New Revelation recieved by Bertha Dudde

Proclamations No. 0323 - 0376

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

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

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

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

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Autobiography of Bertha Dudde

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Recorded November 22, 1953

Bertha Dudde

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

Table of Contents

0323 - Humanity's need.... Warnings and admonition to accept God's word....

0324 - The Word of God....

0325 - Divine mercy....

0326 - Divine Grace.... The Spirit of God....

0327 - Revelation from God Himself....

0328 - Rejecting the idea of survival after death....

0329 - Father's words of comfort.... Prohibition of books....

0330 - Judicial power....

0331 - Wonderful proofs.... Unbelievers have the same purpose....

0332 - God’s blessing – earthly and spiritually....

0333 - Reminder to follow the inner voice.... The cornerstone of truth....

0334 - Hostility of evil powers.... 'Lead us not into temptation....'

0335 - Spiritual work.... Spiritual hunger.... Divine Grace....

0336 - Receptacle vessel.... Organic limbs.... Purpose of the heart....

0337 - Constant higher development.... Missed life-stage....

0338 - Why God allows pressure through greed - lies and injustice....

0339 - Intellectual creation and reward.... Earthly work and reward.... Work in the Hereafter....

0340 - Doubts about the deity of Christ.... Teaching of Christ.... Incarnation....

0341 - Divine Grace.... Spiritual Friends.... Dangers from outside.... Help....

0342 - Flee the pleasures of the world....

0343 - Danger of self-love.... Love for God and neighbour....

0344 - The path of development is a constant struggle.... Struggle in nature....

0345 - The blessing of disease and suffering....

0346 - And the Word was made flesh....

0347 - But the greatest miracle is love....

0348 - Reminder....

0349 - Mystery of the Incarnation.... God's grace and power....

0350 - Candidates for the eternal kingdom....

0351 - Population Problems....

0352 - Population Problems....

0353 - The world endangers the salvation of souls....

0354 - Faith....

0355 - 30.3. (Hugo)....

0356 - Ermahnung zum Wirken.... Wille Gottes.... 7 Jahre Leid.... Vaterworte....

0357 - 1.4 (Birthday)....

0358 - Subordinating the will to the Divine will....

0359 - Patience and gentleness of the Lord.... His goodness endures forever....

0360 - Organized care.... Lack of charity....

0361 - Loving Father’s words....

0362 - Loving Father’s words....

0363 - Inner voice.... Sovereignty of the soul over the body....

0364 - The necessity of constant struggle.... Cleaning through the elements.... Storm....

0365 - Father-words.... Spirit.... suffering.... Love....

0366 - God's warrior.... God's Word.... Granary....

0367 - Messages given by God Himself are indestructible....

0368 - Prediction.... Laws.... Earth Mission.... Teaching of Christ....

0369 - Creative spirits.... Free will....

0370 - The disciples of the Savior.... The Jewish kingdom....

0371 - Anthroposophists?.... Poem....

0372 - Reasonable will to transfer.... Inner Knowledge....

0373 - Purpose of suffering - Trials.... Lethargy of the spirit....

0374 - Divine Commandments.... Work of the spirit-beings....

0375 - Knowledge.... Inner life.... Difference in the value of spiritual and earthly knowledge....

0376 - Building and foundation pillars.... Printing of the writings.... Warning....

Humanity's need .... Warnings and admonition to accept God's word ....

B.D. 0323 from March 6th 1938, taken from Book No. 8

Your will is enough to enter My kingdom ..... When you pray, you are with Me and I am in you .... because My whole being overflows into your spirit to strengthen your spiritual power so that nothing hinders you to accept what My will is. A small proof of this is that you are completely filled with Me as long as you send your thoughts to Me, and in this short time of your prayer your spirit revives in you still incomprehensible fullness, but not recognizable by your earthly body, innumerable threads go to all the spirit beings that effectively support you and satisfy your desire for spiritual food and strengthening by carrying out My assignment and satisfying your hunger. My dear child .... your spiritual work will have an infinitely delighting effect in the hereafter, do not abandon it .... that I may once receive you and bring you from earthly life to Me ....In which need and danger mankind is at present, is apparent to only a very few of you .... a recognition of the time in the whole extent would leave you frightened, because it now concerns everything .... regarding the existence or passing of your own life, it concerns spiritual life or death .... it concerns your soul.

Instead you chase after worldly pleasures and get caught more and more in the pitfalls of the adversary. So you only need the pleasures of this world to be happy on earth .... but woe betide you if you recognize the wretchedness of your spirit and if you have nothing with which you can cover your spiritual nakedness .... How shall I receive you into My kingdom, you who appear imperfect before Me and have done nothing on earth to be worthy of the reward for eternity .... It will cause you unspeakable agonies, you have to look back on the uselessly spent time on earth and are then in great emotional distress .... Have understanding, before it is too late ....

My warnings reach you again and again and again, but you do not want to hear Me and remain blind to My signs. So listen to the servants I am sending to you, let them speak and pay attention to their words ....; if they touch your heart, My Breath will touch your breath, for they are My words that My servants communicate to you in My Name .... And when you then accept My word, then you are helped ...., then My power has imperceptibly passed over into you, and it will have an effect in you until the end of your days. Because My word will not pass away until all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Alida Pretorius

The Word of God ....

B.D. 0324 from March 7th 1938, taken from Book No. 8

For time and eternity is the word that the Lord Jesus Christ gives to his people on earth. As soon as the people begin to doubt, they lose the connection with the eternal Godhead and will therefore not reach spiritual maturity because to attain eternal life, it is necessary to obey the commandments of God, but without the word of God you lack the power to fulfill these .... above all you lack the knowledge of the eternal-grace-giving source, and you grope in darkness and are weak, helpless beings .... [and that] while you can acquire brightness of spirit, power and strength without measure through the word of God.

It is a fundamental law, the importance of which man cannot rightly imagine, therefore it is still better to accept blindly the Word of God, unconscious of the great blessing, than to reject it and thereby cause immeasurable harm to oneself. For wherever the Spirit of God is an active, ennobling influence on the human soul, there the divine love and power itself guides you .... To accept with devotion, faith and trust what is lovingly offered to you from above is infinitely wiser than to first want to fathom with the human mind what could be true and what could not be true ....

It is the great mistake of mankind to arrogantly consider itself wise, to consider itself called to do research in that which can only be explained by the divine Creator and for which the human mind is far from sufficient .... And where one cannot fully fathom, it is better to accept a teaching that can never ever cause harm, but rather strives for the noblest in it's commandments and indications, and so can be called a true light from heaven.

To receive the message of God unadulterated is an immeasurable blessing for all of you .... you may refresh yourselves again with a water that flows purely and clearly from the spring .... you may receive words directly given to you by the Lord Himself .... so that you may feel the refreshment very beneficial and must recognize the value of God's revelations .... It was in his will to come to the help of countless poor earth children .... He lovingly offers them his saving hand and welcomes everyone lovingly, but you must find your way to Him and must not reject Him, but what you do if you do not want to hear His word ....

The Lord's vision goes far ahead .... In the beginning you may well be able to keep afloat with your teachings, which are the work of men, but soon you will realize that you lack the ground on which you can anchor .... you will be exposed to the elements and will not know where to find support in your distress. And then everything that is human work, fails .... Then only the Word of God alone remains, which was there from the beginning and remains until all eternity.

Do not let this most painful time for you come near in spiritual darkness, but turn still before this time to the word of God, which brings you salvation out of every trouble .... out of spiritual and bodily distress .... because only one can help you Who is above and to whom all work of creation is subject - so also you, who are created to strive for the union with your Creator and heavenly Father. The only way to God is through His Word, and only through this will you become one with the eternal Godhead ....

Amen

Translation handled by Alida Pretorius

Divine mercy ....

B.D. 0325 from March 8th 1938, taken from Book No. 8

Only those who believes will fulfill My will, and so everyone who desires Me will also remain in My faith because his striving will always be to taste the food of heaven, and this food will give him what he needs for his salvation. And so they who diligently practices love will always recognize the word of the Lord and act upon it, because this is indispensable for an intimate union with God .... And without this union again no bliss can flow through the human heart, and only in this way it can remain in the blessing through the works of love, to which I Myself draw close ....

My dear child, your constant supplication for My grace is a consequence of love for Me .... You do not want to miss something that your heart has received until now, and so your richness of grace has increased to the same extent as you asked for it .... Only a little while, then all grace will be revealed on you, because I search in the heart and give according to desire .... And so you feel over and over again how I come to you because every thought in which you seek Me, draws Me to you, and so I also want to dwell spiritually in your heart, and you are to grasp everything that is spiritually transferred from Me to you ....

You must all recognize that the spiritual world is the epitome of the creation thought of the divine Master. What being could remain satisfied with only what surrounds it's earthly shell, once it has learned to look with spiritual eyes .... To whom would the earthly existence still appear of value, who has penetrated into the spiritual world .... who has recognized that all existence on earth has only the purpose of spiritual perfection .... And who would really want to spend his life still uselessly after such a realization ....

Most people say: We live on in our children .... and deny that they themselves are called to something higher and therefore have to follow a wise commandment of the Lord in shaping their life on earth .... But every erroneous view will soon become clear to them, and their struggle for brightness of spirit will not be easy, but the Lord usually pulls the lever where he wants to have a rich harvest and where God's wisdom has recognized that man's heart is purified through suffering .... there the divine power, the living word of God, flows through the hitherto rejecting earthly child and lets it find the way that leads to union with the divine Spirit .... for the struggle for every soul lasts until all eternity.

Amen

Translation handled by Alida Pretorius

Divine Grace .... The Spirit of God ....

B.D. 0326 from March 9th 1938, taken from Book No. 8

The Lord grants grace to all to the extent that they are worthy of it. There is no limited law according to which the earthly being may enjoy the grace of God only in a limited way, but the source of grace is inexhaustible for you people, if you only follow the right paths that lead you to this source. Every being which has succeeded in the awakening of the spirit, will now be permeated by divine grace, and this will now flow to him continuously, to render him more and more mature and completed as long as the earth carries him.

The wise always only strives for divine grace .... what he alone never can succeed in, he can easily accomplish, being supported by God's grace; and you may draw as much as you want at any time .... because it is only up to you whether you ask for it .... your prayer for the grace of God will always be fulfilled. Therefore again and again try to present your spiritual need to the heavenly Teacher so that He has mercy on you and instructs you in His teaching, and no day will pass where you will not collect treasures and form your spirit according to the Father's wish and will.

“Ask and you shall be given ....” And your share will be pure truth and clear vision, and as you learn to love God and your neighbor with ever greater power, so your spirit likewise illuminates itself with ever stronger light .... because only man sets limits in earthly ability, but God, the all-embracing Spirit, allows unlimited spiritual maturation, and every being rises into ever higher spheres of spiritual enlightenment until the spirit finally unites with the eternal Father-Spirit.

And now summarize all your thinking, striving and acting, and compare your present activity with your past life, you will recognize more and more that everything around you is flown through by the Spirit of God .... Your thought often turns upwards, it always returns to infinity .... You remain in constant contact with the world in which your soul now mainly seeks it's abode .... And new areas are always opened to you, which distract your thinking from earthly worries and joys and form your spirit to completely different experiences ....

This extraordinary reshaping of your being is an influence of the divine grace granted to you in abundance .... It turns away from the world and towards the spiritual, everyone who only earnestly longs for it and asks God for help, and so everything is founded in it that has changed your life ..... Both the earthly and the spiritual activity is determined by the divine spirit when the human child submits to the divine will.

For what is your life other than a slow forming of your spirit, that you recognize to be subject to divine power and yet to possess free will .... so that you use free will in such a way that you seek the divine Father, the Creator of heaven and earth, out of your [own volition] and strive to come ever closer to Him. When you have recognized this, the Spirit of God will flood through you, and again and again you will live in His grace, and your end will be a blessed one.

Amen

Translation handled by Alida Pretorius

Revelation from God Himself ....

B.D. 0327 from March 10th 1938, taken from Book No. 8

In the name of God an incomparable event will be revealed to you in a new form, and everything that is around you is subject to the will of the Lord .... and where the powers of the divine Spirit continuously pour out over a child of God, there the Lord Himself will reveal Himself, and then the gift will dwell in the heart of the child to proclaim the pure word of God without difficulties and inhibitions, because in him and through him the Lord Himself speaks. His delight is the Lord's delight .... and so in true bliss of the heart a child of God will only carry out the will of the Lord .... it will also work by virtue of it's love for the Lord in love and to the blessing of those walking on earth, to whom God's word is promised ....

The Lord demands the commitment of your life and yet gives you infinitely more if you comply with His demand .... For the sake of such things, which will point to a living faith without any action on your part .... which you do well, but not by your own power, but as executive instruments of divine will and divine power .... such things you must acknowledge as force majeure, and if you cannot explain them in human terms, a light must shine on you ....

And this is what the Lord wants you to aim at, that you begin to live .... the life that is to lead you upwards. All spiritual impulses in you are to be awakened .... the days are not to pass for you without peace and joy, but you are only now to get to know true happiness and inner peace. You shall also learn to recognize how stale the earth's goods are, how empty they leave your soul ....

If you want to enjoy pleasures on earth, you will always remain outside your destiny .... you cannot penetrate into regions that are only open to you when you seek the eternal Deity, because this is not to be found on earth in the midst of rushing pleasures, in the midst of lust and sin.

If your soul has the desire for truth and spiritual maturity, then you will never again be lured by the world's splendor and dazzle, then you will willingly turn your back on it and look up into infinity .... because from there the enlightenment .... comes to you and in an hour of solitude you experience the grace of the Lord on you. What is grasped by divine clarity can hardly again return into the darkness of ignorance, and an incomprehensible longing for light will now drive the soul, and also there the victory will be yours, in which you will then intervene to help [others] in the name of the Lord.

To show this way to people .... to light a spiritual little light in them, the Lord Himself will reveal Himself, and there will be astonishment and amazement .... He will shake the soul of many an earthly child, because His mercy and His love is so great that He wants to knock everywhere, so that the doors of the hearts may be opened to Him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Alida Pretorius

Rejecting the idea of survival after death ....

B.D. 0328 from March 11th 1938, taken from Book No. 8

It is an impossible to begin to want to point out to men at times of complete spiritual blindness that the state of their souls after death is one of their own choice or self-seeking .... but that they can never ever arbitrarily improve this state as soon as they have once stripped off the body-cover. How can one want to draw men's attention to such things when they reject any thought of a continuation of the soul after death ..... How is it possible to bring into such hearts the impulse to spiritual activity when they still shake their heads and dismiss everything that could point to a survival after death. How can one want to draw people's attention to such things when they reject any thought of a continuation of the soul after death ..... How is it possible to bring into such hearts the impulse to spiritual activity when they still shake their heads and dismiss everything that could point to survival after death. They believe in their blindness to simply sink back into nothingness and prefer this thought by far to the belief in survival, because then they would also be spared the responsibility, which they still shy away from, even if they do not want to admit it ....

Now the Lord Himself enters .... He still wants to gain access to people's hearts .... therefore all that develops through your hands is also an all-explanatory proof of the work of the divine Spirit. The Lord never lets those whose will is good, remain in ignorance, and these will be pointed out through unmistakable signs to the visible rule of God .... but one thing will always remain .... that man now also only strive to turn his spirit there from where alone he can be and will be given insight .... but this man will also find the way to truth, and the power of God will meet him with assistance, when it is earnestly implored for in prayer ....

Amen.

Translation handled by Alida Pretorius

Father's words of comfort .... Prohibition of books ....

B.D. 0329 from March 12th 1938, taken from Book No. 8

Whomever draws near to Me remains in Me and I in him .... and whoever keeps My commandments from now on, he will not die in eternity, because it is I who awakes him from sleep and brings him home into My kingdom. And so insert yourself, My child, into the world-order created by Me, and do not sacrifice your present life to the world that threatens to destroy you and wants to capture you again .... you do not resist the temptation that will approach you. A quiet prayer to Me and I support you so that you feel My nearness and remain in Me ....

Such has always been commanded to man, and their heart's voice showed them the right way, but the longing for earthly desire was always far stronger than the will for spiritual perfection .... and the Divine essence therefore remained hidden from them. It requires full engagement at all times .... now however, it is an urgent requirement to gather all forces against the enemy of the soul ....

You are still only wading through murky water, but soon thick mud will make your progress difficult, yes, soon even impossible, and then, put your hands to work, because it will be necessary .... but the work is on your soul, because from now on you are only for a short time in full possession of your powers and can use these at your discretion .... but soon obstacles of every kind will prevent you from the execution of your will .... you get into a predicament and will not know which voice you are to follow .... the voice from outside or in your heart ....

And you will have to do violence to your own 'I', if you want to free yourselves from dark influences and external command. Begging the blessing of God on everything that you begin is your strongest weapon in the fight for your salvation, then the heavenly Father will lead you out of all danger. In the wisdom of the heart, each one remains, whenever he directs his thoughts upwards, from where alone help can come to you. The same will become apparent to you at a time when the earthly will will stir in you, which wants to lead you aside .... then take care that you do not stumble, My child .... the joys of the earth are many .... but all of them do not outweigh the inner peace of the soul, which is certain to the child of God, who only longs for Me ....

Only that which is of God must reign around you and in you, and only My Spirit alone shall enter your heart, and what comes from outside, flee from it .... In the depth of your heart, the divine spark of My love enlivens itself to an ever brighter flame, and what I have once ignited, I never let extinguish again .... All being and becoming is determined by My love; where this is missing, nothing can come into being because the ordering power, which flows out of divinity, is wisely only absorbed there where the being has striven for an intimate union with Me, and so it follows from this that an everlasting union with Me must also be of such blessing for you that your anxiously trembling heart is protected from every evil influence.

You still live to fight for your soul's salvation, and when you fight in trust in Me and take refuge in My love in every trouble of the soul, you will win .... for I only allow these fights against you for you to become strong; you are to mature in yourselves, and you are never to forget that I only await your call to be able to redeem you .... But whoever turns to Me in full faith and trust, need never be despondent .... he has consecrated his heart to Me with every thought and thus lives in My grace.

Now, My child, listen in spirit to My words: What is announced to you in writing and in print, you receive in the same way as if it came from Me and thereby make it your own knowledge which far exceeds your natural gifts. In this way your senses will slowly develop an image that is in full harmony with what was created in the universe by the divine Creator. And still life will often bring you opportunities where you will ask yourself why the will of the Creator has allowed that those spiritual works - given to man by Me - were taken away from them through prohibition.

This too was done according to a wise plan. Those among you people who hungers for it and demands refreshment, to him this shall certainly be presented .... but who believes he is able to destroy My works, he will see them rise again because My powers rule everywhere, and where I want, there also no barriers will be set by the prohibition because such refreshment will surely be found, by those who need it, because it is My will.

So you recognize more and more that I am with My love in your midst, that I lead every little heart so that it finds Me and remains with Me for eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Alida Pretorius

Judicial power ....

B.D. 0330 from March 13th 1938, taken from Book No. 8

Bow to judicial authority, and always see in it the emissary of My will. But where the law announces to you that you are to deny faith, there obey the voice of your heart .... because I gave you these, so that you are to recognize what is right or wrong .... Who commands you to refute my word .... likewise indicates to him that you remain in My will, and you will exist before My eyes, and I will give you strength to offer resistance to such desire. In a dream I want to announce it to you what your office is so that you learn to understand which gift I intended for those who do not shrink from an earthly higher power for the sake of My word.

Because no matter what .... you are untouchable, because you go through this earthly life protected by Me, as long as it is in My will .... What should threaten you when I Myself am with you? .... And who resists My orders will hardly achieve anything .... but a full measure is granted to him who willingly follows Me .... because man reaps the reward of his deeds. And so the Lord lets judicial authority apply without exception, as long as it does not run against the divine order. What God sets as ruling over the people is to be recognized at all times ....

For to lead this people, the Lord commissions the higher power and gave it all justice and all power on earth over the people. Therefore be subject to this power, and you will fulfill the will of the Lord .... But if this power is used to act against God's commandments, the ruler has acquired a power that was never given to him by God, and he is rebelling, as it were, against the supreme power to which he himself is subject .... Then he forgets his duty, which was intended to fulfill him .... He does not guide the people wisely and justly, but leads them away from the right path .... He is not a representative of divine power to the people, but is rather in service of the dark powers ....

Then everyone must find the right way out of himself .... he must first and foremost strive to serve God .... to fulfill God's will and keep God's commandments .... And if he is prevented from doing so by the judiciary, he will have to fight, but always be supported by the Spirit of God .... by the Lord and Savior Himself .... For this world and the beyond, there is only one will, and obedience to it is and will remain the only task of every being until all eternity.

The demons try to influence and stir up everything against the Word of God .... But if they also take possession of the hearts of the leaders of a people, then the right to be right ceases to exist .... Then all truthfulness is transformed into lies and deceit .... Then the righteous must suffer, and the dishonorable will be honored. Then never again can a people prosper, but it will be deformed in thinking and acting .... it does not remain clean and pure, but becomes false and goes into delusion by wrong ways ....

But it will not last for ever .... the truth will break it's way through, My word will arise again anew among the people, and the divine order will be restored and what is of good will and believes in Me .... To those, I Myself will give My commandments, which they will faithfully fulfill and thus also save their fellow man from the night of darkness .... To send bright light to them, is My love's concern, and if the spirit searches for truth in Me and through Me, then brightness will come to him and he will recognize what is right and what is wrong, and he will know how to act right and follow what I command him .... because I alone rule now and always ....

Amen.

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Wonderful proofs .... Unbelievers have the same purpose ....

B.D. 0331 from March 14th 1938, taken from Book No. 8

God sends you His Spirit, and in the embodiment of this Spirit in your heart, the divine will lays the foundation for new wonderful proofs of His oversized love for people. Whoever once comes into possession of this divine grace can receive the fullness of divine teachings even for an unforeseeable time, without the divine Spirit ever exhaustively depriving Himself .... But in a number of years the proofs of such extraordinary testimonies of love on the part of the Lord and Saviour will be so widespread that even the worst enemy will be taken aback and will no longer look for an explanation on shallow ground ....

Only then does the effort and perseverance of the servants of God begin to bear rich fruit, and the Word of God will be welcome to those who seek their God in their hearts and strive for an intimate childhood in God .... The Lord places the crown of His love on everything that has been commanded so far and will give the unbelievers even more proof of His omnipotence and goodness .... Where man himself is confronted with incomprehensible things, there the sluggish thinking will be shaken .... there he will be made aware of a supernatural power in a conspicuous way, and then he will try to intellectually solve the riddle, but he will not succeed.

But these apparent teachings will still have an unspeakably beneficial effect on many earthly children, and many a one will willingly let himself be led by the divine Father's hand over to the right path. Because this is the purpose of the miracles which God works on earth for the salvation of mankind, and by this you will always recognize the Spirit of God, which wants to take possession of every man's heart ....

Amen.

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God’s blessing – earthly and spiritually ....

B.D. 0332 from March 15th 1938, taken from Book No. 8

There is no blessing from God for this world if man does not turn to the heavenly Father asking for it. For every action for earthly life already has it's blessing in itself in the fulfillment of bodily needs, and no farther blessing can be expected for eternity, because every action on earth is worthwhile in itself .... Only when man is able to separate the earthly activity from the spiritual, will he appreciate the difference, which lies in the blessing from the heavenly Father.

Every event, no matter how small, upon which the blessing is implored from above and which is begun with the same, bears it's fruits both on earth and in eternity. For there is a significant difference between blessed and unblessed activity .... A thought sent to God let the spiritual beings protecting man, take care of the human child immediately and guide him well and give him advice. And so a beginning, on which God's blessing rests, will not easily fail, and also the corresponding spiritual activity will be accompanied by success, since it is the most important thing assigned to the earthly being ....

Therefore, always turn to the heavenly Father, and do not start anything without having recommended yourself to His grace. And you will gain priceless goodness .... your earthly activity will be secured for you, and the Lord will also take care of your spirit and bless it as well so that it will be promoted for eternity .... In His name you will succeed in every work, and you can go through life untroubled, because the blessing of God keeps away physical worries, and you will become stronger and stronger in the spirit ....

Amen

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Reminder to follow the inner voice .... The cornerstone of truth ....

B.D. 0333 from March 15th 1938, taken from Book No. 8

Know the will of God and always submit to it .... And when the inner voice admonishes you to consider your bodily welfare as second priority, you must follow this voice and devote yourself all the more assiduously to the care of your salvation, because only he who endeavors to fulfill the will of God, always remains in his grace. Thus you are commanded to work continuously for the salvation of the souls of countless children on earth .... And in this activity you will raise yourself up to perfection and this your calling will promote you spiritually and bring you immense advantages, but you should also accept every admonition the Lord sends you and then follow it fully and conscientiously, then the guarantee for beneficial activity is a given ....

But now pay attention to our words and let yourself be guided to see spiritually .... because there where you seek the truth, you will only then be taught when it has become completely clear to you that your spirit has to reach a certain maturity to be appreciated by the Lord, to penetrate into the areas in which the Lord himself wants to be teacher of His servants on earth. Great devotion .... great humility and modesty and faithful trust must be the cornerstones on which divine wisdom and bright cognitive light can then be built .... In order to achieve this, you only have to struggle and pray all the time, because any slackening in prayer weakens your spirit and makes you lukewarm and careless in your spiritual striving.

Therefore listen over and over again to the voice in your heart, which will always admonish you when you are in danger of going astray, and which will also whisper to you when you must pray for strength. Always pay attention to what the Lord speaks to you through the inner voice, then you will remain in His blessing and will not be forced to be afraid .... because with every prayer you strengthen yourself with new strength ....

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Hostility of evil powers .... 'Lead us not into temptation ....'

B.D. 0334 from March 16th 1938, taken from Book No. 8

Be without worry, My child, you will succeed more and more and more to undo the forces of evil that still surround you and will not cease in their struggle, but the more intimately you strive for union with Me, the more ineffective is the power of this Beginning .... As the wise man has to defend himself against the attacks of opponents who want to diminish his fame and merit, so a man striving for spiritual truth is still far more exposed to hostile annoyances, because they try to make the soul snide, and to achieve this, these powers spare no means.

If you on earth now are so much persecuted by the opposing side, then your will and your strength must be extraordinarily great should you want to resist, because if you know .... you want to reach Me, then you must fight, otherwise you also cannot receive the reward .... eternal bliss you gain by seeing Me .... Will the road become so difficult for you when you know what immense happiness awaits you? .... Take everything patiently, do not let yourself be made small and fearful ..... Remain in prayer, and every temptation will pass you by, and the stronger you will walk out of every danger.

My will shall now and always be victorious. Whoever sees in Me to be his goal .... for will I let a child perish who stretches out his hands to Me and seeks Me? .... The earth is a valley of suffering, it was created for you, that you may reach your destiny on it .... and so also all evil powers must be given the opportunity to fight for you, so that you may test your strength on them, because otherwise you will not be able to reach what is intended to be your final goal.

But it is enough in every need of the soul that you call to the heavenly Father .... that you ask: "Do not lead us into temptation ....", then your will not to succumb to temptation will be regarded as accomplished resistance against all that you fear .... Remain always aware that a will to recognize true divinity will leave you at the mercy of such tests, if you do not ask again and again for God's help, which will certainly not be denied you. So pay attention to all your thoughts and acts so that it is not led by evil influences, that you may receive My teachings all the more pure and worthy. My blessing guides you ....

Amen

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Spiritual work .... Spiritual hunger .... Divine Grace ....

B.D. 0335 from March 16th 1938, taken from Book No. 8

A bright light of divine love is granted to all those who by virtue of their deep faith in the Savior, put themselves into a spiritual state which lifts them far above earth and which makes them completely unable to strive for the goods of the earth. Because such a child of God, drawn into the spell of his love, willingly giving up everything earthly, is purified more and more in the spirit .... It uses every hour for spiritual work and consecrates it's whole life to the Lord of creation. All moments of spiritual creation are blessed on earth, man persist as it were, in activity that leads him higher step by step .... one luminous moment is enough to awaken in the soul of this child of God to a knowledge that is decisive for time and eternity.

In such blessed moments the Lord Himself is in the heart to find admission, and therefore the spirit is also illuminated in a flash. The Lord and Savior lets the earthly child take a look into His kingdom .... often not recognized, but this sign of divine love does not remain without effect .... again others seek God and turn questioningly and pleadingly into the universe .... also from there will come enlightenment for them .... because the Savior tirelessly seeks His little sheep, so that they return to His flock which have gone astray. The true purpose of His unending care is always only to bring you children back to the Father ....

But sometimes the will of the Lord also allows that His children have to live in want until a hunger for the sake of spiritual strengthening .... This is then a sign of divine care .... for if you do not hunger for what is offered to you, you easily reject it .... But what you desire in the heart you will also joyfully accept, and only then it fulfills the true purpose. For if divine grace is offered to you and you cannot measure it's value, you will not know what it means to you ....

Only when you are in need and your soul feels almost forsaken, do you understand the great value of the grace of God .... you ask for it and are thankful when you are heard .... and only then does the Lord let recurring signs of His Fatherly love follow His proof of grace until it fulfills you and you long for Him from the bottom of your heart. Then you are won for eternal life .... then you can well be harassed by the enemy of your soul, but you will never again fall a victim to him, but the love of the Lord watches over you, He guards His little sheep that none will be lost to Him ....

Amen.

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Receptacle vessel .... Organic limbs .... Purpose of the heart ....

B.D. 0336 from March 17th 1938, taken from Book No. 8

Behold, it is like a great sea of light, which is to flood mankind. Hundreds of years may well pass before a final enlightenment of mankind can be achieved, but if the Lord dwells among you, everything is possible for His will, and the vessels for receiving the light .... of truth and knowledge .... are set up in many places .... If one of you people has the longing to be united in deep love with his Savior, then he is very likely to be used as such receptacle, and if he then always subordinates his will to the divine will, then he invariably acts only as it is assigned to him.

And the Lord certainly needs many such willing workers in His vineyard .... where there is always only true piety, which has it's origin in the heart and in love, there the Lord works and is always close to him. In this way, the connection between heaven and earth is a constant one and also so obvious that everyone recognizes it if he only wants to want to recognize it and if he wants to try to look with the eyes of the heart, not with his bodily eyes, which, always - more directed to the material - hardly recognize the essence of the Godhead and his work. But it is then always up to them. Each organic member has it's purpose .... it carries out the purpose assigned to it by the Creator's will.

And so also the heart has to fulfill the destiny assigned to it .... to take up all spiritual, divine truth .... and so to remain in constant connection with the highest Being, the eternal deity .... All other functions of the human body have only the purpose to be beneficial to the bodily life, but the heart with it's actual activity leads to eternity .... it creates eternal values for man by taking up and caring for everything spiritual and is a carrier of every spiritual thought, which alltogether means true life to man and guarantees him first and foremost, further spiritual development.

If the human heart were not the receptacle of all that is divine, where would the real purpose of life to be sought for you humans? .... You would come and go from this earth like machine-made products of the earth .... then your dwelling on this earth would have no further sense than a continuous fertilization of the earth .... as soon as your body had gone into decay, it would have been dismissed for this earth. The uselessness of such an earth life in the sense of creation must be clear to you .... or do you believe that the divine creator did not execute His creation plan wisely .... to create .... as beings, which after a short time on earth melt into nothing .... Oh, how spiritually poor are you, who have made this erroneous view your own ....

Your realization will one day be a bitter one, because the holy will of the Creator can never be revealed to you on earth, if you do not consider yourselves to be what you are .... as children of the Father who went out from the Father, who are to reach the state on earth to be allowed to return to the Father again forever .... who have only one single task on earth .... to become like God, to be eternally united with the divine Father-Spirit.

The human mind fails because of such problems, and since it cannot fathom one thing, it immediately rejects everything and sees in it's existence nothing more than a randomness to which it owes it's earthly life .... If he knew the way of the flesh, which his soul had already gone before, and if he could live through all the stages internally in retrospect, the purpose of his life would probably be more obvious to him .... but then life on earth under a certain compulsion or in full insight of his task, would not be of such value for him ....

Man is to believe what he does not know .... his spirit is to develop to perfection .... he is to find himself in love with the Lord and Creator .... Therefore a human being who succeeds in freeing himself from himself .... of his own accord .... to free himself from earthly things .... Whose life will correspond to the purpose, will be allowed to enjoy the extraordinary grace of God. Endlessly wiser is he who already seeks the connection with his Savior for this short time on earth .... He has recognized his destiny because the Lord himself has lowered the light into his heart - and to now walk on earth in this light of knowledge, is blessing and beneficial for eternity ....

Amen.

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Constant higher development .... Missed life-stage ....

B.D. 0337 from March 18th 1938, taken from Book No. 8

As the creatures on earth must go through a constantly higher development, so also humans experience an ever progressing development .... And this must proceed forever if everything is to remain in divine order. That is why standing still or a regression in spiritual relationship is against the divine order, and from this you can assess how serious the consequences of such a persisting in spiritual darkness must therefore be for such a creature and how bitter and difficult it must be for the soul as soon as the soul realizes it's misguided life existence, when it has to recognize how many stages it already had to fight, even if unconsciously, just to reach the stage of embodiment as man, in which it then could form itself according to it's own will .... and it now faces a result that does not in the least meet the divine requirement.

See, it is incomparably better not to have first tried your hand at earth life, because then you are by far not to be condemned as much as having accepted the grace of embodiment, but abused it. As long as you receive warnings, the way to the light is still open .... but woe to those who stubbornly let all warnings pass them by .... That is why God's mercy is so great and His love so infinite, because He wants to lead all these beings over into the radiant, light-flooded eternity .... That is why he considers each soul and wants to point them to eternity through suffering and strokes of fate .... because otherwise a person cannot be made aware that there is a higher Being which holds his life, his being and becoming in His hand ....

The realization of how weak and powerless man is, should suffice to open his eyes - that he then also cannot be the ruler of his own fate, but must be subordinated to a higher Being. Then each man would have to do his utmost to fulfill everything that is demanded by this higher Being .... Is it then so difficult to willingly submit to the heavenly Father, who in His goodness and love does so infinitely much good to you and Whose only concern it is to win you for the eternal kingdom? .... Pray for illumination of your spirit, and you will be able to grasp to the same extent as your prayer rises from the heart to the Father .... The more intimately you pray, the more exhaustive the Lord will teach you ....

Amen.

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Why God allows pressure through greed - lies and injustice ....

B.D. 0338 from March 19th 1938, taken from Book No. 8

Only some faith in God's righteousness will be enough to make you understand everything that is still inexplicable to you .... If people were impaired in their walk and could never find themselves out of their own free will in faith in our Lord and Savior, what would it be like among you? The Father's holy will indeed do allow at times measures which do not appear at all suitable for the promotion of the human soul and nevertheless so unspeakably much affect these, and certainly rather in a favorable than unfavorable sense ....

Look at the masses of people .... is there maybe one who had to miss the love and goodness of his Lord God, if he only turns to where it comes from? .... But the sense of man clings to external things, and this takes his heart completely captive .... And so the Lord must first let him recognize how trivial worldly events are, how often whole crowds of people let themselves be led into lies and deception - and the guidance from above, which wants to make people infinitely happy in real love and truth .... is so easily rejected .... is not recognized at all and therefore can also it's effect not be evaluated by the human children.

Once such masses have come through experience and thought to the point where the difference in rank does not at all protect them from base desires .... that in those circles greed, lies, injustice and many other things are just as present as in the lower classes, then all this will cause them hours of indignation .... this cause man to turn against such powers in his heart .... and the falling away from this in the innermost heart and the aversion against all these unfair motives of human actions, then frees up the ascending way for him ....

It seeks the opposite of what it must abhor inwardly .... it demands truth, sincerity and justice, and the sense of all that is noble is awakened in man, where it was not previously present .... He is born, as it were, in the abomination of sin, and (it = ed.) this recognition is far more beneficial to man than when man goes through life without being given the opportunity to know sin and it's worthlessness - yes, it's depravity. Mankind may well have to suffer hardship and distress through such times, but what are these earthly troubles compared to what is awaiting them in eternity ....

The Lord leads everything with wise counsel ..... What He permits, always has only one purpose - to lead mankind in it's thinking on the right path, and thus a service for the salvation of mankind is also indirectly rendered, where it languishes under pressure and rebels in righteous indignation. So seek to see in every event a means for the advancement of your soul, applied to you in love, and you will learn to bear everything in patience .... because the Lord alone knows what He allows everything for ....

Amen.

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Intellectual creation and reward .... Earthly work and reward .... Work in the Hereafter ....

B.D. 0339 from March 20th 1938, taken from Book No. 8

Behold, My child, no doubt thousands try to form a clear picture of infinity and it's prevailing laws, and yet are not able to fathom it, but a single moment can be enough to give them a full and complete insight into the divine rule and work. And all men can prepare this moment for themselves when they direct their attention in their life only to strive incessantly for perfection. If then the human cover, the earthly body, falls away from the soul, then this sees the great miracle of God with brightest brightness and grasps as fast as lightning what a man on earth can never recognize here .... And to strive for this perfection, is your earthly goal.

When you now want to completely devote yourselves to the spiritual, then you thereby create a possibility for yourselves to also acquire spiritual foresight for your existence on earth, which again is beneficial to you in this spiritual work and effectively supports you in your spiritual work. Because once you have broken through the sphere that seemed to hold you back .... as if with chains .... to matter .... you will become light and free, and your work from now on will be purely spiritual; but the Lord advises you not to forget your earthly duties wherever you are needed.

Because as you always first have to fulfill your task set for the earth, the work of love will also await you in the hereafter, and a man educated in active creation will also there easily and conscientiously submit to the love duties awaiting him .... You test your strength with the work of the earth, the Lord gives you His support, so that you can master your task, and if you turn to Him in prayer for His blessing, He will not withhold it from you .... and you must never be despondent that you might lack the strength for your activity on earth, when spiritual work also captures your heart and the soul, full of desire, turns upwards ....

The earth's most beautiful reward is the consciousness of fulfilled duty on earthly territory, and heaven's sweetest reward awaits you after the end of the earth-time for your spirit's work .... And so let both unfold .... The earth demands of you as long as you stay on earth .... but everything will become easy for you, you do not forget the soul and your Lord and savior who is always available for you, who intervenes helping everywhere where you ask for his help. In His love you will find power and strengthening at any time ....

Amen

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Doubts about the deity of Christ .... Teaching of Christ .... Incarnation ....

B.D. 0340 from March 20th 1938, taken from Book No. 8

Lay your heart trustingly at the feet of the Lord and Master, that He may bless it .... A moment of light leads you to the top and lets you see the glory of God .... And again the teachings come forth among mankind through countless messengers sent by God, for the Lord Jesus Christ dwells among you who want to serve Him ....

And your office will be to accept just care of the dear earthly brothers and sisters and to announce to them the Lord's instructions, because His holy will lets great things happen among you out of love for mankind .... And whoever follows His word will be called a disciple of the Lord and will work on earth as it were the task of the disciples in Jesus' time on earth. The world-historical event of the Lord's walk on earth still lives on only in your hearts, but you have distanced yourselves from His teaching and no longer know how to live in that purity which the Lord has commanded you, if you want to become His followers .... because for you the teaching has lost it's attraction, because you no longer respect the divinity in the Redeemer of mankind at this time, but only see man .... and the teaching of Christ as the work of such a one ....

And this is what separates you from the truth, which also separates you from the heavenly Father .... And so you will hardly achieve with this faith what your life goal should be .... For the time of earthly life your opinion would probably not be of great importance, but you stay on this earth only temporarily, and then the actual life in the hereafter follows, which however can also mean death for you instead of life .... And you must remain in faith in the Savior as the Son of God if you ever want to have eternal life and not fall into eternal death.

But then again the mediator to the heavenly Father will give you all the strength if you want to acknowledge Him for Who He is, and your way will be an easier one than without any help from Him, who after all has redeemed you from the deepest guilt of sin. If faith in the Son of God is to prepare for you the eternal kingdom, then the work of Jesus on earth in all it's fullness has shown you the way to it .... you just have to unconditionally acknowledge the divinity of Christ and must make His teachings your own and follow all the commandments that the Lord and Savior gave to His people on earth.

Under the influence of those who want to destroy the pure teachings of Christ, it has become increasingly difficult for people to accept the teachings for what they are .... more and more people distance themselves from the divine truth, more and more leave the teachings of the divine Saviour behind and instead turn to it's deformed versions .... but these increasingly slacken faith in the pure teachings of Christ and they finally lose themselves in the false teachings ....

And today mankind is confronted with an entity that very often deviates from the divine teachings of Christ and is therefore more and more easily rejected by mankind .... so that finally also the divinity of the Lord himself is more and more doubted, even denied .... And so we are now facing a time in which a strong struggle for spiritual goods .... for truth and for the light of knowledge .... will begin .... let it be well with him who still carries a desire to approach the truth .... to him it will come at the right time .... But how many throw all thoughts of the spiritual .... absolutely every thought which reaches beyond the earthly world, without further ado, aside ....

How many people consider such thoughts a ballast that only weighs them down and is therefore thrown away without hesitation .... To them the glory of God, eternal life, is still so infinitely far .... And for these the Lord lets His messengers walk through the valley of the earth .... so that they shall shake the hearts of those everywhere, because God's word shall be proclaimed again and shall testify for all times of the incarnation of Christ .... God's word is to break new ground .... nobody among you people should go through life on earth in complete blindness .... at the very least it should be tried to open the eyes of those so that then only the free will of man would be decisive of the extent to which the efforts of the messengers of God are crowned with success.

During this time, spiritual striving will be especially cultivated where the Savior descends to intervene on His own authority .... His blessings will be felt in abundance by whoever willingly submits to the divine will and whoever devotes himself to spiritual activity with the intention of serving the Lord. "Teach the weak", says the Lord .... and so He will instruct in all love everyone who submits his spiritual poverty to Him .... And the knowledge of such a child will be ever greater if it only always devotes itself to the Savior and is always ready to receive the divine teachings .... because not a wise man is to be taught, but wisdom is to flow to that child of God, who wants to receive it and pass it on for the right benefit of mankind.

In this way will the teaching of the Lord be spread among you people, regardless of whether you want to accept it or not .... For the vessels for reception are made ready and will be left there, that he who desires refreshment may label the contents. The will of the Lord rules the whole universe .... He rules the creature, and every creature will be subject to him for eternity ....

Amen.

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Divine Grace .... Spiritual Friends .... Dangers from outside .... Help ....

B.D. 0341 from March 21st 1938, taken from Book No. 8

Only a few hear the voice of the Lord, and therefore it is always necessary to remain in deepest humility and to beg for God's blessing .... Each one of us may well be working from the urge of his heart, but all these feelings must be directed towards the eternal Lord, and so he will also be blessed by the Savior to unfold all his daily work .... But where the spirit does not willingly submit to all orders, it will be difficult to be able to comply with the divine will. All of you who long for the Lord, put yourselves in His grace .... Not one of you will lose this divine grace if you follow the inner voice that will always show you the right way.

In all spiritual work, the spirit-beings surrounding you, participate with all zeal .... you are never abandoned, but in the loyal care of these beings - who are unceasingly striving to further your souls - and in this work fulfill their actual work in the hereafter. Only be careful that you offer resistance to all evil influences from outside .... the danger always lurks around you, you are always exposed to temptations that want to destroy your spiritual work and the work on yourselves.

Leave yourselves also there trustingly to your spiritual friends .... they repel everything from you, if you only yourselves ask for them and desire their protection. No earth-being can so form itself .... bring it's soul to perfection when it is not effectively supported by the spirit-beings, and this support will be given to you in such a rich measure when you are only yourselves willing to use this protection. Because otherwise help is impossible for you .... you must continually create the connection with them through your will, before they can support you most actively, and that in every way, both in the earthly activity as well as in the spiritual work, they stand by you helpfully and help you to accomplish everything for the Lord and Saviour and to work for His glory in eternity ....

Amen.

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Flee the pleasures of the world ....

B.D. 0342 from March 21st 1938, taken from Book No. 8

Without any danger you can leave yourself to us in all spiritual questions .... we know where it is necessary, and if your soul is still anxious, this is out of the deep desire to prove yourself worthy of the love and care of the Lord .... For never fear for the loss of an unpleasant possession. And so the Lord wants to revive you today in spirit ....

Flee all the joys of the world .... This is His loving admonition .... but not to take away anything that gives you joy, but only so that you are not incapable of absorbing spiritual teachings .... You cannot do both at the same time, because the senses of man so gladly turn to worldly pleasures, and these then leave no room for something that cannot be grasped by hand, but can only be absorbed with a spirit detached from the world.

In such diversity, these two terms will touch the human heart .... man with his earthly body will always have a desire for earthly joy .... but the more difficult it will be for the spirit to stay in his inner being .... Man directs all his desires towards worldly pleasures .... And the concession of the divine being .... seems far away and unreal to him as long as he has not yet understood that this can only happen as soon as a contact is established between the heavenly Father and the earthly child, caused by his own will to get in contact with the Creator.

This will arises or has it's origin in the soul of man, not in any organ of the human body. If this soul is now ready to submit to the Lord, the heavenly Father awakens that holy feeling in you to strive for the union with the highest Being, and as all will of man soon becomes action, so the union has also already taken place as soon as the human will has striven for this, and with the union a new life begins for man .... a life, which - beside the earthly life and completely for itself - forms the human spirit and lets it mature to ever higher perfection.

Existence on earth as it is, can indeed also occupy man sufficiently so that the fulfilment of all earthly needs is secured through it, but spiritual creation usually bears it's fruits only after completion of this earthly existence .... Where the human heart is imbued with the will to approach the divine Father-Spirit .... to be nourished by the love and wisdom of the Saviour, there the child of God will soon grow up with such a rich inner life that from now on, his greater concern will be to enjoy the spiritual joys .... It will no longer long for the world and it's joys, but all the activities of the world will appear stale to it, and desirable to it will be only that which spiritually refreshes and delights. And to offer you this, to give you true joys, the Lord warns you of the joys of the world ....

Amen.

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Danger of self-love .... Love for God and neighbour ....

B.D. 0343 from March 22nd 1938, taken from Book No. 8

In every time the Lord God has consolations ready for you, which He then gives you in full measure when you turn to Him in trust. Where the Lord Himself takes care of every being in this way, you experience his grace daily .... He directs your hearts steadfastly towards the Eternal when you strive only for this. But a tiny measure of self-love already weakens the great power of grace that the Lord conveys to you. For if one puts his own ego first, he will hardly enter the right way or remain on it. For love of God and of neighbor is the highest commandment that encompasses everything .... should you not first try to fulfill this commandment? ....

But then you must not put yourself in the foreground .... All you have and are is given to you by God; and in the same measure you are to give back to your fellow men .... you are to consider them with all that you value yourself, before you think of yourself, and thus love your neighbor as yourself. In the same way, you also have a share in the divine grace to the same extent which the Lord attributes to you as you have equally attributed to your neighbor. Try yourselves in this highest duty; life on earth will then still offer you such incomparably beautiful things .... in that the way to the Father becomes easy for you and you, always standing in the circle of light of divine love, can form yourselves for eternity ....

A short prayer for strength for all right actions will also make this commandment appear easily executable to you, and in a lively exchange of ideas with your spiritual friends, you will penetrate deeper and deeper into the love and wisdom of God, and you will learn to look at everything on earth with spiritual eyes .... The commandment of love will stimulate you to utmost activity until the end of your life, and then you have not uselessly walked the way on earth, but you have helped your soul to advance. What you have done to your neighbor in love, has already been richly rewarded to you in yourselves, so that through this you have reached a more perfect state and have earned the reward of heaven ....

Amen.

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The path of development is a constant struggle .... Struggle in nature ....

B.D. 0344 from March 22nd 1938, taken from Book No. 8

Start fighting with yourself and you will win .... These are the words of the Lord, which He sends to everyone who has the firm will to reach Him. At the heart of Mother Nature you recognize again and again the eternal fight .... everything wants to prevail. In the plant kingdom, the cover surrounding it breaks through the seed .... everything that lives on the earth and above the earth, always goes the way of development in a certain fight .... To overcome the old and to assert itself until something new has arisen .... whether in the plant or animal life .... the being will always have to do away with the old cover before it awakens into new life ....

Exactly the same way also that, which is meant to ennoble humans, is to be reached always only if all weaknesses and errors are fought, before and from these fights a new, better and purified life develops, which must therefore be the actual task of the earth-life .... The earthly body .... is as it were also only the outer cover, which encloses the soul, and this again is to fight against all cloudy, all imperfect, which still holds the soul captive .... If it can release itself from this outer covering .... If it can emerge brightly and clearly from the fetters surrounding it, it will soon succeed in absorbing the divine Spirit, and it is reborn to divine life ....

Therefore fight without ceasing .... because then you only discard of a shell which is hindering you to take up the full light .... you do not find peace in doing nothing, you do not find the true knowledge, the brightness of the spirit .... but your soul is cloudy, devoid of light and veiled as long as you do not work on yourself .... as long as you do not fight in the true sense of the word against everything that hinders you to be able to take up a light spirit in you ....

For many, the words of faith are indeed a sign from above, they fully acknowledge the divine teachings and yet do not make any effort to follow them .... they do not unite will and action with what they have to acknowledge .... for them, the teaching is like a ripe fruit, which is good and was harvested as that, but never enjoyed .... and therefore, despite all goodness, did not serve the people as food, thus also did not fulfill the purpose that was it's destiny .... It was the fruit of a gift of God, but it was not valued, but carelessly abandoned to destruction ....

Do not let the blessings of God pass you by .... Fight and take up into your hearts everything that the goodness of God offers you .... do not let the spirit be in want .... What you spiritually gain and even have to fight for, will lift you unspeakably above all earthly things. Therefore, always pay attention to how you can apply the Word of God to yourselves, do not avoid all adversity without a fight, but try to assert yourselves so that you create a soul in spiritual perfection, because constant struggle leads you to victory ....

Amen.

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The blessing of disease and suffering ....

B.D. 0345 from March 23rd 1938, taken from Book No. 8

My dear child .... blessed, whoever patiently bears his suffering, whoever willingly takes up his cross and is always ready to serve Me. From him I will avert every suffering in a short time. Pay attention to the health of your body and soul, because only then you can carry a healthy spirit within you. Physical suffering requires docile people, if it does not want to deform the spirit, but even if you are content with your fate to suffer, never forget that it is always the means to eradicate defects or weaknesses in you .... but you are also often to blame for the cause of illness and physical disorders yourself .... Likewise, the forces of darkness also use such means to make you stumble you on your way up.

Therefore, have much patience and often surrender, so that the suffering may pass over you in a beneficial way. I bless the suffering that cleanses man and puts the stamp of surrender on him. Therefore, do not fall into the error of rebelling against this, but also thank your heavenly Father for it, because it is again a step that leads you higher to Him .... And again prayer will bring you relief when it is time. For never does the Father lay a cross on you that would be too heavy for you to bear; he knows what is necessary for you and only leads you through painful ways so that you become perfect. Therefore praise the Father for all eternity ....

Amen.

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And the Word was made flesh ....

B.D. 0346 from March 25th 1938, taken from Book No. 8

"And the Word was made flesh ...." Hear the words of salvation, and give them again to all seekers, for in the embodiment of the Lord and Saviour on earth the wonderful happened .... the incomprehensible .... that God's glory was in the being of a man, to bring light to all beings on earth and in the universe .... For the state of the people was a very darkened one, the light of knowledge could no longer penetrate this darkness .... That is why God Himself placed His entire divine Being into the outer form of a human being and gave His entire fullness of light into it, in order to illuminate mankind's greatest evil, the night of the spirit - and thereby to clear the way for the soul of man to find it's way to true life ....

The whole universe with innumerable living beings, from the smallest creature up to the most perfect spirit being bend before the glory of God .... The most sublime and perfect divine being descended to the earth in the midst of His creatures and lived like them .... subject as man to all laws of nature .... and for His earthly career, the same regulations applied which accompany every earthly being .... from birth to death ....

A hard-working youth in full modesty and a God-fearing upbringing by God-fearing parents formed the bodily human being in such a way that immediately the divine spirit united with this outer man and God in all His fullness of light took dwelling in this human body, which had become perfect according to His will .... and now the Godhead on earth worked for the blessing of mankind .... to enlighten their spirits. No significant difference existed externally between Him and His disciples .... He was not enthroned as king over them, but lived as a brother among brothers. But His divine Spirit filled everything around Him with light and love.

The divine spirit encompasses the whole universe .... But He was not recognized by humans in His bodiless primeval form. No matter how willing a mind was, it was not able to make the concept of God it's own .... an unsolvable question was raised that transcended all human thinking .... and in order to solve the question .... to make this concept acceptable to humans, the eternal Godhead .... the Spirit of God .... the epitome of all existence and becoming .... the outcome of every thought of creation .... the eternal Light .... the Word .... in a human shell on earth .... And the Word has become flesh ....

Oh boundless adoration of this most Holy of the heavens and the earth! For it embraces the incarnation of God's infinite love for all creatures of the universe .... for no being remained untouched by it .... Wherever the divine Savior set His foot during His walk on earth, there eternity opened up and spread a bright light in the hearts of people, who were not yet completely under the power of darkness.

Such a work of divine goodness and mercy had to radiate and pour out over the souls of those who dwelt near Him. It had to come over mankind like a benevolent rain after months of drought, and everything had to breathe a sigh of relief, since there was no longer any danger of hopelessly perishing in the fire of inner distress .... For this short time it was sufficiently ensured that people of all nations came close to God, because the teachings of Christ had their origin where the Lord dwelt, but were to be spread over the whole earth .... One wonderful event replaced another, and the Word of God came alive in many people's hearts, because the Spirit of God gave them the power to recognize.

But just as evil is in constant struggle with good, so too was there a perpetual battle between the followers of the old doctrine and those of the pure teachings of Jesus Christ .... And this fight was permitted to complete the work of the Incarnation ....

Amen.

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But the greatest miracle is love ....

B.D. 0347 from March 27th 1938, taken from Book No. 8

But the greatest miracle is love .... And it's power goes far beyond the limits of human thinking. What you lack, the all-encompassing love of God will always turn to you. The Word of God is witness to this, which is revealed to you from the heights of light, for your comfort and edification in a living reorganization .... For the Lord does all this out of exceedingly great love for the children, to whom He wants to offer an eternal kingdom in heavenly bliss, and yet mankind pays so little attention to the proofs of His love.

The human will to live is so strong that he only thinks of the hour of death with discomfort .... and where again bodily need or worry weighs heavily, there man longs for the hour of death in the quiet hope of being able to escape all suffering .... to have life terminated .... If divine love would not be so long-suffering as to point people again and again to eternity, where would any human have any purpose in life .... and who does not gladly give his life, his life would pass uselessly, if the Lord would not let him again and again receive proofs of love. But the world cannot grasp the love of heaven in all its greatness the love of heaven ....

Man on earth knows well that love enlivens everything, but in his earthly state the understanding of divine love is only limited .... All that he is able to recognize when he brings up the will for it, is that the children on earth are continuously looked after by the heavenly Father and that they can pray to Him and are always heard when these requests are conducive to their salvation. But only few are able to grasp the unspeakably great love that moved the Lord to sacrifice Himself for mankind and its sins. In order to be able to appreciate this mighty event in all it's greatness, a bright light of knowledge must already shine for the earthly child.

(27.3.1938) He has to realize that all earth beings are to be granted heavenly glory one day and that God's wisdom over endlessly long times applies all means and ways to reveal this glory to these beings, for only what is perfect and God-resembling can enter the kingdom of God, and again much patience and love is needed to show the often resisting creatures the way which can only lead there where eternal happiness awaits them.

In times of need, man often believes he has been abandoned by his heavenly Father, and yet he is then closer to him than ever. Every deep need is a sign of God's mercy and love, although you cannot or do not want to see it as that .... For if you, forced by this distress of the heart, turn towards eternity, the love of the heavenly Father has not passed your heart without leaving a trace .... You have heard the call of love and have followed it ....

And so the love of the Lord and His infinite patience has been working since eternities and will never stop drawing beings to Himself by virtue of this love .... In His most agonizing hour, when the Lord suffered and died on the cross for mankind, the divine love descended upon the whole universe .... It embraced every being and let the divine spark arise in all souls, to give the possibility of a union with God, the eternal love, to every soul, which is of good will and is reborn of love in spirit ....

Amen.

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Reminder ....

B.D. 0348 from March 27th 1938, taken from Book No. 8

In such hours as now only one thing is needed .... leave yourself completely to the Lord and Savior .... then everything will come together for the good. Give only a little attention to how lovingly the Father guides you all, and your trust in Him will grow. For His eye watches over all of you who are His children. Let nothing distract you from fulfilling your most sacred duty, for everything else in life is only for the world .... but this is for eternity. And so the Savior instructs you in always the same love .... He continues to promote the soul-life by increasing your spiritual knowledge and helping you to recognize and follow His teachings.

In what condition the people often are to whom He bestows His grace .... how often does the heart tremble in earthly need, but if it finds the way to the Father, then he grants the earthly child all refreshment, which it needs, because no-one is to suffer, if the purpose of the suffering is fulfilled .... that the earth child has truly recognized the Father and desires Him only .... only a little trust .... and you can put many a care into the hand of Him who leads and guides you all.

If the Lord is to teach you His teachings, your ear and heart must listen attentively to receive this spiritual gift. But if your thoughts dwell too much on this earth, then it is far more difficult for you to succeed, and so the connection is now more difficult to establish because you lack the inner peace, for which you must fight and ask if you want to reach the goal .... Pray and you will be able to quickly re-establish the connection ....

Amen

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Mystery of the Incarnation .... God's grace and power ....

B.D. 0349 from March 27th 1938, taken from Book No. 8

My dear child .... An overpowering thought underlies the mystery of the Incarnation .... the Lord cannot make all His deepest teachings known to you, since the nature of man does not have the necessary powers of comprehension that are indispensable for understanding. Mankind is dominated by the one thought that the beings of the universe would be lost for time and eternity without the embodiment of the Son of God on earth .... and this thought may well be pure truth, but it does not exhaustively reflect how far the Saviour's love has sacrificed itself for mankind through this incarnation ....

There is no possibility of comparison which would allow you to approximately recognize which power was transmitted through this divine work of love to the whole universe .... to all beings, especially to the children on earth and their souls .... Grace was bestowed upon each soul to such an extent that man, if he makes use of it, can form himself into a God-like being .... Because the love that dwells in God then takes possession of every human heart .... it causes perfect beings to develop out of love, and God the Lord Himself has opened the gates to all this through the incarnation ....

He paved the way to eternal bliss for the earthly children .... He redeemed them from eternal death .... But this eternal life lies in your hand .... As you create it for yourselves on earth, so it will one day await you. The foundation stone was laid by the Lord Himself, on which you can build the eternal kingdom yourselves .... But remain immediately aware of how dearly the Father loves you, that He sacrificed Himself for you and to save you from eternal damnation and thus has accomplished the greatest work of love for you .... and seeks in this awareness to become worthy of this love, so that the Lord may become a true Redeemer from eternal death for each one of you and you may thank Him until all eternity ....

Amen.

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Candidates for the eternal kingdom ....

B.D. 0350 from March 28th 1938, taken from Book No. 8

The eternal kingdom is reserved for the faithful followers of the Saviour .... All those who carry the name of the Lord in their hearts will be admitted to the heavenly realms of eternal bliss .... who are faithful to His teaching on this earth and bear their cross patiently and for the sake of the Savior without grumbling. For all these, God has sacrificed Himself .... His path of suffering was not in vain, so as His earthly children followed Him, the essence of the Godhead became clear to them .... A thoughtless life is lived in vain for eternity, only the everlasting patience and longsuffering of the Lord protects the people who do not want to recognize it, from passing away quickly - and gives them hints over and over again that they should reflect on themselves and finally find the right way ....

Those who are of good will, are very soon able to hear the voice of the Savior and follow His call .... but whoever turns away, errs in the darkness of the spirit for a long time until also he will once come to knowledge, here on earth or in the hereafter; but the knowledge in the hereafter is almost useless for him compared to the blessings of light, which man has already found on earth. Life without light on earth is spiritual death .... But your goal shall be eternal life .... Therefore seek God, and let His word find entrance into your hearts, so that you prepare yourselves and make yourselves worthy for the eternal kingdom ....

Amen.

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Population Problems ....

B.D. 0351 from March 28th 1938, taken from Book No. 8

The world and it's demands do not need the Spirit of God. Yet no being can ever exist if it has not absorbed the divine Spirit in itself, and is so bound to Him for time and eternity. Hence people learn to know love, for in this time of love everything in them is noble, because everything good flames up in them and then the union with the divine Spirit is much easier than at times when they are only materially attuned and every soft impulse in the heart is suffocated, thus shows nothing of love, which is nevertheless a part of God .... the divine origin ....

Although embodiment is a necessity for every being in creation, it is not demanded to strive for a planned revival to life in a fixed period of time .... And yet it will be demanded that everything born to life is subject to a higher will. In this epoch man himself has no right to determine himself .... he will be forced to give himself up for the purpose of procreation without love and without inner urge .... his instinctive life will be strengthened, but his spiritual life will wither away or be completely destroyed if man is not strong enough to rebel inwardly against such measures.

And then the Lord Himself commands you: "Do not allow this desecration of yourselves .... resist and remain devoted to Me in spirit and in your hearts ....". You will not have to walk the path alone; the Spirit of God will accompany you and protect you from every danger. But do not lower your eyes before those who want to overturn the laws of creation and form true figures of the night out of divine beings. In this time many of you live with troubles and worries, and this let you betray the voice of your heart. But remain in prayer and adhere to Him who alone commands over everything .... He will avert all danger from you ....

Dear child, for these lines there is still a possible postscript, which the Lord still withholds from you .... give yourself trustingly to all words .... it is a wise decision, still incomprehensible to you today, but in a short time you will grasp the content. And now continue: Everyone of the many who work for procreation that goes against the will of God will experience in himself the absurdity of his command. It gives great joy to demons to see their work of destruction progressing in mankind , but soon the tide turns, and what follows, separates the pure from the sinful. The blessing does not lie in the nature of the blood alone, but in keeping the soul pure, which nevertheless is inherent in every human being ....

The Lord of man has put different ones into the world that you should love one another, and do not look contemptuously at one another. All times of humiliation are followed by times of elevation .... but very often also rulers and regents fall down from their heights when they do not want to recognize His will .... The same shall also be experienced by those who keep nothing pure any more and leave My commandments completely unheeded ....

The Lord does not let Himself be mocked by this sinful world, and He prepares the judgment, which for many is a world judgment .... for others, but also salvation from the distress of the soul. Remain in My teaching .... remain in My will, and I will save you from the night of darkness and lead you towards eternal life ....

Amen.

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Population Problems ....

B.D. 0352 from March 29th 1938, taken from Book No. 8

My dear child, do not be afraid, just believe .... It is the Lord's most holy will to give to His own, to test their strength in the Spirit. The deep attachment to the Lord assures you of the pure truth .... it is a sign of the indissoluble power of the Lord .... As you believe, so you will be considered. But the world is as you have been shown .... for a short time yet, and you will recognize the truth of His words.

But if the lines are not understandable to you, record the following: A change of life-reforms will demand that you all must change and disregard the commandment with reason. Mankind's striving will be to solve problems of population increase, and this will be regulated in such a way that the course of all events will be to you as horrible as you never thought possible. When two mate, love should to be the condition, but if the act of procreation is performed without any inner or soul-connection, this is contrary to God's order, and through this, man lays in the begotten beings the basic substance of all earthly vices and desires.

Because the being of man is destined for a higher purpose, and when already from the beginning of the embodiment the soul is covered so deeply in darkness, then it will hardly be able to free itself from the fetters surrounding it to follow a path full of light, and for the short duration of it's earthly existence, it has to struggle unspeakably if it wants to achieve the purpose of it's embodiment. In times of such aberrations, great signs from above will have to appear to point out to mankind the sinfulness of their beginning.

If people live side by side and do not completely fit into the order of God, the ground is always well prepared to receive bad seeds for the power of darkness. The Lord will take care of His own with infinite blessings, He will protect them from adversity. But your heart is to remain far removed from every doubt .... accept as it is commanded to you, and trust in the Lord who guides you rightly at all times, if you remain in His will. And hear the words of the Lord: "You shall all serve Me, that I may bless you ....".

Amen.

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The world endangers the salvation of souls ....

B.D. 0353 from March 29th 1938, taken from Book No. 8

Nothing is more dangerous for you than the world with it's temptations, which want to pull you again and again into the whirlpool of life .... where you then forget the Lord and your actual destiny. In the foreseeable future an epoch granted to you in grace will be completed, in which you have been given sufficient knowledge of the will of the Creator through trials and tribulations. Whether you have now made use of this time, is the question the Lord will one day ask you at the end of your days.

Because nothing happens in vain, so also your further life on earth will still bring you enough hints, but man is in the habit of directing all his activity only towards worldly things and of taking little notice of the divine care .... Therefore, it will also become more and more difficult for him to get into contact with the divine Spirit .... A human will never be able to grasp the miracle of creation .... how much less will he realize that he can develop himself to the highest .... to the image of God .... if he himself has only the will for it. If you become servants of the world, then you will never ever be able to do so, but if you let go of this and it's temptations, then you enter into a bright state, which offers you incomparably more than what the world can ever offer you.

Therefore take care of your soul's salvation, take note of God's instructions, and above all receive them into your heart, then the soul will imperceptibly free itself from all earthly things that still seem desirable to you now, it will become free from the fetters of earthly desire and will of itself be left to a higher will, and what spiritual pleasures it then offers itself, replaces those of the world a thousand times over .... yes, the gifts of the spirit alone will only appear desirable to you .... you separate yourselves from everything that still holds on to your soul, and frees it's way upwards. In thoughts about the hereafter .... in good and noble living .... in striving for truth and in working in love you will from now on spend your life on earth ....

Rid of the worries of everyday life, you will receive many spiritual messages, directly and indirectly, if you only pay attention to your thoughts, to the inner voice and to everything that informs you of the work of creation of the heavenly Father. For none of His children has been created by the Father without the ability to recognize .... The idea of eternity can be awakened and brought to life in everyone who only raises his heart to the Father of the All and turns to Him asking for His grace .... And will recognize everyone who has only the good will to do what is right and corresponds to the will of the heavenly Father. The Lord Himself leads these from the bustle of the world to Himself into His heavenly kingdom ....

Amen.

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Faith ....

B.D. 0354 from March 30th 1938, taken from Book No. 8

And whoever remains in faith will always walk strengthened through life, because the Lord never lets those who believe in Him become wavering .... The harbinger of all bliss is faith .... And therefore everyone who willingly accepts it will prepare himself in all earnestness for eternity. The other regulated living without faith corresponds only to machine-like activity without any further value .... then man is only a living being, filling the earth's surface without any further use for itself. They can still serve other earthly children as a deterring example, but for themselves however no result remains, which could be of eternal advantage for them.

So the Lord puts Himself also here into the remedy, where deep lack of faith makes man unfit to care for his salvation. He wants to stand by him and forces him through circumstances, earthly need, illness and suffering of all kinds, to think about his own inadequacy. If man succeeds in freeing himself from his rigid view ...., if he feels that he is subordinated to a higher being and cannot achieve anything without it .... then he is saved for eternity.

Even if his state does not reach the degree of perfection, the further training of his soul in the hereafter with the knowledge which he gained on earth, will be much easier for him than when he enters the hereafter in complete blindness and obduracy. The wrestling and fighting of such a soul is so arduous beyond all measure that it .... would he know about it .... would make every effort to penetrate into earth-life into the miracle of faith with all it's blessings.

You find the connection to God only through faith .... Accept what you feel in your heart as truth, even if you cannot actually prove it .... that is faith .... And in this faith give yourselves unconditionally to the Father of creation .... What you are, you are everything only through Him who begat you, created you .... You must acknowledge this, because who else gave you life ....

If the wise teach you differently, then the purpose of life will be missed, because only through faith in the eternal God .... in Jesus Christ, who came into the world for your redemption .... you can reach the true life .... i.e. to grasp all spiritual in and around you, because what you otherwise pursue on earth, be it what it is .... without this faith, it is only vain work of creation, which is transitory and earns you only worldly benefits, but which is invalid at your parting from this world. And whatever you accomplish .... remember that the next day your life can already be over ....

Who has it in his power to prolong life one day, one hour, when the Lord calls him .... Imagine this urgently, and then it will seem more advisable to you to seek the connection with the eternal Father than the connection with the world .... For with the certainty of being a child of this Father, you walk through the valley of the earth much more easily and joyfully than without faith .... For so you are forsaken and only hang on to treasures of this earth, which only cover your spiritual emptiness .... but faith opens up heavenly joys and radiant treasures for eternity ....

Amen.

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30.3. (Hugo) ....

B.D. 0355 from March 30th 1938, taken from Book No. 8

Those around you welcome you and give you advice .... Behold, there is one among us whose heart is connected with you .... he has thought of you all day and was near you, and now he is happy about the connection that is to be granted him for a short time ....

My love, your thoughts have been with me today, and I sense the power that emanates from you. I want to tell you some things that will bring you joy .... The world on the other side has many horrors for all of you who are still on earth .... but man can form himself so far on earth that the entrance into the hereafter is much more of a joyful event for him, and so you must imagine that I am staying in bright, light spheres where only you are still missing .... You find in your earthly existence so unspeakably much grace from the Lord, and in this consciousness also my life here in the hereafter has become a beautiful one, so that I fulfill my duties with joy and can also often tarry close to you. I observe all your work and give you hints as often as I can, for what spiritual work has come into being through you, bears witness to the Savior's exceedingly great love for people, and for this I thank Him daily and hourly that He has led you so lovingly on the right path. All of us around you want to stand by your side in days of evil and in days of inner struggle. But now your grandmother wants to tell you a few words. I feel your closeness, child, and offer you my farewell in yellow roses. Expect me the day after tomorrow ....

Where so many surround you, my spirit is also always close to you. It is an important day today, my child, the Lord's great goodness allows us to protect you, and this task makes us all happy .... we read all your letters and thereby gain so much .... And now the Lord has given us permission to be allowed to intervene in your life on earth to help you when it is necessary, and that makes us so happy, since we are to participate in all your spiritual work. We will support the work of your hands so that the spiritual work will not suffer any loss, and heaven's help will always be granted to you when your prayer penetrates deeply to the heavenly Father. Now we depart from you and ask the Lord to bless you ....

Amen

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Ermahnung zum Wirken .... Wille Gottes .... 7 Jahre Leid .... Vaterworte ....

B.D. 0356 from March 31th 1938, taken from Book No. 8

You shall find yourselves in My name and keep My commandments, so I will be with you in all needs of body and soul. Let the light shine and help those who are weak in spirit .... advise them that they will only get well in My love .... seek to ennoble them .... seek to point out to them the power of My will .... give them news of My work on earth .... as I always walk among you who want to be close to Me, as I am close to everyone who out of his love for Me also gives love to the neighbour.

You all do not yet understand which power is inherent in you .... as you can work in My will, if you only desire Me .... Because My will rules over everything, over this your life on earth and also over the hereafter. Nothing remains hidden to Me, and the quiet will in you who are My children, is enough to make use of My will for you .... You willingly give yourselves into My care, and I fulfill your will ...., so you are only allowed to want, and you can also carry out what you want. Overcoming the earth will become easy for you in My name; My spirit will enlighten you, and you will see what has been unreachable to you so far.

You will have to experience the seven years full of suffering, but they will pass you by like shadows, attacking and taking away the many who remained strangers to Me, who veered from their ways and did not want to settle into their true destiny .... To these the Lord will then be revealed in His strength .... but then such bitter suffering will darken their days that they come to realization in the last hour. If you now pray this news of My word in My name, you will make the way of suffering easier for them .... The trouble will make them docile, and then still many will accept the teaching of Christ, to their blessing.

My child, always immerse yourself in what My will spiritually created .... It is your life's work and will bring some things to maturity in you, if you just remain loyal to Me. Your senses and aspirations will only turn more and more to this silent work, and what will then be decided for you, accept everything as My mission, as My will and the expression of My love for you .... everything flows to you according to My command ....

You have nothing to fear as long as your heart turns to Me in love, and I will enlighten your spirit so that you will always recognize My will and make all My desires your own .... Because what I demand of you, I put into your heart and instruct you until you are completely in My will, and then you will be able to work in My stead everything I want .... Because nothing happens without My will, and in love I draw you to Me and make you into what you are to become ....

Amen.

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1.4 (Birthday) ....

B.D. 0357 from April 1st 1938, taken from Book No. 8

Begin in the name of God .... You will leave your body, and all around you will be clear .... all light will shine, you will lift yourself up into an area above the ether blue .... And when there is singing and ringing around you, then you know that God the Lord is near you .... that you have entered into His kingdom.

Wherever you find yourself in the gloomy days, hear the voice of consolation .... Your suffering is small compared to the joy that awaits you. And if you give your heart entirely to the Savior, you will draw immeasurably from His divine source of grace, for His children's desire to come to Him, is granted them abundantly. So always rely on the Savior's goodness and love, then your faith will bring you to a level that will certainly lead you to the heights.

Hear now our words: The Saviour urges you to care for the poor at all times, who are on the wrong track because of their faith. Communicate His words to them, for the power of these words flows unconsciously into such hearts .... Whatever may happen, a grain remains in them, even if the doubt is still great at the moment. But who else shall save them, if not the Lord through His Word .... Whatever gave you happiness and satisfaction and gives you again and again, will also find it's way into many a person's heart, because the Lord will give you the gift of serving His Word in the right place ....

It is hereby declared to you that the Lord wants to take possession of your body for the blessing of the many who find it hard to believe. Hidden in your bodily shell, the Lord will express Himself and thus give you the strength to carry out a ministry entirely in His will. You shall live and yet be at the commandment of the Lord, until He will one day take you to Himself in His kingdom. Trustingly place everything into the Lord's hands, do not be afraid .... only believe .... Then you will always remain in His blessing, and what the Lord offers you will make you infinitely happy already on earth, because His love is always with you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Alida Pretorius

Subordinating the will to the Divine will ....

B.D. 0358 from April 1st 1938, taken from Book No. 8

From the beginning of the world you experience the grace of the Lord .... As soon as one of you submits to the will of the Lord, the Lord instructs you in the history of creation, and now you are offered knowledge that can never be taken away from you. For it is the will of the Lord, that they may know who desires to know .... and that they may know the truth, who sees his Father in God .... A shallow faith never guarantees you a grasp of divine wisdom, but the deeper you stand in faith, the deeper you will penetrate into the wonders of creation and the more intimately you will be connected in spirit with the eternal Father-Spirit ....

For you come from Him, you are begotten in the eternal light .... you are yourselves as part of the light a part of the eternal deity .... If you endeavor to be children of God, your striving is a continued one and is eternally only for reunion with the heavenly Father. The primordial light that was your original being will remain in you, and it is even present as the tiniest spark .... Because it's nature will always remain the same ....

However, you must try to detach yourselves from what is a tribute to the world .... then you will be able to recognize the light; you will long to increase the luminosity of the light .... you will only want to walk in the light, and it will be brighter and brighter around you until you approach the Father of all light and thus the union with the Father-Spirit can take place, which first lifts you up to perfect, God-like beings, which you were from the beginning and shall remain until all eternity ....

Thus the destiny of man is predestined, and the Lord has chosen thousands who followed His commandments on earth to bring enlightenment again as light-beings to those who are still enveloped in spiritual darkness .... In the earthly stage, countless such beings stand besides the earthly children, wanting to enlighten the spirit of so many people walking on earth. All of us who are around you take an active interest in the nature of the spirit of these many .... Whoever does not bring himself into that state which enables him to draw continuously from God's source of grace, will hardly be able to attain the light of the Spirit .... For the power of God can only work where the precondition is fulfilled ....

The willing reception of the divine Spirit in itself .... only that alone brings the earth-being into the state where the grace of the Lord flows to it incessantly, because everything that arises in the will to reach God can also never perish or cease .... So too must everyone who strives for it with the Lord, be in constant possession of God's grace, .... an ever higher education of the human soul, so that it is receptive to the divine Spirit .... Behold, this is the whole explanation why he does what the Father in heaven wants .... subordinating his will to the divine will.

He will never need to fear a wrong action, thought or word, because how could he want the same as the Lord Himself and yet do something different .... The Lord puts this power into the heart of everyone, and only man's firm will lets him also get into possession of this power because this goes out from the Father and passes as if his own, into the will of man, so the earthly child only executes the will of the Lord. Consider this, whenever you give yourself to the Lord, that your inner strength increases and you must inevitably act according to God's will and therefore cannot go astray, if your heart turns to God, the Creator of heaven and earth ....

Amen.

Translation handled by Alida Pretorius

Patience and gentleness of the Lord .... His goodness endures forever ....

B.D. 0359 from April 2nd 1938, taken from Book No. 8

We have the Lord's teachings ready for you at all times and give it to you steadfastly in His name, and so we want to teach to you today of the Lord's long-suffering and patience. His goodness endures forever .... With these words all is said .... A tiny fraction of a second would be enough to destroy everything you see in the universe, if it were the will of the Lord. And millions of beings would find their downfall at that moment.

But the Lord's creation exists since eternity, and also will the creatures, the beings of endlessly many kinds, exist eternally. But until all these beings have reached the state that they are completely one with the eternal Light, the divine Father, they have to remain

\- for you endless times - in the universe, in always new formations and always different possibilities of development. The first stages take place with the order willed by God, and the living beings - or rather their souls - slowly reach the degree that is a precondition for the finite embodiment as a human being ....

But then, after thousands of years of previous transformations of the soul through ever-changing external forms, it must shape itself arbitrarily to that which is it's destiny .... It is completely left to it to accept or reject the light of knowledge. But since it very often does not recognize it's destiny without retrospective consciousness, the heavenly Father tries with endless love and patience to help and thus point out the path which it is difficult to tread, through proofs of His love.

But the Lord is patient .... His kindness and love lasts forever .... As long as only a small spark in the soul of man reflects on himself .... as long as the soul feels the connection, however slight, with the Godhead within itself, the love of the Father is also concerned about this soul and stands by it's side in a helpful way until it has finally recognized and implores the grace of the Lord from within, of it's own accord, and then the way up is much easier .... then the knowledge is there, then man or his soul yearns by itself upwards to the Father, and to a yearning child, the heavenly Father is always close and will lead it safely towards the eternal homeland ....

Amen.

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Organized care .... Lack of charity ....

B.D. 0360 from April 2nd 1938, taken from Book No. 8

Try to follow our explanations, with which we want to increase your knowledge in the name of the Lord. In stead of the commandments instituted by God, people are now also given commandments with the intention to ennoble the people, but the wrong application of these commandments does not bring about a complete improvement of mankind, but only coercive measures, which at best can be an organized supply, but which do not generate active charity - which, however, would be always more beneficial to the people if they were more diligent.

Years of struggle had to precede to finally bring about such an organization, and material interests have always been decisive in every measure developed in such a way, which is supposed to be an apparent work of charity, but deviates very far from the love, which Jesus preached on earth. People should help each other .... they should alleviate each other's suffering and misery .... they should give to the poor, protect them spiritually and physically or save them from need and distress ....

But are the measures introduced based on this or a similar motivating force that has arisen from love for God and neighbor? .... Isn't everything rather tailored to raise up much manipulation, to be openly and generally admired and recognized, and which connect far more other interests with the apparent main purpose, but which are to remain hidden from the public world.

A kingdom that resorts to such means in it's construction will hardly be able to exist in the long run, because it wants to dismiss the commandments of God as residual and replace them with man-made commandments, only to make use of the power that has been acquired; and in order to let something completely new arise, everything old gets rejected and above all, the teaching of Christ is to be overthrown and branded as man's work, to dissolve this teaching and let something else arise in it's place.

The Lord will crush this effort .... He will not allow His Word to be disregarded and taken away from mankind .... He will rather announce it much more urgently to the people, wherever someone wants to listen to it, and less and less will be able to stand what man create in arrogance in order to deceive and blind their fellow man .... All spirit goes out from God, Who is good .... but the work of Satan seeks to find entrance in people under false cover ....

It also wants to be of good influence on mankind, but if one pays close attention to it, then one recognizes the origin and sees under the whitewash of the seemingly noble, the worthlessness of such commandments, which run counter to those of the Lord and can never have a beneficial effect on the soul of man. But every final victory is also preceded by battles that you have to pass .... Take up the fight against everything that wants to reduce or destroy God's word .... If all of you stand firm as one man .... then you can never succumb in a fight that you fight for Jesus Christ .... the Author of the divine commandments .... Because it is His knowledge that also recognizes the effects of this struggle with foresight .... What people create passes away .... but God's word remains in eternity ....

Amen.

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Loving Father’s words ....

B.D. 0361 from April 3rd 1938, taken from Book No. 8

And the ones who are Mine are to be blessed because whenever they call on Me, I give them the strength to strive for their salvation. There will still come times where everything around you appears shrouded in darkness .... Also then I am close to you, and you have nothing to fear .... Put your ear to My heart and hear: you are destined to receive the divine gift, My child, and so you will find an act of love performed on you, which is meant for all My dear earth children .... You remain in deep trouble on this earth and do not pay attention to the saving hand which I want to offer you, but as I am always close to My children who love Me, so I also stay near you, who do not want to recognize Me, and wait patiently until a quiet desire stirs in your hearts .... a desire for spiritual power and strengthening .... then I am ready for you.

If you now want to keep My name holy, you are blessed through and through. Let the world threaten, let it destroy .... Never will it's power reach up to your innermost heart .... This belongs to yourselves, you can confidently give it to your Savior and you will participate in the eternal kingdom with it's glory .... and you will well know how to do without the kingdom on earth, it's goods and dignities .... because My kingdom is not of this world .... But you, My child, I will always stand by you - your faith shall become strong and your heart shall beat only for Me in love .... this is how I reward the children who entrust themselves to Me and give them what they ask for ....

Compare your life now with before .... Are you not a thousand times happier in My love? .... And will this ever decrease as long as you give Me your heart? .... All words which I have prepared for you, are to give you news of My love, and all impulses which I put into your heart, go to you uninterruptedly from Me, because infinite is My love for you people, and I can and will make you infinitely happy. For the time on earth, your spiritual work will bring you such a deep happiness that you will never again give away this your activity ....

This is how I reward your endurance and your fervent desire to serve Me, My child .... Always consider love as the highest commandment, and unite all your thoughts with works of love .... and around you there will be a singing and ringing in the heart of those who feel your love, because everything you do out of love for Me, leads you ever closer to Me and will one day lead you into eternal heavenly bliss ....

Amen

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Loving Father’s words ....

B.D. 0362 from April 3rd 1938, taken from Book No. 8

Accept My words that I place in your heart and receive My blessings through them. A heart won by love to see itself lifted up to Me is the most beautiful reward for My efforts, because I desire you, My dear children, and I see in every little child that returns to Me the fruits of My love .... Your share is bliss, prepared for you out of My love. And My share is your heart fully turned towards Me, which I receive to Me in My kingdom for eternity.

There everything blossoms and greens, there so much beauty is opened up to you that you can bear all this only in perfection, and My nearness will agree with you to exceedingly great joy .... because all of us are then united by one Spirit .... one Light and one Love .... For this, My little daughter, it is advisable to lay down your life when it would be necessary, but your Savior shields you in every danger and averts all adversity from you when it is not necessary for the perfection of your soul.

My child, unite in thought with Me as often as you can, then your strength will grow, your love will become stronger and stronger, and your faith will be strengthened, so that your life on earth will already be completed in fullness of light, because My Spirit then constantly flows over into you, and you seek all happiness only in love with Me .... You seek to serve Me and to fulfill My will and out of this love turn your heart also to your fellow brothers and sisters in the same love. On these you are to test your strength, which I impart to you to have a beneficial effect on all My children on earth. Give only Me always your heart and your will to own, then your purpose on this earth will be fulfilled ....

Amen

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Inner voice .... Sovereignty of the soul over the body ....

B.D. 0363 from April 3rd 1938, taken from Book No. 8

Whoever wants to loosen the fetters that bind him on this earth must offer his sacrifice to the Lord .... he must surrender everything that connects him to the earth .... he must free his heart from everything that seemed desirable to him until now .... only then does he rise into a sphere where his soul can recover, where it can free itself from oppressive shells, where it can absorb the Spirit of God and transform itself into the image of God ....

The spiritual guideline will always be given to him once the urge for spiritual education has been awakened in his heart .... Then he may only always entrust himself to the spiritual leaders, who were given to him to protect him for life on earth .... these know best what is useful to him and necessary for the advancement of the soul. But also other opportunities will be offered to him by which he can develop himself higher and test his will .... because everything comes from God .... every hint at the deity .... every admonition to complete himself .... and every impulse for good will be put into his heart by God Himself, if he only always pays attention to the inner voice, which will always show him the right way.

That now again many do not hear this voice is the consequence of strong worldly stimuli, which try to drown out everything pointing to eternity; it is an inner fight which must be fought out beforehand, a fight for the supremacy of the body or the soul .... when the desire of the soul wins over the desire of the body then the soul is very soon given the possibility to detach itself from matter and now to fulfill it's actual purpose .... i.e., it will now be strengthened and supported by good spirit beings in the effort to receive the Spirit of God and will so be able to form itself to ever higher perfection.

Because only one thing is necessary: that man understands to place the soul over the body .... and that, if he has recognized this, he should not slacken in his efforts to give the soul the highest possible development possibility by doing everything that is beneficial to the soul and it's desire, even if he does not correspond to the world and it's requirements and is forced to go through a life of renunciation on earth. Because only one thing can be good for the soul .... the world with it's joys does not help it to progress, but only the connection with God alone will give it all that it needs for perfection on earth. Therefore man's endeavor will always have to be to turn to the heavenly Father as a child of God, full of trust that He will advise and help him, and this request will not go unheard ....

Amen

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The necessity of constant struggle .... Cleaning through the elements .... Storm ....

B.D. 0364 from April 4th 1938, taken from Book No. 8

We are with you whenever you need our strength. The most urgent necessity is to adapt to everything that the Lord lets you endure. For your soul is to form itself in all devotion into that which is necessary for it to the finite maturity of the spirit. Any clinging to unhealthy weaknesses or mistakes is an obstacle to it's progress. For a perfect spirit of light requires a flawless soul, freed from all evils, and man can come to this stage only through perpetual inner struggle and constant work on himself.

Search the comparisons in nature .... How often is a storm the means to remove all evil .... to chase away all clouds .... so that the sky will once again be a bright blue sky .... Unpleasant things always happen in order to let an improvement follow, because everything in nature, as well as with you humans, clears itself up through and after adversity .... Because the Lord in His wise counsel recognizes and determines that all existence in nature is only purified by elements that stir up rest, and so also man does not promote himself in a state of rest, but would in the inertia forget his destiny .... and is therefore subject to this law as well, that a purification, an improvement can only be achieved by adversity imposed upon him, which he is forced to overcome.

Only in this way is progress on a spiritual path possible .... The human heart must learn to decide for itself .... it must feel that every pressure that burdens it can become a blessing for it, if man can draw the benefit from it .... if he patiently bears what is imposed on him .... but if it does not have an ennobling effect on man, all of that is in vain.

So keep above all to the saying: What God imposes on you, you must joyfully receive from His hand, because the Lord knows what is good for you, and you must pass these tests if the Lord's love is to continue to consider you with His grace. But if you trustingly put all your worries to His heart, He will know how to turn away from you everything that seems difficult to you to bear. For his will is not that you suffer, but through suffering make yourself worthy of the eternal joy that He has prepared for you for all eternity ....

Amen

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Father-words .... Spirit .... suffering .... Love ....

B.D. 0365 from April 5th 1938, taken from Book No. 8

My dear child .... hold the instruction which I will give you, firmly in your heart .... consider that every hour is intended to give your spirit a higher development .... and that you must do everything to reach a state similar to Me. So everything that happens around you is designed to educate you .... Every word that reaches you gives you news of My will, and in your heart these words are to awaken an active excitement for all good and for love .... because My Spirit connects Itself with yours, and this can then never remain idle ....

Without your will for this, My teachings would be without result - but every word always refreshes you when your will follows Me in all things, in all circumstances of life, in joy and sorrow. I am with you and guide you, if you obey every quiet heartbeat, which is again a work of Me .... a sign of My love. When you give yourself willingly to Me, then you will also feel in yourself how closely you remain united with Me, because the soul that receives My Spirit never leaves Me; it is Mine, and it's days on earth are happiness, no matter how the heaviness on earth seems to sometimes press it.

A perfected spirit lives in a sphere which no longer lets him feel the suffering of the earth in such a way, that is why also an earthly child living in Me and with Me can endure almost unbearable phenomena for the environment without being deeply touched by them .... Because it remains in My will and therefore the excitement of the heart takes up everything spiritual .... and has little or no feeling for the physical, from which you can gather that My love is able to protect My children connected with Me from suffering threatening you from outside or approaching you.

If you give Me your heart so willingly that you do not hesitate and are not fickle, everything else - even what seems difficult to you - will bounce off of you .... You will not need to suffer as long as you give yourself to Me .... Only a little while longer, then I enter your life with such violence that you will shiver, and then your love for Me shall glow so much that you will willingly receive Me and will be ready for Me at any time. Suffering and bliss, unspeakable happiness and pain, everything will seize you, if you only want to serve Me always .... from now on your life will be a blessed one .... My breath will touch you wherever you stay .... and lifting your thoughts to Me, will bring you unspeakable happiness.

Because your love is pure and only wants to serve Me .... such announcers of My word will work as a blessing, and to whom you grant support in their need, they will also seek Me and know how to find Me .... You must banish every doubt from your heart .... I stand by you and give you strength, and if you get this at any time from My word, you are immeasurably rich .... But always pay attention to the purity of your heart, remain true and just, then you will recognize everything and will always understand My words correctly, because I give to the ones who are Mine as they are able to receive ....

The abundance of spiritual creation guarantees you correct thoughts .... if you want to remain in this creative power, then always go into yourself and seek to accomplish nothing, but to always unite all your thoughts and deeds with your Jesus, then you will be supported in every situation in life, because if you place yourself in My protection, you who are My children, no harm will threaten you .... for you see, I am with you every day ....

Amen

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God's warrior .... God's Word .... Granary ....

B.D. 0366 from April 5th 1938, taken from Book No. 8

Thus, the work of a moment is capable of igniting a bright flare of the sacred flame in man .... Man leans on everything that gives him a hold in difficult days .... A peculiar feeling in his heart tells him what is right, and after a long back and forth, only one way remains open to him, the one he is not afraid to take .... when the full knowledge of the divine truth enlightens him, when he has recognized the heresies of the world for what it is.

Very few are able to receive what is offered to them .... people will often know how to assert themselves with little resistance when the Lord's most holy will intervenes, but what then speaks out of these people .... what flows out of these overflowing hearts is not a dead word, but true, living, deep faith in the eternal Godhead .... Those who will always hear this word, will profess this faith without timidity and without inhibition, .... Because God the Lord let the speech of those sound powerful and unbroken, and this will likewise find entrance into the human hearts ....

By this word alone the blessing of God can be recognized, without hesitation the warrior of God is ready to use it, because the Lord gave and took at the same time .... Out of His hand man received his highest office, and to administer it in truthfulness was his innermost motivation. And that's why recognition is also followed by action .... because whoever looks into God's garden of wisdom will not turn his gaze back, but he desires to enter, and his heart is longingly turned towards this gate ....

You will therefore receive teachings that are to convince you of the guiding hand of the Father .... that are to pass into you as living seed .... sown by God Himself into the hearts of humans, received by them in full will and guarded and nurtured in love .... So the word of God must flourish .... So it must bear fruit, and the harvest will be unspeakably great and rich. For the Lord instructs His messengers to give food to the souls that long for the bread of heaven .... You shall not be in want, but shall be fully satisfied with the bread of life ....

Whatever is given in spiritual goods will be kept in the granary of the heart, so to speak - so that the supply is inexhaustible .... however, thanks to the strength Donor until all eternity .... He considers those who hunger, and directs His attention to all who look forward to the future with a despondent heart .... Where will the love of the Savior leave you in need, who fight for His name? .... But confess Him before all the world, never let the holiest in you wither away .... faith in Jesus Christ, the Son of God .... If you have this, then you have escaped from the world and death .... You will never die in eternity, but have eternal life ....

Amen

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Messages given by God Himself are indestructible ....

B.D. 0367 from April 6th 1938, taken from Book No. 8

Everything that embraces the concept of the universe has been so arranged by God's wise counsel that it is useful for the further training of the individual beings who swarm through the universe in millions upon millions. The most sublime teachings about the miracle of creation cannot provide information in full depth. For where the natural thinking of man is limited, unlimited wisdom cannot be imparted. Thanks be to the Lord of Creation that He grants you people the extraordinary grace to take a look into a part of creation in order to show you the wonderful work of the Godhead ....

The blessing of these revelations will not fail to appear; a new fresh thinking will enliven the people, they will listen attentively and recognize the divine Spirit more easily and comprehensively than was the case up to now. The few indestructible values of this kind that God has directly communicated to mankind bear witness to the infinity of the universe, they bear witness to the Divine rule and to the love with which the supreme Being surrounds all other beings of the universe .... These works will remain, no human work of destruction will have power over the messages given by God Himself to His earthly children.

Let time pass over it, and you will know how wisely all His children are led, so that they may unite and carry out the will of the Lord in common action .... So only will it be possible to cleanse the earth from the teachings that mislead it, but never will an opposing power influence these words .... Because without the action of the Lord the world would have to put on a mourning garment .... it would sink into the deepest darkness, and boundless spiritual misery would seize the earthly children, if not the Lord in His boundless love took pity on them and through again and again new events, would create a way which would lead them out of all this spiritual misery and again onto paths full of light.

You leave darkness in the knowledge of His word, because you will be given so much strength through the word - which you receive in good will - that from now on you will constantly strive and pray for grace, and then your soul will release itself more and more from it's fetters .... it becomes light and bright .... it recognizes and accepts in grateful joy everything that is offered to it for strengthening and further training, and then the great need is overcome .... the way to the Father is paved, and His love draws the soul eternally to Himself in his Father's house.

Amen

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Prediction .... Laws .... Earth Mission .... Teaching of Christ ....

B.D. 0368 from April 6th 1938, taken from Book No. 8

In a few moons the revelation will come true for you that a spirit will arise which wants to proclaim against the Spirit of God, and when he will set the words, just as it says in the Bible ...., then you will recognize by it that all old things will be rejected and something new will arise in the same spirit, i.e. under the same words, but this is not from God, but is given to the people by the adversary to destroy them. In this time some earthly children will ask themselves in tortures of conscience, how they have to place themselves to everything .... Then the serious admonition will go out to you all: Do not detach yourselves from faith in the Lord Jesus Christ .... He alone will show you the right way ....

If you accept His teachings and are ready to confess His name aloud, not a hair of your head can possibly be bent by other powers, because the Lord protects those who are His .... The true power and strength is only given to you through true faith .... And search for this there, where all salvation comes from .... above over the universe .... You will not find salvation of the soul in earthly laws. He who strives for the earth alone neglects to accomplish the most important task. Only following the teaching of Christ is the task that has been set for you for your lifetime.

When you now turn your attention more to worldly laws, when you seek to do justice to these in the first place, then soon the time of grace, which was granted to you for the maturity of the soul, passes by in useless work. You will indeed comply with your earthly duty, but to what benefit .... Where should the blessing rest there, since the heavenly Father alone can reward you .... but the earthly power can fulfill nothing of what it always promises you, if the blessing is not granted to you from above .... And how can the heavenly Father take care of a matter that is not at all in His will ....

How can something be good for mankind if it is directed against the commandments given by God .... if a teaching is rejected which is to be preserved in it's purity through millennia .... through generations .... Jesus Christ came into the world to redeem mankind, the work of redemption continues and lasts until all eternity .... but mankind wants to invalidate what has been until then, it wants to turn away from this doctrine and wants to form a new doctrine on worldly views, which is not what was given to mankind by Christ anymore ....

The more methodically such a teaching is built up, the wiser it is submitted to people, the less foundation it will have, because the Lord does not want it, that such powers concern themselves with the improvement of a doctrine which is far nobler than a work of God .... and that it is replaced by something worldly, which better meets the requirements of the people. Then the new teaching, which is man's work, will completely deviate from the true word .... and it's career will be equal to worldly measures .... it will arise .... it will be changed and supposedly improved, and it will finally collapse in itself ....

For this is the fate of every teaching that is not from God, and therefore can never again be under Divine blessing. For only the pure teaching of Christ can be preserved through thousands of years, and even if there is talk of alleged errors, these are only due to wrong understanding and wrong interpretation, but it will always remain the same and also cannot be eliminated by such reorganization. Because people forget one thing .... that a work of God cannot be arbitrarily dismissed, but rather prevails in all times and through every struggle unaltered and remains eternally unchanged .... because God's works cannot be improved ....

When people would strive for this, they are biased in great error, because the belief that they can act against God's commandments is already a completely misguided thought, which only the adversary alone can give to mankind, but will never be executable. God's Word .... the teachings of Christ, remains inviolable through all eternity, and people will never ever be able to intervene destructively without harming their soul. Watch therefore for the signs from above, which are unmistakable and give you news of the will of the Lord .... Follow them, that ye may be saved from unbelief, but turn yourself ever more intimately to the teaching of Christ ....

Amen

Translation handled by Alida Pretorius

Creative spirits .... Free will ....

B.D. 0369 from April 7th 1938, taken from Book No. 8

All thoughts are born from eternity .... An army of creating spirits fills the infinite expanse of heaven. But man is given only the possibility of animating a very small particle in infinity with his thoughts and ideas. Everything else is subordinated to the world of the creative spirit beings, which, always carrying out the will of the Lord, are untiringly active in the world domain. Matter in the whole universe is subject to these beings, and what is willed, happens ....

Such an army of these spirit beings also now surrounds the earth and intervenes decisively in all events on earth, but also leaving space and power to the forces that work against the will of the Lord, because the earth must be influenced from both sides, because otherwise the most important thing in creation would be eliminated .... free will .... A being cannot develop to godlikeness, if it's deeds and actions only has to be as a higher being determines it .... It has to keep the self-determination over itself, it must be exposed to both, the good and the bad power - and then be able to express it's own power of judgement .... an inner effort must begin, to be at the service of these or those powers ....

But the army of spirit-beings, which looks after you, remains immensely active in it's work .... what you take for granted in nature around you and above you, is constantly produced by these beings, who at the same time also thereby intervene in your innermost being, because they form you and constantly direct your thoughts towards creation .... they give you, as it were, insight into their activity .... they cause you to be viable in the first place, precisely through the sphere surrounding you .... that you must recognize that you can form from yourselves, in an environment created by God, what you are striving for ....

Imagine the question: Which of you humans is only given a one-sided possibility of perception .... which of you cannot recognize good and evil at the same time around yourselves .... which of you lacks the ability to distinguish good from evil? .... So where nevertheless both are present, also humans will be able and will have to decide necessarily for themselves what they desire .... and so the free will is first active, in order to clarify the desire of the soul. And again the great blessing is evident from this, which an intimate connection with the spirit-beings surrounding you entails ....

The more trustingly you subject all your thoughts to these, the more surely you will be guided and the clearer your thoughts will be able to perceive good and evil, you learn to recognize and turn completely of your own free will to that which guarantees you the highest perfection ..... You must then become perfect when you are guided by the most perfect beings who can ever surround you. You can never fail, because the power of good will have far more influence on you than that of evil. And that is why you will also certainly enter the way to eternal life when you devote yourselves to the powers and forces which carry out the will of the Lord, you therefore willingly submit yourselves to the heavenly Father.

Amen

Translation handled by Alida Pretorius

The disciples of the Savior .... The Jewish kingdom ....

B.D. 0370 from April 7th 1938, taken from Book No. 8

In all his time of suffering, no-one on earth was as devoted to the Lord and Saviour as His disciples, who loved Him and would have liked to keep every suffering away from Him, if it was in their power .... As many as gathered around Him, only a small circle was so imbued with His divinity that they recognized in Him their Master, their Divine Creator, and where all light from Him flooded into their hearts, soon even the slightest doubt was choked .... In Divine perfection of their being they soon saw the only goal of their life ....

In the purity of His heart, everyone soon realized that following Him was essentially the only important thing on earth .... they realized that none of them could reach this perfection unless the Lord Himself let His grace come upon them continuously, and furthermore they realized how important serving one another in love was for reaching perfection .... Their striving now was to make themselves worthy of the grace of God in deepest humility and self-abasement .... They left everything, they gave up the world and lived only in His teaching, which the Savior taught them in daily dealings with them. Thus, no other event than the constant dwelling in His proximity brought about that their hearts were filled with oversized love for the Savior .... that their knowledge of Divine wisdom increased the longer they experienced and recognized their Master ....

They received with the heart, and God gave them the strength and grace to understand all that He offered them .... For never would they have been able to find their way in these wisdoms without the help of the Lord .... never would they have become aware of the greatness of the Lord without Divine enlightenment .... and never would they therefore have recognized their teacher as the Son of God if their spirit had not been enlightened by the Divine light. In frequent tribulation of the Spirit the Lord came to their aid whenever they felt weak .... because the Lord saw only the love that made His disciples worthy of Him .... As a result, He did not leave His own and gave them comfort in every difficult hour, but also demanded their full commitment when He was no longer .... when He returned to what is His Father.

Because the earth carried an enormously vital people at that time .... It was the tribe that was destined to spread Christian doctrine, true Christianity .... it was the Jewish kingdom .... His desire to save this people from the plight of the soul did not resonate with them .... they laughed and mocked Him .... they were represented in exceedingly strong numbers to bring about the downfall of this Son of God, and never let themselves be moved to accept faith in Him as the Messenger of God .... They saw in Him an enemy of their teachings, they saw in Him nothing more than an exceptionally gifted orator who took advantage of His gift of speech to make the people apostate from the teaching of the fathers ....

And since they remained in sin and filth, they could not get the enlightening of the spirit .... they rejected any love of the Lord and repaid it with abuses and the final intention to seek His life .... And His mercy and kindness forgave them .... With angelic patience He directed their speeches to them, for His heart turned to each one and sought to save them. But the omnipotence of God left these people their will, so that the word .... that the Lord came into the world to redeem mankind .... would be fulfilled.

Amen.

Translation handled by Alida Pretorius

Anthroposophists? .... Poem ....

B.D. 0371 from April 8th 1938, taken from Book No. 8

Softly the words of the Savior sound in your ear .... Become like children, and I will give you My blessing, and if you believe My words, you will never lack strength .... Show everything that could shake your faith, because only where the light born out of true humility shines, there also My Spirit will find entrance, but not in caves surrounded by stone walls .... these are the hearts drawing all their wisdom from artfully constructed and laboriously assembled human construction .... the endlessly many writings of arguably truth-seekers, but the childlike faith of averse humans, who created a doctrine themselves, which presents God as unreachable and of difficultly attainable nature .... who live in the belief that in the world it is always only man who is destined to come closer to truth and knowledge, who acquires knowledge himself through long, laborious spiritual work .... i.e. work of the mind, which in turn was acquired in the same way, but never has the pure work of love, humility and unconditional devotion to the will of God as it's basis ....

Only on this alone true knowledge can be built and acquired .... Everything else leads over time away from the actual truth, even if it has it's origin in the same way - and in the end it becomes an entity that no longer corresponds to My teaching .... Flee all that arises in times of spiritual arrogance .... this can not - never ever agree with the full truth, you will always receive the Word of God purely where you leave the guidance of your spirit completely to the Lord ....

You shall indeed strive .... unceasingly, but not for mere intellectual knowledge, but rather for your own perfection .... for the perfection of your soul, which you can only achieve when you are eager to form your heart first by practicing love, humility, gentleness .... and when you not least implore the grace of the Lord and gratefully accept it, because without this grace, your struggle is in vain; you are then like a cold, lifeless mass which does not feel the invigorating breath of Divine grace and without this cannot come to the life-warm maturing of yourself ....

You may well harbour a conscious spirit, but this spirit cannot give you the true life that the Lord alone promises to those who remain in Him .... Therefore no danger is probably as great as that of exaltation, because it excludes everything that is a precondition for the only true knowledge .... And the struggle of these souls will be in vain until they too surrender more and more to Divine grace .... until they have recognized the dead path their souls have taken ....

(The true light, the true life, is given alone only to those .... who find the Father as a child .... who alone only overcomes what opposes him .... But all of you who seek without God's source of grace, will not reach the goal .... Your spirit will only be light and bright when the world of your soul opens up .... if you ask for the grace of the Father in the manner of a child .... then you will recognize the spirit of love that leads you .... and you will praise Him to Whom this praise is due ....)

Amen

Translation handled by Alida Pretorius

Reasonable will to transfer .... Inner Knowledge ....

B.D. 0372 from April 9th 1938, taken from Book No. 8

A man of understanding will always make an effort to accept the teachings of the Lord, but if he lacks any will for it, then he never sees in these a gift of the Lord, even if he cannot unravel their origin. And so a barrier will always then be set to your endeavor when it is based on a mere intellectually correct will to transfer. Only then, when the soul resonates, when it succeeds to awaken innermost emotions so that through these the urge for union with God fills the people, also the Word and His teachings will fall on fertile ground, and then the activity of such a soul will find no limits to be in the will of the Divine Lord .... then the intellect understands as quick as lightning because the soul is simultaneously active.

So man may well strive to live himself into such problems, but if he still lacks the power of inner knowledge .... everything is still dead in him and can only then unfold and form when the teachings influence his thinking in a truly living way .... the process of recovery can only then begin when the mind of man seeks the Father alone and finds the right relationship with the Father.

But this should not take away your courage .... always there, where the resistance is great, loyal helpers support you, and you know that just as many spiritual beings strive for such hearts and thank you for all support. Because your words do not fade away without an impression .... So many words arouse interest of those present, these will cause a connection to be sought and found in further events, and if the person has taken the path of searching in this way, then success can no longer be turned away from entirely .... even if it seems a long way off.

What moves the heart of such a person the most? The history of creation with it's many questions, which seem unsolvable .... if now in this area a satisfactory explanation is given to humans, then already everything else loses improbability .... they then look for everything with the eyes of one searching God .... and success will not be absent, because who walks the way with God, confessing the true faith, will be correctly guided from that hour on ....

Amen

Translation handled by Alida Pretorius

Purpose of suffering - Trials .... Lethargy of the spirit ....

B.D. 0373 from April 11th 1938, taken from Book No. 8

Many things in life discourage the human being .... it is like a bond which binds the heart of such a person. Time and again doubts in the goodness and mercy of God arise when grief and suffering occur too often .... and yet they only give you an inner maturity which otherwise would take much longer to achieve. And since your earthly life only lasts a short time it is necessary that such depressing or painful occurrences must take place frequently and sometimes one after another so that you may derive blessings from them, that you look upon your life earnestly and carefully and that your desire turns more and more away from the world and its attractions, which are a serious danger to you. Life often seems unbearable for the individual, sometimes such an earthly child tires and loses heart .... it drifts without making any effort to change this discouraged existence. And yet it would be so easy for you as soon as the right attitude towards God shows you the way you have to go. But consider the many seemingly insurmountable obstacles in your life .... would you have escaped from them if you had not been given help from above every time ....

But you do not always recognise this help as sent from above, yet every occurrence is a flow of God’s grace .... whether good or bad .... it always has the same purpose: to have a refining effect on you, My earthly children. If you can see in every test a means of improvement then you will also recognise your own shortcomings and failures, and with this recognition comes the quiet will to overcome them .... Then every trial has already served its purpose .... and therefore you must realise in every difficult situation that they are necessary to achieve a higher degree of maturity .... that they are steps on the ladder which leads the soul to perfection, so to speak. A life without struggle would only mean to stay on the same level, however, the battle against oneself is far more difficult to carry out than the battle against enemies who approach the human being from outside.

Every awakening from the lethargy of the spirit is a step forward .... the alert human being will remember his spirit and not let it starve, for lethargy is a relapse and cannot be called ‘enlivening’ in any way, it will defeat every urge to be active and can never have a beneficial influence on the soul. Therefore do not be alarmed when life’s difficulties seem hard to bear .... if they make you aware of your shortcomings and you fight them then they will disappear again in not too long a time, for the Lord only allows such trials until they have served their purpose and improved the heart of the human being. Because it is not His will that you should suffer except that through this you are made worthy of everlasting joy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Divine Commandments .... Work of the spirit-beings ....

B.D. 0374 from April 12th 1938, taken from Book No. 8

Hear the Lord's instruction .... Thousands of beings live in His realm, to whom the pure keeping of the Divine commandments was given as law, but who never bother to fulfill these commandments. In such a case it can hardly be assumed that they could possess the same power of judgment .... that they can recognize the value of these Divine commandments .... the surrounding spirit-beings, however, have in their orderliness no further desire than to bring the most possible enlightenment to those who so dwell in the darkness of the spirit .... and therefore it is continuously shown to them how everything on earth becomes invalid when the commandments of God are not recognized.

The wrath of God hits all those who work against His Word, for they willfully destroy the cornerstone of all the building work for eternity .... Without this Word of God, even he whose will is good would grope around in blindness .... And so it builds up on only that which can make mature and perfect for eternity. In order to be able to obey the commandments of God, it is necessary above all to teach what the Lord demands.

No being has the gift of being able to penetrate into the deepest wisdom of creation without any instruction from the Lord .... Likewise, no being is able to subordinate itself to the will of God and then carry out this will if it is not informed of it's task, the fulfilment of which first guarantees it the state in which it then receives the gift of knowledge of it's destiny in the universe .... One cannot be without the other, one must properly follow the other, and so above all the transmission of the commandments of God is indispensable, because only then the work of man on himself can begin, because to climb the height, he must have fulfilled the preconditions ....

Who now believes, without such self-activity, without this work on himself to be able to fulfill his purpose on earth, is so immensely mistaken that the surrounding spirit-beings have a painstaking work to explain to these earthly children the adjustment into God's order and will, and this can only happen through hints and suggestions, which on earth concern the people themselves .... and which, seen on a small scale, establish exactly the same relationship as that of the child to the heavenly Father .... that therefore everything you owe to the heavenly Father, you also demand as a matter of course from your fellow men .... that you then touch yourself perceptibly when the fulfilment of such earthly commandments remains denied to you, and that you recognise by it how you still deny the same to the Father, who can expect it from you to a far greater extent.

So then the objection can never again be raised that man is not able to recognize the commandments of God as the teachings of God .... he cannot suffocate in his heart the voice that speaks to him, and he will therefore never be able to refuse that the same thing that he demands, must also be demanded of him if he wants to make himself worthy to live in the community of beings who are begotten by God and are to strive for the same .... the union with the eternal Father .... But this presupposes first a willing submission .... and in addition also the commandments of God are given that you - above all - place your will under the Divine will .... because only then you can be one with the Father when you are of the same will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Alida Pretorius

Knowledge .... Inner life .... Difference in the value of spiritual and earthly knowledge ....

B.D. 0375 from April 12th 1938, taken from Book No. 8

An insightful person never has the desire to penetrate into God's deepest wisdom just to enrich his knowledge, but he will seek connection with God from this knowledge .... He will never be satisfied with just knowing. What seems much more valuable to him, is the relationship that connects him with the Creator of all miracles .... And once he has found the right attitude towards the Creator, only then will knowledge bring him the blessing ....

Because what use is all this knowledge of things to man at the end of his days if he has not made use of the value of knowledge in the time on earth. And yet humans demand again and again to enrich their knowledge .... This is also a gift that the Lord himself gives to him on earth .... The urge for always new knowledge is innate to humans .... Why would everything be in nature, in and around man himself .... Everything is again and again a reference to the eternal Creator, and his Spirit is active in man, when the thirst for knowledge begins to stir in the earthly child .... All these peculiarities point to an intervention of Divine power already from the beginning of the earth's existence.

The inner life of the human being is an area completely separated from the actual body. No violence from outside, no foreign will can have a determining influence on it, if the human will itself does not accept such influences .... The inner life is something which humans can always determine completely independently .... which it can richly and invaluably arrange .... he can also let it lie fallow or locks it up so stubbornly, that no beam of light can find it's way in.

That he therefore does not absorb spiritual knowledge but enriches himself in earthly knowledge in such a way that it fills him completely and he is then incapable to absorb Divine wisdom in himself, yes such appear to him as questionable, and he is therefore with all his earthly knowledge a completely unfit being when leaving the earth. If man is wise in heart, he will not overload himself with earthly knowledge, because this is useless for him, but if he lets the spiritual activity - the urge for spiritual truths - blossom in him, he will act immensely wisely, and the wealth of his soul will increase in imperishable goods ....

All knowledge which the Lord imparts to you, has incomparable value in the sense of creation .... but all earthly efforts for learning will not be recognized one day, when the value of the soul is judged and rewarded; for the wise of the world will be ignorant, and all earthly striving will earn them no reward, but will stand above them, who will always receive the gift of God - the Divine wisdom - with thanksgiving, for they will be blessed by the Lord ....

Amen

Translation handled by Alida Pretorius

Building and foundation pillars .... Printing of the writings .... Warning ....

B.D. 0376 from April 13th 1938, taken from Book No. 8

You must never despair; the Lord will always be with you who desire to live in His will. What the Lord imposes on you is only to strengthen your faith and to increase the longing for the Lord, because he wants you to be completely absorbed in Him .... He wants to build a house which firmly and unshakably defies all onrushes from the outside, and you must fit in with the will of God and take everything upon you in patience and submission and always let the Lord rule, then the building will be rightly done, for the pillars of which the Lord has chosen you ....

And now, My child, we want to satisfy your desire and strengthen you in an extraordinary reception, because the Lord wants to announce to you how your farther life should be .... In a short time you will be approached by someone whose will it is to contact you for the purpose of printing the writings .... This will be in a circle which you do not know yet .... the foundation of this circle is also to serve God.

And therefore everything that is undertaken there will be blessed by the Lord. In this situation you must then not doubt .... you must always know that the Lord guides you and leads you to these brothers and sisters on earth, that you are therefore completely in His will .... let the Lord continue to rule there, unite with them, and let your heart only always turn to the Lord, then the right thinking will always enliven you ....

But now you will have difficulties, which arise from the respective commandment that meetings for the purpose of spiritual training are not permitted .... Do not allow this to frighten you all .... where the Lord dwells among you, this commandment will be ineffective for you .... During this time some of you are filled with anxiety, fearing that the building will collapse .... But always trust in the Lord .... what He has given, shall be a blessing for thousands more ....

Do you believe that these signs of His great love for you human children can be destroyed by the hands of people when it goes against the will of the Lord? .... So just always make sure that no foreign being gains insight before the time .... So that the course of events is not made more difficult .... so that no premature intervention is made before the work is completed.

For you are always surrounded by enemies, and therefore extreme caution is necessary .... so that you do not trust indiscriminately everyone who approaches you .... But the Lord will give you signs in due time. And now trustingly put all your care, your thoughts and your spiritual work into the hand of God .... The greatest protection is prayer, which you trustingly offer to the dear Lord and Savior .... "What you ask for will be given to you ....", the Savior calls out you, who are concerned about the needs of the body and soul. Become like children and you will receive everything you desire ....

Amen

(Reference by Bertha Dudde to: "The great gospel of John", volume IV, chapter 79 (5)

5) Whoever of you will be a friend of the poor with all his heart, I will also be a friend and true brother to him, temporally and eternally, and he will not need to learn the inner wisdom from another wise man, but I will give it to him in all fullness in his heart. Who will love his nearest poor brother as himself and will not cast out a poor sister, whatever tribe and whatever age she may be, to him I Myself will come all the time and reveal Myself to him most faithfully. To his spirit, which is love, I will tell it, and it will fill his whole soul and mouth. What he will then speak or write, that will be spoken and written by Me for all times of the ages.)

Translation handled by Alida Pretorius