New Revelation recieved by Bertha Dudde

Proclamations No. 0684 - 0751

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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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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

0684 - Prayer for help from the spirits.... atonement and forgiveness of sin....

0685 - Wolf in sheep's clothing.... Forerunner of the Lord before His return....

0686 - Secrets of creation....

0687 - Blessing of ill health and suffering....

0688 - Earthly possessions and self-love.... spiritual possessions and charity....

0689 - Incarnation.... bridge....

0690 - Incarnation.... worldly pleasures.... self-redemption....

0691 - father's words.... love.... poem....

0692 - The necessity of mediation.... God's word.... purest truth....

0693 - Capacity for spiritual food.... pastor....

0694 - Prediction of a devastating event....

0695 - Full faith and trust.... fight against doubt....

0696 - Love.... fulfilment.... source of spiritual wealth....

0697 - Saviour as doctor.... teaching of the present time.... heaven's message....

0698 - Realization of God.... recognizing the origin....

0699 - State of the soul after death.... spirit of God....

0700 - God's love.... power.... will to create....

0701 - Unbelievers.... prediction.... extraordinary sign....

0702 - Predictions.... signs.... earthly dispositions....

0703 - Earth’s state of peace depends on spiritual attitude ....

0704 - Fulfilment of the Scripture .... Eruptions .... Ocean and mainland ....

0705 - Inheritance of the father.... childhood of God.... being of light....

0706 - Lack of self-knowledge.... self-love.... stubbornness....

0707 - Activity of the creatures.... creative power.... free will....

0708 - Spiritual knowledge necessary to test and judge the gifts from above....

0709 - Many are called.... power of prayer for receptivity....

0710 - father's words of love.... employees....

0711 - Father's words.... dictation.... audible voice....

0712 - Warning against false judgement.... unkindness of the peoples....

0713 - Light and truth....

0714 - Original power....

0715 - Care of the spiritual friends for the relatives on earth....

0716 - Passing through each form is necessary.... (Microcosm?)

0717 - Miracles of divine love.... father's words....

0718 - Willingness to transcribe.... Receiving the living Word.... Authenticity....

0719 - "The kingdom of heaven needs violence...."

0720 - Serious admonition.... (Discord and unkindness....)

0721 - Only love recognises the Deity.... Seekers of God....

0722 - Grasping and discarding thoughts according to God's will.... Fear of death....

0723 - Loving Fatherly Words ....

0724 - Spiritual error.... guiding into the truth.... rotten fence.... living lessons....

0725 - Permission from above to increase the will to resist....

0726 - Fate not an obstacle to cognition.... free will....

0727 - Faith and trust in God necessary for resistance.... storm....

0728 - Love the antithesis of evil power.... partition.... word of God is life....

0729 - New year's eve.... anaesthetics....

0730 - Divine laws.... sin....

0731 - Soul after death....

0732 - Trust in God.... earthly worries.... "Lord, Thy will be done...."

0733 - The word of God.... love.... truth.... wisdom....

0734 - Participation of otherworldly beings in lectures....

0735 - Value of the work of redemption.... the suffering of Jesus earthly....

0736 - Term "grace"....

0737 - Laws of nature.... reshaping and overexploitation of the earth....

0738 - (continuation of no. 737) Laws of nature.... Reshaping and overexploitation of the earth....

0739 - (continuation of No. 737 and 738) Laws of nature.... Reshaping and overexploitation of the earth....

0740 - Inner contemplation.... willpower through divine grace....

0741 - Fatherwords....

0742 - Fatherwords....

0743 - Clairvoyance....

0744 - Assurance of protection for a champion of God....

0745 - Effects on the rigidity of the neck....

0746 - Grace(choice).... red thread....

0747 - Insertion into the divine order....

0748 - Light phenomena....

0749 - Conqueror of matter.... unlocking the inner eye.... spiritual growth....

0750 - 'I Am the beginning of all things....'

0751 - Protecting the truth through spiritual forces when receiving....

Prayer for help from the spirits .... atonement and forgiveness of sin ....

B.D. 0684 from November 26th 1938, taken from Book No. 15

It is written: "Come to Me, all you who labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest ...." Whoever of you feels oppressed and trusts in My strength shall have his suffering alleviated if only he asks the father in My name. Love is the greatest thing in heaven and on earth, and it can do everything. But that spiritual world works constantly in love and according to My will. And so it will also protect you from all dangers, for the spiritual beings do nothing of their own accord but only work with Me and through Me. Anyone who therefore recommends himself to them for protection will be protected by My will, for everything that serves Me is one with Me .... permeated by one power and guided by one will. And therefore anyone who faithfully takes refuge in Me and My strength will go through earthly life in safe protection. Therefore, never forget the ever ready help and ask for it, and nothing will be denied you .... if you only think of your soul's salvation in your deepest heart, your earthly endeavours will also be blessed, for the father's grace is immeasurable. And now receive:

Everything that is contrary to divine order must be atoned for, for it is sin before God and people if the effects of this sin are directed against people. The human being will recognize the right order himself, but if he, against his better judgement, overturns the laws of divine order, he rebels, as it were, against the highest power and perfection and thus spiritually distances himself further and further from the eternal deity with Whom he is supposed to unite himself. His sinful state separates him all the more from the spirit of light the more often he acts contrary to the divine laws. But if he now desires divine love and turns to the truth, he will also endeavour to change his earthly way of life and comply with God's commandments. However, at the same time he will have to ensure that his realization matures, for in this he will come to the realization that he has erred against divine love, he will remember his transgressions with abhorrence and remorse, ask his creator for forbearance and make an effort to fight against his weaknesses so that he will not fall back into his old guilt. And then he will also be forgiven, for the father in heaven is mild and just .... He lets His love prevail where the earthly child realizes his wrongdoing and asks for forgiveness. In the same way, you should also forgive your neighbours who have transgressed against you .... You should always show love and not seek retribution, for 'judge not, lest ye be judged'. And just as you forgive your enemies, so you too will be forgiven, for as you judge, so you will be judged. You should listen to every admonition and warning of the heart if it prompts you to repay evil with good, for you too have failed countless times in life and yet seek and expect the mercy of the father in heaven .... So you too should be merciful and always repay with love what has been done to you. For one day you will feel it as a blessing and all the love that made you act according to the father's commandments will have a beneficial effect in the beyond, where only the works of love will be recognized. All hatred and desire for revenge is part of evil, which you must overcome, for it only reduces your spiritual strength and hinders your ascent. Only works of love will ever be beneficial to the soul. Similarly, also seek to receive the blessing of divine grace through perpetual prayer for the strengthening of your will, for this will then also enable you to act in accordance with God's will in His eternal order. Life so often offers opportunities which can become a danger for the soul if the will is weak, but a strong will overcomes the danger; and if love for the father drives the earthly child, it will certainly not stray from the right path and will know how to live well in the divine order. Even then he will not need to fear the creator's stern hand of judgement, for only those who knowingly transgress His commandments will be called upon to atone, and that according to the hardness of his heart. For the lord is a mild judge and forgives all guilt on earth if it is recognized and repented of from the bottom of his heart .... But He will also know how to punish those who do not observe His commandments and never again plead with Him for forgiveness ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Wolf in sheep's clothing .... Forerunner of the Lord before His return ....

B.D. 0685 from November 26th 1938, taken from Book No. 15

The adversary has an easy time when he moves about in disguise like a wolf in sheep’s clothing fascinating the people with his looks and words. He will use every opportunity to cause damage to humanity. Anyone who falls victim to the claws of the wolf will be mercilessly torn to shreds after he has gained power over the soul.

Therefore let Me tell you: you will recognise him who walks across the earth with the fiery sword of his tongue .... No one will doubt his word as it will be divine and an emanation of God’s deepest love. But do not search for him in splendour and magnificence; his name is humble .... unknown .... although he calls himself John his mortal body does not present the appearance that graces him spiritually. He walks amongst you and teaches by word and deed and will be a forerunner of the Lord before His return to earth. Thus his word will testify to the love of God wherever he is, and he will awaken in the hearts of humanity a deep longing for truth and light.

Do not believe the voices of the present time which intend to mislead you, which intend to dull your senses for the good and noble .... leave them be and only hold on to what the Lord sends to you from above; because the inclination of the adversary turns towards the world and not away from it towards the eternal Deity.

Whoever listens to John’s words will hear the Lord's Words directly and his spirit will proclaim the true salvation. And whoever hears him is completely convinced by his words. He comes in the light of truth, nothing worldly will adhere to him. The country that shelters him, however, is blessed by his presence .... When he appears the hour of judgment is not far .... he will accept all suffering with patience and only hear the voice of the Lord. Remember these words when he is apprehended to seal his fate on earth .... However, you humans will never be able to prevent God's advocate from carrying out what he has taken upon himself for the sake of humanity. You will never be powerful enough to fight against him without punishment .... Yet his eyes will rest upon you, who want to hurt him, with gentleness .... for his love and patience include all those whose hearts oppose him .... And he will win many for himself because the strength of his words and his love are great. And the world will suffer a loss .... The souls will be divided into those, who recognise him as their saviour from deepest distress and those, whose only share is the world. And their end will be the death of their body and soul ....

And thus you are given light to see the deeds of those who ask to descend, who shy away from all light from above and strive to extinguish it so that the adversary can seize the souls during darkness. Those of you who ask for light shall receive light, the Lord will not let you suffer in darkness and He will protect you from snatching wolves who sneak amongst His flock in disguise and strive to cause confusion. Read His Word and notice the first signs of the confusion .... And whoever has ears to hear shall listen: Not the world will bring you peace but only He, Whose kingdom is not of this world. And His peace will be an eternal peace and nothing in the world can destroy it and yet it will also extend across the world .... across those people who hear the Word of God from the mouth of a pure disciple of Jesus .... whose love wants to help people and who proclaims to them God’s eternal love .... He will bring peace to all people of good will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Secrets of creation ....

B.D. 0686 from November 27th 1938, taken from Book No. 15

The secrets of creation will be completely unveiled to those who seek Me, for I Myself will be in them and they will receive the truth from the one Who is lord of all creation. For if I withheld this from you, the meaning of creation would truly not be fulfilled .... Everything that exists is only for you, you shall see everything and know about every little work that I have created. All things are destined for a purpose .... they came into being out of My wisdom and omnipotence in such a way that they are useful for the further development of all spiritual beings, and the will of man contributes to the fact that all things can be correctly recognized by him and thus also become the foundation stone for eternal bliss. For everything that pleases the human being's eye and heart is also accessible and visible to the spiritual being once it has entered a state of perfection .... Everything created by Me contributes to the endless happiness of these beings and is only then fully realized in its greatness and perfection. The divine hand invisibly rules and directs every creature, yet this is not yet fully understandable to you, for you do not recognize the spirit of wisdom which has ruled and sustained everything from eternity. Only the entrance into the regions of light opens up knowledge of this for you, but on earth you only have to seek the right attitude towards your creator in order to enter into the most possible illumination of spirit for you and to be able to penetrate into the miracles of divine creation. There will be no end to your amazement once you have left your earthly body and are allowed to gain an insight into the evidence of the heavenly father's love and omnipotence, Who thereby wants to provide you with unspeakable delights in eternity. If the work of creation is to be completely revealed to you, it requires your fullest inner consent, the fullest will to come to Me .... Only then can I send you My spirit, which will guide you into all truth. You must fully and completely profess Me, you must be completely Mine and despise every earthly good if it turns you away from Me, for only I am the eternal truth and in Me lies the complete fulfilment .... I bless those who seek Me, I walk among them, give them light and increase their wisdom .... I want to take possession of you so that you can no longer fall prey to the world if only you are willing to receive Me and offer Me alone a dwelling place in your hearts .... For next to Me there is never again room for worldly desires .... Whoever wants to possess Me must give up everything else, for only in complete devotion to Me will you find the highest and most valuable .... the eternal truth, and only this again is the epitome of heavenly bliss. You have already done enough for the world when you fulfil your earthly task for the benefit of your fellow human beings; however, you only fulfil your spiritual work when you try to approach God with longing and love for Him, when the spiritual work on you can begin .... when you pay attention to the miracles of creation and thus also begin to recognize the creator and reverently face His love and omnipotence. Only then will the right relationship with the father be established, Who will then instruct you in all love and reveal the miracle of creation before your eyes, insofar as you are receptive in your earthly state. Only the transition into the light-filled beyond will guarantee you comprehensive knowledge and recognition of God's love, wisdom and omnipotence, and you will sing His praises, honour and thanks to Him for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Blessing of ill health and suffering ....

B.D. 0687 from November 27th 1938, taken from Book No. 15

The state of suffering often obliges a person to take a closer look at his whole life on earth, and this is both beneficial for the soul as well as very often favourable for the body, since the human being, in recognition of his wrong thoughts and behaviour, will frequently endeavour to change his nature. This can also have a positive effect on his body in so far as that a decent way of life can considerably contribute towards maintaining a healthy body or curing a sick one.

The body often has to be afflicted by illness or infirmity, precisely in order to make the person realise that his conduct had completely contravened God's order .... For all reprimands and warnings sent to people by the Lord won't achieve what ill health can often bring about. The human being has no option but to turn away from the world and its pleasures and see earthly life in a completely different light .... He sees the body's frailty and helplessness, and his personal sense of weakness, his inability to escape this condition, will automatically direct his thoughts towards spiritual issues. He will then be far more inclined to deal with problems which are far from a healthy person's mind, and such thoughts can induce a change if he does not oppose them, and thus the spiritual beings can start with the work on such a person's soul by influencing him ever more into asking questions, which will then be answered by the spiritual beings in the form of bright ideas, and thus he is gradually guided into a spiritual sphere which he finds agreeable and which internalises him. To come to the same realisation within the commotion of the world would have taken him a very long time, which would have passed in vain for the soul .... this way, however, a short time can suffice and advance him considerably. And thus, suffering should not make a person unhappy, instead it should equally be regarded as a demonstration of the eternal Deity's love, which the human being will soon understand if he, through suffering, has taken the right path and subsequently can move on by actively working for the salvation of his soul ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Earthly possessions and self-love .... spiritual possessions and charity ....

B.D. 0688 from November 28th 1938, taken from Book No. 15

A wide field of activity will always be working in love, you will be able to practice it constantly if only your will is inclined towards the eternal deity. You will also recognize from the abundance of unkindness amongst people how far the human being's spirit has distanced itself from God-consciousness .... how he only ever seeks to satisfy his 'ego' and all the love he is capable of is only for this ego. And only evil ever emanates from this self-love .... The addiction to possess everything imaginable for oneself is the cause of all the vices and bad habits that then adhere to such a self-loving person. You can already see this in the simple process of increasing goods. Man will only ever endeavour to acquire for himself everything that seems desirable to him and will not shy away from any means of obtaining it that violate God's commandments .... He will appropriate unlawfully or try to harm his fellow man through cunning and deceit .... he will not shy away from lying if it only brings him the slightest advantage. But he will never cultivate love for his fellow human being and will therefore lack everything that can bring him closer to the eternal deity. However, activity in true neighbourly love will have the same beneficial effect. The human being will always endeavour to protect his fellow human being from everything that he himself deems detrimental, and he will always remain in the truth and act in accordance with God's commandments and thus also be able to enjoy God's presence at all times by engaging in works of neighbourly love. Whoever selflessly does good to his fellow human being, his spiritual possessions will increase and earn him an everlasting reward in the hereafter, and only the will of man is needed to be allowed to enjoy the highest delights after bodily death. The temptations of the world are the counterweight, and man in his delusion does not recognize the worthlessness of earthly pleasures but seeks to seize them by all means, and his fate in the beyond is therefore a meagre, joyless one, because he will be granted the same amount as he gave to his fellow human beings in earthly life. He who only loves himself too much can never attain divine grace, for the lord will never bless his actions and endeavours .... Only the exercise of love for one's neighbour assures him of such. He who willingly gives of his possessions will receive twice, and not only earthly, but to an even greater extent spiritually, for love is the highest, and only through love can man redeem himself already on earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Incarnation .... bridge ....

B.D. 0689 from November 28th 1938, taken from Book No. 15

He Who wore the crown of thorns carried the sins of men on His shoulders and yet remained the purest, most innocent lamb of God. Night was the portion of all souls at that time, but with the saviour the light came to earth, and the darkness was overcome through Jesus' death on the cross. And those who opened their hearts to receive the light had their sins blotted out by the saviour's love. The power of evil was broken, the saviour earned people the right to enter the eternal home if they accepted faith in Jesus Christ as the son of God. For an immeasurably long time the gates to the father's house were closed because sin separated the soul from the eternal deity .... Then the lord built a bridge from the earth to the spiritual world. Faith was able to overcome the unbridgeable gulf .... the eternal deity bent fatherly towards His creatures and they found the way to the father, who only has the will, for the divine saviour paved the way through His incarnation ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Incarnation .... worldly pleasures .... self-redemption ....

B.D. 0690 from November 29th 1938, taken from Book No. 15

Man's strength became infinitely greater and his will became powerful, for the power of love gained the upper hand over evil, and anyone who now lives in love can acquire this power such that his life on earth is fully sufficient in order to enter the realms of eternal bliss as a purified being after bodily death. Only the will of man remained inviolable, and the opposing power now tries to influence this will to the utmost, so that the inclination to love is weakened and thus the self-redemption through love is questioned. Only the uninterrupted endeavour to live in God's will is able to withstand the adversary's efforts. Where the will seriously turns to God, the opposing power has lost all power .... it tries again and again to bring man down, but these attempts are ineffective because love for God outweighs everything. Thus the incarnation of Christ was the victory over evil .... the power of the adversary was broken and the strength of the earthly being willing to love increased to the same extent, and an ascent to God was now assured for all spiritual beings .... The demons of the universe now seek to seize souls with all cunning and to awaken or strengthen all desires that are corrupting, for these again weaken the will, which is otherwise strong and resistant. This is why every worldly desire is an obstacle to the final reunion with God, for then the will will not turn fully and completely towards the eternal deity, but will be divided and gradually lean more and more towards the world, because the human being's will becomes weaker and weaker and the temptations from the side of evil become stronger and stronger to the same extent. In itself, the desire for the world is not a sin as long as it is not contrary to God's commandments, but the renunciation of all worldly pleasures is, as it were, the ladder upwards, because man then exchanges divine grace for them. The body willingly gives up the pleasures of the world, but the soul is unspeakably richly endowed with strength and grace for its actual purpose. And the soul feels comfortable in this state, which lets it dwell in spheres of light, whereas the body gradually loses its inclination towards the world completely and the more perfect the state of the soul is, the easier it is to bear the sacrifice of the body. But what people strive for on earth, who do not live in God's grace, is only appearance and deception, everything melts away and passes like foam, only creating a sense of well-being for the body for the time on earth but leaving the soul in the poorest state .... The human being has then lived his earthly life completely uselessly, not remembering the task he had to fulfil. And thus the work of redemption, the incarnation of God, remained without any blessing for such an earthly child .... the bridge the saviour had built to humanity was not entered by them. They continue to walk on the path of darkness, which previously led people astray, and do not see the light-filled path that God's love has made accessible to the children of earth .... This path may be narrow and a path of renunciation, self-denial and the highest spiritual demands, but it inevitably leads to the goal .... It moulds the earthly human being into a child of God who finally unites with the heavenly father and thus finds his way home to the father's house ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

father's words .... love .... poem ....

B.D. 0691 from November 29th 1938, taken from Book No. 15

You should fulfil this work gladly and joyfully and always be sure of My help. For I always bless those who remain in My will. Countless beings are looked after by Me and I will never leave My own in need if they endeavour to live in a way that pleases Me. Just as everything around you is My work, I also want to be active in you and, by virtue of My love, ignite the flame of love in you and let it flare up, for anyone who desires Me has love within himself and should only demand that it fulfils itself .... The most blissful feeling in the heart is constant contact with Me .... you will no longer believe yourselves to be on earth once you have tasted these delights and yet increase your longing for ever greater fulfilment, for love surpasses itself .... it has no end and no limits, it is only ever giving and blissful, and its abode will always be a heart turned towards Me. For I Myself am love, and he who loves Me with all his heart receives Me into his heart, and he who lives in My love hears the most blessed language .... His heart is jubilation and rejoicing, and nothing will be able to rob him of his happiness, whatever storms in on him from outside. For he is secure in My love and his desire for Me will be fulfilled .... Therefore, endeavour to always be active in love and My presence will make you happy without limit. For whatever you start, My love watches over you and, like a caring father, I guide your steps so that you will not stray from the right path and fall into the dangers of life. And I still have many joys in store for you, I will make you into the most luminous beings in the beyond if your love for Me does not diminish and your hearts beat towards Me. For the child's happiness is the father's joy, its welfare My concern, and where you run the risk of stumbling I hold My hand protectively over you.

(And if your heart longs .... for Me, My love will carry you .... to Me in the homeland, relieved of all suffering, you will walk in the brightest light .... Then see your father's face in heaven above .... And your heart will tremble .... and glow with love .... And you will live in bliss, resting blissfully on My breast .... To be constantly near Me, to be blissful in pleasure and joy, My love will give you .... purest happiness for eternity .... )

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The necessity of mediation .... God's word .... purest truth ....

B.D. 0692 from November 30th 1938, taken from Book No. 15

Heaven's highest bliss will be granted to you who serve the lord. For the innumerable dangers which threaten the soul in earthly life are to be properly recognized by people, and therefore the word of God must reach them in this form in order to let faith arise anew and to direct people's thoughts back to Jesus Christ, the divine redeemer. For it has become a world of appearances, no-one really recognizes the purpose of his earthly existence anymore, everything turns to matter and thus reduces the power of the spiritual. And yet there is so much help available to them, which they only need to seize. The lord constantly imparts His word to them .... He wants to instruct humanity about His will and their task. For infinitely great things are at stake .... it is about eternity. The lord can only speak to people through human mouths if He wants to form free, self-determining beings into children of God, for all other admonitions from above will no longer be heeded either but accepted as repeatedly occurring events, and the lord will therefore have to intervene so conspicuously if His admonitions and His words are not heeded. They will only realize it in each individual's oppressive adversity and even then the term 'force of nature' will still keep many away from right thinking, for their blindness has already progressed too far, and thus help can only be granted to those who turn in full faith to the creator of heaven and earth .... who commend their lives to Him and ask for His grace. Only they will be saved from all misery. So that the number of these may increase, the lord sends out His servants beforehand to give news of what is to be expected. These can still change people's thinking if they preach the word of God, which the lord wisely blesses with His power so that all who hear it and believingly accept it will become tangibly imbued with this power. Only through this word of God conveyed to people can salvation still be brought to them, and it is indispensable for humanity in order to lead them to right thinking. Whoever loves his neighbour in the name of the lord and preaches the word of God to him is only an executor of the divine will. The word of God is to arise anew among mankind and can only be taught in the present time in such a way that it appears acceptable to those willing to believe, for man is too reluctant to accept anything improbable .... however, he should not be forced to accept the faith either, but his free will should decide and accept or reject it. What reaches the servants on earth and is received by them in full faith is the purest, brightest truth from the heavens .... it is the expression of divine love for people .... it is the most unadulterated teaching of Christ, which He Himself taught to people on earth and which remains the same forever. If you humans receive it, you will be blessed, and if you also pass it on to your fellow human beings, your reward will truly be great one day. Love for your fellow human beings should be your driving force, and words given in love will not fail to make an impression .... They will awaken love again and let God be recognized as the wisest, most loving father, Whom the earthly child must love above all else. Where the word of God has found entrance, peace of heart will also return, the longing for the world will recede, all glamour and shine of it will fade, and man will only desire to hear God's word and to get strength and comfort, inner peace and happiness from it .... For the word of God replaces the pleasures of the world a thousandfold if it is received with full faith. Those who are in the service of God are called to stand up for the word of God and, as messengers of the lord, to make His will known. The task of these servants is such an enormous and extensive one because it is of the greatest necessity for people who walk on earth in the deepest night and do not grasp the seriousness of the present time. And that is why these servants should also be equipped with all their strength in order to effectively support their words in the name of the lord. For a person in full faith, who visibly has extraordinary strength at his disposal, will most likely be able to strengthen the belief in a divine being to Whom everything in the universe is subject .... And once a person has this realization he will also be willing to accept the divine word and make an effort to obey the lord's will which can be recognized from it; however, anyone who rejects such evidence of divine love and concern for people will be in dire straits if the lord determines the elements of nature to inform people of His existence. Then the voice of the lord will sound audibly to all and cause fear and terror in the unbelievers to whom the last reprieve is thus granted ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Capacity for spiritual food .... pastor ....

B.D. 0693 from November 30th 1938, taken from Book No. 15

Behold, My child, what your spirit receives is well prepared by Me and therefore always adapted to your capacity. Your spirit must first be receptive to such an extent that I can impart profound wisdom to it, and until this is achieved the teachings must be offered to you in the same way as before. It is not only a matter of writing them down, but they should also be properly understood by you, and this can only be achieved by constantly offering you spiritual food until you are educated to such an extent that you can easily grasp what spiritual knowledge is still destined for you. True love will also bring you there if your zeal does not diminish, but it should also be emphasized to you that your task is to teach one day .... And therefore the spiritual food must be offered to you in such a way that it is quite comprehensible to you and can also be absorbed intellectually in order to be able to refute all objections well, which is very necessary for those who want to be superior. Only always trust your saviour, Who finds the right measure for you in everything and to Whom every corner of your heart is known .... He distributes gifts to you according to your needs ....

Today you shall receive a wise word about those whose office it is or should be to proclaim the teaching of God. You see, I always call some among men who are to be active according to My will and can always rejoice in their willingness to serve Me. But now the number of those who want to serve Me is getting smaller and smaller. Although many fulfil the office of pastor, they do not take their concern for the salvation of souls seriously. They do not observe the fourth commandment: You shall honour your father and mother .... They are not active for My honour, but only enjoy their physical well-being .... They no longer recognize the father in Me and therefore deny Me all honour and love by trying to portray Me to people as a stranger .... as a punishing judge, but not as a mild father .... They are indeed active with their mouths but their hearts are far from Me because they themselves do not recognize Me and therefore cannot inform people of My love. They are now destined for a hard fate. They will have to fight for their physical sustenance, they themselves will experience such hardship that they will have to prove their faith, they will only be able to fulfil the most sacred mission, which is supposed to be their ministry, under strong self-denial. They will have to give up all apparent well-being and only be proclaimers of the word of God chosen by their fellow human beings. And people will certainly desire to hear the word of God, and they will take refuge in those who can enlighten them about the nature of the deity, but they will never attain new and firm faith where faith has already lapsed and who cannot offer the word of God to people with the right fervour. And I am preparing you for this time so that such righteous people who hunger for the truth may be offered the right doctrine of God and the word of God may arise anew among humanity. Everything will collapse and only the pure unadulterated word of God will remain, for the power of the world will not be able to reach it, and if the fighting fighters for God are now truly willing to stand up for Me, My strength will also overflow into them and they will suddenly recognize the truth brightly and lightly and take care of the spreading of My word with double zeal. Before that, you, My faithful servants, will also be exposed to strong hostility from this side, for these proclaimers of My teaching who have almost fallen away from God do not want to admit that they had built their teaching on erroneous premises up to now .... They will stand up for the old, which has long since ceased to completely correspond to God's will, and they will also be difficult to dissuade until the desire to only do what is truly right becomes so active in their hearts that, with the help of divine grace, they recognize the working of the deity from above .... that they recognize the saviour's presence amongst humanity and His immense love for the living creations. Then they too will submit to God's will and be truly active for His word and give glory to the father in heaven alone ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Prediction of a devastating event ....

B.D. 0694 from December 1st 1938, taken from Book No. 15

It is very beneficial for all of you to read the words of the Bible, and you will realise that the Lord in His time has announced His coming. The forthcoming divine Judgment is not the Lord's will but solely the will of humanity, which endeavours towards an almost complete separation from faith which will result in descending further into spiritual darkness. Purely to put an end to these goings-on and to save what has not yet been entirely taken in by the night, the Lord will fulfil His Word .... For His spirit foresaw the present as well as the approaching time, and in His kindness and gentleness the Lord has left no stone unturned in order to be able to prevent the divine Judgment. Everyone presently living on earth will be informed of it beforehand and able to avert the judgment from himself, insofar as that he will be protected from every danger by the Father's invisible hand, if only he trustingly turns to Him and thus acknowledges His power and love .... The many events preceding this in order to wake people up will also show you that the time is close at hand.

This time will not pass any person by without a trace, and there will be many signs which are intended to arouse people from their spiritual lethargy and draw their attention to the visible intervention of an eternal Deity. And the adversary will have his hand in everything and influence people everywhere to listen only to the thoughts and words of the world and to reject everything spiritual, for in their dominance and arrogance people are so convinced of their own strength and power that, by necessity, the evidence of their own weakness and inadequacy has to be demonstrated to them through misfortunes which human hands are unable to prevent. At first they will certainly accept such strokes of fate without experiencing any particular effect to their thinking .... Yet the events will happen increasingly more often and even make arrogant people inwardly tremble as they realise their vulnerability. And one such event is being prepared by the Lord ....

He will intervene in people's arbitrary activity of injustice and perceptibly express His will to them .... This time will numb all emotional souls, for the scale of the event will be too powerful as to be considered coincidental. And in case of the event repeating itself many people will wake up from their sleep and prefer the dawning day to the darkness of spirit .... and to preach the Word of God will be the rewarding task of God's servants on earth, for nothing in the world happens without consideration .... Nothing is hidden from the Creator's knowledge, and thus the Lord's visible intervention will not be without purpose and meaning for many people, but His intervention will be recognised as the helpful hand of the Heavenly Father which everyone should be willing to grasp. For the time is near of which it is written in Word and Scripture ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Full faith and trust .... fight against doubt ....

B.D. 0695 from December 3rd 1938, taken from Book No. 15

People do not realize how easily they can sink into unbelief if their inner attitude towards the father leaves much to be desired in terms of depth, for the lord Himself is protection for all those who seek Him, and thus the child who longs for Him cannot go astray. Every minute of life is precious, and if they are used to win erring souls, they are blessed by the lord. Therefore, let there be no doubt in your mind .... your thoughts move in the lord's direction, He leads you, as it were, through daily life in such a way that you find activity in your spiritual task. The slightest impulse is often enough for a person to become thoughtful ....

A secure feeling of being safe delivers a person from all torment, and so the lord has already taken care of your further life, and you can devote yourself to your spiritual work with peace of mind and look up to Him full of trust. For it is an eternal battle for a weak soul .... Wherever the slightest mistrust appears, the spirits of the underworld are gathered in droves to drag down such a doubting heart. Everything that does not surrender unconditionally to the power from above is seized by the opposite pole and weakened more and more, so to speak, and then the soul has to struggle immensely to reconnect with the power from above. And all this only when quiet doubts want to capture the heart .... The lord demands the most faithful trust from you, whom He Himself instructs. Remember that every doubt grieves the lord .... remember that He wants to mould you into fully believing children and that you should therefore never doubt His words .... For then all evil powers will find entrance into a doubting heart and displace the likewise active good spiritual beings, so that their influence will also weaken and only a strong will can curb the danger for the soul. Let it be said to you that no victory can be won without a fight, and that is why you have to fight against all doubts, you have to know that fullest strength lies in undoubted faith, but that you oppositely give yourselves into the power of the enemy. Leave all your worries to the lord, He will lift you up when you want to despair. He will comfort you and also give you information where you are ignorant .... And so He always has that ready for you which is suitable for your soul .... He imparts purest truth to you, and every doubt about it is injustice against the lord and saviour, just as complete trust and undoubted faith will always please Him. And so gather yourselves together in prayer and ask the father for His help in all your oppressive concerns and questions .... and give Him your undivided attention and best will, and all your doubts will be cleared up and your questions answered, for it is the lord's will that you know what you desire to know ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Love .... fulfilment .... source of spiritual wealth ....

B.D. 0696 from December 4th 1938, taken from Book No. 15

What happens in recent times will make you completely faithful, for your prayer will reach the lord and will be heard. Behold, My child, it is My will that your feelings be deepened, a covenant shall be made between Me and you which will last forever, and if it is not strengthened through all trials there is always the danger of flattening .... It is beyond human comprehension how responsible the battle in earthly life is, yet an unlimited knowledge of it would influence free behaviour .... The purpose of life, however, is to strive towards God of one's own free will, unaware of the glory or damnation awaiting him. For if a being acts in calculation, every action loses its value .... Love should drive the human being and this, in turn, should be his innermost motivation, but the right measure of love alone is already the desire to ascend, for I Myself am love .... thus, anyone who has Me within himself through his activity of love allows himself to be seized by Me without resistance and guided into My kingdom. The earthly child can therefore be presented with the greatest task without worrying, it will fulfil this task of its own accord because love was active first, it only has to be continually stimulated and strengthened through resistance because the demands of life, which approach an earthly child in such a task, are unspeakably great .... It must be able to assert itself against all hostility from outside, it must itself be extraordinarily knowledgeable and be able to prove itself against objections from the hostile side .... it must become stronger, which is impossible without inner struggle. But no ministry is given to man without the necessary application of strength, and very often man does not recognize the true purpose of an apparent setback, which is always a means against lukewarmness and fatigue of spirit. He will only gain full understanding when he looks back at his earthly life, but if his life is still on earth he is often overcome by anxiety and in such a situation he sincerely calls upon the heavenly father for help .... And thus the covenant with Me will be ever more firmly established; his faith, which takes refuge in Me, will be rewarded and grace will be given to him in greater measure. Behold, separation from Me is the most bitter suffering that can threaten the earthly child, yet anyone who is frightened that I might abandon him has My fullest love, for his heart longs for Me .... how need he fear that I will turn My favour away from him? And his longing should only be ever greater so that I can provide it with My love .... Every spiritual nourishment is the highest proof of My love, for he who is worthy of this nourishment will never hunger or thirst, and thus love for Me is also the fulfilment of longing, for he who loves Me receives. Let the world strive for earthly goods and take note of where true happiness can be found .... Always only where pure love fills hearts .... love that is ready to give .... But as long as only love for earthly goods is stirred .... love that wants to possess will not produce inner happiness and inner peace. If love now turns to Me, if it wants to give to Me, namely to give itself to Me, then this love will trigger unspeakable delights, for I Myself want to be fulfilment .... The slightest plea for Me shall suffice for the earthly child to hear My voice .... it shall be visibly distinguished on earth, that spiritual strength supports it and it walks in My love from now on. The source of life is always and forever My grace, and anyone who stands in My love may constantly draw from this source, he will never need to live in want and suffering and gather spiritual wealth, and there will be no end to the joy which My love provides him with. And this is destined for those who see the lord in Me .... who submit to Me at all times and show Me love and honour .... But I lean towards them as a father Who draws His children to Himself in deepest love, for what My love once created lives on in this world, yet everything from Me shall also be one with Me .... If it now longs for Me as its creator and father of its own accord, My joy is indescribable, for My love is for you, My children, forever .... And your return to the father's house shall be your highest bliss ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Saviour as doctor .... teaching of the present time .... heaven's message ....

B.D. 0697 from December 5th 1938, taken from Book No. 15

"O that I had a thousand tongues to praise Your power and glory, O lord, Who rules the world from eternity to eternity .... And who in mildest mercy takes care of your earthly children and gives them words of love again and again .... Be my protection and shield now and always .... Amen." Thus shall it resound in your hearts, and in gratitude you shall look up to Him, Who honours you with His grace, for the lord enlivens you with His word. He is the saviour of your soul, the true physician Who lets you heal, Who recognizes all your suffering and is concerned in tireless love to bring you salvation .... If you believe His words, if you allow yourselves to be truly cared for by Him, if you henceforth desire the right healing potion, then the healing of your soul is your portion and your state of suffering is removed forever. See God's work and recognize His love and do not hide yourselves, but accept with a grateful heart what His fatherly hand offers you. The teaching of the present time no longer corresponds to His will, He needs humanity, which is willing, and His mercy applies to it. And anyone who expects too much from this earth should be reminded of the transience of all earthly things. The lord's will is always and forever the same, that men on earth seek to ennoble their nature, that they lend their ear to the heavenly messages and that they are shown most clearly the way which leads to the ennoblement of the soul. And in what fullness the love of the lord expresses itself is evident from the fact that He Himself walks on earth and reveals Himself to the loving and willing children of earth, and that in every way. A bright looking around and a listening inwardly lets His presence be clearly recognized by the one whose heart turns to God. And His spirit is constantly in their midst, and thus His own will also feel His nearness and always know what the lord desires and, removed from the world, strive to fulfil His will. Yet anyone who looks and listens with worldly eyes and ears can never be sure of his soul's recovery, he rather disregards everything that is beneficial to the soul .... he does not need the doctor because he does not want to follow his wise instructions and therefore has little opportunity to improve the state of his soul. And the course on earth does not contribute to this, because the saviour's word was disregarded. The power from above was limited by man's will to defend himself, and all the love and mercy of the lord does nothing against this. But what a tremendous responsibility towards the soul .... And how hopeless the further path of life, if the will of man does not change .... At the threshold of death his error often becomes clear to him and then the soul goes towards a desolate beyond where the battle begins again if the soul does not want to recognize .... or a difficult struggle begins when the soul has recognized ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Realization of God .... recognizing the origin ....

B.D. 0698 from December 5th 1938, taken from Book No. 15

People recognize their origin less and less, and since they are not aware of it, they do not understand their task on earth either. And even if times pass, they inevitably have to come to this realization before they can progress step by step in their higher development. The length of time does not release the human being from the uncomfortable task of first seeking connection with his creator .... He must first recognize the creator and enter into contact with Him, and it can only be advantageous for him if he seeks this connection at the earliest time, for only from this time onwards can his life be lived in accordance with its purpose .... Before that, however, life is just a playful frittering away of precious time, for it does not result in the slightest benefit for the soul. And it will only be a disadvantage if a person lives thoughtlessly and never considers the question of his origin. God has truly given him intellect and the ability to think for nothing if he does not use it in order to achieve spiritual success. Rarely is man granted the favour to be obviously pointed to the state before his embodiment. Anyone who does not search for truth in the way of the heart will hardly be able to be initiated, and therefore his original nature will remain an eternal mystery to him .... he does not make the slightest effort to obtain a satisfactory explanation of it. And so he can either only accept what is offered to him as truth from a spiritually more mature side or he must remain in a dark, unexplained state until he finally recognizes his actual origin after a long, unused time on earth. And the more he himself is moved by this question, the sooner he will do so. For God gives enlightenment to every person who longs for light, and He also imposes the same obligation on every person to make use of his thinking and knowledge, and thus complete ignorance is always a certain spiritual inertia .... he who never asks himself such questions will also not be able to receive an answer, and he who lives into the day without all thinking actually has no right to enliven the earth as he does not fulfil the actual purpose of life. Only God's great grace and mercy will also make such people think through sometimes painful intervention so that the person can at least stand in the light for the rest of his life if he is not completely dismissive and disregards all warnings or advice. Then only a powerful intervention on the part of the eternal deity will help if such a being is not to leave earthly life in complete ignorance and then have to travel an infinitely longer path in the beyond in order to reach the same goal, the realization of its origin from God. This is inevitably the first necessity .... this is the first possibility of ascent, only then can there be talk of further development, and only then is it possible to establish the right relationship with the creator and eternal father, without which the stage of perfection can never be reached ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

State of the soul after death .... spirit of God ....

B.D. 0699 from December 6th 1938, taken from Book No. 15

The state of the soul will reveal itself to you in all clarity one day when the soul has left the body and enters through the gate of eternal life. Then the term 'spirit of God' will reveal itself in the most understandable way. A separation will take place in such a way that the spirit of God harboured in the soul will completely unite with all soul substance, while the bodily shell will release all fetters inhibiting the soul and grant it a completely free exit from the body. That which is earthly will go towards earthly decay, but the immortal soul only changes its whereabouts .... it is no longer bound to time and space by the outer shell, but in infinity wherever its will leads it, subject to no constraint and no inhibition, but completely free and unbound by itself. Provided that it has reached the degree of maturity on earth, which is required by its present stay in regions of light. For if the soul is not yet completely purified of all dross and desires, it cannot find entrance into such regions of light, but must first attain the necessary degree of maturity in the beyond. It is so easy to understand that precisely the connection with the divine spirit is the state of light itself .... God Himself is light, and everything that arises from God must also be light as long as it is perfect .... Likewise, that which is imperfect and has fallen away from God must be darkness until it has found its way back to God, the eternal light, and then likewise shine again in the brightest light .... Thus the union of the soul with the spirit of God in man must also be the entry into the brightest state of light, and every state of darkness must have come to an end when the soul is seized by the divine elemental power, which is the divine spirit in man .... Nothing in the world can come close to comparing with the delights of this union of the soul with the divine spirit .... It is so incomparably blissful and yet, with a little good will, so extremely easy to achieve, and this moment compensates the earthly child a thousandfold for the most difficult and painful earthly life. But all coercion exerted on the soul would never again bring about such a feeling of bliss, and therefore free will must again be active in the human being if he is to be granted the highest happiness, the union with the spirit from God, as soon as he enters the beyond ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's love .... power .... will to create ....

B.D. 0700 from December 7th 1938, taken from Book No. 15

Behold how the sea of divine love pours out over all creatures .... how the source of grace constantly opens up and the fullness of God's love communicates itself to His beings. Visible and invisible forces are always ready to carry out what God's love wants, and so the lord's love works indefinitely .... always and eternally. His will is power, His love is strength, and His wisdom creates out of will and love .... Every thing is therefore God's labour of love carried out in all wisdom, it came into being out of itself by God's love becoming active, and such a labour of love must therefore also be the highest .... The created being must vividly and tangibly or visibly manifest the will and love of God and therefore can never sink back into nothingness, for all creation is strength .... strength, however, does not diminish but increases, as it were, ad infinitum. A created being, as a product of this creative power, whose origin is divine love, must therefore likewise harbour love and power within itself, albeit in the most infinite part .... Every being harbours a spark of this divine love and strength within itself .... It is now the task of the being, especially in possession of free will, to likewise bring this spark to ever greater form, thus to increase its own power of love in union with God's love and thus to unite itself again with the original power, the epitome of love, so that everything that went out from God returns to Him again. If this seems incomprehensible to you, imagine a power plant that constantly generates and releases power. The more power is now required, the more is also generated, but the system receives all the power supply back undiminished in the form that was gained through the utilized power, so only a transformation of the original power has been carried out, but not the slightest part of the power has been lost. And thus not even the smallest part of the universe can ever be lost or destroyed, because it only ever bears witness to the eternal deity's never-ending will to shape the universe in a different form, in accordance with the lord's will. This is understandable to you, but not how the power as such increases in the beings created by God .... The source of light will never run dry, for divine strength can never be used up, although every being owes its existence solely to this source of strength .... Light and power are constantly multiplied through the radiations into the universe. These are neither limited nor dependent on any influence but uninterrupted expressions of God's activity and love, which would only diminish if God's will to create were to diminish. Yet this cannot happen, for it would mean a lack of love, and since God is love itself it must also be incessantly creatively active and time and again generate new living beings to which the father's never-ending love applies. The more the creative urge is activated, the more numerous are the miracles of creation .... and since every work of creation is power from God, this power increases daily and hourly by an infinite amount, for the most diverse works of creation constantly and everywhere in the universe emerge from God's will, and creation as such will not diminish or diminish in form and size for a second, but instead will become ever more extensive and diverse through God's eternally invincible will to create, which springs from God's infinite love And therefore the lord has once again placed love and the will to shape into every created being, which then, if free will is given to it, shall bring the being to highest perfection, so that God's strength, which is eternal love, will only ever increase and as such trigger the highest happiness in heaven and on earth, for love is the epitome of all divinity and thus of the highest bliss ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Unbelievers .... prediction .... extraordinary sign ....

B.D. 0701 from December 8th 1938, taken from Book No. 15

And the unbelievers increase, they no longer seek their saviour out of trouble in prayer, they neglect to give Him love and honour and walk along through earthly life, oblivious of their creator. But this detachment from God leads to the worst .... A pure spirit can certainly remain hidden from the world for ages to come, but if He expresses Himself visibly then this is unavoidably necessary. Embodied in matter, His walk on earth became a sign of His love to people when humanity was languishing too much in the bonds of darkness. Now, however, humanity rebels against the eternal deity in the same way, disregarding His will, and only continues to work to increase the distance between the creator and itself .... Such an endeavour must be prevented so that the collapse .... of spiritual decay is prevented for the salvation of those who are not completely in the darkest night. Yet the love of the father of all creatures is eternal and long-suffering .... His will is not destruction and punishment, but salvation from the deepest distress. The coming judgement will bear witness to how infinitely merciful the eternal deity is and how the path to repentance will still be suggested to everyone in the last hour and how everyone's will can bring about a change in their fate. For God never seeks to abandon the child to destruction but to lead it by all means to self-knowledge, which is tantamount to ascent .... In His boundless mercy He wants to draw to Himself what now remains at a distance from Him .... He has wisely allowed the greatest signs to precede the coming time and will do so to an even greater extent in order to draw everyone's attention to an extraordinary event, and anyone who is aware of these signs will recognize the reign of the deity in them. The greatest danger for you humans is that you believe yourselves to be strong and yet are not able to stop the slightest thing the father sends upon you as a sign of His power. Look within yourselves and recognize your weakness and you will become stronger in spirit to the same extent .... you will recognize the spiritual activity of the present time, you will recognize the representatives of God, the heralds of light, and this will be a comfort to you in the time to come. Your own will will be decisive as to how far you are prepared when the lord visibly appears, and you will recognize Him when the time is right .... He will reveal Himself to the one who will seek Him in spirit, and all matter will give way to His light, only the spirit will see and recognize. And you, who consciously await this time, the lord will give you His grace that He will dwell in your midst and strengthen your hearts through His presence ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Predictions .... signs .... earthly dispositions ....

B.D. 0702 from December 8th 1938, taken from Book No. 15

Everything will be understandable to the world but not My working on this earth for the children of men whom I have chosen for a great task and whom I will help with advice and action so that they will be active according to My will. And yet it will also become obvious to the world and its followers that they are governed by a power which is incomprehensible to them, for they will often be hindered from carrying out their plans and this will make them suspicious if a certain resistance is recognizable which will always make itself felt in opposition to their decrees. The more attentively people observe this intervention of a higher power the clearer the connection will become to them, for wherever connections need to be undermined or, where a spiritual blossoming visibly comes to light, this needs to be prevented .... the human being's will will have to obey Me, and anyone who opposes My will will be completely powerless and realize his earthly weakness. Every offence against My will, no matter how small, will be avenged in a peculiar way .... Whoever wants to be master will be his own servant, and whoever wants to command will have to obey. And I Myself will order it this way in order to strengthen My own in their faith, for they will suffer great hardship due to the instructions of the world. And once again he who fights for Me and My word will be victorious, since I Myself will be with him. And what is about to happen will make many people think, but My power and My will will mitigate the suffering of the righteous and they shall not become a stumbling block for those who see Me as a loving father .... I know My children well and their fate shall truly be an easy one .... I give them the strength to endure what I allow to come upon them because of their sins, and My strength alleviates all suffering and pain. And I bless a thousand times over those who bear their suffering with submission for My sake, for I only send such things in order to consolidate My kingdom and make My power known to the whole world .... Anyone who takes offence at this will not recognize Me and will truly not attain knowledge of the eternal deity in this world, but the others will thank Me for all eternity that I have awakened them from night and sleep. When this will be revealed to the world, nature will likewise revive in a marvellous way .... I will let such obvious phenomena come into view on and above the earth that the thinking person will already recognize My working by it, and whoever pays attention to My signs, and this in reverence and love for Me, I will guide his mind so that he will always do what is right and remain protected from harm both physically and spiritually. For I know My own and My own know Me .... And as soon as an earthly child entrusts himself to Me in full faith, I will take care of his welfare in every way. For the power of the world is small and can offer you humans neither protection nor security .... Anyone who therefore intends to protect himself earthly is hopelessly exposed to My power and My will, for he only desires the safety of his body and does not think of his soul, but I want to save the soul from destruction and therefore have to put the body in fear and distress so that it will come to its senses and find Me as its creator .... And anyone who calls upon Me in adversity shall be assured of My love and mercy .... I will lovingly receive him and draw him to My father's heart, and there will be great joy in heaven over the prodigal son who returns to his father's house ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Earth’s state of peace depends on spiritual attitude ....

B.D. 0703 from December 9th 1938, taken from Book No. 15

The peace which one day shall make the people on earth very happy is still far out of sight. Too many demons are still interfering in world events and find too much cover behind people’s spiritual attitude; consequently, a turning point in earthly life will only become apparent when humanity’s mentality turns more towards spiritual experience .... The promises of the Lord will therefore only apply on earth when the earthly children’s faith in Him comes alive in their hearts. Everything of a spiritual nature does not, in a manner of speaking, walk with the world but next to the world .... Only one or the other can dominate a person entirely, and the world will lose to the same extent as faith wins. When the spirit tilts the balance in its favour then peace will bring joy to the world and all earthly hardship will come to an end. Yet humanity’s yearning is still far removed from this. Worldly desire keeps a firm hold on them, sacrifices will always only be made for this, and almost all interests merely apply to temporal joys. The broad, passable path, which leads to the soul’s downfall and into disaster, is preferred to the narrow path, which is indeed full of thorns but it will lead to the goal with certainty .... to eternal life in all splendour and glory. And as long as people’s intentions and thoughts don’t change, as long as their thinking does not become deeper and more internalised, world events cannot change either, because they shape them themselves through their will. For as long as their love purely concerns their bodily satisfaction, they will draw their strength for their endeavour from the materialistic spirit world, and this can only result in an increase of all secular cravings and never a decrease of the same. On the other hand, the strength for good will grow tremendously if people do not apply their love to themselves but to their fellow human beings and therefore to the all-retaining Creator again .... Any support which now flows to people is beneficial spiritual strength, which will always result in the desire for the spirit and an assured spiritualisation of human thinking. Hence people themselves will reshape world events and are therefore the bearers of the spirit of peace if they undermine their inclination towards the world and seek fulfilment in spiritual experience and perfection. Then a peaceful state will bring joy to the world .... there will neither be discord nor envy among the nations .... No-one will try to curtail the other’s wealth but always share with him, and a life of love among each other will help people to attain highest spiritual maturity. For the world is part of the dark power .... Anyone who desires it also hands himself over to this power, yet he who detests it will be seized by the blessed spiritual world and, continually receiving strength, can entrust himself to it. And so a state of peace will make those earthly children exceedingly happy who have utterly discarded their longing for the world and completely turned towards the spirit. Yet only the one who has recognised this can participate in the co-operation of bringing eternal peace to earth.

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Fulfilment of the Scripture .... Eruptions .... Ocean and mainland ....

B.D. 0704 from December 9th 1938, taken from Book No. 15

Those who see their Father in Me are well protected in My care. And so, My child, hear the Words of the Gospel .... Blessed are those who love Me and hear My Words .... for I Am the way, the truth and the life. And if you are being nourished by My Word, you will have gained all possessions of the eternal life. For this reason it is of utmost importance that you listen to everything I proclaim to you, for there are many who dare to drown out My Word. However, in view of the spiritual situation it is necessary to teach My Word time and time again, because you have no idea how poor you are if I don’t impart spiritual wealth upon you. You would have to go extremely hungry and the soul’s adversity would be indescribable. But refreshed by My Word you are strong enough to resist all hostility. And so I want to inform you that the first signs of My will are beginning to appear and that people are accepting My Word in all places. No event is in the slightest coincidental; instead, it is entirely arranged by My will and My omnipotence .... And the core of Earth is incessantly active within itself and will produce eruptions of huge proportions, so that you will be in utmost danger of losing your life if you don’t keep Me in mind .... The more humbly you humans accept what I unleash upon you, the more mercy I will show you .... I only want your love, and if you offer it to Me, you will be saved for time and eternity. Thus wait a little while longer and pay attention to My Words that the Scripture will fulfil itself to the very last letter, for what the Lord proclaims is truly irrevocable .... Pay attention to the happenings in the oceans and how the mainland fares .... Take notice of the sun and all elements of nature .... Keep the Creator in mind, and become humble when you look at yourselves and how infinitely tiny you are in this work of Creation .... And then consider the Creator’s greater than great love for His living creations and that He, in His love, uses all means which contribute towards regaining your souls. Once you have pondered this in your heart, look up to Him and appeal for His mercy .... and you shall be saved from all danger of body and soul. And this happens through My Word which points out the time of terror to you and at the same time assures you that I will always remember My Own. And so let go of all sorrow and faithfully hand yourselves over to the Father in Heaven, He alone holds your life in His hand, He will let you keep it if you ask Him for it.

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Inheritance of the father .... childhood of God .... being of light ....

B.D. 0705 from December 10th 1938, taken from Book No. 15

You are My children and that must be enough for you to live according to My will and to enter into a right relationship with Me. For if I have chosen you to take up the father's inheritance, to be active in My kingdom like Me, to increase the marvellous works of creation .... if I don't want to withhold anything from you which has been created in the whole universe .... then you must realize from this that My love for you is unlimited and that this love, in turn, is solely the outpouring of the father's heart, thus you must be most intimately united with Me. And that which is of Me takes the path of matter in order to become completely like Me, for godlikeness only lies in overcoming it. Not an atom of love of the world .... of love for things that are dominated by opposing power .... cling to a being that wants to be like Me. As a completely purified being of light it must be able to switch and rule alongside Me and always want the same thing with Me and put it into effect. And this high, extremely blissful task is incumbent upon all of you who are My children .... Today you cannot yet realize what delights this task holds, for your spirit is not yet fully aware of the infinite significance of My words. But when you will have discarded the flesh and look around the universe with spiritual senses you will remember My words with holy trembling, you will realize it and be blissfully happy and lovingly turn towards the divine creator Who has granted you this task. However, childship to God requires spiritual maturity in order to be able to constantly dwell near your father. A spiritual being can only be entitled to all splendour and abundance of light when it has become a being of light itself, that is, when it has reached the state of maturity through constant activity of love .... so that it has, as it were, become love itself and thus is allowed to approach the original light, the heavenly father as love Himself. Then My will will seize you, My true children .... you will always want the same and will be incessantly active in eternity for your own happiness and the happiness of countless living beings who will emerge from you again by virtue of My will .... And you will sing praise and thanks to the father of the universe for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Lack of self-knowledge .... self-love .... stubbornness ....

B.D. 0706 from December 10th 1938, taken from Book No. 15

Pay attention to the words that come to you today: The most bitter state of life is prepared by those people themselves who are in perpetual self-destruction and do not implore God's grace to help them, through which they would be freed from the pressure that burdens them. These people always see their own situation as so deplorable and become more and more entangled in gloomy feelings and their whole being is ultimately just one of boundless bitterness, and that without any real cause. Their self-love is too strongly developed to overcome themselves, and they are much more likely to see the fulfilment of life in the fate of other people, and so a just judgement always remains something alien to these people. They reject all rational reasons and thus have a much more difficult life due to their own stubbornness, because good will would allow them to master life much more easily. Life itself is so instructive and provides so much guidance, if only it is utilized in the right way and people take refuge in working in love in all emotional distress. The balance is then created, as it were, and the heart becomes glad .... And when one's own person is put aside, all heaviness falls away from the person of its own accord and he finds the fulfilment of life in working for others. The purpose of life is only ever the maturing of oneself, a renunciation of the fulfilment of one's own desires and a perpetual willingness to serve. The more a person can subordinate himself, the freer his spiritual state will become, and the more often he practices self-conquest, the stronger his will will become, and this work on himself will bring about an ennoblement of the whole being, only the well-being of his fellow human being will then ever be taken into consideration, and the painful state which torments the human being will be remedied .... And this is brought about by the will to act .... it is much easier to defeat the world than oneself .... Man does not want to admit that he is the author of his condition, he always looks for the cause elsewhere than in himself, and that is his fault .... Where self-knowledge is lacking, help is hard to come by .... because then where should the lever be applied .... Those who only want to criticize others, but never themselves, will hardly recognize the basic evil, they will only ever find themselves pitiable and will not muster the will to put an end to their condition, which is nevertheless depressing. And so there is only one thing that has the right effect on such a mind .... to lovingly draw its attention to its wrong attitude towards life, which man should master himself and not allow himself to be mastered by it, which is the case every time he suffers under the pressure of his mood and cannot find a way out. Where there is the will, there is also the deed, and only this frees man from all evil ....

Amen

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Activity of the creatures .... creative power .... free will ....

B.D. 0707 from December 11th 1938, taken from Book No. 15

See and understand that all creatures subordinate themselves to God's will, and then try to realize how little of his own will already enables the human being to move in God's order, and how versatilely, on the other hand, he can work through this will, i.e., what a wide field of activity is opened up to him on earth .... How again and again man is chosen to shape the outside of the earth according to his will, how always the creative power is given to him by God and how this can unfold in every way with the right use of his free will. In other words, he himself is creatively active, as it were, insofar as it corresponds to human abilities. Although God's approval must accompany man's creative will everywhere, God will respect the freedom of will as far as possible, which is why works also arise that cannot meet with full approval because they violate His commandments or the divine order .... or do not serve to preserve what already exists but rather to destroy it .... or are based on a certain selfishness or material greed for profit. Where man can fully dispose of his will and is therefore much ahead of the creature, he should use it wisely and deal with this gift of freedom in such a way that he first submits every action to the lord .... This will guide his thoughts and will in the right way and he will not run the risk of violating divine order. What is evident in nature and can be observed again and again in all creatures is the uniformity of the activity inherent in every work of creation, and so man observes the same .... he should endeavour to shape himself and his creative urge in such a way that he does not fragment himself in an activity that brings little or no benefit to mankind. The willingness to serve is always a factor that is highly valued, and time and again the human being must be reminded that love should be the principle of all earthly activity .... Every act of free will will then always correspond to God's will .... He then has one thing ahead of the creature, that his higher development is his own merit, because he has used his free will for the progress of the soul. All creatures are prescribed their activity on earth and they comply with it because they cannot live any other way than God's will .... whereas the human being has so many endless possibilities in earthly life which consist of different activities and it is completely up to him to live in accordance with the lord's will, to submit himself to Him or to be active contrary to the divine order. The faculty of judgement is given to everyone to recognize the will of the lord, for otherwise one could not speak of a truly free will. The will is only completely free where the person has knowledge of both the one and the opposite and can now do and not do as he sees fit .... He will also never be in doubt as to what is good or evil and what is therefore pleasing to God or does not correspond to His will .... It will therefore submit to the will of God, who only ever endeavours to work and create in all love and for the blessing of his fellow human beings. God will assist them with His help and increase and strengthen their knowledge, energy and will to love, and such a person will carry out the lord's will in every action and thought .... and his will will always be subject to the lord ....

Amen

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Spiritual knowledge necessary to test and judge the gifts from above ....

B.D. 0708 from December 12th 1938, taken from Book No. 15

Behold, My children, I want to direct your attention towards Me and the spirit within you should only ever become aware of its origin. Therefore, ignore the outside world and only look inwards, a peaceful feeling within you will then provide you with the proof that you are on the right path, and your spiritual alertness will increase to the same extent the less attention you pay to life outside yourselves. The greatest care should be given to the cultivation of your inner life and a blossoming of all spiritual things will be the result. As soon as My spirit descends upon you and you hear My voice, the world's goings-on will no longer affect you as long as you are willing to receive My word. And you will find access to Me wherever you go, for it is your soul which rises into spiritual spheres even though the body dwells in the midst of matter. And the environment does not prevent you from making contact with Me if only your heart longs for Me. Therefore, receive the teaching from above, My child, which your circle of friends on the other side is now transmitting to you:

People will find it increasingly difficult to make correct judgements .... They will be exposed to many errors as long as they do not ask the lord Himself for help, and most fail to do so .... This gives rise to many different opinions and perceptions of what is uniquely important in earthly existence. Anyone who takes the trouble to examine a work that is of strange origin according to human judgement will not be able to find the right explanation and make the right judgement, even with the best will in the world, if he neglects to first ask for the strength to be able to examine such a work with a clear mind. Become like the children .... i.e., do not consider yourselves capable of solving difficult problems without the father's help but leave yourselves full of trust to the father's guidance and you will be amazed at how easy the most difficult problem will appear to you and how easily and effortlessly you will penetrate an area hitherto inexplicable to you. This is why knowledge is withheld from all those who do not believe they need their father .... and all words will be but empty letters to them .... Whereas a true child of God will grasp every word like a revelation, for the lord also reveals Himself to His true children and is distant to those who do not recognize Him. And so the presence of the lord has become nothing more than a fabulous concept everywhere .... People lack true faith in God's activity among humanity, and in the same way they will never want to recognize the intervention of the divine father if they want to examine intellectually what can only be understood in the deepest heart. Whatever grace the eternal deity bestows upon you is unimaginable, yet the greatest measure of grace is ineffective if it is not recognized and thus does not want to be received. Therefore the deity only works visibly where faith is the first prerequisite .... And so an unspeakable amount can be given to a person and yet the fellow human being cannot participate in this gift because his spirit is not receptive to it .... because he lacks faith. And so all spiritual gifts are only given to those people who want to receive and this will is also conditioned by faith. Therefore, only a fully believing mind will be entitled and able to test the gifts from above, and likewise a disparaging judgement by an unbeliever will in itself be worthless, for only those who are called should test .... but only those whose spiritual experience has brought them into contact with the lord are called. But anyone who is still completely apart and is only a true representative of the world cannot possibly know about spiritual spheres and, as an ignorant person, can never judge .... What is required in earthly life .... a certain knowledge of the matter under judgement .... must be considered even more necessary in spiritual life if the judgement is to be wise and just ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Many are called .... power of prayer for receptivity ....

B.D. 0709 from December 12th 1938, taken from Book No. 15

Behold, My child, the path to eternal life is still to be travelled under My guidance .... I have understanding for everything and endeavour in all love to dissuade you from the wrong path and to make you realize the futility of your worldly striving .... And I want to spare you all suffering on earth and in the beyond. If you now follow My word and draw all spiritual strength from it, if you allow the thoughts of eternity to enter you and serve each other with love, your path through life will not be difficult, yet without My word you will never find the right path, for you are already too estranged from the spiritual and your thinking has become materialistic .... I Myself am so distant from you because you have distanced yourselves from Me, and the more lonely you live your life the greater your distance from Me becomes, and I Myself cannot fetch you back because you have to be active of your own accord through free will, which is indispensable for gaining childship to God. And thus I see with sadness how little attention you pay to your soul's salvation .... how you don't give any thought to your wrong life. And again, it is only My great mercy and My infinite love for you that I inform you of My will .... And I call you all, you My children on earth .... You may all hear My word if only you desire it. But how do you want to receive if your will is not strong enough .... How shall I speak to you who do not come to meet Me in full faith and long for My presence .... How do you want to hear My voice in your heart if your heart is not inflamed with love for Me .... and yet I can only express Myself through love and in love. Many are indeed called, but only a few are chosen, and the latter must sacrifice their entire will to Me completely in order to then also endlessly receive more than they have given for Me. The power of prayer is underestimated by all of you .... it is so great that you will succeed in everything you ask for in prayer .... Thus you will also be honoured as a receptacle of My word of My wisdom if you strive for it sincerely and ask for the grace of such an honour from the father in heaven. All your spiritual endeavours will not be unsuccessful, for you will truly not make any wrong requests in this respect. I want to give this to the highest degree to the few people who love Me and desire My word, they shall draw all strength from it, lift themselves up in adversity and walk hopefully through earthly life towards a blissful life in the beyond. And every earthly difficulty will fall away from them if they are in possession of My word and endeavour to live according to this word. Therefore, whoever strives for it will also be honoured by Me with the word if only he pays attention to the inner voice .... For I dwell again among men on earth who are of good will and bring them refreshment and consolation, feasting and strengthening through My word, and if I send you this promise you need never fear the destruction of your body and soul .... Only the body can painlessly separate itself from the soul, but the latter can then enter the realms of bliss forever in the form of light ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

father's words of love .... employees ....

B.D. 0710 from December 13th 1938, taken from Book No. 15

Know, little children, that I love you and that you should never despair or doubt My love for you .... The teachings which you receive daily bear witness to this, and if they awaken counter-love in you, the strength of My love will work in you. This love has no limits .... It will awaken in My true children a hunger and thirst for ever new proofs of love in the word .... There is nothing more blissful than to be able to satisfy this hunger and thirst with the gifts of My love and yet to remain constantly longing for the bread of heaven, to never be satiated and to always be able to enjoy the pleasures of fulfilment. And from this you recognize My love that I Myself constantly dwell amongst you, that I both awaken the desire in you as well as fulfil this desire and that I am always ready for you where you long for Me and let Me be found where you seek Me. The souls of My children seek the light and I kindle it in their hearts, I leave no stone unturned in order to also bring My kingdom to those who are completely ignorant and whose will so stubbornly rejects Me. For those children do not yet know My love, which would so much like to make them happy. They only ever walk blindly through life and also reject a guide who knows the way, but if they get completely lost and cannot find the way in the night of the spirit, then they will gratefully make use of the help I send them anew. For all these blind in spirit take Me .... they do not see the beauty around them and therefore do not recognize the creator of it either. And My love cannot warm them because they remove themselves from the sphere of the sun of grace and do nothing to test its radiance. And so I have countless tasks for you, My servants .... to mention My great love and mercy especially to such erring human children. You must diligently support Me by, as My co-workers, directing the thoughts of such people towards spiritual problems in the most natural way. The spiritually active person accepts such indications and does not let them pass by unnoticed. Although he will always say to himself that he cannot receive complete enlightenment on earth, he is now much easier to direct and also more accessible to such questions and considerations. But I have to send stronger evidence of My working to those who keep themselves completely aloof, yet often in a painful way. Anyone who does not want to recognize My love must feel My power, for he always has the opportunity to transform this tangible power into just such love if only he seriously wants to .... Anyone who grasps Me with his heart will constantly feel My presence .... I will be close to him like a brother and be his friend and counsellor in all his needs .... For I love My children and do not want to see any of them go astray .... And in My love I will bring together those who can help each other, and if they carry out My will and comply with the commandments placed in their hearts, the work for each other will also make itself felt in a beneficial way .... The resistance will become less and less, and the spark of love for Me will ignite and soon flare up into a bright flame .... And thus start working on all souls which are still distant from Me so that they will be guided upwards and recognize their creator, Who is love from eternity to eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Father's words .... dictation .... audible voice ....

B.D. 0711 from December 14th 1938, taken from Book No. 15

You must make use of every hour, My child, for the time on earth is short. An obedient and willing child is in My favour and will also be worthy of My word at all times, but it should be stingy with every hour that can give it the most precious thing an earthly child is given. Behold, you have a work to do which requires a lot of time, therefore not an hour should be missed because it can be used unspeakably beneficially. So today you shall be informed shortly that the most valuable gift is still offered to you in a continuation .... Some time will still pass, and during this time your thoughts will be very much occupied with Me, and when you have reached the degree of love which will let you hear My word in your heart, you will also be able to follow My dictation and directly reproduce everything you have heard. Yet anyone who is to serve Me in this way must completely subordinate himself to Me, his will must merge with Mine and his longing must be for Me alone. Seek to reach this state, My child, so that you can fulfil your task and merge into it yourself in order to be unspeakably happy already on earth. I form My servants on earth and want to possess their hearts completely, and the more intimately they love Me, the greater their longing for Me, the sooner they will be fulfilled and I will be so close to them that they will hear and feel Me. And every word shall resound in the heart, it shall proclaim My love for those who sacrifice their will to Me. When the hour has come which I have intended for you to receive the most beautiful and most precious, then only this task on earth lies ahead of you, to which all your fervour shall then be devoted, and humanity will be offered an indestructible work which shall make My love for humanity visible to it .... My suffering and death on the cross .... In order to become worthy of this task, persevere in prayer and keep your heart pure for Me .... So that you, sharing in the great grace, may serve humanity through your will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Warning against false judgement .... unkindness of the peoples ....

B.D. 0712 from December 15th 1938, taken from Book No. 15

Behold, My children, in your weak spirit you do not yet have the appreciation for what is right and true and therefore only have to rely on My word alone, which will guide you correctly and protect you from all error if only you strive to fulfil My will. To be able to understand everything correctly requires far more, yet I will already show you the path which will lead you to the right realization. Yet if your inner voice warns you, follow it, the surest guarantee for truth is often hidden in your feelings, and if you only desire the truth you will not easily take the path of error. And thus you need not fear, for I will protect you so that you will not fall prey to lies and error. However, always pay attention to My word. Where you hear it you are on the right path .... yet do not fall into the error of wanting to extend your judgement to areas of knowledge which are distant to you and not yet explained. Everything will be offered to you at the right time and in such a form that you can absorb it and are convinced of its truth. However, try to avoid all criticism so that you do not reject something that could be of use to you one day. You must place unlimited trust in the lord of heaven and earth, only then will you also be worthy of receiving unlimitedly, and then the scales will fall from your eyes and you will learn to understand everything that previously seemed incomprehensible to you. But also keep your sense of justice .... that is suggested to you. By condemning, you can inflict great injustice on people, and a mild judgement will always be a blessing for you, whereas hatred and revenge will only result in evil. As the creator of heaven and earth, I can never agree with what is happening in the world .... I cannot approve when people are full of unkindness towards one another .... I cannot approve of the hatred and enmity of nations and even less can I give My approval if people's behaviour has such an effect that hardship, misery and sorrow are the consequences .... and the sooner people come to realize their wrong actions the sooner they can expect My help .... But I will never give My support to wrongful, deterrent actions .... and the less love people have for each other, the less love they can expect from Me, I can only reveal Myself where I find loving hearts, but where feelings of hatred and revenge have the upper hand, I keep Myself at bay. People often prove themselves best when they are in misery together and yet try to alleviate this misery for each other. I take abode there, but where people endeavour to inflict wounds instead of healing them, I cannot dwell there but am far away from people who do not live in love. And so only ever adhere to what you receive as a principle from above: to cultivate love towards every person .... Every person should be equal to you; you should not treat anyone with contempt and do the same kindness to everyone, then your father in heaven will repay you in kind, and His love for you will never cease for eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Light and truth ....

B.D. 0713 from December 16th 1938, taken from Book No. 15

Blessed are you who place yourselves at the lord's disposal. For it is written that all the angels in heaven serve the lord and that the earth bows before Him .... and that light shines on those who recognize His majesty and are subject to Him in heaven and on earth. The world can certainly grant earthly goods, but it can never grant the light of truth to the children of the earth, for this is only possible for God, Who is truth Himself .... And the richest person on earth can be called poor if he does not harbour the truth, the knowledge of the creator and faith in His infinite love .... every earthly child, on the other hand, who possesses these goods, whose heart is full of love for the saviour and in whom there is a longing for ever deeper knowledge, is immeasurably rich. Everything earthly must appear worthless in the face of God's supreme gift .... of truth from God .... And whoever helps and offers his hand, whoever makes the truth accessible to humanity through his will, is a true disciple of the lord, a servant on earth and a spreader of the teaching of God according to the will of the lord. The hour of redemption is near for him, all earthly heaviness will fall from him, and where he believes to serve, he will reign .... For the truth will make its way, it will be recognized and desired, it will touch the human being's mind with unspeakable benevolence where truth is desired and striven for. Where a soul stands in the light of truth, it will abhor falsehood, it will rush through the whole world and always cling to the truth, for it will never let go of what it has taken possession of. If it seeks to take the truth from the soul once it has recognized it, it will give up the fight and fall into darkness. But to prevent this is the lord's concern .... He does not abandon His children and lets the light shine brightly so that the truth breaks through and the soul is given help. And so the lord's servants are busy at work. People do not yet grasp the miracle of divine love .... They still put up a quiet defence against it and yet are seized by the power of love .... Everything that is truth must again express itself in love .... what emanates from God, as love itself, must inevitably also lead to love again; it must develop into full activity what has its origin in love and therefore again entail love .... And thus the pure truth will also always be life-awakening and life-affirming, for he who has recognized correctly will only now see the true purpose in the right fulfilment of life and must therefore affirmatively attune himself to life. Which is to say that the human being with the realization .... with the right awareness of God, cannot look at life from the negative side, but surrenders joyfully and cheerfully to the divine power, always with the faithful trust that he will be guided wisely and rightly and thus also be equipped with divine power against all hostile activity. People are often unable to grasp how this power manifests itself, but faith in it allows them to receive it undiminished. For he who has love is in the truth .... and he who is in faith has the strength to recognize the truth and to live in love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Original power ....

B.D. 0714 from December 17th 1938, taken from Book No. 15

All currents emanate from the original power into the universe. Every radiation, no matter how small, has a vitalizing and awakening effect, and if the expression of power of all things and creations is the original state and therefore nothing can be imagined which was not produced by the original power, then every work of creation must also be God's power in itself, and this to the extent that its nature in the overall creation expresses the omnipotence and wisdom of God .... The more appropriate the intended purpose of this work of creation, the more comprehensibly this power will become apparent to man, and so man, as the creature of God, to whom the noblest purpose is intended, must naturally also be inherent in divine power, for he is a bundle of rays awakened and animated by the elemental power, which divine will and love has created and sent out into the universe, which condensed itself into form and is always and eternally a particle of this elemental power. The diversity of the created beings will always allow the assumption that the abundance of strength is also distributed differently and is also expressed differently. And this assumption is correct, for every being is always able to let its strength work to the extent that it corresponds to the activity intended for the being. Every being is active in itself .... it is a completely isolated creature in the universe which has a certain task to fulfil, and it fulfils this task by means of the power working in it, which in turn is nothing other than the direct emanation of the divine elemental power. Anyone who takes a closer look at the miracles of creation will recognize the spirit of God, the eternally unchanging and eternally never-ending power everywhere. Everything that lives is permeated by this power, and everything that is dead lacks it, which is even more understandable that all life is power in itself and the lack of the same power means death for a thing. And as soon as this power becomes active, all life .... The power is divine and is therefore imperishable and eternally the same .... whether it also animates a being through millennia. It will always have its starting point in God, the eternal elemental power, and will also demand to return there, because the energy generator receives the radiations back into the universe undiminished and the cycle is always and eternally the same .... And so every created being is sent out into the universe with a well thought-out intention .... It should become aware of its power, which is from God and therefore lets the being be recognized as the same product .... as the same power in the tiniest part, as there is the divine power as the original power of all being ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Care of the spiritual friends for the relatives on earth ....

B.D. 0715 from December 18th 1938, taken from Book No. 15

All resistance against the power of the lord is in vain; He places you into the sphere of activity which can provide you with the state of maturity, and all resistance against the will of the lord now also requires the intervention of divine power, for the lord does not leave man to his self-chosen fate as long as the will of man does not obviously oppose the will of the lord. In every adversity of life the lord knocks at the door of the heart and desires entry .... And so earthly hardship is very often the most salutary medicine against the rigid minds of earthly children. Therefore, confidently leave all worries to your divine saviour and patiently await the time of your loved ones' spiritual maturity .... Your spiritual friends are now telling you how the first signs of your blessed work on earth are already making themselves felt. A whole circle of spiritual beings is already active to continue the work you have started on your fellow brothers and sisters, and there are many connections from the beyond to earth which are being utilized in the most diligent work in order to influence the thoughts of the earthly children to the best of their ability. All work in this regard is of such immense value, as it directs people's thoughts upwards and progress is made in the spiritual realm. For without such indications on your part people enter the spiritual bridge to the beyond so little, and there are also still very few people for whom the scriptures as well as spiritual entertainment are real edification; the world still holds humanity too captive and the actual activity, the work on the soul, is a relative concept to them. Whether people's thoughts turn to worldly interests or allow themselves to be captivated by spiritual questions is entirely up to their free will; and countless spiritual beings, who are entrusted with people's care, endeavour to influence this will in the right way. A direct influence on the earth children is only rarely possible, therefore the co-operation of willing servants of the lord on earth is extremely joyfully welcomed. And in the same measure as the earth child helpfully supports the spiritual beings, so also the still erring relatives are cared for from the spiritual side; in all love the task is tried to be solved for them, and earth men are therefore never without protection. All help from earth is accepted and abundantly repaid to those close to the earthly child who are in need of spiritual care. And therefore no soul is helpless and abandoned to the darkness, but the spiritual friends wrest the erring and ignorant souls from the darkness to the best of their ability and bring them close to the light so that they also recognize their origin from God and their task in life caused by it. And the sun will rise where there is still night .... in the light of truth will stand all those who are in your care ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Passing through each form is necessary .... (Microcosm?)

B.D. 0716 from December 19th 1938, taken from Book No. 15

Your friends from the other side lovingly turn towards you to fulfil your desire, and thus receive:

The world as such has only one purpose, namely, to lead the many living beings, who are carriers of spiritual substances, towards higher development, which can only take place in an environment where all manner of conflicts occur, of which the world offers an adequate amount. Be it on earth or on the many other celestial bodies, living beings everywhere have to face unforeseeable difficulties and need all their strength to overcome them. However, such strength is present in every living being, since every living being receives strength to exist in the first place. Further development therefore always depends on how this strength within the living being is utilised. That means, the sooner any activity incumbent upon the living being is carried out, the faster the spiritual intelligence is released from its surrounding form and the next stage of development can begin.

Now it is possible to ask, which form guarantees the fastest development for living beings .... And the answer to this question can only be that it is vital to pass through every form .... and that a limit can only be set where the unification of innumerable small particles of soul result in one whole, when all substances of soul are present to give life to the final embodiment .... the form of the human being. The most subtle movement in the human being, the most gentle emotion is only due to the finely tuned soul, which in turn is composed of even more subtle particles of soul. These are a most important requirement in the construction of the whole as they, in turn, guarantee the completed soul the most delicate emotions and perceptions for the smallest miracles of creation by divine love. If these tiniest of components did not exist the human being would not understand current and future miracles of creation .... he simply would not be able to see something that is not already alive within himself .... he must have everything that exists in creation as the smallest components within himself .... that is, every substance must be a part of his soul, only then can he also observe what is outside of himself.

This instruction in turn raises the question as to what kind of components the small living beings consist of, and this is easy to explain: they all carry substances of yet smaller living beings within themselves but accordingly can only instinctively feel what has already progressed further in evolution, yet at the same time they control what already exists in these living beings as substance. Knowledge of this important information in the doctrine of creation is of greatest advantage for the human being because from this he will learn to understand the complex composition of human nature .... On the basis of this fact he can judge that the human being is indeed the crest of divine creation, so to speak .... that he, i.e. his soul, is so delicately constructed within himself, that it is impossible for such a work of art to have been produced by a wise Creator merely for the duration of earthly life, because everything he sees in nature, be it in the region of mineral, plant or animal life, exists in atoms within himself. The human being incorporates the whole work of creation in miniature within himself.

Therefore, he also has to overcome within himself the opposition that approaches him from outside .... from the world .... which means that countless external dangers motivate the human being into strongest resistance .... while likewise the spiritual atmosphere is stimulated by the continuous resistance and permanent struggle of the different substances of soul and only can become stronger and the soul open to higher truths of light in this way. Just as every living being, even the smallest, has to perform a specific task so has the human being, as the carrier of all these substances. And this task consists first and foremost of spiritualising all substances of soul that are still in harmful opposition to their real task, who would still prefer to perform the earthly task which is their nature due to their past earthly duty in an earlier form. For this reason the human being has to fight against many faults, mistakes and bad habits since the character of the substances bound in the soul repeatedly comes through and would like to seduce the flesh, the earthly cover, into compliance, which should be strongly resisted during earthly life. And only in this way can it be understood that the human being has an extraordinary responsibility during earthly life; that there must be a continuous struggle to triumph at the end of the day truly spiritualised as victor against all dangers and to have resisted all temptation. After all, how often indeed is the spirit willing but the flesh weak ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Miracles of divine love .... father's words ....

B.D. 0717 from December 21st 1938, taken from Book No. 15

Behold, My child, the miracle of divine love is still incomprehensible to you and yet it will always be proof to you of My way of life among you who adhere to Me. See, where two love each other, they will give and do everything to each other, for love is only genuine when it gives in order to make the other happy. And in the same way I want to make My children happy whom I love dearly, and the whole nature of My love shall be revealed to them if their hearts are also turned towards Me. For love can only ever make people happy when both parts are united by the feeling of love. Therefore, love is the very substance which unbreakably connects the beings forever, and if I seize a child with My love it will remain eternally and indissolubly united with Me, and its share is eternal bliss through My blissful love. And I ask nothing of you, My children, but that you willingly give yourselves to Me .... that you allow yourselves to be seized by My love and offer Me all your childlike love. Secure in My love, an exceedingly blissful existence will blossom for you .... Every burden will seem bearable to you, every suffering will lose its bitterness, nothing can frighten you if you are aware of the heavenly father's love .... Whatever events come upon you which cause you worry will pass you by like a breeze without having a depressing effect, for My love keeps everything away from you and is only ever concerned for your well-being. And even the suffering I cannot spare you is only love for you and necessary for your complete happiness in the future .... Therefore, do not be immediately despondent when life is hard on you, for I always stand behind you and hold My hands protectively over your soul, even though your body is exposed to bodily ills. Behold, My child, all gifts come from Me, suffering and joy, and love lets everything come over you, for as you come ever closer to Me through this, happiness will also become ever deeper and more inward, for in the final union with Me lies the highest happiness, which is not yet comprehensible to you. Anyone who wants to prove himself worthy of My gift must give his heart to Me completely and surrender himself to Me with complete trust and devotion so that I can work in his heart through My will, so that it will be a willing instrument in My hands and only ever listen to My word .... in order to one day find supreme fulfilment in My love and be unspeakably happy in eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Willingness to transcribe .... Receiving the living Word .... Authenticity ....

B.D. 0718 from December 22nd 1938, taken from Book No. 15

Infinite wisdoms are given by the Lord to those who are faithful to him. It often takes years before a child that is willing to transcribe offers its services to the Heavenly Father again and this also explains why such scripts remained incomplete for so long and that only the willing devotion of a new scribe made the imparting of new spiritual knowledge possible. The will was good, and thus ensued a work which was pleasing to the Lord, for it expresses His spirit and His love just as clearly, even though the wording has different characteristics. Anyone who understands the right meaning also recognises the Lord and attaches no importance to the style of writing as such, yet it is also advisable to exercise the same care in the assessment of spiritual issues .... It always has to be remembered that many a person indeed believes himself to be called and yet does not possess the necessary qualifications for such an important task .... to only devotedly and truthfully want to fulfil the Lord's will. Anyone who makes every effort to strive only for that will also be welcomed by the Lord as a servant. Receiving the living Word is a responsibility in itself for the servant too. He must constantly check himself as to whether his will is totally subject to divine will .... he must accept the spiritual knowledge without resistance, make no personal judgment whatsoever while he is receiving it, and keep everything away from his heart which might weaken the spiritual power .... he must keep his heart pure and make himself worthy of a personal relationship with the Lord .... only then will he directly receive the Lord's love in the form of His Word, and only then will he be able to be completely convinced of the truth of what he had received and transcribed.

The sentence structure of whatever the Lord gave to humanity was, at all times, so worded that it combined profound meaning with intelligibility .... so that everyone looking for truth and being lovingly active could recognise it .... Anyone who has different motives for wanting to investigate the authenticity of God's Word and His revelations will hardly be able to find clarification as to what extent the scripts are of divine origin. For whoever endeavours to live in His spirit, whoever truly wants to be of service to Him and humanity will never again need to fear the spirit of lies, for his aim and striving solely applies to the Lord, and therefore the Lord will also protect their work and will not allow it to become detrimental to humankind. Hence, anyone who strives to remain subject to the Lord's will has also the best guarantee of remaining in truth, and therefore only the spirit which rests within the Word will be crucial and not the wording by itself .... Anyone who therefore lives in love for the Lord will also recognise the Lord if He reveals Himself through a human mouth or in writing. Only ever pay attention to what your heart reveals to you .... whether the received Word kindles or enlivens your heart or whether it leaves you dull and indifferent and makes no impression on you. Your heart will always tell you what is lie and what is truth .... if you look for and desire truth. And don't worry that the Father will let you fall prey to error, He is, after all, Truth Himself and always wants to give to people and therefore would not allow the God-loving earnest seeker to go astray ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

"The kingdom of heaven needs violence ...."

B.D. 0719 from December 23rd 1938, taken from Book No. 15

Only he who uses force will enter the kingdom of heaven .... And so let it be said to you that two kinds of feelings are still fighting within you for supremacy; the desire for the world silences the inner voice at times, and you distance yourself from the lord through this desire. But on the other hand, your soul does not allow separation in the awareness of its belonging to God and soon seeks to lead you back again. If you then find it difficult to establish the connection with the divine saviour, this should always be a warning sign for you, for then you will have to use force in order to return to the spiritual sphere, whereas otherwise this is your soul's actual abode. And thus the deviation onto the path of worldly pleasures is always a danger for the soul, which suffers unspeakably from the separation from the heavenly father and fears a flattening of your feelings. Therefore, people who cannot renounce the world and its pleasures can never stand in knowledge, for these will always destroy all incipient illumination and the light cannot flare up and spread a bright glow where the splendour of the world overrides this light of the soul .... Man cannot seriously concern himself with that which is the sole portion of the soul if his greater concern is for the well-being and enjoyment of the body. All worldly pleasures should only offer man the opportunity to test and strengthen his resistance, but if the body's desire is given in, the earthly child must be offered an even greater test of resistance. Consider this very well when the world lures you and wants to make you incapable of your spiritual experience. Again and again such temptations must come to you so that you do not become careless and indifferent to the detriment of your soul. Every worldly joy, no matter how small, is a loss in the spiritual realm, for to the same extent as you pay homage to the former you fall under the spell of matter, which again blocks your path to the pure spiritual, for one cannot exist alongside the other, one is always achieved at the expense of the other, and therefore always choose the right .... choose the joys of the soul, the spiritual connection with the lord, and leave the stale earthly enjoyment, which cannot bring your soul the slightest advantage. For both the one and the other will become stronger in themselves through the fulfilment of desire .... He who strives for worldly pleasures will desire them to an ever greater extent, and he who strives spiritually will likewise have an ever greater desire for them through satiation. Therefore make no concessions, but fight against the desire in you, which can never be of use to you but can be extremely harmful to the soul. The joy of the soul is considerably greater than the joys of the world can ever be for man. And overcoming oneself results in the most beautiful success .... radiant light in which the soul bathes itself and which spreads a bright glow on the dark path of earthly life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Serious admonition .... (Discord and unkindness ....)

B.D. 0720 from December 24th 1938, taken from Book No. 15

Where discord dwells inside a heart I Am unable to enter, for the master of the house is not prepared for My arrival. And thus I advise you to purify your heart first and banish all feelings of unkindness from it, for this contains the seed of evil. You must make a serious effort to comply with My admonitions if you want to be granted the grace to receive Me and My Word. You will receive so many countless hints which you should heed and live up to and your heart will ever more easily surmount that which, at the moment, still seems insurmountable to you. The feeling of longing for Me is always a sign of My loving activity in you .... If it is to be satisfied too then you must banish everything from your heart which has nothing to do with love .... You must only nourish the sacred and pure feeling of love within you and abhor every impure feeling, for it will merely increase your distance from Me ....

Everyone lives his own life and is absorbed in his own point of view, and thus everyone's nature has to be considered and taken into account, consequently everyone has to endure his fellow man with tireless patience and try to adapt to his nature; and if he cannot succeed in doing so he must appeal to Me for My grace and help and he will receive the strength to rise above himself, he will emerge victoriously from all minor tribulations of life providing the love within him always keeps the upper hand. For I especially put you into this sphere of activity so that you would mature and control the weaknesses and faults residing in you. How much must you practice becoming patient if you want to become worthy of My patience .... And how much love you must give to your fellow men if you always want My love to be present with you .... And therefore you should always be lovingly united amongst yourselves, one should take loving care of the other, and don't erect barriers between each other, for all these little temptations are merely the means to an end .... How can you become perfect if you don't learn to overcome yourselves .... Remain in love if you want to remain in Me; know yourselves, then you will also know Me and make yourselves worthy of My blessing ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Only love recognises the Deity .... Seekers of God ....

B.D. 0721 from December 25th 1938, taken from Book No. 15

Only in love will you be able to recognise the Deity, and a tremendous urge for truth will arise in you if you are lovingly active. God will reveal Himself as Love Itself to people. Consequently, anyone who lives in the light of truth must be embraced by love and fit in with everything that is wanted by God's love. Hence someone who fulfils the Lord's will and strives for ever increasing perfection will, in a manner of speaking, base his every action on God's love and thereby, having emerged from God, unite himself again with the elementary Power of everything in existence, with divine love .... All subsequent activity must therefore reinforce his inner strength of love. Henceforth the human being will inevitably draw all spiritual strength to himself which, in turn, will increase his will to love and stimulate him to put it into action. For all strength of heaven and earth originating from the love for God as the Love Itself will unite.

Therefore, all God-seeking beings on earth will first internalise themselves such that they, through their acceptance of God's Word, which is the outpouring of divine love, become capable of knowing God. And from this realisation, love will emerge and continue to grow, and since God is Love Itself, the search of an earthly being will truly not remain unsuccessful, since the longing for God alone is already love, the human being is just not conscious of it, because the Lord in His love takes hold of every being looking for Him. If you want to understand this you should look around in nature where a perpetual coming into being testifies to the tireless creative will .... to God's constantly vibrant activity of love .... Everything that comes into being shall live in order to reach God .... and even if its path is an infinitely long and arduous one, the being will nevertheless have the final opportunity of living in the flesh as a human being, and this shall result in his perfection providing his free will does not oppose divine will. Thus, God's love will understandably take hold of the human being where just the slightest will to advance becomes apparent, and the yearning of anyone wishing to recognise God in his heart will truly not remain in vain. And all spiritual forces will come together in order to intensify the hitherto isolated strength through the influx of spiritual strength from the beyond, and thus a truly God-seeking person will never be prompted by the feeling of his own weakness to abandon his plan, but his obvious constantly renewed willpower will let him pursue the path of realisation and finally lead him to the goal ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Grasping and discarding thoughts according to God's will .... Fear of death ....

B.D. 0722 from December 25th 1938, taken from Book No. 15

All thoughts flowing to you are grasped by your will. The true, God-devoted will always eliminates that which is not intended to be written down. Therefore, you will only receive such proclamations which utterly comply with God's will, yet partly only intended for you and partly given as a pure doctrine to humanity. The more diligently and devotedly you carry out your work, which is intended to be a blessing for the human race, the more worthy will you become of the grace to receive God's Word. For every happening has a wise meaning with God .... He is incessantly at work to open those earthly children's eyes who are still blind, for the Lord's love for His living creations is infinite. Anyone who entrusts himself to this love is constantly protected by Him and carefully looked after. Life offers the earthly children most diverse changes, but they only contribute towards not forgetting their Creator. They would like to spend their days on earth without worry and not needing to fear an end for their body .... And thus they only ever strive for material goods and gladly push any thoughts of death far into the background. Even so, the former is detrimental for the soul; death, however, becomes a thought of fear or unease as they grow older ....

And this is not in line with divine order. Anyone who bears his soul in mind on earth will not be frightened by death, for he will only look at it as a liberation of his soul and an entry into everlasting peace. The Creator is simply and solely concerned with making the earthly child understand that the earthly activity is only the smallest part of preserving the divine creation and that the work of improving the soul is a person's most important task on earth. Everything which helps to maintain the body and a good living standard will sooner or later fall prey to transience, yet what a person does for the salvation of his soul is everlasting, just as the soul itself is everlasting. The soul can never cease to exist; however, it is of paramount significance in which condition, that is, in which state of light, it will enter the beyond, because the respective state of light is the decisive factor as to whether the soul will suffer or enjoy heavenly bliss. It is incredibly painful for the soul to desire the light and having to do without it due to its own fault. And then again, it will make the soul extremely happy if it is allowed to enter the regions of light and thereby take part in the heavenly Father's nearness ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Loving Fatherly Words ....

B.D. 0723 from December 26th 1938, taken from Book No. 15

The fullness of My grace will be granted to you so that you can fulfil your task on earth, providing you are fully committed to coming close to Me and to keeping My commandments. You do not realise that I only await your return into the Father’s house in order to accept you with much love and that I want to help you where your strength is failing .... You have in Me the most faithful friend, the most loving Father and most watchful Protector for your life on earth. And you can hand yourselves over to My protection without qualms if only you feel that you are your Father’s children and grant Me your heart for time and eternity. During the time of My return to earth you will all receive an abundance of blessings, for I Am so close to all those who desire Me, that they feel My presence .... Oh, you should all make yourselves worthy of My presence .... do not let Me court your heart and love in vain, but open your hearts instead in order to receive Me .... Allow Me to enter when I want to take abode in your hearts. And from that moment on your way of life will be blessed, for where I dwell grief and worries are banished, because I protect My Own who have recognised Me. Every right thought, every will inclined towards Me results in an abundance of My grace. I want to strengthen your faith and increase your willingness to love and open your spiritual senses for everything that comes from above .... Because I love you, My children, I want to save your soul for eternity .... One day I would like to make all beatitudes accessible to you and therefore want to guide you into true realisation.

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Spiritual error .... guiding into the truth .... rotten fence .... living lessons ....

B.D. 0724 from December 26th 1938, taken from Book No. 15

Search your hearts and ask yourselves who is likely to bring you salvation from spiritual adversity if the lord Himself takes pity on you and you reject His love. Then consider that every error in a spiritual respect should find clarification .... consider that precisely this error keeps the human being in spiritual night, but that you can never be guided into truth if your will does not strive for it. Consciously shying away from the light must inevitably be an obstacle in order to reach the brightness of the spirit. This will have the effect that the majority of people will never be able to penetrate the depth of divine truths as long as they dwell on earth and do not seriously desire the truth. Yet God's love will reveal itself to a small part of humanity, and these are to be called unspeakably happy, for they are in closest contact with the lord and creator of heaven and earth. They recognize their mission on earth, seek to do justice to it and act in the will of the lord. Thus they are immeasurably rich in spiritual knowledge and find complete happiness in solving the task the lord has set them for earthly life. Now, however, the divine creator will have to make Himself known in other ways in order to intervene where all faith in an obvious manifestation of powers in the beyond is lacking. The lord's ways are often marvellous and finally lead to the goal. But if the lord now brings His admonitions to your ears again, then this will often happen in a painful way, for you have rejected the path of love and gentleness and have always clung to a rotten fence which sooner or later has to collapse because it simply can no longer offer any support since it is unsuitable in itself and its existence has to be brought to an end. The living teaching that is given to people on earth also guarantees the recipient an extraordinary point of support and therefore corresponding resistance against hostility of all kinds. Whatever resists it will eventually be seized and help to strengthen the bulwark around the pure teaching of Christ, for the lord knows all those who believe to be strictly attached to His word and yet only know this word superficially and still prefer to reject the pure truth rather than admit to themselves that no earthly intelligence can accomplish something which only wants to help the spiritual to unfold .... And anyone who first lets earthly concerns prevail and does not wholeheartedly desire and strive for the truth will not come into question as an authoritative and sincere examiner of such a revelation .... He will not be able to detach himself from earth, and in order to penetrate spiritual spheres absolute truth and absolute will to reach God is the first necessity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Permission from above to increase the will to resist ....

B.D. 0725 from December 27th 1938, taken from Book No. 15

The events of daily life change with the lord's full approval, and all events are, as it were, an authorization from above, as they always have only one purpose: to strengthen the will to resist and to make the state of the soul ever brighter and clearer. Where man often wants to become timid, he applies greater energy because he does not like his own state of weakness and wants to remedy it as quickly as possible. This increased generation of willpower to overcome such resistance allows the soul to become increasingly more mature, for all struggle which is directed towards spiritual resistance is in accordance with the creator's will and must therefore also lead to perfection. And thus every event which gives rise to lively spiritual activity is also permitted by God, since it is necessary for the human being's education and thus can only have a beneficial effect or also bring the human being a serious relapse, but only if the earthly child's will to live in divine order diminishes .... i.e. if all striving upwards is suddenly perceived as unprofitable and therefore abandoned. However, this is only to be feared in the case of people who have never been serious about recognizing eternal truth or who cannot completely separate themselves from the earthly .... who are quick to strive for one thing and then another and do not gain the strength to persevere through prayer .... They will also always lack the strength to keep God's commandments. It is precisely what they lack, be it willpower, knowledge or love, that they should seek to increase through fervent prayer .... they should not carelessly let the lord's gifts of grace pass them by .... they should seek to make themselves worthy of these graces and, as long as they do so, wrestle in fervent prayer to God for union with Him, Who will then make the earthly child's path through life easily passable; for the lord grants everything to a child who asks for his soul's salvation. Again and again it must be pointed out how valuable it is when the human being no longer begins anything without having sought union with the heavenly father .... for then the father, as it were, walks with His child .... And where apparent resistance worries the child, there only new paths are levelled, not yet quite comprehensible and clear to the human being, but planfully inserted by the wise creator in such a way that a striving human being can always derive spiritual benefit from it, for in the everyday smooth running of earthly life a fighter can hardly develop who can one day stand up for the name of God with full conviction. Everything that a person is to represent before his fellow world, he must first have felt in himself .... he must have spiritually penetrated every problem before he is able to solve it for others. And if the lord wants to let a fighting army emerge from you, He also has to train you to fight for the truth, and this can only happen by practicing to fight for the name of the lord against all hostility from the earthly side .... who are misguided because they do not understand the great, infinite love of God and therefore look at everything with the eyes of the world, selfishly and lovelessly pursue earthly interests and thereby forget the most important thing, that a fervent struggle for the soul should begin during the time of earthly life. And to only work for God and the truth with true zeal will also always liberate the human being from oppressive, seemingly insurmountable situations in life and always give him new strength to pursue the path which must inevitably lead to the goal ....

Amen

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Fate not an obstacle to cognition .... free will ....

B.D. 0726 from December 29th 1938, taken from Book No. 15

Behold, My child, the innumerable, widely ramified and yet always interlocking events, which you call coincidences, are most closely connected with My creation. Only a controller of all things and all events can ensure that creation and all activity in the universe takes its orderly course, and in this context you will realize that you cannot escape your destiny determined by Me for this life, and that is what makes you believe that you only ever have to carry out what has been destined for you since eternity. On the one hand you certainly have to do so, yet you are never forced to adopt a certain faith .... or a certain spiritual attitude through worldly events. This will be entirely up to you, and every worldly event, whether you find it pleasant or unpleasant, will truly give you more than enough opportunities to attain the right realization. Not one of the earthly children will be able to say that the life imposed on him has prevented him from true realization, for I always arrange all worldly events, even though people make them themselves through their will, in such a way that they give the earthly child the greatest possible opportunity to further his inner life. Thus it can happen that in the midst of the greatest and most painful events the earthly child's true relationship with the father is established far sooner than in a carefree existence .... but even in this a child can find the father if the events of the environment are respected and the heart is not hardened and its ego is placed too far in the foreground. I truly give all My living creations what is best for them, for My constant concern is only for the final return of My living creations, and therefore My love and wisdom is also intent on allowing the human being to take the path which offers him the greatest opportunity to come close to Me. And therefore people experience this My care daily and hourly with every step they take on the earthly path marked out by Me. How they utilize the opportunities is completely up to them. Free will is then active there. If I were to deprive people of their purely earthly free will, they would deprive themselves of every possibility of maturing their soul, for they could then organize their life on earth as it suits everyone, unhindered by higher power .... Their endeavours would increasingly only apply to the world, matter would be increased and everything spiritual diminished. And in the end My work of creation would be completely destroyed where My wisdom is eliminated and instead the free will of the human being, whose wisdom is inadequate, wants to dominate the whole. And thus you only have to recognize My love for you humans again, that I only direct your earthly life according to My will in order to be able to give you the highest one day .... that you, however, are allowed to make unlimited use of your spiritual freedom of will, both upwards as well as downwards. Occasionally you also have your earthly fate in your own hands and can shape it as you like, yet even then the circumstances and events will always approach you such that you have the same opportunity to shape your inner destiny .... whether you have chosen it yourselves this way or that .... that you can therefore seemingly create different living conditions through your own will but nevertheless have to take the same path through suffering and worry if it is intended by Me for the purpose of spiritual progress. If you always base everything that approaches you on this realization then you will soon abandon yourselves to Me in complete trust and establish the right relationship of the child to the father, which is the first condition in order to fulfil the earthly task correctly in a spiritual sense. And therefore all spiritual experience will never be dependent on the earthly situation in life but each one will offer sufficient opportunity for the earthly child to submit itself to My will and thus derive the greatest benefit for its soul. And thus the objection that the earthly activity or task does not allow for an immersion into spiritual knowledge is invalid, for I guarantee the former to everyone but the latter is solely left to the human being's free will ....

Amen

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Faith and trust in God necessary for resistance .... storm ....

B.D. 0727 from December 30th 1938, taken from Book No. 15

All the world will be informed of how powerful the lord's will is, and more and more evidence of His working among humanity will arise and bear witness to God's eternally invincible love. The more obvious signs the lord gives to people, the greater opposition they will provoke, for humanity's mind is completely removed from spiritual experience. There are only a few who stand in the light and these few will have a difficult time against the majority of unbelievers. And only the strongest faith and deepest trust in God will give them the strength to resist. Yet God's help is not far away in adversity and you are only outwardly alone, yet your soul is not alone and thus you are not defencelessly exposed to the efforts and hostilities of your unbelieving fellow human beings. Everything that seems unsettling to you, that is, so to speak, directed against you, is like a storm that may blow around you but cannot overthrow you if you offer resistance yourselves. And the lord will never allow the force of the storm to be greater than your resistance if only you remain faithful to Him and recognize God's omnipotence in everything that surrounds you and therefore trust Him with complete faith. The danger for you only lies in the fact that you forsake the lord for the sake of external advantage .... But whoever does not desire such things, the power of God remains in him and makes him strong against everything that is hostile to God. And new messengers will always arise for the glory of God .... A miracle of divine love fades visibly where the inclination towards the world is so unmistakable, and only he who turns his back on the world will recognize this miracle, and it will make him unspeakably happy ....

Amen

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Love the antithesis of evil power .... partition .... word of God is life ....

B.D. 0728 from December 30th 1938, taken from Book No. 15

As the number of those to whom my word is accessible increases, the adversary loses power, because everything that lives in my word also stands in love .... And love is the antithesis of the activity of darkness. Anyone who therefore lives in love is inaccessible to the evil forces .... He erects an insurmountable partition between himself and the evil power and is protected against all attacks from this side, because the power of love is considerably stronger and cannot be overcome by the power of hatred. The stronger the will to love is, the more alive faith will be, and in the acceptance of God's word every deed is blessed, for only the energetic adherence to My teaching is the surest weapon against everything that comes from below. My word is and has been from eternity .... To stand in My word is to live .... but the power of evil is ruin and death. Therefore, whoever hears My word and acts accordingly must live for eternity. And anyone who seeks the same power in works of neighbourly love will likewise recognize God, for he is already absorbed in Me through deeds of love. He fulfils the conditions of life who makes love his first principle .... For he has truly chosen the best part, that he stands in the power of divine love and at the same time is immune to the all-destructive opposing power. Man loses all fear of death when love is active in him, for his spirit awakens to life and he has found the bridge to the beyond. How should death still be able to frighten him then, since he already dwells in the spheres of light before .... how should he fear death, since he has eternal life within himself .... since he escaped the power which wanted his destruction and was thus given back to life. Everything that is love is eternal .... but that which does not bear divine love within itself is perishable ....

Amen

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New year's eve .... anaesthetics ....

B.D. 0729 from December 31th 1938, taken from Book No. 15

You must accept every trial and show yourself equal to it. And when the lord admonishes you to be patient, humbly surrender to His will, for He alone knows what is right for you. At this time, everything on earth is endeavouring to numb itself. Only very few are quietly contemplating themselves and remembering their creator. And the lord sees with infinite melancholy the goings-on of His creatures who do not want to miss anything on earth that gives them pleasure and who give away without hesitation the benefits that only benefit the soul. They do not consider that they can stand at the turning point of life .... that they can still be in the midst of earthly life today and already stand at the gate to eternity tomorrow and that they will then leave earthly life barely prepared for eternity. All enjoyment of life must have an unfavourable effect on the soul, and damage is done to the soul to the same extent where the body indulges in the pleasures of life. In a time of uninhibited enjoyment of life the adversary is granted every power, he can take possession of people's senses and thus have a destructive effect on the soul, and all demons gain influence over it, for the human being is far more inclined to enjoy earthly life to the full than to occupy himself with spiritual things, and the army of spiritual beings in the beyond truly has no easy task if it also wants to exert its influence on the children of earth. True realization holds man back from such unworthy activity, but to find or keep the union with the spiritual world is unspeakably difficult for earthly man. Therefore both, the good as well as the bad spiritual beings, develop an indescribable activity in order to draw people into their spell, for the evil power certainly has considerable advantage .... it retains the upper hand because man's will is too much concerned with matter and only sees his happiness in intoxication and the fulfilment of his desires. All the splendour of the world prevents the inner vivid contemplation of the eternal deity; man is so far removed from all that is purely spiritual .... he stands in darkness, for earthly splendour gives the soul no light .... it hungers and starves, even though the body revels in abundance, and there is little chance that in the midst of the hustle and bustle of the world the earthly child will let its thoughts wander upwards and willingly separate itself from the earthly splendour, which is after all only appearance and can offer no advantage to the soul. Who can resist such temptations in time, who pays attention to bring the light of the soul and willingly lets the body do without, will visibly stand in blessing, because the spiritual beings are extremely willing to serve such endeavourers, they strengthen every still weak power, help the struggling soul, and from seemingly uselessly spent hours such great advantages arise for the soul that man only wins where the body denies itself joy and pleasure in worldly relationship. For the happiness of the soul stands above all earthly joy of the body .... But this is incomparably more valuable than the hours of unclouded enjoyment of life, for the latter is transient, but the former endures for all eternity ....

Amen

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Divine laws .... sin ....

B.D. 0730 from January 1st 1939, taken from Book No. 15

An eternal law determines the guidelines for all thought and action, namely the use of all strength is required for the strictest observance of the divine commandments, which in turn are only the clear requirements that correspond to the divine order and therefore always adapt to the natural laws given by God. A law issued, so to speak, by the highest lawgiver is therefore also the guideline for all thought and action, which .... must conform to the divine requirements if it is to correspond to God's will. Every deviation or contravention must therefore be recognized and perceived as injustice or sin; likewise, fitting in with the divine order must have such an effect that inner contentment and unmistakable spiritual progress are the result of a walk on earth that is pleasing to God and observes His laws. Where no attention is paid to the laws given by God, an unstable state very soon results, which understandably expresses itself in the opposite way .... in spiritual blindness, an undeveloped inner life and a serious lack of hope with regard to a blissful life in the beyond following life on earth. However, if the earthly child is always mindful to always carry out its thoughts and actions in accordance with God's intended order, its spiritual state will become increasingly lighter and clearer and it will now also be able to distinguish the extent to which all creation is subject to divine laws .... i.e. which task is intended for each work of creation and why acting contrary to God's commandments has such serious consequences. For it must soon realize that no being can violate God's orders without suffering serious spiritual harm. The human being certainly has the freedom of will to oppose these instructions but then at his own responsibility and risk, and in the foreseeable future no being will be able to disregard the laws without harming its soul, for in the short time on earth it only ever has to endeavour to comply with all requirements of the eternal deity if the soul is to be able to register a notable advantage for itself. Only a complete acknowledgement of the divine laws and a consciously joyful observance of God's commandments can bring about the soul's maturity, as it is willed by God Himself .... that the earthly child comes close to Him and becomes worthy of His love and grace ....

Amen

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Soul after death ....

B.D. 0731 from January 2nd 1939, taken from Book No. 15

The soul, relieved of all hardship, seeks the path to the light, and it is helped by the spiritual beings who endeavour with all love to show it the way. And thus the soul recognizes its state in all clarity and is able to detach itself from matter if only it feels within itself the desire for eternal liberation from its fetters, which have been its fate since time immemorial. Once the spirit of God in the human being has united with the eternal spirit of love, the soul's freedom is achieved .... It finds deepest peace and deepest happiness, for its longing during its earthly days was the union with Christ, and it will now be fulfilled. And so abandon all grief while you are still on earth, for your body is still a burden to you, your soul is still imprisoned in its shell .... Throw off what still hinders you .... also try to awaken in yourselves the longing for liberation .... live in view of the fact that one day you, too, will have to stand before the gate to eternity and appreciate the soul's spiritual freedom .... be without fear when your end draws near, and the spirit within you will guide you so that you will look forward to that hour with joy, for then you will stand at the entrance to eternal life and the heavenly father will come to meet you with open arms if you have already found Him on earth in remembrance of His love. And then you will desire death yourselves, for its sting will not hurt you .... You have overcome, you have found your way through the night to the eternal light, you have renounced the world and turned your gaze only heavenwards. And those who love you will gather together and take you home to the father's house. And those who die in Christ will be blessed and sing praises and thanks to the creator for all eternity ....

Amen

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Trust in God .... earthly worries .... "Lord, Thy will be done ...."

B.D. 0732 from January 2nd 1939, taken from Book No. 15

And if you are conscious of the fact that the father protects you, you will be free from all earthly heaviness, the desire for spiritual food will increase in you and the resistance from outside will decrease. And so all men should be anxious to put their earthly worries into the background, and consciously abandon themselves to the lord, who arranges every event according to His will and in divine wisdom, and you therefore only demand spiritual protection, but the bodily protection is likewise granted to you, if only you trust. For only now do you recognize the guidance from above .... You can cope with everything if you willingly hand yourselves over to the lord .... He who sends you everything can take it away from you in the same way, be it suffering or joy, illness and worry or happiness. As you receive it, so it will be of use to you .... if you are devoted, you are also certain of blessing, but unwillingness or rebellion cannot bring about the result that is necessary for you and your salvation, and you must now endure all the more until you have recognized the meaning of the mission from above and willingly submit to it. Therefore, bear in mind in all suffering that you still have to endure such things for your own sake as long as you have not yet reached a state of maturity. Every admonition of this kind is based on a necessity which you probably do not want to recognize but which forces the heavenly father to intervene because it is for your own good. And the more patiently and devotedly you submit yourselves to the lord's will, the sooner all harm will be taken away from you, for the One Who sends you such things will take them away from you again when the time has come. The living part is the love of the lord, but he who is dead in spirit does not recognize the love of God .... but the love of God always expresses itself where life is in danger .... He who wants to live shall not perish, and he who is in danger of giving himself over to sleep must be prevented .... And every spirit will live who always recognizes God's guidance in every situation, in the adversities and annoyances of daily life .... who only ever prays: "Lord, your will be done in heaven and on earth!"

Amen

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The word of God .... love .... truth .... wisdom ....

B.D. 0733 from January 3rd 1939, taken from Book No. 15

And those who refuse to accept the word of God will be foolish .... they will have no comfort in adversity and suffering and will also have to do without all support in difficult times, for if the lord Himself is prepared to give you everything with His word and you do not respect His gift, you will have to live in want and will be lonely and abandoned in life. The pure word of God is the creator's gift from the beginning .... it came to people from above at all times .... it was the connection from the eternal deity to the beings on earth. This word was heard by whoever wanted to hear it and was in love with God .... For it happens what man wants .... The father makes Himself known through His word to the one who longs for God. The word is the bearer of divine love and divine power, and this word is heard by anyone who makes himself worthy of God's love and power .... The love of God reveals itself to the earthly child through the word, and until the end of the world God will reveal Himself in the word to those who are His children. Whoever has this word is already blessed on earth, and whoever lives according to the word of God has the kingdom of heaven .... eternal bliss. But woe to those who oppose the word of God, they not only lack everything that is necessary for salvation, but will also fall victim to judgement if they do not recognize their wrongdoing at the right time. What the lord gives to His own should make their earthly path easier and show them ways and means to find their way back to the heavenly father. But how can such help be offered to you who reject the word of God and His grace visibly shown to you? The father's love repeatedly endeavours to inform the earthly child of its earthly task, of the child's right relationship with the father and of all means of grace, the application of which will lead to the goal in a short time, and time and again the father imparts the word to His children so that they should not be abandoned and go through life without any help. And thus everyone will be blessed by God's word who does not close his ear to the gift that comes from above but, hungering and thirsting, receives the refreshment that the lord has blessed with His strength. How empty is the life of a person who does not draw everything from the word of God .... knowledge, faith and from this love of God and neighbour. When the lord God makes a visible appearance, when He imparts His word to humanity and preaches His love to people of good will, then he who takes His word to heart and is permeated by the spirit of love that speaks from the word of God will also stand in the love and grace of God. The lord gave the same .... the truth .... at all times, to all generations and to everyone always and forever. For the word of God can only be pure truth because it emanates from God, as the truth Himself. The word of God must also be pure love, where the starting point of the word is likewise love itself .... And all wisdom must be made accessible to the earthly child through it, since the eternal wisdom Itself teaches the earthly child. And so whoever accepts the word of God will stand in truth, love and wisdom .... And it will endure for all eternity because the love, truth and wisdom of God cannot pass away .... But whoever rejects the word of God, all truth, love and wisdom is also closed to him indefinitely ....

Amen

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Participation of otherworldly beings in lectures ....

B.D. 0734 from January 4th 1939, taken from Book No. 15

The friends on the other side tell you about the extremely blessed and God-ordained gathering of today. There were so many friends gathered around you who are united with you in love. Every word echoed in the circle of friends on the other side, and a bright circle of light surrounded all those who were close to you. The words of the lord were received by them with equal fervour, and they will be passed on in love and imparted to those in need of instruction. The lord's love is unlimited, it always brings new souls to you, and your work on earth is far more extensive for the beyond than you realize. Anyone who was united with you in love on earth receives the invitation through your remembrance to participate in your spiritual work, and thus you are constantly surrounded by searching, partly knowing, partly completely ignorant beings who accompany you at every turn in order to be able to receive spiritual truths from the same source, for their desire for them is unspeakable. If you now live in a close circle and devote yourselves to spiritual work, their joy is indescribable, as every spiritual conversation is a source for them from which they can also draw and satisfy their hunger and thirst. A circle was gathered around you which needs no further explanation than that everyone is close to you in love. Whom you wished to have around you in your thoughts, these thoughts also summoned, but countless others surrounded you besides these, for where God-seeking and God-loving earth children come together and raise their souls into spiritual regions, there will also always be an army of beings from the beyond who would also like to serve the divine lord and saviour by teaching or being taught. A perpetual change has taken place, your friends also wanted to express themselves audibly to you, but you were surrounded by a protective wall of light figures, which did not allow an announcement of still unfinished spiritual beings, because such is not of great advantage for the still struggling souls. People on earth certainly desire communications from loved ones close to them, yet these cannot instruct you so thoroughly since they are not yet fully enlightened themselves, and thus they are only rarely granted permission to make themselves known in order not to divert their endeavours from the pure spiritual, which would certainly be very easily possible if high spiritual maturity is not a prerequisite for the proclamations. The lord directs all your steps for the purpose of further perfection, He also gives those souls in the beyond the opportunity to develop higher again, and thus He will give or deny .... according to necessity, but always for the benefit of the souls on earth and in the beyond, to whom His equal love and care applies. The souls now live in constant expectation of such lessons, which bring them spiritual liberation, and therefore all friends in the beyond want to ensure, if possible, that the lessons are repeated and that the spiritual work progresses well, for such opportunities are also of great benefit to the souls in the beyond if people's love for each other is the driving force and all their endeavours are only for the advancement of their and their fellow human beings' souls ....

Amen

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Value of the work of redemption .... the suffering of Jesus earthly ....

B.D. 0735 from January 5th 1939, taken from Book No. 15

Realize how helplessly an earthly child would be exposed to the power of evil if the divine saviour had not broken the power of death in His love .... And how hopeless all endeavour on earth would be without the lord's work of redemption. Out of the night of darkness the soul finds the light in faith in the divine saviour; it chooses of its own accord the path that leads to the bright shaping of its being .... And divine love must inevitably permeate the soul when it remembers the saviour and all the suffering and pain through which the saviour passed for sinful humanity. God's love is infinite, and in the realization of this love alone is the sacrifice understandable that the lord made for people on earth and all beings in the universe .... What the lord has done for mankind has become a blessing for each individual, and the whole universe stands in the light of truth through the work of God's love for mankind. The earth was destined to be the bearer of the eternal deity in earthly embodiment. And therefore an earthly child, who is in full faith, can redeem itself as long as it still dwells on earth, if only it is able to love the divine saviour with all sincerity of heart .... for love alone overcomes death .... Love alone liberates the soul from the shackles of matter, and in love for the divine saviour the earthly child willingly submits to the heavenly father and gratefully accepts the graces of the work of redemption from His hand. However, as a person still living on earth, he is not able to recognize the full depth and significance of the greatest act of grace since the beginning of the world .... He certainly knows that the father's love for His children has sacrificed Himself for them, and he therefore also knows that without the divine work of redemption the human being would have been irredeemably doomed to eternal death, and yet this knowledge cannot even begin to shed light on the significance of Christ's incarnation for the whole of God's work of creation, and it is even more difficult to penetrate Jesus' suffering and death on the cross without this knowledge of God's immense love. Therefore, even he will not be able to fathom what a sense of sacrifice had to come alive in a human being and how unspeakably the saviour suffered as a result, since His body was also human like all earthly beings for whom the divine saviour took upon Himself the greatest sacrifice. He was in unspeakable emotional distress, and only the deepest love for humanity gave Him the strength to allow the earthly body to taste all torments and sufferings, and thus the work of redemption was an overcoming of death and its power insofar as the deity did not allow Jesus to suffer above ground, but the earthly man, Who certainly harboured the eternal deity in Himself but, feeling completely earthly, took upon Himself the unspeakable suffering of the death on the cross and thus truly overcame death, so that the horror of death was taken away from all those who believe in the redeemer, love Him with all their heart and ask for forgiveness of their sins ....

Amen

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Term "grace" ....

B.D. 0736 from January 8th 1939, taken from Book No. 15

Worlds will pass away and the suns will lose their light, but God's grace will descend upon His creatures eternally and unchangeably. For what has emerged from Him also takes the course of perfection, and without divine grace the path can never be travelled. Therefore, everything is arranged so infinitely wisely that the being is seized by the flow of divine grace, if only the being itself does not rebelliously distance itself from the flow of grace .... He who lives in grace will be able to cover the path of perfection without effort, but he who rejects it will have to overcome obstacles upon obstacles .... his soul will not find the strength to liberate itself and the spirit will slumber powerlessly within it, unawakened for self-development, because without divine grace the work of liberation is too difficult for the beings. If, therefore, God's grace is the basic condition for redemption, i.e. it is indispensably necessary, then it is also understandable how much the deity's activity aims to explain the concept of grace to the beings in detail, for the beings striving for perfection are to a certain extent offered unlimited possibilities in order to reach their goal. The eternal deity, in Its infinite love and wisdom, has very well considered the extremely difficult struggle it has to endure, yet this struggle cannot be avoided if a development towards a God-like being is to take place, which is to be as perfect in everything as the father in heaven Himself is perfect .... A struggle of one's own strength to reach this state of perfection would not be very successful given the counter-influence of the evil power, for the latter is stronger and the being would not be able to offer sufficient resistance. And thus God stands by those who profess Him, who consciously or unconsciously harbour the desire for union with God in every way. The help to ascend to God .... this is what everything that is made accessible to people under the term "grace" should be called .... Man does not grasp the meaning of the word in its full depth .... Everywhere and at all times God's help comes to meet the being and only wants to be grasped. A heartfelt prayer for God's help allows it to be granted to him in all fullness, and therefore the human being can devote himself to his soul's work with complete confidence, for if he is faithful and turns to the father in heaven for help he will be so full of grace that supreme success is assured to him. Standing in the divine sun of grace, he will easily circumnavigate the most dangerous cliffs and effortlessly cover the most arduous paths .... his soul will feel the loosening of the shackles, the spirit will become lively and break through the shell and finally unite with the spirit of love from God .... and all this only through the divine grace which every being can ask for .... which can never be distributed by God in a limited way but can be received unmeasured by anyone who only desires it. The divine creator demands a great deal of higher development from His creatures, but at the same time He gives them the instructions and means to fulfil the creator's wish. Thus, again, the work itself is not difficult if only the will strives for the same, for the lord does not command the will of the being .... it is entirely up to the being itself to shape it, yet even then prayer for God's grace can grant powerful help, for God's love is active wherever a being turns to Him and distributes unlimited blessings so that the imperfect being will always and forever know of a lifeline which it can seize in adversity and danger, and a requesting being longing for divine grace will never be left without help ....

(8.1.1939) And countless beings will feel God's grace in themselves as long as they are willing to receive it. Living faith and active love let rivers of God's favour flow to them .... God will always helpfully approach the being in order to facilitate its path upwards, to protect it from the power of evil and to ensure its union with the eternal spirit of love, for "truly I say to you", says the lord, "your suffering on earth will be little if only you make use of My grace .... you will be able to reach the highest height and enter into direct contact with Me, and your soul will float in the light ...."

Amen

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Laws of nature .... reshaping and overexploitation of the earth ....

B.D. 0737 from January 8th 1939, taken from Book No. 15

In the visible world all laws in nature are given by the creator in such a way that the slightest contravention causes an equally visible destruction of what has been created, and thus the divine will and His omnipotence must remain active in order to preserve what exists. Thus no being, whether from the spiritual or earthly world, can arbitrarily bring about a change in natural events which would not be in accordance with the creator's will. Thus, man will never be able to influence the laws of nature in any way and his endeavour to overturn them on his own would be in vain. However, man is entitled to many possibilities to co-operate in God's will and thus to participate in the shaping or reshaping of the earth's surface, thus in a certain sense also to be creative already on earth. But then the will of man must always submit to the divine will if the created works are to endure. All human actions must conform to the laws of nature, as disregarding these can result in immediate destruction or even a slow decay of the whole. Where the forces of nature, which correspond to God's will, prove to be conducive to earthly activity, all human activity will also be favoured, i.e. man will then only carry out what is the will of the eternal deity, even if seemingly of his own free will, whereas all activity that is not willed by God, as contrary to the laws of nature, will only produce unsuccessful results. Often the consequences are not immediately noticeable and this leads the human being to the erroneous conclusion that he can act according to his own judgement, but then the harmful effects for humanity are far more extensive, but even then they are often not yet proof to the deluded human being of his wrong actions and thoughts. In the same way, the theft of the earth, in and on earth, will have a terrifying effect on people if it assumes proportions which do not correspond to God's will .... (interruption)

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(continuation of no. 737) Laws of nature .... Reshaping and overexploitation of the earth ....

B.D. 0738 from January 8th 1939, taken from Book No. 15

Subsequently, all reorganization will probably be promoted and attempts will be made to draw the consequences by presenting all damage that arises as inevitable for the necessity of life, but this will only be possible until the most serious consequences become apparent, which will have a life-threatening effect on people. For the lesser evil is want, but to want to remedy this by jeopardizing life is contrary to divine order and therefore against the laws of nature. This is why the lord warns against any violent intervention in His work of creation if people do not want to expose themselves to destruction; and it is far more advisable to be content with little and not to want to extract the earth's produce in excess, for if this is done merely to increase earthly goods, the divine creator will not give His approval, for such endeavours would not be constructive but destructive and must therefore have a detrimental effect on humanity. However, if you base all your actions and dispositions solely on concern for humanity's well-being .... that is, that only humanity's needs are to be met while putting your own earthly advantage second, then the creator's will to love will become active and endeavour to amply replace what was taken from the earth for the benefit of humanity, for then people are not acting in accordance with their own will but God's, and this is not an offence against the laws of nature but fully complies with divine order. The course of the world will provide the proof that all destruction has its origin in insatiable greed for earthly possessions and that God's will will put a stop where a certain limit is reached if He does not want to let humanity completely fall prey to destruction. Man can therefore never act contrary to divine laws with impunity if he does not want to endanger himself and his fellow human beings in body and soul .... (interruption)

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(continuation of No. 737 and 738) Laws of nature .... Reshaping and overexploitation of the earth ....

B.D. 0739 from January 9th 1939, taken from Book No. 15

Therefore, hear the voice from above: It is a daring game to want to defy nature, and in areas that are supposed to serve the quiet, peaceful people to nourish their bodies, the overexploitation of the earth is pushed too hard. In such areas, immature nature spirits must be released in vast numbers, which will now also express themselves, and their activity will by no means remain hidden from the environment, but the eruptions of the earth's interior will prepare themselves, which are precisely the activity of such released nature spirits. Only those people can understand such a process who try to imagine what tremendous activity must develop when the rigid form, which harbours spiritual substances within itself, is suddenly released and all spiritual substances, which can never remain inactive, now enter into full activity .... that this activity must now somehow express itself. People do not consider that they themselves are the ones who suffer and that the activity of the spirits of nature makes itself felt in such a way that sooner or later people's peace will be seriously disturbed by changes in nature, which in turn call people's nourishment into question and also make themselves felt in other ways by having an unfavourable effect on people's mind, on their soul, and thus the people inhabiting such regions are exposed to serious influences from the immature spiritual beings that have become free. Only a spiritually advanced person can truly recognize and judge this .... people without such knowledge take all these phenomena for granted and don't know that they themselves are to blame for the physically and mentally miserable situation they find themselves in on earth, and that only due to the strong desire for gain, which is the reason why people try to penetrate the earth in order to extract as much value from it as possible .... .... Yet such striving can never meet with the creator's approval, and thus acting against His will and against the laws of nature will also result in a transformation of the earth which will not have a favourable effect on people and even less on their souls. For man should not fight against the laws of nature if he does not want to suffer damage to body and soul ....

Amen

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Inner contemplation .... willpower through divine grace ....

B.D. 0740 from January 10th 1939, taken from Book No. 15

The most important thing in life is that you often reflect on yourselves .... that you always endeavour to enter into the blessing of God's grace, for God's grace revives the willpower .... Far away from the world, in the time of quiet contemplation, you will feel the strengthening of the will, and no obstacle will stand in the way of the soul if it wants to take the path upwards. Everything the soul needs will be granted to it in abundance as soon as it strives, however, without the grace it can easily obtain it is considerably more difficult to progress, indeed, it is usually completely questionable, for the earthly child will rather go back in its endeavour than remain on the same level of development if God's love does not helpfully meet it through grace. Therefore, do not neglect to implore it, since your own will is indispensable .... but as soon as your will itself asks for it, you will be abundantly provided with it .... You must never forget that the heavenly father will provide you with every conceivable help, but that this must always be made dependent on your will .... that God's grace cannot be granted to you as long as you do not request and ask for it yourselves. If you want to, you will receive .... yet to support yourselves without your will would mean allowing inactive beings to come into being through God's will, whose freedom of will would be taken away. It is therefore extremely easy to understand why you should turn to the heavenly father in prayer again and again .... You should not ask for earthly things, but be seriously concerned for the well-being of your soul, then your earthly well-being will also be assured. There are often days when you pay less attention to your inner life .... that you go along as it were unconcerned and inactive in a spiritual sense and therefore God's grace cannot flow to you, which results in a weakening of willpower, carelessness and a certain indifference towards spiritual welfare. All these phenomena should warn you not to remain in this state .... they should always be a gentle reminder to gather yourselves together again in prayer and to implore God's help against the weariness of the spirit. And this request will also be granted, for the father will not leave a child struggling for its salvation without help. You should be reminded of the words of the gospel: "Ask and it will be given to you .... knock and it will be opened to you ...."

Amen

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Fatherwords ....

B.D. 0741 from January 10th 1939, taken from Book No. 15

You should seek My spirit often, My dear child, and true enlightenment will come to you at any time. Man cannot go astray who feels in himself that he belongs to Me, and in the same way all forces from Me unite with that which is from Me and longs for Me. Just one example, that far away from home the child remembers its father's house in love and already the thought of father and mother lets it stay with them in spirit, but these hurry through the far distance in the same longing for love for the child and so only a spatial separation exists according to the body, but no barriers are set for the mutual thoughts and the spirit in them, so that they are allowed to stay together at any time and the power of love expresses itself unchanged. You, who have gone out from Me and whom I await back with all love, will always be certain of this love, and your heart should therefore only ever be longingly turned towards Me, then there will also be no boundaries between us ....

I embrace My children with all intimacy and only ever want their best .... protect them in the adversity which must be their lot in earthly life in order to recognize Me. The father's love is the most precious thing they can call their own in earthly life, and if they are aware of it, all earthly pain will only pass them by like a dream. But how many go through earthly life unaware of the divine father's love. Life becomes a burden for them because they alone have to bear what the father sends them .... they do not recognize Me and My strength of love cannot flow to them .... The meaning of life remains hidden from them, they carry out their earthly activities purely mechanically, care for the body and live in the frenzy of pleasure .... But they do not enter into intimate contact with Me, and I can only ever give them My love in the form of sorrow and worry so that they can find Me alone, unconstrained and completely of their own free will. And that is why there is so much hardship and misery in the world, because the number of those who recognize Me is getting smaller and smaller and My fatherly love can only express itself in such hardship in order to guide My children towards recognition. Yet those who have found Me should always and forever send their spirit to Me; every thought directed towards Me as father is strength and a source of grace, and you yourselves will derive the greatest benefit from it, for My love takes hold of you .... it knows no bounds and awakens in you the longing for eternal union. And your end will then be a blissful one ....

Amen

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Fatherwords ....

B.D. 0742 from January 10th 1939, taken from Book No. 15

In the intention to serve Me, I recognize the willingness of My servants on earth. Every hour sacrificed to Me increases their spiritual wealth, for he who gives to Me receives in abundance and his sacrifice bears abundant fruit. Those who see their God and father in Me, who only strive to fulfil My will, will also be honoured by Me to hear My word and the purest gift, offered by Me Myself, will make them unspeakably happy, for I Myself am close to them in the word and My breath touches them when I speak to them. The highest fulfilment can already become theirs on earth, even the body can feel the blissful shiver of My nearness if this is My will, and the soul can detach itself and dwell in spheres of light, beholding the blissful host of spirits, for love for Me opens all gates and gives the soul liberation, even if only for a short time. You should constantly endeavour to achieve this, My child, for the higher you stand in the light of truth the more My love will take hold of you, for you will then serve Me in all faithfulness by being ready to receive in order to give again to the people who wanderingly cross your path of life. And the light shall be spread .... My labourers shall work diligently and tirelessly in the vineyard so that I can still reap a rich harvest in the last hour and My small flock will be multiplied many times over. I recognize My own very well, I know about all their faults and weaknesses but also about their love for Me and that they want to work for Me on earth .... I want to kindle their love so hotly in their hearts that they will be seized by a burning desire for Me and then satisfy this desire and make them infinitely happy, and when their love flares up into the brightest glow their hearts will be opened for My return, and then this heart will hear My word in the sweetest voice and be unspeakably happy about it .... And you will immediately be active for Me if this love has taken hold of you .... You will no longer feel suffering but be relieved of earthly suffering, even if it seems to the world that your fate is a hard one. Trust Me and My word .... I take away all suffering from you who have become My own in love and faithfulness .... You will hear the voices of angels and feel sweet pleasure, even if you offer your bodies to the world for mockery and derision. Whoever truly serves Me, I will protect him from suffering .... I let him see heaven, and the soul removes itself from its shell and leaves the body to those who, in blind zeal, only serve the world .... I receive you and will bless you for all eternity ....

Amen

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Clairvoyance ....

B.D. 0743 from January 12th 1939, taken from Book No. 15

Nothing in the world equals the blissful feeling that the presence of the lord triggers in the heart, and in no way can the feeling be explained or described beforehand, and therefore you, My child, must be patient and only ever wait believingly for the moment when I want to take up residence in you. Therefore, let your thoughts wander again and again to your saviour. The more longingly you look forward to this time of happiness, the sooner you will be fulfilled and your soul will be allowed to look ahead into the kingdom of eternal peace. If you experience the moment of union with Me on earth, your heart will feel the bliss in such excess that you will be raptured from earth for a short time, and then My spirit will flow into you and enlighten you, and from that hour on you will be granted the gift of seeing all things brightly and clearly which are otherwise hidden from the earthly eye. Yes, it will even become apparent to you what fate the earth is still destined for. You will also be able to recognize people's spiritual state and read their thoughts, and this will be of great advantage to you in hours of distress which the world would like to cause you. But if you can see through their true intention you will always do the right thing to stop their intention. And thus your activity is only intended to the full extent when your strength is extraordinarily effective, that is, when I Myself can work through you, when you grant Me the right to take possession of your body with full will and you completely submit to My will. Only the deep love for Me will let your own will become silent and completely surrender to Me and leave all activity to Me. And then My strength will work in you and through you for the blessing of humanity, for the salvation of countless beings from deepest night .... And this time is no longer far away .... for the time of your mission is also drawing ever closer, and if you want to serve Me faithfully then strive for and request spiritual perfection so that I can be received in the purified heart and provide it with supreme happiness and bliss ....

Amen

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Assurance of protection for a champion of God ....

B.D. 0744 from January 13th 1939, taken from Book No. 15

Do not hide your face from the lord when He chooses you in His favour. Give your soul to Him and let yourself be guided by the will of the lord, then the lord will draw near to you in such a way that your heart will recognize Him .... And likewise your tongue will be loosed, and the word of the lord will come to you exceedingly easily. For then the hour is approaching which shall make you a champion for His name. In an incredibly short time you will receive those spiritual powers by means of which it will be easy for you to give instruction in every area and to refute all objections from the enemy's side accurately. This will be necessary with the opponent's way of fighting, and yet very few will want to recognize a visible working of the deity here too and therefore resort to the harshest antidotes to render a representative of God's pure teaching harmless. Yet their endeavours are in vain, unforeseen events will always thwart their intentions and you will pass through many such hostilities without danger, for God's love and wisdom rule and work and bring about all events for the benefit of humanity if it does not oppose them with all its will. However, anyone who works according to God's will and for His honour will be able to avoid any hostility from people because it is God's will that he has been given this sphere of activity and he is therefore protected until he has fulfilled his ministry for the glory of God. Yet to fight for God's word and the name of the divine saviour is a task of such great importance that the serving earthly child is assured every protection from above, and therefore not a hair of his head will be allowed to be harmed if it is not the will of .... But whoever the lord promises His protection should stand firm in faith and in the confidence that the father always remembers His child .... He will be as it were untouchable and be able to exercise his ministry with such power that success will not fail to materialize .... that the path to the heavenly father will nevertheless be taken by many who recognize the purely divine word in the word which was visibly made accessible to people and endeavour to live according to it .... And so your work on earth shall soon begin for the blessing of humanity, for the time is near when good and evil will be separated .... light and darkness .... falsehood and truth .... where the way upwards is shown with fiery scripture ....

Amen

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Effects on the rigidity of the neck ....

B.D. 0745 from January 14th 1939, taken from Book No. 15

And there will be many of them to whom My help will be sent from above but their spirit will not want to receive it. They will remain in their rigid world of thought and not depart from it one iota, even though they have no evidence whatsoever for their views, they will only ever want to comfortably reject all responsibility for their lives and thereby cause themselves the greatest psychological damage. But now the spiritual side is influencing this earth with all its might; the desire to penetrate spiritual knowledge will also make itself felt among those, and it is therefore advisable to offer the teachings of God to those who are still misguided in such a way that their attention is first drawn to the proclamations which do not so much touch upon ecclesiastical teachings, for a certain resistance to everything dogmatic makes their rejection understandable, since they take offence precisely at the errors of these and would now like to renounce them completely. A thorough cleansing of the traditional will only influence these people favourably, and they will be much more receptive to pure, factual explanations than to pious speeches, which are rather repugnant to them. Instead of the previous lack of faith in the old teachings, a spiritual search will begin among all those who are not yet completely secularized. They will be confronted with questions, the answers to which seem not insignificant to them, and in view of the difficult times they will begin to occupy themselves with deeper thoughts and seek explanation .... And it is therefore often the first occasion for such inner reflections that can be called blessed, as the strangest coincidences and opportunities then chain together to lead the searching person into the light of truth, even if often only after a long time. And so every endeavour is blessed, often not visible at first, even seemingly having a negative effect, but sometimes life itself intervenes in such a way that the person cannot completely free his thoughts from what he has heard. And it is on such coincidences and events that the otherworldly world of spirits is built. The tireless activity of these cannot remain without influence, although only very few pay attention to the fact that they have the desire to turn away more and more from earthly life and occupy themselves with spiritual problems .... at first unwillingly and quickly discarding the thoughts, but always returning to the same thoughts. Humanity is very arrogant; it believes it can get by without spiritual knowledge, considers only all earthly matters worthy of attention and therefore remains in spiritual poverty, yet boasting and emphasizing its spiritual superiority with conviction. And it is difficult to preach the gospel to such people. To give them an insight into the divine creation .... to stimulate their thinking through indisputable facts can also cause a change in their thinking, and then a tiny seed has fallen into a soil in which it should be painstakingly nurtured in order to sprout and bear fruit. The father's spirit of love will bless such endeavour, and with increased power the word will penetrate such willing hearts that have finally given up their resistance, abstain from any preconceived opinion and try to reach the light through the night. But it will take a long time, but there must always be a beginning if success is to be achieved one day. Many a person seeks the truth and does not yet recognize it because his search is not the right one .... yet he will reach truth and knowledge far sooner than the one who does not have an inherent desire for truth, who does not search and only accepts the opinion of others without having examined it himself .... The latter will truly walk in darkness until his hardened heart has recognized the wrongness of his thoughts and actions. Let each one seriously examine himself as to what moves him to reject the gifts from above .... He who seeks nothing other than to fathom the truth will be helped by spiritual powers .... but to whom only the thought of responsibility seems uncomfortable and makes him reject it, he will remain in the night of unbelief, and any spiritual help will be of no avail to his stubborn mind. And the lord will have to take far harsher measures against such people if He does not want to consign them to eternal destruction ....

Amen

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Grace(choice) .... red thread ....

B.D. 0746 from January 16th 1939, taken from Book No. 15

Those who are in doubt should not ask for My advice in vain, and so accept the following: To have the right knowledge in all things is not to be demanded of you humans, yet you should endeavour to learn to understand that the intervention of the eternal deity is often unavoidably necessary and that such must be left to Me in its nature, for you humans are unable to judge what is necessary in world events. And thus you humans will hardly be able to overlook what a dreadful end your fate would be without My visible working amongst you. The spiritual adversity amongst humanity requires infinite love and mercy, and if I send this to people you will grumble and close yourselves to My words, and yet this is the only way to help all erring and missing earthly children out of all adversity. And if the soul begs for mercy in all agony, shall I abandon it to ruin unheard just so as not to overturn your statutes, which you alone interpret in such a way that they exclude My intervention? Every person on earth is My child and I want to give My help to everyone, and I cannot bind Myself to empty letters which you do not grasp according to their meaning .... I would truly not be a good father if I did not want to help these children in need, for you also want My mercy .... you want Me to bless you and bestow My grace on you .... and My love should not be so great that grace would be granted to all? You want to make the measure of grace of love dependent on the worth or unworthiness of the person? Everyone will be allowed to receive grace in abundance and I will not deny it to anyone who only finds Me in prayer. And therefore you should not believe that you only stand in the grace you have found towards Me .... My grace is also granted without limit to those who in all humility expect such from Me, and not one person will be denied grace if he does not reject it himself. And therefore it is completely absurd to portray Me as a strict, implacable father Who has only chosen whom He considers with His grace and leaves the non-chosen empty-handed. You must consider one thing, that you are all sinful, you must consider how countless times I have to forgive your sins, but how My love continues to see My children in you. And then you will also be able to realize that I make no distinction and that all children on earth are close to Me as having originated from Me without exception and that My concern applies to all .... that I await everyone's return to the father's house and would also like to give everyone the same means of help in order to speed up this return. Therefore, anyone who believes that he is in the sun of grace of My love must never ever let My love appear so limited that it cannot and does not want to take hold of all beings equally, and it is solely up to the human being's will to make himself worthy of this grace, i.e. he must only want to receive it and it will be offered to him without limitation.

Now I want to give the doubting brother some more information about the question that particularly moves him: Behold, in quiet hours you recognize the deity and your heart has overcome fear. Now it desires a visible sign from Me, it desires, so to speak, a separation of the righteous and the unrighteous .... it wants to be visibly and audibly initiated and drawn into the building of the new Jerusalem, and in such impatience it completely overlooks the fact that the work on earth is already the beginning of this building and that you all serve Me when you take care of the ignorant and instruct them through My word. As the time of the judgement is no longer far away, you should all make use of this short time and devotedly stand up for My word, and if you are commanded to do so from above, then simply pass it on so that they who are not in the knowledge of books may grasp it. My word will always and forever remain the same, and every meaning of the word remains unchanged, only man's mind has created changes for itself and often errs in the interpretation of the word. But if I want to help you and make this word of Mine accessible to you anew in an easily understandable way and explain it to you in detail, then do not reject it but grasp the thread which shall unravel what is unclear to you .... which shall illustrate My love to you, and all wisdom shall be imparted to you as I deem necessary, yet always only for your benefit and that of all humanity ....

Amen

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Insertion into the divine order ....

B.D. 0747 from January 17th 1939, taken from Book No. 15

What the father commands you to do must be your guiding principle, for living in His will is all He requires of you, and His law is only given in order to lead you to happiness, because the fulfilment of this law is also the prerequisite for entering eternal bliss. Whoever endeavours to live in such a way that every day is an insertion into the divine order will be able to solve the earthly task quite easily .... he is subject to the will of the father and will therefore never act and think differently than is in accordance with divine will, and a child who never opposes the father's commandment will also receive the full reward for his obedience. However, the slightest act of rebellion will be recognizable in its consequences .... It is not that the father rejects his child because of this, but the child will seriously harm itself by having to continue to struggle with resistance throughout its earthly life, while a willing integration into God's order also ensures an always calm and easy earthly life with the happy feeling of the child belonging to the heavenly father. Anyone who does not know this feeling in earthly life does not know what he has to do without .... he therefore also does not appreciate the father's love and yet again needs the strength to be able to fulfil God's commandments .... and therefore his struggle on earth will be ever more difficult, for he who has love also has strength .... he who lives in love for the heavenly father will use all his willpower to comply with the divine laws, and it will therefore be easy for him to fit in with God's intended order, for then the child will want the same as the father wants, because the love which unites both pursues the same goal .... eternal union and thus eternal bliss ....

Amen

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Light phenomena ....

B.D. 0748 from January 20th 1939, taken from Book No. 15

The lord will intervene in world events at the right time, and from now on celestial phenomena visible from afar will become noticeable in about forty days, and all attention will be focussed on these, since the position of the sun cannot give any explanation for them. It is well given to man to investigate .... you will also be able to explain many things on the basis of the laws of nature, but as soon as extraordinary phenomena do not allow such a natural explanation, the wise men of the world will be faced with a riddle. And this lies in the intention of the divine creator. Where all human explanations are invalid, that is where the questions relating to infinity or a divine being begin .... You should therefore note that the divine power does not express itself in any other form than is spiritually beneficial for people living on earth .... They must be able to recognize God's guidance and omnipotence if only they have the will to do so .... but on the other hand they must also have the possibility to remain completely indifferent to such phenomena if their will, in all obstinacy, cannot be directed towards spiritual realization. In direct connection with these phenomena the temperature will also be so extraordinary that people will ask themselves about the cause of such conspicuous changes, and the simplest solution will not be found .... that the general spiritual decline of earthly people themselves is the cause of it .... that as a result of the extremely strong activity of the beings in the beyond, which stand in the light and which .... in order to assist the beings on earth .... will also cause a change in the entire atmosphere surrounding the earth, for all mature spiritual beings will express themselves in a great abundance of light which, however, will have to remain hidden from people for the most part in order not to bring about a forced change of heart. If, however, the lord allows the beings of light to appear in all their brilliance for wise reasons then this is both an act of grace out of love for earthly people as well as an extraordinary warning sign for all those who need light .... the light of truth and realization. Only where the limits of worldly wisdom are set, where the 'wise' are faced with a riddle, is the visible sign combined with spiritual pondering .... One seeks to find an explanation, and if this cannot be found earthly and intellectually, one allows oneself to be quietly guided into the spiritual realm and searches there .... And blessed are those who then find .... who ask for God's grace and enlightenment and then attain the right realization. If these signs will disturb the world, you know that the spiritual world is near the earth .... Then seek contact with it, try to surrender yourselves to these spiritual beings with all your willpower and you will be visibly successful in all spiritual work and equally successful in defying all evil power, for if you give yourselves of your own free will to these beings of light which make themselves known to you, they will fill you with an indescribable urge for spiritual activity by virtue of their love. They give you the ability to look ahead, for they are the messengers of heaven, sent to earth by the father .... They are the forces that unite with the good of the earth .... Allow yourselves to be seized by this power, which will only result in blessings for you, and recognize, when such phenomena become visible, the activity of God's love for you children of men, Who wants to awaken or strengthen your faith through it. And be careful not to let such admonitions pass you by without taking notice of them. It is only a blessing for everyone if he does not close himself to the working of these beings of light but allows their strength to flow into him with an open heart and a willing mind, which is only beneficial for the soul and its progress. So wait for the time, which is no longer far away, so that it will be a time of grace for you ....

Amen

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Conqueror of matter .... unlocking the inner eye .... spiritual growth ....

B.D. 0749 from January 21st 1939, taken from Book No. 15

The more eagerly you seek contact with your heavenly father the easier it will be for you to receive the proclamations from the beyond, for the soul forms a kind of heavenly ladder which it can easily climb the less resistance the body puts up against it. And thus an everlasting connection is the surest guarantee for your progress, and subsequently you will also realize that you are making tremendous progress in the spiritual realm if only you pay attention to how distant everything worldly touches you, how unreal and insignificant everything appears to you, which is in fact also insignificant, and how only all spiritual experiences are and will remain the most important for you. And when your spirit has now overcome the matter around it, then you will also penetrate ever deeper into the spiritual .... What is still a mystery to you today will now visibly and audibly reveal itself to you, and all struggle, which is now still directed towards matter, will be superfluous in the future, for the enlightened spirit, which is no longer bound by the fetters of matter, is unhindered in its ascent into the spheres of light, it no longer needs life on earth for its perfection .... As the conqueror of matter, he is entitled to participate in the deep knowledge of spiritual truths, and so the heavenly father will give him every opportunity to penetrate them. Whatever moves him, whatever he desires to explore .... nothing is closed to him, and the hours of most blissful edification now await such a soul which has taken the path of light truth and whose desire is for the final union with the eternal creator. So it is enough for you to know that your spirit will also reach that stage where all questions which still occupy you today will be answered most clearly, for those who are searching of their own free will are assured of all assistance. Just as everything in nature complements and perfects itself according to divine wisdom in a well-considered sequence, just as everything follows its course in divine order, spiritual growth can also be observed step by step .... a certain stage must always be reached first in order to enter the next level, and all preconditions must be taken into account so that no incomplete knowledge is an obstacle to the maturing of the soul. Behold, and thus you humans should not worry about how and in what way the father imparts this knowledge to you, for everything only happens in order to make the kingdom of heaven accessible to you in all bliss, and even the smallest event contributes towards this, although it is often not quite comprehensible to you .... Whoever seeks frequent contact with the father, his heart should not be afraid of the task he has been given .... The father's ways are marvellous, His love infinite, His power mighty .... and He should not be able to do this, to satisfy the desire of the heart of a willing child .... to let the spirit take a look into infinity and to open the inner eye for him? .... It will come, like a dream in the night .... what seems impossible in the daily monotony of life will take shape, and the earthly child will suddenly see in the spirit. Only a complete detachment from the world is necessary .... Whoever gives up the last out of love for the father, the father will give him back incomparably more beautiful things, and he will recognize that his sacrifice earned him the fullness of divine love, in that his spirit received in abundance ....

And now listen to the advice that comes to you from on high. The same spiritual forces warn you against haste. People often do not know how to draw the line between the right and wrong application of the commandments concerning the search for the supernatural. Caution is always advisable if people have not reached spiritual maturity and are not yet receptive, so to speak, to messages from above. They will be thrown off course and their spiritual constitution will not progress but rather misjudge the significance of the messages from above and reject and condemn them as not wanted by God. For them the time has not yet come, and if they faithfully endeavour to walk rightly before God, their opinion should be left to them, for a complete enlightenment is not required where one already believes to fully recognize the truth. And in order not to confuse and plunge great doubters into even greater doubts, you should not yet carry out your plan (No. 0746) until you receive more detailed instructions, for the lord sees into the hearts of those, and He considers each one according to need. This only for the knowledge that the opportunity will find itself, for which your lines were received by you, but that they do not yet want to fulfil their purpose at present ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

'I Am the beginning of all things ....'

B.D. 0750 from January 21st 1939, taken from Book No. 15

I Am the beginning of all things .... Take this to heart when you are moved by the slightest doubt about the creation of everything you see around and above yourselves. If My power is thus sufficient to call every life form into being, what kind of strength would then be necessary to oppose this creative will? An equally destructive will perhaps? .... In that case a second Deity would have to be at work next to Me, whose expression of strength would run contrary to My own activity. Anyone who imagines the Deity as an imperfect Being can truly place many such gods next to this One, yet he will not have the right kind of concept about the one true Deity, Which has created everything and controls all. Anyone who wants to recognise Me must believe .... and subordinate himself as a creation to the Creator .... And he will become enlightened, and in this light he will see Me as the Ruler of the universe .... He will realise that no opposing force is able to counteract Me by working destructively where I Am creating.

Only the physical transformation of the earth's surface has been left to the human being's free will, so that people's creative urge, which I likewise have placed into their hearts, can occupy itself. Thus they can more or less act at their own discretion but they nevertheless will always have to recognise their own inadequacy and always be dependent on the omnipotence of the Creator and the activity of natural forces and cannot oppose them arbitrarily. Thus nothing is more understandable than wanting to ascertain the almighty Creator and yet nothing is more impossible .... Human intellect is not sufficient by far to fathom Me in My full elementary power .... and it will be even less possible to categorise Me, that is, to put My Being and Becoming into any kind of form which seems acceptable to the human mind. This is a hopeless undertaking which could never produce a satisfactory result, for I was, I Am .... and I forever will be an inscrutable Spirit Who harbours within Himself everything that can be found in the entire universe .... to Whom creation is subordinate because it originated from Him .... and Who is the beginning and the end of all things .... the Spirit of Love from eternity to eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Protecting the truth through spiritual forces when receiving ....

B.D. 0751 from January 22nd 1939, taken from Book No. 15

From now on you shall only receive information about things which your spirit recognizes by virtue of its origin from God but which are foreign to you as a human being, so that even your last doubts will vanish, for anyone who strives for the pure truth is also called to receive it and pass it on to the world. The type of reception is different for every recipient, many a researcher prepares questions for himself which he is interested in answering, and not infrequently an opinion of his own has already been formed which then pushes itself forward in the person and combines itself with what is received from above. But it is never permitted from above, i.e. from the spiritual side, that the teachings are received completely wrongly, so that your thoughts in this respect are unfounded. For the lord takes into account the will of love of the writing servant, and whoever wants to serve Him in all truth will also be protected by Him. There is always a certain danger for the earthly child in wanting to penetrate the eternal truth as long as it is entangled in certain forms and teachings or has knowledge of such .... It will be much easier to teach the truth where the human being's thinking is like a blank page .... where not all kinds of knowledge and different teachings prevent or impede the acceptance of the pure teaching of God, for often one's own thoughts are active in the latter if they do not completely surrender to the divine will. And so receive today the explanation that every spirit from God possesses a mighty power when the body, the matter, grants it freedom. It is completely impossible that he, who is truth in himself, should allow himself to be bound in a lie .... Its power is so strong that it excludes all wrong and false thinking, so that the child willing to write, who wants to remain in the truth, perceives every false or erroneous word as such, while the truth is also recognizable to him as such during writing and is grasped by his will, and therefore every proclamation can be fully believed as long as the earthly child receives it with the intention of serving only God and thus the eternal truth. In case of the slightest doubt during the reception only the call of the lord will suffice and the thinking of the earthly child will be clarified and only adjusted to receive the truth, i.e., the friends on the other side will influence the thoughts of the writer with increased strength and thus protect his work from error and untruth. And in such secure protection the work will continue for the benefit and blessing of people to whom the lord wants to make the true teaching accessible again and therefore will not allow ignoble forces to be equally active in it .... But if only the God-serving forces of the beyond and the earth are permitted, then safety is already given in this, for the good spiritual truly still has the upper hand and does not allow any evil forces into the circle imparting the teachings to you. Thus you may receive with peace of mind and serve your creator and thereby also your fellow human beings in an unchanged way, for the pure truth shall be given to those who are of good will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers