Obsession

In The Word of God are texts published and offered which Bertha Dudde was permitted to prophetically receive and record. One promise of Jesus Christ was (John 14.21): ‘Whoever has My commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves Me. He who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I too will love him and show Myself to him.’

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Who was Bertha Dudde?

Bertha Dudde wurde am 1. April 1891 als zweitälteste Tochter eines Kunstmalers in Liegnitz, Schlesien, geboren.

Bertha Dudde was born on 1. April 1891, as the second oldest daughter of a painter, in Liegnitz, Silesia. She became a dressmaker and began to receive pronouncements from God through the ‘Inner Word’ on 15. June 1937.

“In a clear dream I was moved to write down my thoughts after devout prayer. Understandably this often gave way to doubt and inner conflicts until I was convinced that I was, myself, by no means the initiator of these exquisitely gracious words; but instead it was the spirit within me, in other words, the love of the Heavenly Father was obviously responsible for them and introduced me to the truth”.

“I was given knowledge of the spiritual world which far exceeded my elementary school education. I received and receive this knowledge as a dictation in a state of complete consciousness; I write down everything I am told in shorthand, in order to then transfer it word for word to clean copy. The procedure does not take place in a state of compulsion, for example in a state of trance or ecstasy, but in an absolutely level-headed frame of mind. However, I have to want it to happen and then I can receive these dictations voluntarily; they are neither bound by time nor place.”

“Now I only have one wish, which is to be able to make these gifts of grace accessible to many more people and in accordance with the will of God Himself to be allowed to do much more work in His vineyard.”

(Quotations from an autobiography from 1959).

Bertha Dudde died on 18. September 1965 in Leverkusen, Germany.

Published by friends of the New Revelation, Hans-Willi Schmitz und Wilhelm Wegers

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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

8545 - The soul knows beforehand its earthly course....

4756 - Predetermined earthly life.... Whims of destiny.... God's love....

5141 - Unjustified objection, being destined to be evil....

6715 - Purification of the soul....

7141 - Combating the urges from the pre-embodiment....

8296 - Does God punish the children for the sins of the fathers?....

3505 - Influence of immature souls who died early....

6455 - Influence by spiritual forces.... possession....

4927 - Feebleminded people.... obsession....

5472 - An explanation of cases of possession....

6419 - Possession....

6480 - Workings of the un-spirits.... obsession....

6691 - Obsession.... fathers' guilt of sin....

8291 - Re-incarnation or possession?....

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

7388 - Banishing the demons.... warding them off....

5435 - "What you ask in My name.... " Answer to prayer....

6169 - Jesus' name defeats the demon....

7711 - Love for "sick souls"....

The soul knows beforehand its earthly course ....

B.D. 8545 from July 1st 1963, taken from Book No. 90

Why do you humans doubt My love which embraces all My living creations with such tenderness that I truly don't want to let any of them suffer but only ever want to grant happiness and bliss to the beings which once emerged from Me? Yet not only love fills Me but also profoundest wisdom determines Me to impose restrictions on love where it would only cause harm and therefore has to be contained, even if only temporarily .... But I alone know what serves a soul to be able to enjoy unlimited happiness one day .... I alone know how every soul is made up and what it still lacks for perfection .... But I also know how little time is still available to every individual soul until the judgement takes place .... i.e. the classification of all spiritual into the external form which is suitable for it, which guarantees further development .... But I also know that a soul can become completely free from every material form and what unimagined bliss it can then receive and feel .... And if a soul is now shortly before its perfection and the time granted to it has almost expired, then a great favour can still be granted to it, in that this earth time still remaining to it makes exceedingly great demands on it or can also be exceedingly sorrowful, but then it is also the guarantee that all dross is cast off and it can now enter the kingdom of light and happiness .... What seems to be long to you men in terms of time is like a moment in the period of your ascent development upwards, but once the soul has reached its aim then it also knows that it was a work of mercy for My part when it had to go through exceedingly great suffering for the purpose of the last purification. Since it was allowed to see it beforehand and yet voluntarily took up its last embodiment as a human being, this is proof of its approval, of its willingness to take upon itself everything, even the most difficult .... because it saw the aim .... For it had complete freedom before its embodiment as a human being, thus it consciously entered its earthly life as a human being .... It took up a battle with the forces of darkness, which also required great strength of soul .... thus it is mostly not weak souls which are exposed to exceptionally hostile activity, for these would fail and succumb to the evil forces and be drawn down again into the abyss by them, which would also result in a rapid change of their torment into the opposite and thus be equal to a failure of the soul .... You men know too little about the connections, you do not know about the guilt of a soul, which embodies itself on earth, and about its state of maturity, when it is allowed to embody itself as man .... But one thing you will understand and be able to believe is that a soul which has to suffer a great deal in earthly life will approach an all the more beautiful life in the spiritual kingdom and that it will one day be grateful to Me Who enabled it to become free through great suffering .... I allow satanic powers to have an effect, for these powers will also be judged one day and fall back into deepest darkness .... The closer now the end is the more the work of evil will also come to light, and still unheard-of things will take place, which let you men doubt My love and mercy .... But they, too, will find the explanation in the ever shorter time of grace where unusual trials, suffering and hardship can still bring about the maturing of a soul and then this soul will have reached a high aim .... But you are always to ascribe love, wisdom and power to your God and creator, Who wants to be your father. I can prevent everything, thus also such encroachments of satan, but when My wisdom sees the success which arises for a soul through excessive suffering, then only My love is ever decisive, which wants to prepare the soul for the great happiness of entering the spiritual kingdom as perfected .... Therefore do not let your faith in My love waver, but trust Me that I only ever have the spiritual well-being of My living creations in mind and that I do or allow everything to happen that contributes to the perfection of a soul, but that I also give every soul the strength to persevere and to resist the opposing force, which can indeed weaken the body but which is unable to harm a soul which has already matured to such an extent that it knows its final aim and therefore voluntarily entered into an embodiment which forms the conclusion of an eternal development, of an infinitely long path of return to Me .... It has reached the aim and is now united with Me for all eternity ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Predetermined earthly life .... Whims of destiny .... God's love ....

B.D. 4756 from October 8th 1949, taken from Book No. 54

Every earthly worry comes to nothing if you believe in Me. As soon as you acknowledge a Controller of earthly fate you must also be certain that this Controller knows all requirements and that He has taken them into account when He, in His wisdom, determined every person's earthly life. Hence, everything that comes upon the human being has its cause, its reason and its purpose. The purpose is always the attainment of psychological maturity which, however, can often proceed without opposition. Oppositions are all those disagreeable moments which the human being briefly describes as whims of destiny. Consequently, a person will also have to endure what he rationally condemns because it doesn't suit him. It is, however, necessary for a person's higher development and it will always go away again, it will effectively put itself right through My will, although the person is usually of the opinion that he has personally contributed towards removing that which seems unpleasant to him. Everything takes its course according to My eternal decision, and if you thus consider that every happening in your earthly life has been predetermined to the finest detail, that even your physical end has been planned from the start, you must realise that you cannot change anything and that therefore every worry is unnecessary, since everything will have to happen according to My will. And if you believe in My love and wisdom you will also know that everything is good for you, because you, as My living creations, also possess My love and this love determined your course of life in order teach you to become My true children. And so you need only hand yourselves over to Me, thus humbly endure whatever I send to you, then no worry will burden you, because I will take it from you when you no longer need it, and because nothing that comes upon you will last forever but will soon be resolved again. And if your suffering lasts longer, then it is necessary for your soul and it would only be detrimental for you if I removed your sorrow prematurely. Believe in Me and trust Me, and if you are burdened by a problem then confide it to Me .... My love can turn everything away from you and will indeed do so, because a father will always give to his child such that it will be happy. Yet then you must really come like children to the Father .... you must believe in Me and grant Me all your love .... Then the goal will have been reached on earth and you will neither require distress nor suffering in order for your souls to mature fully ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Unjustified objection, being destined to be evil ....

B.D. 5141 from May 31th 1951, taken from Book No. 58

Whatever will serve you as a blessing shall be given to you by Me, but whatever delays your spiritual development is not My will but the will of the one who wants to separate you from Me. Even so, I allow it to happen so as not to take people's freedom of will and belief away, and also to motivate you to test what comes forth from which spirit. Everything can be beneficial to you, for even evil can serve your development in so far as you learn to recognise and despise it and thus make a choice for good or evil, which also necessitates the knowledge of both. Yet evil does not originate from Me but from My opposing power, which thus also influences the human being's will in order to gain him. The human being, however, makes his own decision.

Where My adversary finds approval it cannot be said that it is My activity on the human being, because the human being is not forced into actions and thoughts but approves them voluntarily and because he has the ability to differentiate between good and evil. This is why he is responsible for the direction of his will, and therefore he also creates his own fate in eternity. And no-one will be able to say that I didn't approach him, the destiny of every person's life provides him with ample opportunities which enable him to recognise a guiding and determining Might Which reveals Itself to him. If he ignores these opportunities or if he agrees to regress then he is abusing his free will and thus uses it in the wrong direction. He hands himself over to My adversary's power without having been forced by him. Hence it is an unjustified objection that the person, having been unfavourably influenced, was unable to do anything but to act evil and that this bad influence compelled him to be evil by providence .... The destiny of a person is always shaped such that opportunities for higher development prevail if he is of good will .... The human being need not fail if he himself does not want to fail .... For he is at all times at liberty to appeal to Me for help, which will always be granted to him .... And every sorrow, every stroke of fate shall encourage him to make this appeal, then the human being will never be at risk to fall, for I Am only waiting for his thoughts to turn to Me in order to seize and hold him to prevent his fall. The prayer to Me is the defence against the one who intends to harm him. The prayer to Me provides strength and fortifies the person in every temptation. The human being stands between two powers and has to choose one of the two. Both will understandably affect him and try to win influence over him. This is why I allow My adversary's activity, yet I do not leave the human being defenceless to his power, but through adversity and other strokes of fate I try to encourage him to call for Me, because only when his will has made a decision for Me will I be able to intervene with My might and love.

He must turn to Me in absolute freedom of will, and if he doesn't do so voluntarily I have to prompt him through all kinds of serious difficulties which, however, can only ever further his soul's salvation and are therefore permitted by Me. But evil is caused by the human being himself by allowing himself to be controlled by the one who has turned loved into the opposite and who therefore will always act evil and unkindly and thereby can easily be recognised. But I will not stop him, for his activity also aims to achieve the decision of will .... But blessed are they who let themselves be driven to Me, who realise his intrigues and want to escape from him .... I will seize them and draw them up to Me, for they have used their will correctly and passed their test of earthly life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Purification of the soul ....

B.D. 6715 from December 15th 1956, taken from Book No. 72

You all have to pass through a purification bath in order to become free from sin and its consequences. And no matter how your earthly course unfolds, it will always offer opportunities which are equal to a thorough purification, because they consist of suffering and hardship which are only beneficial for your soul. Yet the most effective means of purification and healing is love .... Anyone who practices this helps his soul to thoroughly purify itself, he also dissolves the hardest shells, for nothing can offer resistance to love, love dissolves and redeems, it sets the soul free and gives it the life that lasts forever .... You must all descend into this sanctifying bath, for even suffering and pain can remain ineffective if they are not accompanied by love. Because you humans take little care of love, because you let it grow cold and therefore also leave the soul in its unhappy state, because you don't help your soul in its adversity, which signifies a burden of sin for the soul, it must now be helped in a different way. It has to go through a course of suffering which certainly also has the consequence that it dissolves the hardest shells .... but the soul remains weakened until it receives strength through the working of love .... Thus it can enter the beyond in weakness and helplessness but it has achieved on earth that it no longer resists the efforts of beings willing to help .... that it is grateful for the help in its state of weakness and is now also willing to provide the same assistance to souls which are in need like it. This will to help already gives it strength, for love flares up in those souls which only then secures the soul's ascent. For this reason people should bless the suffering which affects them on earth if they lack loving activity, for the soul only gains through this, and it first has to have shed its burdensome dross before it is possible to give it so much light that it will then strive upwards itself. And therefore it is of little use to want to keep all suffering away from a person, (15.12.1956) and where the love of fellow human beings would like to help him, this love should be directed towards the person's spiritual recovery, towards his spiritual progress. He should be remembered with intercession so that suffering does not fail to have an influence and that he is thereby purified, although fellow human beings should also do everything in their power to avert earthly suffering from their neighbour. But often you humans are helplessly confronted by your fellow human being's adversity yourselves, and then you should know that suffering is permitted precisely for the sake of the soul's purification; you should know that one day the soul will also recognize the blessing of the suffering it was granted in earthly life as soon as it has only surrendered to its earthly fate, because now it can also assess the suffering of other unfortunate souls in the beyond and thereby its will to help has awakened, which now also guarantees its ascent ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Combating the urges from the pre-embodiment ....

B.D. 7141 from June 7th 1958, taken from Book No. 76

Everything that still clings to you from your previous embodiment must be repelled or changed into the opposite during your earthly life. That is the purpose of your earthly life, that you work on yourselves in order to reach the last degree of your perfection, which can certainly be achieved during this time of your earthly change, but which also requires great willpower. In the time of pre-embodiment you were already able to repel much of the anti-divine, in every form the soul substances were able to mature, and thus a certain degree of maturity was reached which then allowed the embodiment as a human being. But you are now beginning this embodiment in a still very deficient state, your soul is still afflicted with many faults and weaknesses which it has partly brought with it from the stages of pre-embodiment into earthly life as a human being. It will still have many drives and desires within itself which it must discard and fight if it wants to become perfect, as is its aim on earth. And precisely at this time it will be extremely harassed by God's adversary who can now also exert his influence on the human being .... And now it is no longer subject to the compulsory law that the external form according to God's will confers a certain degree of maturity on it, instead, it can freely decide for itself whether its will submits to the adversary's influence or whether it resists and turns to God .... Thus the degree of maturity the soul attains in earthly life depends on this attitude. However, the adversary will understandably gain far more influence if the soul is still very burdened with weaknesses and vices of all kinds. And the harder the battle it will have to wage against temptations of all kinds .... which it would never be able to survive without help. But it will also be granted every help in earthly life because God is concerned about the return of every single soul and because His love helps wherever the soul is weak and in danger of failing. Yet God does not attack free will either, and the final decision is nevertheless left to the human being alone. But he should also know that much immaturity still has to be brought to maturity in every human being, he should also know what these deficiencies consist of .... that the soul is or can already be of deficient form when it is conceived into the human body and that it is afflicted by precisely those faults and weaknesses which it did not master in its pre-embodiment .... partly by still great rebelliousness of the spiritual, partly by rapid termination of the stay in those forms .... And the human being should therefore fight with a strong will against all desires or vices which he himself can recognize as not being of divine origin, and he will .... as long as he is of good will .... will be supported in every way, he will still be able to liberate himself during earthly life, because every person can attain maturity if only he seriously wants it. But he will always have to make use of God's help in Jesus, otherwise he will never succeed in liberating himself from the adversary ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Does God punish the children for the sins of the fathers? ....

B.D. 8296 from October 11th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

It is My will that you humans should live in truth because erroneous thoughts will obstruct your ascent, and because one misguided thought can result in many wrong thoughts. And hence you shall receive explanations too, providing you want these for the sake of the pure truth:

Although you are asked to believe in My justice, you should nevertheless not get a false impression of Me due to teachings which portray Me as a heartless God Who punishes unfairly .... And this false impression will come about as long as you do not understand the meaning of the words 'I will punish the sins of the fathers up to the fourth generation ....' It is not the case that I Am merciless and that children and grandchildren have to do penance for the sins of their fathers .... because every soul is responsible for itself and has to make

Amends for their own guilt while still on earth, as long as it does not accept salvation through Jesus Christ. Nor will children and grandchildren be held responsible for the sins of their fathers .... But it can be a natural consequence of certain sins which affects children and grandchildren .... so that weaknesses and disabilities of a physical and psychological nature occur which are caused by the fathers' sinful life. And this consequence is also visible to other people, hence the weaknesses and disabilities are now regarded as punishments on My part.

As long as the people who have become sinful are still alive, the awareness that they are to blame for their children's misery can be punishment for them too, they can, due to this awareness, now also make

Amends for their sins, i.e. render a just compensation for their guilt, but they can only find forgiveness when they take their guilt to the cross and ask Jesus Christ for forgiveness, for salvation .... But the equally 'punished' children are souls in their own right who have consciously accepted the difficult fate of their earthly life in order to achieve maturity sooner, because they are informed of this beforehand and can also refuse to accept this fate. It is always merely a matter of the souls' maturation. The physical existence as a human being is more or less irrelevant .... a difficult earthly life is far more likely to lead to perfection than a peaceful and enjoyable earthly existence ....

You people, however, still being ignorant, regard your lives as human beings too highly .... And you will always accuse Me of injustice when you are hard hit by fate, although it is based on My love for you .... The process of return offers many options but you rarely recognise them as such .... You only ever regard the conditions of adversity as heartlessness and injustice on My part, yet you do not recognise in them the opportunities to achieve complete maturity. Everything you do will be subject to law, naturally as well as spiritually. And thus every transgression will result in consequences which are sometimes obvious but occasionally not apparent, because an offence against My eternal order will always have a negative effect, because My justice alone will provide the human being with opportunities for compensation, so that he can make

Amends for his guilt while still on earth and need not enter the kingdom on the other side excessively burdened .... And even if he passes over unredeemed, if he has not yet found salvation through Jesus Christ, he can still be affected by the fate of those he cared about during his earthly life and feel remorse. And herewith he will have already taken a step forward because, although he will also be helpless in the kingdom on the other side due to his sinfulness, he will nevertheless try to help his loved one .... He has the will to do so and this is credited to him as love, and now he will be equally helped by the spiritual world .... Alternatively however, souls also consciously accept a difficult life in order to help those who facilitate their embodiment on earth and because they often notice the same inclinations and hence feel attached to them.

When they say that the sins of the father will be punished up to the fourth generation, this only means that serious offences against the eternal order result in naturally lawful consequences, which I, however, consent to because they in turn can enable other souls' ascent. It is up to a person's completely free will as to how he conducts himself in earthly life, just as it is the completely free will of the soul which embodies itself again.

When 'punishment' on My part is mentioned it is a misconception in as much that everything is only for the benefit of the soul, whatever is inflicted on it and whatever happens to it in its earthly life .... Because many a soul can only mature by way of suffering because it does not acquire a high degree of love of its own accord .... which subsequently would result in the decrease of suffering and make its fate on earth more endurable. However, as long as you always just want to see injustice on My part in regards to the destiny of long-suffering people you are merely displaying your lack of knowledge of My eternal plan of salvation; furthermore, you are unaware of My greater than great love for you, which only ever wants to save and will never condemn .... Compared to eternity time on earth is only brief, but during this extremely short period of time you humans have the opportunity to gather many treasures for eternity, you can make

Amends for much injustice and enter the kingdom of light, providing you find Jesus Christ and ask Him for forgiveness of your guilt ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Influence of immature souls who died early ....

B.D. 3505 from August 4th 1945, taken from Book No. 45

Countless souls dwell close to earth who are secluded without realization of the eternal deity, who entered the kingdom of the beyond blindly in spirit and, still unconscious of their miserable state, stay close to people who were in their vicinity on earth. And these souls, through their desiring and urging, often impel people into actions and speeches which correspond to their will, i.e., they transfer their thinking to people who offer them no resistance, who are of the same spirit and therefore receptive to the influence of those souls. The rapid departure from earth, often in the midst of life due to the influence of demonic forces, to which countless people fall victim, transfers the still immature souls from the state of strength into a state of complete lack of strength. They feel that they can no longer accomplish anything of their own will and therefore seek to transfer their will to living people in order to still have an effect through them, in order to determine them to carry out their will. And this unfavourable influence from the spiritual kingdom of darkness has a particularly detrimental effect on earth because the number of people who die increases daily and many people are deprived of the opportunity to reach their state of maturity on earth. At present the earth is surrounded by dark creatures who even try to deny the forces of light access to earth and are successful where people are indifferent towards the spiritual. The immature souls still strive for the same as on earth, and they transfer their desire to people

(4.8.1945) who have the same thoughts, the same desires and the same state of maturity. And these are willing executors of what they are mentally whispered to. Increased mortality, which is unnatural, i.e. occurs as a result of human hatred and lack of love, will also increase the darkness in the spheres next to earth, for people have not yet evaluated their earthly life, they cannot yet record the spiritual successes, they are mostly easy-going and belong to the world, and their desire for bodily death is correspondingly, as soon as particularly difficult living conditions do not make them realize the worthlessness of it in the last hour and their thinking still changes before the entrance into the spiritual kingdom. Then the soul will also not be surrounded by deepest darkness but will see rays of light flashing now and then, which it will follow and soon come into brighter surroundings. But then its desire will no longer be exclusively for earthly matter, it will easily separate itself from earth and its former surroundings and find a substitute in the spiritual kingdom which seems more valuable to it .... But immature souls cannot rise into these spheres, they are held to earth as if by chains and are also always close to their relatives or like-minded people on earth. And their spiritual state will hardly lift as long as forces from the beyond exert their influence. And their ignorance is not suitable to have an enlightening effect on people, moreover, they make it difficult for the beings of light to gain access to them, and only the serious will of the human being himself clears the way for the beings of light. And therefore earthly chaos, initiated by human will and demanding many sacrifices, also results in a spiritual decline, for even after the human being's death his thoughts are still active .... And people should protect themselves from the influence of immature, prematurely deceased people by praying for them and asking for protection through the beings of light, for right thinking and God's grace and strength .... Then the endeavours of the dark spiritual forces will be fruitless, they will not be heard by people and cannot cause spiritual harm. For again, it is the human being's own will whether he strives for the good in order to be in contact with good forces or carelessly abandons himself to the pressing thoughts of the bad forces .... The human being can protect himself, but he must have the will to do so and consequently abhor bad thoughts and actions .... He must walk a path himself which corresponds to God's commandments, then all influence from the spiritual kingdom exerted by lower forces will be ineffective. For rays of light penetrate everywhere where only light is desired, where good is striven for and spiritual progress is longed for. There the beings of light are constantly active and they chase away all dark figures around people, for their power is great as soon as the human being grants them this power through his will ....

Amen

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Influence by spiritual forces .... possession ....

B.D. 6455 from January 20th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

It is left up to you humans alone what benefit you derive from your earthly life .... The path you have to take is marked out for you, i.e., everything fatefully approaches you in such a way that every day, every experience and every thought can serve your soul towards perfection .... Yet the evaluation of all this is entirely up to you, i.e. you can allow your thoughts, intentions and actions to be determined by the fact that you move entirely within divine order, but you can also consciously close your mind to every deeper impression, you can only look at your course of life in a purely worldly way, which you prove by believing that you can master your destiny yourselves or steer life in a different direction. It is your own will that is decisive .... And both good and bad forces try to influence this will; forces which want to help you to live a blissful life after the death of the body and those which want to prevent your transformation, your perfection. Now these can only ever influence your will, and they do it in every conceivable way. These forces either belong to God or are His opponents .... they have access to you according to your will, but they cannot force your will .... This must be emphasized that you humans are not under their control, that they cannot force their way into your house against your will but that you must open the door for them yourselves, through which they now find entrance to you. Thus your soul can still be strongly subject to the law of instinct .... which means that its substances have not yet sufficiently purified themselves in the preliminary development, in the state of compulsion, that they still carry much of the instinctual from this state within them .... And the consequence of this is that spiritual forces of the same disposition, thus beings with the same instinctuality, do not find the defence of the will when they seek to influence it .... Then those 'emissaries' of God's adversary influence the human being and often with success .... In the same way, however, the beings of light, the forces which are active on God's behalf, also want to win over people's will, and they can likewise only achieve this through mental transmission .... And the human being himself decides which thoughts he gives space to within himself .... As soon as he gives in to the urge of the beings of light despite his instincts, he expels all evil spirits which want to harm him. Thus the human being must free his soul substances from the drives still clinging to them, from everything that still contradicts the divine order, from all characteristics which still prove a wrongly directed love, for the soul was granted earthly life as a human being for this purpose, so that it can become .... as a once fallen original spirit .... completely purge itself of everything impure which still separates this original spirit from God .... And this work must proceed in complete free will. If a soul is excessively oppressed by God's adversary and his followers that it is too weak to resist them because it does not call upon the one Who can give it the necessary strength .... then the evil forces can certainly take possession of the person and throw the soul far back again, yet this does not always mean the complete fall into the abyss, because the soul's other nature still enables an ascent in the kingdom of the beyond, which is why souls which are very weakened are often suddenly called away and, due to their complete apathy, no longer offer the evil forces a point of attack in the kingdom of the beyond and therefore can slowly find themselves again and the influence of good forces can then be successful. Every human being is exposed to the oppression of spiritual beings which try to influence him mentally. But against his will such beings are not allowed to settle in a body, yet the soul substances similar to him feel addressed and start to revolt .... And the human being's will can command them to be silent, yet only ever when Jesus Christ gives him the necessary strengthening .... when the human being fully hands himself over to the divine redeemer so that He will deliver him from all spiritual adversity ....

Amen

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Feebleminded people .... obsession ....

B.D. 4927 from July 8th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

You will all be shown the path that leads to eternal life. And thus no one will be able to say that he has remained uninstructed, it is just that the instructions can take place in many different ways. But it is often incomprehensible to you how souls mature whose bearer is of weak intellect, who have no right judgment and lack the ability to differentiate between bad and good .... people whose spirit is confused and who therefore cannot be called to account. These souls also have to fulfil their mission. They often don't need the earthly course itself in order to mature, instead they are merely a means to an end for their fellow human beings who have to take part in their fate and to whom such people are assigned for testing on this earth. The actual inhabitant of the body mostly withdraws while the body is occupied by immature beings which are not admitted to embodiment but want to express themselves, thus unlawfully influence a body to speak and act according to their will. Since these beings are immature, the people ruled by them are also without any intelligence and therefore inaccessible to rational ideas. Such a person's path of suffering is certainly credited to the soul inhabiting them, but the immature being derives no advantage from its wrongful embodiment. Nevertheless, such a process is permitted by Me because fellow human beings can test themselves on such an unhappy person, because they can practice love, patience, gentleness and mercy to a high degree and thus mature themselves spiritually, while the quietly withdrawn soul seeks and also finds spiritual contact with kindred souls who were granted the same privilege of inhabiting an earthly body without being allowed to carry out the actual function for this body but thereby ascend in their development ....

(8.7.1950) It is a process of the expression of will during the earthly change which nevertheless signifies a submission to My will, for the soul staying in the body is already without resistance against Me at the start of its embodiment as a human being. Immature forces make use of this voluntary relinquishment of will and thus join the soul, in a sense determining the human being's actions and speech which, however, lacks reason and therefore could not be spoken by a normally thinking and feeling being. Yet they are human beings .... which My will also allowed to shape, which also possess My love, even if this is little recognizable to their fellow human beings. They are human beings who appear unhappy to fellow human beings and are meagrely thought of by Me but who take this path as a means of purification for their fellow human beings and are also called to account in a different way. Yet they must complete their earthly path of life, and it may not be prematurely interrupted on the part of human beings, for it is a human life which was awakened by My will and whose purpose you fellow human beings do not know. They should be given love and mercy and also active help where it is needed. Through heartfelt prayer the forces which have embodied themselves in them can also be banished or changed, yet I must always be called upon because I alone know what these beings lack and need, and I am also the lord over the immature spiritual substances which oppress them ....

Amen

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An explanation of cases of possession ....

B.D. 5472 from August 26th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

I always want to instruct My children correctly and give them knowledge, and it is My will that they also instruct those who are ignorant: It is a great danger for people if, in cases of earthly adversity, they do not turn to Me personally but want to master their adversity with their own strength and dogged defiance and thus actually succeed .... But then it was not their own strength but their attitude, the unconscious inner rejection of Myself, allowed the forces of darkness to supply them with strength from below and thus also to seize the human being's soul in order to gain ever more and more influence. The human being need not be recognizable as bad on the outside, but by pride and arrogance and in earthly wealth the signs are recognizable that the power from below has taken possession of the one. Omission of good deeds with no self-interest, insensitivity towards the hardship of fellow human beings and excessive hedonism always reveal the worldly person who has no relationship with Me but who cannot be proven to have openly violated the law either .... Before his fellow human beings the one appears as proper and just but his soul is without love and without faith in Me. And his end is not a blissful one, the earth keeps him bound, he still desires its goods in the beyond because he has nothing else and his worldly greed was big .... Thus this human being was bound by dark forces and yet, they did not succeed in making his soul submissive to the extent that he committed downright evil actions. True, they prevented him from reaching Me but they did not have him completely in their possession as yet .... And therefore they now try to continue their efforts where the same dispositions, the same thinking and weak will can be recognized, which is most likely to be found amongst the earthly descendants; and this can be successful for many generations, but a thinking turned towards Me can also weaken their (his) effect or make it completely impossible. These people can also be oppressed just temporarily, but then so strongly that one can speak of a case of possession. These forces rage particularly badly when they recognize their unsuccessfulness, when people strive towards Me again and again in their thinking and wanting. And this can be possible as long as the soul of the former has not yet found redemption, as long as it allows these forces to take abode in what originates from it through its own wrong wanting and desire. People themselves could indeed free themselves through heartfelt prayer to Me, through a living connection and profound faith .... Yet this they lack and reject My gifts of strength, influenced by those forces which fiercely fight for the souls. But as soon as the soul is redeemed in the beyond the power of the dark force is also broken. And therefore I especially urge you to help those souls because they are too weak on their own .... Give them knowledge of Me and My love, that they will call upon Me for help and this will be granted to them and, at the same time, the souls on earth who are under the influence of the forces which were once granted power over a person who did not call upon Me for help but drew the strength from My adversary in order to master the earthly life, will also find deliverance.

Amen

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Possession ....

B.D. 6419 from December 8th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

Time and again the human being has to envisage himself as being influenced by good and by evil forces, both of which want to win his soul. However, you have to take account of being influenced by spiritual forces if your thoughts are directed towards the truth .... The human being's will is free .... and yet the said influence can be extraordinarily strong if the person's characteristics resemble those of the being influencing him ....

You have to understand it like this: every person is more or less encumbered by instincts or characteristics from his previous embodiment .... and thus he more or less has to fight against them, because he can overcome or discard them if he seriously wants to do so .... But these burdening human inclinations can also offer similar spiritual beings the opportunity to slip in; then such a spiritual force will be able to control the human being's soul, which you humans describe as possession .... However, if this succeeds, the soul will be relieved of its responsibility as it more or less makes it impossible for the soul to use its free will, for the former will is stronger and determines the person's action, which need not be the soul's will. In that case 'free will' is thus seemingly cancelled out even though it has not been removed from the being, it just cannot be used in the stage which is to serve the soul's test of will. Hence the will of a being which cannot be held responsible in an earthly way because it is inaccessible has to be taken into account .... The person himself, however, is not responsible either since he is being 'controlled' ....

Why and to what purpose this is permitted cannot be made understandable to you humans in a few words, for even in the kingdom of the lower spirits there are laws which are always adhered to and which are also based on free will .... Yet against My will or My permission these beings would be unable to make use of a human being's body, and occasionally their redemption even depends on it, because these forces, too, can improve themselves if they are willing to do so .... just as very special reasons can justify such a permission on My part .... And then the actual human soul understandably cannot be held responsible, but it will be offered the opportunity to make up for the time it was deprived of to test its free will .... in many cases even still during its earthly life if it is possible to dispel this spirit, which is certainly possible with the right attitude towards Me and true faith in Me. But then people will have to assist, for these spiritual beings don't easily relinquish their domination over the body, but they can be induced to do so with the solemn call upon Jesus Christ .... the name of the One Who defeated My adversary can certainly accomplish the act of salvation but it has to be spoken in absolute faith, so that I can then command this spirit to leave its human shell.

The forces from below will be manifestly active during the last days, and they will take possession of many bodies, but only if the previous time of development has passed without having gained the soul sufficient maturity so that it is unable to defend itself against this possession, because it does not offer the necessary traits which permit evil forces to enter them .... But their time is fulfilled .... Even the soul's lack of maturity allows for an embodiment as a human being, to still offer either him or even such a spiritual force an opportunity to be redeemed before the end .... The soul itself will hardly reach the goal, yet it is not impossible if fellow human beings take care of such a soul and help deliver it from its tormentor .... this is why a mission can also be recognised here, an act of help in which people will be able to take part and which, as a compassionate act of neighbourly love, will result in considerable blessings.

Where a person's will is more or less bound, the will of fellow human beings has to extremely strongly endeavour to achieve his deliverance, and if this happens in merciful love it will also be successful .... Love will achieve much with people like that, because either the demon will be favourably affected by it and change its will or its stay in the human form will become so uncomfortable that it will leave, because it shuns love. Love is the only strength capable of redeeming both a person like that as well as a demon sheltering within him, for love will always be victorious ....

Amen

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Workings of the un-spirits .... obsession ....

B.D. 6480 from February 19th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

The process of redemption of the fallen spirits takes place as My wisdom has decided since eternity, for I alone know about the deformation of what once emerged from Me in all perfection, and therefore I also know about the means and ways to reshape it, to achieve the former perfection. The deification of My creatures is My aim, which I will certainly achieve one day. But this deification requires unthinkably long times, it requires eternities for human concepts, whereas for Me the duration of time is irrelevant, because I am from eternity to eternity. As long as consciousness is taken from the beingness .... as long as the spiritual being dissolved by Me - for the purpose of reaching its aim - still walks through the most diverse creations, this spiritual being also still lacks the concept of time. Only when the soul particles belonging to an original being have gathered again and now occupy the human body as a 'soul' does this being become self-aware, and time also becomes a concept for it .... Now the being needs .... a once fallen original spirit .... only needs to work on itself for a short time in order to complete the process of redemption, if it is willing to do so. But in this short time of earthly life it has to strive with all its strength towards the aim: to carry out the last purification, to free the soul from all dross which still clings to it, because it is still in the realm of the one who was responsible for its fall into the abyss. And this realm is filled with unspirits, with beings who failed in earthly life, who could not muster the will to detach themselves from him, whose nature resembles that of their ruler and who are filled with hatred towards all upwardly striving beings .... These evil spirits surround the human being and seek to gain influence on the soul .... on the thinking, feeling and willing of the human being .... And the human being must now fight with all his strength against their oppression .... which he can also do with the help of Jesus Christ .... Thus these spiritual evil beings will try to stir up all bad qualities in the human being, and it can therefore be said that every vice, every bad habit, every ignoble quality is the influence of such evil spirits on the human soul and that these evil spirits can also take root in the human being if he allows himself to be completely dominated by them .... if he is not at all willing to resist them .... Then he will have to make great efforts to get rid of these spirits, and only the firm bond with Jesus Christ, the heartfelt prayer to Him for help, will liberate him from these beings which, however, are still full of resistance to every ray of love themselves, because they, as satan's followers, hate everything good and therefore are not allowed to take root in people who consciously strive towards Me. Although they will always have an effect from outside, they can be warded off far sooner .... However, once they have taken possession of the soul the liberation from them is extremely difficult and requires a strong will .... And then you humans can speak of possession, then the working of satanic forces is obvious .... And the reason for this is that the soul in its preliminary development has not yet reached the degree but the time of its embodiment has approached and therefore the earthly struggle is particularly difficult to become free from all its urges, vices and cravings which give those demons the opportunity to harass it or even slip into it. The soul in itself is a fallen original spirit against which other original spirits fight on behalf of their lord in order to make it impossible for it to return .... Yet I Myself stand on the side of this fallen original spirit, and through My act of salvation a barrier has been erected between this original spirit, which lives on earth as a human being, and the spirits of the deep .... Every soul which professes Me and My act of salvation takes refuge behind this barrier and can no longer be harassed by these monsters in such a way that it falls prey to them .... only the poisonous breath from darkness can touch them mentally, which necessitates constant vigilance, constant prayer and intimate union with Me .... you humans are therefore not at the mercy of these satanic forces if you defend yourselves against them .... For this I died on the cross, that the power of satan might be broken ....

Amen

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Obsession .... fathers' guilt of sin ....

B.D. 6691 from November 17th 1956, taken from Book No. 72

Every human being has been endowed by Me with the gifts which guarantee the maturing of his soul, and whether he is also seemingly deformed by nature physically or spiritually .... Every person's soul has the degree of maturity which only allows for embodiment on earth. But forces can take possession of a person's body which come from the abyss, which is also externally recognizable when a person does things which are completely against My order .... but the person's actual soul is not involved in this, it merely cannot defend itself against these forces which push it back and wreak havoc in the human shell. And the fact that I allow this is also for a wise reason but should not lead you humans to the conclusion that such people will be lost for eternity, for I support the soul so that these forces cannot take possession of it, and the silent suffering it suffers as a result contributes to its own purification, so that its earthly progress will not be unsuccessful either, even though fellow human beings believe they are dealing with a most depraved creature which is ripe for hell .... Now in the last days hell spits out all bad spirits, and these now seek their abode by not allowing themselves to be witnessed but take possession of weak bodies, often in such a way that the affected person is denied clear intellect and all ability to take responsibility .... that the person himself is not aware of him and is called mentally disturbed .... Nevertheless, a self-aware soul is embodied in him, but it is prevented from carrying out its actual task of earthly life by such unspirits who let off steam on behalf of their lord. The souls of these people complete an earthly journey of very special hardship, which can be based on the most diverse causes; but they are also not without spiritual protection, and their helplessness in the face of their oppressors, their tormenting fears often contribute much more to their purification than a normal earthly journey. But the fact that such forces are allowed to make use of a human body with impunity is often the fault of people themselves, whose sins have an effect on their children .... People who in their earthly life allowed themselves to be all too willingly influenced by My adversary .... People who have done deeds which demand great atonement and whose sins have not yet found forgiveness through Jesus Christ because they did not yet recognize Him and have not yet asked for forgiveness. The descendants of such people still carry this burden of sin, yet their souls need not have the same evil urges within them, but the body, weakened by the sin of the ancestors, cannot defend itself against the evil spirits which would also like to possess its soul but are prevented from doing so, for I certainly allow physical suffering as atonement for the fathers' guilt but never allow a soul to be harmed by those evil spirits .... For it voluntarily sacrifices itself, and through such a sacrifice it redeems itself, and it also helps the unredeemed souls in the beyond to recognize their wrongdoing and take the path to Me in Jesus Christ ....

Amen

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Re-incarnation or possession? ....

B.D. 8291 from October 4th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

You should not consider a case of possession as a soul's re-incarnation, as a return from the kingdom of the beyond for the purpose of a repeated life on earth as a human being. Immature spirits, that is, souls which have already lived in the flesh and departed in profound darkness, still remain in the proximity of earth .... The kingdom of light is closed to them, and thus they rage in the realm of the lowest spirits, which is wherever these spirits are congregating. They are unable to detach themselves from their places of activity on earth and influence people in every possible way but predominantly by trying to transfer their thoughts, their evil instincts and passions onto people whose character resembles their own nature. And these are easily influenced and willingly comply with their wishes by implementing what these spirits urge them to do .... This influence can often be noticed if people do not consciously free themselves and fight against their instincts by appealing to Me for help .... But if they are unbelievers they are easy game for these spiritual forces .... And they will rage consistently more and impel people into God-opposing actions .... which will become particularly noticeable in the last days ....

However, these are only ever mental influences; they are not cases of possession .... Yet these, too, will quite openly manifest themselves during the end time .... so that people will become so totally controlled and perform such acts of malice and all kinds of criminal activity that it will utterly confound their fellow human beings .... These people are unable to generate the necessary inner strength to resist, their will is completely weakened, and then evil spirits will succeed in taking complete possession of the body and rage in it, transferring all evil qualities to it and performing acts which they had done in their own life as human beings. They succeed in pushing the person's soul aside and impose their own will .... The evil spirit takes unlawful possession of a human body but it can also be expelled from it again at any time, if the soul itself or someone close to it is able to completely hand itself over to Me and appeal for My help .... Then I can and will command the demon to leave the physical shell .... Yet people's unbelief and heartlessness often prevent My intervention, and I also allow such possession-taking for the purpose of purifying the affected soul as well as its environment, just as it is possible that the evil spirit, once it has finished raging, will have a change of heart when it realises the devastating consequences of its ill will ....

For occasionally the human being will be held to account for his evil actions and has to take a long path of suffering, giving the demon no further possibility to incite the person into actions it would have done itself if it still lived on earth as a human being .... Then it will leave the body of its own accord and the actual soul will then readily accept its state of suffering even though it is entirely innocent, yet it will carry its punishment for the sake of its purification and can thereby mature faster than if it had lived a half-hearted life without any particular guilt. You always ought to understand the difference, that cases of possession are not re-incarnations of dark souls .... You ought to know that hell releases everything in the last days and that the prince of darkness incites his followers into extreme activity .... You ought to know that even these evil spirits can still save themselves from the fate of a new banishment if they want, for the day of reckoning will arrive soon, and every being will be held to account as to how it has used the time it was granted for its deliverance from the control of My adversary ....

Amen

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

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

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

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

Amen

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Banishing the demons .... warding them off ....

B.D. 7388 from August 9th 1959, taken from Book No. 78

In the name of the crucified saviour Jesus Christ you will be able to expel every evil spirit from your vicinity, for the name of Jesus contains the power which overcomes it so that it desists from you and flees. In the coming time you will very often have to resort to this help because the work of satan's followers will get worse and worse in view of the end which these spirits will certainly feel and they therefore know that they don't have much time left. They are facing a new banishment if they do not convert first, and although they are not fully aware of this, they nevertheless know that they will be deprived of their freedom, which they still have to a certain extent because they are supported by the lord of darkness whom they serve. They know that they will lose this freedom and therefore rage particularly strongly beforehand in order to bring you humans down who want to belong to Me. But they are completely powerless as soon as the name of Jesus Christ is held up to them, Whom they fear and flee from. These evil spirits work on them as emissaries of satan .... and you feel their activity as unrest, discord, hardship and suffering of all kinds and through weaknesses of soul and bondage, for they prevent you, wherever they can, from good actions or also from spiritual bonds with the world of light and its inhabitants. They keep you chained to the world by repeatedly whispering worldly thoughts to you and try to tie you down with such thoughts in order to turn you away from spiritual striving, spiritual thoughts and good works .... You will feel oppressed without knowing a direct reason, and then you can always believe that it is bad spirits who try to draw you into the dark spheres, albeit mostly without success, as soon as they try their hand at those who want to belong to Me and whose hearts already belong to Me through their will. The will which is directed towards Me protects people from all attacks of the evil one, so that they will not fall prey to it, they will only have to suffer emotionally under its afflictions, for all spiritual peace is robbed from it by those spirits on behalf of their lord, who seeks to prevent all redemption through Jesus Christ .... Therefore you only need to speak the name of Jesus with devotion and you will drive the enemy away from you who does not dwell where Jesus Christ is, but Who will certainly respond to every call and therefore you will always have safe protection by calling upon His holy name. The death on the cross was not in vain, it snatched countless souls out of the enemy's hands and will still snatch countless souls from him, for he was suffered for time and eternity, for the present, past and future, and again and again satan will have to experience the power of the name of Jesus, for he will lose appendage, although he believes to gain supremacy in the battle for people's souls .... And even those he wins through their attitude will be taken away from him again and bound anew in matter, and the adversary will lose their souls again for an infinitely long time .... Believe that you have power over him, that he does not need to win the victory .... believe that you possess a weapon with which you can surely drive him away .... if only you call upon Me in Jesus Christ to protect you against him. And you will experience My protection, you will be released from his power, for you are stronger than him through My name because you call upon Me Myself and I truly will not leave you without help. For He Who died on the cross for you is truly greater and stronger than your soul's enemy, and He will also use His power if you call upon Him for help ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

"What you ask in My name .... " Answer to prayer ....

B.D. 5435 from July 11th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

Every call that ascends to Me from the depth will be heard if it arises from the human being's heart in spirit and in truth, i.e., if it is not just a formal prayer which will never reach My ear. Consequently, all My living creations have the fullest guarantee that I will help them if they ask Me for it. And therefore there wouldn’t need to be any misery and hardship, neither spiritually nor physically, neither on earth nor in the spiritual kingdom .... For I gave you the promise: "Whatever you ask in My name I will give you” .... Yet how seldom does such a prayer ascend to Me, to which I can give fulfillment. As long as My living creatures do not have the right living faith in Me, they will not be able to pray intimately to Me, and they will only attain this faith when they live in love .... This is why their requests are timid, they lack the conviction that the Father wants to and can help them, and therefore the prayer is not as fully effective, it is uttered hesitantly and doubtfully, and My love cannot bestow itself to the extent as it would like to .... I am not alive enough in people's hearts, and therefore they do not speak to Me as is necessary in order to experience My gracious help. People themselves prevent Me from helping them because they would not recognize help as My working without the right faith and thus would not be able to gain an advantage for their souls, but which every spiritual or earthly adversity is intended to bring them. I grant every heartfelt prayer and no being, be it on earth or in the beyond, calls upon Me for help in vain. Yet in order to be able to call sincerely, the being has to believe .... It has to believe in a supreme perfect Being Who, in Its immense love, wants to help and is also able to help due to Its incredible power and might. This faith has to be gained without fail otherwise the adversity cannot diminish. The adversity, however, was not imposed upon the being by Me Myself but is only ever the result of its own imperfection, which can be remedied through adversity and suffering if the being itself endeavors to become free from the adversity. The being has plunged into the abyss of its own will but can ascend at any time if only it sincerely appeals to the One Who has the power and the will to help, if the being acknowledges Him and wants to ascend to Him .... And if the adversity is ever so big, there is One Who can banish every adversity if He is called upon from the bottom of the heart. There is One Who only waits for this call from the depths, Who rushes to the aid of every being who desires Him, Who stretches out His hands to every being in order to pull it up, if the being but takes hold of His hand in faith in Him Who can save it .... I just require My living creations' faith in My infinite love and might in order to then let them participate and distribute the gifts of My love without measure .... Yet without faith I cannot provide anything to a being. And therefore I try everything to revive faith in My creatures .... Once I approach all of them Myself, I help everyone to be able to believe, for I will not demand anything from people which would be impossible for them; but there is one thing they must do themselves .... they must want to believe, they then will also be able to believe, because I cannot force them to believe against their will .... But then all adversity will be over, for then there will be nothing more they could not ask for from the One in Whom they believe and Whom they now call upon in their hearts, to Whom they send up a prayer in the spirit and truth, by convinced faith in His love, His wisdom and His might ....

Amen

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Jesus' name defeats the demon ....

B.D. 6169 from January 19th 1955, taken from Book No. 66

You can charge the demon in My name to leave and you will be free of him .... You have a safe means in the name of your Lord and Saviour which, if it is voiced with utter faith, is extremely powerful against all evil forces besieging you on the instructions of the one who is My adversary. They will have to leave you if you confront them with the strength of My name, for they avoid it so as not to be destroyed .... Hence you need only ever hand yourselves over to the divine Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Christ .... you need only ever call upon Me or want Me to be present with you and protect you against evil and nothing bad will be able to encroach upon you, because My will repels all forces which intend to harm you .... however, always providing that you want to be My Own, that you have the sincere will to attain Me Myself and My favour .... that you therefore consciously strive towards Me .... Admittedly, in that case My adversary will attack you even more fiercely, he will try to push you away from Me by using any means at his disposal and portray his kingdom as worth striving for .... he will approach you under a mask and present what he expects of you as palatable as possible in order to confuse your mind, so that you will believe that it cannot harm you. He will always find the right meant to entice you, yet you will assuredly recognise him as well as his game of deceit as long as you seek a connection with Me .... You should always call upon Me, you should always pronounce the name of Jesus with heartfelt sincerity if you are in doubt or feel threatened by My adversary .... Just don't eliminate Me from your heart, for then My adversary will have an easy game and you will succumb to his wishes ....On your own you are often too weak to resist Him, for this reason you should call for help upon the One Who knows Him and Who is his Lord .... A heartfelt call will liberate you from him, the name of Jesus works wonders if it is voiced with profound faith .... for thereby you call upon Me Myself, your God and Father of eternity, Who will truly not let you fall prey to the one against whom He fights for your souls, if your souls want to attain Me of their own accord ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Love for "sick souls" ....

B.D. 7711 from September 27th 1960, taken from Book No. 81

I have given you one commandment: that you love one another .... And this also means that one learns to bear the other's faults patiently, that he bears his weaknesses with full consideration, that he tries to reconcile in love when disputes arise .... that everyone should be a true brother to the other with whom he is naturally united by love, because you are all children of one father. You should not forget that you are all My creatures whom I want to educate into children and that I use all means of education on you .... and this also includes that you have to learn patience towards those whom you are not always able to show the feeling of love .... But you should learn not to condemn, not to get angry with those .... you should learn to be considerate, for their souls are still ill, and you should have compassion for these 'souls', that they themselves are in spiritual hardship and are grateful for every little service of love you thus render to the souls. And love will always awaken love in return .... But if you abandon those people whom you believe you cannot love because of their faults and weaknesses, then it is like denying help to a sick person, for the soul is sick as long as it is still held captive by the one who also influences the person in an unfavourable way. You humans, you all possess My love .... Should you not also be able to love one another if you know that your father loves all His children and wants to win them over for Himself? And should you not also be able to turn your love towards weak, imperfect and often sinful people if you know that they are still strongly bound? Try to free them from their shackles but don't withdraw your love from them .... Exercise patience, as I Myself must also use it again and again towards you, all of you who are still sinful and bound by faults and weaknesses .... For you all do not live out love to the extent that you are perfect. And I also have to be patient with you and your weakness and will not let you fall .... But you shall be My children who fulfil the father's will .... you should therefore first observe the commandment of love and be of one mind among yourselves .... For discord has a bad effect by always giving birth to new discord and the enemy of your souls always successfully finds a target. And you should always bear in mind that I Myself am love and that anyone who wants to belong to Me must also remain in love .... And if unpleasant thoughts fill you, if you take offence at your fellow human beings and get angry with them, your degree of love for Me will also decrease, since I am also their father and therefore you should love them. And thus don't misjudge your earthly task: Remain in love and only ever let the spirit of love recognize you, so that you yourselves bear witness that you are united with Me. For you should sow love so that you will also reap love ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers