly or rarely believe in it anymore, for their thoughts are too focussed on worldly affairs and the act of Salvation is a spiritual event which cannot be grasped by a worldly directed mind. Yet people are only on earth for a spiritual purpose, and if this spiritual purpose is not accomplished then the human being's life was lived in vain, and the soul falls back into the abyss again from where it had worked its way up over an infinitely long period of time with God's help. If it is possible to make people understand the spiritual reason for the act of Salvation and Jesus' mission, much will be gained, for then they will no longer reject Him but they will try to mentally empathise and to comprehend His way of life on earth ....

However, humanity is not very willing and inclined to receive spiritual instructions .... unless it is rudely awakened from its normal life by overwhelming events and painful occurrences and starts to think. And for this reason such fateful happenings cannot stop either. But by and large they will then indeed remember their God and Creator and appeal to Him when they need help .... And the fact that they acknowledge Him at all as a Power Which created them and also determines the human beings' destiny is beneficial for the soul in itself ....

And yet it is of utmost importance to attain the correct knowledge about Jesus Christ and His act of Salvation, because the human being will always remain too weak to live a way of life in accordance with God's will if he does not make use of the flow of strength which Jesus acquired through His death on the cross and which is now accessible to every human being as grace .... Only when a human being very strongly revives his faith in God will he be able to receive the flow of strength from God Himself, but this person will then also turn to Jesus without doubt, he will be open to every instruction he receives about Him and His act of Salvation, and he will let himself be redeemed by appealing to Him for forgiveness of his guilt.

Nevertheless, during the last days before the end this knowledge about Jesus will become very faded, people will only know of the purely human events, and they will not judge them as any different than those of other people with the same fate, for in their darkened spiritual state they will lack the knowledge about all correlations, they will not be able to explain it to themselves properly, and thus they will discard everything they have heard about Jesus and His act of Salvation into the realm of myth.

They won't know that it concerns a highly significant spiritual mystery, an act of profound spiritual reason which is of immense significance for the salvation of the human being's soul, for his beatitude in the spiritual kingdom which will last eternally, and therefore they won't take the trouble to discover the truth about it either, but rather reject everything and won't believe in Jesus' existence, or they will exclude all knowledge they possess of Him from their thoughts so as not to be bothered by it .... therefore they will miss the purpose of their lives, they will only live for earthly goals and won't endeavour in their return to God which is only possible through Jesus Christ, and their earthly life will be lived in vain and can lead to a repeated banishment in the creations of earth ....

And God's adversary will always promote this attitude of people, he will do everything in order to completely prevent the knowledge about Jesus and His act of Salvation, or he will spread such misguided teachings in this respect that people will fall away by themselves and thereby obstruct their path to Him. But they are living as human beings on earth as a consequence of their immense original sin due to their past apostasy from God, and until this original sin is not redeemed they will be unable to return to God, because God's justice demands an atonement which was paid by the human being Jesus, and therefore He has to be acknowledged as the Son of God and Redeemer of the world .... Who made it possible for the Eternal Deity Himself to suffer within the human shell of Jesus and to die for the sins of all humankind ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Supply of truth also for the hereafter ....

B.D. 8697 from December 11th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

Only that can be a blessing for you what serves your soul to mature. And again, the soul can only mature if pure truth is offered to it, because this enlightens it about My will, which is only ever determined by the principle of love .... Therefore it must be My will that man works in love, because through this he will reach truth, and the soul will mature and fulfil its purpose on earth. If the love of man is the principle of life, then he also moves in divine order, and nothing more stands in the way of the union of the soul with Me; the state exists again as in the beginning, that I can completely radiate through the being with My love light and it is happy .... When you look at your earth life as man in this way then no too great demands are made on you; nothing more is demanded of you than a love life according to My will and the power is also supplied to you for this when you want it yourselves that you reach your earth life purpose. And still mankind is on completely different ways .... It is in confused thinking, in wrong knowledge, and love is almost switched off because selfish love prevails and suffocates all unselfish neighbourly love. It is a completely wrong state than that in which men should live .... Almost no one walks the right path anymore: the path of love for God and neighbor .... A complete confusion of thought has occurred, although people believe they have mastered everything and possess great intellectual knowledge .... But what they pay little or no attention to is the state of their souls, which they rather switch off from their thoughts and also do not believe in a survival of the soul after death .... why they unscrupulously savour and enjoy earth life and let the soul starve and starve. And again they can only be snatched out of this blind state through the supply of truth, for erroneous knowledge will never dissuade them from their unscrupulousness, on the other hand the truth can make them wonder and let them become thoughtful .... And that is why I make use of every possibility to convey the truth to people, but I also know where this is appropriate, because in the end-times the activity of My adversary is very bad that all access to most people is blocked, and they cannot be released from their error by force, but the unconstrained supply of right spiritual knowledge can always be possible again if My servants are eager in My vineyard, if they make use of all opportunities where they spread My word, where they speak, so that the pure truth can be offered to people who are willing to accept it. I know about the state of every man's soul, and I know whether and how rescue can still be brought to him before the end. That is why you, My servants on earth, only need to entrust yourselves completely to Me, and I will also guide you so that the spiritual good is supplied to those, which you receive directly from Me. Where only a good will and the desire for right knowledge is recognizable, there the spiritual material is also supplied, because I also know about the problems and questions of men, which only I can solve and answer for them. And although you men cannot measure the extent of your vineyard work, so I still know every man's thoughts, and where he is only in the least spiritually directed, I also intervene. But that only few can still be seized, that My flock will only be small in the end, has again and again been told to you, but every single soul is of greatest value for Me, and for every single soul I therefore wrestle and do not give it up when it does not voluntarily again turn to My opponent, who now has won the victory for this earth life, but this spiritual is again wrested from him with the act of new banishment in matter. But you can believe it, My servants on earth, that you do not carry out a spiritual work in vain. Because the spiritual good with which you work has such a powerful effect, which always benefits a soul, even if you cannot pursue it .... But in the beyond innumerable souls wait for the proclamation of My word, and every spiritual work, which you do on earth, has an effect in the kingdom on the other side on those souls, which in their hunger and thirst for food for their souls are exceedingly grateful to you, which you offer to them, and which are grateful to you for the light, which now shines for them .... Because they recognize pure truth and will now also again have an enlightening effect there where there is still darkness, because truth incessantly drives to hand it out, and because only those beings are always happy who stand in truth and can work with it in the spiritual kingdom, who help those souls to redemption out of darkness, who can only become happy through the supply of truth ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Clarification about UFOs ....

B.D. 8698 from December 13th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

You will receive light on all subjects through My divine revelations, no question will remain unanswered if you ask Me with complete confidence that I will give you an explanation. Therefore nothing needs to stay unexplained; you need only ask yourselves in order to receive a truthful answer.

Time and again doubts arise in you because you believe that you are allegedly able to prove the existence of so-called spaceships (whether or not evidence could be produced of the existence of so-called spaceships) which come to earth from other stars .... But if you seriously investigate these alleged appearances you will not be able to provide one hundred per cent proof. You will find that these statements are always based on mere presumption or self-suggestion, for which no proof can be found. The explanation rests in the fact that people fall victim to the adversary who, in the last days, is able to resort to lies and deception because people themselves want to experience sensationalism, and nothing is too fantastic for them .... and so their thoughts are completely confused. If people had spiritual knowledge they would know that there is no prospect of contact between the individual stars, that the inhabitants on other stars will never be able to leave their sphere and approach other worlds .... The claims made by these people are pure inventions and no person will ever be able to prove his claim to have been in contact with inhabitants from other stars. However, people can fall prey to the adversary's works of deception and, due to their imagination, can be receptive to delusions which originate from him, but these cannot have physical consistency since My adversary lacks the power to produce material objects.

Nevertheless, where actual physical objects have been sighted by people these objects have their origin on this earth .... They are test objects of researchers who, with intensified effort, intend to dominate earth's outer space .... Rumours that are spread about extraterrestrial beings, who supposedly come from other stars, are deliberate lies because no human being will be able to prove they have spoken to such alleged 'star-dwellers'. The circle of those who affirm such appearances will never include spiritually enlightened people because they are My adversary's absolute servants, whom he can use for his purposes .... always provided that it does not concern earthly test objects which could be seen by anyone .... which then, however, will be portrayed as extraterrestrial objects by unenlightened people, or by people enslaved by My opponent. Time and again I emphasise that there is no contact between individual stars and that there is good reason for it .... If you humans even assume that these alleged messengers from other stars want to come to earth to save you, then they would also have to actively help you humans on My behalf .... Consequently, if I had given them this task ....they would always have to establish and maintain the connection with those who are My Own, with those whom I will lift up to heaven in the end .... In that case My Own would see these objects and their occupants too .... which will never happen .... because I will explain this misconception to them and inform them of the pure truth.

But those who make and believe such assertions cannot be spiritually enlightened, they always pursue purely earthly goals and believe My adversary's promises, who wants to prevent people from making heartfelt contact with Me, which is the only guarantee for their rescue at the forthcoming end of this earth. You should believe that it is truly possible for Me to protect every individual person and at the end of the earth lift him up to heaven because the destruction of earth, as it exists now, is inevitable .... And believe that I have countless angels in readiness for this, but that they will never appear to people beforehand as inhabitants of other stars .... And since I convey the pure truth to earth because you humans are in need of it, I would truly also inform you of this if it corresponded to the truth. But I will continue to warn you about My adversary's artful deception in the last days before the end, who uses earthly activities to deceive people, as well as suggestions to cause mental confusion .... because people will blindly believe what is presented to them as long as they are not permeated by the longing for truth, for then they would also always receive the truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Final decision in the battle of faith ....

B.D. 8699 from December 14th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

You, who belong to My church founded by Me Myself, who stand in living faith and make an effort to lead a life in love, you will also be able to pass the last faith struggle; you will hold out until the end, because you draw power out of your walk of life, which however will be lacking to those who are only christians according to form and who certainly also can belong to a church, but who do not show the landmarks of My church: the work of the spirit in man. Because My right followers are mentally completely differently aligned like the followers of that church, who certainly also received knowledge through their education or through teachings, but who just only heard with the ears, but the heart remained untouched by it and that is why they also have taken no stand on the spiritual material offered to them. But the followers of My church are such men who live in love and through it reach a living faith, who inwardly occupy themselves with spiritual thought material and whose thoughts were just clarified through love in them, so that they move in truth and that is why also their souls will be strong and powerful when the last faith struggle is waged. Only this last faith struggle will bring the separation, only in the last faith struggle it will emerge who is alive, because the form christians will give away their faith without hesitation, because in reality they have possessed none, were only outwardly members of an organisation, but which disintegrates in itself when it will be about the last decision .... This can only ever be presented to you humans that you should seriously take a stand on the thought material which you receive in the traditional way .... you should just once seriously think about whether and what you can really believe or whether you are just followers without your own judgment .... It is important that you think about it because in the coming faith struggle it will prove, and you will quickly fall away and give up all faith in a God and creator, and that will be your ruin. But if you think about it before, then you can still search for truth; you can use other spiritual material for comparison and make some decision. Just do not go through your life completely indifferently, and seek to stimulate yourselves to love work, because the more you ignite love in you, the sooner you come to the recognition, why you walk over earth. You will always have opportunities to carry out works of love, and do you always comply with your inner urge, do you listen to the voice of conscience in you, then you always approach more and more the church, which I founded Myself on earth, even if you belong to an organisation founded by men, which is only then of value for you when you obey the teaching, which every church or school of thought represents: that you fulfil the love commandments first .... Then you can always feel to belong to My church, because then also soon your faith will become a living one, and your thinking will clarify itself, because then the spirit in you is awakened to life through love. Again and again I call upon you to become members of My church by attaining a living faith through love, as Peter had it .... Such faith is like a rock, it will not be able to be shaken, no matter how fierce the onslaught against it may be. It is My strength which keeps the person strong who lets faith come alive in him .... And only those will be able to stand in the faith struggle, only those will endure the tribulations and persevere until the end because they are strengthened by the power of faith and defy all attacks .... And ask yourselves once how far you would be able to withstand if the decision for or against Me were seriously demanded of you .... if you were to give up your faith in Me in Jesus and were threatened with the harshest punishments .... Then only a strong, living faith can give you the certainty that I am stronger than every earthly ruler, than every man who belongs to My adversary. Then you will fear no-one in this world and hand yourselves over to Me in complete trust, and I will protect you. I Myself will come in the clouds and take you away when the hour has come, and you will be victorious and be able to enjoy the fruits of your faith on the new earth .... For through your living faith you are so intimately united with Me that I can truly also dwell among you, because your intimate love for Me allows this .... And through your faith you will become blessed ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Truth emanates from God himself ....

B.D. 8700 from December 15th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

Desire the truth .... and truly, this spiritual request will be granted to you. But don't search for this truth in books which are based on human intellect again, which are purely intellectual thoughts .... assumptions, for which no evidence can be provided. For as soon as you assume that people are capable of ascertaining the truth by themselves, you are mistaken, because pure truth originates from Me alone, as I Myself Am the Eternal Truth. Therefore I say, request the truth from Me, sincerely appeal to Me for it and you shall receive it. The truth, as I want it to be understood and which you should request of Me, is a wealth of knowledge of a spiritual nature .... It is knowledge which extends into spiritual spheres and which can never be substantiated by evidence .... it is the knowledge of your existence, its reason and purpose .... it is the knowledge of the Power Which brought everything into existence and of the relationship between you humans and this Power .... It is the knowledge about the nature, reign and activity of this Power, Which has created everything that exists .... It is impossible for any human being's intellect to provide a truthful explanation of this, such an explanation can only be given by the Eternal Truth Itself .... Hence you have to ask It yourselves. It is I Who can and wants to give you an answer because I Am the highest Authority and also the Love, Which wants to please you, My living creations, with this knowledge. But I can only reveal Myself to those who sincerely desire truth .... yet they will not ask Me in vain to impart the truth to them ....

However, only a few people have this sincere desire .... Mostly they are indifferent or they unreservedly accept what is given to them by their fellow human beings who also merely use their intellect but cannot guarantee that their reasoning was guided correctly. Not many are interested in the basic questions relating to their existence as human beings, and the belief in a God of love, wisdom and might is not always strong enough to ask Him for enlightenment. The pure truth, however, can only emanate from Me, and their wrong attitude towards Me, their God and Creator, is the reason why people live in error and devoid of all truthful knowledge and thus don't make use of their earthly life which could lead them to perfection .... Their indifference towards truth is a side effect of the human souls' immense immaturity, for they are still dominated by My adversary who tries to prevent everything which could provide people with clarification, because he doesn't want to lose them and can only control them as long as their spirit is dark, far removed from the truth; but only truth leads people to perfection, truth alone is beatitude, it is a light which illuminates the darkness of night that is spread across the earth ....

I Myself Am the Truth, and thus anyone who knows the truth is closely united with Me .... As long as you humans are not truthfully instructed you lack the light for your earthly path of life .... Admittedly, you keep walking, but where is the path leading to without truth? .... It can only lead into the abyss, whereas you will irrevocably ascend if you take the path of truth, for this is brightly illuminated and leads you to the goal, to Me Who is Eternal Truth Itself. And I Am truly always willing to guide you into truth, as I promised when I lived on earth .... I will reveal Myself in My love, wisdom and might to every person who simply desires in his heart to hear Me, to be guided into truth by Me .... This is the most important prayer you can send to Me, for this plea demonstrates your serious will to return, it also proves to Me that you acknowledge Me as your God and Father, and it is a spiritual request which will surely be granted .... For as soon as I can convey the pure truth to you, you will also learn to get to know and love Me in My nature .... And I want your love, I yearn for your love which is only deep and pure if you, through the conveyance of pure truth, know about everything, your origin and past relationship with Me and the goal which shall unite you with Me again .... Then love will ignite in you and you will push ever closer to Me and thus can also be guided into ever more profound knowledge which will make you extremely happy .... You will learn about My eternal plan of Salvation, about the Father's love for His children and the great work of return, for which every single person can also offer Me his services .... You will learn to love Me .... And this love will make you blissfully happy, for it will lead to the final union with Me, to eternal life .... Yet only the truth leads to the goal and thus you humans should strive for the truth, you should lovingly hand yourselves over to Me and let yourselves be taught by Me, and then you will indeed be instructed by Me, your God and Father, Who knows everything and Who thus can and wants to teach you everything because He loves you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Powerful effect of the divine word ....

B.D. 8701 from December 16th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

A powerful flow of favour flows down to earth when the word of God is supplied to men from His infinite love because they receive a measure of power with the word, which removes every spiritual weakness, which strengthens the will and guarantees man the safe ascent up. But this current of favour can only then become effective on men when man opens his heart and lets it flow in, for which his will must be prepared. The word holds the power in it to overcome all resistances, but the will of man remains free; he cannot be forced to accept favour, but the slightest turning towards God is already will directed towards Him, which causes the power of favour to have an effect, and then God no longer lets him fall, then the word will so fill him and impart power to him that he no longer lets go of him, and the rescue of his soul is certain. The word of God, His flow of favour, goes out directly from Him, and so something divine comes to earth, something divine touches the heart of a man; it fills him and must now inevitably also have an effect, because a divine gift of favour can never be without effect, and its effect can always only be positive .... It must strengthen the weak, heal the sick, make the blind see, comfort the unhappy, give new hope to the hopeless .... It must inevitably lead back to Him that which once fell away from God. And so therefore man, who is an imperfect being through his own fault, must again become perfect, because the power out of God .... His word .... is able to do everything, because it can never remain ineffective. And this exceedingly great gift of favour is at the disposal of you men; it flows down to earth uninterruptedly; it touches all hearts, which open themselves voluntarily, and it brings certain salvation to him who receives it, who lets God's word have an effect in him. For the word is a ray of favour, which brings light, which means light, which penetrates all darkness and gives brightest knowledge .... But men are unhappy as long as they dwell in darkness of spirit .... Although intellectually they are not aware of their dark spiritual state because they are mostly content with worldly knowledge .... But that the soul lies in torment as long as no real light shines for it, men do not consider. And for the soul a spiritual knowledge is the right light, and this is given to it through the word, which is led directly from above to earth .... The soul receives out of the hand of God what it urgently needs, because it is still in darkness as long as it walks along without right spiritual knowledge. And it is the soul alone which also feels the power of the word; it is the soul on which the word of God has an effect, which heals and perfects itself, as well as a power current flows to it directly from above .... as soon as God Himself addresses it and also supplies it with the strength with His word which it needs in order to perfect itself still on earth. The intellect of man will feel little touched when the word of God sounds to him, and the soul also only then when it is willing to love, because love establishes the contact between the soul and God, which is necessary for the overflowing of His word and His power. But then the soul draws an immeasurable benefit from it, because the power out of God has an effect on the soul with all power; it also gives itself willingly to this power; it opens itself more and more; it matures and wins a knowledge, which can never be given to it otherwise than through His word, which truly also includes all power of proof in itself. Who once has received the word of God in him, which is sent to him unimagined from above, he will no longer want to exchange with other men, and no matter how richly blessed these still seem to be with earthly goods. Nothing can outweigh the spiritual goods, which are taken possession of by the soul, because these lead to ever more intimate union with God, which again includes all happiness. And before the end that flow of favour will flow stronger and stronger; everyone will be able to refresh himself in it; no-one will be denied to drink at the spring and to absorb the power of the word in himself. Only the free will of man will always be demanded, because God will never force the proofs of His love upon him who opposes Him. But unlimited He will give to him who desires His gift. And from God truly only the most delicious goes out, because God alone can impart right food and right drink to the soul and because He knows what His creatures need to again reach happiness, which they once voluntarily gave away. Again they are allowed to hear His word as in the beginning when they just want to open themselves and listen to Him. And then they are saved for time and eternity .... then they will live and no longer lose this life for ever ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The beings' gradual higher development in Creation ....

B.D. 8702 from December 17th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

And thus listen to the following: When I transformed the beings, which I had once emanated as strength, into many different kinds of works of creation, it started the gradual higher development of these beings in their dissolved state .... At first it was an incredible mass of spiritual substance which slowly took on form when My will solidified the spiritual strength into matter, and this matter was so differently natured again that it cannot be made understandable to you humans. According to My wisdom and My love I had devised a plan of Salvation for the fallen spirits which was to be implemented in the creation. The purpose of My creation was to induce the bound spiritual substances within to be of service, thus one work of creation was needed for another in order to make it possible for a gradual higher development to take place. The serving functions at the beginning of creation cannot be made conceivable to you humans .... only when the works of creation became somewhat more solidified some activity, albeit very slight, commenced. And every activity testifies to life, every activity achieves a change, therefore the forms also changed constantly, developing into ever larger works of creation, each one of which had to fulfil a task determined by My will and which was also carried out according to My will, because the spiritual substance was unable to resist My will. Therefore the creation did not arise in an instant through My will, instead, the spiritual substances, or 'transformed strength', bound therein covered a slow path of development so that its resistance gradually subsided which manifested itself in being of service which, admittedly, still happened under My law of compulsion but nevertheless proved a reduction of opposition .... And so the process of higher development through the mineral, plant and animal world until the stage of a human being, has been explained to you such that the external forms constantly released the bound spiritual substances within, which linked up in order to take abode in a larger form again and continue their service, until all tiny particles belonging to a fallen original spirit had come together again and were able to embody themselves as 'soul' in a human being .... But just as it happens in the animal world, that, after dying, the smallest living organisms join other spiritual substances of the same degree of development and enter a larger external shape, so the process of development continued, and My love and My wisdom constantly created new forms which were able to accept the destined spiritual substance .... In nature you look upon this as 'evolution' of a small living being into an ever larger one .... Yet first I had to create a new form which previously had not yet existed. And although these forms constantly became larger and resembled the previous forms, it always involved an act of creation on My part which, however, could not be observed by people because no-one endowed with intellect and free will populated the earth as yet.

However, My eternal plan was definite, therefore I also knew about the living creation which was intended to live on earth as a 'human being' for the purpose of taking its final test of will .... And thus the spiritual substances which were still bound in the various works of creation were continuously placed into new creations the closer the individual being's spiritual substance approached maturity .... The works of creation became increasingly larger .... which is not to be understood in terms of physical size but the individual living being's constitution, their functions and their abilities are referred to in this instance .... Yet each new living creature was the work of My infinite love and wisdom and omnipotence .... which subsequently reproduced itself but always remained the same creation as I had externalised it .... Do understand that no living being will change its constitution, and where you believe you notice a change or further development, its emergence has been an act of creation on My part. Thus every human-like creature inhabiting the earth before the creation of the first human being always were new creations which, however, remained the species they were created as a product of My omnipotence. And since the bound spiritual substance within them constantly developed further, My will also created an increasingly more human-like external form, yet this creation was always based on My will, which manifested itself as natural law again .... what you humans now describe as the natural evolution of the beings .... But the human being can never be regarded as a product of natural evolution, for he is a separate creation, having emerged from My omnipotence, love and wisdom and being designed such that he shall and is able to fulfil an eminent task on earth. Even if you try to train the most intelligent animals to think and decide independently you will never succeed, for the abilities possessed by a human being are not hidden in any animal, for the human being is the only life form on earth in possession of thinking ability, intellect and free will .... which can never be slowly developed nor are they attributes of a creature's gradual higher development, instead it merely proves that the human being is a work of creation in its own right, called into being through My will and My power in order to accomplish a task. And it was only possible to place the creation work 'man' into the world after the once fallen original spirits had already covered the gradual higher development through the creations because the human being was intended to shelter one such fallen original spirit within himself as soul. The word 'development' only ever applies to the sheltering or bound spiritual substance in every work of creation which has to go through this upward development, whereas the material works of creation must always be regarded as acts of creation, because My will brought these external forms into existence in order to serve the spiritual substance as external shapes, which themselves should advance through being of service.

The fact that My will simultaneously also signifies 'natural law', which no work of creation can resist as long as it does not yet shelter a spiritually mature being like people do, will also explain the word 'development' .... but it will never justify the allegation that the human being evolved by himself .... for he was a separate work of creation which My will and My strength of love brought into life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's promise to His co-workers ....

B.D. 8703 from December 19th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

No matter how your life turns out, you are always under My protection and can completely entrust yourselves to Me that I will arrange everything for your good. And even if it seems as if no more help is to be expected earthly, you still do not need to fear, and you can be sure of it that again and again a way out is found, that everything lies in My power what I want, and My exceedingly great love always determines My will. And so I again and again give you the assurance that I need you, that your cooperation in the last time before the end is so exceedingly urgent and necessary, that you can also be sure of every help on My part, because you serve Me, and I do everything to you what is only useful to you. And My love always determines Me to make life as bearable as possible for you, and I pour out My gifts of favour over you abundantly; spiritually and earthly I give to you in a measure that you recognize a loving father and return His love to Him. You will need to suffer no earthly hardship, and I will keep all adversity away from you, as far as this is favourable for your maturing of the soul. But still far more will I give you spiritual good, because also there I pour out My gifts of favour unlimitedly. Consider that every word, which you receive from Me, means supply of power, and you will always be able to use this, therefore I will also always be prepared to let it flow towards you in form of My word. You yourselves can certainly reduce this supply when you close yourselves to My word. But I will never let it lack the right food for your soul, which it needs at any time .... And I will never limit the supply of strength, but I make it dependent on your free will that you connect yourselves with Me and so therefore stand in constant contact with Me, Who then will also give you spiritual good as most loving father. For I have also set this as a condition that you are to seek My kingdom first .... but then everything else will be granted to you, and this promise is truly visibly fulfilled in you .... And so you may always know yourselves to be loved by Me; you may believe that I want to make you happy and also want to turn away all suffering from you, as far as this is helpful for your soul. Because also you, who are Mine and want to serve Me, you still have to mature on earth, and you are therefore to radiate an increased measure of love, so that I can spare you from suffering, because love increases the degree of maturity of your soul and dissolves all dross, of which the soul is still covered .... But also in suffering I stand by you, for you are also to recognize Me as your father Who makes all adversity bearable for His children, Who Himself is with them with His help so that they are not endangered in body and soul .... Therefore constantly unite with Me, for in unity with Me you are also under My protection, in unity with Me My adversary cannot harass you, and in unity with Me you are also constantly flooded with strength, and you can ward off every adversity from you .... In unity with Me you also receive My word, which proves My presence to you. And what can then still happen to you when I am present to you? And as soon as you know that My presence also proves itself through the supply of My word .... as soon as you know that I speak to you when I am present to you, you will also not resist the influx of strength .... i.e., you will not refrain from listening to My word, because this word is the most delicious nourishment which your soul can receive in order to mature still on earth. You will therefore never experience a restriction from Me, but you yourselves determine it whether My love towards you can express itself through the word. Speak I Myself to you, then you can already be happy on earth, because then you are also in truth My children, to whom My father love applies and will apply until all eternity ...._>Amen

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Peace to those of good will ....

B.D. 8704 from December 20th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

I wanted to bring peace to people on earth when I Myself descended and walked the earth .... And also today I want to bring peace to those who are of good will .... For truly, when they let Me Myself into their heart then a peace will also fill this heart which only I can give them, for they will feel My presence and feel blissfully safe and secure, they will not fear any enemy who approaches them from outside, for they know about My love and might which can and will ward off all harm which threatens them. Only in Me will you find true peace, because if you are intimately connected to Me, then you also feel father love, and you know that a father protects and looks after his children and does not let them get into trouble. I want to bring you peace of soul that you are certain to have taken the right way, which leads away from My opponent, whom you want to flee and to Me, your God and creator, to Whom you flee as children, that My father arms embrace you and safely guide you on the way up. But as long as you have not yet found Me, you also wander restlessly along; you know no real peace, because you are still inwardly too much pressed by My opponent, who does not let you come to peace, who is always only anxious to cause restlessness, impatience and agitation in you, who hurries and chases you, who puts you into the world gear, so that you can find no inner peace, because all contact with Me is prevented and without Me you cannot come to a true inner peace. But I came down to earth to bring peace to those who were of good will, for I gathered them around Me and revealed Myself to them as the saviour from deepest spiritual adversity. Only few believed in Me and My mission but these also found peace through Me, they found the path to Me, their God and creator, and walked it consciously by confessing Me in Jesus and being the first to also accept the blessings of My act of salvation, by being the first and most redeemed to be able to enter their eternal home again after the death of their body. To them I brought peace for their souls in truth .... the endless long fight since their apostasy had been endured, and it ended with a victory over the opponent, because they consciously turned towards Me and let themselves be redeemed by Me through My blood, which I shed on the cross for all men. I therefore had defeated My opponent, and everyone who now joins Me also no longer needs to fear My opponent; he will go through earth life in inner peace and also be able to enter the kingdom on the other side after his death, because I have bought this peace for him with My death on the cross. But he must be of good will .... otherwise he will still remain attached to My adversary, because he does not acknowledge My work of salvation and therefore also Me Myself, and for so long he will live a peaceless life in My adversary's chains .... be it on earth or also in the beyond, until he liberates himself from him, until he takes the path to Me and asks for redemption from Me, thus also for inner peace, which makes him blissfully happy. The earthly world has always been an area of dispute where men have to fight against him who holds them captive, and they will not reach true peace until they have defeated him and found to Me, Who alone can give them peace. But you men will also only then be happy when this peace fills your heart, because then you have found home, even if you still live on earth, but you have gone the right way to Me; you have intimately united with Me, received My love power and also found peace of the soul with Me. Then you have become Mine and eternally escaped from him who once plunged you into the deep. Then you have successfully covered the way from the deep to the height, and the gate to the eternal home is no longer closed to you .... I Myself receive you and guide you into My kingdom, where there is light and bliss and peace for all eternity ...._>Amen

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Christmas 1963

B.D. 8705 from December 21st 1963, taken from Book No. 91

A light shone for you humans when I descended to earth, for you were in deepest darkness which My adversary had imposed upon you, but I came from the kingdom of light and approached people with the will to bring them a light .... For I Myself was the light of eternity, I came into the world as a human being in the infant Jesus, I filled this infant with My light, and as long as Jesus lived on earth as a human being He also let His light shine, albeit only to a very limited extent .... But He lived out love, and this alone had to spread light, for anyone who took Him as an example and wanted to emulate His life and work would also be filled with light. I Myself took abode in the infant Jesus, for I Myself am also love, and because Jesus was filled with love He was also able to speak with justification before He accomplished the last mission .... the work of salvation .... fulfilled: 'I and the father are one ...." Love had risen to earth and taken possession of the man Jesus, and so also brightest light had to shine out of Him; He spoke and taught and so gave men a knowledge, which truly gave most lightful information about everything and which could cause men to completely follow in Jesus' footsteps and to likewise lead a life of love, which then secured him the redemption from all guilt when Jesus had suffered the death on the cross. People had lost all light through their apostasy from Me, and this also meant that they were completely without love, that they had rejected My love and therefore now walked the earth in darkness .... If they were now to be redeemed from their guilt the light of love also had to shine for them again, and again it had to be up to them to accept or reject it .... For this reason Jesus certainly bore the original sin for all people and redeemed it, He bought the supply of light and strength for all people again, but every individual person must also voluntarily desire the light as well as open himself to the flow of love again, only then can he be redeemed from his guilt .... But never would a man have been able to accomplish the work of redemption by himself, never would a man therefore have been able to redeem this great guilt, if I would not have manifested Myself in this man, what again was only possible, if this man completely shaped himself to love, that he therefore received Me Myself in himself voluntarily and prepared a dwelling for Me through love, which filled Him. And again I was this love myself, and love radiates light, brightest realization and clearest knowledge .... And this light radiated down to earth, for Jesus' soul came from the kingdom of light and only took up residence in a human shell .... And so the connection was made from the kingdom of light to the kingdom of darkness .... In the latter there was no more love to be found and therefore also no ray of light, which could have illuminated the darkness, and therefore some few men called to their God and creator for a rescuer out of their misery .... And their call was heard: I Myself descended to earth, and a period of deepest darkness was brought to an end, the light was emitted through the man Jesus, in Whom was the light of eternity Itself, and anyone who voluntarily allowed himself to be illuminated by this light of love was able to detach himself from the darkness of night, he awoke to life, for he consciously accepted Jesus' act of salvation, he professed Him in Whom I Myself died on the cross for the whole of humanity in order to redeem it .... And you can believe it that it was no work of man alone, you can believe it that I Myself, your God and creator, with this redemptive work of Jesus .... with His death on the cross .... for the man Jesus was a being Which descended from the kingdom of light to earth and Which caused Me Myself to take abode in Him, because purest love filled the man Jesus which inevitably attracted Me, so that I Myself united with the man Jesus and thus the eternal deity Itself accomplished the act of salvation for all people of the past, present and future ...._>Amen

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Redemption of the original debt was only possible through love ....

B.D. 8706 from December 23rd 1963, taken from Book No. 91

Once your original sin had to be redeemed, once atonement had to be made for it for the sake of God's justice .... otherwise never could the guilty beings get close to God again, which they had voluntarily left and strived towards the abyss .... No guilt could remain unatoned for eternity, but endless long time could pass until this act of redemption took place .... And this was also the case, for eternities passed during which the fallen beings had to endure endless torments and thus also bore the consequences of their guilt of sin, but which nevertheless were not enough for the complete redemption of their guilt. For the beings were no longer able to do so, since the original sin consisted of their opposition to divine love, which resulted in their self-emptying of all love .... but a redemption of the guilt was only possible again through the opposite, that love pushed towards eternal love again but this was no longer present. Once it was sinned against love, and again only love could have accomplished a work of atonement, which outweighed that great guilt of turning away from God. And all once fallen spiritual was devoid of all love and therefore endlessly far away from God as eternal love. From below .... thus from the side of this fallen spiritual, which was in the deep .... therefore an atonement of guilt could not take place, although in the stage as man .... after an endless long walk through creation for the purpose of returning to God .... a tiny spark of love is given to the being. But its will is still bound by the opponent of God and too weak to break free from its fetters. Therefore help had to be brought to it, which again only "love" could bring .... Love, which was in abundance in a being remaining with God and which caused this being to do the work of atonement for the unhappy, fallen spiritual .... which caused It to descend to earth into the dark kingdom of God's adversary and to help weak people to strengthen their will through a work of greatest mercy, so that they could then nourish the spark of love within themselves and let it flare up into a bright flame which again pushes towards the fire of eternal love and can unite with It again. Hence the guilt of sin had to be redeemed by a being Whose love was so powerful that It sacrificed Its life for Its fallen brothers, that It once descended from the kingdom of light to earth into darkness and that, on another occasion, It waged battle against God's adversary in the midst of this kingdom .... that It bought the souls from Him with His blood, with His life .... that It suffered the sacrificial death on the cross as the human being Jesus and paid the ransom for all those souls which wanted to return to God again and were alone too weak to shake off the adversary. Jesus therefore took the entire sin guilt of all men of the past, present and future on His shoulders, and He has satisfied the justice of God through His death on the cross; His love was so great that the eternal love let Itself be satisfied with it and cancelled the great original sin for the sake of the love of one man. And He again accepts everyone who approaches Jesus for forgiveness of his guilt, who asks Him to give him power to carry out the return to God, who makes use of the favours of the work of redemption, which the man Jesus has acquired through His death on the cross. You men would never have been able to accomplish this return to God because the immense burden of debt did not enable you to ascend and because you were devoid of all love. But only love could restore the connection with God, and that is why a being of light, Which was full of love, had to offer Itself to descend to earth. And in this being, Which took abode in a human external shell, the eternal love Itself could manifest Itself .... thus God, as eternal love, was able to completely unite with the soul, which was completely permeated and finally body and soul in a completely spiritualized state also found complete union with God .... God Himself was able to accomplish the work of salvation in this man Jesus, and the gate was opened again for all those fallen beings who profess Jesus as a human being in earthly life and thereby also acknowledge God Himself, Who became man in Jesus ...._>Amen

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Christmas 1963

B.D. 8707 from December 25th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

Remember My coming into the world with gratitude and joy, for it signified for you an act of immeasurable love and compassion, a light came to you which was intended to illuminate for you the path out of the spiritual darkness of night .... an era of utter hopelessness came to an end for you humans and a new period of development began .... The path was prepared for you which lead back to Me again .... And this path was exemplified for you by the man Jesus, Who accepted this mission for love of Me, and you, His fallen brothers .... For He wanted to return My children to Me, who had been distant from Me for an infinitely long time already and who languished in deepest wretchedness. Jesus' human shell was occupied by a soul of light, a being which I had once externalised, which was lovingly devoted to Me and had remained with Me when the host of originally created spirits fell away from Me .... This soul sheltered within the infant Jesus, and miracles over miracles already testified at Its birth to the divine spirit Which inhabited this infant .... Yet Jesus, the human being, had to start His life like any other human being, He was born of Mary, the virgin, who was so exceedingly immaculate that she was able to give birth to the divine infant without ever having sinned .... This Jesus-soul had to enter a pure body because I Myself wanted to take abode in His human external shell and therefore His body remained pure and without sin, for although the beings of darkness constantly exerted pressure on Him with the intention to make Him fall He nevertheless resisted them and redeemed all impure spirits clinging to His soul through His greater than great love. He resisted all temptations and spiritualised everything unspiritual which pestered His body, because He lived in this material world, He made it compliant with His soul's wishes, for He was full of love and love conquers everything, even the greatest enemy. Jesus, the man, first had to bring all still immature substances clinging to the body to maturity, only then was I, the Eternal Love, able to take abode in Him, and only then was it possible to conclude the great act of compassion, which He wanted to accomplish for the guilt of sin on behalf of the whole human race .... When I descended to earth, when the infant Jesus was born, My spirit was in Him, because the earthly body sheltered a perfect soul within, thus it was intimately united with Me, enabling Me to express Myself through Him .... And events took place during His birth which you would like to assign to the realm of myth, but which truly happened, for everything is possible for a perfect spirit .... However, only a few experienced these miracles pertaining to the child Jesus, whose hearts where full of love and who recognised in Jesus the promised Messiah and worshipped Him .... People with unclean hearts approaching Him only saw a child which was like any other child .... Yet generally, only those people came close to Him who were prompted towards Him by their spirit, who sensed the miracle that had happened in this night and who thus paid tribute to Him with their adoration, because they saw in Him the promised Messiah. Nevertheless, the fact that God Himself came into the world and took abode in an infant was the greatest miracle of all times which will never repeat itself. For Love came into the world, the infant Jesus was full of love, since the great love for the once fallen, wretched beings had motivated it to take on flesh and to redeem the original sin, which could only be redeemed by love because it consisted of the fact that love had been sinned against. And the man Jesus accomplished this act by giving up His life for the sake of love, by offering the greatest sacrifice any human being on this earth has ever offered and will ever offer .... by relinquishing of His own accord all light and all power He possessed as a result of the love which dwelled in Him .... by suffering in the midst of the dark world as a mere human being and by dying the most agonising death on the cross ....

Jesus .... a being from the kingdom of light .... voluntarily offered Himself for this mission to walk across earth as a human being and to accomplish a work of atonement of inconceivable suffering and pain in order to help his fallen brothers. Love permeated all beings which had emerged from Me and remained with Me when Lucifer turned away from Me and drew an immense number of spiritual beings into the abyss with him .... And Jesus' love was so strong that it wanted to make

Amends to Me for the inconceivable offence against Me, their God and Creator, against the Eternal Love Itself. And I accepted this love which Jesus offered Me and thus also His sacrifice, because it was made by Love and because the original sin could only be redeemed through love .... And thus the being of light took on flesh and walked across earth like all other people, burdened by a heavy earthly body which was a restraint for the being of freedom and light and experienced as agony by the soul. However, He had to travel the earthly path as a human being, because He was meant to serve as a shining example to His fellow human beings so that they would follow Him. He had to fight against the same weaknesses and oppositions which burden every person by nature, because all failings and flaws had to be disposed of by way of the work of improving the soul .... The man Jesus lived in the midst of the earthly world, in the region which belonged to My adversary, and it was twice as difficult for the soul from the kingdom of light to assert itself in this dark area, to resist all satanic attempts to cause its downfall and to treat everything unspiritual in the flesh and in its surroundings with love. For even His body was badly besieged by immature spirits which Jesus did not fend off because, in His wisdom, He realised that these spiritual substances also wanted to be redeemed and His love was constantly willing to bring help to all wretched beings. His soul suffered incredibly through its environment, it was used to freedom and light and love and thus to supreme bliss and now found itself in darkness, bound by the body and in the most heartless environment. And thus from childhood on His earthly path of life had been a state of suffering through which He atoned for many of His fellow human beings' sins .... until He finally accomplished the great sacrifice of atonement by sacrificing Himself for the original sin of all human beings, past, present and future .... You humans will never be able to comprehend this act of compassion, for no human being would have been able to take such an extent of suffering upon himself in awareness of its conclusion, for He was constantly mindful of His end which did not allow any joy to arise in Him; He had human feelings and lived through it all in a state of fear which was caused by every thought of the forthcoming event. And He endured until the end, the love in Him for Me and for all which is unredeemed grew constantly and gave Him the strength to carry out His act of compassion .... I Myself was able to permeate Him completely, I Myself was in Him in My fundamental nature, and thus it was I Who atoned for the guilt of sin on behalf of all people, for it was Love which gave Jesus the strength to suffer and to die on the cross in order to redeem humanity, in order to make

Amends for the immense original sin, which could only be justly atoned for through an act of love as was accomplished by the man Jesus on the cross ....

Amen

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What is grace? .... God's word unusual gift of grace ....

B.D. 8708 from December 26th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

Let yourselves be satisfied with My grace .... Because as soon as you evaluate these, you reach your aim on earth, to perfect yourselves to My children, who are to enter the inheritance of the father. You are of yourselves nothing but only weak men, who lack all strength and all light .... But you are so constituted out of your own fault. And everything what I now do for you to turn power and light towards you again is favour; it is a gift, which you did not deserve, because you once voluntarily had rejected My love. Yet I did not and do not let you fall, for I love you .... And so I continue to bestow favours upon you, and if you accept these, you will lack nothing; you will increase in light and power; you will again become what you were in the beginning: highly perfect beings, which stood in radiant light and were powerful. That is why I say: "Let yourselves be satisfied with My grace, then you are truly to be called rich, then you can no longer sink back into darkness, then you will come to the knowledge through graces, what you were, what you are and what you are to become again ...." You will know your God and creator as your father, Whose love is unlimited, which He wants to bestow on you .... Graces are gifts that love offers you .... Only he who is full of love hands out gifts of favour, because love considers those men or beings who have forfeited the right through their own fault to be given gifts by the father, but He gives them nevertheless, because love does not stop to want to make happy, and although the gifts are not requested or asked for, love is always willing to give itself away, and these are favours, which never remain without effect, if they are just willingly accepted and evaluated. Let yourselves be satisfied with My favour because then you truly need nothing else; My gifts of favour include everything in themselves what makes you happy and helps to the last perfection. And I truly do not hand out meagrely; I shower you with favours, and the more you open yourselves to receive them, the more abundantly they flow to you. And no man can get lost who moves in the area of My sun of favour, who uninterruptedly receives the flow of love from Me, which contributes to his perfection still on earth .... The human being can still be so weak .... if only he opens himself to My gifts of grace, then he will be filled with strength and need not fear any state of weakness. And such a flow of grace .... an undeserved gift which helps people to gain strength and light .... is My divine word which is constantly conveyed to earth, which pours into people's hearts like an inexhaustible flow of grace, which safely strengthens all souls on earth or in the beyond in their still weakened state, which also lets a bright light shine into all hearts .... which penetrates with its strength and enables every soul to perfect itself .... With My word I penetrate the darkness and kindle a light wherever hearts long for light, for My word is truly a gift of grace, a gift which I bring to unfortunate people who are still too weak to consciously request it but who are to reach the point where they consciously make contact with Me and now ask for an influx of grace which they will truly receive without limit .... My word is an unusual gift of favour, and who strives for it, he will truly also soon have reached his aim, because My word will show every man the way, which leads to perfection; My word will impart power and light at the same time to men, and all darkness and weakness will fall away, the human being will enter the circuit of divine light of love, and full of strength he will be able to accomplish everything that is required of him, he will gladly and joyfully fulfil My will and thus also recognize the meaning and purpose of earthly life and now lead the earthly life in accordance with My will .... Then he will have made use of the blessings, then My word will have helped him to take the path of return to Me, that his earthly life will not have been in vain, that he will have changed his nature back into his original nature again, where it stood in the light and was able to dispose of immense strength .... Only My favour can help men to this aim, because My love must give you that what you lack, so that you find out of your state of weakness and become again what you had been in the beginning .... exceedingly perfect beings who were blissfully happy in immeasurable abundance of light and strength and in freedom because their love united them inseparably with Me, Who is love Itself from eternity ...._>Amen

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God is lord over life and death ....

B.D. 8709 from December 27th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

You know that My opponent has great power in the end and that he also makes use of it in every way. And his power is so great because you men yourselves grant it to him, because you comply with his will and do not resist his temptations in the least or offer resistance to them. It is you yourselves who allow him such activity that he can cause hopeless confusion among you men, because he has you completely under his control, because you are without love .... Love would keep him away from you, because since he himself is without all love, he himself cannot resist love, he is subject to love unconditionally, but you men do not apply it, but are of the same nature as he .... without love and therefore also without power to resist. And therefore it is possible for him to completely intervene in your thinking, to mislead you and to influence you that you always only carry out what is his will .... But his will is to prevent you humans from finding the way to Me .... His will is to keep you under his control, to incite you to actions of the most evil kind, to constantly incite you to sin and to act contrary to all My commandments of love. Furthermore, his will is to extinguish the light wherever it shines in order to penetrate the darkness. And where he cannot extinguish it, there he seeks to cloud it, to put up blinding lights next to it, which shine so brightly that the right light cannot be recognized by men, whose spiritual eye is blinded. He does everything to not lose his following and to win back him who has already withdrawn from him and turned towards Me. And he will continue these efforts until the end, and men will be more and more willing to comply with his desire and to move in sin as it is his intention. And so he will also seek to destroy human life to completely cut off their development. He will again seek to determine men to works of destruction of every kind because the power is taken from him himself over every work of creation although it holds the spiritual in it, which still belongs to him. But he cannot destroy the works of creation, and he also cannot end the life of a man, but instigate men of the same will to it .... And I do not resist him because every man has free will and does not need to carry out what My opponent whispers into his ear. If he does it, then he will also have to answer for it exactly because of his free will. But what do I Myself think of such actions which are directed against a person's life? Again I allow the free will of man to be valid, whatever he intends. But I still decide about life or death .... For I can very well also thwart an evil plan, I can protect every person from falling prey to attacks by evil people, and I know if and when I grant a person this protection .... I also know when a man's last hour has struck, which I have determined for his earth life. For then I call a man's soul away to its salvation to protect it from the relapse into the deep when it has already reached a certain maturity, or also to further use a soul in the spiritual kingdom that it takes part in the work of redemption from this kingdom, but as I also end the life of those who no longer show progress on earth or whose task on earth I regard as finished. All this I determine, because I am the lord over life and death .... And no matter how brutally My adversary proceeds, no matter how much he incites the people in bondage to acts of hatred and unkindness, he does not have the power to put an end to a person's life .... He can only determine man as mediator, but how the effect of every still so evil act is, that will always be left to My will. But for the will to act every soul has to answer, and also My opponent himself is not spared the fettering after his work in the last time before the end. So I will certainly leave free will to man who has surrendered to the will of My opponent; I will not prevent him to carry out his plan, and no matter how bad it is, but I Myself determine the effect or allow it. And a man loses his life through diabolical attack, then My will has predetermined the end of it, because I Myself call a man away, because I see when the hour has come for it. And whether also now My opponent triumphs .... he is also only an instrument in My plan of salvation from eternity, it is he who first needs the human being's free will in order to be able to carry out his shameful plans. But everything that happens is included in My plan of salvation from eternity, and also My adversary contributes through his will to support this plan of salvation and to push men to a decision, because every man has to prove his free will, whether he decides for Me or for him, and accordingly also all world events take place, whereby he is certainly strongly involved, but in the end still My will remains determining, how far I tolerate his work always in the foresight of the outcome, which alone is known to Me ...._>Amen

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John 14, 15-26

B.D. 8710 from December 29th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

‘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 ....’ This promise of Mine clearly points to the fact that I reveal Myself to those who comply with My requirements because they love Me .... And with My promise I pointed to the working of My spirit within you during My lifetime on earth already, for precisely this spirit wanted to express itself to you and grant you clarity about Myself, My nature and My activity .... I wanted to reveal Myself to you .... to convey to you the pure truth about everything that originates in Me. Yet only few people have understood the meaning of these Words, for only few people ascribe any value to such divine revelations; as a rule everything, which essentially merely proves the heartfelt contact with Me, is rejected. I demanded of you nothing else but the fulfilment of My commandments of love, for as soon as you lead a life of true love you also unite with Me, Who is Love Itself, and ‘whoever remains in love remains in Me and I in him ....’ It should become constantly easier for you to understand that I .... if I Am with or within you .... will also express Myself, and every manifestation on My part is a revelation.

And this has to guarantee you the purest truth, because nothing but truth can come forth from Me. Consequently you can, without reservation, also accept everything that is presented to you in the form of such revelations which, since they originate from Me, can only be the purest truth. All you humans should engross yourselves more in the spiritual meaning of the Words spoken by Me when I lived on earth. And if you do not understand them correctly or can only recognise an earthly meaning, then you should establish a heartfelt contact with Me by praying to Me in spirit and in truth and asking Me for the correct understanding and, truly, it will be given to you because it is My will that you shall think correctly. But especially you, who believe yourselves to be entitled and called to preach My Word, are not promoting the understanding of My Word, for you do not contemplate the meaning and simply ignore what you are unable to rationally explain yourselves.

Nevertheless, My Word has been spoken and remains valid. I have promised to reveal Myself to you and thus you cannot accuse Me of being a liar, you will have to believe in divine revelations yet merely seriously examine what should be accepted as a divine revelation, but you must not reject all spiritual information received on earth in an unusual way as the activity of adverse forces .... since I have, after all, given you the above promise Myself. And you will certainly be able to make a serious assessment since you were also informed of the criterion ‘Test the spirits whether they are of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God ....’

Hence, divine revelations also have to bear witness of Jesus’ act of Salvation and My human manifestation in Him .... But then you may unhesitatingly believe, especially if Jesus’ act of Salvation is the subject of a revelation which someone claims to have received directly from Me .... You truly need not accept anything unreservedly, it is your duty to examine all spiritual information or you would not be requested to ‘Test the spirits whether they are of God ....’ Every human being should form his own opinion about what is imparted to him, he should always conduct every examination by calling upon Myself so that he will achieve a living faith .... which, however, is not possible if he accepts everything that is presented to him as spiritual knowledge without objection.

For My adversary is active as well and always tries to contaminate the pure truth, and the human being himself is duty bound to form an opinion as to be able to distinguish truth from error. And in that case he should keep as much as possible to divine revelations, for as soon as he desires the truth I will also convey it to him in some form or other and he will accept it without inner objection, because it will affect him as light and strength, since everything originating from Me will not remain ineffective. Anyone who truly desires the truth from Me will definitely be correctly guided by Me in his thinking, for then I will place the right thoughts into his heart, because he will have sincerely requested the truth from Myself and he will then also be able to speak of divine revelations .... Then he, too, will be able to lay claim to My promise .... ‘I will manifest Myself to him ....’ He will feel the truth in his heart and his intellect will equally recognise it as right, his thinking will be guided into the right direction and he will reject all wrong thoughts .... Only these conditions will have to be fulfilled by him:

He has to comply with My commandments of love on which I have made My divine revelation dependent, for I Am Love Myself, and if I Am to reveal Myself, a human being also has to be united with Me through love so that I Am present in him and he finds himself in the sphere of the Eternal Truth and thus can no longer think wrongly either .... Living a life of love and seriously desiring the pure truth .... is the guarantee that a human being is also moving within the truth .... But the desire for truth is usually missing .... even if a person’s heart is full of love .... and this is so because the person believes himself to possess the truth, and he cannot be instructed because he doesn’t ask but deems himself knowledgeable .... For this reason it is good if the human being begins to doubt because then he will ask himself questions which I will gladly answer him in his thoughts, because I will reveal Myself to someone who loves Me and keeps My commandments. And even these doubts are often placed into the person’s heart by Me, for I only want the person to live in truth and I will help everyone of good will to achieve it ....

Amen

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The bond of love shall connect everyone without distinction ....

B.D. 8711 from December 30th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

Only love will always and ever lead you to perfection .... And this love has to flare up deep within your heart, it has to fill your whole being and motivate your every intention and action, then you will come ever closer to perfection, then you can say that you have been reborn, for you will have changed yourselves into your fundamental nature again. But only few people achieve this high degree of love while still on earth, yet I already accept their will as evidence of love .... the will to reach Me, the desire for My presence, always proves their love for Me already ....

You humans are unable to muster this burning love for Me and all created beings, which deifies you on earth already, you live in a world devoid of love, and that also has an effect on those who themselves are willing to love but who, due to recurring unkindness, are inwardly inhibited from loving actions which, however, would awaken reciprocated love. And yet you should carry out this work on the soul, you should even love when you are hated, and you will rise above yourselves and become capable of ever greater love. And you may well believe it, as it is possible for you to do .... if only you would always appeal to Me for strength when you are too weak yourselves.

There is no special merit in loving something that is good and beautiful .... Yet to show love to a person who treats you badly or has many shortcomings and faults is far more difficult but also far more commendable, and then your degree of love will rise indeed and you will draw ever closer to Me, the Eternal Love. In order to be able to do this you have to open yourselves to My ray of light .... you have to appeal to Me to soften your hearts, to work in you Myself as soon as you cross the path of people who don't mean well or who do not appear amiable to you. Consider the fact that all human beings are My living creations, that I want to regain all people as My children, that you all have the same Father, but that not all people have achieved the same degree of maturity which they should and would be able to achieve on earth. But the bond of love should connect all of you, for only by way of love can you also help these less mature people to achieve a higher degree of perfection, for no ray of love sent forth by you will be without effect, it will always have a beneficial effect on the soul which is still surrounded by dense layers.

You are able to show love to such persons if only you consider the poor quality of their souls, which still have to struggle and fight for a long time until they are spiritually fully mature. And if you .... as soon as you are confronted by such a person .... immediately remember Me and My emanation of love, which is available at all times and only wants to be seized by your hearts .... thus just a brief call to Me in Jesus is enough for Me to illuminate you and enable you to love your fellow human being, whom I do not send without reason to cross your path, for he as well as yourselves should mature through such meetings, which you inwardly dislike ....

You should never put your own interests first, you should never ask whether such meetings are beneficial for yourselves but always take notice of the other person's situation and try to help him, for would I let something happen to you that would be harmful for your soul? Love should glow ever more brightly within you, and My ray of love will always flow to you .... But if you consider and evaluate any human encounter and take earthly measures to avoid it then your action, at that moment, is not in contact with Me and you cannot expect any help from Me either.

Everything you encounter in earthly life only happens to you for the sake of maturing your soul, and you should not avoid it but rise to the challenge by using My strength, and you will be able to derive rich blessings for yourselves as well as for your fellow human beings. You are truly able to develop a high degree of love in you if only you call upon me mentally and appeal for My flow of strength, thus for My illumination of love, and open yourselves to receive it. And therefore it also requires that you do not exclude Me from your thoughts .... And this is the key, it is the only explanation you need to reach your state of perfection while still on earth .... For as soon as your thoughts constantly embrace Me the flow of My strength of love also has to affect you constantly, and then I can always be present with you too .... My presence, however, gives you the evidence of your union with Me, which is only ever achieved by love. Hence love could totally deify you on earth already, yet as you are rarely able to raise it to a high degree you will also have to suffer and through suffering dissolve the soul's cover .... Still, no matter what happens to you, everything is well considered and will only ever be in your best interests as long as you are willing to return to Me and enter into final union with Me, which will guarantee you eternal life in blissful happiness.

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Spiritual low level .... Lovelessness .... Selfish love ....

B.D. 8712 from December 31th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

The greatest evidence of humanity's spiritual low level is lovelessness, which is evident amongst people everywhere. Selfish love has steadily increased and hardly anyone is practicing neighbourly love anymore, hence there also has to be a profane state on earth, a state of activity by evil forces, where God's adversary always has the upper hand and people are his willing subjects. The spiritual darkness is getting increasingly worse, rays of light are only seldom recognisable and even frequently feigned by deceptive lights without strength of radiance .... Judging by people's degree of love the time of the end has clearly arrived ....

An obvious decline can be detected, people are firmly attached to matter, they only value their body and its comfort, earthly success and an increase of earthly commodities. They do not believe the fact that their souls are suffering extreme hardship since they do not believe in the soul's life after death, indeed, they frequently even deny having a soul. They cannot be forced into a different mode of thinking, their free will has to be respected, but accordingly they also prepare their own fate after their death.

And anyone who observes what is happening in the world, in his immediate neighbourhood, also knows that this state cannot continue forever because it is getting worse from day to day, because people's greed for matter continues to grow, because no spiritual aspiration can be noticed and because every situation will eventually come to an end if it does not correspond to divine order.

People no longer serve each other, everyone wants to rule instead and be served at the same time, everyone wants from the other what he enjoys but no-one is willing to do the same in return .... There is no love, people's hearts are hardened, and there are only ever a few people willing to help in times of need .... And this is the small flock, for once the will to love becomes active it will establish the bond with Eternal Love. And This will not leave a person again, who voluntarily performs labours of love.

You humans do not know the blessings of loving deeds .... you do not know how much easier you could travel your earthly path if only you would practice love and thereby receive consistently more for your soul, but also receive what you need for earthly life. But heartless humanity lacks this knowledge, everyone just looks after himself, and everyone tries to get whatever he can out of life and forgets that his hour of death is unknown to him, that he can pass away at any time and take nothing he owns into the beyond, but that he will arrive bare and miserable on the other side. For he has nothing to show for his soul which he had starved in earthly life but which is all he has left now and which enters the spiritual kingdom in desperate poverty. And this heartless state of people cannot result in the slightest spiritual progress. However, since the soul only lives on earth as a human being for the purpose of maturing, but this purpose is not fulfilled, a powerful intervention by God has to take place, a sharp reprimand and reminder, so that a few people will reconsider the purpose of their earthly life and change themselves before the earth's last stage begins which will not last long until the end.

People take no notice of God's gentle voice through strokes of fate, disasters and all kinds of accidents, through the Word of God from above, and thus they have to be spoken to with a louder voice, and blessed, who wants to hear God's voice and takes it to heart, for even then there will be many people who don't want to recognise Him when he speaks to them through the elements of nature with tremendous strength .... They, too, will not be forced but able to make a decision of free will, nevertheless they will be spared the worst, the recurrent banishment into hard matter, if they still find and take the path to God, if they still acknowledge Him and call upon Him for mercy ....

But then the end will have come, for the earth will no longer fulfil its purpose, it will no longer be used by the souls as a place to mature, it will merely be utilized for the body, and everyone will elevate himself to a ruler of the world and cause the greatest destructions himself in the belief to control all laws of nature and thus also to experiment with impunity, which then will lead to the final destruction of earth.

But this is what people themselves want, and thus it will come to pass as it is proclaimed in Word and Scripture: a new heaven and a new earth will arise and divine order will be re-established, so that the return of the souls to God can continue, as it is intended in His eternal plan of Salvation ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

John 7:38-39 ....

B.D. 8713 from January 1st 1964, taken from Book No. 91

Out of your body shall flow rivers of living water .... The stream is to spring out of you yourselves, therefore it must first have flowed from Me, as the original source; it must have filled the vessel, which you yourselves prepared and I now can also let the living water flow towards you, as I have promised you. For in you rests a spark of the eternal spirit of God, Which slumbers in you as long, thus is out of activity, as long as you have not yet become a vessel to receive the flow of spirit out of Me, Which is established through this divine spark .... as soon as the intimate contact with Me is established and the spark unites with the father-spirit from eternity .... thus flows into your heart. You are originally divine creatures, which went out from Me in all perfection, and that is why also all knowledge, brightest knowledge about the most hidden things, had to be in you .... Yet this most profound knowledge is not accessible to the human intellect, but the human being can attain it himself if he shapes himself, i.e. his nature, in such a way that it is once again akin to the divine original being .... if he changes back to love, which he once voluntarily relinquished .... Because love is brightest light and must also put man into the state of brightest knowledge, but which can never be supplied to him from outside, through fellowmen. I Myself have given you the promise: "Out of your body shall flow rivers of living water ...." That these words are also only to be understood spiritually need not be mentioned, and when it is now explained to you that the living water is My word, the water of life, which brings salvation to all souls when it is received at the source and the soul feasts on it .... then you will also be able to understand that this word of Mine resounds in the heart of him who believes in Me and enters into intimate contact with Me .... Then also that scriptural sentence will be understandable to you that the word sounds to you yourselves and you yourselves are led into brightest knowledge as soon as you just let My spirit flow into you in free will. That, what now flows towards you out of the inside, is nothing dead; it is life itself and brings true life to man, who awakens his spirit in him through a love life and through it comes into contact with Me, whose effect is exactly the influx of light and power, of a living water, which irrevocably gives you eternal life. Because who has My word, to him I Myself am present, and My presence is also guarantee for eternal life. You therefore need no instructions from outside, because these again only penetrate to the ear and leave the heart of man untouched. But out of yourselves flows the water of life, and that means as much as that My word sounds in you yourselves, if you allow it yourselves, if you fulfil all (the) condition(s), which I have attached to the hearing of the divine word. And this is called: "If you believe in Me, as the scripture says ...." Thus you must believe in Me as the divine redeemer Jesus Christ, for again and again the coming of the messiah has been announced in scripture, and you must recognize and acknowledge My descent in Jesus, then you will believe in Me, and the living faith within you will also urge you to establish an inner bond with Me, and then the divine spiritual spark within you will already make contact with the father-spirit of eternity, and the result will be the influx of brightest light and unlimited strength, which will then again take the form of My word .... of the living water .... in you obviously proves My presence .... Then you can draw from the source of life which has its origin in Me, that which helps you to eternal life flows to you from the original source Itself, for I have given you this promise and thereby already pointed to the process of the 'outpouring of the spirit', which My disciples experienced for the time being but which every person can experience, because through My crucifixion I acquired unusual blessings for him which make it possible that My spirit can pour itself out over those who believe in Me .... But that only a living faith was meant by it, which only became alive through love, and therefore love is the first condition that My spirit expresses itself in a person .... has let people think little of this promise, for precisely love was lacking in them, and thus it also remained dark in them, they could not be transferred back into the state of realization which requires My direct influx of love, which again can only be acquired by the human being through love .... And as long as people lack love this promise will also remain incomprehensible to them, and they will only ever relate it to the first disciples who experienced an obvious 'pentecost', the 'outpouring of the spirit', yet they will never relate this promise to themselves because they lack all faith in it. Yet My promises always apply to all people, but never to individual people only .... only conditions are always attached to them, and the fulfilment of the promises also depends on the fulfilment of the conditions .... But My word is truth, and everyone can also hold to My word, and it will sound in him himself, as soon as he just gives the divine spark in him the possibility to express itself, whatever will be, where its love establishes the union with Me Myself, so that I can pour Myself into a human heart, which is devoted to Me with its whole will ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Hard struggle and suffering in the end time ....

B.D. 8714 from January 2nd 1964, taken from Book No. 91

All of you are in need of great spiritual help, for the time left to you until the end is only short .... Many will still be called away before, and they will have even less time at their disposal to work on their souls .... But they will not have to pass the difficult faith struggle, which requires exceedingly much strength and you therefore always need help, but which you are also allowed to experience at any time. Because only this faith struggle is the last phase, whose end will then also bring the destruction of the surface of the earth, where all life of man and animal will be ended and also the plant and rock world experiences its dissolving, because a new order is to be created and therefore a development period comes to an end and a new one starts again. Who still experiences this time, he will have to struggle extremely to pass it, because only very believing men will have the power to win over their enemies, because these men request it from Me, and I certainly do not leave them without help. For then only deeply believing people who belong to the adversary will enliven the earth, which is why the separation will then also be accomplished .... The adversary will strongly press Mine, he will try everything to take away their faith. But the latter are strong in faith and in love, and so they are also in possession of power to offer resistance, and they will also emerge as victors out of this last fight. But much help is still to be given to all men before, so that they can free themselves from the enemy of their souls, so that also still out of the camp of the enemy men change over to the ones who are Mine and are still won for My kingdom. People who are without faith because their intellect resists educated teachings are to be shown the way to the right faith, the possibility is also to be opened to them to think and to reach convinced faith in a God and creator, so that their thinking changes and they also change their way of life, which before is only earthly-worldly orientated .... I will try everything to still win quite many that they open themselves to truth, that they feel impressed and do not reject everything what they have been taught so far. But only pure truth can bring this success that man still turns to Me shortly before the end .... Only truth also carries the power in itself to accomplish a change of will. But truth is only accepted by people who are willing to love, whereas the unloving person will reject everything, no matter how logically and comprehensibly it is explained to him, for the unloving person is already a member of the adversary who does not release him either but keeps him captive because he is unloving .... And what still can increase the willingness to love of a man, that will also happen. And that is why still much disaster will pass over earth where fellowmen can show their love to those affected by the disaster, where they carry out works of love through their willingness to help, which are of inestimable benefit to their souls .... I only want to achieve one thing that love is awakened in men, because everyone is able to love, because a divine love spark slumbers in him. And that is why there is so much misfortune on earth; men are afflicted by disasters and accidents of every kind, and they are to prove themselves; they are to help where it is possible, and truly, it will not be their own harm .... For they do not find the way to Me in the well-being of the body, not in earthly joys and pleasures, but certainly in view of the misery and unhappiness of their fellow human beings, where their thoughts are nevertheless directed towards Him, Who is lord over life and death and Whose influence and help is visibly recognizable, if man himself has not caused the disaster and is to blame for it. Then men, who do not want to believe, are also not to be brought to believe. But as soon as all human influence is eliminated, they must acknowledge a higher power, and there is the possibility that they bow to this higher power. And with it already much would be achieved, because if a man acknowledges a God, then he also gives himself to Him in hours of danger and deep trouble, which become more and more frequent the closer the end is, because I want to win the souls, but not lose them to him, who is to blame for their apostasy ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Frequent question: Why did the God of love let a human being suffer so? ....

B.D. 8715 from January 4th 1964, taken from Book No. 91

You humans could not imagine the result of your original sin had you not been redeemed .... I keep telling you that you are only able to grasp limited concepts, whereas the consequence of the original sin would have been limitless because My laws cannot ever be revoked .... And a sin committed against Me which was as immense and as grave as the apostasy from Me against better knowledge had, in accordance with divine justice, to result in equally appalling consequences, which for these beings entailed eternal wretchedness .... a state of eternal torments and darkness ....

Thus innumerable beings would have had to expect this state because My righteousness could not simply cancel an unredeemed guilt. But these beings were unable to make

Amends themselves, for it was not just a question of the beings enduring a certain amount of punishment and thereby the guilt of sin being redeemed .... the point was that the beings had sinned against Love Itself and that the atonement of guilt could therefore only be a deed of love again ....

The point was that the beings had to kindle their love within themselves, then recognise the enormity of their guilt and with heartfelt love call upon Me for forgiveness .... But the fallen beings were no longer able to do so for they were totally without love .... And they were just as incapable of settling this immeasurable guilt since they, being completely hardened, had lost their self-awareness and thus no conscious contact existed with Me anymore. Something that was created to be alive had died and was incapable of returning to Me by its own effort.

Due to My love, wisdom and strength I could indeed awaken these dead beings into a fragile life again .... but the immense original sin remained and kept the being infinitely far apart from Me, and until this guilt had been redeemed a complete return to Me was impossible. And then again, no fallen being was capable of this since they were completely without love .... I foresaw all this since eternity and still would have been unable to avoid the apostasy of the beings without removing their freedom of will .... But I also foresaw since eternity a path of return to Me for these fallen beings, and I designed a plan of return and implemented it ....

And all beings who have remained with Me are taking part in the implementation of this eternal plan of Salvation, finding supreme happiness in doing so .... They are constantly permeated by My love and in full possession of light and strength .... And their love constantly impels them to assist the fallen spiritual substance which is taking the path through the works of creation that had emerged for the purpose of their return. Their love impels them to actively create and design the forms for the fallen spiritual substance which is taking the path through creation. And thus it attains the degree of maturity when it can make its own free decision again. And yet, its immense original sin is not and would eternally not be redeemed since the beings, having once voluntarily abandoned it, are without love. And for this reason a being of light offered Itself voluntarily to redeem this sin because it was full of love, and love will shoulder everything in order to please and help where it sees misery and suffering.

If you humans could evaluate the magnitude of the original sin you would also understand why the extent of suffering, which far surpassed human strength, had to be endured for the redemption of this sin .... which a 'human being' would never have been able to bear had love not given Him the strength, for love is strength, and only love endured the pain and suffering which the human being Jesus had voluntarily taken upon Himself.

He knew everything and thus He also knew that there was no hope for the fallen spirits ever to return to God and become happy if the sin was not redeemed .... He offered Himself as a being of light to achieve the act of Salvation, for as a being of light He was able to realise what awaited Him, but love was greater than the fate He was approaching as a human being .... For the being of light knew that It would be in constant contact with Me, and It also knew that I would constantly provide It with strength, because My fundamental nature is love and therefore I was present in the human being Jesus with My fundamental nature .... The 'human being' Jesus certainly accepted an unimaginable measure of suffering and pain, yet in view of the magnitude of untold beings' original sin such an excessive measure of suffering was necessary in order to satisfy My justice which could not be avoided .... or I would mercifully have erased the guilt for the sake of greater than great love.

The wretched state of the fallen beings was an eternal one without the act of the sacrifice of atonement .... Jesus' suffering, however, lasted a limited period of time and Jesus gladly offered the sacrifice to Me, because He thereby delivered the whole world from the original sin, even though every being determines the moment of its salvation itself through its will. Jesus has died on the cross on behalf of all people past, present and future, and His immeasurable suffering provided all fallen beings with forgiveness of their original sin. The path of return to Me has become passable by every single being, and due to His greater than great love people have been given the opportunity again to kindle love within themselves, so that they will change their nature and the unity can take place again, which would have been impossible without the redemption of the original sin ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's true representatives are appointed by God Himself ....

B.D. 8716 from January 5th 1964, taken from Book No. 91

Anyone who voluntarily offers to serve Me has achieved a certain degree of love which also provides the prerequisite of being suitable for service in My vineyard. And thus, all of you who genuinely want to work for Me and My kingdom can also rest assured that I accept your service. However, many people claim to be God's servants without being so because they lack these very prerequisites which guarantee cooperation with Me .... Yet it is not always easy for you humans to know the difference; it isn't always easy to recognise My true servants since the others also use fine words although they have no direct instruction from Me; they present themselves as My servants yet were not called by Me to this service. And only the rightful servant, having been appointed to his office by Myself, will recognise who speaks in My name, who truly works for Me and My kingdom. For My servants have to establish a living connection between themselves and Me, the God of love has to be recognised as a Father with Whom the child can enter into direct contact .... Yet generally people, and even those who deem themselves to be leaders of people, still look for Me in the distance, they are still far away from Me, they don't establish intimate contact, consequently, the one thing that characterises a true servant appointed by Me cannot take place, namely, that he is taught by Me directly, that he receives every instruction from Me directly, that he desires to hear My Word in heartfelt unity with Me and thus also receives the purest truth from Me ....

What nowadays still exists in the world as a spiritual movement, ecclesiastical functions and organisations, can just be considered a shell which lacks its kernel: the pure truth .... There will be people everywhere who do establish this intimate relationship with Me and who can be taught by My Word directly but they will have no success with their fellow human beings, either because they are bound to their spiritual movement and lack the resistance to oppose it when they have recognised the truth .... or they will be persecuted and prevented from working for Me and My kingdom .... For he who is My adversary and enemy has great power, yet it was granted to the adversary by people themselves, because they are all blind supporters who thoughtlessly and without reservation accepted everything they were given and no longer want to let go of it .... And thus the number of My true representatives on earth is not very large, yet they alone live in truth and therefore can also pass it on, if only people asked themselves just for once as to whether they really know the truth and, in desire of it, sincerely appealed to Me for clarification, for spiritual enlightenment .... However, as a rule they are indifferent as to what they believe, they don't express their own opinion about the spiritual knowledge that is imparted to them .... And they don't realise the effect of this indifference on their souls which will have to bear the consequences when they enter the kingdom of the beyond.

There are only a few who work for Me in My name, but through them I convey the pure truth to earth and also make it available for everyone who earnestly desires truth. However, I do not force anyone to accept it, just as I do not forcibly determine a human being to receive the pure truth from Me .... Everything is determined by free will which I do not infringe upon. And you who ask why I have allowed such distortion of truth to happen can find the explanation for it in this free will .... Every human being can kindle love in his heart and let it flare up ever more brightly .... And love emanates light .... So if he has the will to live in truth he can also recognise My adversary's fabrications, who always tries to undermine the truth, and he will approach Me directly and desire clarification from Me, which I will surely send to him .... And thus people who are willing to live a life of active love will feel repelled by misguided teachings and gladly and eagerly accept the truth .... The loving person will always consider Me first before all ecclesiastical organisations, irrespective of which school of thought they represent .... He will always take the path to Me and thus join the church which I established on earth Myself, which is built on living faith .... as a result of love.

You humans should all belong to this church, this church is the only beatifying church, for this church is a spiritual community of believers and its members can come from all schools of thought .... They only need to fulfil the commandments which I gave on earth Myself: The commandments of love for God and one's neighbour .... Then they will gain a living faith, they will enable My spirit to work within them, which is the characteristic of the church I founded on earth. Believe that I only judge you in accordance with your degree of love and believe that love also guarantees you wisdom, the realisation, the knowledge which corresponds to the truth. And where this working of the spirit cannot be found, My true representatives are not there, there are no servants whom I have called Myself and appointed to their teaching ministry .... For they have no teaching material themselves since they cannot receive it from Me directly and use what My adversary has time and again interspersed with errors .... which can no longer be considered the pure truth. Bear in mind that I Myself promised to 'guide you into truth ....' through My spirit. And ask yourselves why I gave you this promise since I had, after all, brought you the truth Myself when I lived on earth as Jesus the man .... From these words alone you can deduct that I knew that the truth would not remain pure for long amongst people and that I would be unable to prevent this if I didn't want to render people's will unfree ....

But time and again I made sure that the pure truth was conveyed to you knowing that only truth can make you blissfully happy and because I also know the state of those who enter the kingdom of the beyond with misguided spiritual knowledge. In order that you can be blissfully happy you must be able to bestow the truth upon those who find themselves in spiritual darkness .... Hence you must first possess the truth yourselves and completely free yourselves from wrong spiritual knowledge .... For you will surely understand that conditions in the material world would not be so confused if people's heart were filled by the light of truth. And from the earthly state around you, you can draw your conclusion as to people's low spiritual level, the sole reason for which rests in heartlessness and its resulting total spiritual blindness. Anyone who wants to become enlightened will be illuminated .... and the will of anyone who wants to remain in darkness shall be respected, yet his fate one day will be a very painful one ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Further indication of disasters and war ....

B.D. 8717 from January 6th 1964, taken from Book No. 91

The forthcoming time will burden you extraordinarily, for world events will enter into a new phase, the restlessness amongst nations will increase, each one will consider the other as the enemy and nothing will be seriously done to establish peace even though all people will be longing for it. But materialism is the driving force of all plans and undertakings, and everyone aims to gain the greatest advantage, yet no one is fair in his thoughts and intentions and motivated by good attitudes while misfortunes increase fear and unrest, for God Himself still tries to make Himself known to people, since only the belief in Him and His might is the right counterbalance for all adversities and afflictions which you humans are approaching.

Consequently, there will also be more natural disasters, so that a higher Power will be acknowledged, for whatever people do will only ever deepen their hatred for each other but not lead to spiritual reflection. Heartlessness will take on shapes which will soon be unsurpassed, and the state of people warring against each other will therefore become ever more determined, there will be anything but peace amongst people although the great conflagration will not have yet erupted but will not fail to materialise. People themselves live their lives indifferently and only few spend thought on the fact that this state of affairs cannot continue for long. Yet the people in charge are generally spiritually blind .... there will be much talk but these will be just empty phrases which will not be followed by actions. For the earthly hardship will not be remedied where it is clearly recognisable and since the commandment of neighbourly love obviously remains unfulfilled the spiritual state cannot be good either, although they will be living in earthly prosperity and will apparently not have to go without anything .... The souls, however, will go hungry, and yet people will be unapproachable for spiritual instructions which would provide the souls with the right nourishment.

People should look around themselves open-eyed and be seriously critical of their own lives, then they will learn to understand and be able to observe the forthcoming events with the right realisation which, although they have always been announced, only now become more significant in view of the serious difficulties of those who are directly affected by it .... Yet these are the last days, and since people no longer have any faith it requires especially severe strokes of fate in order to disturb them, so that a few will find their faith in a God and Creator again to Whom they owe their existence .... in order to make them think why and for what reason this God and Creator has created them .... It is a matter of life or death for you humans, of infinite beatitude or torment and anguish, of brightest light or absolute darkness .... And thus, anyone who wants to be happy and live eternally in light has to fulfil his God and Creator's will, he has to try to discover this will and then live a life of love for God and his fellow human being .... If, however, he does not believe in a God then his whole earthly life will have been pointless, he will constantly contravene the law of divine order, and revoking the laws of divine order will always result in chaos, and you humans are now irrevocably approaching this chaos ....

And it will not just affect you spiritually but the earthly world will also be completely turned upside down, time and again you will receive news about natural disasters, accidents and other calamities, for there will no longer be any harmony and peace in a world which is devoid of all love and faith .... But whoever has found the path to God, who endeavours to fulfil His commandments of love, who hands himself over to Him in spirit and in truth, who prays to Him and appeals for His protection, will also surely receive it, for these people belong to His small flock who will persevere until the end, who will not let their faith waver, who will stay together and carry God deep within their hearts and who will therefore be lifted up in the end if God does not recall them to His kingdom sooner, if it is His will ....

Again and again your attention will be drawn to what lies ahead and comes ever closer to you, even if you are of little faith .... you will be unable to prevent it, and you can, with absolute certainty, stand up for what is announced to you, for the point is that people should be told that everything has been taken into consideration in the Plan of eternity, that everything is dependent on God's will Who, however, proceeds in His wisdom and love in order to accomplish the work of return to Him, and will also achieve the goal one day ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Review of the light beings on the agony state before ....

B.D. 8718 from January 7th 1964, taken from Book No. 91

The path you covered before your embodiment as a human being you walked without ego-consciousness, and yet in the utmost agony of bondage. As a human being you are deprived of the recollection for this endlessly long time in wretchedness. But one day you will be able to look back and see everything, and only your degree of maturity will protect you from dying of horror, for you will only then be allowed to experience this retrospection when you stand in the light and then recognize everything right and good what I let come over you for the sake of your perfection. Only I Myself and all spiritual full of light know about the agonizing state of the fallen spiritual on the way of return to Me. It goes its earthly way in extreme misery and agony in a bound state, but since it is without I-consciousness, since the former "being" is dissolved into innumerable little particles, it certainly suffers unspeakably, but without being able to think about it. You will now object that only the ego-consciousness can feel agonies .... and this is probably also the case in the stage as a human being, that he is insensitive to pain as soon as he is put into an unconscious state .... But this does not apply to the spiritual without ego-consciousness bound in the works of creation .... But also the kind of agonies cannot be made comprehensible to you .... It is predominantly the state of compulsion in which the (once) created is in fullest freedom, which now causes it greatest agonies, which again are not to be understood physically, but spiritual agonies are to be assessed far worse. You can only be informed that the state of agony is unimaginable, but how these agonies are, that is not to be explained to you men, because spiritual things are not comprehensible for you, as long as you have not yet reached a certain maturity. But once your whole earth course lies behind you, and you can clearly survey it from the beginning of the apostasy until the final return to Me. But then you yourselves stand in a degree of light that you always just rejoice and thank the creator of heaven and earth, Who wanted to prepare the greatest happiness for you and therefore also did not prevent the former apostasy, but Who also makes an effort in love for every single fallen being that it again returns home to its father house. As soon as you have therefore reached this degree of light your own will is also exceedingly great to take part in this work of return, because you know about the exceedingly great misery of the still wretched and you want to make the course through the works of creation easier for him and therefore seek to promote his serving functions. Therefore you will then always only be intent on creating such outer forms for the bound, where it can serve .... Because the fallen being matures according to this. Therefore the degree of light of a redeemed being is exceedingly significant, for according to its knowledge and overview it can now always work and create only in the redeeming sense .... But between that world of light and the still bound spiritual there is now still the state of the I-conscious beings .... of men on earth and of the souls in the hereafter .... to be considered, for these I-conscious beings are always in the state of the spiritual beings on earth .... for these self-aware beings must be guided and cared for in accordance with their free will by those beings of light which are only active on those self-aware beings as executors of My will into which they have completely entered. But also this state of the still immature souls is known to them, and also now they try everything to just change the unhappy state into the state of happiness, of intimate union with Me .... But the free will of man (I-conscious beings) very often limits their willingness to help, when they openly resist spiritual help, when the inclination downwards, towards matter, is still too powerful and they do not resist it .... The being of light can only have an effect according to will, but will also not leave any opportunity unused where it can give help to men (beings). If you men would have the recollection of the time of development lying behind you .... you would not hesitate for a second and fulfil My will .... But you do this in a certain compulsion of will, out of fear and horror of a repeated walk through earth creation, and such a success I do not seek to achieve because it meant a restriction for unlimited happiness, because the being could no longer become perfect because its will would not be free .... But again and again you are admonished, again and again it is held up to you, which dreadful time of development lies behind you, and you have to believe in it, because no proofs can be given to you for it. And one day you will also be able to understand the great significance of your earthly life as a human being, and you will recognize that your God's and father's love was constantly concerned about you in order to release you from the bound state, because you can only be happy in unrestricted freedom ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers