New Revelation recieved by Bertha Dudde

Proclamations No. 0543 - 0585

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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

0543 - Influencing weak people by ignoble spirits....

0544 - Unification of the spirit with the soul.... separation of body and earthly activity....

0545 - Voice of conscience.... warning spirits.... rejection in danger....

0546 - New laws.... teaching of Jesus Christ....

0547 - Bridge to the spiritual world.... conditions....

0548 - Admonition to unite.... Peacefulness.... Love....

0549 - Preparation of souls by the powers beyond....

0550 - Preparation of souls by the powers beyond....

0551 - Commanding nature.... acquiring the power of God....

0552 - Inner voice.... but never compulsion.... child learns to use will first....

0553 - Protection against earthly power through God's power....

0554 - Transition to the spiritual world.... will.... spiritual powers....

0555 - Destiny.... free will....

0556 - Light.... rebirth of the spirit....

0557 - Comfort.... indirect help of the spirit beings in abandonment of the soul....

0558 - Participation of the world beyond in the writings....

0559 - Receive without interference....

0560 - Warning against worldly pleasures....

0561 - Attempts of the world against faith.... spiritual vision.... prediction....

0562 - The gift of speech.... backtalk.... willpower.... truth and will....

0563 - Earthly and otherworldly happiness in love.... sphere of light.... looking inwards.... war...

0564 - Insight and inability.... work of love without knowledge of the value....

0565 - Word of God.... grace through it....

0566 - Lies and truth....

0567 - Lies and truth....

0568 - Mercy....

0569 - Omnipotence and wisdom.... not arbitrariness.... arrogance....

0570 - Releasing the mind from the body.... answer to all questions....

0571 - Power of God.... revelations in the heart.... instrument of God's will....

0572 - Power of prayer.... flee the pleasures of the world.... body and soul....

0573 - Eternal kingdom.... bridge.... pillar.... distress and tribulation....

0574 - Matter - banished - evil.... concept of good and evil....

0575 - Floods of love.... palace of the rich.... hut of poverty....

0576 - Foolish Vvirgins.... woman in the night.... earth wanderer....

0577 - Soul chooses its own whereabouts as a human being.... people as creating power....

0578 - Turn of the century.... power of God.... healing the sick....

0579 - Diversity of earthly existence.... You would pray for suffering....

0580 - Answer in love.... explanation for suffering....

0581 - Renegades.... honour and glory.... earthly reward.... gods....

0582 - Freedom of belief.... natural explanation.... joyful labour of the soul.... reject....

0583 - Inner humility.... fright and panic for the obstinate....

0584 - Work of the spiritual forces.... inner life.... grid.... mercy of God.... necessity of sorrow....

0585 - Word of God.... work.... bread of life.... power....

Influencing weak people by ignoble spirits ....

B.D. 0543 from August 13th 1938, taken from Book No. 12

The spirit world, which the demon has kept too closely bound to matter and which is therefore unable to free itself from the desire for the goods of the world, is predominantly found in the immediate vicinity of the earth. It is a perpetual struggle of such souls .... they cannot free themselves and in turn cannot find the fulfilment of their desires .... and so they continually try to seize the will of weak people and tempt them to fulfil their tormenting desires, and thus such spiritual beings in the environment are extremely harmful for the souls on earth who are themselves very inclined towards such desires. They will always run the risk of being seized by such ignoble forces from the spirit world if they themselves do not endeavour to master their urges and desires, which they can certainly do if only they want to and draw the necessary strength to resist from prayer and take refuge in the good spirit beings who are only too happy to comply with such desires. In the activity of the evil as well as the good spiritual beings alone it can already be recognized what power is inherent in all these beings and that it is always up to the free will in man whose power he wants to use. The greatest danger for the human soul is the inclination towards the world and its goods. The like-minded spiritual beings make great use of it, and the danger is ever greater the more willingly the earthly human being enters into it until he finally becomes so entangled in the bonds of such evil beings that he can hardly free himself and only divine grace can ever grant him assistance if only he longs for it .... As great as the dangers of temptation are for human souls, helpful beings are nevertheless also on hand to the same extent, it is just that one's own will must always be active to seek contact with them and they will then never be left without help. For the heavenly father's kindness and love constantly cares for His living creations, and in a short time a complete transformation of such a worldly-minded person can take place so that the world's splendour and transient possessions no longer make an impression on him, because the soul has turned towards its actual purpose and recognizes the futility of the earthly world from the start .... Then the influence of the evil spirit beings is also very small in realization of the resistance which is put up to them from such a side, because a strong influence can only ever take place where the will of man meets them, but never where such weaknesses and desires are fought against out of free will. Thus the world of the spirits in the beyond is also constantly plagued by opposition and shall also mature in its realization and learn to understand the vanity of the world, which is all the more difficult the deeper they still languish in the bonds of matter, yet the hour of redemption will strike for them too, to which people on earth can contribute infinitely if they repeatedly try to demonstrate to these beings in spirit how futile and damaging to the soul all earthly possessions are and how much more successful striving for spiritual possessions is for the soul.

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Unification of the spirit with the soul .... separation of body and earthly activity ....

B.D. 0544 from August 13th 1938, taken from Book No. 12

Behold, My child, not all people have the will to renounce the world and there will always be a slight longing to perish in the hustle and bustle of the world, for this alone seems desirable to them. But where a little child is faithfully devoted to Me, there the will is also strong, and to such I convey the strength and give nourishment to their spirit. The food of heaven, My word, is the bread of life and I teach them to understand all wisdom .... However, if the earthly child wants to lead a purely spiritual existence, all My angels hold their hands protectively over it. The slightest plea to Me will be heard .... The world will be taken away from such an earthly child, and My breath will pass into his heart and fill it with longing for Me .... The flames of love blaze brightly, a bright glow of light envelops the soul, its spirit awakens and a covenant is made for eternity with all spiritual strength.

This soul can no longer bear to remain on this earth, it walks as it were with its eyes turned heavenwards and looks for a place which is more pleasing to it .... yet the body carries the burden of earthly existence until My call fetches the soul home and strips it of its body shell. All this has become clear to you, and if you are now active for My name your soul is far away from matter and thus in those regions which are more appealing to it, and soon the body will lose the right connection with the soul where the soul has created a sphere of activity for itself which distances itself from matter. And likewise, the soul will unite itself more and more with its spirit and then only want to be purely spiritually active .... and thus the human being will master physical activity with the help of otherworldly friends without actually needing the soul's activity or help, for the lack of strength will then be compensated for by the support of these spiritual beings. The earthly child can then devote all its willpower to spiritual life, and the soul can continue to carry out its spiritual work and thus leads an existence separate from the body, even though it is still earthly connected to the body .... Thus a real separation of soul and body has taken place, but only in the spiritual sense ....

The soul's desire is completely different from the body's desire, and since the soul's desire finds God's full approval according to divine order, it can also take this path without damaging the body or rendering it unfit for its earthly task. And so the body carries it out, but under the influence of good spiritual beings. Do you understand this, My child ....

If a union of the spirit with the soul is to take place, the body must withdraw anyway and is only an insubstantial shell in itself .... However, the spirit does not need this shell, it only seeks to win the soul for itself, and if it has succeeded in doing so but the human being's earthly task has not yet been completely fulfilled, it will be continued with the help of external spiritual forces and the soul can then fulfil its spiritual task without restraint.

Thus the world is no longer a danger for such an earthly child .... Whoever eats My bread and drinks My wine will remain in My grace forever, for he wanted My strength and so it had to become his .... he will satisfy his spirit's hunger with this bread at all times and quench his soul's thirst with the wine .... for My word contains truth and eternal love, and he who only remains in Me will always be strengthened for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Voice of conscience .... warning spirits .... rejection in danger ....

B.D. 0545 from August 14th 1938, taken from Book No. 12

The purpose of all worldly endeavours is to remedy the hardships of life, to lead an orderly, carefree life and to do the body every conceivable favour and thus turn life on earth into a life full of joy and pleasure .... But what seems beneficial to the body is true death for the soul. No force on earth is able to save the soul from this danger, only the human being alone must ensure that the world does not have a fatal effect on the soul. There are so many opportunities which give man a hint that he himself has to take responsibility for all actions and omissions. He is also given intellect and will so that he can consider everything and can also avert danger of his own accord if only he summons the will. Quietly and almost imperceptibly the voice in his heart stirs, which sounds louder and louder the more attention is paid to it. This voice is the vigilant warning signal that always alerts a person to danger, and if he heeds this secret admonition from his heart, his soul will be grateful to him for protecting it from danger .... In cases of great adversity the voice is so strong that a restlessness seizes the whole person and he will not attain peace until he has heeded this voice, for everything that is good in man seeks connection with good spiritual strength, and this in turn seeks to make itself heard in the human heart, so that the intellect stimulates the will to be active .... Thus all people receive daily warnings and admonitions from above, and anyone who understands them correctly and obeys them need not fear falling prey to spiritual death, but if the human being isolates himself and silences this voice by constantly rejecting it then the support of the warning spiritual beings will become less and less, the inner ear will not hear the voice, the outside world will drown it out with its call, the temptations will be followed and the soul will suffer unspeakable hardship as a result .... For the shell which surrounds it and from which it strives to detach itself will become ever denser and more impenetrable, soon not a single thought will apply to the spiritual world and the path on earth will be devoid of light despite all the glistening splendour from outside. For the soul's core will remain untouched by spiritual nourishment and will only ever have to fulfil the body's desire, and thus the human being will distance himself ever further from the truth and soon no longer have any connection with everything that is purely spiritual and could contribute towards the soul's upliftment into regions of light. The human body shell has become materialistic through and through, it seeks finery and trinkets, is addicted to pleasure and tries to gain attractions from everything in life, arouses the spirits of pride, wants to rule and is always averse to the true task. Its behaviour can put it in an agitated state, it finds all words of rejection and tends to erect a wall between every spiritual demand made of it and the earthly desire .... which man much prefers to fulfil because it seems beneficial to the body. And he only ever has the one will to deny the soul's survival in order to be relieved of all responsibility for the time of earthly life and to have an even greater right to the pleasures of the world. And countless people today have fallen prey to such erroneous views .... all attempts to convince them and to turn their mind towards eternity fail, and only a great adversity can still have a fruitful effect if it does not even then rather drive people to obstinacy and let them drift towards the abyss completely without will. You must recognize by the oppression of individuals which path some have to take so that they become soft and submissive and humbly submit to the creator. All suffering will be taken away from them if they entrust themselves to the father's care with deep faith, but they will be increasingly burdened by their earthly lot if they remain obstinate and do not want to take hold of the father's merciful hand. Only suffering makes people compliant, and only through suffering will they come to their senses, for all fulfilment of longing only leads them away from the path that alone leads to the father .... Man should bow down and look up to the heavenly father in deepest humility, only then can he partake of the grace that leads him towards the father .... For God wants to give everyone .... if only he has the desire to receive the gifts of the lord.

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

New laws .... teaching of Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 0546 from August 14th 1938, taken from Book No. 12

Consider how many forces surround you, good and evil .... and that you are exposed to both, depending on your attitude, whether you affirm the good or the evil. And then imagine the great responsibility you have taken on for your soul .... Consider that you can achieve infinitely beautiful things but that you can also plunge your soul into ruin and that this is always your free will .... Then you must get an idea of how concerned the divine fatherly love is for the well-being of your soul and how He therefore tries to warn and restrain every person from taking the step that could lead to the soul's ruin .... And how He therefore wants to make you understand that you should only be concerned about the soul in order to be able to enjoy bliss without moderation one day. Thus the heavenly father has continuously sent admonitions to His earthly children and made sure that every soul becomes aware of His will ....

He has focussed the attention of all mankind on the question of the divinity of Jesus Christ .... He has caused the battle to break out which the world and its followers are declaring against the son of God .... And the fact that He allows all this to happen is only out of true love for this very humanity, so that it begins to investigate in its heart what it still only superficially recognizes or even denies. Although people think that they can free themselves from the old teaching, which God Himself revealed to people during His life on earth, without evil consequences, this endeavour will bring them such dire consequences that the earth will still see much suffering and sorrow and this through their own fault.

The new law will be proclaimed and give people a certain religious freedom, but the after-effects will not fail to appear, for the heavenly father must seriously draw people's attention to the fact that they are walking on a completely wrong path if they try to free themselves from faith in the lord Jesus Christ and His work of redemption. The same situation would then arise again among people as before the saviour lived on earth .... Mankind would remain in the same darkness in the same great sinfulness, and the saviour from the distress of the soul .... Jesus Christ .... would be rejected again as before His death on the cross .... The way is open to all .... to heaven or to hell .... but whoever does not confess Jesus Christ can never find the way to his eternal home; he can only take the path to hell, for he simultaneously rejects all means of grace which the lord has made accessible to the earthly children through His act of salvation, and since the human being alone, without divine grace, is too weak to reach the right goal on earth, he is then no longer given the opportunity to partake of eternal life by his own strength, for the divine saviour acquired all this for us through His death on the cross .... But how should he be allowed to enjoy these graces who rejects the pure teaching of Christ and tries to replace it with worldly moral teaching .... When the hour of reckoning comes, he will have to bitterly repent and realise his great error, and only in the absence of any knowledge could his guilt be forgiven .... but if he knowingly rejects what is absolutely necessary for his beatification, he will never be able to reach the degree of perfection that will enable him to enter the father's house. And so let each one examine and pray to God from the bottom of his heart for enlightenment when the world tries to destroy faith in Jesus Christ as the son of God .... the father in heaven hears those who call and will never let their prayer go unheeded .... He will lovingly grant help and establish faith there and guide people into the truth so that their faith will become all the stronger and they will have to recognize the redeemer of humanity in the divine saviour and His teachings will forcefully take root in people's hearts in order to be spread anew across the whole earth .... And the divine saviour will give His blessing to this, as it is a matter of guiding countless souls onto the right path and bringing them closer to the kingdom of heaven .... And the multitude of His followers will proclaim His name loudly and fearlessly, and the lord will bless them for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Bridge to the spiritual world .... conditions ....

B.D. 0547 from August 15th 1938, taken from Book No. 12

My dear child, see how the spiritual powers turn towards you according to your will, how all beings endeavour to impart light-filled truths to you .... and how thereby an ever more active thought activity sets in .... you will recognize from this that the will is able to do everything and that you will be guided more and more into the kingdom of truth through this will the more vividly My word is received by your heart and the more you strive to put it into practice. With the help of your willpower, which I want to increase, a bridge will soon be built to the spiritual world on which you can enter the land of the spirits in the beyond unhindered and where you can gain a wealth of impressions which will enable you to defy all opposition and to immerse yourself in a pure spiritual state at any time .... that the soul can detach itself at any time and may take a bright look when it is necessary. So set yourself this goal and strive for it by endeavouring ever more diligently to keep My commandments .... to give love and to help bear suffering, and never fail to implore the strength through heartfelt prayer, for without divine help you alone are too weak, and without your supplication this cannot be granted to you for such a gracious experience, for many are called but few are chosen, and in order to belong to the latter your heart must drive you to Me with all fervour, you must sacrifice for My sake and only ever want to seek and find Me .... for the fountain of life .... of true life .... am I alone, and from Me comes all strength .... Whoever I give this strength to receives Me Myself and will thus be a true child of his father. And I have promised them all bliss and will already prepare this bliss on earth for My own by announcing to them when I will take up residence in their hearts .... so that they can rejoice and never forget Me again until they are partakers of eternal bliss through their union with Me forever.

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Admonition to unite .... Peacefulness .... Love ....

B.D. 0548 from August 16th 1938, taken from Book No. 12

You, who are in contact with each other on earth, should learn to get on together .... you should respect and love each other, you should share your worries and make an effort to muster mutual understanding, all of you are, after all, your Father's children, all of you are a small part of the eternal Deity and therefore you are all the same living creations of His love .... And if you deem yourselves entitled to consider yourselves better than another you will hardly be pleasing to God, for it will become a stumbling block for you on your path to perfection. You must establish a relationship with each other which corresponds to God's will .... You will truly reap far more love where you sow love, and every heart you meet with love will lovingly turn to you. It may mean overcoming yourself each time, yet the advantage for your soul is extremely valuable. Neighbourly love should be cultivated and never be neglected or even disregarded, for your own strength will grow to the same extent as you consider your neighbour. Therefore, don't let discord arise between you, live in love and strive to balance everything with love, and don't offer the other person any reason for unkindness. Your whole nature should become pure love; hence, you must also take care to always give love in order to receive even more. And judge not, so that you will not be judged .... Time and again you should bear these few Words in mind if you run the danger of making judgments about your fellow human beings .... Everyone has faults and weaknesses, and many don't even recognise themselves and therefore treat others arrogantly, yet anyone who practices gentleness will also approach such fellow human beings with the greatest patience and peacefulness and leave the responsibility of judgment to the Lord, for He alone will make sure that these, too, will recognise His power and bear the last burden of their lives with profound humility .... Yet you yourselves only ever ought to fulfil your task with greatest love, which consists of uniting with each other .... of overlooking another person's flaws and only aiming to serve the Lord in everything you do, so that you will establish a relationship which only serves the purpose of proclaiming the kingdom of God to your fellow human beings .... and all your efforts will be successful if you only ever make true love your driving force. If you make an effort to give love, it will fall on good ground and awaken love in turn .... yet love can never thrive in discord but provide the evil power with ever more influence .... For that reason, try to abstain from all unkindness if you want to unite yourselves with the One Who is true Love Himself ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Preparation of souls by the powers beyond ....

B.D. 0549 from August 17th 1938, taken from Book No. 12

May the name of the lord be praised for all eternity .... So receive today an announcement, which the lord wisely dresses in a form that it is well understandable for you .... A special task of the spiritual beings is the preparation of the souls for their spiritual activity, and those powers which the lord has appointed for teaching activity in the beyond work undauntedly. What is to be conveyed to people is, as it were, given by the lord Himself, for the spiritual beings only continue to carry out the divine will. They are the connecting forces from the beyond to this world, and their activity consists of continuously announcing God's will to people on earth who are particularly receptive to it. And they do so in such a way that they influence people's thoughts, transfer spiritual knowledge to them as it were and constantly stimulate such a willing person to continue receiving .... For there are inexhaustible areas which it is the task of the spiritual beings in the beyond to open up for the earthly child, which they gladly and eagerly fulfil out of love for the divine saviour. In such a connection all those again try to make themselves felt who carry an unsatisfied desire to bring souls to the lord .... who are also connected to earthly people in a certain way and thus bear a kind of responsibility for their souls. If such spiritual beings can now communicate with people, then a path has been taken that is infinitely successful for the children of earth .... However, people often deprive themselves of this extraordinary favour .... the spiritual beings then have a difficult time. They want to give and rarely find a child who accepts these gifts and adapts to the type of communication or proclamation .... Sober earthly thinking will always destroy incipient works, and spiritual experience is so distant to people that they are simply not able to stand up for it because they do not understand it or do not want to understand it. God let an extraordinary power work at all times, and this power caused that on the one hand a hunger for spiritual nourishment became perceptible in man and that on the other hand this could be satisfied through the will of man .... and thus the will was the cause that the bridge was built from the beyond to earth .... that suddenly the human being was not only able to think earthly but that a completely new spiritual experience also made him receptive for an activity in the beyond .... Although it will now always be the task of the individual to cross the bridge to the beyond as often as possible, a realm has been made accessible to him which is unfathomable outside of such a spiritual connection. The human being demands to know, and he is completely free to fulfil his desire .... but it will first be examined to what extent people's real free will is predominant. Once a spiritual being has established the connection it must then, of necessity, be active in order to keep the human being's desire alive .... to allow the questions to arise in him which it is the task of the spiritual beings to solve and which are intended as instructions for all those to whom spiritual knowledge seems more desirable than earthly wealth and earthly wisdom.

Where the interest in such questions has awakened, the spiritual hunger will no longer diminish .... the human being will try to satisfy it and feel unspeakably well in doing so, for he is already receiving the heavenly food, the bread of life, which is the lord Himself .... He will be satisfied with food prepared by the angels of God themselves and given as refreshment so that the human being will not tire in his spiritual labour, which is the most important thing on earth. This activity of the spiritual beings is ordered by God Himself and is again a labour of love for the children of earth. The beings undauntedly try to influence people and thus take possession of the souls which they now form according to their wise realization .... They try to set these souls a task and motivate them to fulfil it, and thus they contribute towards the soul's ascent into spiritual regions so that the work on such souls .... influencing thoughts .... becomes increasingly easier for them and even finally the state can be reached that the human being recognizes this connection with spiritual forces as the only true purpose in life and does not let any opportunity pass by to cultivate it, and thus the activity of these spiritual beings in the beyond is crowned with success and the earthly child is completely reshaped in spirit and soul ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Preparation of souls by the powers beyond ....

B.D. 0550 from August 18th 1938, taken from Book No. 12

In the spiritual world, all beings mean the same .... No soul is valued less and therefore the endeavour to win it for eternity is always the same .... For every soul is a part of God in its original substance and can therefore never be devalued. If an embodiment of the soul has now taken place on earth, then the soul will also want to participate in the transformation to the good to the same extent as the earthly body undergoes this task. The body and spirit have to work equally so that the soul will achieve the highest advantages through earthly life .... and since every soul is equal before God, every soul will also be given the same opportunities to reach the highest state of maturity .... i.e. not one soul will be given less consideration or be deprived of a field of activity which could help it to mature. And therefore every soul will have itself to blame if it does not reach the state of maturity, for it is then its own will or spiritual sluggishness which hindered it on the path to perfection. Where a soul seriously devotes itself to work, it can never again speak of being disadvantaged .... It will be considered in the same way as all spiritual beings .... Embodiment is granted to them as a favour, and so every soul can also develop immensely high in the time of embodiment, only it is up to it how it uses the time for eternity. If it allows itself to be guided into the spheres of its actual destiny then it must also reach that perfect state which is characteristic of all spiritual beings in this sphere .... It will hardly be able to do anything else but develop into a God-like being in every respect, because it has the awareness within itself of being a particle of the eternal deity itself .... And such a God-being which recognizes itself correctly must also be offered the greatest possible help by the spiritual beings, and therefore it will never be able to succumb, even if the resistance sometimes seems great. For the value of the soul remains unchanged .... Everything that is God's remains unalterably the same, it does not lose value and therefore cannot be considered differently or less when it comes to achieving perfection. Only the kind of influence on the souls is different and must also be different, because every soul also has its own conception of the purpose of earthly existence. And as long as it has not yet recognized the pure truth it has to be guided by external influences so that it begins to recognize .... It has to be prepared for the reception of divine truths, and until this state is reached many a soul needs a long time, indeed, it often rejects everything at first and thereby makes the path of realization difficult for itself, and therefore many an earthly person has to fight a difficult inner battle before he is enlightened that every being is nevertheless destined by God to enter into union with Him and that this can only happen if it is completely absorbed in its task which was given to it by the divine creator ....

Amen

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Commanding nature .... acquiring the power of God ....

B.D. 0551 from August 21st 1938, taken from Book No. 12

Far from the world you will hear the voice of your heavenly father and will realise that the most blissful peace beckons you when you are alone with Him .... So hear: If My grace has so far protected you from the evil influence of the world and awakened in you the feeling to seek true joys elsewhere than in the hustle and bustle of the world, your gaze will now turn even more towards the only true goal and you will now only find happiness in being united with Me. And thus you will already prepare heaven for yourself on earth, for the desire will captivate you to such an extent that every minute will seem like a lost minute which will require other activities from you. But know, My child, that in a quiet hour you will receive so much that your heart will feed on it for a long time and you will be able to meet life with joy and ease. For the father in heaven always has His gifts of grace ready and distributes them among His children. And thus you will also find the strength to let everything happen to you and heaven will bless your work .... And because I also want nature to obey you, banish this rain immediately through your will .... and take the strength for it from heartfelt prayer, for I want it so ....

And remember, My child, that .... whoever commands nature in My name .... yet makes My will his own, and this is his power .... I have everything to give you if you only want to receive .... So do not deprive yourselves of grace and believe .... for faith strengthens your will and connects you with the primal power of all being .... In nature you see My working .... what prevents you from also seeking the same power in yourself, since you are a part of Me .... the awareness of being a child of God must raise you so high that everything must be subject to you if you subordinate your will to Mine .... And thus the human being is also able to do everything because he works through My strength, which passes into him when he is intimately united with Me. Only if you stand outside through too weak faith will My strength not enter you, and then you will fear and doubt and thereby grieve Me, for I want to call children of strong faith My own. Just as you now imagine which life rules you .... if you can completely immerse yourself in the thought that My strength and My will alone are the origin of your life .... if you try to regard this life of yours as the same strength which wants to express itself within you .... then you will also be able to make My strength your own, for then you will allow this strength, which is within you, to break through the weak shell of resistance and it can then work out of you .... so that you thus work through Me .... Dear child, submit to My will so that I can give you great power, persevere in prayer and implore your inner strength .... Let Me reign in you just once and do not resist your desire, which after all only seeks Me and has only not yet found Me through your own weakness of will. Revitalize your spirit by continuing to seek Me .... and walk confidently on the path of truth .... the hour is not far off when you will see the right light and see with full will ....

Behold, My child, miracles happen at all times but you pay no attention to them; but when I come to you today then your heart will be imprisoned for eternity but you will no longer be able to fulfil My will on earth. And so your longing will only be fulfilled when your earthly activity has come to an end. Yet I am so close to all those who fight for My name and suffer for My name's sake that they will feel it tangibly, yet for the time on earth you will always draw strength from My love, and by virtue of this love you will also behold Me unconsciously .... but this applies to your soul, which will then also remain with Me forever and influence the body to surrender to Me. You first have to love Me with all your soul so that you will be able to endure great things for the sake of this love. And then you will never be able to do otherwise, you will have to make My will your own and remain unchangingly in Me. And when you have reached this degree then you may also behold Me, and that for eternity, for My ardour of love embraces you, and you will merge with Me and become pure love, and only then will you learn to understand why My greater than great care and love applies to you earthly children .... for you truly do not live for the world .... The spirit in you is My share, which I woo with all patience and love .... to guide it to eternal fullness of light is the only meaning and purpose of life. You must hear the sound of the heart and listen to its sound within you and hear what the lord God speaks to you, then you will certainly not desire the precious possession in vain .... you will hear the word and be informed of your task .... you will receive advice and help through this word and attain eternal bliss ....

Amen

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Inner voice .... but never compulsion .... child learns to use will first ....

B.D. 0552 from August 22nd 1938, taken from Book No. 12

Everything done on earth will be judged according to the degree of love that dominates the person at the time it is carried out. And the reward will also be measured according to this. If you now have the desire in you to be helpful to a person and you carry out a good deed in this desire, only ever out of love for your neighbour, then such a deed will have an effect for eternity as it were, because a divine power is inherent in it, by virtue of which the soul spiritualizes itself and separates itself from the desire of the body. Although it still dwells in its shell, it has nevertheless moved considerably closer to the divine spirit and can now be strengthened by the divine grace which overflows into the heart capable of love.

Every activity of love is preceded by the quiet voice of God .... it will always admonish the human child to do what is beneficial to his soul. However, as soon as opposing forces take effect which want to determine the heart to only do that which could bring the person earthly benefit, then he now has to endure an inner battle and free will is compelled to express itself .... And thus every action will be preceded by a directive from God to do what is right, yet the person's own will will be decisive and therefore he can never be forced into doing what his will does not approve of. He therefore learns to use his will far sooner than he hears the divine voice within himself and will therefore also be responsible for his actions. The very first decision is often decisive for the later development of the soul.

A child which turns to love of its own accord will not run the risk of ever going astray, for the soul turned to the good of its own accord, was supported by grace and therefore did not easily lose its connection with the good spirit world, the strength is granted to it time and again and it produces new works of love again. Whereas a being which only nourishes self-love within itself will seek every advantage for its body but creates a bad state for the soul because it lets it starve and without divine grace it hardly becomes aware of its actual purpose and therefore its activity of love is truly very small .... whereas a loving soul cannot do enough for itself, for the spirit of love is constantly at work in it. Every good deed is an inexhaustible source of grace .... it provides the human being with the strength to work in love, and therefore every good deed also has the blessing in itself that it awakens love where such is still dormant and thus a single deed of love can have an infinitely happy and beneficial effect on the soul ....

Amen

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Protection against earthly power through God's power ....

B.D. 0553 from August 22nd 1938, taken from Book No. 12

I will give My children great strength if only they ask for it in the most inner humility. Behold, My children, I promise you eternal life and will give it to you in all glory .... And if you now trust Me with faith, you will never be left without help where you need it. And that is why you shall bear witness to the world how far your strength reaches when you trust your lord and saviour and in His name stop where people want to harm you as My disciples .... You have not the slightest power of yourselves, but in My name you will be able to do everything, with strong faith and full trust in Me, your God, your creator and saviour .... Whoever wants to master the world must be authorized by the divine teacher and equipped with full power .... and if I want to give you both, then you should never hesitate to accept this, and you will be able to do extraordinary things when it comes to spreading the word of the lord through it .... and so each one of you, who stand up for Me and My name, will have the right and the power to defy and resist the world and its desires if these desires are directed against My teaching. The slightest confidence in My help will make you so strong that you will be able to defy earthly power and you will never need to fear being abandoned by My love .... I am close to you and will not tolerate that you are harmed in soul or body. But each one of you has the duty to serve Me faithfully, you only have to honour Me alone and that all the time .... for no-one can serve two masters .... and if you make concessions to the world your strength will diminish accordingly and you will waver in faith and trust in Me .... Therefore beware of becoming unfaithful to yourselves .... And bear in mind that the world will use all means to bring you down .... Then remember your saviour, who also resisted the tempter .... A pure heart never has to fear that the evil influence will gain power over it, if only it remains in this purity .... For I Myself dwell in such a pure heart and will never tolerate that the unappointed presume to destroy My work .... From such hearts My spirit speaks .... My love dictates these words .... And My willing children accept the words and make them their own. If this word is fought against, it is fought against Me Myself .... How should I now be defeated in the battle when everything is subject to Me from eternity .... And so I call out to the world: Leave My own untouched, for what you want to inflict on them will only fall back on yourselves .... You yourselves will have to endure everything you want to do to My own .... You will have to suffer if you want to make My own suffer .... for because I give them power they will also exercise it against you and you will then have to recognize under what protection My own are .... for I will always protect them from earthly power and only My will will be able to rule over them, but not the will of those who act contrary to My name and want to deprive humanity of the most beneficial teaching .... But such people will soon be exposed and reap the reward of their shameful behaviour on earth. So let everyone use the power I bestow on him in the best way .... If it is used in the best way, it will be a blessing for the believers .... but a sign of eternal glory for the unbelievers .... it will be a sign of admonition and warning to the erring and a welcome protection to those who live in the lord, love Him and serve Him .... for these the lord protects as long as they dwell on earth, so that they can fulfil their task and never need to fear earthly power ....

Amen

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Transition to the spiritual world .... will .... spiritual powers ....

B.D. 0554 from August 23rd 1938, taken from Book No. 12

If the desire arises in the soul to serve only the lord of heaven and earth, then all good spirit beings will support and encourage such a soul in order to soon bring it into a state where the soul unites with the spirit. Under certain conditions the soul will turn more and more to the spiritual, and this happens to a great extent when there are no obstacles in its way caused by the more worldly desires of the body. The further the world is removed from the senses, the more unhindered the soul can pursue its activity, and only in such pure spiritual work will it find its satisfaction. However, people who are unable to separate themselves from the world, from matter, will not be able to reach this state, for such people lack the inner urge, and this is indispensable for the promotion of spiritual activity. Wherever the opportunity presents itself to escape the worries of the world and to replace them with concern for the soul, success will be achieved that is infinitely more valuable than the benefit that earthly activity can ever bring to a person.

There are not many who can so completely turn away from worldly duties, worries and worldly pleasures .... but these few are to be called unspeakably rich, as they are in full possession of their spiritual abilities .... and can utilize them profitably for eternity. But once a person has made the transition to the spiritual world, the earthly world no longer seems desirable to him .... he may walk through the earthly valley until the end of his life, but without gaining any attraction from it that could be harmful to his soul life. Only in view of eternity, in recognizing the divine creator and His works, does he look at the earth and all creations with spiritual eyes, and this only brings him benefit for his soul .... for it increases his love for the father of all being .... it awakens unlimited reverence and unconditional submission to the divine will .... And thus the soul offers itself to the heavenly father by completely subordinating itself to Him and striving for union with the divine spirit in the will to attain God. In a short time it will also succeed in doing so because the will is always decisive, and thus the will of a human child alone will always be assessed and this will also be complied with as much as possible .... and the deeper and more intimate the desire is, the more certain the desire will also be fulfilled .... For whatever you want, you will receive, if only you ask from the heart .... Thus man prepares for himself the state in which he finds himself .... for he will always receive what he strives for in his innermost heart and he will therefore not be able to blame anyone other than himself if his situation is not satisfactory. After all, he has it completely in his own hands to shape himself, and the spiritual power that he draws upon through his will will always come to his aid .... the good or the evil .... But where a person allows himself to be guided by love, there will be no need to fear going astray, but every action will result in a separation of the soul from the body, i.e. from bodily desires, and nothing will stand in the way of the soul's union with its spirit. God's love is infinite and also seeks to intervene wherever the soul still walks in blindness, and if only the human being then willingly surrenders to the silent guidance then he will be given full light on earth ....

Amen

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Destiny .... free will ....

B.D. 0555 from August 26th 1938, taken from Book No. 12

Whoever of men resists to hear the word of God will remain in long darkness of spirit, because when I preached such to men on earth they received the light from the heavens. But now the time has become much worse .... There is almost no human being on earth who is not offered the true teaching, and yet most of them close their hearts and ears to this teaching and only know how to talk about uninhibited enjoyment of life. And that is why My teaching remains so distant and incomprehensible to them, because the slightest hint of restriction of their enjoyment of life makes them unwilling and they would love to reject and deny everything. But divine power also has its means, for it always pursues the same end and therefore does not want to abandon any earthly child to its chosen fate. Admittedly, people call this coercive measures which completely counteract the desire which appeals to them and they therefore do not fully recognize free will .... However, they must consider the extent to which they themselves are responsible for what they now perceive as coercion and how easily they can escape it with only a little goodwill. They could always remain in the same relationship of a child to the father, who after all only wants to provide them with all the comforts and whose harshness they would never feel as long as they want to be closely attached to the father and intimate love unites them both. In the same way the heavenly father rules and keeps His children, who love Him and detest all injustice, away from all evil, oppressive and tormenting things and only uses these means when this relationship has suffered a blow and the earthly child now acts contrary to the father's instructions, Who nevertheless loves it and wants to give it everything that delights the child's heart. Every child is entitled to the blessings of faith and love .... if they do not accept them, indeed, if they obviously act against them and disregard them, then everything that is then perceived as coercion must come upon the earthly human being as a countermeasure .... Then the human being believes that he has been placed into creation completely unfree .... and has only himself and his hardened heart to blame for everything. And so it is precisely these people who are most likely to fall into the temptation to absolve themselves of responsibility, always with the good excuse of being forced to carry out everything, but this is only ever the result of their previous wrong actions. Every person is given the opportunity to freely choose a different path than the one he has taken or is taking .... who is preventing him from doing so .... but he chose this particular path precisely because he thought it was good, and so the effect of his actions will always be as it was the person's wish and will .... If he then realizes that the success is different from what he wanted, he now wants to blame another power for his supposed failure so that he does not have to recognize himself as the author of it. Those who endeavour to look within themselves for the starting point of all events that affect them will very soon come to a different opinion of "fate".

Although the paths he has to take are marked out for him, he is left free to do everything himself, so that everyone can find the right nourishment for himself or his soul in every situation in life to ensure its spiritual upswing. And thus no event in life will have to somehow hinder the soul .... but the human being will always contribute to whether every event has a favourable or unfavourable influence on the soul .... and thus the human being can never again want to make the degree of maturity of his soul dependent on the situation in life assigned to him, which in itself is not in the least decisive for what the human being thinks in his innermost heart .... feels .... and wants .... Only man's thinking, feeling and willing brings about the maturing of the soul, but all the circumstances surrounding him are only suited to bring thinking, feeling and willing to their highest development, so that man can decide freely .... But not that man is forced to act differently than his will dictates. This can certainly be applied to purely earthly activity, but never to the inner life, which every human being can form at his own discretion. The only difference is that he must bear the consequences even if his thinking, feeling and willing violate the divine order. For God gave people the intellect to be able to recognize .... and again and again hints where the earthly child threatens to go astray ....

Amen

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Light .... rebirth of the spirit ....

B.D. 0556 from August 26th 1938, taken from Book No. 12

Revitalize your spirit with thoughts of your lord and saviour, and you will never need to be afraid of an emergency of the soul. It is always the same thoughts that you give room to, and yet only your heart needs to long for Him, and every danger is over for you. Thus, all people should only seek their saviour and divine redeemer and they will never be violated by the powers of darkness. For this alone protects every soul .... He who longs for the sky will not be swallowed up by the depths .... his flight will only go higher and higher, and the spiritual light will protect him from the darkness surrounding his soul. And thus the true disciples of Jesus are destined to walk in the light already on earth, to proclaim the light on His behalf and thus spread bright, radiant light around them and let it shine for those who follow the ray of light which cast its light on the dark path .... The brightness will do every soul good and it will constantly bathe itself in the light of spiritual truth .... And this light will awaken the slumbering spirit to life .... just as a new day dawns, so a new way of thinking will awaken in the heart. The darkness of the soul is broken through by radiant brightness, and every little flame of love ignites in the heart and brings to light an undreamt-of power .... Everything that lives in man takes part in the rebirth of the spirit .... An unspeakable urge for spiritual gifts makes the heart restless, and it only finds peace in granting this desire for spiritual food .... The soul incessantly urges towards the spirit of God, and when it has completely become the bearer of this spirit of God, the human being experiences spiritual rebirth, and all his will and endeavour is only for his perfection, and he will be introduced to all wisdom and be enlightened by the eternal light, which is God Himself .... Surrounded by the densest darkness it will nevertheless be light and bright around him, and whoever is taught by him will likewise be enlightened, because it is God's will that the light shines far and wide, and thus the lord has also wisely arranged that His kingdom is opened to all who walk in this light .... Countless souls certainly remain stuck on earth, and the blame is always to be sought in the fact that they were denied the light of heaven for the simple reason that the light of the soul could not shine there, where one only pays homage to purely worldly pleasures and has not the slightest understanding for spiritual light .... and a complete darkness must surround such souls, which rather shy away from the light than seek it .... And although their activity on earth is extremely lively it will nevertheless be of little benefit to the spirit, because no spiritual nourishment whatsoever can enable the soul to serve the spirit as a place of residence, and thus the earthly child's train of thought is purely worldly under such circumstances .... and such a being can rarely be given the light from the heavens because it feels more comfortable in spiritual darkness, thus it avoids everything that could contribute towards the soul's enlightenment and therefore all actions and deeds remain groping in spiritual darkness. Only when a person who has advanced in realization makes an effort to draw such erring souls' attention to the blessing of light will they slowly become a little brighter and feel the beneficial effect of such a light of grace, but before such people attain spiritual rebirth they still have to travel an infinitely long path which they will hardly find on earth and therefore will also hardly be able to achieve the rebirth of the spirit in earthly life. However, the few who set this goal first in life will be blessed a thousandfold, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven with all its glory ....

Amen

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Comfort .... indirect help of the spirit beings in abandonment of the soul ....

B.D. 0557 from August 27th 1938, taken from Book No. 12

Behold, I am with you always .... and I stand close to My own and give them strength .... It is an infinitely reassuring thought to know that you are protected by the lord of creation, and therefore people who see the lord as their friend and protector and their father will also be able to complete their journey through life in peace. Become like children and entrust yourselves to the father! .... He hears your prayers and stands by you in your needs, for it is His will that you be saved from heartache and find your way to Him without it. Every soul receives such wonderful proofs of His love through God's grace and will be allowed to enjoy these proofs of love more often the more it turns to Him. It is all the more understandable that the right union with the lord arises when His love embraces the human child and expresses itself in such a way that He promises power on earth, equal to divine power.

You will recognize that an invisible unification of the spirit with the soul takes place when you become aware of this strength within yourselves, for God allows this extraordinary grace where one's own will strives for perfection and where continued work on the soul puts it into such a state that the spirit can unite with the soul and consequently all constraint of matter falls away from it. It is an unparalleled battle which an earthly child has to fight if the soul wants to shake off the chains of matter .... without God's grace this would be impossible, for the human being's strength is far from sufficient, yet every soul has just been offered immense means through the lord's love .... Every desiring thought causes these means to be given to the soul, and thus again the path is an easy one when God's grace is implored .... yet if people do not pay attention to prayer they will very soon become negligent in their possible endeavour to ascend .... they achieve nothing through their own strength, become weary and soon abandon their endeavour altogether. Yet the soul fears and dreads this sluggishness and suffers unspeakably when the human being's will weakens. But little help can come from the spiritual world either, for its inhabitants also wait for the plea before they are allowed to intervene .... In such abandonment the soul will often feel compelled to commit an obvious breach of faith against the body. It will cause the body to enter into the most severe inner conflicts and cannot spare it spiritual depression, so that the body, despite living well and fulfilling earthly desires, finds no rest and spends its days in true self-weariness, and this influence of the soul on the body can sometimes determine it to let go of worldly desires and turn its thoughts to the spiritual life .... If people did not let such inner warnings, bad moods and agonizing self-reproaches pass unheeded, they would often come to their senses much sooner, and the soul would thank them for it. Only in the constant harassment of the body does the soul find support from loving spiritual beings if they are not called upon directly for help. Every failure, every annoyance and every unpleasant event is, as it were, a help from above to support the soul, to make the body compliant, so that soul and body devote themselves to working on themselves together. And again, such joint work is indispensable if the soul is to reach the degree of maturity to be able to harbour the divine spirit within itself. For where the body does not follow the same path, matter is an insurmountable obstacle to the unification of the soul with the divine spirit. Every work of the soul must be carried out by the body at the same time, there must be complete agreement between body and soul .... and without resistance the body must carry out what serves the soul alone ....

Amen

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Participation of the world beyond in the writings ....

B.D. 0558 from August 27th 1938, taken from Book No. 12

You all will not reach that state which brings you brightness of spirit. You still have to wrestle very much against the power of evil, which still holds you captive and controls you in such a way that you still resist the light of truth .... Try to awaken all love in your hearts, then your thinking will also spiritualize .... you will only still physically walk on earth but in spirit you will rush ahead towards true life .... However, if you still observe the earth's goings-on with keen interest, the soul has no part in the spiritual experience. And without this it does not progress on the path of realization ....(preceded by a debate in the family)

And now hear: Do you know who directed your words to an area that gave rise to such speeches? .... You were surrounded by so many spiritual beings whose thirst for knowledge sought you out. It was another day of unrivalled blessing for your surroundings. These beings are still ignorant, and their desire, like yours, is to draw from the source of grace lovingly granted by God .... to absorb His sanctified word. Every line holds infinite value for all these seekers, and your work can be so extraordinarily beneficial if you make it known to these beings. And all friends on the other side thank you especially for your kindness and in turn protect your work from unappointed powers. But it is the regret of every soul that the same joy does not reign on earth over the writings, which are after all a pure work of God and should have an effect full of power and strength of faith on everyone who only takes note of them. Just as the lord constantly distributes to everyone who asks, so His gift should also be constantly accepted with gratitude and yet finds so little resonance in the hearts of the children of earth. Every single topic touches on the inexhaustible problem of God's love and wisdom .... As soon as this expresses itself through His word, the problem is solved, and easily comprehensible for all people .... There is nothing that cannot be grasped, and so whoever has the will to do so can penetrate such wisdom .... No prior knowledge of any kind is required to understand this wisdom. But if such a work is dismissed without examination, then good will is lacking .... the most indispensable thing to be able to receive the word of God. And this is why the lord only teaches those who are of good will .... And His work finds lively participation in the beyond, where a crowd constantly gathers around you .... it is important to be able to accept as much of the teachings as possible as spiritual knowledge in order to educate yourself as much as possible through divine wisdom. Such friends who are willing to accept are always numerous in your neighbourhood, and the opportunity brought it about that this subject had to come up in order to give salutary instruction to the hardened or completely ignorant in the beyond as well, which should lead them closer to knowledge. It corresponds to a completely wrong way of thinking not to go into the essentials but to want to reject everything without examination, but that is why the beings in the beyond turn to you with the remark that the truth will never find entrance there where the desire for it does not exist. Pondering and researching is indeed futile if both are not connected with deep love for the lord .... but not seeking the truth at all can even less lead to realization. This will inevitably lead to a certain spiritual emptiness .... The human being will only ever pay attention to what happens in the world, but will have little understanding for purely spiritual occurrences. And any further activity in this area will only ever be of use primarily for yourself and for the spiritual beings surrounding you, who will need these explanations just as much in the beyond. Give them all your time as often as you can, for their desire for spiritual truths is great and at the same time they will give you many suggestions and guide you so that you will willingly follow them .... Yet they will not forget yours either .... what you do for them today through your will to help them will be rewarded in your loved ones one day, for love works with increased strength in the beyond.

Amen

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Receive without interference ....

B.D. 0559 from August 28th 1938, taken from Book No. 12

You must obey the inner voice and thus accept what is offered to you. It took a long time before the words became audible to you, which always happens when matter is too opposed to spiritual endeavour. And this was the case because of the food, which did not yet allow the body to fully rest and therefore also had a hindering effect on the spiritual experience. Full rest must first occur in order to guarantee the reception of spiritual gifts without disturbance. Every material substance is in opposition to the spiritual sphere, and so an unhindered reception of spiritual goods can only take place when all bodily heaviness falls away and the spirit can and will only occupy itself with spiritual things. As soon as a certain calm has set in and the body can be completely switched off, absorption is also considerably easier and therefore you will have to reckon with resistance and heavy absorption as long as you still pay too much attention to the body and its needs. If you can put all such things to one side and immediately place yourself in the state of absorption, then every burden on the body will soon disappear, you will become insensitive to physical inhibitions and complaints, and you will be completely detached from matter for the duration of the absorption.

If you try to reach this state by surrendering yourself with full will to the spiritual power alone, without paying attention to your surroundings or the body that hinders you, this endeavour will be crowned with great success and your work will only become more and more perfect. Jesus gave His disciples an extremely valuable teaching on the Mount of Olives and tried to make clear to them the concept of the unhindered penetration of God's power into the believing earthly man who withdraws from the world.

And it happened while He was speaking that they all felt the power in themselves and were thus able to follow Him spiritually without any actual effort on their part. This power will also pass into you if only you expect this power in full faith and desire to accept it. And so turn today to the truths that are to come to you on behalf of the lord:

Every soul has within itself the urge towards the eternal deity, but it is prevented by the body from fulfilling this urge. An eternal law determines the soul to the same activity of the body assigned to it, and this law has to be complied with until the body, as mere matter, separates from the soul again, i.e., until the soul becomes free from the earthly cover. However, for its time on earth every soul chooses for itself the body in which it can best attain the necessary maturity .... for in every soul slumber the instincts of so many unrefined nature spirits which, after thousands of years, have finally united to form a spiritual being in order to strive for their final perfection in the human shell.

However, just as those nature spirits were previously active in creation, they will also have to fulfil a similar purpose in the human body .... certain characteristics will always appear at equal intervals, which find their explanation in the soul's previous life. And so the body will often have to adapt to these previous states, which is why there is often talk of heredity. The more versatile the human being is as such, the more different soul particles his soul has to show and the more difficult the battle will be which such a soul has to endure in earthly life, for the body enters into every desire of the soul and both soul and body must now try to become master of all these peculiarities which are therefore inherent in the human being during the time on earth in co-operation .... And thus the human being must always bear in mind the body's relationship to the soul .... just as the body's activity should only ever serve the soul's redemption, so that such a redeemed soul will find its way back to the deity. But how, on the other hand, the soul suffers immense agony when it is held back from its true destiny by the body's resistance and its worldly desires and the dark shell around it becomes denser and denser .... All efforts of such a soul to break through the burdening shell are in vain if the body does not help it, for the body alone creates or removes the obstacles surrounding the soul. And in this realization the human being must constantly endeavour to serve his soul incessantly, i.e. to support it with all his strength to get rid of its shackles, and thus the body must always defeat itself where the soul's characteristics can be felt particularly strongly .... for the body has the greatest power to fight precisely such characteristics, since the nature of the body has been allocated to the soul in precisely the way it needs it ....

Amen

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Warning against worldly pleasures ....

B.D. 0560 from August 28th 1938, taken from Book No. 12

Behold, My child, far from the world only you can find Me .... I will never dwell where people pursue their earthly pleasures and these will always stand like a wall between Me and the children of earth. All the offerings of the world cannot replace what I can give you, and if you don't want to completely distance yourselves from them you will remain distant from Me in your heart. And thus you deprive yourselves of what is most precious to you, for you allow yourselves to be tempted and fall too easily into the snares of the world which, after all, is not and cannot be My true life .... And behold, you are in such danger .... you must pass every test, for I send them to you to test you .... The world does not offer you much, it is only apparent pleasures that do not last, but what you give is far more .... And so I earnestly admonish you not to allow yourself to be beguiled by such temptations of the world if you want to remain in My love .... and devote yourself all the more diligently to your work .... Thus you will also be given the strength to overcome yourself, if only the full will strives for such. You should not give up heavenly blessings and My love for the sake of earthly pleasures, for these can never be a substitute for the gifts from above. And so remember, My child, that even today only My love admonishes you and seek to become and remain worthy of it ....

Amen

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Attempts of the world against faith .... spiritual vision .... prediction ....

B.D. 0561 from August 29th 1938, taken from Book No. 12

So prove your will by openly confessing to be a representative of My name on earth and thus I will guide you through all adversity, for the misery of the world is unspeakably great .... and in order to save the few who want to acknowledge My name I send out My servants and messengers .... and if there are many of them, the harvest on earth will also be great. In the rebuke of these servants of Mine on earth you will also recognize My love for them .... Whenever they threaten to waver, I revitalize their spirit and thus continue to promote their activity, for nothing is more detrimental to the spirit than a weary sinking into sluggishness. So let you also be a faithful servant of your lord and stop at nothing, then your strength will also grow and enable you to achieve the seemingly unbelievable .... The world tries again and again to trample all My teachings into the dust, and it finds more and more followers among people because they are very far removed from the true faith .... from faith in their saviour and in the love and omnipotence of an eternal God. All this has become nothing to them .... a legend .... far from all probability, and so they judge the work of redemption as nothing more than a legend and do not recognize the terrible lack and backwardness that speaks from such faithless judgement ....

What is the value of their lives and what a suffering afterlife do these people face .... And I see this suffering and want to save them from it .... That is why I need willing labourers in My vineyard, I need servants on earth to sow My seed so that it will sprout before it is too late .... I have chosen these My children so that they should bring salvation to people and not miss anything in order to save souls from great adversity. And the hustle and bustle of the world is the greatest danger for these My representatives .... They are to belong entirely to Me and only carry out My will and completely separate themselves from the world .... Only in this way can they work in My name and hear My word in their hearts.

The speed of thought carries your soul to Me if you turn to Me in fervent prayer. Every good intention bears fruit and every teaching resonates in your heart.

All My disciples on earth shall be strengthened by Me in the same way, and My words will never lose their effect if they are only heard in the heart, for what only reaches the ears passes them by like an empty sound, but what has once taken root in the heart will outlast everything .... and will always and constantly give strength to those who hear this word with faith. Therefore hear:

Behold, your heart tells you quite powerfully that I am near, and it cheers me tempestuously .... If you now hear it sounding within you, I have completely entered into you and will always work in you and through you. So nurture your heart constantly and keep it ready to receive your lord and saviour, and know that My love embraces everything that only longs for Me. In the chamber of the heart is hidden that which is Mine .... the divine spark of love .... and awaken this to the brightest flame, then you will come alive in the deepest sense of the word, you will live only for Me and the love for Me, and nothing and no-one will have access to your heart except Me .... And so I will give you what you have been promised and a new life will open up to you .... in clearest brightness you will see My kingdom in the midst of the spiritual world .... you will hear the voice of the spirits and will be taught by them in a way that is beneficial for you. But this will only happen when the time of blossoming is over .... when the body has completely changed and is no longer exposed to earthly temptation. This wise foresight must prevail in order to spare you other things that could be detrimental to you. In the following night you will recognize the task that has been set for you .... Leave your soul to Me and give it to Me completely, the more I can protect you and make you completely My instrument. For now all events of My life on earth will be repeated .... all those who want to protect My name will be persecuted .... those who advocate the pure doctrine of My love will be taken captive and those who confess the saviour in Me will suffer .... But do not fear, no harm will befall you as long as you recognize Me as your lord. This has already been announced to the world before, that nothing can shake My power and that My will intervenes wherever people take up arms against My own. You fight for Me, your lord, and will never be able to be defeated, since I go into battle at your head and know well whose victory it is. So take everything upon yourselves and trust in Me, your lord and saviour, and you will be strong, even alone .... I am with you always and forever .... hold on to this word when danger seems to approach you .... you are never alone, but always protected by your saviour, Who loves you and to Whom you should give yourself completely and forever in order to work for Him and help save countless souls from trouble .... to lead them out of spiritual night into the bright light of day ....

Amen

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The gift of speech .... backtalk .... willpower .... truth and will ....

B.D. 0562 from August 30th 1938, taken from Book No. 12

Words which reveal the divine truth will reach you without interruption, after all, you turn your thoughts believingly to the heavenly father and try to fulfil His will. Yet the gift of speaking can only be granted to you at the time of your ministry .... i.e. when your knowledge is so great that you can distribute what you have received. For the world will always speak back to you and it requires a great gift of oratory to be able to respond to it consistently. However, all doubt will disappear when every objection can be refuted, and to reach this maturity of knowledge requires much devotion and strength of will, which you should constantly wrestle and pray for .... There will come days when a simple word of refutation can already weaken your strength of faith, and then you will have to take refuge in your saviour all the more intimately, and you will emerge doubly strengthened from such danger. Love should prove its strength there too .... Everything you do in love makes your strength and your faith stronger. And so the heavenly father wants to confront a new time with all power through His servants and therefore only needs the good will to be truly ready to serve the lord. Then all the necessary prerequisites will be clear and understandable to the earthly child, it will recognize its task and be able to turn to it without hesitation. All compulsion of the soul is eliminated, the child turns to the father completely voluntarily .... in the will to serve Him, and from then on its actions on earth will also be completely free because the will to serve provided it with everything it needed. For the will subordinated itself to the divine will, and thus the earthly child is protected from wrong influence. The future events will always be in accordance with divine will, for the spirit of God reveals them to the human being and he now directs all his steps according to divine will of his own accord. And thus he only ever hears within himself the instructions God sends to him .... He thinks and acts according to the truth as long as the will is in him to serve the deity in truth and pure love. The lord's greatest grace is to impart Himself to an earthly being, and in full possession of such grace only truth can truly exist in a person .... And then the divine will can also work unhindered through him, for the heart willingly opens itself to everything divine and thus remains constantly under divine influence. There is often unexpected resistance on the one hand .... and energetic support on the other .... and this both from the spiritual world .... yet the good spiritual forces will be able to express themselves unhindered because the will of the human child longs for truth and consciously turns away from all counter-currents. The more the will strives to come closer to the deity, the more the deity passes into the human being .... and thus the spirit of God unites ever more intimately with the soul .... and from this again the soul draws strength .... (interruption)

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Earthly and otherworldly happiness in love .... sphere of light .... looking inwards .... war...

B.D. 0563 from August 31th 1938, taken from Book No. 12

Detach yourselves with all your might from earthly pleasures and remain in My love .... this will replace a thousandfold what you give up for My sake. And thus heavenly peace will unfold in you .... you will find all happiness on earth in My love and be indissolubly united with Me. Let this be your principle that you give up everything for My sake, then you will receive infinitely more than you have given away, for if I fulfil you, you will truly desire nothing else ....

And you are in great need of refreshment for the salvation of your soul .... you do not know the joys of heaven and therefore do not appreciate the value of My promises, yet you will revel in unspeakable bliss if you follow My words .... What does the world offer you in contrast .... Only illusory goods and illusory happiness .... But true happiness is only with Me alone, Who created you .... You only have to know this much, that you create that blissful state for yourselves for an unlimited period of time .... without end .... that you will always feel the same longing for it and that this longing will always be satisfied by My love .... and that you do not know how to measure and evaluate such on earth, but will be desired by you in eternity. This fulfilment of your longing is incomparable, and for this you will have to endure earthly life with all its pain and suffering .... My love is constantly endeavouring to make this blissful state of happiness accessible to you, for God's glory has existed for an infinitely long time and will continue to exist for all eternity. The more intimately an earthly being can feel for its creator .... the greater the love of the earthly child for the heavenly father, the more varied the spiritual experience on earth will be. If the human being already dwells on earth in spheres of light, if he cherishes love for the divine saviour in his heart and if love has thus been kindled to the highest fervour, then the lord is in the fullest form of light in the midst of his heart .... a look inwards lets His image shine, and from an overflowing heart a heartfelt prayer rises to the father, Who so richly provides for His child. Behold, My child .... compare that time of My life on earth with the endeavours of the present time .... Everything that opposed My teaching at that time was from the realm of darkness. Those people who accepted My word were indeed extremely willing, but it was only a small proportion compared to those who rejected My word. In later years, however, the number of My so-called followers increased, but these followers were not My true disciples .... They had moulded themselves into something according to My teaching, and in the following centuries war after war arose over this teaching. The cause was always a certain struggle for My word, and that in itself could not be the right teaching instituted by Me, for the sake of which bloodshed arose among mankind. But the advancing age became weary of faith .... and soon no longer recognized the purely divine in this teaching either, but it moved further and further away from the right faith instead of accepting My unadulterated word, which repeatedly reached people according to My will. However, in order to guide humanity onto the right path of realization a great shattering of the entire religions or the teachings represented on earth, which were supposed to be My work, had to occur once again .... and this upheaval should now lead to humanity seriously questioning what the eternal deity demands of it. Thus My teaching shall arise again amongst people and this will not be confirmed by any war or the like, nor will any religion fight the other but only that will be decisive as to whether people will want to acknowledge Jesus Christ as saviour of the world and accept His teaching as the only truth or whether they intend to banish everything true into the realm of legend and renounce all faith in the saviour. But this will never again be a matter of dispute that could lead to war. The living example of these words of Mine is in any case the long prepared battle against all faith, which is certainly raging everywhere but will only be decided in the hearts of people .... Everyone will outwardly fulfil the will proclaimed by earthly power .... but I fight for your hearts .... I do not want outward faith .... I want the deepest inner experience and your true devotion to Me .... This battle must be fought in the heart and will never relate to worldly events but only ever to the acceptance of My pure word or its rejection. Now the world has become far too entangled in earthly interests and will only ever stage a war over such, but the question about the eternal deity will never tempt people to evoke a war. People today are so far removed from spiritual experience that they would not make it the centre of a world conflagration, whereas material interests are extremely prevalent and these alone can be the cause of hostilities.

Thus those predictions (John 16:8) essentially refer to the wars arising from spiritual causes and a final elimination will not be possible until the whole of humanity has entered a more spiritual state, which then also guarantees a completely different spiritual attitude. However, all phenomena of the present time point to a de-spiritualization of the generations and the state of peace, which encompasses the whole earth, will still be a long way off. This, My child, shall restore your inner peace and in full faith you shall accept the words .... as pure truth and given in love .... for light shall become yours if you ask for it ....

Amen

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Insight and inability .... work of love without knowledge of the value ....

B.D. 0564 from September 1st 1938, taken from Book No. 12

And you will be immeasurably rich in experiences, and your knowledge will cover areas which all earthly intellect cannot reveal to you, for you are active as spiritual beings yourselves in contact with the divine spirit .... At the moment of reception no earthly matter prevents you from receiving spiritual things from spiritual regions, and thus you will also remain active in spirit yourselves, providing that you do not fall back through your own fault. Insight and inability are two factors which are in conflict with each other, and yet a person can attain full insight without actually having the gift of being able to clearly judge something which is beyond his knowledge. A living representation of the spirit of God can hardly be given to people, but a person will then feel this spirit of God within himself, provided he only fulfils everything that is required to awaken the inner spark of life. By forcibly tearing himself away from the earthly, the spirit slumbering in the human being breaks through the shell surrounding him and awakens to life .... i.e., it now works powerfully in the human being. The mere persistence of thoughts in the spiritual realm is the soul's greatest helper, for now spiritual forces flow inexorably towards the soul and allow the spirit's activity to become ever more active, and a human child who surrenders to every impulse which leads closer to the eternal deity remains untouched by dark power and completes his career on earth with the right success .... that the soul has become the receiving vessel of the divine spirit and such unification of the spirit with the spirit of God is the final goal of life on earth. All earthly endeavours are as it were dead ways for the soul, not the slightest of such work benefits the soul, only what love produces in man can be of use to the soul .... Faith in the strength of such good works can be the cause of inner transformation, for if the human being practices them he will unconsciously receive the strength and grace to continue this activity of love and the soul will also have found a connection to the spiritual world. What it now does without actual knowledge of the value of such works of love is reserved for eternity, and one good deed will soon be followed by others, for he who has love will never lose it and will shape himself even without the realization of spiritual truths. However, the person who consciously strives to ennoble his being will work on himself much more diligently and .... mind you .... feel a significant relief in earthly life through the conscious utilization of the good spiritual forces, which has both spiritual and physical effects. Existence on earth remains a struggle for every human being, but since support is granted by the eternal deity it should also be requested and utilized as far as possible, because from now on the spiritual beings will take care of the support of a requesting soul .... whereas the one who walks through earthly life without all spiritual knowledge has to struggle far harder and has to generate such a strong strength of love within himself in order to be able to likewise provide the soul with the necessary help in earthly life .... And if the path is now smoothed for you humans so that you can easily attain the kingdom of heaven, then consider this well and investigate and ponder what could be the reason that the heavenly father carefully looks after you and wants to protect you from failures and wrong paths .... and only recognize His infinite love therein, which embraces all human children, and know that this love can never ever end and that it is eternally valid for you, His creatures .... and that this love is constantly courting your soul .... so that it may find its way back to Him, the all-father of light .... eternal love Himself ....

Amen

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Word of God .... grace through it ....

B.D. 0565 from September 2nd 1938, taken from Book No. 12

So always turn your gaze upwards full of devotion and let all hymns of thanksgiving resound in you to the glory of God. For His love is infinite and only ever watches over His earthly children so that they do not suffer harm to their souls. And so begin: worlds will arise and pass away again, but God's love, which expresses itself through His word, will never pass away in eternity. But you must keep to this word in order to also partake of the lord's great love. For remember that the lord makes all His laws known through His word .... remember that He instructs you and admonishes you to follow all His teachings .... remember that through this word you come into the full possession of God's grace and that all the promises of this word will be completely fulfilled in you if you live and act according to His words. And then you will also know what an immeasurable blessing lies upon the divine word and how little you receive God's blessing if you do not hear His word and thus cannot draw any real vitality from it. The overwhelming awareness of an unutilized gift of grace will always trigger an inhibiting feeling, a remorse which is difficult to make up for .... For anyone who considers that the time on earth is only of such short duration and that the spirit must be on a very high level if the earthly child wants to become a true child of God will realise that every opportunity which can lead to the soul's perfection must also be used, and thus the blessings are first and foremost indispensable for the human being, and these blessings are offered to the human being in so many different ways and should by no means be regarded as dispensable .... For they are always loving favours from the heavenly father Who wants to make His children's task on earth easier by providing all kinds of aids which all serve to further the soul. Only with the help of such favours does the human being have the opportunity to ascend from level to level, and thus countless proofs of God's love have been provided, all of which should enlighten earthly people as to the lord's concern for His living creations so that they can all come close to Him .... for His love is boundless.

Amen

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Lies and truth ....

B.D. 0566 from September 1st 1938, taken from Book No. 12

The greatest evil is lying .... If you recognize the truth and yet pay no attention to it, you allow the spirit of lies to gain power over you .... and its power is greater than you believe, for it poisons your whole thinking .... it robs you of all power of judgement and always has a myriad of vices and bad habits behind it, all of which have their origin in lies. If the light is to shine for you, you must remain in the truth, for where there is falsehood, there is also darkness. No soul likes such darkness, but it is inevitably pushed into it where the truth is not respected. All tribulation comes from lies .... The lie opens the door to evil passions and desires .... it is often so inconspicuous in itself and yet it destroys all good instincts in people. And so all corruption is rooted in the lie, for it is a product of darkness. And so listen up: as long as you do not endeavour to cultivate the purest truth within you .... as long as you take refuge in even the smallest paraphrases or untruths, the spirit of truth will never be able to enlighten you, for you can only unite with the eternal deity when you are completely pure of heart and detest lies with all your heart. And now you see the consequences of a lie swelling to enormous proportions .... You do not know how enormous the effects of the lie are .... how it creates evil and reproduces itself, always giving birth to new lies .... And that is why the lie is the death of the soul, just as the pure truth is the light from the heavens for it. But if you stand up for the truth, it will remain light and bright in you and you will defeat the lie .... For just as the lie is mighty in its power and constantly brings evil in its wake, the pure truth is nevertheless much stronger and can illuminate the night of lies with the brightest light by virtue of its power .... And if mankind only wanted to seek the truth, it would force the lie to its feet and bring infinite blessings to the earth. But as it is, too many opposing forces prevail and are fought little or not at all, and the lie spreads across the whole earth and brings about incredible destruction .... And this is one reason why so little credence is given to the possibility of a pure spiritual connection between the earth and the beyond. What is not so easy for people to understand, they immediately throw into the realm of lies .... They do not scrutinize, but immediately reject, because they know the lie and its accompanying phenomena only too well and know that its devastation extends over all areas .... Pure truth is a lie in their eyes .... they are much more likely to accept the lie unchecked .... If they were to turn to God for enlightenment, they would soon lose all doubt and their powers of judgement would be sharpened, and they would very soon know how to distinguish truth from lies. There would be light in their hearts and they would flee the lie as the most shameful work of evil .... But as long as mankind does not take refuge in prayer .... and plead for knowledge of the truth, it will remain subject to the lie, and that through its own fault .... For the lord imparts the pure truth to His children on earth and wants to offer it to all people .... But who accepts it? .... Only a small part, but the others grope in the blackest darkness and remain children of lies of their own will, and so they will hardly attain eternal life, for only the truth guarantees them this ....

Amen

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Lies and truth ....

B.D. 0567 from September 3rd 1938, taken from Book No. 12

So follow the voice within you which calls you to order and do not fall into the error of following any request which is not audible in your heart but only comes from outside. You will soon recognize the essential difference of what you hear if you only always give honour to the truth ...., i.e. do not allow yourselves to be beguiled by blind words, but only act as you should deem right. You can always find a pleasant side to any matter by deviating from the truth or making concessions .... But then the person does not take the right path of knowledge, but remains in spiritual error until he has taken the path of pure truth. For only through this can the degree of maturity be achieved that is the condition for entering into eternal bliss. In full realization of the truth, straying onto the path of lies is doubly painful and harmful for the soul. For man was given the intellect to recognize .... And he should inevitably also act in accordance with what knowledge dictates to him through the inner voice that tells him exactly what God's will is. If the voice is heeded, it becomes a friend of man .... it helps him out of every need and danger. Like a faithful guardian, it is concerned about the salvation of man's soul and protects him with all seriousness from going astray.

And if a person is fully accountable to himself, he will also listen attentively to the inner voice .... he will cultivate the truth and never deviate from the path of truth .... and eternal truth is also accessible to a truth-loving child, but never again to a child of lies. Man must give an account to himself, the voice of the heart must be his own judge, and he must take a sharp and unforgiving stand against his offences .... he must recognize himself and try to improve, and he can only do this with the fullest sense of truth in his heart .... For the lie whitewashes everything and will never accuse him of wrongdoing .... It will only ever excuse him and never spur him on to ever greater love of truth .... So you must never fall victim to this vice, you must seek the truth, even if it is sometimes harder to bear .... You must not make any concessions, but must remain strictly truthful .... if you also want to partake of divine truth .... for God, as the eternal truth, can only communicate Himself to a thoroughly truth-loving child who detests lies and never takes advantage of them .... You yourselves will gain the greatest advantage from it and will be considered unabridged, and thus you will also be able to proclaim pure truth again, and such will remain forever ....

Amen

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Mercy ....

B.D. 0568 from September 4th 1938, taken from Book No. 12

Just as all creatures bathe in the sea of divine love, so divine mercy is also indispensable to them, for without it everything would have to vanish into nothing .... People also need it without ceasing, for many withdraw themselves from God's love through their own will and can only be preserved through God's mercy .... Although mercy is also an act of divine love, it only brings happiness to the smallest degree, whereas love provides all bliss in abundance to the being that is worthy of this love. God lets no being fall forever, time and again divine mercy confronts this being and saves it from the worst .... the complete downfall .... as long as there is still the slightest possibility of bringing it to a better state. Mercy is therefore also the virtue that you humans should practice to the best of your ability. Anyone who can empathize with the misery of his fellow human beings has God's spark of love active in his heart .... and the noblest work of neighbourly love is to help where the greatest misery has befallen a person. It is God's will that man should be merciful who himself avails himself of God's mercy .... and is there one among you who does not need it? .... Therefore, be merciful too and help those in need, even if they have made themselves unworthy of your love, for the lord will judge them, but you should also love your enemies and show them your full mercy if they need it.

All blessings come from above .... so every work of mercy will also be blessed from there .... God's love therefore wants unfulfilled wishes to remain open to people, and if you practice works of mercy, the lord will also consider you in His love .... for the need among humanity is nameless, you can be active in neighbourly love without limit if you want to serve the lord God through it and make yourselves worthy of His blessing. Do not harden your hearts and give where it is needed .... help where your help is required or needed. For the father in heaven also continues to show you His mercy and therefore demands the same from you .... For as you measure out, it will also be measured out to you ....

Amen

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Omnipotence and wisdom .... not arbitrariness .... arrogance ....

B.D. 0569 from September 4th 1938, taken from Book No. 12

Everything created by Me on earth is based on a wise intention, and in order to understand this I will guide you into the sphere where you will learn to understand spiritually .... And even if it seems to you that God only acts arbitrarily, one look at the divine creation is enough and you will realise that your thinking was far wrong .... If you connect yourselves with spiritual strength, all earthly heaviness will fall away from you; likewise, all spiritual work will proceed better and better if the spirit is able to separate itself from all matter. Now you will noticeably receive those powers that make you capable of achieving extraordinary things .... In the same way the spirit of God reigns in nature in the same relationship to the things that stand outside of the directed creation .... i.e., the omnipotence of God will always express itself in matter, but the wisdom of the divine creator in the spiritual .... Since wisdom and omnipotence are manifested in every work of creation, each of these works will not owe its existence to the arbitrariness of God, but will have been created for a specific purpose and meaning.

Everything will correspond to a wise meaning and thus radiate and testify to the wisdom of God in both spiritual and material respects to every thinking person. However, all references to such a kind of well-planned creation are not enough for the human being to fully believe and trust in divine omnipotence, but the human being always quarrels with God about his fate imposed on him and does not recognize all measures of the eternal deity as wise and well-considered .... He grumbles and complains and yet cannot comprehend in his small mind how little power of judgement he himself possesses .... Can a person even presume to criticize or condemn what ever happens through the will of God? And yet man so often transgresses the commandment to love God .... In deepest humility he should accept everything that comes upon him, whether good or bad, and always bear in mind that everything corresponds to a wise purpose. If he strives to develop his spirit, he must soon realise that he experiences such a visible intervention of the eternal deity in all events and that all threads of eternal creation emanate from this deity .... Thus the entire universe is proof of the divine love which manifests itself in all things on and above the earth and testifies to His infinite wisdom and omnipotence ....

Amen

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Releasing the mind from the body .... answer to all questions ....

B.D. 0570 from September 5th 1938, taken from Book No. 12

The spirit's power penetrates infinity, but the body can only absorb what is conveyed to the mind through the spirit, and so it will always be a question of how far the body grants the spirit within itself the right to separate itself from it, and this through the willing yielding of the body .... through the occupation of the thoughts with the spiritual. All matter will interfere between spirit and body. If the body can now detach itself from matter as far as possible, the path to infinity is cleared for the spirit within it. All problems that affect people and whose solution seems important to them can now be presented to the spirit, and immersion in purely divine miracles of creation soon results in a clear solution to such questions .... for there is only one truth, and this can only be grasped with the spirit, which is God's, but never with that which still belongs to the earth, the purely human mind .... Only when man's thinking has subordinated itself to the spirit within him can he be guided into the truth .... For God gives him knowledge when man has given himself to Him and strives to fulfil his task on earth. Man may approach the greatest problem and he will receive answers to his questions if only he always desires them in order to attain a state of maturity. It is not permissible to combine earthly interests with it, for everything spiritual must be completely separated from materialism in order to be purest truth. It is given without reservation to those who see their mission in life as serving God and fulfilling His will. The lord gives them unlimited .... they may only ever turn to Him in order to be fully heard, for a willing soul on earth is an instrument in the hands of God .... it is called to participate in the lord's work of redemption on earth, will therefore gladly and willingly fulfil all its tasks and thus again work as a blessing for its fellow human beings, for the connection with the heavenly father will guide it into eternal truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Power of God .... revelations in the heart .... instrument of God's will ....

B.D. 0571 from September 5th 1938, taken from Book No. 12

You will find enough divine strength within you to achieve everything you ask for in prayer. Behold, My strength fills every heart that seeks and loves Me .... No being passes through the valley of the earth harmed when love for Me, its creator and father, has awakened in it. And this grace is the overflowing of My strength into the human heart .... Every thought you send to Me is now already proof of this strength, which expresses itself in such a way that everything that comes from Me longs for Me again .... And thus your heart harbours an endless number of revelations, for they are already written into it by Me and come to your awareness through your ever new will to serve Me. The power of God is likewise expressed in these revelations, for the human being is unable to penetrate My truths from within .... he is unable to hear My word if the power of the spirit does not permeate him. And so it is entirely up to you whether you are willing to serve or whether you want to close your ear to My word in sluggishness of spirit .... So you are only allowed to want and you are in full possession of divine power .... It is still up to you to do or not to do the duty that has become dear to you .... but the days will come when, as a faithful servant of God, you will have to carry out God's will .... For once you have passed the test as such, you will willingly give yourself as an instrument and then act on My behalf as My representative on earth, as it were. And then your will, which you have subordinated to Me, will only ever have to act according to the highest commandment. The opposing power is inherent in all matter, and everything that persists in love for matter will be subjugated by it .... But spiritual power is born out of love for God, it revitalizes, awakens, ignites and strengthens everything it flows through .... If this divine power is to truly enliven the human being, he must completely free himself from material thinking and entrust himself in all devotion to the divine father's heart, then those opposing forces will be completely eliminated and only the divine power will flow through the earthly child and have such a powerful effect in it, that a noticeable progress in the spiritual is achieved and no inhibitions oppose the so spiritualized, but the heart longs more and more to the father and therefore strives ever more eagerly for the union with the spirit of God, and so you will also become aware into which spiritual sphere your will places you .... In a short time you will not be able to live without the power of God, for it is lost in matter .... but eternally this divine power permeates everything spiritual and can therefore only be granted to the spiritually striving .... Therefore, whatever spiritual good you ask for will be granted to you in full, for your prayer is conditioned by love for God .... and God returns this love a thousandfold, and with His elemental power He will strengthen all those who love Him and long for Him ....

Amen

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Power of prayer .... flee the pleasures of the world .... body and soul ....

B.D. 0572 from September 6th 1938, taken from Book No. 12

So try to put yourself in a state where you only direct your senses towards God, and if your thoughts want to stray, call upon Him for help. You will then hear every word we say brightly and clearly, for the power of prayer is unspeakably great, you just don't know it yet .... In worldly things the fulfilment of your prayer becomes tangible to you, but in the spiritual it is not so noticeable to you, yet the soul derives immense benefit from it when you turn intimately to the heavenly father. And that is the blessing of prayer, that you develop higher and higher and the pressure falls off the soul more and more. The soul lifts itself up and no longer takes such an interest in earthly suffering, and this also allows the body to bear suffering much more easily. In hours of earthly hardship, the soul returns to the body and gives it the strength to patiently accept everything in view of eternity, for body and soul struggle together for inner peace. Flee the pleasures of the world .... This admonition cannot be given to you often enough, for only then will you be able to truly realise your spiritual existence. Raising your thoughts to God is far more valuable than devoting them to earthly pleasures, and at the same time you begin the separation of the soul from the body. Guided into our spheres, such a possibility is offered to the soul that it soon makes contact with the spirit slumbering in it and earthly existence is only a means to an end for it. It will only ever stimulate the body to fulfil its earthly duties and to fully commit itself to a work of love in .... to cultivate love with all its strength and thereby supply the soul with ever new strength, which is again directed towards the union with the spirit of God. Diligent labour of the body with the soul must have spiritual success. It therefore only requires blessing from above, which should be implored in fervent prayer. Every sigh of relief, sent to heaven in childlike trust, also assures you of heaven's support, and in spiritual concern you will not make any request in vain. For everything is revealed to the deity, including the innermost corner of the heart, when a cry for help to the father comes from there ....

Amen

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Eternal kingdom .... bridge .... pillar .... distress and tribulation ....

B.D. 0573 from September 6th 1938, taken from Book No. 12

Hear the divine voice and prepare yourself to receive a proclamation which shall completely captivate you .... Behold, an eternal kingdom will arise for you, but it will never be understood in earthly terms. All power in the universe, which is divine power from the beginning, will unite to extraordinary work, and indeed, a bridge will be built from the beyond to earth, which all My children shall enter in order to reach Me. Where the state of the spirit is close to maturity, there I will erect the pillars of the bridge and I Myself will descend to you in order to be among you at all times. But this time is no longer far away, only a cloudy period of time still has to occur first in order to bring about clarification as to who wants to confess Me as My child or denies Me .... This time of adversity and tribulation will take on unimagined proportions and some will tremble who believe to stand firm .... yet no anxiety will arise in My ranks, for those who come to earth with Me will always be with My own as a source of comfort and strength, and those who always carry My word in their hearts will enter the kingdom of peace. But when the lord of heaven and earth Himself will enter the bridge that leads to you, then all those to whom I have promised this will see Me .... Then a time will have dawned upon you that will bring manna and refreshment .... comfort and peace to those who hope for this from Me. But woe to those who have turned away from Me and to whom My voice will not resound sweetly .... When the time is near, My love will remain among you, who are Mine, to help you against those who deny their lord. Every hour will then be precious, for I will save everyone who calls out to Me in his distress. And I will send out My messengers so that every stray sheep will be found when only the will still longs for Me. Mankind still has to experience visible hardship before it turns its eyes to Jesus Christ, the crucified .... and therefore the earth's time of suffering is not yet over. But you should recognize from everything that the father in heaven remembers His children and leaves no stone unturned to win them, therefore let yourselves be found by Me and listen to My call from above .... I will make you happy forever if you love Me and follow My voice. The eternal home is only with Me, and anyone who wants to build an eternal kingdom on earth has to ask for My help, yet this eternal kingdom can only be the father's kingdom alone, the father wants to receive you there, therefore constantly care only for this and leave all your earthly worries behind, for they are not of the slightest use to your soul .... And so continue: legions of angels from heaven will descend to earth and try to bring light to people, and the whole army of these spiritual beings will stir up a storm among people .... Everything that can think will be drawn into a world conflagration, but it will only apply to spiritual chaos .... There will be no end to the disputes, the battle will rage everywhere, for the activity of God will be faced partly with amazement, partly with rejection, yet forces will express themselves on all sides and God will make Himself known through people .... and people will begin to think who until then paid no attention to the spiritual direction. And this time will be the time of maturity .... and blessed is he who sowed at the right time .... When then the hosts of heaven will come, then the new time will begin .... the time of eternal peace ....

Amen

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Matter - banished - evil .... concept of good and evil ....

B.D. 0574 from September 7th 1938, taken from Book No. 12

All protection from above is granted to you, for like you, countless spiritual beings are struggling for the souls of the children of earth. A spiritual resistance opposes them, and to break this power requires much effort and patience. But the ways of the lord are wonderful, and many a person will still have to recognize that he is guided by a higher will. But now listen up: living beings always have the destiny to offer a soul an abode and are therefore always carriers of the spirit of God .... which means that in every embodiment, no matter what kind, the divine creator Himself is active .... That therefore all work of creation again harbours the eternal deity within itself and thus can also never completely pass away, only changes in its external form. The external form is likewise spiritual, which, although it originated from God, has turned away from Him .... And this spiritual substance was banished into form, which is now subject to perpetual change and transformation through millennia .... in order to slowly return the spiritual substance within itself to the eternal deity, so that after an infinitely long time it can leave the banished state and develop into active spiritual beings in living beings. That is why all matter is also from God, but, as it were, the banished evil which, originally created good, fell away from God and .... in order to finally return to God again .... must travel an indescribably long path, the last station of which is existence on earth. Thus the concept of 'good and evil' will perhaps be incomprehensible to you at times, since everything is from God and should therefore only be good, but the original spirits created by God had free will just as much as God Himself, and this brought about the apostasy .... Thus, however, free will must now also strive for ascent again, but God in His great mercy does not allow a single being to fall into ruin. Although the path of return is unspeakably difficult and arduous, such a measure of grace is nevertheless accessible to it through the embodiment on earth that it can easily reshape itself into the highest being of light if only it has the will to do so. But precisely this will is often sluggish and misses so many opportunities to mature the soul .... And evil also lures the human being downwards, so that he really has to wage a battle if he wants to achieve victory over evil .... over matter ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Floods of love .... palace of the rich .... hut of poverty ....

B.D. 0575 from September 6th 1938, taken from Book No. 12

All those who comply with the divine will and only endeavour to save their souls may immerse themselves in the floods of divine love. Whereas mankind is only concerned with daily worries and lives thoughtlessly, the strengthening bath will be sorely lacking, for without divine love it will never be able to free itself from worldly desires. But love is so easy to acquire .... Just a loving thought for the one Who gave you life .... just a thank you for it and the desire to always do the right thing on earth in the spirit of the one Who created you .... And you will already be seized and guided by God's love, and this for as long as you are of good will. But if you turn away from the thought of God .... you want to carve out a life for yourselves as you see fit, then God will also turn away from you, for He loves everyone dearly who recognizes Him but does not impose His love on anyone who wants to walk alone on earth. How easy people could make life for themselves if they walked with Him in all situations, in joy or sorrow .... how much happier joy would be and how easily bearable suffering .... if you wanted to share everything with Him, the lord and saviour, Who is always close to you with His love. If people see their God in earthly possessions, they will only find a hard heart there, for earthly riches are not suited to ennoble human hearts, but all bad habits and vices are rooted in the desire for gold and good .... for earthly possessions .... Where can you find divine love in this? The lord dwells where He is called, but the call to Him rarely comes from the palace of the rich, but more often from the hut of poverty. The darkest need often forces a person to take refuge in God and turn to Him for help, and a person who is not attached to earthly possessions can offer himself fully and completely to the heavenly father. How mercifully the love of God now descends on such a human child .... But those people who revel in riches and do not find their way to the father must live in want despite all their wealth .... although they snatch everything from the world that it offers them, they are in great spiritual poverty, for their spirit and soul suffer unspeakably because they lack the love of God. Worldly splendour and worldly power do not replace the power of grace of divine love, so you humans must be all the more anxious to acquire it, since it is accessible to all of you and everyone can step into the floods of divine love so that he is strengthened in body and soul and finds strength in abundance for the task he has been given for his earthly existence ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Foolish Vvirgins .... woman in the night .... earth wanderer ....

B.D. 0576 from September 8th 1938, taken from Book No. 12

People are given so many opportunities to ease their way upwards, and so everyone is inevitably capable of mastering life if only he always lets the lord God rule. Yet people often presume to exercise judgement before they have seriously examined .... are therefore often very close to the source of grace and do not find it because they believe they can do without the refreshment. If the heavenly father takes pity on such earthly children and wants to make it very easy for them to find the way up and encounters stiff resistance, then the valley of life is henceforth a vessel without content for these people .... their lot will continue to be a barren emptiness of the heart, which they try to banish through worldly interests. Your fellow human beings who do not grasp the father's saving hand are also in such need, and their behaviour is like that of the foolish virgins who go into the darkness and leave the light at home. Where such a bright light shines that it can shine far and wide, and yet this light is shunned, there the love of the divine saviour can do just as little until the day comes when they remember you with repentance .... And in this hour a parable will be sent to you, which should explain the father's love for His own quite vividly .... In the darkest night a woman wanders through desolate streets and carries within her the longing to be at home. Longing and hope drive her to hurry, and soon she sees a shining light in the distance .... In her heart she prays to God that this light may shine for her on her way home. And God answered her prayer, and bright light broke through the darkness of the night .... He gave her strength and did not let her tire until she reached her destination .... And this bright light was faith .... strength was love .... and her steps were the will .... As soon as she turned to the father in supplication, she was helped, the night became day, for faith and with it love entered her heart. Who among you earth travellers does not need this bright light? .... Who among you can find the way to the eternal home without faith? .... And where you lack the strength of love, there you resemble a wanderer who never endeavours to advance .... who only ever quarrels about the long path and yet makes no effort to reach his goal.

He lacks the will, and without it he remains in the same place time and time again. Man always remains on the same level if his will does not become active in order to then break through the dark night through faith and love and walk towards the bright morning. Let it be said to all the world that without will, faith and love the eternal home is unreachable .... that without these the traveller remains weary on the path, that the money in his pocket is of no use to him if he does not recognize the abyss in the darkness and strays from the right path .... On the other hand, the brightest light of grace will shine on the earth traveller who calls to the father in childlike faith, and the path to home will be easily and quickly accessible to him. For God's love protects him and gives him the strength he needs ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Soul chooses its own whereabouts as a human being .... people as creating power ....

B.D. 0577 from September 10th 1938, taken from Book No. 12

The path that the soul has to travel before it is worthy of the lord's presence in its mature state is endlessly long. Regardless of this, however, the soul takes this fate upon itself, initially without its own will, only obeying the will of God, but before the birth of the human being it chooses its place of residence in free and clear realization of the environment in which it is most likely to reach its state of maturity. Although this is also an order from God, she submits to it with full will and without hesitation it now takes the path which brings it final liberation from the rigid form, matter, and this in a time which it can determine itself .... depending on how it fulfils its earthly task. To an indescribable extent, it now has the opportunity to live only the liberation from it last shell .... It only needs to will and submit to God's instructions, which it can also resist by virtue of its free will. And its state becomes ever lighter and purer and moves towards spiritualization. Where the soul now faces resistance, God's help will not fail to materialize by strengthening its will, which demands upwards. Only the completely unwilling .... who have not the slightest will to reach upwards .... cannot receive this power, since it arises from love for God .... but love for God also triggers the will to come closer to Him ....

Thus the human being only ever needs to recognize the greatness, omnipotence and goodness of God, then love will also take root in him and this will again generate the firm will to ascend to the proximity of the heavenly father. Thus all endeavours in the world beyond will always first aim to make the miracle of creation clear to the earthly child .... and through this he will enter into living contact with the creator, then a deep reverence will take hold of the human being and creation will teach him ever more thoroughly .... For everything in the world happens only for the sake of man and exists only for the sake of man .... Thus the eternal deity is also prepared at all times to allow the earthly child to participate in the work of creation, for it also gave man the power, in a small measure, to create on earth and to bring things into being .... and this power should already allow the ignorant human being to recognize his relationship to the divine creator, that he is in the smallest detail the same as the eternal elemental force from Whom he emanated. The power of creation is inherent in every human being, even the unrecognizing one. Everyone has a different ability and can thus work completely independently on earth, partly creating .... partly by fathoming cause and effect and utilizing his knowledge for the creator. Thus divine power dwells in every human being, only how he utilizes it is up to him. The presence of God's power in man should lead to the realization of whose creation he actually is.

But anyone who blindly passes by all that is wonderful and believes in self-conceit that he has placed himself on the level of earthly existence through his own strength, his soul will still have to walk the path of embodiment or bondage for a long time, for matter will hold it captive until it has recognized it. God always presents man with new questions, events and decisions, and innumerable possibilities are given to him where he can find the connection to eternity, to the heavenly father. When he has to recognize in his weakness that his power alone is no longer enough .... All resistance would then have to be broken if man would humbly bow his will before Him to Whom all power belongs .... It is man's boundless self-love that makes the path to the father so difficult to find .... man always wants to make himself the centre of attention, and everything around him should serve him to fulfil his wishes. Instead of serving the lord and creator of heaven and earth with everything that is his .... This will one day bring him greater reward than he can ever achieve with all his endeavours on earth and will return him to his original state, which will make him free and infinitely happy for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Turn of the century .... power of God .... healing the sick ....

B.D. 0578 from September 10th 1938, taken from Book No. 12

Behold, My child, many of your spiritual friends have gathered around you and are giving you news of My will. So remember that you are also one of My faithful ones and have a task to fulfil which requires your whole devotion. But I want to increase your strength and strengthen your faith as you desire. So unite with Me in spirit and listen:

You shall come alive and see My kingdom in the spirit, and you will experience miracles and feel the power of My love in you. Only rarely does a person have the stamina required to fulfil such a task on earth, and therefore I want to stand by you in every situation in life so that you shall always feel the closeness of your saviour. Keep a pure heart and give love everywhere, then you will receive My grace and this will make you truly alive .... You will be able to draw strength from the source, and in future you will be offered food and drink so that you will never need to hunger or thirst for spiritual nourishment. But now be attentive and lend me your ear:

At the turn of the century you humans think and then believe the time has come when I Myself will come to earth .... But then you would no longer experience this coming of Mine on earth as earthly people .... But you are called to be witnesses of My glory and harbingers who are to prepare humanity for it, for the day is not far away. Behold, I am still giving you time and delaying it further and further in order to avert the great suffering of millions and millions of people. And that is why I want to endow you with immense strength so that those who want to see the morning when the first rays of the rising sun illuminate the universe will still be awakened from their sleep. This is why prophets are sent to people time and again to warn and enlighten them .... who are to save souls with love and thus vividly proclaim God's love to people. And thus in this time, which precedes My coming, there will be such an unspeakable struggle for the lost souls, and no-one will remain on earth without spiritual guidance .... I impart the pure truth to people and let them gain an insight into My entire creation and make sure that all My strength will flow to you, whom I have called, and will be at your disposal if only you want something in My name out of love for your neighbour. The proof of My words will soon be given to you and then pay attention to .... What you start early in the morning will always be blessed. For you will then work in all your strength. Therefore, always let the sick strengthen their aching limbs in the morning and then lay your hands on them in My name and you will succeed in restoring their health and all infirmities will fall from them .... This is what I lovingly lay on your heart, My child, that you act as your father asks of you .... Once your will has steeled itself, you will achieve great things and shall do this for Me and My name in order to give news of My return on earth. Behold, it is now already two weeks that I have announced to you the way in which you can attain a firm will .... You must take this deep into your heart and endeavour to put the words into practice. You will not be left without help, but your hesitation must be overcome and you must unconditionally accept what I bring to your attention. Behold, so few earthly children give Me their full will and perseverance .... But I need them if I Myself am to be able to work through them among My earthly children. I have no other goal than to make an infinite number of people happy and therefore need your help on earth because you are My instruments through which I can speak to people unhindered and yet be listened to by them without shyness. But as long as you do not have the firmest faith you will not carry out what I ask of you. You shall receive everything from Me in order to be able to stand up for Me, and I will give you My strength so that you can accomplish incredible things .... to proclaim My name to the whole world anew .... for the time is drawing ever closer which I have proclaimed to My own for the rising of the spiritual morning sun. And if you, My servants on earth, want to fulfil My will then only ever keep to the words I give and have given you .... for I am eternally the same, I am the truth and the life .... whoever has Me will never die in eternity, and whoever works in My name will be strengthened by My will and by My strength which will overflow into him and enable him to work like Me .... for I have all power from the beginning and for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Diversity of earthly existence .... You would pray for suffering ....

B.D. 0579 from September 11th 1938, taken from Book No. 12

You see, My child, in the world of your parents you accepted a destiny that allowed you to mature considerably and your earthly life was rich in experiences which stimulated your thinking, and the way to ascend could be revealed to you more easily. Although people’s circumstances of life are often even more difficult and with far greater poverty and aguish but then their souls are even less mature and can only purify themselves in such hard conditions; and thus people’s burdens are as different as are their results. Before its incarnation as a human being each soul longs to utilise its embodiment as quickly and as successfully as possible and therefore inhabits a body which has a predetermined difficult fate. On the other hand, many souls must go the path of purification which requires other circumstances of life .... which leads to their goal sooner through an easier and more pleasant existence but where other dangers have to be fought which the soul has to overcome.

This is arranged by the Heavenly Father in His wisdom even if people on earth can’t yet understand it and often become indignant about the uneven distribution of earthly wealth. But He Who knows all, Who understands every deficiency of the soul and would like to see the same perfection in everything also knows to offer the right help and only places upon each human being what is necessary for the benefit of his soul. Every day is a step closer to happiness .... so take care that you climb one step after another .... and not step back ....

You will eternally thank Me, your Creator, for every sorrow that I have put upon you and will praise the wisdom of Him Who created you and Who wants you to be near to Him forever .... You should always know that the Father does not want to lose even one of His children and that He cares for every being. And this care often necessitates methods which seem hard to you, since you cannot imagine the magnitude of the calamity that threatens you .... if you could fully understand you would pray for suffering only to avoid this adversity, but you must live your life without knowledge of your situation and strive to ascend of your own free will and in order to achieve the highest reward ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Answer in love .... explanation for suffering ....

B.D. 0580 from September 12th 1938, taken from Book No. 12

Where there is much light, there is also much shadow .... People often harbour an unusual hatred towards their creator, Who loves all souls equally without reservation. Nevertheless, people do not know how I share, as it were, in the suffering that oppresses them and how I take it upon Myself to offer them the healing potion that makes their fate on earth more favourable. They can partake of every grace and every relief will be granted to them if only they want it .... Yet in such a hardened state it is difficult to turn their will towards Me, and yet I must respect everyone's free will .... I must not intervene arbitrarily and change destinies, which would only have the opposite effect .... a strengthening of their self-consciousness .... because this would move these children further and further away from me. If a permanent state were to arise in which the human being on earth were to be liberated from his suffering, immense selfishness would soon take hold and the soul would find it difficult to free itself from its shell, for every spiritual question would remain unanswered by people, since life in carefreeness would offer enough to satisfy the human being's thoughts. It would indeed be incomparably better for the earthly body, yet it will pass away and nothing of the pleasures of the world will remain for the soul, but it will pass into the beyond naked and freezing and have to accept the same battle there .... .... yet far more difficult .... which I would have spared you in earthly life out of false fatherly love. Do you not believe that your father, in His wisdom, recognizes everything and always determines what is best for His creatures? Should it not be left to Him, to Whom all creation is subject, which path He marks out for the individual being? Would you know the torment that awaits you if I let you live unrestrainedly according to your wishes? Or can you judge what bliss awaits you if you correctly value the life imposed on you and live according to My will? Do you believe that I take pleasure in seeing you suffer.

O you fools, My love suffers with you whom I have created .... and yet no longer want to be Mine. The desire for you is unspeakable but My power is of no use there .... you must voluntarily find your way to Me, and this cannot be achieved again through a comfortable and carefree life .... In eternity you would then not find the path to Me. For I Myself am love, patience, truth and mercy .... How can you reconcile this if you believe that I want you to suffer .... If you confess Me you will feel My love like mild balm on your suffering and My grace will constantly help you .... and all suffering will be taken from you when it has fulfilled its purpose .... the connection of the child to the father's heart ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Renegades .... honour and glory .... earthly reward .... gods ....

B.D. 0581 from September 12th 1938, taken from Book No. 12

Woe to the apostates who recognized Me and yet left Me again .... Their fate will not be easy in the hereafter .... They rejected, although they recognized what was right, and now bear witness against Me, for they are more tempted by earthly power and favour than by the crown I promised to My own .... And so their life on earth will certainly leave nothing to be desired in terms of honour, fame and prestige, yet they sacrifice their soul to it and depart from the world in poverty .... Whoever claims fame and honour for himself will be without My grace, for only the humble are entitled to it .... everything that pays its tribute to the world must also receive its reward from the world, and this will be meagre for the soul. If you are offered the food of heaven, you will stand high above them, for you will be granted divine favour where they crave human recognition. There are no people so great before God that they should be celebrated like gods .... Everything breathes only self-love, imperiousness and pride .... The free man feels this and turns away, whereas the slaves of the world and its rulers unite and offer their gods the sacrifice of their subservience ....

Thus countless people do not see the coming time as a spiritually revolutionary turning point .... instead, they only pay attention to earthly goings-on and do not focus their attention on the most important thing, how God Himself relates to all earthly events. How many thoughts people give to trivial problems and how unimportant the one problem seems to them .... the question for what purpose they are here on earth .... And it is certainly such a desolate time that they would have to turn their attention to their inner life and would like to pay full attention to every time phenomena, in what connection these are with the eternal deity. Life's only task is to redeem the soul .... it is infinitely more important than to raise perpetual questions of controversy which have absolutely no connection with spiritual fulfilment.

O, what strength these people waste on trivialities and how poorly they consider their own soul .... which is far more in need of help in adversity and misery .... As a result, live peacefully side by side, you who are all My creatures, and make no distinction between the value of the peoples .... Have I not created them all, and who will presume to be the most valuable of their kind? If you had grasped the true meaning of life, then the noble instinct should prevail in your hearts, which turns to protect the oppressed and abhors the oppressor. The time of suffering on earth will still teach you many things .... But before you do not become humble and stretch out your hands, pleading for help .... until you first give glory to God and recognize Jesus Christ as the son of God, the suffering on earth will not turn away from you, for He Who took all guilt upon Himself and suffered on the cross for mankind .... He was one of the least of these and had all power to exalt Himself as king of the people .... He remained poor like His poorest brothers on earth, He was a friend and saviour of all the poor, and His redemption was the ignominious death on the cross .... Whoever on earth becomes a partaker of worldly honours is far inferior to the lord Jesus Christ .... He must first descend from his throne and humbly bow his knees before Him, the crucified .... before the ruler of the universe and all creatures .... so that He may raise him from the dust and draw him to His father's heart ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Freedom of belief .... natural explanation .... joyful labour of the soul .... reject ....

B.D. 0582 from September 13th 1938, taken from Book No. 12

If your prayer is to remain unconstrained, unite yourself in spirit with your heavenly father and let the thoughts come to you, then every mechanical exercise will fall away and you will pray to God in your heart. The lord hears everything, every thought and every longing for Him, and words are therefore not necessary .... On the other hand, all truly good thinking and willing will be blessed.

This connection with the world beyond is the only way through which the lord can make Himself known in such a way that people retain their freedom of faith. An obvious proclamation from above would put them into a state in which they would be forced into a faith even against their will .... And such a directed faith, an acceptance of the doctrine of God through certain coercion, is without success for the soul. This is why God's messages must be conveyed to people in such a way that they are not forced to believe in any way .... The lord certainly has many means to make Himself heard, but as long as the human being has a purely natural explanation for it at the same time, he is completely free to decide to regard something as an act of nature or as God's openly expressed will and then to take a stand on the eternal deity. It is extremely difficult to restore faith to people who have dropped it after a brief examination and wrong judgement, and it takes unspeakable patience and perseverance to steer them again and again towards an area to which they are more hostile, and therefore it always remains a tremendous task to teach such apostate people the profound knowledge of God's love. On the one hand, extremely strong evidence is required, and on the other hand, this evidence must still be within the realms of possibility, because otherwise there could no longer be any talk of faith but the person would have to accept what is obviously presented to him ....

The soul has a wide field of work .... without rest it must be active as it has to utilize earthly life appropriately .... With profound faith and clear realization it has to use all its strength to reach its goal. Yet if it loses time by neglecting its work on earth for lack of realization, it will have to struggle increasingly harder the later it has found it .... It will have too little time for its actual activity and only an extremely strong will will succeed in making up for what it has neglected and working on itself with increased vigour. So now the lord wants to come to the aid of those and give them hints, so that they easily accept faith and through this acquire means of help .... (interruption)

But again there are so many dangers which threaten such a soul if it unwillingly approaches the work which is only meant for its advancement. For it remains in a constant battle with evil forces as long as it does not strive joyfully upwards .... Only when the strong urge to always do only that which is pleasing to God can be felt in the heart will the influences of the evil powers become weaker and finally no longer be able to bother the earthly child at all, for then this power is broken by the heartfelt desire for light, which can only come from above. If the soul is aware of its weakness in its desire for God and sincerely asks for strength, then it will be carried upwards, as it were, by spiritual power .... A soul that asks will have everything at its disposal that is conducive to progress, and once it has realized its task, it will follow it joyfully and eagerly. However, the stronger desire can also apply to matter, and this is the decline or death of the soul .... and completely useless is the time on earth, where only the body comes to its supposed right, but the soul languishes and languishes. And then no thought will turn to the spiritual, rejection, mockery and contempt towards all spiritual subjects and complete emptiness of heart are the characteristics of such erring souls languishing in the shackles of matter. They do not recognize the lord's great goodness and are too far removed from the father of the space .... And if the divinity also works visibly, they prefer to close their eyes and remain in spiritual darkness .... All will see the signs of heaven, but they will only mean what they are supposed to mean to a few .... warning signals of greatest distress .... Those who heed them are not in danger of being completely engulfed by the devastating torrent of fire that is now to pour over humanity .... (interruption)

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Inner humility .... fright and panic for the obstinate ....

B.D. 0583 from September 14th 1938, taken from Book No. 12

Above all, take care that you do not fall into the error of valuing yourselves higher than you are in relation to the deity .... This will always mean a lack of love for God, for only those who feel small can find the highest concept of love in God and become a true child of God. It is still up to man to create his own relationship with the eternal deity .... The way he looks at himself will also be the way he acts towards the deity. A child with the right will can completely hand himself over to the father and can then only ever, under the influence of divine love, utilize earthly life powerfully for eternity .... Cast all your cares upon the lord .... If only you would take this to heart .... To know that there is one Who can avert everything .... and then to be able to make yourselves worthy of His help is a comforting thought that makes life on earth far easier to bear .... There is still time for inner repentance, for God's mercy and patience have no limits .... Time and again it tries to draw people's attention and intervenes here and there through strokes of fate in the ranks of people, so that everyone should pay attention to an invisible hand and a supernatural power .... Anyone who only ever gives a little space to such thoughts which point upwards will also find it easy to recognize, yet there are so many who cannot tear themselves away from the world even for moments .... who accept everything with the greatest matter-of-factness and never seek a spiritual explanation for all occurrences .... There it is unspeakably difficult for the spiritual beings to make contact with them in order to be able to work spiritually. In order to come to the aid of these countless souls, even worse things will have to happen on earth if a small spark of light is to light up for them and their thinking is to be stimulated. Behold, there the lord must intervene with increased power .... He must awaken the sluggish from their slumber and instruct them to do their work so that they do not perish in spiritual sluggishness. But even then only a small part of them will seize the lifeline and allow themselves to be guided by knowledge .... And so in the near future the obstinate will be exposed to nameless misery .... Terror and panic will reign among the sluggish, for all these are God's creatures .... He wants to save all of them from their misery and can only do so in such a way that the freedom of will in man remains inviolable. If the lord has expressed Himself so obviously and people carelessly pass by this call of mercy, then the gate of life will remain closed for them and their portion will be death and destruction, for they carelessly rejected God's love ....

Now mankind has been given a clear picture of what will befall it at all times, and yet it has remained the same in its actions and behaviour because it does not respect the word of God for what it is .... But when this word will be fulfilled, then there is still the opportunity to repent, and you will be accepted in the last hour .... Therefore, when the Lord speaks to you, open your eyes and ears and pay attention to His words .... For His word is truth and life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Work of the spiritual forces .... inner life .... grid .... mercy of God .... necessity of sorrow ....

B.D. 0584 from September 15th 1938, taken from Book No. 12

It is in the power of the most high to create whole worlds .... and it is also possible for Him to dissolve everything into nothingness, but what is of God will never perish, and even if the earth and its inhabitants become entangled in the deepest darkness, it will never be destroyed, but the good forces will immediately seek to win back all beings on earth. An endless battle will be waged against all those powers that oppose this endeavour of the good spiritual forces. Such an endeavour will certainly extend over thousands of years, but divine love will never cease, and this love will ensure that no being will forever distance itself from the supreme deity but will gradually approach its starting point again, albeit over a truly endless period of time .... Without question, the spiritual forces find themselves in situations where all their efforts and labour seem hopeless, but thanks to their perfection they can approach the most difficult problems .... they can initiate people into everything, both in the earthly and in the spiritual realm .... they can first train him to become a person capable of thinking and judgement, put questions into his heart that he seeks to fathom .... they can make the wonders of creation clear to him so that the spirit in him becomes active .... and after a person has been prepared in this way, they approach him with the most important task of life .... They direct his mind upwards towards the eternal creator, and now an awakening of the inner life begins in the quite pre-formed earthly man .... a searching and questioning .... a feeling and sensing. And once the human being has come this far, he is no longer lost for eternity, then the heavenly father Himself puts him in a position to nurture this inner life so that it grows and flourishes and bears fruit. Once a person has reached this stage, he can no longer fall back, for he has eaten the bread of life and will eternally desire it and yet also be satisfied. Only to the weary and sluggish is ascent tremendously difficult, for just as he does nothing to expose his body to any exertion, so he also leaves the soul in permanent inactivity, which is like death. For a spiritually active person is, as it were, at the source of life where he finds refreshment in abundance, yet, as in a desert, no refreshment will beckon to the sluggish person, he will only ever carelessly walk past this .... has no desire for spiritual strengthening, and therefore his soul is constantly in need as long as the body is empty of divine grace. Thus the soul does not leave its shell so easily .... (interruption)

(15.9.1938) This is, so to speak, like a lattice which can only be opened through the mercy and love of others .... If a person does not make himself worthy of this mercy, he cannot be assisted, but again the slightest deed of love is enough to give the soul God's mercy and love. In the sphere of the world beyond only mercy and love can intervene to help, for the soul is unable to do anything on its own .... it must only have the will to separate itself from matter and long upwards .... otherwise, however, it is completely dependent on the love of other spiritual beings or the prayer of earthly people, whereas its earthly existence gives it daily or hourly opportunities to cultivate a field of love for itself which will again bear rich fruit for its life in the beyond and it need not go hungry there. Either the soul leaves earthly life with a treasure of imperishable goods, such as works of love for its neighbour .... Or it stands completely empty at the entrance to eternity and remembers with remorse what it missed out on earth. The state of their helplessness is so extremely oppressive that, if humanity knew about it, they would never be so hardened as to prepare this state for their soul .... but even if they are told, they do not believe it and still remain unteachable, for all otherworldly messages disturb their enjoyment of life and therefore they prefer to deny everything and easily ignore things which come from the realm of the invisible. The world wants to be dealt with harshly .... with all love and kindness alone the divine saviour achieves nothing, for they do not hear this voice of love or deliberately ignore it .... then only such events can still bring help which shake the calm of man, that he only then realizes that he does not live arbitrarily on earth, but that everything must have its well-considered reason and final purpose .... If God is not heard in His love, then He must let the human being feel His power so that the resistance will be broken and he will recognize the greatness of the one Who created him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Word of God .... work .... bread of life .... power ....

B.D. 0585 from September 16th 1938, taken from Book No. 12

Whoever believes Me in everything will always be blessed .... But work on yourselves is a prerequisite for this, for only through this will it be possible for you to recognize. Behold, so many have the will to enter into eternal glory but do not consider that they must also strive for it immediately and that the incomparably beautiful reward must also be attained.

They only take everything in with their ears and put it aside again at will, whereas they should allow My words to penetrate deep into their hearts and only ever live by them. Only then is My word the true life .... And that is why a true master of his life can be called the one who takes My word as his guiding principle and endeavours to fulfil My will, to keep My commandments and thus cultivate love. And then My word is the source of all his vitality .... it is My guiding word which introduces him to eternal truth, which he now recognizes because My word gives him the strength to do so. Thus you need only always endeavour to listen to Me and you will be guided into all truth through My word and will no longer be able to go astray. Through the ether waves you will hear the voice of the one Who is in you, around you and above you .... And you walk as it were as receivers of this voice on earth and have no idea how the spirit of God already embraces you, no longer leaving you out, you who give yourselves to Me .... If only you are willing to hear My word you are accepted into the circle of My angels and will henceforth be able to do nothing against My will if you trustingly hand yourselves over to Me .... Put your ear to My heart and hear the voice: under your hand the work will arise which shall testify anew to the world of My love, and you are instructed to let the divine spirit speak in you in order to bring the promised solution to a new world of peace, which is that everyone shall share in the glory of God who lives according to My word. For he will see no boundaries between earth and heaven .... he will be able to walk unhindered from this world to the beyond, he will be allowed to let his gaze wander into all glory and nothing will remain hidden from him, for those who have My word have the strength and this strength allows them to overcome everything that stands in the way between earth and the heavenly paradise. And this word of Mine will endure for all eternity .... But you endeavour to absorb it as the true bread of life, for it will lead you over into the spheres of paradise and prepare eternal bliss for you ....

Amen

Lorber Great Gospel of John Volume 8 Chapter 189/Verse 20, read on 22.9.1938

"For truly I say to you: A pure and spiritually strong man is a lord of the spirits of nature, thus also a lord over the elements and also over all animals, plants and minerals, whatever kind and species they may be. For if a soul is filled with the spirit of God, in whom dwells all power and strength from God, he can also command all nature, and even the mountains must bow before the power of his will and his undoubted faith and trust in the one true almighty God."

Translation handled by Doris Boekers