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New Revelation recieved by Bertha Dudde

Proclamations No. 8041 - 8532

Please take special notice of the fact that God’s Words addressed to us are non-denominational.

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.

The publication of the proclamations was made possible due to the active support of the many friends of God’s New Revelation.

May this Word of God become a blessing to many people. (Also see B.D. No. 4015)

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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.

Requested clarification regarding food ....

B.D. 8041 from November 17th 1961, taken from Book No. 85

I want to enlighten your spirit if you ask Me for it: The soul's actual task during its life on earth is to attain full maturity, for at the beginning of its earthly existence its substances are still more or less immature. It still has to tackle many instincts which it brought along from its previous embodiments and will always have the opportunity during its earthly life to master them, providing its will is good and directed towards Me. Nevertheless, it is passing through the satanic realm, which means that it has to wage a constant battle which lasts as long as it lives on earth. Time and again it will come into contact with spiritually immature substances, which it also consumes in the form of food in order to keep the body fit, and these substances must be spiritualised by the soul too, that is, it has to try to bring everything into the right order. Hence these spiritual substances will join the body; they serve the growth and preservation of that which was given to the soul as an external cover, in which the soul itself should attain full maturity. The spirits, the substances contained in food, are therefore of service and thereby slowly ascend as well .... irrespective of whether they come from the plant or animal kingdom .... The nourishment needed by the body as sustenance is spiritual substance in the process of maturity too, which has achieved various degrees of development .... The body can also consume something unhealthy, that is, nourishment which still contains too many immature spiritual substances .... which then might not only bother the body but also the soul .... and manifest itself in the form of diseases .... However, a strong soul is able to put these immature substances in order but it must already have achieved a high degree of spiritual maturity to be able to exert a redeeming influence on the still immature spiritual substance. The correct preparation of food can therefore promote faster maturing by eliminating virulent spiritual substances before it comes into contact with the human body. For all spiritual substances still constrained in creation have a low degree of maturity but they can be redeemed faster if they willingly serve the human being. Then their path can be shortened, which is the case when the body submits to the soul's will, when the body does not prevent a soul's conscious striving towards attaining perfection and when these spiritual substances also support the soul by subordinating themselves to the body and thus let themselves become spiritualised too .... But this only happens if the food the body consumes is pure, healthy and beneficial for the body's continuation. For once the soul succeeds in making the body compliant by submitting itself to the soul's will, the body's spiritualisation will soon take place, providing the soul has united itself with the spirit within itself .... thus consciously strives towards spiritual perfection ....

If, however, the soul has no bond at all with its spirit then it will allow itself to be determined by its body .... i.e., all unspiritual substances of its external cover will strongly predominate and control the soul; in that case its thoughts and intentions will only aim to increase its physical well-being and then a high intake of food and drink will also prevent its spiritual development .... The body will consume an excess of unspiritual substances which pull body and soul down, for then everything of a satanic nature will push itself into the forefront and find no resistance .... thus endangering higher development if not preventing it altogether. And once again it follows that the prayer for blessing of all nourishment is the best means to avoid this danger .... I can and will transform everything that is detrimental for your soul if only you always think of Me before you eat your food, which will always contain more or less immature spiritual substances, because everything passing through the works of creation is still earth-bound whatever degree of development it may have achieved. Your will to attain perfection on earth is valued by Me, and a prayer for blessing everything you consume always proves your will to Me and I shall always comply with it. However, that which serves the maintenance and growth of the body fulfils its actual task .... it is of service .... And in this way you must always look at the consumption of food .... The fact that a certain moderation has to be observed, that you must not merely satisfy your physical cravings, speaks for itself, for then you will avoid the danger of your body being harassed by harmful spiritual substances .... You don't need any special clarification as to which foods are useful and which are detrimental to you, for your will to live in My eternal order will also give you the right feeling in the choice of your meals .... and each one can be of use to you, just as each one can harm you if you don't keep to the right amount or if base cravings incite you into satisfying them .... For you must know that only your free will determines to what extent you resist the temptations of the adversary, of your soul's enemy. And he will always make use of everything that can become a danger to you. He will arouse cravings in you, he will use the body to influence your soul and put it under pressure wherever it is possible for him.

He himself is incapable of forcing you, just as he has no direct influence on the spiritual substance which is still bound in matter; but he can incline your will towards him if you accept the thoughts he transmits to you through cravings and you comply with them yourselves .... by either satisfying these craving or by being careless in the choice as well as the amount of your food or even consciously sin against My order which you, however, know full well and can also observe with good will. Hence in a sense you contribute towards the redemption of immature substances within matter by consuming the right amount of food and drink, because the maturing process of these small spiritual particles involves their being of service, and as soon as you enable them to 'serve' you are helping them to mature. I Myself assigned this serving function or duty of service to every work of creation, and if the human being himself lives within divine order he will never prevent the spirits' higher development, in whatever form they are still bound .... For I also created the human being with all his needs, and it is up to him to always observe moderation and to make use of that which I assigned to him in love and wisdom. And anyone who does not consciously want to sin will also make use of all creations I designated for him, on whatever spiritual level they may be, according to My intended order .... And in unity with Me he will always appeal for My blessing and then also contribute towards the fact that his body's still immature spiritual substances as well as those the body consumes for its upkeep will be guided into the right order .... that they will mature during earthly life according to My will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's great love ....

B.D. 8042 from November 18th 1961, taken from Book No. 85

Let yourselves be bestowed by Me, for My love for you is exceedingly great and only ever wants to give and make you happy. And I require nothing more from you than an open heart, that is, your will to accept gifts of love from Me. But then you will be abundantly provided for, I will provide for you spiritually and earthly .... everything you need for body and soul will be sent to you so that you can cover your earthly path with the success of being spiritually matured and having found unity with Me .... which is the purpose and aim of your existence on earth. Let yourselves be blessed by Me .... I want to pour out My blessings on you in abundance because you are weak and in need of help and because you would not be able to ascend without My help. But I want you to reach the height, I want you to become again what you were in the beginning: perfect beings who are unspeakably happy .... You are My share and therefore you shall also be united with Me. But you still keep yourselves distant from Me unless you voluntarily open your heart to Me and desire that I Myself take possession of you .... This will, this desire, must become active in you, and for this you need strength and grace, for you are still weak beings and you are still under My adversary's control as long as you have not yet consciously joined Me through your will .... And therefore My love constantly endeavours to approach you such that you let yourselves be touched by it .... or also, I constantly bestow gifts of love upon you so that you should turn towards the giver, for only then will these gifts of love be of value to you. I love you and only want you to feel My love, but this requires an opening of your heart, an inner willingness to receive My radiation of love. And you prove this to Me when you think of Me when you think of a God and creator from Whom you yourselves originated. Then your will is already directed towards Me and I use every such opportunity to convey gifts of love to you in whatever form this may take .... I bring My word close to you, I stir up the desire in you for the bond with the one Whom you acknowledge as your creator, and I mentally enlighten you or forward scriptures to you which correspond to the truth, or I bring you together with people with whom you can have spiritual conversations .... I take care of every individual and want to radiate love into his heart so that this love will be reciprocated and you will consciously strive for unity with Me, Who is eternal love. For I constantly want to give Myself away, I constantly want to make you, My living creations, happy, because I also constantly want to win your love in return, which again establishes the original relationship which signifies eternal bliss. And you can be certain that My love will never give up on you, that it will pursue you even if you still keep away from Me .... I will not rest until I have also won your love, for only reciprocated love makes you happy .... My love for you, however, never ceases because you came forth from My love .... And therefore I will never stop giving Myself to you .... I will never stop encouraging your return to Me .... I will constantly touch your hearts, and even if you close yourselves off .... once My strength of love will break through, you will voluntarily surrender to it, you will push towards Me in love, and the bliss of receiving and giving will have no end .... For My fundamental substance is love, and you, too, will return to your original state again, because I will not give you up, because I constantly pursue you with My love until you have become and remain Mine forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God seeks to inspire reciprocal love ....

B.D. 8043 from November 20th 1961, taken from Book No. 85

The darkness spread across earth is truly great and therefore people's sinfulness also increases the closer the end is .... And again and again My love seeks to bring light to people, for no matter how low they have sunk, no matter how far they are from Me .... My merciful love knows about the dreadful fate that is destined for all of them who do not find their way back to Me before the end, who have not taken the path of return before the end comes. I know about the power of the adversary to whom people succumb, I know about their weaknesses and lack of will, I have to allow their will freedom, and I see how they constantly head towards the abyss .... that they will be banished again for an infinitely long time in creation .... And I take pity on their fate so that My love follows every single soul until the end and still tries to win it .... But I also know that every soul will one day come to the light, even if eternities pass by .... My love for My living creations is overwhelming and therefore leaves no stone unturned in order to shorten their wretched state, in order to snatch them from My adversary's hands, because I fear for My children like a father and want to spare them all suffering .... because I want to provide them with abundant bliss. Yet My supremely perfect being will always work in lawful order, and thus a being can never enjoy beatitude which consciously opposes Me, which does not approach Me voluntarily but persists in its resistance, which once caused its darkness and meant great distance from Me .... I cannot make such a being happy but nevertheless I do not withdraw My love from it .... on the contrary, I pursue it with My love .... I try to make Myself known to it as a God of love so that it will be easy for it to return My love and then all danger of being lost will be averted .... Love awakens love in return .... If I now expect or hope for love from My living creations which live on earth as human beings, then I must first prove Myself to them as a God of love, to Whom they will then trust and offer Him love in return .... If I want to experience love from My living creations, they must also know about My love for them .... even though it is often difficult to convince people of the love of their God and creator, Who wants to be their father for all eternity .... Yet I want to win the hearts of My children, and this presupposes .... (20.11.1961) that they learn to recognize Me, it requires that I help them when they are in need and turn to Me for My support .... People must feel love from My side which then awakens counter-love .... Yet very often they are unable to recognize My love because their spiritual state is still very dark as a result of their own lack of love, and then they have to be enlightened in all truth, but always in such a way that My love is emphasized but not My judicial power. Threats of punishment will not lead them onto the path of love but they will only fear Me if they believe in a God at all Who has all power over heaven and earth. However, if it is possible to make them understand a loving God through the supply of truth, Whose means are only ever understood if the correlations are truthfully explained to them, if My love for all people is repeatedly emphasized, then it is also possible that their hearts will turn to Me in love, and then they will voluntarily do what is My will, and then I will already have won their love and their return to Me is assured. And therefore I will never stop wooing My living creations' love, for it cannot be gained by force, and thus My words must also be addressed to you humans with all love if I want you to listen to Me and consider all My words with all seriousness .... For what is offered in love will also be more likely to be heeded; harsh, angry words, on the other hand, even if they were justified, will not awaken love but result in renewed resistance, and then I will have gained nothing. My gospel of love shall be spread throughout the world and where this happens with unselfish love it will truly not be without success. But if only fear of punishment is awakened in people, the change to love will remain undecided ..... Then a person can certainly make an effort to act correctly but his way of life is not yet an activity of love of his own free will, which alone, however, will bring the creations back to Me as My children who once left Me voluntarily .... I woo the love of these My living creations and only ever seek to reveal Myself to them as God of love, as 'father' .... And therefore I draw their attention to the effect of an unloving way of life, that they should think about it and give account to themselves as to how far they fulfil My commandments of love. For they must possess the knowledge of My commandments of love, it must be imparted to them, but fulfilment cannot be achieved through compulsion .... My love will eternally belong to you, My living creations, and it will not rest until you have returned to Me again .... until you, too, will return My love and the union with Me, which belongs to eternal bliss, is now also restored ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Strengthened action of the opponent ....

B.D. 8044 from November 21st 1961, taken from Book No. 85

A great task has been assigned to you and you should not let yourselves be shaken by anything and unwaveringly carry out the work for Me and My kingdom. The fact that My adversary tries to prevent you from doing so with all his might is due to the end time, for he knows that he does not have much time left. And therefore he tries everything to withhold the pure truth from people; he will do everything to prevent you, My bearers of light, from being of service to Me ..... But he will not succeed, for I know whom I could choose for this mission .... I know that your will is Mine and will not be changed so easily .... great actions are planned on the part of My adversary and he will shake the walls of faith .... and the people who do not stand firm in faith will waver .... But I will enlighten the spirit of those who fully surrender to Me and they will see through My adversary's machinations and resist him .... I Myself will fight with them against the one who wants to overrule Me .... Nevertheless, you humans must be very careful, for he disguises himself well and seeks to exert his influence as one of you .... Yet My working will also be obvious, you will also be able to recognize Me Myself and therefore also remain faithful to Me, Who truly can also be recognized in My word .... And My word will give you the strength to resist it, you will feel My language beneficently and will not be able to withdraw from its effect of strength .... And I have foretold you that My adversary's interventions will become increasingly stronger, that he will use the most shameful means and that you humans will be in danger if you don't turn to Me sincerely and appeal to Me for protection and for an enlightened spirit which is also able to see through his tricks .... do not waver in your faith in Me, Who Myself descend to you in the word .... You can recognize My language as the voice of your father as soon as you belong to My own, but then you will also hear what the father says to you, and you will also recognize My adversary, even though he speaks to you under a mask .... But it is not My word, and therefore you, who are Mine, will reject it and not follow the one who tries to seduce you. And yet, I must leave the decision to you Myself, because I don't want to force you either, because I don't want to make you unfree in your will, thinking and acting .... yet he cannot force you either, and therefore .... if you are undecided .... turn to Me and ask for My help, and truly, I will hear you and give you brightness of spirit so that you will be protected from the fall, so that you will not fall prey to him who wants to plunge you into ruin .... who wants to extinguish the light which shines from Me and which spreads its glow far and wide .... Only ever let the light shine, radiate it by taking care of the spreading of My word, only ever adhere to Me, remain intimately united with Me and keep everything unspiritual at bay through your will to remain in the light and in the truth .... and he will achieve nothing .... he will storm in vain against the walls of faith which surround My own .... he will have to desist from you but win over the weak whose contact with Me is not yet intimate enough to prevent his influence. Again and again he will try to extinguish the light from above, again and again he will harass My bearers of light but again and again he will also meet with resistance because he will be recognized, even if he appears under the mask of an angel of light. For I want to open your eyes to Me, you who serve Me, so that you know who is approaching you and can meet him by holding out the light to him, which he flees because he recognizes its exit .... Where I am, he cannot be, and therefore only ever hold on to Me and call upon Me .... And he will desist from you because My presence is unbearable to him .... Be mindful and remain in prayer, and truly, he will not be successful, and the light of truth will break through and illuminate his shameful activity ever more brightly ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Striving for living faith ....

B.D. 8045 from November 22nd 1961, taken from Book No. 85

Every person should strive to gain a living faith, for then he will never be without strength, he will always take refuge in Me, in Whom he has a living faith, and constantly be able to receive strength from Me, for this flows to every person who unites with Me in prayer or heartfelt thoughts of Me .... But a living faith requires a life of love .... because anyone who lives in love draws Me to himself, Who is love. And anyone who can be present to Me will no longer doubt Me, he will have gained a living faith and will no longer sever his bond with Me, he will never be without strength and thus need not fear anything he encounters. Living faith is to be highly valued, for the human being no longer walks his path alone but in constant company, because I will no longer leave him, for he allows My presence in him through love. Faith in Me is also the passed test of will, the human being has taken the path back to Me, for he acknowledges Me, otherwise he would not be able to believe or his faith would only be dead. But if his faith has come alive through love a change of nature has already taken place in him, love has kindled a light in him in which he now also recognizes Me Myself and cannot help but consciously strive towards Me and seek the union with Me which he once gave up. Love and faith cannot be thought of without each other .... for living faith emerges from love .... spiritual knowledge becomes conviction, as it were, which cannot be proven because love gives bright light .... And only convinced faith provides the human being with strength which I Myself can now give to him because I am present to him through love .... How calmly a person walks his earthly path who has a convinced faith .... he never feels abandoned or weak, he knows that I am close to him, he comes to Me with every request and knows that I will grant him every request he makes to Me in earthly or spiritual adversity .... A living faith is truly strength-giving; and therefore you should all strive to gain such faith. Then it will prove your approach to Me, your will to be united with Me, you will acknowledge Me and thus pass the test of will for the purpose of which you stay on earth .... And then I will also be able to give you life, as I have promised, “he who believes in Me shall not die eternally ...." You are therefore still doomed to death as long as you are unable to believe in Me Myself, Who redeemed the world from sin and death in the man Jesus .... For as long as you still don't recognize Me in Jesus, and as long as you are still under the spell of sin, as long as your spirit is still darkened, and this always means that you refuse to acknowledge Me as you once did. And you should try to free yourselves from this dark spiritual state, you should change your nature into love again, and then you will also be able to believe in Me as your God and creator, as your father of eternity .... You will soon try to establish the bond and it will become a firm conviction in you, because love will shine in you .... if you let it shine in .... gives you bright enlightenment. And you will truly awaken from death to life, you will believe in My presence alive, and then I will also reveal Myself to you, I will prove Myself to you .... because you believe ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Blessing of sufferings and hardships for the people ....

B.D. 8046 from November 23rd 1961, taken from Book No. 85

He who created you also knows about all your weaknesses and needs, spiritual and physical .... and He will also be able to remedy them at any time .... But do you know what serves you for your perfection? Nothing is futile that I allow, and it only ever requires your right attitude towards Me, and your soul will benefit from everything that happens, from every physical and spiritual weakness, for it will then always turn to Me and entrust itself to Me .... and it then establishes a bond with Me which enables Me to turn strength to it again .... And as soon as the purpose is achieved that you have entered into the close bond with Me I can also remedy your hardship and suffering, and I will also do so in order to prove to you the love of your God and creator Who wants to be your father and also be recognized by you as 'father'. And therefore trustingly hand yourselves over to Me and believe that I will turn everything into the best for you, even if you are sometimes unable to comprehend My working. The time you humans have left until the end is getting shorter and shorter .... Everyone has to reckon with being suddenly called away, and then he will thank Me that I gave him the opportunity beforehand where he could still perfect himself, where his soul could purify itself and he already acquired a degree of light on earth. For no one knows when his hour has come .... But there is not much time left for any of you humans, for the end is near. But I know every person's will and his degree of maturity, and whatever I can still do Myself to increase the latter I will truly not refrain from doing. And if it means suffering and hardship for you I will only try to strengthen your bond with Me, and truly, everything will serve you for the best. But I will also help you earthly, I will strengthen your body and keep it fit as long as you want to serve Me, just as I will always support you with My love and grace, whatever may come. You should only trust Me and come to Me with all your needs, because only the bond with Me is your salvation, because this bond with Me signifies the passed test of will for the purpose of which you live on earth. People, however, would think little of Me if their earthly life were always calm and peaceful; their thoughts would only ever be worldly and turned towards pleasure .... But they shall find their way to Me, and therefore I have to bring Myself to their remembrance again and again, namely through suffering and hardship of all kinds which make them remember Him Who is powerful and rules heaven and earth .... Only then will they seek the bond with Me, and only then will they fulfil their purpose of earthly life .... But again and again I tell you that you can also ask Me to turn away what distresses you .... For I want to reveal Myself to you in My love and power .... I want you to recognize a God Who acts towards you as a father, Who also wants to prove His love to you so that you will also show love to Him. And the more trustingly you come to Me the sooner I will hear your prayer, for I will not let a true faith go to waste ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Domination of the opponent at the end ....

B.D. 8047 from November 24th 1961, taken from Book No. 85

I will not be able to reap a great harvest at the end of days, for My adversary's activity is very successful because the spiritual substance embodied in the human being during the last days remained in opposition to Me for a very long time and only reluctantly entered into its last embodiment as a human being. Yet its time was fixed, and it is not impossible for this spiritual substance to release itself from My adversary's control, because My measure of grace is inexhaustible, which I pour out in order to still help all spiritual substances to emerge from the darkness into the light ..... Free will must indeed be left to him, and this is often subject to the adversary's influence, even though the human being could also direct it correctly. And thus many more people will belong to My adversary in the end, they will be submissive to his will, they will do what he demands because he tempts them with earthly goods and thus earthly matter will be aspired to and people will completely place themselves under his control. His harvest will be great but he will not be able to enjoy it because I will wrest the spiritual from him again and once more banish it into solid matter .... thus deprive him of all power over this spiritual substance and only weaken him by binding his followers again into the creations of the new earth. And there will only be a few who completely surrender to Me, whom I have won for eternity and whom I will therefore also rapture to the new earth, where a new redemption period has to begin again with people who are Mine and thus live a paradisiacal life in constant bond with Me and the spiritual substance full of light .... For the spiritual maturity of those who will animate the new earth as the stock of the new human race allows for such a heartfelt bond with the spiritual world, and I Myself will be able to dwell amongst My own because they are united with Me in love, because they have passed their test of earthly life and therefore may also live a blissful life in the paradise of the new earth. I will truly still try to increase their number, I will not refrain from anything that could bring another soul back to Me, I will fight until the last day for every soul where I still see a possibility of salvation .... but I will not be able to achieve much more success. Everything satanic will push itself forward and also try to seduce My own who, however, enjoy My protection and need not fear these evil spirits. Yet the separation of spirits will be quite evident, open enmity will prevail between those who belong to My adversary and the believers .... They will do everything to make life unbearable for My own; every thought of theirs is satanic, for they are constantly under the influence of the one who seeks to dethrone Me and wages a very open battle against Me Myself .... who is so clearly recognizable as the antichrist, and now it is also recognizable in which time you humans live, which hour the world clock has struck .... For as soon as My adversary takes action against Me Myself he exceeds his authority and will be bound for a long time. For people shall always be free to decide whether and what they believe .... I do not tolerate coercion because the human being can only perfect himself in free will .... But if they are forced to deny Me then My adversary will carry out the most shameful work on this earth which will cause Me Myself to bind him, to put a stop to his activity and to restore order on earth which alone guarantees an ascent development according to the plan of eternity .... And you will be able to observe for yourselves how people increasingly surrender to My adversary .... you will see how disenchanted humanity is with its way of life, how it increasingly falls away from the faith, how the thoughts and aspirations of fellow human beings are directed and what hardship befalls the believers who remain faithful to Me or even want to fight for My teaching .... They will be hostile and will be increasingly distressed .... but I take care of all those who are of good will .... I call them off so that they do not run the risk of becoming a victim of My adversary .... or I endow them with unusual strength to withstand all hostility .... and I will save them when the hardship seems to become unbearable .... then I Myself will come in the clouds and take them away to their new home where they will live in peace and bliss ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Grace of God‘s address ....

B.D. 8048 from November 25th 1961, taken from Book No. 85

I can certainly convey My word to you humans but I cannot force you to accept it, for your will is free .... But always bear in mind that even My adversary cannot force you to oppose Me and My word .... Hence you yourselves decide, and therefore you will also have to answer for it one day if you ignore My gifts of grace, if you pass them by unimpressed and thus your earthly life is an idle activity which has not brought your soul the slightest success. It is the great grace which is still given to you in the last days that you can hear Me Myself, that you can receive strength directly from Me which comes to you in the form of My word .... And you should make use of this grace, you should listen to Me and then let your heart speak, and you will truly also become aware of the strength which flows to you from My love. Especially you humans who are not yet in contact with Me should not close yourselves off to My word, you should unprejudicedly move My word within yourselves and you will feel addressed as if by a good friend, you will be beneficially touched as long as you don't openly resist My word. And I also want to speak to you like a good friend, like a father Who only ever wants the best and wants to make His children happy .... I only want you to give up your inner resistance against Me, then every word of Mine will touch you like a loving address which will move you in your heart and which you cannot oppose .... Just listen to Me willingly and truly, you will not regret it, for My word conveys strength and light to you, and your soul will feel at ease when it is supplied with strength and light .... Therefore, again and again I will try to make My word accessible to you humans, because only My word is still able to change you if you have not yet taken the path to Me .... My word can be the good Shepherd's call to you, Who follows His sheep who have lost their way and are going astray .... My call can still reach them, even if they have strayed far from their Shepherd .... And they can follow Him and return in free will. For I must respect your free will and may not compulsorily influence you. But I can address you at any time, for you always determine yourselves whether My address reaches your heart .... You always determine yourselves whether you hear your father's call in it and turn to Him, because you feel His love in every word which touches you. And when you are struck by My ray of love, then don't close your hearts .... open them and let the light shine into you, and truly, you will thank Me eternally that My love followed you even when you still turned away from Me .... For you will now come to life, My strength of love will awaken you from death to life, and you will now no longer lose this life, for My word will now sound to you forever and ever, and forever and ever you will desire to be addressed by Me, and forever and ever I will fulfil your desire ....

Amen

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Sparks of love in man .... Awakening the spirit ....

B.D. 8049 from November 27th 1961, taken from Book No. 85

Each one of you humans certainly harbours the divine spark of love in his heart, which is part of Me Myself and which characterizes you as divine living creations which can be in constant contact with Me as the eternal father-spirit .... Yet as long as the human being himself does not establish this bond with Me this spiritual spark slumbers within you, it cannot express itself to you, for you yourselves first have to awaken it to life, and this therefore includes the bond with Me which you establish through loving activity .... Hence you have to ignite the divine spark within yourselves, you have to give life to the spirit, and then you will also become aware of the strength which flows through you as an expression of Myself. You are Mine and will remain so forever, yet you must want to belong to Me yourselves, only then will you establish the bond with Me .... you consciously join Me .... you allow Me Myself to work in you, which you previously prevented through your resistance, through your rejection of My strength of love .... So there is a spark of this divine power of love in you, and this spark remains eternally connected with Me .... If you yourselves let this spark in you become a bright flame, then it can now only strike towards Me, the sea of fire of eternal love .... And the union of your soul with Me must also irrefutably take place one day, which then will never be revoked again .... But whoever does not awaken My spiritual spark to life remains dead .... he cannot come to life because he is devoid of all love .... Once the original spirit of all love had given up, it repelled every influx of love power, it closed itself to every illumination of love and fell into the abyss completely devoid of all love .... Although My infinite love slowly helped this fallen being to ascend again, to the degree of maturity which now allows an embodiment as a human being again, there is nevertheless no love in him at all, because only free will has to open itself to a renewed illumination of love, but this was taken away from the being until the stage as a human being .... And a completely loveless being is also completely without strength and could never cover the path to the final height .... It would always and forever remain on the same level, and its being human would be completely pointless. For this reason I place a divine spark of love into the human being's heart which only needs to be ignited by the human being himself in order to be able to radiate strength again, so that it is now possible for the human being to complete his ascent development .... because I constantly pull him, because the spiritual spark in him constantly pushes towards the father-spirit and does not rest until it has reached its aim. And therefore the awakening of the spiritual spark to life is the most significant task which determines your beatitude in the spiritual kingdom .... And since the spirit in you can only be awakened through loving activity, you now also recognize the importance of a life of love, of fulfilling the divine commandments of love .... The spirit within you will constantly urge you to be active in love. If you comply with this urge, then it will also express itself to you, for now you allow this its working in you .... The spiritual spark in you is love .... Thus you possess the ability to love again as a human being, yet you have to muster the willingness to love yourselves .... The spirit within you can only impel you, push you from within, but it will not force you, because this alone must be accomplished by your free will. But you are now no longer incapable, which, however, you would be if I had not added this little spark of love to you .... But you can now also see from this what a great sin it is to reject My illumination of love again if you make no effort whatsoever to give life to the spirit within you .... For it is the greatest gift of My love to lower a ray of love in you again, you who have apostatised from Me of your own free will, which enables you as a human being to form the bond with Me again which you once severed yourselves. For without this divine spark within you you would never ever be able to reach the aim of returning to your father's house again. For you now have the opportunity to take the path to Me and indissolubly restore the bond with Me, whereas otherwise you would not be able to detach yourselves from My adversary and could not oppose him with the strength of love against which he is powerless. You can defeat him with Me Myself, for the spirit within you is My illumination of love which will certainly dispel him as soon as you strive towards Me, as soon as your spiritual spark establishes the bond with Me through loving activity. For since I Myself am love, the spiritual spark in you also urges you to constantly work with love, and where love is My adversary can no longer be .... There I Myself have been victorious and achieved the aim: I have regained the soul and will now also never lose it again .... for love indissolubly binds it together with Me for all eternity ....

Amen

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Doubting the transfer of pure truth ....

B.D. 8050 from November 28th 1961, taken from Book No. 85

Anyone who wants to fulfil My will, will also only ever work according to My will. Nevertheless, it is a matter of sincere resolve, for I Am not satisfied with words which do not arise from the heart, which are only voiced by the mouth or which flow forth from the intellect .... For the will must utterly belong to Me, then the human being will have completely submitted himself to My will and will no longer be able to think and want anything other than that which corresponds to My will. However, the adversary will always attempt to gain this will of yours for himself, he will constantly try to tempt you anew by means of the world, he will try to loosen your bond with Me, in which case there is a risk that he will intervene in your thoughts .... which, however, will impel Me to send My angels so that they will build a wall around you, so that they will mentally influence you and assuredly push him aside because your innermost intention applies to Me. I Am aware of every human being's attitude and therefore also know who so totally hands himself over to Me so that I can trust him with an extraordinarily important task in the end time: to accept the truth from Me and to spread it .... Truth can only come forth from Me, and it can only be conveyed into pure vessels, because everything of an impure nature would prevent the working of My spirit in the person and because the truth from Me can only be conveyed through My spirit to earth. Therefore, understand that the receiving vessel must be clean and that the human being must voluntarily be willing to be of service to Me .... Don't you believe that it is possible for Me to recognise a person's state of soul and to know who is capable of such a task? Do you think I would arbitrarily work in a person who cannot show the preconditions which make the transfer of the pure truth from above possible? If it is My will to bring the truth to you humans because you urgently require it, should it not be possible for Me to choose an appropriate tool which serves Me according to My will? Why do you deny Me the power to protect this tool from error? A tool to which I assign the task to receive the pure truth from Me and to spread it? .... Do you think I would keep urgently calling for the spreading of that which is conveyed from above to earth were it not the guaranteed pure truth which My last disciples shall carry into the world? The fact that people I have not chosen also appoint themselves makes your objections understandable; nevertheless, you should make clear whom you accept as true 'Word recipients' .... Indeed, you are entitled to conduct this examination if you carry it out with My support solely with the intention of serving the pure truth .... In that case, however, you will also recognise the true tools I have chosen for Myself, for anyone who desires the truth may receive it, he will identify where the truth is which originates from Me. Yet don't believe that you can accuse every tool of 'influx of error', for every such suspicion merely proves to Me that you doubt My love, wisdom or power .... Have I Myself not given you the promise to 'guide you into truth ....' And should that not be possible for Me in your opinion?! When I recognise the necessity to convey the pure truth to humanity, then I also truly know the right ways and means, and I know the right hearts which completely hand themselves over to Me and My will, which I can choose for this task of being mediators between Me and people .... so that those who desire light shall become enlightened. Believe that everything is possible for Me .... Believe that Love wants to help you come out of darkness into light, and believe that I know how this can happen .... and accept with complete faith what you are offered by My love, wisdom and power ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

No mechanical reception .... understanding this ....

B.D. 8051 from November 29th 1961, taken from Book No. 85

You may gain insight into the deepest depths of divine wisdom when your love has reached the degree which unites you again with Me, your God and father, Whose nature is supremely perfect and Who then lets you participate in everything that could make you happy .... And you will be unspeakably happy when all knowledge is made accessible to you, when you are also allowed to gain insight into My reign and activity, when you realize how infinite My love is and My might .... and when you are allowed to behold all the glories your father has in store for you when you have found union with Him. Yet a person rarely reaches this degree of maturity on earth, and therefore the final knowledge cannot be made accessible to him, but this does not mean that he will not receive the pure truth from Me if I instruct him Myself. Yet he would not be receptive to the deepest wisdom from Me. And this is also not necessary for his earthly life, nor would he be able to bear the immense happiness such profound knowledge would give him. Yet the ever-expanding knowledge also belongs to the bliss which never comes to an end, which always increases .... for deepened knowledge also signifies increased radiance of light .... Radiation of My love which makes the being unspeakably happy. Nevertheless, you humans can believe that I always convey pure truth to you if you allow My spirit to work in you .... even if it is not yet granted to you that the brightest light shines for you, that everything can be made understandable to you .... For I Myself will never withhold the truth from you if you seriously desire it. A person's degree of love is decisive as to how far he is in realization and how far this realization makes him happy. Yet no human being will ever be able to accept extensive, truthful knowledge from Me if he cannot demonstrate a degree of maturity of his soul which also provides him with the understanding for it, for that person will not accept dead knowledge from Me as soon as I Myself can speak to him .... because the prerequisite for the working of My spirit in the human being is a life of love, a degree of maturity which also provides him with the right understanding for what he receives .... It is not a mechanical transmission of truth from Me into a person but the transmission of My word presupposes a degree of maturity which therefore also guarantees fullest understanding at the same time, which now also enables him to instruct his fellow human being in truth and in accordance with the knowledge he has gained himself through the introduction into truth .... Thus no still immature person will be destined for a teaching task .... and no immature person will be able to receive My word from Me either .... but the recipient of My word will be permeated and illuminated by the light of love himself, and this also signifies fullest understanding and the guarantee to be a good teacher to his fellow human beings, for My word is life and must irrevocably also give life to a person who voluntarily accepts it from Me. My word is the emanation of light of love and must also have luminosity .... And the transmission of My word is connected with a task: to pass it on, to carry the light into the darkness .... And therefore the light bearer himself must be of bright spirit .... I only make this understandable to you because you humans often doubt the calling of the one who is My instrument and serves Me by receiving My word .... The acceptance is also linked to a task, and this, in turn, can only be fulfilled by a spiritually awakened person .... Thus complete understanding can also be assumed for the wisdom conveyed to him by Me, he can be acknowledged as a legitimate teacher, and his explanations can be unhesitatingly accepted as corresponding to truth, for he is willing to serve Me, and then he will also always be taught by My spirit as soon as he seeks to fulfil his spiritual mission .... I Myself train My disciples, I Myself choose the right representatives for Myself who shall proclaim the gospel on earth in My stead .... I prepare them for Myself and also give them the strength to work for Me and in My name .... And therefore My spirit must be able to work, which also requires a certain degree of maturity of its soul .... And you can then be certain that you will only be instructed in the pure truth, for I Myself speak through those who bring you My word, through whom I Myself speak to you if you are willing to listen to Me ....

Amen

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Free will is decisive ....

B.D. 8052 from December 1st 1961, taken from Book No. 85

The human being must be able to decide in all freedom of will .... The fact that he cannot always carry out his will should not lead to the assumption that he has no free will, for his innermost thoughts and will are decisive for the direction of his will. But in most cases he will not be hindered by Me in the execution of his will. For I want him to experience the effect of his will himself in order to recognize whether he was right or wrongly directed. And with merciful foresight I also know how to direct the effect such that it will bring salvation to the affected person's soul again, yet this does not change the fact that the human being has to answer for the direction of his will as soon as he has caused harm as a result, always on condition that he recognizes in himself the adverse divine aspect, that he is therefore not in union with Me but still exposed to the adversary's influence .... which he himself certainly recognizes insofar as he does not consciously unite with Me. A person who seeks My presence is also inwardly driven to think and want correctly .... A person who lives without any faith whatsoever is influenced by My adversary .... he is in bondage to him and will rarely do and think as it is My will .... Thus his will will also be wrongly directed and he will have to answer for it .... And yet, it is possible that people believe to be of service to Me and yet their will is wrongly directed. In that case, however, the bond of the heart has not yet been established, a foreign relationship still exists internally, the human being outwardly fulfils forms which are intended to feign a close bond .... Thus he regards himself as a vineyard labourer and yet he is not yet accepted by Me as a servant .... as long as the heart bond is missing. Then, therefore, it can only be spoken of as a 'worldly occupation', although it concerns ecclesiastical organisations, and then the degree of love will be decisive for his will and his thinking .... And even then the adversary can still have supremacy, he can influence the intellect and it can then be active in a damaging way: that he mixes spiritual knowledge, which corresponds to truth, with his own intellectual thinking and thereby thus contaminates the originally pure truth, that he changes it because the adversary has an influence on him .... because his bond with Me is not yet intimate enough to protect him from wrong thinking .... It is always the human being's free will which is not curtailed by Me, and therefore it is also possible that pure truth .... emanating from Me .... and that it is always the human being himself who determines whether and to what extent he stands in the truth .... But for a distortion to be prevented by Me would be a disregard of free will .... Moreover, every person is able to direct his thinking correctly himself, because he only needs to turn to Me, as truth itself, because he only needs to seriously desire it in order to then also receive it guaranteed .... Again, this is your free will, which is also certainly inherent in a person who seriously seeks the bond with Me, who has the right relationship as a child with Me and who therefore will also always direct his will as it is right before Me. And therefore no person can shift the responsibility away from himself who believes to have been wrongly instructed .... for it is up to him whether he is satisfied with such instructions or whether the desire for truth prevails in him, which will certainly also earn him such .... The human being's will is free .... Neither My adversary will be able to force him, nor will I Myself exert My influence on a person, because the free decision of will in the human being's earthly life decides his fate in eternity. And this applies in particular to the human being's spiritual course of development. His earthly destiny is also so controlled that he can also let his right will prevail, even if restrictions are imposed on him in the implementation .... But spiritually he decides his state of maturity himself in free will, and he will always think and want correctly if he strives towards Me, if he establishes an intimate bond with Me and has therefore surrendered to Me, so that I Myself can now guide and lead him and he will also attain perfection ....

Amen

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Feeding the truth .... Positive power ....

B.D. 8053 from December 2nd 1961, taken from Book No. 85

You will be introduced to knowledge which corresponds to truth .... Again and again I can give you the assurance that you truly live in truth if you make this word conveyed to you from above your own, if you accept it as an instruction which you receive directly from your God and father, because I deem it necessary that you humans experience the truth. When I Myself speak to you then you can receive nothing but pure truth .... And you can feel for yourselves that I speak to you Myself if you listen to or read My word with an open heart .... For then it will give you strength and light. You can notice an unusual effect when knowledge reaches earth without any earthly aids, and you can also deduce the origin from the content of this knowledge .... Love is constantly preached, and this also reveals that the giver Himself is love, that it is a positive strength which expresses itself, which can only ever come to you from above, from the kingdom of light, and thus also proves Myself. It is the last time before the end .... It is urgently necessary that a light is kindled for you so that you know why you live on earth .... And I bring such a light to you Myself by revealing knowledge to you humans which you should accept because it is truth .... For it is still dark in your spirit, for knowledge which does not correspond to truth darkens your spirit, it confuses your thinking and truly brings you no blessing for your soul .... And you humans no longer walk in truth except for a few who receive it from Me themselves .... What is conveyed to you as spiritual knowledge is My adversary's educated spiritual knowledge which can no longer claim to be pure truth from Me, although I taught it Myself on earth when I walked the earth .... My adversary's effort is and always has been to invalidate the truth from Me, to enforce it with error and to make it impossible for people to recognize Me Myself in My nature .... And you humans must know that this is his constant activity to keep you humans in the darkness of spirit into which he has plunged you and into which you have voluntarily followed him. But I want to give you brightness of spirit again, and I want to show you the way how you can find your way out of the darkness and reach bright heights again. And therefore I will bring you the truth again and again, and I will make My will known to you .... And as soon as you fulfil this will of Mine you will also become enlightened again and you will be able to recognize Me as your God and creator Who loves you and wants to be your father for time and eternity .... You have to accept the truth otherwise you will continue to walk astray and unsuccessfully travel your earthly path. And you can believe that your God and father Himself will convey the truth to you, that He is omnipotent and thus it is possible for Him to convey the pure truth to earth .... that He is love Itself and will only offer you that which is beneficial for your soul, and that He is unsurpassably wise and therefore will also impart profound wisdom to you and introduce you to His plan of eternity, to His rule and activity .... You need not doubt the truth of the word which you hear through My messengers who serve Me as My instruments .... My great concern for you humans prompts Me to reveal Myself to you because the end is near, because you need the truth so that you change your way of life, so that you detach yourselves from the world and turn to Me .... I cannot force you to change, I can only always point out to you the fate you are facing, and therefore I can only ever present the truth to you .... but you yourselves must accept it and strive to fulfil My will, which is made known to you through the transmission of truth .... Believe that only My love moves Me to speak to you, and believe that it is I Myself Who speaks to you, for I do not want you to perish but to gain eternal life ....

Amen

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Is the Bible completed ....

B.D. 8054 from December 3rd 1961, taken from Book No. 85

How misguided you are to assume that with the Scriptures, the Book of the Fathers, My Word has come to an end .... that I Myself have set a limit in so far as that I now do not communicate anymore, that I do not speak to people any longer .... Who gives you the authority to make such an assumption? .... Who will deny Me to speak time and again as Father to My children? Who gives you the right to make the assertion that the Bible is sufficient on its own, that you humans need no other Word? ....

Those of you who reject every new revelation are still confined in the darkness of spirit .... And in this darkness you will not understand the Bible either, thus it is still a closed book for you because you do not understand the spiritual meaning of the letters, or you would also find the references concerning My continuous revelations in this book and the working of My spirit would be comprehensible to you .... But as long as your spirit is still unenlightened you cannot grasp the meaning of the Word which I Myself spoke to My disciples while I lived on earth ....You humans would be unfortunate if you had to content yourselves with a book which can no longer be checked by you yourselves for changes in its contents .... if you were not repeatedly offered the pure truth from above as a guiding principle as to whether you yourselves are living in truth ....

Those of you who only accept the Book of the Fathers have not yet penetrated 'the Word' yourselves, you have only read it intellectually but not allowed the spirit within you to speak, who instructs you and explains to you the spiritual meaning of the Word ....You adhere to the letter and do not understand its meaning .... And when I Myself want to guide you into truth you deny My activity, and you suspect My servants of associating with My adversary .... you question My will and the power to speak to those who devoutly offer their service to Me and who are thus also able to hear My voice within themselves ....

And you stubbornly hold on to your opinion that My Word is concluded with the Scriptures, which you acknowledge as the only book through which I have revealed Myself ....And that is your loss, because by rejecting My Word from above you prove yourselves to be mere dead Christians, because living Christianity is an 'activity of love', and this would result in your spiritual enlightenment and thus also in an understanding for My exceptional help in times of spiritual hardship ....

Then you would also comprehend the Bible words, the promises, which I Myself gave to you and which point out that I will reveal Myself to those who keep My commandments .... So how do you intend to interpret My promises, if you deny every 'New Revelation'? .... Do you want to call Me a liar when I announce My 'comforter' to you who will 'guide you into every truth ....' How do you understand these Words which have to come to pass, because every promise I gave to people during My life on earth fulfils itself .... And why do you not want to believe? Because your spirit is arrogant, because you lack inner life, spiritual awakening, and thus you believe that you are able to determine and limit Me and My activity as it suits you .... But you are mistaken, even if you believe that you have acquired knowledge through your studies which entitles you to reject My Word from above ....You are spiritually arrogant and therefore you can never receive a revelation from Me yourselves, because I only bestow My grace to the humble, and you are lacking this humility .... And thus you still walk in darkness, and you will not be able to penetrate it since you avoid the light which could give you insight if you wanted to step into its radiance ....

My love for My living beings will never end, and hence I will never fail to speak to you humans wherever the conditions to do so are met. And My Word will always sound in those who are of good will, to whom the Father can speak like to His children and who have a living faith in Me. And to them I will give evidence of Myself, and My Own will recognise My voice because I can be present with them .... I can reveal Myself to them as I have promised ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Testing of the will of the first-created being ....

B.D. 8055 from December 5th 1961, taken from Book No. 85

A being was once created by Me which has now become My most bitter enemy and adversary .... This being likewise emerged from My love, it was put forth as the first being by Me because I wanted to create a vessel for Myself into which I could let My love flow .... My love was exceedingly great and it wanted to communicate .... and since My will alone was sufficient I created an image for Myself, a being which was exceedingly perfect, which I was able to radiate with My strength of love and which, like Me, was now to create and work for its own happiness .... I wanted to give Myself away, I wanted to find a resonance for My immeasurable abundance of light and strength and thus created a being which could catch this flow of love, a being in which I could recognize Myself, which was My image .... And all My love was directed towards this being. I made it happy and found My own happiness in this happiness .... it stood in the highest abundance of power and strength, it was a reflection of Myself which, being exceedingly perfect, also carried the same will and creative urge within itself and was now incomparably blissful with Me .... And this being was active, its immeasurable strength urged it to create identical beings, its will used the strength flowing to it from Me and again and again gave rise to new beings which, like it, were supremely perfect, for only perfection could emerge from My strength of love, and the first-created being was of the same will as Me, in the same light, and was united with Me in deepest love, so that supreme bliss filled this being and it expressed its bliss again and again by creating beings identical to it .... It was a state which could have lasted forever and yet did not remain so .... For everything created were 'works' of My love .... It was perfect because nothing imperfect could come forth from Me .... My love for the first-created being was overpowering and its love also belonged to Me, Whom it certainly recognized but could not behold. I constantly beamed My love at this being but I did not force it to return the love to Me in the same measure, instead, I made the reciprocation of My love freely available to it .... I had created the being with free will because free will inevitably belongs to perfection. My will was indeed apparent to the being at all times, it was, as it were, anchored in My word, through which the creator's communication with His created being was established .... The 'word' was the thought which had become form, which radiated into the being and which the being was also able to reciprocate, so that the most intimate exchange took place between us, which made both the being and Me immeasurably happy .... And thus the being knew about My will and in its love completely entered into My will .... (5.12.1961) And now I wanted to test its love, it was to provide Me with the evidence that its love for Me entered into My will in completely free will, although it could also think and want differently, because as a divine being it was not subject to any coercion, because love was the only thing which could have determined the direction of its will .... My first-created being had created countless beings of the same kind out of its will using My constantly flowing strength of love, and its will was always in unison with Mine because deepest love united it with Me .... And these acts of creation made the being immensely happy .... It constantly received strength of love and constantly used this strength of love in My will .... until I demanded the decision of its will from it in all freedom .... i.e., it became aware that it could also work on its own authority, that it was not hindered in any way because it was not subject to any limitation .... because it was a free being which was only bound to Me through love .... And since the being was able to receive the thoughts flowing to it from Me .... My word .... flowing to it from Me and to take a position on them itself, it was also possible for it to view them negatively .... that is, to oppose them with his free will. And so it also came to terms with the thought that despite its highest abundance of light and strength, despite its highest perfection, it was always only a recipient of strength, but not a source of strength .... To mentally adjust itself to this was My test of will, which the highest spirit of light truly could have passed if its love so filled it that it would have submitted itself to Me as its creator in free will, which, however, would never have been detrimental to its ranking because My love for it was so great that it would never have needed to feel its dependence on Me .... But it would have still increased in its bliss through the passed test of will, in its perfection, which was now no longer just My work but had also been proven by itself as its own will .... But the being failed .... It became My adversary out of the spirit of light Lucifer .... He could not see Me but he saw the army of beings he himself had brought into being, and he was aware of its immense power, and this awareness made him become arrogant .... He exalted himself and rejected any further illumination of love on My part .... This turning away from Me was a process which lasted for eternity and which can only be depicted to you humans, for the spiritual motives cannot be explained to you in a comprehensible way as long as you dwell on earth. I had created an image for Myself which turned itself into the opposite and was also able to do so despite all abundance of light because it was a completely free being which was in no way subject to compulsion or limited in its thinking and willing .... Nevertheless, its fall and also the fall of countless beings into the abyss is the path to the highest perfection .... because it creates the possibility of transformation into gods .... which I could never create because the created being's free will has to accomplish this itself. The product of My love turned away from Me .... In its original substance it was love itself which turned away, which no longer gave itself away but desired to possess .... and which therefore completely contradicted My fundamental nature. Yet it was My emanated strength of love which irrevocably has to return to Me according to the order of eternity. But first the being must have changed again, and it must accomplish this change in free will. And every once fallen being will also reach this aim, even though eternities are necessary for this .... Even the first created being, which My infinite love had externalized from Me, will accomplish this transformation in itself, and it will be able to enter into highest glories .... but before that it will serve Me as an antipole because it has shaped itself into it .... For his kingdom also serves Me, he himself also works with .... even if unconsciously .... in the perfection of all spiritual things ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Understanding spiritual knowledge ....

B.D. 8056 from December 6th 1961, taken from Book No. 85

I want to open up your understanding for a knowledge which lies outside of intellectual thinking and which therefore cannot be taught to you by fellow human beings. Spiritual knowledge cannot be fathomed with the intellect, nor can it be understood with the intellect alone if it is brought to you .... I Myself must first be able to work in you through My spirit, which can only then give you the right understanding for it. You may well object that you don't need such knowledge for your earthly life .... But this earthly life is not given to you to savour it earthly, that only your body creates what it believes it needs for its well-being .... For this earthly life will not last long, then you will exchange it for a life in the spiritual kingdom, in the kingdom about which you lack knowledge but which you should nevertheless strive to attain in order to use earthly life accordingly. You know nothing about what happens after your death; yet knowledge about it is imparted to you, and thus I Myself must provide you with the understanding for it, otherwise it will only remain dead knowledge which your intellect knows nothing about. And you should know that you will have to live a second life on earth which will not pass away, which will remain with you even if you have to suffer earthly death .... This second life is the life of the soul, it is the actual purpose of your earthly life that the soul matures, that the body is paid less attention to, that the soul gathers spiritual treasures in order to attain a spiritual life. However, empty knowledge about this is not of use to you, instead I Myself want to make this knowledge accessible to you so that you will understand it and then also lead your earthly life accordingly. Yet your intellect cannot give you sufficient clarification .... But I speak to you through the heart, and you will truly be able to understand this enlightenment if only it is your will to be introduced to the knowledge about the cause and aim of your earthly progress. Then My spirit will already be active in you and the bond with the kingdom which is not of this world will be established .... It will always be difficult for a worldly person to accept a world outside of the earthly, and if he is told about it his intellect will not be able to understand it .... Yet only a serious thought that there could still be a world makes My slight influence possible, even though I always respect the human being's free will, thus I never force him to accept such influxes of thoughts which could bring him enlightenment .... But one thing is certain, that the earthly world .... earthly life as a human being .... is not an end in itself but a means to an end. Only this one thought should move people within themselves, and truly, they would be able to record success for the soul, which then would certainly desire and also receive further enlightenment .... Yet only I Myself can make spiritual knowledge accessible to you humans, I Myself cannot be switched off, for without Me you cannot prevent the fact that only your intellect is active and that it is influenced by My adversary, who does not give you light but wants to keep you in spiritual darkness. Hence, intellectual thinking without devotion to Me will only produce dead knowledge which only concerns earthly things, which only serves physical well-being but will not influence the life of the soul .... it will only ever answer material questions but it will never touch the kingdom which is your true home .... the spiritual kingdom from which you originated and into which you will enter again when your earthly life is over. But you should acquire knowledge about this kingdom, you should desire knowledge about it through the desire to establish the bond with Me, Who grasps every spiritually directed thought and also mentally answers it when I see that the will is good and the desire for enlightenment is serious .... Then My spirit in you will be stimulated into activity, and then I can make knowledge accessible to you which cannot be conveyed to you humanly .... unless My messengers convey it to you on My behalf, but then they will also have been taught by Me in order to proclaim the truth to you .... For you must learn the meaning and purpose of your earthly life so that you will also live it out with spiritual success, so that your soul will mature and attain eternal life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's unusual help ....

B.D. 8057 from December 7th 1961, taken from Book No. 85

I have to provide you humans with unusual help since you are also unusually harassed by My adversary .... He, who is completely opposed to Me, only ever strives to obstruct your way back to Me, to stir up resistance in you against Me and thus to prevent you from returning to your father's house, which is the purpose and aim of your earthly life as a human being .... Therefore he will stop at nothing if he believes he can achieve his aim by completely separating you from Me. And thus you would be in greatest adversity if I did not help you, for I truly do not leave you to your fate, I offer you My help which you must indeed accept voluntarily because I do not force you. But even My adversary cannot force you, thus you are entirely free to turn to Me or to him .... This is why I appear unusually, I reveal Myself to you humans again and again, I address you unusually through strokes of fate when you are hardened of heart, but I also address you with gentle words and so obviously reveal My help to you if only you don't close yourselves off but listen to Me .... Then you will receive unusual strength and need not fear falling prey to My adversary and his work .... You are not helplessly at his mercy, I truly hold My hands protectively over you if only I recognize your will which strives away from him and turns towards Me .... I reveal Myself to you, you can recognize a loving God and father if only you remember Me with an open heart and are only willing to live rightly and justly on earth .... Then you will not be at the mercy of evil forces, for then I will make sure that you recognize My extraordinary working, that you feel the closeness of your God and father and know that you are safe in My love and might. It is precisely My adversary's obvious activity which gives rise to My unusual appearance, otherwise you humans would truly succumb to his arbitrariness and deceit. But I fight for your soul just like My adversary, and only your will decides who wins the victory over you. And therefore you should know everything, you should gain knowledge of My nature, of My love, wisdom and might .... And you should also know that you are still under My adversary's rule as long as you don't express the will to become free from him yourselves. And I Myself impart this knowledge to you because otherwise you would never be instructed in truth, because My adversary constantly endeavours to keep you in spiritual darkness, in lies and error, and then you will not see the path which leads out of darkness into light .... For this reason I light a lamp for you and show you the path, for this reason I also work in an unusual way, i.e. I use every opportunity to bestow the pure truth upon you humans so that you then take the path to Me of your own free will, Whom you also learn to recognize and love through the truth and Who can then also take possession of you if you voluntarily turn to Him and desire Him. Believe that the truth will set you free .... that you can liberate yourselves from My adversary's power if you know that I Myself will help you, that I will stand by your side as soon as you merely request and allow My presence through your will, which is free and therefore neither I nor My adversary can forcefully turn towards it .... You alone decide, and so that you decide correctly you will be introduced to the truth, and blessed is he who accepts it, who recognizes and acknowledges Me as God and father from eternity and who now consciously takes the path to Me .... For I come to meet him and never ever let him fall into My adversary's hands. I Myself take possession of him and never let him fall into the hands of My adversary again.

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Incentive for vineyard work ....

B.D. 8058 from December 8th 1961, taken from Book No. 85

My love will carry you over everything, for I want to protect My own in every adversity of body and soul. The time is very serious and countless people are in danger of falling prey to My adversary's activity and therefore need active help, they must be warned against him and admonished to stick to Me, whatever may come. And since I cannot address every person Myself, because not every person is in the spiritual state to be able to hear Me Myself, I need helpers on earth .... People who, wanting to serve Me, transfer My proclaimed will to their fellow human beings, people who inform their fellow human beings of a God of love Who still wants to win them all over for Himself before the end. People are addicted to the world and earthly goods and would never be able to hear My voice if I wanted to speak to them. And therefore a way has to be found to open up the spiritual kingdom to these worldly people as well, to make them understand that they only live in a world of appearances and that the real world, which will remain eternally, is the spiritual kingdom from which they came and into which they will return again after the death of their body .... If it is possible to make them think about this once, then much is already gained. And you, My servants on earth, should help them to do so; you should make it possible for Me to speak to them through you, and you do this by spreading My word, by also conveying to your fellow human beings what My love and grace allows you to receive and what is helpful for the salvation of your souls. And if you now work for Me, on My behalf, as My faithful servants, I will also protectively hold My hands over you and always provide you with the strength to carry out this work for Me. Anyone who wants to serve Me will be accepted, for I need vineyard labourers everywhere, there is great spiritual hardship among people everywhere and time is hurrying .... the last hour of the world clock will soon strike and My servants cannot be busy enough, for to have saved just one soul from the new banishment at the end of the earth is a gain which cannot be valued highly enough. And you can believe that My might is great, that I am able to do everything, that no thing is impossible for Me .... And therefore you need never doubt that you will be able to carry out My order .... Only your will should completely belong to Me, and then I can also work on you and bestow unusual blessings upon you, I can always provide for you physically and spiritually such that you will be able to carry out My will and that you will also be able to successfully complete your mission. After all, I alone determine every person's fate, I alone determine his life span, and I alone know what is good for you and your salvation .... But I also know what work you are willing to do for Me, and I make use of your willingness, for I need mediators from Me to people in the last days whom My call shall also reach so that they will find Me and be saved before the end .... It only ever applies to build a bridge from My adversary's kingdom into My kingdom .... it only applies to show people this bridge, for even the people of the world will come into great adversity and then they can remember your words, they can remember Me and call upon Me, but they must first have gained knowledge that I am a powerful and loving God Who can help everyone who just wants to be helped .... And you should convey this knowledge to them, again and again you should let My word go out into the world .... you should use every opportunity to proclaim Me and My will to your fellow human beings, and you should not miss an hour, for the time is hurrying and the end is near .... And My protection, My grace and My love will always be certain for you .... You will be led through all adversity, you will recover physically and spiritually if only you firmly believe in Me and trust Me, for I will not let a firm faith fail ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Belief in the soul's continuation of life ....

B.D. 8059 from December 9th 1961, taken from Book No. 85

If only people would believe that their soul .... their actual Self .... is immortal, if only they would believe that the soul as a human being on this earth is preparing its own fate in the kingdom of the beyond when it leaves its earthly body .... One day people will bitterly regret their indifference to their later fate, for one day they will realise what they had neglected to do in their earthly life, what they could have achieved had they believed the warnings and admonitions which were constantly given to them on earth. The indifference to their future fate is the great evil which threatens to pull many people into the abyss .... And therefore they shall only ever be informed of the fact that there is a continuation of life after death, that they cannot cease to exist even if they have to shed their earthly body .... their thoughts shall be directed towards this time which will come as certain as one day will follow the other .... If only they were able to gain the belief in a continuation of life after death they would also live more responsibly. This, too, cannot be proven to them, they can only believe it .... but they can gain a convinced faith if they think about it and question their actual purpose of earthly life .... Just a spiritually directed thought would suffice for a person to mentally receive an answer from the kingdom which is the soul's true home .... Yet such questioning thoughts have to be sent out by the human being of his own free will, for he cannot be forcibly urged into such spiritual thinking. But the smallest impulses are enough for him to question himself, and it will definitely only have beneficial results. Hence the human being will often have to suffer severe losses which can affect everything he loves .... earthly commodities or even people dear to him, the loss of which can motivate him to such thoughts .... And then even harsh strokes of fate will have become a blessing for him if they lead the person into a spiritual train of thought and thus enable spiritual powers to intervene, trying to instruct him. And if a person is asked whether he assuredly believes in the soul's continuation of life he will usually doubt it, even if he is religiously instructed in such a way, because he has not yet openly contradicted it. But he lacks the inner conviction and this makes him indifferent in his conduct, which should be aimed towards this life in the spiritual kingdom. But time and again the human being will have to deal with experiences which can and should direct his thoughts to the end which is certain for him and yet will not denote an end for his soul. And frequently he will also receive instructions by way of conversations or as printed material, although he can accept or reject them of his own free will ....

And even the loss of earthly goods can make the human being think and wonder whether owning these is the real purpose of earthly existence .... Then it is possible that he will change his way of thinking; then it is possible that he will not regard a continuation of life after death to be out of the question and afterwards he will lead a conscious way of life, because he believes that he will have to be answerable for it one day. And then the certainty that his body's death is not the end will steadily grow, for wherever there is the slightest will to live expediently on earth the human being will also receive help and he will not go astray ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Promise: 'The outpouring of the spirit ....'

B.D. 8060 from December 11th 1961, taken from Book No. 85

I have promised that I shall pour out My spirit upon all flesh, and servants and handmaidens shall prophesy .... And all My promises will come to pass because My Word is truth .... Hence you humans should not deem it unusual that I express Myself through the spirit, that I manifest Myself to you .... For it is the time of the end and it is necessary that I give evidence of Myself to you, although you are not forced to look upon these expressions through the spirit as proof of Myself .... It is your own free choice; nevertheless, you will find it easier to gain faith if you accept what is revealed to you through the outpouring of My spirit. I want to help you because you are too weak on your own, for you lack the strength which arises from love .... And love has grown cold amongst people .... Only love will bring your faith to life .... And therefore you shall be instructed by Me directly about the necessity of a life of love, because your fellow human beings' advice to comply with the commandments of love is not taken seriously by you. But there is no other path to faith and thus also to salvation than love .... which expresses itself in selfless neighbourly love. And in order to inform you of what you have to do .... in order to inform you of My will, I reveal Myself to you through the spirit .... I pour out My spirit upon all flesh .... I Myself speak to you, insofar as that My Father-Spirit addresses the spiritual spark within you, which will subsequently guide you into truth, which will explain everything you are expected to believe, so that you will then affirm the knowledge which, although it cannot be proven, will nevertheless no longer seem doubtful to you, because I Myself convey it to you through the working of My spirit within you. And thus My promise is coming true.

My obvious activity has become necessary in the last days because people are completely without faith. If they therefore make an effort to fulfil My will .... if they make an effort to live a life of love according to My divine commandments, they will soon be able to believe, since the spirit within them will come alive and will teach them from within, so that they will also be convinced that what is revealed to them through the working of the spirit is true.

And since this promise is included in the Scriptures, it should not be implausible to people that I reveal Myself .... And yet, My Word is not being recognised as the fulfilment of the said promise and is rejected and attacked especially by those who draw upon the Book of Books .... For they take a negative view of the New Revelations because their spirit has not yet come alive and they are still spiritually unenlightened. Nevertheless, My Word shall not pass away, My promises will come true, and time and again I will reveal Myself to those who desire to hear My voice and who, through love, bring the spirit within them to life, who, through a life of love according to My will, also make heartfelt contact with Me, so that My eternal Father-Spirit can express itself to the spiritual spark .... And they will have a living faith, everything imparted to them through My spirit will become their conviction, for they know they only receive truth from Me, that I illuminate their hearts and that they are permeated by My spirit of love which dispels all spiritual darkness .... And thus I will help you find your way out of the spiritual night, I will help all people to realise My will and will also give you the strength to fulfil it .... And then you will be able to believe, nothing will frighten you anymore, for with unwavering faith in Me and My power you will entrust yourselves to Me and I will have won you over for time and eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

"He who listens to you, listens to Me Myself ...."

B.D. 8061 from December 12th 1961, taken from Book No. 85

You are given the task of spreading My word .... And you truly render Me blessed services when you act as mediators between Me and people whom I cannot address Myself but who shall nevertheless hear My word so that it will touch their hearts and they will listen to My voice. My word sounds down to earth from above .... I descend to you Myself, as it were, and speak to you. But there are only ever a few who hear Me, to whom I can speak directly and who also recognize My address as the father's voice .... Yet My word shall resound everywhere, and for this I need you, for you find access to your fellow human beings, and what you convey to them they also accept while they .... to be able to hear My direct address .... would have to consciously open themselves to Me and My illumination of love and do not do so of their own accord. Hence you should serve as mediators, you should make it possible for Me to speak through your mouth, you should make it possible for them to read My word which then will truly not fail to have an effect. And thus many people can be addressed by Me if you take your task seriously, if you only ever make sure that people can take notice of My unusual gift of grace, which can have a great effect if only one person is of good will. How often do they not find what fully satisfies their hearts in church congregations .... they are and remain empty, for they lack My word's strength which, however, My pure word from above vouches for. As soon as I Myself can speak to a person he will also noticeably feel the strength of the word, and he will happily accept it and no longer want to miss it .... Only ever carry My word out into the world .... Be diligent in your work in My vineyard and it will bring you and your fellow human beings the greatest blessing. Admittedly, most people know about Me as God and creator, they also know about My will .... But this knowledge is no longer alive for them, it was imparted to them when they were not yet capable of judgment themselves, it was brought up in them but has lost the inner spirit, or also: the spirit has not yet come alive, and everything they know about Me and My will is only dead knowledge which does not and has not found an echo in them and is therefore worthless .... And this knowledge shall come alive in them through you, it shall have an effect as strength, it shall stimulate people into activity on their souls; it shall contribute towards them seriously seeking contact with Me and that they now consciously fulfil their purpose of earthly life .... They must be informed of their earthly life task, of its outcome and its aim .... And therefore I call you again and again to diligent vineyard work .... Do not fail to convey My word wherever an opportunity presents itself .... Always remember that a soul can be regained for My kingdom, that the souls are in great spiritual need, which are completely distant from Me, which have not yet established contact with the One Who created them .... Bring My word to all I lead you into the path, for I know it who needs it, who has the maturity to let it come alive in him .... For not long anymore and My voice will resound audibly and then all those who have received My word within themselves, who have gained knowledge of Me and My working on you, of My love for all My creatures and My willingness to help those who appeal to Me in greatest adversity, will also possess exceedingly great strength. Still scatter much of the seed so that it takes root and still brings forth abundant fruit .... And be faithful servants to Me, for I need you all the more the closer the end is .... For I wrestle for every soul to find the way to Me before the end is there .... And I Myself will open the doors for you through which you shall enter in order to offer people the gifts of your lord to bring them the gospel .... And whoever listens to you listens to Me Myself, and he will truly not be lost ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's justice .... Judgment .... Work of redemption ....

B.D. 8062 from December 13th 1961, taken from Book No. 85

I am a good and just God .... My love belongs to you, My creatures, always and forever. And yet, out of My love I cannot approve of an injustice, I cannot make you happy with My love if you have become sinful .... but this does not mean that I punish you for your sins, instead, you yourselves create an unhappy state for yourselves through sin, you distance yourselves from Me, and this always signifies unhappiness, for My love cannot touch you because you create the distance yourselves through sin and I cannot influence you against My eternal order .... And therefore every sin requires atonement according to My law of order, so that My justice will be satisfied, so that you can approach Me again in order to receive My love. My nature is love and mercy, and therefore I am also exceedingly long-suffering .... Nevertheless, My justice cannot be eliminated because it also belongs to My nature, which is exceedingly perfect. And thus I must also let punitive judgments come upon you, but you always initiate them yourselves, because you must come to order again in order to become blissfully happy, and because acts of atonement are necessary for this .... States which are only ever the effects of people's wrong will, thus consequences of sin .... which I therefore allow so that the sins are atoned for and you humans enter a state again which brings you close to Me and you can then also be made happy by My love again. Such punitive judgments are only ever educational means, they are means to lead you back to Me again; but they are never evidence or expressions of My wrath .... For I feel no wrath because I am Love .... yet My justice causes Me to make you feel the consequences of your sins Myself in order to change you. And thus you draw every punishment upon yourselves, but you yourselves can also let it become a blessing for you if you turn to Me in every adversity, be it physical or spiritual .... if you confess your sin and appeal to Me in Jesus Christ for forgiveness of your guilt. My love for you is so great that it accepts every sinner, that I write his guilt in the sand and that I also no longer demand atonement from you when you call to Jesus and hand your guilt over to Him .... But I cannot do this as long as you remain in sin, as long as you don't believe in Jesus' act of salvation and still live your earthly life at a distance from Me. Then I will have to try to win you in the form of a punitive judgment which will then only ever be a sign of My righteousness for you, which cannot accept you as long as you persist in sin .... Then the effects of sin will rebound on yourselves .... Then you may be affected by sufferings and hardships and adversities of all kinds .... but these are then the compensation for your sins, you make atonement, you bear away guilt while you are still on earth, and you can find the way to the cross .... And then the path to Me will also become free again for all of you, then I can accept you again, I can prepare a blissful fate for you because I can bestow My love upon you again .... and because My justice has been served ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spiritual petition: Prayer for grace and strength ....

B.D. 8063 from December 15th 1961, taken from Book No. 85

From My abundance you may take grace upon grace. For I distribute with full hands, I do not limit My gifts if only you want Me to give them to you .... And My love for you is truly exceedingly great, for I see weak little children in you who cannot ascend without help, who need My help to ascend. And if you now appeal to Me for grace and strength it will truly be granted to you, because I will gladly grant such a request, after all, it proves to Me your will to reach Me, from Whom you once took your origin. And you admit your weakness, you recognize the deficient state you are in and humbly come to Him Who is strength and light Himself and also wants to provide you with strength and light. You can certainly dispose of vitality in earthly life but this does not yet guarantee your ascent to the height because you need spiritual strength for it, which you can indeed acquire with vitality .... And if you therefore ask for spiritual strength you recognize your state of weakness yourselves and try to remedy it. I give you everything, I am constantly willing to hand it out, and no-one need go empty-handed who hopes to be strengthened by Me .... But you must approach Me for this .... For once you rejected My love .... and this meant that you became powerless, because My love loses effectiveness as soon as it encounters resistance. Therefore you first have to give up your resistance, and you prove this to Me when you appeal to Me for grace and strength .... which means that you are willing to return to Me, that you feel the lack of love as a weakened state and want to receive it again. And thus I can also give Myself to you and provide you with grace and strength .... And truly, I will distribute abundantly to you, you will have no lack and now also cover your earthly path of life with success. You will pass your test of will and only ever turn your eyes towards Me because I will now draw you with My love. You can believe that you will not be successful on your own, that you need Me and My help ..... My greater than great love guarantees that I will grant you this, yet you must request it yourselves, you must turn your thoughts towards Me and open yourselves for the influx of strength of grace. Just as you once turned away from Me and closed yourselves in free will .... so you must now come to Me again of your own free will, and your prayers will truly be answered, for My love only ever wants to give itself away, it wants to make you happy, it wants to awaken the dead, it wants to strengthen the weak .... It wants to draw you to itself and therefore seeks union with you, but you have to enter into it of your own free will because I don't force you. But then I will know no restrictions, you may receive strength and grace in abundance, and the ascent upwards will be easy for you, you will live your earthly life in accordance with its purpose; you will come to realize that I Myself and the union with Me is the purpose and aim of your earthly life. And now you will consciously walk the earthly path, for then you will feel like your father's children, you will establish the right relationship of a child to its father, and truly, you will return to your father's house and now be and remain united with Me forever .... You will make right use of all graces and mature on earth .... You will now be able to enter My kingdom as My true children, which is your true home ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Introspection ....

B.D. 8064 from December 16th 1961, taken from Book No. 85

You too, My loyal servants, have to be admonished by Me to improve your souls more eagerly, for as long as you live on earth you all still carry immature substances within yourselves. You all more or less still have to fight against inclinations, longings and all kinds of weaknesses, and you should always remember that you ought to spiritualise these substances during your earthly life. A constant struggle will have to take place, and you should overcome them, you should try to influence the unspiritual substances with much love to let go of you, to join the desire of the spirit within you, to stop pestering your soul so that it will be able to ascend to the pinnacle with ever greater ease and without being held back. I want to make the path to happiness easier for all of you, but you also have to work on yourselves, you seriously have to examine yourselves as to what weaknesses and faults are still burdening you; you have to question yourselves whether your soul is still constrained by any cravings .... you have to fight against every impure impulse, suppress each irate motion, you must not send out any ignoble thoughts and deny any human being your love .... you have to try to put right every injustice you have inflicted on a fellow human being ....

Your thinking shall always be noble and pure, which excludes every thought of hatred and vengeance .... You should avoid every unkind word and always remember that you expect love, compassion and forgiveness from Me, thus you should also grant the same to your fellow human being .... In everything you think or say you should know that I know it too, and you should ask yourselves whether you are behaving correctly in My presence? .... I know that you are all still weak, that the battle which you should wage against yourselves is indeed the most difficult .... But My strength is always at your disposal and you only need to send a pleading thought to Me and, truly, I will give you the strength and you will be victorious .... You will be able to pacify the evil spirits within yourselves. They will leave you progressively more alone, they will become modest and also comply with the soul's desire to calm down and make use of the strength for their own purification ....

For they have this possibility to reach maturity themselves within the earthly body and to join the soul, because it will take all fully matured spiritual substances along into the kingdom of the beyond when it has to leave its earthly body. The soul itself still has various instincts within itself from its previous embodiments, which it is supposed to change for the better .... And it is also pestered by the body of flesh, because that is shaped from unspiritual substances .... But the human being also has the possibility to exercise a redeeming influence on these evil spirits .... if he tries to change all negative qualities to the contrary until he has become humble, gentle, peaceful, compassionate and just .... until he has become love himself, which includes all those virtues, and then the human being will also be able to enter the spiritual kingdom fully matured. And therefore you should seriously examine yourselves as to what virtues you are still missing .... investigate, whether you have changed your nature completely already .... check, what you still need and seriously work at improving yourselves ....

And you most certainly will be successful if only you have the serious intention and appeal to Me to give you strength because you are too weak on your own. Call upon Me in Jesus so that I will strengthen your will, so that you will lose your weakness of will, so that I will forgive you when you have become sinful, and truly, My help is assured to you, for it is My own will that your souls shall mature, and I Am truly pleased in those who take changing their nature into love seriously .... For as soon as you are full of love all unspiritual substances within you will also become spiritualised, because they cannot resist the strength of love. But wherever these evil spirits are still active, love is not yet profound enough, in other words, I Am as yet not able to work in all fullness within you and you will have to fight to become pure so that I can take abode in you .... And then you will also have been redeemingly active within yourselves ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The Messiah came to the world ....

B.D. 8065 from December 19th 1961, taken from Book No. 85

How dark was the world when I descended to earth .... Only rarely did a light shine, only rarely were the people in whom a light of love was kindled, and they recognized the great adversity and called for a saviour Who should redeem the world from sin and death. For they had received the knowledge that the Messiah was to come to bring salvation to people, and they waited for this Messiah, for they had been informed by prophets of His appearance in this world. And this prayer of the few I heard .... I Myself descended to earth because the prophecies were to be fulfilled and because the need was so great that one had to come as saviour and redeemer of the world .... And I emanated My light, I let My love radiate upon all people, and those who stayed within My flow of love were truly filled by the light of love themselves, and they recognized Me as the Messiah Who was to redeem the world from sin and death. Where darkness is, there My adversary has supremacy, and he truly rages amongst humanity in order to corrupt it .... But I came into this world as a brightly shining light and illuminated his activity, so that he was recognized as satan and corrupter by those who desired to walk in the light, who kindled love within themselves and who therefore were willing listeners when I proclaimed My word to them: My divine teaching of love, the fulfilment of which alone meant salvation for humanity from its spiritual adversity .... The light itself descended to earth .... Love embodied itself in a human being Who prepared itself as a vessel for the divine light of love from eternity .... I took on flesh because I Myself, as an inexhaustible source of strength, had to choose a cover for Myself in order to be able to dwell amongst you humans who would have passed away if My immeasurable abundance of light and strength had shone upon you .... if I had met you unveiled. And so a soul of light offered itself .... an angelic spirit called into being by Me .... to animate this human outer form and thus to prepare a vessel for Me into which My strength of love could now pour .... so that I Myself could dwell among you humans in this human outer shell, so that you could now receive from My light of love what you desired when darkness oppressed you humans and you wanted to chase it away through the light .... which shone forth from Me Myself to you and illuminated the dark night .... I lived as the "man Jesus" in the midst of you humans .... I had therefore descended to earth because I wanted to bring help to you humans in greatest spiritual need .... I wanted to release you from the power of the one you once voluntarily followed into the abyss and from whom you alone were unable to escape. This is why I Myself came to earth as saviour, for I accomplished the act of salvation for you in the human being Jesus .... Through My crucifixion I redeemed the guilt which kept you distant from Me and which first had to find its just atonement if I wanted to receive you into My kingdom again, if you wanted to dwell in the light again as in the beginning .... The light descended into darkness .... A being of light had to come to earth in Whom the eternal light could manifest Itself .... A human shell had to receive a soul of light, which then prepared its body for Me so that it would not perish when I Myself took up residence in this human form .... For I Myself was the power of love Which emanated Itself into infinity but Which needed an external cover as long as It dwelled amongst you humans who had renounced all light. But I was only recognized by a few because a spark of love still glowed in them which pushed towards Me and they were also lifted out of the darkness. But first the act of salvation had to be accomplished, the original sin had to be redeemed, the purchase price had to be paid for the souls which were still under My adversary's control who did not want to release them. And the man Jesus walked a difficult earthly path .... He prepared Himself to become My dwelling place and to receive Me into Himself. And thus His whole way of life was only a change of love, because love intimately united Him with Me and caused Me to take abode in Him .... And thus His greater than great love offered Me a sacrifice for His fallen brothers .... He took their guilt upon Himself and went with it to the cross .... He suffered and died in terrible agony and endured by virtue of His great love .... For He had received Me Himself, He had completely united Himself with Me, He Himself had become love, which is My primal element, so that I Myself thus accomplished the work of redemption in the man Jesus ....

(19.12.1961) And I redeemed you from sin and death, I restored you to the state which existed before your fall into sin .... yet I make it dependent on your will to acknowledge Me Myself in Jesus Christ and to believe that you will find salvation. I shone down on this earth as a bright light, and in this light humanity was now able to recognize the path it had to take in order to return to Me again, into the father's house. In the darkness before people did not find the way and therefore they constantly walked astray, they were in the realm of My adversary and knew no path which led out into My kingdom. I Myself first had to open up this path for you, on which you can now all follow Me, and that is why I descended to earth, that is why I put on flesh and offered the most difficult sacrifice for you in the human being Jesus .... I have lit a light that will never go out again, for the work of redemption has been accomplished for all time .... again and again the path to the cross will be the path for people which leads back to Me, into My kingdom .... And again and again you humans will be pointed to the one Who died for you on the cross .... the great love of the man Jesus will always be presented to you as the 'path of discipleship', and you will truly also walk in the light because you kindle it within yourselves as soon as you fulfil His commandments of love .... as well as you connect yourselves with Me Myself through love .... For you will have overcome darkness, you will be free from your enemy and adversary, you will return to the father again from Whom you once came forth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

2 Peter 3:10 ....

B.D. 8066 from December 21st 1961, taken from Book No. 85

The day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night .... the day when I will reveal Myself to humanity with a voice of thunder which will be heard by everyone and which no human being will be able to avoid .... For sooner or later the act of transforming the earth will have to take place, sooner or later order must be established once again; the earth must again become a place of education for the souls which should mature fully and reach perfection. And this day has been planned for eternity, My plan is based on the fact that a transformation like that will occur one day because the human race itself will provide the reason for it .... which was certainly recognised by My wisdom .... And thus My power will also implement the plan and you can expect this day with certainty .... it will bring one period of Salvation to an end and a new one will start, as it is proclaimed in Word and Scripture .... Time and again I point this out to you, but since you humans don't believe, since you don't take My Words seriously, it will take you by surprise, for even if My adversary reigns on Earth in the last days, even if he brings people so completely under his control that they lose all faith and in the end are true devils which oppress My Own and cause them utmost distress, they will nevertheless be equally horrified when My Own are lifted up before their eyes and they realise that they cannot be saved anymore, that they will fall prey to an act of destruction themselves, that there is no way out anymore and that the earth will devour them .... For there is no other way to purify the earth; all living creations will have to be dissolved and the spiritual substances within be placed into new forms .... a comprehensive cleansing work has to take place so as to re-establish order, which will also guarantee progression for the spiritual beings and which will completely exclude My adversary's activity for a period of time, on account of which he and his followers will be constrained for a long time.

This day of the end is proclaimed to you humans over and over again, yet only a few believe in it and even these few have no idea how close it is .... yet I will repeat My admonitions and warnings until the end, until the end I will address everyone and draw your attention to it, and until the end every one of you will still have the opportunity to avoid the horror of this end .... And therefore don't pity those who leave you, whom I take from this life prematurely .... don't pity them, for their fate is better than yours who live until the end and don't believe .... They still have the opportunity to attain light in the beyond, but the former continue to descend ever deeper, for I know that they would also choose the path to the abyss in the kingdom of the beyond, that they would not make use of the blessings of an early death; after all, I know the state of every soul and accordingly also shape its earthly destiny. And even if it is difficult to believe in an end of this earth, people will nevertheless have no excuse for they should only live righteously, then their end will not result in their banishment into hard matter, then they will either belong to My Own, whom I will return to the new earth, or they will still be recalled before and then they will not go astray either .... But it is better that they prepare themselves for an approaching end, that they take the possibility into account of being suddenly faced by an act of destruction from which there will be no more escape .... Anyone who reflects on these thoughts just once will certainly also find the path to Me, to the Creator of heaven and earth, Who brought everything forth from Him and therefore can also destroy everything again .... And I would like to rescue all of you from ruin; consequently I will bring the final work of destruction on earth home to you time and again .... And anyone who believes will not have to fear this day either, for he will prepare himself, and even if he is still weak and not perfect, he will nevertheless find a merciful Judge Who will not condemn him but help him attain eternal life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Meaning of the love commandments .... Love became cold ....

B.D. 8067 from December 22nd 1961, taken from Book No. 85

It is the same adversity on earth as at the time when I descended to earth to bring people the light, to rescue them from deep night in which they would have hopelessly sunk without My love. And again I come to earth in the word, again I kindle a light for people which shall lead them out of the darkness of night into the light of day .... Again I Myself speak to people as I did when I walked across the earth. I bring them the gospel, the divine teaching of love, because I know that their lack of strength, their spiritual darkness, is only caused by the lack of love, which is light and strength for everyone who practices it, who lives a life of love for God and his neighbour. Humanity is in greatest spiritual adversity because it does not pay attention to what I announced to it .... it disregards My commandments of love and has completely fallen prey to the one who is devoid of all love. And this adversity cannot be remedied in any other way than through a way of life in love .... But love has grown cold among people and My adversary rules their hearts and drives them to ever greater lack of love .... For this reason I descended to people in the word and now walk the earth again and am present to everyone who wants to listen to Me and kindle love in his heart. And again and again I prove this presence of Mine to you by addressing you, by you writing down My word on My behalf and thus also making it accessible to your fellow human beings who want to hear it and who also believe in My address because the flame of love burns in their hearts and the heart recognizes Me as God and father from eternity Who speaks to His child. The great spiritual adversity prompts Me to address you as I did before when I Myself dwelled amongst people and addressed them in the same way. Few recognized Me then, and only a few recognize Me today, and yet it is the same God Who speaks to them, the God and creator from eternity, from Whose love and power you emerged and to Whom you will belong for all eternity. But you humans can only hear My voice directly when you live as I Myself exemplified life to you on earth, when you walk in love .... And thus I must proclaim to you today, as I did then, the commandments of love for God and your neighbour, I must tell you the cause of your spiritual darkness and your great adversity and show you the way to get out of it .... I must explain to you the meaning of a life of love and constantly admonish you to live in My will .... For I want to help you, I want to be your saviour again from night and death, I want to awaken you to life where you can enjoy light and freedom. And therefore I descend to you in the word and once again bring you the divine teaching of love, the gospel, in its purest form. For you shall recognize Me Myself in the word which flows from above to earth and wants to enter your hearts .... For then I Myself can also take abode in you, I can be present in you and address you Myself .... And you will recognize the voice of the father Who speaks to His child .... And what I have to say to you will always be the same: Love Me above all else and your neighbour as yourself .... Therein lies your whole task of earthly life, that you recognize Me Myself through a life of love in unselfishness, thus believe in Me alive, and that you now also acknowledge Jesus Christ as redeemer of the world and son of God, in Whom I embodied Myself .... and that you will be saved through this faith .... But living faith requires love, and therefore I will only ever proclaim My teaching of love to you, and it will be the content of the word which flows down to you directly from above, which resounds in you as the working of My spirit as soon as you live in love yourselves .... My word teaches love, and you can provide yourselves with the evidence of My presence in you if only you live a life of love, for then I will speak to you and you will be able to hear Me .... And the spiritual adversity will leave you, the night will give way to the light of day, you will be full of light yourselves, for then you will draw Me to yourselves, because love desires love .... And then you will fulfil your purpose of earthly life: you will become love again and return to Me from Whom you once originated ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The Eternal Light descended to Earth ....

B.D. 8068 from December 25th 1961, taken from Book No. 85

I gave you what you needed in the darkness of night when I descended to Earth: a light, which should illuminate for you the path back to Me into your Father's house. Î sent My Son to earth, a soul of light, which shone brightly and took the path across the earth as a human being, which started its earthly path as the infant Jesus and ended on the cross, so that you humans would be able to attain bliss. A soul of light descended into My adversary's dark domain, and I embodied Myself in this soul of light, because the human being Jesus drew Me, the Eternal Love, to Himself with all His might, because He accepted Me Myself in His heart, which was full of love for Me and for His fellow human beings. A soul of light was sheltered in the infant Jesus which indeed gave up its light because it had to stay as the human being Jesus in the midst of human beings, but He was full of love as well and did not let go of this love but increased it within Himself .... so that He, with an abundance of strength of love, thus performed miracles and taught in all wisdom on earth. He was a human being, for the mission of Jesus, the man, consisted of showing His fellow human beings the path which leads back to Me, to the Father, and to walk this path ahead of them, to live a life of love Himself, which alone brings people close to Me again, as I Am Love Itself .... But this happened in lawful order, a human body was animated by a soul .... yet His soul was a soul of light. Nevertheless, as a human being it was as subjected to the same temptations as every other person. But since Jesus, the soul, was full of love, this love also gave it the strength to resist the temptations .... It had relinquished the light, that is, at the start of His life on earth Jesus, the human being, was without knowledge like every other person, but the love within Him very quickly illuminated His spirit, the love within Him soon emanated bright light so that Jesus recognised humanity's great adversity as well as its origin, which had been caused by the original sin of the human race .... Jesus constantly increased in wisdom and strength because love filled Him ever more, because He was in most intimate contact with Me and thus enabled My light of love to permeate Him completely .... And then He emanated light in turn, He instructed people with wisdom, He performed miracles by virtue of His power which was based on His great love ....

The man Jesus spiritualised Himself during His life on earth, because His love achieved that the body willingly submitted itself to the soul's wishes, because body and soul always had the same aim: to help people in their adversity, to take redemptive actions, spiritually and earthly .... He healed the sick since He also wanted to demonstrate the strength of love to people and first expressed this in a perceptible earthly way in order to win them over to Himself, so that they would accept His divine teaching of love and make an effort to follow Him on the path of love. But people were still subject to My adversary's power, who had no intention of setting them free and who weakened their will in every conceivable way .... And the man Jesus wanted to break this power, He wanted to defeat him with My strength .... for the love in Him was overwhelmingly powerful, and through this love He forced Me increasingly more to express My love, He drew Me, the 'Eternal Love' to Himself, and thus I was in Him and in this most heartfelt unity with Me the man Jesus accomplished the act of Salvation .... that is, as a human being He endured the greatest suffering and torment because the Love in Him .... I Myself .... gave Him the strength to accomplish this act of Salvation. Thus, He waged battle against My adversary as a human being, and through His death on the cross He achieved victory over him and over death .... That which previously had been impossible for people, to release themselves from his control, became possible for them after the act of Salvation .... The Saviour Who had descended to earth brought help to humanity in this immense adversity, yet this was only possible through 'love', and I Myself was this love .... The fact that 'Love' had chosen a human form for Itself was necessary on account of people, for they were meant to recognise Jesus as the One in Whom the Divine had manifested Itself in abundance, because I Myself was unable to be visible to people and therefore had to avail Myself of a human shell .... And that only a soul of light was able to offer this shell to Me is likewise understandable, because I would have been unable to take abode in an impure soul .... Besides, the human shell was meant to lead the way for people which I opened up to them in Jesus .... Consequently, as a human being He had to be of the same kind as every human being, otherwise people would have been unable to follow Him .... Yet, He Himself, the divine Redeemer Jesus Christ, will always be at people's side as a Helper .... while the man Jesus only used the strength of love, but this permeated Him fully and completely, so that therefore 'love' accomplished the act which signified redemption from sin and death for humanity. Time and again I try to reveal this mystery to you humans, yet you will only be able to grasp its full depth when you have changed yourselves into love .... Then there will also be light in you, then the divine light of love will permeate you again as it was in the beginning and you will be very happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Teaching ministry .... 'I will destroy the wisdom of the wise ....'

B.D. 8069 from December 28th 1961, taken from Book No. 85

You can only correctly administer a teaching ministry if you possess the correct teaching material which corresponds to the truth. And precisely this teaching material should be seriously scrutinised by you if you want to educate your fellow human beings, because only that which came forth from Me as pure truth is a blessing. Yet this scrutiny is usually omitted, people accept unhesitatingly and as a matter of course what they receive as truth and even take care to spread it without having established the origin, without being firmly convinced themselves of having received the truth. But a teacher's position is a responsible one, for he can bestow great blessings but also poisonously influence people's hearts because only truth benefits the soul, while error is genuine poison. And anyone who wants to teach can clarify for himself whether he represents pure truth, providing he has the serious will to stand up for it and appeals to Me Myself for assistance to enlighten His thoughts and not to let him go astray. He will certainly find My support and I Myself will guide him into truth. For this is My promise to you and it will come true because My Word is truth. And you must know the truth, for then you will walk with Me, whereas error will time and again result im My adversary's company, who only wants to cause you damage and therefore prevents you from attaining the light of truth. For this reason, every teacher has a great responsibility if he spreads something that does not correspond to the truth. And you humans believe that you can acquire truthful knowledge through study .... you believe, that you can attain spiritual knowledge by intellectual means and only pay attention to those people who thus have adopted ample intellectual knowledge, and are also willing to acknowledge it as truth. But I will 'destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent ....' Do you now understand the meaning of these Words? You will never come into possession of the pure truth if you don't come to Me yourselves and desire the truth from Me .... For I have reserved it for Myself to guide you into truth, because I alone know who is receptive for it, who has the spiritual maturity in order to recognise the truth as such .... And the spiritual maturity, in turn, depends on the human being's serious will to live according to My will. Contact in spirit and in truth must have been established with Me first, so that My flow of love can pour into the person, and this flow of love is the transfer of My Word, of the truth, in the form of thoughts or the audibly conveyed Word ....

Then the person will be guaranteed to know the truth, his thinking will be right, and he need not fear to fall prey to error, for the heartfelt bond with Me and the desire for truth will protect him from it .... But where can such desire be found among the teachers, who believe themselves to know the truth .... who have not yet understood the spiritual correlations, who do not know which prerequisites need to be fulfilled in order to be deemed worthy by Me to receive the truth? .... Spiritual knowledge is indifferently adopted through tradition and taught, and people accept it again without thinking it through, and thus enter into spiritual darkness or they cannot find their way out of the darkness they are in .... For misguided teachings cannot enlighten anyone, instead, they only increase the darkness and cause spiritual hardship to souls, because they need light in order to take the right path which leads to higher spheres. And all this must also make the urgency of My revelations understandable for you humans, for the time left is only short, and if people are to find and take the right path they will need light to illuminate the path for them. Light, however, can only come from above, and everyone administering a teaching position should first make contact with the light of eternity in order to be illuminated by this light himself, and truly, the spiritual hardship would not be as great if the truth were accepted by people .... And whatever can still be done by Me will certainly happen, for only truth sets people free, only truth guides people back to Me, and only through truth can you humans become blissfully happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Draw from the spring the water of life ....

B.D. 8070 from December 30th 1961, taken from Book No. 85

I will always keep the spring open for you so that you can quench your thirst at any time, for you need a healthy water of life from which your soul can strengthen itself because it is still weak and powerless. And thus you only need to want to receive and the water of life will flow out of the spring and flow to you without limit. In this you recognize My love for you which always wants to give itself away and which only requires an open heart in order to flow into it. I only require from you the desire to be bestowed by Me, and My gifts of grace will flow to you unmeasured because such a desire pleases Me, Who can only ever consider you if you give up all resistance against Me, thus desire to receive the water of life from Me yourselves. And thus you know that the source of life is always open for you and that you should only humbly ask Me to allow you to refresh yourselves with it .... And truly, you will not need to live in want, you will be given according to your state of weakness, for you shall recover at My source of love, you shall truly be allowed to refresh yourselves and receive what you desire. And thus I want to comfort you in suffering, strengthen you in weakness of soul and also of body, I want to instruct you and introduce you to the truth .... I want to please you through My personal address which, however, only ever applies to the salvation of the soul; I want to reveal Myself to you as a father Who dearly loves His children and strives for unification with them .... I will not miss any opportunity where I can speak to My children because they need My address, because they have to draw the water of life from the source so that it does not lose its strength .... And therefore I want to tell you that I am always ready to offer you a fresh drink and strong food, that only you have to create the opportunity for Me yourselves by opening yourselves, by desiring to drink and eat. And truly, you will not go empty-handed, I will always be ready for you, for I will not let any opportunity pass by to address you, because this is My bliss to be in contact with My children on earth, which makes a supply of pure water of life possible .... I always want to make you happy, and you shall always feel this happiness by being certain that you are addressed by the father and that this address only ever demonstrates His greater than great love for you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The earth's last hour ....

B.D. 8071 from January 2nd 1962, taken from Book No. 85

And the last hour of the world's clock comes constantly closer .... These Words don't mean much to you humans for you don't believe that you are so close to the end .... And for your sake I cannot give you compelling evidence of this for your fear would render you incapable of fulfilling your earthly task. And thus you may or may not believe it, and your nature will be in accordance with this unbelief when the hour has come. For My plan has been determined for eternity, and profound love for My living creations made Me decide on this plan in all wisdom and will also determine Me to bring it to fruition because the time is fulfilled. My Nature is forever unchanging, and what I once foresaw as being necessary and successful for the beings which are still separated from Me I will also carry out and not allow people to make Me change My plan, since it was based on humanity's will which I have eternally foreseen as no longer capable of change on this earth. I do not plan and act arbitrarily but immeasurable love and wisdom determine Me in everything that happens. Hence there is no reason why I should refrain from implementing My eternal plan of Salvation, for I can see every situation clearly and therefore know that nothing will be gained by changing or deferring My plan of Salvation.

You humans must bear in mind that you truly have had enough time at your disposal and yet those of you who do not believe in Me have not changed .....Even if you had far more time at your disposal you would still not change, hence a postponement of the end would be completely ineffective and pointless and would even put My Own at risk of falling prey to My adversary as well if I do not constrain him as it is intended .... You really ought to grant Me supreme wisdom and profoundest love, then you will no longer appeal to Me for preventing the end of this earth, then you will expect the coming time with complete trust in My love which shall protect everyone who wants to belong to Me and which will truly also use its might when My Own need help in any adversity. Even if you humans don't want to believe that your time is nearing its end you should at least consider the possibility that you suddenly will be recalled from earth; for you know that you cannot prolong your own life and that you don't know when your last day will come. Just consider that you cannot stop death and think what will happen to your soul, which is immortal, which is your real Self whose fate you decide yourself during your earthly life .... But you do not even believe in your soul's continuing existence, and as a result of your unbelief you are in serious trouble for it will not stop Me from carrying out what is proclaimed in Word and Scripture .... For the time is fulfilled and everyday is still a blessing which you can use if only you are of good will.

However, don't put your hope in false prophets who deny an end, who believe that they can change My mind, for they do not speak in My name but are the instruments of the one who wants to keep you in spiritual darkness and who therefore wants people to believe that they have unlimited time .... People would rather believe these false prophets and only ever seek fulfilment by enjoying a good life but fail to consider their souls whose existence they doubt or deny. And it will come to pass as it was foretold .... I Myself will come in the clouds in order to fetch My Own before the work of destruction of the old earth begins .... Not one stone will remain on the other, for the earth will have to be renewed. A new earth will arise, a paradise-like creation which will accept all immature spiritual beings again which were released at the destruction of the old earth and require new forms once more in order to continue to mature fully. And this new earth will be inhabited by those who had remained true to Me until the end .... For they will have reached the degree of maturity which allows them to enter the sphere of light and therefore they will also be allowed to inhabit the paradise which will truly be the same state of beatitude for them as if they had entered My spiritual kingdom without their physical shell. Yet they shall serve Me as the root of the new human race ....

A new period of Salvation can only start with spiritually mature human beings who will also help all still constrained spirits within their environment to speedily achieve maturity, who have such a heartfelt bond with Me that they will also teach love to their children and children's children and bear witness to their God and Creator's glory, and thus the release from the form can progress quickly because I will dwell amongst them in the living Jesus .... Because all people who will then inhabit the new earth will also entrust themselves to their divine Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Christ and in awareness of the original sin also consciously take the path to Him and therefore all resistance will have been broken, for then every person will consciously take the path of return to Me so that I Myself can be present to him since his great love for Me will allow it. Hence this will be the thousand-year kingdom in which the victory over Satan will be evident, for he cannot and will not oppress anyone anymore since all have entirely freed themselves from him and achieved the return to Me, leaving him unable to enter My kingdom until even this blissful time will gradually change again .... until people once again show an inclination towards matter and thereby release the chains of My adversary .... who is lord over matter .... and his influence markedly manifests itself again .... Yet before this time comes to pass many souls will have entered My kingdom in a completely redeemed state .... I will have been able to reap a good harvest, and then the battle with My adversary for the souls will start again .... Yet I will be victorious and time and again wrest souls from him and reduce his follows who represent his power. And time and again he will contribute towards the fact that the redemption of the fallen spiritual will continue. For I will never surrender what is Mine, even if it takes eternities .... one day it will return to Me and then remain united with Me forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The near end demands increased vineyard work ....

B.D. 8072 from January 5th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

Every one of you is reminded to consider the gravity of the time .... No-one among you should take it easy, no-one should believe themselves to have much time left, each one of you who wants to do so shall still work diligently in My vineyard, for everyone's work is needed since it can still result in the salvation of a soul if it is carried out with a loving will to help. I see the many unhappy souls which still linger so far away from Me because they live without faith and only make use of their life on earth in a purely material way .... And I will guide you to wherever I can still see an opportunity to win them over through My Word, that is, I will guide your thoughts and actions such that they will obtain possession of My gift of grace, of My Word, which flows to you from above. Rest assured that you can still greatly contribute towards the redemption of erring souls, you just should not let yourselves become discouraged; you must constantly work and I shall truly give you the strength so that you will be able to work according to My will. And you should also take note of the fact that you will be able to discover a greater will to live and increased self-indulgence the closer it gets to the end .... For people don't believe in an end and thus will uninhibitedly satisfy their wishes and cravings. And it will be just like it was at the time of the Flood: they ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage .... they will live in an exuberant lust for life and the floodgates will be wide open for sin. For My adversary will have predominance and will certainly make use of it ....

And this is the time you are approaching, and everyone who fails to remember Me and does not appeal for My protection and help will be at risk. However, anyone who believes in Me will also turn to Me and he will not go astray .... And anyone who wants to be of service to Me may also experience My special grace .... yet he shall also pay attention to My instructions which will only ever consist of doing redeeming work. And you can do this constantly by referring the people around you to the coming event, by admonishing and warning them, by conveying My Word to them wherever possible. Every such activity will be blessed even if the success is not immediately obvious .... So don't get discouraged if you come across all kinds of opposition; don't stop in your willingness to be a helpful co-worker for Me; consider the great spiritual hardship and carry out redemption work by distributing My Gospel, by spreading My Word, which is greatly effective and can touch those souls which are not yet entirely hardened belong to My adversary. And very soon you will realise the truth of My Word, since you are approaching the end with giant strides .... For the time is fulfilled and it will come to pass as it is proclaimed in Word and Scripture ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Granting prayers .... The right relationship of a child with its Father ....

B.D. 8073 from January 6th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

Oh, why don't you recognise your Father's love Who only wants the best for you .... Let yourselves be stopped on the path which leads into ruin, listen to the coaxing calls of your shepherd and turn around .... Return to Me and let yourselves be guided by Me, for if you stay away from Me you will be at the mercy of the enemy who ruthlessly pulls you into the abyss, who scatters My flock and with the greatest of ease leads it into his domain if it does not take refuge in Me, where he cannot follow. And you humans should know that he constantly lies in wait for you, that he will not miss any opportunity to pull you into his trap and that he is very successful because you rely on your own strength when, in fact, you can only be victorious with My support. And I see your fate, I see the danger you are in and even if I want to help you .... you don't accept My help because you turn away from Me in view of the fact that your will is not directed towards Me as yet. Your thinking cannot forcibly be changed, a voluntary transformation towards Me has to take place, only then will I be able to take you by your hand, only then will you be able to receive My evident help. And in order to achieve this voluntary focus on Me I have to let adversity come upon you, and you will find it difficult again to believe in a God of love, but the adversity intends to encourage you to take the path to Me and to appeal to Me for help ....

All I want to achieve is for you to find the path to Me, that you listen to your shepherd's coaxing call, that you take refuge in Him when you are in difficulty .... And you will truly find help; however, your call to Me must come from your heart .... You are often surprised at the fact that your prayers are not answered, yet you do not give account to yourselves as to what kind of prayer you send to Me .... If I don't feel that your heartfelt prayer was sent to Me in spirit and in truth I do not hear you, for such prayers rise up to Me every day a thousand fold, but they are soullessly recited, they are formal prayers which I cannot grant because they don't yet testify to the bond, to the relationship of an appealing child to its Father, Who then will certainly help with anything .... for nothing is impossible for Me .... If, however, a prayer lacks depth of feeling it will not reach My ear and then it will not be granted either .... not due to insufficient love on My part but due to insufficient lack of childlike trust in Me, which is the assured guarantee that every request will be granted .... If only you were able to believe in My inconceivable love for you .... which only ever wants to give itself away, which does not want to let you suffer. Yet your conduct forces Me to use means which make you question My love .... And yet, I only want to help you .... And blessed is he who lays claim to these final means of help, who still finds the path to Me and calls upon Me in his distress .... For he will truly receive My help and may visibly experience Me, and he will believe in Me and not go astray ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Are you living in truth? ....

B.D. 8074 from January 7th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

The will to attain truth also guarantees its receipt .... however, such genuine will is rarely to be found .... People unreservedly accept whatever is presented to them as truth and accordingly adjust their outlook, i.e. depending on the information conveyed to them they either live within light or within darkness .... For only light can grant pure truth .... whereas error will always darken the spirit. This concerns spiritual knowledge and not earthly information which can be substantiated by evidence but which has no influence on the inner life of a human being who was given his earthly existence for the purpose of attaining full maturity of soul. Aspire only to pure truth and you will receive it with absolute certainty .... Yet what you are presently offered as truth .... who gives you the guarantee that it can lay claim to be the truth? .... Time and again you should ask yourselves this question. You should know that many schools of thought advocate their spiritual knowledge as truth, that all teach something different but that there can only be one truth ....

Thus you should not ‘unreservedly’ believe either one or the other but always turn to the highest Authority .... to the Eternal Truth Himself .... you should turn to the One Who is in charge of everything, Who has created everything, Who is supremely perfect, Who knows all and Who is Love Himself .... Who therefore also wants to give light to you, His living creations, because He loves you .... Who truly did not create the beings in spiritual darkness but did not prevent them from striving towards the darkness of their own accord by following the prince of darkness .... Lucifer .... into his realm. But He Who gave you life does not want you to remain in darkness; He wants to give you light which you can accept from His hand at all times, He is always willing to illuminate your thinking and provide you with clear insight regarding all questions you might have .... regarding the reason and purpose of your existence .... And if you are taught by the ‘Eternal Truth’ Itself It cannot impart anything but the purest truth to you, and then you will also be able to believe with conviction, you will know that you live in truth. You can be absolutely certain that the truth will be granted to you providing you earnestly desire it .... This is the first requirement, for if a person acknowledges God as the Eternal Truth he will also approach Him directly and appeal to Him for providing him with the truth .... Thus he consciously opens himself to the ray of light .... he establishes the bond which is the purpose and goal of earthly life .... which once was voluntarily interrupted and thus resulted in the being’s fall into the abyss, into darkness ....

The fact that the human being consciously opens himself to be illuminated by God’s love also means that his lightless state changes into a state of light .... and then the human being will receive the kind of knowledge which hitherto had been concealed from him .... You humans can be assured that this process is possible and does happen .... you may also believe that everyone is able to experience it .... but not everyone can meet the necessary requirements which, however, only limits the direct receipt of truth and not the indirect supply of pure truth .... For truly, everyone who desires the truth will receive it .... Yet everyone can also shape himself such that he can receive the pure truth directly by merely living a life of unselfish love whereby he awakens the spirit within himself which, being part of God, lies dormant in every person and also knows everything and thus can teach a person from within. Take the path to the higher Authority; don’t be satisfied with what people offer you even if they likewise believe it to represent the ‘truth’ .... There would not be so much darkness on earth if the truth had established itself amongst people. But it is obvious that dense darkness prevails or earth would be in a state of harmony and peace, when in fact the opposite is the case ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Every being fell and ascends voluntarily ....

B.D. 8075 from January 8th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

I certainly knew the direction of your will when I created you, I knew that you would make the wrong decision of your own free will .... Yet this did not prevent Me from completing My plan of Creation because I also foresaw the final goal which will result in unlimited bliss for the created beings once again. Besides, those beings really fell entirely of their own free choice .... Since every being enjoyed an immense abundance of light it also knew what it was doing when it distanced itself from Me .... thus it was fully responsible and cannot blame any other being .... not even Lucifer, its maker. For I would never have allowed a being’s will to be determined .... it was able to freely want and act by itself and so, accordingly, was its guilt which kept it chained to the abyss. Yet on the other hand, each one of these fallen beings had the opportunity to shape itself into a godlike being again. For the process that took place from the moment it fell into the abyss was a plan of Salvation based on love and wisdom which made this retransformation into perfection possible. The beings were by no means lost to My adversary forever, although they had followed him voluntarily .... Yet I, too, was entitled to these beings because they had emerged from My strength of love .... And I will not allow anyone to deny Me this right. Nevertheless, neither I nor My adversary will ever force the being to make a decision for Me or for him, instead, it is left up to its free will to choose its lord. I know that the final decision will sooner or later be in My favour but the being itself determines the time it takes for this final decision. But the goal motivated Me not to prevent the beings’ fall .... which I certainly could have done but, in My wisdom, recognised as wrong in view of the goal, which only an act of complete freedom of will can achieve. The fact that I knew every individual being’s decision in advance did not influence the act of creation insofar as I might have created the beings differently according to their direction of will ....Supreme perfection adorned all My living creations given that nothing flawed, imperfect, could have emerged from Me. And their free will especially demonstrated their divinity, even if it was aimed in the wrong direction and thus the being changed within itself into the opposite .... But retransformation is such an immense task for the being, something so enormous, that the goal motivated Me to nurture it with greatest love, wisdom and might.

Reshaping the fallen beings into all kinds of creations was an act which gave Me much happiness, something which you humans cannot imagine .... It was My strength, which once inexorably poured out of the Primary Source, which now took on forms according to My will .... And since every created spiritual being was My once-emanated strength which did not fulfil its actual purpose, it was now diverted into those forms, giving them life and performing tasks .... because all strength coming forth from Me must become active according to My will .... However, the once fallen spirits are no longer self-aware, instead, disintegrated into innumerable tiny particles, they carry out a designated task in the law of compulsion .... They must yield to My will in order to attain the state in which self-awareness and free will can be returned to them .... This process of development of the once fallen spirits is My plan of Salvation, which was designed with profound love and unsurpassed wisdom and which, with certainty, will return all once fallen beings to Me in supreme perfection .... which can only be achieved by the free will of the being itself and not by virtue of My power. But the fact that everything has to take place according to My law of eternal order may also prolong the process of return indefinitely, for I cannot intervene against the being’s will when it has to pass its final test as a human .... I must let love and justice prevail and cannot bestow bliss upon a being which is still burdened by the guilt of the original sin .... For this reason I must demand the acknowledgement of Jesus and His act of Salvation on earth, and the person must take his original sin to Him under the cross and appeal to Him for forgiveness .... Then he will have passed the final test of will, he will have acknowledged Me Myself again in Jesus, in Whom I became a visible God for him and can now provide him with supreme bliss again in My kingdom, in which he will stay united with Me for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Blessing from the connection with God ....

B.D. 8076 from January 10th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

You will achieve great spiritual gain if you often unite with Me in thought, if you commune with Me and thus turn away or withdraw from the earthly material world which will only ever satisfy the body but not the soul. But the soul receives strength from Me, from every bond, because such a bond always means an opening of the heart for the illumination from Me. Understand that contact only ever has to be established in order to guarantee an overflow of strength .... and that every mental turning towards Me creates such a contact which is of greatest blessing for the soul. I cannot have a determining effect on your will because it is free; therefore you must seek the bond with Me of your own accord. But you will never regret it, for you will never go empty-handed, you will always receive strength and grace from Me because I can now illuminate you with My strength of love. The clearest form of this illumination is My word directly conveyed to you .... But your soul can also receive an unusual impetus for loving activity, for spiritual activity .... And this is always proof of My illumination of love, which you make possible yourselves through a conscious bond with Me .... But if you receive My word then the blessing is inconceivable, because not you alone but countless spiritual beings are co-recipients who can draw strength from the word and mature .... Every bond with Me is a source of inexhaustible strength for you .... Physically you don't feel anything of it, and that sometimes makes you indifferent. But your soul will thank you if you repeatedly switch Me on in your thoughts .... it matures itself, and it will not remain powerless but spiritual strength will be at its disposal as often as it needs it .... You only ever need to turn to Me in thought, be it questions or requests which move you .... only ever come to Me with them and thereby allow Me to illuminate your open hearts, which results in every voluntary bond with Me .... And then you can also assume with certainty that you will be able to make spiritual progress .... because it cannot be otherwise when you receive strength from Me than that it helps you to ascend. And thus every work of love will also establish a direct bond with Me, because I Myself am love, because .... "whoever remains in love remains in Me and I in him ...." In your earthly life alone it is a matter of restoring the bond with Me which you once voluntarily broke off .... You turned away from Me of your own free will, and you must turn to Me again of your own free will. Then you will have passed your test of will on earth for the purpose of which your existence as a human being was given to you .... The distance from Me still exists when you enter embodiment as a human being .... And only when you live a conscious life will you be able to reduce this distance, and blessed is he who kindles love within himself and thereby re-establishes the intimate bond with Me .... blessed is he who often raises his thoughts to Me and converses with Me .... Now I Myself can influence him again as before, I can illuminate him with My love, and his earthly life will now not be an idle one either, he will bring the soul to its aim, for it is no longer powerless as it was at the beginning of its human existence but it can constantly receive strength from Me through the bond with Me, and it will be able to mature and perfect itself while still on earth. The human being needs My strength .... Although vitality is at his disposal he needs spiritual strength to mature his soul, which he can only receive from Me if he opens his heart, i.e. if he consciously turns to Me in thought, in prayer and through loving activity .... And I will truly provide you abundantly with strength, for I want you to return to Me .... I want you to become perfect, and I long for you who once came forth from My love and who shall find their way home again into their father's house.

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's spirit does not contradict itself ....

B.D. 8077 from January 11th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

You can safely advocate My Word as the pure truth and I will guide your thoughts such that you will always recognise where My adversary pushes forward, intending to confuse people's thinking. After all, I gave you the pure truth so that people shall gain access to it. And anyone who can receive this truth from Me directly will also be qualified to work as a teacher and will always be able to refute every objection posed to him by his fellow human beings. It is My will that the truth shall penetrate, that there shall be light, that the darkness shall be dispelled, that is, that people will learn to think correctly. However, since this requires people's free will it is not easy to counteract error. It is the human being's own responsibility as to whether he lives in truth or in error, since from My side he will truly be given light which he only needs to accept if he seriously wants to achieve maturity of soul .... And thus you shall receive the assertion that you need never fear that My spirit will contradict itself. Whether or not it is My spirit which expresses itself can easily be established by anyone who sincerely wants the truth .... For he will also receive the ability to differentiate from Me and he will feel himself addressed by Me. Nevertheless, he must accept My Word with his heart and not only with his intellect. A biased person attempting an examination is no longer able to form a correct opinion .... for his intellect will prevail and drown out the emotions of his heart .... I, however, Am only able to speak to a person through his heart. Therefore, open your hearts if you want Me to speak to you, be it directly or through My servants' impartation .... Want to be addressed by Me and, truly, your thinking will be enlightened, you will understand what was previously incomprehensible to you, you will also be able to make clear judgments, and you will be happy to hear your Father's voice Who wants to speak to all His children who merely desire to hear Him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's help is assured for you ....

B.D. 8078 from January 12th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

And I have promised you My support in earthly and spiritual adversity, which you can also expect with certainty because I love you. But do you also faithfully come to Me with all your concerns? When you are distressed you often torment yourselves with your worries and don't think of handing them over to Me and asking Me for help. I can also make the seemingly impossible possible, and I want to prove Myself to you as a father in order to win all your love. Do not forget that the father speaks to His children and that the father will not teach His children wrongly .... Don't forget that you possess all My love, and then you will also believe in My willingness to help and entrust yourselves to Me in your adversity. For you are all burdened by adversity, each one of you is in need of help, and this must also be the case in the time of the end, because I want to gather My small flock, because it shall press towards its shepherd Who will truly protect it from the enemy .... If you recognize the adversity then you turn to Him; if you are completely unencumbered then there is a danger that you will turn to the world, and I want to prevent this. I fear for every soul that it will not get lost again for endless times, and therefore I try to draw every soul to Me. It shall find Me in earthly hardship and weaknesses of all kinds where only I can help you. And truly, it will be allowed to experience Me in My love and might, but it has to believe, and it will be able to believe alive if it lives a life of love. And if your faith is only weak then nevertheless come to Me and appeal to Me, then I will also strengthen your faith by visibly assisting you .... I let mercy and grace prevail because I know about the weakness of My living creations .... You lack love and yet I do not let you fall, but I try everything to also kindle the flame of love in you .... I give you gifts because I want to win your love in return .... But come to Me of your own accord because I cannot force you to turn to Me .... If earthly hardship presses you, entrust it to Me and you will not go empty-handed, I will not close My ear to your requests, I will help you because I have the power to do so, and I love you and don't want you to suffer .... if only you have found your way to Me, which often cannot be achieved other than through suffering .... You humans should all experience the love of your God and creator, for only then will you return to Me in free will .... I want to reveal Myself to you as a loving father, and that is why you sometimes get into difficulties and worries which should drive you towards Me .... So come and ask Me and entrust yourselves to Me .... And I will reveal Myself to you as a loving father Who can help and wants to help ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Redeemer work in the kingdom beyond ....

B.D. 8079 from January 14th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

You will also be able to redeem the souls in the kingdom of the beyond if you want to help them to get out of their adversity. And they will be eternally grateful to you, for they can receive great help from people who are more willing to accept it than the help of friends in the beyond who are close to them in the same cover they wear themselves and who therefore often don't find faith when they want to instruct these souls. But you humans can make My word accessible to them, which has great strength and often quickly determines the souls' acceptance. For as soon as you want to help the souls they also feel your love, and this works as strength. If My word, offered to them through you, is now heard by them, they will also feel its effect of strength and accept it with complete faith .... and then they will already be helped, for then they will also exchange information with other souls, and thus they will start to be redemptively active themselves, they will also want to make other souls happy or talk to them about what they have heard, and thus My word can have an effect. You humans are unaware of the service of love you render to those souls to whom you consciously bring My word .... Your faith itself is still weak because you cannot gain insight into the kingdom of those souls which surround you and are not unwilling to be taught by you .... Where spiritual good is offered, where spiritual conversations are held, where a bond is established with the spiritual kingdom through thoughts, there flash sparks of light which are noticed by those souls and are often already eagerly awaited .... They rush towards these sparks of light and take part in the spiritual instructions, they are attentive and fill themselves with spiritual food because they desire it and noticeably experience a strengthening. And therefore every spiritual work you humans accomplish on earth is blessed, because such souls always take part in it which surround you and are willing .... And if you consciously summon them you can send them a stream of light which truly has a great redeeming effect. And this work of redemption in the kingdom of the beyond is to be valued very highly, for countless people enter that kingdom who are suddenly called away from earth and still have the opportunity to ascend there .... And before the end death will still hold a great harvest, for I see the hopelessness for many people to still increase their state of maturity on earth, and if I want to prevent them from sinking further and finally being at My adversary's mercy I have to call them away from this earth and give them the opportunity in the spiritual kingdom to still ascend .... And it will also be made easy for them if only they are not completely hardened and nevertheless strive towards the abyss in free will .... Yet the bond between these prematurely recalled human souls and earth still exists to a great extent, and therefore you, who are active in My vineyard, are also observed far more by these souls, and they are also more willing to accept instructions from you because these are given in a form which appeals to them .... when My word sounds, which you pass on to your fellow human beings or it moves your thoughts itself .... Believe that the radiation of My word which you receive is of far greater effect than you yourselves can measure .... Believe that you will always spread blessings wherever My word is received, written, read or passed on orally .... And therefore use every free hour to be active in My vineyard, because souls will always arrive who are eager for spiritual nourishment and who pursue you and your actions and thoughts .... Help them, for they are in great spiritual hardship as long as they are still surrounded by darkness which, however, you can remedy through the light emanating from My word and help them to ascend. For My love applies to all souls, only I cannot work extra-legally. And therefore you should give them love, and for the sake of your intercessory love I can now also help them to ascend ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Through natural events God reveals His power ....

B.D. 8080 from January 15th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

I want to enlighten you about everything which only serves to ensure that you still take the path to Me, your God and creator, Whom you once voluntarily left, before the end. You humans don't know the reason for your existence as a human being on this earth and yet you should try to find out about it, for only then will you live your earthly life consciously. You are indeed told that you are on earth in order to become perfect, but because you lack closer understanding these teachings do not touch you .... You must first be truthfully instructed and take a mental stand on it yourselves .... Only then will you live your life appropriately. And I try to convey this truth to you, yet your free will is decisive as to whether you accept and recognize it as truth. But now you humans are close to the end, and if you still want to reach maturity of soul by then you must take it seriously and consciously make contact with your God and creator .... You must therefore believe in Him for the time being .... And therefore you will still experience many things which will prove to you a 'power' outside the earthly world (power?) .... You will not be able to deny the intervention of a power which you cannot determine yourselves, which also shapes your destiny and to which you must surrender. If only you come to this realization in earthly life then the first step has already been taken, for then it will also be possible for you to make contact with this power, and then you will be grasped by Me and truly guided step by step upwards .... And now you will also understand why I so often try to reveal Myself in natural events .... People must be able to see that human will, human powers are eliminated when things take place in nature which, as catastrophes, also claim countless human lives .... They must learn to recognize a power above themselves, even though such events do not yet signify a compulsion to believe, since completely unbelieving people also give themselves other reasons for such events if they are still completely opposed to Me. Yet I reveal Myself in natural events of all kinds .... yet individual people will always feel addressed by them, i.e. they will recognize that I am and that they themselves also originated from Me. There is only a short time left until the end, but there will still be many revelations of this kind, for I can no longer speak to those who are hardened in any other way, and only through the most severe strokes of fate can some souls still be won over who suddenly realize that they themselves are powerless and dependent on the one Who created them .... And again and again I will therefore address people .... loudly and powerfully to those who pay no attention to a quiet address, for the connection between Me and earth will always remain in place because you humans are creations of My love which I want to win back. And the closer the end is the louder My voice will sound, which will express itself through the elements of nature .... until the last day has come when harvest will be held .... where everything will fall to death again which has completely turned away from Me and a new life will begin on the new earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Forerunner .... Visible appearance .... The time is fulfilled ....

B.D. 8081 from January 17th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

People on earth will not change anymore, there is no further spiritual progress, only individual people will still find Me since they are determined to fulfil the purpose of their earthly life. Whatever can still be done on My part in order to increase the number of the latter will truly be done, and My love will also find ways and means to touch the hearts of a few so that they will open themselves without inner resistance and accept My Word .... Yet they are not many and thus it can be said: The time is fulfilled .... For humanity's low spiritual level determines the end itself, and this truly has descended to a point where a transformation of humanity is out of the question .... My adversary reigns over the spiritual essence which takes the last path across earth as a human being and in an entirely negative sense influences those who are enslaved by him and comply with his will. Hence they have made their final decision of will already and have chosen the kingdom of darkness again .... they will return to matter again, which enslaved them on earth and from which they can no longer detach themselves. And matter will receive the soul once more ....

However, until the end I will still offer people the opportunity to turn towards their God and Creator, for the steadfastness of My Own might yet change their mind and let them ask questions which I Myself would certainly answer, because I want to spare these individual souls a renewed banishment, a repeated process through the creations of the new earth. And My spirit will so evidently be with My Own that even the disbelievers would begin to wonder .... I will reveal Myself to them through the visible help that I will grant to My Own .... and the disbelievers would be able to believe if they wanted to release themselves from My adversary who keeps them enchained .... For I will seize even the faintest thought they might have about Me and never let go of them again .... because I will let Myself be found even in the last hour wherever there is the will to experience Me .... My Own, however, will recognize how the adversary keeps their fellow human beings enchained .... My Own will be subject to his onslaughts as well, yet My strength will clearly be at their disposal, for I Myself will help them in the battle and they will emerge victoriously .... For truly, My strength is stronger than his, and he will flee from the light you shine on him because he recognises Me Myself therein.

And in order for My Own to remain strong they will receive active help; I Myself will be with them in the Word, I will send them bearers of light which will radiate so brightly that they will dispel all shadows and also repel the enemies intending to oppress My Own .... I will delight people with My presence and fortify them in their resistance against the enemy .... And individual people will be able to behold Me and draw tremendous strength from this and also transmit this strength to their brothers .... And then you will hear of the one who shall announce My arrival, who will appear again as the voice in the wilderness and whose light will shine for all of you, and you will recognise him as My forerunner at the time of the end .... I won't abandon you, who want to be and remain My Own, in your physical and spiritual hardship, you are truly not alone and forsaken even if it worldly seems like that to you .... I Myself Am with you and you will also sense My presence and have unwavering faith in Me and My arrival on the day of Judgment .... And for the sake of My Own I will shorten the days so that they will persevere until the end .... For there will be no spiritual change on this earth anymore; yet a spiritual turning point will have to come, the earth will have to be of service again for the spirits' higher development .... And the spirits having failed their last test of will must be bound again ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God is love ....

B.D. 8082 from January 19th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

Everything arose from God's strength of love .... He Himself is the primary source of strength, His fundamental element is love, thus He is love Himself .... And yet He is a Being Which works and creates with wise judgment .... He is a Being Which puts Its thoughts into effect, Which constantly brings forth new creations that radiate His strength of love into infinity. This, however, always serves its purpose, it is not arbitrarily effective but its result is determined by God's wisdom and might .... God is love .... You humans will not understand this statement as long as you are unable to comprehend the nature of love, which necessitates shaping yourselves into love. For you will always look at love as a characteristic which you confer to the highest and most perfect being. But that this Being is love Itself will remain incomprehensible to you as long as you live on earth as a human being.

And you all emerged from this love, you are emanated strength, you yourselves are love in your fundamental nature .... but likewise you are beings with the ability of thought and will .... the evidence of an 'entity' .... Hence, nothing arose and will continue to arise haphazardly .... Everything is very wisely considered; all things are the thoughts of a supremely perfect Being Which you humans call 'God' .... And this Being reproduced Itself .... It brought forth the same beings from within Itself, It emanated Its strength of love and gave it forms .... It created .... Everything created by God is and remains love in its fundamental substance. It is and remains strength which shall become effective in accordance with divine will .... If, however, it is prevented from being effective then divine order will be changed .... The principle of love will be turned into the opposite. The Being Which is love, wisdom and might Itself .... thus 'God' .... will be resisted, which the beings He had brought to life could indeed accomplish because He had also endowed them with free will as His images .... But in that case the being will leave its lawful order .... it will turn itself into the opposite .... it will certainly carry on existing, but it will no longer allow the strength of love to become effective and that will signify solidification, it will signify a standstill, it will signify the death of what once radiated as 'life' from God ....

The human being's fundamental substance is love, yet on the whole he is still in opposition to the One Who had emanated him as a being .... And therefore he does not recognise what love is .... For this reason the nature of God, Who is love Himself, is also incomprehensible to him. For love is simultaneously light, Which, however, provides little enlightenment for the human being while his love is still feeble. Hence he is also unable to recognise God's nature, he can only believe the information he receives regarding it, but as soon as such reports accord to the truth they will also enlighten him, for then he will endeavour to change his nature into love, and he will also turn to the Being Which is supremely perfect and begin to recognise It as the 'Eternal Love' ....

But he will never be able to fathom God's nature, for He is the eternal centre of strength, whereas all created beings are emanated but very tiny sparks of strength which would never be able to behold the primal fire without ceasing to exist .... A person would be able to perceive the love, wisdom and might of a perceptible God on earth already if he is of good will and opens his heart for the illumination of love again by the Being he originated from .... For this supremely perfect Being reveals Itself to His living creations ....

And the greatest evidence of love of the One, Who is love Himself, is that He reveals Himself, that He provides His created beings with information about Himself as far as they are able to grasp it .... and that He thereby wants to re-ignite their love to make it effective again in line with the fundamental element .... so that His living creations will re-enter the eternal order in order to create and work as it was in the beginning ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Activity in the beyond .... Giving out the truth ....

B.D. 8083 from January 20th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

Without truth you cannot become blissfully happy, for truth is light, and once you enter the kingdom of the beyond every error you still hold on to will darken the light, it will impair its radiance, and this will mean for your soul that it cannot yet redeem itself. But the soul only finds its happiness in a redeeming activity .... Thus it cannot radiate light itself as long as it does not possess it, even if it no longer needs to dwell in darkness because its way of life on earth has secured its entrance into the kingdom of light .... but it must free itself from erroneous thinking, it must ward off every shadow which every wrong thought signifies. It must desire pure truth, and then it will also be allowed to receive it, and brightest light will shine upon it. You must know that your bliss in the kingdom of the beyond consists of carrying light to the souls in darkness, of helping them out of wrong thoughts and offering them the pure truth .... for the truth lets them find Me Whom they have not yet recognized correctly in error .... And many people enter the kingdom of the beyond who think wrongly. You should help them in their spiritual adversity and thus redeem them .... But for this you must be enlightened yourselves, you must have been instructed in the truth and thus first try to free yourselves from knowledge which does not correspond to the truth. If your life on earth has been an activity of love then you will suddenly recognize the right knowledge as soon as you have discarded the earthly body .... You will stand in bright light and now also be able to carry out your activity on other souls which makes you happy .... But often a soul holds on to its knowledge which it represented on earth and then its state is not blissful, then it will still be in a state of twilight until it is willing to be taught the truth itself, until it relinquishes its wrong knowledge and now also increases in light which slowly starts to shine and also has luminosity .... i.e. helps souls out of darkness again who want to accept the light. For this reason it is incomparably valuable to have already accepted the truth on earth, for this is light which clearly and distinctly shows the path to ascent and which also signifies beatitude in the spiritual kingdom, because the soul can now be active for its own happiness. Only love can bring light to you humans, even if a person lacks spiritual knowledge, for he will suddenly know everything and be blissfully happy. But anyone who has love will also not reject the truth on earth when it is offered to him. And therefore he will be able to register a great plus upon his entry into the kingdom of the beyond, because he can now share out the treasures he acquired in earthly life by fulfilling My commandments of love .... He will be richly blessed and able to work in the spiritual kingdom without any darkness. Thus his light will also be correspondingly bright, and blessed is he who does not pass away on earth without love .... And no matter how low the degree of love is .... but it always signifies a small light which is a great help when he arrives in the kingdom of the beyond .... Therefore you should not be indifferent as to whether you move in truth or in error during your earthly existence .... you must first have discarded all error, you must have accepted the pure truth before you can enjoy bliss in the kingdom of the beyond, for this consists of the redeeming activity which, however, can only be carried out by a soul which stands in the light itself .... thus in recognizing the pure truth, because this soul is also in contact with Me as the eternal truth and this union with Me is the aim which every soul has to reach if it wants to be and remain blissfully happy forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Proof of love of God: love for the neighbour ....

B.D. 8084 from January 21st 1962, taken from Book No. 85

You should prove your love for Me through unselfish love for your neighbour .... Whatever you do to the least of My brothers, you have done to Me. Love for God without love for your neighbour is therefore not possible, for feelings which you then feign for yourselves cannot be judged by Me as 'love', because love will always express itself in works which serve the well-being of the neighbour in need. Love without works is likewise impossible, for love is strength and strength always wants to be active. And therefore you will always have the yardstick for your love: whether it impels you to work, whether your will is stimulated to do works of love. You should seriously give account of this, and you should never pass by your fellow human being's need .... you should only ever seek to alleviate hardship, to give pleasure, to comfort and to help, for you will always recognize hardship around you .... And in particular you should take care of people who are in spiritual hardship. Admittedly, such help is not often accepted, for very few people are open to help for their soul. Nevertheless, again and again you should try to distribute spiritual food and drink wherever possible. Only then will you prove your love for Me when you take care of your fellow human being's spiritual and earthly hardship, who is also My living creation whose soul I want to win. And only such love, which expresses itself in works, will earn you a living faith, which I require in order to grant you eternal beatitude .... "He who believes in Me will be blessed ...." But what do you mean by faith which is to earn you this beatitude? I am not satisfied with words by which you want to confirm a "faith" .... I first require loving activity, evidence of your love for Me through unselfish neighbourly love. For only this can give birth to a living faith which alone is of value before Me. And as long as your love for your neighbour is still small, as long as you don't behave like a brother towards him, as long as you lack works of love, you should not feel too certain that you will become blessed through 'faith' alone .... For then your faith is only a form .... you just don't contradict it, but you are still far from being alive. And will you then ever awaken the spirit in you to life, which can only come to life through loving activity? .... You are constantly demanded to work with love, yet you only rarely comply with this demand and therefore only living faith can rarely be found. How serious will this error be in the beyond one day, that you believe you don't need works? .... Yet only 'works' follow you, and you can only show a few of them because there was too little strength of love in you which would have been active in works .... Your beatitude will correspond to your degree of love, because only love results in true faith .... But faith without love is dead and will therefore never lead to beatitude. And you should not confuse 'love' with 'feelings' which can easily arise in a person but which nevertheless do not cause him to perform works of love for his neighbour .... And you will truly be offered many opportunities to be lovingly active, and you should never close yourselves off to the requests of your fellow human beings who are in need. You should sincerely want to help them and then you will also be able to do so, because love enlightens your spirit and also shows you the right ways and means, be it earthly or spiritual hardship which you then try to remedy. But don't rely on words which are dead as long as you don't give them life through loving activity .... You will never attain the right understanding of the words which the scriptures contain if you do not awaken the spirit within yourselves through loving activity .... And therefore "works" are demanded of you .... for "whatever you do to the least of My brethren, that you have done to Mean ...."

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Predetermined intervals of time as periods of Salvation ....

B.D. 8085 from January 22nd 1962, taken from Book No. 85

To Me a thousand years are like a day .... to Me it is truly irrelevant when you return to Me, how long you remain distant from Me, for I know that you will return to Me one day for sure and then be united with Me forever .... But you yourselves will suffer immeasurably during this time of separation, for only the union with Me provides beatitude .... And I love you and therefore would like to shorten your time of wretchedness for your own sakes .... I don't want you to suffer; nevertheless, in My wisdom I recognise the blessing which suffering holds for you, because it can encourage you to hasten your return to Me, because it can change your attitude and your will. Yet I shall do everything within My power to shorten the duration of your resistance without, however, affecting your free will. For your will itself determines the duration of your distance from Me, and I shall not compel it .... Therefore, although time is irrelevant to Me, the intervals of time in My plan of Salvation which were designated for the development of the souls are nevertheless determined .... that is, the timing of My plan of Salvation is fixed and will be upheld according to My love and wisdom ....

Periods of Salvation have been planned which are limited, thus time and again new opportunities of development present themselves .... in wise anticipation of the fact that the ever new resistance on part of the fallen spiritual world in some respect will also necessitate a new Judgment .... or, that the lawful order, which the opposing spirits totally disregard thereby preventing all higher development, will need to be restored again from time to time .... These fixed intervals of time are thus 'periods of Salvation', which irrevocably will be observed by Me and therefore signify the end of an old and the beginning of a new developmental period, the time of which cannot be ascertained by you humans but which nevertheless can be irrefutably expected by people in times when spiritual progress is no longer discernible.

But it is also part of My eternal plan of Salvation that such knowledge is and will remain unverifiable for people .... For the beginning and end of the various 'periods' are so far apart that people lack all knowledge and only the spiritually awakened accept such information as credible .... To Me a thousand years are like a day .... But you humans experience this time as being immeasurably long, and you could shorten it for yourselves if only you would seriously strive for your deliverance from the form, which you are indeed able to achieve in your earthly life as a human being .... For all means of help are truly at your disposal, only your will cannot be forced to change your nature into love .... Yet this change into love must be carried out, and you only need a very short time to achieve it .... If a developmental period comes to an end without you having reached your goal, then your fate can be an infinite extension of your state of being distant from God, which is indeed extremely agonising for you but only motivates Me to create ever new possibilities for you .... for the still God-opposing souls .... in order to further your development .... For I know that I will achieve My goal one day, and the concept of time does not exist for Me .... everything is the present for Me .... even the past and the future ....

You won't be able to understand this as long as your thinking is still limited. But one day you will understand it and will even find it incomprehensible yourselves that you had resisted Me for so long .... For the unification will irrevocably take place one day, and that also means immeasurable beatitude, in which all past suffering will fade away, in which you will only recognise My love with praise and gratitude which pursued you even into the deepest abyss and did not rest until it had reached its goal ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Escort of the leading spirit ....

B.D. 8086 from January 24th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

The spiritual processes which justified the apostasy of the spirits can only ever be hinted at to you humans, for there are no means of comparison which would be comprehensible to you, and you first have to be in an elevated state of maturity of your soul in order to be able to penetrate spiritual knowledge quite deeply. Nevertheless, you will be instructed by Me in accordance with the truth if My spirit can become effective in you. And then you will also always be able to recognize when you are offered error, for where My spirit is active thinking is also right. And I will give you an explanation which you would never be able to give yourselves. What I once created stepped out of My eternal order and fell away from Me .... What I had created were beings, I-conscious, thinking creatures with free will .... They were spiritual products of My power of love .... These beings fell away from Me. And thus an act took place in the spiritual kingdom which was extremely serious for this spiritual substance which had fallen away from Me, for it was the cause of activity and creation on My part, it was the cause of all visible creations, it was the cause of a plan of salvation such as only I Myself could devise in My love, wisdom and might, because it was necessary to regain all spiritual substances which had fallen away from Me and to provide them with the beatitude again which they had voluntarily relinquished .... And all spiritual substances which are full of light and remain with Me take part in this process of return because their bliss consists of serving Me according to My will .... And thus you now know about fallen and non-fallen beings, you know that there are two kingdoms inhabited by these beings, and you know that I only know one aim, to place the fallen spiritual beings into a state again in which they can be immeasurably happy. All wretched spiritual beings which remain far away from Me shall be 'redeemed' from this state, and all blissful spiritual beings which remained with Me participate in the redemption of the fallen brothers .... As long as the fallen one passes through the creations of earth it moves in the law of compulsion, and the blissful spiritual being participates in the creation of earthly creations in which that spiritual being can take abode and cover the path to ascent .... until it then has to cover the last stretch as the 'soul' of a human being, where the once fallen original spirit has to pass its last test of will .... And now it is also understandable that the human being is helped in every way to reach his aim .... But the human being's will is free .... From the kingdom of light this help can therefore only be granted if the human being offers no resistance .... From the beginning of his embodiment as a human being he is joined by a guardian spirit who looks after him but can never influence him against his will .... Yet this protecting spirit will also allow earthly events to approach the human being in accordance with 'God's will' such that he can derive spiritual benefit from them .... yet never strive to mature the soul under compulsion because this contradicts My will. This protective spirit accompanies the human being from the beginning of his earthly life but not always with success .... His love for the unredeemed is exceedingly great, for these are always beings of light, otherwise they would not be assigned the care of an earthly human being. Nevertheless, even their love has a limited effect, always according to the human being's will, but the being of light will always stand by his side as a guiding spirit, so that the human being is never without help if only he wants to be helped. If the human being now gives in to its urging which stimulates him into loving activity, so that he ignites the spark of love within himself, so that he awakens the spirit which is My share from eternity .... then I Myself can influence the human being through My spirit, and then the human being's protective spirit will also have more influence on him, because his will only ever strives for the same thing I Myself want to achieve in the human being through spiritual activity: to practise love, thus to accomplish the inner change of nature into love .... If the human being then enters the kingdom of light upon his departure, he will also be received by that guardian spirit which the soul also recognizes as its constant earthly companion .... But the soul itself is an individuality of its own, it is the once fallen original spirit which brought itself to perfection through the path through the abyss, albeit again and again supported by spiritual helpers who redeem themselves in heartfelt love and also constantly have the opportunity to do so. Every spiritual being is an individuality in itself, it only has a different degree of maturity and works in unity when this is necessary, when it requires excessive strength which the individual being does not yet possess .... Just as Jesus' love was directed towards all His fallen brothers, the love of all beings of light also participates in the redemption of those fallen ones, and the particles of an original soul, of an original spirit, which still has to travel the path of ascent, already experience their care .... Again and again they are involved in the creation of the external forms which these particles have to pass through .... For I let the beings of light be active for their own happiness, and their love takes care of everything that is wretched and has been handed over to them for care .... This, then, is to be understood by the 'spirit of the beyond' which joins the soul in earthly life. But this 'soul' is not just a part of the fallen original spirit which first has to unite with 'its spirit' again as a human being ..... But the 'spiritual spark' which slumbers as My share in every soul, which I Myself in My grace and mercy add to this original spirit as a small spark of love, must unite with My eternal father-spirit, because it is still devoid of all love as a result of its former apostasy, as a result of the rejection of My strength of love .... It is certainly difficult to understand the spiritual processes in My kingdom at one time, yet the explanations I gave you are sufficient for you to think correctly, for you to be able to free yourselves from erroneous assumptions which My adversary repeatedly tries to inflict on you in order to undermine the pure truth and to lower doubts into your hearts .... I enlighten you intelligibly because he has already succeeded in spreading light shadows over the light which was not sufficiently guarded by such clouds but which will nevertheless shine brightly to the one who desires to stand in truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Verifying the truth ....

B.D. 8087 from January 25th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

Spiritual knowledge can never be proven .... Nevertheless, you can become firmly convinced that what is presented to you is truth if you receive it spiritually, if it was gained through the 'working of My spirit' in the human being, for then you will know that it did not originate from people but that the human being was taught by My spirit from within .... The fact that it does not appear conclusive to people will nevertheless not let you doubt it, for they will also not be able to provide you with any counter-evidence which invalidates the knowledge gained through the spirit. Thus it is only decisive whether spiritual knowledge has been acquired through working of the spirit .... And such an examination is due to everyone who strives to live in truth. Therefore I choose light bearers for Myself .... to people who are to receive spiritual knowledge from Me directly .... only ever people who lack all knowledge about it, who are not burdened by knowledge which they would first have to repel in order to be completely free to receive the 'truth from Me' .... And this examination will certainly be possible as to whether the recipient was able to demonstrate prior knowledge, whether he drew his wisdom from books or whether he was influenced by conversations with fellow human beings .... But where all this is eliminated, where no spiritual knowledge whatsoever was previously recorded, there one can speak of a completely empty vessel which I Myself therefore now chose in order to fill it with the spiritual current of My love .... in order to convey truthful knowledge to it, which is announced to it by the spirit from Me, Who can never be mistaken .... Such knowledge will be recognized as truth and thus also find convinced faith, for such knowledge is strength of love from Me which will also not fail to have an effect. But most people don't take the trouble of a serious examination .... They reject it without thinking about the way unusual knowledge has reached earth and whether it is within the realm of earthly-human ability to be able to acquire extensive knowledge without any study .... They do not think about it and yet they would have the most convincing proof that forces are at work which they themselves cannot explain without faith .... For if they recognize supernatural powers then it would also be easy to fathom in which realms these powers are to be sought, for the content of knowledge would instruct them about it, which they could not refute .... Yet since the human being's will is free, his thinking cannot be influenced by force either; yet the willing person will look for an explanation and also find the right one .... For he allows himself to be captivated by spiritual knowledge if he seriously examines it. Because it originates from Me it will also work as strength where open hearts are found .... And these again will be able to believe even without proof because they feel the truth in their hearts. For this reason, however, spiritual knowledge cannot be transmitted in a school-like manner, for it will remain dead knowledge without persuasive power as long as My spirit cannot work in the person himself .... so that he will be instructed by Me Myself through the spirit again. The intellect will never be able to fathom spiritual knowledge, yet the intellect will always be able to deal with knowledge which has reached the human being by spiritual means .... And as soon as a heartfelt bond with Me exists the human being's thinking will also be guided correctly and he will recognize and accept the truth without any evidence. For the intimate bond with Me also guarantees My working in him, and he will become wise through My spirit ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Knowledge of the eternal plan of Salvation ....

B.D. 8088 from January 27th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

You are instructed by Me in everything you need to know in order to benefit your soul's salvation .... And this includes the fact that those of you who shall teach, who shall proclaim My Gospel, whom I send into the world as My endtime disciples .... will also be initiated into My eternal plan of Salvation. For you should know all correlations so that you can confidently pass on the knowledge you receive from Me. This is why the spirit imparts extensive knowledge to you, in other words: I instruct you Myself so that you will know the truth. I have always mentioned the fact that the end is imminent and explained to you the fact that and the reason why a period of salvation will end and a new one will start again .... I have outlined to you My plan of Salvation and also given you the reason for your human existence .... I have given you the explanation about your origin and your goal and also provided you with the correct image of Me Myself, of My nature, in order to encourage you to seek contact with Me directly and to strive towards your perfection .... I also clarified the fact that your fundamental nature was different than it is now .... but that you should attain the original state again .... which is the purpose and goal of your life on earth .... Hence, it is My constant endeavour to inform all of you about My plan of Salvation, yet only a few are able and willing to accept the information. However, those who are serious about their perfection shall be truthfully instructed and this is only possible through the 'working of the spirit' .... so that your indwelling spiritual spark will make contact with the eternal Father-Spirit so that the human being can be taught from within about everything he needs to know in order to become blissfully happy again, as he was in the beginning. But this conveyance of knowledge cannot be forced upon a human being, a person's free will must decide what he wants to accept or reject, for only on condition of free will is it possible to attain perfection on earth. My servants on earth can therefore only provide their fellow human beings with this knowledge, My pure Gospel, they can only ever make sure that people will receive the information about their eternal God and Creator's unusual working, Who wants to bestow upon humanity the knowledge which will help them attain beatitude .... This is what the vineyard labour consists of for which people place themselves at My disposal because they want to be of service to Me as faithful servants during the last days .... Distributing the Gospel is so important during the last time before the end that I will bless every person who makes himself available to Me for this, because people should know what will happen to them, they should be made aware of the fact that a period of salvation will come to an end and that they should do their utmost in order to fulfil their task on earth. Nevertheless, only those who desire the truth will accept it, for they are able to recognise the truth when it is brought to them. People's free will decides their future fate, so if people are truthfully informed it will be possible for their will to make the right decision, for the truth is strength .... after all, it comes forth from Me and cannot be ineffective .... But it does not compel their acceptance; instead, it will merely impress upon a person if he is of good will .... And I want to lead you to him and, time and again, open doors for you through which you can enter and proclaim My Gospel .... Time is running out and people urgently require the truth .... a light in which they can recognise the path which leads to higher spheres. Therefore they shall receive such light from above because darkness prevails on earth and the light from above must penetrate if the darkness is to be dispelled and enable people to still step into the light of day before the end. This is why I still take such obvious care of people and, if they don't openly oppose Me, they will so soon feel the soothing effect of the light of truth and desire it, in which case they need not fear a near end either, for they will take the path of ascent into the light .... that is, the truth will lead them back to Me, from Whom they once originated ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Darkness means lack of knowledge .... Struggle between light and darkness ....

B.D. 8089 from January 28th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

The battle between light and darkness will flare up ever more fiercely the closer it gets to the end .... i.e., the truth will be undermined by lies and error, because God's adversary has great influence on people and because their love has grown cold which would let a light shine in the darkness .... My adversary has brought darkness into the world, he has renounced all light himself, he has striven away from Me, he has voluntarily chosen darkness and with him countless beings who also resisted the light which shone towards them from Me .... And the darkness consisted of a state of beings that they no longer recognized anything, that they lost all knowledge of their own relationship with Me, of Me Myself and of the state of bliss they were in before their apostasy .... They became completely ignorant .... and this is not a blissful state .... But as soon as a light shines for them it dawns in them what they once gave away .... And My adversary tries to prevent this, and therefore he fights against all light which could give truth to the beings and lead them back to Me. But light beings likewise endeavour to give light to people on earth by influencing their thoughts and trying to guide them correctly .... Hence there is a battle between beings of light and beings of darkness for people's souls .... And this battle rages particularly fiercely in the last days before the end, which in turn means that the truth is guided to earth by the world of light in My will .... but that the adversary uses all means to prevent the truth from finding its way among people .... Again and again he will try to enforce it with error, again and again he will try to influence the intellect of people who are at his beck and call, to change the truth, to spread wrong knowledge and cause such confusion that people cannot find their way through the knowledge they receive and that they neither recognize Me Myself in My nature nor My adversary correctly, otherwise they would truly strive towards the right lord. But My adversary wants to prevent this, and he is truly very successful, for people themselves are uninterested in whether they walk in truth or in error .... Yet the light is necessary so that people will find and walk the right path .... For this reason the light is repeatedly guided by Me to earth, and I speak to people in such an understandable language that everyone can truly grasp it, that everyone would be able to think correctly if only his sincere will were to do so .... And this will alone is decisive, for if it is good, thus turned towards Me and the good, then My adversary will hardly gain any influence, then error will also be able to be offered to him .... he will immediately recognize it as error and reject it. But only a few have this serious will to be instructed in truth, only a few are aware of the fact that truth is light and error means darkness .... But the fact that this battle takes place between light and darkness can no longer be overlooked, for people no longer agree on their views. But no one asks which views might be the right ones either .... they are indifferent, and the adversary has succeeded in keeping humanity in darkness, for against their will no light can be given to them, forcibly they cannot be guided into truth. Nevertheless, in the end time I will let lights flare up everywhere, and people who are eager for light, who seek to escape the darkness, will also allow themselves to be illuminated. They will accept the truth which I convey to people from above in an unusual way, because My adversary's activity in the end time also requires an unusual counteraction .... Seek ye all the light .... Escape the darkness and your desire will truly be granted .... And then also rely on the truth being brought to you. For I Myself take care of those who want to walk in the light, I enlighten their spirit, I guide their thinking correctly, and I also let them recognize where darkness tries to assert itself .... For I Myself am the truth, and this shall also be the share of those who strive towards Me, who want to take the path back to Me and whose path must therefore be illuminated by light ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Battle of faith .... Adversity .... Rapture ....

B.D. 8090 from January 29th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

And My adversary's followers will persecute you because they will proceed against everyone who believes in Me and the divine Redeemer Jesus Christ .... I inform you of this beforehand so that you will not become scared and waver in your faith. For they will be unable to harm you because I Am with you as your refuge and protection and know how to help everyone as long as he turns to Me as soon as he suffers earthly or spiritual adversity .... It has to happen this way because the end is near, because a separation of the spirits still has to take place, because My Own will have to profess Me before the world when this confession is demanded of them. Hence you will have nothing to fear, you, who count yourselves among My Own, who have living faith in My love and might and are so closely united with Me that you take no step without Me .... who always feel Me with you and are therefore at peace in My presence, not even fearing your enemies, who will certainly feel severely harassed but whose faith cannot be shaken. I Am informing you of this already .... Not much time is ahead of you until it will happen, nevertheless, I will keep the day and hour secret from you because it would not benefit your soul if you knew it. But neither will I stop proclaiming the end to you and drawing your attention to everything that will still take place before the end. For thereby you shall recognise which hour has struck on the world's clock, and you shall calmly expect the end. At present you can still do your vineyard work, you can still spread My Gospel throughout the world .... You still have a certain amount of freedom which you should and are able to use .... Yet the time will pass by quickly, and then you will no longer be able to openly work for Me and My kingdom. Then you will no longer be allowed to be spiritually active, you will be forced to withdraw and only able to work secretly, but I will constantly provide you with strength, for you will continue to hear My Word and through you it will also reach your fellow human beings, because I protect My servants and show them the ways they have to go in order to let Me Myself speak to their fellow human beings.

And then you should only ever rely on Me, don't take any path without Me, you should always and forever commend yourselves to My protection and confidently await My help if you require it. For I will shorten the days for the sake of My Own .... The battle against you, against the believers, will only last for a short time because it will be waged with all brutality and therefore I will put an end to it Myself when the time is right. And during this time the spirits will conclusively separate, for then every person will acknowledge his lord, the lord to whom he feels he belongs. Regardless of the objections you humans might time after time raise against these indications .... they will turn into reality and you will all have to make the decision: for Me or for him, who once again will plunge you into the abyss .... Yet whatever can still be done for your deliverance will be done, and I will leave no stone unturned in order to release anyone from his control who accepts My help .... Yet the person's free will is decisive, and I do not compel it .... But I demand great strength of faith from My Own so that they will endure until the end .... Nevertheless, their will to belong to My Own will also give them remarkable strength, and the greater their adversity is the more firmly they will join Me and the stronger will be their faith, which I certainly shall not disappoint. And once the time comes when you can no longer work openly for Me and My kingdom then the last phase on this earth will have started, for then everything will quickly happen one after the other, the battle of faith will begin openly, the final decision will be demanded of people, and the adversary's followers will outshine each other with their undignified onslaughts against the believers .... Then you, who belong to Me, can also daily expect My coming, for I will rescue you from your adversity of body and soul, I will lead you away from this earth, and it will come to pass as it is proclaimed, because then the time will have been fulfilled ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Human manifestation in Jesus ....

B.D. 8091 from January 30th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

I will truly convey to you everything that contributes towards your spiritual enlightenment, because you humans need light and those of you who want to serve Me shall pave the way for your fellow human beings as bearers of light by illuminating the path which leads to Me and eternal life. And I know where people require clarification; I know where their thoughts are still misguided and thus I also know that they require light, because every wrong thought merely causes confusion, spiritual darkness. Time and again I will let a light illuminate the darkness and thereby show you the right path you should take during your life on earth. And since you must take the path to the cross on earth .... since you must recognise and acknowledge Jesus as Son of God and Redeemer if you want to enter the kingdom of light, you must also be truthfully instructed about My human manifestation in Jesus, otherwise you will be unable to acknowledge Me Myself in Jesus .... And precisely this human manifestation problem is difficult for you to solve, for you cannot envisage that I .... the greatest and most perfect Spirit in eternity .... manifested Myself in a human being. You cannot envisage that it was impossible for Me to be personified in any other way than in Jesus, Whose external cover sheltered the divine Creator within .... Who was certainly human in His outer form, yet entirely permeated by My divine spirit of love .... His whole nature was and remained as ‘God’ in order to become visible for you, My living creations. You must never visualise the ‘Eternal Deity’ as a personified Being, Which would therefore be limited .... I permeate the whole of infinity, for this infinity is infused with My strength which takes unlimited effect .... I Myself Am the primary centre of this emanation of strength and therefore not imaginable as a limited Being .... Nevertheless, I was able to totally permeate a form, to so illuminate it that it was nothing else but My fundamental substance, that it was the same as I Myself, merely in a conceivable shape for you humans .... And this external form was Jesus, the human being, Who became My shell because My living creations wanted to behold something that was spatially-defined and because the act of Salvation was also intended to take place visibly for you and this required a humanly observable process that was meant to liberate people from sin and death if they believed in it .... if they believed in My human manifestation in Jesus, in the act of love and compassion which was accomplished for the sake of the sinful human race by a human being Who sheltered Me in all fullness within Himself. Other than in Jesus I Am inconceivable to you. In Jesus, God .... the greatest spirit of infinity .... became a human being, and Jesus Himself was God, for even His human external frame spiritualised itself and was totally permeated by My spirit of love .... Jesus was only human until He had spiritualised Himself through His life of love .... However, the external form had to endure all suffering and pain and finally the most bitter death on the cross because Jesus wanted to absolve His fellow human beings from the immense guilt of sin, and the act of Salvation was only accomplished with the crucifixion, which I Myself .... the Eternal Love .... therefore accomplished in Jesus and consequently I Myself must be acknowledged in Jesus. All of you, as My once emanated beings, are love in your fundamental substance .... as was Jesus, Who remained with Me when you voluntarily detached yourselves from Me .... He, too, was emanated by Me, hence My Son .... And I sent this Son of Mine to earth in order to redeem you, in order to open the path of return again. Even as a human being His great love upheld the connection with Me, He only ever desired My love and I did not deny it to Him .... Thus I was able to permeate Him entirely, I was able to illuminate Him and take complete possession of Him. And since His external shape was human, I therefore became ‘human’ and Jesus became ‘God’. No separation existed between us anymore, He had totally merged with Me, He was as one with Me. So now My living creations can behold Me Myself face to face in Jesus when they enter the kingdom of light in a ‘redeemed’ state, where they will be eternally happy.

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Divine revelation for **all** I-conscious beings ....

B.D. 8092 from February 1st 1962, taken from Book No. 85

You are offered a gift of love of immeasurable value, for it is a source of strength for countless souls on earth and in the kingdom of the beyond. All still imperfect beings lack strength and light, they are weak and darkened in spirit and therefore still in an unhappy state. And therefore strength and light must be supplied to them, they must be given gifts of love by Me because they cannot liberate themselves from their wretched state. And that is why My strength constantly flows to all I-conscious beings when My address sounds out into infinity. It is only ever meant for My living creations, for the children who long for the father's address, as well as for the beings which have not yet recognized Me as father and which I want to bring close to My fatherly heart. And thus every being will receive light and strength which allows itself to be illuminated by Me, which happens in the form of My word conveyed to it. As soon as a being has gained a glimmer of realization it is delighted when My word is sounded to it, and then it will also quickly ascend .... which applies to the human being on earth as well as to the souls in the beyond .... and this cannot be otherwise, for My word is strength in itself and also has to become effective. The imparting of My word is a gift of grace which only ever requires the voluntary opening of the heart, for the being once rejected this illumination of My love and therefore free will must now be willing to accept it. But then the effect of My gift of grace will be inconceivable .... For the wretched being will become blissfully happy again, as it was in the beginning, if only it lets Me Myself speak to it and then experiences My will and complies with it. However, people on earth pay too little attention to this gift of grace .... Only rarely is the value recognized and these blessings consciously received, only rarely does a heart open and allow light and strength to flow into it, only rarely am I Myself recognized as the original source of this bestowal of love, and only rarely do people prepare themselves as a receptacle into which My flow of love can flow, a blessing to the human being himself and to all souls surrounding him on earth, or also to spiritual beings which feel attracted as soon as My word sounds which beneficially touches them. I truly care for all My creations which once came forth from Me .... I know what they lack, why they have become wretched, and I also know in what way they can be helped .... They once voluntarily separated from Me and thereby entered a state which cannot be called blissful. Yet again and again I bestow gifts of grace of My love upon them, and it only depends on them whether their state will improve, for whatever I offer My living creations will only ever be for their salvation, it will only ever help them to attain their former perfection again .... Yet every gift of grace of My love has to be voluntarily accepted, only then can it become effective, only then can light and strength flow to the being again, and then it will also take the path to Me again because it recognizes Me in the light which now shines upon it. The connection was broken by the being itself, but I re-establish the connection with it. Yet My living creation shall not approach Me under compulsion but I Myself reveal Myself to it so that it will recognize Me and learn to love Me and then voluntarily hand itself over to Me .... And then My creature's return as 'My child' is also assured. Every address on My part is a revelation, for I convey knowledge to you humans which all I-conscious beings in the universe also receive. And this knowledge gives all My living creations knowledge of their God and creator, of their father of eternity. It gives them knowledge of My being and of their primordial relationship to Me .... And it illuminates the darkness which surrounds the once fallen being until the light shines to it from My source of strength and light for eternity .... And where once light can radiate from Me there will be no more darkness for ever .... where once I can speak to My living creations, there the wretched state will also change and one day bring unity with Me again, for whoever accepts My gift of grace will be and remain blissfully happy for ever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Ultimate goal is union with God ....

B.D. 8093 from February 2nd 1962, taken from Book No. 85

The perfection of all things is their unity with Me .... for everything in existence, everything that is visible to you humans, from hard matter up to the human being, is My once-emanated strength which were shaped into beings according to My will but which distanced themselves from the primary source of strength, thereby becoming incapable of any kind of activity which necessitated strength, and which therefore were reshaped by Me into creations of the most varied kinds .... And all these creations also sheltered spiritual substance which had fallen away from Me and gradually helped it towards perfection .... Even matter itself takes this process of higher development .... thus everything strives towards perfection. All beings' perfection guarantees their unification with Me, their eternal God and Creator .... The strength, having flowed forth from Me, returns to the primary source of strength again, every being unites with Me and finds supreme bliss in this unification .... Anyone who knows about this process which extends over eternities, anyone who is initiated in My eternal plan of Salvation, is indeed already close to perfection, because this information already proves that he is illuminated by My light of love which was once voluntarily rejected by the being. In the state of imperfection, in the state of distance from Me, the self-aware being .... the human being .... is still unable to perceive this light of realisation, for only My illumination will give him this light, and this illumination can only be conveyed to a person who voluntarily opens his heart, thus, who desires light from Me. And opening the heart presupposes the will to approach Me again, thus the human being is already on the path of return to Me, from Whom he once separated of his own free will. Then there will be a conscious striving for perfection, for the person will make an effort to live according to My will, he will subordinate himself to My will and that means that his nature will adapt itself increasingly more to My fundamental nature, that it will change into love again, because it will constantly open itself to My ray of love and will want to receive it .... All resistance in the being will have been broken and nothing will stand in the way of unity with Me .... it will be moving towards perfection. And in this state it must also gain realisation .... the human being will be initiated into My eternal plan of Salvation, he will once again penetrate the most profound knowledge which the being possessed in the beginning, and it will be able to delight other people with this knowledge if they are willing to accept it.

And thus you humans can understand that a light which grants you knowledge about your beginning and your whole process of higher development after the apostasy from Me can only be kindled in you by Me Myself, for only I know all secrets and only I can reveal most profound wisdom to you .... I Myself Am the light Which illuminates you when you are being initiated into the truth, and I truly know to what degree My ray of love, that intends to lead you to perfection, can strike you. Yet you can rejoice and cheer that the knowledge at your disposal was directly conveyed to you by My love .... you can be glad that you received spiritual wealth imparted to you by Me Myself through My dormant indwelling spirit .... My infinite love even pursued you when you were still vastly distant from Me .... without self-awareness, disintegrated and struggling through endless pain to come higher .... However, once you reached the stage of self-awareness again, you were seized by My love and it took possession of you .... You were given a tiny spark of love to accompany you, which was able to enter into contact with Me providing it was your will .... which, as part of Me, was able to take effect in you as soon as you allowed for it .... This spark love is not effective against your will, but the fact that it is in you in the state of a human being also provides you with the guarantee that you can completely unite yourselves with Me again .... And this part of Me in you bestows bright light upon you, It instructs you in all truthfulness as soon as you merely allow It to take effect. Then you may delve ever deeper into the truth, brightest realisation will be granted to you once more and you can emanate the light again which enlightens you from within. For you consciously established the relationship with Me, otherwise I would be unable to take effect in you, because I do not enforce My influence upon a person but expect his complete devotion until I reveal Myself to him .... However, in that case the spiritual communion will have taken place .... I distribute food and drink as nourishment for your soul .... I give you the bread of heaven, the water of life .... I will speak to you and My Word will come alive in you .... the soul will perfect itself and be as one with Me for time and eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Influence of the beings of light on man .... Free will ....

B.D. 8094 from February 3rd 1962, taken from Book No. 85

The torments of the unredeemed spiritual cause all luminous spiritual to lovingly assist him on his way back from the depth to God. For love will always have a redeeming effect, love will always be active, love will want to help because love is divine strength and always has a positive effect. That is why even the fallen spiritual cannot be lost for ever, for love does not rest, and it fills all spiritual which is full of light, all creations which have reached perfection, which have remained faithful to God and are therefore constantly permeated by God's love. It is only the free will of the ego-conscious being, which once fell away from God, which sets limits to the light beings' activity of love and therefore determines the success .... which shortens or lengthens the duration of the return path to God, depending on the attitude of the human being's ego-conscious being .... towards God. The luminous spiritual must also take this free will into account .... it cannot use coercion, it can only ever give its love to the unredeemed and try to persuade it to accept love. However, its influence in the human being's earthly life also has a counter-effect on the part of the one who is responsible for the spirits' apostasy .... He, too, tries to influence the human being's will, and the human being himself has to decide which influence he will yield to. Love is a strength which must not find any resistance if it is to become effective on the still unredeemed .... However, giving up resistance is a matter of free will .... If love could work without resistance then everything would truly already be redeemed from the adversary's bonds, but the once-fallen beings could never reach highest perfection if they were not able to resist the working of love. Complete freedom belongs to the law of eternal order, and every coercion is a violation of this order from eternity. The being was once placed out of God completely free, it could determine itself, and it will also never lose this right, even if it had chosen the path to the abyss. And it would also inevitably take the path to ascent if it had not lost all knowledge after the conscious turning away from God .... The darkness it has chosen itself is the cause of its resistance to God, the being lacks the slightest glimmer of realization, of light, what its resistance and its distance from God mean, it does not recognize its wretchedness and yet experiences a state of torment .... And therefore it is the constant effort on the part of the world of light to send a ray of light, a ray of love, to this being which dwells in darkness, which can have a calming effect on the resistance as long as it concerns the spiritual being which is still bound in the creations .... If the being is then already I-conscious .... if it walks the earth as a human being then it will also be illuminated again and again by the strength of love, and small sparks of light will glimmer which can change the state of ignorance, the state of darkness, and a small glimmer of realization can already determine the human being to give up his resistance, to turn his will towards God .... This is the constant endeavour of the world full of light, of the spiritual beings which are full of the light of love from God, which want to radiate this light to the places of darkness, which constantly want to help the still unredeemed to become free from the adversary's power, to attain bright light again, to willingly receive God's illumination of love by which it is touched directly or also indirectly through His messengers of light. To voluntarily accept the light of love from God also means to give up all resistance, it means to receive strength to shape oneself into love, it means to illuminate thinking, it means to awaken the spiritual spark in the human being to life .... it means conscious connection with God, because the spiritual spark in him pushes towards the father-spirit from eternity .... And thus the union with God must then also take place, because the love now radiating into the human being is of such strength that the complete transformation into love also takes place, which lets the 'created being' become a 'child' of God, which is now merged with God and remains so for all eternity, but which nevertheless does not lose the awareness of itself and is therefore inexpressibly blissful ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God is in us .... He is present to us ....

B.D. 8095 from February 6th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

There is no greater gift of grace for you humans on this earth than that you are taught by Me in direct speech .... For then I am present to you, and I prove My presence to you through revelations which can only come to you from Me Myself, Who knows everything .... thus I am in you, for whether you conceive even a tiny spark of My spirit of God in you .... My spirit is indivisible, and therefore you can always speak of the fact that I Myself am working in you when this tiny spark of spirit expresses itself. And thus you will also be truthfully instructed by Me, since I Myself am the eternal truth. Thus you have to evaluate the reception of the word, which is therefore an unusual gift of grace because you, as human beings, are not yet in the highest degree of maturity which results in complete unification. Yet My love for you is exceedingly great and unusual help has to be given to you because My adversary has great power and uses it to ruin you. Yet I would not be able to express Myself if you yourselves did not let the spark of My spirit of God flare up, if you yourselves did not live a life of love which ignites the spiritual spark and now allows it to work. And you, in turn, would not hear anything of its manifestation if you did not listen to yourselves in profound faith, if you did not believe in My direct address .... And this again presupposes the inner bond with Me which now causes Me to radiate My love towards you and to bestow it upon you in abundance. I always want to be in you and prove My presence to you. And therefore I will always address you as often as you allow it, i.e. connect with Me inwardly and listen within .... And then I will pour out a wealth upon you which will truly make you blissfully happy .... I give you light in all abundance, I teach you truthfully about everything that is helpful for the maturing of your souls .... I radiate My love upon you and My love gives you what you lack because you are not yet perfect. I have often already enlightened you about the 'working of My spirit' and thus informed you that there are indeed limits to the human being's intellectual knowledge but never to the knowledge which can be gained through the working of My spirit .... This knowledge is truly unlimited and yet it can be imparted to the human being by Me Myself, Who is truth, Who is light from eternity. But only I Myself can convey this knowledge to you, and I truly choose the right vessels for Myself into which I can let My light flow, but which shall now also shine far into the dark night .... Yet this is rarely possible, people usually resist Me because they don't let their heart speak but their intellect. But where My direct activity is possible the ray of light is of such strength that it can and will illuminate many human hearts which merely receive it without resistance, which surrender themselves to the illumination of love and thus indirectly accept My address. (6.2.1962) And this is what I want to achieve, that people lose their spiritual blindness, that they slowly come to realize again what they were in the beginning and what they shall become again .... I want to kindle a small light in every person, for then he will live his earthly life consciously, he will ask questions within himself and these will be answered mentally, his thinking will be right if it is his desire to experience truth .... He will know about My will and strive to fulfil it because he will also start to recognize the connection with Me as his God and creator .... And increasingly brighter light will certainly shine upon him, for he opens himself to My illumination of love as soon as he only establishes mental contact with Me, as soon as he relinquishes all inner resistance against Me. I Myself am in him as the tiniest spark of God, and he no longer opposes this presence of Mine, and then I can also work in him .... And I will also do it, I will reveal Myself to every person, albeit in different ways, always according to his degree of maturity, but every person will be able to recognize Me who only wants to. My ray of love will touch him again and again until he consciously opens himself and desires Me and My love, which will then be bestowed upon him in all abundance .... For I love My living creations and want them to become blissfully happy .... I also want them to know of My great love so that they will reciprocate My love. But then the union will also be assured, then My living creation will also have escaped all darkness, because the light will shine within itself, because I Myself can be present to it and then there will truly be no more relapse into the abyss to fear ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The work of changing into love and faith ....

B.D. 8096 from February 7th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

I want to introduce you to My kingdom of light and glory .... because I love you and want to be and remain united with you for all eternity. Yet this union can only happen with beings which have adapted themselves to My fundamental nature, which have shaped themselves again as they were in the beginning when they came forth from Me in all perfection, which also meant, that they were pure light and love. Thus they must turn into light and love again, for they voluntarily reversed their previously perfect state into the opposite. Nevertheless, this reshaping into love, the transformation into perfection, is a work of My living creations' free will, consequently, it can take an infinitely long time until it has been accomplished .... But since My boundless love always accompanies the being and provides it with all opportunities it will certainly reach the goal one day .... Sooner or later the work of transformation will be accomplished and the being will be admitted into My kingdom of light and glory where eternal beatitude will be its fate. You humans who live on earth in order to finalise this very work of transformation into love should believe that I love you, then you will want to come closer to Me and desire My illumination of love .... You should know that you are the recipients of My fiery flow of love, that it only depends on your will as to whether you feel its effectiveness .... And you should know that I will not rest until you, too, immerse yourselves in the ocean of My love and unite with Me forever .... You should believe this, for you may only experience the proof when you have achieved your goal.

Thus faith shall impel you in earthly life to conduct yourselves according to My will .... to first endeavour to live a life of love as you are taught by My commandments so that through fulfilling My commandments you will come to realise that what you believe is the truth .... For you can gain the conviction yourselves by living a life of selfless neighbourly love, which will truly make knowledge accessible to you that will make you happy. You can certainly be informed of the glories in My kingdom to make you strive towards them .... however, you will only attain the right kind of faith when you live up to My commandments of love. Then you will feel My love in yourselves and be able to recognise Me Myself as a God of love. I long for the love of My living creations and want that they, like children, long for the Father, in order to be able to seize them and make them blissfully happy with My love. If you realised the rich blessings every work of selfless love results in, you would truly change and shape yourselves into love within a short time, then you would have fulfilled your purpose of earthly life .... Yet all this has to be done by your free will .... For this reason My love constantly endeavours to motivate you into loving activity through My Word, to spur you into living up to love .... by sending you My end-time disciples to proclaim the Gospel of love to you .... For nothing else can take the place of love .... Every person must of his own free will kindle love in himself and fan it into a bright flame. And this love will unite with Me, the Eternal Love, for love cannot help itself but strive towards Me. And as soon as I can illuminate the person again as it was in the beginning, the being will also have changed itself into its original state again, it will have become love again and thus united with Me for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's love pursues people .... Creation love proof ....

B.D. 8097 from February 8th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

I truly want to make the path of ascent easy for you if I recognize your will that you want to take it, that you want to reach Me, Whom you acknowledge as God and father from eternity. For the father does everything for His child in order to gain its love. Since I am love Myself I also embrace everything with My love that once came forth from Me. You were all products of My love, and you are and remain united with Me because your fundamental substance is divine strength of love, because you therefore also remain emanated strength of love from Me which cannot eternally pass away anymore .... but which nevertheless could and did strive away from Me of its own free will and thereby turned your nature inwards and could no longer exhibit anything divine about it. But if a father fears losing his child he will pursue it and try to induce it to return to him again because he loves his child. In the same way I will not leave anything of substance to itself but I will also follow it and help it to slowly ascend ..... Yet I do not reveal Myself to it at first so as not to harden its resistance, but I provide it with help which the being unconsciously avails itself of .... I take it captive, and it allows itself to be taken captive because it is thereby wrested from another power which mercilessly wants to keep it in deepest depth. My love applies to the created in every constitution, for I want to be eternally united with all that was once created, I want to fill all created without limit, and all created also returns to Me one day, which had voluntarily aspired to the depth. The fact that I am particularly concerned for the human being during earthly life, who is the spiritual being I once aspired to ...., is again based on My infinite love, which wants to win the human being's will for itself in order to then also possess his love .... And thus the human being must also experience My great love during earthly life if he is to reciprocate it .... He must be informed of an exceedingly perfect being Which is love Itself and Which wants to bestow Its love upon Its creatures .... The human being must feel himself to be My creature and now also desire My love .... And therefore I pursue the human being with My love, which he would also be able to recognize if only he would pay attention to his earthly fate, which clearly testifies to the guidance of a power which wants him well .... for no-one is left in his earthly adversity, again and again he is granted help, again and again a powerful Deity expresses Itself and helps the human being out of adversity .... (8.2.1962) You could recognize Me .... Yet My adversary has great power over you because you desire what still belongs to him, because you still turn your eyes towards the earthly world and therefore pay no attention to spiritual currents. And the more you desire earthly things the more you prove your affiliation to him and the less you will pay attention to My silent revelations and thus also not be able to recognize My love which is constantly meant for you and wants to win you. But I cannot prevent My adversary from using all his arts to captivate you .... For he has an equal right to you since you once followed him voluntarily. And therefore it is indeed a battle between Me and him for your souls, but you yourselves will bring it to a conclusion, for you will have to decide for Me or for him .... But if only a small flame of love is kindled in you then I will also know that I have won you, for love pushes towards Me; the divine spirit spark, which is My share, pushes towards the eternal father-spirit and the human being is saved for time and eternity .... You should only ever consider everything around you as a gift from Me .... You should recognize that everything I have brought into being serves you .... You should not pay attention to what people do to you but to what your God and creator created for you from eternity in order to make your life on earth pleasant .... You should gratefully accept everything that serves you in life from My hand, i.e. always know that it is I Who provides for you and cares for you during your earthly life .... And you would have to recognize and acknowledge so much love on My part that it truly should not be difficult for you to love Me again because you recognize Me as your benefactor .... And you should unite yourselves with the one Who again and again demonstrates His great love for you .... And it would truly be better for the whole of humanity if it wanted to turn away from My adversary and strive towards Me, for this free will would be blessed a thousand fold, because now people could quickly ascend, for then My adversary would have lost his power, he would no longer be able to harass people who have voluntarily taken the path to Me, their father, Who is only waiting for His children's return home in order to now also be able to make them happy without limitation .... And therefore I will court your love as long as you live on earth, and My love will also always reveal itself to you .... but never force your will, which is and will remain free because you are divine creatures ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God reveals Himself in times of spiritual hardship ....

B.D. 8098 from February 9th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

Every thought you send to Me in spirit and in truth is received by Me, and I really seek to answer your questions truthfully. But you, too, must try to accept this answer without prejudice .... You should feel like empty vessels which I want to fill with the correct contents that can only be beneficial for all of you .... And you should know that My love for you is limitless, that It will therefore use every means to help you, who are so close to perfection, to achieve this final goal, for which there is not much time left. You should also know that My adversary has immense power during the period before the end, which is granted to him by people who do not seriously strive for their final perfection themselves .... and that he will also succeed in achieving many people's downfall again, whose earthly progress will then have been in vain. Since I know everything, even the fact that many still undecided souls are too weak to resist his shameful actions .... and since My love is infinite and I truly want to liberate all people from his hands yet cannot contravene the law of eternal order, I will act within the framework of eternal order by helping all those who will merely raise their thoughts to Me, whose will is not against Me, even if they have not yet openly decided for Me ....

But I want to help them make the right decision. Thus I have to give them light and strength so that they can learn to recognise Me one day and then also muster the strength to resist My adversary and to strive towards Me. I Am by no means a God Who could not be reached by you .... I Am love, and love is never distant from Its living creations, It always and forever pursues them, even if they are still extremely remote from Me. First you have to learn to recognise this God Who, as Father, takes a personal interest in the fate of every individual human being and for Whom you therefore should never search for in the distance. One heartfelt thought from My child calls Me to him, and I will be and remain near to him, for the child's love will not allow a separation again .... And I will reveal Myself to him .... And this is My great help, which I bestow on humanity in the last days who suffer utmost spiritual hardship .... I will speak to people Myself, and all people who merely open their hearts to hear Me speak from above may hear My Words ....

I will impart light and strength to them through My Word, which they need for their perfection. And thus I Am at work Myself .... your eternal God and Father .... to lessen My adversary's activity, to offer people a rescue anchor which enables them to escape the danger of yielding to his activity. I speak to people Myself, and use for this a willing instrument which serves me knowingly and allows My direct action on and within him .... because I do not impose My will on humanity but it should freely decide whether to accept My Word or not .... But I Myself speak to all people .... because I Am motivated by My infinite love which will never end and which is always willing to help. And you humans should believe that the spiritual hardship is vast, because you are approaching the end. You should also know that the end is the result of My love .... For I know what needs to be done, I know when the time has come that I have to restore lawful order again so as to continue with the work of return for the fallen spirits.

But I also know where and how help can still be given, and I truly use every opportunity to open people's eyes while they are still on earth in order to reveal Myself to them .... My sheep recognise the voice of their shepherd .... and they follow it. However, My voice will sound in the universe too, for My Word is also heard in infinity, it speaks to all self-aware spirits and permeates them with light and strength .... Thus you will not be able to say that you cannot or may not hear Me .... For then My love or My might would be limited .... And even if I Am and remain unattainable for My living creations I Am nevertheless intimately united with them through love, and so close that every living creation can hear Me if he loves Me too and thus has established the unity again, as it was in the beginning .... For in the beginning all beings could hear My Word, and this was their beatitude, and one day it will be their beatitude again when the light of My love permeates the beings once more as before ....

Amen

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Right vessels for the light .... for the truth ....

B.D. 8099 from February 11th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

And it will be given to you according to your desire .... Anyone who desires the truth will receive it, but the indifferent person will never receive it or be able to recognize it, for I respect the human being's will .... And therefore I always want to be approached for truth so that you will prove to Me that you also desire Me, Who is the eternal truth. And therefore the bond with Me must first be established of your own free will, for I will never fill a vessel which does not open itself in order to receive My gift .... You are not yet able to properly evaluate the gift of grace from above, you are not yet aware of what it means to be addressed by the father Himself, to be given knowledge by the father which gives you an overbright light in the spiritual darkness which is spread across the earth. But I do not radiate this light arbitrarily, I look for the right vessels for it into which I can pour Myself and which then also radiate this light again according to its purpose to where it is needed. But a certain prerequisite must always be present, which on the one hand consists of the desire for the pure truth and on the other hand of shaping oneself into a receptacle for My flow of spirit .... Through a life of love the human being must have prepared himself to become a vessel into which I Myself can now pour .... And this requires the human being's free will, which is why the human being himself decides whether he will be chosen by Me to become a useful instrument through which I can convey the truth to earth. And I recognize human hearts, I know about their formation, I know about the will of the individual, and I also know in which way the human being benefits from a gift of grace of supreme value .... I know who has the serious will to serve Me in My vineyard, and I truly also use it where I need it and where it is in the right place according to its ability in order to successfully work for the salvation of fellow human beings' souls. And the human being's inner degree of maturity will always also determine the task I now assign to him in My vineyard .... And his activity will not be carried out arbitrarily but I Myself will assign it to him because I know him, because I know about his innermost attitude, about his love for Me and his neighbour .... and because, accordingly, it can only ever be the task he now fulfils as My faithful servant on earth. And thus I tell you that not many people are filled with the desire for truth .... Although My address is often desired and expected, a person is rarely concerned about being filled by Me with My spirit, about being introduced to the truth by Me .... And therefore the pure truth can also rarely only be conveyed to earth, for the serious desire for it is the first condition to receive it .... But in view of the spiritual darkness the supply of truth, of a light which breaks through the darkness, is so necessary that I truly bless the person who requests a light from Me, and that this person also truly does not direct his request to Me in vain .... You all don't value the pure truth highly enough, you go there indifferently and it affects you little whether you are instructed in the truth or not .... And therefore you also don't desire the truth, and thus it cannot reach you either .... And therefore every person demanding truth will enjoy My special protection, for only through him is it possible to convey truth to people, even if this does not happen in a direct way .... but the desire for truth must also be present if the directly conveyed truth is to be accepted by fellow human beings. Yet the vessels are few who prepare themselves to receive the pure truth from God .... There are only a few people who ask Me for the supply of truth, and I will know how to protect them from all challenges of the world, I will know how to protect them from My adversary who will always harass the bearers of light in order to extinguish the light which shines from them. The darkness is almost impenetrable and therefore humanity is in greatest distress, for only the light illuminates the right path which people have to take in order to reach their aim .... A bright ray of light is urgently needed to break through the darkness, and where there is only the possibility to kindle a light there is also the prospect of people being saved from the end .... Desire for truth is the first condition, and only a person who desires truth can be a suitable tool for Me which I can use for the blessing of all people .... For this person is able to carry a light and illuminate the darkness because he possesses a light, because his desire for truth has kindled a light in himself which is now also guarded by Me from every cloudiness, which now sends out its bright ray and illuminates the path for people who are of good will .... And these My bearers of light will always enjoy My protection, for I need them in the last days because people have to experience the truth, for they can only become blissfully happy through the truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's protection for His vessels .... Loving father words ....

B.D. 8100 from February 12th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

You should not doubt My love, and therefore you should also not believe that I close My ear when a prayer reaches Me in spirit and in truth .... What a person's heart feels when it prays to Me is the only decisive factor for Me to hear his prayer. And if he asks for spiritual gifts, if he asks for what solely serves the salvation of the human being's soul, then he can truly expect his requests to be granted, for then it is also a prayer in spirit and in truth which ascends to Me. And this is also a guarantee for you that you need not fear any error if you desire the truth and ask Me to protect you from wrong thinking. How gladly I comply with such a request because I want to give you the truth and only have to recognize your desire for it, which you prove by asking Me to protect you from error. And then you can truly accept everything as pure truth which is conveyed to you from above as evidence of My love for you, which wants to bestow gifts of grace upon you in order to facilitate your ascent to the height .... I am your father, you must always remember this when you are afflicted by doubts, when you are in fear, in distress of body and soul. Your father has the power to take everything from you, to do everything for you, and no thing is impossible for Him .... But your father is also full of love for you, His children, and therefore He will do everything that serves you for the salvation of your souls .... And if you only ever look at Me, your God and creator, as your father, you will also have utmost trust in Me, and you will also not let such misgivings arise in you that I will lead you astray who strive for the truth .... Only ever remember that I am your father, and then you will also trustingly come to Me with every concern, you will not need to be anxious and converse with Me like a child talks to its father. For I understand all your weaknesses and take them into account if only I see that you are willing to live to please Me. I assess your will and help you to overcome all weaknesses if you trustingly submit them to Me and appeal to Me for help. For such prayers are directed to Me in spirit and in truth and I do not overhear them. And again I have to emphasize that I Myself choose My vessels which are to receive My flow of spirit in the last days before the end and pass it on, because the spiritual adversity in the last days necessitates this. Admittedly, I require a person's voluntary dedication in order to make him suitable for a task which is extremely significant for the last days .... Yet I can only entrust such a mission to those who can also demonstrate the necessary prerequisites for it .... And this can only be judged by Me, for only I see into the individual's heart, only I know whose will is so devoted to Me that he gives himself completely to Me and is only ever willing to serve Me. And I will fill his heart with gifts of My love .... And he himself will also mature from the spiritual knowledge which I now let flow into his heart, because people need light in order to find the path which leads upwards. You humans should not believe that I lack the power to erect a protective wall around such a vessel if I want to let the pure truth flow into it, to open up a source from which the purest water of life flows, which is intended to help people heal their souls .... You may not deny Me this power, you who believe in a God Who is love, wisdom and power in Himself .... The human being's will is indeed free and he can work against it without being prevented by Me .... Yet My wisdom was also at work when I prepared My vessel for Myself, for it was based on the will of a person whom it recognized as rightly directed and was therefore also able to choose that person as a vessel .... For My love for you humans wanted to help you to emerge from spiritual adversity .... And it also knew the right means, which consisted of lighting a light for you so that you could see and now also consciously take the path to Me .... You humans lack the light of truth and therefore I kindled it for you .... And truly, I only give you truth, and I protect all from error who only sincerely desire the truth .... And that I can do this you will not doubt, that I want it is guaranteed to you by My greater than great love .... And My wisdom recognizes the right ways, the right means and also the human hearts which long for light .... And to all of these I will guide the light of truth and they will recognize Me Myself when I speak to them through you, who thus serve Me as right vessels, as is My will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Blessing of loving intercession ....

B.D. 8101 from February 13th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

No soul shall go hungry to whom you give your loving intercession .... Where My love is bound to the law of eternal order your love can have a redeeming effect, and for the sake of your love I can supply strength to the souls and help them to achieve final redemption. For I only want to induce you to express love, because love is a strength which can bring help to the still unredeemed as well as promote your own ascent development. And thus everything that is based on love has an extremely beneficial effect, on earth as well as in the beyond. If you humans are able to embrace everything with your love you are already far advanced in your development and you can enter the kingdom of the beyond as perfected beings when your soul leaves the earthly body. But people are only rarely able to muster such love, for they usually still judge purely humanly and see their fellow human beings' faults and weaknesses, which is why they don't believe they can love them. But love should be such that it understands everything, that it can forgive everything, that it sees its fellow human being's weaknesses and faults with merciful eyes .... that it is willing to help him .... And anyone who can acquire this degree of love on earth can truly call himself blessed, for he has accomplished the transformation of his nature into love, which was the aim of his earthly progress .... But you should all make an effort to attain this degree of love, and therefore you should only ever try to imagine your fellow human being's soul which is often in deepest adversity and in need of help .... regardless of whether it is still on earth or already in the kingdom of the beyond .... If you could see such souls you would be seized by deep compassion and your will to help would also be immediately stimulated so that you would want to release them from their adversity. And thus you must seriously consider the idea that such souls urgently need help and rarely only receive it because other people take offence at their nature and therefore they don't earn any love from their fellow human beings .... A person's thoughts cannot be good, but the soul is to be pitied because it is in the fetters of the adversary who suffocates everything good in it and it is helplessly at his mercy in its weakness .... because it does not awaken love within itself which would give it strength to resist .... And you should help such souls with your love .... A good thought, an intercessory call to Me and also an unselfish work of help which charitably touches the soul can cause love to flare up in the soul because it feels a strength within itself which has directed your love to it. If you would only ever try to put yourselves into the misery of those souls, then your love would strike them and you could truly be redemptively active on these souls. For every soul is pitiful which still lives in complete darkness, which has not yet felt the strength of love in itself. And you pass by precisely such souls, you pay little attention to them or you turn away from them because people don't appeal to you, because you don't believe you can love them .... Take care of them, try to put yourselves in their shoes, you who have already found light, have mercy on those who walk without light .... give them love and present their hardship to Me, and I will truly be merciful to them for the sake of your love and provide them with strength which they only need to use correctly in order to find their way out of their adversity. Think less of the human being than of his soul, which is grateful to you for the smallest help because it cannot help itself if it does not make use of the strength of love .... And since it has little love itself you should give it to this soul, and you will be redemptively active and likewise find fulfilment of your requests if you are in spiritual hardship yourselves and present it to Me, for you all need help from Me as long as you still live on earth. And even in the kingdom of the beyond I will not deny help to those for whom you pray with love ....

Amen

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Jesus has built the bridge ....

B.D. 8102 from February 15th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

You humans have to enter the bridge to the spiritual kingdom, you have to try to detach yourselves from the earthly world, you have to think about your purpose in life on earth; you have to think about where you have come from and where you are going again. You must occupy yourselves with spiritual thoughts and you will already be moving on the bridge into the spiritual kingdom. And then you will also remember the teachings which were given to you for the purpose of your education, and you will also take a stand on the individual teachings in your thoughts .... And then Jesus Christ and His act of salvation will also come before your eyes, Who in truth has built the bridge from earth into the spiritual kingdom. And now your will will be decisive as to whether thoughts of the divine redeemer will touch you more deeply, for these thoughts will radiate to you from the world of light and you need only grasp them in order to derive a blessing which you, as human beings, cannot measure. If you are of good will you will return to these thoughts again and again, because Jesus Christ Himself will take hold of you as soon as you remember Him and feel His influence as thoughts and questions arise again and again as to what the work of salvation is all about .... (15.2.1962) And such questions will truly also be answered for it is the most important thing in earthly life that you find Jesus Christ, that you acknowledge Him as the divine redeemer and thus recognize Me Myself in Him .... For you must voluntarily return to Me again, Whom you once no longer wanted to acknowledge .... If you now believe in Jesus Christ, then you will also recognize Me Myself in Him, Who became a visible God for you, so that this recognition will become easy for you. Every person will one day have to realize his own attitude towards Jesus and His act of salvation. And therefore I will send My disciples into the world again and again who are to proclaim the gospel, who are to mention the act of salvation and thus carry the knowledge of Him everywhere, Who built the bridge for people which leads from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of light. These two kingdoms are separated and there was a deep gulf which could not have been bridged by people alone. And in recognition of people's great adversity the man Jesus built this bridge through His act of salvation, through His death on the cross, through which He redeemed people's great original sin .... He opened a path that leads back to the father, to Me, from Whom you all once came forth .... But without Jesus Christ this deep gulf still exists and you will remain in the dark realm forever, because no way leads out without Jesus. This is why people should hear about Him, about His work of great mercy, about His infinite love, and then they will also recognize that the man Jesus sheltered Me within Himself, Who is Love, Who thus took abode in Him. Jesus sacrificed Himself for His fellow human beings, which He would not have been able to do had it not been for the love in Him which gave Him the strength in His bitter suffering and dying on the cross in order to redeem humanity's guilt and to clear the way into the father's house for those who accept His act of mercy and appeal to Him for forgiveness of guilt and who therefore now also recognize and acknowledge Me in Jesus. And again and again people should therefore be pointed to Jesus Christ and His act of salvation .... They shall experience the spiritual hardship they are in as long as they do not believe in Him and are therefore still burdened with their original sin .... They shall hear again and again that they cannot become blessed without Jesus Christ, that the kingdom of light remains closed to them as long as they have not taken the path to the cross, because for such a long time they did not recognize Me Myself either, but this is the meaning and purpose of their earthly life, that they strive towards Me again of their own free will, Whom they had once voluntarily left .... The reason for their apostasy was also that they were unable to see Me .... In Jesus I became a visible God to them, and in Jesus they now also have to acknowledge Me in order to be accepted by Me again .... And therefore they must enter the bridge to the spiritual kingdom, for this kingdom is their true home, which can only be reached via the bridge Jesus built through His death on the cross .... You humans seriously desire information about the act of salvation, about the divine redeemer Jesus Christ and His mission on earth, seek truthful knowledge about Him, and truly, it will be granted to you, for you shall attain beatitude. The path to beatitude leads via the cross of Jesus Christ .... And therefore I will send My disciples to you again and again, and they will testify to Him, they will testify to My human manifestation in Jesus and to the greatest work of mercy which love itself accomplished on earth in the man Jesus ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Taking refuge in Jesus .... The adversary's activity ....

B.D. 8103 from February 16th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

My adversary seeks to extinguish the light which shines brightly down to Earth .... And all of you will still experience his activity, for he does not shy away from anything if he believes he can reach his goal with it. And the light shines brightly already and places those people who accept it and allow it to shine into their hearts into a state of realisation. The light, however, exposes My adversary, and people try to detach themselves from him, for they see the cross of Christ light up and turn to the divine Redeemer for help to release them from the enemy of their souls .... For this reason he leaves no stone unturned to extinguish the light from Me .... Yet he will have little success, for those who belong to Me are also capable of offering him resistance .... And they also receive the strength from Me to take their path as bearers of light, they protect the light themselves, because they are faithfully devoted to Me and thus the adversary has no power over them. It is the time of the end where My adversary's activity emerges ever more fiercely, but I, too, will reveal Myself remarkably and My Own will recognise Me and remain loyal to Me, precisely because they are enlightened, because they know about the battle between darkness and light. And every individual person will have to battle it out with the adversary as well, however, I will stand by anyone's side who wants to belong to Me and he will be victorious, he will recognise where shadows spread across the light and leave this situation as long as the adversary works in it .... Yet a person can consider himself fortunate if he has entered the flow of love which comes to you in the form of My Words .... The darkness can no longer scare him and neither need he fear that his light will be taken away from him and that he will descend into darkness again .... But he must voluntarily have entered the kingdom of My light, he must accept My Word, which is conveyed to earth from above, in his heart and thus open it of his own accord, so that the light from above can shine in and brightly illuminate him from within .... Then he truly need no longer fear My adversary's game of deceit, then he will ward off the adversary himself through the light, which the latter avoids ....

And if you fear that you don't have enough strength to fend him off when he beleaguers you, then take the path to the cross, call upon Jesus and appeal to Him for strength, and your desire for Jesus will be a certain means of defence against the enemy, for Jesus once faced him in battle and defeated him. And thus his power was broken, he will never be able to rise against Jesus, he will never succeed in snatching a human being back from Jesus again, for He protectively holds His hand over the one whose soul He bought back from His adversary with His blood .... Jesus Christ is the divine Redeemer Who was merely My shell in which I embodied Myself in order to give you humans your freedom again if it is your will to liberate yourselves from his control .... And once you have turned to Me in Jesus again, he can truly no longer snatch you from Me because his power will have been broken .... And anyone who has taken the path to the cross, to Jesus, lives in light as well .... This is why My adversary's spends the greatest effort to extinguish every light which might illuminate the path to the cross for people .... Yet he is incapable of achieving anything if the human being himself doesn't want it .... You should always bear in mind that you need only desire the light for it to shine for you .... that you should only have Jesus as your goal and that you will safely reach this goal, for only your will decides whether you live in light or in darkness. My side will always kindle a light for you, My side will impart the truth to you and in its bright radiance you will also find the right path .... I Myself radiate the light to earth by sounding My Word, I Myself speak to you and that also signifies the illumination of your hearts with My light of love .... And then only your will determines the degree of realisation, for My Word is instructive and informs you of My will. If you comply with it, the light will become increasingly brighter and you will recognise My adversary's activity and offer him resistance .... And he will leave you alone, because he avoids the area of light you occupy now because you have become My Own ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Reason for the catastrophe ....

B.D. 8104 from February 17th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

In the last days before the end I will pour a large measure of grace upon humanity .... For I know of their weakness, of their spiritual darkness and their inclination toward the earthly world, their craving for earthly possessions, honour and fame .... I know that they are held captive by My adversary and in their weakness they are incapable of releasing themselves from his power. And I try to help people in various ways since everyone requires support in his spiritual hardship. And I also know what each person needs and therefore consider everyone according to his attitude towards life itself or towards Me. For I want to win every single person for Myself.

But people don't know that My adversary keeps them imprisoned when they desire earthly possessions, since they are oblivious to the true purpose of their earthly existence. Consequently they don't try to escape his control either. And people who cling to material possessions with heart and mind have to be helped by Me in a special way which, however, is not recognised by them as help .... I have to deprive them of their belongings, I have to let them get into situations where they learn to recognise the fleeting nature of all earthly things, I must make them realise their own vulnerability so that they will remember Me in their helplessness and consciously approach Me for help .... For I want them to find Me, Whom they have not found in the world and will also struggle to find .... This is a manifestation of Myself which affects people painfully but they cannot be aroused from their indifference in any other way ....

And yet, even this manifestation is a blessing in the last days, for a heartfelt prayer to Me and its fulfilment can direct the human being towards Me so that he will not leave Me again, so that he will ask for My guidance from that moment on and hand himself over to Me .... And then I will have won him over and saved him from the adversary, who will have lost his power over him. You humans will only ever see the destruction in every kind of natural disaster and make thoughtless judgments as long as you are not affected by them yourselves .... Yet nothing happens without My will or permission, and you should always bear this in mind when you hear about unexpected events threatening people's life and property, when people are powerless and only able to help according to their meagre strength .... But I know every individual person's will and also the possibility of leading erring souls onto the right path to Me .... And truly, I will take care of every individual who prays to Me in spirit and in truth and appeals for My help .... And the time of the end will justify such events which human will is unable to prevent if they were destined by My will .... You humans will often still be subject to the fury of natural forces and only rarely recognise therein My loving care for those whose souls are at risk .... I only want to help you release yourselves from My adversary which initially happens when you send a heartfelt appeal to Me and thus acknowledge Me as your God and Creator .... and then recognise the transience of things which still belong to My adversary. Try to let go of your desire for earthly matter, for all sorts of possessions .... For you will always receive whatever you need when you join Me and recognise your real earthly task and aim to comply with it ....

But don't let yourselves be shackled by My adversary who so temptingly portrays worldly goods to you that I have to intervene Myself by showing you that you can lose them at any time if this is My will. These interventions are painful but they can be a blessing for you .... And the One Who takes away from you can also always give to you. And He will help anyone in distress if he hands himself over to Him in complete faith and appeals for His help .... But always recognise My will in every natural event, for My will is truly determined by love and wisdom and thus everything is a blessing for you as long as you find the right attitude towards Me and realise the true purpose of earthly life .... then you will come ever closer to Me and know that everything I allow to befall humanity is a gift of grace .... For it is the time of the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Participation of the light beings in the work of creation ....

B.D. 8105 from February 19th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

The word which comes to you from Me will only ever impart the clearest knowledge to you, for this is My purpose, that you will be instructed in the truth, that your thinking is right, that you will receive clarification in all questions which move you mentally and that you therefore know the truth yourselves in order to be able to represent it to your fellow human beings. Again and again I try to clarify people's misconceptions, and I could and can only do this by making knowledge accessible to a completely ignorant person before he took notice of this wrong knowledge, which, however, I Myself had not imparted to people but which resulted from his own wrong thoughts and changes. I only ever try to instruct people in the truth but cannot prevent people from transforming it again themselves and thus attain wrong thinking .... The apostasy of the spirits .... of the beings created by Me .... happened as it was explained to you again and again, that the beings, which had emerged from My strength of love as My images, turned away from Me but Whom they recognized in their abundance of light as their God and creator. These beings had been externalised by Me as completely independent, and if I call them My images they were therefore the image of Myself in the most minimal form, if the word 'form' is applicable to spiritual beings at all .... Yet the beings were able to behold and recognize themselves, they were also able to exchange themselves through the 'word'. They were therefore independent beings, completely independent of each other and also independent of Me .... except for the constant radiance of love on My part which enabled them to create and work in the spiritual realm .... This radiance of love was therefore, as it were, the bond which united us .... And the apostate beings themselves tore this bond apart by turning away from Me and rejecting the illumination of love .... and consequently also lost their creative power and became incapable of any activity .... which meant the hardening of their spiritual substance .... However, I had separated these beings from Me, they were isolated from Me, yet each individual being was an original spirit brought into being by Me ...., originally a 'God-like being' ..... Understand that it was therefore also able to determine its own free will and was in no way influenced or hindered by Me, because in the light of its knowledge it was also very well able to judge what it wanted and did .... And yet, it turned away from Me and voluntarily strove towards the abyss, which then also meant the loss of light, of the strength of love from Me and consequently the loss of all knowledge. Thus the kingdom of darkness came into being which received all these beings which had voluntarily separated themselves from Me .... That I will not leave these beings in darkness forever has also been told to you again and again, for My nature is love and love gives up nothing .... love always seeks unification with everything that has emerged from love .... Yet every fallen original spirit has to return to Me of its own free will before the beatification through My love can take place again. But the fallen one is completely weakened, for it rejected the strength from Me .... And if this weakened one is to cover the path from the abyss to the height then it has to be helped .... And all spiritual beings full of light which are filled with love are ready to help it, because their love is therefore meant for the weak, fallen one until its final return to Me .... And furthermore you must know that all spiritual beings full of light, all spiritual beings which once remained with Me, create and work together with Me in My will .... And thus it will also be understandable to you that all works of creation arose from this joint activity .... that I make all spirits which emerged from Me happy by constantly receiving strength and using it, by letting creations arise in accordance with My will which are now intended to serve the fallen spirits as a way back to Me .... You will understand that the beings full of love take care of their fallen brothers and thus see their task in redeeming themselves .... And thus every single original spirit .... even if it is dissolved into innumerable substances .... will experience the care of this light-filled spiritual being during its entire course of upward development until the last perfection .... For love always applies to the wretched and seeks to lead it to beatitude, regardless of whether love radiates from Me directly or from the beings of light, for it is always My emanation of love which flows through all beings of light, which now again pass on and utilize the strength as stations of strength according to My will. Thus the fallen original spirits are handed over to these beings for care, which means that they grant them help throughout the whole process of ascent development, that they create all prerequisites in order to give the individual spiritual substances the opportunity to be of service, and thus always let earthly creations arise in My will .... the spiritual substances as a cover in which maturing now takes place through service. And thus this spiritual substance slowly ascends from the abyss, through the stone, plant and animal kingdoms up to the human being .... And even as a human being, the original spirit .... now its soul .... needs the care of the world full of light .... But now it would not be able to take a step upwards because this upward development in the human being can only be achieved by love, but the soul is completely devoid of love, for it once rejected My illumination of love and now has to voluntarily open itself to My illumination of love again .... which, however, can only happen if there is already a small spark of love in it .... And I Myself place this spark into the human being's soul at the beginning of his embodiment .... But a divine spark of love is always inseparably connected with eternal love .... So you humans can well say that you have the God-spirit in you, for this spark of love is My share, it is the spirit of My spirit .... it is the divine ray of love which, however, still remains ineffective as long as you still resist Me .... but which immediately ignites when you open yourselves in free will to the illumination of love from Me, that is..., if you mentally turn to Me, if you make an effort to live to please Me, if you implore Me in prayer for My grace, My spirit and My strength .... if you therefore consciously want to belong to Me again and hand yourselves over to Me, so that I can then fill you with My spirit, so that the bond of your spiritual spark with the eternal father-spirit is established, which then secures your irradiation of love again, which slowly leads you to perfection. This bond of My divine spirit of love with you, which must be striven for by your free will, is then also your complete change of will. You approach the original state again and then return to Me at your demise as a perfected original being .... The being which once turned away from Me has voluntarily found its way back to Me, and it now shines in brightest light again .... because My love can radiate through it again as it once did when it was still with Me in the kingdom of the blissful spirits .... And all beings of light took part in its bliss, just as they took part in its fate when it was still wretched ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God wants to be known .... Reasons for the revelations ....

B.D. 8106 from February 20th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

It cannot be told to you often enough that I appear unusually in the end time because I want to save you humans from ruin. I use many means, I address every individual person in his fate of life, I show Myself in unusual events of all kinds because everything that happens is My will or My permission .... And I speak to you humans directly from above through the transmission of My word .... because I only want to achieve one thing, that you recognize Me Myself in everything that happens, in everything you encounter, be it of a joyful or sorrowful nature. I only want to be recognized by you .... I want you humans to believe in a God and creator Who wants to be your father and Who, in His love, tries everything to win your hearts for Himself. This is why I reveal Myself, this is why I also send you My word from above, for you shall receive information as to why everything happens and that one is above you Who directs everything that happens, even though He takes people's free will into account. Yet My will and My might will know how to judge everything correctly which people's will does wrong and therefore much responsibility also rests on the human being himself .... But since you humans are mostly ignorant, since you lack the right knowledge, I will also try to convey this to you by informing you about the meaning and purpose of your earthly life and your earthly task .... You humans no longer have much time at your disposal but it can still suffice to induce you to strive towards Me Myself as your God and creator, and this is the only thing I still want to achieve so that you need not fear a new banishment in the end when the whole earthly creation will be judged anew again .... You must therefore accept this as a reason when I reveal Myself to you through My word .... I address you .... An unheard-of grace which My love bestows upon you, because My word has a strength which can easily cause a change of will in you. And then you will be saved for all eternity if your will changes, if it turns towards Me and I can now also grasp you. For it concerns your free will .... Neither I nor My adversary can force you into the direction of your will. But My word can bring it about that you give Me your will, because through My word you learn to recognize Me Myself and My nature, because My word is a direct illumination of love which can ignite in you, and because you come close to Me Myself if you willingly listen to My word and act accordingly. It is a means of grace with such a significant effect that you humans can be awakened to life which lasts forever .... For it is life itself, it is an emanation of strength which can awaken everything dead to life if only it gives up its resistance .... Therefore you should listen to Me when I speak to you Myself; you should not reject My messengers who convey My word to you, for I Myself send them to you because I recognize hearts which only still require My illumination of love in order to come alive, in order to then have escaped eternal death. And I will have to speak loudly to anyone who does not pay attention to My silent address, which will also often happen before the end, for where I only see a possibility to soften human hearts I will leave no stone unturned, because it is not about the body's well-being but about the state of the soul, which shall be saved before the end .... Don't doubt My love, for even if you humans are not always able to recognize it, it is nevertheless the reason for everything you experience and which also often affects you painfully. And as long as there is still a possibility to influence human hearts I will not fail to grant them help. For I don't want them to perish; I want them to attain eternal life and be blissfully happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God: Love - wisdom - power ....

B.D. 8107 from February 21st 1962, taken from Book No. 85

I will make Myself known to you as a God of love, wisdom and power .... And therefore I will do everything to prove Myself to you. I will constantly guide you through earthly life who request My guidance, and you will always recognize help as soon as you get into adversity, because My love will not leave you in adversity .... You will also always be able to recognize My wisdom, for you may only take one look into My creations. Everything that surrounds you will testify to My wisdom as soon as you seriously think about it, as soon as you don't walk blindly through your earthly life. Then you must also remember the creator Who let everything arise around you and Who truly created all things in wisdom which serve you humans as well as the various creations in order to maintain and exist .... For nothing came into being without meaning and purpose which creation contains, except that you humans are not always able to fathom the purpose. And the fact that everything has come into being also proves to you again My might, to which no limits are set .... which radiated everything My love and wisdom wanted out of itself, which let its thoughts become form .... You humans could constantly let My works of love speak to you, which always reveal My wisdom and power to you, and you could already conclude from this that there is a God and creator Whose nature is perfect .... You can all think, and you will also always be stimulated on the part of the beings of light which seek to actuate their love on My behalf for you .... You should only not resist such thoughts which point to your God and creator .... The recognition of His perfection, the knowledge of His love, wisdom and power, will always ensure you an easy earthly life, for then you will also consciously turn to Him because you have recognized Him as supremely perfect .... And this alone I seek to achieve, to make Myself known to you as a perfect being, so that you will then also seek contact with Me. For you first have to believe in a being with conviction before you make contact with this being. Love, wisdom and power in highest perfection .... that is My essence .... And you should consciously strive for this being. Then you will not walk the earth unsuccessfully, then your short existence on earth will be the last conclusion of a long period of development, which will have brought you back to your original being again .... For you can only achieve this through the bond with Me in free will .... And whatever I can do to induce you into this bond I will also do, because I am interested in your return to Me, because I want to shorten the state of separation, which is not a blissful one for you. But if you recognize Me as a supremely perfect being then you will try to join Me of your own free will, you will give Me your love, you will no longer turn away from Me when I want to illuminate you with My love, and earthly life will let you reach the aim .... For I Myself can now also influence you because you have given up your resistance against Me. And so that you will now also know about your purpose of earthly life, I will convey this knowledge to you on a path which, in turn, should prove My love, wisdom and power to you .... I speak to you because My love wants to help you .... I instruct you about your beginning and your final aim in a way you cannot be instructed earthly, which shall confirm My great wisdom to you .... and I choose an unusual way to convey this knowledge to you .... because everything is possible for Me, whatever I want. And I want to guide you humans to beatitude and truly know all ways and means, but I leave you free will. And this can also reject all means of help, and then the human being, despite his earthly progress, will remain at the same stage of development where he stood at the beginning of his embodiment .... If he does not sink and strive towards the abyss again, which then means his renewed banishment when the end has come .... For the law of order is observed from My side, and no human being can become blessed who violates the law of order ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

What is meant by "eternities" ....

B.D. 8108 from February 22nd 1962, taken from Book No. 85

The former apostasy of the spirits from God has extended over endless ages .... Eternities passed during which the light-shining host of spirits was inexpressibly blissful in His nearness .... Eternities passed before the slow transformation took place in the original spirits, where again and again God's strength of love flooded them and they were devoted to Him and then again free will moved them to turn away from God .... And eternities passed again until these beings decided to finally turn away from God .... This process in the realm of the spirits cannot be comprehended with human understanding, for something that was created most perfectly reversed its fundamental nature, it took on a completely opposite nature, and thus a world full of wretchedness arose, a world of darkness and torment .... which is also incomprehensible to human understanding .... But this process did take place and was the cause of creation, which is to bring about the return of all fallen beings to God from Whom they originated. But the act of creation also took an infinitely long time, for all material creations were, as it were, spiritual substances 'on their way back' which had to ascend again just as they had once fallen into the abyss .... which therefore could not pass over any phase and therefore also took a long time for the emergence of creation. Every work of creation contained fallen spiritual substance in the various degrees of its development .... And the time was also endlessly long before the fallen spiritual, which had hardened into solid substance, was encased and through God's will became matter, forms, which now visibly appeared .... These infinitely long periods of time are likewise inconceivable to human intellect, which is why it is certainly possible to speak of eternities which have already passed by since God's will of love created beings which He had established as independent of Himself .... And likewise, eternities will pass until all spiritual beings have taken the path back to God and reached the aim again .... the union with God .... But that this process of the spiritual beings' apostasy from God once took place shall be made known to people who are these apostate spiritual beings .... so that they learn to grasp the significance of their earthly life, so that they seek contact with their God and creator of eternity and try to penetrate more closely into the knowledge of their original state, which is the purpose and aim of their earthly life. For the knowledge of it will make them happy .... because it is already a state of light to attain knowledge of it in contrast to the darkness in which the fallen spirits still find themselves, which once voluntarily gave up the light of knowledge and chose deepest darkness .... Therefore God will kindle a light for those who desire it .... who want to step out of darkness. And this light will inform people about questions which cannot be answered by people .... which God reserves for Himself to answer but gives a light to everyone who desires it. The human being should know that he owes his existence to a being Which brought everything into existence that is apparent to him .... And he should know that this being is supremely perfect and that therefore everything It created is based on profound love, supreme wisdom and inconceivable power .... He should know that he may and should devote himself to this being in order to experience supreme bliss, because that being is love in Its fundamental substance, Which always and forever wants to give Itself away .... Who created beings in great numbers in order to be able to make them happy forever and ever .... And the human being should know that he was created in God's image, which only voluntarily turned itself into the opposite .... but which will certainly have completed the reversion one day, and that as a human being he will now cover the last phase of material creation, which can earn him union with God again if he himself has the will to do so .... And the will will be stimulated by the knowledge of all this, but which it can also freely accept or also reject again. Yet God wants to reveal Himself in His being, He wants to be recognized by people as a being Which is love, wisdom and power in Itself, because this knowledge also awakens love in people and love signifies union with God, Who Himself is love from eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Let the power of My word become effective ....

B.D. 8109 from February 24th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

So always strengthen yourselves with My word and believe that the strength of My word flows through you and will always have a beneficial effect on your soul. And the soul needs strength, for as long as you live on earth it shall perfect itself, it shall cast off all dross, all immaturity shall mature, it shall increase in realization, i.e. the light of love from Me shall flow through it and also kindle a bright light within it. And this will always happen if the strength of My word can take effect in it .... Therefore you should often let yourselves be addressed by Me, time and again you should refresh and strengthen yourselves at My source. (24.2.1962) And you will also feel My presence if you are so inwardly united with Me that I can speak to you. And then hear what I say to you: Stand firm in all temptations of body and soul .... For My adversary constantly wrestles for your soul and will try everything to turn you away from Me. And he will not be prevented by Me because you have to make the decision yourselves and because I also know that his work on you, who want to be Mine, is unsuccessful. I help you by constantly sending you strength in the form of My word. And you only have to use this strength, you have to let it constantly flow through you by not loosening your bond with Me, by letting Me become the content of your thoughts, by wanting to be and remain My own forever. For he cannot force this will, this will will repel him because he recognizes that he is powerless against it. Nor can I prevent him from using unfair means because I don't impose coercion on him either .... I can only ever grant assistance, and you will all experience it in abundance. Long before I have already drawn your attention to the fact that you will often still have to prove yourselves against his attacks, and time and again you are admonished to watch and pray because the enemy is always close to you in order to bring you down. And I have also told you long before that he will do everything to extinguish the light which shines down from Me to earth through you in order to break through the darkness .... And where there is light his activity will also be recognized, and he will lose appendage, which he wants to prevent and therefore will use all means, and he will especially harass the light bearers .... But these are under My protection and need not fear him and his activity. And anyone who voluntarily places himself at My disposal to accept the light from Me and to carry it out into the darkness will also always be accompanied by beings of light who serve Me on My behalf and grant protection to the bearers of light. For the flow of light and strength has to flow to earth, because this path has to be shown to the few who want to take the path to Me and because they shall also receive strength to cover it, since it leads upwards. And anyone who consciously hands himself over to Me and distances himself from My adversary will also travel his path under My guidance and need not fear any counter-influence .... But you have to reckon with the fact that he will not cease his efforts to bring you down, for it is the time of the end .... And what he does not succeed in doing straight away he tries again and again to throw you into doubt, to give you a false impression of Me .... For he wants you to fall away from Me, and therefore he spreads lies and error and contributes to confusion wherever he can .... But you, who are and want to remain Mine, only abide by My word, which will visibly fill you with strength and you can resist at any time where its working is evident .... Withdraw the strength you need from My word, let yourselves be addressed by Me again and again, and thereby you will strengthen the bond and be filled with strength, for then you let Me Myself be present in you, and where I can be there My adversary must give way ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The light of truth shines where it is desired ....

B.D. 8110 from February 25th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

Only pure truth can come forth from your God and father, and you should always ask Me for it, and then you will also walk in truth. You will never be able to get from a fellow human being what I have reserved for Myself unless he has received the truth from Me. But you will also always be able to rely on Me to protect the one who desires the truth from error. You humans cannot measure the value of truth, after all, it is the light which shines into the kingdom of darkness in which you humans find yourselves, because you are the spiritual substance which once fell away from Me and voluntarily exchanged the kingdom of light for the kingdom of darkness. You humans can indeed acquire earthly knowledge on earth if you strive for it, but this knowledge does not yet signify light .... You are in complete ignorance of your beginning and your goal as long as no light of truth is yet kindled for you .... But this light comes from Me, it comes from the kingdom of light, it cannot be found in the kingdom of darkness by any other means .... It must be requested and received from Me Myself if it is to truly be a light for you in the darkness in which you dwell. I am the eternal light and I also radiate the light into infinity, i.e., where I dwell conscious beings will be illuminated by this light and thus also stand in the light themselves, they will know everything and this knowledge will make them happy. I will also let My light shine into the kingdom of darkness .... There are also self-aware beings on earth who are without any knowledge, and I also want to shine My light to them if only they are willing to receive it .... for only in the light do they recognize Me, their God and creator from eternity .... Only the pure truth gives them this realization, which will also make them happy because their purpose of earthly life is now also understandable to them, which lies in the union with Me .... with the original light of eternity. And once you humans have come to the realization that I am the eternal truth, then you will also approach Me Myself for the supply of truth, for it signifies a light in the darkness for you, it signifies clear recognition of your relationship with Me, and you will then be filled with the desire to enter into this original relationship again, which ensures you light in all abundance. Your God and Creator is also Love Itself .... Which longs for Its creations and only ever seeks to promote your return. Love, God and truth are one .... Hence you must inevitably reach Me if you desire the truth yourselves, for then the light of truth will also ignite the spark of love in you, which is My share .... And love pushes towards love and unites with it .... And I want you to kindle My light of love in you, which you will always do when you yourselves perform works of love, for then you will draw Me Myself to yourselves, and then it will shine brightly in you and you will also recognize the truth in the fullest light .... and all darkness will be overcome. And thus only your will is ever valued, which shall turn to Me as the eternal truth .... This will will seek the bond with Me through loving activity, love will kindle a light as fire and truthful knowledge will be the result, this again will make Me truly recognizable to the human being, love for Me will ignite more powerfully and unity with Me will now be striven for with all senses .... For the darkness is overcome as soon as My divine light of love can radiate and break through all darkness. And I am always willing to kindle a light for you, I am always willing to convey purest truth to earth, yet you must desire it yourselves, you must express your will to escape the darkness, for striving for light is synonymous with the will to strive towards Me Myself, Who is the light from eternity .... I give with full hands, I only expect open vessels which willingly and joyfully receive My gifts .... I will give you light in abundance to lead you out of darkness, but you must voluntarily want to escape the night .... you must desire the light, and truly, it will shine for you forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Urgency of vineyard work ....

B.D. 8111 from February 27th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

Don't let your needs of any kind weigh you down, for you can always come to Me and present them to Me .... I will always listen to you and take care of your adversity. And I will also put everything in order, I will guide your thoughts and place My will into your heart, and then you will only ever carry out what is also My will .... But always place your spiritual mission in the foreground, that is, don't tire of working for Me and My kingdom .... For this work is so important that you should not let anything hinder you from carrying it out, and I will bless you for it .... You will experience that My adversary will repeatedly try to prevent you from carrying out this vineyard work, yet My strength will work in you and he will not be able to do anything because he will act against Me Myself as soon as he wants to attack My word and I Myself will defend him with My might and My will. You should always abide by what I Myself have told you .... You should know that the end is approaching and that everything should be done to still save souls from the downfall .... You also know that I speak to you directly because there is not much time left .... (27.2.1962) I have foretold you that you will be in battle until the end .... It is a battle for Me and My kingdom, it is a battle against the adversary who will still try everything to turn My own away from Me and who will also openly proceed against the truth which I convey to earth through you. But precisely this shall be proof to you that you are active on My behalf, and the more will be done to invalidate My pure truth the firmer you shall stand by Me and not allow yourselves to be swayed, for your actions are under My blessing and you will be filled with My strength. And My support will also always be obvious to you, after all, I know all your hardships, your concerns and also your temporary weakness .... But anyone who is under My protection need not fear anything, he will be led out through all (from all) adversity. The flow of the spirit to earth shall be uninterrupted because this bond has to be maintained, because many people draw the strength from My word to resist all temptations of the enemy. And many people also desire this supply of strength, and therefore they shall not be disappointed. The earth at present carries countless spiritual beings which are in bondage to My adversary, and their activity is very strong .... They oppress those people who turn to Me, and strength shall also flow to them by Me addressing them, by them hearing My voice, even if not directly .... but they sense that the father addresses them and they long for this address. And as you, My servants, make it possible for Me to address those through you, you are doing a vineyard work of the greatest value .... I cannot force you to do so, your free will has to decide to serve Me as faithful servants in the end time, and where I meet this will I am also present Myself and guide you and your thoughts, I provide you with strength and grace, for My love increases the closer the end is. And if I promise Myself success from the transmission of My word then I will truly do everything to convey this word to people who are of good will, for My word is truth and truth alone is the light which can lead you out of spiritual darkness. And where I was once able to kindle a light I will also place My guards there who will keep it from going out, who will also prevent a clouding of the light because all help is needed to still save human souls from ruin. And thus you, My servants on earth, are repeatedly admonished to work diligently, for you serve Me and you serve the erring souls .... Don't let yourselves be held back from this service, for it is so important before the end that a light still shines out into the night .... And by spreading My word, which sounds to you from above, you act as bearers of light who are followed by people who are of good will themselves. To bring light to them is My will, which you should also make your own .... And truly, you will walk your earthly path as good servants whom the father of the house will also reward with His love .... whom He will fetch home to Himself in His father's house ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Purification of Earth ....

B.D. 8112 from February 28th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

I want to purify the earth and turn it into a place of peace again, where love will reign and where I will be able to stay amongst My Own because their love for Me allows Me to do so .... But first a purification process has to take place, My adversary's activity has to be stopped, and thus he has to be chained up together with his followers .... that is, all souls enslaved by him have to be banished into hard matter again, all spiritual substances on the path of higher development have to be placed into forms which correspond to their state of maturity; and thus My adversary will lose all power, for the spiritual substances which will travel the path across earth in a state of compulsion again will have been removed from him .... and the people whose will he was able to influence shall have turned away from him and come back to Me for good, so that they, as the root of the new human race, can no longer be bothered by him. All power, which he associates with his adherents, will have been taken from him, for he will have no control over the spiritual substances bound in matter, in the creations of earth .... And there will be peace on earth again for a long time ....

Hence it has to be preceded by a purification process, and this will come about through a work of destruction of inconceivable proportions, for a total transformation of the entire earth's surface will occur, all creations will be disintegrated and shaped anew, which also means the downfall of all people and living beings, the disappearance of everything that shelters spiritual substances .... Although the creation work of 'Earth' will indeed remain, the power of natural forces will penetrate far into the core, dissolving the solid matter and giving all constrained spirits the opportunity to receive new forms. For everything will have become disorderly because people live and act in complete opposition to My eternal order .... Consequently, everything has to be arranged anew, which first requires the disintegration of the works of creation which, to you humans, is the same as your downfall, for no-one will survive the end apart from those who will be taken away by Me before the end ....

Yet this last event will only be dreadful for the human being, because his soul will be banished into solid matter again, whereas the development of all other spiritual substances can only advance, for new forms will be created for all spiritual substances to shelter them .... And the creations on the new earth will be incomparably delightful, and the spiritual substances will be given the opportunity to be of active service again whereby all spirits will be able to ascend and time and again change their present form.

This work of transformation of the old earth is about to happen to you humans .... And although you don't know the day and the hour, you, who do not want to be doomed, who want to belong to Me and not suffer the dreadful judgment of a new banishment, should prepare yourselves for the end .... Believe that you live in the time of the end and consider the thought that you are creating your own fate .... that you can live an exceedingly blissful and glorious life in the paradise of the new earth .... but that you can also descend into utter darkness, if you are not granted the grace to be called back before in order to still find the opportunity of ascent in the beyond .... And take your psychological work seriously, that is, live a life of unselfish neighbourly love and you will thereby establish the bond with Me and without doubt be saved from this downfall. Time and again I will send you My messengers to admonish and warn you, and time and again you will hear of or be afflicted by all kinds of misfortunes and disasters, for they are all reminders to make you consider the possibility of a sudden departure and your souls' fate, if it has not yet reached a state befitting its entrance to My kingdom of light and beatitude ....

I don't want you to go astray, I want you to achieve eternal life, but you humans live irresponsibly, you don't consider Me and neither do you consider your soul's fate after the death of your body .... And your attention shall repeatedly be drawn to the fact that you are approaching a dreadful fate .... that you, banished into hardest matter again, will have to start the path of evolution all over again in inexpressible agony and distress .... but that you will be able to prevent this fate if you listen to Me, if you believe those who proclaim in My name that you are near the end .... For the time is fulfilled and it will come to pass as it is proclaimed in Word and Scripture ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Love and suffering purify the soul ....

B.D. 8113 from March 1st 1962, taken from Book No. 86

Love should be the driving force for all your deeds and failings .... then you will always do My will, you will work with love and thereby also attain the strength needed by your soul for your path of earthly life. The soul is meant to mature fully, that is, it is meant to push away all impurities it is still burdened with, it is meant to become translucent so it is able to accept My love's emanation of light which signifies strength and bliss for the soul. But My ray of love cannot penetrate it if the soul is still surrounded by dense layers, by impure longings and instincts, by all kinds of vices, by low characteristics such as pride, anger, vindictiveness .... by any kind of unkindness ....

The soul has to try to free itself from all these faults and longings, and the means for this are love and suffering .... The impurities dissolve through deeds of love, but the soul will also be released from them through suffering, and it can be ever more illuminated by My love and mature until it has become completely translucent, and then it need not fear death anymore, because then it can enter the kingdom of light, because its earthly progress has not been in vain since it has reached its goal on earth: the transformation of itself into love .... And therefore you will understand that My commandments of love are of utmost importance, that they have to be fulfilled, that your life on earth has to be a life of love if it is to be successful for you. You are only on earth for the maturity of your soul which, at the start of its incarnation as a human being, is still without love .... although I have provided it with a spark of love which can ignite and change the soul's still imperfect state until it is close to perfection .... But the person also has to muster the will to live a life of love .... He has to listen to his inner voice which constantly urges him to act with love .... He has to perform deeds of love or his soul won't change but will keep its lowly attributes and is then in danger of entering the kingdom of the beyond in a completely immature state, which means, that it will still have to go through torments of purification there in order to be able to enjoy happiness one day ....

Only love will release it from all impure attributes, only love will crystallise it and it will push all impurities away from itself .... or it will have to accept much suffering during its earthly life which can also mature the soul, because this calms it down and gradually also ignites the spark of love within itself, and then love and suffering work together and achieve the soul's maturity. And the human being should always reject his selfish love and give love to his neighbour .... Then he will change quickly, for only unselfish neighbourly love is the true, divine love which I demand, which the soul has to change into by itself during its earthly progress as a human being if it wants to attain eternal life. And therefore My divine commandments of love always have to be emphasised as the most important, for only love has the redeeming strength, only love will be able to achieve the soul's transformation .... Only through deeds of love will it mature and become bright and clear, so that My emanation of love will find no more obstacles, so that I can then make it blissfully happy as in the beginning .... because through love it will find union with Me, which is its purpose and goal of earthly progress ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's protection to the light bearers ....

B.D. 8114 from March 2nd 1962, taken from Book No. 86

Where My ray of love finds no resistance, where it can touch a person because he opens his heart and desires My illumination, My angels of light will also dwell there and grant him protection against My adversary's persecution. And this assurance shall give you inner peace which you need in order to be eagerly active for Me. Believe that I truly have the power to protect you if only I don't force My adversary, who also has the right to wrestle for your souls. But you, who want to be Mine, make the decision yourselves as to which lord has the greatest right over you, and he will now also use his power to push the adversary away from you. Yet his intrigue cannot be overlooked and he will pursue you, who want to serve Me, until the end .... But he will not be able to approach you because you are constantly accompanied by the angels of light who have the right to protect you because you are active for Me and My kingdom. Therefore do not worry, for I will take care of you .... For you shall carry the light out into the darkness instead of Me, you shall bring people a light which I Myself have kindled for you, because it is dark on this earth and people live in dense spiritual darkness. And therefore you should open your hearts again and again of your own free will so that I can let My light of love shine into you, which you should then pass on to your fellow human beings. The spiritual darkness among people is so profound that they themselves pass by an unusually luminous flame which they should look at with astonishment, for it is a direct revelation from the spiritual kingdom, a revelation of your God and creator from eternity .... They do not grasp the abundance of light and remain unimpressed by it, although they should realize that they are being directed onto a path which they did not recognize in the darkness but which they could behold in the light .... But as long as people feel at ease in the darkness of night, they do not strive for the light of day either .... And they will never be able to enjoy the rising sun which shines where My light of love can shine from above .... Nor will they ever attain knowledge which could make them happy .... They don't seek light, therefore they don't demand to know about their purpose of earthly life, about their beginning and their goal .... about their God and creator, Who let everything come into being that is apparent to them, and thus also the human being himself .... My ray of love could penetrate everywhere, i.e., the pure truth .... the knowledge of Myself and My being, the knowledge of the connection between creator and created being .... could reach everywhere. but people's hearts have to open voluntarily to this illumination of love from above .... and truly, radiant, bright light would be kindled in them and make them immensely happy .... Yet people lack this will and I do not force it .... but I protect all bearers of light, all those people who voluntarily open themselves to Me in order to receive My flow of love, from all activity of the opposing forces .... which will not diminish but will not be successful. For the bearers of light only fulfil My will .... And therefore they also experience My visible protection .... The end is coming ever closer, people are sinking ever deeper into darkness, for they do nothing themselves in order to reach the light. Yet My working from above is also ever more evident, and My adversary will not succeed in extinguishing a light which has its origin in Me .... This assurance shall only ever spur My servants on to more diligent work .... they shall carry My light out into the world, and the people who kindle a light on it again will be blessed, for they, too, now voluntarily open their hearts to Me and let Me Myself speak to them .... And I know My own and take them all into My protection .... And whether My adversary also seeks to drive them apart .... they find each other and work together on the great work of the salvation of erring souls, for each one does the work I have assigned to him, and every servant's work in My vineyard will be blessed ....

Amen

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God's mission: to transmit the light ....

B.D. 8115 from March 3rd 1962, taken from Book No. 86

You will be guided and everything will approach you such that you will be able to carry out the work in My vineyard according to My will. For time and again I tell you that it is urgent and that you need not fear failure as long as you have the serious will to serve Me. And therefore only ever hand yourselves over to My guidance, appeal to Me for My support and then act as your heart dictates, for I express Myself through the heart as soon as you have first approached Me for My support. And thus I will also assign you the work you are to do for Me, and you will feel urged to do this or not to do that, because I Myself place this feeling in you and thereby give you the inner instructions which a faithful servant receives from his lord. When you spread My gospel into the world you do the most urgent work for Me, for people expect My address and I know their desire and will therefore support you in every way so that they receive what they need. I certainly speak to people everywhere, yet it can only rarely happen in this direct form that I can instruct them, that I can bring them the truth, that I can place them into a state of realization which is of greatest blessing in the last days. I can only rarely kindle a light for people which brightly illuminates the path they are to take in order to reach the eternal home. And time and again I say to you: Convey to your fellow human beings the light which shines to you from above .... Also enlighten your fellow human beings as you yourselves have been enlightened by Me, and impart to them the gift of grace you receive yourselves, because I love you all and want to help you reach your goal before the end comes .... And also give them news of the approaching end .... For everything I submit to you, My servants, everything imparted to you by Me directly is intended for the whole of humanity, i.e., everyone who is willing to accept it shall also experience what is about to happen to himself and to earth, and he shall also know about the reason for everything that happens. He shall also know why I speak to people directly .... Every person shall gain knowledge of Me Myself and My nature, because I want every person to learn to love Me, but this requires the knowledge of the pure truth .... And this I convey directly to earth and instruct you to spread it .... of My great love and mercy which still wants to help all people before the end. And thus this is also your task to convey My pure gospel to the world .... that you, as My disciples of the last days, constantly endeavour to instruct your fellow human beings by conveying My pure word from above to them, which I Myself want to bestow upon people through you who want to accept it and then will also safely recognize it as the voice of their father. And don't let yourselves be held back from this work in any way .... For even though it may seem to you that you have little success, I tell you that you cannot overlook the success yourselves, for every word which has come forth from Me continues to have an effect as strength .... You should always know that I direct all threads which originate from you or lead to you, and I only ever want to increase the number of those who allow themselves to be fed and watered with the bread of heaven, with the water of life. Their souls shall find the right nourishment, you shall offer it to them by passing on My word, which you receive from Me directly .... Be and remain diligently active, for the time is only short when you can work unhindered in My vineyard .... you should work while it is still daytime, for the night will come when an end will also be put to My activity, because the time is fulfilled which was set for the spiritual to reach its perfection .... the spiritual which lives on this earth as a human being and therefore has the opportunity to let itself be redeemed before the end comes. And it will be deep night for those who do not make use of the last short time .... But I will still let the light shine for all who want to accept it, so that they will not be lost for eternities ....

Amen

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Only from God does truth emanate ....

B.D. 8116 from March 4th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

The power of the evil increases the closer the end is .... You must always remember this and keep watch and pray, for you cannot be vigilant enough against his cunning and deceitfulness, and you cannot unite with Me enough in prayer that I will supply you with the strength to resist him. As soon as you leave Me out, as soon as you go your way without Me, he is already at your side, and you will then find it difficult to join Me as long as he holds you captive. He scatters discord in your hearts, he tries to incite you to unkind speeches, he tries to awaken all bad qualities in you, and you are often too weak and don't recognize the originator of it, where only a brief thought of Me would suffice to push him away from you. He will not succeed in turning you away from Me, for My love keeps you because you long for Me, because your will is meant for Me and therefore I also have the right to protect you against his attacks. But you should be vigilant and not give him the opportunity to try his hand at you. Believe Me that he will nevertheless not be victorious over you, for he will always be repelled by the light which radiates towards him from you and which originates from Me, the original light of eternity. The radiance of this light will also give you the inner conviction that you walk in truth, and therefore the adversary will not succeed in extinguishing a light which I Myself have kindled in you. The fact that it does not break through everywhere, that people often do not feel its luminosity, is due to the spiritual arrogance of those who believe they stand in the light and can only ever show a blinding light which has no luminosity. But as long as they don't take the direct path to Me I cannot light a true light for them either .... And this, too, is to be regarded as a victory by the adversary who, however, will not gain a soul by it, because those souls also have Me as their goal, they just don't take the right path in order to easily and safely reach the goal. And My adversary will always know how to enforce truth with error, but the human being's will is decisive as to whether he nevertheless reaches the goal. People will raise disputes, opinions will be very different and everyone will try to prove them with his intellect .... Yet as long as they don't turn to Me Myself for clarification, no agreement will be reached either .... But as long as they do so there will still be darkness on earth, for the spiritual darkness can only be broken through by a light which emanates from Me .... And even if you believe that you can equate the 'word' with Me Myself, which you call 'My word' .... when I Myself come to you in the word, you will hear My direct address and truly, a light will shine within you which will give you brightness you never possessed before .... For My word is pure and unadulterated, which you can no longer claim of the book you possess, which has undergone many changes and which you also don't know how to interpret in its meaning where it still contains pure truth .... Why don't you listen to Me Myself when I want to enlighten you where you still walk in darkness? My love seeks to make the truth accessible to all people, yet free will decides whether My gift of grace is accepted or not .... Yet no-one shall say that it was withheld from him, for a heartfelt request for the supply of the pure truth is enough for Me to distribute it and that everyone who seriously desires the truth will now also think truthfully. Yet you, who fanatically hold on to spiritual knowledge which was also conveyed to you by people, will first have to check whether you have been instructed in the truth, and you will only be able to carry out this check with the request for My support .... Only then will you know what you may accept or reject, for only then will you be in heartfelt contact with Me, Who is the eternal truth itself .... And I will also fight this battle to the end against the one who is an enemy of truth .... And I will emerge victorious, because the light from Me will uncover everything and put an end to his activity for an infinitely long time ....

Amen

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The soul's individuality ....

B.D. 8117 from March 5th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

For the sake of complete clarity I want to give you a further explanation: The spiritual being I brought into life, that is, which I externalised from Me as something spiritually tangible, cannot be denied individuality .... This being was created in My image; it was externalised by Me into infinity as entirely separate; it was self-aware and therefore also recognised itself as a thinking being with free will .... It was a miniature of Me Myself, but so minute compared to My fundamental fullness that one can indeed speak of a 'tiny spark' from the fiery sea of My strength of love .... And yet it was an individual with self-determination, except that through the influx of strength of love it was constantly in contact with Me, but it did not hinder the being in any way .... It was free and full of light and strength .... It was a divine creature which had come forth from Me in supreme perfection and from My side experienced no limitation of any kind. Any limitation or restriction of its light and strength was caused by itself because it was able to make its own choices .... And the same also applies to all spiritual beings which the first-created spirit brought into life through its will with the use of My strength .... They, too, were supremely perfect, every being was conscious of itself and thus an individual which was able to be separately and fully independently active in the spiritual kingdom in free will. Hence no being was bound to Me and My characteristics by force, every being moved freely and separately within the spiritual creations and was inconceivably happy. If therefore a 'fall of the spirits' is spoken of .... a descent of the original spirits into the abyss, it should be understood such that the beings refused to receive My illumination of love, that they rejected the flow of My strength of love, which ceaselessly poured out of Me and permeated everything with light and strength .... They no longer accepted My spirit, My love, they separated themselves from Me deliberately but would never be able to fade away again because they were and will forever remain My emanated strength of love. Each fallen original spirit was a being in its own right, an 'individual' .... and will remain so for all eternity .... It strove away from the Eternal Light, from the Primary Source, and therefore deprived itself of all light and strength ....

But the original spirit remained the being which once came forth from Me in supreme perfection. Even if the infinitely long process of guiding the spiritual being back to Me, where this being is dissolved and its tiny particles have to go through all creations .... all these particles come together again and, after endlessly long periods of time, form the self-aware being again .... the fallen original spirit .... so that shortly before its perfection as the human being's soul it can make a free decision again as to whether it wants to return to the realm of the blessed spirits or whether it will infinitely prolong its return again as a result of its own opposition .... However, the self-aware being .... the human being .... shelters as soul the spirit I once externalised, which will always and forever remain the same individual that once originated from Me .... It was perfect and chose the abyss of its own free will but it did not cease to exist, it did not become fragmented, it is and forever remains the self-aware being, with the exception of the path of return through the creations when its self-awareness is taken away, when it is dissolved and in the state of compulsion takes the path of higher development .... And even if the being has to travel the path through the creations more than once .... it will always remain the same self-aware being which once turned away from Me, which rejected the strength of My love and thus deliberately separated itself from Me despite the fact that this can never happen because everything that emerges from Me will always be inseparably connected to Me. Thus the 'apostasy of the spirits' is also to be understood literally .... The self-aware being I once emanated fell because I did not stop it and because it was able to determine its own fate in free will. And this spiritual being must return to Me again in supreme perfection if it wants to unite with Me in order to be incomparably happy forever .... For as soon as I can permeate it with My love again it will also regain its original state. However it always remains aware of itself .... it is lovingly united with Me and yet a free being which nevertheless has entirely entered into My will and therefore can create and work with Me in inconceivable happiness ....

Amen

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Urgency and justification of the "revelations" ....

B.D. 8118 from March 6th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

And you will always be allowed to experience your father's love, for I will stand by you in every adversity, I will guide your thoughts and lead you on all your paths. For it is My will that you should work for Me, because I can only look after a few people with a task which, however, is necessary for people's salvation .... I can only address a few people directly and instruct them in the pure truth, but these few shall also use all their strength to spread the truth .... They should always be willing to listen to Me, because My direct address is an act of profound love for you humans and you can derive immeasurable blessings from it .... You should let Me speak to you as often as possible, for then My light and My strength will flow to earth and this flow will not only be received by you but also by many beings of light and also by self-aware beings which are poor in light and greedily receive it because it does them good .... because they draw strength from it which they need. I only ever want to make you, who want to serve Me, aware of the urgency of My word being conveyed to earth .... You should not believe that you are doing useless work because you can see little success yourselves .... You should only always be willing to serve Me as a vessel into which I can pour My spirit .... For your free will must declare itself ready for this, because I cannot force a person to serve Me as a mediator if I want to address people .... And I always want to direct your thoughts so that you now do what corresponds to My will .... So through you fellow human beings shall learn about their outcome and their goal .... they shall know that they are creatures of a power Which called them into being in love and wisdom, so that they should experience endless happiness .... For I Myself, your God and creator, wanted to give Myself away in My infinite love, and I therefore created vessels for Myself into which I could pour out My love .... I created beings for Myself which I shaped in My image .... And you humans shall know that you are these beings but that you did not remain as I had created you but that you turned yourselves into the opposite in free will .... You should know that this was your original sin, that you turned away from Me and that you now walk the earth because of this original sin .... that you have reached the end of your earthly course as a human being and that in this short earthly lifetime you should return to Me again in free will, from Whom you once voluntarily separated .... You should know the outcome and goal so that you live your earthly life consciously .... And therefore you also have to gain knowledge of your God and creator, because all knowledge was lost to you due to your fall into sin .... And only I Myself can impart this knowledge to you by speaking to you and .... because you humans are mostly unable to hear Me .... I therefore express Myself through a person who allows this direct address of his own free will. Therefore you should listen to all My messengers when they inform you of what you need to know in order to consciously live your earthly life in accordance with My will, which is now made known to you and only ever consists of you humans having to reintegrate yourselves into the law of eternal order which you once overturned: that you have to live in love which you once rejected and therefore fell deeply .... For love is My primal element which also once called you into being .... Love is also your original substance, your actual nature, which you yourselves only turned into the opposite and therefore you have also become unhappy .... The principle of divine order is love, and you all have to live in this order if you want to be divine creatures again and unite with Me as the eternal love .... And I repeatedly try to convey the knowledge of this to you humans through direct communication, which is therefore of utmost value and the spreading of which is My will, because it will only be a blessing for all of you humans if you know your beginning and your goal and consciously strive towards this on earth ....

Amen

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Test the output of spiritual teaching ....

B.D. 8119 from March 7th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

Where the seed falls on good soil it will also take root and sprout and bear good fruit. But good, pure seed must be sown, and if you want to be good vineyard labourers for Me you must accept the seed from Me Myself, for I alone know what the fields, which are human hearts, need in order to also bear good fruit for Me. I alone know what human hearts need in order to guarantee Me a good harvest .... that they fall to Me as ripe fruit and I can gather them when the time of harvest has come. The best seed I can plant in a human heart is My word, which I Myself send to you from above .... For all you humans must hear My word, and you can also receive it everywhere if only it is your earnest will to be addressed by Me Myself, thus to hear or read 'My' word .... But if you hear about the direct address of your God and father through My messengers, if you receive My word which My messengers bring to you themselves, which they have received directly from Me, then you will also soon feel that a gift of grace of utmost value is offered to you, for the word will take root in you, it will not fall on your ears but be received by your heart, and you will feel the strength of the word, for you will strive towards Me, Whom you now recognize as your father Who speaks to you Himself. When My messengers convey gifts of grace from Me to you, you must not reject them because then you will reject Me Myself, Who knocks at your heart's door to seek entrance .... You should examine the gifts My messengers bring you, for I don't want you to accept them thoughtlessly; I want you to examine them and only keep what is good .... And if you are of good will yourselves My word will also touch you, and then the seed has already fallen on good soil where it can develop; then you will work your field of life yourselves, you will follow the instructions I give you, you will live in accordance with My will, you will practise the love which will then also bring about the maturing in you, and you will never want to miss My word again because you recognize it as the right water of love and life which you need in order to be able to fulfil your purpose of earthly life .... But beware of adding bad seeds to the field of life, for such seeds would only bring forth weeds .... it would only cause confusion in your hearts, it would not give you vitality but rather lead you to death, because it is watered by poisoned wells which are your ruin .... Your hearts must receive purest truth if the soul is to mature into eternal life. And only My word, which you receive from Me Myself, offers you this truth. Therefore, don't carelessly accept everything you are given as truth but check whether it originated from Me Myself, whether it corresponds to the direct impartations .... otherwise you may reject it as error which is of little value for your maturing on earth, rather, it still puts you in danger of handing yourselves over to death. For error comes from poisoned wells, error is My adversary's activity who never wants to help you to life .... but hands you over to death because he himself is devoid of all love .... And thus take care that My commandment of love for Me and for your neighbour is always preached as a matter of priority and that My word conveyed to you from above always contains these commandments of love .... Pay attention that the knowledge of the divine redeemer Jesus Christ is urgently brought to you through My word and that you therefore may accept everything without hesitation which shows you the way to Him, to the cross .... And know that you will then walk in truth, that I Myself will then be your teacher, that I Myself will speak to you and thus provide you with good seed which will always yield a good harvest .... And you will then not walk your earthly path in vain, you will listen to My servants and accept all their gifts which they bring to you in My name .... You yourselves will endeavour to utilize all these gifts and at the end of days will be harvested as ripe fruit by your God and creator from eternity ....

Amen

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Reason for divine revelations ....

B.D. 8120 from March 9th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

Let My grace be sufficient for you .... and patiently bear all burden imposed on you to serve your soul's state of maturity .... and grant Me your ear so that you can hear My voice .... open your heart to let My ray of love enter and penetrate you with My spirit: Time and again I convey My revelations to you humans, time and again I speak to people through the mouth of a servant who is devoted to Me and I truly don't do so without reason .... I know that it is necessary to provide people with a light where darkness exists in their hearts. And I know that the darkness will get worse the closer it gets to the end. I also know who still seeks to escape the night, who strives towards the light of dawn, who is grateful to Me for a light which illuminates the path for him. And these are the ones I seek to address through you, who want to serve Me. I also know how they think .... where they err and therefore where their faith in Me is at risk because they have no clear concept of Me and yet deliberate on it .... I want to help them and clarify those things which appear doubtful to them, because I want to help them gain a convinced faith in Me as the most perfect being Which is love, wisdom and power within Itself .... And thus I manifest Myself, I Myself address people and convey purest truth to them, which they can and indeed will accept if only they are of good will. Every thinking person is occupied with a different problem .... and if they receive a light they will immerse themselves increasingly deeper into spiritual knowledge, which is always beneficial .... both for the person himself as well as for Me, Who only ever wants people to reach the goal they were given for their life on earth. Some problems needing clarification are especially important: People must be given the right knowledge about Jesus Christ and His act of Salvation, because they must acknowledge Him without fail in order to free themselves from the opposing power .... They must be informed of this adversary and what he signifies for people .... and they must know that their time on earth as a human being was caused by him in the first place .... Hence they must also learn about the spiritual correlations, about their very first beginning and their goal .... They must know what they are, what they had been and what they shall become again .... This knowledge makes people live more responsibly and precisely this knowledge was distorted time and again through the adversary's influence, and thus people are often misguided .... And since My adversary also has great power at his disposal, which manifests itself particularly strongly at the end of a period of Salvation, he has also succeeded time and again in interspersing My pure truth with errors .... thus motivating Me time and again to counter it with the pure truth, because I want to help people to fulfil their last short task in life.

If therefore a person knows the truth, then he will own a brightly radiating light which the adversary avoids .... Error, however, permits the adversary's continued influence and is a danger for the person .... Thus you can understand that I will repeatedly transmit the pure truth to earth but that it will not stay that way for long, that it will not remain as pure as it was when it originated from Me .... As soon as the light is clouded its radiance is no longer as clear as to guarantee a correct understanding. And the fact that the light became clouded through human will is disclosed again by the fact that I reveal Myself anew, which would not be necessary if people lived in the light of truth. I truly know why I speak to people again with all urgency .... I know that they have no clear understanding of their existence as human beings either and I know why I must give them precisely this information if I want them to acknowledge the divine Redeemer Jesus Christ and recognise Me Myself in Him .... People shall acquire a clear idea about it, consequently I Myself instruct them in the most understandable way and everyone will be delighted about knowledge he recognises as purest truth, because it originated from Me directly. Even thinking people will accept this information, for I do not demand blind faith. It is My will that a person shall think about it, otherwise he will be unable to distinguish between truth and error. And because the darkness constantly increases, the light, too, will shine extraordinarily bright, and it only requires the desire for light in order to become enlightened. For truly, I Am determined by My love, wisdom and power to confront both Mine and your enemy of life, so that you will find your way out of the darkness and be able to escape his control .... Wisdom knows your state of peril, love wants to help you and power will truly use the right means for it .... And I will bless you, who voluntarily serve Me, for I do not forcibly influence people and neither can My adversary do so .... The Eternal Light reveals Itself to all those of you who want to flee the spiritual night ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The Word-reception is an act of freewill ....

B.D. 8121 from March 10th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

I need you, My servants on earth .... For I cannot compel people by means of extraordinary deeds to believe in a God and Creator if they do not yet possess this belief. And were I to speak audibly to people from above you would lose your freedom of will, they would have to believe and would only ever be under this impression and inevitably comply with My will. However, on the other hand, they need to be addressed because they suffer great spiritual hardship, and therefore I have to speak to them through a human mouth and leave it up to their free will whether they want to accept My Word or not .... I need you, and you yourselves will also understand it; you will feel My presence and know that it is your heavenly Father Who speaks to you, Who only ever stimulates you to communicate with your fellow human beings and to inform them of My extraordinary working in you .... although it is only extraordinary for those who are not yet aware of My love and mercy, which includes all people who still do not know Me and therefore do not try to find any kind of contact with Me .... And to these I want to reveal Myself as a Father Who has His children's welfare at heart; I want to reveal Myself to them as a God of love, wisdom and might .... And I need you, My servants, so that I can address people through you. For not many instruments are at My disposal because it is an act of free will to receive My Word, which also necessitates prerequisites which are not very often to be found within people. Profound faith gained through love has to stimulate them into listening within themselves .... they must consciously expect My address, hold on to it and always be willing to pass on what they receive. Only profound faith will prompt them to listen within, and I will only be able to reveal Myself, if a person makes contact with Me in this faith and allows Me to speak to him.

The fact that I so urgently require you to spread the information you receive is due to the great ignorance of those people who only live their earthly life with earthly oriented thoughts, who know and believe nothing .... nothing at all .... about the kingdom which is beyond this earth and which one day they will enter when their physical life has come to an end. They are in grave danger for they cannot cease to exist because their souls will continue to live after the death of their body. And the fate of these souls will not be a pleasant one, for they will enter the kingdom of the beyond in complete darkness, they will have to endure much suffering and pain until a small glimmer of light shines for them .... I still want to provide people with this small glimmer of light before the end. I only want to help them to establish contact with their God and Creator themselves, so that they will spend thought on Him and thus enable Me to influence their thoughts Myself .... For this reason I try to speak to them, and you shall help Me so that I can express Myself according to your willingness and that fellow human beings will receive knowledge of it .... You should allow yourselves to be taught by Me and then pass on your knowledge, but always in unchanged form, for that which originates from Me is pure truth and shall be imparted unspoilt if it is to be effective as light within the human hearts which have little light of their own. And you truly render Me a service for which I will bless you, for I love all My living creations and not one of them shall go astray for an infinitely long time again. And this is why My strength of love will flow to you time and again as long as you want to be of service to Me. I Myself will demonstrate My presence to you by the fact that you, too, will be extraordinarily affected by My revelations, for I no longer need to worry about compulsory faith with you, who testify to your faith every day by waiting for My Words and working for Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The last huge catastrophe ....

B.D. 8122 from March 11th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

God's voice will penetrate and wake people up from their careless slumber since they are, after all, in grave danger. To those who will let themselves be awakened and recognise His voice, a light will shine which will lead them out of the dark night .... But the fate of anyone who takes no notice of His voice will be determined for an infinitely long time. Yet He Who created all of you will not leave you without warning when difficulties which are intended in God's eternal plan of Salvation befall the earth .... Time and again He warns and admonishes people by speaking to them in various ways, and those who pay attention to His gentle voice when they hear it won't be frightened by the coming events, when He speaks with a voice of thunder to all who have so far closed their ears to His Words of love and mercy .... And He will speak to them through the forces of nature and no-one will be able to ignore this voice, for people will be in danger and as soon as they are afraid of losing their life they may also turn their thoughts to Him Who is mighty, Whom they acknowledge as God and Creator. And if they call upon Him they will also be saved for time and eternity .... But anyone who is still obstinate then will not be spared the dreadful fate of a renewed banishment. And not much more time will pass until all you humans are shocked by the news of a huge catastrophe, you will be paralysed by the disaster which will affect countless people .... But it has been predicted to you since the start of this earthly period because it is included in God's eternal plan of Salvation .... Yet people will never consider a natural disaster of that magnitude possible, and those who survive it will receive very clear evidence that a Higher Authority is at work, that everything of an earthly nature is transient and that every human being is at the mercy of this very Authority, if he does not establish contact with It and hand himself over to his God and Creator, appealing to Him for mercy. For He only wants to reveal Himself to people by speaking to them so distinctly that they will have to hear His voice. And by constantly drawing attention to it He only wants them to achieve a bond with Him in advance in order to then stand firm and also experience His protection when the day of dread arrives ....

However, His proclamations by seers and prophets are not believed; and although people are time and again stricken by divine interventions on a small scale .... it only ever affects the victims, while the others remain indifferent as soon as the first dismay has passed. And only little spiritual gain can be achieved. Yet all those who allow God Himself to speak to them, who believe His Words and therefore belong to His Own shall constantly be informed of the fact that this huge natural event won't take long in coming .... They shall draw strength from His Word for they will need it in order to remain steadfast and to provide comfort and clarification to their fellow human beings who suffer intense physical and spiritual adversity .... And every prayer that reaches Him will be heard by Him and He will grant strength and help to all who call upon their God and Creator in utmost distress .... And even if they have to relinquish their earthly life .... they will have found a bond with God and no longer need to fear the fate of those who are entirely devoid of faith and still belong to the one who wants to lure them into ruin. Everyone will still be given the opportunity to recognise their God and Creator and every individual person decides his own fate .... And even the most dreadful happening can be a person's path to Him, from Whose might he once emerged .... And then it will have been a blessing for him, even if countless people have to die .... They will be able to enter the kingdom of the beyond with a glimmer of light in their heart if they at last still recognise and acknowledge their God and Creator, if they call upon Him in greatest distress, Who will then indeed reveal Himself to them. You humans should believe that you are approaching this disaster which will come upon you unexpectedly and be such a distinct voice from above that everyone of good will should be able to recognise it .... And everyone will hear it, for it will be powerful and a last reminder, for the end will come soon afterwards, as it is proclaimed ....

Amen

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Death is conquered .... Jesus and God is one ....

B.D. 8123 from March 12th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

You shall only take the way to the cross, and then you need fear no more death .... For you will rise again and live forever .... Jesus Christ is your redeemer from sin and death, He is the saviour Who lifts you up out of darkness; He is the one Who faced the adversary in battle and overcame him. And thus He also overcame death, which the latter brought into the world. Jesus walked the path of the cross for you and your sins, and as soon as you carry your guilt of sin to the cross, then you belong to those for whom He shed His blood, for whom He died on the cross in order to redeem your guilt of sin .... But you must be willing to let yourselves be redeemed, you must acknowledge Him as the redeemer Who became the shell of the eternal spirit of God, Who united Himself with God and thus also accomplished the act of salvation with the power of God .... For the 'power of God' is love .... The man Jesus was full of love, thus full of the divine spirit of love, through love He was intimately merged with the eternal love Itself, and thus He was one with God, or also: the eternal Deity Itself manifested Itself in Jesus, It completely filled Him, and thus the deification of Jesus' soul took place, the complete unification with the father-spirit of eternity, Who is love in Itself .... Thus God Himself accomplished the act of salvation in Jesus, God Himself redeemed people's immeasurable guilt, and everyone can now be released from his guilt who confesses Him in Jesus, who acknowledges Jesus as the divine redeemer, in Whom God Himself manifested Himself because He .... Whose fundamental substance is love .... completely filled the human being Jesus .... God thus became a human being and Jesus became God, for Jesus was merged with eternal love, Jesus and eternal love were one. Therefore, the path to God, the return to the father's house, is only guaranteed through the cross. The human being has to carry his guilt under the cross, he has to ask the Divine Love in Jesus for forgiveness, for redemption of his guilt .... And truly, the way will be free for him to the father, man will rise to life. For death is the consequence of sin, and death has been overcome by Jesus Christ, by God Himself, and the soul of man will attain eternal life and never ever lose it. The original sin of the former apostasy from God cannot be expiated by the human being himself, for he is bound by the one who brought death into the world .... he is still under the power of God's adversary, who himself fell into the deepest abyss and took countless beings with him, who followed him voluntarily but who no longer have the strength to voluntarily detach themselves from him again .... And Jesus Christ regained the strength of these beings on the cross, He gave His life for them so that their will was strengthened .... He paid the ransom through His death on the cross so that the adversary can no longer keep a being bound which seeks to escape from his power if it takes the path to the cross .... The call to Jesus Christ is enough that He places Himself between the human being and the adversary and supplies everyone with the strength to walk the path upwards towards the kingdom, which is his true home .... For now the kingdom of light is open, at the gate of which Jesus Christ Himself stands and receives everyone who only wants to come to Him and asks Him for forgiveness from all guilt. For Jesus says of Himself that everyone will live who believes in Him .... He will not taste death, he need no longer fear it, for Jesus has conquered death and He will give life to anyone who only desires Him and seeks to free himself from His adversary. Yet without Him there is no redemption, without Jesus Christ there is no forgiveness of sin, without Jesus Christ the human being remains burdened with his original sin and he will never ever find the entrance into the kingdom of light, for God's adversary will not release him and he also has power over him who once voluntarily followed him into the abyss. Therefore no man shall overlook the cross, no man shall pass by the cross .... every person should also carry his guilt under the cross and hand it over to the one Who died for the sake of humanity's guilt of sin .... Who took all suffering and torment of the act of salvation upon Himself in order to pave the way for people to the father, from Whom they once voluntarily separated and plunged into the abyss. And everyone will find redemption who calls to Jesus for mercy, for in Jesus was 'love', and love forgives all guilt .... Love gives eternal life to all who acknowledge Jesus Christ as God's son and saviour of the world .... because love itself was in Jesus ....

Amen

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God wants His essence to be known ....

B.D. 8124 from March 13th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

Anyone who voluntarily gives himself to Me so that My spirit can flow into him .... who only ever desires to make contact with Me, whose spiritual spark thus unites with Me, his father-spirit of eternity, can also be certain that he is protected from adversarial influence, for I possess his will, and thus the human being's soul has also turned away from him of its own free will because it is not subject to any compulsion from My side. Hence the soul desires Me, and in this desire it opens itself to My illumination of love and is filled by My spiritual strength .... You humans should understand that this process is and has to be an act of free will and that the human being thereby also proves to Me that he has passed the test of will, that he acknowledges Me as his lord, to Whom he gives himself in all intimacy, because otherwise the bond of the spiritual spark with the eternal father-spirit would not cause Me Myself to reveal Myself to him in the word .... How could I address a person who does not open his heart and ear to Me in free will? .... How could I convey divine revelations to earth if a human being does not offer Me this opportunity himself by making himself into a receptacle into which I can now pour Myself out? .... And that it is My spirit Which now expresses Itself can truly be recognized by the content of My revelations, for it is only ever love which I preach .... it is only ever the crowning work of love which Jesus Christ accomplished in order to redeem people .... which I bring to your attention through My revelations. And if My spirit can therefore be effective in a person, then the person himself will also be enlightened, and he will know that he is instructed by the eternal truth itself and that he therefore also has every right to use the spiritual knowledge which has been and still is conveyed to him directly by Me. Anyone who appreciates My greater than great gift of grace will also defend it against all attacks, for this is his strength, that he has faith in Me and My fatherly love which will protect him from all untruth and which will also let him recognize at all times where the adversary is at work, even if he appears under the mask of an angel in order to mislead people .... If I can guide My word to earth I will also set up guards who protect both My word as well as My servants from hostile influence because .... where My spirit can express itself .... the fulfilment of a task is also required of Me: To spread My pure word .... to inform fellow human beings of My will and especially of My nature, which is no longer properly recognized but which people should get to know because I court their love, which, however, can only demand a most perfect nature .... But you humans no longer recognize Me and My nature, you have received a wrong image of Me through much error, I have been portrayed to you humans as an angry God, as a punishing judge Who only ever condemns and Whom people therefore only fear but cannot love .... I therefore reveal Myself to you as a God of love, wisdom and might .... and I want those whom I can address through the spirit to testify of Me, that they confess Me Myself with fervour and guide truthful knowledge everywhere, so that it will become light in people's hearts and their souls will also turn to Me in love, because then they will turn away from My adversary and thus also have passed their test of will for the purpose of which they dwell on earth .... And therefore I will also not tolerate that you are hindered in your work of love .... Time and again I will speak to you, time and again My spirit will work in you and give you delicious spiritual knowledge. And you can truly believe that I Myself can only be present in you when you have prepared a dwelling place for Me .... You can believe that I am within you when I speak to you and that I also help you in every way to gain victory over the substances of the body which, because they are still immature, sometimes cause you problems. Yet My radiance of love will also touch this spiritual substance and also bring about its maturation .... For your will belongs to Me .... And thus you are Mine and I will never ever leave you in My adversary's hands .... And even if he keeps running against you, even if he keeps trying to make you waver in your faith .... My love will hold you because your free will belongs to Me ....

Amen

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The knowledge of the nature of God is necessary ....

B.D. 8125 from March 14th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

Great is the power of Him who created you .... His love is endless and His wisdom unsurpassable .... Always remember Him so that you make contact with Him yourselves, so that you always send your thoughts out to Me, Who longs for your return and truly also uses My power, love and wisdom to enable this return to Me. If you humans imagine your God and creator as a supremely perfect being, if you can believe with conviction that this supremely perfect being wants to be your father, then you will also give up your inner resistance which kept you separated from Me for an infinitely long time .... you will try to establish the right relationship with Me, the relationship of a child with its father .... and as weak little children you will appeal for My protection and My help when you are in need .... But you will also feel love for Me, you will trustingly come to your father and thus also hand yourselves over to Me, and then you will no longer want to give Me up either, because I Myself now hold you, because My bond of love embraces you, which you will no longer loosen either. But this requires the knowledge of My supremely perfect nature .... You shall learn to love Me and therefore you must first know that I Myself am love; you should not fear Me as a punishing God but love Me as a faithful, caring father .... Only then will you enter into the right relationship with Me, you will voluntarily give yourselves to Me and you will have completed the return which is the purpose and goal of your earthly life .... And therefore I seek to prove My power, My love and My wisdom to you humans time and again .... If you get into trouble I will always lead you out of it, because nothing is impossible for Me to achieve .... And I also constantly send you evidence of My love by also preparing joys for you which you should always consider as a gift from Me .... You can always know that you are safe in My care, for I truly recognize what you need spiritually and physically, and I will also give it to you as soon as you have surrendered to Me, as soon as you establish the bond with Me through heartfelt thoughts, through prayer and loving activity .... And then you will constantly be allowed to experience evidence of My love, wisdom and might, because I only want to gain your love through this, because I want to awaken in you the desire for union with Me and then your purpose of earthly life will also be fulfilled as soon as you establish the intimate bond with Me .... As soon as you devote yourselves as children to the father and completely merge into His will. Then you will no longer live in spiritual darkness, you will be permeated by Me Myself with My light of love, I will be able to speak to you in a heartfelt bond and your love will become increasingly more inflamed and there will be no more darkness in your hearts. As soon as you recognize Me as a God of love, wisdom and might, you will also strive towards Me, and this means that you will also acknowledge Me to Whom you once refused your acknowledgement .... And therefore I will leave no stone unturned during your earthly life in order to give you the right clarification about My nature .... For as long as you do not recognize Me for what I am: as a supremely perfect being Who loves you and wants to win your love .... as long as you do not see in Me your father, Who wants to make His children eternally happy .... as long as you keep yourselves distant from Me .... and that is why I reveal Myself to you in My love, wisdom and power .... and I constantly court your love .... But I will also win it one day, and then you will remain with Me forever ....

Amen

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Disciples of the end times .... Gifts of grace .... Evaluation ....

B.D. 8126 from March 15th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

I still pour out an abundance of gifts of grace before the end because humanity takes Me, which does not rightly recognize its purpose of earthly life and is in danger of having put earthly life behind it in vain when the end has come .... For until the end I seek to save and to help the erring souls .... and until the end I will therefore also still address people and send them much bread from heaven, I will provide them with the water of life until the end, which constantly flows forth from My source. But I will also constantly ensure that My gifts of grace can be received by you humans, for which I therefore need mediators .... vessels into which My pure water of life can flow .... And thus these are My disciples of the last days whom I send out into the world again; they are My representatives on earth who spread My gospel, who proclaim My divine teaching of love to people, who give them the bread of heaven, the water of life, so that all people can refresh and strengthen themselves for their pilgrimage on this earth. And even if My adversary rages, whether he acts with cunning and treachery against Me and My own .... He need not be feared by those who accept the water of life at My source, who allow themselves to be fed and watered by Me Myself, for they are protected from his attacks by their close bond with Me, and they need only ever remain in this heartfelt bond with Me in order to constantly enjoy My protection as well. I pour out My graces in abundance .... Yet the acceptance of the graces is up to you humans .... Although I see that many strive towards the abyss, I nevertheless cannot necessarily turn their will towards Me, I can only ever admonish and warn them, I can only send My messengers to them and inform them of what is about to happen to all of you .... But I must leave you complete freedom, whichever path you want to take. Yet as long as you humans still walk across the earth every single one will be pursued by My love and everything will be tried to change his mind if he is not rightly directed .... And no human being will need to do without My gift of grace if only he is willing to accept it. For the graces can only become effective when the human being's free will accepts and evaluates them. But they are available to you unmeasured. And time will quickly rush by; people don't want to believe in an end either, they allow themselves to be captivated by the world and all their thoughts and aspirations are directed towards earthly goods and pleasures, for My adversary truly knows how to attractively present everything to them which makes them turn away from Me, their God and creator .... They pay far more attention to him than to My messengers who bring them My gospel, My pure word from above, which is constantly conveyed down to earth as the greatest gift of grace, which would truly be able to change all of you if only you would all gratefully accept it from My hand .... For as soon as I Myself can address you, you will be illuminated by My strength of love which kindles bright light in you, and your thinking would change and only be directed towards Me. Yet your free will must allow Me to speak to you .... You must open your hearts of your own free will and let My light of love shine into them .... You can only become blessed by grace .... You are of such a nature that you could not undertake an ascent by your own strength, but with recourse to My graces you would succeed .... And if you listened to Me voluntarily you would also be pointed to the immeasurable treasure of grace which the divine redeemer Jesus Christ .... Whom I Myself purchased for you on the cross, for I Myself accomplished the act of salvation in Him. And all of you may now make use of the blessings which I acquired for you through My death on the cross, which I suffered as redemption for your great guilt of sin. A great treasure of grace is at your disposal .... use it, open yourselves to My supply of grace and make use of it, and truly, you will become free from your adversary, you will ascend from the depths to the height .... Call upon Me for grace and mercy, always ask for the supply of grace, and then you will also demonstrate the will to make use of grace, and truly, you will no longer need to fear the end, for you will enter into eternal life, you will enter into light and bliss ....

Amen

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Primordial centre of light and power ....

B.D. 8127 from March 17th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

The greatest spirit of infinity, the creator of heaven and earth, the primordial centre of light and power, reveals Himself to you humans because He loves you .... because you are power that once emanated from Him, which were radiated out as beings and .... since they had free will .... took a wrong path which led them far away from their place of origin .... But this greatest and most perfect spirit is love in its fundamental substance, and love lets nothing get lost .... You humans can indeed live an independent life on earth, you can also think; but you are without knowledge of all spiritual correlations, you are without knowledge of your relationship to this most perfect spirit, to your God and creator from eternity .... And in His greater than great love for all His creatures He reveals Himself to them as soon as they walk across the earth as I-conscious beings, and He stimulates them to think .... He addresses people directly .... The greatest Spirit of infinity bends down to His creatures, which were emitted by Him as the tiniest sparks of light eternally ago .... For these creatures have lost their light, they had voluntarily turned away from Him and strived towards darkness .... But truthful information can be given to the human being if he is willing to receive divine revelations, if he is willing to listen to what the greatest and most perfect spirit of infinity wants to impart to him. And then you will truly also receive a portrayal from this supremely perfect being which will inwardly urge you to seek contact with Him, and you will learn to understand the meaning and purpose of your earthly life, you will be introduced to profound knowledge, because only your free will is necessary for this, to join that perfect being Which you recognize as your origin as soon as the light of truth is kindled in you .... And every divine revelation is such a light from above which enlightens your hearts and brings back to you the lost knowledge you possessed when you yourselves still radiated as a spark of light in His presence .... Once you were close to Him but you could not see Him because you would have passed away in the face of the primal light and the primal power which made you arise .... (17.3.1962) And now He is close to you, and even if you are unable to see Him, He nevertheless reveals Himself to you because He wants you to recognize Him. For He takes pity on your wretched situation and wants to help you to beatitude .... You humans are addressed by Him, the most perfect being, of Whom you have no idea because He is everything in everything .... because there is nothing which does not testify to Himself .... because everything is strength from Him, the eternal source of strength and light. You were once emanated as the tiniest spark and yet the most perfect being concerns Itself with every one of Its creatures, for incessant love unites It with it, and this love expresses itself to the human being by revealing Itself, so that the human being takes cognizance of his original relationship with that great spirit of infinity .... so that he himself may seek to join Him, so that he may return to his origin .... Man has the ability to be able to think, and therefore God reveals Himself, for man shall come to terms with a knowledge which is imparted to him directly by God .... He kindles a light for the human being who still dwells in darkness as long as he is still completely without knowledge about himself, about his beginning and his goal .... He takes pity on His creature that it walks in darkness, for in this darkness it is also unable to recognize its creator, Who is love from eternity .... But if it recognizes its creator, Who also wants to be its father, then it will also show Him love .... And therefore this supremely perfect being reveals Himself to people in order to inspire them to love, which will ignite in them as soon as only a small light shines for them, which informs them of their original beginning and their purpose on earth .... In God's love the created being took its origin .... God's love pursues His created being until it returns to the eternal love again in order to be ineffably blissful in union with It ....

Amen

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Faith in God's presence ....

B.D. 8128 from March 18th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

I Am present to you as soon as you make contact with Me in spirit and in truth .... But you humans still search for Me in the distance; only a few hand themselves over to Me like a child and thereby establish the right relationship with Me .... The majority of people certainly speaks about a God and Creator, they believe in an exceedingly powerful Being, but they also deem this Being to be infinitely far away; they don't know that I would like to be in contact with them as their God and Creator and that they need only establish this contact, because they distanced themselves from Me and thus they must also strive towards Me again. But neither are they capable of heartfelt prayer , that is, of communicating with Me in spirit and in truth, or even just of sending a sincerely felt call from the heart to Me. They merely use memorised prayers which are of no value to Me, which I do not hear and therefore cannot grant either .... I want to be called upon in spirit and in truth, I want that heartfelt thoughts ascend to Me which will induce Me to lean down to the petitioner, to draw close and be present to him .... Yet blessed are those who have already established this heartfelt bond and through a prayer in spirit and truth motivate Me to be present to them, to whom I therefore can also speak, in thought or audibly, if their state of maturity allows for it. You should only yearn for and allow My presence, for My presence also necessitates a purified heart which love has prepared for Me as an abode in which I Myself can dwell .... But if you humans believe in a God with Whom you can make contact, your way of life will also be a life of love otherwise you would not have this faith .... For faith will only come alive through love .... Humanity, however, is devoid of all love, love has grown cold amongst people .... This is why a living faith is only rarely to be found, a faith which seeks Me and motivates a person to make contact with Me, for love is already the bond with Me, the human being draws Me close to himself and induces Me to be present .... And thus love alone determines the relationship between the human being and Me. Where love is kindled in the heart, a gentle inner urging to reach Me can already be felt .... Consequently, the loving person will also pray in spirit and in truth, for the love within establishes the connection with the Eternal Love .... with Me, Who can then be present to him. And once I Am present I can also speak to him, I can guide his thoughts, I can grant him a wealth of thoughts which he can only receive from Me directly .... I Myself can work in him, as I have promised .... However, My presence is always essential, only kind-hearted activity will motivate Me to be present to him.

But how far have people distanced themselves from Me as a result of their heartless life .... They cannot recognise Me because they are still spiritually unenlightened and thus make it impossible for Me to take direct effect in them through mental communications, for they cannot hear My Words in their distance to God and even if their fellow human beings informed them they wouldn't understand .... It is also difficult to make them believe in a God Who wants to be their Father, Who wants to give pleasure to them as children if they look for this bond with Him .... They cannot believe because they have no love within themselves which would awaken the faith in the first place. Therefore they will not be capable of praying in spirit and in truth .... unless great adversity overwhelms them and they call upon the powerful Creator of Heaven and Earth, Who also created them .... And if such a call comes from the heart I will hear and grant it .... Nevertheless, only I know the heart of every individual person, and only I know whether earthly help is a blessing for him or whether a premature recall into the kingdom of the beyond is more favourable for the soul which can no longer find Me on earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The power of the divine spirit ....

B.D. 8129 from March 19th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

The spiritual current that flows to you truly has great power .... For it comes from the kingdom of perfection, it comes from Me Myself, the most perfect spirit in infinity .... Only it cannot touch you in all its power, because then you would perish .... But the current comes from Me even if you only feel a very minimal effect; and it affects the soul even if the body cannot feel any effect at all. For then it is My will that it remains untouched by it. But the soul is strengthened, and the human being himself has proof of the effect of the flow of strength in his hands: He hears My word and writes it down so that he can also provide his fellow human beings with the evidence that he has been affected by My flow of spirit .... Oh, you humans, you do not grasp the infinite love of your father, the most perfect being in infinity .... that He gives you a sign of His presence, of His working and His being, Which also unites with His creature and supplies it with delicious gifts of grace. You do not grasp this love and My working is therefore not conspicuously recognizable because I do not want to put the human being into a state of compulsion due to free will .... into a state of increased bliss, which the body also feels pleasantly .... For such a state of bliss would then always cause the human being to serve Me as a vessel for My flow of spirit .... which, however, would never help the soul to progress, which has to offer itself to Me of its own free will to receive My word, the flow of light and strength which originates from the primary source of light and strength. I can only touch the human being very gently, and I have to restrict the effect of My flow of love for the human being's own sake so that his soul will not suffer any harm .... And therefore I don't have an unusual effect on the body either, I have to leave it in its weakness but it, too, will be sustained by My strength as long as I need it for a flow of spirit which has to flow to earth, because people need a living water by which their souls shall recover. And if My working on you were to manifest itself in a completely unusual way so that it would also be recognizable to fellow human beings, they would be under a compulsion of faith which would not benefit their souls .... But My flow of light and strength nevertheless flows into you and does not fail to have an effect, even if you yourselves are only quietly touched by it. I open up a spring from which the water of life flows, at which you and also your fellow human beings can refresh and strengthen yourselves, and this spring will not run dry as long as you yourselves are willing to serve Me as a vessel so that I can let My flow of spirit flow into it. Your father's love for His children is never-ending, for you emerged from this love .... This fatherly love knows you humans in great adversity and therefore wants to help you .... Your father also knows how He can best help you:... Because you lack light and strength He seeks to supply you with them. But everything must proceed within the framework of the lawful order .... I cannot arbitrarily give people knowledge and supernatural strength .... but I can open up a well, which in turn is only possible if a person of his own free will serves Me as a vessel which I can now fill and which can also be used again by anyone who wants to accept My gift of grace .... And this vessel cannot be induced into its service for Me by the fact that it itself unusually feels the effect of My flow of grace. I require complete devotion to Me of its own free will, only out of love for Me and for the neighbour who is to be helped .... I require a willingness for Me which is completely unselfish. But I will also reward such willingness, only differently than people expect. Yet I will not deny My strength to anyone who only sincerely asks Me for it. But the soul will always receive strength when My flow of spirit flows to earth, for it will never remain without effect. And when the time has come I will also emerge unusually, and My strength will be mighty in the weak .... But then I will pursue a purpose, because in My wisdom I recognize how and where people can still be helped whose faith is still weak but whom I don't want to lose to My adversary .... For truly no thing is impossible for Me .... And I will prove Myself to you as a loving father when the time has come for you to call to Me for help in greatest need .... Then I will be present to all who only believe in Me alive ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Earth renewal ....

B.D. 8130 from March 20th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

A renewal of the earth is inevitable .... for everything has gone out of order, people themselves are in a completely disenchanted state, and they also make it difficult for the spiritual being bound in the works of creation to develop upwards, for their addiction to matter often determines them to actions which signify the premature destruction of works of creation .... But people themselves constantly violate divine order because they completely disregard the principle of love, which, however, is the epitome of divine order. They are only concerned about their physical well-being, therefore all their thoughts and aspirations only apply to matter, they only apply to earthly goods and worldly pleasures. They are in no way aware of the actual purpose of earthly life, and therefore this life remains an idle one which will have serious consequences if people do not change and take a different path. Thus there is little prospect that people will change and allow themselves to be convinced of their spiritual low ..... Even severe strokes of fate or world events are unable to induce them to change their thinking, and they do not listen to the reproaches of fellow human beings who would like to help them out of the night of the spirit, for they believe nothing .... And such a state cannot remain, because the earth is intended to serve as a maturing station for the spiritual, which is on the path of return to God .... Therefore it will also remain as such, but a purification has to take place; everything has to be reclassified again; everything spiritual has to be reorganized .... from hard matter up to the human being .... must again be given the opportunity to serve, because only through service can the spiritual develop upwards and finally be redeemed from all forms .... And therein lies the overthrow of divine order, that the spiritual is increasingly deprived of the opportunity to serve .... This is the violation of divine order, that people also lack all love which presupposes 'service' and that they also often make it impossible for matter to be of service by collecting earthly goods and enjoying their possession which, however, are never allowed to fulfil their purpose and therefore the time of their development is prolonged, which causes the bound spiritual being agony. And thus people are also overly self-loving, they only think of themselves and the fulfilment of their desires .... they are in completely wrong love, they only ever seek union with things which belong to the world. Their love is a false love which only ever wants to take but never to give .... The right kind of love has grown cold amongst people, and this is a spiritual low which makes a life on earth unsuccessful, which completely contradicts divine order and necessitates the dissolution of the earth's creations, during which the human race will also perish because it has not made use of its earthly life, thus it has completely failed in its last test of earthly life. People themselves bring about the end of the earth's existence in its old form, people themselves, through their wrong will and their spiritual low, also determine the time of the end, which has been foreseen by God since eternity .... And since not only people but also the earth's creations are affected by people's wrong will and thinking, the dissolution of these earthly creations has also become necessary, and the consequence is a total transformation of the entire earth's surface, whereby every living being will be affected .... but will also be begotten again through God's love into the form on the new earth which corresponds to its spiritual state of maturity .... Order will be established on the new earth again, for everything has to progress in its development .... and the human being's soul, which has failed, must also be given renewed opportunities of ascent, which, however, requires dissolution and a new banishment into solid matter and is therefore to be feared. For every human being still has the opportunity to change if only the slightest will is in him to fulfil his purpose of earthly life. Then he will be assisted in every way in order to protect his soul from this new banishment .... And therefore people will be informed time and again of the occasion and significance of the end of this earth, and world events can also have a favourable effect on people's thoughts .... But the human being's will cannot be forced, he must think of his own free will and seek contact with the creator of heaven and earth .... And he will never be left without help, for God wants people to attain eternal life, but not to lose life again for an infinitely long time ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The passion of Jesus as a human being ....

B.D. 8131 from March 21st 1962, taken from Book No. 86

As Jesus, the human being, the passage across earth was also very difficult for Me, for My soul had descended from the kingdom of light to the depth .... it had entered a sphere which could only cause it torment, for it was the realm of Lucifer, the first-fallen spirit .... It was a realm of darkness, sin and death. And only the love blazing within Me made life bearable for Me, for this love recognized fellow human beings' appalling fate and sought to help them .... And every love which wants to help takes effect as strength, so that I thus had unusual strength at My disposal and was able to use it for the benefit of My fellow human beings .... I was pure and sinless and found Myself in the midst of sin .... And My soul suffered unspeakably because everything sinful also affected the body .... because weaknesses and cravings afflicted the body and the soul had to fight with them in order not to succumb to them. I was approached by great temptations, for Lucifer knew of My plan to release the beings which had fallen away from God from his control and to return them to the father again. And he truly tried and did everything by which he believed he could bring Me Myself to fall. He was a great challenge to Me in My struggle for the complete spiritualisation of My soul, which wanted to unite with divine love in order to be filled with strength to accomplish the act of salvation, which could only be acquired through love. It was probably the heaviest fate a human being has borne who walked across this earth .... For I also knew about My task when the unification with the father-spirit had taken place in Me .... I knew about the dreadful path of suffering I had to take, I knew about the path of the cross which My dying on the cross ended .... I knew everything beforehand and yet I walked this path consciously and of My own free will because My love was so great for suffering humanity, which would have been lost for eternity without My act of salvation .... For no human being was able to redeem even the grave sin of the former apostasy from God, because this apostasy took place in brightest realization of what the being had done .... It was not a sin out of weakness, it was a completely conscious rebellion against God against better knowledge .... Yet humanity took pity on Me, for I recognized all correlations and therefore also the impossibility of ever returning to the light again unless a work of love was accomplished through which the overwhelming guilt was redeemed .... If I as a human being had not gained this realization, which was the result of My great love, then I would not have been able to muster the will for this superhuman path of suffering either .... But only a sacrifice in a completely free will of love was accepted by the father as a work of atonement .... And so I consciously took the path to the cross, consciously took upon Myself an earthly lot that only the love in Me could endure .... And I endured to the end .... No human being can measure the suffering and torment a pure soul had to endure from above, but I constantly received strength because I remained in the most intimate bond with the father, because I requested His love and also received it without limitation .... And thus time and again the explanation is given to you that 'love' offered the sacrifice on the cross, that the 'love' which completely filled Me was the father-spirit Himself from eternity .... that He Himself redeemed the world from sin and death, with Whom I completely united Myself, because 'love' took abode in the human being Jesus, in a human shell which was able and willing to suffer, because the spirit of infinity was unable to suffer but He was able to completely radiate through a form and thus He Himself and the radiated form were now one .... The earthly walk as the man Jesus was exceedingly difficult, but it brought the 'man' Jesus full union with Me, it brought Him the deification of His soul .... And the man Jesus achieved the goal on earth which all people should reach: to unite with the father-spirit of eternity, which they are also able to do because they have help in the divine redeemer Jesus Christ, Who takes the burden of the original sin from them when it is carried under the cross and Who then will also strengthen their will to achieve complete unification, the union with Me, the father-spirit of eternity .... For this is why the man Jesus died on the cross, so that people can now find redemption from sin and death ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

"Come to Me ...." Words in hardship ....

B.D. 8132 from March 22nd 1962, taken from Book No. 86

You shall all be comforted who are weary and burdened if only you come to Me and call upon Me in your distress. I want to prove Myself to you as a loving father and provide you with physical and spiritual strength, because you are all still weak little children in need of help whom I therefore call to Me with merciful love. I am truly only concerned about your bliss, but you can only find it in unity with Me, and therefore I say: come to Me .... For only I can help you to become blissfully happy, only I can fill you with strength to live according to My will .... only I can illuminate you with My strength of love, which makes you blissfully happy and helps you to attain perfection. Therefore come to Me, you who are weary and burdened, I will refresh you. For I can speak to you and My word will truly impart strength to you, My word will give you peace because then you will be certain that I Myself am close to you when I speak to you. So why are you timid and fearful when you have the certainty that I am present to you? And yet you possess evidence of My presence if you are allowed to hear My word again and again which introduces you to all truth .... Although the world is storming you and makes you anxious and despondent, yet you are under My protection and need not fear any harm as long as you let Me Myself be present in you .... as long as you voluntarily want to serve Me as a vessel into which I can pour My spirit. It is such an important mission you have to fulfil that I truly grant you every protection and that I give you strength to repel everything from you which could hold you back from this mission .... I Myself stand behind you and thus I Myself am the best fighter for you .... I only want you to establish an ever firmer bond with Me, so that I can be present to you at all times, so that you turn your thoughts to Me daily and hourly .... For this is necessary for the task you have voluntarily offered to fulfil .... The time is coming to an end and there must be no slackness, you must not tire and remain inactive .... you should serve Me with all zeal and willingness, for only this voluntary work is a blessing .... for yourselves and for your fellow human beings who need strength or shall find their way to Me, whom I want to address through you. And therefore you are repeatedly urged by Me to work in My vineyard. But My adversary also tries to intervene and hinder you, and time and again you will be subject to disturbances, time and again you will be disturbed, and then you should only take refuge with Me Who will help you in every adversity of body and soul. The end time is not a time of rest .... It will be a constant struggle with the adversary, for he will always find a way to throw you into confusion .... But you will always be able to resist him, because you only need to come to Me, Who will truly 'refresh and refresh you', as I have promised .... therefore always keep My promise, for you will not send a call to Me in vain who ascends in spirit and truth .... For as long as you let Me speak to you, you receive strength from Me directly, and you also open your heart to My illumination of love, and then the adversary must depart from you because he flees the ray of love light. "Ask and it will be given to you .... knock and it will be opened to you." You think far too little of this promise of Mine, otherwise you would never need to fear or worry, for I take over every worry for you who serve Me, and I constantly provide you with strength. Give yourselves to Me and let Me rule, then you will belong to My own whom I will not abandon in their adversity, whom I will help earthly and spiritually, as I have promised ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spiritualization of immature substances ....

B.D. 8133 from March 23rd 1962, taken from Book No. 86

All sufferings and hardships of the body contribute to the spiritualisation of the still immature substances. Therefore you should bear everything with surrender, for it is only for the salvation of your soul. Your body still carries much immature spiritual substance within itself, for all matter is a carrier of spiritual substances which are still in the early stages of their development. And it is certainly possible for you to spiritualize the substances of the body during your earthly life so that they can join the soul and pass over into the kingdom of the beyond at the end of your physical life. Yet only rarely does a person succeed in this full spiritualization, because it presupposes a life of love which requires the complete abandonment of the ego and only rarely does a person reach this high degree of love on earth. Yet much is already gained when the body submits to the will of the soul, which allows itself to be determined by the spirit within to want, think and act .... And if the body also submits to the spirit's desire, so that it complies with the soul's desire, then the body's substances will also become spiritualized .... especially when illness and suffering affect this unspiritual substance and it becomes increasingly purified .... which is why a certain blessing rests on such states of the body which sometimes cause it pain .... Time and again unspiritual urges are thereby repelled and the soul crystallises more and more, and one can also speak of the spiritualization of the body, even if this does not yet happen completely during earthly life. Yet believe that every illness and every suffering will have a favourable effect on your soul if you don't rebel against fate .... if you humbly bear your fate, which was never imposed on you without purpose. You will not be able to deny that the body still has immature substances and thus these substances will always cause you pain; and only rarely will a person succeed in establishing complete order within himself, even though this is the actual task in earthly life .... But he is and remains weak, and the most intimate connection with the source of strength from eternity is necessary for this .... i.e., the human being must be so filled with love that the eternal love Itself is constantly in him .... because then he will have a measure of strength at his disposal which will also enable him to succeed in the spiritualization of all substances oppressing the body. Yet the human being can already consider himself fortunate if he succeeds in purifying his soul during earthly life so that it can be permeated by the divine light of love, so that it is receptive to light when it enters the kingdom of the beyond. And this purification of the soul is also achieved through suffering and illness if love is not so brightly kindled that it brings about the maturing of the soul. Therefore you humans should not complain and grumble even if you are physically burdened, for everything only serves you towards perfection .... And a soul's degree of light can vary so much on its entry into the kingdom of the beyond .... And every suffering on earth contributes to the increase of the degree of light, provided that the human being himself strives to attain maturity of soul, that he seriously strives for perfection .... And therefore you should also be grateful for the suffering and not believe that you have to endure it as punishment. It is only a means of purification, for the fact that there are still unfaithful substances in you is already rooted in your physical outer shell, which consists of immature spiritual substances .... But this spiritual substance can also develop more quickly, it can reach maturity more quickly precisely through such purification means. And one day you will also recognize the blessing of what was imposed on you in earthly life .... And you will only be grateful for the loving care which you will also recognize in it. For one day the light will shine for you and you will forget all adversity which lies behind you .... and you will be blissfully happy in the light ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Love imparts realisation ....

B.D. 8134 from March 24th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

I want to speak to you so that you will gain knowledge which corresponds to the truth and according to this knowledge learn to look upon your whole earthly life with entirely different eyes .... so that you will subsequently live it in full awareness of your connection with Me and prepare yourselves to continuously receive strength .... For you humans are weak as long as you don't lay claim to My influx of strength. Although the energy of life is at your disposal, you nevertheless do not use it according to My will, so that you, at best, at the end of your life will have gathered earthly possessions which you must leave behind when the hour of death arrives .... If, however, you live according to My will then you will be able to use your vital energy to acquire permanent possessions as well which will follow you into the spiritual kingdom. Through constant contact with Me you can also acquire spiritual strength, and only then will you accomplish your actual purpose of earthly life. And thus I want to impart the knowledge of this to you, because you will continue to lack realisation as long as you lack love .... as long as you do not accomplish labours of love although your energy of life enables you to do so .... Hence it is My will that you make an effort to live a life of love .... Then you will gather spiritual wealth and kindle a light in yourselves which signifies realisation for you .... knowledge, which corresponds to the truth. Then you will also establish the connection with Me and strength can be conveyed to you directly, and you will cover the path of ascent, you will strive towards attaining perfection and reach the goal, which is the purpose of your earthly life. But as long as you are entirely without knowledge, you are spiritually blind and only live for this earth. You are entirely earthly minded and only use the earthly vitality of life purely for your body's well-being but fail to consider your soul. The body, however, is transient, whereas the soul cannot cease to exist, and you should take care of your soul's fate .... It needs strength, and it can only receive it from you if you accomplish loving deeds, if you unite with Me in heartfelt prayer, if you enable Me to convey strength to you directly: if you allow Me Myself to speak to you ....

Then you will receive a measure of strength which enables you to live in the right way on this earth. The direct Word is a direct transfer of strength of utmost significance; therefore, I will always be willing to speak to you, because you all need much strength, because all of you practice too little love and consequently only receive a modest influx of strength of love .... But I want to stimulate you to love, I want to instruct you in all truthfulness what you should do on earth in order to become as blissfully happy as you were in the beginning .... I want to kindle a light in you because you walk in darkness, yet you must be willing to accept the light; you must voluntarily open yourselves to listen to My Word and you will always do so if you, who don't hear Me directly, willingly listen to My messengers who impart My Words to you. Then your willingness to listen to Me will be a great blessing for you, for the strength will flow into you since My Word is blessed with My strength .... And the light in you will increase in radiance the more often you offer Me the opportunity to address you. Your knowledge will grow and you will feel that it is true what is imparted to you. For only truth has the strength to guide you towards perfection. And if you want to gain possession of the truth, then you must hand yourselves over to Me Myself, the Eternal Truth .... You must unite with Me in prayer or through kind-hearted activity and always keep your will directed towards Me .... And you will be imbued with truthful knowledge, I Myself gave you the promise that I will guide you into truth .... that I will send you My spirit .... that I Myself will remain with you until the end .... And where I Am, there is truth .... where I Am, there is love, and where I Am, there is also the Source of strength of eternity .... Therefore, you should only ever yearn for My proximity, My presence, and truly, you will not go without, you will not have lived your earthly life in vain, you will be able to receive light and strength in abundance and, after your death, you will be able to enter the kingdom of light and beatitude ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Reception of the pure truth requires preconditions ....

B.D. 8135 from March 25th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

I only ever endeavour to convey the pure truth to you. Yet you will often notice that the views of My own also differ from each other .... the views of those who strive towards Me, who want to belong to My own and who also unite with Me through prayer and prayer of love. But sometimes they also hold on to what they have taken over from others as truth but which cannot claim to be truth. The human being has to completely free himself from adopted spiritual knowledge and request the pure truth from Me Myself. Then he will think correctly, then he will only be encouraged in it, but he will also receive clarification where he still errs .... And again and again it has to be emphasized that the desire for truth is the first condition to stand in truth. Time and again the human being should account for whether this desire is inherent in him, and time and again he should examine the starting point of what spiritual knowledge he possesses .... And where this desire for truth is serious there will also always be the same truth which has taken its origin from Me. And this truth can only be imparted to you humans through the working of the spirit, which is why you should all make an effort to bring love within yourselves to highest development, so that My spirit can work directly in you. And then you should let yourselves be gifted by Me, put aside every preconceived opinion and only ever accept what I send to you .... You should only ever listen to what My spirit imparts to you. And you are also guaranteed to live in truth, you will eliminate every error yourselves because then you will also recognize it as error as soon as My spirit is at work .... But how few people know about this process, how few people know that the purest truth is accessible to them if only they live according to My will, that is, if they fulfil the prerequisites which require the 'working of My spirit' .... People try to gain possession of the truth intellectually, through diligent study, and they only acquire human knowledge which will never give them the certainty that it is pure truth .... But I show you the path to reach this truth. But you can never exclude Me in the process, for I, as the eternal truth, have also reserved it for Myself to convey the truth to you humans if you fulfil the conditions I have attached to the supply of pure truth: that you shape yourselves through love such that you enable the 'working of My spirit' within you .... Then I Myself will be able to convey the truth to you, and I will also do so because it is necessary that you live in truth. But most of you humans are not willing to surrender the spiritual knowledge you possess, because everyone believes to be instructed in the truth and does not want to part with it. And therefore you often set barriers yourselves which I will not break through due to free will .... But this also hinders the reception of pure truth, which requires a desire for truth and is therefore also connected with the complete surrender of what spiritual possessions the human being has .... Yet he will be all the happier when he is instructed by Me Myself and receives the spiritual knowledge again, but which he can and will now represent with conviction as pure truth. And such spiritual knowledge, which originated directly from Me, will always agree, and then you humans will also be convinced of its truth, because I Myself will give you the inner certainty through the spirit which you need in order to be able to represent the truth to your fellow human beings. But since you humans know little about such spiritual activity within you, you only ever use your intellect for help, and this will produce many different results .... You will all assume that you think correctly but you will have no inner certainty and be unable to provide evidence for it. And this is why time and again divisions will arise, this is why many different opinions are held and humanity walks along in ignorance or adopts wrong ideas when it concerns spiritual territory which cannot be fathomed in any other way than through My influence on the human being's thoughts .... through enlightenment of the spirit, which requires a life of love and conscious contact with Me. You humans could always move into truth as soon as you only make contact with the giver of truth, as soon as you seriously desire the truth from Me Myself ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Exhortation to resist in the last days ....

B.D. 8136 from March 26th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

You can be certain that I am present to you as soon as you hear My voice .... You can believe that My spirit works in you as soon as you intimately unite with Me and desire to hear Me .... But the prerequisites must be fulfilled that you shape yourselves into a receptacle for My flow of spirit, that you have prepared your hearts for My presence. And this can only be achieved by love which then also gives birth to living faith in My working in you, otherwise you would not listen inwardly to My voice. But if you listen to My word then humility must also fill your heart, for I only grant My grace to the humble, and My word is a gift of grace of unheard-of significance. But then you can also be convinced that you are living in truth, for what I say to you directly is truth because it originates from the giver of truth, from the eternal truth Itself. And thus always regard yourselves as My servants who will only ever want, think and act in accordance with My will, for you could not be receptacles of My divine spirit if you had not offered yourselves to Me for service in free will and thus fully consciously bestowed your will upon Me, who thus turned to Me and you thus passed the test of will on earth and you are on the path of return and have already shortly arrived at your goal. How else, then, shall I confirm your mission to you, which you have voluntarily offered yourselves to Me to fulfil? I was able to choose you for this mission because all prerequisites were present and I want you to complete your mission and not let yourselves be held back in any way, for it is important and I did not arbitrarily choose strong-willed servants for Myself who will withstand all onslaughts from My adversary. He truly does not shy away from any means if he hopes to thereby extinguish the light which shines brightly down to earth .... Therefore, don't become fickle in your faith to be true servants to Me, but only hold on to Me and the tempter will leave when he sees that his plans and intentions are unsuccessful. Yet I also leave him fullest freedom, for it is the last time .... Soon his activity will come to an end, and until then I will also know how to protect you who consciously serve Me. Just want to be and remain Mine .... And use all your strength to work in My vineyard .... Don't let yourselves be frightened but believe and trust Me, Who will truly protect you and not abandon you to error because you earnestly desire truth. Always keep your heart open for My flow of love and constantly receive the bread of heaven, the water of life .... Let yourselves be fed and watered by Me and you will increase in strength and serve Me with joy. But do not listen to what people say to you if it does not correspond to My address .... Although I leave everyone free, for I do not force the human being's will, everyone must seriously ask himself how he relates to Me in order to think and act correctly before My eyes. And you should always establish this right relationship, and then you will also be able to be certain that you are under My protection and need not fear My adversary. Yet he will harass you until the end because he knows that he does not have much time left .... And this shall also be an explanation to you for the strangest events which will still happen but which you will always be able to ward off with My help and My strength, for I will not abandon those who are Mine and want to remain .... I give them strength to resist .... I always grant them My protection so that they can fulfil their task in My will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

"Heaven and earth will pass away ...."

B.D. 8137 from March 28th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

It is not spiritual presumption to defend the words of the lord, for these always and forever remain pure truth as long as they are not exposed to human changes .... And thus Jesus taught on earth and conveyed His word to people .... He proclaimed the gospel of love to them, and He instructed His disciples to record His word in order to make it accessible to humanity time and again, because it is necessary that people take notice of the gospel of love, because they should know about God's will, Who sent His son to earth in order to address people through Him. This word can therefore also be defended, and in order to confirm it Jesus promised His spirit to them (people), which was to repeatedly introduce people to the truth, which was to remind them of what He Himself spoke to them when He walked on earth(s). But through the promise of His spirit, through the assurance that the spirit will guide you humans into truth, He also made provision for His word to be conveyed to people .... the pure truth .... because this will never remain pure as it came forth from Jesus, for people in their imperfection will also deface what is perfect, precisely because they are still imperfect. But He said: "Heaven and earth will pass away, but My word will endure for all eternity." .... And this results in the necessity that pure truth will always be conveyed to earth and that this will always be the same truth as it was taught by Jesus Himself on earth, and therefore His word may always be defended .... And thus it only remains to examine whether it is His word which you humans defend, who believe yourselves to be in the service of the lord .... And thus you can only adhere to His word again, you have to take Jesus' words as a touchstone .... And you can rightly hold on to the scriptures which testify of Him. You must therefore first know about the 'working of the spirit in the human being', for which you will find proof in scripture: “I will send you the comforter, the spirit of truth, who will guide you into all truth and remind you of all that I have told you." Jesus Himself made this promise as well as the promise: "I will remain with you until the end of the world." So this is also the confirmation that His work was not finished with His walk on earth and that He would constantly speak to people .... And He has promised those who believe in Him and keep His commandments that He will reveal Himself to them .... Time and again He has mentioned the working of the spirit, and when His word is now conveyed to people from above, only those promises are fulfilled which are contained in scripture, which only ever point to the fact that the father repeatedly speaks to His children who allow the 'working of His spirit' within them .... And the truth of the word, which is now conveyed to people as the 'working of the spirit', can therefore also rightly be defended, for it cannot flow from any other source than the eternal word Itself. And it must and will also coincide with the divine gospel which the man Jesus proclaimed on earth, Who had so prepared Himself that God took abode in Him, Who Himself is the word from eternity .... Who now also expressed Himself through Jesus and instructed people in all truth .... (28.3.1962) His sanctified word always and forever remains the same .... And therefore every change must be described as a human distortion of the divine word, and then it is no longer possible to speak of the pure Word of God .... This is why Jesus said: "I will send you the comforter to guide you into all truth ...." because He knew that time and again His word would be changed by human will, otherwise people would constantly move within the truth. And the transmission of pure truth could only happen through His spirit again, God Himself had to speak to people .... the eternal spirit of God had to address the spiritual spark in the human being, but this always required the willingness of the human being himself together with the prerequisites under which the human being's spirit could therefore express itself .... that God Himself therefore worked in the human being through His spirit .... "It is the Scriptures which testify of Me ...." And thus you cannot reject the scriptures as the work of men, for the most profound truth is hidden in them for the awakened human being, even if human will repeatedly results in changes which, however, the awakened spirit recognizes and will correct according to their meaning. Jesus pointed to the "working of the spirit" .... Yet the process of this has mostly remained alien to people, precisely because the prerequisites for the working of the spirit in the human being were lacking ...., just as at the time of Jesus on earth people were far removed from God and could no longer hear the voice of God within themselves because they were still under the burden of original sin, which Jesus Christ first had to eradicate in order to put people back into the state of seeking intimate contact with the father-spirit from eternity .... And thus the spirit from God will only ever be able to express itself where this expression is consciously expected. Thus the voice of the spirit will never sound in a person who does not prepare himself in any way to hear God's address .... because His voice will never exert a constraint on the human being's will. God certainly wants to reveal Himself to people at all times, yet the human being has to initiate His revelations himself through his free will and by fulfilling the conditions which are attached to the hearing of the divine word .... And he must now consciously listen within .... Then the "outpouring of the spirit" can take place, which Jesus Himself promised when He walked on earth. And so you humans must also be able to understand the delivery of pure truth from above, you must not call them 'messages from the spirit realm' .... For even such can reach you without you having attained the spiritual maturity which an 'outpouring of the spirit' requires .... You must know what it is about when the truth is conveyed to you in an unusual way .... but it only seems unusual to you because you yourselves are too little informed about the 'outpouring of the spirit', because you also don't want to acknowledge the book of books which, however, is 'the scripture which testifies of Me' .... First learn to understand this scripture, and then you will also understand why again and again My (the) pure word of God is conveyed to earth, why again and again "the comforter guides people into truth ...." For nothing maintains itself as pure as it originated from God, because time and again it is exposed to the will of people, who are still imperfect .... But time and again God will guide His word to earth so that it will be fulfilled: "Heaven and earth will pass away, but My word will endure for eternity .... “

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The living faith in the work of redemption ....

B.D. 8138 from March 29th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

You humans are required to have a living faith in Jesus Christ, the son of God, Who redeemed humanity from sin and death through His sacrificial death on the cross .... And to possess a living faith in Him also means to know about the reason for His act of salvation, about the immeasurably great guilt in which all people find themselves due to their past apostasy from God. Then the human being who acknowledges Him as God's son, in Whom I was able to embody Myself, will consciously carry his guilt under the cross, i.e. he will want to belong to those for whom Jesus died on the cross, for whom He laid down His life, for whom He shed His blood. Thus he will consciously confess Jesus Christ, the divine redeemer, and consequently he will also acknowledge Me Myself, Who was in Him, Who manifested Myself in the man Jesus, because He was full of love and acknowledged Me Myself .... as the eternal love .... completely within Himself. But I speak of a living faith, for I am not satisfied with words which the mouth can say but of which the heart knows nothing. And living faith is only the result of love which has thus awakened it to life .... A person who endeavours to live in love will also have an inner bond with the one Who redeemed him from sin and death, he will devote himself to Him in this bond, he will want to belong to Him, even if he cannot intellectually assess the full depth of the greatest act of mercy a human being has accomplished on earth .... but he will know that without Jesus Christ he would be lost and doomed to eternal death .... He will know that he needs Him in order to become blessed and will want the divine redeemer's love to take hold of him, that His mercy will also include him in the circle of the redeemed .... He will hand over his burden of sin to Him and ask for His forgiveness. And it will be granted to him .... The stream of grace will never run dry, which is available to every human being, for Jesus acquired a treasure of grace for humanity through His agonising death on the cross .... And He paid with His blood the purchase price for all souls who once voluntarily followed the adversary into the abyss and were therefore his share .... And this means that the human being should only take refuge under the cross of his own free will and ask Jesus for forgiveness of his guilt and for help against the adversary .... And the latter has now lost his right to that person because his guilt has been redeemed, because Jesus sacrificed Himself on the cross for all souls which long to return to Him again and were held captive by the adversary .... until His death on the cross .... Then the adversary's power was broken, but only ever for those people who wanted to escape from him and called upon Him for help. It was an exceedingly great work of love .... But love was in the man Jesus, and this love was I Myself .... Time and again I try to make this great work of mercy understandable to you humans, and time and again I Myself enlighten you about the correlations, about the occasion of Jesus' descent, about His earthly life and about your former grave sin of apostasy from Me .... Only when you know about the great guilt of sin you are burdened with as earthly people can you also understand the mission of the man Jesus, and only then can you consciously take a stand on the act of salvation as well as on Himself, Who sheltered Me in all fullness within Himself. You must also know about My fundamental nature, Which you may not imagine as a limited form, and you must know that this very nature chose a form for Itself and completely fulfilled it .... that therefore the man Jesus was this form and that the whole fullness of the Deity was in Him .... And when you understand this, then you also understand that and why you must acknowledge Him as redeemer of the world .... Only then will you understand the greatness of His sacrifice, that He walked the path of suffering as a human being and suffered death on the cross as a human being .... And then you will also glow with love for Him, you will give yourselves to Him and want to belong to Him for time and eternity .... And you will learn to understand the depth of His work of mercy more and more, the more love flares up in you too .... And then you can also be certain of the forgiveness of all guilt, for this is why He died as a human being on the cross, so that all guilt was redeemed .... that all people find redemption who want redemption themselves and ask Him for it ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

"Take up your cross ...."

B.D. 8139 from March 30th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

I am the father of all of you, and everything that happens or is allowed to happen is evidence of My greater than great love for His children, and it serves you towards perfection. But you can always ask Me to help you carry your cross if it seems too heavy for you .... Then call upon Me in Jesus, and then you will also take the path to the cross through your acknowledgement of the divine act of salvation which the man Jesus accomplished on earth for you .... in order to redeem your past great guilt of sin .... He is the bearer of the cross, and if you therefore call upon Me in Him, then I will gladly take the burden of the cross from you and carry it for you .... or also, I will give you strength to carry the cross yourselves, and it will not weigh so heavily upon you, the burden will become lighter, and you will walk the path of following Jesus, Who said: "Take up your cross and follow Me ...." So Jesus has already announced to you that you humans will have to carry a cross if you want to follow Him .... Yet Jesus is and remains your father from eternity, for I Myself was in Him, I Myself became a visible God for you in Him, but I am also so united with you through My human existence on earth that I understand all your hardships and that I am therefore also willing to take your cross upon My shoulders and carry it for you if it seems too heavy for you. Yet you will also constantly receive new strength, and this strength from Me is grace which I acquired for you on the cross through My death .... You therefore always draw on this strength when you pray to Me in Jesus, when you take notice of Me and My act of salvation, when you put yourselves into My suffering and death, when you believe in Me Who lived on earth in the human being Jesus and redeemed the guilt of sin for you through My death on the cross .... The influx of grace is guaranteed to you if you acknowledge Me. And this grace expresses itself in increased will, in the strength to lead your life on earth according to My will .... And even if the body is weak and wretched the soul is nevertheless touched by that strength, and this assurance shall also let you endure physical suffering and infirmity, for the body does not last but the soul is everlasting, and it gains the life which lasts forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Feeding the light from above ....

B.D. 8140 from March 31th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

You can constantly receive messages from above, because My love is never spent too much .... because I Myself want to be in constant contact with you and therefore bless every hour you give Me, because your free will is necessary for Me to be able to communicate with you. But you will always receive delicious gifts even if you don't immediately recognize their value. If you consider the dark spiritual state the human being is in when he starts earthly life, then you cannot be grateful enough for the light which illuminates you inwardly, which is already a sign that you are close to your goal. And if you are enlightened, i.e. if you have already gained knowledge about your beginning and your goal, about your relationship with Me and about all spiritual correlations which affect your existence as a human being, then this also means that you have escaped My adversary's power who, as the prince of darkness, does not want to let people attain the light and therefore does everything to keep them in spiritual darkness. But you possess a light, you have freed yourselves from his power .... which does not exclude his constant attempts to win you back again and to draw you into his dark realm .... but he no longer succeeds. But he will no longer succeed as soon as you stand in the light of truth, for this will push him away time and again because he flees the light from Me. Knowledge is inexhaustible and you can constantly be permeated by My light of love .... thus constantly receive truthful knowledge which will make you happy and let you mature in your realization .... You need only turn to Me in your desire to receive this delicious gift of grace from Me, be it directly or also indirectly through My messengers .... But it has always come forth from Me Myself when My spirit could pour into an open heart .... The brighter the light now shines within you, the more you will feel urged to let it radiate out .... Anyone who receives this gift of grace from Me cannot help but pass it on, pass it on to his fellow human beings and also inform them of his knowledge .... For the light possesses a luminosity which radiates far into the night. And night is still everywhere where people are in spiritual darkness, where they lack the pure truth, for twinkling lights do not give off a glow, they cannot illuminate the human heart .... Thus knowledge cannot inspire which does not correspond to truth. My adversary, however, does not want to let the truth penetrate, he does everything in order to extinguish the light even where it is recognizable and spreads its illusion. My love, however, will truly know how to protect the light and time and again let bright light shine down to earth anew so that the darkness will be broken through and people will clearly see a path in the light which they will now also take because they know that it leads upwards towards the final goal. If I can convey My word to earth through your will then you truly possess an immeasurable treasure of grace, for everything is offered to you through My word: Light and strength .... Food and drink for your souls .... Any weakness you may have shown at the beginning of your earthly life can be taken away from you and give way to a measure of strength which will let you accomplish everything you now strive for, because you recognize why you live on earth. The sun of the spirit shines brightly for you, you slowly regain the abilities you once lost due to your apostasy from Me .... You change your nature because you receive the strength to do so through My word, and you slowly take on your original nature again .... For I show you the way, I explain everything to you, I admonish and warn you; I speak to all My children with a language of love, if only it is possible for Me to convey My word directly to earth .... And such evidence of My love can never remain ineffective .... it must lead to shaping yourselves into love and thus also to uniting with Me, which is the ultimate purpose of your change across earth .... Therefore only open your hearts to Me and catch My ray of love .... Let it become bright in you and thus also drive away the adversary who cannot tolerate light because it emanates from Me and he is and will remain My enemy for eternal times to come .... But he will not be able to oppose the light which radiates from Me, and thus he will also not be able to force you to return to his dark realm again .... For he has lost power over you because you fully consciously give Me your will, you who daily request My gift of grace and gratefully accept it from My hand .... For you then let Me be present in you, and where I am he cannot be .... where I am there is light, and there his power is broken ....

Amen

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And the Word was made flesh .... '

B.D. 8141 from April 3rd 1962, taken from Book No. 86

And the Word was made flesh and lived among us ....' I Myself, the eternal Word, came to earth and became flesh .... It was an act of overwhelming love and mercy that had moved Me to make contact with the human beings who had distanced themselves from Me to a point that they were no longer able to hear My voice, that they could no longer hear My Word within themselves, and who did not have a relationship with the Word of eternity any more .... They had caused this vast distance from Me themselves, and they would never have been able to bridge this distance on their own, they would never have been able to hear My Word again such as it was in the beginning when I could communicate with all My living creations through the Word .... For this reason My love has bridged the vast distance Itself .... I Myself came to earth and became flesh and then tried to get in touch with My living creations in order to speak to them again and to build a bridge for them which would lead them back to Me into the kingdom of light and bliss ....

I Am the eternal Word Myself but I could not have spoken directly to any human being from above without placing those who once had originated from Me as free living creations into a state of compulsion. They had to cross the bridge to Me voluntarily and I could only achieve that by means of My Word which, however, should not sound extraordinary but like the spoken word between human beings. And for this reason I became flesh .... I took abode in the human cover of Jesus and spoke to people through Him .... But it was My Word which now was spoken to them, and through this Word I was able to show people the way. I was able to instruct them and tell them My will, I was able to reveal the Gospel to them, the divine teaching of love, which should once again change their souls to a state which would enable every person to hear My Word within himself if this was his sincere will .... But first humanity had to be released from sin and death. The former guilt of sin, caused by the apostasy from Me, first had to be redeemed, so that the subsequent bond with Me could be crowned by the 'pouring out of My spirit' .... so that the human being himself could hear My voice within himself again as it was in the beginning ....

'And the Word was made flesh and lived amongst us ....' Only few people understand the meaning of these words; the eternal Word came to earth Itself because humanity was in greatest difficulty, it was not aware of its wretched condition, of its lack of light, of the spiritual darkness in which it lived .... It was completely separate from Me and did nothing to reduce its vast distance from Me. The only way to help people was by means of instructions which corresponded to the truth .... They had to be informed of their God and Creator's will, and this will had to be conveyed to them by Myself .... I had to speak to them Myself and could only do so through a human being .... Thus I embodied Myself in this human being, and only in this manner was it possible to instruct people truthfully, to draw their attention to their wrong way of life, to inform them of My will and exemplify the kind of life they should lead themselves in order to escape their spiritual darkness, in order to walk the path I showed them first so that they could attain eternal life again. For they were influenced by My adversary who continuously provoked them into leading a life without love which subsequently made and kept them weak and they were not able to contribute anything towards their ascent.

I Myself provided them with the evidence that love results in strength. I healed the sick and carried out other miracles which only the strength of love could accomplish .... I also informed them about the consequences of a heartless way of life .... for I first had to explain to people why they were experiencing physical and spiritual hardship .... I had to inform them that their state as human beings could not be considered a happy one and what they therefore should do to attain beatitude .... And they had to hear all of this from the mouth of God .... They had to be able to hear My Word, and thus the Word Itself came down to earth and became flesh .... In the original state the Word sounded within every being and was the cause of inconceivable bliss .... And the beings abandoned this blissfulness themselves by voluntarily distancing themselves from Me and thus could not hear My Word any longer, because this Word was a direct emanation of love on My part which they then rejected.

Humanity's excessive hardship on earth prompted My love and mercy to draw nearer to them and to confront them in Word despite their resistance .... And anyone who had ignited just a tiny spark of love within himself recognised Me and accepted My Word .... He also recognised the Deity in Me and followed Me .... But by and large people just saw the human being in Me and therefore valued My Word simply as that of a human being .... I was amongst them and they did not recognise Me .... Nevertheless, I was able to proclaim the Gospel of love, to repeatedly impart the divine teaching of love to people and to educate My apostles Myself and then send them into the world with the task of proclaiming My Gospel and bearing witness to Me .... The 'Word Itself' had come to earth, and It was made flesh for the benefit of humanity .... And every time My Word is spoken, My infinite love and mercy bows down towards humanity and emits Its love into those human hearts who willingly accept My Word, who listen to it and recognise it as their Father's voice and who are grateful for this great gift of grace .... For I Myself Am the eternal Word, and anyone who listens to Me enters into closest contact with Me, and he will indeed achieve his last goal on this earth, he will find complete unification with Me, his God and Father, to Whom he has finally returned to be eternally blessed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Light and power supply must be coveted ....

B.D. 8142 from April 4th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

My flow of grace shall always be accessible to you as soon as you want to let it flow into you. I never set limits to this flow of grace, but you yourselves, i.e. your will, determine the strength with which it can touch you. And therefore you will be allowed to receive unlimitedly if you desire My flow of grace. And My flow of grace always means the supply of strength which your soul feels beneficially and which helps it to mature. For the soul is addressed by Me and My address can never remain ineffective, the soul feels My love and reciprocates it, and this always means approaching Me, it means taking a step further towards the height .... This is why you are always the recipients when you let yourselves be addressed by Me, this is why you must irrevocably ascend through every connection with Me which My address earns you. But I also want you to increase in knowledge, and therefore every address is also connected with an instruction .... I seek to impart knowledge to you which you once possessed but which you lost through your own fault when you consciously turned away from Me and headed towards darkness .... I want to return this knowledge to you if you desire it of your own free will, for possessing a light of knowledge also enables you to consciously change your earthly path, always with the goal of finally uniting with Me and being blissfully happy again, as you were in the beginning. Thus My address brings you strength and light .... The soul gains knowledge and now also applies the strength flowing to it correctly, i.e. it uses it for its perfection. My address can never remain without effect, provided, however, that it is desired and made possible by the human being himself through his will .... And therefore you can do nothing better than contact Me as often as possible and appeal for strength and light. I will never ignore such a request, and I will never deny Myself to you, after all, you belong to Me for all eternity, and I also long for the bond with you. Yet you must establish it yourselves because you once severed it yourselves .... Yet no human being will call to Me in vain who wants to be united with Me. His will is always the guarantee that I will draw close to him, that I will be so close to him that he will be able to hear Me if only he listens inwardly in faith and love for Me .... And then his earthly life will never be idle either, for the strength and light flowing to him will be beneficially felt by the soul and also utilised correctly, the soul will mature and fulfil the purpose of its earthly life, the soul will recognize its outcome and strive towards it again with all its strength, and it will be supported by Me in every way. And therefore you should also know what an unheard-of gift of grace your father bestows upon you when He addresses you Himself; you should know that without My help you are weak and without light, that your soul would neither see the path nor have the strength to travel it. But I show you the path and enlighten it, and I provide you with the strength to walk it, even if it ascends .... But you yourselves must give Me the opportunity, you must seek contact with Me of your own free will and desire to be addressed by Me. And truly, your desire will be fulfilled wherever and whenever it may be, for this bond with Me is your purpose of earthly life which will truly also lead you to the goal .... to the final union with Me, your God and father of eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Free decision of will ....

B.D. 8143 from April 5th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

The infinitely long path of your development through the creations of earth is coming to an end if you travel the last short stretch of the path as a human being in the right direction .... if you strive towards Me Myself and thus consciously accomplish your return to Me when you pass the final test of will on earth .... when you make the right decision, thus dispose of your opposing will towards Me, from Whom you once originated. Then you will truly have accomplished your work of transformation, as 'My living creation' you voluntarily became My 'child'. You have surmounted the deepest depths and ascended again to the highest peaks. Although as humans you indeed travel the last short stretch as self-aware beings, you have no recollection of the endless time of your preliminary development and of the awful torment this path meant for the spirits which were once created as free beings .... As a human being you will remain ignorant of your previous life and your actual purpose of earthly life until you have voluntarily looked for and found the connection with Me, which now reveals knowledge to you that will also impel you into serious striving for your final state of perfection. This knowledge can certainly be conveyed to fellow human beings too, so that they will live their earthly life more responsibly .... but it will rarely be believed as long as a person does not make contact with Me by way of thoughts, prayer or actions of love .... Since evidence of his previous existence cannot be given to him he will not gladly want to accept what he is told about his soul's path through all works of creation .... through the mineral, plant and animal world. This is why his sense of responsibility for his life on earth as a human being is small. But since it concerns the free decision of will he must find the path to Me himself .... He must learn to recognise Me and for this he will receive help in every way. For he can think, he can use his intellect, and even if it does not necessarily reveal the truth to him .... he can nevertheless use his intellect to also think about a God and Creator to Whom he owes his existence.

If such thoughts affect him he will also somehow or other form an opinion of them .... And the direction these thoughts take is up to his free will. However, as soon as he merely takes the possibility of an infinitely long previous time of development into account it will already be of benefit for his soul, for such thoughts will not leave him again and he will question the actual purpose of earthly life, then he can also be certain that many an explanation will be conveyed to him mentally .... which he will accept and also make him consciously strive to fulfil his purpose of earthly life. The human being certainly comes into this world without any kind of knowledge but I will always make sure that a small glimmer of realisation shines for him, that he will always encounter a light on which he need only kindle himself in order to recognise the path he should take in order to ascend. The fact that he is not forced in any way does not exclude that he won't have ample opportunity to make a free decision, and the beings of light which look after him will also help him gain realisation by way of providence .... yet always without coercion. But life on earth as a human being is of greatest significance since it can, after all, result in the final completion of the souls' path through matter and enable them to pass into the kingdom of the beyond as free and unburdened spirits .... However, the human being can also fail his final test of will and enter the beyond in an unredeemed state .... But even there it is still possible for the soul to find and call upon the divine Redeemer Jesus Christ and to ascend gradually. But it can also live an entirely unspiritual life on earth and be banished again into matter, that is, it will have to take the same path of development through the creations of earth once more, which is so appalling and requires such an infinitely long time again that I will truly support people in every possible way in order to protect them from this dreadful fate of a new banishment. In the end, however, it is the human being's will which decides .... And therefore I keep trying to influence the will such that it will turn to Me by itself .... For then his soul will be saved even if it is not yet fully mature when it finishes its earthly life as a human. But its will has chosen Me and that also signifies the right decision and thus a passed test of will. Everyone should listen and think about it as soon as he is informed of his development and his task on earth .... He should merely take the possibility into account and it would truly already be beneficial for him, for wherever possible the beings of light which guide him through earthly life will intervene and try everything in order to make him use his will correctly .... so that he can finish the path through matter, so that he will seek and find Me and then also be saved for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The adversary's increased activity against light bearers ....

B.D. 8144 from April 6th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

I will never allow My adversary to disrupt a contact with Me to earth if this is established with the serious will to be of service to Me .... But neither will I ever prevent My adversary's attempts to intervene disruptively, because I do not curtail his will either .... This explains the fact that you humans will often have to grapple with him but that My power and love is so great that he will never be victorious over those of you who have voluntarily placed yourselves at My service .... Nevertheless, you all have to watch out for his cunning and trickery, so that you will not give him the slightest reason for his anti-divine activity. For your own will is always decisive .... If it applies to Me then even the greatest enemy will be unable to affect you, since then I Myself will stand by your side and he will leave you alone in view of My light, which he avoids. During the last days he will find increasingly more vessels through which he will be able to express himself, which are enslaved by him and which will carry out whatever he impels them to do ....

Consequently, he will also create much turmoil, he will also try to cause a rift between My Own, he will appear under all masks and often not be recognised .... Yet your close bond with Me will grant you the light of realisation too, so that you cannot be deceived by his activity and keep away from him. However, the fact that he is unusually active cannot be denied, for discord will reign everywhere, there will be animosity among people everywhere, lies will triumph and hatred will become ever more obvious .... And My Own, too, will often wonder what caused them to become anxious. Impelled by inner restlessness they will often be hesitant and of weak-will .... but they will also take refuge in Me time and again, and I will strengthen and comfort them and enlighten them about the cause of their agitation .... And they will deliberately turn away from him and strive towards Me ever more sincerely and this heartfelt bond will provide them with the strength to resist him.

Nevertheless, those of you who receive My Word directly can rest assured that your service for Me can never be at risk, because you are accomplishing a remarkable mission, a mission which is regarded as a rescue mission of immense proportions and utmost significance in this earthly period: to convey the truth to people who languish under lies and misconceptions and who are therefore in grave danger. He will never be able to stop this mission because I Myself have erected a protective wall around My bearers of light, which not even My adversary can pull down. And although he will repeatedly try to attack this wall he will not succeed in tearing it down, for I will also extraordinarily strengthen My servants, they will recognise him and offer firm resistance .... They have become strong themselves, their inner light is shining brightly, and its ray exposes the adversary's cunning and trickery, they will see through him even if he appears under the mask of an angel of light. For he will also avail himself of those who believe that they speak on My behalf, who grant him admission due to arrogance or wrong fervour which does not concur with My will .... You humans will still experience much before the end, and nothing else can protect you from error other than the most intimate bond with Me .... But then you can also be assured of My protection and My help .... Then I will not let you fall into the hand of the one who is My enemy and adversary .... For although I don't limit him in his activity during the last days, I will nevertheless hold My hands protectively over My Own who have deliberately detached themselves from him and turned their will towards Me .... For they have made their decision of will on earth and have released themselves from his control for good ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

John 7:38-39 ....

B.D. 8145 from April 7th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

"Out of your body will flow rivers of living water ...." These words, too, were a divine promise given by the man Jesus when He walked the earth to proclaim My word to those who willingly listened to Him. This promise was also intended to point people to the process of the 'outpouring of the spirit', which gave them the guarantee that the living water, the pure word of God, would flow to them if they believed in Jesus as the son of God and redeemer of the world, Who was only the shell of My eternal God-spirit .... Faith in Me, Who accomplished the act of salvation on earth in Jesus, is necessary for this outpouring of the spirit .... It is necessary because only then will the burden of the original sin be removed from the human being and only then can My spirit pour itself out. The flow of the spirit should flow out of the body of the one who believes in Me .... My word should resound from within him .... For I Myself address the spiritual spark in the human being which slumbers within him until it is awakened through a life of love and now conveys My utterances to people .... Living water now flows out of the human being's body .... My word resounds in him and is held fast by the human being's will and passed on to his fellow human beings .... You humans do not pay attention to this promise of Jesus either, or you do not understand its meaning, otherwise the transmission of My word from above should truly not seem special to you who do not want to believe in it and reject revelations of this kind .... You do not understand the word which is written and which proves that you yourselves are still unawakened in spirit .... However, the process of the outpouring of the spirit upon a person is so easy to understand, yet it presupposes certain conditions, and anyone who does not fulfil these conditions does not understand the words of scripture in their spiritual sense either. But anyone who is seriously concerned with the value of divine revelations must also know that Jesus Himself made this promise to give the 'living water' to the human being ..... His word .... to man through His spirit. And he will not be able to reject Jesus' words, he must try to fathom their meaning, and then he will also be able to believe that I speak to people time and again, that I repeatedly convey My word to them from above. If the earth were not a valley of sin, if it were not the kingdom of the one who seeks to keep his followers in darkness, then the pure truth which Jesus Himself brought to people during His life on earth would truly have been preserved .... For no deformation of the truth would be possible without the influence of My adversary .... But this one will wage his battle against the light of truth as long as the once fallen spiritual is not yet redeemed. And therefore he will always try to enforce the truth with error, he will also deprive people whose spirit is darkened of all understanding for the pure truth, and nothing will remain as pure as it originated from Me .... Thus pure truth has to be conveyed to earth from Me time and again, which is also possible and happens time and again if a person prepares himself such that My spirit can work in him .... if he believes in Me, as the scriptures say .... if the living water, My word, can now flow through him and his fellow human beings can also drink from such a spring opened up by Me and refresh themselves with it .... But the 'scripture which testifies of Me' is of no use to you humans either if you yourselves do not understand it... because your spirit is unawakened. Then it will be necessary for you to be informed of what you must do in order to awaken the spirit in you to life ..... For it is necessary that you are admonished to live a life of love which first leads you to a living faith. And only then will you be able to properly recognize your God and creator of eternity, Who approaches you as father and wants to speak to you with words of love .... Who seeks to guide you into truth, because you can only become blissfully happy through truth. And then you will also understand that this is possible, that you humans hear Me Myself within you, and then you will strive for the heartfelt bond which is the prerequisite for you to hear My voice and recognize it as the voice of your father .... And only then will you also understand Jesus' promises which have to come true because His word is truth ....

Amen

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Opponents under the mask of an angel of light ....

B.D. 8146 from April 9th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

There will be much confusion in the last days before the end and you will feel My adversary's power ever more clearly. Yet I will always kindle a light for you, who are and want to remain My own, so that you will recognize My adversary's activity, even if he appears under the mask of an angel of light. For I want to give clarity where he causes confusion, as soon as it is the human being's own concern that he should live in truth. But it will be alarming what devastation he causes because people are indifferent and often only expect sensations, because they are satisfied with such and still believe that I will send them such, whereas My activity is only purely spiritual, thus it only concerns people's salvation of soul, and therefore I avoid everything which could satisfy the hunger for sensation .... My activity will only ever aim to enlighten you humans where you still live in spiritual darkness. I will only ever seek to dispel the darkness, to bring you a light so that you will clearly recognize the path you should take in order to become blessed .... And therefore I will address the hearts of those who seek to reach their goal on earth, who establish contact with Me and therefore can also hear My address within themselves, be it in thought or also through the word which now sounds to them if the soul's maturity allows it. But the adversary will time and again turn the human being's thoughts towards the world .... He will also often appear as an angel of light, but you will be able to recognize him because he will not encourage you to turn away from the world but time and again he will bring the world to the fore, so that people who are not completely firmly united with Me will fall prey to him. The confusion will be great amongst people, for as long as the slightest desire for the world still clings to the human being My word will not be comprehensible to him, he will not be able to hear it himself, and if My word is conveyed to him then he will not recognize it as My word and far sooner turn to the one who creates this spiritual confusion. And My word remains ineffective, although great strength is inherent in it which, however, must not meet with resistance if the human being is to achieve blessings for his soul. But you who want to belong to Me with all your senses, you who take the maturing of your souls seriously .... you, who have recognized the earthly goal and seriously strive for it .... you will feel who is speaking to you, and you will also always turn away from the one who appears under a mask of light but brings people no salvation but only disaster .... Yet every person's free will must be left up to him, every person must decide for himself whom he wants to join, and every person must also conduct his own examination if spiritual knowledge is brought to him .... And he who is of good will will also be able to distinguish truth from error, and he will not be able to be led astray because he desires to stand in the truth .... And thus I will also always know how to protect My own from falling prey to error .... and they need not fear My adversary, for he will always betray himself and therefore be recognized by those who earnestly strive towards Me, no matter how well he disguises himself .... For it will not be possible for him to convey a light to people, they will constantly remain in darkness, and no matter how brightly the lights flash .... they will not give light, because My adversary himself is and will remain the prince of darkness and therefore he will never be able to give light either .... But the light emanates from Me, and by this you recognize My or My adversary's activity, whether a light is kindled in you which makes you blissfully happy, which makes you happy as truthful knowledge and gives you information where it was still dark in you until now ....

Amen

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Call for diligent vineyard work ....

B.D. 8147 from April 10th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

Time and again I have to admonish My labourers in the vineyard to be eagerly active, for through their help many souls are directly addressed by Me and can therefore receive light and strength directly from Me. For the souls of people to whom My word is conveyed it is also at the same time a supply of food and drink, nourishment which they urgently need in order to still be able to mature in the short time until the end. And this nourishment has to be given to them so that they will not become weak in the coming time of adversity when they will have to prove their faith in Me, when they shall withstand all oppressions of the adversary who wants to plunge them into ruin by wanting to rob them of all faith .... And this will also not be difficult for him with those who only have a dead faith, who certainly call themselves christians but cannot get beyond formal christianity. Where living faith is lacking, the adversary will have great power and take away even their weak faith .... But whoever is fed with the bread of heaven, with the water of life, will attain to a living faith and will stand firm even in the fiercest battle of faith, for he will be full of strength which he will withdraw from My word .... And therefore you should constantly pass on My word, you who receive it and will constantly receive it if you hand yourselves over to Me, if you let Me be present in you and listen to what I say to you. And My love will offer you what you need, what will bring salvation to your soul .... My love will provide you with food which is beneficial for your soul because it helps it to mature .... And I will tell you again and again that I only want to win your love .... For this reason I have to consider you in such a way that you learn to love Me, that you become ever more inflamed with love for Me through My word .... that you increasingly recognize My perfection and feel drawn towards Me .... For whatever can only contribute to increasing your love for Me I reveal to you. And thus your knowledge will increase and you will be ever more convinced of the truth of this knowledge, because it gives you a bright light about everything that moves your thoughts, what you see around you and what was still unclear to you until now, since only the one can instruct you in truth, Who Himself is the truth from eternity .... And if such light is passed on, fellow human beings will also be offered the opportunity to glow with love for Me. They, too, will learn to love Me because they recognize Me as a supremely perfect being; and love for Me also seeks to establish the union which is the goal and purpose of earthly life as a human being. Time and again I want to bestow My gifts of grace upon you, time and again I want to convey My word to you, time and again I want to prove My love to you and reveal Myself to you .... But time and again I demand that you pass on the gifts of grace because I still want to win the love of many people and therefore have to address them Myself. But all of you, to whom I can thus reveal Myself, you will also feel My presence yourselves, you will feel that I am close to you, that I address each one of you if only he takes notice of My word which I convey from above to earth .... And My presence felt by him will also cause him to enter into heartfelt bond with Me, and then he will experience the strength of My word himself, he will receive My word for what it is: food and drink for his soul, which requires strong nourishment. I invite all to receive this nourishment from Me, for all will be satiated by Me who come to My table .... who accept My word, which is sent to them through My messengers .... Yet everyone must be willing to let himself be fed and watered by Me Myself, for I do not use compulsion .... Yet everyone will gain infinitely much who opens himself to Me and My word, who draws from My spring and drinks the living water which flows to him if only he is of good will ....

Amen

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Request for strength and grace is always granted ....

B.D. 8148 from April 11th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

And you can request My grace and strength at any time .... You will never go empty-handed, for I am always willing to give if only you want to receive. And since you are weak as long as you still lack love, which is strength in itself, you must request strength from Me so that you practise love, so that your weakness is overcome and thus you can accomplish works of love. I will never leave a prayer for strength and grace unanswered, for then you will humbly confess your shortcomings to Me and also acknowledge Me Myself as the being Which is perfect, thus also has strength and light in abundance at its disposal and will now give them to you as a gift of grace .... For it is a grace when I bestow strength and light upon you in an unusual way, because you once rejected strength and light of your own free will and will now be bestowed with it again in the form of a gift from Me if only you ask Me for it. No person on earth needs to remain weak and lightless if he turns to Me, Whom he now acknowledges as a source of light and strength through his request .... And truly, his prayer will be heard, for as soon as you have come to the realization that your nature is deficient you will also humbly approach Me and voluntarily return to Me, Whom you once left in arrogance and therefore became weak and darkened in spirit. But I have no pleasure in a flawed being, and I Myself help it to its former perfection as soon as only its will applies to Me again, from Whom it once turned away .... But as long as you are still dominated by My adversary, whom you once followed into the abyss in free will, the feeling of weakness will not yet prevail in you either, but you will still be of an arrogant spirit and not break off the relationship with My adversary in order to turn to Me .... And as long as you do not come to Me in prayer that I may fill you with strength and grace, for My adversary keeps you from establishing contact with Me and calling upon Me in spirit and in truth. And therefore I also know how to value a prayer for strength and grace, I know that you thereby confess yourselves to Me, that you return to Me as repentant children and that you appeal to Me to be accepted as children again by the father Who loves you .... But then I will not let any call fall on My ear, I will give to you so abundantly that you will now walk the path full of strength and light which will certainly lead to the goal, to Me, for My grace will draw you and you will gladly let yourselves be drawn, you will no longer resist Me, you will make use of all graces and evaluate them .... And you become enlightened because My strength of grace is also expressed by the fact that love ignites in you which gives you the light you once lost. A prayer for grace and strength which comes from the heart is a spiritual request, and every spiritual request is granted. Hence you will also lose all weakness and be allowed to receive My flow of strength, and it will enliven the soul and make it capable of successfully completing the work itself .... But the body will also be allowed to participate if I deem this beneficial .... For its weakness shall also often prompt the human being to pray for grace and strength, and truly, I will pour out My grace and give to you without limitation, for I love you and long for your return to Me, which you must accomplish of your own free will. No human being will need to do without My grace and strength .... But no human being will be able to do without it either, for without the granting of My strength of grace he cannot ascend, precisely because he is weak and cannot ascend on his own. But he can always be certain that I will hear and listen to him when this request for strength and grace reaches My ear .... For then you humbly bow down to your father's will; you acknowledge Me and desire Me .... And I will take hold of you and not let go until complete unification with Me has taken place ....

Amen

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Warning against medial reception ....

B.D. 8149 from April 12th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

"Every spirit which confesses that Jesus Christ has come into the flesh is of God .... "Thus you can use this as a touchstone to determine whether you are being taught by Me Myself or whether you have fallen prey to a wrong spirit, for this spirit will never bring My embodiment in Jesus, My descent for the sake of humanity's redemption, to your attention but will testify against it. But you must now also know that the counter-spirit often intervenes where it is offered this opportunity, when the human being relinquishes his will and thus an alien spirit can take possession of him, which you are not always able to recognize. I certainly always seek contact with you humans, and I rejoice in every bond you try to establish with Me yourselves, and where I find completely pure vessels My ray of love will also be able to flow into them, but this act should happen consciously; you should devote yourselves to Me so intimately that you will then be able to hear My voice in a conscious state, and then you will also be certain that your father Himself speaks to you .... But do you know the state of maturity of all those around you? Do you know whether you are protected against the influence of an unfair spirit which tries to cause confusion amongst you? .... You need not walk in error but you are not certain that it will creep in if you hand yourselves over to the spiritual forces as a 'medium', if you surrender your will and thus cannot defend yourselves if a wrong spirit takes possession of you. Yet these evil spirits are only waiting for this opportunity to slip in, and every impure thought, every preconceived opinion, every lack of love can already enable it to slip in, and then its 'spiritual knowledge' will be conveyed to you and you will accept it as 'My word' .... I want to speak to every one of My children, but believe Me, the intimate bond which every one of My children establishes with Me will certainly also earn him My word, yet every one of My children can hear it within himself, and depending on his intimacy, his dialogue with Me, My word will clearly resound within himself, his thoughts will be guided such that the child will feel that its father is instructing it and that it can completely abandon itself to these thoughts .... that they are truth .... Of greatest value is the inner bond which the human being establishes with Me himself of his own free will, for this protects him from error and also gives him inner peace and the certainty of being safe in My love. I have certainly said that where two or three are gathered in My name, there am I in the midst of them .... And you may also have this certainty that I Myself am with you and give your thoughts the right direction. And then everyone will also speak in full awareness what I put into his mouth, and then I Myself can also express Myself and instruct you by exchanging thoughts and, through the intimate bond with Me, being completely filled by My spirit .... Thus you will then speak in My will, which will then be a blessing for all of you. For the intimate bond with Me is and remains the prerequisite that I am present to you, and you can establish this at any time and in any place .... Then you are not bound to fixed hours which never guarantee whether everyone has prepared himself such that everyone is in most intimate contact with Me and then My presence is also guaranteed in every person's heart .... For all prerequisites must be in place if I Myself want to reveal Myself to a person ....

Amen

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The work of redemption need not be repeated ....

B.D. 8150 from April 14th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

When I sacrificed My blood for the sins of humanity, when I laid down My life on the cross, a work of redemption was accomplished which was unique and need never be repeated because it covered the guilt of sin of the whole of humanity .... the people of the past, the present and the future. I took all sins upon Myself and redeemed the guilt on the cross, so that every person who is willing to accept this sacrifice can enter the kingdom of light and bliss after his death. For it depends on the human being's will whether he will be released from his guilt of sin, for he cannot be redeemed against his will. Yet all people who acknowledge Me as their redeemer from sin and death, who intimately unite with Me and want to belong to the circle of the redeemed .... all people who appeal to Me for forgiveness of their guilt thereby prove to Me their will to also accept the blessings of My act of salvation, and thus they are now included in the circle for which I sacrificed Myself on the cross. They should only consciously adjust themselves positively towards Me, then they will be seized by My infinite love and I will write their guilt of sin in the sand. They are free of it and can now feel like My children again, which they were before their fall into the abyss, when they came forth from Me, Who had created them, in all purity and fullness of light. I walked a difficult path of suffering on earth .... the agonies of My crucifixion until My death on the cross were indescribable, and My whole life on earth was also extremely agonising because I knew about everything that still lay ahead of Me. It was a measure of suffering which truly lifted much guilt of sin .... Yet a completely sinless human being accomplished the work of salvation, a human being Who was pure and therefore suffered twice, Whom the love within Him constantly impelled to all will and action and Whose work was therefore still to be assessed quite differently than that of a human being Who Himself would not have been free from guilt .... His soul came from the kingdom of light and the valley of darkness only increased its state of suffering, so that the work of salvation can truly be called a unique one which need never be repeated and yet the guilt of the beings will be redeemed for all eternity who conclude their course of development as a human being on earth, who take their way back to Me when they let themselves be redeemed by Jesus Christ, Who died on the cross for the sake of the guilt of sin of the whole of humanity .... And blessed is the human being who finds Him on earth, in Whom I Myself took form, in Whom I Myself became a visible God for you .... blessed is the man who believes this and calls upon Me in Him, for he is truly not lost .... (14.4.1962) For his guilt is written in the sand, or also: He is washed clean of all guilt through My blood. I Myself took his guilt upon Myself and redeemed it, because the human being himself would never have been able to redeem it, neither on earth nor in the kingdom of the beyond, for it was immeasurably great and therefore also demanded an immeasurably great sacrifice of atonement, which I accomplished on earth as the 'man Jesus' .... And although all people of the past, present and future had a share in this act of salvation, the human being himself must nevertheless confess Me as the divine redeemer in free will .... he cannot be redeemed systematically but he must recognize himself as having once become sinful, as being distant from Me due to sin, and he must want to come close to Me again and thus become free from all guilt .... And therefore you humans must also know about the significance and the reason for the act of salvation, you must know about your former fall into sin, about your great distance from Me and about your weak, wretched state .... And you must seriously desire to reach the former state again where you were blissfully close to Me. And therefore you must be truthfully instructed, which can only ever happen if you allow My spirit to work in you, but which first requires redemption through Jesus Christ, the release from your guilt through His blood .... And therefore you only need to want to live your earthly life according to My will .... You need only acknowledge a power above you and want to carry out the will of this power in order to fulfil your purpose of earthly life .... And you will then also fulfil My commandments of love because you are urged from within, because My spirit is constantly active in you .... And a heart which is willing to love also accepts without rejection what is conveyed to it about Jesus, the Son of God and redeemer of the world .... And it confesses Him and asks Him for help .... And thus My spirit can now work in him, which truthfully informs him and increased knowledge again generates increased love for Me and the conscious request for forgiveness of guilt then also brings full redemption, which can now also be followed by 'the outpouring of the spirit' .... This now opens up knowledge to the human being, and now fellow human beings can take right knowledge of the divine redeemer Jesus Christ and also voluntarily hand themselves over to Him in order to become free from all guilt. The correct knowledge of Jesus Christ and His act of salvation can only ever be conveyed to earth through My spirit, and this will also always happen, and all new generations will take notice of it, because all people who want to return to Me again must allow themselves to be redeemed by Him, because all people must recognize and acknowledge Me Myself in Jesus, because all people shall find forgiveness, because I died on the cross for all people who will ever walk across this earth on the path back to Me ....

Amen

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Man needs the light ....

B.D. 8151 from April 15th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

The spiritual light shines out into the darkness .... My word sounds down to earth and breaks through the night that is spread over the earth .... For My word is the light which shines from above and penetrates dark regions .... My word is the evidence of My love for people who walk along in spiritual darkness and who will be swallowed up by the abyss if a light does not point out to them the danger they are in .... , for they walk along the edge of the abyss and are pushed ever closer to this abyss by My adversary and do not notice it because they are blind in spirit. Humanity has to be struck by a ray of light, it has to become sighted in order to now also take the right path which will only become apparent to it through the light. You humans must not believe that your God and creator leaves you to your fate, that He takes no part in your earthly course and its success .... For I am not only your God and creator but I am your father Who loves His children and wants to lead them out of every adversity and danger, because He knows that you are blind in spirit and constantly in danger of sinking into the abyss. And this constant danger is the darkness in which you walk, for you are completely without realization of what you are, what you were and what you shall become again. For you lack the light .... the truth from God .... You lack the knowledge which I alone can give you, because you once rejected it and are therefore to blame for your darkened state. I first have to give you this light again because you cannot acquire it yourselves .... which you certainly could if only you would kindle love within yourselves, which is a true light and gives you knowledge .... But you live without love and therefore also remain in darkness. And if I want to lead you out then I must kindle a light for you, I must give you a light .... I must bring the truth to you, even if you are not worthy of it, if you don't do anything to attain it yourselves .... But My love for you is great and it is the last time .... The danger that you will sink into the abyss has increased, and whatever I can still do to save you from this fall into the abyss I do .... And thus I let a light shine down to earth, I give you the truth even though you don't deserve it because you don't strive for it yourselves. But I know about your spiritual blindness into which My adversary has plunged you, and thus I kindle a light in you, and as soon as you don't resist it, as soon as you accept the light, the darkness around you will disappear and you will recognize the path which I show you, which you should take: the path of love .... I convey My word to earth and constantly address you that you should fulfil My commandments of love and that you will then also find your way out of the spiritual darkness, that you will feel at ease when you have escaped the darkness of night and entered the light of day. Because you are in completely dark territory, that is why you need a light .... And yet, you must receive it voluntarily, you may not reject it otherwise you will not be able to feel any effect of the light. And if I can only send you a small ray which makes you realize that the path you are taking is not the right one .... if I can only convey so much truth to you that you learn about your God and creator and your relationship with Him .... then you can already increase the glow of light yourselves by desiring to know more, and this desire will truly be fulfilled by Me. Only a small glimmer of light shall penetrate you, and the benefit of light will then cause you to kindle it in yourselves by practising love, because you recognize it as the origin of light. And if only this is achieved, that you humans fulfil My commandments of love, then the dark night will also be broken through, for the light of love will shine brightly into the night and chase it away, and the sun of the spirit will rise and all danger will be banished. And that is why I must send a light from above to earth, for on earth twinkling lights only appear from time to time which give off no light and therefore mean no benefit for people. The light must emanate from Me, from the eternal source of light and strength, and truly, such light will penetrate everything if only no resistance is offered to it .... But anyone who desires to stand in the light will also be illuminated by it, and through My word he will be introduced to vast knowledge which corresponds to the truth. And this knowledge will convey to him again the realization of what he once was and shall become again .... And it will make him seriously strive, for he will recognize the path which is now brightly and clearly shown to him and which also safely leads to the goal, to perfection, to union with Me ....

Amen

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The spiritual grounding of the work of redemption ....

B.D. 8152 from April 16th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

You would have sunk into the night of death without salvation if My love had not accomplished the work of mercy which redeemed you from sin and death. There was no other salvation left for you than that a work of atonement was accomplished for your past guilt of sin, so that you would become free again from an immeasurable guilt which would have kept you eternally in the night of death. And this atonement .... the redemptive work of Jesus Christ .... of such great significance that you humans cannot take note often enough that you also have to make use of this act of salvation for yourselves in order to become free from the dreadful guilt of your past apostasy from Me and to be able to enter the kingdom of light and bliss again after your physical death. For this kingdom was closed to you .... And it remained closed until I Myself descended to earth in order to make atonement for you in the man Jesus, for your immense guilt which you could not have atoned for yourselves. No human being is aware of the greatness of that former guilt, and no human being can grasp the depth of the work of mercy which the man Jesus accomplished for His fallen brothers, in Whom I embodied Myself, which I needed a human form to receive Me .... otherwise My abiding amongst people would have been impossible, who would have passed away in view of the light and strength which My being emanates because it is perfect .... The man Jesus, Whose soul came to earth from the kingdom of light, offered Me this cover, i.e., He Himself completely received My being, which is love in itself, into Himself, and this love now made satisfaction for the guilt of sin of the whole of humanity .... As 'God' I would not have been able to suffer, but the 'human being' Jesus took upon Himself a measure of suffering which would have exceeded His human strength had it not been for the 'love' in Him which strengthened His external shell, i.e. which was the strength which enabled Him to accomplish His work .... Time and again it has to be presented to people that the descent of Jesus, My son, Whom I Myself sent to earth, had a profound spiritual reason, that not only one human being walked a path of suffering for earthly motives, on Whom fellow human beings took offence in their hatred because they suspected Him of earthly transgressions .... The suffering and pain the man Jesus endured in order to bring salvation to His fellow human beings from utmost spiritual adversity was of a completely different nature .... He, being completely pure and sinless, found Himself in the midst of the kingdom of sin, and His soul suffered immeasurable torment, for it recognized that the kingdom of darkness held people under its spell, that they themselves were too weak to ever be able to free themselves from the prince of darkness, and since the soul came to earth from the kingdom of light, the earth was a special torment for it which, however, it was unable to break through by virtue of its light for the sake of people's freedom of will .... People should come to the light within themselves by living in love .... And therefore He preached the commandments of love to them as a matter of priority; therefore He tried to enlighten people about the great spiritual adversity they were in .... But the great work of mercy, the dreadful suffering and hardship, which only ended with the death on the cross, had to be accomplished if the atonement for humanity's guilt of sin was to be made .... And the man Jesus saw this dreadful path of suffering before Himself and He walked it consciously .... because love was the driving force in Him, because I Myself was in Him, Who wanted to redeem humanity from sin and death. Time and again it shall be made clear to you humans that you should not pass by the divine redeemer Jesus Christ; you should believe that you are hopelessly lost if you don't accept His act of mercy, if you don't allow yourselves to be redeemed of your own free will, for the gate to the kingdom of light is and remains closed for every soul which is still burdened by its original sin, for which only the divine redeemer Jesus Christ was able to make atonement and therefore must also be appealed to so that its guilt, too, may be redeemed through His love and grace .... otherwise the soul will remain eternally burdened and will never be able to enter the kingdom of light and bliss .... Jesus' death on the cross is not just a human matter, it is of such immense significance for the whole of humanity of the past, the present and the future that you humans must time and again take a stand on Jesus' act of salvation, in Whose shell I Myself .... the eternal Deity .... manifested Myself, because I Myself wanted to redeem people from sin and death .... Do not pass by Him Who has united Himself with Me .... Do not pass by Jesus Christ, Who sheltered Me in Himself in order to redeem you, otherwise you would have sunk without salvation into sin and death ....

Amen

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The word must also be brought to the people of the world ....

B.D. 8153 from April 17th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

The whole of creation is probably a mystery to the human being who lives only in the world and rarely or never directs his thoughts into the spiritual realm. He regards everything around him as the products of a force of nature, about which, however, he himself gives no thought and therefore cannot be mentally enlightened either .... He lives in the world, and for him the world means everything .... Nor does he seek to penetrate the secrets of creation, its purpose or the cause of its emergence .... And these people also gain nothing from their earthly life, they are merely parasites because they claim and seek to exploit everything in the world for themselves and their physical comfort and are once called away without having achieved any advantage for their soul. And it is also difficult to preach the gospel to them, to introduce them to the commandments of love or to encourage them to live a spiritual life next to their earthly life. And yet, an attempt shall be made to present the great responsibility of their soul to such people as well .... They shall be informed of their long course of development beforehand, even if they don't believe these ideas. And they should be made aware of the fate of a new banishment which they will not escape if they do not change their way of life .... Much is already gained if those people are developed a picture of what lies behind them and what they have to expect again in the case of the last failure on this earth .... for even if they don't believe such ideas the thought of it will nevertheless worry them at times and cause them to think further. Then they will also start to look at the works of creation around them with different eyes and seek to get behind the secrets of creation .... And then they can also be given a small light which they now have to let shine in free will, since they are by no means forced to change their thoughts. And this attempt shall be made again and again to inform worldly people of the cause and origin of the works of creation, because hours will also come for these people where they are thoughtful and give space to such thoughts which will be answered by luminous forces .... as long as they devote themselves to those thoughts. And anyone who is in possession of truth himself, who has penetrated the mystery of creation, should seize every opportunity where he can speak, where he can pass on the truth and introduce fellow human beings to spiritual knowledge. For God also guides His own, who want to serve Him, to those who still oppose Him, who are still under the control of the one to whom the world belongs .... And He lights a little light which can chase away the darkness of the night, if the resistance of the light is not so great that its glow fades and is deprived of its luminosity .... For resistance will not be forcibly broken on the part of God, but all help will be given to him who strives towards the light .... Often the desire for light will no longer be found, yet you should not tire of carrying a light into the darkness, for you will always recognize it where it is possible, and you yourselves will be filled with great joy if you succeed in making your fellow human beings, who are still in the midst of the world, think .... if you can draw their attention to the great danger and they just listen to you .... For every day is significant for every person when he turns away from the world and lets his thoughts wander into the spiritual kingdom. Although the human being determines the time himself through his free will, nothing should be left undone where he can be helped into the right direction of his will, for it concerns the soul's fate after the death of the body, which corresponds to that will in earthly life. The world will pass away, and often enough people will also be confronted with the transience of earthly goods .... And time and again individuals will be found who detach themselves from the world when they are truthfully informed about everything and their thoughts now take the direction which leads to the right goal .... when they are turned towards the spiritual kingdom and are now also truthfully answered from there .... which always means spiritual gain for the human being because he has now escaped the great danger of new banishment ....

Amen

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Free will must receive the word ....

B.D. 8154 from April 18th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

You can always feel addressed by Me if you want to hold a heartfelt dialogue yourselves, if you devote yourselves to Me and your thoughts are directed towards Me. Every intimate bond prompts Me to express Myself, which will be sent to you again in the form of thoughts, because it is also pleasing for Me when I can speak to you, yet this possibility has to be created by yourselves. Yet My address .... the thoughts which touch you .... will always express My love and wisdom to you .... I will always tell you what serves your soul's salvation. I will admonish you to love and at the same time inform you of My nature, because I Myself want to win your love and this requires that you recognize Me as an exceedingly lovable being. And as soon as you yourselves notice an increase in your love for Me, you also know that this is the effect of My address, which you can all hear within yourselves, because you humans are all capable of thinking and the very direction of your thoughts demonstrates to you the spiritual sphere where your thoughts originate. Hence, if you are spiritually united with Me through prayer or heartfelt thoughts, your thoughts will always move in the direction which has Me as its goal again, because I always try to tie you to Me anew as soon as only your will belongs to Me. But if I now want to convey truthful knowledge to people in order to give everyone the right light, then I must choose a suitable vessel for it which has subordinated itself to My will to such an extent that it is now only active in My will .... Understand therefore: I cannot and will not force a person into a service in My vineyard, but it is a service which is to be rendered in completely free will. And thus this will must have completely subordinated itself to Me, only then is the human being a suitable vessel into which I can pour My spirit .... And now a process can take place which is extremely significant: I can convey the pure truth to earth which is to bring about that people learn to love Me .... For I want to gain people's love, because then complete redemption will also be assured .... because then the human being himself will live in love when he has recognized his God and creator as the eternal love Himself .... but for which the knowledge of My nature, the knowledge of truth, is also a prerequisite. Only the supply of truth provides people with a correct image of Me and My nature, and only the supply of truth can induce the human being to take the right direction of will, because the realization of My nature impels him to strive towards Me, because love will then ignite in the human being if he has recognized Me correctly. And thus you must evaluate the direct address from above which opens up unusual knowledge to you humans, which brings you closer to spiritual truths which only I Myself can impart to you humans because I know everything and also your ignorance when you live on earth without the supply of pure truth from above. People who mentally unite with Me can certainly also receive this truth mentally but they will always evaluate it as their own thinking and also not represent it to their fellow human beings as truth, even though they themselves can be inwardly convinced of the truth .... But they lack the evidence .... But if great spiritual knowledge comes to a person on earth in an unusual way, then this knowledge will also be evaluated differently by those who are of good will, but it will not force them to believe either .... because I Myself will never give the human being 100% proof due to his freedom of will. However, every person is free to accept or reject the spiritual knowledge offered from above, yet the willing person will recognize it as an extraordinary gift of grace and be happy, because he will also feel the strength of what has directly flowed forth from Me Myself in order to kindle love in people. Everything that stimulates love can be considered good, for My adversary will never preach love and adversary forces will never be at work where My divine teaching of love is proclaimed .... Yet you should not disregard one thing, that love also always emanates wisdom.... as light emanates from a fire .... Hence a life of love must always result in 'knowledge' for the human being, he must increase in knowledge which corresponds to the truth, for I Myself am love, and I instruct people because they live in spiritual blindness as long as they have no knowledge about Me Myself, about My nature, as well as about all spiritual correlations, but which they must possess if their hearts are to glow with love for Me. And I woo My living creations' love, for they emerged from My love .... And therefore the transmission of truth through the eternal truth itself is a completely understandable process which, however, also requires the necessary prerequisites which not many people can demonstrate and therefore this transmission cannot take place very often. Yet I know who is suitable for it and who willingly carries out this vineyard work of passing on the truth, because it is urgently needed before the end, so that people will be enlightened in their spiritual darkness ....

Amen

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The mission of the disciples ....

B.D. 8155 from April 19th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

My disciples were instructed in My teaching of love when I walked across the earth .... They were full of love themselves or they would not have followed Me, for their free will determined them, not My will. And therefore they also soon recognized Me as the promised messiah, although time and again they fell into doubt due to My adversary's influence, who did everything to disparage Me in their eyes because he wanted to separate them from Me. But I exemplified a life of love to them and this motivated them to follow Me and to let themselves be taught by Me time and again. And I had much to say to them, for I wanted them to continue My missionary work to people .... I wanted them to instruct their fellow human beings in the same way, that they should proclaim the gospel of love to them, which I therefore urgently proclaimed to them and time and again drew their attention to the significance of a life of love. For love was what people lacked, which is why they were also without strength and unable to resist My adversary in order to be released from him. And since My disciples lived out love themselves except for one, they were also able to understand Me .... and where they lacked understanding I helped them, for I needed true representatives of My teaching who should also convincingly proclaim Me Myself and My act of salvation, which ended My life on earth. For that was the most important part of their mission, that they testified to Me Myself and My great act of mercy, that they went out into the world and reported about Me and My death on the cross, but that they proclaimed the gospel of love at the same time, because it was love which made Me descend to earth, Who died on the cross in appalling suffering in order to redeem people's guilt of sin .... Thus My disciples first had to know the connection if they were to speak of it with conviction themselves. And I truly explained everything to them, they were always able to follow My life and activity, they were able to ascertain the effect of a true life of love on Me Myself, they experienced that I healed the sick and worked miracles because the strength of love in Me came to fruition .... And after My death I filled My disciples with My spirit .... What they had lacked in knowledge before, they suddenly recognized, for it became light in them .... I Myself was now able to work in them through My spirit, and thus they were now also suitable for their mission to go out into the world and teach the nations. For everyone was to take note of what had taken place on earth for the sake of humanity's sins .... Everyone should know about My commandments of love and about the one Who, out of love, gave Himself on the cross in order to redeem people. It was necessary to convey this knowledge to people and therefore I sent My disciples out into the world after they had been trained by Me .... and since My spirit was working in them they could only proclaim pure truth and thus bring light to people who were living in spiritual darkness .... Yet time and again the working of My spirit will also be necessary if My gospel is to be proclaimed .... time and again disciples trained by Me will carry My gospel out into the world, because they shall proclaim the truth which can only be recognized and spread by an enlightened spirit. For time and again My act of salvation shall be mentioned, time and again people have to learn about the great work of mercy of the man Jesus, in Whom I Myself offered the sacrifice on the cross .... Time and again this knowledge has to be truthfully offered to people if the darkness is to be broken through which My adversary keeps spread over the earth time and again .... Only light can break through the darkness, and only the truth from Me is light .... And this will therefore be repeatedly guided to earth by My spirit and carried out into the world by My disciples chosen by Myself. For people do not know that they have to find redemption from their original sin, nor do they know that their unkind way of life has brought them darkness. And therefore the divine teaching of love has to be proclaimed to them first, for the effect of a life of love will also bring them the light in which they will now brightly and clearly recognize the mission of the man Jesus .... and the light of truth will lead them to Him, they will take the path to the cross, and I Myself will now redeem them from sin and death ....

Amen

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Agonizing sufferings of Jesus Christ .... Incarnation of God ....

B.D. 8156 from April 20th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

With the most bitter suffering and pain I concluded My life as a human being on this earth, when I shed My blood for the sins of men in order to redeem their great guilt .... Only one "human being" died for people on the cross .... and a human being also took the most agonising suffering upon Himself in order to offer the sacrifice of atonement to Me, yet I Myself was in the human being Jesus because love provided Him with the strength for this work of grace and mercy, and I Myself was this love .... As long as you live on earth as a human being and are not yet perfected you will not be able to understand that I Myself was in the man Jesus, because it is incomprehensible to you that God is love .... that God can only be spoken of when it concerns love, which is God's fundamental nature .... The human being Jesus was full of love, and His greater than great love motivated Him to sacrifice Himself for His fellow human beings because He recognized their wretched state and wanted to bring them help. But I Myself was the love which filled Him, I Myself was in Him in My fundamental element, and therefore I Myself accomplished the sacrifice on the cross in the man Jesus, yet the 'human being' endured the most agonizing suffering because I, as 'God', was unable to suffer. You humans should only believe that I embodied Myself in the human being Jesus .... You should only believe that I Myself chose this human shell because otherwise you would not have been able to take notice of My act of mercy .... You should only believe that I made Myself 'visible' to you humans in Jesus and that you therefore have to acknowledge Him if you want to acknowledge Me again, Whom you once refused to acknowledge .... My incarnation in Jesus is such an enormous problem that it cannot be expressed in a few words .... Nevertheless, time and again I try to solve this problem for you as far as it can be made understandable to you. I Myself accomplished the sacrifice on the cross for you because it was love Which wanted to redeem you humans from sin and death .... The human being Jesus took immense pain upon Himself, His human shell, His body, suffered unspeakably and died the most agonizing death on the cross in order to atone for the great guilt of sin .... But this human being Jesus was in intimate union with Me, otherwise I could not have taken abode in Him, otherwise love could not have completely filled Him .... I was in Him, He had become a shell for Me .... The Godhead, Whose primal element was love, radiated through Him completely, so that He was completely merged with Her .... that He became one with Me .... Jesus and I are the same, Jesus had become a visible God, whereas before I could not be seen by any of My created beings .... because they would have passed away in the primeval fire of eternal love .... But the suffering the man Jesus endured for His fellow human beings was unimaginable, and thereby the great original sin of the beings which had once fallen away from Me was atoned for, so that the path to Me became free again for all beings .... into the kingdom of light and bliss .... You humans will never grasp the full depth of this work of grace and mercy, but you will be able to believe that it was not a purely human affair which was carried out on earth by the man Jesus, but that profound spiritual motives underlay christ's act of salvation and that I Myself must be recognized and acknowledged in Jesus. And time and again I will convey this knowledge to people so that they will know that they cannot ignore Jesus Christ and His act of salvation if they want to attain eternal life. Time and again I Myself will inform people of this through My spirit, because school-transmitted knowledge will never be accepted or find the right understanding which, however, is the prerequisite for acknowledging Jesus Christ as the son of God and redeemer of the world, in Whom I Myself became human in order to redeem humanity ....

Amen

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Spiritual resurrection from the night of the grave ....

B.D. 8157 from April 21st 1962, taken from Book No. 86

A great spiritual awakening shall still bring about your work in My vineyard, a 'resurrection' from death shall take place before the graves close for an infinitely long time .... Understand it: Everyone who finds his way to the light will also surely rise from the night of the grave, he will step out into the light of day, and he will live because he can now work according to My will .... As long as you humans walk in spiritual darkness you can truly speak of a night of the grave which surrounds you .... And as soon as a glimmer of light touches you, you will emerge from your grave and thus rise again .... And My vineyard labourers have the task to carry a light everywhere, because light alone awakens in the human being the desire to leave the darkness of the grave .... because light alone points the way which leads out of the darkness. It is a spiritual awakening, it is not yet the resurrection of the soul after the death of the body .... But it is a resurrection to spiritual life, which is the actual meaning and purpose of earthly life .... For as long as man lives only his earthly life, this life is still an idle one. Only when he awakens from his dark state, only when he strives for truth, will a light be kindled in him, and then he will begin to live a second life .... Then he is born anew, or also, he arises from death. For the soul is in a lifeless state as long as it does not take the spiritual path and fulfils the actual purpose of earthly life: to shape itself according to divine will, to take on the form again which it originally possessed when it came forth from Me as a perfect being. The 'spiritual awakening' is of such great significance for every human being that you, My servants of the last days, will truly experience My blessing if you contribute to it .... if you spread light so that the soul will emerge from its state of sleep .... And carrying light only ever means spreading My word, because this is the direct supply of My divine light of love which .... if it touches a person's heart,... irrevocably ignites and enlightens it, which initially informs the person of My will and will always shine brighter the more seriously the person makes the fulfilment of My will his concern. Anyone who lives in My will will also attain eternal life, for My will is a life of love, and this, in turn, is the human being's transformation into love .... it is the transformation back to his original being. And again a life of love will mean increased light, and the human being will have escaped the night of the grave, the soul will have come to life which it will now also never lose again. And time and again I will help you humans to achieve this by sending a ray of love-light to earth which only needs to be caught by you in order to now also work in you .... Then a light from above will touch you .... you will be addressed by Me Myself and receive My word .... be it directly or also conveyed to you through My messengers. And being allowed to hear My word will always be a light for you, for you will receive purest truth, and you need not fear any error which is again like spiritual darkness but which I Myself want to chase away with My light which radiates to you from above. And when I admonish My vineyard labourers to spread My word to the world .... when I encourage them to eagerly spread what they receive directly from Me, I only want the light to shine out into the darkness of night. I only want you humans to find a path which leads out of this darkness and that you recognize Me Myself in the glow of light, your God and creator of eternity Who, as a loving father, is concerned about the well-being of His children who are still in dark spiritual night .... For light alone is life, light alone is bliss .... And light can only emanate from Me Myself, I Who am the source of light and strength from eternity ....

Amen

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Resurrection of Jesus .... Easter ....

B.D. 8158 from April 23rd 1962, taken from Book No. 86

My body was resurrected on the third day .... And even if this event seems unbelievable to people because they cannot find any evidence for it, humanity should nevertheless be told through My spirit that I truly rose from the dead. Because through My act of Salvation I overcame death which My adversary had brought into the world with his descent into the abyss. And with My resurrection I proved to you humans at the same time that death does not exist for the spiritualised being. Hence the re-transformation into the original being .... which is achieved by a life of love as I exemplified to humanity .... also excludes every condition of death, every helplessness and weakness, and as soon as this transformation has taken place during earthly life the soul can enter eternal life .... Death was conquered by My sacrifice on the cross because the original sin was redeemed by it and the being was given the opportunity again to transform into its original essence which then also guaranteed its eternal life.

I wanted to prove to you that the physical body can be spiritualised too and thus will not have to fear death either if the human being succeeds in spiritualising his body while still on earth .... I Myself, as Jesus the human being, spiritualised all of My body's still immature substances through My life of love, I matured them; love calmed everything that was unspiritual in Me and persuaded it to unite with My soul, so that body and soul could join the eternal spirit God within Me and thus a complete fusion with Him took place. And an entirely spiritualised being cannot be subject to death anymore, because death is a condition of helplessness, but a spiritualised being is light and strength in abundance and liberated from every restraint. The event of My resurrection was therefore also visible to people because they found My tomb empty .... It was understandable that the disbelievers tried to convince their fellow human beings that My body had been abducted but they could not substantiate this .... And My resurrection will only ever be accepted as truth by believers, by people who are already intimately connected to Me through love or their good will to live in the right way before My eyes .... But it is true that it happened because with it the promises, which were transmitted to the people by seers and prophets, were also fulfilled.

My resurrection was a huge defeat for My adversary to whom I proved that love is stronger than hate .... that he would not keep his followers in a state of death forever, because I Myself had overcome death and therefore could give life to anyone who acknowledges My act of Salvation and accepts the blessings I had acquired for him on the cross. Hence My resurrection was a defeat for My adversary, and for this reason he tried to mislead people and cast doubt into them about My resurrection .... Nevertheless he will not be able to prevent the resurrection of those who follow Me, who believe in Me and to whom I can now give eternal life, as I promised. And he will constantly have fewer followers, since time and again people will rise to eternal life because I overcame death, because he cannot eternally burden a being who has the will to return to Me, and who will thus seek refuge beneath My cross in order to escape My adversary's force .... Death has been conquered for them and their resurrection to life is guaranteed ....

Even My disciples did not want to believe that I had risen from the dead, although I made this promise to them beforehand .... But I strengthened their faith, and they recognised Me when I came to them .... Hence they had proof that I had overcome death, because they should proclaim Me with complete conviction. They should speak of My death on the cross and also of My resurrection, since this knowledge had to be given to people who were meant to believe in Me and start on the path to the cross .... since they could only be redeemed if they, too, carried their guilt to Me under the cross. But My most important act of mercy would soon have been forgotten again had My spirit not been active time and again in those human beings who had entirely given themselves to Me, and whom .... being redeemed .... I could fill with My spirit in abundance, who educated them from within, who made the knowledge of Jesus Christ's act of Salvation comprehensible to them .... Because the written records passed on to people did not remain truthful for long .... Where human intellect was used on its own misguided opinions crept in, which were also passed on as 'written records' and consequently there was no further guarantee for the pure truth .... But where My spirit could work in a person, the pure truth was revealed time and again, and the knowledge of My suffering and death on the cross as well as My resurrection was given to people, because this knowledge is absolutely essential if people are also to have complete faith in it.

And My spirit will always work in a person who gives himself to Me in order to receive the pure truth .... Time and again people will hear the message and be given the right explanation, so that you humans can indeed believe in My resurrection and My triumph over death, that death need not exist for you anymore if you keep by My side, if you yourselves want Me to have died on your behalf .... when you have a living faith in Me and My act of Salvation, which I Myself accomplished in Jesus the man. I was resurrected from the dead, and after the death of your body you will be resurrected in this way to eternal life too .... And you need not fear death anymore once you are freed from the enemy of your souls, from My adversary .... once you allow yourselves to be redeemed by Me .... Because then there will be no more death for you, then you will live in and with Me and eternally not lose this life again ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Intensified fight against the light ....

B.D. 8159 from April 25th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

Where there is light, there is also obviously recognizable the activity of My adversary who wants to extinguish the light. There is a great spiritual battle of darkness against light on earth .... The earth is in darkness but time and again My love lets little lights shine in order to help people out of the darkness of night into the light of day. And you must know that the prince of darkness tries to compress it so that his activity will not be recognized. But the light of truth exposes him, in the light of truth his shameful activity is recognized and people try to avoid his influence. And this always means the loss of souls to Me, Who will likewise be recognized by them in the light of truth and then also gain souls in order not to lose them again forever. The battle of darkness against the light rages with such fierceness as you are unable to comprehend. And My bearers of light are particularly attacked by him and his dark servants, and every effort is made to prevent you, My bearers of light, from spreading the light, every effort is made to extinguish the light so that you shall sink back into darkness yourselves and once again fall prey to him .... But he will not succeed in this because I can only give the light to those who have turned to Me of their own free will .... thus have separated themselves of their own free will from My adversary. And he no longer has any power over them, but I have the right and the power to protect them, and I will also do so against all his attacks. There is only a short time left until the end and increased vineyard work has to be done in order to still come to the aid of people who are willing to detach themselves from My adversary but who lack strength .... The light from Me, My word, which I Myself convey to earth through servants willing to serve Me, gives them the strength .... Therefore everything should be done to supply them with this strength, which requires most diligent vineyard work and an everlasting acceptance of My word from above .... And you can truly be certain that I will give you the strength to do so if you want to be active for Me in this last time before the end. You should let this faith revive in you that My strength will keep coming to you as long as I need you, because not many faithful servants voluntarily place themselves at My disposal and therefore I will bless everyone who offers himself to Me to work in My vineyard. And even if it seems to you that strength is leaving you .... come to Me, your father of eternity, in all sincerity and ask Me for the gift of strength .... And truly, you will receive it and be able to work tirelessly for Me and My kingdom. Let this faith come alive in you and pray to Me, for then you will unite with Me and My strength can flow into you, for I Myself have given you the promise: Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened .... I will refresh you. And so believe without doubt that I will strengthen you, for I love you and I want you to love Me with all your heart, with all your soul .... And thus resist the enemy of your souls who wants to prevent you from serving Me and who places doubts in your heart which, however, are not allowed to find a place in your heart. But he will not let up in his fight against the light and will always hide behind those who have access to you so that you will become suspicious. But he works with cunning and trickery, and sometimes he also succeeds .... But My light shines so strongly that it exposes his scheming and he achieves nothing. Therefore resist him when you are prompted to slacken your vineyard work .... for then you will recognise the adversary who knows very well that he has not much time left .... Every day is a lost day if you don't do vineyard work, and you yourselves should never be negligent, for obstacles are often enough placed in your way that it is impossible for you to work in My vineyard .... But let your will always be directed towards serving Me, and your will will also always be blessed. For the time until the end is only short, but there are still many human souls in great need to whom you can bring help ....

Amen

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Indirect and direct Word of God ....

B.D. 8160 from April 26th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

Every enlightened spiritual being carries My will within itself, it has completely subordinated itself to My will otherwise it would not be a being of light .... And thus this being will only ever carry out My will, which it realises to be right and good .... hence it is, at the same time, active of its own will which, however, is My will too. This is something you need to know in order to recognise the value of what such a being of light mentally imparts to you when it works on My instructions in order to educate you .... You must always know that My light ray of love, My inexhaustible flow of strength, flows through all light receptive spiritual beings and will always be passed on again to where it is still dark, where light and strength are needed. If I therefore convey this light ray of love to earth in order to impart the pure truth to people it happens indirectly and directly .... I Myself emanate the light which can affect a person directly, but I can also transmit it through the beings of light, whose greatest happiness consists of the fact that they may pass the flow of My strength of love on, as it is their activity in the spiritual kingdom to serve Me as a reservoir of light and strength, so that a constant process of re-routing of strength occurs which makes countless beings happy and enables them to attain ever greater maturity. However, it is and remains always the same flow of strength and light, which originates from Me .... Hence you should not assume that you receive something of reduced value, it is and remains 'My Word' which I Myself convey to Earth because I recognise that people urgently need to receive light, that people come into possession of truth. Once a person has created the opportunity that contact between Me and the person can be established, the transference of light and strength will be guaranteed .... The Primary Source of light and strength is and remains Me Myself .... in which way this transfer takes place is irrelevant .... Even if beings of light are the mediators .... they can only ever give what they have received from Me Myself, and they will never act in opposition to My will, otherwise one could not speak of 'beings of light' .... Unenlightened beings, however, are denied access to a person who has offered himself to be of service to Me, who wants to work for Me and My kingdom and desires the pure truth from Me .... For such beings are not permitted to teach as long as they are not enlightened themselves, that is, as long as they cannot be illuminated by Me Myself .... as long as they have not prepared themselves as bases for strength, as long as they still have a low degree of maturity and possess little knowledge themselves ....

Nevertheless, these beings are able to intervene during such contact from earth to the kingdom of the beyond where a low state of maturity can still be found in people and where a person relinquishes his will, thereby allowing these beings to slip in, which are then able to express themselves and cause considerable havoc .... But this danger is out of the question where the transfer of the pure truth is concerned, where My spirit can be active .... where a person's heartfelt contact is established with Me and the influx of My flow of spirit can take place. That which comes forth from Me Myself is truth, even if it takes its path through enlightened spiritual beings .... because they, too, only pass on what they receive from Me Myself. Hence the point of view, that these beings of light could teach something different than I Myself, is mistaken, for only one truth exists, and if a being is enlightened then it will also be permeated by this one truth and pass it on of its own accord, for the light of love which illuminates these beings is My eternally inexhaustible flow of love and strength flowing forth from the primary source .... You humans first need to accept the truth of the fact that the beings of light don't instruct people arbitrarily through which a less valuable transfer can take place when someone establishes heartfelt contact with Me with the desire to be educated by Me .... This point of view is frequently upheld by people and another error I need to rectify time and again, so that My transmissions from the spiritual kingdom will not be wrongly judged, for My kingdom is a kingdom of truth, and the truth will be conveyed to that person who seriously desires it. The desire for truth excludes all misguided spiritual knowledge, because I Myself Am acknowledged and desired, and I Am the Truth of eternity. Yet you must also know about the strength and light re-routing process which, in turn, is the epitome of bliss for the beings who entered My kingdom of light .... you must know that their state of maturity results in their constant illumination by My light of love and that this light of love will be passed on again by them, in accordance with My will .... Thus, I Am the be-all and end-all .... Where light and strength exist that is where I Myself Am active, and everything conveyed to you humans through the working of the spirit within you can be regarded as divine emanation ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Fully maturing the soul .... Miracle healing - Compulsory faith ....

B.D. 8161 from April 27th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

Let the flow of My strength of love take effect in you, open yourselves and constantly receive light and strength from above and thereby provide your soul with the opportunity to mature fully in order to enter My kingdom in a perfect state when the hour of its passing away from this earth has come .... The soul is the spiritual essence within you which can only be given spiritual gifts, which requires spiritual nourishment for its path through earthly life. The soul is that which continues to exist when the body disintegrates, for the latter is transient as long as it still serves immature substances as a shell, which shall be released again if they have not joined the soul during earthly life, if they did not become spiritualised during earthly life .... which is indeed possible but only happens rarely. Then matter will dissolve and release the tiny spiritual particles which take on new shapes again for further development. The soul, however, has reached its final stage of development on earth, and you should spend all your care on making sure that it will accomplish its final maturity and be able to return as a spirit of light into the kingdom which is its true home .... And it can only attain this final maturity if it allows itself to be constantly illuminated by Me, if it accepts light and strength from Me directly by consciously entrusting itself to Me, by opening itself and allowing My flow of love to permeate it .... by listening to Me when I address it in order to nourish it and quench its thirst, in order to administer the right food which guarantees its full maturity on earth. And the soul will feel the flow of My love's strength .... because it will never remain ineffective where all opposition has been broken.

The fact that you humans don't feel the same effect physically has to be understandable to you, because I will not exert any form of compulsory faith on you and your fellow human beings as long as people have to freely decide as to whether they want to accept or reject the nourishment for the soul which I offer to them from above, the Word, which I impart to them directly and which nevertheless must not be so evidently demonstrated as to force people into believing. Try to understand that you have to believe with free will; your own deliberation, kind-hearted activity and a close bond with Me have to result in this belief. And My working through a person's spirit should also just be 'believed' but must not be verifiable; yet every unusual manifestation would already be considered proof which would be detrimental to other people's souls. You must still distinguish between body and soul .... Your soul's perfection will be achieved through your inner life, which indeed will also be externally recognisable through deeds of love .... and the body must, as far as possible, adapt to the soul's wishes, it must not resist its desire and be used as an indicator of My illumination of love for a person .... on account of which even a sick body can shelter a healthy soul within itself as long as this body has to fulfil a task which shall benefit fellow human beings. For they, in turn, shall be guided into faith purely through My Word, not through miracles like the sudden recovery of a sick body .... although I also let such miracles happen if the strength of a strong faith is demonstrated, for 'I will not disappoint a strong faith ....' But I know at all times whether and how I gain people so that they will attain a living faith .... I also know what will serve every soul's salvation .... But My love will never remain ineffective, even if you yourselves are unable to recognise a result ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Vineyard work before the end ....

B.D. 8162 from April 29th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

No more great revivals will take place because people have completely fallen prey to the world and thus to the one who is lord of this world, who will do everything in his power to keep people away from Me and who will also succeed because there is only little faith left in a God and creator from Whom they themselves also originated. A spiritual awakening can only take place through the fulfilment of My commandments of love .... Only love can achieve such an awakening, for only a life of love awakens the human being's faith in Me to life. But love has grown cold among people .... They only desire material goods, their love belongs to them, and this is a wrong love which only keeps the human being in darkness but does not give him light. For this reason there will only be a few I can still address in the last days who will recognize My word as the father's voice when it is offered to them by My messengers .... But these will be delighted and only awaken to the right life because the strength of My word flows to them, because I Myself can be effective with My strength and this will truly not be without success. And for the sake of these few I will still send My messengers until the last hour to gather those who long for My word so that they, too, will join My small flock which I will rapture from this earth at the end in order to transfer them into a kingdom of peace before the earth experiences the day of judgment .... the day of the end when all creatures will lose their life because order shall be restored and the earth will serve as a training station of the spiritual again when the new period of salvation begins, as it is intended in My plan of salvation from eternity. I will still try everything to increase the number of those who shall still awaken to life, who shall join My small flock .... (29.4.1962) and whom I will save in the end when I create a new order on this earth .... I will leave no stone unturned, and wherever there is even the slightest hope of winning a soul I will also send My messengers there and bring help to that soul in the form of My Word, for as soon as it is only possible for Me to address it Myself it can still change in the last hour .... This is still the only means for My word to touch a person, for this word possesses strength which can become effective if the resistance is not too great. And at times I will also work in an unusual way through spiritually awakened servants by obviously pointing people to the 'strength of God' which expresses itself through a believing person, by allowing sick people to heal who believe in Me and thus also give their fellow human beings proof that there is a God of love and might Who works in all wisdom. But these people also have to join this God through a life of love, only then can we speak of a true 'revival'. I come to meet every person, I knock at every door of the heart .... And anyone who lets Me in will be blessed, for he can never ever get lost, he will remain faithful to Me even in the last time of the battle of faith, he will belong to My own whom I will rescue from utmost adversity. But you humans should never believe that a spiritual change for the better will still take place on this earth .... My adversary will rage more and more, and people themselves are in bondage to him and therefore also draw on the dissolution of the old earth, its complete transformation .... And humanity has already reached the spiritual low which necessitates such a transformation, and thus the time is fulfilled and every day is only a grace period which every person can still use for his own salvation. For the day of the end has been fixed since eternity and it will also be kept because I do not contradict Myself. Yet the work of salvation will also continue until the last day, and the serious admonition goes out to all My servants to be diligently active for Me and My kingdom .... And even if it is only individual souls which are saved through their cooperation .... for Me every soul is a great gain, and therefore I will support you in your vineyard work in every way, for I love all My creatures and want them to become blessed .... Thus I will also do everything to save them from the abyss, from the new banishment for an endless time again ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Turning the will to God is right decision ....

B.D. 8163 from April 30th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

When a person entrusts himself to Me, when he surrenders himself to Me and completely submits to My will, then he has passed the test of earthly life, he has freely decided in favour of Me and thus also consciously started the path back to Me .... And My adversary will never be able to win him back, because I have the right to his soul and now prevent every relapse because the will freely decided in favour of Me. But then he can also be certain that he belongs to My own, for I will not relinquish My right to him, after all, he once emerged from My strength of love and thus also belongs to Me, which I will never ever let My adversary dispute. And this will turned towards Me is also the surest protection against him, because the light of love, which can now shine through you again, repels him, for he flees all light from Me. Although you will still have to fight against all kinds of urges and cravings before your body has completely spiritualised itself, which you only rarely succeed in doing on earth, your soul will become increasingly stronger and have an effect on the body, and this will also result in victory over those cravings, so that the adversary will soon lose all his attack surfaces and that he will now distance himself from you, who also possess defensive power in My light of love and thus push him back from you .... Time and again I point out to you that you should only give your will to Me, that you fully consciously subordinate yourselves to My will, for then you will have won over your enemy, because then I Myself will be able to assert My right and truly not leave you to My adversary. And this certainty shall also give you the assurance that you will now take the right path, that you will think and act correctly, because now only My will is decisive, to which you fully subordinate yourselves and thus cannot think and act other than in accordance with My will. And thus you can now also carry out your vineyard work as being in My will and blessed by Me .... And you need not fear to be influenced by My adversary .... you need not doubt the love and protection of your father to Whom you entrust yourselves as His children. For you yourselves brought the battle against the adversary to a victorious end by turning away from him and towards Me of your own free will. So now I stand by your side and in My protection you no longer need to fear anything .... And when I speak to you then you can also be certain that My adversary will never be able to intervene and speak to you in the same way .... He certainly has great power, especially in the time before the end, but only where he is not opposed .... but never where I can be through your will, which has made this presence possible for Me .... Thus you yourselves determine his working on you if you are voluntarily in bondage to him, but he can never oppress you against your will. And My direct address is proof of My presence .... My presence, however, is in turn a protection against error. You should believe this firmly and unshakably, otherwise you will not be able to represent My word with all conviction .... a mission but which you should carry out because I have called you to be active for Me in the last days before the end. And you can use what you receive from Me with complete certainty, for it is pure truth which is not interspersed with error, because My adversary is prevented from having any influence on you .... as long as you yourselves devote yourselves to Me, as long as you desire pure truth and make My working through the spirit in you possible. For I do not force you either, but your will belongs to Me and I can therefore also work in you as I have promised .... I can introduce you to the truth, for you are My disciples of the last days who shall proclaim My gospel to their fellow human beings again and whom I was therefore able to care for with this mission because they gave themselves to Me of their own free will.... because they have already made their final decision of will on this earth and therefore will only ever want, think and act as it corresponds to My will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

'He that shall endure unto the end ....'

B.D. 8164 from April 30th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

'But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved ....' This is My promise, which certainly makes the greatest demand that you shall persevere until the end .... My promise will only come true with a small flock, for a great test of faith will be demanded of you, passing it will require much strength and an intimate bond with Me, since the believers will be harshly persecuted by the authorities and the human being can only offer resistance with My support by making use of My strength which will flow to him through his heartfelt contact with Me. He must belong to Me with all his will, with all his soul, and the strength of his faith in Me will give him the fortitude to resist. Then he would rather give up his life than Me, Whom he has recognised as the most loving Father from Whom he will never want to separate again .... And I will reward this strength of faith and love for Me, for he will become blissfully happy .... This small flock, which will remain loyal to Me even during the harshest battle of faith, will be rescued by Me from extreme adversity, I will move them to a place of peace in order to then give them the reshaped earth as their abode again, so that a new era will begin, a time of peace and of innermost unity with Me, so that I Myself will be able to stay amongst My Own because their deep love for Me allows for this .... The reward is truly magnificent but My Own will deserve it, for the last days on this earth will be incredibly difficult for them, and yet they will remain faithful to Me. They will abide until the end ....

And by using all means I will truly help them to attain this strength of faith, for I will reveal Myself to them beforehand in many different ways .... I Myself will come to them in My Word, and My direct communication will let their love and faith come alive; their constant contact with Me will fill them with a love that will increasingly intensify .... I will often miraculously intervene in their life and will also visibly appear to those who wait for Me in utmost adversity and firmly believe that I will help them .... I will leave no-one without comfort and Words of encouragement; I will give strength to all so that they will be able to endure even the most difficult situation. And they will firmly believe in Me with indestructible trust in Me .... And thus they will wait daily for My coming, for their deliverance .... until I Myself fetch them because the time will have come to an end, because I will put an end to My adversary's activity and put him into chains along with his adherents .... And the day of Judgment will result in a complete transformation of the earth's surface; all creations in, on and above the earth will be dissolved and be placed into new forms, the day of the end of the old earth will have come for all human beings and only those who belong to My Own will be lifted up from earth and escape destruction, whereas My adversary's followers full of terror will face their downfall and be devoured by the earth .... For the formation of the old earth will have ceased to exist .... Yet a new earth will emerge again and a new epoch of Salvation will start, and this new earth will be populated by those who remained loyal to Me until the end .... They will be blissfully happy, as I had promised them, since My adversary will have no more control over people for a long time to come, for they are devoted to Me in love, and therefore I Myself will be able to dwell amongst them and all hardship will have come to an end .... There will be peace on earth again, a divine state of harmony and beatitude .... where only love will reign ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Bond with God guarantees truth and return ....

B.D. 8165 from May 1st 1962, taken from Book No. 86

And time and again My grace and mercy will help you where you are in danger of failing .... Yet I will not force your free will and it will always be up to you whether you accept My grace. I am always in contact with you, My living creations, and you need only consciously enter into the same relationship with Me and you will be able to receive grace without measure and then also use it, for the bond with Me also guarantees you right thinking, because then I Myself can influence your thoughts and you will certainly no longer reject them. You should return to Me .... you should consciously accomplish this return during your earthly life .... Thus you also have to make contact with your God and creator and therefore get to know Him first. You must believe in a being Which called you into being, with Whom you were closely connected .... But you also have to know that you distanced yourselves from Him of your own free will and that your task in earthly life is to turn to Him again of your own free will .... And you must be willing to take the path of return to your creator. And you must enter into the right relationship with Him, into the relationship of a child with its father .... If you see your father in Me then you ask Me Myself for help, and then I can bestow unmeasured blessings upon you, because then you will also make use of them and truly reach your goal. This return to Me is your earthly task which you can also accomplish, because you will never be without help, for I Myself long for your return to Me. For you are Mine and will remain so for all eternity, even though you strayed from Me of your own free will and followed a being which first became apostate to Me because it exalted itself and thereby plunged into the abyss. You were able to behold this being because it shone to you in the full splendour of its beauty, its light and its strength, because I had created it in My image .... But due to its fall into the abyss it also lost its knowledge, the densest darkness surrounded it, and into this darkness it drew an army of originally created spirits after it .... which had emerged from My strength and its will .... These originally created spirits therefore also belonged to Me, and I do not relinquish My right to them either .... but I will not deny him his right either, since they followed him voluntarily .... However, once again the apostate beings will have to decide for themselves to whom they want to belong, to Me or to him .... And they will have to make this decision themselves in earthly life, where free will will be given back to them and also so much light that they can make the decision themselves .... Thus light is brought to them on My part, they are instructed why they are on earth and what task they have to fulfil .... This instruction can also be given to them by their fellow human beings, they can be taught about it in a school-like manner and then lead their way of life accordingly, which can also earn them increased knowledge. Yet they can also receive wrong enlightenment, because My adversary .... the prince of darkness .... constantly endeavours to keep the beings in darkness and thus will always deface people's truth so that they will not receive light and thus the final decision will be made difficult or impossible .... But I long for your return, therefore I also make sure that the beings as human beings are instructed in the pure truth .... I ensure that they gain so much knowledge themselves that they can freely decide for themselves .... I instruct them Myself through My servants who offer themselves to Me for vineyard work and who enable a supply of pure truth from above; I address people directly or also through those messengers who are now active on earth on My behalf .... And thus people receive a small light from which they recognize the nature of their God and creator Who wants to be their father and win their love.... And this transmission of My word to earth is a work of grace and mercy with a very special effect .... It guarantees every person's return to Me who recognizes and accepts it as grace, who lets Me Myself speak to him and thus enters into conscious contact with Me, so that he can now receive grace and strength without measure which will enable him to reach his final goal on earth .... that he successfully takes the path back to his father of eternity from Whom he once had taken his origin .... My love for My living creations is so great that I will not cease to court their love either, and as soon as My love can shine upon them again .... as soon as the human being surrenders himself to Me again in free will .... he will also glow with love for Me, and the return to Me is assured. For I will not let anything get lost forever that belongs to Me, that has emerged from My strength of love .... and no matter how far away it is, it will one day voluntarily return to Me again ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Who is it Who speaks to you? ....

B.D. 8166 from May 3rd 1962, taken from Book No. 86

This is the sign of My presence that you are able to hear Me, that I speak to you, that I convey My word to you, the emanation of the light of love from Myself. You know that I fill the whole universe .... but you also know that I am present in the smallest grain of sand .... And thus I can also dwell in the heart of a person who, like a child, desires to speak with his father .... Why do you consider this impossible? Why do you yourselves want to create such a great distance between yourselves and Me, when My love gave birth to you and this love also constantly desires its creatures? Why is it incomprehensible to you that you can hear My voice, that I Myself lean down to address you? That you would not be able to bear My undisguised strength of love is certainly understandable, yet I can always turn it towards you in as much strength as your state of maturity allows .... but it touches you as soon as you want it yourselves, as soon as you open yourselves to My illumination of love through your will. But it is always My emanation, it is always the flow of strength emanating from the eternal source which flows into you ..... You may well have been radiated by Me as the tiniest spark, but you are and will forever remain the same .... Your primal element is love which also returns to the sea of fire of eternal love because this has been the law since eternity. And even your free will has not been able to dissolve the bond between Me and you, it has only had the effect that My strength of love could become less effective on you, that it could not illuminate you with the strength of light as it emanates from Me but nevertheless touches you because otherwise you could no longer have existed. Hence the bond always and forever exists, and even if your will reduces the effect of My illumination of love you will nevertheless never be able to induce Me to restrict My emanations, nor will you be able to say that I Myself keep Myself distant from you .... This assumption is erroneous, for you cannot measure the depth of My love which applies to you and will apply to you forever. Thus I Myself bring Myself as close to you as you allow it .... If you still keep yourselves far away from Me then you will not have the desire to hear Me yourselves either .... Then it would be irrelevant to you whether I am and where I am .... But if you yourselves seek to approach Me, then you yourselves will also reduce the distance from Me, and if you long for My address, then you yourselves will enable Me to be present in you, for then love is already in you, and in love you unite with Me .... Your desire for My address opens your hearts to Me and My radiance of love is possible again as in the beginning .... "He who abides in love abides in Me and I in him ...." And the degree to which love ignites in you is also determined by the strength of My illumination of love, so that you can certainly say that you would perish if My flow of love flooded you with all its strength, because as a human being you are not yet capable of that love which you felt in the beginning when you were still blissfully happy in the kingdom of spirits. Nevertheless, I am present to you, for I am not only your God and creator but also your father .... and the father will never deny Himself to His child, the father will always be close to the child, and it is the father Who speaks to His child when it longs for His address .... (3.5.1962) I will certainly remain eternally inaccessible to you, and eternally I will be unfathomable to you, because I am the original centre and you are sparks of light emitted by Me which therefore could not behold the being from Whom they emanated .... For I am eternally the most perfect spirit in infinity, of Whom no created being can form a concept .... But this does not prevent Me from approaching every single being with that strength of light and love it can bear, and then you will never be able to say that it is not I Myself Who unites with His children, Who is present to them .... But My presence is undeniable as soon as I address the child, because it is strength of love which now fills the heart of the one who hears Me, and because 'strength of love' is My fundamental nature .... because I Myself am love .... The degree of strength of love which can flow into a person also determines the degree of deification which the human being can certainly achieve on earth .... as the human being Jesus also achieved, but which is rarely only reached because few people are capable of such love that they can leave earthly life as completely spiritualized. And such deification always means closest union with Me .... thus presence of the eternal Deity, of the highest spirit in infinity .... For I am and remain a God of love, and love will always seek to unite with that which has emerged from it as a product .... I will always strive for reunification with the beings created by Me, because this is My goal of the process of creation: to work and create in intimate communion with the products of My love .... And I will also achieve this goal one day because My love is eternally unchanging ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Nothing is too tiny for God ....

B.D. 8167 from May 4th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

Even in the smallest grain of sand I am present .... And thus you also know that nothing is too small and inconspicuous for Me to permeate it with My strength of love, because this is the only way to guarantee its existence if My strength is in it. For everything shall develop upwards; through constant change within itself the strength shall increase in all My works of creation, no matter how tiny they may be .... they shall progress in their development through the unification of the spiritual in these works of creation and receive My strength in increased measure, for this shines through everything that is apparent to you. And this is My plan of salvation: time and again to supply strength to the spirits in the works of creation so that they can carry out a serving activity in their external form determined by Me .... And although this spiritual substance .... the particles of a dissolved original spirit .... is fulfilling its destiny in a state of compulsion, it nevertheless slowly matures, and through constant unification, through constant change of its outer form, it can also constantly develop upwards until the last maturity, where all particles of a fallen original spirit have found each other again and are now allowed to embody themselves as a "soul" in the human being for the purpose of passing the last test of will .... And if you look at the whole of creation in this way then it will also be understandable to you that even the tiniest creature as well as the hardest matter experiences My constant care, for nothing is inanimate, everything harbours My strength within itself, and this strength once again flows back to Me from where it originated .... Even the tiniest creatures have their purpose, they are assigned a task by Me, even if you don't recognize it .... Everything is guided and looked after by Me and progresses irrevocably upwards, because there is no standstill where My will is effective. And this always determines the spiritual substance as long as it is in a state of compulsion, which one day will also bring the spiritual substance the maturity which is a prerequisite for embodiment as a human being. For Me there is no limit, and therefore I also take care of every individual person's fate, which may not seem comprehensible or credible to you because you are still imperfect .... not comprehensible or believable to you. Yet My kingdom is infinite, My power and My love infinite .... Everything is possible for Me and thus also the care of countless beings, because there is no limit for Me. And every being .... once it has regained its self-awareness .... can turn to Me and it will be heard by Me. Every being which believes in Me will form an idea of Me but will never come close to the truth because it is incomprehensible to the being, the human being, because he has to be in highest perfection in order to form an approximately correct idea of Me. But people on earth need only acknowledge Me as their 'father', then they will also have come considerably closer to the truth, even if they cannot fathom My nature intellectually. Yet they should know that nothing is too small for Me not to deal with it .... they shall know that love in Me encompasses everything that is, because love is My fundamental element, and that this love will not rest until even the tiniest creatures have reached the maturity that I can draw them to My heart .... For strength is everything you see around you, and this strength originated from Me, thus it is something divine which inevitably also has to return again to the source of strength from eternity, so that the strength can become effective according to its purpose .... that beings similar to Me can then create and work with Me and in My will, but which is then also their own will, because they are perfect as they once originated from Me ....

Amen

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Gift of God: Love spark ....

B.D. 8168 from May 4th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

But what is to lead you to perfection when you walk across earth as a human being I had to give to you, for you had voluntarily renounced it .... you had rejected all illumination of love and thus distanced yourselves from Me .... You were no longer able to pass away but you became incapable of any activity .... you had voluntarily chosen death and now hardened in your substance .... and the strength once radiated by Me remained ineffective until I Myself transformed it into creations of all kinds which now had to fulfil their destinies according to My will .... and the once hardened spiritual awoke to life again .... And thus it reaches the degree of maturity where it is allowed to walk the earth as a human being .... But you would never be able to ascend on your own strength because you lack all strength in the human stage, since you once rejected it and I now had to give you this strength so that you can reach the final perfection on earth. And thus I placed a spark of strength and light .... a divine spark of love .... into your heart, and through this divine spark of love you can now attain the life which lasts forever. You once separated yourselves from Me voluntarily but you remained indissolubly united with Me because you were strength from Me which can never pass away again. Yet only the conscious voluntary bond with Me signifies life for you, because then My love, which is the epitome of life, can shine upon you again. And so that you became able to strive towards Me again I placed a spark of love into your heart, the spiritual spark which is part of the eternal father-spirit, which is inseparably united with Me and which now tries to influence your soul, the original being which once had become apostate to Me,... to influence it to strive towards Me as the father-spirit of eternity in order to unite with Me again .... Whether the soul is willing to do so is up to it, but it is able to ignite this spark of love within itself into highest fervour, and this also means unification with the fire of eternal love, with Me Myself, because the spiritual spark in the human being constantly pushes towards the father-spirit of eternity and does not diminish until unification has taken place. The spark of God in you is the greatest gift of grace of My love, because otherwise you would never be able to muster the strength to change yourselves into love again if you did not already have a spark of divine love in you which you only need to kindle yourselves so that it would fill your whole being and you would then also be able to achieve perfection on earth. And you must always be aware of the fact that this is a gift from Me, because you had renounced all love yourselves when you turned away from Me of your own free will, when you rejected My illumination of love and thereby hardened your spiritual substance. However, the fact that you were never able to pass away did not exclude an extremely unhappy state which certainly slowly improved due to My infinite love but which remained agonizing for you as long as you were bound in material forms. As a human being you do indeed have a certain amount of freedom but the state you are in is not a blissful one, nor would it ever change again without that gift of love .... the divine spark, which is My share, which enables you again to accomplish the transformation of your nature into your original being if this is your will. For your will is free, and earthly life as a human being is given to you to test your will .... You can acknowledge Me as your God and father and seek to unite with Me .... But you can also commit yourselves to My adversary again if you disregard the divine spark of love within you, if you do not follow its urging, if you feel that you belong to the one who once drew you down into the depths and whom you followed voluntarily .... You must voluntarily decide in earthly life to which lord you will give yourselves .... Yet My love will always and forever pursue you, and one day it will also be victorious, for no being can eternally resist the strength of My love ....

Amen

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Recognizing the origin is giving up the resistance ....

B.D. 8169 from May 5th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

Anyone who recognizes his origin in Me is already on the way back to Me, he has given up the resistance he felt towards Me as the influence of the one who completely rejects Me. As long as a person lives on earth without being aware of his origin, as long as he does not think about where he comes from and where he is going, he is still entirely under My adversary's influence, and as long as he does so it is not possible to give him evidence of the power from which he has emerged .... But if he becomes aware of his origin then this also means that he mentally deals with questions which concern himself and his connection with the power which created him. Then he begins to detach himself from My adversary, he acknowledges Me even though he does not yet fully consciously confess Me. But then he can also be regarded as saved, for even if he is still attached to the world he will nevertheless time and again return to those thoughts which are now answered for him on My part always in such a way that he regards them as thoughts he has gained himself but which will no longer let him go either. And his life's fate will also contribute towards him becoming thoughtful, towards him looking for a purpose in life and no longer being content to see it in the world and earthly goods .... And since I know every person's thoughts, since every individual soul is exceedingly dear to Me, no person need fear that he will remain without help in earthly life, for I shape it such that his will can always make the right decision. But I do not force him .... But once the human being has found the answer to his mental questions about his origin, he will also strive towards his God and creator .... And then he will also be mentally taught that he himself can and should establish the relationship with this God which I desire: the relationship of a child with its father .... And then he will also come ever closer to Me, for if he is moved by such thoughts his nature will also be willing to love .... and the activity of love which such a person now also carries out will bring him ever brighter light, ever clearer realization .... If only a person always wants to become clear about his origin .... if only this thought wants to move him, then he is not lost, for he will no longer drop such a thought, because the light-filled guides also constantly influence him mentally, as soon as he has once expressed that will to receive enlightenment about himself and his outcome .... then he desires light, and then a light will also shine for him .... But if My adversary succeeds in nipping such thoughts in the bud, then the human being turns to the world with increased readiness, and he only sees his earthly life as an end in itself and seeks to savour it in all directions, and he remains in his control. That is why My vineyard labourers should only ever strive to direct their fellow human beings' thoughts towards their origin. They should speak of that kingdom which is not of this world and encourage people to take a stand on it themselves. A small hint can sometimes already suffice that the human being gives his thoughts a different direction if only the will is good, thus he is not obviously subject to the adversary. For this reason the beings of light are also grateful to people who help them by making their views known to their fellow human beings in conversations and then the beings of light can intervene and continue to work for their part .... which, however, always first requires thoughts turned towards the spiritual kingdom but which they then also mentally answer. And if My word can now be conveyed to those people I Myself can then also work on them, but this always requires your preliminary work first, because people's thoughts cannot necessarily be directed to Me but you humans have access to them and thus you are active for Me and My kingdom as soon as you merely mention the power from Which everything emerged, including you humans yourselves .... As soon as you humans are aware of your origin you will also turn to Me, and truly, I will no longer let go of anyone who gives Me his will, who recognizes himself as My living creation and who now also learns to recognize the father in Me, Who gives all love to His living creation and wants to draw it to Himself as His child for eternity ....

Amen

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Conveyance of the truth from God is necessary ....

B.D. 8170 from May 6th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

What I tell you is necessary to know .... I only want to give you truthful enlightenment so that you will still evaluate the last short time on earth correctly, so that you will live responsibly. For this reason I impart knowledge to you humans through people whose spirit is awakened and who are therefore able to hear Me Myself. For they shall be instructed by the eternal truth itself in order to be able to believe. And yet I must also offer this knowledge to you humans such that you are not forced to accept it, because I do not force your faith. You should be completely free to decide to accept this knowledge but also be able to reject it if you are not willing to accept a last great gift of grace from My hand. And therefore I convey the truth purely to earth again, for the maturing of your souls and your future beatitude depends on this truth. If you receive the right kind of enlightenment about your God and creator you will also feel drawn to this being because He is love, wisdom and power in Himself .... And I only want you humans to turn to Me, I only want you to seek contact with Me as your God and creator in order to be able to look after you as a father until the end of your life, until you have reached your goal, the return to Me from Whom you once voluntarily departed. As long as all correlations cannot be explained to you from the beginning of your existence, as long as you know nothing about your past apostasy from Me, you will walk along in spiritual darkness and your earthly life will only be an idle one, it will only be an earthly-oriented life without any success for your soul. But you should be instructed in complete truth that you yourselves have to fulfil a task on earth and what this task consists of. But you can only receive the pure truth from the eternal truth itself, only I Myself can convey the pure truth to you. And this possibility exists when a person prepares himself such that he becomes a right vessel for Me into which I can let My spirit flow. Then a direct connection is created from My kingdom of light into the kingdom of darkness, then I Myself can speak to a person who can pass on My spiritual knowledge to his fellow human beings again .... And then you can truly be certain that you receive pure truth, and you can conduct your way of life in accordance with this knowledge which is now conveyed to you .... You will become aware of the great responsibility of your earthly life, for you now recognize the meaning and purpose of your earthly life, you recognize your relationship to your God and creator, and you now voluntarily enter into the right relationship with Me: the relationship of a child to its father .... Your nature will change into love because the eternal love itself addresses you; you will recognize that I love you and you will now also return My love .... I seek to achieve nothing other than to bring you closer to the being from Whom you came forth yourselves, Who created you out of His strength of love .... I only seek to achieve that you restore the bond with Me which you once voluntarily severed .... But for this you have to be instructed in truth, because truth alone is the light which enlightens you inwardly and shows you the path to Me. And you have to take this path fully consciously, and you will also take it as soon as you learn to recognize Me Myself through the truth and then also strive towards Me, because love ignites in you, as soon as you yourselves give Me the opportunity to illuminate you through your will .... And I will always speak to people like a father because I love you and this love will never end .... Truthful knowledge will always be conveyed to you from Me which you will also willingly accept if only you are of good will. And these shall experience My great love which applies to all My living creations and which will not let any go astray, so that they will reciprocate My love and thereby also attain life which lasts forever ....

Amen

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The sacrifice of atonement of the man Jesus ....

B.D. 8171 from May 7th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

He who allowed Himself to be crucified, He knew about all the spiritual and earthly hardships of people, which were the result of the guilt of sin .... And therefore He wanted to redeem humanity's guilt of sin, He wanted to take all suffering upon Himself, He wanted to help His fellow human beings in their adversity .... It was the man Jesus Whose immense love also brought Him the knowledge of people's wretched condition and its cause .... He knew that they would never be able to free themselves from their adversity because He also knew the reason for their humanity, their former apostasy from God, their creator, of their own free will. And this human being Jesus offered Himself to His God and father from eternity as a sacrifice of atonement .... He wanted to redeem people's great guilt, He wanted to clear their path to the father again .... He wanted to give His life Himself in order to give His fellow human beings the life again which they had lost through their apostasy from God, for they were in a state of death, they were bound in the power of God's adversary. And to snatch people from this power was the will and the work of the man Jesus, Whose soul descended to earth from the kingdom of light for the purpose of this mission. This plan of salvation was prompted by an overwhelming love for this plan, for He was in constant contact with the eternal love; He was filled with love for the father and this love motivated Him to travel a path of dreadful suffering and torment in order to atone for the guilt of sin which burdened the whole of humanity. And the love in Him constantly increased, the eternal love itself took abode in the man Jesus, Who prepared Himself as a dwelling place for His father, Who was love itself .... And this love dwelling in Him gave Him strength to accomplish a work of mercy which was and will remain unique .... that He laid down His life for people, that He suffered the most painful death on the cross and thus redeemed the guilt of sin for the whole of humanity, for people of the past, the present and the future .... Only love could accomplish such a work .... God as the eternal love was in the man Jesus .... thus God Himself had offered the sacrifice on the cross and redeemed humanity from eternal death. God's justice did not allow the guilt of sin to remain unatoned for .... God's justice also made it impossible to admit the sinful being into His kingdom of light and bliss .... And therefore humanity would have had to remain in its wretched state forever, because it could not free itself from it if a soul of light had not taken pity on its misery .... if a soul of light had not offered to make a sacrifice of atonement in place of the beings which had become sinful and to satisfy God's justice .... But this sacrifice of atonement was immeasurably painful, no human being would ever have endured this measure of torment if an abundance of love had not given him the strength to endure to the end .... if God Himself, the 'eternal love', had not been in the human being Jesus and Jesus was thus capable of the superhuman suffering precisely through the strength of love .... Yet the man Jesus suffered unspeakably and therefore paid for the great guilt of sin towards God, so that the path to the father became free again for people who consciously place themselves under the cross .... who want to take part in Jesus' act of salvation, who approach Him for increased willpower, for forgiveness of their guilt of sin and who also recognize and acknowledge the father Himself in Him .... No human being is forced, it is entirely up to him whether and how he accepts Jesus Christ and His act of salvation, but time and again he is informed of what the man Jesus has done for His fellow human beings and who it was Who accomplished this act of salvation in the man Jesus. And time and again it is pointed out that no human being may pass by Him, the divine redeemer Jesus Christ, if he wants to enter the kingdom of light and bliss again, where he once dwelled before his fall into sin .... Jesus has atoned for the great guilt, but He must now also be consciously approached .... He must be asked that His blood has also been shed for the person who makes this request to Him. The human being must voluntarily take refuge with Him under His cross .... And he will truly be redeemed from all guilt, he will be able to return home to the father Who longs for His children but can only accept them into His kingdom again when all guilt has been redeemed through Jesus Christ, the Son of God and redeemer of the world ....

Amen

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Free will must accept gifts of grace ....

B.D. 8172 from May 8th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

I am willing to give at all times .... but are you willing to accept My gifts at all times? I give you love, strength and blessings of all kinds but I don't force you to accept them, for you have to accept all My gifts voluntarily, you have to open yourselves voluntarily, i.e. willingly hand yourselves over to Me, allow My illumination of love, for I am immediately willing to let My flow of strength of love flow into you as soon as I recognize your readiness, your willingness to receive. And you prove this to Me through heartfelt thoughts of Me, through a prayer in spirit and in truth or through lovework .... For then you will always be connected to Me, contact will have been established and I will be able to flood you for your salvation. You will never go empty-handed when such a connection to Me is established .... Even if your body doesn't feel it but your soul accepts food and drink, it will be satiated by Me because My flow of love can now flow into you which will touch it so powerfully. Yet you humans make far too little use of these blessings of Mine and yet you could be strengthened at any time, for you are still very weak, you all still need a lot of strength, you need My supply of grace as long as you still live on earth .... And therefore I admonish you time and again to seek the bond with Me, to turn your thoughts towards Me and to appeal to Me for strength and light .... And truly, I will not let any such prayer go unheard, for I Myself am only waiting for you to desire in order to then be able to give you Myself in abundance .... For I want to give you love, through My illumination of love I want to give you light and help you to make the right use of your earthly life, so that you will live according to My will and thereby become blissfully happy. I give you love if only you want to accept it, but I also demand love from you .... I want you to change yourselves into love and thus accept your original nature, because I .... as the eternal love .... can then also unite with you and this is the purpose and goal of your earthly life. But you are unable to accomplish this change of nature into love by your own strength, I have to supply you with strength and am also ready to do so at any time .... but your free will has to desire and accept it. It would truly be easy for Me to lead you to perfection if your free will did not have to be taken into consideration, but as a sign of your divine origin it may not be eliminated and which also only guarantees the final perfection .... And therefore I cannot provide you with strength of love and light against your will, yet I am constantly willing to do so and therefore only speak to you in order to encourage you to give Me your love and thus also your will. Then you will certainly reach your goal, for if only your will belongs to Me then I can provide you with My strength of love in an unusual way, and I can pour out My gifts of grace upon you to such an extent that a relapse into the abyss is impossible .... that you can cover the ascent to the ascent without effort, because I Myself constantly walk beside you and guide and support you, because I Myself constantly impart strength to you which enables you to easily overcome all obstacles. Just believe that I am always willing to give and only require your willingness to accept it .... and consciously open yourselves to Me for the acceptance of My inexhaustible flow of grace by only sincerely remembering Me and desiring to be united with Me. And truly, My flow of strength will flow through you and you will no longer feel weak, you will desire My presence ever more intimately and thus also already be able to be certain of My presence, for I, too, long for you, My children, and I will not rest until you, filled with love, devote yourselves to Me and want to be Mine for all eternity .... for My love is strength and it works as soon as it no longer finds resistance .... And your heartfelt devotion to Me proves to Me that you no longer resist Me .... and thus I can take hold of you with My love, which will now also never leave you again ....

Amen

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Establishing the right relationship with God ....

B.D. 8173 from May 9th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

Only one thing is decisive for you, how you relate to Me, your God and creator of eternity, during your earthly life .... You can go through earthly life without any faith in Me, and then you will only move in material thinking, you will only move in the world which belongs to My adversary, and then you will also belong to him and also remain his property, because he has a right to you and your will alone also secures him this right .... And then you will put your earthly existence as a human being on hold in vain, you will not take a step upwards in your development but rather be in danger of sinking into the abyss again, because matter keeps you bound, because all your thinking and wanting applies to this matter and therefore it will also become your lot again .... that you will become matter again, which you had long since overcome .... But you can also learn to recognize your God and creator during your earthly life, you can believe in Him, you can recognize yourselves as having come forth from Him, and then you will also let your thoughts dwell in My kingdom more often .... you will reflect and have the will to walk the right path, you will consciously renounce all evil, you will want to be good, and thus you will now also direct your thoughts towards Me, your God and creator, Whom you recognize as father and desire to be united with Him .... And then you yourselves have granted Me the power to assert My right over you; then the world, i.e. earthly matter, no longer satisfies you, you then enter a path which leads into the spiritual kingdom .... you seek contact with Me and you will also establish it, because then I Myself will constantly intervene in your thoughts, because I will no longer leave you once you believe that you have emerged from the might and strength of the one Who is lord over heaven and earth, over life and death .... Then you will no longer sever your bond with this creator you have recognized, and you will also soon establish the right relationship with Him .... the relationship of a child with its father .... And then I will never let you leave Me again, then you will no longer be able to sink back into the abyss, then you will also successfully put your earthly life behind you, this will result in the upward development of your soul, you will mature and accomplish the change of nature in yourselves: You become love again and unite with Me as it was in the beginning .... Thus you yourselves choose and prepare your fate after your earthly life, which can be an exceedingly blissful one in the spiritual kingdom but also an inconceivably agonising state in bondage .... the renewed banishment in the works of creation on earth, so that you will nevertheless one day ascend again, so that you will not eternally remain in the state of death .... Time and again I present to you humans the responsibility you bear on earth and the fate you can face .... that you prepare it for yourselves through your will, but that I cannot necessarily guide this will of yours into the right direction. But time and again I find a way to instruct you of this .... Time and again I approach you and speak to you, and I also approach the worldly people and draw their attention in a different way to a power to Which they are also subject and Which they cannot deny if only they seriously think about it .... For I don't want one of My living creations to get lost, I don't want to prolong the state of torment but neither can I prevent them if they themselves strive towards it due to their wrong direction of will, due to their bond with My adversary, whom they too could truly recognize if only they seriously demanded the truth .... And time and again I will address people, no matter in what way; time and again I will make them aware of the transience of material goods and time and again reveal Myself to them .... Yet their will I will not force, for only free will can make the final decision .... to turn away from My adversary and return to Me, from Whom every being once took its origin ....

Amen

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Divine revelations spread light ....

B.D. 8174 from May 10th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

My spirit is always willing to empty itself, for people need a light because they live in complete darkness and a light can only be kindled for them by Me Myself. For I am the eternal light which constantly radiates into infinity and thus also into the dark regions of earth where the lord of darkness reigns and therefore also wants to prevent a light from shining into this region. But the inhabitants of this earth, the people, who are therefore without light because they are without bond with Me, from Whom the light emanates, take Me. And I use every opportunity where the bond with Me is consciously established and then shine a light to earth. But then you humans must also perceive the light, you must feel a brightness in which you can now also recognize everything .... because the light breaks through all darkness which weighs upon you. This is the spiritual darkness which surrounds you humans as long as My adversary still has you under his control .... This is the ignorance of all spiritual correlations .... the ignorance of My nature .... of your beginning and your goal .... of your earthly task. It is the spiritual darkness, the lack of knowledge, which is truly not a blissful state for you. And what now contributes towards you becoming enlightened about these spiritual problems is for you a 'light' .... it is a knowledge which truthfully informs you about yourselves and about the connection with your God and creator .... As long as you have little or no knowledge of this you will still walk in spiritual darkness, and then you will not be able to speak of a light which was kindled for you by Me. And then you will also find yourselves in the hardship of the soul which, without the right light from Me, will not find the path which leads upwards, back to Me, back into the father's house. And thus you know that you first have to seriously establish the bond with Me so that a ray of light of love can touch your heart which will then also kindle the right light in you .... Knowledge must be made accessible to you, and this can only happen from My side, because I alone know everything and can therefore also reveal everything to you if I deem it necessary for your soul's salvation .... And where such knowledge is conveyed to earth, thus My spirit is active there, there you will also be able to speak of an obvious working in the human being, who now constantly increases in wisdom, in knowledge which corresponds to truth .... If you now want to test 'revelations' for their value, if you want to ascertain whether those revelations have their origin in Me Myself, free yourselves from all prejudice and only test the receptions for the depth of wisdom, for the degree of knowledge which is imparted to you through them .... Do they really give you light? .... Do they increase your knowledge? .... Do they make connections clear to you that were previously unknown to you? .... Is My essence revealed to you? .... Do you come to know your original state, your apostasy from Me and your reformation? .... Are you being introduced to My plan of salvation from eternity and are you learning the purpose of creation and your existence on earth? .... You lost all knowledge through your former apostasy from Me and also entered this earth as a human being in this lightless state .... And if I want to give you a light, this means that you will gain knowledge again of everything that once happened in the spirit kingdom and of My plan of return, so that you will now lead your earthly life responsibly, so that in the light of truth you will also recognize the right path you have to take in order to reach the final goal on this earth: to unite with the father and to live and work in blissful communion with Him for all eternity. Precisely because I want to achieve this goal but this requires your free will, My most eager endeavour is to give you light again about what you were, what you are and should become again .... And precisely for this reason I reveal Myself to you so that you will find your way out of the state of spiritual darkness .... And only pure truth can bring this about, and this in turn can only be supplied to you by the eternal truth itself through the spirit .... And thus the 'working of the spirit in the human being' only ever means that he is 'introduced' to the truth .... that a light is kindled for him, because he is in spiritual darkness as long as he is not given truthful knowledge which can now also be evaluated as 'divine revelation', because it rises from within the human being himself, because it is the 'manifestation of My spirit in the human being' which now also proves the originator of it .... Who reveals Himself .... Where only a heart opens and frees itself from all spiritual knowledge, where I can let My light of love shine in unhindered, there profound wisdom will also come to light; it will be possible to speak of knowledge gained, ignorance will give way and a body of thought will be ascertainable which the human being has never possessed before and which gives him enlightenment which was not conveyed from person to person but which was given to him by Me because I Myself was able to work in him through My spirit .... And therefore examine everything for its outcome, for truth is only with Me alone, and truth alone is the light which illuminates the darkness and which you need in order to fulfil your purpose of earthly life ....

Amen

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Truth of the end prophecies ....

B.D. 8175 from May 12th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

If I repeatedly inform you of what lies ahead of you .... if I constantly point out to you the time of tribulation .... if I predict a great judgment which will be followed by the end of this earth shortly afterwards, then you can accept this announcement of Mine as truth, for I only repeat what has always already been predicted about the end of this earth and I now only inform you that all these events are imminent, that the time has come when all My prophecies will come true, to the sorrow of all those who do not believe. You should not approach the future without being warned, and you should know that the 'future', into which you transfer the end, will soon have become the 'present'. And you should reckon with the fact that you will be surprised, that you will not have much time left and that I will therefore send you these announcements time and again, because I don't want you to experience everything that is to come unprepared, because I don't want to leave you in ignorance of the time in which you live. I know that all My announcements through seers and prophets will find little faith; I know that people will ridicule all messengers, that they will accuse them of being false prophets .... Yet not long time will pass and they will be able to convince themselves of the truth of what My prophets proclaim to people on My behalf. It has never been believed when great changes occurred on earth, when a redemption period came to an end and a new one began again .... And then it was always only a few who believed My messengers and who therefore were also saved .... But the knowledge of past all-changing events is also hidden from people, the times are endlessly long until such an earthly change happens again .... And that is why people have no evidence and now also consider an end of the old form of this earth to be impossible. And yet you humans are close to it, for I know when a transformation is necessary, I know when people have reached the spiritual low which necessitates such a transformation .... Yet I can do nothing other than send you information about it .... which you can then accept or reject, because you have to live in complete freedom of will until the end and even certain knowledge would not be beneficial for your salvation .... But you should think about the fact that I do not send you these announcements without reason .... and you should always remember that your God and creator is a God of love .... and that everything that happens is also based on My love. For this reason I also impart knowledge to you through My revelations which should open up your understanding for My plan of salvation, and then you would also believe that the time is fulfilled, that one day the order has to be established again into which all people shall enter in order to mature spiritually .... and that the possibility of upward development must also be created for the spiritual substances which are still bound in solid matter, for all spiritual substances shall one day reach perfection, and I alone know how this is possible and when the right time has come for everything to be redirected again .... And I keep the time as it is determined in My plan of salvation from eternity ....

Amen

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Death and life ....

B.D. 8176 from May 13th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

To the dead I will give life .... and dead are all of you who once separated yourselves from Me in free will and have not yet taken the path of return to Me, which you did in the last stage on this earth .... as a human being .... have to do. Admittedly, the separation from Me has only been voluntarily accomplished by you, for you can no longer separate from Me eternally because you are imperishable and thus your fundamental substance is strength from Me .... Yet you must also willingly turn to Me again and strive for unification with Me, only then will you live again, then you will have emerged from the state of death, of weakness, and receive unmeasured strength from Me again. And this willful return to Me has to take place in earthly life where you are in possession of free will again and where you are also given a small light for which purpose you walk the earth. I want to give you life again, but you must accept it in free will .... you must desire to live, you must feel the state of death as wretchedness and seek to become free from it, and you must seek life from Me Who alone can give it to you .... For I alone can supply you with the strength you need in order to lead a right life again, as it was in the beginning .... to be able to create and work in My will. Death is a state of wretchedness brought into the world by My adversary who rejected My strength of love and thereby became weak and powerless himself, who himself succumbed to death. But I Myself am the epitome of life, for the strength which cannot remain inactive and therefore wants to flow through everything that is still dead in order to awaken it to life flows out of Me unstoppably. But this strength, too, only becomes effective within the framework of divine lawfulness .... i.e., it must not encounter resistance. And resistance is conscious turning away from Me, conscious rejection of My flow of love-power. Then the dead remains in its state and remains inactive and also unhappy, for only activity is life, and only life is bliss .... But I will not cease to illuminate the dead with My strength of love, and sometimes I even succeed in causing it to give up its resistance, which already allows a faint life to become recognizable. In the stage as a human being My flow of strength of love seeks to touch the human heart in order to induce it to open itself of its own free will and thus to receive My illumination .... And thus I try to kindle a small light in the human being's heart by influencing his thoughts so that he reflects on himself and his origin. He can unwillingly reject such thoughts but he can also move them within himself and let them be followed by further thoughts, and then I can also mentally enlighten him as far as his will allows. And thus he can slowly come to life, for I only ever try to gain influence over his will, and as soon as it no longer resists Me the human being has also started the return path to Me, he detaches himself from the state of death and slowly comes to life, because My strength can now no longer remain ineffective as soon as the resistance is broken .... Death entered the world through My adversary who closed himself to My illumination of love and also persuaded his followers to resist Me and repel My strength of love .... They resisted life and death was now their fate .... After an infinitely long time of bound will the free will could be given back to the dead again, and it was now faced with the choice again to accept My divine strength of love or to reject it once more. But in order to be able to make this decision a small light had to be kindled for the lifeless one, which now entered the stage as a human being, wherein its earthly task consists: that it should come to life again, that it should escape the state of death .... And I Myself kindled this small light in the human being, yet it has to be heeded and made to shine in free will, then it will shine ever brighter and quite clearly show the human being the path which leads to life .... And then the human being himself will open his heart and let My ray of love flow into him, and he will have escaped death and also the one who brought death into the world through his open resistance against Me .... So man must voluntarily give up his resistance and desire My stream of light and strength, and truly .... he will come to life and no longer lose this life eternally ....

Amen

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Acceptance of the stream of grace ....

B.D. 8177 from May 14th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

A flow of grace of utmost significance has flowed to earth but its value is not recognized. My love has overlooked all people's shortcomings and given them an undeserved gift, and this gift could suffice to remedy the shortcomings and lead people to perfection. Yet this gift of grace is not valued, people pass it by and remain unimpressed by a gift which is extremely effective if its effectiveness is permitted by people's will .... A spiritual low has occurred and I turn the best antidote to people which could help them to reach the highest level if only they would use it .... And only very few recognize the value of My gift of grace and allow themselves to be helped into beatitude. And the time is approaching its end, people are in the last time of grace and don't recognize the flow of grace which flows to them from above to impart strength and light to them. And they need both if they want to survive this end without harm, if they want to enter the kingdom of peace and beatitude before the end of the earth or if they want to belong to those who survive the end and are brought to the new earth .... And people can no longer be pointed to this end in any other way than through My word which sounds to them from above, which is truly the greatest gift of grace for them because it could bring them salvation from utmost spiritual adversity if only they would accept it and let it take effect on them. Yet they don't believe, and thus they will meet an end with terror, because I cannot compulsorily direct their will, because they decide for themselves and I don't prevent them from doing so .... But I will not cease to send My messengers to them, I will send My word to those whose hearts I also recognize as receptive and willing, who willingly allow My flow of grace to flow into them and with it receive the strength to change according to My will. And again it is up to every individual soul how it uses My gift of grace, for every individual soul can contribute to the salvation of its fellow human beings if it also passes on My word to them, if it feels driven from within to point its fellow human beings to the love of a God and creator Who wants to be a father to people, Who wants to save them from greatest spiritual adversity before the end comes. And I will truly always be with My blessing with those who work for Me and My kingdom, who want to convey to their fellow human beings what moves them themselves, and I will also guide them along the paths where they meet like-minded souls who now strive towards Me together. I would like to help every person to come to the realization before the end why he walks across the earth. Yet most people still oppose Me, which I will not break by force. And therefore My gift of grace is also not recognized but rejected, and I have to let this happen because I don't force the will .... Yet I bless every voluntary service, for you humans can sometimes make it easier for yourselves to gain access to fellow human beings; you are more likely to be listened to if you inform them of Me and My word, and spiritual conversations can be held which enable My beings of light to intervene or penetrate people's thoughts .... For every possibility is exploited which still promises success, which can still save a soul from ruin, from a new banishment into matter when the end has come. And if people would take note of what is about to happen to them .... they would believe in My word which is conveyed to them from above, then they would truly not be lost, for then they would also receive strength for a changed way of life, they would recognize Me Myself and take the path to Me and then also be saved for all eternity .... For I only require your bond with Me in this earthly life, which is equal to the right decision of will, that you turn away from My adversary and consciously take the path to Me .... Then you will have escaped the deepest darkness, and then an ascent into the kingdom of the beyond will also be certain for you, if you have not yet reached such a high degree of maturity on earth .... But then you will no longer be able to descend into the abyss because you turned to Me, Who created you as a product of My love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Isolation of God's servants through suffering .... Recovery ....

B.D. 8178 from May 15th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

Your earthly task lies in service, which you should fulfil of your own free will. Love should determine you, love for Me or for your neighbour should be the driving force of your will and actions, and then every activity will also be blessed. And if love impels you to serve Me then you can also be certain that I will accept your service, for only then can a blessing sprout from your activity of service, regardless of what kind of activity it is. And if you then offer yourselves to Me for work in My vineyard, then you are truly welcome servants to Me whom I need and will use where your work is needed. But then the human being may no longer think of himself, he must place himself entirely at My service, and that means complete renunciation of the world, it means a constant dwelling in spiritual spheres, even if the human being is still in the midst of the world, even if he still has to meet earthly requirements, for I Myself will then take care of these for him, so that he nevertheless feels free from earthly fetters, that he can dwell in spiritual spheres even if he still lives on earth. You will now also learn to understand why I Myself limit the earthly sphere of activity of those who have entered My service .... You will learn to understand why I keep them back from the world, why I often isolate a good servant when I need his vineyard work, when I only want him to move in spiritual regions so that he can do all the work .... And then you no longer ask about sufferings of various kinds which are imposed on those vineyard labourers who are to fulfil a mission on earth .... Rather, you see the evidence precisely in this that I Myself have chosen those servants because I need strong forces but the world weakens every servant, for it will always hold him back from diligent vineyard work, the world will always somehow interfere and confuse the senses of anyone who wants to serve Me and does not completely detach himself from it. Yet you, in turn, should know that I Myself determine the extent to which a servant shall serve Me .... that I Myself provide him with strength as long as I require his services and that I Myself also put an end to his activity when his task is fulfilled .... And thus My constant supply of strength can also be expected with certainty where this service is obvious to Me .... For it is I alone Who determines life and death .... And I alone also know whose services I still need before the end and when his time has come where he now serves Me in the spiritual kingdom .... But I also know what success his vineyard work will bring Me .... I know how important this vineyard work is because people live in the time of the end, and therefore I will also promote everything that can result in the salvation of even just one soul .... Then My might will also appear again and again, which can also help the sick person to recover again if this enables vineyard work again which can rescue human souls from the abyss .... But then I will work completely hidden so that people will not be forced to believe .... But I am always ready with My strength where it is needed. You should only believe that I require your services if they are offered to Me in serving love .... If you want to help, this will to help will always earn you strength, if serving love drives you to your activity then the strength is already in you, for love is strength which will always express itself and which also enables you to serve Me, for My blessing will rest on every work done for Me .... And My strength will always fill you when love impels you to serve Me and your neighbour .... no matter in what activity your service consists ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Great power of the opponent by God ....

B.D. 8179 from May 16th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

You will still often be attacked and then you should always be armed and feel strong in Me and My security. The adversary has great power, for this is granted to him by people themselves; but he will not be able to bring you down who consciously stand on My side. But you don't realize how easily he can slip in, and therefore you should only be vigilant and pray that you don't fall into temptation .... He will also confuse your thoughts so that you will no longer be able to recognize the truth correctly yourselves, yet the sincere desire for truth will clarify your thinking and let you recognize the truth time and again. The path to Me is always open to you, and if you take this path you call Me Myself to your side, and then his activity will be invalidated, for he flees Me Myself because he cannot tolerate My light. Yet I cannot deny him the right to fight for your souls because you once voluntarily followed him to the depth .... And he makes good use of his right .... But it is up to you whether you submit to him or whether you seek My presence .... And this decision determines your fate, it determines your maturing, it determines your knowledge .... For whom you aspire to as your lord also provides you with the treasures He Himself possesses: light in abundance or darkness .... And you must always seriously consider whether you desired the light during your earthly life and still desire it .... or whether it was and is indifferent to you, whether you move in truth. And truly, anyone who desires the light of truth will also have it shine upon him, and My adversary will neither be able to prevent this light nor extinguish it, because light emanates from Me and cannot be used by My adversary against Me Myself. Hence you need not fear the adversary, for you yourselves determine his influence on you, you yourselves determine to what extent he can work on you through your will. But in earthly life you are not always aware of the direction of your will .... You can enter spiritual ground and yet not have so firmly established the bond with Me; you can only want to gain insight into spiritual realms and not yet be so firmly united with Me through loving activity or heartfelt prayer that I can now protect you from all error, for the intellect can also try to fathom spiritual realms and the heart can still be completely uninvolved in them. And then you can also be deceived, because My adversary can still intervene if My light does not push him away .... but this light is My flow of strength of love which requires the most intimate contact with Me in order to be able to flow into a person's heart. And you must seriously give account to yourselves as to whether the most intimate child relationship with Me existed or exists, which guarantees brightest light and also the rejection of the one who shuns every light from Me .... I give the truth to everyone who earnestly desires it .... And often a long time passes because this desire is not serious enough .... Yet no human being needs to fall prey to error because I want you humans to walk in the light, yet neither can you deviate from My conditions which demand the supply of truth. However, I will by no means forcibly influence a person such that he establishes this intimate contact with Me, for that is My adversary's right to be able to influence a person equally during his earthly lifetime, and he will also try everything in order not to lose control over a soul .... but he cannot force you either and My protection is certain for those who turn to Me of their own free will. He truly struggles for his followers to remain with him and especially in the last days because then his power will be withdrawn for a long time .... Yet you humans can limit his power yourselves, you humans are not powerless in the face of him because My act of salvation places strength at your disposal as soon as you request it from Jesus Christ, Who sheltered Me within Himself and defeated My adversary through the death on the cross .... You are not defencelessly at his mercy, you need only turn to Jesus and appeal to Him for increased will and strength and he will lose control over you, he will certainly be able to tempt you but you possess the strength to resist him. Hence you will then consciously stand by My side, and then you will also recognize him in the light of truth and his shameful game of deceiving people where it is possible for him .... the light will expose him, for the light emanates from Me Whom he flees ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

About the doctrine of re-incarnation ....

B.D. 8180 from May 17th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

I can reveal Myself to you through the voice of the spirit if you genuinely desire to be taught by Me. I only want you to live in truth, that your thinking will not take the wrong direction, that you will not be so influenced by misguided teachings from the one who wants to undermine the truth, because it enlightens you by highlighting him and his activity. Accept, therefore, what I say to you through My spirit: it should be understandable to you that My adversary will do everything possible to keep you in spiritual darkness in which he has absolute control over you, for as soon as you know the truth you are lost to him .... Hence he will always direct your thoughts wrongly .... and every wrong thought will result in a thousand others, and thus he will see to it that the knowledge about the purpose and meaning of your earthly life will be withheld from you, that you will form an entirely wrong idea about your earthly task, and he will try to keep you indifferent towards all spiritual endeavour .... He tries to maintain your love for the world and therefore will also always present a repetition of earthly life as being desirable and even provide evidence for it, for it will weaken your striving for perfection as soon as you believe that you will be allowed to return to earth time and again if you have not yet reached perfection.

This concept is My adversary's most favourite method and is the reason why the doctrine of re-incarnation has become so popular, and it is difficult to discard it because My adversary works very skilfully in order to substantiate the credibility of this teaching. Yet no one needs to succumb to his trickery, for as soon as he seriously desires to know the truth and turns to Me he will recognise the foolishness of what he was presented with and will also clearly feel the truth in his heart, he will feel resentment at what has emerged from My adversary, for his sincere desire for truth will also guarantee that he will receive it .... Lots of people yield to his influence in this matter, because people themselves want to return to earth because their love for the world is still too strong and the idea that they can repeat their earthly life is comforting to them .... Yet time and again you are told that you, who believe in re-incarnation, were misled .... although there are isolated cases which have their special reasons but which must not be generalised. For My eternal plan of Salvation truly incorporates all possibilities which guarantee your full maturity throughout one earthly life .... for you can overcome every weakness yourselves, since I died for you on the cross to gain strength of will on your behalf and you can at all times call upon Me in Jesus, the Redeemer from sin and death, and then you will also be able to reach the degree on earth which will assure your entry into the kingdom of light .... where you can ascend to never-ending heights since there will be no more limitation for you ....

If you, however, don't use your earthly life and enter the kingdom of the beyond unredeemed, then a repeated embodiment on earth would be of no use to you either, for you will keep your free will but your past memory will be taken away from you, and then you will be in far greater danger of descending further, which will never be encouraged but prevented by Me. And if you can already become enlightened on earth by being informed of your past apostasy from Me and My plan of return, then you can also clearly see the path which you have to cover in order to perfect yourselves, and then you will also realise that the doctrines promising you a repeated earthly life are misguided teachings, for they contradict My eternal plan of Salvation, which has been established by Me in all wisdom and love in order to enable your release from the form which, however, requires your free will. And in order that your will shall make the right decision I Myself shall time and again impart the truth to you if you ask for it, if you desire to live in truth. Yet you should also understand that My adversary will use all the power you give to him .... that he will offer you wrong teachings as long as you don't reject his activity by genuinely desiring the truth .... Yet he will never be able to impose his error where I, as the Eternal Truth, Am asked for protection against error .... for then he will be completely ineffective, since the light which is directly emanating from Me will unmask him and he will therefore always take flight from this light ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The power of the word becomes effective when resistance is broken ....

B.D. 8181 from May 18th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

My word certainly reaches you, and this word is blessed with My strength .... yet it cannot become effective where it is not willingly accepted from Me, where the human being is not willing to let himself be addressed by Me. And even the slightest resistance is enough, the slightest prejudice towards My word or the recipient of the word is enough for it to lose its effectiveness, because it will never forcibly have an effect on a person. And resistance is already present when My word is doubted, for once all resistance against Me has been broken people expect My address, then they are delighted to receive words of comfort and grace, words of love and wisdom from Me. And then they also recognize My word as the voice of the father Who speaks to His child ..... Thus I want to point out to you that you should voluntarily open your hearts to Me so that My ray of love can strike you, that is, your hearts will feel addressed and touched by Me when My word is brought close to you. And then it will work on you with great strength. People who desire My word, who eagerly await My word even if it is conveyed to them through messengers, will all receive great blessings, their souls will attain maturity, they will be able to register inner peace and feel secure in their father's love, for their hearts are open to Me: .... I can enter them and take supper with them, and the effect of My word will then be obvious to them because their love will ignite ever brighter and because their faith will become ever more alive, so that they will now live their earthly life closely united with Me, that they will always confidently wait for My help and truly cover their earthly life successfully for their souls. All of you could reach the goal through the strength of My word, all of you could become profound in love and faith and thereby also achieve unity with Me, which is your actual purpose of earthly life. But then you must also long to be addressed by your father, you must take the path to Me yourselves .... first deal with Me, your God and creator, in your thoughts and then feel inwardly driven to approach Me .... You must consciously give Me your will and then I will also be able to speak to you, and you will feel that the words conveyed to you are divine words and will no longer want to miss these words. For I will always speak to you humans such that your hearts will be touched if you voluntarily open them to Me and thus I Myself can enter you. I will always speak to you such that you will understand and desire to hear more .... I will give you food and drink, that is, what you need to build up your soul: a true bread of heaven and a fresh water of life .... and My word will then also be beneficial to you, you will be able to draw strength and light from it .... you will receive the banquet at My table from Me Myself and be delighted because of My love and grace, which gives you so abundantly .... But you must always have given up your resistance first, and that means as much as that you give Me your will, that you desire to be united with Me .... that you feel like My children and long for the father's address .... You must understand that I only ever require you to turn your will towards Me, for your original sin consisted of consciously turning away from Me, which also took place of your own free will .... And you shall pass the last test of will in earthly life after an infinitely long course of development from the deepest depth to existence as a human being .... You must not fail and sink back again. For I long for you, My children, because I love you and this love will never cease. Yet you will only pass your test of will when you give up all resistance against Me, when you believe in Me as your God and father and then hand yourselves over to Me in order to hear Me and My word, when you want Me to speak to you Myself and you move every word of Mine in your heart, recognize My will and act accordingly. Then My word will truly work on you with great strength .... Then you will reach your goal in a short time, you will be close to Me again as it was in the beginning, and you will voluntarily return to your father's house which you once voluntarily left ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The house-father provides for His servants ....

B.D. 8182 from May 19th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

The servant should not worry, for his householder takes care of him .... He shall only ever carry out his master's orders with all loyalty and willingness, and I Myself will place these into his heart so that he will always know what he has to do or not do. And his whole earthly life will also be shaped in accordance with the mission for which he has entrusted himself to Me, for as soon as his will consciously submits itself to Me there will be no other will in him but Mine. And therefore whatever you want may come upon you .... I know this, and I Myself allow it, I Myself shape your earthly life and also arrange all events as they are beneficial for Me and My kingdom .... And you need only know that you are guided by Me and willingly do whatever seems advisable to you, for then it has also been given to you by Me and has its purpose and meaning. And thus I also allow hostilities by My adversary if he uses people who obey his influence .... I allow them but I also protect you, especially when it concerns keeping My word from becoming clouded or extinguished. For My power is truly greater than My adversary's power, as soon as I only possess your will that it belongs to Me completely .... only I warn you, My servants, to anticipate and perform actions for which I have not given you a mandate .... you really do not need to ponder what to do when you are faced with a matter that troubles you .... Let everything take its course and wait and see .... For then it will always come about according to My will, and then you will also know how you should behave because you will be inwardly urged to do the right thing. You, who want to serve Me, you can believe that this will to serve relieves you of all responsibility of your own, that you will be guided from the start and that your complete devotion to Me will truly be rewarded by Me Myself regulating everything for you, but also give your thoughts the right direction, for even if you possess free will, this free will has nevertheless completely subordinated itself to Mine through your devotion to Me and then you will not be able to want or think anything other than what flows to you mentally from Me. And therefore you should also go your earthly path calmly and serenely, you should let everything approach you, for it will come about as it is My will, which you could not oppose after all, because your path of life is also fatefully determined. But the devotion of your will is involved in the shaping of your earthly path of life. And thus it can only be successfully covered by you .... and you need not worry yourselves, for I will guide you to the right goal .... And also the activity for Me and My kingdom, the vineyard work, for which you have offered yourselves to Me, will be carried out as it is My will, because you feel inwardly driven and now also do not resist Me when I take over the steering and give you the instructions through the heart .... Only believe that I need your services .... Believe that there is truly great spiritual hardship on earth which has to be alleviated by people who are devoted to Me, because I Myself cannot obviously influence people. Believe that you can provide this help and that I will use you where I need you .... believe that I Myself will also supply you with the people you should help, and that you can always be certain of My support if a work of salvation can be carried out on people who are still under My adversary's control. And you will always experience My blessing, I will strengthen you in body and soul, you will be allowed to experience My loving care, for I Myself take care of all those who serve Me as faithful servants in the last days before the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God answers questions ....

B.D. 8183 from May 21st 1962, taken from Book No. 86

You shall constantly be allowed to receive from My treasure of grace, for without grace you cannot become blessed .... And My love longs for you, I want to lead My children back to Me again and therefore have to grant them a measure of grace which is unlimited, because they are weak and have to be strengthened by Me. And since I know My living creations, since I know every person's will as soon as he walks across earth as a self-aware being again, I will also always provide them with the right means to help them become blessed. I will instruct them correctly which path they should take in order to reach the goal, and I will also make this path brightly recognizable to them so that they will find it and walk it, so that they will not strive towards the abyss again from which they have worked their way up with My help in order to now pass the last test of will on earth. For people are blind in spirit when they start earthly life, and they can only experience enlightenment of their spirit from Me Myself; My spiritual spark .... which is part of the father-spirit of eternity, must let a light shine in them, and they must attain a measure of knowledge which clearly and comprehensibly opens up their earthly task for them .... Then they will also strive to fulfil this earthly task, and then they will reach their goal .... Now I Myself know what knowledge a person needs in order to help his soul mature on earth, I know where it is still dark in him and what knowledge has to be imparted to him if it is to be a blessing for the human being's soul. And I will also impart this knowledge to him, and always in the form which the human being himself allows through his will. He can submit any question to Me himself and I .... if he is serious and also makes himself worthy of My answer through a way of life according to My will .... will place the answer into his heart, that is, his thoughts will be guided such that he will recognize it as truth; thus they will satisfy him .... however, only ever if he has first sincerely turned to Me Myself and asks Me for enlightenment of his spirit, for a correct answer to his question, and then also listens within or pays attention to which thoughts are now flowing towards him. In this way every person can be instructed by Me himself through the spirit which only seriously desires the truth and is in intimate contact with Me .... If I now convey My word to earth, i.e. if I make truthful knowledge accessible to people, because this is necessary in order to lead darkened humanity out of spiritual darkness .... because it is in great spiritual hardship if the truth is not conveyed to it .... so I will always make the knowledge accessible to people which they need in order to mature their souls .... I will instruct them through a tool which serves Me out of love for Me and for their neighbour .... And I truly know what they need in order to walk the right path, for they shall first learn to recognize Me Myself, they shall know about My being, Which is love, wisdom and power in Itself and Which, with the right knowledge, they can also love .... For this is My will and My goal, to win My living creations' love so that they will find their way back to Me again, from Whom they once voluntarily separated and thereby fell into the abyss .... Therefore, whatever helps people to recognize Me correctly I will also reveal to them when I convey the truth to earth. I will distribute all gifts of grace which people need to become blessed .... What they don't receive from Me, therefore, they don't need, shall either remain hidden from you or cause you to establish the bond with Me yourselves and approach Me Myself for inner enlightenment .... And if I deem it beneficial for you I will grant your requests, for I do not deny Myself to any of My children because I am love and love always wants to bestow itself .... providing it is for people's blessing what they desire. And time itself will inform you, for you are standing in the last days and you will be able to if you pay attention .... also recognize all signs which point to the near end. And everyone who lives a spiritual life next to his earthly life .... anyone who seriously strives towards Me will also know the time in which he lives, and therefore he will devote himself to Me ever more intimately and also be allowed to receive a bright light from Me .... For the time is approaching its end and you humans can only join Me ever more closely so as not to need to fear this end .... For then you will belong to My own, whom I will bless with grace without limit, and you will now also 'become blessed by grace' ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's commission to the disciples of the end times .... Work of redemption ....

B.D. 8184 from May 22nd 1962, taken from Book No. 86

And on My behalf you should go out into the world .... to proclaim the gospel .... Thus was My commission to My disciples, whom I Myself instructed on earth, in everything they were to proclaim again to men .... And this is also My command to you today, My faithful servants, that you diligently carry out the work for Me and My kingdom and that you thus take care of the spreading of My gospel, which I Myself guide to earth .... For it is necessary that people are instructed in the truth, and it is necessary that they come to know about the mission of the man Jesus, about His act of salvation and about My human manifestation in Him .... An earth period comes to an end, and during this period I Myself descended in the man Jesus, in a soul of light which embodied itself on earth as a human being .... I Myself accomplished the work of salvation in order to redeem humanity from sin and death .... No long time has passed since I walked across earth as a human being .... and yet people have little or no knowledge anymore, Jesus' earthly life, which ended with His death on the cross, is a questionable event for them which they give little or no credence to. And they are completely ignorant of the significance of a unique act of mercy, and they are increasingly more doubtfully instructed, so that they also find it increasingly more difficult to believe in Jesus Christ as the son of God and redeemer of the world .... And therefore I send you, My last disciples, out again to win people for Jesus Christ, to make their faith easy when they are instructed in all truth .... I commission you again to go out, for He is truly their saviour from sin and death .... He must not be passed over, He must be acknowledged and asked for forgiveness of the guilt of sin which burdens every human being or he would not walk this earth. Whatever you, My faithful servants, can do in order to inform your fellow human beings of Him, the divine redeemer Jesus Christ, you should do and not slacken in your vineyard work, and I will truly bless you for it, for people are in greatest spiritual hardship who do not take the path to Him if He has not granted them the forgiveness of their original guilt, which only the divine redeemer Jesus Christ, in Whom I embodied Myself, can bestow upon them .... Believe it, you My servants on earth, that you can still render Me great services yourselves if only you ensure that My word is conveyed to the world, which is directly conveyed to you by Me, for through this word I convey truthful knowledge to all of you which gives you a bright light and also opens up to you the understanding for Jesus Christ and His act of salvation, which was lost to people because they took notice of Him in a completely distorted form and therefore lost faith in Him and the act of salvation. For this reason I convey the pure truth to earth again and ensure that people receive information about the spiritual correlations so that they learn to believe again and take the path to Him, so that they go to the cross and carry their guilt of sin to the cross .... because otherwise they cannot find redemption and cannot enter the kingdom of light without the redemption of the original sin either .... For this reason I commission you again and again to bring light to people, to inform them of My working on you and of the truth which is thereby imparted to you humans .... And if they know the significance of the act of salvation for people's salvation, then the well-intentioned will nevertheless deal with Jesus in their thoughts and He Himself will then be able to influence them, i.e. I Myself will be able to intervene and give them ever brighter enlightenment .... But the first impetus has to come from you, because people, due to their unbelief, do not concern themselves much with Me or the divine redeemer Jesus Christ but can be stimulated by you into conversations of a spiritual nature. The people who serve Me as mediators, who help to spread My word, do an extremely beneficial work whose value they will only be able to assess in the kingdom of the beyond when they will be approached by the many souls who participate in the proclamation of My word, who were invisible to you and yet derived the greatest benefit from every kind of spiritual work, for whatever you do .... there will always be these souls around you who need food and drink for themselves and who can fetch the nourishment they need from you in order to mature .... For the divine redeemer Jesus Christ must also be proclaimed in the kingdom of the beyond so that the souls will find Him there if they did not find Him on earth and passed over into the spiritual kingdom burdened by their original sin. And the supply of truth is also necessary for them, for many of them were unable to find the divine redeemer on earth because no truthful image was developed for them and therefore they had no faith either. But the truth makes it easy for them to accept what they previously rejected .... And right faith can also come alive on earth through the supply of truth in people, for truth has strength within itself because it is from Me, and no being will ever be able to resist this strength, for it is love which touches all souls in the form of My word .... And to the strength of love all souls will once surrender, because love lets nothing be lost forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Sacrificial death was not allowed to force into faith ....

B.D. 8185 from May 24th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

Also My sacrificial death on the cross was not allowed to lead inevitably to faith in My Divinity in the human being Jesus .... For even when Love Itself offered this sacrifice, although I Myself was in Him until His death, because He Himself had united completely with Me, nevertheless the “deity“ drew back in Him .... that’s to say, He suffered and died as a man, He no longer made use of His power, that He possessed by agreement with Me .... He, as man, has taken all suffering and pains upon Himself and thereby He has redeemed the huge guilt of sins, which burdened the whole mankind .... And so the crucifixion had to be a process, which took place quite human, because no one could be forced to believe and each unusual appearance would have meant such a constrained faith .... So many people were caught by a restlessness the crucifixion caused, some people were touched, and they were depressed by the judgment, which was carried out in a man, they did not hold guilty .... But that it was a sacrifice, that accomplished the Deity Itself in the man Jesus, therefore any proof lacked, and it had to be this way, because the acceptance of the grace of the act of salvation had to be an act of free will .... because otherwise the forgiveness of sin could not take place as by the voluntary surrender to Jesus and acknowledging of Himself, as Son of God and Savior of the world, in Whom the eternal Godhead had incarnated. No one may be compelled to believe, it should be free for every man, to acknowledge Jesus Christ as Savior of the world and to accept His grace victim. Therefore, even the death of Jesus was a very human event, that in no way influenced coercively on the people, who were present at His hour of death or later learned of it, too. And so the act of salvation of Jesus remains a matter for all the people , that they can believe, but also can doubt, because the right knowledge requires a certain progress of the soul, a turning to Me, Who they are able to recognize also in Jesus Christ. A person, who is still in the power of My opponent, will never believe in the act of salvation of Jesus Christ, and even if it would also be described truthfully .... For he will not believe it, because he is still under the influence of the opponent, who will do everything to prevent a redemption by Jesus Christ. And yet people can also win a very confident belief in Him, when they make it possible, that My spirit teaches them .... if they allow also My mental influence through a life in love by My will .... But then there are no external evidences, which convince the man of the truth of God’s mercy work, but then his ideas of truth will be directed correspondingly, and the man understands the connexions and the foundation of the sacrifice on the cross, and he can also believe without evidences. Each proof is and will remain a compulsory faith for the people; but it is the proof of free will the only decisive factor in life on earth, and so the people must decide freely for the acceptance and recognition of Jesus and His sacrifice on the cross .... The man is not compelled to accept, and therefore all events must be described in their truth, as it has really happened: as the sentencing of a criminal, who has been ordered to the most shameful death, to the death on the cross. With His power Jesus truly might have averted this death by Himself .... because He got the power by the complete union with Me .... but He made no longer use of it, because He wanted, to suffer the death as completely powerless, to give people help in a hardship, from which they themselves would not have got free .... But He could help them to freedom, He could clear the way to the Father, He could open them the gate to the kingdom of light, but always only, while He took a gigantic guilt upon Himself and thus went the way to the cross .... while He took a degree of suffering upon Himself, which would have suffered a man scarcely, if not the love had given Him the strength for it .... I Myself was love .... But He did not use this power, to get rid off His sufferings, but only to that, to be able to endure the suffering and the bitter death on the cross .... Because He wanted to redeem the mankind from sin and death .... That even My followers doubted about Me, was understandable, suddenly they saw Me exposed of all power, when they had to watch, how I was handled, as I did not defend Myself and did not apply the power, that they so often had been able to find in Me .... But then the sacrifice on the cross would not have been accomplished, and My path as a human being on the earth would have been useless, because, despite My teachings and instructions, the people would stay always in the weakness towards My enemy, for the unredeemed guilt of sins was the weakness, the burden, that was on the humanity, of which they could not be released by their own efforts .... And, for strengthening their will, I died on the cross, for strengthening their will, I took even the enormous burden of sin upon Myself and redeemed it through the most painful work of commiseration, that has ever taken place on this earth and will take place also never .... I died for all people of the past, the present and the future, but every man must recognize and accept this My act of salvation of his own free will, for then he also recognizes Myself, Whom he once has failed his recognition and for that he is plunged into the depth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Requirement of power in the end time ....

B.D. 8186 from May 26th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

And in these last days you will have to make special use of My gifts of grace, for you are weak and need much strength which, however, I will constantly let flow to you if only you want to accept it, if only you accept it from My hands as an extraordinary gift of My love which wants to help you because you are in great need. I know about every individual person's weakness and his inability to cope with the demands made on him out of his own strength; yet with My strength he will succeed in mastering even the most difficult situation, for if he makes use of My strength then all weakness will have left him, then he will have the strength to overcome everything and emerge victoriously from all adversity. But he will come into adversity where he sometimes needs strength and shall request it, because I will not leave him without help if only he sincerely appeals to Me for the granting of strength .... In the end time it will often be difficult to keep faith in My help and to trustingly come to Me in every adversity, for the end time belongs to My adversary and he truly makes good use of it by letting people get into all kinds of distress where they shall become hopeless because he wants them not to find the path to Me. But if they take the path to Me they will also be assured of all kinds of help, for I will not leave anyone in adversity of body or soul who trustingly turns to Me and appeals to Me for the supply of strength to remedy all hardship with My help .... My adversary wants to prevent this, and therefore he will press you more and more and also let you fall into states of weakness where you believe that you cannot get out of it anymore, and then you will become despondent and discouraged. But you should always be certain that you, as My servants, can turn to your father at any time, Who will always provide you with everything you need for body and soul. For it is precisely as labourers in His vineyard that the adversary wants to make you unfit, because then the redeemer's work will suffer a loss, which he only strives to achieve in order not to lose any of his followers. And always remember this and resist him by taking your path to Me from where help always comes to you. And I will truly reward you for your loyalty and perseverance, and you will visibly experience My help, you will feel that I Myself am present to you and bless you, My servants, every hour you are active for Me. And it shall be a spiritual and earthly blessing for you if only you trustingly submit your needs to Me, for who else could remedy them if not I, your God and father of eternity, Who is unsurpassable in His love, wisdom and might? .... And I will always prove this love, wisdom and power of Mine to you so that your faith will be strengthened and you will no longer fear any oppression from My adversary? .... What seems impossible I want to make possible, and where human strength comes to an end My strength only begins to work. And thus I reward you for your loyalty and devotion to Me if only you always serve Me according to My will, if you don't let your vineyard work be held back by the one who is My adversary and who opposes Me with his resistance and also wants to transfer it to you in order to prevent you from receiving and distributing light to people whom he has plunged into darkness and who need a light from Me in order to find their way back to Me again .... But he shall not succeed in this, for I know that your will is strong and that you want to serve Me with your love, and such labours of love will truly not be unsuccessful and he will lose followers, but I will gain souls and they will be saved from the abyss to which My adversary wants to push people because he has no love in him but only hatred .... But love is stronger than hatred, and love will triumph ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spiritual treasures in the kingdom beyond ....

B.D. 8187 from May 27th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

Truly the kingdom of light shall be opened to you when you exchange earthly life for life in the kingdom on the other side .... And then it will shine brightly around you and all darkness or twilight will have departed from you .... And then you will be able to radiate the light where you notice souls in darkness, where there is no happiness and no bliss, because only the light can prepare such, where My ray of light of love can shine and become effective without encountering resistance .... Then you will possess extensive knowledge, and now you can pass this knowledge on to those who are entirely without knowledge, who kept their hearts and ears closed on earth when the right knowledge, the truth from Me, was conveyed to them. My strength of love on earth met with resistance from them, and the result was that they did not receive a ray of light, that they themselves could not be permeated by light and that they will have to pass over into the kingdom of the beyond in a dark, darkened spiritual state when the hour of their earthly demise has come. Then they will be poor in spiritual possessions, they will have no spiritual treasures, they themselves will be poor in love, i.e. poor in light and poor in wisdom, poor in knowledge which alone can make them happy in the spiritual kingdom because it signifies the treasure of grace with which they can work and make souls happy again with light and strength which can now arise for them from the right knowledge from God. For you live on earth in order to gather spiritual treasures for your degree of bliss in the kingdom of the beyond, which you can use again for your own happiness. And therefore you should not pass by this unheard-of treasure of grace on earth .... for it is offered to all of you .... I know where hearts are found which are eager to accept such gifts of grace from Me, and I truly also direct My gifts of grace to these unmeasured .... I will not pass anyone by because I want them to become blissfully happy, so that they can enter the kingdom of light after the death of their body, because light alone signifies beatitude and light only consists of truthful knowledge which, however, I Myself have to impart to people because it cannot be gained on earth in any other way. And you should respect and appreciate this great gift of grace when it is offered to you, for I try to supply all you humans with the light which is intended to make you happy on earth already and one day in the kingdom of the beyond. Yet a true light can only come forth from Me, and therefore pay attention to whether and how a true light is kindled for you and check where it originated from, for whatever originates from Me must be a true light from heaven, it must make you happy, and thus it must be a treasure of grace of immeasurable value, for whatever originates from Me emanates from the eternal source of light and strength and can therefore never remain without effect; It must put you into a state of light and strength, which is therefore a state of bliss for you. And seek to gain this treasure of grace, open yourselves when this love of Mine wants to shine upon you, be willing to receive, and you will be allowed to receive without limitation, for it is My fatherly love which bestows such upon you. My love is truly without measure, and thus you will also be allowed to receive without limitation as long as you just open your hearts to receive the gifts of grace which flow to you from My fatherly love, because it wants to awaken your love in return, because I also want to find happiness through you, My children, whose love I always and constantly court, because you once emerged from My love and this love of Mine will never cease to long for its children in order to receive their love too .... For My love is endless and will never let you go forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spiritual and earthly turn ....

B.D. 8188 from May 30th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

The turning point has come, which must occur when humanity has reached a spiritual low that can no longer be surpassed .... But this turning point is to be understood spiritually and earthly .... A spiritual change has to be created, the development of the spiritual from the abyss to the ascent can no longer continue; everything has left divine order and this order first has to be restored so that earth can fulfil its task as a maturing station for the spiritual. And this requires a spiritual and an earthly transformation, for the earth is no longer up to this task, the earth has already been made so unfit by human will to help people and animals to mature because their creations are prevented from being of service, because the works of creation are prematurely destroyed and the spiritual particles cannot mature in order to be admitted to the next deformation .... And therefore a total destruction and transformation of the earth's surface will dissolve all existing works of creation on, in and above the earth and all spiritual substances bound therein will receive new deformations again, so that their maturing will continue according to law again and one day this spiritual substance will also reach the goal that it can embody itself as a human being and cover the last phase on this earth towards its spiritual perfection. And thus people living on earth will also have to expect a premature end to their earthly life, for they, too, are affected by the work of transformation, for people, too, no longer use the time on earth for their spiritual maturing but leave their souls completely unattended, and thus this life as a human being is unsuccessful and therefore has to be ended .... But this end can become the human being's greatest sorrow if he has done nothing to help him mature before the last day has come .... For there are only two possibilities left: that he will recognize his God and creator and turn to Him .... that he will seek to unite with Him and then live a blissful life after the end of the old earth on the paradise of the new earth .... which only those people will be able to enter who profess God when this confession will be demanded of them .... But he can also belong to those who do not persevere in the last battle of faith on this earth, and then God's grace and mercy can still call him before the end so that he does not completely fall into the hands of My adversary and still has the opportunity to turn to God in the kingdom of the beyond, and with the help of his friends in the beyond he can still take the path to heaven .... And then he can still praise and glorify God, Who is merciful to him and has saved him from the terrible fate of the new banishment which people have to expect who completely resist Him and have completely surrendered to God's adversary .... who do not believe in a God and creator Who is lord over heaven and earth, over life and death .... over the kingdom of light and the kingdom of darkness .... and Who also carries out His plan of salvation, which He has decreed since eternity .... Therefore He will not stop trying to bring the spiritual to maturity, which is still bound in all creations and which has to go the path to the end in order to one day return to the One from Whom it originated .... This turning point is close at hand, the earth will still have to go through much tribulation .... so that people will still come to their senses, so that they will think about the purpose for which they walk the earth .... And a change will take place spiritually and earthly, and it will cast its shadows ahead, for the tribulation on this earth will be felt by all people, everyone will be affected, and much suffering will come upon people who can still be purified by it and find God if they are of good will .... But God will carry out His plan of salvation as He has already decided since eternity .... For His wisdom foresaw the course of development people would take, and He also included people's will in His plan because this alone is decisive and God always respects people's will so that it is also possible for them to achieve perfection on earth .... Yet it is certain that this plan will also be fulfilled, as God's wisdom has decided, and people should not count on a change for the better still taking place amongst people, for their spiritual state is so low that there is truly no other solution than for God's love and omnipotence to have a balancing effect where human will fails and tries to thwart all of God's plans of salvation because it is still in bondage to the one who is God's enemy and adversary and will remain so for eternities ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The Ascension of Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 8189 from May 31th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

My mission on earth was accomplished when I ascended to heaven ....

I had delivered the world from sin and death, I had risen again and appeared to My disciples to strengthen them for their journey to proclaim the Gospel .... I Myself was full of light and strength and could now leave the earth in order to return to My kingdom from whence I had come .... to the kingdom of light and bliss .... Because My body had been transformed. It was My spiritual garment which was no longer subject to the laws of nature, but now the body could go to wherever it was moved by My will. Because it was spirit just like My eternal Father-Spirit, which was not tied to a form either but which permeated the entire universe and thus also Myself, Jesus the human being, Who had received the eternal Deity within Himself to give It a human form. This was necessary because It wanted to live amongst people, but the form was still subject to natural law and had to acquire a high degree of maturity first in order to receive the eternal Deity ....

My mission was over now, and testimony of this act of Ascension to heaven should be given as well, because it was the culmination, it was evidence for humanity that I had achieved a work of transformation of Myself which could be visibly proven .... for I disregarded all natural laws when I ascended to heaven, and I surrounded Myself with all glory and yet was visible to My disciples .... I gave them the strength to behold Me, otherwise they would truly have passed away. But only those disciples who were closely connected to Me through their love and who thus had the degree of maturity which enabled such vision were allowed to see Me. And many a soul returns from earth into the kingdom of light in the same state, and they too are able to behold Me in all My splendour and magnificence, because their degree of maturity facilitates spiritual vision. Because they too have no more limitations .... they too will be clothed in all glory, they may behold God face to face and now live in their original state, in love, which is both light and strength, and this is their spiritual garment, which may be worn by every soul as soon as it departs from earthly life and enters the kingdom of the beyond fully matured .... And this is what you should believe, you should not doubt the love and might of your God and Father, Who will one day endow you with a state of blessedness which will remain inconceivable to you as long as you still live on earth.

However, I have set you an example of what a human being can achieve by living a life of selfless love and what his fate will be if he has always lived on earth in accordance with My will. If his way of life changes his being into love, which will then be the same as My fundamental nature, he too will shine in all brightness and magnificence and also be visible to all who have the same level of maturity and who will have then united with Me, Who is and remains a Being that eternally emanates light and strength .... The event of Ascension really and truly took place, the human being Jesus gave the last proof of His Divinity on earth when He left this earth in a brilliant abundance of light and returned to the kingdom from whence His soul had come .... Because He had come from the kingdom of light, He had been with God and He returned to God again, Whose child He was and continued to be, with Whom He completely merged. Thus, the Ascension was the final proof that I was not of this earth but that I had descended from the kingdom of light and glory, which became My goal once more and which eternally will be and remain your goal too, because you also shall return to the light. You shall, through unification with Me, be allowed to receive My light and My strength anew and thus rise again and ascend into heaven, into your true home ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Claiming divine power ....

B.D. 8190 from June 7th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

And you should be aware of the fact that you have to make use of My strength because you are too weak on your own and fall prey to My adversary and his power again, for he will not stop struggling for your souls so that they will not be lost to him. But as soon as you use My strength he will let go of you, for then he will know that he has lost you and that he cannot fight you because I Myself walk beside you, which results in your heartfelt appeal to Me. Therefore you need never be afraid, no matter how strong the temptations you face .... My presence protects you, and you can be certain of My presence if only you yourselves sincerely remember Me, if you take refuge in Me in prayer or in intimate mental contact .... And therefore I want to assure you of My presence time and again, and I want to strengthen your faith that I will take care of every individual in all love so that he will not despair in any adversity and tribulation and doubt My help. For I grant it to him at all times, especially when I know that he wants to belong to My own, when I know that his inner life is turned towards Me, that I am his whole purpose in life and that he only ever strives to fulfil My will .... And I know My children's hearts and will not leave them in adversity, after all, I see that their state of soul is the most important thing for them in earthly life and therefore I also look after them with all love so that they will not go astray and fall prey to My adversary. I accept them as My children if they make an effort to become worthy of God's childship and therefore the promise can be fulfilled in them: 'Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and all else shall be added unto you ...." Just maintain the bond with Me and you will no longer need to fear anything, neither a spiritual decline nor the violence of My adversary, who only has a right to you if you still acknowledge him through your affiliation to him, which, however, is immediately eliminated if you turn to Me Myself of your own free will and in all intimacy and appeal to Me for help in every adversity .... And only open your heart and ear so that I can speak to you, so that you hear My word and thus receive My strength directly from Me .... Just want Me to speak to you and you will also hear Me, and My word will give you strength. (7.6.1962) Just maintain the connection with Me so that My flow of grace can always flow into you, and then you truly need not fear that you will go empty-handed, you need not fear that I will leave you, that I will no longer be present to you .... And always keep in mind that the great spiritual drought requires a perpetual watering, that the water of life must constantly irrigate the dry soil if the seed is to sprout and bring forth good fruit .... And you constantly receive both the seed as well as the revitalising water from Me, because the rays of My sun of love penetrate the earth which is in darkness and want to bring illumination and warmth in order to promote good growth. Only ever make use of the gifts of grace which you receive directly from Me and withdraw the strength for yourselves, for your body and for your soul .... And also let your fellow human beings draw from the source of life, hand them the filled cup and you will reap rich blessings; for it is only rarely possible for Me to open up a well, because people themselves no longer approach Me with such a request that I could address them directly .... But they already enter the realm of My sun of grace when they accept My word, when you bring it to them in My stead .... And therefore I give you the task again and again that you do whatever is possible for Me and My kingdom and My blessing will always rest on it and bring success to all souls which do not reject you when they take notice of My word through you .... Therefore willingly carry out this vineyard work for Me so that you pass on what you receive .... And My strength will flow to you again and again, because then you will be in contact with Me as soon as you impart My word to your fellow human beings and thus they will be able to receive it through you, so that they will likewise lie down at the fountain of life and receive the true drink of life which will bring recovery to their souls .... and which is also evidence of My love for My living creations, who can constantly draw strength from the spring from which the living water flows .... All shall drink from the bowl which I fill time and again to offer people what they lack in food and drink for their soul .... and which only I Myself can hand to them if it is to become healthy and mature while it lives on earth .... For I love My living creations and don't want them to get lost, I want them to reach their goal while still on this earth, and thus they shall be nourished and fed at My source and receive everything the souls need in order to be able to enter the kingdom of light and bliss in a mature state when the hour of departure from this earth has come ....

Amen

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Way back from the depths to the heights ....

B.D. 8191 from June 9th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

Oh, believe that you must travel the path of ascent again exactly as you have travelled it yourselves in free will to the abyss .... that you may not skip any phase of your upward development but must consciously accomplish the change back to your original being, which also necessitates that you must approach Me again step by step, just as you once distanced yourselves from Me step by step. As a human being you lack the assessment of the wrong you started when you separated yourselves from Me, when you rebelled against My love and thus rejected all light and strength in your feeling of inner rebellion against Me .... But in exactly the same way you must voluntarily long for light and strength from Me again .... You must long for My love and open yourselves and thus enable Me to let the love shine into you again, which you once rejected in sinful rejection of Me .... And this decline takes an infinitely long time, for it proceeds according to law, it must and will take place in the same way as your distance from Me took place. As a human being this cannot be made comprehensible to you, in which way your apostasy from Me took place, yet it shall suffice you that it took eternal times and likewise also requires eternities again until you have found your way back to the father's heart and become Mine for eternity .... For once you have returned to Me you will no longer fall and have to fear another earthly journey .... unless you are driven by love for your unfortunate brothers whom you want to help before they fail in their struggle to ascend .... But then this will happen again of your own free will, yet no longer in opposition to Me but entirely in accordance with My will, and then the descent into the abyss will also bring blessings to the being itself as well as to those people who strive towards Me but still have to struggle hard and are weak to ascend to the height .... But the fact that you humans are on this path of return into the father's house is a true teaching which I give to you so that you become and remain aware of the responsibility of your earthly course, for your whole life should be considered from this point of view .... (9.6.1962) And if you believe this then you will also live a life according to My will, which you will always experience, because I Myself make My will known to you through direct speech but I have also placed a silent admonisher in your heart who will instruct you correctly and you will .... if you listen to this admonisher .... in all certainty and come ever closer to Me, because then you will also fulfil My commandments of love which you learn to recognize as a fundamental characteristic of My will, for I will only ever point out to live a life of unselfish love, and then your development will irrevocably progress. Step by step you have to cover the path of ascent, just as you have travelled it to the abyss, for you shall reconnect with Me, from Whom you willingly detached yourselves .... And it is also possible for you with My support, yet you will never accomplish this work without My help, out of your own strength, because then My adversary will use all power and cunning to pull you down again, because he does not want to lose his followers in whom he sees his power .... Yet all of you are also My share, you have .... if through his will .... you nevertheless emerged from My strength, and this strength must irrevocably flow back to the source of strength again according to the law of eternity. And therefore I will also do everything in order to give you humans a light during your earthly lifetime, during which you should freely decide for Me or for him .... what your earthly life is all about and on which path you will return to Me .... I Myself will offer you assistance so that your path from the abyss to the ascent will not be unsuccessful and that one day you will reach your goal, that you will return to the eternal source of strength, that you will strive towards Me Myself and voluntarily give Me your love, that you will establish intimate contact with Me which will certainly result in you walking your earthly path full of strength which is guaranteed to lead you to the ascent and that you will make the right decision during your earthly life ..... that you pass the last test of will on this earth well, that you decide in your heart for Me as your lord and now also serve Me with all your heart and joyful soul, because you have recognized that you belong to Me and must also be and remain eternally united with Me if you want to be blissfully happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Commencement of receiving the Word 25 years ago (15th June 1937)

B.D. 8192 from June 15th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

I have given you the promise of sending you the comforter, the spirit of truth .... And I have done so by bringing you the pure truth, by using a devoted earthly child to whom I had assigned the mission of imparting this truth to people who were willing to accept it .... I have ignited a light for you which should not be hidden under a bushel, which should shine brightly into the night, into the darkness which is prevalent across earth and which can only be penetrated by a light from above .... I have conveyed My Word to you, I have spoken to you Myself and thus I was present with you in My Word .... you were able to hear My voice directly even though it first had to be imparted to you through My messengers, but the recipient of My Word could hear Me. His bond with Me was so sincere that I could speak to Him directly, so that he could provide proof of My presence: My Word, which was addressed to him and to all of you, which sounded within himself and truly revealed the most profound secrets which introduced you to the truth ....

And thus you received an invaluable gift and can consider yourselves truly blessed, because no one can take from you what I have given you and what you voluntarily accepted believing that I have spoken to you .... Your soul has received something exquisite, it is nourishment which assists the soul to mature and enables it to achieve its purpose of earthly life: .... to find unity with Me, its God and Creator, its eternal Father .... Time and again this unique gift of grace can be shared by the recipient with other people, time and again the human being can do redeeming work and has an incredibly effective means of grace to likewise help other people reach the goal on earth, to come closer to Me and to constantly receive strength to work towards the perfection of their souls, which necessitates a continuous supply of strength ....

Hence I will not discontinue the flow of living water from the source I have opened, because you human beings need a permanent supply of strength. You constantly need to stay with this source to refresh yourselves, to draw from it and let the flow of strength revive you, to draw from the living water which flows to you from My well of inexhaustible love and mercy. They will not stop flowing to you nor will I allow the well of grace to run dry, I will always take care of My child who gives Me its will and desires to hear My voice .... I will also make sure that it receives strength for itself for as long as it wants to work for Me, because this is entirely up to Me, and I will take the lead and provide what it needs physically and spiritually to carry out its voluntary mission.

Because only I know how important this mission is and how successful it will be for the numerous souls who suffer severe spiritual hardship and for whom this mission is an invaluable rescue mission .... It is a unique gift of grace that I was able to speak to you humans by means of a devoted child who listened to Me of its own free will and who believed My Words .... who allowed itself to be guided into the truth and imparted this truth to its fellow human beings who desperately needed a light to find their way in the darkness of spirit .... and who, in turn, carried the light to people who likewise lingered in spiritual darkness. The people who accepted this light could derive many blessings from it, and the recipient himself came closer to My heart by listening to Me and by believing My Words, because his inner light increased, he gained an insight into My reign and actions, into My eternal plan of salvation .... and he received clarification about Jesus Christ's act of Salvation, which he could now impart to his fellow human beings who, like himself, had previously lived in darkness and were therefore unable to utilise this treasure of grace.

I was able to bring the truth to many people, in accordance with their wishes. And they will not forget this gift of grace in eternities because they were thereby guided onto the right path which they could only find by this very truth, which they did not reject when it was offered to them as a gift from the Father who wants to help His children to find the path of return to Him. The will of every single human being was decisive as to whether he derived a blessing from My Word, but at least I was able to speak to him in the first place, which otherwise would not have been possible because I do not force anyone to listen to Me when I speak to him, and because no human being would know the voice of the Father if he did not want to be spoken to by Me directly. But My blessing will be with you forever if you hand yourselves over to Me and allow Me to talk to you directly .... Because there is much hardship and all people need My help, which they noticeably receive through My direct communication with them.

And for this reason you too, My obedient servants on earth, will receive every help, I will always and forever give you My dedicated paternal protection and also provide you with the physical and spiritual strength to work for Me and My kingdom in My name .... so that you work on My behalf and enable Me to speak to My children who are suffering and wish to hear the Father's voice .... They will receive help which only I can and want to give because I long for their return to their parental home and will do everything to help them achieve it ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

25 years ....

B.D. 8193 from June 16th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

There are profound spiritual problems which you may take a look at, which I will try to solve for you as far as you are receptive and shape yourselves through a life of love such that you will also be able to understand the deepest wisdom if it is made accessible to you through My love and grace .... But if I teach you Myself everything will also be understandable to you, it will be explained to you such that you will be able to grasp it and that you will then also be able to separate error from truth, which has spread amongst people and therefore people also walk in dense darkness .... You humans must be instructed by someone who knows, for an ignorant person will only ever plunge you into error again, you cannot receive truthful enlightenment from an ignorant person .... And therefore the 'eternal truth' itself instructs you .... It speaks to you in love and mercy and bestows gifts of grace upon you, the value of which you cannot measure as long as you still dwell on earth. You can only receive pure truth from the eternal truth itself .... And you don't think it possible that the 'eternal truth' will condescend to introduce you to the truth .... But truth is necessary for the attainment of eternal life, it is necessary for you to find the right path to Me, because you once sank into darkness and now have to enter the path of light again which will lead you safely to the goal, to unification with Me, from Whom you once voluntarily separated .... And I would suddenly open up the spiritual light to you, I would truly give you the lost realization again in an instant .... but this would not be good for you who had voluntarily given yourselves away from the light and who therefore have to give your free will to Me again .... to receive this light of realization from My hands. For it concerns your perfection, it concerns your voluntary return to Me so that you will become My 'children' who once came forth from Me as 'creatures' .... And therefore you must be introduced to knowledge which is still alien to you because you have lost the knowledge of it .... and as soon as this knowledge is truthfully conveyed to you, the love for Me awakens in you which alone lets you find the right path which inevitably leads to Me and to your perfection. You would .... if love ignited in you .... would of its own accord come to the realization of everything you lost through your apostasy from Me .... Yet you humans lack love and therefore I only ever have to try to persuade you to fulfil My commandments of love, and thus I have to make My will known to you .... I must address you Myself, and thus I also use every opportunity to address you humans directly .... if you give Me the opportunity yourselves, or indirectly, if you, who now hear My direct address, pass this word of Mine on to your fellow human beings who willingly listen to you .... Then it is possible for Me to inform you humans of My will and to encourage you to live a life of love, it is also possible for Me to lovingly address you and give you back the realization again which you yourselves lost and which you should gain in earthly life in order to return to Me again, to the eternal home, where you distanced yourselves in the wrong direction of your will. For I want to tell you again and again that I bless everyone who hands himself over to Me as a receiving vessel of My spirit and flow of love, because his mission is an extremely significant one: to help countless souls to change their nature if they give Me the opportunity to bring them a light, for they have been dwelling in darkness since their apostasy to the abyss, and they are still in the power of the adversary who has spread this darkness over them, in order to separate them from Me, from Whom they once came forth and Who will not relinquish His entitlement to these souls either, because they are also His share and He will wrestle for every soul until it voluntarily returns to Him, just as it once voluntarily left Him and fell into wretchedness ..... but all souls shall one day be blissfully happy again, and this goal I pursue and will also achieve ....

Amen

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Commemorate the end ....

B.D. 8194 from June 17th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

You should often think of the end which will befall you sooner than you expect. You should always bear in mind that the time of your activity for your soul will have come to an end, that you will indeed be able to enter the light but that there can still be darkness around you if you have not already ignited so much light in yourselves that you need not fear the darkness. You must be permeated by light when you enter the kingdom of the beyond, then you need not fear this transition into the kingdom of the spirit .... And every day you still experience on earth you can strengthen the light in you if you unite with Me in heartfelt thoughts and prayer, which time and again bring you a supply of strength from Me and this always signifies an increase in light. Don't believe that the end still lies far in the future but know that you can expect it every day, for the time allotted to your souls to mature has expired and that the time I have set for the final dissolution of earth will be paused by Me, through which the old order shall be re-established so that the redemption of the still unfree spirits will continue. The time of the end has truly come for you, which you don't want to believe in and which you therefore keep postponing into the future. But every such wrong thought is detrimental to you .... it is to the detriment of your souls, because then you will not make proper use of the time you still have left for your souls to mature .... Believe that I only speak to you for this reason so as not to leave you completely without knowledge of what is to come .... I only want you to know a little about the correlations and then also tune in to Me in accordance with this knowledge, that you muster so much love within yourselves that you call upon Me when you are in need, because then I will also hear you and want to help you so that you will not get lost, so that you will not despair but know that there is One Who wants to help you and can do so if only you turn to Him trusting that He, as your father, is always willing to help and will not deny you any request. You should only recognize Me, you should know that I am a loving father Who does everything to win His children over for Himself, so that He will win your love and therefore they will voluntarily return to Him, from Whom they once voluntarily distanced themselves but will also voluntarily return to Him again one day, because My love pursues them and will never ever let go of them again ....

Amen

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God needs His servants and promises them protection ....

B.D. 8195 from June 20th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

And to you, My servants, the assurance of My care applies time and again as long as you offer your services to Me, as long as you want to be active for Me. I want to make you consider that much vineyard work still has to be done in the last days before the end and that it has to be carried out voluntarily on the part of those who want to serve Me .... And look at the people around you .... where is there anyone who consciously wants to be active for Me and My kingdom? .... Look at the people, what kind of mind they are .... Only rarely is someone faithfully devoted to Me that he would be willing to serve Me in My will .... And only rarely does a person establish a bond with Me which is so intimate that I can inwardly make My will known to him .... Rarely, therefore, can I address a person and assign him his task which, however, is extremely important in the end time in which you humans are standing .... And therefore I keep the few faithful servants for Myself and place My will into their hearts, which they then also eagerly comply with and thus there is the possibility to also speak to other people's hearts .... For there are still good human vines which only need attentive care to mature before the end .... And in the end it is always about the free will of the human being .... I cannot force anyone and therefore only need your free devotion to Me, which I will also support time and again by supplying you with strength Myself through My address and that you desire nothing more than to fulfil My will .... And My will is and remains that you open your heart to Me, that you lend Me your ear so that I can speak to all people through you, because this address is still extremely important, because the time is drawing to a close. There is still the possibility here and there to touch a human heart which perceives My direct address as such, and I still want to make use of this possibility, for which I require your will, which I cannot and will not force for the sake of your perfection .... but you will be richly blessed if only you devote yourselves to Me, if you turn your thoughts to Me and allow yourselves to be bestowed by Me as often as this is possible for you .... You will receive spiritual and earthly strength and always feel Me closer to you, for I always take you more captive the more intimately you devote yourselves to Me .... And you should fear nothing, whatever concerns you .... I know this and everything has its spiritual reason and purpose. Yet you are also constantly under My protection because I need you and don't want to do without your services for Me. Just remember that I need the human being's free will and that it is rarely given to Me in such a way that I can use the human being as a receptacle for My spirit .... But I cannot make My will known to people in any other way than through My spirit, and therefore you should remain faithful to Me, you who have already given your will to Me and whom I need time and again because people constantly need My address and I want to help them in the last time before the end .... And it will also be a blessing for yourselves, for you will receive strength and light and grace in abundance ....

Amen

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Faith - love and listening inwards - conditions ....

B.D. 8196 from June 21st 1962, taken from Book No. 86

You have been introduced to the truth .... And thus the knowledge of Jesus Christ's act of salvation, of its reason and great spiritual significance, has also been made accessible to you, for you possess little knowledge of it because you are still darkened in spirit and have not been properly instructed until now either .... For My spirit, which introduced you to the truth, could only rarely be effective because it originates from Me as the eternal truth itself and can only pour into suitable vessels .... because I can only convey the truth to a person through My spirit and this presupposes conditions which have to be fulfilled .... The human being must believe that I Myself speak directly to him .... He must make himself worthy of this address through a way of life in My eternal order .... through a way of life in love .... And in faith in My working of the spirit he must now also listen inwards .... and thus make it possible for Me Myself to speak to him .... And My speech will be clear and distinct, it will be an understandable answer to questions which move the human being, and thus the human being must also desire to receive a truthful answer. You humans lack the knowledge about all correlations, and thus you are also unaware of the significance of the act of salvation, or you have been wrongly instructed. And this is a great shortcoming, for without the redemption through Jesus Christ you cannot attain eternal life, but without knowledge of it you will not avail yourselves of the blessings of the act of salvation either, which the man Jesus acquired for you through His death on the cross, and without this grace you are powerless and cannot release yourselves from the enemy of your souls .... And therefore it will always be My greatest endeavour to convey to you humans the knowledge of this act of salvation which I Myself accomplished for you in the man Jesus in order to redeem your original sin, which keeps you eternally separated from Me because divine justice demanded atonement according to the law of eternity. And everywhere I seek to guide the knowledge about Jesus Christ and the act of salvation so that all people take the path to the cross, so that they all hand themselves over to Him, so that they find redemption from sin and death. And this cannot happen in any other way than through My direct address by conveying the pure truth to people and they will then come to the right realization why they live on earth .... that they have fallen and should take the path back to Me in Jesus Christ again by taking the path to the cross and thereby acknowledge Me Myself, Whom they once refused to acknowledge .... which was their great original sin, that they voluntarily strayed from Me and shall therefore now voluntarily return to Me in order to be incomparably happy again, as they were in the beginning. And they shall experience through Me Myself that they are My children for whom I long and whom I will never give up, even if My adversary seeks to keep them in his chains for a long time to come .... My love is for My living creations always and forever, and it will not rest until it has won you back .... And therefore you will also be addressed by Me, I will always supply you with the truth because you must come to realize what you were, what you are and what you shall become again .... And if the pure truth is brought to you, you will also accept it and consciously turn to Me again, as you once turned away from Me .... I will break through the darkness of spirit and give you the light which you once lost but which you must possess again if you want to be blessed again as you were in the beginning ....

Amen

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Weak faith or unbelief ....

B.D. 8197 from June 24th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

Faith has become exceedingly weak amongst humanity .... People certainly know all doctrines regarding Me as their God and Creator but not everything they are told as truth they accept as such. They often also dismiss those teachings which correspond to the truth because they themselves either lack the ability to examine them or they don't take the right path in order to be able to examine them .... the direct path to Me, Who would truly grant them the realisation of truth. And what people are taught by those who deem themselves authorised is usually also devoid of truth .... it is spoilt spiritual knowledge which no longer corresponds to the truth because it was adopted as tradition without any kind of scrutiny and these doctrines are now demanded to be unreservedly accepted .... so that even the thinking person will not scrutinise them himself in order to be able to distinguish truth from error. For he is able to do so if he seriously desires the pure truth and turns to Me Myself. And thus humanity has lost its faith so that often it does not even want to acknowledge a God and Creator anymore and as a result cannot ascertain its earthly path and recognise its purpose and goal. Even people's relationship to their God and Creator cannot be made clear to them; consequently, they don't know My will, the fulfilment of which would grant them brightest enlightenment .... And so no-one strives to take the path back to Me if he lacks faith to such an extent that he even doubts the existence of a God and Creator.

First a person has to regain this faith again which, however, he can gain because he is able to think .... and because he will also be helped to think correctly when it concerns such inner thoughts as to what kind of relationship he has as a created being with the Power Which had created him .... He can attain faith if only he wants to .... if he reflects on questions which relate to his existence on this earth. For the beings of light will always take care of him and instruct him mentally, and this according to truth, providing he is interested in gaining the truth .... However, in that case he will soon find out that it is his Creator's will that the human being should live a life of love .... He will know it because the sense of what is good and what is bad is inherent in himself .... and because he has a silent Admonisher within himself Who will tell him His will .... And if he lives according to his inner feelings his faith will soon come alive in him, he will know that his inner sense is right, that a Being exists from Whose Power he arose and that this Being pursues him with Its love, for he will soon recognise the wise path he is being led along which clearly demonstrate to him the existence of such a Power to Whom he owes his existence. And once he has gained this faith he will also mentally turn to this Being and .... because he recognises Its great power .... voluntarily subordinate himself to It, allowing himself to be guided and also appeal to this powerful Being for Its support, because he feels weak but does not want to act in opposition to this Power .... It follows that he subordinates his will to the Eternal Deity's will, then he can also be certain that he will be seized by Him and that I will never let go of him again until he has united with Me, until he has fulfilled the earthly task he was given for his existence on earth and which only ever consists of recognising his God and Father and striving towards him, of submitting to His will .... that he therefore acknowledges the One again as his God and Father of eternity from Whom he once turned away of his own free will and thereby fell into the abyss, from which he irrevocably has to return to higher spheres again, and for this purpose lives on earth .... The human being must learn to have faith and truthful knowledge must be presented to him, then he will be able to believe, for he will recognise God as his Father and long for His love, which will be granted to him without limit because he once emerged from My love .... However, I cannot force him in any way to believe in teachings which relate to the spiritual realm .... to Me Myself as God and Creator .... He must gain this faith himself and he will certainly find it by merely living a life of love .... by making an effort to overcome selfish love and change it into unselfish neighbourly love .... Therefore he will be driven from within, since this is the working of My divine spark of love, which will always try to induce him to do good for unselfish reasons and whose urging he only needs to comply with .... For every act of love grants him light, he will understand increasingly more what he is expected to believe and accept it, and his faith will come alive ....

Amen

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Again and again the gospel must be purified ....

B.D. 8198 from June 23rd 1962, taken from Book No. 86

My gospel shall be proclaimed to you humans in all purity, just as I Myself proclaimed it when I walked on earth as a human being .... I informed you of your shortcomings and taught you what you should do in order to get rid of your shortcomings, in order to attain light and strength, you who were completely powerless beings living in darkness .... And thus I instructed you that the cause of your lack of strength and light was your lack of love and that you only had to live in love in order to attain light and strength again .... And so I gave you the commandments of love for God and neighbour .... I preached to you the gospel of love .... And I taught you the consequences of a life of love and the effects of a loveless life on you .... I introduced you to the truth, for I informed you of everything, of your purpose of existence and of the reason for your existence, and at the same time I informed you of all means which brought you maturity of soul, and thus you received My pure gospel from Me Myself, and you need not fear misguided teachings since you were instructed by the eternal truth itself, since I Myself gave you this knowledge when I lived amongst you, for you were spiritually blind and first had to be instructed in the right teaching in order to be able to live accordingly .... But My gospel did not remain as pure as it had originated from Me Myself for long, it was repeatedly distorted by human beings, My word .... although recorded by My disciples .... was repeatedly subjected to changes, and in the end it was no longer the 'pure truth' as it originated from Me .... And therefore I had to reveal Myself again and again, and I also have to do it again and again if I want the truth to remain on earth .... that 'My word' will remain, even if heaven and earth pass away .... And now you will also understand that .... the more time passes .... the more pure truth is permeated by error .... and that there is also no possibility on the part of people to purify the educated teaching if they are not granted support by Me .... through the working of the spirit .... support is granted to them .... For people's thinking is constantly influenced by My adversary whose goal is and will remain to withhold the pure truth from people so that the spiritual darkness will remain, which is the means for him to maintain his following, because then the recognition of Myself will be impossible, thus people will no longer find the path to Me .... And therefore you should not be surprised when I Myself convey the pure gospel to you again and when I now make this possible for you .... as My disciples of the end time with the same mission as My first disciples: to teach the nations and thus to proclaim to them what you yourselves have received from Me and what alone can be regarded as light from above, which breaks through the spiritual darkness and shows all people the path to the height .... to Me .... A relief action must take place, people must be instructed in the truth again if the end time is still to be evaluated for the salvation of their souls and I Myself must descend to people again and teach them so that they also find a light within themselves again, I must preach to them the commandment of love for God and their neighbour as the most important thing and point out to them that only the fulfilment of these commandments of Mine is the brightly illuminated path of return to Me .... They should only know about their earthly task and their goal, and I will help them to achieve it and convey the pure gospel to them again through My messengers on earth, who receive it from Me themselves and who can therefore be addressed as bearers of truth and light .... as My disciples in the end time who speak in My stead and bring the pure truth to people again .... And anyone who listens to Me when I speak to him through My messengers will also not go his earthly path of life unsuccessfully, for he will work on earth for the blessing of his fellow human beings because he will also pass on the truth to them and thus it will become light where there is no resistance or opposition to My word from above .... But free will will always be decisive ....

Amen

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Where two or three are gathered in My name ....

B.D. 8199 from June 25th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

Where only two or three gather in My name, there am I in the midst of them .... I gave you this promise in order to assure you of My presence if only you remain in My remembrance, if you come together as spiritually like-minded people in order to proclaim My name, in order to bear witness to Me in word and deed .... This therefore means that you acknowledge Me Myself, My name and My act of salvation, and that you, in remembrance of this, also make an effort to stand up for My name before your fellow human beings. And now I Myself will put the words into your mouth, I Myself will direct your thoughts, and you will also feel My presence because you feel strongly addressed inwardly and because you yourselves are strongly stimulated to bear witness to Me and to represent My gospel to your fellow human beings .... You should always remember this promise of Mine .... for you should not believe that I make My presence dependent on large communities, on gatherings of many people, whose hearts can all be filled with love (in different ways) and therefore also make My presence questionable at times .... For where there is no love I am prevented from being present, where there is no love I cannot dwell, and external events or happenings are not enough for Me to cause My presence .... the hearts must beat towards Me, and therefore only two or three need to be together who glow with love for Me in order to now also be able to secure My presence. And if you take this promise of Mine seriously you will also have the inner certainty of the truth of what you will now think, of what you will say in a mutual exchange of thoughts, for if I Myself dwell amongst you the light is also with you, and this light will not let you walk in darkness but will flow to you as soon as you need it. Then My spirit can also work in you, for as soon as you allow My presence it can radiate through you, and it will do so because I have promised it to you ....

Amen

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Great meaning of a love life ....

B.D. 8200 from June 26th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

And when the gospel is presented to you by Me Myself you will also be able to understand the significance of a life of love, of a life in divine order, for you will be instructed of the strength of love, of the effect of a life of love and of the defective state you are in when you live without any love .... You should not fulfil My commandments of love for the sake of success but in all freedom of will, driven from within, carry out works of love and eliminate all selfishness, for otherwise you would only be doing 'works' .... which, however, are not supported by love, and thus you cannot call such works 'working in love' .... Yet only love will redeem you, only love in all unselfishness will return you to the perfection in which you once stood, in which you came forth from Me and were therefore blissfully happy .... And this 'love' can certainly be 'taught' to you but not 'commanded', for the human being cannot be forced into loving activity, he must be free, it must be entirely up to the human being's will whether he practices love, but it alone will promote his progress .... And love for the neighbour is most likely to be kindled when he is confronted by his adversity .... How his heart then expresses itself is decisive for the person's degree of love and for his perfection. And therefore you will also be instructed time and again of My commandments of love, because you must know that their fulfilment alone will be a blessing for you, and because all other knowledge is also dependent on whether you kindle the light of love within yourselves, so that the spirit within you, which is My share, can instruct you which is true .... can instruct you, which truly knows everything and can enlighten you about everything. This effect of a life of love is already so significant, for you step out of the state of spiritual darkness when My spirit can instruct you, and in the light you also find the path which leads up .... to Me back into the father's house .... A life of love is also a connection with Me, and you then also enable the influx of strength without which you cannot cover the ascent .... And a life of love also leads to union with Me, which is your earthly purpose and goal .... "For he who abides in love abides in Me and I in him ...." Love is truly everything, and therefore the teaching of love has to be proclaimed everywhere, My commandments of love have to be presented to all people as the most important, so that they, of their own free will, change back into their original state, which was love .... For they came forth from Me Who is Eternal Love .... But there is little respect for love, humanity's heart is completely hardened, it only thinks of itself and not of its neighbour in need, and therefore it is also of a dark spirit and no longer finds the path to Me ....

Amen

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My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me? ....

B.D. 8201 from June 27th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

My pain and death on the cross was indescribably excruciating and every description of the suffering is just a faint comparison with My real suffering because I foresaw every phase of My act of Salvation, I knew what My last task would be and I did not have the reassurance to reduce the pain for Myself since I had to suffer the last hours as a mere human being. I certainly had all the strength because God's, My eternal Father's, strength of love permeated Me until the end, but by using My will I Myself made no use of the strength of love, I did not accept its effect to reduce or alleviate the pain with its help, otherwise the act of Salvation, which called for the utmost amount of suffering in order to redeem humanity's original sin, would not have been completely valid ....And the Deity within Me knew My will and allowed Me to continue, It withdrew Itself because it was My will to achieve the highest degree of love for humanity, which again was only for My Father, for Whom I yearned during the greatest agony, during the most severe suffering and particularly during the final minutes of My physical life .... And this yearning increased because I no longer used His effect, His strength of love .... And in this longing for Him, for My eternal Father, I exclaimed the words 'My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me? ....'

I Myself had wanted to complete the act of mercy for sinful humanity as a human being, because the greatest love I could offer My Father was to allow Myself to be nailed to the cross on His behalf, because He Himself had come to earth and taken abode within Me after all, because He had wanted to carry out the act of Salvation for His children Himself, but being 'God' He was unable to suffer .... And hence I accepted all torments and pain on His behalf and endured them to the end .... No matter how often and intelligible I try to explain this to you .... you will never quite understand it until the spiritual kingdom has received you, the kingdom of light and blissfulness .... And the simplest explanation is always the words 'The Father and I are One ....' It was already a complete unification and therefore I was able to say: 'It is finished ....' Jesus the 'human being' had sacrificed His life, He had suffered as a human being and experienced an unspeakably painful death ....But He also had united with the Eternal Deity, because love was within the man Jesus until the end or He could not have said: 'Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.' And if 'Love' Itself stayed silent then only because it was necessary in finalising the act of Salvation, so that death could then be ascertained by all the people in His vicinity .... so that His body could be placed into the grave from which He rose again on the third day ....

Every expression of God's spirit in the end could still have caused people to doubt Jesus' death on the cross, because they would have recognised His bond with Me and faith in the act of Salvation would have been the compelling result, but it had to be a free decision of will ....You will not be able to understand this quite yet either, but as soon as you yourselves unite your spirit with the spirit of the eternal Father you will become enlightened, and then you will also understand My Word, which always aims to offer you an explanation that you can understand in accordance with your soul's degree of maturity or love. Especially in regards to the act of Salvation you should receive the pure truth and be given complete understanding, so that you can comprehend the magnitude of My love, Which came to earth for you humans, for your guilt of sin, Which accomplished the act of Salvation in order to re-open the path to the Father, to redeem your immense guilt of sin, for this had closed your path to the Father's house forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Exceptional help at the time of misery ....

B.D. 8202 from June 29th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

Even the worst misery in the coming time should not alarm you, for to the same extent as My adversary works during the last days before the end, when his raging will be plainly recognisable, I will let My flow of grace pour into you, so that you will certainly be capable of resisting him .... And the closer it gets to the end the more distinctly you will also perceive My reign and activity .... I have to manifest Myself in an exceptional way in order that you will not despair and fall prey to him. For he will not shy away from using cunning and trickery, he will develop extraordinary power and you will need much strength in order to resist him .... I will truly not leave you without help during this time of need and I will also be perceptible to you, time and again you will hear about remarkable help people receive who faithfully call upon Me, you will experience instances yourselves which demonstrate My love for you and reinforce your faith .... For I will reveal Myself in extraordinary ways to you providing you don't relinquish the bond with Me but trustingly rely on Me that I will lead you out of all the misery in the last days .... And you may also be permitted to witness My personal appearance where your love will allow for it .... And I will appear to you in your dreams and bestow comfort and strength upon you .... You only need to spend sincere thoughts on Me and in prayer establish the relationship of a child with its Father .... Then you may truly experience Me as a loving Father, for I don't want to lose any one of you who already belongs to Me due to his will, who desires to become blessed and to be one of My Own.

However, you will certainly need this extraordinary help, for the time which is still at My adversary's disposal is running out, and since he is aware of it, he will still rant and rave and try to pull you down by oppressing you in every conceivable way. But I, too, will influence you remarkably and protect you from his onslaughts, since I know that your will applies to Me which therefore gives Me the right to avert him from you. And even My vineyard labourers will want to work more diligently still because My adversary's activity will be so obvious to them that they will thereby recognise which hour has struck on the world's clock. Therefore they will also know that the end is imminent and that his activity will come to an end, that he will be placed in chains for a long time again. But it requires an exceptional flow of strength, for you will be too weak on your own, given that My adversary will go to any length in order to plunge you into ruin, and were I not to confront him with My power and My light he would certainly succeed .... Even so, you should fearlessly approach this time, you will survive it and remain victorious, because I Myself will walk next to you and fight on your side against your souls' enemy. And thus I promise you, who want to belong to Me, My every assistance; I will always be present to you and a mere thought will call Me to you, for love unites Me with you, who once came forth from My love, and this love will not let go of you and protect you in all adversity and danger .... Therefore it will manifest itself remarkably when the time of immense misery befalls the earth because the end has come ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Acquiring spiritual treasures on earth ....

B.D. 8203 from June 30th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

You can only gain if you let yourselves be addressed by Me, for your spiritual wealth will increase so that you will be able to enter the kingdom of the beyond in an abundance of light after the death of the body and you will then do beneficial work for your own happiness. You will be rich in spiritual possessions which are everlasting, and you will recognize and love Me with all your heart, for then you will be in brightest realization again, you will be able to look back over your entire course of development and thus also recognize My great love for you which only ever wants to make you happy .... And since I was able to speak to you directly in your original state and this was your entire bliss, this state of bliss shall also be your fate again in the beyond, and therefore I already speak to you on earth in order to open up the knowledge about your relationship with Me as your God and father, and now you shall also long for your father as the father longs for His child to return to Him again. And this knowledge is therefore the gain which every direct address will earn you. This knowledge is a wealth which you are unable to appreciate but which ensures your entry into the kingdom of light, which you feel as an abundance of light and are happy to be able to radiate light again yourselves .... i.e., to give knowledge again to those who are still in spiritual darkness, which awakens love for Me in them and they will now use the strength of love for their own spiritual ascent as well as for the ascent of the souls which still dwell in the abyss .... You are now wearing a radiant spiritual garment because My divine light of love can now shine through you, for your love for Me also demands My love, and you will constantly be allowed to receive and increase in light and wisdom .... in order to now also be able to work in My will, which is also yours. Don't pass by the treasures on earth which I offer you Myself when I speak to you, for you are on earth for the sake of these treasures, so that you acquire them for yourselves, so that you don't reject them when I Myself give them to you .... Then open your heart and ear and listen to what I have to say to you .... For it is a direct illumination of My strength of love which will only ever result in the highest success .... which supplies you with light in abundance and shapes your soul into My image, so that you fulfil your earthly task and become blissfully happy again, as it was in the beginning ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Bad influence of immature souls from the beyond ....

B.D. 8204 from July 2nd 1962, taken from Book No. 86

The door to the kingdom of light is closed to all those who have not yet recognized their redeemer from sin and death in Me, i.e. who do not recognize Jesus Christ's act of salvation as such and thus also do not acknowledge My human manifestation in Jesus and thus Me Myself .... And thus you can also understand that countless souls leave earth and enter the kingdom of the beyond burdened by their original sin, that they wander around in darkness or twilight and still stay close to earth, that they often don't know that they no longer live on earth and yet would like to express themselves through people again and therefore harass them in every way. And thus you are also given a reason for the conduct of many people who are .... influenced by such souls .... let themselves be carried away into the worst deeds. And the closer the end comes the more noticeable this influence will become, for time and again people depart from earth who live and die without faith in Jesus Christ and are therefore not free from their guilt of sin when they enter the kingdom of the beyond .... who take their evil thinking and their will, which is still turned towards the adversary, with them and are also influenced by him to oppress people according to their nature .... And thus the earth is surrounded by an endless host of most evil spirits who know no other goal than to transfer all their vices and desires onto people and to weaken their will and also mentally influence people so that the rejection of the divine redeemer also becomes stronger in them again and they are all in greatest danger of losing any faith they still have, who now doubt and turn away from Jesus Christ and therefore remain in deepest darkness and enter the kingdom of the beyond .... Can you now understand why I admonish people time and again to take the path to the cross, to hand themselves over to Jesus Christ and ask Him for strength of will, for forgiveness of guilt and help in the battle with the adversary in order to become free from him? .... I only want to inform people that they are bound by their great guilt of apostasy from Me and that they alone cannot break these chains, but (but only) with the help of the divine redeemer they can become free from his power .... And this is the goal of their earthly life, yet people know little or nothing about it, and since they are close to the end they are in great danger of departing unredeemed from this world and thus entering the kingdom of the beyond unredeemed, where it will be very difficult for them to find Jesus Christ, even though this is still possible then. But as long as it is still possible to convey this knowledge of the divine redeemer to people on earth, the whole world of light will work towards it and exert its influence in My will to enlighten people about it, and I Myself will convey this knowledge to earth so that people will receive enlightenment about Jesus Christ and His mission in all truth and turn to Him of their own free will .... For only then will they also recognize Me Myself in Him and acknowledge Me and thus also consciously take the path back to Me which leads home, back into the father's house. And many souls in the kingdom of the beyond will also participate in the instructions I Myself give to people on earth who are willing to work for Me and My kingdom. And thereby a light can also be kindled for these souls which can also facilitate (illuminate) their path of ascent on the other side, so that they, too, will learn the truth about Jesus Christ and His act of mercy and will no longer be defensive but call to Him from the darkness for salvation, which will certainly be granted to them. And you humans can support this work of salvation by remembering the departed in intercession and by reciting the gospel to them yourselves, by addressing them and praying to them for clarification about Jesus and referring them to Him when they are in darkness or in spiritual distress. And they will listen to you because every effort in love will be felt beneficially by them. And they will also change their will and consciously turn to Jesus, Whom they now also recognize as redeemer, in Whom I embodied Myself on earth in order to be recognized and acknowledged by you humans .... And you will not perish but come to the life which lasts forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Warning against altering divine revelations ....

B.D. 8205 from July 3rd 1962, taken from Book No. 86

How often have I spoken to people through suitable instruments to convey My word to them, to give them pure truth because they were walking in darkness .... how many times have I cleansed the polluted doctrine, uncovered the false teachings and replaced them with pure truth .... Yet it never took long for people to distort this truth again, because the intellect was more concerned with it and then the adversary could easily intervene and persuade those people to make changes which contradicted the truth. And it should be a great comfort to you to know that I expose the adversary's activities time and again and that I always reveal Myself anew in order to supply only you humans with the truth again, which alone can bring you to perfection. These revelations would truly not be necessary if the truth, once conveyed to you, would remain as pure as it originated from Me. But time and again My adversary had the opportunity to confuse human thinking, and he makes use of it in every way so that he himself will not be recognized in his nature and lose his following. Spiritual knowledge which originated from Me should be protected from every change, and you humans should not believe that it cannot be altered .... As long as the human being's free will is not touched, a change of truth is also possible, for people are not yet in that maturity of soul which gives them brightest recognition, yet they are mostly convinced of their spiritual value and believe themselves to be entitled and competent to have to explain My spiritual transmissions to fellow human beings, which already enables My adversary's influence, for My word, which I convey to earth, should be sacred to them .... But what do they do? They believe that they are serving Me by offering these divine gifts of Mine to their fellow human beings in a different form, that they themselves carry out their own literary works and thus let their own intellect become active in it which, however, is not yet enlightened by My spirit and cannot be otherwise they would truly not decide to do such work .... Everyone should ask himself what prompts him to do so .... it is mostly worldly interests .... that they want to come forward themselves or seek to gain earthly goods through it, for if they only seriously aspired to Me and wanted to serve Me then they would also pay attention to the inner warnings and admonitions I send to them before they carry out their intention .... And thus you humans constantly cause Me to reveal Myself, I want to prevent humanity from walking in error again and darkening its path to Me .... You of all people, who should be guardians of the pure truth, who administer My pure spiritual goods .... you force Me to make these new revelations, and if I give them to you then you reject them, you doubt them as having come forth from Me, and yet you need only seriously examine and think about the alleged contradictions which, however, precisely cause Me to enlighten you humans .... I knew when I lived on earth that My pure truth would time and again be deceived by you humans. And therefore I promised you My spirit which time and again should guide you into the pure truth .... Would this otherwise be necessary if you humans always adhered to the truth once given to you by Me? You are imperfect as long as you walk across earth as a human being, and thus nothing will remain perfectly preserved because you possess free will which I do not prevent from defacing the truth, for as long as this will does not yet completely belong to Me My adversary also has influence over him which he truly uses to good effect because he is an enemy of the truth, because the truth from Me is the light he flees .... But you humans need the truth in order to become blissfully happy, and therefore My love will repeatedly guide it to you and you will also recognize it as truth if you are of good will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Purpose of harsh strokes of fate: Bond with God ....

B.D. 8206 from July 4th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

Regardless of how your earthly life turns out, you should always remember that in My plan of eternity everything is intended such that it will benefit your soul .... and that none of My living creations are left to their own devices but that I, in My wisdom, realised what is best for every individual person. Were you able to achieve the firm belief that I Myself stand behind every event with My will or My permission nothing would hardly ever frighten you again .... For My love knows how to arrange everything such that it is good for you .... Although you will not always be able to recognise My love, it nevertheless steadfastly belongs to you and will never let go of you either. But My wisdom also recognises the spiritual hardship you humans live in and the fact that you will invariably strive towards the abyss if I don't intervene in order to first deal with the spiritual hardship, so that the earthly adversities can diminish, which are only the consequences of the spiritual hardship. It is particularly dire for those people who possess no faith whatsoever in a God and Creator Who also created them as a product of His never-ending strength of love .... Only harsh strokes of fate .... which they have no control of avoiding .... can change especially those people's way of thinking .... by having to recognise a Power above them Whose will also controls their life on earth .... It is My constant endeavour to convince these people of this and to motivate them to subordinate themselves to this Power, to acknowledge and communicate with It .... For only that which remains inexplicable to them in an earthly way can make them change their thinking .... And so many things, which are described as harsh strokes of fate and which barely infer the love of a God and Creator, happen in the world for the sake of these disbelieving people .... And yet, it is love .... they are means which still promise success, even if only a few will find their way to Me, to faith in a God to Whom they must surrender and Who only expects your acknowledgement in order to then exert further influence on the human beings' inner life, Who causes them to subsequently live their life on earth according to His will and to attain the final goal: the bond with Me, their God and Creator of eternity.

Only when a person has found faith in Me as a Being full of love, wisdom and might .... will he look for this bond with Me which then will grant him bright enlightenment about his task on earth .... And only when he tries to comply with My will and pays attention to My divine commandments of love will this light begin to shine in him and reveal great knowledge to him, then he will live his life consciously in order to reach his goal .... He would indeed be able to gain this faith in Me without difficult destined burdens if he could bring himself to live a life of love of his own accord, if he could rise above his selfish love and change it to selfless neighbourly love .... Then he would have established the bond with Me from his side and he would find it easy to believe in Me, his eternal God and Father .... Then he would not go astray anymore because his bond with Me through love would protect him from the fall into the abyss .... Love and faith are essential to reach the final goal, the liberation from the physical form .... And I will always direct all events in the world such that they will be able to yield spiritual success for that person who has not entirely been taken in by My adversary and still exhibits the unbroken resistance towards Me, for I force no-one to succumb to Me and My will, but I will always help him to recognise Me Myself, even if this requires harsh strokes of fate, which then will only ever be based on My love .... However, the human being must make his own free decision in earthly life, and he will also always gently be urged from within to take the right path, the path of love .... Yet as long as he ignores this inner urging, he forces Me to employ methods which can lead to faith in a God and Creator Who is love, wisdom and might within Himself .... Then he will be saved for time and eternity, for a belief in Me also signifies acknowledgement of Me Myself, Whom he once refused to acknowledge and thereby became enslaved by My adversary, the prince of darkness .... who will indeed control him until he acknowledges Me, then he will be able to resist My adversary, to detach himself from him and to return and remain with Me for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Incarnated beings of light .... The working of the spirit - Channeled communications ....

B.D. 8207 from July 6th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

Even the incarnated beings of light on earth in the last days are only working according to My will as soon as they live their earthly life in heartfelt contact with Me and thus offer no resistance to Me .... that is, that they consciously submit to My will which also necessitates their voluntarily established bond with Me. Hence no being of light having embodied itself on earth as a human being for the purpose of a mission was forced into this mission by Me, but it has to be prompted by love to dedicate itself to Me, then the human being will also truly accomplish his mission in keeping with My will. And you humans can believe it that they then will also work for your benefit .... but always as a human being without knowing his origin, for such knowledge would neither be a blessing for the being of light .... the human being .... nor for the people it wants to help. They are certainly in close contact with Me and fulfil their earthly task with dedication and joy, but I don't use the people working on My behalf on earth as involuntary shells having to bear witness of Me .... but such a human being .... the embodied being of light .... will completely voluntarily let My spirit work in him, and he will proclaim the truth, since his spiritual spark unites itself with the eternal Father-Spirit and thus he will speak according to My instructions, i.e., he will inform people of the spiritual knowledge which he is constantly receiving from Me.

But don't let yourselves be misled by false prophets, for My adversary will also present himself as a representative of Christ .... in order to lead people astray, especially in the end time. However, he will hide himself behind a mask and not shy away from using divine Words either, which he knows and then tries to interpret in his spirit .... Don't let false Christs and prophets deceive you, for My adversary conceals himself under a cover in order to gain access to people who follow Me and genuinely strive towards Me .... and he is frequently very successful .... And he often uses My name because people's own will allows for it, which accepts everything as truth which gullible people with mediumistic tendencies claim they allegedly have received from Me. Make a distinction between 'the working of the spirit in the human being' and 'channeled communications' .... in which a person's own will is excluded and My adversary is offered the opportunity to work, which he is truly using well ....

However, anyone who has already kindled the light of realisation within himself will also see through his disgraceful activity and not allow himself to be bothered, for I will impart the truth to anyone who wants to know it, and I will also give him the power of judgment to recognise that the Word I convey to earth is originating from Me, and he will not believe My adversary no matter how cleverly he proceeds to deceive people. For the human being's thinking will be guided correctly and he will receive enlightenment just as soon as he seriously desires to know the truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Criticism of the divine word proves spiritual arrogance ....

B.D. 8208 from July 7th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

Into what spiritual arrogance do people descend who want to criticise My gifts of grace from above or believe themselves called to be able to judge them? Divine wisdom cannot be grasped intellectually, they can only appeal for the grace of right thinking which will also be granted to them because then they will already enter into contact with Me. But anyone who wants to judge with his intellect alone, who believes that he can mentally penetrate the truth and the outcome of it, is presumptuous and will always have to admit his inadequacy, and he will also have to realize that he is not entitled to such an examination either, because the spiritual realms are closed to him if he does not enter them in My company .... But people nevertheless presume such things and then pass a judgment which can never be right, because the human being lives in spiritual darkness as long as he has not yet striven for unification with Me, which, however, also requires profound humility and recognition of his own shortcomings, in which case the human being humbly turns to Me and appeals to Me for enlightenment of his thinking. Anyone who only lives his earthly life, who does not make an effort to put his inner life in order .... thus anyone who believes that he can fathom and justify everything with his human intellect is truly not called to judge a divine gift of grace, for both the process of transmission as well as the abundant flow of grace which flows to earth will be and remain incomprehensible to him, because the human being has lost all knowledge due to his former fall into the abyss and therefore it is still dark in him .... He first has to kindle a light within himself which brings about unselfish love, but then he also humbly recognizes his weakness of intellect and no longer enters the spiritual realms in order to fathom them by virtue of his intellect. And yet, many people arrogate to themselves a judgment who are not in the least qualified to do so .... And this is a sign of great spiritual arrogance .... And they will fall ever more into darkness until they turn to Me Myself and then can also be enlightened by Me if their desire for truth is serious. But then you will have to come to Me humbly, for I only grant My grace to the humble. And as soon as you are of arrogant spirit My adversary still controls you, who is full of arrogance and also wants to transfer it to you. And many people are so convinced of the sharpness of their intellect that they don't want to accept any instructions, and these will also never be able to be introduced to the pure truth, because truth can only be part of a humble person, for it originates from Me and only ever touches the hearts of those who devote themselves to Me in deepest love and humility .... But anyone who is arrogant also lacks love, for he is still completely in bondage to the one who is without love but who places himself above everything and who also does not want to acknowledge Me as his lord. Therefore beware of spiritual arrogance, after all, it makes you completely blind in spirit, and then you will never be able to receive and grasp My gifts of grace, for they will only be confused thoughts for you and not emit any light, because this is prevented by the adversary who wants to keep you in deepest darkness so as not to lose you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The value of a "living" faith ....

B.D. 8209 from July 8th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

You will also be told time and again that you can only gain a living faith through love .... For love unites you with Me, Who is love Myself, and then your faith in Me must also be alive because you feel My presence, thus it is conviction for you what you should 'believe' .... for believing means believing something to be true for which you lack the evidence .... But then you will no longer need evidence, for the feeling of My presence is the strongest evidence of Myself, and then you will also know that I work with you or that you can work with Me, that everything is possible for you because it is I Myself Who now carries out what you ask for or what you want to do yourselves in strong faith in Me and My strength .... I Myself am love, and you must unite yourselves intimately with this love, which you will always do when you carry out works of love, when you only ever seek to show unselfish love to your neighbour, when you help where help is needed, when you assist your neighbour earthly and spiritually .... when you take care of his earthly and spiritual needs and thus serve him with love .... The blessing of such works of love flows back to you a thousand fold, and the feeling of a living faith is the most delicious thing you can gain through it, for then you will go through earthly life completely carefree, you will have intercourse with Me again as with your father at every hour, and there are no doubts or unsolvable problems for you, for in this living faith you leave everything to Me, your father of eternity, Who is constantly present in you and you can never feel abandoned because you know yourselves to be safe in Me .... And you will understand how extremely important it is that you practise love .... that you perform deeds of love which give you strength for your way of life, that it constantly takes place in love and thereby you establish an ever closer bond with Me, your God and father of eternity .... Who created you out of His love. Anyone who has gained a living faith will now also safely walk the path of ascent, for since he knows that I Myself am present to him he will only walk in My company, Who will truly also lead him to the goal .... He can now also say with conviction: "I not only believe but I know that God is close to me ...." For living faith will no longer allow any doubt, living faith will also no longer allow any weakness, for it is strength itself, because it cannot be thought of without love and love is the strength which now flows through him and enables him to do everything he wants out of his love .... And therefore he will also be able to accomplish every work of love if it benefits his fellow human being; he will also be able to heal the sick, for the love within him and firm faith give him the strength to do so, because the knowledge is now also within him when and whether an unusual activity on his neighbour is also a blessing .... Just try to gain living faith, which therefore requires loving activity, and you will truly do justice to your earthly task. You will mature in your soul, you will have Me Myself as your constant companion, for you unite with Me through love, and everything you do now you accomplish with Me .... And your earthly life will truly bring you perfection, for you should only shape yourselves into love, then you will also accomplish your soul's transformation, you will return to your original state again, and then you will be blissfully happy again and remain eternally ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spiritual knowledge proves awakening and bond with God ....

B.D. 8210 from July 10th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

Once you, as a human being, know about your origin, about your starting point from Me and about your voluntary apostasy from Me with the subsequent fall into the abyss, your spirit will have come alive, for you can only receive and understand this knowledge if My eternal Father-Spirit conveys this knowledge to the spiritual spark in you .... thus the spirit in you must have been brought to life, and that presupposes a life of love according to My will .... It presupposes that you have complied with the inner urging by My spiritual spark, which is part of Me, and thus entered into My will, which requires you to live a life of love. The previous state of ignorance, which every human being finds himself in at the start of his earthly life, is evidence that a connection between this spiritual spark with Me, the Father-Spirit, has not yet taken place, that he is still completely detached from Me, that he is still in the isolation he placed himself in through his past apostasy from Me .... For the separation from Me also signifies complete lack of light, since My strength of love was no longer able to permeate the beings which grants them light and realisation. Not a glimmer of understanding remained in you when you deserted Me of your own accord, and in this utter darkness you enter this world as a human being, but you can gain realisation again, you can draw this knowledge, which is offered to you in every way by Me, your God and Father, from within yourselves when you live on earth .... Merely the bond of the spiritual spark with the eternal Father-Spirit must have been established, which then will also assure you the influx of light, that is, an unlimited measure of knowledge which will be imparted to you by the never-ending love as long as you fulfil the condition which I associated with it .... And a person who becomes enlightened, who increases his knowledge of the kingdom which is not of this world, can consider himself fortunate. For he has already started his ascent, because he will only ever receive light as a result of a life of love, which is the purpose and goal of earthly life because it leads the human soul to perfection.

A small amount of knowledge which corresponds to the truth is always a sign of divine union, because love unites the human being with Me and love, in turn, guarantees truthful knowledge .... This is why the human being should, from the start of his life, look for the association with Me through a life of love, then his will shall be directed correctly .... since he once directed it wrongly and therefore descended into darkness .... And a will that is directed correctly will always strive towards Me, but it must pay attention to the delicate voice, the expression of the spiritual spark in him, which tries to persuade him to live a way of life that is righteous before Me .... He will not be compelled to follow this spark's inner urging, for in the embodiment as a human being the soul receives its free will again which, however, would never be able to choose Me had I not provided him with the spiritual spark as a little helper, which tries to influence him from within to steer his will into the right direction and thereby advance in his higher development until he has reached his goal, the unification with Me .... which this very spiritual spark .... because it is a part of Me .... will constantly strive for. And as soon as the human being is granted just a little light, as soon as the truthful knowledge about his origin and his goal is presented to him, he will use his knowledge correctly; he will live his life accordingly, for he recognises the will of his eternal God and Creator Who wants to unite Himself as Father with His child again, Who wants to grant the original state to His living creation again, in which it was infinitely happy. But as long as the human being still lives in spiritual darkness his life on earth is at a standstill, for he neither recognises his beginning nor his end, he neither recognises the purpose and goal nor the reason for his earthly existence, and thus he does not direct his will correctly either, that is, according to My will. His ability to do so is simply ailing, because he lacks all knowledge and his will, kept down by My adversary, is extremely weak as well and only strength of love would be able to strengthen it, but this can only be gained by a person if he listens to My spirit in him which proclaims My will to him, which only ever expects loving activity from you so that you will ascend again. And thus, you should only try to attain knowledge about My will and live up to it, and truly, you will become enlightened, your strength will grow and you will also be able to resist My adversary. For then your spiritual spark will constantly strive towards the Father-Spirit of eternity, and it will also establish the union with Him and never want to let go again, because light and strength makes it immensely happy and the soul will inseparably unite itself with Me once more as it was in the beginning ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

"Many are called, few only chosen ...."

B.D. 8211 from July 11th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

Many are called but few are chosen .... Yet it is not an arbitrary act on My part that I only appoint and enable a few to work for Me and My kingdom, instead, this is determined by you humans yourselves, for you are all called to become true children of God, and as soon as you take this seriously you will also soon be chosen, for then the prerequisites will also be there which will cause Me to send you spiritual gifts in abundance .... Graces which you only need to utilize in order to attain childship to God, which is the purpose and goal of your earthly life .... You should therefore not believe that you are already predetermined from eternity whether you will reach the degree of maturity or not .... You should not believe that I give special attention to one or the other or that I bestow unusual gifts of grace upon him which enable him to shape himself according to My will .... The same gifts of grace are available to all of you humans but you yourselves have to evaluate them accordingly, and then I can choose you, I can already give you an office on earth which all people could administer but don't have the will for it and therefore don't fulfil the conditions which are a prerequisite for such an office. For it is a spiritual task which I give to those whom I choose .... it is a service for Me and My kingdom which does not earn the human being earthly goods but only concerns the redemption of erring souls .... an action for which I need people who shall fulfil this redeeming task on their fellow human beings. And since you are all to prove yourselves in serving love, you are also all called .... Yet only the one who proves himself is also chosen, for then he will also have the strength at his disposal which such a rescue action requires, because he gains the strength through his activity of love .... and because this activity of love now also unites the human being with Me, so that the spiritual spark resting in him, My share, now awakens and impels the human being into the activity he is to carry out in My service, and because he is then .... as instructed by My spirit .... will also work, want and think entirely in My will and he is now a suitable servant for Me, a chosen one who now administers his ministry for the blessing of his fellow human beings, who is in contact with Me and with his fellow human beings at the same time and can therefore also transfer My will to them. For it is necessary that people know of My will, and anyone who places himself at My disposal as a mediator of his own free will and who wants to be active in redemption will be accepted by Me, and I will fill him with grace and strength, I will give him light so that he will carry the light out into the world .... For he has followed My call and I was therefore able to choose him and include him in the flock of My own who are eagerly active for Me and My kingdom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Unity of ecclesiastical denominations? ....

B.D. 8212 from July 12th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

There is no chance that the ecclesiastical denominations will agree with each other because they hold on to their spoiled teachings and do not try to distance themselves from them .... They all concentrate on external practices, they represent a Christianity which does not correspond to what Jesus describes as the church founded by Him .... Because this church is a spiritual union, its members exemplify a living Christianity which transforms a person from within, it cannot be compared with the Christianity advocated by the churches .... which mainly follow external customs, have adopted countless practices and ceremonies and thus attach more importance to those while neglecting the inner change of the human being's nature into love .... As a result it can never achieve the right relationship with God, the spiritual rebirth, which, however, is the essence of the church founded on earth by Jesus Himself. None of the denominations will relinquish their traditions, not one of them will, for the sake of another, renounce anything even though it is a mere human product and has no value before God.

The denominations' argument concerns those differences which were created by them in the course of time, but no thought is given to the actual misguided spiritual knowledge which had caused the confusion in the first place and which is eagerly defended as the original religion. This, however, can only be found in the truth taught by Jesus Himself on earth which has also been distorted by now and is no longer supported by any of the existing denominations, nor can it be supported because it needs the working of the spirit, which can only be attained by fulfilling the divine commandments of love. And particularly this commandment is in fact taught but observed least of all, because all later added man-made commandments are paid more attention, although they are of no value since they did not originate from God but are merely human work .... thus they cannot last and have no influence on the further development of the human soul which has to mature here on earth. The divine Word of Jesus on earth which gave mankind the full truth has been interpreted so incorrectly that these interpretations have resulted in many wrong customs.

Here God's adversary has played his part by confusing the spirit of men, which became noticeable in the demands of these various denominations, which always separated when people argued over the spiritual meaning of Jesus' Words. And each denomination supported such controversial issues according to the degree of their understanding or the spiritual state of those who believed themselves to have a calling but who did not belong to the church of Christ themselves, or their spirit would have been enlightened and they would have dissociated themselves from the existing creeds or schools of thought. Some eager representatives whose maturity of soul was already further advanced certainly did fight for the knowledge they had gained. But they could never prevail because their opponents were not willing to relinquish a structure which only consisted of misguided human practices, which never correspond to divine will because they did not concur with the pure truth ....

And even if the denominations intend to unify, they will still not give up these human institutions and endeavour to build the true church of Christ which expects of people an inner life in accordance with divine will not reliant upon any external practices, but solely upon a life of love. This will establish a connection with God and result in living faith as well as a full understanding of the pure truth which is gained through the working of the spirit within the human being and which is the sole characteristic of the church which Jesus Christ established on earth. And as long as people do not abandon the formalities through which they deter many people's faith altogether, as long as they do not want to experience the inner awakening themselves, which results in the working of the spirit and enlightenment of thought, it will be a pointless beginning to achieve an agreement, for then they will not agree in truth but hold on to the misguided spiritual knowledge which, however, will be of no benefit for their souls ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

"I pour out My Spirit ...."

B.D. 8213 from July 13th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

"I pour out My Spirit on all flesh, and servants and maids shall prophesy and young men shall have bright dreams ...." This promise came forth from Me and applies especially to this last time when the darkness is so deep, when humanity walks along that it needs light from above, and I will use every willing and suitable vessel to let My flow of spirit flow into it so that My ray of light of love finds entrance into people's hearts. And these people hear My word within themselves which they can now also pass on to their fellow human beings. My address is clear and understandable, it needs no explanation and is also recognized by the recipient as My word, as the voice of the father Who speaks to His child. But it is erroneous to assume that I make it dependent on the recipient's intellect in which form My spirit expresses itself, for the flow of spirit emanates from Me and will now be recognizable by the fact that the spirit expresses profoundest wisdom and reveals deepest knowledge to the human being in such a way that it appeals to every person and is also recognizable as divine speech. For I want to address the human being (the souls) through the spirit which came forth from Me; but the human being's intellect also has to be able to deal with spiritual knowledge which shall be of divine origin .... But again, the 'form' of the transmission is less decisive but the content has to be evaluated, whether it gives the human being light, whether he thereby attains realization, whether he gains something which he had not possessed before .... And this is how spiritual conversations can be conducted .... if, during such conversations, a person speaks full of wisdom about Me and the spiritual kingdom, he can make everything understandable to his fellow human beings and lead them to a living faith .... thus this person is filled by My spirit, then he speaks on My behalf, he is used by Me as a vessel for My flow of spirit, and he is truly able to bestow many blessings, for he then serves Me as a mouthpiece through which I can convey the truth to earth, through which I can give light to fellow human beings who are only of good will. It is precisely during spiritual discussions that the greatest opportunity is offered to make Myself known through a human being, and then My word will also come true: “Do not worry about what you will say, for I will put the words into your mouth ...." But I will always speak to people as they are receptive themselves, i.e. it has to be understandable to all those who hear My speech through this vessel. My love will always emerge, My wisdom and might .... For it is love which allows Me to speak to you in the first place, because you are people in adversity, in spiritual darkness .... And time and again I tell you that I am a God of love, not a God of wrath who tries to persuade His creatures to be obedient to Him through threats .... Threats always prove a degree of unkindness, but I want to win My children through love and will therefore also only ever try to guide them onto the right path by addressing them lovingly, but I will not awaken fear in them through threats which would make their faith unfree and such faith is of no value to Me .... "My word" is a sign of My illumination of love .... If people don't want to receive My love, if they don't give up their resistance against Me despite My endless love which expresses itself time and again through My word, only then will I speak with a loud voice so that people will have to hear Me and they will no longer be able to close their ears .... Yet I am exceedingly long-suffering and patient, and I will also deal with My living creations in the most loving way .... Time and again I will try to explain My nature to them in order to win their love as well, and I will perform much unusual assistance in order to prove Myself and My love .... Yet I will not try to win them through threats, because no love can be won through coercion and every threat is also coercion, because then people will learn to fear Me and become unfree in their thinking and wanting. The end will come, the day of judgment will come with irrefutable certainty .... Yet I entice and call My children until the last hour, even though I have long since announced the judgment to them through My instruments .... For these announcements are again only intended to make them seriously remember Him from Whose power they came forth .... And I will also achieve more with words of love than with threats of any kind, for the father longs for the children's 'love' and they shall freely give this love to Me, only then will I have achieved My goal .... You can believe that I mercifully follow My living creations' life on earth and that I am not capable of harsh words in order not to push people away from Me even more. For My love knows about the fetters My adversary has put on them and I try to loosen them and therefore first try to gain their trust so that they will take refuge in My arms and let themselves be released from Me .... And only words of love are able to do this, but never threats of punishment or words of anger .... For I know about people's weakness in the last days, I know about My adversary's merciless activity and can therefore only ever oppose it with mercy wherever he resorts to cunning and shameful means in order to cause confusion. And My endless love will truly win the victory .... even if eternities still pass over it .... But I promise you all that one day the time of freedom will come for you, and I will help you to reach this goal as quickly as possible, but I leave you free will and only call out to you: 'Listen to My voice ...."

Amen

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"Working of the spirit" in spiritual exchange of ideas ....

B.D. 8214 from July 14th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

A light radiates from Me and this light will always prevent you from thinking wrongly if you desire to think correctly. When I Myself illuminate your spirit it means that you feel emotionally attracted or repelled when you should pass judgement yourselves on a body of thought which is presented to you as truth. You should only ever pay attention to your feelings, yet always in the will to be right and just, and now immerse yourselves in the thought material without prejudice, and you will feel whether it appeals to you or whether you oppose it with an inner resistance .... "I pour out My spirit on all flesh ...." This is My promise, which is also truly fulfilled .... Yet you often don't recognize the 'working of My spirit' because you always expect it to be an unusual process. And My spirit often expresses itself in secret, and I can only rarely reveal Myself through a person so that I can address people directly through him .... People usually believe that I Myself speak out of them, but then they would be in a mediumistic state, i.e. they would relinquish their own will and allow spiritual forces access which can now express themselves .... When I address a person through My spirit then his heart perceives My words as clear thoughts which he now, however, expresses in his usual way of speaking, that is, he writes them down or .... expresses his views during a spiritual exchange .... expresses his views which, however, are guided by My spirit and thus correspond to the truth, or else he hears the sounding word within himself .... which requires a very high degree of maturity of the soul .... so his thoughts are formed, he hears himself addressed inwardly and then also passes on this address to his fellow human beings. And precisely the knowledge of the latter can lead to erroneous assumptions when spiritual beings express themselves who are secluded from earth and seek to transfer their knowledge to people who have a certain inherent mediumistic ability .... which is why I repeatedly emphasize that people can indeed hear My voice within themselves but can never literally convey 'My voice' but can only pass on the content in its meaning by writing it down as it is comprehensible to them and thus take in My voice dictatorially or they are filled with the content of what I have conveyed to them, that they express themselves to fellow human beings and try to reproduce in their own way of speaking what they have heard, for which I put the words in their mouths .... thus direct their speech and their thinking according to truth. "I pour out My spirit upon all flesh, and servants and handmaidens shall prophesy ...." The working of My spirit is the result of a life of love, and therefore, where love is lived My spirit will awaken, and this spirit will now constantly correct a person's thinking, it will instruct the person from within and radiate My divine light of love to him .... And thus these are also spirit-filled and can rightly call themselves My servants and handmaidens, for they will always feel urged from within to testify for Me and My kingdom, to confess My name before the world, and to proclaim to their fellow human beings what God and father requires of His children, that He loves them and wants to make them blissfully happy ..... and wherever they speak, whether in a large or small circle, they will only speak pure truth, because I Myself can pour out My spirit into such vessels .... Thus you can regard every deeply believing, love-filled person as also being filled by My spirit, and his thoughts will always be rightly directed and turned towards Me, for Whom he now works in silence and can bestow many blessings .... And they (these people through My spirit) will also receive information through the spirit in Me about the coming event, because everything earthly is always connected with the spiritual maturing process, with people's spiritual state .... And My spirit will protect them from spreading untruth, yet their silent work will often not be recognized as work in the vineyard of the Lord ....

Amen

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Creation helps the dead being to live ....

B.D. 8215 from July 15th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

If you humans try to imagine My infinite love you will also understand that there cannot be eternal death for the beings which I created out of My love, which are likewise love in their primal element like I Myself. For love is strength, and what this strength once brought forth can no longer pass away, it remains eternally, regardless of whether it is close to Me or still far away .... It is imperishable and therefore must also one day emerge from the self-chosen state of death .... i.e. from the state where it itself has cancelled the effectiveness of the strength of love .... to life .... where it allows the effectiveness of the strength of love again and uses this strength according to My will. The being had once brought its activity to a standstill in free will .... The strength of love, therefore, which flowed through the being because it was a product of My love, was prevented from being effective, and this meant a standstill, an inability to carry out any activity .... It meant a state of powerlessness and also the loss of self-awareness for the being .... But I want it to return to the state of fullness of love and most blissful activity. And that is why I Myself have for the time being determined for every strength emanated from Me .... for every being .... a function which it had to fulfil .... because it was necessary, and thus I dissolved the hardened spiritual beings, which were thus in a state of death, lifelessness and inactivity, into innumerable spiritual particles .... I formed these into creations of the most diverse kind and assigned to each self the activity which it now carried out in the state of compulsion .... The strength once emanated by Me now became effective again, yet not consciously for the former being, for it was unredeemed and should first emerge from the state of death .... which also happened through the emergence of creation, and it began to live again .... For life is incessant activity. What you see in creation is alive, even if you cannot perceive its (a) life .... but nothing remains unchanged, it changes and is active in some way and thus slowly emerges from the state of death into the state of life again, where it becomes active according to My will .... But one day it shall also shape itself again into the being as which it originally came forth from Me, and therefore the course through the creations of earth will one day lead to the unification of all particles belonging to the original spirit .... And it comes to life as an I-conscious being .... as a soul .... a human outer form in which it is now consciously to acquire the last degree of reversion .... in which it is to use the flow of love-power that is now flowing towards it again, to become active again .... to serving love in unselfishness .... It must therefore now consciously accept My divine flow of love-power and let it become effective in free will .... And then it has overcome death and reached life .... It will be constantly active according to its own will, but which also corresponds to My will .... And every being will reach this state once, only the being itself determines the time of its distance from Me where it is dead and unhappy .... But everything is done by Me to shorten this time, so that the being enters its original state again and desires and strives for Me Myself and My radiance of love .... But nothing will eternally fall prey to death because everything is strength from Me which cannot remain ineffective, because this has been the law for eternity, only the being itself temporarily prevents the strength from being effective, because the being has free will as a member of a divine creature which, as soon as it is self-aware, will never be taken away from the being either ....

Amen

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The transformation of the original spirit into creations ....

B.D. 8216 from July 16th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

My Word shall bring you clarity, it shall answer questions and solve problems which you are unable to solve intellectually yourselves. You shall become knowledgeable if you desire to know, you shall be educated in all truth, for I want to give you light and illuminate your spirit, so that you do not continue to live in darkness and damage your soul, for I want to save it for all eternity. My immense love only ever wants your soul’s salvation because I long for your return, for unity with you, which requires the perfection of your soul. You once came forth from Me in all perfection, for I created you as My images, as utmost perfect beings, as miniatures of Myself and yet of the same quality, because your fundamental element was love since you came forth from the original source of Love, Which created vessels for Itself in order to emanate Itself into the vessels .... in order to let this strength of love continually flow into these created beings ....

These beings, My images, were pure love. They were My radiated strength of love which could indeed perceive and behold each other but they were unable to behold Me Myself from Whom they originated, because I was the original fullness of strength of love Myself which they could not see or they would have ceased to exist. For I had externalised them as tiniest sparks, as independent beings .... as I have already explained to you several times .... although, as a purely spiritual process it will never be quite understood by you humans on earth. But since these beings were independent entities endowed with free will and a lot of strength and light at their disposal due to the fact that they were constantly permeated by the flow of My love’s strength, I could not prevent them from misusing their free will such that they turned away from Me, that they .... when faced by their test of will to acknowledge Me as their God and Creator .... denied Me this acknowledgment ....

They turned to My first created being .... Lucifer .... who was visible to them and whose beauty stood out in brilliant radiance, and rejected the emanation of My love’s strength, which meant that they distanced themselves ever more from Me as the primary source of light and strength .... This process, too, has been explained to you humans time and again as far as I could make it understandable to you .... But now you should know that although My externalised living creations could indeed change themselves into the opposite .... they could not perish but continued to exist and will continue to exist for all eternity .... The beings’ fundamental substance was love, thus strength which, according to eternal law, has to be active .... it cannot remain inactive forever. Due to the ever increasing distance from Me as a result of rejecting My emanation of love, My created original beings’ spiritual substance became solid, and thus these beings became incapable of working and becoming active .... And so I dissolved the original spirits, I transformed the beings which were My once externalised emanated strength, and creation came into being, in which the strength could work again, thus become active in accordance with My will.

Consequently, you can rightly say that the whole of creation consists of original spirits transformed by My will, the same strength which I emanated in form of self-aware beings were now changed into other forms, into works of creation of every kind .... I then assigned a task to every work of creation, and thus the original spiritual substance, dissolved in particles, now passes through all creations and serves Me in the law of compulsion. The strength becomes active in relation to My will, because strength must become effective in line with fundamental law .... Always consider that the first created spiritual entities were My emanated strength, irrespective of whether they were dissolved or joined together again after an endless time .... the first created spirit will not cease to exist, but it will return to Me again one day without fail, but then it will be the same being again that had originated from Me .... On its path of return to Me it passed through all creations and finally enters the form of the human being .... as his soul .... the last brief stretch of the path when it has to achieve unity with Me again, when it has to consciously accept the emanation of My love again, because voluntary return to Me requires the original spirit to relinquish his resistance to the emanation of My love’s strength .... Then it will once again be the Godlike living creation, My image .... the fallen original spirit .... the perfectly created being, but now it will have achieved its perfection again entirely of its own free will, and therefore it will be able to unite with Me again and remain united with Me forever ....

Amen

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God's power of love must become active ....

B.D. 8217 from July 17th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

I will always be with those who want to serve Me in all sincerity, out of love for Me and their neighbour, and who therefore also want to live in truth in order to be able to render this service to Me: to pass on My word as bearers of truth which guarantees pure truth. Hence they can count on My support at all times, I want to bless them earthly and spiritually and protect them from all attacks by My adversary. Yet time and again he will take action against them and try to undermine the pure truth, and he will find access to people and present them with great error which, however, will not be recognized because the same strong desire for truth does not prevail everywhere, but this is a prerequisite in order to move within the pure truth. And this very battle of darkness against light is constantly waged, for as long as the adversary still has a right to people's souls because they have not yet completely handed themselves over to Me he will leave no stone unturned to extinguish the light from above and erect blinding lights in its place which will not fail to have an effect either. But the human being's own free will determines the strength with which the light from above shines and penetrates the heart .... For he must desire light himself, then it will also shine for him .... The original spirits which once fell away from Me chose darkness of their own free will, for they gave up all light, they resisted the influx of My divine light of love. And thus their spirit was darkened, they lost all realization. They stiffened and became incapable of any activity, they lost all mobility and completely hardened in their spiritual substance .... They were once emanated strength of love by Me which was capable of all accomplishments .... and now became impotent, dead beings which, completely hardened, became incapable of all activity and which I therefore reshaped into creations of all kinds, so that the strength now became effective in My will and the frozen spiritual substance slowly came to life again. For only activity is life and activity requires strength, and it is impossible to think of 'life' without the supply of strength .... Time and again I explain this to you in order to open up your understanding for the fact that the beings once emanated by Me and My love were, at the bottom of the ground, precisely the strength of love which was now to become active in My will, which had to become effective if the law of divine order was to be fulfilled .... Thus the everlasting influx of My strength of love enabled all My living creations to constantly work and create, because they were created in My image, which carried the same creative spirit and will within themselves and also found happiness in creative activity .... It was precisely the abundance of strength of love which constantly flowed through them which made them become arrogant and awakened the idea in them that they had this great strength at their disposal by themselves, that they did not need a source of strength but drew strength and light from themselves and were therefore completely independent of Me .... And thus they willingly detached themselves from Me and rejected every further supply of My divine strength of love .... They voluntarily severed their bond with Me and strove away from Me towards darkness, because they gave up the light and strength themselves and were now darkened in spirit, i.e. they lost all realization of their origin and their relationship with Me and also lost all abilities they had previously possessed when they were intimately united with Me through the constant irradiation of love on My part. Yet all these original spirits once stood in brightest light, they recognized Me even though I was not visible to them, and thus their fall into the abyss was not the result of a lack of light or strength but an act of spiritual arrogance which My adversary transferred to them when he became an open adversary to Me, when he himself deceived the beings into believing that he was their creator and father and that no higher being existed apart from him .... The beings, however, still had so much light left that they could have recognized Lucifer's lies and spirit, but they, too, wanted to be free and independent of Me and therefore they followed him into the abyss and fell into ever deeper darkness .... Yet it was their free will and I did not prevent them from falling away from Me, but My love was nevertheless directed towards them and looked for a path by which they should find their way back to Me again .... But in order to do so they first had to surrender to the power of their lord .... My now adversary .... because they were unable to defend themselves against him .... And therefore I let the creation come into being which was to bring about the process of the return of the spirit .... where (in which) I helped the deeply sunk up again to the height where (and) the adversary would no longer have any power over this spiritual .... But once this fallen spiritual being, which is now on the path of return, had to freely decide again for Me or for him .... And for this it had to have free will again and also a little helper .... (the divine spirit spark.) And this I added to it at the beginning of the embodiment in the human being, which now tries to influence the spiritual apostate being .... the soul .... to travel the earthly path in My will in order to once make the right decision .... And this is the meaning and purpose of earthly life as a human being, that the return to Me is accomplished in free will, that the human being is willing to accept My illumination of love, that he opens himself and thus accepts light and strength again and thus accomplishes his last transformation, that he completely shapes himself into love and then has accepted his original nature again, that he has become a spirit of light again, as which I have placed him in infinity, and can now create and shape in strength and light again and thus will also work next to Me in My will, which is also his will, because he has completely given himself to Me and united with Me for eternity ....

Amen

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God's love also works in legal order ....

B.D. 8218 from July 19th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

If My love alone were decisive you would truly all have been redeemed long ago .... Yet My love is also bound to My fundamental law of eternity insofar as its effectiveness presupposes voluntary acceptance .... that every resistance nullifies its effect until this resistance is abandoned, until the law of divine order is fulfilled again through voluntary devotion to Me and My illumination of love can now take place without measure and without limitation, which means return, i.e. union with Me .... i.e. redemption from all form .... I Am indeed supremely powerful and there is no limit for Me, neither of love nor of power .... However, I am also supremely perfect, and this means that I Myself will never step out of the law of eternal order .... that I work contrary to law, which, however, would mean a sudden redemption of My creatures. I can do anything I want .... but I will never want anything that contradicts Me Myself, that is, My highest perfection .... You can never apply human standards and expect Me to circumvent My law of eternity Myself, even if My love is exceedingly great and would like to flow through all of you, My living creations, in order to make you exceedingly blissful .... But bliss also includes fulfilling and fitting into My law of eternal order. And a being would never be completely blissful whose perfection would be questioned because it has not yet completely inserted itself into My law of eternity. For supreme beatitude requires the being's complete alignment with My fundamental nature, and this is only achieved when love has reached the degree that perfection can be spoken of .... because then the being can be close and closely united with Me for all eternity. And I cannot give this perfection to you .... the beings which once fell away from Me of their own free will .... .... precisely because you still reject it as long as your love has not yet reached that degree .... because you still persist in rejecting My strength of love .... which, in turn, cannot flow towards you against your will. Free will is the characteristic that you are of divine origin. Free will was the cause of your apostasy from Me, and free will has to strive for the change back to love again, the return to Me, and bring it about, but then the effect of My illumination of love can no longer be denied, then you will realize yourselves what strength lies in love and how you ascend higher and higher yourselves, because then your approach to Me as the eternal love will become ever more evident, for then I Myself will be able to work in you through love, and you will constantly increase in light and strength, your being will increasingly return to its original state, it will become again what it was in the beginning when it was emanated by Me in supreme perfection and therefore was also exceedingly blissful .... But then it will have reached its perfection in free will, and you will only realize what this means when you dwell in the kingdom of blissful spirits again, and only then will you understand My infinite love which followed you into the abyss and lifted you up and constantly helped you to reach your final goal: complete unification with Me .... an eternal life in bliss ....

Amen

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'Judging' the souls at the end ....

B.D. 8219 from July 21st 1962, taken from Book No. 86

The hour of reckoning will come, the hour when every person will have to justify himself before his Judge .... For order will have to be restored again sooner or later and everyone who has transgressed this eternal order will have to be answerable .... The sentence will be passed in accordance with justice .... Every soul will experience the fate it has prepared for itself; the spiritual essence, which has taken the path through the creations, will be moved to where it belongs in relation to its degree of maturity .... the old creation will be dissolved, i.e. all forms will be reshaped into different kinds of works of creation, and the unredeemed spiritual substance will be placed into these forms either to re-start or to continue the path of salvation, depending on its degree of maturity. At present you humans still do as you want and please, and you are not prevented from doing so, irrespective of how God-opposing your actions are .... But the end will come soon, and you will no longer be able to do as you want, because the time will have passed when you were able to work for your soul's salvation. For you will not have used the time in accordance with God's will but strengthened your soul's cover even more and thereby will have prepared your own fate by becoming increasingly enslaved by matter, and thus you will become matter again yourselves, which you had already long overcome. Yet the law of eternal order will have to be fulfilled again one day. Every spiritual essence, which lived on earth as a human being, will have to receive new forms, since higher development has to continue where it was interrupted .... And the spiritual essence which had failed in its embodiment as a human being has to be given a new opportunity to integrate itself in the process of return .... This could indeed be called an extremely harsh judgement but it only ever corresponds to the human being's own free will, which he had misused on earth .... with the result that his soul will gain banishment into matter, it will be dissolved again and will have to take the infinitely long path through the creations until it once again enters the stage of a human being ....

One day it will achieve the final goal and leave every external shape behind, but it extends or shortens its own time until it can finally enter the kingdom of light in a redeemed state. And although God is inconceivably merciful and patient and in His love constantly tries to encourage people to make the right decision of will .... one day the time will come to an end and then His righteousness will come to the fore, and He will re-establish the old order which, however, will also signify a 'judgement of the soul' .... a transfer into the external form which corresponds to its state of maturity .... And, at the same time, this 'judgment' is the end of an earth- or salvation-period .... It will necessitate a destruction of all works of creation on earth which shelter unredeemed spiritual substance that travels along its process of development in a state of compulsion, as well as people who did not use their earthly existence to progress in their development. They, too, will be 'judged' .... that is, according to their spiritual maturity they will be placed into hard matter again .... You humans are now facing the end of this old earth, whether this seems credible to you or not .... Time and again your attention will be drawn to this fact in order to improve yourselves before the event and to enter the law of eternal order, which only requires a life of love, for love is a divine principle which you, too, as His living creations, will have to acquire if divine order is to be observed.

You are constantly admonished by seers and prophets, who proclaim this near end to you, to consider your real purpose of earthly life, so that the end will not catch you unawares and you will have to step before God's judgment seat laden with sin if you have done nothing to fully mature in the final form .... as a human being, even if you are not yet released from your original sin by having taken this guilt under the cross and prayed to Jesus Christ for redemption from it .... Only he can take all guilt from you, and then you can step before God's judgment seat free of guilt, and you will not have to fear the Last Judgment, then you will be able to exchange your stay on earth with the spiritual kingdom, which is your true home .... You will be able to enter the kingdom of the blissful spirits and neither have to fear the end of the old earth nor new banishment, for the eternal God is not a strict but a righteous Judge, Who will give to you all in accordance with your own will ....Amen

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Testing the spirits .... The adversary's activity during the last days ....

B.D. 8220 from July 22nd 1962, taken from Book No. 87

This much you should know, My adversary interferes wherever he can because it is the time of the end .... His activity can be detected wherever ambiguity reigns, wherever there is confusion and where disagreements arise amongst people, which are always triggered by the one who is your enemy and My opponent. And where you notice discord between people you will also know that he is active there in order to endanger your spiritual progress, for there is no light to illuminate the darkness either .... He will even try to plunge My Own into confusion, although they all want what is right and believe themselves to work according to My will. For once they are brightly enlightened by Me he will surely try to obscure the light or even extinguish it completely. And then you will need great strength and have to request it from Me in order to enable you to resist him if he puts you under pressure or tries to push you back into darkness .... But everyone has power over him if it is his heartfelt desire to belong to Me and through actions of love allows Me to be present so that I Myself can protect him from My adversary. You can recognise how he tries to assert himself by the fact that he chooses human vessels for himself to influence them accordingly and to misuse My name in order to credibly portray his disgraceful intentions as 'My working' .... And this will particularly distinctly manifest itself during the time of the end. Although I announced that I will pour out My spirit over all flesh .... he will specifically make use of this promise by arrogantly daring to spread falsehood amongst people under the cover of 'divine' activity. And people thoughtlessly accept everything, yet their heartfelt bond with Me will always enable them to recognise whether it is Mine or My adversary's work. For they will feel an inner objection to all that which is not 'the working of My spirit'. But you humans should also be careful and not thoughtlessly accept everything as truth, for he disguises himself well, because he will use all means in order to regain the souls he has lost, which had already granted Me their will and which I will therefore not let fall .... I must clarify this to you, after all, you humans accept much as coming from Me which, in fact, comes from My adversary, but I will always grant you enlightenment too and guide your thoughts correctly if you seriously want this ....

However, you must also always make an effort to recognise that which is right, since through your desire for the pure truth you also entitle Me to impart it to you. 'I shall pour out My spirit upon all flesh, and servants and handmaidens shall prophesy ....' This is the promise I gave you and therefore it must come true .... And it will indeed come true .... Nevertheless, you humans have to make the test yourselves .... After all, you will have to admit that much has already been presented to you as 'coming from Me' which you recognised as being wrong and misleading. You will have to admit that the lying spirit has often been caught out and that these vessels nevertheless look upon themselves as My servants and handmaidens .... Consider how many contradictions have been identified and how the pure truth was thereby endangered by them time and again .... And if you want to accept everything that is offered to you especially during these last days as 'the outpouring of spirit upon servants and handmaidens' .... your thinking would become very confused and one could hardly speak of a 'light from above' .... You should examine everything seriously and appeal to My spirit for it. And if you genuinely want to know the truth then you will truly recognise where My adversary is at work. For the fact that My adversary avails himself of My name is no guarantee that you receive the truth; he has great power at the end and uses cunning and trickery to fight against the pure truth; he wants to extinguish the light from above or obscure it and will always find a weakness in a person where he can slip in if the person has not yet entirely discarded the hereditary evil, if he still harbours a small spark of arrogance in his soul .... if the person would still like to be important and present himself as a vessel for My spirit which, however, he can only become when profound humility fills his heart .... For I only bestow My grace upon the humble. And I work in seclusion, but people who are in contact with one of My chosen vessels recognise Me in every Word spoken by this person to his fellow human beings .... I Myself will place the Words into the mouth of those who speak on behalf of Me and My name and who serve Me in the last days, whom I consider to be suitable to be of service to Me as servants and handmaidens according to My will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Limitation of knowledge ....

B.D. 8221 from July 23rd 1962, taken from Book No. 87

The knowledge you can receive from Me is inexhaustible, yet your soul must have reached a certain degree of maturity so that you are receptive to it, so that you can accept it and also understand it .... Spiritual realms can be opened up to you which would make you unspeakably happy but which require a certain degree of realization and therefore your degree of love has to be very high in order to grasp the depth and wisdom of My work and activity. For your earthly life, however, knowledge is already sufficient which proves to you the love, wisdom and power of a God and creator and which explains your relationship to this God and creator, for then it is also possible for you to live your earthly life consciously, conscious of your responsibility and conscious of your task .... Yet you can constantly increase your knowledge, for no limits are set for you by Me, you only have to let the light of love in you become a bright flame yourselves, and to the same extent your inner enlightenment will also grow, for only your degree of love determines your knowledge and the degree of your realization. Thus you yourselves set limits for Me if My spiritual spark in you can only shine in a certain strength .... if its working in you is limited by your still deficient degree of love and maturity .... But you yourselves can also transcend every limit of your knowledge and attain the deepest realization if you let the love within you grow into the brightest glow .... Then I will distribute spiritual goods to you without measure, I will guide you into truth and everything will be well understandable to you, you will also be allowed to receive and pass on profound truths, but the sphere in which both the recipient as well as the person to whom such spiritual knowledge is imparted must always be filled with love, because only a purified sphere can receive My ray of light of love .... because love itself can only express itself to love. The wisdom from Me is unlimited .... And the degree of perfection determines the limits which therefore the human being sets for himself as long as he is not yet filled with love .... I give you humans much when I impart knowledge to you about your purpose of existence and your task and when I initiate you into all correlations and your relationship with your God and creator .... But you could still experience far more and feel endless happiness .... But I work according to the law of eternal order, and I keep to the limits which the will of man himself has drawn .... But I am also always willing to increase My gifts of grace if you humans tear down the limits yourselves, if you develop love within yourselves such that the light within you becomes ever stronger and you then also become receptive to deeper knowledge, because then you will also be able to understand everything for which an increased light of love has to shine within you. But whatever comes to you through the working of My spirit will always pull you out of the darkness of spirit .... You can possess earthly goods in abundance and yet it can be dark around you as long as you don't have love within you, which is the light that signifies an unheard-of grace for every human being, because he is not yet perfect on earth and therefore also does not have clarity within himself, his origin and his goal .... But I give you a light because I don't want you to perish in darkness and because I want to show you the right path which leads out of darkness into light .... Yet this knowledge can only be given to you in a limited way, but you can receive profound knowledge in all truth at any time if your free will strives for it .... And truly, you will feel overwhelming happiness if you seriously strive for perfection and thereby also give Me the opportunity to introduce you ever deeper into truth, to help you gain knowledge which then can never be taken away from you, which is and remains your spiritual wealth and which you now also take over into eternity, into the kingdom which is your true home .... the kingdom where there is light and freedom and bliss ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Jesus has satisfied God's justice ....

B.D. 8222 from July 24th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

Your separation from Me would have lasted forever had I not accomplished the act of Salvation for you by taking your guilt upon Myself and redeeming it through the sacrifice on the cross, which I accomplished through the man Jesus on earth .... An unbridgeable gulf existed between the kingdom of light and that of darkness .... You would never have been able to overcome this gulf yourselves, My kingdom was closed to you forever because My justice would have been unable to accept you, who had become sinful as a result of your apostasy, until the immense sin had been atoned for. This sacrifice of atonement was rendered by Jesus, the human being, in Whom I Myself took abode, because His untainted human shell allowed for it, for I would never have been able to embody Myself in a sinful person .... Thus a soul of light had to descend to earth voluntarily in order to make

Amends for its fallen brothers for the sake of My justice, which could not be bypassed according to the law of eternity .... I Am a perfect Being, Which is indeed Love in Itself, but without justice I cannot possibly be called a supremely perfect Being. And Jesus, the human being, satisfied this justice through the sacrifice on the cross, which was offered by a soul of light with the intention of returning the fallen living creations back to Me, in order to build a bridge from the realm of darkness into the kingdom of light. However, I Myself dwelled in the man Jesus, for Love accomplished the act of Salvation, Which utterly permeated the man Jesus and also gave Him the strength to take the most severe suffering and pain upon Himself, to walk the path to the cross with all of humanity's guilt of sin and to lay down His life for this guilt .... Had this Love not been present in Him, He truly would have been unable to make such a sacrifice .... And I Myself was this Love ....

I took abode in Jesus' shell, I .... the greatest Spirit of eternity .... manifested Myself in Him, I pervaded Him with My fundamental nature of love; My love utterly permeated Him, the human shell merely curtailed the working of My strength of love when He took the final path to the cross, where Jesus, the man, suffered incredibly and died the most bitter death on the cross in order to atone for the sin of the once fallen beings .... I dwelled in Him and He voluntarily accomplished the act of deifying His soul, which is the final goal of all My created beings .... He had totally merged with Me, He was I and I was Him .... I had become a human being, He had become God, for He was totally permeated by My love, and love is My fundamental substance .... Jesus' crucifixion absolved the great guilt and opened up the path for you humans into the kingdom of light .... However, you are not instantly redeemed, because your free will caused your apostasy from Me and thus free will must also be willing to return to Me; you must become aware of your past guilt and appeal to Me in Jesus for forgiveness, or you will remain burdened by your guilt and your entry into the kingdom of light will be denied to you. Time and again you humans are informed of Jesus Christ and His act of Salvation and the spiritual mission of Jesus, the man, is explained and substantiated to you. Even so, you must believe it, for you cannot be given any evidence apart from the fact that you .... once you have found redemption through Jesus Christ .... will gain complete understanding of it yourselves, because, as a result of the redemption through Jesus Christ, the working of My spirit will not be prevented, which will subsequently guide you into all truth, and this is the certain proof that you have been redeemed from your original sin .... But first you must take the path to the cross of your own free will, you must be willing to do so and want to belong to the circle of those who were redeemed through Jesus' blood .... and then you will truly accept and make use of the blessings of the act of Salvation. Then you will be on the path of return to Me, you will have stepped onto the bridge which Jesus built for you so that you can find admittance into the kingdom of light and bliss, and whose gate was opened for you through the act of Salvation by Jesus .... within Whom I Myself dwelled and became a visible God for you so that one day you would be able to behold Me face to face ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's infinite Fatherly love ....

B.D. 8223 from July 25th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

I want you to establish a relationship with Me like a child with its Father, showing Me love and trust and always being certain that I will help you and never doubting My love. By merely gaining firm faith in My love you will always come to Me like children to the Father, presenting all your difficulties and worries to Me and appealing for My help .... And I will help you .... For I also want to gain your love, because then you will strive towards Me again, Whom you once left of your own free will. Hence you should not let any adversity get you down, instead, present it to Me, your Father of eternity, with complete trust and, truly, you will receive the Father's help, since My love for you is far more profound than any earthly father's love. But precisely the realisation of My infinitely deep love is lacking in you, and thus you doubt and hesitate .... Nevertheless, you once emerged from My love and should firmly believe that you will remain connected to Me for all eternity .... Even if your free will strove away from Me a long time ago, it was unable to sever the bond, otherwise you would have ceased to exist. But that which was once created by Me is everlasting, although temporarily separated from Me of its own will. And it is precisely this free will that you should give to Me by coming to Me with every request and thus entering into the right relationship again which existed between Me and you in the very beginning and which made you indescribably happy. Whenever you think of Me you should always be certain that My love will instantly give itself to you, that I will illuminate you, which you enable Me to do on account of your thoughts being inclined towards Me .... Then you should become convinced of the fact that I Am only interested in your well-being, that I want to shower you with spiritual and physical gifts of grace and only ever require your open hearts .... your inclination towards Me .... which allows Me to take effect in you. My love for you is unlimited and will never end, and therefore I also yearn for you, My living creations, to return to Me as 'children' .... to learn to recognise Me, your Father of eternity, during your earthly progress. And I really make every effort to provide you with a true impression of Me, of My Being and My love for you, so that you can also love this Being with all your heart and with every sense .... I yearned for this love ever since you fell away from Me, yet I will remain patient until you grant Me this love voluntarily .... Yet once you recognise Me correctly, you will not find it difficult to love Me .... If, however, you are taught wrongly, if I Am portrayed to you incorrectly so that you cannot see a God of love but only a vengeful and wrathful God in Me, you will never learn to love Me as your Father .... Therefore you must first be informed of the pure truth, you must be instructed truthfully by your God and Creator, Whose love is infinite and Who is your Father and also wants to be acknowledged by you as Father .... 'Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest ....' Such Words can only be spoken by the One Who loves you and only ever wants what is best for you .... your Father of eternity, Who calls His children to Himself in order to help them in every spiritual and earthly adversity .... And you will experience the proof of My Fatherly love time and again, if you feel like My children and trustingly take the path to the Father .... For every inclination towards Me gives Me the right to take effect in you, otherwise My adversary will push you away from Me and still assert his influence over you, which I cannot deny him as long as you do not defend yourselves against him by calling upon Me, your Father of eternity, thereby giving Me the right to protect you, My children, from him .... My love for you is boundless, and you can always request it, My help is always assured to you when you suffer adversity. And as soon as you are convinced that My love belongs to you, you will also feel like My children and will voluntarily return to Me into your Father's house from which you once originated ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The souls' agonising fate in the beyond ....

B.D. 8224 from July 26th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

Anyone who has devoted himself to the world must and will fear death, for the human being does not disappear when he dies yet the soul leaves him, which is unable to die and thus continues to exist in the spiritual kingdom in a state which corresponds to its earthly life. Only now will the soul be able to enter the true life, which lasts forever and is a state of blissfulness, for in complete freedom, in light and strength it will be able to create whatever it wants which, however, is also My will, because it shall have completely subordinated itself to My will .... Yet it is also possible that it will stay in the kingdom of the beyond in an agonising state, in darkness and helplessness but still conscious of itself. In that case one can indeed speak of death, but not of a state of complete disappearance .... And its agony precisely consists of the fact that it knows with how much abundance of strength it had lived on earth, and now it is helpless and incapable of any activity .... The fact that it remains conscious of itself is the very reason for its increased torment but it can also help the soul to emerge from this state of death, by listening to the helpers by whom it is approached in the spiritual kingdom and following their instruction, which will result in a slight improvement for the soul.

Yet it is extremely difficult to encourage the souls to take care of other wretched souls, because they are only ever occupied with themselves, just like on earth they lack love and their selfishness is still predominant. Yet only love will enable the soul's progress in the beyond .... It has to receive loving intercession which it experiences as strength, and then it will be possible that it will change its will. It has to awaken love within itself by also paying attention to its needy brothers in the beyond and willingly offering small gestures of assistance .... These will then also be felt by the soul as an influx of strength and shall stimulate its will to love, which alone is able to release the soul from its agonising situation.

If it enters the kingdom of the beyond in utter spiritual darkness it can take a very long time before it becomes aware of its wretched condition and yearns for improvement .... But as soon as the desire arises to change its state of death, as soon as it realises that it no longer lives on earth and yet has not ceased to exist, it will also reflect on its situation and try to get out of it. And only this will bring it into contact with helpers, beings of light which come along in disguise and try to explain that it can escape its situation if it has the will to do so .... Especially unbelieving, departed human beings from earth require much intercession from the human side which will enable them to muster the will in the beyond to improve their situation. For every prayer on behalf of these souls conveys a flow of strength to them and this strength will never be lost, providing the soul leaves people behind on earth who will remember it in intercession ....

Hence you humans are able to contribute to a large extent so that these souls, too, will overcome death, so that they will still awaken to life on the other side .... For as long as the soul is self-aware I will not abandon it, for then it will also be capable of changing its will, which need only be directed towards Jesus Christ and its redemption will be assured .... However, if it descends to a point when no spark of light will be able to reach it anymore, then it will continue to strive towards the abyss and harden again, and that also means disintegration and loss of self-awareness, it means renewed banishment into matter and the start of a new period of Salvation, because no being will be lost forever .... Because no being will remain dead forever, but one day for sure will return again to life everlasting.

Souls, which no longer have to go through this new banishment, will also be fought for in the kingdom of the beyond, and every person who lovingly remembers these souls is participating in the redemption work, and the souls will be eternally grateful to him for having led them from the night of death into the light of day .... For what once originated from Me as a being cannot cease to exist, but only when this creation is able to work in freedom, light and strength will it have come alive, and then it will never be able to go astray again ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Complete instruction ....

B.D. 8225 from July 27th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

Just always abide by My word which says: 'My spirit will guide you into all truth .... "As soon as you are willing to receive from Me yourselves, knowledge will be made accessible to you which you cannot describe as 'piecemeal' .... For although you will only ever receive wisdom which you are able to comprehend, which corresponds to your state of maturity, the knowledge you receive will nevertheless be a complete instruction which encompasses everything you need to know: a correct portrayal of My nature .... a reason for your existence on earth and the purpose of creation .... My plan of salvation of the return of the spiritual that once fell away from Me .... and the pure gospel, which contains the redemptive work of Jesus Christ, as well as the divine teaching of love, which is the epitome of that which is the human being's task on earth. Whoever is informed about all this cannot truly speak of a "piecework". His knowledge can certainly still be extended by much, he can certainly still penetrate deeper wisdoms, yet even this little can be regarded as completed knowledge, because it corresponds to the human being's still deficient state, his spiritual degree of maturity, which therefore would not be able to draw to the bottom of divine wisdom, for such knowledge is the epitome of the beatitude of supreme beings of light, and even then it still remains unlimited, for My love and wisdom knows no limit. But I have promised you that My spirit will introduce you to all truth .... And I will truly withhold nothing from you which serves you to mature your souls .... And you may also penetrate further and further yourselves if you shape yourselves such that ever brighter light can shine into you .... Yet even that which you have already received can be called light, for when My spirit is working it will only ever radiate light, yet the light can shine in different degrees, and thus knowledge can always deepen as a person's degree of maturity increases .... However, divine instruction can never be described as 'piecemeal' if I Myself want to guide people into truth through these instructions, for where I Myself am at work there must also be light, and the human being must be able to fill every gap in his knowledge, there will be nothing which could cause the human being to ascertain a gap in his knowledge, for he will receive enlightenment about everything he merely desires to know. Yet it is understandable that My love will never overspend itself, I will always want to and be able to make My children happy, and thus the measure of knowledge full of wisdom will also be able to increase indefinitely, because this is the bliss of the beings of light to constantly receive and be made happy by Me. Human knowledge, on the other hand, will always remain piecemeal, for the intellect is limited and whether it tries to penetrate spiritual knowledge or earthly knowledge .... it will always be limited, and it will always remain piecemeal as long as the spirit from Me does not switch off the intellect and can instruct the human being truthfully, so that an awakened spirit can also provide his fellow human beings with correct earthly enlightenment .... However, if I convey My word to earth in order to bring the truth to people, I will also choose the suitable vessels for Myself into which My spirit can flow, and then the knowledge will reach people which will give them the right explanation and also answer their every question .... I will also try to make people understand what they don't absolutely need for the maturing of their souls .... if they have an earnest desire for light to come to them .... And people very often ask questions which I then answer in the form of My gifts of grace from above .... that My word is then conveyed to them through which they receive proper enlightenment .... For divine wisdom is inexhaustible, My love is unfathomably deep, and I know about every question asked on earth and in the kingdom of the beyond and I will answer as soon as I only recognize the earnest will for truth, which only I can distribute but will always distribute according to the questioner's degree of spiritual maturity, so that My promise will be fulfilled: 'I will introduce you to all truth .... "

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The word inspires love activity ....

B.D. 8226 from July 28th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

I rejoice in every child which consciously strives towards me, which strives to attain its maturity on earth and which connects with Me again and again to be permeated by My love. Because it will soon have reached its goal and be connected with Me for eternity. Then it will look back on an endless long course of development, and it will not be able to understand why it resisted My illumination of love .... It will only always desire My love and also experience it in excess, because it now recognizes its long resistance as a great sin and offense against My love and always only says thank you to Me for My assistance, for its salvation from the depths, and it will be blissfully happy .... I know about your great bliss in the state of perfection, and I therefore only help man that he reaches that state of perfection which earns him this bliss. The conscious striving for Me proves to Me his will, which has turned to Me again, as it once turned away from Me ..... And this change of will is the right decision for the purpose of which man lives on earth and which determines his lot in eternity ..... The conscious bond with me, which also entails the recognition of the work of redemption and the call of Jesus for forgiveness of guilt, is at the same time the recognition of myself, and so the sin of the former apostasy from Me is cancelled, and nothing more stands in the way of their return to me. But that you establish the conscious bond with Me, that you long for your God and creator within you, for your father from eternity, this is what My adversary tries to prevent again and again in order not to lose you, and you must therefore .... if you still walk through earthly life in ignorance .... be pointed out to your enemy; you must be shown the danger you are constantly in as long as I cannot exercise My right over your souls, which, however, requires the conscious bond with Me. And that is why therefore you are again and again pointed to your earth life purpose through My word, and that is why you must hear My word, no matter in which way .... so that you learn about My will and about the goings-on of My opponent, who still controls you, until this voluntary return to Me has taken place. And every man will be blessed who spreads My word and who makes it his business to bring a light into the darkness in which mankind walks if a light from Me, My divine word, is not imparted to them. That is why it is of special importance that a man strives towards Me in free will and can now be used by Me as mediator through whom I can now speak to men and announce My will to them. The voluntary devotion to Me must precede, otherwise it is impossible that I can speak to you through a human mouth. Because this must happen in a way that fellowmen are not forced to believe in Me and My work, in My word ..... My word alone possesses the power to impress the listener that he follows the word, and he will then himself also recognize his outcome by the effect of My word and believe with conviction .... And the "word" is obeyed when My will is fulfilled, which is proclaimed to men through the word: when you lead a life in unselfish love and now therefore get to know the power of love, which again establishes the union with me, who am love Myself .... I only want to achieve the transformation of your being to love because then I will also have achieved everything .... because My goal alone is the return of you to Me and because this return presupposes a transformation of the being to love. Then you will also understand that I only ever preach My gospel of love to people when I address them Myself through My word .... that I only ever announce My will to them, which demands the fulfilment of My commandments of love .... and that you then also shape yourselves into My children, whose love for the father is now also the surest guarantee that the union already takes place on earth, for love alone is the bond which ties us together indissolubly .... love alone makes you divine beings again, who are now also blessed again without limit, as they were in the beginning ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Feeding the light from above ....

B.D. 8227 from July 29th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

Light shall become to him who desires light .... Therefore, when My messengers approach you with a light which is emanated from Me Myself, when they bring you My word, your desire for light, for the pure truth, is decisive as to whether you accept this word of Mine, whether you acknowledge it as having come forth from Me and whether you then also evaluate it. For it has to take effect on you as long as you don't resist it .... I know where there is still a desire for truth, for knowledge of that which is still hidden from people .... And I will always show My messengers the way to them, I will knock Myself so that they will open their doors and grant you entrance if you offer them a delicious gift. And you will also be received there with joy, for anyone who longs for light is delighted by every ray of light I Myself send to him .... And he will now also prepare himself, his heart, to receive Me Myself, the giver of truth, Whom he recognizes in the word which is brought to him and with Whom he will also want to unite himself in order to no longer lose My word .... the light from above. For this reason My messengers will never be allowed to be inactive, for they can still radiate much light into the darkness if they serve Me as bearers of light through which I can guide My ray of light of love to people whose hearts are still in darkness. But it will be understandable that these people have to accept the light of their own free will, for they are not forced to do so because they once freely chosed darkness. But I know whose will is willing to step out of darkness, and to these I seek to convey knowledge which signifies light for them .... I seek to lead them out of the state of spiritual darkness and to give them knowledge of Me and the connection with My living creations .... of My being, which is love, wisdom and power .... And through such knowledge I seek to move people to turn their will towards Me of their own free will, and then I can draw them and influence them with My grace that they voluntarily strive towards Me again as they once voluntarily strove away from Me. And I can only achieve everything by conveying My word, the pure truth from Me, because this alone is a bright light which enlightens people and can change their will. Only someone who wants to escape the darkness will welcome a ray of light which approaches him and shows him the way out of the darkness of night into the light of day .... But he will not long for a light in vain, for I know every person's will and thoughts and am truly always ready to meet them with a light which will make them happy and which will also give them the right purpose in life, for now .... that they learn to recognize Me Myself when they hear the father's voice .... they will also strive to make My will their own and live their lives in accordance with it. The closer it gets to the end the more humanity needs the light from above, because My adversary will do everything in his power to deepen the darkness, and he will also succeed where no serious striving for light takes place .... Anyone who desires and strives for light desires Me and strives for Me, and I will come to him and give him what he desires. He shall be informed of his earthly task, of his beginning and his goal .... For he starts his existence as a human being completely ignorant, but he shall acquire knowledge again and I Myself show him the way to it .... I encourage him to be lovingly active so that a light will be kindled in him which will also make all knowledge accessible to him which he once possessed but had voluntarily given away .... I do not withhold this knowledge from any of My living creations which live on earth as human beings, yet you must seriously desire it yourselves because I cannot give it to you against your will. For then you will confess that you yourselves live in darkness and try to escape from this darkness .... And then your desire will also be satisfied. I will send you My bearers of light and thus you will receive My word and I will be able to speak to you, thus My divine light of love will shine through you and you will never ever sink back into the darkness from which you sought to escape .... Then your thoughts and aspirations will be directed towards Me, Who am the light from eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Test the spirits ....

B.D. 8228 from July 30th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

You humans should believe that I will keep sending you the truthful information about Jesus Christ and His act of Salvation, for you have to recognise and acknowledge Him .... the divine Redeemer .... as Son of God and Redeemer of the world Who had sheltered Me within Himself. But the mission He had to fulfil on earth cannot be proven to you, yet I Myself will convey the correct information of Him to you through My spirit, and this in itself will be proof to you .... For what historically cannot be demonstrated to you, shall be taught to you by My spirit .... And thus you also know that it is I Myself Who reveals this to you .... that you can 'test the spirits' by all means, for as soon as you are given information about Jesus Christ and His act of Salvation you will know that it is the spirit of God, which can only impart the pure truth. You are entitled to scrutinise the origin of all spiritual knowledge, and I Myself have shown you the criterion, for no opposing spirit will ever proclaim that 'Jesus Christ has come in the flesh ....' And once you have got the proof that it is the activity of 'God's spirit' then you can also accept everything proclaimed by this spirit as truth.

My working within the human being, which expresses itself so distinctly as the transmission of My Word, cannot be interpreted or explained as personal intellectual thought, but it can be even less described as My adversary's activity, for then people only demonstrate that they themselves do not recognise the Father's voice, that they do not belong to My Own who completely hand themselves over to Me, but that they are intellectually still too active themselves or they would feel that they are addressed by Me, their Father of eternity .... For My transmission of the Word into a human heart .... be it directly or through My messengers .... will not fail to have the desired effect. It touches the heart as soon as it opens itself and is willing to be addressed by Me; and that necessitates that the person listens to Me impartially and thus is also willing to let himself be permeated by My spirit, by My light of love ....

However, if a person undertakes a purely intellectual examination of the spiritual knowledge he has received from Me, then he will hardly be able to recognise His Father's voice, for it will not touch his heart, and only this is capable of taking the test. You shall not blindly believe what you inwardly reject .... Yet when My revelations are conveyed to you then you will never have a feeling of resistance, providing you desire to be addressed by Me Myself .... rather, My Words will so touch you that you would not want to miss them anymore, and you will also be fully convinced of the truth, because you are now able to feel Me Myself .... The content of divine revelations will always consist of God's human manifestation in Jesus and the act of Salvation, and this shall always be the clearest evidence of the truth, for My adversary would never inform you of the fact that Jesus Christ sacrificed Himself on the cross on your behalf, in Whom I Myself accomplished the act of Salvation .... My adversary will never try to encourage you humans to believe in Jesus, he will never preach love to you, which likewise is the substance of My revelations, for only love unites you with Me and he will prevent everything that could establish this unification.

You have to know about his nature, which is pure hatred and wants to corrupt you .... And you will be able to recognise his activity by the fact that he will do everything to demean My divine revelations and to darken your spirit so as to prevent you from recognising Me .... However, you need only appeal to Me for illumination of your spirit, and truly, I will help you and change every ambiguity into brightest realisation, if only you seriously desire it. My adversary only ever seeks to cause confusion, but he will only be successful where the desire for the pure truth is not yet prevalent; but where it exists he has lost all power, for I Myself radiate the light which agreeably touches everyone who wants to be enlightened ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Communion .... food and drink ....

B.D. 8229 from July 31th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

I want you to hear Me, and so open the door of your heart to Me when I knock to take supper with you ..... For I want to offer you delicious nourishment for your souls, I want to give you My flesh and My blood to eat and drink, so that you will be strengthened and your souls will mature and become perfect. For they need nourishment which will help them to live forever, and only I Myself can give them this nourishment, because I alone know what they need in order to become blessed .... And thus you should gratefully receive My gifts which I Myself send to you directly or through My messengers .... But it is always the right food and the right drink when My word is offered to you .... Then you will take supper with Me, you will let yourselves be fed at the lord's table, and then My flow of grace can flow unstoppably and refresh you. Then you will draw from the spring from which the water of life flows and you will receive ever new strength for your pilgrimage on earth, which also repeatedly requires the attention of My strength. If I can now convey My word to you humans, which is My flesh and My blood, then you will also receive unusual strength from Me, and your soul will not cover the earthly path in vain, for it will receive the nourishment of the soul directly from Me, it will be permeated by a light from Me Myself and it will see the earthly path exactly in front of it which it has to travel in order to reach the goal .... For My word first brings you the knowledge of My commandments of love, the fulfilment of which is the right and only path to eternal beatitude .... My word will only ever proclaim love to you humans, admonish you to live a life of love and present to you both the effect of a life of love as well as the great shortcoming for your soul if you disregard My commandments of love .... if I desire entrance into your hearts, I will send My messengers ahead of you to inspire you to prepare your dwelling for the reception of the Lord whom they serve, Who wants to dwell in you to be present in you all the time .... And you will only prepare yourselves if you practise love, if you allow My presence in you through love, because a life of love alone also brings about the maturing of the soul and because I then speak to you Myself, thus I can hand out the nourishment for your soul directly, for your soul has to constantly take food and drink. And I always want to be its host, I invite it to come to My table and receive right food and right drink from Me. Anyone who constantly allows himself to be satisfied by Me will truly receive food which is inconceivably effective, which makes the sick soul healthy, which strengthens and refreshes the weak soul and which always gives strength to every soul which needs such .... And thus you shall receive it from Me Myself, you shall draw living water from the spring which I Myself have opened up, and truly, your soul will attain maturity, for what I Myself offer it is good and cannot remain without effect. And time and again I will send My messengers to you humans, time and again they will knock at your doors and desire admittance, they will inform you of their lord and invite you to His table of gifts, which will always be richly laid and hold everything ready for you which you need in order to mature while still on earth. For I know where sick and weary souls lie along the path, who cannot continue their pilgrimage path because it is not quite recognizable and because it requires strength since it leads upwards .... And thus My messengers will show you the way to the source which gives you refreshment and revitalization, and they will also bring you the invitation from Me that you should let yourselves be fed and watered by Me Myself, for I am truly the best host, after all, I have prepared for all My guests what is necessary for them, what they need in order to be able to continue their path invigorated, and they will also reach the right goal one day. Yet you should believe that your souls need nourishment, for they are still too weak and cannot remain without a healing medicine which signifies My word for them, which is bread and wine and serves to strengthen them .... And therefore I will time and again send out My messengers and call upon everyone to come to Me for the banquet or to let Me Myself into their hearts when I want to come to them to offer them delicious gifts. For without strength from Me you will not be able to cover the path to ascent, and then your earthly path will be in vain .... You will prolong the return to Me again for an infinitely long time during which you will be blissfully unhappy because you are separated from Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Eternal creator will of God ....

B.D. 8230 from August 1st 1962, taken from Book No. 87

Realize that My love is unlimited and that this love is constantly creatively active, that it is strength itself from which everything emerges. Every thought of Mine becomes a form, regardless of whether earthly or spiritual creations emerge .... This is why the process of creation will not stop either, because My love does not stop and nothing is impossible for My strength of love. The spiritual substance which still has to be redeemed, which once fell away from Me and still has to spend endless times in a completely hardened state before I let it become matter, which now starts the path of ascent development .... still requires creations on a scale you are unable to imagine; but irrevocably all fallen spiritual substances will once pass through creation, because otherwise a return to Me is not possible .... For it has to be considered that the apostasy also lasted eternal times and the return requires endless times again; and new creations are always necessary which are to receive the fallen spirits .... But I overlook everything, and My wisdom and love also recognize the possibility of success of such an endless course through creations of all kinds. My will to create is always stimulated anew because My love is immeasurably great and wants to externalize itself and therefore continuously radiates strength into infinity, which becomes active again according to the law of eternity .... I am from eternity and will be until all eternity .... My love will have no end and therefore also My creative will will be tirelessly active, because My love wants to express itself, and this happens through constant creating and enlivening of the created .... For the human being it is impossible to imagine this because he is still subject to the law of time and space and in his imperfect state he is also limited in his thinking .... But for Me there is no limitation, and for Me there is no time either, for Me a thousand years are like a day .... and even this designation is only to be understood figuratively, because I Myself am not subject to the law of time and space. But I want to give you information as far as you are receptive to it, and just as an infinitely wide sea contains countless drops of water and this comparison is already incomprehensible to you, so also My being, My working, My love, wisdom and might will remain eternally unfathomable to you .... And yet I am, and you can experience Me Myself in My love, wisdom and power .... you cannot deny Me, for My works in creation around you prove Me .... And again, I can only reveal Myself as far as you are able to grasp it yourselves. And no matter how much you think about it, your intellect will not be able to fathom Me, nor will it be able to comprehend My creation and activity .... Yet as soon as love unfolds in your heart your primal element will break through, and only then will you gain the right understanding for My reign and activity, even if you will never be able to fathom Me Myself and My being in all its depth. My strength of love will never be exhausted and therefore My creative will will also be tirelessly active, for My kingdom is a living world where everything is creatively active which emerged perfectly from My hand and remained in its perfection or, after an endless course through creation, returned to Me again as My child and therefore is also active in the same sense, in the same will, as the father, the great God of eternity, Who is unlimited and will also create and work unlimitedly for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Christ's Forerunner ....

B.D. 8231 from August 2nd 1962, taken from Book No. 87

My Own will recognise him, the voice in the wilderness, who will announce My appearance as I predicted .... For his light will radiate brightly and his speech will be powerful .... And he will not shy away from strongly criticising the authorities in his speeches, because I will send him to earth in order to fulfil his final mission by preaching about the end of this earth and announcing My coming on the day of Judgment .... Those who belong to Me will be strongly affected by the strength of his words, and they will realise that it won't be long before I Myself arrive in order to deliver them from their adversity. But before that you humans will time and again come to the wrong conclusion and assume to recognise him in many people .... However, I say to you 'You won't need to ask but will know that it is he whom I have sent ahead of Me ....' For when he appears My adversary will already be at work embodied in a ruler who proceeds against all spiritual aspirations, against faith, and through his accomplices will also badly pester My Own to desert Me and acknowledge him instead ....

Then you will be able to see the beginning of the battle of faith already and therefore receive incredible comfort through My forerunner, for then you will also know that the end is not far away .... For his mission on earth will not last long, just as the Antichrist will be easily recognisable, who will not be granted a long lifespan either .... The forerunner will come and reinforce your faith, he will testify to Me and announce My coming with such powerful words that My Own will draw strength from his words and thus endure until the end, for I Myself will help them in their distress which this last battle of faith entails .... The voice in the wilderness will not let himself be restrained and will quite openly condemn the people who treat My Own with hostility .... He will denounce their actions as detestable and always enjoy My protection when they attack him, until his hour also comes, for once again he will pay for his mission with his death, and that, too, shall not frighten you who are My Own, but only strengthen your belief that you know the truth, that you can expect everything to happen as I have told you through My spirit.

A period of time nears its completion which was given to you humans for your release from the form, yet I will help you until the last day to find the right faith in Me, and the 'forerunner', too, will be sent so as to strengthen your faith .... Anyone who wants to recognise him will recognise him .... Anyone who rejects his word is plainly My adversary's follower and will also reject Me. Yet the light from above which will shine so very brightly cannot be overlooked, his powerful word cannot be ignored, and his life and activity on earth during the last days will be so evidently recognisable as 'divine' activity, that everyone will be able to recognise him and no longer needs to question whether it is him. And My adversary will want to work in the same manner again by trying to cause confusion and suggest to his followers that he can be seen here and there, and thus it requires a close bond with Me in order to distinguish properly and to think correctly .... This is why I repeatedly let you know that he will only make his appearance when My adversary has also prepared the right external form for himself, in which he will then work to the horror of the believers, for he has great power at his disposal and will employ it to wage a relentless battle of faith ....

And then the one who is sent by Me will make his appearance, and he will publicly denounce the former and not be afraid of him, and thereby you will recognise him, for he will use the strength at his disposal in My name, he will also heal the sick and perform miracles and thus be even more fiercely attacked by the authorities who try to kill him and achieve his violent death .... Yet the light he distributes amongst My Own will give them extraordinary strength, and they will await My coming with confidence and wait until the end .... for they know that My Word fulfils itself and that everything will come to pass as I let it be proclaimed in Word and Scripture ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Love power current always leads back to God ....

B.D. 8232 from August 4th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

If I succeed in causing you to live a life of love through My word from above, then your return to Me in free will is also certain, and then the great gift of grace has been evaluated, for then My word has been put into action, and this means that you now also kindle a light within yourselves and become knowledgeable .... It is an unusual gift of grace which you receive, but your free will has to evaluate the gift of grace, only then will it be successful by you now fulfilling My will, and that means as much as that you integrate yourselves into the law of eternal order, that you live in love, which is the meaning and purpose of your earthly life. Love will now also irrevocably establish the bond with Me, and thus the illumination of love on My part, which you once rejected and therefore became sinful, will now also be made possible. But I can only win you back if you voluntarily open yourselves to My illumination of love, which means that you give Me your will, that your thoughts often dwell on Me, that you desire to be united with Me .... that you acknowledge Me as your God and creator and humbly submit yourselves to Me ..... Then you yourselves will also cancel the sin of your former apostasy, you will return to Me for the time being in your thoughts, with your will, until you then unite with Me through a conscious life of love, Who is the eternal love Himself .... (4.8.1962) For it is the law of eternity that every ray of love strength sent forth by Me has to return to Me again, for everything is spirit from My spirit which is eternally indissoluble and therefore nothing can be lost which once originated from Me. And thus My word is also an emanation of strength of love which becomes effective if it finds no resistance, and this effectiveness will always be expressed by the being illuminated by Me pushing towards Me again .... My word will have the effect that the addressed being .... the human being .... now shapes itself into love, that it cannot help but place itself completely under My will, thus also constantly giving love and therefore constantly receiving love .... And the flow of love flows back to Me again, and it now creates the being in union with Me and in My will and out of My strength .... My infinite love draws everything to itself which has become love again and therefore My goal is only to guide the strength which once distanced itself from Me back to Me again so that it can become fully effective, which is only ever possible in the union of those beings with Me, which requires a complete change into love. For love alone is the strength whose benefit brings indescribable bliss to the beings which can now work with Me in the spiritual kingdom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Conscious turning of the will towards God ....

B.D. 8233 from August 4th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

I give you what you need for your pilgrimage on this earth, so that you can cover it successfully and your soul can reach maturity. For I alone know what its nature is and what you need for its perfection. Nevertheless, your free will cannot be ignored, and thus it has to accept and make use of My grace. The fact that you humans possess free will is very often doubted because the human being himself is unable to shape his earthly life according to his will and therefore denies the freedom of will. And time and again it has to be explained to you that your will is not forcibly influenced, even if the possibility of execution is not present, yet you will always determine your will and thinking yourselves, and the innermost will and thinking cannot be prescribed to you from any side. And you must answer for this willing and thinking. And if this will is seriously directed towards Me and the attainment of your soul's maturity then you can also be certain that you will achieve it, and then you will also accept My gifts of grace and use them correctly, and your perfection will be assured. How your earthly life will turn out is certainly determined by My will, Who recognizes which situation in life will result in the greatest success for you. And I will always intervene in your earthly life according to your direction of will, in the realization that help must be brought to you if you are inclined to take the wrong path .... But there is a very certain way for you to safely ascend: if you completely subordinate your will to Mine, if you therefore acknowledge Me Myself as the power Which brought you into being and are willing to completely subordinate yourselves to this power, if you completely surrender your own free will to Me and then can no longer think and want differently than it is My will, and then your life's destiny will also move on a calmer course. But then you will also accept My gifts of grace and know that they will only be a blessing for you. You will want Me to feed and water you with the bread of heaven, with the water of life, for you desire the right food and the right drink because you still feel ill and weak as long as you don't receive the right nourishment for your soul from Me. And if your will no longer resists it you will let yourselves be illuminated by Me again as you once were, and a light will ignite in you, you will gain knowledge, your spiritual poverty will disappear, you will gather spiritual possessions and your soul will become strong and healthy, because the right physician will give it the right medicine and thus you will have to mature and fulfil the purpose on earth .... You receive My word and will now also become doers of My word and not just remain hearers .... you will endeavour to live a life of love according to My will, for My word announces My will to you, and as soon as you completely hand yourselves over to Me you also completely enter into My will .... You will again insert yourselves into My law of order, you make the principle of love your own, and you now accomplish the change of being .... you become what you were from the beginning and return to Me as My children in free will .... And thus your purpose of existence as a human being truly only consists of giving Me your will, of inwardly professing Me, of distancing yourselves from My adversary who also wants to gain your will for himself during your earthly existence .... But it is entirely up to you who you choose, he cannot force you and I will not force you .... you must choose for yourselves the lord to whom you want to belong .... Time and again I can only try to influence you through life situations or strokes of fate to take the path to the One from Whom you once originated, and I truly help you time and again to learn to think correctly, I send My messengers of light towards you who also try to influence your will without, however, forcing it .... Only the voluntary return to Me will earn you eternal life in eternity, and the purpose of your earthly existence is solely the turning of your will towards Me .... And therefore I will also reveal Myself to you humans time and again in the most diverse ways, for as soon as you recognize a God and creator above you Who called you into being, you will also give up your inner resistance which kept you separated from Me for an infinitely long time .... For then I will already be able to illuminate you with My strength of love so that you will now also recognize Me as father and come to Me like children, because you are inwardly urged to unite with Me in order to stay with Me forever, in order to live in bliss ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Right attitude in earth life ....

B.D. 8234 from August 6th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

How short is the duration of your existence on earth, and whether you also reach a great age, if you apply the standard to the endless long time of your pre-development, of the course through all earth creations .... from the deepest depth up to the human being .... But this short moment is decisive for your fate after the death of the body .... You humans should always bear in mind that the last course as a human being is extremely responsible, for you can complete an infinitely long course of development, but you can also have covered it in vain if you fail in earthly life and fall back into the abyss again. And yet, only the great responsibility can ever be presented to you, and you must now believe, even without evidence .... which, however, is also possible .... You only need to think and want what is right .... and truly, you will find help in every way, for I know about all your weaknesses, I know about your still deficient state in which you enter (begin)earthly life .... I long for My children who once voluntarily departed from Me, and therefore I Myself will do everything to promote your return to Me. But since this return has to take place of your own free will I can only inform you humans time and again of your earthly task and show you the path back to your father's house through My word .... You come into the world without any knowledge, and My greater than great love now wants to impart this knowledge to you. But you only have to believe that you have emerged from a power which is perfect, and you consciously have to strive for this power. For this reason this power also tries to present itself to you such that you try to gain access, that your will thus turns towards this power, and then you will already be saved, you will take the path to Me, for as soon as I possess your will I can also influence your earthly life such that you will long more and more for the One Who called you into life, and then you will also use the short time of earthly life in the right way .... For My divine spark of love, which I have given you, will constantly stimulate you into loving activity, and if you follow its inner urge then there can be no more relapse into the abyss for you, you will certainly reach your goal, the union with Me .... And entry into the kingdom of light is guaranteed when your soul leaves the earthly body. And then it will realize how short its earthly life has been compared to the infinitely long time before, when it had to work its way up from the deepest depth, even if it was unaware of its existence .... And yet, the time on earth is the strongest test of will, it is the most difficult task for the soul which is now no longer subject to the law of compulsion but has complete freedom from Me, and that is why it is so significant to right its free will during the time on earth, which the soul has to do of its own accord, for it can neither be forced by Me nor by My adversary but therefore also has to bear the responsibility. But it is never without assistance. Both the beings of light, to whom it is handed over for care, as well as I Myself leave no stone unturned in order to right the human being's thoughts and will without coercion .... Yet the human being can be mentally influenced by the world of light, and I Myself will appear time and again, I will reveal Myself to those who only desire light, who are of good will. And they will also soon recognize Me as their goal and strive towards Me, although My adversary will also try to influence their will .... but he will only win it if the human being still belongs to him completely, if his resistance against Me is still unbroken and he is then in utmost danger of sinking into the abyss again ..... Then he cannot be hindered because his will is free, and then even a longer life would be of no use. For a person of good will, however, the short lifetime is enough to bring him liberation from every form and he can now enter the kingdom of light and bliss carefree ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Did the human being evolve or was he a new creation? ....

B.D. 8235 from August 9th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

There can be no contradictions in the spiritual knowledge you receive from Me Myself, which My spirit has imparted to you who are of service to Me and who have the task to pass on the pure truth from Me to your fellow human beings, to spread My Word which should enlighten you. Because I want to shed light onto the spiritual darkness in which people live and especially when you desire an explanation yourselves:

It took an infinitely long time for the creation work 'earth' to become what it is now .... a creation which should enable people to achieve final perfection. And during this infinitely long time the original spirits, having been dissolved into the tiniest of particles, passed through countless works of creation in order to evolve ever more. The solidified spiritual substance gradually became alive, as you have been told several times already. It covered the infinitely long way in a state of compulsion, i.e. all creations fulfilled the purpose and task given to them by Me .... no constrained being could make its own decisions but gradually matured .... Forms were created for spiritual substances of all degrees of maturity aspiring to ascend; the forms of the mineral, plant and animal world were infinitely diverse, and they all were brought to life by the minute particles of the fallen original spirits, which progressively united and finally became smaller and larger living organisms. On leaving their forms they united again and finally were embodied into forms which already rather resembled the shape of a human being.

The whole lengthy course of development was subject to My law, in other words, all events in this creation which emerged through My will took place in accordance with natural law. As a result of their fall into the abyss the original spirits had lost their self-awareness. However, one day they should regain this self-awareness again and embody themselves in the last form as a human being, in order to then bring the path of higher development to a close. The final forms in the compulsive state therefore became increasingly more human-like but they had no self-awareness as yet, they acted instinctively in accordance with My will .... although they already performed functions which resembled those of a human being .... However, they were unable to think, they lacked reason and free will and were therefore not accountable. They were impelled into action by spiritual intelligences, just like every spiritual being still constrained within the form was subject to supervisors, who likewise transferred My will onto the constrained spiritual being through natural law. And then came the time when free will could be returned to the matured original spirits by which they then should be tested as to whether they wanted to return to Me or remain with My adversary .... And for those original spirits I created the form of the human being ....

All works of creation, especially the ever larger created living beings, originated through My will, in as much as My thoughts took shape .... And for this reason these living beings were represented in the most varied forms, yet every form was different .... There were the most diverse species bearing no resemblance to each other, which continued to reproduce themselves but always remained the same creatures .... When the first original spirits had attained a level of maturity which required the form of the human being, My will once again brought forth a work of creation which was truly a work of wonder in the whole of My creation .... This being was structured incredibly intricately; it was created in accordance with My will so that it could fulfil its earthly task .... a being which I 'created', but which did not 'evolve' from the already existing human-like creations .... Because it was intended for this form to shelter an original spirit, a being which was once externalised by Me in My image and which was to become what it used to be once again .... And therefore it had to be equipped with intelligence, free will and self-awareness, and these did not gradually evolve in the animal-like beings but they were given to the human form when the original spirit took possession of the first form .... and they will always be given to every human being as part of his soul when, as divine breath, it gives life to the human being at birth ....

Afterwards people indeed reproduced themselves again in accordance with My law of nature but they will always remain the same living creations as the first human being, Adam, was. They will not change into other living creations, but any change will always purely be an act of the soul which at first can still be disinclined towards Me and during its time as a human being achieve highest perfection .... The human body, however, will remain as I created it when Adam's soul took possession of it .... Although the act of creating earth with everything in, on and above it, with all dead and living creations, certainly required an infinitely long time, but at the same time a phase of higher development had come to an end for the fallen spiritual essence when the minute particles of an original spirit had gathered again and the last process of return to Me began ....

And this existence on earth as a human being also required a new work of creation by Me, a form which could do justice to all demands in order to take the last test of its own free will. And thus the human being can consider himself a special creation by Me, because he is the only being on earth with the gift of intelligence, reason and free will .... the marks of divine origin. He is therefore also able to recognise above himself a God and Creator Who gave him life, and therefore he can also achieve final perfection on this earth if his free will genuinely strives for it ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Was Adam the only human being created by God? ....

B.D. 8236 from August 10th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

But now the question will arise in you how the whole earth came to be populated with people .... This is a valid question, for there were many original spirits when the first original spirit Adam embodied himself, and all of these original spirits wanted to continue their course of development and engender themselves as souls in a human being because they knew that their final return to Me could only take place in this way .... And I also gave human covers to those original spirits who consciously wanted to take the path across earth .... I created a large number of human beings, for only one thought by Me sufficed and every fully matured original spirit received its external form, and each form was physically created such that procreation would take place in accordance with My will, in order to continually provide an opportunity for incarnation to the souls which were also gradually reaching their full maturity. But I restricted the regions of the first forefathers .... You should understand that I allocated the prepared land to the human beings ....

Yet the first people .... Adam and Eve .... had to take the test of will, and as a result of their fall the whole human race became weakened. The disobedience against My divine commandment had, due to My adverse spirit Lucifer, likewise arisen in those original spirits, and the hereditary sin .... which consisted of changing the pure, divine love into selfish love, was repeated in these human beings too, for My adversary tempted all people, and his enticement succeeded because people still had too little knowledge of him who wanted to cause them to fall again. And people spread across the entire earth, but Adam was and remained nevertheless the founder of the human race, and people were informed of the descendants of his house and the following generations were recorded until the birth of Jesus, Who descended to earth as a result of the inherited sin in order to redeem humanity ....

Since Adam, after Lucifer, had been the first fallen original spirit, he was also the first to be embodied as a human being, and if he had observed My easy commandment he very quickly would have shed his external form, and all other original spirits would soon have given up their resistance as well, they unconditionally would have given themselves to Me, and their return to Me would have been guaranteed .... Yet his disobedience was another opposition to Me, it was a repetition of the first sin of rebellion against Me .... However, owing to Adam's fall Lucifer had regained power, and he used it on each generation which, being as weak as Adam, did not resist and remained weak until Jesus arrived in order to help them.

You humans should know that I populated the whole earth because many of the fully matured original spirits desired their last embodiment on earth and because every one of these original spirits was entitled to undertake the final test of will within the human being .... There were a large number of them, and every one had many followers, original spirits which had followed him and time and again joined him again. And for all these I chose the living conditions which suited their various inclinations, and thus, having created its human external form, I placed every original spirit appropriately, consequently reproducing himself corresponding to My will and My natural law .... The procreation method was the same everywhere, which is why I always joined the original spirit with a second spirit ....

Thus the creative act of the first human being was repeated time and again in regions which were inaccessible for the individual human tribes, for My creation of the earth had been so comprehensive that the process of further development everywhere necessitated the original spirits to incarnate in the human being and for this I created the first prerequisites .... And only after a long period of time had passed did the various tribes make contact with each other .... Their spiritual development, however, had advanced entirely differently .... all depending on the degree of love within each person. But they all can be instructed by Me Myself when their resistance diminishes and My commandments are heeded again, and the human souls will come to full maturity, for the divine Redeemer Jesus Christ accomplished the act of Salvation for all human beings, and the knowledge of it can also be brought to all human beings through people or through the working of My spirit .... Nevertheless, Adam's direct descendants will accept this knowledge more easily and hence belong to the human generation which will find redemption while still on earth, so that the souls will be able to become free while still on earth if they accept Jesus Christ's act of Salvation Who, apart from the original sin, also took Adam's past sin upon Himself and thus purchased humanity's salvation from My adversary through His death on the cross ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Was Adam the only human being created by God? ....

B.D. 8237 from August 11th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

(Continuation of no. 8236)

You are most certainly working according to My will when you distribute the spiritual knowledge which is conveyed to you from above. For it is important to provide clarification to many more people who genuinely want to receive it .... Time and again I tell you that people have considerably diverted from the truth but that they hold on to their wrong thinking because even a correct clarification does not seem acceptable to them. However, it is the time of the end, and the length of time from the start of a period of Salvation until now is too long that evidence could be produced regarding the events which took place when the first human beings took possession of the earth. Yet even the first people themselves lacked a correct realisation, since they were burdened by the original sin, from which they could have liberated themselves had they passed their test of will .... They were spiritually still unenlightened and unaware of the correlations between the spiritual and the earthly kingdom, since due to Lucifer's temptation they changed their love when the pure spark of love from Me became clouded due to their fall into sin .... otherwise it would have been impossible for people to descend ever further until the human race, Adam's descendants, lost itself in unbelief, for the sin to get out of hand .... They didn't recognise the correlations and lived a purely earthly life. And although time and again beings of light embodied themselves on earth, too, in order to give people instructions and explain the purpose of existence to them their thinking nevertheless remained limited, and thus limited thinking was then also reproduced, the condition for profound wisdoms didn't exist .... which includes My reign and activity throughout the whole of Creation. But neither did people's limited thinking allow for such clarifications relating to the broad scope of Creation, which can be noted on earth alone and which My might and wisdom, My love for all created beings always and forever animated with the apostatised spirits, which were to accomplish their return to Me on this said work of creation called Earth. And according to their narrow field of vision they also only described the narrow region which they themselves occupied .... And an account was given of the earthly process of development since Adam and Eve, the ancestral parents which, however, does not mean that the same happened in other places on earth, since these were still so far apart for the first human beings and partly separated by large areas of water, that every territory was a world in itself where the once fallen spirits were able to mature and embody themselves in a human being.

However, every nation has a different idea about its origin, its emergence and its concept of God. And neither does it lack teachers which descend from above, so that people also perceive their earthly task to strive towards an as yet unknown Deity, to call upon it and to endeavour to live in a good and righteous way. And as soon as they develop divine love, unselfish neighbourly love, within themselves, their thinking will also come close to the truth .... Yet time and again it has to be emphasised that all nations endorse different schools of thought but that the knowledge about Jesus Christ and His act of Salvation has to be taken to every single nation so that their liberation from the body can still be completed on earth. And although the various schools of thought and religions do not match each other, the teaching of love in each one will nevertheless be the decisive factor, and maturity will be attained by the one who lives up to love, and the disposition for this is indeed inherent in every nation .... But people will intensify and deepen their contact with each other around the world and that also means that they can all be informed of Jesus Christ and His act of Salvation, so that He can be acknowledged and the dedication to Him can follow, which then will also lead to unity with Me, to the return to Me, and that release from the physical form will be guaranteed, so that the once fallen original spirit reaches its goal and returns home again into its Father's house to be blissfully happy, as it was in the beginning ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Ecclesiastical organisation ....

B.D. 8238 from August 12th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

There is still a lot I have to tell you since much error has yet to be eliminated if you humans want to live in truth. But My spirit can only work to a limited extent, to the extent which corresponds to your state of maturity. In order to absorb knowledge which is as yet entirely unfamiliar to you, the recipient's surrender to Me has to be so heartfelt that My spirit can flow into him unimpeded. You humans will ask why I allowed such considerable distortion of the truth which originated from Me to result in this great spiritual darkness of humanity. In reply to this I must repeat that man's free will resists any limitation if he belongs to My adversary whose will he fulfils on earth. Since it is My adversary's sole objective to prevent people on earth from recognising their God and Creator .... since he is only interested in extinguishing or darkening every light from Me, and since he has the same right to influence the human being's will, the truth will always be contaminated again. Because the adversary wants to distort My image, he wants to portray Me to people such that they shall not feel love for Me, and in order to achieve this he will use any means.

After I accomplished My act of Salvation on earth, My pure Gospel was spread across the world by My disciples ....

They had received the truth from Me in its purest form and passed it on equally as pure, since they were filled by My spirit. However, people's nature varied, their souls were still burdened by the original sin, and they were still a part of My adversary although he could not force them to surrender to him completely. But the hereditary evils .... arrogance and thirst for power, .... were still present in them to a substantial extent. And these were used by him to influence them and to sow the seeds of discord even among the followers of My teaching, of the pure Gospel. And a few people became particularly prominent and founded organisations of their own accord, promoted themselves to administrators and thus developed an establishment with many earthly and worldly interests. And thus My adversary, whose greatest objective was to undermine the truth of the Gospel, already played his part ....

Hence the light grew consistently dimmer and adverse influences established different teachings which were not recognised as misguided teachings, but were ardently defended as allegedly having been conveyed by Me to these administrators, who subsequently also demanded faith in them by the members of that organisation, which became extremely powerful in due course .... Every human being could and should have realised that an organisation with people who want to dominate could never have been built by Me because I taught 'service with love ....', whereas the adversary's action promotes thirst for power and hunger for dominance .... And every person can still form his own opinion today as to where these characteristics can still be clearly detected. However, he has free will ....

If I had used My power to destroy such organisations it would have interfered with the human being's free will, because the final maturing of the soul during earthly life has to be an act of complete free will if the person is to achieve perfection. My adversary has certainly erected a work of deception which has caused much harm to people's souls, but I gave the human being intellect and provided him with blessings in abundance .... I gave him the blessing of prayer and have come so close to people that they could call to Me in prayer. And if only they had prayed for receiving the truth and protection from error .... truly, their spirit would have become enlightened, and they would not have been deceived by lies and error .... Every person should think carefully, because it is for this reason he has intellect; if he fails to do so it is his own fault that he is far removed from the truth, that he has allowed himself to be captivated by misguided teachings .... Because every human being is My living creation and is intended to reach maturity on earth. I long for his return to Me and will truly provide him with every opportunity to do so, but he has to use these opportunities of his own free will. For I do not force this free will but My adversary cannot force it either ....

In view of this you will also understand that I will repeatedly ensure that the pure truth is conveyed to people, that I will expose misguided teachings, prove them to be wrong and denounce them, so that it certainly will be possible for the truly willing human being to live in truth. But he will also have to make every effort to free himself from the structure of lies erected by the one who will always attempt to increase the darkness on earth and employ every possible means to extinguish the light. However, it is difficult for the truth to penetrate because people's thinking is already so distorted that it cannot free itself from traditional spiritual knowledge and thus every bearer of light commissioned by Me to spread My light will come under attack .... But there cannot be clarity as long as people are not given a full explanation, and people will continue to fight each other as long as they do not approach Me with the genuine desire for truth. Not until then will they receive light and subsequently try to disassociate themselves from spiritual knowledge which they had upheld as truth but which emerged from the adversary, who is an enemy of truth because he is in hostile opposition to Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's light of love is insight and knowledge ....

B.D. 8239 from August 13th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

Wherever I can convey the light from above the darkness which My adversary has spread across the earth will be chased away. People who allow My light of love to flow into them ...., who thus read My word conveyed to you from above and move it in their hearts, will become knowledgeable, the veil which hung before their eyes will lift .... it will flash within them and they will attain brightest knowledge about things which were previously hidden or incomprehensible to them. For My light of love has a powerful effect if only no resistance is offered to it. You humans need no longer fear darkness of spirit if only you wanted to listen to Me and let My words penetrate your heart .... Yet you are mostly indifferent and yet you are offered something delicious when you are allowed to receive My word through My messengers. And if you feel addressed by Me then My word has entered you, your heart has been touched by My word and you awaken from a state of twilight which is your fate as long as you have no spiritual knowledge .... But if these are offered to you in the form of My word then they will also make you happy as soon as you are of good will, i.e. if you want to fulfil the will of your God and father Who called you into being. As long as you are ignorant you will only live your earthly life ..... But if you are given knowledge which corresponds to the truth then you will start to live a spiritual life on this earth. And then you will become enlightened, you will ask questions and receive answers, for I Myself will intervene in your thinking when I see that you desire light. And only now will life appear worth living to you, although you separate yourselves from the desire for matter, but you have recognized a higher purpose and you will pursue it and seek to reach the goal. My will is only that you step out of darkness, that you desire the light and gratefully accept it from Me when I kindle a light in your hearts, when I convey knowledge to you which signifies light for you, because you enter earth completely ignorant and life is and remains an idle course for you as long as you don't kindle a light within yourselves in which you now recognize everything brightly and clearly and thus can now also live a conscious earthly life .... conscious of your outcome, your earthly task and the goal which consists of unification with Me .... And you can receive this knowledge from Me at any time if you listen to My word from above and live it out, if you are not only listeners but doers of My word. Then all shadows will vanish, the correlations will be bright and clear to you and you will also gain knowledge of My nature, you will feel that I Myself am love and you will then also offer your love to Me .... then you can no longer remain in the night of death, you long for light yourselves and I will also let it shine brightly in you, for I love you and don't want you to dwell in darkness .... I Myself am the light from eternity which descends to you, which shines into your hearts and shall only be willingly accepted by you in order to then also make you unspeakably happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's abundant measure of grace before the end ....

B.D. 8240 from August 14th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

A great treasure of grace is still at your disposal, for I know that you need it in this time which precedes the last end. My adversary proceeds with cunning and trickery, for he knows that his time has expired and that the power he still possesses will soon be snatched from him, because he has a large following which is in bondage to him and thus strengthens his power. And since people cannot be forced by him either but rather belong to him voluntarily, I will only snatch his power from him when the day of the end has come, when I take account and every being is assigned the fate it deserves. But I help My own to be able to resist because he will also harass them severely .... I still pour out abundant blessings and only ever call upon you humans to make use of them and to evaluate them correctly .... I Myself dwell in the midst of you in My word .... I sound My voice and address you .... I instruct you and inform you of all correlations, I initiate you into My plan of salvation, I let you take note of My rule and activity, of My loving care for you, of your weaknesses and open a source of strength for you so that you will not sink down wearily on the path you still have to cover before the end .... I help you to successfully cover the path that leads out of the valley of death into the realms of eternal life .... And you truly need not be despondent, you need not look anxiously into the future, you will also cover the last short distance and reach the goal because you want to belong to Me, thus you are Mine and I will not abandon My own, whatever may come. Yet for the sake of the whole of humanity an unspeakable amount of suffering will still befall the earth which I cannot avert because it is still the last means of salvation to persuade the lukewarm to return to Me, to snatch them back from the abyss which they irrevocably approach if they continue to walk the path as before .... Even the great tribulation which is yet to come is a grace on My part, for it can still bring about a change, it can still drive people to Me, they can remember their God and creator in greatest adversity and call upon Him, and then they will also be heard by Me, I will still accept them in the last hour. I will truly bestow My grace upon you in abundance, for I know that you are weak and in need of much help, and I want to give you this help in order to protect you from the severe fate of a new banishment, which, however, is your fate if you leave My grace unutilised .... Yet the adversary's activity prompts Me to counteract him to the same extent, even though the human being's free will is always the decisive factor and must be left up to you. The redeemer's work in the last days is extensive on earth as well as in the kingdom of the beyond, because all spiritual beings full of light want to help the immature, unredeemed, and everyone will be blessed who joins this redeemer's work, who wants to be an eager co-worker in My vineyard, who faithfully serves Me as a servant and to whom I can therefore assign the work which brings Me success. Time and again I have to tell you the same thing, and you should see from it how much I care about your cooperation and how everyone who serves Me of his own free will pleases Me. For the time is coming to an end .... Only a short period of time remains for you humans, and this shall still bring salvation to many, so that you will not be lost again for eternity, so that you will attain life which lasts forever.

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Upward trend takes place as the drop took place ....

B.D. 8241 from August 15th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

Know that the regression of My once fallen beings into a child of God proceeds in exactly the same way as the apostasy from Me once took place. The beings distanced themselves from Me by willingly renouncing their love for Me, by rejecting every illumination of love from Me and believing that they would be able to exist without it and that they would also be and remain powerful without it as before .... Now to the extent that their rebellion against Me increased, to the extent that they thereby distanced themselves from My flow of love which, although it continued to radiate through all beings .... otherwise they would have passed away .... but which lost its effectiveness in the face of their resistance .... to the same extent their spirit darkened, thus they lost all realization, all light, all knowledge about their relationship to Me, their God and creator .... Their thinking became confused until they became completely incapable of thinking and powerless because no strength flowed to them anymore, because love remained ineffective .... and this state was called the 'fall into the abyss', which also resulted in the spiritual substance hardening and these fallen beings now possessed neither self-awareness nor the ability to think because I dissolved this substance. Thus, after the emergence of My creation there were no I-conscious beings but these fallen beings were dissolved into smallest particles which were incorporated into the individual works of creation and their upward development began according to My will. And as long as this process through creation continues for the purpose of transforming the spiritual substance which resists Me, we can only ever speak of 'spiritual entities', of particles of a fallen original spirit, for eternities will pass until all these particles belonging to a once fallen original spirit have gathered again. But once the unification of all particles has taken place, the being, the original spirit, will be equally ignorant, for it has certainly worked its way up from the deepest abyss with My help, yet it is still in darkness and first has to reach the light again, which can happen in its last incarnation .... in the stage as a human being .... The original spirit embodies itself as a 'soul' in the human being, and he starts the last earthly path with self-awareness, intellect and free will and thus has to prove himself .... He must pass the last test of will in all freedom .... Just as he lost his ego-consciousness during his fall, during his dissolution into countless particles, so he will again become an ego-conscious being when all the particles have reunited to form that original spirit, which now only has to find its way out of the darkness into the light, for which purpose its existence as a human being on earth has been given to it .... He had once renounced all light by freely rejecting the ray of light of love from Me, and he would not reach the light in his existence as a human being either, since he is completely without love, which he once rejected .... But love alone can give light, and therefore I joined him with a divine spark of love which can now bring about enlightenment from within, which can give the being knowledge again, which can introduce it to its lost knowledge again, which can change the soul such that it can thus increase in light just as it once lost it .... The human being has free will and need only turn this will towards Me Myself, then he consciously opens himself to My illumination of love again, as he once rejected it .... And My love for this being has not diminished, it has pursued it and also wants to give itself unmeasured to the being again, and if My love is now consciously accepted then the once fallen being will also return to Me, it will be the same original being again which originated from Me as a 'creature' but as My 'child' has now found its way back to the father and is now eternally blissful in light and strength and freedom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The mind should not be overestimated .... response - heart ....

B.D. 8242 from August 16th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

Nothing will remain unanswered for you which moves you as a spiritual question, for it shall become light in you again, and you shall receive this light from Me, from the eternal light which wants to radiate into the darkness in order to chase it away completely. But it is important that you desire it from Me Myself, that you therefore consciously and voluntarily open yourselves to receive My ray of love which you once voluntarily rejected .... The fire of love radiates the light of wisdom .... My eternal fire of love will and must shine brightly and thus also give light, i.e. deepest realization, knowledge of pure truth and penetration into deepest wisdoms .... My light of love gives brightest enlightenment about all correlations which concern the creature with its creator and which also give you humans a correct image of your God and creator. During the time of your existence as a human being you can be introduced to extensive knowledge but only ever by Me Myself, Who is the eternal truth and Whom you must appeal to for the supply of truth .... Yet you will remain ignorant if you only try to penetrate the secrets of creation with your intellect, My reign and activity, My plan of eternity .... and the state of ignorance is spiritual darkness .... it is night around your soul, it recognizes nothing and therefore does not feel happy in its darkened state. But it can change it itself, because only an earnest desire for enlightenment can cause it to turn to Me and ask Me to give it light .... And truly, the eternal light will let its rays fall into your heart and the darkness of spirit will be removed .... Once My ray of light of love has ignited in you, then the flame of love will shine ever brighter, because you will now be inwardly stimulated into loving activity and this will signify an ever firmer bond with Me, Who is eternal love .... And the degree of your love will always increase and you will see ever more brightly, you will truly be able to penetrate everything, and there will be no limit to the amount of knowledge you may receive, because your original state was brightest realization and you shall attain this original state again. Therefore, every person who lives in love will be allowed to ask Me questions, and he will always be able to expect an answer .... There shall be no gap in your knowledge for you who entrust yourselves to Me and faithfully ask Me Myself for light, for knowledge .... For I want you to regain everything you once voluntarily gave away .... I want there to be no more unsolved problems for you which you faithfully submit to Me, and thus I also want you not to be afraid to ask what you are not yet fully enlightened about. You should only ever receive the answer through your heart and not rate your intellect too highly, for it alone is unable to give you a sufficient and truthful answer if it is not conveyed to it by the heart, which was illuminated by Me Myself with My light, which now no longer allows for darkness and therefore will also make you happy. Thus you first have to develop love within yourselves by voluntarily opening yourselves to Me and desiring a ray of love from Me which then impels you into loving activity, and the light within you can then shine ever brighter .... because I Myself, the light of love from eternity, can now take abode in your hearts as soon as you have prepared this abode for Me through a life of love, as it is My will .... Then you can be certain of My presence, and then I will constantly instruct you, because through love the bond is established between your spiritual spark and the father-spirit of eternity .... And then I Myself can work in you through My spirit .... Understand that only love gives you light and that anyone who lives in love is intimately united with Me so that My flow of strength can flow into him unhindered, and this therefore also means brightest realization .... that the being will regain its original state in which it stood in brightest light, and it has now aligned itself with My nature again because it has attained light itself, because it now allows itself to be constantly illuminated by Me again and has now finally overcome the darkness ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Informing the soul about earthly life ....

B.D. 8243 from August 17th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

As soon as you ask Me a question I will answer and instruct you, so that you understand correctly and all ambiguity is lifted: The earthly progress of a human being's embodied soul .... of the once fallen original spirit .... is a difficult test of its will which is as free as it was when the original spirit came forth from Me. For it is fought over by two sides and it alone will determine the outcome of this battle. Spiritual guardians will always stand by its side but they may not interfere with its free will .... And at the same time countless adverse forces endeavour to cause the human being's fall once more .... However, it is possible for him to master the latter by unwaveringly turning his will towards Me and thereby constantly receiving strength to resist and pass his test of will.

But since the original spirit is still completely without knowledge at the onset of its incarnation as a human being; since, due to its apostasy, due to its rejection of My light of love, it has deprived itself of its light, knowledge and awareness, it has to be instructed, and this takes place from outside and from within .... through My spiritual spark inside of him which ceaselessly urges it into doing kind deeds, and then also imparts an inner light to the human being. In addition, I will always direct a human being's circumstances such that he will be able to learn from them, because time and again spiritual guardians will influence his thoughts to take the right direction, to muster the will to turn to Me, and then I will be able to work exceptionally in him Myself. Thus I take every care that the original spirit will be able to reach its objective as a human being during its earthly existence once it has expressed its will to undertake this final test of will as a human being. But no soul .... no original spirit .... having passed through the creation in the state of compulsion .... will be forced into this final incarnation .... The state of compulsion comes to an end the moment all small particles of an original spirit have congregated again, and from this moment on this original spirit will be free once again, it will not be subjected to coercion, neither from My nor from My adversary's side .... It will be able to determine its own fate. During the time of its higher development from the abyss its resistance to Me will have diminished to a point that it will then be fully mature in order to live on earth as a human being, yet it will have to accept this gift of grace voluntarily .... And therefore it will also be informed of its earthly destiny .... As a result of My permission the original spirit realises that it is not yet at home where glories await it, and it wants them .... But it also realises that only the development as a human being will lead it back into its lost home .... It also knows that it will have to occupy a form again, and this knowledge can still delay its life as a human being .... Still, as a rule it will readily accept the embodiment as a human being and feel strong enough to pass its final test of will.

Nevertheless, it should make its own free decision and therefore it is shown its earthly progress by observing itself in various situations and, believing itself able to overcome them with ease, is thus also willing to travel the final path in the form .... However, I know every single original spirit's degree of maturity, and I Am able to let it visualize its earthly progress like a vision, I also know how this dream-like occurrence affects the individual soul and Am able to induce its embodiment into the human form accordingly, which only becomes a living being when the original spirit has taken possession of it.

You humans should believe that everything is possible with Me, that I Am even able to touch a completely blind spirit with a spark of light to enable its vision for a few moments .... and that these moments suffice to activate its will, which the original spirit is able to use again once all its substances have reunited .... You should also know and believe that I do not require any length of time and yet My will brings forth what I consider necessary .... And this expression of will by an original spirit to accept the human form is necessary, for it has left its constrained state and should now also freely decide to accept its earthly progress as a human being. But the human being's physical body only becomes viable when the original spirit has occupied it as a 'soul'. Only then will the person be guided by his guardian angels, he will be gradually familiarised with knowledge, and will then have to mature as a human being first before his free will and intellect can rationally express themselves .... It is the last process of development on this earth which can give complete deliverance to the original spirit providing it takes notice of the small voice within, of the inner urge which is the manifestation of the divine spark placed by Me into the person ....

However, during earthly life My adversary has the same claim on him, and he will also try to assert it .... The human being is at all times subject to influences from above and below, however, he himself has to decide who will gain power over him. And this is his final test of will, that he consciously strives towards Me as his God and Father, and no-one can make this free decision for him, nevertheless, he is granted assistance in every way because I, too, long for his return and, like a truly good Father, will guide My child by the hand if only it will reach out for it and allow itself to be drawn by Me .... For I want all My living creations to become blissfully happy, and I have truly taken all possibilities into account in order to achieve this very goal of Mine ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Divine address proof of fatherly care ....

B.D. 8244 from August 18th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

It should not seem strange to you that you can establish a direct connection with Me in which I speak to you in the most natural way. It is I Who created you and Who will sustain you as long as you live on earth, Who is therefore a true father to His children and will also act like a father towards you. And the fact that the father constantly wants to speak to His child needs no special emphasis, for it is always My address which is the most natural evidence of fatherly care .... For the father loves His child and also wants to be loved by it again. Yet you humans still live in a world which is far removed from My kingdom, and you first have to learn to understand that this world is not your true home .... For you had separated yourselves from Me, you had left the kingdom of light and distanced yourselves from Me. And therefore the feeling of belonging together with Me is not yet within you .... And you cannot understand that you, as a human being, can hear Me Myself, that I express Myself to you, that a ray of love falls to earth from My kingdom which emanates from Me and shall strike your hearts .... You feel the great distance between yourselves and Me and it is not believable to you that I lean down and speak to you as a father speaks to his child. But I want you to believe it and that each one of you desires to hear My voice ..... For I would like to tell you many things which will bring salvation to your soul, and I would like to exchange thoughts with you again as it was in the beginning when I transferred My thoughts to you and they resounded in you like spoken words which you then moved within yourselves and returned your thoughts to Me again and were thereby blissfully happy .... But you do not know about your original state and your former unity with Me, because your spirit darkened due to the former apostasy from Me .... But when I speak to you I can give you back some light again so that you mentally approach Me again and the spiritual exchange can take place again, which will now also make you happy again. Therefore you should first know in what connection you stood with Me and what relationship now exists between you and Me .... For I want you to gain trust in Me again and draw closer to Me, that you acknowledge Me as your father and show Me love again .... And therefore I reveal Myself to you humans time and again and convey this knowledge of My living creation's fundamental relationship with Me to you, for it is the most natural thing in the world for the father to speak to His child. And you need only willingly listen to Me, you need only turn your thoughts towards Me and give Me your will by not wanting to possess any other will but Mine, for then you will subject your will to Mine and the original relationship in which you were immeasurably happy will be restored. Just always desire My address, and truly, you will feel like My children and approach Me with childlike love and confidence .... And soon you will kindle a light of love within yourselves which will enlighten you, all ignorance will have been taken from you, and you will know why and for what purpose you walk the earth and, bearing this in mind, now conduct your way of life in love, because you will be urged by My divine light of love within you to be lovingly active and then you will also fulfil your purpose on earth and reach the final goal, that you will completely unite with Me and be able to hear My word in you again, as it was in the beginning ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Incarnation of many light beings in the last days ....

B.D. 8245 from August 19th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

The fact that it has become necessary for so many beings of light to incarnate on earth in the last days is because people only develop very little love, with the result that the spiritual darkness has increased .... Thus light shall be brought to humanity. They do not kindle the flame within themselves which would provide them with the necessary illumination, consequently the light has to be brought to them from outside, that is, they have to be taught by fellow human beings who know the truth, that is, who possess a light. The embodied beings of light become knowledgeable as human beings by living a life of love, for at the start of their incarnation this knowledge is strange to them as well, since they, like everyone else, first have to educate themselves in order to become bearers of light which, however, comes easy to them because they are willing to love and love is the light which enlightens them from within. Hence I convey My Word to earth through them, I bestow light upon people so that they will be introduced to the knowledge of their original state, their apostasy and their task during their human existence .... Therefore they are not without knowledge even if they live without love, but they receive clarification and only need to be of good will in order to also accept the explanations and live their life accordingly. And especially the bearers of light .... these embodied beings of light .... are rarely listened to, for they preach and demand a life of love, which is a requirement their fellow human beings don't want to live up to. Thus there will still be a great struggle by the world of light for the souls of people who close their eyes and ears and listen instead to the voice of the world.

As a result, two directions can very clearly be recognised: people who reject all light will walk along in profound spiritual darkness, whereas other people will emanate light to their fellow human beings and live a way of life according to My commandments, and there the light will increase, people will have knowledge at their disposal which will give them great joy because they then recognise the purpose of their earthly life .... People need support for they no longer do anything to find their way out of spiritual darkness, their will is weak because it is constrained by God's adversary, and as long as the human being lives entirely without love he is still part of the one who had pulled him into darkness. This is why the human being has to be told time and again to practise love, and he will always be supported by the world of light so that he will become enlightened himself and realise why he is living on earth. For this reason God speaks to people through mediators, through beings of light, who have embodied themselves on earth and voluntarily muster the will to enter into close contact with their God and Creator of eternity .... who want to bring salvation to their fellow human beings and return His children to their heavenly Father if they don't resist their efforts, if they accept the light, if they allow themselves to be permeated by the Eternal Light, which always happens when people are willing to listen to God's Word and live accordingly .... Then the darkness will be penetrated and people will become knowledgeable and come to realise that they have a Father Who wants to help them return to Him and therefore sends His messengers to them to spread the light which they receive from God Himself .... And there will still be a struggle for all souls which live in darkness of spirit, for people shall still be saved before the end and will escape the dreadful fate of being banished again into the creations of the new earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Mission of the light beings .... Awakening of the spirit of God .... Redemptive work of Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 8246 from August 20th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

When the knowledge of Jesus Christ and His act of salvation is imparted to you, when the spiritual mission of the man Jesus is explained to you, My spirit must always be at work in you, irrespective of whether you receive this knowledge from Me directly or accept it from My messengers .... For only the spirit will open up the understanding for you, and only through the spirit can you receive such instruction from above .... This knowledge is the most important thing, for you must take note of the great work of mercy which was accomplished for you for the sake of your original sin, and you must be enlightened about the spiritual correlations, about the spiritual mission of the man Jesus, because you must call upon Him, because you should carry your guilt of sin under His cross, because you should acknowledge Him as redeemer of the world .... And this knowledge of Jesus Christ will truly come forth from Me, for My adversary endeavours to take precisely the faith in Jesus as divine redeemer away from people, and therefore he will never testify to the fact that „Jesus Christ has come into the flesh...“ And this is how you recognize the „divine“ spirit which is always active when you are introduced to the truth, when the knowledge of Jesus Christ and His act of salvation is presented to you .... And My spirit also works where people still walk in darkness, if only a vessel can be found into which it can pour. You humans can certainly do much to enlighten your fellow human beings who are still completely blind in spirit, and you will truly accomplish blessed work, because all people shall find redemption through Him, because all people shall carry their guilt under the cross of Christ .... Yet I will also work through My spirit, for people will be everywhere who live a life of love, who long for truth, for profound knowledge, and whom I can now also introduce through My spirit. Only the willingness to accept enlightenment must be present, otherwise My spirit cannot work in such a way that it instructs a person from within. This is why many beings of light are embodied on earth during the time of the end which enable the transmission of My word from above, which can now also impart the knowledge of Jesus Christ to those who are still in complete ignorance and therefore also run the risk that their souls will not find redemption in their earthly life. The knowledge which is passed on from person to person usually does not remain pure, and therefore it is necessary time and again that the pure truth is conveyed to people through the working of the spirit. Love and faith, however, are very deficient, and therefore people also live in spiritual darkness .... But if a being of light descends to earth for a redeeming mission then it also brings a degree of love with it which seeks constant contact with the source of love .... with Me .... and it seeks to increase its degree of love .... And thus it is also possible for Me to address its spirit, and it will listen to it and thus serve Me as a mediator, so that I can give people an enlightenment about the mission of the man Jesus, about the original sin guilt and about the redemption from this guilt. Yet only truthful knowledge serves people, otherwise they reject it and cannot take the path to the cross and then also enter the kingdom of light, because the redemption through Jesus Christ is a prerequisite for this .... No human being can be spared the path to the cross, otherwise he will pass over into the kingdom of the beyond burdened by original sin, where he can indeed still find Jesus Christ but he will never reach the degree he could have reached on earth through the act of salvation, through the rich treasure of grace which is now at his disposal and which also guarantees him the achievement of his goal on earth: that he will unite with Me, Who accomplished the act of salvation for humanity Myself in Jesus Christ, completely free from his guilt ....

Amen

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Few people know about the plan of salvation ....

B.D. 8247 from August 20th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

It is only a small part of humanity to whom I can impart the knowledge of My eternal plan of salvation, for the majority has no bond with Me because they lack love and faith. Only those people will ever have knowledge of My plan of salvation, which includes the return of the spiritual substance which once fell away from Me, who, in an earnest will to know the truth, ask questions about the meaning and purpose of their earthly life .... They will also receive a truthful answer, and thus all spiritual correlations and people's relationship with their God and creator will also be explained to them, which then also includes My eternal plan of salvation. But how few seriously deal with such questioning thoughts, and thus it is only a small flock to whom I can communicate Myself directly or through messengers, and they will mostly be regarded as eccentrics and ridiculed by their fellow human beings .... But the latter no longer go blindly through earthly life but they live it consciously, they pay attention to themselves and their surroundings, they also pay attention to world events, and they recognize the time in which they live and know that the plan of salvation will be carried out by Me as it was established in My wisdom and love. For I have known from eternity the time when people's low level can no longer be surpassed, I have known since eternity about people's will and when the day will come which will put an end to people's disenchanted activity as well as My adversary's activity. And as it has been decided it will also be carried out, and therefore My predictions can certainly be expected, only you humans will not know when this day is, and even the few who have knowledge of My plan of salvation will remain uncertain until the end but nevertheless recognize by the signs of the time what the world clock has struck. Yet they will not be able to count on faith and understanding that people live in the last days and face a final decision .... For anyone who has no knowledge of the spiritual kingdom, who only sees the final goal in the earthly world of life, has deaf ears and blind eyes, and in no way will he make an effort to live responsibly, precisely because he does not believe and because love has also grown cold amongst people which could kindle a light in them. And thus only a hustle and striving for earthly gain can be recognized on earth, the body is considered and every thought only applies to its comfort and the fulfilment of earthly wishes. People have no room in their hearts for spiritual thoughts, they are inwardly empty and the souls are in great distress. But nothing else can happen from My side but to repeatedly point out to these worldly people the life which will come afterwards when they have to leave their earthly body .... But whether they are presented daily with the sudden departure of fellow human beings, whether they hear of catastrophes or accidents which suddenly take many people away .... they only take indifferent note of it and rather believe that with the death of their body they sink into nothingness ..... Nor can they be given any evidence that their thinking is wrong .... But with an earnest will they could come to believe in a continuation of life, but they lack it. However, My plan of salvation is being carried out, and time and again I convey this knowledge to people so that they can take a stand themselves if they don't reject My messengers unwillingly but think about what is proclaimed to them by them. Time and again I try to rouse weak or ignorant people from their spiritual lethargy, and I pursue every human soul with My love and want to help it gain a glimmer of realization so that it may take refuge in Me in hours of greatest adversity .... And it will still be helped in its last hour, yet it must take the path to Me itself, it must appeal to Me for help and mercy in its weakness .... it must want to be saved before it is too late .... For the day is set, and it will be kept, and it will come as it is proclaimed by word and scripture ....

Amen

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God's infinite love for His living creations ....

B.D. 8248 from August 22nd 1962, taken from Book No. 87

If you are granted insight into My reign and activity then it should also be evidence for you that you humans mean incredibly much to Me even though you live your earthly life in an imperfect state and thus your nature is still very poorly shaped. Nevertheless you can regard yourselves as the crowning glory of creation, for apart from you no other being exists that ranks higher than the human being, merely the individual soul can be shaped differently according to his degree of love. But he is always the being I once externalised in all perfection, which was an image of Myself and shall become it again .... But My work of creation will never lose its value for Me even if it voluntarily degenerated itself by reversing its perfect state into a completely opposite one .... However, since this occurrence entirely contradicted My eternal order I will leave no stone unturned so as to establish order again and I truly know how this can be achieved .... For love let you arise and love will not let anything go astray .... Love seeks unity and also changes wrong characteristics back into their original state. For love is a strength which can accomplish anything, yet again it only works in lawful order. I created beings for Myself with whom I wanted to work together and who therefore had to have the same will as My own .... And they had been indeed supremely perfect, and My love for them was intense and constantly gave itself to these living creations. Love wants to give, it wants to make happy but it also wants to receive love in return .... I want My emanated love to reflect back to Me which also constantly increases the Creator's as well as the created beings' bliss .... And because it is only possible for the living creation to reverse its nature to its original state in the stage as a human being .... since the living creation is able to respond to My love again when it lives on earth as a human being .... the human being means so incredibly much to Me; he is, after all, close to achieving the goal and My help will constantly be granted to him and he can always know himself to be supported by My love .... He can rest assured that he will always be well cared for by Me, that he will not be left at the mercy of his self-chosen destiny, because the return to Me, the change of his nature into its original state, is My goal and I will never lose sight of this goal even if the human being still resists Me, because I do not compel his free will.

However, I know that one day he will voluntarily return to Me and I will do whatever it takes in order to shorten the time in which he is separated from Me .... even though the human being's free will remains decisive .... And for the sake of achieving this retransformation the whole of creation emerged around you, for My love searched for and found a way, and My wisdom guided you to this path when you had fallen .... My love did not diminish, and this is why your return to Me will take place one day, for love will achieve everything .... And even your process across earth as a human being is an incredible offering of love on My part which I gave to the once fallen beings because I created them as God-like beings, as My images, which were extremely happy in My proximity .... And they shall be allowed to experience the same blissfulness again and also stay in My presence again if they voluntarily take the path to Me in earthly life, if they feel so strongly illuminated by My love that it draws them to Me because they want to reciprocate My love. Your love is only so weak because you are still unenlightened or in possession of little knowledge .... But with increasing realisation it will grow and I will be able to convey more knowledge to you, I will be able to reveal more profound wisdom to you which will also increase your love for Me and you will recognise your Father in Me, and it will become ever more understandable that you are being held and carried by My greater than great love, that I do not write any of My living creations off or leave it at the mercy of its destiny .... And your love will also grow as soon as you learn to recognise Me and My nature, as soon as all correlations become clear to you .... as soon as you allow yourselves to be taught by Me Myself and thus are permitted to gain insight into My reign and activity ....

Amen

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Request for God's grace, power and blessing ....

B.D. 8249 from August 23rd 1962, taken from Book No. 87

Only ever request My grace, My strength of love and My blessing .... And you will truly cover your earthly path with success, for then you will walk by My hand, you will use the measure of grace I pour out upon you, you will let My flow of love flow into your hearts and I will look after you on all your paths .... you enjoy My protection, and like a father I will protect My children from all hostile influence .... because you want Me to take care of you, otherwise you would not approach Me for grace, strength of love and blessing. You thereby prove to Me your will turned towards Me, your desire to enter into intimate contact with Me again, and thus you are on the path of return to Me. And you reach your goal, the final union with Me. You consciously profess Me and have thus also passed your test of will for the purpose of which you go across earth. But you will only appeal to Me for grace, strength and My blessing if love has been kindled in you, for love urges you to love, and without love you would have completely different goals than Me, your God and father .... Without love you would still belong to the world, which is My adversary's kingdom, for then there is perverse love in you, the inclination towards matter. You desire that which you have long since overcome, and then you are in a terrible state, for the time on earth passes quickly and if it has not brought you the transformation of your selfish love into unselfish, divine love, then your earthly course was in vain and you sink back into the darkness from which you had worked your way up through agony and toil until your existence as a human being .... But therefore I rejoice in every person who seeks Me of his own accord, who longs for My grace, My strength and My blessing .... and truly, I will grant him all these in abundance. The human being needs much strength and support for his pilgrimage on this earth, for he is still weak and constantly exposed to temptations by My adversary who wants to prevent him from reaching the height .... And an ascent is also impossible for him by his own strength, yet he has a spark of My divine love within himself, and he only needs to ignite it and his strength will increase, he will be able to resist My adversary, for love is strength, it is My divine influx which he can constantly increase if only he practices love, if he performs works of love and thus unites himself ever more with Me, Who is love, and he now also increases in strength .... This is why his prayer for strength and grace is so extremely valuable, for it is a spiritual request which I will never let go unfulfilled and which you will receive in abundance, and you will always make use of My influx of strength of love and grace to work with love, because the strength which emanates from Me and now fills your hearts constantly drives you to do so. And you should also recognize everything that daily life brings you as a means of grace which helps you to become blissfully happy ..... But above all, avail yourselves of the grace of My word, for truly, My word will impart everything to you, because it is a direct emanation of love on My part and has to fill every person with strength who receives My word and moves it in his heart .... This is the greatest gift of grace I can offer to My living creations on earth, to people, because they can become My children through My word, because they are in intimate bond with Me as soon as My word sounds to them, and because they hear the father's voice Who wants to impart everything to His children .... comfort, strength and extensive knowledge through which they learn to recognize and love their God and father and thus love urges love and then the unification can also take place, which is the purpose and goal of their earthly life. "Ask and it will be given to you ...." Always remember this promise of Mine and prayerfully request everything you lack from Me: strength and grace and My blessing .... for this will never be addressed to Me in vain ....

Amen

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God and Jesus are one .... Human manifestation of God ....

B.D. 8250 from August 24th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

That the human spiritual state is growing increasingly darker is revealed by fact that people are no longer able to understand God’s ‘becoming One’ with Jesus properly .... and that they therefore also lack the right comprehension for God’s ‘human manifestation’ .... Owing to the misguided teaching of the three-person Deity they began to think wrongly. Yet, time and again, it has to be said that the eternal Deity cannot be personified .... thus It cannot be conceived as anything other than power permeating the whole of eternity .... This power cannot be limited nor can it be thought of as a ‘form’ .... but it can permeate a form completely .... And this process of complete permeation by divine strength occurred in the man Jesus ....

He was full of love and love is the fundamental substance of the eternal Deity .... ceaselessly emanated into infinity, which creates and maintains everything .... And this divine strength of love permeated the human form of Jesus and thus manifested itself in Him. God’s fundamental nature took abode in the man Jesus and thus God became ‘human’ .... and since Jesus was completely filled with the fundamental substance of God, He became ‘God’ .... Because even His completely spiritualised human form was able to wholly unify with God after His crucifixion so that Jesus then became the comprehensible Deity .... that the human being cannot imagine God other than in Jesus .... but that it cannot ever be a question of ‘two people’ .... The human being Jesus had achieved the goal on earth, the complete deification, which all created beings should achieve .... Because God wanted to create images of Himself whose final perfection, however, had to be achieved by the free will of the being itself. Jesus the man achieved this deification not only on account of a life of love, but with the act of Salvation He also redeemed humanity’s guilt of sin .... for He used God’s strength of love or He would have been unable to bear the terrible suffering and crucifixion. This strength of love was God’s fundamental nature, thus God Himself was within the man Jesus in all fullness and accomplished the act of Salvation ....

However, it is a misleading concept when you humans speak of a three-person God because the eternal Deity cannot be personified since It is pure love, and this love manifested Itself in Jesus, and thus the eternal spirit God was working in Jesus, and to all beings He can only be comprehensible in Jesus .... Since God’s former created beings had abandoned Him because they could not see Him, He became a visible God to them in Jesus .... But Jesus is not a second being that could be thought of as existing next to God .... He is God because God is strength of love, Which permeates a fully spiritualised form, thus it consists entirely of divine fundamental substance and is therefore only visible to those beings who have also become spiritualised in order to see spiritually.

It is certainly correct to describe God’s nature as Father, Son and Holy Spirit if the Father is acknowledged as love, the Son as wisdom and the Holy Spirit as the will or power of God .... Because God’s nature is love, wisdom and power .... But the goal God had set for Himself when He created the beings, the voluntary deification of these beings, also explains .... when it is achieved .... God’s manifestation in Jesus .... the visible Deity in Jesus, while the three-person Deity does not allow for a correct, i.e. truthful explanation. People have created their own concepts which obstruct their spiritual maturing process, because only one God can be called upon; three different Gods may not be prayed to but God Himself wants to be acknowledged in Jesus, and hence He can only be worshipped in Jesus .... And He demands this acknowledgment of all human beings, because this acknowledgment had been denied to Him in the past, and because the act of Salvation has to be accepted at the same time .... Because no person can find forgiveness of his original sin without Jesus Christ, and therefore the human being has to declare his belief in Him .... he has to believe that God Himself has shown compassion for humanity and accomplished the act of Salvation in Jesus ....

Amen

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Doubting divine revelations ....

B.D. 8251 from August 25th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

Time and again people will doubt My divine revelations because they do not have enough living faith, otherwise they could easily understand My actions during the final time before the end. Living faith demands a life of love, which most people disregard because they only want to love themselves, and in this misguided love they cannot find Me, they cannot recognise Me as their God and Creator, Who also wants to be their Father. Their faith is a mere formality, an acquired knowledge of faith, which could not yet become alive in them and therefore they cannot understand the 'outpouring of My spirit' either, which I have promised to all of those who 'believe in Me and keep My commandments ....' because it is to those whom I want to reveal Myself. And the more they adhere to this formal faith the more they reject My revelations which, however, I will continue to send to earth because I consider it necessary for people to be informed of the whole truth and not seek the purpose of life in distorted doctrines .... by believing what is far removed from the truth and not being able to recognise the plain, simple truth from Me any longer ....

In fact, it is far easier to introduce the pure truth to a completely sceptical person than to convince those who overzealously study the Book of Books, who attempt to explain every letter intellectually and who reject My simple communication as the work of demons. My adversary has already spread dense darkness, and even uses this book to confuse people's logical thought and to prevent the people from gaining a clear understanding. He is succeeding because their bond with Me is not deep enough for My strength of love to flow into a human heart which would enable it to receive the light and to distinguish truth from error.

However, human beings would be in dire trouble if I did not have compassion on them and try to strengthen them remarkably, if I did not, by way of direct communication with them, give them proof of Me and My presence and even speak to My children like a Father .... You humans are still seeking Me in the distance .... even if you believe in Me you cannot believe that the Father speaks to His children .... that He Himself bends down to persuade His children to submit themselves to Him trustingly, asking Him to guide them through their earthly lives. You forever think of Me as the strict God Who gives commandments, Who demands obedience and punishes those people who are disobedient .... You should know that I never 'punish' My living creations, but that they create every painful state for themselves, that they themselves also ventured towards the depth, that I do not condemn them but forever attempt to lead them back again, that I help them to ascend from the abyss and entice and call on them not to go astray or to fall prey to My adversary ....

And how better can I show My love for My living creations than by My direct communication, by revelations which explain Me and My Being and which, being divine truth, can only be experienced by the human soul as extremely effective and strengthens it for its earthly pilgrimage. Because I Am motivated by My love towards My living creations who live on earth as human beings in order to return to Me and who can only reach that goal when I Myself give them the strength to do so, when I nourish them with the bread from heaven and the water of life .... with My Word ....

And people refuse to understand this act of love and hence also decline My valuable gift of grace .... They are not alive and also remain faithful to the lifeless form of Christianity, because they lack the strength of faith for as long as they lack love, which would provide them with the right concept of Me, of My Being, which is love, wisdom and power .... And love will give itself time and again, and it will give to those who are weak but of good will everything they need to successfully complete their pilgrimage on earth .... Time and again My love will show itself because it also wants to be loved by those who originated from My love and who have to unite with Me again forever ....

Amen

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Time concept of earth's evolution ....

B.D. 8252 from August 26th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

The evolution of earth required an infinitely long time .... Even if you humans want to set up a concept of time for this you are unable to think that far back because it exceeds your intellectual capacity. Yet you should know that the apostasy of the beings I created took place during an equally long period of time but that the concept of 'time' is not applicable for this slow developmental stage of earth because this concept only exists for the self-aware being in its stage of imperfection, since the concept of time no longer exists for the perfect being. This is why people will only ever be able to estimate the individual stages of the creation work 'earth' but never even come close to the truth .... unless they apply the concept of 'eternities' .... For the apostasy from Me has taken eternities, and the same period of time will be needed to return the spirits which had deserted Me.

And if you humans now considered that you are close to joining Me again completely .... if you considered that these eternities are already behind you and that you can soon finish your ascending process of development and succeed in completely liberating yourselves from the form .... if you considered that your apostasy from Me happened eternities ago and that you can now lessen this immense original sin and become completely released from it with the help of Jesus Christ .... then you would truly only be moved by the one thought of sincerely giving yourselves to the divine Redeemer Jesus Christ and appeal to Him to grant you the strength to establish your final unification with your God and Father, Whom you can now recognise in Jesus Christ and for this reason entrust yourselves to Him in love and humility in order to cancel your past sin of arrogance and heartlessness ....

Your thinking will only ever move within limitations, and thus you cannot understand that an endless time has passed in which you were constrained by My will, which had removed you from My adversary's control so as to enable your higher development .... And you cannot be granted the retrospect of this endlessly long path .... because it would no longer be possible for you to continue your path across earth in free will, since you would be driven by fear to live according to My will, and then you would never be able to become perfect .... as this requires free will. However, if you know about your soul's process before its incarnation as a human being, your sense of responsibility will be stronger and then the results of people's research will also be of value, who think they can prove that the evolution of earth and its inhabitants took thousands of years and which should make you wonder how long you have been on earth already .... albeit not as self-aware beings ....

Yet then you will also know that the whole of creation shelters spiritual beings on their upward process of development in order to once again become what they had been in the beginning: free, self-aware beings, able to be active in strength and light as they were intended to be when I created them through the strength of My love .... It can only ever be believed since evidence of it cannot be given .... but even faith can become a conviction if the human being in his last stage on earth tries to bring his nature into line with that of his God and Father, if he changes himself to love and thereby unites himself with Me .... For as soon as I can be present to him because I Am love Itself he will also be able to believe with certainty and know that he only lives on earth in order complete his task after his infinitely long path. And he will wholeheartedly strive towards Me and thus find unification with Me, his Father of eternity, and be inconceivably happy ....

Amen

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The adversary clothed in light .... Paradise on the new earth ....

B.D. 8253 from August 27th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

It should not surprise you that My adversary will leave no stone unturned in the last days in order to increase his power, in order to stop his followers from leaving him and turning to Me, for it is written that he, too, will perform great miracles and also strive to tempt My Own into leaving Me and to regain them for himself .... And he will not shy away from disguising himself as an angel of light either and even use the Words of the Scriptures .... But he will be unable to deceive anyone who genuinely desires the truth, even if he appears in My name. However, as soon he has to confess Me in Jesus Christ and My act of Salvation he will evade the issue and drop his mask. For he will not acknowledge this act of Salvation and his effort is, and will remain, to dissuade people's belief in this act of Salvation as well. He will have great power in the end and certainly use it. Consequently, where the darkness of spirit prevails he will not be recognised, but wherever My light is able to spread its bright radiance his lies will be revealed and this is why My Own need not fear him .... for they can clearly see through his game of deceit and will resist him. Hell has cast out all its inhabitant and sent them to earth, and these demons will yet exert a strong influence on people, but I cannot and will not stop My adversary since this time is, after all, his last opportunity, after which he will be bound again for a long time and no longer be able to influence the spirits which then will live on earth again either in a bound or in a free state .... in the creations of the new earth or in the human being ....

Hence there will be a time of peace which enables all spirits to progress faster, for the bound spiritual substances will be offered many opportunities to be of service, and at first people will not need spiritual opposition, which is permitted for the sake of testing their will, since they will have passed their test of will on the old earth and will progressively ascend because they will always be united with Me and the spirits of light, who can dwell amongst people as teachers and guides. This is why Satan will rage even more furiously beforehand, for he is in spiritual darkness himself and doesn't know that his activity will be to no avail, for the people he gains for himself will be banished anew, thus they will be removed from his power for a long time again .... And the others have given Me the evidence of their will, their love for Me and their strong faith and thus I can also reward them with a life in the paradise of the new earth, because they shall populate this earth again as the root of the new human race .... One day the lawful order will have to be established again on the new earth, and the time will have come when an improvement of humankind can no longer be expected .... But in these last days the spirits will still have to be separated and I will truly do whatever it takes in order to save what has not yet entirely fallen prey to the adversary, and it only requires good will to realise whether I Myself or My adversary are at work when unusual things happen which betray a strength that exceeds the natural ability of a human being ....

If you only want the truth, if you want to acknowledge Me, then you will indeed be protected from all kinds of deception .... If, however, you are still earthly minded you will also be impressed by the one who is the lord of this world and who expresses his power in an earthly way. And then he will have won you over but only to lose you once more, for all spiritual beings will be taken away from him again when the end comes. For truly, I Am Lord over heaven and earth, I Am in charge of the kingdom of light and the kingdom of darkness, and I know when My adversary exceeds his authority .... Therefore I will put an end to him as it is proclaimed in Word and Scripture, for then the time will have come when everything will have to be judged in accordance with My eternal order ....

Amen

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Understanding the working of the spirit ....

B.D. 8254 from August 27th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

The knowledge which is imparted to you through an instrument of My choice comes forth from Me, the Eternal Truth, and therefore also has to be true .... With good will you can certainly recognise it as a direct revelation from Me, because the transmission process of spiritual knowledge on this scale demonstrates an extraordinary ability, an ability which no human being can ever acquire himself but shows the working of a Power Which has this knowledge at its disposal and can also transmit it to people .... It is God's spirit which is speaking to people, that is, the spirit within the person, being in constant contact with the Father-Spirit, which is educating the person from within .... It is not an instruction from person to person but a revelation on My part which I promised people when I Myself lived on earth. No human being can claim that he is able to intellectually penetrate the truth, and this is why spiritual information that has originated from Me is often doubted, for as long as the human being is still spiritually unenlightened he cannot understand such 'working of the spirit' which gives evidence of Me Myself, that I reveal Myself to people in order to bring them the pure truth. Only the Eternal Truth Itself can be the Provider of truth, and then it is only up to you humans to scrutinise the spiritual knowledge as to whether it is the truth from God ....

Spiritual knowledge can never be proven .... but if a person is taught from within he will need no external resources, he will need no instructions from other people, and by way of inner education he will also receive illumination .... he will recognise that the imparted knowledge is the truth, because I also bestow upon the instrument, which is used by Me to convey the truth to earth, power of judgment and full understanding for everything which extends into the spiritual realm, which cannot be explained or proven in an earthly way .... which therefore has to be believed and also can be believed because it emanates wisdom and grants clear realisation and extensive knowledge to someone who accepts these revelations. When people exchange their points of view they are not protected from error, for when human intellect gets active error can occur through the adversary's influence, and full conviction of the truth will be lacking in people .... But I want people to live in truth, because only truth can make them happy. And the transmission of truth can only take place through an obedient earthly child which willingly serves Me as a vessel into which My spirit can flow. And then you humans can also be confident that the Eternal Truth Itself is speaking to you, that it is imparting substantial knowledge to you which you will never be able to receive in any other way but through the working of My spirit. The fact that it is doubted time and again that I reveal Myself to you is proof that people still keep themselves very distant from Me, that they themselves have no connection with Me as yet and are therefore of darkened spirit, in which My adversary wants to keep them in order to prevent them from recognising Me and taking their path to Me.

Nevertheless, I know how urgently people need the truth, I know that they are taking the wrong path as long as they are not taught by Me Myself, Who instructs them truthfully and explains the purpose and goal of their earthly life to them .... And since I yearn for their return to Me I show them the path which leads to Me: I convey truthful knowledge to them which will guide them out of the darkness of night into the light of day .... The truth can only come forth from God and that is why you humans have to ask Me for it, for you have to activate your free will and desire the truth, since then the human being will also desire Me Myself .... And I will not deny Myself to any person, I will not withhold the truth from anyone who seriously requests it .... But the fact that earth is shrouded in profound darkness, that people walk along without light, simply demonstrates that they are totally indifferent to the truth, that they don't want to escape the darkness, otherwise they would truly find another path which I illuminate for them Myself and which leads to the right goal. As soon as they want to know the truth they will also realise when I reveal Myself and subsequently also know that I convey nothing but purest truth to you humans, if only you are of good will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Effect of the love illumination ....

B.D. 8255 from August 28th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

Anyone who is still in the night of the spirit will also not accept My ray of love which wants to guide a light to him. For My adversary still controls him and prevents him from working with love, otherwise the human being would kindle a light within himself and then also willingly open himself to Me and want to be illuminated by Me. Time and again such a person will be placed in situations where he can be of service to his neighbour, and time and again his heart will be appealed to so that it will show itself charitable, that he will let his heart speak to his neighbour and bring him help when he is in need .... Such opportunities will be created for all people, for this is the most important thing in their earthly life, that they ignite love within themselves, that they perform works of love in unselfishness, because then they unite with Me, Who am love Myself .... And once they have established this bond with Me this is like the opening of their hearts into which My ray of love can now penetrate, which impels increased activity of love and also constantly increases the degree of light and now the spiritual darkness will give way and make way for inner enlightenment .... And then the soul will be saved, for where My illumination of love was once able to take effect constant ascent is also assured, for love is strength which never remains inactive as long as it is not opposed. The soul which feels touched by My love will no longer turn away from Me, it will strive towards Me because it always recognizes Me more, because inner enlightenment also gives it knowledge of My nature and it now also begins to love Me and no longer wants to let go of Me. Then I will have won it for eternity, and its earthly life will only give it the opportunity to increase its degree of love so that its soul will always become more permeable to light and it will be able to enter bright light after its earthly demise .... It is only important that it finds its way out of the spiritual darkness, and now you can also explain the many strokes of fate which affect people, for the fellow human being should always be stimulated into loving activity as a result, he should turn to his long-suffering fellow human beings full of love and try to help them, be it in physical or spiritual hardship .... And anyone whose heart is not completely hardened will also be touched, and then salvation is also certain for him, he will step out of the darkness of night into the light of day as soon as only a spark of light falls into his heart and ignites a light .... But if the human being remains hard and unfeeling he is still completely dominated by My adversary who is devoid of all love and who always wants to prevent the human being from changing his selfish love into unselfish neighbourly love. And this is the battle which is waged time and again by the light and the darkness .... and which only the human being can bring to an end. He can already live in brightest light during his earthly life, just as he can also remain spiritually darkened until the end of his life and then enter the kingdom of the beyond in complete darkness, where the gates into the kingdom of light are closed to him. For a person who is completely without love will not find the divine redeemer Jesus Christ either, and he will not be released from his original sin on this earth, and it will be unspeakably difficult for him to still find the divine redeemer in the kingdom of the beyond and to appeal to Him for mercy .... although this is not impossible if he gives up his resistance as a result of loving intercession which follows him on the part of people on earth. But for the most part such people will not have acquired works of love on earth which will follow them into eternity and which result in loving intercession .... And there is a great danger that they will sink into the abyss again and still offer resistance there when they receive merciful help from the beings of light ..... Then a new banishment is the inevitable consequence, so that one day they will be able to emerge from the night into the light again, even if it takes an infinitely long time ....

Amen

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Truthful knowledge of redemptive work ....

B.D. 8256 from August 29th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

As soon as Jesus Christ's act of salvation is explained to you correctly, i.e. truthfully, you will no longer persist in your will of rejection which all those people oppose the knowledge they are given about it by human beings. First people have to know why Jesus' act of salvation was necessary, what motivated Jesus, the human being, to walk a path of suffering on earth which required supernatural strength. They need to know what Jesus wanted to redeem people from .... For the human being is not aware of such great guilt, although his way of life on earth cannot always be called good. But he will only regard the events surrounding Jesus, as they are described to him, as a legend, he lacks understanding precisely because he does not know about the spiritual motives. He knows nothing of his great original sin, and even those who teach him mostly know nothing of it and therefore cannot make their teachings credible to people. Although all people will know that 'sin' was the cause of Jesus' act of salvation, they will not be able to understand that a human being had to suffer so horribly for his fellow human beings, who therefore would have to pay off their guilt themselves if they had become guilty on earth .... But that it was an original sin, an offence so serious that people would never have been able to pay it off themselves .... that it concerns the created beings' past apostasy from God and that this guilt was so great because it was committed in a state of brightest realization and was a direct rebellion against God is something people don't know, and therefore they don't want to acknowledge Jesus' act of salvation either. However, it can be easy for them if they are informed in absolute truth about the cause of the act of salvation and the mission which the man Jesus fulfilled with it .... if they are instructed about the process of the original spirits' apostasy from God and that people themselves are those fallen original spirits who are on the path of return to God but nevertheless cannot reach the goal without Jesus Christ .... and that Jesus therefore has to be acknowledged as the son of God and redeemer of the world .... They must know that God Himself accomplished the work of redemption in the man Jesus and how this incarnation of God is to be understood ..... They are still in spiritual darkness and therefore cannot believe vividly, and the redemption through Jesus Christ is therefore not credible to them because they do not recognize its meaning and purpose, for only the pure truth gives them light about it, and in this pure truth they have not yet been instructed .... For even if people acknowledge Jesus Christ with their mouths and do not openly contradict when the redemption through Jesus is spoken of, this is nevertheless not living faith but only learned knowledge which they dare not contradict .... Yet they will profess Him with inner joy and also acknowledge God Himself in Him when the pure truth is presented to them, which presupposes an introduction into God's plan of salvation, the imparting of knowledge which can only be given to people by God Himself through His spirit. For only He knows everything, only He is aware of the spiritual processes which took place in His kingdom. Only He knows what underlay both the apostasy from Him as well as Jesus' act of salvation, and only He can introduce people to the truth, and He also does it, as He Himself promised when He walked the earth in Jesus. And truthful knowledge will also give people a bright light. And they will now voluntarily and consciously take their path to the cross, whereas previously they refused because they lacked full understanding .... The human being only needs to want to stand in truth, then it will also come to him, for God does not want darkness to dominate the human being, and therefore He will always kindle a bright light when such is desired. Only pure truth will ever emanate from God, and therefore His word must be listened to, and it will be easy for the person to believe who is of good will ....

Amen

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Transformation to Love ....

B.D. 8257 from August 29th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

The return home to the father is the goal which you should and can achieve during your earthly life if only you have the will to do so. For then you will be provided with the necessary strength and you will also use this strength in the right way. For the world of light constantly endeavours to mentally instruct you humans and to encourage you to fulfil the most important commandment .... the commandment of love for God and neighbour .... And if you now follow the suggestions which you feel as an inner voice, as the voice of conscience, then you will lead a life of love and your being, which at the beginning of its embodiment as a human being only knew self-love, will change again into the original being which was love itself because it emerged from eternal love. At the beginning of his earthly existence the human being will still strongly emphasize selfish love, he will only ever desire what serves the body and creates comfort for him, and he will have little compassion for his fellow human being because he is still dominated by perverse love as an inherited evil and the right love .... the gratifying, willing, giving love first has to be kindled in him. Yet his earthly life will be guided by his spiritual guardians such that he will be able to recognize much hardship among his fellow human beings, and thus his heart will be touched which should now express its will to help .... And selfish love will change into unselfish neighbourly love .... yet only when he does not resist the inner urge of the beings of light, when he allows himself to be influenced by them, which always requires good will, a will which is turned towards God. Hence love must be kindled in the human being and constantly increase so that the human being will also soon recognize his actual earthly task and endeavour to fulfil it. For love is also the light which illuminates him from within and shows him the right path, the path to God. And he will then also reach the goal and unite with God, because God Himself is love and therefore He can only be found through love. The world of light is constantly active in love, and its love always turns towards beings which lack love and therefore are in spiritual darkness. They want to bring redemption to these beings, and this includes that they recognize why they are on earth .... that they know about their original state, about their present deficient nature and about their goal .... their perfection .... which they can also achieve if they accept the help of those beings of light and allow themselves to be guided in earthly life. And therefore they will always be brought together with people who are in spiritual or earthly adversity, so that the will to help will be awakened in them, so that love will be awakened which shall now spread and encompass everything and, as an ever brighter flame, illuminate the human being and give him knowledge which chases away the spiritual darkness .... so that the human being will now also recognize God correctly and learn to love Him .... For the right love for God can only arise from neighbourly love, or love for God can only be proven through love for the neighbour, and it is rewarded by God with His constant presence, because God Himself is in every human being who performs works of love, and this bond must now lead to the goal, to complete union with God .... Every person is capable of love because a spark of love was placed in his heart by God which only needs to be kindled in order to develop into a bright flame .... But whether the human being is willing to love is his own business. He cannot be forced into loving activity because he has free will, the direction of which he should prove during his earthly life. But blessed is the human being who ignites the divine spark of love within himself and gives in to the inner urge to constantly work with love, for he will never be powerless, he will cover the path of ascent development and the flame of love will shine ever brighter in him, for he will no longer resist the divine illumination of love, and he will change his nature, which was pure love in the beginning, and now he will also return to his origin, to the father, Who Himself is love from eternity ....

Amen

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The reason for the earth` s restoration ....

B.D. 8258 from August 30th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

The earth must be renewed because it no longer serves its purpose as a place of development for the spirits .... All order has been revoked, people pay no more attention to My will, they live contrary to law, for love is the essence of divine Order and this has grown cold among people, hence their earthly path is in vain since it does not ascend but irrevocably leads into the abyss. The human being ought to be of loving service but he strives to dominate, and even many of the bound spiritual substances are prevented from being helpful because people hoard material things and deny them all useful purpose .... People are in a state of complete spiritual darkness, for without love there cannot be light and thus people remain spiritually blind and don't recognise their God and Creator .... Consequently this state has to be brought to an end, everything must be restored to its rightful order again .... the people who fail have to be separated from those who belong to Me, who strive to live an orderly life and who will therefore be treated with hostility by the former .... The lowest point has truly been reached which necessitates a renewal of earth, when all bound spiritual substances will be released and placed into new forms again, when everything will be placed into the most diverse kinds of new creations according to their degree of maturity. And then the human being, who had become totally enslaved by material things, will become matter again himself .... he will be banished into the creations of the new earth.

This is the most horrific fate you humans can imagine, the fact that your 'Self' will be dissolved into countless tiny particles once more and has to travel the path through the creations of the new earth in order to reach the stage of a human being again one day, even though it will take an infinitely long time all over again .... You humans cannot imagine such a work of transformation, after all, it means the end of this old earth, even if the planet as such remains My might and wisdom will nevertheless subject it to a complete transformation and thereby make it suitable again to serve its purpose of helping the spiritual substances gain full maturity. You should accept the knowledge you receive about this process and its reasons and think about it seriously. You should know that this work of destruction will particularly affect you humans very painfully since it will be your loss if your way of life does not correspond to My eternal order. You should also know that I will keep to the day which will bring an end to this earth, for My plan was determined by My love and wisdom and is set for eternity .... And so one period of Salvation comes to an end and a new one begins, where order has been restored and where tranquillity and peace prevails, where it is impossible for My adversary to be active because he will be banished for a very long time ....

Don't think that you are being wrongly instructed if I repeatedly send you the information about this impending act of disintegration of all creations on, in and above the earth .... Believe Me that everything is possible for Me and that I also know when such destructive action is necessary in order to guarantee the development of the ascending spiritual substances. Yet those of you humans who lack all love won't accept My Word, hence you will be harshly affected when the last day comes .... But there is no other option because My love applies to all still unredeemed and enslaved spirits .... And even for you, who fail in your free state as a human being, I will create new possibilities to reach the goal one day; yet the fact that you infinitely prolong the time of your distance from Me again is your own free will, thus your own fault, which you have to pay for with a renewed banishment into the creations .... For I truly don't want your unhappiness and will help you until the very last hour of this act of banishment passes you by, so that you will still find Me and call upon Me for mercy before the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's mission: to spread truth ....

B.D. 8259 from August 30th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

I want you to represent My word as truth, for if you believe that your God and father of eternity addresses you then you must also be convinced of its truth, and then you have the right and the duty to stand up for this truth you have recognized, for then you are merely the mouthpiece through which I express Myself, and I Myself cannot convey anything but pure truth to you. Then you need not fear that My adversary will intervene and likewise use you as a mouthpiece, for I will truly know how to prevent this if it is My will and My task to spread the truth amongst people. And I can only tell you time and again that I know people's hearts and that I choose the right instrument for Myself which fulfils the prerequisites under which the working of My spirit is possible .... It is a mistaken view that My adversary's influence must always be feared where divine revelations are conveyed to earth .... For revelations of this kind, where people are to be „introduced to truth..."as I Myself promised at the time of My life on earth, have a very special purpose: to bring light into the darkness which My adversary has spread across the earth .... And because I want to bring light to people, because I want to impart to them the knowledge which My adversary took away from them when he plunged them into the abyss, I will now truly also keep My adversary away and not allow him to intrude and cloud or extinguish the light again .... For it concerns the salvation of souls which are enveloped by darkness and cannot find their way out without My help. You can therefore justifiably reject such objections that you, who serve Me, are also exposed to My adversary's activity, that errors can also creep in .... you can justifiably represent My revelations as divine truth and inform all people of what I send to you through the inner word. For this is the purpose of My revelations, that humanity is brought light, that it receives enlightenment about the many misguided teachings and that it is guided into right thinking and leads its earthly life accordingly in order to reach the goal which is only recognized and striven for through truth. I initiated you into profound, extensive knowledge, and I was able to do so because the instrument chosen by Me did not resist accepting My word as I presented it, and because it did not oppose it with its own will but allowed itself to be taught by Me, Who is the eternal truth .... And thus it was also possible to impart knowledge to people which was still alien to them but which contributed again to dispel the darkness and to present Me Myself to people as I am, and therefore it is also possible for people to show love to Me which is overwhelmingly reciprocated by Me. But such success will never be achieved where My adversary is active, and therefore I will not allow his activity either because I want to win My living creations' love. It is an unusual grace that I reveal Myself so clearly before the end of the earth, that I speak to people in such a way that they can also recognize Me as the giver of what they receive .... And you should never believe that I let such a revelation be endangered, that I don't protect an instrument from My adversary which fully trusts Me and only wants to serve Me .... For I know every person's will, and thus I also know the degree of maturity of it, and accordingly I also know how to guide and direct everything in order to be able to direct a mighty revelation to earth which only aims at the salvation and rescue of human souls, so that they will not go astray because they walk in darkness, because My adversary withholds the truth from them .... And you can be certain that My promises will be fulfilled, and thus you can rightfully feel yourselves to be bearers of truth and carry it out into the world .... And My blessing will accompany your vineyard work, you will always speak as it is My will, for I Myself direct your thoughts and you will only ever be active for Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's mission: spreading truth .... (Continuation to No. 8259)

B.D. 8260 from August 31th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

You should not be afraid to come forward with the truth, for you only speak on My behalf when you try to enlighten people .... I Myself cannot address people directly because not all of them have the prerequisites which allow for a direct address through the inner word. Nor can I speak to them audibly from above, for this would then also be a compulsion of faith, it would then be one hundred percent proof of the existence of a power Which now expresses Itself audibly. I can only ever use an earthly child who wants to serve Me, who makes himself available to Me as a mediator, who accepts My direct word and passes it on to his fellow human beings. And therefore you only speak on My behalf when you spread My word and inform your fellow human beings of My working in and on you .... But I only convey My word to you because people shall be instructed in the truth, because I deem it extremely necessary that they experience the truth .... And thus I also need you to carry out what I Myself cannot carry out due to people's freedom of will .... Be certain that you do nothing wrong when you pass on the knowledge which you receive directly from Me, and don't let yourselves be disturbed when you receive unusual knowledge, when teachings are presented to you which were unknown to you, for I only ever correct where you humans still advocate erroneous spiritual knowledge and don't want to let go of it .... Much spiritual knowledge has been conveyed to you and people have always accepted it without having tested its outcome .... But I was always opposed when I wanted to correct wrong teachings, for their previous knowledge made them certain to walk in truth, and due to this they were also unable to accept the pure truth .... They were not empty vessels who willingly gave away the knowledge they possessed in order to receive it from Me .... This is why false doctrines were able to survive for a long time without being recognized as false doctrines .... But as soon as I now oppose it with pure truth, as soon as I can pour My spirit into an empty vessel which gives itself to Me of its own free will, it is now also My will that the pure truth from Me is openly advocated, that the recipient now lets Me Myself speak to his fellow human beings by willingly passing on the spiritual knowledge in the firm belief that what he has received is pure truth .... Only then will it be possible to correct existing misguided teachings, to eradicate everything that is wrong and to enlighten people truthfully. And now I will also support My servants, I Myself will supply them with people who desire the truth and also recognize the truth of My word if you offer it to them on My behalf. I would never give you this mission to spread the spiritual knowledge if your own erroneous thoughts were added to My word from above and degraded the value of it .... But I protect My vessel from bad influence, and only My flow of love will flow into it and guarantee you purest truth. And you shall now also represent this as My gift of grace, through which much light shall still be radiated into the hearts of people who desire light in the last time before the end .... And you need not fear to act against My will, for I place the will into your heart and then you will only do what is My will .... You will feel what is right, for I Myself guide your thoughts, and thus I will also bless you who let yourselves be guided by Me, who are active as mediators .... What I want but cannot obviously accomplish has to be carried out by people as long as people are still far away from Me .... But they shall nevertheless experience the truth which can only come forth from Me Myself, but which alone is the right light which creates clarity .... And therefore only ever wait for My instructions which, however, you will also recognize as My will and you will comply with them because you are willing to serve Me in the last days before the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Bridging the gap from people to God ....

B.D. 8261 from September 1st 1962, taken from Book No. 87

You enter the bridge to the spiritual kingdom with every thought that applies to Me ..... Then your soul takes the path to Me of its own free will, and I seize it and give it strength to continue the path. And anyone who once occupies himself with Me in thought will also return to this path time and again, although the world still surrounds him but he does not pay so much attention to it that it poses a danger to him. But you have to take the first step onto this bridge of your own accord, you have to try to fathom the purpose and meaning of your earthly existence and then pay attention to the thoughts which now come to you on the part of the beings of light to whom you have been entrusted that they guide and lead you. And these thoughts will always be indications of a God and creator with Whom you are in contact because you are His share and He wants you to establish a conscious bond with Him .... According to your will you will now receive such thoughts and move them within you .... Thus you will be mentally instructed by those beings of light that you must acknowledge a God and creator from Whom you originated .... As soon as you inwardly unite with your God and creator, that you speak to Him yourselves and ask Him to take care of you, I can also answer you directly, even though this only happens mentally, but you can likewise be instructed and receive My strength, for the conscious bond with Me is an opening of the heart into which I can now let light and strength shine .... For this is the purpose of your earthly life, that you learn to recognize and love Me, Whom you once refused to acknowledge and rejected My love .... There was a wide gulf between you and Me which, however, was bridged by Jesus Christ and His work of redemption .... He has now built a bridge which can be entered by anyone who follows Him, who professes Him and who then also professes Me, Who accomplished the act of salvation for you in the man Jesus. Thus the bridge was built, it exists .... but has to be entered voluntarily by every human being .... Yet anyone who enters it can also be certain that My love will take hold of him and that he will therefore overcome the gulf, that he will reach the goal, that he will find Me Myself and no longer depart from Me .... Then he will also have expressed his will to return to Me, from Whom he once separated in wrong will and wrong thinking. And thus everyone is blessed who does not reject Me when I intervene in his thoughts, when he continues to pursue these thoughts and can now also be instructed by Me Myself or by My messengers of light who are active in My will and emanate the light which is sent to them from Me. For there is a spark in every human being which I have given to him and which constantly pushes towards Me, towards the eternal fire, Which emitted sparks in the human being's heart .... And through this spiritual spark the human being is inseparably united with Me, yet only when he is aware of it will this spark spread light within him so that he gains the realization of what purpose and goal his earthly existence is .... And then he will no longer allow himself to be prevented from taking the path to Me, he will appeal to the divine redeemer Jesus Christ for strengthening of his will, and he will also avail himself of the blessings of the act of salvation .... He will carry his guilt in full trust to Him under the cross and he will be released from it .... The way back to Me and the attainment of the goal is assured to him, he returns to his true home and unites with Me again for eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The right intercourse with the spiritual world ....

B.D. 8262 from September 2nd 1962, taken from Book No. 87

I will approve of everything that contributes towards light becoming a reality amongst people .... Everything that is suitable to reach the truth will meet My approval, and you should only ever know that the truth can only be found when the connection with Me is established, for then I Myself am also entitled to intervene, which is to be taken into account due to your free will. All beings which stand in the light, thus inhabit My kingdom of light, are also filled with love, and consequently they also stand in the truth themselves and can distribute it, because they only work in My will but the transmission of the light .... of truth from Me .... is the epitome of their beatitude. And thus those beings of light will also make use of every opportunity where hearts open in the desire for truth, which they can now fill with the knowledge they receive from Me through the constant transmission of love .... Contact can therefore be established from the spiritual kingdom to earth when people consciously connect with the spirit world. But there are also beings in the spiritual kingdom who are not yet perfect and therefore still of dark spirit .... Yet these beings also try to make themselves known and influence people's thoughts but in a negative way .... They have no truth themselves but want to communicate and transfer their thoughts to people. And now the human being's degree of maturity is decisive as to which beings he grants access to and accepts their thoughts .... As much blessing as intercourse with enlightened spiritual beings can bring, so much harm can be caused by immature souls, because people themselves are not capable of judgement when their degree of maturity is still low and therefore they don't know whether the truth is conveyed to them from the spiritual kingdom .... This concerns people's attempts to establish a connection with the world of the beyond who certainly want to know about this world but whose desire for truth is not yet so strong that I Myself can protect them from erroneous thoughts and erroneous results on the part of the spiritual world .... And therefore it is a great danger to establish such connections, against which you are warned again and again ..... However, if the desire for truth is the driving force for contact with the world of the beyond, then you humans can also be certain that the world of light will also fulfil your desire, because it is also My will that you should be instructed in truth and because these beings of light will only ever carry out My will and only convey purest truth to you. You yourselves cannot judge by your own strength which spiritual forces are approaching you, yet the desire for truth truly protects you from unspiritual influence. And you can believe this assurance on My part .... You only have to be critical of yourselves as to whether you are dominated by the desire for truth or whether you only want to acquire knowledge about the conditions in the spiritual kingdom, whether you only want to establish contact with the deceased of whom you will never know the degree of maturity of their souls which have departed from this earth. I will bless all endeavours which let you gain possession of truth .... And likewise the messengers of light will protect you from the immature spiritual beings which push them away as soon as they only recognize your serious will which only seeks the truth .... And then you will not have to fear any misguidance either, for your prayer to Me for the supply of truth will protect you from it. I truly cannot take pleasure in the fact that you humans are spiritually blind and have no desire to become sighted .... but neither can I give you an inner light against your will, because you once rejected this light and voluntarily headed towards darkness .... But if I recognize that you yourselves suffer from your blindness, that you long for a light, then I am also immediately willing to let a light shine into your hearts, because then I also know that you recognize Me Myself in the light and learn to love Me. I always and constantly court your love, for My love has always followed you even though you turned away from Me .... it has pursued you into the abyss and done everything to cause your return to Me, which then also brings you the bright light again around your original beginning and your final goal. My love has not withdrawn from you because you emerged from My eternal love and I give up nothing that belongs to Me. And therefore I also want you to change your nature into love again in order to then be able to unite Me with you and to be and remain united with you for all eternity .... And if you yourselves become love again then you will also walk in the light, you will stand in knowledge again, as in the beginning, and all darkness will have fallen away from you, and you will be immeasurably blissful in the kingdom of light ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

"God sent His son to earth .... "

B.D. 8263 from September 3rd 1962, taken from Book No. 87

I sent My son to earth .... A Being Which emerged from My eternal primal love, Which turned Its whole love towards Me when a great host of My originally created spirits fell away from Me, Which recognized Me as Its father of eternity although It could not see Me, wanted to prove Its greater than great love to Me by wanting to bring the apostate children back to Me through a work of a unique kind .... And because His love moved Him to do so, I allowed it, I gave My consent for this being to descend to earth, for It to go from the kingdom of light, where It was immeasurably blissful, into a dark region .... into the kingdom of My counter-spirit Lucifer, who was the first of the fallen beings to become My antipole. I sent My son to earth Who offered to serve Me Myself on earth as a cover because I wanted to bring help to all fallen beings in their great spiritual adversity. For their way back to Me had been cut off, they would have had to remain eternally at a great distance from Me in a state of endless torment and wretchedness .... But they were all My creatures which had come into being out of My love and might through the will of the first-created being .... Lucifer .... who originally found the greatest bliss in creating creatures using My strength .... That this original spirit, which I had put forth as My image, fell, I could well have prevented, but I did not .... for in My love and wisdom I foresaw a process of complete deification of the fallen beings with the ultimate goal of childship to God, which, however, had to be achieved by free will .... However, the will of the fallen beings was so weakened by the influence of My counter-spirit Lucifer that the beings were incapable of once again reaching up from the deepest depths if I had not given them help, which was now also given to them on My part by the being in a state of compulsion .... thus according to My will .... through the material creation .... But even then the beings were still completely powerless because they once rejected My strength of love and could only gain this strength for ascent through love .... However, they had become incapable of love .... In My overwhelming mercy I probably put in a spark of love in their last stage on the path of return to Me .... Nevertheless, the immense burden of original sin, of rebellion against Me as their God and father in the state of brightest knowledge, remained on each of the fallen original spirits, for it had to be redeemed according to the law of divine justice, atonement had to be made which these fallen beings could never make themselves .... And therefore an original spirit remaining with Me offered to accomplish this work of atonement on earth because His love for Me and for the fallen brothers was so immense that He was willing to take upon Himself everything that this work of atonement required in terms of pain and suffering .... For He wanted to walk the earth as a 'human being', He wanted to embody Himself in Jesus' human shell and walk a path of suffering which required utmost love and which also made the manifestation of the Eternal Deity Himself in Him possible .... For I could only be where love is .... I could only unite Myself with love and therefore choose a vessel for My dwelling which had completely shaped itself into love .... Jesus' soul indeed brought love for Me with it to earth, but the region it entered at His birth was Lucifer's kingdom, and the soul was oppressed by him, everything surrounding Him was Lucifer's share, and because He had taken on the task of carrying out a mission as a human being to save His fallen brothers, He was not allowed to use the strength of love which was at His disposal as 'My son' in order to defend Himself against the oppressor and to shake it off .... but He had to wrestle with His fellow human beings and redeem the oppressor through a life of love .... which was therefore not so easy to lead because the unspiritual tried to hinder Him and His human outer shell reacted in the same way to all temptations .... thus His soul had to fight against it until the love in Him broke through ever more strongly and He thereby also spiritualised His physical shell, thus His light of love shone ever brighter and He did what the adversary wanted to prevent Him from doing: .... that He endured superhuman suffering and death out of love, thus He opposed My enemy with love and defeated him through love.... that He satisfied My justice and paid the purchase price for the souls which the adversary could now no longer hold captive .... Love, then, accomplished this work of mercy, which completely filled Him, and this love was I Myself .... But 'My son' had to pass through this darkness, through Lucifer's kingdom, and therefore had to leave behind His light and strength, which He possessed as a non-fallen original spirit. He had to .... like every human being, start earthly life in the same weakness, for He was meant to show people the path which leads back to Me again .... the path of love and suffering, which truly the man Jesus preceded His fellow human beings and I was able to take abode in Him because His soul was not burdened by original sin and His love gave Him the strength to also spiritualise His human body, thus He passed through earthly life without any sin .... For sin is only that which violates love .... And since I place a spark of My divine love in every human heart, every human being is also capable of igniting love and fanning it into highest embers .... Thus nothing impossible is required of you humans, because only weakness of will can prevent you from working with love and you can always ask Jesus Christ to strengthen your will, because this is one of the blessings He acquired for you through His death on the cross. And you humans must make use of these blessings of the act of salvation so that His act of mercy will not have been offered to you in vain, so that you will recognize Me Myself in Jesus, Who took abode in His shell in order to redeem you from your guilt of sin ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Concerning the question: Incarnation of Jesus ....

B.D. 8264 from September 5th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

My earthly mission was concluded by My death on the cross, by My ascension to heaven .... The complete deification of My soul, which had once come forth from the Father’s love as a created being, had occurred. This should be achieved by every original spirit some day in order to be able to work and create with the Father, completely perfected in His image .... Additionally, however, My original soul had the particular task to enable the Father .... the Eternal love Itself .... to manifest Himself on earth as a human being, i.e. the ‘Eternal love’ manifested Itself in My external cover of the man Jesus, and thus the Father became a visible God to all His formerly created beings who have achieved that particular degree of perfection which results in spiritual vision.

The human manifestation of God in Jesus is such a momentous problem that you will not be able to comprehend it while you are still on earth .... It was and is an act which is closely connected with the beings’ apostasy from their God and Creator .... But one thing is certain: My Jesus-soul is so closely united with the Father that He and I are one and that I cannot be considered to be separate from the Father any longer, and that I always Am and will be the visible God in all eternity .... I can indeed descend to earth again in My Divinity, thus I can appear as Jesus to any person who is most intimately connected with Me so that he can recognise Me as his Saviour and Redeemer, but only for a brief time in a visible state when certain events justify such appearances .... Because I have promised you My presence and can also prove this presence visibly .... And similarly will I appear at the end in the clouds, i.e. undeniably in My strength and glory but veiled, because even My Own cannot bear to see Me in the brightest light ....

But for My Jesus-soul to incarnate again or to have incarnated on this earth as a human being after My crucifixion is impossible, because it is completely merged with the Father’s Eternal spirit and because an incarnation of the Jesus-soul would be synonymous with an incarnation of God in a human being .... Every person should indeed form a union with God by means of love, and this is every human being’s last goal, but this is not an incarnation of My Jesus-soul, as you would understand it, in the sense that Jesus will live on earth again as human being. My Jesus-soul is and remains eternally unified with God and reigns and works in the spiritual kingdom, in the kingdom of light, visible to all beings of light from face to face. A conception in the flesh would therefore be a repeated human manifestation of God, for which there is no justification ....

Eminent and exalted beings of light will time and again descend to earth for the purpose of a mission, who want to achieve the last degree of their perfection by taking the test of volition on this earth .... And these persons can also be usually recognised by their remarkable deeds and a remarkably difficult earthly life. Hence you need to exercise great caution when you hear about an incarnation of Jesus, because although eminent and exalted beings of light incarnate on this earth they themselves will be without all knowledge of their origin, apart from the one who will announce My coming .... He will know who he is when the time has come to start his mission on earth. But you will often be deceived by My adversary’s actions if you assume this or that embodiment in a person .... even when he lives his life in total accordance with My will. Because the knowledge of his incarnated spirit does not help your perfection and can only ever lead to wrong conclusions. It cannot ever result in your spiritual advantage because you would still be subject to a certain amount of compulsory faith, whereas you should make your choice during your earthly life in complete freedom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Can God's existence be proven? ....

B.D. 8265 from September 6th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

My existence can never be proven to you humans, because then you would become subject to compulsory faith .... But you are supposed to arrive at the light and realisation about Me of your own free will during your earthly life, and this is certainly possible. You only need to think about it, for everything around you can provide you with the evidence of a God and Creator .... For even if you at first try to deny a divine Being you nevertheless have to acknowledge a Strength Which is expressing Itself throughout the whole of creation. Thus you cannot deny this strength, but the natural law, which likewise cannot be denied by you, the destined purpose of the works of creation around you .... are in turn evidence of a deliberately directed Strength Which infers a thinking Being ....

Hence your goal on earth is to establish contact with this thinking Being, otherwise it would be irrelevant as to whether you describe Me as the strength that is recognisable by you. Yet you are not likely to call upon a 'Strength' and try to establish contact with it .... As soon as you spend some serious thought on it with the determination to ascertain the truth, I will also reveal Myself to you as a spiritually tangible God and Creator .... If, however, you are indifferent to Whom you owe your life as a human being, then you will be lacking the sincere will and you will never attain inner clarity. Furthermore, your own nature as a human being should make you think .... No person is able to create a being with the ability to think, with self-awareness and free will .... Consequently, you must have emerged from a similar Being, only that It is, in contrast to you, supremely perfect, but this Being, too, has to possess self-awareness, the faculty of thought and a will, and this Being works with love, incomparable wisdom and power ....

You can never regard yourselves to be a product of coincidence, for if this strength were not directed by a will it would always have an elemental effect, thus be destructive but never progressive, yet this refutes the destined purpose and natural law of creation .... My existence cannot be proven to you, but creation is convincing evidence of an all-powerful Being for every thinking human being, even if this Being is inconceivable to him, if he is unable to form a real idea of it .... He is just still very distant from Me and thus spiritually completely unenlightened .... which is due to the fact that his fall into the abyss had deprived him of all light. And if such a person receives the knowledge about Me as the highest and most perfect Spirit in eternity his opposition to Me breaks through, and he wants to deny Me as he once had done when he rejected the light of My love and thus became spiritually unenlightened. But in earthly life he must try to escape the darkness, he must want to get clarification about himself and his origin, and he must be willing to do what is right, and thus also allow himself to be taught by those who are able to bring him light. But a completely dark spirit will also lack willpower, and he will reject all explanations because he always feels that the knowledge about a God and Creator will give him a guilty conscience, which he refuses to accept.

Trying to convince a fellow human being of the existence of a powerful God therefore only makes sense if he himself wants to know something about it, whereas a person who constantly likes to deny God remains incorrigible and no energy should be wasted on him, for his will is the decisive factor as to whether he ever finds his way out of the darkness. He must also come to realise the existence of a God and Creator without proof, which will happen if he endeavours to live a life of love, as in that case he is already making contact with Me and the desire for truth will subsequently arise in him too. And then his thinking will already be guided, he will be mentally influenced by beings of light into whose care he is entrusted, and his resistance will begin to wane .... which is also aided by the intercession of fellow human beings, and that will always have the effect of an increased strength of will ....

Amen

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Apostasy of the beings .... Voluntary ascent ....

B.D. 8266 from September 7th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

When the beings came forth from Me they were in a brightly enlightened, completely free and inconceivably powerful state .... For I created them in My image, in all perfection, and that signified unlimited bliss .... They could have remained in this state forever .... Yet as a sign of their divinity they also possessed free will. And this free will changed their nature into the opposite .... they became imperfect, lost their light as well as their strength, and as a result they lost their freedom. They became enslaved because they had misused their freedom and opposed My will .... They left My eternal order. A violation of My order, however, had to have negative consequences and these beings became wretched .... Only light, strength and freedom is bliss, on the other hand, an enslaved being without light and strength experiences a state of torment, but which it had created itself through its wrong will .... But since all beings emerged through My strength of love I took pity upon their painful state, for I Am and remain a God of love, I Am a supremely perfect Being Which can only ever emanate love because love is My fundamental nature. But I Am also a Being Which creates and is active with boundless wisdom and might and to Whom it is therefore always possible to turn everything that is wrong into right again .... Nevertheless I must allow My created beings to keep their free will, and this will is the decisive factor as to whether the being accepts My help. However, since it had deprived itself of light and strength on account of its deliberate rejection it was no longer able to use its will. And thus it was placed into a state of compulsion by Me where My will alone was the decisive factor ....

This enabled the being to gradually ascend from profound darkness and the state of utter weakness and come closer to Me once more .... until it could finally leave the state of compulsion and receive its free will back in order to use it again, and this time for a correct attitude towards its God and Creator .... It must enter the law of eternal order again and change itself back into the original being it used to be in the beginning .... The moment it voluntarily subordinates its will to My divine will it also attains light and strength again because it upholds the principle of divine order, because it has shaped itself into love and its thoughts and will are only determined by love. Hence love guarantees the being light and strength and freedom .... The rejection of love, however, reversed its fundamental nature into the opposite .... So although the being I created is able to voluntarily change itself entirely into the opposite, it can nevertheless not cease to exist .... Therefore it cannot remain in a state of darkness and weakness forever, yet neither can it be forced into changing its nature, I can only help the being, which is no longer able to use its free will, such that a free decision will be possible for the being again. This is why I take care of what became wretched and let it go through countless many stages of development under the law of compulsion in order to wrest it from My adversary's control who is to blame for the wretchedness of the beings which came forth from Me in light and freedom .... Nevertheless, the complete change into the original being and therefore a return to Me can only take place through a decision of free will .... For each being must provide the evidence of its divinity, it must voluntarily have entered My will, it must desire light and strength and freedom and seriously strive towards Me again, from Whom it once distanced itself and thereby became the most miserable being .... Only in unity with Me can there be light, strength and freedom, consequently, unlimited bliss is only feasible when the being has changed itself into its fundamental nature again, when it has become again what it was in the beginning when it came forth from Me Myself in all perfection ....

Amen

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Trust in God's guidance ....

B.D. 8267 from September 8th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

Entrust yourselves to Me with complete faith and know that I know all your thoughts .... but that I also arrange everything in such a way that it is a blessing for yourselves and your fellow human beings. Therefore you don't need to worry yourselves, for in My wisdom I recognize the effect of every happening .... But I also know how few people fully commit themselves to a spiritual task, and since I don't force anyone's will I wait patiently until a person offers himself to Me of his own accord, to whom I can then assign his task. But for the time being your task consists of giving your fellow human beings the opportunity to take notice of My word .... by letting Me speak to you and spreading this word of Mine .... It will ignite many a heart and also inspire them to work in the vineyard, however, it will always be a small-scale work until a greater action can be undertaken through the will of people who offer themselves to Me for service. You should only believe that you can trustingly place everything into your father's hands .... And time and again I strengthen this faith in you by addressing you in an unusual way, by responding to your thoughts and obviously sending you the answer .... Yet you are all still weak in faith and anxious about it, and you worry which is entirely unjustified .... because I know about everything and no thought remains hidden from Me. And it is your body which still has to bear the discomfort because it is necessary .... For all suffering shall help the soul to crystallise and become capable of ever stronger light absorption .... Yet I will also give strength to this body to persevere as long as I need your cooperation on earth. And time and again I tell you that a bright light is necessary in the darkness which covers the earth .... and that I Myself will ensure that this light is not extinguished because I know My children who desire light and whom I therefore will not let walk in darkness. Your mission is so important that you will truly be protected in every way, that this mission will not be interrupted as long as you want to carry it out yourselves .... Consider, however, how wrongly humanity thinks and walks completely in error .... Consider that there is a way out of this error: .... if the eternal truth itself teaches people .... And if you enable Me to give this direct instruction you can also be certain that you will not request My strength in vain, that it will flow through you in every contact with Me, even if you don't physically feel it .... But the soul receives what it needs and can therefore distribute it abundantly to its fellow human beings. There is only one thing you should not forget, that everything comes from Me, that I know everything and also send you what you need at the right hour .... be it earthly or spiritual needs, for you are in My service and as a faithful father of the house I take care of My servants .... But you are also My children who are fatherly cared for by Me in love .... For this is why I reveal Myself to you, so that you recognize Me in My nature and also give Me your love, because only love can unite us .... But love also trusts, and I will truly not disappoint you either ....

Amen

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Revelations are God's help towards ascent ....

B.D. 8268 from September 9th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

My loving care has applied to you for eternity, for you have been distant from Me for eternity already and therefore unhappy. During your earthly life you are oblivious to the infinitely long time before your embodiment as a human being because it lies behind you and thus it has been surmounted .... And now you are taking the path across earth as a human being, unaware of the fate you are approaching .... unaware, until you voluntarily take the path to Me .... Only then will the danger have passed of descending again and having to cover this infinitely long path once more. And since all My love applies to you I constantly exert My influence in order to motivate you to hand yourselves over to the Power which brought you into being. For it only requires your free will during your earthly progress .... It can lead you back to supreme happiness but it can also result in your renewed downfall, for only your free will decides your fate in eternity ....

As long as this will was constrained, as long as your soul had to go through the creations of earth in a state of compulsion there was no risk of a descent, for My adversary had lost all authority over you and My love constantly pulled you higher .... But now .... as a human being .... you are free, and My adversary therefore also has the right to influence you again, and thus you voluntarily have to resist him, you voluntarily have to take the path to Me, and then you will have passed your final test of earthly life and can be liberated from every external shell. Since My love called you into being, and since this love has never diminished nor will it ever diminish, I will also always help you, I will fight for your will just like My adversary does .... And I shall let all happenings approach you such that your thoughts will be directed towards Me, for as soon as I achieve that you recognise Me as a Being of supreme perfection Which loves you and only wants your happiness I will also have won you over for Myself ....

Thus I also have to reveal Myself to you, I must try to achieve that you are informed of a Power Which gave you life, and I have to enlighten you about the nature of this Power .... I have to provide you with the information about this Being's reign and activity and your relationship with It. Since you are blessed with intelligence, with the faculty of thought, I also constantly stimulate you to think, and I enter your thoughts Myself .... I direct your earthly fate in such a way that you will be able to think of Me .... Hence I try to influence your will in every way so that it will turn to Me and hand itself over to Me .... For I Am motivated to do so by My great love for you which would like to unite itself with you again and this requires your free will .... After your long development before your embodiment as a human being you are now in a state of maturity which only requires you to make use of the blessings of being human in order to achieve your goal .... For every day will also offer you the opportunities to attain knowledge about your God and Creator, since every day will give you the opportunity to practise love, when you are able to carry out deeds of love, which will also guarantee you correct thinking and grant you the recognition that you have to fulfil a task on earth .... And considerable information about the reason for your earthly existence can be made accessible to you, and through this knowledge you can also be pushed towards Me, Who is imparting the information to you Himself, because you must learn to recognise Me in order to then also strive consciously towards Me.

My love will do anything so that you will bring the course of development to fruition, which shall return you to Me for good .... But one thing even My infinite love cannot do: it cannot force you to return to Me against your will .... You have to take the path of earthly life in absolute freedom, but you will be and remain infinitely happy if your will makes a free decision for Me. You will no longer need to fear regression; for once I have won you for Myself I will hold on to you and never ever leave you to My adversary .... But in earthly life he is likewise struggling for your souls, and you should know this so that you can make a conscious choice, so that you will offer him resistance and take your path to Me in order to help you .... so that you will lay claim to the blessings of Jesus Christ's act of Salvation, in Whom I Myself came to earth in order to pay the purchase price for your souls .... For you belonged to My adversary as well, since you had followed him of your own free will .... And you should know that it is possible to be released from his control if you take the path to the cross and thereby show that your will has freely chosen Me .... And for that reason I constantly reveal Myself to humanity and inform them of the reason for their earthly progress and the opportunity to find final deliverance through Jesus Christ, in Whom I Myself brought you redemption from sin and death ....

Amen

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Strokes of fate .... disasters .... misfortunes ....

B.D. 8269 from September 10th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

Hear My voice which will always sound to you from above because it is necessary for the father to speak to His children .... I have mercy on humanity because the end is near and it will mostly pass away without knowing what is ahead of it if it does not establish the bond with Me first. Yet people are so distant from Me, their God and creator, that they do not establish any spiritual bond whatsoever, that they only pay attention to the earthly world, which is My adversary's kingdom .... And they are not to be instructed either, for My adversary has confused their thinking and he has also hardened their hearts so that they only love themselves but feel no love for their neighbour who is in need .... Every person is only concerned about increasing his earthly goods and creating a sense of well-being for his earthly body .... Yet very few think of their souls, and therefore there is such great spiritual hardship on earth which time and again causes Me to speak to My living creations in the form of harsh strokes of fate, disasters and accidents of all kinds, for which you humans cannot really understand, that they are permissions from a loving God Who only wants to bring His living creations to their senses, Who addresses them in this way because they don't listen to His word from above. And therefore the earthly adversity will increase, the time of tribulation will befall people, which can serve to make people change their minds and take the path to Me. How easily they could find it if only they paid attention to My word which sounds to them from above, which is conveyed to them through My messengers. The transmission of My word is the most effective means, but its acceptance requires their free will, and I do not force it. This is why you, My servants, are very necessary for this last rescue mission of Mine, and I bless every work you do for Me ..... For it is a dreadful fate that awaits those who have not taken the path back to Me before the end. I know this and therefore still take from earth those who have not completely fallen prey to My adversary, so that they will still attain a clear light in the kingdom of the beyond and then be able to strive upwards. And that is why time and again you will hear of deaths in great numbers, and then you should always know that My great mercy has called these people from earth so that they will not completely fall prey to My adversary. The fact that good people will also be affected is truly not a disaster for them, for they can contribute to showing the others the way in the kingdom of the beyond. Their love can bring many blessings in the beyond, and they themselves will also be able to increase their degree of maturity through their redemptive work, which is their need in view of the many poor, sick and weak souls who suddenly found death and are without light .... Time is drawing to a close and every day must be evaluated for the redemption of erring souls. And what better thing can you, My servants on earth, do than to let Me speak to people through you? What better can you do than to spread My word and also make it accessible to those who are still in the world and find it difficult to detach themselves from it? Your constant bond with Me gives Me the opportunity to address many people, and the strength of My word will bring about a change of will in those who have not yet completely fallen prey to My adversary, and then they will also be saved from the abyss they are now approaching .... The fact that hardship will also increase has been announced to you time and again, but you should also have the right explanation for this, that only love for the creations which are still apostate to Me will cause Me to do so, even if you doubt it and sometimes cannot believe it when you receive news of great disastrous strokes of fate which affect people all over the world .... If they contribute to people being so touched by them that the will to help is expressed in them, that love is kindled in them, then these strokes of fate will also be a blessing if you consider that these people will escape a new banishment which will bring them endless times of torment and bondage again .... For I only ever want to help people become blissfully happy, and I will do everything so that they will still complete their course of development on this earth ....

Amen

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Recognizing real revelations ....

B.D. 8270 from September 12th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

You humans do not yet live your earthly life free of error, and this is the reason why I speak to you Myself, Who alone can enlighten you as to what you humans should accept as truth and what you must reject as error if your soul is to gain an advantage in order to one day be able to enter the spiritual kingdom where the light will shine towards you .... And I also speak to you clearly and unequivocally, for I take into account the lightless state as well as the individual soul's maturity, that My address shall be understandable to all of them. But the truth will always be offered to you in purest form, after all, it is My endeavour to find access to your hearts Myself so that you will grant Me entrance of your own free will and recognize Me as the one Who wants to bring you salvation. And if you therefore hear Me .... be it directly or through My messengers .... it will become light in you, that is, knowledge will be made accessible to you which you did not possess before .... It will be as if a good teacher instructs you, whom you now follow attentively and you gain spiritual benefit from every speech. You will therefore feel that you have been taught by Me Myself .... your God and father .... and are introduced to this knowledge. And through this address you are in direct contact with Me, and this inner bond with Me is necessary for the understanding of what is imparted to you. But you must not forget that this exchange will only ever be of a spiritual nature, that you will be spiritually instructed, that I convey the truth to you about purely spiritual things. And you should always remember this .... For when your God and father reveals Himself through the word His goal is only ever the spiritual development of the soul, and you humans should only ever want to receive for your soul, you should only ever desire to hear Me in order to help your soul to recover, which is still sick and weak as long as it lives on earth as a human being and therefore needs My help for its perfection. And you can be certain that everything will be done by Me to strengthen the soul for its ascent upwards. The fact that I therefore address you humans directly cannot be doubted .... but you yourselves must decide what you want to accept as a direct address from your father .... you must make this decision yourselves, after all, My spirit is always willing to instruct you if you ask for it. And My spirit does not contradict itself .... He will always give you the same answer that you must pay attention whether and to what extent you receive light, because only bright light can radiate from Me. And anyone who receives this light, who allows himself to be permeated by it, will no longer allow himself to be deceived by error, even though he is offered it under the mask of light. He will inwardly resist it, no matter how good the disguise is ..... I approve of everything that teaches love and practices love, and thus I will also bless every preacher who proclaims the gospel of love to people, and depending on his own willingness to love My spirit will also be active in him so that he will then speak in My spirit and spread blessings. Yet I will not use such a preacher as a 'form' through which I make Myself known, instead, he will speak as the human being he is and only the content will betray My spirit, but not that another voice speaks through him which will then be passed off as My voice. If, on the other hand, a direct revelation on My part is conveyed to earth, then it happens in such a way that My spirit addresses the spiritual spark in the human being and the latter then writes down what is conveyed to him by the spirit within himself .... because such revelations shall always be conveyed to humanity, just as they have come to the human being from within. You should only ever make an effort to want to judge rightly and justly, and then you will also have the right feeling for truth and error, you will not accept everything lightly, but neither will you reject what has come forth from Me directly and is conveyed to you. For My adversary also intervenes and disguises himself well when it is necessary to cause confusion even amongst My own .... He, too, will try to work in the same way and make use of those who are not yet entirely in the light and are not untouchable against his attacks ....

Amen

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Knowing God also guarantees ascent ....

B.D. 8271 from September 13th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

Anyone who professes Me will also be active in My will, for I can direct his thoughts without he is offering resistance to Me. The conscious recognition of My Self .... thus the living faith in Me and the resulting subordination of his will to Mine .... now also lets him be active according to My will, regardless of whether his activity is merely earthly or spiritual .... He will always do what corresponds to My law of order, it will always be an activity of love to which he is not forced. Thus a right way of life emerges from the acknowledgement of Myself. Anyone who believes in Me also fulfils My commandments of love, for his faith is itself only the result of the activity of love (life), otherwise he would not be alive. And such recognition of Myself is also a passed test of will for the purpose of which the human being lives on earth .... And this person can now also know himself to be guided and led by Me, for he has voluntarily detached himself from My adversary and turned to Me, so that I now also have the right and the power to influence him and help him to achieve perfection. My adversary, however, will now likewise try to influence him, and he will do so in such a way that he will try to keep the human being in spiritual darkness .... which he will succeed in doing if the desire for light, for truth, is not strong enough to approach Me Myself for it .... For people live in the world, they can certainly acknowledge Me, they can believe in Me, yet they do not seek to penetrate deeper into the secrets of the spiritual kingdom and thus do not desire the light of truth .... The God in Whom they (indeed) believe seems too distant to them to want to approach Him (Me) in direct contact with Me to enlighten them about the correlations, about the truth which solves deeper problems than merely worldly questions. They are content with the teachings of faith they have been offered and do not test them for their truth, for their origin ..... And time and again the adversary tries such people, albeit without success, because I protect everyone from him who acknowledges Me, who believes in Me. Yet as long as this person has not penetrated the truth from Me he will also have to fight against him, for his still worldly attitude also holds the person back from the flight of fancy which he will only undertake when he separates himself from the world and now gives his thoughts a different direction .... Only precious years of life can be lost to him which he could have better used for his soul, but he will certainly come to this realization one day because he acknowledges Me and thus has already given up his resistance against Me .... He can no longer fall, he merely remains on the same level of development for a long time due to his too lukewarm attitude towards truth, which first gives him a bright light and now consciously lets him strive towards the height. The more love breaks through in a person the sooner the desire for truth will awaken in him, the livelier his faith will be and he will establish a heartfelt bond with Me, which always signifies progress on his path of ascent. The 'world' will always hold the human being back in his development, but this does not mean that My adversary has full power over him, for as soon as I Myself am acknowledged I can also emanate My influence, and this will certainly not be without success, only the human being will be held back by the world and he may need a longer time until he has detached himself from it. And this is what My words mean: „He who is not against Me is for Me ...." As soon as the resistance against Me is abandoned, the human being will also be seized by Me and no longer left to the adversary .... But the latter will struggle for his soul until the end but will not reach the goal because this soul also belongs to Me and I will truly no longer allow My right to be disputed ....

Amen

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Recognising the true messengers ....

B.D. 8272 from September 14th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

The human being’s will to know the truth is blessed by Me, for then I will be able to reveal Myself to him, I will be able to mentally convey the truth to him or address him so that he will hear My Word. Under no circumstances do I want him to accept mental concepts which seem doubtful to him, for such doubts are justified if he genuinely requests the truth. Then these doubts will already constitute a mild rejection of what contradicts the truth. You ask Me how you can recognise the truth, you ask, how you can recognise My messengers .... If I transmit a major revelation to earth you will always recognise it as coming from Me by the bright ray of light that illuminates your heart .... For a divine revelation has to enrich you, you have to receive something that makes you happy, that you don’t want to part with again .... always provided that you genuinely desire the truth .... then the Eternal Truth will reveal Itself to you. In that case it is irrelevant as to whether you receive this gift directly or through My messengers, for then you will also experience the same feeling, because they, too, only impart what originates from Me.

If, however, the spiritual information leaves you unmoved or you inwardly reject it, then you can unhesitatingly dismiss it, for it will never be a divine revelation but usually your own or adopted ideas which have no effective strength. Then you need not fear to do wrong, for anyone who wants to hear Me will also recognise My voice .... ‘He who keeps My commandments is the one who loves Me .... and I will reveal Myself to him ....’ i.e. I will make Myself known to him. And the human being will recognise Me when he is informed about My nature .... when he receives the knowledge which hitherto was hidden from him .... Hence on account of this knowledge he will be able to recognise Me .... for knowledge, in turn, is the light which illuminates a person from within. If you therefore receive varying knowledge, i.e. contradicting knowledge from external sources you only need to make heartfelt contact with Me and ask Me to help you recognise the truth and truly, you will feel the correct spiritual knowledge come forth from Me and can safely reject the rest. Not everyone hears My Word directly, and yet I Am addressing him Myself when the directly received Word is imparted to him .... And if I address him Myself through these very messengers who received it directly from Me, he will also feel that he is being addressed by Me, and this is your most reliable evidence that you receive the purest truth, for I place this feeling into your heart Myself ....

You have further reliable proof of a ‘divine revelation’ if it keeps exposing existing misguided teachings, if the contents of such a revelation clearly intend to ‘purify the Gospel’ which was repeatedly spoiled by human will .... True messengers can therefore only be people who endorse the truth of such a revelation, who make sure that these revelations are passed on to people .... Since I Am the Eternal Truth Myself I will consequently also ensure that people can receive the truth if they genuinely want it .... A revelation from Me must therefore enlighten them about everything pertaining to spiritual subjects. Thus I only call those people ‘My messengers’ who try to spread My Word which I directly conveyed to earth .... I indeed pour out My spirit upon all flesh, as I promised .... Yet this is not limited to such obviously remarkable revelations on My part but includes enlightened reasoning, correct communication in spiritual discussions, realisation of My divine Word, hence also complete understanding of the unusual knowledge contained in My revelations from above .... And if the recipients of My Word can be addressed by Me directly they will always proclaim and advocate the same .... For this reason an unusual revelation can always be regarded as a criterion for the truth of spiritual knowledge, and since its contents predominantly consist of Jesus Christ’s act of Salvation it also proves its divine origin and therefore also guarantees the complete truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Reason for deformed births ....

B.D. 8273 from September 15th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

And everyone shall be blessed who hands himself over to Me and appeals for My support. I will not close Myself to any plea which applies to the salvation of your souls. And whatever you desire to know you shall learn: You humans have to go through the school of the spirit for which I designated the creation work Earth, and every human being will be able to fully mature on it, for it offers opportunities for all levels of development. The souls, however .... the once fallen original spirits .... developed so differently during their earthly progress in the state of compulsion, that they also require different situations in life. Admittedly, they must have attained a certain degree of maturity in order to be allowed to embody themselves as a human being, yet the closer they came to this last incarnation the more flexible became the constraints of their external shells, and the spiritual substances bound in the forms were able to make use of this relaxation but also to ignore it ....

And such is the soul's nature at the start of its path as a human being. These different states of soul also require different earthly paths which can result in total freedom from the form. Even still heavily burdened souls are still able to do this successfully if they voluntarily accept a particularly difficult earthly life. And the soul can decide for itself whether it wants to take this path, since it is shown to the soul before its embodiment ....

This is one explanation why people suffer physical afflictions, whose arduous fate often makes you question the reason for their condition .... But there are also incarnated souls who voluntarily accept an especially difficult earthly progress even though they don't need it themselves, who want to go to earth from the beyond and ask for My permission in order to thereby help other souls. Hence they don't have to fulfil a mission but they are merely the burden themselves, who offer their fellow human beings the opportunity to practise love, patience, compassion, gentleness, peacefulness and righteousness .... who thereby heighten their own state of maturity but have already reached a certain state of maturity in the kingdom of the beyond that allows a new incarnation on earth because their request is motivated by a strong will of love and helpfulness .... But then you cannot say that these human beings are in a state of atonement, for immature souls will not be allowed to incarnate again in order to improve their maturity. And you should never forget that no soul is forced to live on earth but voluntarily accepts a fate which it knows in advance. The 'atonement' of a sin on earth is a misguided opinion because only Jesus Christ is able to redeem this guilt and thus the human being finds forgiveness solely through Him, for all of humanity's sins have been 'atoned' for by Him .... And this forgiveness by Jesus Christ must first take place before a soul will be able to voluntarily incarnate itself on earth again for the sake of a mission or in order to render help .... For an enlightened soul is aware of people's heartless state on earth, especially in the last days, and it is also willing to actively help so that people will ignite love within themselves, so that they will exercise compassion, so that they will be able to develop all virtues when they live in the vicinity of a deformed or unhappy person. For I repeatedly emphasise that return incarnations to earth certainly happen but that they all have their specific reasons, yet a still immature soul will never return to earth as a result of My will in order to make up for what it had neglected to do on earth ....

Only voluntary sacrifices of atonement can persuade Me to give My permission, but these always have to be preceded by their own salvation through Jesus Christ. The fact that such a soul will also have the opportunity to attain a high degree of maturity on this earth is understandable, because every voluntary sacrifice will be acknowledged and blessed by Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The last disciples - Knowledge of the essence of God ....

B.D. 8274 from September 16th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

As My last disciples, you are to carry My gospel out into the world .... You should impart spiritual goods to people who are still in the midst of the world .... you should try to turn their thoughts away from this world and make the spiritual kingdom accessible to them by imparting spiritual goods to them .... It is indeed up to the will of each individual whether he will accept from you what you offer him .... Yet you should not refrain from also offering spiritual gifts to those who still possess little of them. And therefore I send My disciples out again, yet I first make them suitable to carry out this task by first providing them with spiritual knowledge Myself, by giving them what they are to pass on to their fellow human beings. For it is important that they distribute a good gift, that they instruct people, that they impart spiritual knowledge to them which they have received from Me Myself and which is therefore extremely effective and beneficial for people's souls. Just as I once sent My disciples out into the world to proclaim My gospel to it, just as they once spread the teachings they had received from Me Myself because they were to pass on the pure truth .... so too they (the disciples) can now only be successfully active for Me in the last days if they can distribute pure truth, because only through truth can people find the right path to Me and because only truth can cause them to take this path to Me .... For through truth they recognize Me Myself, about Whose nature people know too little and therefore they do not try to approach Me but I remain the distant God to them, even if they believe in a 'God'. I Myself can only convey the pure truth to them through My servants, through people who have voluntarily offered themselves to Me for service .... And these now receive from Me what they are to convey to their fellow human beings and what they need to fulfil their earthly task .... For the time being the gospel of love has to be proclaimed to people, for only love can bring them closer to their God and creator, from Whom they once voluntarily separated .... I want to help people to become blissfully happy again as they once did when they came forth from Me in all perfection. But now, in the last days, love has grown cold among people and therefore they are far away from Me, they are far away from the truth, they are spiritually darkened, for without love they are still under My adversary's control and don't recognize Me, Who, as their father of eternity, constantly wants to radiate My love to them in order to fetch them back to Me, and Whom they therefore cannot recognize because there is no love in them which would give them bright light about Me Myself and My being, which is pure love .... And My adversary also wants to prevent people from recognizing and learning to love Me. And therefore he also keeps them in deepest spiritual darkness, he withholds the truth from them and also prevents My servants from imparting truth to their fellow human beings. Yet these are under My protection and I Myself send them out, time and again I will provide them with abundant seed and they will do good vineyard work, they will cultivate the fields which lie fallow, they will sow and also reap good fruit, they will always serve Me as faithful servants because they themselves know what hardship there is amongst people as long as they know nothing of My infinite fatherly love and they (don't) turn to Me themselves in order to now also be illuminated by My love .... But if the gospel of love is proclaimed to them they will find a path to Me if only they fulfil My commandments of love, for they only live on earth for this reason alone, in order to ignite love in themselves of their own free will and thereby to integrate themselves into the divine law of order again, the principle of which is love .... Love shall be proclaimed and lived out by you, My servants, you yourselves shall precede them with the light which love has kindled in you .... For you receive My word and shall pass this word on so that people will know about My will, so that they voluntarily turn to Me and can now also experience the effect of a life of love themselves, so that they will now take their earthly path with Me, Who can be close to them again if they change to love themselves, because I can only be where love is and because without love no-one can become blissfully happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God is inscrutable ....

B.D. 8275 from September 17th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

You, My living creations, will never be able to fathom Me, even when you, as My supremely perfect children, are able to work and be active next to Me. You are the product of My eternal creative power .... I, however, Am the source of strength Itself, Which is inexhaustible, Which knows no limit, Which constantly pours Its flow into infinity .... But I Am also a Being, i.e., I Am a thinking Spirit of most profound wisdom Who works according to His will with inconceivable love and makes everything He creates infinitely happy .... I Am a thinking Entity Who constantly lets new creations arise, since the strength flowing forth from Me cannot remain inactive because it is life and constantly creates life. And when you, My living creations, reach highest perfection of your own free will so that you can work and create next to Me as My children, then you will indeed have penetrated the most profound wisdom, you will have light and strength at your own disposal which will make you tremendously happy and of which you can make infinite use in order to be creatively active for your own happiness, and this strength will constantly flow to you from the Primary Source of eternity.

He Himself, however, will be and remain inscrutable for you, yet the awareness that you will always be nourished by Him is utmost bliss, and your love for Me will continually increase, you will yearn for Me and forever sense My presence, you will be able to behold Me in Jesus Christ .... and yet, I will remain an enigma for you, since it is not possible for a created being to totally ascertain the Entity which is and will remain from everlasting to everlasting, because the created being is but a tiny spark that was externalised by My love's sea of flames. But the fact that this created being knows that it is forever nourished by My strength of love, that the being is aware that it is united with Me .... that it can constantly associate with Me like a child with its Father, that it can speak to Me and be active with Me in absolute blissful togetherness, is continually increasing its bliss and lets its love become ever more profound .... And love is bliss .... love is light .... love is strength .... love is the divine which makes every being become a god in its own right, because love always grants ever greater perfection .... Yet the fact that there is no limit, that is the unimaginable beatitude which I bestow upon My living creations time and again and which can only be understood in the state of perfection, when the being which I emanated as a living creation has deified itself and become My child.

Then it knows that I Am forever inscrutable, and yet it adamantly keeps striving towards Me, it feels the bliss of approaching Me and finds its happiness in My reciprocated love .... of which you humans lack all understanding as yet because you are still imperfect. But you are only intended to receive a concept of eternity which will be comprehensible to you one day, and therefore you shall also know that this supremely perfect Being will certainly reach His goal of being able to make everything that was created by Him infinitely happy. And it shall only be an incentive for you to keep striving towards your perfection, for it will bring you beatitudes in abundance .... Yet it is and will remain incomprehensible for you that I draw close to you, My living creations, and speak to you .... that I Am and eternally will remain unattainable for you and nevertheless embrace every single living creation with deepest love and draw it close to Me, that I try to make Myself and My Nature explicable to you in order to win your love, because I can only merge with love and this unification is needed in order to make you infinitely happy one day .... The most perfect Being .... the greatest Spirit in infinity .... the Eternal Source of strength and light .... is seeking the union with you, His living creations, and therefore He is speaking to you .... He bends down to the smallest being in order to aid its ascent. And His love will never diminish, because love knows no limit and tries to make everything blissfully happy that once had emerged from this love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Teaching in the afterlife requires truth ....

B.D. 8276 from September 18th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

Once you have entered the spiritual kingdom and only a small light can shine for you, then you will know how necessary it is to be in possession of the pure truth, for every error will darken the light like a shadow, and no radiant light will shine through you until you have completely penetrated the truth .... Thus you will also need guides over there who will supply you with this light, who will stand in the truth themselves and also be able to instruct you in it. And until then you will not be able to carry out the delightful work over there yourselves of giving light to other souls, for you first have to stand in truth yourselves before you are allowed to engage in a teaching activity which makes you unspeakably happy .... Every erroneous opinion still darkens the sphere around you, and you can be grateful if you don't need to enter into darkness, for then you won't know the cause of the darkness and therefore won't try to remedy it either. But if you have already let the light of truth shine in you on earth then your entry into the beyond will be truly blissful, because a brightly radiating light will receive you, because you may now dwell in a sphere where all burdens fall away from you, where everything lies before you in clarity, where you may now distribute what you possess, because you can show many spiritual treasures which you acquired on earth through love. For love also places you into the state of pure truth, and if your life on earth was a life of love and all deeper knowledge was alien to you, it will be imparted to you in a flash upon your entry into the spiritual kingdom. And if you live a life of love on earth then you will also easily be able to recognize error and your thoughts will be turned towards the truth .... No wrong spiritual knowledge will burden you in the kingdom of the beyond and cover the light, for only pure truth is a true light, which you will recognize after your death. Therefore I Myself try to convey the truth to you on earth already, for to know the right knowledge is already bliss, which increases when you can impart your knowledge to other souls because love impels you to do so. And therefore even the souls in the beyond, which are still weak in will, eagerly accept the truth from My mouth when I instruct you, because they are allowed to participate, for I will not deny Myself to any being which desires to hear Me Myself. Light must become everywhere where My adversary still seeks to spread darkness. He is the lord of darkness, and his endeavour will constantly be to withhold the pure truth from people but to make error and lies accessible to them, and countless people depart from this earth in a lightless state because they did not resist the darkness, because they did not desire the truth which would certainly have been supplied to them if the desire for it had been present .... It is about the soul's fate in the beyond .... Only love will earn it a blissful fate, because love also guarantees the entrance into the kingdom of light, where the soul can now be active for its own happiness by carrying light into the darkness again itself. Yet the battle of darkness against the light will not cease, and the human being's free will decides the victory .... In the last days, however, it will be particularly fierce because the adversary does not want to lose his followers, but the light will expose him and his activities and he will use all means to keep people in darkness .... The fact that I Myself fight for the souls and time and again kindle a light for them so that they will find the path to Me, Whom they will also recognize and learn to love in the light, is understandable, for My love wants to help them attain beatitude, and My love therefore wants to repeatedly convey the pure truth to people and uncover and correct existing misguided teachings. And I will always point people to My commandments of love, I will always admonish them to live a life of love, because then only they will be able to recognize the truth and their state of light will increase, so that they will then also end their earthly life in a high degree of light and love and enter My kingdom, where they will then be blissfully happy in the light and also be able to radiate it into the darkness again ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Signs of the last days ....

B.D. 8277 from September 20th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

You can rest assured that everything I have announced through seers and prophets will fulfil itself, for the end moves ever closer and by the signs of the times you will recognise the hour you live in. Time and again the objection is raised that the end was always dreaded during bad times and yet the earth continued to exist .... that even My disciples had counted on My early return and that they, too, had been mistaken .... And likewise they don't want to listen and believe in My present proclamations. And I repeatedly emphasise the fact that one day the future will become the present and that you humans have now arrived at the lowest spiritual point which necessitates an end of this earth which, however, should only be understood as a total transformation of the earth's surface and not the destruction of the earth as a work of creation. For this earth will continue to fulfil its task in the universe, it will continue to shelter people for the purpose of maturing their souls .... Yet first it has to be made suitable for this again.

My Word is truth, and if I send you My Word from above, if I explain My plan of Salvation to you so that you will also know all correlations, then I actually only intend you to faithfully accept My warnings and admonitions and change your attitude towards Me accordingly .... For you should think further than just your daily life, you should think of what lies ahead of you since you know for certain that you will have to die and cannot prolong your life for even one day, that you therefore depend on the Power which called you into being .... You should seriously deliberate these thoughts, and it will not be to your disadvantage, for then I will also help you to think clearly and to consider the idea of an end, and what this end means for each one of you. If you believe in a God and Creator Whose love called you into being then you will not be so worried when you are made aware of a near end, for then you will know that this God and Creator also holds your destiny in His hands, that you only need to commend yourselves to His love and grace in order to be safely lead through the approaching time .... And the references relating to it won't frighten you, instead you will merely join more closely with your God and Creator, Whom you recognise as your eternal Father.

Yet the unbelievers will be badly affected, and it is to them which My constant prophesies of a near end apply, for they can still change themselves during the short time they have left. Just pay attention to the signs of the time, for I have already announced those to My first disciples .... But by now you are at the start of the time of affliction, you hear about wars, about earthquakes .... accidents and disasters are increasing .... you can observe changes in the universe, and you also see how people behave who have degenerated and believe that they can interfere in My creation, who let themselves be driven to God-opposing experiments which will not end well ....

Notice the frame of mind of people who indulge in worldly pleasures, who are harsh and unloving and don't consider their neighbour's hardship .... Pay attention to the lack of faith, to their attitude towards Jesus Christ and His act of Salvation, and you will know that you are already living in the midst of time which precedes the end. The battle of faith, too, will flare up with such cruelty you would not think possible. And this spiritual low level will draw the end closer and has already reached the degree which would justify My intervention, but I will not divert from the day that has been determined in My plan of Salvation since eternity .... But neither will I postpone this day, for in My wisdom I also realised when the time is right for the work of transformation to take place ....

And therefore I will let My voice be heard until the end announcing the approaching end, and happy is he who listens to this voice and prepares himself .... happy is he who wants to belong to My Own and remains loyal to Me until the end .... For I will provide him with exceptional strength, he will stand firm and need not fear the day of the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Inner urging is God's will .... Cooperation needed ....

B.D. 8278 from September 21st 1962, taken from Book No. 87

Time and again I will supply you, My servants, with people to whom you shall convey the truth from Me, for I know the hearts of those who desire the truth, and I will guide all threads such that they will lead to the source which I have opened up, where hunger and thirst can be quenched, where the earthly pilgrims can refresh and refresh themselves and time and again fetch new strength for their ascent upwards. Only the desire for it is necessary, and truly, they will find the fountain of life from which they can draw constantly. And if you are urged from within to convey My word to this or that person, then know that I Myself will also work in you, that I will give you the right thoughts, that I will guide you and that you can regard this inner urge as an assignment from Me, for anyone who works for Me has his path marked out for him by Me and will always do what is My will .... For it is still the last time of grace which shall be utilised to the best of My ability, because every soul is exceedingly dear to Me and I still want to win it for Myself before the end. And time and again I have to say that only truth can bring salvation to people, for they will not reach the goal by the path of error, by the path of error they are still in bondage to My adversary because he keeps them in spiritual darkness .... But in darkness they don't recognize Me, and I must be recognized by everyone who wants to reach his goal on earth, for he has to strive towards Me and can only do so if he recognizes Me in My nature, otherwise his resistance towards Me will remain unbroken and the distance from him to Me, which he once caused himself, cannot be reduced. But I know where the resistance has already diminished, and these I pursue with My love, and I want to address them so that they learn to recognize Me correctly. Thus I will bring them to you, and truly, anyone who desires the truth will not be disappointed, he will be happy about My address and learn to recognize and love Me. Do you now understand why I need your cooperation? It is truly possible for Me to enlighten all people abruptly and to inform them of the pure truth, yet I cannot do so due to people's free will and require your cooperation, for no-one will be forced to accept the truth but they must have the opportunity to take notice of it .... The truth must be conveyed to them from Me, which can only ever happen through you, who are faithful servants to Me in My vineyard. It is a different sphere in which you humans dwell than the kingdom where I can work in all strength .... And this sphere has to be taken into account, people can only ever receive a limited amount of light and strength .... but if I were to address all people directly, so that there could be no doubt about Me and My might, this sphere could never be exchanged for that sphere in My kingdom, for free will has to bring about the perfection of the human soul ..... whereas through your cooperation this free will can decide and the souls will derive the greatest advantage from My address, which they listen to and now live their life on earth according to My word. Therefore you, who have offered yourselves to Me for service, must be eagerly active and I will bless your work, I will guide it to success and direct everything such that no spiritual work is done in vain. Therefore, don't let yourselves be held back by this activity, always place it in the foreground of your work on this earth, for the time until the end is only short and many shall still find their way to Me, many shall still take notice of the truth which I Myself convey to earth in order to save people from spiritual darkness. For only those who walk in the light will find the right path to Me, only those who walk in the light will recognize Me, and they will desire Me and I will unite with them, they will reach their goal and be eternally blissful ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

General prayer actions ....

B.D. 8279 from September 22nd 1962, taken from Book No. 87

Everything that is still done in the end time for the salvation of erring souls will meet My approval, for the will of the one who wants to do redemptive work also determines the value of his work. If love impels a person to offer himself to Me for service in order to bring the lost children back to Me, My blessing will always be upon his work, and the success will also depend on the strength of his love. But you, who want to do this work, must always bear in mind that a living proclamation of My gospel must take place .... People must not be pushed into mechanical action, that they are prompted into actions of prayer which can easily become form again, but everyone must be deeply touched in his heart and now also act from within .... He must practise love, for this alone also guarantees the salvation of a soul .... General actions of prayer, however, only lead to habitual exercises again and can very easily be carried out mechanically, which, however, remains without value for the souls. For it may well be the will of those who want to induce their fellow human beings into uninterrupted prayer .... But believe Me, every prayer must come from the innermost heart, then it will ascend and reach My ear .... But people rarely speak this innermost language of the heart, for they are seldom able to close themselves off and present their request to Me in a quiet chamber .... Every soul has to work on itself, no one else can do this work for it, and therefore don't let your prayer to Me become a lip service which will never reach My ear .... In contrast, preach love, which is always the guarantee that you will unite with Me, because I Myself am in every work of love .... Then you will be active in My will and I will bless you. You should always remember what it means to send a prayer to Me in spirit and in truth .... This requires innermost contemplation, complete closure from the external world, the human being's soul has to be so close to Me, it has to force My presence through its love for Me and then speak to Me like a child speaks trustingly to its father and entrusts its most secret wishes to Him with the request for fulfilment .... And such a deep inner bond will rarely only be possible if a circle of prayers meets in a planned way, if these prayers take place at fixed times or if people listen to the prayer of one individual .... A heartfelt prayer, as I want to hear it from you, cannot be achieved in a comandom manner .... For then you humans do not yet understand in which way I want to be called upon by you .... But not for nothing have I said that you should pray in spirit and in truth .... For I can and will only answer such a prayer, because only such a prayer proves to Me that the human being establishes the right relationship between child and Me and that I can then also prove Myself to him as a loving father. For I have also said: „Where two or three are gathered in My name, there am I in the midst of them ...." These words should also give you the same to think about, for I know human hearts and therefore also know how different every individual person's train of thought is, even if the will is there to take the right path .... And how different are therefore also the prayers which I hear and often cannot hear because they only pass through the lips but do not come from the deepest bottom of the heart. If love is taught and made the most important thing to people then the individual soul will also deal with it, and its spiritual progress will be in accordance with its willingness to love, and then it will also establish the intimate connection with Me .... For this is only ever the result of love, because without love no human being can approach Me and therefore every prayer can only be empty words, no matter how loud and numerous they are spoken .... Only through love does the child approach the father, and then it can also achieve everything, because My love is endless and only ever wants to give and give itself away. The proclamation of the gospel of love is therefore the first and most important thing, and anyone who voluntarily offers himself to Me for this activity will also be allowed to experience My blessing, for as soon as only love is kindled amongst people they need not fear getting lost when the end has come .... Where love is lived there is light, and there the prince of darkness has lost his power .... Therefore encourage people to work with love wherever you can speak to them .... For you humans are only on earth for the purpose of transforming your nature into love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Why Jesus Christ must be acknowledged ....

B.D. 8280 from September 23rd 1962, taken from Book No. 87

Time and again you have to be reminded that you cannot ignore Jesus Christ, that you have to acknowledge His act of salvation if you want to be released from your original sin, if you want to be accepted again into the kingdom of light and bliss. You have to find Him, the divine redeemer, during your earthly life in order to be released from your guilt, for He took this guilt upon Himself and travelled the path to the cross with it, He suffered for you and died an agonising death for the sake of your original sin .... If you do not accept His redemption, you will remain burdened with the great guilt of your former apostasy from God, and you will enter the kingdom of the beyond unredeemed .... But even then you still have the great grace that He accepts you and redeems your guilt of sin if you call out to Him of your own free will that He may deliver you from darkness .... But it is far more difficult in the kingdom of the beyond to come to the realization that sin keeps you in darkness and that you must first have found forgiveness for your sins if you want to ascend and enter the kingdom of light. Without Jesus Christ there is no redemption. For this reason the great act of mercy of the man Jesus is repeatedly brought to your attention on earth, in Whom God embodied Himself, because His great love wanted to redeem the guilt for you and therefore this love took abode in the man Jesus, Who suffered unspeakably and died on the cross because the love in Him drove Him, because He wanted to purchase beatitude for His fallen brothers again, because He wanted to help them to return to the father from Whom they had detached themselves of their own free will .... and this was the great guilt which they were unable to redeem themselves, which kept them separated from the father for an infinitely long time and which can therefore only be taken away from people through Jesus Christ, who acknowledge Him and His act of Salvation and thus also God Himself in Him .... Whatever is possible will still be done in the last days before the end so that people will be informed of the great act of mercy of the man Jesus, for to enter the kingdom of the beyond unredeemed after the death of the body means profound darkness and an extremely painful path of suffering in the spiritual kingdom until this soul has also found the divine redeemer and appeals to Him for mercy .... Every soul can find Him but equally it can also sink to the abyss if it resists all efforts of the beings of light and does not accept any instructions from them, if, as on earth, it closes itself to all better knowledge, if its will is not directed upwards, if its resistance does not abate and the efforts of spiritual friends are in vain. Then the soul will remain burdened by its original sin and descend into the abyss again in order to take a new path across earth .... but again the course through all works of creation, from hard matter on through the plant and animal kingdom up to the human being .... And endless times pass again until it once more starts its walk on earth as a human being in order to find redemption from its guilt in free will. Jesus offered the sacrifice on the cross for humanity's sins, and the blessings of the act of salvation are accessible to all people, all people can be released from their guilt if only they take the path to the cross, if they acknowledge Jesus Christ as the son of God in Whom the eternal deity manifested Itself and now approach Him for forgiveness of their guilt, for which the eternal love sacrificed Itself in Jesus. And time and again people are therefore given truthful knowledge about Jesus and His act of salvation so that people learn to recognize why they have to acknowledge Him, why they should appeal for His forgiveness and why the acknowledgement of God in Jesus is demanded of them .... And the process of the spirits' apostasy from God is explained to people and the consequences which can only be cancelled by Jesus Christ because love was in Him, Which alone was able to redeem this great original sin .... And therefore people experience the truth time and again so that they voluntarily take the path to the cross and thus enter the bridge into the kingdom of light, for Jesus Christ opened the gate through His crucifixion, and He Himself leads the souls through this gate who acknowledge Him and avail themselves of the blessings of the act of salvation, which He acquired for sinful humanity through His death on the cross .... For He died for all people of the past, the present and the future, but He must be acknowledged and the forgiveness of the guilt of sin must be requested by everyone who believes in Him and wants to become blessed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Danger of arrogance ....

B.D. 8281 from September 24th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

Anyone who takes My Word 'You are all sinners ....' to heart, will also remain profoundly humble, he will not become arrogant nor judge harshly, for the knowledge of not yet being perfect himself will always make him bear in mind that he is a weak individual who needs My strength and support, and with a humble heart he will come to Me and appeal to Me for both .... In contrast, the character of someone sure of himself and his worth will betray pride, he will raise himself above his fellow human beings, and this arrogance will show itself in contempt of the other person, in unkind judgment and in the opinion of having superior knowledge and therefore no need of further instructions, be they of an earthly or spiritual nature .... the arrogant person will always believe himself to have attained the degree which entitles him to look down on his fellow human beings.

And arrogance is truly part of My adversary which made him fall into the deepest abyss, for he exalted himself above Me, his God and Creator, and he drew a vast host of created beings along with him into the depth. Much of this arrogant spirit still adheres to these fallen beings when they have to carry out their last test of will as human beings. Arrogance is a rather worrying sign of imperfection which the person then has to fight against in earthly life until he has attained profound humility towards Me, and then he will no longer show off to his fellow human beings either but will have full understanding of their failings, because he will recognise his own shortcomings himself.

But the right relationship with Me requires profound humility, and as soon as the human being recognises himself as sinful and admits to it, he will also take refuge in Jesus Christ and appeal to Him to deliver him from it .... Humility will make him call to Him from the bottom of his heart and he will find mercy before His eyes .... for 'I bestow My grace upon the humble ....' And no one can deem himself to be perfect for as long as he lives on earth .... He can only possess a higher degree of awareness, but precisely this will make him consistently more humble, because he recognises the greatness of his God and Creator and the infinite love this God and Creator bestows upon His living creations, which will certainly make the living creation indescribably happy but it will not make it condescending.

Arrogance is still an indication of insufficient knowledge, for the adversary tries to obscure the light, the adversary still has a share in the human being who is assured of himself and his worth .... You all still have to fight very much against this evil, for time and again My adversary will breathe a sense of loftiness into you, time and again he will know how to find a weak spot where he is able to awaken self-deceit in you. And therefore you all should be on your guard and try to nip every sense of arrogance in the bud, for you should always remember that your Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Christ has taken the path of most profound humility, precisely in order to atone for your fall caused by pride .... You should bear His torments and suffering in mind which this atonement demanded of Him .... And you should know that your path across earth is the result of this fall into the abyss caused by pride.

The return to Me can only take place on the path of humility, and the earthly path should lead you to the realisation that you are weak, helpless beings who require My loving support in order to ascend again, and who only ever have to ask Me for My assistance if they want to travel the earthly path successfully. But the person whose spirit is still arrogant is still distant from Me and thus will hardly find Me. For true love, which includes his neighbour, cannot develop in him correctly since in his arrogance he will stay away from the person to whom he should give his love. And since the human being can only mature through a life of love the arrogant person will not make any spiritual progress but remain on the same level, if he does not sink even lower because My adversary still keeps him captive.

Therefore fight against this evil and exercise strict self-criticism, then you will discover faults which will make you feel small, and you will come down from the throne you have erected for yourselves by incorrectly assessing your worth .... Humility alone will make you mature, then you will receive blessings in abundance from Me, I will take care of you Myself, for you come closer to Me when you are humble, and your prayer to Me will be heart-felt and devoted, and I will grant your request and draw you to Me as My children, for then you finally have separated yourselves from My adversary, who became My adversary because he exalted himself over the One from Whose strength he had emerged ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The mystery of God’s human manifestation ....

B.D. 8282 from September 25th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

Time and again you receive information about Jesus Christ, the Son of God and Saviour of the world .... about God’s human manifestation in Jesus .... Precisely this manifestation of the greatest and most perfect spirit God .... of the Father, out of Whom everything emerged .... in the human being Jesus cannot be explained to you often enough, in order that you will not become subject to erroneous belief and understand where the spirit of God is expressing Itself and where the adversary intervenes to infiltrate the pure truth with error. Jesus’ soul of light .... one of the original spirits brought forth by Eternal Love .... had embodied Itself on earth for the purpose of an exalted mission: to offer the Father His temporal cover as an abode and to redeem the immense original sin of the former apostasy from God, which countless beings had burdened themselves with. Jesus’ soul had voluntarily offered to bring about the act of atonement on earth, and because It was moved by greater than great love for its fallen brothers and because God will never refute love, He allowed it to happen .... Because only love was able to make such a sacrifice .... The man Jesus then developed this love on earth to its fullest .... which means that Eternal Love Itself took complete possession of Jesus’ physical shell .... that therefore God Himself took abode in the man Jesus and was able to do so, because the human being Jesus was pure and without sin and due to love was in constant contact with His eternal Father ....

You humans will never be able to properly understand this mystery as long as you live on earth .... But God’s human manifestation in Jesus can only be explained such that God is love in His fundamental substance and that He completely permeated the man Jesus, thus everything in Him became love. And therefore love has accomplished the act of Salvation, because only love gave the external human form the necessary strength for its suffering, to endure until the end, until the most painful death on the cross .... And when the act of Salvation was accomplished the being, which had once been ‘created’ by God, also achieved Its highest perfection, it had deified Itself, It had completely become one with the Father, from Whom It had originated .... Jesus had become ‘God’ .... just as God had been ‘human’ in Jesus before, until the greatest act of mercy on earth had been accomplished ....

But now Jesus is and remains God, Who has become and Who will eternally remain a visible God for all created beings .... Anyone who does not acknowledge or declare this complete deification of Jesus’ becoming one with God, does not yet know the truth which originated from God, the eternal truth. Because time and again the Eternal Truth teaches people through His spirit of this greatest mystery, since it is necessary for people to recognise and acknowledge God Himself in Jesus, because the salvation of a human being will not take place until he .... as a formerly fallen original spirit who did not want to acknowledge God .... has acknowledged Him of his own accord and wants to return to Him .... And therefore any kind of teaching which portrays Jesus as a separate entity will be untrue, in spite of having the highest aspirations .... Because He is no longer outside of God, He is God Himself ....

The eternal Deity may not be personified, It is the greatest spirit of eternity Who permeates everything, but Who has chosen a form for Himself in order to be visible to His created beings .... And this form is Jesus, consequently Jesus is God, but not a second being which leads the people to God .... God’s adversary constantly tries to stop people receiving a bright light, and thus he especially tries to invalidate the act of Salvation and God’s human manifestation, he attempts to confuse the concepts because he wants to prevent God’s recognition and acknowledgment, which takes his followers from him .... And he will constantly strive to appear in the guise of an angel of light spreading deceitful teachings amongst people which, however, shall be corrected again and again by the Eternal Truth.

Jesus Christ’s act of Salvation and God’s human manifestation in Jesus cannot be explained to people often enough; but the person himself also has to be willing to receive the pure truth, then he need not fear of falling prey to error. He will recognise it as such, he will internally refuse to accept erroneous teachings and not believe those whom the adversary has gained as an instrument for himself but who can be recognised by everyone who wants to live in truth and therefore asks God Himself, as the eternal truth. There will be a lot of deception during the last period before the end, but God will know how to direct the outcome of it because He knows the hearts of those who are willing, who do not want to fall prey to the adversary’s doings .... and He will indeed guide them into truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Process of apostasy .... Process of deification of the being ....

B.D. 8283 from September 26th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

To have left My flow of love also means to have deprived yourselves of all strength and light, for My flow of love is light and strength which will fill you again and again if you voluntarily open yourselves to My illumination of love .... Thus, due to your former rejection of My strength of love you consciously surrendered your perfection, your being, which emerged from Me in all perfection, reversed itself and took on completely opposite characteristics, it lost its perfection and all characteristics of a divine being .... It turned into the opposite and therefore could no longer dwell close to Me either, for it took on the characteristics of the one who became My antipole, who first reversed his nature and fell away from Me. He became My antipole, i.e., he wanted to take possession of the created beings, even though they had emerged from My strength which his will had used to create countless spiritual beings .... And thus they were also My share .... but once they have to decide for themselves to whom they want to belong, to Me or to My adversary. When they were still close to Me they were permeated by light and love and thus possessed immense strength. Yet the one whose will caused them to arise by using My strength brought about their apostasy from Me .... He presented himself to these beings as god and creator, and he determined them to follow him, whom they thus could behold, who shone in all beauty .... But as long as they were permeated by My strength of love they also recognized Me as the being from Whom they had emerged .... And yet, they turned to the other and rejected My illumination of love .... And this meant the loss of strength and light, and My adversary now had an easy game .... They followed him voluntarily and the beings fell into the abyss, they were no longer blissful as before when they received unlimited love from Me but they fell into a state of torment, they lost their freedom and became lightless and powerless beings which no longer recognized themselves .... They lost self-awareness, for what was once emanated from Me as strength, which had misused its light and freedom, could not remain inactive in the long run, because strength has to become effective according to the law of eternity .... Thus I reshaped the strength once emanated from Me as a being and let creations of a different kind arise which were destined for a serving function through My will .... Thus I assigned such a serving function to every work of creation, and the emanated strength now fulfilled its purpose ....

(9/26/1962) It became active but only ever according to My will. But I had once placed free beings outside which were to use their constantly flowing strength of love of their own free will without being determined to do so by Me, yet in the same will as Me, because this guaranteed the love of those beings as long as this love was meant for Me. Hence these beings had failed (and) got into a completely wrong state, yet through an extremely agonising path of development they once again became able, as I-conscious beings, to make My will their own .... and now to prove that they can use the unlimited influx of love again for their intended purpose .... thus first of all to shape itself again into the original being it originated from Me, in order to then be able to create and work with Me and next to Me again in free will, which, however, has now completely aligned itself with Mine, because love determines this will and right love is never directed against Me but longs for Me and union with Me. Power once emanated by Me cannot remain inactive forever, yet if it is used to work against Me I Myself will prevent its effectiveness .... And therefore I dissolved the once emanated perfect beings into small and smallest sparks of strength again which now work according to My will. But I also make sure that all these tiny sparks come together again and become the once created beings again, for only these beings have their self-awareness and free will again, but which I want to win over completely for Myself but will never force it to surrender to Me. For free will is the sign of divine origin, it is the characteristic of a divine created being which first guarantees supreme beatitude but which could also strive towards the deepest darkness without being prevented by Me .... (9/26/1962) For I knew that these beings which had fallen into the abyss could also reach the highest goal again, that they, who came forth as My 'creations' and fell away from Me, would one day return as My 'children', for which free will was the very prerequisite, thus My will once had to be switched off, which is now the case during earthly life as a human being .... Then the human being can freely strive for and achieve deification of his own accord if he fulfils the law of eternal order without any coercion, if he lives in love, i.e. if he now shapes himself into love, i.e. if he accepts his original nature again in which (as which) I had created him and he has now given proof of his divinity, that his will is the same as Mine and that he has now attained the perfection which makes him My child, which he will remain for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Promises relating to divine revelations ....

B.D. 8284 from September 26th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

I will reveal Myself to you .... This is My promise which even you, who would like to deny such revelations, cannot dispute .... But how can I reveal Myself to you if you don’t believe that My Word is the truth which I told you Myself when I lived on earth? I want to manifest Myself to you and My sole condition is that you love Me and keep My commandments .... Yet My promise means nothing to you or you would faithfully listen and expect My communication. You rely on the Scriptures, on the Book of Books, and yet don’t believe what is written in it. For it contains many more promises which announce My working through the spirit whereby I want to reveal Myself .... So how do you understand My Words ‘I will send you the Comforter ....’ and ‘I will remain with you always until the end of time ....’? How do you interpret the Words ‘From your loins shall flow rivers of living water ....’ and ‘I shall pour out My spirit upon all flesh ....’? Why do you refuse to believe that the Father keeps speaking to His children? Why do you restrict My activity to an extent that suits you? Consider that your intellect can cause a lot of harm if you exclude your heart, if you don’t allow your heart to speak, which truly teaches you otherwise .... You want to stop My living creations’ direct contact with Me, you want to deem it impossible for me to speak to My children Myself and yet I also said ‘My sheep know My voice ....’

Hence I must talk to them, and I do and will do so for all eternity .... For only what comes forth from My mouth is the pure truth, consequently you should also accept as truth what you call ‘My Word’, what is written in the Scriptures .... Time and again I must speak to you humans because you .... due to your imperfection .... repeatedly distort or misinterpret My pure Word .... Therefore you should first strive to awaken your spirit, endeavour to live by My Gospel of love which I taught on earth, and your thinking will become enlightened and clear, and you will ask Me to reveal Myself to you .... You will appeal to Me for evidence of My presence and truly .... you will receive it, for your faith will have become alive; you will establish a living contact with Me and what you earlier were unable to believe will then become completely self-evident, namely, that the eternal Father, your God and Creator, ‘reveals’ Himself to His living creations because he wants to be recognised and loved by them. This is why He manifests Himself, He ‘reveals’ Himself as a God of love, wisdom and might .... And if you humans genuinely want to come closer to this supremely perfect Being, He will grant you enlightened knowledge, so that you will no longer live in the spiritual darkness which was the result of your past apostasy from Me.

No matter how eagerly you study the Scriptures, how much you learn every letter by heart .... your intellect will only ever receive knowledge which is of little benefit for your soul .... Only an awakened spirit will find complete clarification, i.e. only shaping your nature into love, only the fulfilment of My divine commandments of love, will grant you clear realisation .... In that case, however, you will also correctly understand the Book of Books, that is, according to its spiritual meaning, whilst until then it will only remain correct knowledge of the letter, for only the spirit gives life to the letter .... If you humans really want to serve Me and carry out successful vineyard work you will first have to establish close contact with Me, your eternal Father, and only then will you become spiritually enlightened yourselves and also know that I reveal Myself to you, as I promised you, for My Word is truth and must come to pass .... And it will fulfil itself just as soon as the requirements are complied with .... as soon as you live a life of love and yearn for Me and My presence .... and then you will listen inwardly and no longer doubt the Father’s love, Who reveals Himself through His spirit ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Purity of the divine spiritual good ....

B.D. 8285 from September 27th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

It is only rarely possible for pure truth to be conveyed to earth because prerequisites have to be met which require the human being's free will, for I can only express Myself through the spirit to a person who fully consciously accepts My announcements, who fully consciously opens his spiritual ear in order to hear My address. For My spirit addresses the spiritual spark in the human being and reveals itself to him as soon as he listens inwardly to My voice. This process could certainly take place in many people, for many are called .... but only a few are chosen, for I can only choose those who awaken the spirit within themselves to life .... who, through loving activity, shape themselves such that I can let My flow of spirit flow into a suitable vessel. These will then attain a living faith in Me as their God and creator through love, and they will also learn to believe that I want to and can express Myself to them, and now they will also consciously listen inwardly for My voice. And then they will also be convinced that everything I now say is complete truth .... because My spirit cannot err and because it is My spirit which now expresses itself .... many are called but few are chosen .... My calling must be awaited as soon as a person offers himself to Me for service .... But if this person calls himself, if he believes that he can force Me into a divestment through the spirit by opening himself to every spiritual influence in the assumption that I Myself speak through him, although the prerequisite .... a right life of love .... is not yet fulfilled, he must also reckon with being used or abused by forces which are not benevolent towards him and therefore are in the service of the one who is an enemy of truth .... You humans cannot always judge which spiritual forces approach you, but you can always be critical of yourselves and ask yourselves what prompts you to come forward with spiritual knowledge which you believe to have received by spiritual means. You must seriously examine yourselves and then you will also know yourselves whether you belong to the chosen ones whom I have called to serve in My vineyard. But you can also fear to have received spiritual knowledge which you cannot represent as pure truth .... But if I convey the pure truth to earth through an instrument chosen by Myself, this truth shall also remain pure, it shall not be mixed with questionable spiritual knowledge, with spiritual knowledge which allows contradictions to be recognized .... it should be protected from all contamination .... because it originated from a clear source .... thus no other waters shall be supplied to it of which you do not know whether they are pure and unadulterated, whether they possess the salvific value of the spring which was tapped by Me Myself .... The water of life which originated from Me shall remain pure and therefore all foreign spiritual substances shall be kept away from it, for only that which originates from Me has healing power for your soul .... And if I repeatedly instruct you to protect the water of life from all turbidity and contamination, this also means that it is good to keep My eternal truth .... My manifest gifts of grace, the divine revelations .... to be carefully guarded against foreign spiritual goods .... For what use is it if I convey the pure truth to earth and human by-products or results of immature spirit beings are added to this truth? All people should and can indeed come together at the source of the water of life, which I Myself have opened up, and then receive strength and fortification .... but nothing other than the pure water of life flowing from the source may ever be offered to the wanderer at the source. And therefore I can never approve of people presenting spiritual knowledge as equivalent which has not flowed forth from Me Myself and which can be recognized by the fact that it is not the same truth but deviates in its teachings from My word, which radiates from above to earth and should be recognized as My word. It shall certainly be spread, it shall be led everywhere where it is still dark .... Yet it will always spread bright light if it is kept pure; the light, however, will diminish immediately and the radiations will no longer be so penetrating if it is darkened by shadows .... which is to be understood as untrue spiritual knowledge which confuses the thoughts and excludes clarity of thought. And I will bless My servants who know how to prevent such confusion, who are concerned that pure truth is not interspersed with error .... And the servants I choose Myself for My work of salvation will also have the right feeling for how they should behave towards questionable spiritual knowledge .... and they will decide in My will, because they completely submit themselves to My will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Explanation for unusual process ....

B.D. 8286 from September 28th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

Without hesitation you can support the spiritual knowledge which comes to you from above, from the kingdom of light .... For people cannot overlook the way it is offered to you if they seriously examine it, and thus they have to admit a process which they cannot explain humanly either. The process of receiving messages of all-encompassing content cannot be described as particularly developed intellectual thinking .... And a force must be acknowledged which must have its origin in the spiritual world .... in the world which could not yet be explored by human beings because the human intellect is incapable of doing so .... but which nevertheless exists and about which information is given to the human being who allows My spirit to flow into him, which then also teaches him truthfully. And what is conveyed to you humans through the spirit will be easily understood by all who are of good will. And it will also not be able to be refuted, for spiritual knowledge cannot be proven but neither can it be proven wrong, it has to be believed, but it can also be believed if the spirit can work in the human being himself and gives him knowledge, a light, which gives him bright realization and no longer allows for inner doubt. But since knowledge cannot necessarily be given to a person, since conditions have to be fulfilled which ignite the spiritual spark in the human being, which first awaken the spirit to life, the truth of such messages will also be contested time and again, but this must not irritate you, My servants, or cause you to stop this work, for you will not find a substitute for the delicious gift of grace you receive as a sign of My greater than great love. What I send to you can no longer be surpassed, and human intellect will come to naught if it alone should solve such problems which are solved for you in the most understandable way through My spirit. Anyone who rejects the extensive knowledge is still in spiritual darkness himself, and no proof can be given to him that I Myself am at work in order to enlighten you humans, in order to free you humans from error and to offer you purest truth which you need in order to find the path to Me .... You humans should turn to Me of your own free will, and therefore no evidence of Myself may force you into this change of will .... And thus My obvious working must also leave the possibility open for every person to give you (himself) an earthly explanation for it, otherwise you would be forced to accept everything as truth .... Yet the willing person need only seriously think about it, however, on condition that he is interested in the pure truth. Then he will certainly give up his inner resistance .... Yet the desire for truth is rarely encountered, and this is the reason why humanity has lost its way so far in its thinking, why it lives in spiritual blindness, for it does not seek Me as the eternal truth, it is indifferent towards all spiritual knowledge and only gladly accepts what corresponds to its earthly desires .... A person who often lets his thoughts wander into the kingdom which is still closed to him .... A person who is not satisfied with what the earthly world offers him will already slowly establish contact with that kingdom, and the spiritual knowledge conveyed to him through you will also appear acceptable to him because his thinking will be clarified and the spiritual knowledge will give him inner satisfaction .... But anyone who rejects it is still too earthly-minded, and he is not very interested in spiritual truths, in explanations which human intellect alone cannot provide. And against the will the light of knowledge will shine to no man .... Yet it will shine brightly and make you happy for you who desire it, for only then will all correlations become clear to you, only then will you learn about your own earthly task, and you will also recognize the goal set for you and be able to consciously strive towards it. And therefore I will also bless every person who enables Me to let a true light shine to earth, who now carries it on and thus also enlightens his fellow human being on the path he should take in order to reach the goal .... the union with Myself .... with Me Myself. No human being on earth need walk in ignorance who desires a light which only I can kindle for him .... For I know the will and the thinking of every individual, and truly, he who desires will receive .... For as long as you humans walk in spiritual darkness you cannot be called blessed .... But I want you to be blessed .... And therefore I shine upon you and give you the evidence of My love, which you may receive in the form of My revelations and now the darkness has been broken through if you gratefully receive My gift of grace, if you believe what I proclaim to you and now consciously strive towards Me in order to be blissfully happy again, as you were in the beginning ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

1 Tessalonians 2, 13 .... (according to Luther)

B.D. 8287 from September 30th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

You are constantly given knowledge of God's working in the human being .... For the knowledge of this has been lost to humanity because people have distanced themselves so far from God that they cannot be permeated by His strength, i.e. that the effect of His flow of strength of love on the human being is curbed, if not prevented altogether. But the great distance is the result of unkindness, or also: Anyone who lives in love is connected to God and voluntarily opens himself to His illumination of love .... And receiving God's ray of love also means allowing God's working in the human being .... It means that the human being slowly returns to his original state where he was flooded with light and strength and stood in brightest realization .... However, knowledge, i.e. truthful knowledge, can only be attained from God Himself, the spirit from God that slumbers in the human being must be awakened, unite with the father-spirit from eternity and consciously strive towards this father-spirit ..... Then the divine flow of love flows unhindered into the human being who allows this radiation. But then one can no longer speak of spiritual intercourse with the spirit kingdom .... nor can there be any talk of receiving spiritual messages in a mediumistic state .... but the "working of God in man" must be openly and clearly acknowledged, which produces spiritual results that are above criticism .... Yet because you humans know nothing of the fact that you can establish such a heartfelt bond with God that He reveals Himself, you deny any divine influx, even though you have to admit that a power is at work which cannot be explained earthly when a spiritual thinking is imparted to you which was completely alien to you. You want to dismiss everything with the working of satanic forces and thus attribute more power to this satanic force than to the divine one, for you first doubt God's great love Who wants to save but not condemn .... And precisely this judgment betrays yourselves and your spirit, it betrays that you are still ignorant, otherwise you would be able to clearly differentiate between divine activity and satanic influence. The very fact that you lack this discernment also explains that God's adversary can often intervene in your thoughts because the right light has not yet been kindled in you .... For anyone who stands in the right light, who stands in the truth which originates from God Himself as the eternal truth, will not doubt for a moment that God reveals Himself to people because He wants them to reach their goal in earthly life .... because He wants them to take the path to Him from Whom they once originated, and because this path has to be illuminated, which can only ever be achieved by the truth. For truth is the light which shines brightly into the night, which breaks through the darkness of spirit in which humanity walks. Therefore, as long as you humans still spread misguided teachings as truth, the spirit in you cannot yet be awakened, and as long as you do not have the right to judge and describe a divine revelation as the work of the adversary, you should first seriously examine and remember all sayings of Jesus which you cannot dismiss as lies .... For Jesus Himself said: "I will reveal Myself to you ....“ „I will send you the comforter who will guide you into the truth ...." Anyone who acknowledges Jesus and His work of redemption must also acknowledge His gospel, which He taught on earth, as pure truth, which often enough points to the working of the spirit in the human being .... Anyone who acknowledges Jesus as God's son in Whom God Himself manifested Himself, so that Jesus and God are one and cannot be separated from each other, will know the truth and will always understand the 'working of God in the human being'. And then he will no longer want to associate this working with the working of the opposing forces which only ever spread error and often make use of people who initiate contact with the world of spirits and who themselves cannot yet demonstrate the preconditions which guarantee a direct approach to God .... Truly, you humans will be exposed to strong errors and you will only be able to carry out all tests with God's support. But then you will truly also be guided into right thinking and no longer be subject to error. For God is love, God is light .... He does not want people to walk in spiritual darkness, He wants to kindle a light for them Himself, He wants to convey the truth to them if they are willing to accept it .... He wants to reveal Himself to people, and thus He lets His ray of light of love fall to earth, into which every person can enter who desires to stand in the light himself. And anyone who has been taught by God Himself need truly not fear taking the wrong path, for God Himself guides him by the hand through earthly life so that he can also teach his fellow human beings as he himself was taught by Him, so that light will shine everywhere where deepest darkness still reigns ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Constant attacks by the enemy .... Light bearers .... Reincarnation ....

B.D. 8288 from October 1st 1962, taken from Book No. 87

You should not be frightened when you are attacked by those who use My adversary to invalidate the pure truth which I convey to you from above. You will always be permeated by My strength and be able to resist all his attacks, for you work for Me and on My behalf. My power is truly so strong that I can push everything away from you, that I will not let the work of My love for you humans be endangered. It is certainly true that in the end time people will be offered much as alleged truth and that it will be difficult to find one's way through and to recognize what is right .... Yet it is never impossible because I always assure you of My support if you desire to know the truth. You will ask why I allow all this, why I don't prevent My adversary from exerting his influence on people who apparently also only want the best .... It concerns the human being's free will which My adversary seeks to win over for himself, and I have to grant him the right because his followers once followed him in free will and he has the same right to fight for the souls but the decision solely depends on the human being's will. Thus the adversary seeks to keep people in the darkness into which he had once plunged them .... He seeks to prevent everything that could give them a light in which they could recognize Me Myself and then turn to Me again of their own free will. But light is truth, thus he leaves no stone unturned in order to undermine the truth from Me, and he will always try his hand at the bearers of light, at My messengers, and want to extinguish the light .... And he uses the most shameful means to do so .... Yet he is completely powerless as soon as his activity is opposed by Jesus Christ's act of salvation, as soon as the divine redeemer Jesus Christ Himself is approached for protection from him. Then all his efforts are in vain .... Therefore one thing is necessary: that you know about the great significance of the act of salvation of the man Jesus, in Whose shell the 'eternal love' Himself was concealed. It is necessary to know about My incarnation in Jesus .... about Jesus' becoming one with Me, His God and father from eternity .... then he also knows about God's 'plan of salvation' .... He knows about the connection of everything created with Me, its creator, and he knows about the path of every fallen original spirit through the whole of creation and about the path of return to Me .... And anyone who knows all this also knows the further course of development after his earthly life in the kingdom on the other side and the endless possibilities to help a still unredeemed being that has entered the spiritual kingdom to redeem itself and also to walk the path of higher development .... He also knows that the being can still sink into the abyss and which means I use in order to once again open up the possibility for this repeatedly fallen being to pass the last test of will on earth .... by dissolving and banishing it again in the creations of earth .... To him it is understandable why all this has to be so if My law of eternal order is to be observed .... And whoever therefore stands in this knowledge will also reject all teaching which contradicts this plan of eternity .... which betrays all too human thinking which, influenced by My adversary, corresponds to their own desires .... For countless demons from the spirit world work on his behalf who try to transfer themselves and their thoughts to people who allow such activity in themselves. For you must never forget that it is only ever a matter of invalidating My 'working of love', and My eternal plan of salvation is based on love and designed by My wisdom, and it will be carried out in accordance with My eternal decision because I recognized the path by which the spiritual substance which has become apostate will find its way back to Me. I Myself descended to earth in order to accomplish the act of salvation for this fallen spiritual being, and redemption is assured to every being which recognizes and acknowledges Me in Jesus and asks for forgiveness of its guilt of sin .... And thus it is truly not necessary for people to atone for this guilt through repeated earthly life as a human being, for a thousand earthly lives would not suffice to get rid of the original guilt, for this guilt can only be redeemed through Jesus Christ Himself .... But the sins which the human being additionally commits in earthly life are simultaneously redeemed through His crucifixion .... Yet burdened with the smallest guilt, thus without Jesus Christ's forgiveness, no being, no human soul, can enter the kingdom of light. And for these souls, which thus pass over into the kingdom of the beyond burdened, the darkness in which they dwell is torment enough to cause them to change their will and thinking, to go into themselves and also accept the help of spiritual friends .... And now the soul can also still reach ascent. But to transfer a soul back to earth again in such a state would definitely mean no service for this soul, for it would be in the same darkness and would also not take a different path on earth than it had taken so far, because My adversary has retained the same power over this soul, from which it can never escape itself. The soul can only attain realization through love .... If it only feels a spark of love for its fellow suffering souls in the kingdom of the beyond, it will also inevitably ascend .... But if it remains devoid of all love it belongs to My adversary and he will never release the soul. And if it then goes through an exceedingly hard school of life it will nevertheless never be improved by it or attain anything other than evil thinking, for it first has to be released from the adversary's control, which again can only happen through Jesus Christ .... Only when He Himself enters a person's life is his redemption assured .... for which truly one earthly life can suffice .... And if it is therefore not enough, the human being or his soul alone will also have to answer for this and now also have to take upon himself the fate of darkness, which is so agonising and surpasses even the most difficult earthly walk in torment. In My plan of salvation from eternity all possibilities are foreseen which help a fallen soul to ascend. But My law of order will always be observed, and I truly don't need to resort to means which would remain unused, because even a return to an already overcome state would offer no guarantee for a soul's ascent and therefore can never be My will either, for free will remains untouched and the recollection cannot be given to a soul precisely because of its free will. The man Jesus died on the cross for its weakness, and He acquired for you the blessings of a strengthened will which you can all use during your earthly life and then your redemption is also assured .... You have to atone for your guilt on earth during one earthly life, then you will pass over into the kingdom of the beyond with relief and no longer resist the help of your spiritual friends there either .... which is why you often have to endure a difficult earthly life but through it you can attain a high degree of maturity and increased receptivity to light .... And again I tell you: Individual cases of the re-embodiment of a soul on earth have their special reason but will never take place if the redemption through Jesus Christ has not preceded it. And through this redemption all guilt is redeemed and thus need not be redeemed again in earthly life .... And every earthly life is determined by Me in wisdom and love .... even if you are unable to recognize it .... but I know what serves each individual soul for its perfection ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God demands faith in His immense love ....

B.D. 8289 from October 2nd 1962, taken from Book No. 87

You have to have strong faith in My love in order to understand that whatever happens is beneficial for you and your soul and that you cannot go astray if you humbly accept whatever comes your way. Irrespective of how arduous it seems to you .... I know what you are capable of enduring and I will support you if you trustingly rely on My help. The assurance that you have all My love should let you take your earthly path fearlessly, for nothing can happen to anyone who feels secure in My love, no matter how much external pressure he is under .... For I know everything, I know the strength of your faith, and this alone determines the extent of your hardship.

The fact that you may know of this now, that I instruct you Myself and enlighten you about My nature which is love, wisdom and might, should already demonstrate My love, for I want to guide you into profound faith, because strength of faith will overcome everything. Then you will no longer be apprehensive, then you will always recognise your Father in Me, to Whom you can entrust yourselves like children and whose infinite love will do everything for His children in order to help them on their earthly path and to make them happy in eternity .... It is My love in which you have to believe .... For this love will not let you fall, and it directs and guides you and imposes an earthly fate on you which can result in your complete deliverance if only you want it. And this love died for you on the cross, with its sacrifice on the cross this love bought your freedom from the adversary who was entitled to you because you once followed him voluntarily .... A father's love, however, will not leave his child at the mercy of his enemy and adversary; rather, it will fight for this child and rescue it from his control .... Hence this great love is yours, and thus you also have the guarantee that one day you will be free from the power of the one who was responsible for your fall into the abyss ....

And now that you live as a human being on earth you shall also know that the Father's love follows His children and that you, too, belong to those whose freedom was bought by His love and that it wants to regain you, you shall know that you should also give your love to your eternal Father, so that He can already make you infinitely happy on earth and one day in eternity. If you therefore believe in My infinite love you will also lose all fear and apprehension, all weakness, because you will always know that nothing detrimental can happen to you, because a loving father protects his children from everything that could harm them. The certainty of possessing the Father's love makes you feel free and cheerful, for you entrust everything to Me and are in no doubt that He will help you in every adversity.

A person with such profound faith will, by virtue of this faith, also closely unite with Me and be able to work remarkably on his fellow human beings by providing them with the kind of help which otherwise would exceed human ability or strength, for in close unity with Me he will take My strength himself and thus work with Me and I through him .... For My love knows no limits, yet your faith often erects limitations itself when it is not strong enough .... And, again, the strength of faith is the result of a life of love, for only love leads to a living faith, that is, 'Whoever lives in love lives in Me, and I in him ....', and thus there cannot be any doubt in the person, he is aware of My presence and also knows that My love is limitless and bestows unlimited strength on the human being too, if he wants to use it for deeds of love again ....

Anyone who is able to believe in My infinite love has only achieved this because he lives a life of love himself, and he has also passed the last test of will on earth, he has consciously returned to his eternal Father, for he wants the Father's love which draws him to Itself. Nevertheless, I often have to let the human being experience severe affliction in earthly life so that he will look for Me, so that he will faithfully entrust himself to Me, request My help and in receiving My help also recognise My love. Only then will he give Me the love I demand, which unites the child with the Father again .... And then the earthly life will have brought him the success which was the purpose for his earthly path: that he voluntarily unites with Me again, from Whom he once voluntarily separated and became wretched .... But My love wants to prepare everlasting beatitude for him, and sooner or later it will achieve this objective ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

False Christs and prophets ....

B.D. 8290 from October 3rd 1962, taken from Book No. 87

When I lived on earth I warned you about false Christs and false prophets, for I knew how My adversary would work against Me and the truth from Me .... And now My warning will always apply to you, too, so that you will not fall prey to these false Christs and prophets .... However, when false Christs and prophets are spoken of then genuine ones will also have to exist, and therefore you humans cannot discard everything you are offered by Me when I reveal Myself through the words of true prophets because I consider it necessary that pure truth should be conveyed to you. And you cannot reject the said wrong spiritual information simultaneously with that which is genuine, for I will reveal Myself through people who possess all the requirements in order to be addressed by Me Myself until the end and who then, as My true servants, will carry out their mission by distributing the spiritual knowledge they received from Me Myself throughout the world. How else should the truth be conveyed to earth since I Am unable to audibly address humanity from above due to their freedom of will? You all have the right as well as the duty to scrutinise what is presented to you as truth, and you will also be capable of doing so if you appeal to Me Myself, as the Eternal Truth, for support .... And by merely being of good will you shall indeed also be able to distinguish the truth from error .... Besides, I Myself indicated to you that you will receive information about Jesus Christ and His act of Salvation .... And thus you can believe every spirit who provides you with this information. People should therefore not bypass Jesus Christ, they should learn to understand the act of Salvation and know what forms the basis of this act of Salvation and the fact that I embodied Myself in the man Jesus .... And since this knowledge is extremely necessary are people to reach their goal, I will also provide them with truthful explanations, which thus happens through the revelations which I Myself convey to earth by way of suitable instruments who are capable of receiving direct revelations .... But these revelations should never be put on an equal footing with messages from the spiritual kingdom which are psychically imparted to people .... You must learn to differentiate between 'God's working within the human being' through His spirit .... and a 'working of spirits' .... messages, which are conveyed to you humans and whose origin you cannot establish .... And anyone who seriously looks into this will be told by his heart who speaks to him .... But you must carry out a serious inspection before you form a judgment .... For you cannot portray Me Myself as a liar since during My life on earth I Myself have promised you the working of My spirit .... I Myself assured you that 'I will send you the comforter, the spirit of truth, which will guide you into all truth ....' `Whoever has My commands and obeys them, he is the one who will be loved by Me, and I will reveal Myself to him ....' 'You shall all be taught by God ....' 'He that believeth in Me, as the Scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water ....'

And if I consider it necessary that the truth shall be imparted to people because they walk along in spiritual darkness then you will really not be able to stop Me .... And I will enlighten you about all correlations, about My eternal plan of Salvation and the beginning and ultimate goal of everything in existence .... But I will also inform you about the many misguided teachings brought into the world by My adversary in order to keep people in spiritual darkness and which I will correct time and again .... for I have said 'Heaven and earth shall pass away: but My Word shall not pass away ....' And My Word can only ever be understood to be the pure truth .... However, since all spiritual knowledge coming forth from Me will always be distorted by imperfect human beings again, which I do not prevent due to their free will, I shall also take care that the truth will always be conveyed to people again .... I Myself spoke the Words 'My spirit will guide you into all truth ....' But I had brought you the truth .... Would the 'guidance into truth' have been necessary had I not foreseen that the truth would not remain pure?! .... And thus you can indeed give credence to the direct revelations from above if they come forth from Me, which you, in turn, can recognise by the fact that My human manifestation in Jesus Christ is mentioned time and again .... And then you will also know My Word 'Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow ....' For this is why I sacrificed My life on the cross; this is why I took the most bitter suffering and agonies upon Myself because I wanted to redeem the guilt on your behalf, so that you will become free of it as soon as you acknowledge My act of Salvation and appeal to Me for forgiveness of your guilt .... Yet My eternal plan of Salvation is not based on human intellectual thought, on human logic, for I have infinite means at My disposal in order to accomplish the final goal, the return of all once fallen beings to Me .... I will never divert from My law of eternal order on which My plan of Salvation is based .... And had My act of Salvation in Jesus not been accomplished even a thousand lives on earth would not suffice in order to redeem or atone for the guilt .... And this is why I Myself descended to earth in order to deliver humanity from My adversary's control .... And anyone who does not lay claim to the blessings of the act of Salvation, whose earthly life will not result in deliverance from profound spiritual hardship .... anyone who does not accept the help offered to him in the spiritual kingdom either and allows himself to be led to Jesus Christ, will have to repeat the process through all creation, in which case you humans can rightfully speak of a re-incarnation on earth .... which will happen again sooner or later after an infinitely long period of time when the soul will once again have to pass its test of will as a human being on earth ....

For one thing is certain, that My righteousness also demands an atonement for every offence against Me but that I also know in which way this atonement can be rendered if the guilt of sin is not consciously carried under the cross ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

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

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Contact with the world of light or the world of immature spirits ....

B.D. 8292 from October 5th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

Again and again I have to point out that the spiritual world is in constant contact with people on this earth, that it is every light being's task to guide the people on earth towards the light and that they faithfully implement this task because they work according to My will and that they are only able to fulfil My will if they are enlightened themselves, hence, if they are permeated by My light. All redeemed spiritual beings participate in the redemption of the unredeemed, be they people on earth or the still unredeemed souls in the beyond .... For since they themselves are blissfully happy their love also wants to help the wretched to attain beatitude. And this motivates them to make contact with people on earth by influencing them mentally and by trying to guide them on the right path which leads back to the Father's house, to Me, from Whom they once voluntarily distanced themselves. However, the beings of light will not implement anything of their own accord which would not be according to My will, and thus their activity relating to people presupposes people's bond with Me, because only this testifies to the will that the human being will be positively minded and thus can receive help .... Once this heartfelt bond has been established with Me, no person need be afraid of falling prey to deceitful spirits, for his bond with Me protects him from this .... Then the beings of light will guide and advise him and also allow earthly events to approach him such that they will benefit his soul, for then they will always be active on My behalf according to My will. And people should indeed be satisfied with the fact that they are being guided and cared for by the spiritual world of light .... If, however, they try to establish a direct connection with these messengers of light in order to receive spiritual clarification, in order to increase their spiritual knowledge, they will always be advised by them to enter into closest contact with Me and to consciously appeal for and accept My Words .... Only if they united with Me and appealed for the transmission of truth will they be allowed to receive and also accept information from these said messengers of light, who are then working on My instructions again.

But then they will be addressed through My spirit .... hence they will not be able to hear the teachings or messages from the kingdom of light with their physical ears, but the eternal Father-Spirit will communicate with the spiritual spark in the human being, irrespective of whether it happens directly or through the messengers of light, which are merely My spiritual organs through which I work so as to be able to make them happy .....Then the spiritual ear will be able to hear and .... if it is My will .... these messages can be recorded .... The fact that this simple process of the 'working of My spirit in the human being' is no longer understood properly .... the fact that it is imitated and that people to this end avail themselves of the spirit world which is still in an unredeemed state in the kingdom of the beyond , is My adversary's activity who wants to prevent everything which might lead to the realisation of a God and Creator but which is essential in order to return to Me, in order to love Me and to submit to My will .... Contacts with this immature world of spirits can never lead to the light, nothing good can come from it, for they will only add to the error in the world, and therefore you humans must time and again be cautioned to hand yourselves over to these forces who misuse you and your will. Don't take detours but turn directly to Me, the Eternal Truth Itself, then you will not run the risk of being mislead. For you are unable to judge which spiritual beings approach you, but you can only be protected from their influence if you completely hand yourselves over to Me to lead and guide you, and then you will truly be well protected .... But don't deliberately hand yourselves over to spiritual forces which always surround you and which try to influence you in every way but which are of service to My adversary. It requires profound sincerity, a humble heart and a genuine desire for truth in order to be chosen for transmissions from the spiritual kingdom which originate from Me .... But then you can be certain that purest truth will be imparted to you, and then you can also pass it on again according to My will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Feeding the soul ....

B.D. 8293 from October 6th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

Whatever food and drink is offered to you for your souls will certainly not remain without effect; your soul will recover when it is ill, it will be strengthened when it is weak, and it will mature and reach perfection while still on earth. For truly My word is a bread from the heavens, it is a true wine that will strengthen you .... It is My word, My flesh and My blood, which I Myself offer to you, just as I offered it to My disciples on earth when I took supper with them .... For this supper was the symbol of what I commissioned My disciples to do: to pass on My word, which they had received from Me, to all hungering and thirsting souls .... Just as I satisfied them earthly, they were also to pass on spiritual food .... And they also understood Me, although the final knowledge was only given to them through the outpouring of the spirit on My disciples .... And thus you humans will only understand My working and acting and also the act of the lord's supper when My spirit can be poured out upon you, for before you only pay attention to the sense of the letter and you don't understand what I wanted to express through these words .... But you also have to awaken the spirit within you to life, for before you are still dead in spirit, and then you will not obey My will either, you will not listen to My word such that it will truly be food and drink for your soul .... For the word shall enter your heart, only then will I Myself be in you, and then you will eat My flesh in truth and drink My blood .... You draw the strength from My word which you need in order to mature while still on earth. And thus you will also recognize the urgency of your vineyard work, after all, it is a matter of conveying My word to people so that they establish the bond with Me themselves and My word can now also work in them. No human being's physical life would be able to exist if the body did not constantly receive nourishment, and the same applies to the soul which, although it cannot perish, is in a wretched state if it is not supplied with nourishment .... And yet, few people think of satisfying the soul's needs, although I have said: „Eat My flesh and drink My blood ...." I Myself am the word made flesh and I offer Myself to you, thus I also urge you to listen to My word and to obey it, for only when you are not only hearers but doers of My word will you experience the blessing of it .... Again and again I say to you: "Receive and eat, this is My flesh; receive and drink, this is My blood ...." and again and again I speak to you and only ask that you listen to Me, that you thus partake of the supper which I Myself have prepared for My guests who accept My invitation .... And if you have the will to be addressed by Me then you can also accept My word everywhere, for your will now also determines the spiritual knowledge which flows into your heart, because then I Myself will address everyone and he will only accept what he receives as My word .... Understand that the human being's own desire protects him from accepting misguided spiritual knowledge if you are offered it by preachers who are still unawakened and only preach according to form .... For I Myself will bless the listener and give him bright knowledge as soon as he desires the right nourishment for his soul. But if I Myself can address people then they will eat My flesh and drink My blood in truth, for then the word will sound to them from above through a servant chosen by Me who lets Me Myself speak through him, who receives purest truth from Me and can now also pass it on .... I invite everyone to take part in the supper which I Myself prepare for you, because I know what your souls need in order to mature and because I know every person's state of maturity. And if he now wants to receive the right bread of heaven, the water of life, from My hands, then it will also be given to him without restriction, and his soul will reach the goal and attain perfection ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's proof of love and presence ....

B.D. 8294 from October 8th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

All My love belongs to you, and this love causes Me to address you and to prove My presence to you. For you should know that you are not abandoned when you feel lonely or find yourselves in earthly adversity .... You should know that there is One Who watches over you, Who holds your fate in His hand, Who determines your earthly path and truly walks beside you as your faithful guide, Whose hand you only need to grasp in order to be able to walk safely and securely through earthly life until the end. If you have this certainty that you can entrust yourselves to Me at any time, then your earthly life will truly be easy for you, you will calmly and serenely let everything approach you because you feel safe under My protection, because you know that you are protected by My love. And then it will also be natural for you to strive to fulfil My will, that you will always do what your father, your friend and brother, submits to you, and you will first fulfil the commandments of love which are the epitome of My word .... For love is My and also your primal element, it is the principle of eternal order, it is the guarantee that you will live for eternity, for it is life itself, it is the strength which impels everything into life and bestows beatitude in abundance .... You will therefore love Me again, Who shows you My great love, and your love will take effect in works of unselfish neighbourly love .... And where love is, there is eternally no more death, there is only happiness and bliss. When the eternal love Itself reaches down to you in order to speak to you, you need never ever fear to get lost, for as soon as you hear My voice you will also be in contact with Me, and My adversary will have lost his power over you, and then there can only be a return to Me, a life which lasts forever. And through My address I only want you to learn to recognize Me and My nature, which is love .... Then you will also know that I will not let you fall, that I will use all means to win you, to release you from My adversary's control and to give you light and strength again, without which you are wretched. Therefore everything shall be done to inform people that their creator is a God of love, Who therefore gave life to people so that they attain this knowledge on this earth and enter into contact with Him .... I want to give people a small light because they are completely ignorant when they enter earth as a human being, and anyone who accepts the light will truly constantly increase his glow because My love reveals itself to him .... Since My fundamental nature is love, it is impossible for Me to drop a being which once emerged from Me and voluntarily distanced itself from Me .... My love will pursue it and try to break its resistance, however, not forcibly, but one day the being will no longer be able to resist My illumination of love, it will voluntarily hand itself over to Me and open itself to Me so that I can pour My light of love into the being when it lives on earth as a human being. People should only know that they have to acknowledge a God Who is love Himself. Then they cannot get lost because love awakens in them towards Me, Who is their constant benefactor. For this reason I also constantly need servants on earth who impart the knowledge to their fellow human beings .... whom I can impart it Myself beforehand and who reciprocate My love and are therefore also willing to serve Me, to receive My word and pass it on, so that all people can take notice of their God and creator, Whose nature is love, wisdom and might and Who also wants to bestow His love upon all people who are merely willing to accept it. For I also want to prepare an easy life for people, and this will be their share if they know that they can trust Me like a father Who will protect them in every adversity and danger .... that I will walk beside them as a friend and brother as soon as they merely adhere to Me and desire My guidance ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spiritual secrets ....

B.D. 8295 from October 9th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

It is difficult for a person to free himself from misguided teachings and opinions, and he must completely hand himself over to Me so that I can clarify his thoughts and free him from preconceived opinions. Then My adversary will have done a good job, he will have succeeded in spreading renewed darkness if the human being does not seriously demand to come to the pure truth. But even then he only seriously desires it when he is willing to surrender all previous knowledge. You humans have built yourselves an edifice of thoughts which does not fit into My eternal plan of salvation. And you often see that as My working which, however, is the adversary's working by believing that you are allowed to gain insight into spiritual secrets which, however, are in reality deluded to you by My adversary so that you lose all clarity of thought. And much such spiritual knowledge has penetrated people because they have united with a world without the necessary prerequisites which can only offer them darkness, because it is the kingdom of the prince of darkness itself. You should not desire to know what is naturally kept secret from you if only you would like to penetrate purely intellectually into areas which are still closed to you and will also remain closed until you yourselves have awakened your spirit through a life of love which guides you into truth. And a person who truly unites with Me and appeals to Me for protection from error, from wrong thinking, will certainly also receive the power of judgment from Me and not consider spiritual knowledge to be true which has flowed forth from My adversary .... But you cannot believe every person who wants to instruct you, instead, you first have to know the source of his spiritual knowledge which he imparts to you, for the human being's intellect can think up many things for which it cannot provide evidence. And as long as you only ever have to deal with intellectual results they should not burden you either, because you always have to tell yourselves that people can err .... But it is different when knowledge is made accessible to you which has demonstrably been conveyed to you humans through the working of My spirit .... Only then will you seriously deal with it by asking Me Myself for enlightenment of your spirit, so that you will carry out a proper examination and be able to recognize what is right. And you can believe that I Myself take care of every individual who seriously desires the truth. And the more willingly you free yourselves from already existing spiritual knowledge the more you will be pleased with the spiritual knowledge you receive from Me, be it directly or through My messengers. For I truly have no pleasure in you being spiritually darkened; I Myself want to bring you the light if only you want to accept it .... But if you desperately hold on to a wrong spiritual knowledge then My adversary will still have a point of attack, and he will not release you and time and again want to force his way into your thinking .... The pure truth is a gift from Me which will not be denied to any of you, which everyone can ask for and will also receive .... if only he humbly recognizes his own shortcomings and comes to Me, for I bestow My grace on the humble, and My word, which sounds from above, is a grace of inconceivable value .... And whoever avails himself of this gift of grace, no darkness will frighten him any more .... For then you will also be allowed to gain insight into My eternal plan of salvation, and My reign and activity will be recognizable and understandable to you, then you will truly recognize your God and creator Who wants to be your father and also gives you everything because you are His children and therefore He does not want you to go hungry. And thus He will also guide you into truth, as I Myself promised you when I lived on earth ....

Amen

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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

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God's justice ....

B.D. 8297 from October 12th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

That My righteousness cannot be circumvented is irrefutable, otherwise I could not be called perfect .... Yet this justice was satisfied by the man Jesus, Who offered Me the most difficult sacrifice a human being has ever made and will ever make on earth, for He was completely sinless and took upon Himself the sins of the whole of humanity in order to atone for them. Thus He was not struck by the effects of His own sins but He voluntarily took upon Himself the concentrated burden of humanity's sins, He suffered unspeakably and died the most agonising death on the cross for love of humanity. You, who believe that people must and can atone for their guilt themselves, must bear this in mind, for no human being is capable of doing so, because every sin is an offence against love, against Me Myself, even if it is committed against the next person .... You humans can certainly also contribute your share by being offered the opportunity on earth to make amends for the wrong you have committed, and for this purpose you yourselves are plagued by evils of all kinds which are the consequences of your sinful way of life or actions and which therefore come upon you so that you yourselves will recognize the way you have transgressed against Me or against your neighbour. For you should come to realize your guilt in order to carry it to Jesus Christ under the cross, Who will only be able to remit your sins if you ask Him for it yourselves. And you should regard all disagreements, all strokes of fate which affect you, more as means of education, as means through which you should come to self-knowledge in order to voluntarily turn away from evil and, if possible, make amends, i.e. already make atonement on earth in order not to have to stay in extreme torment in the beyond until self-knowledge comes to you there. You will never be able to attain beatitude without Jesus Christ, precisely because only He can redeem your guilt, be it the original guilt of your past apostasy from God or the sins committed in earthly life, for you must also appeal to Jesus Christ for forgiveness for these, for you cannot redeem the guilt yourselves, no matter how much suffering you have to endure on earth or in the kingdom of the beyond .... You must find your way to Jesus Christ, you must take the path to Him so that the gates into the kingdom of light will be opened to you. The fact that time and again the effects of guilt will rebound on you humans is divine law, but it will not redeem you from this guilt, no matter how much you have to suffer, instead, the latter will only ever have an educational value, so that one day you will take the path to the cross .... to Jesus, Who alone atoned for all guilt through His act of salvation. You should always bear in mind that every person creates the state he finds himself in, that his wretchedness, his difficult situation in life, was caused by the soul's own free will .... The fact that it is in extreme remoteness from God due to its guilt of sin, for which it is responsible itself .... must also result in an unhappy state which, however, it can change itself, which again has to be done by its free will. Now in the last days many souls are embodied as human beings whose degree of maturity is very low but the time has expired which was set for their release from the form and now also this immaturity of the souls often comes to light through God-opposing actions .... and thus people's sinfulness is also unusually great, which also requires difficult living conditions and purification opportunities of various kinds which are inexplicable to the spiritually unawakened human being and make them doubt My love and justice or lead them to the erroneous assumption that immature souls have been transferred back to earth .... Yet these are incarnations of souls which have passed through the earthly creation and have not attained a high degree of maturity but which nevertheless can free themselves from every form in earthly life because they need only take refuge in Jesus, Who will help them in every weakness, Who can strengthen their will if it only turns to Him .... Yet those souls will also be left free in their will and thinking, but the best means of education will be used by Me in order to still win them before the end. The fact that they will now also be unusually harassed by the prince of darkness and his followers cannot be denied, yet I will also obviously stand in their way but it has to be left up to them which lord they choose. And their state will also be accordingly when the end has come .... They will attain life or fall prey to death again for a long time ....

Amen

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"You shall have no foreign gods beside Me .... "

B.D. 8298 from October 14th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

You shall have no gods beside Me .... These words are very meaningful because everything you strive for in earthly life can mean more to you than I, your God and father from eternity, as well as your heart is attached to earthly goods and therefore you seek no bond with Me .... Then what you desire with all your senses is your God .... And even if you still accept Me by acknowledging a power above you, Which created you, you still have foreign gods next to Me .... always according to the desire which arises from your heart. Be it earthly goods, the desire for honour and fame or even people who displace Me from your heart, it is always foreign gods which prevent your ascent upwards, for all these gods are transient, you have to sacrifice them, when your earthly life is over, and one day you will enter the kingdom of the beyond empty-handed if you don't put Me Myself first, Who, after all, wants to be your only goal in earthly life and Whom you must strive for with all your strength if you want to become blessed .... I am your God and creator, from Whom you once originated, and I want you to recognize and acknowledge Me .... And you shall give Me the evidence of this by being willing to give up everything if you exchange Me Myself and My love for it. Then I am truly the one God for you, to Whom you should feel that you belong and Who wants to be united with you as your father for time and eternity. But now consider your life on earth, which only seems worth living to you if you possess everything your heart desires .... So you have created many gods for yourselves which you place next to Me .... provided that you believe in Me as your creator. But this faith is worthless as long as you don't seriously strive towards Me .... but the world and your desire for it holds you back. Your love belongs to many things which, however, are My adversary's share, and you should overcome the desire for them so that I Myself will now be placed in the foreground of your thinking and you will drop all other gods .... But you also create gods for yourselves besides Me if you call upon beings in the spiritual kingdom in the belief that you will reach the goal, eternal bliss, through their intercession .... Even then your attitude towards Me is not yet right, because in earthly life it is a matter of establishing the bond with Me which you once voluntarily broke off .... And you have to accomplish this act of voluntary and conscious return to Me yourselves, and no intercessor would be able to achieve this through his intercession .... They will only ever mentally show you the path to Me Myself, which you irrevocably have to take in order to become blissfully happy. For you should know that the love of those beings of light is so great that they would like to bring you back to Me if My law of eternal order were not also anchored in them, that they themselves do not force a person to want and think on earth .... But according to the law of order I demand from eternity that every soul voluntarily takes the path to Me, and therefore I want to be and remain their God, for Whom they are willing to sacrifice everything. I want to completely possess your hearts because I want to fill them with My love .... But as long as a heart is not yet free from desires and cravings of all kinds, this heart therefore still has foreign gods within it, which prevent Me from entering and reigning in it alone .... Yet if I fully possess a soul this means that I can now also prepare the highest happiness for it, and truly, it will not regret having given up the other goods in order to exchange Me for them, but now I am the sole ruler in the human being's heart and nothing can undo the intimate bond between us. Therefore, seriously examine yourselves as to whether you are still filled with desire for things which mean more to you than I Myself, be they material things or people, and seek to dethrone them so that the first place remains for Me .... seek to stifle all earthly desire within yourselves and free yourselves from all idolatry, which includes all love for the world, for then you will truly only serve My adversary, the prince of darkness, to whom this world belongs, and thus he is your god to whom all sacrifices you offer are meant. Mammon will then be your god, and this god will crush you, for he does not belong to My kingdom where I alone reign in love and wisdom .... And those who want to belong to Me shall worship Me alone, i.e. only carry Me in their heart, and I will not only be their God and creator but also their father to them ....

Amen

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Statement on dream state ....

B.D. 8299 from October 15th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

I truly also want to let you gain an insight into the processes that take place in the human body which you cannot explain to yourselves: it is the dream state which causes you to ask how it can be explained .... In the state of sleep it is mainly the organs that are inactive, the human being is without consciousness, i.e., his intellect does not work as it does in the waking state ..... Nevertheless, thoughts lie hidden in the subconsciousness which now unfold and ascend but which do not reveal any order but push their way in confused confusion to the brain and from there seek to communicate themselves to the soul, which is not asleep but is also in contact with the organs of thought so that they can also be awakened and stimulated by the soul at any time to the usual activity .... that the soul therefore determines sleep and also wakefulness .... Since the thinking organs in the state of sleep are therefore not subject to the soul's control, the strangest images and events can take place in the brain, which people perceive as confused and incomprehensible, but which can also be clear .... The human being usually does not take these results from the subconscious, i.e. experiences of the soul in past times, which can also reach into the time of its pre-embodiment in the state of compulsion, over into the waking state, but sometimes they stick and the human being knows about these dreams, he can reproduce them and only wonders about the often impossible connections .... Under subconsciousness it is to be understood that the soul as such also takes in impressions during earthly life which were not passed on to the intellect, thus the human being knows nothing about them or experiences have long since sunk but are still present as impressions in the brain and now rise up in sleep .... Thus knowledge of processes can slumber in the soul which comes to the surface in the dream state, which touch the thinking organs in distorted images because the state of sleep does not allow for proper thinking activity, but they are claimed by the soul, otherwise the human being does not allow for any recollection in the awake state .... which, however, is sometimes also the case when it concerns processes which the soul does not want to make known to the human being. But if it concerns real dreams of truth the soul, in its ability as a spiritual being, foresees things which concern the human being, and it also passes them on to the thinking organs in the clearest way, stimulating their activity to such an extent that they are able to reproduce such dreams, whereby the human being also has the feeling that such dreams are more than the usual dreams, that they have their significance and are to be heeded as a warning of the soul or indications of forthcoming events ..... The soul is the spiritual in the human being, which .... according to its maturity .... is not bound in its freedom of movement, the soul can dwell in spheres where it receives new impressions which it is not always able to explain to itself because it lacks the necessary maturity .... And these impressions can also be explained by the term 'subconscious', which uncontrollably rise from the soul and become conscious to the intellect, but only in states where the intellect is not wide awake .... i.e. in dreams or in states of stupor, where the human being then expresses what is incomprehensible to his fellow human beings .... When sleep is dreamless then all organs are in deep rest, and then the sleep is also invigorating, and even then the soul dwells in other spheres it nevertheless keeps all impressions to itself, it gives no knowledge of them to the thinking organs .... But as soon as the human being awakens, contact is also established with all human organs which it now stimulates into activity, which are determined by the soul, for all thinking, feeling and willing are expressions of the soul, because the organs would in themselves be without life if the soul did not animate the human being. And this explanation should suffice for you, even though the dream state could still be explained far more exhaustively, yet your receptiveness must always be reckoned with as long as you are not yet able to gain insight into spiritual spheres yourselves, which will still reveal much to you when you are allowed to dwell in them yourselves ....

Amen

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The mystery of love ....

B.D. 8300 from October 16th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

When you will dwell in spiritual realms where you will be permeated by the divine light of love, then even the smallest shadow will disappear from you and you will be immeasurably blissful due to the endless love and grace of God, your father from eternity .... Then His work will have succeeded completely, out of His creatures .... from the works of His love and power .... children who are now true images of Himself .... And only then will you be able to comprehend the love and patience this work demanded from His side, because His creations were endowed with free will and were also able to use it in every direction .... And now you will give Him your unlimited love, because bright recognition is a prerequisite for a return of love from you, because before you are simply incapable of showing love to your God and father which is so profound and holy that it includes all beatitude within itself. And only then will you have penetrated the mystery of love yourselves, you will know that it is the elementary power which let everything come into being ..... For you have now become love yourselves and thus also eternally merged with God, Who Himself is love, thus also the original source of all strength .... One day God will reach this goal, one day you yourselves will have become what He could not create but had to strive for in free will by His created works, which were radiated out as beings into infinity .... As free, radiant beings they return to Him again in order to eternally no longer separate from Him .... And when you walk the earth as a human being then the last phase of your transformation into a 'child of God' begins .... if your free will allows it, if it does not put itself on the defensive against God again and then the goal on earth cannot be reached either .... Yet anyone who beholds Him and His love in earthly life will also be seized and drawn by His immeasurable love, he will also feel touched and no longer offer any resistance .... And as soon as His love can have an effect on him, because the resistance is broken, the ascent will certainly have begun and the human being will still reach his goal on earth. He enters into intimate union with eternal love and can now no longer sink back to the abyss .... Only He Who is the eternal Itself, to Whom nothing is hidden, Who can look into the heart, Who knows about all feelings in the human being and can also judge what is impossible for a human being to judge .... And upon his entry into the kingdom of the beyond this degree of love is decisive for the degree of light penetration and thus also of bliss .... But the human being on earth lacks this ability to judge, for he will never be able to look into the heart unless he himself is already illuminated to such an extent that he is able to see spiritually. But then he also knows that his spiritual insights are only of value to himself, that he cannot transfer them to his fellow human being who has not yet attained this spiritual maturity. God's love is so infinitely profound that it takes care of every individual and lets the light of love shine to him if only he is willing and opens himself voluntarily, i.e. if he consciously enters into contact with Him, consciously endeavours to fulfil God's will and strives for light ..... For then he will also live according to God's will, Who now places His will into his heart. And then his degree of love will also constantly increase because he receives the light of love from God with every conscious bond with Him. When he then enters the kingdom of the beyond, his soul will consciously experience this radiance of love and be immeasurably happy. In earthly life, however, the process of the radiation of love on God's part is evident in no other way than through the hearing of His speech, which is now proof of God's presence and His working .... The body as such will not feel any unusual touch, and the soul will certainly be allowed to receive and be illuminated but will not make it known to the body, so that a person's degree of love will not be outwardly recognizable either, but God Himself, Who knows everything and to Whom even the most hidden things are revealed, will .... However, if the soul discards the body then it will radiate in brightest brilliance and there will no longer be any barriers for it, it will be blissfully happy in freedom and light and strength, it will live for eternity ....

Amen

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Bringing the small flock together ....

B.D. 8301 from October 17th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

There are only ever a few who serve Me wholeheartedly and these shall unite in intimate fellowship, for they belong to the small flock which I will fetch in the end in order to bring them to the new earth when the time has come .... Where My spirit is obviously active there are the followers of My church, the church which I Myself founded on earth, who are devoted to Me in firm faith and love and who thus form the foundations of My church .... But the characteristic of this church is the working of My spirit, the spirit which introduces you to all truth. The earth is large and everywhere I need supports, everywhere I need strong rocks on which I can build My church .... A profound faith, which comes forth from love, must be found there, then I Myself can be with My own in spirit and administer to them the bread of heaven, the water of life .... And since people urgently need it I will also open up a source everywhere from which the earthly pilgrims can draw strength, from which they can draw what they need for their path of life .... And only pure truth will ever be sent to them from Me as soon as it is seriously desired. Hence the spiritual knowledge which has originated from Me must also correspond, and by this you will be able to recognize whether you are also at the right source which My love has made accessible to people. And you must not contaminate this water of life flowing to you from Me, otherwise it will lose strength and effect and no longer possess the healing power for the souls with which I Myself have blessed My word. But My word will have an extremely beneficial effect where it is eagerly received, where it is recognized as the father's loving address, where it is spread by My servants whom I have chosen for this work in My vineyard. You don't know My ways but they are often so strange, and people are brought together through My will who are of one heart and one mind and who belong to Me completely, so that I can also work through them directly. For whatever is possible shall still be done until the end in order to save souls from darkness, and this can only be accomplished by the light from above which illuminates the path people have to take in order to reach the goal ..... I only need the complete devotion of those who want to serve Me in order to now also be able to work in them and through them .... Then lights will be kindled which will shine far into the night, and then My presence will be so obvious that every doubt about a divine working will vanish and also be recognized and known before the whole world. My strength will become powerful in the weak and My working will be obvious .... For I know how to guide the hearts so that they will find each other, I hold all threads in My hand, and when the time has come you will also receive the knowledge about your task, which is My will to carry out. Everyone shall do what is possible for him in order to serve Me, and I will bless his work in such a way that time and again you will recognize My greater than great love for you and therefore also give Me your love, which I long for .... You are still scattered and each one works for himself, but one day My small flock will come together and you will work together, as it is My will .... Then it will also recognize itself as belonging to Me and together take up the fight against My adversary, who will do everything to drive the flock apart, to deprive it of its shepherd and take for himself what threatens to escape from him .... Yet he will not succeed, for My flock remains faithful to Me, it constantly receives the strength to hold together and resist, and he will have to give up his fight, for he will be defeated by My strength. And I will appear in greatest adversity. And this coming of Mine is imminent, and this assurance shall comfort all who feel weak, for I Myself will strengthen them that they will persevere until the end ....

Amen

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God's unlimited love and its power ....

B.D. 8302 from October 18th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

I look after all My living creations with untiring love and patience and take all their weaknesses into account, helping them to reach the height again from which they plunged into the abyss of their own free will. Time and again My love follows them when they turn away from Me, and time and again I send them My messengers of light who participate in the return of all fallen spirits and are active in My will. But only when My living creations learn to recognize My love will they give up their resistance, only then will they allow themselves to be drawn upwards without offering resistance, and then the return to Me, from Whom they once distanced themselves because they followed another whom they could behold and who was radiant in beauty, will be initiated. The return to Me, however, only takes place when they follow One Who bore all disgrace and suffering on earth, Who walked the path to the cross unsightly and disgraced, Who atoned for the grave guilt of sin of your past apostasy from Me with the most bitter torments and the most shameful death on the cross, Whose love for His fallen brethren was so great that He thus took Me Himself, as the 'eternal love', into Himself .... and thus love Itself took pity on you, Which always and forever applies to you, who once came forth from My love. Love created you, love redeemed you from the captivity of the enemy, and this love will apply to you for all eternity. Yet you humans do not understand this, for you are imperfect, thus of limited thinking, and you would not be able to endure the strength of My love if I did not restrict it according to your degree of perfection. You would perish if I wanted to shine upon you in all fullness of strength and light .... But this love belongs to you and therefore you can also request it, and you will never make a wrong request if you only desire My love. But the fact that you don't use the strength of My love, which is at your unlimited disposal, is again due to your imperfection, for you are still without realization to a certain extent as long as you don't develop love within yourselves .... You must not deny the entrance into your heart to the love which constantly wants to shine upon you, you must voluntarily open your heart to Me and ask Me to fill it with My love .... And truly, you yourselves will glow with hot love and turn your love towards everything that surrounds you .... And then you will unite with Me Myself through love, and you will be able to work with Me and My strength and help wherever your help is needed. You should only believe in My infinite love for you, which you may receive without limitation because I will not deny Myself to anyone who desires My love .... But love only wants your bliss, it wants to give itself away, to make you happy, it only ever wants to give .... and what it wants to give you is light, strength and freedom .... the state which was your share in the beginning when you emerged from Me as perfect creatures .... You should reach this state again because it was a state of bliss where My love could radiate (flow) through you unhindered, where you could create and work for your own happiness. The fact that you voluntarily gave up this blissful state and fell into the abyss did not diminish My love for you but allowed Me Myself to constantly court your love, and I find My highest bliss in the voluntary return of My living creations as My children, for My love is unlimited and will therefore not cease and one day also accomplish the work of deifying My living creations, which was the last goal of My work of creation. But for you humans love will remain a mystery until you yourselves will dwell in the kingdom of light, glowing with love, where the darkness which still overshadows you in earthly life has fallen away, even though you are devoted to Me and strive towards Me. For as long as I can only give you My love in a limited way in order not to endanger your existence, you will not understand My infinitely profound love either, which is My fundamental nature and which can never pass away. Yet My assurance that this love of Mine belongs to you should make you happy and only ever strive to ascend, you should only ever seek unification with Me, which can only take place again if you kindle the love within yourselves and let it flare up into a bright flame. But then you will also be close to the goal, and your departure from this earth will be a blissful one, because you will only discard the heavy body and enter the realms of eternal light and eternal peace .... because then you will be united with Me and will remain so for all eternity ....

Amen

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The act of Salvation and its spiritual reason ....

B.D. 8303 from October 19th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

Time and again explanations are given to you about the mission of the man Jesus on earth, especially since you received such inadequate information by those who deem themselves chosen to educate you but who did not penetrate into more profound knowledge themselves .... and are therefore not enlightened enough about the act of Salvation and its spiritual reason as to be capable of teaching their fellow human beings. And so people have never properly understood it and consequently don't know what immense significance the act of Salvation has for the whole of humanity .... They don't know that the entire purpose of earthly life will remain unfulfilled unless they take the path to the cross, to the divine Redeemer Jesus Christ. People are not aware of the fact that their existence as a human being on this earth was caused by the enormous original sin of the spirits' past apostasy from God .... that the whole earth as well as all creations in the universe were only the result of this original sin, and that the sole purpose of these creations rests in guiding the fallen spirits back to God again .... For disintegrated in countless minute particles they pass through the creations and thereby gradually travel the path towards God .... This is indeed an unspeakably agonising state for the spiritual being during its path of return, for it is not free and helpless, and although the dissolved spiritual beings are deprived of their sense of self-awareness the spiritual substance nevertheless feels the agonies of banishment in the works of creation, since prior to its apostasy from God it existed in complete freedom and any constraint is a state of torment for the spiritual being. However, the immense agonies of banishment in the form .... be they in the mineral and plant or the animal-world which it has to pass through .... . do not suffice to redeem this very guilt the spiritual beings had burdened upon themselves due to their rebellion against God, for the beings had been incredibly brightly enlightened, they knew about their origin and were constantly permeated by God's love Who thereby provided them with unimaginable bliss. And despite being conscious of their origin they rejected this strength of love and thereby became subject to darkness .... Hence this immense original sin could not be redeemed even with the greatest amount of pain in the banished state .... And therefore the fallen beings would eternally have been denied entry into the kingdom of light if the redemption of guilt had not been undertaken by a Being of light Which offered to achieve the act of atonement for love of the fallen brothers ....

This Being of light .... a non-fallen original spirit, Which had embodied Itself on earth in the human being Jesus .... wanted to achieve a unique act of compassion, for It descended from the light into the dark spheres of the spirits which had become sinful, It descended into the realm of God's adversary, of the first-fallen original spirit Lucifer, who kept his followers in bondage and demanded an extortionate purchase price for every single soul .... And this purchase price was paid by the human being Jesus by means of His act of Salvation, by means of an immeasurable process of suffering and torments which came to an end with His death on the cross .... Thus He redeemed the great original sin of the once fallen spirits as well as all people's sin of guilt on earth, which had been the consequences of their affiliation to God's opponent .... He accomplished a unique act of mercy and was only able to carry it out because He was full of love, because as a human being on earth He had shaped Himself such that the eternal Deity .... Love Itself .... was able to take abode in Him, so that It utterly permeated Him with strength of love and this Love subsequently also made the sacrifice .... which now has to be voluntarily accepted by every person in order to liberate himself from the adversary's control .... For the human being is the spiritual being which is returning to God through the works of creation, whose individual minute particles had gathered again and were allowed to embody themselves as soul within a human being, in order to then consciously travel the last distance of the path of return and also consciously accept Jesus Christ's help, as without it his effort to ascend will remain unsuccessful. No human being can and may avoid Jesus Christ, for there will be no liberation from the control of God's adversary without Him, Who conquered the adversary through His death on the cross and now wrests every soul from him which voluntarily takes the path to the cross, which prays to Jesus for forgiveness of its guilt and for help in order to return to the Father again. This knowledge about the significance of the act of Salvation must be conveyed to people, only then will they turn to Him of their own free will and with His help also reach their goal, they will return to their Father's house, to their God and Creator and then remain with Him forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Destruction of Earth ....

B.D. 8304 from October 20th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

One thing is certain, My Word is and will remain truth and you humans need not doubt that which has originated from Me. Since the time is constantly coming closer which concludes one period of Salvation so that a new one can begin, the clarifications will also be given to you increasingly less veiled, and shortly before the end I will initiate you into My eternal plan of Salvation and inform you about things which have so far remained concealed to you because this knowledge was not necessary for the salvation of your souls. But now the time has come when My plan of Salvation will be implemented as far as it concerns the transformation of earth, which has become unsuitable as a place of education for the spiritual beings and which therefore has to be restored so that it will be able to fulfil its purpose again. You must bear in mind that My love also applies to the spiritual substance which is still bound in the works of creation and that I also want to give new forms to this spiritual substance in order to facilitate its higher development. For these bound spirits have already languished for an infinitely long time in the hard matter which makes up the earth, i.e. all creations on it .... And this hard matter as well as the bound spirits within the earth must one day be dissolved, respectively released, so as to be able to enter new forms, and therefore the work of destruction will be on a humanly incomprehensible scale; consequently a total disintegration of all earthly creations can be spoken of, although it should be borne in mind that the material building blocks will remain but effectively unconstrained until I shape them into forms again to serve the spirits as a cover once more .... Thus the creation work Earth will not cease to exist, because all that which was dissolved shall be held and shaped into new forms again by My will, on account of which one can speak of a new earth .... Concluding this period of Salvation is an act of greatest mercy for all spiritual beings on earth and those bound in the works of creation, which signifies a complete transformation but not the disappearance of the planet Earth ....

However, this transformation will only be recognisable on the earth's surface, because people would be unable to detect or follow the process of the inner change even if they were able to consciously observe the transformation. But the latter will not be the case, for it will be the work of an instant, because all the conditions already exist to animate the new creations with the spiritual substance which has reached the appropriate degree of maturity; for all these tiny particles are present and need only be placed into external forms again which are beneficial for them. All the same, you humans cannot possibly imagine this final work of destruction, although you yourselves give rise to it through your anti-divine experiments to penetrate the earth's interior in order to avail yourself of forces which you cannot control as yet and whose ramifications you don't know .... But neither will I stop you since the time I designated for the past period of Salvation has also come to an end .... Yet time and again I emphasise the fact that I will leave nothing in the old state and that no living being will survive, and that I will also give the still constrained spirits their temporary freedom, which therefore implies that even the hardest matter must one day release the spiritual substance and for this purpose has to be dissolved too, in order to harden anew and to shelter spirits again, as is My will .... Since matter itself is only spiritual substance at the start of its development it can therefore not cease to exist either, and therefore the creation work 'Earth' will not vanish but only be transformed, and you can believe these Words even if the whole process of the end of the old earth is still incomprehensible for you .... However, everything is possible for Me and everything is based on My infinite love .... If you therefore only regard My work of destruction as an act of cruelty on My part you are still far removed from the right realisation .... Yet you only ever want to see humanity's destiny and fail to take the spirits bound in hard matter into account for whom the moment of liberation from their present form also has to come one day, so that their higher development can also take place according to My plan of eternity .... And because this end is constantly coming closer I Am informing you of My plan of Salvation, so that you will not belong to those who forfeit the blessings of existing as a human being on earth and run the risk of being banished into the creations again .... And I truly instruct you in all truth yet it will only be accepted by the person who wants to know the truth and has the sincere will to reach his goal on this earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The Father's evidence of grace during the last days ....

B.D. 8305 from October 21st 1962, taken from Book No. 87

You shall not lack the evidence of grace during last days before the end, for you will need it in order to become and to stay strong and to stand firm against the adversary's onslaughts. But I, too, will also reveal Myself equally obviously to you and you need only pay attention to your daily course of life in order to always feel My presence. For I want to prove to you that I know all your problems and afflictions and look after you. Admittedly, some suffering cannot be spared to you because I want you to conclude your life on earth with the highest possible maturity of soul, and it will only last for a short time, then all suffering will be over and you will gratefully remember what you had to live through .... because you will see the success your suffering will have gained you. Nevertheless I Am close to you and will look after you and lead you through everything destiny still has in store for you. It is only important that your faith becomes stronger, because then you will be able to achieve everything and need not be afraid of failing. Time and again I will speak to you, explain to you everything you need to know. I will reveal My nature to you so that you will trustingly confess all your problems to Me and appeal to Me directly for help, which I will certainly grant you. And no matter what approaches you each day, time and again you shall recognise My guidance in it, you should know that I Myself direct and guide everything and that no event approaches you arbitrarily, instead, everything is intended by My love and wisdom so that it will be a blessing for you and your fellow human beings. Those of you who have to achieve an obvious task on earth .... those of you who consciously serve Me of your own free will .... are under My particular protection and truly need not worry, for I will look after you, and I will help you to complete your task, for I know how necessary it is and how much benefit can still arise from it .... Therefore, place yourselves trustingly into My hands, for who could possibly take better care of you than a Father Who loves His children and only wants what is best for them? .... Just always be willing to let Me speak to you, for many explanations are still needed because humanity lives in error and spiritual darkness .... You will often still be surprised by My guidance and may experience such obvious evidence of grace that it will intensify your love for Me and, time and again, it will strengthen your faith, which will certainly be necessary in the coming time. For My adversary will also tempt you time and again, he forever endeavours to divert you from your spiritual mission, from all spiritual striving. The bright light illuminating you, resulting from your constant bond with Me, annoys him and he wants to extinguish it .... Yet he will not succeed, because My countermeasures work against him, not just yours alone .... And he will truly not be able to overrule Me .... You, however, are under My protection, you already belong to Me on account of your voluntary cooperation, and thus I will certainly know how to protect you from him and his activity. Therefore don't worry about anything that approaches you from his side, from his vassals .... who will try anything to prevent you from continuing My work, who want to place doubts into your hearts in order to incapacitate you to carry on working for Me .... Your faith and your firm bond with Me will ignore everything, and time and again I will give evidence of Myself and be present to you. However, you should know that you can only be fully effective for Me when you have completely detached yourselves from the world .... And thus you will understand why I Myself help you to become free from all worldly desires, you will understand why you are often physically impeded to make even the slightest concessions to the world .... Yet believe that I will bless your suffering, and whatever you will have to relinquish will one day be amply rewarded .... As yet I still need your services, for earth is suffering extreme adversity, people do not consider the end, they thoughtlessly live from day to day and spend no thought on what is to come, on their state after their death, because they don't believe that their life on earth is of significance, that they have to fulfil a task and that they themselves create the state they will be in after their death which they, however, cannot avoid anymore if they don't take serious stock of themselves and change. For this reason I will try everything in My power in order to inform people about the purpose of their earthly life, in order to still save souls before the end, which will not be long in coming .... For the time is completed, the end is near ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Sympathy and antipathy ....

B.D. 8306 from October 22nd 1962, taken from Book No. 87

Every spiritual question you ponder shall be answered, for I want you to be enlightened, but you should always request the light from Me directly. Thus I want to explain which spiritual currents you are subject to in association with your fellow human beings and how these currents affect you. You should know that all people are bound by My adversary as long as they are still unredeemed, that they are enslaved, and, according to their state of maturity which solely depends on their degree of love, also influenced by My adversary, that they more or less succumb to his influence and show this in their nature. Understandably, similar kinds of character will attract each other, that is, a human being will always seek to interact with people who exhibit the same disposition. For he finds these people agreeable, he finds them sympathetic, whereas people of an entirely opposite nature are repugnant to him, that is, they are antipathetic. Hence, this is the nearest explanation which surely everyone will understand. However, some people's souls are already more mature when they start earthly life as a human being, who, during their preliminary development in the state of compulsion had subordinated themselves more willingly to all demands, whose resistance has already diminished to a point that they start their life as a human being in a higher state of maturity and thus also reveal more love .... Love will always have a beneficial effect on a fellow human being and will even pacify another person's very immature spiritual substances, which explains that the former radiates a feeling which is equally described as sympathy and which affects the other person very positively, because such a person is not met with resistance and the influence of less mature people will also always be favourable and, occasionally, even increase their degree of love. Love awakens love in response .... and only entirely immature people will be antagonistic towards a loving person, but then he will also feel disagreeably affected by them .... Besides, all people move within a sphere that corresponds to their maturity, which is felt by a sensitive fellow human. If this sphere is dense due to adverse beings, the person will still be completely subject to the adversary's influence and will also have an off-putting effect on those who are already further advanced in their development .... no harmony will be possible because the person will resist currents which are in opposition to his endeavours and feelings ....

Thus sympathy and antipathy can only be explained with spiritual currents, for every person has his own sphere in which he is comfortable, and everything that does not correspond to this sphere affects him disagreeably .... Only a few people are so anchored in divine love within themselves already that their emanation is so strong that even immature souls can feel touched by it, and thus don't offer the former any conscious resistance. The differences of character traits, also being due to the preliminary embodiments, determine the degree of people's affection or dislike among themselves .... That which one person has long cast off already, can still be present in another to a large extent and also cause a feeling of inner resistance .... But if love has become more dominant in a person he will patiently endure the other person's failings and bad habits and try to influence him in the most favourable way, which in truth is doing the other person a service, it is a work of neighbourly love of greatest importance .... A person's sphere of love can have an invigorating effect on the next person and awaken love in him again, and since love is the only means of release from all evil you should even love your enemy, then your life on earth will truly be a blessing for your environment .... You should not withdraw from people you do not find agreeable, instead, try to exert a favourable influence on them .... only avoid them if they are openly hostile towards you, for then they are being used by My adversary in order to make you fall, in which case the time for changing their attitude has not yet come for them. Then your association with them can only be detrimental, for they will not accept anything from you, regardless of whether you want to help them in a spiritual or an earthly way, for the adversary himself is behind them and, feeling it, you should leave them alone and appeal to Me for protection from them. The spiritual being in you, your soul, is more or less affected by currents coming from your fellow human beings, and, as soon as your soul has gained a higher degree of maturity, it will also be pestered by My adversary who uses those people who still belong to him, and then the soul's resistance will be only too understandable, because it has detached itself from the enemy and doesn't want to associate with his followers either ....

However, if the soul itself is very loving it can succeed in influencing an immature person so favourably that he will surrender, and then a great work will have been accomplished by love, for which nothing is impossible .... For love is a power which no person can resist forever, it is just that such love is rarely to be found among people on earth .... For this reason it is difficult to love the enemy but not impossible, otherwise Jesus would not have preached about the love of one's enemy, which requires a high degree of love, but which will also result in great spiritual gain, both for the giver as well as the recipient ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Warning against "spiritual leaders" ....

B.D. 8307 from October 23rd 1962, taken from Book No. 87

Whatever impartations from the spiritual world are offered to you can only be purest truth from Me if the knowledge of My act of salvation, of its significance and spiritual reasoning, connected with My human manifestation in Jesus, is made accessible to you, for then you will know..., that I Myself work through My spirit, that they are not just messages from the spirit world which is not yet permitted by Me to teach but which also wants to bring itself to knowledge, yet they are often secluded souls, they are not yet in knowledge themselves, i.e. in the light. However, they have a strong need to communicate with people and to pass on to them what they have represented in earthly life. The bliss of the beings of light consists in the transmission of pure truth, of the stream of light which they themselves are radiated through by Me .... Hence they can also pass on purest truth and are permitted by Me to instruct people who sincerely request the truth from Me .... For these are protected from all erroneous teaching .... Yet the kingdom of the spirits comprises countless souls which have not yet reached perfection on earth, which have already spread much error on earth but in the firm conviction that they stand in the truth .... These do not yet have full light but they do not give up their usual activity on earth .... They also try to influence people's thoughts from the kingdom of the beyond, especially when the latter voluntarily open themselves to their influence in order to receive spiritual messages, when they establish contact with the spirit world and cannot control themselves which spiritual beings approach them .... It must always be said as their excuse that they want the best but take the wrong path .... that they neglect to turn to Me Myself in an earnest request for truth .... How often do spiritual beings present themselves to them as 'guides' and find undivided faith in people who willingly accept everything that is conveyed to them. If these spiritual beings are put to the test, that full clarification about Jesus' act of salvation is demanded of them, then they will only ever convey what was known to them as human beings on earth, yet the true knowledge of it is alien to them .... And therefore they will never speak of the unity God Jesus either, because this light could not yet shine in them, because they themselves do not yet recognize their God and creator in Jesus .... because they themselves could not yet be permeated by the light of truth. If spiritual teachers are active who are instructed by Me to convey the truth to people, then they will pass on the flow of love-light which emanates from Me and radiates through them to people who are intimately in contact with Me Myself .... But then they will also kindle a true light for them about the act of salvation and My human manifestation in Jesus .... But what a spiritual being does not possess itself it cannot pass on either .... Yet the good will of the receiver also determines the degree of light of the giver who, with the best will in the world, would like to share their knowledge with people on earth and use every opportunity where they can divest themselves. But it must always be emphasized that I do not assign them this task because they are not yet mature enough for instruction in fullest truth, yet their will is not resisted .... My protection, however, consists of not letting those walk in error who sincerely desire purest truth from Me .... But anyone who is satisfied with every gift (transmission) from spiritual beings which he cannot control himself .... who unhesitatingly believes everything he receives from the spirit world, his desire for pure truth is not so strong that he could be protected from error. And again you must therefore make a distinction between the 'working of the spirit', between 'My working in the human being' .... and the results from the spirit world .... which you hear with your body's ear through mediums or which you express to your fellow human beings in a mediumistic state ..... And I have given you a sure sign for testing by indicating whether and how you gain knowledge about Jesus' act of salvation and My incarnation .... And if there is not yet complete clarity about this you also have to be careful with the acceptance of spiritual knowledge, and you can only ever be given the one advice to contact Me directly, as the eternal truth, and to approach Me for this .... And truly, I Myself will introduce you to the truth, as I have promised ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Jesus' activity on Earth ....

B.D. 8308 from October 23rd 1962, taken from Book No. 87

When I lived on earth I taught you humans the Gospel of love, for you should develop the love within you into utmost perfection and also be aware of its consequences, which you were able to identify by My activity .... I was only able to heal the sick and perform miracles on account of My indwelling love, which permeated Me completely and subsequently resulted in unity with the Father .... the Eternal Love .... which is the goal of every being created by the Father. Thus I exemplified a life of love to you and only ever treated My neighbourhood with love .... Consequently I was able to teach in all wisdom, I was able to enlighten people's spiritual darkness since this light of wisdom came forth from the fire of My love. For this reason you humans will only gain realisation when you live a life of love, for love is the flow of divine light which illuminates a person's heart so that he can attain profound knowledge, which provides clarification about himself and his relationship with God, his Father of eternity .... People spent their lives in complete darkness, their thinking was wrong because their hearts lacked love and thus they lacked the fire which could emit a light .... And I came to them, I came into the midst of the human race, but they did not know Me and rejected the light .... They persecuted and attacked Me because their heartless way of life was also a life of sin. Yet I repaid all evil only with love, I compassionately took care of their suffering, I relieved them from ailments and only ever taught love, because this was the only remedy, both earthly as well as spiritually .... And there were only a few who recognised Me, who followed Me and made an effort to live a life of love, and they became enlightened and joined Me .... because they also recognised in Me the Messiah, the Saviour from severe adversity Who had long been announced to them through prophets. But only a few believed My Words and lived accordingly, who lived with love and were guided through the spiritual darkness into the light .... for the light lived in the midst of them ....

I constantly preached love and, time and again, I will proclaim to people the divine teaching of love, I will present it as being of paramount importance and admonish all people to live a life of love like Me in order to thereby gain the realisation of why they live on earth, what their task consists of and what they should strive for .... As soon as a small glimmer of light has fallen into their hearts, as soon as they unite with Me, as the Eternal Love, through unselfish kind-hearted activity, they will become increasingly more enlightened, they will become more knowledgeable and this knowledge will indeed correspond to truth because I, Truth and Love, are one .... He who lives in love will be united with Me and also know the truth .... He will have stepped out of the spiritual night into the light and all darkness will have left him. Only love can achieve this, consequently the Gospel of love will be proclaimed to you time and again, and any concepts conveyed to you from external sources must always kindle love in your hearts, they must always consist of admonitions to live your life on earth in love. Time and again you must change yourselves into love, you must fight against selfish love and try to change it into unselfish neighbourly love .... I must be presented to you as a God of love, Whom you can only reach through love .... For love is everything .... it is strength and light, it is bliss .... Anyone who lives without love is still burdened by darkness and his earthly path is obscure to him .... Anyone who has shaped himself into love will no longer fear anything, for he recognises his God and Creator as a loving Father and strives consciously towards Him .... Love liberates, it liberates from all bondage, love bestows happiness and grants bliss in abundance .... Love comes from Me and leads back to Me again .... For love connects the child with the Father .... Love grants the greatest happiness while still on earth and then again one day in eternity, for Love is God, It unites Father and child for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's answer directly or indirectly ....

B.D. 8309 from October 24th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

Keep to My word which comes to you from above, which I convey to you humans as evidence of My love and grace in the time before the end. This word will give you full enlightenment as soon as you sincerely desire it, for it first teaches you love, and if you fulfil My commandment of love it also means that you will become enlightened and that your thinking will be guided correctly .... so that you will then no longer sin either, because you endeavour to fulfil My will, which you now also recognize .... And if you now also see the right path in front of you through the inner light, then continue on it unwaveringly and don't let yourselves be diverted from it, don't listen to those who want to lure you onto another path but know that your path leads to the goal, to Me, Who lures and calls you from above, Whose voice you may hear and Who, as a good shepherd, goes ahead of you to lead you home. Then let the others speak and do not fear their revenge or their threats, for you are truly safe in My care. And you will feel if and when your father speaks to you and follow this voice. This is why I speak to you through the mouth of a human being, because strength and light shall be supplied to you time and again .... And as long as you listen to Me you will also receive strength and light, and you will not need to pay attention to what is offered to you from another side .... For who can instruct you better than I, Who knows everything and can therefore also introduce you to the truth? And thus I also want to take care of all your worries, which you fully entrust to Me .... What you no longer believe you can bear, place on My shoulders, and truly, the burden will become lighter for you until I completely carry it and show you that I am your father and will not leave My children in adversity. And intimately ask Me when you need advice and then listen to the inner voice; pay attention to what your heart tells you to do and everything you undertake will be right: For I place the answer in the heart of every one of My children if he intimately asks Me for it .... only you must also pay attention to what you feel to be right after such a prayer, for then My will is in you and you can no longer want anything wrong, anything sinful, especially if you are filled with love and thus only strive to fulfil My will. And I will certainly come to meet you, everything will work out such that you will recognize My guidance and be happy about My love. Anyone who fully trusts Me will already have his request fulfilled, because I will not let a firm faith fail. And faith only attains this firmness again through love, and love gives light, and now the human being will no longer need to ask because he recognizes the answer within himself. And be certain that nothing you do out of pure, unselfish love, which wants to give, make happy or protect from harm, is sin ..... Such love cannot commit any wrong, because love is divine and all sinfulness is far from it .... For sin is only that which offends against love, because then you offend against Me Myself, Who is love .... And if you are now united with Me through love, you will also do no wrong ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Announcement of the end and signs of the time ....

B.D. 8310 from October 25th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

The announcements of a near end seem unbelievable to people, consequently they reject them and also doubt the truth of the spiritual messages I convey to Earth .... And yet it will not take long for these announcements to fulfil themselves, for My Word is truth .... And precisely the fact that people don't have much time left to change their nature into love causes Me to repeatedly draw their attention to the end and to seriously admonish them to listen to My Word and to live their life accordingly. However, people don't want to believe and I cannot forcibly affect their thoughts and intentions, I can only ever inform them of that which is about to happen to them and leave it up to their free will as to how they assess and make use of such proclamations. And since the process of the end has never taken place before, since people have no knowledge of this, it is also difficult for them to believe it, even though from the beginning of this earthly period I have indicated this end time and again. Yet they should also take notice of the signs which I foretold as well .... They will notice that the signs are increasing and that, purely from a worldly point of view, a change must come about, for everything is intensifying to an abnormal degree, people find themselves on a level which should make them stop and think .... There is no more love, instead, people outdo each other with heartlessness, living next to each other in harmony no longer exists, people are hostile towards each other and allow free reign to their low instincts and passions, they chase after material goods and do not strive towards any spiritual contact whatsoever .... Like it was at the time of the great Flood, people are only searching for worldly pleasure and even obtain it by unlawful means due to the fact that love has grown cold .... Anyone looking around with open eyes should already recognise the signs of the last days and know that one day restitution will have to come, that one day God's power and righteousness must come to the fore, if a God is believed in at all. If this faith is completely missing, people will truly have reached a low spiritual level which will also draw in the end of this earth .... Yet from My side nothing else can be done but to repeatedly point out the end, to constantly keep addressing people through the mouths of prophets and seers and to enlighten them about the cause and effect of people's lives .... but always leaving it up to their freedom of will to grant credence to the proclaimers of My Word or to reject it. Nevertheless, every person's destiny will proceed faster than you think; all of you will have to experience this time if you are not blessed by being recalled before. My plan of Salvation was established an infinitely long time ago and will certainly be implemented because the time the spiritual beings were granted for releasing themselves from the physical form in this period of salvation has come to an end .... And even the exceedingly short time you have left until the end could still be enough for your final release if only you make your serious will known to fulfil your purpose of life on earth, consciously strive towards Me and appeal for My support to achieve perfection .... For I will truly comply with this serious plea, I will help you in every spiritual adversity and with profound mercy draw you to Me, so that you will not go astray again for an infinitely long time when the end of this earth has come ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Unleashed elements of nature ....

B.D. 8311 from October 27th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

I will always and forever care for you, who are still very distant from Me and refuse to take the path back to Me, and full of compassion I look upon humanity which makes no attempt to turn to Me and to renounce My adversary for good. The end of this earth comes constantly closer, which decides all its inhabitants' future fates .... I let My admonishing voice sound ever more urgently, and an extent of suffering and adversity goes across earth which could truly suffice to change people's minds, yet most of them remain indifferent as long as they are not affected themselves, and their selfish love grows ever stronger so that they reward themselves with worldly pleasures and barely consider their unfortunate neighbours .... And although more and more accidents and disasters will happen, they even increase the adversities and suffering with their own machinations and thereby drive people into serious difficulties, sin gets out of hand and irresponsible are the actions of the individual person towards his fellow man .... They are so distant from Me that My voice can barely reach them, and thus it will prompt Me to resound loudly from above .... so that they will also experience extreme adversity through the elements of nature, so that they will no longer be able to hold their fellow human beings accountable for that which afflicts them but that they will have to acknowledge that a Power is manifesting Itself Which they themselves cannot oppose. I have to use this last means of force, although even this will not compel them to believe, because people will give themselves all kinds of explanations apart from the one that their God and Creator wants to express Himself in order to be heard by them .... The presence of faith in a God is extremely weak, and even this weak faith will be relinquished by many people in view of the work of destruction caused by the unleashed elements of nature .... And yet I will use this last means because individual people will still find Me when they, in extreme danger, take the path to Me and send a prayer in spirit and in truth to Me .... They will receive help in miraculous ways and then will never want to leave Me again, because they have received My obvious help, but this can only be given to those who call upon Me in spirit and in truth ....

Countless people will lose their lives and will have to replace the earth with the kingdom of the beyond, but they will still have the opportunity to ascend, for the gates to the spiritual kingdom are not closed as yet and for many people it is still a blessing to be recalled from earth. And I truly know the state of their souls, to which extent they are still capable of being taught in the kingdom of the beyond .... However, the survivors on earth will be faced by a time of need which will only be endurable by making use of My strength and help .... For there will be incalculable chaos which you humans will be unable to master on your own, and then it will be shown that My Own will be led through all tribulation because My help for them will be evident .... And they will be able to offer comfort and strength to their fellow human beings too by also referring them to Me, Who alone can improve their situation but Who also wants to be called upon from the bottom of their hearts. This last intervention of Mine before the end will be a greater than great blessing as well, although most people will doubt My love, indeed, even openly deny a God Who lets such a disaster befall humanity. Yet there is not much time left until the end .... Hence everything must be done in advance to spare people the fate of a renewed banishment in the creations of the new earth, because this fate is so appalling that you humans can't possibly imagine it .... And if I want to protect you from this I will therefore continue to use those means prior to it which still promise a little success, even if you doubt them to be the work of a living God Who is love within Himself .... My only concern is that people will remember Me in their distress, that they will take the path to Me, that they will acknowledge Me in their heart and then not go astray if they are being recalled, for then their ascent in the kingdom of the beyond will also be assured to them. And if they survive the huge natural event they will not relinquish Me anymore, and everyone will still be granted a time of grace until the end during which they can make a decision if they are still undecided. The time is approaching the end, and humanity still has to face many difficulties .... Yet those who believe in Me can calmly await even this time, for they will always receive My help, and this adversity, too, will pass by once it has served its purpose .... For soon I Myself will come and fetch My Own from this earth when the last day has arrived, as it is intended in My plan of eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Warning against medial receptions .... "Spiritual Guides" ....

B.D. 8312 from October 28th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

It is understandable that I take care of all people in this last time before the end, that I try to instruct people everywhere and address them as soon as only a receptive heart can be found which lets Me speak to it and passes My address on to its fellow human beings again. It is particularly important to Me that people are admonished to love, because otherwise no salvation from ruin can be expected. And where people come together who cultivate this spirit of love, who live a life of love themselves and try to encourage their fellow human beings to do the same, it will also be possible to send messages to people from above which are only ever intended to encourage people to strive spiritually, to put the world with its demands aside and to strive for the salvation of their souls. And thus I will also be able to make Myself known through the inner word where all prerequisites are present which enable the working of My spirit in the human being. And then only the same truth will ever be conveyed to earth, because people shall walk in the light in order to cover the right path to ascent. Yet My adversary also works and dresses himself in the garment of an angel of light in order to mislead people, and this cannot be warned of enough. And this will be ascertained by such announcements which deviate from the pure truth, which you humans can check at any time. For as soon as I Myself instruct people I will not convey different knowledge to earth than there .... Therefore, as soon as the transmitted spiritual knowledge coincides, I Myself am active .... But if there are contradictions My adversary is at work who fights against the truth in order to maintain darkness. But if people's will is good they may also know themselves to be protected from the influence of opposing forces, and everything will work out for the souls' blessing. For the will of the individual is decisive as to whether he is touched by the pure truth and also recognizes it as truth. And the will is good if he gives himself to Me Myself because he strives for unity with Me and makes an effort to live a life of love in unselfishness .... . Then he need not fear falling prey to dark forces, and then he will also be helped in every way .... There is only one thing I have to mention again and again, that people should, if possible, beware of medial receptions .... For even though not every message from the spiritual kingdom received in a mediumistic state need be erroneous, you humans will nevertheless not always have the power of judgement to distinguish error from truth, and this is the danger that you must always fear being misled. For the beings of light, who in special cases also make themselves known through a medium, will time and again try to persuade people to switch off mediumistic reception and consciously request My word, they will point out to you that you only need to shape your heart through loving activity so that I Myself can use it as a receptacle for My spirit and My flow of love strength will then also pour into such a prepared heart. But if 'spiritual guides' make themselves known to you in the mediumistic state, you must always be on your guard, for then both the recipient and his environment must be of high spiritual maturity and sincerely desire only the pure truth .... in order to experience the protection of the world of light, which pushes away all unspiritual elements which try to interfere. But you humans should know that My spirit can and will work in every person who fulfils the prerequisites: that he lives a life of love, thereby attains a firm faith and then consciously listens within himself after heartfelt prayer for the supply of the pure truth .... He must earnestly desire the truth so that it will now also be supplied to him through the working of My spirit in him .... But then you will not need any instructions from the spirit world, which is uncontrollable for you .... although the truth can also reach you from there, because the world of light only passes on on My instructions what it receives from Me .... but this should happen again through the spirit in the human being which establishes the connection with the eternal father-spirit .... And spiritual guides, who are active in My will, will always try to encourage you humans to establish the bond with Me yourselves, so that My promise will be fulfilled: „I will send you the comforter, the spirit of truth, who will guide you into all truth ...." and „Whoever loves Me and keeps My commandments, I Myself will come to him and reveal Myself to him ...." Understand that I am always ready to speak to you and to make known to you everything that is helpful for your salvation .... And therefore take the path directly to Me, Who is the eternal truth Myself and wants to set you free from everything that is still part of My adversary who, as the prince of darkness, also seeks to keep you in darkness .... I Myself bring you the light, and accept it and let it shine into your heart, and truly, it will only be for your blessing ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's power current ....

B.D. 8313 from October 29th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

Every bond with Me, every thought that applies to Me, is of greatest blessing for your soul .... I tell you this time and again, for then you will be touched by My flow of strength time and again, because then you will also open yourselves so that this flow can flow into you. You cannot measure what this bond means, after all, it is the conscious turning away from My adversary and return to Me which, as it were, cancels your former sin of apostasy, for your thoughts will only stay with Me if you yourselves want the separation to be lifted .... And then the possibility is also created that My ray of love will strike you again, because then you will no longer reject it .... And to be illuminated by My love again also means that your being will slowly change again into what it was in the beginning: strength of love radiated by Me, thus beings full of love who were immeasurably happy. Believe that every thought turned towards Me makes this illumination of love possible and that your soul has to irrevocably mature on this earth so that it will no longer be denied entry into the kingdom of light .... For to be able to be illuminated by My love again also includes everything else, which is the prerequisite that the gates into the kingdom of light are opened for you .... For you will work in love yourselves because the strength flowing to you from Me impels you to do so, and love will kindle bright light in you so that you can already attain a high degree of realization on earth .... And thus you will also understand Jesus' act of salvation and fully turn to the divine redeemer Jesus Christ, and this also means that He will open the gates into the kingdom of light for you upon your entry into the kingdom of the beyond. And your purpose of earthly life will only be able to be fulfilled if your soul constantly receives strength from Me .... But the flow of strength from Me necessitates the voluntary opening of your hearts, it necessitates the conscious bond with Me which you establish through thoughts turned towards Me, for no such thought remains unnoticed by Me, you draw Me to yourselves when your thoughts deal with your God and creator, and now I can also guide these thoughts correctly, I can, as it were, take possession of your soul and push the adversary away from you. For then you will give yourselves to Me, and this devotion to Me will then also take place consciously, that you will give your will to Me yourselves, that you want to be seized and guided by Me, that you will mention Me as your guide through this earthly life .... if you ask Me to be your friend and brother, your father, Who walks with you on your pilgrimage path on this earth .... then you can also leave yourselves to Me completely carefree, for then you will also safely reach your goal on earth: complete union on earth with Me .... Then you will have successfully made your way back to the father's house, you will be with Me again, from Whom you once started .... For this reason every minute of the day you give to Me is blessed, and then you will stay with Me longer and longer, for the strength of love which touches you also has the effect of a desire for My presence, then you will not only lead your earthly life but the spiritual kingdom will be ever more desirable to you, and your earthly life will be increasingly spiritually oriented. Then there will also no longer be any danger that you will sink back and long for the world with its goods. For these no longer tempt you once you were allowed to take possession of spiritual goods which were offered to you in the form of knowledge through the increasing flow of love. And My love will draw you, the impulse for loving activity will grow ever stronger in you, and thus you will also fulfil your purpose of earthly life. For love alone will release you from all bondage, love will free you from all forms, and you can leave the earthly body at the hour of death as mature and enter the kingdom of light and bliss as a free spiritual being, in which you can now create and work in union with Me, as is your destiny ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Address to the vineyard workers ....

B.D. 8314 from October 30th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

Anyone who offers to serve Me by participating in the work of salvation as an eager co-worker, by helping to guide erring souls onto the right path, can also truly be certain of My blessing and My help, for this alone is important, that helpers use all their strength to carry out what is necessary but can also only be carried out by people because I cannot and may not work unusually .... otherwise it would truly be easy for Me to inform all people of their God and creator and their purpose of earthly life .... But earthly life is a decision of free will for every human being, and therefore I can only use people again who want to work for Me in My vineyard. For they can accept you but also reject you according to their will, which is not forced into its decision by the transmission of My word through you. And if you now know how urgently I need faithful labourers for Me, because it is the last time before the end and all people no longer have much time to mature on this earth, you can also truly believe that I will help you in every way .... The only prerequisite is that you show the earnest will to carry out this vineyard work .... But if you want to serve Me with all your strength you cannot serve another lord at the same time, you cannot simultaneously fulfil the will of the one who is My adversary and whose endeavour will always be to withhold the knowledge of the truth from people, but which I want to bring to them. Therefore, anyone who serves him cannot serve Me at the same time .... You must take this into serious consideration and also ask yourselves whether and in what way you are willing to serve him .... You must be clear that I cannot and will not support you in an activity which is obviously the adversary's work, through which he can reap a rich harvest .... How can I agree with this when it is My constant endeavour to liberate people from their worldly desire and to only turn their desire towards the spiritual kingdom? .... This is a battle which every person has to wage against himself and which also costs great strength to overcome, but for this I will always grant My assistance .... But you, who want to serve Me, should also try to achieve the same by causing your fellow human beings to recognize and avoid the dangers of the world .... You should work together with Me but not against Me .... by offering them opportunities to gain insight into My adversary's realm and increase their desire for the world .... and then you serve two masters, you play one master against the other .... I truly need faithful servants to whom I can assign the work in My vineyard, and I rejoice in every willing co-worker and will bless him, yet I demand his full commitment to Me and cannot approve of him being at the same time at the will of My adversary who will truly try everything to push him away from Me completely because he wants to gain the victory over Me by winning more souls for himself than are saved for Me .... Consider that I, as the father of the house, take care of My servants spiritually and earthly so that they need not suffer any hardship, and have faith in this assurance of Mine .... But also understand My admonitions and warnings, understand all obstacles which get in your way, for I Myself allow them because I want to win you completely for Myself and My kingdom, because I don't want to hand you over to My adversary, because your work for Me is extremely valuable to Me .... but therefore I also want to possess you undivided .... You shall fully commit yourselves to Me and My kingdom, for there is not much time left, and what you gain earthly you will lose, but the spiritual gain will amply compensate you .... You will come ever closer to My heart, and truly, you will be allowed to feel My love because you prove your love to Me through undivided work for Me and My kingdom. Bear in mind that countless souls are in greatest need .... Reduce this hardship but don't increase it .... Always remember that I fight for every single soul in order to rescue it from darkness, and therefore you must not plunge it into darkness, but you do so by every favour, by every aid to sin, for people are weak and must be protected where they are in danger of being tempted to sin .... I certainly know that the individual cannot do much against people's sinfulness, yet he should not himself contribute to the encouragement of sinfulness .... For every individual is responsible for himself .... but whoever causes offence is equally guilty .... You should take this to heart and always endeavour to make contact with Me with a pure heart, then you will also be true servants to Me whom I can count as My own, and you will obviously be allowed to experience My blessing, because I need everyone who wants to serve Me, and then he will truly no longer need to worry, neither about his earthly nor his spiritual well-being, for I always want to be a faithful father to My own ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The word from above lights a light ....

B.D. 8315 from October 31th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

You will be granted a direct supply of My word as the greatest gift of grace, and you need only be willing to accept this gift .... You only need to listen to it willingly, i.e. without inner resistance, think it through and live accordingly .... My will will be clearly and simply proclaimed to you, you will be informed why you have to fulfil My will, and you will also be given strength together with My word in order to be able to fulfil My will. And then you will also fulfil your purpose of earthly life and the spiritual success .... the maturing of your soul .... will then also certainly be granted to you. Time and again this is explained to you and yet little attention is paid to My gift of grace, and the result of this is that people go through earthly life without realization and strive for goals which are wrong and dangerous because they lead to the abyss if they are not recognized as wrong soon enough. But no-one can enlighten you correctly about this if I don't do it or the servants appointed by Me, who were given the right knowledge by Me because they are to transfer it to you if you are willing to accept My instructions. Only I can give you a true picture of all spiritual correlations, only I can give you the knowledge about yourselves and your relationship with Me, your God and creator of eternity, only I can give you the right information about yourselves, what you were, what you are and what you should become again .... And only such truthful knowledge can cause you yourselves to make My will your own and to be willing to live according to this will you have recognized. I do not demand a change of being from anyone who is completely blind in spirit .... I first give him a small light in which he shall and can now find his way. And therefore I Myself constantly endeavour to enlighten people's spiritual state, for only when they are able to think correctly will they make the right decision, and I want to help them to do so. My adversary plunged you into deepest darkness, but I want to lead you out of darkness into light, for darkness is death but light is life .... And My infinite love wants to give life to everything dead, because life alone is the state of beatitude. You yourselves once voluntarily strayed from Me, and you had voluntarily distanced yourselves from My love, from light and all strength .... thus you became sinful to an extent which you as a human being are incapable of grasping .... And therefore you were completely devoid of all love, light and strength .... And now I give you everything again if only you are willing to accept the gift of My love .... For I convey My word to earth which, as evidence of My infinite love for you, is blessed with My strength, which thus is able to change you again .... i.e. your nature .... so that you come closer to Me again, that light becomes within you and you also make use of My strength, which you may receive through the willing acceptance of My word .... But because the gift of grace of My love may not force you humans to believe, it is offered to you through a human being whom I have chosen as My instrument .... which, however, you can accept or also reject as untrustworthy .... But I must leave this freedom of will to you, for you should freely decide which relationship you now want to establish with Me .... And if your will is good then you will also recognize Me Myself in My word, you will feel by Whom you are addressed and then also fulfil My will of your own accord, that is, you will live a life of love, because I require nothing else but love from you, because you can only redeem yourselves through love. Love is the fundamental principle, and therefore every instruction on My part must only ever result in love being emphasized .... My will must always be recognizable as the fulfilment of the commandments of love. And thus My word conveyed to you from above must also focus on love for Me and for the neighbour, love must time and again be preached to people as a matter of priority, and they must be made aware of both the effects of a life of love as well as the consequences of a loveless way of life, and anyone who now fulfils My will will also soon have a bright light shine for him, and he will recognize himself as a 'creature' of God which shall develop into a 'child' ('of God') on earth, which shall only ever strive towards his father in order to one day be and remain eternally blissfully happy in union with Him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The messengers along the path of ascent ....

B.D. 8316 from November 1st 1962, taken from Book No. 87

I would always place My will into your heart if only you appealed to Me for guidance as to what you should do. Then I will know that you endeavour to fulfil My will at all times and truly, you will not make any wrong decisions. I take care of every single person because everyone needs strength for his path of ascent, yet anyone willing to take this path of ascent must also pay attention to advice as well as the messengers standing by the wayside, for time and again roads branch off from the right path which lead towards the abyss, which must be cautioned against. And precisely these wrong paths are so very enticing at first, they are visually so vivid, so attractive, that the human being will easily be inclined to take them in the hope of ever greater delights .... Yet they lead into the darkest undergrowth from which the traveller can no longer free himself and has to appeal for help. This is why I say to you, pay attention to the messengers by the wayside, who know the right path and whom I Myself send to meet the pilgrims, so that they won't walk without a guide and go astray. And don't grumble if the path leads uphill or becomes harder to surmount .... The strength for this will always flow to you, and your will, too, can increase in strength at any time if only you sincerely appeal to Me for more strength .... for this request will truly be granted to you, because I yearn for your return and on My part will do everything to draw you to My heart before long, which has longed for you ever since your apostasy from Me ....

Your earthly process is full of all kinds of temptations .... For My adversary wants to keep you for himself, and he will only ever show you the commodities of this world, you will see a broad, acceptable, exceptionally pleasant road ahead of you promising you the most beautiful goal, which you would take without hesitation if you were not constantly warned by My messengers who are instructed by Me to guide you such that you will find the right path and leave the broad road .... Time and again these messengers call out that you are taking the wrong direction, that you should turn around and take the right path if you want to reach the goal .... if you, at the end of your pilgrimage on this earth, want to reach your Father's house which truly will provide you with all glories, which will compensate you abundantly for the joys you forgo if you choose the narrow path that leads to this magnificent goal. So listen to these messengers, believe that they are sent to meet you by Me, your Father of eternity, because I love you and want to enable your final return to Me .... Don't be alarmed by apparent obstacles for they are easily overcome if only you hand yourselves over to your guides who will safely lead you past cliffs and ravines, and then the path will appear to get gradually easier the closer you are to the goal.

For I want to guide you Myself, and with Me you truly will overcome all difficulties, with Me even the steepest path will be easy for you, for you will receive an uninterrupted flow of strength from Me as soon as you entrust yourselves to Me, and you will approach lucid heights and no longer desire to descend .... But you will never be able to reach this goal using the broad road which you travel at the start and which certainly promises you much but irrevocably leads into the abyss, from which you are supposed to work your way up to the pinnacle after all. And even if you cannot decide for a long time to leave this broad road, time and again you will recognise byways and again and again My messengers will call out to you to take these paths in order to reach the goal on account of which you live on earth ....

For I do not stop pursuing you, and I always approach you Myself in these messengers and speak to you through them because I don't want you to go astray and for the sake of trivial joys forfeit your eternal life which, however, can only be attained if you turn away from the broad road that My adversary has furnished with the most beautiful images and equipped with deceptive lights. Nevertheless, they do not shed any light because he wants to lead you towards the abyss again, from where My love had helped you rise until your existence as a human being, but now you must cover your final path yourselves in free will, for which I indeed offer you My help again which you only need to accept ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Fear and misery .... God's intervention - Battle of faith ....

B.D. 8317 from November 1st 1962, taken from Book No. 87

You may take it for granted that you will soon enter the last stage before the end .... For the signs will be noticeable which were predicted in Word and Scripture .... However, under no circumstances will you be compelled to believe it, for every person is free to find his own explanation as to whether it corresponds to the truth or not .... Yet the spiritually minded person knows that a period is coming to an end, and he also knows that a new one will start again, because countless spiritual beings shall still be redeemed which travel the path across earth partly in a constrained state and partly as free beings for the purpose of their return to God .... Everything will take place in lawful order, both the disintegration of the creation as well as the reshaping of the earth, because God's plan of Salvation has been predetermined for eternity .... And due to your eternal God and Creator's immense grace you humans who live in the last days are permitted to be informed of what lies ahead of you .... You will be initiated into His plan of Salvation if you want to know the truth about it, and therefore you may receive His Word which in all truthfulness informs you of everything pertaining to the act of creation and deification .... For it is not His will that you should experience the end in complete ignorance because .... if you just possess a small glimmer of realisation .... you will make an effort to fulfil the purpose of your earthly life which entails that you will bring the act of deification to fruition in earthly life and thus reach your goal ....

However, it requires your free will to know the truth, and then you will also be able to believe everything that is conveyed to you humans through the Word of God from above. Then you will also find it credible that the end and a total transformation of the earth is near, for your spirit will explain much to you and all correlations will fall into place .... And thus you will also be able to observe happenings in the world which will have alarming consequences for the whole of mankind .... You will watch how people proceed against each other and the measures all participants take in order to assert their authority .... You will get very frightened, for you humans will be threatened by an exterminatory war of immense proportions, there will be widespread fear which will only bypass the few who completely hand themselves over to their God and Creator, their Father of eternity, and who therefore will be led out of every adversity .... And His guidance will be truly remarkable, for He Himself will intervene .... Yet, instead of diminishing, the tribulation will become much worse, for then people will be faced by and find themselves at the mercy of a natural disaster, a raging of elements, which cannot be humanly prevented, because it is the expression of that Power Which is in control of all forces and Which the elements have to obey in accordance with Its will ....

And this will be the dawning of a time which can truly be regarded as the greatest misery that has ever come across this earth .... but which, again, will not be quite so severely felt by His Own because they may receive God's extraordinary help at all times .... Yet those who are distant from their God and Creator, who do not believe in His love and wisdom, in His greater than great might, will have to suffer great hardship because they won't call upon the One Who can help them in their distress .... They will not acknowledge Him and are still of the same opposing spirit as they were at the time of their apostasy from God, and thus they will return to the abyss again, from where they had already raised themselves with the help of God and just had to pass their last test of will in order to be completely redeemed from all guilt. For in the last days a brutal battle will erupt against Jesus Christ, Whom you humans have to acknowledge as God's Son and Redeemer of the world in Whom God Himself became a human being .... so that you can then enter the spiritual kingdom in a redeemed state .... Yet God's adversary will declare war on all those who believe in Him, and therefore everyone will have to publicly profess Him before the world .... And only those who have accepted His Word which was transmitted to earth from above will be able to profess Him, for they will recognise the truth and know Who Jesus Christ was and why He has to be acknowledged, and they will remain faithful to Him until the end and belong to those who will be carried away when the day of the end has come .... The battle of faith will be the last test of endurance for you humans, but which you who know the truth will be able to pass .... This is why God time and again conveys His Word to earth, so that all people can partake of the truth in order to also uphold it before the world during the final battle of faith, for only the truth will provide them with the information about Jesus Christ, and only faith in Him will give you the strength to persevere until the end .... until He comes Himself to fetch you into His kingdom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Transience of the earthly .... Intercession for souls ....

B.D. 8318 from November 2nd 1962, taken from Book No. 87

Time and again you humans can observe the transience of all earthly things and already see from this that earthly goods are worthless for eternity, for you cannot take any of them over into the kingdom of the beyond if you have to leave your earthly body. And since you don't know the hour of your death, which the very next day can bring you, you should not use your life's energy for the acquisition of earthly goods but only to acquire eternal goods which will follow you into the kingdom of the beyond as spiritual wealth. Then you would truly act wisely, you would fill your lamps with oil and then no longer need to fear darkness. And time and again you will be confronted by the transience of all earthly things, time and again you will experience the recall of people from this life, time and again you will see material goods abandoned to destruction; time and again you will be able to experience that nothing belonging to this world will last .... Your body will pass away, just as everything earthly-material passes away .... But your soul has no offence to fear when it escapes from the earthly body .... It is the spiritual substance which can never pass away again because it is once emanated strength from Me which will continue to exist for all eternity. Only its state can be completely different at the death of the body .... It can enter into light and strength and freedom to live forever, but it can also remain in the state of death for eternal times .... And the fate of the souls is determined by you humans yourselves during your earthly life, for you can use the life energy given to you of your own free will, both for the body as well as for the soul, so that it will attain life and need not fear death, which will then be its fate if the human being leaves the soul in want during his earthly life, if he does nothing to help it to live, if he only tries to provide the body with the goods of the world, which are transient. Then the soul will enter the kingdom of the beyond after the death of the body in poverty and destitution, in a state of powerlessness and bitterest misery ..... For it cannot take anything it acquired on earth with it, it does not enter a kingdom of light but moves in utmost darkness and is only dependent on the loving help of the beings of light which, however, it does not recognize as such and therefore usually rejects them .... And then only the loving intercession of people on earth can help it to gain enough strength to strive for an improvement of its pitiful situation. Such a soul has to pay dearly for the world's goods, for they have plunged it into great misery because the body took precedence over the soul, but the soul now has to bear the consequences. If you humans could see the appalling misery of such souls you would truly take pity on them and not deny them help in order to bring them relief in their situation .... And you can only do this through loving intercession which you give to them, which they feel as a grant of strength and they give up their will of rejection .... Then the beings of light which approach them unrecognized will also be heard sooner, and they can slowly come to realize what they neglected to do on earth ...., for souls which are followed into eternity by intercession on the part of people will not be lost, because every loving intercession is a ray of strength and this strength can never ever be lost, thus it exerts a positive effect on those souls .... Therefore remember all souls which still languish in darkness and lovingly take care of them .... Help them through your prayer so that they will not sink any further, for your prayer protects them from this .... They will feel an intercession in love as a strengthening of will and also as small sparks of light which they follow and thus reach you who remembered them in prayer. And they will also always stay close to you, hoping for renewed supply of strength and light .... For this reason you humans can contribute much to the redemption of the souls in the spiritual world if you consciously try to help them, if you deal with their adversity and try to alleviate it, if you also bring My word close to them, which they can now hear if only they are willing to improve their condition, if they feel a flow of love from you and know that you take care of their adversity .... Admittedly, their resistance, which they still possessed to a great extent on earth and therefore did not accept spiritual help on earth, first has to be broken through loving intercession. But the person who loves his body excessively so that he only helps it to prosperity will also be inaccessible to spiritual instructions, and this is the soul's great hardship that it was deprived of spiritual nourishment and that it enters the kingdom of the beyond in a dreadful state without it. Yet people's love can alleviate much hardship .... a prayer of love for these souls will truly help them up from the dark realm and the soul will also be able to ascend in the beyond as soon as it is always granted assistance by the beings of light and people on earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Only love is bliss ....

B.D. 8319 from November 3rd 1962, taken from Book No. 87

Having to do without My love is the most wretched state a being, which created My love, can find itself in. Yet it created this state for itself because it rejected My love, which is radiated to every being without limitation, until it resisted Me and closed itself to all illumination of love on My part. Then the unhappy state set in, which the being will remain in until it voluntarily opens itself again and lets My love radiate into it .... To be without My love is a state of death, a state of lifelessness and a state of deepest darkness. That I do not want to leave the creatures, which once came forth from My love, in this unhappiness is guaranteed by My endless love .... For it followed the being even into the deepest depth and will not rest until the being has ascended again from that depth with My help .... until it has regained the self-awareness it had lost in the depths .... and now, as an I-conscious being, voluntarily opens itself to receive My ray of love. And time and again it has been proclaimed to you through My word that this process of illumination with love can only take place on My part if you yourselves make an effort to live in love .... if you therefore voluntarily accomplish the change back to love, just as you once voluntarily relinquished love. At the beginning of your embodiment as a human being you are still unaware of the bliss of giving and receiving love, for your ego is only self-centred, self-love is still strongly developed, which My adversary implanted in you and which was the reason for your apostasy from Me .... Self-love certainly makes itself happy but it does not create a state of bliss, for self-love is not of divine origin but belongs to My adversary. But as soon as you try to change selfish love into unselfish neighbourly love, into giving, selfless, wanting-to-gratify love .... you will also feel the bliss of the activity of love, for you then establish the bond with the eternal love through your activity of love, and this bond must also irrevocably bring you bliss, because then I can shine upon you again as it was in the beginning .... For whatever comes forth from Me must cause bliss, because I am love Itself, which only ever wants to bestow bliss and which will not rest until the work of returning all fallen beings to Me is finished. Although you humans on earth should always remember that you are infinitely loved, that you are loved by the highest and most perfect being, by the greatest spirit of infinity, Whose children you shall become and Who one day wants to create and work with you as your father, for your and also your own happiness .... You should feel this awareness of being loved with all intimacy strongly in your heart and already be blissfully happy about it, for then you will also voluntarily hand yourselves over to Me, you will desire My love and long for the happiness of a union with Me .... And then your return to Me is also guaranteed, for love draws to itself what it desires .... You humans on earth must therefore learn to recognize your God and creator as a being Which wants to be your father and is love itself in supreme perfection .... If you know about My nature, then you will also consciously connect with Me .... And therefore I also want to send you the knowledge about it time and again, and I speak to you about it, I convey My word from above to you in order to introduce you to the great mystery of My being, which you will only be able to love when you know that it itself is love .... Time and again My adversary will distort My image, he will try to portray Me to you as a God of vengeance, as a strict judge and as a merciless being Who condemns but does not redeem .... Yet the pure truth will always come to you from Me because I love you and also want to win your love. And love is truly stronger than hatred, and thus My greater than great love will also succeed in illuminating you as My living creations again, in igniting love in yourselves, and then the unification with Me will also come about one day, which is the purpose and goal of your earthly progress but which has to come about of your own free will, which is why you yourselves can prolong the time of separation from Me .... But I will always help you to take the path back to Me, and I will use all means which .... even if they seem painful to you .... are nevertheless based on My infinite love and will one day also lead safely to the goal .... For you came forth from My love and will also safely return to eternal love again ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Supply of food and drink through the divine word ....

B.D. 8320 from November 4th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

I constantly supply your soul with food and drink, the nourishment it needs to become blissful, as soon as you come to My table, so that I may have supper with you .... I, as your God and creator of eternity, uphold everything that has emerged from My hand; I safeguard the life and existence of all My creations, yet I turn My greatest concern towards the beings which once fell away from Me and are therefore in an unhappy state until they have returned to Me again, which has to happen of their own free will, because the apostasy from Me also took place of their own free will .... And when this being on its return to Me has reached the stage of free will again .... which it regains after an infinitely long state in bound will as a human being .... I take special care of it, for at the beginning of its embodiment as a human being it is a miserable creature which needs My help in order to mature and shape itself such that I can accept it again and admit it into My kingdom of light and bliss. Thus it must constantly receive nourishment from Me, it must be fed and watered, for the soul of this returning being is .... sick and weak, it needs strengthening, it needs a healing medicine, it needs much love on My part which gives it everything it needs to mature until the death of its body. And My love also supplies it with everything, My love gives it the right nourishment every day, My love imparts strength and light to it so that it can recover and attain maturity which results in its union with Me, and then its earthly life will have been successfully completed .... that it can finally unite with Me again and be immeasurably happy again, as in the beginning. The daily nourishment offered to it by Me is My word, for as soon as I Myself address the soul it can be supplied with light and strength at the same time, and it need only voluntarily accept My gift of love and grace, it need only approach My table and let itself be fed and watered by Me, yet without My word it will not be able to mature, for just as the body requires food and drink for its structure, so does the soul .... only that it, because it is a spiritual being, also requires spiritual food. And spiritual nourishment can only be offered to it by Me Myself .... even if it does not receive it directly but is conveyed to it through My messengers .... But this nourishment always originates from Me, for it is strength of love which flows forth from the divine source and which inevitably helps the soul to attain perfection if it willingly accepts My gift .... if it listens to My word and also lives it out .... if it thus evaluates food and drink in the right sense. And because the soul .... once it has gone forth from Me .... can never pass away again, therefore its state shall also be a blessed one. It should not be a state of poverty and misery in which it cannot enjoy its being but it should be able to create and work in light and strength and freedom and must also be able to do so, thus it must have attained a degree of strength and light itself which makes it a divine being. And therefore it must always be in closest union with Me and establish this bond already on earth, which its free will must decide to do itself, but then light and strength will also flow to it unmeasured in the form of My word, which truly can be called bread from the heavens, a water of life, because it gives the soul everything it needs in order to reach perfection. This concern of My love prompts Me to constantly speak to it, to constantly convey My word from above, for all people are in such a state that they need direct help from Me .... They are all more or less in need of strong nourishment, and without such they cannot mature and thus achieve their purpose of earthly life .... Yet it depends on the willingness of each individual soul whether it accepts My food offered to it, whether it partakes of the supper with Me, whether it allows itself to be fed and watered by Me or turns down the invitation to come to My table and passes by a source of grace of My love .... But one day it will bitterly regret it when it has arrived in the kingdom of the beyond and will look over the many unused opportunities which its free will let pass by .... And it will never be able to make up for what it missed in earthly life, even though an ascent will still be possible for it but it will be far more difficult for it than on earth. But as long as the human being lives on earth I will offer him My word, for every soul shall be fed and watered, every soul shall be satiated which only desires nourishment in order to perfect itself ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Freedom from the enemy only through Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 8321 from November 5th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

There is only one means to become free from all bondage, the voluntary turning to Jesus Christ .... the divine redeemer .... He alone has the power to give you freedom, for He paid your jailer the ransom for you and he can now no longer keep you bound if you desire freedom yourselves .... But the latter is decisive, for it is up to you yourselves which master you want to turn to .... But to remain with him also means to languish again in the captivity of the one who is without love and who only prepares an unhappy fate for you .... But if you want to become blessed again, as you were in the beginning, you must detach yourselves from him and hand yourselves over to Jesus Christ, you must accept His redemption and thus avail yourselves of all the blessings He purchased for you on the cross .... You must appeal to Him for strength of will, because this is necessary since the enemy of your souls had weakened your will and therefore the ascent to the height would be difficult for you if the divine redeemer did not give your will the necessary strength. He has overcome the adversary, He has wrested the souls of those from him who themselves want them to become free .... And He paid the purchase price for these souls through His death on the cross. The soul of Jesus of an original spirit who had not fallen .... pitied the great need of the fallen brethren, and offered Itself to God as a sacrifice of atonement to redeem their guilt .... The soul of Jesus, a pure being of light, descended to earth and took abode in the midst of sinful humanity in the will to bring freedom to this humanity, since it languished in the fetters of the adversary and was incapable of its own salvation .... But the path of a soul of light in the dark earthly world could not have been covered by it if it had not had love within itself which gave it strength, for love is strength .... Love, however, is also the primal element of God, the father, from Whom that spirit of light also emerged .... Thus He so arranged Himself as the human being Jesus that He was completely filled with love .... which also means that the eternal love Itself completely permeated Him and thus took abode in His human cover .... His body contained the eternal Deity Itself, Which can only be imagined as love .... And this love now accomplished the work of redemption on earth .... Love Itself redeemed the guilt by causing the man Jesus to sacrifice Himself for humanity in order to offer a work of atonement to the father through which they became free from that guilt .... Love therefore fought against the enemy and defeated him .... He had to hand over the captives, he had to set them free because the purchase price had been paid for them. And thus every person who accepts Jesus' act of salvation, who recognizes and acknowledges the father Himself in the divine redeemer and now freely turns his will towards Him, just as he once freely turned away from Him .... He only has to want to become free from the enemy of his soul and ask Jesus for help, he has to take the path to the cross himself with his guilt of sin and ask for forgiveness, then he will also be accepted and his guilt will be redeemed, he will have escaped captivity and been seized by Jesus Christ Himself, Who will also safely lead him into the kingdom of light which was previously closed to beings who became sinful through their apostasy from God. To become free from God's adversary is an exceedingly great grace which, however, the human being only needs to request because thereby he testifies to his will to be redeemed and to return to the father again .... And this will of his will will be complied with, for it is only about the change of will, it is only about the recognition of God in free will, which was once denied to Him. The adversary knows that he will lose his adherence through Jesus Christ's act of salvation, and therefore his constant endeavour will be to withhold the knowledge of it from people or to destroy all faith in it. And therefore God, in turn, constantly endeavours to convey the knowledge to people in all truth, so that people will now also correctly evaluate their freedom of will, so that they will recognize the meaning and purpose of the act of salvation and now consciously take the path to the cross, because it is the only path which leads to the gate of the kingdom of light, which only Jesus Christ can open .... But He has no other goal than to make people blissfully happy, and therefore He will time and again step into people's path and present His greater than great work of mercy to them .... And blessed is he who recognizes Him and gives himself to Him, for he will become free from every bondage, he will be able to get rid of every bondage because Jesus Christ Himself will loosen it for him in His love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

“Do not worry about what you eat and drink ....”

B.D. 8322 from November 6th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

Again and again I would like to call out to you humans: Do not worry about what you will eat and drink and with what you will clothe yourselves .... but seek first the kingdom of God, everything else will be given to you .... You must never forget that you live on earth for a purpose: to take the path back to Me, which has to happen consciously by seeking Me Myself, by doing everything to unite with Me in order to establish the contact which characterises the relationship of a child to its father .... You shall seek Me Myself and My kingdom .... This is the only purpose of earthly life, because it is not about the well-being of your body but about the well-being of your soul, which is everlasting .... For this purpose I gave you existence as a human being, and therefore it is quite understandable that I will also sustain you, that I will cover all the body's needs if you give priority to the soul's needs, if you fulfil your true purpose of earthly life. I am your father and show you immense love which wants to make you happy for all eternity and which endeavours to ensure that you reach the degree of maturity on earth which will result in such bliss for you .... But I am also your God and creator .... I know what you need, not only spiritually but also earthly .... And if I have created you .... if I enable you to walk the earth as a human being, I will also see to it that you are ordered in such a way that you can fulfil your actual task .... I will not demand something from you for which the prerequisites are lacking .... For I know that your body needs many things in earthly life and I will truly give them to it .... But I only set one condition for this, that you first seek My kingdom, that your soul's task is of utmost importance to you and that you put the care for your body aside, so that you will now also experience the evidence of My fatherly love: that I take care of you and give you everything you need .... And truly, you could go through your earthly life completely carefree if you take this promise of Mine to heart and only fulfil My demand to remember the soul first .... And thus you must fulfil My will, which is repeatedly announced to you through My word: You must live in love, you must only ever try to overcome your self-love and perform works of love in complete unselfishness .... you must give, want to make your neighbour happy, do everything to help him or protect him from harm .... For if you practise love then you unite with Me, then you also establish contact with My kingdom where only love exists, where I Myself reign, Who is love .... And if you live in love then you will also live a life of justice, for you cannot help but give everyone around you what is due to him .... You will not tolerate injustice because it contravenes the commandment of love, you will completely enter into My will and then also be true aspirants of My kingdom .... But your earthly life will run smoothly because I Myself will take care of you and your physical life, because I will sustain you, nourish and clothe you, just as I take care of everything that exists in creation, because My nature is love, wisdom and power .... And should I not then also be able to take care of all your worries, since everything is possible for Me? .... believe it, that every promise of Mine will come true if only you also fulfil the conditions under which I have made a promise .... I truly stand by My word, and therefore you can also firmly rely on the fact that no worry needs to burden you as soon as it is only your endeavour to come closer to Me and My kingdom, as soon as you are only willing to do everything to enable your soul to mature on earth, for only for this purpose do you walk across earth .... And as soon as you establish the right relationship with Me .... the relationship of a child with its father .... I will also take care of you in a fatherly way and give you everything so that you will not need to live in want during your earthly life .... But if you don't observe My promise you will truly also be destined for a life on earth where you won't get out of worries and hardship. But then it is your own fault because you don't believe what I Myself promised you when I lived on earth, where I experienced everything Myself as a human being and therefore also knew about all your hardships which I wanted to remedy .... but then I also demand of you that you comply with My will and first strive for the maturing of your soul .... in order to then also receive everything your body needs ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Sermons of love .... Suffering and hardship shall awaken love ....

B.D. 8323 from November 7th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

The fact that people pay so little attention to the commandments of love is not because they don't know about My will which only demands loving activity from them, but it is rather because they don't ignite the (smouldering) spark of love resting in them so that it becomes a flame .... It is because they are mostly only concerned about themselves, that their own ego is so important to them that they only turn their thinking, wanting and acting towards themselves, that they try to achieve everything for themselves that is available in terms of comfort. They are no strangers to the commandment of love for God and their neighbour, moreover, they also know from experience that a work of love has a beneficial effect on them, and they could therefore also give love to their neighbour out of their own impulse ..... Then the spark of love would also flare up in them, and that also means establishing a connection with Me, their God and creator of eternity. My adversary, however, has great influence on every person who has not yet released himself from self-love, and he will always influence the person to prevent him from practising love .... For then he will also prevent him from any kind of bond with Me, Who am love Myself. Therefore, his influence can only be counteracted if My commandments of love are preached to people time and again, if the effects of a right life of love as well as the consequences of a loveless life are presented to them, if they are admonished to educate themselves to consciously put their ego aside and to increase their care for their neighbour in all unselfishness .... For this reason the preaching of My gospel of love is of great importance, even though it is not gladly heard by those who persist in their self-love and thus are still completely under the influence of the one who is devoid of all love. Yet without love no human being can fulfil his earthly task, without love no human being can achieve perfection on earth, without love no human being can become blissfully happy, for without love he is a dead being, even though he still lives on earth as a human being. But he will lose this physical life and then his soul will enter the kingdom of the beyond completely dead, it will be powerless and completely darkened in spirit and therefore also wretched. It is only on earth for the sole purpose of changing its nature into love again, as it had been in the beginning when the essence came forth from Me .... And if the human being does not achieve this change in earthly life then he has travelled the earthly path in vain and can also sink back into deepest darkness again .... But only love can bring him success, for love is light, and in the light he will also recognize everything and know about My infinite love and wisdom, and he will try to unite with Me Myself in love. And therefore I can only try to persuade people to love through suffering and hardship so that they feel touched by their neighbour's adversity and help him or experience love themselves which awakens reciprocated love. For I cannot force anyone to love .... These commandments must be fulfilled in all freedom of will, for forced love is not love .... Yet every human being is capable of love because I place a spark of My eternal god-spirit .... in every human heart. My primal element .... and because it therefore only requires the will to kindle this spark. However, the fact that love has completely grown cold amongst people in the last days is also a reason for the turning point which will take place on this earth, for without love no human being will progress in his development, without love the purpose of earthly life will no longer be fulfilled, and thus the earth will have lost its purpose for people for whom it was intended to serve as a maturing station .... And therefore it will experience a total transformation so that the spiritual substances bound in the creations will also receive new deformations and can cover the course of development. But the last deformation on this earth will always .... the existence as a human being .... must achieve a transformation into love if the final purpose on this earth is to be achieved, if the soul is to attain that beatitude again which is its destiny and which is only ever possible through the transmission of love on My part ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

People's attitude towards Mary, the mother of Jesus ....

B.D. 8324 from November 8th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

I Am always willing to answer when you are moved by spiritual questions, for you, who are intended to spread the truth from Me, must also know the truth yourselves, you must be able to differentiate between error and truth .... And therefore a light has to be kindled where you are still dark in spirit, where ambiguity still exists .... For you should know that one misguided teaching will repeatedly lead to new errors .... Time and again explanations were given to you about people's attitude towards Mary, the earthly mother of My body, in the sense that she can certainly be called the most revered being in My kingdom of light to whom you humans may also grant your love yet always with the reservation that she, due to her high spiritual degree of maturity, dwells in My kingdom as a 'child of God', in which I Myself reign as God and Creator, as Father, as the primary source of light and strength, as the highest and most perfect spirit in eternity ....

Hence she, having been a living creation, returned to Me as My child .... whereas I Am the Creator Myself and therefore would like to receive unlimited love from you humans .... which you will also grant to Me when you have completely entered into My will and wholeheartedly yearn for unification with Me .... I want to possess this unlimited love of yours and all beings in My kingdom of light, who love Me just as intimately, will only ever endeavour to so influence people that they will turn towards Me .... But at no time ever will they encourage people's love to look for a different goal than Me .... which, however, happens when a being of light enjoys exceptional veneration from people which should only be given to Me .... And for this reason no being of light will ever appear to people in a way which will cause fervent worship. For an appearance like that would only strengthen a wrong teaching, such as the veneration of 'Mary, the mother of God' has to be regarded, which established itself in people.

I Myself would never encourage and support misguided teachings .... And since all beings of light have completely entered into My will and also know how such misguided teachings disadvantage the human beings' souls, no such attempt will ever be undertaken on part of the beings of light, but My adversary will indeed use precisely such wrongly directed faith and try to fortify it with apparitions of which he is the originator himself .... For as soon as he succeeds in diverting people's attention ever more towards 'strange gods' he is displacing Me Myself, Who wants to be the only goal of people's desire .... Using cunning and trickery My adversary will try anything in order to lead people into wrong thinking and, understandably, can work best where misguided teachings have already prepared the ground to receive his poisonous seeds ....

Time and again My love, wisdom and might revealed themselves by conveying My Word, so that people were introduced to the truth. And My adversary works in the same way by seeking to gain people's belief through announcing events which he is very well aware of .... And since I Myself cannot work directly in people who have built on his foundation he influences them through works of deception, and people don't recognise them as the adversary's work of deception since he does not shy away to appear in the disguise of one of the most elevated beings of light, because behind this mask he has access to them. The fact that in special cases spiritually fully mature human souls are capable of spiritual vision is not disputed, yet as soon as it concerns transmissions which are intended to be made to people on My part for the salvation of their souls it happens by way of a direct revelation through the spirit, but which then also involves the task of passing these revelations on to fellow human beings .... However, such revelations will never be given to underage children forbidding them to speak about them. From this alone people should deduce the originator of such apparitions .... During the time of the end My adversary has great power, and he truly uses it well ....

And his influence will also take root wherever error exists, the error will be ever more strengthened, and the fact that you humans are offered error is evidenced in that, time and again, precisely that being of light is placed into the forefront which would like to use all its influence only such that it will guide people towards Me as the divine Redeemer, because it knows in what bondage they languish and that they can only find deliverance through Jesus Christ .... Such apparitions, however, only ever succeed in providing extraordinary momentum for the adoration of God's mother .... which is also My adversary's will: that people create strange gods for themselves in order to worship them .... A large structure of lies has been erected and its walls keep getting ever stronger .... but which can only be destroyed by the pure truth which is conveyed from My side to earth .... And anyone who desires to know the truth will also clearly understand and be able to differentiate between lies and truth .... He will appeal to Me Myself for clarification, and I will truly not withhold the truth from him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The soul's union with its spirit ....

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

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

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

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

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Great spiritual need in the end times ....

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Jesus lived life for the people ....

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Task to spread the Word ....

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

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Transformation to love ....

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Examination of spiritual 'receptions' ....

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God will implement His act of Salvation ....

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Introduction to spiritual knowledge ....

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

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Go to the source ....

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Action-love .... good example ....

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's commission to His servants ....

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

New redemption period ....

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Living out the divine commandments of love ....

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Devotion to God ensures beatification ....

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

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

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

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

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

State of paradise on the new earth ....

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

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

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Messiah, Saviour of humankind ....

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

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

State of powerlessness and lightlessness ....

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Jesus' promises must be fulfilled ....

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Knowledge of the cause of the deficiency ....

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The end is near ....

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Christmas message 1962

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

"I am with you all the days .... "

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

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

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

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God applies painful means ....

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

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

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's address proves His presence ....

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's decision is final ....

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Clarifying traditional doctrines ....

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

‘Whose soever sins ye remit ....’

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

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

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

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The church of Christ in its beginnings ....

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

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Healing power of water at the spring ....

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

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

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

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

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

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Inner mandate to spread the truth ....

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Purpose of divine revelations ....

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Illumination of the divine light of love ....

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

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

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

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

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Error to be corrected again and again ....

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Purification of the soul ....

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Does man have free will? ....

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

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

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

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's merciful love ....

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God is from eternity ....

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

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

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Evidence for the authenticity of the gospels ....

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Language of God by cosmic events ....

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Examining spiritual information ....

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

"He who abides in love .... "

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

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

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

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

Amen

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Redeeming cooperation in the end times ....

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Every spiritual work has a redemptive effect ....

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

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

Amen

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"Work while it is still day .... "

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

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

Amen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

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

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

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

Amen

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

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

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

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

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

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Address of God proof of His existence ....

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Jesus is God ....

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Representing the truth .... blessings of spiritual work ....

B.D. 8425 from March 1st 1963, taken from Book No. 89

Undeterred you should go your way and not let any objection hold you back, for you are subject to My guidance through your own will and thus you cannot do otherwise than walk the right path. People will indeed always oppose the thought material which originates from Me Myself with their own views, yet you will always succeed in refuting every objection, for you work with results which were not gained by the intellect but by the spirit within you, and it only depends on the partner's will whether he is serious about the truth or only wants to assert himself. But if you recognize the latter, then refrain from your teachings, for where the will is not present the truth will never be recognized or penetrate. But you should not let yourselves be irritated by this, after all, the battle between light and darkness will continue until the end, but the light emanates from Me, and the prince of darkness will truly not be victorious over Me, for his activity will come to an end because the time is fulfilled .... The darkness will be broken through and all dark forces will be rendered harmless, and bright light will shine because a new time is dawning where people themselves will not resist the light, where they can be permeated by My strength of love through a life of love according to My will and this always signifies bright realisation and true thinking, so that the darkness has departed and will also no longer oppress people as long as they maintain the bond of love with Me themselves. But this will no longer happen on this earth, for humanity, with few exceptions, is in the hands of My adversary, it feels at ease in the darkness of spirit and does not seek light, and thus people will accept and spread far more erroneous thought material but reject the truth as long as they don't kindle the light of love within themselves, but then they will also turn to the pure truth which originates from Me Myself. Only a few open their hearts to the ray of love emanating from Me, and for the sake of these few you should carry out your mission with all diligence, for every soul which remains protected from a repeated earthly progress through all creations on earth is a great spiritual gain for Me, for it is eternally wrested from My adversary and now constantly strives closer to Me, even if it does not yet depart from earth in final maturity ..... yet its ascent in the spiritual kingdom is guaranteed, and its earthly progress as a human being was not unsuccessful .... and whether your activity as a vineyard labourer also seems unsuccessful to you, My servants. Every single soul is My created being for which I already struggle endlessly against My adversary, which I already look after endlessly and provide it with all help .... And this is why the return of every individual soul gives Me immense bliss when it has covered the path through matter with the success of being able to enter the kingdom of the beyond, free from every material external form, for it can constantly continue its development as a spiritual being but for the time being it has overcome matter, which for every being still belongs to My adversary and therefore he, too, still has a right to that soul until it has left its material body .... Time and again I will enlighten you about the fact that all spiritual work of yours is blessed, for it will never be unsuccessful .... And even if you cannot achieve great success with your fellow human beings there are always souls in the beyond around you who gladly and willingly accept the truth from Me because they feel the light radiation beneficially, whereas the human being on earth feels no effect as long as he closes himself off, as long as he values his intellect higher than the results which the spirit in the human being imparts to the one who allows its working .... Intellectual thinking offers no guarantee for truth of the thought material, but the spirit instructs the human being correctly, and this shall always give you the certainty to represent your spiritual knowledge as truth when other views are opposed to you. For the human being can err but the spirit from God does not err .... And everyone who seriously examines with the will to stand in truth, who wants to reject every error as belonging to the opposing spirit, will be able to recognize that My spirit working if pure truth is conveyed to him. The desire for truth alone is decisive as to whether a person lives in truth. Nevertheless, you should be eagerly active and take care of the spreading of the truth ..... But I will do everything in order to invalidate My adversary's activity .... And one day the light will break through brightly and shine again on earth in its strength .... But no longer on this earth, for it is My adversary's kingdom which he will dominate until his power is broken, until he himself is rendered harmless for a long time and people are no longer exposed to his influence ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Who speaks to you? .... Every soul is a member of God ....

B.D. 8426 from March 2nd 1963, taken from Book No. 89

The Spirit Who introduces you to all truth is I Myself, the highest and most perfect Spirit in infinity, your God and Creator, the Lord of heaven and earth, Who is from eternity to eternity .... You should believe this, and if you feel too small and tiny for the highest and most perfect Being to address you, then know that I speak to My children as Father, for you once came forth from Me, you are most closely united with Me, because you are strength from Me which can never ever pass away .... And no matter how small you may think yourselves to be, you are still My creatures, you belong to Me, for your original element is the same as I Am, and the spark which rests in you is My share, it is inseparably connected with the Father-Spirit from eternity .... And if it thus expresses itself in you, then it is I Myself Whom you hear .... The fact that it is not comprehensible to you is due to the fact that you have distanced yourselves and consider yourselves distant from Me, that you have lost the feeling of belonging to Me as a result of your voluntary turning away from Me, but this is only possible in your imagination, for you cannot separate yourselves from Me forever. Yet you shall also regain the awareness of the close bond with Me, and therefore I address you. If you are truthfully instructed as to what you were, what you are and what you shall become again, then there is also the possibility that you will try to reduce the distance from Me, and the closer you come to Me again the more understandable it will be to you that the highest and most perfect Being will lean down towards you, because then you will understand your own relationship to Me. But this realisation presupposes a conscious striving towards Me .... it presupposes that you follow the quiet voice within you which first of all encourages you to fulfil My will, to live a life of love .... For through love you draw closer to Me Myself, Who is Eternal Love, and My voice will now sound ever brighter and clearer in you, because the Father wants to motivate His children to fully and completely hand themselves over to Him, so that the vast distance His creations once strove for will be reduced and finally completely abolished .... that they finally unite with Me again. For one thing is certain, that nothing will be relinquished by Me which once emanated from Me, because everything is My share, because nothing exists which belongs to another power but is only unlawfully influenced by a being which also once emanated from Me in all power and glory and abused this power of his in free will .... yet (he was) not prevented from doing so by Me, because My unsurpassable wisdom and infinite love initiated a tremendous process of transformation and based this plan on that free will of My now adversary which, however, will ultimately result in an endless beatification of all spiritual beings created by Me and to which even My adversary will one day voluntarily submit himself, and whether eternities will still pass by. Everything is and will remain eternally Mine, only that it will voluntarily step out of order at times but will also irrevocably once again insert itself into this eternal order. Yet My loving care will always be at work to achieve this final goal, and My direct address is also explained in this loving care, for even if I stand supremely above My creations .... which once took their start while I Am from eternity .... nevertheless My love for you is unimaginable and this bends down to the tiniest creature and fills it with strength. How much more, however, will this love express itself to the self-aware being, the human being, and seek to draw him to itself, because the self-aware being is already able to recognize Me and learn to love Me if it is truthfully instructed about its origin and its goal .... in order to then freely strive for Me from within itself and to unite with Me again, because it can only be immeasurably happy in union with Me and I would like to prepare this bliss for everything that has emerged from Me .... For My love has called you into life and My love also wants to make you eternally happy, therefore My love will also be continuously active so that you will reach your final goal. And therefore I placed a small spark of love in your heart which is inseparably connected to the Eternal Love, which pushes towards Me but always leaves the human being's will free, so that he can also suffocate the small spark of love within himself and then remain at a distance from Me for eternities, which also signifies eternal times of wretchedness. Yet as long as you live on earth as a human being, where you are to pass your last test of will, My love will also pursue you and try to encourage you to change your will, so that it turns towards Me and you consciously insert yourselves into My law of eternal order again: so that you shape yourselves into love again in order to be able to unite with the Eternal Love forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

People's low spiritual state necessitates an end ....

B.D. 8427 from March 3rd 1963, taken from Book No. 89

Once someone has penetrated spiritual knowledge he is also entitled to make a judgment in regards to humanity's spiritual state, and he will realise that spiritual progress on this earth is not possible anymore .... He will be able to observe that the commandments of love for God and one's neighbour are only very rarely lived up to and that the disregard of these commandments results in ever greater darkness .... He will also know that people's will itself is the decisive factor and that this is also misused, since it is turning increasingly more towards the adversary which explains why people are under his control. Salvation would certainly be possible if only people were willing to accept the Word of God, which He Himself conveys to earth and which truly has the strength to lead to a change in human thinking. Yet precisely this willingness is missing and thus humanity is irrevocably approaching the end, so that the unspiritual state will be brought to a halt and a new phase of redemption will start which will impede the endless fall into the abyss, and the being which had failed as a human being will be integrated into the process of return once again, in accordance with divine will. Anyone who has penetrated spiritual knowledge will also understand everything that is happening .... he will know that one period of Salvation is coming to an end and that a new one is beginning, because he knows the reason for people's unspiritual state and also that God's love keeps creating ever new possibilities to lead the beings, which had once emerged from Him, to their goal. And only those people who penetrated spiritual knowledge can offer a little help by passing their knowledge on to their fellow human beings .... but then free will has to be prepared again to accept such knowledge. And people's will is extraordinarily weakened .... A person could certainly place himself into a state of strength and also attain a stronger will, but this requires him to live in love himself and to take the path to Jesus Christ Who, through His crucifixion, acquired unmeasured blessings, thus also the strengthening of will .... Deeds of love will always grant strength to a person, and a call upon Jesus will fortify the will, for then the will is no longer completely averted from God, for anyone who is lovingly active also establishes contact with God, the Eternal Love. And anyone who calls upon Jesus Christ acknowledges Him as the Redeemer of the world and thus also as God Himself, Who became a human being in Jesus Christ .... Hence you all can escape this state of weakness, you are not left to your own devices in your helplessness, but strength is at your disposal at all times if only you desire it .... And those who possess this knowledge will always provide you with clarification, but as long as your heart and ears are unreceptive to it their words will remain ineffective, you will remain weak and unenlightened and won't live up to your purpose of life.

However, force will never be exerted on you on God's part, it will be entirely left up to your will as to how you deal with your fellow human beings' instructions, yet they will be conveyed to you so that you can also make this decision yourselves. If, however, your own will rejects it and you cannot find your way out of the state of darkness then you are entangled in a net of lies and errors which you can no longer tear apart yourselves, since it keeps you constrained and was cast upon you by the adversary himself. And then the only option left is to break the adversary's power, that is, to remove the opportunity for him to harass people on earth, which means the dissolution of earth with all its creations as well as all living creatures up to the human being .... hence an end for you humans with a subsequent banishment into hard matter and a reshaping of all material creations for the purpose of sheltering the still bound spiritual substances, which likewise shall attain higher development on this earth .... A spiritual change on this earth is impossible because people fail to muster the will for it .... Yet that which will follow later will also demonstrate a spiritual change, for after the demise of the old earth a new earth will arise with incomparably beautiful creations, with spiritually mature people who had passed their test of faith and will on this old earth and who shall be returned to the new earth as the root of the new human generation .... For they will be spiritually awakened, they will know about God's love and His reign and activity throughout the universe and they will also know that all creations only serve the once fallen spiritual beings to attain full maturity, they will know that divine order must be observed and that everything which leaves this order will require endless time in order to reach the goal again one day, to integrate with the law of eternal order and to live a life of selfless love .... And at the end of an earthly period love will have grown completely cold amongst people, thus profound darkness will be on earth, for only love is the light which penetrates the darkness .... And only the one who lives in love will also penetrate spiritual knowledge, he will ignite the light within himself and all the terrors of darkness will be over for him .... And this bright light will illuminate the new earth, and all people will be fully enlightened for they will live in love and walk with God, Who is Love Himself and the Light of eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God Himself inclines to His creatures ....

B.D. 8428 from March 3rd 1963, taken from Book No. 89

Why do you humans not want to believe that you can come into contact with Me so closely that you hear My Word? Why is the most natural thing in the world, that the Father speaks to His child, so unbelievable to you? Why do you doubt that the highest and most perfect Being will descend to you in order to offer you delicious gifts, when this is also only proof of My perfection, that My love for you is unlimited and constantly wants to bestow gifts upon you? .... Why do you deny Me this love and power of wanting and being able to express Myself to people? After all, you all came forth from Me, and every work of creation around you also bears witness to Me, and everything has its meaning and purpose? .... But the knowledge of this is hidden from you and you don't believe that I want to give it to you .... And therefore it is difficult for you to believe because you don't have the right idea about Me, because you don't know Me in My nature and because you yourselves have been led into wrong thinking by My opposing power, which primarily aims to give you a wrong, totally distorted image of Me in order to prevent you from loving Me as a father wants to be loved by his children .... But you should first establish the right relationship with Me, the relationship of a child with its Father, and then everything will be easily understandable to you, and My direct address will no longer seem doubtful to you but only be a confirmation of My Fatherly love which wants to make you happy, which wants to give you life which lasts forever. And although you still lack profound knowledge you nevertheless know that you were created by a power since you were unable to create yourselves as a self-aware, thinking being with free will. Hence you must have emerged from a mighty and exceedingly wise power, for every work of creation around you and also you yourselves are evidence of a wise creative power which therefore cannot be denied. This power has given rise to creatures as which you must recognize yourselves .... And the human being is, as it were, the crown of creation, for no other work of creation possesses intellect and free will .... And it is to be concluded from this that the Creator Himself in all perfection must have these qualities, that He is a thinking, free-willing being in highest perfection .... For the created work cannot be more than its Creator is .... And thus it must also be easy for the human being, as a 'begotten' being, to surrender to his 'producer', thus to look upon and acknowledge the latter as Father, to Whom the child voluntarily takes the path because it feels it belongs to Him .... For you are beings capable of thinking and you should establish this completely natural bond with your Creator and Father of eternity. And if you do so, you will lift the barriers yourselves which seemingly separate you from the highest and most perfect Being, then you will no longer look for your God and Creator in the distance, as the completely ignorant human being does, but you will allow My presence within you through your thoughts which are directed towards Me, as real children do, and then it will no longer seem strange to you that your God and Father addresses you, then you will only ever want Me to be constantly present to you, that I constantly make you happy with My address, that you receive from Me what you lack in earthly life: light and strength, i.e. realisation of yourselves and your destiny and also the ability to achieve what I have set as your goal .... As soon as you recognize Me as Father you will also give Me your love, which you once denied Me, and the love in you will flare up into a bright glow and attract Me mightily, so that you will completely join Me again and have now also reached your original nature again, in which you were immeasurably happy .... This alone is the purpose of My address, for as long as you cannot hear your Father you are still very distant from Me, and you must reduce this distance yourselves and finally remove it, you must want the Father to draw close to you, and truly, I will not close My ear and heart if you intimately ask Me Myself for My presence .... But don't think that I consider you too small to speak to you .... I am and remain your Father, Whose love for His children is unlimited and Who will not rest until they have returned to Him, even though they once separated from Him voluntarily .... My love, however, has not diminished and will not diminish eternally either, but will pursue everything that once came forth from Me until its final return to Me .... And as soon as it is possible for Me to address you, you are also on the path of return home, you are on the path into your Father's house from which you once came forth in light and strength and also have to stand in light and strength again in order to unite with Me forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Harmonious life on the new earth ....

B.D. 8429 from March 4th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

Whatever idea you might have of the new earth, the reality will far surpass your imagination, because a blessed time will dawn for My Own, for the people who will endure to the end and be taken to the new earth .... People will live together in absolute harmony and peace, surrounded by incomparable works of creation .... Even the animal world will coexist peacefully, there will be no hostility between the creatures, for their soul substances are also nearing embodiment as a human being, and all spiritual substances bound in the creations will sense the harmony surrounding them and noticeably change their resistance, which will become apparent by their willingness to be of service, because these spiritual substance, too, want to arrive at their final path on this earth quickly .... People will be able to enjoy many magnificent things, given that they are fully matured for a life of beatitude, and they would enjoy this beatitude in the kingdom of the beyond were it not for the fact that they shall continue their life on the new earth because the new human race shall arise from them ....

And once again souls will be able to incarnate who have achieved a higher degree of maturity due to the great changes, due to the exceedingly sorrowful last days and the immense destruction, who will now be far more willing to fulfil the final functions of service in the material form as a result of people's loving way of life on the new earth. Consequently, they will not be entirely without love at the beginning of their human incarnation and thus will progress faster, especially since they can not be troubled by the adversary, since their love also assures them the light beings' protection and help .... so that they will be able to easily repel the instincts and longings which still adhere to them .... For their will is directed towards Me, and thus they shall also fully consciously pass their test of will in their earthly life as a human being, because My adversary is unable to bother them and people's love establishes the bond with Me .... This privilege of an easier earthly progress for their descendants will be acquired by My Own through their successful battle before the end, which will truly necessitate a strong will and immense love for Me and which I therefore will also reward in every sense. In addition, I know when the spiritual substances in the form change their will, and accordingly I Am able to place them into external forms on the new earth again which will guarantee the spiritual substances' willingness to serve .... The situation on the new earth will be such that people will no longer be burdened by suffering and problems, so that they no longer will experience earthly or spiritual hardship, so that they will be able to enjoy the magnificent creations in perfect happiness, and that one person will love the other so much that he will want to discard everything that could burden the other .... And this love allows Me Myself to dwell among My Own, to teach them and to bring joy to them with My presence. A truly divine peace will spread across all created beings and remain for a long time, because every activity is determined by love, and thus even succeeding generations will allow Me to dwell amongst them .... and the adversary will be totally excluded .... For he cannot be where I Am present, and all people will have been redeemed in truth, for they live in the sign of the cross, they are brightly enlightened about Jesus Christ's act of Salvation and love Me in Him with a passionate heart ....

It is truly a state of paradise which certainly will last a long time, but it will not last indefinitely .... For ever more spiritual substances travelling through the creations, whose resistance has not yet been entirely broken, will attain their final embodiment, and then the longing for matter will come to the fore again and in a manner of speaking loosen My adversary's chains .... For people will desire what still belongs to him and demonstrate their adherence to him and thus will also be controlled by him again .... And then the adversary will have the right to influence the human being's will once more, and he will use it by tempting people into wrongful deeds which offend against the commandments of love and thus also distancing Me from the face of the individual who has submitted himself to My adversary ....

And so the battle between light and darkness will start again; earth will once again serve as a place to mature, for an infinite number of constrained spiritual substances will take the path of higher development and they will all be given an appointed length of time. And time and again also entirely redeemed souls will depart into the spiritual kingdom, for Jesus Christ's act of Salvation will never remain ineffective, and I, for My part, will always make sure that the knowledge of it will be conveyed to people, for Jesus Christ will always oppose the prince of darkness, and Jesus Christ will sooner or later be victorious depending on people's will, which is and will remain free and which will also achieve the last perfection in earthly life .... because one day it will submit itself to Me and completely subordinate itself to My will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

New banishment inevitable for the adversary's followers ....

B.D. 8430 from March 5th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

My eyes rest full of pity on the degenerated human race which is controlled by My adversary and unwilling to pull itself away from him. It has willingly surrendered to him and thereby denies Me the right to intervene effectively, for I will not proceed against My adversary's will, since you want to belong to him yourselves. Yet he keeps drawing you ever further down, he is preparing your downfall, for you will fall back to the depths from which you started your process of development across earth and had to pass through all creations in order to one day finally exist as a human being. And now the same fate will be granted to you, since this is what you want and you are doing nothing to escape from his power. And even though this information is presented to you, you don't want to believe it, and there is almost no other way left to change your thinking unless the tremendous affliction, which will befall the entire earth before the end, can still achieve it. As long as you are able to think there is still the possibility that you will spend some thought on yourselves, that you will consider the death of your body and wonder what will happen afterwards .... Yet by and large you will dismiss such thoughts, you don't believe in anything at all and assume that you will cease to exist when your body dies.

But you are hugely mistaken and will have to pay heavily for this mistake, however, you refuse to accept a truthful explanation and cannot be forcibly influenced either. And faced by a serious crisis you just revolt against the power which inflicts this on you, for as soon as you are in serious trouble you gladly blame someone else for it, even if you yourselves deny a God and Creator .... Yet you cannot stop misfortunes and have no option but to acknowledge a power which is stronger than you are .... Consequently, such strokes of fate and extraordinarily severe adversity are the only means left which could still change your way of thinking, and I have to use them in view of the end and considering the fate, which I would like to avert from you .... Don't feel sorry for people who suddenly have to depart from this life, for they will still be able to find some light in the beyond, if they are not already completely enslaved by My adversary and then also sink into the abyss in order to be banished into matter yet again .... But woe to those who will experience the end without having changed their conduct of life, their thinking and their unbelief .... They cannot be saved anymore, and even the greatest mercy on My part, My infinite love for all My living creations, will be unable to avert the fate of a new banishment for them, because it is the only option for the soul to attain perfection one day when, after an infinitely long time, it lives on earth as a human being again and consciously travels the path to Me in order to become liberated from every form.

And this new banishment amounts to a deed of love on My part, because I will seize this soul from My adversary's power and subordinate it to My will again. And as a human being it will only be able to release itself from him if it consciously calls upon Jesus Christ to be redeemed .... And since people on earth no longer believe in Him and appeal to Him for help, they cannot be released from the adversary's control either, and he invariably will pull them down into his domain .... Yet you humans have free will and thus are just as able to direct it towards the divine Redeemer as to him .... and you would be saved for eternity .... Since you don't do so you will consequently also have to accept the results of your opposing will towards Me.

But time and again I will impart the relevant information to you, I will speak to every one of you through the voice of conscience, and I will make him realise the fleeting nature of all worldly pleasures and commodities, I will let him personally experience suffering and adversity .... And finally I will speak to him through the elements of nature .... Yet I will not force his will, and therefore he only has to blame himself for the fate he is approaching .... I would like to bestow him with unlimited happiness .... He himself, however, chooses the state of wretchedness, the state of utter torment and of being constrained. And thus he will receive what he desires, for his inclination toward earthly matter will result in his own banishment into hardest matter again. For although I have every power at My disposal, I will not forcibly influence the will of a self-aware being or I would be in breach of My law of order, which will never be possible .... Yet I will speak to people until the end, and anyone who pays attention to My Words will be saved from the fate of a new banishment, and he will thank Me eternally that My love pursued him until he changed himself ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Power of the word secures return to God ....

B.D. 8431 from March 6th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

With every word you hear from My mouth you receive a proof of grace of My infinite love, for you receive a flow of strength which helps your soul to constantly ascend even if your body does not feel it .... But you will become ever more eager in your striving towards Me, and you will also certainly reach your goal, because strength from Me can never remain ineffective .... And since you voluntarily desire and receive it from Me this already signifies your passed test of will, for you acknowledge Me, your will of rejection, which caused your former fall, is broken and your return to Me is guaranteed. Yet how rarely does a person on earth express the will of his own accord to serve Me, that is, to make My will his own and to prove it to Me through active cooperation in accordance with My instructions. Every person is encouraged by Me to do so, for his thinking is always guided by the guardian and guiding spirits such that he can establish the right relationship with his God and Creator, so that he, as My living creation, as My child, can make contact with his Father mentally or through prayer and work of love .... I also come close to the greatest sinner, and every human being will once deal with questions which concern himself and the purpose of his earthly life .... However, how he will deal with this question is up to his free will, yet it only rarely happens that a person completely submits himself to the power Which called him into life, that he quietly communes (with the power) in thought and thereby gives Me the right to take hold of him and influence him ..... which is only possible if he voluntarily takes the path to Me, which is only ever a matter of his own heart and which he can never be induced to do by his fellow human beings, for even if his fellow human being tries to guide him onto the path to Me it is only his free will which lets him take the path. And this will is certainly influenced by the world of light but it is not forced, otherwise the return to Me would have been accomplished long ago but would not result in highly perfect beings. But if you humans knew that your devotion to Me results in the greatest blessings for you, that you thereby cause Me to speak to you like a father speaks to his children, and that you can receive an abundance of strength through such an address .... you would truly make use of this heartfelt bond and let yourselves be bestowed by Me. Yet this knowledge cannot be proven to you either because otherwise it would force your will, and thus you must take the path entirely of your own accord, you must allow yourselves to be guided by My spiritual spark within you which will truly push you towards Me if only you don't resist it .... if only you always follow what your innermost voice tells you: if you perform unselfish deeds of love which always signify a bond with Me, because I Myself am love. And thus it is first necessary that you live in My eternal order: that you live a life of love, then I can also address you, then My eternal Father-Spirit can give you light through the spiritual spark in you, which is therefore My share, and make your soul exceedingly happy, because with the light it will also be filled with strength and it can and will safely cover the path to the home .... For I will eternally no longer let such a soul go from Me once it has given itself to Me so that an influx of My divine strength of love in the form of My word could take place .... And I not only endow this soul with strength but also all who now indirectly receive My word, to whom it is passed on by the person who willingly performs vineyard work for Me .... For My word is blessed with My strength, and anyone who now lets it take effect in him and becomes active according to My word will also cover the ascent and reach the goal with certainty. For since you humans are in weakness and darkness I must lead you out and provide you with strength for your earthly path of life. And truly, I bless everyone who makes it possible for My word to be conveyed to earth, who offers himself to Me of his own free will to work for Me and My kingdom .... who opens himself in desire for the one truth in order to let this truth shine into himself, for only truth can serve the soul and bring about its return path to Me, for only through truth is it also certain of My presence, and with Me it will always succeed in its ascent .... And as soon as I can guide the truth to earth you will also receive a proof of grace of My infinite love which uses every opportunity to regain what was once lost and which is always ready to radiate strength and light so that people will also find and see the path they should take which leads upwards, back into their Father's house .... And everyone will also receive the strength to ascend, to whom I will give the pure truth .... My word from eternity .... can send to them ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Judgement .... Warning of the adversary's action ....

B.D. 8432 from March 7th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

You shall always receive the strength to be active for Me if this is your will. You can be certain that I will guide your thoughts correctly and that you will therefore judge rightly and justly if this is also your will .... For I know your heart, I know your thoughts, and if I Myself want you to receive the truth from Me and spread it, I must also place the certainty in you to live in truth, and I must grant you the right faculty of judgment or you would not be suitable for spreading the truth. There is much spiritual knowledge which is represented as originating from Me and yet does not originate from Me but from My adversary. Consider that the light from above, which brightly illuminates everything and breaks through the darkness, snatches much of My adversary's following away and that he therefore does everything to prevent this, to dim the light because he is no longer able to extinguish it .... And thus he will appear under a mask, he will want to do the same as Me. He will find vessels enough who do not see through him and are therefore willing servants to him. And through these he will also make himself known, yet not through the working of My spirit, which he will never be able to cause to express itself .... But he tries to influence a person's own intellectual thinking in such a way that the results of his intellect are given as 'imparted spiritual knowledge' by people who want to excel but still lack the right humble attitude towards Me and who also don't want to refrain from their actions because the desire for truth does not fill them in such a way that I could protect them from erroneous thinking .... Moreover, the activity from the spirit world is particularly obvious in the last days, for My adversary also influences the souls in darkness to provide people with erroneous mental knowledge, and since people often strive for spiritual contact with this world which still belongs to the adversary, the preconditions are also given for spiritual instructions which cannot claim to be true. Yet all this is merely the result of people's wrong way of life who do not live in accordance with My will and are therefore particularly exposed to such misguidance in the last days .... And I can only ever warn you not to believe everything that is offered to you in spiritual knowledge; yet I cannot force you, neither to reject what is wrong nor to accept what is true .... I MUST leave it up to you but give every human heart a fine sense as soon as it only desires the pure truth. However, the fact that people will be extremely harassed by My adversary in the last days has been constantly announced to you, and it is understandable that he will try everything to oppose Me and the pure truth. And his trick is to seemingly give the same and yet to instruct people completely erroneously, because he knows that error will not achieve the goal which the human being is supposed to reach on earth and which I want to help him achieve through the transmission of My word. His constant endeavour is to cause confusion, and since love alone kindles a bright light in the human being which also exposes error but people have little love, error will also take frightening hold ..... But you, who have offered yourselves to Me of your own free will to serve Me and the pure truth, should know this .... You shall not be deceived by him, and therefore I place the will to defend yourselves in your heart, and I will also make Myself known to you where I Myself am at work and guide the pure truth to earth .... For I pour out My spirit upon all flesh, but this also includes that people's thinking is guided correctly and that they therefore also hear the expression of My spirit and express it in conversations. You will be able to ascertain the agreement and then also know that My spirit works in those who cross your path and also immediately recognize the value of what I Myself convey to you from above. And believe that I enlighten every person's thinking who seriously only strives for truth and takes the path to Me, Who alone can give him pure truth. And whatever you humans receive should always be examined with the sincere desire to only serve Me and the pure truth, and then you will certainly recognize where the spiritual knowledge originated from. For many false christs and many false prophets will appear in the end, against whom I have warned you constantly and always .... But you must also acknowledge genuine prophets through whom I Myself make Myself known to people, Who is the Eternal Truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The adversary's activity behind a mask ....

B.D. 8433 from March 8th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

The adversary will fight using all means during the last days before the end .... And neither will he shy away from availing himself of My Words and portraying himself as an angel of light which intends to bring salvation to people. And in their spiritually unenlightened state people will not recognise who approaches them and takes possession of their thoughts .... They will believe blindly as long as they hear pious words which, however, can be voiced by every spirit, because they are mere words which it does not believe in itself but which it uses in order to deceive people and to lead them astray. These dark forces don't shy away from any lie and often introduce themselves to people as elevated and supreme beings of light in order to deceive them and to stifle their doubts regarding the truthfulness of their statements. And you will be surprised in which way My adversary will continue to influence people through his accomplices during the last days .... For he wants to imitate Me .... Just as I Myself convey the pure truth to earth he, too, will try to impel people to listen to him by disguising himself as an angel of light. And people's obsession with making contact with supernatural spheres, with receiving extraordinary information and thus with entering a realm which is outside of this earth often provides My adversary with the opportunity to push himself forward and to be of service to people in order to confuse their thoughts, so that they are no longer able to recognise the pure truth if it is offered to them, because they, too, want to push themselves forward and regard themselves as recipients of the truth. The adversary plays an unscrupulous game but people themselves support him, for usually it is mere curiosity rather than a genuine desire for truth which motivates them into establishing contact with this spiritual world, which emanates blatant error in order to undermine the pure truth and which does not provide people with enlightenment. Only deceptive lights keep flashing up which so dazzle the eye that it cannot recognise the pure truth anymore. However, I Myself Am unable to do anything else but to repeatedly point out his cunning and trickery to you, for you yourselves give him the reason which makes his activity possible. For as soon as you strive towards Me with profound sincerity and desire the purest truth from Me I would truly not let you fall into his hands, and you would realise brightly and clearly that you are only being deceived by evil spirits, and time and again I have revealed the attributes to you by which you can recognise them ....

Just test them concerning My 'human manifestation in Jesus Christ', ask them to explain this mystery to you and you will realise that they will fail because they are still unenlightened themselves, that they don't know anything about Him and His act of Salvation and that they only avail themselves of His name in order to deceive you, yet they don't mean the name of their God and Creator of eternity, which they cannot voice in awareness of what it signifies .... They certainly make use of Jesus' human name, because they only ever speak of a human being but not of God Himself .... And you will truly not meet many people who, as bearers of light, will be able to enlighten you about this, because they received this clarification from Me Myself. But then you will also be able to make a judgment and accept the light from them without having to fear that you will be wrongly instructed .... And you can believe that a person will not know the truth as long as this problem of My human manifestation in Jesus is still unresolved .... Anyone who does not recognise or has not recognised Him as the Son of God and Redeemer of the world in Whom I manifested Myself in order to be able to be a visible God for My created beings will never .... be it on earth or from the beyond .... be able to inform you humans truthfully, for he himself does not yet have the truth, the correct realisation, and therefore he is not a right leader and teacher for people on earth either .... However, you humans are easily inclined to accept everything you receive from the spiritual kingdom as truth, because the desire to hear something extraordinary dominates you, thus it is stronger than the desire for the pure truth .... Yet in order to entrust you with an extraordinary task, which consists of receiving the truth from Me directly and of passing it on to your fellow human beings, you still lack too many prerequisites which facilitate a transmission of the pure truth .... requirements which I cannot exclude as not to endanger the pure truth. For you still move within a world of spirits yourselves which you attract through your desire for something extraordinary and, as a result, you are not guarded against influences from My adversary's sphere .... Neither do you free yourselves from this influence: instead you place yourselves at the disposal of these forces time and again which you, however, would definitely repel through heartfelt devotion to Me in Jesus Christ, through devotion to your Father and Redeemer, Who is your refuge and protection against everything that is unspiritual and that wants to encroach upon you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Assurance of protection against confusion and hostility ....

B.D. 8434 from March 9th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

Anyone who has made it his task to be redemptively active in the last days will time and again be faced with difficulties on the part of My adversary because he will use all means to prevent humanity from being brought light in the dark night which is spread across the earth. Therefore it will also be extremely difficult to convey the pure truth .... My Word, which is beamed to you humans from above .... from above to you humans, because it will be prevented from all sides, for people don't know how far they have already fallen prey to My adversary if they reject this Word and resist its distribution. But it is a glaring phenomenon in the last days when My adversary's activity shall be exposed and he himself uses all means to prevent this, and the more time progresses the more obvious this battle of darkness against light will become, and a confusion of human thinking will be recognisable which truly can already be regarded as spiritual chaos .... For even well-intentioned people will find it difficult to make the right decision. Yet the ray which descends upon them from above has the brightest luminosity, and it will beneficially touch the hearts of those who only desire truth, righteous thinking, the Word of God, the right nourishment for their souls ..... And these will not be deceived, no matter how My adversary tries to run against the wall of your faith .... For I Myself am with those who serve Me fully consciously and can be called My last disciples, whom I instruct Myself again and instruct them to go out into the world .... i.e. to spread My Word, which I Myself convey to earth because people need the truth. And they can also be certain of My protection and guidance .... I will always let everything come to them in such a way as to be useful for their task, which they should and can fulfil with My help. And they will be able to see for themselves by their inner peace that I am with them, for I give this to all who fulfil My will .... so that you can also see from it whether your actions are blessed, whether they correspond to My will .... For I have promised you My peace so that you will recognize Me Myself and My presence, for where I Myself am My peace must also fill you, and there the possibility is also given to convey the pure truth to earth, which likewise proves My presence to you. Whatever approaches you, accept it as wanted or permitted by Me .... Thus always pay attention to your inner feeling and you will accept what is right and reject everything wrong, even if My adversary tries to disown you .... You can always be certain of My protection, and this mainly consists of the fact that I correct your thinking, that I protect you from all confusion which My adversary wants to cause in you. Anyone who serves Me can also know that he is protected, and the adversary will not be able to harm him much, but time and again he will try to intrude in order to undermine the pure truth .... However, strong faith in Me and My love is your strongest self-protection, for I will truly not let such faith be destroyed, and you can stand up for the spiritual knowledge you receive without worry and pass it on as purest truth, no counter-objection will shake your faith, and then you will also be the right servants for Me through whom I can work Myself in the last days before the end. The battle against the darkness will not become easier, the prince of darkness will cause more and more confusion, he will attack you, and false christs and false prophets will arise who will persecute you .... You will have to reckon with public hostility and persecution but you need not be without My protection, for I know how necessary your work is for Me and My kingdom, whoever is able to do it .... You should only give Me your whole will, the work in My vineyard should be the most important and most urgent thing for you and everything else should take a back seat .... And you should also consider everything as My will by which you are prevented from still being of service to the world .... I know the means I have to use in order to win you completely for Myself, and therefore I shut you off from the world, you who want to be spiritually, by receiving My word from Me, because every worldly thought can be an obstacle and because there is not much time left until the end and during this time I still want to help all people to recognize correctly .... So don't be afraid of My adversary and his activity, for you will experience My loving care until the end, you who serve Me of your own free will, you who are willing to carry the gospel out as My last disciples ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

All circumstances of life offer opportunities to mature ....

B.D. 8435 from March 10th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

How your earthly life turns out is entirely determined by My will, because I have known from the very beginning which direction your will is going to take during the time of your earthly life as a human being. And according to this will all events will happen to you such that they can influence you to direct your will correctly. So even if you apparently shape your own circumstances of life you will nevertheless be affected by the same measure of suffering and adversities, by destined experiences, regardless of what kind of living conditions you have. And therefore you can go through life with a certain composure since I will, after all, always provide you with the greatest possibility to reach your goal of attaining perfection on earth. Consequently, it is entirely irrelevant for your soul's development as to whether you are poor or rich, whether you are nicely shaped or have physical defects, for all advantages as well as your disadvantages can contribute towards your eager work of improving your soul, just as they can equally be the reason for you to neglect this psychological work .... For it always depends on yourselves, on your will, as to what extent you allow yourselves to be influenced by everything that approaches you externally in the form of experiences, strokes of fate, illnesses and all kinds of adversities but also of wealth, fame, honour and earthly power .... Everything can be detrimental and everything can be beneficial to you .... It depends entirely on what kind of attitude towards Me you find in earthly life .... It depends entirely on whether you allow yourselves to be spiritually influenced, whether you are able to look upon your earthly life as a test of your will, as a means to an end, as a gift of grace by the One Who brought you to life .... It depends entirely on whether you not only place importance on your body or are seriously concerned about your soul .... If the latter is the case then everything will be a blessing for you, no matter what comes upon you, and you will climb the ladder which leads to ascent step by step which helps you to reach higher spheres until you reach the goal when your soul will leave the earthly body .... This is why you should unperturbedly accept everything, always in the knowledge that I thereby intend to attract those of you to Me who are still distant from Me and yet need to find the right attitude towards Me in order to subsequently live your life on earth according to My will, which lets you achieve perfection ....

And when there is a risk of people being entirely distant from Me, then I must indeed use means which are described as an unusually severe destiny of life, yet they are always based on the fact that an unusual resistance towards Me still exists, which I cannot forcibly break but which can recede in view of the immense earthly adversity, which can subsequently push the human being onto the right path to Me and thus show a correctly inclined will, which signifies everything for the person, for then I Myself will be able to take evident charge of his earthly life, and the human being will be truly relieved from all responsibility if he completely hands himself over to Me and lets Me think and act on his behalf .... So everything that can contribute towards a change of will is good, even if it appears to be distressing and unbearable, yet it is not distressing for the soul but fortunate and a blessing, for it matures and reaches that goal which, on its own .... without My indirect help .... it would hardly be able to attain. For I know every individual person's will. And thus I also know to whom I can bestow exceptional gifts of grace, who will use these correctly and derive the most blessings from them .... In that case, I will win this soul over to Me with less severe means, because the resistance, which in the beginning of the embodiment as a human being still firmly controls the soul, will have already considerably lessened .... In that case My means of help need no longer be so painful, slight impulses will suffice that the person will take the right paths, that he will recognise his purpose of earthly life and makes an effort to do justice to it .... And the suffering or adversities which are still imposed on him will be easy to endure, for then the person will already have established the connection with Me and through this connection he constantly receives strength from Me, which makes his ascent considerably easier .... Thus, a person's external circumstances of life are irrelevant for the shaping of his soul .... In fact, difficult situations in life often have more favourable effects on his soul than an easier and worldly-blessed life on earth, which is more likely to be a danger to its maturing .... However, no destiny is so severe that it could not be endured by a person who believes in a Power Which is love, wisdom and might in Itself, for if he believes he will turn to this Power for help, and he will indeed receive it .... For then he will already have the right attitude towards Me and that will certainly guarantee his full maturing on earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The correct way of life is not enough to mature fully ....

B.D. 8436 from March 11th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

If you consider that only deeds of love take effect on your soul after the death of your body and that all earthly intentions, thoughts and actions will not result in any kind of benefit for the soul in the spiritual realm, you truly would not live your earthly life so indifferently .... And even if you faithfully fulfil the duties earthly life demands of you, even if you do everything in everyday life in order to live a correct life in the presence of people .... each and every deed is without value for what alone is everlasting .... for your soul .... as it cannot take any earthly acquired possessions along, all earthly knowledge stays behind, all earthly treasures and every person's reputation is worthless if the soul enters the kingdom of the beyond deprived of spiritual possessions. Only spiritual aspirations and actions of love yield everlasting spiritual treasures for the soul ....

And people are so often conscious of their own importance just because they are leading a correct way of life even though they only have their earthly actions or a certain amount of order in their living conditions in mind and fail to consider that the purpose of earthly life is a different one than improving their physical well-being .... they fail to consider that a human being's every activity has to be supported by love, that it has to be motivated by love if it is to be of value for the soul after the death of the body. And if you now observe all the things that are done and said by you or in your environment, and how seldom they are caused by love, then you have to admit that everything is in vain and only serves your attainment of earthly purposes. And you would be shocked if you could feel your soul's deprivation as physical discomfort, for then you would never be able to enjoy your life again .... Yet your soul is unable to express itself so obviously because then you would only strive to live a different kind of life due to selfishness so as not to feel this daily and hourly discomfort, and then such striving would also be worthless. But you should consider what value every earthly attainment has for you, since you know, after all, that your stay on this earth won't last forever .... But you don't believe in the continuation of the soul's life after death, and that is why you are so half-hearted and disregard your soul. You believe that you will cease to exist at the moment of death and one day will bitterly regret that you have not made better use of the time on earth; you will regret not having loved more, which each one of you can do, since a tiny spark of love smoulders inside of him that he only needs to kindle .... Every human being can also experience for himself the benefit of a deed of love done to him by a fellow human being .... And thus he could benefit his neighbour too, it would certainly not be to his disadvantage, for the inner satisfaction of his action would inspire him into ever more actions of love and his selfish love would decrease at the same rate as his love for his neighbour grows ....

No human being suffers a loss, for whatever he gives out of love he will receive a thousand fold in return on earth or one day in the spiritual kingdom and then be exceedingly blessed, because the time on earth when he should thus rise above himself is only very short, whereas the soul in the spiritual kingdom can eternally enjoy the riches it has acquired on earth. People live indifferently, eagerly undertaking earthly work, eagerly increasing their earthly possessions, using all their energy of life for entirely negative actions, because they constantly just create transient values .... Their soul's immortality however .... is not taken into account by them, they do not take loving care of it, it has to starve and then enter the kingdom of the beyond in a miserable state where it only finds what its love as a human being on earth has provided for it .... And if this life were without love then the soul would be without light and strength and would approach a painful fate, for only through deeds of love is it able to mature on earth ....

And therefore people should not say 'After all, I am not doing anything evil ....' The human being has to do good deeds born of love in earthly life, only then will he be able to enter the kingdom of the beyond without self-reproach even if he has not yet achieved a high degree of love, he will surely be able to attain it in the beyond providing that the light has been kindled so that the soul will not enter the spiritual kingdom in complete darkness ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Atonement of guilt through Jesus ....

B.D. 8437 from March 12th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

The human being Jesus took upon Himself an abundance of suffering as atonement for the immense guilt of sin which all beings had incurred through their apostasy from God. God's justice demanded an atonement for this guilt if the beings ever wanted to come close to Him again and be received by Him into the kingdom of light and bliss. No guilt could remain unatoned for, yet again the guilt was so great that it could never have been paid off by the being itself, for it consisted of the fact that the being rebelled against God fully consciously and in a state of brightest realisation, that therefore no deficiency or ignorance could excuse the offence but that the beings, in fullest freedom of will, renounced their love for God and thus placed themselves in an adversarial relationship with Him, from Whose love they had emerged. This great original sin caused the beings to be completely devoid of light and strength .... They lost life, they hardened into rigid spiritual substance which was then reshaped into creations of all kinds according to the eternal plan of salvation, because God wants to lead everything that has fallen away from Him back to Himself again. But no matter how long times pass which can rightly be called eternities, and no matter how dreadful the torments in these times are for the once emanated spiritual beings, the guilt of these beings themselves can never be redeemed .... A work of atonement had to be accomplished (by) God which was so tremendous that the Eternal Deity was satisfied with it, that for the sake of this work of atonement, He .... for the sake of Him Who accomplished it .... cancelled the original sin of all fallen spiritual beings, that it found forgiveness and brought light and strength and freedom back into the being. And this atonement consisted of a being taking the guilt of the fallen brothers upon itself out of love, that it endured the most unspeakable torments and pain as a human being, that it walked the most bitter path of suffering ever travelled by a human being on earth and ended its life as a human being with death on the cross, which was disgraceful and so painful that only love enabled the man Jesus to endure this suffering until His death by virtue of His love .... For what people who were true servants of satan could only think of, they carried out on the man Jesus, and He bore His cross without complaint and in deepest surrender, He suffered unspeakably and died the most agonising death .... For He was pure and sinless, and His soul, which had descended from the kingdom of light to earth for the sake of this act of salvation, suffered far more because it was in the darkest sphere, at the mercy of His tormentors, who were satan's servants. Yet this soul voluntarily offered itself to make atonement for the Father and to bring His children back to Him again, for it knew that only love was capable of making such a sacrifice and that only a sacrifice of love could be regarded as atonement for the overwhelming guilt which consisted of the beings giving up their love for God .... And therefore God accepted the sacrifice of love, and He was satisfied with that act of salvation by the man Jesus, Whose love constantly increased and completely filled Him, so that love was the determining factor for everything Jesus did .... that He was in closest union with the Eternal Love Itself and thus the act of salvation was accomplished by love.... but love was God Himself .... He Himself took the form of a human being and travelled the path across the earth, for a soul of light formed itself as a human being in such a way that Eternal Love could take up residence in Him, that God and Jesus were one, that God Himself .... Eternal Love .... has redeemed all guilt for those beings who, as human beings, now also acknowledge Him and consciously avail themselves of the blessings of the act of salvation which Jesus purchased for them on the cross .... The atonement has been made and the path to the Father, into the kingdom of light, is free .... Yet free will has caused the apostasy from God, and free will must also strive to return to Him, and this requires that Jesus Christ is freely acknowledged by people as the redeemer of the world, as God's Son, in Whom God Himself became man .... in order to redeem the guilt through love, which banishes the being from the face of God until it allows itself to be redeemed by Him and then will also be allowed to behold God in Jesus face to face ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Warning against intercourse with the psychic world ....

B.D. 8438 from March 14th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

Into what error are you humans drawn if you do not defend yourselves against it? But you can defend yourselves against it, for you have intellect and you have prayer .... Your intellect can and must take a stand on whatever spiritual thoughts are offered to you, and you must entrust yourselves to Me in prayer and appeal for My help in the examination. And truly, you will recognize error as such and not allow yourselves to be captured by it. I Myself guide the truth purely to earth, and I seek to guide it everywhere, and anyone who takes possession of it will now also brightly and clearly recognize what does not agree with what radiates directly to earth as My Word .... If only you seriously resist all error then you will also recognize it for certain, because I assess a person's desire for truth as a desire for Me Myself and do not deny Myself to him, thus I do not withhold the pure truth from him. And you can also be certain that heart and mind will resist accepting untrue spiritual knowledge. For the pure truth will also shine into the darkness like a strong ray of light and uncover everything that has originated from My adversary. The fact that his activity will be constantly more noticeable in the end time by trying to confuse people's thoughts has always been announced, and also that the darkness will become ever denser the closer it gets to the end. But where the light of truth flashes the darkness cannot hold on, and this means that such people will always move in the truth whom I teach Myself, and that they will also be able to clarify whether and where error has taken root in people, and thus the pure truth can also be opposed .... Yet time and again it has to be said that only that is and can be pure truth which I Myself, i.e. the Father-Spirit of eternity, communicate to the spiritual spark in the human being .... that pure truth can therefore only reach earth through the working of the spirit .... but that you cannot guarantee the truth if it has been gained by other means ..... thus if the intellect has given birth to a body of thought or if a supersensible contact with the spirit world has been initiated, which always endeavours to influence people's thinking but is neither entitled nor able to instruct nor to convey purest truth .... People believe they can experience everything supersensible if only they make contact with the supersensible world through thoughts or their will .... But they don't reckon with the fact that this spirit world is completely different, that all spiritual beings want to make themselves known, regardless of whether they are filled with light or still walk in darkness .... And people on earth lack the ability to judge whether the spiritual knowledge they receive corresponds to the truth, but they accept it, mostly unchecked, and error enters people in such a way that it is impossible to speak of light, rather, the darkness becomes ever denser .... But the desire for instruction from the spiritual kingdom is becoming ever stronger because people don't feel well in the lightless state on earth, they just don't take the right path. They don't turn to the Eternal Truth Itself, they don't establish the connection with Me, Who alone can and wants to introduce them, yet I don't forcefully influence people. And thus time and again you will be dominated by the adversary who wants to keep the darkness alive and therefore also wants to extinguish the light from above and now places blinding lights by its side which shall irritate and also dim the gentle glow of the light from Me .... And since the human being himself has to make the final decision to seek and request the truth in all seriousness, I will not put a stop to My adversary before the time .... For the human being can find his way out of the net of lies and error if only he earnestly asks for the truth .... And I will also come to the aid of every person who desires clarification, for this is truly possible for Me, to protect those from My adversary's influence who are of good will, who strive towards Me Myself and want to detach themselves from the opposing power which has held them in bondage until now .... However, anyone who is lukewarm and accepts everything he is offered as truth is also responsible for his lightless state, and he will hardly find the right path which leads to the goal. But this person will also enter the kingdom of the beyond with little light .... if not completely without light. into the kingdom of the beyond when the hour of departure from this earth has come .... For you can all reach the light if only you seriously want to ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Divine care for vineyard workers ....

B.D. 8439 from March 15th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

You, who want to be active for Me, will always experience My care, for I have given you this promise that I will take over all earthly care for you if you seek Me and My kingdom, if you first think of your soul .... But I will be even more concerned about your earthly worries if you offer yourselves to Me to do redemptive work, thus to be active as servants in My vineyard, for then I will always provide you with everything you need as a faithful Father of the house .... You still don't take all My promises seriously enough, and yet it only depends on the strength of your faith in them whether you consciously entrust yourselves to My constant care .... And then I can also give you the evidence that I care for My children like a Father in every way. Anyone who is active for Me in complete unselfishness truly provides Me with help on earth which I reward him for, for as long as people are still on a low spiritual level I cannot make direct contact with them but I can have an effect on them through mediators who are now active for Me and on My behalf. And these mediators, in turn, must also be able to demonstrate certain prerequisites in order to be suitable for this work, and especially in the last days before the end there are not many people who voluntarily offer themselves to Me as mediators .... But the few who do so will enjoy My protection and My help all the more, since the redemptive activity is extremely significant, because every single soul which is saved before the end is a great gain for Me .... And then should I not care for those like a Father who voluntarily offer themselves to Me to take on a mediator's office out of love for Me and their neighbour? And do you believe that My love is limited or petty? .... I know about all needs and I will also meet them, as I have promised .... And anyone who now trusts Me unconditionally will no longer be oppressed by earthly worries either, he will not need to anxiously calculate, for he will be given in abundance, because he, too, will now distribute in love again where he recognizes need and his help is expected .... And you should all gain this firm faith that all My promises will come true, for as long as you serve Me unselfishly you are My servants whom the father of the house looks after and provides them with everything they need for body and soul. Believe that I will bless you the more noticeably the less you are still attached to the world, but whatever you still demand from the world or believe to be able to acquire by your own strength I will then also have to take away from you, for I also leave you the freedom of your will .... Whoever wants to take care of himself shall also do so .... he will not be hindered by Me. However, if you were able to see what rescue work your spiritual activity is in the last days, how beneficial its effect is and what great spiritual hardship can be remedied by it .... then you would also understand that I am also concerned about the earthly well-being of My co-workers and already reward them on earth for what they do, and you would no longer give room to any worrying thoughts because you only need to hand yourselves over to your Father in order to be guided by Him through life .... And again and again I tell you: I need you, My servants on earth, because this help can only be carried out by people, for My might will not necessarily intervene in order to accomplish the great rescue work .... but the love which impels you to redeeming work will result in success and therefore you will also be rewarded. Yet it shall not be done for the sake of earthly reward but your heart will drive you and therefore the work will not be unsuccessful either. And I know well who serves unselfishly, and My blessing is certain for him .... But I also know where earthly interests predominate, and I don't call this 'work in My vineyard' either but an activity which is purely worldly, even if it hides behind spiritual garb .... And anyone who is still worldly-minded himself is not yet completely devoted to Me .... But whoever completely surrenders to Me also keeps My promise: "Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all else will be added to you .... "And I stand by My word and will therefore also fully and completely take over the care and bestow My love upon the human being, he will have what he needs and still be able to give to his neighbour .... For the child which trusts in its father will truly not be deceived .... And the servant who serves Me can hand over all his worries to the father of the house, Who will arrange everything for him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Creation of the new earth in a moment of time ....

B.D. 8440 from March 16th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

It is possible for Me to create all things in a moment of time, for it just takes a thought which My will and My strength externalise as My work .... However, when I work visibly to human eyes .... which is demonstrated by every work of creation surrounding you .... everything takes place within the framework of lawful order, so that you humans will be able to understand the processes of creation and therein recognise My love, wisdom and might .... For I have placed the same ability into you .... if only to a minimal degree .... which also enables you to create and shape and which also requires a certain length of time, because the state of imperfection which you humans still experience on earth also subjects you to the law of time and space, which does not apply to the perfect being, since then limitations of time and space no longer exist .... My reign and activity is always proportionate to the state of maturity of the spiritual being which is affected by it .... but it does not exclude that I have unlimited power at My disposal in order to externalise everything in an instant, because I have no need of time since I exist beyond the laws of time and space.

When the emergence of creation took place I intended it to have the purpose of giving the fallen spirits the means to gradually mature, to gradually travel the path from the abyss, to create ever new opportunities for it to be of service in some form or other .... Thus the development plan of every creation was always guided by My will, so that ever larger creations with ever newer intended purposes emerged .... so that gradually a higher development occurred .... Consequently, this emergence of creation required a certain length of time, for precisely this very time was intended to achieve the developmental ascent .... For the fall had been infinitely abysmal, and the same distance has to be travelled in order to return, so that everything will move within the lawful order that is required by everything perfect.

But if, at the end of a period of Salvation, a work of creation is transformed by My will in order to create new opportunities of higher development, then new works of creation can emerge again which are called by Me into being in an instant .... For this, too, is intended in My eternal plan of Salvation without revoking the law of eternal order by doing so .... because spiritual substances of all degrees of maturity on the path of return are already present precisely because of the spirits' earlier infinitely long developmental path on the old earth ....

Everything is present and will only be transformed, be it hard matter or already lighter forms in the plant and animal world .... Everything will be set free by the violent destruction, however, in its state of immaturity it cannot keep its freedom but has to be placed into material forms again which correspond to its present state of maturity .... And time and again even as yet still hardened spiritual substances will be able to start their path of development in the innermost part of the earth, which will also find themselves in complete turmoil and release spiritual substances and in turn provide room for the former spirits .... if one can speak in this case of room at all .... But all works of creation are in effect present to accept the lowest fallen spiritual substance which starts its path of development. It will, after all, require an infinitely long time again until one day it will reach the surface of the earth in order to progress further ....

So, although the work of transformation on this earth is the work of a moment, everything will nevertheless progress in lawful order .... And because such a work of a moment's time cannot take place before people's eyes, because they have not yet achieved the highest degree of perfection and are unable to grasp such expression of My might and strength, the people who remain faithful to Me will be carried away at the end .... They will in fact observe the work of destruction because I will open their eyes to it, but they will not see the emergence of the new earth .... All concept of time will be taken from them until they are led to the new earth, until they are allowed to behold the completed new creation in all its glory and take possession of it .... And it is indeed irrelevant how much time it takes for the new earth to emerge, but since I Am revealing My eternal plan of Salvation to you humans I also inform you that I don't require time, for My will is able to externalise every one of My thoughts in an instant as a creation, and My love and wisdom also recognise what is beneficial and suitable for the final return of the spirits which once voluntarily deserted Me ....

Only a small proportion of people will ever be spiritually enlightened and able to comprehend these explanations of Mine, but I want to grant them an insight into the secrets of creation in order to arouse their love for Me ever more ardently, for especially My plan of Salvation is most pleasing for all beings, since it reveals My love, wisdom and might, and anyone who already gains this realisation on earth can truly be called blessed, for he is close to perfection, he is close to his final return to Me, his God and Creator of eternity, Who has revealed Himself as Father and Whose love is never-ending ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Power of loving intercession for unbelievers ....

B.D. 8441 from March 17th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

How far away are people from Me who have no faith in a God and Creator, who only regard themselves as the product of a natural force and don't want to acknowledge anything that points to a powerful being .... Their will of resistance is still unbroken, they reject Me and don't want to unite with Me, and therefore they are still completely under My adversary's control, they are his helpers because they also want to convince their fellow human beings that there is nothing which could be acknowledged as a wise power. They certainly take the path across earth as human beings but they are very close to the abyss into which My adversary will plunge them again if they don't think of something else before their death .... For such completely unbelieving people can hardly expect an ascent in the kingdom of the beyond either, because they are not open to enlightenment and will persist in their point of view. They also misuse the gift of intellect in earthly life, for they could also come to different conclusions by way of intellect if they had the serious will to gain the right light about the purpose of their existence on this earth. But such thoughts, when they arise in them, are rejected and there is no other way to help them believe, for evidence would be a means of coercion which, however, is never used. Mostly such unbelieving people are also of hardened hearts, and thus, since they lack love, it also remains dark in their heart, and only the counter will is strong, which will also try to influence fellow human beings in the same sense because, as a follower of the adversary, he is stimulated by him to work for him. And if you want to try to convince such people of the truth you will hardly be successful, and the only thing you can do for them is intercession, because if this is done with love .... it radiates back to those people as strength and can then also have the effect that the person thinks and his will to defend himself becomes weaker .... And therefore you should also remember all unbelievers in prayer so that their hearts can be touched by the power of intercession .... You should always remember that these souls are still completely under My adversary's control and must be helped if they are to be released from him .... He cannot be forcibly changed, he rejects My direct illumination of love and therefore also loses its effectiveness .... But your love makes the supply of strength possible which he feels beneficially and which can change his thinking without him being forced into it. And if you consider that such a soul is exceedingly weak and therefore cannot offer the adversary any resistance, then this weakness should take pity on you and stimulate your will to love to do everything possible to save it .... And in this case only loving intercession remains, which can still wrest the soul from the adversary after all, because it does not remain without effect. Free will is the divine in the human being, and yet this free will has also been the cause of the deepest fall, and it still is .... therefore the return of a fallen soul often requires eternal times if love does not come to its aid during its earthly existence. For love is able to do everything .... And the adversary succumbs to love .... Then he cannot hold the soul, it will free itself from him and strive towards the one Who is love .... So it will now also acknowledge Me as its God and Creator, and it will then be saved for time and eternity .... No human being would need to be lost on earth if every soul were prayed for with heartfelt love .... For only such prayer is successful, but not lip prayers from the masses which do not ascend to Me in spirit and in truth but are mostly formal prayers without strength .... But if only every person would make the salvation of a soul his goal, that he would turn his love towards this soul and ask Me for salvation, so that it would not be lost again for endless times .... truly, people would change and attain a right faith, and they would do everything to fulfil their purpose of earthly life .... Yet love has grown cold amongst people and everyone only thinks of himself, therefore he cannot believe either, nor can he reach the goal, instead, he unwaveringly heads towards the abyss again and has to start an infinitely long path once more in torment and wretchedness .... For My might cannot intervene where the will is directed against Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Vineyard work according to divine will ....

B.D. 8442 from March 18th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

I will bless every effort that applies to the distribution of My Word. You cannot imagine how necessary it is for people to be informed of their purpose of earthly life, for they only consider it to be the maintenance of their body and live a life which can be called everything else but spiritual. The dark of night prevails everywhere and nothing else will help but to spread sparks of light which tear the darkness apart and can stimulate people into following the right path they recognise in the glow of the light, and I will truly see to it that the illumination of light will increase .... I will still make My Word from above available to all those who can yet be affected by it such that they will listen to the One Who is addressing them and accept His admonitions, so that they will finally allow themselves to be led and will no longer be able to go astray. I know the means and ways and will truly employ them. I leave no opportunity unused and you, My servants, shall only ever willingly carry out what you are urged to do from within, for this urging comes from Me, to Whom you have offered your service. So let Me tell you that you need not fear the weakness of your body either, that I will give you strength to work for Me, because I need diligent labourers in My vineyard and recognise full well who serves Me with complete dedication .... Yet don't tear yourselves apart by zealously embarking on things which I did not assign to you .... You should always pay attention to My instructions and do what I ask of you .... For you can believe Me that true success will be achieved in silent activity, that I Myself will only powerfully manifest Myself when otherwise nothing else can be accomplished anymore and the end is near .... But if you want to win over the 'world', if you want to teach the masses, much of your work will be done in vain, for there will only be a few more and you will not manage to change the 'human race', you will not succeed in bringing many people to their senses, instead, only individual ones would reward such overzealous efforts .... Then you will have employed your strength in vain, for these few will .... because they mean well .... also still be won over through silent activity, because they are known to Me and I will make My Word accessible to them too ....

However, My paths are different than yours, hence you should pay attention to the inner voice and comply with it as My instructions. This inner voice will never induce you into drawing particular attention to yourselves or into embarking on great campaigns which I know will not be very successful. I will therefore exclude My co-workers from the world time and again, because then the work for Me and My kingdom can be carried out more intensively and because My vineyard labourers should also increasingly perfect themselves , which heartfelt dedication to Me will achieve and is more likely to happen in seclusion then in the flurry of the world, for everything you expect to be very successful requires worldly preparations which, in turn, are not suitable for internalising the person. For this reason I repeatedly advise you to carry out silent vineyard work, which consists of lovingly influencing your fellow human beings into shaping themselves into love and of informing them of My Word .... hence of contributing the most important thing towards distributing My Word which is conveyed to you directly from above .... Believe Me that the effect of My Words will yet achieve the greatest blessing and spiritual progress .... Believe Me, that you will gain extraordinary merits if you utilise all opportunities to inform your fellow human being of My Word, for it will affect everyone who is still of good will .... whilst people will only accept all other efforts to teach them spiritual knowledge with their intellect without involving their heart apart from a few, who, however, I will also win over for Me by other means, because I know the human hearts. Consider the fact that it takes intellectual thought to present My divine revelations to people such that they will be gripped by them .... but that only the intellect is addressed and that it will rarely lead to spiritual success .... but that the direct conveyance of My Word or the passing on of My direct revelations will be far more successful because My Word is blessed with My strength and because those people who shall contribute towards inducing spiritual advancement among people had to already possess a certain degree of maturity prior to it .... Believe Me that I will bless all silent work for Me and My kingdom, and make every effort to be diligent labourers for Me who will only every follow their Lord and Caretaker's instructions and lovingly look after their fellow human beings .... I will do everything else for you and also guide you such that you will offer My Word to those who will gratefully accept it as an unusual gift of grace which will truly have the desired effect ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Nothing will remain unredeemed forever ....

B.D. 8443 from March 20th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

Every human being is responsible for his soul's state of maturity himself, consequently the human being also determines how long he will remain distant from Me, that is, every original spirit .... the embodied soul in a person .... will return to Me without fail, yet the length of time it takes to achieve this return depends on free will, and thus it can take eternities until the soul has become what it was in the beginning: a perfect being which is closely united with Me, which then will be able to work beside Me in light and strength and freedom .... The fact that this return to Me will happen sooner or later is certain, because it is the fundamental law of eternity that everything emanated by Me as strength will have to return to Me again .... Yet the duration of return to Me can stretch across eternities and you humans are incapable of comprehending this period, for your thinking is limited ....

Nevertheless, there is no such thing as 'eternal' death, if it is understood as being perpetually distant from Me .... You can indeed speak of eternities but not of a state that will last forever, which thus is without end .... For such a concept is not compatible with My Nature, which is love and wisdom and might .... Do you really think that My wisdom and might don't have the means at their disposal to achieve everything, even the final return of the spirits which once fell away from Me? Or do you think that My love is so limited that it would leave even just one being in a state of eternal death? ....

You know that even My adversary will return into the Father's house one day and that he will be accepted by his Father as the son who has returned home, even if infinite times will still pass by .... Nevertheless, he will not be banished from My face forever, he, too, will yearn for My love one day and voluntarily return to Me. And nothing will remain in an unredeemed state, for even the hardest matter will dissolve one day, it will release the captured spiritual substance and bit by bit spiritualise itself, for everything in existence in the whole of the universe is spiritual strength, of which I was and Am the source, its effect merely manifests itself at various degrees of hardness, thus consequently hardened or already softened it is approaching its spiritualization .... but the spiritualization of all matter will certainly take place and nothing defying Me will remain .... This wrong assumption is also a product of human intellectual thought which has to be corrected through My direct instruction from above, for such a teaching was never conveyed to you humans by Me ....

Time and again My adversary will intrude and influence people to change spiritual knowledge with the intention of misleading you and awakening doubts in My Nature, for as soon as you believe that unredeemed spirits have to remain in their state forever then you are also questioning My infinite love .... it would be limited, which is impossible with a Being, Which is and will remain supremely perfect for all eternity. My adversary has truly many opportunities to slip in and cause confusion, and he will always do so when My spirit's activity is displaced by intellectual thought, which is only possible when people are not content with a simple explanation and feel committed to add or delete something. If, however, they would shy away from making changes at all, such errors could not creep in, for then they would strictly keep to My Word and could not fall prey to error ....

And therefore I have to keep exposing errors all over again, I have to convey My pure Word to you humans, I have to correct everything so that you will not acquire spiritual information that has not originated from Me but which is eagerly endorsed as My Word .... It was conveyed to earth in all purity and truthfulness, yet if a person takes it upon himself to make changes he cannot be prevented by Me, but I will always make sure that you humans will come into possession of the pure truth time and again .... And if you desire to know the truth then you will also query every misguided teaching and won't be able to reconcile it with the supremely perfect nature of your God and Father of eternity ....

And the best and safest test you can make is to ask yourselves whether your God's love and wisdom justifies a teaching, for as soon as one quality is missing you may also reject it as incorrect .... And truly, I will also substantiate why the teaching of eternal condemnation is misguided .... so that you can believe it and be sure that you are living in truth, which I will keep imparting to people because truth alone is the light which illuminates the path of ascent ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Attitude to the world determines spiritual progress ....

B.D. 8444 from March 21st 1963, taken from Book No. 89

It is extremely important that you think correctly, and therefore you should always ask Me to enlighten your thinking, for then you will recognize and judge everything in the most enlightened way and not get caught in satan's nets, whose endeavour is and will always be to confuse your thinking. If you have little sense of justice then you will not offer him inner resistance either, you will unhesitatingly accept everything wrong and not recognize it as wrong because the urge to think and act righteously does not prevail in you. This is why all children are pleasant to Me who only ever want what is right to prevail, that what is wrong is branded and rejected as My adversary's work. And I always want to open the eyes of those who carry this inner desire for right and justice, I want to give them a clear view and good judgement so that they will always recognize the activity of the one who wants to ruin you. The path you should take is a straight one, and even if it leads steeply upwards, thus requiring strength to ascend, it will nevertheless always be clearly recognisable to you who want to travel it .... And therefore you need not fear that the adversary will block your path upwards, for he does not have the power to do so .... But he will try to lure you onto byways which are easier to take .... So temptations will come upon you to deviate from the right path, which you will only resist when you no longer desire the comforts that the world .... the easily passable path .... offers you. Therefore, as long as you still seek comforts for yourselves, for your physical well-being, you will not offer My adversary the resistance you have to offer him if you want to reach the goal .... I can also shape the arduous path upwards for you in such a way that you will nevertheless cover it and enjoy the ascent .... but I will not offer you any goods of the world which you still desire with all your heart and which still prove how much you are still attached to the world .... Only when your desire has died down, when you are willingly willing to give up everything earthly, can I send you what you need for body and soul, for I, Who knows about all your needs, will also provide for them as soon as I recognize that you have overcome matter .... And thus you should also learn to think correctly and take care that you don't fall prey to the tempter who will still nurture many desires in you but the fulfilment of which will push you away from the straight path to Me, for this path requires renunciation and relinquishment of earthly goods and pleasures of the world. And it can nevertheless be beautiful if you start on it full of love for Me and desire nothing more than to soon be united with Me .... The love within you will make everything easy for you, it will let you overcome all difficulties because it is also strength and because love pushes towards Me with all its might and will also certainly reach the goal .... But where this love is there is no more room in a person's heart for earthly things .... And thus you can also recognize every serious striver by his attitude towards the world .... As long as he has not yet completely overcome the latter he does not yet walk the straight path which leads upwards, and he will still often succumb to the tempter and have to struggle greatly until he has killed all desire within himself, providing he seriously strives towards Me and seeks to reach the goal .... otherwise the world will take him completely captive again and also hardly release him again .... Time and again you will be able to observe that spiritual progress can only be achieved with surrender of the world and its matter .... For anyone who earnestly seeks the spiritual kingdom turns away from the world, and then he will also reach his goal .... But anyone who is also willing to serve the lord of the world at the same time is not yet spiritually minded, otherwise he would have to recognize the difference, the opposition of both kingdoms and openly decide for one or the other .... No one can serve two masters .... And thus you will also judge rightly and justly if you apply this as the standard for the individual's attitude, and you need not fear to judge wrongly if you want to judge justly .... if you ask Me for enlightened thinking, for clarity, where you yourselves still hesitate to pronounce the final judgment. You will always be able to say: 'By their fruits you will know .... "And you should also check whose spirit controls people, for My spirit will truly help all people to detach themselves from My adversary if only everyone is willing to do so himself ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God’s human manifestation ....

B.D. 8445 from March 22nd 1963, taken from Book No. 89

The greatest mystery, My human manifestation in Jesus for the purpose of redeeming all once fallen spirits, for the purpose of redeeming the beings’ immense original sin of apostasy, will remain a secret to people as long as they are not truthfully instructed and desire to know the truth about it .... You humans do not want to believe that you live in utmost darkness .... exactly because of this original sin which first of all has to be redeemed before you can become enlightened, but then you will understand everything once and for all and have no more doubts. However, you can only receive the pure truth from the Eternal Truth Itself Which also wants to educate you because It is the Light of eternity Itself and wants Its living creations to live in the light too .... Yet it is up to your free will to accept the truth; and you are certainly able to decide whether you are instructed truthfully ....

There is only one condition: that you live within love .... Because love is the fire which is emanated by the light of wisdom .... A spark of love has been placed into you, as a divine element, which is connected to Me, the eternal love. As soon as you voluntarily ignite this spark within you it will strive towards the fundamental fire and this, in turn, will return its light in the form of most profound wisdom .... You will become knowledgeable, the light of understanding will illuminate you and your thinking will be correct, it will be true .... And it is this truth which I want to convey to you so that you may recognise your task on earth and fulfil it .... Hence, you shall know about your original sin and My plan of Salvation since eternity .... Most importantly, you shall learn about the salvation through Jesus Christ, about My human manifestation in Him and, above all, you shall be taught that you should not sidestep Jesus Christ if you ever want to achieve eternal life .... He came to earth to preach the Gospel of love to people, to exemplify the right way of living, to show them the right path which leads to eternal life .... But people, encumbered by the original sin, could still not have reached their goal as long as they were not released from this original sin .... And this was achieved by Jesus’ act of Salvation, by His death on the cross, because He accomplished the act of atonement for this immense guilt and could only do so as a human being because I Myself was in Him, since love is My fundamental substance .... Love is not merely a quality of My Being but I Am love Itself ....

You will be unable to grasp this as long as you live on earth but only this clarification can make you better understand My human manifestation in Jesus so that the unification (‘Unification’) is no longer questionable to you either .... My essence cannot be personified, but in Jesus My all-encompassing spirit shaped Itself into something conceivable to you .... But Jesus’ complete unification with Me did not occur until after the act of Salvation was achieved, which explains why Jesus, during His earthly life, also occasionally spoke of the Father as being external to Himself .... but at the same time He always referred to the unification too .... At the time of His life on earth people were in a state of darkness, and light .... i.e. clear awareness about the act of Salvation .... could only shine for those few who deliberately placed themselves below the cross, who wanted to be redeemed and thus voluntarily gave themselves to Jesus and pleaded for forgiveness of their sins and guilt .... Consequently, humanity continued in a state of spiritual darkness, and this act of Salvation .... Divine Love’s greatest act of mercy .... will continue to be ignored, Jesus will merely be known as a human being and any divine mission by Him will be denied .... For this reason humanity also remains burdened by the original sin, it continues in spiritual darkness and does not perceive the light either .... when it is occasionally emanated, for they close their eyes to avoid seeing it ....

But the light from above cannot be extinguished anymore because, time and again, there will be people who ignite the spiritual spark within themselves and are then able to receive direct instructions from their eternal Father-Spirit. And one day this light will shine brightly, it will entirely dispel the darkness when My will deems the time to be right for it .... Because you humans are approaching the end of a salvation period, and a new one will begin, but this will be of bright light because he, who has brought darkness into the world, will be banished for a long time, and because during this approaching time people will let (have let?) themselves be redeemed by Jesus Christ, thus they are released from their original sin .... The knowledge of Jesus Christ and His act of Salvation, of My human manifestation in Him, is of such incredible significance that I will, indeed, do everything to convey it to people, but it has to be left to their free will as to whether they accept it and then follow the path to the cross .... whether they surrender the guilt of their sins to the only One Who, when He is implored to do so, can and will liberate them. Because He died on the cross for humanity’s guilt of sin, He made

Amends for the immense guilt, and God’s justice was served by this .... Because the love of God had mercy on those who had formerly deserted Him .... Love Itself made the sacrifice .... God in Jesus delivered humanity from sin and opened the path into the kingdom of light and bliss again ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Faith and love guarantee God's protection from adversary ....

B.D. 8446 from March 23rd 1963, taken from Book No. 89

Faith is the strength that lets you cope with everything .... And the strength of faith is determined by the strength of love you kindle .... And thus My adversary can never achieve success where faith in Me is rooted, and I will not let such faith come to nothing. You need never doubt My love, otherwise you would also have to doubt My perfection which, however, is undisputed even if you don't know everything.... But I reveal Myself, and in these revelations I substantiate and explain everything, so that you will always be able to recognize My nature even if you cannot fathom it profoundly. For My perfection also includes the fact that there is no limit to Me and therefore you will never be able to comprehend My greatness either .... especially during the time when you live on earth as a human being. And thus My love must also be unlimited, and it must also express itself to you humans if you desire to make use of it yourselves. And love protects you from all influences of the adversary, love protects you from error, love gives you everything you need in order to become blissfully happy .... if only you open yourselves to this gift of love. It only depends on your own will to what extent you may experience My love .... It flows to you from Me without limitation, but you yourselves determine the measure of My love, and thus you can also believe that your request for protection from all attacks by the enemy, your request for protection from error, is also an opening of your heart for My illumination of love at the same time, for you ask Me and I can give it to you .... My love, however, constantly seeks to hand itself out, to give itself away and to make you happy .... You should never doubt this, and if you only possess this faith in My love it will also constantly grow, because you yourselves will also return My love, and this again means that the degree of love in you increases and you fulfil the purpose of your earthly life to change again into your original state where you were radiated by Me as love and were supremely perfect .... Love alone brings about your perfection, and since My fundamental substance is love, My nature must also be supremely perfect .... But then it is also completely out of the question that I leave My creatures in wrong thinking who give themselves to Me .... And therefore you can also accept all My revelations as purest truth and need not doubt them. And the content of My revelations will convince you of the truth yourselves, because negative beings would never be able to convey such knowledge to you and I will truly prevent any spirit from taking possession of your thoughts which faithfully and consciously hands itself over to Me, its God and Creator of eternity, Whose will it seeks to fulfil .... It is truly difficult to bring truth to humanity because it is not recognized as such and My adversary is always attributed greater power, yet only when people's own defence is still present as the adversary's influence, from which they do not free themselves. And therefore one can also justifiably speak of a battle between light and darkness, for it is a struggle for the souls so that they do not fall prey to darkness .... Anyone who is strong and faithful to Me will also truly be rewarded, for he will be allowed to experience ever greater evidence of My presence, and he will become a diligent labourer for Me in My vineyard, for he represents everything with the conviction which only the pure truth can give him .... The bond with Me has been established and will also never be severed again, although time and again the adversary will try to break into the ranks of My own and cause confusion .... He will be recognized and pushed back because I Myself stand behind every one of My servants with My strength and protect him from his activity. Nevertheless, I cannot prevent his attacks because it concerns your free decision of will, which he also wants to win, and no means is too bad for him to achieve his goal .... But I can protect you from falling prey to him, and I truly grant you this protection so that you need not fear him and his activity, for I am always at your side, you who believe in Me and in My love and thus already belong to My own, whom he will never be able to detach from Me. And as long as I can be present to you through your love I will also reveal Myself to you, and you will be able to brightly and clearly differentiate between what comes from Me and what comes from My adversary's realm .... For I Myself enlighten your thinking and also give you strength to withstand all temptations which will still approach you.

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Special justification of reassignment to earth ....

B.D. 8447 from March 24th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

You need only ever turn to Me and I will give you the clarification you require, for I am always willing to emanate light, and light is every truthful clarification which reaches you through the working of the spirit within you. You should know that I always comply with the will of a self-aware being, even if I foresee that success will not be achieved .... otherwise no being would be able to embody itself on earth because there is more negative than positive success .... Nevertheless, I give all beings the opportunity to embody themselves as soon as they have only reached the stage of ego-consciousness .... If they now let this stage pass by unsuccessfully, if they fail their last test of will as a human being on earth, they will nevertheless not be prevented by Me from walking the earthly path, only they will also have to bear the consequences themselves which the wrongly directed will has brought about. Before My crucifixion people were not yet redeemed, thus they were burdened by the original sin, and thus they could not enter the kingdom of light after their physical death either .... For I first had to redeem their great guilt of sin and they had to voluntarily accept My sacrifice, they had to acknowledge Me as the redeemer of the world, Who also died for them in order to purchase their release from the adversary. The fact that after My crucifixion I also descended to those souls which languished unredeemed was a gift of grace from My love which wanted to end their state of misery if only they acknowledged Me .... But I could not appear before them as a radiant God, then they would not have endured My light, and they would also have been forced to believe in My work of salvation in view of My might and glory .... Thus I appeared before these souls as the crucified human being Jesus, and every soul which now acknowledged Me was allowed to follow Me out of its realm into My kingdom of light and beatitude .... Yet not all accepted My love .... Many were still in the power of My adversary who once again rejected My love and remained his relatives .... But I still try to save the soul from hell, for the work of redemption is not interrupted in the beyond either, because everything redeemed is full of love and always wants to help the unredeemed in its love to ascend from the abyss .... Love, however, is a power which does not remain ineffective forever. Therefore, time and again the beings of light will succeed in luring the unhappy spiritual being up out of the deepest depth. And time and again sparks of light will radiate into the darkness which those beings will follow and then allow themselves to be guided because the love of the beings of light has an effect as strength .... With increasing light they can then also gain the realisation of the magnitude of their guilt of sin for not having acknowledged the redeemer when He descended into hell .... And in this realisation they can also request their renewed return to earth .... always in the will to be able to make up for what they have missed, even though they know that they will not be given any recollection in earthly life. But this will then really applies to the attainment of spiritual maturity, it is not just the desire for the earthly-material world. And there are such cases, even if only very isolated, those exceptional cases of an embodiment on earth which have a 'certain justification' .... and which are permitted because such souls remember their rejection of the divine redeemer and are willing to pay off this great sin on earth .... which earns them an unusually difficult earthly lot .... but through the free will of man this renewed life on earth can also bring a relapse, but it does not have to bring it ..... For he will also be granted unusual graces which can result in his complete atonement .... For freedom of will must also remain with those souls in order to achieve perfection on earth. You humans cannot measure My infinite mercy and love which wants to help all fallen beings to redemption, but I can only ever tell you that nothing happens which could be regarded as outside My divine order, yet the souls place themselves outside My order of free will, yet everything will always take place in lawful order on My part, which is why a transfer back to earth will always have a reason but never take place arbitrarily for the purpose of making up for neglected ascent development .... If an excessive guilt is the reason for a request for conviction on earth, this request will also be granted, but then the being must also be so far enlightened in the kingdom of the beyond that it also recognizes its guilt and only requests the change of life on earth for the sake of it. Don't believe that I consider a soul unkindly which appeals to Me for mercy .... Yet its free will cannot be taken away from it as long as it is a self-aware being .... And this free will can bring about its ascent as well as its deepest fall into darkness again .... But one day even these souls will reach their goal, albeit after an infinitely long time .... One day they too will return the way to Me to join Me for eternity ....

Amen

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‘Correcting’ God’s Word .... Corruption of truth ....

B.D. 8448 from March 25th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

Irrespective of how pure My Gospel was sent to you from above you humans will not leave it unchanged for long, and time and again errors, having arisen from human intellect, will creep in and which consequently have to be corrected again if the people who sincerely desire it are to live in truth. Once thoughts have established themselves in people they will hardly want to let go of them. For this reason My adversary uses a person’s intellect to reinforce his erroneous opinion.

You are always of the opinion that I protect the truth .... However, human free will makes it clear that any distortion of truth is possible .... But you can just as well voluntarily desire the pure truth, which you then will certainly receive .... My Word from above is truly a gift of grace from Me which should be so sacred to you that you would not dare change this Word .... But precisely because people are imperfect and still exist in dark spheres they do not recognise My Word’s immense value and do not shy away from adding their own intellectual thoughts, thereby devaluing My Word from above .... And then misguided opinions arise in due course, the light becomes dim and loses its radiance because only pure truth emitted by Me Myself can bestow bright light ....

You humans, consider how presumptuous you are when you correct ‘the Word of God’, when you believe that you can offer more easily digestible nourishment to people by making changes to it which you are truly not entitled to do .... Earth could not experience such darkness if My light’s radiance from above had not been reduced over and over again. For I have often sent a bright light from above to those who had requested it from Me, who had asked Me for the gift of pure truth .... And anyone who listened to them also lived in the light of truth and could pass it on too .... But time and again human intellect intervened. Time and again selfishness, people’s craving for recognition and their material outlook has resulted in people utilizing My Word from above and exploiting it, in the true sense of the word, for the sake of worldly success .... In that case spiritual success will only ever be sparse and again can only be found where deep desire for truth predominates, so that I Myself can work in a person and clearly make him recognise the truth while placing a will of resistance against wrong spiritual knowledge into his heart. And therefore, I can only ever show you the way to the source. Accept what has originated from Me and is given to you unadulterated .... You should always examine and not accept everything given to you but you will also be able to recognise the true source if you sincerely want to do so .... And then abide by what you receive because then you are drawing living water which has a truly healing effect, whose strength cannot be surpassed as it originates directly from Me and radiates into your heart, touching your soul and giving it food and drink to help you achieve eternal life.

Hence you humans can consider yourselves truly blessed if someone lives amongst you whom I was able to choose as a vessel for the flow of My spirit, who has become a source for you from whence living water comes forth. You can consider yourselves blessed in the knowledge that this water of life is offered to you just as pure and clear as it comes from the source, which I Myself have made accessible to you .... Bend down and drink from it and truly, you will be able to continue your earthly path refreshed and strengthened. You will live in the light of truth and then influence your fellow human beings such that they too will take the path to the source, if they are of good will .... But the corrupted Word will increasingly lose its value and only be advocated by those who lack the desire for truth, who therefore do not object to changes and misguided teachings but unreservedly accept everything as truth although it did not originally emerge from Me in this form .... Nothing accepted by imperfect humanity will remain pure for long but time and again I will make sure that pure truth is transmitted to earth, and you humans need only sincerely desire it and it will be given to you.

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Multiple walk through creation .... Diversity ....

B.D. 8449 from March 26th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

To Whom nothing is hidden in infinity, He also knows about the will of every individual and its direction, and thus He can also shape the fate of every person's life according to this will, and thus you can all know yourselves in the care of your God and Father from eternity .... He is the most perfect Being, and therefore He lacks neither love nor wisdom nor power .... And thus everything is possible for Him because He knows what is helpful for the salvation of your soul, and therefore He will also do everything out of His love so that you will reach your earthly goal .... Nevertheless, He leaves you free will, and this alone determines everything that happens and also the effect, and thus it is entirely up to you whether and when you reach your goal. But one thing is certain, that the course of your earthly life will always be such that all possibilities will be made available to you to reach your goal, and failure is therefore always your own fault but cannot be blamed on the circumstances of life or on the One Who has placed you in such circumstances. You will always be mentally influenced, both on the part of God as well as on the part of His adversary .... Yet the degree of opposition to God, which once brought you to fall, still varies in strength in people, and accordingly he also accepts thoughts from the world of light or the world of darkness .... Yet only a completely free decision can bring him to the final goal, and therefore people must time and again be held accountable for the purpose for which they walk across earth .... they must be mentally addressed, and the word of God must be conveyed to them so that they can now adjust themselves to it according to their will. They must know what tasks they have on earth and what consequences both fulfilment and non-fulfilment will entail .... For as long as they know nothing they cannot be called to account .... Such instruction can certainly take place from person to person, which can then be beneficial if a person has truthful knowledge .... But the truth can also be offered to people directly from the kingdom of light if the capable human being asks for it, if he asks himself about the meaning and purpose of his earthly life and cannot be given the right information by his fellow human beings .... And even the most primitive people can be prompted to think correctly if they regard their fellow human beings as their equals .... thus possess human feeling, by which they differ from the animal, which is instinctively driven to destroy the weaker. However, the degree of development of man will always determine his responsibility. As long as he can distinguish between good and evil, because he can perceive or feel the effects of both good and evil deeds in himself, he is also responsible for his actions; if he does not have this capacity for feeling, then he is still like an animal .... which is due to the fact that the time of his soul's embodiment has certainly come, which was set for him, but that he has not yet reached the degree of maturity in the pre-embodiment and has to come to terms with all his urges and sinful desires on earth .... which is also possible but will be extremely difficult because such a person is not very accessible for instructions offered to him .... But you know that often one walk through the creations of earth with the last embodiment as a human being is not enough and that much of the fallen spiritual still has to travel this path several times, and then you also have the explanation for the spiritual state of undeveloped people who live in most primitive realisations and for whose actions and doings you could not give yourselves an explanation which you can reconcile with the nature of a perfect God and Creator .... Endless times already exists the material creation, and endless times it will still exist .... Time and again there are new possibilities of development, and God's eternal plan of salvation encompasses all fallen spirits in the most diverse degrees of development .... And at the same time people with different degrees of soul maturity will always inhabit the earth, and only if you are initiated into God's plan can you give yourselves the right explanation for the diversity of people in all areas of this earth. For you all do not know whether you are walking the earthly path for the first time or whether it took you eternities until you became what you are now .... you don't know whether you can already show an earlier existence in other periods of creation because you are deprived of all recollection .... But one day you will also gain knowledge of this and everything will be understandable to you which still seems puzzling to you today .... For one day the light you voluntarily gave away will shine brightly again, for you will not walk in darkness forever .... One day you will return to God, where there is light and strength and bliss ....

Amen

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Great power effect of the divine word in the hereafter ....

B.D. 8450 from March 27th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

A spiritual realm is opened up to you through the working of My spirit within you which you would not be able to fathom intellectually .... And I also know why I convey such knowledge to you, I know where this knowledge is directed from you again, I know who is receptive to it and who desires to know about that which is intellectually concealed from the human being .... I also know what effect My word, which provides information about deepest knowledge, has on individual human hearts .... And for the sake of this effect I constantly provide you, My servants, with spiritual knowledge of highest value, for it can kindle a light in all of you that all spiritual darkness will fall away from you, that you will be in a state of brightest realisation again .... I pursue no other goal with the transmission of My word from above than to radiate a light into the darkness, for darkness is My adversary's kingdom and characteristic .... but where I work there is light, and there the adversary has lost his power. For anyone who moves in the light has escaped his sphere of power, he has broken through the darkness and turned towards the light which originates from above, from Me. And thus I have known for eternity where I still find open hearts which gladly turn towards the light if only a faint glow touches them .... And therefore no work is done in vain which is connected with My conveyance of the word, because I know exactly who benefits from this spiritual work, because I also know that there are many earthly pilgrims who settle down exhausted where the living water flows from a spring .... You, My servants on earth, you conscientiously do your duty, you try to comply with My will and work for Me without, however, being able to overlook the success, but I know about it .... And you should also continue to work diligently even if your work seems to be in vain .... Just be satisfied with the assurance that nothing is done in vain which is done for Me and My kingdom in the will to serve Me .... A person only needs to harbour the inner desire to know the truth in spiritual matters .... And this person will certainly enter the realm of My sun of love, he will certainly receive truthful knowledge, because I know every person's thoughts and respond to them as soon as they are turned towards Me Myself and My kingdom. The fact that there are only ever a few should not discourage you, for throughout infinity all My teachings are heard and accepted again by those souls which have already taken the path of ascent, even if they departed from earth immaturely. You humans think in a limited way, and thus you cannot grasp the thought that My ray of love penetrates everywhere, that My word resounds everywhere in the spiritual kingdom and never remains ineffective. However, the full certainty of this does not serve you, for you would truly lose your humility if you were able to see the great success which the acceptance of My word by you results in for the I-conscious creatures in the spiritual kingdom .... because everything which originates from Me must have a tremendous effect as an emanation of strength if it does not meet with resistance .... And one effect of strength of My word is already that the souls give up their resistance when they are only very slightly touched by My strength, for which you, who are of service to Me, provide assistance, for since you still walk on earth as a human being yourselves you will also attract such souls which are still earthly bound but which also perceive the gentle light and hasten towards it because the darkness afflicts them. These will then already be willing to give up their resistance, and now they will feel increasingly stronger effects of strength, and My word will be greedily received by these souls and no longer rejected as on earth .... Believe it, you My servants on earth, that you are doing far greater redemptive work than is apparent to you in earthly life .... And believe that the transmission of My word from above never remains without effect. Yet you cannot yet see through the spiritual kingdom, you only ever have to keep My assurance that you will do good work as soon as you seriously serve Me of your own free will .... out of love for Me and your neighbour who is in great spiritual need. And therefore you should make use of every day, always unite with Me and all spiritual beings full of light and devote yourselves to receiving, to receiving a ray of light of love from above which will give life to everything that is still dead if only it is received without resistance .... if My word is listened to and taken to heart so that it can also become effective, be it on earth or also in the spiritual kingdom .... For much unredeemed spiritual life still awaits its redemption ....

Amen

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Truth alone leads to the goal ....

B.D. 8451 from March 28th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

So I ask you again and again: Do you want to stand in the truth? Or do you not care what you believe? For you can only be considered according to your will, and you will never be able to receive truth or recognize it as such if you do not sincerely desire it, because truth only comes forth from Me and I can only consider you if you open yourselves to Me, if you stretch out your hands to Me asking Me to fill them with gifts of My love .... But I know what it means when you are allowed to walk in the light, I know how extremely important it is that the truth is presented to you, even though you cannot assess its value as long as you are still living on earth .... in an area where the spiritual darkness does not burden you as it will once you have left this earth .... Then you will long for light and feel (be) unhappy in darkness or in dim twilight and have to look for a light over there .... i.e., you will have to open yourselves to the truth in the kingdom of the beyond if it is offered to you there again, for you cannot be blissfully happy until the light shines for you, which alone radiates the truth. You all don't know how carelessly you spend the short time on earth if you don't try to gain spiritually, and therefore truthful knowledge about it has to be made accessible to you, you have to experience that you first have to fulfil My commandments of love, and then you will also penetrate further into profound knowledge, and depending on the degree of love you acquire on earth, the extent of your knowledge will also be, and it will correspond to the truth, because no error can creep in under the illusion of the light of love, for it will be discovered as anti-divine and rejected by the human being himself, and then he will also reach his goal on earth .... But error will never ever lead you to the goal .... You humans, however, are very indifferent in this respect and unhesitatingly accept everything you are offered without examining its truth because you don't feel suitable for it .... But you can if only you turn to the Eternal Truth Itself .... For this request will always be granted. And I will convey the truth to earth as soon as a person offers to receive it who only wants to serve Me and the pure truth again .... Who else could guarantee to convey pure truth to you as long as you humans are not yet perfect? And who can guarantee that your fellow human being will give you pure truth if he wants to instruct you? .... The truth has to come forth from Me Myself if you also want to experience its effect on yourselves, which will always be brightest light .... And I Myself have given you this promise to guide you into truth, thus the promise must also come true, and you may receive it from Me at any time if only you make contact with Me and wait for the fulfilment of My promise. The fact that you enter this earth without any knowledge is the result of your past apostasy from Me, since you deprived yourselves of all light and all knowledge .... Yet your human existence on earth can bring you bright light again if you want it yourselves .... But only the pure truth is a true light, and therefore this truth must be conveyed to you, which is only ever possible through the bestowal of My word, through the outpouring of My spirit into a vessel which is suitable for it .... For a person has to prepare himself in free will to become such a vessel which now receives My ray of love and passes it on to his fellow human beings .... But people walk the earth in a lightless state and have little desire for a true light which would illuminate their path .... And therefore only few people are in possession of the truth, and there is still great darkness over the earth which everyone could break through for himself if only he demanded the pure truth. And this is the great spiritual adversity on earth which has to be ended because people do not remedy it themselves, because they refuse to receive the truth, which alone can awaken them to eternal life ....

Amen

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Proof of God is His word .... Exceeding the authority ....

B.D. 8452 from March 29th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

When My word is offered to you humans .... in whatever way it may happen .... you will recognize that I want to make it easy for you to establish a bond with Me, for as soon as you read it and take the content into your heart you will feel that you are being addressed by Me, and then you will also be able to maintain this bond with Me by often turning to Me in thought .... I only want to achieve this mental bond and therefore I address you directly or indirectly .... I approach you Myself in order to take on a form for you, in order to reveal Myself to you as something of essence, in order to make a connection comprehensible to you between you and the power Which called you into life. And all people will one day harbour such thoughts within themselves as to how their origin can be explained .... And according to their strength of will they will also be mentally instructed again. Everything spiritual that lives on earth as a human being shall mature, and all possibilities will be opened up for it to reach the goal of becoming free from its material external form. So one of these possibilities is that they listen to My word, which is offered to them in the most diverse ways .... For I was originally in contact with all My living creations through My word, which they heard and thus knew about My will .... And if they are now to fulfil their destiny on earth they must also now know about My will again, because the fulfilment of My will also releases the spiritual from all material form. Yet people at this time don't want to accept all this because they often don't want to believe in the existence of a God and Creator, and therefore they also mostly reject My word, they place themselves completely outside My order of eternity because they don't fear any responsibility towards a higher power. And such people can rarely only be informed of the will of this power, the fulfilment of which, however, requires release from the form. Thus I cannot reveal Myself to them, I cannot address them Myself, because no bond whatsoever is established with Me, which alone brings about a maturing of the spiritual in earthly life. And yet, the belief in a God and Creator may not be completely eradicated on earth, which, however, is what My adversary has in mind .... But then he will exceed his authority and I will prevent him from carrying out his plan in the end .... which also gives you a comprehensible explanation for the ending of an earth period .... For even if people don't want to believe, humanity must never lose all knowledge about a God and Creator, so that they can voluntarily adjust themselves to such knowledge at any time that they can also change their initial standpoint .... God completely denying .... because they have knowledge of a being .... even against their will to acknowledge this being .... But if all knowledge of a God and Creator were to disappear amongst people, then salvation would no longer be possible, but this will never be permitted by Me for the sake of the return of those who once fell away from Me. And time and again My word will be conveyed to earth whereby I will prove Myself and reveal Myself to people who allow Me to speak to them, and My adversary will never be able to prevent this conveyance of My word, even though he will do everything to invalidate My word and influence people to doubt My existence .... Time and again good forces will be at work which have an enlightening effect and assist those who want to believe and seriously strive towards their maturing. But it will remain a battle between light and darkness as long as there are still unredeemed spirits. And this battle will become even harder the closer the end of a redemption period is .... because by then the darkness has become so strong that the light can only break through weakly .... But it will never be able to be completely extinguished .... And the light will triumph in the end and shine strongly again at the beginning of a new era and have a pleasing effect on people who will no longer oppose the light and will also walk in the light for a long time .... And once again I will be able to address people and reveal Myself to them, I will also dwell amongst people Myself and make them happy with My address because they have now reached a degree of maturity which allows My direct dwelling amongst them and because My adversary has been rendered harmless for a long time and can no longer dim the light ....

Amen

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Why is Jesus' recognition necessary? ....

B.D. 8453 from March 30th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

More and more urgently you humans need to be pointed to the divine redeemer Jesus Christ because the time granted to your soul to release itself from the form is coming to an end .... However, you cannot attain full freedom if your original sin has not been redeemed first, which can only be attained through the acknowledgement of Jesus as redeemer of the world. In order to be released from guilt it has to be recognized as guilt and its forgiveness has to be consciously requested ..... And you humans can only achieve this if you believe in Jesus as the Son of God and in His act of salvation .... If you yourselves know that you were the cause of His bitter suffering and death because you once became guilty and first had to be released from your guilt before you could enter the kingdom of light and bliss again .... The fact that Jesus' walk across the earth took place, which ended with his death on the cross, is still disputed by many people because .... for the sake of free faith .... no evidence can be produced to prove it .... Yet time and again people are informed that God Himself sent His son to earth .... that a being of light called into being by Him offered to walk the path across earth as a human being in order to atone for the great guilt of the past apostasy of many beings .... It is also explained to people what the apostasy consisted of and why the atonement had to be made .... People are clearly informed of what originally took place in the kingdom of the spirits in order to make it easy for people to believe in Jesus' act of salvation. And all people could also gain this faith if only they would prepare themselves through a life of love so that the spirit from God could work in them ..... Yet this is precisely what people lack, and thus they reject everything they are told except for a few people who, in turn, endeavour to point their fellow human beings to Jesus Christ so that they can find redemption from the state they got into precisely because of the original sin which still weighs upon them unpaid .... And the end comes closer .... An infinitely long time of ascent development should come to an end in earthly life as a human being, but this earthly life is no longer utilised in such a way that the human being consciously turns to the One Who can set him free for all eternity .... He lets a great opportunity pass by as soon as he lives his earthly existence without Jesus Christ, as soon as he does not mentally unite with Him, in Whom God Himself has made Himself imaginable to people and all beings .... And his remorse will be very painful one day when he will realise in the kingdom of the beyond what he missed on earth .... For he will also have to find Him there before it becomes light around him, and the guilt of sin will burden him until he has asked Jesus for forgiveness. But then he will no longer have the opportunity to mature into a 'child' of God, which was certainly possible for him on earth .... The soul enters a completely new spiritual phase when it has been redeemed by the One Who atoned for its original sin on the cross; then the darkness in which it had lived since its apostasy from God will have fallen away from it .... and the light which now shines upon it will make it immensely happy, and it will now also recognize itself as a divine being, because all imperfection has left it as well as it is free from sin and its consequences .... The fact that God has to administer justice and thus demands atonement is based on His perfection and the divine law of order, and thus the human being also has to atone for everything in earthly life which burdens him as sin, as an offence against divine order, or do so in the kingdom of the beyond .... But to atone for the great original sin is neither possible on earth nor in the kingdom of the beyond because this guilt was too great and required an atonement which a human being would never be able to make .... For this reason Jesus took this guilt upon Himself for people and redeemed it through His death on the cross .... Yet He demands that the human being also wants to become free from his guilt and thus consciously places himself under the cross, consciously hands over his guilt to Him and asks for forgiveness .... And once he has received this forgiveness, that he has been redeemed from this great original sin, he also has forgiveness for all other sins he committed in earthly life, for the man Jesus died for all sins which were and will be committed .... in the past, present and future .... He redeemed all guilt of sin, yet the redemption from it has to be consciously requested, otherwise all fallen spiritual substances would abruptly be returned to their original state, but then no perfection of the beings into gods would be possible, which necessitates free will. But if a human being consciously acknowledges the divine redeemer Jesus Christ as God's Son, in Whom God embodied Himself, then he also humbly hands himself over to Him and appeals to Him for help, because he is unable to resist God's adversary on his own and needs Jesus, Who has defeated this enemy, Who has paid His adversary the purchase price for all souls who want to be redeemed .... It is and remains a matter of free will to become free from the great guilt as well as from all sins the human being has committed in the flesh .... But he can find complete forgiveness, he can become free from all guilt because One took this guilt upon Himself out of love and mercy, because He suffered unspeakably and died the most agonising death in order to spare people the unspeakable suffering they would have had to take upon themselves in order to make a just atonement .... You can become free of all guilt, yet it is up to you whether you accept the immeasurable grace, whether you allow yourselves to be redeemed, for you will not be forced to do so, nor can the act of salvation take effect on you against your will and grant you full freedom which you do not desire .... For this reason you can only ever be advised to turn to the divine redeemer Jesus Christ .... You can only ever be admonished not to pass Him by .... You can only ever be truthfully informed about Jesus and His act of salvation .... but you have to take the path to the cross yourselves of your own free will. And you will truly not regret it if you listen to those who step into your path as God's messengers in order to enlighten you .... Then your earthly path will not be an idle one, for then you will certainly also reach the goal of entering the kingdom of light and beatitude free of sin ....

Amen

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Jesus taught love on Earth ....

B.D. 8454 from March 31th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

Jesus' soul brought love along with it to earth and therefore He was able to take excessive suffering upon Himself, since love gave Him the strength to do so. He knew that people were especially lacking love and were therefore weak and powerless. Although they also sheltered a tiny spark of love, hence they were capable of love, nevertheless, they were unwilling to love because it was smothered by My adversary .... who increasingly stimulated their selfish love and prevented selfless love from coming through. Consequently Jesus exemplified a life of love to people .... Jesus only treated His fellow human beings with kindness, He healed their afflictions, He comforted them and helped wherever help was needed .... He was unselfish and always willing to ease people's fate on earth ....

He taught them why they should live a life of love, He warned them of the consequences of a heartless way of life, just as He repeatedly demonstrated to them the effects of a life of love and provided the proof Himself by being capable of great feats of strength, by healing the sick and performing miracles by virtue of His constantly increasing love .... for He was closely united with God, the Eternal Love Itself .... And therefore Jesus taught people to establish the bond with God, their eternal Father, which can only take place through love and through heartfelt prayer ....

All this had become unfamiliar to people and only a few lived a life of love, but they soon recognised Jesus as the promised Messiah, they recognised in Him the Father .... This love had kindled a small light in them which subsequently was nourished by Jesus' teaching and made the darkness recede .... And this doctrine was meant to be spread among the human race, for this reason He educated His disciples Himself, sending them into the world with the instruction to proclaim Him, His act of Salvation and the Gospel of love, because people should be shown the right path which leads to eternal life ....

However, Jesus would never have been able to accomplish this act of Salvation had He not been full of love, but love achieves everything, no limits exist for love .... nothing is impossible for it, nothing exists that love could not overcome .... for as a human being it would have been impossible to survive such an extent of suffering and pain as was imposed upon Him .... But the strength of love helped Him to be victorious .... by virtue of love He endured the most bitter suffering and excruciating death on the cross and only gave up His life when the act was accomplished ....

Only then was it possible for a person to release himself from the adversary who kept him in bondage as long as the guilt of sin had not been redeemed .... Only after Jesus' crucifixion were people able to appeal for strength and reinforcement from Jesus Christ, in Whom God Himself, as the Eternal Love, had died .... People are no longer at the mercy of God's adversary and his arbitrary use of power, they can detach themselves from him if they pray to Jesus for help and through a life of love acquire the strength to fulfil God's will.

Consequently, it is most important in earthly life that the Gospel is proclaimed to people, which removes the dense darkness from people and lets them find faith in Jesus Christ as Son of God and Redeemer of the world, and which will always grant the strength to complete the earthly path successfully .... For love is strength, without love a person remains weak and cannot reach his goal, on account of which he lives on earth .... But neither can there be light on this earth without love, for it is the realm of God's adversary who spreads dense darkness with the aim of preventing the recognition of God and not to lose his followers but who can be recognised in the light as an enemy ....

Where love is preached, the faith in Jesus Christ can also be awakened if only people are willing to live up to the commandments of love. And thus the labourers in the vineyard of the Lord shall diligently work and spread the Word of God, which will always consist of the divine commandments of love, because people must be informed of the fact that only love will gain them spiritual advancement, that only love will grant them the strength to improve themselves, and that love also bestows upon them the light which reveals extensive knowledge so that they will consciously travel their earthly path .... conscious of their task and their goal .... and do their utmost to strive for it .... As soon as they acknowledge Jesus Christ, as soon as they know that God Himself has accomplished the act of Salvation in Jesus Christ and then consciously hand themselves over to Him, they will also be released from their original sin and reach the goal on earth and the final union with their God and Father of eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Fully Trusting Prayer ....

B.D. 8455 from April 1st 1963, taken from Book No. 89

And if you get into earthly distress only a heartfelt call to Me will suffice and I will protect you and keep all adversity away from you, yet this call has to come from the heart and not just be a lip prayer, for a call from the heart is also the evidence of trust, it is proof of a living faith which I will fulfil at all times. How easily your earthly life could be covered by you if you were constantly in intimate contact with Me, always aware that you can entrust yourselves to your father and always be heard by Him .... My love for you is truly endless, and it also grants you everything that is helpful for your soul .... But you will also no longer request anything from Me which could harm you, for the intimate bond with Me also presupposes a certain spiritual maturity, your desire to be allowed to hand yourselves over to Me is also the guarantee that I can now act like a father towards his child, for you are no longer disobedient to Me, you have already passed the test of will which is the purpose of your earthly life .... It is the most beautiful awareness for you that you may feel like children who never ask the father in vain, and henceforth you will no longer walk any path alone, for I will be your constant companion because I want to protect you against every enemy, be he a danger to you on earth or in the spiritual kingdom .... Just give yourselves to Me in complete trust and your earthly path will be so easy for you that you will also reach the goal effortlessly. You are only weak for as long as you keep your distance from Me, and you have to fight for as long as you keep your distance from Me; but if you are united with Me through your heartfelt devotion to Me, through your will, your love and constant thoughts, then you will also feel strong and no longer fear any oppression. If you consider yourselves My children, you will also be cared for and looked after by Me as father. But you must not exclude Me from your thoughts, for then you will certainly be harassed by My adversary in many ways and I will not be able to help you, because you will have to consciously turn to Me in order to be allowed to experience My love and help as well ..... However, an intimate bond with Me requires living faith, whereas a formal faith will only ever result in formal prayers which do not reach My ear, because I want to be called upon in spirit and in truth .... A living faith, in turn, demands a life of love, for a person can never believe alive who is without love, because without love he is also distant from Me, Who is the Eternal Love .... But I want to be close to you, so close that you will feel My presence, and then you will also speak to Me trustingly like children, and I can return your address, I can prove My presence to you by granting your requests and by always binding you more firmly to Me .... For My bond of love will be eternally indissoluble, which now unites us for time and eternity. And you cannot measure the blessing you will receive from My presence but you will be able to hear Me, your Father will speak to you and you will recognize My voice and be happy because bright light will flood you at the same time .... For My ray of love, which now strikes you, must spread bright light and make you blissfully happy .... Just always seek closest contact with Me through heartfelt prayer, through the child's intimate dialogue with its father .... And your walk across earth will be easy and carefree, for the bond which you once voluntarily severed has now been restored in free will and can no longer be severed for ever .... But I look kindly upon My children, I no longer let them walk along without a guide, I avert all danger to body and soul, and I always draw My children closer to Me so that they can no longer abandon Me because they feel safe in My care. Entrust yourselves to Me, your Father, at all times and believe that My love will provide you with everything in order to please you, because then your soul will long for Me and I can now also provide for it spiritually and earthly and because My love constantly wants to give itself away and give happiness to all beings on earth and in the spiritual kingdom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Why was it possible for a body of work by the opponent to prevail? ....

B.D. 8456 from April 2nd 1963, taken from Book No. 89

The adversary will often still try to run against the wall of faith, and he will also try to shake the faith of those who have found Me and whom he hopes to change again. And again, the only thing that matters is that a person's faith has come alive, because then he can already speak of knowledge with conviction and does not just need to believe something for which he lacks evidence. Living faith gives the person inner certainty and he no longer doubts but is already so united with Me that he has the clearest evidence in My presence that his thinking is enlightened and such faith can no longer be shaken. Yet My adversary will still be able to achieve success where the human being intellectually tries to fathom the correlations, where he .... i.e. the intellect .... builds on erroneous spiritual knowledge which he now regards as the basis and also represents it as truth .... Erroneous thinking is then also the consequence of this, and this can only be directed properly when the human being begins to doubt the spiritual knowledge he possesses. He has to ask in order to be able to receive answers, and he has to ask these questions in a feeling of complete ignorance which then humbly lets him come to Me .... If you humans knew how far you still are from the pure truth and how few people only accept the grace of My direct instructions from above .... then you would also recognize with fright the great power of the prince of darkness, but which you humans yourselves concede to him .... For you are not filled with a great desire for truth which would urge you towards Me so that I Myself would give you the truth .... You know that lies and error are the adversary's strongest weapons but you do not protect yourselves from them by appealing to Me for help .... You could not fall prey to this error if you were seriously interested in the pure truth .... And even if the truth is conveyed to you, you are nevertheless not willing to surrender your wrong spiritual knowledge, and the truth cannot take root in you, you yourselves prevent the effect of light because you are not willing to detach yourselves from darkness and follow the light .... But you cannot become enlightened against your will .... When I walked on earth to bring the light to men, I foresaw the structure of lies erected by those who called themselves My followers .... I foresaw that people were completely misguided and were themselves too weak to free themselves from the tangle of misguided teachings, I knew that precisely where the foundation was allegedly laid by Me Myself My adversary had much success .... For he succeeded in distorting all My teachings. And thus a work of construction came into being which never had and could never have Me as its master builder, that I could never take part in a work where My adversary had obviously forced his way in, for everything I taught on earth has been distorted. And spiritual knowledge is now advocated which did not originate from Me but is the work of human beings .... results of confused intellectual thinking over which My adversary has dominion .... Yet I could not prevent it because I do not act against people's free will .... Yet the few who seriously strived for truth and who acknowledged Me as the Eternal Truth always received the pure truth, and every willing person was able to accept it and also attain spiritual maturity .... Yet that work of building up remained in existence, and it was supported by all those who acknowledge it and never seriously concern themselves with the spiritual knowledge which is presented to them but which they, with an earnest will, would recognize as erroneous, for they would never be able to acknowledge a supremely perfect Being as the originator, as the founder of such a church, if only their thinking is good and just. Endless love, unsurpassable wisdom and might must always be recognisable, and where this is not the case it is impossible for Me Myself to have been at work, instead, My adversary always has his hand in it, and he will truly strengthen the darkness ever more and not tolerate his followers trying to free themselves from him. Therefore, My servants on earth, don't be surprised if time and again My adversary succeeds in having the error defended by people who are not yet able to believe vividly enough and therefore still use their intellect too much instead of listening to their heart, which would truly teach them otherwise. The structure erected by the adversary cannot be torn down so easily, for it finds strong supports in all those who do not yet recognize him and who therefore also accept everything as truth without seriously examining it. But people's will is free ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Only God is Ruler of the universe ....

B.D. 8457 from April 3rd 1963, taken from Book No. 89

Another sign of the approaching end is that people will continue to make ever new attempts to penetrate the mysteries of creation but never in a spiritual way by which alone they can receive an explanation .... They intellectually try to ascertain what is still concealed from them, they undertake experiments to explore what exists beyond earth, they want to discover natural laws and only make use of them again for the sake of earthly profit .... They exclude Me Myself, the Creator and Provider, the Ruler of the universe, and believe that they can conduct unauthorised research of creations which exist outside of earth ....

They will carry on with their experiments despite the fact that they fail time and again because it will never be possible for people to occupy other planets without losing their lives .... But even then I will still respect their determination; I will not stop them so that they will recognise the futility of their projects themselves. And although they will believe that they can interfere with My creations they will lose sight of their own intellectual limitations ....

They could gain unlimited knowledge by spiritual means but only the souls would benefit from this, people, however, only look for earthly advantages and for this reason will not chose the path which could lead them to correct understanding .... But all their attempts will fail and only ever cause harm to people who will offer themselves as test objects .... Humanity's place is and remains the earth .... just as all other celestial bodies are self-contained. The beings who occupy every star, be it the earth or other celestial worlds, are subject to the natural laws I decreed to every star. They will be unable to cancel any of these natural laws or associate with beings from other planets, and any attempt will be paid for with their lives, because it is presumptuous to ignore My laws, common sense alone should tell them to refrain from such experiments. This is already a sign of the approaching end, it is a sign of total disbelief in a God and Creator, or they would not dare to destructively interfere with His creations in the belief that they will be able to create works which travel at speed through the universe .... They will be dead works without purpose and goal .... they will only prove how presumptuous people are on earth and how dark their spirit is despite their most astonishing calculations .... which will nevertheless be wrong as they will have to experience time and again.

People already intervene in all existing laws of nature, yet never for the benefit of their fellow human beings, they only cause physical and spiritual damage, for with their experiments they also change their natural living facilities, they poison the air, the water and thus the purely physical living conditions, but with their godless actions also cause immense damage to the souls which will never be able to mature on earth in such great distance from Me, their God and Creator .... This great distance, however, is demonstrated by them, for only satanic influence determines their thinking and doing, only Satan provides them with these thought, because he himself tries to exclude Me and exerts a thoroughly negative influence on people.

The attempt to reach stars beyond earth cannot and will not ever be blessed by Me, but until the end I will still show mercy to those whose souls have not yet completely fallen prey to My adversary .... otherwise every attempt would soon be doomed. But I fight for every soul, and as soon as they turn to Me in heartfelt prayer at times of earthly difficulty I will also help them and let them seemingly succeed, yet always with the aim that people should find their way back to Me and let go of their intentions when they have to recognise that they are dependent on a higher Power, Which can never be understood by their intellect but nevertheless will be grasped by the heart ....

You will still hear much more and perhaps even be surprised by the feats people are able to accomplish. But you should know that they receive their strength from My adversary who, like Me, tries to create works amongst My creations which he himself is unable to do and therefore uses the will of people, whom he can easily influence since they have little or no faith at all .... Yet they are his final attempts, for his time will have run out and he will instigate his fall into the abyss himself, for when he has caused utmost confusion amongst people I will put an end to his activity, and nothing will remain of the works which people accomplished under his influence .... Everything will disintegrate and I will once again restore order on earth, so that it can continue as a school of the spirit and fulfil its purpose in accordance with My will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Irrefutable knowledge from above .... Mind thinking ....

B.D. 8458 from April 4th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

Nothing remains hidden from you if you approach Me Myself for clarification .... Yet you would not grasp everything in all its depth, and therefore I can only ever give you an answer according to your capacity .... But this answer will never lack truth, even if it is written in such a way that you can understand it .... I will not let you fall into erroneous thinking, even if the clarifications can only be limited as long as you have not yet attained such maturity that you can also penetrate the deepest depths of wisdom. And thus you should also be content with what I impart to you, you should not think that I don't hear your request, and you should always leave it up to Me which knowledge I reveal to you, for you will be able to grasp the correlations ever more with increasing maturity of soul. This is why it is often not possible for fellow human beings to understand what seems easy for you to grasp, precisely because their state of maturity is still lower and therefore the spiritual knowledge imparted to them is also incomprehensible to them. But if people believe themselves to be knowledgeable, their knowledge must absolutely correspond to My Word conveyed to you from above .... They cannot have other knowledge at their disposal which is now to be acknowledged as true, for only pure truth emanates from Me and this will never contradict itself. Therefore you, who receive My Word from above directly, need never doubt the truth of this Word, and you can justifiably advocate it, because your thinking can never be wrong either as soon as you are active for Me or speak on My behalf, even if you are dealing with intellectual people who possess great earthly knowledge .... Spiritual knowledge is a different matter, spiritual knowledge is an area which is not fathomed by the intellect but is unlocked by the spirit in the human being, which does not ask for intellectual acuity but can and will only express itself when the heart has become love .... but which then also gives the human being comprehensive knowledge .... And then he will also be able to understand everything, for I will always open up the right understanding for the spiritual knowledge I impart to him. For this reason even a person who is far below an intellectual person's degree of intelligence will have greater knowledge than the latter, and he will be able to refute his objections .... because then the spirit will always be active in the human being and not the intellect when the truth has to be defended, and he will not be able to be outdone by the adversary's intellect either, because the spirit is always superior to the intellect, for it knows everything, whereas the intellect has only acquired earthly knowledge and this is not sufficient to invalidate spiritual knowledge. Admittedly, My adversary will always intervene when it is necessary to take action against the pure truth and yet he will not succeed against the light from above, which he does not expose himself to because he flees the light from Me. And thus My servant, who is active on My behalf, need never fear the superiority of a person who shuts himself off from the working of the divine spirit, for he will always be and remain the inferior, because even the sharpest intellect cannot stand against the light which shines forth from Me into the darkness .... For I Myself am and will remain invincible, and My strength will also be in those who are active for Me, who want to carry out the light which I radiate into themselves .... And they will always be a match for those who oppose them and try to belittle My Word from above .... Their knowledge will not suffice to credibly refute your knowledge .... you will always be able to counter them glibly, for then it will not be you who speaks but My spirit, and you will only ever speak what it puts into your mouth. Therefore you should always speak soberly and clearly to those who do not want to accept you as My representatives, who believe that you speak from yourselves when you spread My Word from above. Your counter-speech will be calm and objective because I Myself am with everyone who is active for Me and My kingdom, and because he will truly have knowledge at his disposal because I Myself was able to instruct him, because I Myself can work in him through My spirit, as I have promised ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Explanation regarding original spirit and apostasy ....

B.D. 8459 from April 5th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

You, who want to be of service to Me during the last days before the end, have all My care and attention. For you shall still correct many errors which I disclose to you and through which I hand you the means to take action against them, which you would never be able to do without the transmission of My Word from above. I know where people's thinking is still confused, I know where opinions have taken root in them which they don't like to relinquish but which nevertheless do not correspond to truth. But I want to give light to everyone; I want to enlighten the thoughts of those who were given the task by Me to spread the truth. I can only ever give you the same explanation, namely, that you are My once emanated beings which did not fulfil their purpose because they opposed Me. What I emanated as strength were self-aware, intelligent living creations endowed with free will .... thus not dead works but living ones, for My strength, which was their fundamental substance, is and will remain something alive which constantly wants to be active .... This strength, therefore, was given the form of beings by Me, although this had to be understood in a spiritual sense, for they were able to behold each other as most magnificent and brightly radiating living creations .... Each emanated being was an individual being .... it was externalised as an independent being and continually permeated by My strength of love .... They were images of Myself, they were miniatures of My own nature which were able to work independently in strength and light and were supremely perfect, since only perfection could come forth from Me. And these beings apostatised from Me, as a result of their free will they changed themselves into the opposite, they lost their perfection, became imperfect and wretched, for they rejected the divine light of love which permeated them and subsequently discarded their divinity. However, the beings continued to exist, they merely renounced love, and this was possible because as evidence of their divine origin they possessed free will which could be used in any direction and which expressed itself in opposition to God. The being had merely rejected God's strength of love, thus My continuous illumination of love, and that resulted in its fall into the abyss, because it became incapable of activity and hardened in its substance .... Thus the being I once created in all perfection voluntarily distanced itself from Me and moved ever closer towards the abyss ....

This apostasy of the spirits has been explained to you by Me time and again, and you know what the apostasy consisted of: the fact that My love was being rejected .... By doing so the being incapacitated itself to any kind of activity .... But since the being itself was My emanated strength which could not remain inactive, this strength had to take effect in different ways, and this became possible by reshaping this strength into creations .... which then had to be active according to My will .... The fallen being therefore carried out an activity of service in different shapes under the law of compulsion .... That which moves through the works of creation for the purpose of gradually ascending to higher spheres is the fallen spiritual living creation which once originated from Me .... It is the being I created in supreme perfection, which I externalised as My image and which, on an extremely painful and infinitely long lasting path of return, shall now reshape itself again into that which it had been at the very beginning .... The answer cannot be given to you more clearly when you ask what happened to the 'spirit' when the being fell .... Which spirit do you mean? .... I created spiritual beings and they fell away from Me. The soul is therefore not the 'soul of a spirit' but the soul itself is the once-fallen original spirit which embodies itself in the human being to reach its final state of perfection .... And when a non-fallen spirit embodies itself in a human being then his soul is this said original spirit, and not just part of it .... The fact that all fallen spirits are also constantly looked after throughout the entire process of return by beings of light which have completely entered My will when they had to prove themselves is time and again explained to you, for their bliss consists of being able to contribute towards the fallen beings' final return, and their overwhelming love constantly takes care of all creatures and always provides new shells which enable the fallen beings to ascend. For love will always act according to My will, and it therefore also flows continually to an imperfect soul so that it can consciously change itself during its life on earth and become again what it had been in the beginning. And this transformation can only be accomplished by love, which the being must kindle as a human being in order to find the union with Me again, which turns it into a blessed being for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Two different kinds of revelations cannot be true ....

B.D. 8460 from April 6th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

I cannot make concessions where it concerns the transmission of the pure truth. Understand that only one truth can and does exist and that this comes forth from Me, since I alone know everything and therefore only I can convey the knowledge to those who possess a profound desire for truth and make heartfelt contact with Me, who thus make themselves worthy and suitable to receive bright light. And neither will I speak to people with two tongues by teaching different things to different people .... For truth is eternally unchanging and will not allow previously misguided human thinking to impose limitations on it either. I will always provide you humans with clarification if you have fallen prey to such mistakes. And therefore I must criticise where My adversary has already prevailed, and I must openly highlight misguided mental concepts .... And I will do so as soon as divine revelations are conveyed to Earth .... For only because of their complete concurrence will you be able to scrutinise the origin of such revelations yourselves. But it would also utterly contradict My wisdom were I to instruct people differently, by adapting My instructions to their hitherto thinking, if it is wrong .... The truth must uncompromisingly expose misconceptions, because only the truth will benefit the soul, because only the truth is the path leading to Me. And people who are closely connected with Me through love will always be gladdened by the pure truth and willingly forego misconceptions .... Hence, a caring person will feel impressed by the truth and easily recognise that he was hitherto wrongly instructed .... For the error .... that is, My adversary .... is unable to hold someone captive who hands himself over to Me, he will therefore easily be able to let go of wrong thoughts and unhesitatingly accept the truth. But what is one to think of revelations which obviously keep within such humanly established limitations?

I certainly want to convey My Word to all places, I want to reveal Myself to all people, but in order to do so I need completely empty vessels .... people who are not so entrenched in wrong concepts that they do not voluntarily relinquish or doubt them .... If I want to reveal Myself to a person then his doubts that he is in possession of truth must impel him toward Me, requesting that I grant him spiritual enlightenment .... Only then will I be able to enlighten him, but never as long as he is still bound and unable to inwardly release himself from misguided teachings .... My revelations require an empty vessel which I can subsequently fill .... And then I will clearly emphasise that which does not correspond to the pure truth from Me .... For I cannot utter two different kinds of spiritual knowledge and will not veil anything, but instead disclose everything, because you humans are in need of light in order to find and travel the right path to return to Me into the Father's house. Hence, whatever concurs has been conveyed to you humans by Me, once the prerequisites exist which allow for My revelations .... And if contradictions are found then you must be cautious and seriously scrutinise them, for I Myself cannot make any concessions which contradict the truth. Yet I want to win all people over before the end, and therefore I also want to show the right path to those who are still being misguided, and truly, anyone who completely devotes himself to Me will receive clarification, and he will find his way out from a thicket which is inextricable for the half-hearted and indifferent person .... My adversary has so much control over people that he has turned them into fanatics who no longer allow anything else .... be they members of ecclesiastical organisations or sects or of the various schools of thought .... It is precisely the fact that they are incorrigible when My messengers want to inform them of the pure truth, that demonstrates their bond with him who does not allow clear thoughts to arise in them, but instead impels them to fanatically advocate misguided teachings .... And then it will be difficult to win them over to the pure truth .... even those of good will allow themselves to be deceived because the adversary appears by the same token and is determined to make people spread wrong spiritual knowledge as divine activity .... yet I will always protect those people from believing it who fully consciously hand themselves over to Me and only ever appeal to Me for the truth .... Even so, all of you should be on your guard, for the adversary has many tricks at his disposal in order to hold on to his followers, and he will fight the truth until the end, until I Myself put a stop to his working and place him in chains again because the time of the end has arrived ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Prayer for strength .... Overcoming ego love ....

B.D. 8461 from April 7th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

I take all your weaknesses into account and will truly not ask for anything that is not possible for you to accomplish .... And so that you can remedy your state of weakness at any time you need only make use of the grace of prayer .... For as soon as you only pray for strength in order to be able to carry out your soul's work you will receive it, for through prayer .... if it is directed towards Me in spirit and in truth .... the contact between you and Me is already established and the strength can overflow into you. Hence it only applies that you decide to pray, to send a heartfelt call to Me that I may take care of your weakness and help you to reach the goal which was set for you in earthly life. But in order to be able to pray sincerely you must also believe alive .... you must be convinced that your God and creator is also your f ather, Who does not think sparingly of any of His children when they turn to Him and request help because they feel too weak themselves to fulfil My will .... But My will is that the human being lives in love .... And because self-love is still stronger he has to fight against it and feels too weak to do so .... But if he asks for My help in complete trust then he will always think less of himself and the caring love for his neighbour will become stronger, and the more he now practices love the more he will also be happy himself, since love itself is also the strength which remedies his state of weakness. You can truly be confident that your prayer for strength will be answered, for if you come to Me of your own free will I will also reward you and give you what you ask for, and if you are first concerned about your soul's salvation, that you thus request strength for your spiritual ascent and thus prove to Me that you strive for Me and My kingdom, then you will also receive everything else you earthly require ..... but whether I grant you earthly wishes, if only such move your heart or cause you to pray, depends on your maturity of soul or also on the danger such an earthly fulfilled wish can be for you. But My ear will always be open to you as soon as your call comes from your heart and you intimately unite with Me. This is why you need not fear a state of weakness, you need never think that I will set you unmanageable tasks, for I want nothing more than for you to practise love, and this can only be achieved through a battle against self-love, for which you therefore should and may request strength. For you are weak creatures due to your past fall into sin, where you gave away strength and light in the blindness of your thinking .... But if your thinking has only changed to such an extent that you turn it towards Me, then your state of weakness will also change and you will be amazed at what you are now able to do with My strength, which I irrevocably give to you as a result of heartfelt prayer in spirit and in truth. Therefore you need never be discouraged, even though time and again you become aware of your powerless state .... For He Himself is the source of strength from eternity, He also supplies all His creatures with it without limitation, only the creature has to open itself to receive it .... And this happens through the bond with Me in prayer .... This is why prayer is a grace of utmost importance, because you achieve everything with it .... Only the strength of your faith determines the degree of strength you receive, and this faith will become ever stronger if you only test it once, if you sincerely commend yourselves to Me and confidently wait for My help .... I truly leave no prayer unfulfilled because I Myself want your strength to increase, so that you will become powerful and light-filled beings again, as you were in the beginning .... Only I cannot provide you with strength against your will but you must come to Me yourselves and desire strength, you must open yourselves through heartfelt prayer and you will truly be allowed to receive everything you need in order to mature while still on earth .... And the body will also be considered so that it will serve the soul to mature, so that it will then use the strength to work with love and thus fulfil the purpose of earthly life. Don't fear your weakness, for I will be able to be powerful in the weak if only he turns to Me Myself in his weakness and asks Me for strength and light and grace ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's protection in the fight against the enemy ....

B.D. 8462 from April 8th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

Time and again you will experience evidence of My love so that your faith will always become more alive, so that you will be aware of My constant presence and thus I can also work in you. I constantly want to speak to you, even if your body is not aware of it, but your soul hears Me and constantly receives My illumination of love, it gains spiritual treasures and constantly matures further. And thus I reward your work for Me and My kingdom, which is extremely urgent because the time is coming to an end and I still want to find access everywhere in order to make Myself known to people. And I bless every activity which is done for Me, and therefore I also bring My own together so that one will support the other, so that everyone will give to the other what the latter does not possess .... that you will support each other, be it earthly or spiritually. For a time of battle will still come for all of you where you will have to prove yourselves but where you will also be able to do so, because you need only constantly call upon My strength which will also flow to you in abundance, for I will not abandon My own and guide them through to the end. And time and again I also draw your attention to the attacks of My adversary, the enemy of your souls, that you should be vigilant and not allow yourselves to be tricked, for he, too, will approach you under the mask of an angel of light, and there will be great confusion amongst My own who do not want to believe that the adversary fights with means which have the appearance of good and righteousness and which are lies and deception. Therefore be vigilant and persevere in prayer, hand yourselves over to Me in fullest trust that I will protect you from his attacks, and the more intimately you unite with Me the clearer you will also be able to see through the enemy and turn away from all those who are connected to him and approach you as his accomplices. I will always hold My hands over you and yet there will be battles for you, because you shall decide of your own free will for or against Me, for or against him .... But I know My own and will not allow you to be deceived by him .... I enlighten your thinking, I instil in you the feeling of resistance if he approaches you, under whatever mask it may be .... But you should always bear in mind that you are in a dark area, for this earthly world is his domain where he can and will work if he is not opposed .... And you can only ever ask for light and through your will cause light to be supplied to you, and then you truly need not fear the prince of darkness, for where there is light he does not stay, he flees the light because he flees Me, Who is the light of eternity. Nevertheless, you must always be vigilant, for you yourselves are not yet perfect, and wherever you give the slightest impetus he will use the opportunity and try to confuse you, to agitate you, to become impatient and to push your thoughts away from Me. And therefore it is a constant battle for you against his temptations, but for which you only ever need to appeal for My support and you will emerge victorious, he will not be able to harm your soul .... And I promise My protection to all of you who want to belong to Me, whom I therefore count as My own because you surrender your will to Me, because I possess it and therefore will no longer leave you to My adversary .... And everything will also be bearable for you, even though difficult times will come upon you, for I have also promised you My protection, My help and guidance for these times. And you can let everything approach you without worry, it will always happen as I have determined in My plan of salvation and as it will be beneficial for those who belong to Me .... As soon as you completely hand yourselves over to Me I will take care of you, earthly and spiritually, and I will guide you through all hardships of life without harm .... My strength will flow through you no matter what approaches you, for you can always feel safe in Me, like children you can always trustingly come to the Father and He will lovingly take care of you, He will always be there for you and guide you through to the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Jesus suffered immeasurably ....

B.D. 8463 from April 10th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

You should always remember how much the man Jesus has suffered on your behalf because His love wanted to help you free yourselves from Satan's bondage. He has taken upon Himself all your guilt and suffered enormous pain as atonement for this guilt and ultimately paid for this guilt with the most excruciating death on the cross. And although you are repeatedly confronted with the magnitude of His sacrifice and the extent of His suffering it is emotionally impossible for you to empathise with this pain. And yet you should remember it often in order to understand His immense love for you which was the reason for His act of Salvation. His soul was pure and immaculate, it came from the highest realms of light into the dark, sinful world, it came to a human race which was sinful because of its former apostasy from God and which continued to sin during its earthly life because it was influenced by God's adversary, who constantly provoked it into committing ac28.12.1962ts of unkindness and whom it could not resist because it was completely weakened by the burden of the original sin .... The people themselves lived in dense darkness and therefore could not know their soul's enemy, and thus they were in a state of acute spiritual distress and without help would never have been able to free themselves from it either. And Jesus took mercy on this human race, they were His fallen brothers who would have remained eternally separated from the Father and thus He wanted to help them, He wanted to show them the way of return to the Father's house again. Jesus voluntarily offered Himself for an act of atonement, the magnitude of which cannot be understood by you humans ....

He suffered physically and psychologically because whatever could be done to torment Him, whatever could be done to cause Him suffering and pain, was done by people who were followers of the adversary who sought to prevent the act of Salvation with all his might .... But what the soul had to endure in the region of the lord of darkness at the hands of his servants and accomplices is inconceivable to you humans. Because it came from a divine, bright realm and descended into hell, into the dark region of God's adversary, where the soul now had to suffer intense torment since all sinfulness and darkness affected it painfully, because everything unspiritual clung to it and attempted to pull it into the bottomless abyss .... But it resisted, it used the strength out of God .... Because Jesus' soul was filled with love and this love was its strength which enabled it to accomplish the act of Salvation .... Jesus saw people's wretched condition on earth, He saw their weakness and their blindness, and with His love He began to fight His adversary who controlled humanity, who had pushed them into disaster and sought to prevent them from breaking away (from it). He (Jesus) opposed his hate and evil actions with His love .... And this love was stronger than hate, it defeated the opponent .... Love sacrificed itself for other people, and with His death on the cross love had purchased humanity's freedom from bondage.

(10.4.1963) The price had been very high, He had paid the ultimate for people's guilt of sin, He had sacrificed Himself .... He had proven to the adversary that love is stronger than hate, that love can accomplish everything, that it does not even fear death if it wanted to give freedom to the enslaved by this means, if it wanted to lead the dead back to life again, if it could snatch the captivated from its dungeon master .... No pain and torture was too much for the man Jesus to abandon the act of Salvation because His mercy for the sinful humanity was so profound that He did not fear anything any longer and obediently and willingly accepted death, that prior to this He suffered excruciating pains for the sake of humanity's sins .... And when you humans remember this then you must rush to Him with intense love, you must hasten under the cross in order to belong to those for whom the human being Jesus has shed His blood .... You have to be so imbued with the strength of His love that you respond to it from the bottom of your hearts and completely give yourselves to Him, to eternally become and remain His Own .... You cannot contemplate His suffering and death often enough, and then you will constantly draw closer to Him when you consider that every pain He had taken upon Himself should have been suffered by you in order to make

Amends for the immense guilt .... and that He has redeemed you from it .... This was only possible due to the love within Him .... And this love was God Himself, Which totally permeated the man Jesus and gave Him the strength to complete the act of mercy and defeat the adversary, because love is the strength to which even God's adversary had to succumb .... so that he has to let go of those souls who are walking the path to the cross, who acknowledge Jesus Christ as the Divine Saviour and who pray to Him for forgiveness of the guilt ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's instruction to educate fellow human beings about Jesus ....

B.D. 8464 from April 11th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

Wherever the opportunity of mentioning the divine Redeemer Jesus Christ presents itself to you, you should speak of Him and emphasise His great significance for every single person .... Where possible, you should motivate people to remember Him, for everyone knows Him, everyone has heard of Him, yet only a few have a living faith in Him, and only they can partake in the blessings of the act of Salvation .... But they are precisely the ones who should try to invigorate their fellow human beings' faith in Him, Who alone can save them from spiritual adversity, which will only be perceptively felt after their body dies. You should not fail to make use of every avenue in order to steer the conversation towards Jesus Christ, even if the other person feels uncomfortable about it .... you should simply ask him what Jesus means to him, whether he has already thought about the doctrines regarding Him and what conclusion he has come to .... Even if they only want accept Him as a human being, Who advocated His own philosophies of life and sacrificed His life for these opinions, you can nevertheless explain to them that He was certainly a man who lived among people, but that He had to fulfil a spiritual mission and that every person can derive benefit from that mission if he wants .... Indeed, most people only regard their life on earth as an end in itself and don't believe in their souls' continuation of life .... Nevertheless, you should also try to unsettle these opinions and truly, I will place the right Words into your mouth if all you endeavour to do is kindle a small light for these blind people, if you want to help them fulfil their purpose of earthly life. If you are imbued by the knowledge which corresponds to the truth, you will time and again feel impelled to convey this knowledge to people and then opportunities will arise where it is possible for you, and I truly bless everyone who tries to persuade his fellow human beings to believe in Jesus, because Jesus must not be by-passed if the soul wants to attain bliss one day when it enters the spiritual realm after physical death. This faith in the soul's continuation of life is likewise lacking in most people, consequently, it is difficult to educate them, yet no stone shall be left unturned, for the misery such souls are approaching is indescribable and if you can help them spare such wretchedness they will be eternally grateful to you, for one day every soul will gain realisation, even if it still takes eternities ....

Everything relating to Jesus, His life on earth, His crucifixion and His ascension, is a myth for people which they certainly know, but cannot believe that these events, which are hugely significant for each individual still unenlightened soul, to be true. However, you humans live on this earth to attain the goal of releasing yourselves from every form and entering the kingdom of the beyond in a spiritualised state. But to do so it is crucial that you find redemption through Jesus Christ, that He helps you attain freedom, because only He can loosen the chains which still tie you to God's adversary. He alone can help you attain eternal life, and thus you must acknowledge Him and hand yourselves over to Him so that He will take your immense guilt upon Himself and so that He might have given His blood for you as well, which He shed on the cross for all people, past, present and future. If you accept Him and appeal to Him to take the immense guilt from you, you will also suddenly be able to think differently .... many things you previously were unable to understand will become comprehensible to you. For this reason you should at least accept information about Him when it is conveyed to you, for no-one shall go astray, but it is up to the human being himself whether he wants to let himself be saved .... Let yourselves be educated about Jesus and His act of Salvation, about the spiritual reason for it and about your past original sin, which you cannot atone for yourselves but can only be released from through the divine Redeemer Jesus Christ .... And don't walk past Him in earthly life, try to muster the understanding for the kind of mission He had to fulfil on earth and believe that every person must take the path to the cross .... believe that every human being must carry his guilt of sin under the cross, which means, that he must acknowledge Jesus Christ as Son of God and Redeemer of the world, in Whom God Himself became human in order to redeem humanity from sin and death ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Why is the information about the process of return not known? ....

B.D. 8465 from April 12th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

If only you would always take the path to Me, you would be helped in every adversity and distress, be it spiritually or earthly .... you would be looked after such that it will benefit your soul, for only pure truth is beneficial. I have not imposed any restrictions on you, and if you want to increase your spiritual knowledge I shall always be willing to instruct you.

You want to know why information is revealed to you now of which you have had little or no knowledge so far .... I want to give you the reason for this: time and again there have been people whose spiritual state enabled them to be introduced to the most profound mysteries of creation, and who thus also knew about the very first beginning of creation, about the apostasy from Me and about My eternal plan of Salvation. But such knowledge could never be passed on to other people as long as their state of maturity was lower than those who had received it from Me .... Its profundity would never have been understood, and had people merely adopted it literally their intellect would have caused them to reject it as the fantasy of a dreamer, since an unenlightened spirit would not have been able to grasp it .... And so, at the time of My life on earth people still had a very low spiritual level too, because they were still completely under the control of My adversary, who had been the cause of the immense spiritual darkness ....

Consequently, there were only a few people whom I could instruct about such mysteries of creation, and even they had difficulty in understanding it because they were still burdened by the original sin and this meant that their power of perception was inadequate. They certainly questioned Me time and again but I could only refer them to the enlightenment of their spirit after My crucifixion, after the act of Salvation, which lifted the dense darkness from those who loved Me. Hence they gradually came to understand what I had taught them but they would not have been able to pass the knowledge on for the very reason that their fellow human beings, whose spirit was not yet awakened, would not have been able to comprehend it .... Since this knowledge .... i.e. the enlightened spirit .... was only the result of a right way of life, of the fulfilment of the commandments of love which I had taught people as a matter of priority, people first had to be motivated to fulfil My commandments of love ....

Furthermore, you should also know that I gave My disciples the task of writing everything down for future generations .... For even they were still unable to understand the most profound wisdom and therefore only adhered to My instruction to proclaim what I had said to the people who followed Me, who regarded Me as a prophet and expected miracles or the healing of their every affliction from Me, who drew comfort and strength from My Words, and whose faith in the one and only God I was able to strengthen because they were of good will .... But there were only a few who wanted to learn more, and they were more motivated by their intellect than their heart to ask about things which only I was able to answer .... They certainly accepted the explanations but they did not leave a deeper impression on them apart from a few whose hearts were very willing to love and who recognised Me as their God and Creator ....

The fact that they were initiated by Me and very happy about such knowledge need not be mentioned, but it always just remained pleasing spiritual knowledge for those followers whom I instructed Myself, however, it did not get passed on to their fellow human beings or their descendants, since they were unable to understand it and therefore such discussions were not mentioned by My disciples either. Besides, such knowledge about the very first beginning and ultimate goal of all creation was not necessary for people and indeed not always beneficial. Had they been informed of it as dogma it could have, to some extent, compelled people's will, who .... if they had faith .... would have considered their development until the human stage with a shudder and would have felt unfree or unable to muster love for a God Whose plan would have been totally incomprehensible to them .... But where it was possible for Me to transmit divine revelations to earth this knowledge was given to people as well ....

And the proximity of the end explains why clear information about this is always given, because people cannot be reminded strongly enough of their responsibility now, for the act of a new banishment is at stake, which only takes place at the end of a period of Salvation and is extremely significant for all ascending souls .... Prior to this, souls who had failed to reach maturity on earth still had the opportunity in the kingdom of the beyond to reach full maturity .... But at the end of a period of Salvation this opportunity no longer exists, then the most appalling event occurs whereby the souls will be disintegrated into individual particles and be banished into hard matter again .... What would now be more reasonable than Me informing you humans about the fate that awaits you if you fail?

You are also able to pass your test of earthly life without any knowledge if you lived with love .... But when love has grown cold, so that failure is inevitable and the souls' fate is sealed with a new banishment, then I will use any means beforehand in order to disturb humanity. Then I will also make sure that people receive the information about the great plan of creation .... even though the success is nothing more than that people will listen with incredulity to such information and far more will reject than accept it. But I also know the will of individual people, and therefore I also know who will not reject this knowledge and who will draw the consequences from it .... and truly, they will receive it from Me, just as I have always guided those into truth, into profound spiritual knowledge, who desired it in their hearts and through a life of love were also receptive to it .... For you should also recognise a God of love, wisdom and might in every happening that you experience, and you should trust Me and always call upon My help, because the hardship will still be considerable before the end, yet anyone who perseveres will be blessed ....

Amen

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What is prayer in spirit and in truth? ....

B.D. 8466 from April 13th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

This is your actual task, that you enlighten those who are mistaken, that you give truthful answers to those who ask questions and that you thus bring light into the darkness .... For humanity walks along in darkness, their thinking is misguided and therefore they do not recognize the right path which leads to Me .... to the final perfection. Truth alone can bring about this perfection, but never error or lies .... And if you, who want to serve Me, want to give clarification you must first receive it from Me yourselves, because only I can convey truthful knowledge to you .... And therefore you should come to Me with all questions which move you, so that I will answer you and thus train you to become teachers who will now work beneficially amongst their fellow human beings .... When you pray to Me it is only important that you intimately unite with Me, that you don't call upon a distant God like a being Who is inaccessible to you, Who certainly has great power and therefore you hope for help from Him .... from Whom, however, you consider yourselves far away but would like to make use of His power because you are in need .... Such a call gives Me no pleasure .... But if you see your Father in Me, Who lovingly cares for all His children .... if you now converse with your Father in all humility, if you trustingly present your adversity to Me and thus have entered into an intimate bond with Me through your trust, then this is a prayer which I hear because it is a living call from the child to the Father .... Such a prayer has nothing veiled, nothing secret, it is also nothing formal, but something deeply felt in the heart .... Hence it is a true prayer where the child's heart exposes everything before the Father, where it spreads itself out before Him and confesses its weakness and helplessness and is therefore also valued by Me as such, for it demonstrates profound humility and love for Me and I can now pour out the cornucopia of My grace in abundance. Then you will pray in spirit and in truth, and then you can also safely hope for fulfilment, for as soon as you are devoted to Me with love you will only address such requests to Me whose fulfilment will not harm your soul, because your love for Me enlightens your spirit and your thoughts are already far more turned towards the spiritual kingdom than towards the world and its illusory goods .... But now consider the nature of the prayers which are mostly uttered by people. Consider that a true prayer in spirit and in truth requires a 'withdrawal into the quiet chamber', by which I only want to be understood that at the moment of prayer the human being must mentally withdraw into the chamber of his heart. And no matter how short the prayer is, if it is only a call to Me in adversity .... But this call has to come from the heart, and then a prayer truly needs no learned words or a certain form .... for I understand the babbling of a child and don't want to hear any high-sounding words which have already been born again by the intellect or which are taken over by other people .... This is why a mass prayer can only have a beneficial effect if everyone prays silently in his heart, even if everyone has the same request, for as soon as masses say the same prayer aloud they have to use a specific form, and then it will not be possible to have a confidential dialogue with Me which alone guarantees the fulfilment of the request. You humans can achieve a lot through right prayer but for the most part you don't pray right .... As soon as you believe in a God your heart shall impel you to unite with this God in thought, and then you will speak to Him like a child speaks to its father, and then you will pray correctly, you will pray in spirit and in truth, whereas formal and general prayers usually lack the intimate, confidential bond with Me, which, however, is entirely human, because external impressions always have an effect and therefore the withdrawal into silence is required. But you cannot expect any particular blessing for the souls from loudly spoken formal prayers, from general prayer actions, except for those people who are able to completely close themselves inwardly and pray in their heart .... who don't listen to what their fellow human beings say aloud .... I only want to explain all this to you so that you will understand why so many prayers remain unanswered and why I require of you a prayer in spirit and 'in truth' .... Only the core is ever valid before Me, not the outer shell, and I see into a person's heart and cannot be deceived by lip prayers or daily habits which are performed soullessly. However, if a person calls loudly to Me in his heart's distress, then such a call is also proof that it is not just a form but deeply felt internally, and this is how it is also valued by Me, Who always endeavours to help in order to prove the Father's love to My children .... because I also want to win your love. And therefore you should always give account to yourselves when you pray whether you first establish a child's heartfelt relationship with the Father or whether you are satisfied with a habit, with a form, with prayers which cannot reach My ear. For prayer to Me is also an immense gift of grace, because you can thus establish the bond with Me at any time and thereby also provide the evidence of having passed the test of will, which is the purpose and goal of your earthly life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Where do the temptations go out? ....

B.D. 8467 from April 14th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

Much is offered to you because My love for you is boundless, and do you believe that I will leave a request unfulfilled which is for the benefit of the soul? But the soul will derive the greatest advantage if I instruct it in truth, for then it will learn to recognize and love Me, and then its goal is also guaranteed, that it will unite with Me through love .... You humans shall still experience much through My teachings, you shall penetrate ever deeper into an area which can only be made accessible to you spiritually, and therefore I will reveal Myself to you time and again, through My spirit I will impart knowledge to you which shall make you happy and help you achieve perfection. And it is important that you know how you are made up and why you are made up the way you are as a human being on earth. You have to pass your last test of will on this earth, it is a matter of accomplishing the reshaping to your original being, which means as much as that you change everything negative, which still clings to you, into the positive and become the perfect beings again, which you were in the beginning. Your imperfection consists in the fact that your free will, which was able to develop in all directions, turned around, that it strived for the opposite of what corresponded to My will, that is, it was lawful order. It stepped out of the law of eternal order, it misused its will and thus turned its nature into the opposite .... But now, through the endlessly long process of return, it has again become able to make a decision of its will again .... which it could not do before in the state of bound will .... This process has already been explained to you in detail .... But now, at the beginning of its embodiment as a human being, the being is still far from perfection because it has many negative things in itself which it first has to overcome in earthly life .... For the being is still entirely under the power of the one who caused its fall into the abyss .... And since the beings once voluntarily followed him to the abyss, he also still has a right to the souls .... But I also have a right, because all My creatures came forth from My strength .... Now the soul itself has to make the decision to which lord it wants to submit itself, and both I and My adversary fight for its will during earthly life .... Thus My adversary also has the right to influence the human being's will, and therefore he also does everything in order to win him over .... Since the human being .... the embodied once fallen creature .... has much negativity in him, i.e. characteristics and urges which mark his affiliation to My adversary, the human being must now wage a battle against these characteristics and urges .... He must overcome himself, reject everything negative and change his nature again by adopting divine qualities .... by finding a just measure for all instincts which are naturally inherent in him as a human being, so that he can test himself and wage a battle against himself, i.e. against the thoughts, actions and senses of the human being which have been brought into disorder by the adversary .... and which, as a result of the former fall, have completely perverted the nature, i.e. violate the law of eternal order .... The battle for the human being's will between Me and My adversary constantly takes place during earthly life, and the adversary will use his arts of seduction at all times, he will always encourage the human being to act contrary to law, thus to violate My order of eternity .... And time and again the human being will have to muster the will himself to resist these temptations but will always receive the strength to do so if only he asks Me for it .... The temptations always originate from My adversary, whereas I only want to be called upon to protect the human being from falling. Whatever it may be .... in which way the human being is tempted .... it is always the work of My adversary. Such temptation never emanates from Me, but I Am always willing to help you humans to resist temptation. It is a matter of you humans detaching yourselves from My adversary who fights for you by repeatedly trying to tie you down and bring you down .... I will never lead you into such temptations in the same way but seek to deliver you from them .... But I cannot dispute My adversary's right to fight for you who have become his kin in free will .... And likewise, I did not place these wrong urges in you, so that they could pull you down by natural law .... but your free will must set the limits itself, you must find the just measure, then you will never sin .... My adversary, however, will always try to induce you to transgress the just measure .... thus to turn everything good into the opposite, to abuse all natural law instincts within you and thereby drive you to sin .... He will never cease to tempt you until the end of your life, but you can overcome him with My grace and My strength .... However, the fact that I allow all these temptations does not mean that I Myself "lead you into temptation" .... but I lead you out of temptation and deliver you from all evil .... if you ask Me for it .... Nothing negative can be claimed by Me, I Myself cannot have put anything negative into a human being either, but I can only ever create perfection, which, however, the being itself can turn into the opposite in free will through the influence of My adversary .... But in earthly life you should test yourselves as to whether you are willing to fight against everything ungodly in you, and I will help you to do so in every way .... For I want you to reach perfection, but I Myself will not increase your spiritual adversity by adding to your possibilities of defeat .... For I love you and want to make you blissfully happy forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Only Jesus can strengthen the will ....

B.D. 8468 from April 14th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

The fact that I died for you humans on the cross was an act of grace of such profound significance that it cannot be held up to you often enough, so that you will also make use of the grace which the man Jesus acquired for you humans through this death. For as soon as you disregard Jesus Christ's act of salvation there will be no redemption for you, and you will remain bound in the power of the one who is and will remain your enemy, who never wants your beatitude but will only plunge you into ruin since he lacks all love. You yourselves are also devoid of all love due to your past apostasy from Me, for you rejected My illumination of love .... And as long as you are still in the power of the adversary who caused your apostasy from Me you will never be able to receive My strength of love either, for this requires your own voluntary willingness to let yourselves be illuminated, and you will never be able to muster this will, for your will is extremely weakened. Through My death on the cross I acquired for you the blessings of a strengthened will, thus it will no longer be impossible for you to release yourselves from the adversary's power if you seriously want to do so and turn to the divine redeemer Jesus Christ to release you, to redeem you from sin and death. Apart from Him there is no-one who could help you in your adversity, for Jesus is your redeemer, He is your God and Father, it is He to Whom you owe your existence, for Jesus and I .... your father from eternity .... are one. I Myself offered the act of salvation for you humans in the form of the man Jesus, so that the act of atonement visibly took place for you humans and you can now also consciously carry your guilt of sin to the cross, for you can only be redeemed from your original guilt if you want this yourselves .... when you realise that you have sinned against Me yourselves and you now ask Me Myself in Jesus to forgive your guilt .... What was impossible for you before My crucifixion, that you were able to muster the strength to fight the enemy of your souls, became possible for you after My crucifixion, because then you had an abundance of grace at your disposal which you only needed to use by turning to Jesus of your own free will and asking Him that He may also have died for you .... And truly, your guilt will be redeemed for the sake of Jesus' blood. Yet you can never be released from your past guilt if you pass by Jesus Christ, then you will irrevocably continue to carry your burden which presses you to the ground, and you will remain a slave to My adversary, you will continue to live in darkness and weakness, you will be wretched beings who walk the earth without any spiritual success, whom My adversary does not release and who alone cannot muster the strength to detach themselves from him .... If only you humans could grasp the significance of Jesus and His mission on earth, and if only you could muster the will to turn to Him for help in your adversity, for only if you acknowledge Him as the Son of God, in Whom I Myself became human and Who died on the cross for you and your sins .... will He strengthen your will, and then you will also have the strength to detach yourselves from the enemy of your souls. But because you don't know about the correlations, about the cause of your existence as a human being, about your actual relationship with Me, your God and Creator, you don't seriously think about what Jesus' earthly life and His suffering mission was based on, and you don't consciously make use of the blessings which, however, are at your unlimited disposal if only you want to accept and make use of them .... Just as once Lucifer .... the first-fallen angel spirit .... plunged you into the abyss, so now Jesus, the Son of God, will help you up out of this abyss again .... but you were not forced to fall then, and so you are not forced to return now either .... Your free will has to prompt you to turn to Jesus, and then you will truly feel His strength and power, then you will be released from My adversary and become full of light and strength again yourselves, because the divine redeemer will give you light and strength as soon as you acknowledge Him and thus Me Myself in Him .... He redeemed the great original sin of all fallen spiritual beings and has now opened the door for them again into My kingdom, which they would not have been able to enter in their state burdened by the original sin .... He paved the way for all beings to return home to their Father's house. Yet no being is forced to take this path, instead, he (the human being) has to follow Jesus voluntarily, he has to want to be redeemed through Jesus' sacrificial death on the cross and therefore also voluntarily renounce My adversary .... And what he cannot achieve on his own he will be able to do with the help of the divine redeemer, Who has paid the ransom for all souls, so that the adversary must release every soul which wants to be released from him .... And in order for it to want to do so, the man Jesus died the most bitter death on the cross, He offered Himself as a sacrifice and bought all souls free with His blood .... This work of mercy is so immeasurably significant and yet many people pass it by and do not avail themselves of the most delicious thing that can be offered to them on this earth .... They persist in sin and refuse to acknowledge Jesus, and thus they do not acknowledge Me Myself either, Who died for you in Jesus on the cross in order to redeem you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Resurrection of Jesus ....

B.D. 8469 from April 15th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

Death has been overcome, and so you humans will also rise after the death of the body, and your soul will live forever. For I have given you the evidence that I rose from death on the third day because I overcame the one who brought death into the world. I Myself have promised you eternal life if only you believe in Me, for without redemption through Jesus Christ, in Whom I Myself died on the cross, your soul cannot awaken from the state of death .... For so long My adversary still has control over you, who does not want to let the soul come to life .... And even if you humans doubt that I truly rose from the grave you can still attain life if only you abide by the teaching I gave you on earth .... if you live in love, for then you will awaken from the night of the grave, then the light of day will shine for you, then your soul will also have attained eternal life. But I had previously informed people that I would rise from the dead on the third day, and My promise was fulfilled, and numerous people witnessed that the grave was empty, that nothing had remained in it .... I only wanted to provide you humans with the evidence that you can also spiritualise your body if you follow Me, that there need no longer be any death for your body either when all its substances have spiritualised themselves and joined the soul, and that you can then truly enter the kingdom of the beyond alive, as My ascension has also proven to you. The fact that after a long time you are no longer able to believe what happened at the time of My life on earth and when this life on earth ended for Me is due to the state of unkindness in which humanity now finds itself .... But anyone who lives in love also knows of his own accord that everything happened as it was conveyed to you, for he is told by his spirit which introduces him to the truth .... And nothing will be able to dissuade a person who has been taught from within from believing in Jesus' suffering and death, in His resurrection and ascension. And this person will have no fear of bodily death, for he knows that he cannot perish but will only now return to his true home where he will live for eternity .... I have overcome death, for without My act of salvation you humans would have remained in the state of death forever, because you would have remained eternally distant from Me and thus My love and vitality would not be able to shine through you .... But I gave My life in order to purchase life for you in return, so that you need never fear death again but will enter eternal life when your soul leaves the earthly body .... Yes, you too can take your body with you into the kingdom of light and bliss if you spiritualise it in earthly life, if you dissolve all dross from the soul through love, if you can also determine the body to completely hand itself over to Me and to live in My following .... Soul and body can rise from the dead, as I have proven to you, yet you will only rarely succeed in this total spiritualisation in earthly life .... But that it is possible is why I died on the cross and abolished all horrors of death for all who acknowledge Me as the Son of God and redeemer of the world, in Whom I Myself descended to earth to suffer and die for the whole of humanity .... And this act of salvation has found its conclusion with the resurrection, which was intended to be the evidence of the truth of My teaching for all people, for I predicted My resurrection on the third day. The fact that there is no longer any concrete evidence for it has to be in order not to curtail people's freedom of faith and will, but they can create the evidence for themselves at any time if they live according to My teaching, thereby awakening their spirit and now receive teachings through this spirit which concern that act of salvation until the end, until the resurrection on the third day. Human beings will not be able to provide you with proofs, but the spirit within you .... which is of divine proportion .... can introduce you to the truth, and then you will be able to understand and believe everything which otherwise seems unacceptable to you. But as soon as you can believe in My resurrection you will also know that your life does not end with the death of your body but that your soul will be resurrected to a life which will last forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Clarification about intercession ....

B.D. 8470 from April 17th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

The real purpose of your earthly existence has been presented to you so often already .... that it is just a matter of your relationship with Me, which you once voluntarily severed because you did not want to acknowledge Me .... For you could not see Me, and therefore you accepted the one whom you could see as your lord and creator: My first created spirit of light, Lucifer .... During your present existence you need only pursue one goal: to restore the relationship with Me and thereby acknowledge Me as your God and Creator again, from Whose love you once came forth .... No other being can establish this relationship for you, it can only be done by you and requires your will, which is and will remain free, even if you delay your decision for the time being. You cannot avoid taking it if one day you are to reach the goal of becoming blessed, as you were in the beginning .... And this final union can only be brought about by love, thus you have to be willing to live with love, nevertheless, you will never be forced to do so .... But due to the original sin your will is very weak and therefore needs strengthening .... And this strengthening of will is the great blessing which the human being Jesus has acquired for you through His act of Salvation .... Consequently, if you are able to give yourselves to Him and ask Him to strengthen your will, you shall certainly arrive at your objective .... However, your will can never be decisively influenced by the kingdom of light, only your fellow human beings are able to render kind-hearted intercession for you, if you yourselves are too weak to walk the path to the cross .... Then the love of a fellow human being can pray for you, and I will truly listen to such a prayer by giving strength to the person for whom it was requested by love. For love is strength, and if you consciously give it to a spiritually troubled human being it will affect him as strength, unless he then takes the path to the cross himself or acts with love himself and becomes enlightened .... Loving intercession for other people is at all times an aid to save erring souls, which should not be underestimated ....

But it is a completely misguided idea to ask beings of light for intercession .... Consider that these beings are utterly permeated by love which is, in fact, intended for all wretched beings .... Consider that no being would be exempt from their willingness to help and that no unredeemed being could exist if the beings of light were not constrained by divine laws which they cannot infringe against. These beings, however, know about a person's last goal on earth .... they know, that the acknowledgment of their God and Creator can only take place in free will, and that this acknowledgment is the passed test of will, which is the purpose of a person's life on earth .... They know that the bond with Me has to be re-established, which every being has to strive for and accomplish for himself in all freedom and without any coercion .... Yet the light beings' love is so profound that it would truly suffice to instantly transform every being, precisely because it is strength that never fails to have its desired effect .... Thus this love has to be limited by Me, i.e., even the beings of light have to be subject to laws which they, however, respect because they are completely merged with My will, and therefore also know what helps the human being to achieve the last goal, the union with Me .... However, the beings of light can use mental influence and motivate other people to intercede, and this certainly will not fail to have an effect. I want people to take the direct path to Me and not try to reach the goal in a round-about way which is unreachable that way .... and you would understand that if you knew about the highly developed degree of love of all beings of light .... If you approach these beings for intercession .... what are they to request of Me on your behalf? .... That I should act in opposition to My law of order and release people from the conditions which facilitate a return to Me, a change of their nature? Anyone who genuinely appeals to the beings of light for help will also be led into the right way of thinking by them, and then he will do whatever corresponds to My will, since the beings of light are inspired by the same will as Mine and therefore merely try to influence you accordingly. But then you will also reach your goal on earth with certainty, for they only ever endeavour to guide you to Me, to remind you of Jesus' act of Salvation .... They will show you the path you are supposed to walk, but they cannot walk it for you ....

And now consider that a prayer to Me already signifies the bond with Me, which is the purpose and goal of earthly life .... that you, .... if you pray to the beings of light for intercession .... thus bypass a direct relationship with Me .... And what outcome do you expect from the 'intercession' these beings should request of Me? Time and again I tell you that you can certainly ask the beings of light for help if you have already proven your will to Me .... and they will help you, because they are only the administrators of My will and therein experience their beatification .... But they will never be able to establish your bond with Me on your behalf through intercession, because they are always connected with Me and will want you to also establish this bond with Me voluntarily, since this is your true purpose of earthly life .... As long as you still appeal to the beings of light for 'intercession' your thoughts are not yet guided by these beings of light, but My adversary attempts to influence you such that you will only lengthen the path to Me, because he wants to prevent your final return to Me .... Intercession can only be made by people for each other or for still immature souls in the kingdom of the beyond. Then the requesting person's degree of love affects the person prayed for as strength, and because then I will, for the sake of unselfish love, give strength to those who need it and who are lovingly remembered by others .... But the concept of 'intercession' does not apply to the kingdom of light. The thoughts of people who rely on intercession are misguided and only prolong their return to Me, which is My adversary's sole intention through this misguided teaching ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Attainment of sonship with God requires detachment from the world ....

B.D. 8471 from April 18th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

You can achieve everything if only you muster the serious will, for then you will also be able to receive unmeasured strength to carry out what you want .... Yet precisely your will is weak and the world still holds you too captive to be willing to surrender everything .... But if you want to attain childship to God while still on earth, this requires a complete overcoming of the world .... You must have completely detached yourselves from matter, which, however, does not mean that you should withdraw into the desert as a hermit .... You can also stand in the midst of the world and yet have completely overcome matter, for to deal with it does not mean to desire it. For the earthly fulfilment of duty need not be an obstacle to the soul's ascent if it is a service to fellow human beings and if this service is not carried out solely for the sake of earthly gain, that is, if the human being's activity is motivated by the acquisition of material goods. Even a person's possessions are no obstacle to complete spiritualisation if they are used again for serving, unselfish neighbourly love .... But if self-love is satisfied first, then the path to spiritualisation is still very long, then the striving for the highest goal is not yet serious and thus the will is too weak, which also results in a lack of strength .... It is therefore up to you humans yourselves whether you still reach the goal in a short time .... You can have a whole life at your disposal and not get any further .... But you can also complete yourselves in a very short time if this is your serious endeavour, because then you will truly not lack strength. And as soon as you are given knowledge which also assures you an abundance of blessings you can now also consciously strive for perfection, which, however, always requires you to detach yourselves from the world. The extent to which you are willing to do so is also determined by your ability, for the serious will assures you the supply of strength. You humans, however, still expect too much from your life, you still harbour various desires and are not willing to relinquish them .... Nor do you trust Me unreservedly as yet, otherwise you would not doubt that I will also guide you through earthly life, that you need not suffer hardship .... if I recognize that your soul's salvation is of utmost importance to you and you distance yourselves from earthly desires .... For it is I alone Who can give to you but also take away .... Who also provides for you most abundantly if you are willing to make a sacrifice to Me .... For you will truly not come to any harm, for what the body voluntarily relinquishes the soul gains a thousandfold .... And if you consider that you have to give up all earthly goods when your soul relies on your body .... that you cannot take anything over but only your spiritual gain, then you will also realise the worthlessness of earthly goods and try to free yourselves from them for the sake of spiritual advantage. But I cannot force you to renounce, I can only help you by taking away what still hinders you or by placing so many obstacles in your way that you voluntarily give up what is not helpful for your soul's salvation. And you must seriously try to establish this difference between 'fulfilment of duty' and 'your own desire for the world's goods', and if you feel completely free of the latter then you can truly also reach the final goal on this earth, to attain childship to God, for the course of your life will then also be shaped according to the seriousness of your will and striving, always offering you the highest opportunities to reach the highest goals .... But you will not lack strength because then you will enter into My will and your return to Me will be assured ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Mission to vineyard workers: to spread light ....

B.D. 8472 from April 19th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

What you have to do if you want to serve Me is to stand up for the spiritual knowledge you constantly receive from Me. This is why I convey it to earth, so that people are enlightened, so that they are informed of the truth and made aware of error, so that they detach themselves from it, because truth alone is the path which leads to Me, to eternal life. Hence you need not fear at all that you will be left without protection, that I will leave you defenceless to My adversary's attacks, but as soon as you are active for Me I Myself will walk by your side and avert every danger from you. For I need you, I did not choose you to be labourers in My vineyard for nothing .... I know how necessary the supply of pure truth is for humanity, and therefore everything will also happen on My part so that you can fearlessly carry out your work .... And you can be certain that I will determine all your paths, that I will direct everything in such a way as to benefit people's spiritual development .... I also know the hearts of those I can still address who are open to My word, which is offered to them in purest form through you, who have offered yourselves to Me in free will .... The effects of error and lies are so appalling that I truly use all means to lead people out of their error .... But My adversary likewise fights against the truth with cunning and treachery .... And you must courageously take up this battle by openly representing the truth, by proclaiming what you yourselves may receive through My grace and thus inform your fellow human beings of it. Do not fear the adversary and his accomplices, for they will not be able to contradict the pure truth, for this testifies for itself .... However, you must reckon with the fact that My adversary will still launch fierce attacks against you, yet My presence will always protect you and My messengers of light will likewise protect you, so that you will be able to speak freely and unhindered and the strength of your speeches alone will reveal the origin .... For you don't need to think about what you should say, for I Myself will put the right words into your mouth .... There is not much time left and therefore much work still has to be done, which mainly consists of spreading the truth. Therefore you must also speak wherever the opportunity presents itself, and you should always know that I Myself will guide people into your path whom you should inform of your vineyard work .... And depending on the willingness of their hearts to love they will listen to you or reject you, yet always with their own responsibility, for it is an overwhelming grace when I take care of the individual person and want to pave the way for him to Me, back into his Father's house .... I alone am the way, the truth and the life .... Only through Me can you attain the pure truth and only through the truth can you acquire eternal life .... But on the path of error and lies you go directly towards the enemy of your souls .... Then you will never take the right path, and you can never attain salvation as long as you still move in error .... You must not walk your earthly path so indifferently that it is irrelevant to you whether you move in truth or in wrong thinking .... You must recognize the consequences which you must strive for or which you must fear, depending on whether you accept spiritual knowledge which originated from Me or from My adversary .... Be aware of your responsibility, for I have given you the intellect so that you can also take a purely intellectual stance on every spiritual good .... And if you are of good will and believe in a God Who is love, wisdom and might, then you will also appeal to Him for help if you consider yourselves incapable of an examination .... And I will help you and truly guide your thoughts correctly, for this is My greatest concern that you humans live in truth, and thus you need only seriously desire the truth and it will irrevocably be given to you, for I convey it directly to earth, because there is great spiritual hardship amongst people and because only the pure truth can remedy this hardship and then you will only be able to fulfil your purpose of earthly life if you live in truth. The truth originates from Me, but every error has My adversary as its source, who only ever wants to keep you humans in spiritual darkness so as not to lose you, because the truth exposes him and clearly shows you the path which leads to Me and to eternal life ....

Amen

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Bids in coercion are not God’s will

B.D. 8473 from April 20th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

Also this is not My will, that the people are handicapped in their free decision, that they are given commandments, after which they are allowed to move only in the limits of what again people only have determined .... Free will is the decisive factor in human life, for it alone gets done the maturing of the soul, but it also can fail, because it is completely free .... If now the freedom of this will is cut, then people get guilty in doing it .... But the man himself has the gift, to be able to use his mind, and he could make himself free from this fetter of the coercion of will .... But most times he does not find the courage in the face of the human orders. But I ask the question: Why do you just now follow this order so eagerly, while otherwise you easily break the commandments .... It is much required from you humanely, and you don’t consider it .... why are you obedient, when it is required from you to believe everything unconditionally, what is offered to you? Why don’t you obtain yourselves a clear light, before you accept teachings as truth? For upon which indifference do you break the commandments, which I Myself have given to you, how do you behave without passion to the commandment of neighbourly love? But you follow the commandments eagerly adopted by people .... And how much light would you receive, if you fulfilled the commandments of love .... All veils would fall from your eyes too, which covered the truth until now. And you would ask one thing: Who gives you the guarantee, that you have been presented pure truth? And even the slightest doubt means, that you open yourselves to the light, that you desire truth, and then also this desire can be fulfilled. To put the people in a kind of compulsory state is a great offence against Me, Who I have given free will to all My creatures, for which they must also justify themselves one day. And this is especially significant, because it has to do with the upward development of the soul, that presupposes free will .... The spiritual maturation can only promote that, what is done in free will .... And you prevent this development of soul by putting your neighbours in a compulsory state through commandments, so that a free decision is made impossible for them .... Indeed everyone could break free of this tutelage, if he is only doing for truth in best earnest .... But he likes shifting his own responsibility and does, what people demand from him, but not that, what I demand: that they live in love .... But always a life in love contributes to the clarity of mind, and then the person will also know, that I never could be the author of such commandments, that might cut man from his spiritual freedom. You shall not accept anything, before you may have thought about it, and you only shall ask for My help always, so that your thinking is right .... And believe it, you will have joy with the thoughts, that rise in you after a heartfelt prayer to Me, for it is My will, that you walk in truth, and therefore I will put you also the right feeling for truth in the heart, and you will be able to break away from all error slightly, as soon as you will accept Me Myself as the right teacher, if you come first to Me, to receive enlightenment from Me. This doesn’t have to be an obvious process of literal interpretation, because I have many ways to bring the truth to you, and that you also recognize this as truth, I direct your thoughts, and you believe then, that it is your own thought, but you are also fully convinced, that it is right .... And know, that the fellow man has no right to blank out your own thinking, as he commands you indubitably to accept, what he teaches you .... I didn’t give this right to any man, to curtail the freedom of the will, but the man himself is to decide, what he wants to accept and reject .... Because once he will have to answer for that, because it is about his spiritual maturation. But if he puts the fulfilling of commandments of love before anything else, so his maturation is also guaranteed, then he will come to the truth by himself more and more, and he has not got to give up so much of error, when he enters the spiritual kingdom .... For his light is strong and breaks through the darkness, which means any error for a soul .... Love alone is necessary to mature and to stand in truth .... But who doesn’t have love, will hardly get out of darkness, because he is not helped by the alleged means of grace, to which the man relies too easily, who is not in the truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Knowledge is given according to the soul's maturity ....

B.D. 8474 from April 21st 1963, taken from Book No. 89

The knowledge you humans require for the maturing of your souls will always be made accessible to you. For you live in the last days before the end and are in utmost danger of going astray again if you don't receive information about what kind of responsibility you have for yourselves, i.e. for the immortal part in you, for your soul. You humans carelessly live from day to day during these last days because you only take notice of what is useful for your body, which will perish, but not for the immortal part in you .... You are also indifferent towards all spiritual instructions, be they from ecclesiastical organisations or from those who aspire spiritually and who are therefore in contact with the spiritual kingdom, which is not of this world .... You don't believe them and are therefore not receptive for divine revelations when they are conveyed to you through people who work as labourers in the vineyard of the Lord. Yet in your stubborn psychological state you urgently need help, you need a truthful explanation regarding yourselves, the meaning and purpose of your existence and your actual task on earth .... This is so essential for you because you don't have much time left until the end. And you are truly richly endowed by God, for everything you need for your salvation of soul will be conveyed to you, providing you do not close yourselves to God's grace when it so evidently flows to you. However, such spiritual knowledge should not remain worldly information which you, in turn, only utilise again in a worldly sense .... It should be the one and only nourishment for your soul, so that it can mature fully and reach its goal in earthly life .... to join God forever, since eternal life in beatitude depends on it .... And you should always pray for correctly realising what benefits your soul, and truly, such prayer will be granted to you .... For as soon as you consider your spiritual welfare imperative, you will also receive support in every way so that, with increasing maturity, you will turn away from the world and ignore its demands. And you can rest assured that a serious spiritual aspirant will also attain clear thinking, because the spirit in him is able to express itself as soon as he lives according to God's will, of which every person is informed .... For every person will have the opportunity to hear the Word of God, irrespective of whether he hears it directly through His messengers or in the traditional way in churches .... He will be instructed of the commandments of love and if he lives up to them his thinking will become clear, his knowledge will increase, since he may also receive direct revelations through his heart in the form of thoughts which will be conveyed to him from the world of light .... And these beings of light .... because they are merely the implementers of divine will .... also know the spiritual state of the people in their care, and thus they will also know what a person will need for his soul's salvation, and that is what he will receive .... For the soul will be offered what it desires ....

However, the intellect's desire for knowledge is not part of the soul's nourishment but will only ever benefit the intellect, which will then make earthly use of it, thus it does not signify any particular gain for the soul .... This is why you should be content with the spiritual information you are given and not ask for knowledge you have not yet received, which therefore remains purely intellectual knowledge as long as you are not so spiritualised that your spirit can delve into it, so that nothing will remain unknown to you because you yourselves, that is, your spirit, can penetrate everything and inform you of it, for then such knowledge will no longer pose a danger to your souls .... Just live a life of love, then you will instantly be placed into brightest radiance when you enter the kingdom of the beyond and no more unsolved questions will exist for you. But above all, try to attain maturity of soul yourselves, which allows the divine spirit to take effect in you .... Only then will you have reached the degree of perfection when you will receive clarification about everything .... Yet this degree of maturity is prerequisite first before the knowledge about the most profound secrets of creation can be disclosed to you and also be utilised by you in the right manner .... But as long as you lack this psychological maturity one can only speak of intellectual curiosity and not of a desire for spiritual knowledge which reveals your God and Creator's nature to you and which lets your love flare up for Him .... Anyone who seriously strives spiritually can find his own explanation, because his train of thought is guided by knowledgeable forces, and these thoughts will become increasingly clearer the more he enters into God's will and entirely subordinates Himself to His will ....Then he need only appeal to Him for clarification and he will receive it, if it is conducive for his perfection ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God wants no compulsion .... The truth sets you free ....

B.D. 8475 from April 22nd 1963, taken from Book No. 89

The will towards God is at the same time the will to detach oneself from God's adversary .... But the will towards God will also always mean the will towards truth, for the human being who is completely wrongly taught can only free himself from the adversary when he walks in truth .... The truth alone sets you free .... through the truth the adversary's nature will be revealed as well as his shameful work and activity, furthermore, through the truth the human being will also set himself free from all error, and he will realise that error is intended to keep the human being in bondage of thought and will .... that it chains people to decrees and commandments which, again, only originated from God's adversary and which are therefore intended to keep the human being bound, to make him completely unfree and to prevent him from ever finding the truth .... But the truth sets you free .... for anyone who lives in truth no longer recognizes the adversary as his lord, he has recognized him and detests him, he consciously turns to the One Who is the Eternal Truth .... Thus an ecclesiastical organisation based on error can never permanently bind a person to itself who has found the truth .... And thus as long as the human being is bound to this organisation by commandments or laws it cannot possibly represent the pure truth, because truth does not tolerate coercion and because coercion has only ever been imposed on people by My adversary, since God Himself created every being in fullest freedom of will .... Hence, as long as people are required to perform earthly or spiritual actions or tasks under the threat of punishment, there is obviously coercion, because the human being shall then be burdened with the feeling of having sinned if he does not comply with those requirements .... The human being should have complete spiritual freedom, under no circumstances should he be subjected to spiritual coercion .... He should only ever be taught in love that God's commandments must be fulfilled .... the commandments of love for God and love for one's neighbour .... This alone is the task of those who want to help people to the well-being of their souls, who want to be God's servants and thus have to render this service to Him, to educate people to love .... But love must also be exercised freely, no services may be demanded under compulsion which are devoid of love, which are only done again in order to comply with human requirements but which do not result in the slightest progress for the soul. Now it is a false objection if it is said that humanity needs laws because without them it would go through earthly life completely indifferent and its state would be completely disenchanted .... You humans, who consider such things to be good, only seemingly maintain a certain order which appears externally, yet the souls are raped because they are deprived of all free determination, because people have to act what they should do of their own free will and this is therefore entirely worthless for their maturing. Moreover, they are deprived of their sense of responsibility if they strictly adhere to what they are offered by individuals who feel called to lead the masses .... With only a little thought you must realise that such commandments, which signify a compulsion of will for the human being .... because in the case of non-fulfilment they are called sin .... can only have come from the adversary of God .... For precisely in the stage as a human being on this earth free will alone determines his spiritual progress, and every spiritual coercion is satanic activity .... And if you know all this it will also be easy for you to completely detach yourselves from spiritual knowledge which obviously reveals the work of God's adversary .... For the truth sets you free .... Memorise that you are no longer subject to the adversary's fetters if you live in truth, which only comes forth from God and which you can only receive and understand if you have already intimately united yourselves with your God and Father, so that you have made a free decision of will and the adversary has lost all right to you. Then you will also no longer fear anything that has been threatened to you by those who are still connected to the adversary, otherwise they would also recognize and strive for the pure truth and try to completely detach themselves from error .... Know that God Himself is love and that He will never impose those punishments on a human being which are threatened to you if you do not submit to the teachings and commandments which were given by human beings under the influence of the adversary in order to keep people in bondage .... The truth alone sets you free, and without hesitation you will release yourselves from those fetters if you are in possession of the truth which God gives to everyone who earnestly desires it, and which alone is the light through whose shine the adversary and his activity is unmasked .... And anyone who has the truth is now also a divine creature again, and he truly no longer needs to fear his adversary ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Love and dedication needed for vineyard work ....

B.D. 8476 from April 23rd 1963, taken from Book No. 89

You are all called to redeeming cooperation on earth, yet you must fulfil prerequisites so that you will be chosen to serve Me and can be instructed by Me as to what you should do .... You must first be filled with love for your fellow human being whom you want to help out of spiritual adversity .... For if you cultivate love within yourselves you will also recognize the degree of spiritual hardship in which people live .... And then you will also be willing to help .... You also have to be in close contact with Me which, however, is already guaranteed by the love within you or I would not be able to assign you your task. And you must firmly believe that all people have a task to fulfil and, in realisation of this, also instruct your fellow human beings .... And there are not many people who have recognized the meaning and purpose of their earthly life and would also like to lead their fellow human beings to the same realisation, because love has grown cold, because every person only thinks of himself, thus he still has a strong selfish love which he should overcome during his earthly existence. This is why I keep recruiting co-workers on earth, for this work can only be done by people, because I cannot influence people supersensibly due to their free will test .... But I know every individual person's heart, I know his state of maturity, his spiritual condition, his will and his love, and truly, I choose the right servants for My vineyard .... And thus they can work for Me to the greatest blessing if only they are willing to serve Me in all freedom of will and in love, for then I will take over the guidance and the human being need not fear to undertake anything which contradicts My will .... I only want full devotion to Me from those who are willing to serve Me, then I can choose them, for full devotion to Me guarantees that the human being is full of love and willing to help, and then he can also work beneficially amongst his fellow human beings .... If people would only concern themselves with the fulfilment of the commandments of love, then the great spiritual hardship would not be .... There would be no such spiritual low that would cause the dissolution of the work of creation on earth ..... Yet My commandments of love are only little respected, self-love predominates, everyone is his own neighbour, and people stifle the divine spark within themselves, the spark of love which I placed in every person's heart, and they remain enslaved by My adversary from whose power they should liberate themselves in earthly life. And these people can only ever be helped by a fellow human being who recognizes the spiritual adversity and wants to remedy it. And this person will also always find My support, because I don't want to let any soul go astray and the salvation of just one soul is a great gain for Me .... because it is eternally released from My adversary's control. And therefore I bless every person who serves Me with utmost unselfishness, who only cares about his fellow human being's salvation and whom I therefore endow with strength and light as My co-worker, which he shall pass on again to those who dwell powerlessly in darkness, who need help to find their way out of deepest spiritual hardship .... And I instil the right thoughts into all those who want to serve Me and also guide them to the people on whom redemptive work is to be done .... However, it is by no means a spiritual coercion which I exert on you but I direct your thoughts which you voluntarily move within yourselves again .... and driven by the love within you .... now also carry out what is My will, because My will also fulfils a loving heart .... Therefore the first thing is love, and no person can ever be a faithful servant and diligent co-worker to Me who does not have love ...., by which alone you can recognize God's true servants .... For even such people call themselves 'servants of God' who are completely without love, and these will never be able to achieve spiritual success, for their speeches are dead even if they are based on My word, but they lack life because their spirit itself is not alive, which only love can awaken to life. Time and again love is placed in the foreground by Me, and anyone who has love cannot go astray, for he is united with Me through love and has fulfilled his actual purpose of earthly life, and therefore it is also your most urgent task to stimulate your fellow human beings into a life of love, and then you will also be successfully active in My vineyard and do redemptive work according to My will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

There is no coincidence .... Nothing happens arbitrarily ....

B.D. 8477 from April 24th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

Believe Me, there is no coincidence, instead everything is divine providence and every human being’s course of life proceeds in accordance with divine will .... For whatever does not correspond to My will nevertheless has My permission so that you may derive spiritual benefit from it if you make the right use of everything .... However, you are not at the mercy of a blind power, every experience during the course of your life has its reason and serves a purpose .... But how you use it is up to yourselves, because what matters in earthly life is the test of your will. And in order to evaluate every happening properly you should always request My support, and truly, you will think and act in the right way, because I will not guide you the wrong way if you entrust yourselves to Me voluntarily .... And thus everything confronting you is determined by Me or permitted for the purpose of your perfection ....

When you are in constant contact with Me through works of love, sincere prayer or in thoughts which relate to Me, you can also be certain that you will not think and act in opposition to My will, because then I will bless your every action and your souls will mature .... Hence you should view whatever confronts you every day as My direct action on you, because I direct all threads, I start relationships, I bring those together who shall serve Me and seize every opportunity to guide you humans into truth, who sincerely desire it .... This is most important in the last days, because passing the test of volition, which will determine your future fate, entirely depends on the truth. Sparks of light will flash on earth and tear the dark night apart, yet only few people will ever strive for them, the majority will be content with the night and flee the light .... But there will also be deceptive lights causing confusion as their light is short lived and plunges people into even deeper darkness than before .... But where there is desire for light the darkness will lift and people will find their way into the light of day ....

You, who ask for it, shall all become enlightened, and need only ever take notice of where the light is coming from .... If its radiance is bright it will make you feel good, you will be able to penetrate the darkness and be happy with the light which shines for you .... Deceptive lights, however, will confuse you, you will not be able to find complete understanding and therefore feel uneasy, if you are interested in the pure truth .... if you genuinely just want the pure truth .... But I know My Own, and thus I can speak to them, and they will recognise the Father’s voice, and as soon as I can speak to them Myself they will be saved for time and eternity .... And thus it is only important that you humans do not walk any path alone without first praying for My guidance. Because this prayer guarantees My protection and My help when you are still too weak and inexperienced to differentiate between true and deceptive light by yourselves. But I will place the right thoughts in your heart and then you will always live in truth, because you are seeking it ....

I can prepare vessels for Myself anywhere, which fulfil all conditions and thus allow the ‘working of My spirit’ within them .... And anyone with an awakened spirit also knows whether and when I speak Myself, because My sheep know My voice .... And when I Am able to send revelations to earth I will also take care of their distribution .... But My adversary will do the same by also trying to communicate with people who are gullible and facilitate his actions, and he will also try to spread error and find people to help him .... Nevertheless, the truth will shine like a brightly radiating light, whereas the adversary will only be able to ignite deceptive lights which will merely increase but not disperse the darkness .... But people’s free will has to be upheld, and this free will must sincerely want the truth and request it from Me Myself ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

How do you recognize the truth from above? ....

B.D. 8478 from April 25th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

I truly want to bring light to you and therefore also uncover all errors, and you can believe that you will recognize every error if you remain intimately united with Me and only ever desire to know the truth. Then you will also possess the right faculty of judgement, for My word from above guarantees you this, because you should work for Me and on My behalf. Thus I can only send disciples into the world with the mission to proclaim Me and My gospel who possess purest spiritual knowledge themselves, who have received it from Me and who are also able to differentiate between spirits, who are able to separate truth from error and only have the sole will to serve the pure truth. And even if people's maturity of soul differs so that, depending on their maturity, a light can be conveyed to them from Me which shines brighter or weaker .... yet it will never deviate from the truth if I Myself am the source of spiritual knowledge which comes to people unusually. And even if a piece of knowledge is not so extensive it must still be the truth and allow it to be recognized .... But every contradiction must be clearly pointed out as error. People will always err because their intellect is still too active, which My adversary can influence and which he also does because he is an enemy of truth .... Yet precisely for this reason I guide the pure truth down to earth, and you need not fear that the adversary has the upper hand if you seriously want to stand in the truth .... Then it will also be given to you. But you must not forget that the adversary has great power at his disposal in the end and that he truly makes use of it because people themselves grant him this power .... And the battle will be a fierce one which will be waged between light and darkness, and where only one light emerges he is also already prepared to extinguish or dull it by interspersing it with error and time and again finding people whom he can mentally induce to make changes to spiritual knowledge which was originally conveyed to earth by Me. Yet people who only desire the truth will always reject of their own accord that which does not correspond to the truth. Yet forcibly I neither influence My adversary nor the people belonging to him, because I respect the will of the latter but, on the other hand, the sincere will to stand in truth will always protect a person from accepting erroneous spiritual material .... Yet because it is the time of the end, time and again a new source will be opened to you where you can draw purest water of life, and from this you will also be able to easily test whether you are inwardly healthy or whether you feel no effect of strength at all. I will not leave people without help who are inwardly connected to Me and trustingly turn to Me for the supply of truth .... And I enlighten their thinking, I give them the right faculty of judgment, and thus you humans need never ever fear to fall prey to error. And I always give you the touchstone, the act of salvation of Jesus Christ, which will solely be the content of My direct revelations, even if these do not yet convey wisdom to you in all depth if the soul's maturity does not allow it .... Yet if I convey My word to you at all I will always emphasise the act of salvation, because you must have found redemption through Jesus Christ on earth if you want to freely enter the kingdom of the beyond .... This is enough for you to know if you want to check whether divine revelations are conveyed to you or whether the adversary has intervened in order to confuse you, for as soon as you are not given sufficient information about Jesus and His act of salvation he is the one who wants to prevent your redemption, which you can only find through Jesus Christ. And I will always convey this knowledge to you through My spirit about the significance and spiritual reason for the act of salvation, only then will you become enlightened, and only then will you know if and when you are being addressed by Me Myself, and you will no longer be able to fall prey to error .... Therefore examine everything and keep the best, for as soon as you are stimulated into loving activity good spiritual forces are also at work .... because through a life of love you will also be able to recognize error and it can no longer be dangerous for you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Touchstone of divine revelations: Jesus' act of Salvation ....

B.D. 8479 from April 26th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

How far have people distanced themselves from the truth, it is so difficult to introduce them to it because they are still awash with wrong thoughts and unable to let go of them. They accepted everything and made it their spiritual possession which they can hardly get away from. And precisely this wrong thinking, the adherence to error, is the immense spiritual adversity people find themselves up against. No matter how often I correct misguided teachings again, no matter how often I convey the purest truth to Earth, it does not gain acceptance because people's wrong thoughts repeatedly oppose it, because there is no will for the pure truth and everything is deemed to be true which merely seems to be a message from the spiritual kingdom. In addition, especially Jesus' act of Salvation cannot be properly grasped by humanity as yet; they don't know its profound significance and reason and thus concepts developed in due course which no longer correspond to truth but which are not abandoned either .... Time and again I say that the reception of pure truth requires entirely empty vessels which need not be purged from wrong ideas first, but that the pure truth must enter such a vessel entirely unimpeded .... Only then will it be possible to provide a correct explanation, and only then can one speak of the 'transmission of truth through the spirit'. However, for as long as Jesus' act of Salvation is still argued about, as long as there is not complete clarity about the fact that Jesus' soul came to Earth in order to accomplish a work of redemption, a unique act of mercy on behalf of the sins the human race had committed .... as long as people don't know the magnitude of the original sin they are burdened with and that they actually take the path across earth because of it .... they will not fully understand the fact that One has redeemed this immense guilt of sin through His death on the cross .... that they can therefore release themselves from their guilt if they acknowledge Him as the divine Saviour in Whom I manifested Myself as a human being, and the person must take the path to Him of his own free will and appeal to Him for forgiveness .... This free will must be present, otherwise he cannot become redeemed .... Thus, every human being can find forgiveness if only he wants it himself .... And what does 'forgiveness of guilt' mean? It means that it will be completely deleted, that it was paid for by the One Who took the guilt upon Himself .... that the human being will then be completely free and all effects of the offence will be removed, because Jesus, the man, had accepted the effects upon Himself through His immense suffering and the most bitter death on the cross .... Every suffering a human being was able to endure was accepted by Jesus, the man, of His own free will and He truly atoned for the guilt, the atonement He rendered was sufficient for Me in order to wipe out the immense original sin which led to My living creations' fall, as well as to forgive the sins which were committed by the human being in earthly life on account of his state which was burdened by the original sin ....

I Am indeed a God of righteousness and demand restitution for all guilt, for I cannot let any being enter My kingdom of light and bliss until it has been redeemed .... This is why a being's wretched state can last for an infinitely long time depending on its will to accept the blessings of Jesus' act of Salvation .... It will truly have to suffer accordingly, either in the kingdom of the beyond or through a renewed banishment in matter for another infinite time .... However, since Jesus, the man, has accomplished the act of Salvation, every soul which turns to Him, acknowledges Him and avails itself of the blessings of the act of Salvation, will also be redeemed .... And that means that its guilt will have been deleted, that it will be completely free from its guilt and able to enter the kingdom of light .... And if the soul has not found Him on Earth it will still be able to find Him in the realm of the beyond. Redemptive work is constantly carried out on the part of the world of light, the path to Him is pointed out to every soul, everything is done in order to help the wretched beings, and only totally hardened souls will descend ever lower and, at the end of a period of Salvation, can expect to be banished into matter again .... As long as you humans have not recognised the significance of Jesus and His act of Salvation for all spiritual beings which had become sinful, you will not get rid of your guilt either .... But do not believe that you may take the path across this earth for as long and as often as it takes you to come to this realisation .... Why do you cling to this hope that you will be able to catch up on what you neglected to do, or to atone your own sins? You will never be able to atone for the original sin yourselves, even if you lived a thousand lives on earth as a human being .... Because of this alone the pure truth needs to be conveyed to you, for each misguided thought is misleading and you allow it to be followed by constantly more wrong thoughts. You can believe that an enslaved soul also has to put up with enough agonies in the beyond in order to do penance for the sins it committed on earth. But you will never be able to cope with your original sin by yourselves, and as soon as you allow yourselves to be redeemed from it by Jesus Christ .... for which your free will must always impel you .... your earthly guilt will truly also be forgiven, because for this I Myself died on the cross. And believe that I do not convey opposing teachings to the people on Earth .... There is only one truth, and this truth I try to convey to people, and every person who sincerely desires the truth will also recognise it as such, for I will not leave anything unsubstantiated, I will provide you with understandable explanations and instruct you comprehensively so that you will also recognise error if it is offered to you. Time and again I highlight Jesus Christ's act of Salvation only to show you the path you need to take in order to reach your goal. And it is wrong to say that you cannot reach this goal during one life on earth, for Jesus Christ died on the cross precisely for the purpose of enabling you to return to Me in one period of Salvation ....

However, if you ignore the blessings of the act of Salvation, it may well be possible that you will have to take the infinitely long process through the creations again .... Yet I will keep denouncing the misguided teaching that you may return to Earth as often as you like, because it will lead to completely wrong thoughts and because only truth can lead you to the goal ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Distortion of truth ....

B.D. 8480 from April 27th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

I must constantly remind you of the fact that nothing will remain as pure as it originated from Me where it concerns the transfer of My Word from above, because people are still imperfect and therefore do not take sufficient care of that which is extremely precious. And precisely this impels Me time and again anew to convey the pure truth to earth as a countermeasure to My adversary's efforts of consistently undermining the pure truth. However, it is up to you humans which spiritual information you accept; you are not subject to any coercion, neither from My nor My adversary's side, only your own desire for truth is the decisive factor .... You don't realise what gift of grace you receive when I talk to you directly time and again and repeatedly try to cleanse what had become worthless through My adversary's influence because error is being endorsed, because the truth had become interspersed with inaccuracies and thereby rendered the spiritual nourishment impure and harmful to you. You will question how this could have happened. If all people who listen to or take notice of My Word were of the same spirit, it would indeed be impossible for incorrect spiritual knowledge to creep in .... But precisely people's different spiritual state allows for the fact that personal and wrong thoughts are included in the pure truth which emanates down to earth from above .... And it is not sufficiently scrutinised by those who then try to spread the spiritual knowledge .... I Myself cannot infringe upon people's free will, I can only emanate the pure truth to earth, which will also be recognised as such by those with the serious will to know the truth themselves and to only distribute pure truth .... And to these you shall listen, then you will hear Me Myself .... However, I cannot contradict Myself, I cannot teach one thing here and the opposite somewhere else, for the truth from Me forever remains unchangeable, thus your only responsibility is to scrutinise what you want to accept as truth .... I can only ever refer you to the criterion as to whether and what you are taught about Jesus Christ .... I can only ever enlighten you about the reason for your human existence, about the mission of Jesus, the man, and about His acknowledgement as Saviour of the world .... If you take notice of this explanation then the question of what you can acknowledge to be truth and what you may reject as error will answer itself. I don't demand blind faith, I present profound knowledge to you so that you can clearly recognise all correlations.

No unconditional acknowledgement is demanded of you; instead, you should think about it and, at the same time, appeal to Me for spiritual enlightenment and then, truly, everything will become clear and understandable to you, you will comprehend My plan of Salvation and then also know that it can only be like this and not anything else .... For as soon as I instruct you, it will truly take place such that you can understand it, that no gaps remain open for you which might cause you to intertwine misguided thoughts again. Then you will be able to conduct an examination at any time, for all divine revelations must have the same contents, they cannot contradict themselves or the divine source would be questionable. And what is credible to you then will always be determined by your desire for truth, for if you are incapable of completely liberating yourselves from error then you will not be suitable for receiving the pure truth .... In that case misguided teaching will be spread again, yet then you will not be able to claim that you received them from Me .... I only convey the pure truth to you .... The pure truth does not contradict itself, and this pure truth comes to you through the spirit. You are being taught by your indwelling spiritual spark which is in contact with the Father-Spirit of eternity and which knows everything and therefore will only give you pure truth .... You must carefully inspect the origin of all spiritual knowledge and the manner of its transmission. You should not accept and spread something without having scrutinised it if you are not entirely certain that the spiritual knowledge you endorse is absolutely pure. Test everything and keep what is good .... So always accept My divine doctrine of love, for this will never be misguided .... live accordingly, love Me and your neighbour as yourselves, and make an effort to live your life in keeping with My will, and truly, you will soon be spiritually awake and realise whether and when you are offered the truth, for this will make you happy, whereas misguided teachings are only gladly listened to by very immature people who can still be influenced by the adversary .... You humans must make the decision, and your desire for truth must predominate, then you will not run the risk of falling prey to error and you will recognise who is talking to you .... Yet the errors will become ever stronger the closer it is to the end, because My adversary knows that he won't have much time left ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The earnest will to the light is the prerequisite of truth ....

B.D. 8481 from April 28th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

The spiritual confusion is great, but you yourselves must long to get out of it, you yourselves must ask for clear thinking and pure truth. But as long as you yourselves are not willing to do so, you remain in a lightless state because you dwell in the territory of My adversary, who is the lord of darkness and who seeks to extinguish or dim every light. But you will understand all this when you think about the fact that you have voluntarily stepped out of the light, that you have voluntarily given away the light of knowledge, because you turned away from Me, who am the light from eternity. It is therefore impossible that you are in the light and yet are distant from Me ..... You first have to re-establish the connection with Me, which then also surely results in the influx of light and you possess a bright, clear thinking and all connections are now also clear to you, but for which you cannot muster any understanding as long as you stay in dark areas ..... As humans you do not sense the lack of spiritual light, your thinking is filled with earthly material desires, and your striving is solely directed towards the increase of earthly goods ..... But in spirit you are blind, you do not know what you are on earth for and what your God and Creator demands of you, why He grants you the graces of earthly life as a human being ..... But you also don't demand to know anything about it, you are content with the fulfillment of bodily desires and live thoughtlessly into the day, and My opponent uses your spiritual blindness to deepen the darkness more and more. And once questioning thoughts really arise in you, he himself will answer them immediately by confusing your thinking more and more and you will not find out of the darkness of the night to the light of the day because your will is also too weak to seriously find a way out. That it is possible to come out of the darkness only presupposes your serious will to learn something about the meaning and purpose of the existence on earth as a human being ..... For I will strengthen an earnest will and never leave man without an answer, but the first step must irrevocably be taken by you humans yourselves .... For you left Me voluntarily and now also have to return to Me voluntarily. But that I will also help you, of that you can be sure, because I only wait for man to muster this serious will, because then he has already taken the first step, and truly, it will always be easier for him to now also go the way of return to Me. And then also a small light will shine in him, and he will have other thoughts as before, he will desire to know what lies at the basis of his emergence, he will ask again and again: "Why", and again and again an answer will come to him mentally, so that his thinking starts to order itself, and this thinking will now certainly also be directed by Me Myself .... You can truly believe that I pay attention to your innermost thoughts and that no thought is foreign to me, which you move within you, and I also truly use every opportunity to guide your thoughts to what is important for you .... to know about your purpose of life on earth and your task. Because obviously I can only address few people so that also the fellow men gain knowledge of My eternal plan of salvation ..... But I work in every man in such a way that I transfer light thoughts to him and only demand his willingness to accept them .... I cannot determine him to be willing, but he is permanently exposed to the influence of the light beings who look after him, and therefore it is possible for every man to find his way out of the darkness of the spirit, if only he does not openly resist the loving efforts of his spiritual attendants .... In the same way, however, My adversary also works, and he very often finds great willingness, although neither I nor he force the will to open or close itself to My or his streams .... You must be free if you want to become again what you were in the beginning, you must voluntarily let My stream of love flow in and reject the influence of My adversary .... And if you sincerely want it, then you will also receive power and be able to move in the light .... I can help you, but I will not force you, but just as also My opponent cannot force you and therefore the last decision lies with you men. But the light will touch you immensely beneficially if you let it flow into you, and then you will also increase in strength, which I give to every being that only does not reject it .... Escape the darkness and desire light, and you will experience a radiant morning and never ever fall back into darkness, because I Myself then illuminate the way for you, which leads upwards, towards the eternal light .....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Process of the Word-reception ....

B.D. 8482 from April 29th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

You must not grow tired of standing up for the truth, time and again I say this to those who may receive the pure truth from Me, whom I Myself have chosen to serve Me as a vessel into which the outpouring of My spirit can flow .... These are characterised by a plain and simple way of life, by their genuine nature and humble attitude towards the greater than great gift of grace they receive .... For the pure truth cannot endure any unusual side effects .... the recipient of the truth will be just as clear and pure as the truth which originates from Me, even though he need not be a Saint in order to serve Me as a vessel. For only rarely will a person on earth attain the degree of perfection for which he could be called saintly .... But he will be able to show certain prerequisites which allow for My extraordinary working within and in aid of him .... The Word-reception will therefore always take place in a most natural way, without strange signs or happenings, and the person himself will always firmly have his feet on the ground, he will not demonstrate any kind of ecstasies or raptures .... He will simply hear My Word and write it down in order to preserve it for future generations. Anything which appears sober and clear to other people's eyes is also suitable to appeal to those who are still living in the midst of the world, and especially these shall be persuaded to turn their eyes to spiritual spheres. They gladly dismiss everything of a psychic nature but they must nevertheless form an opinion about that which is offered to them in this way .... because they will have to acknowledge an extraordinary power since the results stand up to firm scrutiny. And anyone who is seriously willing to examine will truly feel a great spiritual blessing, for he himself comes subsequently in possession of the most delectable that can be offered to him on earth: he comes into possession of the truth, which can only come forth from Me as the Eternal Truth .... And although this natural process only finds little credence despite its explanation, it does not exclude the fact that many people pay attention to spiritual transmissions which exhibit unusual side-effects, thus they look for and allow themselves to be deluded by a framework whose brilliance intends to obscure the poor quality of content .... However, only the content is important, and in order to convey the pure truth to earth, which is the most delectable content of a vessel, I chose the most insignificant vessels.

Nevertheless, one prerequisite has to be in place: a strong will, for they must defend the spiritual knowledge against My adversary's every onslaught and therefore they have to be so devoted to Me that they will constantly receive My strength as to be able to cope with their task. And since an ability of judgment is simultaneously conveyed to them with the truth they will always be capable of recognising misguided teachings and of confronting them with the pure truth .... And only like this is it possible to spread true spiritual knowledge on earth, which originated from Me directly .... The fact that My adversary tries to be equally active during the last days before the end means that he is also grooming vessels for himself by encouraging people to listen to spiritual influences sent to them from the psychic world and that he tries to gain these people by disguising himself as an angel of light, by making people feel secure in the belief that they are being addressed from the highest spheres. It would not be a danger for the souls of fellow human beings of good will as long as they are prepared to accept good advice .... Yet his only intention is to prevent people from handing themselves over to Jesus, Who alone can bring salvation for their souls .... He wants to stop people from releasing themselves from their immense guilt of sin, and no means is too evil for him to achieve his aim, hence he will also avail himself of My Words in order to mislead people and to be believed by them .... He will stop at nothing, and it requires immense love for Me and one's neighbour that his activity will remain without influence on a person .... And this requires My countermeasure again by prompting My bearers of light to step forward with the truth and to provide clarification wherever possible so that people will not fall prey to error, so that they will not get caught in his nets of lies .... so that they will not bypass Jesus Christ, Who alone is Saviour and Redeemer of humanity and Who has to be called upon for forgiveness of sin, so that earthly life is not lived in vain and the human being will still find redemption on earth .... Time and again the significance of the knowledge about Jesus and His act of Salvation has to be presented to you, and this can only be accomplish by the pure truth which is directly conveyed to earth by Me. It is, in fact, a light bearer's most important task to inform the human race of this and to do everything in his power to spread the truth .... And everything will be done by Me, too, in order to support your work for Me and My kingdom .... For humanity still lives in profound darkness and bright light shall be given to those who desire it, who long for Me and the truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Purpose and meaning of the revelations .... Signs of Truth ....

B.D. 8483 from April 30th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

You will be given spiritual knowledge which your soul needs to mature on this earth. And thus My gospel of love will be preached to you first and foremost, which you now also have to live out in order to feel the effect, because love is the first thing and no spiritual progress can be achieved without love. Only love will open up your understanding for the knowledge I want to impart to you so that you will recognize My nature and then also learn to love Me .... For you are completely darkened in spirit when you start earthly life as a human being, you first have to be slowly guided to the light, and the light has to be brought to you by light bearers who are inwardly enlightened and thus able to instruct you truthfully .... And I take care of your enlightenment because I want your earthly life to bring you the success for which your soul is embodied as a human being. I know best what knowledge you need on earth, and I also supply it to you. I also know how much error there is in the world and how this error has to be countered .... I know that My adversary also exerts his influence on you and therefore I offer you My help so that you can survive the battle against him .... And thus I also give you knowledge about him and his activity, I give you knowledge about the reason for your humanity and show you the right path you have to take in order to reach the final goal of re-establishing the union with Me which you once voluntarily severed .... You should know why you are on earth and then also adjust your life according to this knowledge .... This is the purpose and meaning of My everlasting revelations, for I alone can impart knowledge to you which entirely corresponds to the truth, because I am the beginning and the end .... and because you came forth from Me and shall return to Me again in order to remain with Me forever. And I say to you that you can abide by what I convey to you by way of revelation with all certainty, for it originates from the Eternal Truth and can only be purest truth. And if you raise the objection that the revelations do not correspond and that you cannot know which revelations are genuine, i.e. which originated from Me, I can only ever reply that you need only have the firm will to recognize the pure truth and that you should ask Me Myself with all your heart to let you recognize it .... And you will definitely gain the inner conviction that I Myself address you when you receive a revelation from Me, whereas you will remain inwardly untouched by spiritual knowledge which did not originate from Me .... It always depends on yourselves, on your degree of desire for truth, that you also have the right realisation, for anyone who only accepts spiritual knowledge indifferently will remain unimpressed by whatever is presented to him .... And he will also be unable to make a decision between truth and error. And time and again a person's degree of love will be decisive as to whether he is impressed by the truth, whether he feels touched by it .... For this reason My teaching of love is repeatedly emphasised first, and as soon as this is merely followed a person's thinking will already be enlightened to such an extent that he will be able to recognize what is truth and what is error .... And I also give a second recognition sign of pure truth: the presentation of Jesus Christ's act of salvation .... its justification and its effect .... If you humans are without knowledge about it, your earthly existence will not lead you to the goal, and therefore I give you a right clarification through My revelations. But if spiritual transmissions leave gaps so that people cannot grasp the depth of the divine act of mercy, then they are not 'divine' revelations .... For since I know that Jesus Christ is the only salvation for the once fallen spiritual being, that He is the only path which leads to the goal, to Me, I will give you a truthful clarification precisely about this in order to induce people to entrust themselves to Him, to appeal to Him for strengthening of will and for forgiveness of your guilt .... For this forgiveness opens the gate to the kingdom of light for you humans. And therefore you can always use the presentation (emphasis) of the act of salvation and its profound spiritual reasoning as a touchstone, and then you will also certainly recognize and accept a genuine revelation, whereas you will not allow yourselves to be impressed by wrong spiritual knowledge but reject it if My adversary tries to consider you in the same way, so that he will cause confusion amongst people. Not much time will pass anymore and then his activity will be put to an end .... But the time until then demands a serious battle from you which, however, you will pass with My help .... For your bond with Me alone secures you clear knowledge and My protection and support, which you can request at any time .... And never will such a prayer be in vain as soon as it is sent to Me in spirit and in truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Activity of demonic powers disguised as angels of light ....

B.D. 8484 from May 1st 1963, taken from Book No. 89

You shall be fighters for Me and My kingdom, and thus you will also have to stand up to My adversary's onslaught .... But you will not fight alone, you will have Me as your commander and truly, I will lead you to victory, for he will be unable to bring you down since you fight with My strength and as My messengers. My might is certainly superior, you just have to utterly and completely entrust yourselves to Me to come into full possession of strength when you need to resist him. Thus you need not be at all afraid, no matter what form his approach takes. He hides himself behind many disguises and will always try to scare My Own, but he will not succeed when I Am asked for protection.

But you should know that I do not speak with two tongues .... I will not give one person this and another person a different teaching and explanation, and thus two masters have to be at work where conflicting spiritual teachings occur .... But I know every person's heart, I know his attitude towards Me, His eternal God and Creator, and I therefore also take possession of the heart which completely entrusts itself to Me, and guide the person on all his journeys through life .... If you could see to what extent My adversary's kingdom has spread and with what weapons he fights in order to gain supreme control during the last days, it would no longer surprise you that so much wickedness reveals itself and that the dark world fights the pure truth in every possible way. I can only ever tell you to trust Me by completely handing yourselves over to Me and allowing Me to take care of you ....

And do not let satanic activities deter you .... For I will prove to you that My might is greater and will show him his limitations too when the time has come .... You should believe that there are also strong connections between the spiritual realm and earth and that the adversary is particularly busy due to disguising himself as the brightest being of light, which he is able to do because the state of each person's soul itself gives him the power for it. You don't know these demonic forces who will do anything during the last days in order to pull people into ruin .... But anyone who stays close to Me truly will not need to fear these forces .... even if they tried everything to worry the soul which is devoted to Me .... Many bad spirits are also embodied on earth during the last days who serve their master as messengers from hell and cause much spiritual harm .... They, too, are granted freedom, for they also could find salvation from an eternally long state of torment if they would accept salvation from Jesus Christ during their earthly life ....

These are demon-possessed souls whose time of embodiment as human beings has come, but who are still wholly satanically minded and do not stop their resistance, they are still totally subject to the adversary's influence and are fine accomplices to him. They believe to spread light but constantly try to extinguish it. They are in profound darkness and cannot escape from it .... and yet they have to travel their earthly path with freedom of will, which can just as well bring them salvation .... These demonic spirits will also try to mislead everyone who voluntarily belongs to Me .... But I Myself will always stand between them and you, for they don't like Me and take flight to avoid the light .... Therefore you need not fear them; nothing can harm you as long as you entrust yourselves to Me, and My increased flow of strength will enable you to fend off every onslaught. You may not be touched by them because I Myself will protect you from every harm and danger and because you work for Me and therefore can also always rely on My help ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Doubts about end prophecies ....

B.D. 8485 from May 2nd 1963, taken from Book No. 89

One redemption period has expired and a new one begins .... And whatever can still be done to save souls from the end, to spare them the path through the creations of the new earth, that will truly still be done, for all good forces in the spiritual kingdom and also on earth make it their business to help the souls to reach the goal before the end. But the fact that the end of this earth has come is irrevocable, after all, the day of the end has been fixed in My plan of salvation since eternity, and it will also be kept. But what such an end of a period of salvation means cannot be described to you in words, for it is a process which is incomprehensible to all of you humans .... that everything you now still see around you ceases to exist .... that an end has come for everything, be it living creations or other creations, and that therefore humanity will also fall to the lot which corresponds to the satanic state. All these references to the end find little credence because it is simply inconceivable to people and because they cannot look back on anything similar to consider it credible. Yet everything unwinds according to My eternal plan of salvation, for I foresaw from eternity the spiritual state people are in and that there is no other possibility left to promote the further development of everything spiritual. Everything has to progress upwards, and therefore new opportunities have to be created for the still bound spiritual to mature .... The act of transformation on earth is therefore an immense blessing for this spiritual substance, for it enters a new stage of its development when it is released from hardest matter and enters less hard deformations where it can mature more quickly than before .... But the souls of people who failed in earthly life are severely affected, for they experience a complete dissolution again and are banished anew into hard matter in order to start the course of ascent development again in endless agony and bondage. And in order to save what can still be saved before the end, everything is truly being done, and a work of redemption is underway, both in the spiritual kingdom as well as on earth, which could have great success if the human being himself did not determine the success through his will ..... He cannot be forced to believe in an end of this earth, yet the mere belief in it would cause him to change, and then he could truly still mature so far in the short time that he would be saved from a new banishment .... But people lack faith, and whether they are repeatedly reminded of the seriousness of the time, whether the purpose of existence is repeatedly explained to them .... The time set for this period is coming to an end, and a completely new earth will arise after the destruction of the old earth, which again offers countless possibilities to the spiritual, which has not yet reached its goal. For I hold fast to My plan of salvation because My resolutions are unchangeable. And therefore you humans are not able to prevent Me from doing so, you are not able to change My will when it concerns the very plan of salvation which I reveal to you humans because of the imminent end and let you see so that everything is understandable to you and you shall only ever learn to recognize My infinite love as the reason .... And this love would truly be small if I wanted to comply with your wishes and requests and depart from that plan, which, however, is not possible in eternity, that I would reject and change decisions once taken .... But I will hear all requests which you humans send in love for your fellow human beings for their salvation, and therefore the serious request goes out to you who believe and are not entirely without love: Remember all unbelievers and pray for them so that they may escape the dreadful fate of new banishment .... Take care of those whom you know are unable to believe and pray for them, that they may be enlightened in spirit, that bright thoughts may come to them which they will take up and that they may change their mind .... You should only give them a small impulse and wish that it will not remain unsuccessful, and your love for these wretched people will truly have an effect and bring about a change of heart in them. And this, too, is redemptive work which you can all do and which can still save souls from the end .... For I am truly a merciful God, and I value every kind thought which applies to such souls and help so that I can still reap a rich harvest before the end comes.

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Jesus' life before His teaching ministry ....

B.D. 8486 from May 3rd 1963, taken from Book No. 89

I will always educate you in all truthfulness, as soon as you desire it .... And I will also always answer the questions that arise in you, because you only desire the answer for the sake of truth .... that is, you would like clarity where various opinions prevail .... If I give you the instruction to spread the truth, you shall also always receive an explanation, no matter what it is: The earthly path of Jesus, the man, can no longer be verified, only by spiritual means can you humans be informed as to how and where Jesus spent the years which preceded His actual work as a teacher .... Even so, it is certain that he lived a very simple life with His family and that He always remained reticent even within the circle of people who frequented His parent's house.

He kept away from all festivities, as well as larger gatherings; He always kept Himself to Himself and inwardly matured as a result of His exceptionally helpful attitude towards His needy fellow human beings .... For His heart was full of love and this love increased His wisdom, knowledge revealed itself to Him so that He clearly recognised everything .... even though in the beginning this inner light came to Him in a flash only to withdraw again for a while, and then He spoke and thought like everyone else again, yet in His knowledge He was far more advanced than His contemporaries. However, He refused to accept instructions from people ....

You humans may well believe that love is the best teacher and that someone .... who correctly develops his love .... will gain inner knowledge which can never be offered to him so comprehensively by another person .... You should know that Jesus' soul had come from the kingdom of light, that it had indeed forfeited the light during its life on earth but not the love within itself because, as a purest being of light it was illuminated by My eternal Fatherly love .... As a human being the light of love could not shine in abundance, because His fellowmen would have been unable to endure it, yet in Jesus the man it glowed on and revealed to Him all knowledge, on account of which He soon recognised humanity's immense hardship and His mission and consciously prepared Himself for this ....

But you also know that He already preached in the temple as a boy .... that He gave answers to the scribes which took them aback .... Thus it testifies to the fact that He already possessed knowledge as a boy which He was not taught by people but which was caused by the bright flame within Him .... His love grew ever stronger and thus His wisdom increased .... and the Pharisees and scribes already treated Him with hostility because He wouldn't allow Himself to be taught by them, instead He stayed away from every school ....

No records survived for future generations about the time between His sermon in the Temple and the beginning of His actual ministry, and therefore many different assumptions and descriptions are being advocated, as worked out by human intellect .... The reason why no records exist is because Jesus' life proceeded quietly in His parental house, because He seemed to have lost all divine abilities during this time, He stepped out of public view and led a very secluded life and, as a carpenter's son, also worked in His profession as such .... Nothing extraordinary happened to Him, for during these years Jesus had to mature as a 'human being' because He wanted to exemplify to people the way of life which leads to full maturity, to perfection ....

Throughout this time His life was quiet, He did not possess any remarkable abilities, in fact, He gave the impression of a simple-minded person, because He withdrew from all people and only ever gave short answers and even the usual worldly knowledge seemed unfamiliar to Him .... Most of all He avoided contact with those who belonged to the Temple and whose task it should have been to provide spiritual guidance to people .... And so, soon there was no-one in His environment .... not even His close relatives .... who were still convinced that the once so extraordinary child had a divine mission ....

This time of Jesus' life on earth had been especially grievous, for what was no longer externally visible was nevertheless deeply hidden within, it is just that Jesus had to deal with it Himself, He had to come to terms with everything as a human being, He had to fight as a man against all inner cravings and passions which besieged His body just like all other people .... He had to suffer and fight and mature through being of service .... For by virtue of His love, which emanates wisdom, He soon realised all correlations and He knew that He Himself first needed to attain the degree of maturity which would enable Him to accomplish His mission ....

And He covered this process of development in silence and solitude as a plain carpenter's son .... Who did not leave His hometown, Who often merely looked for solitude for the purpose of attaining inner maturity by withdrawing into remote regions, by climbing hills and frequently staying alone for days, only in contact with His God and Father and remaining in prayer for strength and fortitude for that which was ahead of Him, which He often saw before His eyes in great detail and which plunged Him into dreadful states of fear. During these times He turned to Me in search of help .... And I was with My Son, I gave Him strength and granted Him increasingly brighter realisation, so that He time and again offered Himself to complete the work which was intended to bring humanity salvation from sins and death ....

However, the notion that the man Jesus acquired more profound knowledge through association with philosophers and teachers in foreign countries is completely misguided .... Who else could possibly have taught Jesus better than I Myself .... But I Myself dwelled in Jesus, the human being, as a result of His boundless love .... It is an absolutely absurd idea that Jesus would have needed instructions from another person .... in order to then be able to undertake His teaching ministry on earth in His country of origin .... If you humans have proof that I Myself convey the truth to earth providing specific preconditions exist .... how much sooner was Jesus therefore able to be taught by Me directly, after all, His love and total devotion to Me surpassed all of you .... Only someone who has no idea as yet about the consequences of a life of love, can make such allegations that Jesus had acquired the knowledge in other countries in order to appear as a teacher, that He had to visit other people in order to study their doctrines ....

That which I evidently allow to happen to a simple earthly child: that I convey to it through the spirit the pure truth from above, you humans must truly grant the man Jesus as well, Who descended to earth in order to let Me Myself speak through Him to you, Who really did not need any teachers, instead, He accepted the most profound wisdom from Me directly and through these instructions became suitable to teach and to impart the pure truth to His fellow human beings .... And now you can also accept these very Words of Mine as purest truth, after all, it is My will that you should not live in error and that you shall receive an explanation where you yourselves are still lacking knowledge.

Most of all, it concerns the fact that you humans gain a clear impression as to Who Jesus essentially was and why He came into the world and grew up in the humblest and poorest circumstances .... For although He was as human as anyone else, He nevertheless proved to people that every person can develop the highest spiritual abilities in himself and that the knowledge He possessed and imparted to people came from within Himself .... but that He never had the need to be educated by others or to take notice of doctrines, since everything was, after all, known to Him, otherwise He would not have attained the highest perfection on earth which resulted in complete unity with Me, so that He became as One with Me .... in Whom I Myself became a human being in order to redeem you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

False Christs and prophets ....

B.D. 8487 from May 4th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

Beware of false Christs and false prophets .... I warned you about those when I lived on earth because I knew of My adversary's activities, of his snares and unscrupulous machinations whereby he tries to pull you humans into ruin. He is using all means, and this especially during the last days in order to increase the darkness in which humanity languishes. There will be people everywhere who claim to be knowing and initiated into the secrets of creation, who demand people's recognition and faith in their spiritual experiences and who are but My adversary's tools, because they support and spread spiritual knowledge which completely contradicts the truth. False Christs and false prophets will appear in large numbers .... They will all wear the cloak of divine messengers, they will all claim to possess knowledge and to be in contact with the highest representatives .... They will pretend to be messengers of light and yet walk in profound darkness themselves, and therefore they will only ever spread darkness amongst their fellow human beings. They cannot emanate light because they don't possess light themselves, yet their mannerisms are so self-assured that people do not dare doubt the divine mission of those who, nevertheless, in reality work for My adversary. But only people who live in truth themselves will be able to recognise this and they, in turn, will be described by them to be false prophets .... And it will be difficult to convince oneself of the true prophets' divine mission, yet it is not impossible .... The fact that true prophets exist is proven by My warning against false prophets ....

However, you need only ever seriously desire not to fall prey to the latter and truly, you will also know whom to turn to. For My messengers will bring you a message which will touch your soul in a comforting and helpful way, which will affect you like a nourishing meal and refreshing drink, which you will continue to desire and thereby become noticeably strengthened for your earthly life's path. Whereas the alleged knowledge conveyed to you by wrong teachings cannot convince you of the truth and does not result in any illumination or stimulation of your soul .... It is and remains barren knowledge which you will find barely credible and of little use to you. It is more likely to cause you dread and fear because you are unable to detect a loving God therein, Who behaves like a Father with His child. False prophets will never be able to offer people pure truth, and the adversary's only intentions are to undermine the truth, to entangle people in error. His most eager endeavour consists of withholding from people the truth about Jesus Christ and His act of Salvation, about God's human manifestation in Jesus, or to confuse their thoughts such that they won't take the path to the cross and thereby their earthly path remains unsuccessful for their souls .... And no means is too evil for him to use, because Jesus defeated him through His crucifixion, and he is trying to regain the fruits of His victory again .... Souls who turn to Jesus are lost to him; consequently he will try to give an entirely wrong description of Jesus so that they do not see any reason why they should take the path to the cross. The truthful portrayal of the act of Salvation also has a redeeming effect, and this means that My adversary will lose his followers, what he tries to prevent by cunning and trickery. And you humans can truly and easily recognise every false prophet yourselves by the fact that he withholds the knowledge of the Salvation through Jesus Christ from you, and thus you are entitled to dismiss him as a 'false prophet' .... And especially during the last days you can notice increasingly more often that most diverse descriptions of spiritual subjects are given by those who present themselves as prophets of truth. Yet in one instance they all agree, that the salvation through Jesus Christ .... the sacrifice on the cross by the man Jesus to redeem the immense guilt of sin .... is doubtful, because the belief in this signifies a loss of followers for My adversary and he does not want to lose them ....

Jesus Christ has been argued about for centuries, because time and again false prophets arose who had already proven their affiliation to My adversary and were influenced by him to act against Jesus .... Although they were unable to completely dispute the earthly life of the man Jesus and thereby remove the knowledge of him entirely, the real purpose of His earthly existence .... His redeeming mission .... was repeatedly portrayed as a misguided teaching which removed people's hope of ever being released from their guilt of sin unless they themselves made

Amends .... unless they thus believed these false prophets. Yet no human being will ever be able to release himself from his immense guilt of sin without the help of Jesus Christ; no human being will ever succeed in perfecting himself by his own strength without Jesus Christ, because the original sin absolutely prevents this .... Hence 'self-redemption' is impossible, irrespective of how sincerely it is aspired to, because the human being's will is too weak and would fail time and again .... Regardless of how you are instructed .... if Jesus Christ is not portrayed as the Son of God and Saviour of the world, in Whom I embodied Myself, you are not taught the complete truth, and you will not become eternally free, since only truth will set you free. And I Myself transmit this truth to you, I Myself, your God and Creator of eternity, the greatest and most perfect Spirit in infinity .... I transmit the revelations to you directly and guide you into truth, because I want to give you the light of awareness again, which you once gave away voluntarily and which will be returned to you providing you willingly accept it, providing you let yourselves be taught by Me and surrender to Me with love, thus also fulfilling My will .... providing you change yourselves to love and accept your original nature again in which you were happy beyond description. Only One can promise all this to you, and only One can help you to achieve it, and this One is Jesus, Who is completely merged with Me, thus He and I are one .... God from eternity to eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Statement on mental and literal address ....

B.D. 8488 from May 5th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

How often have you already been informed of the fact that I speak to all children who desire to hear Me, and that their thoughts will therefore also move in truth if they only ever intimately unite with Me. And thus what they say in order to communicate with their fellow human beings will also be correct .... it will not go against My will, for an earthly child devoted to Me is now also guided by Me and therefore cannot move in wrong thoughts either. And then this will be expressed in constant admonitions to love, in the effort to also induce fellow human beings to live a life of love, and this will always correspond to My will. Therefore you need not take offence at such words either which only ever refer to love for Me and for the neighbour. The thought of this is not wrong, it is a mental spiritual good which originates from Me and therefore also has to be good, for an earthly child which completely hands itself over to Me will also be permeated by My love and will want to radiate this love to its fellow human beings again .... This must be recognized and acknowledged, and thus such a person cannot be portrayed as a false prophet as soon as it concerns the spreading of My divine teaching of love .... A mental influence on My part cannot be denied .... However, a word transmission on My part may not always be assumed, because such a transmission requires very special prerequisites. A word transmission would exclude all error, and once a person has fulfilled the conditions which enable a word transmission directly from Me, then the form of My address will also let Me Myself be recognized, for then a person's degree of education or knowledge will no longer be decisive, because My word radiates in all perfection, irrespective of a person's nature and circumstances .... Then a direct word reception from Me can no longer be denied, because the human being as such did not possess knowledge which is now offered to him in a simple but perfectly formed way. The thinking of an earthly child devoted to Me is certainly quite guided by Me .... but it will always express its thoughts in its own way of speaking, which, however, can also be a blessing for fellow human beings and is often more readily accepted than My word, which originates directly from Me. But believe it, where I express Myself in direct speech I also want to be recognized as the giver Who is supremely perfect and to Whom everything is possible ....

And therefore I speak in direct form through simple, plain earthly children who allow such direct address and have been chosen by Me as mediators between Me and people, for these have no special talent for the form and language I use when I reveal Myself. Their human abilities and knowledge are far surpassed by the nature and content of what I convey through them to earth .... For a perfect being shall be recognized as the outcome of what people shall accept and what is offered to them as a special gift of grace, so that the truth of these proclamations need not be doubted either .... For only pure truth is conveyed from Me to earth. I have to point this out so clearly because erroneous views can only slip in and have also set in (which has also happened) where a certain spiritual arrogance has revived the belief in high pre-embodiments .... precisely because only mental objections leave open the possibility that other thoughts will also creep in, because the human being is constantly exposed to temptations .... And the fact that the adversary is also interested in confusing people whose will is good and turned towards Me is only intended to remind you to be extremely cautious, to be deeply humble and to be ever more intimately attached to Me, Who alone can protect you against his attacks .... Yet I Myself am never the source of misguided teachings, and I have already explained many times that and why even the beings of light which have descended to earth know nothing of their pre-embodiment .... And time and again I will point out that you are misled in your thoughts to assume certain pre-embodiments, and from this you must also recognize that it cannot be a direct address on My part, otherwise I would contradict Myself, which eternally cannot be. You will receive the richest blessings if you dedicate yourselves to serving Me with love and encourage your fellow human beings to live a life of love, to pray for them with intercessory love so that the great spiritual hardship will be remedied .... I bless you who are therefore active for Me and My kingdom and always request My support for this .... Much blessing will accrue to you, for I value your will to serve Me .... yet the pure truth must also always be requested, and then no erroneous thoughts will be able to creep into you either .... You will enjoy My protection in every way, for I am pleased with every faithful servant who willingly carries out the work in the vineyard of the Lord ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Battles for souls .... Counterpole ....

B.D. 8489 from May 6th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

As long as My adversary serves Me as an antipole, his activity will also come to light openly, for he has the right to influence people's will because they once followed him voluntarily when he strayed from Me into the abyss .... So these creatures belong to him but they now have the right of free decision from Me in the stage as a human being .... The human being's will shall consciously turn towards Me or towards him. And therefore this will is also influenced from both sides .... from the side of light and from the side of darkness .... And this free decision will always mean a fight, for My adversary is driven by hatred .... He does not fight for the fallen one‘s possession out of love for him, but he is only driven by hatred towards Me and also towards everything created which he does not want to let attain bliss .... And in his hatred he uses the most despicable means, and therefore the human being's path through earthly life is not a state of bliss, peace and harmony but a constant battle against the adversary if the human being wants to become free from him and return to Me .... And this state can only improve if the human being makes an effort to live a life of love, for then he will already come into harmony with himself, he will establish contact with Me as the Eternal Love and he will become powerful, for love is strength .... And where love is, there the adversary's activity is restricted, for love is the only weapon he succumbs to .... He flees love, for love is divine, and it spreads light which he shuns .... And thus the human being himself is always decisive as to whether I or My adversary is victorious over the soul, for where love is there I am Myself .... Where love has grown cold My adversary has dominion, and these souls belong to him. It would truly be victory on My side if the battle only took place between the adversary and Me, yet the outcome is decided by the human being .... And that is why you humans bear such great responsibility for your earthly change. I Myself cannot render the adversary harmless because it is his right to fight over you, who are still in his possession as long as you do not voluntarily try to detach yourselves from him, but the strength to do so is certainly at your disposal. You just have to request it from Me in prayer or acquire the strength yourselves through loving activity. Love binds you together with Me and I Myself can then defend the adversary if he approaches you and wants to tempt you .... Your earthly life can truly remain without struggle if you let love flare up in you and thus serve with love, by which you safely detach yourselves from the enemy of your souls .... For every service of love brings you strength from Me which is easily able to push the adversary away. Then your earthly life will not be so difficult either, for anyone who serves with love will need to fight less, because the adversary will become weak in the face of love and his oppressions will become ever less .... And then, by working with love, you will also have expressed your devotion to Me, then you will have decided the battle yourselves and your soul will have voluntarily turned to Me, My adversary will have to give it up because I will not let My living creation, which voluntarily returned to Me, be snatched away from Me. This is why humanity can only experience a peaceful time when it makes it impossible for the adversary to work through a way of life which completely corresponds to My will: a way of life in love, which is also a way of life in divine order ..... And this will always be the case at the beginning of a redemption period when the earth is inhabited by people who have passed their earthly test of life, who resisted all My adversary's temptations and are in a paradisiacal state again .... whereas before, at the end of a redemption period, My adversary has overwhelming power which people themselves grant him through their loveless way of life .... And because everything is out of order as a result, because all upward development of the spiritual is prevented, an end has to come, divine order has to be restored, people have to be separated from each other, the earth has to be cleansed and arise anew in order to continue to serve as a training station for the spiritual being on its way of return to Me .... And love is the only way to still reach Me in this last time, to free oneself from the fetters of My adversary in order to be allowed to start a new life again in harmony and bliss on the new earth .... For where love is, there I Myself am also, and I truly also bring you peace ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Overcoming the world ....

B.D. 8490 from May 7th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

Anyone who loves the world still belongs to My adversary, for the earthly world is his kingdom where he rules and reigns. All desiring thoughts which apply to the world's goods are whispered into your ear by him, and therefore you will hardly accept the guidance of light beings' thoughts which try to direct you towards spiritual things and would like to induce you to turn away from this world's goods, to recognize them as transient and to strive for imperishable goods. But you have to go through this world in order to overcome matter, for you shall become free from it, you shall leave earth as spiritualised, for this is your goal. My help for you now consists of the fact that I repeatedly make you aware of the transience of earthly goods, that I often also take from you that to which your heart is particularly attached, not in order to inflict suffering on you as a result, but through such suffering you shall come to the right realisation: that everything passes away, that everything has no value for eternity .... Only when you learn to recognize the true value or unvalue of material goods will you detach your heart from them and strive for more valuable possessions which remain with you and which you can take over into the kingdom of the beyond. Yet you lack one thing and therefore only think purely earthly .... That is the belief in a continuation of life after the death of your body. Only your earthly body can die, precisely because it is matter, but what animates the body .... the soul .... cannot die, it can only leave your material shell, and then it can be poor or rich when it enters the kingdom of the beyond. And you yourselves prepare this lot for your soul during earthly life. Its purely earthly attitude puts the soul into an extremely miserable state which it will one day feel bitterly and ruefully remember the unused earthly time as soon as it has a small glimmer of realisation. But in earthly life you can also gather riches for the soul if you learn to overcome earthly matter and think of the soul spiritually, if you direct your thoughts into the spiritual kingdom, which is your true home. And believe it, you will easily and joyfully leave this earth when the hour of your departure has come; matter will not hold you back and you will gladly detach yourselves from everything that belongs to earth. And because a far more beautiful life then awaits you I am only ever concerned to make you overcomers of the earthly world and its goods, to help you recognize their worthlessness and to free you from things to which you chain your heart and which nevertheless can easily signify a danger for you, that you forget your spiritual striving over them, that you still pay the tribute to My adversary which he demands from you. Earthly life is short but the whole of eternity lies ahead of you, and you can easily forfeit a glorious life in eternity for the sake of this short earthly lifetime because you misjudge earthly goods, because you attach a value to them which they do not possess. And thus you have an explanation why fate sometimes hits you hard by taking what you love, be it people or earthly possessions, because I only want to direct your thoughts to spiritual things which will compensate you a thousand fold for earthly losses and for earthly suffering of all kinds. Everything is a blessing if it is able to detach your senses from worldly possessions, and I will truly reward you abundantly with spiritual possessions for every voluntary renunciation, and one day you will be very grateful to Me that I helped you to become free from material desires and cravings and that you were able to enter the spiritual kingdom unencumbered by such .... Everything that belongs to the world is still an obstacle on the path to Me, therefore you should overcome such obstacles and cast off all desire in order to be able to enter your true home freely and light-heartedly in order to be allowed to be eternally blissful there, as is your destiny ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Feeding souls with the right food ....

B.D. 8491 from May 9th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

Your soul must constantly receive the bread of heaven, it must draw the living water from the spring if it wants to recover and mature, for it needs nourishing food and a revitalising drink .... And I am always ready to give it this nourishment if only you come to My table to take supper with Me, if only you always find yourselves where I offer you food and drink .... if you listen to Me as I speak to you. And My gifts will never be sparse but you may take in abundance what My fatherly love offers you .... For you must not let your soul go hungry and only think of your body, for it is transient but the soul is everlasting, and therefore its condition shall be improved as long as you live on earth. And when I Myself give you food and drink it means that I Myself speak to you, that you listen to My word which teaches you love .... And if you now follow My word so that you are not only hearers but doers, then your soul will revive, it will mature and reach perfection for the purpose of which it lives on earth as a human being. But how do you want to fulfil your earthly task if you only pay attention to what serves your body's well-being .... you only live in the world and completely neglect your spiritual task ....? Your soul will leave the body in the same state as it entered it, it will enter the kingdom of the beyond miserable and meagre, for it had to live in want during its earthly life and was therefore unable to mature. It was deprived of nourishment, it never came to My table to be fed and watered by Me, it passed by all gifts of grace without making use of them, and one day it will bitterly regret this .... Yet I cannot force you humans, I can only instruct you and ensure that you take notice of My word, that you hear My address one day, that the great gift of grace is offered to you one day, which you now only need to use .... Your pilgrimage is long and you will often sink down on the path without strength and long for proper refreshment and then you should also give it to your soul, and truly, you will continue your earthly path strengthened and time and again go to the spring in order to strengthen and refresh yourselves anew .... And once you have been My guests, whom I Myself was able to feed with My word, with the true bread of heaven, you will soon no longer enjoy any other food, for you will feel the benefit of food which your soul needs and never want to miss it. And then you will no longer need to worry that you will not be able to fulfil your earthly task. For you will be powerful and comply with My will, your soul will constantly join Me more and more, and in the heartfelt bond it will receive ever more strength, it will completely transform itself into love and become again what it was in the beginning: a divine being which, in full possession of light and strength and freedom, can work and create in My kingdom .... And therefore you humans should always abide by My word, you should desire to hear Me and open your ears and hearts so that I can give you what you need .... For My word is the right nourishment which comes from heaven, without which your soul can never recover, for it is still weak and imperfect at the beginning of its embodiment as a human being, and it shall mature and perfect itself during earthly life. And where I Myself now open up a spring from which the living water .... My word .... flows out, there the soul can and will also be able to refresh itself at any time. For this spring is still pure and clean, the water of life is not yet exposed to contamination, it flows brightly and clearly and has a revitalising effect on the soul which refreshes itself from it. And if you humans receive My word directly you need not fear any contamination either, you will receive knowledge from Me in utmost truth which signifies light for you, which breaks through the darkness in which you humans live like a ray as long as you don't let Me kindle such a light for you. Do not walk in the night but seek to reach the light of day .... Do not accept all kinds of food but let yourselves be fed and watered by Me Myself, and do not shy away from the path to the source if you want to be sure to receive unadulterated spiritual knowledge which is truth because it originates from Me Myself .... And truly, your earthly path will not be an idle one, you will strive towards the goal and also come ever closer to it, for I Myself call you to My table, I invite you as My guests to take supper with Me, and I will truly offer you the right food and the right drink, I will nourish your souls so that they need not starve ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

With God no thing is impossible ....

B.D. 8492 from May 10th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

As long as your faith is not yet rock solid I can only ever work on you within the framework of the natural, that is, I cannot let anything unusual happen which would now force you to believe .... And therefore I often hold back although everything is possible for Me and there is nothing I cannot remedy. The faith in you must be so strong that you will not let the slightest doubt arise in you, then even an unusual working on you will no longer harm you, you will only feel an ever deeper love for Me .... I can do anything, nothing is impossible for My might, and I also want to make you, My children, happy and grant your requests if only you present them to Me with complete trust and let go of all doubt in you about My love or My might. Yet there will always be a small doubt in your hearts unless you are so deeply united with Me through love that all doubt is eliminated .... But I also know what serves you, and therefore you should surrender to Me and My will, and truly, I will reward you for your devotion .... And you will praise and glorify Me and serve Me on earth already and one day in eternity. Everything you encounter during your earthly life has been planned from eternity, for I have also known about your spiritual development since eternity and constantly seek to increase and promote it. And I often have to use the strangest means, for it not only concerns your own soul but also that of your fellow human beings who surround you and always one person shall mature in the other .... And thus they, too, must not be forced into faith, instead, they, too, must first have matured to such an extent that they will also accept unusual experiences as a matter of course through the strength of their faith. And since faith grows in accordance with a person's activity of love, love is a prerequisite, and this has to be cultivated first if I am to be able to make an unusual appearance, but then nothing is impossible for Me .... Strong faith is necessary in the coming time, for only someone who has a deep spiritual bond with Me, which is the result of love, will also be able to endure the adversities of the coming time because he constantly draws strength from Me and is also convinced that I am always ready to help. And again I say to you: Through love you unite with Me and can therefore also withstand all adversity, you will be able to overcome every weakness and ward off every enemy, because I Myself always stand by your side and guide you through all hardships of life. If only you make an effort to shape your nature into love you need not fear anything, no matter what may come upon you, for then your faith will also increase in strength, and then you will be able to achieve and do everything because you possess the strength for it which love and faith earn you. You are only powerless as long as you have not yet reached your original being. But if you live a life of love then the reformation of your nature will take place and you will soon be full of strength, your faith in Me and My might will increase, and if you then address a request to Me you will also be fully convinced that I will grant it to you. For I want to show you My love in order to gain all your love, so that the unification can then also take place again, which results in a complete radiating of love, and then you will also have achieved the deification of your being, which is the purpose and goal of your earthly life as a human being. Every thought you turn to Me causes Me to send you a ray of love, and therefore you should often unite with Me in thought or prayer, and My strength will constantly flow into you and cause you to work with love again, and that also means constant unity with Me as the Eternal Love .... it also means constantly increasing faith which is unshakeable in the end and enables you to persevere until the end, to overcome all adversities of the coming time in order to then receive the reward and be able to be transferred to the new earth .... For then you will be able to experience even the most inconceivable things without danger to your soul, because then you will know that nothing is impossible for Me ....

Amen

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Completion is also possible in a short time ....

B.D. 8493 from May 11th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

And however you may be constituted .... you all still have the opportunity to perfect yourselves on this earth as long as you seriously strive for it. The firm will to fulfil your earthly task will also motivate you to pray heartily that I will grant you strength to do so, and truly, you will not address this request to Me in vain .... You will receive strength in great measure and My grace will pour out upon you and you will feel urged to work with love .... And then your transformation of being will begin and you will come ever closer to Me in order to unite with Me one day .... But this firm will must first be present, and it can be stimulated by all kinds of causes .... Strokes of fate can also lead you to think differently than before, you can be prompted by fellow human beings to think about the meaning and purpose of life, you can be driven by your fellow human beings' adversity to unselfish neighbourly love, and all this can rightly direct your will to come to Me and establish the bond with Me, and then you will already be seized by Me and receive all help to reach your goal. This is why you should not always regard difficult times as misfortune, for they can bring about a change in your thinking more quickly, and you can make spiritual progress in a short time, always in accordance with your will to love, which can be stimulated in times of adversity and now the change of your nature back to love can take place. And truly, you can achieve the same success in a short time which other people can achieve in a far longer time if they go through earthly life more indifferently, certainly making an effort to always live and think right and righteously but lacking the strength which an activity of love earns them. Their maturing process requires far more time, whereas such maturing can also come about in a very short time if the human being's will seriously strives for it. But it always has to be the drive from within, not the prospect of reward, because then the works of love can no longer be called unselfish. Yet every person who has the serious will to perfect himself will also have enough opportunities for love work .... And the bond with Me will thereby become ever more intimate, his soul will feel where it came from and that the spiritual kingdom is its true home, and it will consciously strive towards this kingdom, it will detach itself from the world, and with the turning away from the earthly world the desire for the spiritual kingdom will also become stronger, and all danger of being linked to the earthly world again will be over, it will have safely escaped the new banishment and therefore need no longer fear the end either .... For this reason all this shall also be held up to people time and again, through you, My servants, they shall gain knowledge about themselves and the meaning and purpose of their earthly existence. You can only impart the knowledge to them, for they have to muster the faith in it themselves .... But if they remain without any knowledge then only a life of love can put them into the state that they will be mentally taught by the beings of light, and then they will also travel their earthly path in accordance with My will, for love imparts the knowledge to them. However, since love has grown cold amongst people the knowledge has to be conveyed to them from outside, which can happen truthfully through you since you receive it directly from Me. And such true knowledge can also have the effect that the human being will mentally take a stand on it and thereby turn his will towards Me and seriously seek the bond with Me. And where there is only the slightest prospect that a person will still change, every possibility to achieve this change will also be exhausted .... and all of you who want to be of service to Me can contribute to this, because through you fellow human beings' thinking can be directed into the spiritual realm, which is necessary first, because no-one in the world can attain this realisation that he should strive towards the spiritual kingdom in order to fulfil the meaning and purpose of earthly life. As the human being now attunes himself to knowledge which is conveyed to them by you, he is free to .... But you should undauntedly do your work in My vineyard and I will support you in every way, for time is approaching its end and it shall still be well used for the salvation of erring souls which only see the world and therefore are also in danger of falling prey to this world, i.e. to matter. Yet the possibility of a soul's transformation still exists until the end, because I pursue it with My love until the end and it only needs to give up its resistance in order to be seized by Me, and then it will be saved for time and eternity ....

Amen

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Gift of grace before the end .... Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 8494 from May 12th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

I will pour out an abundance of grace in the last days before the end, for people are in need of it; they require much support in order to still be able to cover the last stretch of their earthly path successfully. And many people will even have to be guided onto the right path first and they, too, will require help for this, for they are still on the path into the abyss and have to be called back and guided correctly. Every means used by Me before the end is a means of grace, for people themselves do nothing to prevent it, they travel their earthly path indifferently and therefore don't deserve any help, since they still rather resist than accept help. Yet I love all My living creations and don't want even one of them to go astray .... I don't want them to languish in a wretched state for an infinitely long time again .... And this is why I will temper justice with mercy .... I will leave no stone unturned to save them before the end. And I also know what will help every individual person; I know what is suitable to guide him onto the right path. And this is what I will use without, however, compelling the human being's will, for he has to make a free decision. But it will be made easy for him, for the means of grace will be brought to him so visibly that he will also be able to recognise them as such.

Time and again the human being's attention is pointed to the spiritual kingdom .... Time and again he is approached by death in some form or other, he experiences it in his surroundings by having to let go of people who are very dear to him, and he hears of various kinds of death. He will always be reminded of his own fleeting nature and can then reflect on thoughts about what comes after death .... His thoughts will be directed towards the spiritual kingdom, since they often also follow the deceased and thus give rise to such questions as: Where are they now? Have they completely ceased to be? Or is there a prospect of meeting again? .... And then time and again spirit guides, to whose protection people are entrusted, will intervene by trying to influence them and giving them an explanation .... They make it possible for such people to receive knowledge of My Word, which is directly transmitted to earth, or they let them come across books which will offer them clarification, they do everything to direct their thoughts to the kingdom which is their true home and which they will enter when they pass away from this world .... And the departed, too, exert an influence from the beyond by constantly entering their thoughts which, to a certain extent, will establish a connection from the spiritual to the physical world. My measure of grace is inexhaustible and everyone would be able to take advantage of it, if only they were willing to do so.

That is why I let My Word be heard, for whoever hears and accepts it will truly make use of the greatest gift of grace which certainly will also bring him the right result, which will help his soul to mature and let him reach his goal while he is still on earth, so that he will find Me and enter into union with Me, which then will also assure his perfection .... For it is important that the human being establishes his bond with Me before his soul leaves the body, before the hour of departure from this earth has come .... As soon as he has recognised and acknowledged Me he will not get lost, for then he will take the path to the cross, to the divine Redeemer Jesus Christ, he will recognise Me in Him and thus will also have taken the path to Me. And then he will have been saved from the adversary for good, for Jesus Christ will deliver him from his bondage; Jesus has taken his guilt upon Himself and opened for him the path to the Father .... Jesus and I are one .... To realise this is the guarantee of return for the once fallen spirits to Me, and for that reason I will always provide people with the information through My Word, that is why My Word is the greatest and most effective gift of grace which I can still offer humanity before the end, and blessed is he who accepts it, for he will truly not go astray anymore .... There is not much time left, and the battle for the souls is fiercely waged on part of the darkness .... But I, too, Am fighting for you, My living creations, and I will help you, so that you, who will settle this battle, will make the right decision, so that you will take the path to Jesus Christ, in Whom I became a human being Myself in order to redeem you .... Make use of this immensely merciful act of Redemption through Jesus Christ and, truly, you will be victorious and delivered from the one who wants to destroy you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Explanation about re-incarnation .... Jesus and Salvation ....

B.D. 8495 from May 13th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

It is completely misguided to assume a return to earth in order to atone for the guilt of sin, although God's law of divine justice demands compensation for all guilt .... Yet there are truly many possibilities open to Me, so that one day all guilt will surely be redeemed and the being can be admitted into the kingdom of light and bliss again, which is closed to it in the state of guilt. The kingdom of the beyond, into which the soul enters after the death of its body, corresponds to its degree of maturity, hence it can either stay in utter darkness or in brightest light and as a result its fate will either be an agonising or a glorious one.

And both the torments as well as the splendours are indescribable and impossible to explain to you humans, and therefore the torments .... thus the fate of the unredeemed, sinful souls, can be dreadful and the soul consequently often suffers beyond imagination for its guilt or for the sake of its guilt, thus with its suffering it also makes

Amends for much of its guilt. And its state of suffering can last an infinitely long time if it is incorrigible, if it refuses to accept advice from the spiritual guides who want to help it out of its misery. For it cannot enter the kingdom of light until it has redeemed its guilt .... as far as it concerns the sins it has committed on earth ....

But since the original sin of its apostasy from God is far greater and this guilt can never be redeemed by the being itself, the human being on earth or his soul in the beyond irrevocably has to find Jesus Christ, for He alone is able to deliver it from this guilt for which He died on the cross .... Without Jesus Christ the soul will never be free from its guilt, even if it languishes for ages in the darkness of the beyond .... Thus it has to call upon Jesus for mercy, for forgiveness of its guilt, and time and again its spiritual helpers will try to persuade it to seek salvation in Him, Who sacrificed His life for this guilt.

And if the soul hands itself over to Him, then its original sin as well its guilt of sin committed on earth will be redeemed .... Then it will be free from all guilt and for the sake of Jesus' blood will be accepted in the kingdom of light and bliss .... If, however, the soul is so obstinate that it will not turn to Him despite all efforts by the beings of light trying to help, it will descend ever lower, its torments will be immeasurable, and if it still doesn't succeed in lifting itself up from hell .... which even then is still possible with the light beings' help .... it will have to take the path through the works of creation again in order to sooner or later reach its goal after all .... Yet this return to earth is not the soul's re-incarnation as you humans assume, and it is also all but desirable, because once again it is an infinitely long state of agony for the soul, having been dissolved into the tiniest of particles, until it reaches the stage of a human being again ....

You humans have to be told time and again that you will never be released from your guilt without Jesus Christ. This is why Jesus' act of Salvation is so significant, because He alone is the gate to the kingdom of light .... For even if your immense torment in the beyond makes

Amends for the guilt of sin which you committed on earth .... you will nevertheless be unable to enter the kingdom of light without redemption from your original sin by Jesus Christ .... And similarly, even a repeated life on earth would be of no use to you, because you would add new guilt and first have to find Jesus, Whom you can also find in the beyond .... hence you don't need to return to earth again ....

Time and again I draw your attention to this misguided teaching, because you thereby also devalue the act of Salvation, because by way of this misguided teaching you try to convince your fellow human beings that you are able to remove the guilt by yourselves, and thus you bypass Jesus, but without Whom you can never be delivered from your original sin, which cannot be redeemed even through the greatest agony on earth or in the beyond. Let yourselves become convinced of the importance of taking the path to the cross, and don't deceive yourselves with false hopes by which you will only prolong your unredeemed state and languish for an infinitely long time in darkness, for He alone is the light Which descended to earth, Which brought you salvation from sin and death, if only you would voluntarily appeal to Him for forgiveness of your guilt, if only you didn't rely on being able to cope with your guilt in further earthly lives and through such belief only ever prolong the state of darkness and suffering, for without Jesus Christ and His act of Salvation you will never attain light, freedom and beatitude .... without Jesus Christ you will never be delivered from your guilt ....

Amen

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Every man must answer for himself ....

B.D. 8496 from May 14th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

The human being has to take responsibility for his earthly way of life, for his speech, thinking and actions, for he has received the gift of intellect, the gift of thinking, from Me and can therefore also weigh everything up as far as it corresponds to My will .... This applies in particular to his attitude towards the teachings which are supplied to him on the part of fellow human beings, which touch spiritual areas .... Because as soon as something is presented to him earthly he also adjusts his thoughts to it and accepts or rejects, and that often with great eagerness, as soon as he expects some advantages from it. Man is able to think and is now also to use this ability. And if spiritual material is now supplied to him, he should also subject it to an examination in order to be able to accept or reject it justifiably .... But then he should not just rely on his fellow human being's advice but take a stand on it himself, for he himself will have to answer for it, and then he will not be able to pass the blame on to his fellow human being who advised him to think and act the way he did .... Every man bears responsibility for himself .... because every man can think .... And if he is not sure of the correctness of his thinking, then he should take the way to Me Myself, but not rely on the fellow human being, whose thinking can be just as wrongly directed .... And a great injustice is committed by the man who believes himself called to have an effect on fellowman, that he imposes his views on him .... so that the latter is to accept without contradiction what the latter offers him. A person can certainly be instructed, but he must always be free to accept these instructions, for the person himself must decide and be responsible for his decision, but he cannot pass on the responsibility to those who have instructed him, and they must never determine a person to accept the teachings. Freedom of will is the great factor, which is determining for the perfection of a man. And every curtailing of free will is a wrong, a sin, which I cannot accept without demanding retribution for it .... And again it must be pointed out that on the part of a teacher first the commandments of love are to be emphasized and only the fulfilment of these commandments is to be demanded, because then man's thinking will also recognize brightly and clearly what is true and right and man then decides for it of his own accord .... But to accept a teaching but to eliminate a life of love can never lead to spiritual success .... even if that teaching corresponds to truth .... But unloving people will never be able to pass judgement where truth and where error is .... And that is why ultimately not the intellect of man decides, but the love of the heart .... Where this is missing no right judgment will be able to be passed, but then also the acceptance of a teaching without contradiction is of no use, for it is completely worthless for the soul .... That is why I first demand the mental opinion about that spiritual material, which is imparted to a man from outside. And if the teaching of love is now presented to him and he also thinks about it, then already a small light can be kindled in him, and he can make an effort to live out love .... And this alone brings the soul to maturity .... Who therefore seeks to stimulate his fellowmen to love, he will be blessed by me. But who imparts spiritual knowledge to them with the demand to accept and acknowledge it without contradiction, he does not act in My will, because he causes fellowmen to think inertly and these now believe to be relieved of their responsibility, to be able to pass it on to those who taught them. One day this excuse will not be valid before Me because I have endowed all men with the gift of the ability to think and this is now also to be used when it is about the salvation of souls, especially then when you eagerly think of everything earthly whether and how it could be of use for you. No man once takes the responsibility from you, therefore also give no man the right to have a determining effect on you when it is about the welfare of your souls. Because also about this a light is given to you by Me when you listen to My word, which sounds to you from above, which I send to all who are of good will ..... I will do no compulsion to you; I will always just explain everything to you and give reasons, but always leave it up to you to accept or reject My word. Because I want that you perfect yourselves on earth. And therefore I also want to enlighten you about everything wrong, so that you do not let yourselves be determined to think and act in the will of fellowman, but to first check yourselves whether and how you act and think right before me, who has created you so that every man must also bear the responsibility for himself and his soul's salvation.

Amen

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Dead knowledge .... Awakening the spirit ....

B.D. 8497 from May 15th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

It is the spirit that makes alive .... You can use many words that your mind forms, and yet they can be and remain dead words unless the spirit is awakened within you and gives them real life .... Understand it, you let your intellect predominate; you seek to fathom everything with the intellect, and you neglect the most important thing, to first bring the spirit to awakening in you, which will then rightly direct all your thoughts and intellect activity, so that you also reach the right understanding of that, which remains incomprehensible for you without this spiritual help. But the spirit is divine part; it certainly slumbers in you, but can only develop when you yourselves move in divine order, i.e. make the principle of love your own. Thus right, truthful intellectual activity is dependent on your inner nature, on your attitude towards love .... You will not be able to deny this fact, that only a life of love ever guarantees you right thinking, that only a life of love also lets the words come alive which you speak, that they then are not just mere form but are valued as spiritual property of meaning .... provided that they are not purely worldly matters but enlightenments which reach into spiritual territory. Because even if a man makes this area to the content of his speeches, he will not be able to give much to fellowman, as long as he himself is still unawakened spirit, because then also all his words are empty and dead, because it is only the spirit, which makes them alive. And again, deeper conversations about spiritual knowledge will also only be held where love is unmistakable, because people without love choose no such content for their conversations .... since these are only filled with the world and therefore no living knowledge can be expected from these. Or speeches are held about it only for professional reasons .... and then they will always remain only dead words without spirit and life. To get from this level to the pure spiritual level is difficult but not impossible .... Who is still too much attached to the world, he can also be led by strokes of fate of the most different kind or other experiences to go into himself and to think seriously. And then already he can listen to the voice of conscience, to the voice of the spirit in him, and now think more seriously. And when his heart is not completely hardened, he will also start to become active in love, and then he penetrates deeper and deeper, and the knowledge, which he had taken in intellectually before, becomes alive in him, what love alone achieves. As long as now also the book of books, which contains divine wisdom, is only read with the intellect and the heart is not yet involved in it, it will also only remain a dead knowledge, because before love does not awaken his spirit, he only reads the letter and does not understand its spiritual meaning .... And such teachers are not qualified to instruct their fellow human beings, for then they cannot speak alive, they only pass on learned knowledge without meaning and life .... And again the fellow human being's state is decisive, to what extent the knowledge is comprehensible to him, i.e., to what extent he takes care of the divine commandments of love .... He will come to understanding when his spirit can instruct him himself, because he lives out love .... Then the word can be offered to him no matter how incomprehensible, everything is bright and clear to him, because he is introduced from the inside what love brings about in him. And only such men should provide a teaching service, who have prepared themselves so that the spirit out of God can work in them, and these are then also called to be active as servants of God. But anyone who calls himself to be without an awakened spirit will hardly be able to work in the vineyard of the Lord, for then he will only be worldly active, even if he puts a spiritual cloak around his profession, he will remain a servant of the world because he will not be able to lead people to where the actual goal is .... because his sermons are dead and help no-one to come to life, for the human being must attain life from within, and this is only possible through a life of love, through which the spiritual spark in the human being makes contact with the Father-Spirit of eternity and then a maturing of the soul is also possible in earthly life .... for the spirit from God addresses the soul, not the intellect .... But this will then also accept everything what the spirit out of God imparts to the soul ....

Amen

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God reveals His nature through His speeches ....

B.D. 8498 from May 16th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

Even though you will not be able to fathom Me and My nature for all eternity, you shall still be given a clear picture of your God and Creator, and you shall not be left thinking wrongly. You are to know that I am the highest and most perfect Being, Which cannot be eternally attained in Its perfection, but Which you are nevertheless to strive for, because you once emerged from Him in all perfection as His images and are also to become so again. And your bliss consists of the fact that you ceaselessly strive towards Me, and this bliss has no end because the striving towards Me will also never stop, for in the state of perfection everything is unlimited, both for Me as well as for you .... You will also not be able to grasp the term 'perfection', exactly because your thinking is still limited as long as you stay on earth. And the more imperfect you now still are according to your nature, the less you are able to grasp Me Myself and My nature, and then it is also easy that My adversary gives you a distorted image of me, that I am portrayed as a most imperfect being, which has ungodly qualities about it, like judicial mercilessness and unkindness .... which eternally condemns .... and ignoble feelings, like vengefulness and eternal punishments for offences, which I never condemn .... (vindictiveness that retaliates for offenses I never condemn), but in love am always ready to help you .... My adversary seeks to portray Me to you as an imperfect being so that you will deny Me love .... And this distorted image of Me I want to uncover to you again and again as work of lies of My opponent and enlighten you so far that you can recognize in Me a God of love, wisdom and power, that you are able to recognize a perfect being, to whom you can give your love, for which I long, because you are children of My love, who will no longer lose My love eternally, even if they turn away from Me in free will. For a being which is perfect cannot hate and condemn, It will only ever endeavour to help Its creature out of the state of imperfection so that it can unite with It again for eternity .... And therefore I reveal to you a clear picture of Me, of My all-fulfilling strength of love, which became active in wisdom and also created you .... I reveal to you the goal I set Myself when creating all beings and also the plan of salvation which leads to the deification of beings .... I substantiate everything for you so that you can truly recognize My love, wisdom and might, for as soon as all this is presented to you in truth the light of realisation shines for you again, albeit still to a small degree, and you begin to recognize yourselves as My creations called into being by Me .... The truth will also kindle the small spark of love in you, and then you will penetrate ever deeper, you will know that you are on the path of return to Me, from Whom you once voluntarily distanced yourselves and thereby completely reversed your perfect nature and became imperfect .... But what is to unite with Me again must be perfect, and it must voluntarily enter into My will, against which it once violated .... But as soon as it has recognized My nature, which is love, wisdom and power in itself .... it will also voluntarily submit to My will again .... And therefore I reveal My nature to it, which again can only happen through My address, through My word, which I convey to people and which will also give bright light to the one who accepts My address. For I alone can convey pure truth to earth, I alone am the light Which wants to shine into your hearts .... I alone am the love, which does not want to let you get lost .... I am wisdom Who knows all ways and means to guide you to the light, and I also have the power to snatch you from My adversary's hands if you yourselves offer Me no resistance .... However, everything is determined by your free will .... And this will only then be turned towards Me when you recognize Me as a supremely perfect being Whom you can love .... And this requires that you live in truth, that you become free from erroneous thoughts, from spiritual knowledge which My adversary had brought to you in order to prevent you from taking the path to Me .... And that is why I speak to you Myself from above, I guide My word down to earth, so that you can become free from erroneous spiritual material, which prevents you to recognize Me right, who loves you as most perfect and wants to draw you to Me eternally ....

Amen

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The audible Word requires a high degree of maturity ....

B.D. 8499 from May 17th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

A person's greatest spiritual achievement during his life on earth is to hear God's voice within himself, for it is evidence that the divine order has been restored, the state the original being was in when it was created and in direct contact with its God and Creator, so that the being was able to hear His voice within itself .... However, as long as this being is still living on earth as a human being it should also improve its degree of perfection such that it will be able to audibly hear this divine voice within itself, for this requires a high degree of maturity which only few people reach on earth. Even so, the mental transmission of God's Word is proof of a person's diligent striving for maturity of soul, that he has established the bond with his God and Creator and thereby is capable of hearing the divine address .... The being's original state was a state of perfection which the being itself reversed into the opposite .... Hence the being lost the ability to hear God's voice by which the Supreme Being communicated with His living creation in the beginning .... And for as long as the being heard God's voice it was also abundantly happy .... because it was illuminated, it was aware of everything, it recognised itself as the living creation of a supremely perfect Being, and it was blissfully happy in this realisation .... When it lost the ability to hear His voice it also lost all realisation, it distanced itself ever further from God and lost all knowledge of itself, because it lost its self-awareness when, for the purpose of returning back to God, it was disintegrated and reshaped into manifold creations. All this is not known to the human being when he enters the earth as the last stage of his path of return to God .... But the knowledge can be conveyed to him, and this happens through inner communication, through his spirit, which, as part of God, is in contact with the eternal Father-Spirit, and which can inform the person from within as to what he originally was, what he is now and what he is supposed to become again .... And this inner instruction comes to him in the shape of thoughts as long as he hasn't attained the maturity of soul which is required to hear the divine Word.

However, the fact that he is allowed to gain this realisation at all, that it is conveyed to him through the working of the spirit within the human being, is such a tremendous gift of grace from God which should spur him to attain ever higher maturity and will also enable him to receive messages directly from God. The human being can mentally be introduced to the truth, to the correct realisation of all that which otherwise would remain hidden to him .... His thoughts can be guided such that they will come close to the truth and that the person will also be convinced that his thinking is correct .... But he can also be directly addressed by God if he has to fulfil a mission again: to convey the true information to his fellow human beings who lack spiritual knowledge .... Then the Word will sound audibly in him once more as it was in the beginning, he will be able to communicate with his God and Creator, he will be able to ask him questions and he will receive a reply and he, as well as his fellow human beings, will no longer live in darkness, a bright light will be kindled in them which will brightly illuminate the night in which all once fallen spiritual beings still live if they have not yet established an intimate contact with the eternal Source of light .... You all ought to know that you were once able to communicate directly with your God and Creator, you ought to know that you will always be able to restore the state to ask Him and receive an answer, but that it depends on you as to whether you shape yourselves such that you become worthy of direct communication from God, for you must enter the law of eternal order again which you once voluntarily left .... you must let the principle of love become dominant in you and through love you will unite with the One Who is Eternal Love Itself .... Once you are united with Him you will also hear Him, for His love is so profound that He constantly wants to please His living creations with His communication .... But then the return to Him will be assured, for the human being's desire to return to the Father's house which he once left of his own volition will become increasingly stronger, and His Word will be so powerful that the person or his soul will be unable to evade its influence .... And it will attain ever greater perfection until it has regained its fundamental nature again, until it becomes that which it once was in the beginning .... an abundantly blissful being which will praise and extol God for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The predetermined day of the end will be kept ....

B.D. 8500 from May 18th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

The day is not far away that My wisdom predetermined in order to cause a transformation on earth which merely serves a worldly inclined human race as a dwelling place but is no longer used as a spiritual place of education .... The day is not far away when My will shall implement an act which aims to achieve the complete transformation of the external shape of the creation work earth, which signifies the destruction of all life in, on and above the earth as well as all existing works of creation .... For My plan of Salvation has been determined for eternity and the time will be kept which I, in My wisdom, recognised to be necessary in order to create new maturing opportunities for the spiritual beings .... And you humans will not be able to persuade Me to abandon this plan or to grant you more time, for I know and have known for eternity humanity's spiritual state at this point in time, which is precisely the reason why a complete change is needed, a renewed transformation of all spiritual beings which are on the path of return to Me .... Consequently, My predictions that you should not count on a long time ought to be taken literally .... that you should not transfer the announced end to the future, for one day even the future will become the present, and this time has arrived. Moreover, you humans can see for yourselves by all the happenings in the world and around yourselves that people's spiritual low level can almost not be surpassed anymore, and therein you will also have to recognise the reason for a near end, for everything has become disorderly, the development of the spiritual beings has come to a standstill if it is not regressing ....

Hence you are living in false hope if you humans believe that you can win Me over through prayer, even if I keep telling you that prayers have great strength .... But what you pray for is only ever a selfish prayer, because you are not prepared to surrender your earthly life, and therefore you only pray that I should preserve the earth so that you will not have to fall prey to the end as well .... Your prayer should only concern your fellow human beings' state of soul, you should only take care of your spiritual maturing and pray for each other and not appeal to Me for abandoning a final destruction, for this is needed for the spiritual substances which are still bound in the creation which, just like you, are entitled to ascend so that one day they will also be permitted become a human shell. But people forfeit their own right to be embodied on earth because they no longer take even one step upwards but are more inclined to strive towards the abyss again. A prolonged existence on this earth would be of no benefit whatsoever for these souls, instead they would even sink lower still, and they shall be prevented to do so .... which happens through a new banishment .... so that they will be wrested away from My adversary again, who had too much control over them as human beings in earthly life. You humans should only pray on behalf of each other that the souls will still release themselves from his control before the end .... Such a prayer of loving intercession for one of your fellow human beings will also reach My ear and be granted .... yet you will not succeed in trying to persuade Me to change My plan of eternity, after all, I know what is beneficial for all My living creations and what will help them to progress.

Therefore, anyone who wants to work for Me in My vineyard should take into account that the imminent end is a fact and thus be appropriately active on earth by preaching love and by also drawing all people's attention to the proclaimer of this divine teaching of love, to Jesus Christ, so that they will take the path to Him and under His cross and become redeemed from sin and death when the end has come .... Then they will either enter the kingdom of light or be placed onto the new earth where they will be assured of a paradisiacal stay which is already comparable to entering the kingdom of light, because people will have passed their test of earthly life and be free from guilt. And in order that many people will still reach this goal I continue to address them time and again through you, My messengers on earth, who receive My Word directly and pass it on to wherever it will be faithfully accepted. And this speech will not cease until the end, for I know who is suited to hear My Word, who allows My ray of love to flow into his heart and also makes correct use of it. And they will testify time and again that the end is not far away, they will never cease to mention My plan of Salvation and constantly refer to Jesus Christ and His act Salvation .... Time after time I will also emphasise His great significance and refer people to Him, Who alone can deliver them from the fall into the deepest abyss. And anyone who is able to believe in an end will not fear it either, for his faith has come alive through love and a person who lives in love will always also have the strength to defy all onslaughts which will still confront him in the last days .... For love itself is strength, because love connects the human being with Me, the Eternal Love, and thus constant strength flows to him from Me. And truly, none of you need to fear the end if only you would make the effort to live a life of love .... Humanity, however, is lacking love and is therefore descending ever deeper and thus causing the end itself .... as I recognised for eternity and therefore My plan of Salvation will be implemented, as it was proclaimed in Word and Scripture ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Time indication .... (Continuation of no. 8500)

B.D. 8501 from May 19th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

You will never receive any indication in regards to time, because it would only have a damaging effect on your soul if you exactly knew when a prediction will take place. You should certainly take notice of it because I want you to prepare yourselves, because I want to admonish and caution you .... admonish, so that you will eagerly work at improving your soul and caution, so that you will not become complacent, which you will bitterly regret one day. This is why I inform you of future happenings and indeed pointed forthcoming events out to people since the beginning of this period of salvation, for the idea of approaching them shortly should encourage you to live in accordance with My will and thus fulfil your purpose of earthly life .... Yet the time when you should expect the announced events has never been specified, and this made you become half-hearted regarding these predictions .... You always assume that My predictions will fulfil themselves in the distant future .... But you fail to consider that time passes constantly, that you draw ever closer to this future and that one day even the 'future' becomes the 'present' .... Thus I once again predict to you that the end of this earth, the end of a period of Salvation, is soon to come. And I keep referring to it with increasing urgency because it seems incredible to you that you should live in this end time .... Once again I don't give you the precise time and will not do so until the end as not to compel your will ....

Yet I one thing I will tell you, you don't have much time left, very soon the time will come when all My predictions will fulfil themselves and you should not rely on the fact that one day is like a thousand years to Me .... Even a thousand years eventually pass by, and thus even the period of Salvation in which you live will come to its end one day, for sooner or later a new period will have to start if only for the sake of the bound spiritual substances in the works of creation which shall continue their development .... And again I only say, you are on the verge of it .... But time and again I repeat these Words with such urgency that you should nevertheless start to think .... Time and again I try to attract labourers during the last days before the end because I urgently need them in view of the forthcoming event, I convey remarkable knowledge to you humans so that you learn to understand My predictions, so that you know the reasons on which My proclamations are based .... I do this because the end is very near and because you ought to believe that My Words will fulfil themselves .... Yet even now I cannot specify the time since I don't want to throw you into incalculable chaos .... For the knowledge of the precise day and hour would throw you into dreadful confusion but no longer result in any kind of maturity. I can only repeatedly and ever more urgently draw your attention to the fact that you must take the fulfilment of all predictions into account, that you should not rely on the fact that you yourselves will not experience them anymore ....

No-one knows the hour of his death and neither will anyone know as to whether he will be taken by surprise by the announced end, by the immense work of destruction and its predecessor, the unexpected natural disaster, and whether he will have to live through everything that happens in the last days, for I keep telling you: You are on the verge of it, you don't have much time left and every day and every hour must take into account that I will extraordinarily manifest Myself through the elements of nature, and then you will also know that the end is no longer far away .... Therefore you should live in accordance with My will .... It will enable you to approach all events without fear .... You should only unite yourselves with Me through deeds of love, prayer and frequents thoughts and truly, your souls will not be harmed even if I prematurely call you back .... But I will also physically protect you if it is My will that you shall still serve Me until the end .... Yet never expect Me to disclose a time to you, for it would not be of any benefit whatsoever for you, who serve Me, nor for your fellow human beings whose state of maturity is even less suitable for such knowledge. Yet whatever knowledge you can possibly impart to your fellow human beings about the forthcoming events, about My eternal plan of Salvation and the Father's infinite love Who wants to save all His children before the end .... should be done by you, and thus you still carry out fruitful vineyard work for Me until the end .... For every soul which still finds deliverance is a gain for Me for which I will truly reward you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Distribution .... (Continuation of nos. 8500 and 8501)

B.D. 8502 from May 19th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

And wherever the opportunity presents itself to inform your fellow human beings about the forthcoming end and all preceding events you should speak up, so that no-one can use the excuse not to have heard anything about it. For I really still want to do whatever it takes to give people a small light yet, and thus I will also bring you into contact with those where there is still a small glimmer of hope that they will react by thinking about it and then observing for themselves what is happening around them. I try to direct all people's thought such that they, for once, would like know what they can still expect, if not in this life then in another, to which their thoughts will therefore be directed. The life which people presently live with purely earthly directed thoughts is by no means healthy for their souls, for the soul is meant to rise above all matter during its earthly life. But if the human being ties himself to matter it will signify for the soul a state of hardship, a state of hunger and of hopelessness of attaining its goal .... And this is why people's attention shall be drawn to the transience of all worldly things and, with good will, they can still utilise the short time by acquiring something of permanence for themselves even if the earthly body will cease to exist .... all I aim to achieve by constantly announcing the forthcoming end is that they will give account to themselves about the state of their souls, if they at all believe in a continuation of life after death .... Yet this very faith is missing, which is the reason for the enormous spiritual adversity during these last days. But don't let it put you off informing your fellow human beings again and again of what you were allowed to hear from Me .... You shall talk about the working of the spirit within yourselves as well as the contents of what is conveyed to you as My Word ....

Tell them that they are in great danger of going astray for an infinitely long time if they don't diligently use the short time until the end in order to change their nature into love which, during the last days, does not show much love at all .... Tell them that they still have to take the path to Jesus before their death, that they have to carry their guilt under His cross and appeal to Him for forgiveness .... And you have to teach them the most important commandments: the commandments of love for God and one's neighbour .... on the fulfilment of which depends their state of soul on earth already and later in the spiritual kingdom .... You must pass on everything you hear from Me directly, always in relation to your fellow human beings' state of soul, so that they learn to understand it and also direct their thoughts to Me, Who will always help them if they pray for help. I convey this knowledge to earth so that people will have an explanation, even for what still lies ahead of them and what I constantly announce, so that they will not be taken by surprise by the events, which will come without fail as I have always and forever proclaimed. For I still want to give everyone the opportunity to prepare themselves in order to then await the end without fear, which only needs to be dreaded by those who, as completely obstinate followers of My adversary, will be banished once more into the creations of the new earth.

Detach yourselves from earthly matter so that it will not become your shell again from which you no longer can free yourselves without help .... Believe that the end will come in not too long a time, for the low level has been reached, no spiritual change is possible on this earth anymore .... Only a total transformation of earth can also achieve a spiritual change, and in order for you to be permitted to experience this change on the new earth you must strive for a heartfelt bond with Me, so that I can count you to My Own who will remain faithful to Me even in the harshest battle of faith which is yet to be waged against you by My adversary .... so that you will receive strength from Me and persevere to the end .... And you will be able to enter a realm of peace and beatitude .... You will be allowed to populate the new earth where you will receive the reward for you steadfastness when you have to confess Me before the world .... Then you will have prevailed over this world and you will never need to fear My adversary again, for he, together with his followers, will be bound for a long time again ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God requires a living faith ....

B.D. 8503 from May 20th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

Only ever believe in Me with a living faith, that is, don't be satisfied with words or other people's assurances but closely unite with Me in thought and speak to Me like a child speaks to its father, plainly and simply and full of childlike trust; always let Me walk beside you as your friend and brother, and tell Me everything that inwardly bothers you, always appealing for My assistance to help you reach perfection while you are still on earth. You should no longer lead a single life, you should always request My presence and feel it too, for every sincere thought draws Me to yourselves, and if you establish this bond with Me yourselves then strength will always flow to you as well, which you can use for deeds of love again .... thus through love you join with Me ever more closely. Hence anyone who does not exclude his God and Creator from his thoughts is also daily and hourly under His Fatherly care, and his earthly life will always proceed such that it will benefit his soul .... For anyone connected with Me in thought already leads a spiritual life, and his soul will constantly ascend ....

But how many people spend their lives without considering their God and Creator, they only ever entertain earthly thoughts and just anxiously worry about their physical wellbeing .... And although they call themselves Christians because they belong to a religious organisation they only occasionally establish a relationship with Me, and this is not sufficiently alive in order to generate spiritual achievement .... Much has become a formality which, however, is only of value if it is carried out with a living faith, just as prayer is not what it should be .... a child's heartfelt dialogue with the Father; instead people are satisfied with empty words which don't come from the heart and are merely voiced by the mouth.

I, however, Am a living God, everything has to be truthful before Me, and therefore I want a living contact established by you with Me, but this also guarantees higher development and leads the soul to the goal. For would I leave a child or consider it poorly, be it spiritually or even earthly, once it has made heartfelt contact with Me, to whom I Am truly the Father it can unreservedly trust? But where this intimate bond is missing there still exists a broad gulf, the human being looks for Me in the distance, he speaks of Me as a Being Which is unattainable to him and Which he indeed acknowledges because of Its might which he cannot deny in view of the creations, who also admits to Its wisdom which is demonstrated to him through the creations, but who does not know anything about the love of a God Who wants to be a Father to all living creations because he has not spent serious thought on the Being Who had brought him into existence. And as long as I Am merely the distant God for people they will live their earthly life without spiritual achievements, for they lack the flow of strength to travel the path of ascent which, however, requires the living creation's heartfelt connection to Me in order to enlighten him.

This is why every human being will achieve his goal if he is able to establish this close relationship with Me, if he expresses a living faith in Me through a constant desire for My presence .... And such desire will be granted by Me, and forthwith the person will no longer walk any path alone, I will always guide him, I will always direct his thoughts, and because I no longer meet any resistance the person will also completely enter into My will and improve himself ever more. Where I have found the entrance into a human being's heart My adversary will have lost his power, albeit he will still try everything to win him over for himself again, but My strength, which the human being constantly receives due to My presence, will resist him.

Just let your soul come to life, which will always happen when I can take effect on it Myself, when I can illuminate it with My strength of love, and you always enable Me to do this through a heartfelt bond with Me .... Then you will ask for Me, and the danger will have passed that the adversary can take possession of you, who will take flight from Me and is unable to besiege you so long as I Am present in you .... And you will soon not undertake anything, nor walk anywhere, without having asked for My blessing, and then you can also be certain that I will walk by your side wherever you go, that I will mentally instruct you and let My strength and light flow to you in abundance .... Yet all this is not possible when a person only mentions his God and Creator with his mouth without being inwardly urged to establish contact with this God .... His earthy life will not bring him much spiritual success unless he still changes his thoughts and actions, so that he will learn to recognise Me and then believes in Me with a living faith ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's justice demands atonement for guilt ....

B.D. 8504 from May 21st 1963, taken from Book No. 89

I am a good and just God .... My love for My living creations is immeasurable, and I would like to make all of them happy and give them the highest happiness because love urges Me to do so .... But since I am supremely perfect, I Myself must also move in My order from eternity; all signs of My perfection must be recognizable, and therefore also My justice must prove My perfection, which therefore also sets limits to My exceedingly great love, which I would like to prove to all My creatures .... I cannot make a being happy that has become sinful because this would contradict My righteousness .... Therefore My love is bound to My eternal law; it can only make the perfect happy to the extent that I want the being to be indescribably happy .... I can certainly grant mercy for justice by helping the being that has become sinful that it becomes free of its sins .... But the will to do so must come from the being itself, it must be aware of its guilt of sin and desire to become free of it, and it must ask for help to do so .... Thus I cannot release the being from its guilt against its will, nor can I make it happy with My love until My justice has been satisfied, for which the being itself must be willing .... Many of the spiritual beings called into life by Me had transgressed against Me .... They had become sinful, and barriers were imposed on My endless love because My justice did not allow love to work as before, that it therefore immeasurably blessed the beings .... And therefore these beings would have been eternally banished from My flow of love if My justice had not been satisfied, which, however, the beings themselves were unable to do, which they were completely incapable of doing due to their resistance to My strength of love .... in which their great sin consisted .... Nevertheless, the atonement had to be carried out according to the law of divine order if the beings were ever to be able to be permeated by My love again, thus to be made happy .... And this work of atonement was accomplished by the man Jesus out of love for Me and for humanity, whose wretched state He recognized and wanted to remedy by virtue of His love .... My justice was thereby satisfied, and My love was now able to come forth and turn towards the beings which once had gone out from Me and prepare a beatitude for them again which only I Myself as the Eternal Love can bestow upon them, but which also makes every being immeasurably happy .... Due to the former sin of apostasy from Me a restriction of My love was imposed on Me on the part of the one who became sinful .... because I do not give love power to it against the will of a being .... And even if it gives up its resistance, it must first have become free of its sin guilt to be allowed to receive My love again, because this requires justice, which belongs to My perfect nature, and because I eternally cannot overturn the law of order .... which is founded in My perfection. The man Jesus fulfilled the law, He lived entirely in divine order, but He also saw the way of life of His fellow human beings, which was completely against the law of divine order, and He took all their guilt of sin upon His shoulders and offered Me such an unheard-of sacrifice to redeem the guilt of sin of all that had once fallen, and I accepted this sacrifice, I was satisfied with it as compensation for the immeasurable guilt, which the beings that had fallen away from Me and then also the human beings had loaded upon themselves .... I accepted the sacrifice of the man Jesus, Who wanted to redeem all people from sin .... For the love in Him brought the sacrifice .... But love was I myself .... Thus love redeemed the guilt, but this would not have been possible without an act of atonement which I could only accomplish in the shell of a human being who was capable and willing to suffer .... Who Himself suffered immeasurably as compensation for the fallen one's guilt of sin. And therefore justice has not been bypassed; it was satisfied, and now My love could again become effective; it could give itself away and make the creatures immeasurably happy, because they were again without guilt, and that is why they can also unite with Me again and be completely radiated through by My love, as it was in the beginning .... And My love will not let up, and it will help everything that once had become sinful to voluntarily carry its guilt under the cross, to hand it over to Jesus and thus My justice will not be circumvented and the being will nevertheless be released from its guilt, because Love sacrificed Itself, because in the man Jesus It declared Its willingness to suffer and to die so that people will not punish the once fallen beings for their immeasurable sin .... did not need to suffer for their immense guilt of sin because they would have been eternally incapable of redeeming their sins and making (the) atonement for Me, which I, as a righteous God, had to demand in order to grant the beings the beatitude again which My immense love wants to provide for them. The compensation for the great guilt must be created first, because My perfection cannot violate the lawful order; every guilt must be redeemed, because this demands My justice ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Teacher training ....

B.D. 8505 from May 22nd 1963, taken from Book No. 89

I will supply you abundantly with teaching material so that you also can instruct your fellowmen right and give them enlightenment when they demand it. And I will also truly prepare the right teachers for me, men who are so devoted to Me that they always only want to be active in My will and always and constantly entrust themselves to My guidance, who do nothing without Me and also always only desire and want to spread pure truth. Because this is a responsible office to be a teacher to fellowmen, because the maturing of the souls of those is also dependent on the spreading of truth, if they are of earnest will to fulfil their purpose of earth life. Who wants to teach, he must first himself stand in truth; he must possess a spiritual knowledge, which he himself completely masters, if he wants to pass it on comprehensibly to his fellowmen. And such knowledge can only I Myself give to a man, who is willing to utilize it according to My will .... And at the same time as knowledge I also give man the understanding for it; I train him to be a teacher, who now can work for blessing .... He certainly receives the knowledge with the heart, but also his intellect is so directed from Me that he grasps everything and can now also reproduce it right. And as soon as he is now active for me, as soon as he wants to teach fellowmen according to My will, also his thinking will be directed by Me right; My spirit can have an effect in him .... And then he will always instruct men so that they can understand everything themselves and always demand new instructions. And everyone will be able to get information from those who receive their teaching material from Me Myself .... And this is to be especially emphasized that you men then go to the spring out of which you are to draw, and the water of life will then also serve you for the salvation of your soul. Everything you receive in knowledge in the spiritual sphere must have its origin with Me .... And that is why you also have to check it for its origin. If I now teach you Myself, then you can be sure of it that you are allowed to pass on everything what you receive from Me, that I give you the order for it, because I want that pure, true spiritual knowledge is passed on to men, and because I also train the suitable men for it, who carry out this teaching order. And you can also unhesitatingly accept every explanation from them, for it will always correspond to truth, even if it is voiced by the person himself as it were as his own thought material, for then it is I Myself Who guides his thoughts, because he speaks for Me and in My name. You then do not need to fear that his own words contradict My word supplied to him, because if he is active for Me, then I protect him from weaving in wrong spiritual material. But you are not always allowed to assume the same when a man speaks who does not have the assignment from me .... Because My spirit must always be able to work in him, what requires certain preconditions. But My spirit will also have an effect where a man in love towards Me and towards the neighbour stands up for pure truth, if he earnestly wants it himself that he only expresses truth. I support every earnest will and see to it that man then himself recognizes truth and supplies no erroneous thought material to his fellowman. But if you are in possession of My word from above, then you have the most delicious teaching material, which enables you to your teaching office, because everything what you now pass on, you draw out of the source, out of the spring of life .... and everyone who hears it, he again receives My word from Me Myself, even if it is offered to him by a mediator .... But he then can be convinced of the purest truth of that what is given to him; he no longer needs to doubt and therefore can also mature in his knowledge, because My word has great power, because My word is the light, which breaks through darkness, and because it is a delicious food for the soul, which now can be fed and watered by Me Myself and therefore also receives the best what can ever be offered to it .... My love light from eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Ascension of Christ ....

B.D. 8506 from May 23rd 1963, taken from Book No. 89

The time of My visual existence for people on earth came to an end when I ascended to heaven .... For I had fulfilled the mission as a human being and finally gave My disciples and those who believed in Me as the Son of God a last sign which should strengthen their faith .... I showed Myself to them once more and demonstrated to them My Divinity by way of visibly ascending to heaven .... which they were only allowed to observe due to their strength of faith and which, in turn, should provide them with great strength for their further mission: to proclaim Me and My Gospel throughout the world .... No evidence can be provided for My ascension either, and yet it took place before the eyes of those who were completely devoted to Me. For My ascension no longer compelled them into believing, they had recognised Me and no longer doubted anything, but they had also been initiated into the most profound knowledge by Me and therefore I was able to ascend before their eyes as a last sign of My might and glory, which occurred and could occur visibly because I gave My Own exceptional strength for this experience. However, it was only a process which will be experienced by every soul that perfects itself on earth once it leaves its body and then enters spiritual realms in radiant light which, however, will remain concealed from the human eye. But it glides up into the kingdom which is its true home. Evidence of this should also be given to people even though it will not be acknowledged by still immature people who have not achieved any kind of spiritualization.

The ascension of Jesus will remain a myth to people as long as they have not penetrated spiritual knowledge, because something unusual had taken place which in fact only My followers were allowed to experience. However, it will no longer be doubted as soon as the human being's soul has acquired a certain degree of maturity where nothing will be disbelieved anymore due to the realisation that nothing is impossible to God .... With Jesus' ascension the act of Salvation was concluded. I had descended to earth and returned to My kingdom again which I nevertheless had never left, for I was and Am everywhere, but I had taken abode in a human form so as to be visible to you humans, and therefore I also ascended visibly again in order to then always and forever remain visible to everything I created for the sake of its beatitude ....

My Own stayed behind and felt lonely and abandoned as I disappeared from their sight, yet they were imbued by My spirit and clearly recognised their mission now, and they felt impelled by the spirit to carry out the task with which I sent them to all nations on earth. For this reason I let them experience the extraordinary event which was the final miracle on earth that completed My earthly progress .... For they needed much strengthening of faith since their contact with Me had, after all, resulted in a certain amount of dependence which they still had to overcome, and thus every one of My disciples time and again was able to recollect the final events in order to then do My will with wholehearted enthusiasm .... Yet I remained with them in spirit, and throughout their activity for Me they were frequently allowed to hear My Words which revealed My presence to them, so that their love for Me grew ever deeper and thus their knowledge increased to the same extent, and with it their ability to work for Me ....

I had redeemed people's immense guilt of sin through My act of Salvation, and humanity had to be informed of this which could only happen again through human beings who themselves had experienced Me and My crucifixion .... Now they could proclaim the purest truth about this great act of compassion, and thus especially My first disciples were unusually strengthened and equipped for their mission, I had personally been able to teach and prepare them for their task in advance and I had extraordinarily strengthened their faith, although they kept their freedom of will. However, their love for Me and their way of life permitted My additional gift for their office, for the whole of humankind should be informed of this occurrence which had originated from the divine sphere for the sake of people and thus I required appropriate servants and messengers to spread this information. And these had to be able to support with full conviction what they were teaching .... Their love had enabled them to cope with unusual experiences and to eagerly bear witness of everything to their fellow human beings as well. But this knowledge of My act of Salvation will always necessitate a certain degree of love in order to be accepted and believed .... Yet a loving person will be infused by My spirit and guided into every truth, as I Myself have proclaimed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The right worship ....

B.D. 8507 from May 24th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

I will answer all your questions when you let Me speak to you and believe that I know about all your thoughts and also gladly give you enlightenment .... It is My will that you always remain united with Me through loving activity and prayer and that your thoughts often move into spiritual spheres .... that you therefore do not leave Me out of your thoughts .... If this bond is established through your free will, then you also give Me the right to direct you and your thoughts. And then you will always be stimulated into loving activity, for the intimate bond with Me will provide you with the influx of strength which will enable you to work with love .... And this activity of love consists of unselfish activity of love, of service .... For you humans can only redeem yourselves through service in love.... What made you reach the height during your pre-embodiment in a state of compulsion were the serving functions you had to perform according to My will .... In every form you had to serve, and through this you reached a state of maturity which made your being human possible .... And in this stage, where you have stepped out of the state of compulsion and can act completely in free will, you are now to serve voluntarily in love to reach the last perfection on earth. Once you fell, and your sin consisted of wanting to rule in arrogance .... And now as a human being you have to serve in humility and love in order to accomplish your change back to your original nature again, which had emerged from Me most perfectly .... This 'serving with love' is therefore your task in life, the fulfilment of which you should always make a point of. And this service of love cannot be replaced by a so-called 'divine service' where people come together at certain times in order to carry out certain customs which can be completely worthless if they are carried out mechanically and lack all deeper meaning. I include prayers which can only be described as lip prayers, where the mouth makes use of learned words and the heart is uninvolved .... or also other actions which have nothing to do with serving in love .... It is certainly good and beneficial for the soul when man visits places where God's word is offered to him, when he himself desires to hear My word, and he then will also carry away a blessing for his soul according to his desire .... as also a spiritual exchange of thoughts with fellow human beings will be good, where lively speech takes place, where My presence is assured, when these people gather in My name and now My spirit can also work because I am present where two or three are gathered in My name .... as I have promised. Then people will prove to Me that they are serious about serving Me, and then everything they undertake will also be blessed, for they will then refrain from all form, from formal customs, which can easily become mechanical action and are then completely useless. You should understand that I only ever desire a living connection from you to Me .... that you should establish the relationship of a child to its father and that this will happen in the quiet chamber .... i.e. away from the world .... But what is prevented rather than encouraged in large communities .... unless people gather to listen to My word, which is offered to them .... But if you humans give Me the opportunity to address you yourselves .... If you receive My word from above through messengers which I send to you Myself, because I know the nature of every human heart .... then you will have far more blessings from this direct address, because then no external things will distract you and My word can penetrate deeply into your hearts .... You will sometimes find it difficult to detach yourselves from habits or views imprinted on you, but on serious reflection you will also recognize the worthlessness of them, for as soon as you seriously endeavour to increase your maturity of soul mere forms will no longer suffice for you and you will separate yourselves from them .... You will understand it that your father demands more from his children .... that you are just to prove your love to Him, which is expressed in works of unselfish neighbourly love, which is a constant serving and also certainly leads to the maturing of your soul. And you can also believe it that also the light of knowledge will shine brighter and brighter in you, because love in you also carries wisdom into you, and quite naturally that will be for you, what caused you before to question .... You will find the answer clearly and distinctly within yourselves, and all doubt within you will fall silent ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Bearing suffering for fellow human beings ....

B.D. 8508 from May 25th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

I will also give you an explanation as to whether you can bear suffering for your fellow man or whether every person must bear the burden himself which was assigned to him for the salvation of his soul .... You humans must consider that your soul is supposed to mature fully during your earthly life, that all still immature substances should spiritualise themselves, which happens through love or suffering, for this dissolves the layers which still prevent the light of My love from radiating into the soul. And at the same time such substances of the body which are still immature are also a problem for the human being by causing him all kinds of diseases and thus, with patience, love and in submission to My will, they should be calmed and therefore spiritualised which is, after all, your real earthly task, to help your soul towards the greatest possible level of perfection. And this spiritualisation of soul and body must be accomplished by every person himself, this work can never be done by someone else on his behalf, and one day he will be grateful to Me that, by way of suffering and adversity, I helped him gain perfection. Consequently you can understand that you should not really try to avert anything which can benefit your fellow human being's soul .... If, however, love is impelling you to offer yourselves to Me asking to bear your fellow human being's suffering then I will not stop you in your love .... It will be temporarily taken from the person and placed upon you, and thus you raise your soul's maturity because you are willing to accept more suffering and are motivated by love to do so.

One has suffered for all of you in order to release you from the immense suffering you would have had to take upon yourselves as penance for your guilt of sin, which was the reason why earthly life is a valley of tears and suffering for you humans .... But now all you humans can turn to this One Who will also take your suffering upon His shoulders and help you carry it .... Whose substituted atonement was accepted by Me and to Whom you should go if your suffering weighs you down, and he will help you carry it or take it from you depending on what is best for you.

However, the love of a fellow human being who is willing to suffer on your behalf is very highly valued, and this love will also guarantee you a flow of strength, for love is strength which will noticeably affect the sufferer .... And if someone offers loving intercession for you who have to suffer, the strength of this love can so permeate you that you will no longer feel the degree of suffering .... that your pain and agonies temporarily disappear, and your souls benefit from the strength of this love .... and thus mature and become less sensitive to pain .... The degree of love always determines the benefit the sufferer derives from such a prayer of love for him. And since the maturing of the soul is the purpose of earthly life and there are many possibilities to achieve this, it should be recognised first and foremost and not be prevented. True love, however, knows why a person has to suffer and will help him endure and make it easy for him to accept God's will .... And then I will take the cross from him and his soul will have moved a step forwards again ....

Love and suffering help the soul to reach the goal .... If a person still has a low degree of love then greater suffering often occurs in order to hasten his soul's purification .... But this purification of soul can never be achieved by another person's conscious suffering on behalf of the former. Every soul is responsible for itself, and every soul has to reach its own maturity, which happens through love and suffering .... And the degree of suffering depends on the degree of love. I will certainly answer the prayer of someone who offers himself to bear suffering on behalf of a fellow human being because he loves him .... I will let him partake in the pain which he then has to endure. Yet he endures it for the purification of his own soul .... he indeed relieves the other person of the suffering for the sake of love, yet it serves him for his own perfection, whilst his fellow human being must likewise take care of himself and his psychological state of maturity, even if he is temporarily released from his suffering. No labour of love remains without result, yet where and how it takes effect remains My decision, Who knows every person's state of maturity and whom I will always consider accordingly .... And I give to every person what he is able to bear, and it is enough that he calls upon Jesus, the bearer of the cross, if he deems his burden too heavy for him .... And as long as the human being lives on earth he has the option to reach the goal of perfecting himself through love and suffering .... through following Jesus ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Belief in a pre-life in a must-state ....

B.D. 8509 from May 26th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

No man possesses the recollection of a stage of his previous life in the must state, and that is why also the knowledge about it is little credible to men; they certainly take note of it, but they cannot bring the previous states into connection with their earth life as man and are far more inclined to reject all this knowledge. And thus the forthcoming new banishment is also not credible to them and cannot frighten or induce them to change their life and strive for their spiritual perfection .... But neither can evidence be given to people that they have already lived on this earth for eternal times and are now in the last stage of their development .... Because their perfection is to take place in completely free will, but proofs would mean a compulsion on the will. Nevertheless I do not let up to again and again supply men with that knowledge, and just the unusual influx of it should already be considered as small proof to men that knowing powers are at work, which take care of men in their lack of knowledge and want to give them enlightenment .... And people only needed to think about the meaning and purpose of creation and the meaning and purpose of their own walk on earth .... Then also the knowledge about the course of their souls through creation would be much more believable to them and would rather make them happy than frighten them that they now have moved into the last form as man to also once become free from this and to have ended their course on earth. But men cannot be put into a degree of knowledge against their will, i.e., a love life is necessary for it to be able to reach a degree of knowledge. And the human being cannot be forced into love, therefore knowledge cannot be conveyed to them as long as the precondition is not fulfilled .... And again he has to be taught how important it is to fulfil the commandments of love, and this can only ever happen on the part of a fellow human being who possesses knowledge himself and wants to pass it on in love .... thus their cooperation is absolutely necessary, and I bless you as soon as you offer your services to Me, for I need you to instruct your fellow human beings in accordance with the truth .... Whenever the opportunity presents itself you should call upon Me in spirit and ask for My blessing, then your work will not be unsuccessful either .... And when only an impulse is given to men, which causes them to think, then he already enters the right way and can be continued on the part of their leaders, to whom they are entrusted during earth life. It is only ever a matter of making the human being think about himself and his actual purpose, about his relationship with his God and Creator from eternity .... It is only a matter that he does not only walk on worldly ways but once also enters the spiritual way, i.e., that his thoughts are not only worldly directed but deal with his actual purpose of earth life, which always means a change into the spiritual kingdom, which can be exceedingly beneficial. You men will certainly find far more rejection, and still you are to try again and again and point out to fellowmen to the creations around them, which prove a God, whose power let them come forth, and it is to be explained to them what creation actually is .... that your soul has gone through all these creations in small and smallest particles and that also all these creations in endless long time will likewise go the last course as man over earth .... You will certainly only rarely find belief, and still this description can stimulate fellowmen to think, and then already much is won, because such thoughts will then no longer leave them, because they can more and more observe world events and the more and more frequent destructions of earthly matter, which can also take place naturally. You men, who yourselves were already introduced into this knowledge, you can be beneficially active among your fellowmen, if you inform them of it, even if you find no faith ..... Especially in the last days this knowledge is still to be spread, because for every unbelieving human being there is the danger that he will be granted the same fate again which he has long since overcome .... that he will be begotten again into the creation of the new earth, which, however, does not mean a 'transmigration of souls', instead, your soul will be dissolved again, and its course of development will take an infinitely long time again until it has once again attained maturity in order to be allowed to take the last test of will in the human being on earth .... You unbelieving men are in danger to fail, and that is why this warning is to be given to you that you have to take a lot upon yourselves again, which lies behind you, and you are to believe in it and willingly accept the teachings, which are given to you to turn this dreadful lot away from you. Just kindle love in yourselves, and truly, you will be able to believe and also change your way of life; you will eagerly strive to still fulfil your earth task, for you are able to do everything if you fulfil the commandments of love .... Then you will lack neither strength nor knowledge, and then you will also listen to My messengers and follow them on the right path which leads upwards, towards the right goal .... into your father's house ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Re-transformation into love .... Spiritual spark .... Outpouring of the spirit ....

B.D. 8510 from May 27th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

Every person carries the divine spark within himself, which is part of Myself, Whose fundamental element is love .... Hence a tiny spark of divine love is inside of you and is in inseparable contact with Me, the primary source of the strength of love .... Consequently, this spark smoulders within you when you start your life as a human being on earth, and you are able to fan it into a brightly burning flame of such radiance that nothing inscrutable can prevail in it, since this flame illuminates everything and is able to completely permeate a person, so that he will live in brightest realisation as it was in the beginning, when he came forth from Me as a ray of love and a supremely perfect being .... Everything that is intimately connected with Me is in full possession of light and strength .... This is why the only important thing in a human being's existence is to restore this connection .... which the being once voluntarily severed .... and precisely this is made possible through this very spiritual spark, which is intended to establish the connection with the eternal Father-Spirit in order attain a state of brightest enlightenment and clearest realisation which, at the same time, is a state of strength and freedom. Anyone having kindled this divine spark within himself will never be able to go astray again, for he will then move within the range of My divine light of love, he will have become a vessel into which the flow of My love can pour, for love caused this spark to ignite. Thus, anyone who is lovingly active also establishes the bond with Me, because I Am Love Itself, because ....'Whoever lives in love lives in Me, and I in him ....' Love is the principle of divine order, only love is important in earthly life, for I Am Love Myself and if you want to reach Me then it can only be done by shaping yourselves into love and thereby becoming as one with Me again .... For your fundamental nature was love and it is only necessary for you to transform yourselves into your fundamental nature again .... for this reason I placed a spark of love into you, because you had forfeited love completely and without My support would never ever have been able to change back again, which I thus bestowed upon you by placing a part of Myself into you which is eternally connected to Me ....

And now you should use your existence on earth to fan this spark into the brightest glow .... Then all imperfection will fall away from you, you will have escaped all unhappiness, spiritual blindness will give way to brilliant light, you will know everything again, for love itself is the light which will illuminate you and dispel all darkness .... Through love you awaken the spiritual spark in you to life, and you will have evaded the state of death which every form of heartlessness signifies for the once created living creation. Then My ray of love will be able to permeate you, and since I Am all-knowing you will also attain the state of knowledge, because you will have entered the state of divine order which guarantees brightest light and clearest realisation .... where you will become as perfect again as you were in the beginning. Do you still find it incomprehensible as to what is meant by the 'outpouring of the spirit'? Do you now understand that it is a completely natural process when the spirit instructs you from within? As soon as you establish a bond with Me through living a life of love I Myself will be able to work in you by helping you attain the realisation again which you once lost, which you voluntarily forfeited when you relinquished all love and resisted My illumination of love. To accomplish your task on earth merely means to change yourselves into love again, for which I gave you the opportunity by placing a tiny spark of divine love into you .... And therefore only love needs to be preached to you, for if you practise this you will also gain a complete understanding of the consequences which the activity of love will have .... The pouring out of the spirit will become a comprehensible concept for you and then you will also know what truth is and where and how you can attain it .... For everything originates from Me and only requires a connection with Me so that you can partake in it and become as perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect .... However, as long as you lack love your spirit will remain dark, it will certainly rest dormant within you as a spark but it will not be motivated into action which always requires loving activity. Therefore you can consider yourselves blessed if this information is imparted to you, if you accept it and then endeavour to live your life according to this knowledge .... that you let love flare up in you and thereby receive the life again which will last eternally ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Are dissolved particles capable of suffering? ....

B.D. 8511 from May 28th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

Every being will forfeit its self-awareness again if it totally fails as a human being and can no longer escape the fate of a renewed banishment .... And this is the most dreadful thing that can happen, for although having been dissolved into countless minute particles it is no longer able to feel like a whole entity, as you humans assume, it nevertheless experiences inconceivable agonies, because the spiritual being, which was once created as a free entity and already had partially regained its freedom again as a human being .... is now constrained and experiences this constriction as dreadful torment. For My once emanated strength had been self-aware beings, they had been able to live to the highest degree, thus they had not just been dead shells .... yet they became like that when they apostatised from Me .... When the spiritual substances became hard the actual life had escaped from it, that is, My strength, which gives life to everything in the first place, no longer permeated these shells .... And the dissolved minute particles will also remain without life as long as they cannot be illuminated by My strength of love .... The fact that these lifeless tiny particles can nevertheless be sensitive is incomprehensible to you humans .... In that case, however, they would never react when My strength of love tries to capture and enclose them so that the fallen spiritual substances can be reshaped into matter .... For even its resistance is a reaction which demonstrates that the spiritual substance feels a certain amount of pain and tries to put up a fight .... And the whole of Creation is in this state of torment, for it is subject to a law of which I Myself Am the Originator .... It is not free and has to subordinate itself to My law of eternity .... which is extremely painful for the spiritual substance which once was created as a free being .... However, would it not feel this agony, it would never ever be possible to change this lifeless state again .... You humans will never be able to understand this, but you should believe it, otherwise you would not need to fear a descent into the abyss and you would be completely indifferent as to what will happen to you after the death of your body. On earth you have your self-awareness again and are free up to a certain degree and yet not entirely happy as long as you have not found unity with Me by completely handing yourselves over to Me ....

Nevertheless, as long as you are alive you can still attain the latter .... If, however, you lose your self-awareness again then you will also lose all freedom, your activity will be determined by My will once more leaving you unable to use any will of your own, you will be bound within deepest darkness without knowledge of your existence, because you will be dissolved and only perform those functions which your God and Creator has decided you should do .... And if you, in a mature state of soul, are one day able to view this long period of time in the state of compulsion, then you will also know about the inconceivable agonies your soul had to endure in the countless forms, and you will also understand why My love is constantly admonishing and warning you in order to spare you this appalling fate. For you cannot vanish again into nothingness, and because you are immortal .... albeit dissolved .... then that which remains will never be insensitive either .... You humans should only ever content yourselves with the information I convey to you as truth .... I want to rectify misguided assumptions like the one that the dissolved spiritual substances lack sensory perception, that its state is therefore synonymous with 'non-existence'. Then the process of development would not be a maturing until the state when it receives its self-awareness again as a human being, for all spiritual beings only redeem themselves by way of suffering and being of service, both before their incarnation as a human being as well as during their human existence .... It should not be forgotten that the being had burdened itself with tremendous guilt due to its past apostasy and that it will increase this guilt again if it does not make use of the last time of grace as a human being and descends again into the abyss. And although a complete redemption through the being is not possible, it will nevertheless have to make

Amends and suffer for as long as it is not released from this guilt through Jesus Christ's act of Salvation .... To accept Jesus' work of grace and compassion is the human being's task in his earthly life, and therefore he could easily ascend .... If he fails and rejects all help from above, if he descends again into the abyss, then it will also be understandable that his path of suffering will start again when the soul is dissolved again and the path through the creations starts all over .... And neither will the suffering come to an end until the immense guilt is, sooner or later, redeemed through Jesus Christ, when the human being's will is ready to take the path to the cross and to appeal to Him for forgiveness of his guilt .... And this great blessing is at the disposal of you humans on earth .... If you don't use it and pay no attention to it then your suffering will not come to an end, for you are very distant from Me, your God and Creator, and that always signifies lack of freedom, light and strength and consequently you will not be happy either ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Declaration of sufferings and afflictions of the last days ....

B.D. 8512 from May 28th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

I give you to consider that you can use every day for your perfection, which is still granted to you .... And even if you are still so far away from Me, you can bridge the wide gulf yourselves as soon as you pray to Me intimately .... Then you have voluntarily walked the path to Me, and I truly come to meet you and draw you to Me .... And even if the time is only still short when you stay on earth, as long as you possess free will, you can turn it towards Me, and from that time on you also give Me the right to take you by the hand and to lead you. Only this free will must become active from you, which you give to Me when you pray to Me as your God and creator, whom you acknowledge as powerful, and appeal to his love that it helps you. I only demand an intimate prayer to me, and truly, you are rescued for time and eternity. Because through this prayer you again acknowledge Me as your father, from whom you once went out, and through this prayer you also again seek the union with Me, and then also My power can again radiate into you, and every relapse to the deep is now impossible, because I now also assert My right towards My opponent, because you are also My share, which I no longer give away, when it has once decided for me. And you still possess the I-consciousness; you still walk over earth as man. And you only still need to make good use of the short time to complete yourselves, because you can now also be sure of My support for it, because I still wrestle until the end for every soul, that I win it for me. Only I cannot take possession of you as long as you yourselves still turn towards My opponent and he therefore also has the right over you, which I do not dispute with him. However, I cannot impress you humans very much with spiritual warnings and admonitions; earthly worries and hardships must weigh you down, then there is more of a chance that you will remember Me and take the path to Me with the request to help you .... And that is why I cannot turn away hardship and worries from you men because they are the last means to cause you to change your thinking .... For this reason suffering will also be rampant in the last days, every person will be affected by it himself or will have to experience it in his fellow human beings, for love is to be kindled in people's hearts, and every earthly adversity can be the cause for hearts to soften and willingly help their fellow human beings .... And where just one spark of love glows I will help and provide people with the strength to continue to be active in love .... And then they already establish a quiet bond with me, which they deepen according to their degree of love. Until the end opportunities will present themselves to the human being where he can help unselfishly .... whether he takes advantage of them is decided by his will, which is free .... but precisely for this will he is responsible, for his will is influenced by My side as well as by the adversary's, and he must now decide. But he can think, and mentally My light beings will assist him, but always have an effect on him without compulsion, as also My opponent cannot direct them compulsorily. But My love does not let him fall; My love pursues the soul until the death of the body, and it is touched by Me so often that it can truly decide for Me .... And as soon as it only carries out works of love, I have won it, because now it approaches Me and again and again receives power for love work. And love joins us together .... this soul can no longer get lost .... But without hardship and suffering I will no longer achieve anything on this earth, and that is to be an explanation to all of you why the end-times often seem to be unbearable .... What My love no longer brings about can only still happen through trouble and suffering that I Myself am called upon in suffering and am asked for help. And this call will be assessed by Me as recognition of Myself, and man will also be considered accordingly; I will announce Myself so obviously that man now first learns to recognize Me and he also shows love towards Me ..... And I will still accept him in the last hour .... He will remain protected from the lot of the new banishment, and even if his degree of maturity is still so low he will still be able to increase it in the kingdom on the other side because the danger of a fall into the abyss now no longer exists .... Because who once has recognized Me, he no longer gives Me up for ever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Unheard-of grace of the word reception ....

B.D. 8513 from May 29th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

The word from above is given to you, and that means that you are in direct contact with the highest and most perfect spirit in infinity .... it means that His strength shines into you, that He speaks to you, that a ray of light from the eternal light falls into your hearts, it means that you stand in right filial relationship to Him, Who is your father from eternity .... You cannot grasp this exceedingly great grace that His love has mercy on the once fallen and that He uses a human being who himself still walks in human weakness but whose will is to serve his God and Creator .... You cannot measure what grace you are allowed to receive when His word sounds to you, which obviously proves to you the bond with your God and Creator .... For your former apostasy from Him plunged you into endless depths, you became completely unable to hear His word .... And yet His love bridges this deep gulf, and He addresses you humans in order to win you back again as His children, who after all had emerged from His love and voluntarily stepped out of the child relationship .... The most perfect Being bends down in His love to the fallen being and speaks to it .... It again announces to it Its will and lights a light for it that the being can find the way in darkness, which leads back to the father, which it otherwise would not find eternally and which still has to be walked, if the being wants to again reach happiness, which was its share in the beginning. In the state as man the being is in spiritual darkness, and that means that he knows nothing of the secrets of divine work, that both his earth purpose as well as his relationship to God is unknown to him .... And only when he receives a small light, for which he is on earth, he will also lead his way of life according to his knowledge, and therefore this small light has to be kindled for him, which he himself can still increase in its illuminating power .... And as soon as therefore man can walk in the light, he will also feel well and flee from darkness .... And he will turn towards the eternal light, which now radiates into his heart, and then he will also again be able to hear the word in himself, which once sounded in him as love radiation of God .... But men mostly walk in darkness because the light of love does not burn in them or only weakly .... And that is why the word of God can rarely only sound, and the state of mankind would be hopeless if again and again a pure vessel would not offer itself, which has prepared itself for the reception of a great favour .... to receive the divine word, which now sounds directly as an outpouring of divine love, which seeks to achieve nothing else but to find access to human hearts again in order to make known to them the divine will, upon the fulfilment of which their salvation of soul depends .... an eternal life in light and power and freedom .... depends (is dependent). Where the word of God can be conducted to earth, there also the guarantee is given that the right way up is entered, because the divine word can only sound under certain conditions, and these are also already a proof of a certain soul maturity, because God Himself can only express Himself through such a vessel, which has formed itself to love and through this has also prepared itself as receiving vessel of the divine spirit. The word was silenced in the beings, which fell, and the great original sin had to be redeemed before, before the possibility existed again to hear the word in the heart, but the merciful love of God again and again ensured that he could open a source, out of which the water of life, his word, flowed pure and clear to men, at which all can refresh themselves, who want health in their souls. Because men need this stream of life; they need an obvious proof of God's presence to again be stimulated to approach him and therefore to fulfil their purpose of life on earth. They must be pulled out of the state of darkness; knowledge must be supplied to them again about their original beginning and their final goal .... about their relationship to their God and Creator and their actual purpose of earthly life. But the supply of the divine word to earth remains an unheard-of gift of favour, because once the beings voluntarily rejected His divine address and through the rejection of His love power they burdened themselves with a guilt of sin, which was so great that it could not be redeemed by the beings themselves .... And yet, the highest, most perfect Being addresses His creations again because His love is immeasurable and He wants to win back all His creations, (and therefore He addresses them again) so that they voluntarily surrender to Him for eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Where God's Word is recognised, that is where He is present ....

B.D. 8514 from May 30th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

My presence is evident wherever My spirit is able to work, for My expressions through the spirit testify to Me, and only someone closely united with Me can hear this expression of the spirit. For it is the same as if a father speaks to his child, it can hear him because they are together .... So now, you humans will ask yourselves whether I address you too, although it does not happen directly .... when My messengers bring you My Word .... Yet even then will you hear the Father's voice, providing you wish to hear it .... For I will be present to those as well, even if they merely read My Word, since it can only affect their heart if it voluntarily opens itself and thus allows Me to enter, in which case the person feels addressed by Me, the Word comes alive in him, it is no longer the dead Word only heard by the ear but his heart accepts it and is happy to hear Me speak. And thus he is permeated by My spirit, for his spiritual spark has already been awakened to life or he would truly not recognise the Father's voice. Hence, all those people may hear Me who make contact with Me in thought even if they cannot hear My Word directly. But I also know to whom I can convey My Word, who desires to hear Me and who allows Me to speak to his heart .... For this reason I said to you 'I shall pour out My spirit over all flesh ....' For everyone's spirit is enlightened who recognises Me Myself in My Word. Thus My spirit is able to speak to the spiritual spark within him, just as his thoughts will be right and truthful, because he is inwardly in contact with Me .... Yet all this presupposes love .... Without love every human being's heart stays closed to My speech, without love all knowledge remains dead for him, without love the human being cannot recognise the Father's voice, he only hears empty Words which mean nothing to him, and he will reject anyone who imparts such Words to him .... Only love is the key to the door of the heart through which I can enter, consequently I have to be present to the person who recognises Me and My Word and allows himself to be impressed by it. And I know people's hearts, I know where love has been kindled and where My presence is possible, because where love exists I Myself Am present ....

Thus, a lovingly active person already has the most certain guarantee for My presence, because I Am Love Itself and therefore have to be where love is being practised .... And where I Am present I will express Myself .... This certainty should make all those of you happy who recognise Me in My Word, for you know that I Am present in you and that you therefore have already established the bond with Me, which is the meaning and purpose of earthly life, and that you have also passed the test of earthly life, otherwise you would be unable to recognise My Word as the Father's voice. And thus you know that My vineyard labourers' task of spreading My Word is extremely significant, for then I can be present in every person who accepts My Word from your hands and who recognises that the Word of his eternal God and Father is addressed to him. I speak to all of you, I speak to every single one of you, always according to your degree of maturity and love, and I guide you into truth, for only truth will be able to fill you with joy yet you can only receive it from Me, the Eternal Truth. This is why all those of you who come into possession of the truth from Me through My servants on earth, if you are unable to receive it directly from Me, may consider yourselves fortunate .... But you can always consider yourselves addressed by Me Myself, for I touch your heart, and the most certain sign that I Am present to you is the fact that you open the door of your heart to Me, i.e., that you long for My presence. And believe that with every Word you receive from My mouth strength will flow to you .... Your soul will spiritually benefit for My Word is not ineffective, it has to lead to spiritual progress because the strength of My love pours into your hearts and can never remain ineffective. Hence your willingness to hear Me, to receive My Word, is already a reliable guarantee that your soul has found the path back to Me, that it is maturing, because it longs for Me and My presence and thereby enables Me to provide it with everything it is lacking: that it will regain light and strength and freedom, which it once voluntarily forfeited .... I want to fill you with My spirit, as I have promised, and you will receive My Word which will guide you into all truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Presupposition of the presence of God: love ....

B.D. 8515 from June 1st 1963, taken from Book No. 89

Again and again I want to point out to you that you all can hear My voice when you just carry out the change back of your nature to love and are now so intimately connected to Me through love that you can hear Me. Because My presence, which you now allow in you through love, will then also prove itself through My address, as you also heard My word in you in the beginning, when you had gone out from Me in all perfection. You are indeed still far away from it at the beginning of your existence as man, because your nature lets little love be recognized; but very quickly you can change, and you can become happy men on earth, if you just join Me intimately, what only presupposes a life in love. And again and again I give you the assurance that every gulf can be bridged when you just muster the will for it yourselves, because you just need to pray intimately to also secure My presence for you. The spiritual spark in you, which is part of My father-spirit from eternity, will also constantly push towards it, and if the human being consciously strives for the unification of his spiritual spark with the father-spirit .... that he lives a life of love and thus causes the eternal love Itself to be present, then he will also certainly be able to hear My voice within himself .... the clearer the stronger love flares up in him .... Then therefore My spirit can pour into a suitable vessel, because love banishes all impurity out of the heart and this has therefore prepared itself right that My love stream can flow in. And to be radiated through by My spirit means to gain deepest, truthful knowledge .... to change the state of ignorance, of spiritual blindness and darkness into a state of light and clarity about everything what is connected with one's own being .... To be ignorant is not a state of bliss .... To stand in brightest knowledge will always make man happy because then he is also already close to his original state where he was radiated through with light and power .... And this light and power will be his share when he brings love in him to unfold .... Then My light of love also radiates to him again, then he can also hear Me Myself again .... He can exchange with Me; he can ask, and he will receive answer; he can be introduced to deepest knowledge through My word, because My spirit flows over him and inner clarity, bright knowledge will always fill him with happiness .... Love therefore secures this blissful state for him; love gives him light and strength; love establishes the bond with Me as the Eternal Love, and this human being clearly and distinctly hears My voice within himself who only ever lives a life of love. Only through My death on the cross did it become possible again that this intimate union with Me took place, because before My opponent possessed too much power and he prevented men from love work, where he could only .... and because the original sin had created an unbridgeable gulf between My living creations and Me .... I have bridged this gulf Myself through My death on the cross ..... Nevertheless, every human being has to step onto the bridge himself and restore the bond with Me on his own initiative .... And this only happens through love, because I can only unite with a person who seeks to assimilate himself to My original nature, who draws Me to himself through a life of love .... And so love is the prerequisite to also be able to hear My voice, because love results in My presence and My presence proves itself again through My address .... And so I also could fill My disciples with My spirit and give a clear sign of My work after My ascent to heaven .... Through My death on the cross they had again become free from all guilt, their life was a service in love and their hearts thus prepared that My spirit could flow in, and this obviously happened because I wanted it that way that men take note of My unusual work in My disciples .... And so they could also .... full of wisdom from Me .... now carry out their mission to spread My gospel to the world and to proclaim Me and My great work of grace and mercy .... For all men are to reach their perfection on earth, and therefore they must first lead a life in love to then be led by Me Myself by the hand, to mature in their souls and to grow in knowledge and to be able to associate with Me Myself as a child associates with its father .... And then they will also hear My voice the higher the degree of their love increases .... For the father speaks with His child .... God speaks with His creatures because He wants to lead everything again to perfection, because all His creatures are to live again in light and power and freedom eternally ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The outpouring of the spirit .... Whitsun ....

B.D. 8516 from June 2nd 1963, taken from Book No. 89

Only after My crucifixion was it possible for Me to pour out My spirit, for prior to this no human being would have been capable of sheltering anything divine within himself, since humanity was still burdened by the original sin of the antagonism against God. My spirit, however, is the emanation of Myself, and no human being burdened by guilt could ever have been a recipient of this emanation, for the gulf which existed between what had become guilty and Myself was too deep.

But I, in the human being Jesus, have made

Amends for this guilt, and everyone who accepts My act of Salvation is now also able to prepare himself such that he can receive My illumination of love again, and that means that I Myself can take abode in the person and as evidence of My presence can also permeate him with My spirit .... Then his thoughts and intentions will be determined by the strength of the spirit, he cannot think and want something wrong as long as My spirit works in him .... For he completely consciously allows Me to work in him, he opens himself by intimately uniting with Me and thus enables Me to lower the light ray of My love into his heart which illuminates everything .... giving him the most bright and clear knowledge, so that the human being will emerge from his present darkness and be guided into every truth by My spirit, as I have promised.

This act of the outpouring of spirit, which took place in My disciples in full view of all people, had to be preceded by My crucifixion, My adversary had to be defeated first so that he would no longer be able to forcibly keep people in darkness but had to release those who turned to Me, who allowed themselves to be redeemed by Me, that is, who consciously acknowledged My great act of mercy and wanted to partake of it .... Thus death .... the immense spiritual darkness .... had been conquered for them, they were able to prepare themselves as vessels for the outpouring of My spirit .... Now they no longer experienced wrong thoughts, they recognised the truth and also fully consciously aspired to it, they emerged from the state of complete ignorance, they became enlightened .... My spirit permeated them, and now they also came closer to Me again, that tiny spark of spirit, which as part of Myself had rested dormant within themselves, aspired towards the eternal Father-Spirit to which it was inseparably connected. Very simply put .... the connection with Me .... having once been voluntarily discontinued by the beings, was restored again, and a being that was once more in contact with Me, the Eternal Light, had to be permeated by My light too, and its every thought can then only be right. He has to recognise the truth, and then the human being also has to uphold this truth, because he is urged by My spirit to proclaim the truth to all of his fellow human beings .... And this, too, was My first disciples' mission, whom the outpouring of My spirit enabled to go out into the world and proclaim the Gospel to all nations. They had to possess the truth themselves in order to pass it on, and even though during My years of teaching they had been instructed in the truth by Me, the outpouring of My spirit nevertheless had to take place first so that they then would brightly and clearly recognise their task and no longer be burdened by ignorance, for they were instructed through the spirit by Myself, Who stayed with them as I had promised.

And thus, time and again I will pour out My spirit upon people who want to serve Me, who prepare themselves as vessels into which My spirit can flow and who, like My first disciples, want to bring the truth to people in the knowledge that only the pure truth can help people in their immense spiritual adversity .... And My spirit will be effective in them so that the darkness will be dispersed and the people desiring to serve Me by assisting in the redemption of errant souls will think correctly again. No person can give what he does not have ....

However, to you, My servants, I want to give abundantly, so that you can impart it again to your fellow human beings who urgently require your support, since they will not establish the relationship with Me on their own .... Yet you, who know all correlations, can enlighten them and even now persuade them to their change their will. And you will always be able to receive spiritual knowledge in abundance, and at all times .... when you ask questions, they will be answered such that you will also be able to recognise the Provider, which you then should pass on .... for many people and countless souls in the kingdom of the beyond will ask questions and desire truthful answers .... they will be able to receive them from you, for I know all thoughts arising from the heart and will give to every person according to his task (comprehension).

And this is My working in you .... the working of My spirit, which the first disciples were allowed to experience for themselves after My ascension. They, too, had to be assisted by My love time and again, for in order to implement the task given to them by Me they required extensive knowledge, and without My obvious support they would never have been able to accomplish this task, for I constantly instructed them through the spirit. Thus they did not have to be afraid to be incapable of working as teachers or of spreading incorrect spiritual knowledge and were able to administer their office well .... they were able to proclaim the Gospel in accordance with My will ....

And today, too, I give My last disciples on this earth the same task of taking the truth to people, which can only come forth from Me directly. For the earth is engulfed by profound darkness, errors and lies are so widespread that people have to muster an utterly sincere will in order to find the truth and then also to recognise it as such. But only through truth can they become blessed, because they can only learn to recognise and love Me when the pure truth about Me and My nature is imparted to them. And this knowledge, the pure truth, can only be imparted to them through My spirit, but it will also be clarified for you, because I love you and you only need to establish a heartfelt bond with Me through equal love in order to induce the spiritual spark in you, which is inseparably connected to the eternal Father-Spirit, to express itself .... Then I can speak to you Myself and place you into a state of cognition, and then you will also know what you have to do in order to achieve your goal .... the unification with Me .... while you are still on earth. For when I instruct you Myself you truly will be taught correctly, and then you will accomplish your task on earth for sure and change yourselves into love, you will adopt your fundamental nature again and be blissfully happy, as you were in the beginning ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Events in the realm of spirits before the creation of the world ....

B.D. 8517 from June 3rd 1963, taken from Book No. 89

You came forth from My love .... thus you are beings whose fundamental substance is love like Me and therefore could be spoken of as images when you belonged to Me and My strength of love constantly overflowed into you. And as long as you therefore belonged to Me you were also most perfect; you were full of power and light; you stood in brightest light; you recognized everything; you knew about all connections, and this extensive knowledge made you happy, because you could now also work in all wisdom and prepare immense happiness for yourselves. For you were able to work and create in free will and yet stood in the same will with Me, your God and Creator, and you therefore moved in fullest harmony .... you moved in divine order .... And I delighted in the happiness of My creatures which I, however, wanted to increase even more insofar as that every being should move in free will, independently of Me .... because then the bliss increased limitlessly when the being .... uninfluenced by Me .... entered into My will, although it could also think, want and act against My will, because the freedom of its will did not impose any restriction on it .... It could increase its bliss without limit .... But there was also the danger that the being directed its free will wrongly and acted against My will, which now resulted in the opposite: that the being became unhappy, because only remaining in My eternal order guaranteed the state of happiness for the being .... but thinking, wanting and acting against My order brought the being lightlessness and powerlessness and bondage .... a state which could not be called happy. Therefore the fall of the beings was a result of free will, but which again had to be granted to the being, otherwise it would not have been of divine origin, because free will is the proof and belonging to a divine being. The fact that this will now turned wrong and took a wrong direction was the cause of the creation of the world. Because all beings striving away from Me through this wrong will also once again had to strive towards Me in free will to reach again that original happiness, because I want to consider and fill everything that has come out of Me with My exceedingly great love, what is founded in My eternal order. Because love always just radiates love, only no resistance is allowed to be put against this love, otherwise it remains ineffective. Therefore the being once again has to give up its resistance, and that is the purpose of the endless long course through creation, which I called into life to cause the once fallen being to change back, which again has to take place in free will, as once also the falling away from Me had free will as reason. My love no longer stops eternally; My love also pursues the being straying from Me, but it does not force it to return .... But it knows innumerable ways and means to once again achieve the return to Me .... But My love also does not give up on a single being, even if it puts itself on the defensive towards Me for eternal times .... Once it nevertheless returns to Me in free will, then I can fill it again as in the beginning .... You men now, who dwell on earth, to you the knowledge is to be passed on about what preceded the creation of the world, so that you take knowledge of your God and creator and his plan of salvation from eternity .... No fellow human being can give you such knowledge unless he has received it from Me Myself. For a human being will never know of his own accord about the deepest secrets of creation and all processes in the spiritual kingdom .... Because man is in that state of lack of knowledge through exactly that former apostasy from Me, through his once wrongly directed will. But an explanation is to be given to him; he is to know about his beginning and his aim to now lead his earth life accordingly, which is to earn him the return to Me when he submits himself to My will again ..... And such knowledge can only be given to him by Myself .... And that I impart it to you already proves to you My great love towards you, which therefore expresses itself to also win back your love, which alone can establish the union between us, which is purpose and aim of your earth life as man. This knowledge supplied to you is a sign, a proof out of that spiritual world, which you once had left, because you stepped out of the eternal order, when you directed your will wrongly. And when therefore such a clear proof is given to you men out of that spiritual world that your God and creator reveals himself to you by him giving you knowledge of those processes in the kingdom of spirits, which preceded the creation of the world, then these revelations are only to cause you to it, to seek contact with the kingdom which is outside of the earthly realm, which is your true home and should therefore be striven for by you with all your strength, because only then will you be able to experience the infinite love of your God and creator again, Who, as father, wants to make you happy with all the glories in His kingdom .... For you would never strive towards Him in earthly existence if you were not given a small light as to what you were in the beginning, what you are now and what you shall become again .... For I want to receive you again as My children and fill you with My love, I also want to possess your love and be united with you forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Truth is unknowable without love ....

B.D. 8518 from June 4th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

It is a futile effort to guide a person into truth who is devoid of all love .... Because exactly the lack of love is the darkness in which he is, and he can neither recognize a light in this darkness, nor would he be willing to accept it and to let himself be enlightened. Love, light and truth belong together; they are not to be thought without each other, and the spiritual trouble of men consists of unkindness, which brings darkness after it and therefore also truth cannot be recognized. And however the rescue of a soul is to proceed .... the commandments of love must always be presented to it first, and if it complies with these then salvation is also already guaranteed, because light and recognition of truth will then be the result .... To impart knowledge to fellowman, which can still be so deep and extensive, is completely useless when this man is without love, because then he is not able to penetrate into that knowledge and to recognize it as truth. But who has love, he will unhesitatingly accept truth, because he can recognize it as such. And it is again and again suggested to you that the gospel of love is urgent to be spread because it is pointless to supply much spiritual material to a man, which he is not able to grasp because his spirit was not yet awakened through love and he therefore also cannot be addressed by the father-spirit or also because man does not allow the expression of the spirit in him through his lack of love. And that is why the effect of My word sent to you from above will be completely different on men, according to the degree of love, which he has reached .... It will make a love-filled person deeply happy, and it will only have a weaker, soothing effect on those who are also only lukewarm in the fulfilment of the commandments of love, but who cannot be called entirely loveless .... The understanding of profound truths will not be as obvious as in a love-filled person who, as it were, has the same feeling within himself because his thinking could already be guided before the pure truth was conveyed to him from Me ( .... carried). But he will also recognize the correspondence and therefore be fully convinced of the truth of the spiritual knowledge conveyed to him. Yet people who have hitherto gone through earthly life lukewarm and indifferent but not entirely unloving can feel touched by the words and now make an effort to penetrate .... themselves .... They can above all recognize the importance of the commandments of love and change their way of life by now living consciously and striving to fulfil the commandments of love more eagerly .... And then their understanding will also grow, they will penetrate spiritual knowledge ever more and strive ever more eagerly towards Me. And that is why the transmission of the word sent to you from above is very important and significant, because it has an educational value and always only requires good will to be fully effective. Knowledge alone is not enough when love is lacking .... It will perhaps be thought through intellectually but have no further influence on the soul, on the will of man to reshape himself according to this will .... Therefore also the teaching of love can only be received with the ears, but not followed, and then man will gain nothing, but remain standing on the same level, because he can always only mature through love .... Anyone without love also has no desire for truth, and only the world offers him desirable goods, which he strives for ever more eagerly and thereby falls ever deeper into darkness, from which he can only find his way out through a life of love. If love is not strongly enough anchored in a man, then also the understanding for spiritual knowledge is not present to that extent that he himself could teach again, because fullest understanding and brightest clarity belongs to a teaching activity, to be able to refute all objections and to answer every spiritual question .... Love, light and truth are not separate from each other, but irrevocably the fire of love will radiate the light, which can only ever be pure truth .... Therefore My word, which comes forth from Me and is intended to touch hearts, must be lived out .... the word, which preaches love, must also cause the human being to live in love, and then he will also have enlightened thinking, and he will know what truth is and be able to distinguish it from error .... The ability to distinguish is therefore a sign of the awakened spirit, and only when you humans live in accordance with My divine commandments of love will it also be possible for you to recognize pure truth, and then you will also represent it as such .... because a gift which originates from Me is exceedingly effective and will certainly still help you humans on earth to attain perfection .... for you will transform your nature into love and no longer be of a will which is opposed to Me, you will unite with Me with every work of love, and I Myself will be present in you .... you will unite with Me again and be happy as you were in the beginning ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Truth is light .... Darkness the result of heartlessness ....

B.D. 8519 from June 5th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

He who seeks will also find, yet intellect alone will never be able to differentiate between truth and error .... His will to possess the pure truth has to come from the bottom of his heart, and then his heart will be able to separate truth from error .... There is widespread error in the world which means that one can indeed speak of dense darkness, for truth alone is light .... And it almost seems as if the truth would no longer be able to prevail but be overwhelmed by darkness .... But time after time it will penetrate again as a ray of light and enlighten a person who yearns for the truth. Yet it cannot be attained purely intellectually, otherwise clever people would indeed always have to have the truth and a less gifted person would be shut off from all light .... But coming into possession of the pure truth is determined by a different factor ....

A heart has to be willing and able to love, then the light will ignite in the human being by itself, and then he will be able to distinguish truth from error .... He will avidly accept the truth and reject every inaccuracy. The fact that the earth is engulfed by profound darkness is due to people's heartless way of life .... Heartlessness is the equivalent of spiritual darkness .... Only love is the light which bestows brightest realisation, love awakens the human being's spiritual spark to life, and love emanates the light of wisdom. And thus someone with a heart that is willing to love will not fall prey to error either, his thinking will move within the truth for he is already connected to Me through love, and then the light ray of My love can enter his heart and tell him everything he desires to know.

And only a loving person will actually ponder whether he is thinking correctly, whether he receives the truth or has fallen prey to error when he is offered spiritual knowledge .... For a heartless person couldn't care less whether his thoughts are right or wrong .... Yet only the human being who recognises and accepts the truth will be happy, for the truth will set him free and only then will he find the right purpose in his earthly life .... Only the truth will inform him about the meaning and purpose of his earthly existence, the truth will always provide inner peace, and he will find the goal worth striving for which he believes he has recognised in the truth ....

Through truth the person will also come close to Me, he will recognise and strive towards Me, and he will regard every error to be against Me and reject or fight it. His earthly life, too, will only appear worth living to him when he has received truthful knowledge about all correlations and the human being's correct relationship to God, his Creator and Provider, and he will strive towards Him in the knowledge of finding beatitude which, as a human being, he is as yet unable to experience. Earthly life will also only appear meaningful to him when he is truthfully instructed about everything .... Darkness, in contrast, cannot make a person happy, and every misguided teaching is spiritual darkness which can never please a person but should be penetrated by a ray of light, which denotes truthful knowledge ....

The person requesting truth is rich indeed, for he will receive it without fail, because I Am truth Myself and every wish for Me will be granted .... Nevertheless, it is very difficult to bring light into the profound spiritual darkness in which people live at present, precisely because people are blind and no longer able to even see a ray of light .... Their eyes have been weakened by deceptive lights and can no longer perceive a soft ray of light .... And they chase after these deceptive lights and get caught in ever greater darkness .... But they cannot be forced to accept the true light, being in darkness they have to yearn wholeheartedly for a ray of light, then they will also be illuminated from within and be so pleasantly touched by it that they will want to escape the darkness. And time and again I let the light shine to earth and I also know who desires the truth .... and truly, he will receive it, but first it has to be preceded by a genuine desire for it ....

But every human will is free, and if he turns to the light he will truly not need to regret it .... If, however, he seeks darkness he will perish in darkness, for it will only ever lead into My adversary's domain, whereas truth will lead to Me Who can only be reached through truth, for truth gives you humans a clear idea of what you need for your soul, and thus truth is the path that leads to Me and to eternal life .... Truth is the light that emanates from Me and enlightens the heart of every person who lives with loves and wants to unite with Me, the Eternal Love .... He will reach his goal, permeated by light he will return to his Father's house ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's protection from the adversary's temptations ....

B.D. 8520 from June 6th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

You can live your earthly life without worrying as soon as you have found Me .... as soon as you are united with Me through prayer and activity of love, for then you have voluntarily returned to Me and can never ever go astray again .... And even if you are confronted by temptations because My adversary keeps believing that he can win you for himself, you nevertheless need not fear these temptations because I will protect you from falling prey to them. For your voluntary dedication to Me has given Me the right to do so, but neither will I contest his entitlement to fight for the souls which are embodied as human beings in earthly life. However, you are not defencelessly at the mercy of these temptations, for from the moment you turn to Me I watch over you and protect you from falling. If you envisage your long development through the creations of earth which resulted in your embodiment as a human being in the first place, then you will also understand that I support you in every way so that you will still reach the last goal, so that you will find unification with Me .... Admittedly, this can be more or less heartfelt, it can mean total fusion with Me but also not be quite so deep and intimate at first, and yet merely your will to belong to Me is already the decisive factor for Me, for then you establish the bond with Me which is also the guarantee that I will never let go of you again and then the adversary will have no more control over you ....

And this heartfelt bond can only happen when the original sin has been taken from you because of your acknowledgment of Jesus Christ and His act of Salvation, for you will never take the path to Me of your own free will while you are still burdened by the original sin, because then My adversary will still have complete control over you. Your dedication to Me proves, however, that you want to be released from My adversary, and this already gives Me the right which is no longer disputable. For then you belong to Me, because you have emerged from the strength of My love albeit also through My adversary's will who used My strength to create you .... And everything that originates from My strength of love inevitably has to return to Me, for My strength, which was externalised by creating the being, will return to its primary source again. And you humans stand just short of this goal when you live on earth .... It is the last stage of the huge process of return, when the soul .... the once fallen original spirit .... embodied in a human being, should pass the final test of will .... to return to Me or to My adversary again, from whose power I had removed it until it was able to make a decision again as a self-aware being ....

This is why the earthly existence as a human being is of such great significance; after all, it decides the soul's fate .... whether it will be eternally happy or have to languish in misery and torment for eternities again. Admittedly, it will reach its goal one day, but its free will can extend endlessly for the duration of its apostasy from Me, just as it can finish it within a very short time and return to Me into the Father's house, which it once left of its own free will. Time and again you should bear this great significance of your earthly existence in mind and seriously strive to reach perfection, to return to Me, and always establish mental contact with your God and Creator of eternity, so that I then will be able to catch hold of you and draw you to Me .... For I do not influence you against your will, and neither can My adversary chain you to himself against your will .... You have to make your own choice for Me or for him, and with this decision you determine your later fate. But if you remember My love and appeal to Me for My assistance with complete trust, then you will truly not be left defenceless at My adversary's mercy, but I will always stand between you and him and keep him at bay, and his temptations will lessen because you .... if you sincerely desire Me, will be surrounded by a bright shining light which My adversary flees because it gives evidence of My presence and he avoids Me because he is My enemy. He is no longer able to pursue you as soon as you entrust yourselves to Me with complete faith and thus unite with Me through activity of love and prayer .... as soon as you never keep Me out of your thoughts .... Then you will have passed your test of will, and you will also attain the last goal while you are still on earth, that you perfect yourselves with My help and My strength .... so that you are and will remain My Own for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

False Christs and prophets .... Characteristic: Salvation ....

B.D. 8521 from June 7th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

A strong light casts a deep shadow .... So especially where My pure Word is emanated to Earth, much error will also be conveyed to it, for My adversary seeks to extinguish the light from above or to obscure its radiance. This also explains his attempt to mislead people with seemingly similar gifts, that he deceives people with transmissions from the world of darkness and tries to offer them in the same format but which clearly betray his counter activity, for it distracts people from that which is most important: from the pure truth about Jesus Christ and His act of Salvation .... The redemption of souls through Jesus Christ is precisely what he wants to prevent in order to keep his followers, whom he regards as his power. Much spiritual knowledge will be offered and everyone will claim to have 'received it from above' .... because My adversary does not shy away from disguising himself as an angel of light in order to confuse people's thinking. And I cannot stop his approach; after all, people themselves grant him this right. For it is mainly the desire for unusual experiences which offers My adversary the opportunity to intervene and to provide them with spiritual information which is worthless, if not perilous, for the human soul. Many people have a very strong desire for extraordinary experiences and are therefore not critical enough with themselves .... If they turn to Me with an earnest will for protection from erroneous thinking, if they are really interested in the pure truth, they will certainly also be protected and My adversary will be unable to exert his influences over them, because I Myself will place the inner resistance into their heart .... But mostly they have initiated the communication with the beyond and are themselves incapable of verifying as to whether they receive truth or error .... And the spiritual beings in the beyond make use of this attitude by providing people with messages which they accept unchecked as truth, and thus My adversary can constantly intervene. The fact that he is solely interested in intensifying the darkness and in obstructing people's path to Me .... that he will do everything in his power to prevent people from becoming redeemed through Jesus Christ, can be easily understood in view of the approaching end. Such connections with the spiritual world are therefore established in all places and people would rather accept this spiritual knowledge than the pure truth conveyed to them from My side.

Nevertheless, I will not determine people's free will but, time and again, I will provide clarification instead, and every sincerely striving person will recognise the truth and reject the error. I will repeatedly mention the characteristics to you, I will provide those of you who want to serve Me with the clear ability of discernment so that you can check yourselves and, in turn, also give clear instructions to your fellow human beings so that they, too, will be able to recognise the error and liberate themselves from it .... You can rest assured that no earnestly truth-seeking person will become entangled in the thicket of lies and error which My adversary skilfully knows how to cast .... However, anyone who accepts something without examination lacks a profound longing for truth and therefore cannot be protected by Me, for My adversary is equally entitled to fight for every soul so as not to lose it, because it once followed him voluntarily and he makes full use of this right of his during the soul's human existence .... and only the human being's own will can disable him .... You will still hear much about his activity and must pay ever more attention to everything happening around yourselves .... You should only ever ask for Me and My protection and I will truly not deny it to you .... I have constantly told you to beware of false Christs and false prophets .... And how often will the attempt still be made to lead you astray .... how often will the holiest of names still be used in order to give you a taste for error and untruth. But you .... if you are serious about the truth .... must pay attention to your innermost feeling which will always discard the error. And always commend yourselves to Me and My grace, for as soon as merely your will is inclined towards Me, My adversary will have lost all power over you. False Christs and false prophets will time and again tempt you until the end, but you are able to recognise them, for they will not emphasise Jesus' act of Salvation and not try to encourage you humans to take the path to the cross in order to liberate yourselves from your guilt of sin .... Then you will also know that you are not truthfully being instructed and can safely reject everything you are offered by that side .... Precisely the lack of knowledge about the significance of the act of Salvation is the spiritual darkness, and this shall be penetrated by the light of the pure truth .... The act of Salvation shall be mentioned in all places with the reference that the salvation .... the forgiveness of sin through Jesus Christ .... is the most important thing which must be attained in earthly life in order to be able to enter the kingdom of light and beatitude .... And this knowledge is repeatedly conveyed to you through My Word from above .... But My Word will never be spoken where no clarification of it is given or where His great act of mercy is denied or trivialised .... Therefore, beware of false Christs and false prophets, for they only increase the darkness spread across the earth but they do not grant light ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's Word will be heard eternally ....

B.D. 8522 from July 8th 1963, taken from Book No. 90

I have promised to stay with you until the end of the world .... And My Word will be heard by you, My living creation, as a sign of My presence .... The connection between your God and Creator of eternity and you, His beings having emerged from Him, will remain forever .... My love for you will eternally express Itself by speaking to you, because since the beginning It found greatest pleasure in being able to be in touch with Its living creations through the Word, and because the happiness of all beings will also eternally consist of constantly receiving My strength of love, and this transmission of strength is expressing Itself through My directly imparted Word. I reveal Myself through the Word .... I transfer My thoughts onto you and find My happiness by stimulating you to respond in kind, so that the dialogue between Father and child can take place, which in itself provides supreme beatitude ....

The more perfect the being is, the more clearly it can hear My voice within its heart .... which has to be spiritually understood insofar as that the being is moving within brightest realisation, within the same will and the same thoughts as Mine, with Whom it is intimately united due to its perfection. Yet even a being with a lesser degree of maturity can still hear Me if, in awareness of itself, it establishes contact with Me .... Nevertheless, the degree of happiness will be higher or lower respectively, for once it is united with Me again .... the being will have come alive .... the state of death will have been overcome, which alone excludes the hearing of My Word .... But only very few people know that their God and Creator would like to speak to them and that they could indeed hear Him if they lived a way of life in accordance with His will. Only few people experience the happiness of a direct communication and enter into a heartfelt relationship with Him .... And if fellow human beings are given the knowledge of it they find it incredible and only laugh at those who tell them so ....

Yet 'Heaven and earth shall pass away: but My Word shall not pass away ....' And this promise of Mine, too, is usually interpreted differently in as much as you believe that the 'written Word' will be preserved unchanged .... Yet even for this it is necessary that My Word be repeatedly conveyed to earth because human will does not retain anything unaltered and the purity of the once spoken Word will not remain guaranteed .... But this promise of Mine has an even more profound significance still .... 'My Word shall not pass away ....' My Word will always and forever be heard by the spiritually tangible beings, My Word will always and forever give evidence of the bond of all created beings with Me, My living creations may always and forever be able to hear Me, for their happiness rests in the fact that they will be spoken to by Me directly, that they will always know of My will and harbour the same will within themselves, that they may associate with their God and Creator like children with their Father .... that profound realisation, supreme wisdom and truthful knowledge will permeate them and make them infinitely happy ....

And all this is only the result of the dialogue with Me through the Word .... If My Word could not be heard within all spiritual beings there could not be true life either, for only My Word is the life, the strength and also the happiness, or I would forever be a distant, inaccessible God for My living creations, with Whom there would be no reason to make contact and no effect could be recognised either .... 'I will be with you until the end ....' You will not be without Me and My presence anymore .... unless you still belong to My adversary into whose domain I will not intrude, instead you have to turn to Me voluntarily. But as soon as you have separated yourselves from him and seriously strive towards Me, My Word will also be heard within you, albeit very quietly at first as the voice of conscience .... yet you will be able to hear it increasingly more distinctly if only you hand yourselves over to Me so that you are inwardly urged to speak to Me in thought .... Then you will also receive an answer, only that you will not recognise it as such at first but regard it as your own thoughts .... However, the more you withdraw from the world and look for Me, the louder My voice will sound in you, and the belief in My speaking to you can also enable you to consciously expect it ....

And you will hear Me .... It entirely depends on your soul's degree of maturity, it entirely depends on your degree of love, how you will hear Me and My Word .... And since you, as belonging to Me, are constantly ascending, My Word will not exclude you either .... I will be and remain with you and always and forever speak to you .... and you will become increasingly happier as a result of the constant dialogue with Me through My Word ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The condition to attain perfection on earth ....

B.D. 8523 from June 9th 1963, taken from Book No. 90

Consider, you humans, that you are weak as long as your soul still lives on earth in the flesh, and that you therefore always have to request strength from Me if your want to reach your goal .... your perfection .... while you are still on earth. For only the strength from Me will strengthen your will, which is weak as long as the adversary can still influence a person because he is not perfect yet. Your determination especially will always be undermined by him, and I died on the cross for the sake of reinforcing your will, hence you must avail yourselves of the graces acquired on your behalf: strength and reinforcement of your will. And your weakness will always manifest itself such that you are not yet able to completely detach yourselves from the world .... Admittedly, you still live in the midst of the world and therefore have to do justice to all demands .... But there is a difference whether you just fulfil your duties or still want to enjoy earthly pleasures yourselves, whether your heart has already freed itself from worldly wishes or still has earthly longings .... For then your will to achieve spiritual perfection is still weak, its aim for Me and desire to unite with Me is not undivided .... You still make concessions and thus have to 'apply force' .... you must seriously try to accomplish detaching yourselves from the world and this requires strength which you have to request time and again, and which you will also always receive ....

Hence it is crucial as to which direction your sincere will turns to .... towards Me and My kingdom or towards My adversary .... And again it is your degree of love which determines the choice of your will's direction, for a heart full of love will always find Me and My kingdom more desirable than the earthly world .... Therefore you should first examine yourselves as to how far you have overcome selfish love .... to what extent you are filled by selfless neighbourly love, for this is the same as love for Me, and only this love establishes union with Me .... not the mere longing for Me, which can be selfish love as well in order to gain the highest delights of blissful unison with Me .... However, the right love for Me is only demonstrated by unselfish neighbourly love. And only this raises the degree of love. As long as you still desire small pleasures for yourselves you should also try to give a little pleasure to your neighbour, yet without calculating earthly or spiritual advantages, but urged from within by the desire to give happiness and joy. Such selfless demonstrations of love will refine your nature, you will find your own happiness in giving pleasure because your love will grow increasingly stronger and at the same rate diminish your love for the world. And this is why you should seriously call yourselves to account as to whether you love your neighbour as yourselves ....

Your perfection depends entirely on the degree of love you attain on earth, and you can only be called 'children of God' if you acknowledge that your fellow human beings likewise originated from the Father and you therefore also love them like one brother loves another and do everything for him that you would like to have done to yourselves. Always subject your neighbourly love to serious criticism and work at improving yourselves .... request the strength from Me and you will reach your goal, yet you won't be able to achieve anything by your own efforts .... But I want you to perfect yourselves on earth, consequently I will also help you in every way as long as you seriously want it .... Yet you will always have to apply force as long as this world still keeps you captivated .... If, however, you can detach yourselves from the world then the attainment of the goal will also become steadily easier, and then you can rightly say 'My yoke is easy, and My burden is light ....' Then you will no longer need to use force, then you will be full of strength, and then you will only strive towards Me .... for the love in you is the strength which indeed achieves anything. And you can also understand that a loving human being is full of humility .... which expresses itself in his conduct towards his neighbour to whom he gives his love .... Never forget that neighbourly love is the indicator .... and that you will have to prove your love for Me through selfless neighbourly love ....'for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?' And thus your will can indeed be inclined towards Me and this also guarantees that I will take hold of you and not let you fall again ....Yet the degree of your perfection is determined by yourselves and only ever by the degree of love for your fellow human being .... But you can attain it if you sincerely subordinate your will to Mine, and then you will always think, act and want like I do Myself, and you will surely reach your goal on earth .... to unite with Me in order to be eternally happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Promise of divine love care in greatest need ....

B.D. 8524 from June 10th 1963, taken from Book No. 90

And even if you will lose everything you still have Me, Who is lord over everything, over the universe, over the kingdom of light and that of darkness, you have Me, from Whom everything emerged and Who can truly also preserve everything in greatest adversity. And if you just possess the faith that I help you, you will also be preserved, no matter how small the possibilities for it seem to be. But I know what you need, and that you will also receive. Furthermore I am also able to keep you alive out of My power, which flows over in you, because Him, Who called everything into life, what you see, is also truly possible to keep you alive through His will. And you are to believe in this, and you will fearlessly expect the coming disaster; you will always know yourselves to be safe in My protection and My love care, and you will then also think and act in My will. Around you there will be incomparable trouble, and you will not need to fear this trouble, and in a wonderful way you will come into possession of what you need and through this also be able to prove to fellowmen the power of faith. And then you should only ever point to the great goodness, love and power of God, even if fellow human beings want to deny Him .... You are to make them acquainted with Me, Who also gave them life and longs for their return to Me. And it will also be easy for you to speak in view of the great misery of men, who are hit so hard exactly because of their unbelief and feel everything far more difficult than you, who know about the meaning and purpose of everything what comes. Your calmness and composure in the face of earthly events, your strong faith and the visible help you experience will nevertheless lift many people up, they will think and can also attain faith if only they are of good will. But the others are still in the power of My opponent, and they will also try to assert themselves and do this at the expense of their fellowmen. And by this you can recognize the spiritual attitude of these, and as soon as they can again record earthly successes, you know that he has helped them who wants to plunge them into ruin .... And these will also find their followers on a far greater scale than you, who seek to draw people over to you and would like to inform them of the spiritual kingdom and its lord .... You yourselves are never allowed to despair; you are just to always long for My presence; you are to join Me the more intimately the greater the trouble becomes, which has to come over men because of their state far from God and which therefore will also touch you. But it will always be bearable for you, because I know the ones who are Mine, and the ones who are Mine call to Me and will not be left without help. Then you are not to despair, and whether still so great distresses arise for you .... My power is stronger, and My love never ceases, and so I will always be with you, you who receive My word and seek to spread it, you who accept My word and live it out .... You need never fear that the father will abandon His children, for I will heed every call and help where help is needed .... Only firmly believe in Me, in My love and in My power. And do not be afraid to speak of Me and My love to those who have not yet found Me, who do not know Me as a God of love and who therefore also know nothing about the cause and purpose of their adversity. You are then to preach the gospel to them, just as I Myself have instructed you .... you are to give Me Myself the opportunity to speak through you, and also announce to them an imminent end, so that they prepare themselves for it before it is too late. And when they will see in you the effect of a deep, living faith, then also in them faith will revive or become stronger, and the small flock of Mine can still increase, because every soul is still wrestled for until the end, but which then is no longer far. Earthly goods are still at your disposal, but these you are to use for work in love; you are to acquire spiritual goods for yourselves, which last, because you must give up the earthly goods when this is My will .... And then it will be recognizable who belongs to Mine, for he will hand out what he still possesses, and he will again and again receive from Me proofs of favour of My love and power and truly need to suffer no hardship .... And you humans should always bear in mind that there is one Who truly has power over heaven and earth, for Whom nothing is impossible and Whose love is unlimited .... And to this one you should call even now and then in the great adversity which befalls you humans .... Pray that your faith will reach that strength where you leave everything to Me without hesitation, where you give yourselves to Me and place yourselves under My will .... And truly, the father will not abandon His children, He will hear every call and distribute the gifts of His love where they are awaited in deep, living faith ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Vineyard work not without effect ....

B.D. 8525 from June 11th 1963, taken from Book No. 90

Again and again I must admonish you to eager work for Me and My kingdom. You should not tire and consider your work useless, even if you seem to have little success. But consider that only few people occupy themselves with spiritual thoughts, that their thoughts are mostly worldly directed .... but that only spiritual thoughts can have an effect on souls in the kingdom on the other side and that they need help quite urgently as soon as they are still close to earth because of their low degree of maturity. They can only understand you by following your thoughts, and if these are now spiritually directed they can draw the greatest blessing from it ..... Only few people move in spiritual areas because these areas alone have become their purpose in life .... Few people work consciously for Me and My kingdom, even if contact with Me is cultivated in church organisations .... but then always only at certain times and within a certain framework .... But only the living connection with Me has a beneficial effect, and this is only established by few people .... Therefore those souls in the beyond have only few possibilities to join sources of light where they themselves are also allowed to receive light .... which they however do where only through sparks of light such a source is visible on earth .... And for the sake of these souls who urgently need you for their further development .... especially in the first time after their departure from earth .... you should be eagerly active yourselves and serve Me in My vineyard. You should neither let yourselves be distracted nor influenced by apparent failures .... I know about every effect of that what you undertake in the service for Me, and I also know about all thoughts, and also the circle of the souls in the beyond, which fetch food from you, I determine .... i.e., I point them to you, which you can help them in their trouble. And since you receive truth directly from Me you are also surrounded by truth-hungry souls, by souls which on earth were difficult to determine to accept spiritual knowledge because nothing seemed credible to them, but which nevertheless led a way of life which did not put them into darkness after their departure .... but which nevertheless cannot leave earthly nearness because they are still too earthbound through their inclination towards the earthly world .... But now they have recognized that they no longer live in the earthly world, they seek to find support with people on earth who assist them in their spiritual poverty .... They long for true spiritual good and feel it that they find this with you. You are so necessary for these souls because they earnestly strive upwards and are now also instructed by Me Myself through you so that they quite safely reach the aim .... And you must never let this source of life dry up for those souls .... after all, even in the kingdom of the beyond time is still limited, and the work has to be done on all those who enter the spiritual kingdom to introduce them to divine truth, to proclaim to them the gospel of love which they neglected on earth, and thus to be right guides for them on the path to ascent .... Countless souls are called away and arrive in a little developed state in the kingdom on the other side .... And what they therefore missed in earth life they must make up for and need right instruction for it, which you can impart to them through eager spiritual work, which therefore is never done in vain .... You must never forget that such places are rare, where I Myself can hand out the water of life, the bread out of heaven .... but that exactly at such places also the right food is to be got for those immature souls, which truly demand it, because they feel the effect of this divine food and are exceedingly grateful for the help given to them, which they again also want to give to other souls, and that is why the work of redemption draws immense circles for you. What I give to you men through My address, that also countless souls receive in the kingdom on the other side, and as long as therefore this intimate contact with you is possible, this also means a redeeming mission to the souls on the other side, which certainly also have enough teachers in the spiritual kingdom, but after their passing away on earth are still so far connected with earth that you have greater possibilities, spiritual knowledge to them than those beings of light, which are only allowed to approach them in a veiled form and are only listened to by the souls when they have already somewhat understood all correlations, when they already possess a degree of light which now also allows them to gratefully accept the help of the beings of light in the beyond and they then also ascend inexorably ....... Believe that no work you carry out for Me and My kingdom is in vain .... Every spiritual thought has a beneficial effect, and no spiritual thought is lost but has an effect as strength on those souls which are to be helped to ascend ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The will of man often sets limits to the power of God ....

B.D. 8526 from June 12th 1963, taken from Book No. 90

My power is truly great, and there is nothing what would be impossible for Me to do ..... And yet, My power is also limited by the free will of My living creations, for everything is subject to the law of eternal order, and thus free will can also establish barriers, My activity must also take place within this legal order, otherwise perfection could be denied to Me which, however, is in turn the basis of the law of eternal order .... This can also be defined in such a way that I, in My supremely perfect being, also only ever use My power to the extent that I recognize it to be beneficial, whereby I always take the beings' free will into account .... otherwise it would truly be easy to reshape everything that exists and has become imperfect into supreme perfection .... But then free will would have to be passed over, it would have to be made unfree, and then you would eternally only remain creatures which came forth out of My power .... And since you men are now creatures which have stepped out of the eternal order and do not rightly direct free will, you yourselves put barriers on Me to appear as omnipotent being, because every proof of My unlimited power would only be a compulsion of will for you, which would miss the purpose with you, because you would then have to subordinate yourselves to Me, which however must be and remain an act of free will to become most perfect. My power is indeed everywhere recognizable, for every work of creation proves it to you, yet you take the whole of creation for granted and do not think about the fact that it confirms to you an omnipotent and wise creator, but you could, in free will, prompt Me to give you obvious evidence of My power if your faith were so strong that I could also grant you requests .... But you still lack this, and therefore I also have to hold back .... But I can only assure you again and again that nothing is impossible for Me .... that I can fulfil every request for you if you yourselves do not impose a restriction on Me through your will, which has not yet completely entered into My will. You must not forget that you are divine creatures, that you were once images of Me and that you are .... as having come forth from Me .... will also eternally remain divine creatures, even in the state of your imperfection .... And therefore also the free will remains with you, which is the sign of your divine origin .... And My power now adapts itself to your free will by not expressing itself where limits are set for it through free will. But it is not to be denied to Me, and I will always use it when I recognize in My wisdom that My creatures constantly move away more from Me when they are to take their test of will on earth as man .... And then I do not use My power against My creatures after all, but only against the one who unlawfully seeks to keep My creatures in darkness .... when he exceeds his authority, when he seeks to deprive My creatures of every possibility to take cognizance of Me by making My existence seem questionable and unproven to people .... For I must be recognized if the human being is to relinquish his decision of will, and therefore I will also always reveal Myself to people .... But if My opponent tries to prevent this, then his hour has also come where chains are put on him. Then My power will express itself unrestrictedly, then I will quite obviously appear to restore order, but then also every compulsion of will will switch off, because then also men can no longer use their will, since they have forfeited the right to mature on earth, and will again be banished in the creations of the new earth .... It is not a stronger power that imposes restrictions on My power but it is My love, which, coupled with wisdom, does everything that is conducive to the final perfection of My creatures .... And My exceedingly great love sets limits even to My power when this is of blessing for My creatures .... But everything is possible for Me to achieve as soon as you men have completely entered into My will, when you trust Me unreservedly and believe in Me that I, as most perfect, can truly also accomplish everything .... But on earth you often determine My will yourselves, which leaves your will free so as not to endanger your final maturing .... But by no means are you allowed to doubt My power, even if it does not always express itself .... But at any time you can also determine Me to obvious proofs of My power when your love is so strong that you completely devote yourselves to Me. And if you ask Me in this childlike love .... Then you will truly cause Me to also work miracles, because nothing is impossible for Me as soon as you just believe ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

"You shall be saved by grace ...."

B.D. 8527 from June 13th 1963, taken from Book No. 90

Remain deeply united with Me, and I will pour out My favours over you unlimitedly. You are just to gratefully accept them, and you will also not reject My gift of love when you join Me yourselves, when you pray to Me or carry out works of love and are thereby closely connected with Me. Everything that helps you upwards I give to you, and these are favours, because they are gifts of love, which are not your own merit, because you once rejected My love and therefore have no more right to it ..... But My love is exceedingly great, and it wants to give itself away, and that is why it pursues you and offers you gifts of favour, which are truly significant for you, because they are the means, which make your maturing possible. And your course of life is so directed by Me that every event can serve you to the best. Therefore everything is favour, what you meet in life, because it can promote your ascent development. But how you evaluate all these favours, that is left to you, because compulsion is excluded from My side. I bestow gifts upon you but do not force you to accept My gifts, your free will must decide on this. But without My help you would be completely incapable of maturing while still on earth; but if you seek contact with Me of your own accord, you will also certainly evaluate the gifts of grace I bestow upon you, for the bond with Me demonstrates your will which is turned towards Me, and it will then also subordinate itself to Mine and thus also recognize My love in everything it encounters .... And he will become blessed out of grace .... The whole earthly life as man is a grace, because I open up the last possibility for him to return again as a perfected spiritual being into the kingdom, which he once had left voluntarily .... And what can happen from My side during earth life to help man to perfection, that also happens. These are all favours, which My love gives to My creatures, which no being can claim, because they once left Me voluntarily, but which prove My great love, which I feel as father towards My children. I want to remedy the great weakness of men, their shortcoming, and give them so much favour and power that they can carry out the return to Me themselves, and I also want to strengthen their will, which must tackle the work of transformation itself .... I will not omit anything that could contribute to the soul's ascent to Me .... only one thing I cannot do .... make your will unfree and forcibly pull you up .... That is why you men yourselves also set limits to My supply of favour, because as soon as you do not voluntarily evaluate them, they remain without success, and no matter how deep My love is and would like to win you for Me. But I will not make free unfree; I will not curtail a man's free will .... And that is the reason for the spiritual low of men, who leave all My gift of favour unused and unnoticed and therefore do not get any step further in their development and therefore are also once again put before the decision in the last faith struggle .... where their responsibility will be presented to them. Because it also then again depends on them themselves how they adjust themselves to Me, to their God and creator, whom they once did not want to acknowledge and therefore became unhappy. Also now only the right decision of will is necessary that help is given to man in great measure .... that also now again graces without measure are at his disposal and that he truly can also reach the aim to establish the final union with Me, which makes him again to My child, to the original being, which it was in the beginning .... In every way I seek to change the will of man, which is still directed towards Me; in every way I bear My love to man, and he only needed to feel touched by it to now also give Me his whole will .... But everything has to happen voluntarily .... And this is to be helped by My word, which sounds down from above to earth .... My word is to stimulate man to live out My love commandments, and truly, man will now voluntarily turn towards Me, because with every work of love he also establishes the bond with Me and I now also seize him and eternally no longer let him fall .... That is why My word from above is the greatest and most effective gift of favour, which you are all allowed to receive and only need to open your heart when you are addressed by Me, because then you give your will to Me, and I no longer let you go from Me; I accompany you on all your ways, and you will establish the connection with Me more and more often, because you will no longer leave Me out of your thoughts .... Then you will also evaluate all blessings correctly, you will take every opportunity where you can carry out works of love, for My supply of blessings also means the supply of strength which you will always use for works of love. And then you will truly have become happy out of grace, and you will return to your father's house as My children ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Explanation and meaning of the work of redemption ....

B.D. 8528 from June 14th 1963, taken from Book No. 90

When again and again explanations about the work of redemption of Jesus Christ are sent to you, then this happens because few men just measure the deep meaning of it and that is why it has to be said again and again that earth life has not fulfilled its purpose when man does not take a stand in this towards Jesus Christ and His work of redemption. For on this alone depends his redemption from the great original sin, which he himself can never pay off, and whether he would also always again return to earth .... That original sin consisted in the voluntary turning away from Me, the rejecting of My love power, in the arrogance of the beings, which also thought themselves powerful without My supply of power .... And the sin was so great because the beings were radiant with light, thus they stood in brightest realization .... They consciously rebelled against Me, Whom they did not see but nevertheless recognized as their God and creator, and they followed the being which they could see, which had emerged from Me first and was also the first to fall away from Me and rejected Me and My love .... The beings' entire apostasy was an offence against Me which was so severe that they would never have been able to make atonement for this guilt and would never have done so of their own accord, rather, they turned hostile towards Me and constantly distanced themselves further from Me .... They rejected My strength of love, which now could no longer work either because it met with resistance .... And thus these beings lost their life because the life force, the love, no longer flowed through them .... They hardened within themselves, the strength once emanated as a being was lifeless, it no longer operated, and everything was dead that was once created as a living being .... That this power once emanated by Me was now reshaped into creation has been explained to you again and again, and also the course of the fallen beings through this creation up to man .... Now the being is again self-aware and has already reached a certain degree of maturity .... but it is still burdened with the great original sin for which it can never make atonement itself, neither in earthly life nor in the kingdom of the beyond .... But one day it shall return again, and this can only happen through the redemption of the original sin, which was accomplished through a sacrifice of an incomparable kind by a human being Who offered Himself to Me as a sacrifice of atonement, Who laid down His life in dreadful agony out of love for His fellow human beings whose state of wretchedness He recognized, and Who wanted to help them to find their way back to Me and to be able to enter the kingdom of light and bliss again .... The great sin of apostasy from Me could only be redeemed through love .... But no human being could muster love any longer since the being had rejected every illumination of love .... Only a being could make this atonement which itself was permeated by love, which was intimately united with Me as the eternal love .... But a human being, due to his former departure from the eternal order, was no longer capable of love to the extent that he could have made such a sacrifice of devotion .... And so a being of light offered Himself .... an original spirit, Which faithfully remained with Me during that apostasy of spirits and was therefore still full of love, offered to make this sacrifice to Me, for I could only accept such a sacrifice of love as atonement, because the original sin consisted in the rejection of love from Me .... And that soul of light, which embodied itself in the man Jesus, made a unique sacrifice .... Jesus laid down His life on the cross in order to give mankind .... those once fallen beings .... the bliss, the life, again. He died on the cross and suffered unspeakably for all mankind .... And I was satisfied with this sacrifice which love brought .... For love is My fundamental nature, and thus I Myself was in the man Jesus, I Myself atoned for the great guilt .... And you humans must also acknowledge this sacrifice of Jesus in earthly life, through His acknowledgement you must also acknowledge Me Myself and, as it were, confess that you have sinned against Me by now feeling like My creatures again, by giving Me your love again, by acknowledging Me Myself in Jesus and asking Me for forgiveness of your great guilt .... You must consciously want to become free from your guilt and go to the one Who has made atonement for you. You cannot pass by Jesus Christ otherwise you will not be eternally free of your guilt .... Consider that everything you see around you, the whole universe with all creations, only came into being as a result of your former fall into sin .... consider what effect this apostasy from Me had and that now one has come to earth Who took your great guilt upon Himself and thus went the path to the cross .... so that the work of return from the abyss to the height could also be completed with the final success, so that the being is allowed to step before the father's face again pure and blameless .... And then you will also recognize the great significance of Jesus' work of redemption and know that this is your actual purpose of earthly life, to come into contact with Him .... the divine redeemer Jesus Christ .... and to be guided by Him onto the right path which leads home into the father's house. Consider that you can in no way redeem the original sin yourselves, that you have to accept the help of Him Who alone was full of love and did not defend to divine love Himself ....My everlasting illumination .... Who shaped Himself into the receptacle of My love and prepared a dwelling for Me so that I could take full and complete possession of Him .... Consider that the eternal love Itself has redeemed the guilt of sin for you, and accept this work of mercy if you want to become blessed and return to the father again, from Whom you once came forth as supremely perfect .... And do not pass by Jesus Christ, for without Him you cannot be saved ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Encouragement for diligent vineyard work ....

B.D. 8529 from June 15th 1963, taken from Book No. 90

The fact that I Myself arouse the thoughts in you to convey My Word to those who will derive the greatest benefit from them should also spur you to carry out diligent spiritual work. People so often ponder over questions which I answer for them through you, and often they are delighted that they are granted this answer and thereby also recognise Me Myself and My activity .... Nothing truly happens by chance and I know every thought .... I convey My Word to you and Am therefore in constant contact with those of you who also think of Me, for it requires a heartfelt bond for My Word to affect you, be it directly but also indirectly, if you receive it through My messengers. But you, to whom I can speak directly, should use every opportunity to pass it on and always know that you thereby radiate many blessings, that nothing is done in vain and that I Myself guide you and direct your thoughts and only require your will to let yourselves be guided by Me .... Once a person has recognised My voice, every Word from Me will be a tonic for his soul, and the right nourishment and right refreshment will constantly be desired by him .... He will no longer be satisfied with human words, My Word alone will grant him strength and his soul will nourish itself by what it is offered from the Father Himself .... And thus you can believe that I will always be willing to pass the bread of heaven to those who long for it .... You will also feel urged to pass My Word on and shall always comply with your inner urging and truly, you will spray sparks of light in many a heart which ignite a fire again. And the desire for Me and My presence will grow ever stronger, it is the purpose of My address from above that people shall be affected by it and that their faith in Me will come increasingly more alive, that their desire to unite with Me becomes ever stronger and that My will, which is revealed to people through My Word, is subsequently also complied with .... Through diligent vineyard work you can contribute much towards it, hence you should not tire in distributing My Word and make use of every opportunity to inform your fellow human beings of the divine transmissions from the spiritual kingdom .... of the working of the spirit in the human being .... which I Myself promised when I lived on earth .... You should try to draw your fellow human beings onto the spiritual level, which certainly is hard work but it can be achieved .... Your willingness to serve Me, and your love for your neighbour will always let you find the right path, for I Myself direct your thoughts and will always be active in you as well. I will lead the people to you whom you should please again, and I watch over you so that your work will not be disturbed by My adversary. And therefore you can rest assured that you are not at his mercy even if he would like to stop you and your activity on earth .... The end is approaching and I need your work in My vineyard, for people need to speak up where I Myself cannot express Myself but where I also want to be active so that people will attain beatitude .... For time is coming to an end and much work shall yet be done, this is why I bless every one of My servants who works for Me and My kingdom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Prerequisites for hearing God's Word ....

B.D. 8530 from June 15th 1963, taken from Book No. 90

If you are able to hear My Word within you then the relationship of a child to its Father will have been restored, then you will carefully listen within and hear My speech because you desire to be addressed by your God and Father of eternity. In that case you have made the right decision of will, for the soul .... the incarnated original spirit on earth .... will never be able to hear My Word against its will, but it has voluntarily come steadily closer to Me and changed itself into love again so that it can subsequently hear My voice once more, as it was in the beginning. Although the return to Me will indeed have taken place, nevertheless, the souls' degree of maturity can considerably differ according to the degree of love, which can continuously be raised and thereby My Word can be heard ever more clearly .... It is always an influx of My thoughts into the human heart .... It is always a manifestation on My part to a person who is closely united with Me through love .... My voice is not heard by the human ear, I speak through the spirit to the soul which, in turn, conveys the Words to the intellect, and this accepts the Words and determines the human being's will to write them down in order to preserve what My love wants to reveal to people .... These thoughts are radiated by Me from the spiritual kingdom, for the human being as such would be unable to provide himself with the kind of knowledge which is imparted to him through My revelations .... because all thoughts are flowing to him from the spiritual kingdom and it merely depends on their place of origin how they may be used .... Hence, the fact that I Myself Am able to speak to a person is already proof that the original state will soon be attained, otherwise the person would be incapable of hearing My voice. Every human being can certainly prepare himself as a receiving vessel for My flow of spirit which affects the person in the form of My Word .... Yet people only rarely know this, and only rarely will a person reshape himself again into that which he once voluntarily rejected. But anyone who does, will, through living a life of love, also attain the living faith that I speak to him, that he is able to hear Me, and then he will also attentively listen within ....

And truly, I will reveal Myself to him, he will hear the Word again as in the beginning and be very happy. For he will receive extensive knowledge, he will regain the realisation he once had lost .... he will become brightly enlightened, and through his close contact with Me he will also receive spiritual strength, which flows over to him through My Word. His dormant abilities will be reawakened, because love must awaken them first .... The person will increasingly deify his soul and unreservedly fulfil his purpose of life on earth: He will completely unite with Me again and be able to enter the kingdom of the beyond in a perfect state after the death of his physical body .... Yet a person only rarely forms such a heartfelt bond with Me that he can hear My Word in him .... But if it happens then it will also be in conjunction with a mission: to pass My Word on to those whom I cannot address directly because not all prerequisites for it are present .... Thus, it also provides Me with the opportunity to inform people of My will, for all people should know My will in order to subsequently comply with it .... And anyone who accepts My revelations will also make an effort to live according to My will, and then every one will be able to shape himself such that I can address him directly .... be it by either steering his thoughts in the right direction or by enabling him to read My Word which is conveyed to Earth directly. But his will must always be willing to listen to Me, if that is the case, he will only ever derive a blessing from My Word whether it is given to him directly or conveyed to him through My messengers .... But every person is blessed if he has the inner conviction that God Himself speaks to people .... everyone is blessed who has the grace of being informed of My Word .... blessed is he, who does the work of improving himself such that he becomes a receiving vessel for My spirit .... For he can be certain of My presence, My presence will manifest itself to him when he hears Me Myself in him, and then he will also know that he is not far away from Me and his goal, when he will be ultimately united with Me, when he will hear My Word again as it was in the beginning, when he will be able to communicate with Me and be eternally happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Man must be given knowledge through vineyard work ....

B.D. 8531 from June 16th 1963, taken from Book No. 90

Extensive knowledge is supplied to you, which you are to pass on, so that the night of the spirit is broken through and a light shines into it, which enlightens the way to Me. As long as you men are completely ignorant, your thoughts will always only occupy yourselves with worldly things, and only when the connections are explained to you, in which relationship you yourselves stand to Me, your God and creator, when a truthful knowledge is made accessible to you about creator and creation and yourselves as creatures of an exceedingly powerful, wise and loving being, your thoughts will also occupy yourselves with it, and you now only live purposefully on earth. You men will have to admit it yourselves that however such thoughts move you all little; you will experience that your fellowmen are not to be addressed by you when you want to bring this knowledge to them .... you will have recognized that they don't want to think about it, that they reject you as if you were hostile towards them .... And you can see in this the evidence that they are still in the fetters of the adversary who will always influence them to close their hearts to the truth when it is brought to them .... There is also little prospect to enlighten fellowmen in the spiritual field; their thoughts are predominantly turned towards the world and earthly goods, and every spiritually directed thought they reject because it worries them and hinders them in their desire for the world. Very occasionally also men break away from the fetters of My opponent by them listening to you and thinking, and then there is already the possibility that light beings intervene and can direct their thinking right. Then man will demand to know more, and then he will also receive answers to the questions, which he mentally asks. And for the sake of these few I again and again give you the assignment to be tirelessly active, to offer your spiritual knowledge to fellowmen and to undauntedly carry out vineyard work despite apparent failures, which always only consists of informing fellowmen of My work on and in you and to spread the spiritual results .... Anyone who once immerses himself in the knowledge which My great love imparts to you will now also understand the meaning and purpose of creation and of the human being himself, and this knowledge alone will make him happy, because only then will it give his life the right content .... plus the awareness that the human being is loved by the being Which called him into being; that this being wants to bestow supreme beatitude upon him will make him happy and make him seek frequent contact .... And I will offer Myself to him as a guide and always turn My love towards him so that he will recognize Me and also learn to love Me .... Therefore I reveal Myself again and again and only want that My revelations are also passed on to fellowmen, that also these feel addressed by Me and now also consciously strive towards Me, that they are anxious to lead a life in My will .... that they seek to fulfil My commandments and therefore live in love .... and through love now also establish the bond with Me. The extensive knowledge, which is sent to you, gives you information about My nature, My work and My plan of salvation from eternity, which only aims at the return of the spiritual, which once fell away from Me .... You humans only know little about it, and that is why there is also only little love for Me in you .... But if you become enlightened about My nature and about My eternal plan of salvation, then the love spark can be ignited in you, and you feel drawn towards Me, Whom you recognize as love, wisdom and power, and then My love already draws you, which longs for your approach to Me, to be able to make you happy unlimitedly. That knowledge breaks through and chases away the darkness of spirit, in which you walk; it becomes light even in you, and in this light you feel well and no longer desire back darkness. For the light goes out from Me, while My adversary is the prince of darkness .... And as long as you are completely ignorant, as long as it is still dark in you, My opponent still has you in his power .... But if you desire light, then you also desire Me, and then I can give you light, because your desire proves the voluntary turning towards Me, which My opponent cannot prevent, but which I reward, in that I now take possession of you and will illuminate you always more, because I now can radiate through you again with My love through your free will, which is meant for Me. He who has ears to hear, let him hear .... This applies to all of you men that you are to listen to My messengers when they come to you and want to bring you knowledge, which will truly make you happy, because knowledge is light, and every light is preferable to darkness. Man will feel it beneficially and desire ever brighter light .... and his desire will be fulfilled, for I, Who am the light from eternity, do not deny Myself to any being who wants to enter My light .... I radiate the light, and everyone who opens himself will be touched by My ray of love-light .... I reveal Myself to everyone, and everyone can become knowledgeable because he is truthfully instructed by Me Myself as soon as he only desires light ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Feeding the right soul food ....

B.D. 8532 from June 17th 1963, taken from Book No. 90

A right food and a right drink shall be offered to you from above, a nourishment at which the soul can feast and refresh itself, which helps it to strengthen and heal itself. Because as long as you still stay as man on this earth, your soul is still weak and ill, and it needs good food and healing medicine. I offer it to you Myself, for I know the state of your souls and do not want you to leave this earthly life inadequately and enter the spiritual kingdom inadequately .... I want you to perfect yourselves, and I also truly give you everything you need to achieve this perfection. The soul is to come to life, which it no longer loses for ever. And therefore also food must be supplied to it, which guarantees life; it must draw power out of this food to mature; it must therefore also approach the giver of food and drink to receive that out of his hand, what helps it to eternal life. And what I now present to it, when it steps to My table to be fed by Me, that truly has a value for the soul, which is inestimable .... It receives a measure of power out of My hands, which helps it to cover the way up effortlessly, and at the same time it receives a light that it also recognizes the way, which leads to Me, back into its father house. No man is allowed to believe to reach the destination on earth without any help, because his soul is weak and blind at the beginning of its life as man, and its eyes must be opened; it must receive power, if it wants to come to life .... It is therefore dependent on good food, which again only I Myself can give to it, because I possess everything what it lacks. I will offer it the bread out of heaven, the water of life, and truly, as soon as it enjoys it, its weak, lifeless, dark state will change; it will revive itself and now also go full of eagerness the way, which is shown to it, because it now also feels the power in itself, and it longs for Him, Who continuously lets food and drink go to it. It enters from the state of death into the state of life, it will no longer move away from the source where it can draw the clear water of life. Again and again it will approach the host's table in order to receive delicious food from Him, for the more it enjoys it the stronger its desire for it will become, and it will constantly let itself be satiated by Me and this truly not to its detriment .... Only who establishes and maintains the connection with Me can be fed and watered by Me directly, strength will constantly flow to him, and he will be placed into a state of light which will make him happy and let him strive ever more eagerly for Me, Whom he now also recognizes as his God and creator, Who wants to be recognized as father by the human being because He wants to make him happy as father forever .... And again and again I will reveal Myself to people .... i.e. open up a spring from which the water of life can now flow, which is to bring recovery to the soul .... Again and again I will call My guests to My table in order to take supper with them Myself, i.e., to hand out to them the food and drink they need in order to reach their aim .... Again and again I will send My word from above to people, which they are to listen to, move in their hearts and subsequently become active, for they require direct help from above, which My love will also grant to them .... Only their free will now has to become active, for even the most precious gift from Me will exert no compulsion on the human being, it has to be evaluated voluntarily in order to then, however, be of greatest blessing for the soul, which loses its weakness and blindness, which powerfully and with sight walks the path upwards because it strives towards the aim, the union with Me .... Then it can never ever get lost, then it has used My strength beamed to it correctly, it has matured and now also goes towards its perfection .... It is My share, and therefore I will not rest until I have regained it for Myself, and I truly use all means to achieve this aim .... For I want the blind to see, the weak to be strengthened, the sick to be healed and everything to come back to life, which had voluntarily chosen death .... but which I will never leave in the state of death but help it to life, which lasts forever ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers